Harry Reid Continues Obama’s Assault On The Vegas Economy

As the senior Senator from Nevada, it would surprise most to know that Harry Reid is following President Obama’s example and attacking business in his own state, albeit in a more acute fashion. In an editorial, Las Vegas Journal-Review owner Sherman Frederick took Reid to task for a statement he made at a Las Vegas meeting.

On Wednesday, before he addressed a Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce luncheon, Reid joined the chamber’s board members for a meet-’n'-greet and a photo. One of the last in line was the Review-Journal’s director of advertising, Bob Brown, a hard-working Nevadan who toils every day on behalf of advertisers. He has nothing to do with news coverage or the opinion pages of the Review-Journal.

Yet, as Bob shook hands with our senior U.S. senator in what should have been nothing but a gracious business setting, Reid said: “I hope you go out of business.”

Later, in his public speech, Reid said he wanted to let everyone know that he wants the Review-Journal to continue selling advertising because the Las Vegas Sun is delivered inside the Review-Journal.

Why is Reid looking out for the Las Vegas Sun?  Possibly because it is a paper he quotes in the biography section of his own website.

The Las Vegas Sun newspaper summarized Reid’s story by saying that he “has gone from underdog to Senate’s top dog.”

Frederick raises some questions about Reid’s behavior in regards to other Nevada companies.

If he thinks he can push the state’s largest newspaper around by exacting some kind of economic punishment in retaliation for not seeing eye to eye with him on matters of politics, I can only imagine how he pressures businesses and individuals who don’t have the wherewithal of the Review-Journal.

Fortunately, Harry Reid seems to be following in the footsteps of the last Democrat Senate Majority Leader, Tom Daschle, who might have been popular among Democrats in the Senate, but was substantially less so among his voters.  Emily Miller lays out Reid’s political misfortunes at Politics Daily.

As I wrote last week, the paper conducted a poll showing Reid — who is up for reelection to a fifth term in 2010 — would lose to either of his potential Republican challengers if the election were held now. The poll shows that Nevadans favor Republican Danny Tarkanian over Reid, 49 percent to 38 percent, and Republican Sue Lowden over the incumbent, 45 percent to 40 percent.
The poll also showed that Reid’s approval ratings are very low, with 50 percent of voters saying they have an unfavorable view of him and only 37 percent of respondents with a favorable opinion.

Harry, don’t let the door hit you on the way out.

Wesley Cheeks Jr.: Obama Fascist In Action

In a disturbing video, Officer Wesley Cheeks Jr. confirmed the worst fears of what should be a tin-foil-hatted fringe. While not an actual police officer, this douchebag of the Fairfax County Public Schools’ trained School Security Officer team did his best to demonstrate the school system’s failure of civics education.

When a contrarian protester says “This used to be America…”, the best way to justify his protest is to say, “It ain’t no more, OK?”

The most obvious characteristic about the First Amendment is that it’s the first one.  Even Constitutional scholars like President Obama might forget the more minor and rarely mentioned amendments such as the 24th (The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President, for electors for President or Vice President, or for Senator or Representative in Congress, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any state by reason of failure to pay any poll tax or other tax) but no matter how short your attention span might be on your career course to school security guard, you should be able to comprehend “Freedom of Speech”.

Wesley Cheeks Jr. is black, which may or may not make him feel a certain kinship with the President, but sharing a race with the President of the United States does not give one carte blanche to serve as his SS.

Dems A Class Act For Kennedy

While some readers were offended by our evidence that Ted Kennedy probably committed light treason in the 1980s, the Democrats have reacted to Senator Kennedy’s death with all the class of a drunk stumbling around his compound with no pants on. This may come as no surprise to those who remember Paul Wellstone’s funeral, but Democrats wasted no time to exploit Ted Kennedy’s death for their own political advantage.

Within hours of Mr Kennedy’s death on Wednesday leading Democrats were trying to turn it into a rallying point for healthcare reform — something that he had called the “cause of my life” — and suggested that any legislation should carry his name.

