Killing George Washington

Tomorrow marks the anniversary of a long New York tradition, the plea bargain . In 1776, a man named Isaac Ketcham plea-bargained his way out of jail by blowing the whistle on his co-conspirators. Ketcham was in jail on a counterfeiting charge but the plot he revealed had nothing to do with that. The plot that Ketcham revealed was a conspiracy to kill George Washington…..led by none other than the commander of Washington's own bodyguard.

Washington was protected by an early form of the Secret Service, a crack team under the command of a charming, roguish Irishman named Thomas Hickey. Adding to his safety, Washington had a devoted housekeeper named Phoebe who was the daughter of his friend Sam Fraunces (owner of Fraunces Tavern). Add to that, the fact that George could count on Dave Matthews, the then Mayor of New York City.

Hickey was your typical Irishman, he liked a good drink (he was in debt to several tavern owners). He had a quick mind but couldn't resist a challenge (he had several gambling debts). He also had a glib tongue, could sing like an angel and could charm a dog off a meat wagon. Also he was easily bored, particularly by a revolution that was slow in starting.

So he applied his Celtic creativity to the area of design - with a specialization in the field of currency (folks with less soul would later call it counterfeiting).

When Washington started to catch on, Hickey decided to kill the man he was sworn to protect. He found support from the mayor who was really a Tory sympathizer. They engaged Fraunces daughter, Phoebe, to serve Washington a meal with poisoned peas.

Rather than kill her father's friend, she tipped Washington, who promptly tipped the plate out the window. Outside a couple of chickens promptly ate the poisoned peas and promptly tipped over and died. That raised Washington's suspicions but they could only pin a counterfeiting rap on Hickey. That is until Ketcham exposed the plot (and another one...to enlist 700 Tory sympathizers into the Continental Army…..who would then shoot Washington and most American troops at some key point of battle). Mayor Matthews later escaped to England, but Hickey was not so lucky. In less than a week he was hanged....the first American soldier executed for treason.

H/T Art Cashin

(If Sarah palin told this story, you can imagine the fun that the MSM would have.)

Magical Realism: The Fantasy World of Barack Obama, Anthony Weiner & Lesbian Bloggers

From PJTV:

Why are male bloggers pretending to be lesbians? Could it be that liberals are so desperate for a magically gay Middle Eastern reality that they buy into a complete lesbian fantasy? Author Jonah Goldberg of AEI sits with Glenn Reynolds to discuss Sarah Palin, facial hair, Anthony Weiner and the 'Gay Girl In Damascus' blog scandal.

Saving Medicare: "The 55 and Under Plan"

Michele Bachmann:

...Explaining how she voted for Paul Ryan’s budget, she said she did so “with an asterisk” because the “asterisk is that we’ve got a huge messaging problem [on Medicare]. It needs to be called the 55-and-Under Plan. I can’t tell you the number of 78-year-old women who think we’re going to pull the rug out from under them.”

Mrs. Bachmann has faced up to the Democrats’ gaudy lie that people, aged 56 and over, are facing Medicare cuts with the Ryan Plan. They are not, not with the Ryan budget. Though with the Obamacare Plan we are all facing the eclipse of Medicare. Medicare will be slashed for everyone very soon, and that is written into the President’s policy...

It isn't hard to explain that if we follow the Democrat policies and ObamaCare there is not going to be medical care for seniors. Period. End of story. Finis. If seniors want to continue to receive medical care throughout the rest of their lives, we have to fix a program that's going bankrupt. One way of doing that is to adopt the Ryan plan which will affect only those under 55. The alternative is ObamaCare which will tell the elderly that they can't get treatment for their diseases because we can't afford it and hand them a pain pill or give them the option of turning off their own ventilators.

Inside Debbie Wasserman Schultz's Fox Hole

Heh!

"If your goal is to change minds and influence people, it's probably not a good idea to begin by asserting that virtually all elected Democrats are liars. But what the hell."

Global Cooling Redux or "I said oh no no I been through this movie before"

What may be the science story of the century is breaking this evening, as heavyweight US solar physicists announce that the Sun appears to be headed into a lengthy spell of low activity, which could mean that the Earth – far from facing a global warming problem – is actually headed into a mini Ice Age.... As NASA notes:

Early records of sunspots indicate that the Sun went through a period of inactivity in the late 17th century. Very few sunspots were seen on the Sun from about 1645 to 1715. Although the observations were not as extensive as in later years, the Sun was in fact well observed during this time and this lack of sunspots is well documented. This period of solar inactivity also corresponds to a climatic period called the "Little Ice Age" when rivers that are normally ice-free froze and snow fields remained year-round at lower altitudes. There is evidence that the Sun has had similar periods of inactivity in the more distant past.

