Fancy Nancy Pelosi was able to shepherd the house bill on wealth redistribution aka socialized medicine through immediately.

Of course, in 2005 that was an outrage.

Most ethical Congress EVAH! The Queen has a short memory.

Of course none of the bills passed yet under

"Teh One" have been posted on the web as promised either, and his Lordship was very clear about that on the campaign trail.

Remember Barry? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5t8GdxFYBU&feature=player_embedded

Most transparent administration EVAH!

My ass.

H/T via newsbusters http://newsbusters.org/blogs/mike-bates/2009/11/06/obama-gives-shout-out-congressional-medal-honor-winner-who-isnt

A four-hour stop in New Orleans, on his way to a $3 million fundraiser.

Snubbing the Dalai Lama.

Signing off on a secret deal with drug makers.

Freezing out a TV network.

Doing more fundraisers than the last president. More golf, too.
President Barack Obama has done all of those things — and more.

Teh One get's a pass on everything. Read the full story at Politico

H/T to HotAir

"Kerry Ad Says Flu Vaccine Shortage Is Typical of Bush’s Policy Blunders"
Sen. John F. Kerry jumped on the flu-vaccine shortage yesterday with a new television ad blaming the situation on President Bush.
In what may be the first presidential campaign commercial dealing with the flu, the Democratic nominee is trying to portray the vaccine squeeze as typical of the president’s mishandling of health care.
In the ad, a narrator says:
“Seniors and children wait. Not enough vaccines for pregnant women. A George Bush mess.”
Kerry spokesman Chad Clanton [said] “The American people want flu shots, not more excuses why George W. Bush dropped the ball.”
Howard KurtzOctober 17, 2004http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38743-2004Oct16.html

I'm not sure if anybody still checks on this blog, or even gives a shit, BUT, I have some some extra time on my hands as of today so WTF...



In these perilous, awful, economically "crippling" times, let me share some in-sight as to why the country is a fucked up mess.



As most of you know, I'm in the real estate biz, and since April 1st, I have sold 7 properties in Northeast Indiana. Oddly enough, people still have jobs, still have kids, and still want and need to own their own home.



The hilarious part of it is, all of the government programs in place to "help" every slug and their idiot brother buy there own "twiced-wide" have actually caused so many layers of regulation that the average family can't get a mortgage without ALL the money down, and even then, they'll have 120 days worth of scrutiny that is akin to Dr. Mengele's inquiries into your ethnic heritage.



Of ALL 7 transactions SOLD since April 1st, I have CLOSED 1. YES ONE. All clients have over 700 credit scores, all have impeccable credit, all have debt to income ratio's less than 40% and all have money down ranging from FHA (cuz the rate is artificially subsidized and low so it steals from regional banks) 3.5 % to 20%.... None of the other 5 has closed BECAUSE of 4 months worth of burdensome regulations on lending and respa (real estate settlement procedures act) as investigations go on as to the authenticity, financial veracity, and of course ethnic background of sellers & buyers. Thank GOD we have the Government to help us streamline the real estate sales process. All my mortgage loan business (until now) has gone to a major player in the biz that ryhmes with "Fells Cargo". Draw your own conclusions why I do not, and will not do business with them, 5th 3rd, Chase, etc. ever again. There is NO maor lender that isn't beholden to FEDERAL HORSESHIT.



Any major bank that has (or has had foisted upon them) any kind of TARP money is sucking major dick as of this point to satisfy layers upon layers of fed horseshit.



My wife and I have both been annual multi-million producer for years in the mortgage & real state business and have NEVER encountered ANYTHING as onorous as this.



You can be a Rockefeller with HALF the money down, an 800 FICO, and a 20 year job and it will take you 120 days to close on a $50 property.....


If you think waiting 120 days to close is a pain in the ass, just wait until your Messiah and Democratic Congess passes Cap & Trade (energy bill) whereby EVERY home sold will have to meet new "energy efficient" criteria (like 90% furnaces, double glazed windows, etc)...



Hope and fuckin' change baby,



Let's just KILL the real estate business so we can all live in the fuckin' projects...

