Thursday Open Thread
What’s on your mind this Thursday?
Today’s catchup day for us after what turned out to be a very adventurous week. Here are some of the things on our minds that we’ll expand on later today:
(1) What does picking Sonya Sotomayer for the Supreme Court say about Dr. Utopia and his belief in his own possible re-election? How will moderates take it when they hear, over and over, Sotomayer in her own words, on video, saying she believes the Court’s role is to legislate from the bench? That, and the racist comments she’s made in the past will be very interesting. Is it good strategy for 2010 and 2012 for Dr. Utopia to push moderates away hoping Sotomayer solidifies Hispanics? From our own dealings with the Hispanic community — of which we are certainly no experts on — we’ve seen bread and butter issues trump identity politics. The Hispanic community believed Hillary Clinton would do more for them in the primaries and voted for her in larger numbers than for Dr. Utopia, instead of race-voting like the black community for a fellow minority. It seems the Hispanic community will not follow lockstep behind Dr. Utopia because of a Hispanic Justice if the economic situation has not improved for Hispanics by 2010 and 2012. We can hear them say, “Yah, about time we had a Hispanic Justice, but that was 2009 and this is 2010 and I still don’t have a job and things aren’t better even though he promised us they would be, so why should we support him just because he put Sotomayer on the Court?”. In the meantime, on the Court, Sotomayer has a chance to show everyone the bad behavior she’s become famous for, and put on display what some call a stunning lack of serious intellectual depth in her opinions and rulings. The nastiness towards those who have appeared before her in her courtroom could very well come out in the confirmation hearings as well — during which she will be surely confirmed, as there are not enough votes to stop her. But, in the end, what will Dr. Utopia have really gained from this? It sure feels like he doesn’t think there will be a second term for him, or many more chances to put radicals on the Court so he’s taking every opportunity presented instead of going with sensible moderate choices like our favorite for the Court, Ann Claire Williams.
(2) The attacks on Senator Roland Burris yesterday were ridiculous. The local news here in Chicago is savaging him. We’ll go point by point later in the day as to what’s going on with that, but essentially they are saying Burris bought or tried to buy his Senate seat for the whopping sum of $1,500. Now, Jesse Jackson Jr. offered $500,000 for that Senate seat, but had trouble coming up with the funding for it or it would have been his. The local media is saying Blagojevich thought this was a valuable prize to be auctioned off — so he opens up bidding and then shouts SOLD! at $1,500? That makes no sense. And, quite frankly, if we had caught word that the Senate seat could have been bought for just a few thousand dollars, we would have pulled together all of our pennies and bought that Senate seat for $2,000 at auction for one of us here. The local media is ridiculous, and are operating on marching orders from the White House to take Burris down so Dr. Utopia’s friend and basketball buddy Alexi Giannoulias, scion of the mob-backed Broadway Bank family, can take the Senate seat. More on this later…but ask yourself critically if the media’s attacks on Burris make any sense at all.
(3) North Korea and Iran. Weren’t all of our enemies supposed to love us the moment Dr. Utopia was elected president? Doesn’t Dr. Utopia want to surrender all of our nuclear weapons and usher in a Golden Age where America is defenseless against all threats foreign and domestic? Apparently, Pyongyang and Tehran don’t get MSNBC
(4) WordPress has been acting strange lately, hence the lack of posts. We’re not sure what the problem is, if it’s their servers or more trouble using a Mac with WordPress. These are all problems we hope to have resolved with a site of our own on a new dedicated server later this summer. It’s hard not having the ability to post on various things throughout the day, but in a way it forced us to focus on some other things and take a much needed hiatus from the computer…so sometimes the universe brings you the wrong French toast.
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http://www.publiusforum.com/2009/05/27/acorn-soros-and-the-census/
Anita Moncrief, the ACORN whistle blower has a post entitled ACORN, Soros and the census.
Excellent. Thank you.
I’ve been on vacation for two weeks and when I returned to this site, I checked some of the discussions of the previous days.
I noticed a few folks talking about a bill in congress which would protect the birth certificate?
Not so. Not necessary.
