Breakfast Scramble (Sunday)

Oh Baby Where’s My Viagra Award, from Ann Althouse:

A feminist milestone: Our male President has been pulled into war by 3 women.

It’s the opposite of the Code Pink idea that women bring the peace. How long have I heard this feminist plaint: If only women had the power, we would have peace, not phallocratic war.

Mrs. Clinton was also eager to wage an illegal war on Yugoslavia.

Mother of the Yea Award, from Jill, Pundit & Pundette:

Allen told the roommate that the two kids were in the apartment and that her toddler was drunk. When the roommate rushed inside to check on the kids, she found Allen’s 4-month-old baby hanging off the bed with the sheets tangled around her waist, turning blue. But, the 20-month-old was nowhere to be found, the station reported.

A neighbor told police she had found the toddler in the parking lot and the toddler appeared to be intoxicated. The roommate then called an ambulance, reports the station.

Out.

Andrew J. McCarthy, National Review:

{F]or President Obama to seek a congressional declaration of war, or at least an authorization for the use of military force, as the Bush administration understood was required before commencing combat operations in Afghanistan and Iraq. In this case, complying with the Constitution is almost certain to result in a resounding “no” vote from the people’s representatives — and if you think getting the Patriot Act reauthorized was uphill, figure getting Congress to bless another adventure in Islamic nation-building as Olympus … squared. So apparently ensuring that the American people support a war against Libya is a step is to be dispensed with. The editors instead claim that “the request by the rebels and the Arab League [is] all the authorization we need,” a proposition that I imagine would have come as something of a surprise to Madison, Jefferson, et al.

Attacking Libya would be an act of war.   Libya has not attacked either the United States or any allied nation, not a least while Obama has been president    Neither does Libya threaten or vital national security interests.    If Obama wants to wage war on Libya, he needs the consent of Congress.

Ob Baby Where’s My Viagra Award, from Doug Powers, Michelle Malkin:

MSNBC’s Martin Bashir comes to the rescue of President Obama, defending him from those who are picking on him for golfing and recording shows about NCAA brackets during some pretty tough times all around. Bashir’s defense is this: Oh yeah, well at least he’s not goofing off like Winston Churchill did:

[…]

If you’ve never seen Martin Bashir, it’s because he’s on MSNBC at 3 p.m. — more people watched me make breakfast this morning than saw this — but that doesn’t make it any less desperate:

Look Marty,  Winston was no whiner.

Does Dumbo really support privacy? From Jennifer Valentino-Devries, Wall Street Journal:

Sen. John Kerry, a senior Democrat, and technology giant Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday backed the Obama administration’s call for broad privacy legislation at a Senate hearing that also exposed hurdles to passing such a law.

“Modern technology allows private entities to observe the activity of Americans on a scale that is unimaginable, and there is no general law” governing the collection and use of that data, Sen. Kerry told the Senate Commerce Committee.

If Dumbo, Barack Obama thinks privacy is a good idea, he should abolish the income tax, which requires peeking in person’s private finances; curtail the Census to it constitutional role only counting heads, not races or toilet and abolish the Obama Care plan to electronically pry into our personal medial records.

More Dumbo Dithers,from Victor Davis Hanson, National Review:

President Obama has spent most of his life either in, or teaching, school — or making laws that he was not responsible for enforcing. His hope-and-change speeches were as moving in spirit as they were lacking in details.

But now Obama is chief executive, and learning, as did Prince Hamlet, that thinking out every possible side of a question can mean never acting on any of them — a sort of Shakespearean “prison” where “there is nothing either good or bad.” Worrying about pleasing everyone ensures pleasing no one. Once again such “conscience does make cowards of us all.”

Hamlets, past and present, are as admirable in theory as they are fickle — and often dangerous — in fact.

Leaders decide.  Dumbo dithers.

At least PIAPS is decisive, Mrs. Clinton rules out future in politics after 2012, from Joshua Hersh, Daily:

Fed up with a president “who can’t make his mind up” as Libyan rebels are on the brink of defeat, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is looking to the exits.

At the tail end of her mission to bolster the Libyan opposition, which has suffered days of losses to Col. Moammar Gadhafi’s forces, Clinton announced that she’s done with Obama after 2012 — even if he wins again.

