Read between the lines kids, read between the lines.

Carl Levin, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said higher-income Americans should be taxed to pay for additional troops sent to Afghanistan and that NATO should provide half of the new soldiers.

An “additional income tax to the upper brackets, folks earning more than $200,000 or $250,000,” could fund more troops, Levin, a Michigan Democrat, said in an interview for Bloomberg Television’s “Political Capital With Al Hunt,” airing this weekend. White House Budget Director Peter Orszag has estimated that each additional soldier in Afghanistan could cost $1 million, for a total that could reach $40 billion if 40,000 more troops are added.

That cost, Levin said, should be paid by wealthier taxpayers. “They have done incredibly well, and I think that it’s important that we pay for it if we possibly can” instead of increasing the federal debt load, the senator said.

Levin isn’t seriously considering passing a war tax on the wealthy. He is trying to scare wealthy taxpayers in hopes of reducing their support for the war. Levin opposes the war so he is making statements that, he hopes, well weaken support for it.

When Levin voted to spend $787 billion on stimulus pork, he didn’t threaten to raise taxes. The budget for Afghanistan he describes is about 5% of the stimulus boondoggle he supported. He is claiming that we need to raise taxes for the war but, of course, there was no need to raise taxes for his 2,000% stimulus budget.

The difference is that he wanted stimulus to pass with American support. In this case, he wants support for the war to diminish and, therefore, he is threatening supporters of the war with punitive taxes. Essentially, he is undermining the war effort.

She is packing it in.

CHICAGO (AP) – Oprah Winfrey was set to announce Friday that her powerhouse daytime television show, the foundation of a multibillion-dollar media empire with legions of fans, will end its run in 2011 after 25 seasons on the air.

Winfrey planned to announce the final date for “The Oprah Winfrey Show” during a live broadcast, according to her production company, Harpo Productions Inc.

My money is that Smilin’ Joe Biden is already out and Oprah will be the Bamster’s running mate in 2012. Any takers?

Well, well, well… It would appear that the email server at Britain’s leading Climate Research Unit has been hacked and, surprise surprise, the climatologists therein are playing fast and loose with science. In fact, it would appear that many of these scientists are way more interested in politics than they are research and discovery. Not only do they expresse elation when a scientist who disagreed with their research died they happily collude to cover up scientific facts they don’t like because they proves them wrong.

Here is a sample of the fun….

Some of the most embarrassing e-mails are attributed to Philip Jones, the Director of the CRU; Keith Briffa, his assistant; Michael E. Mann of the University of Virginia; Malcolm Hughes at the University of Arizona; and others. One such e-mail makes references to the famous “hockey-stick” graph published by Mann in the journal Nature:

I’ve just completed Mike’s Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (ie from 1981 onwards) amd from 1961 for Keith’s to hide the decline. Mike’s series got the annual land and marine values while the other two got April-Sept for NH land N of 20N. The latter two are real for 1999, while the estimate for 1999 for NH combined is +0.44C wrt 61-90. The Global estimate for 1999 with data through Oct is +0.35C cf. 0.57 for 1998.

More here.

As a bonus, here is Senator Inhofe telling Barbara “call me Senator” Boxer that on the subject of climate change, we one, she lost and to get a life.

A moment of fun here for Senator James Inhofe, who declared victory over the global-warming hysterics this week in a speech covered by the Tulsa World. Inhofe got a few laughs from a nearly-empty room by telling Barbara Boxer that the failure of the dire predictions of disaster from last decade to come to pass showed that he had been right all along, and that they could now “stick a fork” in the effort to hobble American productivity through the restriction of carbon emissions:

Which came first?

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A White House economist such as Christina Romer?
No.

A budget committe?
Nope.

How about Jared Bernstein, who isn’t even a real economist. He’s a social worker.

The think tank — where White House adviser Jared Bernstein spent years developing ideas found in the $787 billion economic stimulus plan he oversees — said the U.S. government must give states and cities $150 billion in direct budget relief to save between 1.1 million and 1.4 million jobs.

