Have a bunch of things to do in the morning – including visiting my Dad – so haven’t got the “oomph” to wright anything for the AM at the moment.

Have at it, boys and girls.

Typical:

When President Barack Obama recently called for construction spending, he probably did not envision Web design. Yet the website financialstability.gov that Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner announced more than a month ago with the Financial Stability Plan (FSP) was launched with the banner “This site is coming soon”—and the banner remains (link has screen shot taken March 23rd). A former Federal Reserve official remarked after visiting the site looking for information, “Is this supposed to make me confident?”

And these are the people who liberals want running health care…

What the cartoon said:

What the cartoon should have said:

That’s what these communist/socialist ne’erdowells are calling an erstwhile, room-temperature, piece of slime cop killer:

Oakland, CA–As the city prepares for a massive public funeral for four police officers slain in the line of duty, dozens took to the streets in a show of support for the man authorities say was their killer.

Organized by International People’s Democratic Uhuru Movement, the march Wednesday evening took participants near a police substation within sight of the two locations where Lovelle Mixon allegedly shot the veteran officers before being slain himself.

Loved ones and supporters walked through the streets chanting, “OPD you can’t hide, we charge you with genocide!” There were no officers patrolling the march route.

“I don’t condone what he did, but it’s bringing to light the frustrations between the community and the police,” said Uhuru Movement member Kihad Deen. “This gives people a chance to speak their minds.”

Mixon’s cousin, Dolores Darnell, 26, addressed the small crowd, calling him “a true hero, a soldier.”

“This is the real Lovelle,” she said, holding a picture of a smiling Mixon with his wife. “We do apologize for what he did to the officers’ families. But he’s not a monster.”

Yeah. And neither was Frankenstein.

More about these commie Black Panther retreads called the Uhuru:

Lovelle Mixon’s life, like that of thousands of young African men in the impoverished neighborhoods of Oakland, was over long before he was killed by police. He faced a hopeless dead end of joblessness, poverty and criminalization by a society that would rather lock up young African men than make college or jobs available to them.

The police are not social workers; they are a military force with the assignment to carry out a violent containment policy against a whole community. The purpose of the police is to maintain power for the status quo and uphold the relations of poverty and wealth in the city.

If we want to move forward and “build bridges” as a city there is only one road to do so. We have to truly understand the calls of a community under siege and demand an immediate end to this completely failed public policy of police containment, this war without terms waged against the African community of Oakland.

So, concerned about “social justice,” are we? Concerned about a policy of “violent containment,” you say?

Well let me school you about the origin of your discontent. The policy of “containment” is not a police-initiated policy. This may come as somewhat of a surprise to you, but your much reviled “policy of containment” wasn’t even a policy initiated by evil Republicans.

The policy of “containment” was in fact initiated and made possible by LBJ in 1964 with the advent of “The (not so) Great Society” that served to contain and imprison the poor in a never-ending cycle of poverty.

It was perpetuated by years of separating fathers from the responsibility of raising their own children.

It was perpetuated by endless brow-beating about the glass ceiling; placed ostensibly by some mythical entity known as ‘da man;’ not to mention the day after day hammering by elected liberal democrat officials of the message that impoverished minorities could do nothing and would be nothing without white liberals in limousines running to their rescue, doling out the meager sub-subsistence afforded by the welfare state.

The “policy of containment” has been perpetuated as a campaign of fear by white limousine liberals and their black slavemasters (a/k/a, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, et al.); delivering empty promises and false warnings to their charges that they would starve if democrats weren’t maintained in power. This was done, of course, as a means of perpetuating and “containing” a ready-pocket of democrat voters.

This “policy of containment” is even to this day being perpetuated by the present Administration as the same-old, same-old turd, polished and repackaged in a pretty pink ribbon; now labelled “Hope and Change.”

In short, if Uhurus want to blame someone for their being “contained,’ look no further than your friendly neighborhood liberal democrat congressman or woman.

Then blame yourselves for listening to them.

And by the way, “Hero,” my backside.

Yep:

Reflecting on the campaign, Palin said there were “a variety of reasons” Republicans lost in November, namely the faltering economy, but she seemed to place most of the blame on the press.

“Some in the media actually participated in not so much the ‘who-what-where-when-why’ objective reporting on candidates and positions, those five W’s that I learned when I had a journalism degree so many years ago in college, when the world of journalism was quite different than it is today,” she said.

