What Lying Science Has Wrought

Nopenhagen.

A strong operational agreement on climate change? Agreement? What are you agreeing with? That the earth is getting cooler and it is apparent that scientists around the world have been cooking their books? Are you agreeing to a deal that will bankrupt America? Save the trip because your doing fine without their help?

Are you going to agree to agree on an agreement that has no agreement?

Obama says 'step closer' to climate deal
US President Barack Obama said Tuesday the world has moved "one step closer" to a "strong operational agreement" on climate change at next month's Copenhagen summit after his talks with Indian and Chinese leaders.

This is classic. Just one more apology to the entire world that America is an evil place from which no good can come. Thanks, Bam Bam. I thank you, my children thank you and that's it, because my kids won't be able to afford or want to bring children into your world.

Obama Surrenders To The Taliban Their Win Strategy

via Another Black Conservative (go read a good blog)

I know that in the past, when going up against an opponent, I always do two things: let them know I won't involve the power necessary to win and the date at which I will give up and quit. It works every time. They fold their tent and stop fighting. Why should they fight against somebody that won't fight and plans to surrender anyway?

Obama plans to send 34,000 more troops to Afghanistan
President Barack Obama met Monday evening with his national security team to finalize a plan to dispatch some 34,000 additional U.S. troops over the next year to what he's called "a war of necessity" in Afghanistan, U.S. officials told McClatchy.
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The administration's plan contains "off-ramps," points starting next June at which Obama could decide to continue the flow of troops, halt the deployments and adopt a more limited strategy or "begin looking very quickly at exiting" the country, depending on political and military progress, one defense official said.

So, in this deferential bow to terrorists looking for THE big victory, Obama sends the signal that those Americans who have died freeing Afghanistan and defeating a terror network trying to destroy us all died for nothing. What does Obama care? He's never fought for anything. He feels that mere soldiers are beneath him, thus inconsequential.

To Obama, our soldiers aren't nearly as important as a group of murdering rapists hiding behind a chimera of religion nor are they as important as his ridiculous agenda here in America. Let them and those that will die, die for nothing.

Our soldiers don't bring enough political capital. That they die, their families are destroyed and America is at greater risk means nothing to Obama. They are just political cover for surrender so Obama can get what he wants, what he feels is important,and let those soldiers be damned.

So, what are they dying for? Cap and Trade, Cash for Clunkers, Global Warning crap, Socialized Medicine? I have always believed that we have the best and smartest military in the world so I can only think that our soldiers are thinking that if they can hold on just long enough to get this Chicago rookie loser out of office, then maybe it is worth it. I hope that is what they are thinking.

For our soldiers to look for the missing man to the right or the left and to look at Afghanistan's people that now have real hope in their faces and not want to complete their mission is too terrible to think. The traumatic stress associated with combat is real, but so is the traumatic stress of knowing your commander in chief is inept and is willing to sully one's sacrifice, in fact, it can be more so.

I don't know Obama as a man, but I do know I'd laugh in his face before I'd ever think of following him through the gates of hell. I do know his policies and I wouldn't follow him to free food and booze. As a leader, I do know that Obama would leave me with a hangover, the tab and food poisoning.

Surrender? Why doesn't Obama surrender his office and hand it over to someone who understands America, what we can do and is proud of it.

If he makes Afghanistan our modern day Vietnam he will rue the day he ever got into politics because he will be remembered as a cheap imitation of Nero fiddling as he burns Rome.

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Hacked Email Graphed As Hockey Stick

Appears the whole "hockey stick" theory of climate change may represent something other than global warming.

ACORN Dumps Documents To Hide What?

Nuts, tree, etc.

BREAKING: San Diego ACORN Document Dump Scandal

How much would a bunch of acorns have to be afraid of Jerry Brown? I think it would be more of a reunion.

Why Are Liberals Afraid Of Palin?

That should be liberals, progressives, socialists, etc and not just Palin, but of what she stands for?

A local blog is using phrases like "Camp Stupid" and other derogatory phrases. They even brag about confronting the crowds waiting to see her in which they use vulgarities, that they use just to antagonize, to tell those waiting just how stupid they are and how stupid Palin is.

I guess a couple of questions to them might be:

• Why do you believe you are superior to Mrs. Palin and those wishing to see her?
• Do you ridicule Mrs. Palin because you truly have alternatives or are you just acting out for fun
• Are you acting in good faith with your questions or are you hoping to trick your opponents?
• If you need to belittle Mrs. Palin's accomplishments, what have you accomplished and how is what she has done less of an accomplishment than you?
• When lashing out at your opponents in such a hateful and personal manner, do you consider that actively working for your ideas? If so, how many people have you compelled to change their views to agree with your views?

