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Daily Commentary – Friday, March 11th, 2011 – Mel Gibson to Plead No Contest to Simple Battery

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8.9 Magnitude Quake Hits Japan … Tsunami Hits Japan (Update: Tsunami Warnings for Hawaii and US West Coast)

A massive 8.9 magnitude earthquake has hit Japan. It is being reported as the largest earthquake ever to hit Japan. Early reports state that 32 people have died. Aftershocks continued to shake Japan in the aftermath. In the video below, you can see the damage done and the wall of water from the tsunami that followed the earthquake. The damage is just devasting. Our prayers go out to the people of Japan. Sadly, the death toll has rose to 50; however, this may go much higher. Much more at the Kyodo News, with numerous pics of the damage.

The most powerful earthquake to hit Japan in at least 100 years unleashed walls of water Friday that swept across rice fields, engulfing towns, dragging houses onto highways and tossing cars and boats like toys.

Local media reported at least 32 deaths, with more casualties feared. And the 8.9-magnitude quake, which struck at 2:46 p.m. local time, prompted the U.S. National Weather Service to issue a tsunami warning for at least 50 countries and territories.

The quake’s epicenter was offshore 373 kilometers (231 miles) away from Tokyo, the United States Geological Survey said.

Live Streaming video via Weasil Zippers.

UPDATE I: It is being reported by the BBC that a 33 foot wall of water hit Japan,  the port of Sendai in Miyagi prefecture. A tsunami warning has been made for the Pacific rim, Hawaii and the west caost of the US.

The US West Coast and Alaska Tsunami Warning Centre said that any tsunami generated by the earthquake off the coast of Japan would hit Hawaii at around 2.45am (12.45pm GMT) and the US West Coast at 7.45am (3.45pm GMT).

Tsunami warnings issued by NOAA

The Tsunami Warning continues in effect for the coastal areas of California and Oregon from Point Concepcion, California to the Oregon-Washington border.
The Tsunami Warning continues in effect for the coastal areas of Alaska from Amchitka Pass, Alaska (125 miles W of Adak) to Attu, Alaska.
The Tsunami Advisory continues in effect for the coastal areas of California from the California-Mexico border to Point Concepcion, California.
The Tsunami Advisory continues in effect for the coastal areas of Washington, British Columbia and Alaska from the Oregon-Washington border to Amchitka Pass, Alaska (125 miles W of Adak).

UPDATE II: More amazing and disasterous VIDEOS of the earthquake and tsunami. Many more VIDEO’s can be seen at the WSJ.

Tsunami hits Japan

UPDATE II: Fire broke out at a nuclear power at Tohoku Electricity’s Onagawa plant. More from Fox News, no radiation leak has been reported at the plant; however, the cooling system failed.

The fire is reported to be at Tohoku Electricity’s Onagawa plant. The Japanese government has declared a nuclear power emergency situation, the news agency Jiji said, quoting the Japanese defence ministry .

However, the UN nuclear watchdog in Vienna saidthe four Japanese nuclear power plants closest to the earthquake have been safely shut down. “The four Japanese nuclear power plants closest to the quake have been safely shut down,” the agency said in a statement, adding it was liaising with the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry on further details of the situation.

UPDATE III: Death Toll rises to 60 in Japan following earthquake and tsunami.

Tina Fey Out, Julianne Moore in … To Play Sarah Palin in HBO Movie ‘Game Change’

Sorry Tina Fey, best stick with SNL skits.

Oscar nominated actress Julianne Moore has been picked to play Sarah Palin in the HBO movie ‘Game Change’. The film is to portray the former Alaska governor Sarah Palin that will follow Sarahcuda’semergegence on to the national scene as John McCain’s surprise VP candidate in 2008. Since the 2008 run as a VP candidate, Sarah Palin has had a metoric rise in the political world as a voice for true Conservatives, hockey moms and momma grizzles everywhere.

Vice Presidential Candidate & Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin … the speach from the RNC that launched her political career

Game Change is based on Mark Halperinand John Heilemann’s book about the 2008 presidential elections and follows John McCain’s campaign from his selection of Palin as his running mate to their ultimate defeat in the general election.

Danny Strong, who previously wrote the Roach-directed Recount, penned the script for Game Change. Roach is executive producing, with Strong co-executive producing.

Of course the book, ‘Game Change,” hardly portrayed Palin in a positive light.

Julianne Moore Wiki.

Sorry Tina, this is a movie about one of the most dramatic splashes up[on the political stage by an almost complete unknown, not an SNL skit for Leftist fodder.

But as Big Hollywood states, ”And please don’t think for a second that the timing of this HBO movie is any kind of accident. We’re months away from picking a candidate to free our country from Obama and this is all about burnishing his awesomeness and laying waste to our side”.