The morning after he was sworn in, Barry issued an E.O. sealing all of his personal records:
http://www.fas.org/sgp/obama/presidential.html
He didn’t wait long, did he?
Delle
Gee, where was the photo op for this one? And where is the press?- too busy jockying for invites to the wednesday night party I guess. Remember how they tried, and are trying to access Bush’s papers?
I would imagine that whatever certificate was there, may not be what IS there today.
May 31, 2008 – the day that democracy died
-how do we feel about that day this year?
I feel bad for the Democratic party. They are now being led by criminals and con artists.
As a conservative, I would have been fine with Hillary as President. And she TRULY got screwed.
Now the whole country is being screwed….
I feel nauseated! And I’m frustrated that so many uninformed party-line Dems are unaware of the corruption and hypocrisy and the damage to the system of fair and free elections.
It’s a bittersweet feeling to have been awakened to the HYPOCRISY and RACISM of so many uberliberal Dems. I have zero tolerance for them now.
I’ll be wearing my PUMA shirt and wristband on Sunday.
It’s okay to be racist if you are Dr. U or one of his supporters. Nominate a racist for SCOTUS. Go after Roland Burris. (Who the leading Dems didn’t want in to begin with.) Did it matter that Condoleezza Rice is black, that Alberto Gonzolas is hispanic? These people were continually attacked personally as well as professionally. But no one is supposed to touch Sotomayor for fear of being labeled a racist. Dr. U wants Republicans to fear losing Hispanic votes if they criticize her.
I think the Republicans need to go after her judicial record regardless of the cries of racism they’ll get. She’ll still get approved, but she needs to have the light shown on her and her true judicial philosophy. Dr. U took an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution. I think he had his fingers crossed behind his back.
I actually saw a column (can’t remember now who wrote it) calling Sotomayor “the first minority on the Supreme Court.”
See, Clarence Thomas doesn’t count in their world.
Ot Thurgood Marshall apparently, and he was a Dem.
Amen!
On a daily basis it seems, I really wonder if anyone in the MSM, including Fox, know anything about the history of this country. That said, I wonder if they need to build up Obama as such a historical moment and to such a degree that includes forgetting the history of this country.
KJA You are right. The Republicans cannot win this fight; but they must stand on principle to expose Sotomayor and Obama. LA RAZA. ’nuff said.
As to the fear of losing Hispanic votes, historically, they mostly vote Democrat.
Heard an analysis of the whole Sotomayer pick last night.
BO has no intention of doing amnesty for all the Hispanic illegals this year. Oh, yeah, he floated it out there immediately weeks after he took office.
But focus groups & polls have shown that amnesty would hack off not only Republican voters, but a large chunk of Democrats—mainly border states.
And we can’t have THAT on the table for the 2010 elections.
So putting out the Puerto Rican Sotomayer is just a move to appease the Hispanic voting bloc—for now.
Jim Jones, Obama national security advisor, stated Wednesday, “I firmly believe that the United States is not only safe, but will be more secure, and the American people are increasingly safer because of the president’s leadership that he has displayed consistently over the last four months both at home and abroad.”
“We should know within a year if the new Afghanistan war strategy is going to be successful,” said Jones, a former commandant of the Marine Corps and head of U.S. European Command.
Gee, a year. In the meantime we have:
* 29,000 of our forces assembled on the DMZ with South Korean forces staring down North Korea
* Iran busily taking notes, probably using technology from said North Koreans. And most likely planning a Middle East war with Israel.
* Chavez providing Venezuelan oil, networking with Cuba and manning the southern hemisphere
And Jones has the cojones (no pun intended) to say that “we are increasingly safer because of the President’s leadership”.
HBuzzers, we need to start praying for some major miracles here. I have my particular requests, and I’m sure each one of you has yours . . .
North Korean newspaper, Minju Joson, said in commentary Wednesday that Pyongyang does not fear repercussions for its actions.
“It is a laughable delusion for the United States to think that it can get us to kneel with sanctions,” it said. “We’ve been living under U.S. sanctions for decades, but have firmly safeguarded our ideology and system while moving our achievements forward. The U.S. sanctions policy toward North Korea is like striking a rock with a rotten egg.”
