I love the classics.

Isn’t it great that we are all equal in his sight?  Sorry, this is creepy.

Partially transcribed lyrics:

Lyrics
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Mmm, mmm, mm!

Barack Hussein Obama
He said that all must lend a hand [?]
To make this country strong again
Mmm, mmm, mm!

Barack Hussein Obama
He said we must be clear today
Equal work means equal pay
Mmm, mmm, mm!

Barack Hussein Obama
He said that we must take a stand
To make sure everyone gets a chance
Mmm, mmm, mm!

Barack Hussein Obama
He said Red, Yellow, Black or White
All are equal in his sight
Mmm, mmm, mm!

Barack Hussein Obama
Yes
Mmm, mmm, mm!

Barack Hussein Obama

segue to

Hello, Mr. President we honor you today!
For all your great accomplishments, we all [do? doth??] say “hooray!”
Hooray Mr. President! You’re number one!
The first Black American to lead this great na-TION!
Hooray, Mr. President something-something-some
A-something-something-something-some economy is number one again!
Hooray Mr. President, we’re really proud of you!
And the same for all Americans [in?] the great Red White and Blue!
So something Mr. President we all just something-some,
So here’s a hearty hip-hooray a-something-something-some!
Hip, hip hooray! (3x)

So the whole ACORN pimp scandal is not going away.  For those not paying attention, two people posing as a pimp and his whore have been seeking tax advice from ACORN all across the nation.  It began in Baltimore, then DC, then New York and on to two locations in Southern California.

Dressed to validate every b movie stereotype, and making their story more and more outrageous (the pimp is going to run for office, and they are importing underage sex slaves from El Salvador) the pair still was never refused.  ACORN workers advised them to hide the ill gotten gains in a coffee can in the backyard, schooled the pimp on deniability and even found a way to make the sex slaves dependents for tax purposes.

Congress had removed their funding for now, the Census Bureau and the IRS have cut all ties but many congressman still defend them…if they even admit to having heard of the scandal in the first place.

The most absurd thing has been the lawsuit filed by ACORN for defamation against the pair.  Apparently exposing you as the slimes you are based solely on your own words, on video, counts as defamation.

To the Issaquah Highlands, anyway.  After being in the same apartment complex for the last 7.5 years, my daughter and I decided to move to a new location, save a few bucks in rent and basically establish a new space for ourselves.

While I am in the process of moving, blogging will be lite for a few days.

Meanwhile here is something to entertain you while I get all moved in.

This is how you know when your child is way too obsessed with a video game…

Since the left is buzzing that Joe Wilson is a Health industry darling for taking donations from the health care industry, I did some checking.  Thanks Eugene, for getting me curious.

So off to opensecrets.org and here is what I found.  Yes, Joe Wilson did take $244k from the health industry.  Here are his top three industry contributors:

• Health Professionals $244,196
• Lawyers/Law Firms $211,870
• Real Estate $195,179

Wow.

But then I did more checking, and compared to his contemporaries, he is a frugal piker.

Pelosi:

• Lawyers/Law Firms $689,225
• Transportation Unions $563,600
• Health Professionals $555,750

Reid:

• Lawyers/Law Firms $3,285,351
• Casinos/Gambling $1,521,470
• Real Estate $1,013,256
• Health Professionals $932,876

So, I popped over to the industry section, and found these totals for the health care industry:

This cycle so far:

• 2010  Total:   $12,051,244
• To Democrats:  $7,028,002
• To Republicans:  $4,997,478

2008

• 2008 Total:  $95,185,139
• To dems:  $50,024,729
• To Repubs:  $44,890,149

 Hmm.  So digging into the health care industry, who are the top recipients?

Give sorrow words;
the grief that does not speak
Whispers the o’er-fraught heart
and bids it break.
~ William Shakespeare, in Macbeth, Act IV, Scene III

“If I am to wear this mourning cloak, let it be made of the fabric of love, woven by the fine thread of memory.”
~ Molly Fumia

Remember.

In the speech to congress last night, Obama said this:

There are also those who claim that our reform effort will insure illegal immigrants. This, too, is false – the reforms I’m proposing would not apply to those who are here illegally.

This prompted Rep Joe Wilson (R, SC) to vocally call him a liar.

So….who lied?

Answer:  Neither and Both.

The problem lies in the nuance of the statements.

The reforms do NOT apply to illegals, but they also do not include any provision to actually check to see if someone is illegal, so they are shadow rules at best. 

Factcheck.org sums it up:

The president is correct: The House bill contains a section (Sec. 246) titled “NO FEDERAL PAYMENT FOR UNDOCUMENTED ALIENS,” which states: “Nothing in this subtitle shall allow Federal payments for affordability credits on behalf of individuals who are not lawfully present in the United States.”

If the prepared remarks are an accurate indication, and I have no reason to believe they are not, then all the fuss has been wasted time.

As Hot Air notes, had he just released this instead of that study guide that even the White House admits was poorly set up, then we would not be here:

In fact, had the White House skipped the study guide and simply released the speech from the beginning, it seems unlikely that this would have created much controversy at all.

…

I think the White House and Obama fouled this up from the beginning, making it look much more political than necessary, and gave their critics a boatload of ammunition with which to attack them. The speech, included in its entirety below, turned out to be entirely innocuous. But by asking teachers to impress upon children the need to “help President Obama,” they made it look blatantly political. They seem to have forgotten that they’re the public servants, and that the people do not live to serve political masters. As Frank Wilson puts it in another context, Americans see themselves as citizens, not subjects, with the President only of a higher rank for the temporary period of time that we put him there. This has been incompetently handled from beginning to end, including the highly embarrassing scheduling that inadvertently excluded millions of students from the speech.

It started with the AP deciding to run with a photo despite being asked not to by the family:

Shame on the selfish Associated Press. Shame.

Via Politico, AP defies common decency for the Greater Good (hat tip – Blackfive):

Defense Secretary Robert Gates is objecting “in the strongest terms” to an Associated Press decision to transmit a photograph showing a mortally wounded 21-year-old Marine in his final moments of life, calling the decision “appalling” and a breach of “common decency.”

The AP reported that the Marine’s father had asked – in an interview and in a follow-up phone call — that the image, taken by an embedded photographer, not be published.

The AP reported in a story that it decided to make the image public anyway because it “conveys the grimness of war and the sacrifice of young men and women fighting it.”

…

The health care debate continues to heat up and shows no sign of letting up.  today we had a pro health care supporter chew off the finger of an opponent.  Sick.

Both sides remain entrenched and passionate but it occurs to me that both sides live in a comfort zone of extremes.

For example, the left wants to make this an imperative of moral conscience, that we must provide health care to all, and the only other option is to do nothing. 

The right mandates its refusal to bow to government run health care, sometimes ignoring that there are already government run health care systems in place now. 

And somewhere in the middle, perhaps, the truth may live.

Maybe there is a way to modify what exists now to extend coverage to those who need it without giving the government carte blanche to seize control over another industry.