New Sarah Palin Divorce Rumors: Even Off The Stage Liberals Still Attack

I knew it wouldn't end. Even after her resignation as governor, the loons on the Left just can't past their hatred of all things Palin:

Sarah Palin's spokeswoman is shooting down reports that the former Alaska governor and her husband, Todd, are seeking divorce.

The story, which appeared on the "Alaska Report" Website and several other blogs, cited a National Enquirer story about the "stress" of the couple's marriage leading to her resignation, and claimed that Palin bought land in Montana recently and that "multiple sources in Wasila and Anchorage" had confirmed the news.

After the story made the rounds on Saturday, spokeswoman Meg Stapleton posted a statement on Palin's Facebook page:

Yet again, some so-called journalists have decided to make up a story. There is no truth to the recent "story" (and story is the correct term for this type of fiction) that the Palins are divorcing. The Palins remain married, committed to each other and their family, and have not purchased land in Montana (last week it was reported to be Long Island).

"Less than one week ago, Governor Palin asked the media to 'quit making things up,'" Stapleton added. "We appreciate that the more professional journalists decided to question this story before repeating it."

An attorney for Palin denied the report to CBS News:

Sarah Palin's attorney, Thomas Van Flein, told CBS News that the report of a divorce is "categorically false."

Palin may issue her own statement later in the day, though the frequent Twitter user has yet to tweet on the topic.

Of course, liberals are the same people who decry sexism at every turn and wouldn't put up with any of this if it were say, Hillary Clinton. But when you're a conservative female, they don't count you as being a woman.

NRA Opposition Fails To Sway Senators On Sotomayor

YahooNews.com:

The National Rifle Association's threat to punish senators who vote for Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor has been met with a shrug by Democrats from conservative-leaning states and some Republicans who are breaking with their party to support her.

The gun rights group is used to getting its way by spooking lawmakers about the political consequences of defying its wishes. But it never before has weighed in on a Supreme Court confirmation battle. It was cautious about breaking that pattern, and it looks like a losing a fight to defeat President Barack Obama's first pick for the court.

Sotomayor is expected to easily win confirmation in a vote this coming week that could deflate the long-accepted truism in Washington that you don't cross the NRA.

Voting "yes" will include A-plus-rated and NRA-endorsed Democratic Sen. Max Baucus and his fellow Montanan, A-rated Sen. Jon Tester, as well as A-rated and NRA-endorsed Tennessee Sen. Lamar Alexander, the only GOP leader to break with the rest of this party to back Sotomayor.

That's not to say that the NRA's late decision to wade in hasn't had an impact.

Many Republicans who were considered possible "yes" votes for Sotomayor — including Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch, Georgia Sens. Saxby Chambliss and Johnny Isakson, and Texas Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison — have come out against her after the NRA's announcement, citing gun rights concerns as an important reason.

With a Democrat majority in Congress Sonia Sotomayor was guaranteed a seat on the Supreme Court the minute Barry named her as his nominee. But this isn't about politics or partisanship. It's her record alone that warrants her right to be on SCOTUS, so people need to give up the fight and just let her get the robe already.

Ben Nelson Fights Back Against Liberal Smears

HuffPo:

Senator Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) lashed out Friday at the ads being run against his position on health care reform in his home state, saying they would backfire -- and might even derail the entire reform process.

In a statement issued late in the afternoon by Nelson's office, spokesman Jake Thompson warned that if the new series of ads calling out the Senator's "stalling" on reform were "an indication of the politics going into August, then health care reform may be dead by the end of August."

"Nebraskans don't need outside special interest groups telling them what to think. Senator Nelson has nothing but praise for Nebraska groups working toward health care reform. Unfortunately, he says, these outside groups undermine the sincere and dedicated efforts of people in our state," Thompson wrote. "Recently, similar ads have run in Nebraska. Those ads by other special interests prompted hundreds of Nebraskans to call our offices, with 9 to 1 urging Senator Nelson to do exactly the opposite of what the special interest group wanted. In short, the ads backfired."

