This edition of The Weekend Claw is rather short. No, I didn’t blow off searching the web for news on Thursday and Friday. I simply didn’t see much solid news worthy of my readers’ attention.

“Democrats who want to pass cap-and-trade legislation are not attempting to do so because they know for sure that global warming is on its way. They have no idea. They want cap-and-trade because it imposes enormous taxes and controls on industry, which is something they want to do anyway.” That’s just one little bit of Dan Calabrese’s reaction to the ClimateGate scandal.

A while ago, Rupert Murdoch and News Corp fired cop-killer apologist Marc Lamont Hill because of his support for black racists and cop killers. For some unknown reason, Bill O’Reilly is bringing Hill back as a regular on his show. So much for me watching O’Reilly regularly.

How’s THIS for chutzpah? Senator Conrad (Donkey-North Dakota) is defending the Affirmative Action Attorney General’s decision to bring KSM and the others to trial in Noo Yawk City by saying “if people don’t believe in our system, maybe they ought to go somewhere else.” That’s funny, but I’ve been saying the exact same thing regarding the Constitution, capitalism, and traditional American values, but the Democrats are determined to throw all of those out the window to CHANGE America to suit their marxist-socialist ideals.

Even more chutzpah was on display at the state dinner for the Indian Prime Minister, as Michaele and Tareq Salahi crashed the party.

In his “press conference” with the Indian PM, The Naïve One reiterated his determination to work toward a goal of a world without nuclear weapons. Does this idiot really believe that the hands of time can be turned back and the technology to make a nuclear bomb be made to disappear?

Charges have FINALLY been filed against the six SEIU purple-shirt union thugs who beat a black conservative Tea Party protester in St. Louis. The only disappointing thing, besides the length of time it took, is that the charges are just city ordinance charges, not felony assault.

Those of us in the eeeeevilllll right wing conspiracy have been saying it fo some time now, but Jeffrey H. Anderson, a Senior Fellow at the Pacific Research Institute has finally published a chart that shows the Congressional Budget Office’s TRUE estimate of the first ten years of Obamacare, not the ten years that include 4 years of taxes with no payouts…you know, the ten years that the Democrats keep using in their claims. The proper estimate shows the price tag to be $1,800,000,000,000.00 instead of the Democrats’ of-quoted $872,000,000,000.00. Be aware, however, that the real cost will be at least double that amount, since all governmental programs blow the official estimates out of the water.

Part of the Senate Obamacare plan would have a big negative effect on those with chronic illnesses and for families with special needs kids. Of course the Democrats believe that all special needs kids should be aborted anyway, so they’re all-too-glad to pay for THAT!

The Crawfish may not be a fan of his basketball playing style, but nobody can ever say that Shaquille O’Neal isn’t a really good person, and his actions this week prove it yet again.

If y’all come across any weird/stoooopid/strange news stories that might be fodder for The Weekly Claw or The Weekend Claw, e-mail them to me at at1aw_usn@yahoo.com and I’ll consider ‘em. Yes, I will give you newshounds credit.

“War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic
feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature, and has no chance of being free unless made or kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.” -John Stuart Mill

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Wouldn’t it be nice if we could get some sanity in DC during the holiday season? I know…figger the odds.

It’s been a long time since we last heard from Dennis Kucinich (Moonbat Extraordinaire-Ohio), but CNSNews caught up to him and asked if Osama Bin Laden should be given a lawyer and the right to remain silent if we were ever to capture him. His reply was, “I think that everyone who is accused of a crime should have the basic rights that are afforded. I mean, that’s what America’s about.” These idiotic Democrats keep thinking that the WAR of Islam vs the rest of the world is just a series of unconnected criminal activities that can be countered with vigorous prosecution.

Please tell me y’all saw this one coming as soon as the Affirmative Action Attorney General announced that he was going to unConstitutionally give Constitutional rights to illegal combatants (aka Islamic terrorists) involved in the 9-11 conspiracy. The “defendants” are going to use the trial to publicize their anti-America philosophy, with the explicit blessings of the Obama Administration and the Democratic Party. This is in addition to exposing all of the methods and personnel of the CIA that they have seen. Is this just an unfortunate side-effect of the decision, or is putting America and the Bush Administration on trial one of the main objectives of the decision?

In 1983, Iranian-backed terrorists murdered 241 US Marines in Beirut, Lebanon. In 2007, a federal court ruled that Iran was responsible and ordered the Iranian government to fork over $2,650,000,000.00 to be paid to the families of the murdered Marines. Now, Barack Obama and Eric Holder are going to court to have that order quashed. Yes, Barack Obama and Eric Holder are now officially siding with terrorists against the United States Marine Corps. Did we really expect otherwise?

Along the same lines we find three SEALs who are going to Court Martial because they captured a terrorist, who had previously killed Americans, and the terrorist ended up with a busted lip. Yes, the PC bovine excrement from DC has gotten all the way down to our Special Operations troopers. They’re got to apprehend terrorists as if they were city cops arresting a shoplifter.

Retired Army Lieutenant Colonel Allen B. West has a terrific statement regarding the Islamic terrorist attack at Ft. Hood.

Rick Perry, Governor of the Great State of Texas, has directed the state’s education commissioner to NOT agree to the yet-undetermined national education standards that the liberals in DC are pushing as a requirement for the Race to the Top “Stimulus” funds. Since we all know that the liberal standards coming from DC will include lots of “diversity”, the heterophobe agenda, and everything EXCEPT real American history and the Constitution, this is another reason for The Crawfish to stand for Rick Perry!

Why do the people of Meeeeechigan keep electing liberals who perpetuate the kinds of economic conditions that their state finds itself in? Senator Levin is one of those continually re-elected morons. He’s suggesting a…insert TA-DAAAA music sounds here…new tax in order to pay for our military mission in Afghanistan! The Democrats’ answer to any problem is to raise taxes and/or government involvement. Wouldn’t it be better for the government to CUT SPENDING instead of wrecking the economy even more by raising taxes again? When will the people wake up and realize that the areas of the nation that are always the most crime-ridden and are in the worst economic shape are dominated by Democrats and unions?

And by sheer coincidence, we have a new study that ranks cities by criminal activity. How many conservative cities are found in the top ten? Well let’s take a look at the top ten: 1) Camden, NJ 2) St. Louis, MO 3) Oakland, CA 4) Detroit, MI 5) Flint, MI 6) New Orleans, LA 7) Birmingham, AL ‘8) Cleveland, OH 9) Jackson, MS and 10) Memphis, TN. Not a single one of ‘em is run by conservatives. Go ahead and scan the list and tell me where the first mention of a non-liberal city is. The Crawfish’s home city is down at number 150.

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao should have expected this since he does have The Apologetic One by the economic short hairs.

And now for something completely different: The celebration of the dehumanizing of women in the name of Political Correctness and “diversity”. How in the world is putting a burkha on Barbie supposed to provide a positive image for little girls?

A number of years ago, the Pope said that Catholic politicians who support abortion through their words and votes should be denied Holy Communion at the least, and possibly even excommunicated. No Roman Catholic bishop in the United States took this seriously at all, until 2007. In that year, Bishop Thomas Tobin ASKED Representative Patrick Kennedy to refrain from taking Communion. Recently, Bishop Tobin changed his stance and ordered all priests under his jurisdiction to refuse to give Kennedy Communion because of his support for abortion. Why didn’t the Catholic Church excommunicate the whole Kennedy family years ago?

How’s that Hopeandchange working out for those who voted for Barack Obama solely on the basis of his skin color? Methinks the appropriate term is “oops!”

The Democrats and the media (sorry for the repeat) were really optimistic when they announced that the economy had shown a sharp uptick last quarter. Too bad the numbers they trumpeted had to be revised downward.

Steven Hutson of North Star National explains something that The Crawfish has been saying for years. Kwanzaa is a fake holiday and a fraud brought forth by a Black Nationalist who has almost no knowledge of African history.

Obama’s “Regulatory Czar”, the radical Cass Sunstein, has come out in favor of government censorship of conservative talk radio and conservative internet sites because of the “lies” that they spread. One of the big “lies” that Sunstein rails about is summed up with this statement, “Some right-wing websites liked to make absurd and hateful remarks about the alleged relationship between Barack Obama and the former radical Bill Ayers.” Too bad for Sunstein that the relationship between Obama and the STILL radical Ayers has been proven time and again. He has proposed a “First Amendment New Deal” that would include “compulsory public-affairs programming, right of reply, content review by nonpartisan experts or guidelines to encourage attention to public issues and diversity of view.” While the last “New Deal” was an attempt to side-step a large part of the Constitution, this one is just designed to bypass the First Amendment.

Now most of us who have the benefit of being able to observe things beyond our own office doors have known for a long time that the man-made global warming theorists are nothing but frauds, since we’ve been able to notice the relationship between sunspot activity and global temperatures (proven a couple of hundred years ago). We’ve also noticed how during times of earthly temperature rises the polar ice caps on MARS also shrank, and there are no coal-fired power plants and SUVs on Mars. Well, it seems that the “scientists” who have been getting paid to perpetuate the fraud have been BUSTED in their collusion by a bunch of hackers. Not only have they been falsifying their data, but they’re trying to get all e-mails back and forth erased. Andrew Bolt has a column in the Australia Herald Sun that includes a bunch of the e-mails between the fraud perpetrators. Even the Washington Post felt it necessary to cover the story. Watch for this story to grow legs this week everywhere except the liberal lame stream media. Townhall blogger “Jesse ‘The Mind’ Norman” has a nice rant on the subject, including information on how to contact The Prophet Algoracle directly. GOPHER IT!

In another blow to the Obama Administration, it now appears that “Science Czar” John Holdren is right smack in the middle of the ClimateGate scandal.

How high is the price to get a political wh0rre to vote to overturn the Constitution of the United States and brag about it? It appears that the going rate is now approximately $300,000,000.00.

Is there a single Democrat politician who isn’t involved with some kind of corruption? Noo Yawk Attorney General Andrew Cuomo’s campaign took in tens of thousands of dollars from law firms that represented clients that Cuomo’s office had accused of wrongdoing or was investigating. Standard Democrat Procedure.

This is rich. The Democrats in Congress are now working on a “jobs bill” that they hope to pass before the end of the year. Since when has any Congressional legislation actually produced non-gummint jobs? Is this an admission that the “stimulus” bill failed? Considering that all of their other bills are designed to destroy the American economy, is their “jobs bill” going to read “This bill revokes all other legislation passed by Congress since September 2008”???

Can any member of the terrorist cult known as Islam be trusted in the United States? Here’s yet another example of why that answer is NO!

We’ll end this edition of The Claw with an e-mail sent to me by an old Navy friend:

My teacher said I was being disrespectful. She’d asked us what our favorite animal was, and I’d said, “Fried chicken.”

She said I wasn’t funny, but she couldn’t have been right. Everyone else in the class laughed.

My parents told me to always be honest, and I am. Fried chicken is my favorite animal. I told my dad what happened, and he said my teacher was probably a member of PETA. He said they love animals very much. I do, too. Especially chicken, pork and beef.

Anyway, my teacher sent me to the principal’s office. I told him what happened, and he laughed too. Then he told me not to do it again.

The next day in class my teacher asked me what my favorite live animal was. I told her it was chickens. She asked me why, just like she’d asked the other children. So I told her it was because you could make them into fried chicken.

She sent me back to the principal’s office again.

He laughed, and told me not to do it again. I don’t understand.  My parents taught me to be honest, but my teacher doesn’t like it when I am.

Today, my teacher asked us to tell her what famous person we admire most.

I told her, “Colonel Sanders.”

THAT’S JUST THE WAY IT IS IN TEXAS

If y’all come across any weird/stoooopid/strange news stories that might be fodder for The Weekly Claw or The Weekend Claw, e-mail them to me at at1aw_usn@yahoo.com and I’ll consider ‘em. Yes, I will give you newshounds credit.

“War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature, and has no chance of being free unless made or kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.” -John Stuart Mill

The Constitution of the United States

Okay folks. Make those last-minute calls to your Senators. Prince Dingy Harry is going to have debate and a vote to proceed regarding his version of Obamacare in the Senate tomorrow.

I know that this seems to be a recurring theme in my columns, but since it is a recurring theme in DC I’ve gotta keep up with it. How dishonest can Prince Harry and his minions be in regards to Obamacare? Well, they need 60 votes in the Senate to bring his plan up for a vote. He knows that he has no shot of getting those votes, so as Senator DeMint warns us, Dingy Harry’s going to bring up a completely unrelated bill, get 60 Senators to “vote to proceed”, then strike the contents of that bill and replace them with his Obamacare bill that he and some aides (and lobbyists, and trial lawyers, and AARP liars, and…) have written in secret, thus bypassing any chance for the GOP to filibuster. This is beyond the normal DC sliminess.

Oh, and by the way, Senator Reid’s plan also charges all enrollees in the socialist option a monthly fee, not to be less than$1.00, to pay for abortions.

Senator Reid MUST have the votes of every Democrat Senator in order to get the Reidobamacare bill to get by a filibuster. To get those votes, he’s gotta bribe…er, pay off…er, make it worth their while. How much does it cost to get one vote? Oh, about $100,000,000.00, and you won’t believe the complicated language it takes to make that bribe.

The racist organization known as the Congressional Black Caucus held a reception to honor the world’s pre-eminent shakedown artist and race warlord, the not-so-Reverend Jesse-be-the-Jackson, on the 25th anniversary of his failed bid for the Presidency. In his remarks, Jackson singled out Representative Artur Davis of Alabama, who was the only member of the group who voted against the Pelosiobamacare bill. Jackson even said, “You can’t vote against healthcare and call yourself a black man!” So to be a black man, one must be a complete socialist? Davis took the high road and said he would refuse to get into an argument that begins and ends with race. Believe it or not, but Maxine Waters and Sheila Jackson-Lee stood up for Davis, stating that he voted in a way that reflects his constituency, especially since he’s running for governor.

The Democrats are so hellbent on fomenting class warfare that they have decided that they must impose a tax on financial transactions. This is aimed at those eeeeevilllllll rich white guys on Wall Street with all of their high salaries and huge bonuses and great benefits. Success must be punished. Anyways, Queen of the House Red Nanny P-Lousy and her minions have come to the conclusion that this tax must not simply apply to Wall Street. It must be an INTERNATIONAL tax. Now just where in Sam Hill did they find the authority to do THAT?

On Thursday morning, I heard Michael Smerconish interview the Democrat Representative who wrote the part of the 2008 version of the health care bill that the GOP railed about, calling it “death panels”. From his commentary, it is obvious that the wording in the legislation at that time, which I did read back then, was quite faulty. His purpose wasn’t to facilitate pulling the plug on Granny. His “end of life counseling” section was actually a good idea. Nowadays, Medicare pays for just about anything a doctor requests, but will not pay for a counseling session with the patient, the doctor, and possibly the patient’s family, in which they discuss options of future care, especially care at the end of life, living wills, and preventing another Terri Schaivo situation. Give him an A for the idea, but a D- for execution. A revised version of that paragraph was included in the bill that did pass.

So let me get this straight. We’ve got double digit unemployment. The economy is in the toilet. The federal government is spending money like a drunken arab oil minister. The Congress and His Majesty are trying to ram an unConstitutional health care bill down our throats that would INCREASE costs and the deficit. Crrap-And-Tax is next, and it will raise our energy bills by thousands of dollars per year, raise unemployment, and accomplish absolutely nothing positive. What is the solution to all of this? Of COURSE! Distract the attention of the people and make them feel good about it all! How about putting forth a bill to make next Wednesday “Complaint-Free Wednesday”!!! That’s what Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-Misery) has done. I’m sorry to admit that this idjut grew up in Texas, but it does show the mentality of people who are entitlement-born and bred. He grew up in free gummint housing, which explains a lot. Anyway…this project comes from a brain-dead liberal-socialist utopian Kumbaya organization calling themselves “A Complaint Free World”. Yes, let’s stop complaining and let the socialist utopia come about so we can all hold hands in the fields of flowers as we sing “I’d like to teach the world to sing” and drink Coca-Cola (or whatever beverage the State allows us to have) and smoke lots of weed and…

It appears that our esteemed Affirmative Action Attorney General got himself SCHOOLED by Senator Lindsey Graham on multiple points in the hearings on Wednesday. Holder showed his qualifications for his job by showing up completely unprepared for real questioning by someone who understands the difference between civilian courts and the battlefield.

