Happy Birthday to my beautiful wonderful 23 year old daughter! I hope you have a terrific day today my “little Bucket” 🙂

Democrat Senator Chris Dodd announced today he has prostate cancer. We’re left wondering if he will be treated in Canada or England since, according to his fellow left wingers, our healthcare system is so jacked up.

U.S. Senator Christopher Dodd has been diagnosed with early-stage prostate cancer. Dodd is scheduled to undergo surgery during the Senate’s August recess and said he expects to be back at work after a “brief recuperation” at home.

New York to use taxpayer funds to pay women for their donated eggs to be used for stem cell research. Keep in mind the state just pushed through some massive tax hikes on their citizens because officials said the state was flat broke.

Hanqi Miao said she wanted to donate her eggs to help infertile couples reproduce, but she acknowledged the money is good, too: She said she’ll be paid about $5,000. “Who doesn’t want money in your hand?” said the 21-year-old woman, who will have to undergo hormone treatments that could abnormally swell her ovaries to the size of small grapefruits and cause discomfort.

Walter Williams opines on Congress and the Obama administration’s hijacking of our Constitution.

How can political commentators, politicians and academics get away with statements like “Reagan budget deficits,” “Clinton budget surplus,” “Bush budget deficits” or “Obama’s tax increases”? The only answer is that they, or the people who believe such statements, are ignorant, conniving or just plain stupid. Article I, Section 7 of the U.S. Constitution reads: “All bills for raising revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose or concur with amendments as on other Bills.” A president has no power to raise or lower taxes.

The birth certificate controversy? It’s 100% Obama’s fault. Oh, and his father’s for not being a U.S. citizen.

t’s good practice to take a person at his word until someone shows you proof he is lying. Barack Obama says he was born in Hawaii, and since no one has shown any proof he was born in Kenya or elsewhere, it’s OK to conclude he was born in Hawaii.

Time magazine may as well be Obama magazine as O shows up on the cover for the seventh time since the election. This time dressed up as a doctor. Pathetic.

Time magazine’s August 10 edition with President Barack Obama on the cover (“Paging Dr. Obama”) trying to heal the nation in a photo illustration as a physician, wearing a white smock with a stethoscope around his neck, brings to seven the number of issues the magazine’s cover has featured Obama just since November’s election — make that eight for the First Family if you add in June 1’s genuflecting “The Meaning of Michelle.” Amongst the seven of President Obama: “Person of the Year” and Obama as FDR.

Make non-taxpaying voters pay for vote-buying programs. Works for me.

The United States needs a new income-tax amendment to the Constitution in order to impose fiscal discipline on the Congress and the president. The amendment would impose a proportional tax on all taxpayers to finance all future government programs.

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Obama’s science and technology “czar” advocates allowing trees to sue for violations to their legal rights. You cannot make this stuff up if you tried.

Since the 1970s, some radical environmentalists have argued that trees have legal rights and should be allowed to go to court to protect those rights. The idea has been endorsed by John P. Holdren, the man who now advises President Barack Obama on science and technology issues.

Google computer engineer in serious condition after taking 100 lb tree branch to the head while walking through New York’s Central Park.

A Google genius was in a coma Wednesday night after a rotting branch snapped off a tree in Central Park and smashed him in the head. Sasha Blair-Goldensohn was walking to work through the park when a 100-pound limb came crashing from a massive pin oak tree near W. 63rd St.

She’s an old lady and she doesn’t care what people think about her selling her TVs because she is sick of seeing Obama’s ugly mug on the damn things every five minutes.

A 78-year-old Carroll woman says she’s so tired of seeing President Barack Obama on the airwaves that she’s selling her television sets – two of them. Deloris Nissen, a retired nurses’ aide and former Kmart employee who was raised on a farm near Audubon, placed a classified advertisement with The Daily Times Herald for Friday’s paper. In the $5.50 ad, Nissen tells readers she has two television sets for sale. The reason: “Obama on every channel and station.”

