Important Stories of the Day

Tom Friendman nails it.

The playwright Tom Stoppard once observed that democracy is not the voting, “it’s the counting.” Iran’s mullahs were always ready to allow voting, as long as the counting didn’t matter, because a regime man was always going to win. But what happened this time was that in the little crack of space that the regime had to allow for even a faux election, some kind of counter-revolution was born.

Go, read it all.

In other news, the leader of the free world still hasn't taken a side (you know, the whole liberty vs. tyranny thing is so hard) and instead took a break from ‘watching with the world’ to take the girls out for custard. Then again, based on the job he's done for us so far, perhaps he’s doing the reformers a favor.

It Wasn't Me

WASHINGTON (AP) - "That wasn't me," President Barack Obama said on his 100th day in office, disclaiming responsibility for the huge budget deficit waiting for him on Day One.

What about this?

THIS makes the "huge budget deficit waiting for him on Day One" look pretty insignificant.

Even the AP (source of quote above) is calling him out on it - and claiming that the day one deficit was partly his responsibility too.

"That wasn't me." Can anyone remember the last president to use that line?

"That wasn't me" is something a kid says when he's caught doing something wrong.

"That wasn't me" is something a lying spouse says when confronted.

"That wasn't me" is something a low-life street cretin tells the police under questioning.

“That wasn’t me” is a pathetic excuse used by the immature and/or deceitful, NOT a leader.

Then again, this guy has never done anything to prove he could lead anything more than a flock of stupid sheep.

When Hope/Change meets Reality

Now that Obama is President, car payments are optional. Or at least that’s what one leftist moonbat, Jennifer Stone-Anderson, believes. Her 2004 Saturn Ion is about to be repossessed:

Stone-Anderson missed her car payments in December, January and February and has started receiving calls from Chrysler. She has ignored them.

She said that Chrysler has the paperwork to repossess the car, and it's really just a matter of the company finding it at this point. The car is hard to miss, but Stone-Anderson said she's not worried about the company taking it.

"Barack says he's an eternal optimist," she said. "We're like minds."

Why is her car so hard to miss? Behold:

It took Stone-Anderson four months of planning and two months of painting to transform the car from humdrum white to a vibrant montage of political art.

That took 6 months!?!?!?!? She would have been better served spending that time looking for a job. Her actions and (lack of) logic fit the liberal moonbat mold perfectly. There is no need for personal responsibility when there are other people out there perfectly capable of paying off her loan. That's some serious HopeChange there. In this case, I’m rooting for the reality (a.k.a. the repo man).

Let’s just hope she doesn’t have a mortgage too.

Btw - If you want see more pictures of this soon to be repossessed ‘work of art’ as well as the moonbat that created it, take a peek here.

Perspective - Part II

C'mon. If suicide were a proper penalty for piddling away taxpayer dollars, the National Mall would look just like Jonestown after refreshments.

Quite frankly, that sounds like a pretty good start. Go, Read all of it.

h/t: the blogfather

Head in the Sand

Surely, there is no relation to the plummeting stock market and the Administrations super spendulous package. Surely the free market wouldn’t react negatively to the prospect of the socialization of the free market. Surely, we are not doomed. Surely, I’m being factious.

More Nuance and Perspective

If you read just one thing today (or this week, or even this month), read this:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/29/AR2009012903444.html

yeah, it was good enough to bring the blog out of hbernation...

Thanks America

How Obama Got Elected

Sing for Change

Seriously. WTF are you people doing to our children?

h/t: seejanemom

Connect the Dots

Offered without comment:

Source

For the Record…

I have never contributed to a presidential campaign. I’ve never believed in a candidate enough to put money behind him (of her).

And while I’ve only begrudgingly supported McCain until this point, if the current speculation is confirmed; I would volunteer to have his babies (ok, I can’t really do that). But I will contribute to his campaign. And I suspect so too will my wife, who is a registered democrat.

The Michael Moore Diet Plan

He start off the day...

… by eating three fried-egg sandwiches loaded with cheese, lettuce, tomatoes, fried onions and mayonnaise.

He follows that up with two cups of coffee, a five-egg omelet, a bowl of grits, three slices of French toast topped with powdered sugar and three chocolate-chip pancakes.

At lunch, [he] gobbles up a pound of enriched pasta and two large ham and cheese sandwiches slathered with mayo on white bread - capping off the meal by chugging about 1,000 calories worth of energy drinks.

For dinner, [he] really loads up on the carbs … with a pound of pasta and an entire pizza.

He washes all that down with another 1,000 calories worth of energy drinks.

So, does Michael really eat that? Actually, yeah. (I’m not so sure about Michael Moore though).

I Told You So

No bias, None whatsoever.

Government Efficiencies…

…are the ultimate oxymoron. 30 years ago today, President Carter signed the Department of Energy Organization Act creating the Department of Energy. Today it’s has a $25 BILLION dollar budget and more than 16,000 employees.

So – how’s that working out for us? And you want the government in charge of your healthcare?

h/t: the blogfather

Blackout

I’m pleased that the main stream media (MSM) has been blacking out the Edwards story. It just re-enforces what many believe – there is a very real media bias and the msm no longer has any credibility.

Imagine if you will, a fictional story – a story in which a high school football star goes on to graduated college and law school, clerks for a federal judge and launches a successful career as an attorney and ultimately amasses millions in medical malpractice. He then shifts focus to politics and wins his first bid to the US Senate. By the end of his first term, he is selected to run as the Vice President by his parties Presidential nominee. He and his running mate ultimately lose the hotly contested election against the incumbent. Then his wife is diagnosised with cancer and he decides to retire from politics to support her. Several years later, me mounts his own bid for the Presidency. Then it’s revealed that he’s been having an affair – and may even have a baby as a result of this affair. And the major media outlets ignore the story completely and our ‘hero’ lives happily ever after.

Yeah – the story doesn’t pass the sniff test. Readers wouldn’t believe it. The publisher would surely kick that back and tell the writer that [s]he needs to change the ending – the whole media as a conspiracy thing won’t fly – people would never believe that.

Except it’s happening here and now. In real life.

This story can’t be contained forever. Soon this story will be common knowledge. And the longer the mainstream media chooses to ignore it, the more damage they are doing to what’s left of their credibility – but this time, it will be their credibility with the sheep. Those who so far just consume the news wholesale, without question. This could be the story that will be looked back upon as the tipping point – when the sheep finally look at their shepard and say – WTF?

The only possible spin I can see them put on this is that’s “it’s just about sex”. Except it’s not - there is a baby now. There is a sick and dying wife who has been betrayed. Larry Craig, a homophobic hypocrite from ‘who cares’ was about sex. This is much, much more from someone who 6 months ago was asking you to make him the President of the United States.

So carry on msm. Keep digging that hole. Someone pass the popcorn…