Report: Lovitz Put Career in Jeopardy by Critiquing Obama

The Left routinely regales us of the horrors of the Blacklist, the time in history when speaking your mind politically could prevent you from working in the entertainment industry, or even spell jail time.

Yet there's little outrage when conservative entertainers share stories of losing gigs for not publicly declaring their allegiance to the Democratic party.
The latest tale involves comedian Jon Lovitz, the "Saturday Night Live" alum who publicly blasted President Barack Obama's policies. The move granted Lovitz a maelstrom of press - and a higher profile in an industry that often turns on exposure.
But BuzzFeed reports Lovitz's pals were worried about the fallout from his unexpurgated comments.

Lovitz’s friends had warned him to dial it back, worried that trashing a Democratic president could hurt his career. But Obama’s popularity had tanked so far down among the glitterati, he was unconcerned. “He is a f***ing asshole,” Lovitz told me, before heading onto the CNN set for his interview.

So, if Obama's poll numbers were higher Lovitz might find it hard to get a new gig? Can we expect any outrage about this? Likely not.
Big Hollywood

The Chuck Norris Bridge

Against all reason, “Chuck Norris” is the top contender for the name of a new pedestrian and cycling bridge connecting Slovakia to the neighboring country of Austria.
The Slovakian public has been granted the opportunity to vote for potential monikers for the bridge, which will span the Morava River from just north of the capital city, Bratislava, to the Austrian village of Schlosshof. The perhaps more logical but certainly less exciting runners-up include Maria Theresa, after an Austro-Hungarian empress, and Devinska, in honor of a nearby village, Reuters reports.

The final decision will be in the hands of a regional assembly. But according to a regional governor, Pavol Freso, lawmakers will adhere to the people’s wishes as indicated in the online ballot.
Chuck Norris is an American martial artist-turned-actor whose moves inspired the Internet phenomenon of Chuck Norris facts. He’s become a hyperbolic icon of infallibility, a reputation which seems to have traveled to Slovakia. Norris is also known for his starring role on the television series Walker, Texas Ranger, a crime drama that ran for eight seasons.
As of Thursday, Chuck Norris Bridge received 1,157 votes — 74 percent of the total. The runner-up, Maria Theresa Bridge, has been roundhouse kicked to second place, with a scant eight percent of the total votes. If come April the bridge is indeed dubbed Chuck Norris, the legend himself won’t even need it, because as they say, Jesus walks on water, but Chuck Norris steps over oceans.

The Homeland Security Snow-Cone Machine - Fighting Terrorism In Michigan

Every time you think "homeland security" can't get more ridiculous, it gets more ridiculous.
There have been plenty of examples already showing that large amounts of your tax money supposedly earmarked for the "War on Terror" end up getting used for purposes that are, shall we say, less than mission-critical. Back in 2006, we learned that $25 million in homeland-security money had been handed out in just one grant program with no controls at all, which resulted in $77,000 going to local fire departments to fund "puppet and clown shows," and another $22,000 for an "educational robot." An Indiana county got in trouble for using its $300,000 Electronic Emergency Message Boards, intended to notify the public about things like evacuation routes, to advertise the volunteer fire department's charity fish fry. This is just the local stuff, not counting the umpteen billions spent on naked scanners that don't do any good.
Also, the war in Iraq.
Still, it is something special when a homeland-security grant is used to buy a snow-cone machine.

This'll refresh those terrorist bastards.
(Picture: Daily News/Elisabeth Waldon)

Actually, thirteen snow-cone machines, one for every county in Michigan Homeland Security Region 6. Region 6, as you almost certainly don't know, covers 13 counties in western Michigan including Clare, Isabella, Montcalm, Muskegon, Newaygo, and other areas also near the very top of al-Qaeda's hit list. According to the Greenville Daily News, the Board of Commissioners in Montcalm noted that they had been presented with a snow-cone machine, and while they probably appreciated this unexpected gift, they did inquire as to whether the $900 treat-maker was an appropriate use of homeland-security dollars. (Apparently, another county - anonymous for now - requested the machine, and somebody thought that was such a good idea that all 13 counties got one.)
The Daily News was able to confirm that the the snow-cone machines were funded by a grant from the Michigan Homeland Security Program, but nobody seems to have had a good answer for the "appropriate use" question, surprisingly enough. Two ways to go in that situation: (1) admit it was a mistake or a bad decision, and fix it; or (2) insist that yes, there is an entirely valid purpose for incorporating an Arctic Blast Sno-Cone machine into your anti-terrorism plan.