Senator “Leaky” Leahy tried to defend Holder, saying that if we were to capture Bin Laden, there would be no need to interrogate him. We’d just bring him in and try him. What a friggin’ idiot. Of COURSE we’d want to interrogate him! Does Leahy actually believe that Bin Laden wouldn’t have any information about terrorist cells or other parts of the terrorist organizations that might be a bit useful? That’s kinda like saying that if the FBI captures the top Crip or Blood in Kansas City, there’s no reason to question him about any gang activity in KC or the rest of the country.

Regarding the indefensible decision to have those trials in Noo Yawk City, we find that one of the Senators who has no problem with it seems to have changed his mind from a few years ago when he said this: “There are also those prisoners of war who we have captured and will capture in Afghanistan and other countries who will receive a trial of some sort. It is clear we need to try those suspects in a forum that achieves two primary goals—two goals, I might add, that may not conflict. First, the Government must have the power to use even the most sensitive classified evidence against these suspects without compromising national security in any way, shape, or form. In addition, those who commit acts of war against the United States, particularly those who have no color of citizenship, don’t deserve the same panoply of due process rights that American citizens receive. Should Osama bin Laden be captured alive—and I imagine most Americans hope he won’t be captured alive. But if he is, it is ludicrous to suggest he should be tried in a Federal court on Center Street in Lower Manhattan.” Now what TV camera and radio microphone seeking slimeball politician might have said that? Naw, it couldn’t have been Upchuck Schumer of Noo Yawk!

AllMilitary.com commenter USN-G-Man gets the hat tip for this representation of the mood down in Gitmo these days.

Townhall commenter “clyde” sent a list that y’all might agree with.

The Crawfish has a new award to present. I think I’ll call it the “Ballziest Statement of the Year Award”. This year’s recipient goes to…drum roll and trumpet fanfare please…Barack Obama, for this utterance made Wednesday in Beijing, “It is important though to recognize if we keep on adding to the debt, even in the midst of this recovery, that at some point, people could lose confidence in the U.S. economy in a way that could actually lead to a double-dip recession.” For making THAT statement after personally piling on more than double the debt of the previous 43 Presidents combined, we’ve gotta give him SOME kind of award.

A Democrat running for State Attorney General in Texas seems to think that the 2005 amendment to the state constitution that defines marriage, and in effect bans gay marriage, bans all marriage. The amendment states, “marriage in this state shall consist only of the union of one man and one woman” which is simple enough. The Democrat says that Subsection B of the amendment is the problem, because it reads, “The state or a political subdivision of this state may not create or recognize any legal status identical or similar to marriage.” Now what part of that bans marriage as defined in the first part of the amendment? Democrats seem to have a disease that hinders their ability to understand simply written phrases in any constitution.

The enemy is fighting back at us using our own courts. If you don’t believe that the upcoming trials in Noo Yawk, courtesy of the Affirmative Action Attorney General, are going to be all about damaging America, just check out what’s going on in Detruit. Townhall commenter “clyde” found this in his local fish wrapper. The supporters of the militant Islamic imam who was killed in the recent FBI raid in Detruit are taking the government to task, claiming excessive force was used. The supporters include the Islamic terrorism supporting group CAIR (unindicted co-conspirators in the Holy Land Foundation case) and our wonderful anti-American friends at the ACLU. A muslim who kills Americans is a hero, but if Americans kill those who support Islamic terrorism it is a hate crime.

How many muslims have been murdered in America because of their religion since 9-11? The answer is…one, and he was murdered by a white supremist 4 days after 9-11 and that murderer was convicted and sentenced to death in Texas, where the sentence WILL be carried out. How many muslims have killed FOR their religion in the past 38 years in the USA? Well, here’s a listing of the attacks, but it is incomplete as it doesn’t include the muslim terrorist known as the DC Sniper. Remember, profiling is evil and Islam is a Religion of Peace.

I swear that President Obama puts his foot in his mouth almost as much as his VP, “Gaffes” Biden. The President visited some of our troops in South Korea, and popped off with this, “You guys make a pretty good photo op!” The Crawfish applauds him for visiting the troops, and I hope that this remark was just made in jest, but he ought to know that it is the kind of remark that can be used against him by folks who believe that he has no respect for our military.

Here we go again with The Chosen One telling Israel that they can’t build houses for Israelis inside of Israel. Thankfully, the Netanyahu government told him to sod off and mind his own business. What would Obama have said if the Chinese government had told him to stop housing construction in San Diego because some Mexicans want California returned to Mexico? Same thing.

There were some complaints regarding my Top Ten War Movies list on Tuesday. As a result, I’ve decided to fan the flames a bit and present numbers 11-40 on my personal list. Here they are: “Das Boot”, “The Patriot”, “Twelve O’clock High”, “Schindler’s List”, “Black Hawk Down”, “Letters From Iwo Jima”, “Glory”, “To Hell and Back”, “Sands of Iwo Jima” (gets the nod over “Flying Leathernecks” because the latter had Duke and the Marines flying F6F Hellcats, when the Marines really flew F4U Corsairs), “The Bridge Over the River Kwai”, “Gettysburg”, “All Quiet on the Western Front”, “Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo”, “The Enemy Below”, “The Sand Pebbles”, “The Bridges at Toko-Ri”, “The Great Escape”, “Sink the Bismarck”, “Enemy at the Gates”, “The Bridge at Remagen”, “Pork Chop Hill”, “Lawrence of Arabia”, “Midway”, “Sergeant York”, “They Were Expendable”, “Memphis Belle”, “Good Morning Vietnam”, “Hamburger Hill” (I have conversed with a Ranger whose team found and reported the bunker construction underway on that hill. That report directly led to that battle.), “The Hiding Place”, and “The Deer Hunter”.

If y’all come across any weird/stoooopid/strange news stories that might be fodder for The Weekly Claw or The Weekend Claw, e-mail them to me at at1aw_usn@yahoo.com and I’ll consider ‘em. Yes, I will give you newshounds credit.

“If men are to be precluded from offering their sentiments on a matter which may involve the most serious and alarming consequences that can invite the consideration of mankind, reason is of no use; the freedom of speech may be taken away, and dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.” - George Washington

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Why, oh why, did we elect such a bunch of incompetent, anti-Constitution, anti-American, inexperienced embarrassments? Wasn’t there something good on “American Idol” or “Dancing With The Stars” that night to keep the uninformed, the brain dead, and the short-attention-span-theater folks occupied that day?  These folks say Sarah Palin was ignorant?

A few months ago, The Chosen One bowed before the Saudi king, but said he was just checking his shoes or leaning forward because he’s taller than the Saudi king or some other lie. What’s his lie going to be this time as he has been photographed bowing VERY deeply before Japan’s Emperor Akihito. In Japan, a low bow such as this are considered to be a sign of deference to a SUPERIOR!

When President Obama’s “Senior Administration Official” was questioned regarding the deep, apologetic bow to Emperor Akihito, the response was that Obama was “observing protocol.” Really? Then why is it that none of the other world leaders who greeted the Emperor gave such a bow? They simply shook hands like they do with any other world leader. And so goes the Asian leg of the completely apologetic “AMERICA SUX WORLD TOUR 2009!”

Holy schnikey! How much do you think the American taxpayers have shelled out for every automobile that GM is selling this year? If you said about $10,700.00, then you’re correct. That’s on top of the price paid by the folks who bought the car, and yet GM is still losing over $1,000,000,000.00 per quarter. Do you see what happens when unions and government are in control?

The media and the Democrats, but I repeat myself again, keep trying to slam Sarah Palin for her assertion that the Obamacare plans would include “death panels.” After you read this opinion article from the Wall Street Journal, which was sent to me by Senator John Cornyn, you’ll see that Sarah Palin was very much correct. Will this information be published or broadcasted by the Noo Yawk Slimes, El Lay Times, See BS, NBC, MSNBC, CNN, ABC, Washington Post, or any of the other “main stream” media outlets? Yeah, right. That’ll happen about the same time as Teddythedrunk (D-Chappaquiddick) publicly opposes Roe v Wade and all abortions including partial birth ones, and since Teddy’s dead…

Okay, last week the Obama Administration decided that employment in America is going to have to be a priority. On Friday, we found out what they really plan to do about the lack of jobs for Americans. They’re going to (drum roll and trumpet fanfare please) GIVE AMNESTY TO ILLEGAL ALIENS! Yes, there’s 14,000,000 jobs right there that could go to Americans, but the Democrats would rather continue coddling people who have proven themselves to be lawbreakers. The goal, of course, is to get 14,000,000 more votes for the Democrats, along with all of the extended family members that those 14,000,000 will be allowed to sponsor across the border.

Remember all those jobs that the Administration was claiming they “saved” and how well they said the “stimulus” was working? They even have websites dedicated to these “facts.” There’s a slight problem with the data presented. Okay, there are a BUNCH of problems with the data. Among them are notices of successful use of “stimulus” funds in Congressional districts that do not exist. Since when do US Territories, such as the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, and the Mariana Islands, have Congressional districts?

From 2003 to 2009, conservatives were constantly upset with George W. Bush for his liberal big government, big spending ways. Heck, about the only things we agreed with him on were tax cuts for all taxpayers, appointing judges and justices who believe in the actual Constitution instead of the liberal living-breathing one, and his fighting back in the war of Islam vs. the rest of the world. Well guess who made a speech warning of the danger of huuuuuuuuge government. Yep, Jorge W. Booosh.

Earlier this year, President Obama made his first major decision regarding our military in the long term. The decision was to end the F-22 Raptor fighter program. His reasoning, and that of SecDef Gates, was that our biggest potential adversary, China, wouldn’t have any aircraft capable of competing with any of our current advanced military aircraft until well past the year 2010. Meanwhile, while President Obama is over in China, the Chinese announce that they are about to start testing a 5th generation fighter to compete with the F-22 and F-35. Can you say “D’OH!”???

Dan Calabrese fans, rest easy. Your favorite North Star National writer has delivered another gem. This time, Dan puts into simple terms the newest bit of lunacy in Obanomics. Taking an IOU from your left pocket and putting it in your right pocket doesn’t reduce the amount you owe, does it?

Dan turned around and gave us a nice present on his birthday with a funny, yet pointed, column about the lame stream media’s obsession with Sarah Palin.

How anti-American are unions in general, and the ACORN and Obama affiliated SEIU in particular? How about investigating and filing a grievance against the city of Allentown, PA, because Kevin Anderson has spent over 200 hours clearing a walking and biking trail in a city park as community service while working for his Eagle Scout qualification. How dare one of those eeeevillll right wing zealots in the homophobic, patriotic, and (GASP!) Christian-based Boy Scouts actually heed President Obama’s call to volunteerism. That’s what union goons are paid to do during their working hours when the media has been informed to publicize their good deeds!

Where is our nanny-state heading? Once again we get a foreshadowing of what’s to come from the formerly-free nation now known as Britainistan. Don’t think for a moment that Queen of the House Red Nanny P-Lousy wouldn’t support that kind of legislation. The hat tip goes to Poll Katz e-mailer “Ginny”.

When it comes to the Administration’s decision to try Islamic terrorists in New York City, the columns of Andy McCarthy and Kevin McCullough pretty much sum up my thoughts. This has absolutely zero to do with actual justice, but rather is all about keeping the eeeeeevillllllls of the Bush Administration in the news for at least one more election cycle while destroying our intelligence gathering capabilities and possibly letting terrorists go free. Of course Barack Obama and the Affirmative Action Attorney General know nothing about terrorists going free…Ayers, Dohrn, Weather Underground, F.A.L.N….

On the subject of Islamic terrorists, the Ft. Hood shooter tried to get some of the soldiers that he had treated prosecuted for war crimes. The “war crimes” in question were probably the act of returning fire from Islamic illegal combatants. Never mind the fact that nothing said to him by any soldier in his care could be admissible. There is the doctor-patient privilege to consider. Meanwhile, his co-workers and superiors admit that the shooter signed his e-mails with “Praise Be To Allah”.

Step, by step, by step, by… Once again proving that the Constitution doesn’t matter one bit to them, the Obama Administration is pushing to take over regulation of all of the nation’s subway and light rail systems. The Constitution only gives the federal gummint the authority to deal with INTERSTATE transportation and commerce. If those subway and light rail systems don’t cross state lines, then there’s nothing about them that the federal gummint can legally regulate. What part of our lives do they NOT want to take over?

The Military Times group of newspapers has published a list of their Top Ten Military Movies of All Time. Their list, from 1 to 10 is: “Saving Private Ryan”, “Black Hawk Down”, “Platoon”, “Apocalypse Now”, “The Fighting Seabees”, “Heartbreak Ridge”, “We Were Soldiers”, “The Hurt Locker”, “Starship Troopers”, and “Full Metal Jacket”. The Crawfish definitely disagrees with numbers 2, 6, 8, and 9. “Black Hawk Down” was really good, but falls outside of my Top Ten. “Heartbreak Ridge” was entertaining, but void of reality. “Starship Troopers”? Puh-leeze. I’ve never even heard of “The Hurt Locker”. So, my dear readers, I will now present The Crawfish’s Top Ten Military movies of All Time, and I invite your comments and your own nominations. From 10 to 2: “The Fighting Seabees”, “Patton”, “Braveheart”, “The Longest Day”, “Apocalypse Now (Redux version)”, “Saving Private Ryan”, “Full Metal Jacket”, “Tora, Tora, Tora”, and “A Bridge Too Far”. Special mention must go to the HBO miniseries “Band of Brothers”, which would definitely be in the top 3 if it was a movie. My NUMBER ONE is…”We Were Soldiers”.

If y’all come across any weird/stoooopid/strange news stories that might be fodder for The Weekly Claw or The Weekend Claw, e-mail them to me at at1aw_usn@yahoo.com and I’ll consider ‘em. Yes, I will give you newshounds credit.

“If men are to be precluded from offering their sentiments on a matter which may involve the most serious and alarming consequences that can invite the consideration of mankind, reason is of no use; the freedom of speech may be taken away, and dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.” - George Washington

The Constitution of the United States

Nothing important going on here. You don’t need to see what the government is doing. Go back to watching “Dancing With The Stars” or something.

Have y’all noticed that nobody is screaming about e-mail intercepts and other matters relating to FISA and the Patriot Act in regards to the Islamic terrorist who murdered 13 Americans at Ft. Hood? Instead, folks are screaming that nothing was done about the information uncovered! Oh, and by the way, the two Islamic terrorist wannabes who were arrested in September for trying to blow up federal buildings in Dallas and Springfield, IL, were nabbed because of roving FISA wiretaps on their phones and e-mails. Communications is a vital tool in any war, and despite what the government and press say, we are at war with Islam, and will always be.

Wait a second…the shooter was being investigated by the FBI for over a year, according to the reports in Tuesday’s Claw, but he made his gun purchases, with FBI background check, since he transferred to Ft. Hood. Does the FBI communicate with its own people???

There’s a Deputy District Attorney out in California who is about to get herself fired. A muslim man went on an anti-Christian rampage in a mall, so she’s seeking charges against him. What’s going to get her in trouble is that she’s considering “hate crime” charges. That’s not allowed when the victims are Christian, only when Christians are the perps. Doesn’t she know ANYTHING about life in the United States?

Some federal prosecutors might be in a bit of hot water with the Administration, as they are seeking to confiscate a Noo Yawk skyscraper and four Islamic centers consisting of schools and mosques. These properties are owned by a group called the Alavi Foundation, which itself is controlled by the Iranian government, and are fronted by a shell corporation called Assa Corporation (methinks the 2nd “a” should be removed). The only way this action doesn’t get quashed by the Administration is if they are using it as a bargaining chip against Iran.

Okay, The Crawfish hears his readers. I didn’t put a Dan Calabrese column in my Tuesday edition. I’ve gotta make amends, so here is a special Friday appearance by North Star National’s Dan Calabrese. Today, Dan takes a look at the upcoming forum with Labor Secretary LaHood regarding the airline industry in the United States. It seems that the unions are not pleased with how the airline industry has been trying to reduce costs in an attempt to come close to making a profit. The unions want to do to the airlines what they have done to Chrysler and General Motors. Don’t they understand that if a company goes belly-up their jobs go away? Nope. It’s all about union POWER!