Bernstein graduated from the Manhattan School of Music with Bachelors Degree in Fine Arts where he studied double bass with Orin O’Brien. He earned a Masters Degree in Social Work from the Hunter School of Social Work, and from Columbia University he received a Masters Degree in Philosophy and Ph.D. in Social Welfare.

It’s not about the economy.
It’s about radical social engineering and wealth redistribution using the current economic environment as a cover up.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091120/pl_nm/us_usa_economy_states_jobs;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jared_Bernstein

He identifies them as a good backdrop for yet another photo op showcasing his wonderfulness.

Small comment… Just a joke… Just being humorous… Whatever. With others, the comment could be dismissed. With this narcissist, it is yet another indication of how he sees himself and those around him. Every one of those soldiers is the hero of his or her own life story. To Obama, however, they are objects to be used to highlight his wonderfulness. He can put on a game-face and say nice words but it is clear he sees them as nothing more than props for his stagecraft.

Victims of global warming.

We have already established that global warming causes acne, camel deaths, an invasion of giant oysters, kidney stones, fashion disasters and  and end to equal rights around the world. In addition to those horrors, you must now bear the burden of the knowledge that your Escalade is driving poor women to prostitution.

The effects of climate change have driven women in communities in coastal areas in poor countries like the Philippines into dangerous work, and sometimes even the flesh trade, a United Nations official said.

Suneeta Mukherjee, country representative of the United Nations Food Population Fund (UNFPA), said women in the Philippines are the most vulnerable to the effects of climate change in the country.

“Climate change could reduce income from farming and fishing, possibly driving some women into sex work and thereby increase HIV infection,” Mukherjee said during the Wednesday launch of the UNFPA annual State of World Population Report in Pasay City.

In the Philippines, small brothels usually pop up near the coastal areas where many women perform sexual services for transient seafarers. Often, these prostitutes are ferried to bigger ships by their pimps.

You and your carbon footprint! You might as well be pimping these women yourself! How in the hell do you sleep at night?

My Mother is a woman of many talents. Her oldest Son is a Convict and her youngest one is a Preacher. I try not to talk about him much because I don’t want to make life difficult for him for those times when he has to go looking for a job. By the Grace of God he has one now in a farming community in North Carolina.

The congregation at his new church is very much old school and my Brother is eight years younger than me, so he wondered if he would really be the right flavor. The older congregation has said that a younger Minister with his children was just what they needed to liven things up. The oldest of his children, my Nephew has taken an interest in farming and gets the opportunity to go to work in the fields with the men of his Church every day. It has been an incredible character building experience for a ten year old boy and he can’t get enough of it. Working the dirt is a spiritual experience that imparts many lessons.

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I can’t blog worth a damn from a motel room or on a laptop. Just can’t do it. This, then, explains the flat, watered down, skunk piss flavor of my posts over the last several days. I am back at it now, however, and my posts shall return to their normal, non-flat, non-watered down skunk piss flavor.

Let’s begin.

Make up post #1: The brass at Fort Bragg is worried that Sarah-cuda is going to whip the paratroopers ensconced there into an anti-CIC frenzy.

“If media are present, they can capture the imagery of what’s going and sort of the ambiance of what’s taking place,” he said.

Fort Bragg, which is base for some 35,000 soldiers, does not hold many promotional events, especially not with political figures. Officials said they worried that media coverage would turn the appearance into a chance for people to express political opinions “directed against the commander in chief.”

“The main reason is to stop this from turning into a political platform,” said Fort Bragg spokesman Tom McCollum. “There are Army regulations that basically prohibit military reservations from becoming political platforms by politicians.”

Palin has already agreed not to give a speech, McCollum said. Palin will sign her new book for people and will not stop to pose for photographs, officials said.

Having served as a young paratrooper at Fort Bragg, I can assure you that the command’s fears are not without foundation. Sarah will appeal to the troopers on, shall we say, more than one level.

