Surprise Is A Near Sighted Porcupine Falling In Love With A Cactus
Cowboy Proverb

I remember hearing my creative writing instructor say, we should write about things we are familiar with and understand. I repeat this advice to myself at least once a week; my old writing instructor’s words have served well as a guide, but they have never been humorous until today.

When You Got Nothin To Lose, Try Anything
Cowboy Proverb

Robin Abcarian was probably excited about the prospect of covering the horsey story of Ann Romney, while trying to gain political traction for the failed presidency of Barack Obama; however, writing an article on a minnow in the shark tank and trying to expose the secrets of life in the shark world is laughable.

Apparently, Ann Romney sold a horse and the horse turned up lame at a later date. Does Robin know how many advanced Dressage Horses turn up lame at some point. I’ll let you in on a little secret, Robin, nearly all of them. Lameness finishes up all the careers of dressage, jumpers, hunters, and three day event horses; it is not a question of “will” or “if”, it is a question of “when”.

It was the end of a long day in a stuffy Simi Valley office building. Ann Romney had been under oath for more than four hours, testifying in a sometimes contentious deposition about a pricey horse she sold that may or may not have been afflicted with a condition that made him unrideable.

In the airless room, Romney was getting annoyed.

“That really is — that really is irritating,” she said when the opposing attorney implied she didn’t know who looked after her horse in Moorpark when she was at her home in Boston. “Of course I know who was looking after my horse. You’re just trying to irritate me.”

Stupidity and overwork on the part of a rider or trainer can lead to premature lameness, but if a horse continues to advance and compete, they will eventually become lame. (Ask any human athlete at the upper levels if he has lameness) There are a few “iron horses” that never display lameness, but they are approximately one in a thousand.

Is Dressage an Elitist Sport? It can be, especially, if you ride in Sullivan Canyon, Beverly Hills, Malibu, Calabasas, Thousand Oaks, Hidden Valley, and Moorpark; however, there are low scale operations in those areas, where the riding is comparatively inexpensive. Although, I must report, some of the Liberals’ biggest and wealthiest donors and fat cats are horse owners who live in these areas and their horse stories of indulgence would make delightful reading material for many Americans. I am sure they would gain far more traction than Ann Romney’s deposition over a horse deal that went south. (Not an uncommon event by the way, but when someone feels like a fool in California, someone else should pay.)

When we speak of spending excessive amounts of money on equine indulgences, comparing the Libs in Sullivan Canyon and Malibu, to Ann Romney in Moorpark, would be like running a race between a freight train and a fat man. The LA Times might call some of the Lib Fat Cats with horses and ask if they mind having their horse indulgences opened up to the internet. Ask if they want the public to know of luxury bathrooms in barns that cost more than most homes in California or if they want to hear of wood from Africa and South America being used to build stalls for their horses. Luxury digs for horses within twenty or thirty miles of people living in the drug infested squalor of the ghettos of LA. The same ghetto dwellers for whom they pretend to care for so self-righteously.

Do Not Tamper With The Natural Ignorance Of A Greenhorn
Cowboy Proverb

Ann Romney says she loves her horses and I believe her; although, I have never worked for her and I don’t know her, but I recognize her compassion for animals, for people like her, people with genuine or real compassion for horses, generally have the same compassion for humans.

Many horse owners have no compassion for horses when they can no longer perform, they become more like inanimate objects; to be frank, they become disposable, they become devoid of value when they no longer allow the limelight to shine upon the rider. They are discarded with extreme indifference, for they have served their purpose. This is the real story, a story of cold callous cruelty, especially, among those who wear false compassion on their sleeve.

“It’s like children,” Romney, a mother of five, testified about Super Hit, the horse at the center of the lawsuit. “You don’t … say one is better than the other, but I loved him.”

Ann Romney spends her own money on her horses, she feels they are therapeutic and for those of you who have read my articles on horses, you probably know, I agree with her.

Romney, who rode horses as a girl, began riding seriously as an adult after being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1998. “I was losing most of the function of my right side,” she testified at her deposition on June 3, 2010. “And I decided I needed to go back and do what I loved before I couldn’t do it anymore.”

She soon fell in love with dressage, a fussy Olympic sport that is also called “horse ballet.” In dressage, a horse moves in delicate, dance-like steps to music as the rider, formally clad in top hat and tails, imperceptibly guides the animal.

Because it requires tremendous muscle control, dressage also provided Romney unexpected therapeutic benefits.

“Riding exhilarated me; it gave me a joy and a purpose,” Romney told the Chronicle of the Horse magazine in 2008. “When I was so fatigued that I couldn’t move, the excitement of going to the barn and getting my foot in the stirrup would make me crawl out of bed.”

So now, we know why Romney is not suited for the presidency. His wife sold a horse that became lame and during a deposition she became annoyed with a lawyer or maybe it is because she has a healthy hobby, a hobby she pays for with her own money, instead of flying around on vacations at taxpayer’s expense with an entourage. Oh excuse me, Michelle’s vacations are to promote good will around the world and show poor people how the Obamas can spend money on indulgences like separate jets to vacation hot spots, now there is an indulgence.

I would rather write about more significant political ideas, but if the LA Times wants to continue trying to smear Ann Romney over senseless and inane horse trivia, they might be surprised at the some of the secrets of the elite equestrian world.

The Orlando Sentinel has apparently answered the question of whose voice was heard screaming for help in the Trayvon Martin shooting.

In a timeline included in evidence documents released last week, Sanford police spelled out down to the second, what happened the night George Zimmerman fatally shot Trayvon Martin, based on time-stamped calls to their dispatch center.

It shows Zimmerman fired 1 minute, 57 seconds after he hung up.

*1911:12 – Call received from George Zimmerman reporting suspicious person

1913:19 – Zimmerman relays that suspicious person is running from him.

1913:36 – Dispatcher asks Zimmerman if he is following suspicious person

1913:36 – Dispatcher advises Zimmerman “Okay; we don’t need you to do that”

1915:23 – Approximate time call with Zimmerman ends

1916:43 – 911 call placed by (blacked out name) where Zimmerman is heard screaming for help

1917:20 – Shot fired; screams from Zimmerman cease

1917:40 – Officer T. Smith arrives on scene

1919:43 – Officer T. Smith locates and places Zimmerman in custody.

via Patterico

No other version ever made any sense. It’s now abundantly clear that the Angela Corey persecution prosecution is political and nothing more.

Liberals:

Barack Obama: “No wonder that faith in our institutions has never been lower, particularly when good news doesn’t get the same kind of ratings as bad news anymore. Every day you receive a steady stream of sensationalism and scandal and stories with a message that suggest change isn’t possible; that you can’t make a difference; that you won’t be able to close that gap between life as it is and life as you want it to be.” Yes, because I recall, as a youth, how often good news was reported on.

Barack Obama tweet: “See how President Obama fares when quizzed on his superhero knowledge: OFA.BO/D42u1X”

Dem Dennis Kucinich “[Iran is] not threatening us! We’re threatening them!”

Liberals on the economy:

President Obama: “It was a house of cards and it collapsed in the most destructive, worst crisis that we’ve seen since the Great Depression. And sometimes people forget the magnitude of it…Sometimes I forget.”

President Barack Obama: “economic growth can’t just be for the lucky few at the top, it’s got to be broad-based, for everybody. I’ve spoken before about relatives I have in Kenya, who live in villages where hunger is sometimes a reality – despite the fact that African farmers can be some of the hardest-working people on Earth.” The Obama’s are millionaires and they have apparently done nothing about Obama’s family in Kenya.

