Wonder Where Your Tax Dollars Go?

Here is a typical example of what happens when you allow government spending to go unchecked

THE head of an Irish-American body, which has secured a controversial €20m investment from the government for a scholarship fund, admitted the group spent at least €900,000 on corporate entertainment over the past five years.
Trina Vargo, head of the US-Ireland Alliance, confirmed that about $200,000 (€147,700) has been spent every year on a pre-Oscar night party in Los Angeles.
Vargo, who earns $175,000 a year, also disclosed that €180,000 had been spent on a suite at the K Club for the Ryder Cup in 2006.
The estimated cost of corporate entertainment organised by the group – which is funded by the US and Irish governments and by private donation – for those events was €942,190.

This sort of thing happens at many state universities in the USA.

Texas Stadium: R.I.P.




That was the location of the best pro football ever played anywhere.

PC Kills

The PC thought police are responsible for the death of a good man in England:

A medical technician killed himself after being suspended from work after someone complained that he made a politically-incorrect joke about a black friend.
Roy Amor, 61, who was devastated at the prospect of losing his job making prosthetics, shot himself in the head outside his house.
He was facing a disciplinary investigation after suggesting to the black colleague that he ‘better hide’ when they noticed immigration officers outside their clinic.
It is understood that the man was a close friend of Mr Amor and was not offended. However, it was overheard by someone else who lodged a formal complaint.

And we're not far from the point where the left begin to herd people off to gas chambers for not agreeing with their agenda of hate.

John Paul Stevens: Goodbye and Good Riddance

Gerald Ford was a halfway decent president. But one of his biggest mistakes was nominating John Paul Stevens to the Supreme Court back in 1975. Even though Stevens was selected by a Republican president, he has regularly voted with the most leftwing Democrat-nominated judges including Breyer and Ginsberg. Along with fellow traitor David Souter, he has assisted in some of the Supreme Court's most ridiculous decisions, including the Kelo v. New London case.

Stevens has also regularly voted in favor of the racist so-called 'affirmative action' programs. I wonder how he would have felt, when he applied to Northwestern Law School in 1945, if he had been denied admission in favor of a less-qualified applicant due to his skin color?

Stevens is almost 90 years old. He should have retired from the Supreme Court long ago. But notice how he and Souter waited until a Democrat was in the white house to retire. They wanted to make sure their politics of hate are continued.

Is the USA Next?

Mark Steyn laments the death of civil liberties in Canada:

Well, Ann Coulter is no longer in Canada, but 30 million Canadians are. So, for the sake of argument, let us take as read the frankly rather boring observation of the northern punditocracy that the whole brouhaha worked to her advantage, and consider instead whether the Canada on display during her 96-hour layover actually works to Canadians’ advantage. Which was the claim advanced by the eminent Canadian “feminist” Susan Cole appearing on U.S. TV to support the protesters’ shutdown of Miss Coulter’s Ottawa speech:
“We don’t have a First Amendment, we don’t have a religion of free speech,” she explained patiently. “Students sign off on all kinds of agreements as to how they’ll behave on campus, in order to respect diversity, equity, all of the values that Canadians really care about. Those are the things that drive our political culture. Not freedoms, not rugged individualism, not free speech. It’s different, and for us, it works.”

It is likely the USA is not far behind. We are already seeing how anti-freedom socialists like Henry Waxman are calling corporations to task for making adjustments to their financial statements for the impact of the 0bama administrations recently signed 'health care' bill.

Did I ever mention that I am in love with Lady Gaga? In case you were wondering, the answer is yes.

#14: Cindy Wilson

This pick will surprise many. But she had a way of expressing herself through her voice that few others possess. Its surpriising she didn't try a solo career. Her contributions through the B-52s are few but brilliant

0bama's Foreign Policy

Ever notice how, when Bush got into a dispute with a foreign leader, it was always the Texan's fault. Now when 0bama gets into a dispute (Sarkozy, Netanyahu, Karzai, etc) its always the foreigner's fault.

0bama is a total failure in foreign policy. He is cozying up to our enemies (Cuba, Iran) and insulting our allies (Israel, Afghanistan).

#15: Diana Ross

#16: Johnny Cash

Some might find it surprising that a committed rock fan like me would be an admirer of the man who many consider to be the greatest CW artist ever. Talent is talent, no matter what the genre.

And I have known quite a few other rockers who were also fans of Cash. He had a deep-blues style of singing and playing that transcended style and substance. Listen to him sing 'Ring of Fire'

Cash was married to June Carter, an outstanding singer and writer herself, who came from the Carter family that had popularized Country music decades earlier. Yet Cash was far too versatile to fit neatly into just one style of music. Listen to his cover of Depeche Mode's 'Personal Jesus'

"Weather Has Nothing to Do With Climate"

In yet another example of the abject stupidity of the Branch Carbonians, we get a surprising new non-fact:

Germans are losing their fear of climate change, according to a survey, with just 42 percent worried about global warming.

