Get Ready For a Helen Thomas Statue

Helen Thomas poses next to a model of her statue

Yep, this Helen Thomas.

Helen Thomas statue campaign stirs controversy.

The Arab American National Museum in Dearborn has launched a fund-raising drive to pay for a statue of legendary journalist Helen Thomas that concerns some in the Jewish community.

Thomas, a former White House correspondent and native Detroiter born to Lebanese immigrants, was forced to quit her job at Hearst Newspapers last month after saying Israelis should “get the hell out of Palestine.” She apologized.

On Tuesday, the museum started a 45-day campaign to raise the remaining $10,000 for the roughly $30,000 statue. Some in the Jewish community are wary of honoring Thomas.

“I just hope that the support for this memorial is there despite her anti-Israel and anti-Semitic views and not because of them,” said Richard Nodel, president of the Jewish Community Relations Council.

Maybe they can carve Thomas’ own words at the base of the statue?

More @  The Blog Prog

Racism Defined – Thank You Great Leaders

Chattanooga City Councilman To Citizens :”We Don’t Have To Listen To Anybody”

By The P/Oed Patriot

Apparently the arrogance of those in Government does not begin and end on the Federal Level.  The “I know better than you” attitude even effects City Councilmen. 

Below is a Video of a City Council Meeting in Chattanooga Tennessee where concerned citizens are doing their civic duty by addressing their grievances to their public servants.

When it appears that several other speakers wish to yield their time to another speaker the Councilman objects  by saying, “We aren’t go to have that.”  As the argument continues about what is allowed and what isn’t, the Councilman eventually states:

“We Don’t have to listen to Anybody”. 

This comment is around 3:15 on the Video. 

The Audio is out of sync and running faster than the video itself.  Just FYI

Jury Damage Award Could Close Calif. Healthcare Facilities

-By Warner Todd Huston

When companies are found to have violated regulations that govern their industry, is it right that a jury of non-experts can award damages the amount of which will wipe the company off the face of the earth? That is a question that has been raised in a case recently decided against Skilled Healthcare LLC of California.

A class action lawsuit (lawsuit info here) brought by trial lawyers was filed late last year against Skilled Healthcare of California claiming that the company had violated state regulations that stipulates that nursing homes must maintain 3.2 nursing hours per patient, per day (ppd). The lawsuit claimed that the nursing homes operated by Skilled Healthcare often did not meet the requirement.

Interestingly, there was never any claim from any patient that there’d been harmed or put in danger. Not a single patient claimed personal injury before these lawyers began to file their class action lawsuit.

After a six-month trial the jury decided that the company did violate the rules and awarded the plaintiffs $613 million in statutory damages and $58 million in restitutionary damages.

There is a problem with this award, however. The company only has borrowing credit of $94 million. If the company were to be held to this outrageously high award it would go bankrupt and would be forced to close its doors.

Not only that but some 32,000 people — patients/residents and healthcare workers alike — would lose their heatlhcare facilities and jobs if this award were enforced.

Does this make sense?

Now, I’ve looked at many stories about this lawsuit and cannot find any claims by the State of California that Skilled Healthcare LLC was found wanting during any of the many surprise inspections of the company’s 22 healthcare facilities. I have seen no evidence from state regulators that any citations were issued or that there has been any allegations in this case that the nursing homes in question violated any statutes.

Skilled Healthcare has reported that it has passed all inspections. That’s notable because the healthcare industry in California is almost as highly regulated as the state’s nuclear power industry.

Yet six healthcare clients from Humbolt County, CA have been allowed the status for the levy of an award so great that it will wipe the corporation of the face of the earth?

The California Association of Health Facilities agrees that this lawsuit makes no sense. James Gomez, CEO and President of the CAHF, called the whole thing “outlandish.”

The July 6, 2010 verdict against Skilled Healthcare Group Inc. and subsidiary Skilled Healthcare LLC is outlandish, excessive and extreme. The $671 million award of damages is disproportionate to the facts of the case. It’s a by-product of a series of unprecedented and erroneous rulings of law by the trial judge, and a jury that applied the flawed rulings to the maximum extent. These maximum damages were applied over a six year period to every patient in the 22 skilled nursing facilities, regardless of whether they were named in the complaint. More importantly, the allegations specifically excluded any assertion of harm.

