Archive for May, 2009

http://yidwithlid.blogspot.com/ Until early January Carol M. Browner, President-elect Barack Obama’s pick as global warming czar, was listed as one of 14 leaders of a socialist group’s Commission for a Sustainable World Society, which calls for “global governance” and says rich countries must shrink their economies to address climate change. Then Mrs. Browner’s name and biography [...]

http://online.wsj.com/ By JANET ADAMY Senate leaders are considering new federal taxes on soda and other sugary drinks to help pay for an overhaul of the nation’s health-care system. The taxes would pay for only a fraction of the cost to expand health-insurance coverage to all Americans and would face strong opposition from the beverage industry. [...]

USAF F-4D From dogfight enemies to unlikely friends By Bruce Rolfsen – Staff writer Posted : Sunday May 10, 2009 9:04:15 EDT As young fighter pilots, Dan Cherry and Nguyen Hong My never imagined that they would ever meet again, let alone become friends. But 37 years after they fought each other over North Vietnam, [...]

http://www.breitbart.com/ Greece’s data protection agency Monday barred Google from taking any more images on the nation’s streets for its Street View feature, pending “additional information” from the US search engine service. In a statement, it said it wants Google to disclose how long it intends to keep the images it takes, and what steps it [...]

http://www.iwatchobama.com/ Notre Dame University seniors who have decided not to attend their commencement ceremony in protest of the university’s decision to grant President Barack Obama an honorary law degree will instead hold a meditation in the university’s grotto at 2 p.m. on May 17, to coincide with the official commencement. ND Response, the student-led coalition [...]

The chart is hard to decipher as it didn’t translate well from the original. Go to Redstate and you can see the original and its intended significance much better. Via Redstate Posted by Moe Lane Examining Rasmussen’s trust-on-issues numbers from month to month is interesting enough, but I was interested in the long term trends. [...]

CLEVELAND – Deported by the United States, retired autoworker John Demjanjuk was carried in a wheelchair onto a jet that departed Monday evening for Germany, which wants to try him as an accessory to the murders of Jews and others at a Nazi death camp in World War II. Demjanjuk, 89, arrived in an ambulance [...]

O’Reilly: “Obama Is Not Ready For War”

NEW YORK – High-profile New York lawyer Marc Dreier pleaded guilty on Monday to criminal charges of running a $400 million investment fraud involving fake promissory notes, and a judge released him into house arrest until sentencing. The Harvard-educated Dreier, once head of 250-member law firm Dreier LLP on New York’s exclusive Park Avenue, was [...]

WASHINGTON – The government will have to borrow nearly 50 cents for every dollar it spends this year, exploding the record federal deficit past $1.8 trillion under new White House estimates. Budget office figures released Monday would add $89 billion to the 2009 red ink—increasing it to more than four times last year’s all-time high [...]

<b>Beer Run!</b> Four Thieves Make Off With $2000 In Liquor And Cigarettes

An Indian man who fathered seven daughters has not washed for 35 years in an apparent attempt to ensure his next child is a boy, newspapers reported. Kailash “Kalau” Singh replaces bathing and brushing his teeth with a “fire bath” every evening when he stands on one leg beside a bonfire, smokes marijuana and says [...]

The following is located at Northeast Intelligence Network, written by Randy Taylor & Douglas J. Hagmann. Posted by MarkH, Snooper Report. I am not into the Bilderberg-mystery-unknown-dudes-in-black-suits thing but I have spoken about every other subject in this article. Buyer beware. 11 May 2009: Does anything about the events of the last few months strike [...]

YO! Big Bro say…we be watchin’ ya and we gonna block yo callin’! The following article has the sub-title of, “Feds’ OK eyed; safety at issue”. I call BS. With the advent of the recent DHS reports and lexicon and coupled with HR45 and HR2159, this cell phone jamming deal is merely one more step [...]

White House Not Too Impressed With Wanda Sykes’ Limbaugh-9/11 Joke

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Update: GI In Custody After Killing Five At ‘Stress Clinic’ At Baghdad’s Camp Liberty

http://www.breitbart.com/ AP: The military said in a statement that the shooting occurred about 2 p.m. at the base which is near Baghdad International Airport. The toll was the highest for U.S. personnel in a single attack since April 10, when a suicide truck driver killed five American soldiers with a blast near a police headquarters [...]

<b> ‘Criminal Activity’: </b> ACORN Whistleblower Makes TV Appearence To Expose Abuses

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As ever with our good friend Barry, he won’t let a moment caught on camera go to waste. Our PR President turned the Annual White House Correspondents’ Association dinner into a Republican Bash-fest, and even enlisted the help of the Black Fran Drescher herself, Wanda Sykes. Watch the video too, if you can stomach that [...]

http://www.heraldnet.com/ By Pauline Jelinek and Anne Gearan Associated Press WASHINGTON — The Pentagon will replace its top general in Afghanistan as President Barack Obama tries to turn around a stalemated war, defense officials said. The exit of Gen. David McKiernan comes as more than 21,000 additional U.S. forces begin to arrive in Afghanistan, dispatched by [...]