Kim Jong-il is grooming his youngest son, Jong-un to be the next leader of North Korea. Since his stroke in 2008, Jong-il’s health has been poor, and he has accelerated the plans for transition, with his son likely to be officially appointed to leadership at the next Worker’s party conference in Pyongyang.
Month: September 2010
Going Cross the Pond for a Clear Eyed View of the Tea Party
Tea Party insurgents prepare to seize power in 2012 – Telegraph.
The UK Telegraph sent one of their own into middle America for an inside peek at the Tea Party movement, and what you get is one of the most accurate views of what’s going on.
Palin Speaks at Reagan Dinner in Iowa
As of 9/18 working links to Sarah Palin’s speech at the Reagan Dinner in Iowa.
Here is the C span version, and Palin starts at about 21:37.
FDA remembers the old days, when it used to do its job.
Frances O. Kelsey, now 96 years old, is the namesake and first recipient of the Kelsey award from the FDA for doing what she was supposed to do. She stopped distribution of Thalidomide, for morning sickness, in the USA, likely sparing countless kids the associated birth defect called phocomelia, severely shortened limbs.
Nadal notes that the present FDA commissioner, Margaret Hamburg has ushered in the new drug Ella, ulipristal acetate, without appropriate testing, and with next to zero study of its effects on the babies who survive its embryocidal effects. In addition, the FDA has misbranded this drug as a contraceptive, thus disrespecting female patients’ right of informed consent to treatment.
It’s Somewhat the Same for Victims of Rape
She’s under a fatwa for starting an “everyone draw Mohammed” cartoon project.
The FBI answer for Molly Norris, to counteract the death threat against her by the same guy ( Anwar al-Awlaki) who is credited with inciting the Fort Hood Massacre, is for her to change her identity and hide.
This is just more of the same. The criminals run free, and the targets of crime are told to lock up, hide, limit their activity, be less of a target. This has forever been so for rape victims, but is increasingly the case for others as well.
In Arizona, along the border, are government signs telling citizens to travel at their own risk. The government can do nothing about the illegal immigration and associated criminal activity in the border regions of Arizona, (except sue Arizona when the state tries to help itself).
Americans are asked to pay more and more to fund an increasingly IMPOTENT government, unable to perform the constitutionally directed functions. It’s too busy snooping into the details of our personal lives to attend to its actual responsibilities.
Keven Jennings Tells Us Why Home Schooling Might be Best for Your Kids.
Get to know Keven Jennings, Obama’s safe schools czar, and his plans for your kids in public education. This video from way back in 1998, shows Kevin strategizing with his own peeps. The meandering question at the beginning of the video partially sets up the output from Jennings himself, and then he adds some more.
Hope for Australia: Their Own Tea Party
Tea Party comes to Australia | The Australian.
David Goodridge, a member of the movement (the website editor) states that the Australian Tea Party will not be an additional political party, but will influence those that already exist.
Their special words for their new PM’s administration: “Gillard’s Labor Government: a unique form of Mussolini’s Corporatist model set to an Australian context”.
Breitbart: Listen to Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton Trolling for Funds
Congresscritters are being pressured to obtain campaign funds for their beleaguered fellows in vulnerable elections this fall. Such is the pressure coming down from Pelosi, that Eleanor Holmes Norton left the following (probably illegal) voicemail with a lobbyist and past contributor.
This is, uh, Eleanor Norton, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton. Uh, I noticed that you have given to uh, other colleagues on the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. I am a, um, Senior Member, a twenty year veteran and am Chair of the Sub-committee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management. I’m handling the largest economic development project in the United States now, the Homeland Security Compound of three buildings being built on the uh, old St. Elizabeth’s hospital site in the District of Columbia along with uh, fifteen other, uh, sites here for, that are part of the stimulus .
I was, frankly, uh, uh, surprised to see that we don’t have a record, so far as I can tell, of your having given to me despite my uh, long and deep uh, work. In fact, it’s been my major work, uh, on the committee and sub-committee it’s been essentially in your sector.
I am, I’m simply candidly calling to ask for a contribution. As the senior member of the um, committee and a sub-committee chair, we have (chuckles) obligations to raise, uh funds. And, I think it must have been me who hasn’t, frankly, uh, done my homework to ask for a contribution earlier. So I’m trying to make up for it by asking for one now, when we particularly, uh, need, uh contributions, particularly those of us who have the seniority and chairmanships and are in a position to raise the funds.
I’m asking you to give to Citizens for Eleanor Holmes Norton, PO Box 70626, DC, 20024. I’ll send you a follow-up note with appreciation for having heard me out. Thanks again.
It’s illegal to imply or connect favors or penalties -coming from congress- to campaign donations, as has been done in this telephone message.
Thanks to Andrew Breitbart and the kind contributor of the recorded voice mail, which can be heard at Big Government.
Deep Fried Beer, the new health food
Deep-fried beer invented in Texas – Telegraph.
It appears that Texas has produced another gastronomical wonder.
Chef Mark Zabel injects Guinness into a ravioli shaped pretzel dough, deep fries it for 20 sec, and …… Voila!…….. deep fried beer.
Reid: Coons, ‘my pet,’ will win. (Barf)
Reid: Coons, ‘my pet,’ will win – The Hill’s Blog Briefing Room.
Harry Reid is predicting that Chris Coons will beat Christine O’Donnell in the Delaware Senate race.
Not after this endorsement:
“I’m going to be very honest with you — Chris Coons, everybody knows him in the Democratic caucus. He’s my pet. He’s my favorite candidate,” Reid said.
Coons has been slimed. 😛