Gomez also laments that if the judgment stands the healthcare company will be forced to close its doors causing the loss of thousands of jobs and putting the healthcare of thousands of patients in jeopardy.

And Gomez also reports that Skilled Healthcare LLC is “widely regarded as a good provider of skilled nursing care in California and elsewhere.”

The case, now concluded, is going into a mediation phase and the company hopes that the award will be lowered to one it could actually pay instead of the punitive one that they now face.

In the end this trial is evidence that this country needs some major tort reform. Here we had a company that was going about its business, and by all accounts has a good reputation in its industry yet found itself with a multi-million dollar award levied against it because of some trial lawyers that went ambulance chasing to float a class action lawsuit. And now thousands of people’s healthcare and livelihood is in jeopardy.

What are all theses elderly patients supposed to do if the company is forced to fold? And what of all the jobs lost in this, one of the worst economies in decades?

If the company was violating state regulations on the required number of nursing staff to patient ratios, then, sure, the state should force it to comply with regulations. No one would deny that fines of some sort would legitimately be part of such a finding. But this $671 million award is not corrective, it is destructive.

And what unforeseen consequences might this award have in the healthcare industry throughout California and the rest of the country? Will it drive costs up? Will it cause smaller healthcare facilities to just close up shop for fear of giant, punitive awards for minor infractions? And what other industries might next be a target of this class action feeding frenzy?

Questions that we would not be faced with were it not for an out of control tort system.

Taliban Spokesman says They Will Hunt Down and Kill Afghan Informants Outed in WikiLeaks Documents

A Taliban spokesman has issued a warning that all US Spies revealed in the documents will be hunted down and killed.

via the Telegraph

The Taliban has issued a warning to Afghans whose names might appear on the leaked Afghanistan war logs as informers for the Nato-led coalition.

In an interview with Channel 4 News, Zabihullah Mujahid, a Taliban spokesman, said they were studying and investigating the report, adding “If they are US spies, then we know how to punish them.”

The warning came as the US military’s top officer, Admiral Mike Mullen said that Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks, may already have blood on his hands following the leak of 92,000 classified documents relating to the war in Afghanistan by his website.

“Mr Assange can say whatever he likes about the greater good he thinks he and his source are doing, but the truth is they might already have on their hands the blood of some young soldier or that of an Afghan family,” he said.

The countless lives that have been put in danger because of the leak of these documents is unprecedented.  Who knows how many names are in those docs.

And it’s not just Julian Assange who will have blood on his hands because of this leak.  A Wall Street Journal article yesterday reported that Investigators found concrete evidence that PFC. Bradley Manning was the source of the leak.

Investigators have found concrete evidence linking Pfc. Bradley Manning with the leak of classified Afghanistan war reports, a U.S. defense official said.

A search of the computers used by Pfc. Manning yielded evidence he had downloaded the Afghanistan war logs, which span from 2004 until 2009, the official said. It’s not clear precisely what that evidence is.

hattip WZIP

Chuck Todd: Embarrassed By JournoList or Not?

-By Warner Todd Huston

Today two stories have recently appeared reporting NBC Political Director Chuck Todd’s reaction to the revelations of the JournoList, that website were avowed left-wing journalists congregated to talk about their profession and plot to foster a left-wing agenda in their work in the media.

Todd was reported to have found the JournoList revelations to be “very depressing” and said that the story had “kept him up nights” because of the overt leftist bias evinced by the list member’s emails released by Tucker Carlson’s Daily Caller website.

“Journolist was pretty offensive. Those of us who are mainstream journalists got mixed in with journalists with an agenda. Those folks who thought they were improving journalism are destroying the credibility of journalism.”

But later that day another story claiming that Todd was taken out of context emerged that told a slightly different tale. In the afternoon fellow JouronLista Greg Sargent wrote in the Washington Post that Todd was more upset at the conservatives that were using the JournoList controversy to push their agenda and was much less upset that the story revealed a left-wing media conspiracy.

So, once again, it appears that the Old Media’s leftist guard is spinning to try and make these revelations all the fault of the conservatives that merely made the list public knowledge. Like the kid caught with his hand in the cookie jar and blaming his brother for telling him to get some cookies, JournoListas are doing everything they can to shift blame.