The Administration is now purging all Republican political appointees from their civil service positions. It is normal for political appointees to get into civil service jobs when their administration boss changes. Once into those positions, they cannot be fired simply at will, but are subject to civil service hiring and firing rules. Remember how much of a cow the Democrats had when George W. Bush fired 8 US Attorneys? Well, that was perfectly legal because they were still political appointees. Obama is calling for all civil service employees who got their jobs within the past five years and were Bush political appointees before that to be identified and terminated without any cause. Where are those Democrat Congresscritters and Senators now that this illegal activity is underway? Rush Limbaugh, correctly, points out that mass purges are a hallmark of marxist-socialist dictatorial regimes.

I haven’t been able to do it much lately, but I do love to bring a nice feel-good story to my columns on occasion. Here’s one from the battlegrounds of Afghanistan that will make all of you animal-lovers smile.

Now wouldn’t it be interesting if Bill Owens had to be unseated from the House and Doug Hoffman took the seat? It might happen! Would that invalidate the 220-215 vote on Pelosiobamacare?

His Majesty King Barack I has announced a jobs summit for next month. Methinks I know his intent. He’s gonna find out what companies are healthy enough to be hiring, and tax them into oblivion. How dare they compete against the federal colossus!

Where does Nanny-Statism lead? Once again we turn to Britainistan for an update.

All of us veterans have taken the oath to “uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic” at least once. Many of us have sworn that oath multiple times. Our terms of enlistment may have expiration dates, but our oath does not. So, as Dan Sherrier of North Star National writes, what a better way to honor our veterans this week than by reading the Constitution. Thanx, Dan.

This page has a video that lasts a bit over 5 minutes, but is well worth watching. It is Governor Rick Perry of the Great State of Texas talking on a number of points. First he talks of the “Alien Transfer and Exit Program” which takes illegal aliens that were captured in Arizona and Texas, busses them to a town in Texas that has a bridge to Mexico, and releases them to voluntarily cross the bridge. Given the choice of the Chihuahua desert or Texas, which way do you think those illegals are going to go? Governor Perry says that this is evidence that the Obama Administration is out to punish Texas. Governor Perry then praises the Tea Parties and says that we need to have more and double their size. He says “I’m not bashful to get up and say I believe in the Tenth Amendment!” He make no bones about what he thinks of the Obama Administration, stating “This is an administration hell-bent on taking America towards a socialist country.”

A state elections official in Texas was fired over remarks she made about mexican-speaking voters. The Crawfish doesn’t think she should be fired. Instead, the non-English speakers should be told to go home. All voting ballots and voting assistance in the United States should be in English ONLY. To vote, you must be a citizen. To be a citizen, you must pass an English proficiency exam. If you can’t speak English, then you fraudulently got your citizenship. If you don’t like that, go back to whatever country you came from.

I think I figgered out why some of the worst drivers on the planet come from the state of Florida. You spend four years in the Jacksonville/Orange Park/Middleburg area and tell me I’m wrong!

The Crawfish knows that there are a lot of folks out there who are displeased with the direction in which this country’s government is heading, but they feel helpless to do anything about it. Yeah, there’s blogging, letters to the editor, maybe even a Tea Party or two, but is that really going to matter? To those people I say YES! Keep up the pressure with those activities, but also realize that there are many grassroots efforts underway to help bring about the kind of CHANGE that us Constitutionalists and conservatives want to see. One of those efforts was started by some of the bloggers on Townhall.com. It’s called “We’re Watching You!” That group is doing its part by initially specifically targeting 10 Congressional seats held by Democrats/liberals/enemies of the Constitution (sorry for repeating myself) in the 2010 election cycle, and possibly adding more to the hitlist as their support grows. If they can generate some support, they might be helpful in returning those seats to sane, patriotic, real Americans. It is important that we all get involved with groups like “We’re Watching You!” so that we can take back our nation from the likes of Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Sonya Sotomayor, Bernadine Dohrn, George Soros, and John Murtha. It doesn’t take a lot of time and money, just a bit of dedication to Truth, Justice, and the American Way! Go visit their website and see if you support their efforts.

Folks who are interested in naval history, specifically from World War 2, might find this article from the El Lay Times interesting.

The Narcissist in Chief is once again reminding history scholars of a certain dictator who spoke German, as he has rejected the advice of all of his military planners and leaders, ordering them to take their plans, shove them (CENSORED), and come up with new plans, but wait until the Karzai government can prove itself in its own battle against corruption.

WAIT A SECOND! The Chosen One is concerned about governmental corruption in Afghanistan, but completely condones it in the United States? Am I missing something here? Oh, it gets better. Hillary! is warning the Karzai government to clean up their act. Isn’t that kinda like having Mike Tyson give anger management advice?

A tip of The Crawfish’s hat goes to Poll Katz e-mailer “Ginny” for a story that proves that criminals can be patriotic, too.

The Prophet Algoracle is really having a bad month with his Glo-Bull Warming fraud. Scientific facts and actual temperature data just keep rising up and biting him where it hurts. Take for example a new study that proves his “rising CO2 levels” theory to be a falsehood. Then again, just because something has been proven time and again to be false doesn’t mean Fat Al won’t continue using it and proclaiming its veracity.

Here I go showing my age again. A school principal has banned the word “Meep!” from his school, even threatening to suspend students who wear or say it. Students had started using the word, which comes from Beaker, the bungling lab assistant from the Muppets, as a planned disruption word, having organized the disruption on Facebook. And here I thought “Meep-Meep” was the sound of the Roadrunner.

Get a load of the opening sentence of this story from Politico.com. “President Barack Obama plans to announce in next year’s State of the Union address that he wants to focus extensively on cutting the federal deficit in 2010.” Really? Okay, we can start with repealing the “stimulus” bill, ditching the Obamacare bill, don’t even consider the Crrap-and-Tax bill, and end all unConstitutional entitlements, especially those born of the Great Society programs of Lyndon Baines “Texas’ Biggest Embarrassment” Johnson. If you don’t take those steps, then you are not the least bit serious about cutting the federal deficit.

The workings of the extreme leftist liberal mind are a wonder to behold. Who, besides unrepentant marxist-socialist terrorists (and really good Friends of Barack) William Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn, knew that the Hillary! campaign’s use of the terms “women”, “blue collar”, “worker”, “working class”, and “mainstream” really mean “WHITE!”, while “unknown”, “untested”, “stranger”, “wild card”, and “elitist” really mean “BLACK!”? Wait… “Elitist” means “black”? That one’s really the icing on the cake. As for all of the terms relating to work meaning “white”, that can be traced directly to the Democrats and the Great Society entitlement programs for what they’ve done to the American black community.

Here we go with another group of anti-American, anti-military Yankees from the “it’s all about ME!!!!!!” generation. A number of people who live near the USS Constitution, that’s “Old Ironsides” for those of you who are a bit on the history-challenged side, have started complaining about the twice daily cannon blasts from the ship. It disturbs the poor wittle whiners. Listen up, children. That cannon firing has been going on for over 200 years. You chose to move into that neighborhood with full knowledge of the cannon firing. If you wanted quiet, you should have moved somewhere else. This is like the idjuts who move to a neighborhood near, or in the flight path of, an airport and complain that there’s too much noise. The Crawfish has been aggravated by this type of dingbat for decades, since his hometown (Dallas) has an airport that’s been in existence since 1917, but the people who have moved into the areas surrounding Love Field since the early 70s have been whining about the aircraft noise ever since. If the source of the noise predates your arrival into the area, you have no valid complaint.

If the Bush Administration had fired an agency Inspector General because he found some shady activities in the agency he oversaw involving some friends of the President, and then the Administration had documents regarding that firing shredded, the media would be all over it and there would be 73 different committee and sub-committee hearings before the television cameras on Crapitol Hill. On the other hand, if this scenario is played out under the Obama Administration all we hear is the sound of crickets.

Sometimes you’ve just gotta shake your head in amazement of the sheer chutzpah of some liberal organizations. ACORN has been involved in election fraud for years, is under investigation regarding embezzlement and many other crimes in a bunch of states, and got smoked by the couple posing as a p imp and a prostitute in multiple offices. As a result, Congress cut off all federal funds going to that organization. Now ACORN has filed a federal lawsuit to get all of that taxpayer money so they can continue their criminal enterprise in support of the Democratic Party.

It is quite amusing to see someone get caught in their own lies. Since Barack Obama is a serial liar, it is not that difficult to find evidence of him supporting one position to a certain group of people, only to vehemently oppose that same position at a later time. A number of readers seemed to find this video about the same time as I did, and we all had the same reaction. It is a quality “D’OH!” moment, as during the campaign The Chosen One attacks Hillary! for her support of health insurance mandates. So what’s his position today? Hmmmm?

If y’all come across any weird/stoooopid/strange news stories that might be fodder for The Weekly Claw or The Weekend Claw, e-mail them to me at at1aw_usn@yahoo.com and I’ll consider ‘em. Yes, I will give you newshounds credit.

“Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.” - George Washington

The Constitution of the United States

If ya wanna know what kind of mood The Crawfish is in this week, all you need to do is look at the scoreboard. Filthadelphia Illegals 16, Dallas Cowboys 20. “It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood…”

In the aftermath of the Islamic terrorist attack on Ft. Hood, President Obama called for calm and told people to not jump to any conclusions. The unspoken words were “Don’t draw any conclusions about the shooter being muslim, praising muslims who fight Americans, was known by many for his spreading of anti-American propaganda and beliefs, telling a neighbor that morning that ‘I’m going to do good work for God,’ had been trying for months to get in contact with Al-Qaeda, and shouting ‘Allahu Akbar!’ as he was shooting. Islam had nothing to do with it. Blame America and apologize to the muslim world for causing this unfortunate act.” Contrast this to his immediate condemnation of Cambridge Police Sergeant James Crowley, who arrested a black man breaking into a house in a mostly-white neighborhood. This man will support his father’s race and religion every chance he gets.

After making his shout-out to a Medal of Freedom awardee, whom he misidentified as a Medal of Honor awardee, the President made his quick half-hearted statement about the Ft. Hood massacre, then went off to celebrate the occasion at Camp David. Meanwhile, George and Laura Bush immediately went to Ft. Hood to give their condolences and support…WITHOUT a trail of media folks behind them. At least SOMEONE knows how to act Presidential.

General Casey, the Army Chief of Staff is concerned about possible backlash against muslim troops, saying “It would be a shame — as great a tragedy as this was — it would be a shame if our diversity became a casualty as well.” It is exactly that kind of thinking that is ruining our nation. Quit concerning yourselves with the things that divide our people (diversity) and start concentrating on the things that UNITE us. THAT is where our strength as a nation and as our armed forces lies.

The American press is helping the President by ignoring the fact that this was an act of Islamic terrorism. The shooter even had ties to a cleric who was the spiritual advisor to some of the 9-11 hijackers, but to get that story you must go to the BRITISH press, or visit Michelle (***sigh***) Malkin’s website where she has even more on the subject.

Some of the press is even questioning the shooter’s muslim credentials, pointing out that he frequented a strip club near the base. That’s not unusual. There are reports that the 9-11 hijackers frequented strip clubs before their Islamic terrorist mission. Then again, notice that the headline for the story refers to the “Alleged” shooter, and most of the news stories about him say “shooting suspect” as if they don’t want to admit that he did it.

The Crawfish can’t wait until the shooter’s PowerPoint presentation from his residency at Walter Reed Army Medical Center gets fully released to the public. From what the Washington Post reports, the presentation, titled “The Koranic World View As It Relates to Muslims in the U.S. Military”, should have been the ultimate red flag of red flags that this guy needed to be kicked out of the Army and airdropped into Iran. It also shows what the mindset is of the true Followers of the False Pedophilic Prophet and why they can never be trusted. They are muslims first, and whatever nationality they claim second, and Sharia Law dictates that “Fighting to establish an Islamic State to please God, even by force, is condoned by the Islam…Muslim Soldiers should not serve in any capacity that renders them at risk to hurting/killing believers unjustly.”

You see, it is perfectly okay and politically correct to offend Christians, members of the Armed Forces, and white folks, but completely verboten to offend the Religion of Perpetual Outrage.

Will we ever admit the truth that we are in a religious war of extermination, and have been for over 1300 years? Not as long as political correctness rules the roost in the United States and the rest of the western civilized world.

Have I mentioned lately what a bunch of bloodthirsty, 7th century savages the cult known as Islam is made up of? How about a little reminder for those folks who believe the propaganda put forth by the terrorist-supporting CAIR and other “respected” mouthpieces for the muslims. A 33-year-old man in Somalia was publicly stoned to death for the horrific crime of…dare I say it…it’s really terrible…adultery. His girlfriend is lucky. She gets to live. Well, she gets to live until the baby is born. Then she gets to be stoned to death.

Another muslim terrorist is in the news this week, as the DC sniper will be executed on Tuesday. Yes, CAIR, one of your defendees will get his eternal nap and the elevator ride to Hell. The Crawfish hopes they put some bacon grease in the IV before the killing drugs. The Supreme Court announced that they will not stop the execution, which begs a Constitutional question involving every single death penalty case out there. If this is a STATE case concerning a violation of STATE law, and the perp was convicted and sentenced in a STATE court, then why does the FEDERAL court system have any jurisdiction over the case? It is the federal court system that has prevented the death penalty from becoming a deterrent to violent crime by allowing the perps to live 20, 30 years or more while the federal courts mull over thousands of appeals brought by each condemned perp. The most famous of these cases involves yet another muslim, cop-killer Mumia Abu-Jamal.

Meanwhile, the Affirmative Action Attorney General and the FBI Special Agent-In-Charge for the Detruit office will be speaking at and co-hosting, respectively, an awards banquet for a group that includes representation from the Islamic terrorist support group CAIR. Which side is this Administration on?

Just when you thought the Thity of Than Franthithco couldn’t go any farther over the edge, they do this. The idjuts of El Lay might follow suit. Just another reason that I will NEVER live in California.

One of my themes on Friday was Democrats who are liars. We now have a new champion in that category. Bill Owens, who won the NY-23 special election last week, managed to break FOUR of his major campaign promises within ONE HOUR of being sworn into office. Within that hour he: came out in favor of the Pelosiobamacare bill even though he had stated that the public option had no place in any health care bill, decided that cutting Medicare benefits was a good idea after all, agreed that taxing health care benefits is a wonderful way to keep Pelosiobamacare costs down, and discovered raising taxes on the middle class to be a brilliant idea.

The Crawfish knows that there are a lot of folks out there who are displeased with the direction in which this country’s government is heading, but they feel helpless to do anything about it. Yeah, there’s blogging, letters to the editor, maybe even a Tea Party or two, but is that really going to matter? To those people I say YES! Keep up the pressure with those activities, but also realize that there are many grassroots efforts underway to help bring about the kind of CHANGE that us Constitutionalists and conservatives want to see. One of those efforts was started by some of the bloggers on Townhall.com. It’s called “We’re Watching You!” That group is doing its part by initially specifically targeting 10 Congressional seats held by Democrats/liberals/enemies of the Constitution (sorry for repeating myself) in the 2010 election cycle, and possibly adding more to the hitlist as their support grows. If they can generate some support, they might be helpful in returning those seats to sane, patriotic, real Americans. It is important that we all get involved with groups like “We’re Watching You!” so that we can take back our nation from the likes of Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Babs Boxer, Barney Frank, Diane Feinstein, and John Murtha. It doesn’t take a lot of time and money, just a bit of dedication to Truth, Justice, and the American Way! Go visit their website and see if you support their efforts.

Townhall blogger “arik” was gracious enough to bring this article from American Thinker to my attention. It shows that the relationship between the arabs and the Zionist Jews was once a very good one, with promises of peace and great economic development.

Months after the corruption became public, state authorities FINALLY raided the Louisiana headquarters of ACORN and seized their computers. If they have cleaned out those computers by now, they really ARE stoooopid.

Well, it is official. The Pelosiobamacare bill does mandate that all families shell out at least $15,000.00 per year on government-approved insurance plans, and if they at any time do not have such coverage the head of the household faces fines (called an “additional tax” in a vain attempt to make it somewhat Constitutional…EPIC FAIL!) of up to $250,000.00 and prison time of up to 5 years. As soon as they try to imprison someone, the revolution will begin. At least MY Congresscritter, Kay Granger (TX-12) gets it.

The only reason that the Pelosiobamacare bill was able to pass the House was that the Stupak Amendment had been added to it, preventing any federal funding of abortions. That was enough to give cover to 20 or more blue dog Democrats so they could cast YEA votes in good conscience. Of course, the Stupak Amendment will NOT be a part of the final bill, as the Democratic Party leadership is solidly against such a ban on federal funding of infanticide, and at least 40 Democrat members of the House have stated that they will not vote for the bill unless infanticide is funded completely. Nostrildamus Waxman and Queen of the House Red Nanny P-Lousy voted against the amendment on the House floor, and refused to give any kind of pledge to keep it in the final bill. By Monday, the Democrats were already working to remove it from any final bill.

