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Blagojevich Headed to Prison. What’s the Catch?
Rod Blagojevich is headed to prison on Thursday for 12 to 14 years. He will be 69 years old if he serves his full term. He’ll probably serve 12 years.
Blago hasn’t been mentioned in awhile around here, but HillBuzz was all “a-buzz” (heh) about Blago back when the story broke and during the trial.
I was one of the people who was convinced that Blago would either bring down Obama, or (more likely) never serve a major prison sentence because of his association with Obama and his ability to “bring down the house” so to speak.
My assumption was not simply wishful thinking. Remember those improperly redacted memos that showed Obama and his team knew much more than they let on? The Blago-Obama connection was shaping up to be even more compelling than the Obama-Rezko connection.
It seems inconceivable that Blago knew of no skeletons in Obama’s closet. Those redacted memos essentially proved that Obama’s team had lied about what they knew, when they knew it, and what their actual involvement was. Even if there was no strictly provable link that could “bring Obama down”, surely Blago could have privately threatened to embellish or lie about Obama’s role in an effort to save himself from what could ultimately be a life sentence for a 55 year old man.
If I were a dirty politician with no moral compass and powerful friends, I would absolutely leverage those friends to keep myself out of possibly spending the last years of my life in prison. Yet that didn’t happen. Which makes no sense. So, what’s the catch?
Maybe there is none. Maybe Blago developed a conscience, or maybe he’s so committed to Obama’s ideology that he was willing to go to prison to protect him. What do you think?
The Tolerant Left in Action: See True Evil Manifest in the Way They Rejoice in Andrew Breitbart’s Death
[ Click above to embiggen: Bruch Reed's at it again with his hateful Facebook screeds ]
I love using Facebook as a focus group to monitor the truly vile things that members of the Tolerant Left say and do on a running basis.
If you aren’t already doing this, too, please start — because nearly every day Tolerant Leftists publish things on Facebook that expose the true evil in their hearts. They do this incredibly casually, too — because they erroneously seem to believe that no one will ever see it, or that it will disappear with the next Facebook update or whatever.
I love screengrabbing this stuff so that I can catalog the common things the Tolerant Left says and does and keep tabs on the most terrible things the Tolerant Leftists seem to do. Wishing death on others is one of the Tolerant Left’s favorite activities…second only to celebrating the deaths of those they’ve wished death for (probably for many years in some cases).
I think it’s a great badge of honor to be someone who’s lived a life worthy of sending the Tolerant Leftists racing to Facebook to opine about how thrilled they are that you’ve died. That means you were effective at whatever it is you were doing and that you were someone these people feared because you proved yourself to be a worthy obstacle to what Barack Obama and the Tolerant Leftists around him were doing to this country.
I’m glad that others are out there keeping track of what the Tolerant Left is saying about Andrew Breitbart’s sudden death yesterday — and I’m happy to join this effort by screengrabbing the comments of Bruch Reed and Richard Streetman above. Bruch is a failed theater actor in New York City who regular readers will know because he quite often takes to Facebook with hateful screeds that I’ve used in the “Tolerant Left in Action” series here on HB. Richard used to work for the Sheriff’s office here in Chicago but is best known for getting embarrassingly drunk in Sidetrack’s and making a fool of himself hitting on anything with a Y-chromosome while stumbling around Boystown (he also keeps a photo of himself and Michelle Obama on his cell phone where the two of them have their heads pressed close together, their hair touching, which he claims proves “she’s so real!” but has always made me wonder “Who gave whom lice that day?”).
I really hope you become someone who starts taking screengrabs of garbage like this — and if you send it to us at HB, I’m sure we’ll find a way to use it.
It’s a very “Breitbart” thing to do to make sure the Tolerant Left is exposed for the sort of people they truly are.
I really hope independent voters pay attention to this stuff. When it comes time to cast ballots, I also hope people ask themselves who they want to stand with in the presidential election. Whether you’ve ever voted Republican in your life before now or not, I hope you stop for a minute and think about whether or not you want to stand in the company of people who cheer for the deaths of those they don’t agree with and so casually use expletives and opportunities to inject feces into daily conversation. This is a cultural question you need to ask of yourself — “Am I like them, or am I more like the people the Tolerant Left hates with a passion?”.