“No, things have changed,” she continued. “But complaining? Or whining? Absolutely not. But I am going to call it like I see it. It doesn’t do any good to whine about any of this. But I can call it like I see it. Sometimes it gets me in a lot of trouble when I speak candidly, and I speak from the heart and I do such a thing. But I am going to.”

“And there was that media slant this go round,” she said. “And unless things change, the GOP had really better can stand together, ’cause we got that on the battlefield also. I call it like I see it and like I lived it on the campaign trail. Not complaining, but dealing with reality.”

“Those are the cards that are dealt us,” she said, “and we had better learn to play that hand and do things right and do things better.”

Just as we don’t get to go to war with the army we want, so we also don’t get to go into political battle with the MSM we want. The MSM is essentially a propaganda arm of the DNC and we’re just going to have to deal with that – and learn to use it against itself. MSMers are naturally lazy, intellectually incurious and, especially on top, very much self-absorbed – such traits are ripe for exploitation by a carefully crafted media campaign.

But even with the best possible media campaign, the plain fact of the matter is that the GOP will have to speak over the heads of the MSM in order to really reach the people – using the various New Media formats, we’re going to have to get the word out without the benefit of a carefully edited soundbite designed to be relentlessly drilled into the American mind by endless MSM repetition. We’re going to have to actually think our way through this – we’ll leave the mindless talking point stuff to the liberals.

The most important thing is to never complain – never let them think they’ve got our number. We have to show complete disdain for the views of the MSM and the Democrats. We have to figure out way to express in short bursts just how contemptible the Democrats are, from Obama on down. We have to show that we’re the party of the people, while they are the party of the incompetent, the corrupt and the ignorant. In things like the Obama Administration’s re-classifying the War on Terrorism as an “Overseas Contingency Operation”, we’re being handed all the ammunition we need to turn the tables on the Democrats and make everyone with a brain positively embarrassed to be within a country mile of a Democrat position.

We shall have them, and we shall conduct a genuine revolutionary change in America – of course, it will be a re-establishment of the Revolution of Washington and Jefferson as our paradigm. Right makes might – all we need now is the spirit to carry on the fight.

Notre Dame students take the commencement invitation to task:

On the Feast of the Annunciation of the Lord, when we remembered the appearance of the Angel of the Lord to Our Lady and her response, her “Fiat” of surrendered love to the Father’s invitation to become the home of the Incarnate Word, the struggle for fidelity to the Catholic Faith on the U.S. Campus which bears her name continued…

In defense of the unborn, we wish to express our deepest opposition to Reverend John I. Jenkins, CSC’s invitation of President Barack Obama to be the University of Notre Dame’s principal commencement speaker and the recipient of an honorary degree. Our objection is not a matter of political partisanship, but of President Obama’s hostility to the Catholic Church’s teachings on the sanctity of human life at its earliest stages. His recent dedication of federal funds to overseas abortions and to embryonic stem cell research will directly result in the deaths of thousands of innocent human beings.

We cannot sit by idly while the University honors someone who believes that an entire class of human beings is undeserving of the most basic of all legal rights, the right to live.The University’s decision runs counter to the policy of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops against honoring pro-choice politicians. In their June 2004 statement Catholics in Political Life, the bishops said, “The Catholic community and Catholic institutions should not honor those who act in defiance of our fundamental moral principles. They should not be given awards, honors, or platforms which would suggest support for their actions.”

Fr. Jenkins defends his invitation by saying that it does not honor or suggest support for the President’s views on abortion, but rather support for his leadership. But our “fundamental moral principles” must be respected at all times. And the principle that requires us to refrain from the direct killing of the innocent has a special status even among the most fundamental principles. President Obama’s actions have consistently shown contempt for this principle, and he has sought political gain by making light of its clear political implications. Leadership that puts the lives of the most innocent at risk is leadership we must disdain. In the face of President Obama’s actions, Father Jenkins’ words ring hollow…

There is a species of Catholic who seem to take a perverse joy in extending honors to people who are in clear opposition to basic Catholic teaching. The more extreme the person’s opposition to Church teaching, the more eager are such Catholics to embrace him – Obama wouldn’t have made it to this honor had there been someone out there in America of both greater prominence and stronger opposition to Christian belief about Life issues. The invitation to Notre Dame indicates that for all intents and purposes, President Obama is the most anti-Life person available.

