Archive for October, 2011
OPERATION GRATITUDE – We’re still here. Because they are still there.
President Obama has announced that the U.S. will pull out all of our troops from Iraq by the end of this year. Of course this is wonderful news for the families of those stationed in Iraq. But let us remember that there are still thousands of military personnel in Afghanistan, other areas in the Middle East, as well as those serving aboard ships at sea. In addition to those serving in hostile areas, there are the thousands stationed in places such as South Korea, Japan, Germany.
The stated mission of Operation Gratitude is to “put a smile on a service member’s face and express our appreciation and support.” Men and women in our military weren’t drafted — they volunteered. In this day and age of ultimate creature comforts and conveniences in America, the fact that someone would set their comfortable life aside to serve their country, being assigned to places and jobs they may never have imagined, is beyond admirable. We owe each and every one of these wonderful men and women a debt of gratitude for standing watch while we go on with our comfortable lives.
Operation Gratitude continues sending care packages to our troops. As long as we have troops far from their home, we will continue to let them know they are in our hearts. As always, our care packages contain fun items such as DVDs, CDs, books, snacks; comfort items such as chapstick, sunscreen; and always, always, letters from grateful Americans. We welcome support from people all over the country.
To see how you can support Operation Gratitude, please check our website www.operationgratitude.com.
Ron Paul Owns Michael Moore and Larry King on “Free” Health Care
Lefty Propagandist Michael Moore
This is fun to watch. GOP Frontrunner Ron Paul owns Michael “Jabba” Moore on his quest to destroy the U.S. healthcare system.
Poor Larry King just looks fossilized in this video. It would appear that his brain has been fossilized for some time. Like most Leftists, Larry King thinks that if you don’t want the Federal government to do something, you don’t want it done. So if you don’t want the Federal government to use tax dollars to give poor people “free” medical care, you want them to die in the streets. If you don’t want the Federal government to fund the Department of Education, you want innocent American school children to go uneducated and turn into a nation of drooling, dumpster-diving urchins. (Because the government education system does such a good job, dontcha know.) Useful idiots, both of them.
No wonder our younger generation is so screwed up. They had teachers like THIS.
This retired teacher recieves over $7,000 a month in pension payments, (your taxes, BTW) and he wants to collapse our government? Man, I thought the hippies were stupid. This loser beats them all, hands down. At least he washes his hair. And I’m guessing he probably won’t take a dump on a police car.
Like I said, I’m guessing.
Lifted from rebel pundit.
Must-Read: The Premature Coronation of Mitt Romney on AmericanThinker.com
Democrat Pick Mitt Romney
Kevin has been warning readers about “Extremely Premature Romney Coronitis” for years. It’s good to see that others have started to figure out the Democrat-controlled media’s game. The Premature Cornation of Mitt Romney is a must-read. Jered Peterson has nailed it. Here are some money quotes:
…in propaganda, it’s not the analysis — it’s the repetition that counts….we are going to see a lot more of this kind of ludicrous coronational stuff from the MSM and the Republican establishment, especially as Romney’s interminable campaign continues to exhibit its signal trait: failure to engender a shred of enthusiasm among the Republican voter base — or, for that matter, among Romney’s own alleged supporters.
Peterson reports the results of the latest Fox News poll and notes that
Among those who identify with the Tea Party wing of the Republican Party, whose energy and commitment disproportionately drove the 2010 electoral victory, the numbers are even more disturbing for the MSM/Party establishment-designated sure thing….Here the result is even more lopsided: conservatives with serious levels of support (Cain, Gingrich, Paul, and Perry) get a total of 63% of the vote to Romney’s 18%, with 8% undecided and the candidates with minimal support (a total of 4%) divided essentially as among “All Republicans.”