It seems the long and chilly winter has taken its toll on climate change sensibilities despite the fact that weather has nothing to do with climate [italics mine]. The latest figure is a clear drop from the 62 percent of Germans who said they were scared of such changes just last autumn.

Dontcha just love it? Saying that weather has nothing to do with climate is like saying weeks have nothing to do with years, or that years have nothing to do with centuries.

Just as a year is nothing more than a string of 52 consecutive weeks, the climate is nothing more than a string of successive weather. Weather is what is happening in the current hour or day. Climate is what the weather is like over the period of a year, decade, or century.

Thus, if we have unseasonably cold weather, and it continues for several years, we conclude the climate is getting colder. Are such simple concepts too difficult for the Branch Carbonians to understand? Apparently so.

The only thing more amazing than the Carbonians' stupidity is their hypocrisy. It was not long ago, when tmperatures were actually trending slightly upward, that the Carbonians would cite each little event as evidence of global warming.

Longhorn Fan? H- H- H- Hookem

Someone Who Gets It

Rodney Jerkins, producer of Lady Gaga's current hit Telephone, understands the depth of talent that Gaga possesses:

Lady Gaga’s producer Rodney Jerkins has compared the singer to the late Michael Jackson.
Jerkins, who produced Gaga’s latest single with Beyonce ‘Telephone’, said Gaga could be the best female entertainer of all time, rivalling Michael Jackson’s crown.
He told People.com: “We haven’t seen an artist like Gaga in a long time – we haven’t seen an artist that really has no fear.
“I remember Michael Jackson used to tell me he was crucified for doing ‘Thriller’, but he had to do what he felt was needed at that time. I’m just happy to be part of history.
“I’ve always wanted to leave my stamp on music, and to be able to say that I worked with Michael Jackson and now I’m working with Lady Gaga, who’ll probably go down in history as one of the best female entertainers of all time.”
The news comes a day after Gaga notched up the astonishing feat of being the first artist to knock up over 1billion music video views on sites like Vevo and YouTube.
Grammy Award winning Jerkins has worked with the likes of Britney Spears, The Spice Girls, Beyonce, Jennifer Lopez, Lionel Richie, The Pussycat Dolls and Whitney Houston.

I think she will be far bigger than Michael Jackson.

#17: Brian Wilson

The tall guy in the middle with the high-pitched voice

0bamacare Will 'Eventually Control the People'

Listen here. Its not surprising. This is why the left have been foaming at the mouth for years over the USA's partially private health care system.

Under a government-run health care system. Only those who are cooperative will get health care.

"Some people say I teach young people to think for themselves too much. I don't mind being blamed for your fucking freedom"

#18: Willie Nelson

He struggled throughout the fifties and sixties. Having plenty of success as a songwriter (e.g. "Crazy" recorded by Patsy Cline), but couldn't get anywhere as a singer himself until 'Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain'. The rest is history.

US states sue EPA to stop greenhouse gas rules

This is a good move. The 0bama administration, knowing they can't get their stupid 'climate' bill passed in a democratic fashion (and that's democrat with a small 'd') have been trying to impose their ridiculous regulations via regulatory fiat by the EPA. Several states are suing to stop them

WASHINGTON, March 19 (Reuters) - At least 15 U.S. states have sued the Environmental Protection Agency seeking to stop it from issuing rules controlling greenhouse gas emissions until it reexamines whether the pollution harms human health.
Florida, Indiana, South Carolina and at least nine other states filed the petitions in the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C. on Thursday, states said.
They joined petitions filed last month by Virginia, Texas and Alabama.
The Obama administration has long said it would attack greenhouse gas emissions with EPA regulation if Congress failed to pass a climate bill.

It would be very nice if we could get a hearing on the entire issue of global warming with evidence presented by both sides and an objective judge and jury. The entire 'climate change' nonsense would be revealed to be nothing but a fraud and a hoax.

#19: Mick Jagger

Hillary Meets with IRA Terrorist Adams

Just as the 0bama administration are supporting terrorists in the middle east, they are also supporting them in Northern Ireland

SINN FÉIN President Gerry Adams is in the United States this week, where he has briefed senior political figures on the political and peace process in Ireland and attended a number of events to celebrate St Patrick’s Day with the Irish American community. On Tuesday he met the U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Washington. Adams thanked Clinton and the U.S. Administration for continued support for the Peace Process in Ireland.

