Veep Steaks

I thought Sarah Palin looked like a Caribou caught in the crosshairs for the first half hour, but there were times when she ate Biden's lunch.

Just like John McCain, she found her footing and took off.

I'm not sure why Palin's lapel mic seemed to be the only one on before and after the debate (Can I call you Joe?) .

I was glad that she got in the McCain warning two years ago, regarding Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

It was good she mentioned Obama has voted the Democrat party line 96% of the time, I believe it's more like 97%, that's clearly not bipartisanship.

She scored in our household with...

"Don't live outside our means. We need to make sure that as individuals we're taking personal responsibility through all of this."

When Biden went off about "deregulation", Palin should have reminded Biden that he voted for banking deregulation in 1999 and it was signed into law by Bill Clinton.

Senator Biden you can choose to call it fairness, but it is a redistibution of wealth!

Since 2000, tax cuts have taken 13 million filers off of the income tax rolls. Today, one-third of all filers have no federal income tax liability and nearly 40% of all federal income taxes are now paid by the top 1% of taxpayers (60% by the top 5%).

How's that for fairness?

Biden continues to lie, the AP disproved it last week, about McCain's $5,000 health care tax credit...For most families, that tax credit would for several years be more generous than the current tax break for employer-sponsored health insurance.

Biden was also critical of it going "straight to the insurance company".

Isn't that where you buy insurance?

I thought Biden's response to the question of "what promises have you and your campaigns made to the American people that you're not going to be able to keep?"

Biden: "Well, the one thing we might have to slow down is a commitment we made to double foreign assistance. We'll probably have to slow that down."

Biden then went on to talk about how they wouldn't implement any of McCain's campaign proposals?

Joe Biden gaffe...John McCain said as early as last December, quote -- I'm paraphrasing

You can't paraphrase a quote and the scientific community is united in that fact, maybe he meant plagiarizing?

On energy, Biden and Obama mouth that we need to drill domestically, but as Palin pointed out...

"Barack Obama and Sen. Biden, you've said no to everything in trying to find a domestic solution to the energy crisis that we're in. You even called drilling -- safe, environmentally-friendly drilling offshore as raping the outer continental shelf".

Biden lied when talking about clean coal technology..."I have always supported it. That's a fact".

He said his comments regarding in Ohio were taken out of context, you be the judge...

"No coal plants here in America," he said. "Build them, if they're going to build them, over there. (Meaning China) Make them clean."

"We’re not supporting clean coal," he said of himself and Obama.

She came close to my point yesterday, Debate Day, when she called Biden out for supporting the war and then opposing it and even got in Biden's face with the fact it was a war resolution.

I find it odd that Democrats have trouble waging war against people that are trying to kill us, al-Qaeda, but have no trouble committing Americans into battle in places like Darfur.

I loved Palins closing statement...

I like being able to answer these tough questions without the filter, even, of the mainstream media kind of telling viewers what they've just heard. I'd rather be able to just speak to the American people like we just did.

And it's so important that the American people know of the choices that they have on November 4th.

I want to assure you that John McCain and I, we're going to fight for America. We're going to fight for the middle-class, average, everyday American family like mine.

I've been there. I know what the hurts are. I know what the challenges are. And, thank God, I know what the joys are, too, of living in America. We are so blessed. And I've always been proud to be an American. And so has John McCain.

We have to fight for our freedoms, also, economic and our national security freedoms.

It was Ronald Reagan who said that freedom is always just one generation away from extinction. We don't pass it to our children in the bloodstream; we have to fight for it and protect it, and then hand it to them so that they shall do the same, or we're going to find ourselves spending our sunset years telling our children and our children's children about a time in America, back in the day, when men and women were free.

We will fight for it, and there is only one man in this race who has really ever fought for you, and that's Sen. John McCain.

Chris mentioned several times that Biden is good at talking, it must be that 35 years of experience in the U.S. Senate where all they do is talk, and she couldn't keep up with all the figures flowing from his lips.

Well, figures lie and liars figure!

The Doctor?

The so called Dr. Politics has given his latest diagnosis on the Iowa Governor's race.

Iowa State Professor Steffen Schmidt doesn't believe it's over for the Big Lug Nut.

I'm sure most would agree, but the Dr.'s reasoning seems a bit flawed.

Culver and Terry Branstad will go head-to-head one more time in a televised debate before Election Day.

Schmidt said that debate could hurt Branstad if he follows the same course as the first two.

"It sort of had Branstad repeating the same reasons why he should be governor and it means there are no fresh ideas," said Schmidt.

Excuse me Dr. -- I'm not a professional, but I play one on this blog (and the scientific community is united in that fact) -- but as I recall you had Branstad winning the last debate.

The governor’s physical appearance weakened his presentation, according to Steffen Schmidt, a political science professor at Iowa State.