Bad news for Houston as Royal Dutch Shell plans on reducing capital investment and cutting jobs as profits drop substantially.

Royal Dutch Shell Plc plans to reduce capital spending by about 10 percent next year and make further “substantial” job cuts, saying the economy won’t recover any time soon. The budget to buy and maintain assets will drop to about $28 billion in 2010 from as much as $32 billion this year, The Hague-based Shell, whose North American operations are based in Houston, said today in a statement after posting a 67 drop in quarterly earnings.

More happy news for the oil company haters.

Georgia cops suspended for performing background check on Obama using patrol vehicle’s computer. Knuckleheads are about two years too late.

Two DeKalb County Officers are being investigated for allegedly performing a background check on President Barack Obama. Officers Ryan White and C.M. Route have been placed on administrative leave pending the outcome of the investigation, according to DeKalb County spokeswoman Sheila Edwards.

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If you own an iPhone ya better read this.

If you receive a text message on your iPhone any time after Thursday afternoon containing only a single square character, Charlie Miller would suggest you turn the device off. Quickly. That small cipher will likely be your only warning that someone has taken advantage of a bug that Miller and his fellow cybersecurity researcher Collin Mulliner plan to publicize Thursday at the Black Hat cybersecurity conference in Las Vegas. Using a flaw they’ve found in the iPhone’s handling of text messages, the researchers say they’ll demonstrate how to send a series of mostly invisible SMS bursts that can give a hacker complete power over any of the smart phone’s functions.

Arizona legislators considering selling the House and Senate buildings to the Chinese then lease them back because they need the money badly. OK kidding about the Chinese part….I think.

Call it a sign of desperate times: Legislators are considering selling the House and Senate buildings where they’ve conducted state business for more than 50 years. Dozens of other state properties also may be sold as the state government faces its worst financial crisis in a generation, if not ever. The plan isn’t to liquidate state assets, though. Instead, officials hope to sell the properties and then lease them back over several years before assuming ownership again. The complex financial transaction would allow government services to continue without interruption while giving the state a fast infusion of as much as $735 million, according to Capitol projections.

Uber liberal NYC mayor and multi billionaire Michael Bloomberg not very tolerant with homeless folks. Where’s the outrage from the leftists?

New York City is buying one-way plane tickets for homeless families to leave the city, and dozens of the families have landed in Georgia and South Carolina. It’s part of a Bloomberg administration program to keep the homeless out of the expensive shelter system, which costs $36,000 a year per family. More than 550 families have left the city since 2007. All it takes is for a relative to agree to take them in.

Just to make you feel safer when visiting, keep in mind gun ownership in Chicago is strictly forbidden. The Democrat politicians running the city just want to make sure their citizens are protected.

At least 15 people were shot and wounded in Chicago overnight, seven of them in a single incident on the city’s West Side. In that incident, police were called to the scene of a shooting at Walnut Street and Homan Boulevard at 10:43 p.m. Seven people were shot, according to Fire Media Affairs Dir. Larry Langford, who said six people were initially hospitalized in critical condition and one person, an adult man, was taken in stable condition after suffering a graze wound. One person was found shot inside a grocery store and the six others were found within a half-block radius of the store, Langford said.

The left wing Politico is getting seriously nervous about the Democrats getting their asses kicked in 2010.

Democrats giddy with possibilities only six months ago now confront a perilous 2010 landscape signaled by troublesome signs of President Barack Obama’s political mortality, the plunging popularity of many governors and rising disquiet among many vulnerable House Democrats. The issue advantage has shifted as well, with Democrats facing the brunt of criticism about the pace of stimulus package spending, anxiety over rising unemployment rates and widespread uneasiness over the twin pillars of Obama’s legislative agenda: his cap-and-trade approach to climate change and the emerging health care bill.

