To be honest, I really don’t know what to make of it. I don’t see how quitting the governorship helps her to run for president. Frankly, it makes her seem a bit like a quitter to me. It would help her to avoid criticism that she is neglecting her role as governor as she seeks a more national role, however.
Maybe, just maybe, she is doing it for family reasons. I have never known a politician to be subjected to the harsh, ugly vitriol that she has been the target of. This has transcended politics as usual and really been ugly with sexual overtones even against her children. The left have even attacked little Trig. Frankly, if she has decided to say “screw it” I wouldn’t blame her.
Still, I doubt that this is the case. I suspect she is preparing for a run for the presidency in 2012. It seems like a long shot candidacy but then so did that of Obama when he first announced. If this is the case, all I can say is “go sarah go”
More thoughts… I don’t blame her if she is bailing out because she is tired of the incessant and undeserved hatred. I would never consider a high profile role in politics because I could never deal with the requirements that I kiss the ass of my supporters and constantly be on the defensive against my opponents. It is nightmarish.
Because of an amendment by Sen. Dick Durbin D-IL., Commissar Obama signed a 2010 Federal Budget that was stripped of funding for a special scholarship program that provided financial assistance to poor black children in DC to attend private schools. His actions terminated a program that was started by President Bush in 2003.
Today, as a result of actions by Obama, the House is in the process of providing indirect Federal funding to poor blacks in DC so they can have abortions on demand. Remember, as a State Senator in Illinois, Obama successfully killed a bill in the Illinois legislature that was designed to prevent infanticide……”late term abortions”.
How do you reconcile such actions from a man who claims to be God fearing and benevolent? Well, you don’t! This is a man who is power hungry, and is on a deliberate mission to destroy America…….culturally, and economically. America…….wake up before the 2010 congressional elections. The Democrats in Congress are enabling this dangerous socialist.
Dig the dual weaponry: An M-16 and an M-60. I was a 60 gunner but I had to hold the M-16 of the guy who was taking my picture. It was all posed Ain’t-I-Great-Shots that day. The photo was taken on a field exercise in Uwharrie Nation Forest in North Carolina during the summer of ‘83.
Obviously it can’t compare to Mac’s studly badminton beef.
Researchers have discovered a massive invasion of Argentine ants that have spread across continents with the help of human influence.
What’s more, the billions of ants that originated in South America appear to belong to the same colony, according to a team of researchers in Japan and Spain led by Eiriki Sunamura of the University of Tokyo.
Researchers noted that the ants roaming across Europe, Japan and California appear to have similar chemical profiles of hydrocarbons on their cuticles, they told BBC News.
The colony in Europe is estimated to cover 3,700 miles near the Mediterranean coast. Meanwhile the “Californian large” colony in the US covers more than 560 miles, and an additional colony resides in along the western coast of Japan.
Here is my three point plan to solve 99% of the problems in congress.
A: Term limits. Nobody should be allowed to serve more than three four year terms.
B: No more lifetime benefits. These people should be coming from a working background, and returning to it at the end of their service. No more $120,000+/yr retirement paid by the taxpayers.
C: The only place they can travel is HOME to their constituents. They are not ambassadors. They are representatives of the people. The one exception to this rule is travel to a war zone where soldiers from a base/post IN THE AREA THEY REPRESENT are serving.
Now, i know this wont happen, but one can dream right?
SIMI VALLEY, Calif. — A gunman opened fire inside a busy dental office in an apparent domestic dispute Wednesday, killing one woman dead and critically wounding three others, police said. A fourth person was grazed by a bullet.
It’s tragic that she wasn’t killed in some less lethal manner. Perhaps wounded to death would sound better.
A lucky 4th person was grazed, but the reporter was unclear as to whether that was fatal or not. And several others were victims of the ‘near miss’ (or as George Carlin would say, the “near hit”).
If the American Clean Energy and Security Act passes through the Senate, it could be bad news for the Alberta oil sands.
