Good Luck To Rush Limbaugh

Rush embarks on a deep undercover penetration of Ground Zero of the Birther theory.  I hope he is otherwise fine.

And a Happy New Year to all.  I am driving off into the Noreaster, so I may be incommunicado for a while.

Comments

[Sue]

Happy New Year, dear leader. Be safe and have fun!

[Walter]

Happy New Year to you, Tom and all.

Best of luck to everyone for health, happiness, and prosperity.

And my condolences to Mr. Dobbs, who will have to start spending time inside beige-painted* walls again.

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*Of course, that's my experience. HnR probably negotiated a better working environment.

[Jane]

Oh no, I just noticed the snow has started - thanks for the heads up TM. I too will be headed into it shortly.

Happy New Year everyone!

[narciso]

Happy New Year, TM, and in the JOM family

[peter]

Spitzer hypocrisy, h/t TigerHawk at LUN.

Happy New Year JOMers and Speedy Recovery, Rush.

[Thomas Collins]

Happy New Year to all! Drive carefully, TM.

My best wishes to Rush. IF any JOMer is in contact with Rush, please pass along word that he needs to take care of himself, because in January of 2012 we want to see him lighting it up on the dance floor of one of the Palin inaugural ballrooms!

[hit and run]

Happy New Year TM,

Happy New Year All.

Happy New Year Me,

And My New Beige-Painted Walls*.

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*HnR probably negotiated a better working environment.
Well,they are freshly painted.

[centralcal]

Happy New Year TM and all JOMers.

So glad you have nicely painted new walls Hit!

[NK]

Happy New Year to the clan TM, and all JOMers,

TM-- drive safely and enjoy the snow.

[Clarice]

Happy New Year TM,

Happy New Year All.

Please stay safe and sound and join us in the coming year.

[Jack is Back!]

Happy New Year All!

Go Bearcats!

[caro]

Happy New Year to TM and all of JOM. Be safe.

And to dear Rush,a quick and complete recovery.We need you now more than ever.

[BobS]

Safe and pleasant journey, TM. And thanks for everything you do. Happy New Year to all! May He care for you, Rush, in your time of healing.

[Danube of Thought]

Happy New Year to TM and all the JOM regulars.

Waiting for updates on Rush. The guy is really indispensable.

[Thomas Collins]

Make that January of 2013. In January of 2012, Rush will be reporting on Palin's treks through Iowa and New Hampshire.

[Sue]

http://spectator.org/archives/2009/12/31/the-politics-of-incompetence>The Politics of Incompetence.
White House aides, including chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, David Axelrod and new White House counsel Robert Bauer, ordered staff to begin researching similar breakdowns -- if any -- from the Bush Administration.

"The idea was that we'd show that the Bush Administration had had far worse missteps than we ever could," says a staffer in the counsel's office. "We were told that classified material involving anything related to al Qaeda operating in Yemen or Nigeria was fair game and that we'd declassify it if necessary."

Is your head exploding yet? We are screwed folks. Truly, truly screwed. When they are spending their time doing shit like this instead of looking for ways to keep us safe, I don't even know what to say. Except we are screwed.

[Sue]

Sorry, everything after the close quote is me ranting.

[centralcal]

Just disgusting, Sue. But, what else would we expect from this group? If 2009 has taught us anything at all, it is to expect the worst from them and, still, they will manage to exceed even that on every single front.

[Ignatz]

--Sorry, everything after the close quote is me ranting.--

We knew it was you Sue. Your rants are why we love you.

Here's to hoping 2010 is a better year than 2009.

[RichatUF]

Sue-

We are in the very best of hands.

Hell if the Obama Administration weren't so hot-and-bothered to close Gitmo (and having one of the lead attorneys of the effort as Attorney General) he could lay the whole thing at the foot of the Bush Administration's feet with their catch-and-release program.

I'd like to see less fingerpointing and more quiet professionalism.

[RichatUF]

And a Happy New Year to Tom and all of JOM.

[RichatUF]

Jack is Back-

Go Bearcats?

[Thomas Collins]

Cincinnati Bearcats, RichatUF. Jack is Back clearly is rooting for the University of Cincinnati in its college football Sugar Bowl battle with the University of Florida.

[Rick Ballard]

Best wishes to all JOMers for a healthy, prosperous and Happy New Year.

Have we had any news from Jim Rhodes about the newest JOMerette?

