You Won't Believe This One

Oh my, how totally embarrassing can you get?

Who is Ed Mezvinsky???

Edward "Ed" Mezvinsky born January 17, 1937, is a former Democrat congressman. As a Democrat, he represented Iowa 's 1st congressional district in the United States House of Representatives for two terms, from 1973 to 1977. He sat on the House Judiciary Cmt. that decided the fate of Richard Nixon. He and the Clintons were very politically intertwined for years.

In March 2001, Mezvinsky was indicted and later pleaded guilty to 31 of 69 charges of bank fraud, mail fraud, and wire fraud.

Nearly $10 million was involved in ponzi schemes and Nigerian e-mail scams.

After serving five years in federal prison, he was released in April 2008. He is expected to remain on federal probation until 2011, and still owes $9.4 million in restitution to his victims. So who is he???

He's Chelsea Clinton's father-in law.

Has anyone heard mention of this in any of the media?

If this guy was Jenna or Barbara Bush's, or better yet one of Sarah Palin's daughters, father-in- law, the news would have replaced the oil spill.

And some say there is no double standard.... sure there isn't!!

You Won't Believe This One

Abstract Art

[Abstract art is] a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered - Al Capp

Abstract Art

U.S. Foreign Aid in 2010

Incredibly we borrow from China then we... give... it back to them in the form of foreign aid. China owns over a trillion dollars of our debt! 

Anyone care to guess which one is the U. S. ?

Top Ten Recipients of U.S. Foreign Aid in 2010

Afghanistan $4.1 billion

Israel $2.77 billion

Pakistan $1.8 billion

Haiti $1.7 billion

Egypt $1.5 billion

Iraq $1.1 billion

Jordan $843 million

Mexico $757.7 million

Kenya $687.7 million

Nigeria $614 million

Source: U.S. State Department

Countries That Hate Us

Afghanistan

Pakistan

Egypt

Iraq

Jordan

Mexico

Kenya

Nigeria

Source: Astute observation 

   Incredibly we are also sending money to Saudi Arabia; additionally we fight their wars for them at no charge. Why? 

 At the United Nations the rag heads express their gratitude by voting against us 73% of the time.


(BTW ....Weren't 15 of the 19 hijackers Saudi's?)


When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor I don't recall us cutting them a check... do you?

U.S. Foreign Aid in 2010

The Obama Mantra

Hope & Change = After his election most Americans turned the light on and found an empty closet.

Win The Future = This is the one he'll try to fool America with in 2012.

Kinetic Military Action = I love this one. This is Washingtonize for what's going on in Libya.

The Obama Mantra

Around the World on $69 Million in Welfare Funds

On a tip from Ed Kilbane

Around the World on $69 Million in Welfare Funds

He can't be transparent... even to get the transparency award

At first I thought this was a joke.

Obama ducks transparency award, but reason isn't clear

Maybe because the healthcare bill was transparent as pea soup. All those who watched the debate on C-Span raise your hand.

WASHINGTON -- A coalition of open-government groups will present President Barack Obama a "sunshine" award for taking important steps toward openness and transparency in government, even though some of them are voicing concerns about gaps between his rhetoric on these issues and his administration's actions.

Obama was to receive the award Wednesday in an Oval Office meeting with five open-government advocates, until the White House scrapped the presentation at the last minute. The explanation why wasn't entirely transparent.

White House Counsel Bob Bauer told the advocates, already gathered at the White House, that he was "really sorry" but that there had been "pressing business" and the president would have to postpone their meeting until another day, according to one of them, Tom Blanton, director of the National Security Archive at George Washington University.

A White House aide told the media pool designated to witness the start of the meeting only that it was being rescheduled "due to changes to the president's schedule today."

That raised more questions than it answered. In fairness, Obama was dealing with crises in Japan, Libya and Bahrain and preparations for a Latin America trip starting Friday. (But he did find time to play golf) He also had a meeting added earlier in the day with the head of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission on the radiation threat to Americans in Japan.

