Tuesday Open Thread: May 30th, 2010; Today in History; HillBuzz Coast to Coast
Via Wikipedia, the following are some of the interesting things that happened today in history?
- 1416 – The Council of Constance, called by the Emperor Sigismund, a supporter of Antipope John XXIII, burns Jerome of Prague following a trial for heresy.
- 1431 – Hundred Years’ War: in Rouen, France, 19-year-old Joan of Arc is burned at the stake by an English-dominated tribunal. Because of this the Catholic Church remember this day as the celebration of Saint Joan of Arc.
- 1434 – Hussite Wars (Bohemian Wars): Battle of Lipany – effectively ending the war, Utraquist forces led by Diviš Bořek of Miletínek defeat and almost annihilate Taborite forces led by Prokop the Great.
- 1536 – King Henry VIII of England marries Jane Seymour, a lady-in-waiting to his first two wives.
- 1539 – In Florida, Hernando de Soto lands at Tampa Bay with 600 soldiers with the goal of finding gold.
- 1574 – Henry III becomes King of France.
- 1588 – The last ship of the Spanish Armada sets sail from Lisbon heading for the English Channel.
- 1635 – Thirty Years’ War: the Peace of Prague (1635) is signed.
- 1642 – From this date all honours granted by Charles I are retrospectively annulled by Parliament.
- 1806 – Andrew Jackson kills Charles Dickinson in a duel after Dickinson had accused Jackson’s wife of bigamy.
- 1814 – Napoleonic Wars: War of the Sixth Coalition – the Treaty of Paris (1814) is signed returning French borders to their 1792 extent.
- 1832 – The Rideau Canal in eastern Ontario is opened.
- 1842 – John Francis attempts to murder Queen Victoria as she drives down Constitution Hill, London with Prince Albert.
- 1854 – The Kansas-Nebraska Act becomes law establishing the US territories of Nebraska and Kansas.
- 1859 – Westminster’s Big Ben rang for the first time in London.
- 1868 – Decoration Day (the predecessor of the modern “Memorial Day“) is observed in the United States for the first time (By “Commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic” John A. Logan‘s proclamation on May 5).
- 1871 – The Paris Commune falls.
- 1876 – Ottoman sultan Abd-ul-Aziz is deposed and succeeded by his nephew Murat V.
- 1879 – New York City‘s Gilmores Garden is renamed Madison Square Garden by William Henry Vanderbilt and is opened to the public at 26th Street and Madison Avenue.
- 1883 – In New York City, a rumor that the Brooklyn Bridge is going to collapse causes a stampede that crushes twelve people.
- 1911 – At the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the first Indianapolis 500 ends with Ray Harroun in his Marmon Wasp becoming the first winner of the 500-mile auto race.
- 1913 – First Balkan War: the Treaty of London, 1913 is signed ending the war. Albania becomes an independent nation.
- 1914 – The new and then largest Cunard ocean liner RMS Aquitania, 45,647 tons, sets sails on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England to New York City.
- 1917 – Alexander I becomes king of Greece.
- 1922 – In Washington, D.C. the Lincoln Memorial is dedicated.
- 1924 –Giacomo Matteotti spoke out in a speech at the lower house of the parliament against the result of the election, where the fascist used intimidation tactics.
- 1925 – In China protests erupt against the Great Powers infringing on Chinese sovereignty.
- 1941 – World War II: Manolis Glezos and Apostolos Santas climb on the Athenian Acropolis, tear down the Nazi swastika and replace it with the Greek flag.
- 1942 – World War II: 1000 British bombers launch a 90-minute attack on Cologne, Germany.
- 1948 – A dike along the flooding Columbia River breaks, obliterating Vanport, Oregon within minutes. Fifteen people die and tens of thousands are left homeless.
- 1958 – Memorial Day: the remains of two unidentified American servicemen, killed in action during World War II and the Korean War respectively, are buried at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery.
- 1959 – The Auckland Harbour Bridge, crossing the Waitemata Harbour in Auckland, New Zealand, is officially opened by Governor-General Lord Cobham.
- 1961 – Long time Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo is assassinated in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
- 1966 – Former Congolese Prime Minister Evariste Kimba and several other politicians are publicly executed in Kinshasa on the orders of President Joseph Mobutu.
- 1967 – At the Ascot Park in Gardena, California, daredevil Evel Knievel jumps his motorcycle over 16 cars lined up in a row.
- 1967 – The Nigerian Eastern Region declares independence as the Republic of Biafra, sparking a civil war.
- 1969 – Riots on the Caribbean island of Curaçao
- 1971 – Mariner program: Mariner 9 is launched to map 70% of the surface, and to study temporal changes in the atmosphere and surface, of Mars.
- 1972 – The Angry Brigade goes on trial over a series of 25 bombings throughout Britain.
- 1972 – In Tel Aviv members of the Japanese Red Army carry out the Lod Airport Massacre, killing 24 people and injuring 78 others.
- 1982 – Spain becomes the 16th member of NATO and the first nation to enter the alliance since West Germany‘s admission in 1955.
- 1989 – Tiananmen Square protests of 1989: the 33-foot high “Goddess of Democracy” statue is unveiled in Tiananmen Square by student demonstrators.
- 1998 – A magnitude 6.6 earthquake hits northern Afghanistan, killing up to 5,000.
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Today is March 30.
I wondered that when I saw the “Memorial Day” history. Oh well.
Yeah, somebody erred.
Ricky Martin is gay? Who woulda thunk? LOL.
http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/stopthepresses/132331/ricky-martin-i-am-a-fortunate-homosexual-man/
Another strong woman you may be interested in. She cleans Matthews clock.
http://www.therightscoop.com/dana-loesch-fights-back-as-chris-matthews-paints-the-tea-party-as-racists/
Isn’t is amazing how hard it is for them to be intellectually honest? Progressives figure that if they psychoanalyze the foe, that makes them correct. Facts and your open acceptance of the truth is what will make you correct.
Progressives LITERALLY go down the path of mindereadnig. Joe Wilson shouting ‘You lie’ had pundits saying he really was thinking “you like BOY!” (really, I mean, they KNEW what he was thinking).
A recent discussion had a friend climbing all over me for saying “I hate change” and lecturing me about Obamas change being a sign we were out of the dark ages of racial discrmination. I then explained the ‘change’ I was referring to was the closing of a local watering hole that had been around since I was a baby— a place where everyone hung out in the afternoons.
Again… they assume they’re mind readers!
Another time it was one a post was made about taking the country back… and yes, the knee jerk jerks read into it “Back to the days of slaves and women in the kitchen”….
GEEZ LOUISE! Where do they get off with this stuff!?!?
Sorry “You lie boy!”
And the classic reply “we don’t want to take the country back, we want to take it forward”(insert rolling eyes here). then they launch into a diatribe about how the corporations are out of control and we need to take the government back. You can’t make this stuff up.