I offer a simpler explanation, Mrs. Clinton is old, fat and tired.

In Cold Blood, the sad thing about this story is that I don’t find it shocking. from Claire Berlinski:

Writing in Cold Blood About Itamar

We went yesterday to Itamar, the West Bank settlement where Udi and Ruth Fogel, and their children–Yoav, age 11, Elad, age 4, and Hadas, their 3-month-old daughter–were murdered. A detail that wasn’t widely reported, or reported anywhere that I’ve seen, is that their newborn baby was decapitated

The Palestinians have yet to master the art of  being human.

Madison South, Miami-Dade voters reject tax and spend politics, from Matthew Haggman and Martha Brannigan, Miami Herald:

Voters swept Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Alvarez out of office by a stunning margin Tuesday, capping a dramatic collapse for a politician who was given increased authority by voters four years ago to clean up much-maligned county government but was ushered out in the largest recall of a local politician in U.S. history.

[…]

The campaign to recall Alvarez was launched in October by billionaire businessman Norman Braman after Alvarez successfully pushed for a property tax-rate increase to help plug a gaping budget hole. At the same time, Alvarez pushed for labor contracts with employee unions that included pay hikes for most county workers this year.

“County voters have demonstrated by their ballot that they are tired of unaccountable officials, of being ignored, and of being over-taxed in this very difficult recessionary time,” Braman said Tuesday night. “We’ve empowered the people of this county to take back the government and ask the government to be responsive to the people.”

It is an cycle.  Corrupt politicians use the taxpayers ‘ money to bribe public sector unions, to garner the union support for the politicians re-election.   The cycle can be broken and has been broken in Miami.

Ob Baby Where’s My Viagra Award, if you wonder why it is called the lame stream media, check of this Karen Travers pap from ABC..

Today on Top Line, we checked in with ESPN’s Andy Katz, who was at the White House yesterday as President Obama unveiled his NCAA Tournament picks.

None dare call this reporting.   And from a girl who need no Viagra, Ann Althouse:

Let me muscle past that adulation and hammer one point: The simple facts speak for themselves. It doesn’t matter what emotion these second-rate writers lather into their reporting. We can see that Obama is disinclined to take positions or actions with respect to the core responsibilities of the presidency.

Harry Truman liked to say “The buck stops here.”    Dumbo would rather pass the buck.

‘Pubs reject AGW hysteria, House republican vote to rejeact delusion of anthropogenic global warming.  Libs so stark raving mad, from Talking Point Memo:

Republicans on the House Energy And Commerce Committee — the entire Republican contingent on the panel — declined on Tuesday to vote in support of the very idea that climate change exists.

Democrats on the panel had suggested three amendments that said climate change is a real thing, is caused by humans and has potentially dire consequences for the future. The amendments came on a Republican bill to block the EPA from offering regulations to mitigate the results of global climate shifts. The global scientific community is in near unanimous agreement that climate change is real, and that humans contribute to it

Well done gentlemen.

Moron of the Day: Adrian Peterson, via American Thinker:

The players are getting robbed. They are…The owners are making so much money off of us to begin with. I don’t know that I want to quote myself on that….

It’s modern-day slavery, you know?…The owners are trying to get a different percentage, and bring in more money. I understand that, these are business-minded people…But as players, we have to stand our ground and say, “Hey, without us, there is no football. “

Mr. Peterson has a contract with the Minnesota Viking.  No slave ever had a contract.    I wonder who is paid to read the illiterate Mr  Peterson’s play book to him?

Dumbo Whines, Rich Lowery National Review:

Pres. Barack Obama has belatedly joined the ranks of presidential fatalists. The job isn’t too complex necessarily; it’s too damn influential. According to the New York Times, Obama has been telling aides that it’d be easier to be president of China. No one hangs on Hu Jintao’s every word, or expects global leadership from a grasping, one-party state that has never been a beacon to the world.

In the history of presidential lamentations, this has to rank among the most pathetic. It brings to mind the affecting scene from The King’s Speech when Colin Firth, playing the stammering monarch-to-be, breaks down and weeps at the prospect of the crown being thrust upon him: “I’m not a king.” Except Barack Obama campaigned for two years straight to be president of the United States — and doesn’t stutter.

