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Sarah Palin ejects from politics.

Progressives go wild.

Nice people.  Not really. Not really at all.

Nice people.

My favorite comment, “Just guessing, I would grab the statistic that the higher education level attained, the more likely someone will vote Democrat. Then, I would look for research that shows those with more education are more likely to engage in healthy eating habits and exercise routines.”

These are the people who believe in Global Warming. I’m guessing science and math were not their best subjects.

Ridiculous.

Very ridiculous.

I just wanted to throw my two cents in on this subject of the Supreme Court overturning the New Haven case.

On the surface, it isn’t really that embarrassing. The liberals sided with the liberal, and the Constitutionalists sided with the law. Nothing really unusual. What looks so bad though is that Sotomayor did not even hear the case. Even Ginsburg in her dissent, said the case deserved to be heard.

Now about Sotomayor saying that she is a product of affirmative action. Honestly, I don’t have a problem with Princeton allowing people in on this basis. People who are equally “undeserving” of admissions to Ivy League schools get in quite often as legacies or just by connections. If Princeton wants to increase minority admissions, then they have a right to do so, as far as I’m concerned. So does a private business, in my opinion. (note, I am talking about my opinion. The law, Title VII says nobody has a right to discriminate) They should not, however, be forced to by government. A government employer, on the other hand, should never discriminate. The court was right in their decision today. What shocks me is that four Supreme Court Justices disagreed. I find that fact amazing.

But getting back to Sotomayer being a product of affirmative action. I don’t understand how a Latina woman from the Bronx has less opportunity than an Italian woman from the Bronx. Help me out here folks. At some point this country has got to get passed race and nationality.

This President is unbefreakinglievable! I swear I have never seen anything like him. When it comes to Iran, where people are getting shot in the streets for merely protesting, he can’t muster a single word of support for the protesters. He even gives the Iranian leadership undeserved respect by calling the Ayatollah “The Supreme Leader”. But when the people of Honduras, a country in our own hemisphere, constitutionally remove their version of “Chavez Lite”, what does the President do? Well of course, he freaking meddles.

More from the Rumbler Report:

We don’t want to meddle in Iranian affairs, but have no problem meddling with Honduras or Israel. How “elite” and “subtle” and “smart” it is to be on the side of Chavez, Castro and the rest of the South American Leftists who want to destroy freedom and democracy?

Indeed.

How embarrassing.

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled Monday that white firefighters in New Haven, Conn., were unfairly denied promotions because of their race, reversing a decision that high court nominee Sonia Sotomayor endorsed as an appeals court judge.

New Haven was wrong to scrap a promotion exam because no African-Americans and only two Hispanic firefighters were likely to be made lieutenants or captains based on the results, the court said Monday in a 5-4 decision. The city said that it had acted to avoid a lawsuit from minorities.

The ruling could alter employment practices nationwide and make it harder to prove discrimination when there is no evidence it was intentional.

“Fear of litigation alone cannot justify an employer’s reliance on race to the detriment of individuals who passed the examinations and qualified for promotions,” Justice Anthony Kennedy said in his opinion for the court. He was joined by Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Samuel Alito, Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas.

In dissent, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said the white firefighters “understandably attract this court’s sympathy. But they had no vested right to promotion. Nor have other persons received promotions in preference to them.”

Justices Stephen Breyer, David Souter and John Paul Stevens signed onto Ginsburg’s dissent, which she read aloud in court Monday.

Kennedy’s opinion made only passing reference to the work of Sotomayor and the other two judges on the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals who upheld a lower court ruling in favor of New Haven.

But the appellate judges have been criticized for producing a cursory opinion that failed to deal with “indisputably complex and far from well-settled” questions, in the words of another appeals court judge, Sotomayor mentor Jose Cabranes.

“This perfunctory disposition rests uneasily with the weighty issues presented by this appeal,” Cabranes said, in a dissent from the full 2nd Circuit’s decision not to hear the case.

Sen. Patrick Leahy, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, said Sotomayor should not be criticized for the unsigned appeals court decision, which he asserted she did not write. “Judge Sotomayor and the lower court panel did what judges are supposed to do, they followed precedent,” said the Vermont Democrat who will preside over Sotomayor’s confirmation hearings next month.

