Monday Open Thread: September 7th, 2009
What’s on your mind today, this Monday?
Since it’s Labor Day, if you’re someone out there with a job, we ask that you be thankful for what you have today — even if you hate your boss, think your coworkers are jerks and/or idiots, and dread going into the office every day. But, you’ve got a job. There are people we know and love who have been looking for full-time work for over a year now. People we know are losing their homes because they don’t have work. One friend used to work for a bank and has burned through all his savings looking for a new job — he’s bagging groceries by day, filling out applications for better work every night. It’s been seven months for him. And he’s one of the lucky ones we know…he at least HAS a job, no matter how little it pays.
So, if you are one of the lucky ones, who is making decent money, please be thankful and count your blessings.
If you know of someone in your life who is looking for work and struggling, please brainstorm what you can do to help them out. Is there anyone you know who could help them find work? Is there anything you could give them to do, so it’s not charity, but you help them get back on their feet (clean out your basement, help you paint the garage, anything). During the last Depression this nation faced, people banded together and circled the wagons like this. They helped each other out.
Liberals want to just shout Hope! and Change! and wait for the “magic stimulus” to rain unicorns and rainbows down on all of us.
We want moderates and conservatives to actually get off their butts, work hard, and help anyone willing to work find a job. Keep your ears and eyes open for anyone you know looking for work. Think about how much easier their job search could be if YOU helped them look too. It’s exhausting to sit there all night at the computer looking at postings…but nice if friends email you positions they think you would be good for, especially if they have an inside track into the interview process.
How about starting a new tradition on Labor Day — instead of just living it up and having a barbeque or whatever, why not spend part of the day helping someone unemployed find work? Make that your new tradition…do someone a solid today (and every day, really, because that kindness will come back to you, we swear).
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Read this everyone..Sarah rips the AP(Otherwise known as the Anti Palin/Obama Kiss Ass Network) a new ass in her new facebook posting..
Sarah Palin: Shame on the Associated Press for Ignoring the Wishes of a Grieving Family
Many of us join Secretary Gates in condemning the Associated Press for its heartless and selfish decision to turn its back on the wishes of a grieving family in order to exploit the tragic death of a true American hero.
Lance Corporal Joshua ‘Bernie’ Bernard was a selfless young American who sacrificed everything for our freedom.
Shame on the AP for purposely adding to the grieving family’s pain. Ignoring the family’s wishes by publishing a sacred image of their loved one proved a despicable and heartless act by the AP. The family said they didn’t want the photo published. AP, you did it anyway, and you know it was an evil thing to do.
Our thoughts and prayers are with the Bernard family. Words can not adequately express our sorrow and appreciation for your sacrifice. We will never forget your Marine or his fallen comrades.
May God bless the Bernard family.
Hear hear
Absolutely!
That was a despicable thing to do!
God Bless Sarah. I can’t even imagine what the Bernard family is feeling. The pain would be undescribable. Our boy is over there and in the Marines also. Why doesn’t the news media have a heart anymore? No common sense either. Please pray for the Bernard family and may God surround them and help them endure this unbearable loss. It simply breaks my heart the disrespect and the hardness the media has these days.
Agreed. A photographer is first and foremost a sister human being and must thus know when to put the camera down.
I’d hate to be on the receiving end of her karma….
Prayers for the Bernards, and all our troops and military families.
Amen sister!
Tuesday Orly Taitz goes to court with the Birth Certificate issue in Santa Ana, CA. on behalf of Allan Keyes and about 50 Military folks.
Friday we see Dear Leader do something or nothing on the anniversary of 9/11. Please keep in mind he was in Moscow on the Fourth of July and therefore safely dodged that bullet. (however he forgot the pastors prayer breakfast and remebered Ramadan)
Saturday we see with, or without, the help of the MSM, one massive boiling cauldron of tea in Obama’s backyard.
So, to paraphrase Bette, “fasten your seatbelts, we’re in for a bumpy week!”
9/11 will be Obama’s “Promote The National Day of Service and Remembrance By Encouraging All People to Visit My Orwellian ‘serve.org’ Website and Forget All About Remembering Unless We Remember How Imperialistic and Evil the United States is and Speak About Acceptance and Diversity Day”
Seatbelt fastened.
Bring it on!
Interesting that his student-indoctrination speech is also scheduled for tomorrow.
Heh,
We already talked to or kids’ principle. It will NOT be aired at their school. The principle said that it was a bizarre thing for O! to do and she will not subject the kids to it.
I can’t help but wonder if anything’s on tap to keep the Tea Partiers from assembling. Roadblocks? Barricades? Black Panthers with Uzis … I mean SIEU Crowd Control Specialists. An army of pinkie-bitin’ goons? I think of the Iranian people’s recent “civil disobedience” and wonder if the Powers That Be picked up pointers to curtail our discontent.
Let ‘em try. Will be the end of them if they do.
I mean that in a political sense, not a physical one.
…also, can I just say this without getting executed? Can I?
Van Jones is HOT!!!!
O.K. I said it but I’m going to go gargle with Tabasco sauce.
