17 years ago: Oklahoma City bombing

Posted 19 Apr 2012 in terrorism
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(CNN) – Thursday marks 17 years since the deadliest terror attack on U.S. soil prior to Sept. 11, 2001. On April 19, 1995, a bomb destroyed most of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. The blast killed 168 people, including 19 children in a day care center. More than 500 survivors were injured. Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols were convicted for the attack. McVeigh claimed he targeted the building as revenge for the deadly FBI raid on the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, two years to the day earlier. He was executed in 2001. Nichols remains in federal prison with a life sentence. Services will be held Thursday at the Oklahoma City National Memorial, which...

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Obama ate dog meat, Democrats eat crow

Posted 18 Apr 2012 in 2012 election, Barack Obama, politics, schadenfreude
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The Obama campaign has sicced their lapdogs in the media on Mitt Romney, implying that he mistreated his dog 30 years ago. But rather than simply rolling over and playing dead, Republicans are biting back with with a similar morsel from Dear Leader’s past. Jim Treacher from the Daily Caller noted that during Obama’s childhood in Indonesia, the president ate dogs: Hey, if we’re going to talk about how presidential candidates treated dogs decades ago, let’s talk about how presidential candidates treated dogs decades ago. Can you name the author of this quote? “With Lolo, I learned how to eat small green chill peppers raw with dinner (plenty of rice), and, away from the dinner table, I was introduced to dog...

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VIDEO — Obama 2012: From ‘Hope’ to Hypocrisy

Posted 18 Apr 2012 in 2012 election, Barack Obama, politics
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I love this bit of jujutsu from the RNC! It shows the correlation between Obama’s campaign rhetoric in 2008 with his desperate actions in the 2012 election. Since his record in office is a dismal failure, he’s resorted to using the same negative scare tactics he once claimed to be against. “If you don’t have a record to run on, then you paint your opponent as someone people should run from.” “Because if you don’t have any fresh ideas, you use stale tactics to scare voters.” “You make big elections about small things.”   Here’s another one that points out Dear Leader’s childish habit of endless excuses and passing the buck: I think it’s smart for the GOP to...

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Jessica Rabbit cosplay: Midweek Peek

Posted 18 Apr 2012 in Midweek Peek, pop culture
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Now that we’ve all fed the leviathan with our federal tax returns, it’s time for a Rule 5 treat. Cosplayer Dayna Baby Lou is the physical embodiment of cartoon Jessica Rabbit, she’s not bad, she’s just drawn that way. Photographs by Powder Puff Vixen PinUp Photography. (via: Geek X Girls) — Rule 5 Roundup: American Perspective — Irina Shayk American Power — Big Old Saturday Rule 5 Roundup The Eye Of Polyphemus — Alison Brie and Gillian Jacobs The Camp Of The Saints — Eva LaRue The Classic Liberal — Amber Lancaster Daley Gator — Joelle Kayembe Jake Finnegan — Ke$ha Maggie’s Notebook — Beyonce Neo-Neocon — Claudia Schiffer Proof Positive — Brittny Gastineau Pirates Cove — Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup Randy’s Roundtable — Lily Aldridge Reaganite Republican — Miss Israel 2011, Kim Edri Teresamerica...

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The new “Buffett Rule” 1040

Posted 17 Apr 2012 in Barack Obama, class warfare, politics, taxes
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Yesterday, President Obama’s latest class warfare tactic, the “Buffett Rule,” was voted down in the Democrat-controlled Senate. Via Weekly Standard: The Senate rejected the so-called Buffett Rule on Monday evening. Fifty-one senators voted in favor the tax increase on high-income owners, officially called the Paying A Fair Share Act, while 45 voted against it. But the Buffett Rule failed to get the necessary 60 votes to invoke cloture and end debate on the bill, effectively killing the rule’s chances of passing the Senate. Only one Republican, Susan Collins of Maine, voted in favor of the Buffett Rule, while Mark Pryor of Arkansas was the only Democrat...

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Happy Patriots’ Day!

Posted 16 Apr 2012 in patriotism
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Patriots’ Day is a special Massachusetts state holiday commemorating the battles of Lexington and Concord, which were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. Although the battles began on April 19, 1775, the holiday is observed on the third Monday in April and  is celebrated with parades, reenactments and commemorative ceremonies. (It’s also the reason why your tax returns are due tomorrow instead of today.) In case you need a little refresher on Samuel Adams, John Hancock, Paul Revere, Benedict Arnold, and the rest of the events surrounding this American War of Independence … The Battle of Lexington and Concord was made up of two battles that began on April 18th, 1775. British troops were sent to Concord to capture John Hancock  and Samuel Adams, but both men had...

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Obama’s chief strategist Axelrod endorses Romney for President

Posted 16 Apr 2012 in 2012 election, Democrats, Mitt Romney, politics, schadenfreude
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David Axelrod, Chief Strategist for Barack Obama, earned himself the Freudian Slip Award by endorsing Mitt Romney for President on Fox News Sunday: “The choice in this election is between economy that produces a growing middle class and that gives people a chance to get ahead and their kids a chance to get ahead, and an economy that continues down the road we are on.” Even a broken clock is right twice a day. I have to agree with Mr. Axelrod; four years down the Obama road to serfdom is more than enough.  

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Mark Twain on taxes

Posted 15 Apr 2012 in taxes, wise quotes
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Obama misquotes Reagan to support “Buffett Tax”

Posted 12 Apr 2012 in class warfare, economy, lies, Ronald Reagan, taxes
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Just when I think President Obama couldn’t possibly stoop lower, he does something to prove me wrong. This time, he’s deliberately misquoting President Reagan, implying that The Gipper would have somehow approved of Obama’s “Buffett Tax” of 30% on wealthy Americans. But this just proves that Obama must have failed reading comprehension in school. President Barack Obama invoked Republican icon Ronald Reagan Wednesday in a bid to gain support for his Buffett Rule, saying he’d change the name to the “Reagan Rule” if it meant gaining GOP support. Obama brings up a speech Reagan made (see below) in which he promotes a letter received from a wealthy executive who paid a lower tax rate than his secretary. “I’m not the...

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Seeing through Obama’s “Buffett Tax” lunacy

Posted 11 Apr 2012 in 2012 election, Barack Obama, class warfare, economy, lies, politics, taxes
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Our Divider-In-Chief is ramping up his “fairness” rhetoric and hoping that none of his sheeple notice the abysmal job he’s done with the American economy. With a rousing speech on Tuesday to a receptive university audience of about 5,000 in this battleground state, Mr. Obama defined the coming contest as a clash of philosophies: His argument that tax fairness and the common good demand the richest Americans pay at least as much as middle-income taxpayers do, contrasted with Republicans’ opposition to any tax increases as job killers and class warfare, even at the cost of deep cuts in domestic programs. Of course, his argument is utter nonsense. The “richest Americans” pay a lot more taxes than the middle class...

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