Saturday Night Live Spoofs Scott Brown

SNL saw the writing on the wall and was the first entertainment show to take pot shots at President Obama when no one else had the nerve. This is significant considering the show is part of the NBC universe where stations like MSNBC continue to sing Obama’s praises.

This Scott Brown sketch makes the statement that Scott Brown’s arrival to Washington changes ObamaWorld in a huge way.

Update: Video Back Up!



Scott Brown thought the piece was funny.

Via Memeorandum

Via National Review Online

From The Last Tradition

FUN look-a-likes for the IMAGINATIVE II

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First Pic

That's my first pic! It's of Sharona from the TV series "Monk"

There are more to come but I have to darken them up so you will be able to see.

to show pictures or writing to me

so I can put them up on my blog

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Feels Like Coming Home

I visited Provo this weekend. It's the first time I've been back since summer and as I drove into town I was struck with a strange sense of familiarity. In that moment I realized that the places you live really do become a part of you. You leave a piece of yourself with that city, those people, and those memories. Regardless of how long it's been since you've been back, when you finally do, it feels like coming home.

...Anyway...
You might ask the purpose for my return to Happy Valley?

Spend time with some old friends and try our luck celebrity spotting at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City. Sadly, there were no repeats of my celebrity encounters (I once stepped on Nicholas Cage's sunglasses coming out of a Hansel and Gretyl's Streudal Bar in Bath, England - true story) but we still managed to have a great time.

We drove around the city,
checked out the shops,
tried on $15,000 fur coats...

and $500 fur hats...

sampled the local cuisine...
(the rock candy and Apple Pie flavor candied apples at Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory come highly recommended)...

listened to Bramble
(an awesome local indie band),
did some people watching
(Yes, there are people that actually own those fur coats),
and all in all had an amazing time.

Park City was awesome. I remembered how much I love visiting a new place to see the sites and to soak up the local culture. In Provo I spent time with some old friends, made some new ones, and visited a place I once called home. This was a good weekend.

Top 10 NFL Head Coach Tirades

As we enter the week before the Super Bowl, lets have a good laugh before the endless stories about Hurricane Katrina and the New Orleans Stains start rolling in.



Via You Tube

From The Last Tradition

Bush Lawyers Cleared in Torture Memo Probe

In a stunning victory that exonerates the Bush Administration’s use of waterboarding that helped keep the nation safe since the 911 attacks, Newsweek reports that Bush lawyers who were targeted by Attorney General Eric Holder and President Obama will be cleared of any wrong doing.

“Now the left is going to be upset: an upcoming Justice Department report from its ethics-watchdog unit, the Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR), clears the Bush administration lawyers who authored the “torture” memos of professional-misconduct allegations.”

Full Article Click Here

This hits keep on coming for the House of O!

This probe should never have happened in the first place and if anyone deserves to be investigated, its President Obama himself for treating terrorists like the common criminal who robbed the liquor store last week.

When will that probe begin?

UPDATE: As of yet not many News outlets are running with this story. Uhmm, I wonder why. But, I wanted to get the reactions of Liberals. So below are the first 20 reactions on the Lib site Think Progress. Some of them are quite funny.


1.
WTF? This is down right depressing. I don’t think the Bush Administration will ever be brought to Justice. All the crimes, all the lies and all the deaths they are responsible for and they will walk away. I not only need a beer, I’m getting a shot of rum.
January 30th, 2010 at 5:25 pm

2.StratRat says:

Sadly, not unexpected. Remember, we mustn’t ‘look back’. Obama thinks it would be rude to do so…
January 30th, 2010 at 5:27 pm

3.Bobwurst says:

Is Margolis a holdover from the bush years?
January 30th, 2010 at 5:27 pm

4.Bobwurst says:

Here’s the answer to my question:
http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/27300
January 30th, 2010 at 5:30 pm

5.drhunt says:
This comment has been voted down. Click to read.

6.Bobwurst says:

drhunt says:
“Good torture”?!?!?!??!
Your logic is a shock to rational minds everywhere. Please crawl back under your rock.
January 30th, 2010 at 5:31 pm

7.Badger says:

From the Emptywheel link:
Margolis is, however, also tied to the DOJ and its culture for over forty years, not to mention his service in upper management as Associate Attorney General during the Bush Administration when the overt acts of torture and justification by Margolis’ contemporaries and friends were committed.
January 30th, 2010 at 5:32 pm

8.StratRat says:

We owe them a debt of gratitude.
We murdered many such ‘grateful’ detainees, didn’t we? Men we will never know if they were innocent or guilty. AmeriKKKa has a new fan in drhunt.
January 30th, 2010 at 5:32 pm

9.Bozo The Neoclown says:

“Good torture must shock the mind as well conscious in order to be effective. It need not be illegal to do this”
so, shitstain, i suppose you’re also alright with american personel being tortured. right, scumbag?
January 30th, 2010 at 5:32 pm

10.Ape-Man says:

The Republican is an immature, socially inept individual. We might as well put children in charge of representing us.
January 30th, 2010 at 5:33 pm

11. Bozo The Neoclown says:

remind me again why john yoo hasn’t been disbarred?
January 30th, 2010 at 5:35 pm

12.StratRat says:

Ape-Man says:
The Republican is an immature, socially inept individual. We might as well put children in charge of representing us.
Even children know better than to torture innocent men. Before Bush, we honored our treaty obligations. Now all of our fighting folks will be subject to the same torture we inflicted on others.
January 30th, 2010 at 5:37 pm

13.Badger says:

drhunt says:
Good torture must shock the mind as well conscious (sic) in order to be effective.
What the hell does that mean/???
Torture sure shocked the minds of impressionable Muslim youth, by turning them into avenging terrorists.
The Military readily acknowleges that all hell broke loose in Iraq after the News of Abu Ghraib hit the streets.
January 30th, 2010 at 5:38 pm

14.P.D. says:

Bozo@11, Yeah really. And the SOB writes a opinion column in the Philly Inquierer too. So does good ole Ricky (Man on dog) Santorum. I think I’ll throw up now.
January 30th, 2010 at 5:38 pm

15.paleolib says:

Margolis is needed on urgent business in Lubbock, TX or some other garden spot. Let’s bring some accountability back to some aspect of the federal government.
January 30th, 2010 at 5:38 pm

16.StratRat says:

Bozo The Neoclown says:
remind me again why john yoo hasn’t been disbarred?
Because the America you and I read about in school is no longer the country it once was. It was once a proud and honorable country. The likes of Reagan, Bush, Cheney, Fox news destroyed what could have been a wonderful place to live.
January 30th, 2010 at 5:39 pm

17. Pilotshark Sponsored by Beoing says:

drhunt says:
Good torture must shock the mind as well conscious in order to be effective. It need not be illegal to do this.
So i know now that you could not way be a real doctor by that statement.
and which you think we should do to O’Keeffe and gang? water board or shock?
January 30th, 2010 at 5:40 pm

18.just the bleepn facts says:

drhunt says:
Good torture must shock the mind as well conscious in order to be effective.
You little nazi limpd*cks think there is “good torture”? And you wonder why people call for you to be put in mental hospitals?
drhunt says:

It need not be illegal to do this.
Because only the criminally insane believe this…
drhunt says:
Yoo and Bybee have constructed legal opinions that will stand the test of time.
Only if we become the fascist state you teabaggers are drooling for. I’m not banking on it, neither should you whackjob.
drhunt says:
They define the tools to be used in intelligence gathering. We owe them a debt of gratitude.

LOL! Torture has nothing to do with intelligence gathering, it’s about limpd*ck p*ssies like you needing to feel “powerful” in the face of being made to feel impotent. It’s nothing more than your psychotic insecurity and lunacy that drives it. We owe them a debt of gratitude for exposing what radical extremist lunatics make up the right wing mainstream!
January 30th, 2010 at 5:41 pm

19.P.D. says:
Strat@16, Now China is kicking our as* with green energy. And because Bush’s policies banning stem cell research, other countries have advanced in medicine as well.
January 30th, 2010 at 5:42 pm

20.just the bleepn facts says:

Pilotshark Sponsored by Beoing says:
So i know now that you could not way be a real doctor by that statement.
That would Doctor in the same way that “doctor J” is a doctor! ;)
January 30th, 2010 at 5:42 pm

Via Newsweek

Via Memeorandum

From The Last Tradition

CBS Rejects Gay Dating Service Super Bowl AD

Strike two for the Left!

On the heels of Liberals going berserk over CBS decision to air a Pro-Life ad featuring college standout QB Tim Tebow, a second blow was dealt to the Libs when the Tiffany network decided to pass on ManCrush.com, a Gay Dating service for failing to meet broadcast standards.



Ain’t that a shame!

Speculation persist that the whole thing was a publicity stunt by the dating service known as ManCrush.com for knowing full well that the ad would be rejected in the first place and thusly gain free publicity for the effort.

However a spokesman for ManCrush.com said:

"We're 100% serious," said spokesperson Elissa Buchter. "We have the money to pay for it. If the ad showed a man and woman kissing it would have been accepted. You see ads for erectile dysfunction morning, noon and night. It's discriminatory that they wont show this."

It’s been a bad couple of weeks for Liberals.

Via Fox News

Via The Hollywood Reporter

Via Slate.com

From The Last Tradition

Nancy Pelosi Spends $1,000 per Week on In-Flight Food and Booze

When you’re Speaker of the House, you might as well take advantage of the perks, especially when it’s on the public dime.

Remember, the big stink about Nancy Pelosi’s insistence that she needed to be flown in a government version of a Boeing 757?

Well, you don’t think Nancy is gonaa fly without eating and drinking right?

No, way San Jose!

And she ain’t drinking any of the cheep stuff either.

We’re talking Maker's Mark whiskey, Courvoisier cognac, Johnny Walker Red scotch, Grey Goose vodka, E&J brandy Bailey's Irish Crème, Bacardi Light rum, Jim Beam whiskey, Beefeater gin, Dewars scotch, Bombay Sapphire gin, Jack Daniels whiskey … and Corona beer.

It’s party time whenever Party Pelosi hops on a plane!




Via WorldNet Daily

Via CBS News

From The Last Tradition

James O’Keefe Speaks About Arrest: Reports Are False

Big Government.Com

The government has now confirmed what has always been clear: No one tried to wiretap or bug Senator Landrieu’s office. Nor did we try to cut or shut down her phone lines. Reports to this effect over the past 48 hours are inaccurate and false.