Maxine,
Do it the proper way – salt, tequila, tabasco. Rinse and repeat.
Roy
My kinda penance!
I know and it probably accounts for his getting by all these years with all the damn nonsense that comes out of his mouth. Going by all the photos of him on Hot Air, he loves himself pretty well too – all those ‘ready for my close-up and all my angles are best angles’ expressions.
Did you read Valerie Jarrett’s breathless schoolgirl excitement about getting him to the WH? Sounded like she wanted him to take her to the Prom.
Yeah, Mechelle seemed to like him too. I bet they swapped some stories about what a hunk he is.
Okay, Maxine, put this blindfold on and face the wall. Do you have any last words?
“don’t talk….don’t talk”
Ha!
ROFL – I thought the same thing. Something tells me it would take about 15 minutes of me talking to him to see that he’s not really all that attractive. Being a Wackadoodle has a funny way of erasing good looks.
Continuing on yesterday’s post about textbooks, I looked up some information for you.
For example, among the most widely used books on American history, one of the most frequently used types of imagery to discuss the early 20th century is photos depicting the Ku Klux Klan. It ranks right up there with photos of FDR and the atomic bomb.
Yes, the KKK was awful, but they did not in any way represent the country as a whole at the time. Woodstock was far larger than even the largest of the KKK’s rallies. Billy Graham’s rallies were also larger. But you won’t find much mention of those — if any — in most history books. Why?
One book, The American Journey, does not contain a single photograph of of World War I, despite some 4 million Americans having served and over 50,000 having died. What you will find, however, are pictures of police beating protesters with nightsticks in a section discussing “dislocations of the postwar economy”.
Remember Reagan’s Star Wars program? Remember how you heard it was a failure? Would you be surprised to know that documents smuggled out of the former Soviet Union — which relatively recently became a matter of public record — prove that Star Wars scared the crap out of the Soviets. So much, in fact, that in 1981, a Soviet arms negotiator remarked “Oh you Americans! You are going to make us spend and spend to keep up and our lousy standard of living will go down and down and in the end you will win.” You won’t read this in history books, but you will read about how much a failure Star Wars was, both in actuality and also in conception.
Here’s an easy one to identify with. Who killed all the buffalo? I remember learning about how the white man came and destroyed the buffalo populations, mostly for the hides, leaving carcasses to rot. I learned Native Americans always used every single piece of every single animal they killed, and they only killed when necessary to eat.
Guess what? The truth is somewhat different. It turns out the Native Americans had already figured out how to kill bison by the hundreds using “hunting fires” and even by dressing in buffalo skin and carefully luring a herd over the edge of a cliff (no, I’m not kidding!).
Many early settlers and explorers wrote accounts of tribes surrounding and slaughtering hundreds of animals at a time and leaving many of the animal carcasses behind, taking the prime cuts. It has been written that the stench of rotting carcasses was ever-present across the buffalo plains — ALL thanks to the “animal friendly” Native Americans.
I could go on and on and on citing various examples from various books, but I suggest instead that any nay-sayers or doubters simply investigate it for yourself.
We have over many, many years allowed the whites(European Americans, what I think we should called in this country of ridiculous PC madness) to be vilified as the most evil humans on the planet. America, and EA’s have stood by for so long and took the blame we may never be able to fix this. Am I racist to think that BO and Co. want to punish us for EA’s sins of the past?
At the current rate of immigration it is estimated that EA’s will be the minority in America within 30years. I shudder to think what will happen then, when I see what is happening now.
MichL – You’re not a racist for objecting to the double standards that are applied. Why is it OK to vilify someone of one race and the other is to be exalted? The anwser is NEVER. But the current administration gives kudos to groups that seek to destroy the character of one race. My goodness, that’s wrong and it’s evil. As an immigrant, I had NOTHING to do with what has happened in our past. I celebrate America’s exceptionalism. Our country was founded by Europeans. I believe that slavery of any kind of wrong, but what’s been done has been done and it’s matter of going forward with it. No one can vilify the descendants. Those who wish to mire themselves in this displays his/her inability to grow up. A grown up never blames someone else today for what’s happened in the past. Get over it and get to work! Stop your bitching and moaning!
Yes, exactly. Everyone is the victim these days, which means someone is the perpetrator. Obama needs to stop apologizing for America.
Awhile back there was a post on why Obama was taking so much time off in a row (Martha’s Vineyard straight to Camp David).
Answer: his staff is in emergency brainstorm mode preparing for this week.
1) Schoolchildren address on 9/8
2) Preparing for Obama’s address to the joint session of Congress on 9/9 — they still don’t know what his full policy is, and every time he thinks he has a strategy, his poll numbers get worse.
3) Preparing for 9/11 – What to say and how to say it without pissing a bunch of people off.
4) Getting ready for 9/12, getting talking points ready about how “rednecks” and “racist tea baggers” are descending on D.C. to “protest a black man in the white house”. Coordinating with the main stream media on how to cover the march in a negative light.
Yes, he’s a very busy guy. No time for actually running the country.