Does Chrissy Matthews secretly read BitsBlog? Video:

Hat tip: Michelle Malkin.

Yours Truly,  5  November 2008:

Jimmy Carter Wins Re-election

My other title would have been Dewey wins. This is simple. Barack Obama would not keep his word as a candidate. He will not keep his word as President. As per Geraghty’s Law, all of BO’s statements come with expiration dates, including his promise to cut taxes for some ninety-five percent of Americans.

Obama is not a smart man. He not an honest man. Obama’s war on energy, gasoline, electricity, will drive the cost of living through the roof. You were warned. Now you will have to pay the price. Life under the One will miserable.

SITYS.

Dumbing Down for Dumbo I, Barack Obama’s Department of [In]Justice forces Dayton to dumb down her police force and fire departments, from: Lucas Sullivan,  Dayton Daily News:

DAYTON — The city’s Civil Service Board and the U.S. Department of Justice have agreed on a lower passing score for the police recruit exam after it was rejected because not enough blacks passed the exam.

The city lowered both written exams a combined 15 points that resulted in 258 more people passing the exam, according to a statement released Thursday by Civil Service officials. The agreement allows the city to immediately resume its plans to hire police and firefighters.

Instead of dumbing down Dayton’s police and fire departments, Dumbo just ought to hire Dayton’s rejects for his Secret Service detail.

Dumbing Down for Dumbo II,  Obami commission finds military too white, from Michael A. Walsh, New York Post:

Just when you think that our govern ment can’t get any sillier, along comes something like the Military Leadership Diversity Commission — and let’s face it, up to now you didn’t even realize such a thing existed — to crush your hopes that any sensible people are left in Washington, DC.

The diversity commission last week issued its completely unawaited report to call for, you guessed it, more diversity among military leadership. Not great fighting effectiveness, which should always be job No. 1. Not smarter leadership. Not braver fighting generals and fewer rear-echelon paper-pushers.

Combat arms are largely double volunteer.  First you have to volunteer for military service and then you have volunteer for combat arms.   If too few black and minorities first volunteer and than volunteer again, it  is hardly some defect of  the military in need of remedy.  The purpose of our military is twofold: one is to prepare for war; and two is to prevail in war.  Competency and motivation has a lot to do with it.  Diversity not a darn thing.

Do you want a military that prevails in war or one that looks diverse marching in parade?  Take your pick.

Dumbing Down for Dumbo III, Kara Rowland. from Washington Times:

Obama wants quick action on education revamp

Saying local school districts need greater flexibility to meet federal standards, President Obama on Monday called on Congress to revamp the No Child Left Behind law in time for the school year that begins this fall – a request that may be a tall order for a Congress dominated by talk of budget cuts.

The administration has previously pushed for changes to No Child Left Behind, but Mr. Obama’s announcement at an Arlington middle school marked the first time the president has set a public timetable for overhauling the 2002 law, which relies heavily on federal metrics and standardized testing. He said the goals of the law – teacher excellence, accountability and attention to the achievement gap among minority and disabled students – are the right ones, but that better metrics are needed.

Not to worry, if Lemonjello or Orangejello can’t raed,  the Obama administration can just issue yet another waiver.   That and dollar fiffy, will get yo a cup of coffee.

Diddle and then panic seem to be the Obami standard operating procedure.  No Child Left Behind had been on the since it was largely drafted by the late Senator Oldsmobile as one the first act of the Bush 43  administration.  Yet the Obami are acting the some new problem requiring urgent congressional action.   The need to legislate in haste is what led to the disaster that is Obama Care.

Dumbo the Dither, Fiddling While Libya Burns and On Libya and budget, President Obama votes ‘present’.

I know Japan, and Japan is no New Orleans,  I would not with what happened on  Japan on any person other than Michael Moore, but I am confident that no people are better equipped to handle such a disaster than are the Japanese,  from Chico Harlan, Washington Post:

TOKYO — With its coastal areas pulverized and its nationwide energy supply running low, Japan in recent days has lost much of its infrastructure and refined lifestyle, and far too many of its people.