As an investigative journalist, my goal is to expose corruption and lack of concern for citizens by government and other institutions, as I did last year when our investigations revealed the massive corruption and fraud perpetrated by ACORN. For decades, investigative journalists have used a variety of tactics to try to dig out and reveal the truth.

I learned from a number of sources that many of Senator Landrieu’s constituents were having trouble getting through to her office to tell her that they didn’t want her taking millions of federal dollars in exchange for her vote on the healthcare bill. When asked about this, Senator Landrieu’s explanation was that, “Our lines have been jammed for weeks.” I decided to investigate why a representative of the people would be out of touch with her constituents for “weeks” because her phones were broken. In investigating this matter, we decided to visit Senator Landrieu’s district office – the people’s office – to ask the staff if their phones were working.

On reflection, I could have used a different approach to this investigation, particularly given the sensitivities that people understandably have about security in a federal building. The sole intent of our investigation was to determine whether or not Senator Landrieu was purposely trying to avoid constituents who were calling to register their views to her as their Senator. We video taped the entire visit, the government has those tapes, and I’m eager for them to be released because they refute the false claims being repeated by much of the mainstream media.

It has been amazing to witness the journalistic malpractice committed by many of the organizations covering this story. MSNBC falsely claimed that I violated a non-existent “gag order.” The Associated Press incorrectly reported that I “broke in” to an office which is open to the public. The Washington Post has now had to print corrections in two stories on me. And these are just a few examples of inaccurate and false reporting. The public will judge whether reporters who can’t get their facts straight have the credibility to question my integrity as a journalist.

Via Big Government.Com

From The Last Tradition

Sarah Palin Slams Obama’s SOTU

Motivation: Truth

“While I don’t wish to speak too harshly about President Obama’s state of the union address, we live in challenging times that call for candor. I call them as I see them, and I hope my frank assessment will be taken as an honest effort to move this conversation forward.

Last night, the president spoke of the “credibility gap” between the public’s expectations of their leaders and what those leaders actually deliver. “Credibility gap” is a good way to describe the chasm between rhetoric and reality in the president’s address. The contradictions seemed endless.

He called for Democrats and Republicans to “work through our differences,” but last year he dismissed any notion of bipartisanship when he smugly told Republicans, “I won.”

He talked like a Washington “outsider,” but he runs Washington! He’s had everything any president could ask for – an overwhelming majority in Congress and a fawning press corps that feels tingles every time he speaks. There was nothing preventing him from pursuing “common sense” solutions all along. He didn’t pursue them because they weren’t his priorities, and he spent his speech blaming Republicans for the problems caused by his own policies.

He dared us to “let him know” if we have a better health care plan, but he refused to allow Republicans in on the negotiations or consider any ideas for real free market and patient-centered reforms. We’ve been “letting him know” our ideas for months from the town halls to the tea parties, but he isn’t interested in listening. Instead he keeps making the nonsensical claim that his massive trillion-dollar health care bill won’t increase the deficit.

Americans are suffering from job losses and lower wages, yet the president practically demanded applause when he mentioned tax cuts, as if allowing people to keep more of their own hard-earned money is an act of noblesse oblige. He claims that he cut taxes, but I must have missed that. I see his policies as paving the way for massive tax increases and inflation, which is the “hidden tax” that most hurts the poor and the elderly living on fixed incomes.

He condemned lobbyists, but his White House is filled with former lobbyists, and this has been a banner year for K Street with his stimulus bill, aka the Lobbyist’s Full Employment Act. He talked about a “deficit of trust” and the need to “do our work in the open,” but he chased away the C-SPAN cameras and cut deals with insurance industry lobbyists behind closed doors.

He spoke of doing what’s best for the next generation and not leaving our children with a “mountain of debt,” but under his watch this year, government spending is up by 22%, and his budget will triple our national debt.

He spoke of a spending freeze, but doesn’t he realize that each new program he’s proposing comes with a new price tag? A spending freeze is a nice idea, but it doesn’t address the root cause of the problem. We need a comprehensive examination of the role of government spending. The president’s deficit commission is little more than a bipartisan tax hike committee, lending political cover to raise taxes without seriously addressing the problem of spending.

He condemned bailouts, but he voted for them and then expanded and extended them. He praised the House’s financial reform bill, but where was Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae in that bill? He still hasn’t told us when we’ll be getting out of the auto and the mortgage industries. He praised small businesses, but he’s spent the past year as a friend to big corporations and their lobbyists, who always find a way to make government regulations work in their favor at the expense of their mom & pop competitors.

He praised the effectiveness of his stimulus bill, but then he called for another one – this time cleverly renamed a “jobs bill.” The first stimulus was sold to us as a jobs bill that would keep unemployment under 8%. We now have double digit unemployment with no end in sight. Why should we trust this new “jobs bill”?

He talked about “making tough decisions about opening new offshore areas for oil and gas development,” but apparently it’s still too tough for his Interior Secretary to move ahead with Virginia’s offshore oil and gas leases. If they’re dragging their feet on leases, how long will it take them to build “safe, clean nuclear power plants”? Meanwhile, he continued to emphasize “green jobs,” which require massive government subsidies for inefficient technologies that can’t survive on their own in the real world of the free market.