“The Secretary of State has played an important and supportive role in the Irish Peace Process. I had an opportunity today to thank her for that continued focus by the U.S. government,” Adams said afterwards.

The meeting also allowed the Sinn Féin President to raise a number of issues, including the future of the International Fund for Ireland, which has made an important economic contribution over many years; U.S. economic support for regeneration and investment; and the need for continuing U.S. support for the Peace Process and for the political institutions.

And yet there are many on the Irish protestant side who have said that Hillary has harmed the peace process.

Another Top 20

Since my interest in music has been rekindled recently I am now going to do a top 20 musicians and singers of all time. This will be my personal, subjective ranking.

So what will it include? Lots of rockers. A few country-western artists. One each from the genres of R&B, Jazz/BigBand, and Blues, and one from Electropop (I think you can guess who that will be).

What will it not include? Classical musicians. Even though I had a fair amount of classical training in my early years, I have not kept up with classical musicians enough since then to rank them fairly. I considered including Van Cliburn, but have not listened to him very much either.

Except for the one Jazz/Big Band singer, there will not be any mention of jazz musicians. Jazz can be excellent but I have not listened to enough of it to even know who the best singers and musicians are in that genre.

Another group you won't se are rap/hip hop. I like a lot of rap: Public Enemy, 2 Live Crew, Ludacris, Jay Z, and many others. But they really belong in a different category of art altogether.

So here we go....

#20 Paul Simon




With or without Garfunkel, he was and still is an excellent singer, songwriter, and guitarist.

Lady Gaga Goes Six for Six

This week, Gaga's hit Telephone will go to #1 on Billboard's Pop Singles chart. The Goddess of Music continues her campaign to turn the world upside down.

BWAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

Sugar Prices and the Price of Protectionism

Those who advocate government intervention in the economy oftten try to claim it will help the many at the expense of the few. The reality is that the opposite is often true. Government intervention usually helps a few at the expense of the many. This problem can be seen at its worst in the case of sugar import quotas.

Due to severe quotas on the amount of sugar that may be imported from foreign countries to the USA, our domestic wholesale price of sugar is 35 cents per pound, versus only 20 cents in other countries. The result is that American consumers are paying 15 cents per pound more to American sugar growers than they should be.

Most of the sugar in the USA is grown in western Palm Beach county, in south Florida. This is land that was once the northern part of the everglades, a unique ecosystem that exists nowhere else in the world. The conversion of the land to sugar cane fields has disrupted the natural flow of water from lake Okeechobee to what is left of the everglades to the south in Broward and Miami-Dade counties. What is worse, the sugar growers release fertilizers into the water that pollute the southern everglades.

The purpose of the sugar import quotas are allegedly to protect American jobs. However, from what I have seen, most of the workers in the sugar fields are illegal immigrants and are paid abysmally low wages.

You Like Fat Chicks?

Donna Simpson already looks like a ball of blubber. Not content at a mere 600 pounds, she's aiming for 1,000.

An obese mother in the US is trying to put on weight in order to become the world's fattest woman.
Donna Simpson, from New Jersey, weighs 273kg but told the Daily Mail newspaper she had her heart set on reaching her goal weight of 1000lb (450kg) in two years.
The 42-year-old already holds the title of the world's fattest mother after giving birth to her daughter in 2007 when she weighed 241kg.
"I'd love to be 1000lb ... it might be hard though, running after my daughter keeps my weight down," Ms Simpson told the Daily Mail.
Ms Simpson, who needs a mobility scooter to go shopping, eats huge amounts of junk food each week and tries to move as little as possible so she doesn't burn off as many calories.

So what does the man in her life think of this?

Her 49-year-old partner Philippe — who she met on a dating site for plus-size people — was encouraging her to reach her goal, she said.
"I think he'd like it if I was bigger ... he's a real belly man and completely supports me," she said.

To each his own. I prefer my women Gaga-sized.

Hot Air: The Movie

Jungle Jim sez check it out: http://www.failedsenator.com/

I can only look at Howell for so long...

Why Does Howell Appear so Unhappy?

If I looked like him, I wouldn't be very happy either.

Howell Raines: Socialist Moonbat of the Week

We are well acquainted with Howell from his days as executive editor of the New York Times. He took a leftwing rag and turned it into the US version of Pravda.

Now we get to read Howell's opinion of Fox News' role in the debate over the Democrats' attempts at nationalizing the health care industry:

One question has tugged at my professional conscience throughout the year-long congressional debate over health-care reform, and it has nothing to do with the public option, portability or medical malpractice. It is this: Why haven't America's old-school news organizations blown the whistle on Roger Ailes, chief of Fox News, for using the network to conduct a propaganda campaign against the Obama administration -- a campaign without precedent in our modern political history?

