“No wonder why God is taking her entire career away from her,” Michael Lohan told the paper. “Because she’s forsaken everything He’s given her and she’s done nothing but misuse all the gifts she’s given.”
After Lindsay called her dad a “loser,” and Twittering that she had once been afraid he would kill her mother, dad responded to the Post: “I guess Lindsay is on more drugs than I thought to say something like that. Now I’m going to release more recordings that prove everything she is saying is nothing more than a bunch of lies.”
Sounds about right but I am guessing that God isn’t very impressed with his skilz as a father either. Here is a photo of Lohan before God turned on her and transformed her into a talentless, meth-whore looking burlap sack of bones and skank. She was a cutie.
Poor Lindsay. It was so hard to be young, beautiful, talented and rich she was bound to have problems.
This morning a life-long civilian asked me how the Fort Hood shooter could have killed and wounded so many people on a military base. “After all,” she asked, “isn’t it full of trained people with weapons?”
I explained to her that it is full of trained people but the weapons are all locked up. The sad reality is that the shooter was able to pick off soldiers like birds on a wire because they were unarmed and unable to defend themselves. Fort Hood is effectively a gun-free zone. Ironically, if he would have tried his killing spree outside the base gates in Killeen, there would have been any number of civilians and military members with weapons to return fire. The people of Fort Hood were as vulnerable as the victims of the spree killer at Virgina Tech, another gun free zone.
Had a handgun toting jihadi in Iraq would have tried an “allu akbar” killing spree against those same soldiers, he would have been deader than fried chicken almost instantly. In America, however, the soldiers are sitting ducks. The shooter was shot by a female civilian first responder while combat experienced men could do nothing but duck, run and die. The federal government’s anti-gun bias is inexcusable.
In a nation where criticizing the Supreme Leader can get you disappeared, Mahmoud Vihidnia stands out today, as a defender of that most basic of human liberties, the right to free speech.
Not only did he speak out against the Supreme Leader, but he did it to the rat bastard’s face. I think I will start this as a weekly entry, “Joe Nobody: defender of liberty”. See the story here.
The unemployment rate has surpassed 10 percent for the first time since 1983 — and is likely to go higher.
Nearly 16 million people can’t find jobs even though the worst recession since the Great Depression has apparently ended. The Labor Department said Friday that the economy shed a net total of 190,000 jobs in October, less than the downwardly revised 219,000 lost in September. August job losses were also revised lower, to 154,000 from 201,000.
But the loss of jobs last month exceeded economists’ estimates. It’s the 22nd straight month the U.S. economy has shed jobs, the longest on records dating back 70 years.
Counting those who have settled for part-time jobs or stopped looking for work, the unemployment rate would be 17.5 percent, the highest on records dating from 1994.
The jobless rate rose to 10.2 percent from 9.8 percent in September. The jump reflects a sharp increase in the tally of unemployed Americans, which rose to 15.7 million from 15.1 million. That was much larger than the net loss of jobs, which is based on a survey of businesses.
Thank God we sold our children into servitude with a trillion in debt, huh?
Twenty years ago Monday, in one of the most amazing international events of my lifetime, the Berlin Wall came down under the power of people yearning to breathe free. The images of that day and that days that followed are seared in my memory. In Russia, however, it has been tossed down the memory hole. A large majority of Russians don’t even know who built the damned thing.
More than half of all Russians do not know who built the Berlin Wall, one of the most enduring symbols of the Cold War, an opinion poll showed Thursday.
Ten percent of people surveyed by pollster VTsIOM thought Berlin residents built it themselves — even though its purpose was to prevent residents of communist East Germany from escaping to the West through the divided city of Berlin.
Six percent said Western powers built it and four percent though it was a “bilateral initiative” of the Soviet Union and the West.
Fifty-eight percent said they did not know who built it, with just 24 percent correctly naming the Soviet Union and its then-communist ally East Germany.
You would think they would at least wonder why Reagan asked Gorbachev to tear down the wall rather than, I don’t know, just hiring a Berlin demolition company to do it.
