Noted liberal TV personality and advocate of perkiness, Katie Couric, faces a massive pay cut while her network lays off over a hundred. Word is that her salary at least up till now is/was 300,000 a week!! Darn right she needs a pay cut. Times are tough, even for the terminally cute.
www.drudgereport.com/flashkcc.htm

Meanwhile, Fox news has its best January ever. I guess cute, perky and liberal just doesn't cut it these days.

www.mediaite.com/tv/still-rolling-fox-news-has-their-best-january-ever/

If as a part of electoral reform the boundaries of the fifty states were redrawn so that each state had a roughly equal population of 5.6 million people, this is what things might look like. I rather like the new look, although I don't think anyone could be crazy about the state of "Brownia!"

www.fakeisthenewreal.org/reform

Jeez, does this buffoon bow to everyone, even the mayor of Tampa? Or maybe he is just slipping the ring off her finger. He could pawn it and use the money to reduce the deficit, like he promised in the STFU speech. I like how the admiral is just taking it all in. Bet he didn't get a bow.

I thought it was illegal to tase babies!

How many times have I told you not to tease the dogs!

Hey, there's nothing like a good punch in the nose to demonstrate your femininity.

This can't come soon enough. The quicker we take away this sorry excuse for politicians to take our money and our freedoms, the better.

legalinsurrection.blogspot.com/2010/01/global-warming-hysteria-bursting-like.html

And as a bonus, once the global warming idiocy is consigned to the ash heap of history, we can say goodbye to that horse's ass Al Gore. If I never have to see that charlatan's ugly mug ever again, I will be grateful.

Sunday cozy cabin. This one is from Finland.

Saturday porch picture.

One day ..... one day ..... after saying this in the STFU speech,

"We face a deficit of trust - deep and corrosive doubts about how Washington works that have been growing for years. To close that credibility gap we must take action on both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue to end the outsized influence of lobbyists; to do our work openly; and to give our people the government they deserve."

President Zero held a private meeting with K Street lobbyists.

I wonder what O was telling them? Certainly there couldn't have been any "outsized influencing" going on in that meeting, could there?

The truly shameless hypocrisy exhibited here is stunning. Does the One not realize how bad this looks? Could he do anything more to send the message to us peons that there is nothing he says that should be believed?

www.nakedcapitalism.com/2010/01/obama-hypocrisy-watch-obama-rips-lobbyists-then-gives-them-private-briefings.html

My favorite part of the STFU speech by President Zero is when he quite wrongly claimed that a recent Supreme Court decision would open the floodgates to foreign campaign contributions. Not only does the case in question absolutely not say that, as he must have known, but he himself disabled the software on his own presidential campaign's online contribution site so any foreign entity or person could send money without leaving a trail. In fact, he received many thousands from foreign sources. Remember all that campaigning overseas?

This to me is both demagoguery and hypocrisy of the worst sort. Not only did O commit a crime by purposely accepting campaign money from foreigners, but he now has the shameless gall to accuse, wrongly, the supremes of allowing others to do legally exactly what he did illegally. No one in the press has ever had the desire to address this issue, and we certainly can't think Holder will make anything happen.

If there were ever the pressing need for a reason for an impeachment, this could be one.

legalinsurrection.blogspot.com/2010/01/challenge-to-obama-request-special.html

Why is it that whenever I see the State of the Union speech abbreviated to SOTU, I see instead STFU? Could it be a deeply buried subliminal wish?

shouldn't this guy be at work? School? Dude clearly has too much time on his hands.

A truly excellent post from the anchoress that details many of the worrisome behaviors of our boy-president. I agree that the odd acts of O, if interpreted as done here, do show an increasingly delusional person. The pressure and demands of the job he now has must be crushing him, especially when you consider that he has lived a fantasy life so far, getting all the perks and accolades of prestigious jobs but without any expectation of performance.

Thats over now. The only question is if O can adjust. If not its will be a very long three years, if he can even last that long.

www.firstthings.com/blogs/theanchoress/2010/01/27/obamaporta-prompta-symptom-of-distress/

In this Charlie Rose interview it is claimed that President Obama complained that "the press is against me." Delusional if true. The only reason he got elected was the press's conscious turning away from his inexperience, his seedy associations with Ayers and Rev. Wright, and his lack of real accomplishment. No need to spend significant time on Matthew's leg tingle or Brooks sartorial love of the crease of his pants to illustrate the point.

If Obama had been given the same treatment any Republican gets, and especially the hate that was spewed daily toward President Bush, he might have a different perspective on this.

www.weaselzippers.net/blog/2010/01/report-thinskinned-obama-says-press-is-against-me.html

And since election he has indeed been treated as some sort of transformational figure, beyond real criticism. Now, when the softball questions start to get the least zing, or curve out of the strike zone even ever so slightly, we get this whine. Judging by the reception to his plan to freeze spending on a tiny slice of the budget, which supposedly will be front and center in the SOTU, he better get used to a tougher league, but still one that would be little better than the neighborhood little league to any Republican. God help the Chocolate Jesus if he ever had to take the Republican treatment.

I predict that the disillusionment with him will push the press well in that direction by the end of this year at the latest. There is nothing like the wrath of a lover scorned (Matthews/Brooks et al). It will be mightily interesting to see how he handles the press then.

A lion, a tiger and a bear, rescued as cubs from drug dealers, grow up together and form an unusual friendship.

www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/wildlife/6750373/Tiger-lion-and-bear-form-unusual-friendship.html

This is a must read article highlighting the way some can pervert information to reach the result or conclusion they want. Global warming, anyone?

www.badscience.net/2010/01/voices-of-the-ancients/#more-1469