Through clever use of the Fox News Channel and its cadre of raucous commentators, Ailes has overturned standards of fairness and objectivity that have guided American print and broadcast journalists since World War II. Yet, many members of my profession seem to stand by in silence as Ailes tears up the rulebook that served this country well as we covered the major stories of the past three generations, from the civil rights revolution to Watergate to the Wall Street scandals. This is not a liberal-versus-conservative issue. It is a matter of Fox turning reality on its head with, among other tactics, its endless repetition of its uber-lie: "The American people do not want health-care reform."

You gotta love the sheer chutzpah of this guy. Fox News' propaganda campaign against the 0bama administration is 'without precedent in our modern political history'? And what of the propaganda campaigns that the New York Times, Washington Post, ABC, CBS, and NBC conducted atgainst the Nixon, Ford, Reagan, Bush I, and Bush II administrations?

Howell claims Ailes has 'overturned standards of fairness and objectivity that have guided American print and broadcast journalists since World War II'. This has got me howling with laughter. Is there anything whatsoever fair or objective about the way the aforementioned 'mainstream' media have been reporting the news over the last several decades? The likes of Howell have reported nothing but news tinted by leftist bias. Virtually every one of their reporters and editors are Democrats.

'This is not a liberal-versus-conservative issue.' That's exactly what it is Howell. Your group have maintained a virtual monopoly over the news for years. But now, because of Fox News, talk radio, and the internet, that monopoly is rapidly dwindling. That's what you're so angry about. You and other members of the left CAN'T STAND IT when someone voices an opinion that disagrees with your own.

Some more gems from Howell:

It is true that, after 14 months of Fox's relentless pounding of President Obama's idea of sweeping reform, the latest Gallup poll shows opinion running 48 to 45 percent against the current legislation.

Howell, I must say you have quite a huge respect for Fox's powers of persuasion. If only it were that simple. But if it's true then how come you poor bastards at the New York Times, WaPo, NBC, CBS, et al, who far outnumber Fox, are unable to persuade people in the other direction? You must be really lame.

I suspect the true reason that most people don't want this 'sweeping reform' is because they realize that government control over any sector of the economy is likely to result in disaster. Our federal government has proven itself many times to be incompetent at virtually everything it does.

For the first time since the yellow journalism of a century ago, the United States has a major news organization devoted to the promotion of one political party.

Howell, please spare us. Even if it is true that Fox is biased in favor of the Republicans, it is a small thing compared with the massive bias in favor of the Democrats on the part of the New York Times and your fellow 'mainstreamers'. No one is stupid enough to believe the utter crap you are spewing.

Like something from a dream

Like something from a horror movie

So Where's MTV?

You would think MTV would be involved in a big way with the premier of Lady Gaga's epic new video. Instead they were totally absent. What was once the pioneer of music videos is almost completely removed from them. They have turned into a reality show channel.

Its amazing that there are many people alive who are not old enough to remember when MTV and VH1 played videos 24/7.

T - Minus Six Hours and Counting

Until the Telephone video premiers on the E! channel at 10:30 pm CST.

0bama Administration to Meddle in Foreign Trade

Not content to have ruined the financial, insurance, and auto industries, the marxist 0bama administration have now pledged to double exports in five years!
As if anything they do will automatically help the economy

Calling on the United States to "up our game," President Obama today pledged again to double America's exports over the next five years, as first called for in his State of the Union address.
“We shouldn’t assume our leadership is guaranteed,” Obama said in front of the Export-Import Bank’s conference, “When other markets are growing, and other nations are competing, we need to get even better. We need to secure our companies a level playing field. We need to guarantee American workers a fair shake. In other words, we need to up our game.”
The president addressed the group’s annual conference in Washington, DC to outline initial steps his administration is taking to achieve that goal within what the administration is dubbing the “National Export Initiative.”
This morning the president signed an Executive Order creating an Export Promotion Cabinet – made up of the Secretaries of State, Treasury, Agriculture, Commerce and Labor, the U.S. Trade Representative, Small Business Administrator, the Export-Import Bank President, and other senior U.S. officials – to support the effort. That cabinet will convene its first meeting next month and will make recommendations to the president going forward.

Hey 0-bomb, do us all a favor and stay out of trade and out of the economy in general, You've 'helped' it enough already.

Is Winter Finally Over?

No thanks to Al Gore, James Hansen, Michael Mann, Keith Briffa, Phil Jones, et al. They want us to freeze in the dark.

