In a strained defense of wasteful “make work” projects to temporarily sustain government employees and their favorite no-bid contractors, the Bolshevik revolution continues with aplomb as the SouthCommunists at the reconstituted Nashville City Paper (NCP) serve up a little cover story complete with quasi-Soviet/NorK iconography:

You Forgot To Add The Sickle

ed. note – Six Meat Buffet uses Commie iconography as parody – not praise.

Among some of the brilliant observations from the Kremlinesque note-takers at the NCCCP:

More than $1 billion in stimulus funds have flowed into Tennessee’s 5th Congressional District, represented by U.S. Rep. Jim Cooper, a Democrat who voted for the recovery act. That money has created nearly 7,000 jobs in the geographic area that includes Davidson and parts of Wilson and Cheatham counties, according to federal figures that cover Oct. 1 to Dec. 31, 2009.

At $1,000,000,000.00, that’s roughly $143,000 per job.  Excuse me, “nearly” 7,000 jobs.  Round it up a little.  Now would those be full-time jobs in the private sector that will be contributing taxes next year or a gubmint project filling potholes for 3 months because that’s a top 1-percenter income being funneled through the models of efficiency that are the federal and state government.  At least on Charity Navigator we can see how much went to Administrative costs.

The government’s stimulus-tracking website, recovery.gov, is designed to offer transparency about how the federal funds are being spent, and indeed, the wealth of information is almost overwhelming. The slightest bit of navigation will reveal initiatives throughout Nashville. Some, mostly construction projects, were unveiled with staged photo-ops and now don the familiar red-blue-and-green stimulus logo at their sites. Others have gone largely unnoticed. The list is much too lengthy to cover in its entirety without risking utter boredom.

You read that right.  Indeed,  they would hate to bore all you 10+% unemployed Tennesseans out there with all this free funemployment time on your hands. The information is so overwhelming we simply don’t have the ink to describe how completely awesome it is.

I thought this level of lickspittle A2M Soviet cockslobbery was reserved strictly for The Nashville Scene.

Indeed, I certainly don’t want to bore you with any more of the slavish teabaggery that Joey Garrison begged for at the wrinkled sack of the Obama Administration but this was just too much:

More heat on the street: Perhaps the most celebrated stimulus project allocated to Metro — hailed by Dean and others — is the $9 million grant awarded to the police department to bring on 50 new officers. According to spokesman Don Aaron, most of the money pays for salaries and other benefits.

That’s $180,000 per police officer added for those Metro school graduates averse to math.  Ask those cops how much they get paid a year and then ask where the other $135,000 went.

It seems Pravda On The Cumberland finally got a little competition.

Best not to examine all those Phantom Congressional Districts that got $54 Million in cream right off the top.  You say “Cream!” too loud around these inky apparatchiks and all they do is close their eyes and open their mouths.

$54 Million??? Why, that’s almost 300 new Robocops we could have bought or at least fended off lawsuits over rightfully arresting illegal aliens.  Or at least put a down payment on a light rail so we can have the illegals polishing the brass on our Shining Sanctuary City On The Hill.

Robocop: Only cost $73k in 1987 dollars (though most of his parts were made in Mexico)

Whatever you do Joey and the rest of your Comrades at the NCCCP, don’t look into that ghost money.  We’d all much rather read your incessant lacrimosas over Juana Villegas’ spilled breast milk.

And The Ringo of Commies shall lead them back to the famine.

So ends the Orange Revolution:

Initial exit polls put Viktor Yanukovych, a Soviet-style politician, three to five percentage points ahead of Yulia Tymoshenko, his bitter rival and the current prime minister. A fuller picture is expected to emerge on Monday, at which point 80 per cent of the votes are likely to have been counted.

If confirmed, Mr Yanukovych’s victory sounds a death knell for the country’s 2004 Orange Revolution that set it firmly on a pro-Western course but failed to deliver meaningful changes.

Those would be meaningful changes after Putin’s attempt to assassinate their leader.  Of course, what pro-Western country was left for them to turn?  Even in the U.S. we unfortunately have a President who dreams of a Post-American world.

Ahead of the vote, he appeared relaxed and confident. “I am sure that the Ukrainian nation deserves a better life,” he said, casting his vote.

“That is why I have voted for good changes and for stability.” His advisers concede he is a poor public speaker but insist he is hard- working and committed to delivering better living standards, something Ukraine desperately needs. They insist he is not the Kremlin stooge he is often made out to be, though admit his policies are likely to be more palatable to the Kremlin than those of outgoing president Viktor Yushchenko.

In other words, “Things have developed that’ll ensure security. I’ve just made a deal that will keep the Empire out of here forever.”

How’s that “reset” button working out for us?

Next stop, Romania.  Hours after stealing the Ukrainian election, the Kremlin fires a shot across the bow.

More on the AWOL, objectively pro-Communist President.

Did you hear the one about all U.S. oil companies being frozen out of the bidding on Iraqi oil reserves and them being awarded to Russia and China thus rewarding the accomplices who helped Saddam Hussein break every UN sanction placed on him while enslaving the country?