Vice President Joe Biden, in anger: “Well I get tired of being called `middle class Joe’ like that’s somehow I’m just good ole Joe and I don’t dream.”

President Obama, who once called Solyndra a good bet: “For the past three and a half years, we’ve been fighting our way back from an historic economic crisis – one caused by breathtaking irresponsibility on the part of some on Wall Street who treated our financial system like a casino.”

Joe Biden, screaming: “We’re not out there saying that we can go out there and rescue the economy with no pain? We inherited a god-awful situation! The worst recession in the history of America short of a depression. No one is sugar-coating this.”

Climate Change:

Forecast the Facts, concerning the fact that fewer than 50% of meteorologists believe in man-made global warming: “…we’re tracking meteorologists’ attitudes toward climate change across the country.” They are also going after the sponsors of an organization which does not believe in man-made global warming.

John Romm, of ThinkProgress, a progressive group closely associated with President Obama, on the idea of PBS giving any time to those who deny man-made global warming: “Seriously PBS? Would you give air time to someone who says the Earth is flat or cigarettes don’t cause cancer and simply follow those falsehoods by ‘These are views challenged by scientific evidence.’ Would PBS go so far as to give air time to an even more extreme kind of disinformer, a Holocaust denier? Where do they draw the line?”

The Liberal agenda:

Vice President Joe Biden on gay marriage: “We didn’t make it an issue, we were asked a question; I was asked how I feel about it, and I said I feel comfortable.”

Joe Biden On the campaign trail:

Joe Biden, yelling and searching for a coherent thought: “I resent when they talk about families like mine that I grew up in. I resent the fact that they think we’re talking about envy: it’s job envy, it’s wealthy envy; that we don’t dream,” an impassioned Biden told a crowd of manufacturing workers. My mother believed and my father believed that if I wanted to be president of the United States, that I could be, I could be vice president! My mother and father believed that if my brother or sister wanted to be a millionaire, they could be a millionaire! My mother and father dreamed as much as any rich guy dreams! They don’t get us! They don’t get who we are!”

Joe Biden, when asked about incarcerated felon getting about 40% of the vote in West Virginia against Barack Obama: “Look, I come from a household where whenever there’s a recession, somebody around my grand-pop or my dad’s table lost a job. A brother, a sister a friend, a neighbor. When you’re out of work, man, it’s a depression. And a lot of people are still hurting because of this god-awful recession we inherited that cost 8.4 million jobs before we could really get going. And so I don’t blame people, they’re frustrated, they’re angry.”

Joe Biden (not yelling): “How about some ice cream?”

The War on Women continues…

Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards: “Frankly, the Republican party leadership who seems to want to take away the right [of women to make decisions]…the fact that we are actually having a fight in this country about whether women should have access to birth control is extraordinary…Romney…literally wants to take women back to the 1950s.” Are there any women who actually believe that these are Romney’s positions?

The Compliant Obama Press Corps:

Newsweek columnist Michelle Goldberg of Ann Romney‘s Mothers’ Day holiday column: “In a lot ways, the column was totally anodyne, right? She’s, you know, yes, motherhood is beautiful. I found that phrase, `the crown of motherhood’ really kind of creepy. Not just because of it’s somewhat – you know, it’s kind of really authoritarian societies that give out like a Cross of Motherhood. They give out awards for big families. You know, Stalin did it, Hitler did it.”

New York Times economic columnist and Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman of Republican leaders, who have called for spending cuts to accompany the debt ceiling increase: “Sometimes you do wonder if these guys are moles -Manchurian Candidates – for I don’t know who…their real job [seems to be]…to bring down America, because they really are doing the best they can.”

The New York Times webpage: “Footage of BO looking slick and cocky.”

From the White House Pool Report, of Obama in Hollywood: “[George] Clooney listened intently to Potus throughout, his hands folded as if in prayer and his chin resting on them.”

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CNN’s Don Lemon, after playing a clip of George Wallace calling for segregation forever: “Honestly, can you imagine having uttered those words in front of television cameras or being one of those people in the crowd cheering on Alabama’s governor George Wallace? That wasn’t so long ago. It was the 1960s. Now think about how far we have come, and think about what this might sound like a few decades from now.” And then he plays this video clip:

Mitt Romney: “Marriage is a relationship between one man and one woman.” Which was exactly the President’s stand until very recently.

Liberal Celebrities:

David Letterman: “I was talking to Mitt Romney earlier today, and he and his family got a big two day weekend planned. They’re going to hike to the top of his money.” David Letterman is worth about $400 million; Romney is worth about $230 million.

Bill Maher, about the new information that Trayvon Martin had marijuana in his system: “…turns out he probably did beat the dogs__t out of that guy…if I had a son he would not look like Trayvon Martin, but I hope he would act like him.”

“Sex and the City” star Sarah Jessica Parker: “As a woman, a mother, and an entrepreneur, I need to believe our country can be a place where everyone has a fair shot at success. This November’s election will determine whether we get to keep moving forward, or if we’re forced to go back to policies that ask people like my middle-class family in Ohio to carry the burden – while people like me, who don’t need tax breaks, get extra help.”

Sean Penn in Cannes at a lavish dinner party on giving to a Haiti relief fund: “Tell the man next to you, ‘I’m not going to f*** you tonight unless you pay the f*** up.’ ”

Occupy this:

Chicago marchers chanting: “No justice no peace, f*ck the police,” and “From Chicago to Greece, f*ck the police,” and “Cops, pigs, murderers.”

Chicago marchers chanting: “F__K you, NATO, more war, hell no….s__ts f__ked up and bull__t…f__k you, Congress, we want progress…J.P. Morgan sucks and f__k Monsanto.”

Leftist protestor while Scott Walker is speaking at a ceremony honoring fallen police officers: “Scott Walker, you suck.”

Occupy Berkeley protesters to police: “You wanna suck my ___, Faggots?”  Liberals can make all of the gay slurs that they want.

Francis Fox Piven: “What I really want to talk about is, what is my, the love of my life now: Occupy. I want to try to explain why Occupy is becoming one of those great, national movements that has changed American history- But amazingly, very, very few people can locate Occupy in American history, and that’s what I want to try to do….[In 1776] the ideas of radical democracy were sweeping the country at the time. And if you pay attention the philosophy of radical democracy that animated the dirt farmers, and the artisans and the laborers- that doctrine was really a little like Occupy. They believed government should never be far from where they were, and that they should be able to watch what it did. There should only be a legislature- it should be unicameral, one House, no House based on property- and they believed also that they should be able to un-elect these characters every year.”

Liberals from the past:

President Obama in 2011 on giving $½ billion to Solyndra: “Hindsight is always 20/20. It went through the regular review process and people felt this was a good bet.”

1998 Democratic political ad: “When you don’t vote, you let another church explode. When you don’t vote, you allow another cross to burn. When you don’t vote, you let another assault wound a brother or sister. When you don’t vote, you let the Republicans continue to cut school lunches and Head Start.”

Rev. Al Sharpton 1994: “White folks was in the cave when we were building empires. We learned to admire them, but they knew to admire us. We built pyramids…We talked philosophy and astrology and mathematics before Socrates and them Greek homos ever got around to it.”