“It is used to attract people so they can be educated and prepared for homeland security,” [Sandeep] Dey said from his office in Muskegon. “More importantly, they (homeland security officials) felt in a medical emergency the machine was capable of making ice packs which could be used for medical purposes.”

You didn't really think anybody would pick Option One, did you?
Dey is the executive director of the West Michigan Shoreline Regional Development Commission, which oddly is in charge of Homeland Security Region 6. He did not dream up these explanations just now, though, because they are the same ones contained in the state grant program's "Allowable Cost Justification" form that was filed back in May. According to the Daily News, that document (which sadly was not available online) says the machines would be used to "make ice to prevent heat-related illnesses during emergencies, treat injuries and provide snow cones as an outreach at promotional events."
The director did try to do a little damage control, apparently feeling a little heat-related stress himself at that point. "He said the ... request would not have been granted by itself, but was approved because it came with other homeland security equipment." I'm not sure what that means. Maybe with every dozen radiation detectors you buy, they throw in a free snow-cone machine? Dey also contended, evidently, that they are budget-conscious and making the hard choices, saying that "one county requested a popcorn machine, but that request was denied." Because that would just be ridiculous.
"I don't like the term 'snow-cone machine,' because it sounds horrible," said Montcalm County Emergency Services Director David Feldpausch about the term that appears right on the side of the machine. "When you look at it as an ice-shaving machine and its purpose, it makes a little more sense." With Option Two thus in full effect, Feldpausch had one more argument. According to the report, "Feldpausch [also] said the machine could be useful at the scene of a large fire."
To be fair, I don't think he meant to be taken literally there. Obviously you'd have to combine the full power of all 13 Arctic Blast Ice-Shaving Anti-Terror Machines to deal with a really large fire. The good news is that Region 6 is now equipped to handle that. And terrorism.
loweringthebar.net

James Bond Speaks out On The Kardashian Madness

Daniel Craig, the current James Bond in the January issue of the British edition of GQ, regards it as something like rubbish.
"We've been in your living room," he says of the Kardashians' recent pleas for a little privacy. "We were at your birth. You filmed it for us and showed us the placenta and now you want some privacy?" Craig says the Kardashian clan has sent a message to the world that it's OK to behave like an "idiot" on television when you're getting paid millions.
Yes! Nothing like Bond getting all  007 on them.

ChiSox Ozzie Guillen on Sean Penn: ‘He’s a Loser’

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Dog tucks itself in - I Wish This Was My Dog

22 words

Don't Mess With The Cat - Bird Picks On Wrong Cat And Learns Fatal lesson

The Tragedy of Untapped Riches

Kent Hughes relates a story:

Mrs. Bertha Adams was 71 years old when she died alone in West Palm Beach, Florida on Easter Sunday 1976.

The coroner’s report read, 'Cause of Death . . . malnutrition.' After wasting away to fifty pounds she could no longer stay alive.

When the state authorities made their preliminary investigation of her home, they found a veritable 'pigpen . . . the biggest mess you can imagine.' One seasoned inspector declared he had never seen a dwelling in greater disarray. Bertha had begged food at her neighbors' doors and had gotten what clothes she had from the Salvation Army. From all appearances she was a penniless recluse--a pitiful and forgotten widow.

But such was not the case! Amid the jumble of her filthy, disheveled belongings were found two keys to safe-deposit boxes at two different local banks. The discovery was unbelievable. The first box contained over 700 AT&T stock certificates, plus hundreds of other valuable notes, bonds, and solid financial securities, not to mention cash amounting to $200,000. The second box had no certificates, just cash--$600,000 to be exact.

Bertha Adams was a millionaire and then some!

Yet she died of starvation.