But he also had plans to attend a Democratic event in the evening. And he was feeling heat from Republicans who criticized him for taking time out to tape an ESPN interview on his predictions for the NCAA basketball tournament. And an hour before the award was to be given, Obama's press secretary, Jay Carney, faced questions from reporters about findings that the administration has fallen short on its goals for being responsive to Freedom of Information Act requests.

Carney said that Obama "has demonstrated a commitment to transparency and openness that is greater than any administration has shown in the past" and added, defensively, that "this is not an award that he is, that we are, giving to him or he is giving to himself. This is an award from an outside organization that has recognized the achievements this administration has made."

Advocates behind the award said that Obama deserves praise for instructing his agencies to be considerably more responsive than past administrations to FOIA requests; creating searchable databases for White House visitor and stimulus spending records; supporting a "shield" law for journalists; and implementing "apps" and social networking that let Americans get more information quickly from their government.

They hope that by giving Obama positive reinforcement on such fronts, he, in turn, will give them standing to press his aides on concerns that the administration too often invokes the state secrets privilege in court; prosecutes leakers; falls short on FOIA responses; allows loopholes to disclosure promises; and allows political considerations to interfere with communications in crises, such as the BP oil spill last year.

"It's quite possible to honor his commitment and at a later time continue to advocate for important openness in government," said Gary Bass, founder of OMB Watch and one of the advocates who will present the award on behalf of the Freedom of Information Day Conference. "Frankly we hope that by doing this it puts even more wind into the sails of transparency."

Bass said he feels "that commitment is clearly there" with Obama. "But he has a mixed record. I don't think we are yet ready to say he's the most open and transparent administration in history."

Bauer committed to sit down soon with advocates to hear them out, and to have the president meet with them to accept the award some time after he returns from Latin America, Blanton said.

The other advocates who were to present the award were Danielle Brian of the Project on Government Oversight, Lucy Dalglish of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, and Patrice McDermott, Director of Open the Government, a coalition of good-government groups dedicated to increasing government transparency and promoting public participation in government.

He can't be transparent... even to get the transparency award

Tons of dead sardines still clogging Calif marina after former speaker's swim

By Rand Saul
Associated Press (tongue in cheek division)

Dead fish float in the King Harbor area of Redondo Beach, south of Los Angeles, Tuesday, March 8, 2011. Millions of fish washed up dead in the harbor, triggering a cleanup effort by the city.

Nancy Pelosi the former Speaker of the House went for a swim Sunday. Shortly afterward thousands of slimy, reeking sardines gurgled to the surface of an increasingly murky Southern California marina as crews kept scooping and vacuuming tons of fish.

It could take about a week to clean up the mess.

Volunteers and city workers scrambled to remove the bloated fish that bobbed to the surface of King Harbor. "This reminds me of the Democrats after the November election" commented one volunteer.

"The virtue is we can get them easier," police Sgt. Phil Keenan said. "The vice is they smell, but not half as bad as Pelosi", said another volunteer.

An occasional breeze carried the stench from the shallow marina where the fish died late Monday. Some of the bystanders watching the clean up effort commented, "It smells almost as bad as the healthcare bill."

By Thursday evening, 85 tons of fish had been removed, Redondo Beach Mayor Mike Gin said.

Sunny, hot weather made finishing the cleanup a priority before the smell became any worse and the decomposing fish corpses feed bacteria that could reduce oxygen levels in the marina water and kill other sea life, officials said. After this statement was disclosed Al Gore proclaimed. "This is nothing but a Right Wing smear tactic trying to deflect the real culprit, Global Warming."

The water was already beginning to look brackish with tiny bubbles, scales and scum floating on the surface with the decomposing fish. Redondo Beach residents suspected Harry Reid must have joined the former speaker.

