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Just once I'd hope the same standards that apply to us would apply to those who hold (or held) positions of power in our hallowed halls of government.

Shame is fleeting in modern America, so it was probably inevitable that Eliot Spitzer would seek to return as an arbiter of everyone else's moral behavior.

Little more than a week has passed since federal prosecutors declined to bring charges against Mr. Spitzer for soliciting prostitutes while Governor and before that while the chief law enforcement officer (Attorney General) of New York. The U.S. Attorney thus exercised more prosecutorial restraint than Mr. Spitzer ever showed to his targets as he sought to build his political career.

Spared a criminal charge, Mr. Spitzer is now re-emerging to offer advice on how to reregulate Wall Street and to assert that he was right all along about everything (save the call girls).

This man should not be allowed anywhere near power, but because he is a Democrat whose only real crime was screwing around on his wife while in office, he'll receive a pass and who knows, may one day be the next governor of The Empire State.

That IS the way things works, right?

Today’s column at WorldNetDaily started while cleaning out a closet last week and finding an old VHS copy of the Monty Python movie “Life of Brian.” In the movie, a character named Brian is mistaken for the Messiah and hilarity ensues. Sound familiar? Well, without the hilarity anyway.

The parallels between Brian and Barack Obama were glaring but brief, as it occurred to me what differentiates Brian from Barack.

Give a read to “Life of Riley vs. Life of Brian” for the whole story.

Okay, we'll excuse him because of age and inexperience.

NOTE to self: never play with a cigarette lighter on the toilet - particularly after spraying the room with air freshener. For 13-year-old German schoolboy Dennis Bueller, it's a lesson he won't forget.

The Recklinghausen lad was blasted out of the window of his bathroom from the fireball created by his dad's lighter which ignited the air freshener he had sprayed moments earlier.

This gives the term "hot seat" new meaning.

A "charter" is only good if agreed to by all involved, and you can trust that all will abide by it…

A website launched Friday with the backing of technology industry and Hollywood elite urges people worldwide to help craft a framework for harmony between all religions.

Well, if the Hollywood elite is involved, it must be of value.

The Charter for Compassion project on the Internet springs from a "wish" granted this year to religious scholar Karen Armstrong at a premier Technology, Entertainment and Design (TED) conference in California.

"Tedizens" include Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin along with other Internet icons as well as celebrities such as Forest Whittaker and Cameron Diaz.

Well, shit. If Cameron Diaz is involved, that's all most of us simple Americans needed to hear.

Wishes granted at TED envision ways to better the world and come with a promise that Tedizens will lend their clout and capabilities to making them come true.

What would we do with out their "clout".

Armstrong's wish is to combine universal principles of respect and compassion into a charter based on a "golden rule" she believes is at the core of every major religion.

The Golden Rule essentially calls on people to do unto others as they would have done unto them.

Thanks for the explanation of the "Golden Rule". Do these arrogant people think we're THAT stupid?

(That was a rhetorical.)

"The chief task of our time is to build a global society where people of all persuasions can live together in peace and harmony," Armstrong said.

"If we do not achieve this, it seems unlikely that we will have a viable world to hand on to the next generation."

What's sickening about this video is the typical liberal "moral equivalence" argument, this time being made about religion. This would be more effective if they would've had the guts to get those who've committed dozens upon dozens of terror bombings, and threatening more, before they appealed to our good nature to act civilized first.

I've never advocated the use of "hate speech", but after eight years of Bush-bashing, the insults of his intelligence, the dramatization and cinematic fantasies of his death, and the slanderous accusations of domestic privacy intrusion and international torturous activities, why would anyone expect this would now be a one-way street just because the incoming president is their "chosen one"?

Cross burnings. Schoolchildren chanting "Assassinate Obama." Black figures hung from nooses. Racial epithets scrawled on homes and cars. Incidents around the country referring to President-elect Barack Obama are dampening the postelection glow of racial progress and harmony, highlighting the stubborn racism that remains in America.

"Glow" or gloat? Remember, Democrats and their media reminded us not to rub our victory in their faces. Something they have long since gleefully forgotten.

From California to Maine, police have documented a range of alleged crimes, from vandalism and vague threats to at least one physical attack. Insults and taunts have been delivered by adults, college students and second-graders.