Debbie (You Ignorant Slut) Wasserman

It tells us that all those that began working for this tin messiah with a full brain back in January, 2009, have all swum away from the sinking Obamatanic, while those with only a stunted brain stem are trying to clamber aboard. Either that or upon arrival Obama takes them into a back room off the Oval Office and whomps them with a stupid stick so he can continue to play Captain Queeg in "The Herman Cain Mutiny."

I think the whomping with the stupid stick is the most likely scenario for Debbie (You Ignorant Slut) Wasserman. Sounds like the kind of sex play they'd both enjoy.

Live Life to the Fullest.

(One great commercial)



H/T Van der Leun

What newspapers did Obama read?

The Left openly derided Sarah Palin for failing to name a newspaper she read in her interview with Katie Couric. I watched the video and I thought her answer was a good one, but that’s just me.

But the question came to mind after watching Barack Obama make a joke about those “shovel ready jobs” that the trillion dollar stimulus was supposed to create.

When I first heard the “shovel ready jobs” slogan I knew immediately that it was a crock. I’m not in the construction business, have never occupied public office and only know what I read in the paper or the Internet, but even I know that there are no “shovel ready jobs” ready to go for public construction waiting only on the injection of cash from Washington.

When one nutty environmental group can halt the construction of another nutty environmentalist group’s construction of a solar power facility in the middle of the God-forsaken Mojave Desert you know the truth. It is a tribute to the persistence, greed, single-mindedness (and often cupidity) of some people that anything is ever built in this permit-obsessed, rule-laden and law-encrusted country.

So when Barack Obama, hailed at his election as the smartest man ever to hold the office, is unaware of the fact that “shovel ready jobs” is an oxymoron when it refers to the public sector it makes you wonder. It is to give him the benefit of the doubt to call him ignorant; the alternative is to conclude that he knew the slogan was a lie. If he was ignorant, it’s a valid question to ask what else he doesn’t know and why he doesn’t know it. Flushing a billion dollars down the drain to educate the President about this little item is really more than the country can afford. Think of what else he doesn’t know and what the cost in blood and treasure may be to educate him.

To paraphrase Rush Limbaugh, in the end it may not matter whether Barack Obama’s destructive policies emanate from ignorance or are bad by design. The result for the country is disastrous. I could not help but notice that the people surrounding Obama in the video are not being hurt by his policies. Jeff Immelt, the head of GE, made over $15 million in 2010. Obama has free public housing, is surrounded by household staff catering to his every whim, a fleet of jet aircraft, and fleets of cars, is personally worth millions from the sale of books and will be able to command millions more from speeches once he leaves office. He can talk about the 20% unemployed as a bump in the road with the gracelessness as the French aristocracy just before the revolution.

But it would have been nice if the media had asked Barack Obama – just once – before the election: “what newspapers do you read.”    Perhaps we would have had fewer "bumps on the road to recovery."

Just get the sex change already.

Are there any lesbian bloggers out there that are actually female? Or are they a bunch of muffin-topped 40 year old college students with serious moobage?

Mark Steyn: Is Every Lesbian Blogger a Middle-Aged [Liberal] Man?

We’re one lesbian away from a bona fide Fleet Street “trend”. Further to yesterday’s post, a lesbian blogger who helped unmask the Syrian lesbian blogger as a middle-aged American male has herself been revealed to be a middle-aged American male:

And Weiner makes three.  I can't help it, I'm enjoying the spectacle.

Corrupt Obamacare Waiver Process Is Like a Scene from Atlas Shrugged

From Atlas Shrugged: 

Nobody professed to understand the question of the frozen railroad bonds, perhaps, because everybody understood it too well. At first, there had been signs of a panic among the bondholders and of a dangerous indignation among the public. Then, Wesley Mouch had issued another directive, which ruled that people could get their bonds “defrozen” upon a plea of “essential need”: the government would purchase the bonds, if it found proof of the need satisfactory. there were three questions that no one answered or asked: “What constituted proof?” “What constituted need?” “Essential-to whom?” …One was not supposed to speak about the men who, having been refused, sold their bonds for one-third of the value to other men who possessed needs which, miraculously, made thirty-three frozen cents melt into a whole dollar, or about a new profession practiced by bright young boys just out of college, who called themselves “defreezers” and offered their services “to help you draft your application in the proper modern terms.” The boys had friends in Washington.