The hard brush-back by Nelson's staff reflects just how heated the health care debate has become even within the Democratic Party. On Friday morning, two liberal groups, Progressive Change Campaign Committee (PCCC) and Democracy for America, launched a new ad using the testimony of a Nebraska businessman to call out Nelson for holding up health care legislation in the Senate. The spot was one in a series of television spots the groups have launched targeting the senator.

This is what you get when you're a Democrat who dares to scrutinize or question the liberal Obama agenda. It's the ruthless arrogance of the Far-Left to denounce, demean and/or threaten those who don't agree with them. The vast majority of Nebraskans are conservative and don't support Ted Kennedy's socialist idea of health care reform that Barry is trying to bully onto the masses. These are Ben Nelson's constituents, yunno, those who voted to put him into office. Ads by far-Left, special-interest groups are just going to motivate the conservative base, so yeah keep at it.

Boston Cop 'Apologizes' For Calling Henry Louis Gates "A Banana Eating Jungle Monkey"

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Not only does this idiot hire a lawyer, but he uses the lame "some of my best friends are Black" defense. But then bigots have never been known for having brains.

TIME Magazine Has Obama On Cover For 7th Time Since Election

Obsessed much?

Time magazine's August 10 edition with President Barack Obama on the cover (“Paging Dr. Obama”) trying to heal the nation in a photo illustration as a physician, wearing a white smock with a stethoscope around his neck, brings to seven the number of issues the magazine's cover has featured Obama just since November's election -- make that eight for the First Family if you add in June 1's genuflecting “The Meaning of Michelle.” Amongst the seven of President Obama: “Person of the Year” and Obama as FDR.

The frequent cover appearances led even Jon Stewart, a Bush-hater who was thrilled by Obama's election, to quip Thursday night on his Comedy Central show: “Time magazine is like O magazine, like Obama has to be on the cover -- it is like Oprah magazine. I think he's been on like thirty times this year.”

Well, not thirty, at least not yet, though at about once per month Time will hit thirty Obama covers well before the 2012 vote. To illustrate Time's predilection, I did some graphics work of my own and created an image displaying the eight covers since the election.

The funniest part of this is that there are still people out who actually think that the media isn't biased towards this man.

When Was Joe Biden Invited To Obama Beer Summit?

CNN.com:

President Obama sat down for a beer at the White House Thursday night with a top African-American professor and the police officer who arrested him earlier this month.

They were joined by a previously unannounced guest, Vice President Joe Biden.

Sgt. James Crowley and Henry Louis Gates Jr., both dressed in suits, sat down with Obama and Biden, who both had their white dress shirt sleeves rolled up.

Video from the meeting showed mugs of beer being delivered to the men, who sat at a round table at the edge of the White House's Rose Garden, munching peanuts and pretzels from silver bowls.

The president was drinking Bud Light, Biden was drinking Buckler (a nonalcoholic beer), Gates was drinking Samuel Adams Light and Crowley was drinking Blue Moon.

After the meeting, Crowley told reporters that the men had a "cordial and productive discussion," in which they agreed to move foward rather than dwell on past events.

Again, Barry may be a lot of things, but he's not stupid. My guess is that at the last minute either Barry or one of his advisors figured out that it probably wouldn't look good for white cop Crowley to be sitting down with two black dudes--one of whom is a Harvard law professor while the other happens to be President of the United States. So why not bring the dunce of a Vice-President in to do something productive and make Crowley feel a little more comfortable.

Bill O'Reilly Discusses Erin Andrews Nude Peeper Hotel Pics

By the way, radical feminist and all-around idiot Bonnie Erbe thinks this is all Erin Andrews fault. Amazing that.

Obama's Own Doctor Doesn't Support Health Care Reform

Irony:

Opposition to President Obama's plan to overhaul the health care system is getting personal.

Obama's former doctor, David Scheiner, is among the growing number of opponents to the president's health care plan, he says because it doesn't go far enough in having government run the system.

Scheiner, who treated Obama for more than two decades in Chicago, is calling for a government-run program like Medicare, arguing that it would reduce costs by cutting out administrative costs.