I'd really like to know.

Climate Change Infects Individuals With Wussiness

Well, Climate Change seems to do all sort of things single-handedly.

So this is how Nevada came about:

'Climate change pushes poor women to prostitution'...

This predicts a health care reform that works faster than Obama's plan:

Climate change 'could kill 4.5 million children'

Mustn't forget the ladies:

Climate change is a feminist issue

What the article doesn't state are the other repercussions:

Climate Change prolongs diaper stench
Climate Change spreads STDs
Climate Changes fuels foreclosures
Climate Change heats economic meltdown
Climate Change sickens health care
Climate Change causes puppies to cry
Climate Change feeds obesity
Climate Change splits marriages
Climate Change sparks zombies to life
Climate Change makes babies cry

Gotta remember:

Prince Charles says we have '100 months left'

Washington Post
END NEAR; WOMEN AND CHILDREN HIT HARDEST

Harry Reid's Shell Game To Thwart The Will Of The People

NRO has a piece explaining how Harry Reid can screw the people and throw his personal ethics down a hole

Tomorrow night at 8 p.m., the Senate will vote on a “Motion to Proceed.” If Senator Reid succeeds in getting 60 votes allowing the debate to proceed, then that is a filibuster-proof majority. This could very well clear the way for Reid to employ other procedural moves that allow him to substitute his massive bill into another shell bill and call for a vote on final passage, which requires only 51 votes to succeed. In other words, success on the Motion to Proceed would open up the opportunity for Reid to force a vote on health-care reform before any pro-life amendments or substitute bills could be offered.

Reid knows his bill hasn't a chance of passing unless he uses backroom tactics such as described above and, as reported in the press, that Landrieu accepted an outright bribe to get her yes vote tonight.

Personally, I wonder how Reid can sleep at night knowing that he is ushering through the largest abortion bill ever. He states that he is pro-life, which flies in the face of what he is attempting. He must love power more than he loves his God. Just like Pelosi. Both, hypocrites.

Climate Change IS A Hoax - What Else?

It is a stunning turn. Hacked emails discussing that climate change is a hoax and how to keep the gravy train going by systematically destroying dissenters and those dissenters careers.

American Power has the best round up with great links.

Global Warming Hoax Breaks Wide Open as Hackers Target East Anglia Climate Research Unit!
The world is currently cooling; electorates are increasingly reluctant to support eco-policies leading to more oppressive regulation, higher taxes and higher utility bills; the tide is turning against Al Gore’s Anthropogenic Global Warming theory. The so-called “sceptical” view is now also the majority view.

Al Gore is a liar millionaire from climate change, but I believe that his transparently phony Inconvenient Truth actually helped upset the apple cart that is a concerted effort on the scientific community to keep the money flowing and to grab huge chunks power by governments around the world. This is a typical pattern for liberals, a definite tactic by progressives and a political necessity for socialists and communists.

The whole of the scientific community should now have to transparently prove their "theories" whether it is such obvious crap, as example, of the dangers of Alar or the "new" and dangerous ideas about child rearing or allowing dangerous criminals back on the street.

Global warming, climate change or whatever name they choose is, in my opinion, just the tip of the iceberg. Name a science being postulated today and there will be the twin goals of money and power. Those pushing and pursuing such science should be investigated fully. They have done enough damage and need to be stopped.

How Much Will Reid Bribe For Health Care?

There is the cost of the health care bill itself, which will be trillions, but what are the hidden costs within the the bill?

Example:

The $100 Million Health Care Vote?
The section spends two pages defining which “states” would qualify, saying, among other things, that it would be states that “during the preceding 7 fiscal years” have been declared a “major disaster area.”

I am told the section applies to exactly one state: Louisiana, the home of moderate Democrat Mary Landrieu, who has been playing hard to get on the health care bill.

In other words, the bill spends two pages describing would could be written with a single world: Louisiana. (This may also help explain why the bill is long.)

Senator Harry Reid, who drafted the bill, cannot pass it without the support of Louisiana’s Mary Landrieu.

Has the CBO gone through the bill to calculate how much the bribery legislation will really cost us?

The Democrat idea of health care reform is outrageously bad, but this type of bribery should be illegal. That it is just unethical denotes just how low this congress has sunk.