But she really isn’t biased. Much.

From 4:30 to well past 5:30 (Central), I was privileged to watch Minority Leader Boehner’s speech concerning the Cap and Tax bill. This might very well be one of the most atrocious pieces of excrement to ever come from the House of Representatives, and that is saying a lot. Boehner’s speech was incredible. Waxman interrupted (video here) and tried to stop him, but was unsuccessful. There was clapping and yelling. The House was certainly out of order, wonderfully, beautifully out of order.

When this thing limps out of the House, it won’t stand a chance in the Senate.

Lest we never forget Obama’s own words.

When I was asked earlier about the issue of coal…under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket…even regardless of what I say about whether coal is good or bad, because I’m capping greenhouse gases, coal power plants, natural gas…you name it…whatever the plants were, whatever the industry was, they would have to retro-fit their operations.

That will cost money…they will pass that money on to the consumers.

 It appears so.

On Wall Street and Main Street they call William Jefferson Clinton the “Comeback Kid,” but it’s not because of some Election Day surprise.

It’s because almost everything he did regarding financial-services regulation has come back to haunt us.

If it wasn’t apparent before, the former president’s handiwork became clear when President Barack Obama announced his plans for sweeping financial-services reforms. Obama’s efforts to bring fair dealing to the mortgage markets, rules to the derivatives marketplace and restraint to big financial companies underscore the missteps of Clinton’s second term.

We had weakly regulated markets when Clinton took office, but by the time he left, they were an invitation to lawless dealing. For the ease of it, Willie Sutton would have traded his gun and mask for a briefcase and necktie.

Clinton created a fertile environment for home-lending charlatans and hiding places for Wall Street swindlers, and upset a regulatory structure that had served the financial marketplace so well for more than six decades.

From the LA Times.

Yes I know he turned out to be weird, but the guy was enormously talented. He was such a tragic figure, in my opinion, never knowing what it was like to be “regular”.

I remember when “Thriller” was released. The cassette sold a gazillion copies, but I never knew anybody that owned it. I have to confess though, when I dropped off the guys, sometimes I reached up under the seat and pulled out that tape I had hidden. I wonder how many others did the same.

My favorite Michael Jackson song is “I Wanna Rock With You“. If only he could have remained that guy.

For nothing.

Dumbass Congress and President embark on the dumbest thing this country has every done.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has put cap-and-trade legislation on a forced march through the House, and the bill may get a full vote as early as Friday. It looks as if the Democrats will have to destroy the discipline of economics to get it done.

The hit to GDP is the real threat in this bill. The whole point of cap and trade is to hike the price of electricity and gas so that Americans will use less. These higher prices will show up not just in electricity bills or at the gas station but in every manufactured good, from food to cars. Consumers will cut back on spending, which in turn will cut back on production, which results in fewer jobs created or higher unemployment. Some companies will instead move their operations overseas, with the same result.

When the Heritage Foundation did its analysis of Waxman-Markey, it broadly compared the economy with and without the carbon tax. Under this more comprehensive scenario, it found Waxman-Markey would cost the economy $161 billion in 2020, which is $1,870 for a family of four. As the bill’s restrictions kick in, that number rises to $6,800 for a family of four by 2035.

Note also that the CBO analysis is an average for the country as a whole. It doesn’t take into account the fact that certain regions and populations will be more severely hit than others — manufacturing states more than service states; coal producing states more than states that rely on hydro or natural gas. Low-income Americans, who devote more of their disposable income to energy, have more to lose than high-income families.

We’ll all laugh when you dumbasses are drawing unemployment.  You guys should move in with each other. For the planet.

You can thank your Progressive neighbors when your electricity bill doubles.  Is there anything more gullible than a Progressive?

Just so you all would not accuse me of avoiding this, I figured I’d go ahead and let you lefties have your fun.

Does this suck? Absolutely, because Sanford shares the same philosophy of small government that I believe in. No he isn’t a social conservative (oxymoron) and he isn’t a neocon. He is a true fiscal conservative.

