Boldly going where no dhimmi has gone before

NASA new priority???

Return to the moon ?? No.

Mission to Mars ?? Nope.

Creation of a space elevator ?? Guess again.

More pointless experiments in low earth orbit ?? Not even close.

The new mission: Improving relations with the Muslim world !!

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said in a recent interview that his "foremost" mission as the head of America's space exploration agency is to improve relations with the Muslim world.

Though international diplomacy would seem well outside NASA's orbit, Bolden said in an interview with Al Jazeera that strengthening those ties was among the top tasks President Obama assigned him.

ObamaCare meets reality -- may turn away pre-existing conditions !!

Health care insurers who turn away applicants who they consider high risk are branded as evil incarnate; beholden to profit. The fact that the applicants' health risk may pose a risk to the viability of the insurer is always ignored.

But luckily Obama came along with ObamaCare and the government will set up high risk pools and these people will get the medical care that the demagogues have claimed is a human right. Well, in the words of Joe Wilson: "You lie!!"

The Obama administration has not ruled out turning sick people away from an insurance program created by the new healthcare law to provide coverage for the uninsured.

Critics of the $5 billion high-risk pool program insist it will run out of money before Jan. 1, 2014. That’s when the program sunsets and health plans can no longer discriminate against people with pre-existing conditions.

Of course, this really comes as no surprise:

Healthcare experts of all stripes warned during the healthcare debate that $5 billion would likely not last until 2014. Millions of Americans cannot find affordable healthcare because of their pre-existing conditions, and that amount would only cover a couple hundred thousand people, according to a recent study by the chief Medicare actuary.

Bottom line: It's Bush's fault people have pre-existing conditions!!!

Economic Idiocy

From Speaker Pelosi: Unemployment checks create jobs faster !!

Behold the ignorance:


Her and President Kickass are quite a team.

More "unexpectedly"

Initial jobless claims jump again.

In the week ending June 26, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 472,000, an increase of 13,000 from the previous week's revised figure of 459,000. The 4-week moving average was 466,500, an increase of 3,250 from the previous week's revised average of 463,250.

The advance seasonally adjusted insured unemployment rate was 3.6 percent for the week ending June 19, unchanged from the prior week's revised rate of 3.6 percent.

The advance number for seasonally adjusted insured unemployment during the week ending June 19 was 4,616,000, an increase of 43,000 from the preceding week's revised level of 4,573,000. The 4-week moving average was 4,567,500, a decrease of 25,250 from the preceding week's revised average of 4,592,750.

Heckuva job Bammy !!!

What's worse than having a 10 foot Great White shark powling your beach ???

How 'bout a 20' Great White. Especially if you're the 10' shark as seen below:

A 'monster' great white shark measuring up to 20 ft long is on the prowl off a popular Queensland beach, according to officials.

Swimmers were warned to stay out of the water off Stradbroke Island after the shark mauled another smaller great white which had been hooked on a baited drum line.

The 10-foot great white was almost bitten in half.
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'It certainly opened up my eyes. I mean the shark that was caught is a substantial shark in itself,' says Jeff Krause of Queensland Fisheries.

The great white, the most dangerous creature in the sea, was still alive when hauled onto a boat near Deadman's Beach off north Stradbroke island.

News of the shocking attack on the smaller shark has sent jitters along the Queensland coast from Stradbroke Island, near Brisbane, to the Sunshine Coast further north down to the tourist mecca of Surfers Paradise, south of Brisbane.

'Whatever attacked and took chunks out of this big shark must be massive,' said 19-year-old surfer Ashton Smith. 'I've heard about the big one that's lurking out there somewhere.

And of course, the gratuitous JAWS reference:

New standards (i.e. lows) in academic integrity

Every student at Loyola Law School in LA will see all their grades go up 0.333 next month. Why??? To make their students "more attractive" in a competitive job market. And apparently this is not the first school to do so.

One day next month every student at Loyola Law School Los Angeles will awake to a higher grade point average.

But it’s not because they are all working harder.

The school is retroactively inflating its grades, tacking on 0.333 to every grade recorded in the last few years. The goal is to make its students look more attractive in a competitive job market.

In the last two years, at least 10 law schools have deliberately changed their grading systems to make them more lenient. These include law schools like New York University and Georgetown, as well as Golden Gate University and Tulane University, which just announced the change this month.

As the Times story notes, law firm recruiters do note these changes. But this is so typical of the Left that rewards intentions and politically correct "feelings" rather than fact or results so it is unsurprising.

And what about recent alumni who now have diminished GPAs as a result ?? Surely some of them are subject to the same job market as law firms have spent the last two years scaling back.

Reminds me of Spinal Tap -- "But, mine goes to eleven !!"

Barack Obama: The second coming of Jimmy Carter or Richard Nixon ???

Obama looks back to the '70s and Nixonian price controls.

Why not, it worked so well the first time.

Mr. Holder, meet Mr. Shahzad

You may recall our current AG, Eric Holder, when testifying before Congress, could not bring himself to blame radical Islam for various terror attempts. For a quick refresher:



But just yesterday, along comes the would-be Times Square bomber, Faisal Shahzad, and his guilty plea.

Calling himself a Muslim soldier, a defiant Pakistan-born U.S. citizen pleaded guilty Monday to carrying out the failed Times Square car bombing and left a sinister warning that unless the U.S. leaves Muslim lands alone, "we will be attacking U.S."

Wearing a white skull cap, prison smocks and a dark beard, Faisal Shahzad entered the plea in U.S. District Court in Manhattan just days after a federal grand jury indicted him on 10 terrorism and weapons counts, some of which carried mandatory life prison sentences. He pleaded guilty to them all.

