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Was there ever a doubt?
The Obama kids will continue to attend a private school.
From the Los Angeles Times:
Yes, the Obamas will be spending nearly $30,000 per child to send their kids to a private school, just as they did in Chicago. Just as the VP-elect has done.
(That’s only about $10,000 more per child than they pay now in Chicago.)
Yet the NEA will continue to fight tooth and nail to prevent other Americans from doing so, and won’t utter a single peep of protest over the Obamas’ decision to send their children to a private school. (Further they never brought up that they already had been sending their kids to a $20,000/year private school in Chicago - thanks for investigating on that one, news media!)
Where’s the “they’re just like us” crowd now?
Somehow I think public schools might suddenly get a bit better if the Obama kids were facing the threats to their safety and sub-par education that regular government workers’ kids do.
But the big news here is I think Michelle’s spokeswoman needs to be fired:
In what way is this not a tacit admission that the D.C. Public Schools do not meet their childrens’ needs?
Bravo to the Obamas for doing what’s right for their own kids, but they’d also fight tooth and nail to deny that choice to others.
But that’s OK, they’re Democrats, at least they (theoretically) feel bad about it… right?
Do you think Bill is able to conceal his glee at the fact that his wife will now be out of the country for extended periods of time?
From the Los Angeles Times:
Do you think the Call Girl agencies that serve the area in which the Clintons live are already staffing up?
Then it was 120.
From the Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Amazing how apparently not a single vote has been found for Coleman in the recount, isn’t it?
See - all the votes for Franken so far have come from Republican counties - we haven’t even started the recount of Democrat counties yet.
I’ll leave how a political candidate can have any internal counting of secret ballots as an exercise for the reader.
More from the Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Let’s face it, Democrats have patented the “recount until we win” strategy and Coleman is toast.
From the AP:
Here comes the New Deal version 2.0. After all, everyone knows the government creates the wealth in America. Our country is crumbling and The One has arrived to rescue us from ruin.
Democrat ideology is evolving. They’ve gone from tax and spend to spend and tax.
So those 2.5 million jobs will all be gov jobs in his civilian security farce. That is why he wants them in place by 2011. What else do you expect from a community organizer.
Nice day outside, little chilly but I think I will go do a little ammo shopping later when it warms up a bit.
Re: The Obama kids will continue to attend a private school.
DC schools are the epitome of inner cities controlled by politicians just like Obama. They’re unsafe and fail miserably in academics but the solution is always the same - more money. Where the money ends up you can guess but the results are certain.
The Obama’s are typical liberal hypocrites. Michelle’s spokeswoman says, “In the end, the Obamas selected the school that was the best fit for what their daughters need right now.” Thats an answer that tells you nothing. The truth is it would be insane to send their daughters to a DC public school and they know this.
I’ll testify that northwest Washington (I’m there right now) is fairly safe for the DC area. But it’s surrounded by liberal wastelands and sending your kid to a public school there is like sending them to a Mexican prison. I don’t have much sympathy for the parents that can’t afford otherwise because they show how much they truly care by how they vote.
Re: Obama’s cabinet picks. Two things occur to me. One article ( http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,455545,00.html )mentioned that, taken in aggregate, Obama’s picks so far have a total of over 60 years of Washington experience, as opposed to 58 for Clinton and 30 for Bush, Jr. Didn’t this guy run on a platform of “change”? If your cabinet picks are so overwhelmingly from Washington, how does that change anything?
Also, it’s been less than a week since Obama stated that there would be Republicans on his cabinet, although he wouldn’t say how many. Has anyone seen a single Republican as yet?
I’m sure we can trust him with this, though. I mean, he’s never broken any promises before, right? Right?
“BigOil …… President-elect Barack Obama promoted an economic plan Saturday he said would create 2.5 million jobs by rebuilding roads and bridges and modernizing schools while developing alternative energy sources and more efficient cars.”
There ya go, pull a few guys off park benches, pay em $12 an hour, and presto, in a year or two ya got fusion in a test-tube and windmill-powered cars.
Economics is easy. that’s why most politicians skipped those courses in school
Hard Times.
Brothels see job applications surge amid ailing economy.
But the would-be hoes & sportin’ house managers understand supply & demand better than nine percent nancy, and her myrmidon congress critters.
More Women Seek Work Amid Spending Slowdown by Clients.
Yes, there’s video, but you pervs will be disappointed to learn that it is safe for work.
Hey, it’s a slow news day.
The Obama kids wouldn’t need safe schools if their parents were sane.
The latest iteration of the same article I’ve now seen at least four times in five different newspapers over the past week.
From the AP and (Madison) Wisconsin State Journal
Reassessment of values?
There are those people who have all along not gotten in over their heads and have been if not frugal, not wildly irresponsible.
You know, the ones the Federal Government, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have been telling to go take a hike while they give the irresponsible cuts in mortgage payments, lowered interest rates and lowered principal balances, while those who have paid on time get nothing.
But better yet, how many Christmases in a row now have we read the stories about how “people aren’t just buying anything” and how consumers are “looking for bargains” and are “only buying the necessities?”
Somehow, this is supposed to be bad news.
From the Denver Post:
I am not anti-immigrant or anti-Latino.
But why is it bad news when immigrants who are here illegally return to their native countries?
Also, if “Mexico is a better place to raise a child,” don’t let the border gate hit you in the butt on the way out.
Finally, Mexicans are applying to be able to take their possessions back to Mexico tax-free?
I thought tax policies had no effect on behavior?
Meanwhile, we’re supposed to be moved to tears over stories like this:
Sorry, it’s just not going to happen.
Of course I’m sure our new masters are working on any number of Government programs to give said illegal immigrants enough free money so that they stay:
Note - “get back home.”