There have been "hundreds" of incidents since the election, many more than usual, said Mark Potok, director of the Intelligence Project at the Southern Poverty Law Center, which monitors hate crimes.

As I said, no one I know advocates hate and/or violence, but until the juvenile left decides to compete fairly (that means not cheat, thanks ACORN), report news fairly, not race-bait and then turn on those who don't vote the way the left so authorizes, vilify whole groups of people based on their geographic and socio-economic status, and demean people's intelligence, don't be acting all shocked about this kind of behavior.

Law enforcement will do their job, but as long as the left engages in their own brand of hate speech, they should be the last ones bitching abut hate being directed back.

REVERSE VIAGRA a Chapin’s INFERNO on Women and Politics

Barack Obama is now the star of a new video game called “Super Obama World.”

In Super Obama World, armed with nothing but guns and religion, you do battle with liberal Democrats who are trying to take your Super Obama World game and give it to somebody who doesn’t have one because of Republicans. When your game is gone and you can’t play anymore, you lose. In order to continue to play you have to turn in your gun at a “Super Obama World for guns” program so you can get the game back and then stop at William Ayers house and purchase the cheat codes.

This game seems so real you’ll wonder if it isn’t.

Last summer, I had the privilege of producing and directing a documentary, written by University of Dayton history professor Larry Schweikart, about Ronald Reagan's winning of the Cold War. There are two sides to every story, and thanks to liberal academia, we've only heard that side.

Larry Schweikart, history professor at the University of Dayton, contends that liberal historians have poorly documented American history.  Mr. Schweikart presents his research on several moments in history that he believes have inaccuracies, including whether "the first presidents intended to be isolationists" and if "the constitution was the creation of 'elites.'"

This event was hosted by Books & Company in Beavercreek, Ohio.

Simply stated, everything we've learned about history from liberals must be questioned.

This is one of those reoccurring CNN class envy, non-stories we get for the amusement of some and revulsion of others.

The global economy may be undergoing a significant downturn, but the White House's dinner budget still appears flush with cash. After all, world leaders who are in town to discuss the economic crisis are set to dine in style Friday night while sipping wine listed at nearly $500 a bottle.

According to the White House, tonight's dinner to kick off the G-20 summit includes such dishes as "Fruitwood-smoked Quail," "Thyme-roasted Rack of Lamb," and "Tomato, Fennel and Eggplant Fondue Chanterelle Jus."

To wash it all down, world leaders will be served Shafer Cabernet “Hillside Select” 2003, a wine that sells at $499 on Wine.com.

Like homelessness, I don't recall too many stories like this during the Clinton years, and I don't expect to see too many during the coming Obama years. Not because homelessness and hunger have been solved, but their mere mention is an embarrassment that need be shoved under the rug until Republicans can be blamed later.

By popular demand…

Just when liberals thought it was safe to start identifying themselves as such, an acclaimed, veteran psychiatrist is making the case that the ideology motivating them is actually a mental disorder.

"Based on strikingly irrational beliefs and emotions, modern liberals relentlessly undermine the most important principles on which our freedoms were founded," says Dr. Lyle Rossiter, author of the new book, "The Liberal Mind: The Psychological Causes of Political Madness." "Like spoiled, angry children, they rebel against the normal responsibilities of adulthood and demand that a parental government meet their needs from cradle to grave."

Now that the election is (for all intents and purposes) over, it may be a little harder to get the liberal reaction to this because those who were assigned to this site for the primary purpose of pushing back, have gone back to living their empty, pre-Obama lives.

One suggestion to the left: the normal, irrational response will only prove the point of the writer and psychologist….

The power 31 words have to make people lose their minds.

WOODBURY — No one's sure when daily recitations of the Pledge of Allegiance fell by the wayside at Woodbury Elementary School.

But efforts to restore them have erupted into a bitter dispute in this tiny (pop. 810) Vermont town, with school officials blocking the exercise from classrooms amid concerns that it holds nonparticipating children up to scorn.

Supporters say the classroom is the place for it, and the disagreement has fueled an increasingly acrimonious debate.