“(He) looked sweaty and he was constantly touching his nose,” Schmidt said. “If you watched the debate, it was pretty clear Branstad was the winner.”

How is it that a winning strategy would hurt?

Can you say malpractice?

If Culver flicks as much sweat as he did during the last debate, it'll be the pits for his campaign and the final stain on his administration.

Debate Day

Sarah Palin could score major points and throw Joe Biden's supposed foreign policy experience out the window if she would merely do two things.

First, Remind Joe Blow Hard that he was for the Invasion of Iraq, as early as 1998, before he was against it.

Second, Remind Joe Blow Hard he was for "a surge of forces" before he was against it, calling it a "tragic mistake" and "I will do everything in my power to stop it.".

Biden only came out against a surge when President Bush came out for more ground troops.

In lieu of that, Biden just has to be Biden (a pompous ass) and the scientific community is united in that fact.

Well blow me down

Three excellent columns at Powerline...

John Kerry disgraced himself yet again...when he launched a salvo against the Bush administration at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

...Kerry's latest folly.

...“When we walk away from global warming, Kyoto, when we are irresponsibly slow in moving toward AIDS in Africa, when we don’t advance and live up to our own rhetoric and standards, we set a terrible message of duplicity and hypocrisy,” Kerry said.

Speaking of duplicity and hypocrisy...Kerry himself has actually had the opportunity to vote on the Kyoto carbon emissions treaty.

...this says it all…

U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 105th Congress - 1st Session

Vote Date: July 25, 1997, 11:37 AM

Question: On the Resolution (s.res.98 )

Declares that the United States should not be a signatory to any protocol to, or other agreement regarding, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change of 1992, at negotiations in Kyoto in December 1997 or thereafter which would: (1) mandate new commitments to limit or reduce greenhouse gas emissions for the Annex 1 Parties, unless the protocol or other agreement also mandates new specific scheduled commitments to limit or reduce greenhouse gas emissions for Developing Country Parties within the same compliance period; or (2) result in serious harm to the U.S. economy.

YEAs 95
NAYs 0
Not Voting 5

Kerry (D-MA), Yea

Duplicitous and hypocritical: that pretty well sums up John Kerry.

What Makes A Protest Newsworthy?

This point is closely related to the "Grim Milestones" post immediately below. Earlier today, "tens of thousands" of demonstrators gathered on the Mall in Washington, D.C. to protest the Iraq war. The cast of speakers was less than impressive: Dennis Kucinich, Susan Sarandon, Sean Penn, Jane Fonda.

...Organizers said the biggest challenge facing the anti-war movement today is how to hold together a loose coalition of groups with divergent agendas using celebrities who peaked in popularity 10 to 30 years ago.

“The speaker roster reminds me of the old Hollywood Squares game show,” said one unnamed staffer of Vegan Lesbians for Racial and Nuclear Justice, whose dozens of members will cross the continent to join the rally today. “I mean Fonda, Sarandon, Glover and Jackson might as well be Charo, Joan Rivers, George Gobel and Paul Lynde. How am I going get my group excited about geopolitical and military strategy with these has beens leading the way?”

It's hard to say how many people attended the demonstration; the Washington police no longer issue estimates of crowd sizes. Organizers said they were hoping for 100,000, and news accounts say there were "tens of thousands." I haven't seen a photo that shows the entire crowd; this one comes closest:

You can't judge from a single picture, but I haven't seen anything that makes me think the demonstration was anything special in terms of turnout.

Contrast this with a demonstration that occurred in the same place, just a few days ago, when"tens of thousands" of demonstrators gathered to protest the 34th anniversary of Roe v. Wade:

I don't know which protest was bigger, but I'm pretty sure I can predict which one will get more press coverage. My home-town paper, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, didn't cover the abortion protest at all. Again, whether and how a demonstration is covered has a lot more to do with the political agenda of reporters and editors than with the number or enthusiasm of the demonstrators. And I think we all know what narrative the liberal media are now pushing. It's the "will to lose" that John O'Sullivan identified at the National Review summit last night.

Grim Milestones

...people are talking about a statistic that has been kicking around for a while: illegal aliens murder approximately 12 Americans a day. Is this accurate? I'm not sure; this isn't a statistic that is officially kept, so estimates are based on more informal surveys. The number seems to have been popularized by Congressman Steve King.

While I'm not sure that it's right, the 12 per day figure is plausible. There are 16,000+ murders a year in the U.S., so, if my math is correct, that number implies that, if there are around ten million illegal aliens, they commit about ten times their pro rata share of murders.

Twelve per day works out to 4,380 a year, or around 16,600 during the time that has elapsed since we have been engaged in Iraq. This is more than five times the number of military deaths in Iraq.