So, maybe Todd was misquoted by Politico in the earlier report and maybe he was more outraged by the right’s treatment of this story than he was over his agenda spinning comrades of the JournoList. But is the Post’s Sargent right when he praised Chuck Todd’s latest position on the JournoList? “But it appears Todd has the balance right here…,” Sargent said of Todd’s second public reaction. Can we trust Chuck Todd’s assessment as a long time member of the Old Media? Is this whole thing a mess blown out of proportion by conservatives?

Now, in the two Todd JournoList stories he is portrayed as one of those unbiased, center of the road, professional type of journalists, the kind we can trust, and the claim is made that this whole mess is unfairly muddying the waters for his sort of old time pro. As noted above, Todd is quoted as being upset that journalists like him were “mixed in with journalists with an agenda.” He clearly wants to foster the image that he is unbiased.

But recently I did a top ten list of the most left-biased journalists working in America today and our friend Chuck Todd came in at number four on that list. (See the full list HERE)

First of all Todd was not always a journalist. He began his professional career by working for Democrat election campaigns, the last of which was Iowa Democrat Senator Tom Harkin’s 1992 failed run for the White House. Todd then went into journalism from there. So we know that he comes to journalism from a left-wing background in the first place. In my story from last week I have instance after instance of Chuck Todd’s own left-wing biased reporting.

So, it is a bit precious of him to be claiming that he, as an unbiased professional journalist, has been unduly harmed by this JournoList story.

Chuck Todd is just another kid with his hand caught in the cookie jar… and it appears it’s his left hand.

(Originally posted at BigJournalism.com)

Allen West on Radical Islam

Charlie Rangel’s Very Bad Day!

Charlie's Very Very Bad Day!

Charlie Rangel is an American Politician. He has been a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives since 1971, representing the 15th Congressional District of New York, and is the most senior member of that state’s congressional delegation. He is a founding member of the Congressional Black Congress.

With his gravelly voice, cheery bonhomie and 40 years in the House, New York Democratic Rep. Charles Rangel is one of the best known and best liked members of Congress. But after the House ethics committee finally brought charges against him Thursday, Rangel risks being remembered in the twilight of his career as just another crooked pol who thought the rules didn’t apply to him.

Panel hits Rangel with 13 ethics charges

The deal between the lawyers will have little meaning if the committee members don’t approve it, and Republicans said at the proceeding they were insisting on going forward with a trial. The panel is evenly divided between Democrats and Republicans.

“Mr. Rangel was given multiple opportunities to settle this matter. Instead, he chose to move forward to the public trial phase,” said Rep. Jo Bonner of Alabama, the senior Republican on the ethics panel

Chairman Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., has made clear that she wants the committee to be unanimous — leaving little chance for agreement without Rangel capitulating on virtually all counts.

[...]

In the frantic hours leading up to the meeting, Rangel’s lawyer, Leslie Kiernan, talked to attorneys for the panel about how to avoid a trial for the 40-year veteran.

Rep. Michael McCaul of Texas, the top Republican on the panel that will try Rangel, said that the Democrat had been “given the opportunity to negotiate a settlement during the investigation phase.”

However, he said, that phase is now over. “We are now in the trial phase,” he said.

A congressional trial could be avoided only if Rangel admitted to substantial violations, or resigned.

Punishment could range from a report criticizing his conduct to a reprimand or censure by the House, or a vote to expel him — which is highly unlikely. Any agreement would have to be approved by Rangel and ethics committee members.

“Sixty years ago I survived a Chinese attack in North Korea and as a result I haven’t had a bad day since,” Rangel told reporters earlier Thursday. “But today I have to reassess that statement.”

Remember this:

Tax cheat Rangel caught on tape: “Why don’t you mind your g**damned business?”

Sorry, Charlie.   I guess it is our g**damned business!

Global Warming Fever Cooling – Even on the Left

USCIS Draft Memo Leaked Discussing Ways to ByPass Congress on Amnesty

By The P/Oed Patriot

According to an Article in  National Review  ,an internal draft memo has been leaked from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) discussing ways to do an end run around Congress on Amnesty.