He spoke of supporting young girls in Afghanistan who want to go to school and young women in Iran who courageously protest in the streets, but where were his words of encouragement to the young girls of Afghanistan in his West Point speech? And where was his support for the young women of Iran when they were being gunned down in the streets of Tehran?

Despite speaking for an hour, the president only spent 10% of his speech on foreign policy, and he left us with many unanswered questions. Does he still think trying the 9/11 terrorists in New York is a good idea? Does he still think closing Gitmo is a good idea? Does he still believe in Mirandizing terrorists after the Christmas bomber fiasco? Does he believe we’re in a war against terrorists, or does he think this is just a global crime spree? Does he understand that the first priority of our government is to keep our country safe?

In his address last night, the president once again revealed that there’s a fundamental disconnect between what the American people expect from their government, and what he wants to deliver. He’s still proposing failed top-down big government solutions to our problems. Instead of smaller, smarter government, he’s taken a government that was already too big and supersized it.

Real private sector jobs are created when taxes are low, investment is high, and people are free to go about their business without the heavy hand of government. The president thinks innovation comes from government subsidies. Common sense conservatives know innovation comes from unleashing the creative energy of American entrepreneurs.

Everything seems to be “unexpected” to this administration: unexpected job losses; unexpected housing numbers; unexpected political losses in Massachusetts, Virginia, and New Jersey. True leaders lead best when confronted with the unexpected. But instead of leading us, the president lectured us. He lectured Wall Street; he lectured Main Street; he lectured Congress; he even lectured our Supreme Court Justices.

He criticized politicians who “wage a perpetual campaign,” but he gave a campaign speech instead of a state of the union address. The campaign is over, and President Obama now has something that candidate Obama never had: an actual track record in office. We now can see the failed policies behind the flowery words. If Americans feel as cynical as the president suggests, perhaps it’s because the audacity of his recycled rhetoric no longer inspires hope.

Real leadership requires results. Real hope lies in the ingenuity, generosity, and boundless courage of the American people whose voices are still not being heard in Washington.”

- Sarah Palin

Via Motivation: Truth

From The Last Tradition

Apple IPad

That Steve Jobs is something else.

My "You Oughta Know" Artists

I’m pretty big into indie. Most of my music is really mellow, but my favorites incorporate quirky lyrics, eclectic beats, non-traditional sounds etc. I’m convinced that it’s amazing and if you agree, then we are friends. If you don’t, give it a listen… if you still don’t… then... I guess we can still be friends.



I created a list of my own “You Oughta Know” artists and a playlist of “You Oughta Know” songs. It’s a compilation of some of my favorites. Listen, keep an open mind, and enjoy.



You Oughta Know Artists

1) Bon Iver

2) Ingrid Michaelson

3) Blind Pilot

4) Tegan and Sara

5) Rilo Kiley

6) Mr. Gnome

7) Goldfrapp

8) Greg Laswell

9) Meiko

10) Frightened Rabbit

11) Damien Rice

12) The Bird and the Bee

13) Metric

14) New Buffalo

15) Sia



You Oughta Know Songs... Listen and Love

Sunglasses Inside and Bling on Their Jeans

...&...

Rejection. It sucks, none of us like it. I work hard and am admittedly a bit of a perfectionist so when I face rejection I tend to fixate on it. I'm in the process of applying to medical school and the application process has required me to face rejection more than I'm used to.

Recently I was rejected from the University of Arizona Medical School. Naturally, I was disappointed. When I related those feelings to my friend Max he promptly responded with something along the lines of, "Who cares, you're better off. Those people wear sunglasses inside and bling on their jeans anyway." I laughed, remembered why I love Max, and feeling better, went along my merry way.

More recently I was rejected from the University of Washington. As this was a school I had actually interviewed with, I was a little shaken resulting in what I like to call my "mid-application crisis" in which I spent about 2.53 days wondering if medical school was really what I wanted, or worth the effort, and began frantically wishing I would have studied something less frightening like Elementary Ed (those cute kids!) or Interior Design (i love HGTV). I talked with a friend about my little crisis and she assured me U of Washington just "wasn't meant to be."

Taking a step back from the apps, I had a little dose of rejection in the dating game recently as well. To be fair I can't exactly call it rejection as the end of our little dating adventure was fairly mutual- he and I are just NOT compatible. Even so, I admit my ego was a little bruised. Logan being the small college town that it is, my roommate also dated this guy last year and I dealt with these feelings of rejection by laughing with her about what a tool he is. To be honest, it is true that he has some douchey qualities, but in reality he also has some really good qualities that I was genuinely attracted to and even if things didn't work out I still respect him as an individual. So why then was I making fun?

We all make excuses and adjust our perceptions to deal with rejection. "People in Arizona have bling on their jeans." "Washington just wasn't meant to be." "He was a tool anyway." Statements like these make us feel better, make rejection go down a little easier, but in thinking about it, I'm not so sure that is how I'd like to see things. Projecting our rejection onto something or someone else prevents us from taking away the lessons that we could have learned from dealing with that rejection in the first place. Arizona would have been fun, but it was the first year they were considering accepting non-residents so chances were slim. Washington is a great school, but I wasn't as prepared for my interview as I should have been. We weren't compatible, but I was not as assertive, communicative, or maybe understanding as I could have been either.