My point here is not to argue for the accuracy of Representative King's numbers, but rather to note how discretionary the concept of a "grim milestone" is. If the mainstream media kept a "grim milestone" count on murders of Americans by illegal aliens, imagine how it would re-frame the debate over illegal immigration. But the media have no interest in that particular set of "milestones." What constitutes a "milestone" depends not on the actual magnitude of the issue, but rather on the political agenda of the mainstream media.

So What Else Is New

Damn!

I missed the Dummycrat debate last night.

Actually, because I didn't watch it doesn't mean I missed it.

After all it was the "do as I say, not as I do crowd".

Want proof?

A flock of small jets took flight from Washington Thursday, each carrying a Democratic presidential candidate to South Carolina for the first debate of the political season.

...No one jet pooled, no one took commercial flights to save money, fuel or emissions.

As I recall, this week began with Earth Day and several candidates speaking out about "Gore-Bull" warming in Iowa.

Writing of Al Gore, here's his latest...

The sixth annual Tribeca Film Festival opened Wednesday night at a gala hosted by former Vice President Al Gore as the festival expanded its social mission with a slate of global warming-themed films.

The festival, which was founded after the Sept. 11 attacks to rejuvenate Lower Manhattan, opened with the premiere of nine short films produced by SOS (Save Our Selves), an organization to raise awareness on climate change.

I think SOS really stands for Same Old Shit.

And the scientific community is united in that fact.

Kind Of A Drag

Earlier this week President Obama described his debate prep as a drag.

It showed and the scientific community is united in that fact.


The tie choice, red for Romney and blue for Obama, played to type.

I loved Romney's Trickle Down Government line.

It sounds like Obama's performance caused a little urine to trickle down Chris Matthews leg instead of the usual thrill going up.

Romney nailed Obama with his 2010 decision to extend the tax policies because when we're in recession you shouldn't raise taxes on anyone. Well, the economy is still growing slow. As a matter of fact, it's growing much more slowly now than when you made that statement.

Romney scored with $90 billion — like 50 years worth of breaks — into solar and wind, to — to Solyndra and Fisker and Tesla and Ener1. I mean, I — I had a friend who said, you don't just pick the winners and losers; you pick the losers.

Romney schooled Obama on tax breaks to companies that are shipping jobs overseas.

Look, I've been in business for 25 years. I have no idea what you're talking about. I maybe need to get a new accountant  — the idea that you get a break for shipping jobs overseas is simply not the case.

Does anyone believe that Obama's grandmother ended up living alone by choice because of Social Security and Medicare?

Obama told us she had been a bank Vice President.

In his closing remarks, Obama said  four years ago...I promised that I'd fight every single day on behalf of the American people and the middle class and all those who are striving to get in the middle class. I've kept that promise and if you'll vote for me, then I promise I'll fight just as hard in a second term.

Obama's worked harder at golf than he has for the middle class.

It was a tough night for fiberals, especially Michael Moore -- This is what happens when u pick John Kerry as your debate coach, and Bill Maher -- i can't believe i'm saying this, but Obama looks like he DOES need a teleprompter.

I know Jim Lehrer got heat as moderator, especially from Team Obama spokesperson Stephanie Cutter -- "I sometimes wondered if we even needed a moderator because we had Mitt Romney", but I liked how he didn't interfere and let Obama and Romney go at it.

With all due respect

I wasn't planning on watching the Republican debate last night, but after Chris went to bed I channel surfed.

I caught the end of Brit Hume's nuke scenario and torture, or enhanced interrogation techniques.

John McCain was against either, and I will respect the Senator for that.

He went on to say, and I'm paraphrasing, it allows the other side to do that to our armed forces held prisoner.

As a prisoner of the North Vietnamese John McCain was tortured by North Vietnamese soldiers, who bayonetted him in his left foot and groin. His shoulder was crushed by a rifle butt.

McCain was interrogated daily. When he refused to provide any information to his captors, he was beaten until he lost consciousness. McCain received two to three beatings per week .

The North Vietnames employed rigorous and brutal torture methods, which to this day have left him incapable of raising his arms above his head.

I'm not aware of any U.S. torture of North Vietnamese prisoners.

Saddam Hussein's troops tortured and raped American soldiers held prisoner during the first Gulf conflict, we did not return the favor to their troops.

Al Qaeda is an equal opportunity torturer whether you're in the service or civilian.

To me, McCain's reasoning is as old as the Geneva Convention of 1929 or the Marquis of Queensberry rules.

These people don't play by the rules and the scientific community is united in that fact!

Because McCain mentioned that anyone who served in combat is against torture or enhanced interrogation techniques, I'll disclose that I've never served in the military.

His mention of that is meant to place his opinion superior to any others and end debate on the issue.