Liberal civility:

Senior Obama adviser David Axelrod: “We’re also going to be prepared – and I want to be clear – to respond to the attacks that we expect to continue not just from the Romney campaign but the [Karl] Rove and Koch brothers contract killers over there in super PAC land who are going to continue to pound away on behalf of governor Romney.”

Former Obama official Betsey Stevenson: “And then there’s this other issue, which is portraying him as a guy who has no empathy for people. And that really resonates, because he comes across as a guy who has no empathy for people, in many different dimensions. You know, you’ve got the gay-bashing thing when he was in high school. You’ve got his wife saying I don’t feel rich, even though I’m richer than 99.99% of Americans. I mean, they come across as really having no empathy for people.”

Liberal radio personality Randi Rhodes on conservative Mark Levin: “You think that he could live in his bedroom the way he does and broadcast his show from there, never leave the house and he’s not a pothead? Are you kidding me, he’s not a stoner? Right! Yeah, uh-huh, I’m down with you, Mark Levin, oh yes, oh yes baby! I get – yeah, oh I believe you have never smoked the pot you will never smoke the pot – this is why you have what, social anxiety disorder, to the point where you have like agoraphobia – you can’t go out of the house – it’s paranoia, honey.”

Muslims:

CAIR-NY head Zead Ramadan, one of those moderate Muslims, in an interview Monday with Iranian state-controlled Press TV, describing the treatment of Muslims in the United States: “In Nazi Germany, they targeted the minority, the Jewish minority. I don’t think we will ever get there, but I don’t think we should allow the road to continue to be built towards that direction because the comments that are being made against Muslims are very eerily echoing the comments that were being made against Jews by Nazis…[W]henever you think that America, the land of the free, is going to grow up and go beyond it [racism], more intolerant, extremist voices come out. And the easiest target, the minority, the easiest target has been the Muslim people.”

Imam Abdel Malik Ali at UC Irvine: “The current financial crisis and collapse, the architects of it are Zionists.”

Ali: “There’s no such thing as al-Qaida…that’s another deception. There is no such thing as al-Qaida. Like no such thing as al-Qaida. No, no such thing at all.” I am guessing that is the invention of zionists?

Liberals making sense:

Former President Bill Clinton: “I think this budget issue should become front and center in this election.”

Former CNN anchorette Campbell Brown: “When I listen to President Obama speak to and about women, he sometimes sounds too paternalistic for my taste.”

Present-day Obama aide Alan Krueger, in 2008: “…across the 50 states and D.C., job search is inversely related to the generosity of unemployment benefits”

Liberals being honest:

Obama Deputy Campaign Manager Stephanie Cutter: “I have to say also there are also disadvantages to being an incumbent. The economy, you know, will continue to be a challenge as we continue to fight out this race over the next six months.” Well, she can’t exactly say, “We’ve got problems because the economy sucks.”

Michael Ahearn, the chairman of First Solar, a company that received approximately $3.1 billion in federal loan guarantees under President Obama’s green energy initiative: “In sheer numbers, most of our full-time employees are outside the U.S.”

Moderates/Affiliation Unknown:

Philippines Congressman and boxer Manny Pacquiao, answering a question: “God’s words first. . . obey God’s law first before considering the laws of man. God only expects man and woman to be together and to be legally married. It should not be of the same sex, so as to adulterate the altar of matrimony, like in the days of Sodom and Gomorrah.”

Dave in Denver on his blog: “Anyone who thinks the Fed is serious about not printing any more money is either cluelessly naive or hopelessly ignorant. The apathy and nonchalance about what is happening in this country is beyond appalling. And now Charles Schumer, a supposed Democrat, wants to prevent anyone giving up their U.S. citizenship from re-entering the U.S. ever again. Dare I remind Herr Schumer that is exactly the kind of law the Nazis imposed on Schumer’s relatives (my relatives too) in the 1930′s?”

Crossfire:

Obama Deputy campaign manager Stephanie Cutter: “The goal of Romney economics has always been about wealth creation, but job creation. It’s wealth creation for a handful of investors like Mitt Romney, not about the creation of jobs for everybody else.”

Chris Wallace: “Mr. Goolsby, can you name a single CEO who does not see their job as creating wealth for their investors rather than creating jobs?” [quoted from memory]

Austin Goolsbey, an Obama adviser: “Uh, I don’t know the answer to that.”

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Granderson: Welcome to the right side of history, Mr. President.

Boxer: He’s on the right side of history.

Jordan: The right side of history.

Wolfson: The President of the United States is on the right side of history.

FoxNews‘ Shepherd Smith: “The President of the United States, now in the twenty-first century. And what I’m most curious about is whether it’s your belief that in this time of rising debts and medical issues and all the rest, if Republicans would go out on a limb and try to make this a campaign issue while sitting very firmly, without much question, on the wrong side of history on it.”

FoxNews’ Brett Baier: “I don’t know about that. You point to the Gallup poll, 50-48; it’s very close. And, you’re right, there has been an evolution on people’s thinking. But you still look at 32 states, when put to a vote, a referendum in those states, and the most recent, of course, last night in North Carolina, 32 states voted to ban same-sex marriage. So those are voters going to the polls, even in California, making that choice. So I don’t know if you can say because of this Gallup poll that electorally it is a perfect position for a candidate to run on.”

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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.: “To toss this [spending must be reduced in order to raise the debt ceiling] into the mix right now — saying we have to have cuts that exceed even the extent to which we lift the debt ceiling is really immature, irresponsible. This is not a wholesome debate. It already can be damaging just the fact that it’s brought up. I think we should snuff it out, immediately.”

House majority leader John Boehner: “It’s the debt! $1.3 trillion more this year. $16 trillion already.”

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Nina Totenberg, NPR: “Reverend Wright‘s biggest sin was talking about 9/11 as if somehow, you know, the United States government was involved, and it was a reprehensible speech in many ways. But, you know, Barack Obama killed, ordered the killing of Osama bin Laden. How is this relevant?”

Newsbusters’ Noel Shepard: “Actually, I think Totenberg has a great point. Maybe everything – the economy, the debt, gas prices, and Obama’s entire record as president – is irrelevant because bin Laden’s dead.”

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The Press asking real questions of WH press secretary Jay Carney:

Todd: The president himself last night raising money at a hedge fund, the home of a hedge fund president whose hedge fund is twice the size of Bain seemed to also praise the idea of risk taking and this or that. So what are you attacking there, why are you attacking this one failure essentially of Bain Capital out of others. Why are you singling this one out?

ABC Newsman Jake Tapper: “The president has been making a very strong case against Mitt Romney‘s form of capitalism as he practiced at Bain Capital. Does the president believe Bain Capital and the private equity measures that were taken there are significantly different from the ones take at the Blackstone Group?”

Tapper: “I get that, it’s just that the campaign has been very critical of some members of the Blackstone group for quote betting against America, being quote less than reputable, and also obviously against Bain Capital but the president and correct me if I’m wrong went to a fundraiser at the home of the president of the Blackstone Group, Hamilton Tony James. And I guess my question is as an American, as a citizen, I don’t understand which ones you’re criticizing and which ones you’re not. It seems like the ones you’re criticizing are the ones that belong to people supporting Mitt Romney or are affiliated with Mitt Romney but the same exact types of organizations or in the case of Blackstone, the same exact organization if they support President Obama then they’re totally kosher.”

