For the 12th time in as many months!!!
Of course, quite a few of us bloggers believe there to be a bias in the media towards Mr Obama.
(H/T: Drudge Report)
Thursday, July 30, 2009
STUPID: "Driver texts, talks, hits car, crashes into pool"
The link: http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D99OUQ5G1&show_article=1
You read that title correctly. This particular bonehead was texting on one phone and talking on another when this happened. He was using two cell phones.
If you've been reading this blog for any length of time you'll know that I'm no fan at all of a cell phone. It's true that I do have one. It's also true that I allowed the service on it to expire. I do carry it with me, but that's only because you have to - by law and agreement - be able to dial 911 even on a phone with no service. If it weren't for that, I wouldn't have it with me.
I've stated on this blog that I think they should be banned in restaurants. Yes, I've gotten vicious emails because of it, but I honestly don't give an overweight rat's rectum.
I honestly don't give a damn about hearing your phone conversation. I honestly don't care to hear somebody else on a person's phone because he has the volume so dammed high. I know he's not hearing impared because after he gets off the phone, he talks to others around him in a normal tone of voice ... just as they speak to him.
I'll be honest in that I used to talk on the cell and drive at the same time. That stopped when I very nearly plowed into the car ahead of me. Frankly, my refusal to talk and drive at the same time drove my ex-wife nuts. And she wasn't happy when I asked her to concentrate on the road instead of on her conversation.
Yet this particular idiot takes the perverbial cake: Texting on one phone, talking on another - and trying to drive at the same time. Maybe that's why Rasmussen Reports is reporting that 39% believe there should be a complete ban on driving while using a cell phone. Here's that link: http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/most_recent_videos2/lifestyle/39_favor_banning_cell_phone_use_while_driving
Had that texting, talking, and driving numbskull hit me, I'd have been tempted to either bash the cell phones into itty-bitty bits, shove them so far up his nether regions that they'd never see daylight, or turn them over to Tom Dickson (you know him as "The Blendtec Guy" from the "Will it Blend?" You Tube videos.)
(Time for that full disclosure thing again. This is no relationship between me and Blendtec, nor between myself and Mr Dickson. In fact, I found his videos by following a link in a comment about the "Is it a good idea to microwave this?" videos.)
I think my personal favourite "Will it Blend?" episode is where he blended an iPhone and got iDust.(*) Or iSmoke as it's also been called. He then sold the iSmoke/iDust on eBay ... and got enough money to purchase a new iPhone. iSeriously.
Of course, there was also the episode where he blended the camera crew's cell phones ... all of them. (**) (The flash of light at 50 seconds in was due to one of the batteries being blended.)
And then there was the time he blended the iPhone 3G (***) More iSmoke.
And ABSOLUTELY DO NOT BLEND A BUNCH OF BIC LIGHTERS!! (****)
(*) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qg1ckCkm8YI&fmt=18
(**) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifzdez7FRbk&fmt=18
(***) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLxq90xmYUs&fmt=18
(****) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yx4QgK_xEfE&fmt=18
You read that title correctly. This particular bonehead was texting on one phone and talking on another when this happened. He was using two cell phones.
If you've been reading this blog for any length of time you'll know that I'm no fan at all of a cell phone. It's true that I do have one. It's also true that I allowed the service on it to expire. I do carry it with me, but that's only because you have to - by law and agreement - be able to dial 911 even on a phone with no service. If it weren't for that, I wouldn't have it with me.
I've stated on this blog that I think they should be banned in restaurants. Yes, I've gotten vicious emails because of it, but I honestly don't give an overweight rat's rectum.
I honestly don't give a damn about hearing your phone conversation. I honestly don't care to hear somebody else on a person's phone because he has the volume so dammed high. I know he's not hearing impared because after he gets off the phone, he talks to others around him in a normal tone of voice ... just as they speak to him.