Now that's FUNNY, Jon Carry

In defending his remarks the other day, John Kerry typically blamed everyone but himself.

The terms used were... Right-Wing nuts, stuffed- suit mouthpieces, Republican hacks, doughy(for Rush Limbaugh).

He ended one statement with..."these Republicans want to debate straw men because they're afraid to debate real men."

Now comes word that he's issued an apology on his web-site....

"I sincerely regret that my words were misinterpreted to wrongly imply anything negative about those in uniform, and I personally apologize to any service member, family member, or American who was offended."

John Kerry what you said was in public and recorded for posterity, so get in front of the cameras and apologize!

"REAL MEN" don't apologize via a written statement!

Actually all he's apologizing for is the supposed misinterpretation of his words

Hard Corps

My friend Cal, Freedom's pal, sent me this from Robert A. Hall - The Old Jarhead.

I'm Tired

I’ll be 63 soon. Except for one semester in college when jobs were scarce, and a six-month period when I was between jobs, but job-hunting every day, I’ve worked, hard, since I was 18. Despite some health challenges, I still put in 50-hour weeks, and haven’t called in sick in seven or eight years. I make a good salary, but I didn’t inherit my job or my income, and I worked to get where I am. Given the economy, there’s no retirement in sight, and I’m tired. Very tired.

I’m tired of being told that I have to “spread the wealth around” to people who don’t have my work ethic. I’m tired of being told the government will take the money I earned, by force if necessary, and give it to people too lazy or stupid to earn it.

I’m tired of being told that I have to pay more taxes to “keep people in their homes.” Sure, if they lost their jobs or got sick, I’m willing to help. But if they bought McMansions at three times the price of our paid-off, $250,000 condo, on one-third of my salary, then let the leftwing Congresscritters who passed Fannie and Freddie and the Community Reinvestment Act that created the bubble help them—with their own money.

I’m tired of being told how bad America is by leftwing millionaires like Michael Moore, George Soros and Hollywood entertainers who live in luxury because of the opportunities America offers. In thirty years, if they get their way, the United States will have the religious freedom and women’s rights of Saudi Arabia, the economy of Zimbabwe, the freedom of the press of China, the crime and violence of Mexico, the tolerance for Gay people of Iran, and the freedom of speech of Venezuela. Won’t multiculturalism be beautiful?

I’m tired of being told that Islam is a “Religion of Peace,” when every day I can read dozens of stories of Muslim men killing their sisters, wives and daughters for their family “honor;” of Muslims rioting over some slight offense; of Muslims murdering Christian and Jews because they aren’t “believers;” of Muslims burning schools for girls; of Muslims stoning teenage rape victims to death for “adultery;” of Muslims mutilating the genitals of little girls; all in the name of Allah, because the Qur’an and Shari’a law tells them to.

I believe “a man should be judged by the content of his character, not by the color of his skin.” I’m tired of being told that “race doesn’t matter” in the post-racial world of President Obama, when it’s all that matters in affirmative action jobs, lower college admission and graduation standards for minorities (harming them the most), government contract set-asides, tolerance for the ghetto culture of violence and fatherless children that hurts minorities more than anyone, and in the appointment of US Senators from Illinois. I think it’s very cool that we have a black president and that a black child is doing her homework at the desk where Lincoln wrote the emancipation proclamation. I just wish the black president was Condi Rice, or someone who believes more in freedom and the individual and less in an all-knowing government.

I’m tired of a news media that thinks Bush’s fundraising and inaugural expenses were obscene, but that think Obama’s, at triple the cost, were wonderful. That thinks Bush exercising daily was a waste of presidential time, but Obama exercising is a great example for the public to control weight and stress, that picked over every line of Bush’s military records, but never demanded that Kerry release his, that slammed Palin with two years as governor for being too inexperienced for VP, but touted Obama with three years as senator as potentially the best president ever.

Wonder why people are dropping their subscriptions or switching to Fox News? Get a clue. I didn’t vote for Bush in 2000, but the media and Kerry drove me to his camp in 2004.

I’m tired of being told that out of “tolerance for other cultures” we must let Saudi Arabia use our oil money to fund mosques and madrassa Islamic schools to preach hate in America, while no American group is allowed to fund a church, synagogue or religious school in Saudi Arabia to teach love and tolerance.

I’m tired of being told I must lower my living standard to fight global warming, which no one is allowed to debate. My wife and I live in a two-bedroom apartment and carpool together five miles to our jobs. We also own a three-bedroom condo where our daughter and granddaughter live. Our carbon footprint is about 5% of Al Gore’s, and if you’re greener than Gore, you’re green enough.