In his pep talk to the Democrats of the House before the vote, The Chosen One reportedly said “Does anybody think that the teabag, anti-government people are going to support them if they bring down health care? All it will do is confuse and dispirit” Democratic voters “and it will encourage the extremists.” Yes, those of us who support the Constitution are “teabag” people and “extremists.” Sorry, Your Majesty, but YOU and the socialists of the Democratic Party are the “extremists” as you try to rip the Constitution of the United States to shreds. If you don’t want to live under our Constitution, feel free to move to a nation that supports your brand of marxist-socialism. We’ll even take some of that “stimulus” money and use it to rent a bunch of U-Hauls for ya.

The one Republican who voted in favor of the Pelosiobamacare bill did so after being offered some bribes from the White House, specifically that the “administration would do more to help with ongoing disaster relief efforts in his New Orleans district, specifically by forgiving millions in disaster loans to the region.” Yes, millions of dollars in more freebies for the leeches of N’awlins. Every single one of those people has already been given free money to the tune of more than I make in 3 years, and it has all been tax-free.

Now that the bill has passed, word is now coming out that the Congressional Budget Office now puts the overall cost of the Pelosiobamacare bill at THREE TRILLION DOLLARS OR MORE over ten years. I thought the White House had set the upper limit at a mere $900,000,000,000.00. Red Nanny’s bill is more than three times that amount!

Do you really want to know some of the things in that bill? Racial quotas are a definite part of it, just to make sure that the Congressional Black Caucus, the not-so-Reverend Wright, the not-so-Reverend Jesse-be-the-Jackson, the not-so-Reverend Al “Tawana Brawley” Sharpton, and President Obama would favor it. In case you’re wondering why AARP is supporting the bill, just notice how Medicare Advantage is gutted. That means seniors will need to buy special insurance plans that cover the “Medicare Gap”, and guess what organization makes most of its money from royalties from exactly that kind of insurance plan.

Barack Obama’s Lord and Master, George Soros, is using his Moveon.org group to actively threaten any Democrat who opposes the Obamacare bills in either the House or the Senate. If this was a conservative group threatening Republicans, it would be the top story on all mainstream news outlets, with cries of “INTOLERANT EXTREMISTS!!!!” ringing out.

“Mork calling Orsen….er, Earth calling Algoracle, come in Your Immenseness! Your Glo-Bull Warming fraud just got another large hole blasted in it below the waterline, as NOAA data shows October 2009 to be the 3rd coolest October on record in the United States. You need some serious damage control on this one.”

Bawney Fwank (D-gay brothels of Taxachusetts) is mocking all of you. He said that arguing with a Pelosiobamacare opponent was like arguing with a dining room table, and that the mass protest on Crapitol Hill last week was like being trapped in a furniture warehouse, and that the protesters were “the losers in the ‘Are you smarter than Michele Bachmann?’ contest.” Yes, it takes SUPREME INTELLIGENCE to be able to have complete ignorance of the Constitution of the United States.

Then again, Bawney has admitted to being severely stooopid. He was at his lover’s house in 2007 when police raided the house, and found marijuana, marijuana plants, bongs, and other paraphernalia. Bawney said he knew nothing of the pot, and that he didn’t know what a pot plant looks like. Yes, his lover smoked a lot of pot and even grew it, but Bawney was surprised that there was pot in the house. Yeah, right, and I’m an Admiral in the US Navy. The real question is why Ol’ Lithpy wasn’t arrested in the raid.

When The Detroit News is pointing out that the Democrats are NOT working on job creation, and are instead actively pushing through legislation to kill jobs in America, you know that the curtain that hides The Great Ozobama is slipping.

If only Homeland Security Ditz Napolitano was as concerned with securing our borders and deporting non-drybacks as she is about possible backlash attacks on muslims in our nation, we might have some SECURITY in our HOMELAND. Besides, any such attacks would not be within her purview anyway.

Wait a minute. I thought the “stimulus” worked and the recession was over. Isn’t that the message we’ve been getting from the White House and all of the liberal pundits? They couldn’t be wrong, right?

And you thought the driver’s license bureaus in the United States were magnets for losers…

The Chicago union thug tactics of the Obama Administration are once again on display. This time, a Democratic consultant who appeared on Fox News received a threatening phone call from a White House official who said, “We’d better not see you on again” while implying that the consultant would start losing clients if he showed his face on Fox News again. Yes, this Administration is actively attempting to manage all news on network and cable television and stifle all dissent. Isn’t that one of the classic signs of a dictatorship?

Speaking of union thug tactics, a state worker in California tried to attend a local SEIU meeting to expose the corruption rampant in that union. Minutes later he was being rushed to the Emergency Room after being beaten by union thugs.

Another Democrat Congresscritter has come out favoring family values…or at least in favor of values for his own family.

If y’all come across any weird/stoooopid/strange news stories that might be fodder for The Weekly Claw or The Weekend Claw, e-mail them to me at at1aw_usn@yahoo.com and I’ll consider ‘em. Yes, I will give you newshounds credit.

“Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.” - George Washington

The Constitution of the United States

If ya ain’t outraged, ya ain’t been payin’ attention!

The Crawfish knows that there are a lot of folks out there who are displeased with the direction in which this country’s government is heading, but they feel helpless to do anything about it. Yeah, there’s blogging, letters to the editor, maybe even a Tea Party or two, but is that really going to matter? To those people I say YES! Keep up the pressure with those activities, but also realize that there are many grassroots efforts underway to help bring about the kind of CHANGE that us Constitutionalists and conservatives want to see. One of those efforts was started by some of the bloggers on Townhall.com. It’s called “We’re Watching You!” That group is doing its part by initially specifically targeting 10 Congressional seats held by Democrats/liberals/enemies of the Constitution (sorry for repeating myself) in the 2010 election cycle, and possibly adding more to the hitlist as their support grows. If they can generate some support, they might be helpful in returning those seats to sane, patriotic, real Americans. It is important that we all get involved with groups like “We’re Watching You!” so that we can take back our nation from the likes of Barack Obama MMM MMM MMM, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Chuck Schumer, Barney Frank, John Kerry, and John Murtha. It doesn’t take a lot of time and money, just a bit of dedication to Truth, Justice, and the American Way! Go visit their website and see if you support their efforts.

Fort Hood. Once again the Religion of Peace shows its true colors and demonstrates why no muslim can be completely trusted by a non-muslim. Their so-called religion commands that all non-muslims be converted, enslaved, or put to the sword (or in this case, shot). The shooter was a committed muslim, and even though he was born and raised in the United States, he listed his nationality as PALESTINIAN. Witnesses to the carnage say that the shooter shouted “Allahu Akbar!” as he began firing, which is typical of an Islamic terrorist. His colleagues paint a picture of a muslim who opposed American involvement in the Middle East and said muslims needed to repel the invaders. It’s kinda obvious where his loyalty lies.

Tuesday was a big night for the GOP in America, with the top three positions in Virginia, the Governorship of Noo Joisey, and even a large number of offices in Connecticut (hat tip to Poll Katz e-mailer “Terri”) switching from Democrat control to the Republicans. The state of Maine even made news by becoming the 31st consecutive state to have voters ban heterophobe marriage. This seismic shift was a big blow to the Obama Administration and the Democratic Party, but according to White House Arrogance Secretary Gibbs,the President wasn’t even paying attention to the election returns. The Chosen One spent the whole weekend campaigning for Corzine in Noo Joisey, and then he didn’t pay attention to the results? Does Gibbs actually expect the public to believe that blatant lie?

Speaking of lies from the White House and the Democrats in general, their latest report of jobs “saved” by the “stimulus” bill has even more holes below the waterline and is sinking fast. The report has 935 jobs being saved at a non-profit in Georgia, when only 508 people work there. It seems that raises and benefits increases are counted by these people as “jobs saved” and they even multiply the number of jobs at a company by the percentage raises to inflate their numbers. Then again, these are the same people who say that removing tax cuts, thereby raising taxes, is not a tax increase. Democrat logic and math on full display (the math brought to you by the teachers unions). If you really want to know what’s up with the “stimulus” money, Neal Boortz and Senator Tom Coburn are glad to oblige. You’ll really be shaking your head after you read that one.

I ain’t done yet. Last week, Senator Lieberman came out with a statement saying that he would support the GOP in a filibuster if the Senate Obamacare had a socialist option, er…”consumer option”. Senate Majority leader Dingy Harry Reid then had his minions, er…staff, go out and tell liberal interest groups that he had a deal with Lieberman to actually support the Democrats against a GOP filibuster. Lieberman’s spokesman, Marshall Wittman, had this to say in response to questions about the lies that Reid and his staff were spreading, “If you believe this story is true, you will also believe that I am replacing A-Rod in game six of the series.” He reiterated that “Senator Lieberman’s clear position is that he will vote for the motion to proceed to the health care bill because he supports health care reform that will control costs and insure people who don’t have it now, but will oppose cloture on a final bill if it contains a public option.”

Puh-leeeze tell me y’all saw this lie a mile away. Back in September, Queen of the House Red Nanny P-Lousy said that she was “absolutely” and “without question” committed to posting any Obamacare bill in its entirety online for examination a full 72 hours before any vote. As of Friday afternoon, Red Nanny was pushing for a Saturday afternoon vote on the bill, even though the language was still being worked on by the Democrats. Her nose is getting so long that she can sniff her district from DC.

One major race was not decided on Tuesday, and that would be the mayoral election in Atlanta. The runoff will pit a white female against a black male, and it WILL get ugly. For some Atlanta perspective on the matter, check out what Neal Boortz has to say. I’m sure he’ll have more commentary as the runoff date of December 1st approaches.

Newt Gingrich was on Sean Hannity’s radio and television shows on Wednesday evening, trying to explain away his endorsement of the far-left liberal in the NY-23 special election. While he did admit that his endorsement was a mistake, he put the blame on the 11 Republican county chairs in Noo Yawk who put forth Dede Scozzafava as their preferred candidate. While I agree that those 11 folks should be immediately fired from their positions, I don’t buy Newt’s excuse either. Before you endorse someone, you must know something about that person and their views. A pro-Card Check, pro-union, pro-ACORN, pro-abortion person who is supported by a group, Working Families Party, that is far to the left of Nancy Pelosi simply has no business being endorsed by any Republican. Michael Steele and the RNC didn’t do their homework on this, and it cost them over $900,000.00 in campaign contributions, much embarrassment, a Congressional seat, and (hopefully) their jobs. 

Michael Smerconish interviewed Scozzafava on Thursday, and she claimed to be a solid Republican, with a 90+% conservative voting record.  That’s highly doubtful, but it was enough for Smerconish to say that the Republicans are making a big mistake by excluding “moderate” and “centrist” Republicans.  Sorry, Mike, but anyone endorsed by the Working Families Party is not a moderate.  They are far left.  Besides, when the GOP stands for conservatism, the GOP wins.  When the GOP stands for a squishy middle to middle-left, the GOP loses.  Pay attention to the results from 1980, 1984, 1992, 1994, 1996, 2006, and 2008.

The Chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, Senator John Cornyn, seems to have gotten the message from the NY-23 debacle. The “GOP establishment” gave Charlie “I’ve got a great tan” Crist an endorsement in the Senate race in Florida because he asked for it, but the NRSC is NOT going to get actively involved in the battle for the nomination, pitting “moderate” Crist against conservative Marco Rubio.

The Obama Administration is continuing its kowtowing to Islam and its war against Israel. SecState Hillary! is touring muslim lands, meeting with/sucking up to arab leaders, and reiterating that the current American government doesn’t want Israel to halt settlement construction, but rather to end it forever, saying that the US does not recognize the legitimacy of Israeli settlements in the West Bank. What kind of illegal drug is she smoking? The West Bank, Gaza Strip, and Golan heights are rightfully Israeli property as of the end of the 1968 war in which the arabs tried to exterminate Israel. Israel can do whatever it wants with that property. This is kinda like China objecting to any new American housing projects in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California because that land used to belong to Mexico. Once again, The Crawfish must ask why American Jews continue to back the Democratic Party.

Meanwhile, the Israeli Navy intercepted a ship filled with munitions for the Islamic terrorist group Hizzbollah, including Katyusha rockets and anti-aircraft batteries, and the Islamic terrorist group Hamas has acquired Iranian-made rockets with the range to strike Tel Aviv. With all of this terrorist activity, the Obama Administration continues to say that Israel is the bad guy in the Middle East?

I think we may have found another 25-year-old supporter of Barack Obama, in the form of Eric Hunt of Archbald, PA. This moron has filed suit in Broward County, Florida (surprise, surprise), against an 80-year-old survivor of Auschwitz-Birkenau, asking for “not less than $60 million” for spreading lies about a Holocaust that he claims never happened in order to further the Jewish agenda. A few years ago, Hunt assaulted Nobel Peace Prize awardee (this one was valid) Elie Weisel in an elevator, but got a minimal sentence from a liberal judge. Somebody puh-leeeze stuff this guy into a deep, dark hole until his brain is fully functional.

Here’s yet another update from the Religion of Perpetual Outrage, proving once again that they really are sub-human. Are their any rebuttals from CAIR?

I know it ain’t really necessary, but I’ve got another example of the stooooopidity and intolerance from the Followers of the Pedophilic False Prophet. People who have a choice actually join this so-called religion voluntarily? Look for Minnesota’s Representative Keith Ellison to make those regulations part of Congressional legislation in the near future.

Y’all probably thought that the anti-Constitution stands of the Democrats for Year One of the Reign of His Majesty King Barack I would be limited to “stimulus” bills, bailouts, federal takeovers of auto manufacturing companies, Obamacare, and Crrap-and-Tax. No, my young Padawans, they’ve got lots more up their sleeves. Take Pennsylvania’s Paul Kanjorski, for example. He wants to give federal regulators the power to force large companies to break themselves up into smaller entities. Kanjorski knows that there are Constitutional limitations on the powers of the federal government, but responds “limited power… its not clearly defined. We’re going to be evident in the power.” Yes, ladies, gentlemen, and otherwise…you read it correctly. He’s another Democrat who believes that the Constitution is an optional document.

It appears that the Chicago Tribune has been reading the blog of one of The Crawfish’s Townhall readers, Patriot 76. I knew him when he was just a wee blogger…

Townhall commenter “buck” hit the nail on the head when responding to another of the Townhall blogs. He wrote, “That get voted out of office by the ‘astroturf’ will understand they are STILL out of office whether they call us astroturf, rubes, hayseeds or just rednecks clinging to guns and religion. What they should have called us is: ‘Boss’”

While the Democrats put forth a 1,990 page monstrosity of a bill to overhaul the health care programs of our nation, they ridicule the Republicans as having never put forth any plan of their own, as if they’d even bring up a Republican idea for discussion. Well, the GOP is FINALLY starting to return fire, and here is a video and plan outline from House Minority Leader Boehner. The plan outlined includes a number of items that The Crawfish and other conservatives have been hollering for all year long, such as tort reform and the ability to purchase insurance plans across state lines without mandates for coverage items that are not needed (a family of a husband and wife who cannot have any more kids and have a single son do not need obstetrics coverage, but most states mandate that coverage in all family plans). Here’s the summary, in a one-page pdf file, and here is the whole House GOP bill, which at 219 pages is only 11% the size of the P-Lousy Obamacare bill.

How much pure stoooopidity is in the Pelosi Obamacare bill? Well, just check out what it has to say about vending machines. Then again, the last time I checked, the only thing that vending machines had to do with health care was that they are usually located in or near hospital waiting rooms.

Remember when the idjut Congresscritter from Florida said that the GOP health care plan was for sick folks to “die quickly”? Well, it appears that the DEMOCRAT plan for uninsured sick people is for them to “Die within six months!” See? I can play that game, too.

Townhall commenter “clyde” sent in this story that’s bound to have y’all shaking your heads and wondering about the sanity of some people. How bad does a guy have to be with the ladies to do this repeatedly? The lady shoulda just shot him.

HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!! It now appears that The Crawfish was ahead of the times when I started calling a certain truth-challenged gasbag “The Prophet Algoracle.” Newsweek’s science editor now has an article out calling him an “Eco-Prophet” while managing to completely ignore all evidence showing that the earth has been in a cooling cycle for a decade. Why bother with facts when there’s an agenda to prop up? The Goracle has now even gone to the point of comparing Glo-Bull Warming to the Civil Rights Movement. To quote that Great American Bugs Bunny, “What a maroon!”