--Hughes, Sermon on the Mount, p. 205

'. . . in every way you were enriched in him . . .' --1 Corinthians 1:5
Dane Ortlund

WWJWMTD?

In 1896 a Christian socialist named Charles Sheldon wrote a book called In His Steps which popularized the slogan “What Would Jesus Do” and inspired two of the most well-intentioned but misguided fads of the twentieth century: the Social Gospel movement and the marketing of WWJD paraphernalia. The problem with both is that they are based on WWJD and that is the wrong question.

The gospels provide us with a clear record of what Jesus did—healed the sick, preached, traveled, made disciples. While we may also be expected to do these types of things, they were essential to Christ’s earthly mission. If he were walking the streets of America he would likely still be doing the same thing. But is this what we should be doing? Not necessarily. We are not Jesus; we are his disciples. Our mission is not his mission but the mission he assigns us. The question we should keep constantly before us is “What Would Jesus Want Me To Do?” But then WWJWMTD isn’t as easy to embroider on a bracelet or fit on a bumper sticker.
First Things 

Charlie Sheen v Muammar Gaddafi: whose line is it anyway?

This is fun. It’s a quiz that asks you to figure out who said some pretty crazy lines. “The US actor and the Libyan leader have produced some choice lines recently. Can you distinguish between them?” Go here to take quiz:
Sheen vs Gaddafi

guardian.uk

Benny Hinn Sued by Strang Co.

The lawsuit cites Hinn's 'inappropriate relationship' with Paula White.

Sarah Pulliam Bailey

Televangelist Benny Hinn is being sued by Strang Communications, a publishing company that alleges that Hinn violated a morality clause in their contract when he began an "inappropriate relationship" with Without Walls pastor Paula White.
In August, The National Enquirer published photos of Hinn and White holding hands in Rome. Hinn was married to Suzanne Hinn at the time. His wife had filed for divorce in February 2010.
"I will not deny that the friendship has strengthened, and, while it has remained morally pure at all times, I have enjoyed the company of someone who has also gone through the trauma of a painful and public divorce," Hinn said in a statement at the time.
Hinn acknowledged to his publisher "his inappropriate relationship" with White in August, the suit, obtained by the Orlando Sentinel, says. Strang Co. (now known as Charisma Media) says that it should receive $250,000 of unrecouped royalties but Hinn has refused to pay the amount.
Hinn had signed a three-book deal and was paid a $300,000 advance for Blood in the Sand (2009). The suit includes a letter where Strang said Hinn violated the contract by failing to work hard enough to market the book, according to the Sentinel.
He failed to make television appearances to promote it, including several on 700 Club, the television show that Pat Robertson founded.
Paula White and her husband divorced in 2007, and she left Without Walls, returning in 2009 after her husband announced his departure due to poor health. White also described the National Enquirer piece as false.
"We were never alone and were in the constant company of staff and other associates, " she said in a statement at the time. "I value my friendship with Pastor Benny and remain supportive with a deep respect of him, his family and his ministry. My relationship with Pastor Benny is genuine and pure and should not be taken out of context."
Hinn and White were cited in Sen. Chuck Grassley's investigation of televangelists, which recently concluded.
Christianity Today

“Things That Seem Insane That Used To Be ‘Normal.’”

Jim Rome on the losers who have never missed a Super Bowl

I was going to write something about these four losers who never missed a super bowl game but Jim Rome beat me to it on his radio show. These 4 men are misguided individuals for are living for a worthless dream. Your children, wife , family could care less if you make every super bowl, what they want is you, your presence. This is both funny and sad but worth a listen

Talking with a Liberal about Politics

A conservative encounters an elitist liberal. A pleasant conversation ensues. This is that conversation.

Missing: The Gulf oil slick

The oil slick that was supposed to devastate lives and livelihoods in the Gulf of Mexico region is starting to disappear. The New York Times reports that the once massive spill has all but vanished from the surface waters in the Gulf.

As it turns out, the Gulf of Mexico is amazingly adept at dealing with oil spills.

Naturally occurring leaks have given rise to oil-eating bacteria. Storms also have helped dissipate the oil. And while the jury is still out on the damage from oil that has already washed ashore, and on the impact of chemical dispersants that were used during the cleanup, there's reason to be optimistic that the long-term ill effects will be minimal.