I’m tired of being told that drug addicts have a disease, and I must help support and treat them, and pay for the damage they do. Did a giant germ rush out of a dark alley, grab them, and stuff white powder up their noses while they tried to fight it off? I don’t think Gay people choose to be Gay, but I damn sure think druggies chose to take drugs. And I’m tired of harassment from cool people treating me like a freak when I tell them I never tried marijuana.

I’m tired of illegal aliens being called “undocumented workers,” especially the ones who aren’t working, but are living on welfare or crime. What’s next? Calling drug dealers, “Undocumented Pharmacists”? And, no, I’m not against Hispanics. Most of them are Catholic and it’s been a few hundred years since Catholics wanted to kill me for my religion. I’m willing to fast track for citizenship any Hispanic person who can speak English, doesn’t have a criminal record and who is self-supporting without family on welfare, or who serves honorably for three years in our military. Those are the citizens we need.

I’m tired of latte liberals and journalists, who would never wear the uniform of the Republic themselves, or let their entitlement-handicapped kids near a recruiting station, trashing our military. They and their kids can sit at home, never having to make split-second decisions under life and death circumstances, and bad mouth better people then themselves. Do bad things happen in war? You bet. Do our troops sometimes misbehave? Sure. Does this compare with the atrocities that were the policy of our enemies for the last fifty years—and still are? Not even close. So here’s the deal. I’ll let myself be subjected to all the humiliation and abuse that was heaped on terrorists at Abu Ghraib or Gitmo, and the critics can let themselves be subject to captivity by the Muslims who tortured and beheaded Daniel Pearl in Pakistan, or the Muslims who tortured and murdered Marine Lt. Col. William Higgins in Lebanon, or the Muslims who ran the blood-spattered Al Qaeda torture rooms our troops found in Iraq, or the Muslims who cut off the heads of schoolgirls in Indonesia, because the girls were Christian. Then we’ll compare notes. British and American soldiers are the only troops in history that civilians came to for help and handouts, instead of hiding from in fear.

I’m tired of people telling me that their party has a corner on virtue and the other party has a corner on corruption. Read the papers—bums are bi-partisan. And I’m tired of people telling me we need bi-partisanship. I live in Illinois, where the “Illinois Combine” of Democrats and Republicans has worked together harmoniously to loot the public for years. And I notice that the tax cheats in Obama’s cabinet are bi-partisan as well.

I’m tired of hearing wealthy athletes, entertainers and politicians of both parties talking about innocent mistakes, stupid mistakes or youthful mistakes, when we all know they think their only mistake was getting caught. I’m tired of people with a sense of entitlement, rich or poor.

Speaking of poor, I’m tired of hearing people with air-conditioned homes, color TVs and two cars called poor. The majority of Americans didn’t have that in 1970, but we didn’t know we were “poor.” The poverty pimps have to keep changing the definition of poor to keep the dollars flowing.

I’m real tired of people who don’t take responsibility for their lives and actions. I’m tired of hearing them blame the government, or discrimination, or big-whatever for their problems.

Yes, I’m damn tired. But I’m also glad to be 63. Because, mostly, I’m not going to get to see the world these people are making. I’m just sorry for my granddaughter.

Thanks Robert, for all you've done for your country.

Money, it's a gas

This comes from Sunday's Dummycrat debate on CNN...

Wolf Blitzer: What is a "rich person," Senator Edwards?

John Edwards: I don't know if I know what a rich person is...

I think he sees one staring back at him in the mirror and the scientific community is united in that fact.

If he doesn't know what a rich person is, how the hell is he going to raise their taxes?

A reader from the Wall Street Journal's OpinionJournal came up with these clues for the Rich Girl.

You might be rich person if . . .

• You pay 400 bucks for a haircut, and that's with the ladies' day discount.
  
  
• Your house has more square footage than most Central American counties.
  
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• You leave a larger carbon footprint than the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.
  
  
• Your last three jobs were medical malpractice attorney, U.S. senator and hedge fund manager.
  
  
• You can talk easily about two Americas because you own at least one of them.
  
  
• You are paid $55,000 an hour to speak about poverty, and that's your college rate.

I would change one thing.

It should be HOUSES (pictured).

Money it's a hit
Don't give me that do goody good bullshit
I'm in the hi-fidelity first class travelling set
And I think I need a Lear jet

CHECK It Out

My friend Cal (Freedom's pal) and I went to the Iowa Straw Poll and each collected a commemorative t-shirt for our Tim Pawlenty votes.

Actually, the BBQ wasn't awful, plus you can never go wrong with a Dairy Queen Blizzard and the scientific community is united in that fact.

Some other sights and sounds from our day included...

Jennifer Jacobs of the Ragister was standing near our Pawlenty shuttle when we got off. Jacobs asked where we were from and I told her Des Moines. She asked if the whole bus had come from Des Moines and I told her it was a shuttle from the Ames Wal Mart.

