So, making a profit is A-OK. As long as you are Democrat cash cow. Not like those eeeevil oil and insurance companies.

From BBC News:

Google has reported its highest quarterly profit, suggesting that the internet advertising market is bouncing back from the recession.

Google reported net profit of $1.64bn (£1bn) for the third quarter, a 27% increase on the same period a year ago.

Revenue for the three-month period came in at $4.38bn, which was well ahead of analysts’ expectations of $1.29bn.

“The worst of the recession is clearly behind us,” said Google chief executive Eric Schmidt.

“Because of what we have seen, we now have the confidence to be optimistic about our future.”

Google’s shares rose $16.44, or 3.1%, to $546.35 in extended trading.

Of course, according to Harry “$41 billion is a drop in the bucket” Reid, if say, an up and coming business made this kind of quarterly profit , he would be calling for their heads, their wallets and their firstborn.

Also, I must disagree with two items in the story.

- “They did great on every single metric. We think this is sustainable.”

If that person is referring to their services, he is a Google-Ade Drinker. Personally, I place most Google apps at the bottom of the barrel. Gmail is the worst webmail client out there, hands down. It is clunky, down a lot and a royal pain in the a** to code for, as it has zero support for external CSS, while all other webmail clients worth their salt support it just fine.

Analytics is a joke as it can undercount true site traffic by as much as 80% or more.

- “Bing is too tiny now”

That may be the case for the moment, but here is one time that Microsoft appears to have gotten it right. The Bing platform looks for more extensible than the Google’s API ever will be.

And the Google search engine is and in my opinion has always been overrated and lackluster. Add the cherry-picking they do with their algorithims to push forward leftist and porn sites and they are pretty useless as a search engine nowadays. That is one reason I use Bing about 90% of the time for searches nowadays as it is actually a search engine and not a political form.

I have been a major Microsoft basher for over 20 years, but I think with Windows 7 and Bing, they are poised for a comeback and can give Google serious trouble. I remember back around ’98 telling my fellow techie roommate that Microsoft would be fairly irrelevant inside of 10 years, and aside from the OS market, that is true. I predict the same for Google, except I expect them to fall sooner.

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It sure is getting crowded at the head of the Obama Gaffe Line.

While Joe Biden, The Lobotimized Howdy Doody (Gibbs) and a teleprompterless President are always good for a good gaffe or ten every few weeks, we now seem to have a female administration official who is looking to break the glass ceiling and give Democractic women the world over the opportunity to put their foot in their mouths with the best of them. And all without causing even the tiniest little run in their pantyhose.

As Michelle Malkin puts it:

Earlier this week, I spotlighted White House interim communications director and chief Fox-basher Anita Dunn’s career-long commitment to flacking for one of the Beltway’s most entrenched and crooked creatures, Tom Daschle.

I also noted that Dunn is married to Obama thug lawyer Robert Bauer, who tried valiantly to get the DOJ to prosecute conservative critics and punish TV stations for running an ad critical of Obama’s relationship with Weather Underground Bill Ayers.

Add to the mix this fun fact from Glenn Beck…Dunn is a Mao enthusiast. The White House says she is joking.

And the main dish:

Why worry about being able to touch your toes when you can just as easily taste them?

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With all of the vitriol and verbal terrorism coming out of the Left’s mouths over the last several weeks on such earth-shattering subjects such as whether Rush Limbaugh is allowed to buy an NFL team or whether pointing out the very red color of the latest health care charade, one subject has slipped under the radar recently. That being the legal status of the President to serve in office.

Fortunately for us, two unlikely sources, the AP and Obama himself, have taken up the cause, even if retroactively and so it rises up from the usual political muck again.

From The Post and Email blog site comes word that in 2004, an AP story claimed that Obama was a proud, self-declared natural-born citizen of Kenya.

To wit, from their site:

What most people know is that the Associated Press (AP) is one of the largest, internationally recognized, syndicated news services. What most people don’t know that is in 2004, the AP was a “birther” news organization.

