Archive for July, 2011
Thursday Open Thread: July 28th, 2011
(iMaksim)
Wow…I’m tired from following all the news this week.
Back and forth and back and forth with the budget deals.
Who will end up with the best deal?
Fast and Furious is living up to it’s name. Rep. Issa is moving fast on his investigation and he’s pretty furious. Go Darrell Go!
What else is on your minds this Thursday?
What are people talking about in your part of the world?
A Palestinian tirade
So why doesn’t this loon tell us how she really feels? She reminds me of one of the zombies in the movie “28 Days Later“. She and that crowd of maniacs behind her don’t seem human. This is a prime example of why the United States should stand with Israel 100%. Israel is surrounded on all sides by this kind of evil. The Israelis are the bravest and strongest people in the world. I can not understand how any Jewish person in America could vote for Obama (who has continued to disrespect them). It shouldn’t matter that the Jews have always voted democrat. All that should matter is who will support Israel and Obama has proven time and time again that he is no friend of Israel.
I’d like to see Helen Thomas try to defend this video.
URGENT Action Item: Spread the word about Defend the Vote’s event tomorrow 7/28/11
Defend the Vote is an organization here in Illinois that’s taking on the corruption endemic in this state’s voting processes. There’s a reason the Left firmly counts Illinois in its column, despite the fact that the majority of people living in this state are probably conservative. Illinois is a red state that’s dyed blue repeatedly through voter fraud and other machinations of the Democrat Party here. If fraud and corruption could be eliminated in Cook County (Chicago) and just a handful of other areas in the state, then Illinois would go red in future elections.
Don’t dismiss this as an “it’ll never happen!” scenario. That’s what the Left counts on you doing. For a few years now, the emphasis has been put on Republicans getting just 2% more of the vote in Cook County to win statewide. While that’s a good goal (increasing the number of people who vote Republican), the Cocktail Party GOP establishment has never focused on eliminating the voter fraud that’s rampant statewide. If we decrease the number of votes Democrats get in Illinois from voter fraud and other underhanded and illegal means, we can have fair elections in Illinois that are not decided by the Democrat Party and Union Bosses in Chicago.
Defend the Vote could be a template for similar groups in other states coast to coast, but it’s only just beginning its efforts.
It needs your help to succeed.
The very first big event Defend the Vote is hosting will be held tomorrow 7/28/11 at the Union League Club in downtown Chicago (see details below).
How can you get this information out to any groups in the Chicago area that could pack this event — where Defend the Vote will present its Security Audit of Illinois’ fraud-riddled election system?
Please chime in with ideas for getting the word out about this event, especially what you can/will do to let people know about it.
Proof Obama Has Already Lost Ohio
Obama won Ohio in 2008 through voter fraud, pure and simple. ACORN manufactured about 200,000 questionable voter registrations, which were accepted by the vile and corrupt Soros plant, Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner. And (surprise, surprise), the number of ACORN voter registrations from cemeteries, illegal aliens, vacant lots, convicted felons, pets and cartoon characters was roughly equal to Obama’s margin of “victory.”
And yet, despite the best efforts of Jennifer Brunner, the voters of Ohio will get the opportunity to give Obamacare the big electoral finger in November of 2011 (just like they gave Jennifer and the Democrats the finger statewide in November of 2010).
After Obamacare was rammed through Congress in the dead of night on Christmas eve 2009, The Ohio Project–a statewide coalition of Ohio freedom groups–started working to get an anti-Obamacare constitutional amendment on the November, 2010 ballot. But the Ballot Board chaired by Secretary of State Brunner “abused its discretion and clearly disregarded applicable law” when they blocked The Ohio Project’s attempt to offer a single amendment to the Ohio Constitution to preserve the freedom of Ohioans to choose their health care and health care coverage. (At least, that was the unanimous ruling of the Ohio Supreme Court in April, 2010.)
Ohio is a huge state, and nearly all successful statewide petition drives are conducted by paid circulators. Brunner’s office knew that The Ohio Project didn’t have the money that the corrupt unions, ACORN, or the Democrat party had to gather signatures–so they’d have to rely on volunteers to circulate petitions. Brunner’s strategy was to delay certification of the amendment language, assuming that the wicked evil RAAAAACIST Tea Party activists in Ohio wouldn’t have enough time before the 2010 election to gather enough valid signatures to get the amendment on the ballot.