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The left constantly cried that Bush’s “cowboy diplomacy” and “arrogant” approach to foreign policy made America a terrible ally of European nations. Moonbats on both sides of the Atlantic assured us that, if the One was elected, everything in foreign relations wouldbe incense, peppermints and rainbow colored unicorns. It isn’t panning out that way at all…

“The astonishing disregard with which Mr Obama treats Britain has been made clear by his deliberations over the Afghan issue. As he decides how many more troops to send to Afghanistan — a decision which will fundamentally affect the scope of the mission — Britain is reduced to guesswork. The White House does not even pretend to portray this as a joint decision. It is a diplomatic cold-shouldering that stands in contrast not just to the Blair–Bush era, but to the togetherness of the soldiers on the ground… There will, though, inevitably come a time when Obama discovers who America’s true friends really are. Sooner or later he will have to deal with the considerably more taxing issues of Islamist militancy, rogue nuclear states and other tangible threats to the West’s security. At that point, Obama will discover a simple but essential truth. The world divides between those who support American values of freedom and democracy, and those who seek to destroy them. Few nations have been more committed to supporting those values with both blood and treasure than Britain. This country, and especially those British troops fighting alongside their American counterparts, deserve far better than this president’s disregard.”

Obama has been quite consistent in his policy of snubbing American friends while courting our traditional enemies. This policy is not only morally wrong, it will likely lead to the next international crises America faces being far more difficult that it had need be. We shall find that our lifelong friends see us now as a fair weather friend and will rightfully treat us as such when we need them most.

Just another day in the Obamanation.

Too much alcohol with RD & WH Man has become a punishment. My liver quivers and my fingers won’t type today. It’s going to be a long day.

Let’s see if I can thread this needle… We can’t try KSM in a military tribunal because he needs to be given a fair hearing in civilian court. It wouldn’t be right, you see, to deny him full access to a spirited defense, the presumption of innocence and the right to prove his innocence. When we are through with that we will kill him.

Americans who are troubled by the decision to send alleged Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to New York for trial will feel better about it when he’s put to death, President Barack Obama said Wednesday.

During a round of network television interviews conducted during Obama’s visit to China, the president was asked about those who find it offensive that Mohammed will receive all the rights normally accorded to U.S. citizens when they are charged with a crime.

“I don’t think it will be offensive at all when he’s convicted and when the death penalty is applied to him,” Obama told NBC’s Chuck Todd.

When Todd asked Obama if he was interfering in the trial process by declaring that Mohammed will be executed, Obama, a former constitutional law professor, insisted that he wasn’t trying to dictate the result.

Obama is essentially arguing that KSM must by given a fair trial in civilian court with the presumption of innocence so the world will see America for the just nation it is. He is also saying that KSM is already a dead man walking and that, while a military tribunal would be a breach of justice, declaring him guilty and as good as dead and his trial a formality is just fine.

Administration on jobs created or saved: Who knows?

ABC News’ Rick Klein reports: The chairman of the Obama administration’s Recovery Board is telling lawmakers that he can’t certify jobs data posted at the Recovery.gov Web site — and doesn’t have access to a “master list” of stimulus recipients that have neglected to report data.

Earl Devaney, the chairman of the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board, responded to questions posed by Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., late yesterday to say the board can’t vouch for the numbers submitted by recipients of stimulus funding.

“Your letter specifically asks if I am able to certify that the number of jobs reported as created/saved on Recovery.gov is accurate and auditable. No, I am not able to make this certification,” Devaney wrote, in a letter provided to ABC News.

Meanwhile, this horror movie is getting a lot of play.

Andy McCarthy explains in detail the many ways Eric Holder, when discussing a civilian trial for KSM, is talking out his ass.  Here is a representative sample.

5.  A civilian trial is no more a platform for KSM than a military commission would have been. That’s ridiculous. KSM was ready to plead guilty and be executed eleven months ago. Whatever soapbox he was going to have, he’d largely already had, and while we’d have had to let him speak before sentence was imposed, that would have been the end of it. Now, he’s going to get a full-blown trial — after combing through the discovery for a couple of years and after putting the Bush administration under the spotlight.