Peterson also correctly points out that the Cocktail Party GOP is just as hostile to the nomination of a conservative GOP candidate as the Democrat-Crontrolled Media (but for different reasons, of course.) He points out what I’ve been pointing out for months:
…there is absolutely no frontrunner now, and the race for the Republican nomination is wide open. It will be the primary voters, not the MSM commentators or the Party establishment, who select the nominee. Every word the latter utter, every sentence they write, containing the word “frontrunner” needs to be ignored.
I couldn’t have said it better myself.
Hat Tip to alert reader Richard for this story.
What’s most important to you in deciding whom you can support as a presidential candidate?
The 2012 election is a strange one for me, on a personal level, because prior to just last month, I had zero emotional investment in any of the declared candidates.
I have been a supporter of Governor Sarah Palin since 2008 and hoped she’d run for president this year; I respect her decision to not enter the race as I expected, but still nurse great disappointment because I believe the Governor would have won not just the nomination but the White House. As a Hillary Clinton supporter in 2003, it’s deja vu all over again for me, because Hillary was convinced by her own party establishment not to run in 2004 but to wait for another turn…and she missed her window for the White House. I hope the same thing doesn’t happen to Governor Palin in the end, but wish she’d made her move in 2012 when I believe it’s nearly impossible for Barack Obama to win re-election.
With Palin out of the race, I had to take a look at the declared candidates running for the presidency and pick one of them to support.
The only candidate I had any negative feelings towards was Mittens Romneycare, whom I see as the definitive embodiment of everything that’s wrong with the Republican Party today. To understand what alienates so many people from the GOP and keeps many of the “bitter, clinging, Midwesterners” (as Obama described us) from voting Republican you need only observe Mittens in action. He takes both sides of every issue and stands for nothing but his own election. He claims to have not spent his entire life in politics, conveniently “forgetting” that’s only because he’s lost every election he ran in save for this single stint at Massachusetts Governor. It’s convenient he forgets this, because he’s the “Republican Michael Dukakis” who created the basis for Obamacare — Romneycare — while he was in office. The entire “Occupy Wall Street” astroturfing operation you see in major cities across the country has been orchestrated by ACORN to breed foot soldiers for Obama to tear Mittens Romney apart in a general election…since there are just three people I can think of that perfectly fit the caricature of a Wall Street fat cat the Occupoopers believe deserve massive comeuppance: Gordan Gekko (from the movie Wall Street), Mr. Monopoly (the cartoon mascot from the Parker Brothers game), and Willard Mittens “Mitt” Romneycare.
In 2008, the Left and its agenda-driven media enablers seeded the race with a youthful vibe early on because the plan involved orchestrating the nomination of ancient and decrepit-looking John McCain, so that Barack Obama could win the presidency in a “Youth vs. Age” election; in 2012, the Left and its agenda-driven media enablers are seeding the race with an “Occupy Wall Street” vibe this early in the process so that by the time the Left succeeds in picking Mittens Romneycare as the GOP nominee, they’ll have mobilized a large and vicious mob to tear him to pieces and secure Obama’s re-election.
The Left knows it can’t run on Obama’s record or that Nobel Peace Prize he won for “being awesome” in 2009. The only positive attribute ever ascribed to Mittens is that “he was a Wall Street businessman a long time ago”; the Left is taking this positive away from Mittens, starting now, just as a Mittens nomination for 2012 will take Obamacare’s disastrous impact on our economy off the campaign table because of Mittens’ own Romneycare.
The Cocktail Party GOP establishment is foolishly pushing the “it’s his turn!” and “we’ve been counting on campaign jobs with him!” candidate when having Mittens on the 2012 ticket means that every rightful criticism of Obamcare will be met with a “well, Mitt Romney did the same thing in Massachusetts, and in fact is the architect of Obamacare” from every Democrat surrogate speaker.
The Romneycare candidacy will be more of a disaster than the lackluster and foolish Washington Generals-inspired non-campaign McCain mustered in 2008.
Why Republicans keep allowing the Left and its agenda-driven enablers to select their presidential nominees is a mystery I just can’t seem to solve.