But so far, the country has retained its decorum.

The island nation has responded to a pileup of catastrophes in a way that reflects both its peculiarities and strengths. There’s a ferryboat sitting atop a house in the tsunami-ravaged town of Otsuchi. But at shelters across the country, shoes are neatly removed at the entrance and the trash is sorted by recycling type.

In the interest of assisting the inevitable Japanese recovery Bitsblog strongly urges that the Obama administration enact a total and complete embargo on American celebutards  such as  Sean Penn, Michael Moore or either of the Clinton’s, B.J. or Mrs, setting foot in Japan.

The John McCain card is the surest way for a conservative to get favorably cited by the LSM.  That is  to bash a fellow conservative.  Matt Labash, of the Weekly Standard, ties to get his fifteen minutes of fame, from Johnathan Martin and John F. Harris,  Politico:

“The appeal of conservatism is supposed to be people taking responsibility for their own actions,” said Labash. “But if you close your eyes and listen to Palin and her most irate supporters constantly squawk or bellyache or tweet about how unfair a ride she gets from evil mustache-twirling elites and RINO saboteurs, she sounds like a professional victimologist, the flip side of any lefty grievance group leader. She’s becoming Al Sharpton, Alaska edition. The only difference being, she wears naughty-librarian glasses instead of a James Brown ‘do.”

Mr. Labash, meet Mr. Conservative, to wit Rush Limbaugh:

But this rising vitriol from the “conservative intellectual” bench is mystifying to me. (sigh) I don’t get this comparison to Al Sharpton. I don’t know where that comes from. That’s Matt Labash at the Weekly Standard. I don’t know where that comes from. What does Sharpton do? Would somebody point out one similarity between Al Sharpton and Sarah Palin? Where is the Tawana Brawley in Sarah Palin’s life? Where is that incident? Where are all the megaphone-lead rallies and protests? Where are those things? Where is the complement to the National Action Network and its annual convention in whatever else?

Where is this? Where are the lawsuits that Sharpton files against people? Well, they claim that she’s playing her cards. Where is her tax cheating, for example? Who is Sarah Palin shaking down? I mean, if we’re gonna start making these comparisons… (interruption) What was it you just shouted at me, H.R.? Well, that’s why they say she’s portraying herself as a victim because she’s firing back. They are saying that she should just shut up. In the aftermath of being blamed for this Arizona thing, she should have just shut up. The fact that she responded and reacted to it means that she’s feeling sorry for herself and is portraying herself as a victim — and that’s something that the left does: Portray themselves as victims.

So Mr. Labash either pony up one Tawana Brawley sized fraud on the part of Mrs. Palin, or redact your silly charge and STFU!

Dumbo on Guns, Barrack Obama, Arizona Daily Star:

It’s been more than two months since the tragedy in Tucson stunned the nation. It was a moment when we came together as one people to mourn and to pray for those we lost. And in the attack’s turbulent wake, Americans by and large rightly refrained from finger-pointing, assigning blame or playing politics with other people’s pain.

But one clear and terrible fact remains. A man our Army rejected as unfit for service; a man one of our colleges deemed too unstable for studies; a man apparently bent on violence, was able to walk into a store and buy a gun.

He used it to murder six people and wound 13 others. And if not for the heroism of bystanders and a brilliant surgical team, it would have been far worse.

Guns are safe.   Unarmed citizenry’s are not.  Factor out suicides, a personal choice, and murders,  a questions of methods,  guns deaths are rare.    More people dies for medical malaventure than accidental guns deaths.  Shall me outlaw physicians?  If President Obama thinks guns are so darn bad, he should first disarm the Secret Service by executive order.   I trust  no man who demands you give up your guns, while he keeps his.

Pricking the Bully, Clarice Feldman exposes the hypocrisy of the Obami’s anti-bullying campaign, from American Thinker:

[I]t is a sure sign that Obama is recognizing the slippage in the polls when he and his scenery chewing mate involve themselves with school bullying. (The kids’ fat behinds were more on the line of give the First Lady an issue to keep her busy, in my opinion though it certainly exposed the first lady’s own bullying skills.)

