Killer of Mary Jo Kopechne Dead

The fat drunk who killed Mary Jo Kopechne has died.  Unconfirmed report indicate that Bay State bars will be flying their flags at halt staff and scotch futures have tumbled, from NBC News:

BOSTON – Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, the liberal lion of the Senate and haunted bearer of the Camelot torch after two of his brothers fell to assassins’ bullets, has died at his ho

For nearly a half-century in the Senate, Kennedy was a steadfast champion of the working class and the poor, a powerful voice on health care, civil rights, and war and peace. To the American public, though, he was best known as the last surviving son of America’s most glamorous political family, the eulogist of a clan shattered again and again by tragedy

Kennedy’s Senate attendance, or lack thereof same, should not be effected.  However MADD can now breath a sigh of relief.

Addenudm:

The Other McCain, cites good reason not to mourn Fat Teddy’s passing:

Kennedy beat the rap. Multiple witnesses have testified that Kennedy had been drinking all day. It was a clear-cut case of vehicular manslaughter, but he was allowed to plead guilty to a misdemeanor charge of leaving the scene of an accident.

The media will forgive liberals anything. Just look at the passive-voice construct in his obit: “an accident that left a young woman dead

Amen.

Molly’s found a comfy spot in the sun

Barack Obama

Does anybody, at all, believe this latest line of male bovine scat from the Scare Monger in Chief:

Aug. 25 (Bloomberg) — Swine flu may hospitalize 1.8 million patients in the U.S.
this year, filling intensive care units to capacity and causing “severe disruptions” during a fall resurgence, scientific advisers to the White House warned.

Swine flu, also known as H1N1, may infect as much as half of the population and kill 30,000 to 90,000 people, double the deaths caused by the typical seasonal flu, according to the planning scenario issued yesterday by the President’s Council of Advisers on Science and Technology. Intensive care units in hospitals, some of which use 80 percent of their space in normal operation, may need every bed for flu cases, the report said.

I am as about as likely to be the next Pope as for any any epidemic to kill 90,ooo.    Instead of  trying to scare American to death, Obama should go about trying to fix his nine trillion dollar deficit.   Obama has enough problems of his own making he needs to fix without creating false rumors of phantom pandemics.

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This is the Two Eggs Over Easy, Bacon Edition

• NON-ENDORSEMENT: Hot Air’s Ed Morrissey:
  

  Take a look at this video from almost three weeks ago and decide for yourself if the AARP has withheld its endorsement from ObamaCare.  If Barack Obama saw this 30-second spot when it first got released, he can be forgiven for assuming that the advocacy group had explicitly endorsed his plans for overhauling the American health-care system. Given its exhortation to call Congress and demand that health-care reform pass, it would be hard to assume anything else…

  Mimmmmpffhhhph…Thing is, Ed, that only makes sense if you make the assumption that the entire day of the AARP is all of one political mind.now, I will be among the first to admit that they are dominated politically by the left.  That said however, there are a number of corners in AARP that are, shall we say, much less than devoted to the current administration.  There are enough are realists within the organization to understand that many of the proposals put forward by this administration would undermine programs that have been make or break for AARP in the past.

• AND BY THE WAY: CNS is pointing out that the Republicans have three different alternative plans for Obamacare. Trouble is none of them call for removing government from the scene outright. That’s really what is required here.
• SHUTTING DOWN GOVERNMENTAnother state is talking about shutting down government. I suspect the worst nightmare for government is when nobody notices.
• THANK YOU SIR, MAY I HAVE ANOTHER? Obama gives us the rosy forecast… a direct result of his policies.

I snapped this one during a morning walk along the Erie Canal. This is near Elmgrove Road in Greece, facing east, at around 9 in the morning. You can see the amount of bike traffic the trail gets. Lots of ducks, geese and the occasional heron or egret dot the water.

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This is the BitsBlog Burger Joint Edition

• THE IMPLOSION CONTINUES: From ABC NEWS, we learn that:
  

  A “profanity-laced screaming match” at the White House involving CIA Director Leon Panetta, and the expected release today of another damning internal investigation, has administration officials worrying about the direction of its newly-appoint intelligence team, current and former senior intelligence officials tell ABC News.com.

  Amid reports that Panetta had threatened to quit just seven months after taking over at the spy agency, other insiders tell ABCNews.com that senior White House staff members are already discussing a possible shake-up of top national security officials.