I am proud to say I had the opportunity while he was alive to tell Andrew Breitbart how highly I thought of him and how glad I was that he drove the Tolerant Left absolutely nuts on a daily basis. I told Andrew personally how nasty Tolerant Leftists I monitor were when speaking about him — and Andrew laughed and said, “GOOD!”.
So, in fairness to what Richard said in the screengrab above, Andrew Breitbart would not care a lick what these two clowns on the Tolerant Left said about him…and he would have delighted himself in knowing how petty and unoriginal his detractors were because they prove after his death how true everything he said about them was while he was alive.
From today forward, every time I do another “The Tolerant Left in Action” piece, I’m going to dedicate it mentally to Andrew Breitbart. I hope you find a way to do something similar in your own unique way.
A Personal Anecdote on How Easy it Is To Vote As Dead Person
Yesterday, I had lunch with a group of Tea Partiers out in Palatine, Illinois while continuing research into two important projects dear to me (stopping the Marxist indoctrination in Chicago Public Schools and preventing voter fraud). I was impressed by how passionate this group of people was, and how invested they are in doing something about ballot tampering, malfeasance with electronic voting machines, and other avenues of voter fraud here in Illinois.
During lunch, the topic of the dead voting in states like Illinois came up — and I suggested that everyone start seeing themselves as vote defenders and slayers of zombie voters. Wouldn’t it be great if the next time you’re at some event, and someone asks you, “What do you do?” you answered with “I stop the dead from voting”. Then, instead of having a conversation with a stranger about people you might know in common in the accounting or lion taming fields (depending on what you “do” as a day job), you could talk about stopping the dead from voting in American elections.
Thinking about all this, I realized that many years ago, in the 1992 elections (before I was old enough to vote), I was offered the opportunity to illegally vote in Cleveland, Ohio but turned it down because I knew it was wrong.
This happened at the polling place for my neighborhood, when my mother and grandmother went to vote and I came with them, but stood to the side. While they were behind the curtains in the little booths set up in the grade school auditorium, the woman working the table (in this very heavily Democrat district) motioned for me to come over and asked me if my name was “Joseph”. I told her it wasn’t, and that Joseph was my grandfather — who had been dead for many years.
Since Joseph was still on the voting rolls, the woman said “It’s a shame that vote’s just going to waste…why don’t you go vote for Clinton too, like your mom and grandma” and she encouraged me to sign the book as my grandfather and vote for him as if he was still alive.
I wanted to vote for Clinton — and would have if I had been old enough — but I didn’t want to impersonate my grandfather and sign the voting book in his name and take a ballot.
However, I was encouraged to do just that and could have easily gotten away with it.
This anecdote is a unique situation since I just happened to be there, no one was watching this woman (who clearly wanted Clinton to win Ohio and was doing everything she could in the race to make sure as many Democrats as possible voted…even the ones who were dead), and there were three people registered with our same last name and only two of them showed up to vote that day.
I can’t tell you how often something like this happens — but I have to wonder if this is still going on in Ohio, since there doesn’t seem to be any more barriers to such voter fraud today than there were back when I was in high school.
Have you ever had an experience like this, where someone offered you a chance to vote for a dead person?
Maxine Waters…Oh No She Didn’t.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7KkPbGgxKo
Did she call House Republicans demons?
Seriously?
Did she say that she would be the next Chairman of the Financial Services Committee?
That should scare the hell out of all of us.
We can not allow the democrats to take back the House….or keep the Senate…or the White House. The thought of Maxine Waters (who was investigated by a congressional ethics panel for steering federal dollars to her husband’s failing bank) taking over the chair of the financial services committee is unbelievable. Isn’t that like having the fox guard the hen house?
We’ve got to get off our butts and start campaigning for Republican candidates. ASAP!
Here’s a little picture that’s sure to give you nightmares tonight….
Yikes….now that’s scary!
Now get out there and join a Republican campaign.
Democrats’ Persecution of Mormons Begins: Effort Underway to Depict Latter Day Saints As Virulent Racists
Barack Obama’s 2012 re-election strategy is “Occupy & Persecute”, which replaces 2008′s old-and-broke “Hope & Change”.