[Sue]

Thanks, Ignatz.

Someone over at HA in the comments section is wondering if this is satire.

[Ann]

Nice to see you back, Rich.

May God Bless and watch over us all in 2010.

Special prayers for RUSH and his family.

[Clarice]

Rick, I've seen nothing yet about the littest Rhode-y.

[Extraneus]

I heard Walter Williams talk about Rush's condition earlier. No new info, he said that cardiac issues haven't been confirmed and that Rush will be undergoing a battery of tests.

[glasater]

I'd like to see less fingerpointing and more quiet professionalism

Rich--like that's ever going to happen with this bozo crew....

Kudlow's thinking is that 2010 will be a year to take some opportunity in making some money in the markets before higher taxes kick in. And along with that is Mr Ballard's prediction that housing is some short supply.
So with those somewhat cheery thoughts I'm wishing TM, his family and all the JOM family a very happy and prosperous New Year in 2010 and also to gird our loins for November and the elections when the R's take back the House.

[Tom Bowler]

Happy New Year to all!

[narciso]

The alternative might very well have been John Edwards or Gregory Craig, which would have left us with much the same problem.
The Cairo declaration was the Carter Notre
Dame speech on steroids

[Danube of Thought]

Pleased to report a healthy minus 18 on today's Ras. Heckuva year, Barry.

[Danube of Thought]

And on a joyous holiday note, voters think this latest scumbag should be waterboarded by about two to one.

[Danube of Thought]

Hey Jane! It worked! Thanks a lot.

[Clarice]

Great news from Ras, DoT--
Hi, Tom B--Back at you!

[Extraneus]

That poll must just burn the left's butts. Sweet. Maybe Cheney will pile on with a call for enhanced interrogation.

[Porchlight]

Happy New Year, JOMers! May you all be blessed in the coming year. Selfishly, I must admit I do look forward to saying goodbye to 2009.

Prayers for a quick recovery for Rush. We need that guy.

[Ann]

Tops Tweet:
Oh man: CIA base chief was killed in suicide bomb attack yesterday. She was a mother of 3. CIA base chief killed in attack

And don't miss this:
Andy McCarthy

[Thomas Collins]

I vote against waterboarding. Let's try the rack for this guy and all other terrorists we catch.

[Semanticleo]

"We need that guy."

I too, wish for his speedy recovery. Although the chest pains present as cardiac. they must be phantom sensations. I need him back at the microphone. Limbaugh and Palin are essential to moving the needle in the correct direction.

[Ann]

Suggested New Years resolution for Obama - Go to OZ and pick up a brain, a heart and some courage.

LOL
h/t Stepahanie retweet

[Porchlight]

Limbaugh and Palin are essential to moving the needle in the correct direction.

I agree. Obama's numbers are steadily dropping, solid opposition to ObamaCare, Congressional numbers in the tank for months, majority of likely voters want pantybomber waterboarded, GOP leads on generic ballot, plurality of voters identify as conservative, Tea Partiers outpoll GOP and Dems. Keep moving that needle!

[pagar]

Anyone want to bet how many of the planners of the attack that killed the CIA people, had been previously held by the American military?
Many of our military and some members of the CIA give their lives and limbs to capture the enemy. The Obama administration releases them, apparently in some faint hope that it will make the enemy like us.
Even when we find that the release was by the Bush administration we learn that the associates of Eric Holder were apparently their

[narciso]

I wouldn't doubt it pagar,

[PD]

Looks like AT&T is the latest company to drop Tiger Woods.

[Joan]

A Happy and Prosperous 2010 to all JOMers.

[PD]

Judicial Watch's ten most corrupt politicians of 2009.

Surprisingly, the Republican party and its "culture of corruption" (in Pelosi's words) managed to field only one entry. Pelosi herself is #8.

[narciso]

So it turns that they missed the boat, with the fabulous Al Harbi brother, but Al Shehri
and Al Rubbaish are still on deck in the LUN

[Jack is Back!]

RichardUF,

When not a Bearcat I am a Gator just like you. The Swamp and I are old friends but I am an Alumni and ex-player at Cincinnati and we are really proud of the season they have had. If Gators win its not like I am going to be depressed for more than a few minutes. But if the Bearcats win then its pop the Billecart-Salmon and party like its 1965:)

[Jack is Back!]

Anyone want to bet how many of the planners of the attack that killed the CIA people, had been previously held by the American military?