An anonymous e-mailer sent in this nugget of gold. What does it say about the priorities of the Obama White House when General McChrystal, SecDef Gates, and US Trade Representative Ron Kirk have a hard time getting face time with The Boss, but SEIU chief Andy Stern and socialist puppet master George Soros can get seen immediately whenever they happen to be in the area? Whoever sent that e-mail…thanx!

Regular Claw contributor “beachmom” found an editorial column at, of all places, PRAVDA, about a couple of Russian lesbians who travelled to Canada to get “married” in order to force Russia to change their marriage laws.

Syndicated columnist Cal Thomas asks one of the questions that The Crawfish is known for screaming. Does the 10th Amendment really mean anything, and can it save us from our current leadership?

If y’all come across any weird/stoooopid/strange news stories that might be fodder for The Weekly Claw or The Weekend Claw, e-mail them to me at at1aw_usn@yahoo.com and I’ll consider ‘em. Yes, I will give you newshounds credit.

“Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.” - George Washington

The Constitution of the United States

Hope y’all had a fun Halloween. The Crawfish Family’s scary moment came the morning after Halloween when The Crawfish went to walk the family dawg. As we stepped out of the house, we found that the exclusively INDOOR cat belonging to kid #1 had escaped the confines of the house sometime during the evening and had spent the night outdoors. Not a good thing considering the fat ball of fur has no claws to defend himself with. He was cold, wet, and scared, but four hours later he tried to get out of the door again. What can I say but…his owner is a BLONDE!

How desperate are the Jon Corzine campaign and the Democratic Party of Noo Joisey in the gubernatorial race? How about desperate enough to pay for robocalls in support of independent candidate Chris Daggett, in hopes that voters will waste their vote on Daggett instead of voting for Republican Chris Christie. Liberal commentator Chris Matthews was on the Michael Smerconish radio show talking about this race, and he was disgusted by the lies and negative campaigning of Corzine. Matthews said that an incumbent should be able to run on their own record, instead of trying to tear down the opponent. If they can’t, then it is a sign of weakness.

The city of Atlanta is on the verge of electing a white woman as Mayor. Atlanta has not elected a white Mayor since 1973, and the race warlords are supremely upset that it might happen in 2009, saying they need to keep the city under “black control.” Atlanta isn’t the only part of our nation where reverse discrimination runs rampant and is even condoned, as Ashley Stinnett of North Star National shows. Where are the words of Martin Luther King Junior when we really need them?

There has been one television commercial running in The Crawfish’s area that has been quite telling. The Democrats of Montgomery County, PA, are highlighting the fact that all nineteen elected judges in the county are Republican, and they’re asking if that’s fair. Is it FAIR? Is it fair to have the PEOPLE elect judges who come from a party that respects the laws as written instead of going by what they feel the law SHOULD say?

I sense a deep disturbance in The Force, for I am once again linking a column from Hal Donahue. Deputy SecDef William J. Lynn III (first of all, never trust someone who uses name, middle initial, last name, and a III or higher number, for they are an elitist snob with a lack of real qualifications) is now admitting to Congress that the new Walter Reed National Military Medical Center at Bethesda is NOT going to be a world-class medical establishment, as had been advertised. Heck, it’s not even gonna have all of the capabilities that were available at the OLD Walter Reed and the OLD National Naval Medical Center. It is, however, a great example of a government project, as it is inadequate, poorly planned, not meeting expectations, is behind schedule, and is WAAAAAAYYYYY over budget. In fact, it is the poster child for the “Consumer Option” or whatever Queen of the House Red Nanny P-Lousy and Dingy Harry Reid are calling the socialist option this week. Why aren’t the veterans organizations, such as the VFW, American Legion, Fleet Reserve Association, Air Force Association, The Retired Officers Association, The Retired Enlisted Association, etc. up in arms and making a BIG stink about this? Vets who belong to these groups, CALL THEM! Everybody should contact their Congresscritter and Senators. This is a crock of natural fertilizer!

A FRICKIN’ HUGE tip of The Crawfish’s hat goes to Townhall commenter and regular Claw contributor “beachmom” for finding something quite interesting on the “Recommended Reading” page of the National Education Association. Most of us just assumed that this was being pushed upon the teachers, but now we have proof!

Over the weekend, supposed Republican Dede Scozzafava saw the light and dropped out of the special election for the 23rd District of Noo Yawk. On her way out the door, however, Scuzzy showed the world exactly what we’ve been saying for a couple of weeks. She is not now and has never been a Republican. She is, in fact, a far left Democrat, maintaining positions and associations to the left of her Democrat opponent.  On Sunday, Scuzzy formally endorsed her Democrat opponent and Red Nanny P-Lousy, which is only fitting for a person who supports the Democrats’  agenda and is a supporter of ACORN, even endorsed by the Working Families Party (a political wing of ACORN that describes itself as "New York’s livliest and most progressive political party. Formed by a grassroots coalition of community organizations, neighborhood activists, and labor unions". Michael Steele and the GOP “establishment” have just had a 2×4 applied to their foreheads. Will they finally see the light and stop putting forth Democrats to run as Republicans?  Will they finally get the message that the Republican Party needs to stand for some core values?  I doubt it.

Sometimes I gotta admire the judicial systems in other nations. This is definitely one of those instances.

Holy cow! The El Lay Times is finally realizing that there are folks out there who are opposed to the Obamacare bills because of the unConstitutional mandates! Next week’s breaking headline from that rag might be that some of us actually disagree with Barack Obama because of his IDEOLOGY, not his race!

At least Senator Hatch of Utah is concerned about the mandates. He said that if the federal gummint can force Americans to buy health care plans, “then there is literally nothing the federal government can’t force us to do.” Just another reason that the Affirmative Action SCOTUS Justice, Sonia Sotomayor, should have been vigorously opposed. The Constitution is NOT a living, breathing document, in spite of what the left keeps trying to shove down our throats.

White House Arrogance Secretary Gibbs was asked about Senator Hatch’s concerns. Reporters even gave him this question, “Do you not feel there is any concern at all about whether it is Constitutional for Congress to impose a mandate?” His answer was, “No.” They don’t have any concern about a question of CONSTITUTIONALITY? AMERICA, ARE YOU HEARING THIS?????

The Obama Administration, in its never-ending quest to kowtow to Islam, has now announced that the terrorists being held, for now, at Gitmo will receive vaccinations for the H1N1 virus. The only injections they SHOULD be receiving are those of the 5.56mm and 7.62mm variety. Then again, since this is the SWINE flu vaccine, and muzzies are forbidden to have anything to do with pigs, are we going to be forcing them to violate their religious beliefs by giving them the injections, thus further inflaming the Followers of the Pedophilic False Prophet? Expect a lawsuit from the terrorist supporters at CAIR in 5….4….3….

Townhall blogger “Saltwater” sent in an article from the UK that shows just how far the nanny-state has progressed over there. Don’t think that it couldn’t happen here as well.

North Star National’s Dan Calabrese is wondering why House Minority Leader Boehner is only complaining about the size of the P-Lousy Obamacare bill, when there’s sooooo much on the inside worth attacking. I guess it’s up to the new media and us bloggers to get THAT word out.

For those of you who actually have a life, and therefore cannot spend the time to read and study the 1990 page Obamacare bill, here’s a few of the NEW TAXES that are embedded within. Do any of you still believe Obama’s promise to not raise taxes on anybody who makes less than $250,000.00 per year? Didn’t think so.

If you do go through that bill, you will notice that it is mainly another government jobs and government control bill, as it will bring about one hundred and eleven new federal bureaucracies. How in the world are you going to improve health care if you submit it to that much gummint bovine excrement?

How do y’all like this bit of language from the House bill: “Section 2531, entitled “Medical Liability Alternatives,” establishes an incentive program for states to adopt and implement alternatives to medical liability litigation. [But]…… a state is not eligible for the incentive payments if that state puts a law on the books that limits attorneys’ fees or imposes caps on damages.” As the Capitol Confidential notes, “So, you can’t try to seek alternatives to lawsuits if you’ve actually done something to implement alternatives to lawsuits. Brilliant! The trial lawyers must be very happy today!”

If you want some TRUTH about the results of tort reform, check out the update that I recently received from Senator John Cornyn of the Great State of Texas.

Oh, and just to make sure the bill gets even more expensive, The Messiah is lifting the 20 year old ban on persons who are HIV positive from immigrating into the US. Great, let’s bring in a bunch of AIDS cases and put them on the “consumer option” health plan so all of us heterosexual, monogamous, non-druggies can pay for it. Was this another payoff to the wonderfully moral people of Queen of the House Red Nanny P-Lousy’s home district? That story came from Poll Katz e-mailer “Terri.”

Townhall commenter “clyde” gets yet another tip of the hat for sending us a story from the Obamassociated Press. Their headline refers to the muzzie imam who was shot when the FBI raided an Islamic terrorist cell in Michigan, and were met by gunfire, as a “Murdered Radical Islamic Leader.” He wasn’t murdered. He was sent to meet his 72 virgin male camels on Viagra by federal agents who were lawfully returning fire from a bunch of muslim terrorists.

“Ginny” of the Poll Katz found a headline that y’all simply won’t believe, until you remember that this Administration is being run by folks who wish to end our national sovereignty. “Homeland Security Department Gags Local Law Enforcement to Protect ‘Privacy’ of Illegal Aliens” really goes a long way in showing the point of view of Homeland Security Ditz Napolitano and King Barack I. I hate to inform them that non-drybacks have no privacy rights here. In fact, they have NO rights here. Nappy and the other Democrats really do need to take a long hard look at the correlation between enforcement of immigration laws and national security. Wait. Maybe they have, and THAT is why they refuse to enforce immigration laws.

I heard this part of the Glenn Beck Show while driving around to medical appointments on Monday. It appears that ol’ Reverend Wrong has been making some public appearances, and is blowing the lid off of his past as the preacher to Barack Obama for 20 years and his marxist philosophy that was what Trinity United Church of Christ was all about during that time. The transcript (and audio) is from an address to a conference hosted by the Monthly Review Magazine, which is openly marxist-socialist. This is WELL WORTH your time to read. I’ll give you a couple of tastes…“what will be tolerated from a person of color in this land, the land of the greed and the home of the brave excuse me, the land of the greed and home of the slave.” “This magazine unflinchingly has tackled the tough issues from McCarthyism to militarism, from the Chinese revolution through the Canadian revolution to the Cuban revolution, from the lies told by United States presidents to the lies told by the United States media. We celebrate tonight six decades of dedicated service.” Yep, Obama’s spiritual leader celebrates 60 years of dedicated service to marxist-socialism, but Obama never heard a word he said. There’s more. “My work with liberation theology, with Latin American theologians, with the Black Theology Project and what the Cuban Council of Churches taught me 30 years ago the importance of Marx and the Marxist analysis of the sociologies of the vulnerable and the oppressed who were trying desperately to break free of the political economies undergirded by this country that were choking them and cutting off any hope of a possible future where all of the people would benefit.” I think you get the general feel. There’s a bunch of absolute beautiful quotes in there for us to use over the next 3 years.

Townhall blogger “arik” gives us this gem of a column, written by a Sergeant of Marines. He takes The Messiah to task for not understanding what Mission Accomplishment is all about, and why it is Job One.

Any time a person who is an abortion-pusher has a change of heart and becomes anti-abortion, it is a good thing. Here’s a video story from Breitbart about a Planned Parenthood leader who now opposes abortion. The Crawfish is happy to announce that this ex-director of a state Planned Parenthood organization is from Texas. Here’s the story as reported by Fox News.

If y’all come across any weird/stoooopid/strange news stories that might be fodder for The Weekly Claw or The Weekend Claw, e-mail them to me at at1aw_usn@yahoo.com and I’ll consider ‘em. Yes, I will give you newshounds credit.

” Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.” - George Washington

The Constitution of the United States

If you weren’t outraged at some point this week, you weren’t payin’ ‘tention.  That being said, Happy Halloween!  Now get out there and scare some kids, ’cause the stuff eminating from DC is puh-lenty to scare us adults.

Sometimes, The Crawfish really does hate Philadelphia media. Take for example WPHT, The Big Talker 1210AM, the home of Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, and Sean Hannity. They bill themselves as a talk radio station, but whenever the Phillies have a baseball game, they pre-empt the biggest shows in radio for baseball, which has what…1000, 2000 listeners? The day that Sarah Palin was selected for the VP nomination, I wanted to hear the commentary, but got boring baseball instead. Wednesday and Thursday, they pre-empted the last two hours of the Sean Hannity Show for their baseball pre-game shows…the pre-game shows that LASTED FOUR FRICKIN HOURS! Why does a baseball pre-game show last longer than a whole game? Baseball pre-game shows, even for the World Series, should last no more than 30 minutes. It’s not like there’s any real strategy to discuss. The pitcher is going to throw the ball. The hitters are going to try to hit the ball. The fielders are going to try to catch and throw the ball.

How much of a Messiah complex does the left have about Barack Obama? Well, despite the fact that Obama’s books were ghost-written by unrepentant terrorist Bill Ayers, the leader of the National Endowment for the Arts has declared that Obama is “the most powerful writer since Julius Caesar.” Isn’t that kinda like saying the gaseous emanations following this year’s Terlingua International Championship Chili Cookoff (which one of The Crawfish’s cousins will be competing in this year, first Saturday in November) are the most powerful winds since Hurricane Andrew.

How much do the Democrats hate every aspect of patriotism and traditional American values? Consider that they have selected this video as one of the finalists in a contest to make the next Obamacare commercial. The video has an image of the American flag that gets desecrated throughout the commercial by pro-Obamacare painted slogans. Desecrating the flag is something Democrats now officially celebrate.

On a related note, HBO “comedian” Larry David’s latest episode of his series features him urinating on a portrait of Jesus Christ. To the liberal mind, it is perfectly okay to attack Christianity, the flag, the Constitution, and traditional American values, but if you attack heterophobes, Islam, blacks, non-drybacks, and such you are a despicable human being.

Over the past few years, as state taxes have been sharply raised by the Democrats, over 1.5 MILLION people have fled the state of Noo Yawk. That means that the goal of the tax hikes, an increase in state revenues, is falling very short, which means the liberals will want to raise taxes even more to cover the loss. It’s a vicious circle leading to economic collapse. Let’s hope that those folks escaping the Empire State are smart enough to change their voting habits away from the Democrats when they move to red states.

Do y’all remember when the Bill and Hill Show was selling out the Lincoln Bedroom for donations to their campaigns or others that they had designated? They were amateurs. Check out how the Obamas are rewarding donors! You, too, can get a private briefing, from Administration officials even. They have no shame.

Townhall commenter “clyde” sent me a story about another terroristic muslim group in the US. The story actually is good news, since many of the members of the Islamic terrorist group were nabbed by the FBI and their imam was killed, thus saving the taxpayers the expense of a trial. (Hmmmm...is the FBI hiring?  Sounds like a job I'd like!)  Does anybody want to place odds on whether or not CAIR is going to assist the legal defense team of the ones who were caught?

The Crawfish is seeing a recurring pattern. The Obama Administration or the Democrats in Congress make an outlandish claim. Someone in the media does a sanity check on the claims, smells something fishy, investigates, finds that the claims are false, and publishes their findings. Administration officials have a tizzy fit and attack the person who had the audacity to fact-check their lies.

How will they react to THIS poll, which shows that American women prefer private insurance to a government plan by a 64-27 margin?

As I have stated many times, I will give President Obama credit when credit is due. Wednesday night into Thursday morning, President Obama made an unannounced dash to Dover Air Force Base to witness and salute the return of the remains of 18 American military personnel killed in Afghanistan this week. For that action alone, the Marines who salute him entering and leaving Marine One should have a little more snap to their salutes for a while.

When it comes to dealing with Afghanistan and Pakistan, maybe President Obama should take a listen to what Pervez Musharraf, the former President of Pakistan, has to say about allowing the Taliban to have any say in Afghanistan’s government.

When the Daily Kook is reporting that Dan Hoffman is within one point of the lead in the special election in Noo Yawk, you know that the Conservative Party candidate is a SERIOUS threat to win. The left-wing extremist “Republican” Dede Scozzafava is lagging far back in third place, despite the endorsements of Newt Gingrich, Michael Steele, and the liberal “establishment” in the GOP. If Steele had any brains, he’d tell Scozzafava to drop out over the weekend and throw her support to Hoffman.

