Obama Likes Booty

So does Sarkozy.

The Secret Service might want to put a new threat on its watch list: the mad-as-hell mama of the 17-year-old Brazilian beauty ogled by President Obama and French leader Nicolas Sarkozy at the G8 summit last week.

"If I were there, I would have boxed their ears," said Lucia Rodrigues, 37. "They should be ashamed of themselves."

Patriarch Eduardo Tavares, after finally getting around to seeing the famous photo of his daughter from behind, quickly changed his tune from proud papa to furious father.

"My daughter is not a model and she is not a sex symbol," he told The Post. "That photograph has ruined my whole family."

At the Italy summit last week, daughter Mayara Rodrigues Tavares, her long locks flowing over her curvaceous frame, became the momentary focus of the leering leaders as she took her place for an official group photo.

Wanted for Bretraying Republican Principles!

A Berkeley Liberal Wakes Up

I've been thinking about learning how to fire a gun, maybe even buying one. Now if you are a lifelong conservative, Red State dweller, and NRA member, you might be thinking, "Big yawn. What's next? She'll be telling us what she had for breakfast?"

So let me try to convey to you the enormousness, the Alice in Wonderland quality of my even posing the question, something I've never, ever considered in my life. No one I know owns a gun. I've never seen a gun (well on a holster of a police officer but I never wanted to get up close and personal with it). I have given lots of good money over the years for gun control. Learning to fire a gun seems as ludicrous as deciding to take up brain surgery.

But, I am rethinking absolutely everything. There is not a single thing that I believed, that I held absolute and holy, that is not up for grabs. My brain is in a tizzy 24/7 and I don't know if up is down, or if east is west.

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As a good, loyal liberal, I always expected others to take care of me. If I gave my unqualified loyalty to the system, I could sleep well at night. But now, with victims left bleeding, a dangerously naive government, and sheep like masses, I see the absurdity of my thinking.

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As I continue on the path to independence and personal responsibility, perhaps looking to myself for protection is another step on my journey.

Why Do Liberals Bleed?

Tax Increases Could Destroy Recovery

The barrage of tax increases proposed in President Barack Obama's budget could, if enacted by Congress, kill any chance of an early and sustained recovery.

WSJ article here

Just Make Stuff Up

Victor Davis Hanson hits it again.

In the first six months of the Obama administration, we have witnessed an assault on the truth of a magnitude not seen since the Nixon Watergate years. The prevarication is ironic given the Obama campaign's accusations that the Bush years were not transparent and that Hillary Clinton, like her husband, was a chronic fabricator. Remember Obama's own assertions that he was a "student of history" and that "words mean something. You can't just make stuff up."

Yet Obama's war against veracity is multifaceted.

The rest of the article here

NOW Adds Letterman to it's Media Hall of Shame

Finally!!! The National Organization of Women steps to the plate and condemns David Letterman's sexist, misogynistic and abusive attempt at humor on Wednesday night. Whether his "joke" was focused on 18-year old Bristol Palin, as Letterman claimed in his semi-mea culpa (I don't buy it) or 14-year old Willow, his remarks were beyond the pale.

NOW Media Hall of Shame

Other liberals are beginning to sign on with their objections to Letterman's sophomoric attempt at humor. Read Amanda Fortini's remarks at Salon.

Who's to Blame for Insanity

John at Powerline addresses those who refer to the Holocaust Museum murderer as "right wing."

Various media sources are referring to von Brunn as a "right wing" murderer, more or less as they refer to people like us as "right wingers." This is a dubious characterization, to say the least: anti-Semitism is overwhelmingly a phenomenon of the Left in today's world, and Leon Wolf, at RedState, points out that Mr. von Brunn's political views are typical of those commonly expressed at the Daily Kos. No surprise there.