The Article Reads:

“the agency is considering ways in which it could enact “meaningful immigration reform absent legislative action” — that is, without the consent of the American people through a vote in Congress. “This memorandum offers administrative relief options to . . . reduce the threat of removal for certain individuals present in the United States without authorization,” it reads.

Also: “In the absence of Comprehensive Immigration Reform, USCIS can extend benefits and/or protections to many individuals and groups by issuing new guidance and regulations, exercising discretion with regard to parole-in-place, deferred action and the issuance of Notices to Appear (NTA), and adopting significant process improvements.”

The National Review article claims that the USCIS is thinking about using “Deferred Action”.  The Definition of Deferred Action according to the USCIS is:

“an exercise of prosecutorial discretion not to pursue removal from the U.S. of a particular individual for a specific period of time.”

Since the Writing of the National Review Article the USCIS has responded to the leak of the Draft memo.

Basically they claim that the Draft memo is just a way to “internally” discuss Ideas and that they have no intention of doing Deferred Action on the entire Illegal population.

The Key Word there is …..”Entire”

"Red Charlie" Rangel Revealed

First in the Nation Referendum on Obamacare: Yes on Prop C

By RebootCongress.

Missouri is the next battleground in the fight against Obamacare. Next Tuesday, August 3rd, Show Me State voters will head to the polls for the primary election. In addition to choosing candidates to represent each party in the November general election, each party ticket will also have Prop C on the ballot. Conservatives, led by Missourians for Health Care Freedom, are encouraging a “Yes” on Prop C.

Primary elections often have low turnout. We want to send a loud and clear message to the ruling class in DC, so we could use your help getting out the vote. If you would like to call Missouri voters and encourage them to vote “Yes” on Prop C, please contact Rush James of the Missouri GOP. Email him at rush@mogop.org with your name and phone number. He will contact you with more information about calling Missouri voters to encourage a “Yes” on Prop C next Tuesday.

Fight on for Freedom!

The video above was produced by ConservativeTVOnline.com.

A Tale of Two Anti-Semitic Rants: Oliver Stone’s Not So Bad, Mel Gibson’s Horrible

-By Warner Todd Huston

Some of you may recall that early in the morning of July 28 of 2006 actor Mel Gibson was arrested on suspicion of drunk driving in Los Angeles, California. During that arrest, it was reported that Gibson was alleged to have launched into a brief but vehement denunciation of Jews that were “responsible for all the wars in the world.” Famed at the time for having produced and directed the film The Passion of the Christ (2004), Gibson’s anti-Semitic tirade was the feature of news reports throughout the media for weeks after the incident.

The same cannot be said, however, for Oliver Stone who just last weekend launched into his own anti-Semitic rant. Coverage of Stone’s outrageous comments, arguably as bad as Gibson’s, has been met with a virtual shrug from the Old Media, especially the TV newsers.

On July 25, 2010, the London Sunday Times released an interview with Oliver Stone that featured his claim that Hitler is often treated too harshly by history because of the “Jewish domination of the media.” (The Sunday Times article is on a subscription only site)

Stone lamented the fact that few people are seemingly aware that Hitler killed “25 or 30 million” Russians saying, “Hitler did far more damage to the Russians than [he did to] the Jewish people.” The reason no one knows this, according to Stone, is apparently because of powerful Jews in the US.

“There’s a major lobby in the United States. They are hard workers. They stay on top of every comment, the most powerful lobby in Washington. Israel has f_ _ _de up United States foreign policy for years.”

And it should be noted that Oliver Stone did not deliver his comments in a drunken rant as Mell Gibson did. Stone was stone cold sober when he made his remarks.

The media has minimally reported this incident, of course.

Now this Jews-control-the-media claim has a long pedigree and is still bandied about by racists in academia. Just in 2006, for instance, a study widely distributed — and widely attacked — based on this theme was released by University of Chicago professor John Mearsheimer and Harvard’s Stephen Walt. It goes back as far as there has been media to supposedly control.

Still, Stone’s claim that the “Jews control the media” has been met with a yawn by that same media. Stone’s absurd comments have barely caused a ripple on the national and international media scene.

