Stimulus attempts to forestall dangerous real life version of Super Mario Brothers!

According to this story Senator Coburn releases details about how our stimulus dollars are being used to fund a project to create safe passage for turtles under a highway in Florida.

Coburn also criticized a $3.4 million Florida Department of Transportation project for an "eco-passage" - an underground wildlife road crossing for turtles and other wildlife in Lake Jackson, Fla., along U.S. 27.
"Why did the turtle cross the road? To get to the other side of a stimulus project," the Coburn report says.

A spokesperson however, helps us understand that spending money we are borrowing ostensibly from our kids on this project is important.

Josh Boan, the Florida Transportation Department's natural resources manager, said a large number of turtles and other wildlife are killed in the area. In addition to protecting wildlife, he said the project is needed for safety: turtles hit by vehicles can become flying projectiles.

(emphasis mine)

I feel like such a sucker when I read stuff like this. Imagine how I'd fell if I actually voted for Obama!

Pathetic counter to Obama challenge

So Obama gets ridiculed by many for his stupid $100M proposal to cut government spending, and rightfully so. Soon he will have doubled the national debt. So the idea that his $100M proposal for cuts is risible.

But now the GOP, responding to a challenge from Obama to do better, has offered this. While it is MUCH better than Obama's fake government spending cuts, it is nowhere near what it should be.

Here's the worst line of all from Rep. Eric Cantor:

"What we tried to do was come up with things that really are doable," Cantor said. "It's not like we're going to propose the abolition of the Department of Education." (emphasis mine)

Well, it may not be what you are going to propose but it is what your OUGHT to propose. And while you're at it, how about the Department of Commerce, Department of Health and Human Services, and the Department of Housing and Urban Development...for starters.

Does anyone seriously want to defend the idea that the BILLIONS of dollars spent every year on HUD has been worth it given the state of "H"ousing and "U"rban "D"evelopment in this country?

I think they've "helped" enough.

Obama should appoint a "Foreign Leader Gift Czar"...

...because he just can't seem to get it right. First there was the DVD collection that doesn't even work in PM Brown's DVD player. Now this.

"The One" gave Her Majesty the queen an ipod. Turns out she already had one. He should've known that. Even the pope has an ipod.

Of course the POTUS doesn't go out shopping for these things. He's too busy running bankrupting the country to worry about such minor things.

But this obviously shows that his team is not competent at their jobs yet.

If he can't find people competent enough to scare up a decent gift for the queen, how is he going to do running the Auto industry?

Sheesh!

Ash Wednesday confrontation

This article reports on a story of a bellhop at hotel directly across the street from St. Patrick's Cathdral in NYC. He had received the cross of ashes on his forehead early that morning. According to the story, the bellhop said his priest "did a real number on [him]".

I take that to mean he had a Tony Rialli sized cross and not the wimpy kind my pastor hands out.

Anyway, he gets abused by the manager for wearing it. This story has a just ending, though. Props to the hotel for allowing this guy to act like an idiot on his own time.

This story reminded me of another case of religious intolerance by the supposed tolerant left.

G.K. Chesterton

Here's some wisdom from the great GKC...

"We are learning to do a great many clever things...The next great task will be to learn not to do them."

In the comments section, write what he might be talking about here.

Why Obama was elected IMHO...

Because there are too many "Julios" out there who voted for "the One" that believe Obama is going to force someone else to give them more benefits at McDonald's.

A host of alarming things to observe.

1) Why is this guy in college? Can't we all agree that not everyone is "college material". Isn't this why college is so expensive. We have inflated the demand for college by encouraging people - like Julio - to go to college instead of working a vocational job that might sustain him. Isn't this a great example of why we need to stop publicly subsidizing college tuition?

2) What exactly is wrong with a person working at McDonald's while in school?

3) Isn't is disturbing to all reasonable people that this type of Messianic worship of Obama is scary and ought to alarm those who voted for the man for sane reasons. I'm sure there were some that did this to Bush, but I think not nearly as many and not nearly as worshipful...YUK!

4) Most disturbingly, Obama, instead of advising this guy to keep his head down and keep up the good work (instead of wondering when Obama was going to give him something) assures him that a host of government goodies are on the way to help him stay afloat at Mickie D's.

This has to play out badly for Obama at some point. Too many people really believe that (free) help is on the way. It is not (free). When that happens, what will he do? Can he blame it on Bush? Maybe. If they're like Julio.

I'm sick when I see this.

Obama is...

...not displaying a "new kind of politics".

He is pandering to the vocal extremists that helped him get elected. Keep it up, buddy and we may just have a shot at your office in four years!