NeeNee, that about covers it. One thing I’d add- Iran isn’t just taking notes, they’ve also launched six warships into the Gulf of Aden. So they’ve already got some skin in the game.
Wee hah. Hope, change, and shiny objects.
No worries! It’s just a tiny country.
I am sick to my stomach over Chrysler and GM. Let it be known I have never been employed by the once big three, nor have I ever been part of a union. The united states government is running the car companies… that statement on the face of it is un frickin believable. I am worried for my state, as well as the rest of the country. I am appalled that all of this is absolutely political and the fact that washington got away with it is mind boggling. If banruptcy truly was the answer, it should have been done the right way, the way companies always go through bankruptcy. The political aspect of it was to protect the UAW at all costs rather than a true bankruptcy that would have demanded real concessions. In defense of the workers, my problem with the UAW is the management of it and the political strings it carries. The auto workers so called legacy costs are for a full days work, while the legacy costs congress and DC have far exceed anything the UAW could have mustered up. I do not know if we can ever get it back…
IF GM or Chrysler should ever again be able to turn as profit, do you think BO would turn them loose? Not on your life.
The way I see it, BO will continue to run them into the ground. Any percentage the UAW owns is still gonna be ZERO.
I guess car manufacturing is a tad different from community organizing.
I was wondering what you guys were thinking about the all out offensive on Burris. It has Rhambo written all over it. This is one messed up state!
As for the hispanics getting into Mr U’s pocket with this SC nonimination, don’t thing it is a done deal. They are much smarter than he gives them credit for. I had a Hispanic American give me a job estimate recently. I asked him if he was getting much work and he went on a tirade about BHO. I did not even have to say a thing! He admitted that he voted for the guy, which is more than a lot of other obots will do yet, and he said he was so made that BHO is not who he thought he was. This man was really upset over the abortion issue. I said, that Obama only did what he said he would do, it was just that you had to listen very carefully to read between the lines of his rhetoric. Maybe some spanish people just do not have enough English to understand what MrU actually said. This is probably what MrU is counting on. But this Mexican American, who is very smart, and runs a good business is awake and not drinking the koolaid anymore. Like the young idiots of my generation, including myself, this young man needed to see how important substance is over style. I know he will make a more informed vote from now on.
“Republicans would be foolish to fight the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court because she is the most conservative choice that President Obama could have made.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/27/AR2009052702906.html?hpid=opinionsbox1
And the Washington Post is just the most conservative rag!
H-E-L-L-O is there anybody in there?
E. J. Dionne is so far up Dr. Utopia`s butt his foot is sticking out.
Hillbuzz, I don`t know if you have noticed but the trolls are back. Looks like some damage control needs to be done by Dr. Utopia.
Wikipedia describes Dionne as “a liberal, a frequent critic of the Bush administration.”
Whenever you have someone like E.J. Dionne calling Obama’s choice “the most conservative”, my alarm bells go off. If she were conservative in terms that we on HB define, Obama would never nominate her in the first place. But does she rise to the level of Nancy Pelosi and other flaming libs? On the surface, based on her abortion stance, we could say no. But then we don’t really know.
And that’s how Obama likes it. Under the radar
Dionne will say and presumably do anything, anytime, anywhere to serve Dr. Utopia.
I got a personal Thank You in the mail today from Governor Palin for my contribution to her legal defense fund on the first day it started up (Happy dance, happy dance!)
Heard lots of others are getting them too.
In other Palin news:
The O-trolls are cracking me up with their latest blogo-smears: the FALSE claim that half the audience at her Memorial Day speech turned their backs on her (like THAT wouldn’t have been all over the news.) Oh, and that she “dishonored” the troops by wearing a “mini-skirt.” (It was the same type of knee-length skirt she always wears, as the pictures show.)
The little O-bot critters are so cute when they make stuff up. Their fear smells like victory.
