Canada's 'Joe Biden' to Run for Reelection

The man with the balls of Michelle Obama, and the comedy performance art talent of Joe Biden, Toronto Mayor Rob Ford announced Thursday night that he’s running for another term. The astonishingly unselfconscious crack-smoking ne’er-do-even-close-to-well pledged to a crowd of supporters:

“I have experienced how none of us can go through our life without making mistakes … I’ve learned humility, kindness of people and the spirit of second chances. I owe the people a great debt of gratitude. “I won’t back down from the issues that matter to you. I won’t back down from protecting taxpayer dollars. I won’t back down from putting people’s interests ahead of special interests.

“If you have my back when they start throwing mud … I promise you, Rob Ford will have your back for the next four years.”

Come on Toronto,  give the guy another shot, if just for the chance to give your American friends a fleeting, if just a split second of time to see Joe Biden seriously.  

Hillary's Campaign for Student Body President

Everything Hillary Clinton does and says looks and sounds like she's running for president of the student body, collecting testimonials, Valentines and staying out of everything remotely controversial.

The liberal consensus is that she's the inevitable president. The media fawns "Who's to stop her?" But she was "inevitable" once before. This lady's not for burning or even for getting zinged by questions about her past and the lack of solid accomplishments of her own. She gives every evidence of wanting only to glide in triumph into Bubba's old office with neither bumps nor bruises, or even a hair out of place.

She seemed confused and rattled the other day in New York City, appearing in a panel discussion at an oh-so-friendly forum by an organization called "Women in the World." When she was asked to identify her proudest moment as secretary of state, she couldn't come up with one, not even a New York minute, but her rambling answer was nevertheless revealing about who she thinks she is, or wants to be.

"Look, I really see my role as Secretary of State, and in fact, leadership in general in a democracy, as a relay race. I mean, you run the best race you can run, you hand off the baton. Some of what hasn't been finished may go on to be finished." 

 She shies away from linking herself to President Obama's achievements, such as they are, in foreign affairs, where — like it or not — she would have to talk about Benghazi, Syria, Ukraine and Crimea, just the subjects a secretary of state would be expected to know best. These are failures, not successes, and she prefers a link to Obama's perceived sucesses at home (but staying arms length from Obamacare).

She praises Obama for "stimulation and growth" abroad, for "getting back to positive growth and working with our friends and partners. ... I think we really restored American leadership in the best sense, that, you know, once again, you know, people began to rely on us, to look at us, you know, setting the values, setting the standard." (The verbal hiccups are revealing, too.)

This is also the media's view of the Obama legacy, which she wants to inherit, that a lot of people here and abroad certainly don't share.

EXCLUSIVE : Undercover Photo of Justice Department and IRS' Lois Lerner Discussing Prosecution of Conservative Groups

by MFNS Investigative Reporter Earl of Taint

Spiking the Ball Again

Jonathan Tobin

"Two weeks after he first claimed victory after the ObamaCare enrollment deadline, President Obama was spiking the ball again as he demanded that Republicans stop trying to overturn his signature health-care law in an impromptu press conference. The excuse for the president’s appearance in front of the White House press corps today was the claim that the number of those enrolled in the plan has now exceeded eight million. That figure was, he said, enough to not only stop Democrats from seeking to avoid blame for their responsibility in foisting the unpopular law on an unwilling public but also to effectively silence its many vocal critics:

"I think we can agree that it is well past time to move on, as a country…The point is, this debate is and should be over. The Affordable Care Act is working. The American people don’t want us re-fighting the battles of the past five years."

"But the assumption that the government’s successful efforts to pressure or persuade several million people to sign up for ObamaCare means that it is “working” is completely unwarranted. It’s not just that the figures put forward by the administration are unreliable for a number of reasons. Even if we assumed that there really were eight million ObamaCare policyholders, the real test of this law’s viability and its ability to endure has yet to come. Not until we see just how many of those signed up are young and healthy enough to help pay for the vast number of sick and elderly covered by it will we know if it can pay for itself. And it won’t be until next year when the employer mandate and many other more painful provisions of the law are finally implemented that it will be clear whether the entire scheme can survive and how much damage it will inflict on the economy....."