“[It was] the passion of his life,” David Obey, the Democratic chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, said. “Above all else, he would want us to redouble our efforts to achieve it.”

Robert Byrd, the senior Senate Democrat, called for the passage of healthcare legislation that would bear Mr Kennedy’s name, and Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the House, said: “Ted Kennedy’s dream of quality healthcare for all Americans will be made real this year because of his leadership and his inspiration.”

In other words, the Democrats are that annoying relative who is knocking on the door asking about their inheritance before the corpse is cold.

Meanwhile, Cato reports how Democrats in the Massachusetts State House are preparing to trample the Rule of Law for the Kennedy legacy.

Lawmakers in the Bay State are rushing to change state law to make sure the late Sen. Edward Kennedy’s seat is filled as soon as possible with a reliable Democratic successor.

Never mind that as recently as 2004 the same state legislature had changed state law to mandate that a vacant Senate seat could only be filled by a special election to be held within five months of the vacancy.

Before then, as in most other states, vacancies were filled by an appointment of the governor, with the seat coming up for a vote at the next federal election. But in 2004, the Democratic legislature changed the law to prevent then-governor Mitt Romney, a Republican, from naming a Republican to replace Democratic Sen. John Kerry if he were to be elected president. Kerry lost to George W. Bush, but the law remained on the books.

Of course, the cherry on top of all this douchebaggery is Melissa Lafsky, a blogger at Huffington Post, who asks what Mary Jo Kopechne might have had to say about Ted Kennedy’s life and career.

Who knows — maybe she’d feel it was worth it.

Worth it?  What was “worth it”?  It’s not as though a sacrifice was made.  Kennedy didn’t gain from her death.  She didn’t gain from her death.  Liberalism didn’t gain from her death (unless you prefer Kennedy’s 46 years in the Senate to 8 years of a Presidency). Is Lafsky referring to Kennedy’s escape from justice?

If pedophiles follow careers in the church and youth groups for advantageous position it puts them over children, then womanizers, rapists and manslaughters have little choice but join the Democratic Party, where the women will stand by their man, no matter what.

Ted Kennedy: Massachusetts’ Useful Idiot

Senator Edward Moore “Ted” Kennedy passed away on Tuesday, August 25 after suffering from a malignant brain tumor.  Media coverage of his death has taught conservatives how liberals felt in the wake of President Ronald Reagan’s death, as the national media lionizes the “Lion Of The Senate”.

Unfortunately, coverage has scrubbed Kennedy’s image and leaves out Kennedy’s treachery in the early 1980s, when Ted Kennedy sought Soviet assistance to defeat Reagan in his 1984 re-election attempt.  In May 1983, the KGB detailed the offer in a letter to the Secretary General of the Soviet Union, Y.V. Andropov.

TEXT OF KGB LETTER ON SENATOR TED KENNEDY
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Special Importance
Committee on State Security of the USSR
14.05. 1983 No. 1029 Ch/OV
Moscow

Regarding Senator Kennedy’s request to the General Secretary of the Communist Party Comrade Y.V. Andropov

Comrade Y.V. Andropov

On 9-10 May of this year, Senator Edward Kennedy’s close friend and trusted confidant J. Tunney was in Moscow. The senator charged Tunney to convey the following message, through confidential contacts, to the General Secretary of the Center Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Y. Andropov.

Senator Kennedy, like other rational people, is very troubled by the current state of Soviet-American relations. Events are developing such that this relationship coupled with the general state of global affairs will make the situation even more dangerous. The main reason for this is Reagan’s belligerence, and his firm commitment to deploy new American middle range nuclear weapons within Western Europe.

According to Kennedy, the current threat is due to the President’s refusal to engage any modification on his politics. He feels that his domestic standing has been strengthened because of the well publicized improvement of the economy: inflation has been greatly reduced, production levels are increasing as is overall business activity. For these reasons, interest rates will continue to decline. The White House has portrayed this in the media as the “success of Reaganomics.”