Nazi Pelousy would KILL to have a set of legs like Sarah!Just sayin’
I think Shannyn Moore who’s leading the spread of these smears is jealous too! It gets her her 15 minutes of fame on Keith Bathtub Boy Olbermann’s show that nobody watches.
It’s time for an investigative journalist to get to the bottom of who these people are and who’s funding them. It’s most definitely coordinated. The same exact smears show up at the same exact times on various blogs, with different names attached to them.
I just founf out there’s a book that quotes Rahm Emmanuel in the last Congressional elections saying “we have to get the dirt to the bloggers without leaving fingerprints…”
Hmmmmm.
That’s OK, she’s one heck of an attractive woman, there’s no denying it!
But most importantly, she’s an excellent Governor and I’d practically kill to have her as our Governor here in NY!
blogo-smear
Classic.
Sotomayor was a member (and may still) of LaRaz a marxist militant organisation. Read about it on Atlas Shrugs, I wake up everyday depressed and feeling hopeless about saving this country.
Buon giorno! Take a little respite from politics and enjoy a soul-stirring rendition of “O Sole Mio,” song by young Italian boys on Italy’s version of IDOL. Bravissimo!
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqUkUjeF4-c&hl=en&fs=1]
Ack! I meant “sung” by Italian boys…
P.P.S. Pass the garlic proudly.
Nice! I speak Italian, it’s such a wonderful language.
WOW. Beautiful. Thanks, garlic.
Thanks for the video.
They are beautiful singers.
But, no one can sing that song like Pav.
I still cry for him.
Delle
Delle: I understand… But give these boys time to grow up. They’re only kids; imagine how they’ll sound 10 years from now.
I’ll bet Luciano is smiling from heaven (while eating a loaf of crusty Italian bread, a hunk of sharp provolone, and tipping back some vino).
and eating a ton of spagetti.
OK!!! That made my day brighter!!! I’m a big fan of young male singers. Started when my son joined the Helena Boychoir in 1980 – and remain entranced with the beauty that can come out of the mouths of babes! These guys are amazing – and I particularly love the geeky one on the end
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For slightly more adult version – check out Il Divo. Totally awesome too.
Makes me proud of my Italian blood! Just wish my grandparents had not insisted that their children only learn English. I would have loved to have learned some Italian. I guess they did not want us to know what they were always arguing about! LOL
Thanks for making me smile on an otherwise dismal day!
I think one reason WordPress.com is slow is that databases require a lot more bandwidth. Seems the site that hosts these blogs lags whenever there is a busier news day. And let there be no doubt, the Obots are out in force on Sotomayor.
I just received the followed e-mail of talking points. I guess I’m on the list because I gave my e-mail back during the Amendment 2 fight. But, it’s always nice to read the talking points first hand.
Talking Points
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Tell Senators Martinez and Nelson to support Judge Sotomayor
President Obama promised that his Supreme Court nominee would not only have a brilliant legal mind, but would also understand how the law impacts the everyday lives of working families.
This Tuesday, he fulfilled that promise by appointing U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Sonia Sotomayor, the first Hispanic Supreme Court nominee.
Despite her qualifications, the right-wing is already attacking her, running negative TV ads and denigrating her gender and ethnicity. The National Review has called her “dumb and obnoxious.” Fox News has been bashing her non-stop, featuring Karl Rove who questions how smart she is, and Senators Kyl (R-Arizona) and Cornyn (R-Texas) who have threatened to filibuster her nomination.
We need your help convincing Florida Senators Martinez and Nelson to make sure this remarkable jurist is confirmed.
Tell Senators Martinez and Nelson to support Judge Sotomayor. Then forward this urgent action to your friends.
Judge Sotomayor would bring more federal judicial experience to the bench than any Supreme Court justice in modern history.
Sotomayor is a uniquely qualified nominee for the Supreme Court.
Join us in sending a message to our U.S. Senators that we want a quick confirmation after a thorough hearing.
Tell Senators Nelson and Martinez to support Judge Sotomayor.
My Reaction
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It is clear they plan to portray all questions about judicial temperament as bigotry. The Advise-and-Consent process demands that hard questions are asked and answered. If the Republicans fail to do this, they will fail to carry out their Constitutional responsibilities.