Brunner was right in one sense…everyone involved understood that thanks to Brunner’s unlawful delays, the amendment didn’t stand a chance of going before the voters in 2010. And I’m sure that Brunner and most of the Democrat leadership in Ohio assumed they could keep the anti-Obamacare amendment off the ballot in 2011, as well. (They probably also assumed they would all still have their cushy government jobs after the 2010 election. They were wrong on both counts.)
Instead of wasting the precious time and energy of volunteer petition circulators on a doomed bid to get on the 2010 ballot, the very wise leaders of The Ohio Project decided to focus on getting the constitutional amendment on the ballot this year. And a few days ago, they succeeded.The group needed to collect 385,245 valid signatures of Ohio voters. This week, Ohio’s new Republican Secretary of State certified 426,998 signatures. They were collected by over 4,400 unpaid Ohioans, in their spare time, working as volunteers.
Ohio has 88 counties, and it’s not easy to get a constitutional amendment on the ballot. To get the anti-Obamacare amendment on the ballot, in at least 44 of these counties, volunteers from The Ohio Project had to collect valid signatures in excess of 5% of the number of votes cast in the last gubernatorial election. For the entire state, the anti-Obamacare coalition had to gather a total number of signatures greater than 10% of the number of votes cast in the last gubernatorial election. That, in and of itself, was remarkable.
What is stunning is that in nine Ohio counties, the equivalent of one out of every four active voters signed The Ohio Project’s petition to void Obamacare within the borders of the Buckeye State. In 30 other counties, volunteers collected a quantity of signatures equal to more than 15% of those who had voted in the last gubernatorial election.
So far, over 441,000 Ohio voters have signed petitions to put an Obamacare nullification constitutional amendment on the ballot in Ohio. (H/T Moonbattery.com)
The fact that a statewide coalition of volunteers has organized themselves, trained themselves to collect valid signatures, stayed focused, and successfully collected nearly half a million signatures is simply stunning. It has never before been done.
The Freedom Movement is strong and growing in Ohio. The state is blanketed with Tea Party groups, 912 groups, and other liberty organizations.
The majority of Ohio voters, like the majority of Americans, are against Obamacare. And last November, the voters of Ohio routed Democrats from the Statehouse and Governor’s Mansion.
Obama’s accomplice, Jennifer Brunner, is no longer around to facilitate the massive voter fraud that put Obama into office.
I believe that the combination of this massive show of anti-Obamacare strength, and the absence of Jennifer Brunner (and thus, voter fraud) from the landscape, means that Ohio is going to go GOP in the next election.
Back to the drawing board for Mr. Boehner
A day has gone by since both Boehner and Reid unveiled their debt plan and that has given the CBO a chance to look them over. Did you know that both plans are named the exact same thing? Yep…the Budget Control Act of 2011. I think it’s a bad omen. The conclusion of the CBO is that Boehner’s plan won’t do much of anything to cut the debt (they’re reviewing Reid’s plan now). Both plans use a lot of smoke and mirrors and big words like “trillions” to wow the American people but it’s all fluff. The White House actually defended Boehner’s plan on their website yesterday so you know this plan is bad.
Here are some of the basic bads:
1. Boehner claims that his plan will cut $6 billion next year but the federal government spends $10 billion a day. But wait….after all the garbage has been sifted through, the CBO determined late last night that the actual amounts of cuts would only be $1 billion for next year.
2. The CBOhas also determined that Boehner’s $1.2 trillion in discretionary spending cuts over the next 10 years will only actually amount to $850 billion (thanks to mandatory Pell Grant spending). This means that the amount the debt ceiling will be raised will be greater than the spending cuts.
3. Boehner has also admitted that tax hikes could come out of his plan…something that he earlier denied.
Now that the truth is out….Boehner and his staff are scrambling to rewrite his plan. I hope they do a better job this time.
They need to keep in mind that compromising will only make the American people mad.
…and that’s not a good thing.
Wednesday Open Thread: July 27th, 2011
Latino Moonbat George Lopez
Did you know that yesterday George Lopez said that if Sarah Palin is elected president then he will move to Canada?
Promise George? Because I don’t want to get my hopes up and have you back out like that Whoopi Goldberg creature did when George W. Bush was elected. I still see her sad sorry face on TV all the time and it makes me sick. You crazy Hollywood types need to start honoring your word.
