Speaker Nancy Pelosi | News Room | Press Releases:

“But we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it” …

SENATE WARNS EMPLOYEES TO AVOID THE DRUDGE REPORT:

Just as the healthcare drama in the capitol reaches a grand finale, congressional officials are warning employees to avoid the DRUDGE REPORT!

The Senate’s Committee on Environment and Public Works issued an urgent email late Monday claiming the DRUDGE REPORT is ‘responsible for the many viruses popping up throughout the Senate.’

The committee ordered hill staff: ‘Try to avoid’ the DRUDGE REPORT ‘for now’.

On Monday DRUDGE served over 29 million pages with NOT ONE email complaint received about ‘pop ups’, or the site serving ‘viruses’.

The site was seen 149,967 times since March 1st from users at senate.gov and 244,347 times at house.gov. [10,825 visits from the White House, eop.gov]

The Systems Administrator may want to continue taking her antibiotic until the prescription runs out.

Developing…

Poll: U.S. has lost global standing under Obama - Washington Times:

A majority of Americans say the United States is less respected in the world than two years ago and believe President Obama and other Democrats fall short of Republicans on the issue of national security, according to a poll by two left-leaning groups. …

This is exactly the opposite of what the dems said would happen. They thought that by Obama kissing everyone’s ass the US would be respected. Others in the world didn’t like Bush but they respected him. They like Obama but they don’t respect him.

Dan Rather: ‘Articulate’ Obama Couldn’t Even ‘Sell Watermelons’:

HDNet’s Dan Rather stepped on one mine after another in the racial minefield that exists when talking about the nation’s first black President as the former CBS anchor, on the syndicated Chris Matthews Show over the weekend, uttered the following take on the President’s ability to get health care passed and how the GOP and independents would view it. [audio available here]

DAN RATHER: Part of the undertow in the coming election is going to be President Obama’s leadership. And the Republicans will make a case and a lot of independents will buy this argument. “Listen he just hasn’t been, look at the health care bill. It was his number one priority. It took him forever to get it through and he had to compromise it to death.” And a version of, “Listen he’s a nice person, he’s very articulate” this is what’s been used against him, “but he couldn’t sell watermelons if it, you gave him the state troopers to flag down the traffic.”

The soft bigotry of low expectations:

The Obama administration’s Department of Education has announced that it will crack down on “civil-rights infractions” in public schools, including alleged disparities in the disciplining of white and black students. This means that the administration will identify and investigate situations in which a facially neutral discipline system — offense X brings punishment Y — results in blacks being discplined more often than whites. School systems will face the prospect of being punished unless they can explain the disparities, presumably based on a painstaking analysis of each disciplinary decision.

As Roger Clegg points out, the easy way out for schools — and what school bureaucrat won’t prefer the easy way out — is to make sure the numbers pass muster, i.e., to make discipline decisions based not solely on the merits, but also on the basis of race. And since administrator’s aren’t likely to mete out punishment just to balance the numbers, they will balance them by going easier on black students because they are black.

As a result, school discipline will be further eroded, making it increasingly difficult for students of all races to learn. …

This is the kind of stupid crap I’ve come to expect from the dems.

In case you missed it…

Far right extremists fail to understand that the very worst thing they could do that would do the most damage to their own cause would be to go after Obama. You have to beat the left at the polls, not with violence, but they, just like far left extremists, are too stupid and too full of hatred to understand that.

FOXNews.com - Massa Details ‘Salty’ Comment That Led to Resignation, Slams Dem Leaders:

A “salty” comment made in the company of drunken staff members at a wedding reception on New Year’s Eve was all the Democratic “forces that be” needed to push him out of the House of Representatives and prevent him from possibly casting the vote that would kill health care reform, says outgoing New York Rep. Eric Massa.

Massa, while acknowledging he made an “inappropriate” remark, defended himself Sunday against the firestorm of criticism he’s endured since it was revealed last week that he was the subject of a House ethics probe. Speaking on his local radio show on WKPQ-FM, he accused House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer of lying and the Democratic Party of pushing him out of Congress over sexual harassment allegations in order to pass health care reform. …

heh heh heh

From Drudge:

