Sarah Palin Steps Down As Alaska Governor

And who could blame her? The relentless attacks on her family, the never ending bullshit lawsuits and the disgusting jokes by washed up comedians. And let’s not forget the personal money spent to defend those frivolous lawsuits. Sometimes a person needs to back up a bit and see which way to go next. I’ll be behind her what ever she decides to do.

Wouldn’t it be something if she announced at one of the TEA Parties that she was quitting the Republican party to head up our new TEA Party? There are enough people disgusted with both parties to start a new one that will blow them out of the water. Forget the crap you are hearing from both sides. Krauthammer, Jonah Goldberg and others on the right think she should get some kind of education that makes her more “Washington” to be able to be understood by the elites there. To you two and others like you, go pound sand, you are part of the problem that is the elite in Washington, Sarah speaks just fine to us in the real world. And to the Liberal Left Loonies, be afraid…be very afraid!

John Boehner B-Slaps Henry Waxman

Henry Waxman dumped a 300 page addition to the Cap and Tax bill at 3:00 AM the morning of the vote. John Boehner  wasn’t going to take it lying down. Here’s the second video in the series. I picked this one so you can see the rat faced weasel, Henry Waxman, try to stop Boehner from reading what is in the amendment.(6:40 in) The whole thing can be seen at NewsBusters.

Inside the Letterman/Palin Flap

I got an email from John Ziegler today pointing me to this article at Big Hollywood.

The fact that I’ve needed to correct the record every time I’m involved in some sort of media firestorm (about once a month since the election, it seems), probably says at least as much about the pathetic nature of our news media as anything I put in my documentary “Media Malpractice,” a film whose truth I’ve dedicated almost all of the last year of my life to. The most recent episode involving the controversy over David Letterman’s comments about Governor Sarah Palin and her family is certainly no exception.

First, let me tell you what really happened, and then I can explain what we should all learn from this.  Here’s the timeline…

Monday, June 8th: Letterman uses Palin’s trip to New York to unleash a torrent of  ”comic” attacks on her and her family. The entire “Top Ten” list is devoted to the Governor and includes cracks about her updating her “slutty” wardrobe and possessing illegal drugs. The monologue includes a “joke” about Palin’s “daughter” getting “knocked up” at a Yankees game by Alex Rodriquez during the 7th inning stretch while her mother and a stadium full of spectators presumably watched.

Here’s The Rest…

John also writes this. “I urge you to check the film at www.thestoning.com”

And with what is happening in Iran lately it is a very fitting movie. Check out the story Neda: Her Execution…My Rant! at Nuke’s. no2liberals did a fine job of eulogizing her. Never forget what happened to this young woman, and what she was asking for when she was murdered. Freedom. Something we take for granted every day.

The Breaking Point

Moody Blues on a Moody Saturday Night

Just because I’ve always liked this one.

The first official Video of “Nights in White Satin”.

Gun and Ammo Sales Still Hot

Start with a president who concerns gun-rights advocates and throw in a pending state bill that would require records be kept for handgun ammunition sales, and it’s easy to understand why gun shops are doing a brisk business.

“Yes, we are benefiting because of an individual I didn’t vote for, nor did anybody I know vote for. It is kind of ironic, isn’t it?” Rich Howell, general manager of Olde West Gun & Loan, said of President Barack Obama’s impact on his business.

Guns and ammunition sales at Howell’s shop in Redding jumped about 50 percent in the first three months of 2009 compared with 2008.

The fevered sale pace has cooled. But business could pick up again as Assembly Bill 962, a bill that directs all California handgun ammunition vendors to keep records of ammunition sales and make them available to law enforcement, moves through the Legislature.

Authored by Assemblyman Kevin de Leon, D-Los Angeles, the bill also would require all handgun ammunition sales to be conducted face-to-face and vendors to be licensed by the Department of Justice.

The Assembly approved the bill 42-31 on June 3. It’s moved to the Senate Public Safety Committee for a hearing later this summer.

“I’m not saying AB 962 and some other aggregate bills simmering in Sacramento don’t put fuel to the fire. They do to a certain extent,” Howell said. “But on the other hand, we have seen a tremendous increase in ammunition sales and gun sales since after the election, and really after the first of the year it took off.”

The state reported that 9,512 guns were sold in Shasta County in 2008, a 3.3 percent increase from the 9,211 that were sold in 2007.

