Friday, October 15, 2010
Joy Behar Walk Out On Bill O'Reilly For Stating The Obvious That Muslims Committed 9-11, But Sits And Chats About It With No Problem With 9-11 Truther
Joy Behar also had limitless tolerance for Rosie O'Donnell and her 9-11 trutherism coming out on "The View" and never walked out on her, sits and chats with 9-11 truther Jesse Ventura about Bill O'Reilly with no problem, but actually storms out on Bill O'Reilly for stating an obvious and well known fact that the 9-11 attacks were perpetrated by Muslims. Typical liberal governed by irrational emotions rather than being willing to confront the facts.
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Thursday, October 14, 2010
Ahmadenijad Taunts Israel And Boosts Hezbollah By Visiting Southern Lebanon
The AP reports that "Hezbollah supporters used mosque loudspeakers Thursday to rally crowds ahead of a trip by Iran's president to southern Lebanon near the border with Israel, a visit the U.S. and Israel have called intentionally provocative. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived in Lebanon on Wednesday to a rapturous welcome organized by Hezbollah. His country is the main patron of the Shiite militant group, the most powerful military force in Lebanon. On Thursday, Ahmadinejad is scheduled to make a trip to Lebanon's Shiite heartland in the south and the Israeli border, which will emphasize Iran's support for Hezbollah's fight with Israel. Residents of southern Lebanese were heading to Bint Jbeil, a border village that was bombed during the 2006 Israeli-Hezbollah war, to greet the Iranian president Thursday afternoon. The village, barely two and a half miles (four kilometers) from the border, is dubbed 'the capital of resistance' because it was a center for Hezbollah guerrilla action against Israel during the Jewish state's 18-year occupation of the south, which ended in 2000. Many students in the south skipped school Thursday to await Ahmadinejad."
Israeli government spokesman Mark Regev slammed the trip Thursday, saying "Iran's domination of Lebanon through its proxy Hezbollah has destroyed any chance for peace, has turned Lebanon into an Iranian satellite and made Lebanon a hub for regional terror and instability."
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Florida Federal Judge Rules That 20 State Challenge To Obamacare Mandate Can Move Forward, Dismisses "Alice In Wonderland" Argument From DOJ
Reuters reports that "States can proceed with their lawsuit seeking to overturn President Barack Obama's landmark reform law, a Florida judge ruled on Thursday. U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson had already indicated at a hearing last month that he would reject parts of a motion by the Justice Department to dismiss the lawsuit, led by Florida and 19 other states. The suit was originally filed in March by mostly Republican state attorneys general. In his formal ruling on Thursday, Vinson said the case would continue as scheduled. He had previously set a hearing for December 16."
Politico reports that "U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson allowed two major counts to proceed: the states’ challenge to the controversial requirement that nearly all Americans buy insurance and a required expansion of the Medicaid program. In his ruling, Vinson criticized Democrats for seeking to have it both ways when it comes to defending the mandate to buy insurance. During the legislative debate, Republicans chastised the proposal as a new tax on the middle class. Obama defended the payment as a penalty and not a tax, but the Justice Department has argued that legally, it’s a tax."
“Congress should not be permitted to secure and cast politically difficult votes on controversial legislation by deliberately calling something one thing, after which the defenders of that legislation take an “Alice-in-Wonderland” tack and argue in court that Congress really meant something else entirely, thereby circumventing the safeguard that exists to keep their broad power in check,” he wrote. As Politico reports, "Vinson ruled that it’s a penalty, not a tax, and must be defended under the Commerce Clause and not Congress’s taxing authority... Vinson dismissed three of the states’ challenges, including complaints that the law interferes with state sovereignty as to whether employers must offer insurance; that the law coerces states into setting up insurance exchanges; that the individual mandate violates the states' due process rights. The states argued in September that the law violates the Constitution by requiring an expansion of the Medicaid program that’s funded in part by the states and for penalizing people for not purchasing health insurance. Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum, a Republican who lost the state’s gubernatorial primary this summer, filed the suit minutes after President Barack Obama signed the health care bill into law in March.