The true racists are the 95% of blacks who voted for him, and will stand by his every move just because he is black. It really ticks me off when the commentators say why are they all white, racists perhaps?
Of course it’s gonna be nearly impossible when only 5% of about 40 million didn’t vote for the guy, and many of these won’t dare go out publicly about it. Of course the teapartiers are mostly white, America is mostly white. A black man or a white man, he still scares the crap out of a majority of Americans.
I have to agree that black people can be racist, but I also have to remember that I don’t know what it’s like to be black.
I was raised in a color blind home. Neither of my parents are racist in the slightest. They’ve hired minorities for decades and, quite honestly, found them to be harder workers than most white people — especially the hispanics.
So, to me — someone who has lived most of their life without any exposure to racism of any kind — I interpret a lot of the words and actions of many black people as being racist. I also feel that people like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton perpetuate the concept of racism for their own personal gain… if racist were dead, Jackson and Sharpton and other like them would have no way to make the fortunes they currently do.
But from the perspective of a black person, that could be interpreted totally differently. I need to remember and respect that. I think we should all try to imagine walking a mile in the shoes of someone else before we criticize them for their beliefs, or for how they vote.
^^ should be “racism”, not “racist” above. ^^
If you notice – racism now only gets screamed if the person of color is a liberal. Google “Condoleezza Rice racist cartoons” and see how many Black leaders came out decrying those horribly racist cartoons?
The arrogance of this man is stunning. Sadly, it is no longer shocking.
After Van Jones and the attention on the illegal and unconstitutional czars – he is appointing another one:
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/09/president-obama-to-appoint-ron-bloom-manufacturing-czar.html
Incredible!
James F Notter, Superintendent of Broward Schools, (supt_notter@browardschools.com) has sent notices to all the schools in the district that students will be punished if they choose to stay home on Sept 8th. I guess a communist Green Jobs Czar wasn’t good enough. Broward now has a communist Superintendent of Schools.
For those of you unacquainted with Joe Hicks, please take the time to listen to his view of the president’s upcoming speech to kids … and what he maintains is being orchestrated behind the scenes to distract people from what’s really going on. I urge you to watch it all the way thru.
http://www.pjtv.com/v/2396
I watched this last night and he has a good point. I still think the President should speak to kids at home with their parents, but that’s me. He is good at allowing controversy (even starting it) just to distract us from what he’s doing behind the scenes. I seriously think he is purposely holding back his birth certificate and other documents just for the purpose of making conservatives who question him, look like lunatics and then with his other hand he continues to shred the Constitution. He is a better illusionist than David Blane.
Ahh…as a mom, I DECIDE if my child isn’t well enough to go to school; if we have a family event; or in this case, what MY parental reaction would be IF some foolhardy administrator decided to threaten to ‘punish’ my child for not attending a day of school.
I know its SoFla…but is Broward County some kind of Banana Republic with an autocratic overlord? Don’t students need a note from their parent/guardian stating a reason for the absence (a possible case, lets say, of SWINE FLU?) and that parental/gaurdian acknowledgement/explanation constitutes an EXCUSED absence. So what is Notter planning on doing to the kids who don’t show up? Really…if I was a parent in Broward County I would keep my kid home, draw my line in the sand, and find some camera happy lawyer to chat to the media for me.
Will be punished??? Rahmy must be so proud of Notter.
Do you think , like Rahm, he’ll send them all dead fishes? just sayin…
Gotta love the Ballerina and his dead fishy mentality. They should be easy to find in Broward.
In what way can a minor child be “punished” for the action of their parent? Are they going to make the kiddies listen to a Biden speech as well??? This one ought to be a classical example of liberal intolerance colliding with academia mindset that THEY (with all of their puffed up doctorates) know how to better raise children than actual parents do. Throw in some SoFla Cuban conservative patriarchs and this ought to get good.
Maybe Notter will be given a Czarship as a reward for threatening his student body into their seats for The Messiah?
What would one expect from a man who has never run a corner store…
One thing to do when economic times are bad, is to think outside the box. It kind of goes against your instincts to think of starting a business of becoming self employed when finances are bad, but many successful businesses began during the great depression.
We have a lot of successful tiny businesses around here, daycare homes, window washing services, espresso stands. Anything people can’t start without a lot of money or need for employees. Some people dream too big at first, the thing to remember is keep it simple, start small.
Maxine Waters, the Congresswoman from California, has come out today saying the Democrats will be pushing health care through whether or not the Republicans are on board. Actually, she applauded the president for trying to be bipartisan while chastising the Republicans for being obstructionists.
The same President who told Republicans to “stop talking and get out of the way.”
The same Republicans who weren’t allowed into closed door meetings where health care has been discussed.
The same Maxine Waters who said “this liberal will be all about socializing… taking over and the government running all of your companies.”
Of course, everything I’ve said is just lies and distortion, right?
Ah yes, Maxine Waters. She is my evil opposite twin who somehow left the parallel universe and got stuck in this one. Ugh! She is the one who said the 27 year old male lied to his diary and therefore his diary couldn’t be used as evidence in court.