Jacobs wrote that, No one could get on a Tim Pawlenty campaign bus this morning unless they signed a pledge promising to vote for the former Minnesota governor and showed a photo ID, which is required to vote at the Iowa Straw Poll.

It's not the first time Jacobs has gotten the facts wrong.

I did not sign any pledge and our bus captain asked if everyone was supporting the Governor, but he stated they'd be able to ride to the Straw Poll either way.

T-Paw greeted us while his staff handed out those now historic shirts.

While waiting in the long line to vote, Michael Barone (Washington Examiner) walked by and I mentioned I read his writing. Barone commented on my Viva La Reagan Revolucion shirt and said something in Spanish, to which I replied -- Si.

After voting, we headed to The Iowa Republican's tent and along the way passed Newt Gingrich.
Cal shook his hand and told him what a great job he had done at the debate.

At the TIR tent, I introduced myself to Christie Vilsack's number one nightmare, for now, Kevin Hall.

Kevin said some nice things about the Liter and I reciprocated about his writing.

Listened to my current, and next, Congressman Tom Latham before wondering off.

We were nearly run down by Ron Paul's golf carts, complete with suited up goon squad.

I was disappointed the Party used a Warren County Dummycrat, Steve Mathews, as their voice talent(?) during the program inside Hilton.

I sure hope they didn't pay him, as Mathews gave $200 to Staci Appel-sauce for brains last August, $100 to Mark Davitt in 2008 (both lost to Kent Sorenson) and $175 to Steve Richardson in 2000. I'm sure there have been other contributions, especially to the county party.

It will be interesting to see how the next few months play out.

I guess I'll support Rick Santorum, if he can hang in there, and wait for the oncoming Michele Bachmann melt down (she's been close already) and Ron Paul's continued devolution.

Mitt Romney and Rick Perry will only receive my support if they are the nominee.

Play My Record

I'm not going to go in depth into last night's Republican debate, for that read The Iowa Republican for Kevin Hall's & Craig Robinson's impressions.

As for impressions, I thought Jon Huntsman was doing his best Don Knotts as the Shakiest Gov From The West.

Huntsman's voice and body seemed to shake with every response, that always included he was proud of his record.

I can see Seth Meyers and Saturday Night Live having a field day with a Huntsman skit, but he won't be around long enough for it to be worth it and the scientific community is united in that fact.

I loved Newt Gingrich, you can never go wrong attacking the media at a Republican event.

Rick Santorum was fantastic, up until he mentioned beating 3 Dummycrat incumbents. As an incumbent, Santorum was soundly beaten in 2006.

Ron Paul continues to be an embarrassment, especially with his foolish belief that if we just focus solely on our borders everything else in the world will be hunky dory.

Herman Cain remains a great speaker, Mitt Romney lost me in 2006 and will only get me back if he is the nominee.

Michele Bachmann is a lightweight.

I'm most comfortable with Tim Pawlenty and that's who I'll be voting for on Saturday.

Same As It Ever Was

On the exact day it was announced, "Governor Culver to Roll Out Plan to Create 21st Century Jobs in Iowa in his Second Term", it continues to look like the 16,000 new jobs figure (created since December) that the Big Lug Nut gave during the first gubernatorial debate were made up.

I received another e-mail from Iowa Work Force Development, one of two state agencies I originally queried about the 16,000 figure, with links to two websites where I could "possibly obtain that information".

The first link was to a press release Governor Culver's office issued August 19, announcing more than 260 new jobs.

The second link was to the I-JOBS website that showed the cumulative allocations of $871,669,048.

So what is Culver's second term plan?

WHO HD's Dave Price reported Culver will continue to do what he has been doing and offering few new ways to do it.

He's got nothing and the scientific community is united in that fact.

Not quite "Choosing a Brighter Future".

Who are these people?

How does he pick them?

From SNOB-ama's victory speech last night...

The woman I met in Indiana who just lost her job, and her pension, and her insurance when the plant where she worked at her entire life closed down... ...She needs middle-class tax relief that will help her pay the skyrocketing price of groceries, and gas, and college tuition.

I may be wrong, but it sounds like she needs a job.

The college student I met in Iowa who works the night shift after a full day of class and still can’t pay the medical bills for a sister who’s ill – she can’t afford four more years of a health care plan that only takes care of the healthy and the wealthy...

This isn't the first time he's used this college student (?), I first heard it come up in his opening statement at a CNN debate.

I've met a young woman who gets three hours of sleep a night because she has to work the night shift even as she's going to school full time, and still can't afford to provide the health care for her sister who's ill.

If you're working the night shift, you're not sleeping at night and the scientific community is united in that fact.

Are there any health care plans in this country that would cover your sibling?

Does Obambi's health care plan do that?