Those who claim that the U.S. invaded Iraq in 2003 to get control of the country’s giant oil reserves will be left scratching their heads by the results of last weekend’s auction of Iraqi oil contracts: Not a single U.S. company secured a deal in the auction of contracts that will shape the Iraqi oil industry for the next couple of decades. Two of the most lucrative of the multi-billion-dollar oil contracts went to two countries which bitterly opposed the U.S. invasion – Russia and China – while even Total Oil of France, which led the charge to deny international approval for the war at the U.N. Security Council in 2003, won a bigger stake than the Americans in the most recent auction.

How could this happen one might incredulously ask.  Why, why, why?  Look to the usual suspects and their actions from a year ago:

Why, after all the assistance we’ve given to Iraq over the past five years, was the first major Iraqi oil deal signed with China and not with an American or even a western company? The answer is, in part, because three Democratic senators intervened in Iraqi domestic politics earlier this year to prevent Iraq from signing short-term agreements with Exxon Mobil, Shell, Total, Chevron, and BP.

… Senators Chuck Schumer, John Kerry, and Claire McCaskill wrote a letter to Secretary of State Rice asking her “to persuade the GOI [Government of Iraq] to refrain from signing contracts with multinational oil companies until a hydrocarbon law is in effect in Iraq.” The Bush administration wisely refused to do so, but the resulting media hooraw in Iraq led to the cancellation of the contracts, and helps to explain why Iraq is doing oil deals instead with China.

Their release (available along with their letter to Secretary Rice at the New York Observer quoted Senator McCaskill as follows: “‘It’s bad enough that we have no-bid contracts being awarded for work in Iraq. It’s bad enough that the big oil companies continue to receive government handouts while they post record breaking profits. But now the most profitable companies in the universe–America’s biggest oil companies–stand to reap the rewards of this no-bid contract on top of it all,’ McCaskill said. ‘It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to connect these dots–big oil is running Washington and now they’re running Baghdad. There is no reason under the sun not to halt these agreements until we get revenue sharing in place,’ McCaskill said.

Yea, those multi-national American oil companies are running Baghdad aren’t they?  China, Russia and the French are getting the run of the Iraqi roost because Democrats preferred that the oil go to the people who undermined the effort to free their people every inch of the way rather than an American company to make a profit.  Remember that when they speak of “The perfect becoming the enemy of the good.”

Especially when it’s coming from the relentless enemies of the good.

Or at least it may not be for much longer. The Anchoress takes the weak-kneed Peggy Noonan and shows her how it’s done.

Considering Noonan was so quick to hike up her skirt and hop aboard the empty-rhetoric-fueled Obamessiah train last fall, it’s hard to take her seriously about anything these days, but at least she inspired this brilliant post.

And what has become of our enlightened liberal “Aunt Sallies” whose own brains were rotted out by the carefully designed counter-cultural crusaders? (Yes, I have two of these Aunt Sallies in my family as well!)

Read the entire thing or you’re a damn fool.

The left has been waging the culture war for decades and we have averted our eyes in a pointless attempt to coexist. The time to fight back is now, if it’s not too late.

UPDATE: BMac points out that this post is actually from 2005. It’s just as prescient today, though. Interesting how things haven’t been impacted by much hope and or change since then, except for the negative.

When looking for a surgeon who can be trusted to re-attach America’s balls, you may want to take a long look at Lt. Col. Allen West.

I’m not sure America ever had his level of testosterone in leadership, but I think it may be time for what a man like him has to offer. Sure Euro-weenies might plaster his bloodied and fanged-face to protest signs, and this time I would say “Hell yeah! What do you want to do about it?”

Now I’m off to make some salmon pinwheels for my ladies lunch.

via Ace.

These remarks from Sting just reinforce my belief that artists are fed a load of crap about what the opposition believes, and they’re fine with not delving too deeply into reality.  I mean, artists are paid for their ability to live in a fantasyland.

The British singer, who released the seasonal album “On A Winter’s Night” this week, said he’s fascinated by American politics, Obama, and also by Obama’s opponents on the right.

“It’s aggressive and violent and full of fear,” he said of the backlash against Obama. “They don’t want change, they want things to feel the same because they feel safe there.”

“My hope is that we can start talking about real issues and not caring about whether God cares about your hemline or your color,” he said. “We are here to evolve as one family, and we can’t be separate anymore.”

I agree.  So why does the left keep making an issue out of color, or religion, or any of the categories into which they like to separate people? It makes me angry to put up with this kind of educated ignorance.

There is a group, called the right, that has studied unadulterated and uneditorialized history, that judges people by the content of their character and not the color of their skin, or any of the other identity politics classifications, and have found that character wanting in this particular administration.  What’s frightening about this administration is that the books we’re having to study to understand what’s going on right now don’t deal with Franklin and Jefferson, they deal with the Bolsheviks and the bourgeouisie.

I’d like to add, that from today on, I reject the race (class, gender) card and the power it wields.  As soon as it’s hurled at me, you are scratched out of my book of reasonable people forever.  I no longer consider you a rational member of the human race and will not engage you in conversation. Playing the race (class, gender) card means you fold.  Game over. Why? Because that card is played when you have lost the ability to engage in a conversation of the basic values and principles that keep us free as individuals.  It’s easier for you to live in a fantasy land where the bad guy is some hater that you have created out of some white sheets, than to realize that you as a person, have fallen, like so many in history, for totalitarian ideology wrapped in the guise of loving kindness. And if you keep pointing an accusatory finger in my direction, no one will point an accusatory finger at you.

