Homeland Security Less a Priority than Homage to the Chosen One?

Although the Director of Homeland Security quickly reversed herself, Napolitano’s initial statement that the “system worked” should serve as a clear indication that she is not fit for the position of Homeland Security Director.

You should also remember that Napolitano also previously said we were not to use the word terrorist anymore — and use the term “man-made disaster.”

No longer does our government speak of a "war on terror", rather we are required to refer to "overseas contingency operations!"

Director Napolitano is also a steadfast supporter of anti-terrorist measures that are completely free of even a hint of “Muslim” profiling despite the fact that all known terror suspects to date have been Muslims!

Earlier this year, she even released a report that seemed to imply that returning veterans and pro-life individuals pose a possibly greater threat to our homeland security than that of Muslim terrorists.
Of course Napolitano’s boss, our own Commander in Chief, has made some very, very serious blunders as far as I am concerned.

The decision to move KSM’s [Khalid Sheikh Mohammed] trial to New York City, the decision to close Gitmo, where he may end up sending 80 to 90 detainees from Gitmo to Yemen is nothing short of profoundly dangerous as was his decision to entertain the possible prosecution of CIA staff who did “enhanced interrogations.”

Most recently he is allowing the prosecution of several Navy Seals to go forward where al-Qaida has alleged they punched one of their terrorists who was in the custody of the Navy Seals.

Keep in mind also that the two federal agencies charged with keeping potential terrorists off airplanes and out of the country have been without their top leaders for nearly a year.

It took the Obama administration more than eight months to even nominate anyone to lead the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and the Customs and Border Protection agency.

Bogged down with health care reform, the Senate has yet to set a date to hold hearings for the Customs position and Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., has placed a hold on the president's choice to head the TSA over the senator's concern that the new leader would let TSA screeners join a labor union.

Obviously, Health Care, Global Warming, Cap and Trade and keeping he unions happy are a higher priority than the security of our country to Obama and his democrat majority congress. I was surprised he took the time to fly off to Europe to accept his well deserved Nobel Peace Prize!

But in all fairness to the Chosen One, Obama has much more important issues to worry about and deal with than our national security. Like raising the dead, changing water into wine, multiplying loaves of bread and fish, and the like.

What am I talking about?

An editorial in a Danish newspaper, Politken, published today, stated unequivocably that Barrack Obama is greater thean Jesus Christ himself!

He is provocative in insisting on an outstretched hand, where others only see animosity.

His tangible results in the short time that he has been active – are few and far between. His greatest results have been created with words and speeches – words that remain in the consciousness of their audience and have long-term effects.

He comes from humble beginnings and defends the weak and vulnerable, because he can identify himself with their conditions.

And no we are not thinking of Jesus Christ, whose birthday has just been celebrated - - but rather the President of the United States Barack Hussein Obama....Obama is, of course, greater than Jesus – if we have to play that absurd Christmas game. But it is probably more meaningful to insist that with today’s domestic triumph, that he has already assured himself a place in the history books – a space he has good chances of expanding considerably in coming years. 

My fear is that this well spoken, sharply dressed, community organizer and inexperienced politician from Chicago, possessed with a fierce global ambition, is beginning to believe his own press at the expense of our nation's security.

Peter J. Mahon

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse and the The Left's Selective Memory

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, a democrat from Rhode Island, took to the floor of the Senate to present what I had thought would be an argument in defense of the Senate’s Health Care Bill.

Unofortunately, I was wrong.

Rather than arguing he merits of the bill, Senator Whitehouse instead used his time at the Senate podium to label all those republicans and conservatives and the majority of the American people who are opposed to this massive legislation with such words as “crazy”, “shameful”, “lunatic fringe”, “being poisoned with hate”, etc.

Not surprisingly, Senator Whitehouse then resorted to the left wings political playbook of “playing the race card” when he stated that…

“They are desperate to break this president. They have ardent supporters who are nearly hysterical at the very election of President Barack Obama. The birthers, the fanatics, the people running around in right-wing militia and Aryan support groups, it is unbearable to them that President Barack Obama should exist.”

All polls to date indicate that the majority of the American people do not want this massive piece of legislative fiscal foolishness to pass. Rather than address the concerns of this majority, Senator Whitehouse has simply dismissed those concerns by callously representing such concerns as nothing more than a “deep rooted hatred towards Barrack Obama, our first Black President!”

What Senator Whitehouse coveniently forgets is that the same majority of American people cheered by the democrat left for voting for President Obama back in November of 2008 now are expressing their concerns about this liberal democrat health bill and he and his leberal democrat colleagues are throwing them "under the bus" in favor of a liberal political agenda.

Hopefully the memory of the Amican majority will not be as selective as Senator Whitehouse's in November of 2010!

Peter J. Mahon

Howard Dean - Says What He Means and Means What He Says?

Howard Dean appeared on today's Meet the Press show and when aksed about his intentions to emain with the Democratic Party, Dean responded,

"Of course!  Absoulutely!  I've already said I have every intention of vigourously supporting President Obama's re-election in 2012..."

Unfortunately, only three days ago, while appearing on Joe Scarborough's "Morning Joe" show, Dean had stated that,

"Sometimes  the country is more important than the party.  I intend to support President Obama, not vigourously, but I will vote for him

Nothing like a politician who says what he means and means what he says, right?

Peter J. Mahon

Climate Change and Population Control

Back in August of this year I posted a blog on President Obama’s “Science Czar”, John Holdren, and his radical views on population control.  At that time I wrote...

I have a very big problem with Obama's appointment of an individual who, for whatever reason(s), thought that the United States Constitution would allow for forced abortions, forced marriages, large scale sterilization of the population, and an accompanying massive campaign to "de-develop" the United States! Mr. Holdren stated that his previous espoused policies back in 1977 were a result of his being "preocupied" with the problem of population growth in the United States. In light of the Obama administration's continuing grab for power via nationalization of our health care system, I ask the following question...What if Mr. Holdren suddenly becomes preoccupied with "population control" again?