Another piece of American tradition being thrown under the now very crowded under-chassis of the bus. Why do we (on both sides of issues) let little things bother us so? We're talking about 31 words, including the infamous "under God". Is this hate speech? How do they hurt?

Just words.

Better build the wall a little higher… you know, just in case:

Beginning December 1, Mexico City plans to hand out free medicine to elderly men with erectile dysfunction, the local government said.
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“Everyone has the right to be happy,” said Marcelo Ebrard Casaubon, governor of the federal district that encompasses the Mexican capital.

So getting a hard-on is a “human right” now? Great. Add that to the list. But what about Mexican women? Don’t they have a right to be happy? And by “happy” I mean not constantly surrounded by horny old men who can toss their sombreros 15 feet into the air without using their hands.

In the meantime, be on the lookout, because a new breed of super fence faulter could be coming our way… if you’ll pardon the expression.

(h/t Joyanna Adams)

It will be interesting to see how this plays out.

Gay rights supporters waving rainbow colors marched, chanted and danced in cities coast to coast Saturday to protest the vote that banned gay marriage in California and to urge supporters not to quit the fight for the right to wed.

"Civil marriages are a civil right, and we're going to keep fighting until we get the rights we deserve as American citizens," Karen Amico said in Philadelphia, holding up a sign reading "Don't Spread H8".

Tell that to the activists in California, mad at blacks who voted against Proposition 8, that said, "If your people want to call me a faggot, I will call you a nigger."

"We are the American family, we live next door to you, we teach your children, we take care of your elderly," said Heather Baker a special education teacher from Boston who addressed the crowd at Boston's City Hall Plaza. "We need equal rights across the country."

If he and his people observed history, the incoming President Barack Obama won't touch this.

!993's "Don't ask, don't tell" cost Bill Clinton the House and the Senate in 1994. Obama's people won't step in that, and will have to walk a tightrope between the American mainstream and the activists who've discovered the words "civil rights" and "nigger" and are now very liberal in their use.

Bob Parks talks about his life and how he became a conservative.
— Paul A. Ibbetson, host, The Conscience of Kansas

In this segment I speak with Bob Parks about the Fairness Doctrine and the project in the works at New Media Alliance Television.
— Paul A. Ibbetson, host, The Conscience of Kansas

LIFE THOUGHTS BY DUCKY

Saw a woman wearing a sweat shirt with 'Guess' on it.
So I said 'Implants?' She hit me.

How come we choose from just two people to run for president and over fifty for Miss America?

Now that food has replaced sex in my life, I can't even get into my own pants.

Signed up for an exercise class and was told to wear loose fitting clothing. If I HAD any loose fitting clothing, I wouldn't have signed up in the first place!

Wouldn't it be nice if whenever we messed up our life we could simply press 'Ctrl Alt Delete' and start all over?

Why is it that our children can't read a Bible in school, but they can in prison?

Bumper sticker of the year:
'If you can read this, thank a teacher - and, since it's in English, thank a soldier'

h/t Sher

When the "artists" in West Hollywood hung Sarah Palin in effigy for Halloween, it was considered free speech. Imply the same with Barack Obama and they make a federal case of it.

The U.S. Secret Service is being asked to review a sign a Bonner County landowner put up which suggests a "free public hanging" of President-elect Barack Obama and several other political figures. The handmade cardboard sign also features a noose fashioned from a length of nylon rope.

A "free public hanging" as opposed to what, a pay-per-view?

"That's a political statement. They can call it whatever they want, a threat or whatever," said Ken Germana, who installed the sign on his property off Golden Gate Road in southwestern Bonner County.

Obama's name is the most prominent on the sign, although it also bears the names of former Democrat presidential nominee John Kerry, current U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi and civil rights activist and former presidential candidate Al Sharpton.

I don't understand what all the fuss is about.

Don't get me wrong; no one in a right mind would threaten the president. But when there's a movie about an Obama assassination while he's still in office, then those hypersensitive amongst us will have cause to squeal.

Official foodstuff of the Democrat Party 2008 campaign talk-down issue: the economy.

It's only been a week and a half since we (they) voted in liberal America. I told you they'd overreach…

Since November 8th, gays and blacks have been brought together and now it's atheists against everyone who likes Christmas.

Change we can believe in.