I'll be honest in that I used to talk on the cell and drive at the same time. That stopped when I very nearly plowed into the car ahead of me. Frankly, my refusal to talk and drive at the same time drove my ex-wife nuts. And she wasn't happy when I asked her to concentrate on the road instead of on her conversation.
Yet this particular idiot takes the perverbial cake: Texting on one phone, talking on another - and trying to drive at the same time. Maybe that's why Rasmussen Reports is reporting that 39% believe there should be a complete ban on driving while using a cell phone. Here's that link: http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/most_recent_videos2/lifestyle/39_favor_banning_cell_phone_use_while_driving
Had that texting, talking, and driving numbskull hit me, I'd have been tempted to either bash the cell phones into itty-bitty bits, shove them so far up his nether regions that they'd never see daylight, or turn them over to Tom Dickson (you know him as "The Blendtec Guy" from the "Will it Blend?" You Tube videos.)
(Time for that full disclosure thing again. This is no relationship between me and Blendtec, nor between myself and Mr Dickson. In fact, I found his videos by following a link in a comment about the "Is it a good idea to microwave this?" videos.)
I think my personal favourite "Will it Blend?" episode is where he blended an iPhone and got iDust.(*) Or iSmoke as it's also been called. He then sold the iSmoke/iDust on eBay ... and got enough money to purchase a new iPhone. iSeriously.
Of course, there was also the episode where he blended the camera crew's cell phones ... all of them. (**) (The flash of light at 50 seconds in was due to one of the batteries being blended.)
And then there was the time he blended the iPhone 3G (***) More iSmoke.
And ABSOLUTELY DO NOT BLEND A BUNCH OF BIC LIGHTERS!! (****)
(*) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qg1ckCkm8YI&fmt=18
(**) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifzdez7FRbk&fmt=18
(***) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLxq90xmYUs&fmt=18
(****) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yx4QgK_xEfE&fmt=18
Article: "Poll: Obama loses ground on health care"
The link: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32206998/ns/politics-white_house/
" WASHINGTON - Despite his public-relations blitz over the past two weeks to promote his plans to reform the nation's health-care system — including holding two town halls on Wednesday — President Barack Obama has lost ground on this issue with the American public, according to the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll. " (Link is MSNBC's and has been left intact.)
No doubt that Obama's lost ground on this issue. Why? Those nasty bloggers. You know, those of us whom Janeane Garofalo call "RAAACIST" because we disagree with "the one." Odd, and I thought liberals tolerated dissenting viewpoints. But I digress.
But for this, we're going to go right back to the non-partisan, impartial Rasmussen Reports. Here are their numbers:
47% are in favour of the "health-care" reform
49% are opposed. (*)
But let's break this down into those who are strongly in favour and those who strongly oppose:
25% strongly in favour
41% strongly oppose. (*)
There are more telling ... and damming ... numbers included in this poll, but I won't post them here. Let's just say they're not too good for Mr Obama.
(*) - http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/current_events/healthcare/july_2009/just_23_believe_health_care_costs_will_go_down_if_reform_passes_congress
" WASHINGTON - Despite his public-relations blitz over the past two weeks to promote his plans to reform the nation's health-care system — including holding two town halls on Wednesday — President Barack Obama has lost ground on this issue with the American public, according to the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll. " (Link is MSNBC's and has been left intact.)
No doubt that Obama's lost ground on this issue. Why? Those nasty bloggers. You know, those of us whom Janeane Garofalo call "RAAACIST" because we disagree with "the one." Odd, and I thought liberals tolerated dissenting viewpoints. But I digress.
But for this, we're going to go right back to the non-partisan, impartial Rasmussen Reports. Here are their numbers:
47% are in favour of the "health-care" reform
49% are opposed. (*)
But let's break this down into those who are strongly in favour and those who strongly oppose:
25% strongly in favour
41% strongly oppose. (*)
There are more telling ... and damming ... numbers included in this poll, but I won't post them here. Let's just say they're not too good for Mr Obama.