"We know under single-payer, eventually people will pay less," Scheiner said Thursday during a news conference at the National Press Club.

Scheiner was among the scheduled featured speakers at a rally Thursday in Washington, D.C., to urge Congress to pass legislation that includes a single-payer health care system.

A coalition of a couple of dozen of health care advocacy groups called "Healthcare--NOW" organized the event. Several liberal members of Congress are expected to attend, including Reps. John Conyers, D-Mich., and Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt.

Obama has hit the road in an effort to win public support and pressure Congress to pass his top domestic priority. While Obama has said a government-run "single-payer" health care system works well in some countries, he doesn't believe it would be appropriate in the United States because so many people get insurance through their employers working with private companies.

Lawmakers facing a hesitant public, also note that support is slim for a program that denies any competition. Seventy percent of those with coverage now rate it as good or excellent, according to a recent poll.

"We've got to make certain at the end of the day, that we allow people to choose their own doctors and their own hospitals, and their own health insurance plans and to keep the health insurance plan they have if they want too," said Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill.

Idiot Glenn Beck Gets Pwned By MSNBC

Boston Cop Calls Henry Louis Gates Jr. A "Jungle Monkey"

If the Boston police department has any guts they'll fire the guy:

A Boston, Massachusetts, police officer who sent a mass e-mail in which he referred to Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. as "banana-eating" and a "bumbling jungle monkey" has been placed on administrative leave and faces losing his job.

Officer Justin Barrett, 36, who is also an active member of the National Guard, sent an e-mail to some fellow Guard members, as well as the Boston Globe, in which he vented his displeasure with a July 22 Globe column about Gates' controversial arrest.

The columnist, Yvonne Abraham, supported Gates' actions, asking readers, "Would you stand for this kind of treatment, in your own home, by a police officer who by now clearly has no right to be there?"

In his e-mail, which was posted on a local Boston television station's Web site, Barrett declared that if he had "been the officer he verbally assaulted like a banana-eating jungle monkey, I would have sprayed him in the face with OC [oleoresin capsicum, or pepper spray] deserving of his belligerent noncompliance."

Barrett used the "jungle monkey" phrase four times, three times referring to Gates and once referring to Abraham's writing as "jungle monkey gibberish."

He also declared he was "not a racist but I am prejudice [sic] towards people who are stupid and pretend to stand up and preach for something they say is freedom but it is merely attention because you do not get enough of it in your little fear-dwelling circle of on-the-bandwagon followers."

According to a statement from Boston police, Commissioner Edward Davis took action immediately upon learning of Barrett's remarks, stripping the officer of his gun and badge. Barrett is "on administrative leave pending the outcome of a termination hearing."

No doubt the police-can-do-no-wrong, racism no longer exists, "you can't speak that way to copy" jerks on the Far Right will stay silent on this one.

Matt Lauer Pwnes Michelle Malkin

Do the yahoos on the Far-Right like Michelle Malkin know that Barack Obama is half-white? That white people from across the ideological aisle (including Republicans) voted for Barry last year to be their President? That because he made one mistake, shooting off his mouth in the Henry Louis Gates Jr. incident, doesn't make him a "racial opportunity" or a "racist". Any wonder the fringe society on the Far Right is just as hard to take seriously as their peers on the Left?

Colin Powell: I've Been Racially Profiled "Many Times"

HuffPo:

In an interview with CNN's Larry King, former Secretary of State Colin Powell suggested that both the Cambridge police and Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates were to blame for last week's incident.

Saying he has suffered from racial profiling "many times," the general suggested that Gates could have handled the situation differently. He urged young people confronted by the police to "cooperate. Don't make the situation more difficult."

Powell later added, "Do you get angry? Yes. Do you manifest that anger? You protest, you try to get things fixed, but it's kind of a better course of action to take it easy and don't let your anger make the current situation worse.

16-Year-Olds Allowed To Strip In Rhode Island

Unbelievable:

Rhode Island teens under 18 can’t work with power saws or bang nails up on roofs.

But dance at strip clubs? Sure. Just as long as the teens submit work permits, and are off the stripper’s pole by 11:30 on school nights.

