Barney Frank Present With Gay Partner When Arrested for Pot Possession in 2007

 It just doesn’t stop. On Democrat Congressman Barney Frank:

Rep. Barney Frank admitted Friday that he was sitting on the porch of his partner’s Maine home when police came to arrest his partner for marijuana possession.

Frank, responding to new reports that he was present during the Aug. 2007 arrest of James Ready, said in a statement he was unaware Ready had marijuana plants.

According to a police report obtained by MyFoxBoston, Maine police arrested and charged James Ready with marijuana possession, cultivation and use of drug paraphernalia.  He pleaded guilty to civil possession and paid a fine.  The remaining charges were dismissed last year.

Frank was not charged.

Frank is the author of a medical marijuana bill that would outlaw the prosecution of persons who use marijuana for medicinal purposes.

Is the Democratic leadership is a comedy of errors or a house of horrors?   

Let’s not forget the time Barney Frank had an affair with a male prostitute, whom he paid to have sex with, and that subsequently the lover ran a prostitution ring out of Frank’s apartment.

Obama's Frightening Insensitivity Following Shooting

 Excellent article by New York writer Robert A. George:

President Obama didn’t wait long after Tuesday’s devastating elections to give critics another reason to question his leadership, but this time the subject matter was more grim than a pair of governorships.

After news broke out of the shooting at the Fort Hood Army post in Texas, the nation watched in horror as the toll of dead and injured climbed. The White House was notified immediately and by late afternoon, word went out that the president would speak about the incident prior to a previously scheduled appearance. At about 5 p.m., cable stations went to the president. The situation called for not only his trademark eloquence, but also grace and perspective.

But instead of a somber chief executive offering reassuring words and expressions of sympathy and compassion, viewers saw a wildly disconnected and inappropriately light president making introductory remarks. At the event, a Tribal Nations Conference hosted by the Department of Interior’s Bureau of Indian affairs, the president thanked various staffers and offered a “shout-out” to “Dr. Joe Medicine Crow — that Congressional Medal of Honor winner.”  Three minutes in, the president spoke about the shooting, in measured and appropriate terms. Who is advising him?

Anyone at home aware of the major news story of the previous hours had to have been stunned. An incident like this requires a scrapping of the early light banter. The president should apologize for the tone of his remarks, explain what has happened, express sympathy for those slain and appeal for calm and patience until all the facts are in. That’s the least that should occur. 

Incidentally, the Medal of Honor winner is actually a Medal of Freedom recipient.  “Ah, the dangers of giving shout outs without a teleprompter.”   For the record, the Medal of Honor goes to individuals in the Armed Services, while the Medal of Freedom goes to civilians.  The Commander in Chief should know that.

It feels like “smart power” has turned into amateur hour at the White House.

U.S. Unemployment Hits 10.2%

Up from 9.8% in one month to 10.2%, the United States unemployment rate is now at a startling 26 year high with 15.7 million people out of work. 

Muslim Army Major Who Spoke of a "Fight Against U.S. Agressor" Kills 12, Injures 30 at Ft. Hood

UPDATE: Suspect alive, in stable condition

An Army psychiatrist opened fire Thursday at Fort Hood, Texas, killing 12 people and wounding 30 others before being shot, officials told NBC News.

Eleven of the victims died at the scene, military officials said. A 12th died later at a hospital.

MAJ Malik Nadal Hasan, an Army psychiatrist who counseled soldiers at Walter Reed Army Hospital with PTSD and other war-related problems, was recently transferred to Ft. Hood, TX. He received a poor job rating while at Walter Reed. 

Hasan, who actively tried to avoid deployment to Iraq and Afghanistan since September 11, 2001, was set to deploy to Iraq on November 28 and was “very upset” about it.  He was also a lifelong Muslim born and raised in the United States. 

Hasan also reportedly knew his victims and targeted them specifically.

First victim identified: SPC Armando Ray Baca

A co-worker told Fox News Hasan said about 5 months ago that Muslims had the right to “fight against the aggressor” and that he opposed U.S. presence in the Middle East.

 Hasan’s cousin told Fox News that Hasan complained of being “harassed” by soldiers for being of “Middle Eastern decent”, but chances are that Hasan’s alarming comments may have been the cause of his supposed “harassment”.

Israel Captures Ship With 500 Tons of Iranian Weapons Bound for Syria

JERUSALEM— Israeli officials tallied up hundreds of tons of weapons seized from a commandeered ship Thursday as Lebanon’s Hezbollah guerrillas denied that the arms were meant for them.