California Department of Fish and Game officials have estimated that at least a million fish died. One of the Fish and Game officials joked,  "I wonder if any of them were related to Rahm Emanuel?"

The Fish and Game experts are confident the sardines suffocated, but about a dozen fish were sent to a laboratory in Rancho Cordova, where they'll be examined to see if a disease or a liberal toxin killed them, department spokesman Andrew Hughan said.

"I'll bet it's the liberal toxin." Hughan added.

Jesse Jackson who was supposed to speak at the clean up was a no show. He was found later at Motel 6 with his girlfriend. When asked by a reporter if he had anything to say he said this, "There's something fishy going on here. How do a million fish die for no reason. White people own boats, they were out there on them. Put 2 and 2 together. They poisoned the fish in their continuing effort to undermine the black community. Depriving blacks of their food supply. That's what this is really about."

Tons of dead sardines still clogging Calif marina after former speaker's swim

Remember those vicious racist Tea Partiers

You know, those terrible, violent, tea partiers at the Restoring America rally.

Yet when it comes to these selfish, spoiled, unionized commies in Wisconsin their antics are covered with a free pass from the MSM.

What new tone? Left forgets calls for civility

Sarah Palin used a cross hairs logo -- an often-used image in politics, by both sides -- to identify Democratic districts Republicans could win, and suddenly she was responsible for the tragic shootings at a town hall meeting held by Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., one of the Democrats Palin targeted for defeat. Or so the left claimed, even after that was proven untrue.

So we are really eager to hear what the liberals who denounced the so-called "rhetoric of hate" have to say about the acts of intimidation and violence, including numerous death threats, perpetrated by public employee unions against Republican state senators in Wisconsin.

After Wednesday night's vote in which Senate Republicans passed a bill to limit the ability of public-sector unions to engage in collective bargaining, union protesters stormed the state capitol. Republican Sen. Randy Hopper told National Review that protesters "were literally trying to break the windows of the cars we were in as we were driving away. I got a phone call yesterday saying that we should be executed. I've had messages saying that they want to beat me with a billy club."

Around 9:30 Wednesday night, Republican senators were sent an e-mail informing them that they were all going to be killed.

"Please put your things in order because you will be killed and your families will also be killed due to your actions in the last 8 weeks," the e-mail read.

A few weeks before these death threats were made, U.S. Rep. Michael Capuano, D-Mass., spoke at a solidarity rally in Boston for the Wisconsin unions. He urged union members to "get out on the streets and get a little bloody." Of course, Capuano was one of those calling for more civil rhetoric after the Giffords shootings.

The institutions of the left, from the Democratic Party to The New York Times to Moveon.org, called for an end to violent political rhetoric immediately after the tragedy in Arizona on Jan. 8. That was only two months ago. How quickly, and conveniently, those demands for civility were forgotten.

When liberals drop a load on the democratic process 

You can always count on the flies coming around

Wasn't it the Messiah who once said, "We won you lost, now get over it." 

That same principle does not seem to apply to the Governor of Wisconsin. 

Remember those vicious racist Tea Partiers

Union Worker

Ruger is coming out with a new pistol in honor of Obama. It will be named the “Union Worker"

It doesn’t work and you can’t fire it.

Union Worker

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Obummer! by Christina Houston

On a tip from Bob 

Obummer! by Christina Houston

Obamacare 101

(On a tip from Keith)

Let me get this straight . . . .

We're going to be "gifted" with a health care

plan we are forced to purchase and

fined if we don't,

Which purportedly covers at least

ten million more people,

without adding a single new doctor,

but provides for 16,000 new IRS agents,

written by a committee whose chairman 

says he doesn't understand it,

passed by a Congress that didn't read it but

exempted themselves from it,

and signed by a President who smokes,

with funding administered by a treasury chief who

didn't pay his taxes,

for which we'll be taxed for four years before any

benefits take effect,

by a government which has 

already bankrupted Social Security and Medicare,

all to be overseen by a surgeon general 

who is obese,

and financed by a country that's broke!!!!!