I received numerous emails in response to my posting on Mr. Holdren admonishing me for cloaking Mr. Hldren's radical activist background in a shroud of "conspiracy", contending that Mr. Holdren's radical views on population control could be easily explained by his youthful inexperieince and that in "this day and age", such views would certainly not be enterained.

As recently as this past October, I posted another article regarding the liberal left's fascination with population control when Alex Renton, a writer for Britain's Guardian newspaper, penned a column in this past Sunday's edition advocating population reduction as the only viable means of addressing the planet's alleged limate change poblems.  Mr. Renton tated that...

"The worst thing that you or I can do for the planet is to have children. If they behave as the average person in the rich world does now, they will emit some 11 tonnes of CO² every year of their lives. In their turn, they are likely to have more carbon-emitting children who will make an even bigger mess. If Britain is to meet the government's target of an 80% reduction in our emissions by 2050, we need to start reversing our rising rate of population growth immediately.

And if that makes sense, why not start cutting population everywhere? Are condoms not the greenest technology of all? After all, based on current emissions and life expectancy, one less British child would permit some 30 women in sub-Saharan Africa to have a baby and still leave the planet a cleaner place.

It is certainly true that "fewer people equals a greener planet" is simplistic. In 2050, 95% of the extra population will be poor and the poorer you are, the less carbon you emit. By today's standards, a cull of Australians or Americans would be at least 60 times as productive as one of Bangladeshis."

Once again I received numerous emails describing my concerns in this matter as "crazy", referring to Mr. Renton as a "crackpot" of no significance or credibility.

Are you with me so far?  Everyone thinks Obama's "Science Czar" is harmless and that Britain's Alex Renton is a "crackpot!" and I'm crazy for being concerned about them.  Now follow me closely on this....

Earlier today, Canada's National Post published an article entitled The Real Incovenient Truth which stated...

The "inconvenient truth" overhanging the UN's Copenhagen conference is not that the climate is warming or cooling, but that humans are overpopulating the world.  A planetary law, such as China's one-child policy, is the only way to reverse the disastrous global birthrate currently, which is one million births every four days.

Additionally, the China Daily yesterday published an article wherein China's Vice-Minister of Population and Family Planning finally made the xconnection between the liberal left's advocacy for climate change initiatives and population control.stating...

"Dealing with climate change is not simply an issue of CO2 emission reduction but a comprehensive challenge involving political, economic, social, cultural and ecological issues, and the population concern fits right into the picture..."

Finally, CNN's Jack Cafferty broached the question of population control yesteray with his viewers.

Still think I am crazy?

Peter J. Mahon

Harry Reid's Revisionist History

Harry Reid took the floor of the United States Senate this past Monday and complained about the lack of republican support his Health Care Plan was receiving. 

Of course Harry made no mention of his "democrat only" closed door meetings while putting his plan together or his "democrat only" meeting with the President the other day when Obama stopped by Congress to rally his party members to finalize the plan.

But the Harry, either abetted by copious amounts of intoxicants or perhaps just plain mendacity, likened those republicans and others who oppose his Health Care Plan to those who, according to Reid, opposed an end to slavery... opposed women's right to vote ...and those who opposed the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

If Harry's remarks were meant to foster a spirit of bi-partisanship among his senate colleagues, he obviously has not read the book How to Make Friends and Influence People.

Additionally, Reid's grasp of American political history is also faulty as...

1.  Reid has obviously forgotten that Abolition was the cause upon which the Republican Party was founded, and that the first Republican president, Abraham Lincoln, is known today as the Great Emancipator.

2.  Harry also conveniently forgets that women already had the right to vote in many states, including Wyoming, Utah, Colorado and Idaho, before the passage of the 19th Amendment, and it was the former Republican president Teddy Roosevelt, running on the Bull Moose ticket in 1912 against both Taft (who had succeeded him) and the Democrat, Woodrow Wilson, that made the right to vote for women part of its platform. It was the southern states, all controlled at the time by Democrats, which had adamantly opposed ratification each time it was proposed, starting in 1878. So, for that matter, did the Virginia-born southerner, Wilson, who largely ignored the issue until 1917, when suffragettes picketed the White House and even went on a hunger strike. In the end, Wilson used the pretext of World War I to get behind the 19th Amendment, which became law in 1919.

3.  Reid really shows his ignorance of our country's history with his assertion that republicans opposed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. In fact, it was the Republicans who pulled President Johnson’s fat out of the fire, voting in greater percentages for passage than the Democrats.

Now one would think that such caustic falsehoods emenating from the Majority Leader of such an austere body as the United States Senate would get a mention in the main stream media but alas, all the objective journalists toiling for our nation's free press are too busy counting up and reporting on the ever growing number of Tiger Woods' mistresses.

Michael Walsh, writing for Andrew Breitbart's biggovernment.com wrote that...

One of the reasons the press is the only private institution explicitly protected

by the Constitution is that it is supposed to act on behalf of the people, keeping those in power both responsible and in check. Today’s media, however, has almost entirely

abandoned that ideal in favor of frank partisanship or, worse,

stories like this, that appear to have been written by somebody born yesterday

and too lazy to check even the simplest “fact.”

For once, I have to applaud Michael Steele, the chairman of the

Republican National Committee, who said:

“Having made this disgraceful statement on the floor of the United States Senate,

Mr. Reid should immediately apologize on the Senate floor to his colleagues,

to his constituents, and to the American people. If he is going to stand by these statements, the Democrats must immediately reconsider his fitness to lead them.”

Unfortunately, I won't be holding my breath waiting for Harry Reid to apologize for his ignorant statements and absurdly revisionist version of our nation's political history on the floor of the Senate, or for the mainstream press to report them, anytime soon.

I can only hope that the citizens of the great state of Nevada vote this disgraceful and sorry pretense of a United States Senator out of Office next November in the 2010 elections!

Peter J. Mahon

Obama goes to Copenhagen bearing gifts!

‘Tis the season for giving and despite the seriousness of the questions that have been raised regarding the validity of the science used to perpetuate to advocacy religion of climate change by the liberal left, President Obama has apparently caught the Christmas spirit.