Ashleigh Banfield: Alright Ben, I want to take you to task on this one because it was real heart wrenching to listen to those steelworkers in your ad that was ripping Mitt Romney for being at the helm of Bain when, in fact, he wasn’t at the helm when that company went bankrupt. So was that fair or was that dirty?

Banfield: That is prior to him — come on, you’re mincing dates and you’re cheating here. He left to Salt Lake City. You know as well as I do this is a way you can twist things to be a good campaign ad. Is it fair and is it clean?

Banfield: Let me read something to you from the Washington Post which, by the way, gave your ad one Pinnochio, which is a big fat lie and they were going to give you two Pinnochios but held back because of some gray areas that could be read either way. This is what they said about Pinnochio. The biggest problem with this ad is it takes a single data point – Bain’s investments to GS Industries and then it tries to draw larger conclusions about Romney’s business practices and his values because Ben, come on, you and I also know he had plenty of success as the Washington Post has outlined. Many successes the Wall Street Journal has outlined. Many successes Bain Capital has had in creating jobs and saving companies from going under. And also there are other steel companies like steel dynamics did incredibly well under their leadership.

Banfield: You know that business is complex and it can’t be boiled down to a simple black and white, that easily. You know that, I know that, Americans know that. Don’t you think it’s a little unfair to take one plant that was already failing, that many analysts have said had Bain not come in, it probably would have failed sooner and that the steel industry was at its worst at this particular time. and then extrapolate this guy is a job killer or a vulture capitalist.

From:

http://www.gop.com/index.php/comms/comments/wh_on_defense_over_private_equity_mixed_messages#ixzz1vNOjyoRo

Conservatives:

Jodi Miller: “The Obama justice department is suing Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio for his efforts to crack down on illegal immigration. Cracking down on illegal immigration, or, as Democrats call it, vote tampering.”

Senator Marco Rubio: “These ideas that sounded so good in the classrooms of Harvard and Yale haven’t worked out well in the real world…we have not seen such a divisive figures in modern American history as we have in the last three and a half years. Sadly, because he cannot win on his record, the president has decided that he must divide us in order to win; that he must pit Americans against one another.”

Speaker of the House John Boehner: “It’s not like our debt problem is going away. When the president told me yesterday that he wanted a clean increase in the debt limit, it almost took my breath away. We had this debate last year; we put that idea on the floor of the House and it got about 20 votes and over 400 members against it. The problem is the debt; the problem is the spending. Washington keeps kicking this can down the road.”

Paula Priesse: “The chances of a recent college graduate now finding full-time work is about 50%. Commencement speakers always talk about how to succeed. Be nice to see just one telling graduates how to fail: 1) View life in America as hopelessly “unfair” 2) Identify yourself as an aggrieved victim of a special interest group, never responsible for your life choices 3) Place your faith in politicians to achieve happiness & success 4) Rather than learn from them, be angry and bitter at others who are successful 5) Consider yourself highly skilled thus above any entry level position 6) View the debt crisis as irrelevant to your future and 7) Keep believing in slogans like “Forward” and “Hope & Change””

John Boehner: “Just so we’re all clear: I’m talking about real cuts and real reforms—not these tricks and gimmicks that have given Washington a pass on grappling with its spending problem…it would be more irresponsible to not raise the debt ceiling without taking dramatic steps to reduce spending and reform the budget process. Now we shouldn’t dread the debt limit—as a matter of fact, I think we should welcome it. It’s an action-forcing event in a town which has become infamous for inaction…I will again insist on my simple principle of cuts and reforms greater than the debt limit increase. This is the only avenue I see at this time to force our elected leadership of this country to solve our structural fiscal imbalance.”

Mitt Romney: “Today America faces a financial crisis of debt and spending that threatens what it means to be an American. Here in the heartland you know in your hearts that it’s wrong. We can’t spend another four years talking about solving a problem that we only make worse every day…A prairie fire of debt is sweeping across Iowa and our nation and every day we fail to act we feed that fire with our own lack of resolve. This is not a Democratic or Republican problem. That fire could care less if you have a donkey or an elephant in your front lawn, it’s still coming for your house.”

Maine Gov. Paul LePage: “Maine’s welfare program is cannibalizing the rest of state government. To all you able-bodied people out there get off the couch and get yourself a job.”

John Tamni, FoxNews commentator: “Unless you’re Paul Krugman, you understand the government spending does not drive growth.”

Pat Buchanan: “… our president is talking about interest on student loans. These kids need jobs. That’s what they need. Let’s create jobs in this country. That’s where he has failed so miserably.”

Huh?

Speaker of the House John Boehner: “It is hard to keep 218 frogs in a wheelbarrow long enough to get a bill passed”

Conservatives being snarky:

Dr. Charles Krauthammer on Joe Biden: “I have no idea what the hell he’s talking about. . . I think he needs an adjustment in his medications…I’m not sure he even knows what he is saying.”

Rush:

Rush Limbaugh: “Fiscal responsibility, there is no pretense of that. There was some journalist wringing his hands over the fact that Obama hasn’t yet proposed anything on entitlement reform. He’s never going to! Entitlement reform, what the heck do you people think Obamacare is? It’s a brand-new one. There’s no reform of entitlements proposed on the Democrat side.”

Rush Limbaugh: “Social Security is in heap big trouble. Little Elizabeth Warren lingo there. Heap big trouble. And it has been for a long time.”

Rush Limbaugh: “Obama has $500,000 to a million dollars invested in Chase, not General Motors. Did you know that? Got maybe a million dollars invested. He loves Jamie Dimon.”

Rush Limbaugh: “You know what the real crisis is in this country? You know what the real catastrophe is in this country? It’s not global warming. It’s not that we’re gonna need two earths in 18 years. It’s none of this crap. The real crisis in this country is out-of-control spending that is destroying the United States private sector, because the solution to the world’s problems is the United States of America continuing to lead the world as a bastion of freedom.”

Rush Limbaugh: “Obama has inserted himself into the biographies to show how he has capitalized and moved forward all of these great achievements of past presidents. So Obama is ‘slow-jamming’ history is essentially what he’s doing. He’s inserting himself in it. It’s laughable. It’s an indication of an out-of-control ego, narcissism, you name it.”

Rush Limbaugh: “What we have to do is get rid of liberals and socialists from positions of power who want to dictate their way of life to everyone else. That’s the catastrophe. That’s the crisis. That’s the biggest problem the world faces, is the end of the United States of America as the lone outpost of freedom, guidance for greatness, pursuit of excellence, and happiness.”

Rush Limbaugh: “Everything Biden said about job creation after the stimulus bill, not one thing has come true. Eight hundred thousand, 500,000 jobs a month. Not even close.”

Rush Limbaugh: “The only thing in short supply in the world is capitalism. We have an unequal, unfair distribution of capitalism. There simply isn’t enough of it. There’s way too much socialism in the world. There’s way too much Marxism. There’s way too much communism. There is way too much dictatorship, which, by the way, is the way humanity, for the most part, has lived since we first began walking the earth.”

Conservative Media:

Matthew Sheffield of Newsbusters: “Among the shocking examples of how gay rights extremists are using hate speech laws to silence conservatives is a ruling by a Canadian official that Christian parents who home-school their children can not teach their children that homosexuality is a sin.”  The video he references is here: Banned from YouTube.

All the President’s Man

The Dodd Frank law was supposed to rein in abuses by Wall St. It was supposed to end “too big to fail.” It was supposed to end so-called “risky trading” by banks. Some of us knew better. Barack Obama was effusive in his praise of the bill as he signed it.