But this takes the cake. In the first place, the initiative is being led by pedophile enabler Kevin Jennings. In the second, the notion of federal regulations of childhood bullying shows the overly expansive regulatory notions of the Obamini. Just imagine the FBI spending its time prosecuting kids because someone once made fun of Barack’s Dumbo-like ears, Finally, though you’d think I’ve exhausted the irony well here, the anti-bullying initiative comes in a week where Obama both openly and covertly sided (through his speech, his supporters in the SEIU and the Organizing for America gang) with thugs in Wisconsin who have threatened the Governor and state legislators with murder, caused great damage to the historic state capitol, let into the state capitol protestors in an effort to overwhelm the elected officials meeting in the Assembly to pass a law needed to keep the state from fiscal ruin.

The President signals grown-up bullying to defeat the will of the voters and save a state from ruin is okay, but ragging on your fellow students is a federal crime.

Obama is a bully.

Global Warming, R.I.P. from Alan Caruba, Canada Free Press:

Have you noticed that you rarely hear “global warming” mentioned on radio or television and the term rarely occurs any more in the print media?

[…]

To borrow a line from Shakespeare, I come to bury global warming, not to praise it.

An early and unrelenting skeptic from the days it first debuted in the late 1980s, I rather instinctively knew that the only warming occurring was the same natural warming that always follows a cooling cycle; in this case the warming that began in 1850 after the Little Ice Age that began around 1300

I am old enough to remember the attempted climate panic over so-called global cooling,  the coming Ice Age.

Weak Willed, George F. Will for man with a sharp tongue and a razor wit all too often lacks intestinal fortitude, from the Washington Post:

“Don’t you think it’s fair also to ask [Barack Obama] . . . how come we don’t have a health record, we don’t have a college record, we don’t have a birth cer – why, Mr. Obama, did you spend millions of dollars in courts all over this country to defend against having to present a birth certificate. It’s one thing to say, I’ve – you’ve seen it, goodbye. But why go to court and send lawyers to defend against having to show it? Don’t you think we deserve to know more about this man?”

[…]

Republicans should understand that when self-described conservatives such as Malzberg voice question-rants like the one above and Republicans do not recoil from them, the conservative party is indirectly injured. As it is directly when Newt Gingrich, who seems to be theatrically tiptoeing toward a presidential candidacy, speculates about Obama having a “Kenyan, anti-colonial” mentality.

Will needs to know that lack of journalist integrity and willingness to accept democrat talking points, such as Obama’s supposed biography, is what is killing the lame stream media.    The media knows virtually nothing about Barack Obama, and supposed journalists like Will are contest to remain willfully ignorant.

Green is a synonym for stupid, from Michael Finnegan and Gale Holland, Los Angeles Times:

The Los Angeles Community College District would become a paragon of clean energy. By generating solar, wind and geothermal power, the district would supply all its electricity needs. Not only would the nine colleges sever ties to the grid, saving millions of dollars a year, they would make money by selling surplus power. Thanks to state and federal subsidies, construction of the green energy projects would cost nothing upfront.

As head of a $5.7-billion, taxpayer-funded program to rebuild the college campuses, Eisenberg commanded attention. But his plan for energy independence was seriously flawed.

Just as Holy Water is merely water which has been blessed by a priest, green energy is merely energy which has been blessed by an environmental wacko.     If alternative energy were really better, it would be mainstream.

Rand Paul – 1: EPA – 0, video:

Hat tip: Jill, Pundit & Pundette.

John Hinderacker, Power Line, gets close:

Last night Col. Ralph Peters was on Bill O’Reilly’s show, talking about Libya. Peters thinks we should act on behalf of the rebels there, but he expressed skepticism that President Obama will ever do anything. “Obama loves the idea of being President,” Peters said, “but he can’t make a decision.”

Bruce McQuain, Questions and Observations, gets closer:

However, to the larger point.  I agree with Peters completely when he says “Obama loves the idea of President, but he can’t make a decision”.  I might have said it a little differently.  Obama loves the idea of being President and the trappings and perks.  What he doesn’t like is the job.

