Americans for Prosperity Crashes Al Gore’s Speech

Do as I say not as I do.   Hypocrisy is the Goracle.

Obama owns oil stocks

Just a little bit of hypocrisy here.   No wonder Obama wants oil to be expensive, he owns stock in some oils companies and Trust Funds with oils companies in them.   

H/T to A Chicago Blog

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In 2006, Durbin reported owning 984 shares, valued at $22,359 at the time, of the AllianceBernstein International Value Fund. The number 2 holding in this fund is none other than the Royal Dutch Shell Group. Hmmm. Oh, and then there’s $15,532 worth Fidelity Leveraged Company Stock fund, which is invested partly in El Paso Corporation, another oil company. This fund has performed pretty well. He bought it at around $28 a share and it’s now valued at nearly $35 a share. Not bad. Finally, there’s the Royal Value Service Fun, which invests in Oil States International, Inc.

…. A Chicago Blog

More form ther Hypocrisy front

So we can have crosses that are representing the soldiers lost in Iraq and the War on Terror, but to show that an abortion is a loss of life is wrong.    Is there a double standard here???   I am sure this guy would applaud someone if they put up crosses for the fallen soldiers in protest to us Defending ourselves, but this is an outrage to him.     Boo Fricking Hoo.   Hypocrisy at its greatest. Oh the poor girls that think that an abortion is just another form of birth control will see that some people actually see a life in that baby.  Give me a break, they will still go on using abortion for birth control ,but maybe someone might see what they are talking about.   A fetus is a life also and we have lost millions to the abortion clinics, especially the African Americans, thanks to Margaret Sanger and her cheerleading of aborting the lesser races through Eugenics.

H/T to Hot Air’s Allahpundit

Bob Parks, Outside the Wire:

Thanks to AARA News Service

Call the Wambulance

So, the US finally agreed to the "consensus" at Bali after this blubbering idiot cried about how the world is coming to an end.  Call the wambulance.  If they think that CO2 is such a problem, maybe they should not have flown half way around the world to Bali.  They put out more CO2 that the City of St. Louis does in a year to get all the attendees there.  What hypocrisy.  All this to cut CO2 admissions, which CO2 is the giver of life to us.  Without CO2, we would not feed the world and we would not be able to live on Earth. 
And what of this "consensus"???   Every day we have more and more real climatologists saying that man has nothing to do with Manbearpig.  The Earth has cycles of war and cold climates, and it has a lot ot do with that big Fireball in the sky we call the Sun.  And scientists have discovered that most of the warming and cooling has to do with Sunsopts, Solar Flares and the angle of the Earth compared to the Sun.  But we got the Goracle deriding the US because we don’t drink the cool-aid of the New Church of Manbearpig.  I am sick and tired of the UN and the rest of the beuaroweenies taking over our sovereignty.  If the EU and the rest of the world wants to tax themselves into  ruination, let them, just leave the US alone and let us live the way we want to.  We are a sovereign country,  not the United Nations of America.    We should never let any body take over our sovereignty, that is why we had the Boston tea Party.  I think that the UN should be booted out of the US and let them reside in EU and then let them control the EU economy and fall off to the wayside.  The UN is nothing more than a platform for all the 3rd world Dictators to blather on about how bad the US and Israel are, not looking at their own countries faults. 
Thanks to our great leaders we are now going to have to accept this overtaking of our sovereign country to the Beauroweenies at the UN.  When is enough enough????  when are we going to take bakc our country from these Beauroweenies and bring our country back to what it was before the UN became the Shadow Government.??? 

And the Goracle is still looking for Manbearpig.  If you see him give the Goracle a call.

Sandy Burglar back in the saddle

Sandy the Burglar is back at it again.  He is along side the Shillary.

He’s back: Sandy Berger now advising Hillary Clinton

WASHINGTON
(Map, News)
–
Sandy Berger, who stole highly classified terrorism documents from the
National Archives, destroyed them and lied to investigators, is now an
adviser to presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton. Berger, who
was fired from John Kerry’s presidential campaign when the scandal
broke in 2004, has assumed a similar role in Clinton’s campaign, even
though his security clearance has been suspended until September 2008.
This is raising eyebrows even among Clinton’s admirers.

“It
shows poor judgment and a lack of regard for Berger’s serious
misdeeds,” said law professor Jonathan Adler of Case Western Reserve
University, who nonetheless called Clinton “by far the most impressive
candidate in the Democratic field.”

Adler told The Examiner that
it is “simply incomprehensible to me that a serious contender for the
presidency would rely upon him as a key foreign policy advisor.”

He
added: “If Senator Clinton becomes the Democratic nominee, at some
point she will begin to receive national security briefings that will
include sensitive information. At such a point, continuing to keep
Berger on board as a key advisor, where he might have access to
sensitive material, would be beyond incomprehensible.”

 

The Clinton campaign declined to comment.