There were 425,244 guns sold in California in 2008, up from 370,628 in 2007, state statistics show.

Shasta County and state gun sales statistics for 2009 weren’t available.

Shopping for handgun ammunition Wednesday at Olde West Gun & Loan, Rene Raak of Douglas City lamented about the difficulty she’s had finding ammunition. Raak had not heard of AB 962.

“Everybody seems to want to grab whatever comes into the gun shop here,” Raak said. “It’s been hard to find even regular bullets like .357 (caliber) – we have been shooting .38s instead. Gosh, it’s harder to find even find .22s. Seems like everybody is buying them off the shelves, like they’re afraid they are not going to be there tomorrow.”

De Leon cites a 2006 RAND study that shows more than 10,000 rounds of ammunition were sold to criminals in a two-month period. Extrapolated statewide, that would mean that more than 500,000 rounds are sold to criminals in gun shops in California every year.

Gun store owners like Patrick Jones of Jones’ Fort in Redding don’t buy it. The bill is simply another infringement on their rights to legally own and use a firearm, Jones said.

“This won’t affect the criminal because they’re not buying guns from us and they don’t buy ammunition from us,” said Jones, who recently went to Sacramento to lobby against AB 962.

What’s happening in California is playing out across the country as concerns grow that the Obama administration will enact new gun-control measures.

“The combined increase in demand for firearms and ammunition is clear and largely being driven by the political concerns of gun owners,” Ted Novin, spokesman for the National Shooting Sports Foundation, said by e-mail from Newtown, Conn.

Ironically, the U.S. House of Representatives in May passed a measure that expanded gun rights, allowing concealed, loaded firearms to be carried in national parks.

The proposal passed 279-147, with overwhelming Republican support and a significant number of Democrats backing the measure.

Novin’s group reported that FBI criminal background checks were up 15.4 percent in May 2009 over May 2008. Federal law requires individuals who purchase firearms from a licensed dealer to get a background check. The checks serve as a gauge of actual sales, Novin said.

Last month’s increase in background checks follows a 30.3 percent increase in April, a 29.2 percent gain in March, and jumps of 23 percent in February and 28 percent in January, the National Shooting Sports Foundation said.

Novin said the demand for ammunition extends across caliber lines, and manufacturers are working at full capacity. Anecdotal evidence suggests those efforts are working and supply is beginning to catch up with demand, Novin added.

Reporter David Benda can be reached at 225-8219 or at dbenda@redding.com.

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Breaking News!! !GCP is BACK! Breaking News!!

Well, it’s not exactly the same, it’s all new and improved. And it’s now called Grouchy Conservative Pundits.

PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT of new forum Opening.

To all who shall see these Presents, Greetings.
Some of you may have been as surprised and let down by the recent closure of the Gulf Coast Pundits (GCP) discussion forum as we ourselves were.
Today, one week to the day since that unexpected closure, we the community that were and are GCP are proud and happy to announce that our new home has been established and is hereby Open for Business at the following URL -
http://www.grouchyconservativepundits.com/

We cordially invite all those with a post-9/11 and reasonably conservative mindset to come join us in our new home.
And those of you willing and capable of discussing your positions without resorting to debunked counterpoints are likewise invited.
The rest of you, those that cheered the premature news of our demise, not so much. You’ll be shot on site [sic].

Thank you for your attention, see you at the new site.

Also visit Nuke Gingrich

And SwampWoman has the Rules of The Road at her place.

Sheriff’s Sergeant Shot, Shooter Killed in Lassen County !!Updated w/ Names!!

There’s been a lot of raids in the North State this year, and it’s only the middle of June. This kind of activity is usually seen in the late summer or early fall, and usually the growers just run away and return to Mexico. Not this time.

!!Update!! Through the grapevine, I’ve found out these guys are a mixture of locals and illegals. Stay tuned for names.

!!UPDATE!! Here are the names of those arrested starting top left.!!UPDATE!!

Arrested at the garden
site were Clemente Ferrias
Arroyo, 62, no address listed,
and Jose Alfredo Zepeda,
18, ast Palo Alto. Unconfirmed
reports indicate the
suspect who was shot was
the son of Arroyo and brother-
in-law of Zepeda.
Arrested in the vehicle
stopped by deputies and
U.S. Forest Service law
enforcement officers were
Jose Mendoz-Garcia, 21,
no address listed; Miguel
Abundez Mosquedo, 39, of
Fall River Mills; Alex Zavala,
19, no address listed; and
Norman Mike, 44, of Dana.
Charges against Zavala
were dropped and he was
released.
The other five suspects
were being held each on
$150,000 bail, were arraigned
Thursday and are scheduled
for a preliminary hearing this
Thursday, 8:30 a.m., in Dept.
2 of Lassen Superior Court,
said Nancy Holsey, public
information officer for the
court.