So, I’ve known from the beginning that I cannot support Mitt Romney in any way at all. I will not campaign for him, and I will not vote for him, because I will not give my blessing to the suicidal “it’s his turn!” stupidity evidenced time and again by the Cocktail Party GOP establishment. With that firmly settled, I needed to take a solid look at the remaining contenders for the nomination.
Here are the five things that were important to me in determining whom I support (please add your own criteria in comments below):
HillBuzz Open Thread: Thursday October 27th, 2011
[ NOTE: the clip above is from the TV show "What's My Line?", which included a segment where famous people would appear and the panel of celebrities had to guess their identities. The "mystery guests" would use weird voices to try to throw the panel off. Here, Eleanor Roosevelt appears near the end of her life and acts especially strange through most of the segment. She was there promoting United Nations Day, back when the UN was not controlled by the third world and league of general America-haters. It's impossible for me to imagine a UN like that, since it's been such a waste of time and money for the entirety of my life. ]
Today in History:
2005 – Riots begin in Paris after the deaths of two Muslim teenagers. Who was involved? Muslim males between the ages of 17-41. No pattern here!
2004 – Major League Baseball: The Boston Red Sox complete a four-game sweep of the 2004 World Series against the St. Louis Cardinals, giving the team their first World Series championship since 1918. Meanwhile, here in Chicago, just on the edge of Boystown, the Cubs still suck. At least hottie manager Theo Epstein is hanging around Wrigley Field these days though. Hubba, hubba.
1997 – October 27, 1997 mini-crash: Stock markets around the world crash because of fears of a global economic meltdown. The Dow Jones Industrial Average plummets 554.26 points to 7,161.15. I have no doubt in my mind George Soros was somehow behind this. Just as whenever a bunch of feathers is found at a crime scene, I bet The Penguin’s involved, or when some Egyptian related crime happens in Gotham City, it has to be King Tut. It’s all pretty “Super Villains 101″ if you are paying any attention.
1995 – Latvia applies for membership in the European Union. In 2011, Lativa might be rethinking this application, all things considered.
What’s going on in your part of the country?
What are people talking about in your home towns?
What’s going to be the most important story today?
Question: What will you do if the Cocktail Party establishment succeeds in making Mitt Romney the nominee?
Dear HillBuzz,
Romney is definitely not my first choice. I like Cane. But what are you going to do if he does get nominated? Any of the Republican candidates is much better than Obama, including even Ron Paul with his isolationist/McGovern-like foreign policy. I’d like to remind you of Reagan’s “11th commandment”: never speak ill of a fellow Republican. Right now all these attacks on Romney make it much easier for Obama to win, should Romney get the nomination. Ultimately we all want Obama to lose in 2012. So, he is the one we need to attack. People were saying that McCain or Hillary were Obama-light. But any “Obama-light” would be infinitely better than “Obama-full version”.
Eric
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Dear Eric,
Thank you for writing in. I’ve never seen you post here before to the best of my knowledge, so I don’t know you or your motivations with this message. I did run your IP and email addresses through the search options we have on the site, and you’ve never left a comment before. That’s odd, since typically first-time commenters don’t write this much, or have such a specific focus in their questioning. Hmmmm.
I am going to assume for the sake of argument that you are not a Cocktail Party establishment operative or someone connected to the Romney campaign in any way and I will answer your questions as best I can as you have asked them. I invite readers to use the comment thread to respond directly to you as well so you can see what they think too.
You wrote: Romney is definitely not my first choice.
Mittens Romneycare is not my choice at all, so we agree on this. Off to a great start!
You wrote: I like Cane.
As do I, but it’s Halloween, not Christmas. Candy canes won’t be in the stores for at least another week or so. If you’re talking about presidential candidate Herman Cain, his name is spelled with an “i”, not an “e”.
You wrote: But what are you going to do if he does get nominated?
