Monthly Archives: August 2009

Scareforce 1 FOIA Request Received

Way, way, way back I put in Freedom of Information Act to get the passenger manifest for the Scareforce 1 flight that buzzed Manhattan, scaring the daylights out people all over the NY Metro area. The disk the Air Force sent me includes all 146 photos, and, considering the height at which the plane was […]

HCToday: Democracy Is Sick, Woops, A New Anti-Public Option Poll

Ezra Klein is seemingly all over the map with his latest post It Is Democracy, Not Health-Care Reform, That Is Sick. Too start with As Josh Marshall says, we’ve reached a point in the health-care reform discussion where logic has fallen apart. Consider, for instance, Danielle Allen’s op-ed this morning. Discussing the insistence of some […]

More Real Grassroots Folks Launch Real Grassroots AGW Movement

Or not. Al Gore gets all “hey, we’re going to launch this big advocacy movement through my Climate Project organization where I personally train 2,600 “volunteers” to parrot talking points to get people all scared and upset and purchase lots of carbon credits and come see my speeches which make me lots of money….. what? […]

Say, About Obama’s Mandate To Implement Single Payer…..

One of the talking points we keep hearing from Democrat talking heads and other sheeple is that Obama was overwhelmingly elected along with a mandate to completely change the health system. Of course, he only beat McCain 53% to 46%. So, does this Rasmussen poll mean there is even more of a mandate to NOT […]

Complaining About The Health System Plans? You’re Un-American. John Boehner Responds

So says Steny Hoyer and Nancy Pelosi in a USA Today column penned by the two, which, you probably have heard about at this point, but, Real Life, in the form of a monthly inventory count, kept me from commenting on However, it is now evident that an ugly campaign is underway not merely to […]

No, Really, The Exotic Vacation Trip Was About AGW

Anyone ever notice that some of the biggest supporters of anthropogenic global warming seem to be the biggest CO2 offenders? Traveling all around the globe in private jets, taking limo’s, staying at fancy hotels, having power hog homes, and, oh, let’s not forget all great vacation locations and other areas of interest they head to. Remember […]

LA Times Misses The Irony In Labeling ObamaNuts “Grassroots”

At one point, the Obama voters were grassroots. But, ever since he started gaining traction during the primaries, the organization has grown stronger and more controlling, especially when you add groups such as ACORN and SEIU into the mix. I’m just wonder if Pete Wallsten of the LA Timeseven read what he wrote. We all […]

The Bamster’s Weekly Strawman Radio Show Forgets The “How”

One thing I have been saying and writing for a long is that no one is actually saying exactly HOW any of the Democrat plans, particularly Obama’s, will reduce health costs. I’ve emailed my Dem Congress Critters, Brad Miller (NC-13) and Senator Kay Hagen. So far, crickets.  None of the grasshopper upporters of the plans have […]

Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

Happy Sunday! Beautiful, but hot, day in the neighborhood. A good day to head to some of America’s beautiful beaches, lakes, and parks. This pinup is by Art Frahm, with a little help. What is happening in ye olde blogosphere? The fine 15 Just One Minute points to the nuts who are looking to go […]

Birthers Are Clinically Insane(?)

So writes Washington Post editorialist Eugene Robinson, whose August 4th screed in the WP was reprinted in the Raleigh News and Observer today If there’s been a more clinically insane political phenomenon in my lifetime than the “birthers,” I’ve missed it. Is this what our national discourse has come to? Sheer paranoid fantasy? Well, yes […]

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