I guess these are general questions, but they have come up again since this Rush Limbaugh/NFL flap.

It seems the left spends a lot of time making spurious claims, and in Sarah Palin’s case, dragging public figures into lawsuits based upon these falsehoods.    The people bringing the suits know that their claims are based on fabrications, but that’s not the point.  The point is to destroy the image of the political figure, talk show host, plumber etc., and also, in Sarah Palin’s case, to bankrupt them.

Because they don’t have the patience or guts to do the actual work required to civilly defend their positions, the left makes sport out of  fighting strawmen. They coat conservative figures in stories they have created out of whole cloth to make a monster that doesn’t even exist, so they can set it on fire.  Do they at some point forget that they created the monster themselves?  If all of the Hitler mustaches, bloody fangs, and unsettling uplighting are stripped away, what are their true feelings about the grandma they put inside the wolf-suit?  Do they really feel that strongly about policy? And which actual policy is it that they take issue with?

At what point, when confronted with the actual facts, would  they have to break down and say “well, I just didn’t like the tone of his voice” or “her glasses were funny” or the more honest: “I believe a bunch of bullshit that’s not based in truth or rational thought, and I think that’s a superior way to think”?

Childish.

What the left doesn’t seem to understand about the right is that we don’t operate that way as a general rule.  We’re not out looking to create a boogeyman when we say, based upon economic and historical fact, that someone is implementing socialistic or fascistic policies, but when we make assertions like that are told what we are saying is derogatory or I am ignorant or misinformed, and lately we get accused of incitement to violence and hate speech.  But we are not hunting down imaginary monsters we have sewn together.  We are arming ourselves against a very real threats to freedom. The czars, ACORN, the stimulus, the government control and rationing of health care… we could go on and on ad nauseum about very real threats to freedom.  We don’t have to invent something to disturb us, but the left is too immersed in Alinsky’s Art of Poo-Flinging to see that the right’s protests arise from serious concerns.

There is a true a living, breathing threat, but it may take some unadulterated education on history and economics for the left to understand the monster, and that’s just too much work for them. In the meantime we’re all about to get our heads chewed off.

I don’t know what Day By Day’s copyright standards are or I would have reposted it here but this pretty well sums it up.

It appears Senator DeMint is carrying more sack than a Kroger grocery bagger on the eve of a Nashville snowstorm.  Live from Tegucigalpa, he gives us the update on “coup” and the “chaos” manufactured by international leftist authoritarians after their country’s President was prevented from installing himself as dictator for life:

In the last three months, much has been made of a supposed military “coup” that whisked former Honduran President Manuel Zelaya from power and the supposed chaos it has created.

After visiting Tegucigalpa last week and meeting with a cross section of leaders from Honduras’s government, business community, and civil society, I can report there is no chaos there. There is, however, chaos to spare in the Obama administration’s policy toward our poor and loyal allies in Honduras.

We’re hitting the Reset button for enemies and allies as well it seems.  And when it comes to our friends, shabby treatment is a feature of the Obama Doctrine, not a bug.

As all strong democracies do after cleansing themselves of usurpers, Honduras has moved on.

The presidential election is on schedule for Nov. 29. Under Honduras’s one-term-limit, Mr. Zelaya could not have sought re-election anyway. Current President Roberto Micheletti—who was installed after Mr. Zelaya’s removal, per the Honduran Constitution—is not on the ballot either. The presidential candidates were nominated in primary elections almost a year ago, and all of them—including Mr. Zelaya’s former vice president—expect the elections to be free, fair and transparent, as has every Honduran election for a generation.

So the current administration is standing up for who and why?

Given what we’ve experienced over the last nine months, come the next election we may be in need of some Honduran advice in how to get ride of our one-term usurper as Obama’s little more than a third world dictator without the thick mustache and mirrored sunglasses.  He’s got everything else down pat though.

I just hope we have the contingency plans in place to shuck him out of the slum bunkers a la Noriega.

After all, his narcissism isn’t going to get any better considering the 4 Heismans, 12 Golden Globes, 2 NBA Most Valuable Players, 3 Oscars, 18 Daytime Emmys, 2 MTV Artist of the Year, 3 more Nobel prizes and the Tony award he’ll win after Greg Sargent records him singing the soundtrack to Chicago in the shower before a lingering towel down.

He’ll put in his thumb and pull out a plum and say, what a good boy am I?

Almost a full year of being asleep at the wheel and Barack Van Winkle suddenly awakens from his nap:

President Barack Obama has called congressional leaders to the White House on Tuesday to discuss the worsening situation in Afghanistan, according to congressional sources.

Your opinions have been unnecessary to this point but now that it’s going to hell I’d like to ask for your input on how we can share the blame as I have been ignoring this major foreign policy issue for an entire year hoping that it would go away.

Tuesday’s bipartisan, bicameral leadership briefing on Afghanistan will mark the first time in six months that House Republican leaders have been invited to the White House to discuss official business.

First time in six months he’s asked for an opinion outside of Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi.  Coward.  Own it.  It’s yours now.  You void your warranty if you don’t check in for maintenance with the adults every once in a while.