Motown's $800,000 Buys Nassau

This has always been a problem, buying anbassadorships, but some of these people don't have the quaifications to run the midnight to 6 AM shift at Bert's Bait and Gas. No experience. At all.

Barack Obama rewards big donors with plum jobs overseas
Nicole Avant, a member of a Motown family dynasty who is credited with bundling up to $800,000 for Obama, was granted the coveted and cushy ambassadorship in Nassau, Bahamas.

I hope she gave daddy a big hug.

Lartigue. One Of My Favorite Photographs

(Update below)

This is surely one of the most evocative photographs I have ever seen. In fact, to me this photograph symbolizes the essence of a pre-war car. Made by French photographer Jacques-Henri Lartigue in 1913, at a time when the word photoshop had not been invented. Early photographs were really “stills” without any sense of movement. Jacques-Henri Lartigue (1894-1986) was one of the first photographers who knew to create a distortion in his photos, thus suggesting movement, if not real speed. The original title of this photo is “Car Trip, Papa at 80 kilometers an hour”. It has long been thought that the car was a Delage and that the photo had been taken on June 26, 1912 during the Grand Prix de l’ACF, held at the Circuit de Dieppe. However, research has proved that no Delage with that starting number participated in that particular Grand Prix and that it is in fact a Theophilé Schneider, photographed in 1913 during the Grand Prix at Picardie (see sources). This amazing silver print, signed by Lartigue in ink, was auctioned at Sotheby’s in Amsterdam. Its estimate was 4000-6000 euros but the hammer fell at a staggering 7800 euros.

UPDATE: Good question Webutante;

Webutante: However, you didn't tell us when this photo was auctioned off for that staggering at Sotheby's. Assume it was recently?

From the dating of the original post, my math tells me that it was autioned off at Sotheby's Amsterdam on 3/15/07.

Additional info; Racing Database lists René Croquet with starting number 6. He finished tenth.

For photo buffs ( I have an old Graflex, not the same as Lartigue, and a bellowed 5X7 and have not been able to duplicate the same distortion):

UPDATE I by Carleton Hughes: "The distortion you mention was not deliberate but was the result of the downward travelling focal-plane shutter on the Graflex camera favoured by Lartigue and others circa 1905-1920. Thus the image will appear leaning forward from top to bottom giving the impression of speed and motion but is in reality due to the vertical shutter curtain slowly travelling from top to bottom." Editor JB: "Carleton is right be it only partly... As you can see the car is leaning forward, yet the onlookers backward. So in fact it is a combination of the shutter technique and a horizontal pan-movement from left to right in order to keep track with the car during exposure. Still, many have tried to copy the effect (especially in car advertising) but -as we understand - never had the result Lartigue had. So the effect of the lucky shot was added as a topping over the technical aspects. The more important question stays... is it a Delage or a Schneider...?”

UPDATE II: Marc Fellman confirms that four Th. Schneider cars participated in the ACF GP on the 12/13th July 1913. Car #16 driven by Henry Champoisseau and Louis Daclin (finished 7th), #20 driven by Rene Thomas & Brombant (finished 9th), #6 the subject of the Lartigue photo driven by Maurice Croquet & Didier (finished 10th) & #12 driven by Fernand Gabriel & Mongeot (did not finish). Cars were equipped with 5.5 litre 4 cylinder engines. History records that Georges Boillot won in a Peugeot but the Th. Schneiders acquitted themselves well among a field of the likes of Boillot & Goux in Peugeots, Chassagne in a Sunbeam and Bablot & Guyot in Delages.

UPDATE III: Per Bjurling suggests a slightly different explanation to the distortion of the photo. Presume that the car is moving forwards. At ground level the distance between the feet of the people and the car tyre touching the ground is relatively short. At head level the distance between the heads of the people and the upper part of the tyre is longer. It took a certain time for the slot to move over the film surface while the camera rotated and the car moved even faster than that. As I understand it the slot in the shutter must have travelled from below and upwards. Anyone with a modern system camera who hasn’t understood this will fail in trying to remake the shot. Editor JB: “I was not implying that people with a modern camera cannot remake the photo. I know from people who tried to remake the shot with a similar or identical old camera. Without being able to get this result....”

UPDATE AGAIN: Jacques-HenriLartigue was approximately 18 years of age when he took this photograph. His father had a camera and Lartigue was absolutely fascinated by it. When a young boy, his father bought him a large, indeed ponderous, 13 X 18 camera on a large tripod. Lartigue had to stand on a stool to focus.