Naturally, not everything in the province of economics has gone according to Reagan’s plan. A few well known economists and members of financial circles, particularly from the north-eastern states, foresee certain hidden tendencies that many bring about a new economic crisis in the USA. This could bring about the fall of the presidential campaign of 1984, which would benefit the Democratic party. Nevertheless, there are no secure assurances this will indeed develop.

The only real threats to Reagan are problems of war and peace and Soviet-American relations. These issues, according to the senator, will without a doubt become the most important of the election campaign. The movement advocating a freeze on nuclear arsenals of both countries continues to gain strength in the United States. The movement is also willing to accept preparations, particularly from Kennedy, for its continued growth. In political and influential circles of the country, including within Congress, the resistence to growing military expenditures is gaining strength.

However, according to Kennedy, the opposition to Reagan is still very weak. Reagan’s adversaries are divided and the presentations they make are not fully effective. Meanwhile, Reagan has the capabilities to effectively counter any propaganda. In order to neutralize criticism that the talks between the USA and the USSR are non-constructive, Reagan will grandiose, but subjectively propagandistic. At the same time, Soviet officials who speak about disarmament will be quoted out of context, silenced or groundlessly and whimsically discounted. Although arguments and statements by officials of the USSR do appear in the press, it is important to note the majority of Americans do not read serious newspapers or periodicals.

Kennedy believes that, given the current state of affairs, and in the interest of peace, it would be prudent and timely to undertake the following steps to counter the militaristic politics of Reagan and his campaign to psychologically burden the American people. In this regard, he offers the following proposals to the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Y.V. Andropov:

1. Kennedy asks Y.V. Andropov to consider inviting the senator to Moscow for a personal meeting in July of this year. The main purpose of the meeting, according to the senator, would be to arm Soviet officials with explanations regarding problems of nuclear disarmament so they may be better prepared and more convincing during appearances in the USA. He would also like to inform you that he has planned a trip through Western Europe, where he anticipates meeting England’s Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and French President Mitterand in which he will exchange similar ideas regarding the same issues.

If his proposals would be accepted in principle, Kennedy would send his representative to Moscow to resolve questions regarding organizing such a visit.

Kennedy thinks the benefits of a meeting with Y.V.Andropov will be enhanced if he could also invite one of the well known Republican senators, for example, Mark Hatfield. Such a meeting will have a strong impact on American and political circles in the USA (In March of 1982, Hatfield and Kennedy proposed a project to freeze the nuclear arsenals of the USA and USSR and published a book on the theme as well.)

2. Kennedy believes that in order to influence Americans it would be important to organize in August-September of this year, televised interviews with Y.V. Andropov in the USA. A direct appeal by the General Secretary to the American people will, without a doubt, attact a great deal of attention and interest in the country. The senator is convinced this would receive the maximum resonance in so far as television is the most effective method of mass media and information.

If the proposal is recognized as worthy, then Kennedy and his friends will bring about suitable steps to have representatives of the largest television companies in the USA contact Y.V. Andropov for an invitation to Moscow for the interview. Specifically, the president of the board of directors of ABC, Elton Raul and television columnists Walter Cronkite or Barbara Walters could visit Moscow. The senator underlined the importance that this initiative should be seen as coming from the American side.

Furthermore, with the same purpose in mind, a series of televised interviews in the USA with lower level Soviet officials, particularly from the military would be organized. They would also have an opportunity to appeal directly to the American people about the peaceful intentions of the USSR, with their own arguments about maintaining a true balance of power between the USSR and the USA in military term. This issue is quickly being distorted by Reagan’s administration.

Kennedy asked to convey that this appeal to the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union is his effort to contribute a strong proposal that would root out the threat of nuclear war, and to improve Soviet-American relations, so that they define the safety of the world. Kennedy is very impressed with the activities of Y.V. Andropov and other Soviet leaders, who expressed their commitment to heal international affairs, and improve mutal understandings between peoples.