“The president is confident with where we are in the process,” Gibbs said.

And if you buy that, I’ve got a bridge in Fallujah that I’d love you to sell you.

He really should just go unilateral on this one.  Listen to his nutty followers and undermine the Karzai government while they lay in wait at home with their digital cameras on charge for all the caskets to follow for making the mistake of ever listening to them.

They loved the Tet Offensive so much they want Oliver Stone to direct the sequel.

How long before the last soldier is airlifted by helicopter from the top of a building in Kabal?

Well, we can’t say that al Qaeda doesn’t own a television set.  They’ve done everything right over the last year.

First, the US casualties were so low in Iraq and Afghanistan that the media was allowed to switch the focus back to “it’s the economy, stupid” in the final days of the US presidential campaign last year so that Americans would think they weren’t a problem anymore and could elect a peacnik – which “we” did.

And once he started getting all wobbly on the effort, despite his numerous persuasive speeches on how he was tear them a new one in Afghanistan, they give him a bloody nose because he’s a paper tiger that’s going to fold like yesterday’s New York Times:

Saturday’s battle was the deadliest for US forces since the battle of Wanat, and the deadliest for coalition forces in Afghanistan since 10 French troops were killed in an ambush in eastern Afghanistan in August 2008, according to Agence France-Presse.

This year has seen a rise in the number of US casualties in Afghanistan as the US troop presence has increased to 68,000 and the frequency of confrontations with the Taliban has grown. The Christian Science Monitor reported last month that 80 percent of Afghanistan now sees heavy insurgent activity, as opposed to 54 percent two years ago, with the violence growing particularly in northern Afghanistan.

America voted for the weak horse.  Of course Obama has no intention of a “surge” in Afghanistan.  He wasn’t for the one in Iraq that worked even after it worked.  He’s a lover (of himself first and foremost), not a fighter.  No, if he moved to silence the resurgent al Qaeda network in Afghanistan with the vigor he’s gone after our country’s Generals they would need to recruit a speech pathologist:

General Petraeus’s aides now privately call him “Dave the Dull,” and say he has largely muzzled himself from the fierce public debate about the war to avoid antagonizing the White House, which does not want pressure from military superstars and is wary of the general’s ambitions in particular.

The general’s aides requested anonymity to talk more candidly about his relationship with the White House.

…

But until the president makes a decision, and determines if he wants to deploy General Petraeus to help sell it, the commander is keeping his head down. “He knows how to make his way through minefields like this,” said Jack Keane, the former vice chief of staff of the Army.

Petraeus has made his way through the minefields of Iraq but now it’s his employers that are trying to frag him.  After all, what do several Generals with winning records know about fighting a war than a community agitator who has zero military experience, who never held a real job and who was in the Senate for about a year before running for President?  He’s more worried about Petraeus’ presidential aspirations than winning Afghanistan.

Next year we will see how America loves the guy who lost a war that was under control when he took office.

More from Teh Smartest President Evah:

Rice said on “Meet the Press” that “the president has to make a judgment based not only on military assesments” but on reports from diplomats and ambassadors in the region.

“The president, as commander in chief, has to look at more than what’s happening in a single theater,” Rice said…

That’s right – discount the word of our generals in favor of regional diplomats and ambassadors.  After all, they always have our best interests at heart.  Trade our guys in Afghanistan in favor of, say, a meaningless UN resolution on Iran.  Throw in a unilateral nuclear arms reduction for the icing.  It’s bulletproof!

I’m sure they’re shaking in their Members Only jackets and not just because the Brutal Afghan Winter  ™ is coming.

The military coup is almost underway so says one Bruce Ackerman in the Washington Post this morning. Take that NewsMax!  Gen. Stan McChrystal had the nerve of trying to get the President’s attention while he was off galavanting across Denmark to win crooked land deals for Chi-town’s Crony Communists and it’s a sign of the apocalypse.

Is there some other way, through our Dowdian tinted glasses that we’re supposed to interpret this post by Jim Crow in the Washington Post?

News of McChrystal’s position (ed. – against Obama undermining the Karzai government) had been leaked to Bob Woodward and was published in The Post early last week. But it is one thing for some nameless Washington insider to engage in a characteristic power play; quite another for McChrystal to pressure the president in public to adopt his strategy. This is a plain violation of the principle of civilian control.

Nevertheless, precedents have the habit of adding up. Unless McChrystal publicly recognizes that he has crossed the line, future generals will become even more aggressive in their efforts to browbeat presidents.

…

Though McChrystal may feel “crushed,” he should show more self-restraint. Indeed, his breach should provoke a broader discussion of the meaning of civilian control in the 21st century. It may well make sense for the Pentagon, or a special commission, to frame more concrete guidelines so that we may avoid future breaches.

The Pentagon should throw McChrystal in the brig, huh? Let the Black Panthers go, open the gates of Gitmo and prosecute the CIA agents but Heavens forbid! – a breach of protocol.  The thing is McChrystal is his guy!  He picked him.   This isn’t some leftist holdout fragging him like Richard Clarke did to Bush.  Some political holdover with an axe to grind sending out a vague e-mail saying some day, some time, a guy who attacked us before who he failed to pursue for 8 years is probably going to do it again eventually.