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Chris Matthews: If Chilean Miners Were Tea Partiers They Would Have Killed Each Other After Two Days
To see this ludicrousness for yourself visit http://www.eyeblast.tv/public/checker.aspx?v=hdSUpruzkU Tweet
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Military Ballots May Not Count In Illinois
WLS AM reports that the "U.S. Justice Department is investigating whether the state of Illinois missed the deadline for mailing absentee ballots to members of the military and other overseas American voters as part of a new federal overseas voting law. Cris Cray, Director of Legislation at the Illinois State Board of Elections, says not all of Illinois' 110 jurisdictions were compliant with the 2009 Military and Overseas Voter Empowerment Act (MOVE). The law requires every state to mail their absentee ballots 45 days prior to Election Day to overseas troops, government employees and other Americans who want to vote from abroad. Cray says she is currently compiling data from each of Illinois' jurisdictions to determine which were compliant and which were delinquent. Cray said it's possible the ballots may not be counted because the state was tardy in sending them out. Illinois was required to have all of its absentee ballots mailed by Sept. 18, the national deadline. Election officials have until Nov. 15 to count the absentee ballots, which must be postmarked by midnight Nov. 1 to be eligible. In an e-mail response, Justice Department spokeswoman Xochil Hinojosa confirmed that Illinois is being investigated for the absentee ballot infraction."
Of course no "investigation" by the Justice Department will change the facts that Democrat-dominated Illinois has failed to meets its duty to provide our men and women in uniform with the opportunity to partake in the democratic process they are risking life and limb to defend. Illinois will have achieved its depraved goal of depriving military absentee votes of being considered in this election regardless of any "investigation." Those that think this was not the goal must wonder and explain why no one has been held accountable for this malfeasance.
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Tuesday, October 12, 2010
First Chilean Miners Successfully Reach Surface, Over One Billion Watch Rescue On TV
Bloomberg reports that "Chilean rescue workers pulled four of 33 miners trapped underground for more than two months in a rescue operation watched by relatives on site and millions of people around the world on television. Florencio Avalos emerged from the San Jose copper mine at 11:12 p.m. New York time after being trapped in a tunnel more than 600 meters (1,970 feet) underground, according to a broadcast by state television channel TVN. Mario Sepulveda reached the surface an hour later, followed by Juan Illanes and then Carlos Mamani, the one Bolivian in the group... The four-meter long 'Phoenix' capsule painted in the red, white and blue colors of the Chilean flag is acting as an elevator, hoisting the miners to the surface through a 26-inch wide rescue hole. More than 1 billion people watched the rescue live on television networks around the world, TVN reported."
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Justice Department Appeals District Court Ruling Declaring Defense Of Marriage Act Unconstitutional
Reuters reports that "the Obama administration decided on Tuesday to appeal a judge's rulings that prevented the U.S. government from banning same-sex marriages, a move that could undermine support among President Barack Obama's traditional liberal base ahead of a key election. The Obama administration filed a notice of appeal with the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts in support of the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act, or DOMA, that barred gay marriages, even though Obama had previously opposed the law. Although Obama opposes the law, a Justice Department spokeswoman said that the administration was defending the statute because it was obligated to defend federal laws when challenged in court."
"As a policy matter, the President has made clear that he believes DOMA is discriminatory and should be repealed," said Justice Department spokeswoman Tracy Schmaler. "The Justice Department is defending the statute, as it traditionally does when acts of Congress are challenged."
What remains to be seen is whether this same logic will apply to the injunction that was just issued against "don't ask, don't tell." If an appeal is not filed in that case as well it would be a clear case of inconsistency.
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Federal Judge Issues Worldwide Injunction Abolishing "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"
CBS News reports that "a federal judge issued a worldwide injunction Tuesday stopping enforcement of the 'don't ask, don't tell' policy, ending the military's 17-year-old ban on openly gay troops… U.S. Department of Justice attorneys have 60 days to appeal. Legal experts say they are under no legal obligation to do so and could let Phillips’ ruling stand… 'The order represents a complete and total victory for the Log Cabin Republicans and reaffirms the constitutional rights of gays and lesbians in the military for fighting and dying for our country,' said Dan Woods, an attorney for the Log Cabin group. Government attorneys objected, saying such an abrupt change might harm military operations in a time of war. They had asked Phillips to limit her ruling to the members of the Log Cabin Republicans, a 19,000-member group that includes current and former military service members." Tweet
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