…
I haven’t heard about that. This woman has to be the worst member of the entire House.
EricP: Then this will be the death of the democratic party… And when the Republicans take control in 2010, they can roll it back.
Rather than the death of the Dem party, I’d like to see its rebirth. Same for the Repubs. While I was not as fond of Hillary as Hillbuzz, she was a member of the Democratic Leadership Council, a pro-capitalist group that BO rejected out of hand. It’s really hard to be either a Dem or Repub today, because they are both dominated by extreme elements. Neither party is fiscally conservative or libertarian. Both want big government imposing its views on everyone. That said, after refusing to vote since 2002, I will have no choice but to vote Repub in 2010. Things are just too bad, so I’ll have to support the Repubs even though they are still captives of the religious right crowd. Ugh!
according to several sites – the Democrats will sustain losses in election 2010 but will still retain control….what do you guys think?
I think that’s wishful thinking on the part of the “progressives.”
I think it’s time the Dems took a whoopin’, and I believe it will be so.
Depends on how many bumbling foot-in-mouth moments the Pubbies can avoid between now and then. Re: Elections: 2010 is a l-o-n-g time off.
There should be 36 Senate seats up for grabs in 2010. Currently, 18 are held by Democrats and 18 are held by Republicans.
It’s hard to say how many swings there will be when it comes right down to it.
Harry Reid is facing trouble in Nevada, currently losing by 11 points. Even the Daily Kos has him down by 5 to Tarkanian. 52% unfavorable rating.
Barbara Boxer was only up by a handful of points over Fiorina, but it’s California and Fiorina is not a solid challenger so Boxer will almost certainly be re-elected.
Quinnipiac has Dodd in a neck and neck with Simmons, but Simmons hasn’t even announced plans to run yet so that’s a total crap shoot.
Schumer is almost certainly a shoo-in but Gillibrand could be vulnerable to a strong and well-funded Republican challenger — possibly George Pataki. But anything in NY is far from a slam dunk.
Our good friend Benedict Arlen Specter could face a loss in Pennsylvania, but the Dems might challenge him in the primary. That would be very interesting because Specter won’t like being betrayed that way, and could intentionally stoke the fire in favor of republicans.
The bottom line is that it’s reasonable to think the Dems might lose 2-4 seats in the Senate, but losing a majority is unlikely.
Chris Dodd is not looking good in CT.
How do we stop ACORN? As long as there are dead voters to vote in the upcoming elections, voters to intimidate and other dirty tricks to be done, the democrats and Obama appointees will continue to win elections. Mr. Obama is a master of deception, thuggery, along with the pretense of innocence he feigns so often.
No matter what else people can say about Hillary, there is one thing I know for certain:
Hillary wants the United States to be strong and remain the most powerful nation in the world – militarily AND economically.
Obama, on the other hand, seems to want to handcuff our military and handicap our economy to keep the rest of the world from feeling inferior.
Steve: I would agree that the Republicans are not the best. But I think we can agree they at least want people to have a job and not live off the government. I think the media runs with the whole religious right party thing. I for one am a conservative in that I want small government, strong national defense and low taxes. I may have conservative socials issues of my own, but they do not belong in government. I would like to see the “ole” democratic party’s return as well as the republican party of the Reagan years, but it’s not going to be easy getting there.
Irish Gal– Agreed, except the MSM is not totally to blame about the religious right stuff. The Repubs play into it. I’m sick to death of hearing about abortion (which regardless of your views has been a dead issue for more than 30 years since Roe v Wade) and same sex marriage (not a federal issue), just to mention a couple of things that readily come to mind. And as someone who voted Repub almost exclusively since 1968 until 2002, I sick of the extreme partisan crap from either side and the Repubs were certainly guilty of it with the Clinton impeachment. I don’t care what a personal scumbag Bill may have been, the impeachment thing was ridiculous. With me, there is sort of a betrayal thing going on. How could the Repubs stray so far from their traditional beliefs? They became a party of big government. But, I will have no choice in 2010, but to hold my nose and vote.
Agreed on most. I think there is an extreme right and an extreme left and then there are those who just want to live their life with as little government intervention as possible. That may one day be the third party. Of course in the meantime, I’m all for term limits.
Third nonpartisan “party”:
http://www.goooh.com
There may not be enough time for their plan to work (or work in its entirety) by 2010, but perhaps by 2012.
It’s akin to drilling for oil, I suppose. If it never gets started, it never gets done. And they’ve started.
Hello? Yes? Did someone ring? “religious right” at your service. I hope to be a cheerful representative of your most vilified enemy. Abortion- well no, not a dead issue. We believe life begins at conception. Unlike the Science Czar who believes “a newborn human given proper care….has the *potential* to *become* a human being” if you take away the life/conception guideline things get murky. Also polls are finding the majority of Americans are against it. Not a huge majority. But among the younger generation a very large majority….surprise, surprise!
Gay “Marriage” -please read Hillbuzz in FAQ I agree with them. Here in CA you cannot be called “married” but you have EVERY other aspect of a union afforded to you.