This is your guy – who you are ignoring – desperately trying to get your attention and that he needs some help and you’re off playing footsie with the OIC to raise money for political patrons.  More than likely because he’s doing it because loves his country and in no small part because you’re going to blame him when it all goes to shit after you dedicate all the resources necessary for him to lose the task you put in his charge.

Ackerman may be content to tell the Generals to sit down, shut up, ride in the back of the bus and drink at segregated water fountains but it’s time for the current resident in the White House to embrace the rich mosaic of diverse opinions when his own people are trying to prevent him from getting a lot of good people killed over political expediency.

And I don’t dig it.  But Jim DeMint does rock.

On Thursday morning, the freshman Republican announced that he would lead a congressional delegation to Honduras on Friday ahead of the country’s Nov. 29 elections.

…

“While this administration has failed to act decisively in Afghanistan, it is has no problem cracking down on a democratic ally and one of the poorest nations in Latin America,” DeMint added. “Now, President Obama and Democrats’ blind support for this would-be dictator and friend of Hugo Chavez will prevent members of Congress from learning the truth first hand.”

Lurch McKetchup is trying to obstruct DeMint’s fact-finding mission to Honduras so that DeMint can be present for a Foreign Relations Committee vote where justice and competency are sure to lose to two more Obama comminees.

Typical for the guy who ran around undermining Bush abroad to our ostensible allies when he was making his case for the office in 2004 or who all sat idly by when Jim McDermott and David Bonior ran off to Baghdad on the eve of the invasion.  Or when Natasha Pelosivic rushed off to Syria to lick the boot heel of Baby Assad.

What’s good for the goose.

What’s the worst he can do after all they’ve done? Censure you on the floor?

Honduras is a friend of ours.  If Zelaya gets back in it won’t be anymore.  There would be a bloody crackdown on everyone who enforced their Constitution.  The judges would be thrown in jail.  The opposition killed.  Dissenting publications squelched.  And blood on Obama’s already filthy hands.

Do it, DeMint.  Shine the disinfecting sunlight of the truth on the tools of Venezuela in Washington.

Operation “Can You Hear Us Now?”

Unless you live close to a national media outlet, plan a Tea Party to be held on your nearest LOCAL MEDIA affiliate. In your town, pick the least “fair and balanced” outlet and go there! If there are enough of you, go to multiple local outlets! We don’t just want to target National Media – the local affiliates are just as complicit! Imagine hundreds and thousands, maybe MILLIONS of freedom-loving, tax-paying Americans “surrounding” the media all around the country!

I think I’d feel silly doing this one.  I’m not sure who reads our local paper anymore, and our local stations seem pretty fair.  How can you be biased when, aside from the horrors of the Christian/Newsome murders, your news concerns bears in backyards and the weather? And, since my sister worked there for years, I’m friends with way too many people at the ABC affiliate to make a fool out of myself over there.

I sure would like to see what this looks like in Chicago, Atlanta, and NYC though.

So tell me, Comrade. How is Uncle JoeBama’s move to abandon supplying defensive weapons to escapees of history’s bloodiest regime playing in the land that bloodied them?

The Kremlin did not immediately give an official reaction, but, not surprisingly, senior Russian officials expressed support for the move. “It’s like having a decomposing corpse in your flat and then the undertaker comes and takes it away,”said Dmitry Rogozin, Russia’s ambassador to NATO, according to the BBC. “This means we’re getting rid of one of those niggling problems which prevented us from doing the real work.”

They always did love having the corpses carried away.

Note to Eastern Europe: Arm yourself quickly. The Russians know they only have three years to kill you, steal your land and rape your women.

Jules Crittenden plays “This Day In History”:

President Obama celebrates the 70th anniversary of the fruition of the famous non-aggression pact … the Sept. 17, 1939 Soviet invasion of Poland* … with a big present for Stalin wannabe Vladimir Putin. He scraps Euro missile shield!

…
For Poland, the timing of the announcement is particularly sensitive. Thursday marked the 70th anniversary of the Soviet invasion of eastern Poland following a pact between Moscow and Nazi Germany, an event seen by Poles as “a stab in the back.”

“I hope this is just a coincidence,” said Waszczykowski.

Actually, it probably is. The Obama administration doesn’t study history. It reimagines it.

The symbolism won’t be lost on Russia.  Obama might as well have threatened the Poles to stop building any more settlements on Russian land.

Ooops.  I forgot to include any racism in this post.   *ahem*

Obama is the Aaron Neville Chamberlain of the 21st century. Reprising his hit single “Don’t Know Much”.

That’s mole like it.

Response from Pooty Himself:  Thanks for being such a chickenshit, now hand over your missile and nuclear technology:

Putin, speaking to investors in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, said he now expected the United States to back a bid by Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan to join the World Trade Organisation.

“I expect that after this correct and brave decision, others will follow, including the complete removal of all restrictions on the transfer of high technology to Russia and activity to widen the membership of the World Trade Organisation to (include) Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus,” Putin said.

And how about security clearance to our top secret military installations and a list of our greatest fears while we’re at it.

We got what exactly in exchange for stabbing yet another ally in the back?  Are they halting weapons sales to Iran or Venezuela or should we just expect a big donation funneled to Obama’s campaign like the Clintons did with the Chinese in exchange for our nuclear secrets?