Woman and Hispanic are not the issue and have no place in the debate.
So all I would say to my senators is take your Constitutionally-mandated Advise-and-Consent requirement seriously.
A brilliant jurist who, so far, has had 5 of 6 rulings reversed by the SCOTUS and will probably have 6 of 7 when they hear her ruling that owning a gun is not a Constitutional right. How brilliant can she be if she’s not aware of a little item called The 2nd Amendment?
Dr. U could nominate Jerry Falwell or Rev. Wright and the MSM, Dems in Congress and Kool-Aid drinkers everywhere would be falling all over each other to glow about what an extremely intelligent pick he made.
Just another case of the emperor’s new clothes.
What happened to “We are not the red states of America. We are not the blue states of America. We are the United States of America.”
This guy really wants to divide and conquer with his identity politics.
Someone needs to get that melting pot out of storage, dust it off, and display it proudly.
“Someone needs to get that melting pot out of storage, dust it off, and display it proudly.”
Display it is about all we could do. The global warming crowd wouldn’t allow us melt anything.
garlicnosedho Says:
What happened to “We are not the red states of America. We are not the blue states of America. We are the United States of America.”
Silly garlic,
That comment has expired!
BTW, ringraziamenti per la canzone, appena meravigliosi.
garlic, Sorry. I did not see your quote.
I thought my post was lost; it did not show up for many hours. ha ha
After reading Michelle Obama’s “pity me’ thesis, I’m not particularly impressed that somebody went to Princeton and Yale. Sorry, but if that is what the elite consider brilliant, give me somebody that majored in common sense.
Hillbuzz,
Do you guys have any idea who this will be?:
http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2009/05/us-indictment-of-elected-official-expected.html
“U.S. indictment of elected official expected
The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Chicago said it will hold a press conference at 2 p.m. today to announce public corruption charges. Sources say it is expected to be an indictment of an elected official.
Details to come.”
Anyone we know?
I don’t know but who it turns out to be will tell us a lot about the U.S. Attorney’s office in Chicago.
Corruption?in Chicago?Say it ain’t so!
Wow–this is exciting! Thanks. I can’t believe no Chicagoans–or anyone, for that matter–has commented at the site.
It’s supposed to be Alderman Ike Carothers. How anticlimactic! I want Barry Soetoro indicted!
Yeah, that’s disappointing.
Hillbuzz,
I think it very strange that the only one defending Roland Burris is Rush. On his show yesterday Rush said the following:
“I want to know, where`s Colin Powell? Where are the Republican moderates defending this man as Democrats play the race card against Roland Burris? Where are the Colin Powells and the Tom Ridges calling this a race-based witch hunt? Where are our Republican moderates saying this is unseemly behavior for Democrats to take the occasion of the distraction of the nomination of Sotomayer to finally get rid of a black guy in the Senate they never wanted there in the first place? Where are the moderates reacting angrily to this? Here is the Democrat party trying to screw a person of color.
You can say what you want about Rush. He is speaking the truth here and the lame stream media refuses to report on this.
As a lifelong resident of Illinois,I have said and will continue to say,Burris isn’t going anywhere.They’ll huff and puff,but he’ll keep his seat until 2010 because Dr.U needs the vote.Why do you suppose Reid seated hin after declaring he wouldn’t?Bobby Rush and some other Congressional Black Caucus thugs warned him the seat belonged to a “Brutha” and would remain that way.if they had done the right thing and held a special election they may have lost the seat to a Republican.Burris will finish the term and then retire on a fat senators’ pension.
Sorry in advance if this double-posts!
Okay, it’s time for me to tell a little story that Mia’s already heard. A few weeks ago, I had to take little bro to LabCorp for blood tests. The place was PACKED, and there were very few English speakers in the waiting room.
I was sitting there, getting pissed, wondering how it was that I, a hard-working American (who had swollen glands and a sore throat), could sit there, with no insurance or opportunity to get medical care while all these arrogant foreigners (if you don’t learn the lingua franca of your host country, you’re arrogant!)were all insured.