Here is Ronald Reagan at Brandenburg Gate in West Berlin, Germany. June 12, 1987. “Mr. Gorbachev tear down this wall.”
Pelosi will use the tax dollars you pay to kill the unborn and call it health care. They angrily denied it and then they went right ahead and wrote it into their bill. Over and over the Democrats lie, mislead and distort to mask their real intentions. When they said no public funds would be used for abortions, there was no mystery as to why abortion supporters didn’t complain. There was an implicit understanding that, yes, tax dollars would be used but that it was necessary for Pelosi and others to lie in order to conceal the truth from the citizenry. Frankly, the need to lie to the electorate in order to advance their plans is proof of the truly radical nature of the Democrat’s agenda.
Cone identified the lone gunman as Major Malik Nadal Hasan, a psychiatrist who reportedly didn’t believe in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and wanted out of the military before he was set to be deployed overseas.
Hasan was in stable condition condition at a local hospital Thursday night, Cone said after
He may also have been infected with Jihaditis. Color me shocked.
Federal law enforcement officials say Hasan had come to their attention at least six months ago because of Internet postings that discussed suicide bombings and other threats.
The officials say they are still trying to confirm that he was the author.
One of the Web postings that authorities reviewed is a blog that equates homicide bombers with a soldier throwing himself on a grenade to save the lives of his comrades.
“To say that this soldier committed suicide is inappropriate. Its more appropriate to say he is a brave hero that sacrificed his life for a more noble cause,” said the Internet posting. “Scholars have paralled (sic) this to suicide bombers whose intention, by sacrificing their lives, is to help save Muslims by killing enemy soldiers.”
California Governator Ahh-nold delivered a pointed rebuke to the California Legislature this week, with a coded message that he insists was a coincidence. The idea of a coincidence appearing with the salty language he used is astronomical, so many people, who are much smarter than I, tried to figure out the probability.
DEVELOPING: A mass shooting at Ft. Hood military post in Texas has left at least 7 dead and 20 wounded and one suspected gunman is on the loose, officials told Fox News.
A massive manhunt was under way for the suspect at large, Fox News confirmed. One person was in custody. The New York Post said that there were two shooters at the Army post massacre; other reports said there were three.
The attack apparently happened at Ft. Hood’s Soldier Readiness Center. Army officials didn’t know whether the victims were civilians or military personnel.
Other media reports said the number of victims remained unclear.
The men were reportedly dressed in Army fatigues, but military officials couldn’t confirm that they were Army personnel.
The base and area schools were on lockdown after the mass shooting, and all those on the Army post were asked to gather for a head count.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. 6/9/2009 — A Muslim convert charged with fatally shooting an American soldier at a military recruiting center said Tuesday that he doesn’t consider the killing a murder because U.S. military action in the Middle East made the killing justified.
“I do feel I’m not guilty,” Abdulhakim Muhammad told The Associated Press in a collect call from the Pulaski County jail. “I don’t think it was murder, because murder is when a person kills another person without justified reason.”
Who wants to bet?
Update II: According to Fox News, the FBI is reporting that terrorism is not a factor.
Many, if not most, of people who become wealthy do so with a single big payoff. Maybe they made a single big deal. Maybe they get a big payoff for an idea. Maybe they won the lotto. Many of the people who make a million dollars do it during a single year of their lives. They then parlay that money into a retirement nest-egg over the rest of their lives. That is the idea of the millionaire next door. He isn’t a jet-setter with a mansion and a yacht. He is a guy in your neighborhood who worked hard for a one-time pay out or just got lucky. Either way, he made a lot of money in one tax year, paid the taxes and is growing his nest egg. He is living the American Dream of song, story and proverb.
An example of this, as I mentioned in another post, was President Harry Truman. When he left office in 1953, he was broke. He had to take a loan to live. Fortunately, he made a lucrative deal with a publisher to write his memoirs. Unfortunately for Harry, however, was that the top marginal tax rate in 1953 was 92%. Truman ended up paying two thirds of the $670,000 he was paid by the publisher in taxes. After he paid his expenses, he netted about $37,000. The windfall of the deal for his memoirs did not make him rich. It didn’t even solve his financial problems. His once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for financial security was stolen by burdensome taxation.