The same cannot be said of Mel Gibson’s drunken anti-Semitic rant.

In the first few days after Gibson’s arrest was made public he was top news not just in the entertainment media, but also in the regular news media as well as the left-wing blogosphere.

The entertainment gossip site TMZ had the report of Gibson’s arrest on the very afternoon he was detained and immediately released his anti-Semitic statements. Over the next few days he was the top news at ABC, CBS, NBC, and all the cable stations. The story was also all over the print media as well as the foreign media.

Three days after the incident, media gadfly Arianna Huffington was demanding that Hollywood denounce Gibson for his remarks. A few days later “comedian” Bill Mahr was doing the same thing, both on the left-wing blog site The Huffington Post. Many other prominent lefty bloggers immediately went after Gibson for his anti-Semitic remarks, as well.

In contrast it seems that in these three days after Stone’s anti-Semitic rant Huffington Post only has three posts on the left-wing director’s outrage and none of them are from a principle celebrity or a Huffington top blogger, much less Huffington chief, Arianna, herself. Further not many other high profile lefty bloggers seem too eager to launch into denunciations against Oliver Stone.

Back in 2006 Gibson was apologizing within a week saying he was “deeply ashamed” at his actions. The actor/director said that he was undergoing alcohol abuse treatment as a result of the incident. This, of course, caused a whole new slew of coverage that went on for another few days.

Again in contrast, the media today has also reported Stone’s day-after apology where he reverses himself saying, “Jews obviously do not control media or any other industry.” Interestingly, most of these stories are one, two and three paragraph shorties as opposed to the long report treatment that the Old Media doled out to Gibson’s altercation of four years previous.

There is also the equating of Gibson to Stone. Perhaps it is a natural comparison, but an LA Times blog by Patrick Goldstein is a typical example. As Stone apologized in his one paragraph press release, Goldstein couldn’t help himself but bring Mel Gibson into the Stone story in a recent post*. Also as amusingly, Goldstein tries to tar Andrew Breitbart with the whole incident, doing his best to obscure Oliver Stone’s guilt by making this whole thing an issue of conservatives overreacting instead of focusing on Stone’s outrageous comments.

Goldstein gives Stone a pass because he apologized fairly quickly after the incident. He attacks Gibson, though, for having waited a week to issue his in 2006. I guess one can say anything at all but if one apologizes quick all is forgiven to such as Patrick Goldstein.

And typical of how the left-wing spins an incident, Goldstein characterizes Oliver Stone’s apology as a “quick, forceful apology” yet the thing is but one paragraph issued through his agent. On the other hand he lambastes Gibson’s apology even as he has said it repeatedly to all sorts of media folks (in person mind you) and even went to alcohol rehab over it all. It’s hard for any fair minded person to think that a one-paragraph press release if somehow more “forceful” than apologies made in person to multiple media outlets, but that is the spin that Goldstein is ridiculously proffering his readers.

Sadly, Goldstein is typical of how Hollywood will react to Stone and how they have reacted to Gibson. In fact, Goldstein gives Stone a “wry Jewish” wink and a nod letting the hatemongering Director know that it’s OK to smear Jews in the media. Goldstein writes, “it’s not considered out of bounds for Jewish filmmakers to josh among themselves about the decline in Jewish domination of the film industry,” so apparently no one should get too mad at Oliver Stone for his “joshing” and joining that self-hating club.

In the end we can all see the difference in treatment of similar incidents. Let Mel Gibson say something like he did in 2006 and we get a Goldstein finger wagging disgustedly, but when golden lefty Oliver Stone does it, we get a “wry Jewish” wink and a grin.

*Incidentally, in the same post Goldstein peddles the lie that Fox News got Shirley Sherrod fired, too. The truth is that Sherrod was fired long before Fox News even began to cover the story.

(Originally posted at BigHollywood.com)

Fake Michigan Tea Party Acting Spoiler for Republicans?

-By Warner Todd Huston

Back in May I posted a report on what seemed to be a fake tea party group circulating petitions in the state of Michigan to get themselves recognized as an official political party.

The group circulating the petition, Progressive Campaigns, Inc., had long-time connections to the Michigan Democrat Party and at that time no one in the various Michigan tea party groups had any knowledge of this new so-called Tea Party petition effort.

