Hyscience

NYTimes sneers at Christianity and Patriotism

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 10:41:31 -0500

No surprise here; after all, isn't this kind of antogonism toward America and the faith that the majority of Americans follow, exactly what we've learned to expect from the New York Times?

On our 'Hope" economy

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 10:17:20 -0500

It most definitely needs more hope, because "as of right now, judging solely from the administration's very own promises and timeline, we are left with nothing to show for an irresponsible spending binge."

A Must-watch Independence Day message

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 09:54:38 -0500

Just as Clyde at The Patriot Room suggests - you'll get chills watching this wonderful, emboldening, and important message from Bob Basso, author of "Common Sensel," who plays the role of Thomas Paine to ignite the fire of change in America.

Take the time to watch the entire video.

Another Biden blunder

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 09:29:42 -0500

Why in the hell would our Vice President tell Iraqi leaders that violence there could result in the U.S. pulling out?

It's an open invitation to the terrorists and a road map for them to get the U.S. out early. Encouraging the different factions to work together is one thing, to wear weakness on his sleeve and embolden our enemies is quite another.

This clown is indeed both dangerous and an embarrassment .

HT - Patriot Room

The speech we should be hearing from our president

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 09:03:33 -0500

Instead of an Independence Day speech being used to plug his own agenda (Obama used the founding fathers to argue for a federal takeover of education, energy, and health care), the speech we should have heard from our president was given by Senator John McCain in today's weekly Republican address:

Transcript here.

Did you hear about Sarah?

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 08:55:30 -0500

If you haven't, it means you've been hiding out in a cave far away from a television set or a newspaper, since the story has totally dominated the news cycle.

No one can say that Sarah doesn't have star power, hell, she's even blasted the 24/7 "Michael Jackson has died" story into the background. She may never really be considered as real presidential material, but she can surely kick up a fuss and get people talking out of their a**es with speculation about what she'll do or say next.

'Watchdogs an endangered species in the Age of Obama'

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 07:38:33 -0500

In the JICYMI department, it's becoming more and more obvious that the Obama administration doesn't like having the questionable affairs of its agencies watched over by Inspector Generals. When large sums of money are being misspent, the administration seems to not want to be scrutinized or questioned. Clearly, a pattern is emerging in which government watchdogs who dare highlight fraud and waste are coming under fire from the Obama "transparency" regime.

The latest Inspector General to be sacked by the administration is Amtrak Inspector General Fred Weiderhold:

[...] Amtrak Inspector General Fred Weiderhold. The longtime veteran employee was abruptly "retired" this month--just as the government-subsidized rail service faces mounting complaints about its meddling in financial audits and probes.

Question the timing? Hell, yes.

On June 18, Weiderhold met with Amtrak officials to discuss the results of an independent report by the Washington, D.C., law firm Willkie, Farr and Gallagher. The 94-page report has been made publicly available through the office of whistleblower advocate Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa. It concluded that the "independence and effectiveness" of the Amtrak inspector general's office "are being substantially impaired" by the agency's Law Department.

Amtrak bosses have effectively gagged their budgetary watchdogs from communicating with Congress without pre-approval; required that all Amtrak documents be "pre-screened" (and in some cases redacted) before being turned over to the inspector general's office; and taken control of the inspector general's $5 million portion of federal stimulus spending.

[...] The transparent sacking comes just as Amtrak is awash in more than $1.3 billion in new federal stimulus money. It comes on the heels of the unceremonious dismissal of Gerald Walpin, the AmeriCorps inspector general who dared to probe financial shenanigans by Obama cronies. (See "Obama's AmeriCrooks and Cronies Scandal," June 17, 2009.) And it comes on the heels of the stifling of veteran Environmental Protection Agency employee Alan Carlin, the researcher who dared to question the Obama administration's conventional wisdom on global warming. (See "EPA's Game of Global Warming Hide-and-Seek," June 26, 2009.)

Question the timing? You betcha.

So, who is behind the railroading of the Amtrak inspector general? As with the story of the AmeriCorps firing, which has First Lady Michelle Obama's fingerprints on it, the Amtrak case smells like cronyism. Investigative journalist Robert Stacy McCain, who has watchdogged the watchdog stories, noted last week that Amtrak's vice president and general counsel is Eleanor Acheson.