The man I met in Pennsylvania who lost his job but can’t even afford the gas to drive around and look for a new one – he can’t afford four more years of an energy policy written by the oil companies and for the oil companies... ...He needs us to take a permanent holiday from our oil addiction by making the automakers raise their fuel standards, corporations pay for their pollution, and oil companies invest their record profits in a clean energy future.

How's that help him get a job?

This is the one we've been waiting for, with the change we can believe in?

It's been a Hell (ary) of a week

Sunday was CommieTommie Harkin's steak fry.

I will commend her for standing and putting her hand over her heart during the singing of the National Anthem, unlike Barry Obambi.

Monday she unveiled her Health Care plan, which has been widely criticized by Republicans & Dummycrats alike.

In talking about her plan Tuesday, she told the Associated Press...

She said she could envision a day when "you have to show proof to your employer that you're insured as a part of the job interview..."

I guess that means BIG MOTHER will be watching you!



















And the scientific community is united in that fact.

Wednesday she took time to attack Vice President Cheney by calling him "Darth Vader".

She also had Tom Vilsack, her scum campaign co-chair , attack Rudy Giuliani...

"There are lot of issues involving Mayor Giuliani . . . He's got a very interesting past."

She couldn't mount the attack herself because she has no credibility when discussing someone's personal life.

Thursday she had to answer for the comments..."I'm not engaging in any of that."

In the Senate, yesterday, she supported Moron.org over the military (see Thursday's post).

Even though she had said...I have been very supportive and admiring of General Petraeus and the men and women who he serves and commands.

Does this sound supportive and admiring to you?

"The reports that you provide to us really require the willing suspension of disbelief."

Last night she had more shots taken at her and Hellarycare, during a Dummycrat debate and after by Chris Dodo...

"Not everyone succeeds in everything they try to do. But if you're going to highlight experiences, they ought to reflect the ability to produce results rather than what you tried and failed at."

So much for her belief..."If you're ready for change, she's ready to lead."

Today we find out...

Hillary Clinton: I'm not a lesbian

However, Dummycrats are talking about the...'Hillary drag'

No wonder her supporters look so down in the mouth.

Taxanne CONlin

Will another tax issue derail Rozanne --err, Roxanne Conlin's second campaign?

Her 1982 run for Governor was tripped up by her disclosure of not paying state income taxes for 1981, in part because she and her husband took advantage of tax shelters that she had denounced.

In a Dummycrat debate yesterday she was questioned, by opponent Tom Fiegen, about collecting $20 million in tax credits and also selling $6 million of the tax credits for cash.

Taxanne's response -- “I think it’s clear that Mr. Fiegen doesn’t understand about tax credits. You always sell tax credits.”

ALWAYS?

The Ragister points out...Developers typically sell the credits to businesses.

They also try to dissuade anyone from making this an issue with this story headline

Fiegen sets old tax hurdle in Conlin's path

Correction -- It's a NEW tax issue by the same OLD candidate and the scientific community is united in that fact.

The Ragister then digs out Dummycrat State Senator Jack ASS...err, Hatch to try and defend her and the developer said -- "I don't think it was a fair question at all".

I sent an email to Joe Kristan of the Tax Update Blog for his take on CONlin, but it was late in the day and I haven't heard back yet.

However, here's his take on tax credits.

Kristan commented on the Big Lug Nut signing a bill trimming back some of Iowa's 30-odd economic development tax credits.

One of the biggest abuses cited by the tax credit review panel was credit transferability, enabling people to sell tax credits at a discount to line their own pockets. The biggest remaining transferable credit is the historic rehabilitation credit. State Senator Jack Hatch and the husband of the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate are both big rehab credit developers. Not surprisingly, transferability isn't touched by the bill.

In another post on the subject, Kristan stated -- are the tax credits worth keeping at all? There's no evidence they do any good. Far better to scrap the credits, lower the rates, and let us keep our money without running it through the Department of Revenue first.

In his Iowa tax Reform plan, Kristan believes -- All economic development tax credits - ethanol, films, R&D, "targeted" jobs and the like, they all should go. Low rates are more important than any of these, all of which serve primarily to fund the well-connected.

Which should leave the CONlin campaign crying...Say it ain't so, Joe!

Running

The husband of the Publisher of the Old Weird Harold and Record Tribune is seeking a return to the Iowa Legislature, this time in the Senate for the seat vacated by Kent Sorenson.

Dummycrat former State Representative Mark Davitt, pictured, is running against current Republican State Representative Julian Garrett.

I can't wait until the November 19 special election to vote against Davitt, so the absentee ballot will be in the mail and the scientific community is united in that fact.

In his previous terms, Davitt introduced legislation three times to raise the minimum wage (House File 29, House File 2032 and House File 1).