Not wanting to arrive in Copenhagen for the World Climate Conference empty handed, the White House has stated that Obama is now seeking a “meaningful” climate deal at the United Nations summit involving a “commitment” for “rich” nations to provide $10 billion dollars a year by 2012 to help poor nations fight “climate change”, adding that the taxpayers of the United States are prepared to pay their “fair share” of the $10 billion!

Obama also has another gift that he will present to the U.N. attendees at Copenhagen later this month. It seems that Obama has become annoyed that the Senate has not moved fast enough with his proposed climate change legislation (the cap and trade bill) so he enlisted the aid of his Enviromental Protection Agency Director, Lisa P. Jacskon, who issued the following statement regarding green house gases yesterday.

“After a thorough examination of the scientific evidence and careful consideration of public comments, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced today that greenhouse gases (GHGs) threaten the public health and welfare of the American people. EPA also finds that GHG emissions from on-road vehicles contribute to that threat.”

The above finding by the EPA constitutes the legal trigger for regulating green house gases ( read that CO2) under the Clean Air Act and Obama figures that by announcing this finding prior to his trip he will increase his “green awareness” status at the summit. It could also pressure members of the U.S. Senate to speed up work on legislation to cap U.S. emissions.

In any event, these actions on the part of Obama are simply one more step on his march towards interjecting his socialist centered philosophy of an ever increasing government involvement/regulation of the private sector with the end view of taxing our free market economy into oblivion in his quest to "redistrubute the wealth" of our nation.

Peter J. Mahon

Global Warming Professor calls skeptic "Asshole"!

During a debate of the climate warming issue on BBC television Andrew Watson, a professor at the University of East Anglia, told the BBC host moderating the discussion that the controversy surrounding e-mail messages obtained from his school's computers is "a real setback not because there's anything wrong with the science, but because the character assassination and the temperature of the debate which you can just see from our colleague in America is just obsuring the important issue."

Professor Watson denied that there now exists questions regarding the validity of the science of global warming and chose rather to complain about the charcater assasination and heated debate surrounding the leaked emails.

At the end of the interview, Professor Watson summed up his his opinion of crtics of global warming by calling Marc Marano, a global warming skeptic, an "asshole!"

Peter J. Mahon

Rex Reed - "Climate Science has gone to bed with Climate Advocacy"

It has been over two weeks since the story about "climategate" and the leaked e-mails broke and none of the major mainstream media outlets here in the United States have chosen to cover the story.  Fortunately, that is not the case in other countries.

The government owned Canadian Broadcasting System has been on top of this story since the beginning and I came across this clip of Rex Reed, who served wih the liberal party of Newfoundland, who provides what I think is the most honest and thoughtful commentary on this issue to date.

Peter J. Mahon

Bill Ayers: "Apalled and Alarmed" at Obama's Afghanistan Plan

You remember Bill Ayers don't you?  Activist Professor, former member of the 60's terrorist Weather Underground group and, oh yes, former friend of Chicago Community Organizer and Illinois State Senator Barrack Obama.

You may recall Obama threw Ayers "under the bus" (along with his Grandmother, a "typical white person", and his Pastor, Reverend Jeremiah Wright ) during his presidential campaign.

It appears that Mr. Ayers is not happy with Obama's decision to send additional troops to Afghanistan
with an accompanying withdrawal start date which, just by chance I am sure,  coincides with the next  Presidential election cycle.

It appears that Mr. Ayers doesn't lend too much credence to Obama's "In today - Out tomorrow" exit strategy!

How's that "Hope and Change" thing going for you Bill?

Peter J. Mahon

Howard Dean -"We need Capitalism and Socialism"

If I had any lingering doubts regarding the possibility that Barrack Obama and the liberal left are attempting to transform our nation from one of capitalism to that of socialism, they are now gone!.


Last April, while making a speech in Paris, France, Howard Dean, the Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, said the contest between Socialism and Capitalism in America is over. Speaking for all of us, Dean declared that Americans have decided to have both!   Dean stated:

" Capitalism is always going to be with us because capitalism represents part of human nature. But the other part of human nature is communitarianism. The debate for the new generation is instead of capitalism or socialism, is we're going to have both and then which proportion of each should we have in order to make this all work."

[Note: When Howard Dean refers to “communitarianism” he is speaking about a political and social philosophy that emphasizes the importance of community in the functioning of political life, in the analysis and evaluation of political institutions, and in understanding human identity and well-being, affording much less importance to the concepts of individual freedom and autonomy.]

America is already a nation that functions both as a capitalist and a socialist society.  This has been true in the US at least since 1933 and FDR’s New Deal. It became even more true during LBJ’s “Great Society” efforts. We have had a mix of socialism funded by capitalism for several decades, and not coincidentally, we have the national debt to show for it.

The debate now is whether we want to extend governmental corporatism in the finance, energy, and health-care fields, which will be an entree to complete government control of those industries in the long term, or whether we want to pursue the free-market solutions that actually create and expand prosperity.

The simple fact of the matter is that all of our nation's "socialism" from FDR's "New Deal", to LBJ's "Great Society", to the "Welfare State" and "Food Stamps", were only possible via funding by capitalism.

Unfortunately, Obama's election has been accompanied by a full court press by the left in this country to expand socialism at the expense of capitalism.  TARP, the stimulus bills, the bail outs of failing private corporations, the cap and trade energy tax, national health care, etc., will all serve to drive our deficit into an area from which we will not be able to recover beause the government will have hammered the private, free market segment, of our economy into oblivion.

If we allow this to take place, we will truly be left with a communitarianism society.

Peter J. Mahon

CBS Corrupts "Frosty" the Snowman!

CBS TV, the "Tiffany" netwok, must have worked long and hard to come up with this piece of holiday garbage!

In an attempt to push it's network sitcom, "How I Met Your Mother" CBS has managed to portray the time honored Christmas season character of "Frosty the Snowman" into some sort of sleazy, low brow, sado-masochistic snowball in an adverisement currently found on the network's Web site.

As CBS explains on its Web site...

"What do you get when you take one of the most beloved Christmas characters and mix it with Barney from How I Met Your Mother? A very inappropriate snowman!! Oh Christmas will never be the same!"