U.S. District Judge Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum challenged Shahzad repeatedly with questions such as whether he had worried about killing children in Times Square.

"One has to understand where I'm coming from," Shahzad calmly replied. "I consider myself ... a Muslim soldier."

The 30-year-old described his effort to set off a bomb in an SUV he parked in Times Square on May 1, saying he chose the warm Saturday night because it would be crowded with people he could injure or kill. He said he conspired with the Pakistan Taliban, which provided more than $15,000 to fund his operation.

So, will this be a wake up call for the radical left? Nope, if 9-11 didn't do it, nothing will.

So you thought Obama's speech was a stinker ...

Racist. And CNN says it's because you're too stupid!

President Obama's speech on the gulf oil disaster may have gone over the heads of many in his audience, according to an analysis of the 18-minute talk released Wednesday.

Tuesday night's speech from the Oval Office of the White House was written to a 9.8 grade level, said Paul J.J. Payack, president of Global Language Monitor. The Austin, Texas-based company analyzes and catalogues trends in word usage and word choice and their impact on culture.

Though the president used slightly less than four sentences per paragraph, his 19.8 words per sentence "added some difficulty for his target audience," Payack said.

Our first recommendation for the RadSlack Book Club

"Whiny Little Bitch: The Excuse-Filled Presidency of Barack Obama" - I don't know anything about the book and obviously have not read it; but you can't pass on a title like that!

Fearless World Cup prediction ....

Zzzzzzzz !!!

Seriously people, it's soccer !!

And if I have to make a prediction, it will be that team with all the foreign guys.

Good news; bad news - Economics

The good news - 431,000 news jobs in May!!!

The bad news - 411,000 are temporary Census workers!!!

Ah, CHANGE !!!

A good Memorial Day read

Remembering the Forgotten from American Thinker.

We do not need to glorify war to give thanks for their sacrifice. Young men do not make wars, and no one needs remind them of the ghastliness or grisliness of war. Our obligation is to look at Arlington Cemetery (or any military cemetery, or at a local law enforcement cemetery of policemen who died to keep us safe) and respect what these men have given us. Most of the fallen are now forgotten. Their memory, their shortened lives, their mangled bodies laid into some distant grave -- these plain and awful data of history -- cannot hold the attention of a world in which only the last day's news cycle is real.


The faith in America of those brave men who don a uniform to keep us safe has survived the debauchery and deconstruction of the sixties, the cynicism of politics, and the rule of presidents who "loathed the military." The resilience of these good and ordinary Americans transcends political parties (if there are no atheists in the foxhole, then there are also no Republicans or Democrats). Their will to defend us defies the conventional amorality of modern selfishness. When they not only liberate but succor, in spite of their own long campaigns and bitter deprivations, emaciated Jews imprisoned in Hell, like my wife's parents, these Americans do only what is natural to them.

Bold RadSlack Stanley Cup final prediction

Sorry to say but 'Hawks in 5. As much as I want to say the Flyers will win (35 years is a long wait) Chicago is just too good and too deep. The Flyers were able to negate Montreal's speed with muscle; but they don't have that size advantage over Chicago.

I am still not convinced that Niemi is a star goaltender; but I am not sure Michael Leighton is either.

But what the hell do I know ?? I didn't think the Flyers would get past Montreal and I sure didn't think they were climbing out of a 3-0 hole with Boston. Hopefully I am wrong again and Mike Richards will soon be hoisting Lord Stanley's silver chalice.

Obama White House: You know who will help our credibility the most... a confessed perjuror!!!

According to the White House, Bubba is responsible for the job offer to Sestack.

The White House asked former President Bill Clinton to talk to Rep. Joe Sestak about the possibility of obtaining a senior position in the Obama administration if he would drop out of the Democratic primary race against establishment-backed Sen. Arlen Specter, the Obama administration said in a report released Friday morning.

But the report, by White House Counsel Robert Bauer, concluded that "allegations of improper conduct rest on factual errors and lack a basis in the law."

Batting down allegations that the White House dangled the secretary of Navy position in front of Sestak, the report said that Sestak was offered executive branch positions on advisory boards that were uncompensated.

One of the jobs Clinton specifically discussed with Sestak was the president's intelligence advisory board. But a White House official said the plan always was for Sestak to remain in the House, and he couldn't have served in the House and on the president's intelligence advisory board.

The report also described the Clinton conversations as informal and not tied to any precise job offer since, as a former president, Clinton could not guarantee Sestak anything.

This is almost laughable - including the attempt to bury this in a Memorial Day Weekend news dump. If you believe this bullshit, you also have to believe:

* That Clinton honestly believed that Sestak would drop a bid for the Senate and all its perks for an unpaid advisory position

* That Clinton did not have the backing of the White House for any specific job to offer.

* That Sestak lied/exaggerated the significance of these "informal" discussions.

* That the White House would not have given Sestak a position if he had dropped out.

* That Sestak is sufficiently dim to not understand the difference between an advisory role and a "job".

* That Sestak is also sufficiently dim that he did not understand that Clinton's inquiries were only to explore Sestak's intentions about a Senate run and was of no further concern to the White House.

* And most importantly, that Sestak LIED when he said the "White House offered [him] a job to drop out".


Fortunately, Rep. Darrell Issa has his eye on the big picture (at least for now):

"This is about the White House. This is not about Congressman Sestak," Issa said, adding that he wants to know what Clinton was empowered to say. "They've answered a question and it begs many more answers," he said. "We want elections not to be appointments."

UPDATE:
Of course there is always the possibility that Sestak is liar. Sestak could have simply taken an offer of some glorified perk and railed against it to boost his "me-against-the-Washington-machine" bona fides.