Maureen Dowd is the one who heard voices: “you lie boy”. She is certifiably insane.
Dana, St Louis homegirl.
You should see her speak when you don’t have control freaks like Matthews talking over her.
She’s right. This is about abuse of the Commerce Clause. The rest of it is a desperate attempt to spin the tea partiers as frankly, whackjobs who want to secede from the Union.
They will never stop trying to marginalize them in order to have the rest of America ignore them.
Constant insidious innuendo.
I watched the video and what I saw was more than disturbing. Matthews asks a question, [paraphrasing but not far off] i.e. “don’t you think the signs are racist and mean and nasty?” Dana says: “How about the “Kill Bush” signs and burning him in effigy?” He says “Why do you allow racists into your group?”
He’s got a script – he sticks to it no matter what she says and she was great! He’s a left wing nut that has an agenda to add to the talking points of “Tea Partiers are all racist, knuckle dragging birthers” and “they are dangerous too.”
Dana really held her own and answered every charge against them – I loved when she said “so the left wing doesn’t have fringe? How about the
‘truthers’?”
At least Matthews was semi-sober during the interview [although he did slur a few words]. I don’t watch him anymore but when I used to, he was drunk on the air so many times I can’t believe they kept him on. I hope they send a car for him because I’m sure he has been in no condition to drive many times.
He’s probably pickled too many brain cells to be a coherent representative of the left. They should “move him on.”
Matthews isn’t even a journalist. I’d give Bill O’Reilly more journo cred than this cretin. He, Olbergoon, and Rachel Madcow can’t see beyond their own delusional left wing, statist view.
What a sorry hack he is.
Dana rocks, and the camera loves her. I’d like to see her go far!
Vegi, I just clicked on your link and there’s no video.
Just a lead paragraph and comments.
Hmmmmm………
I can’t watch it on Firefox, but can if I switch to Internet Explorer. That happens a lot with videos.
Also works fine in Google Chrome.
BTW, how convenient of both Tingle Legs and the Prof. to forget about all of the Blue State secession talk after Bush was re-elected in 2004. Just Google, ‘Blue states secede.’
Besides in pictures, thats the 1st time I’ve ever seen Chrissy Matthews doing his thing. He is a terrible moderater. He was putting words in Dana’s mouth abd she didn’t even blink and just rolled right over him.
No wonder why his rating are low.
Excellent article with excellent links to great comparisons.
http://pajamasmedia.com/zombie/2010/03/29/searchlight-vs-l-a-rival-rallies-reveal-stark-rightleft-divide/?singlepage=true
Also:
http://www.lookingattheleft.com/2010/03/showdown-in-searchlight/
That looked like fun [the Tea Party - not the circus]. I must get an RV and meet up with them along the road. I have a feeling these tea parties are only going to grow in size – and it really is the best way to travel to and from – at least for me.
lol,,, Yeah’ saw that interview, ol’ Sissy boy MATT– could not get a handle on his own talking point’s!
….Sarah Palin signs record $1.2 MM PER EPISODE on discovery channel for “Experience Alaska”
http://cubachi.com/2010/03/23/sarah-palins-alaska-series-looks-to-be-on-discovery-channel-1-2-million-per-episode/
I’m having a hard time believing the 1.2 mil per episode. Actors don’t pull in that amount until being on successful TV shows for years and years.
A few more hollyweird heads explode!
I believe the Discovery Channel will be paying $1.2 million per episode not that Sarah Palin is getting $1.2 million. There are production costs after all.
That’s right – but Ernst is right also. Just the thought that anything Sarah is involved with making that much per episode will have heads exploding in Hollywood and in NY. Why, what is that I hear from my neighboring state? Pop! Pop! Pop!
It’s starting already!
Cool. I want Sarah to be rich, because that makes her family safer. She can hire security and sharp outfits.
Yup. And that’s security for Trig and his siblings.
So, another attack on the fundamental structure of Christianity.
Via Drudge, the town of Davenport is going to not recognize Good Friday.
Unbelievable.
The march to complete and total dhimmitude is relentless.
Sorry, forgot to include the link.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/iowa-town-renames-good-friday/story?id=10233061
Well, after the nitroglycerine kicks in, I’ll be able to reply.
How about we “remove” Christmas Day and Good Friday from the calendar, and watch the non-believers in the unions and government workers burst an artery? They want the day off with pay, to celebrate a holiday that offends them, about a guy who is just fiction?????
Yeah and because Easter falls on Sunday and they are not working but are entitled to have all holidays off, they now have Monday following Easter off…no kidding….at least where my dh works.
In Australia we always have the Monday off
Gackkkk!!
My guess is that city administrator is going to lose his cushy job with all those perks over this. The city council met and overturned his decision. They reported that their phones were ringing off the hook. They released the press release on Saturday and the Churches in Iowa were outraged and discussed it from the pulpit on Palm Sunday, one of the most attended Church service in the country. Yeesh.
The whole Brouhaha was started by the “volunteer” Civil Rights Commission who said having “Good Friday” on the calendar was “unconstitutional”.
At the risk of sounding politically incorrect, God save us from these buffoons who want the holiday – but also don’t want to acknowledge the 2000 year old reason for the holiday.
these people are stupid. They do not understand the meaning of separation of church and state.
What it means is that there will not be a state religion’
Say for example Dr. Utopia attempted to impose Sharia upon you, then that would be unconstitutional because that would truly breach the separation of powers of church and state.
As it stands what you have allows Scientology to exist as a church, even though the govt has tried to ban Scientology in the past. The govt failed because there is freedom of religion not freedom from religion.
Aussie
“The govt failed because there is freedom of religion not freedom from religion.”
Fantastic. Perfect. This should be the line we use this cycle (and beyond) to defend our rights.
Grrr…
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/shut_up_he_argues_uirufysrkDvUbxPbciPl5O
Shut up, he argues
By RICH LOWRY
Henry Waxman is peeved. He expects corporate America to swallow health-care reform without a peep of protest — and, apparently, without revealing new costs to shareholders or the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Last week, AT&T announced it will take an immediate $1 billion write-down thanks to a new tax in the health bill that will cause Caterpillar ($100 million) and Deere & Co. ($150 million), among other large employers, to do the same. The benefits consultancy Towers Watson estimates that the change may reduce corporate profits by as much as $14 billion over time.
That’s real money. For comparison: It’s enough to bribe Sen. Ben Nelson of the Cornhusker Kickback 140 times over; it’s three times the amount Democrats poured into a (failing) weatherization program that once was a highlight of the stimulus bill; it represents 10 percent of the supposed deficit reduction of health-care reform over 10 years.
It may be that the health bill’s most immediate, high-profile effect is the destruction of shareholder wealth.