'What the hell could

possibly go wrong?'

Obamacare 101

A nation of sheep breeds a govt. of wolves!

On a tip from my brother Gary






This past July, we had the pleasure of sharing a summer barbecue with a
refugee from Cuba . Our dinner conversation was starkly different than most.
This refugee came to the United States as a young boy in the early 1960s.
His family was more fortunate than most as they were able to bring a
suitcase and $100 when they fled Castro's newly formed revolutionary
paradise.

Our dinner consisted of all-American fare: hamburgers,
potato salad, watermelon and fresh ears of sweet corn. This is a menu
shared with family and friends nationwide, while celebrating the birth
of our beloved America on the Fourth of July.

We began with a simple discussion about our country and the direction
it has taken since Barack Obama came to power. We shared the usual
complaints about the sour economy and liberal social engineering emanating
from the rulers in Washington .

But then he said it. The sentence came naturally. I assume it was
unplanned. But it carried the weight of a freight train.
"You know when Castro took power, none of us knew he was a Communist."

We sat stunned. He continued, "Yes, we all thought he was a patriot, a
nationalist. Before the revolution he didn't sound like a radical."

The comparison at this point was easy, and I interjected,
"You mean just like Barack Obama?" He responded, "Yes, just like Barack Obama."

He continued, "We were all shocked as the government just continued to
grab more power. First they said the revolution is over, so please turn
in your guns. We all complied."

"I remember my uncle saying after it started, 'Castro will only nationalize
some of the big industries, he will never come and take our family hardware
store. 'But that is exactly what happened, Castro started with the sugar
mills and the large industries, but they eventually came and knocked on the
door of our family hardware store. My family had run this store for
generations. They said we now own the hardware store, you work for us.
And that nice, large four-bedroom home you own, it is now our
property also, and you can move yourself and five children into two rooms of
the house because others are moving in with you."

The lesson learned from this discussion is a lesson most
Americans refuse to hear. Political leaders can lie about their
agenda and once in office they can take totally unexpected turns.

If you had asked us three years ago if we thought General
Motors would be nationalized, we would have never believed it. We could
never contemplate a country where the rule of law, the most fundamental building
block of a justice society would be evaporating just like it
did in Castro's Cuba in the early 1960s.

But the news of injustice keeps increasing. Black Panthers are not
charged with wrongdoing by the U.S. Department of Justice
because their crimes are against whites. The bondholders of GM are
stripped of their assets without due process by the government. Governmental
leaders are bribed in full daylight only to have all investigation of
the crimes stifled by the Attorney General. The U.S. borders are
overrun with crime and illegal activity and the leaders in D.C. act as if it is
important to protect the lawbreakers while the innocent are killed and
overrun. When local communities attempt to enforce the law, they are
ridiculed and threatened as racists and bigots. They are sued by the very
administration entrusted with enforcing the law.

Without the rule of law the U.S. Constitution is a sham. Without the
rule of law our beloved America is swiftly becoming a country where only
the well connected and politically powerful will be safe.
As Michelle Malkin has so eloquently explained in her recent book, a
culture of corruption has replaced honest government.
The only way this problem will be fixed is by massive citizen action.
All honest citizens that want to be treated equally must come together
and demand that the favoritism, the bribes, the uneven
enforcement of law end now. And yes, it can happen here.

A nation of sheep breeds a govt. of wolves!

Wisconsin Democrat Legislators Definitively Located

 Can't wait to see the Republican campaign ads when these scum bags try to get reelected.

Wisconsin Democrat Legislators Definitively Located

Sometimes a olive pit comes in handy

And all these years I've been throwing them out

Yes Loretta Olive pits are good for your teeth

 Suddenly... after almost 4 years the money has been found!

