Maybe others should think about going to rehab.
Flashback video: One month ago Winehouse cancelled her latest European tour after being booed off stage in Serbia where she was clearly intoxicated or high on something:
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Saturday, July 23, 2011
Amy Whinehouse Dead At 27
Friday, July 22, 2011
Islamic Terrorism Hits Oslo, Norway With Deadly Bombing
The New York Times quotes a terrorism expert as saying the terror group Ansar al-Jihad al-Alami, or the Helpers of the Global Jihad, issued a statement claiming responsibility for the attack. The prime minister told Norwegian broadcaster NRK, “Co-workers have lost their lives today. … It’s frightening. That’s not how we want things in our country. But it’s important that we don’t let ourselves be scared because the purpose of that kind of violence is to create fear.”
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Thursday, July 21, 2011
Just A Glimpse At The American Flag Can Sway Voters Toward Republicans, New Study Shows
Fox News reports:
TweetJust a glimpse at the American flag can sway voters, even Democrats, toward more Republican voting behavior, attitudes and beliefs, a new two-year study says.
The authors, from the University of Chicago, Cornell University and Hebrew University, say the research proves the American flag has a powerful effect on voters.
"A single exposure to an American flag resulted in a significant increase in participants' Republican voting intentions, voting behavior, political beliefs, and implicit and explicit attitudes, with some effects lasting eight months," reads the study titled, "Long-Term Effects of U.S. Flag Exposure on Republicanism."
CNN Poll: Two-Thirds Of American Voters Support Cut, Cap, And Balance
TweetRepublicans like the “cut, cap, and balance” approach to the debt ceiling, as do Democrats and independents. Most Americans support a balanced budget amendment, and most, but not as many, think an amendment is necessary to get federal spending under control. A balanced budget amendment passed the House earlier this week, but a vote in the Senate is expected to fail.
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Licensing Gone Crazy And The Assault On Liberty: The Police Shutting Down Child Lemonade Stands And More
In Georgia, "Police told kids that if they want a lemonade stand, the stand needs to have business and food permits which cost about $50 a day. It might cost over $50 just to get the supplies let alone make the sales. I don't know about you but I'm pretty sure I don't remember making a hundred sales working a lemonade stand."
In Wisconsin, "Lydia Coenen, 10, and her sister Vivian, 9, were near their Appleton home on Sunday morning, getting ready to sell lemonade to people going to a car show. An officer then shut down the lemonade stand and said the sales were prohibited by city ordinance. The law went into effect last month and made it illegal for licensed vendors to sell food and drinks within a two-block radius of a special event."
In Maryland, "A county inspector shut down a lemonade stand run by children because it was near the U.S. Open in Bethesda."
The issue here is much bigger than police not having common sense and exercising basic discretion in enforcing these licensing requirements. It is evidence of a much wider problem.
First, if such extreme measures are being taken against children with lemonade stands, imagine the other abuses of this licensing power that are taking place with adults on a regular basis that we don't hear about.
Further, we no longer seem to have a culture of liberty, a culture where it would be unthinkable for a police officer to shut down the traditional lemonade stand of young children.
Further, we no longer seem to live in a culture of family. Young children setting up lemonade stands to put in the piggy bank, it's part of what should or could be a part of an American family upbringing.
Further, we no longer seem to live in a culture of basic sanity.
When police officers in States across the country with a straight face can shut down the lemonade stands of children, our collective national conscience should be on alert and respond with the utmost outrage. Realize that we have given government too much power, and they are abusing it. Be constantly vigilant, and be willing to fight the good fight to maintain our basic rights. Wake up! The sleeping giant of American liberty has been slumbering for too long. Take your country back, not just at the national level with politicians that make drunken sailors seem thrifty, but at the local level as well where small stories like this are evidence of a much wider abandon of our nation's founding principles and a sign of the extent of the erosion of liberty.
A news article that demonstrates just one example of the effect of licensing on an 82 year old man: http://www.oregonlive.com/washingtoncounty/index.ssf/2011/01/state_board_denies_82-year-old.html Also, here is a special report from John Stossel on the insane government licensing and its interference with the right to pursue one's own livelihood:
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Same-Sex Marriage Advocacy Video Features Loads Of Profanity, Underage Boys Kissing, And More
This is an absolutely obnoxious and inappropriate advertisement against a vote to define marriage as traditionally defined and understood in Minnesota. Not only that, but it's profane and obscene, with tons of foul language, middle fingers, little boys about to kiss, people not fully dressed for some odd reason, and more. It's also completely childish in its idiotic caricature of the "5 reasons" that people oppose gay marriage and support traditional marriage. This filth and sophomoric ad will not appear directly here, but you can watch it if you wish by visiting http://vimeo.com/26083711.
If you want to watch it, watch it for the purpose of realizing the kind of nonsense that emanates from the gay marriage side which seems to be filled with plenty of "hate" for people that disagree with them, even though "hate" is what they claim to abhor. And also ask yourself if you could imagine anyone that is against gay marriage putting out an ad with so much filth in one place.
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Federal Taxpayer Dollars Used To Study Gay Men’s Penis Sizes
The Daily Caller reports:
TweetThe National Institutes of Health (NIH) subsidized a study attempting to find out if a gay man’s penis size has any correlation with his sexual health.
