Breakfast Scramble

The Gipper would approve. Business Insider:

A school superintendent in Rhode Island is trying to fix an abysmally bad school system.

Her plan calls for teachers at a local high school to work 25 minutes longer per day, each lunch with students once in a while, and help with tutoring.  The teachers’ union has refused to accept these apparently onerous demands.

[…]

The school superintendent has responded to the union’s stubbornness by firing every teacher and administrator at the school.

The Sharp Tack pricks the one:

Clarice Feldman of American Thinker produced a dispositive commentary showing that Obama is failing because fundamentally he is neither smart nor articulate; his intellectual dishonesty is conspicuous by its audacity and lack of shame.

Hat tip:  Sara’s POV.

Algore’s Problem:

You can fool some of the people some of the time, as Abraham Lincoln observed, and you even can fool all the people some of the time. But you can’t fool all the people all the time. Al Gore and his friends got so excited about points one and especially point two that they forgot point three.

Wesley Pruden,Washington Times.

Michelle trades Ed Morrissey to Salem, Mediaite, Daily Caller:

CPAC hasn’t even officially started and already its making news. Mediaite has learned that leading center-right web site Hot Air has been acquired by Salem Communications for an undisclosed sum. Sources close to the deal claim that Michelle Malkin, the conservative pundit and sole owner of Hot Air, has been in talks with Salem for some time, but the announcement was timed to coincide with the Conservative Political Action Conference, which opens tomorrow in Washington D.C

I concede that a website is property, and an owner, to wit Michelle Malkin, has the right to sell her property.  What exactly the tangible asserts of a website are, I am not sure.   I presume that Eric has no interest in selling my blogging services, such as they are.

For those who haven’t noticed my Facebook entry, I managed to get hired today at the driving job I’d applied to.

I’ll be training in an over the road situation for the next few weeks. Once I go through that, I’ll be assigned my own truck, and I’ll be run for perhaps another 10 days, and then I’ll be routed home.  For the first time in years, I feel stoked about my employment.

I’ll hae more as time permits.

http://mashable.com/2010/02/17/outlook-facebook-myspace/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Mashable+%28Mashable%29

I’m looking forward to this!

Mary Mitchell, Sun-Times(Chicago)

That is why I find the billboard campaign that targets black women with a frightening anti-abortion message disturbing.

The ad, which has gone up across Atlanta, features a beautiful black baby and the words: Black Children Are An Endangered Species.

Honestly, black women can’t catch a break.

Sadly neither can their children.  I think Mitchell should find the statistics behind the billboard even more disturbing:

Abortion kills more black Americans than the seven leading causes of death combined, according to data collected by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for 2005, the latest year for which the abortion numbers are available

Hat tip:   Carol, Carol’s Closet.

The Supreme Court will not stop the killings.

Look who is slamming Eric Holder now:

Poor Eric Holder. The fact is that he is none too smart … and none too versed in constitutional issues. Although Ronald Reagan did appoint him Judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia! Ah, those were the days when Republican presidents appointed Democrats to judicial office and Democratic presidents appointed Republicans to same. Actually, aside from his graduation from Stuyvesant High School in New York City, “second rate” is what comes to mind when you hear Holder’s name.

Hey, Janet Reno wasn’t so brainy either.

Well it is not Rush Limbaugh, follow the link.

Bye-bye Babs? Andrew Malcolm, Los Angeles Times:

So, is California’s brittle Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer about to become the next Harry Reid? Which is to say, embattled at home.

As Reid worked the wallets of San Francisco on Presidents’ Day to raise money for his endangered seat in Nevada, some stunning new Rasmussen Reports poll out today makes a compelling point:

For the second straight month the three-term senator is unable to break the 50% mark against any potential Republican opponents, the historical measuring mark of vulnerability for an incumbent nine months before an election

Does anybody take Mrs Clinton seriously,  Reuters:

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Monday that the United States believed Iran’s Revolutionary Guards were driving the country towards military dictatorship and should be targeted in any new U.N. sanctions.

“We don’t take her comments seriously,” Ahmadinejad told a televised news conference, adding that the entire Iranian population of more than 70 million were protecting Iran’s independence and its Islamic revolution.

Alas poor Mrs B.J. Clinton.   She has dedicated her married life to attacking her husbands bimbos, and now she can ‘t geet taken seriously.

Does anybody take I Won’s job claims seriously, Jim Hoft, Gateway Pundit:

In December the Obama Administration announced they had “saved or created” 1.1 million jobs.

In January the Obama Administration announced they had “saved or created” 2 million jobs.

Too bad for Obama that Americans aren’t buying his “saved or created” nonsense.

Just 6% of Americans believe the $787 “stimulus” boondoggle created any jobs according to a recent New York Times/CBS poll.

Six percent?   Did they poll the MSNBC news room twice?

“Vice President Biden Has A Famously Tenuous Relationship with Reality”, Liz Cheney, video:

Hat tip: Nice Deb

Biden prove Liz right, from Jim Hoft, Gateway Pundit.