In Germany, follow the logic here, in Germany they legalized Prostitution. What is legal is not immoral right? So an unemployed woman collecting unemployment rejects a job as a Prostitute and her benefits are stopped.True story. Am I being obtuse? If a church refuses to marry a gay couple, they could loose their tax exempt status, be sued, etc….
Do not read that I am in favor of repealing gay rights in common unions. I am not. I believe that what a person or persons want to do with property or health insurance with patners etc… is best left for the individual to decide.
So after abortion disagreements and gay marriage, what do you dislike about the religious right? Because in all honesty I dont know why we are so villified.
I do know of some radical @$$holes who tell people at funerals they are going to hell cause they died of aids. About them I say this,
the bible says,” out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks” that particular man who runs around the country protesting funerals is spewing hate. His heart is not full of the love of Jesus. He is a horrible hateful man.But that man is not indicative of the Christians I know. And I will not ignore the Pastors who cheat, or the Priests who molest. Those priests should have gone straight to prison. However beyond *them* what about our MESSAGE do you dislike?
It is always the extreme wackjobs that give every group a bad name.
I have no problem with your beliefs, just keep them out of government and let everyone live their own lives without intereference
I. Love. Steve.
x’s and o’s to you too
Kind of a certain brand of gallows humor to call abortion a “dead” issue?
I agree that rank and file partisanship is killing this country, but so to is the assault upon – and resulting degradation of – the core principles upon which this country was founded.
Most notable, freedom.
Just because the courts ruled on Roe v. Wade 30 years ago doesn’t make it a dead issue. Abortions, in very very rare cases, are in fact medically necessary to save the life of the mother, and those operations should be legal.
Rape victims, same deal.
Abortion as a form of birth control, however, is another story. Supporters of abortion can say whatever they want… left to the devices of nature, that baby will be born. It’s a human being. And to say that it can just be summarily terminated, simply because of a matter of inconvenience, runs contrary to the principles of equality and freedom.
Human beings are not to be assigned value like cattle. We all should have learned that lesson from slavery. Blacks were treated as no better than beasts… something to be owned, traded, sold, beaten, whipped, worked to death, or just flat out killed.
Unborn children are the one group that can’t stand up and speak out for themselves. There is no MLK to rise from the ranks of unborn children and lead them to the path of sweet equality. There is only us; rational, compassionate, moral adults.
It’s only a dead issue if you allow it to die.
Liberals are fond of saying abortion should be safe, legal, and rare. Well, they got the safe and legal part, but I wouldn’t call 1 out of every 5 pregnancies ending in abortion to be rare. 1 out of 5 is better odds than winning a free Pepsi under the cap. Or in this case, worse odds.
But… I guess for liberals… 2 out of 3 ain’t bad. Besides, it’s just babies. They can’t vote until they’re 18 anyway.
Eric– I should have replied to this yesterday but tuned out for a while. I do not disagree with you on a moral level, and as a lawyer, I thought Roe v Wade was an abomination. The worst of what the federal courts have become. The issue, regardless of your moral position, should have been decided state by state. But we have lost, pure and simple, and you are beating a dead horse. Sorry about the “dead” again. Please move on to something that is still in issue. Something that we can really do something about. Some final thoughts. I am totally turned off by the lack of personal responsibility that ends up in so many abortions a year. But my libertarian streak gives me some pause as well. You know, Sarah actually admitted that she considered an abortion for Trig. She made the right choice, but the fact that she considered it says something. And my final thought, Eric is not a female name and neither is Steve.
BTW, Republicans by and large suck! They only look good right now cause the other party looks so very bad.
Out here in CA, Arnold pushed through a monstroscity of a spending bill, they needed the votes of 3 Republicans to get it to pass. So they picked out 2 lame duck, term limited and one other who will “get the full backing of the RNC when it comes time for re election’ we promise!”
The people were collectively against it. But politics and backroom deals prevailed and the state is even more bankrupt than ever.
Arnold got his way and the people are NOT happy.
Maxine,
Take heart dear. Hillbuzz kinda likes Sarah – she made her bones by eating a number of Republicans for lunch. I think they may be the secret ingredient in her moose stew.
The tea partiers and the town hall peeps are fiercely anti-partisan. The Republican establishment is just as afraid of her as the Dems.
Roy
‘s why I voted for Sarah and NOT McCain.
What Roy said !
Maxine,
I voted specifically and enthusiastically for John S. McCain.
We live in an extremely dangerous world. Always have, always will.
Roy
p.s., I know and have known people who have fought in every war since Teddy lead the charge up San Juan Hill.
Everyone should click through to the original and read this article about an appearance by the ACORN founder in a local SEIU headquarters: http://pajamasmedia.com/instapundit/84656/
Take heart folks. THings are not as monolithic and lockstep as they might appear.
After reading this article and the quote about the left’s dismay that Rules for Radicals has been ‘discovered,’ it makes me think back on the past. One of rules (and I paraphrase) is to force to other side to be accountable to the perfection of their highest ideals, something nobody can never live up to. I think this is one that the left has used time and again on the right, pretty successfully too. It’s time to put a stop to that.