We are gathered in the heart of our nation’s capital, surrounded by memorials to leaders and citizens who served our nation in its earliest days and in its days of greatest trial. Today is such a time for America.

Over the past two years, we have faced the worst recession since the Great Depression. Eight million people lost their jobs. Tens of millions saw the value of their homes and retirement savings plummet. Countless businesses have been unable to get the loans they need and many have been forced to shut their doors. And although the economy is growing again, too many people are still feeling the pain of the downturn.

Now, while a number of factors led to such a severe recession, the primary cause was a breakdown in our financial system. It was a crisis born of a failure of responsibility from certain corners of Wall Street to the halls of power in Washington. For years, our financial sector was governed by antiquated and poorly enforced rules that allowed some to game the system and take risks that endangered the entire economy.

Unscrupulous lenders locked consumers into complex loans with hidden costs. Firms like AIG placed massive, risky bets with borrowed money. And while the rules left abuse and excess unchecked, they also left taxpayers on the hook if a big bank or financial institution ever failed.

Now, even before the crisis hit, I went to Wall Street and I called for common-sense reforms to protect consumers and our economy as a whole. And soon after taking office, I proposed a set of reforms to empower consumers and investors, to bring the shadowy deals that caused this crisis into the light of day, and to put a stop to taxpayer bailouts once and for all. (Applause.) Today, thanks to a lot of people in this room, those reforms will become the law of the land.

We can sleep well

Now, beyond the consumer protections I’ve outlined, reform will also rein in the abuse and excess that nearly brought down our financial system. It will finally bring transparency to the kinds of complex and risky transactions that helped trigger the financial crisis. Shareholders will also have a greater say on the pay of CEOs and other executives, so they can reward success instead of failure.

Obama is standing watch

And finally, because of this law, the American people will never again be asked to foot the bill for Wall Street’s mistakes. There will be no more tax-funded bailouts — period. If a large financial institution should ever fail, this reform gives us the ability to wind it down without endangering the broader economy. And there will be new rules to make clear that no firm is somehow protected because it is “too big to fail,” so we don’t have another AIG.

Yet despite their significant contribution to the financial meltdown, the GSE’s were left untouched by Dodd-Frank. And they weren’t all that was left untouched.

Last week JP Morgan, headed by Obama pal Jamie Dimon, announced that it had lost $2 billion in trading.

Derivatives trading.

Dodd-Frank was supposed to regulate derivatives trading as such trading was a significant contributor to the financial disaster which struck this country in 2008. Sen. Dianne Feinstein once again proved she has no interest in reading bills for which she votes.

“Well, this is a big surprise because this particular bank is well-respected. It is well-led. And so, to have this kind of a loss from hedging activities is a big surprise,” Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-California, said on “Fox News Sunday.” “I think what it points out that there are no rules of the road for hedging and for derivatives. And this needs to happen.”

She voted for Dodd-Frank and it passed and she still doesn’t know what’s in it.

But now we learn why JP Morgan was left alone to fritter this money away.

Obama financial forms show big JP Morgan account

Maybe it’s a case of putting your mouth where your money is.

President Barack Obama praised JP Morgan Chase in an interview recorded Monday as “one of the best managed banks there is” and its CEO, Jamie Dimon, as “one of the smartest bankers we got.” On Tuesday, the White House made public financial disclosure forms showing the president and First Lady Michelle Obama had between $500,001 and $1,000,000 in a “JP Morgan Chase Private Client Asset Management Checking Account.”

The annual peek into the Obamas’ finances showed that the president held between $1,000,001 and $5,000,000 in U.S. Treasury Notes, generating between $5,001 and $15,000 in interest. They also held between $500,001-$1,000,000 in Treasury Bills.

Beeing Prezeedent bean berry berry good to Obama.

He is a wealthy man, with assets of as much as $10 million.

A Huffington Post article from January has proven to be quite prophetic. See if you can spot the one name that stands out prominently:

Wall Street lobbyists are trying hard to weaken the extent to which the government can police a practice that played a central role in the 2008 financial crisis.

Some of the country’s largest banks — including Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup and Bank of America — are lobbying Congress to grant regulatory exceptions for derivatives traded outside the U.S. Each of these banks has at least half its assets in overseas operations, according to Bloomberg, meaning that hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of trading could lie outside the scope of the Dodd-Frank financial reform bill if the lobbyists are successful.

In the years leading up to the financial crisis, the derivatives market was where Wall Street firms shifted their risk around in increasingly complex ways, until nearly everyone with skin in the financial game, from major corporations to ordinary homeowners, was somehow implicated in one deal or another. Derivatives trading has been a source of major profit for Wall Street — JPMorgan Chase reportedly took in $5 billion in 2009, during an otherwise awful year, thanks to its derivatives desk — but it’s also a large part of what sent the national economy into a tailspin just a few years ago.

Jamie Dimon being an Obama pal likely didn’t hurt either.

Bank lobbyists have also succeeded in getting the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, a major regulator, to repeatedly delay a critical package of derivatives regulations.

The GSE’s remain unreformed and are still too big to fail, and as are some banks. See if you can post the prominent name:

Two years after President Barack Obama vowed to eliminate the danger of financial institutions becoming “too big to fail,” the nation’s largest banks are bigger than they were before the nation’s credit markets seized up and required unprecedented bailouts by the government.

Five banks — JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM), Bank of America Corp. (BAC), Citigroup Inc., Wells Fargo & Co. (WFC), and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. — held $8.5 trillion in assets at the end of 2011, equal to 56 percent of the U.S. economy, according to central bankers at the Federal Reserve.

Barack Obama promised to end risky trading. He promised to end “too big to fail.” He did neither, unquestionably because these are his money men and because he is a liar.

So if you are planning to vote for him, you are an idiot.

Environmentalism and ‘saving the world’ are almost exclusively preoccupations of the left. Outwardly they are noble pursuits, and yet they have always smelt a bit rotten. In order to find the source of the odor it is necessary to look beneath the surface and understand what is going on at the psychological level when someone takes up these causes. Clues are few and far between, so when you find something in the press that hints at a deeper malaise, it’s worth looking at it very closely.

The following comment by English journalist Geoffrey Wheatcroft is one such. He said:

“The great twin political problems of the age are the brutality of the right and the dishonesty of the left.”

By far the more straightforward of the two is the ‘brutality of the right’ and it can be explained by pretty much any of us. For example if I were to summarise my approach to life it would go something like this: “Normally I try to treat other people with respect, but essentially I am selfish and that is what normally guides my actions. I don’t think there is anything wrong with that.” In essence that’s it – the brutality of the right flows from our selfishness. Most of you will relate.

It’s Wheatcroft’s second ‘problem’ that is the clue to what is wrong with environmentalism that we really want to look at. If we drill down into what is meant by the ‘dishonesty of the left’ we eventually come to the concept of ‘pseudo-idealism’. Pseudo-idealism is not real idealism, its feel-good selfishness masquerading as idealism. The vast majority of environmentalists belong to this camp: they preach their cause not from a genuine concern for the environment, but from a genuine concern for feeling good about themselves.

The psychology behind it is that we are all variously embattled at one level or another, and so ‘do-gooding’ can be massively seductive because it is so guilt relieving.

