The Last Lion

ME LIKEY...ME LIKEY A LOT!

I give you, Democrats on an Escalator (it's kind of like a mini-Hurricane Katrina):

THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU BECOME A HACKY, BIASED, LEFT-WING, GUTTER RAG

The New York Times Company suspended dividend payments to shareholders on Thursday for the first time in four decades as a publicly traded company, another in a series of concessions because of sharply lower newspaper revenue.

The decision by the board pre-empts a dividend payment that, on the usual schedule, would have been paid later this month. The annualized savings is just $34.5 million, because the dividend was already cut sharply last fall.

“Today’s decision provides the company with additional financial flexibility given the current economic environment and the uncertain business outlook,” the company chairman, Arthur Sulzberger Jr., said in a statement.

Couldn't happen to a nicer group of idiots.

I GUESS I HAVE TO SAY SOMETHING....

I didn't watch our Dear Leader's speech last night, because I feared I would make it through, maybe, three minutes before blowing my brains out...However, I do have one thing to say.

Can you imagine the ERUPTION from the Media if George Bush had said that Americans invented the automobile?

Must be nice to be a Democrat.

MORE EVIDENCE THAT OBAMA HASN'T FOOLED EVERYONE.

Apparently, the Chosen One's mortgage plan is not going over well with the majority of the American people as only 38% think government subsidies are a good idea.

From Rasmussen:

Forty-five percent (45%) of Americans oppose the federal government subsidizing mortgage payments for financially troubled homeowners, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.

Thirty-eight percent (38%) think government subsidies are a good idea, and 18% are not sure which course is best to follow.

While 61% of Republicans oppose subsidizing mortgages, the plurality of Democrats (48%) support government aid to at-risk homeowners. Among adults not affiliated with either party, 33% favor subsidies, but 45% are against them.

I guess you can't put lipstick on a pig, eh, Barack?

THE NAACP HATES FREE SPEECH

Attorney General Holder must think they are cowards for trying to shut off the debate on race, right?  Or, in his Orwellian Utopia, is it only white people who are capable of being cowardly? 

Either way, this Mr. Attorney General, is why we are "cowards."  We are "cowards" because we are afraid of losing our jobs because of the rabid nature of the PC Gestapo in America:

NEW YORK (CNN) — Leaders of the NAACP on Saturday called for the firing of the New York Post cartoonist whose drawing lampooning the federal stimulus bill has drawn charges that it's racist and encourages violence toward President Obama.

Speaking at the civil rights group's annual meeting in New York, NAACP President Benjamin Todd Jealous said that if Sean Delonas is not fired, the group will call for protests of the paper and Fox television affiliates, which are owned by Post parent company News Corp.

"There is consensus that if the Post does not ... get rid of the journalists who are responsible for this bit of hate speech seeing the light of day, that we will move this from a local, regional issue to a very national issue," Jealous said.

The group also called for the cartoonist's editor to be fired.

THE ICECAPS ARE MELTING! THE ICECAPS ARE MEL...WAIT, WHAT?

Um...Maybe not so much.  From Bloomberg:

Arctic Sea Ice Underestimated for Weeks Due to Faulty Sensor

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By Alex Morales

Feb. 20 (Bloomberg) -- A glitch in satellite sensors caused scientists to underestimate the extent of Arctic sea ice by 500,000 square kilometers (193,000 square miles), a California- size area, the U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Center said.

The error, due to a problem called “sensor drift,” began in early January and caused a slowly growing underestimation of sea ice extent until mid-February. That’s when “puzzled readers” alerted the NSIDC about data showing ice-covered areas as stretches of open ocean, the Boulder, Colorado-based group said on its Web site.

“Sensor drift, although infrequent, does occasionally occur and it is one of the things that we account for during quality- control measures prior to archiving the data,” the center said. “Although we believe that data prior to early January are reliable, we will conduct a full quality check.’’

Yup...Al Gore's right.  Case closed.  It's real.  No reason to look behind the curtain. 

MORE FROM CNBC'S RICK SANTELLI

Yesterday, Santelli spoke to NRO about his popular rant (LL in boldface):

National Review Online: Were you expecting anything like this reaction?

Rick Santelli: Not at all, not at all. It was just, after 48 hours of listening to hundreds of people trying to approach me on floors, on trains, everywhere, the opinions were almost unanimous, and I just tried to pick up that thread. The pits weren’t open at the time and the traders that were on the floor getting ready for the opening all started to gravitate to where I was talking, and it just took on a life of its own.

NRO: When we posted a link to the video, we were swamped with e-mails in support, including a couple from traders at the Board of Trade in Chicago, who have been saying right on. How have the e-mails that you’ve been getting, how have they been running?

Santelli: I’ll be honest with you, I think I’ve gotten somewhere between 850-900, and I think I had three that were negative.

NRO: What are that small group of critics saying? Where do they think you went wrong?

Santelli: They thought I was uncharitable, got up on the wrong side of the bed, had no compassion for people who are going through rough times, and that isn’t at all the issue. The issue is, you can’t pick out 8 or 9 percent and give them things that weaken the 90 or 92 percent who are carrying the water. You need to come up with legislation that may help the people that need it but not hurt the people that… listen, my 401k’s a 201k, my kid’s college tuition is going up 10 percent. This is tough for everybody. Maybe a tax break, maybe everybody who has a house gets something. They need to quit picking winners and losers, and they have to quit alienating the classes. You have to figure out a way to float all boats, and I think that’s where the administration has gone wrong, and I think that’s the nerve I hit.

RICK SANTELLI IS DA BOMB!!!

Okay,m so you've probably already seen the vid...If not, check Drudge...And I was hoping to have it up here, but I am not able to embed.  So here's a link...you may have to copy and paste onto your search bar:

http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=1039849853

This is just the kind of grassroots stuff that makes you fell that maybe, just maybe, America isn't some "Road Warrior-Type" wasteland teeming with brain-dead ObamaZombies, and that there may just be a few decent, thoughtful, intelligent, independent thinkers out there.

Hope, indeed.

WHAT'S THE BIG DEAL? THOSE EVIL CONSERVATIVE CHRISTIANS DO THIS SORT OF THING ALL THE TIME!

More tales from the "Religion of Peace."

From the Buffalo News:

Orchard Park police are investigating a particularly gruesome killing, the beheading of a woman, after her husband — an influential member of the local Muslim community — reported her death to police Thursday.

Police identified the victim as Aasiya Z. Hassan, 37. Detectives have charged her husband, Muzzammil Hassan, 44, with second-degree murder.

"He came to the police station at 6:20 p.m. [Thursday] and told us that she was dead," Orchard Park Police Chief Andrew Benz said late this morning.

Muzzammil Hassan told police that his wife was at his business, Bridges TV, on Thorn Avenue in the village. Officers went to that location and discovered her body.

Muzzammil Hassan is the founder and chief executive officer of Bridges TV, which he launched in 2004, amid hopes that it would help portray Muslims in a more positive light.

5?...10?...15?...NEVER?

Okay, so how many more bungled appointments does The Chosen One get before the Media starts to treat him like an average, run-of-the-mill Republican president?

With someone like, say, George Bush, tax cheats and mind-changing Senators would signal "huge setbacks!"  and "questions of competence!" and "colossal blunders!"

When it comes to ObamaJesusGod, they are simply "hiccups."

And who wants to bet the Media won't paint Judd Gregg as a principled man?  Who wants to bet they won't be hailing him as the next Jim Jeffords?

Must be nice to be a Democrat...I can't wait until they catch Rahm Emanuel beating up and old woman on camera.  They'll say "she had it coming."