Now that the media feels the need to come clean, we can't leave out Katie Couric's revelation.

Couric shed some light on her preparation for the interviews: Beforehand, she sought advice from former senator Sam Nunn and Council on Foreign Relations president Richard Haas. They told her to draw Palin out on her geopolitical worldview and urged her to let the governor speak at length without interrupting her. Maybe she should bring them along with her when she takes over at Meet the Press?

Wow. Sarah Palin was set up for ambush by Katie "library card" Couric.

How ironic.

Well, that's basically what you call it when 70% vote one way, and there's an organized effort to reverse that vote.

Five civil rights groups asked California's highest court Friday to annul the state's new same-sex marriage ban on the grounds that Proposition 8 threatens the legal standing of all minority groups, not just gays.

Yeah, that's a potent scare tactic. If gay marriage isn't allowed, black people may be slaves again; even with a black president….

The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Mexican-American Legal Defense Fund, Asian Pacific American Legal Center and two other groups petitioned the state Supreme Court to issue a stay preventing the ballot initiative approved by voters last week from taking effect.

The petition is the fourth seeking to have the measure invalidated. But it's the first to argue that the court should step in because the gay marriage ban, which overturned the Supreme Court ruling that legalized gay unions, sets a precedent that could be used to undermine the rights of racial minorities.

And now that gay activists in California can say things like,

"It was like being at a klan rally except the klansmen were wearing Abercrombie polos and Birkenstocks. YOU NIGGER, one man shouted at men. If your people want to call me a FAGGOT, I will call you a nigger. Someone else said same thing to me on the next block near the temple…me and my friend were walking, he is also gay but Korean, and a young WeHo clone said after last night the niggers better not come to West Hollywood if they knew what was BEST for them."

When blacks were supposedly going to have their Obama votes disqualified because of irregularities, that was "voter disenfranchisement", but should gay activists be successful in overturning a vote, that'll be justice.

Maybe racist gays (never thought we'd be able to use that one) need find additional people to whip.

And like I said, if you have to single out and protest black people, don't do it in West Hollywood where no one can hear you. Take your narrow asses to South Central, Inglewood, and Compton and protest where the niggaz can see and hear you, instead of all this chicken shit whining.

And I hope black people remember that the Republican Party is not one of those groups seeking to overturn your votes, but the NAACP and others. Funny how that works.

Look who's really running Wall Street.

With all that's been going on for the last few months, this kind of makes sense.

If you missed Dennis Miller on O’Reilly on Wednesday, it’s worth a look. The classic the rip on Sarah Palin’s female critics from the Upper East Side and the fact that Miller managed to get the libs exercised about homophobia yet again are entertaining, but there’s more:

Can you believe that Dick Morris is actually expressing astonishment over the possibility that Barack Obama might choose Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State?

Of course Obama would be giving up a huge amount of power by letting liberal foxes freely roam the socialist henhouse! It wouldn’t make sense for Obama to do that, but there’s a good reason that Hillary jumped in line to support him so readily, and it wasn’t just to be a “good soldier.” In Washington, loyalty isn’t something that’s earned — it’s a commodity that’s sold.

You’re right, Obama’s in a pickle, Dick. If he doesn’t offer Hillary a prominent post, she’ll make trouble. If he does, she’ll make trouble.

I’m sure Bill’s lobbying like crazy for Hillary to be appointed SOS. Do you realize how much she’d be out of the country? YeeHawwww!

Typical. Like most ignorant liberals, Keith had to use black people to make his "argument", as well as appeal to the Christian nature he so often mocks.

h/t Hector G

Wouldn't you know it? A book tour….

Ayers downplayed any close ties to Obama despite the reference to "family friend." I'm talking there about the fact that I became an issue, unwillingly and unwittingly," he said. "It was a profoundly dishonest narrative. … I'm describing there how the blogosphere characterized the relationship."

"I would say, really, that we knew each other in a professional way on the same level of, say, thousands of other people," he said. He added, echoing a phrase that Obama used to describe Ayers, "I am a guy around the neighborhood."

The college professor argued to "Good Morning America's" Chris Cuomo today that the bombing campaign by the Weather Underground, the group he helped found, was not terrorism.