Anyway, whenever the very American tech would enter the waiting room to call the next person, she’d affect an accent each time she called in a Hispanic person. A song welled up in me, and so I started singing, audibly, “I like to live in America! OK by me in America! Everything free in America!” and then whistling and humming it.
When the tech called my bro’s name, I said, aloud, “Aww, we’re disappointed. We thought you were gonna use the ethnic pronunciation.” And I said our last name the Franco-Italo way to pronounce it.
Well, there was “silencio” in the waiting room. I gave everyone, especially the tech, a big smile, ’cause how can people castigate you when you’re stickin’ it to them with a sweet look on your face?
I also leaned right over the tech (who was annoyed) to make sure she didn’t take it out on my bro’s arm.
So, folks, if you can’t beat divisiveness, join in. Point it out, and DEMAND that people pronounce your name the way your ancestors did.
You will make people think, and they’ll see how foolish they are. Trust me, not one of those people is quite the same after experiencing yours truly at LabCorp that day.
Yes, we’re all proud of our ancestors, but we are AMERICAN! Assimilate or die!
P.S. Too bad my last name isn’t Smith. I could really have fun getting people to pronounce it “correctly”! Laugh my crazy azz off!
Amen Sister!
Good for you, garlic.
LOL garlic, great story!
My Italian anscesters couldn’t WAIT to assimilate. One of my great uncles even founded a school to teach English to immigrants, and my great grandfather was one of the very first Italian lawyers in this country…because he wanted to make a name for himself and by extension “his” people.
Italians were NOT treated well here in those days (1880-1915 or so) but rather than whine about it, my anscesters got off their duffs and DID something about it.
I’m so proud of my Italian immigrant stock, but most of all of course, proud to be an American!
Thanks.
My grandparents were similar. They wanted their kids, first-gen Americans, to assimilate. They came here, from Italy, France, and Argentina, because they WANTED to be here. They loved this country, and they were able to laugh at themselves, too.
Kudos to your great-uncle and great-grandfather. You come from good stock, my man! Truly good stock!
Right back atcha garlic!
“Assimilate or DIE!” LOVE IT.
Thanks, Captain…
roar!
My office overlooks the runway at LAX. Early this morning several military helicopters were buzzing around, and no planes were landing or taking off. Well, save one: AF1 rose in the sky and jetted out over the Pacific. Presumably aboard: His Holiness – fresh off last night’s $4 million fund raiser for the DNC in the Hills of Beverly.
Fret not, Little People of America, Dr. Utopia is winging his way to D.C. where – as he promised his adoring throng of party-goers – “you ain’t seen nothin’ yet.”
Please, somebody just shoot me.
Why should we shoot you granny? I think somebody else shot have that happen to them.
My sentiments exactly! Why should we, God forbid, lose any more decent people!
“Obama responded to an audience member yelling, “Yes we can” by saying, “Yes we have. But we’ve got more work to do. We can’t rest on our laurels.”
I’d like to know what laurels he thinks he can rest on. Yes he has, and yes we will never be able to pay for it or undo it, but what has he done deserving of resting on laurels?
Quadruple (or more) the deficit?
Yes he has.
Lose over 6 million jobs?
Yes he has.
Cause the dow to fall 1000 points?
Yes he has.
Destroy the rule of law by trashing bankruptcy law in the Chrysler case?
Yes he has.
Alienated our oldest ally with junior high antics while bowing deeply to despotic monarchs?
Yes he has.
I could go on (yes I could), but you get the picture.
Succinct and pithy, Skating. You said it all.
Yep. He sure can.
Granny,
We need you keeping an eye on that runway. But I know how you feel.
You must work just off of Sepulveda….what a zoo.
Just a personal observation. I was on vacation for 5 days, visiting my daughter. I was totally away from computers. It took me 2 full days before I got back to begin watching news or reading news on the internet. I’m just so sick of seeing Dr. U work his hypnosis on this country. I’m so tired of reading or hearing one bad decision after another, that I really had a hard time getting back into the news. 5 days of ignorance was indeed bliss. I guess I know how the Kool-Aid drinkers feel now.
