Breakfast Scramble

Van Jones insanity  not seen as  a problem, Mary Mitchell, Sun-Times (Chicago):

Jones’ biggest sin was calling Republicans the “a” word. He also signed a petition that questioned whether the Bush administration officials might have deliberately allowed 9/11 to happen as a pretext of war.

Rosie O’Donnell is a Nine-Eleven Truth.   O’Donnell is not sane.   Jones agrees with O’Donnell.    Does Barack Obama?

Is Heath Care reform already dead, Mike Soraghan and Michael M. Gleeson, Hill:

At least 23 House Democrats already have told constituents or hometown media that they oppose the massive healthcare overhaul touted by President Barack Obama.

If Republicans offer the blanket opposition they’ve promised, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) can afford to lose only 38 members of her 256-member caucus and still pass the bill.

Did the one so full of hope and change doom his agenda by passing the pork laden, debt ridden, and highly ineffective so-called Stimulus package?

Sarahcuda on Obamacare,  Wall Street Journal:

President Obama promises that the Democrats’ proposals “will provide more stability and ssecurity to every American.”

With all due respect, Americans are used to this kind of sweeping promise from Washington. And we know from long experience that it’s a promise Washington can’t keep.

Can we think of one promise the one has kept?

Schedule problems today, but here a few

• ANOTHER DEMOCRAT DOUBLE STANDARD: Byron York today points out that When Bush spoke to students, Democrats investigated, held hearings. Funny, how we’re not seeing that now, since Obama did that at noon today.
• GOVERNMENT HEALTHCARE IS DEAD, JIM: We have word from The Hill that by their count, 23 Democrats are saying they’re going to vote against it.
• MORE ON VAN JONES: From the Wall Street Journal
• AS WE COME OFF THE LABOR DAY WEEKEND we find that Americans are more non-plussed than ever about the damage labor unions do to our country. Maybe that’s the reason none of their legislation has made it through, promises not withstanding. You know, like Card Check, for example.

Denial is not a river in Egypt,  from Rachel Martin and Sunlen Miller, ABC News:

Report: President Obama said that on Labor Day it’s time to “reaffirm” the nation’s commitment to rebuild, and declared that the stimulus plan is working.

Green Eyed Envy.  Hat tip:  InstaGlen

Laboring hard, Jenniifer Rubin:

Lots of groups and politicians are guilty of overreach and it’s gotten them, like the president, in a heap of trouble. Chief among them is Big Labo

Defining terrorism downwards, video:

Hat tip:   Gateway Pundit.

I like to say the following is Bit in drag, but it reminds me more of Chuck Heston in a ponytail, video:

Allah Pundit, Hot Air. seem to getting the same vibes:

I don’t think she means this in the molon labe/”pry it from my cold dead hands, sucka” sense but rather the “be man enough to act like the thief that you are” sense. Which, judging from the crowd reaction, is a pretty popular sense these days.

Eric,  she just has to be a Swamp Stomper.

Van Jones the man behind the boycott of Glen Beck, communistist, Nine-Eleven Truther, rap artist, and the one’s green jobs czar has resigned his White House position.     It is only fair to go to Gateway Pundit for the story:

Barack Obama’s communist-Truther Green Czar resigned on Saturday night.
It looks like the FOX News All Stars were right. They predicted he’d be gone by Monday.
Let the biased headlines begin–
NBC says its the GOP’s fault!

Meanwhile Robert Stacy McCain, Other McCain, has scoured the links for reax.    Those who rely on the New York Slimes will be clueless way Jones resigned.   Then nothing changes.

Not content with raising taxes on yo8ur income and taxing your health,  the Obama administration want your body parts as well,  from James Taranto, Best of the Web

“Cass Sunstein, President Barack Obama’s nominee to head the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), has advocated a policy under which the government would ‘presume’ someone has consented to having his or her organs removed for transplantation into someone else when they die unless that person has explicitly indicated that his or her organs should not be taken. Under such a policy, hospitals would harvest organs from people who never gave permission for this to be done.”–CNSNews.com, Sept. 4

I have nothiing against voluntary organ donation.   However I am opposed to the state presuming the consent of the individual.   It was such a presumption on the part of one corrupt judge, that Terri Schiavo ended up dead.    The judge simply presumed  Mrs. Schiavo wanted to die.   How long would it take for the Obama death panels to presume that unconscious patients simply wished to die?

