Do as I say, not as I do

Appears to be the common mantra for the wanna be royalty running the White House these days.

Despite continuing to excoriate the banks for extravagant bonuses, the Government (read, the Obama administration), has approved a $9 Million pay package for the CEO of GM.

Considering that the new CEO had absolutely no experience in the auto industry prior to being placed in charge of the failing GM - perhaps it's a smart move to hire the OLD CEO as an adviser.

In a surprise announcement, GM also said former CEO Fritz Henderson has been rehired as a consultant. Henderson, who was forced out of the job in December, will work 20 hours a month and will be paid $59,090 a month, the company said.

Think about that for a minute, folks. The same administration who has set up a pay czar to make sure that executive compensation is not out of line is now paying the person they ousted nearly $60,000 a month for working a whopping 20 hours.

And oh yes, speaking of the pay czar....

Whitacre's pay package exceeds the limits imposed on companies that have received U.S. government aid, but the an exemption was worked out with government pay czar Kenneth Feinberg, GM said.

I wonder how many exemptions were given to Toyota? But I guess that since the US government doesn't own Toyota, we won't be seeing any special privileges, will we?

Because to this administration, everyone is equal, some are just more equal than others.

Nice work!

US, Allies Tell Taliban About Offensive

Dear God.

This is what happens when liberals micromanage the military. Clearly, the hope is that the mere threat of using force will be enough to scare the taliban turds away (not likely). Welcome to the new, touchy feely warfighting brought to you by a kinder, gentler United States.

I hope you all feel safer now.

Really?

I mean, REALLY? Does Time magazine REALLY think that we are this stupid? Take note of this wonderful headline: D.C. Snowstorm: How Global Warming Makes Blizzards Worse

You can not make this stuff up my friends. The good folks at Time magazine try to tell us what we are seeing isn't really what we are seeing.

The 2009 U.S. Climate Impacts Report found that large-scale cold-weather storm systems have gradually tracked to the north in the U.S. over the past 50 years. While the frequency of storms in the middle latitudes has decreased as the climate has warmed, the intensity of those storms has increased. That's in part because of global warming - hotter air can hold more moisture, so when a storm gathers it can unleash massive amounts of snow. Colder air, by contrast, is drier; if we were in a truly vicious cold snap, like the one that occurred over much of the East Coast during parts of January, we would be unlikely to see heavy snowfall.

I find it most unusual that the same dimwit that tries to convince us that record cold temps and record snowfall don't mean that the world is cooling; on the contrary, it's supposed to mean that the world is actually warming up..... the DIQ (Dimwit in Question) makes no mention whatsoever of last fall's Climategate scandal. A scandal that continues to grow - despite a media that is dead set on ignoring the story.

All I can say to the DIQ is that if you really believe the ongoing blizzards across the United States are a result of global warming, I have a bridge in San Francisco I'd like to sell you.

Super Bowl XLIV - 2010

I'd be remiss and untrue to my heritage as a member of a multi-generation New Orleans family if I didn't chime in with my observations on this Super Bowl.

People need to understand that the New Orleans football fan is a long-suffering person, one who has tolerated some of the most embarrassing teams in NFL history, including ones led by Archie Manning, father of the Colt's quarterback. New Orleans is a hard place to be an athlete. You can't buy a beer or a meal in NOLA if you play for the Saints, and you're quite the local celebrity. People know how to party, and I suspect it's tough for a professional athlete to maintain top condition given the environment.Let's face it - if you were drafted into the NFL, there would have been a lot worse places to live than New Orleans, am I right?

But something's different this year. I think this game will come down to who wants it more. I keep hearing all the prognostication about how Indianapolis will run roughshod over the hapless, inexperienced Saints. Let's keep this in perspective, because I don't think New Orleans will just lay down. They suffered a string of defeats late in the season, one most notably at the hands of the Cowboys. But they came back with a vengeance, and went toe-to-toe with that old guy and the Vikings. Yeah, it was as close as you can get, but they prevailed.

Truth be told, I just hope it's a good game, and I hope the Saints make the people of New Orleans proud.

Who dat?

Catching up

I was lambasted by a buddy at work that the Tattler hadn't been updated in awhile... so here you go:

The winter of 2009-10 is the winter that killed the fear of man-made global warming. At least, killed it with anyone who has a brain. A seemingly never ending winter continues to wreak havoc across the country. Hell, they're even giving Dallas a chance of snow again on Monday...

