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By Joshua, August 15, 2010 2:43 am

State Representative Debbie Riddle and U.S. Congressman Louie Gohmert, two incredibly, incredibly stupid politicians, are pushing the idea of “terror babies:”

Regular viewers of CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360″ will recognize that term as referring to children born on U.S. soil to illegal immigrants. The children are automatically granted U.S. citizenship under the 14th Amendment and then are smuggled back to their home countries to be raised as pint-sized, America-hating terrorists. Then decades later, when the children have grown into adults, they could easily — because of their U.S. citizenship — re-enter the United States to attack it from within.

The two Texas Republicans who are actively spinning this yarn — State Representative Debbie Riddle and U.S. Congressman Louie Gohmert — both appeared on Cooper’s show this week, and neither could provide any evidence of the existence of these mythical terror babies. In fact, in the face of questioning by Cooper, both got extremely defensive.  Riddle and Gohmert claimed they got the information from conversations with “former FBI officials.”

Of course…

So Cooper interviewed CNN contributor Tom Fuentes, who served as the FBI’s assistant director in the office of international operations from 2004 to 2008.   “The FBI has 75 offices overseas, including offices in Jordan, Turkey, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Pakistan,” Fuentes said. “There was never a credible report — or any report, for that matter — coming across through all the various mechanisms of communication to indicate that there was such a plan for these terror babies to be born.”

What terror babies are are a plot by incredibly, incredibly immoral, stupid and irresponsible people to drum up support for their weird immigration policy objectives.

What’s wrong with people?

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By Joshua, August 5, 2010 1:44 am

Enter the world of Colorado Republican gubernatorial candidate Dan Maes.  He thinks that the Mayor of Denver is plotting to have the U.N. take-over Denver:

Republican gubernatorial candidate Dan Maes is warning voters that Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper’s policies, particularly his efforts to boost bike riding, are “converting Denver into a United Nations community… This is all very well-disguised, but it will be exposed,” Maes told about 50 supporters who showed up at a campaign rally last week in Centennial.

Maes said in a later interview that he once thought the mayor’s efforts to promote cycling and other environmental initiatives were harmless and well-meaning. Now he realizes “that’s exactly the attitude they want you to have… This is bigger than it looks like on the surface, and it could threaten our personal freedoms…These aren’t just warm, fuzzy ideas from the mayor. These are very specific strategies that are dictated to us by this United Nations program that mayors have signed on to.”

Maes said in a later interview that he was referring to Denver’s membership in the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI), an international association that promotes sustainable development and has attracted the membership of more than 1,200 communities, 600 of which are in the United States.

The conspiracy is real, according to Maes:

Maes said ICLEI is affiliated with the United Nations and is “signing up mayors across the country, and these mayors are signing on to this U.N. agreement to have their cities abide by this dream philosophy… At first, I thought, ‘Gosh, public transportation, what’s wrong with that, and what’s wrong with people parking their cars and riding their bikes? And what’s wrong with incentives for green cars?’ But if you do your homework and research, you realize ICLEI is part of a greater strategy to rein in American cities under a United Nations treaty… Mayor Hickenlooper is one of the greatest fans of this program….Some would argue this document that mayors have signed is contradictory to our own Constitution,” Maes said.

Maes is winning in Colorado:

Polls show that Maes, a Tea Party favorite, has pulled ahead of former Congressman Scott McInnis, the early frontrunner in the Aug. 10 primary for the Republican gubernatorial nomination.

Kooky is as kooky does, Mr. Maes:

Maes acknowledged that some might find his theories “kooky,” but he said there are valid reasons to be worried.

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By Joshua, July 1, 2010 2:20 am

Weird things in the story about 11 spies reporting to Moscow:

President Barack Obama last week took Russian President Dmitry Medvedev to his favorite hamburger joint, which turned out to be just blocks from the Arlington, Va., apartment building where one of the alleged Russian secret agents lived.

How do we know this is Obama’s favorite hamburger joint?  And what is the name of this alleged favorite? 

He said Mr. Obama was aware of the alleged spy ring, but the president didn’t discuss the topic in face-to-face meetings last week with Mr. Medvedev.

Really.  We’re really expected to believe Obama said nothing about it when he has the President of Russia right in front of him.  Perhaps the “secret message” Obama sent by taking Medvedev to Obama’s “favorite” hamburger “joint” was message enough, huh?  That showed him.  Here, Prez Medvedev:  eat this HAMBURGER.  (*hee hee*)

A criminal complaint filed Monday by prosecutors in New York showed that Federal Bureau of Investigation agents have been investigating the alleged Russian agents for a decade, and have had access to communications between Moscow and the suspects.

TEN YEARS?  How many secret secrets have these secret spies secreted away to Moscow in 10 years?  They could’ve taken America’s whole secret shebang in ten years.  Bush and Obama didn’t want anyone looking at the White House guest list and they let Moscow spies run around for 10 years?  I got two words for that: FISHY.

Ten of the suspects, mostly Russians, were arrested in recent days in several U.S. cities. The 11th person, whom U.S. authorities alleged was a ringleader purporting to be a Canadian named Christopher Metsos, was taken into custody Tuesday by police in Cyprus. He was released on bond, despite U.S. concerns that he might flee.

Some judges don’t allow guys who sell an ounce of pot to be put on bail, and they let an alleged spy — whose whole business is to lie to others and disappear — out on bail?  See the two words above for what I think about that, too.

Many Russian officials and analysts said they presumed that hawkish elements within the U.S. government had engineered and timed the arrests to embarrass President Obama and undermine the “reset.”

