A former co-worker of mine has landed himself into some serious legal trouble. It’s quite depressing because he was (is) a good guy. Lots of laughs and did his job well. But apparently his financial situation (impending foreclosure) caused him to engage in criminal activities: Postman Accused of Stealing, Selling Stamps WXYZ.COM (Detroit)/Associated Press DETROIT (AP) – Authorities say a rural postal carrier in suburban Detroit stole and sold stamps worth nearly $20,000 because he...

When I saw the above photo, I laughed. I laughed because President Obama gave President Hugo Chavez the “You think we”re cool” handshake. Basically it disarms your opponent/adversary/enemy and makes him or her feel like everything’s fine and dandy (cool) when it’s really not. President Obama then made a point of saying that we (USA) “won’t be prisoners of past disagreements”. Of course there are folks here, here, and here that think photo and subsequent...

My brother and I will be headed to the University Of Georgia Tea Party (starts at 4:30pm EST) within the hour to see the lay of the land, so to speak. I’m going to try and live blog the event but if I’m not successful, I’m going to write a summary of the experience later today or early tomorrow. My brother’s manning the camera since he’s skilled in that department. So I guess your wondering (or not) why this center-left, Big Two Party hater is going to a mostly conservative...

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Hello TMV readers. We have the capability to have threaded comments in all past, present, and future articles. In some of the longer comment threads, there has been some feedback that it’s hard to follow who’s responding to who. So we have enabled threaded comments on a trial basis to see how it goes. Just click the “Reply” button under a comment to see how threaded comments work. Let us know what you think!

Can we attempt more ways to milk the dead cow (Bessie’s her name) of President Obama’s speech patterns? Yes we can! Courtesy of John Crace at The Guardian, who proceeds to use growing psychic abilities to read President Obama’s mind (his psychic deductions are in the brackets): Barack Obama, the World’s Greatest Orator (™all news organisations), didn’t exactly cover himself in glory when the BBC’s political editor Nick Robinson asked him a question about who...

Can someone help me out here? Where is this growing throng of people calling criticizers of President Obama the dreaded R-word: racists? Can someone point this out to me? Because actress Angie Harmon feels she must present her “I’m not a racist if I criticize President Obama” card: Angie Harmon is not afraid to come out and say she doesn’t like how President Obama is handling the job — but she’s sick of having to defend herself from being deemed a racist. “Here’s...

03/29/09: Due to a technical problem, we can’t post photo images or cartoons on TMV today. We’re working on the problem. UPDATE: We are still working on image issue today. I know many of you look forward to the stellar images that TMV procures but, never fear, we should have this issue fixed today. Thank you for your continued patience.

YO’ MOMMA SO STUPID, SHE NEEDS A TELEPROMPTER TO TAKE A SHOWER! I remember back on my childhood days, I had ridiculous skills when it came to “playing the dozens”. For those not in the know, here is a good definition of “playing the dozens” (via Wikipedia): The dozens is an element of the African American oral tradition in which two competitors, usually males, go head to head in a competition of often good-natured, ribald “trash talk”. They take turns insulting—”cracking”,...

I remember during the 8-year Bush Presidency, various friends of mine on the Left eviscerated President Bush on every word stumble, misplaced thought, “unpolitical” correct utterance, and his Texas ways many times. They eviscerated him on blogs, in conversation, anywhere and anytime. I told them that they better be ready (with a thick skin) because when their guy or gal becomes President, the Right is going to get some serious payback. To sum up their response: So what? Our guy or...

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Mark Tapscott at DCExaminer declares that Obama is in trouble. The meat of what he is saying: * Since the first of the year, Rush Limbaugh’s audience has exploded , according to Howard Kurtz of The Washington Post, even as his daily assaults on Obama have intensified. The conservative Talk Radio maestro has become quite possibly the most listened-to radio personality in America since before Paul Harvey (God rest his soul). Demand for his air time hs suddenly become so intense, Limbaugh told...

For all you “American poor people aren’t really poor look at those people they don’t look poor and they should get a job and if they can afford a cell phone they can buy food and they are just lazy living on the streets” types that look at the above picture and scoff so smartly, let me break something down for you, ghetto smarts style (I volunteered at homeless shelters for 10 years in inner city Detroit, Michigan USA): 1. Many pre-paid cell phones come with cameras. 2....

I’m trying to figure out something dear readers. Can you help me out please? If you write your own speeches the majority of the time and use a teleprompter the majority of the time so you can read from that speech, does that mean what Ed Morrissey says at Hot Air: Look, a TelePrompter is a tool, like anything else, and using the right tool for the right job is part of competent performance. Using it at press briefings, though, looks more like Obama is helpless without a script than a man...

It happened when former President George W. Bush was at the helm and it’s happening now with President Barack H. Obama in the captain’s chair: comparison of American presidents to the dictators, executioners, thugs, and HIGHLY questionable figures of yesteryear by some people. This bothers me more than it should. This isn’t majority thought but still… I deeply respect the Office of the Presidency and I deeply respect each and every American president as the elected leader...

As a lifelong political rebel, I appreciate a hard stance against the “powers that be”. So when I first heard about the 92 Percent Group, my initial reaction was “heck yeah!”. From the 92 Percent Group’s welcome page: The 92 Percent Group is committed to the preservation of free-market economics in the United States, specifically in relation to the Obama Administration’s Homeowner Affordability and Stability Plan. We believe this plan is unjust to the vast majority...

IMAGE COURTESY OF VINO WONG / ATLANTA JOURNAL CONSTITUTION ** NOTE: The title of this article should be sung to the melody of “Home on the Range“, the state song of Kansas. ** Kia Motors supplier Sewon America is building at plant in West Point, Georgia. 600 jobs are opening up. And guess what? Americans showed up en masse: Job-seekers flood Kia supplier The Associated Press Monday, February 09, 2009 LAGRANGE — Before dawn, out-of-work Georgians were already lining up to apply...

Many Americans, myself included, don’t know where this stimulus bill is going to take us. We’re feeling the pinch and the pain, want something done, but just don’t have much respect for Congress. I feel like the last train home is leaving and that we are going to be left with some kind of something in America concerning our economy. Doesn’t that warm your hearts? In recognition of this last train leaving for home (and the mood that surrounds it), I present the legendary...

Whenever I attend a PTA (Parent-Teacher Association) meeting, the economy always becomes a point of discussion. This is conservative country here in Gwinnett County, Georgia. If you’re a liberal here, you’re going to get a healthy and hard spanking (rhetorically) with a dollop of Southern hospitality. Being more center-left, I just get more of a gentle slap on the wrist. But I digress. These PTA conservatives unanimously say the same things about the constantly-debated stimulus bill....

There is much analysis on the House passing the $819 billion stimulus package. Fellow TMV colleagues Michael Stickings and Jazz Shaw have posted their interesting thoughts here and here. But what I’m also seeing is how “crappy” attitudes won out over President Obama’s words of bipartisanship. I’m not portraying President Obama as an innocent victim here. He’s the POTUS and carries tremendous power. I fault him for not being more proactive in delaying this stimulus...

I’ve taken some heat for a comment I made in Joe Gandelman’s article entitled “The Demonization Of Obama Escalates While GOP Congressional Leaders Drag Their Heels“. Here is the comment I made: I figured this would happen after Republicans and Conservatives endured 8 years of hyper toxic language from the Left concerning former President Bush. Even if President Obama succeeds with a more bi-partisan way of governing, that doesn’t mean THE PUBLIC will. An eye for an...

I’ve been mentally laughing uncontrollably due to the recent re-hashing of the Barack The Magic Negro tune and resulting commentary. I thought the song was funny back then and I still think it is funny. Why would this black guy find the song funny? One, because I have a jailhouse brand of humor at times and two, because any honest black person knows that many folks in the black community thought that White America looked at Obama as a “Bagger Vance” from The Legend Of Bagger...

In thinking about the new Obama-Blagojevich Affair (doesn’t roll off the tongue to well does it?), is the President-Elect just unlucky to be the next Leader of the Free World (who happens to be black) where millions upon millions of microscopes are aimed at? Because this whole dust up just doesn’t sound new and isolated to Chicago. Governor Blagojevich’s reaction when the president-elect didn’t “play ball” (along with his outright brashness) just sounds like...

My colleague Pete Abel wrote earlier about President-Elect Obama’s 21st Century New Deal. Like Pete Abel, I applaud the Obama’s vision and boldness. I also appreciate the concern many of the Right have about Obama’s “New” New Deal. Ed Morrissey at Hot Air has many concerns about Obama’s plans: Obama invokes both FDR and Eisenhower in his new program. Ike built the interstate highway system in the 1950s as a national-defense measure, which most people forget...

It’s dangerous to assume that we can actually see the future by only looking at the technological advances we’ve made so far. – Octavia Butler (1947 – 2006), Hugo and Nebula award winning science fiction author I thought of those words that Ms. Butler made at panel discussion at UCLA in 2002 as I watched the MSNBC Morning Joe crew debate the Citigroup bailout and the economy in general today. In the myriad of discussions that our very shaky economy has generated, many of...