“I don’t think you want me to waste my time to read every page of the health care bill. You know why? It’s statutory language. We hire experts.” Senator Max Baucus, Democrat, Montana, August 24, 2010
You are a disgrace to the title “Senator” and should be ashamed of yourself. Senator Baucus should resign.
The headline AP “McCain, Tacking Right, Seeks Primary Victory” says all you need to know to understand Senator McCain. When you have no core values and no core principles, it is easy to “tack right.” McCain is a duplicitous politician who is willing to change his views depending upon the direction of the wind in order to retain his power. The McCain voting record speaks for itself and it is foolish to think that “this time is different” and McCain won’t turn into a RINO after the polls close today.
The News & Observer of Raleigh, North Carolina reports that at least in some cases that the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation (NC SBI) lab has “ignored evidence” and “twist reports and court testimony when the trust threatened to undermine their cases.” “At the bureau’s crime lab, agents charged with using science to solve crimes have hidden test results or withheld notes that suggested the opposite of findings presented to the courts.”
The police anywhere must be above reproach incidents like this impact individual defendants and the trust that police officers have to rely upon. The North Carolina SBI should be embarrassed and must take steps to immediately clean up the mess. Power corrupts. North Carolina SBI Officers that took part in this should be charged and in jail themselves. Behavior such as this is completely unacceptable. Read the full story.
In a somewhat related story, the science of DNA test statistics has come under scrutiny. In part, the article states:
“The DNA analyst who testified in Smith’s trial said the chances of the DNA coming from someone other than Jackson were 1 in 95,000. But both the prosecution and the analyst’s supervisor said the odds were more like 1 in 47. A later review of the evidence suggested that the chances of the second person’s DNA coming from someone other than Jackson were closer to 1 in 13, while a different statistical method said the chance of seeing this evidence if the DNA came from Jackson is only twice that of the chance of seeing it if it came from someone else.”
“We are a nation of immigrants. So because the wave of immigrants we have now — their skin’s a tone darker than ours — doesn’t make it any different.” Harry Reid, August 11, 2010
Tainting the tea party movement with the charge of racism is proving to be an effective strategy for Democrats. There is no evidence that tea party adherents are any more racist than other Republicans, and indeed many other Americans. But getting them to spend their time purging their ranks and having candidates distance themselves should help Democrats win in November. Having one’s opponent rebut charges of racism is far better than discussing joblessness.
Mary Frances Berry, Professor of American Social Thought and History, U. Penn.
Obama White House Chief of Staff called supporters “f-ing retard” and the Washington Post calls Ron Paul supporters “Paultards” (“… pumping around the clock to get Paultard Tea Party people on TV.”)
You have to wonder about the low journalistic standards at the Washington Post. Well, no, actually there is no need to wonder. Classing the anti-freedom stenographers at the Washington Post “journalists” is an insult to true journalists.
Crist complains it is “lonely” on the campaign trail and that his “friends” didn’t support his change of party. A betraying politician and doesn’t understand why. Crist’s problems are multi-fold:
1. He lied to voters and his “friends” in the Republican party repeatedly in 2010. When it didn’t look like he had a chance of winning, he broke his repeated promises. Now he doesn’t understand why any one with an ounce of honesty and character wants anything to do with him? Well, that just adds STUPIDITY to Crist’s flaws.
2. Crist ran on a party with principles based on freedom and then betrayed that. It shows Crist has one principle: POWER FOR HIMSELF. If he thinks that party is “too far right” it means that he is willing to sell out some of your freedom to gain power for himself instead of defending liberty. Who wants a politician who is more concerned with his own power than your freedom?
3. “Lonely”? Come on, be a man Charlie. Stop crying about the consequences of the choices you made. We elected someone who complains about being “lonely” on the campaign trail? Come on, how old is Charlie Crist? Four? Five?
4. Crist didn’t leave because of principles, he left because he couldn’t win. Hearing Crist talk about principles is like hearing Mao talk about his fondness for liberty. Why would ANYONE vote for someone who has NO PRINCIPLES? You will have no idea who you are voting for, except someone who will do what is best, best for himself that is.
Sorry, Charlie, Florida wants politicians who are (a) honest, (b) keep their word, and (c) are willing to fight for freedom, not power. Crist is none of those: he is an dishonest, unprincipled, power-hungry, lying, opportunist of a politician. And since he doesn’t understand why he is unpopular after lying repeatedly to the citizens and voters of Florida, he must be stupid too.
The point of the blockade crashers was exactly this – a no win situation for Israel.
1. If Israel keeps them offshore, the press is bad because the “peace activists” (who video shows had stun grenades and other weapons and used them to attack) will be described by the press as just want to help the terrorist organization who has as its charter the destruction of Israel.
2. Let them in, weapons get to the terrorists and the terrorists are emboldened.
3. Try to board and be attacked (update: see video below) and see how it escalates.
No matter what, Israel lost – which was the point of the challenges to the blockade – and the world press will only look superficially at the situation and buy the BS that is being sold them without looking at the reasons and ramifications. And even if 99% of the idiots on the boats were innocent they were being used by the 1%. Nukes and other WMDs surround Israel and Israel is supposed to let the terrorist supporters in or get closer?
The world will eventually pay for lack of stability and vision. Neville Chamberlain should have taught us the folly of appeasement.
cnet reports that Google has rolled out an encrypted web search option. We just have to point out that Phonebook.com has had an encrypted people search and encrypted web search option for years at https://www.phonebook.com/
It is good to see that Google is offering this option.
What is wrong with Yahoo! CEO Carol Bartz…telling an interviewer to “f$*% off”! What shareholder wants a CEO like Bartz?
Carol needs to remember that in September 1998 Google was a “small company” while Yahoo was about 4 years old.