Leftwingers wrong again, Kentucky census worker Bill Sparkman killed himself.

Remember how the lefties screamed that the right’s anti big government words killed Kentucky census worker Bill Sparkman. They said that our words incited violence against government workers.  Well what do you know, just like the stimulus, the left has failed again.

From McClatchy:

A U.S. Census worker whose death in a secluded Kentucky cemetery sparked worries about a backlash against the federal government killed himself but tried to make the death look like a homicide, authorities have concluded.

Bill Sparkman, 51, of London, Ky., might have tried to cover the manner of his death to preserve payments under life-insurance polices that he had taken out. The policies wouldn’t pay off if Sparkman committed suicide, state police Capt. Lisa Rudzinski said.

“We believe it was an intentional act on his part to take his own life,” said Rudzinski, who helped lead the investigation.

Sparkman’s nude body was found Sept. 12 by people visiting the cemetery. There was a rope around his neck tied to a tree, and he had what appeared to be the word “fed” written on his chest in black marker.

His census identification card was taped to his head.

The bizarre details of the death caused a firestorm of media coverage and widespread speculation on the Internet, including that someone angry at the federal government attacked Sparkman as he went door to door, gathering census information.

Michelle Malkin is making sure to the left knows their indictment of the right was wrong, wrong, wrong.

Via: Memeorandum

Via: McClatchy

Via: Michelle Malkin
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Outrageous! Navy SEALS to be court-martialed for giving terrorist a fat lip!

How is this for outrageous? Three Navy SEALs secretly captured a most wanted terrorist and in the capture the dirt bag terrorist got fat lip and now charges are being brought against the SEALs!

From Fox News:

Navy SEALs have secretly captured one of the most wanted terrorists in Iraq — the alleged mastermind of the murder and mutilation of four Blackwater USA security guards in Fallujah in 2004. And three of the SEALs who captured him are now facing criminal charges, sources told FoxNews.com.

The three, all members of the Navy's elite commando unit, have refused non-judicial punishment — called an admiral's mast — and have requested a trial by court-martial.

Ahmed Hashim Abed, whom the military code-named "Objective Amber," told investigators he was punched by his captors — and he had the bloody lip to prove it.

Now, instead of being lauded for bringing to justice a high-value target, three of the SEAL commandos, all enlisted, face assault charges and have retained lawyers. MORE

There is indication that the SEALs may not even have punched the creep.

United States Central Command declined to discuss the detainee, but a legal source told FoxNews.com that the detainee was turned over to Iraqi authorities, to whom he made the abuse complaints. He was then returned to American custody. The SEAL leader reported the charge up the chain of command, and an investigation ensued.

Something tells me that Ahmed Hasim got his fat lip from the Iraqis but is pinning it on the SEALs because he knows how squeamish and PC some Americans can be. Quite frankly, I could not care less if the SEALs beat the guy to a bloody pulp.  These Islamic fascists kill without a second thought, yet we are suppose to play by the Marquis of Queensbury rules, give me a break.

I sear to God Political Correctness will be the death of America! This is the same retarded thinking that allowed Nidal Hasan to hide his crazy jihad ass right inside our armed forces.  Could someone please tell the powers that be that war is NOT an academic exercise and the war on terror is not a parlor game! 

Via: Memeorandum

Via: Fox News

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Obama plans to send 34,000 troops to Afghanistan

It appears that The Won has finally made a decision about Afghanistan. From McClatchy:

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama met Monday evening with his national security team to finalize a plan to dispatch some 34,000 additional U.S. troops over the next year to what he's called "a war of necessity" in Afghanistan, U.S. officials told McClatchy.

Obama is expected to announce his long-awaited decision on Dec. 1, followed by meetings on Capitol Hill aimed at winning congressional support amid opposition by some Democrats who are worried about the strain on the U.S. Treasury and whether Afghanistan has become a quagmire, the officials said.

The U.S. officials all spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren't authorized to discuss the issue publicly and because, one official said, the White House is incensed by leaks on its Afghanistan policy that didn't originate in the White House.

General Stanley McChrystal gave Obama three options, a low-risk option of 80,000 troops, a medium-risk option of 40,000 troops and a high-risk option of 20,000 troops. Obama decision seems to fall short of the medium risk option and it will be interesting to hear his decision why. Here is the breakdown of the troops Obama will send:

As it now stands, the plan calls for the deployment over a nine-month period beginning in March of three Army brigades from the 101st Airborne Division at Fort Campbell, Ky., and the 10th Mountain Division at Fort Drum, N.Y., and a Marine brigade from Camp Lejeune, N.C., for as many as 23,000 additional combat and support troops.