Barack Obama has many problems, large among them is that Obama is lazy.    Obama has plenty of time to take multiple vacations or play golf,  on the other hand his no time to attend briefings or even meet with his cabinet.

I’ve had an interesting week traveling around in the truck. Some of it, I ended up using someone else’s truck since mine was under repair. Lower miles as a result mean lower income, I suppose, but that goes with the territory. As of this writing, I’m back in my own truck, and it seems to be running correctly. I’ll have my computer with me next week, too.  Which of course means I can post again.

• Did anyone really expect that a Democrat -run DOJ would take balloting fraud seriously?
• I told you people over a year ago that the Chevy Volt would never sell. Overpriced, no range, too small, and certainly not a good value, particularly when you consider that every damned one of the things is federally subsidized.  The reason that General Motors never built the thing until such time as they got their arm twisted by the Federal government is they knew it wouldn’t sell.  Well, it still isn’t selling.  Nor will it.
• Oh, Goody, just what we needed.  Another banner for the antinuclear activists to wave in our faces.  Of course, the whole story hasn’t come out as yet, and we don’t fully known all the parameters we are dealing with. Indeed, the reports are at least conflicting, but you know very well that’s exactly what’s going to happen.
• So, Rick Santorum has a firm grip on reality, at least where this is concerned. I have several problems with the man in other areas, but at least in this he’s got it right.
• Message to Daniels: Grow a spine. Daniels seems to think we need to sacrifice social issues to be a united party. But what he fails to understand is that we got into this mess with compromise.  The Tea Party grew to such prominence because of the damage that compromise brought our country, and the understanding of an ever growing number of Americans that compromise with the left means we fail as a country.Let’s break this down.  The statement that are compromised GOP is a united GOP is on its face an absurd statement, given the number of small ‘R'” republicans who have basically given up on the GOP and who gave rise to the Tea Party.

  Want another example?  John McCain.  Here’s a man who tried to compromise with the left wing of the party.  He lost that election, and the GOP lost a number of seats, because rank and file republicans rejected utterly the kind of compromise he exuded. The supposedly centrists, the Bushes and the McCains and the Daniels, and frankly, the current GOP leadership in the House and Senate, are what’s dividing the party now.  If the GOP wants to win elections, and have the support of its rank and file once again, they we’ll need to be constitutional conservatives and that means social conservatives as well.  Frankly, I don’t think they have it in them.

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The Audacity of a Dope, Jack Kelly explains the political phenomenon formerly attributed to one Barack Husien Obama, from RCP:

Mr. Obama’s campaign speeches consisted mostly of empty platitudes, which nevertheless were greeted with wild applause.

“Obama’s appeal comes not from the things he says, but from who is saying them,” wrote columnist Froma Harrop during the campaign. Though mostly a fan, Ms. Harrop noted that in “The Audacity of Hope,” Mr. Obama wrote “my treatment of the issues is often partial and incomplete.” Ms. Harrop said, “It takes some doing for a politician to write a 364-page book, his second volume, and skate past all controversy.”

Obama goes from a blank screen to an empty suit.

Slimes discovers the public with public sector unions,  from New York Times:

At a time when public school students are being forced into ever more crowded classrooms, and poor families will lose state medical benefits, New York State is paying 10 times more for state employees’ pensions than it did just a decade ago.

That huge increase is largely because of Albany’s outsized generosity to the state’s powerful employees’ unions in the early years of the last decade, made worse when the recession pushed down pension fund earnings, forcing the state to make up the difference.

That is the problem with  public sector unions in New York, where the Slimes has to pay taxes, not in Wisconsin where the Simes doss not happen to pay taxes.

Of  course the problem is the name in New York as in Wisconsin.   Corrupt public officials give out taxpayer dollars to corrupt union officiasl in exchange for campaign support.

More,  Don Surber:

In other words, Republican Governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin is right to take on the unions.

In fact, Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo is doing the same thing. He wants to freeze wages and increase employee contributions to health insurance and pensions.

What liberals are facing up to are the wild promises to state employees to keep the Democrats in power.

Of course,  Don is  wrong to exclude Republicans from the blame.   The republican RINO governor George Pataki also traded taxpayer dollars for union support.    If democrat nominee Carl McCall had but promised to reverse Pataki’s deal with the health care workers,  he would have had my vote.