Lartigue was fascinated with beauty, elegance, excitement and fun. He was especially interested in recording his family's exploits as exemplified in this photograph of his brother. "My brother Zissou," Lartigue recalls, "had a vivid intelligence and he invented so many things--wooden horses, crates on wheels, even a velodrome--but I was always the little boy, in a way, kept in the corner, dying to take part. This really grieved me, until one day I said to myself, 'Now I am going to catch all these beautiful things which they do.'...In a daily journal that little Jacques-Henri kept at the time, and has kept ever since, there is this joyful annotation for a day in 1901: "Papa is like God (as a matter of fact, he might even be God in disguise). He's just told me, 'I'm going to give you your own camera.' Now I can take pictures of everything... everything. I know very well that many, many things are going to ask me to have their pictures taken, and I will take them all!" (Aperture, Jacques-Henri Lartigue, p. 7.)

It is interesting that Lartigue never allowed his first photograph to be viewed by others, but below is the second photograph that Jacques-Henri Lartigue took. He was very young, aged eight, and it is an inspiring photograph, simply as a photograph, but it is breath taking in its chosen subject for Lartigue's first photograph to be viewed by others:

His parents at Pont-de-l'Arch, 1902

(poor quality scan by me)

Conyers: 'I'm Getting Tired Of Saving Obama's Can'...

Conyers couldn't even save his wife's can, but then maybe she had more than one can in the cupboard.

Obama Buying Votes Applause

Yep, the last line just about wraps up Obama's popularity. He buys it.

SEOUL
Obama arrived on the base 3:19 p.m. local time (1 a.m. Eastern Standard Time) and received a rousing welcome from 1,500 troops in camouflage uniforms, many holding cameras or pointing cell phones to snap pictures.

"You guys make a pretty good photo op," the president said.

Standing on a riser wearing a blue suit and red tie, with a cluster of troops and a large American flag behind him, Obama expressed "the gratitude of the American public" and said his meetings in four countries over eight days in Asia will help deliver a "safer, more prosperous world for all of us."

He got a huge cheer when he told them he was increasing military pay. "That's what you call an applause line," he said, before boarding his jet and taking off at 4:11 p.m.

Raises, paying mortgages and gas, giving unions car companies and jobs to Marxist cronies. Maybe his next campaign slogan will be, "It's not just gas and mortgages, vote for me cause I bought you your cars and I'll throw in some big screen TVs just to level the playing field"



Vote LTD, LCD and LIHTC!

Damnit, Get That Mormon Creep On The Phone! NOW!

Nana Pelosi isn't going to be happy about this.

BOTOX TAX IS BACK: SENATE BILL INCLUDES 5% TAX ON ELECTIVE COSMETIC SURGERY...

146 Years Ago Today

November 19, 1863

Gettysburg Address
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation, so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate—we can not consecrate—we can not hallow—this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion — that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain — that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

Notes:
In a letter to Lincoln written the following day, Everett praised the President for his eloquent and concise speech, saying, "I should be glad if I could flatter myself that I came as near to the central idea of the occasion, in two hours, as you did in two minutes." Lincoln was glad to know the speech was not a "total failure."

Other public reaction to the speech was divided along partisan lines. The next day the Chicago Times observed, "The cheek of every American must tingle with shame as he reads the silly, flat and dishwatery utterances of the man who has to be pointed out to intelligent foreigners as the President of the United States." In contrast, the New York Times was complimentary. A Massachusetts paper printed the entire speech, commenting that it was "deep in feeling, compact in thought and expression, and tasteful and elegant in every word and comma."

My great-grandfather, who served as an officer in the VA-18th, Co E Black Eagle Rifles , did not participate in the Battle of Gettysburg due to being severely wounded in 1862 at Frayser's Farm, wrote in his diary, upon reading a copy from his sister in Ohio sent in December 1863, at Mt Elba, "Greatest oration" above his handwritten copy.

From Russia With Love

Not a 007 nor a bikini clad hottie anywhere in this insight:

Russia Today wrote that week, "Despite Barack Obama's eloquent elocution, ivy school credentials and electric charisma, there is talk that he lacks the most crucial element of any great leader: judgment."

Indeed, an American buffoon

SEIU Tires Of Beating Up Old Folks, On To Threatening Boy Scouts

SEIU is a real piece of work.

What started as a union for janitors, window washers and elevator operators (obviously elevator operators are in high demand today), SEIU represents over 100 occupations and is now heavily involved with the health industry and government employees (bureaucrats).