Who gets nominated? Are you talking about Mittens Romneycare or Herman Cain? I’m assuming you mean Mittens, and I’ll proceed under that assumption going forward. I do want to point out that you write in classic troll parlance, whether you intend to or not. See what you did here? You said something in the first line to establish a connection with me, since you know I don’t support Mittens. In the second line, you strengthen that connection by telling me you like “Cane” (sic)…which is intended, I presume, to make us buds, since we have so much in common. Then you ask about what I’d do if Mittens is nominated. Now, I don’t know you, or your intentions, but I’ll tell you how I naturally interpret this: as trolling for Romney, for whatever reason. “Well, just like you I don’t like Romney, I like Cain just like you do, but I’m someone who is getting myself ready for the inevitable nomination of Romney and I think you should too”. Is that what you are saying, Eric?
You said: Any of the Republican candidates is much better than Obama, including even Ron Paul with his isolationist/McGovern-like foreign policy.
This gets into interesting territory. I’m honestly very conflicted on whether or not I think going along with the Cocktail Party’s coronation of Romney is better than a second term for Obama. Have you noticed how aggressively the agenda-driven media and the Left are pushing Mittens Romneycare to be the GOP nominee? Don’t you think it’s strange that the Cocktail Party GOP establishment, the Left, the Obama White House, and the agenda-driven media all want Mittens Romneycare to be the 2012 Republican nominee? Isn’t that odd…and more than a little deja vu of the 2008 push by these very same groups to make John McCain the “it’s his turn, he’s inevitable” nominee?
I personally believe Mittens Romneycare is being pushed so hard towards the nomination because the Left knows Obama is a one-term president. Accepting his inevitable loss, the Left is trying its best to secure a Republican president to follow him who will be wholly ineffectual and won’t be willing to do any of the things that need to be done to get this country back on track. The Left knows how much Mittens flip-flops and how meek and indecisive he is, so I believe they are counting on that to assure things like public sector union reform, the elimination of illegal immigration, tax reform, and a balanced budget don’t happen in the next administration. This way, the country stays in financial ruin under someone like Romney, which opens the door for Democrats to retake power in 2016. I assume the 46th President (the one who would kick Mittens’ sorry can in the 2016 election) won’t enact any substantive reforms either and certainly wouldn’t scale back the scope and size of government; this means America would have to wait until 2021, and the 47th President, for a shot at making the tough decisions that could rescue our economy.
Is that really better than Obama winning a second term and a conservative Republican we can trust winning the nomination and presidency in 2016 and saving us from ruin four years sooner?
I don’t trust Mittens Romneycare to be the tough, effective, and unapologetically conservative president we need in office right now…and I don’t buy into the “anyone is better than Obama” lie the Cocktail Party establishment, the Left, and the agenda-driven media are working hard to sell people like you, Eric.
As for Dr. Paul, and your comments about him, I find it strange that someone who misspelled Herman Cain’s last name (perhaps deliberately) would then go on to include a McGovern reference and know that McGovern was associated with an isolationist school of thought. That’s just strange to me. I feel like the remark about Dr. Paul was copy and pasted off something, or taken from a list of key words assigned to denigrate Dr. Paul. Perhaps you slipped this in here because my friend Kathleen Gee is a Paul supporter and I encourage her to express her thoughts on Dr. Paul freely.
You might be only a casual reader who doesn’t know that I’m not a Paul supporter and spend very little time thinking about Dr. Paul. So it’s just odd that a pejorative reference to him was tacked on randomly to a sentence like this.
Curiouser and curiouser.
You said: I’d like to remind you of Reagan’s “11th commandment”: never speak ill of a fellow Republican.
I’d like to tell you how stupid you are if you really think like this.