In addition, a 7,000-strong division headquarters would be sent to take command of U.S.-led NATO forces in southern Afghanistan — to which the U.S. has long been committed — and 4,000 U.S. military trainers would be dispatched to help accelerate an expansion of the Afghan army and police.

But what is rather disturbing is that the plan contains “off-ramps”. These are dates for Obama to decide whether to continue the flow of troops or to retreat.

 The administration's plan contains "off-ramps," points starting next June at which Obama could decide to continue the flow of troops, halt the deployments and adopt a more limited strategy or "begin looking very quickly at exiting" the country, depending on political and military progress, one defense official said. 

I just don’t understand the need to announce to your enemies when and why you will throw in the towel. It should seem quite obvious that if the Taliban wants us out of Afghanistan all they have to do is intensify the fighting over the next six months.  Furthermore, the whole idea behind McChrystal’s surge is to gain confidence from the Afghan people so that they will begin helping US forces. Why should they help out if our commitment is so tentative? It would be far safer for them to wait the six months to make sure we stay.

Something tells me come June 1, we will be packing it in under the banner of defeat and the White House claiming it was Bush’s fault.

Via: Memeorandum

Via: McClatchy

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Big Government goes dumpster diving and catches ACORN by the nuts

If you thought that the ACORN Prostitution Scandal sent ACORN reeling, then get ready for round two. The ACORN offices in California were suppose to be investigated by Attorney General Jerry Brown [HACK, HACK] as announced on October 1, but days later the ACORN office in National City (San Diego County) did a massive document dump. Wouldn’t you know it, an intrepid private investigator retrieved the dumped documents and brought them to our friend Andrew Breitbart.

What was found you ask? Well aside from improperly dumped sensitive  documents containing employee social security numbers, drivers license information, etc, Big Government is reporting this: 

ACORN’s political agenda is also exposed, with thousands upon thousands of documents revealing the depth of the political machine that is ACORN, and its disturbing ties to not only public employee labor unions but some of the most radical leftist organizations. 

Now this sounds like something enquiring minds want to know. Come on Andrew show us the good stuff. You can read more about Brietbart’s dumpster dive here.

Andrew Breitbart is trying to force Eric Holder and Jerry Brown to do their jobs and perform a clean and thorough investigation of ACORN. I think he is wasting his time; both these men are hardcore partisan hacks. They will never given ACORN the once over it deserves. I hope he simply releases the information in drips and drabs and slowly destroys ACORN’s façade of credibly bit-by-bit.

Via: Memeorandum

Via: Big Government

Chris Matthews compares Obama to Carter

(video h/t News Busters)

Talk about the bloom being off the rose.  Did you ever think Chris Matthews could be so brutal to Obama?  Perhaps it is because he did not get an invitation to the White House like Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddows did.

I am sure Obama must be saying this about Chris Matthews right now:

Via: Memeorandum

Via: News Busters

Approval Numbers: Palin vs. Obama. Reality asserts itself

This morning Andrew Malcolm from the Los Angles Times points out that Sarah Palin and Barack Obama’s approval numbers are starting to equal each other. Obama’s numbers are dropping and Palin’s are rising and at some point they will meet in the 40’s.

From the LA Times [emphasis added mine]: 

Not that it matters politically because obviously she's a female Republican dunce and he's a male Democrat genius.

But Sarah Palin's poll numbers are strengthening.

And President Obama's are sliding.

Guess what? They're about to meet in the 40s.

Depending, of course, on which recent set of numbers you peruse and how the questions are phrased, 307 days into his allotted 1,461, the 44th president's approval rating among Americans has slid to 49% or 48%, showing no popularity bounce from his many happy trips, foreign and domestic.

Riding the wave of immense publicity and symbiotic media interest over her new book, "Going Rogue," and the accompanying promotional tour, Palin's favorable ratings are now at 43%, according to ABC. That's up from 40% in July. 

See that first line I highlighted? This is the main reason why I believe Palin’s numbers will eventually surpass Obama’s.  The 2008 presidential elections were driven by false themes pushed by the media.  The media did everything in their power to tell America that Palin was a stupid hayseed and Obama was the second coming. The problem with the media’s strategy is that reality is a relentless bitch.