Want to bet they have added that to their data mining list on the Bush administration. GM and Chrysler, now the motor vehicle division of the USA, use to try to win car sales by blaming the Japanese for using cheaper steel, cheaper labor, etc. Not for using better methods of manufacturing, logistics and QA/QC. The Obama Administration is the same way - lets govern by blaming Bush or using them as an excuse to deflect our own incompetency and degraded product we are trying to sell. The fact is that more and more Americans are learning that the Bush product wasn't that bad and didn't come with the mandatory "flying Dutchman" air bags.

[Clarice]

Maybe as the Administration has now clearly broken faith with the military and intel officers, it's time to start impeachment proceedings:

http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NmZjZmMyNmFmODU0ZGE5NjRlYTA4MzMzYmUwMzk2OGE>Impeach

[Sue]

This fool on tv just said that Obama being several time zones behind slowed down the process for him to respond. If that is the case, what the hell is he doing in Hawaii?

[Clarice]

What about that 3 a.m. phone call shtick during the campaign? Maybe they should just route the news directly from Asia to him.

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Snowstorm squelches climate change protest
By Judy Fahys

The Salt Lake Tribune

Updated: 12/30/2009 06:36:58 PM MST

A downtown protest of the climate change talks in Copenhagen became a victim of Wednesday's snowstorm.

"Not many people showed up because of the blizzard conditions," said organizer Clea Major, an international studies student at the University of Utah.

It didn't take long for the six friends to pack up a bullhorn and posters they'd planned to use for their "scream-in," an outlet for their frustration about the failure of the Copenhagen climate talks earlier this month to curb the pollution blamed for climate change.

Still, they chatted with a few passers-by during the commuter-hour protest near the Gateway, and explained that, blizzard aside, climate change is expected to bring chaos to the global climate, said Major.

She called Wednesday evening's effort a success and possibly the first in a series. As for the snow, it's not entirely new; a protest she attended last year in Washington, D.C., suffered a similar fate.

"There is always the irony element," Major said.

[Captain Hate]

Happy New Year to all the JOMers and TM; can't believe it's about to be 2010. Mrs H and I are going to a party with a New Awlins theme and I'm making jerk chicken.

Best wishes to Rush; although I've said some negative things about him before and I think some of the wailing for him over at AoS hits a bit too close to the cult-of-personality garbage that the left is more comfortable wallowing in, I sincerely wish for him to be well for many years.

[Jack is Back!]

This is the second time Rush has been in the direct vicinity of Obama during his term. Remember when The Once gathered a bunch of so-called conservatives for cocktails in Chevy Chase on the same day that Rush "was away from his program" and in DC for some hastily called event? Now he is in Hawaii at the same time as The Once's vacation. I do not believe in coincidence - both are avid golfers and Rush had just played Wailea Country Club and so has The Once. I wonder if some how The Once rolled in a fifty footer to win a double-pressed $50 nassau? That would give me more than chest pains but then I don't have Rush's werewithall.

[Sue]

JiB,

You are almost as bad as I am with conspiracies. ::grin::

[narciso]

Well Rush is one of a kind, there have been many immitators, but few that being able to copy the combination of polemic and humor. Beck is too dour, O'Reilly too clueless, Hannity too unsubtle

[Sue]

Hannity would come close if he had Rush's brain. He doesn't think on his feet and has a set of talking points that he repeats, over and over.

[Extraneus]

And Levin is a bit brutal.

[narciso]

I was trying to be charitable, except for O'Reilly

[Sue]

I love Levin. In fact, I like him better than Rush. He is an acquired taste, I guess. The man is brilliant.

[Captain Hate]

I love Levin. In fact, I like him better than Rush. He is an acquired taste, I guess. The man is brilliant.

I pretty much agree with this because I find his radio personality very enjoyable. The only problem I had with him was reading his book about his dog Sprite; early on in it he described how he yelled at a person that hit a dog (maybe it was Sprite because I just stopped reading it after the vignette) and came back to offer help. Even though I'm a dog lover I know how some dogs can be regarding cars and wouldn't be quick to denounce somebody automatically, particularly if his conscience led him to return to help out.

[Clarice]

Rush is good because he works hard at it, has a good sense of things and is good natured and funny.
He distills far more complicated bits of information into memorably presented tidbits busy people can grasp as they ride about doing their work. And that sounds much easier to do than it is.