I believe it was Dorothy Parker who said (and I paraphrase) “… don’t believe a word out of their mouths, including ‘and’ and ‘the’.” And if they’re pols, I double don’t believe.
http//www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1211495/No-10-turns-Obama-Clinton-criticising-decision-release-Lockerbie-bomber.html
I think the Tea Parties are on to something that the anger is rising from the middle, time for a third party? The GOP is trying to hijack the tea parties, but we’re mad at them too!
Yes the GOP lost and confused hijacked the Puma Tea Parties. Now they have purpose and meaning.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlrdnR-boJE
“Our mission is to present a unified voice of concern over the current administration’s policies regarding taxation, our economy, foreign and domestic policy, as well as our individual constitutional rights as American citizens,” said Grassfire national coordinator Darla Dawald in an open invitation to the public to join the Sept. 12 taxpayer march in Washington, D.C. “America is in trouble, the problems and issues are broad and complex and it will take a monumental effort to stop, change and reverse the destructive course that this administration and Congress has put us on. Together, We the People can effect that change!”
On Sept. 10 and 11, the groups will host grassroots training seminars and Sept. 11 “We’ll Never Forget” memorial. At Freedom Plaza, there will be speakers and music while the crowd gathers at 9 a.m. The taxpayer march down Pennsylvania Avenue is scheduled to begin at 11:30 a.m. Sept. 12 and culminate with a rally at 1 p.m. at the west front of the Capitol. An event schedule is available at the National Taxpayer Protest website.
The website also offers detailed information on travel and hotel accommodations, including directions to the event.
“Obama managed to have 4 million show up at the Capitol grounds,” Dawald told WND. “We need to do the same if not more. The financial situation is dire, but as one gentleman said, ‘If I have to sell my belongings and crawl there, I will – because it’s that important!’”
http://912dc.org/getting-here/
http://912dc.org/agenda/
I never get tired of that video! Thanks for posting it.
Great video, thanks for sharing.
Third party hell … second party, because the Repubs and Dems are practically indistinguishable these days.
You’re right California Granny, both parties are corrupt, bought by corporations, morally bankrupt…a second party would be a nice choice !
Virginia Granny
http://www.goooh.com
I am lucky…I still have a job (for now at least–thru end of year) and I am here in budgetless PA.
Ed Rendell, in the finest of Democratic traditions is handcuffing the PA state budget…he wants an increase in various taxes (most notably a 16!!! percent increase in the income tax). Rather than try and attract new business (or even try to keep the current employers in PA, our Governor is once again trying the failed tactic of taxing the way to non-recovery (with, the second oldest tax payer demographic–FL is first!).
Wait, Fast Eddie til Dr. Utopia kills off the “dirty coal industry” via Cap and Trade (away our energy independence). The average Pennsylvanian will pay and ADDITIONAL $125 per month in energy taxes (Karma kicking the Keystone State in the “stones” for carrying Barry!) W/ Cap and Trade.
Pennsylvania and Ohio. Were they aware of this before November 4th, 2008. I understand the MSM kept many secrets, but how the hell did he win both states.
Back when Dr.Utopia was campaigning–San Francisco, in a ‘private’ dinner with uber rich lefties (inheritance $$?) he proudly proclaimed ‘we (Pennsylvanians) bitterly cling to our guns and our religion.’ He also told anyone that listen (whilst pandering to the greenlefties) “coal is dirty…you can build a coal fired plant, but we’re gonna tax it and make unaffordable.” (que the adoring ovation). So what was the payback (in a state that went for Hillary–who was/is pro-clean coal…just like McCain)??? The a$$holes Unionistas backed Obama!!! Including (in the most arrogant display ever) The United Mine Workers!!!! The insanity of the UMW supporting politically (and financially) a man avowed to destroy their very industry (but hey…maybe we can unionize WalMart instead) was breathtaking. And yet, today, Labor Day…the NYTimes ponders WHY unions are failing?
well, when you put an inexperienced, incompetent fool “in charge”:
“Barack Obama accused of making ‘Depression’ mistakes”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/6147211/Barack-Obama-accused-of-making-Depression-mistakes.html
Mistakes, or intentional destruction?
Intentional, MichL, absolutely intentional.
Agree 100%.
http://whitehouse.blogs.foxnews.com/2009/09/07/obama-education-speech/
just released…supposed speech…
never mind…darn it…why do people claim a post is one thing and then it’s not?? Yeah, I know, I should talk.
http://whitehouse.blogs.foxnews.com/2009/09/07/obama-remarks-on-education/
here it is..
If I were still a kid in school, I guarantee I’d be passed out cold by the third paragragh. Yawnfest! Good luck staying awake kids.
This has to be a joke, right?
Here’s some info from HotAir blog:
http://hotair.com/archives/2009/09/07/obama-school-speech-released/
Update II: I’ve run the speech through a word frequency counter and found the following results:
•56 iterations of “I”
•19 iterations of “school”
•10 iterations of “education”
•8 iterations of “responsibility”
•7 iterations of “country”
•5 iterations each of “parents”, “teachers”
•3 iterations of “nation”
Everything Dr Utopia does is always about him….