Not to fear. Waxman, the liberal lion who chairs the House Energy and Commerce Committee, is on the case. No, he doesn’t want to change the tax provision — he wants to browbeat the affected corporations. He has called the CEOs of AT&T, Caterpillar and Deere to testify before his committee, accompanying his summons with a far-reaching document request lest the corporations miss the point: This is naked political harassment.
Citing the Congressional Budget Office, Waxman says his concern is that the write-downs appear “to conflict with independent analyses.” If he’s genuinely surprised at the real world departing from CBO projections, he should brace himself for more shocks. Is he going to demand that OMB Director Peter Orszag testify when the projected deficit reduction doesn’t materialize?
Waxman maintains his interest is ensuring the bill “does not have unintended consequences.” Because an immensely complex bill of more than 2,000 pages would never have any of those, right?
But Waxman’s vendetta and the offending write-downs are hardly unintended or unforeseen.
Democrats clearly plan to blame the private sector for all the downsides of their health plan. In a private lobbying session, President Obama told liberal lawmakers that the bill is only “a beginning.” Any increase in costs and premiums — both of which are inevitable — will be attributed to corporate malfeasance requiring yet more government intervention.
Democrats can’t say they weren’t warned about the coming write-downs. Companies began to receive a tax-free, deductible subsidy in 2003 to continue prescription-drug coverage for their retirees, a ploy to keep the firms from dumping retirees into the new government prescription-drug program. Outside experts and big employers counseled against ending the deductibility, pointing out that it would adversely affect the companies’ financial statements immediately. (Account- ing rules require corporations to note the long-term effect of the new liability right away.)
These warnings got shelved under a category ensuring their brusque dismissal: Information Inconvenient to the Passage of Health-Care Reform. Now that the prediction has come to pass, it’s all AT&T’s fault.
The companies will reconsider providing prescription-drug coverage for their retirees at all. The Employee Benefit Research Institute calculates that companies could now save $1,000 per beneficiary by handing them off to the government. As many as 2 million more retirees could end up on the government program, according to James Klein of the American Benefits Council. These retirees might wonder about the truthfulness of Obama’s constant promise that everyone can keep his current insurance.
The CBO estimated that the new treatment of the subsidy would generate roughly $5 billion in revenue. If companies stop taking the subsidy, that revenue disappears — while the costs of the drug program increase.
A Towers Watson study stipulates that “employer plans generally provide much better protection than the standard Medicare benefit.” And subsidizing those employer plans is cheaper to the government than providing the coverage itself.
In short, a lose-lose-lose proposition — no doubt, the first of many. Henry Waxman will be a busy man. comments.lowry@ nationalreview.com
Don’t you wish we could sit them(Congress) down in a panel and grill them about their budgets and expenses?
Unfortunately, here’s what we’d get:
http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/economics-dummies
You probably missed it. But a new school of economics was unveiled last week shortly after health care reform passed the House of Representatives. Speaker Nancy Pelosi stepped to the podium in the House chamber and said the legislation will “unleash tremendous entrepreneurial power” and create millions of jobs. “Our economy needs something new, a jolt,” she said. And she and her Democratic colleagues had just delivered it.
Pelosi, author of the new departure in economic thinking, said we should now “imagine a society and an economy where a person could change jobs without losing health insurance, where they could be self-employed or start a small business.” With health care reform, “their entrepreneurial spirit will be unleashed.”
That’s not the half of it. While insuring 32 million more people, making insurance “more affordable for the middle class,” producing “a healthier America through prevention, through wellness and innovation,” and a whole lot more—in addition to all that, the legislation creates “4 million jobs in the life of the bill and [does] all that by saving the taxpayer $1.3 trillion.”
The proper response if you believe Pelosi even a little bit is, “Thank you, Nancy!” or perhaps simply, “Wow!” But restrain yourself. Pelosi has a gift for economic lunacy. This wouldn’t be especially worrisome, except Pelosi is second in line to the presidency and would be prime minister if we had a parliamentary system.
So far as I know, Pelosi is the first person in the universe to regard the lack of portability of health insurance as a deathblow to entrepreneurship. This idea is, to put it mildly, farfetched. Is there evidence that budding entrepreneurs have been deterred by the fear of losing health insurance for a spell? Don’t bet on it. Are future Michael Dells or Ted Turners or Pierre Omidyars suppressing their entrepreneurial juices because their doctor visits aren’t covered? Please.
Pelosi, as is the habit of Democrats, cited an uncheckable and probably imaginary case. “If they had a child with diabetes who was bipolar … they would be job-locked,” she insisted. Maybe so. But a job-locked entrepreneur? It’s surely overkill to revolutionize our entire health care system for the sake of that rare bird. Besides, there’s COBRA, the federal law that permits an employee who quits to stay insured for months.
The prospect of 4 million new jobs as a result of health care reform is also fanciful. It’s based on a study by two economists sponsored by the Center for American Progress (CAP), an advocacy group for liberal Democratic legislation. The study claims the reform legislation will modernize the health care system, generate administrative savings, slow the growth in insurance premiums, and allow businesses to hire between 250,000 and 400,000 employees a year for a decade. On the basis of this, Pelosi acts as if 4 million new jobs are a slam dunk. She actually appears to believe it.
The problem is the assumption about savings. Any savings from modernization are likely to be more than offset by medical breakthroughs that balloon the cost of care. The Beacon Hill Institute in Boston, using a less rosy scenario than CAP, reached the more realistic conclusion that health care reform will destroy 120,000 to 700,000 jobs over the next 10 years.
The CAP study echoes one of Obama’s cherished claims. Since his days as a presidential candidate, he’s been insisting reform will “bend” health spending downward. But this is more than a stretch. It’s a dream. History tells a different story. When free or subsidized health care is offered by the government (Medicare, Medicaid), the cost far exceeds initial (and later) projections. This has been the case for state as well as federal programs. Indeed, it’s a worldwide phenomenon. The one exception is the Medicare prescription drug benefit, which uniquely relies on free market competition. Pelosi, true to form, wants to replace that competition with price controls.
Pelosi is a faithful believer in the notion you can defy the laws of economic gravity and get more for less, once government steps in. Logic suggests otherwise. Health insurers will be forced to offer more benefits, including free preventive care, no annual or lifetime limits on coverage, and insurance for those with preexisting conditions. That’s just for starters. New taxes will be imposed on insurance companies and medical device manufacturers. A package of new benefits and tax hikes is hardly a recipe for cheaper premiums and lower overall health care costs.
Companies have already begun to figure out that their cost of doing business will rise, which means they won’t be hiring. Layoffs are more likely. Medtronic, which makes medical implements, said it might have to cut 1,000 jobs. It’s not only what businesses will pay for health insurance that is bound to increase. They’ll lose a tax break for providing drug coverage for retirees. And they’ll pay a higher Medicare tax for each employee.