Israeli naval commandos, acting on intelligence reports, boarded the ship before dawn in waters off Cyprus Wednesday and discovered that the cargo included hundreds of crates of rockets, missiles, mortars, anti-tank weapons and munitions.

 

How’s that diplomacy with Iran and Syria working for you, Mr. President?

Axelrod: NY Race Where Dems Won is Representative of Nation, Not VA and NJ Races Where Dems Lost

Senior Obama Advisor David Axelrod spinning the two tough Democratic gubernatorial losses as he explains to Fox News that Tuesday’s defeats weren’t commentary on Obama’s policies:

AXELROD:  The New York- 23 race was the one race that was really a microcosm of the national debate.  The other races in Jersey and in Virginia were really state races, very much focused on state issues and we think it sends a message to other Democrats that when we stick together and we fight for the right things, we’re gonna do well.

Speaking of denial, someone’s going to need some serious medications around this time next year.

Dem Healthcare Bill Makes Patients With Preconditions Wait 6 Months Before Getting Care

WASHINGTON - You’re afraid your cancer is back, and a health insurance company just turned you down.

Under the health care bills in Congress, you could apply for coverage through a new high-risk pool that President Barack Obama promises would immediately start serving patients with pre-existing medical problems.

Wait a second. Read the fine print. You may have to be uninsured for six months to qualify.

“If you are a cancer patient and have cancer now, you can’t wait six months to go into a plan because your condition can go from bad to death,” said Stephen Finan, a policy expert with the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network. He called the waiting period in the Senate bill “unacceptable.”

New VA and NJ Governors Both Pro-Life Catholics

You could just sort of tell that Chris Christie and Bob McDonnell were pro-life Catholics.  Maybe it’s all the kids they have.  And their seriousness about saving their states for their children’s children.  And their dedication to the nuclear family.

Both Republican gubernatorial candidates, Chris Christie who defeated incumbent Governor Jon Corzine in New Jersey, and Bob McDonnell, who clobbered Democrat challenger Creigh Deeds of Virginia, are both pro-life Catholics. 

(click on their names to read more about their faith and values)

Study Shows Children Make Married Couples Happier

A study in the Journal of Happiness Studies shows that married couples are happier with children, and in fact their happiness increases with each additional child they have.  Non-married couples, however, report negative experiences having children: 

A new study found that having children boosts happiness. And the more, literally, the merrier.

But unmarried couples shouldn’t expect to find greater happiness through child-raising. The study, published in the Oct. 14 online edition of the Journal of Happiness Studies, suggests that having children has little or no effect on boosting happiness among couples who aren’t hitched.

The findings contradict previous research that suggested that having more offspring doesn’t lead to greater happiness and might even make people less satisfied with their lives. One theory behind the conclusion is that parents don’t receive many rewards in return for the hard work of raising children.

The new study, however, notes that parents say children are one of the most important things in their lives, if not the most important.

The study found that life satisfaction for married people — women especially — goes up the more kids they have. Single, separated and co-habiting people, by contrast, report negative experiences.

So what’s wrong with this married father and author of An Accidental Guide to Fatherhood, who compares parenting to food poisoning, having a dog and says people lie when they say parenthood is wonderful?  Besides the fact that he’s a creep, he falls under the study type of a “single, separated or co-habitating” person.  If I were his wife, I’d be worried.

“Children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb is a reward. 

“Like arrows in the hand of a warrior, so are the children of one’s youth.

“Happy is the man who has his quiver full of them; they shall not be ashamed, but shall speak with their enemies in the gate.”  Psalms 127: 3-5

CNN: After 9 Months, Obama Isn't Delivering

Says CNN’s Candy Crowley:

Obama can put down several major campaign promises as “in the works.”

On the campaign trail in December 2007, he promised to bring troops home from Iraq in 16 months and to “finish the fight against al Qaeda in Afghanistan.”

He has ordered the Guantanamo Bay prison closed, though he’s likely to miss his self-imposed January deadline.

If 10 months is too short a time to keep promises, it’s been plenty of time to break them, starting with transparency. Promised negotiations televised on C-SPAN didn’t happen nor did the promise of posting bills on the Web before he signed them. Not always, at least.

There are lobbyists in the White House, despite a promise that, “they will not work in my White House.”

Meanwhile, the economy worsens, healthcare reform is going nowhere fast and the deficit and national debt have quadrupled.

GOP Wins Sweeping Victories in NJ, VA Gubernatorial Races

The Republican Party won victories in predominantly Democratic territory in New Jersey, Virginia and the Conservative candidate is leading the Democrat in New York.