In Alberta, Canada, there’s thought to be more oil buried underground than in the whole of Saudi Arabia. Alberta’s oil sands can be processed to yield billions of barrels of oil, and many believe that they could be key to providing North America with energy security and independence — the sands now are now the top provider of oil to U.S.
But the oil is dirty. Really dirty. And the House version of the climate bill calls for largely increased tariffs on environmentally-unfriendly goods and commodities, which this oil easily falls into.
A year ago the schizophrenics in Congress were jumping out of their asses to find ways to drive down the cost of gasoline. This year they are creating laws specifically designed for the purpose of increasing the cost of gasoline.
And then there are the tariffs…. We all learned in eighth grade social studies that the Smoot-Hawley Tariff imposed during the 1930 recession was one of the primary catalysts for the Great Depression. Why must we repeat the mistakes of the past again and again? Why?
Debby Smith, 53, of Appalachia, Va., was fighting tears as she told the president of suffering from renal cell carcinoma in 1998. The tumor was treated with radiation, but she was no longer able to work and has no health coverage now.
“Now I have a new tumor,” said Smith, explaining that she cannot get treatment, cannot get disability from Social Security, cannot get Medicaid, has dependent kids at home.
The president listened, gazing at Smith with a slightly furrowed brow.
“Come on over here,” Obama told her.
The woman made her way from the seats and to his side, the president hugged her and promised to seek information to help her. Hugging the woman, Obama called her the “perfect example” of why healthcare reform is necessary.
“[T]he Constitution ought to be the standard of construction for the laws, and that wherever there is an evident opposition, the laws ought to give place to the Constitution. But this doctrine is not deducible from any circumstance peculiar to the plan of convention, but from the general theory of a limited Constitution.”
The New York Times is explaining that our horse would be much, much sicker if it hadn’t been administered Obama’s turpentine cure. The fact that he isn’t dead proves that turpentine cures what ails horses.
Yes, the economy is worse than they said it would be if the stimulus was passed, but that mistake can be forgiven.
Here are two possible explanations that the administration was so wrong. And sorting through them matters a great deal, because they point in opposite policy directions. The first explanation is that the economy has deteriorated because the stimulus package failed. Some critics say that stimulus just doesn’t work, while others argue that this particular package was too small or too badly constructed to make a difference. The second answer is that the economy has deteriorated in spite of the stimulus. In other words, the patient is not as sick as he would have been without the medicine he received. But he is a lot sicker than doctors realized when they prescribed it. To me, the evidence is fairly compelling that the second answer is the right one.
Got that? The fact that things aren’t worse proves that stimulus worked. Things are better, they claim, than they would have been in a no-stimulus alternate universe that the writer, like, totally gets. The obvious answer is to administer more of that wonderful, curative medicine.
What do Atlanta, Britain, Ireland, Bahrain, Jamaica, the Nobel Prize, a Greek ship and the “Palestinians” (whoever they are) have in common?
They all are targets of them damn “J-E-W-S” as Cynthia McKinney’s dear old Dad would put it (and did). Yep, it’s those stinkin’ JOOOS again. Just can’t get away from their ability to control everything from the weather to the results of the McKinney’s election bids. But the point of this post is to show us another case of Cynthia McKinney and her uncanny ability to immitate “Whack-A-Mole.” Where the hell is that kook going to show up next?
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — The Israeli navy intercepted a ship carrying foreign peace activists trying to break a blockade of Gaza on Tuesday and forced it to sail to an Israeli port, the military said.
A statement said the Greek-registered freighter Arion ignored a radio message from the Israeli military saying it would not be allowed to enter Gaza waters and ordering it to turn back.
The statement said naval personnel boarded the small vessel without any shots being fired. [Bummer ed.]
The military said those on board would be handed over to immigration authorities on arrival in the southern port of Ashdod, and humanitarian cargo would be trucked into the Gaza Strip after a security check. The ship arrived at Ashdod port after nightfall.