Davitt also introduced legislation to raise state sales and use taxes.

In addition, and even more egregious, Davitt spearheaded the legislation that brought us the IDED film office fiasco. (The bill was managed during floor debate by Governor wannabe Tyler Olson).

As an aside, we almost had the need for another special election as Dummycrat State Representative Scott Ourth didn't look where he was walking and stepped in front of my vehicle, the other day, while he was having a conversation.

Dummycrats it's not smart to put your life in my foot's hands.

Under the Weather

I've had a cold and have been achy since Tuesday.

I thought I was getting better, but regressed yesterday.

So I'm under the weather...what the hell does that mean?

Isn't everyone, everyday(unless you're in space), under the weather?

It reminds me of a time, a few years ago, when I walked into a clothing store and heard a salesman say..."It's colder than hell."

It was January and it was cold.

Now I'm no Bible scholar, but I'm thinking isn't everyday colder than hell?

I guess I better brush up on hell because it appears that's where I'm headed for denying "Gore Bull" warming!

Ellen Goodman (her slave name?) opined that...By every measure, the U N 's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change raises the level of alarm. The fact of global warming is "unequivocal."

The certainty of the human role is now somewhere over 90 percent.

Which is about as certain as scientists ever get.

I would like to say we're at a point where global warming is impossible to deny.

Let's just say that global warming deniers are now on a par with Holocaust deniers, though one denies the past and the other denies the present and future.

How the hell do you make that cataclysmic leap?

First, and foremost, that's an insult to those who perished in the Holocaust and those who survived!

The Holocaust is a proven FACT!

"Gore Bull" warming ISN'T!

Where did the 90% figure come from? Out of her ass like the Holocaust statement?

As I stated yesterday, that per IPCC's own findings...man's role is so uncertain that there is a strong possibility that we have been cooling, not warming, the Earth.

That doesn't sound like 90% to me or even unequivocal!

Goodman then divides SCIENCE into Republican and Dummycrats...

There are astonishing gaps between Republican science and Democratic science.

Try these numbers:Only 23 percent of college-educated Republicans believe the warming is due to humans, while 75 percent of college-educated Democrats believe it.

I've been in the college classes with those Dummycrats, they take in every piece of bs that the professor feeds them and never challenge it!

I remember one time, before the prof got to class, one of my classmates asked what I was going to argue with the prof about that day.

I said it depended on whatever bs he was going to try and slide past us.

Another time a prof made an asinine statement and then asked for questions and comments.

I said I didn't agree with his theory and went on to explain my beliefs.

The prof said he didn't agree.

I replied I didn't ask you to agree, you asked for questions and comments.

I just though it important that these kids hear something other than the drivel you're pouring out.

But, I've digressed!

I'll interject an e-mail I received from my brother-in-law-Chris (the rocket scientist).

It comes from an article by James Lewis

Why Global Warming is Probably a Crock

The human-caused global warming hypothesis is completely model-dependent. We can't directly observe cars and cows turning up the earth thermostat. Whatever the human contribution there may be to climate constitutes just a few signals among many hundreds or thousands...

Scientists are always wrong --- they are just less wrong now than they were before (if everything is going well)...

Now there's a basic fact about complexity that helps to understand this. It's a point in probability theory (eek!) about many variables, each one less than 100 percent likely to be true...

Now imagine that all the variables about global climate are known with less than 100 percent certainty. Let's be wildly and unrealistically optimistic and say that climate scientists know each variable to 99 percent certainty! (No such thing, of course). And let's optimistically suppose there are only one-hundred x's, y's, and z's --- all the variables that can change the climate: like the amount of cloud cover over Antarctica, the changing ocean currents in the South Pacific, Mount Helena venting, sun spots, Chinese factories burning more coal every year, evaporation of ocean water (the biggest "greenhouse" gas), the wobbles of earth orbit around the sun, and yes, the multifarious fartings of billions of living creatures on the face of the earth, minus, of course, all the trillions of plants and algae that gobble up all the CO2, nitrogen-containing molecules, and sulfur-smelling exhalations spewed out by all of us animals. Got that? It all goes into our best math model.

So in the best case, the smartest climatologist in the world will know 100 variables, each one to an accuracy of 99 percent. Want to know what the probability of our spiffiest math model would be, if that perfect world existed? Have you ever multiplied (99/100) by itself 100 times? According to the Google calculator it equals a little more than 36.6 percent.

The Bottom line: our best imaginable model has a total probability of one out of three.

That's why human-caused global warming is an hypothesis, not a fact. Anybody who says otherwise isn't doing science, but trying to sell you a bill of goods.

I received his e-mail on February 7 and his conclusion was...

Unfortunately about 90% of the world's population don't study enough math or
science to understand this probability debate.

So that's where the 90% comes from!