Maggie's Farm

It's ACORN that is running those AIG bus tours in CT - meaning that this is being done on our nickel (ACORN was given $2 billion in the stimulus). Remarkably, Conyers plans probe of ACORN.

The Global Warming Three are on thin ice. This was pure publicity stunt posing as "science." Amusingly, it was too cold for them. Gotta love this quote:

 The idea is that the expedition should take regular radar fixes on the ice thickness, to be fed into a computer model in California run by Professor Wieslaw Maslowski, whose team, according to the BBC, “is well known for producing results that show much faster ice-loss than other modelling teams”.

EU bans "Miss" and "Mrs." (h/t, Thompson). Maybe they will ban wedding rings too.

Obama sends message of weakness to Mullahs. Mullahs tell him to drop dead. David Warren says:

The video to Iran is the latest catastrophe. Mr. Obama simply does not understand how his "olive branch" will be received, not only by the mullahs in Iran itself, but wherever else on the surface of the planet the United States has enemies. It "reads" -- to people who do not share anything like America's aspirations -- as an unambiguous confession of weakness. He has moved the American position towards Iran from offensive to defensive, for no defensible reason.

From Dr. Clouthier:

I have a special needs child. He looks like you’d imagine a special needs child looks when he throws a ball. He looks like you’d imagine a special needs child looks when he catches a ball. He looks like you’d imagine a special needs child looks when he runs. He looks like you’d imagine a special needs child looks when he bowls. He rode the short bus for a while.

Sounds hilarious doesn’t it? You know, running, throwing, bowling awkwardly because of muscle imbalances and fear of falling and fear of being hit by the ball. What’s amazing is that his Little League teammates haven’t laughed or poked fun. Not. Once. They have managed to show more class, patience, empathy and charity than the President of the United States, but that’s turning out to be no big feat.

Another government health care plan being developed in secret.

"My state will reelect this sleazebag (Dodd)." Interestingly, NYT forgets that Dodd is a Dem.

Some banks took the bailout money as a favor to the Feds to put more capital out there. Luskin:

No one seems to care that the 90% tax will apply to all banks that have accepted federal money, not just to AIG. That includes banks like Wells Fargo, who told Treasury secretary Henry Paulson that they didn't even want the money when the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) was enacted last October. Reluctantly, Wells took the money at Paulson's urging, as did other healthy banks such as JPMorgan. Now virtually every employee of every one of them faces a 90% tax on their bonuses.

Bankers term punitive taxes a witch hunt. It is. Now Obama plans an attack on all executive pay. How is that a Constitutional power of government? More from Wizbang.

And now auto parts suppliers are getting bailout $. People are getting bailout fatigue. Dino says:

This administration really is Clown Central. You thought last month’s grotesque budget was bad. It turns out that the projected deficits are now $2.3 trillion worse than the estimate made just last month. Incredible.