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http://msunderestimated.com...  

I don't think this will be available for very long before it is pulled and stuffed down the memory hole at NBC.

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posted by drilnliftcrude on Sunday, November 22, 2009 at 07:21 AM
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Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. Another Obama nominee has tax issues! Impossible you say? I know, it sounds so far fetched how a the Messiah, the President of “hope and change” could make this mistake, AGAIN. Her name is Lael Brainard and she is Obama’s nominee for undersecretary of the Treasury for international affairs (ironic isn’t it?) Lael Brainard was late in paying real estate taxes in 2005, 2006 and 2007 according to the AP. The AP though seems a biut off in its counting. They claim this is the fifth Obama nominee with tax issues. Maybe they forget a couple of the other Obama nominees who have “issues” with taxes such as Timothy Geithner, Tom Daschle, Hilda Solis, Nancy Killefer, Ron Kirk and Kathleen Sebelius. By my count, this is now the 7th Obama nominee with tax issues, but maybe the AP is simply using the Recovery.gov standard for adding up things.

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posted by drilnliftcrude on Saturday, November 21, 2009 at 08:17 AM
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I'm no fan of Lindsey Grahamnesty, but he sure made Eric Holder look pathetic in Senate hearings concerning the upcoming criminal trial of 9-11 terrorists in New York.

Even NPR (no bastion of conservatism) noted that the Attorney General should have been more prepaired.

 

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posted by drilnliftcrude on Thursday, November 19, 2009 at 06:33 PM
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Fiat pulls the plug on Chrysler hybrid and electric car plans

There will be no electric car named Chrysler, Dodge or Jeep.  At least for the forseable future.  Chrysler's new owner, Fiat SpA, has pulled the plug on Chrysler's plans to build and market EV  vehicles, and even hybrid vehicles.

The decision by Fiat SEO Sergio Marchionne is a major voltage reduction for Chrysler.  It is also a direct slap in the face of US taxpayers, who gave Chrysler a $12.5 Billion bail-out package, in part to help float Chrysler's plans for its ENVI program to develop and market fuel efficient electric cars.  In addition, the Department of Energy gave Chrysler another $70 million in grants in August for this program.

Will Fiat return the money?  Unlikely.   

And Gm isn't looking like it will be able offer an IPO in 2010 like it said as it's sales are down 36% while the industry is at 27%.  That would be somewhere in the neighborhood of $60 billion of taxpayer money out the window. 

I can hardly wait till Zero and the dems get hold of our health care system.  Not.

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posted by drilnliftcrude on Sunday, November 15, 2009 at 02:26 PM
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A Quote from their website:

"The recent shootings at Ft. Hood and the resignation of top Foreign Service officer Matthew Hoh demonstrate how even our military officers are opposed to US strategy in Afghanistan."

Pretty black and white, liberals think that Major Hasan is representative of American military officers.  Has President Hussein apologized to the Afghans yet?

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posted by drilnliftcrude on Sunday, November 15, 2009 at 11:12 AM
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Members of "The Greatest Generation" that sacrificed and suffered through the great depression and World War II probably never imagined that they would live to see the day when the President of the United States could not answer the question, "Was dropping the A-bomb the right decision?".  But that is exactly what happened yesterday in Japan.  He was asked twice and could not, after stumbling and dithering, give an answer.  That is pathetic. 

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posted by drilnliftcrude on Sunday, November 15, 2009 at 07:28 AM
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posted by drilnliftcrude on Saturday, November 14, 2009 at 07:42 AM
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I love the way the Baseball Crank puts it.

So, Barack Obama will be staging his own New York production of Chicago, with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed as Roxy Hart ("You had it coming, you had it coming, you only have yourselves to blame...." ). We will be treated to months upon months of front page headlines giving a platform to this lunatic war criminal. The courthouses and City office buildings in lower Manhattan (City Hall, the state courts, the immigration offices, the Court of International Trade, the US Attorney's Office, the DA's office, and the main city office building that does marriage licenses and the like are all within about a two-block radius of the federal courthouses and the Metropolitan Correctional Center) will be snarled with massive security, as if lower Manhattan needs more traffic and more armed men.We'll have to have pretrial hearings on the inevitable countless motions about how KSM was apprehended and the evidence against him collected, undoubtedly to the detriment of vital sources of intelligence, like when we lost the ability to track Osama bin Laden by cellphone after our tracing of his calls was revealed by a prosecution under the DOJ Criminal Division then headed by...Eric Holder.