[Elliott]

Happy new year Jomsters. I look forward to another great year in your company.

[Clarice]

The same to you, Elliott..XOXOXO

[Jack is Back!]

AG of South Carolina and 12 other AG's from other states are going to sue regarding the Nebraska bribe. Priceless. He's on Cavuto now. Article 10 is the sexy new political card.

[centralcal]

Sue - I have never heard Mark Levin's radio show. I agree with your comments about Hannity, (I hear snippets of his show on my afternoon bank/post office run).

However, Rush is the one that absolutely drives the left bat shit crazy and often makes them look complete fools in the process. A very uniquely talented guy! lol.

[Soylent Red]

A happy and prosperous New Year to all my friends at JOM. I predict good things for the upcoming year.

From the files of "More Headlines Obama Doesn't Want" I give you:

Former Gitmo Detainees Help Al-Qaida grow in Yemen

Finally, do any of you know where I can put my hands on a set of the locking hangers that go with a B4-B two suiter bag? Got a nifty almost new one from dear old dad, but it only had one hanger.

[mockmook]

He distills far more complicated bits of information into memorably presented tidbits busy people can grasp as they ride about doing their work. And that sounds much easier to do than it is.

I love "The Four Corners of Deceit: government, academia, science, and media".

Of course they swim in the "Universe of Lies".

Heh.

[Clarice]

It's a classic, Soylent. Army surplus in Omaha has one but it has NO hangers. EBay has nada. Try some USAF retiree page and see if anyone has one in his closet.

[Elliott]

Got a nifty almost new one from dear old dad

Very nice, Soylent. A really good suit is a delightful thing.

[Clarice]

Another case of DoJ prosecutorial misconduct--Judge Urbina tosses blackwater guard case for prosecutorial misconduct.

http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_14102066

"U.S. District Judge Ricardo Urbina said Justice Department prosecutors improperly built their case on sworn statements that had been given under a promise of immunity. Urbina said the government's explanations were "contradictory, unbelievable and lacking in credibility."

[caro]

Heh, Clarice, I saw my first Impeach Obama bumper sticker here in Park City a couple of days ago. And this is a place where I never saw even one McCain sign last fall.

[Gmax]

lacking in credibility

I believe that is stamped on the back of the entire political appointee contingent in this Justice Dept. Its a feature not a bug or something...

[Captain Hate]

"contradictory, unbelievable and lacking in credibility."

I can't imagine a better description of Holder.

[glasater]

The Once rolled in a fifty footer to win a double-pressed $50 nassau?

Heh JIB....In Zero's dreams......:-)

[Rick Ballard]

I just took a look at the Senate calendar - is it normal for the Buffoon Troop to stay away from the Capitol Zoo as late as January 19th (aside from a proforma 1/5 no business session)? Has anyone seen a proposed date for the SOTU or is it 'pending' the completion of programming TOTUS for the new year?

[PaulL]

From Clarice's link:

The five guards had been charged with manslaughter and weapons charges. The charges carried mandatory 30-year prison terms.

It was unclear what the ruling means for a sixth Blackwater guard, Jeremy Ridgeway, who turned on his former colleagues and pleaded guilty to killing one Iraqi and wounding another.

[Clarice]

No set date for it yet--just mid-January. Maybe he'll mail it in as he sails around the world again to bow to some other Asian king.

[jimmyk]

And so it begins:

Mayo Clinic in Arizona to Stop Treating Some Medicare Patients

The Mayo Clinic, praised by President Barack Obama as a national model for efficient health care, will stop accepting Medicare patients as of tomorrow at one of its primary-care clinics in Arizona, saying the U.S. government pays too little.

Happy New Year!
(Not meant ironically given the above article.)

[Clarice]

In the Blackwater case, the guards talked to DoS officials under a grant of immunity and the DoJ bastards lied to use that evidence anyway, per J. Urbina.

Let that be a lesson.

I cannot imagine 4 or 5 decades ago anyone at DoJ would have even tried to pull such a stunt.

[mockmook]

No set date for it yet--just mid-January. Maybe he'll mail it in as he sails around the world again to bow to some other Asian king.

Posted by: Clarice | December 31, 2009 at 05:14 PM

Yeah, like he would ever pass up face time in prime time...

[DrJ]

Best wishes for a happy and prosperous New Year to all!