(*) - http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/current_events/healthcare/july_2009/just_23_believe_health_care_costs_will_go_down_if_reform_passes_congress
Obama's PAI Score -12
(Image courtesy of and Copyright by Rasmussen Reports.)
-12 PAI (Presidential Approval Index). That's the lowest it's ever been. This number, you'll recall is determined by taking the number of people who strongly approve of his performance from those who strongly DISapprove.
28% Strongly approve of Mr Obama's job performance
40% Strongly DISapprove
This is where the -12 comes from. It should be noted that his first NEGATIVE PAI score was on 22-JUN-2009 when it was -2. It went back into positive territory briefly, and has been on the decline since 30-JUN-2009. (*)
This is in stark contrast from the numbers on his first day in office:
44% Strongly approve
16% Strongly DISapprove. That gave him a PAI of +28, but it wasn't his highest recorded. That happened the next day (22-JAN-2009) when it hit +30.
It is also important to note that the overall trend has been downward. True, it has gone up and down frequently, but the overall trend has been down. It's quite telling that as news of what he's been doing has gotten out (not by the MSM, but by us bloggers ... you know the "potential domestic extremists") his numbers have been overall south.
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Claim: Hawaii Officials Destroyed Obama's Birth Certificate
You'll notice I put this as a "claim" because there appears to be a great deal of confusion about this. Google "Dobbs Obama birth certificate destroyed" and then stand back.
For reference, this is the link I'll be referring to: http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2009/07/29/cnn-provides-cover-for-obama-birth-certificate-scam/
Now you'll notice, I hope, the URL of 'intellectualconservative.com' which means it's from a Conservative point of view. But you'll also notice, again I hope, the word at the end - 'scam.'
Quoting a bit: "After CNN's Lou Dobbs last week demanded Obama's original birth certificate, CNN/U.S. President Jon Klein apparently has told staffers of "Lou Dobbs Tonight" that the issue is a "dead" story.
" Any such public announcement would of course have the effect of making the conspiracists even more certain that the truth is being suppressed by the media . . . but it gets worse.
According to Media Bistro's TVNewser webblog:
" Klein asked CNN researchers to dig into the question of why Obama couldn't produce the original birth certificate. The researchers contacted the Hawaii Health Dept. and confirmed that paper documents were discarded in 2001 when the department went paperless. That reportedly includes Pres. Obama's original birth certificate. " (links are theirs and have been left intact.)
Granted, there's a lot there, so let's distill this down:
The US President of CNN, Joe Klein, asked his researchers to find out why Obama couldn't produce his original birth certificate. For reference, this is also referred to as the "long form" or "vault copy" of his birth certificate. (You'll also notice that I've referred to them both as long form and/or vault copy. I've used these terms interchangeably, and in this instance at least this is a perfectly acceptable thing to do since they are the same thing.)
It turns out that officials there in Hawaii confirmed that paper documents were "...discarded..." in 2001 when the department went paperless. And, reportedly, it included the "president's" birth certificate.
My next question is this: discarded how? We've all heard by now about how documents that were supposedly "shredded" later turn up mysteriously whole and none the worse for wear. So "discarded" how? Burned? Ecologically very unwise.
Shredded? Makes sense from a privacy standpoint, assuming the shredder is a fairly good model and makes really really small bits of paper - if not powder. (Don't laugh. I've actually seen shredders that made powder out of what they shredded. These were all classified documents so I can't say where I saw them or what they were, but after going through the shredder, they literally were powder. You can purchase these models of shredders, but they are very expensive.)
Granted, this particular site then states that " "any paper data prior to that still exists," Health Department spokeswoman Okubo said.