You know, this is what bothers me the most about electoral politics in a republic. I believe in something. I have an ideology, an economic philosophy, just like many of you on the left also believe in something. But there is a large part of the electorate that does not. They are the ones affected by scandals, adultery, and personality.

The fact is though, that John Edwards’ ideas are no more discredited by his behavior than are Mark Sanford’s. I just wish that somehow our electorate could be informed enough to vote based on issues, and not this kind of nonsense. Having said that, I hope Sanford resigns within the next few days. I don’t judge him, for we all fall short in some way. However his political career is over, as well it should be.

I was afraid it would come to this. Now to save the planet, we have to stop doing laundry.

In case you haven’t noticed, the Earth First crowd doesn’t look so good naked.

Al Gore, this is on you. And no, I don’t need to see you or your wife naked.

Going without clothes on beaches and other vacation spots is commonly called naturism — a description that implies helping the planet, as some practitioners claim to be doing.

Spending more time with nothing on stems waste and pollution in all sorts of ways, according to an article by Kathy Blanchard on The Naturist Society’s Web site.

“Living more hours naked each day results in a dramatic drop in my laundry, which in turn reduces my water and energy use (along with my related bills),” Ms. Blanchard wrote. “It also reduces the amount of soap I release, in my case, into the Puget Sound.”

She also advocates naturist holidays — staying close to home wherever possible, to cut down on fuel usage — but sometimes traveling to places where it is possible to leave the car behind and backpack or paddle naked into the wild.

Okay, so maybe we are running out of posters. But I aint leaving. Of course I’m not posting much either. It’s the single dad/full time job thing that kind of gets in the way. I promise though, that there are plenty of “Obama Sucks” posts left in these home row fingers.

So if you are thinking about leaving this blog, listen to my man Bon Scott. Please don’t go!

From Krauthammer:

And where is our president? Afraid of “meddling.” Afraid to take sides between the head-breaking, women-shackling exporters of terror — and the people in the street yearning to breathe free. This from a president who fancies himself the restorer of America’s moral standing in the world.

The whole column is outstanding. Please read the whole thing. The main point to take from it though is the following snippet.

Moreover, this incipient revolution is no longer about the election. Obama totally misses the point. The election allowed the political space and provided the spark for the eruption of anti-regime fervor that has been simmering for years and awaiting its moment. But people aren’t dying in the street because they want a recount of hanging chads in suburban Isfahan. They want to bring down the tyrannical, misogynist, corrupt theocracy that has imposed itself with the very baton-wielding goons that today attack the demonstrators.

This started out about election fraud. But like all revolutions, it has far outgrown its origins. What’s at stake now is the very legitimacy of this regime — and the future of the entire Middle East.

Many of you seem to think that this is about handpicked candidate A or handpicked candidate B. This is much bigger than any individual. At this point it isn’t about Mousavi. The American left, who seems to think just about everything is “morally the same”, doesn’t get that. This is much bigger, and it is downright shameful that the President of the United States, the leader of the free world, can not muster even one word of support for these young people and their cause of liberty. Instead, he grants even more legitimacy and support for the “Supreme Leader” as he calls him.

It is an absolute disgrace.

Progressives are by nature ironic. They seem to desire rules and regulations of all kinds while insisting we legalize drugs and prostitution.

They oppose War but support zero tolerance in schools. Legalize drugs for the parents but throw away a child’s life because they brought an aspirin or a penknife to class.

Take for example the case of a student at graduation who blows a kiss to his mother. His high school diploma was withheld because he dared to break the rules.

 PORTLAND, Maine - A Maine high school senior says he was denied his diploma because he bowed during graduation and blew a kiss to his mother.

Justin Denney was about to receive his Bonny Eagle High School diploma on Friday when he pointed at friends and relatives.

Schools Superintendent Suzanne Lukas ordered him back to his seat. She told the Portland Press Herald newspaper she was enforcing behavior rules.

The more I learn about Progressives the more I consider if this is some kind of mental illness. What is wrong with Progressives? Are they just highly suggestible people who will follow charismatic leaders?  There seems to be a cult quality to the way they obey the herd. I cannot think of  a Progressive I have known that is not a follower.