Speaking to a young girl CBS's Frosty opines,“We’ve got to have a bro’s night at a strip club from time to time…because it’s healthy…and harmless.”  The young girl responds by asking “Frosty”, “Did one of your whores tell you that?”

CBS's Frosty goes on to speak about his “porn collection” and his “Dominator 8000, the best bullwhip on the market!”

CBS's Frosty then claims that he has “…been with a lot of women. Blondes, brunettes, redheads, big boobs, small boobs, mediun boobs, some boobs that were big but kind of in a bad way.”

CBS's Frosty then eggs a small white rabbit's sexual fantasy by saying “Dude, you should have hit that, your pants were down and you couln’t knock her up cause its only a dream!”

As far as physical vilence is concened, CBS's Frosty states -“That’s my thing, I’m always punching guys, girls, hey, I’ll punch a baby, I don’t care!”

And finally, as CBS's Frosty flys off in the back of Santa’s sleigh he tells us “My guy in the DA’s office score us seats to a lethal injection!”

All I can say is - Class act CBS!  You truly deserve Katie Couric!

Peter J. Mahon

Macy's Politically Correct Santa

For more years than I care to remember, the appearance of Jolly Old St. Nick at the end of the Macy’s Parade, smiling broadly and waving to the children and then, of course, saying those magic words “Merry Christmas”, signified the official start of the Christmas Holiday Season


As the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade drew to a close last Thursday thousands of people gathered at Herald Square suddenly broke out into cheers of happiness as Santa Claus made his appearance at 34th Street.

Suddenly there he was, in his brand new sleigh packed with bags of presents for good little boys and girls atop his workshop, standing and waving to the adoring crowd of children and adults.

As Santa’s float pulled in front of Macy’s a hush came over he crowd and Santa turned to the crowd of spectators and cameras, placed his finger aside his nose and then spread his arms wide shouting those magic words….

“Happy Thanksgiving to One and All!”

Happy Thanksgiving? What was that all about?

What happened to “Merry Christmas”?

Have the “P.C.” police finally gotten their hooks into Macy’s so that they, along with many others, are now afraid to mention the verboten word, “Christmas”?

Peter J. Mahon

TIME Magazine "Jumps the Shark"!

U.S. Census Bureau employee Bill Sparkman was found dead, hanging from a tree earlier this year on September 12th, in an area of the Daniel Boone National Forest in Clay County, Kentucky.

Mr. Sparkman’s body had the word “FED” written on his chest at the time his body was discovered.

Shortly thereafter the Kentucky State Police, assisted by the FBI announced that they were investigating the death to determine both the cause and means of Mr. Sparkman’s death (homicide, suicide, accident, etc.)

Despite the fact that the investigation of Mr. Sparkman’s death was still ongoing, on September 25, 2009, TIME Magazine published a story entitled Government Distrust and a Dead Census Taker which portrayed the death as a homicide, attempting to link the Census worker’s death to the ongoing Tea Parties, Town Hall Meetings and demonstrations by the conservative right of our nation.  The article  included references to  the fact that this rural aea of Kentucky is possessed with a strong anti-Obama fervor and voted predominantly for John McCain in the last Presidential election.  The story even managed to sneak in references to Glenn Beck and Bill O'Reilly within in their hypothsis.

"The discovery of the body of Bill Sparkman, 51, a substitute teacher and a field worker for the bureau, comes at a time when talk media, tea parties and white-hot town-hall meetings have fanned antigovernment sentiment. Speculation has run rampant that the Sparkman case may be related to the vitriol. Kentucky...voted overwhelmingly for Senator John McCain during the 2008 presidential election….was it part of the recent rage at what right-wing commentators decry as the big-spending, socialistic government of the first African-American President?"

Just last week Kentucky authorities determined that Mr. Sparkman had, in fact, committed suicide and had intentionally staged his death in such a manner as to make it appear as a homiicde.  Investigators stated Mr. Sparkman's motive for doing so was to ensure his family could collect on a recently purchased life insurance policy.

In addition to making a mockery of a tragic human situation with their lunatic conspiracy theory reporting, TIME Magazine has finally "jumped the shark" and joined the rest of the mainstream media on the trash heap which represents the sad epithet of objective journalism in our country.

Peter J. Mahon

"Climategate" and Obama Science Czar John Holdren

Although you won’t read about it in any of our U.S. mainstream media outlets, an November 24th article published in the Canada Free Press by Dr, Tim Ball and Judi McLeod, reveals that President Obama’s Science Czar, John Holdren, is up to his eyeballs in the growing Climagate scandal.

Lift up a rock and another snake comes slithering out from the ongoing University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit (CRU) scandal, now riding as “Climategate”.

Obama Science Czar John Holdren is directly involved in CRU’s unfolding Climategate scandal. In fact, according to files released by a CEU hacker or whistleblower, Holdren is involved in what Canada Free Press (CFP) columnist Canadian climatologist Dr. Tim Ball terms “a truculent and nasty manner that provides a brief demonstration of his lack of understanding, commitment on faith and willingness to ridicule and bully people”.

“The files contain so much material that it is going to take some time t o put it all in context,” says Ball. “However, enough is already known to underscore their explosive nature. It is already clear the entire claims and positions of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) are based on falsified manipulated material and is therefore completely compromised.

“The fallout will be extensive as material continues to emerge. Reputations of the scientists involved are already destroyed, however fringe players will continue to be identified and their reputations destroyed or sullied.”

While the mainstream media is bending into pretzels to keep the scandal under the rug, Climategate is already the biggest scientific scandal in history because of the global policy implications."

Peter J. Mahon

Bulletin...Tiger Woods in Fender Bender!

Stop the presses!

Tiger Woods was injured in a car accident early Friday outside his Florida mansion, and a local police chief said his wife used a golf club to smash out the back window and help get the world's No. 1 golfer out of the SUV.


Woods was treated and released from a hospital in good condition, his spokesman said. The Florida Highway Patrol said Woods' vehicle hit a fire hydrant and a tree in his neighbor's yard as he pulled out of his driveway at 2:25 a.m.

My only question is...did his wife use a wood or an iron to break the car window?