Overall this isn’t a terrible speech, although I do have a few major complaints.
One, I don’t think it shows good understanding of children’s mental development to try to give a speech that caters to all students from K – 12. It seems like one of those “please nobody by trying to please everyone” endeavors. Good portions of this speech aren’t going to resonate at all with 5 or 6 year olds.
Two, I don’t much care for all the mention of struggle and strife and money problems in a speech given to all students. Most parents I know don’t discuss the family finances with their 5 year old. Now are kids going to be coming home asking questions like “Mommy, do we have enough money?” It just gets a little too specific.
Three, the speech kind of ends on a very Orwellian/authoritarian note. “What’s your contribution going to be”, “do your part”, “don’t let us down”, etc. That might work for 6th grade and up… but I’m not so sure about 5th and lower.
Finally, what’s with the blatant self-aggrandizement when he says “I’m working hard to fix up your classrooms and get you the books, equipment and computers you need to learn.”? Doesn’t that pretty much translate into “lookie what I’m buying you, now go tell your mommies and daddies how much you like Barack Obama”?
I’m just trying to put myself in the mind of a child, and how that will be interpreted.
I’ll report back after the speech actually happens with stories from parents I know.
Since the Democratic party went to the dark side, starting with the rip-off convention and all the thuggery that was started there due to conscience I had to go to another side. Obama is a usurper in more ways than one. He will succeed in one thing and one thing only, he will take the entire Democratic party down with him. Everyday his numbers get lower and lower. We Hillary supporters tried to tell them but they were too busy hijacking the election process. Total corrupt jerks.
You said it, Michelle
thanks for your remider of the meaning of “labor day.” my partner and i are actually spending the day *not* thinking about and looking for jobs, for a change. its been a nice day.
i am thinking (and blogging) much about the van jones debacle, and the response by the so-called progressives. lefty liberal male bloggers have already retaliated against beck by starting a rumor that beck “raped and murdered a young girl in 1990″ and are leaving it up to beck and his supporters to prove he didnt. this was even before jones resigned. what a delightfully misogynistic mental excercise! heres a link http://factcheckme.wordpress.com/2009/09/03/liberal-bloggers-laugh-at-rape/
and heres something “freshly squeezed” about jones. lots to talk about these days, eh?
http://factcheckme.wordpress.com/2009/09/07/the-van-jones-debacle/
grow up and check how many school age blacks have been gunned down this year it will stagger you,so talking about young white whatever is a bunch of crap.they probably shoot up schools to get their 15 seconds of fame in death while the young blacks are doing it over turf,revenge or whatever death is death and its wrong and the way jones made it sound was wrong.
The hypocrisy and complete lack of moral fortitude among the radical left is reaching new levels each day, and I find myself continually appalled by it.
radical left? hardly. these fauxgressive liberal dickwads are just hangers on, and want to be part of the cool-kids club. they dont know the first thing about the issues they pretend to care about, namely social justice and minoroty rights. they think that “i voted for obama!” and driving their gfs to the clinic twice a year gives them solid lefty cred, when in reality they are racist, misogynist and homophobic assholes.
No wonder Frank Sinatra and Johnny Mathis could never foster rebellion (not that they were trying) … adults understood the lyrics they sang. Apparently now our enemies get their messages delivered thru lyrics adults can’t understand accompanied by “music” they can’t bear to listen to. No wonder we have a generation of easily manipulated, brainwashed Obots … the way was prepared for him via Motown.
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2009/09/07/how-media-created-obamas-cult-personality
I love your ideas about helping others find a job. My husband and I were just talking about getting a new roof (which we desperately need) and I am contacting our friend who does a lot of freelance/construction stuff if he knows anyone that needs work and would be willing to do it. Good idea guys!
Some things you can have a non-professional do, but not a roof. If you do have someone who isn’t in the trade for heavans sake make sure they have insurance. If someone does a roof for you, falls, or damages you home and doesn’t have liability insurance, you are responsible. We have been in construction for over 40 years and one of the reason we small business contractors have a hard time competing is that we have to carry insurance, pay employee unemployment taxes, SS & medicare taxes, and often, health insurance. In our area there are always signs on poles for College students to do work , or Amish builders, who do not pay taxes….but we have to have insurance and pay taxes, in short, contractors who are burdened with taxes and are responsible enough to carry insurance, get the shaft. Having vented, my main purpose was to tell you how dangerous it is to give a job to an uninsured roofer. Sorry…really didn’t mean to go off on a tangent.
I can’t speak for Gr8Mom7, but I sure appreciate what you had to say. It’s an excellent reminder that one gets what one pays for; a caveat for these depressed times.
If one can afford to, give people work of a type they’re qualified to do or hire them for a benign task. Better yet, if you can afford it, hire the professionals so that they can keep people employed.
Thanks, Joanne.
And thanks Gr8Mom for wanting to help out a fellow traveler (by which I mean, American).