Yet they did change the world. They elected Barack Obama. And if Congress moves forward with Al Gore’s madness our economy with be forever changed.  What do you do with people that willingly join a cult? Their vote can nullify yours.

So the great question is, how can you reason with a Progressive?

Yesterday I remarked how the Iran situation was Obama’s opportunity to shine and show leadership. Honestly, I didn’t think he would pass up this chance. Obama has big plans domestically, and nothing would give him the opportunity to slip some things in on the economy than widespread popularity brought on by a strong stand for liberty abroad.

Yet he passed. In fact, last night when he was speaking, he looked confused, almost like he was scared. The best he could come up with was “I am deeply troubled by the violence that I’ve been seeing on television”. He even declined to “meddle”. Now I am not suggesting he bomb anybody, but he could at least give a speech of support for the individuals being murdered by this fascist regime. He almost seemed supportive of the current rogue leadership.

Yeah he might be a Democrat, but it’s pretty damn obvious that he isn’t a democrat.

In case you have a brain and are interested in reality, read this.

Or what about the countless terrorist attacks by unaffiliated Muslim groups or individual jihadists that the media explains away as isolated incidents? Somehow the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and its media defenders win the day with their collective cry: “Don’t rush to judgment!”

But, turnabout is fair play, right?

While Mr. von Brunn is currently being made out to be the poster child of the Republican Party, even a cursory look at his professed views shows he is the avowed enemy of the GOP in its current incarnation. Among many others, Mr. von Brunn hates Rupert Murdoch, Fox News (that means you, too, Shep!), George W. Bush and John McCain. And according to the FBI, Mr. von Brunn even had in his vehicle the address of the Weekly Standard, home base of the dreaded “neo-cons.”

Seems Mr. von Brunn wasn’t a big fan of the Iraq War and also believed that 9/11 was an “inside job.” Given this political sketch, Mr. von Brunn would feel at home at Camp Casey, Cindy Sheehan’s antiwar outpost in Crawford, Texas, and at the Daily Kos convention, rather than partaking in a National Review cruise with pro-Israeli war hawks Mark Steyn and Victor Davis Hanson.

The inconvenient truth is that David Duke and James von Brunn currently share more in common with Markos Moulitsas and Arianna Huffington than with Bill Kristol and Charles Krauthammer. But the right wouldn’t be so crass or foolish to try to blame the political left for the existence of - or motivation behind - haters like Mr. von Brunn.

No one is suggesting Mr. von Brunn was doing hip rolls at the Huffington Post tent during the Democratic National Convention, but his underlying philosophy, when examined and detailed, shares eerie similarities to the dominant “multicultural” mind-set at the liberal American college campus and on prominent left-wing blogs.

Change the word “supremacy” to “studies” and you’ll understand the separatist mold dominant in humanities departments across the land. Women’s Studies, Queer Studies, African-American Studies and Chicano Studies all produce culturally acceptable separatist and supremacy mind-sets and countenance movements that resemble those of white supremacists.

La Raza, Mecha and the Black Panthers all have prominent places at the academic table. Professors like Michael Eric Dyson and Cornel West make a handsome living baiting people unfortunate enough to be born with white skin. President Obama’s “wise Latina” choice to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter exemplifies how the post-structuralist, racialist lunatics have taken over the asylum.

Right now, the Democratic-Media Complex is using the single act of a lone lunatic far removed from the political mainstream to split this country on racial grounds in the pursuit of its own political advantage. With the listless Republican Party lacking in any vocal leadership, it will probably succeed.

By the way, where is Tgirsch anyway? Is he tired of getting his ass kicked with facts?

The events taking place in Iran are incredibly interesting and exciting. These people are risking their lives protesting this totalitarian regime. The President has an opportunity here, in my opinion, to show that he is truly a democrat (small d). I would commend him if he did so.

But will he stand up for what’s right, in this case?

The conversation here and other conversations have left me convinced that to a leftist, conservatives, Christians, and people that oppose big government, are more threatening than Islamic extremists or left wing dictators. Yes to these people, George Bush or Rush Limbaugh is to be despised more than Osama bin Laden or Hugo Chavez. According to the average leftist, the terrorists at Guantanamo are poor innocents being oppressed by the mean Americans, and average people that listen to talk radio are a bunch of dangerous extremists. That mindset is messed up, as far as I’m concerned. I don’t even know why I waste my time engaging in conversation with these people.