" Okubo would not say where Obama's original birth certificate is, but said "we have backups for all of our backups." "
And, truth be told, I've also seen this too. I've seen various buildings with paper copies of older documents all kept in a climate-controlled area; since it turns out that heat, cold and humidity are natural enemies of paper documents. These paper (or "legacy") documents are left in paper form and are only converted to "paperless" (electronic) form as the personnel have the time to convert them. Some of them are so degraded that they can't be converted. Scan these particular documents all you want, but you won't get much readable out of each particular scan. Granted, you can post a composite image from each "good" scan, but that won't satisfy those with an agenda - because it could literally take 15 different "good" scans to get a readable document in electronic form.
And yes, I know where quite a few people's minds just went: "...15 different "good" scans..." Well, time for that full disclosure thing again: Yes, it COULD take up to 15 "good" scans to get a "readable" document in electronic form - and this would be a composite image. No 'conspiracy theorist' would ever accept that as truth.
So the question remains: Where is the vault copy of Barack Obama's birth certificate? If they have backups of backups (which makes sense from a security point of view) why not simply produce that?
After all, the vault copy/long form of a birth certificate is an important thing, and it seems to me that you'd be very careful to preserve that. After all, you never know if a child that's born on a certain day will turn out to be Adolf Hitler, or Barack Hussein Obama.
For reference, this is the link I'll be referring to: http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2009/07/29/cnn-provides-cover-for-obama-birth-certificate-scam/
Now you'll notice, I hope, the URL of 'intellectualconservative.com' which means it's from a Conservative point of view. But you'll also notice, again I hope, the word at the end - 'scam.'
Quoting a bit: "After CNN's Lou Dobbs last week demanded Obama's original birth certificate, CNN/U.S. President Jon Klein apparently has told staffers of "Lou Dobbs Tonight" that the issue is a "dead" story.
" Any such public announcement would of course have the effect of making the conspiracists even more certain that the truth is being suppressed by the media . . . but it gets worse.
According to Media Bistro's TVNewser webblog:
" Klein asked CNN researchers to dig into the question of why Obama couldn't produce the original birth certificate. The researchers contacted the Hawaii Health Dept. and confirmed that paper documents were discarded in 2001 when the department went paperless. That reportedly includes Pres. Obama's original birth certificate. " (links are theirs and have been left intact.)
Granted, there's a lot there, so let's distill this down:
The US President of CNN, Joe Klein, asked his researchers to find out why Obama couldn't produce his original birth certificate. For reference, this is also referred to as the "long form" or "vault copy" of his birth certificate. (You'll also notice that I've referred to them both as long form and/or vault copy. I've used these terms interchangeably, and in this instance at least this is a perfectly acceptable thing to do since they are the same thing.)
It turns out that officials there in Hawaii confirmed that paper documents were "...discarded..." in 2001 when the department went paperless. And, reportedly, it included the "president's" birth certificate.
My next question is this: discarded how? We've all heard by now about how documents that were supposedly "shredded" later turn up mysteriously whole and none the worse for wear. So "discarded" how? Burned? Ecologically very unwise.
Shredded? Makes sense from a privacy standpoint, assuming the shredder is a fairly good model and makes really really small bits of paper - if not powder. (Don't laugh. I've actually seen shredders that made powder out of what they shredded. These were all classified documents so I can't say where I saw them or what they were, but after going through the shredder, they literally were powder. You can purchase these models of shredders, but they are very expensive.)
Granted, this particular site then states that " "any paper data prior to that still exists," Health Department spokeswoman Okubo said.
" Okubo would not say where Obama's original birth certificate is, but said "we have backups for all of our backups." "
And, truth be told, I've also seen this too. I've seen various buildings with paper copies of older documents all kept in a climate-controlled area; since it turns out that heat, cold and humidity are natural enemies of paper documents. These paper (or "legacy") documents are left in paper form and are only converted to "paperless" (electronic) form as the personnel have the time to convert them. Some of them are so degraded that they can't be converted. Scan these particular documents all you want, but you won't get much readable out of each particular scan. Granted, you can post a composite image from each "good" scan, but that won't satisfy those with an agenda - because it could literally take 15 different "good" scans to get a readable document in electronic form.