GOP wins in Virginia by a landslide: 

Republican Bob McDonnell will win the race for governor in Virginia, reversing a trend of the state electing Democrats.

McDonnell, a 55-year-old former state attorney general, will be the first Republican to win the state’s highest office in 12 years. Republicans will win races for Virginia’s lieutenant governor and attorney general as well.

GOP wins a stunner in New Jersey:

With 81 percent of precincts reporting, (R) Christie had 49 percent and (D) Jon Corzine had 44 percent. 

In the end, all the stumping in the world from the President of the United States wasn’t going to stop regime change in New Jersey’s highest office.

Independent voters gave President Barack Obama a huge advantage in the state last year, but they heavily favored Christie on Tuesday.

Waiting on Conservative Doug Hoffman and his race in NY… UPDATE:  Hoffman loses to Owens

So are these GOP/Conservative victories an anti-Obama referendum?  I’d say so.  Even if voters personally like Barack Obama, the policies of these defeated governors are the policies of Barack Obama. 

For some odd reason, President Obama isn’t watching the election coverage tonight.  Why not?  Maybe he’s busier than usual contemplating whether to send reinforcements to Afghanistan instead.

Record Number of College Presidents Becoming Millionaires

Will the Obama administration condemn the greed of university presidents making millions while struggling students work to pay off mammoth loans to support the greed machine of academia?

Doubtful.

Rush: "Rehab is the Best Thing to Ever Happen to Me"

Rush Limbaugh to Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday about his addiction to prescription drugs several years ago and the rehab that changed his life:

Rush: Dems Healthcare Reform is "Biggest Snatch of Freedom and Liberty" in US History

Rush Limbaugh on Dems healthcare on Fox News Sunday:

Will This Week's Elections Be an Anti-Obama Referendum?

UPDATE:  NY Republican Who Dropped Out of Congressional Race Endorses Dem Bill Owens, Not Conservative Doug Hoffman

With several significant elections being held around the country on November 4, not the least of which is the Congressional race in New York, liberal Republican state Assembly woman Dierdre Scozzafava suspended her campaign as she lagged in the polls, giving a boost to Conservative Party nominee Doug Hoffman against Democrat Bill Owens.

Conservative Doug Hoffman gained the support of Sarah Palin when it became clear pro-abortion, pro-gay rights Republican Scozzafava was a RINO (Republican In Name Only), and Hoffman the true conservative.

The New Jersey Governor’s race between Democrat Jon Corzine and Republican challenger Chris Christie is in a dead heat because Independent candidate Daggett cut into Christie’s lead, but Christie may still win the governorship in NJ.

It’s all but certain Republican Robert McDonnell will defeat the current Democratic Governor Creigh Deeds in Virginia as he maintains a comfortable double digit lead in the polls, and this is being seen as a possible anti-Obama referendum.

So the question remains, will this week’s elections be a sweeping statement on President Obama’s presidency? 

Analysts Say Bill Clinton Met with Kim Jong-Il Look-Alike

When Bill Clinton traveled to North Korea in August to secure the release of two American journalists, did he really meet with Kim Jong-Il or a look-alike?  Analysts  are saying  the latter.

Was the ex-president punked?

PREVIOUSLY:

Bill Clinton Exchanges U.S. Credibility for U.S. Reporters Imprisoned in North Korea

Laura Ling, Euna Lee & Bill Clinton Return to US from North Korea

Seoul Baffled, Betrayed by Clinton’s North Korea Trip

ABC’s Donaldson on Clinton’s NK Meeting: “What Has NOT Apologizing for America Gotten Us?”

(h/t: Storm’n Norm’n) 

Levi Johnston Claims Sarah Palin Regularly Called Son Trig "Retarded"

Levi Johnston, ex-boyfriend of Bristol Palin who fathered her son, is continuing his attack on his ex-future mother-in-law former Alaska Governor and Republican Vice-Presidential nominee Sarah Palin by saying she “regularly” called her Down Syndrome baby “retarded” when he was dating her daughter.

LEVI JOHNSTON: She’d be like, ‘Where’s my retarded baby?’ all this, I mean, that just isn’t right. I never did say anything, but at the same time we were all just kinda like….

I couldn’t tell you, I have no proof to showin’ you it’s true, but I know it is.  I was just in shock for the first time I heard it, then it kinda, she said it, you know, regularly, and I was just like, I think she was joking, but you know, that doesn’t make it right.