  “You can expect a larger than normal turnover in the next year,” a senior adviser to Obama on intelligence matters told ABCNews.com.

  Well, look, Leon…You tie down with a bunch of morons who were all about going after the CIA during the campaign .  At one point were you on to the allusion that they weren’t going to throw you under the bus at the first need?  That need has now arisen;  The government takeover of health care has been squashed.  The stimulus which was supposed to get us out of financial hot water  just made the situation worse.  Jobless rates are now going through the ceiling, even on the official books, and the suspicion is growing that what’s on the books isn’t the half of the problem.  As a matter of fact, just about everything this administration has touched has turned to manure. So now, Obama finds that he needs to throw some CIA operatives under the bus to make himself look good with his base on the far left.  Here’s the problem; you screwed up.  When Obama spoke, you got stupid, and trusted him.   Let’s call this what it really is;   Is there anyone in the room other than Panetta, who didn’t understand this would happen with this president?

• THE PEOPLE ARE BEING HEARD: And they’re just getting warmed up. Meantime the president’s approval rating continues to plummet. (And Jennifer Rubin examines this fall) I suppose all this is a coincidence, that the president is now secluded himself at Martha’s Vineyard.  Interesting time to take a vacation
• IT’S THE LAW: The law of unintended consequences, that is.  Turns out that cash for clunkers helped foreign automakers more than American automakers. It seems we have a few billion to spend there, but in the meanwhile Social Security benefits are shrinking. Hope and change.
• KENTUCKY PRISON RIOT: I can’t imagine there aren’t going to be some heads rolling over this one. As usual, however, it’ll be the ones that don’t deserve to be punished.

A rainbow of such clarity is an unusual event of itself… but a double? You’re looking east along Buffalo Street by the tracks. This is the first I’ve ever caught. You can’t see it in this shot, but it’s a full arch to the right, apparently hitting the ground on the other side to shot right… the south.

Housekeeping notes… I’ve got my mobile blogging set up working again. Hopefully, I’ll be able to get the photo section working, too.

Any interesting if eminently predictable piece from Marc Stein this morning. Here’s a taste:

MArk Steyn

Still, what do I know? Evidently, it’s stimulated the sign-making industry, putting America back to work by putting up “PUTTING AMERICA BACK TO WORK” signs every 200 yards across the land. And at 300 bucks a pop the signage alone should be enough to launch an era of unparalleled prosperity, assuming America’s gilded sign magnates don’t spend their newfound wealth on Bahamian vacations and European imports. Perhaps if the president were to have his All-Seeing O logo lovingly hand-painted onto each sign, it would stimulate the economy even more, if only when they were taken down and auctioned on eBay.

Meanwhile, in Brazil, India, China, Japan and much of Continental Europe the recession has ended. In the second quarter this year, both the French and German economies grew by 0.3 percent, while the U.S. economy shrank by 1 percent. How can that be? Unlike America, France and Germany had no government stimulus worth speaking of, the Germans declining to go the Obama route on the quaint grounds that they couldn’t afford it. They did not invest in the critical signage-in-front-of-holes-in-the-road sector. And yet their recession has gone away. Of the world’s biggest economies, only the U.S., Britain and Italy are still contracting. All three are big stimulators, though Gordon Brown and Silvio Berlusconi can’t compete with Obama’s $800 billion porkapalooza. The president has borrowed more money to spend to less effect than anybody on the planet.

Of course, Steyn isn’t the first on the planet to come to that conclusion. (Though I must say he is among the more eloquent among those doing so.  )  The fact is that everything is president, this administration, and for that matter this Congress has touched since last November has become a costly and destructive debacle of proportions that  won’t even make it to the status of a legend. Legends, you see, are at least halfway believable.

Steyn points out that Obama is now trying to push through a government takeover of health care, as a distraction from the disaster that is the stimulus.

However there are two problems with that idea.  First of all, instead of distracting from the problems invoked by the stimulus, the pushed for its health care suffers badly from the massive aand undeniable failure that is the stimulus.  Obama’s minions let leak late Friday, that the budget deficit would be on the order of two trillion dollars for this year.  Since such estimates coming from the White House been counters have invariably been extraordinarily low on the range of possible, it’s me that the real deficit will be substantially higher.  Once again, this is hardly a unique unto vision .  So, along comes health care , which would most certainly lay another two or three trillion dollars of deficit spending on top of that.  Obama likes to argue that the current Medicare system is unsustainable , and is running out of money.  So, installing another government run system, which promises right off the bat to spend even more money is going to save us money?  Explain to me, someone, how this works out to a positive. I doubt there’s many people who can.

