It has begun!

Rush is back on tour!

Thank the Maker, there is a bright spot in our world again! Boy do we ever need it.

For a run down and tons of spoilers visit my favorite Rush blog, Rush is a Band, or watch a couple of the videos from last night’s opening night below the fold.

VA hospital may have infected 1,800 veterans with HIV

This would never happen under ObamaCare.

A Missouri VA hospital is under fire because it may have exposed more than 1,800 veterans to life-threatening diseases such as hepatitis and HIV.

John Cochran VA Medical Center in St. Louis has recently mailed letters to 1,812 veterans telling them they could contract hepatitis B, hepatitis C and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) after visiting the medical center for dental work, said Rep. Russ Carnahan.

Carnahan said Tuesday he is calling for a investigation into the issue and has sent a letter to President Obama about it.
“This is absolutely unacceptable,” said Carnahan, a Democrat from Missouri. “No veteran who has served and risked their life for this great nation should have to worry about their personal safety when receiving much needed healthcare services from a Veterans Administration hospital.”

Everything Dr. Utopia has touched has turned to gold so I’m sure there is nothing to worry about…

Andrew Breitbart destroys Andrew Sullivan

Hypocrisy, Thy Name is Andrew Sullivan

Most information of value is held by people that don’t want it to be public. Not that anyone asked, but I would never divulge information discovered that was not pertinent to my stated mission, which is to point out the collusion between the political left and a journalist class that improbably claims there is no such thing as media bias and who dismiss those who accuse the media of having a left wing agenda as paranoid conspiracy theorists.

I would never divulge an individual’s sexual secrets. I did not learn that rule in journalism school, I learned that from my conscience. Something that I have come to realize is lacking in those journalists who claim out of one side of their mouth that they are objective reporters, but then seek the privacy of clubs, cliques and listservs, etc., to fight back against those that would challenge their false “objective order.”

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I needn’t be lectured by a so-called “conservative” who has aided and abetted in this perversion of the American political experiment. Sullivan’s disgusting, ends-justify-the-means obsession with the personal family life of Sarah Palin breached every ethical and journalistic boundary known to the cosmos. Between airing Palin’s hacked private emails and making a cottage industry out of challenging the maternity of her son, Trig, sometimes the word “irony” or “hypocrisy” is not descriptive enough.

To highlight the absurdity of Sullivan’s outrage, perhaps his submission entitled “The Palin Emails” can grant you insight into a demented mind. Before divulging them in at least five separate posts, he wrote: ”They’ve leaked, of course. And they’re not pretty.”

And they weren’t meant to be public either, Andy.

Hot Air Comment of the Day

via Kagan on ACOG memo: Did I do that?

The first male nominee of the first female President…

Now that’s just mean. Funny. But mean.

Clueless Kagan

via Kagan pushes back on GOP questioning

A poised Elena Kagan on Tuesday spent the second day of her Supreme Court confirmation hearing fending off Republican efforts to paint her as a liberal activist, saying she’d be a fair, open-minded justice and refusing to call herself a “legal progressive.”

“I honestly don’t know what that label means,” she said.

Are you f’ing kidding me?

The fact she can’t bring herself to attempt to define this term should disqualify her alone. It proves she does not have an awareness of the legal world or her place in it and doesn’t have the stones to stand on her principles.

Just another empty suit like the man who nominated her.

The horror that is Gaza

The Jawa Report: Israel Attacks Gaza Summer Camp For Teh Kids

Israel? I meant Islamic extremists. Because US funded UN pampering ain’t Sharia Law, baby.

Instead of those damn kids escaping from the blighted reality of living under corrupt oppression, they should be in a Islamic Jihad camp training to fire rockets. They just don’t get the correct weapons training at home anymore.

Quote of the Day

Via Instapundit:

Interestingly enough in the last several years there have been four big SCOTUS cases which IMHO, really define our freedoms and personal liberty Kelo property rights; Citizens United free speech; Heller 2nd amendment and now McDonald.

I hear a lot from liberals about how the right wants to curtail freedoms, we’re fascists yet when I look at where the liberal Justices ruled or dissented in those aforementioned cases I think it’s pretty clear who are the real curtailers of freedom and liberty.

After all when the State can take your property, restrict your political speech and disarm the populace, you really don’t have much left in the way of freedom.

I’d like to know what Kagan’s opinions are on those cases.

And how about spying on and targeting Americans like Obama is doing.

Just words?

Some church you attended Mr. President…

Rev. Jeremiah Wright unleashed a slew of racially charged proclamations at a seminar in Chicago last week, reportedly comparing the United States with apartheid South Africa and claiming the civil rights movement was about “becoming white.”

The comments were reported by the New York Post, which provided details about a five-day class President Obama’s former pastor taught at the Chicago Theological Seminary.

In the seminar, Wright reportedly told those in the class they will never “be a brother to white folk,” describing racial divisions in the country as entrenched — as he did as pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ.

The civil rights movement “was always about becoming white,” Wright said at the seminar.

At another point, he said: “White folk done took this country. You’re in their home and they’re going to let you know it.”

via Rev. Wright: Civil Rights Movement About ‘Becoming White’

Wounded Warrior Project Chooses USAA Bank for Co-Branded Credit Card

A good company and a good cause.

USAA has always been there for the military and my family:

SAN ANTONIO – (June 28, 2010) To raise awareness and help provide funding for the needs of severely injured service men and women, USAA Savings Bank and the Wounded Warrior Project will join forces to offer a credit card that helps fund WWP programs to support service members with traumatic war injuries.