There is one potential cost-cutting measure in the health reform legislation. High-cost, “Cadillac” insurance plans will face a 40 percent tax, which is certain to kill such plans and trim insurance costs.
But wait a minute. Pelosi didn’t like that tax. Four days after the reform bill passed, the Senate and House passed a second measure, dubbed “reconciliation.” Among other things, it delayed the 40 percent tax until 2018, a pretty good indication that the tax will never be levied.
Pelosi was in a joyful mood when reconciliation sailed through the House. It boosted health care spending, increased regulation, raised doctors’ fees, and added new taxes. Nonetheless, she asserted: “With this legislation in place, families will have access to even more affordable care” [emphasis added]. Her perverse school of economics had been vindicated again.
I just heard on WLS radio this am that the White House people went nuts and had a hissy fit when the companies made their announcements. They immediately stated that this was being done by Republicans as all CEOs are Republican. Cavuto had the CEO of the big steel company on last night. The write-offs they are taking are required by some federal law on how things are reported when federal laws change. Cavuto showed copies of letters that these major companies had sent to the Won’s admin. to alert them what this bill could mean. This letter or letters were sent out way last year. The Won’s people chose to ignore the implications in their determination to redistribute our wealth. He also showed copies of the letters that Waxman (Ratatouille) and Stupak (Judas) sent to the companies threatening them. Now the White House is going to spin it so the evil corporations are purposely undermining their healthcare debacle.
There was also a meeting with CEOs early last year at the White House to talk about this health overhaul. The CEOs tried to explain to the Won what this would mean for the companies and he didn’t seem to understand or want to understand. I’m not sure but isn’t this the same meeting that the CEOs had to get out their credit cards to pay for their meal?
Bottom line, as the articles above say, the required adjustments will cause less revenue for the government, less revenue for the stockholders, and the loss of benefits for millions of retired people. Job losses may follow and expansions of business will be curtailed to try to remain competitive. At least, that is my understanding.
We’re gonna get a jolt alright! Definitely not the kind we need!
Did you guys know about this “long term care” automatic deduction? It appears we need to “opt out” or it just starts automatically.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jH0WIKedabM&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1]
I do not know your laws, but this is an accounting requirement, and I assume that it is required by Company law… that any significant changes that will significantly affect the bottom line in future years must be accounted for immediately the legislation takes effect.
That’s what our townhalls are supposed to be about.
I so wish one of the CEO’s would simply say, “I have brought the financial reports for our most recent fiscal year with reports from our auditors who have included statements re our financial stability. May I see yours?”
ooooh….good one! That’s more what I meant, a panel of citizens sitting in the “driver’s seat”, looking down their noses at Pelosi and Company, giving them the same treatment they do these execs. Remember when they were chastising the auto execs for flying in to DC instead of driving? While they jet around in planes WE pay for. And no one holds them accountable.
I say Nancy Pelosi is a LEFT-WINGED ding bat.
How very Soviet of Waxman to demand documents and demand they come to Washington for a spanking. This is embarrassing for Waxman. He clearly is over his pay grade on this. He’s going to have to have someone interpret what the CEOs are going to tell him…that they are following the law/regulations that the SEC put into effect after Enron collapsed. They are REQUIRED to report this type of projected loss to their stock holders via their quarterly reports to the SEC.
I may just watch this committee meeting – and I hope that one of the CEOs paraphrases Welch to McCarthy: “Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?” It would be good to see a titan of capitalism throw that back in a socialists face.
last night I happened to watch the movie “Hoffa” with jack Nicholson and Danny Devito. There was a mobster in the movie named Carol D’alessandro . The name instantly clicked, for Nancy Pelosi’s father was Tommy D’alessandro, former mayor of Baltimore. When he ws mayor the mob essentially ran unchecked, the heroin trade flowed through the Baltimore harbor and Tommy hobnobbed with Lucky Luciano. I hit upon an article from 2006 that discussed Nancy Pelosi continuing her daddy’s legacy in San Fran taking over The Presidio area as well as many other corrupt deals. The sickening reality is that Pelosi comes from a long line of immoral criminals, her family probably has strong mafia roots .
We must continue to fight these people every DAY OF OUR LIVES!!! Oh yeah, the movie was critically panned because it depicts the Unions in less than favorable light, Hoffa must have been Andy Stern’s hero as a kid.
Nancy Pelosi is a Mafia Princess???!!! How did I miss that news? Oh, of course, because the media didn’t announce it. Imagine is Sarah’s father was a Mafiaso.
Everytime I hear her speak she sounds like she is doped up. She is so incoherent and wild eyed (I know she is botoxed) that she actually looks deranged. She cannot construct a coherent sentence and hem and haws. And people call Sarah Palin stupid?
Nah. She’s not doped up. She’s just dopey!
We need to start posting more of these links about the “Red Queen”. Outside of her political image, I don’t think Americans know what she has sprung from.
I’m sorry but she’s a disgrace to the mafia. They have more class than she could ever demand.
With them, you know you’re enemy from the start.
pjean-I agree, there is such an elaborate web of corruption in the current leadership it will take tireless push back on our parts. But I would rather fight to the death than succumb to Socialism.
Yeah, at least they’ve got an “honor among thieves” thing going. Not the Dems in Congress, however.
Here’s a fair article about the Catholic church scandal:
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/andrewmcfbrown/100031761/why-cant-the-media-treat-the-pope-fairly/
It is a good read. The libs fear THIS pope and The Church more than anything. They cannot succeed as long as there is a universal Christian organization. According to St. Malachy, there is to be but one more “good” pope before times turn really bad.
The libs also need to isolate and radicalize the tea party patriots. Read this article :
http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/03/a_closer_look_at_the_capitol_s.html
Good piece. Thanks for posting it.
Presidential style: http://ow.ly/1szuZ
Louie, if you thought that was something, wait till you see THIS!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIHz5tevLAw&feature=player_embedded
LOL
The difference in response to a man that has your back and the man that has your photo op.
*ouch*
Thanks Bijou. That was great. Colonel Peters on O’Reilly last night pointed out that the Won chose to go to Afghanistan in the middle of the night on his latest photo op. 2500 of our soldiers had to be routed out of bed to be available for him at his convenience.
They HATE, HATE, HATE when politicians come there. Everything shuts down and they have to stay on alert. If they gather in the canteen then you have to eat rations instead of a hot meal. I remember when somebody went there one Thanksgiving and my BF was chatting with me on IM and I asked if he had turkey dinner yet and he said “We can’t go anywhere near that place. It’s just a bunch of officers that they hand picked that are going to be there for their photo op and news media BS”.
Gosh– for a minute there watching this video’ I almost felt a moment of !JOY! and then I realize,,, nope’ Obama is still POTUS:
Yep, sure do miss’ya “W”…*
Bijou, thank you for the link.