Secondly, it may in fact be partially intended as a diversionary tactic, but the fact is that it’s right online with Obama’s socialism. The fact of the matter is, that the push for health care, the huge amount of money being poured into “stimulus” jobs , the whole shooting match, is not about solving the stated problems, but about moving the country toward a  more socialist system, and destroying freedom.   Because, ….face it….  all any of what the Democrats, Obama included, have done since being sworn in, has done is that. Growing government to totally unsustainable proportions, killing our economy and if left unchecked, our country with it.

Try it this way;  If solving the stated problems was on the agenda at all, why not follow the path set by these other countries that Steyn mentions who have had such success?

Think about the irony here… those other countries of been leaning left for years, and the economic crises they found themselves in were largely caused by that leaning.  They have learned the lesson that freeing up markets and not spending so much taxpayer money is the solution to their current economic difficulties.  Irony truely abounds…. These are lessons that they have a starkly learned from us there in the US,  given our successes in the past.

Now since we’ve forgotten the lessons we taught them, under the guise of ‘hope and change’, thanks to the  Obama administration, they now have an example of what not to do, as well.

One wonders how long it will be before we repair the mistake of putting the left in charge.

Mind you, my question involves more than simply removing Democrats from power.  It’s true, that I have said for many years, that the best thing for Republicans at election  time is Democrats in power.   But this problem also involves those Republicans in name only.  (RINOS) To win the next several elections, and pull this out of the fire, the Republicans need to not only come in with a plan of their own involving said free markets, and drastically reduced government size and scope, but they need to remove from the party those who went along with the current power structure on this lunge to the left.

Alas, I see nothing to suggest the Republican leadership has it in them. That’s a worry, because without it, we’ll never turn this situation around.

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This is the BitsBlogBurger Edition

• BOORTZ ROUNDUP: Neal Boortz has a decent enough roundup on the happenings with the Obama misadministration that I don’t feel the need to dive too deeply into it, here tonight.
• OUT OF CONTROL: Note, however a little further down Naal’s page where he says:
  

  Charlie Cook says, “These data confirm anecdotal evidence, and our own view, that the situation this summer has slipped completely out of control for President Obama and Congressional Democrats …”

  When might I believe something like this could happen? If the Republicans would stand up and actually offer something meaningful to the debate. There answer is that they do have their own plans out there.

  Trouble is, of course, they must also be plans the right will agree with. And there really isn’t enough of the right in the current GOP to get the job done.

• CINDY SHEEHAN- MORON: She’s figured out that she’s been used all long by the Democrat party.  Of course, this is a point we made at the time she was making all of her noise during the Bush administration.  Several times over the years I have questioned whether not this woman would wise up.  Specifically I wondered if she ever catch on to the idea that the policies of this administration with regards to the war in Iraq wouldn’t be any different than those of Mr. Bush.  While she’s figured that part out, but still hasn’t figured out why that’s true.  The reasoning is as I said at that time; the war was necessary. Then again, it is very seldom indeed that we see a liberal with the courage to face down their own preconceptions.  Personally, I don’t think she’s got it in her.
• GEE… ALXEROD IS DIRTY? It seems so. Let’s see if we can find anybody outside the Chicago circles to aver that they’re surprised by this.
• I WANNA KNOW…. why someone didn’t shoot this bastard’s plane down.

At least when Jimmy Carter uttered his unintended, but instantly infamous,  tag line for his administration, malaise, he used a word befitting a graduate of the United States Naval Academy.   Alas poor Barack Obama has no such luck.   Obama has tagged his presidency with phrase right out of kindergarten,  video via DRJ, Patterico’s Pontifications:

I can hardly wait for the inevitable South Park episode.   Eric Cartman in blackface?

Attributed to the moron, b/k/a Barack Obama via Adam Kredo, Jewish Week, and Ben Smith, Politico:

In a morning conference call with about 1000 rabbis from across the nation, Obama asked for aid: “I am going to need your help in accomplishing necessary reform,” the President told the group, according to Rabbi Jack Moline, who tweeted his way through the phoner.