However – and here is the danger – in order to get the full guilt relieving benefit from ‘do-gooding’ (or any of the myriad forms of political correctness including environmentalism), the practitioner has to delude themselves that they are not on a selfish trip. In most cases this is so patently absurd that they have to work very hard at maintaining it. As a result they can become not just a strident advocate, but fanatical and intolerant of others who continue to battle.

This is dangerous because such intolerance is repressive and in essence anti-progress; and I don’t just mean economic progress – at a deeper level this intolerance is repressive of all progress.

In Nineteen Eighty Four George Orwell said, “If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face”. If that future isn’t now, it is very close. Political correctness has become so pervasive in all its various guises that the boot may as well have a ‘dolphin friendly’ stamp on it, and as for the face – well we aren’t allowed to discuss its race or its gender or even its age can we – but I can guess it looks pretty much like you and me.

So the dishonesty of the left is manifold – it deludes it’s self that it is selfless when in fact it is extremely selfish; and its insistence we all ‘do good’ masks a threat far more dangerous than the brutality of the right.

Barack Obama has released a new ad in which Bain Capital, the private equity firm where Mitt Romney worked, is called a “vampire.”

President Obama’s campaign is out with a tough new ad, “Steel,” attacking former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney’s record on job creation.

The two-minute ad focuses on GS Technologies, a steel mill in Kansas City, Mo., that was bought by Romney’s private equity firm Bain Capital and went bankrupt soon after.

The ad paints Romney as out of touch with the needs of the local workers and concerned only with Bain’s own profits.

“We view Mitt Romney as a job destroyer,” says one former mill worker in the ad. Another calls Bain “a vampire. They came in and sucked the life out of us.”

Bain, along with two partners, bought the steel firm in 1993. The author of the WaPo article, Rachel Weiner, makes crystal clear that she is simply another campaign worker in the tank for Obama. Her words:

The two-minute ad focuses on GS Technologies, a steel mill in Kansas City, Mo., that was bought by Romney’s private equity firm Bain Capital and went bankrupt soon after.

and then

Bain bought GST in 1993. According to a January profile of the takeover by Reuters, less than a decade later, the plant closed,

A “decade later” is “soon after”? Seriously?

So what ever became of this steel firm? This:

In 1993, Bain and two partners (GE Capital and Leggett & Platt) took over a century-old Kansas City steel plant known as GSI that badly needed investment capital for modernization. The Bain-led group pumped $100 million of investment capital into the plant, merged the plant with the company’s Georgetown plant within two years, and raised an additional $250 million through two bond offerings. Bain was paid roughly $900,000 in management fees during the Romney period (1993 thru 1999), and its investors ultimately yielded an estimated $50 million on an investment of $24.5 million. In the late 1990s, union relations deteriorated, steel prices nosedived, and raw materials and energy prices ballooned. The company filed for bankruptcy reorganization in 2001. The Georgetown plant was sold and temporarily shutdown, and then reopened over a four year period. Hundreds of Georgetown employees lost their jobs during the temporary shutdown. Georgetown locals blame the temporary shutdown on the owner that followed Bain, and most had no knowledge of Romney’s involvement in the company until the candidates started making their allegations. The plant is now owned by the world’s largest steelmaker and operates two shifts daily. Bain defends its actions at GSI, claiming that it generated substantial investment capital for the company and committed “many thousands of hours to upgrade its facilities and make the company more competitive.”

Now let’s turn to the irony portion of our program. While attacking Mitt Romney’s background in private equity Barack Obama held a fundraiser hosted by a private equity firm:

President Obama is attending a fundraiser today in New York City that will be hosted by Hamilton E. James, the chief operating officer and president of Blackstone. The financial firm Blackstone is “one of the world’s largest private equity fund businesses,” according to its website.

But ironically, Obama today is using Mitt Romney’s background in private equity as the basis of an attack on his Republican rival.

But that’s not the best part. No, THIS is the best part. While Romney wasn’t at Bain when the steel firm went bankrupt, one of Obama’s top bundlers was at Bain:

As Katrina reports, Mitt Romney left Bain Capital in 1999 to manage the Winter Olympics, two years before GST Steel declared bankruptcy. But that hasn’t stopped President Obama from blaming him for the company’s 2001 collapse. In a new Obama campaign video, ex-steel workers criticize Romney for being “out of touch” with the “average working person.” Left unmentioned (and blameless) is Jonathan Lavine.

Lavine, according to the Los Angeles Times, is a top Obama bundler and a managing director at Bain Capital. Lavine, who has raised over $100,000 for the president, was at the firm when GST Steel declared bankruptcy. So according to the Obama team’s logic, Romney, who had left Bain, is responsible for GST Steel’s demise, but Lavine, who was there, is not? Expect to hear more about this connection.

Moreover, Obama’s bailout of the auto industry resulted in the loss of at least 50,000 jobs.

Bill Clinton is right. Obama IS an amateur.

So good ol’, “lovable” Joe Biden was in Youngstown Ohio yesterday, firing up the Base.

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MSNBC’s Martin Bashir is calling it “Biden’s fire vs. Romney’s misfires“.

“Vigorous blue collar battlecry”?! He “sounds like one of them”? Really?!?!

ABC News:

At a campaign stop in Youngstown, Ohio, today, Vice President Joe Biden lit into Republicans and their presumed presidential nominee Mitt Romney for what he described as a failure to understand the plight of the middle class.

“I resent when they talk about families like mine that I grew up in. I resent the fact that they think we’re talking about envy: it’s job envy, it’s wealthy envy; that we don’t dream,” an impassioned Biden told a crowd of manufacturing workers.

“My mother believed and my father believed that if I wanted to be president of the United States, that I could be, I could be vice president! My mother and father believed that if my brother or sister wanted to be a millionaire, they could be a millionaire! My mother and father dreamed as much as any rich guy dreams!

“They don’t get us! They don’t get who we are!” he yelled before the crowd, drawing loud applause.

And who is Joe Biden? Someone from a blue collar, working middle class family background?

Steve Chapman:

Joe Biden once got in trouble for plagiarizing a speech and inflating his academic record. So it will not surprise you to find that his famous working-class background turns out to be mythical. But it may surprise you to learn that Biden isn’t the one who has trouble with the facts.

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But the legend of Joe Biden, born in a welding shop, dies hard with political reporters, who find it easier to romanticize a gritty, hardscrabble childhood than a conventionally comfortable one.

The facts are there for anyone who wants to look at them.

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So where did he get his working-class reputation? Partly it comes from Biden’s streetwise demeanor and his preoccupation with the fact that his family wasn’t as well-off as some of the people he knew — which seems to have given him a permanent chip on his shoulder. Partly it comes from his frequent tributes to blue-collar folks, such as the firefighters who took him to the hospital when he suffered an aneurysm.

But mostly it reflects journalists’ weakness for simple, vivid narratives.

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Michelle Malkin on Uncle Joe’s audience a few days ago:

The nation’s vice campaigner in chief went on the attack against Republicans this week, clad in full populist armor. “These guys don’t have a sense of the average folks out there,” said The Everyman. “They don’t know what it means to be middle class.” But who was his audience?

Nope, not blue-collar workers in Allentown, Pa. Biden was speaking to an exclusive club of $10,000-per-couple campaign donors gathered at the home of the Senate’s $200 million man, Democratic Mass. Sen. John Kerry, in Georgetown, D.C.

That’s smack dab in the middle of Beltway America, where they like a twist of cognitive dissonance with their aperitifs.