The government continues to bully Toyota. I'm sure that the fact that the government owns GM - a major competitor of Toyota - has nothing to do with it.

Iran has promised that on February 11, they'll let us all see just how much of a nuclear power they have become. We have responded by sending Patriot missile batteries into the Gulf... With the messiah in charge, I hope he knows what to do when the phone rings at 3 in the morning. In a similar vein, the CIA and other National Security agencies are warning us to expect a terrorist attack in the United States in the next 3-6 months. However, by and large, the media is silent on it and we're told to move along, nothing to see...

The Obama presidency continues to be the worst presidency in recent history. So far, he's failed on everything - Olympic games in Chicago? Climate change legislation from Copenhagen? Health Care? Unemployment? Virginia? New Jersey? And for God's sake, Massachusetts?

These mind boggling failures are only what I can recall off the top of my head at the end of a long day. The messiah has failed at everything he's pushed for. Every. Single. Thing. And the telling blow can be found here.

That should catch us up to date for the time being, more to come later ....

For Jim

Now here's a Burger King JR will eat at!

Friday, Burger King (BKC) will unveil plans to sell beer and burgers at a Whopper Bar ....

GOP's Brown wins Mass. Senate seat in epic upset

Holeee Sheeit.

I rather hoped that Brown would win, but didn't really think it was possible in, of all places - Massachusetts.

Wow.

Shot heard 'round the world indeed.

Now that would make me laugh

It would appear that the Democrat party is in free fall and in a major panic. And I cannot tell you how hard I would laugh if the chosen one failed, yet again, to get another loser Democrat elected....

Thugs

Once again, Nazi tactics utilized by the democrat party. Long story short, a documented journalist asking pesky questions to the democrat running for the open Senate seat in Massachusetts. Instead of answering the questions, the reporter is harassed and apparently knocked down by one of the candidates' entourage.



Watching the video and being objective, I cannot honestly tell what knocked the reporter down. You can see the democrat thug moving towards him right before he falls, but I can't tell from this video if the guy tripped on his own or was pushed.

What IS clear, however, is that the democrat thug clearly impedes the reporter's progress and clearly harasses him in an attempt to keep the reporter away from the candidate after the fall. By itself, that is clearly bad enough, and clearly evident of the same tactics used by Nazi thugs in the 30s to anyone asking pesky questions of uncle Adolph. If it does turn out that the thug knocked the guy down as well, that's simply not acceptable - and about what you would expect from today's democrat party.

New Seats available while flying

Look, Rhonda - finally some seats just for you on an airplane!!

Air Canada ordered to offer nut-free seats

Canada's transportation regulator has ordered Air Canada to accommodate passengers with severe nut allergies by seating them in new nut-free zones on aircraft...."The agency has determined that a buffer zone, including an announcement within that zone, is the appropriate accommodation for persons with disabilities due to their allergy to ... nuts," the Canadian Transportation Agency said in its ruling.

Light skinned and Negro what?

The top Democrat in the U.S. Senate apologized on Saturday for comments he made about Barack Obama's race during the 2008 presidential bid and are quoted in a yet-to-be-released book about the campaign. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada described in private then-Sen. Barack Obama as "light skinned" and "with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one."

How funny! The party that claims to be tolerant, understanding, and post-racial is proven yet again to be nothing more than window dressing.

How long would a Republican last making similar comments? Oh wait, we know that answer. Trent Lott resigned from his leadership position only two weeks after comments he made about Strom Thurmond.

The joke that is our American government continues.

Nothing to see here, move along

Once again we find out that the most corrupt administration in history is not completely speaking the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

MIT economist Jonathan Gruber, one of the leading academic defenders of health care reform, is taking heat for failing to disclose consistently that he was under contract with the Department of Health and Human Services while he was touting the Democrats' health proposals in the media.

Gruber, according to federal government documents, is under a $297,600 contract until next month to provide "technical assistance" in evaluating health care reform proposals. He was under a $95,000 HHS contract before that.

But while he was being paid to provide his services to HHS, he was also fending off health care reform critics in the media.

It would be one thing to clearly state that the man was on the payroll of the HHS. However, it looks better in the press to claim you are an "unbiased observer".