The senator underscored that he eagerly awaits a reply to his appeal, the answer to which may be delivered through Tunney.

Having conveyed Kennedy’s appeal to the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Tunney also explained that Senator Kennedy has in the last few years actively made appearances to reduce the threat of war. Because he formally refused to partake in the election campaign of 1984, his speeches would be taken without prejudice as they are not tied to any campaign promises. Tunney remarked that the senator wants to run for president in 1988. At that time, he will be 56 and his personal problems, which could hinder his standing, will be resolved (Kennedy has just completed a divorce and plans to remarry in the near future). Taken together, Kennedy does not discount that during the 1984 campaign, the Democratic Party may officially turn to him to lead the fight against the Republicans and elect their candidate president. This would explain why he is convinced that none of the candidates today have a real chance at defeating Reagan.

We await instructions.

President of the committee
V. Chebrikov

While it might come as a shock to some, Ted Kennedy’s treason only follows in his father’s footsteps.  After all, Joe Kennedy was forced to resign as US Ambassador to Great Britain over his Nazi sympathies.

Perhaps Billy Joel was on to something when he wrote “Only the Good Die Young”.

Hassan Nemazee: Everything That’s Wrong With How The Dems Fundraise

Perhaps the central failure of Democrats to realize economic realities can be traced to the people central to their fundraising. Ben Smith reports on yet another Democrat fundraiser running afoul of the law.

Hassan Nemazee, a former finance chairman of Chuck Schumer’s Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and top Hillary Clinton fundraiser, has been charged and arrested on for allegedly trying to defraud Citibank of $74 million by offering fake collateral on a loan.

Nemazee is following in the footsteps of some other crooks who helped get Dems elected, like Norman Hsu, who encouraged his Ponzi scheme victims to contribute to Democrat campaigns using their names but his money.

The Nation investigated Hassan Nemazee and Alan Quasha in October 2007, in an article titled Hillary’s Mystery Money Men. In this article Russ Baker and Adam Federman examine the ties between Nemazee,  business associate Alan Quasha and Bill and Hillary Clinton and even DNC Chairman Terry McAuliffe.

Now Quasha is back–on the other side of the aisle. Operating below the radar, he entered Hillary Clinton’s circle even before she declared her candidacy by quietly arranging for the hire of Clinton confidant and longtime Democratic Party money man Terry McAuliffe at one of his companies. During the interregnum between McAuliffe’s chairmanship of the Democratic Party and the time he officially joined Clinton’s campaign, Quasha’s firm set McAuliffe up with a salary and opened a Washington office for him.

Given that Democrats and their ilk seem to miraculously acquire wealth after enjoying power in public office, is it really any surprise that they don’t comprehend the private sector?

Ryan Jenkins Lived By Strangulation, Died By Strangulation

In an update to a recent story, douchebag reality TV star and Canadian Ryan Jenkins has added a “-suicide” to the murder of his wife Jasmine Fiore. TMZ.com reports that his body was discovered by hotel staff in British Columbia and it appears that that he hung himself.

We at the Douchebag Report can only find tragic irony that the method he chose to kill himself was the same that he used to murder his wife: asphyxiation.

It is unclear what Jenkins hung himself with, but the word at DouchebagReport.com is that cable is the way to go.

The Best Way to Strangle a Snitch is with a Cable

-filed by intrepid Douchebag Report Sports Correspondent Nick Stej

Al Davis, a Hall of Famer and one of the men who built pro football as we know it today, has completely lost both his mind and his tact. The legendary Raiders Warlord has seemingly frayed his once great empire through underhanded dealings and snitching tactics.

Davis sent a mole into then Head Coach Lane Kiffin’s coaching room and where did that land him? A few decades late and a few bucks short of having a good coach.