The White House is once again drawing on the fantastical myth of middle-class Joe to portray Republicans as out-of-touch elitists. A Washington Post headline described Biden “digging back into his roots to move Obama forward.” But the administration’s leading populist poster child is a wretched symbol of entrenched Washington power. And his fables are getting oldy-moldy.

And on his speech in Youngstown yesterday, Malkin writes:

While Biden’s family came from humble beginnings, the wheeler-dealer politician and his family (including two lobbyist sons) have reaped the benefits of public office for nearly a half-century. The entrenched senior senator from Delaware amassed wealthy donors and crooked cronies over six Senate terms. These are some of the stories, reported in my book “Culture of Corruption,” that have been whitewashed out of the loquacious veep’s campaign folklore:

–Biden’s custom-built house in Delaware’s ritziest Chateau Country neighborhood, assessed at $2.5 million four years ago, is the Bidens’ most valuable asset. He secured the estate with the help of a corporate executive who worked for Biden’s top campaign donor, credit card giant MBNA. In 1996, Biden sold his previous mansion to MBNA Vice Chairman John Cochran. The asking price was $1.2 million. Cochran forked over the full sum. Biden then paid $350,000 in cash to real estate developer Keith Stoltz for a 4.2-acre lakefront lot. Stoltz had paid that same amount five years earlier for the undeveloped property.

–Among Pal Joey’s dearest old pals: campaign finance “rainmaker” William Oldaker, who showered generous benefits on both the elder Biden and his lobbyist son, Hunter; Baltimore-based Peter Angelos, whose law firm gave Biden $156,250; Wilmington-based Young Conaway Stargatt and Taylor, which kicked in $127, 979; and Pachulski Stang Zielhl and Jones, which donated $145,625, according to The American Lawyer.

–Disgraced trial lawyer Richard Scruggs donated $11,500 to Biden in 2008. After Scruggs was convicted of attempting to bribe a federal judge, Biden tried to show his ethical bona fides by donating the money to a worthy charity. But Biden couldn’t steer clear of nepotism. The money ended up with the National Prostate Cancer Coalition — a charity where, The American Lawyer pointed out, Biden’s son Hunter sits on the board of directors.

–Another Biden family pal in the trial lawyers’ community: Jeff Cooper. With his partner, John Simmons, the 39-year-old Cooper built one of the biggest asbestos litigation firms in the country. SimmonsCooper, based in Madison County, Ill., has donated a whopping $196,050 to Biden’s campaigns since 2003, according to the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics in Washington, D.C. In that same time frame, the firm poured $6.5 million into lobbying against a key tort reform bill — which Sen. Biden worked hard to defeat. Without a hint of irony, Cooper extolled Biden’s anti-tort reform stance: “He understands the plight of the little guy and is against huge corporate interest.” But what Biden did was help fuel lucrative business for the tort bar. When courts in SimmonsCooper’s home base in Illinois finally started cracking down on what had become “America’s No. 1 judicial hellhole” for filing out-of-control tort claims, the firm turned East. And in Joe Biden’s Delaware, they created a new sanctuary.

Back on Obama 2012 Fantasy Island, Biden insists on marketing himself as the humble “son of an automobile man.” Give him this: He spins like a used-car salesman.

The Blaze also points out:

There are plenty of gems in that segment, but how about when he seems to catch himself while discussing his parents telling him he could be president if he wanted to, only to realize quickly he only ended up being vice president:

My mother believed and my father believed, that if I wanted president of the United States, I could be, I could be vice president. [Actual quote as it was delivered]

There’s also this:

I resent the fact that they think we’re talking about, we’re envy* — “it’s job envy”, “it’s wealth envy.” [Emphasis added]

President Obama is also hardly of a modest means, non-privileged background.

Yet Democrats continue to identify themselves with the working middle class rather than with the 1 percenters.

He was injured- just as he said he was.

A medical report compiled by the family physician of accused Trayvon Martin murderer George Zimmerman and obtained exclusively by ABC News found that Zimmerman was diagnosed with a “closed fracture” of his nose, a pair of black eyes, two lacerations to the back of his head and a minor back injury the day after he fatally shot Martin during an alleged altercation.

Zimmerman faces a second degree murder charge for the Feb. 26 shooting that left the unarmed 17-year-old high school junior dead. Zimmerman has claimed self defense in what he described as a life and death struggle that Martin initiated by accosting him, punching him in the face, then repeatedly bashing his head into the pavement.

Also today, a trove of documents are being examined by lawyers for both the defense and prosecution as part of discovery in Zimmerman’s trial — including 67 CDs worth of documents, video of Martin on the night of the shooting, his autopsy report and videos of Zimmerman’s questioning by police.

Zimmerman’s three-page medical report is included in those documents that the defense could use as evidence.

And it also turns out that, contrary to the “Official Report of the Funeral Director”, Trayvon Martin had bloody knuckles- as one might suffer when punching someone else in the face.

WFTV has confirmed that autopsy results show 17-year-old Trayvon Martin had injuries to his knuckles when he died.

The information could support George Zimmerman’s claim that Martin beat him up before Zimmerman shot and killed him.

The autopsy results come as Zimmerman’s attorney, Mark O’Mara continues to go over other evidence in the case.

O’Mara wouldn’t comment on the autopsy evidence, but WFTV legal analyst Bill Sheaffer said it’s better for the defense than it is for the prosecution.

WFTV has learned that the medical examiner found two injuries on Martin’s body: The fatal gunshot wound and broken skin on his knuckles.

When you compare Trayvon’s non-fatal injury with Zimmerman’s bloody head wounds, the autopsy evidence is better for the defense, Sheaffer said.

“It goes along with Zimmerman’s story that he acted in self-defense, because he was getting beaten up by Trayvon Martin,” Sheaffer said.

The injury to Martin’s knuckle also fits with Zimmerman’s story that before he shot and killed Martin, Martin had broken his nose and knocked him to the ground, slamming his head on the sidewalk.

It continues to fall into place for Zimmerman. The big problem for him is that this execrable, disgusting, racist administration is likely to hunt Zimmerman down for eternity until they find him guilty of something- even if it turns out to be littering.

WFTV has learned charges against George Zimmerman could be getting more serious.

State prosecutors said Zimmerman, a neighborhood watchman, profiled and stalked 17-year-old Trayvon Martin before killing him, so the FBI is now looking into charging him with a hate crime.

Zimmerman admitted to killing Martin in February during a confrontation. However, he claims the shooting was in self-defense. He’s facing a second-degree murder charge, which carries a maximum possible sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole. But if Zimmerman is charged and found guilty of a federal hate crime involving murder, he could face the death penalty.

Eric Holder is very sensitive about anyone who offends “my people” and could give a damn about anyone else. There is NOTHING to indicate George Zimmerman profiled Trayon Martin simply because of his race. In fact, there is potent evidence to the contrary:

Though civil rights demonstrators have argued Zimmerman should not have prejudged Martin, one black neighbor of the Zimmermans said recent history should be taken into account.

“Let’s talk about the elephant in the room. I’m black, OK?” the woman said, declining to be identified because she anticipated backlash due to her race. She leaned in to look a reporter directly in the eyes. “There were black boys robbing houses in this neighborhood,” she said. “That’s why George was suspicious of Trayvon Martin.”

None of that will matter to this cretinous Attorney General or his equally miserable boss. George Zimmerman is more black than Elizabeth Warren is Cherokee. But since the left wing media has Zimmerman characterized as a cracker, that will be his fate and Shylock Holder will seek his pound of flesh.