You know the Occupy part well, because you’ve seen it manifest in the Occupy Wall Street thugs — who are being trained and revved up to assail Willard “Mittens” Romney as the classic caricature of a Thurston Howell III-grade Wall Street Villain.
The Persecute half of the strategy is to demonize Mormons — as the people who belong to the Church of Latter Day Saints are commonly known (and what they will be called by the elite, agenda-driven media in the general election).
Though Romney has aggressively attacked his Republican opponents (with great media assistance) in the primaries, during a general election campaign the media would be rooting for Obama — and thus gunning for Romney. I have, to date, seen no evidence that Romney would be able to withstand an “Occupy & Persecute” Obama victory strategy (or effectively level attacks on Obama that would cut through the media bias and have the same impact on him that Romney’s attack machine has had on Gingrich or Santorum).
The most-used (and most-effective) weapon in the Democrats’ Alinsky-designed arsenal is to depict political opponents as racists. This is a tactic that succeeds in alienating millions of independent voters from whomever Democrats have aimed the Alinsky Death Star at that particular day. Part of depicting Mormons — and by extension, Romney himself — as racists involves the exclusion of blacks from the Mormon church until the 1970s.
Today, I spotted the first attempt by the Tolerant Left to power up the “RAAACIST!” accusations against Mormons and Romney — in a posting that’s popping up on a great number of Leftist Facebook pages and being shared aggressively by the Leftists I monitor in the social networking world.
The video above is the opening salvo in Democrats’ efforts to depict Mormons as racists. Below the fold, you’ll see comments left by Leftists regarding the video. I’m pleasantly surprised that there’s not a consensus amongst Leftists if this strategy will be effective and if the “Persecute” half of Obama’s two-pronged re-election strategy will work.
If you are a Romney supporter, please start thinking of ways to mitigate the damages from the “Occupy & Persecute” strategy now — because if Romney becomes the Republican nominee this is what will have to combat for the five months of the general election.
Screengrab of “Being Liberal” Facebook page below:
How Hard Is It To Get A Photo ID In Your State?
Can you take a moment to help with gathering some information?
The Tolerant Left insists it’s some sort of astronomical burden to obtain a photo ID — and that’s the “official” reason Democrats give for opposing requirements for photo ID checks at polling stations.
In this thread, let’s compile the following information on obtaining a photo ID in all 50 states to see if any burden actually exists that warrants the stink the Tolerant Left emits on this issue.
Let’s table for the moment the fact that a passport also qualifies as photo ID, as do military and law enforcement IDs. I want to focus solely on state photo ID cards (which are different from driver’s licenses). I know there are some extra fees to enjoy the privilege of having a driver’s license, but a state photo ID card can be obtained by any citizen of the state.
Can you chime in with your state’s info for the following:
1. State name
2. Requirements to apply for state ID (ie, what paperwork do you need)
3. Cost
4. Is there possibility of having fee waived for low-income people?
5. How long process takes
6. List of places in state where IDs can be obtained
If you know of something like this already in existence — with a table showing all the information above for each state — please add the URL to comments and we’ll go with that instead.
I’d like to use this as a resource in the future when I next hear the Tolerant Left argue against photo ID check requirements at polling stations because the only reason anyone would oppose checking IDs is if that person hoped to facilitate voter fraud in some way.
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“Do-It-Yourself-Deportation” in NYT Article: A Critical Look at One Illegal Alien’s Bunk Argument for Amnesty
The following article, entitled Do-It-Yourself-Deportation, appeared in the February 1st, 2012 edition of the New York Times — and was written by NYC high school student Antonio Alarcon (who wrote it in Spanish, which the Times translated into English for him, in much the same way that Spanish-speaking people marching in parades demanding amnesty waive Mexican, and not American, flags in the air). For someone who makes a plea to stay in this country despite not arriving here legally, young Antonio doesn’t seem to be making much effort to learn English or participate in non-Spanish-speaking endeavors in New York. I wanted to analyze what this one illegal alien thinks about amnesty because the bunk the Tolerant Left repeatedly peddles on this issue is glaringly apparent in the talking points he parrots.
This is my translation of the translation that the Times did for Antonio. His words are bolded, with my analysis beneath.
