From 2001 (as American burned), Obama was appearing on a local Chicago Food Show. As is the norm for THE ONE, bombs at comedy.

From 2001: “You know, I ordered the southern sampling just because I couldn’t make up my mind. Since I said, I eat there quite a bit. I wasn’t sure what I was in the mood for. I said ‘just bring me a little something.’

Yeah, like……Pancakes or WAFFLES?

Check out the girl in red. Is that?

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From 2001 (as American burned), Obama was appearing on a local Chicago Food Show. As is the norm for THE ONE, he ducked the question.

From 2001: “You know, I ordered the southern sampling just because I couldn’t make up my mind. Since I said, I eat there quite a bit. I wasn’t sure what I was in the mood for. I said ‘just bring me a little something.’

Yeah, like……Pancakes or WAFFLES?

Check out the girl in red. Is that?

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Time for Elsie to get out the Beno:

“Call this one of the newest and innovative ways your government has come up with to battle greenhouse gas emissions.

Indirectly it could be considered a cheeseburger tax, but one of the suggestions offered by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in its Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPR) for regulating greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act is to levy a tax on livestock.

The ANPR, released early this year, would give the EPA the authority to regulate greenhouse gas for not only greenhouse gas from manmade sources like transportation and industry, but also “stationary” sources which would include livestock.

The New York Farm Bureau assigned a price tag to the cost of greenhouse gas regulation by the EPA in a release last month.

“The tax for dairy cows could be $175 per cow, and $87.50 per head of beef cattle. The tax on hogs would upwards of $20 per hog,” the release said. “Any operation with more than 25 dairy cows, 50 beef cattle or 200 hogs would have to obtain permits.”

Kate Galbraith, correspondent for The New York Times, noted on the Times’ “Green Inc.” blog that such a “proposal is far from being enacted” and that the “hysteria may be premature.”

Hysteria? Is Kate serious, or was she oxygen - or rather methane deprived - as a child? What’s next? Let’s see, I’ll bet New York City will be the first to come up with the “fart tax”. Think about it? Especially in areas such as Little Italy and all those Italian sausages. Then we can train forest rangers to detect “Bear farts”, etc. Man there is no end to the cash, er, cow.

You know one of the reasons I don’t believe we evolved from apes is that even apes are not this stupid. Liberals yes, apes no.

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Enough is enough. Having examined (by invite) some of the Coleman campaign challenges to Al Franken’s win it is clear that much is in disorder.

1. The Minnesota Supreme Court acted inappropriately in not allowing the 654 potentially valid absentee votes from being counted. That alone is an outrage and the court’s explanation - that it was beyond the purview of an administrative recount - is not acceptable, and in fact a near case of jurist malfeasance.

2. Those 150 ballots from Democatic-leaning areas that the Coleman campaign claims were double-counted, were in fact double counted and there is sufficient evidence that they were. They should immediately be pulled from the total count until it can be determined their veracity.

However in spite of this it is apparent that Secretary of State Mark Ritchie is guilty of using his office to steal the senate seat from Norm Coleman. The Governor must act swiftly and decisively.

We on the conservative side of the GOP will consider his failure to act a “fatal flaw” in any change of a run for President in 2012 or beyond.

Gov. Pawlenty, do the right thing. You know it’s a joke that Franken is being declared a winner, you said as much in December. Now do the right thing….. Now.

Contact the Governor:

Telephone: (651) 296-3391
Toll Free: (800) 657-3717
Facsimile: (651) 296-2089
E-mail: tim.pawlenty@state.mn.us

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Get ready, America just got a lot less secure. It’s going to be amature hour at the CIA:

“President-elect Barack Obama has selected Leon E. Panetta, the former congressman and White House chief of staff, to take over the Central Intelligence Agency, an organization that Mr. Obama criticized during the campaign for using interrogation methods he decried as torture, Democratic officials said Monday.

Mr. Panetta has a reputation in Washington as a competent manager with strong background in budget issues, but has little hands-on intelligence experience. If confirmed by the Senate, he will take control of the agency most directly responsible for hunting senior Al Qaeda leaders around the globe, but one that has been buffeted since the Sept. 11 attacks by leadership changes and morale problems.

Given his background, Mr. Panetta is a somewhat unusual choice to lead the C.I.A., an agency that has been unwelcoming to previous directors perceived as outsiders, such as Stansfield M. Turner and John M. Deutch. But his selection points up the difficulty Mr. Obama had in finding a C.I.A. director with no connection to controversial counterterrorism programs of the Bush era.

Aides have said Mr. Obama had originally hoped to select a C.I.A. head with extensive field experience, especially in combating terrorist networks. But his first choice for the job, John O. Brennan, had to withdraw his name amidst criticism over his role in the formation of the C.I.A’s detention and interrogation program after the Sept. 11 attacks.”

