Tom Brady completes his metrosexuality

Add Tom Brady's endorsement of UGG boots for men to the list of things that make him a douche, by cancelling out the things that make him manly....3 SuperBowl victories, marrying a Brazilian supermodel, etc. His wife's control of his womanly hairstyle was bad enough, but is a man wearing hideous boots that make your legs appear short and your ankles fat really that step toward metrosexuality Tom wants to take? I wonder what's next for Tom Terrific, dark emo eyeliner and ear jewelry?

Heartache....some tea-party reps actually big spenders

Remember in the halcyon days leading up to the midterms how many tea-party candidates ran on a platform of fiscal responsibility, drastically reduced spending, and balanced budget governance? Well, it seems many of the ones who've signed on to Michelle Bachmann's Tea-Party Caucus are among the worst pork-barrel offenders....

From NationalJournal -- Members of the Congressional Tea Party Caucus may tout their commitment to cutting government spending now, but they used the 111th Congress to request hundreds of earmarks that, taken cumulatively, added more than $1 billion to the federal budget.

According to a Hotline review of records compiled by Citizens Against Government Waste, the 52 members of the caucus, which pledges to cut spending and reduce the size of government, requested a total of 764 earmarks valued at $1,049,783,150 during Fiscal Year 2010, the last year for which records are available.

Bachmann and 13 others in the caucus did not request any earmarks. If these representatives who were elected with tea-party support morph into the same big-spending republicans their predecessors were, they'll likely get thrown out after only one term. The tea parties didn't organize and throw the democrats out of power only to be used by smarmy republicans to get elected and then ignored.

I've said it before and I'll say it again, unless the earmark is a road, bridge, school, or some other public work, no...NO money should be taken from one group of taxpayers and used for the benefit of another group.

Meghan McCain is a moron

Remember when Barbara Bush commented in an interview that “Sarah Palin should stay in Alaska.”? Sarah Palin responded on the Laura Ingraham radio show saying “of course they think that, the Bush’s are blue bloods.” Apparently Meghan was confused by the term "blue bloods" so she looked it up.....

Via Weaselzippers -- "I actually had to Google what the meaning of “blue bloods” was, although I could surmise that it was some kind of knock against education and coming from a family of some success. Yes, in essence that is what this statement meant."

That she even had to Google the term "blue bloods" demonstrates her limited general knowledge. And then to still conclude that it had anything to do with education shows that she can't research properly the meaning of a simple, common phrase. Who above the age of 16 doesn't know it's a pejorative term used by the proletariat for aristocrats or nobles? Sarah Palin went to an average school, came from an average family with an average income level, while the McCains and Bushes are fabulously wealthy, attended only the best Ivy League schools, and think of themselves as American nobility....most well-known political families do. This is why the Bushes and McCains don't like Sarah Palin.....she's a commoner. How Meghan missed that obvious point defies all logic and reason.

With Meghan's mad research skills, I can only conclude that Columbia must grade on the curve.

Why is Bernanke not in a pillory in DC somewhere?

We are just now learning of the utter corruption, at American taxpayers' expense, associated with the Federal Reserve's role in doling bailout money.....UNBELIEVABLE!!!

From WashingtonPost -- The Fed launched emergency programs totaling $3.3 trillion in aid, a figure reached by adding up the peak amount of lending in each program.

Companies that few people would associate with Wall Street benefited through the Fed's program to ease the market for commercial paper, a form of short-term debt used by major corporations to fund their daily activities.

By the fall of 2008, credit had frozen across the financial system, including the commercial paper market. The Fed then purchased commercial paper issued by GE 12 times for a total of $16 billion. It bought paper from Harley-Davidson 33 times, for a total of $2.3 billion. It picked up debt issued by Verizon twice, totaling $1.5 billion.

The Fed bailed out General Electric 12 times and not once did NBC news, a subsidiary of GE, report it. The astonishing stupidity of anybody who still trusts NBC do deliver honest news is......well, astonishing.

The Fed bailed out Harley-Davidson 33 times? Are you kidding me? Harley-Davidson might as well be GM or Chrysler now. That whooshing sound you hear is my respect for HD going down the toilet.

Additionally, hundreds of millions of dollars taken from taxpayers went to bailout foreign banks too. The Fed has become the international bank of the world, using our money to prop up the businesses of the country-club buddies of the Fed board members.

Maybe I'm missing something here because I don't fully understand the need for the Fed, composed of private, unelected citizens with little or no oversight, who have vested interests in the profitability of certain banks and Wall Street firms, to be in charge of US monetary policy. Furthermore, I don't really know who oversees their actions. If anybody can explain why any of this is OK, I'd gladly withdraw my outrage.

Iran gets owned

This is a satellite image of the roof of the Tehran International Airport in Iran. Clearly it shows a Star of David prominently displayed there. Apparently Iranian officials are livid about it and want it removed immediately.

The airport was built by Israeli engineers in 1979 just before the Islamic revolution. This has led to obvious speculation that they did it purposefully. And if so, it would certainly be the world's greatest prank.