Hmm, Levi said “we all just kinda like” reacted to Sarah Palin’s comment about her Down Syndrome son but can’t show any proof? How about contacting all those eye witnesses there, Levi?

PREVIOUSLY:

More Women Choose Not to Abort Babies with Disabilities

Palin Challenges Obama on the Unborn

Author of "Accidental Guide to Fatherhood" Compares Children to Food Poisoning and Pets

Michael Lewis, author of Home Game: An Accidental Guide to Fatherhood, on NBC’s Today Show, compares new parenthood to food poisoning , being mugged and talks about his children in terms of “it”, comparing them to a pet or dog.    

MATT LAUER:  Michael, these are your words (from the book): “Memory loss is the key to human reproduction.  If you remembered what new parenthood was actually like, you wouldn’t go around lying to people about wonderful it is and you certainly wouldn’t ever do it twice.”

MICHAEL LEWIS:  I just think I have so much more to offer than Bristol Palin and the abstinence program.

It’s like, you go on a trip, you go to Paris, you get there, tell all your friends you’re going, you get there, you get food poisoning, you get mugged, the Frenchmen are mean to you; you come home.  You don’t have the nerve to say you had a horrible time in Paris.  And after 6 months, you persuade yourself you had a wonderful time in Paris. 

This is what this new parenthood is like.  I found myself 6 months later lying ot people about it, and that’s why I started writing about it.

MATT LAUER:  You say (in the book), “How does this man’s resentment of this thing (his child) that lands in his life and instantly disrupts every aspect of it for the apparent worse turn into love?”

MICHAEL LEWIS: I think the answer to that question is, in part, in the suffering, in the taking care of the thing, you learn to love it.  I mean, it’s what happens with a pet, it’s what happens with a dog, when you take care of something, you learn to love it.

The first reaction is, OMG.  Second reaction is, “Does he realize his children will see this interview and read his book someday?”  What an abominable creep.  And his witless wife sits next to him on the couch giggling…

Another quote from this crappy book:  “I cease to be able to watch the birth of what is presumably my child with anything but horror.”

I know what you’re all thinking… “why couldn’t he have been my dad?”

A few years ago, our Army priest used to have the kids turn to their parents at some point during the Mass, on occasion, and tell them, “Thank you for giving me life.”  And it was beautiful.  I also heard from a Korean soldier here say that every year on his birthday, he gives his parents presents and thanks them for giving him life. 

Viva la differance’.

Campbell Brown Analyzes White House's Attack On Fox; 'MSNBC and Fox Are Apples to Oranges to CNN'

CNN’s Campbell Brown interviewed the White House’s Senior White House Advisor Valerie Jarrett and asked her about the WH’s assault on Fox News. Jarrett acknowledged that Fox is biased against the President, but MSNBC?  Well, she just changed the subject.

Campbell Brown’s analysis of her interview with Valerie Jarrett included this interesting jem:

BROWN: I’m not critical of what my friends at Fox News and MSNBC do, but it’s apples and oranges compared to what we at CNN do.

Oh, really?  Many of the CNN news anchors and pundits are pretty biased.  There’s Christiane Amanpour, Paul Begala (former Clinton staffer, loyalist and attack dog), Jack Cafferty, James Carville (former Clinton hack), Erica Hill, Larry King, Roland Martin, just to name a few.

Hillary Accuses Pakistan of Letting Terrorists Get Away Forgetting Her Hubby Let bin Laden Get Away

Folks, please excuse the Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.  She’s sort of new to this diplomacy thing.  While on her mission in Pakistan, Hillary lampooned George W. Bush yesterday to an audience of several hundred Pakistani students, saying,  “I spent my entire eight years in the Senate opposing him.  So to me, it’s like daylight and dark.”

Oh, but there’s more.  She also took at axe to the back of the Pakistani government, whom we are trying to work with, accusing them of aiding and abetting terrorists:

In Lahore, Pakistan, today Secretary of State Hillary Clinton delivered a blunt message to six prominent Pakistani newspaper editors.

Asked by Asha’ar Rehman, an editor of Dawn, why the US war on terror is so localized to Pakistan, Clinton did not mince words.

“Al-Qaeda has had safe haven in Pakistan since 2002,” she said. “I find it hard to believe that nobody in your government knows where they are and couldn’t get them if they really wanted to.”

Clinton allowed, “maybe that’s the case; maybe they’re not gettable. I don’t know.”

Strange thing to say coming from the wife of former President Bill Clinton, who let Osama bin Laden  “slip away and metastasize” in the 1990’s. Al-Qaeda wouldn’t be in Pakistan if not for her husband.