Holder derided Senator Kyl for pointing this out, saying Kyl had no way of knowing what KSM’s position is today. That’s a specious point. We do know what his position was eleven months ago when the Obama administration could have accepted his plea and pushed for his execution. Moreover, why would that still be KSM’s position today, when he now knows Holder is ready to give him the stage in New York that he’s been seeking since the day he was captured?

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Here we go, a look at the shape of things to come. Granted, at least the Court actually had jurisdiction over the defendants. Regardless, people get more time for Tax Evasion than this guy got. Where there is no Justice there will be no Peace.

Terrorist sentenced in Federal Court in Miami

Word of the Day: Obama

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Apparantly some folks think they can watch Diamond Daves a-Ninja teachin’ video tapes over a few adult beverages and then just go on out there and put a Ninjin’ on somebody. I’m just tellin’ you that a Ninja needs to be clear headed when out on operations. A drunken Ninja is no Ninja at all.

Pacific Northwest Ninja gets drunk and over-confident – Read it HERE

As I went about my life maintenance errands last weekend the words of a Merle Haggard song kept running through my mind. “How far can a man stretch a Dollar, I thought as I take home my pay”. I made a trip to the grocery store designed to get me through to the next paycheck and spent twice as much as I intended to. I was able to get what I needed and then some but it is always a nice trick making whatever you buy last as long as possible.

As I was working up a need for feed last Sunday I decided that I would make some nice Spaghetti Sauce that would last me into the work week. An Italian Merchant Seaman from Boston taught me that proper Spaghetti Sauce must have three varieties of Meat in it. I admit that having abided by that basic rule since learning it, even sauces with the most humble of beginnings has a fullness of flavor I had always fallen short of previously.

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The guy doesn’t have a clue. Here he is on Conan O’Brien.

Conan: Now, what about … you talk in the book about geothermal energy …

Al: Yeah, yeah.

Conan: and that is, as I understand it, using the heat that’s generated from the core of the earth …

Al: Yeah.

Conan: … to create energy, and it sounds to me like an evil plan by Lex Luthor to defeat Superman. Can you, can you tell me, is this a viable solution, geothermal energy?

Al: It definitely is, and it’s a relatively new one. People think about geothermal energy — when they think about it at all — in terms of the hot water bubbling up in some places, but two kilometers or so down in most places there are these

At the core, the temperature may reach 10,000 degrees. A two kilometers you couldn’t boil water. That isn’t a small mistake. He is off by at least a couple of orders of magnitude. Why so many people take this fool seriously when he talks about a one degree change over the course of a century destroying the planet is a mystery.

During my layover in O’Hare today, I saw this on newsstands.

You’d think if you were going to run a cute headline like that you would at least attempt to understand the reference, wouldn’t you? It is, of course, a corruption of the title of the song “How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria” from the Sound of Music.

The fuckwits at Newsweek are far too impressed with themselves to bother to try understand the pop cultural reference; they are just that clever. If they did try, they would have found out that the nuns singing the song were wrong about Maria. It turned out that Maria wasn’t a problem at all. In fact, she turned out to he the heroine of the movie and the people who thought she was a problem came to respect and admire her.

Of course Newsweek has never been very concerned with knowing what they hell they are talking about.

The good ol’ days.”

I am posting this from the airport. The airlines won’t let you carry on any tools. Nor will they let you carry on any liquids or gels more than three ounces. Then, when you forced to check the bag, they charge you $35 to do it. This is in addition to the $962 charged to fly to Jacksonville, Florida and back.

Nobody who doesn’t need to checks a bag and getting on the plane with all the carry on, roll-on bags is a nightmare.

They harass you through security. They are late as often as not. You are packed in like sardines.

Ah the joys of air travel. I will be enjoying it all day. Therefore this is an open thread in which you may discuss any topic you like. Enjoy that.

The stories presented by our news media have become so bizarre that I almost feel as if I need to check Snopes on everything or maybe wait a few days before writing on it in hopes that the newsworthy item will be discovered to be a hoax. Even I get tired of referring to the President of the United States as an enemy of the people of the United States but he takes every opportunity to prove the accuracy of that statement. He has done absolutely nothing, not one single thing that makes me think otherwise. I am now beginning to believe that he wants me to sound like a broken record because he wants to destroy any shock value such proclamations once had.