What’s on your minds this Wednesday? (isn’t it Friday yet?)
What are people talking about in your part of the world?
Do gay activist groups like Equality Illinois condemn discrimination when it’s gays that are doing the discriminating?
Please checkout Equality Illinois’ website, in particular the “Our Mission” section where Equality Illinois condemns discrimination supposedly against everyone in the state of Illinois.
In the past, Equality Illinois has energetically participated in and supported various efforts here in Boystown to attack Republican political figures and Christian family groups as bigots — alleging these people discriminate against gays in the state of Illinois.
Bill Brady, 2010 Republican candidate for Governor, was attacked in this way, with no proof ever offered that he’s a bigot, as Equality Illinois and other gay attackers alleged. Of course as soon as the election was over and Pat Quinn (Democrat) was elected, the crusade against Brady ended. If this man was really a dangerous bigot on the loose in the state, it’s ponderous that Equality Illinois decided to never say another word about the man or his role in Illinois politics.
Congress needs a little wake-up call…..again
Everybody wants a debt deal so that we can avoid a financial meltdown (haven’t we already melted down?). I bet every back room in Washington has lawmakers in them trying to become the next American hero. Financial experts have reviewed both Boehner and Reid’s plans to save America and they all agree that neither plan will stop us from suffering a credit downgrade (not enough spending cuts). Apparently the only plan that will allow us to keep our AAA rating is the Cut-Cap-Balance plan.
Erick Erickson over at RedState is asking anyone and everyone to call their congressman to let them know that this is the plan we want. No compromise.
Here’s Erick’s plea….
Tell them to hold the line on Cut, Cap, and Balance.
A host of conservative organizations are coming out against Boehner’s plan because, among other things, it only cuts $6 to $7 billion and punts major reform to a commission of 12 that will only need 7 votes to raise taxes.
Call your congressmen and senators and tell them to hold the freaking line.
I think the congressional switchboards have been in overload status all day but Erick has a direct link so that you can bypass the switchboard.
Let’s get going on this.
Do you know of an accurate list of cities and venues where “The Undefeated” is playing?
I am very eager to see the Sarah Palin documentary “The Undefeated” but it’s not playing here in Chicago.
There was, apparently, a one-time, unpublicized showing of the movie — for one screening only — that I didn’t hear about. With no press or advertisement, hundreds of people still turned out for it.
Evidently, the film is packed wherever it is being shown…but it’s only a handful of theaters.
Does anyone know of an accurate list of where it is playing?
If there’s a venue anywhere near Chicago, it feels like road trip time.
I’d love to be able to do a synopsis and write-up on “The Undefeated” for those of you who won’t have the opportunity to drive to a city where it’s being screened.
Could blacks really not show up to vote in 2012 to re-elect Obama?
Much of the black community was pretty obnoxious back in 2008 regarding the election of Obama, who was branded “the historic and unprecedented first black president”, despite being half-white and mostly Arab (since his Kenyan father was actually only 1/4 black and 3/4 African Muslim).
Blacks here in Chicago harassed Hillary volunteers during the primary campaign, calling us RAAACISTS! for supporting Clinton instead of Obama…when we knew all along how terrible Obama would be as president and did everything we could to stop him from getting the nomination. The Obama campaign clearly ramped up the racial tension and actively encouraged black people to hurl racially-motivated insults and epithets at the Clintons themselves. Remember what happened during the South Carolina primary back in 2008? Obama surrogates not only played the race card against both Hillary and Bill Clinton, but Obama pushed the Pigford Black Reparations scam to black community leaders as a carrot to lead them away from supporting the Clintons and secure them in the Obama camp (it was then-Senator Obama who engineered the Pigford Black Reparations scam, which was a reward to the black community for abandoning and attacking the Clintons so Obama could become president).
On election night back in 2008, I attended the McCain/Palin results watch events in Chicago, with one group hosted in a hotel overlooking Grant Park downtown…directly across the street from where the Obama cult rally took place. It was nowhere near as large as the cameras led people watching on television to believe (with Mayor Daley apocryphally claiming at the time that “there were 2 million people there!”, when a few days later the Park Service admitted it was more like 300,000, which is less than the attendance of both the Gay Pride Parade here in Boystown or the Taste of Chicago food festival downtown). But there were indeed a lot of Obama cultists out in force that day, most of them being part of the national lamestream media, with “journalists” crying on camera, so emotionally affected by Obama’s election.