This is no surprise to me. After all, it's the same corrupt administration that has directed the NEA to encourage artists to support the administration's positions. You know, kinda like Goebbels or Pravda would do in the bad old days.

2012 can not get here soon enough, I only hope there's something left when it gets here.

America Rising

Lies, lies and damned lies

It would appear, dear readers, that the current administration clearly has no shame. Despite countless calls for openness and debate during the campaign; despite calls to end the power of the pharmaceutical companies; and despite calls to end sweetheart deals in Congress - the president and his lackeys are doing just the opposite.

Senator Cornyn has issued a statement that's on point:

“Americans have already seen and rejected the way Democrats bought their way to 60 votes in the Senate, including political payoffs such as the ‘Louisiana Purchase,’ the ‘Cornhusker Kickback,’ and billions of dollars in ‘Gator Aid.’ Americans lost even more faith in Washington watching the Democrats cut deals with special interest groups, such as the pharmaceutical industry, instead of protecting the interests of patients.

“Rather than heeding the public outcry against the way Washington does business, it appears that Democrats are once again determined to shut out the American people when it comes to merging the Senate and House bills. Rather than an open and honest debate about the best way to solve the real problems in our health care system, the Democrats have once again chosen a closed-door process to get them to 60 votes.”

Sen. Cornyn also made the following comments regarding sweetheart deals that have already been cut with special interest groups and other Senators:

On Small Businesses…

“I call on Democrat leaders to remove the last-minute deal with big labor bosses that would penalize small construction businesses with higher taxes. Considering that these same construction businesses tend to steer clear of unionizing, one has to wonder why they are being singled out.

“When this debate began, Democrat leaders pledged to protect our nation’s small businesses. No one, least of all our small business owners—the nation’s top economic engine—should be penalized with higher taxes as a result of a sweetheart deal for union bosses.”

On Taxpayers…

“Several states are slated to receive hundreds of millions of dollars in extra taxpayer money to fund the pet projects and priorities of Senators who were straddling the fence on whether to support the Reid bill. On top of that, special interests like the pharmaceutical, insurance and hospital industries are also poised to cash in from special deals in the Reid bill.”

Sweetheart Deals In The Reid Bill:

· The Louisiana Purchase: $100 million in extra Medicaid money for the Bayou State. (Original Reid amendment, section 2006, page 432, line 14)

· The Cornhusker Kickback: $100 million in extra Medicaid money for Nebraska. (section 10201, page 96, line 9)

· U Con: $100 million for a medical center in Connecticut. (Manager’s Amendment To H.R. 3590, Pg. 328)

· Gator Aid: $25-$30 billion for a grandfather clause that would protect only senior citizens living in Florida from the deep cuts the bill imposes on Medicare Advantage. (Original Reid amendment, section 3201, page 895, line 9)

· Handout Montana: Medicare coverage for anybody exposed to asbestos -- as long as they worked in a mine in Libby, Montana. (section 10323, page 193, line 21)

· Iowa Pork and Omaha Prime Cuts: Additional Medicare money for low-volume hospitals of the sort commonly found in Iowa, while Nebraska won a "carve out" provision that would reduce fees for Mutual of Omaha and other Nebraska insurers. (Section 10905, page 371, line 1)

· Vermont ($600M), Massachusetts ($500M): Adds targeted state FMAP provisions. Specific FMAP bonuses for VT and MA (starting at page 96, line 9). VT gets a 2.2% FMAP increase for 6 years for their entire program. MA gets a 0.5% FMAP increase for three years for the entire program. (section 10201, page 96, line 9)

· Hawaii: Adds a DSH extension. (section 10201, page 101, line 6)

· Michigan, Connecticut: Amends section 508 extension so that hospitals in Michigan and Connecticut have option to benefit under section 508 if it means higher payments. This was also done in previous legislation. (section 10317, page 174, line 9)

· Montana, South Dakota, North Dakota, Wyoming: Dorgan/Conrad frontier amendment adds 1.0 hosp wage index for those states. MT, SD, ND and WY would qualify (AK and NV also qualify but would not benefit because they are already above 1.0 wage index value). Also establishes a 1.0 practice expense GPCI floor for physicians in those states. (section 10324, page 208, line 16)

· Nebraska and Michigan: Carve-out from the insurance fee for Nebraska Blue Cross/Blue Shield and Michigan Blue Cross/Blue Shield. (section 10905, page 369, lines 10-25 though page 370, lines 1-15)

And, just in case you haven't yet seen or heard the video compilation showing several times that Obama said the negotiations would be in the open and "on C-span", here it is for your education:



And mark my words - if he said "on C-span" 8 times in the video, he said it 800 times on the campaign trail. But with this administration, it is very much say one thing and do another.