North Star National’s Dan Calabrese was watching Queen Nancy’s performance this week, when she trotted out the new and improved 1990 page House version of Obamacare and acted like it was the ULTIMATE bill that would solve all of the world’s problems and would easily pass through Congress and get signed into law. Dan notes that some of the major provisions of the bill don’t take effect until 2013, by which time we will probably have a new President who will stop them dead in their tracks. He also notes that there are “temporary” government programs involved. When was the last time any “temporary” government program actually ended?

Dan also gives us a lesson in economic reality and how the media covers it, or covers it up.

The Crawfish’s Congresscritter, Representative Kay Granger, sent me a link to the monstrosity that Queen of the House Red Nanny P-Lousy is putting forth. If you check page 94, you’ll find this little gem, “GENERAL.—Individual health insurance coverage that is not grandfathered health insurance coverage under subsection (a) may only be offered on or after the first day of Y1 as an Exchange-participating health benefits plan.” In other words, only the government plan will be available for new coverage in Year One of the bill, which is 2013. New private insurance coverage will be ILLEGAL!

When Edmunds.com analyzed auto sales from the past few months, they figured out that for every new car purchased under the “Cash for Clunkers” program, the taxpayers shelled out $24,000.00. Now you know that didn’t sit well with the White House, so they immediately attacked Edmunds.com. They really do get miffed when there’s truth in journalism, don’t they.

Ohgoodlord. At least every other time she’s seen in public, micHELLe is dressed in something completely atrocious, but that doesn’t stop the idjuts at Glamour Magazine from making FLOTUS their Woman of the Year. I guess the Ghettohowhohitalottery look is the next big fashion style.

If y’all come across any weird/stoooopid/strange news stories that might be fodder for The Weekly Claw or The Weekend Claw, e-mail them to me at at1aw_usn@yahoo.com and I’ll consider ‘em. Yes, I will give you newshounds credit.

“No generation has a right to contract debts greater than can be paid off during the course of its own existence.” - George Washington to James Madison 1789

The Constitution of the United States

It’s a week before Halloween. Have all of you eeeeeevilllll conservatives started poisoning the candy for the kiddies yet? Remember that if any kid in the country DOES get a poisoned piece of candy (or gets hurt in any way), it is going to be because of capitalists, conservatives, and Fox News.

Golden Corral has been doing it for 9 years, but now Applebee’s is joining them in celebrating Veteran’s Day by giving a free meal to all of our military personnel and veterans. Note that Golden Corral’s celebration is actually on Monday the 16th. Those are two companies that deserve your support.

Over this weekend, take pause and remember the events of 65 years ago, October 23-26, 1944. The Battle of Leyte Gulf was possibly the last large scale fleet battle that will ever be fought on the oceans of our planet.

The entertainment world lost another great one this week, as Soupy Sales passed on at age 83.

For once, The Crawfish is at odds with Citizens Against Government Waste, and is on the same side as (GULP!) John Murtha! CAGW, and a few other groups, are opposing funding for an alternate engine program for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, saying a second engine program is just a big waste of funds. I heartily disagree. We have a history of producing aircraft for our military that initially have one engine, but are found to need a different engine (or a heavily modified version of the original engine) to reach their optimum performance. I’ll just name a few: P-51 Mustang (the original Allison engine was nothing compared to the Rolls-Royce Merlin!), F-14 Tomcat, F-16 Falcon, and B-29 Superfortress.

Next month, freedom loving people around the world will celebrate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Since that is a celebration of a victory of freedom over Marxist-socialist communism, Barack Obama will not attend. He and all of his Marxist-socialist associates (P-Lousy, Ayers, Dorn, Frank Davis, Soros, Anita Dunn, Rev. Wrong, the czars, etc) will be in mourning that day.

Homeland Security Ditz Nappy and the Affirmative Action Attorney General must be really getting hacked off by Sheriff Joe’s continuing efforts to uphold our laws. Townhall blogger “Saltwater” sent me a story about Sheriff Joe having a press conference regarding his anti-illegal alien sweeps. The press conference was only open to the press, but at least six people from the Department of InJustice tried to get in. The liberals are mad because Sheriff Joe seems to be “profiling” in his sweeps and is arresting non-drybacks (aka future core Democrat voters). Well duh! Profiling is not a bad thing. It is simply PROPER LAW ENFORCEMENT PROCEDURE!

Do black Americans have any idea how much their subservience to the Democratic Party has cost them? How much more political power would they have if they had not supported pro-abortion liberals for all of these decades? When you consider that abortion kills more black Americans than the other top 7 causes of death COMBINED every year, you see what they’ve lost.

While Michael Steele, Newt Gingrich, and the GOP establishment are supporting an ACORN and union loving liberal in the special election for Noo Yawk’s 23rd Congressional District, the biggest news so far for that race came this week when Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman was heartily endorsed by Sarah Palin, to go along with the previous endorsements by Michelle(***sigh***) Malkin, Glenn Beck, Richard Armey, and other real conservatives. On the other hand, Hoffman’s “Republican” opponent has been endorsed by: Planned Parenthood, New York Choice Pact, the National Education Association, and unions representing longshoremen, electrical workers, and transportation workers. Somehow, The Crawfish believes that Sarahcuda is going to be a major player in the 2010 election cycle, not by running for office herself, but by making a difference in races around the country where she will support truly conservative candidates. I need to hurry up and win a big Powerball so I can get an endorsement and on-stage hug from Sarah as I run for Congress!

Speaking of Sarah Palin, could it be that one of the people who mocked her last year is now becoming one of her fans and maybe a supporter in 2012?

The Affirmative Action Attorney General and his Department of InJustice are stuck in the middle of another hoax of a race crime. Malik Shabazz, the New Black Panther Party thug who Holder’s people let off the hook in the Philadelphia voter intimidation case, is one of the enablers of one Megan Williams of West Virginny, who accused seven white men of sexual abuse. All seven plead guilty to charges (which Shabazz opposed as the charges they plead to weren’t severe enough), but now Williams has recanted, saying the abuse never happened. Shabazz was also one of the enablers in the hoax race crime involving the Duke Lacrosse team. Is it just me, or does this also resemble the not-so-reverend-Al’s involvement with the hoax race crime of Tawana Brawley?

Holder’s Department of InJustice will probably work to pardon Tarek Mehanna, saying he’s just a poor misunderstood member of the Religion of Perpetual Outrage and besides, the whiteys would have deserved it. Meanwhile, CAIR is no doubt setting up Mehanna’s legal defense team as I type.

Another adherent to the Religion of the Pedophilic False Prophet might need CAIR’s legal assistance. Faleh Hassan Almaleki was upset that his daughter, who is an adult living in the United States, was assimilating into American culture like any immigrant should (and refusing to go through with an arrainged marriage), so he ran over her and her roommate with his car. Sooner or later, the American people are going to have to wake up and realize that Islam is not compatible with the rest of the world and that there will be no peace until either every muslim or every non-muslim in the world is dead. Of course, even if all non-muslims were dead, the Shi’ia and Sunni muslims would still try to exterminate each other. Yep, that’s the Religion of Peace.

The #2 Dim-ocrat in the House, Steny Hoyer, doesn’t understand the difference between the PREAMBLE of the Constitution and the ENUMERATED POWERS of the Constitution. He claims that the “general welfare clause”, which is part of the Preamble, grants Congress the authority to order all Americans to buy government-approved health insurance. Sorry, Steny (what kind of name is Steny???), but the Preamble is a general statement describing the goals of the Constitution and has no power on its own. He also said that Congress has the power to mandate a lot of things, and this is just like them mandating that Americans pay taxes, unless they are Charlie Rangel, Tim Geithner… Meanwhile, Senator “Leaky” Leahy (Jassack-VT) believes Congress has that authority, even though he doesn’t know where it comes from, but has the audacity to say that “there’s no question there’s authority, nobody questions that!” Sorry, Senator, but everybody who understands the Constitution is questioning that.

CNSNews asked Queen of the House Red Nanny P-Lousy where Congress gets its Constitutional authorization to force Americans to buy health insurance. All she could stammer was, “Are you serious?” Her spokesman later said that asking about the Constitutionality of that mandate cannot be considered a serious question. In other words, they’re going to do whatever they want to do, no matter what the Constitution says. It is THAT kind of arrogance that makes the majority of taxpayers outside of DC and Than Franthithco absolutely detest her.

At least House Minority Leader John Boehner understands that governmentally mandating the purchase of anything is un-American.

More fiscal shenanigans have been uncovered in the Obamacare bills. The Baucus Bill, which the last edition of The Claw exposed as dropping costs at the expense of the states having to more than double their Medicare expenditures, has another way to reduce the “on-budget” costs. They’re going to raise the Social Insecurity taxes and skim off of that revenue! This still does not violate The Messiah’s pledge to not raise taxes on those making less than $250,000.00 per year, because this isn’t really an income tax, even though it is a tax on wage income.

About 7 months ago, His Majesty King Barack I said, “If there is a way of getting this done where we’re driving down costs and people are getting health insurance at an affordable rate, and have choice of doctor, have flexibility in terms of their plans, and we could do that entirely through the market, I’d be happy to do it that way.” Well, the Cato Institute has the blueprint for exactly what he was asking for, but since it isn’t remotely close to a path to socialized, gummint-run health care, he won’t even bother giving it to his people to check out.  Will the lamestream media cover this?  (insert sound of crickets here)

The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the Actuary has issued a report stating that the Obamacare bills in the House would drive the costs of health care UP, not down! So if it is going to drive the costs up, and will only cover a few of the folks who are not currently covered, what’s the point, other than government control and making the populace dependent upon the government, thereby insuring Democratic Party power for eternity?

Will somebody puh-leeze try to make some sense of this? Our leftist politicians refuse to allow for expanding domestic oil production in the Baaken fields of the northern plains, the Black Warrior Basin, ANWR, and offshore in our own territorial waters, but China is about to start drilling in our territorial waters. Which side are the Democrats on? I guess we just answered that, again.

The envirowackos who lead the charge against all drilling in America are also fighting clean “green” energy. They are taking their fight against wind turbine power generation to the federal courts, because some endangered bats might die. It’s called evolution, ya idjuts. Get over it. What do you really want from us? To go back to stone age style living?

President Obama is about to sign legislation that makes the 14th Amendment’s guarantee of equal protection under the law a thing of the past. Yes, he’s going to sign into law the new “hate crimes” legislation, which makes crimes against non-whites, non-Christians, and heterophobes MORE of a crime than those committed against straight white Christian males. It is also a step toward squelching all speech supporting the anti-homosexual stance that is a part of the holy books of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam.

Here’s a story that is sure to be ignored by The Prophet Algoracle, the Gorons, and British Prime Minister Brown. Meteorologists have recorded the lowest October temperature ever in Germany. Darn that Glo-Bull Warming!

Why is it that every single Obama appointee either has tax problems or is a complete radical? His latest appointee to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (which in itself needs to go away) is a heterophobe activist who instructed other like-minded activists to declare that “gay sex is morally good.” This Administration not only wants to destroy our Constitutional form of government, but it also wants to tear apart the very fabric of American family and religious/moral life.

I really don’t understand why Afghanistan is still the producer of 90% of the world’s opium. Once our forces got in there, all of the opium farmers should have been told to start growing different crops or see their lands get Agent Oranged. We could have even provided them with seeds for whatever crops they could grow on those lands. That crop not only fuels the world’s heroin problems, but it is also the number one source of revenue for the Taliban and Al-Qaeda groups in that region.

How much does Barack Obama wish to be worshipped around the world? How about enough to GIVE AWAY 10% of our swine flu vaccines before the demand in the US is even met. Why take care of Americans when there’s another Nobel Peace Prize to win?

If y’all come across any weird/stoooopid/strange news stories that might be fodder for The Weekly Claw or The Weekend Claw, e-mail them to me at at1aw_usn@yahoo.com and I’ll consider ‘em. Yes, I will give you newshounds credit.

“No generation has a right to contract debts greater than can be paid off during the course of its own existence.” - George Washington to James Madison 1789

The Constitution of the United States

You know it’s a good Sunday for The Crawfish when the Philadelphia Phillies outscore the Filthadelphia Eagles. Mrs. Crawfish is also happy, as her N’awlins Saints put a bayou-sized woopin’ on the Noo Yawk Midgets.

THIS ONE IS IMPORTANT! Townhall blogger “INTHENOW” was the first of many to send me this video. Lord Christopher Monckton, who was Maggie Thatcher’s science advisor, explains to a crowd in Minnesota how Barack Obama is about to cede sovereignty of our nation from our own people to a new communistic world government. He correctly points out that any treaty that our government signs and that is ratified by the Senate has authority superseding our Constitution, and that the latest climate change treaty does not allow a nation to pull out of the treaty unless the rest of the signing nations agree to the pullout, and since the United States will be paying the majority of the money into the treaty organizations and other nations, they won’t agree. Say goodbye to the USA.

For my second “issue paragraph” I will once again prove that I will take a good story from any source. A Navy friend of mine forwarded a couple of e-mails that he got from someone who is a political activist and Huffington Post columnist and is well known by many of my readers. Hal Donahue, called by a few other names by many at Townhall.com who have questioned his bona fides, has a pretty good article regarding the future of National Naval Medical Center Bethesda, and how the planning for combining NNMC Bethesda and Walter Reed Army Medical Center into one main east coast military medical center has been quite faulty. The Crawfish and Mrs. Crawfish have both had puh-lenty of less-than-satisfactory dealings with military medicine over the years (at NNMC Bethesda, Naval Hospital Jacksonville, and elsewhere), and will take any allies to help get military medicine fixed. Hal had an older post from his archives that shows a problem that the military has always had, the demand for a pretty show for the public and visiting dignitaries, but scrimping when it comes to the things that really matter. When that impacts the medical and psychological care that our Sailors, Marines, Soldiers, and Airmen receive, it is unacceptable.

I don’t care who you are, this story’s funny! The only people who are getting torqued are those who should be deported anyway, so SCRUEM! A tip of The Crawfish’s hat goes to “Rob in Arizona.”

Gawd, I love Sheriff Joe Arpaio! In response to questions about his continuing campaign against non-drybacks, Sheriff Joe said, “I’m the elected Sheriff. I don’t take orders from the federal government!” He might have to use the 10th Amendment as a sledgehammer against Homeland Security Ditz Nappy and her minions.

When we notice all of the blatant lies put forth these days by The Chosen One and his Administration, Queen of the House Red Nanny P-Lousy, Dingy Harry “Land Deal” Reid, The Prophet Algoracle, Bawney “The Madam” Fwank, and the rest of the Democrats in DC, we sometimes forget that it was the Clinton family that made bald-faced lies to the American people quite fashionable. Last week, Secretary of State “Sniper Fire in Bosnia” Hillary! reminded the world that an aversion to truth is still one of her trademarks. Will they ever learn?

The arrogance of the Obama Administration, dating back to their campaign, is almost assuming a status as the Ninth Wonder of the World. White House Communications Director Anita Dunn has been found on video admitting that every bit of news coverage from the campaign was “controlled” by chief campaign manager David Plouffe. No wonder she hates Fox News so much. Not only did they not allow themselves to be “controlled”, but their new ratings star, Glenn Beck, and his staff found this video and put it on the air!

It looks like The Crawfish and the rest of the patriots in America aren’t the only ones calling for attacks against terrorists based in Pakistan. Now the IRANIANS are calling for such attacks after a suicide bombing in Iran that killed 5 Revolutionary Guards leaders, among others. Of course, the Iranians are also claiming that the US and Britain helped the attacker.

With the recent news that muslim organizations were trying to infiltrate Congressional staffs, it is good to see that some organizations are continuing to stand strong against CAIR and the other terrorism front groups in America, and it is also good to see that there is now a bi-partisan Anti-Terrorism Caucus on Capitol Hill, with The Crawfish’s own Congresscritter, Kay Granger (R-TX-12), as one of the Co-Chairs. Heck, even Babs Boxer has changed her stripes, from endorsing CAIR to opposing them. Allmilitary.com commenter “Fawnmac” sent me this article which goes along with the one from Anti-CAIR. I wonder if I’m still on CAIR’s “watch” list…

If I’m not on CAIR’s watch list anymore, I need to rectify the situation. Maybe this will work. Here is more irrefutable evidence that muslim men are STOOOOOPID or homosexual! Sane heterosexual men prefer women who properly support their breasts to prevent them from…well let’s not go there. Muslim men still prefer camels, goats, and sheep evidently. Does THAT wake ya up, CAIR?