Everyone in the Raiders coaching staff seems to have known Randy Hanson’s deal. He was the informant to Al Davis and a real Raiders guy. When Kiffin tried to suspend Hanson in 2008, he was fired soon after. This proves that losing and talking trash about the organization is okay, but suspending a d-backs coach is an impeachable offense.

That buck short would later come in the form of Tom Cable, a mean looking son of a bitch who appears as if he’d just as soon teach you how to shed a cut block as he’d show you how to bottle two men cleanly before the third dropped his glass.

The first time that the former defensive backs coach and purported mole Randy Hanson opened his mouth during a meeting, Cable is reported to have replied with a swift “If I could fire you today, I would.”

Less than a year later, Cable would allegedly remove the snitch’s ability to report coherently to the boss by breaking his jaw.

To get the tale of the tape straight, Cable has got to outweigh Hanson by at least 100 pounds. Still, a cinematic moment like Shooter McGavin’s savage beating at the hands of a giant mongoloid at the end of Happy Gilmore suggest that some people just have it coming to them.

Cable reportedly demoted Hanson to off-field film squint duty shortly before the altercation. Here’s a brief dramatization of how I envision the situation developing:

Int. Coaches’ Meeting, 15 minutes in…

DB Coach (Lionel Washington): Their receivers are getting their release too easy.

Hanson: Pffft.

Cable: Excuse me?

Hanson: Nothing to do with me, chief.

Cable: Excuse me?

Cable throws Hanson out of his chair.

Cable: Get up from the floor, you fucking rat. I still can’t hear you.

Hanson: This is how you’re running your ship now?

Cable: “I am going to kill you”

Cable strangles Hanson, who is at this point a limp rag doll.

Cable: “I am going to kill you.”

Cable gets one good haymaker in, breaking Hanson’s thin, pasty jaw.

The rest of the coaches knew that where one punch landed, many might follow and seized Cable before he could land a second blow.

Al Davis lost his mole last week, but may have gained much more.

If Hanson presses charges like he seems to be prepared to do, Cable will be up on felony assault charges.

If Hanson follows this through to conviction, Tom Cable is a convicted felon.

POP QUIZ!

Name one Oakland Raiders criminal.

OK, too easy.

Name one Oakland Raiders felon!

Easy too, yeah, this next one might be a bit easier.

Name one Raiders Stool Pigeon.

Randy Hanson.

Check that. There are no stoolies in the Raiders organization. Mr. Hanson, you are soon to be fired by Mr. Davis.

Al Davis has always loved having criminals within his organization. Take a guess who’s a Raiders guy now. Take a guess who’s out of a job.

Ryan Jenkins Finds Another Way To Get On Television; Kills Wife

Everyone, most especially the studios who create the shows, know that reality TV show contestants are douchebags, going back to The Real World’s Puck and Survivor’s tax-evading Richard Hatch. Given this, it was only a matter of time before a reality TV show (or two) would attract a douchebag among douchebags.

Meet Ryan Jenkins, 32, a Canadian real estate developer who was a contestant in not one, but two VH1 reality shows, Megan Wants a Millionaire and I Love Money 3. After apparently winning Megan Wants a Millionaire, Jenkins went to Las Vegas, where he met Playboy model Jasmine Fiore and married her two days later.

Now she’s dead, with her body found stuffed inside a suitcase found in Buena Park, California dumpster and and he’s on the lam, somewhere in Canada.

Jenkins was suspected of having headed to Point Roberts, Wash., a small community located at the southern end of a peninsula that is accessible by land only through Canada.
“Deputies received a report from a citizen that she had observed a boat being driven into the marina by a male matching Mr. Jenkins’s description, and the male was acting suspiciously,” says Sergeant Mead. “A short time later, deputies located that boat abandoned in the marina, and an intense manhunt ensued utilizing customs and a border protection helicopter … and assistance from the U.S. Marshal.
“The search failed to locate Mr. Jenkins, and it is believed that he was able to successfully cross the border into Canada on-foot. Canadian authorities were advised and they assisted us from their side, but were also unsuccessful in locating him.”