Since most bureaucrats want cradle to grave coverage for everything including the unwritten "little work as possible" clause and the hospital, home care and nursing home employees want more and more government subsidies, it makes sense for SEIU to represent these groups. SEIU could strangle our health care system and government at the same time, but SEIU has bigger bones to pick.

Pennsylvania Union Leader Criticized for Threatening Legal Action Over Boy Scout's Volunteerism
A Pennsylvania union leader has come under fire after threatening legal action against the city of Allentown for allowing a Boy Scout to voluntarily clear a walking path in a local park.

Nick Balzano, president of the Service Employees International Union's Allentown chapter, said last week that the union might file a grievance against the city for allowing 17-year-old Kevin Anderson to clear the hiking trail, instead of paying some of the 39 recently laid-off SEIU members to do the work.

Balzano's office did not return messages left by FoxNews.com, but the Morning Call quoted him as telling the city council that the union would be "looking into the Cub Scout or Boy Scout who did the trails … There's to be no volunteers."

I'm sure SEIU is in negotiations to unionize lawyers to file harassing lawsuits against their opponents and thugs to beat them up if the opponent wins in court.

Mother Goose Cafe

Florida

Red China Questions Obama's Big Government Solutions!!!

To fund the big government takeover of further chunks of our private lives the government needs to borrow trillions of dollars. As befitting the socialization of America, the government goes hat in hand to communist China to beg for loans. That gives communist China sway over our form of life. I guess Obama's betrayal of free China, Taiwan, wasn't enough give and give for China, so now China is doubting the veracity of Oba Mao.

China questions costs of U.S. healthcare reform

Communist China doubts the economic viability of Obama's plans and the general truthfulness of the administration? This admission should be a wake up call to the voters in this country. Every person should sit back and take a long hard think over the fact that economic conservatives have rung the warning bell over government spending for decades and now, ultra liberal communists are ringing the bell as well. That is a stunner that should make every voter run from this administration and the liberals controlling the Democrat Party.

My Dad always said the socialists were just dreamers without the discipline of the communists and the creativity of the capitalists.

Tax Credit: Millions Will Have To Pay Obama Back

Well, isn't this special.

Millions will have to repay part of tax credit

Are Democrats great or what? Obama tanks the economy, spends trillions of dollars we don't have on things we don't want, then gives us a tax credit in hopes we'll spend it all to make him look better and now millions will have to pay part of it back to the government.

The thugs from Chicago can't run a refrigerator let alone a government.

Joe Biden Shares Roadmap For Success In America

Sometimes Jabbering Joe can't help himself and he just blurts out the truth.

Biden on 2010: If GOP Succeeds, It’s ‘The End of the Road for What Barack and I Are Trying to Do’
Vice President Joe Biden said today that if Democrats were to lose 35 House seats they currently hold in traditionally Republican districts, it would mean doomsday for President Obama’s agenda.

I haven't had the time to check old speeches, but there is a possibility that Joe cribbed this insight from somebody else. Even if he did, he has brought a smile to a lot of people, probably the majority of Americans, so at least he has that going for him.

Yep, It's Michigan Week Here In Ohio

THE GOLDEN PHONE
A highly recruited high school football player was visiting Big Ten schools to try and find the best college for him.

His first stop was at Ann Arbor. When he got there, head coach Rich Rodriguez immediately picked up a golden telephone. After talking several minutes, he said, "Thank you, God" and hung up.
The boy was shocked by all this. He asked the coach what was so special about the golden phone.

"Well, this phone is a direct line to God. And God tells us whether or not new recruits would be stars at our college."

The young athlete asked if he could use the phone to ask God what college he should pick. "Sure, you can! But it's going to cost you $250. Calling Heaven isn't cheap." The boy didn't have that kind of money so he moved along.

His next stop was Minnesota. Once at Tim Brewster's office, Coach Brewster immediately picked up a golden telephone. After talking several minutes, he said, "Thank you, God" and hung up.

The boy said, "Hey, I've seen those phones before. Can I use yours to call God and ask what college I should pick?" Sure, Brewster said, "Sure, but it's going to cost you $200. Calling Heaven isn't cheap." Again, not having that kind of money, the boy left.

His next stop was Happy Valley. Upon arrival at Joe Pa's office, Coach Paterno picked up a golden telephone, talked to God, said, "Thanks," and hung up.

The boy just had to use that phone, so he said, "Coach, I really need to use that golden telephone so I can call God and ask him which college I should choose." Coach Paterno said "You can but it will cost you $150. Calling heaven is not cheap."