Peter J. Mahon

Convicted Felon, Marha Stewart, calls Sarah Palin "Dangerous!"

Convicted Felon Martha Stewart was interviewed last week on cable TV HLN network (formerly CNN Headline News) on Show Bix Tonight.

When asked about her thoughts on Sarah Palin, Stewart replied…

“She's a very boring to me. Very boring, and a very, to me, kind of a, a dangerous person. I mean, to, she's dangerous… She speaks, she's, she's so confused. And anyone like that in government is a real problem.”

In response to another question as to whether or not she had watched any of the Sarah Plain interviews or read Palin’s new book, Going Rogue”, Stewart said…

Why's everybody asking that? I wouldn't, I wouldn't watch her if you paid me.

Hey Martha, the question should not be "Why is everyone asking that?, rather we should be asking why is anyone bothering to ask Martha Stewart about her thoughts on the former Governor of Alaska.

According to Stewart, Sarah Palin is "very boring", "a dangerous person", very "confused" and a "real problem" and she arrives at those assertions by refusing to watch Palin's interviews or read her book?

Then again, Martha  also became very annoyed when she was recently asked her opinion of the Food Net Work Super Star, Rachel Ray.  Martha responded that Ms. Ray's newest cookbook wasn't all that original and then added, "I don't even think she has a garden, does she?"

I can't wait to hear Ms. Stewart's views on Health Care and Immigration and Energy reform!

Peter J. Mahon

Why won't Attorney General Holder Investigate ACORN?

On the day of the 2008 Presidental election, the New Black Panther Party, in full combat style uniform and sunglasses, carrying weapons, intimidated voters at a Philadelphia polling station which was captured on video (above).

Imagine if Ku Klux Klan members had stood menacingly in military uniforms, with nightsticks, in front of a polling place. Add to it that they had hurled racial threats and insults at voters who tried to enter.

Now suppose that the government, backed by a nationally televised video of the event, had won a court case against the Klansmen except for the perfunctory filing of a single, simple document - but that an incoming Republican administration had moved to voluntarily dismiss the already-won case.

Surely that would have been front-page news, with a number of firings at the Justice Department.

The flip side of this scenario is occurred last July. The culprits weren't Klansmen; they belonged to the New Black Panther Party for Self-Defense. One of the defendants, Jerry Jackson, is an elected member of Philadelphia's 14th Ward Democratic Committee and was a credentialed poll watcher for Barack Obama and the Democratic Party when the violations occurred. Rather conveniently,last month, the Obama administration has asked that the cases against Mr. Jackson, two other defendants and the party be dropped.

The Voting Rights Act is very clear. It prohibits any "attempt to intimidate, threaten or coerce" any voter or those aiding voters.
After the 2000 Presidental election, Democrats complained about voter intimidation in Florida by pointing to a police car that had been two miles away from a polling place. The police didn't do anything to anyone, but their presence was deemed sufficient to vaguely intimidate people en route to the polls.

In this case, the New Black Panther Party, in combat garb and armed with nightsticks, actually blocked access to a poll. If a Republican administration had done this, it would be front-page news and every civil rights group in the country would have been screaming about it. Unfortunately, the majority of the mainstream media, not unlike Chris Matthews, were too busy enjoying that warm tingly feeling that was running up their legs by the Obama candidacy.

The explanation for moving to dismiss the case is shocking. According to the Department of Justice: "These same Defendants have made no appearance and have filed no pleadings with the Court. Nor have they otherwise raised any other defenses to this action. Therefore, the United States has the right ... to dismiss voluntarily this action against the Defendants."

In other words, because the defendants haven't tried to defend themselves, the Justice Department won't punish them.  By that logic, if a murderer doesn't respond to the charges, he should be let free.

But not too worry...U.S. Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. then quietly moved to appoint a criminal prosecutor to investigate alleged CIA abuses committed during the interrogation of terrorism suspects, current and former U.S. government officials said. A senior Justice Department official said that Holder envisioned an inquiry that would be narrow in scope, focusing on "whether people went beyond the techniques that were authorized" in Bush administration memos that liberally interpreted anti-torture laws.

Of course! Investigating the waterboarding of a radical islamic Fundamentalist, hell bent on killing Americans, trumps investigating the New Black Panther Party, which by the way, actively endorsed Barack Obama's presidency, when they physically intimidate citizen voters at a poling place with nightsticks!

And then we have Attorney General Holder's recent deision to move four terrorists from Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, where they have already admitted their guilt regrding the September 11, 2001 attacks on this natiuon,  to New York City where they will be afforded all due process and other legal rights during the course of a federal trial that will most assuredly take several years.  The defendants have already stated that they now intend to plead not guilty in order that they may avail themselves of the opportunity provided by President Obama and his Attorney General to spew their Islamic Fundamentalist lunancy on a world stage!

But as long as the main stream media continues to ignore or minimize the tsunami of mounting evidence indicating ACORN's widespread corruption and misuse of public funds, Attorney General Holder is quite comfortable in dismissing the issue as well, just as he did in the 2008 instance of voter intimidate by members of the New Black Panther Party in Philadelphia.


This is simply crazy and one more indication of just how out of control this administration has become.

Peter J. Mahon

Roseanne Barr - "Obama has done fantastic things"

The above video is of Roseanne Barr speaking at an Acorn rally held in California back in February of this year.  Remember, at the time of Miss Barr's statements, Barrack Obama has been in office for only 30 days and very little attention was being paid to the community group ACORN as the release of the James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles video tapes of Acorn staff were still some 7 months in the future.  As stated at the start of the video, Miss Barr proudly admits to being a member of ACORN.

At the time, Congresswoman Michelle Bachman was not unlike a voice in the wilderness raising serious concrns about the ACORN oganization's involvement in partisan politics and voter fraud.  When asked about her thoughts on Congresswoman Bachman, Ms. Barr responded...

"Oh, she's just a shill.  She doesn't know what she is talking about.  I don't even know how she got her job except somebody paid her a lot to go over there and lie."