All I can say is, ‘Semper Fi!’
Never tire of watching this, but we need to make this video VIRAL.
OMG! This is amazing. Thank you for posting this. Obama literally turns my stomach and especially when he does anything or says anything related to the military. Seeing GWB there actually brought tears to my eyes. I never imagined how much I’d miss him. I never imagined it could be this bad this quickly either.
Brilliant Bijou!
This is quite an eye opener. Lest we forget what a great CIC GWB was…Semper Fi indeed…
I think the setting makes a difference too. BHO walks in to “hail to the chief” and stands above them to lecture. And GWB walks in to “stars and stripes forever” walking amongst them – not putting himself above them. He shakes hands, signs autographs, takes photos with them. GWB is a just a warm person. BHO is not.
Keep in mind that the advance men travel before the president and knows what he wants. They set up the venue according to what he wants. GWB has self confidence, and wants an informal, easy going venue where he can make it all about the troops. BHO is always demanding to be respected and admired in every venue. And probably wanted to establish his CIC importance. And after 8 years of GWB, the Marines probably miss him – I’m sure they remember all the lousy things BHO said about the troops/war/GWB while he was in the senate and running for president. It gave them aggita they didn’t need to hear.
I wonder how those poor guys in Afghanistan dealt with him keeping them awake so long to greet him.
Those two photos are PRICELESS….totally priceless. Exactly the ‘reception’ I anticipated seeing from our men and women.
Our brave men and women are not stupid. Knowing several of them personally who have served in many dangerous areas of Iraq and Afghanistan, they respect their commander and chief – however (and it’s a big “however”) they also know who has their back and who doesn’t. They’ve seen all the bowing and scraping and laying down for other countries. They know that Dr. U would sell them out for his agenda. It took U 14 months to get his a$$ over to Afghanistan.
Thanks for the videos and articles!
Senator Scott Brown tells Obama to stop “being cute” and get down to business to fix all the problems that this healthcare bill has now created, for example where are we going to find the doctors to fill the need?, etc….
Obama lifted the ban on letting Muslim professors into the country. I’m lookinf for more information on this….
I think that Hillary announced this a few months ago but it waved no flags at the time because we were concentrating on something else. These people were on the banned list, I think by the previous administration, for promoting hate for Americans and the West’s destruction.
I’m sure that they’ll get jobs at Columbia.
Watch for an increase in foreign doctors and students. That’s been happening for years now but it will increase now.
my cable station says it was clinton, didnt say bill or hillary!
Karen…I found a good article after I typed in “State Department lifts ban on Muslim professors”. It happened around 1-20-10.
Thanks, it is so hard to keep up with everything.
While we were dealing with Scott Brown. The boys warned us about this… too many cocktail parties and not enough watching the days after. Wonder what else they snuck in on us?!
I think things are calming down a bit and I’m glad. No, I don’t think we should forget or lose our enthusiasm to vote the Dems out, but I get worried when the country gets outraged and tense. It emphasizes just how dangerous this president is. He is not a leader in any sense. He is a political thug. His political geeks like Axelrod, Rahm and Gibbs have more influence in what he does than anybody else. I have 0 confidence that he would do the right thing for the country in any given circumstance. His party is stuffing their pockets with our money and all we can do is wait until the next election to stop their plundering. They exploit every situation they can to steal money from our country.
It is a beautiful spring day in Tennessee. The birds are out. Cool mornings, warm days, cool evenings, perfect weather. People are starting to mow their lawns. Running around this past week I saw a lot of grim faces. Yesterday I ran some errands and people seemed a little less tense. Easter decorations are going up. Religion is a very important thing here in the south so most people are turning toward the church for comfort. I personally am not an overly religious person but I have to admit this past week I’ve given it more thought than I usually do.
A new thing to be outraged about. The gay marine who died in the war. That freak, cult, bunch of Jim Jones delusional idiots from Westboro church who protested at his FUNERAL was sued by the father. Imagine your son dieing for your country only to have some cult group of hate-filled SCUM protest his being gay at his FUNERAL. The father sued and lost. They are protected under the first ammendment. This group is the most disgusting group of inbred hicks I have ever seen in my life. Thank God they don’t live in the South. We already have to fight off images of HeeHaw enough as it is…I can’t imagine if this group was here. Here is the one instance when Obama’s thugs would actually come in handy. Surely there is something somebody could do to this group to make them shut up. What an ugly, nasty, group of people. I’m glad the media stopped interviewing them and giving them exposure. They just make me ill.
So it’s a beautiful sprind day and I’m determined not to let Obama or the news ruin it. I’m watching DVDs today.
I believe the father won the initial suit, which was then appealed and the decision was overturned. He is now ordered to pay the 16K in court costs. Fox News said this will go to the SCOTUS. It should. But unless there’s some obscure law we don’t know about I do fear that it is protected under free-speech. Maybe there’s some sort of “inciting to riot” or some such thing they can be nailed with?
There is an article about it and links to sites to donate for the father on Gateway PUndit.
Sorry, Bev, I don’t see how things are ‘calming down’. At ALL!
The HB asked us to report on our area. I’m reporting in my area, and in my home…here where I am. And I do feel that the situation has calmed down a bit. People aren’t on the edge of a stroke like they were a week ago. And that is a GOOD thing. I’m not saying we should forget or we will forget…
I personally don’t think it’s healthy to sit and worry 24 hours a day. And I think it’s easy to believe every single thing you read. Remember the news media and blogs will put stuff out to attract your attention and they sensationalize everything. It’s all about money. And NO…I’m not faltering or losing my resolve…and YES I know someone is going to write and be upset by what I just said but it’s true. That’s how they make money. All of them do it.
And don’t attack me saying I meant HB was doing that. I’m talking about the news media in general. It’s what they do.
Glad things are calming down
Bev, no one here would ever attack you. We know what you are saying. A couple of weeks ago I mentioned that I believed it was going to be a rough year and that we would have to “rest in shifts” so we don’t burn out. We need everyone to be able to have the energy to combat this group of n’er do wells in a focused way, with calm determination [and a few laughs along the way].
I am happy to read that you are noticing the grass and the flowers and the birds. It’s a good sign that you are resting your mind and that when the next Obamanation comes flailing at us, you’ll be ready for it. Pretty soon the mares will foal. My favorite time of year.
I’m preparing to gather with some friends to go down to DC on April 15th for the Tea Party Tax Day. It should be bigger and better than the last one. I’m looking forward to it and hope the weather breaks here on the East Coast. It was dismal for the last 3 days. Our bay met the Ocean in a few areas! Dreadful rain – and the puppy still had to be walked. I found myself stomping in puddles. It helped. Hahah.
Wait till unemployment numbers shoot up as a result of the passing of Obamacare.
