Archive | January, 2009
Report: Rep. Gillibrand to Fill Clinton’s Senate Seat
Rep. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) has been chosen by Governor David Patterson of New York to fill Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s vacant Senate seat, sources tell WPIX. PIX NEWS is being told that Congresswoman Kirsten Gillibrand is the reported choice of Governor David Paterson to fill the U.S. Senate seat vacated by Hillary Clinton. Two [...]
Video: Spending A Trillion Dollars and Can’t Promise a Single Job Created
22. January 2009
Rep. Dave Camp (R-MI), the ranking Republican member on the powerful House Ways and Means Committee, pressed a staffer from the Joint Committee on Taxation on job creation under the Democratic stimulus bill. How many jobs would be created after spending a trillion dollars or more? The staffer couldn’t confirm that the legislation would create [...]
Obama Staff Arives At White House to Discover They Have to Actually Work
22. January 2009
They now have to cope with the fact that they can’t Facebook, aren’t using Macintoshes, and aren’t permitted to Instant Message. Now they may actually have to work in the middle of this recession and wars, rather than spend the time on MySpace. Shock. Two years after launching the most technologically savvy presidential campaign in [...]
Castro: I Believe in Obama
22. January 2009
A vote of confidence from one lefty to another. How heartwarming. HAVANA (AP) — Fidel Castro watched the U.S. inauguration on television and said Wednesday that Barack Obama seems “like a man who is absolutely sincere,” Argentina’s president said after meeting with the ailing Cuban icon. “Fidel believes in Obama,” Cristina Fernandez said… “He told [...]
Why Did Obama Call Abbas First?
22. January 2009
I posted yesterday about how Barack Obama’s first call as president was to Mahmoud Abbas, the leader of Fatah — a group associated with the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade. Not to Britain, Canada, France, or even Russia. Not one of our reliable allies. No, he felt that he should make his first call to the [...]
Beany Baby Maker Under the Impression That Everyone’s Stupid
22. January 2009
By now we’re pretty used to companies putting out merchandise that worships President Obama and/or his family. But usually the companies will be upfront about their actions. Ty Inc., the maker of the popular Beany Baby toy, is a different case. The company has released two African-American girl dolls named “Sweet Sasha” and “Marvelous Malia”. [...]
Obama’s Second Swearing-In Didn’t Include a Bible
22. January 2009
I’m posting this as a notation — not something to launch a conspiracy theory from. Oh, and to note how the Washington Post can’t let go of its distaste for Chief Justice Roberts. After flubbing his one role on Inauguration Day — administering the oath of office to Obama — Roberts traveled to the White [...]
Obama’s First Call Was to Palestinian Leader
21. January 2009
The first official call Barack Obama made in his role as president, before Israel or even Canada, was to Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas. That’s according to Times Online. President Obama placed the Middle East at the forefront of his first hours in office yesterday as he sought to make good on his promise of “ushering [...]
Wow: Caroline Kennedy Withdraws
21. January 2009
For “personal reasons”, of course. I’m sure it had nothing to do with the fact that even the liberal New York media was acknowleding how inexperienced and unqualified she is for the job. Surely it wasn’t about saving herself the embarassment. Caroline Kennedy has told Gov. David Paterson that she is withdrawing her name from [...]
Chirac Hospitalized After Being Attacked by Clinically Depressed Poodle
21. January 2009
It was worth posting just for the headline alone. Former French president Jacques Chirac has been hospitalized after reportedly being “mauled” by his clinically depressed poodle. The septuagenarian’s white Maltese dog has apparently been on anti-depressants. The former president, who ruled France for 12 years until 2007, was taken to hospital in Paris where he [...]
22. January 2009
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