Do As I Say, Not As My Idiot Press Secretary Does

"The people who sent us here expect a seriousness of purpose that transcends petty politics,"

Barrack Obama calling for bipartisanship

Robert Gibbs mocking Sarah Palin

Any questions?

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Read This, What's Wrong With It?

Anger over alphabet ends in arrest

A man is accused of holding his 4-year-old daughter's head under the water in the kitchen sink at their Yelm home Sunday night because she would not recite the alphabet, according to police and court papers.

The Thurston County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office filed a charge of second-degree assault of a child against Joshua Ryan Tabor, 27, on Tuesday. His arraignment is scheduled for Feb. 16.

According to court records:

Yelm police responded to a disturbance Sunday night after Tabor’s girlfriend reported that Tabor, a Joint Base Lewis-McChord soldier, “was irate, intoxicated and walking around the neighborhood with his Kevlar helmet threatening to break windows.”

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Why do they always mention that it is a soldier?

If it is a plumber do you read that he was walking around carrying a plunger? Or a carpenter was walking around with his tool belt on? Or an RN was walking around in scrubs?

I hope the SOB gets what is coming to him for torturing this little child and I further hope he has a real good time in prison.

Why is it relevant that he is in the military though?

What Do You Think About This?

President Obama Moves Forward on Health Care, Invites Republicans to the White House for Televised Meeting

So, what do you think? Is there anything to this or is it for the cameras?

If the Republican's do this will they be letting themselves be used as props?

What about the notion that Obama does not appear to be willing to "start over" and instead is wanting to tweak what is in place?

What should the response be from the Republicans? Should they lay some ground rules before they go in?

What are your thoughts?

Quote Of The Week

"We're not going to save our way out of this recession,"..."We've got to spend our way out of this recession, and I think most economists know that."

James Clyburn (D-S.C.), Majority Whip

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There you have it. Do notice though he did not share the voluminous list of economists who agree with him.

Just Another Typical Illinois Democrat

Illinois Dem defiant after arrest history surfaces

CHICAGO - A political newcomer who won the Democratic nomination for Illinois lieutenant governor said he has no intention of leaving the race after details emerged about his arrest for allegedly holding a knife to his former girlfriend's throat.

Scott Lee Cohen struck a defiant tone even after running mate Gov. Pat Quinn predicted he would have to leave the race. Cohen said people should wait for all facts to become known.

"There are questions, and I will provide all answers honestly and openly," he said in a statement Thursday. He did not return messages from The Associated Press.

Cohen was arrested on domestic battery charges in 2005, accused of pushing his then-girlfriend's head against a wall and of the knife incident. The police report noted abrasions on her neck and hand, but charges were dropped after she failed to appear in court.

Police records show the woman had been arrested for prostitution, the Chicago Tribune reported. Cohen said he did not know that at the time. He told WTTW-TV that he met her at a "massage therapy place" and believed she was a masseuse. Cohen denied hitting her and said their relationship was "tumultuous."

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Folks, this is the Democrat they could vote for in Illinois.

Is there a Democrat from Illinois that is not a thug, corrupt, have mob ties, has raided a bank, or all of the above?

More Useful Spending From The Dems

Millions in Stimulus Spending Being Doled Out for Questionable Jobs

Federal agencies are spending stimulus money at the rate of $196 million an hour. And they will do so every hour for the next eight months until a September 30, 2010, deadline.

Look at some of the stuff you are buying:

-- $233,000 to the University of California at San Diego to study why Africans vote. Jobs created: 12, but seven of those are Africans in Africa.

-- In Nevada, $2 million in stimulus money built a new fire station, but because of budget cuts, the county can't afford to hire firefighters to work there.

-- Penn State University got $1.5 million to study plant fossils in Argentina. Of 5 jobs created, 2 belong to Argentines.

-- Researchers the State University of New York at Buffalo got $389,000 to pay 100 Buffalonians $45 each to record how much malt liquor they drink -- and how much pot smoke each day. Consumption is then reported via an automated phone hotline. Cost per job: almost $200,000.

-- The Obama administration is spending $5 billion to weatherize homes. But one Texas county spent $4 million to weatherize just 47 homes. That's $78,000 per house. Each retrofit is supposed to save homeowners $500 a year in energy costs. That means taxpayers will recoup their investment in 156 years, long after the home is probably torn down.

-- Two Arizona universities got almost $1 million dollars so 3 grad students can study how ants work. That's more than $300,000 per job.

-- Companies that raise tropical fish, shellfish, catfish, alligators and even turtles qualify for $50 million in tax money to buy fish food.

-- North Carolina public schools received $4.4 million to hire math and literacy coaches, not for students, but teachers. That's 64 people paid $70,000 each to teach teachers how to teach reading and math.

Then of course from the bribery campaign contributions department:

-- $6 million in stimulus money to a California contractor under federal investigation for overcharging San Diego for cleanup after the 2007 wildfires

-- A Denver developer received $13 million in tax credits to help build a senior housing complex despite being sued as a slumlord for running decrepit, rodent-infested apartment buildings in San Francisco.

-- Kentucky gave $24 million to a contractor on trial on for bribery.

-- An aerospace company received $15 million to monitor water quality in a Ventura County creek it was already fined for polluting.

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I don't know about anyone else but I can't wait for the "job creations" bill to come out.

Teaching The Kids The Important Stuff

North Carolina Schools May Cut Chunk Out of U.S. History Lessons

State education leaders say this may help students learn about more recent history in greater depth.

"We are certainly not trying to go away from American history," Rebecca Garland, the chief academic officer for North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, told Fox News. "What we are trying to do is figure out a way to teach it where students are connected to it, where they see the big idea, where they are able to make connections and draw relationships between parts of our history and the present day."

As the North Carolina curriculum stands now, ninth-grade students take world history, 10th-graders study civics and economics and 11th-graders take U.S. history going back to the country's founding.

Under the proposed change, the ninth-graders would take a course called global studies, focusing in part on issues such as the environment. The 10th grade still would study civics and economics, but 11th-graders would take U.S. history only from 1877 onward.

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Wouldn't you think the GW class would replace fantasy literature?