You know.  The reason why an ass-backwards rogue state like North Korea can deliver a nuclear warhead across the Pacific now.

If any of you Buffet friends going to the 9/12 DC Rally are doing any live blogging, reporting, etc, let us know (preston-@-thisdomain) so we can link you.

The left is quite concerned about this movement. Truth be told, both parties are crapping their pants because these folks (myself included) couldn’t give a damn about their two-party scam. The GOP and the Donks are in it together and we’re the ones getting screwed. It’s time to kick them all out.

Ben at Taxing Tennessee is on the ball. Updates as they come in.

Malkin with excellent coverage as usual.

Livecam.

Buffet friend Dan Riehl has more.

St. Louis folks have a big one today as well.

Twitter hash tag is DC912. Lots there.

CSPAN will be streaming the event from 1-4pm online today. Take a football break and tune in at some point.

Fox News is covering via the Glenn Beck show. Our brother Brian is tuned in as well.

Darleen has a good roundup over at PW. She uncorked this nugget (heh!):

UPDATE: ABC News is reporting a turnout of close to two million. Kick ass. Even the DC Keystone Cops are reporting 1.2 million.

By Louis Farrakhan’s million-man-math, there are 40 million people in DC today.

B-Mac Here. Stephen Green’s got this photo up over at Paja-jas:

I cannot tell a lie. Obama’s a commie.

All the while, the Coward-In-Chief flees the capitol to stage a townhall in favor of Government Healthcare using the 13,000 morons from the People’s Republic of Minnesota as a backdrop for the rest of us.   Like the jerks who voted for Al Franken needed convincing in that Garrison Keillor gulag they’ve got going on up there.

“They can’t stop us, let’s go get this done,” he said before leaving the stage.

Say, say, say what you want.

Preston here: Enjoy this video of a couple of CNN dingbats trying to understand the rally and expressing their disbelief that anyone would support Joe Wilson.

MORE!

Our brother Digger has a report from the front lines – great stuff Digger!

Too bad it doesn’t really get you to the doctor you need or the hospital you want, or the drugstore….

Sorry to overburden you with Milton Friedman, but I think you might like this one. Some examples of how with the help of the Federal Government, Americans have more choices, lower costs, and a better and safer standard of living.

Just take a moment and watch from about 18:00 to 27:00.

It’s not only about what kind of social- meddling I would have to endure personally, but I think I would end up looking at my fellow human beings in a different light.

Would I want to pay for the health care of a chain smoker? Or someone who sky-dives? Would I want to pay for the health care of someone who eats Twinkies all day? When I go to Wal-Mart, am I going to think about how much money I am spending on all of the George Romero movie extras I see walking around, as opposed to saving a buck on my box of  lemon cream Luna bars?

Are we all going to be required to eat Lemon Cream Luna bars?

Now that’s a frightening thought.

After some unprovoked attack on one of its Director of Advertising, The Las Vegas Review-Journal promises not to be a lickspittle minion to Herr-y Reid:

We’re still here doing what we do for the people of Las Vegas and Nevada. So, let me assure you, if we weathered all of that, we can damn sure outlast the bully threats of Sen. Harry Reid.

Such behavior cannot go unchallenged.

No citizen should expect this kind of behavior from a U.S. senator. It is certainly not becoming of a man who is the majority leader in the U.S. Senate. And it absolutely is not what anyone would expect from a man who now asks Nevadans to send him back to the Senate for a fifth term.

If he thinks he can push the state’s largest newspaper around by exacting some kind of economic punishment in retaliation for not seeing eye to eye with him on matters of politics, I can only imagine how he pressures businesses and individuals who don’t have the wherewithal of the Review-Journal.

For the sake of all who live and work in Nevada, we can’t let this bully behavior pass without calling out Sen. Reid. If he’ll try it with the Review-Journal, you can bet that he’s tried it with others. So today, we serve notice on Sen. Reid that this creepy tactic will not be tolerated.

We won’t allow you to bully us. And if you try it with anyone else, count on going through us first.

That’s a promise, not a threat.

And it’s a promise to our readers, not to you, Sen. Reid.

Strong closing.  Wow.  I’m defending a newspaper in the 21st Century as saying something relevant.  I think I need to mark my calendar.

After all, it’s been about 11 months since I’ve actually heard a newspaper speak truth to someone in power.

Check it.

It’s rare when I want to see the U.S. fail abroad but the expenditure of our national clout to demean an ostensible ally that followed the law in removing a Chavista acolyte who sought to undermine their constitution brings Hope and Change ™ to my cold, black heart:

The US voiced disappointment Thursday at the failure of a seven-nation mission to persuade coup leaders in Honduras to accept a settlement and renewed its support for ousted president Manuel Zelaya.“We are disappointed by this inability to move forward,” the State Department said in a statement to AFP.

Umm, no.  We aren’t.  The Communists installed at the reliably liberal State Department under Obonga are terribly disappointed that the Rule of Law has prevailed in Honduras.  The rest of us are thrilled that you are giving this president a black eye.  In fact, you should speak up more against our Meddling President.  He just loves to Meddle!