The Weather Underground bombed the Capitol, the Pentagon and the New York City Police Department in protest of the Vietnam War. "It's not terrorism because it doesn't target people, to kill or injure," Ayers said.

Wouldn't you know it? A book tour….

Ayers downplayed any close ties to Obama despite the reference to "family friend." I'm talking there about the fact that I became an issue, unwillingly and unwittingly," he said. "It was a profoundly dishonest narrative. … I'm describing there how the blogosphere characterized the relationship."

"I would say, really, that we knew each other in a professional way on the same level of, say, thousands of other people," he said. He added, echoing a phrase that Obama used to describe Ayers, "I am a guy around the neighborhood."

The college professor argued to "Good Morning America's" Chris Cuomo today that the bombing campaign by the Weather Underground, the group he helped found, was not terrorism.

The Weather Underground bombed the Capitol, the Pentagon and the New York City Police Department in protest of the Vietnam War. "It's not terrorism because it doesn't target people, to kill or injure," Ayers said.

Your “flowery, fluffy, feelgood, skipping through the poppies” quote of the week comes to us courtesy of Linda Tripp, who you may remember as the former interpreter for Monica Lewinsky back when Monica was being rude enough to try and speak into FBI tape recorders with her mouth full.

Tripp weighed in recently on the election of Barack Obama. I wish I had some pancakes to put all this syrup on:

I believe President-elect Obama possesses an instantly recognizable purity of soul that, coupled with his brilliance, and, of course, his eloquence, brought quite unimaginable and long-awaited magic to the country, transforming red and blue states, quite literally, into ‘The Color Purple.’

Knock it off, Linda. The left will never like you, so give it up already. The same kind of vicious machine that tried (and mostly succeeded) to destroy you is being re-animated in Washington, DC and you’re singing its praises?

Judging from Tripp’s statement, I think it’s safe to assume that she’s spent the years subsequent to the Clinton administration reading lots of Maya Angelou books.

I do agree though that we are now “purple” states. That’s often the color taxpayers turn to when they’re in the process of being squeezed to death.

Under normal circumstances, many of us would show some empathy for those suffering. Many of us do, however if some of the Hollywood intelligentsia who promoted "change", then if that's all that's left in their wallets, oh well.

Conventional wisdom dictates that Hollywood could always shrug off economic downturns because worried consumers spend more on entertainment when times are tough.

Not this time. Everywhere one looks, the entertainment business is in a world of hurt. The downturn is slamming the balance sheets and stocks of major media companies. Banks and hedge funds are cutting or eliminating movie financing, putting projects at studios and independents in peril. TV networks, reeling from an advertising decline, are slashing costs and trimming staffs.

"Every single source of capital has suffered a seismic shock that we haven't seen in our lifetimes," said Nigel Sinclair, co-principal of film producer Spitfire Pictures. "That's going to lead to a broad squeeze throughout the studio system."

Of course, we don't want to see the "ordinary people" hurt, and they'll be the first to feel the pinch.

Then again, if there are fewer crappy movies, television programs, "music", and some overbearing, narcissistic celebrities catch cold, boo f-ing hoo.

Can you imagine what these people will be up to once a friendly federal administration is in place to cover for them?

Ohio Inspector General Tom Charles said his office is now looking at a half-dozen agencies that accessed state records on Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher.

The Beacon Journal has learned that, in addition to the Department of Job and Family Services, two other state offices — the Ohio Department of Taxation and Ohio Attorney General Nancy Rogers — conducted database searches of Joe the Plumber.

The next day, the taxation department conducted two separate searches of a database of liens for unpaid taxes that were certified to the Ohio Attorney General's Office for collection.

It's only going to get better. I'm not sure I can contain myself with all this change and hope up in here….

It’s time to settle this question once and for all.

Many bloggers and commenters on Internet forums, such as here, here and here are asking when the funeral of Obama’s grandmother took place, if the President-Elect attended, and if so, why wasn’t the fawning press all over the occasion?

Okay, here’s the scoop: My sources tell me that the family wanted to keep it low-key, so yes, Obama did attend, and his grandmother, after a brief service, was cremated along with some items she cherished: Her wedding ring, favorite blanket, and grandson’s birth certificate.

I hope this settles the issue once and for all.

/ConspiracyFodder