Others think it's just a trick of the eye when sun light casts shadows but it looks pretty real to me. I hope we find out it's real. Who wouldn't love to have been a fly on the wall when the mullahs, imams, and other assorted Muslim politicians in bad suits, found out about a Star of David on their airport....heh heh.

It's the Constitution, stupid!

Democrats are nothing if not onerous regulators. Now in the lame-duck session Senator Harry Reid is trying to place the federal bureaucracy squarely in charge of heavily regulating the nation's food supply with the Food Safety Bill.....

A food safety bill that has burned up precious days of the Senate’s lame-duck session appears headed back to the chamber because Democrats violated a constitutional provision requiring that tax provisions originate in the House.

As any minimally astute high-school junior can tell you, only the House of Representatives, not the Senate, may raise taxes according to Article I Section 7 of the Constitution. I wonder how Harry missed that, or is it that he assumed the House would obediently raise taxes to fund his bill just because he said so? I doubt House democrats are in the mood to be told what to do by the despicable Harry Reid. Hopefully this gaffe signals the end of Reid's attempt to further inject the federal regulatory state into Americans' lives.

Chairman Zero has no shame....or sense of irony

Boy wonder tax-cheat Tim Geithner is tapped by Chairman Zero to head up negotiations with republicans on tax policy...

From FoxNews -- President Obama announced that he has dispatched Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and OMB Director Jack Lew to lead negotiations with both parties on a potential tax cut compromise.

When are you people going to get it? There are no tax cuts on the table here! All they're doing is negotiating whose taxes will stay the same and whose will go up. We should be so lucky that our privileged overlords would benevolently allow us to keep a morsel more of what we've earned by cutting our taxes. Don't let the feckless liberal media acting as obedient mouthpieces for craven democrats convince you you're getting a tax cut from Obama......you are not!

Heartache.....Sarah Palin's a band-wagon populist now

Look, I'll be the first to come to Sarah Palin's defense when it comes to policy issues and if she won the GOP nomination she'd get my enthusiastic vote but, she'd have to show that she knows the difference between domestic law enforcement and international law. This was her tweet about the Wikileaks case....

Inexplicable: I recently won in court to stop my book "America by Heart" from being leaked, but US Govt can't stop Wikileaks' treasonous act?

Wikileaks is based in Sweden and our courts have no jurisdiction there. Nor does Wikileaks founder Julian Assange have to abide by demands by our State Department or the Obama administration to not publish documents. Furthermore, why does everybody keep calling him a traitor and guilty of treason? He's not an American citizen. He's an Australian national living in Sweden. Is Assange a detestable, anti-American a-hole? Certainly, but he's not a traitor to the US. Plus, I doubt seriously if neutral Sweden would extradite him to the US to face charges of espionage. Palin should know this and stop with the phoney populist outrage.

Face it Americans. The fault of this document theft does not lie with Assange. It lies equally with private Manning and others who stole the documents and with the US government who failed miserably to secure them in the first place. If you want to be outraged, be outraged at the breathtaking incompetence of the federal bureaucracy in the State department.

Et tu Judge, et tu?

Add Judge Andrew Napolitano to the deranged 9/11 truther squad. He made this comment the other day on the Alex Jones show...

Judge Napolitano: "It’s hard for me to believe that WTC7 came down by itself."

As any first-year engineering student can tell you, it didn't come down by itself. Fire and gravity brought it down. But a physics debate is missing the point entirely. In order to accept that WTC-7 collapse was not part of the plane attack, you must accept that our federal government, specifically the Bush administration, deliberately and secretly used controlled demolition to destroy the building with prior knowledge of the terrorist attacks. I wonder if the Judge is prepared to make that accusation? I doubt he's prepared to say that, but either you believe everything that happened that day was part of the attack or you believe the entire thing was orchestrated by George Bush...there's no in between or partial responsibility.

I just lost a little respect for the Judge.

Sweet validation

You know that my position on the Wikileaks document dump is that it's much-ado about nothing? If it's about anything, it's about how a lowly private had access to such sensitive material, for so long. Well, as if to validate precisely what I've been saying, Mike Flynn over at BigGovernment, a web site from Andrew Brietbart, makes these exact points. Here's an excerpt...

So, let me get this straight. The big data-dump of 250,000 leaked diplomatic cables reveal that American diplomats occasionally spy on other diplomats, the Arabs don’t like the Persians, British royalty can be rude, and Obama and his disciples have poor opinions of other world leaders. Oh, and the Chinese government might be trying to censor parts of the internet, the Russian government might have ties to organized crime and members of the Afghan government might be corrupt.

Like I said, big whup! How does all this rise to the level of scandalous international incident? We already knew all this, it's just that nobody's said it out loud before now. After demanding his money back, a disappointed Flynn continues....

Of course, it is possible that more startling revelations come to light. Color me skeptical, though, as it seems Assange would lead with his best stuff. Regardless, I don’t think the real scandal is the content of the cables. I think it is this:

How the hell does a 22-year old private have access to this stuff?

See, you people don't think I know what I'm talking about. Demented and cynical though I may be about most news stories, I can discern the real crises from manufactured ones....serious journalists came to the same conclusions.

Click on the link above and read the whole story.