“The United States supports the peaceful restoration of democratic and constitutional order in Honduras with President Zelaya’s return as president to finish his term,” it said.

The rest of us wish our Supreme Court would exhibit similarly proportioned testes against the unconstitutional power grabs of our own dumbo-eared dictator.  Really guys – when do you step up to the plate?  When he starts wearing a beret and puts a parrot on his shoulder?

President Barack Obama’s administration has firmly condemned the coup, despite Zelaya’s leftist leanings and alliance with Venezuela’s firebrand President Hugo Chavez.

Just remember, what Ahmadinejad did wasn’t a coup.  Rigging the election and gunning down the protesters in the streets wasn’t a coup.  Chavez shutting down all dissenting opinions, prosecuting his opposition and funding FARC terrorists is okay.

Obonga doesn’t have a problem with coups or dictatorships.  He’s joyfully said that he will work with either without any conditions.

He has a problem with democracies and sides against them whenever possible.  If you haven’t learned that yet you would be well-served to recognize that fact in the coming years.

RELATED:  US to stop issuing visas to Honduras this week.  But we can relax restrictions on Cuba, right?

I am truly ashamed of what our country is right now.

You may have noticed the Tea Party Express graphic in the left sidebar. Or maybe you didn’t. Doesn’t matter. The Tea Party Express is rolling across the country and you should check it out if they come to your town. Maybe they’ll let you come on their tour bus and crap in their mobile crapper in the name of liberty.

They start in Sacramento on Aug 28 and roll across the country, ending at the 912 DC national rally on September 12. Catch up with ‘em along the way.

Brownshirt- he Sturmabteilung (help·info), abbreviated SA (German for “Storm detachment” or “Assault detachment” or “Assault section”, usually translated as “stormtroop(er)s“), functioned as a paramilitary organization of the Nazi Party. It played a key role in Adolf Hitler’s rise to power in the 1920s and 1930s.

…SA men were often called “brownshirts” for the colour of their uniforms

a little backstory:

Hitler, with an eye always to growing the party through propaganda, convinced the leadership committee to invest in an advertisement in the Munchener Beobachter (later renamed the Volkischer Beobachter) for a mass meeting in the Hofbrauhaus, to be held on 16 October 1919. Some 70 people attended, and a second such meeting was advertised for 13 November in the Eberlbrau beer hall. Some 130 people attended; there were hecklers, but Hitler’s military friends promptly ejected them by force, and the agitators “flew down the stairs with gashed heads.” The next year, on 24 February, he announced the party’s Twenty-Five Point program at a mass meeting of some 2000 persons at the Hofbrauhaus. Protesters tried to shout Hitler down, but his army friends, armed with rubber truncheons, ejected the dissenters. The basis for the SA had been formed.^[4]

On 4 November 1921 the Nazi party held a large public meeting in the Munich Hofbräuhaus. After Hitler had spoken for some time the meeting erupted into a melee in which a small company of SA distinguished itself by thrashing the opposition. The Nazis called this event “Saalschlacht” (meeting hall battle) and it assumed legendary proportions in SA lore with the passage of time. Thereafter, the group was officially known as the Sturmabteilung.^[7]

In other words, Brownshirts are thugs hired by people in authority to shut up the opposition in beer hall meetings. See also “Union thugs”.  For modern day application see White House directive to “punch back even harder” at town hall meetings.

People in authority who fear the opposition (also known as concerned American citizens) and hurl the word “Brownshirt” and “Nazi” and create something called “telephone town halls” in order to get out of facing his constituents are commonly referred to as “pussies”.  See also “Baird”.

For more in depth study see article on “Psychological Projection.”

The final post being when the Bigot-In-Chief retracts his assault on the local police in defense of his fellow racist and self-admitted winner of “The Watermel-lon Fellowship” - Henry Gates. ( I’ll put out a bleg request to embed that video as it really says it all about Gates’ ideas about white people in general.)  How long can the state-run media ignore it?  My guess is forever.  Replace Crowley saying anything remotely close to what Gates was saying and he would have been fired yesterday.

Don’t fence me in though.  The always brilliant Mark Steyn sums it up as only he can:

The president of the United States may be reluctant to condemn Ayatollah Khamenei or Hugo Chávez or that guy in Honduras without examining all the nuances and footnotes, but sometimes there are outrages so heinous that even the famously nuanced must step up to the plate and speak truth to power. And thank God the leader of the free world had the guts to stand up and speak truth to municipal police Sgt. James Crowley.

On the less bright, dare I say – darker side, while the current administration has sent $200 Million dollars to the so-called Palestinian people to support Hamas they have cut aid to Honduras.  Which finally fulfills the Leftist chant that America is the number one state sponsor of terrorism. The check to FARC will have to wait until the third stimulus package but cutting the aid to Honduras should be considered a down payment.

As professor Gates jeered at the officers, “You don’t know who you’re messin’ with.” Did Sgt. Crowley have to arrest him? Probably not. Did he allow himself to be provoked by an obnoxious buffoon? Maybe. I dunno. I wasn’t there.