LITTLE VALLEY – One man is dead and six have been arrested after a gunbattle Tuesday afternoon near an illegal marijuana garden that sent a Lassen County sheriff’s sergeant to the hospital with a gunshot wound and also injured a sheriff’s deputy.

The sergeant and the deputy were part of a task force investigating an illegal pot plantation south of Dixie Valley, just across the Lassen County line east of Burney, said Lassen County Sheriff Steve Warren. The sergeant was flown to Mercy Medical Center in Redding with a nonlife-threatening wound, the Lassen County Sheriff’s Office said.

He reportedly was shot in the arm after he stopped a truck suspected of being involved with the marijuana garden.

His identity was not released, so his condition could not be checked. But a Record Searchlight photo of his arrival at the hospital shows that he was apparently alert and sitting up on the gurney, his right arm bandaged.

Two of the suspects were arrested on Forest Service Road 22 near where the two officers were shot, and four were arrested when they were found in a car on Pittville Road, Warren said.

Names of those arrested and the man who was killed were not immediately available.

“I want to give props to all the agencies who helped make these arrests possible today,” Warren said Tuesday night.

The Shasta County Sheriff’s Office and California Highway Patrol were among the agencies that helped Lassen deputies.

Photos and video: Intermountain News

Story: Record Searchlight

Fire David Letterman. They Fired Imus For Less

Yep, that’s right. All Imus said was “Nappy Headed Hoes” and Letterman called Sarah Palin a slut, and joked about her 14 year old daughter being raped by a 33 year old baseball player. Then he had the balls to say he meant her 18 year old daughter. Yeah, that makes it all O.K. What a useless piece of sh!t. Well anyway, there’s a rally tomorrow and the details are below. Oh, and did I mention, it’s the same company that employed Imus, and now employes Letterman? That would be CBS.

NEW YORK, Jun 15, 2009 (BUSINESS WIRE) — A diverse coalition of concerned citizens, whose website is www.FireDavidLetterman.com, today announced a Fire David Letterman Rally on Tuesday, June 16, from 4:30 pm to 7:30 pm on the sidewalks outside the Ed Sullivan Theater, located at 1697 Broadway in New York City. CBS films the Late Show with David Letterman at the Ed Sullivan Theater. Tuesday’s show, hosted by Letterman, will be taped at 5:30 pm, and will feature guest Michelle Pfeiffer.

Anna Barone, who worked for Hillary Clinton’s Presidential Campaign, and later for Democrats for McCain, called on CBS CEO Les Moonves to fire David Letterman for his sexist insults of both Alaska Governor Sarah Palin and Palin’s 14 year old daughter.

“David Letterman’s disgraceful comments were a violation of standards of common decency. They were as bad as the comments Don Imus made that caused CBS to fire him in 2007. CBS needs to apply the same standards to David Letterman they applied to Don Imus,” said Barone.

John Ziegler, producer of the documentary film Media Malpractice, called for representatives of the New York City Chapter of NOW to join the rally, and for the group to call for CBS to fire David Letterman.

“In 2007 NOW called for the firing of Don Imus in a situation that was far less egregious than what happened here. Are they once again going to sell out their principles for politics? It is clear that Letterman needs to be held accountable in some way for this and the unprecedented media assault on the Palin family must end,” said Ziegler.

New York State Assemblyman Brian Kolb, who has already publicly sent a letter to CBS CEO Les Moonves stating that CBS should fire Letterman, is also one of the leaders of the Fire David Letterman Movement, whose website is www.FireDavidLetterman.com.

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Michelle Malkin has an opinion too. (I just love her) Letterman’s half-assed apology

Just a side note, I hope Todd has a few “personal moments” with David.

Biden: Everyone Guessed Wrong

Well no sh!t Sherlock? You called it back in the first week of February. But we’ll get to that a bit later. First Gateway Pundit has this.

The US lost over 2.5 million jobs in the first four months of this year under the Obama Administration.
The US unemployment rate rose from 7.6% to 9.4% under Obama… the highest rate in 25 years.

