Somewhere in the world, Al Gore has just opened his fat mouth.
Related – “red-on-red”… *
I Hope That Bandana Was Union Made
Is There Nothing That Obama Can’t Do?
Empty suit for new job at Harvard Law Review – $500
Voting “present” 130 times as state senator – $58,000 a year
Lifting security verification to receive untracable online donations – $30+ million a month
Appointing himself CEO of Mastercard – PRICELESS
The Saskatchewan NDP Leadership Blog
Who Is This “John Galt”?
And why do people keep talking about him?
There are several assumption built into [US government] projections of the deficits that are coming. Here’s a little secret that only you and I share: the deficits will be much, much bigger than current projections.
The numbers are off not because projected spending is going to be bigger than advertised, in fact it may not be possible for the feds to spend money as fast as they would like.
Deficit projections are low because tax revenues are going to plummet.
(Speaking of Obama New Deal politics … Warren, did you manage to set up that Ignatieff – Barney Frank photo-op for us?)
Update: or just photoshop him into this one.
Crimes Against Humanity
Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
April 17th – “A long-sought dossier of Bush-era secrets on the mistreatment of Al Qaeda terror suspects was released yesterday by the Obama administration,”
April 22nd “The press office at Andrews AFB wouldn’t give me the fuel consumption numbers [for Air Force One’s Earth Day flight] without the approval of the White House Press Office, which as I write this has yet to be given.”
Reader Tips
Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our weekly open music show, here are Mr. Paul Simon et alia performing 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover (2000, 2:47).
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
Survey Says: Canadians Remain Stubbornly Canadian
“Liberal Values Are Canadian Values” VS “My Own Lyin’ Eyes”.
There’s still hope for this country.
First, The Good News
“The Saskatchewan Party government says it will not be keeping its election promise on cuts to greenhouse gas emission.”
And now the better news – it won’t cost them a single vote.
Remember Valerie Plame?
And they said the days of the White House using secret CIA information to expose their political enemies to danger were over…
Rice approved CIA waterboarding.
I wonder how many Islamic terrorists man-caused disaster facilitators are fixing cross-hairs on private citizen Condoleezza Rice today?
(Of course, it was Richard Armitage who “outed” Valerie Plame, a fact that quickly resulted in a complete media disinterest in further coverage of the “scandal”.)
Freedom Of Speech Is An American Concept
But sliding down a ramp with boards strapped to your feet is a Canadian human right – or so some contend. Under the sub-heading of “don’t tease us like this!”
A victory for women’s ski jumpers who are trying to get into the 2010 Olympics could spell the end of the Games in Canada, warned a lawyer for the Vancouver Organizing Committee.
“It is very unlikely the Games would be held in Canada again in the foreseeable future” if VANOC departed from its signed contract with the International Olympic Committee, said George Macintosh in a written argument.
VANOC’s lawyers on Wednesday opened their rebuttal argument to a lawsuit by 15 elite women athletes who say VANOC is in breach of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
But here’s the best part !
VANOC also acknowledged Wednesday the committee’s financial and logistical help to the female ski jumpers who are suing them.
That’ll teach ’em.
This can’t be a gender equality problem – the modern IOC has a history of allowing fake female sports (along with fake females) into the games. Who’s advising these girls, anyway? Why go the lawsuit route when the path to Olympic inclusion is as clear and bright as a patch of sunny beach sand?
Pirates
IBD Editorial Cartoons
h/t Ron
Reader Tips
Good evening, welcome to the Wednesday edition of SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight we feature a fine American Alt-Country band from Austin, Texas, The Gourds, performing Shamrock Bound over top of a fine home-made video assembled by one of their fans.
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
Home Depot Founder, Bernie Marcus
Cassini
More very cool photos here.
Y2Kyoto: We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Fans Day
Disconnecting The Dots
Who’s Politicizing Intelligence Now?
Marc Thiessen, a speechwriter for George W. Bush, had access to the full memos and read them to prepare a speech for Bush in 2006. When Thiessen looked at the redacted version released by the White House last week, he noticed something strange.
He writes: “But just as the memo begins to describe previously undisclosed details of what enhanced interrogations achieved, the page is almost entirely blacked out. The Obama administration released pages of unredacted classified information on the techniques used to question captured terrorist leaders but pulled out its black marker when it came to the details of what those interrogations achieved.”
It’s not just those memos. Former Vice President Dick Cheney says he has read other memos that describe the intelligence obtained by using coercive interrogation and that demonstrate its value. He has asked for them to be declassified and made public.
It is possible, I suppose, that a series of fortunate coincidences has resulted in the public disclosure of only that information that will be politically helpful to the Obama administration. It is also possible that Dick Cheney has taken up synchronized swimming in his retirement.
RTWT.
Not Waiting For The Asteroid
Appointing The Rock-Hard Stupid To Head Of Homeland Security
Is there nothing that Obama can’t do?
“Yes, Canada is not Mexico, it doesn’t have a drug war going on, it didn’t have 6,000 homicides that were drug-related last year,” she said.
“Nonetheless, to the extent that terrorists have come into our country or suspected or known terrorists have entered our country across a border, it’s been across the Canadian border. There are real issues there.”
When asked if she was referring to the 9-11 terrorists, Napolitano added: “Not just those but others as well.”
…though apparently, they did nothing illegal.
“What we have to do is target the real evil-doers in this business, the employers who consistently hire illegal labor, the human traffickers who are exploiting human misery. And yes, when we find illegal workers, yes, appropriate action, some of which is criminal, most of that is civil, because crossing the border is not a crime per se. It is civil. But anyway, going after those as well.”
“The future is we have borders”
Sleep well in those beds, my dear American cousins.
