The real brains behind the throne, the Teleprompter of the United States, was stolen.
When you see President Obama speak, there is a pretty typical setup including the presidential seal on a podium, the see-thru Teleprompter and a portable sound system.
Thieves saw the truck carrying that equipment and couldn’t resist the target.
We’re told the truck was parked at the Virginia Center Commons Courtyard Marriott in advance on Wednesday’s presidential visit to Chesterfield.
Sources said inside that vehicle was about $200,000 worth of sound equipment, several podiums and presidential seals, behind which only the President himself can stand.
You remember the TOTUS, don’t you? That item that Our Lord and Savior uses to hold staff meetings and talk to elementary school students. That item which, when Barack Hussein Obama doesn’t use it, He appears to be a babbling idiot. Um … umm … hold on there … er …. uh …. ummmm. And even when he does use it, He also appears to be little more than an empty suit.
How about a breathalyzer for treating asthma?
Teleprompter FAIL.
Losing His place on the teleprompter.
Losing His place on the teleprompter again.
Stammer and stutter.
Then there’s always “corpse-man.”
Well, we now know where the TOTUS is. He’s hiding and has issued a list of demands for his safe return. Iowahawk has that list of demands:
The actual date which Christopher Columbus found land was October 12, 1492. The exact location is often debated but most likely one of the Plana Cays in the Bahamas.
Columbus, an Italian, received funding for his voyage from the Spanish monarchy. Columbus believed that sailing west would allow him to reach India and China more quickly than the traditional route of sailing around the Horn of Africa. At that time, those who believed the world was round (1) did not believe it was as large as it was and (2) had no idea of the large land mass between Europe and Asia.
Columbus left Spain in August 1492 with three ships, the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria. A little over two months later, land was sighted.
After thirty-six days of sailing, Columbus and several crewmen set foot on an island in the present day Bahamas, claiming it for Spain. There he encountered a timid but friendly group of natives who were open to trade with the sailors exchanging glass beads, cotton balls, parrots, and spears. The Europeans also noticed bits of gold the natives wore for adornment.
Columbus and his men continued their journey, visiting the islands of Cuba and Hispaniola (now Haiti and the Dominican Republic) and meeting with the leaders of the native population. During this time, the Santa Maria was wrecked on a reef off the coast of Hispaniola. With the help of some islanders, Columbus’ men salvaged what they could and built the settlement Villa de la Navidad (“Christmas Town”) with lumber from the ship. Thirty-nine men stayed behind to occupy the settlement. Convinced his exploration had reached Asia, he set sail for home with the two remaining ships.
Here is a map depiction of Columbus’s first voyage:
Was Columbus the person who actually discovered America? Of course not. We know, for example, that the Vikings reached North America in the 10th century A.D. The Vikings continued to travel across the Atlantic from Europe to what is now Greenland and Newfoundland but made no permanent settlements and eventually stopped making trips.
Columbus is most noteworthy for making four voyages of exploration to the New World, never actually reaching North America but exploring the northeastern coast of South America on his third voyage and opening the way for permanent European settlement of North and South America.
You might remember Justice Samuel Alito shaking his head and saying, “Not true,” when the Demagogue-in-Chief told a boldfaced lie:
Appearing on Countdown with The Olbertard on Algore‘s Current TV, Slaughter informed whatever viewers were watching that Congressional Democrats were going to pursue every avenue necessary to nullify Justice Thomas’s vote in the Citizens United decision.
OLBERMANN: Tomorrow afternoon, two Supreme Court justices will go where few justices have gone before, to testify to Congress.
In our number-one story, Justices Antonin Scalia and Stephen Breyer — regarded as the intellectual leaders of the Court’s liberal and conservative wings — are set to appear before the Senate Judiciary Committee. They rarely testify after they are confirmed, so the hearings will provide members rare access to Justices.
Our next guest, Congresswoman Louise Slaughter, says the Senate should not let that opportunity go to waste. The Justices accepted an invitation from Senator Patrick Leahy, the Democrat of Vermont, to testify about the role of Justices in American democracy. Afterwards, they’ll take questions.
In a letter to committee leaders today, Representative Slaughter and fellow Democratic House members asked Senate leaders to push the Justices on ethics concerns, writing, “We urge Committee Members to use this rare forum with two Associate Justices of the Supreme Court to address outstanding questions regarding the adequacy of current ethics laws and procedures for the Supreme Court.”