[Note to Ms. Barr:  If you would really like to know how Congresswoman Bachmann "got her job", I suggest you take a few minutes and read Artilcle 1, Section 2 of our country's Constitution.  That should clear it up for you. ]

Speaking about what she thought of Obama's resonse to the nation's mortgage crisis, Ms. Barr

"I know that he can only do what he can do with what was left. I mean, George Bush walked out the door with all the money...Like not even half of what the lesser thieves stole. That's what he left for the American people to like make their way on, and put Obama in a tough, he dug Obama such a deep hole. It's just not, you know. Anything that Obama does is just fantastic...And he has done fantastic things, and I hope he does some more."

[Note to Ms. Barr:  I have no problem with your defense of the new President by blaming the Bush administation at a time when Obama had only been in office for 30 days.  Of course I do find your assetions that "Anything that Obama does is just fantastic...And he has done fantastic things..." to be a bit over the top.  It would have been appreciated if you had actually cited some of those fantsatic things he has accomplished but then again, maybe that's just me.  After all, at the time of your appearance at this ACORN rally, Barrack Obama had already been submitted for consideration for the Nobel Peace Prize.]

Ms. Barr is then asked about whether or not some homeowners share culpability in the mortgage crisis for assuming mortgages they knew they could not financially sustain.

"On this one I say it is absolutely the banks fault, absoulutely the banks fault!"

[Note to Ms. Barr:  Ever hear of a little thing we call "personal responsibilty"?]

Unfortunately, some seven months have passed since Ms. Barr's appearance at this February 2009 rally and ACORN has since lost its federal funding by Congress, been stripped of its right to participate in the 2010 Census and is basically held in contempt as an organization by the American people.  Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann's popularity has soared among the American people, and Obama continues to astronomically increase our national debt, devalue our dollar, and "stimulate" our economy to a point where our unemployment rate has risen over 10 percent.  

On the bright side, President Obama has won the Nobel Peace prize!  I guess for all those fantstic things he has accomplished in the first 30 days of his presidency.

Peter J. Mahon

Global Warming? Just make up the Science!

The emails that reveal an effort to hide the truth about climate science..

It's the Fraud Stupid"

Mainstream Media ignore "Climategate" - Fox News only Network Covering Story

Republican Lawmaker pushes for investigation as to whether "data was cooked"

Peter J. Mahon

HealthCare Reform - The "Chicago Way"

Obama's Visit to Japan described as "the worst US-Japan summit meting in history"

If you listened solely to our nation's mainstream media and the White House, President Obama's recent trip to Japan was a success.  Unfortunately, if you take the time to read about the how the Japanese described this very same visit, you would receive a very different version of our President's trip to the Land of the Rising Sun.


The below article by Warner Todd Huston published in Andrew Bretibart's Big Government web site clearly states the Japanese view of Obama's recent visit.

Media Ignores Obama's Muffed Japan Visit

The Japanese media has reported that Obama’s recent state visit to their island nation was a big failure, but the U.S. media is mum on the mess that Team Obama made in Japan. He made multiple diplomatic gaffs and this is quite aside from the absurdly low bow that the incompetent president perpetrated upon greeting the Japanese Emperor Akihito.

Before we get to his other multiple fluffs and diplomatic errors, let’s explain what Obama was telling the Japanese people with his absurdly low bow. The sort of bow that Obama made is almost that of a “dogeza” bow. This is a sort of bow that is so low as to be considered a prostrated position. It is seen as an apology, a supplication, not a sign of respect. So, as we see, Obama once again showed that he wants to be known as the less-than president, that he is representing a prostrated people, and that he feels that to everyone he meets overseas he must apologize for this horrible U.S.A.

The inappropriate bow, however, wasn’t the only mistake that Obama committed in Japan. According to the mainstream Japanese weekly magazine Shukan Bunshun the visit was termed “miserable,” and “the worst US-Japan summit meeting in history” by Japanese insiders. Worse, the Japanese government was so upset at the visit that it retaliated at various points issuing slights right back to President Obama during his stay on Japanese soil.

From a translation by an American living in Japan comes news that Obama began the trip on a sour note when, with little advanced notice, the president seemed to arbitrarily change his arrival schedule in Japan throwing Japanese officials into chaos.

Obama was originally set to land in Japan on November 12, attend a summit meeting with Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama on the 13th, and then leave for Singapore on the 14th to attend the APEC Summit meeting. But according to the Japanese magazine, on Nov. 7 the Obama Administration abruptly changed plans and rescheduled the president’s arrival for the 13th instead of the 12th, shaving a day off the visit.

… their excuse for the delay was the shooting at Ft. Hood, Texas on the US Army base on November 5. But the fact of the matter is, the memoral service was on the November 10 and only took a day trip for Obama whereupon he returned immediately to Washington. After that, he had the National Security Council meeting on policy in Afghanistan on November 11th. However, he could have departed Washington D.C. right after that and could have still landed in Japan as everyone agreed and planned on, for the 12th.

In another slight to Japan, a Japanese ruling party spokesman noted that it was obvious to them that Obama was more interested in China on this trip anyway as four days were scheduled for the Communists while only two were scheduled for them.

The magazine notes that Obama was left waiting in a car for five minutes at the entrance to the Prime Minister’s Official Residence and this may have been a message of rebuke sent to Obama by Japanese officials for the president’s abrupt change of schedule.

Shukan Bunshun magazine also notes that while the Japanese had “a total of 14 officials, including six cabinet ministers, the Foreign Minister Okada, the Defense Minister Kitazawa,” the president’s retinue only consisted of members of “Team Obama” and no other American officials of high standing. This was taken as a message that Obama did not consider this meeting very important.

Consequently, after the meeting with Japanese officials, PM Hatoyama immediately left Japan for the APEC Summit essentially leaving Obama alone on Japanese soil even though Obama had several other high profile visits to wrap up in Japan. Japanese journalist Michael Yu noted that this was a message that Hatoyama did not feel much respect for Obama since, as host, he essentially abandoned his guest, President Obama, and flew off to Singapore.

The Japanese magazine characterizes this visit as the “worst” one ever.

“To tell you the truth, it had to have been the worst US-Japan Summit Meeting in history,” a source of ours at the Foreign Ministry revealed to us.