No, the American people aren’t going to forget in November. They’re going to be feeling the first of many stings as a result of the passage of this bill.
yes, I hang my head at the behavior of those calling themselves “Baptists.” But I have to remind you, anyone can call himself a Baptist and there’s not a darned thing I can do about it.
Where’s the money to support this group’s disgusting activities? Doesn’t anyone think it strange that they can afford to do this? Travel is expensive.
Just as I smelled BS with the “spitting and n-word” accusation at the steps of the Capitol, I suspect that this group is an “agent provocateur”, aka astroturf.
What if our old friend Soros is paying the bills for this outfit, which simultaneously disgraces the military, the evangelicals (Sarah’s faith), conservatives…
If this group is so awful, why hasn’t the IRS looked into them?
I wish the father had known about the Patriot Riders motorcycle group. When asked, they will ride en masse to the church and cemetary to escort the family. They ride forward, to the sides, and bring up the rear of the entire funeral cortege. When they get to the cemetary, they block the gate so no one can get in and they have these huge flags that shields the family from seeing any protestors or their vicious signs.
They were here 3 years ago to escort a Marine who was killed in Iraq. I have never been prouder of bikers. God bless them all.
I think this family’s funeral was one of the early targets – it was after those experiences that the Patriot Riders were formed.
FWIW, I think this award will be overturned. The dad won at trial, with something like a $2.5mil damages award. This appeals court struck down that award AND gave court costs to the defendants. According to present rules, court costs should only be awarded if the initial action is frivolous, and since he won at trial, it clearly WASN’T frivolous. My guess is that the case will be reheard “en banc” and the full appeals court will reverse the 3 judge panel on the court costs issue.
Read about Elisabeth Hasslebeck’s stupidity towards Sarah Palin. The blogger points out, rightly so, that “All this made up controversy is about taking our attention away from the wretchedness that is Obamacare.”
http://cubachi.com/2010/03/29/stephen-hayes-of-weekly-standard-defends-palin-asks-if-elisabeth-hasselbeck-knows-what-2nd-amendment-is/
Everyone was furious with Obamacare and the news media went “LOOK OVER HERE” and created a distraction. Now the only thing they are talking about is the Tea Party and Sarah Palin.
But all the companies annoucing write downs and eventual lay-offs keeps Obamacare in the news.
And why the hell didn’t these same companies say this crap before the vote? Why did they wait until afterwards to say something? Why did the CBO wait to say our deficits would skyrocket after the vote?
I think they had to wait for the final official bill, then have their lawyers look it over. Otherwise they’re just ‘fear mongering’.
It was reported that the companies did meet with the White House and did tell “them” that this would hurt their companies. I heard one of them on Cavuto today remark that they were sure it wouldn’t pass – and if it did, they were sure they wouldn’t get “hurt”. Chalk up another group betrayed by Dr. Utopia.
Granted the libs are trying desperately, but Obamacare is not going away. People don’t want their freedom and liberty screwed with. Plus, the bribes that took place is not leaving anyones’ minds….
No it won’t. People will not forget and will vote in November. But Obama is going to try every distraction in the book to get people to forget. Remember how furious people were when he held up the military with his “decision-making” process last fall? Nobody talks about that now. They just talk about how great the war in Afghanistan is going (which is ironic considering the war-protestors sure aren’t getting any news coverage like they did with Bush).
They will keep piling on to get this subject as far back out of the minds of the American people as possible. I don’t trust Obama or the news media. They work together.
Bev, the war protesters aren’t even out in my town now. When GWB was in office they were everywhere and vitriolic. Always in your face. The red-hated ladies (I use that term loosely) were at the Farmer’s Market every Sat. singing their “Bushie Lied” song. I could not go anywhere without seeing them. Cars with bumper stickers plastered all over them. The local bookstore had bumper stickers, buttons, all anti-Bush right by the register. Now there is nothing. I boycott that store.
Now, the silence is deafening. Nothing. Not a peep.
Bev,
That’s his tactic but it’s not working or working well. While people are not talking about his “dithering” making decision about troops to Afghanistan” it’s still one more thing that is in the recess of their minds…what lawyers call “cumulative damage”. He has lost the trust of most of the country including D’s I know. He’s done that by the drip-drip-drip of bad decisions, bowing to heads of states that are not “friendlies” and dismissing our allies – i.e. The British Monarch and the Prime Minister of Israel. His foreign policy is atrocious. He insults Bibi Netenyahu and writes letters to Iran begging them to meet with him. He manipulated the Stimulus and pulled what my mother used to call the “bums rush” in getting it passed before anyone read it. The same with his $3.8 Trillion budget. He’s fired CEOs of Auto Companies and turned the stock over to unions. He’s capped the salaries of financial CEOs. I could go on…but the point is that it’s one egregious insult after another. The anger might not be blazing 24/7 – sometimes it simmers…but it’s ALWAYS there.
I think we need to stop caring what the MSM is saying….they get way more attention from our reaction that they would from a considered response that lasts 5 minutes, “You know, that’s a lie, too….now, where were we?”
Remember how many viewers they are losing???? Scads. They depend on us helping them keep their exposure up.
I know it’s a dicey game because a response IS needed, so they don’t control the conversation all the time. But can we focus on the RESPONSE, and skip the REACTION?
I agree totally. When they have us on the defensive they win. If we changed the subject instead of react we’d be able to control the conversation.
We are never going to win the argument with the MSM. We could go on their shows all day long and tell everyone the tea party is not racist and it does no good. It just gives them more reason to continue putting us on the defensive. We need to change the conservation. Obama does horrible when the conservation is out of his control. They are masters at control. We have got to stop falling into that trap.
Emma:
Good point. My husband would care less what people on the alphabet networks say and lives his life accordingly.
However, the true problem, as Hillbuzz have pointed out on numerous occasions, is getting the GOP not to care. Therein lies the rub.
The Dinner Roll ..
Once upon a time I was invited to the White House for a private dinner with
the President.
I am a respected businessman, with a factory that produces memory chips for
computers and portable electronics.
There was some talk that my industry was being scrutinized by the
administration, but I paid it no mind. I live in a FREE country. There’s
nothing that the government can do to me if I’ve broken no laws. My wealth
was EARNED honestly, and an invitation to dinner with an American President
is an honor.
I checked my coat, was greeted by the Chief of Staff, and joined the
President in a yellow dining room.
We sat across from each other at a table draped in white linen. The Great
Seal was embossed on the china. Uniformed staff served our dinner.
The meal was served, and I was startled when my waiter suddenly reached out,
plucked a dinner roll off my plate and began nibbling it as he walked back
to the kitchen..
“Sorry ’bout that,” said the President. “Andrew is very hungry.”
“I don’t appreciate…” I began, but as I looked into the calm brown eyes
across from me, I felt immediately guilty and petty. It was just a dinner
roll. “Of course,” I concluded, and reached for my glass.
