Eyewear for Eyegore

JUST IGNORE THAT SUBPOENA DEPARTMENT

Todd Palin and nine aides were found in contempt Friday by the Alaska Senate for failing to appear to testify in the Legislature’s “troopergate” investigation of his wife…

HOW ABOUT THAT PENNSYLVANIA PUBLIC SERVICE RADIO DEBACLE?

“..the system is not finished yet, even though the money for the project was allocated in 1996 and construction began in 2001. While all 235 high-profile towers in the system have been completed, original estimates that an additional 500 cell sites would provide the needed coverage have proved inadequate. Instead, it likely will take 700-800 cell sites to finish the project.”

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The Daily Mail ( UK ) wrote this editorial about Obama on 1/6/2009. (confirmation, Google ” London Daily Mail Obama’s Victory”)

Obama’s Victory–A British view

A victory for the hysterical Oprah Winfrey, the mad racist preacher Jeremiah Wright, the US mainstream media who abandoned any sense of objectivity long ago, Europeans who despise America largely because they depend on her, comics who claim to be dangerous and fearless but would not dare attack genuinely powerful special interest groups. A victory for Obama-worshippers everywhere. A victory for the cult of the cult. A man who has done little with his life but has written about his achievements as if he had found the cure for cancer in between winning a marathon and building a nuclear reactor with his teeth. Victory for style over substance, hyperbole over history, rabble-raising over reality.

A victory for Hollywood , the most dysfunctional community in the world. Victory for Streisand, Spielberg, Soros, Moore, and Sarandon. Victory for those who prefer welfare to will and interference to independence. For those who settle for group think and herd mentality rather than those who fight for individual initiative and the right to be out of step with meager political fashion.

Victory for a man who is no friend of freedom. He and his people have already stated that media has to be controlled so as to be balanced, without realizing the extraordinary irony within that statement. Like most liberal zealots, the Obama worshippers constantly speak of Fox and Limbaugh, when the vast bulk of television stations and newspapers are drastically liberal and anti-conservative. Senior Democrat Chuck Schumer said that just as pornography should be censored, so should talk radio. In other words, one of the few free and open means of popular expression may well be cornered and beaten by bullies who even in triumph cannot tolerate any criticism and opposition. A victory for those who believe the state is better qualified to raise children than the family, for those who prefer teachers’ unions to teaching and for those who are naively convinced that if the West is sufficiently weak towards its enemies, war and terror will dissolve as quickly as the tears on the face of a leftist celebrity. A victory for social democracy even after most of Europe has come to the painful conclusion that social democracy leads to mediocrity, failure, unemployment, inflation, higher taxes and economic stagnation. A victory for intrusive lawyers, banal sentimentalists, social extremists and urban snobs.

I have to admit that they positively nailed it. Unfortunately this is coming from the country that just refused to release information because Bush/Obama threatened not to share information with them anymore if they did.

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Dick Cheney warned that there is a “high probability” that terrorists will attempt a  catastrophic nuclear or biological attack in coming years, and said he fears the Obama
administration’s policies will make it more likely the attempt will succeed.

Tell Dick to fly his own plane next time.

BLACKWATER: WE MAKE IT UP AS WE GO ALONG

The U.S. Defense Department concluded in 2007 that *Blackwater Worldwide mercenaries can’t be prosecuted under federal law* for a shooting incident [war crime] in Iraq that left 17 civilians dead. In a letter to North Carolina Representative David Price, Deputy Defense Secretary Gordon England said contractors are subject to prosecution under federal law for
alleged misconduct committed overseas only when they are working for the Pentagon or supporting its mission. Blackwater was working for the State Department when the September 2007 incident took place in Baghdad.

AT LEAST THEY DON’T HAVE PLAGUE-INFECTED MICE….

US Air Force nuclear units have failed two inspections in the past three months, providing fresh evidence that the military service that jarred the world in 2007 by ‘mistakenly’ transporting live nuclear weapons across the United States continues to suffer lapses in its management of intercontinental ballistic missiles.