This is just one more example of “Team Obama” issuing one slight after another to our allies while slavishly devoting himself to our enemies. The British have felt it, the Germans, the French, and now the Japanese.

It all adds up to a White House that places little interest in good diplomatic relations with our allies.

//end of story//

Once again, the question has to be asked for the umpteenth time, when will our mainstream media return to any semblance of objective journaism?

Peter J. Mahon

What do Prostitution and the HIV (Aids) Virus Have in Common?

Would you believe Climate Change?

Due diligence requires that I admit to being a skeptic regarding most of the apocalyptic hysteria regarding the issue of climate change. I remember reading about similar warnings as a teenager back in the 60’s except, at the time, the magazine covers were all depicting a coming ice age due to global cooling complete with pictures of huge glaciers covering New York.

My personal skepticism aside, I did find the following statement by an official of the United Nations interesting when he claimed that Climate Change is now causing women who live in coastal areas of poor countries to become prostitutes thus increasing the rate of HIV infection in those areas.

Suneeta Mukherjee, country representative of the United Nations Food Population Fund (UNFPA), said women in the Philippines are the most vulnerable to the effects of climate change in the country.

“Climate change could reduce income from farming and fishing, possibly driving some women into sex work and thereby increase HIV infection," Mukherjee said during this past Wednesday’s launch of the UNFPA annual State of World Population Report in Pasay City in the Philippines.

According the Al Gore’s merry band of eco-alarmists temperatures are now rising; extreme stprms are becoming more frequent; the ocean levels are rising; heat waves are increasing; snow seasons are becoming shorter; our landscapes are changing; increased risk of drought, fire and floods; more heat related illness and disease; economic problems; etc., etc., etc.

And now the United Nations has discovered a causative link beween climate change and prostitution and HIV?

What's next?  Climate change and its accompanying rise in global temperature will cause increased rates of alcoholism as more and more of us seek the climate controlled air conditioning of our neighborhood taverns?

Peter J. Mahon

Beitbart to A.G. Holder on Acorn - The Next Move is Yours!

Andrew Breitbart of Breitbart.com, who has been the driving force behind exposing the Acorn scandal, was interviewed by Sean Hannity yesterday at which time they released yet another damning video involving Acorn’s Los Angeles office.

During the interview, Mr. Breitbart stated that there exist more video tapes and not just of Acorn. Breibart went on to indicate that unless Attorney General Eric Holder conducts a “clean investigation” of Acorn, he will hold this tepes for release just prior to the 2010 election cycle. A transcript of Mr. Breitbart’s remarks may be found below th following video of the Hannity interview.

Andrew Breitbart:

There’s a lot of hypocrisy and the dust has settled for ACORN and at the end of the day they’ve recognized that Eric Holder, the Attorney General, has not initiated an investigation into ACORN after we now have seven tapes. There were five initially that came out, ACORN was defunded by the Senate, was defunded by the House, lost it’s link to the Census; while all that damage occurred, Congress didn’t come in to investigate them, obviously not the Attorney General’s office, and they’ve now realized let’s get back into business because they realized that the dust settled and they were not being investigated, it was Hannah, James, and me who were being investigated, that’s why we’ve been forced to offer this latest tape.

Hannity:

Are you saying, Andrew, that there are more tapes?

Breitbart:

Oh my goodness there are! Not only are there more tapes, it’s not just ACORN. And this message is to Attorney General Holder: I want you to know that we have more tapes, it’s not just ACORN, and we’re going to hold out until the next election cycle, or else if you want to do a clean investigation, we will give you the rest of what we have, we will comply with you, we will give you the documentation we have from countless ACORN whistleblowers who want to come forward but are fearful of this organization and the retribution that they fear that this is a dangerous organization. So if you get into an investigation, we will give you the tapes; if you don’t give us the [investigation], we will revisit these tapes come election time.

Okay Mr. Holder...the next move is up to you.

Dollars to doughnuts you won't be reading about this in the New York Times or the Wshington Post!

The U.S. Post Office - Yet Another Bail Out?

The United States Post Office recently announced that it lost $3.8 billion in the most recent fiscal year, which ended September 30th. It also delivered less mail - 26 billion fewer pieces less, a nearly 13 percent drop from the previous year. The bad news follows losses totaling $7.8 billion in 2007 and 2008.

The Postal Service, as it is quick to point out, is legally prohibited from taking tax dollars. But in order to stay afloat, the agency has been actively borrowing from the U.S. Treasury: At last count, according to Postal Service spokeswoman Yvonne Yoerger, it owes the government $10.2 billion.

Federal law dictates that the Postal Service can borrow up to $3 billion per year - but the debt cannot grow beyond $15 billion. That means that while the agency, which had revenues of $68.1 billion last year, could potentially borrow another $3 billion in 2010, it will soon no longer be able to legally borrow billions from the government.

Now any manager with a modicum of business operations savvy would look at this situation and decide that immediate changes have to be made far beyond the easy decision to simply raise rates in order to avoid reaching that point where it is legally prohibited from “borrowing” additional billions of taxpayer dollars from the Treasury Department.  If our Congress had one wit of a visionary thought process, the Post Office might not be fighting the likes of FedEx and UPS today!

Unfortunately, as a government agency, the Post Office must depend on the “business operations savvy” possessed by those members of Congress.

Illinois Democratic Rep. Danny Davis, a member of the Congressional subcommittee that oversees the Postal Service (and, until recently, its chairman), admitted that the agency "is between a rock and a hard place."

When asked what Congress can do about it Davis went on to suggest…

"It's just not generating the money that you need in order to keep operating, we’ve bailed out a lot of things, and I think the Postal Service is probably as important in one sense as some of the other places where we have put public money...I'm not afraid of spending public money to keep money flowing."

Note to Congress - Your cavalier attitude towards spending public money, make that throwing bad money after bad money, is one of the primary reasons our economy is in the toilet today!

Another bail-out? You have got to be kidding me!

I cringe when I think of what will happen when his fellow democrats much lauded health plan goes into the deficit tank (which it inevitably will) should it be passed into law. We will all be bailing that monstrosity out with our wallets also!

