If you believe the State of Arizona and the United States (via the President) should actually enfore current immigration laws, you're a Nazi.....

BUT If you believe the Jews should be sent back to Auschwitz .... well .... you're just a member of the leftwing media and Democrat fundraiser .... like  HELEN THOMAS.

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What we consider "fair" changes as we age, a new study finds. Young children like all things to be equal, but older adolescents are more likely to consider merit when it comes to dividing up wealth, the researchers say.

The shift from the "egalitarian" view of fairness to the more merit-based "meritocratic" view occurred largely between fifth and seventh grade, although it continued to change through high school, with seniors placing the most importance on achievement.

This transition likely results both from changes in the brain as it develops, and from exposure to new social experiences as we age, the researchers say.

Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm:

Whereas, an umpire's missed call resulted in Armando Galarraga being charged a hit that clearly should have been an out [...]

Now, Therefore, be it Resolved that I, Jennifer M. Granholm, governor of the state of Michigan, do hereby declare Armando Galarraga to have pitched a perfect game, and I join Tigers fans all across the globe in saluting his unassailable accomplishment — the first perfect game in Tigers history.

Rep. John Dingell (D-Dearborn):

Baseball's executives have corrected a mistake on the field in a regular season game before – the pine tar game. This is the right thing to do and if getting this resolution passed makes it easier, I’m glad to help. [...]

Umpire Joyce made a colossal blunder, but if we can reverse it, he will have played a huge role in righting the wrong.

Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.):

Last night's performance deserves its place in the record books. It is clear that Commissioner Selig should make an exception in this case and invoke the "best interests of the game clause" to reflect Armando Galarraga's perfect game for the Detroit Tigers.

 

May as well just vote to declare them World Series Champs! 

Now abou that Lions Super Bowl.....

as I frequenly tell my Research and Writing class.  We're working on "forcefull" writing and on making an effort to avoid "obfuscation." 

James Taranto is SOOO helpful

Barack Obama Explains His Job:

What exactly is the job of the president of the United States? Let’s ask the man who currently holds that position, Barack Obama:

My job right now is just to make sure that everybody in the Gulf understands this is what I wake up to in the morning and this is what I go to bed at night thinking about: the spill.

Obama’s job description is fascinating. He has been depicted as a proponent of “activist government,” but this may be a bum rap. Now he tells us he thinks that if he somehow gets people to think about him and how much he’s thinking about what he thinks they think he should be thinking about, his job is done.

Which raises only two questions: First, if the requirements of his job are so modest, why is he still having trouble meeting them? Second, couldn’t all this cogitation be done at a cost of less than $3.5 trillion a year?

an history .... and darned near everything else in President Obama's post-America America.

Earlier this month, Biden spoke to the European Parliament in Brussels. “As you probably know, some American politicians and American journalists refer to Washington, D.C., as the ‘capital of the free world.’ But it seems to me that this great city, which boasts 1,000 years of history and which serves as the capital of Belgium, the home of the European Union and the headquarters for NATO, this city has its own legitimate claim to that title.”

Now, as Biden said after the passage of Obamacare, this is a big (expletive deleted) deal.

in the Gulf ... from JKirsten Powers today

A smoker drops his cigarette and it catches the rug on fire. He calls 911 and the fire department dithers about how it was his own stupid fault for dropping the cigarette and they tell him that his automatic sprinkler system in his house should've gone off and doused the flames. The fire then spreads to the whole house while the fire department does nothing. The man (and his neighbors) are insistent that the fire department come and put the flames out. The fire department tells the man "you have a water hose at your house, put it out yourself". The fire department lieutenant then goes on TV and talks about how in the future, the city should have better inspections of home fire sprinkler systems to prevent just such a tragedy. Meanwhile, the fire still rages on. Then the fire department finally shows up and the Captain of the department talks a big game about how his department has been engaged from the very minute the fire started.  Meanwhile, the house has already burnt down to cinders...
 
Yeah...not Obama's fault at all. What was I thinking??

Woman died after doctors failed to spot toilet brush in her buttocks

Cindy Corton, 35, was left with the bizarre injury after a drunken fall in a friend's bathroom in 2005.
She was twice seen by hospital staff in the aftermath of the incident and an X-ray was carried out.
But an inquest heard it took Mrs Corton, of Sleaford, Lincolnshire, two years to convince doctors that the handle was lodged in flesh of her bottom.
By then what should have been a routine procedure to remove it had become much more dangerous.
After two unsuccessful operations in 2007, Mrs Corton underwent further, much riskier surgery and died from massive blood loss at Nottingham's Queen's Medical Centre in June last year.
Recording a narrative verdict, coroner Stuart Fisher criticised Dr Killian Mbewe, who first examined Mrs Corton at Grantham hospital.
After the inquest, husband Peter Corton said: "Cindy got a very poor service from the NHS.
"I'm sure she would have got better treatment in foreign countries."

But don' worry - things will be FINE here!

found at www.naionalreview.com

TOM MAGUIRE: “As to the Death Drones, if Bush did this targeting [of] Americans we would read about nothing else, and I would support it. But don’t look for me to exert a lot of effort splashing pixels on Obama’s behalf – he can deal with his crazed base himself.”

OTOH ... my wife knows my biggest issue lately has been inconsistancy and hypocrisy ... so I was pleased to see this: 2,000 US Actors, Prominent Liberals Accuse Obama of “War Crimes,” Says He’s “Worse Than Bush” For Authorizing Assassination of Anwar al-AwlakI.

but why isn't the MSM broadcasting it 24/7?