Young lady loses job over criticisms aimed at Henry Gates, Barack Obama. Kinda sucks since asshat lefties can pretty much say whatever they want without fear of reprisal.

An aide to Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer has resigned under pressure after she labeled Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. a “racist” and dubbed President Obama “O-dumb-a” in a Facebook rant defending racial profiling. “I get it — white men have dominated for hundreds of years and there’s a lot of anger there. But HOW MUCH MORE can the white people do to correct past injustices of their ancestors?”

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Obama’s home town sees coldest July in 65 years. Weird how Al Gore is nowhere to be found lately.

Have you left your air conditioner in the closet this summer, and worn long pants more often than shorts? If so, you may not be surprised to find out that Chicago is seeing its coldest July in more than 65 years. The National Weather Service says 2009 has seen the coldest July since the official recording station was moved away from the lakefront in 1942. The average temperature this month in Chicago has been a mere 68.9 degrees.

The next time some idiot tries to tell you Obamacare is the way to go hit them over the head with this.

1. President Barack Obama repeatedly tells us that one reason national health care is needed is that we can no longer afford to pay for Medicare and Medicaid. But if Medicare and Medicaid are fiscally insolvent and gradually bankrupting our society, why is a government takeover of medical care for the rest of society a good idea? What large-scale government program has not eventually spiraled out of control, let alone stayed within its projected budget? Why should anyone believe that nationalizing health care would create the first major government program to “pay for itself,” let alone get smaller rather than larger over time? Why not simply see how the Democrats can reform Medicare and Medicaid before nationalizing much of the rest of health care? [There’s 9 more…ed]

Government dolts can’t even get this stupid “cash for clunkers” right and we’re supposed to turn over our personal heathcare to them?

Some car shoppers are finding that their trade-in vehicles, which qualified for a “Cash for Clunkers” rebate last week, don’t this week thanks to changes in the EPA’s fuel economy ratings. One CNNMoney.com reader went to the Environmental Protection Agency’s fueleconomy.gov Web site on Sat., July 25, to double-check the fuel economy rating for his 1987 Mercury Grand Marquis. When he had visited previously, the car’s combined city and highway fuel economy was rated at 18 miles per gallon, making it eligible for the program.

Despite the state run media trying to convince the public that the economy is on the rebound even though it isn’t, consumer confidence tanks in July.

Confidence among U.S. consumers fell more than forecast in July, reflecting a surge in unemployment that threatens to undermine household spending. The Conference Board’s confidence index dropped to 46.6, a second consecutive decline, following a reading of 49.3 in June, a report from the New York-based group showed today. The figure reached a record low of 25.3 in February.

Ever notice when these left wingers get caught screwing around with grant money that it’s always “just a minor mistake?” This time it’s infamous cop insulter Henry Gates who gets nailed.

The Inkwell Foundation, a charity run by Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., plans to file an amendment to a 2007 Internal Revenue Service report, after questions were raised about grants to staff members. Gates, the black professor at the center of a national debate over race relations after he was arrested two weeks ago by a white Cambridge police officer, said last night that he mischaracterized $11,000 in compensation to staff members as research grants. Acknowledging a report by www.propublica.org that first questioned the grants, he called the mistake an accounting error.

Say, check out these poll numbers for the newly liberated Sarah Palin.

So where does Sarah Palin stand right now? Well according to the recent Public Policy Poll (PPP) she is doing quite well, in fact she is in the lead of all potential GOP 2012 contenders. Sarah Palin favorability rating among conservative Republicans is 73%, Huckabee is at 65%, and Romney is at 53%. Sarah Palin also has a 45% approval rating among registered independents, which is just under half of their support. Sarah Palin also scored huge among Hispanic voters with a 51% approval rating, with not even a close second among GOP 2012 hopefuls. Sarah Palin also leads among GOP 2012 contenders with the 18-29 age range with 51% having a favorability rating in what is traditionally considered a Democratic stronghold.

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