Rejection. It's a tough pill to swallow, but I prefer to take my dose.

Obama’s State of the Union Hypocrisy About Foreign Money for Presidential Campaigns

I was half listening to the President Obama’s 3rd State of the Union speech, er…my bad, his 1st State of the Union when I heard something I couldn’t believe he had the nerve to say:



I like to focus on these phrases in the speech.

“I believe will open the floodgates for special interests…

“…including foreign corporations. I don't think American elections should be bankrolled by America's most powerful interests, or worse, by foreign entities.

Notice Obama’s use of the phrases “foreign corporations, and “foreign interests”.

Before I get to my main points, lets quickly dispose of Obama’s fears about the influence of foreign money in presidential campaigns.

Legal experts believe that Obama assertion that outside of the U.S. funds can have an disproportionate impact on our democracy is a wild over exaggeration and has no basis in law.

Uh, I thought Obama was constitutional law expert?

Oh well, so much for that.

Last night and this morning, when I looked at the news services and other blogs, all the focus was on Justice Alito having a Joe Wilson moment when Obama uttered his gripe that’s seen in the above video.

EVERBODY IS NISSING THE BIGGER POINT!

The reason I could’ve believe that Obama had the nerve to mention anything about foreign money in a presidential campaigns is because he benefited from googobs of foreign money in his 2008 run for the White House, and the Step-N-Fetch-It media covered it up.

Pam Geller, Editor and Publisher of Atlas Shrugs wrote an excellent expose on the matter.
Here are some excerpts:

“Despite dropping the groundbreaking bombshell story of "Palestinian" brothers from the Rafah refugee camp in Gaza who donated $33,000 to Obama's campaign, no big media picked up the story”

“Foreign donations are illegal, but this story was all that and so much more. The "Palestinian" brothers were proud and vocal of their "love" for Obama. Their vocal support on behalf of "Palestinians" spoke volumes to Obama's campaign.

And yet still no media.”

And here’s the kicker:

“Obama's overseas (foreign) contributors are making multiple small donations, ostensibly in their own names, over a period of a few days, some under maximum donation allowances, but others are aggregating in excess of the maximums when all added up.

The countries and major cities from which contributions have been received France, Virgin Islands, Planegg, Vienna, Hague, Madrid, London, AE, IR, Geneva,Tokyo, Bangkok, Turin, Paris, Munich, Madrid, Roma, Zurich, Netherlands, Moscow, Ireland, Milan, Singapore, Bejing, Switzerland, Toronto, Vancouver, La Creche, Pak Chong, Dublin, Panama, Krabi, Berlin, Geneva, Buenos Aires, Prague, Nagoya, Budapest, Barcelona, Sweden, Taipei, Hong Kong, Rio de Janeiro, Sydney, Zurich, Ragusa, Amsterdam, Hamburg, Uganda, Mumbia, Nagoya, Tunis, Zacatecas, St, Croix, Mississauga, Laval, Nadi, Behchoko, Ragusa, DUBIA, Lima, Copenhagen, Quaama, Jeddah, Kabul, Cairo, Nassau(not the county on Long Island,lol), Luxembourg (Auchi's stomping grounds), etc,etc,etc,”

Is anybody going to give this story any legs besides little ol’ me?

Either Barack Obama is absent-mined, or arrogant enough to know that this wrinkle of his SOTU speech won’t get much play in the ass-kissing media.

Via American Thinker

Via New York Times

Via Politifact.com

Via Atlas Shrugs

From The Last Tradition

A Little Light Reading

Somehow between the copious amounts of homework and social obligations that I as a college student am subject to, I found time for a little light reading. Within the 217 pages of this month’s Cosmopolitan I learned:

1) To decipher His Bedtime Body Language- if he sleeps face down he likes to be in control
2) What behaviors are considered Sexy Vs. Skanky: Sexy= flirting via twitter and Skanky= feuding via twitter
3) What Makes a Woman Irresistible- showing off your playful side

While entertaining, I’m going to suggest that about 90% of the material in this magazine is utter rubbish. However, I did stumble upon a little tidbit of knowledge that I’m taking straight to the bank. I can’t fully attribute this epiphany to Cosmo alone, rather it concerns a question I’ve been thinking about for a while…

Is playing games in a relationship really necessary?

After my most recent foray into dating I’m going to say Yes. I’d also like to take this moment to acknowledge that a) I have not had the desire to go back to dating until recently and b) I suck at dating. But back to my original point, you, like myself, may have been under the impression that showing your interest was a good way to approach dating (it would certainly make things less confusing), but I regret to inform you that we’ve been doing things all wrong. In fact, according to Cosmo feigning disinterest, ignoring your new beau, and discounting his accomplishments are more effective means of nabbing a guy. Apparently this behavior appeals to a man’s competitive side.

Semi-ridiculous? Perhaps, but there is a little truth to it. It explains why we all love the chase and why, at least in my case, when a guy treats me bad I keep coming back… We always want what we can’t have.

The solution to this predicament? Start being what they (the opposite sex) can’t have. Though recent experience and now the Cosmo bible deems it effective, I’m disinclined to play mind games. I don’t plan on playing with any poor boy’s heart just yet, but perhaps there’s nothing wrong with making a guy work a little to get to know you... I’ll let you know how it goes.