“We are God’s partners in matters of life and death,” Obama went on to say, according to Moline’s real-time stream.

Hat tip:  Darleen Click, Protein Wisdom.

video:

Now that Obama has seen fit to bill himself a God’s partner, and that Obama has freely associated himself with the racist bigot and his preacher of twenty years Jeremiah Wright,  I want to just who is Obama’s  God.    Does  Obama see his support for infanticide as doing God’s work?    How much of a leap is it from supporting infanticide to killing unproductive people who happen to be old?

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This is  The “Where have I seen that before” edition

• THEY”RE ABOUT RUINING AMERICA: Boortz, today, points to an article from The Nation, and to a couple other  outlets that mention the “Cloward-Piven Strategy”
  

  Both were at liberal Columbia University professors in the ’60’s. (I know, “liberal Columbia University Professor” is redundant). These two professors put forth their Cloward-Piven strategy in an article in The Nation magazine. The issue date was May 2, 1966. David Horowitz summarizes the strategy thusly:

  The strategy of forcing political change through orchestrated crisis. The “Cloward-Piven Strategy” seeks to hasten the fall of capitalism by overloading the government bureaucracy with a flood of impossible demands, thus pushing society into crisis and economic collapse.

  Hmmmmm. Does that sound at all like our current “crisis” in health care?

  Heh, well, yeah, and not just healthcare.  We’re throwing money at EVERYTHING, like there’s no end to it. I’ve been saying for soem time, even absent Cloward-Piven, that these people are about killing America… and with Cloward-Piven, and the links to the current administration, there are very few other, happier conclusions to be drawn.

• CULTURE OF CORRUPTION Michelle Malkin’s book, is number one  on the NY TIMES best seller list for the third straight well. Find the book here. I note, though, an incredulous Michelle, observing that :  Conservative books on top, but NYT concludes Marx is “back in vogue”. Nope. NO disconnectiuon from reality there, eh?
• SAY WHAT? Over at The Hill, we see:
  

  Rep. Mike Ross (D-Ark.) said on Wednesday that providing healthcare to uninsured Americans is “not what this healthcare reform debate is about.”In making his comments, Ross, who is the centrist Blue Dogs’ health reform point man, questioned one of the primary healthcare goals of the White House and Democratic leaders.

  “That is a side benefit to healthcare reform and an important one,” Ross told the Arkansas Educational Television Network. Instead, the fifth-term congressman said the bill should focus on “cost containment.”

  Well, now, excuse the bleeping hell out of me, but we were told that the real reason that we were going into this financial black hole was because there was some money uninsured people. ow we’re being told the opposite. It’s train- wreck amazing to watch these morons implode on themselves. It might even be entertaining if it didn’t involve our money, and our future.

• LOL!! Gotta love it…

Scott Wang, AzCentral, filed this report:

A man carrying an AR-15 rifle outside the Phoenix Convention Center where President Barack Obama was speaking today has renewed concerns about protesters bringing firearms to presidential events.

“It is extremely disturbing that you have that kind of weapon in close proximity to where the president is,” said Ruben Gallego, a military veteran and Arizona Democratic Party official who observed the man.

No big deal.   Proud citizen freely exercises his right as a free man take arms with him as he travels.   That is what free men do.   Examine the accompanying picture and note the free citizen happens to be black.

Yeah no big deal, until you read how Contessa Brewer, MSNBC,  happens to described this man, via Newsbusters:

CONTESSA BREWER: Yeah, we are closely following here, Dylan, town halls and other events around the country today to see who shows up and what they bring with them. More than 20 town halls scheduled from east-to-west, Virginia to Washington state. Yesterday, as President Obama addressed the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Phoenix. A man at a pro-health care reform rally just outside, wore a semiautomatic assault rifle on his shoulder and a pistol on his hip. The Associated Press reports about a dozen people in all at that event were visible carrying firearms. And if the scene looks familiar, that’s because it should, last week a guy stood outside Obama’s health care town hall in Portsmouth, New Hampshire with a gun strapped to his leg and police arrested a 62-year-old before that New Hampshire event for carrying unlicensed loaded gun. And the reason we’re talking about this, a lot of talk here, Dylan, because people feel like, yes, there are Second Amendment rights for sure but also there are questions about whether this has racial overtones. I mean, here you have a man of color in the presidency and white people showing up with guns strapped to their waists or to their legs.