Breach of National Security

I'm a big fan of Jay Z and Beyonce. But that doesn't mean they should be invited into the white house situation room:

Rapper Jay-Z’s apparent visit to the White House Situation Room reveals a radical departure from the last eight years of security policy, according to a senior Bush administration official.
“During the Clinton administration, tours were permitted of the Situation Room, people who could get a West Wing tour could also see the Sit Room. Soon after the Bush 43 inauguration and after we found out about it, we stopped the practice and I believe the only exceptions had to be okay’d by either the chief of staff, national security adviser or the deputy chief of staff,” the official wrote in an e-mail.
A twitter user named Linda posted pictures online of Jay-Z in the Situation Room along with his entourage and wife Beyonce during a White House visit. An e-mail to White House Deputy Press Secretary Bill Burton asking if the pictures do in fact show Jay-Z in the Situation Room has not been returned.
According to the Bush official, who was present for a remodeling of the Situation Room in 2006, “We made very few exceptions to the rule, usually a visiting foreign dignitary attending a meeting there or someone without a clearance who needed to be briefed in that facility for some reason.”

Institute of Physics Questions Integrity of Climate Science

For many years, the left have used the excuse that there was a 'scientific consensus' and that the science behind climate change was 'indisputable'. Most people left it at that because most know little or nothing about science. However, now scientists in fields other than climatology are weighing in on the subject:

The Institute of Physics, which represents 36,000 physicists across Britain and the world, has told a Commons inquiry into Climategate that the controversial emails at the centre of the storm represent "prima facie evidence of determined and co-ordinated refusals to comply with honourable scientific traditions".
In short, the IoP has called into question the integrity of the entire field of climate change.
The Commons science and technology committee is interviewing key climate scientists and global warming sceptics. The standard of the interrogation on the first day was tame and the protagonists merely restated their arguments.
The star witness, Professor Phil Jones - the CRU's head and the sender of most of the hacked emails - was let off particularly lightly, his most damning admission probably being: "I have obviously written some really awful emails."
Far more interesting are the written submissions to the inquiry, including that from the Institute of Physics.
Although it has been made abundantly clear that the inquiry is not about whether global warming is actually happening, the IoP criticises one of the fundamental slices of evidence behind the assertion that we are currently experiencing a period of unprecedented global warming.
In the absence of actual recorded temperatures, scientists have used 'proxy data' – for example, tree rings – to determine average global temperatures over the past 1,000 years. However, in the final few decades of the 20th century, the proxy data has been jettisoned in favour of temperatures recorded on modern instruments. The IoP is critical of this method:
"The [Climategate] emails reveal doubts as to the reliability of some of the reconstructions," the IoP states. "For example, the apparent suppression, in graphics widely used by the IPCC [the United Nations climate panel], of proxy results for recent decades that do not agree with contemporary instrumental temperature measurements."
The IoP also suggests the scope of the Common inquiry should be broadened to include not only the CRU, but also the entire field of climate science.
"Most of the e-mails were exchanged with researchers in a number of other leading institutions involved in the formulation of the IPCC's conclusions on climate change," the submission reads. "In so far as those scientists were complicit in the alleged scientific malpractices, there is [a] need for a wider inquiry into the integrity of the scientific process in this field."

"One fine day in August 2008 I was shooting street style for style.com in the Meatpacking District. My editor and I were trolling for stylish folks when we happened upon the young woman posing above. When we approached her she was shopping with her mom but took a moment to pose for a photo. After taking three frames I asked for her info and in a very serious tone she responded, I am Lady Gaga - a singer/songwriter. It took all my energy to not break into hysterics, needless to say I let out a laugh later that day."

Another Take on Mother Teresa

I never knew much about her. But Chris Hitchens is someone I respect and trust. His article on her:

MT was not a friend of the poor. She was a friend of poverty. She said that suffering was a gift from God. She spent her life opposing the only known cure for poverty, which is the empowerment of women and the emancipation of them from a livestock version of compulsory reproduction. And she was a friend to the worst of the rich, taking misappropriated money from the atrocious Duvalier family in Haiti (whose rule she praised in return) and from Charles Keating of the Lincoln Savings and Loan. Where did that money, and all the other donations, go? The primitive hospice in Calcutta was as run down when she died as it always had been—she preferred California clinics when she got sick herself—and her order always refused to publish any audit. But we have her own claim that she opened 500 convents in more than a hundred countries, all bearing the name of her own order. Excuse me, but this is modesty and humility?

