UPDATEx9: Totally Irresponsible

For the POTUS to encourage the mindless activities by the unions in Madison, Wisconsin is absolutely and totally irresponsible for his official position.

Additionally, those Wisconsin legislature Democrats that ran and hid just demonstrated how immature they are by refusing to work.

Speaking of work, are these “teachers” that called out “sick” at home in bed? If not, they better not be paid for their “time off”.
And the affected students, where are they and what are they learning?
These aren’t snow days. Are they going to be made up? With no extra pay?

If I were a parent in Wisconsin, I could melt five miles of snow by the heat from my forehead. If there was any snow.

Let’s not forget the union leaders, who have “led” the members (aka, brainwashed) to this very precarious position.

UPDATE: Pelosi proud of Wisconsin Democrats leaving the state. She probably doesn’t care about Wisconsin’s misconduct in office statute either.

UPDATEx2: Oh, and possibly medical fraud to “support” the “sick” teacher walkout so they can NOT stay home (in bed). Instead, they walk into and around the state capital. As Michelle Malkin points this out, and has a photo describing the “come get a doctor’s note.” Reprehensible.

The missing Democrats are now on milk cartons.

UPDATEx3: About those doctor notes. Seems this should tell you something about how wrong this is on so many levels.

UPDATEx4: Additional video, although I doubt its worth myself.

UPDATEx5: Andrew Breitbart of Big Government, gets his doctor’s note. Excellent video. Walker pneumonia indeed.

UPDATEx6: So now it looks like riot police are ordered to clear out the protesters from the Capital building by 2am.

UPDATEx7: Far Left Loon issues death threat to Governor Walker.

UPDATEx8: I’d bet good money that, yeah, public trust is out the window. UW Health intends to find out. Let’s hope so.

UPDATEx9: BO’s Administration lies about being involved with the protests. Well, color me suspicious – not.

Governmental Error

But not being responsible and taking the blame for it. Can you imagine that?

Here’s the gist of it: The combined forces of the DOJ and DHS intended to shut down ten (10) websites due to charges of child pornography. Trouble was, instead of just ten (10) sites to deal with, 84,000 (less 10) sites were accidentally labelled with a banner notice identifying those sites as trafficking in child porn.

I’d say that’s more thaan a bit much. Excessive, in fact. Sounds like charging innocents with false accusations. Libelous maybe?

To make things worse, yesterday the DOJ and DHS make a joint announcement on how good a job they are doing on project “Operation Protect Our Children”. That’s just marvelous, isn’t it?

So where’s the apology? Where’s the do no harm on this massive, over-reaching, tens of thousands of small businesses affected by some stupid error on their part?

Gee, for something so simple and expansive, one would think a joint effort between DOJ and DHS could actually, you know, patrol and seal our southern border with Mexico what say?

Talk about a massive screw up.

UPDATE: Speaking of Spending

I can’t, I just can’t – use a calculator anymore for these cost figures that are driven by the POTUS’ $3.73T budget released recently.

Here’s the breakdown and projections as explained (in summary) by HotAirPundit.

A recipe for disaster. Nothing else describes it.

“Live within our means”, BO? You should have had that mantra and worked it like you mean it – over two years ago.
You hypocrite.

UPDATE: By the way, BO, you remember saying this before, right? Going to halve the deficit? You know, cut the deficit by half its value? To do that required cuts, you know. So what happened to those cuts, BO?

To Spend Takes Energy

And in this case, an entire Department. As in, the Department of Energy.

Just how dumb are these cretins? Wanting to spend unrealized future “savings” on the heels of pay freezes?

They aren’t “savings” then are they? ‘Fess up now. We know the answer. Question is, do you?

Will someone PLEASE put the DOE out of our misery?

Work the future, indeed ….. wait, win? Nope. Doesn’t look like it to us math majors and minors.

WMD Found in US?

Watch the video of an interview in San Diego of a Customs Official.

Then, make up your own mind just how safe our ports are.

AZ Sheriff Pondering U.S. Senate Run

My two cents, do it, Sheriff Joe.

Just do it.

We Are In The Best of Hands

Not.
I agree with Mark Steyn. Vehemently. Clapper is an idiot of the first order and shouldn’t be allowed out in public.

Who put him in charge? Oh, yeah.

Government Motors Spends Our Money

Bailed out. How about – thrown out? For this:

General Motors Co. and Chrysler Group LLC, which each received government-funded bailouts, may award some managers bonuses of as much as 50 percent of their salary, said four people familiar with the plans.

GM plans to pay bonuses to most managers equal to 15 percent to 20 percent of their annual salary and as high as 50 percent to less than 1 percent of its 26,000 U.S. salaried employees, said one of the people, who asked not to be named revealing internal plans. Bonuses for Chrysler’s 10,755 salaried workers will average about $10,000, with a small group getting as much as half of their salary, one of the people said.

Nothing’s changed. Same old, same old.

UPDATE: How Egypt Shut Off the Internet

According to Wired:

Most media, including Wired.com, reported that government officials contacted individual ISPs and told them to shut down their networks, under threat of losing their communications licenses.

But the document (embedded below) contradicts that narrative, providing new details on the outage — largely laying the blame on Egypt’s internal security service, while describing the “flip-the-switch” shutdown as a “politically liberal” choice by the Egyptian communications ministry.

That’s because turning off the internet at the center exchange made it very easy to switch it back on, prevented surveillance, made it clear to everyone what had happened, and prevented spyware from being placed on the networks.

Compare that to Tunisia, where Facebook login pages were manipulated — presumably by the government — to grab the passwords of Tunisian activists in order to delete their accounts and protest pages.

The presentation suggests the weeklong shutdown had severe effects on Egypt’s economy, in the short term from loss of commerce, and in the long term from a likely plummet in tourism, and an exodus of call centers from Egypt.

Should we be concerned here? Considering how easy that was?
Yet, if you go read that Wired article and take a look at the timeline of events, it would appear this “shut down” cost Egypt a lot of money.

UPDATE: And now, Algeria does the same, shutting down teir internet and Facebook.

CONNECTED: Mubarak said something to Israel about us.

How To Mess Up the Future

According to the Veep, by spending $50B + for high speed rail in economic times that put all of us and generations to come owing tons of money this administration spent and borrowed and spent to the point of (almost??) no return.

In other words – rocketing to the poorhouse.

Idiot. I hope everyone else picks up on the timing of this idiocy.

hhhmm, I wonder how much of that $50B could be used to seal the southern border …….