In reality Obama had little next to no experience before getting elected. This is a man who breezed through his Illinois and US Senate seats, leaving little next to nothing behinds as accomplishments. Obama has never run a business, a city or state. His executive experience was nothing more than a fairy tale told by the media. Now occupying the nation’s chief executive position his inexperience is showing big time.

In Sarah Palin’s case, the reality is that she is a smart and accomplished woman. She has run her own business, a city, a state and has headed up a very important commission. None of which failed or collapsed under her leadership. If Palin was half as stupid as the media would like us to believe, surely she should have failed miserably at any one if not all of these tasks.

Reality will continue to exert itself in the Palin vs. Obama drama. As more people read Palin’s book, they will learn of her true accomplishments and will see that the Palin is stupid theme is impossible to believe. Reality will also exert itself in Obama’s case as well. As the nation’s problems continue to mount and Obama is unable to live up to the Superhero image pained by the media, more an more people will finally see that Obama was a poser all along.

By the time 2012 rolls around, reality will have completely demolished the Palin stupid/ Obama genius theme. Already, some in the media are on to a new tact that goes something like this: Palin is dangerous and Obama is cautious. This won’t work either, because like I said reality is a relentless bitch.

Via: Memeorandum

Via: The LA Times

SNL mocks Obama’s visit to China

This skit would be even more hilarious if it wasn’t both our president and our country that is the butt of the joke. Sadly though, Obama’s economic policy of “spend your way out of debt” is a laughable idea. The only reason why he has gotten this far with it is because we have such a bias media who invested their entire credibility in his election.

There are two things interesting to note here. First, Saturday Night Life is filmed in the very liberal New York City. You will note that there is not one moan, groan or catcalls from the audience. Instead we find hardy laughter in agreement with the skit.  This is bad news for Obama if he cannot find one faithful defender in NYC.

Second, there appears to be growing noise from the left that Obama ain’t all that and a bag of chips. Just this Sunday, lefty hack Maureen Dowd, suggests that Obama needs to be more like Sarah Palin. Of course Dowd says it in her snarky anti Palin sort of way, but she still speaks of Obama not measuring up.  Even Chris Matthews seems to have lost his man crush.

Via: Memeorandum

Via: Ms Underestimated

Via: New York Times

What Jeff Jacoby has forgotten: We’re broke!

Jeff Jacoby has penned an opinion piece in the Boston Globe arguing that conservatives are wrong to want to deny the children of illegal aliens instate tuition rates. He argues that conservatives should be against the flawed immigration policy and not the illegal immigrants themselves.


Jeff Jacoby:

YOU’RE A sensible, principled conservative. You want America to be a land of boundless opportunity and freedom, where people are treated as individuals and judged on their merits. You reject the divisive identity politics of the left - what matters most about any of us, you would insist, is not race or class or ethnic origins: it is personal character and achievement. There are few things about contemporary politics you deplore more than the demonizing or scapegoating of entire groups (“white males,’’ “the rich,’’ “the Christian right,’’ “gun owners’’), as though every member of the group is interchangeable and indistinguishable, wholly defined by a single disparaging label.


But let someone mention “illegal immigrants,’’ and your principles fly out the window.


So when Governor Deval Patrick recommends allowing young illegal immigrants - residents of Massachusetts who have graduated from high school - to attend a public college and pay in-state tuition, you flip out. This is outrageous, you protest. It rewards people who broke the rules. It’s unfair to the taxpayers who subsidize public higher education. Why should an illegal immigrant get a valuable tuition break that Massachusetts wouldn’t give to a kid from Maine or New Hampshire?


You vigorously agree with Charlie Baker, a Republican candidate for governor. “If you’re illegally here, you’re illegally here,’’ Baker said last week. “The notion that we should treat illegal immigrants with the same benefits and opportunities that legal immigrants and legal citizens have doesn’t make any sense to me.’’

What Jeff Jacoby (like so many in Washington) has forgotten is that America is $12 trillion dollars in the hole. Half of every dollar we spend is borrowed money. Money that must be paid back by a generation that is too young to vote their objections or accept the responsibility.

 Sure it would be nice not to punish the children of illegal immigrants for the parents’ lawbreaking. However the stark reality is that for us to be generous the way Jacoby suggests, requires us to be cruel to our very own children by robbing their futures to pay for our current mistakes.

So rather than consider ourselves cruel for forcing the children of illegal immigrants to pay higher out of state tuition, we should accept the hard cold reality that we have created a situation where we desperately need their money.


Via: Memeorandum
Via: The Boston Globe