News from Washington, Jakarta, Michigan & Illinois

Sorry, Readers: once again the blog site is letting words run off the page.......

Here is more on the gang that can't learn from the past, and continue to show who they are and what they believe: [Do you recall Obama saying on one of the late night shows that he bowls like a retard? - Wasn't that funny? Not!] Now White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel offered a personal mea culpa on Wednesday to advocates for the disabled who were offended that he used the phrase "f---ing retarded." As reported by The Wall St. Journal: The friction was laid bare in August when Mr. Emanuel showed up at a weekly strategy session featuring liberal groups and White House aides. Some attendees said they were planning to air ads attacking conservative Democrats who were balking at Mr. Obama's health-care overhaul. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- What would you think about someone who either doesn't have the education to be able to correctly pronounce the word corpsman, or has not enough regard for our military to know how to pronounce it correctly? Would you pronounce the word, as he did, as corpse-man? I didn't think so. I suppose this person might pronounce the word colonel as ko-low-nol. It's quite a shame that it is the President of the United States, the highly educated, most intelligent "messiah" who mispronounced it three times in a speech given yesterday. He just loves the military, don't we know. I know, I wouldn't believe it without seeing it either. Go to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlKIfzoC8D0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Michigan's Attorney General is announcing the following: On Thursday, my office is filing a renewed motion to immediately close the locks in Chicago. You may remember that last month the Supreme Court denied our initial request, which was supported by five other states. However, we asked the Court to take another look because it was unaware at the time that eDNA tests showed evidence of Asian carp in Lake Michigan, making the situation more urgent. We also submitted information from a transportation expert that shows the potential costs to the Great Lakes vastly outweigh any potential costs for Chicago that result from closing the locks. [It is not only fishing which will be negatively impacted. The safety of swimmers, skiers, and recreational boaters will be in danger, which will just about kill the most important industry in Michigan - tourism.] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/climatechange/7157590/ India-forms-new-climate-change-body.html The Indian government has established its own body to monitor the effects of global warming because it “cannot rely” on the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the group headed by its own Nobel prize-winning scientist Dr R.K Pachauri. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- JAKARTA - A statue of US President Barack Obama as a boy will be removed from a park in the Indonesian capital due to public opposition, officials said Friday, just weeks before Obama visits his old hometown. (Snip) The statue of "Little Barry" -- as Obama was known to his Indonesian school friends -- was designed by Indonesian artists and depicts the boy Obama dressed in shorts and a T-shirt with a butterfly perched on his hand. The decision comes after 56,500 people joined a page on social networking website Facebook calling for the statue to be removed and replaced by a memorial to an Indonesian identity. This news comes from Yahoo! News, among others.... [I'm happy for Obama to be in Jakarta where once again he will be able to hear (and to share with his daughters), as well perfectly chant along with, the opening lines of the Arabic call to prayer, reciting them, as he can, with a "first-rate accent]. From a former NYTimes article: "In a remark that seemed delightfully uncalculated, Mr. Obama described the call to prayer as “one of the prettiest sounds on Earth at sunset.” ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Boston Herald is reporting: The Kennedy political dynasty is shaking in the aftershock of U.S. Sen. Scott Brown’s earth-shattering election, with a new poll showing U.S. Rep. Patrick Kennedy losing ground as he faces a well-financed GOP foe backed by Brown’s top strategists. The WPRI-12 poll showed the Rhode Island Democrat with a 56 percent unfavorability rating in his district - a negative that grows to 62 percent statewide. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/02/lech_walesa_stumps_for_conserv.html From the Gdansk Lenin Shipyards to the city of the Back of the Yards, Lech Walesa, former President of Poland, and preeminent community organizer, attended a fundraiser on Friday, January 29, to endorse Adam Andrzejewski (an gee eff skie) who is one of six Republicans seeking the nomination of his party for Governor of Illinois. Lech WALESA (via translator): The United States is only one superpower. Today they lead the world. Nobody has doubts about it. Militarily. They also lead economically but they're getting weak. But they don't lead morally and politically anymore. The world has no leadership. The United States was always the last resort and hope for all other nations. There was the hope, whenever something was going wrong, one could count on the United States. Today, we lost that hope. The issue with the banks; and the government wastes all the money; they build a bureaucracy; just for itself. He went on to reassure: But we will not let you devolve to communism here. [Here's what he would do:] One, I open up their spending. Show me the money, every dime, online, in real time. That's my phrase for transparency. Barack Obama ran on it, and he lied to you. I'll open it up from the top of the appropriations down to the subcontractor level where the systemic corruption exists. Two, is a forensic audit from the top with a $55 billion budget...we can save $3 billion to $5 billion by following the money. If you think about it, it's how we got Al Capone. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------