Why not?  It’s fun to blame the Republicans!  Here’s another one:  “It’s hot today.  Must be global warming.  Blame the Republicans for not signing the Kyoto Protocol!”  Hee hee!  This is fun!

What we learned:

(1)  Spies exist, but this spy story is a bunch of low level crap.

(2)  Republicans didn’t have anything to do with it.

(3)  This is not the Cold War.

(4)  Hee hee.

UPDATE:  I exist.

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By Joshua, March 4, 2010 6:23 am

In his upcoming memoir, “Courage and Consequence: My Life as a Conservative in the Fight,” Karl Rove says his biggest mistake during the Iraq War was that he failed to stop the “Bush lied” narrative after WMD never materialized:

The new book by Mr. Rove, who served as senior adviser and deputy chief of staff in the White House, offers the most expansive account yet of the Bush presidency by one of the people most responsible for it. Addressing some of the most controversial and consequential moments of Mr. Bush’s eight years in power, Mr. Rove takes responsibility for the widely criticized Air Force One flyover after Hurricane Katrina and writes of his secret fear of being indicted in the C.I.A. leak case.

What many historians may focus on is his description of the war in Iraq, its origins and consequences. While many have accused the administration of drumming up a case for war on the back of false intelligence about Mr. Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction, or W.M.D., Mr. Rove maintains that the White House genuinely believed the reports, and pointed to Democrats who accepted them as valid as well.

Most intriguing is his rumination on what would have happened had Mr. Bush known the truth. While the opportunity to bring democracy to the Middle East as a bulwark against Islamic extremism “justified the decision to remove Saddam Hussein,” Mr. Rove makes clear that from the start, at least, the suspected weapons and their perceived threat were the primary justification for war.

“Would the Iraq War have occurred without W.M.D.? I doubt it,” he writes. “Congress was very unlikely to have supported the use-of-force resolution without the W.M.D. threat. The Bush administration itself would probably have sought other ways to constrain Saddam, bring about regime change, and deal with Iraq’s horrendous human rights violations.”

He adds: “So, then, did Bush lie us into war? Absolutely not.” But Mr. Rove said the White House had only a “weak response” to the harmful allegation, which became “a poison-tipped dagger aimed at the heart of the Bush presidency.”

“So who was responsible for the failure to respond?” he writes. “I was. I should have stepped forward, rung the warning bell and pressed for full-scale response. I didn’t. Preoccupied with the coming campaign and the pressure of the daily schedule in the West Wing, I did not see how damaging this assault was.”

Karl Rove is perhaps the most significant political spin doctor in modern political history.  Notably, he is not concerned that we went to war on a mistake, but that he didn’t spin the mistake the right way.  That’s the kind of political leadership we need today.

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By Joshua, March 3, 2010 9:01 am

Safety is job one:

The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating whether a child directed planes from Kennedy Airport’s air traffic control tower.  A child’s voice can be heard on a tape making five transmissions to pilots preparing for takeoff on Feb. 17. The recording was obtained by WFXT-TV in Boston.In one exchange, the child can be heard saying, “JetBlue 171 contact departure.” A male voice in the tower says: “That’s what you get, guys, when the kids are out of school.” The child later clears another plane for takeoff, and says, “Adios, amigo.”

The FAA said in a statement: “Pending the outcome of our investigation, the employees involved in this incident are not controlling air traffic.” It added: “This behavior is not acceptable.”

This behavior is not acceptable, indeed.  And now, to lower further your hopes for safe air travel, watch the Frontline report “Flying Cheap” on regional air carriers in the U.S.

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By Joshua, January 20, 2010 4:47 am

That’s today’s headline, folks.  Thirty million Americans won’t get health insurance because Coakley couldn’t run a campaign to fill Ted Kennedy’s seat in Massachusetts. 

Scott Brown, a little-known Republican state senator, rode an old pickup truck and a growing sense of unease among independent voters to an extraordinary upset Tuesday night when he was elected to fill the Senate seat that was long held by Edward M. Kennedy in the overwhelmingly Democratic state of Massachusetts. By a decisive margin, Mr. Brown defeated Martha Coakley, the state’s attorney general, who had been considered a prohibitive favorite to win just over a month ago after she easily won the Democratic primary.

With all precincts counted, Mr. Brown had 52 percent of the vote to Ms. Coakley’s 47 percent.

Just as Gore is blamed for losing the presidential election, Coakley will be blamed for losing the Senate seat.   All that work for health care reform by the Democrats shot down because Coakley ran a crappy campaign.  The chance of a lifetime for the Dems, the holy grail of Democratic Party legislation, on the fingertips, slipped away.

Steve Bartman was blamed for losing the Cubs a chance for the World Series.

Martha Coakley is blamed for losing health insurance reform.

That’s right, folks.  30 million Americans are going to be without health insurance because Democrat Coakley couldn’t win a Senate seat in Massachusetts.

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By Joshua, December 9, 2009 11:10 am

The headline from NYTimes is the understatement of the year:

Accepting Peace Prize Will Be a Test for Obama

Yup.  A big test in saying, “Hello, I’m a war time president who — via remote control — sometimes inadvertantly kills civilians in Afghanistan and Pakistan and just ordered 30,000 more soldiers to kill (bad) people in Afghanistan and by my own admission has not done enough to warrant a Nobel Peace Prize and will now deliver a Nobel Lecture on world peace.”

Best of luck, Mr. President.

UPDATE!  Watch the Nobel Lecture live and see Obama at his most Clintonian!