The rich world has a poor conscience, and many people liked to alleviate their own unease by sending money to a woman who seemed like an activist for "the poorest of the poor." People do not like to admit that they have been gulled or conned, so a vested interest in the myth was permitted to arise, and a lazy media never bothered to ask any follow-up questions. Many volunteers who went to Calcutta came back abruptly disillusioned by the stern ideology and poverty-loving practice of the "Missionaries of Charity," but they had no audience for their story. George Orwell's admonition in his essay on Gandhi—that saints should always be presumed guilty until proved innocent—was drowned in a Niagara of soft-hearted, soft-headed, and uninquiring propaganda.

0bama Administration Abandons Allies

Throughout the eight years of the Bush administration, we were constantly hearing the left tell us how stupid and incompetent he was in his foreign policy. Yet Bush was much better than 0bama. James Corum talks about how 0bama has abandoned our British allies on the issue of the Falkland Islands

The Bush administration got a lot of things wrong – but at least they usually had some idea of who America’s adversaries were and who America’s friends were. For example, Bush’s policy of maintaining the special relationship with Britain was a simple recognition of the close bonds of alliance, friendship and interests that the British and Americans have had since World War I.
In contrast, Obama and his Secretary of State Hillary Clinton are apparently clueless about some of the most basic aspects of foreign policy: supporting one’s friends and fencing in one’s adversaries. The declaration of neutrality on the issue of the sovereignty of the Falklands issued by the US State Department is clear proof of the uselessness of the Obama administration.
In the grand scheme of things it makes little sense for America to give moral support to the Kirchner government in Argentina. Kirchner is no friend of the US and Kirchner’s government is in deep domestic trouble for its gross mismanagement of the economy and its attempts to suppress the press criticism of the regime at home. One has to wonder what benefit America gets out of hurting Britain on this issue. Perhaps Obama thinks that the more Leftist Latin American regimes will somehow approve of the US. If that is the case, he is truly mistaken, as most Latin American nations dislike the Argentineans, and have little sympathy for the mess Argentina got into over the Falklands.

Counting down the days until January 20, 2013.

Think the Violence is Over in Northern Ireland?

Perhaps not

Car bomb explodes in Newry
Published Date: 23 February 2010
A CAR bomb exploded outside a courthouse in Newry last night, police said.
There were no initial reports of any injuries in the blast in the Co Down town, which was heard as far away as Tandragee and Markethill.Police said the vehicle was abandoned at the front of the building around 10pm.Officers were in the process of evacuating the area when the car exploded.PSNI Area Commander Chief Inspector Sam Cordner condemned the "reckless" attack saying it was only by "a sheer miracle that nobody was injured or killed this evening".Police said the blast happened about 10.37pm and that warning calls had been made to a hospital and a local business.

Shhhhhh..... the mommy monster is trying to sleep.

Duke Rape Hoax Liar Arrested, Charged with Multiple Offenses

Many of us recall Crystal Mangum. The woman who falsely accused three white Duke University lacrosse players of rape. She became a cause celebre of the white male - hating left and of their allies in the media. This in spite of the facts that (1) Mangum had previously made false accusations of gang rape, (2) The accused men had credible alibis, (3) Mangum had a long history of mental illness and a long criminal record, and (4) Mangum changed her story several times.

Fortunately, the young men were exonerated. Now we learn that Mangum has been arrested and charged with multiple violent offenses:

Durham, N.C. — Durham police late Wednesday arrested the woman who four years ago falsely accused three Duke University lacrosse players of raping her.
Crystal Mangum assaulted her boyfriend, set his clothes on fire in a bathtub and threatened to stab him, investigators said.

A judge set her bond at $1 million during a Thursday morning court appearance. Mangum, 33, has been appointed a public defender and is scheduled to appear in court on Feb. 22.
Police charged her with attempted first-degree murder, five counts of arson, assault and battery, communicating threats, three counts of misdemeanor child abuse, injury to personal property, identity theft and resisting a public officer.

Do you lefties still believe that Mangum and Nifong were the good guys in that whole sordid mess that happened in 2006? Many of you will stop at nothing to harm white men, even if they have never done a thing to harm you.

Even if we're not capable of recognizing true talent here, at least someone in the world knows who to give proper honor and respect to in the world of music.

Little Green Footballs: Formerly Groundbreaking Blogue Now a Haven of Moonbattery

Charles Johnson did some epic work exposing the fraudulent Texas Air National Guard memos during the 2004 election. But since then, the poor guy caught a bad case of the Tetrox Trots and turned into a certified leftwing moonbat.

An example, from a recent post on LGF:

The Daily Mail’s story by David Rose, claiming that climate scientist Phil Jones “admitted” there has been no global warming since 1995, is completely false.
Journalism at its most irresponsible. There really ought to be a law. At least there ought to be consequences.
The BBC interviews Phil Jones:
B - Do you agree that from 1995 to the present there has been no statistically-significant global warming?
Yes, but only just. I also calculated the trend for the period 1995 to 2009. This trend (0.12C per decade) is positive, but not significant at the 95% significance level. The positive trend is quite close to the significance level. Achieving statistical significance in scientific terms is much more likely for longer periods, and much less likely for shorter periods.
The Daily Mail headline:
Climategate U-turn as scientist at centre of row admits: There has been no global warming since 1995
Right.
but the text is more reasonable, if also, well, wrong:
He also agreed that there had been two periods which experienced similar warming, from 1910 to 1940 and from 1975 to 1998, but said these could be explained by natural phenomena whereas more recent warming could not.
He further admitted that in the last 15 years there had been no ‘statistically significant’ warming, although he argued this was a blip rather than the long-term trend.
As is common, the most egregious behavior is by the anonymous headline writer. The journalist, Jonathan Petre, can claim innocence, except for the peculiar use of the word “blip” showing a mind boggling lack of understanding of statistics for someone reporting on science, but at least an attempt at fairness.

The problem, Charlie, is that you're the one who does not understand statistics. If this 'trend' of 0.12c per decade (which is quite likely within the margin of error of the accuracy of the instruments being used) is not statistically significant, then THERE IS NO TREND.

These temperature readings are a sample. It is not possible to measure the temperature of the earth's atmosphere at every position in the atmosphere at every point in time from 1995 to 2010. Thus, our sample runs the risk of sampling error: The possibility that the sample is not representative of the overall temperature of the entire atmosphere. That is why we conduct a test for statistical significance. If the result is not statistically significant at at least 95% confidence, then there is a strong possibility of sampling error. And WE CANNOT MAKE ANY CONCLUSIONS FROM THE SAMPLE.

It is perfectly reasonable to say that there is no evidence of global warming since 1995.

"In Between the Spaces, Happiness Can Trace Us Down"

Useful Celebrity Idiots

This is too funny. Over the last fifty years we have heard various members of the Beautiful People praise the Castros and the prison island they run in the Caribbean. Now we learn that many of them have been under both audio and video surveillance while they visited their marxist hero.

“I’m very nervous!” twittered super-model Naomi Campbell during a press conference held in Havana’s Hotel Nacional in 1998. “I just spent an hour and a half talking with your president, Fidel Castro! But he told me there was nothing to be afraid of because he already knew a lot about us (Campbell and her travel-chum, Kate Moss) from reading the press!”
Castro undoubtedly knew plenty about Mss’ Campbell and Moss–but probably not from reading Vogue, Elle or Cosmo.

“My job was to bug their hotel rooms,” disclosed high-ranking Cuban intelligence defector Delfin Fernandez, “with both cameras and listening devices.
“When word came down that models Naomi Campbell and Kate Moss were coming to Cuba the order was a routine one: 24-hour-a-day vigilance. Then we got a PRIORITY alert, recalls Fernandez, “because there was a rumor that they would be sharing a room with Leonardo DiCaprio. The rumor set off a flurry of activity and we set up the most sophisticated devices we had.”
“Delfin Fernandez has not only met some of the most famous men in the world,” says a story in the London Daily Mirror about the Cuban intelligence defector, “he’s also spied on them and been witness to some of their most innermost secrets.”
“Fidel Castro is a source of inspiration for me!” gushed Campbell while concluding her “press conference.”It is a great pleasure to be in Cuba. I’ve really enjoyed myself, and I plan to come back!”

And guess what, Naomi and Kate? Fidel has been enjoying watching these private performances of yours.

“Fidel Castro is a special connoisseur of these tapings and videos,” says Fernandez, “especially of the really famous.” And not even his closest “friends” are safe from this bugging. The best example is his longtime Castro “friend” Nobel Prize novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez. In what appeared as a touching act of generosity and friendship, Castro gave his friend “Gabo” his very own (stolen) mansion in Havana.
“We had remodeled it right before,” recalls Fernandez, “and we installed more cables for bugging devices than for the normal electrical appliances. We taped everything. Fidel doesn’t trust anyone.”

Castro’s top intelligence people would gather for the screenings of these tapes almost like Hollywood types for an upcoming movie, reports Fernandez. “Hummmm, these scenes are more scandalous than anything in any of her movies!” Fernandez recalls a top intelligence officer chortling while watching the nighttime cavortings of a famous Spanish actress. “Now, it really seems to me, compañeros,” the Castro intimate snickered as he looked around the room, “that this señorita should be making more respectful comments about our regime, right?”