The boy left since he did not have that kind of money. His last stop for the boy was Ohio State. He went in Coach Tressel's office and he saw a golden phone here also. Coach Tressel got on the golden phone and talked a few minutes and said, "Thanks, God" and hung up.

The boy said, “Can I use that phone to find out where I should go, to school?” Coach Tressel said, "Well, sure go ahead."

The boy said, "From Michigan it was going to cost me $250 to use their phone. From Minnesota they wanted $200 and Penn State wanted $150.

So how much will it cost me to call Heaven from here at Ohio State?"

Coach Tressel smiled and said, "Nothing, son. It's a local call."

Fed Wants To Do For Mass Transit What They Did For Trains

Uh oh.

Federal oversight of subways proposed

Under the proposal, the U.S. Department of Transportation would do for transit what it does for airlines and Amtrak: set and enforce federal regulations to ensure that millions of passengers get to their destinations safely.

Well, we know what a fabulous experience Amtrak is and now they want to bring their expertise to our cities. I smell unions.

SEIU Beating Up Congress For Better "Health"

We are privileged to be entertained by ads on television asking people to call Rep. Pat Tiberi and ask him why he wants people to die. The voice over is joined with cute, heart-wrenching and homey pictures of kids and the elderly that just make you want to run out and slap Tiberi for not supporting socialized medicine.

The ads are sponsored by the "Foundation of Patients Rights", a warm and fuzzy group otherwise known as the thugs from Service Employees International Union. It appears that when not beating people at Tea Party rallies, SEIU really really likes kids and old people, especially photogenic ones who will get more people to vote the way SEIU wants. That is, vote for more and more union (aka big government) and government control over society and the United States of America.

SEIU is part of a coalition, Change to Win, which is made up of members who broke away from the AFL-CIO because it was too conservative.

Some of CtW efforts are:

Make Work Pay: Make Work Pay is a general organizing campaign aimed at improving wages and working conditions for working people.
Justice at Smithfield: Organizes workers at Smithfield Foods pork-packing plants. Smithfield has been accused of human rights violations for its treatment of workers by international human rights group Human Rights Watch.
Ports Protection: Organizes truck drivers who move cargo from port facilities out to warehouses and businesses.
Wal-Mart Campaign: Organizes workers in Wal-Mart stores.
Driving Up Standards Together ([1]): Organizes school bus drivers employed by FirstGroup/FirstStudent. An international campaign coordinated with the UK's Transport and General Workers Union (now part of the United Kingdom trades union "Unite").
Uniform Justice: Organizes employees of Cintas, North America's most profitable uniform and laundry company.
Cure CVS: Organizes CVS/Pharmacy and criticize its practices.

Other warm and fuzzy members are:
International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT)
Laborers' International Union of North America (LIUNA)
Service Employees International Union (SEIU)
United Farm Workers (UFW)
United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW)

Funny how the Foundation of Patients Rights never brings up their affiliation with SEIU. They could run really cool video showing how government health care would cover all the people that SEIU members beat up because those people don't want more unions that want more unions that want more government.

Incredible Simulation Of Hudson River Landing

Capt. Chesley B. “Sully” Sullenberger and First Officer Jeffrey Skiles sound collected and doing business. This is really amazing.



This is the main video and you can get more at Wired.

Irani Chairman Short Goes All Jihadi On Internet

Continuing on the path of holy devotion to God through bigotry, lies, hate and nuclear bullying, Iran now wants to go all jihadi on the Internet.

Iran forms unit to go after opposition on Internet

Iran has formed a special unit to monitor Web sites and fight Internet crimes, in a clear attack on an opposition that relies almost exclusively on online means to broadcast its message, local newspapers reported Saturday.

Police Col. Mehrdad Omidi, who heads the Internet crime unit, said the committee will fight "insults and the spreading of lies," terms widely used by the judiciary to describe opposition activities.

Insults and lies, umm. So, they're going to get in a fight with themselves? Good, maybe they'll knock themselves out.

Lies, indeed, and insults? They insult their God, Muslims worldwide and all other sane and rational people everywhere.

Obama Kowtowing To The World

Reminds me of my first formal dance when I listened to my sisters who did not have my best interest at heart. As I bowed and kissed the hand of my date as I been told to do, my friends snickered uncontrollably and my blushing date decided that I was either a fool or making a fool of her.

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The dance did not go well.

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Maybe I should have made the Saudi excuse and said that I dropped something.

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Gateway Pundit noticed too.