Deflating Public Education, by Clarice Feldman, American Thinker:

Study it. Here’s a shot of an apparently poor black man. He is picketing in Chicago carrying a misspelled sign which charges that charter schools are being promoted by “big business.”

Maybe the poor black man was planted by the evil Karl Rove?

Donald gets trumped, Lamar Alexander thumps Trump, from Daniel Strauss, Hill

“I mean, he’s famous for being famous. He may be good in business but he’s not going to be president,” Alexander said.

Alexander said that there were only a few people who could actually win the presidency, and Trump definitely isn’t one of them.

“So, [former Republican Minnesota Gov.] Tim Pawlenty has a much better chance than Donald Trump of being the Republican nominee,” Alexander said.

As much as  just hate to disagree with Senator Alexander, the senator is wrong.  Trump is not good in business, habitually filing for bankruptcy.   Why any fool would loan Trump money is beyond me.  I for one  am not willing to trust our nstion’s finances to a fool like Trump.  Are you?

Standing in Larry King’s Shadow, James Wolcott asks, from Vanity Fair:

Where did Piers Morgan come from? And is there any way to send him back?

It is simple, if you don’t like Morgan, don’t watch him.  I don’t.

Religion of Peace:

(AINA) — A mob of nearly four thousand Muslims has attacked Coptic homes this evening in the village of Soul, Atfif in Helwan Governorate, 30 kilometers from Cairo, and torched the Church of St. Mina and St. George. There are conflicting reports about the whereabouts of the Church pastor Father Yosha and three deacons who were at church; some say they died in the fire and some say they are being held captive by the Muslims inside the church.

Sounds like Madison.

President of Leisure, from Bridget Johnson, Hill:

In a sign that spring is nearing in Washington, President Obama hit the golf course Saturday.

Storm clouds have been brewing all day, but the temperature was expected to hit 60 degrees. The president left the White House at 1 p.m. for his first golf outing stateside this year.

File under: Rome, burned, fiddled.

Exploited masses revolt, from Steve Nelson, Daily Caller:

Arianna Huffington is being cast by some unpaid Huffington Post contributors as an unethical robber baron. With Huffington awash in funds from AOL’s $315 million purchase of the Huffington Post, contributors have called a strike to demand proper compensation

Perils of the Puffington Post.

‘Rats can’t count, if the democrats are incapable of even counting, it is impossible for them to cut the deficit,from Amanda Carey, Daily Caller:

During a hearing on Capitol Hill Thursday, the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) admitted to double-counting in the Obamacare budget.

‘Pubs to Defend the Rule of Law, LSM media throws temper tantrum, from Jake Sherman, Politico:

Speaker John Boehner is bringing together House leaders on both sides of the aisle in an effort to force President Barack Obama to keep defending the Defense of Marriage Act in court.

[,,,]

The law defines marriage as a union of a man and woman, but the Obama administration, in a major win by gay rights groups, has decided to stop defending the law in court. Republicans have seethed that the president can’t just unilaterally decide that a certain law is unconstitutional.

Imagine, if you will, the media reaction had a republican president, say George W. Bush, announced he was not going to defend a law loved by liberals, say the law that ensures access to aborturiums.   There would be rightful calls for impeachment.   Yet, when liberals ignore that law, all you hear is the sound of silence.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0311/50682.html#ixzz1FgT9JYpn

Boobs you can use, staring at a woman’s twelve, is good for a man’s health:

GERMANY (FOX 25 / MyFoxBoston.com) – Guys, listen up. A study says it is actually healthy to stare at a woman’s breasts.

Five-hundred men participated in the German study. Half were told to refrain from looking at breasts for five years, the other half were told to ogle them daily.

The study found the men who stared at breasts more often showed lower rates of heart problems, a lower resting heart rate and lower blood pressure.

The authors of the study recommend that men stare at breasts for 10 minutes a day.

I am a six man myself.   My favorite view sadly seems to have been omitted from the study.   Alas that mean I will have continue my own research.   Remember ladies, it not sexual harassment.  It is scientific research.