Bishop-aquiddick, Donovan Slack and Peter Schworm, Boston Gobe:

Some legal specialists say there is more than enough reason to question the thoroughness of the 1986 investigation of the shooting death of Amy Bishop’s brother, which was declared an accident at the time.

[…]

Janet Hetherwick Pumphrey, a Lenox-based criminal appeals lawyer, said the fact that the original police report on Seth Bishop’s death is missing is “really unusual and suspicious.” In addition, she said the only other report currently available, a State Police investigation summary, suggests the only witnesses questioned in the case were “three people who had reason to cover it up” — Amy Bishop and her parents.

It seems like a stretch to call what happened in 1986 an investigation.

In a battle of wits between the The father/daughter tag team of Dick and Liz Cheney and the entire Obama administration, it’s easy to see who comes out on top:

Nice Deb.

Bye-Bayh, Fox News:

Indiana Sen. Evan Bayh will not seek re-election this November, an unexpected decision that hands Republicans an opportunity for a pick-up in a year when Democrats are already defending several open Senate seats.

And Barbara, Rich Vail, Vail Spot:

I’ve just heard from an impeccable source that Barbara Mikulski, the Democratic Senator who is up for reelection this November, will choose to retire. Mrs. Mikulski is expected to make her formal announcement in the next few days.

Do I hear three?

Obama’s Worst Nightmare, Niles Gardiner.

Conservative 100: Most Popular Conservative Sites. DBKP Report.  Missed by that much.

Holder Watch, Jennifer Rubin, Commentary:

As the Obama anti-terrorism approach unwinds and the handiwork of Eric Holder has proved to be politically untenable and substantively unworkable, there is certainly reason to think Eric Holder’s days are numbered. His decisions are the subject of bipartisan criticism, and White House aides are scrambling to separate themselves from the KSM and other ill-fated decisions, making clear they had nothing to do with these calls

The Black Reaper, Carol, Carol’s Closet:

Abortion kills more black Americans than the seven leading causes of death combined, according to data collected by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for 2005, the latest year for which the abortion numbers are available.

But let us continue to make sure black Americans do not know who Margaret Sanger was and don’t do anything to slow down Planned  Parentho0d’s abortion mills.    If the New York City police kill just one black suspect, the Reverend Al Sharpton fills the streets with protests.   However the Reverend never seems to find time to protests Planned Parenthood.  Why?

Rachel Maddow on DADT, Howard Kutz,  Washington Post:

Her executive producer, Bill Wolff, says Maddow gets just as exercised about wasteful weapons systems. “I don’t think it’s personal so much because she is gay and it’s an issue of gay rights, but because it’s an issue of military efficiency,” he says.

Wrong Maddow!   There is no right to serve.    Homosexuals have no rights which can be violated by military personnel policy.

Some in the left are upset with Ann Coulter’s latest drive by punditry at the expense of the Strutting Delaware Blue Hen, b/k/a Vice President Joe Biden, from Marc Schenker, Associated Content:

Coulter referred to Biden as a drunken Irishman in back-to-back segments on Geraldo Rivera’s show, considerately making sure that those who missed her slight the first time would be sure to catch it the second time around. In particular, Coulter’s reference for the slight seemed to be correctly directed at Biden’s dishonest propaganda of late of falsely claiming that the success of Iraq was an Obama Administration success as opposed to a George W. Bush one.

Video:

Hat tip: and more Jim Hoft, Gateway Pundit:

A local legend, Anthony Pontillo, as in Pontillo’s Pizza, has passed, from the Democrat and Chronicle (Rochester, NY):

When Anthony Pontillo and two of his brothers started the first of the family’s pizzerias in Batavia in 1947, few locals knew much about pizza.

“People used to call and say ‘I want one of those pizzas,'” said his daughter, Georgia Woodring. “He’d have to explain.”

But Mr. Pontillo, who died Sunday at 87, worked to grow that pizzeria into the ubiquitous Pontillo’s Pizzerias, with two dozen locations locally

Maybe Rochestians didn’t know much about pizza in 1948, but they sure do kn9w now.    There is Pontillo’s Pizza about a mile down the road from me, at the site of former Greek restaurant.    My neighborhood Starbucks went TUDD, and has reopened as a pizzeria.   I have what ten pizza restuarants within a mile of me.    No other form of food comes close.

Good job Mr. Pontillo.  Rest in peace.

For those of you who don’t know why the silence from me of late, I’m in Ohio on a job search.

At the moment I’m up to my pipiks in snow…. the entire state, apparentlyis under a blanket of white as this is written.

It’s made my existance interesting.

Question of the Day: Bob Owens, Confederate Yankee:

The Anthropogenic Climate Change Lie Collapses Ever Faster; Why Don’t We See Prosecutions?

I have some very simple questions: When will politicians, businessmen, and scientists active in anthropogenic climate change fraud be brought up on racketeering charges and imprisoned for attempting to steal siphon off trillions of dollars in what would have been the most expensive criminal conspiracy in human history?

The list of perps is long.