Holy Crap, look at this! http://michellemalkin.com/2009/05/28/document-drop-what-nytimes-reporter-stephanie-strom-really-knew-about-obamacorn/
Michelle Malkin got hold of communications between a NY Slimes reporter, Stephanie Strom, and Acorn whistleblower Anita MonCrief.
Note the e-mail where the Slimes reporter announces that she’s dropping the story after being “screamed, yelled and cursed at” by the Dr. Utopia campaign!
Are the wheels finally coming off the ACORN scam???
Can this be the big one???
And why does Michelle Malkin have to do this work instead of the MSM???
Wheels coming off? don’t be so naive. These folks, and particularly the media, are sold on Dr. Utopia: they voted for him, they report on him, they gave him money. They’re not going to throw him under the bus.
Not for that story. They’re telling you nothing to see here. Move along. MOVE ALONG!
The MSM is going to protect Dr. Utopia and his ACORN connection (which means protecting ACORN) just like they protected JFK and kept his womanizing ways secret.
To the MSM and the Loony Left, Dr. Utopia isn’t just a man – he is a symbol that must be protected at all costs. What he does matters naught – it’s what he symbolizes to them. He could sit with his feet up on the desk watching game shows all day (and I wish he would) and he would be praise and lauded as the best leader America ever had.
Glenn Beck is devoting the entire show next Thursday to ACORN.
Tonight, now in fact, O’Reilly is exposing the $ part of ACORN.
We already know how Sotomayor rules (feels) on Equal Opportunity and the Second Amendment. Here’s a little insight on Property Rights.
In Didden v. Village of Port Chester, Sotomayor joined an unsigned opinion affirming Port Chester’s condemnation of land which plaintiff Bart Didden planned to build a pharmacy on. Didden had been approached by a politically connected developer who demanded either $800,000 from Didden or 50% stake in his pharmacy. When Didden did not comply, Port Chester condemned the land the very next day through eminent domain. Note: I heard Mr. Diddens testimony last night. So sad. He owned his land for ten years. He was putting in a CVS. Port Chester and a developer wanted a Walgreen’s; thus, extortion and eminent domain.
Heritage Foundation reminds us of a quote from Dr. Utopia. ”
There’s not a liberal America and a conservative America; there is the United States of America. There’s not a black America and a white America and Latino America and Asian America; there is the United States of America.” hmmmm That’s how most of us see it; but every day I am doubting that’s how he sees it.
Bonnie Bonnets (aka Debi McCleoud, of Native Americans Against Obama and PUMA) presents
“3:00 AM”:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQgdt6mi8Aw&hl=en&fs=1]
Really nice work.
That is the coolest site, garlic! Native Americans Against Obama.org
I signed up.
You should watch some of their other videos. Fantastic!
Yep. After a well-deserved respite, Deb is back. She was a big-time PUMA during the primaries and the general election.
I sent her site to one of my Native American buddies. He loves it and I think he’s going to contact her. Thanks again, Garlic. I love that site, and the music puts me into dreamy world.
Here’s your laugh for the day, Hillbuzzers!
Not sure if I should file this under “I told you so” or just “Duh!”
http://www.newmajority.com/ShowScroll.aspx?ID=48f3586e-3fb3-45b3-9baf-683e7fa77573
Well then. Wish the sentiment was expressed with a bit more vehemence, but the author hit the main points well enough.
The main points being:
obama was a finely spun confection of gossamer half truths and empty words sold with the skill of the medicine show hucksters of old; that upon taking office reality is ever more encroaching upon the unreality of this non-entity; and those duped by the hype are slowly waking from their slumbering ignorance.
I pity this callow, would be leader in the months to come- he will soon reap the whirlwind he has done so much to set in motion.
The reckoning will not be gentle, and it will not be kind.
Exactly. Especially considering N. Korea’s recent actions… they obviously aren’t afraid of Barry (and they don’t love him either *gasp!*)
Thank God Hill is SOS. She was NOT amused by N. Korea the other day. If Barry can’t handle the other Dear Leader, we all know who can and will!!