Once again, Paul Krugman and Tgirsch say essentially the same thing. Of course Tgrisch, the man who likes to point out how others often fail to come up with an original thought, didn’t actually compose this drivel. It was actually written by fellow Lean Left nutjob KTK. It’s a good thing Tgirsch doesn’t hang out in any echo chambers.

This whole “right wing extremist” narrative is starting to get old. Never mind that it is based on untruth. Who cares about that? As long as the lie is continually repeated, and unchallenged, then it remains effective. When I say unchallenged, I recognize that right wing pundits, bloggers, and talk radio hosts, are ripping this stuff to shreds. But until this nonsensical lie is refuted by Big Media, the lie, and our statist government wins.

I already ripped apart Tgrisch’s post in the comment thread, and the guy who normally won’t shut up, largely didn’t respond to any of my fisking. No he wasn’t able to come up with even one “hateful”  or “inciting” word spoken by Rush Limbaugh. He didn’t refute the fact that 75% of talk radio listeners have college degrees. He couldn’t even provide me a list of “openly racist critics” of his Lord and Savior, Barack Obama. Did he acknowledge any main stream left wing hate? Are you kidding me? No, he just picked up his ball and went home. Then he proceeded to link to another echoer, his favorite, at Lean Left.

And what of these 800 nonsensical words written by Dr. Krugman? Well let’s take a little peek. Surely a Nobel Prize winner like Arafat Krugman does plenty of research before writing.

Back in April, there was a huge fuss over an internal report by the Department of Homeland Security warning that current conditions resemble those in the early 1990s — a time marked by an upsurge of right-wing extremism……

But with the murder of Dr. George Tiller by an anti-abortion fanatic, closely followed by a shooting by a white supremacist at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the analysis looks prescient.

So these two murders, two unrelated incidents, justify the frightening government report Krugman spoke of? 236 people were murdered last year in Washington DC alone. A Muslim convert recently killed two soldiers outside of a recruiting office in Arkansas, but was that murder used to attack or even silence the leaders of Islam? Of course not, and it shouldn’t have. That type of logic would likely have been attacked by Krugman as stereotyping and unfair. But when it is applied to conservatives, reasoning like that suddenly makes sense.

But it’s not even accurate. Right wing talk radio and the conservative punditry are filled with American Jews. So who is it that incited an Anti-Semite to attack the holocaust museum? Perhaps it was Rush and Hannity’s buddy Mark Levin. Maybe it was Charles Krauthammer. I know, it was neo-con Norman Podhoretz. No it had to be David Horowitz. I bet that murderer had a copy of Milton Friedman’s “Capitalism and Freedom” in his pocket? Yes all of those right wing Jews must really hate themselves. Of course there aren’t any anti-Semites in the Democrat Party. I mean, it’s not like the President’s pastor and mentor of twenty years, has anything against Jewish people.

But about this particular individual that attacked the Holocaust Museum, he is not Christian, but actually anti-Christian. He “believes that ’socialism represents the future of the west,’ and that the Bush administration was behind 9/11 — putting him firmly in the camp of the left, not the right.”

Simply put, HE WAS NOT A CONSERVATIVE. Do people like Krugman and Tgirsch give a rat’s ass about the truth? No the narrative is much better. Research has a tendency to be boring and time consuming. Parroting what is read in the Times and repeated on MSNBC is much easier.

Krugman, Tgirsch, and others like them, believe in a large intrusive government. Any opposition to their ideology, is not to be debated, but silenced. That’s why they label any opposition to them as hate speech. It is also why they tie their adversaries to whatever isolated incident they can find to fit their narrative. Stories about Muslim converts shooting soldiers, do not fit their narrative, so those stories get spiked.

If you really want to find hate, just go hang out at the Daily Koss, or Atrios. Watch a little MSNBC. Just type in the words George Bush in google and see what happens. Perhaps Tgirsch and Krugman should just bypass all of that and look in the mirror.