Before I could, however, another waiter reached forward, took the glass away
and swallowed the wine in a single gulp. “And his brother, Eric, is very
thirsty,” said the President.
I didn’t say anything. The President is testing my compassion, I thought.
I withheld my comments and decided to play along. I don’t want to seem
unkind..
My plate was whisked away before I had tasted a bite.
“Eric’s children are also quite hungry.”
With a lurch, I crashed to the floor. My chair had been pulled out from
under me.
I stood, brushing myself off angrily, and watched as it was carried from the
room.
And their grandmother can’t stand for long.”
I excused myself, smiling outwardly, but inside feeling like a fool.
Obviously I had been invited to the White House to be sport for some game.
I reached for my coat, to find that it had been taken.
I turned back to the President.
“Their grandfather doesn’t like the cold.”
I wanted to shout, “that was my coat!” But again, I looked at the placid
smiling face of my host and decided I was being a poor sport. I spread my
hands helplessly and chuckled.
Then I felt my hip pocket and realized my wallet was gone. I excused myself
and walked to a phone on an elegant side table.
I learned shortly that my credit cards had been maxed out, my bank accounts
emptied, my retirement and equity portfolios had vanished, and my wife had
been thrown out of our home.
Apparently, the waiters and their families were moving in. The President
hadn’t moved or spoken as I learned all this, but finally I lowered the
phone into its cradle and turned to face him.
“Andrew’s whole family has made bad financial decisions. They haven’t
planned for retirement and they need a house. They recently defaulted on a
subprime mortgage. I told them they could have your home. They need it
more than you do.”
My hands were shaking. I felt faint I stumbled back to the table and knelt
on the floor.
The President cheerfully cut his meat, ate his steak, and drank his wine. I
lowered my eyes and stared at the small grey circles on the tablecloth that
were water drops.
“By the way,” he added, “I have just signed an Executive Order nationalizing
your factories.
I’m firing you as head of your business. I’ll be operating the firm now for
the benefit of all mankind.
There’s a whole bunch of Erics and Andrews out there and they can’t come to
you for jobs groveling like beggars…we need to spread YOUR wealth
around…”
I looked up. The President dropped his spoon into the empty ramekin which
had been his crme Brule.
He drained the last drops of his wine. As the table was cleared, he lit a
cigarette and leaned back in his chair.
He stared at me. I clung to the edge of the table as if it were a ledge and
I were a man hanging over an abyss.
I thought of the years behind me, of the life I had lived. The life I had
earned with a lifetime of work, risk and struggle.
Why was I punished? How had I allowed it to be taken? What game had I
played and lost? I looked across the table and noticed with some surprise
that there was no game board between us.
What had I done wrong?
As if answering the unspoken thought, President Obama suddenly cocked his
head, locked his empty eyes to mine, and bared a million teeth, chuckling
wryly as he folded his hands.
“You should have stopped me at the dinner roll,” he said.
WAKE UP AMERICA !!!
Thank you for the great story. A lot of us feel this way out here.
Chris, Who is the author? Is it you? I want to distribute it and the writer should get credit because it may become a historical piece.
Great!! The dinner roll was during the Bush Administration when the liberals were violently, treasonously off the chain. I still get so angry, WHY THE HELL DIDN’T YOU FIGHT BACK BUSH? WHY DIDN”T YOU FIGHT HARD ENOUGH McCAIN? See where all you compromise got you!!!!
You know, I think we need to do some of our own collective soul-searching instead of blaming Bush and McCain for not “fighting back”.
Truth is, we should have gotten off our butts in 2006 and started protesting the spending after Pelosi took power. Bush was a lame duck President and the GOP were backbenchers. If we the people had stood up and marched on DC then, Bush would have had our backing and vetoed their spending. But no, we sat around and moaned, but did nothing about it. And I was one of them.
We live in a constitutional republic – a representative democracy. It’s up to US to be the watchdogs and to let our wishes be known. If we leave our pols to their own devices (and that goes for both parties), they will do their worst.
“If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions.” –Thomas Jefferson to Edward Carrington, 1787. ME 6:58
Well said.
This is quite a piece of writing!
That last “bared a million teeth” caught me. There’s always been something so wince-making about the Obama Snarl.
What big teeth he has.
This story is about a soldier’s dad who needs our support.
http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/2010/03/father-of-dead-marine-ordered-to-pay-westboro-cults-court-costs/
Bill O’Reilly is paying the $16,500 for him and there is a fund that has been set up for future costs.
I like O’Reilly more and more every day.
Here’s a great article from the American Spectator.
http://spectator.org/archives/2010/03/30/americas-quiet-anger
Here’s an excerpt from the article:
“There is a quiet anger boiling in America.
It is the anger of millions of hard-working citizens who pay their bills, send in their income taxes, maintain their homes and repay their mortgage loans — and see their government reward those who do not.
It is the anger of small town and Middle American folks who have never been to Manhattan, who put their savings in a community bank and borrow from a local credit union, who watch Washington lawmakers and presidents of both parties hand billions in taxpayer bailouts to the reckless Wall Street titans who brought down the economy in 2008.
It is the fury of the voiceless, the powerless, the ordinary nobodies of Flyover Country who are ridiculed, preached to, satirized and insulted by the Celebrity Loudmouths of the two Left Coasts, the Jon Stewarts and Keith Olbermanns, the Paul Krugmans and their ilk.”
Read the whole article.
My husband and I talk a lot about politics and he shares my concerns. I tend to be more involved, but my husband is a little more low key. He told me one day when I asked if he would like to join me at a rally, “I don’t like those things. I just want to provide for my family, pay the bills and have a little left over for my kids.” He’s a hard-working guy who’s taking care of business, but I think that all across America, we’re finding out that even that isn’t enough anymore to oppose this over-reach of government.
But if he doesn’t stand up, who will stand for the millions of people like him who feel the exact same way?
Conservatives don’t naturally gravitate towards picket signs and rallies. People on the left ponder ‘you didn’t care about this stuff with Bush’, but that is because of THIS. Conservatives live their lives just trying to do the right thing and don’t want to bother other people and don’t want to be bothered. If they gripe, it’s occasionally at the dinner table or while watching the news. Big mouths get on talk radio. Private worrying about the direction things are taking and doing nothing tangible about it.
But we’re at the point now where there is a runaway train and if the conservative people of America do not stand up against this, the little dream that he’s talking about will disappear.
I have stopped at moments during the course of this year, so damned sick and tired of the rhetoric, the news, the antics of Washington and the serious implications of it all. It’s like being in fight or flight for too long and I just stand there, tired.
But there is reason to do this. There is a reason to take a stand. There is a reason to get out of your comfort zone and say not only no, but HELL NO.
