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OK….So maybe paying $5 in quarters to go to the self-wash place might have been a better idea:

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So a woman in Connecticut is charged with criminal impersonation. Yet another case of identity theft, right?

Wrong..

This woman wasn’t satisfied with just pretending to be a nurse. She spent $2,000 to throw herself a dinner claiming that a non-existent organization had named her “Nurse of the Year.”

I can’t even begin to count the number of ways that this woman’s issues are crying out for serious mental help.

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Once the SEIU said they were going to send their enforcers to townhall meetings this was inevitable.

The key info from the link:

Shortly thereafter, violence erupted, where there were 2-3 big goons came out and started pushing those in line, and roughing up one in the corner (see top left screen) as well as another being put in a choke hold. Directly in front of the gentleman in the plaid type shirt, is one of them in a flower print. (eleven o’clock from the camera phone in the scene.) To right of the phone, another in a white shirt. Keep your eye on him, as he then goes for the choke hold on one of the people.

For all Pelosi’s complaints about protesters bearing swastikas, it’s pretty easy to see which side is actually employing brownshirts.

Welcome to Barack Obama’s America.

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Remember all those “independent” ethics filings against Sarah Palin? We were told they were all private citizens who were just concerned about good government. Turns out: not so much:

This is the Kos crowd coordinating with first the Obama campaign and now administration trying to smear Sarah Palin repeatedly.

Remember this the next time they tell you they’re not afraid of her, that’s she just some dumb snowbilly, and that they’re realling just laughing at her.

Yeah. That’s why they brought an Alaskan guy into Obama’s inner circle to coordinate attacks against her. But remember, they’re not afraid of her at all.

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It’s a popular Democratic talking point that Barack Obama inherited a $1.3 trillion deficit from President Bush. Too bad it’s not true.

He’s responsible for every dime of the deficit he inherited because he either voted for it as a senator or signed it as president.

I’ve seen 12-year olds take more responsibility for their actions than this guy.

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Gleen Greenwald has a post up about how the corporate chiefs got together to put an end to the on-air O’Reilly-Olbermann feud.

Naturally this has him up in arms about corporate censorship of the news. But Greenwald intentionally avoids the huge elephant in the room: GE’s use of its media networks to push its corporate interests. If I asked you to name the cable network best known for its sycophantic coverage of the Obama administration, which one would you choose? MSNBC, of course. And which network recently hosted an entire day of basically sitting on Obama’s lap and asking him to tell them a story? NBC.

Who owns both of these networks? GE.

So it’s pretty safe to say that GE is uniquely pro-Obama. But why? Obama’s anti-business policies and regularly scheduled class warfare against CEOs wasn’t exactly a closely-held secret to anyone who actually did their pre-election homework, and there’s no way GE didn’t do its homework before going all in for Obama. So then what could explain the obvious bias?

How about GE’s wind turbines powering Obama’s energy plan?
How about GE’s healthymagination being the backbone of ObamaCare?
How about the bailout of GE’s finance arm?
How about Obama killing a proposed competitor to its Joint Strike Fighter engine?

How many other ways is GE in bed with the Obama administration? I found these in about 10 minutes of Googling. How much could an actual news organization with dedicated reporters actually dedicated to finding out the truth uncover?

Their TV audience is dwindling quickly on both networks, and GE knows it. Why not go out with a bang and use their control of those networks to promote its other lines of business? And if that means getting in bed with the Obama administration in order to corruptly obtain highly lucrative government contracts, why not?

Especially when pundits like Gleen Greenwald are so eager to look the other way so long as GE keeps pimping for Barack Obama…

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The problem with Barack Obama isn’t the color of his skin: it’s the thinness of it.

The real reason for stacking townhalls only with his supporters and for staged questions at press conferences is very simple: Barack Obama, is not now and never has been, capable of dealing with hostile questions. He has always gotten testy whenever challenged, and if there’s one thing a president cannot be it is short-tempered. It’s the reason the media has treated him with kid gloves throughout his time on the national stage: they know how he will react if they ask a question that is too “in his face” and they have a vest interest in making sure the public that they fooled into voting for him never actually gets to see what’s behind the mask.

Dan Balz got quite the scoop when he his hands on an Axelrod memo which points out just how obvious a character flaw this is:

Axelrod also warned that Obama’s confessions of youthful drug use, described in his memoir, “Dreams From My Father,” would be used against him. “This is more than an unpleasant inconvenience,” he wrote. “It goes to your willingness and ability to put up with something you have never experienced on a sustained basis: criticism. At the risk of triggering the very reaction that concerns me, I don’t know if you are Muhammad Ali or Floyd Patterson when it comes to taking a punch. You care far too much what is written and said about you. You don’t relish combat when it becomes personal and nasty. When the largely irrelevant Alan Keyes attacked you, you flinched,” he said of Obama’s 2004 Senate opponent.

Emphasis mine. Even Axelrod must admit that Obama “flinched.” And, as I have long told those around me, as soon as his net approval goes negative we are going to see more and more of this testy defensiveness from Obama. Look for him to severely dial back his public appearances and willingness to take questions, not for fear of overexposure, but because his handlers are going to want to limit the opportunities for him to commit the gaffe of saying what he really thinks in a moment of anger - as he did in the Gates-Crowley incident.

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Michelle Obama’s posse

Evidently Barack Obama is dedicated to eventually putting every single American on the federal payroll, and he’s starting at home.

By comparison, Laura Bush had exactly one…ONE…person on the payroll.

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Andrew McCarthy of National Review does yeoman’s work in this article about Barack Obama. As he points out, both Barack Obama and the Democratic Party - as well as their enablers in the media - have gone to an awful lot of trouble to obfuscate even the most basic biographical information about our current president.

If for no other reason than the sake of history, the public has a right to know these small mundane pieces of information about the man who represents us before the world. The question is: why don’t we?

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Somehow I’m thinking this would be front-page news if President Bush had been the one dumping toxic sewage on White House grounds.

Color me shocked (shocked!) that the same outlets that thought Michelle Obama’s faux vegetable gardening earlier this year suddenly became extremely disinterested in the story once it turned out that a Democrat was responsible for the inedibility of those same veggies.

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