Rarely has this country has so badly needed a change in leadership. And you are still a blithering idiot to believe anything Barack Obama says. An absolute moron.

Hear it?

It’s getting louder.

The sounds of a election come nearer.

And it’s making a particular President wet his pants.

Reacting to the stinging criticism from two members of Congress in a key election state Barack Obama modified his “All of the Above” energy website.

The Obama campaign changed its website Thursday night to include a reference to “clean coal” in the president’s “all-of-the-above” energy plan after Republicans lawmakers criticized the omission.

Under the heading “President’ Obama’s approach to energy independence,” an entire section on the campaign website was altered from “fuel efficiency” to “clean coal.” The sections now appear as: oil, natural gas, clean coal, biofuels, wind, solar and nuclear.

Earlier this week, Rep. Ed Whitfield, a Republican from Kentucky who chairs a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee, criticized the president for excluding coal and hydropower, two energy resources that together provide for more than half of the country’s electricity, from his “all-of-the-above” energy plan.

“This administration has been openly in the business of putting coal out of business,” Mr. Whitfield said. “And for the president to run around talking about an ‘all of the above’ energy policy, even on his campaign website, and to not mention coal as an important energy sector is unbelievable to me.”

Sen. Rob Portman, Ohio Republican, on Wednesday tweeted his disappointment about the exclusion of coal, saying Mr. Obama was “out of touch [with Ohio’s] needs.”

In what has to be an act of desperation the Obama website was changed from this

to this

Let’s have a close look at what the newest version says:

“President Obama has set a 10-year goal to develop and deploy cost-effective clean coal technology.”

Obama’s coal industry goals can be properly summarized this way:

1. Bankrupt the coal industry.
2. See #1
3. See #2
4. See #3
5. See #4

Anything else he says is but pablum meant for the liberal (i.e. weak, gullible) mind expressly for the purposes of re-election. Obama knows well liberals suffer from CRS syndrome (Can’t Remember Sh*t) and will have forgotten everything he and Biden have said about the coal industry in the past.

Not me. I remember what Obama said. Here he is saying he would bankrupt the coal industry:

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“So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can; it’s just that it will bankrupt them because they’re going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that’s being emitted.”

And did someone mention Joe Biden?

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No clean coal for you!

Anyone with half a brain will see right through this current ruse. The problem is, Obama supporters come up short on the brain thing. Obama has been conducting the war on coal for some time.

With the country focused on this week’s high drama at the Supreme Court, President Obama’s EPA quietly released long-delayed regulations to apply global warming rules never authorized by Congress to new coal-fired power plants.

That Obama’s EPA would release a rule to destroy coal-fired electricity while the president gives stump speeches about an “all of the above” energy policy is an insult to the American people.

This rule will effectively block any new coal-fired power plants from being built in America, and a second round of related rules – expected after the election, of course – will shut down existing coal-fired power plants.

The result will be steeply higher electricity prices, lost jobs, and lower standards of living. Remarkably, this is all done in the name of global warming, but even EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson admits it will have no discernible impact on global temperatures. Obama’s EPA is crippling the U.S. economy not to accomplish anything, but just to enjoy a nice, warm, green feeling of self-satisfaction.

Consequently, coal plants are being shut down with no energy substitutes in sight.

Edison International (EIX) plans to shut down at least two aging coal-fired power plants in what could be a growing wave of retirements as low natural-gas and electricity prices and stricter pollution rules make many of these facilities unprofitable.

Edison will shut down its two Chicago coal-fired power plants — one this year and one by 2014 — rather than install pollution-control equipment to comply with state pollution limits, the company said. Edison said it also would likely shut down a third coal plant in Waukegan, Ill., and possibly others. …

Companies are increasingly announcing plans to shut down aging coal plants as the cost of installing pollution-control equipment can exceed the value of the plant.

If you believe Obama has a goal for clean coal that ends anywhere else but in bankruptcy, you’re an idiot.

Merriam Webster
Metrosexual:: a usually urban heterosexual male given to enhancing his personal appearance by fastidious grooming, beauty treatments, and fashionable clothes

We are all familiar with the phrase, “Metrosexual” and we all know at least a few who are willing to assume this role of a man who takes on feminine characteristics to fulfill a new role in our society, just how far he is willing to go in the assumption of this semi-feminine identity while maintaining a dainty masculine image varies, but we can be sure the image is being promoted by our faithful media. No, I am not speaking of the men who easily fulfill the Gary Cooper role model of FA men; I am talking about the effeminate “Straight” men who are pleased to have you question their sexual identity and the women who create these confused weaklings. The women, who perpetuate the myth that men are evil and dirty, then smother their boys with motherly attention, not for the sake of the boys, but to cater to their own feminine insecurities and neurotic weaknesses.

Some are quick to call our president a Metrosexual, but, I’d rather focus on the economy and jobs, than worry over his dubious manhood, it is the younger male demographic that I am speaking of and their mothers.

We’ve all heard and seen these boys in the public whining like little girls to their parents, instead of watching little girls.

This late breast feeding is labeled attached parenting. The woman in the photo carries it to more of an extreme by sleeping with her son. She says that hopefully this will be his last year. Now we are wondering who is in charge of this bizarre situation.

There is no scientific proof, but if we compile the anecdotal experiences of objective people who have begun to question this new gender bending concept in our society, the results will be persuasive. It is primarily a Liberal trait, but there are exceptions, Like the Whore Hopping serial rapist, President Clinton and the waitress sandwich boys Chris Dodd and Teddy Kennedy. It’s true, enjoying the assets of a tasty waitress in a menage a trois can bring up images of indirect latent homosexuality at the very least. However, Dodd and Kennedy were more old school in their perversions; they would never pretend to have a feminine side and would never pretend to have homosexual desires, even while they are exhibiting those same tendencies during their brotherly love sessions. The Metrosexual is more than willing to expose his feminine nature to the world and maybe even partake of the forbidden fruit.

What is wrong with this, you might ask, nothing if you are gay, but if you were designed to be a straight man by the genetics in your DNA and you have a “gay side” because of perverted parenting, it is a tragedy. A tragedy not only to the individual, but to our culture as well.

Many of you who think back will remember boys who were raised by overly possessive and protective mothers; the boys were effeminate in their actions. Usually the mothers were happy not to be raising those typical male hellions. It was if they wanted to change the world by raising their sons as daughters. Thus those boys eventually became angry teenagers or they were always willing to be looked after and cared for by the omnipotent mother. In time, mother is frail or impossibly possessive and the boy has the option of marrying another mother or finding a man friend for companionship and comfort. The state becomes a surrogate parent and we have created a loyal progressive.

This article in no way is meant to condemn gays or the gay lifestyle. We are born the way we were born and there is precious little you can do about it. I wanted to be 6 foot five, but I ended up three inches too short, that’s the way it is and I can’t do anything about it. However, raising boys in an overly protective atmosphere with a feminine dominance is wrong.

Notice the title on Time: Are You Mom Enough? They are encouraging women to raise their sons as dominated weaklings, rather letting them assume the roles of coarse hairy legged men of history. The new man is to be a Metrosexual, secure in his identity as a submissive wimp, Americans meet your Metrosexual his name is Liberal and the Super Mom is his creator, for few things are more destructive to the psyche of a man than an overly possessive mother.