Marion Barry Arrested Again

• 1990: While Mayor of Washington D.C., Marion Barry is arrested after being caught on camera smoking crack during an FBI sting operation.
• 1994: Barry wins mayoral re-election, reinforcing the Constitutional wisdom of not giving Washington D.C. an actual vote in congress.
• 2002: Barry arrested after traces of cocaine and marijuana are found in his car. Barry claims the drugs were planted, probably by the same person who planted those rocks in his crack pipe back in 1990.
• 2004: Barry elected to a seat on the D.C. Council (which he still holds), reinforcing the intuitive wisdom of every American who decided not to live in Washington D.C. among the brain-dead voters.
• 2005: Barry placed on probation for not filing or paying income taxes for several years. .
• 2006: Barry stopped by the police for driving too slowly, prompting him to accuse authorities of targeting him . . . and prompting America to wonder why they don't target him more often.
• 2009: And just yesterday, Barry is arrested again after a woman flagged down police to complain that he was stalking her.

With this resume how has this guy avoided a position in the Obama administration?

Sarah Palin Resigns As Alaska's Governor

For only the 3rd time in my life I am speechless.

Palin Links Resignation to 'Higher Calling'

Happy Birthday, America

A Rare Moment: Journalists Attack Obama's Townhall Integrity

It seems liberal activist/journalist Helen Thomas may actually have some fire left in her Metamucil-laced belly. In a rare press conference moment these days, two journalists actually questioned the tommyrot of the Chosen One.

Chip Reid and Helen Thomas called out the White House press secretary over the hypocrisy of Obama's claim of transparency. Helen Thomas expressed "shock" (and given her years in the White House press corps, I'm guessing shock is as common for her as late night tumbles on the soccer pitch) shock over how the administration is screening and controlling town hall questions and dialogue. It's something that's never been done before . . . but that in itself is not shocking. No previous administration had ever spent 25% of our GNP in its first 60 days, seized control of two of the three largest public sector corporations in a single American industry or pushed a cap and trade bill that would amount to the largest single tax hike ever dropped on America. President Obama is all about "firsts."

So check out this is a troubling clip.

Oh, and while you're watching it take a minute to help me out. Now that we've seen Robert Gibbs perform countless times. Is he:

A) Condescending
B) Stupid
or
C) A tool

Al Franken: The Senator Thief

Sure, Al Franken was always quick to drop a rape joke, but who knew he (or his handlers) would be so adept at despoiling the electoral system and reducing it's legitimacy to laughable proportions. A recent Wall Street Journal article succinctly described the former SNL wank's road to the senate:

Mr. Franken now goes to the Senate having effectively stolen an election. If the GOP hopes to avoid repeats, it should learn from Minnesota that modern elections don't end when voters cast their ballots. They only end after the lawyers count them.

The strategy employed by the Democrats:

The Democrat's strategy from the start was to manipulate the recount in a way that would discover votes that could add to his total. The Franken legal team swarmed the recount, aggressively demanding that votes that had been disqualified be added to his count, while others be denied for Mr. Coleman . . . While Mr. Coleman's lawyers demanded a uniform standard for how counties should re-evaluate these rejected ballots, the Franken team ginned up an additional 1,350 absentees from Franken-leaning counties. By the time this treasure hunt ended, Mr. Franken was 312 votes up, and Mr. Coleman was left to file legal briefs.

What Mr. Franken understood was that courts would later be loathe to overrule decisions made by the canvassing board, however arbitrary those decisions were. He was right.

So as we saw with ACORN's involvement in the presidential election, once again the Democrats have thwarted Democracy in their quest for power and America is left with a leftest congress that is lefter than we left it yesterday. And in Franken's case, added a left-wing nut job who's radio show demonstrated that his intellectual capacity is roughly equivalent to what's left behind by a loose boweled chimpanzee.

And you thought it couldn't get worse.

Obama To Detain Terror Suspects . . . FOREVER

Remember the self-righteous indignation from the left as they tsk-tskedly waved their fingers at George W. Bush and his claim that some terror suspects, if given freedom, would once again treat innocent "infidels" the way Madonna treats the Puerto Rican flag? Well . . .

The Obama administration . . . is crafting language for an executive order that would reassert presidential authority to incarcerate terrorism suspects indefinitely.

Such an order would embrace claims by former president George W. Bush that certain people can be detained without trial for long periods under the laws of war.

