You can add Evan Bayh’s name to the list of Democrats who’ve decided it’s better just to walk away, rather than seek re-election.

The Indiana Senator blamed “narrow ideology” for silencing the voices of independents and moderate Dems.  As a result, he feels there’s just no reason to continue working in Congress.  In other words, the radical leftist agenda of Obama and his base is squeezing out any Democrat who might disagree with the President.  Nothing new there.

No one knows who will replace Bayh after his unexpected departure, but there’s a scramble in Indiana to find a suitably far left Democrat candidate.  Y’know, one who can parade around the state lying about how moderate he is.

Bayh is the fourth Democrat Senator to leave the party’s sinking ship since November.

In the immortal words of John McLaughlin “Bye Bye.”

- Robert Laurie

More at Hot Air

 

A couple months ago, I started a new feature on the site.  It was designed to feature the crazy email I receive on a regular basis.  I haven’t done one in a while since, honestly, the email’s gotten less bizarre.  People still write to disagree, but usually they’re pretty level-headed. 

So, what is it about the Apollo missions that whips the loonies into such a  frenzy?

On Tuesday, I wrote a Daily Caller piece about Obama’s cancellation of the Constellation program and, ever since, I’ve been receiving email from the “Moon Hoax” crowd.  These delusional morons have been lobbing video clip after video clip at me.  All of them contain supposed hoax ”evidence,” and are designed to ”educate” me. 

They promise that one day, when I see the light about NASA’s fake missions, I’ll thank them for it.  Uh…yeah.  Sure thing.

You may think it’s mean to toy with people so obviously unable to live in the real world but, I have to admit, I enjoy egging them on.

One guy in particular has been fun.  His name’s Rory_Snyder@yahoo.com, and he’s been sending me incontrovertible evidence that the Apollo landings were completely bogus.  Most impressive is the following photo showing a bright blue sky outside the Apollo 13 LEM window - proof positive that the phony missions were filmed right here on Earth.

I’ve resized this picture so it will fit on the page but, otherwise, it’s exactly as I received it.  A black and white photo of a blue sky.  Glorius, isn’t it?  Just look at the majestic, swirling clouds, the cerulean sky, and the glorius midday sun.

Rory went on to claim that all of the moon rocks brought back from the lunar surface were culled from an Antarctic asteroid strike, that 18 Astronauts went to the moon and not one of them ever saw a single star, and that the all-powerful forces forces of Russia and the TV show Mythbusters have conspired together to support the U.S. position.

As Rory put it: “Shame on Mythbusters for going along with the scam!”

One can only imagine the animosity he feels toward Tom Hanks and Ron Howard.

Rory then pointed me to the collected works of Bart Sibrel.  Sibrel’s a Nashville based cab driver and the leader of the hoax movement.  He likes to ambush Buzz Aldrin with claims that he’s been lying all these years about Apollo 11.

You may remember him from this clip…

Sibrel was recently arrested after assaulting a woman who refused to give up her parking spot.  It seems that when road rage caused his much-vaunted scientific mind to snap, he leapt up onto the woman’s car, and began jumping up and down while shrieking and berating her.  He later plead guilty to vandalism.  There can be little doubt that the arrest was simply government persecution – nothing more than an attempt to intimidate the nation’s foremost purveyor of truth.  Why, oh why, why must the enlightened suffer so?

Still unwilling, and perhaps a bit afraid, to acknowledge the wisdom of Rory and Sibrel’s words, I pointed out that there are photos, taken last year by the  Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, depicting views of the Apollo landing sites from orbit.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rory impressed me greatly with his response to these images.  It was as follows:

Nobody from Wayne State has an IQ over 100.  None of you people should be in any intellectual leadership positions.  That’s like they polishing a turd.  I loved the photochop images of the alleged landing sites.

At this point he was really starting to open my eyes.  Clearly, once I looked at them with my newfound knowledge, these pictures had indeed been “photochopped.”  Perhaps by impugning my degree, Rory had somehow shocked me into accepting the truth.  So, I wrote back.  I wondered if he was also the kind of guy who believed George Bush had blown up the world trade center.  I should have known.  My pen-pal is far too intelligent to put stock in such ridiculous theories.  

Rory doesn’t blame Bush.  He has his sights on the ”real” culprits – The Jews.

“Get used to hearing about this scam and 9/11: The Day of the Jew.   Jews and some of their Gentile lackeys in our gov’t did 9/11.  rory_snyder@yahoo.com “

What was interesting about this sentiment is not just the anti-Semitic rhetoric, but the fact that I’ve now heard the same thing from two other Moon hoax believers.  There seems to be some major crossover between the anti-Israel crowd, and the moon hoax gang.  How long will it be before they team up, and come to the logical, inevitable, Occam’s razor inspired conclusion? 

That’s right, the Jews faked the Moon landings.

Thank you, rory_snyder@yahoo.com….  Thank you for teaching, for inspiring, and for protecting us all from the Jews.  Good luck with the foil hat business.

- Robert Laurie

P.S. It should be noted that, in 13 (so far) seperate emails, Rory has vigorously argued against evidence that his claims are painfully, obviously, incorrect.  He has never once, however, argued against MY claims that he’s a bigoted anti-semite.  To thine own self be true, I suppose.

This week’s piece for the DC is now available.  It’s about how Obama has chosen, to quote the Big Lebowski, to micturate all over the U.S. space program by eliminating NASA’s budget.

Wouldn’t want anyone thinking that American exceptionalism was still alive and kicking, would we?

Head on over, and read – read like the wind!

- Robert Laurie

Poor Phil Jones.  You remember Phil, right?  He was the head of the Climatic Research Unit – the guy who was faking all of that data in order to provide ammo for the anti-capitalist, anti-American, increasingly bogus, man made climate change movement.

Well, it seems Phil is now throwing himself one heck of a pity party, telling the London Times that he’s “just a scientist” and has “no training in PR or dealing with crises.”  He went on to say that, on several occasions, he thought about killing himself.  Only the love of his adorable, five-year-old granddaughter could turn the depression around.

Just a thought Phil, but maybe the reason you’re so depressed is that you were caught lying to the entire planet.  If you were really “just a scientist” you probably wouldn’t have had to prop up your unsubstantiated research with “Mike’s nature trick of adding in the real temps to hide the decline.”  Y’see, real scientists just report their data, they don’t fake it, and therefore, they don’t usually feel the need to commit suicide due to their guilt and shame.

I hope you’re not expecting too much sympathy, Phil.  After all, we’ve got other liars to deal with.  The world’s done wasting time on you.

- Robert Laurie

Obama went to Virgina, campaigned for the Democrats, and they lost.

Obama went to New Jersey, campaigned for the Democrats, and they lost.

Obama went to Massachusetts, campaigned for the Democrats, and they lost.

Now, you can add the Indianapolis Colts to Barry’s list of losers.

Just before the game, Obama spoke with Katie Couric.  Calling Payton Manning “perhaps the best quarterback in history,” Obama predicted that the Colts would defeat the New Orleans Saints in last night’s Superbowl….and, of course, they lost.

Does anyone else get the feeling that an Obama endorsement is starting to look an awful lot like that cat that’s been predicting deaths in a Providence, RI nursing home?

Upcoming notables on the Obama career death watch include Harry Reid, who Obama has promised to campaign for in the fall.

Harry?  You want to survive?  Don’t let him near you!

- Robert Laurie

As Eddie Murphy used to say, it’s the shortest month of the year, so of course, it’s Black history month.

To honor it, the enlightened, non-rascists running NBC have decided that the 30 Rockefeller Plaza commissary should have a menu that they feel reflects the appetites of the average African-American.

So, without hesitation, they chose fried chicken.  The picture above is from their menu, and was taken with a camera phone by an offended NBC employee.

Apparently, they’ve been taking their culinary inspiration from this Australian KFC Ad. 

I’m surprised they’re not giving away free watermelons at the corporate craps tournament.

Please, NBC, just stop.  From Chris Matthew’s comments about how he managed to forget Barack Obama was black, to your insulting assumption that all of your black employees would flock to the fried chicken special, I think you’ve taught us enough about racial sensitivity.

- Robert Laurie

Last week, during the State Of The Union, Obama did his damndest to paint himself as a Washington outsider.

I take a look at the claim in my new Daily Caller piece. 

Check it out, HERE

- Robert Laurie

Well, February 11th should be interesting.  On that day, according to Iranian Kook Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran will “deliver a telling blow to global powers.”

No one is exactly sure what that means but the Iranian scimitar rattling has managed to spook Washington.  As a result, the U.S. military is beefing up its Persian Gulf forces, sending troops, ships, and more missile defense systems to the area.  Obviously, this aggressive posturing can mean only one thing.  Obama is looking to start an illegal war for oil.  Can’t he bow or apologize his way out of this?

Anyway, it looks like you may want to fill your tank on February 10th, because if the past is any indication, come the next morning, it could be pricey indeed….

- Robert Laurie

In the immortal words of Navin R. Johnson, “The new phone books are here!”

This morning, Obama unveiled the mammoth tomes that contain his new, unsustainable, deeply flawed budget.

Despite increasing taxes on families tht make over $250,000 a year, repealing the Bush tax cuts, and creating brand new taxes targeted at rich individuals and financial institutions, the budget still creates 1.6 trillion dollars of new debt.  That figure manages to trump last years record high of 1.4 trillion, so it seems that the President has learned nothing from the rampant outrage of 2009.

Fortunately, once those new taxes kick in, and the resultant layoffs begin, most families won’t have to worry about the burdens associated with making more than $250,000.

In a highly defensive speech this morning, Obama blamed Bush, then went on to try and paint himself as the savior of our economy, not its destroyer.  He has it seems, turned everything around.  That 10.2% unemployment rate is meaningless, because he has, largely, fixed the disaster that his predecessor left behind.  Unfortunately, he now predicts he will create over five trillion dollars worth of debt over the next five years.  That’s 35% higher than he forecast a year ago.

Remarkably, though he left office over a year ago, George Bush must have somehow snuck into the oval office and created all that new debt while Obama wasn’t looking.  The man has got to be stopped!

We’re fortunate to have Barry in office, because he’s pulled out the red pen and started slashing unnecessary expenditures in order to cover a tiny fraction of his squandering.  He has eliminated a great many wasteful enterprises, while providing funding for what he termed “programs I care about.”

It looks like he doesn’t care about Nasa, because the wildly unpopular space agency will see its moon mission cancelled and its budget slashed dramatically.  Don’t worry, though, Obama has ensured that they will still receive enough cash to fight the increasingly bogus problem of global warming.  Thank God.  The American people may be willing to watch the President deficate on a Moon mission, but they’d never forgive him if he eliminated the global warming cash.

Obama said this morning that he wouldn’t be able to bring down the deficit overnight.  Color me impressed.  It’s a brilliant diamond of clear thinking wisdom.  If he keeps increasing our debt at a record rate, he will indeed have a tough time bringing it down.  According to his current plan, after 10 years, he will have lowered it by a meager $250 Billion.

Republicans?  Propose a new balanced budget amendment.  NOW.

- Robert Laurie