It’s enough to surprise even those in America’s mecca of striptease and sin –– Las Vegas.

“Everybody buzzes about ‘Nevada and Sin City, tsk, tsk,’ ” said Edie Cartwright, spokeswoman for the Nevada attorney general’s office. “But we regulate it.”

Providence police recently discovered that teen job opportunities extend into the local adult entertainment world while they were investigating a 16-year-old runaway from Boston. The girl told detectives that she worked at Cheaters strip club this spring, and the police got tips about other underage girls working at another club on Allens Avenue.

That’s when the police found that neither state law, nor city ordinance bars minors from working at strip clubs. Those under 18 can’t buy pornography, and no one may take pictures or film minors in sexually suggestive ways. But the law doesn’t stop underage teens from stripping for money. Even if the police saw underage boys or girls on stage at a strip club, they wouldn’t be able to charge them or the club owners with a crime.

“I’ve been doing this a long time,” said youth services Sgt. Carl Weston, “and I can’t find anything that says it’s illegal for a 16-year-old or a 17-year-old to take her top off and dance.”

State law says that anyone who employs a person under 18 for prostitution or for “any other lewd or indecent act” faces up to 20 years in prison and up to $20,000 in fines. But that isn’t enough to prevent underage girls from working in strip clubs, said senior assistant city solicitor Kevin McHugh, who researched the issue a dozen years ago when a teenage dancer was found at a raided strip club.

Glenn Beck Shows Once Again Why He Should Be Fired

Listen, I love FOX News. I'm elated that there's alternative to the liberal media's biased and often creepy lovefest with Barack Obama. I'm glad that FOX kills in the ratings and continues to leave its competitors in the dust no matter what they say. But Glenn Beck has proven time and time again that he's an idiot gasbag who has no idea what he's talking about and here's another one of them. Say what you want about Barry speaking too soon on the Henry Louis Gates racial profiling incident, but calling the President a "racist" is just stupid. Beyond stupid.

911 Tapes Seem To Prove That Henry Louis Gates Jr. Was A Victim Of Racial Profiling

Many on the Far Right, who are always pro-cop and believe that racism no longer exists (despite evidence to the contrary), have been out in force showing their support for Sgt. James Crowley in the recent Henry Louis Gates Jr. racial profiling brouhaha. However, new evidence has come out showing that Crowley may in fact be a liar.

The tapes from a 911 call by Lucia Whalen, the woman who called in, are out and they don't make Crowley look good at all. Whalen did not mention "Black men," in fact she said that the intruders looked "kind of hispanic." Crowley even goes so far as to say that "the gentleman says he resides here but is uncooperative." Then too, Gates is described, in a call to Harvard police, as having given his name and ID to Crowley. None of this is helpful to Crowley's account of what transpired.

But the coup de grace could be the fact that Whalen denies Crowley's assertion in his police report that he spoke to her. Whalen's attorney said "[Whalen n]ever once in any of her statements, conversations, and so forth did she ever use the word black....But more importantly, when Sergeant Crowley got there, she didn't have a conversation with him at all."

The more that comes to light about Gates-gate, the more anybody can see how Gates was a victim of racial profiling. With that said, it's even more ironic now that Gates would accept Barry's invite to sit down with Crowley for a beer later this week.

Sexist MSNBC Reduces Sarah Palin To "Hotness"

Failing (and apparently sexist) MSNBC continues its hate for Sarah Palin by making it all about her looks. Of course, conservatives are well aware that Sarah Palin's not only attractive, but she also happens to be a wife, mother, college grad, former sportscaster, mayor and governor. No, their obsession with her has nothing to do with fear.

Record Low Temperatures In July: OMG! Global Warming!

Where's ManBearPig when you really need him?

Global warming may be taking another black eye as AccuWeather.com reports an unusually cold July, which is most pronounced in the Northeast of the United States.

While it has been unusually hot in the Southwest, AccuWeather reports that 1,044 daily record low temperatures have been broken thus far in the month of July, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NCDC).