The Emo in Chief is still making excuses why the hopey changey American Candyland he promised during the campaign seems a lot more like a jobless, foreclosing, bank failing quagmire.
Obama was elected on a promise of sweeping change after eight years under Bush, but many Americans are increasingly expressing impatience that his pledge has yet to bear fruit.
He used the preamble of his speech to insist his administration had indeed had important successes and also to remind Americans of the litany of daunting challenges he inherited when he took office in January.
“One year ago, Americans all across this country went to the polls and cast ballots for the future they wanted to see,” Obama said.
But he said his administration was also confronted with a “financial crisis that threatened to plunge our economy into a Great Depression, the worst that we’ve seen in generations.
“We had record deficits, two wars, frayed alliances around the world,” Obama added.”
See, I paid very close attention to the campaign and sat through all his “yes we can-this is the moment-we are the people we have been waiting for-fierce urgency of now” rhetoric and I don’t remember the part where he said that if he got elected things would get worse and, a year in, he would still be making excuses and pointing fingers. Do you?
Not only is it empowering for an addle brained twenty-something intern to fellate the president in the Oval Office while he smokes a cigar and chats with Yassar Arafat, displaying your goods in a skin mag is empowering for women’s liberation babes too! What a country!
December cover girl, bikini model and “DWTS” star Joanna Krupa, has something to say to those women who view the men’s magazine as sexist and demeaning to the female gender.
“I think they suffer from lack of knowledge and tunnel vision. How many of those self-important, so-called ‘feminists’ have been on the set when a celebrity shot a Playboy spread? There you go. What is feminist about discriminating a photo shoot just because it involves female (partial) nudity that happens to give men pleasure? Pathetic,” Krupa told Tarts in an exclusive interview.
Never let it be said that the Real Revo doesn’t empower feminists. To wit, here is Ms Krupa:
Nordinger said that seeing the books gave him a “creepy feeling.” Then he got email… from the author.
“Sorry to hear my children’s books have given you a creepy feeling. I hope you’re able to recover soon. In fairness, though, I was pretty creeped out for eight years by that moron you helped elect, and I’m still bothered by the damage he did to our country and the rest of the world. I guess we’re creeped out by different things.”
Nice. Here is the book again. I might have added those other titles. Just made sense…
DES MOINES (AP) – The swine flu virus has been confirmed in a cat treated at the Iowa State University College of Veterinary Medicine.
Officials said Wednesday it’s the first known case of the virus to be diagnosed in a cat. Veterinarians say the virus has also been confirmed in two ferrets, one in Oregon and the other in Nebraska.
The 13-year-old cat was treated in Ames, Iowa, and is recovering.
Naturally our prayers are with the family and our hopes are for a swift recovery. We now return you to our regularly scheduled program.
The White House is calling for an end to violence in Iran as security forces there crack down on anti-government protesters.
White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said Wednesday that Obama administration leaders are following reports of the unrest and “hope greatly that violence will not spread.”
In Tehran, Iranian security forces beat anti-government protesters with batons Wednesday on the sidelines of state-sanctioned rallies to mark the 30th anniversary of the U.S. Embassy takeover. The counter-demonstrations were the opposition’s first major show of force on Tehran’s streets in nearly two months.
Wouldn’t the collapse of the anti-American regime in Iran be a good thing? Doesn’t it make sense to support the protesters? Shouldn’t it be the policy of the United States to be pouring gasoline on that fire in the hope that is spreads far and wide? Does the Obama Administration want Iran to get nuclear weapons? I mean seriously, how fucking clueless can these guys get?
Update:“OBAMA, OBAMA! ARE YOU WITH THE REGIME OR US?”
I think the answer is clear. Obama screwed them once and he will again.