Seriously, check it out…

President Barack Hussein Obama (Mmmm, Mmmm, Mmmm) is an enemy of the United States engaged in its destruction in all of his official duties on a daily basis. See? There’s nothing shocking about that statement. It is a statement of fact that could be defended in a Court of Law. I always keep a thought in the back of my mind that one day I may be called to account for my words written here on the Revo, in a Court of Law. I would actually savor such an opportunity. You should have seen the last stunt I pulled when I was determined to get my day in Court.

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A Florida group opposing amnesty for illegal aliens staged a tea party to encourage law enforcement to, well, enforce immigration law. The openly and proudly communist International ANSWER organization, including SIEU members, organized a counter protest specifically for this event. Here is the email the hard-core communists of ANSWER sent out.

Protest Tomorrow to Shut Down Racist
“Anti-Amnesty” Rally

Saturday, November 14 12:00PM

Fort Lauderdale, Corner of Oakland Park and Federal Highway

The ANSWER Coalition is calling on all its members, allies, and friends to join us tomorrow to confront and shut down the racist “Anti-Amnesty Tea Party” in Ft. Lauderdale.

The “Anti-Amnesty” rallies being held across the country tomorrow have been initiated by fascist, white supremacist organizations that include the Minutemen and the so-called Americans for Legal Immigration.

Racism is like anything else in this world: in order to make it fall, you must smash it! That is why we are calling on all people to come out tomorrow, to organize a militant confrontation with the so-called “tea baggers.” Beating back these forces will require us to organize together, take the streets, fight the racists wherever they show their faces and drive them out of every community.

Here is a video of the resulting chaos.

Street brawls are just the beginning.

A major story of the 2008 presidential campaign was that one of the candidates was profoundly inexperienced and virtually unknown until very recently. The candidate in question was chosen largely on sex appeal becuase of the cult-like following developing in the party base. Many throughout the country wondered how a major party would allow this a silly naif on its presidential ticket when there were so very many better choices. Had experience and serious leadership skills become necessary in presidential politics? Despite a thin resume and few qualifications, Barack Obama was nominated as candidate for president by the Democratic Party.

Another story from the campaign was the choice of Sarah Palin as the Republican Party’s candidate for Vice President. You know the story; it continues to this day. Palin is a lightning rod for the left. She has become a litmus test in the culture war. In order to be am accepted member of the sophisticated and cosmopolitan, American Brahman class, you must shake your head and proclaim your utter disdain for this Alaskan rube. Show any acceptance of or, God forbid, support for her role in our public life and you may forget your dreams of a listing in the Social Register. You shall be consigned to the ranks of the gun and religion clinging hillbillies of fly-over country.

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Is the situation in the UK the future for America?

A former soldier who handed a discarded shotgun in to police faces at least five years imprisonment for “doing his duty”.

Paul Clarke, 27, was found guilty of possessing a firearm at Guildford Crown Court on Tuesday – after finding the gun and handing it personally to police officers on March 20 this year.

The jury took 20 minutes to make its conviction, and Mr Clarke now faces a minimum of five year’s imprisonment for handing in the weapon.

In a statement read out in court, Mr Clarke said: “I didn’t think for one moment I would be arrested.

“I thought it was my duty to hand it in and get it off the streets.”

The court heard how Mr Clarke was on the balcony of his home in Nailsworth Crescent, Merstham, when he spotted a black bin liner at the bottom of his garden.

In his statement, he said: “I took it indoors and inside found a shorn-off shotgun and two cartridges.

“I didn’t know what to do, so the next morning I rang the Chief Superintendent, Adrian Harper, and asked if I could pop in and see him.

“At the police station, I took the gun out of the bag and placed it on the table so it was pointing towards the wall.”

Mr Clarke was then arrested immediately for possession of a firearm at Reigate police station, and taken to the cells.

Brains are unnecessary when the central bureaucracy makes the rules airtight.