Wounded warriors and their family members along with WWP supporters and contributors can now proudly carry the USAA Wounded Warrior Project World MasterCard®…

TSGLI is the government-provided lump-sum payment of $25,000 to $100,000 for certain combat-related injuries. This program, originally championed by WWP, is designed to help injured service members and their families with financial burdens associated with recovering from a severe injury.

For more information and how to sign up please visit the Wounded Warrior Project.

Harry Reid’s supporters are quite pathetic

…all twelve of them.

Harry Reid hopes Astroturf can save him

You might get this impression from this video that a group of genuinely concerned senior citizens protested at the campaign office of Nevada GOP Senate nominee Sharron Angle:

Don’t be fooled. The man in the video is the chairman of Reid’s Southern Nevada steering committee. Too bad News 3 fell for it.

His name is Rich Miller. He is a big time Democrat Party apparatchik.

Had these useful idiots known anything, they would have know that Sharron was here in Washoe County this weekend.

Mr. Miller, having an ASS as the mascot of your Democrat Party is so apropos.

And don’t try to leave a comment or a rating on their video, Reid’s people have shut that down. And when you attempt to send them some feedback, even that is a pain in the ASS. I re-posted their video so you could rate and comment.

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Family Of US Army Soldier Benjamin Osborn Slams Obama On ROE

via The Jawa Report: “We need a warrior, not a flower child.”

Thanks for actually reading the Constitution you FIVE

Gun rights extended by Supreme Court:

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court held Monday that the Constitution’s Second Amendment restrains government’s ability to significantly limit “the right to keep and bear arms,” advancing a recent trend by the John Roberts-led bench to embrace gun rights.

By a narrow, 5-4 vote, the justices also signaled, however, that some limitations on the right could survive legal challenges.

Writing for the court in a case involving restrictive laws in Chicago and one of its suburbs, Justice Samuel Alito said that the Second Amendment right “applies equally to the federal government and the states.”

The court was split along familiar ideological lines, with five conservative-moderate justices in favor of gun rights and four liberals opposed. Chief Justice Roberts voted with the majority.

Two years ago, the court declared that the Second Amendment protects an individual’s right to possess guns, at least for purposes of self-defense in the home.

That ruling applied only to federal laws. It struck down a ban on handguns and a trigger lock requirement for other guns in the District of Columbia, a federal city with a unique legal standing. At the same time, the court was careful not to cast doubt on other regulations of firearms here.

Gun rights proponents almost immediately filed a federal lawsuit challenging gun control laws in Chicago and its suburb of Oak Park, Ill, where handguns have been banned for nearly 30 years. The Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence says those laws appear to be the last two remaining outright bans.

Lower federal courts upheld the two laws, noting that judges on those benches were bound by Supreme Court precedent and that it would be up to the high court justices to ultimately rule on the true reach of the Second Amendment.

The Supreme Court already has said that most of the guarantees in the Bill of Rights serve as a check on state and local, as well as federal, laws.

Sen. Harry M. Reid building war chest by tapping donors beyond Nevada

Harry Reid is not "independent like Nevada", he's independent of Nevada

Because his supporters don’t live in this state:

Trial lawyers have long given generously to Democrats, and to Reid. Morgan, whose firm Morgan and Morgan is preparing legal claims against BP on behalf of the gulf region’s tourism industry and commercial fishermen, said he’s helping Reid because the pro-consumer senator is under attack by “tea party” Republican Sharron Angle, and Morgan would “rather have one trial lawyer in Congress than 500 bureaucrats.”

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Reid raises more money from outside his state than any other senator. Vermont’s Patrick J. Leahy (D) edges out Reid in the percentage he raises from out of state with 86 percent, but Leahy’s total contributions of $1.6 million are dwarfed by Reid’s.

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Reid’s attractiveness to out-of-state donors could make him vulnerable to criticism that his years as a Washington powerbroker have left him out of touch with Nevadans, which is one of Angle’s lines of attack. Last week, a political survey showed that 52 percent of Nevadans said they viewed Reid unfavorably and 45 percent viewed him “very unfavorably.”

“When so much money is coming from out of state, voters should know where the money is coming from,” she said. “Given that Reid is Senate majority leader, it’s not surprising, but voters need to be concerned because there might be tucked in there some donors whose interests run counter to their own and counter to the state.”

Special interests, not Nevada’s interests are what Harry has in mind. He proves it everyday.

Weekend Entertainment

Attention Sharron Angle campaign….

The Democrats are really desperate and you need to nail Reid’s ass to the wall: Nevada Democrats Seize on Birther Controversy to Attack Tea Party Darling

Nevada Democrats have seized on the widely debunked conspiracy theory that President Obama was not born in the U.S. to attack Tea Party darling Sharron Angle, the Republican running against Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.

The Nevada Democratic Party, seeking to brand Angle’s views as too extreme, points to her campaign website touting the endorsement of the Declaration Alliance, a group that believes Obama wasn’t born in the U.S. and therefore is constitutionally ineligible to serve as president despite confirmation from the Hawaiian government that he was born there.

On its website, Declaration Alliance declares that it supports Angle and expresses “reasonable doubt” to the “constitutional eligibility” of Obama to be president.

A spokesman for Angle has said she’s not a so-called “birther,” but that hasn’t stopped Democrats from pressing the issue. They note that Angle’s campaign has scrubbed its website of her many controversial issues except the group’s endorsement.

Who cares? Really? Who cares about this non-issue when we have one of the biggest, nastiest, most partisan idiots in recent memory representing our state?

Harry Reid has already made several campaign commercials for you. You don’t even have to lift a finger to hammer Harry’s choice of partisan politics over our military, our nation, our president, and by extension, our state:

Our thanks to Harry for his cooperation in making the case for his retirement.

If the Angle campaign does not start hammering this over and over again, they can lose. And that would be a terrible thing for Nevada and our country.