The crybaby administration

Do these people have no shame? I'm talkin' here of both the Obama administration and the news media.

HONOLULU – President Barack Obama ended a Hawaiian vacation to return Monday to the Washington he never really escaped.

I mean, really. How many of you folks get to take a taxpayer paid trip to Hawaii for 14 days? Airfare, food, entourage etc. all covered and paid for by someone else.

To steal a phrase from the messiah: let me be clear. I don't begrudge ANY president for trying to take some time off. That job has to be an absolute ball buster. And the fact is, it's a 24/7 365 deal, regardless of whether you're on "vacation" or not.

The problem here is the constant whining about how hard the job is. You volunteered, pal. STFU and get to work. If I remember correctly, this is the 2nd taxpayer paid vacation you've been on, in addition to multiple trips for you and your brood to Europe for "work" (and shopping for the girls).

Instead of a real Commander in Chief, we get someone who wants to play president on West Wing with all of the perks and none of the work. Amateur hour continues.

I mean, really.

So what if a former FBI agent misled Congress about inappropriately using his authority as an FBI agent.

You people act all surprised about someone abusing Federal authority in this administration like it's something new.

At least it's a different aspect this time, from all appearances, he's not a tax cheat.

But it does follow a pattern. Put tax cheats in charge of tax policy and put someone who's abused his power as a Federal officer in charge of the TSA. Makes sense to me.

The science is settled

Isn't that what Algore has told us ad nauseum??

Well apparently, as we've been saying all along.... the science is NOT settled.

No Rise of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Fraction in Past 160 Years, New Research

Hopefully, the recent climategate email fiasco will move this debate back into the realm of science uncorrupted by politics and money.... I'm not entirely hopeful, but at least for the time being, that looks like at least a possibility.

Boo Freakin' Hoo

After a sleepless, overnight flight to Oslo to accept the Nobel Peace Prize earlier this month, President Barack Obama made a not altogether surprising admission. He was tired.

Who could blame him? The president was on his ninth foreign trip to his 21st country; he added a 10th trip the following week. The year had been bookended by the two most intense periods of his young presidency — the early decisions to bail out the nation’s banks and automobile industry, steps the president deemed unpopular but necessary, and his December orders to deploy 30,000 additional U.S. troops to fight the war in Afghanistan.

Throw in an unemployment rate in the double-digits, a health care bill still stuck on Capitol Hill, and last-minute negotiations on a global climate change agreement, and aides say it’s no secret that the president is tired, and looking forward to recharging during his year-end family vacation in Hawaii.

Not that the commander in chief really thinks he can escape his duties, even on an island. Amid golf, tennis, gym workouts and dinner, Obama has been called on to monitor the airliner attack in Detroit last Friday and what appeared to be another attack on Sunday — that incident turned out to be a false alarm. On Monday, Obama worked out in the morning and played tennis before making his first public remarks on airline security, then hit the golf course.

So much for putting aside the stress of work. Obama himself has been candid about the pressures of being president during what he has called an “extraordinary year.”

“You have a convergence of factors that have made this a difficult year not so much for me but for the American people,” he said in an interview with CBS News last month. “Absolutely that weighs on me.”

The first 20 or so seconds of this video about sum it up!

Dude, you volunteered for the job. Stop whining!

It's an easy solution

Instead of punishing normal folks who aren't interested in getting to paradise and their 72 virgins, the solution to the seemingly endless stream of muslims willing to blow themselves up is an easy one.

Muslims don't fly on American flagged airplanes. If you don't have the stones to take the step necessary to protect the American flying public, then just drop the charade of the TSA searching granny and her walker.

If you want to be PC about it, you could say that muslim males aged 18-50 can't fly on American flagged aircraft and let muslim women, children, and old timers fly. At least up to the point that they also start blowing themselves up. But the sad fact of the matter is that muslim males in that demographic constitute nearly 100% of all suicide bombers or wanna be suicide bombers around the world.

Keep them isolated from the rest of the population and by and large, your problem is solved.