I read that cretin Bill Maher’s article this morning and he is disappointed in Obama. Not because Obama’s policies are based on crushing statism and crypto-Marxist economic destruction. He is angry because Obama is too much like Bush and has not sufficiently advanced a progressive/socialist/suicidal agenda. Don’t bother to read the article. There is nothing there other than disappointment that Obama – who he still loves – hasn’t done more to fulfill his destiny as a Leninist vanguard of the proletariat. What is instructive, however, is a look at the anti-Obama vitriol in the comments section. Here is a sampling with spelling and grammatical errors intact.
It was a good night. Democrats were defeated by 18% in Virginia and 5% in deep blue New Jersey. Obama campaigned for Democrats in both states. This sends a strong signal to the Blue Dogs and others from around the nation: The electorate is angry and there is no Hopenchange Revolution. You will be punished for hopping on the socialist band wagon.
Obama is still personally popular even as voters reject his policies at every turn. He is the cool black friend white liberals wish they had. They can imagine his coolness enveloping them and, by extension, making them cool too. They like the way it makes them feel to be “enlightened” enough to support an uber-cool post-American, leftist black man as president. It gives them creds as being cosmopolitan and super cool themselves. In other words, the Bamster has brand equity.
If you are a pasty white, overweight middle aged Democrat running for congress in Ohio somewhere, however, you are on your own. That Obama mojo is non transferable. Americans still don’t like Obama’s socialism so supporting Obama’s policies is not helpful. That puts you in a quandary. You can’t use Obama’s mojo and if you adopt Obama’s politics, voters will punish you. All over America Democrats are figuring that out this morning.
It would have been great to see Hoffman win in NY23. It was, however, always a long shot. Two weeks ago nobody figured he had a chance. It would have been a huge victory had he won. Still, a third party candidate who doesn’t even live in the district was a bridge too far. So be it. The real news was that Obama and the rest of his crew poured political capital into VA and NJ are were given a slap down in the polling places. Obamojo is about being Obama and it is non-transferable. This bodes well for 2010.
Chris Christie takes New Jersey! Various media outlets are no calling the New Jersey governorship for the GOP. All the big hitters including Obama, Biden and Hillary Clinton campaigned for Democrat incumbent governor Corzine. That is two for two governorships tonight folks including one in deep blue territory.
All over America Blue Dog Democrats are saying “Damn, if I vote for Obamacare my pissed off constituents are going to send me to the showers.” Tonight’s results are very good news indeed.
The tight three-way race for governor of New Jersey, a state battered by high taxes and scarred by government corruption, was too close to call after balloting ended Tuesday, according to an Associated Press exit poll of voters.
Voters had their pick from an unpopular incumbent who had help from President Obama, a blunt-talking former prosecutor who vowed to rein in taxes and a third-party candidate looking to capitalize on a disillusioned electorate.
Obama endorsed Democratic Gov. Jon Corzine in five campaign appearances, including a rally in the state’s largest city on Sunday, two days before the election.
Corzine faced a strong challenge from Republican Chris Christie, who has campaigned on a platform of smaller government but has been criticized for ethical lapses.
Robert Gibbs told POLITICO President Barack Obama wasn’t even keeping an eye on the results. “He’s not watching returns,” Gibbs said.
Republican Bob McDonnell won the Virginia governor’s race by a wide margin Tuesday, heading up a successful GOP ticket in the swing state which voted for President Obama a year ago.
McDonnell’s victory over Democrat Creigh Deeds ends eight years of Democratic control of the governorship.
With 54 percent of precincts reporting, McDonnell had 62 percent and Deeds had 38 percent.
That was pretty much expected but still great news. That is one down, tonight, two to go. Coming up next, the New Jersey governorship and NY23 congressional race.
In 1953, the U.S. provided no pensions for presidents. That means that when President Harry S Truman left the White House and returned to life as a private citizen in Missouri in January 1953, he had little or no income beyond his Army pension of $112.56 per month. Truman took out a personal loan from a Missouri bank shortly after leaving office and wrote he memoirs. He received a flat $670,000 and, after paying the then 67% tax rate and for his expenses, netted about $37,000. He later wrote, “Had it not been for the fact that I was able to sell some property that my brother, sister, and I inherited from our mother, I would practically be on relief, but with the sale of that property I am not financially embarrassed.” Ex-presidents now get a pension.