This was written as fiction in the 1950s only to become reality in 2008.

Converting a free society into an unfree society takes time, but it has been done for millenia.

It's not the policies we don't know about that are retarding the economy. It's the bad policies we have.

Clifford Asness "Uncertainty is not the problem" says that while economic uncertainty does not create a good business environment, it's Obama's policies themselves that are the primary culprit.

Consider two uncertain situations. In the first, our business is waiting to find out the location decision for a customer's new industrial plant, so we know where to build our new supply facility. Until this is resolved, we will not invest in building nor will we hire staff. In the second situation, we know we are in for some pain, someone is going to make our business less productive and profitable, but we do not yet know how much. Planning is marginally more difficult, but the main reason we will not grow in the second situation is that investment is less attractive regardless of the precise resolution of uncertainty.

In the first case, uncertainty is the obstacle. Once it is resolved, we invest. In the second case, uncertainty is a small part of the problem. The large part is simply that bad things are happening. The day we are told "well, it's exactly a 30% hit to productivity and profits," all uncertainty is resolved—yet we will still not invest or hire. ...

Imagine, right now, we passed a giant additional wasteful stimulus. Imagine all the rules of Dodd-Frank were revealed and are even more stifling than we expected. Imagine we doubled the new health-care entitlement and expanded government control of health care more than previously predicted, but set all the details today. Imagine assorted government agencies passed more burdensome regulations than we anticipated, increasing both the cost of doing business and the drag of crony capitalism. But all uncertainty was resolved by passing them today.

Next imagine that the president promised, in no "uncertain" terms, to up his hectoring of business in perpetuity. Further, imagine we passed higher taxes going forward on everyone but, again, we settled it for certain right now. Finally, imagine we committed ourselves to no entitlement reform ever. Is all this good or bad? Well, uncertainty has been eliminated, but it sounds pretty darn bad.

On the other hand, if we passed laws reducing the regulartory burden, reducing taxes, promoting a freer economy, uncertainty would increase but the business environment would be better.

Obama has created uncertainty, but it's uncertainty of just how much worse things are going to get, how much regulations will strangle innovation, how much taxes will increase, how many people will be thrown out of work, how much higher the price of gas, electricity and food will go, how much higher the debt and deficit will be. It's the uncertainty that folows a diagnosis of cancer: will it be bad or will it be fatal?

Hey, hey, Barack Hussein — how many kids did you kill today?

Glenn Reynolds resurrects an old anti-war chant from the Viet Nam war. 

Well, no. We won’t hear that unless they bring back the draft a Republican is elected.

There.  Fixed that for you Glenn.  We have not had a draft since Nixon was President.

As Byron York said: 

Not too long ago, some observers worried that Barack Obama would come under increasing pressure from the Left to leave both Iraq and Afghanistan. Now, it seems those worries were unfounded. For many liberal activists, opposing the war was really about opposing George W. Bush. When Bush disappeared, so did their anti-war passion.

“Passover Syndrome.”

Passover Syndrome’s most prominent behavioral feature consists of whites projecting historical blame onto other whites and hoping that nonwhites will see them as not-so-white for doing so. Just as the ancient Israelites smeared sacrificial lamb’s blood over their doorways in order to escape the Angel of God’s vengeance, these delusional Caucasians smear bright red anti-racist graffiti—or, in extreme cases, the literal blood of “rednecks” and any “right-wing white” who refuses to get with the program—over their doorways in the hope that when the Dark Angels finally come en masse seeking “justice,” they won’t accidentally notice that the people with the bright red anti-racist paint over their doorways also happen to be white.

What drives this syndrome is the delusion that collective historical ethnic guilt is a real thing rather than a pseudo-religious abstraction. Passover Syndrome’s sufferers tend to believe that all whites, by dint of skin color alone, are indelibly stained with guilt for unsurpassed historical atrocities and that their debt to nonwhites won’t be repaid until the very concept of “whiteness” ceases to exist—if not white people themselves.

"A Gay Girl in Damascus"

Turns out to be

In this new double-entendre world into which we have drifted, the Washington Post is to be forgiven for headlining the story,‘A Gay Girl in Damascus’ comes clean. Not so the fat fake lesbian named Tom MacMaster who hoodwinked untold thousands by giving himself an online sex change for (Isn't it always?) 'the greater good.' It ended (Doesn't it always?) in tears at bedtime..

Gerard Van der Leun:

It's a leftoid fantasy and that's why so many bought it. The reality is something else again.