Grow up! Set aside your petty self interest, concerns about your next election, the cash flowing into your individual offices from lobbyists and other self interest groups and start acting like responsible elected representatives of the people that you are now only pretending to be.

Stop attempting to avoid personal responsibility by constantly chanting the mantra of your far left base that the problem was caused by a previous administration. The American people really don’t give a tinker’s damn whose fault it is! They want to know who is going to fix the problem without additional pillage of our wallets!

If there is a problem, work together to fix it or step aside and allow those who are capable of actually representing those who elected you to fix it!

Peter J. Mahon

European President Herman Van Rompuv calls for "Global Management" of the planet!

Europeans woke up yesterday to news they had their first full time European Union President, Belgian Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy.

I am quite sure President Obama, Al Gore and the rest of the far left one world government proponents and eco-alarmists are happy with Europe’s decision in this regard as one of the first things the European Union President Elect told the world was….

“The Climate Conference in Copenhagen is another step forward towards the global management of our planet…”

Peter J. Mahon

Obama Bows While Other World Leaders Shake Hands

Back in April of this year, our Commander in Chief bowed to King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia at a G-20 meeting in London, a scene that drew criticism on the right and praise from some Arab outlets.

The Washington Times called the alleged bow a "shocking display of fealty to a foreign potentate" and said it violated centuries of American tradition of not deferring to royalty. The Weekly Standard, meanwhile, noted that American protocol apparently rules out bowing.

At the time an Obama aide who spoke on the condition of anonymity, advosed inquiring press that "It wasn't a bow. He grasped his hand with two hands, and he's taller than King Abdullah," said an Obama aide, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.

Later WHite House press questioned the White House Press Secretary, Robert Gibbs, if, in fact, the President had bowed to the Saudi Prince and Gibbs stumbled in his attempt to articulate a denial..."No, I think he bent over with both, to shake -- with both hands to shake his hand."

At the time I was willing to take a pass on this incident, attributing our Commander in Chief's inappropriate deference to the Saudi potentate to inexperience.

And then..............

...some 6 months later on November 14th, during his recent trip to the middle east, President Barack Obama bowed low to Japanese Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko, and then added a number of smaller bows, before lunching with the royal couple.Obama, who is in the midst of a trip to Asia, went to the Imperial Palace in Tokyo for a rare meeting with Akihito.

As the photographic evidence this time did not provide the White House with and room for denial the Obama machine advised that our Commander in Chief has greeted the Japanese Emperor in a traditional manner according to protocol. 

Any reservations I may entertained about Oama's "nivete’ on the world stage and his ‘not-ready-for-prime-time’ administration failure to understand the intricacies or symbols of world diplomacy were answered with the following video. 

Not to mention the fact that, coming two days after Veterans Day, our Presidents bow to the Emperor of Japan was a slap in the face of those surviving veterans of World War II who participated in the battles with Japan in the Pacific.


Pictured in the above video are the Japanese Emperor meeting with the following world leaders....note there are 47 handshakes and only one, really deep bow.

November 14, 2009
President of the United States, Barack Obama

July 15, 2009

Commander of U.S. Pacific Command, Adm. Timothy Keating

July 15, 2009

Lt. Governor ofHawaii, James Aiona Jr.

July 9, 2009

Premiere of Ontario, Dalton McGuinty

June 18, 2009

President of the Phillipines, Gloria Arroyo

January 26, 2009

First Lady of Bulgaria, Zorka Parvanova

October 22, 2008

Prime Minister of India, Dr. Manmohan Singh

January 23, 2009

Prime Minister of Latvia, Ivars Godmanis

July 10, 2008

Prime Minister ofCanada,Stephen Harper

June 19,2008

President of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev

June 10, 2008

Prime Minister of Finland, Matti Vanhanen

June 5, 2008

President of Turkey, Abdullah Gul

May 23, 2008

Pesident of Laos, Choummaly Sayasone

May 9, 2008

President of China, Hu Jintao

May 7, 2008

First Lady of China, Liu Yongqing

May 7, 2008

President of China, Hu Jintao

May 7, 2008

President of China, Hu Jintao

April 21, 2008

President of South Korea, Lee Myung Bak

April 21, 2008

Prime Minister of Slovenia, Janez Janša

April 11, 2008

Prime Minister ofFrance, Francois Fillon

March 17, 2008

President of Peru, Alan Garcia

February 27, 2008

Prime Minister of Israel, Ehud Olmert

November 28, 2007

President of Vietnam, Nguyen Minh Triet

November 26, 2007

President of Vietnam, Nguyen Minh Triet

October 5, 2007

King of Sweden, Carl XVI Gustaf

August 30,2007

Chancellor of Germany, Angela Merkel

August 25,2007

President of the IAAF, Lamine Diack

June 9, 2007

President of South Korea, Roh Moo-Hyun

May 26, 2007

President of Lithuania, ValdasAdamkus

April 17,2007

President of Pakistan, Asif AliZardari

April 14,2007

King of Jordan, Abdullah II

April 12, 2007

Primier of China, Wen Jiabao

March 29,2007

Queen of Sweden, Silvia Sommerlath

February 21,2007

Vice President of the United States, Dick Cheney

February 14,2007

President ofCzech Republic, Vaclav Klaus

November 27, 2006

President ofIndonesia, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono

November 27, 2006

President of Indonesia, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono

July 6, 2006

President of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai

June 13, 2006

King of Thailand, Bhumibol Adulyadej

November 30, 2005

King Of Morocco, Mohammed VI

November 28, 2005

King of Morocco, Mohammed VI

November 22, 2005

President of Russia, Vladimir Putin

March 28, 2005

First Lady of France, Bernadette Chirac

December 6, 2004

President of Algeria, Abdelaziz Bouteflika

April 21, 2004

President of Kyrgyzstan, Askar Akaev

October 15, 2003

First Lady of Mexico, Martha Sahagun de Fox

February 21, 2003

President of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai

November 14, 2009

President of the United States, Barack Obama

Make of it what you will...

Peter J. Mahon