Bureau of Labor Statistics- via Sweetness and Light
The US has lost 16,000 jobs each day since Democrats passed their non-Stimulus bill, the largest redistribution of wealth from the private sector to government officials in US history, without any House Republican votes.

Joe Biden admitted today that the Obama Administration was wrong on the stimulus.
TIME mag reported, via Free Republic:

Biden tells “Meet the Press” that “everyone guessed wrong” on the impact of the stimulus, economy was worse off than anyone thought.

Now to the Biden prediction. Biden was already in the CYA mode and was saying they would be wrong 30 % of the time. How prophetic. On February 6, 2009 I posted this.

Watch the video to see Vice President Joe “The Gaffe” Biden say that even if they get everything they want, they will still be wrong about a third of the time. And notice how David Axelrod sidesteps the question from Wolf Blitzer and gives the democratic talking points for the day. I first saw Obama’s press secretary Robert Gibbs use the exact same words this morning to dodge a question from the press. Axelrod even takes it one step further by taking the quote out of context. Here’s the video and the quote.

The president and I were talking about something yesterday in the Oval Office — which, to the press here, I’ll not suggest what it was — but the response was to the folks that were in the office with us — was, you know, if we do everything right, if we do it with absolute certainty, we stand up there and we make really tough decisions, there’s still a 30-percent chance we’re going to get it wrong. You, too. You, too. Because I can’t think of a time, as a student of history — and I’ve participated in this business as long as almost anybody but my chairman from Michigan. I think I’ve been here — not a lot of you have served more than 36 years. TWS

Nowhere in that video does he say he’s talking about the stimulus bill. In fact it’s just the opposite, he says he won’t disclose what they were talking about. Again, watch Axelrod evade the question with the democrat talking points.

Hope & Change? Well there’s certainly no Hope if the new administration is going to be wrong a third of the time. And as for Change, just listen to Axelrod pull the same old democratic bullsh!t of changing the subject.

Do you still think this bunch of Chicago con-artist thugs are not taking us for the biggest ride in the history of the United States? They have a plan, and we’d better have one too.

Mark ‘The Kid’ Martin Does It Again

BROOKLYN, Mich. – Hendrick Motorsports driver Mark Martin was simply running for points near the end of Sunday’s NASCAR Sprint Cup LifeLock 400 at Michigan International Speedway. At the very end, he was celebrating an unlikely victory.

After Hendrick teammate Jimmie Johnson and Roush Fenway Racing’s Greg Biffle – owners of the two strongest cars on the afternoon – dropped from the first and second positions, respectively, in the final two laps when their fuel tanks ran dry, Martin decided he had more than points in mind.

“If we’re this close, I’m gonna run hard,” Martin said in victory lane, adding he ran dry on fuel coming off Turn 4 for the final time.

Martin, who qualified 32nd, notched his 38th career victory – and his third this season. It was Martin’s fifth career win at Michigan.

The Rest Here

Friday Night Quick Bites

There's a storm brewing

Ann Coulter: Welcome Back Carter

Obama to run Tobacco Industry

Rev. Wright: Them Jews Aren’t Going To Let Him Talk To Me

Air France Crash Caused By Global Warming

More San Francisco Bullshit

Is Obama Guilty of Treason? One man puts his life on the line to find out

Even Bill Maher Has Had Enough Obama TV

Rush Limbaugh: Letterman’s Attacks on Palin

And as always, check in with Nuke Gingrich and SwampWoman

Global Temperatures The Last 30 Years

Roy Spencer ph. D. has a great site for the facts on global warming. I found this chart on global temps over the last 30 years there. Except for the spike in ‘98, which all of the global warming cultists use as the base for their scam, it seems everything averages out. And ‘98 was caused by nature, not man. Visit Roy’s site at Roy Spencer, ph. D.

Latest Global Temperatures

Latest Global Average Tropospheric Temperatures

(Want to see how the current month’s temperatures are shaping up? Check this out.)

Since 1979, NOAA satellites have been carrying instruments which measure the natural microwave thermal emissions from oxygen in the atmosphere. The signals that these microwave radiometers measure at different microwave frequencies are directly proportional to the temperature of different, deep layers of the atmosphere. Every month, John Christy and I update global temperature datasets that represent the piecing together of the temperature data from a total of eleven instruments flying on eleven different satellites over the years. As of 2008, our most stable instrument for this monitoring is the Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit (AMSU-A) flying on NASA’s Aqua satellite.