Now the Detroit Free Press is reporting that a United Auto Workers union member named Mark Steffek has filed papers with the state announcing that this so-called Tea Party has had a “convention” and is fielding a slate of candidates for the 2010 elections.

One thing is odd about this supposed slate of candidates from this new “Tea Party” political party, though. It appears that the only places that the new party is fielding candidates just happens to be in districts where Republicans just might pick up a seat.

That’s right the only place that this new party is fielding a candidate is where their interference as a fake “tea party” candidate might cause the Republican to lose and the Democrat to retain a seat.

I’m sure this is all just an accident… right?

Obviously this fake Tea Party is a Democrat dirty trick fronted by a union hack organized to defeat insurgent Republicans in a year when the GOP is growing in support. This is proof that Democrats don’t care about what voters want, proof that Democrats don’t much care to win elections legitimately, proof that dirty tricks, lies and subterfuge is Democrat’s stock-and-trade electoral style.

I am hopeful that the voters in these Michigan swing districts will see through the lies come November.

(H/T Marathon Pundit)

Did Alfred E. Newman Steal Military Secrets?

by Bill Hennessy, Guest Contributor

The Wall Street Journal reports that the Pentagon has its man in the Wikileaks spy case. But the suspect says, “What, me worry?”

Al Franken Fears GOP Oversight

Stuart Smalley Afraid Of Oversight? Say It Isn't So!

Why So Afraid, Al?

Senator Al Franken, former Air America radio host and comedian.

He’s afraid of GOP oversight!

Al Franken”s Keynote Speech at Netroots Nation :

“Here’s more key evidence of how deeply top Democratic officials are tied to the neo-communist anti-Semitic hate-blog Daily Kos (and the rest of the progressive blogosphere, CAP, Media Mutters, etc.). Take your time and really listen to chief election thief Al Franken. This is today’s progressive movement, looking to crush “evil” corporations and “restore” free speech. It’s kinda chilling listening to Al Franken, but also funny in a macabre kinda way.”

He said this:

…Franken suggested that a little-known Republican congressman from California is plotting something even worse.  “Darrell Issa is planning to double his staff, ” Franken said, referring to the ranking Republican on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform,  “and embark on a witch hunt in hopes of bringing down the Obama administration.”

Which is laughable since that’s what happens when a party takes over the House. Since 1995, the practice of the oversight committee has been to have a two-to-one ratio of majority to minority staff. When Democrats took control after winning the House in 2006, they doubled their staff, while the losing Republicans cut theirs in half. If Republicans win in 2010, they will double their staff and Democrats will cut theirs in half. That’s the way it works.

(I guess Al missed that little tidbit during his orientation.)

As Ed Morrissey at HotAir says:

“If the Obama administration has done nothing wrong, oversight won’t be a problem.  Without the corrosive independent-counsel law allowing Congress to escape accountability for oversight, Issa and his panel will have to account for their behavior to the voters, as it should be.  It sounds as if Franken fears oversight less than what that oversight will find, and I doubt he’s the only Democrat to suffer that anxiety, either.”

There is a Sign Of Hope: Franken Is Whining

Sometime before every Election Day, Democrats start the Republicans-will-turn-back-the-clock litany.

The timing of this canard is indicative of the chances for Democrats.

If it comes in October, Democrats expect a big win.

If it comes in September, Democrats expect a close race.

If it comes in August, Democrats expect a big loss.

This year, it is panic in July.

But he’s such an effective senator.  He’s out there fighting for his constituents!

Here are a few of his quotes:

. Republicans are shameless d**ks. No, that’s not fair. Republican politicians are shameless d**ks.

– The Truth (With Jokes) p. 58

If I put myself on the ballot and even 50 people voted for me, it’d be a travesty. — Interview with the Oregonian, Feb. 22, 1999

When I was first asked to speak at Hartford State Technical College, I jumped at the opportunity. Because, you see, I thought I had been asked to speak at Harvard, which would have been quite an honor. But instead, I am here with you, the nation’s future air conditioner repairmen.

– Excerpt from the commencement address he gave to a technical college, Oh the Things I Know!, pp. 6-7

I’m a bit of a shill for the Clinton Administration, which has its perks. I’m invited to all the inaugural balls.