An Open Letter from Vito Corleone (The Godfather) to President Barack Obama

Dear Mr. President

I’ve been watching you very closely and there’s a couple of things I have to tell you.

I’m getting tired of you whining all the time that you inherited all these problems from George Bush.

What’s a matter with you?

Did you think being president of the United States is like being a community organizer in Chicago? Did you ever hear me whine about the FBI always following me and taking pictures? Even at my daughters wedding they were hounding me and took pictures.

I thought you were from the Southside?

When I lost my job at the grocery store, did you hear me whine about it or go running to the government for a hand out?

No, I didn’t.

I did what I had to do to protect my family.

And you constantly saying, “I inherited, I inherited, I inherited, last 8 years, last 8 years, last 8 years…”

Take my advice that I gave to my godson, Johnny Faontain:


Even the Obama Girl is tired of your whinny crap!

Stop acting like a pussy and be a Man!

Sincerely

Don Vito Corleone
The Godfather and a Real Man

P.S.

Oh, and don’t forget to spend time with your daughters. Because a man who doesn’t spend time with his children can never be a real man.

Oh, and always take the gun, leave the Cannoli

Update:

Mr. President, again with the whinny about all the problems you had to deal with before you walked in the door.

You ran for the job you idiot!

And what's this criticizing the Supreme Court, right there in the chamber? That was lame.

Act like a man!

Via New York Post

From The Last Tradition

Corrupt ACORN Honcho Bertha Lewis Calls James O’Keefe a Crook

I thought in this country you’re presumed innocent before proven guilty.

Not according to ACORN C.E.O, Bertha Lewis, who couldn’t wait to get on the Ed Show to squawk about Conservative activist, James O’Keefe who was arrested today in Louisiana for allegedly trying to wire tap the office of Senator Mary Landrieu.

This is the same senator that was promised $100 million dollars for her state by the Obama administration in exchange for voting for ObamaCare.



I wonder what evidence is lurking in Landrieu’s office.

Via ABC News

Via You Tube

From The Last Tradition

James O’Keefe Arrested in New Orleans

From Big Government.com

Statement from Andrew Breitbart:

“We have no knowledge about or connection to any alleged acts and events involving James O’Keefe at Senator Mary Landrieu’s office. We only just learned about the alleged incident this afternoon. We have no information other than what has been reported publicly by the press. Accordingly, we simply are not in a position to make any further comment.”


A conservative activist who posed as a pimp to target the community-organizing group ACORN and the son of a federal prosecutor were among four people arrested by the FBI and accused of trying to interfere with phones at Sen. Mary Landrieu’s office.

Activist James O’Keefe, 25, was already in Landrieu’s New Orleans office Monday when Robert Flanagan and Joseph Basel, both 24, showed up claiming to be telephone repairmen, U.S. Attorney Jim Letten’s office said Tuesday. Letten says O’Keefe recorded the two with his cell phone.

Flanagan, the son of acting U.S. Attorney Bill Flanagan in Shreveport, and Basel asked for access to a phone at the reception desk. Then they asked for access to a phone closet so they could work on the phone system. The men were directed to another office in the building, where they again said they were telephone repairmen.
They were arrested later by the U.S. Marshal’s Service. Details of the arrest were not available. A fourth man, Stan Dai, 24, was also arrested, but Letten’s office said only that he assisted the others in planning, coordinating and preparing the operation.

Federal officials did not say why the men wanted to interfere with Landrieu’s phones or whether they were successful. Landrieu, a moderate Democrat, declined comment Tuesday. She has been in the news recently because she negotiated an increase in Medicaid funds for her state before announcing her support for Senate health care legislation.

Bill Flanagan’s office confirmed his son was among those arrested, but declined further comment.

An FBI criminal complaint charging the men was unsealed Tuesday, and a magistrate set bond at $10,000 each after they made their initial court appearances wearing red prison jumpsuits.

None of the defendants commented on the allegations in court.

“It was poor judgment,” Robert Flanagan’s lawyer, Garrison Jordan, said in a brief interview outside the courthouse. “I don’t think there was any intent or motive to commit a crime.”

Eddie Castaing, who represented O’Keefe, Dai and Basel, said he had no details on the allegations.

“We are just grateful that they were not detained … and they can go home to their families,” he said.

O’Keefe was the brains behind a series of undercover videos that have caused major problems for ACORN—the Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now.
He managed to do what Republicans have been trying to do for years—hurt the political affiliates of ACORN, which have registered hundreds of thousands of voters in urban and other poor areas of the country.

By producing undercover videos shot in ACORN offices, O’Keefe brought a firestorm of criticism that the group was helping its low-income clients break the law.
Using a hidden camera, O’Keefe, posing as a pimp and accompanied by a young woman posing as a prostitute, shot videos in ACORN offices where staffers appeared to offer illegal tax advice and to support the misuse of public funds and illegal trafficking in children.

Edited videos of those visits to ACORN offices were first posted on biggovernment.com, a site run by conservative Andrew Breitbart. Reached by phone Tuesday about the Landrieu allegations, Breitbart said, “I know nothing of it other than people are asking me questions.”

In the past, Breitbart has said O’Keefe—now a paid contributor to biggovernment.com—is an independent contractor not an employee.