This is karma at its best. These idiots, including Jack Nicholson, Chevy Chase, Oliver Stone, Harry Belafonte, Kevin Costner, Steven Spielberg, and many others have always had access to information about the atrocities of the Castro regime. Yet they decided to go over there and give the scum their moral support. They might as well have been praising Timothy McVeigh or Charles Manson.

Losers of the Week: Westboro Baptist Church

Is there anyone they don't hate? Now they're celebrating the tragic death by suicide of fashion designer Alexander McQueen.

Major barf alert.

MSNBC's Matthews: Palin Has Nothing Going On "Mentally"

If that were true, one would think they would welcome her candidacy. Matthews and other Democrats are very afraid of this woman who has nothing going on.

Terrorist Supporter Posts on Provocateur

Our recent post about IRA terrorist Slab Murphy drew the following response:

Slab Murphy is not a dirtbag. He had the name "slab" when ye was young because he was a large fellow. Also, the IRA in South Armagh (where Slab lives) has been defending Ireland from British soldiers who are not wanted there by he local populace.


The British military has praised the courage and audacity of the IRA's South Armagh Brigade. Just read "Bandit Country" or any other authentic books on the area.

The British "soldiers" have killed many more civilians in Ireland than the so-called Irish "terrorists."

The IRA has not been saintly, but the British military has been even less so.

This is a typical red herring response of IRA terrorist supporters concerning the role of the British military in Northern Ireland. The problem the IRA have is with their fellow citizens of Northern Ireland who do not want to leave the UK and join the Republic of Ireland. These people, known as Ulstermen or Ulster Scots have been in Northern Ireland just as long or longer than the catholic Irish.

I asked an Ulster Scot friend of mine who lived in Northern Ireland throughout the Troubles and who escaped two assassination attempts to respond to this pro-IRA brainfart:

The Sutton Index of Deaths from the conflict in Ireland states British Army killed 297 people and the IRA 1709 people.


Some people may not want the British Army but many people don't want the IRA,Catholics included.


The IRA have killed as many of their own people as loyalist groupings have.


Most people in the Republic of Ireland don't want Northern Ireland either as shown by Sinn Fein losing votes there.

Ulster Scots wha hae!

Making Excuses for Taylor Swift

The winner of the Grammy for Album of the Year the other night did a duet with aging rocker Stevie Nicks..... and laid an egg. Now Taylor's record label finds it necessary to make excuses for her singing, which sounded like a sick chicken:

Borchetta first responded to the backlash in The Tennessean. Asked by The Associated Press why he felt the need to defend Swift, he said because the criticism was "just over the top."
"It's that classic thing that critics do of building something up and then wanting to tear it down," he said.
Swift rehearsed her performance and duet with Stevie Nicks two different times at the Staples Center in Los Angeles in front of a crowd of people. Critics were nicer then. Entertainment Weekly wrote of the rehearsal, "The two women's voices complimented each other nicely on the harmonies of 'Rhiannon ...'"
But on Sunday night's Grammy show, Borchetta said Swift had a technical issue that made her worry about her performance. (Attempts to reach The Recording Academy for comment went unanswered.)
"We had a volume problem in the ear. So, she was concerned that she wasn't able to hear everything in the mix," Borchetta said. "That's just part of live TV. ... So you're going to have difficulties on occasion. Unfortunately, on one of the biggest stages, we did have a technical issue. She couldn't hear herself like she had in rehearsal."
As quickly as you could say "Fearless," bloggers and media outlets, including The New York Times and The Washington Post, pounced on Swift's performance. The chatter at times overshadowed the four Grammys she won - including album of the year.

The artist who should have won the Grammy for Album of the Year does not need anyone to make excuses for her performance. Gaga and Elton rocked the house. What's more, Gaga never lipsyncs. She never uses an autotuner. She sounds better live than in the studio.

Katie Couric Faces Pay Cut at CBS

This just chaps my butt. Poor Katie only makes $300,000 per week by spinning leftwing propaganda and calling it news. Do they really expect her to get by on $250k per week?

Old Definition of Stupid:

stu⋅pid 
 /ˈstupɪd, ˈstyu‑/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [stoo-pid, styoo‑] Show IPA adjective, -er, -est, noun
–adjective
1. lacking ordinary quickness and keenness of mind; dull.
2. characterized by or proceeding from mental dullness; foolish; senseless: a stupid question.
3. tediously dull, esp. due to lack of meaning or sense; inane; pointless: a stupid party.
4. annoying or irritating; troublesome: Turn off that stupid radio.
5. in a state of stupor; stupefied: stupid from fatigue.
6. Slang. excellent; terrific.
–noun
7. Informal. a stupid person.
Origin: 1535–45; < stupidus =" stup(ēre)">

New definition of stupid: People who vote for the grammy awards.