Well for that matter why not pick Al Franken, or James Carvell, or even Chris Matthews? Too bad he’ll fly through the surrender-crat senate for confirmation. Hopefully though he get’s ZERO cooperation from the field and he get’s “set up for failure”, so that his term is short. This should tell you all you want to know about how serious Obama takes our national security. But then again he did say that his goal was to disarm us didn’t he?

UPDATE: Via HotAir his only qualification seems to be his stance against interrogation techniques that have saved thousands of lives.

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You can now retire the “Bush stole the 2000 election” nonsense. As the WSJ outlines precisely, Al Franken and his gang of partisan thugs has stolen the senatorial election in Minnesota, in ways hitherto unimagined.

“Strange things keep happening in Minnesota, where the disputed recount in the Senate race between Norm Coleman and Al Franken may be nearing a dubious outcome. Thanks to the machinations of Democratic Secretary of State Mark Ritchie and a meek state Canvassing Board, Mr. Franken may emerge as an illegitimate victor.
[Review & Outlook] AP

Mr. Franken started the recount 215 votes behind Senator Coleman, but he now claims a 225-vote lead and suddenly the man who was insisting on “counting every vote” wants to shut the process down. He’s getting help from Mr. Ritchie and his four fellow Canvassing Board members, who have delivered inconsistent rulings and are ignoring glaring problems with the tallies.

Under Minnesota law, election officials are required to make a duplicate ballot if the original is damaged during Election Night counting. Officials are supposed to mark these as “duplicate” and segregate the original ballots. But it appears some officials may have failed to mark ballots as duplicates, which are now being counted in addition to the originals. This helps explain why more than 25 precincts now have more ballots than voters who signed in to vote. By some estimates this double counting has yielded Mr. Franken an additional 80 to 100 votes.

This disenfranchises Minnesotans whose vote counted only once. And one Canvassing Board member, State Supreme Court Justice G. Barry Anderson, has acknowledged that “very likely there was a double counting.” Yet the board insists that it lacks the authority to question local officials and it is merely adding the inflated numbers to the totals.”

There is much more, read the rest. The Supreme Court in Minnesota, nearly Democrat to a core, refused to give Minnesotians their constitutional right to have their vote counted. Subsequently the Coleman campaign will be taking the suit even higher, possibly to the SCOTUS.

I have a better idea. How about the DOJ gets off it’s ass and begin an investigation into what is clearly - as no other recent election has been this obvious - voter fraud.

At the same time they should begin to look into Secretary of State Mark Richie and his partisan activities, who over the weekend joined forces with the partisan liberal video-blog The UpTake to provide a live video feed of last week’s State Canvassing Board meeting.

I call on the Governor of Minnesota to halt this outright theft of our sacred voting process.

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The apple of his father’s eye and unlike his older brother a core conservative. K-Lo at the Corner gives us the possibilities and the fly in the ointment.

“Former President Bush (there’s currently only one of those!) has endorsed his other governor-son for president. As we await David Paterson’s Caroline Kennedy Senate appointment, I have to think that Jeb for President is not the craziest idea. Jeb for President can’t happen four years from now. But if Jeb Bush runs for the Martinez Senate seat and puts in some hard time there, voters might consider the presidential possibility, even if he would be a third Bush (the media is another story and might make a win impossible). The man is certainly qualified. He’ll demonstrate that he is, nationally, if he spends time in the Senate. Again, it’s just not the craziest idea, and people might come to agree that it’s not two cycles down the road.”

I would disagree on the media part if for only the real possibility that four years from now they would have driven Obama underground, tired of his dodging questions such as revelations that Michelle was a pole dancer to fund her way through Princeton, or some other scandal.

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What a crock.

“WASHINGTON — President-elect Barack Obama and congressional Democrats are crafting a plan to offer about $300 billion of tax cuts to individuals and businesses, a move aimed at attracting Republican support for an economic-stimulus package and prodding companies to create jobs.

The size of the proposed tax cuts — which would account for about 40% of a stimulus package that could reach $775 billion over two years — is greater than many on both sides of the aisle in Congress had anticipated. It may make it easier to win over Republicans who have stressed that any initiative should rely more heavily on tax cuts rather than spending.

President-elect Barack Obama and congressional Democrats are crafting a plan to offer as much as $310 billion of tax cuts.

The Obama tax-cut proposals, if enacted, could pack more punch in two years than either of President George W. Bush’s tax cuts did in their first two years. Mr. Bush’s 10-year, $1.35 trillion tax cut of 2001, considered the largest in history, contained $174 billion of cuts during its first two full years, according to Congress’s Joint Committee on Taxation. The second-largest tax cut — the 10-year, $350 billion package engineered by Mr. Bush in 2003 — contained $231 billion in 2004 and 2005.