O’Keefe has been sued in Pennsylvania and Maryland based on the ACORN videos; he does not have an attorney of record in either case and attempts Tuesday to locate a lawyer who might represent him were not successful.

ACORN calls itself the largest grass roots community organization of low- and moderate-income people in the country, claiming over 400,000 families, more than 1,200 neighborhood chapters in about 75 cities.

Until the controversy last year over the videos at ACORN offices, 10 percent of ACORN’s funds came from federal government grants. In September, Congress blocked previously approved funds from going to the group.

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Via Big Government.com

Via Memeorandum

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Hello, welcome to my blog. This website is for you to show your artrwork and writing to all lovers of this nature. Of course, only show your work if you want to.  I don't want to push anything on you but, I would like to see your work. I will show you my art and writing. Some of it is very light so it might be hard to see but I will show it anyway. Thank you all for visiting this sight and I hope you will comment on all of the pieces.

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I remember when I was little and adults would comment on how time passed so quickly. I never understood what they were talking about, but now I understand. The last year has been the quickest and most crazy of my life. I finally committed to applying to med school, spent a month in Africa as a volunteer, will graduate, and in a lot of ways, feel like I'm finally growing up. This transition into being an actual "grown up" got me thinking. I consider myself a very tolerant person. You might say that this is a good thing, and I'd agree, except that a large part of that tolerance stems from my lack of opinions. I am in fact the least opinionated person I know. It's true that I have values and moral convictions, however I am so unsure of what it is that I want and so indecisive that I often find myself wavering from one extreme to the next. I exist in a state of polarity, happy but sometimes confused, motivated but sometimes unsure what it is I'm working so hard for.

That may all sound a little heavy and by starting this blog I'm not sure that is what I'm going for. Hopefully by writing things out I'll be able to form some opinions and gain some direction. For now I think it might just be funny to chronicle this roller-coaster ride.

Irate Indonesians Want Obmam Statue Ripped Down

Apparently eating and taking a dump in Indonesia for fours years doesn’t deserve a statue.

As President Barack Obama’s popularity in the United States continues to nose dive, that same wave is spreading around the world.

Less than a month after a bronze statue of Obama was unveiled in Jakarta,

55,000 Indonesians have signed a petition demanding the statue which depicts Obama as a ten year old boy, be taken down.

Obama, who was born in Hawaii, lived for four years as a child in Jakarta from 1967 after his divorced mother married an Indonesian.

But, that fact doesn’t seem to be enough of a reason to deserve a monument according to some:

Members of the "Take Down the Barack Obama Statue in Menteng Park" group on Facebook say Obama has done nothing for Indonesia

“Barack Obama has yet to make a significant contribution to the Indonesian nation. We could say Obama only ate and s (expletive) in Menteng. He spent his subsequent days living as an American," the web page says.

"For the dignity of a sovereign nation, Barack Obama's monument in Menteng Park must be removed immediately."

Government officials are mulling over how to handle this grass roots uprising.

Brother, I feel you pain because he isn’t doing much for the United States either.

Via Google News

Via NRW

Via Gateway Pundit

From The Last Tradition

Planned Parenthood Rallying Troops on Abortion and ObamaCare

I got a call from my best friend, Felix, who’s wife is a Health Care profession. They had a fight over the weekend over an email she received from Planned Parenthood celebrating the 37th Anniversary of Roe vs Wade.

What the hell is there to celebrate, 50 million babies murdered since 1973? said Felix

I won’t go into the other aspects of their fight, but I told I need to see that email.

Here it is:

Dear Michelle,

1 in 3 women in the U.S. will have an abortion by the age of 45.

The 37th Anniversary of Roe vs. Wade is a good time to remember that abortion is health care. PPNYC CEO Joan Malin addresses that issue in today’s Huffington Post.

Keep fighting the good fight!

Planned Parenthood NYC

So I held my nose and visited the Huffington Post and here is an except of the article written by Jaon Malin, CEO of New York City Planned Parenthood:

“Yet, on this anniversary of Roe. V. Wade, Congress could pass one of the biggest restrictions to abortion access thus far. The health care reform bill, while currently in flux, contains language that would essentially eliminate insurance coverage for any and all abortions, leaving women much worse off than they were before.

Which leaves me begging the question: when will this country realize that abortion care is health care?”

Oh, so now the murder of innocent unborn babies is somehow is synonymous with health care? How does that work exactly? How is the health care of the unborn taken into consideration if his or her life is snatched away by a vacuum cleaner?

It seems to me that Leftist are are quick to point out intolerance in other people, especially Conservatives. But, when it comes to their own intolerance for innocent lives, it doesn’t seem to apply.

Via The Huffington Post

From The Last Tradition

Obama Turns to Plouffe

What world is Obama living in?


There’s an old saying, “dance with the one who brung ya’”

That’s exactly what President Barack Obama has decided to do by reaching out to his former campaign manger, David Plouffe, as a special guru/advisor/hand holder to pick up the pieces of an presidential agenda in shambles.

Plouffe, who is Obama’s version of Karl Rove, has undeniable talent that took, dare I say it, a community organizer from the Southside of Chicago through a head to head battle with the Clinton War machine and won Democrat the nomination.

Who knew?

