About a month ago, a statue of the Bronco Bomber as a 10-year-old boy, with a butterfly resting on his hand (Aww, ain’t that cute?), was unveiled in Menteng Park in Jakarta, Indonesia. You see, for four years, beginning in 1967, the Boy Wonder lived in Indonesia with his mom and her second husband. The statue was erected by “his relatives and friends.”

Now over 55,000 Indonesians have signed an online petition to scrap the statue.

“Obama only ate and [pooped*] in Menteng.”

“Barack Obama has yet to make a significant contribution to the Indonesian nation.”

[* The didn’t say “pooped” but you get the idea.]

Hey, Indonesia. Don’t feel so bad. He has yet to made a significant contribution to the well being of the U.S. either.

Read the whole story here: Clicky clicky.

OK. I’m calm. I’m cool. I’m collected. It’s very unusual for me to really lose my cool. But today, on the way to work, I really really did.

No, I did not succumb road rage. I wasn’t sent over the edge by some rude, selfish or careless driver. No, it was the Bronco Bomber.

I was listening to the news on the radio when I heard this quote from our president:

“Bin Laden sending out a tape trying to take credit for a Nigerian student who engaged in a failed bombing attempt is an indication of how weakened he is because this is not something necessarily directed by him.”

ARE YOU FREAKING KIDDING ME??!! This is exactly the kind of pants-on-head, window-licking idiocy that makes insurgency so successful. How unbelievably naive do you have be to say something so incredibly dumb. Seriously, Mr. Bomber. Who, in Alah’s name, do you think provided this “student” with military grade explosives, training on how to detonate the bomb, and thousands of dollars in cash to buy the plane ticket??!! Oh, yeah. That’s right. YOU ALREADY ADMITTED IT WAS AL-QAEDA!!

Breathe, Trint. Breathe. I’m calm. I’m cool.

I think I would be a little less put out if it weren’t for the fact that Bronco really isn’t that dumb. He just thinks that one else is! How else could he say this after he called the Fruit-of-the-Boom bomber “a member of al-Qaeda” after he called him an “isolated extremist“.

Dear Mr. President,

I do have access to the internet. I can, in two minutes, find references to your previous statements. Even if I could not, I do have the capacity to remember what you said two weeks ago. I am not an idiot. Please stop pretending that I am. You may be able to lie straight faced to Diane Sawyer’s doe-eyed allegiance, but you can’t lie to the American people.

Thanks,
Trint

P.S. I’m calm. I’m cool. I’m collected.

Another follow-up post. Yeah, I know. Sorry.

This is a follow-up to my post about putting terrorists into the criminal court system which which some of my readers (*cough*TheDave*cough*) took umbrage.

We now have material evidence to show us all what happens when you put highly intelligent, well trained, militant minded terrorists in a U.S. court room. Please follow the link to read the low-lights from the trial of Aafia Siddiqui, an M.I.T. educated, Pakistani microbiologist and Al-Qaeda terrorist who, after captured, tried to shoot an American soldier with his own weapon.

Clicky clicky.

Of course, by “worms” I mean “(big “L”) Liberal democrats in the White House and Congress” and by “turned” I mean “developed complete amnesia over the last 48 hours and expect all the world to see them as rosy cheeked, bi-partisan, can’t-we-all-just-get-along centrists, forgetting the last 12 months of extreme, leftist, socialist, bare-knuckled bullying.”

After months and months of wrangling, strong-arming, and flat out bribing members of their own party to vote in favor of what I will hear-to-after refer to as OPRAH (Obama-Pelosi-Reid Abomination of Healthcare), the tone has suddenly and dramatically changed.

Exhibit A:

From Monday, January 18th…

House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, told reporters in California Monday that the legislation would move forward not matter what.

“Let’s remove all doubt,” Ms. Pelosi said. “We will have health care one way or another. … Certainly the dynamic will change depending on what happens in Massachusetts,” Ms. Pelosi said. “Just the question of how we would proceed. But it doesn’t mean we won’t have a health care bill.”

From Wednesday, January 20th…

Abandoning the health care overhaul is not an option, a senior White House official said. Questioned about the fate of health care legislation, David Axelrod said, “It’s not an option simply to walk away from a problem that’s only going to get worse.”

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi refused to acknowledge [compromise or abandonment] as a possibility.  “Massachusetts has health care. … The rest of the country would like to have that too,” Pelosi, D-Calif., said. “So we don’t say a state that already has health care should determine whether the rest of the country should. We will get the job done. I’m very confident. I’ve always been confident,” she added.

And now, Exhibit B:

From today, Thursday, January 21st…

“There are certain things the members simply cannot support,” Pelosi said. She cited the tax on so-called “Cadillac” insurance plans, and the special perks for Nebraska as major grievances. “I don’t think it’s possible to pass the Senate bill in the House,” Pelosi said. “I don’t see the votes for it at this time.”

George Stephanopoulos’ Exclusive Interview with President Obama, release this morning (abridged)…

Obama: I would advise that we try to move quickly to coalesce around those elements of the package that people agree on. [ed. “Those elements” do not exist.]

Stephanopoulos: So start again with a smaller core package?

Obama: Well, look, I’m not going to get into the legislative strategy. [ed. This is an important non-denial. He’s washing his hands, yet again, of the dirty work.]

The Scott Brown election has shifted the Democratic machine into full reverse. Check out this quote from staunch Liberal whacko John Kerry welcoming his new colleague to the Hill.

“You have to work across the aisle here to make things happen,” said Kerry. “There have got to be some basic things here that we can all agree on.”

For the last 50 years or so, the only thing any Massachusetts senator has ever done “across the aisle” is throw rocks and daggers.

Remember this, children. Don’t forget. Burn it into your memory. When Liberals got full control of the White House and both houses of Congress, that ran, nay, sprinted as far left as fast as they could. So far, in fact, that many of their own ranks were scared out of voting with them because they knew that their constituents would run them out of town an a rail come election day.

There was no bipartisanship. There was no transparency. There was no compromise. It was balls-to-the-wall socialism and God have mercy on any soul that dared stand in their way. These people have a one track mind and that track is to collect as much power as possible as quickly as possible. You will see over the next 10 months, and, if we’re lucky, the next decade these same people wringing their hands and wailing over how we all must learn to work together and compromise and get along.

IT… IS… AN… ACT! It’s a mask. The man has gone back behind the curtain and fully expects us to believe in Oz again. DON’T FOLLOW ALONG!! Get these people out of our government as fast as you can.

We must remember this day each and every time we step up to an election booth and never let this happen again.

It seems like every day I see another nail added to the global warming coffin. This one was particularly good. Good enough to be blog-worthy.

The Un scientific panel for global warming proselytation, known as the IPCC, will very likely be forced to retract a warning that the Himalayas will be ice free by 2035.

The official Un report was based on a single scientific article published ten years ago which was, in turn, based on a single telephone interview with an Indian scientist who, in turn, based his information on an unpublished and unreviewed report, which, as it turns out, did not mention any specific date for the Himalayan glaciers to melt. That same Indian scientist now admits that the data from his interview was “speculation” and was not supported by any formal research.

Good job, Un. With this kind of rigorous scientific investigation, you’re doing the skeptics job for them. Keep up the good work!

Clicky clicky for the Times (UK) article.