NCDC has also recorded "low highs" for the month as well, and when that figure is added to the mix, the number of record-breakers increases to 2,925 –slated to pass 3,000 before the end of the month.

The period of July 17-20 was the worst, according to AccuWeather’s gleaning of the NCDC records -- with over 1,600 weather stations scattered across the country breaking records.

Furthermore in the survey, there are some dramatic “departure from average temperatures” figures thus far in July. That compilation of departures includes "-10.0" in Pennsylvania. Double digit deficits over a month are rare, notes AccuWeather.

The majority of stations are reporting departures below normal thus far – with only Arizona, New Mexico and Texas having stations reporting above normal.

Sarah Palin Says, 'I Feel Great' After Leaving Office

ABCNews.com:

Alaskans start the work week with a new governor, Sean Parnell, and an old puzzle: Why exactly did the old governor, Sarah Palin, step down, and what are her plans for the future?

So far, only a possible family vacation is on tap, her husband Todd Palin told ABC News.

"Maybe a little moose hunting, what do you think?" he said, adding that he was "very proud" of his wife.

Palin officially stepped down as Alaska's governor late Sunday, saying her reasons for doing so should "be obvious." But for those still in the dark, she repeated her belief that she thought she could more effectively serve the people of the state by leaving office.

She went out with a bang, delivering a fiery and candid 15-minute farewell speech to a crowd of supporters in Fairbanks, Alaska, in which she lambasted the media and touted Alaska's history of energy independence.

At times, it sounded as if the former vice presidential candidate was back on the campaign trail, stumping for fiscal conservatism, the development of natural energy resources and moral conservatism.

Yet she gave no hint as to her future in politics, saying only she stepped down in order to spare Alaskans "politics as usual" from her governorship turning into a "lame duck session," with a year-and-a-half to go.

If Sarah Palin goes on to become a serious ideological force on the scene, stumping for conservatives and the GOP while offering alternatives to Barack Obama's quasi-socialist agenda, then maybe she makes up for abandoning Alaskan voters midterm. Besides that, if she wants to make as much as money as she can to make up for silly, warrantless ethics complaints, then that's her right. Other than that, if it's really about the "family" then it's time to leave the stage, exit left.

Politiks As Usual: In The News 7/27/09

North Korea Says It Is Open To New Dialogue On Nukes

Ousted Honduran President Sees U.S. Support Waning

Three Democrat Mayors Arrested In New Jersey

Why Moral Conservatism Is Indispensable To Liberty

Pence Amendment Fails, House Votes To Increase Tax Dollars For Planned Parenthood

What Barack Obama Fails To Understand About America

When Dad Becomes A Woman, Things Aren't 'Perfectly Fine'

Alaskans To Vote On Parental Consent For Abortion

Midwives Would Be Paid Same As Doctors Under Provision In Health Care Bill

Zogby: GOP Faces Extinction Risk

Gates Accepts White House Meeting Offer With Officer

Ann Coulter: "Obama Birthers" Are Wrong

So there. A prominent conservative goes on record disagreeing with the "Obama Birthers" conspiracy nuts on the Right. It's funny how the Left loves to equate a few nuts on the Right with the entire Republican party, yet had no problem co-signing the nuts who questioned the eligibity of Senator John McCain, due to his birthplace, during last year's presidential campaign. Funny that.

Brooklyn Nurse Forced To Assist In Late-Term Abortion

NYPost.com:

A Brooklyn nurse claims she was forced to choose between her religious convictions and her job when Mount Sinai Hospital ordered her to assist in a late-term abortion against her will.

The hospital even exaggerated the patient's condition and claimed the woman could die if the nurse, a devout Catholic, did not follow orders, the nurse alleges in a lawsuit.

"It felt like a horror film unfolding," said Catherina Cenzon-DeCarlo, 35, who claims she has had gruesome nightmares and hasn't been able to sleep since the May 24 incident.

The married mother of a year-old baby was 30 minutes into her early-morning shift when she realized she had been assigned to an abortion. She begged her supervisor to find a replacement nurse for the procedure. The hospital had a six-hour window to find a fill-in, the suit says.