Berger has admitted
stealing documents from the National Archives in advance of the 9/11
Commission hearings in 2003. The documents, written by White House
counterterrorism czar Richard Clarke, were a “tough review” of the
Clinton administration’s shortcomings in dealing with terrorism,
Clarke’s lawyer told the Washington Post.

On several occasions,
Berger stuffed highly classified documents into his pants and socks
before spiriting them out of the Archives building in Washington,
according to investigators. On one occasion, upon reaching the street,
he hid documents under a construction trailer after checking the
windows of the Archives and Justice Department buildings to make sure
he was not being watched.

Berger came back later and retrieved
the documents, taking them home and cutting them up with scissors. Two
days later, he was informed by Archive employees that his removal of
documents had been detected.

“Berger panicked because he realized
he was caught,” said a report by the National Archives inspector
general, which also recounted his initial reaction. “Berger lied.”

Berger
also lied to the public, telling reporters he made an “honest mistake”
by “inadvertently” taking the documents, which he blamed on his own
“sloppiness.” Bill Clinton vouched for the explanation for Berger, who
served as his national security adviser.

Berger later conceded: “I was giving a benign explanation for what was not benign.”

The
Justice Department initially said Berger stole only copies of
classified documents and not originals. But the House Government Reform
Committee later revealed that an unsupervised Berger had been given
access to classified files of original, uncopied, uninventoried
documents on terrorism. Several Archives officials acknowledged that
Berger could have stolen any number of items and they “would never know
what, if any, original documents were missing.”

At his sentencing
in September 2005, Berger was fined $50,000, placed on probation for
two years and stripped of his security clearance for three years.

Examiner .com

 

 

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Hypocrisy at it’s finest

Yes, Ted Kennedy and his cohorts don’t want a Wind Farm in their mist.

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One of the funniest songs I have hear in a long tiime

This is almost as good as Their Coming To Take Me Away or any song by Wierd Al  (not the Goracle)  This si a song about how Global Warming is not just a prediction any more, and how Bush sucks and is song by some young girls.  This is really who I want to get my information about Global Warming from.
I first heard this on talk radio I forgot who it was.  I think it was Michael Savage and he couldn’t get thru the while song without laughing hysterically.

H/T to Pirate’s Cove.   

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The Silk Pony lives in his own World

You know how the Breck Girl is always talking about 2 Americas, well, he lives in his own world.  $300-$500 for haircuts, even $1250 for one.

Splitting Hairs, Edwards’s Stylist Tells His Side of Story
Man Behind Pricey ‘Dos Details Long Relationship

By John Solomon
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, July 5, 2007; C01

For four decades, Joseph Torrenueva has cut the hair of Hollywood celebrities, from Marlon Brando to Bob Barker, so when a friend told him in 2003 that a presidential candidate needed grooming advice, he agreed to help.

The Beverly Hills hairstylist, a Democrat, said he hit it off with then-Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina at a meeting in Los Angeles that brought several fashion experts together to advise the candidate on his appearance. Since then, Torrenueva has cut Edwards’s hair at least 16 times.

At first, the haircuts were free. But because Torrenueva often had to fly somewhere on the campaign trail to meet his client, he began charging $300 to $500 for each cut, plus the cost of airfare and hotels when he had to travel outside California.

Torrenueva said one haircut during the 2004 presidential race cost $1,250 because he traveled to Atlanta and lost two days of work.

"He has nice hair," the stylist said of Edwards in an interview. "I try to make the man handsome, strong, more mature and these are the things, as an expert, that’s what we do."

It is some kind of commentary on the state of American politics that as Edwards has campaigned for president, vice president and now president again, his hair seems to have attracted as much attention as, say, his position on health care. But when his campaign reported in April that it had paid for two of his haircuts at $400 each, the political damage was immediate. With each punch line on late night TV his image as a self-styled populist making poverty his signature issue was further eroded.

Edwards said that he was embarrassed by the cost and that he "didn’t know it would be that expensive," suggesting the haircuts were some kind of aberration given by "that guy" his staff had arranged. His wife, Elizabeth, made lots of jokes at her husband’s expense and the campaign wished the whole issue would go away.

But Torrenueva’s account of his long relationship with Edwards — the first he’s given — probably guarantees that won’t happen quite yet. And if $400 seemed a lot for a haircut, how about one for three times that?

Asked for a comment, the Edwards campaign said this week that Edwards had arranged for the stylist to give him numerous cuts over the past four years. But it said that a personal assistant handled paying for the haircuts and that Edwards didn’t realize how much they cost.

"Breaking news — John Edwards got some expensive haircuts and probably didn’t pay enough attention to the bills," said spokeswoman Colleen Murray. "He didn’t lie about weapons of mass destruction or spring Scooter Libby; he just got some expensive haircuts."

In the days after the $400 haircut first caused a stir, Torrenueva did not give many details about his client to reporters who called or came by his Beverly Hills salon. But Torrenueva says he was hurt by Edwards’s response to all the flap.

"I’m disappointed and I do feel bad. If I know someone, I’m not going to say I don’t know them," he said. "When he called me ‘that guy,’ that hit my ears. It hurt." He paused and then added, "I still like him. . . . I don’t want to hurt him."