From our Declaration of Indepence:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. –That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it

Our inalienable rights would include the right to dispose of our own body parts as we alone see fit.   Liberty, what a concept.

Welcome one and all to this most intense nightly read anywhere on the sphere…The BitsBlog Nightly Ramble

• THE MORE WE EXAMINE DEMOCRATS THEY MORE THEY FALL APART: Van Jones now says he doesn’t agree with the “truther” petition he signed. (Speaking of the truthers, did you catch this act from Ed Driscoll at PJM?)
• RANGEL: Meanwhile, Whizbang examines the difference between you and Charlie Rangel. Billy Beck looks at the story I linked yesterday on Rangel and says
  

  

  Billy Beck

  Why hasn’t someone deposited this disgusting old slob on a local street-corner slathered in molasses and feathers? Why?

  I mean it. No need to blister him with actual tar, I shouldn’t think. His so-called dignity might survive crawling home in such a condition, but I’d like to see him prove that.

  Billy, the reason why is simple enough.  Group / Identity  politics, and money. In the case of the former, I’m telling you true;   Think back to the Simpson trial. Think back to the revelations about the misdeeds of William “Cash in his freezer” Jefferson.  Just to name two among many. The fact is,  that as with the cases I cite, his supporters don’t care if he’s dirty. And the money? Well, the answer’s even simpler.  He’s paying off a lotta people, and now has goods on them too. I’m telling you, folks, this is gonna get big if it’s ever really investigated.

• ANOTHER INDICATOR: Labor unions are losing support, says Gallup. Starting to detect a pattern here, yet?  Everything the left does.. and I mean everything, is an opportunity for conservatives.  Observe a few more such:
• OBAMA HEALTHCARE ADDRESS TO CONGRESS: The president has apparently decided to jump out front of the folks with the axes, pitchforks and torches, and speak to a joint session of Congress on the subject of his planned government takeover of healthcare..  And No, Ezra Klein, you halfwit… It’s not his first speech on the point. In fact, Kaus addresses that very point. Does anyone think this isn’t going to solidify the opposition?
• THE SCHOOL SPEECH: I know, both David and I have commented on this. But consider this a prime case of what I’m talking about too.  You know he’s going to be about indoctrination, right? Does anyone think this isn’t going to solidify the opposition?
• LOWERING COSTS? Well, not so much. Democrats want to increase Medicare drug coverage premiums by 20%. Does anyone think this isn’t going to solidify the opposition?
• GLOBAL WARMING, TOO.. as Jonah Goldberg explains today.

What do Medea Benjamin, Jodi Evans (founders of Code Pink),  Rosie O’Donnell.  Janeane Garofalo,  Cynthia McKinney and Van Jones have in common?    They an all beef patty short of a quarter pounder,  certifiable nut jobs and Nine-Eleven Truthers.   The last, Jones, also works in and for the Obama White House, as the one’s green jobs czar.  Amanda Carpender, Washington Times, drops the hammer on Jones:

President Obama’s “green jobs czar” Van Jones has been targeted again and again by conservatives for his controversial views and now they’ll have another item to use as fodder.

Mr. Jones signed a statement for 911Truth.org in 2004 demanding an investigation into what the Bush Administration may have done that “deliberately allowed 9/11 to happen, perhaps as a pretext for war.”

His name is listed with 99 other prominent signatories supporting such an investigation on the 911Truth.org website, including Code Pink co-founders Medea Benjamin and Jodi Evans, comedienne Janeane Garofalo, Democratic Rep. Cynthia McKinney of Georgia and others

It is not all bad for the one.   The administration’s  rehab efforts on working, an Allan Pundit, from Hot Air:

Note well: He doesn’t deny that he signed it. He denies that he agrees with it. Which means, I guess, that he’s asking us to create a new standard for public officials by which documents that bear their signature should no longer be used against them.