An earlier statement by the voyage’s organizers, the Free Gaza Movement, said the vessel, renamed the Spirit of Humanity, left the Cypriot port of Larnaca on Monday bound for Gaza with three tons of medical supplies.
The 20 passengers include former U.S. Representative Cynthia McKinney, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Mairead Corrigan Maguire and other activists from Britain, Ireland, Bahrain and Jamaica.
The ship was flying a Greek flag, but no Greek citizens were aboard. The Greek government issued a statement saying it sent a message to Israel demanding that it release the ship, crew and passengers.
Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor said Israel was planning to free the crew and passengers. “Nobody wants to keep them here,” he said.
In Des Moines, Iowa, a couple went over a dam in a disabled boat. The man, sadly, drowned. The woman was caught in the boil below the damn. The fire department tried to get to her but couldn’t. A construction team rigged up a crane and a harness and rescued her. What a great story.
An everyday American hero.
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Fuel tax could be replaced with by-the-mile road tax
The year is 2020 and the gasoline tax is history. In its place you get a monthly tax bill based on each mile you drove — tracked by a Global Positioning System device in your car and uploaded to a billing center.
What once was science fiction is being field-tested by the University of Iowa to iron out the wrinkles should a by-the-mile road tax ever be enacted.
Besides the technological advances making such a tax possible, the idea is getting a hard push from a growing number of transportation experts and officials. That is because the traditional by-the-gallon fuel tax, struggling to keep up with road building and maintenance demands, could fall even farther behind as vehicles’ gas mileage rises and more alternative-fuel vehicles come on line.
Of course this is nonsense. They will never replace the fuel tax with a mileage tax. They will keep the fuel tax and add the mileage tax to it. Duh. Also, a GPS sensor doesn’t just tell how much you drove. It tells where you drove. That will be handy for the state to have, huh?
Any day is a good day to salute our armed forces and to commemorate the actions of those who have sacrificed, or are currently sacrificing, more than any others for our freedom. Today, 146 years after the opening shots of the battle of Gettysburg, is a particularly fine day to look at our current soldiers in uniform and the conflicts they face. I would like to give a hat tip to Ace of Spades and Strategy Page for a particularly fine article on what can be a contentious subject: Women in combat.
While it is true that women are barred from combat duty in our armed forces, the fact is that our sisters in uniform are in harms’ way. They serve in “non-combat” jobs like convoys and military police, which come under fire far to often to really be considered “non-combat.” Their actions make it clear that when faced with fire, American women can kick ass. In particular, the Jarheads refer to their women as Lionesses, and I can’t think of a finer term.
In addition to filling support roles and enemy body bags, when enemies and civilians face these women warriors, the reaction can be to the benefit of the mission.
It seems the delightfully-named U.S. Rep. Weiner (D NY) has some choice words about the loyalty to country of those who would vote against the largest tax increase in American History. James Taranto over at the Wall Street Journal has the whole bit. This is precious:
On Friday, before the House narrowly passed “global warming” legislation, a Democrat who supported the bill took to the floor to question the patriotism of Republicans who opposed it–or at least that is how Democrats and the media would have described it had the parties been reversed. The Hill reports:
Republicans are playing into the hands of the Iranian regime and the Saudi Arabian kingdom, Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) argued Friday.
Weiner said that Republicans’ opposition to the climate change bill . . . benefits the oil-rich companies [sic], which have been accused of funneling some of that money to terrorist groups.
“Ahmadinejad, the Saudi Kingdom–they want exactly what my Republican friends are advocating,” Weiner said on the floor during the debate ahead of this afternoon’s vote.
“We can’t come to the floor and say I’m outraged at what’s going on in Iran . . . and then come to the floor and continue the policies that are paying for them!” Weiner added.
Saudi Arabia and Iran, respectively, have the world’s largest and third-largest proven oil reserves, according to the CIA World Factbook.