Slaughter has been calling for an investigation of Justice Thomas for failing to report income and travel on disclosure documents. Specifically, the Justice did not list his use of a conservative donor’s private airplane and yacht, and also did not disclose the $700,000 his wife earned working for the conservative think tank the Heritage Foundation. The Supreme Court Justice calling that oversight “a result of misunderstanding of the filing instructions.”
Joining me now, as promised, Representative Louise Slaughter, the Democrat of New York and ranking member of the House Rules Committee. Good to talk to you again, Congresswoman.
LOUISE SLAUGHTER: Hey, Keith, nice to see you.
OLBERMANN: So your first question to Justice Scalia would be what?
SLAUGHTER: “Shouldn’t you recuse yourself?” Keith, we’ve got some new information, too, on the amount of money not disclosed. It’s $1.6 million that she made that were not disclosed.
OLBERMANN: Oh, Lord.
SLAUGHTER: There were years that he did disclose her income, and then took what I think is an affirmative action to checkmark “None” for the rest of the years. It’s not that he just ignored it or anything. He really took an action and said “No income.” That’s against the law, Keith. That’s against the law of 1978, the ethics law.
We’ve written, of course, as you know, to — Justice Roberts actually is the head of the Judicial Commission, he heads that up. And we’ve asked if they would refer it to the Attorney General. We can’t do that. The courts will need to do that. But it is one of the most appalling events I think that we’ve ever seen. First, he won’t answer any questions about it. But second, the idea that a Justice of a Supreme Court cannot read a legal form is really hard for us to tolerate.
OLBERMANN: There is another letter that you’ve signed that’s being unveiled tomorrow. That asks –
SLAUGHTER: Right. We’ve asked both sides. We’ve written to the Republicans and the Democrats, the majority and minority heads of that committee, to ask them to please find out what happens to a Supreme Court justice who flaunts the law. As you know, being Supreme is supreme. They are not bound by ethics laws like the rest of the judiciary. I am on a piece of legislation to try to change that, because this, I think, has made it absolutely necessary. But we’re not judging guilt or innocence. We want the people who are able to do it to make that judgment. But it is really quite startling to us that this has gone on all these years. As I point out, there were years when he did fill it out. But I know we’re kind of — I have got something really important I want to tell you tonight. We’re learning about a whole new thing we want be able to do here. But first I need to tell you that we released that letter to the judiciary — the Commission — Friday at about 10:00. By 4:00, before I caught the plane to Rochester, 800,000 people had clicked on that on Huffington Post.
OLBERMANN: Wow.
SLAUGHTER: Seventeen thousand left comments. Almost 8,000 on Facebook. It has been an astonishing thing. I’m not sure whether people thought we were moribund up on the Hill, and they were happy to see we weren’t. But whatever it is, this is really something the public cares about. But what I’m very interested here, as you know, the votes that he has cast that I think may be in conflict.
And, of course his wife can work. But the fact is there are only nine Justices on that Supreme Court, and it certainly should be a given that a family member of any of those people lucky enough to be a Supreme Court Justice should not in any way involve themselves in matters that will go before that court. Now, we all know she worked very hard for the Citizens United case, which I think is one of the most egregious things that’s ever happened in the United States Supreme Court.
OLBERMANN: Agreed.
SLAUGHTER: There is such a thing as a retroactive recusal. We’re looking into that. That case, if you remember, was decided 5-4. If we could take away his vote, we could wipe that out. It would lose.
OLBERMANN: Goodness.
SLAUGHTER: How about that?
OLBERMANN: That’s only the future of democracy there, isn’t it?
SLAUGHTER: Yes, indeed. And we are — You know, the judiciary is the last place for all of us to go. We are only as good, all of us, as the courts are — only as safe as the courts are good. Their interpretations are really what give us the freedoms, when you come down to it. They have enormous power. I know the attempt is always made to put the very best persons on that court. And I, as I said — again, I’m trying not to prejudge him — but you can’t say in my view that what he did was not willful, by failing to report her income. And I think there is no question about it. It is against the law. So we’re hoping that the Judiciary Commission will turn this over to the attorney general.
OLBERMANN: Goodness. Retroactive reversal. We’ll look more into that.
Contrary to what the woman who gave us “deem and pass” to ram ObamaCare down our throats two years ago, there is no such thing as retroactive recusal. There is nothing in the U.S. Constitution that permits the Executive and Legislative branches from banding together and nullifying a Supreme Court decision.