– Buffalo News, April 7, 1998

(Ya think?)

He’s a charmer, isn’t he?  I can see why he’s so popular.

Related:

Minnesota’s Shame

The Wholesale Disenfranchisement Of  Absentee Military Voters

http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/016/378ltyrg.asp

http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/2010/07/felons-voting-illegally-likely-gave-franken-senate-seat/

http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/2010/01/failed-progressive-talk-radio-air-america-channel-folds/

http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/2009/07/brilliant-minnesota-clown-senator-asks/

http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/2009/07/bill-oreilly-welcomes-dishonest-far/

http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/2009/09/figures-acorn-helped-franken-steal/

http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/2010/07/is-the-doj-trying-to-marginalize-military-votes/

Daily Kos Editor Says Global Warming Skeptics Should Commit Suicide

-By Warner Todd Huston

This is how the left treats those with whom they disagree, folks. Daily Kos contributing editor and Examiner.com writer Steven Andrew has suggested that anyone that disagrees with the globaloney of global warming should commit suicide in a “Soylent Green world.”

In his examiner column headlined, “Studies Show Dramatic Decrease in Plankton,” Andrew made what he called a “symbolic suggestion” that might “be in bad taste.”

After railing that skeptic Steve Millroy “regularly carpet bombs newspaper editorial pages with climate change disinformation,” Andrew then makes his “suggestion.”

Right about here I’d like to insert a symbolic suggestion about how climate change skeptics might best serve their fellow man in the future Soylent Green world they’re eagerly foisting on the rest of us. I’d like to, but the Examiner Overlords feel this would be in bad taste, no pun intended, so you’ll have to use your imagination. In the words of Kent Brockman, I for one welcome our overlords …

For those not familiar with the the 1973 movie, Soylent Green, the film portrays a distopian future where elderly citizens commit assisted suicide and their bodies get turned into food for an over populated world. Andrew is clearly hoping that his ideological opponents kill themselves.

It has become typical of adherents of the religion of globaloney to want to burn heretics at the stake and Steven Andrew appears to want to be considered a high priest of the faith. It’s a nouveau Spanish Inquisition fostered by the true believes of the enviro-left, folks, and they have You in their cross hairs.

(H/T GreenHellBlog.com)

(A screen shot in case the page goes down the memory hole can be downloaded HERE)

BREAKING: Sherrod Says She’ll Sue Andrew Breitbart

-By Warner Todd Huston

New Media mogul Andrew Breitbart faces a lawsuit from former USDA employee Shirley Sherrod over his posting of video of the woman in a seemingly racist outburst at an NAACP meeting.

Sherrod made the announcement at the San Diego convention of the National Association of Black Journalists on Thursday, July 29.

Sherrod also once again pushed the lie that Fox News was a culprit in her firing. “It wasn’t all media. It was Fox,” the fired federal employee said to the Old Media.

The FACT is, Fox had precisely nothing to do with her firing as Fox News didn’t start broadcasting the story until after she was fired by the Obama administration.

Keith Olbermann Named “Worst Person In The World”!

Keith Olbermann "Worst Person In The World"

Keith Olbermann, host of  “Countdown With Keith Olbermann” on MSNBC and Cornell Ag Graduate, is “The Worst Person In The World” according to Townhall Magazine.  Which is rather amusing since Keith devotes a segment of his show each night to naming his “Worst Person In The World”.  I suppose we shouldn’t be laughing since Taxpayers Are Financing Keith Olbermann’s Salary. To add insult to injury his ratings continue to slide.

Even the  Journolist Members Trash Keith Olbermann as Misogynist, Pompous.  And these are his ideological friends.
Poor Keith.   After Tucker Carlson at The Daily Caller announced that they had acquired the domain name keitholbermann.com and that Carlson is going to start using a new e-mail address:  Keith@KeithOlbermann.com,  Olbermann decided to take a two week vacation.

You would think it couldn’t get any worse.

Think again!

Word is his production staff is jumping ship.

To work for Lawrence O’Donnell’s new program.
So, what is Keith doing on his vacation?

Talking to his fans on Twitter. A lot!