[peter]

Some top ten lists on the blog of my good friend, Jim O'Sullivan (LUN)

[Extraneus]

In case anyone hasn't read the account of Kurt Haskell, an eye-witness attorney who was on Flight 253, regarding the second man, and possible accomplice of the panty-bomber, in addition to passport irregularities of the bomber himself.

Flight 253 passenger Kurt Haskell: 'I was visited by the FBI'

Is there a cover-up being attempted here? Seems so, since Haskell seems credible. And if there is a cover-up, who is perpetrating it?

[Clarice]

At first I thought he was mistaken; then I thought the FBI ws trying to keep co-conspirators from finding out too much of what we know. Now I think Haskell's right and our FBI in peace and war is up to no good.

[GreyWolf]

Good God! I read where democrats were wishing death on Rush. What's become of America that we now have corrupt/career politicians and no longer any statesmen.

If you want a great book to read, about 2010, then I recommend you read about a small town in America that stands up to federal tyranny & ends up to starting the 2nd American Revolution.

Maybe, history is now calling on each of us to find our destiny & leave our legacy. It's that powerful of book. A must read.
www.booksbyoliver.com

[PD]

I can't imagine a better description of Holder.

Oh, I can.

[Extraneus]

So the TSA strong-arms a blogger for posting the notice after it was already read by thousands of people, and passengers had already experienced the new security joke, and then confiscates his laptop, and copies his hard drive. (Did he get bad advice from his lawyer or what?)

Then the FBI changes their story three times regarding a possible second man, the passport check of the first man, and whether there was another bomb in a carry-on, which they allowed to sit with all the passengers still at risk for an hour after the flight landed?

Meanwhile Rahm and Axelrod comb the national security database to find lapses or breaches that may have occurred during the Bush administration, so they can use any findings to defend against accusations of incompetence regarding the panty-bomber?

Politics will kill people yet again.

[Soylent Red]

Oh, I can.

Does the word end in "hole"?

[Captain Hate]

Oh, I can.

I regretted typing that as soon as I hit "Post"

[PD]

Soylent,

You'll notice that I didn't actually include the description.

[jimmyk]

Good God! I read where democrats were wishing death on Rush.

Yes, and justifying it with the false claim that Republicans were praying for Robert Byrd's death.

This game has become very common lately, aided and abetted by the so-called media: Every time Obama does something boneheaded, invent something similar done by a Republican.

[Extraneus]

Wasn't Rush speculating that the reason Dems were in such a hurry to pass the health care bill in the Senate was their morbid worry that Byrd might kick the bucket before they had the chance? Projection yet again.

[Gmax]

SO see if you sleep good this evening, dateline is Houston and today:

http://www.click2houston.com/news/22097824/detail.html> NO TERRORIST CONNECTION ? BESIDES THE TANK WEAPON AND THE JIHADI WRITINGS YOU MEAN? WHAT KIND OF CONNECTION WOULD BE CONVINCING?

[Extraneus]

This should sting.

Mayo Clinic in Arizona to Stop Treating Some Medicare Patients

Dec. 31 (Bloomberg) -- The Mayo Clinic, praised by President Barack Obama as a national model for efficient health care, will stop accepting Medicare patients as of tomorrow at one of its primary-care clinics in Arizona, saying the U.S. government pays too little.

[Gmax]

Houston police said they did a thorough investigation and did not find any ties to terrorists or a terrorist network.

Is the system still "working as intended"? Is this guy being strapped to the waterboard as I type, if not the entire HSA leadership should resign.

[glasater]

I will never understand how the 253 terrorist got the seat assignment so critical to his purposes to blow up the aircraft.

[Rick Ballard]

The way I see it, Glasater, is:

Demonstrate penetration of US Armed Forces (Ft. Hood).

Survive US Predator counter attack.(penetration/forewarning?)

Clearly demonstrate totally abysmal state of US preparedness by having jihadi toast privates with purposely faulty detonator on top of functional? PETN charge.

Step four is "Giggle wildly at American refusal to profile muslims as a matter of course."

BTW - I don't hold Napolitano responsible - she's just another lefty drone in an maladministration chock full of incompetents elevated far beyond their capabilities. The responsibility for this idiocy lies with the career fools at State and DoJ who are going to fumble us into another 'bad moment' shortly.

[narciso]

Yes they don't inspire confidence, do they Rick, I mean the Ft. Hood shooting, should have added more urgency more demand for information, yet it induced the opposite.