This is the Republican primary season, when someone will be chosen to succeed Barack Obama in the White House. Now is the time to really grill the candidates before us to determine who can be trusted to make the tough decisions ahead that will save our country from ruin. I do not believe Mittens Romneycare is the man to do this. I have zero faith in his ability to lead this country. I will never support him. I do not like him, I do not trust him, I do not want him to be the Republican nominee. I have thought long and hard on this and I can honestly say that even when pressed I could not think of anything good to say about Mittens Romneycare. He has taken both sides of every issue and proved himself to be untrustworthy and undeserving of my faith, hope, or respect. If the Cocktail Party GOP establishment, the Left, and the agenda-driven media succeed in installing Mittens as the Republican nominee, I will devote myself to reminding Americans of Obama’s record and everything terrible the Left has done to this country during Obama’s term. I will focus my energy on getting as many people as possible to NOT vote for Barack Obama again. But I am just not creative enough of a writer to publish a non-satire, April Fool’s styled essay advocating Mittens Romneycare because this man is truly the very embodiment of everything I think is dead wrong with the Republican Party.
If he’s on the ballot, I won’t vote for Mittens Romneycare; I will vote third party. If Obama wins, it will be the fault of the Cocktail Party GOP establishment for forcing another John McCain onto conservative voters because the establishment assumed we had no choice but to vote for Romney.
That’s why I keep repeating that a vote for Mittens Romneycare in the primaries is really a vote for Barack Obama in the general election, since if Romneycare is the nominee I believe Obama will be re-elected and the Republican Party as we know it will be effectively destroyed because I for one intend to join the ranks of fed-up conservatives who are not going to sit back and let the Cocktail Party establishment force another terrible, untrustworthy, “it’s his turn” candidate upon us again.
You said: Right now all these attacks on Romney make it much easier for Obama to win, should Romney get the nomination.
With all due respect, this is pure stupidity on your part. Now I really believe you are on the Romney payroll.
What would you have people do? Sit back and pretend there’s no problem at all with Romney?
Don’t you realize the Left and its media enablers intend to do to Mittens exactly what they did to McCain in 2008? They pen love letters to him during the primaries, but as soon as he’d become the nominee they’ll hit him with well-prepared hatemail. Mittens, like McCain before him, seems foolish enough to believe “They love me, they really love me, and they’d never, ever turn on me”.
What you really want is for everyone to be quiet about Mittens Romneycare’s immense flaws and, I believe, ineligibility for office (based on the fact I just can’t trust this man to do a good job as president) so that the Left can just say all of the exact same things in the general election, which would hand Obama re-election.
This is what perplexes me most about Republicans: they just keep repeating this same mistake, and never seem to learn from it. I really have to say that if conservatives fall for this garbage again, after having this happen so clearly just three years ago, then we’ll all have to come to the sad realization that these voters are just stupid and beyond any help or hope.
You said: Ultimately we all want Obama to lose in 2012.
True. But with the caveat that I want him to lose to someone who will be better than him in office. That person is not Mittens Romneycare. I also want to point out that this is classic troll-speak, when you use phrasings like “ultimately we all want…”. Psychologically, a troll would do this to establish more of that “Hey, I’m just like you! We’re in this together!” comradery because you think that will make me more apt to listen to you and do what you tell me to do.
What you don’t realize is that I’ve run this site for three and half years now, so I’ve read letters like this from hundreds of paid operatives who’ve written in with similar remarks. In all this time, I’ve never once seen such repetition and similarities in comments or emails from real people without agendas. But the troll comments always sound so similar to one another. With all the same phrasings, the same formula used to get to their points, the same deliberate misspellings of easy-to-spell words that trolls believe make them seem more like regular people (who, trolls think, can’t spell or don’t proofread).
Curiouser and curiouser.
You said: So, he is the one we need to attack.
I have plenty of time to attack both Barack Obama and Mittens Romneycare and intend to keep doing just that, thank you very much, because I don’t want either of these men to be president.
You said: People were saying that McCain or Hillary were Obama-light. But any “Obama-light” would be infinitely better than “Obama-full version”.