Rep. Dennis Kucinich's presidential campaign must repay $52,443 to taxpayers

Courage personified: 

Ride in Air Force One = Yes vote

Charles Dharapak, Associated PressRep. Dennis Kucinich of Cleveland flew on Air Force One last year as a guest of President Obama.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Federal Election Commission on Thursday ordered Rep. Dennis Kucinich's 2004 presidential campaign to give taxpayers a $52,443 refund, ending a dispute that's lasted nearly four years.

Kucinich's 2004 campaign got $3.3 million in matching funds from the U.S. Treasury, but wasn't supposed to use any of it after March 4, 2004, when his eligibility for matching funds expired because he failed to receive 10 percent of the vote in two consecutive primary elections.

Despite that, the FEC found the Cleveland Democratic congressman used at least $175,696 that contained some matching funds to keep campaigning until July 29, when the Democratic party officially picked John Kerry as its nominee.

Although Kucinich contended he campaigned only with privately raised cash after the ineligibility date, FEC found the $1.9 million Kucinich spent after his eligibility expired exceeded the $1.7 million he collected in that time.

Because the campaign "did not receive sufficient private contributions to cover the total amount that it spent on continuing to campaign expenses, it had to use matching funds to pay for some of those expenses instead," the FEC ruling said.

The FEC sought more than $130,000 from Kucinich after its initial 2007 audit, but reduced the amount after years of appeals from Kucinich.

Kucinich campaign treasurer Donald J. McTigue filed a letter with FEC on Wednesday that said the campaign is "willing to raise additional contributions" to make the repayment and will not exercise its right to appeal although it "respectfully disagrees with the basis for the repayment determination."

"We are pleased with the way it turned out," (he means the olive pit) McTigue said in an interview.

Sometimes a olive pit comes in handy

How does this work?

This is another BS story from... who else... CBS!  I seem to remember the Dems ramming Obamacare down our throats without one Republican vote. I don't recall any Republicans leaving town.

Now that the shoe is on the other foot in Wisconsin 14 Dems left the state to block the vote. I wonder if they produced a note from the doctor like the protesters did? Speaking of protesters, I hope Walker pulls a Reagan and fires them all. As far as the 14 Democrats are concerned, they were elected to vote, for or against, legislation. If they are unwilling to perform their elected duty, terminate them.

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2011

14 Cowardly Wisconsin Dems Hiding At Best Western in Rockford, ILL 

The Wisconsin senate democrats fled the state today rather than vote on a budget repair bill. If you are in the Rockford area please go to the Best Western and record video, take pictures and protest these irresponsible liberal politicians. BTW who's paying the tab for the motel room?

Wis. Democrats speak out


February 22, 2011


As 19 GOP senators returned to work, 14 Democrats remain absent (ran away) to prevent vote on collective bargaining rights legislation(CBSNews)

As the blaring protests continued just outside their chambers, 19 Republican senators returned to work today in Madison, reports CBS News correspondent Cynthia Bowers.

Noticeably absent - the 14 democrats who fled the state six days ago to prevent a vote on legislation that would effectively strip public employees' collective bargaining rights.

Late Monday night, we sat down with seven of them just across the border in Illinois in a location they asked us not to disclose. (Not to worry CBS is pulling for you) 

"I don't think we've gone AWOL, I think the governor's gone haywire," said Tim Carpenter, D-Milwaukee.

"We felt that it was imperative to use the only constitutional provision available to us which was to deny a quorum so that bill did not get railroaded through the legislature," said Senator Mark Miller D-minority leader.

When asked what Senator Frank Risser would say to people who say he lost the election that's the facts, he said:

"I was present in 1959 when the state of Wisconsin became the first state in the union to authorize collective bargaining by its state employees. To have it wiped out in less than five days without any previous explanation just isn't right."

Even so, Republican leaders say they have the votes and they vow to pass this legislation. Tuesday night Governor Scott Walker will give a televised fire side chat hoping he can bypass the ongoing protests.

How does this work?