How so? Because in a syndicated report, published Sunday, June 27, 2004, by the Kenyan Standard Times, and which was, as of this report, available at

http://web.archive.org/web/20040627142700/eastandard.net/headlines/news26060403.htm

The AP reporter stated the following:

“Kenyan-born US Senate hopeful, Barrack Obama, appeared set to take over the Illinois Senate seat after his main rival, Jack Ryan, dropped out of the race on Friday night amid a furor over lurid sex club allegations.”

This report explains the context of the oft cited debate, between Obama and Keyes in the following Fall, in which Keyes faulted Obama for not being a “natural born citizen”, and in which Obama, by his quick retort, “So what? I am running for Illinois Senator, not the presidency”, self-admitted that he was not eligible for the office. Seeing that an AP reporter is too professional to submit a story which was not based on confirmed sources (ostensibly the Obama campaign in this case), the inference seems inescapable: Obama himself was putting out in 2004, that he was born in Kenya.

As the author of the post notes, Google as usual, is trying its best to thwart efforts to find the 2004 AP story in question. As he says…

because if you search for “Kenyan-born US Senate” you wont find it, but if you search for the phrase without quotes you will find links which talk about it.

Thankfully, there is still a screenshot of the Kenyan Sunday Standard, electronic edition, dated June 27, 2004 that carries the headline and opening sentence of “Kenyan-born Obama all set for U.S. Senate”.

Certainly eyebrow-raising, if nothing else. As the Chinese curse goes, “May you live in interesting times”.

For more, including a chronological breakdown of the differing claims of birthplace from Obama and/or his campaigns, go to Post and Email blog site.

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Hate to say I told ya so…but…

In the most predictable act that this pus-filled boil of a Congress has yet pulled off since The Missing Kenyan was sworn into office, comes news that America’s second-largest criminal enterprise, (behind only the Democratic National Committee itself) will be again be sucking like Halloween vampires hopped up on speed on the taxpayer’s wallet come November.

Speaking on radio station KTKL today, Rep. Michelle Bachmann (R-MN) revealed that ACORN’s “defunding” was to only last one month and once October is up, they will be partying like it is January 2009.

Short, but sweet.

As discussed in the interview and elsewhere, is it not so coincidental that during the one month that Congress pretended to “defund” ACORN, they receive an $900,000 “grant” for firefighting and fire prevention. A grant that was originally earmarked for the state of Louisiana and their firefighting programs and stations.

From Sweetness & Light:

September 22, 2009

(Washington, D.C.) – U.S. Sen. David Vitter today sent a letter to U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano urging that she rescind an Assistance to Firefighters Grant awarded to the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now.

“With fire departments all over Louisiana – and the rest of the country – struggling to make ends meet and get the equipment and training they need to protect their local communities, the idea of a million dollar grant going to ACORN is unsettling, to say the least,” said Vitter. “ACORN’s continued contempt for state and federal laws has placed their entire organization under a cloud of serious scrutiny, and this grant should be rescinded and awarded to a more deserving group of first responders.”

A grant in the amount of $997,402 was awarded to ACORN under the FY 2008 Fire Prevention and Safety Program. In his letter, Vitter questions the logic behind awarding such a large sum to an organization with no clear expertise in fire safety and prevention.

“I’ve had grave reservations about ACORN for some time, and over the past year, we’ve seen numerous examples of serious allegations of wrongdoing on the part of this organization and its employees across the country,” Vitter said. “I simply can’t see the logic behind diverting much needed funding from worthy fire departments to this organization.”

The only thing that this POS criminal organization knows about fires is starting them.

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Well, they say the hangover is the worst part of having a good time.

If that is the case, here is one example of one person (a former Democrat speechwriter) who fortunately is starting to see the light before the giant keg of ObamaCare Kool-Ade is cracked, opened, dispensed and given to all of those wanting their free drink with their free lunch.

Goes to show there might be hope. Even among those thought totally beyond the reach of reason and common sense.

From Politics Daily: Hat Tip – Hot Air

In the past, I paid attention to the health care debate as a speechwriter who prepared speeches, talking points, op-eds, and debate prep material on the topic at different times for John Edwards, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and others. Now, I’m paying attention because I’m a citizen up the creek without a paddle.

In D.C., I had a policy with a national company, an HMO, and surprisingly I was very happy with it. I had a fantastic primary care doctor at Georgetown University Hospital. As a self-employed writer, my premium was $225 a month, plus $10 for a dental discount.