Imagine the contempt you’d need to have for the intelligence of your audience to try a non-defense like this:

The Gateway Pundit has more to slap down Jones’ denial.

Meanwhile, back inside the Beltway, Joe Klien, Time, has his head buried so far up that he can not see, much less report:

I was at a Blanche Lincoln town hall meeting in Russellville, Arkansas, yesterday–and the number of people who believe that the President has larded the government with communists (!) was astonishing. One woman said there were four known communists in the government and that she’d researched it on the internet. When I asked her afterwards, she said environmental adviser Van Jones, legal advisor Cass Sunstein (who was last spotted being excoriated by the left for supporting the FISA revisions), someone named Lloyd and she didn’t remember the fourth.

Klien’s, anonomous source has identified,  one confirmed communist in the one’s administration, Jones, and a possible in Sunstien.   Yet while Klien ignores Jones, he is dismisses the notion that the spirtual step-child of Saul Allinskey and William Ayers is putting communists into the government.    Who side is Klien on?

Meanwhile we have a a real life “death panel.”   Note that Mara Liason tries awfully hard to  equate the Birthers with the Truthers and utterly fails.

Dr. Melissa Clouthier, has had enough of the media obsession with Levi Johnson:

Finally, Levi Johnson’s …johnson. Sorry, couldn’t help it. I talk about the press’s Levi-erotica. It ain’t pretty. And then, there’s the Cougars. Growl….

So have I, and so has Gail Collins’ in the New York Slimes:

Given the fact that Johnston is a 19-year-old high school dropout whose mother was arrested last year on six felony drug counts, it is conceivable that he is not the perfect arbiter of normal families. But even if he were an Eagle Scout with a scholarship to Harvard, can you imagine anything worse than discovering your daughter’s teenage ex-boyfriend has been given a national platform to discuss his impressions of her mom’s parenting skills?

Johnson’s only achievement has been to get his johnson to fire.  Yet for reasons unknown to mere mortal man, the media has seen fit to elevate Johnson to some kind of authority on all things Palin.

Welcome one and all to this most intense nightly read anywhere on the sphere…The BitsBlog Nightly Ramble

• WHAT’S UP WITH THAT? I don’t understand all the hoo-hah about Jenna Bush being hired by NBC. OK, the girl’s serious qualifications are her looks,and I personally think them formidable. But consider it this way; in a race between her the similarly under qualified Keith Olberman, guess who wins that one?  While I’m thinking of that, what the bleep ARE  Olberman’s qualifications, anyway?  Can anyone answer that question?
• SPEAKING OF UNQUALIFIED: I see were Curt Schilling was on WEEI this morning … making noises like he’s seriously considering around for Ted Kennedy seat.  Well, he certainly has all the qualifications that Ted Kennedy did.  Minus, of course, the drinking issues.  Here’s some audio. He seems to think not being qualified is a plus for him.

Part 1: http://audio.weei.com/m/26159071/curt-schilling-part-1.htm

Part 2: http://audio.weei.com/m/26159088/curt-schilling-part-2.htm

• WAIT… THIS IS SUPPOSED TO BE ABOUT HEALTHCARE? Byron York makes the totally unsurprising observation that the biggest boon Obama’s version of health care reform will have naught to do with healthcare, and will in fact be in the amount of power heaped upon the Internal Revenue Service.
• MORE ON RANGEL: Look, I’ve been saying all along that there is a certain mindset that causes people like Charlie Rangel. I’ve also suggested repeatedly that mindset would be present in his minions. The NY Post says I’m right about that.
  

  Charlie Rangel’s “forgetfulness” is apparently contagious.

  Two of his top aides are among about a dozen highly paid staffers on the powerful tax-writing Ways and Means Committee who have filed a flurry of amendments correcting their financial-disclosure statements since 2002.

  Jim Capel, chief of staff for Rangel’s personal office, failed to file any such statements for six years.

  On the afternoon of July 14, Capel filed five years’ worth of delinquent reports.

  Capel told The Post yesterday it was a simple oversight.

  Reynolds, who also notes the story, quips:

  Taxes, and forms, are for the little people. I’d like to see someone look into whether bigshots are getting more lenient treatment from the IRS than ordinary taxpayers here. It sure seems that way.