Eve Ensler loser:  Windsor Genova:

New York, NY, United States (AHN) – Thomas Beatie, a transgender who was born a woman, expects to give birth later this year, for the third time.  Beatie underwent sex reassignment surgery to become a man, but retained his female reproductive organs in order to have children.

Beatie used a sperm donor to get pregnant and gave birth to his first baby girl on June 29, 2008, as his wife had undergone hysterectomy and could no longer bear a child. He bore a son on June 9, 2009.

Yo, moron.   If as Genova writes Beatie was born a female, then she still is a female and always will be.   Sex is immutable.

America’s Cup back:

VALENCIA, Spain (AP)—Still bundled against the cold in his white foul-weather gear, software tycoon Larry Ellison hoisted the America’s Cup high in the air, then planted a kiss on the oldest trophy in international sports.

“Valencia—muchas gracias!” the self-made billionaire screamed, following the ride of his life across the Mediterranean on one of the most remarkable boats ever built.

The America’s Cup is back in American hands.

It more business than sports and the New York Yacht Club is still  aced out.

Darth Vader, video:

Hat tip: Jim Hoft, Gateway Pundit.

More retard,  Christopher M. Fairmanm Washington Post:

If the history of offensive terms in America shows anything, it is that words themselves are not the culprit; the meaning we attach to them is, and such meanings change dramatically over time and across communities. The term “mentally retarded” was itself introduced by the medical establishment in the 20th century to supplant other terms that had been deemed offensive. Similarly, the words “gay” and “queer” and even the N-word can be insulting, friendly, identifying or academic in different contexts.

From the Palm P750… somewhere outside Erie PA:

While passing time on the bus ride, I find an interesting report from Fox News:

More than 23 years before a college professor was accused of shooting six of her colleagues at an Alabama university, her teenage brother died from the blast of a shotgun she held in the kitchen of her family’s home in Massachusetts.

he 1986 shooting was ruled accidental and no charges were filed against Amy Bishop. The case could get a closer look as authorities try to explain why they believe the Harvard-educated neurobiologist opened fire Friday, killing three.

I suppose that I would be accused of lacking nuance to raise the obvious question of a connection between the two instances.

Professor Althouse gets it:

Everyone should perceive flaws! To talk about “sceptics” as the ones who will “seize” upon “evidence” of flaws is unwittingly to make global warming into a matter of religion and not science. It’s not the skeptics who look bad. “Seize” sounds willful, but science should motivate us to grab at evidence.

The belief in anthropogenic global warming is not based on science.   Rather is based on religion.

Imagine where the state of science might be is Albert Einstein had note seized on th4 flaws of Sir Isaac Newton’s Laws of Mechanics?   And in turn Niels Bohr to Einstein.

The Won is no longer the one, Don Surber:
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Jay dumps on “president I’ve been waiting for all my life.”

Democratic Senator Jay Rockefeller — West Virginia’s other senator — got a little excited about Barack Obama in October 2008, when he told Jake Stump of the Charleston Daily Mail: “He’s the president I’ve been waiting for all my life.”

Well, after today, it looks like Rockefeller has begun waiting again.

Well she is not IowaHack, Carol, Carol’s Closet.   Then neither is Carol Fibber McGee.

The Beeb knows how treat a climatologist, video

Hat tip:  Ace

Speaking truth t0 Power, Michelle.

Mrs. O’s problems solved::

TAKOMA PARK, Md. (AP) — As back-to-back snowstorms shuttered schools for the week across the mid-Atlantic states, parents fretted about lost learning time, administrators scheduled makeup days and teachers posted assignments online. But Marla Caplon worried about a more fundamental problem: How would students eat?

This ain’t rocket science.  Parents have been feeding their kids since forever.

Question of the Day:   Rep. Bill Delahunt (D, MA): why did you put Amy Bishop back on the street?. Moe Lane.   The good news is that there is no statute of limitations on murder.

Just after the Superbowl, I posted one of the ads from that TV program, here… this one in fact:

Now, if you will recall, I called it prophetic.

Image Courtesy of FreakingNews.com

So today, along comes Cold Fury, who links a Fox News article:

Going green will not be optional in Cambridge, Mass., if the Cambridge Climate Congress has its way. It will be mandatory.

There will be congestion pricing to reduce car travel. Curbside parking will be eliminated. There will be a carbon tax “of some kind,” not to mention taxes on plastic and paper bags. And the Massachusetts city, home of Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will advocate vegetarianism and veganism, complete with “Meatless or Vegan Mondays.”

Those are just some of the proposals put forth by the Congress, which was created in May 2009 to respond to the “climate emergency” plaguing Cambridge. Once the Congress settles on its recommendations, they will submitted to the City Council.

“This emergency is created by the growth of local greenhouse gas emissions despite the urgent warnings of climate scientists that substantial reductions are needed in order to reduce the risk of disastrous changes to our climate,” the Climate Congress reported in proposals issued on Jan. 23.

Do I call this stuff, or what? It’s ALREADY HAPPENING, people…. NOW would be a good time to start raising hell about this nonsense.