Inside the hotel, some group affiliated with Jesse Jackson had one of the ballrooms for an event of their own. Many black attendees of the group, all dressed in orange Jesse Jackson tee shirts, thronged the corridors, elevators, and public rooms of the hotel loudly cheering not for Obama, but for their race. “A black man in the White House!”, they shouted at anyone white. “It’s the Black House now, suckers!” They shook their butts, made obscure and bizarre hand and arm gestures (which are apparently common in black fraternity and sororities, but alien outside the black community), and hooted and hollering until dawn over Obama’s win.
In an elevator with other McCain/Palin supporters riding to our floor, several of these orange-shirted Jackson affiliates made horrible comments to us, in playground, taunting tones unexpected from grown adults. It was a very tense elevator ride, because it wasn’t about the election of a politician…it was about these particular black people singling out the white people in front of them for a verbal attack based on our race as opposed to theirs.
Of course, because these were black people doing the taunting and freely shouting obnoxious racially-motivated exclamations into the air, this was all okay. The fact these were people participating in an orange-shirted Jesse Jackson event of some kind just made everything all the more obvious.
After the election came the belief that “Obama money” would be flowing into the black community like honey from a Pennsylvania Avenue bee hive once Obama took over. Remember the absurd, delusional woman who said on camera that Obama was going to pay her rent, and her gas bill, and her car note, etc.? There were near-riots in Detroit when black people lined up to get their “Obama money”, when none was to be had.
The only “Obama money” that ever materialized was that affiliated with the Pigford Black Reparations scam that Obama cooked up as a sitting US Senator and pushed through as President — but those reparations went only to the politically connected Obama operatives in the South, as payback for their help defeating the Clintons.
In a city like Chicago, Obama has done about as much for blacks as President as he did for them as a US Senator or a state senator here in Illinois before that: jack smack.
Obama does not care about black people, largely because Obama does not consider himself to be a black person. Throughuot his life, Obama has only been black when it’s best suited him. Mostly, Obama considers himself to be a Muslim and an Indonesian, based on the obvious fact that he spent his formative years in a foreign country hating America and was adopted by Indonesian Lolo Soetoro when his mother married this Indonesian man. There is an alien, foreignness to Obama that’s the root of who this man is. Very clearly this keeps him from relating to the lives and problems of Americans…especially the black ones.
I’ve always found it striking that Obama has allowed his grandmother and brothers in Africa to live in abject squalor, suffering without electricity in their homes, while he enjoyed great riches benefitting from everything the Left showered him with as Leftists prepared Obama’s rise to the top. He could have very easily made a better life for his black relatives, including his Aunt Zetuni who lived in a housing project in Boston (illegally so), but he chose not to.
Just as he chose not to do a darn thing to benefit the black community he represented here in Chicago as a state senator…and then recommitted to doing nothing for the black community as a US Senator after that.
Here and there, I hear black community leaders in Chicago grumble about this.
They get angry when pressed for an opinion about what Obama has done for blacks as president.
According to this bit in the Washington Post, blacks are not enthused about re-electing Obama.
I wonder how hard it will be to gin up the race-card flinging, hatefest the Obama campaign produced with ease back in 2008 when this spectacle is needed by his re-election campaign next year.
Will so many black people participate in this the next time around?
Will black people get on the Obama bandwagon again to intimidate white voters and call anyone not voting for Obama a RAAACIST again?
More importantly, will people be intimidated and bullied this way again?
Do the threats of being called a RAAACIST carry as much weight now, and will they carry that much weight again in 2012?
Will Republicans actually grow a spine and push back on this garbage…or will the Cocktail Party GOP establishment stand back and allow these threats of being called RAAACISTS for opposing Obama’s re-election hamstring the Republican effort in 2012?
I’ve heard several times now that black voters will not show up for Obama in the numbers Obama needs to win re-election in 2012. Though it’s rare to hear it from black people on the street, there is immense disappointment in Obama in the black community.
But, the simple truth is that it was not black voters that gave Obama the win in 2012.
Obama won because independents voted for him to prove they were not RAAACISTS and very foolish Republicans sat home on election day “to teach the party a lesson” because they felt McCain was not conservative enough.
Will this happen again in 2012?
What think you?