Welcome back! Missed you too much. Now, promise that you won’t go away for days without posts or otherwise we’ll use some bad dark magic on you!
Tremendous response to “The Indispensable Geithner” on American Thinker today, by poster 2thman. If all these strands of yarn are true, they’re going to unwrap a most unsavory ball of string!
“There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that Geithner is part of whatever plan is going on to impoverish this country.
Consider his background:
*His father worked alongside Obama’s mother in banks in Indonesia in the 80s
*Tim grew up going to private schools in Asia
*Tim worked in Clinton’s Dept of Treasury under Larry Summers and Robert Rubin, all of whom had close ties to Citibank
*In the 90s Obama would sue Citibank for ACORN in order to get Citibank to make bad mortgages
*Despite Glass-Steigal, Citibank merged with Travelers Group… requiring the banking laws be changed to allow one company to to engage in banking and investment markets
*Robert Rubin was a big advocate for Phil Gram’s bank reform law as was almsot everyone in the Clinton Admin.
*Tim Geithner advised Japan in the 90s to engage in massive deficit public works spending in order to reach an economic recovery
*Tim Geithner was put at the IMF and was there when Asian currency crisis hit. He gave totally bad advice to either Indonesia or Thailand or Japan (I can’t remember which). This advice was so bad that it convinced China to stay away from the IMF and to handle its own steadily growing mountain of cash. Cash they would later use to invest in US Debt and Mortgage products.
*China wants nothing to do with Tim Geithner and will not take his advice
*Tim Geithner ends up at the Federal Reserve sometime in the 00s.
*Tim Geithner was part of the core team that engineered the purchase of faltering Bear Stearns.
*He was there for the AIG bailout. He undoubtedly worked with Paulsen to draft the TARP bill.
*Geithner has been in on all this since the beginning.
He’s ruined everything he’s touched yet Obama picks him , despite his tax cheating, and takes damage to his (Obama’s) reputation. I believe Obama standing by this guy and taking the heat for it was because Geithner had to be appointed. They still have more plans I’m sure. This article rips Geithner to shreds, from Australia:
“Obama’s economic saviour savaged as Keating lets rip”
[www.smh.com.au]
This is weird. Does she actually appear shocked that O is radical enough to want to change the constitution? It sure looks like it to me, wow, didn’t she and her friends vet this guy? Was up?
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uuWVHT1WUY&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1]
Hell must have frozen over.
You’d think preventative detention would bring out the hard-left loons in droves (I’m very conservative on national security issues and even I think this is extreme). I have to give Maddow credit. At least she is standing by her ideology and calling out the liberal idol for faltering from it.
lisarie says:
“I have to give Maddow credit. At least she is standing by her ideology and calling out the liberal idol for faltering from it.”
I have to give her credit for THINKING.
Nice!! That is something 99.9% of Obots certainly DO NOT do!!
Mooooooo!
How did this smug, smarmy beotch get a show in the first place?
She is constantly in a state of “I am SOOO above you idiots that it just KILLS me that I have to talk to you”.
HATE. HER.
Tammy,
SO DO I!
Just a Hmmmmm moment. Has anyone noticed that the whole torture/waterboarding debate seems to have gone away? Why could that be? Is it because Ms. P opened her mouth a few dozen too many times and now it appears that the Dems aren’t as squeaky clean and innocent as they would have liked everyone to think. I think the Dem leaders are making the mistake of thinking that since the MSM buys everything Dr. U says, they also buy everything they say?
Just when things are looking kinda hot under the collar for a few folks, Dr. U retakes control of the news cycle by announcing his SC pick…ooooohhh–look over there! Something shiny! Just another distraction from the Pelosi distraction.
The only shows I can stomach on that network are Lockup-Raw,about federal prisons and To Catch A Predator,where they bust pedophiles trying to hook up with kids on the internet.These are important voting blocs for Dr.Utopia.
yeah, me too, but I found this at NQ I think.
My son sent me this….. worth the watch!!
http://theblacksphere.blogspot.com/2009/05/govern-motors-new-genericus-models.html