What she and her fellow fascists are hoping is that the Senate Judiciary Committee, under the direction of Senator Depends, Patrick “Leaky” Leahy, will direct the corrupt Attorney General, Eric Holder, to initiate action to nullify Justice Thomas’s vote on Citizens United, and no doubt on the pending SCOTUS review of ObamaCare.
This is pure, unadulterated fascism paired with sheer demagoguery. Democrats don’t like a decision? Take executive action to render it null and void. The exact actions of dictator wannabes.
Citizens United restored the voice of people to the American political system. It was a voice that the Left — Democrats and RINOs like John McCain — hates and as such tried to silence it. Yes, corproations are people. That’s what comprises a corporation: people who join together and form a legal entity in the United States. Why should their voice be silenced in the political system.
And yes, money is speech.
It’s no different than any collection of individuals who band together to advance a purpose, say a political action committee, or PAC.
The statists fear the voice of the people more than anything else, and if the fascists in Congress are able to invent something unconstitutional out of wholecloth and nullify the actions of the Supreme Court, we’ve taken another step toward the police state envisioned by the Left, and the freedoms and liberties of all Americans are even more in jeopardy.
This is who they are. The mask is off, and any pretense of supporting freedom and liberty is gone.
Our Lord and Savior Barack Hussein Obama reads a book to some children and guess who that book is about. That’s right. Him.
Before his speech Tuesday at Eastfield College in Mesquite, Texas, Obama stopped by an early childhood education laboratory to read to children ages 3 to 5.
Among his reading selections: A book about the presidential dog Bo, including a drawing of the president himself.
Obama is the textbook definition of a narcissist. Me! Me! Me! It’s all about me!
I can see November 2012 from my house. The day in which we no longer have to see this narcissistic son of a bitch on anything. Go away, and DLTDHYITAOTWO.
In an exclusive interview on Tuesday with Newsmax.TV, House Speaker John Boehner said he and Majority Leader Eric Cantor had written to President Barack Obama last week telling him there are several areas of his jobs bill on which they can work together.
However, Boehner sharply chided Obama for being in “campaign mode” and failing to govern with Congress “to help our country.” The speaker also described the president’s Sept. 22 speech at the crumbling Brent Spence Bridge that links his state, Ohio, with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s Kentucky over the Ohio River, as nothing more than a “political stunt.”
“It was a political stunt, and people looked at it as a political stunt. Even if the money had been approved for the replacement of this bridge, the Cincinnati Inquirer reported that it would still be four or five years away before any job would be created,” Boehner said.
During the exclusive Newsmax interview, the Ohio Republican outlined the GOP platform for compromise with the president, suggesting that Republicans favor avoiding any new tax increases and some infrastructure projects.
More evidence that the non-jobs jobs bill is nothing but Son of Porkulus. I thought all the infrastructure projects were supposed to be taken care of in the original Porkulus bill, $1.3 trillion worth of handouts to gummint unions and Democrat bundlers and donors.
That’s what this proposed bill is as well. Walking-around money for da unions in time for the 2012 elections. And yes, that includes private sector unions that feed off the gummint teat in public works projects, a/k/a lean-on-shovel projects.
Here’s a clue for you, Speaker Crybaby. We didn’t put you in power to work with the enemy and help Him advance His agenda. We put you in power to stop him cold, dead in His tracks.
The ideas Boehner proposes are workable, say, if we had Bill Clinton as President:
… the three areas in which he said the White House should be able to find common ground with the GOP-controlled House. They are:
Cutting the nation’s massive $14.7 trillion debt burden
Making major changes to both the personal and corporate tax codes
And curbing the amount of job-killing regulations that pour out of Washington on a daily basis.
Obama has no intention of giving House Republicans those items without a massive cave-in from Boehner and Majority Leader Eric Cantor. By now, he should know that. His golfing buddy wants all or nothing.
House Republicans should give him the latter. Heck, even Senate Democrats have no interest in this bill, either.
It won’t create one single real private sector job. Not one.
Plus, with the Community Organizer-in-Chief demanding that Congress pass this bill now — again, without actually reading it — one has to wonder how many more Solyndra payoffs are buried in the actual bill.