  Well, I don’t need to have that investigated. Given the statements I mentioned from Pelosi in yesterday’s Ramble I already know the answer to that question. Now, Ed Morrissey jumps in with word that Rangle may have paid off ethics committee members.  A lot of implications, there, but the biggest of course is that’s why Rangel is still on his chair and not in jail; Others, particularly ethics comittee members would go down as well. Mark this well….Rangel is the tip of the iceberg, here, folks. And this stuff will be coming out between now and election day next. Ponder the implications of that.

To our east  by a few miles lies Rochester’s Lake Ave, famed in song and story.

(Yes, song… most recently, Foreigner’s “Rev on the Red Line”… Lead singer Lou Graham grew up in Gates, a bedroom on Rochester’s West Side.. and often cruised on Lake in the day.)  At the north end of Lake is a berg called Charlotte… ( and pronounced by the locals, “CharLOT”)

Years ago, Charlotte was the home of one of the biggest amusement parks in the world, Ontario Beach Park. Folks used to travel from all over the country to get here, in a day and age when such travel was far from as trivial as it is now.  It was a tourist destination on the order of what is now Cedar Point over by Sandusky OH.

When I was growing up there were Bumper cars, a couple kiddie rides, and the carousel. I even ran helped to run those bumper cars, back in the day.

These days, the carousel is still there… a Dentzel, erected in 1905. But that’s about it.  All that remains is the echoes.  Still, there are picnic pavilions and a boardwalk. Lots of boat traffic, what with the yacht club nearby… and some pretty nice sunsets. Donna and I both brought cameras, and here’s some of what we captured.

Lisa Schencker, Salt Lake Tribune, the Moron in Chief  is assing school children to:

“I pledge to be of service to Barack Obama,”

video:

Hat tip: Michelle

No man can serve two masters.   Either you can support the Constitution of the United States or our support the cult of personality that is Barack Obama.

ADDENDUM:(Eric) Let’s be honest about this, gang.

How much of a leap is it from what David and Michelle describe here, to this and this? Oh… and of course, this?

Welcome, everyone, to the single most intense nightly read anywhere on the ‘sphere…The BitsBlog Nightly Ramble

• WEDDING WISHES: Congrats go out to Matt Margolis and his new wife, Beth. (pretty girl, that) If you’re interested, there’s pics of the wedding available. He only proposed last Christmas, if I recall rightly.  There are those who would call that fast progress. (grin)  Matt, buddy… you and I need to get together for that beer, eventually, though I think you’re otherwise occupied just now.
• OBAMA’S THUGS JUMP THE SHARK: I think we now hae a working definition of stepping over the line between government and politics. Imagine the outcry had Republicans pulled something like this. (BBCT: Lorie Byrd via facebook)
• JUST IN CASE THERE’S ANY DOUBT ABOUT HOW THEY FEEL ABOUT WORKING WITH REPUBLICANS:  Read this.
• CA$H4CLUNK#RZ IS A CLUNKER: (Sorry, couldn’t resist) This one pretty much tells the take. Freind Billy Beck looks at the story and tells it this way:
  

  “Here’s the figure: $2.878 billion. That’s how much money the government owes car dealers for the ‘Cash for Clunkers’ program.”

  I don’t feel sorry for them. They’re the ones who stepped in this goddamned commie nonsense, and they can walk or crawl through it on their knees, for all I care.

  When you deal in stolen money, all bets are off. Too bad.

  Well, look, Billy… first off, it hasn’t been stolen… yet.You’re quite correct, in that it will be eventually. It is the only way, after all, for anything approaching a payment to come out of this thing.  The Federal government made a promise that they’re going to pay dealers with money it didn’t have yet.  Funny thing; now we’re talking about whether not we’re going to get tax increases.  Gee, you think?  But the fact is, that money has not been stolen.    Not yet, anyway.  What we have here is government operating on paper that it’s been kiting.  Far as I’m concerned, it’s even money, that these bills are still going to be outstanding come for years from now when republican is sitting in the white house.  The democrats will be sitting on the sideline talking about how it’s the Republicans who raise taxes.  Of course, they won’t say a word about why it was required.  And secondly, as regards the automakers, let’s be honest; given that what we’re dealing with is the power of unchecked government , what other game was there in town for the automakers?