Republicans and business leaders hadn’t seen specifics of the proposals Sunday night, but welcomed the idea of basing a bigger proportion of the stimulus plan on tax cuts. Their response suggests the legislation could attract relatively broad support, and it highlighted the Obama team’s determination to win backing from varied interests.”

Yeah, lead them to the slaughter. Forget the fact that just about every conservative blogger and pundit is drinking the juice on this one, just where will THE ONE get the cash for this when he’s spending up to a trillion in stimulus?

Or how do you balance government by cutting taxes while cutting spending, while at the same time cutting taxes and increasing government spending and the size of government?

My what a spell he’s put people under. Of course this is all utter nonsense. Remember that ever shrinking threshold of income cap?

“On the campaign trail, Mr. Obama said he would phase out a similar tax-credit proposal at around $200,000 per household, but aides said they haven’t settled on an income cap for the latest proposal.”

Ah, but it was $250,000, then $200,000, then $150,000, then $125,000. What will be the new cap? $42,000? It’s already there folks, as your democratically controlled congress already voted last year to end the Bush tax cuts. So - to borrow the words of Frank Zappa - “Just who are you jiving with this Kosmik Debri?”

But then again, Democrats aren’t interested in telling the truth of their intentions, they are simply trying to get “over the opposition”.

“An array of business tax cuts could help overcome such GOP opposition, enabling the Democrats to present their plan as a balanced mix of tax cuts and spending. It also would likely encourage business interests to lobby hard for its enactment.”

Yeah, lead them in with sweets, and let ‘em have it. Dopes.

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Who said cheaters never win has never lived in Minnesota.

” MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota (CNN) — A state election board on Monday will announce Democrat Al Franken has defeated Republican incumbent Norm Coleman in Minnesota’s U.S. Senate race, state officials told CNN Sunday.
A board will say Al Franken won the U.S. Senate race by 225 votes, Minnesota’s secretary of state says.

A board will say Al Franken won the U.S. Senate race by 225 votes, Minnesota’s secretary of state says.

The canvassing board on Monday will say a recount determined Franken won by 225 votes, Secretary of State Mark Ritchie told CNN.

However, Coleman’s campaign, which contends the recount should have included about 650 absentee ballots it says were improperly rejected in the initial count, has indicated it will challenge the certification.

Coleman campaign manager Cullen Sheehan said his team believes the recount process was broken and that “the numbers being reported will not be accurate or valid.”

“The effort by the Franken campaign, supported by the secretary of state, to exclude improperly rejected absentee ballots is indefensible and disenfranchises hundreds of Minnesota voters,” Sheehan said.

After the results are certified, Coleman’s campaign will have seven days to file a challenge.

The initial count from the November 4 election put Coleman, a first-term senator, 215 votes ahead of Franken — known for his stint on NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” and as a former talk-show host on progressive radio network Air America.”

Coleman is going to challenge of course and this could go as high as the Supreme Court. It’s ironic isn’t it that Franken used to preach on his failed radio show on the failed Air America network that Bush stole the 2000 election.

Yeah, just a little too ironic, don’t you think?

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It’s going to get worse according to authorities.

” Taunts, jeers, vulgar gestures and curse words filled the air Sunday afternoon as supporters of both sides in the Gaza conflict waged dueling protests outside the Israeli consulate in downtown Miami.

The crowd swelled to more than 1,000 people lining both sides of Biscayne Boulevard, brandishing Palestinian and Israeli flags. At times, rocks and mostly full water bottles sailed across the four-lane street.

The chants from supporters of Israel: ”No mas, Hamas” and “There is no Palestine.”

From the supporters of the Palestinians: ”Re-free Palestine” and “Occupation is a crime.”

From the pro-Israeli side: ”Bomb, bomb Palestine!” and, from a few, “Go back to Israel so we can shoot you!”

From the pro-Palestinian side: “Monkeys and pigs!”

Twelve people were arrested, mostly misdemeanors but a few on felony charges, said Miami police spokeswoman Kenia Alfonso.

”For the most part the arrests that were made were for people acting disorderly,” she said.

The Miami protests, which began about 1 p.m. and continued for more than three hours, were among many weekend demonstrations around the world, some of which turned violent. In Athens on Sunday, at a rally against the Israeli advance into Gaza protesters smashed windows and burned American and Israeli flags. Police used stun guns and tear gas to bring the crowd under control.”

Here’s a video Israeli supporters.

And here is a video of the ass-clown Hamas lovers.

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