The graph above represents the latest update; updates are usually made within the first week of every month.

Hate is ugly

U.S first lady Michelle Obama and France’s First Lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy attend a ceremony to mark the 65th anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandy at Colleville-sur-Mer cemetery, June 6, 2009.

I’ll leave it up to you…..

Kofi Worse Than Fiction, He’s a Liar

I posted This, last week  about Kofi Annan being back and as bad as ever. He’s the same old liar as he’s always been, and even some “alarmists” are pointing that out.

Global warming alarmists are fond of invoking the authority of experts against the skepticism of supposedly amateur detractors — a.k.a. “deniers.” So when one of those experts says that a recent report on the effects of climate change is “worse than fiction, it is a lie,” the alarmists should, well, be alarmed.

The latest contretemps pits former U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan, now president of the Geneva-based Global Humanitarian Forum, against Roger Pielke, Jr., an expert in disaster trends at the University of Colorado. Mr. Annan’s outfit issued a lengthy report late last month warning that climate change-induced disasters, such as droughts and floods, kill 315,000 each year and cost $125 billion, numbers it says will rise to 500,000 dead and $340 billion by 2030. Adding to the gloom, Mr. Annan predicts “mass starvation, mass migration, and mass sickness” unless countries agree to “the most ambitious international agreement ever negotiated” at a meeting this year in Copenhagen.

Even on its own terms, the numbers here are a lot less scary when put into context. Malaria kills an estimated one million people a year, while AIDS claims an estimated two million. As for the economic costs, $125 billion is slightly less than the GDP of New Zealand. Question: Are targeted campaigns using proven methods to spare the world three million AIDS and malaria deaths a year a better use of scarce resources than a multitrillion-dollar attempt to re-engineer the global economy and save, at most, a tenth that number? We’d say yes.

But the Annan report deserves even closer scrutiny as an example of the sleight of hand that so often goes with the politics of global warming. Unlike starvation, climate change does not usually kill anyone directly. Instead, the study’s authors assume a four-step chain of causation, beginning with increased emissions, moving to climate-change effects, thence to physical changes like melting glaciers and desertification, and finally arriving at human effects like malnutrition and “risk of instability and armed conflicts.”

This is a heroic set of assumptions, even if you agree that emissions are causing adverse changes in climate. Take the supposedly heightened risk of conflict: The authors suggest that “inter-clan fighting in Somalia” is a product of climate change. A likelier explanation is the collapse of a functioning Somali government and the rise of jihadists in the region.

Enter Mr. Pielke, who, we hasten to add, does not speak for us (nor we for him). But given the headlines the Annan report has garnered, his views deserve amplification. Writing in the Prometheus science policy blog, Mr. Pielke calls the report a “methodological embarrassment” and a “poster child for how to lie with statistics” that “does a disservice” to those who take climate change issues seriously.

Mr. Pielke’s critique begins by citing a recent peer-reviewed paper by three German researchers that “it is generally difficult to obtain valid quantitative findings about the role of socioeconomics and climate change in loss increases.” Reasons for this, the researchers explain, include “the stochastic [random] nature of weather extremes, a shortage of quality data, and the role of various other potential factors that act in parallel and interact.”

The report does admit to a “significant margin of error,” but this hardly excuses the sloppiness of its methodology. “To get around the fact that there has been no attribution of the relationship of GHG [greenhouse gas] emissions and disasters,” Mr. Pielke notes, the Annan “report engages in a very strange comparison of earthquake and weather disasters in 1980 and 2005. The first question that comes to mind is, why? They are comparing phenomena with many ‘moving parts’ over a short time frame, and attributing 100% of the resulting difference to human-caused climate change. This boggles the mind.”

It gets worse. The Annan report cites Hurricane Katrina as a case study in the economic consequences of climate change. Yet there’s not even remotely conclusive evidence that temperature increases have any effect on the intensity or frequency of hurricanes. The authors also claim that global warming is aggravating the El Niño effect, which has “ruined livelihoods, led to lost lives and impaired national economies.” Yet new research “questions the notion that El Niños have been getting stronger because of global warming,” according to Ben Giese of Texas A&M.

We could go on, except we’re worried about the blood pressure of readers who are climate-change true believers. Our only question is, if the case for global warming is so open and shut, why the need for a report as disingenuous as Mr. Annan’s?

Wall Street Journal