The reality is that, along with the rest of the population, those who are gay inside rabid dictatorial regimes such as Syria and Iran are not safe from repression, imprisonment, torture, and execution. And those who are gay inside these regimes know this to a fare thee well. They might be willing to speak out but typically only after they get out. To someplace safe in the ever more tolerant west. Someplace like, say, Edinburgh, Scotland. Someplace so free that even a fat, white, male "mideast activist" can change himself into a young, dusky, slender hot lesbian.... and get away with it because, well, people just "want to believe" in six impossible things before breakfast.

Palin's enemies; believing three impossible things before breakfast.

UPDATE: Jonah Goldberg notes that this "gay girl" was a Liberal who used "his" persona to bash Israel. Of course "she" would be considered "authentic."

In fact, how dare "advocates of war, occupation, dispossession and apartheid" use Arab and Muslim hostility to gays as "'evidence that the primitive sand-people don't deserve anything other than killing by the enlightened children of the West."

Besides, "she" has never been harassed by Arabs for being gay. But in America, "she" has been "struck by strangers for being an Arab" and "had dung thrown at me" for wearing the hijab.

Except that is a lie.

Worse, it's propaganda. McMaster's fake-but-accurate lesbian was perfectly pitched to Western liberals desperate to alleviate the pain of cognitive dissonance. No longer must you think too hard or make tough choices if you're, say, anti-Israel and pro-democracy or pro-gay rights and in favor of the self-determination of Muslim fanatics. Heck, you can even stop worrying and love a lesbian feminist who sees no big deal in wearing a religiously required sack over her head.

Of course she was a hero. Of course she didn't exist.

Joe Scarborough given permission by leading Democrats to discusss Weiner. Tells Republicans to "Shut Up."

Tells RNC Chairman: ‘Shut Up’ With ‘Cheap Shots’ On Rep. Weiner.

If there are cheap shots to be taken the MSM looks to the Democrats for what's permitted and what's not. "This is for the Democratic party to deal with."

According to Press, the Foley scandal was relevant, the Weiner scandal is not.

Politicians, Congress unethical — and getting worse

A striking 68 percent of likely voters polled said the ethical standards of politicians have deteriorated in recent decades,

Poll finds public getting disgusted by politicians.  Can't wait for 2012.

Above the Law: Weiner's Pathfinder Has Different Plates, is Unregistered

Jammie Wearing Fool:

When Weiner (D-Queens, Brooklyn) was photographed by the Daily News fleeing the Capitol in his Nissan Pathfinder, it was clear the July 2007 registration sticker in his window was expired, ...

The New York license plate bolted on Weiner's Pathfinder - US Congress 9 - had expired as of 2006, according to the DMV

Meanwhile the MSM is focused like a laser beam on 24,000 Palin e-mails.

As I get older will I just get sent to a psychologist who can help me adjust to dying without treatment?

Those “death panels” that were written into the ObamaCare bill (watch Krugman cover up his gaffe)  may be a boon for psychologists who will help older people “understand” why they must die so a younger person can get more medical care.

Dr. Helen

But at least compassionate psychologists will make a buck! And why is it that when Sarah Palin talks about "death panels", she's an idiot, but when a psychologist does (because isn't that what is implied by restricting care to the elderly?), his ideas are printed up in a journal?

Police 'covered up' violent campaign to turn London area 'Islamic'

Victims say that officers in the borough of Tower Hamlets have ignored or downplayed outbreaks of hate crime, and suppressed evidence implicating Muslims in them, because they fear being accused of racism.

Read the rest.
H/T Glenn Reynolds.

I'm not addicted to oil.

I'm addicted to being able to drive into town on my own schedule. I'm addicted to being able to haul home a week's worth of groceries with two little kids in tow without having to wait for the fucking bus with eighty pounds of filled plastic bags in my hands. (That's disregarding the fact that I live out in the sticks, and the nearest bus stop is four miles away, which is one hell of a hike with the aforementioned two little kids and week's worth of groceries.)

"I don't give a shit what kind of substance I have to put in the tank of the minivan to feed that particular addiction. I don't care about oil. If my minivan ran on distilled cow piss, I'd fill up with distilled cow piss. If they ever come up with an electric minivan that goes the speed limit on the Interstate, accelerates to highway speeds in less time than a geologic epoch, and doesn't need to be recharged every fifty miles with electricity that comes from a coal-powered plant anyway, I'll gladly buy one of those and deep-six the old combustion engine.

And if one of you media assholes spouts off about being addicted to oil ever again I'm going to climb in my car, drive over to your house and punch you in your cliche spouting face.