• AND BY THE WAY,  BILLY: I don’t know if my comments will make any sense to you, Billy, but that’s never stopped me before…
  

  

  Billy Beck

  I recently saw video of a huge world-major rock band in rehearsal, during which a couple of principals and the production manager were standing around the lights station while the “operators” (a term I could never come to terms with) were trying to find a pretty delicate little cue turning point in a complex automated sequence. Discussion paused dramatically when it was said, “If you were a musician, you’d know where it is.”

  It doesn’t really have to go to that length. There are lots of fine directors out there who are not also musicians. However, while the elemental problems of rock-tour lights are fairly easily solved by contrast to touring audio, the comparison that’s valid is that technology isn’t all there is to it, by far.

  In the same way that audio guys have to have an ear, lights guys have to have an eye, first.

  You’re quite correct, of course, that being a musician isn’t required for the role.  But I wonder if the reference the was making to have to do with the operator (I., too, have a problem with that title) having a sense an understanding of the music and it’s message.  Certainly being a musician oneself would help cover that aspect but it’s not the whole deal, either.  It’s a breadth of focus thing… and I don’t mean the focus of the lights, but of the op’s experience.  I’m reminded of the old joke about how the operation was a success even though the patient died.  Half the folks I see running any kind of automation are so tied up in the running of the thing in front of them, they seem oblivious to the larger picture, and why it is they’re there.

  As you and I have discussed in the past, Billy, I’m no musician. But I will bet that I can cold load a lightboard to a stage show better than a goodly chunk of folks I see attempting the task these days, simply because I do understand music.    Look…  Try it this way;  You are presenting a musical show. The lights are there to augment the music.  Does it stand to reason that one should have a musical understanding before making the attempt?  Seems to me that little basic is getting by a lot of people, anymore.

  And I wonder if this discussion can’t be used metaphorically to other areas. We make cars that are technical marvels that are a pain in the ass to drive.  We’re so busy checking off the boxes on the job list the coporate rulers give us we forget why those jobs were given nd what we’re supposed to be doing there.  We’ve forgotten what speed limits are supposed to be for… ostensibly keeping people safe… and the laws end up getting used to beat motorists over the head and the wallet with. And so on. We’ve gotten so invlved with the hole we’ve forgotten the doughnut.

• DID I CALL It? Yesterday I said Rangle wouldn’t see any jail time. Today we hear from Pelosi’s office that she’s going to allow him to retain his position, even with these new revelations.  And I’ll bet she can’t understand why the ratings for Congress are in John Crapper’s elegant device.
  

By way of The Gateway Pundit, here’s a demonstration of Astroturfing:

Play the thing full screen so you can read the subtitles. This to Democrats is ‘Bipartisanship”. Right from the book of Stalin, people.

Now for a Public Service Announcement from BitsBlog, September 8, is National Keep your Kids Home from School Day, from you federal Department of Education:

MEDIA ADVISORY

Barack Obama

EVENT DATE:
1 p.m. EDT, Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2009
Contact: Sandra Abrevaya
(202) 401-1576 or [email protected]

PRESIDENT OBAMA TO DELIVER NATIONALLY BROADCAST ADDRESS TO STUDENTS ON SEPT.  8

The President will deliver a speech about the importance of persisting and succeeding in school on Sept. 8, the first day of school for many children across America. The Department of Education is encouraging educators, students and parents to use this opportunity to help students get focused and begin the school year strong. The speech will be broadcast live on www.whitehouse.gov at 1 p.m. EDT. The Department of Education has also asked a group of U.S. Department of Education Teaching Ambassador Fellows to develop some suggested classroom activities around the speech to help engage students and stimulate discussion on the importance of education in their lives. The suggested classroom activities will be available on www.ed.gov.

Hat tip:   Darleen Click,  Protein Wisdom.

The Retard-in-Chief can not lie to your school children if they are not in school