Anyway, the real suckers in this deal are VH1, who’ve announced that they’re postponing the airing of both shows indefinitely.  Not that they don’t deserve it.  A network that lives by douchebags dies by douchebags.

Best Buy Stands By Its Shoplifters

Jared Bergstreser, 20, and Colin Trapp, 23, were working their way through college at the Broomfield, Colorado Best Buy, at least until they violated the company’s “Please Steal Our Stuff” policy by tackling a shoplifter.

“A gentleman came by us in a red shirt with a bunch of product in his hand. It was pretty obvious that he hadn’t paid for it yet,” Trapp said.

“I just kind of reacted. I wasn’t thinking about it and followed the guy out the front door and tackled him,” Bergstreser said.

The thief pulled a knife, broke free, cut the store manager and then jumped into a car with an accomplice and escaped.  No arrests have been made.

Best Buy spokeswoman Kelly Groehler said that the company doesn’t discuss the termination of any employee, but she did elaborate on Best Buy’s “Please Steal Our Stuff” policy.

Groehler did say, “…that employees who work in our stores are aware, and trained, on the standard operating procedures for dealing with shoplifting or theft — which includes ceasing pursuit of a suspected shoplifter once they exit the store.”

That’s right.  There’s a window of about 10 feet between when it’s apparent that someone is taking stuff out of the store without paying for it and when the company will let them escape unhindered.

Groehler said the procedures are in place foremost for the safety of employees.

Well, if Best Buy really wanted to increase the safety of their employees they could just stop selling stuff that criminals want.  Alternatively, they could just pay their employees to stay home, while they leave their doors open and let people grab whatever they want and take it.

Local police say that whenever you see a theft in progress, whether it’s at a bank, a store or your own personal property, you shouldn’t try to be a hero. They say you should be the best witness you can be, get as much information as you can and call police promptly.

Local police also give a “Most Observant Sheep” award to the the victim who can best describe how they were preyed on by criminals. The Department also awards murder victims the “Lambs To The Slaughter” medal, posthumously of course.  Actually no, we made both those awards up.

For those criminals out there who might be reading this: If you shoplift from Best Buy in the future and an employee tries to stop you, be afraid.  This maniac doesn’t care about anything, including their job.  They probably have a death wish.

But don’t let Best Buy’s corporate headquarters down.  They’ve already established that they’re on your side.  If you can’t steal with corporate support, what kind of criminal are you?

If you want to let Best Buy know what you think of their policy of supporting shoplifting, feel free to contact them here.

Stephen Sahady Jr. “Is Like” A Child Pornographer

If you’re a married man making videos of yourself having sex with a fourteen year old girl, quite possibly the only thing you can do to further incriminate yourself is to say “Now this is like child porn and corrupting minors.”

According to an affidavit, that’s exactly what Evans City, PA resident, Stephen Sahady Jr., 25, did and said. He is being charged with aggravated indecent assault and corruption of minors.

Sahady’s wife Chantal reported the behavior to the police after it had been going on for a year. She had facilitated the abuse by picking the girl up from her Cranberry home and driving her to the Sahady residence.

The suspect’s wife said she witnessed some of the sexual acts but she ceased participating because it made her uncomfortable.

Uncomfortable?  One wonders why. It’s a good thing she immediately went to the police.

Mrs. Sahady said the encounters started Aug. 12 last year and continued at least weekly until last month.

Well, as long as she reported it within a year.

Chanel Sahady found herself in the position that many wives do: Wondering where to draw the line.  In this case, she chose poorly. The line isn’t between picking up a 14 year old for your husband to tag and tagging her yourself.  For future reference, the line is at “Hey honey,  I want to bang a 14 year old”.

State Police are examining the hard drive of Sahady’s computer  and further charges may be filed.

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