And that's even before he starts in on the sob stories about being waterboarded. I'm not seriously concerned that KSM stands any chance of being acquitted, but a hung jury? It only takes one person with extreme political or religious views, one juror who just can't abide the death penalty (even assuming Obama's DOJ pursues it). Just imagine the controversy, if there are Muslims in the jury pool, over what questions prosecutors are permitted to ask them and whether they can be challenged. And of course, it sends the message to our enemies that there's nothing you can do to us that will get you sent through a process rougher than the one we used on Michael Vick or Martha Stewart.

I know I have spoken and written many rough things about Obama, but as Michael Moore would say, most New Yorkers voted for the man - why is he doing this to us?

It's impossible, really, to caricature this White House; even Josiah Bartlett didn't run through this many liberal stereotypes in his first season. Obama needs new writers. Blow up the World Trade Center and kill 3,000 Americans? Jail! Don't buy health insurance? Jail! Win the Nobel Prize for doing jack squat. Travel to Copenhagen to beg and grovel unsuccessfully for the Olympics, and pledge to go visit Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but blow off traveling to Berlin to commemorate the victory of freedom over Communism (then give a tepid speech on the subject that refuses to acknowledge Ronald Reagan). Commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Soviet invasion of Poland by unilaterally abandoning missile defense installations in Poland.

Insult and disdain one faithful ally after another - Britain, India, Israel, Poland, Colombia, you name it - and cozy up to our enemies, with nothing to show for it - nothing to show for anything he's done in foreign affairs. All but ignore democratic protests in Iran while supporting an illegal effort by Honduras' president to stay on beyond the end of his term. Suddenly complain about corruption and electoral fraud in Afghanistan, while seeking the favor of Hugo Chavez and Mahmoud Ahmadenijad and Vladimir Putin - heck, Obama endorsed half a dozen people in Chicago more corrupt than Hamid Karzai. On and on and on we go, with President Apology constantly straining to run down his country's record and talk up the propagandized view of history of its enemies. He's taken more time to "evaluate" General McChrystal's recommendations about Afghan policy than it took George W. Bush to invade Afghanistan and capture Kabul after September 11. It would be funny if it wasn't tragically stupid and bound to get people killed. There is no mistake of our past that Obama is unwilling to remake.

If there's an upside to all this, after months of watching KSM up close, even liberal New Yorkers may be ready to give Dick Cheney a medal.

Charles Krauthammer puts it right with his statement, "Giving KSM the rights of an American citizen is unconscionable." 

And finally, Andrew McCarthy makes a strong case that this whole thing is an attempt by an extreme leftist administration to put America on trial and to try and make a "war crimes" case against those who have been trying to protect us since 9-11.

So: We are now going to have a trial that never had to happen for defendants who have no defense. And when defendants have no defense for their own actions, there is only one thing for their lawyers to do: put the government on trial in hopes of getting the jury (and the media) spun up over government errors, abuses and incompetence. That is what is going to happen in the trial of KSM et al. It will be a soapbox for al-Qaeda's case against America. Since that will be their "defense," the defendants will demand every bit of information they can get about interrogations, renditions, secret prisons, undercover operations targeting Muslims and mosques, etc., and — depending on what judge catches the case — they are likely to be given a lot of it. The administration will be able to claim that the judge, not the administration, is responsible for the exposure of our defense secrets. And the circus will be played out for all to see — in the middle of the war. It will provide endless fodder for the transnational Left to press its case that actions taken in America's defense are violations of international law that must be addressed by foreign courts. And the intelligence bounty will make our enemies more efficient at killing us.

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posted by drilnliftcrude on Saturday, November 14, 2009 at 07:14 AM
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While Dubya and Laura give a lesson on class acts...

the Narcissist in chief doesn't listen.

November 07, 2009

Obama snubs Ft. Hood to relax at Camp David

Clarice Feldman

Dan Riehl checks the President's schedule and learns that Obama's not going to Fort Hood, but rather to Camp David for the weekend. In an update, Dan notes that his predecessor is more sensitive to the situation.

Fox Reports GWB and Laura spent a few hours at Fort Hood, no photo ops. Now that's a CIC.

Are you kidding me? Camp frickin' David? What, does he have a tee time close by? For heaven's sakes, he's the CIC. And he's taking the weekend off? This guy simply doesn't care. Unbelievable via Fox.

11:25AM THE PRESIDENT addresses the House Democratic Caucus - Cannon House Office Building

2:30PM THE PRESIDENT makes a statement to the press on Health Care - Rose Garden

2:45PM THE PRESIDENT and THE FIRST LADY depart The White House en route Camp David - South Lawn

That Dancing with the Indians conference must have really worn the poor guy out so much he can't spare time to comfort the survivors of the jihadi Major's massacre.
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Post Office Returns 107,831 Tax Refund Checks to IRS Due to Faulty Addresses 

Oh, but it will be different when the gov't run health care agency inform's you that you have a compatible donor for that liver transplant. 

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