It seems self-righteous indignation doesn't have the staying power that it used to. Now if only Obama would change his stance on destroying America's economy.

Farrah Fawcett (and michael jackson)

Every son of the seventies had the poster and requisite supply of Kleenex. She smiled at us from our bedroom wall, seeming so happy to be in our presence while she twirled he hair and . . . wait, wait, is that a nipple? What the ? ? ?

Farrah Fawcett died today after a three year battle with Cancer (8 years after her sister was taken by the dread disease). Charlie's favorite angel had her shares of ups and downs, but her iconic image and trend setting hair drove pop culture in a way that can only be remembered fondly by those who were there.

And I don't know about you, but I'm really getting tired of cancer and can't wait for the day we kick its ass.

In other news: Michael Jackson died today (in a move undoubted intended to upstage Farrah's death). This, of course, is assuming that he has been alive since Thriller.

Parents with young sons are breathing easier.

JibJab's Latest: Obama Saves The Day

H/T: Fausta

Obama's Disastrous Economy

Left wingers who claim that we are still suffering from the Bush economy remind me of children who claim the dog ate their little sister . . . or was that their homework? However the saying goes, you can leave Dubya out of the equation since it was Obama who made some promises about the immediate impact of his deranged economic plan. And what we are seeing is the opposite of his projections. Here are some grizzly revelations:

• Obama vowed that by this time unemployment would be around 8%. Well, it's at 9.4% (the highest in more than 25 years) and floating upward toward double digits.
• Obama promised that he would create 600,000 jobs by the end of summer. Of course now, with some wordplay that Vanna White would have trouble following, Obama has shifted his stance to say that he will create "or save" 600,000 jobs. Sounds like suddenly somebody is hoping that even his economic plan can only destroy so many jobs in one calendar year.
• Since the stimulus package was signed in February, the country has lost 1.6 million jobs. That kinda makes the administration's back patting about creating 150,000 job seem a bit on the simpleminded side.
• The government has been on an unprecedented (and unpresidential) spending spree, dropping $44 billion in stimulus money, not related to tax cuts, in only 4 months. No wonder Michelle Obama finds it normal to spend $540 on a pair of sneakers.
• With Obama's plan the national debt is now at an unbelievable 60% of annual GDP (up from 40%), and some 10% of that increase can be credited to the stimulus bill alone.
• And I'll bang out more about this in the near future, but I'm willing to bet my son's entire action figure collection (including the collectible Jeff Hardy) that if Obama's Health care plan is signed into effect, America will never be out of debt again (and possible never overcome deficit spending).

So carp as you will, my liberal friends. We are now in Obama's economy and it's about as pretty as Nancy Pelosi at 3:00 a.m., when you haven't the protection of a few stiff drinks.

Obama Criticizes Fox News, But Not Ahmadinejad

When do you start doubting somebody's sanity? Is it when they claim to see dead people by saying, "on this Memorial Day, as our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes – and I see many of them in the audience here today . . ."? Is it when they falsely claim that their father fought in WWII, obviously confusing their father with somebody else's dad? Or maybe it's when they insanely claim that Japanese cars average 45 miles per gallon? Perhaps we should take it as a sign when they refer to Matt Lauer as "Tim" 3 times during the same interview then call David Gregory "Matt." Could be it's when they fail to recognize their own handwriting while claiming that they actually didn't fill out a questionnaire in favor of banning all handguns. And what about if they spend more money then all previous presidents combined on policies that have already led to an increase in unemployment and corporate instability while money is funneled to administration supporters?

Or maybe, just maybe, it's when they vent with paranoid vigor against a news network that doesn't follow ABC's sycophantic lead during the same week they fail to criticize the Iranian government for falsifying an election and butchering those who stand up to protest in the name of freedom.

I'm not a shrink, but that's insane.

Will North Korea Fire Missiles At America?

Japan's best-selling newspaper, Yomiuri Shimbun, is reporting that Japanese Intelligence believes North Korea may launch a missile toward Hawaii on or around the 4th of July. And this on the heels of their underground nuclear weapons test on Memorial Day.

Granted, the suspected missile (a Taepodong-2) has a maximum range about 500 miles short of Hawaii, but it's the thought that counts.

According to the report in Yomiuri Shimbun,

Both Japanese intelligence and U.S. reconnaissance satellites have collated information pointing to the launch . . . U.S. satellite intelligence has shown that a missile launch pad had been erected at Dongchang-ri on North Korea's north-west coast.