In Massachusetts, the cost for a similar plan is around $550, give or take a few dollars. My risk factors haven’t changed. I didn’t stop writing and become a stunt double. I don’t smoke. I drink a little and every once in a while a little more than I should. I have a Newfoundland dog. I am only 41. There has been no change in the way I live my life except my zip code — to a state with universal health care.

Massachusetts has enacted many of the necessary reforms being talked about in Washington. There is a mandate for all residents to get insurance, a law to prevent insurance companies from denying coverage because of a pre-existing condition, an automatic enrollment requirement, and insurance companies are no longer allowed to cap coverage or drop people when they get sick becaus

Ed Morrisey’s take:

And what did that do to premiums? Button has to pay a whopping 144% increase in premiums over her costs in DC, not exactly a city known for its low cost of living in the first place. In order to provide coverage with all of the mandates Massachusetts imposes, health insurers had to more than double premiums to meet the costs.

Nor is this the only such example of economic disaster that government-mandated coverage generates. Earlier this summer, we looked at Maine’s DirigoChoice, an Orwellian term for a program full of mandates on individuals and insurers. The combination resulted in premiums over 300% more expensive than in neighboring New Hampshire, and in an operating deficit so large that it no longer can accept all of the applications by uninsured Maine residents.

She does seem to be slowly opening her eyes. Simply acknowledging the fact that all is not unicorns and puppies when it comes to the government, at any level, administering your health care, is the first and most important step of getting those that still have some functioning common sense brain cells from coming over to the side of reality. A tough road to hoe, of course, in this age of Obama/American Idol/Daily Show Cultbots.

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…then this one sums it up in just two. (or maybe four…or maybe six)

Hat Tip to Legal Insurrection

From the New York Times (Hat Tip: Michelle Malkin)

Another contemporary work chosen by the Obamas is a word painting by the California artist Ed Ruscha. Called “I Think I’ll … ” it deals with the subject of indecision. The work depicts a brilliant red sunset against which Mr. Ruscha has painted phrases like “Maybe … Yes … ” and “Maybe … No … ” and “On Second Thought.”

Since we are dealing with “maybes”, “indecision” and “coulda, woulda and shouldas”, I feel that the image displayed below is one hell of a lot more accurate. As in “s*** or get off the pot” as opposed to voting “present” over 100 times in the Senate and start dealing with the real issues at hand, like a nuclear Iran, undermanned troops in Afghanistan, an economy in tatters etc etc etc..(my apologies for the imagery)

Art. Call it as you see it.

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Just saw this mentioned by a commenter on Michelle Malkin’s site:

From CNS (Hat Tip: Red State)

(CNSNews.com) — A senior aide to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) told CNSNews.com that it is “likely” that Reid will use H.R. 1586—a bill passed by the House in March to impose a 90-percent tax on bonuses paid to employees of certain bailed-out financial institutions—as a “shell” for enacting the final version of the Senate’s health care bill, which Reid is responsible for crafting.

Under the procedure, the substance of House Resolution 1586 would be removed and replaced with the entire Senate health care package. The maneuver would initially require the support of 60 senators to vote for cloture on the motion to proceed to H.R. 1586 (i.e., end debate on the congressional procedure and move forward).

If Reid wins 60 votes, then debate begins on his health care package. Reid could then decide to block all amendments and attempt to get a vote on the entire package.

However, a senator could filibuster the final vote, requiring another 60-vote majority to move forward. But if Reid decides to allow any amendments, each amendment could be filibustered, requiring a 60-vote majority to move to a final vote on each of them. An amendment that has the support of more than 50 but less than 60 senators could end up stopping the bill if neither side backs down. But if Reid is able to structure the debate so that all 60 senators who caucus with the Democrats stick with the party on cloture votes, he can pass the bill and send it to back to the House–where it originated as an entirely different bill in substance.

If the House were to then vote on the bill as passed by the Senate without amending it, it could be sent directly to the president for his signature without going through a House-Senate conference committee and another round of votes in each chamber.

Keep the pressure on. Call, fax, email or pick up a bullhorn and contact wavering GOP senators.

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