READ ALL ABOUT IT:
EMBATTLED DEM CONGRESSMAN: I WAS PUSHED OUT FOR HEALTCARE!
‘THEY KNEW I WOULD VOTE NO SO THEY GOT RID OF ME AND NOW IT WILL PASS’…
UPDATE: Will Resign Monday as Planned…
Lashes out in emotional radio appearance…
AUDIO…
AUDIO EDITS…
THE CONGRESSMAN AND RAHM: NAKED SHOWDOWN IN GYM SHOWERS…
‘I am showering, naked as a jaybird, and here comes Rahm Emanuel, not even with a towel wrapped around his tush, poking his finger in my chest, yelling at me…’

RAHM ‘WOULD SELL HIS OWN MOTHER’
‘SON OF THE DEVIL’S SPAWN’

Would Reagan vote for Sarah Palin?:

That’s the question Reagan scholar Steve Hayward poses in today’s Washington Post. The article is more interesting than the question, which is a no-brainer.

As Hayward says, if Reagan were around, he would have no problem voting for Palin should she secure the GOP presidential nomination. In addition to the fact that Palin consistently adopts Reaganite positions, the former president would admire her charisma, appreciate her status as an outsider, and not be put off by criticism of her as anti-intellectual, charges that were leveled against Reagan in his time. …

Of course the left says she stupid, not smart enough to be president, unlike other reps who the left thinks are smart enough such as… uh… hmm… Let’s see now… Wait a second… I know they must think someone of the right is smart, I just can’t remember who that might be. It’s obviously no one who could possibly run for office or it’s someone who is dead. But as a current contender for president from the right, just who does the left think is smart enough for the job?

People on the left cannot comprehend how someone could disagree with them. Because of this shortcoming they make the assumption that those who disagree with them are stupid. The truth is when you hear a lefty say someone is stupid they are really illustrating their own limitations. The ability to understand and accept a dissenting view is beyond their capabilities. That’s why it is fruitless to engage in conversation with someone like this. You would be better off talking to a wall and more likely to get an intelligent response from it as well.

This will go nowhere. That is unless the state is ready to re-route route 81 around the Onondaga Nation. Don’t think that won’t happen? Well, 81 south cuts across the corner of the res and they could do it. Hell, all they’d have to do is block 81 for a few days and this cigarette tax would go away. BTW look at what the nation has done with the money they make on cigs. A beautiful sports complex among others. They’re doing a far better job with the money than Albany ever did. As a matter of fact Albany should take a lesson from the nation on how to run government.

Huffington Post, a very liberal site, posted this. When you have SNL bashing you you know you’re in trouble.

Robber barons? Meet robber TARP. / The Christian Science Monitor - CSMonitor.com:

… The real cost of TARP and stimulus is the diversion of resources and talent from creating value into transferring money from one pocket to another.

The stimulus bill was a cover for a massive income transfer from the productive to the unproductive classes in society. …

National debt to be higher than White House forecast, CBO says - washingtonpost.com:

President Obama’s proposed budget would add more than $9.7 trillion to the national debt over the next decade, congressional budget analysts said Friday. …

Somehow the MSM and the dems will blame Bush for this. Mind you this adds to the debt we already have. That’s a hole we’ll never see the top of again. Obama brings new meaning to the spend part of the dems rep for tax and spend.

Shuttle Extension & Heavy Launcher Bill Proposed:

FleaPlus writes

“In light of Congressional resistance to the new plans for NASA (criticized as ‘radical’) proposed by NASA head Charles Bolden, Sen. Hutchinson (R-TX and ranking member of the Senate committee dealing with NASA) has proposed a compromise bill. Hutchinson’s bill calls for postponing the Space Shuttle’s retirement until 2015, and instead of wholly canceling Constellation/Ares, it would adapt the more effective portions to a ‘government-operated space transportation system,’ largely inspired by the DIRECT proposal. NASA would also pursue commercial crew and cargo launches to orbit, although the bill leaves out Charles Bolden’s proposal for R&D of ‘game-changing’ technologies for sustainable and cost-effective space exploration.”

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

I watched what was supposed to be the last nighttime shuttle launch from the shores of Titusville a month ago along with 100,000 other people and it was neat. So this sounds like a good idea to me.

American car brochures

- Auto Brochures -

Nothing is for sale here.
These brochures are scanned from my own and contributors collections.
The intention behind this is for enthusiasts and restorers to find useful and original factory documentation.

Really cool stuff.

HT: A

Obama is making me yearn for the Clinton years.

Interesting perspective!

I’m sure most of us have read the so called comparison of Lincoln and Kennedy, but did you ever consider the relationship between Obama and Lincoln…… You might be surprised.