It hardly seems right that a former president be destitute after a lifetime of service. There is little chance of that happening today. Today, public service is one of the most sure paths to great wealth. In the six years after leaving office, Bill Clinton collected more than $40 million in speaking fees. He came to office of modest means and left office with a negative net worth. Shortly after leaving office, however, he was fabulously wealthy.
Al Gore could become world’s first carbon billionaire: Al Gore, the former US vice president, could become the world’s first carbon billionaire after investing heavily in green energy companies.
One hundred and eleven new bureaucracies created by Nancy Pelosi’s health care bill. But don’t worry. Pelosi assures us that the bill will actually save money.
Retiree Reserve Trust Fund (Section 111(d), p. 61)
Grant program for wellness programs to small employers (Section 112, p. 62)
Grant program for State health access programs (Section 114, p. 72)
Program of administrative simplification (Section 115, p. 76)
Health Benefits Advisory Committee (Section 223, p. 111)
Health Choices Administration (Section 241, p. 131)
Qualified Health Benefits Plan Ombudsman (Section 244, p. 138)
Health Insurance Exchange (Section 201, p. 155)
Program for technical assistance to employees of small businesses buying Exchange coverage (Section 305(h), p. 191)
Mechanism for insurance risk pooling to be established by Health Choices Commissioner (Section 306(b), p. 194)
Health Insurance Exchange Trust Fund (Section 307, p. 195)
State-based Health Insurance Exchanges (Section 308, p. 197)
Grant program for health insurance cooperatives (Section 310, p. 206)
“Public Health Insurance Option” (Section 321, p. 211)
Ombudsman for “Public Health Insurance Option” (Section 321(d), p. 213)
Account for receipts and disbursements for “Public Health Insurance Option” (Section 322(b), p. 215)
Telehealth Advisory Committee (Section 1191 (b), p. 589)
Demonstration program providing reimbursement for “culturally and linguistically appropriate services” (Section 222, p. 617)
Demonstration program for shared decision making using patient decision aids (Section 1236, p. 648)
Accountable Care Organization pilot program under Medicare (Section 1301, p. 653)
Independent patient-centered medical home pilot program under Medicare (Section 1302, p. 672)
Community-based medical home pilot program under Medicare (Section 1302(d), p. 681)
Independence at home demonstration program (Section 1312, p. 718)
Center for Comparative Effectiveness Research (Section 1401(a), p. 734)
Today is election day. Here are the polls from the three key races as of this morning.
In the New Jersey governor’s race, a new Quinnipiac University poll finds Republican Chris Christie with a 2-point lead over Democratic incumbent Jon Corzine — 42 percent to 40 percent — while Independent Chris Daggett holds on to 12 percent of the vote. This is the only nail biter of the big three.
In a real hit to Obama’s credibility, Republican Bob McDonnell holds a wide lead over Democrat Creigh Deeds in the Virginia race for governor. A Richmond Times-Dispatch poll released Sunday showed McDonnell leading by 12 points. In the race for attorney general, Republican Ken Cuccinelli was leading Democrat Steve Shannon by 14 points.
In the New York 23rd Congressional District special election, according to a study conducted by Siena College in Loudonville, N.Y., Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman leads Democrat Bill Owens 41 percent to 36 percent — while 18 percent of likely voters said they were undecided. This follows the dropping out of uber-RINO GOP candidate Dede Scozzafava. She endorsed Owens on Sunday. This race is of special interest.
National polls indicate that many voters are in a foul mood. The big question is whether that mood will continue into 2010, when the entire House of Representatives, more than a third of the Senate and more than a third of the governorships are up for grabs.
“We’re in the middle, I think, of a political rebellion going on in America,” House Minority Leader John Boehner said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union.” “And this rebellion is by people who really have not been actively involved in the political process and they don’t really care if you’re a Democrat or a Republican. They want to see people who are going to stand up and protect the future for our kids and grandkids.”