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Wikipedia for the Low information Voter

Condensed for your reading  convenience

TL;DR Wikipedia is an excellent source of information for the “screw it, I don’t want to read all this shit” low information citizen and democrat voter.

A perfect alternative to Wikipedia and the new Vox.com, it cuts to the chase, getting rid of those annoying words Wikipedia entries are full of and summarizes everything you need to know about a topic / subject in just a sentence or two. You may just learn sumpthin new—but not too much!

Here's a sample:

 

Joe Biden Just Joined Instagram.

Follow the Adventures of U.S. Joe

@VP

Senator Sebelius?

WASHINGTON — In her darkest hour last fall, Kathleen Sebelius suffered one of the deepest cuts from an old family friend who accused her of “gross incompetence” over the rollout of the Affordable Care Act and demanded that she resign as secretary of health and human services. Now she is weighing revenge.

Sebelius is considering entreaties from Democrats who want her to run against that old friend, Senator Pat Roberts, Republican of Kansas.

Several Democrats said this week that Ms. Sebelius had been mentioned with growing frequency as someone who could wage a serious challenge to Mr. Roberts, 77, who is running for a fourth term and is considered vulnerable. One person who spoke directly to Ms. Sebelius said that she was thinking about it, but added that it was too soon to say how seriously she was taking the idea.

#SebeliusCampaignSlogans Failure is the new black!
— Natasha Fatale (@N_Fatale) April 16, 2014

#SebeliusCampaignSlogans Don't worry, running a country is soooo much easier than creating a website.
— Inglorious Bastiat (@Southern_PUNdit) April 16, 2014

#SebeliusCampaignSlogans More or less as qualified as Hillary, and she's been anointed.
— Tommy Joe (@DrollNDry) April 16, 2014

Stain on the Senate Briefs

It's Holy Week : Time for the Lefties to Brag About Their Accomplishments

"If you wonder why conservatives seem to carry perpetual  grievances,

it's because they know they have lost."

During my morning venture of forward observing behind enemy lines, I ran across a paragraph from Mother Jones that exemplifies the thoughts of the left and the most of the media this time of year as they ramp up there semi- annual attack on religion:

"Over the last half century, various branches of government have taken plenty of proactive steps to marginalize religion. Prayer in public school has been banned. Creches can no longer be set up in front of city hall. Parochial schools are forbidden from receiving public funds. The Ten Commandments can't be displayed in courtrooms. Catholic hospitals are required to cover contraceptives for their employees. Gay marriage is legal in more than a dozen states and the number is growing rapidly."

Lots to be proud of there; marginalizing  freedom guaranteed by the Constitution. The paragraph was embedded in an article at The Daily Kos-Hole, written by none other than the chief Kos-Hole himself, Markos Moulitsas, who blusters on about the successes of the left:

"Now they are the enemy. And with populism on the rise, why do you think Republicans are afraid to roll out their "solutions" to our problems? It's because they know their views, whether on health care or immigration or pretty much anything else, are out of touch with public opinion....."

"But if you wonder why conservatives seem to carry perpetual grievances, it's because they know they have lost. The entire world around them has left them behind. Heck, they've created an entire alternate media world in which to cocoon themselves. But they know they've lost......"

".....the only question left is how long will it be before our government truly represents the public will. And when that happens, we'll be truly able to ignore the perpetual tempter tantrum from the Right." 

What he says is not just religion, but our entire culture (with the help of the courts, not the voter) has fell into the hands of the left. And as for public opinion, we will see how the cultural revolution the left he believes is won so handily fairs in the next election. 

I believe the left has severely overplayed their hand. The pendulum always swings. There are always differences in the way things shake out. Time, place, and circumstance can alter that swing.

Happy Tax Day.....

A Tale of Two Cities

Totally Stolen  Borrowed from The Laughing Conservative 

Pretty similar until you compare the following:

Democrat Conclusion:
Cold weather from climate change causes murder.