I thought the US Mint’s special series of quarters was going to just include the 50 states. Well, I thought that until one of my co-workers noticed that he had a quarter in his hand that recognized American Samoa. It seems that the 2009 series of quarters is for DC and the US Territories. The DC quarter was released on January 26th. This was the first of those quarters that I’d seen.

The Obama Administration and the Affirmative Action Attorney General’s Justice Department have decided that black America is ONLY represented by the Democratic Party, and they’ve stuck their nose into local politics to force the issue. What business does the federal government have, and what Constitutional authority do they have, in telling a town that they MUST include the Democratic Party in local elections? The person who made the decision is the same one who decided that the voter intimidation charges against the New Black Panther Party were to be dropped.  Never in my lifetime has the Justice Department been used so much as an instrument of race-based politics without regard for the Constitution.

The not-so-reverend Al “Tawana Brawley” Sharpton is miffed at Rush Limbaugh. Al and his big brother in the racial shakedown and race card playing bidness, Jesse “Hymietown” Jackson, helped derail Limbaugh’s bid to become part of an ownership group to take over the St. Louis Rams football team, claiming that Limbaugh had a racist past. Well, Limbaugh fired back, citing racist activities by Sharpton that have lead to violence and deaths. Now Sharpton is threatening to sue Limbaugh over those remarks. Too bad for Al that the facts are solidly in favor of Limbaugh.

Over the weekend the New England Patriots and Tennessee Titans played in a heavy snowstorm, and The Crawfish awoke to find frost on his windshield Monday morning. Add that to the news that the official high temperatures in Philly for Friday, Saturday, and Sunday didn’t get out of the 40s, making this year the first time since the early “Global Cooling” days of 1972 that Philly had three consecutive days in October with the high under 50. Why did I bring that weather info up? Because British PM Gordon Brown went bananas over the weekend, saying that we had only 50 days to save the world from CATASTROPHE brought on by Glo-Bull WARMING. Despite the actual FACTS showing global temperatures on the decline, he spewed “The extraordinary summer heatwave of 2003 in Europe resulted in over 35,000 extra deaths. On current trends, such an event could become quite routine in Britain in just a few decades’ time. And within the lifetime of our children and grandchildren the intense temperatures of 2003 could become the average temperature experienced throughout much of Europe.” So what has happened since 2003, Gordie?

As long as climate moronity is the subject, we must turn our attention to Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov, who is promising to use the Russian Air Force to keep Moscow snow-free this winter. That’s kinda like Goering’s boast that British bombers would never make it to Berlin. Anyhow…if we’re having so much Glo-Bull Warming, why would there be any snow to begin with?

Next week, President Obama will renew a “declaration of national emergency” in Sudan. Just who does he think he is declaring an emergency for another nation’s government? He’s also proposing incentives and/or sanctions for the government of Sudan regarding the situation in Darfur, as if the Sudanese government really is in control of that nation. Doesn’t he have a few more important issues to tackle?

Some of the states are waking up to what Obamacare is going to do to them. New Hampshire’s Union-Leader newspaper has noticed that the Baucus Bill would more than double the state’s Medicare payments, which would force the state to pass a massive tax increase. That is how the Democrats are saying that Obamacare wouldn’t raise your taxes and would be budget neutral. They’re just passing the bill to the states! Their promise only extends to FEDERAL taxes.

The worship of The Chosen One continues, and it really is sickening. Why would anyone ever put the photo of a lying anti-Christian politician on the cover of a Bible? Oh, never mind. This came from a race-based store.

Accuracy In Media’s Cliff Kincaid scored a major victory against black racism, support for cop killers who are black separatists, and radical black communists when his reporting caused Rupert Murdoch to fire Marc Lamont Hill PhD from his position as a paid contributor at Fox News. Someone at Fox definitely dropped the ball by not checking Hill’s background before hiring him. Kincaid has four other columns detailing what is very much wrong with Hill that really are MUST READS. See them here, here, here, and here. Credit for this story finding its way to The Claw goes to The Michael Smerconish Show and their Tuesday morning interview with Cliff Kincaid in the 7AM Eastern time block.

Here’s the US Navy’s newest television ad, complete with the new ad slogan. When I came into the Navy, the slogan was “You and the Navy. Full Speed Ahead!” That was changed in 1996 to “Navy. Let the Journey Begin.” In 2001, the slogan again changed to “Navy. Accelerate Your Life.” The newest slogan, “America’s Navy: A Global Force for Good” really does show where the new Administration is taking us. The military’s job is to break things and kill people, not be do-gooders. We are America’s Navy, not a “global force” for the UN. Am I the only one who isn’t cool with this?

All I need to say here is, here’s another column from North Star National’s Dan Calabrese.

When an anti-terrorism report from the Useless Nations goes into bending the definitions of gender, you know it is time to ditch that group.

The latest “They said WHAT?!?!?!” statement from the Administration comes from Tax Cheat Timmy, who says that once our economy recovers, the United States will have to learn to live within our means. First of all, this Administration is trying to make sure that our economy NEVER recovers. Secondly, who in the Democratic Party has the legitimacy to say anything like that after posting a budget deficit over three times as high as any other in our history?

The Crawfish didn’t realize that approximately 34% of the population of the People’s Republic of California lives in Than Franthithco.

The Obama Administration is issuing a new, more lenient law enforcement stance on marijuana. Silly Crawfish thought that laws were made by Congress, not the Executive Branch. Wait, that’s right. The Constitution and all other federal laws don’t mean what they say, they mean what The Chosen One and the Affirmative Action Attorney General SAY they mean!

The Crawfish is happy to present the following Public Service Announcement. Detroit is hazardous to your health.

If y’all come across any weird/stoooopid/strange news stories that might be fodder for The Weekly Claw or The Weekend Claw, e-mail them to me at at1aw_usn@yahoo.com and I’ll consider ‘em. Yes, I will give you newshounds credit.

“No generation has a right to contract debts greater than can be paid off during the course of its own existence.” - George Washington to James Madison 1789

The Constitution of the United States

Daaaaa-yam! The Crawfish had to turn on the heater last night, and it’s only mid-October. Trick or treating might require heavy coats and long johns instead of costumes this year in the suburbs of Filthadelphia.

We’ll start off this edition of The Weekend Claw with some news that is gonna make Mrs. Crawfish quite happy. Singing superstar Garth Brooks has announced that he is coming out of retirement. The last time he was on tour we were stationed right where we are now and he had a series of 5 concerts in Filthadelphia. Mrs. Crawfish REALLY wanted to go to one of those shows, but they all sold out in minutes and we weren’t able to get tickets. Hopefully, I’ll be able to get tix if he tours again. For now, he’s going to be playing weekends at the Encore Theater, part of Steve Winn’s resort in Las Vegas, and will be doing one-man shows instead of having a full band and a big stage performance.

Let the anti-Constitutional fascism begin! His Majesty’s Special Master for Compensation has deemed that the outgoing Chief Executive Officer of Bank of America shall receive NO PAY for the calendar year 2009! Since when does any government official, especially one who is unelected, have the Constitutional authority to demand that someone work a year for no pay? That’s called SLAVERY. If anyone in the Court of Obama were to actually bother to READ Section 1 of the 13th Amendment, they’d find that it states, “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.” Bank of America is not fighting this action, but somebody MUST, or our Constitution will be rendered null and void.

Michelle (***sigh***) Malkin brings us news that the Republican Party is once again flipping off the conservatives in America in favor of being the Democrat-Lite Party. Will the morons at the RNC ever learn? Time to send a message to Michael Steele, folks. E-mail him at Chairman@gop.com and let him know that he and his people are really screwing Fido this time.

Now that Barack Hussein Obama MMM! MMM! MMM! is in the White House and kowtowing to the muslims, you’d think that some of the vitriol of the Followers of the Pedophilic False Prophet would be diminished. Nope, they’re even more emboldened. The muslims are now posting prayers calling for the killing of the Jews and the throwing of drain cleaner in their faces. Yep, a real religion of peace. Go ahead, CAIR. Defend that, you terrorist-supporting jerkhoffs.

Meanwhile, as The Chosen One contemplates negotiating with the Taliban in Afghanistan, the other half of the Taliban, those based in Pakistan, shows just how much of a Religion of Peace they subscribe to. Does The Empty Suit still wish to allow those people to have a part of the government in Afghanistan?

The battle between the Americans who want our immigration laws enforced and the Democratic Party of America will come to a head on Friday, when America’s Sheriff, Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, Arizona, will conduct an sweep for illegals under a 1996 federal law that allows him to do such. He’ll then contact ICE to hand the illegals over, which they will probably refuse because of their allegiance to the Affirmative Action Attorney General and The Chosen One.

A couple of readers asked me to give another plug to Operation: Can You Hear Us Know, so there it is.

How much does our Democrat-dominated Congress respect the Armed Forces of the United States? Enough to pass a Defense appropriations bill for FY2010 that gives the military $4,000,000,000.00 LESS than the already-pared-down request by the Obama Administration. The Congress also reduced the final amount actually going to the Department of Defense by another $2,600,000,000.00 by shifting that money into their own pet projects and pork, such as $20,000,000.00 for an educational institute named for that renowned American military hater Teddythedrunk. What are they going to teach there? Anti-Constitutionalism 101, Getting away with manslaughter 302, Sexual harassment 102 and 301, Drunkenness 101, 102, 301, 302, and even a Masters Degree Program, and don’t forget the PhD program in Dishonesty?

What’s a far-left Democrat to do when he’s facing a tough opponent in his re-election bid? Well, there’s always the lie about your opponent tactic and the lie about your own accomplishments tactic. If your name is Jon Corzine, and you’re losing the race for your seat as Guvna of Noo Joisey, you use both of those tactics.  Note that he is using government officials on government time to do work for his campaign.  Sorry, Jonny, that’s not legal.

While we’re on the subject of LIARS, we must mention poor Representative Alan Grayson. You remember him, don’tcha? He’s the Congresscritter who publicly stated that the GOP health care plan was for sick Americans to “die quickly.” Well, he was lying about who wants Americans to “die quickly.” You see, it is the Democratic Party that wants Americans to “die quickly,” as evidenced by this quote from Robert Reich, who is one of The Chosen One’s economic advisors and was Secretary of Labor in the Clinton Administration: “We’re going to have to, if you’re very old, we’re not going to give you all that technology and all those drugs for the last couple of years of your life to keep you maybe going for another couple of months. It’s too expensive…so we’re going to let you die.” Does Representative Grayson care to withdraw his remarks? Does the main stream media wish to mention this quote at all? Didn’t think so.

Y’all ain’t gonna believe where the Obamacare bill says you will be enrolling in your Obamacare plans. You’ll get them at your local Department of Motor Vehicles office! Yes, those crowded places with horrible service, long lines, and 2 of every 3 instruction posters written in a foreign language (why do that? If they can’t read English, how are they supposed to obey traffic signs and notifications?) are now going to add in more lines to take care of Obamacare enrollments. If you don’t want to go there, you can visit your local Social Insecurity office or your kids’ elementary school.

Here’s what MY Senator, John Cornyn of the Great State of Texas, has to say about health care reform and the Baucus Bill.

President Obama blew off the National Day of Prayer because it was a mostly Judeo-Christian event. On the other hand, he’s fine with celebrating other religions at the White House.

The Crawfish really never thought he’d ever see this headline from the People’s Republic of Kookifornia: “California Court Strikes Down Race-Based Scholarships.” Just don’t expect that kind of equality under the law to ever seep into the imperial federal gummint.

There’s a whole lot of people in the state of Pennsylvania who want to kick The Prophet Algoracle in a certain empty part of his anatomy, and I ain’t talkin’ ‘bout the empty part above his shoulders.

Here’s another story for the “How’s that hopeandchange workin’ for ya?” file. Everyone with a non-liberal brain could have forecasted that result, and many of us did, since the “Cash For Clunkers” ended in the previous month. We knew it was going to give a brief up-spike that would be countered by a corresponding drop afterwards.

Might as well toss this story about the collapse of the US dollar and this one concerning a possible complete collapse of our economy into that file as well. That sucker is getting THICK!

For those of you who are still looking out for a viable alternative fuel for aircraft, the military actually is working on it.

Why in the world does anybody still believe that Ahnahld the Governator is actually a real Republican. If his marrying into the Kennedy family wasn’t enough to prove his liberalness, his signing of a bill severely restricting the sale of ammunition in the State of Hysteria…er, California should remove all doubt.

Dan Calabrese had another good column on Tuesday. He found out what the head of the Nobel Committee was so happy about that he gave The Chosen One the Nobel Peace Prize. You see, Obama sold out the Poles and Czechs by reneging on our promise to build a missile defense program in their nations, thereby allowing the Soviet Union to resume threatening those nations and bullying them. That brings us much closer to world peace under the umbrella of world socialism/communism, and must be lauded.

His Majesty King Barack I went even further in helping the armed forces of communism-socialism this week when he shifted control over missile technology sales to China from the White House to the Commerce Department. If y’all remember back that far, the Chicoms didn’t have ICBMs that could accurately put a warhead on a target as far away as the United States until a Democrat took control in the White House a few years ago. William Jefferson Clinton had LORAL Corporation sell the missile guidance technology to the Chicoms to correct that deficiency. Now, The Chosen One is gonna lend them a hand to increase their capabilities even further. Looks like he’s going for Nobel Peace Prize number 2!

If an anti-war group that had every single utterance of theirs prominently carried by the main stream media during the W Administration was to drop their call for an immediate pullout from Afghanistan, you’d think that would make headlines, right? So why is it that only the Christian Science Monitor, Newsbusters.org, Fox News, and CNN have carried the story about CODE PINK rethinking their position regarding Afghanistan? A tip of The Crawfish’s hat goes to Forum Moderator Jill at www.allmilitary.com for that story.

Somehow The Crawfish thinks that “The Keen Observer” has had enough of the observing. Great rant!

All The Crawfish can say to this story is, “D’OH!”

Townhall blogger “Saltwater” sent me something that made my jaw drop. It appears that Homeland Security Ditz Nappy Napolitano isn’t serious enough about her job to use the term “terror” or even “terrorist”, but that’s just the beginning. Now she wants to replace the term “illegal alien” with “newly-arrived asylum seeker”. The Crawfish will just stick with “non-dryback”. Nappy also wants to house the non-drybacks in recently closed hotels while awaiting their new homes, welfare checks, and vehicles, provided by we the taxpayers at the behest of the Democratic Party. Why does the state of Arizona hate the rest of our nation so much that they had to give us Nappy and McLame?

It’s really hard to believe that there are still public officials like this one out there in 2009. While his concerns for the children do, unfortunately, have validity, that doesn’t make his decision correct. As long as the people are both of legal age, are not currently married, are mentally capable of making the decision, are not blood relatives 2nd cousin or closer (yes, Louisiana does prohibit 1st cousins from marrying, contrary to popular belief), and are of opposite genders they have the freedom to get married.

If y’all come across any weird/stoooopid/strange news stories that might be fodder for The Weekly Claw or The Weekend Claw, e-mail them to me at at1aw_usn@yahoo.com and I’ll consider ‘em. Yes, I will give you newshounds credit.

“No generation has a right to contract debts greater than can be paid off during the course of its own existence.” - George Washington to James Madison 1789

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Many of my devoted readers were probably wondering what was up when The Weekly Claw wasn’t posted on Monday. In an attempt to even out the size of my two columns, I have returned The Weekly Claw to its original posting day, Tuesday. Let’s see if this works out any better.

There was a discussion recently over in the forums at www.allmilitary.com concerning what the First Amendment actually means. Clayton E. Cramer has a pretty good column examining the history of how the Founding Fathers dealt with religion in public life. Shockingly enough, they believed that the First Amendment actually meant what the words of the First Amendment say!

Paging Al Gore…Paging Al Gore. Your precious Glo-Bull Warming fraud is exposed once again. Saturday morning’s temperature in Denver was a record low of 17 degrees, and the weather through the day caused the National League playoff game between the Colorado Rockies and Filthadelphia Phillies to be postponed. Potato farmers in Idaho are scrambling to save the seed potato crop as temperatures are plummeting far earlier in the season than they have seen before. Even the BBC is asking “What Happened to Global Warming?”