Legendary entertainer Hank Williams Jr., who’s provided the introduction for Monday Night Football for over 20 years, was dropped from his customary position before Monday’s game between the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the Indianapolis Colts after he made comments on Fox and Friends comparing the decision of House Speaker John Boehner to play golf with Our Lord and Savior to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu playing golf with Adolf Hitler.
Says ESPN, in a statement: “While Hank Williams Jr. is not an ESPN employee, we recognize he is closely linked to our company through the opening to Monday Night Football. We are extremely disappointed with his comments, and as a result have decided to pull the open from tonight’s telecast.”
Williams, perhaps best known for his “are you ready for some football?” lead-in to ESPN’s Monday Night Football, Monday compared this summer’s so-called golf summit between Obama and House Speaker John Boehner as “one of the biggest political mistakes ever.”
As Williams put it on Fox News’ Fox & Friends: “It would be like Hitler playing golf with (Israeli leader) Benjamin Netanyahu.”
When asked on Fox to explain his analogy, Williams said Obama and Vice President Biden are “the enemy.”
Hot Air’s Ed Morrissey reminds us this is the second time that ESPN has gone after an individual connected to the network after criticism of Obama:
They publicly rebuked [Paul] Azinger for criticizing Obama on Twitter in August, although they didn’t remove him from the air. That may well be due to the qualitative difference in the remarks; Azinger tweeted that he’d played less golf than Obama this year and created more jobs …
Of course, as Big Journalism’s Dana Loesch points out (via Gateway Pundit), ESPN has selective enforcement policies when it comes to political commentary. Open support of Il Douche is OK, and so is threats of violence against Sarah Palin.
[In the 2008 election cycle] … Barack Obama’s campaign received more than any other from Disney in 2008, nearly a quarter of a million dollars …
Apparently, making Hitler comparisons to Obama is over the line for ESPN when it comes to the NFL, but the NFL itself is OK with having its halftime entertainment at the Super Bowl be a celebrity who makes Hitler comparisons to Republicans.
Madonna kicked off her Sticky & Sweet Tour in the U.K. Saturday, and stirred up a beehive of controversy by comparing Republican presidential nominee John McCain to Adolf Hitler in a video montage during the show.
During the song “Get Stupid,” Madonna flashed images of McCain alongside photos of Hitler and brutal Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, as well as images of destruction and global warming, according to British paper The Times.
My analogy was extreme — but it was to make a point. I was simply trying to explain how stupid it seemed to me — how ludicrous that pairing was. They’re polar opposites and it made no sense. They don’t see eye-to-eye and never will. I have always respected the office of the President.
Every time the media brings up the tea party it’s painted as racist and extremists — but there’s never a backlash — no outrage to those comparisons,” Williams said. “Working class people are hurting — and it doesn’t seem like anybody cares. When both sides are high-fiving it on the ninth hole when everybody else is without a job – it makes a whole lot of us angry. Something has to change. The policies have to change.
For the record, Obama is not Hitler. Mussolini, yes. But Hitler, no. Besides, at least Hitler loved his country and under Hitler, the German people had jobs.
Racine’s own version of Junior McGee, Alderthug Terry Fair, is under arrest, charged with assault for hitting and choking a female employee of a Downtown bar he owns.
RACINE – Details began to emerge Sunday afternoon about an alleged altercation Friday between Racine Alderman Keith Fair and a female employee at his bar, prompting Racine County sheriff’s investigators to arrest him early Sunday morning at the establishment.
Fair remains jailed on $10,650 bond after sheriff’s officials said the employee — who is eight weeks pregnant – accused him Friday of hitting and choking her at his bar, Place on 6th, at 509 Sixth St. Fair, 59 – a highly controversial city alderman — was arrested for strangulation/suffocation, false imprisonment, battery and disorderly conduct, the sheriff’s office stated this morning.
“There was an argument between him and her at the bar,” Sheriff Christopher Schmaling told The Journal Times this afternoon. “He would routinely give her a ride home. They have a working relationship and a friendship. Things turned physical en route to her destination.”
This is not an isolated incident. He’s also drawn police attention for disorderly conduct for a verbal altercation with an employee of a business near his bar over Fair’s failure to clean up trash and litter. According to the police report, cited by the Sentinel Journal:
Fair got upset because the man threatened to take the matter to the mayor. Fair was accused of screaming obscenities at the man inches away from his face with fists clenched.
Fair should do the honorable thing and resign. Or, presuming he will not, his constituents should have him recalled from office. This is what recalls are for, not a vote taken by a lawmaker with which you disagree. That’s what the next election is for.