The research, titled “The Association between Penis Size and Sexual Health among Men Who Have Sex with Men,” began in 2006 and surveyed 1,065 gay men. Among its key findings: Those gay men who felt they had small or inadequate penis sizes were more likely to become “bottoms,” or anal receptive, while gay men with larger penises were more likely to identify themselves as “tops,” or anal insertive.
Another discovery from the research: men with smaller penises were more likely to be psychologically troubled than those with larger genitalia. The goal of the study was to understand the “real individual-level consequences of living in a penis-centered society.”
The researchers at Hunter College Center for HIV/AIDS Educational Studies Training (CHEST) got taxpayer money as part of an NIH grant that went to Public Health Solutions and the National Development and Research Institutes, Inc. (NDRI).
NDRI has received taxpayer money since 1985 for “behavioral science research on drug abuse, AIDS and crime.” NIH records show that NDRI has received more than $15 million since 2000.
The gay men penis-size study falls under the NDRI’s drug abuse, AIDS and crime research category. In 2006, the year the organization started funding the penis-size research, it received $899,769 in taxpayer money. (Woman tries to sell three-day-old infant to Taco Bell customer)
Grant records indicate that NIH funds NDRI wth taxpayer dollars in order to “prepare behavioral scientists, especially from minority backgrounds, for careers in drug abuse research and allied fields” — a goal accomplished by “recruiting and appointing promising scientists, half from minority backgrounds, for traineeships,” giving them “advanced training in substantive topics and theory, research methods and practices, and the ethical conduct of research,” and by ”mentoring and advising trainees.”
“We’ve got nameless, faceless bureaucrats who thought this was a good use of taxpayer money,” says Andrea Lafferty, president of the Traditional Values Coalition, which surfaced the penis-size study. “But, at the end of the day, it was the NIH directors who signed off on it. These nameless, faceless bureacrats seem to think the American taxpayers are a limitless ATM machine.”
Man's Racist Call For Obama Assassination On Internet Chat Site Is Free Speech, Not Crime, Federal 9th Circuit Court Of Appeals Court Rules
The Los Angeles Times reports:A La Mesa man who posted racial epithets and a call to "shoot" Barack Obama on an Internet chat site was engaging in constitutionally protected free speech, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday in overturning his criminal conviction.
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Walter Bagdasarian was found guilty two years ago of making threats against a major presidential candidate in comments he posted on a Yahoo.com financial website after 1 a.m. on Oct. 22, 2008, as Obama's impending victory in the race for the White House was becoming apparent. Bagdasarian told investigators he was drunk at the time.
A divided panel of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals overturned that conviction Tuesday, saying Bagdasarian's comments were "particularly repugnant" because they endorsed violence but that a reasonable person wouldn't have taken them as a genuine threat.
The observation that Obama "will have a 50 cal in the head soon" and a call to "shoot the [racist slur]" weren't violations of the law under which Bagdasarian was convicted because the statute doesn't criminalize "predictions or exhortations to others to injure or kill the president," said the majority opinion written by Judge Stephen Reinhardt.
"When our law punishes words, we must examine the surrounding circumstances to discern the significance of those words’ utterance, but must not distort or embellish their plain meaning so that the law may reach them," said the 2-1 ruling in which Chief Judge Alex Kozinski joined but Judge Kim McLane Wardlaw dissented.
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Rick Santorum Responds To Dan Savage Wanting To Perform Violent Hate Sex On Him
John Boehner And The Republican Caucus In The House Passed The Cut, Cap, And Balance Act
The vote was 234 in favor with 190 against:
TweetDefying a veto threat, the Republican-controlled House passed legislation Tuesday night to slice federal spending by $6 trillion and require a constitutional balanced budget amendment to be sent to the states in exchange for averting a threatened government default.
The 234-190 vote marked the power of deeply conservative first-term Republicans, and stood in contrast to stirrings at the White House and in the Senate on a renewed effort at bipartisanship to solve the looming debt crisis.
Senate Confirms Judicial Nomination Of Openly Gay Lawyer
The Senate has confirmed the nomination of J. Paul Oetken for a federal judgeship in New York City. New York Senator Charles Schumer told the Times he recommended that Obama nominate Oetken in part because the senator believes the federal bench should be more diverse.
Diversity on the bench is not important. What is important is fidelity to the rule of law, regardless of race, religion, gender, or sexual preference. What a judge should have to assure the Senate is that they will apply the laws of the land as originally understood by those who drafted and ratified them, be it in a statute or the Constitution. In other words, that they promise to not supplant their own personal policy preferences and whims for that of the law and Constitution in accord with their original meaning. This should be the only litmus test for the judiciary. It is unfortunate that it is not, and this focus on "diversity" over dedication to original intent is part of the reason for the great problem that is emanating directly from the federal judiciary in the form of continuous nonsensical and outlandish rulings.
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Monday, July 18, 2011
Sunday, July 17, 2011
New Hampshire Governor Allows Anti-Obamacare Health Care Bills To Become Law Without His Signature
From Business Week:
TweetNew Hampshire Gov. John Lynch has allowed two Republican bills that set limits on implementing the federal health care law to become law without his signature.
One bill says no New Hampshire resident can be required to obtain or be fined for failing to be covered by health insurance. An exception is made for people required by a court or the state who are named in a judicial or administrative proceeding.
The second bill establishes an oversight committee whose approval the insurance commissioner must obtain before implementing the federal law. The bill directs the commissioner to return a $666,000 federal grant to plan a health exchange to promote competition among insurers and request that the money be used to reduce the federal deficit.
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