Parallels of Abraham Lincoln and B. H. Obama:

1. Lincoln placed his hand on the Bible for his inauguration. Obama used the same Bible.

2. Lincoln came from Illinois. Obama comes from Illinois.

3. Lincoln served in the Illinois Legislature. Obama served in the Illinois Legislature.

4. Lincoln had very little experience before becoming President… Obama had very little experience before becoming President.

5. Lincoln rode the train from Philadelphia to Washington for his inauguration. Obama rode the train from Philadelphia to Washington for his inauguration..

6. Lincoln was a skinny lawyer. Obama is a skinny lawyer.

7. Lincoln was a Republican. Obama is a skinny lawyer.

8. Lincoln was highly respected. Obama is a skinny lawyer.

9. Lincoln was born in the United States. Obama is a skinny lawyer.

10. Lincoln was honest, so honest he was called Honest Abe. Obama is a skinny lawyer.

11. Lincoln saved the United States. Obama is a skinny lawyer.

via email: HT J

FOXNews.com - Reid: 36,000 Lost Jobs in February ‘Really Good’ :

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is catching heat for portraying Friday’s labor report showing 36,000 jobs lost in February as “really good” news. …

Woo Hoo!

“Today is a big day in America. Only 36,000 people lost their jobs today, which is really good,” Reid said Friday on the Senate floor.

Highest-resolution Earth photo looks familiar for a reason:

Last month, Gizmodo posted an incredible image from NASA: The most accurate, highest-resolution photo of Earth taken to date. It’s stunning, in all of its 2048 x 2048 pixel glory. In fact, there are two images: One showing the Americas and one showing Europe. Both make a great desktop image.

They’re also oddly familiar, and now Gizmodo confirms what many suspected: It’s the same Earth image that’s welcomed new users to the iPhone since its launch in 2007.

NASA noted that the image has been public since 2002, and is the results of many months of work. “Using a collection of satellite-based observations,” NASA shares on their Flickr page, “scientists and visualizers stitched together months of observations of the land surface, oceans, sea ice, and clouds into a seamless, true-color mosaic of every square kilometer (.386 square mile) of our planet.”

The image recently started generating a lot of traffic on the web as Apple fanboys realized the connection. Now, the next time you see that image on your iPhone, say thank you to the hard-working NASA employees who put it together.

iPad Available in US on April 3:

Apple today announced that its magical and revolutionary iPad will be available in the US on Saturday, April 3, for Wi-Fi models and in late April for Wi-Fi + 3G models. In addition, all models of iPad will be available in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and the UK in late April. Beginning a week from today, March 12, US customers can pre-order both Wi-Fi and Wi-Fi + 3G models from Apple’s online store or reserve a Wi-Fi model to pick up on Saturday, April 3, at an Apple retail store.

My advise is to wait a couple months if you can. I like the 3G model and will likely get one of those but I’m betting they’ll drop the 16GB version and sell the 32GB for the 16GB price. They may even do something with the 3G pricing. In any case I don’t need one right away even though my laptop died I can still wait it out for a bit.

The Arctic Is Leaking Methane:

registerShift and other readers sent in news that the Arctic Ocean seabed is leaking methane.

“…climate experts familiar with the new research reported in Friday’s issue of the journal Science that even though it does not suggest imminent climate catastrophe, it is important because of methane’s role as a greenhouse gas. Although carbon dioxide is far more abundant and persistent in the atmosphere, ton for ton atmospheric methane traps at least 25 times as much heat. … [One scientist] estimated that annual methane emissions from the East Siberian Arctic Shelf total about seven teragrams. (A teragram is 1.1 million tons.) By some estimates, global methane emissions total about 500 teragrams a year. …about 40 percent is natural, including the decomposition of organic materials in wetlands and frozen wetlands like permafrost.”

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

There’s a lot of, “coulds” and “woulds” and “mays” in these stories which if you add up could spell disaster, but if you don’t they spell, “so what”. Depends if you’re panic prone or not. I fall into the, ‘not’ category.

The University Of Washington Protest: Socialism Makes You Stupid | Right Wing News:

Men ‘become more accident prone in front of beautiful women’
| Mail Online:

Men become accident prone at the sight of a beautiful woman, scientists said yesterday.

It took a nerdy scientist from the department of the glaringly obvious to figure this out. His name, get ready, is Professor von Hippel… so when you read the article read it with the proper von Hipple like accent. Practice by pronouncing the word, “Well”, with a “V” as in, “Vell”.