And yes, I know where quite a few people's minds just went: "...15 different "good" scans..." Well, time for that full disclosure thing again: Yes, it COULD take up to 15 "good" scans to get a "readable" document in electronic form - and this would be a composite image. No 'conspiracy theorist' would ever accept that as truth.
So the question remains: Where is the vault copy of Barack Obama's birth certificate? If they have backups of backups (which makes sense from a security point of view) why not simply produce that?
After all, the vault copy/long form of a birth certificate is an important thing, and it seems to me that you'd be very careful to preserve that. After all, you never know if a child that's born on a certain day will turn out to be Adolf Hitler, or Barack Hussein Obama.
Article: "SURPRISE! NEWSWEEK Reporter Joins Obama Administration"
The link: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-graham/2009/07/28/newsweeks-embedded-obama-campaign-reporter-joins-obama-administration
" The revolving door between the media and Team Obama continues to rotate. Some journalists on the campaign trail were infatuated with Obama, and that’s certainly true of the Newsweek reporter who covered Obama in-depth (with the promise that nothing he learned would be revealed until after the election). Philip Klein on The American Spectator’s blog reported: " (link is Newsbusters' and is left intact.)
That, however, should be very very telling. Wasn't it just recently that a Time reporter left to join the Obama "team?" And after all those flattering pictures of the Obama's on Time's cover. Makes you wonder.
And now a "reporter" from the drooling media sycophants joins Obama's team.
Do I really need to ask the obvious? Just suppose for an instant that it were Mr McCain in the White House and that the "reporters" were jumping ship to work in his administration. You know full well that the liberals - both those in and not - in Congress would be screaming. The Daily Kos folks would probably all have heart attacks. The Huffington Post folks would be up in arms as well. And, they should be.
But here we have those "reporters" leaving to join "team Obama." Where is their outrage now?
Franky, and here's that full disclosure thing again, I'd be up in arms if "reporters" left to join the hypothetical McCain team. They're supposed to be reporters, not drooling sycophants. I guess I'm the only one that realizes that, however. The GOP can't bring themselves to mention it. The lefties can't bring themselves to realize that it might just possibly be a bad idea. This really reminds me of that line in Aliens:
"What, did IQs drop sharply while I was away?"
" The revolving door between the media and Team Obama continues to rotate. Some journalists on the campaign trail were infatuated with Obama, and that’s certainly true of the Newsweek reporter who covered Obama in-depth (with the promise that nothing he learned would be revealed until after the election). Philip Klein on The American Spectator’s blog reported: " (link is Newsbusters' and is left intact.)
That, however, should be very very telling. Wasn't it just recently that a Time reporter left to join the Obama "team?" And after all those flattering pictures of the Obama's on Time's cover. Makes you wonder.
And now a "reporter" from the drooling media sycophants joins Obama's team.
Do I really need to ask the obvious? Just suppose for an instant that it were Mr McCain in the White House and that the "reporters" were jumping ship to work in his administration. You know full well that the liberals - both those in and not - in Congress would be screaming. The Daily Kos folks would probably all have heart attacks. The Huffington Post folks would be up in arms as well. And, they should be.
But here we have those "reporters" leaving to join "team Obama." Where is their outrage now?
Franky, and here's that full disclosure thing again, I'd be up in arms if "reporters" left to join the hypothetical McCain team. They're supposed to be reporters, not drooling sycophants. I guess I'm the only one that realizes that, however. The GOP can't bring themselves to mention it. The lefties can't bring themselves to realize that it might just possibly be a bad idea. This really reminds me of that line in Aliens:
"What, did IQs drop sharply while I was away?"
Debt Skyrockets During Obama's First 100 Days
The link: http://bobmccarty.com/2009/04/28/debt-skyrockets-during-obamas-first-100-days/
The graphic on the page actually is from gop.gov which is the site of the Republicans in Congress ... so bear that in mind.
The graphic on the page actually is from gop.gov which is the site of the Republicans in Congress ... so bear that in mind.
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