Bosses told the weeping Cenzon-DeCarlo the patient was 22 weeks into her pregnancy and had preeclampsia, a condition marked by high blood pressure that can lead to seizures or death if left untreated.

The supervisor "claimed that the mother could die if [Cenzon-DeCarlo] did not assist in the abortion."

But the nurse, the niece of a Filipino bishop, contends that the patient's life was not in danger. She argued that the patient was not even on magnesium therapy, a common treatment for preeclampsia, and did not have problems indicating an emergency.

Her pleas were rejected, and instead she was threatened with career-ending charges of insubordination and patient abandonment, according to the lawsuit, filed Tuesday in Brooklyn federal court.

Feeling threatened, Cenzon-DeCarlo assisted in the procedure.

Cenzon-DeCarlo should've walked out on her job in the first place and went straight to an attorney. Good things she's deciding to sue now because the Constitution does protect employees from being discriminated against for their religious beliefs.

Hillary Clinton Says No To Another Presidential Campaign

CNN.com:

Hillary Clinton is convinced.

After questioning Barack Obama's international savvy and toughness while campaigning against him last year, the secretary of state said Sunday she has seen plenty of both from the president so far.

"Those were appropriate issues to raise in the campaign," Clinton said Sunday on the NBC program "Meet the Press." She went on to declare: "I'm here to say that I think his performance in office has been incredible."

Asked specifically about her campaign criticisms, Clinton said, "I don't feel them at all" anymore.

She also said she has "moved on" from her loss to Obama in a hard-fought Democratic primary contest.

Last week in Asia, Clinton responded to a question about her presidential ambitions by saying she wasn't thinking about it now.

"I have absolutely no belief in my mind that is going to happen," she said Sunday of another possible presidential campaign. Clinton also acknowledged that the challenges facing a woman running for president are "daunting."

Hillary has no choice but to be humble now. Her incredible defeat at the hands of Obama in last year's primaries was not only a huge blow to her ego, but so was Barry's clever move to virtually stick in the basement by offering her the SoS job--a position that she had no choice but to accept for risk of looking bitter. Now the soonest she could ever run for President again would be 2016 and there's no way she takes on campaigning around the country again while approaching the tender age of 70. For the remaining Hillary zealots Billary not running again can't be good news.

TIME Magazine Uses Bush & Cheney To Distract From Obama's Current Failings

Current President Barack Obama approval rating's are getting lower and lower in the polls, his health care reform package sees no light at the end of the tunnel and Barry's pissing off law enforcement all around the country by sticking his nose where it didn't belong regarding the recent Henry Louis Gates brouhaha. But TIME magazine's more worried about the waning days of former President Bush and his VP Dick Cheney, as it relates to the Scooter Libby non-pardon:

Hours before they were to leave office after eight troubled years, George W. Bush and Richard B. Cheney had one final and painful piece of business to conclude. For over a month Cheney had been pleading, cajoling, even pestering Bush to pardon the Vice President's former chief of staff, I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby. Libby had been convicted nearly two years earlier of obstructing an investigation into the leak of a covert CIA officer's identity by senior White House officials.

The Libby pardon, aides reported, had become something of a crusade for Cheney, who seemed prepared to push his nine-year-old relationship with Bush to the breaking point — and perhaps past it — over the fate of his former aide. "We don't want to leave anyone on the battlefield," Cheney argued. Bush had already decided the week before that Libby was undeserving and told Cheney so, only to see the question raised again. A top adviser to Bush says he had never seen the Vice President focused so single-mindedly on anything over two terms. And so, on his last full day in office, Jan. 19, 2009, Bush would give Cheney his final decision.

Of course, TIME can't investigate any past dealings of Bush, Cheney without taking leftwing potshots at them ("Who, for example, should be held accountable in one of the darkest corners of the war on terrorism — the interrogators who may have tortured detainees?") and there's no mention of former deputy secretary of state Richard Armitage--the man who was actually responsible for exposing CIA agent Valerie Plame's identity--in the article. But who cares about all of that when you can...yunno, DISTRACT much?