Meaning that many such immigrants had no intention of ever assimilating or otherwise making the United States their home, despite what the activists say.
They think of Mexico as “back home” and always will. Not the “home country,” not the “old country,” but “home.”
“If an individual voter does not have standing to bring such a suit, who, in fact does?”
“Who other than an individual voter has standing to bring up potential violations such as this?”
Alan Keyes does!!!! And about a dozen other people in as many states.
Leo C. Donofrio also filed. This suit went to SCOTUS and Souter also rejected. It was submitted to Justice Thomas who moved it to a review scheduled for Dec 5th.
see more here> http://www.americasright.com/2.....-berg.html
nuthingbettertodo, sorry, that was an older story than I thought, so I pulled it.
Thanks for the update, though.
This is hilarious - poor Hillary, having to subject herself to the whims of a man!
Perhaps it will be fun watching the Dems spin themselves crazy.
From an obviously depressed feminist at the AP:
It’s fun to watch the Kos-heads wail on Hillary for a while, isn’t it?
All while the feminists are saddened that there’s a man in charge after all - relinquish her independence?!?!
Of course they could have had a female VP.
But that’s right, she wasn’t a “real” woman…
It looks to me that you can add another lie to the already “3 Biggest Lies in the World” list.
Here is the new add on : “She would have considerable input on staffing decisions and plenty of access to Obama.” I would not be surprised at all if Obama did a last minute switch-a-roo and thought that a real Clinton criminal is too much for an already heavy ex-Clinton Administration on his staff!! She has a mouth that would make a sailor blush……..Frau Hildabeast as SOS? What in the hell is Diplomatic about a potty mouth HAG?
Just a little sidebar. I caught Saturday Night Live sometime in the near past, and on weekend update they glibly reported that since Obama won, it’s official, for the next four years it will be pronounced “nuclear”. I remember thinking, well for the last eight years we’ve had a president who understands that the biggest problem associated with the word “nucular” is a weapon of mass destruction, and not a source of pollution.
Or maybe for the last eight years we’ve had a President who’s more concerned that the terrorists might get a “nucular” weapon, than the fact that we have them.
The fight just never stops.
From the Los Angeles Times:
The Police chief is correct here.
But the mayor’s attitude regarding guns is dangerously naïve.
He believes, as all liberals do, that a “gun free zone” means there will be no guns.
Instead all it means is that no law-abiding citizens have guns; if a criminal is planning a gun-related crime, I don’t think whether guns are “allowed” will enter into their thinking.
There is of course little of more use to criminals than a disarmed citizenry.
God help us.
From the Los Anglees Times:
A UC Berkeley “expert” on the Great Depression?
I’d be really entertained to know what, other than perhaps “they didn’t do enough,” she believes government did wrong.
BillK; …….”UC Berkeley economist named to Obama team…..”
Last time I checked, this isn’t the 30’s. With all the layers of government regulation, and government meddling we have now, one could make a plausible arguement that government doesn’t know WTF its doing and should stay out of economics.
Smackdown at the Clinton News Network!
From The Hollywood Reporter:
Reap, sow, you know the rest…
See? It’s all because Bush didn’t do more.
From the AP:
Thus Bush’s policies really are creating new terrorists, don’t you get it?
Why Gore isn’t sitting it Gitmo I’ll never know; too bad he’ll likely have a cabinet position in the Obama White House instead.
Ski areas, too.
From the Denver Post:
Alas, the ski industry is too stupid to realize that action to “mitigate” their “number one concern” - something that isn’t happening - will destroy their business even faster.
Mandatory caps on carbon dioxide? There goes all the cars, shuttles and buses that take people to their resorts.
Not to mention the airlines that fly guests in.
Then there’s the astronomical increases in energy - like the power to run their lifts. To heat the lodges.
$40 hamburger at the lodge? Getting those beef patties to 10,000 feet won’t be any cheaper.
They’re so myopic it would almost be funny if it weren’t for the fact that they’re no worse than many other American businesses these days.
They seem to think mandatory “greenhouse” emission caps come in a vacuum.
Instead they’ll simply make getting to the wilderness to enjoy a day’s worth of sliding down snow a financial impossibility.
Not like the environmentalists who agree with them wouldn’t see the death of the entire ski industry as one of their biggest successes.
From Denver’s KCNC Television, news of the “economic downturn”:
Won’t it be great when Obama puts a stop to things like this?
Remember - the MSM has said over and over again there is no “War on Christmas.”
From the AP:
I wonder what would happen if say, President Bradshaw were to ban the wearing of head coverings in public areas instead?
From Fox News, the ultimate “bad news.”
Of course they’re right as far as no miracles are coming.
I also pity Russia if they track to take Alaska, as they’ll have to deal with Palin.
The professor said China and Russia will become the world’s great regulators.
From Fox News:
But Fox News can’t be trusted to hold a Presidential debate.
Of course not.
So if so little of NPR’s budget comes from the Federal Government, it’s no big deal if we zero that line item out - right?
From the Los Angeles Times:
Or, “blacklisting is OK if we do it.”
Something many of us have experienced in the last couple days,
From BBC:
There it is in a nut shell. The liberal people of america have somehow been given the right to tell the rural conservatives how to live their lives. A mandate if you will, since they are the pillars of clarity and reason. And us few, us lucky few, have only sweetness and light to go on.
Funny I seem to remember reading something about some short of legistlation in Cal. that got the liberals all up set. Wonder what that could of been about?
This was linked to on Ann Coulter’s website, but just in case you didn’t see it:
http://www.howobamagotelected.com/
There’s a video there, and I can only think of two words to describe its content: hilarious and scary. Perhaps very scary.
The very definition of “clueless.”
From Television Week: