Paul Hollrah “Say What, Barrack?”:

Obama told his audience that, because some folks had the courage to “march across a bridge” in Selma, Alabama, his mother, a white woman from Kansas, and his father, a black Muslim from Africa, took heart. It gave them the courage to get married and have a child. The problem with that characterization is that Barrack Obama, Jr. was born on August 4, 1961, while the first of three marches across that bridge in Selma didn’t occur until March 7, 1965, at least five years after Obama’s parents met.

Obama went on to tell his audience that the Kennedys, Jack and Bobby, decided to do an airlift. They would bring some young Africans over so that they could be educated and learn all about America. His grandfather heard that call and sent his son, Barrack Obama, Sr., to America.

The problem with that scenario is that, having been born in August 1961, the future senator was not conceived until sometime in November 1960. So, if his African grandfather heard words that “sent a shout across oceans,” inspiring him to send his goat-herder son to America, it was not Democrat Jack Kennedy he heard, or his brother Bobby, it was Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Obama’s speech is reminiscent of Al Gore’s claim of having invented the Internet, Hillary Clinton’s claim of having been named after the first man to climb Mt. Everest… even though she was born five years and seven months before Sir Edmund climbed the mountain, and John Kerry’s imaginary trip to Cambodia.

Read the whole thing.

Hat Tip to Larry Sinclair.

Police officers, one of them in a hazardous-materials suit, examined the military recruiting station in Times Square after an explosion damaged the front of the building early Thursday morning. (Photo: Chip East/Reuters)

New York Times:

Latest Update, 8:53 a.m. | The New York City police issued a statement at 7:33 a.m. describing the source of the explosion as an “improvised explosive device” and putting the time of the blast at 3:43 a.m.

David Marron thinks anti-war leftists are responsible.

The fact that lefties oftentimes ally themselves with radical Islamists, and that Code Pink has defaced military recruitment offices - in particular assaulted them through their proxies at the Berkeley City Council, gives me the impression that someone stepping up the hatred of the military even further- shouldn’t come as a surprise. Wasn’t it Medea Benjamin, after all, who orchestrated the Seattle riots against the World Trade Organization that caused millions of dollars worth of property damage? This is indeed a tactic - of not only terrorists - but of leftists who hate America.

CFP: Was explosion at Times Square recruiting station a call to action by CodePink? - Judy McLeod

Was the early morning explosion that rocked the military recruiting station at New York’s Times Square a call to action by CodePink?

“CodePink, an anti-war group that gave more than $600,000 to terrorists’ families in Iraq, is calling for anti-military agitators to escalate attacks on U.S. Government offices where the military work with potential recruits on their futures.

The group outlines ways for followers to terrorize recruiters, shut down recruiting stations and stop people from exercising the Constitutional rights to pursue their life’s goals.” ( www.moveamericaforward.org).

Code Pink doesn’t care about our rights, neither do they care about matters of national security.

The explosion at the Times Square recruiting office happened as the CodePink blockade remains in front of the recruiting station in Berkeley, Calif.

In addition to the Berkeley blockade, anti-war and anarchist groups have already attacked military recruiting centers in Washington, D.C., Minneapolis, Minn.; Milwaukee, Wis.; Santa Monica, Calif.; Toledo, Ohio’ Murfressboron, Tenn.; Pittsburgh, Penn.; Haverhill, Mass, and New York, N.Y.

And from what I gather from this article, that isn’t even the complete list.

See also: Wave of Attack on Recruiters - by Catherine Moy at MAF

It is past time for leaders in the Senate and House to demand an investigation into the nationwide epidemic of attacks on recruiting stations. U.S. Attorneys should prosecute the agitators. The Constitution provides that the federal government be able to raise an Army during wartime. The escalation in attacks is not only costing taxpayers money, but they could cripple the country’s ability to defend herself. If this isn’t treason, what is?

This is where I’m beginning to think we should be calling on our militia groups across the country…

I’ve been looking around.

We took a trip to the Sony store to find out about the little solid state jobs they’ve got going on. If money were no object, I would like to pick up one of the VAIO TZ series…in black with the 11.1″ screen. I don’t need a big screen, but I’d like to be able to bring the thing with me and –if I take pictures or video, have the capability of sneaking off somewhere to upload to the net quickly. The pricetag is around $2,000+, but includes fancy little things like a fingerprint sensor. The predominant problem with so many of these new laptops are that they’re loaded with Vista…which I’d like to avoid for right now.

The one that has me totally intrigued is the tiny little ASUS Eee 8g 7″ with linux. It is far more portable and light than any other I’ve seen, even though it’s a virtual toy - made for small child-like hands. It doesn’t have all the bells and whistles that the Sony has, but it doesn’t have the hefty pricetag, either, coming in at a little over $500 for the 8g version. It’s solid state, and the reviews I’ve been reading on this little thing are amazing. Since my hands aren’t that big, this might be just the ticket for mobile blogging that I’ve been looking for.

Another one that looks like a winner is the Toshiba Portege R400, although it is configured with VISTA - which for the time being I would like to avoid. I gather with the next service pak, Vista’s problems will be solved…but that remains to be seen.

For the short term, the tiny little ASUS Eee might be the way to go for me…but I’m still shopping.