Dems Were Crying on the Senate Floor

These people are lucky they still have the freedom to cry.  In another time, their treason would not allow them such a luxury.

Dejected Democrats wiped away tears on the House floor Monday night while Republicans congratulated themselves on winning back control of the lower chamber.

House members returned to the nation's capital for the first time since Republicans captured the House two weeks ago.

Freshman Rep. Debbie Halvorson (D-Ill.), who lost her reelection bid, wiped away tears as she hugged fellow members of the class of 2008, many of whom lost on Nov. 2.

Less than three feet away, ousted Nevada freshman Rep. Dina Titus (D) appeared to brush away some tears in a less obvious manner.

Obama Unhinged?

“Obama is unhinged. He’s losing it. He’s obsessed with critics… He can’t stand Biden.”
 

Unhinged?  Or just bored?  Get a load of this crap.

In his biography of Obama, "The Bridge," David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker, quotes White House senior adviser and longtime Obama friend Valerie Jarrett: "I think Barack knew that he had God-given talents that were extraordinary. He knows exactly how smart he is. ... He knows how perceptive he is. He knows what a good reader of people he is. And he knows that he has the ability -- the extraordinary, uncanny ability -- to take a thousand different perspectives, digest them and make sense out of them, and I think that he has never really been challenged intellectually. ... So what I sensed in him was not just a restless spirit but somebody with such extraordinary talents that had to be really taxed in order for him to be happy. ... He's been bored to death his whole life. He's just too talented to do what ordinary people do."

Here is the point that I could write about where I think Obama's true genius lies.  But I'm too bored to educate you people.  I'm kust too talented to bother.

I Wore Toughskins...

Circa 1977, my Mom bought me Sears Toughskins for school.  I had no choice but to wear them.  Complete with cardboard knees. 

Two kids wearing toughskins (the kid on the left is also wearing bobos on his feet). 



Toughskins were made of Dacron Type 59 polyester, DuPont 420 nylon, and cotton and were sold with the guarantee that children would grow out of them before the pants wore out. Nothing short of a nuclear bomb could destroy those jeans.

 

I didn't like wearing toughskins. And kids would make fun of you if you did. Luckily, the year my Mom bought them for me I was undergoing a growth spurt and only had to wear them for about half the school year.  And even my Toughskin buying mom knew it wasn't cool to wear high-waters.

Mcinerney: "That is a Missile Shot from a Submarine"

The plot thickens. See a write up and a video report here.

Score One for the Patriots

A follow up to last week's story about the boy that was told to remove the American flag from his bike. Hundreds rode with him on his way back to school.

"Kiss My Entire Black Ass"

Presented just in case you didn't know what's wrong with America.  I had to insert blanks for the mother and child's names as they are copyrighted.  Found at the Pitch:

When a child named _______ was slapped by his teacher at Martin Luther King Jr., Elementary School, no one really heard about it. Except for President Obama, Vice President Biden, their wives, three senators, and more than 20 other officials.

They all were CC'ed on the whopping 40-page letter that Curtis' mother, __________, sent to school district superintendent John Covington. In it, Bowen makes mind-boggling demands for reparations.
 
_________, who copyrights her name and her son's name throughout the letter, kicks it off by identifying herself as the "intellectual property owner" of fourth grader _________ (C). She alleges that Curtis was caught horse playing and was slapped by a teacher named Ms. Curry. ___________ tried to report the teacher to social services for child abuse, but was denied as Curtis' skin wasn't broken.

That sent ___________ Henry into a spiral of outrage. She calls Ms. Curry "one audacious white bitch with 'balls'", and then conducts some informal gonad comparisons. "I happen to have some big 'balls' too. And I ain't afraid to use them." (All emphasis hers, throughout.)

And then there are the demands:

Curtis shall receive, among many other things: $13,500 worth of Wal-Mart gift cards, a free college education, two trips to Disney World, nine years of private tennis lessons on the Plaza, season tickets to the opera, theater, and ballet, almost a decade's worth of psychological counseling by "the best black child psychologist in the country," a whole orchestra's worth of new musical instruments, a three-week trip to Africa at a five-star hotel, and a personal audience with President Obama.

___________'s demands are just as WTF-worthy. She demands the full payment of her mortgage, a new car, home remodeling, free psychological, dental, and medical care for the next nine years, and the cherry on the sundae:

Independent consulting contract position with the Kansas City Missouri School district, for the next nine years. My consulting fee begins at $15,000 per month, minimum 6 months contract.

She opines:

There was a time, in THIS AMERICA, when a white woman could get away with slapping black children around. There was a time, in THIS AMERICA, when a black woman had no choice, but to accept her children being slapped, whipped, rapped [sic, we think], abused, molested and psychologically tortured by this white supremacist society...There WAS a time. I AIN'T THAT BLACK MOTHER, THIS AIN'T THAT TIME!!!!!! THIS AIN'T THAT AMERICA!!!!!!!!

And finally:

A message to the haters: ____________(C) invites anyone who thinks she's gone a little overboard to "KISS MY ENTIRE BLACK ASS!!!!!! I HAVEN'T BEGUN TO GO FAR ENOUGH!!!!!!!"

Shirl looks pleased...

Rangel Walks Out on Ethics Hearing

I'm not watching.  Has he pulled the race card yet?

Embattled Harlem Rep. Charles Rangel startled the House subcommittee weighing ethics charges against him Monday by announcing that he was "excusing myself from these proceedings" - and walking out.


"I respectfully remove myself from these hearings," the 80-year-old Rangel said with a dramatic flourish before departing.

Despite having had months to prepare for the hearing, Rangel showed up without a lawyer and claimed he was too broke to hire one.

"I don't think it's fair," Rangel said, claiming he had already spent $2 million on lawyers and needed time to raise another $1 million to retain new counsel for the hearing.