Gore was in Wisconsin on Friday to discuss the Crrap-and-Tax legislation in Congress and other “climate change” legislation in other nations. When an Irish filmmaker asked him to address the nine LIES identified in his film by a British court, Gore had the microphone cut off. Simply said, Gore is SCARED of debating the reality of cyclic global temperature changes because his fraud would be exposed to the world.  Well, the parts of the world that ignore the mainstream media of the US, since they’d still cover for him.

The Prophet would probably have a coronary if he read some of the actual science regarding man-made climate change and the lack thereof.

Dan Calabrese strikes again. Did you know that the head of the Nobel Committee that gave His Majesty King Barack I the Nobel Peace Prize for the accomplishment of not being George W. Bush just spent the last 10 years as the Vice President of Socialist International? ‘Splains a lot!

Is Argentina showing us what the Democrats have in mind for the conservative media in the US?

If you’re concerned with the obvious liberal bias in our media, sign this online petition from the Media Research Center. MRC wants the media to quit telling lies about Obamacare, and let the American people know how the Democrats are trying to sneak vile stuff through without the people knowing about it. A tip of The Crawfish’s hat goes to our good friend and Townhall blogger “Peppermint2”.

While the mainstream media has been sucking up to The Chosen One, and has even been selling Obama merchandise in their company stores, are they going to encourage and abet in the violation of United States Code Title 4, Chapter 1 Section 3, which states in part, “Any person who, within the District of Columbia, in any manner, for exhibition or display, shall place or cause to be placed any word, figure, mark, picture, design, drawing, or any advertisement of any nature upon any flag, standard, colors, or ensign of the United States of America; or shall expose or cause to be exposed to public view any such flag, standard, colors, or ensign upon which shall have been printed, painted, or otherwise placed, or to which shall be attached, appended, affixed, or annexed any word, figure, mark, picture, design, or drawing, or any advertisement of any nature; or who, within the District of Columbia, shall manufacture, sell, expose for sale, or to public view, or give away or have in possession for sale, or to be given away or for use for any purpose, any article or substance being an article of merchandise, or a receptacle for merchandise or article or thing for carrying or transporting merchandise, upon which shall have been printed, painted, attached, or otherwise placed a representation of any such flag, standard, colors, or ensign, to advertise, call attention to, decorate, mark, or distinguish the article or substance on which so placed shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished by a fine not exceeding $100 or by imprisonment for not more than thirty days, or both, in the discretion of the court.” or Section 8 paragraph g, which states, “The flag should never have placed upon it, nor on any part of it, nor attached to it any mark, insignia, letter, word, figure, design, picture, or drawing of any nature.” by helping to sell the latest version of the flag that is available over the internet? Just some more anti-Americanism by the Cult of Dear Leader.

World-class race hucksters “Hymietown” Jesse-Be-The-Jackson and the Not-so-reverend Al “Tawana Brawley” Sharpton have sent letters to the Commissioner of the National Football League showing their opposition to Rush Limbaugh’s possible bid to buy a minority stake in the St. Louis Rams. The two pre-eminent racists in American history are opposing Limbaugh because…wait for it…you know what’s coming…they say Limbaugh is a raaaaaaaacist! CNN and MSNBC even jumped on the bandwagon attributing a racist quote to Limbaugh, which Brent Bozell of the Media Research Center quickly demanded that CNN and MSNBC either retract or prove themselves by sourcing the quote.

Take a look at some of the people who were bypassed by the Nobel Committee so that they could present His Majesty King Barack I an award for not being George W. Bush.

If anybody has doubts about Al Qaeda’s desire to obtain nuclear weaponry, the fact that they have a spy inside of the French nuclear research program should raise a big red flag.

Last month, over a million conservatives rallied in DC to show our opposition to the Obama/Reid/P-Lousy agenda and our support of the Constitution of the United States. The media ignored that massive crowd. A few thousand heterophobes rally for special rights, and the media makes sure that they cover this “major” event. The Crawfish says that they want special rights, not equal rights, because they already have equal rights. They are already free to marry anyone they choose, as long as that person is of legal age, is human, is marrying of free choice, has the mental capacity to make the decision, is not already married, is not a blood relative first cousin or closer, and is of the opposite gender. This is just another attack on traditional American and religious values, especially the religious values since the holy books of the three major religions of the world (the Bible, the Torah, and the Koran) all say that homosexuality is an abomination. The crowd also supports the unConstitutional “hate crimes” legislation going through Congress right now. It is unConstitutional because the 14th Amendment makes us all equal under the law, but attaching the “hate crimes” label to any assault on a certain type of person changes equality under the law.

On Tuesday, the Senate Finance Committee is scheduled to vote on their version of the Obamacare bill. One slight problem remains. Much of the bill still has not even been written. Not only are those Senators going to vote on something that they haven’t read, but since it hasn’t even been written, they’re voting on what they hope it will say when the Democratic leadership finishes writing it. That’s kinda like giving someone a Nobel Peace Prize in the hope that they will eventually do something to make the world a more peaceful place. Anyway, one of the Senate versions of the bill contains some interesting language. You see, one of the problems that the states are noticing about the bill is that it will drive the states’ Medicare costs through the roof, busting many state budgets. Even Democrat governors have complained about that. So Dingy Harry Reid put in a formula for adjusting Medicare costs and payouts from the federal government. According to his convoluted formula, the states of Rhode Island, Meeeechigan, and Nevada (imagine that) will get their additional Medicare costs paid for by the rest of the nation’s taxpayers for the next five years.

Do you REALLY want the government to be in charge of health care in the USA? Here is yet another example of what socialized health care brings to the quality of care. Imagine The Crawfish’s surprise when he found this bit of ammunition on CNN’s website.

How committed to justice and the protection of Americans around the world is the Affirmative Action Attorney General? How does he highly does he regard the people who work in our embassies overseas? The fact that he is not going to seek the death penalty for the bomb maker in two embassy attacks that killed 224 people, including 12 Americans, should give you a hint. Yes, one black muslim life is worth more than 224 others. Which side is this Administration on?

That same question must be asked when Hillary! and the Russian Foreign Minister have announced that neither nation is going to seek further sanctions against Iran right now.

The radicalism of the advisors and czars surrounding The Chosen One evidently knows no bounds. His newly confirmed “regulatory czar”, Cass Sunstein, is clearly divorced from reality. Sunstein has previously advocated harvesting organs from deceased persons even if they did not give consent for such desecration of their bodies, and now he’s saying that organs should be taken from terminally ill people even before they die! Sunstein stated, “the state owns the rights to body parts of people who are dead or in certain hopeless conditions, and it can remove their organs without asking anyone’s permission.” What country does he believe we are living in?  “The state” doesn’t own rights to ANY parts of people who are not serving on active duty in the armed forces!

If y’all come across any weird/stoooopid/strange news stories that might be fodder for The Weekly Claw or The Weekend Claw, e-mail them to me at at1aw_usn@yahoo.com and I’ll consider ‘em. Yes, I will give you newshounds credit.

“No generation has a right to contract debts greater than can be paid off during the course of its own existence.” - George Washington to James Madison 1789

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If you’re looking for outrage or the absurd, well this was a week for you! This Claw brings you issues to ponder, insanity on display, attempted deceptions, cover-ups of lawbreakers, your money being wasted in ways you won’t believe, union moronity, and even some humor tossed into the mix. When Al Gore gets mentioned under two different topics, you know the week was weird.

The Crawfish has decided to start this column with an issue that really does need to be examined and debated in legal and legislative/judicial circles, and that there is no clear right or wrong side of: medical assistance for the end of life. Currently, most states and the federal government disapprove of medically assisted ending of life. The Catholic Church, and the Catholic-lite denominations, oppose it as well, but have not seriously studied it in recent years. When does it become cruelty to force someone to continue living in severe pain with a condition that will eventually kill them? Poll Katz e-mailer Terri sent this article about a pending court case in Connecticut regarding this issue. Medical science has come a very long way since this issue first arose, to the point of being able to keep people alive much longer, even if that isn’t a good thing, and knowing 100% that a person is terminal in their condition. Is it the Godly thing to keep a person alive, but useless and in severe pain, for an extra two weeks instead of allowing them to end their suffering? The Crawfish would really like to see the Vatican host a conference to discuss this matter.

We knew that the Nobel Peace Prize was a complete and total joke when The Prophet Algoracle won it for perpetuating a worldwide fraud, but they’ve taken it to a new extreme. Alfred Nobel wrote in his will that the award was to be given to someone having “done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies, and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses.” The Nobel Committee decided that, since he made them feel good about hopeandchange, and he opposed George W. Bush, Barack Hussein Obama MMM! MMM! MMM! deserved the award. The reasons actually cited were that “Only very rarely has a person to the same extent as Obama captured the world’s attention and given its people hope for a better future. In the past year Obama has been a key person for important initiatives in the U.N. for nuclear disarmament and to set a completely new agenda for the Muslim world and East-West relations. Obama’s appeal that ‘Now is the time for all of us to take our share of responsibility for a global response to global challenges.” In other words, for a bumper sticker campaign completely void of substance, working against American national sovereignty and for UN domination, supporting the muslim world against the non-muslim world, especially Israel, going on his “AMERICA SUX WORLD TOUR 2009,” and having a naïve vision of a world (well, the non-muslim part of it anyway) with no nuclear weapons. The deadline for nominations was February 1, 2009, which was less than two weeks into the term of President Barack Hussein Obama MMM! MMM! MMM! This begs the question of what had he done in that time period to even have a nomination package filled out?

The TimesOnline says it even better than I can.

One of the listeners of “The Michael Smerconish Show” chimed in on the absurdity of the Nobel announcement. Regular contributor “Liberal Paul” said that the Pultizer Prize is being awarded to the editor of the newspaper at his daughter’s elementary school and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences is awarding an Oscar to President Obama for his home video of Sasha and Malia.

I decided to give y’all a bonus dose of Dan Calabrese’s work this week. He has some interesting observations of Detruit, its school system, and its imbecilic city government, which has been run by minority Democrats and union thugs for as long as anyone can remember.

Townhall blogger “Darvin Dowdy” sent me this story of a clash between two groups of extremists that regular readers of The Claw would prefer to see engaged in full-scale combat that wipes out most of both sides. Okay, so I got a bit carried away there, but this IS soccer in Europe.

Did anybody in the GOP actually read the “stimulus” bill? What part of a “stimulus” would include paying thousands of dollars to the denizens of Detruit? Why should the rest of America pay for these people who are homeless, or are about to be, because they allowed their city to be run by Afrocentric socialist homies and union thugs. They voted for ‘em, so let them deal with the consequences.

While we’re discussing wasteful spending by the imperial gummint, the Heritage Foundation’s Brian Riedl gives us a list of 50 examples of government waste which includes a LOT of fraud and waste from the Hurricane Katrina relief efforts. Yep, Bush was quite slow in getting the relief sent there, so just imagine how much MORE would have been ripped off if he had been quicker to send federal money and federal people to do the job of the State of Louisiana and City of N’awlins’ governments for the leeches of Ninth Ward.

House Minority Leader Boehner sent out a statement decrying the actions of the Senate, when the Senate Democratic leadership attached SEVENTY major changes to the text of an Obamacare bill AFTER it came out of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, & Pensions Committee, without the Republican members of the committee even knowing about it. Can’t they even be honest enough to make the changes BEFORE the vote? Where’s the transparency in that kind of action?

What part of “hate crimes” legislation should be included in the appropriations bill for the Defense Department? Well, the Democrats believe it is an integral part, since that’s where they pushed though legislation to make assault, which is already a crime, a “hate crime” if it is committed against a heterophobe. That means that the 14th Amendment’s guarantee of equality under the law means nothing, since assaults against normal people are NOT “hate crimes.” Besides, aren’t all crimes of violence “hate” crimes?

The House of Representatives has once again proven that LAWS are only for the little people, not for members of Congress. Representative John Carter (R-TEXAS) introduced a resolution to remove Charlie Rangel (D-Harlem) from his post as Chairman of the House Ways & Means Committee pending the outcome of the investigation into his cheating on taxes from 2002 to 2008. The Democrats defeated the resolution 243-156, with 19 members pulling an Obama by voting PRESENT. Maxine The Race Baiter Waters (D-Californication) even went so far as to defend Rangel by saying, “I want to tell you, there are many members who, if you go back over all of their records, over all of the years, you’re going to find that there were disclosures that were not made.” In other words, Congress is full of crooks and Charlie’s just one of them so it is no big deal. The Crawfish remembers the last time that a Democrat Chairman of the House Ways & Means Committee had tax issues. Dan Rostenkowski (D-The Chicago Way) recently got out of prison, didn’t he?

Every once in a while, I get sent a story that make this grizzled old Sailor reach for a tissue. Poll Katz e-mailer “Ginny” probably didn’t expect this story to get put into The Claw, but I think y’all would appreciate it.

Ever since the ratification of the Constitution of the United States, our nation has been the champion of freedom of expression throughout the world. Until now. The Obama Administration has signed on with the Islamic nations of the UN Human Rights Council to push through an amendment regarding freedom of expression that restricts any expression that might offend the Followers of the Pedophilic False Prophet (aka adherents of the Religion of Pieces or the Religion of Perpetual Outrage). Like we keep telling you, the Constitution only means whatever Obama, Holder and Pelosi SAY it means! Hat tip goes to Poll Katz e-mailer Ron.

Is there anybody besides me who finds this to be unConstitutional? The Obama Administration is forcing non-union workers to pay union dues and contribute to union pension funds if they are working on government projects. Of course the union thug bosses are saying this agreement will ensure that workers are going to get paid fairly. Check this quote from the union thug spokesperson, “Rather than all the money going to the contractor profit, a fair share goes into the worker’s paycheck.” Yes, folks, profit is eeeeeevilllllll.

Why is it so friggin impossible for Congresscritters and Senators to be honest about their spending requests and have them voted on individually? Radio personality Jamie Dupree has a listing of the 461 earmarks currently attached to the agriculture budget bill. Most of it is, as you would expect, PORK!

Here is yet another reason that I cannot stand the city of Filthadelphia. Besides the cheesesteaks and the historical places to see, there isn’t anything worth bragging about in that crraphole, especially the inhabitants.

What do The Prophet Algoracle and his minions, The Gorons, do when the actual scientific data shows that their Man-Made Glo-Bull Warming religion is nothing but a fraud? They destroy all of the original data, DUH!

The Gorons and their leader need to take a look at this news from Idaho, this news from Colorado, and this tidbit from Nevada, and the reports that this weekend might include the earliest snowfall in Chicago history! Ya know, it’s not that hard to find this stuff.

Is it just my observations, or is it clear that The Chosen One is nominating a LOT of heterophobes in an attempt to destroy traditional family and religious values in the USA? His nominee to be the commissioner of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is a heterophobe-rights activist who has praised polygamy and said that heterosexual marriage deserves no special priviledges. Where does he find these nutjobs?

How out of touch with reality are the teachers unions? In an attempt to cut costs for public education, the unions are proposing that 17 additional Fridays during the school year be off days. Just where in the heck do they think the PARENTS are going to get child care for those extra days? Many parents use up most of their yearly vacation days from work to be home on school holidays, “parent-teacher conference days”, and “teacher development days” as is.

Any liberal who tries to tell you that a government-run health care system will cut the cost of health care in America is in obvious denial of reality. I mean, when Medicare pays more for one year’s RENTAL, by 1100%, of an oxygen concentrator than the cost to BUY the thing, is that SAVINGS??? Typical lib-logic. Oh, and then they’ll toss in the argument that private insurance companies deny claims for treatment because they want to keep profits up. The truth is that Medicare denies claims at a much higher rate than private insurance carriers. I found both of these links over at Neal Boortz’s site. He’s always worth the read.

Here’s more on Medicare fraud. It is becoming big business for organized crime! Note that the story says a Medicare scammer can get as much as $25,000.00 PER DAY! Do you really want to give the government control over ALL of our health care?  Is that going to cut the cost of health care?

Some of the Somali pirates screwed up this week. They attacked a French military refueling ship, evidently believing that the ship was part of the traditional French military and would quickly run up a white flag of surrender.

If y’all come across any weird/stoooopid/strange news stories that might be fodder for The Weekly Claw or The Weekend Claw, e-mail them to me at at1aw_usn@yahoo.com and I’ll consider ‘em. Yes, I will give you newshounds credit.

“I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and you disagree with this administration somehow you’re not patriotic. We should stand up and say we are Americans and we have a right to debate and disagree with any administration.” –Senator Hillary Rodham

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