Allah Pundit, Hot Air, posts a copy of the video:

This one is simple enough for even Jeananne Garafalo, to figure out.  This is straight up racism, pure and simple.  Brewer either knows the video is that of a black man or simply doesn’t care.

Don Imus was fired for referring to the Rutger’s girl’s basketball team as nappy headed ho’s.  Dan Rather was fired for using falsified documents.  Brewer used falsified video.  Fire her lying ass.

We endorse Confederate Yankee:

Contessa Brewer, her editors, and producers at MSNBC should all be fired for this purposeful deception of their viewership, and the cable network itself should hold a open and transparent investigation into how the biases they’ve encouraged in their newsroom have led to such lies. It will never happen, of course.

Note there is no such thing as a semi-automatic assualt rifle.   An aasault rifle is fully automatic military weapon.   The armed, free and proud citizen in Arizona waa ccarrying a small caliber semi-automatic weapon,  that happens to a couple of ugly features like a pistol grip and foldding stock.

Addendum:

Bruce McQuain, Q and O, offer this comments the black gentleman:

Calm. Articulate. Exercising his rights. Black. And, according to the newscaster, one of a half-dozen openly carrying.

[…]

That is just pitiful. And you know full well that all three of those drones pushing the racism line knew full well their example didn’t conform to their racist story line. However, it did give the one commentator the opportunity to bring up the “rise” in right-wing militias and the possibility that someone will try to “hurt” Obama.

As well as some excellent local video:

The black gentlemen wins our endorsement of both his views on Obamacare and the importance of the Second Amendment.

As to the two local reporterettes,  they need to learn the difference between an illegal machine gun and legal semi-automatic rifle.

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This is The “What the Truck” Edition

• WE HAVE THE ENERGY WE NEED…. BUT.… Can we get it? That’s the question that Investor’s Business daily examines, today. Why are Democrats so very reluctant to develop energy reources… particularly when we could solve most of our economic worries in short order by doing so? Kinda makes you wonder what their real intentions are.
• YOU JUST KNEW THEY’D TRY THIS: … as Boortz points out today… Blaming GWB and the Iraq war for a lack of governent healthcare. Like, it had nothing to do with the American peple not liking the proposal, right? And it also had nothing at all to do with the masive spending Obama’s put on everything else, eh?  (spit)  Had enough, yet, America?
• MEANWHILE, NORTH OF THE BORDER…  The Canadian Healthcare system shows us what government healthcare is about.
• SO NOW THE FBI IS A POLITICAL TOOL? The sordid story of leftie blogger Hal Turner would seem to suggest that.
  

  HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) – A New Jersey blogger facing charges in two states for allegedly making threats against lawmakers and judges was trained by the FBI on how to be deliberately provocative, his attorney said Tuesday.
  Hal Turner worked for the FBI from 2002 to 2007 as an “agent provocateur” and was taught by the agency “what he could say that wouldn’t be crossing the line,” defense attorney Michael Orozco said.”His job was basically to publish information which would cause other parties to act in a manner which would lead to their arrest,” Orozco said.

  Prosecutors have acknowledged that Turner was an informant who spied on radical right-wing organizations, but the defense has said Turner was not working for the FBI when he allegedly made threats against Connecticut legislators and wrote that three federal judges in Illinois deserved to die.

  “But if you compare anything that he did say when he was operating, there was no difference. No difference whatsoever,” Orozco said.

  Special Agent Ross Rice, a spokesman for the FBI in Chicago, said he would not comment on or even confirm Turner’s relationship with the FBI.

  Of course the left has their wazoo in a wad over this, as they do about most things…  Bleeding typical.

• Ummmm….  Oops….
• I DON’T KNOW…  I can’t figure Michael Smerconish out either.  I wonder how that support of Obama worked out for him? After that, you’ll forgive me if I don’t take the questions coming from the man to “The One” next week to be anything but Chrissy Mathews style softballs.
• WHY OBAMACARE IS FAILING: Yesterday Victor Hansen addressed this question. This monring, Jonah Goldberg does.  Jonah suggests the reason is that the administration has been “astoundingly incompetent.”  Well incompetent they may be… and perhaps even astoundingly so. But I wonder…. I doubt anyone could have sold socialism better.  It’s never done well with the American public. Now, that Obama has couched his socialism salesmaanship in his overt racism, is another matter. But since when has socialism ever been anything but group politics, including racial groupings?