We Christians are commanded to show love towards all, to forgive all who repent no matter what their sins are, to show respect for everyone regardless of their beliefs or actions – an unfortunate reality of modern, American life is that too many Christians forget that love doesn’t mean make nice/nice with those who oppose us; forgiveness can only come after repentance; respect for persons doesn’t extend to necessarily respecting their views, especially when their views are so clearly wrong. In what way should we show our love for President Obama? By praying for him, daily; by praying that he will have a change of heart and come over to the Culture of Life. We are also to pray that he will lead our nation well and that he will increase the justice and peace of our society – but just as we pray that the pornographer will give up his ways, this doesn’t mean we’re to offer honors to unrepentant pornographers. Obama has to change, then we can honor him with commencement addresses and honorary degrees. To do otherwise entirely degrades what it means to be commencement speaker at Notre Dame.

As I’ve said before, it is not for us Christians to beg for crumbs at Caesar’s table – it is for Caesar to come to the Lord’s table, and join with us in His work. Obama knows in his heart what he should be doing – whether or not he will follow the dictates of the conscience God has given him is his choice and none of us can judge him. But we can judge his actions, and just as much as his actions show him to be in opposition to us, so must our actions make clear that we are not beholden to him.

Anyone keeping track of how many of these there have been?

EPA Statement on Jon Cannon

“Today I am voluntarily removing my name from consideration to be Deputy Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. It has come to my attention that America’s Clean Water Foundation, where I once served on the board of directors, has become the subject of scrutiny. While my service on the board of that now-dissolved organization is not the subject of the scrutiny, I believe the energy and environmental challenges facing our nation are too great to delay confirmation for this position, and I do not wish to present any distraction to the agency.”

We’re starting to get into fourth-rate people by now – is there any talent left in the Democratic party? Anyone who doesn’t labor under an ethical cloud?

Interesting:

AIG guy resigns via NYT op-ed, makes a compelling case for why he’s being screwed by his bosses and the pols, when he’s innocent of everything in this horrible mess, and he’s just a regular guy from a humble background, an American Dream come true who is being shafted…

…Not to get all class warfare about it, but that guy lives on a different planet than I do. $742,006.40 after taxes sounds about like about what I made over about 15 years of 12 hour days plus getting shot at and yelled at a lot in the service of the Boston Herald, but the old man always told me I should be an accountant, and I didn’t pay any attention, so I’m not complaining…

…Any financial brainiacs out there willing to work for something less than two million bucks? Never mind Mom, Apple Pie and the American way, how about $1 million? I bet we can fly in a planeload of financial brainiacs from Bangalore at a fraction of Jake’s price. Outsourcing Wall Street to India. That’d get their attention.

Certainly the Indians couldn’t do it any worse…and if they do end up screwing the pooch, it will cost us a lot less. Heck, for some of the fine citizens of Kolkata, I bet $10,000.00 sounds like a lot of money. There’s the additional poetic justice in the fact that these corporate bosses have been exploiting India’s cheap labor for years – so why shouldn’t we, the people, do it, too?

The War on Terror technically ended on January 20, 2009. But now, it is is officially dead.

The end of the Global War on Terror — or at least the use of that phrase — has been codified at the Pentagon. Reports that the phrase was being retired have been circulating for some time amongst senior administration officials, and this morning speechwriters and other staff were notified via this e-mail to use “Overseas Contingency Operation” instead. 

“Recently, in a LtGen [John] Bergman, USMC, statement for the 25 March [congressional] hearing, OMB required that the following change be made before going to the Hill,” Dave Riedel, of the Office of Security Review, wrote in an e-mail. 

“OMB says: ‘This Administration prefers to avoid using the term “Long War” or “Global War on Terror” [GWOT]. Please use “Overseas Contingency Operation.'”

Overseas Contingency Operation?

It is really an embarrassment that Obama is the commander-in-chief. It is insulting to our military, and a disgrace to the memory of all the lives lost in the war on terror.

So, not only were Obama’s questions at last night’s press conference pre-selected, but he used his trusty teleprompter to help him deliver his responses.

I can recall Bush getting criticized for so-called “staged” press conferences, so, please, my liberal friends, pile on the criticisms of Obama for doing the same thing.