Neither was the president of the United States, or the governor of Massachusetts or the mayor of Cambridge. All of whom have declared themselves firmly on the side of the Ivy League bigshot. And all of whom, as it happens, are African American. A black president, a black governor and a black mayor all agree with a black Harvard professor that he was racially profiled by a white-Latino-black police team, headed by a cop who teaches courses in how to avoid racial profiling. The boundless elasticity of such endemic racism suggests that the “post-racial America” will be living with blowhard grievance-mongers like professor Gates unto the end of time.

Given that Gates is yet another communist acolyte with a racial axe to grind, Obama may finally replace newspapers as the punchline to “what’s black, white and red all over?”

This isn’t a question of only Obama issuing an apology now.  Gates needs to apologize as well.  Doubtful that will happen considering Gates’ standing offer to Crowley:

Professor Gates is now saying that, if Sgt. Crowley publicly apologizes for his racism, the prof will graciously agree to “educate him about the history of racism in America.” Which is a helluva deal. I mean, Ivy League parents remortgage their homes to pay Gates for the privilege of lecturing their kids, and here he is offering to hector it away to some no-name lunkhead for free.

Read the whole thing as they say you grafted, white devils.

Looming Defamation Suit Update: From Jim Crow to Jim Crowley. Oooh.  Think that one up all by yourself or did JournoList help?  Here’s to the day when you get hosed.

This one is really more in BMac’s wheelhouse, but as an ex-Nashvillian, I take some amusement at this one: Worried restaurant owners file lawsuits, plan on screening customers at door.

On the bright side, the judge had the good sense not to allow Rayburn’s injunction. Also on the bright side, those who support the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution have a clear choice as to where to spend their disposable dining income. I would put Sunset Grill, Midtown Cafe and Cabana at the top of the list to avoid. Tootsie’s is an overpriced tourist craphole anyway, so I wouldn’t patronize them whether they wanded me or not.

As this law goes into effect, keep your eyes open as to which establishments are quick to post prohibitions against legal carry permit holders. Do a little homework and you’ll likely find that these business owners are likely supporters of anti-Second Amendment candidates and probably anti-liberty statists themselves. Redirect your dining dollars where they will not be lining the pockets of hysterical anti-gun (and anti-liberty) zealots.

If you really want to irritate them, throw a few bucks at the NRA.

h/t Hobbs

I’m confused when I hear people talk about Obama sending mixed messages.   He is in no way inconsistent.

Whether you are referring to Iran, or Israel or Honduras, he is objectively anti-democracy.

There is no line you can cross that is so offensive that we won’t still sit down and chat about how you’re feeling as Father Oprah.  Make threats that you’re going to attack us.  Fire missiles towards our states.  Threaten war.  Threaten death to our country.  Send your troops to attack our troops because they are bringing democracy in your backyard.

In terms of arrogance, you can’t get much better than patting a rogue dictator on the head while asking him why’s he acting out so much as if he had too much Capri Sun before beddy-bye time.

And the Honduras thing.  Just read this.  In the Christian Science Monitor of all places.  It is a sad time to be an American when the mistake our misguided neighbors and family members elected to office is suppressing democracy in favor of a Marxist thug and is attempting to install him back to his wrongful place.

And so the United States now finds itself in league with the likes of Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez, the latter of whom has threatened war on the nascent Honduran government. In his weekly newspaper column, Castro gloated about American support for Zelaya, writing that “Even Mrs. Clinton had declared that Zelaya is the only president of Honduras, and the Honduran coup leaders can’t even breathe without the support of the United States.”

This is nothing short of wrong.   Our country’s support of Zelaya is sentencing Honduras to Venezuela’s fate.  Siding with Castro to boot while he taunts the people who followed the rules against his protege.

If the Honduran people can fight off the advances of the so-called civilized world, maybe we can recruit some of them to help take our’s back.

It’s too obvious the people who call themselves Republicans don’t have the guts of the dirt poor Hondurans who are at least fighting off the advances of a dictator drunk with power.

When asked what he thought about the North Koreans firing another four missiles off in violation of the last weakly worded UN resolution, the goo-gobbling bag of snacks Robert Gibbs offered up the following:

Even as the North Koreans tested four more missiles this week, the White House said Thursday that tough new United Nations sanctions are showing signs of working.

…

“I think it is clear the sanctions are having an impact,” Gibbs said.

When asked what the U.S. was doing in response to the most recent round of threats and missile tests from the country, Gibbs said “first and foremost, the administration is working to ensure the vigorous implementation of those sanctions.”

“We continue to watch the North Koreans,” Gibbs said. “They continue to do and say what they do and say.”

Seriously.  What the hell does that mean?  I’ve read it close to twenty times and the Gibbs shallow tautology is only matched by his lack of concern that Obama’s Poontang Diplomacy is encouraging crazier behavior than usual.

If firing a bunch of missiles and doing and saying and saying and doing everything that would lead a sane person to believe that they are getting ready to test another nuclear weapon equals sanctions are working, what’s the definition of success look like?

I’m guessing something like this -

Eureka!  Another victory for Team 0!

Not to worry. The USS John McCain took matters into it’s own hands the only way an independent renegade like it’s namesake knows how.

After losing the North Korean vessel suspected of carrying arms to Burma, the warship responded in characteristic Maverick fashion by launching a cruise missile strike on Sarah Palin while it’s tender, the USS Meghan McCain, hosted a gay pride rally on it’s poop deck.