Joanne…good advice for sure. I should have remembered your advice because after the 04 storms we had major roof damage and could not even get a roofer to come here and look at our roof, let alone fix it. So we ended up finding “some guy” who was an aquaintance of our neighbor. We were stuck…we had a hole in our roof. Anyway, the guy did okay (or so we thought) but we started having leaks a few months later and come to find the guy committed suicide…lovely. So we were stuck.
Over the past few years we’ve gotten some good handymen in our lives…a good plumber, a good air conditioning and appliance guy and the best is our friend who is a building contractor. He helped us remodel our home without acting as the official “contractor”. We got all the permits ourselves, found our own air conditioning guy, etc. He did the majority of the work (knocking down walls, putting up walls, etc.).
But you are right about a roof…I don’t want to have any trouble which is why my husband is reluctant to call our contractor friend. He is concerned he might offer to do it for us on his own and we really want to have it done more professionally. But what I AM hoping is that more companies will be looking for work (no hurricanes this year…knock on wood) and maybe they will be able to get some labor to get it done cheaper and faster? I hope so anyway. I’m just hoping our friend has some recommendations…I just want someone who won’t try to rip us off and do a piss poor job. I do trust our contractor friend to watch what they do to make sure they are doing it right (more as a friend though).
Thanks again…if you know anyone in Kissimmee let me know!
G8rMom7 — I used to live in Orlando and worked for a small home builder. When Charley tore off my roof Hall Bros. Roofing replaced it before Francis blew through a couple weeks later. As you remember, Ivan and Jeanne also came through that year so we were so glad Hall Bros. took care of us quickly or the interior damage would have been much worse. Their phone number is (407) 425-8908 and I highly recommend them. They’ve been around for a while which says a lot for a roofer (so many rip people off and leave town so they don’t have to do warranty work).
Getting back on what should be the main topic for the next month or two, universal health care. Something that I favor, but not on any of the terms currently proposed. I would like to recommend this article to you. It is very long and I do not agree with everything in it. But, overall, it is the best article on the subject that I have read. The main criticism I have of the article is that it does not explore how totally anti-competitive and terrible the “public option” is. In any event, this article is worth the half hour or so it will take to read. So, please take the time to read it.
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200909/health-care
It was an excellent article written by someone who understands the marketplace. I’m still not sure how people with pre-existing conditions that will be life-long challenges would fare under his plan, but I’m not sure I see how they will fare in Obamacare, either. I feel so fortunate to have been a healthy person so far.
Thanks for the link.
What a really nice, kind article. As an unemployed person, thanks, guys. Love you!
Just got home from the Tea Party stop in Mishawaka, IN…not as many as I would have liked to see but probably more than 500 or so…I didn’t see any Obama supporters at all…and the county there went for him in the election..?? I didn’t see any terrorists, Nazis or the like either…
One of the singers..you can see him a lot when they are on Fox said his voice has been rough since Texas and they told him he should skip a few events and recover, but he didn’t want to skip any because he thought it was very important that you see there is at least one black man who loves his country very much!
Am still hoping to make it to DC somehow..
HB, You are a mind reader. Spent the day helping a loved one with the resume. Very humbling when you have been in a position for many years and poof! the business is gone. Everything you did has vaporized and trying to package yourself to be competitive with the whipper-snappers is quite unsettling. Let’s all send up thoughts and prayers for those looking for work that compensates them well and uses their talents in a satisfying and productive way.
Since this is an open thread, I suggest you all go take a look at the most recent posts from Jennifer Rubin on pajamas media and Peggy Noonan at WSJ. They both riff on the thin-skinned, one-note Obama: great campaigner, but that is about it. Expected from Rubin, but another interesting observation from Peggy Noonan, who at least for a minute there, had seemed like she had imbibed some of the Kool-Aid. V
ery interesting observations by her on Obama’s demeanor at the Ted Kennedy funeral; Rubin then takes off on that and the comparisons for O are not flattering.
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/funerals-teach-us-much-about-our-presidents/
About the third story down:
http://online.wsj.com/article/declarations.html
Jo –
These pieces are great. We’ll make sure lots of people see them.
Thanks for finding them — and thanks to everyone who posts excellent articles like this. We can’t read everything every day, or find every great article, so we are deeply, deeply grateful for all out there who help us out and post things they read that are good in the open threads. It is a HUGE help and we appreciate it.
Jo CHGO, I really enjoyed reading these and appreciate so much you finding them and posting them for us.And thanks Hillbuzz for this great site where we always get to read such interesting articles that we would most likely miss with out you and all the great posters on here.
I have always said that DR.Utopia was a cold person almost like an android or some thing.His eyes hold no warmth and resemble a dead fish.He lacks true compassion.He is like a robot that flounders with out his teleprompters and handlers.What an embarrassment to this great nation.
“there is less to the man than meets the eye” – great quote!!! Of course, some of us have known this from Day One. I believe he didn’t really care about the Kennedy family, he was USING them just like he has used everyone in his life. Ted even thought BO reminded him of his brother Jack. HA HA HA HA HA HA.