The following is a list, in reverse chronological order, of the Obama administration's overseas apologies and clarifications to date:

April 18: "We have at times been disengaged, and at times we sought to dictate our terms. But I pledge to you that we seek an equal partnership. There is no senior partner and junior partner in our relations."-- President Obama, at the Summit of the Americas in Port of Spain, Trinidad

April 16: "Too often, the United States has not pursued and sustained engagement with our neighbors. We have been too easily distracted by other priorities and have failed to see that our own progress is tied directly to progress throughout the Americas. My administration is committed to renewing and sustaining a broader partnership between the United States and the hemisphere on behalf of our common prosperity and our common security."-- President Obama, in an op-ed that appeared in U.S. and Latin American newspapers prior to the Summit of the Americas

April 6: "I know there have been difficulties these last few years. I know that the trust that binds us has been strained, and I know that strain is shared in many places where the Muslim faith is practiced. Let me say this as clearly as I can: the United States is not at war with Islam."-- President Obama, in Ankara, Turkey

April 3: "In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world. Instead of celebrating your dynamic union and seeking to partner with you to meet common challenges, there have been times where America has shown arrogance and been dismissive, even derisive. But in Europe, there is an anti-Americanism that is at once casual but can also be insidious. Instead of recognizing the good that America so often does in the world, there have been times where Europeans choose to blame America for much of what's bad. On both sides of the Atlantic, these attitudes have become all too common. They are not wise. ... They threaten to widen the divide across the Atlantic and leave us both more isolated."-- President Obama, in Strasbourg, France

April 2: "It is true, as my Italian friend has said, that the (economic) crisis began in the U.S. I take responsibility, even if I wasn't even president at the time."-- President Obama, at the G20 in London, as reported by Germany's Der Spiegel

April 2: "I would like to think that with my election and the early decisions that we've made, that you're starting to see some restoration of America's standing in the world."-- President Obama, at G20 summit in London

April 1: "If you look at the sources of this crisis, the United States certainly has some accounting to do with respect to a regulatory system that was inadequate."-- President Obama, at a press conference ahead of the G20 in London

March 25: "I feel very strongly we have a co-responsibility (for drug-fueled violence in Mexico). ... Our insatiable demand for illegal drugs fuels the drug trade. Our inability to prevent weapons from being illegally smuggled across the border to arm these criminals causes the deaths of police officers, soldiers and civilians."-- Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, en route to Mexico City

Jan. 26: "All too often the United States starts by dictating ... and we don't always know all the factors that are involved. So let's listen. And I think if we do that, then there's a possibility at least of achieving some breakthroughs. ... My job to the Muslim world is to communicate that the Americans are not your enemy. We sometimes make mistakes. We have not been perfect."-- President Obama, in an interview with Al Arabiya

The Obama administration has also expressed plenty of regret stateside as it rolls back some of Bush's counter-terrorism policies. The president, for instance, acknowledged potential "mistakes" as he addressed CIA employees April 20 and discussed his ban of enhanced interrogation techniques.
"Don't be discouraged that we have to acknowledge potentially we've made some mistakes. That's how we learn," Obama said.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.

President Obama’s administration is moving aggressively to protect what the government insists are “state secrets” from a Bush-era wiretapping program. Justice Department lawyers filed an emergency motion Friday with a federal appeals court in an effort to block a lower court’s order that the government must show lawyers for the Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation a copy of a document indicating that the group’s communications were being intercepted. The document has been the subject of a running legal battle since the papers were accidentally sent to attorneys for the group in 2004 and subsequently retrieved. “Disclosure of the material at issue here would cause exceptionally grave harm to the national security and result in irreparable injury to the United States,” the Justice Department wrote. It said information about the surveillance program is considered “Top Secret — Sensitive Compartmented Information.” The government wants the wiretapping lawsuit thrown out on the basis of the state secrets privilege, but a federal judge in San Francisco ruled that the privilege is overruled by a law Congress wrote, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Attorney General Eric Holder promised during the confirmation process to conduct a review of the Bush administration’s frequent use of the state secrets privilege. However, the emergency appeal in the al-Haramain case signals that Holder concluded the controversial privilege was correctly asserted there. Earlier this month, civil libertarians were disappointed when the Justice Department stood by the “state secrets” tactic in opposing a suit brought by men who claim they were abducted by the Central Intelligence Agency.

Courtesy of http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0209/19114.html

The justice department ruled that some 600 so-called enemy combatants at Bagram have no constitutional rights.
Most have been arrested in Afghanistan on suspicion of waging a terrorist war against the US.
The move has disappointed human rights lawyers who had hoped the Obama administration would take a different line to that of George W Bush.

The US military considers Bagram detainees unlawful combatants who can be detained for as long as they are deemed a threat to Afghan national security.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7903005.stm

A merry band of Gazans, having a little peaceful flagburning (American & Israeli flags) accidently set fire to their own cameraman covering the impromptu "Jew Barbecue".

Oops.

Now THAT'S entertainment!