Acheson, an old friend of Hillary Clinton, also has close ties to Vice President Joe "Mr. Amtrak" Biden. She hired Biden's nominations counsel Jonathan Meyer to serve as her deputy general counsel. The two had also worked together in the Clinton Justice Department. Meyer called his hiring at Amtrak by Acheson a "happy coincidence," according to Legal Times. (In another "happy coincidence," Biden's lobbyist son, Hunter, sits on Amtrak's board of directors.) Acheson oversees the very Law Department accused of interfering repeatedly with the taxpayer advocates in the inspector general's office.

Read it all ...

Hat -tip - Sybil

Sarah's exit

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:26:33 -0500

Could this be true?

Via The Anchoress (who has many more links):

JUST IN -- Sources close to Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin tell MSNBC that she is "out of politics for good." As I said...this ambitious woman does not do this unless politics no longer matters. 4:53 PM

On the other hand, Bill Kristal has a contrarian take, and believes it to be a gamble, that could be a shrewd one.

To say the least, the political pundits, especially on the left, are going to have a field day with this story. My own take is that we haven't heard the last of Alaska governor Sarah Palin.

Video: Khilafah Conference USA 2009: Hizb ut Tahrir America (Proposes taking over America)

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:52:08 -0500

Watch video link below and see that the Islamists in Chicago, the hometown of our islamist supporting president who has no problem with Muslims proposing the taking over of America (Hat tip - Sybil).

New GOP ad: 'Where are the jobs!"

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:21:57 -0500

It's a good one:

Boehner says: "At a time when Americans are looking to Washington for leadership, the trillion-dollar 'stimulus' isn't working. Americans were promised the 'stimulus' would keep the unemployment rate from going above eight percent. It's now at 9.5 percent, and rising. Where are the jobs?"

HT - Gateway Pundit

'New and disquieting Which-Side-Is-Obama-On Update'

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:00:33 -0500

Why in the hell would Barack Obama want to block Iran sanctions at the upcoming G8 summit!

The only answer is that the decision is based upon a much misguided and extremely naive foreign policy. As Rich Lowry wrote at RCC, Obama should have learned from N. Korea:

Obama has gotten a preview of what extending his hand to a clenched fist looks like in North Korea. Six months into the era of Obama's irenic, world-calming diplomacy, Pyongyang has tested a long-range missile and a nuclear device, and announced it's going to weaponize its plutonium stock and proceed with a uranium-enrichment program. Kim Jong Il's family dynasty shows no sign of realizing that the advent of Obama was supposed to change its nature, interests, and behavior.

Why will the mullahs?

The answer, of course, is that they won't. And we'll have lost valuable time to stop Iran's development of nuclear weapons. Timesonline reports that Dr Mohamed ElBaradei, the Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, the UN watchdog, said this week (to the BBC) that it was his "gut feeling" that Iran's leaders wanted to put nuclear weapons within their reach "to send a message to their neighbours, to the rest of the world: don't mess with us".

Not a very promising scenario, from an ideologh hell-bent on world domination.

Related: Obama's Iran Policy is Dead

In the "Who cares" department

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 10:47:13 -0500

A bit of trivia now being passed around the blogs, emails,and forums:

At 5 minutes and 6 seconds after 4 A. M., on the 8th of July this year, the time and date will be : 04:05:06 07-08-09. This will not happen again until the year 3009 !!!!!

I know, I know, who the hell cares!

HT - Douglas

WSJ editorial: New evidence points to zero money down, not subprime loans, led to the mortgage meltdown

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 10:22:04 -0500

Uh-Oh; Stan Liebowitz writes that evidence from a huge national database containing millions of individual loans strongly suggests that the single most important factor is whether the homeowner has negative equity in a house -- that is, the balance of the mortgage is greater than the value of the house. This means that most government policies being discussed to remedy woes in the housing market are misdirected:

[...] We are at a crossroads where we can undo the damage to the housing market by strengthening underwriting standards in a reasonable way. But to do so political leaders must face up to the actual causes of the mortgage crisis, not fictitious causes that fit political agendas and election strategies.

In other words, we're in deep trouble and headed deeper.

Left now using the bible to promote the green agenda

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 10:07:22 -0500

From spending the last 8 years assaulting Christianity to now, all of a sudden, loving Christianity, the left has no problem lying with their enemy in order to promote their green agenda.

He should have anticipated this before he supported "The One"

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 10:01:54 -0500

Now, Colon Powell says he's "concerned" (video) about Obama's spending. Shouldn't he have thought about Obama's socialist-Marxist background before he supported and voted for him?

Or perhaps he was less concerned then about Obama's background and campaign rhetoric, and more concerned about Obama's race.