Oh, Mary, now you done did it. You realize I worked for Hillary Clinton, right? I pretty much gave up my entire life to do everything I humanly could to prevent Barack Obama from scoring the Democrat nomination…and then threw whatever I had left into trying to stop him from becoming president in 2008 because I knew full well what he would do in office.
The reason the Left destroyed Hillary Clinton’s campaign is because the Left knew Hillary would not blindly allow the Left to do whatever it wanted if she was in the Oval Office. The Left wanted a puppet who just wanted the presidency for the perks — a narcissistic fool who’d gladly do whatever his handlers told him, so long as he got to play golf, fly around on a fancy plane, and sleep in Buckingham Palace on visits to London (where I wouldn’t be surprised if he deliberately wet the sheets, just because he could and because he wanted to stick it to the British this way).
John McCain is certainly Democrat-Lite and I might even call him Hillary-Lite, but you are someone who has really not paid much attention to Barack Obama if you consider either of these people Obama-Lite. Hillary and McCain love this country. Both have their faults in their own ways. I love the former on a personal level and always will…and I tolerated the latter as best I could for as long as I could in 2008 because he would have made a better president than Obama.
But I just don’t have the ability to go through that again with Mittens Romneycare.
Conservatives deserve a better candidate than him. America deserves a better president than Mittens would make.
If Mittens is the ultimate nominee, I promise I won’t do anything to hurt him in the general election, but I won’t help him and I probably won’t vote for him either. I will devote all my energy to making sure people understand just how much damage Obama would do to this country in a second term and then I’d look for a candidate on the ballot who I could trust with the presidency. If that candidate is someone from a third or fourth party I’d never heard of before, but was a candidate who I’d trust not to do the Left’s bidding and wasn’t part of the Cocktail Party GOP establishment, then she or he would have my vote.
And the next day I would start a new search for a conservative candidate I trusted and believed in who I would spend the next few years trying to convince to run for office in 2016.
You said: “Obama-light” would be infinitely better than “Obama-full version”.
I think you are dead wrong on this.
The stakes are too high to settle for an “Obama-Lite” in Mittens Romneycare.
It is beyond foolish to believe a “Democrat-Lite” is the best Republicans can do in 2012.
I just won’t be a part of this stupidity.
And I will not fall in line to blindly do whatever the Cocktail Party GOP establishment tells me to do because unlike you I am not on their payroll.
I WISH I was paid to do this, because I’d sure love to no longer run this site for free or spend everything I have to keep it alive, but apparently I keep missing the email from the recruiters that hire trolls like you. Send them my way if you can, though. I could really use a steady paycheck.
Thanks for writing in!
K.D for HB
What do you think of the letter from “Eric” above?
Troll or not?
If he’s a troll, who sent him — the Left, the Cocktail Party establishment, or the Romneycare campaign?
I’d love your thoughts on all this.
Pokesami: Fighting injustice, one Star Trek Episode at a Time.
Here’s another video of hand cuff boy, otherwise known as “pokesami”. He’s seen every episode of Star Trek ever made. Go figure.
Go to the YouTube page and read the comments. I almost peed my pants I laughed so hard.
America: This is your future generation.
I don’t know if I should laugh or cry.
“I have a pair of handcuffs, and I know how to use them”
These loons are getting funnier every minute. My sides hurt from laughing.
Do any of these people WORK?
seen on weasel zippers.
Michael Crichton on environmentalism as a religion
I’m beginning to appreciate what a colossal loss the world suffered with the death of author Michael Crichton.
Someone sent me his book State of Fear, which I just started reading.
It seems Crichton was prophetic and ahead of the pack in terms of recognizing the Anthropogenic Global Warming cult for what it is, and for connecting it to the wider “religion of environmentalism” that permeates the Left.
I want to learn more about Crichton’s thoughts and writings on the subject.
Do you have a take on this you can share?