Wisconsin Unions and Democrats Lose as Senate Voted Wednesday Night to End Nearly all Collective Bargaining Rights from Public Workers

It has finally happened … the Wisconsin Senate passed the Union bill that strips nearly all collective bargaining rights for public workers, without the presence of the Democrat “Fleebaggers. As reported by the AP, the union bill passed  18-1.

The bill had been stymied after all 14 Senate Democrats fled to Illinois three weeks ago, preventing the chamber from having enough members present to pass it. Walker introduced it to plug a $137 million budget shortfall.

The Senate requires a quorum of 20 to take up any measures that spend money. But a special committee of lawmakers from the Senate and Assembly voted late Wednesday afternoon to take all the spending measures out of the legislation and the Senate approved it minutes later, 18-1.

 It’s Finally over as the fleebagger are left out in the cold, or Illinois.  

Video Hat Tip: The Gateway Pundit

The reaction from Unions …  from J-S Online, AFL-CIO says GOP used ‘nuclear option’. However, it is king of hard for those on the LEFT to cry fowl, when 14 Democrat “fleebaggers”ran away from their jobs as Wisconsin Senators and hid out in Illinois. “Rigged the vote”? Who was it that tried to circumvent the democrat process by hiding.

Said Neuenfeldt: “Republicans have exercised the nuclear option to ram through their bill attacking Wisconsin’s working families in the dark of night. (Gov.) Walker and the Republicans acted in violation of state open meetings laws, and tonight’s events have demonstrated they will do or say anything to pass their extreme agenda that attacks Wisconsin’s working families.”

Daily Commentary – Thursday, March 10th, 2011 – Plea Bargain for Van der Sloot?

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Democrat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid Pleads to Save Federal Funding for the Cowboy Poets

Why we love “Freedom of Speech” …

There is a reason why many Americans believe that there have to be government cuts in order to get the federal budget under control. Democrat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid unwittingly just provided more proof that it needs to take place immediately. Reid referred to the GOP mean-spirited” budget bill on the Senate floor as Reid stated that budget cuts would eliminate the annual “cowboy poetry festival” in his home state of Nevada. Um, what? Was this an SNL skit? No, Harry Reid was serious.

SAVE THE COWBOY POETRY FESTIVAL

“The mean-spirited bill, H.R. 1 … eliminates the National Endowment of the Humanities, National Endowment of the Arts,” said Reid. “These programs create jobs. The National Endowment of the Humanities is the reason we have in northern Nevada every January a cowboy poetry festival. Had that program not been around, the tens of thousands of people who come there every year would not exist.”

 In a time in which America cannot continue to fund programs that should never have been government funded in the first place, Reid defends over the top federal spending by defending a pork barrel project from his own home state … ARE YOU JOKING? These people are really serious about cutting government spending? Really? Do we really wonder why we got to this tipping point?

Government Hand Outs Now Make Up One-Third of US Wages

Is this the “Hope & Change” that America is really looking for?

As reported at CNBC, government social welfare benefits make up 35% of wages and salaries this year. That is up from 21%  in 2000 and 10% in 1960. To make matters worse, many Americans appear to have become dependent on government spending and are not willing to take cuts in their welfare, medicare or social security benefits. Be very careful America of ever becoming dependent on any governemnt, no matter what party is in power.

Government payouts—including Social Security, Medicare and unemployment insurance—make up more than a third of total wages and salaries of the U.S. population, a record figure that will only increase if action isn’t taken before the majority of Baby Boomers enter retirement.

“The U.S. economy has become alarmingly dependent on government stimulus,” said Madeline Schnapp, director of Macroeconomic Research at TrimTabs, in a note to clients. “Consumption supported by wages and salaries is a much stronger foundation for economic growth than consumption based on social welfare benefits.”

Sadly, we have gone from the welfare state, to the welfare nation.

Daily Commentary – Wednesday, March 9th, 2011 – Developing Events in Police Shooting

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Joe Manchin (D-WV) Rips President Obama on Failure to Lead on Budget

OBAMA, FAILURE TO LEAD …

Freshman democrat US Senator Joe Mancin of West Virginia ripped President Barack Obama a new one today on the floor of the Senate stating that Obama failed to lead with his recently released budget proposal. Look for Manchin’s “Obama failure to lead” comment in a GOP Presidential candidate political commercial in 2012.

Manchin charged the president with failing to lead the way in reducing spending, while also criticizing Republicans for offering “partisan” and “unrealistic” budget proposals.

“Why are we doing all this when the most powerful person in these negotiations — our president — has failed to lead this debate or offer a serious proposal for spending and cuts that he would be willing to fight for?”

 This is what happens when a Democrat wins in a “red” state like West Virginia. Manchin knows that he faces election in 2012 and if he does not do what he said during the 2010 special west Virginia election, the voters will cast him aside. Manchin basically ran a a Republican, putting the cross-hairs, literally, on the Cap & Trade bill.