So, Obama is feeling kind of feisty according to special adviser David Axelrod, the other David, and can’t wait to engage in battle to recover from his worst week in the White House, speeding up his schedule for engaging in the 2010 political races and planning to use his State of the Union address on Wednesday to show the public a feisty side.

The president wants Pouffe to oversee House, Senate and governor’s races to stave off a hemorrhage of seats in the fall.

The president’s leading pollster, Joel Benenson, will be among those conducting research for Mr. Plouffe, aides said, along with others who will divide the country by regions.

It’s the 2008 campaign all over again!

But, there is a great flaw with this strategy that the Obama administration to this day fails to understand. There is a huge difference between running for president, which Obama actually knows how to do, and governing as president, which Obama has painfully demonstrated day in and day out despite the media’s fawning, that he does not know how to manage.

Plouffe magic does not apply to man who has never ran a business, never ran a state or a city as a chief executive and it shows. So, for the rest of the year until the midterm elections, President Obama will become Candiate Obama all over again.

That dog won’t hunt!

Via Memeorandum

Via New York Times

Via Politico

From The Last Tradition

Health Care Bill to Pass in 30 Days or Less

In politics there are things said for the public to hear, but it’s a totally different story behind closed doors.

As recently as a few days ago, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said with a straight face that there weren’t enough votes in the House to pass the senate version of ObamaCare.

What great news for the voters of Massachusetts and the rest of the country who celebrated the recent election of Scott Brown who ran on a promise to be the 41st vote against Health Care reform and who Obama says was voted into office out of public anger.

However, if you think that President Barack Obama and his far Left Liberal base in congress are going to stop cold with their pursuit of their wildly expensive Health Care reform bill, think again.


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These are Democrats!

Nationalized Health Care has been a Liberal wet dream since the days of Theodore Roosevelt. But, maybe you might think that Democrats might slow it down and listen to the American people for a change.

Fat chance!

That’s just as likely as 24/7 coverage on C-SPAN of the meetings behind closed doors between Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid figuring out how exactly they can do the nasty do--passing health care.

However, congressman Alan Grayson, the lovable loon of the House of Representatives, who wanted A.G. Eric Holder to prosecute the creator of a parody website, My Congressman Is Nuts.com, may have let the cat out the bag of whats happening in the shadows of congress on Hard Ball with Chris Matthews:



Yeah, Grayson may be a nutjob, but don’t sleep on the thought that its business as usual in Obamaworld despite the Massachusetts Massacre.

Via Memeoradum

Via Dakota Voice

Via Politico

Via Think Progress

Via Talking Points Memo

From The Last Tradition

University Li(fe)-brary

This is a horrific place. I keep deliberately incarcerating myself in the UL in the vain hope that library hours produce work. One day I will look back on this and laugh.*

In good news, had a nice evening drinking with Libby and watching The Lovely Bones. Pretty sure I cried three times, which is something given the basic complete inaudibility of the stream. Moral of the story = don't trust anyone who tries to lure you to a secret kids' hideout (the hideout is secret, not the kids) in the middle of a field.

I've got to a point in my life where a misplaced apostrophe is THE FUNNIEST THING EVER. 4343 words of dissertation down, probably one million to go. I write at approx. one word per hour.

Basic summary of my day in the UL:

1. Get there before 9.30. This is before the reading room opens (I've only done this once).

2. Wait with the seething hordes of maniac academics (you can tell because they manage to read books angrily in a way that just screams 'take the book I want and I'll make your life unliveable').

3. Sit down. Spread out books. Go to tea rooms for cup of tea and snack. Get shouted at by the inexplicably aggressive man. ('IVE HAD TO CALL YOUR NAME FOUR TIMES FOR THIS PANINI')

4. Pretend that being in the tea rooms constitutes a social life by chatting frantically to anyone and everyone you know, even if you only know them because you stare at them in the tea rooms.

5. Return to seat. Check facebook, googlemail, facebook, googlemail, blog, facebook.

6. Read a sentence. Write one word. Erase it. Write a different word in another paragraph. Delete that.

7. Repeat steps 3-6 a few times.

8. At six o clock, leave.

I aspire to look like this


*Manically, from my prison cell.

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Birth Name: Milica Natasa Jovovic
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Milla Jovovich is a Ukrainian-born Hollywood actress, American model, musician, and fashion designer. Milla Jovovich is the daughter of Galina Loginova, a Russian stage actress and Bogdan Bogdanovich jovovic, a Serbian pediatrician.

Jovovich began modeling at eleven, when Richard Avedon featured her in Revlon's "Most Unforgettable Women in the World" advertisements. Milla jovovich acted in films like Two Moon Junction, Resident Evil,Resident Evil: Apocalypse, A Perfect Getaway,The Fourth Kind and many more.

Jovovich is multilingual—she can speak English, Serbian,[105] French, and Russian. She avoids junk foods and prefers to cook for herself. She practices yoga and meditates often in attempts to live a healthy lifestyle. Jovovich also enjoys playing the guitar, writing in a diary, and writing poems and lyrics for songs.

Birth Name: Milica Natasa Jovovic
Birth Date: December 17, 1975
Birth Place: Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Profession: Actress, model, singer-songwriter
Spouse(s): Shawn Andrews (1992–1993)
Luc Besson (1997–1999)
Paul W. S. Anderson (2009–present)

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