But the news is being met with some chagrin and stubborn skepticism. Environmental activists are reluctant to lose the spill as a tool to force a radical anti-oil agenda on America. And fisherman and other businesses in the region worry the subsidies promised by the government and BP LLC will dry up.

They shouldn't worry. The Obama administration is showing no signs of backing off its oil drilling moratorium or its carbon cap and trade push. It can't afford to acknowledge that the environmental threat from the spill is less than predicted or it loses that wedge. So it can't cut off the subsidies, either.

All's good for everyone who hoped to leverage the spill to their own advantage.

From The Detroit News: http://apps.detnews.com/apps/blogs/nolanfinleyblog/index.php#ixzz0ylje3VvA

The irony of Jesse Jackson's stripped SUV - A Fitting Metaphor

Henry Payne / The Michigan View.com

Add Jesse Jackson’s ride to prominent vehicles being stripped in Detroit.
Following the embarrassing news that Mayor Dave Bing’s GMC Yukon was hijacked by criminals this week, Detroit’s Channel 7 reports that the Reverend’s Caddy Escalade SUV was stolen and stripped of its wheels while he was in town last weekend with the UAW’s militant President Bob King leading the “Jobs, Justice, and Peace” march promoting government-funded green jobs.
Add Jesse to the Al Gore-Tom Friedman-Barack Obama School of Environmental Hypocrisy. While preaching to Americans that they need to cram their families into hybrid Priuses to go shopping for compact fluorescent light bulbs to save the planet, they themselves continue to live large.
“We need an economy that creates employment that can't be shipped overseas,” the Green Rev wrote for CNN about the march. “Home-grown American labor will be installing windmills and solar panels. A green economy is not an abstract concept.”
Well, its certainly abstract to Jesse, but I digress.
“Even now, the only sector of the economy that has seen job growth during the recession is the green job sector. Time is of the essence.”
Actually, time long ago passed Detroit by because Jesse’ favored government mpg mandates and UAW wages stripped the Big Three’s ability to compete against non-union transplants. These jobs were real – unlike the artificial, government subsidized green jobs he shakes down the feds for today.
Real jobs produced big, profitable SUVs like the one Jesse prefers to ride in. His SUV has been stripped by thugs – a fitting metaphor for what Jesse and his pals have done to the auto industry for the last 35 years.

This is the Best They've Got?

Stephen Hawking says there probably are aliens out there. But in a new documentary series with the Discovery Channel, the acclaimed physicist says we probably shouldn't be beaming radio waves into the universe in hope of making contact. After all, we're just as likely to make contact with a superior alien race that will mine our planet for water and minerals and leave us to die as we are to find an alien race that wants to be friends and learn the Macarena. "Such advanced aliens would perhaps become nomads looking to conquer and colonize whatever planets they could reach," the 68-year mused. "If so, it makes sense for them to exploit each new planet for materials to build more spaceships so they could move on."

In the movie "Expelled" with Ben Stein, Mr Stein interviewed Richard Dawkins another intellectual atheist like Hawking. Stein kept questioning Dawkins about the origin of life, what happened, where did we come from. Clearly annoyed, Dawkins replied "our planet was probably seeded by aliens."

Here are two brilliant  intellectual men and the best they've got is aliens. They mock intelligent design, Christianity and Judaism, but have no problems with giving credit to aliens.

"For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them....For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking and their foolish hearts were darkened. Claiming to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for"....Aliens.    Romans 1:19,21-23a

Scientifically, nothing should exist

I hadn’t realized that science, despite all of the claims that it has all the answers, remains stuck at a very basic conundrum:

Physicists at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory are reporting that they have discovered a new clue that could help unravel one of the biggest mysteries of cosmology: why the universe is composed of matter and not its evil-twin opposite, antimatter. If confirmed, the finding portends fundamental discoveries at the new Large Hadron Collider outside Geneva, as well as a possible explanation for our own existence.
In a mathematically perfect universe, we would be less than dead; we would never have existed. According to the basic precepts of Einsteinian relativity and quantum mechanics, equal amounts of matter and antimatter should have been created in the Big Bang and then immediately annihilated each other in a blaze of lethal energy, leaving a big fat goose egg with which to make to make stars, galaxies and us. And yet we exist, and physicists (among others) would dearly like to know why.
Sifting data from collisions of protons and antiprotons at Fermilab’s Tevatron, which until last winter was the most powerful particle accelerator in the world, the team, known as the DZero collaboration, found that the fireballs produced pairs of the particles known as muons, which are sort of fat electrons, slightly more often than they produced pairs of anti-muons. So the miniature universe inside the accelerator went from being neutral to being about 1 percent more matter than antimatter.
“This result may provide an important input for explaining the matter dominance in our universe,” Guennadi Borissov, a co-leader of the study from Lancaster University, in England, said in a talk Friday at Fermilab, in Batavia, Ill. Over the weekend, word spread quickly among physicists. Maria Spiropulu of CERN and the California Institute of Technology called the results “very impressive and inexplicable.”

via From Fermilab, a New Clue to Explain Human Existence? – NYTimes.com.
So it isn’t just that science can’t explain the fine-tuning that makes life on earth possible.  Nor is it that science can’t explain why anything exists.  According to its own theories, nothing CAN exist.
The particle accelerators are making progress, I suppose, finding that matter beats out anti-matter 1% of the time.  But even that means that the standard theory of physics is incorrect.  And a better theory and better evidence still leaves a long ways to go to account for ordinary existence, its structures and its forms, much less life, and much less human life.
Gene Veith

Carole King's cause

Album shows the mind behind the friend of a murderous regime | Arsenio Orteza
 
The April release of The Essential Carole King (Ode/Epic/Legacy)—a two-disc set supplanting 1978's Her Greatest Hits: Songs of Long Ago and the four compilations that have followed in its wake—will inspire head scratching from anyone familiar with Carole King's left-wing activism.
By "activism" one doesn't mean her support for the Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act, a woman's "right" to taxpayer-funded abortion on demand, or for Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign. Celebrity liberals can campaign for such causes in their sleep.
In the case of Carole King, whose 1971 album Tapestry was diamond certified in 1995 to commemorate its 10-millionth sale but, curiously, hasn't sold another million since, activism means her visit to Cuba in 2002 as part of a goodwill delegation, a visit King capped by performing her classic "You've Got a Friend" (track six on The Essential Carole King), hermana a hermano, for Fidel Castro himself.
"The news that King traveled to Havana and serenaded Fidel Castro with 'You've Got a Friend,'" wrote Ninoska Pérez Castellón at the time, "is painful, to say the least."
To say the most, the news was proof that Castro's nearly half-century of brutal tyranny was more acceptable to King than the constitutionally rooted conservatism that she opposed in the United States. Somehow Proverbs 26:6—"He that sendeth a message by the hand of a fool cutteth off the feet, and drinketh damage"—came to mind.
In its March 2005 "Update on Non-Combat Victims of the Castro Regime," the Truth Recovery Archive on Cuba calculated that the number of firing-squad executions, extra-judicial assassinations, deaths (of political prisoners) in prisons, and Castro opponents who had "disappeared" or were "missing" came to 8,386.
World magazine 

Carole King just another liberal leftist who has reaped the benefits of being born in America and has prospered and enjoys freedom of speech, something she wouldn't have if she lived in Cuba, once again proves that being gifted doesn't make you smart or intelligent. I think Proverbs gets it right, she is a fool.    This article is another reason you need to subscribe to World.

Another Great Moment in Ethics

In our continuing coverage of people not likely to be invited to a college campus to speak on ethics, we are thrilled to report that the former Illinois governor Rod R. Blagojevich will speak on Tuesday at Northwestern University. The event is titled "Ethics in Politics: An evening with Former Governor Rod Blagojevich."
Mr. Blagojevich, you might recall, awaits trial on federal corruption charges for his role in trying to profit from his power to appoint a successor to the U.S. Senate seat vacated by Barack Obama. He was removed from office last year.
The College Democrats are sponsoring his visit. —Don Troop
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