Torrenueva said he normally charges men $175 when they come to his salon for a haircut. But the cost for Edwards went up because the stylist had to leave his shop and go on the road to do his haircuts.

Edwards is certainly not the first politician to face ridicule when his or her grooming habits caught the public’s eye. It took a long time for President Bill Clinton to live down the haircut he received from the stylist Christophe of Beverly Hills while Air Force One was parked on an airport runway in Los Angeles. And Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) had her own minor version of the Edwards treatment after her Senate campaign spent nearly $3,000 in fees and travel for two sessions with stylist Isabelle Goetz.

While Democrats seem to get the most attention, Republicans have not been completely immune. Campaign aides to former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, the best-coiffed Republican candidate in the presidential race and the wealthiest of all the hopefuls, fretted in an internal document that his well-tended locks may be considered a negative. He has assured Massachusetts reporters that he spends no more than $50 for a trim.

Edwards, however, has been unusually susceptible to mockery. Before the $400 haircut, his campaign had to deal with the YouTube video in which he was captured primping for the camera while the song "I Feel Pretty" from "West Side Story" played.

And despite the best efforts of Edwards, his wife and their campaign aides, there’s been an obvious political impact.

In Iowa, for example, an early caucus state where Edwards is staking much of his fortune, the Quad-City Times newspaper quoted barbers calling the cost of Edwards’s haircuts "preposterous" and "impossible" and suggesting that they would be chased by guys in "white coats" if they charged Iowans that much.

According to Torrenueva, the last time he cut Edwards’s hair was March 23, the day after Elizabeth Edwards announced that her cancer had returned and a month before the cost of the haircuts became public.

"I knew what they were going through, the cancer," Torrenueva said, referring to the session at the Sheraton Delfina hotel in Santa Monica, Calif. "My son had had cancer, so we talked."

Unlike two prior haircuts in January and February, which were paid for by the campaign, Edwards personally paid the $400 for the March cut, the stylist said.

Torrenueva provided his first five haircuts for Edwards in late 2003 and early 2004 free of charge. "I was just doing it because I’m a Democrat," he said.

After Edwards became Sen. John F. Kerry‘s vice presidential running mate in summer 2004, Torrenueva started charging. There was one cut for $300 in mid-July in Los Angeles, shortly before the Democratic National Convention, the one for $1,250 in August in Atlanta, another in Washington in early October before a debate with Vice President Cheney, and the last was in Ohio shortly before the election.

After the 2004 election, Torrenueva said he cut Edwards’s hair three times in 2005 and 2006 during business trips to California. As Edwards began gearing up for his 2008 presidential campaign, Torrenueva said, the pace picked up. One haircut was in late November, another Jan. 9 and a third on Valentine’s Day, and each cost $400.

The stylist said he has a vivid memory of the first time he met Edwards, in 2003.

"My friend called me and said, ‘Do you know who John Edwards is?’ and I said yes, I had heard of him. My friend said he is going to be running for president, but his hair doesn’t look right. I don’t know what it is and I think you will know what to do."

Torrenueva agreed to meet Edwards at the Century Plaza hotel in Los Angeles along with several fashion experts.

"There was a woman, an award-winning clothes designer — I think she works in film and onstage, too. She was there with her swatches with materials for colors of suits, ties and what we were doing there was discussing his look. I was there for hair.

"What I did was, there was too much hair on top, always falling down, and it made him look too youthful. I took the top down and balanced everything out. He couldn’t see it. But then we went into the bathroom. He looked in the mirror and said, ‘I love this,’ and that was it."

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Hell I get mine done for free by an ex-marine with clippers.  I just need to get him some beer or scotch every once in a while.   Anything over $20 for a haircut on a male is ridiculous.

Anti-Christian Violence in Iraq not covered by MSM

The following is from Amy Welborn’s "Open Book" blog:

June 07, 2007

Where’s the coverage?

Of anti-Christian violence in Iraq?

The mainstream media can’t get enough of the sectarian violence between the Shiites, the Sunnis, and the Kurds in Iraq. But one kind of sectarian violence that has consistently been under-reported since the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 is the persecution of Iraq’s native Christian population. A Catholic News Agency story from June 6th reported:

According to the AINA news agency, two churches were attacked in the Baghdad district of Dora. At St. John the Baptist’s in Hay Al-Athoriyeen, several security guards who protect the church were killed, and St. Jacob’s in Hay al Asya was vandalized and forcibly turned into a mosque. St. Jacob’s had previously been attacked in October of 2004.

The raids on the two churches coincided with a funeral Mass for a priest and three deacons that were assassinated in Mosul on June 3rd. A Google News search revealed that there were only 4 articles about the raids, none of them from mainstream media sources . Besides the assassinations and the raids, a Chaldean Catholic priest in Baghdad was abducted on June 6th and Shiite terrorists occupied a Chaldean Catholic convent in Baghdad on May 31st.

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