The latest episode of GOP Wars: The Revenge of the RINOs played itself out, as South Carolina moved its primary up to January 21 in reaction to Florida moving its primary to January 31.
Washington (al-CNN) – South Carolina’s Republican presidential primary will be held on Jan. 21 of next year, two GOP sources tell CNN.
South Carolina Republican Party Chairman Chad Connelly will formally announce the date later this morning.
The move is designed to put space between South Carolina and Florida, which bucked national Republican Party rules last week and decided to hold their primary on Jan. 31.
The updated calendar is likely to push the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary even earlier into January as they seek to protect their role as the two leadoff contests in the presidential nominating process.
“Last Friday, a nine-person committee brought chaos to the 2012 calendar,” said South Carolina GOP Chairman Chad Connelly. “Today, South Carolina is making things right. South Carolina Republicans have a thirty year track record of picking the eventual Republican Presidential nominee. We will continue that historic tradition on January 21, 2012.”
See our previous coverage of the Florida decision here and here.
Next move most likely will be to set the New Hampshire primary in January, probably January10, with the Iowa caucuses — or as El Rushbo calls them, the Hawkeye Cauci — falling January 2 or 3.
That’s right. With many Americans still recovering from their New Year’s hangover, not to mention following the NFL playoffs and BCS bowls — note: those will be huge in Wisconsin with the prominence of both the Green Bay Packers and Wisconsin Badgers — Iowans will have to figure out which GOP pretender presidential candidate they want to take on the weakest incumbent since Jimmy Carter. Those people will also have their holidays royally screwed up by presidential candidates trampling through the state. “Let’s see. We have Grandma, Grandpa, Aunt Sophie, Uncle Fred, Cousin Phil and his family and Mitt Romney for Christmas dinner. Ron Paul is still nuts. Let’s put him at the kiddie table so we don’t have to listen to him.”
Call this the Revenge of the RINOs. Republicans In Name Only. The reaction of the Cocktail Party GOP to the stunning victory of Herman Cain along with the lurking presence of Sarah Palin was to repeat the brilliant strategery of 2008, frontloading the primary/caucus system in order to guarantee the selection of not the strongest candidate but the one with the most money and best organization — Mitt Romney, RINO. The state-run media will no doubt fan the flames with story after story about momentum, and we know that they certainly don’t have the Republicans’ best interests — or the nation’s for that matter — at heart. They only care about one thing: getting Barack Hussein Obama re-elected.
Last week, Rush Limbaugh told his national audience that he believed the Republican establishment — RINOs inside the Beltway — do not want a conservative at the top of the ticket. Namely, no Herman Cain. No Rick Perry. No Sarah Palin. The frontloading of the primary/caucus system makes it harder for Palin to enter the race with filing deadlines, and it makes it more difficult for the likes of Cain, not well known prior to his win in the Florida straw poll and without large sums of money, and Perry, himself a late entrant into the race, to gain traction in these early states.
In all likelihood, we will know the GOP nominee before the calendar turns to February. Say hello to Mitt Romney, who will likely choose Tim Pawlenty as his running mate.
Mittens/T-Paw 2012.
Can’t you just feel the excitement? Yawn. Zzzzzzzzzzz.
The Republican establishment hasn’t won a national election in 50 years. Since Eisenhower in 1956. Even the likes of Richard Nixon, George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush ran as conservatives to get elected before revealing themselves to be Cocktail Party GOP. This is the group that gave us Bob Dole and John McCain.These guys couldn’t organize a two-car funeral let alone win the most important presidential election since 1860. Same old crap sandwich. Extra ketchup.
Confession: the only Democrat I’ve ever voted for in a presidential election was Bill Clinton in 1996. Yes, I despised the sellout Dole that much and figured Clinton couldn’t do too much damage with a Congress led by Republicans. I voted for McCain only because of the selection of Palin as VP. McCain had spent the previous 10 years selling out Reagan conservatism in order to be accepted by the Beltway establishment as a maverick willing to betray his own party to work with the likes of Russ Feingold and Ted “The Swimmer” Kennedy. (Obligatory cheap shot at The Swimmer: Mary Jo Kopechne could not be reached for comment.)
I haven’t had a candidate to vote for since Reagan. Always against the likes of Algore, the French-looking candidate John F-ing Kerry and Barack Obama.