So, Obama believes a soft-handed, apologetic approach to handling dictators and terrorists will persuade them put down their weapons and love us. As Dr. Phil would say, "how's that working out for us*."


*The Khaki Elephant does not make a habit of quoting Dr. Phil

(Senator) Boxer Pesters General To Call Her "Senator"

Barbara Boxer is a senator and you'd better acknowledge it to the world (just in case somebody doesn't know) . . . even if you've shown such dedicated service to your country that you've achieved the rank of Brigadier General.

Oh, and this is just a guess but I suspect that Boxer is not aware that military protocol approves the terms "Ma'am" or "Sir."

I'm also guessing that Boxer couldn't wait and had to interrupt his answer to make her demand because . . . well, let's just say that she's not a big fan of the military.

And this is just another guess, but I don't think that is her natural hair color.

Have The French Become Democracy's Beacon?

The President yesterday denounced the "extent of the fraud" and the "shocking" and "brutal" response of the Iranian regime to public demonstrations in Tehran these past four days.

"These elections are an atrocity," he said. "If Ahmadinejad had made such progress since the last elections, if he won two-thirds of the vote, why such violence?" The statement named the regime as the cause of the outrage in Iran and...stood up for Iranian democracy.

The President who spoke those words was France's Nicolas Sarkozy.

Meanwhile, in America:

Mr. Obama didn't call the vote fraudulent, though he did allow that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei "understands the Iranian people have deep concerns about the election." ... "How that plays out," Mr. Obama said, "is ultimately for the Iranian people to decide."

And if you're troubled by Obama's complicit response to the atrocities in Iran, you may want to stay clear of left-wing blogs for the next few days as they chatter about how the guy, who in their eyes makes all things possible, is the actual inspiration behind the protests in Iran.

Yes, that's right, they believe the guy who legitimized the current tyrannical rule in Iran by saying he would sit down with them without preconditions . . . the guy who has done nothing but hire ABC to push his health care plan while Iran announces they are closer to nukes and North Korea actually tests them on America's Memorial day . . . the guy who bows deeply to the Saudi king . . . the guy who has gone on a couple of apology tours to seek forgiveness for the way America has tried to "force" democracy on people . . . the guy who loves freedom so much that he seized public American automotive companies to fulfill his agenda while he drove them to bankruptcy . . . this is the guy the moonbats believe is inspiring Iran to dream of freedom.

Hamas Interferes In Iran

According to interviews with Iran protesters, "Palestinian Hamas members are helping the Iranian authorities crush street protests" after the suspect Iranian election. This news is about as shocking as Clay Aiken bounding out of the closet. As Bush pointed out when identifying Iran as a member of the axis of evil, Hamas receives arms, funding and even military (read: "terrorist") training from the current Iranian regime. And if Iran is able to develop nukes just imagine what will be under their Christmas tree this year . . . wait, I don't think they celebrate Christmas.

Iraq Inspires Iran

George W. Bush had a lot wrong when it comes to Iraq, but he was right about one thing: freedom inspires freedom. The ink-stained fingers of Iraqi voters demonstrated once and for all that freedom can be won for a price. And unfortunately for the Iranian government, the students in their country have access to the internet. They've seen those fingers. They've read about the sacrifice. They've decided to act.

I can't help but wonder if those courageous protesters are looking for support from the United States. They know that they have a rogue government bent on nuclear armament. And I'm sure they are also aware the the real power in Iran is held by religious fundamentalists, but they are acting where they can -- and they are not doing it in a vacuum. The protesters are using cell phones to post their plight on YouTube and other sites across the net for the world to see . . . for America to see. What do they expect in the way of support?

Well, if they're looking for support from Obama I'm afraid they'll have a long wait. Yesterday, taking a few minutes away from his tour de farce concerning health care, Obama declared that he "cannot be silent" concerning what's happening in Iran (apparently drunk on self-love and forgetting that he has been silent for three days). Oh, and how did The Chosen One break his silence? Did he call for freedom? Did he decry oppression? Did he give so much as an ear wiggle of support for the protesters trying to disrupt one of the two remaining axis of evil?

Of course not. If he said that they may not like us.

News flash to the President: the extremists running that country will never like us. We are "The Great Satan" and it is through stirring hatred toward America that they maintain power. So, while the president (who can't seem to get his fill of bashing Israel over Gaza) weakly acknowledges the news in Iran, refusing to condemn the actions of their government, those with courage stand up at risk to their lives.