The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) is giving away copies of a poster (pictured right) of Barack Obama, which it describes as “an original piece of art for those closest to the movement to fix health care.” Of course, for this crowd, to “fix” generally means to bring government in. Fittingly, SEIU is limiting the giveaway to “only ONE poster per person and address.” This led the Libertarian Party to challenge SEIU “to live up to the promises behind government-run health care

As we all know, yesterday was President Barack Obama’s birthday.  And what kind of cake did the Commander-in-Chief receive?   How about the disaster you see above.   Does this cake fit the President?  I think not.  This is not the essence of cool .  This is more like fireworks shooting out of your nose while the Star Spangled Banner  is playing.  And do you think there is room for another seal  on that cake?  Come on… H/t to NBC Washington for the cake pict.

Both NATO and American military leaders have assured the people of Afghanistan that bombing raids will take care to avoid killing civilians. Just hours after NATO’s new secretary-general made those remarks, Associated Press reporters were shown the bodies of three young boys killed in a bombing raid. The angry residents of Kowuk yelled cries of anguish, “Death to America! Death to infidels!” as they mourned the death of the children.

Let’s Break Down Mongiardo’s Latest Email Blast – pageonekentucky.com 08/05/2009 NOTE: For the second time in two months, the Mongiardo campaign has sent out an email blast to its subscribers twice in the same day. The first time with the subject “Master Template” and the second with the headline “Mongiardo Wins Fancy Farm!” All right for having your zero control of campaign messaging. Daniel Mongiardo’s latest email blast may be a grammatical nightmare, but let’s take a look at the content of his message.

I’m Not Sick, But I’m Not Well – locomotivebreath1901.blogspot.com 08/05/2009 Although that’s before the obamacare bureaucracy does its damage.(one cuss word – nsfw)Obama voters, anyone? August 5, 2009 – pajamasmedia.com 08/05/2009 NO FEARMONGERING HERE! New DNC ad: Mobs of right-wing lunatics want to feast on your flesh.Plus this: “No need for outrage, though.

Edit yourself for the Rice Chex or just eat the entire thing.As news (paper and TV) producers debate the turn-around time on stories and best options for short-term multimedia, consider long and raw multimedia.Are time-consuming Flash interactives and heavily-edited videos the best option for news multimedia?Social media platforms and news sites provide a starting point and a foundation for growing an idea. The news story that produced a fountain of water cooler talk invisibly connected to the original source now breeds links and comment fields online than extend its publication date.

The story is breaking now of yet another mass-murder/suicide shooting by a right-wing whackjob with a bag full of guns and a desperate need to destroy other people to vindicate his own failures. Yesterday, some useless winger creep named George Sodini marched into his gym in Pittsburgh carrying a duffel bag with at least 6 guns, specifically sought out a women’s aerobics class that included his “ex-girlfriend” [UPDATE: See below] , and shot up the room, killing three women including the girlfriend, wounding at least five others, and then killing himself.

The bipartisan group of negotiators on the Senate Finance Committee — three Democrats and three Republicans – who have been working to fashion compromise legislation to overhaul the nation’s health care system has been invited to visit the White House on Thursday morning to meet with President Obama. Mr. Obama reiterated his call for a compromise health care bill during a lunch with Democratic senators on Tuesday.

Atlas Shrugs published You must log in to post a comment. It is appalling that Mister hope’n’change is calling the uprising of the American people “manufactured”. That is change. I ought to know. I have been covering rallies and protests across this great country for years, and it was the left machine that would manufacture anemic protests against Israel and Bush. The same straggly motley crew of seditious characters (A.N.S.W.E.R., Stop War & End Racism, International Action Center, Al-Awda, moveon, et al) would show up at every protest with the same tired meme.

San Antonio, Texas (CaymanMama.com) — Top Senate leaders announced Tuesday that a vote would be held this week to decide on a $2 billion extension of the nation’s Cash-for-Clunkers program. “What I anticipate is that it will be completed before the end of the week,” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell told the press. “What we’ll be negotiating over is the appropriateness of some amendments to the bill, but I would anticipate that the matter will be completed some time before the end of the week.” In another discussion with reporters, Reid said: “We’ll pass Cash-for-Clunkers … before we leave here” for the Senate’s annual August break.