Because if this goes on too long, we won’t be able to stop it in the future. There will come a point where you won’t be able to change things.
You stand up because at some point if you don’t, your only option will be to stand down.
So true. I know so many people like your husband. And it just fuels the left’s “they’re in the minority” thing. They have NO IDEA how many hard-working Americans, trying to keep their heads above water, are one flat tire short of having a nervous breakdown. Then, they’re “shocked” when millions turn out for a rally(and belittle it as “dozens”)
I’m working on him. Whenever he needs material to battle an uninformed lib, he sees me. I found that the more you are informed, the more you are willing to stand up and push back.
pjean
Until two years ago I was your like your husband. When I started looking into Obozo’s past I got off my keester.
Millions more need to take a stand against the spreading tyranny that is the Barry, Harry, & Scary Politburo and their pay priviliged nomenklatura(bureaucracy)or the US and the American dream will become a fascist dictatorship and a nightmare for all but the elites.
As I headed off to the rally outside Melissa Bean’s office on the day before the Rationing Bill was passed by the House, my father said he didn’t think it was going to make a difference.
My reply to him was that the point was less about changing Rep. Bean’s vote than it was to stand out on a corner (in the wind and snow, no less) and let everyone who drove by know that this was an issue that people cared about. And more than that, if it tells one person driving by who had been worrying about what was happening in the country that they are not alone, that a lot of people share their concerns, and that they can have a voice too, then it would be well worth it.
My father’s response? “I guess it’s well worth it for that.”
Good for you Andi, we need to get involved! I’m in the 11th District, and I’m going to volunteer to help get Adam Kinzinger elected.
Did anyone happen to read the article by John Kass, in the Sun. Chicago Tribune? It’s titled, “Lipinski lonely but proud to be pro-life Democrat”. Dan is one of the few Dems. that voted no for the HC Bill. He said…..”We were voting for a bill that is financially unsustainable. And I couldn’t support that bill.”
Kass says, “And I can see that the sliming of Lipinski continues by those unnamed White House sources. Last week’s media spin was the Lipinski’s father installed him in Congress for great health care. Dan Lipinski is a diabetic. Therefore, the spinners whispered, Lipinski is a hypocrite for voting against the president.”
I say that if we want to see a hypocrite, we should just look at our President. He should win an award for being the biggest one!
Lipinski’s comes from a Catholic, conservative district. Isn’t it refreshing that someone out there is actually working for their constituents!
Give your husband this quote from Pericles:
“Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn’t mean politics won’t take an interest in you”.
Cat:
Love that quote!
Thank you. I’m passing it on.
Also on my mind–the complete anarchy and chaos that apparently is Africa, where women and children are routinely butchered. I read this disturbing piece on the small dead animals blog–can’t help but think this is what happens when a certain ethnic mentality rules.
“can’t help but think this is what happens when a certain ethnic mentality rules”
very interesting choice of words
TROLL ALERT !
‘listingstarboard’
I CALL YOU OUT!
you are a TROLL, an agent provacateur. We do not judge people by their ethnicity but by THE CONTENT OF THEIR CHARACTER.
I know you were hoping a raaacist comment would slip through to sully the reputation of Hillbuzz as a haven of tolerance and common sense.
There is no such thing as “a certain ethnic mentality” – if that did exist, how would you explain brilliant and brave ethnically African conservatives like Kevin Jackson, Thomas Sowell, COL Allen West, LaShawn Barber,
http://www.black-and-right.com/
http://conservativeblkwoman.blogspot.com/
http://anotherblackconservative.blogspot.com/
http://www.bookerrising.net/
and so on and so forth.
Africa’s problem is the culture, not the ethnicity. If you grew up there, you’d act like them, not like your parents.
If they grew up in your environment, they’d act like you.
OH, and let’s make sure we give a shout out to *The Religion of Peace* ™ for African violence, especially in Kenya, fomented by Barack Hussein Obama’s cousin, Raila Odinga.
You’re talking about this article link:
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/02/22/africas_forever_wars?print=yes&hidecomments=yes&page=full
Leave it to the NYT to give you some facts but leave you more ignorant than before you read it. Read the comments after the article to sift out the truth.
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“Oh, here comes an avalanche of BULLSHIT!” – Marla Singer, _Fight Club_
TROLL ALERT !
‘listingstarboard’
I CALL YOU OUT!
you are a TROLL, an agent provacateur. We do not judge people by their ethnicity but by THE CONTENT OF THEIR CHARACTER.
There is no such thing as “a certain ethnic mentality” – if that did exist, how would you explain brilliant and brave ethnically African conservatives like Kevin Jackson, Thomas Sowell, COL Allen West, LaShawn Barber,
http://www.black-and-right.com/
http://conservativeblkwoman.blogspot.com/
http://anotherblackconservative.blogspot.com/
http://www.bookerrising.net/
and so on and so forth.
Africa’s problem is the culture, not the ethnicity. If you grew up there, you’d act like them, not like your parents.
If they grew up in your environment, they’d act like you.
OH, and let’s make sure we give a shout out to *The Religion of Peace* ™ for African violence, especially in Kenya, fomented by Barack Hussein Obama’s cousin, Raila Odinga.
You’re talking about this article link:
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/02/22/africas_forever_wars?print=yes&hidecomments=yes&page=full
Leave it to the NYT to give you some facts but leave you more ignorant than before you read it. Read the comments after the article to sift out the truth.
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“Oh, here comes an avalanche of 8U115H|T !” – Marla Singer, _Fight Club_
It’s not just ethnic. It’s religious. Muslims have been invading African countries and butchering, raping, and selling Christian Africans into slavery, like the Lost Boys of Sudan.
if you think that is anything, then you should read Atlas Shrugs regarding the Mumbai massacre…. it is not pretty… in fact it is sickening. The perpetrators are dogs.
I’ve been thinking about Dr. Utopia who is so full of himself that he makes me ill. And I absolutely abhor his new “tude”. I think he took Roland Martin’s advice about going “gangsta on the GOP”. New WSJ article talks about him becoming more aggressive and “taking it to his opponents”. As far as I am concerned he is a wussy man pretending and just a thug.
Been gone again trying desperately to save my job. So far just “treading water”. Getting ready to go out the door again in a few minutes.
I haven’t had the time to look back at previous threads, so I don’t know if this was talked about or not.
Do these arrests of “Christian militia” groups disturb anyone else besides me? First of all, what happened to “innocent until proven guilty”? Secondly, since when is it ok to send U.S. military against U.S. civilians? Thirdly, they didn’t DO anything except buy weapons- so far anyway. If we asked to have someone arrested because they threatened me, what would I be told? They didn’t DO anything, so we can’t arrest them, right? Well…. think about it.
Also… and I know saying this is going to make some of you cringe a bit… does this bring back memories of Waco? It does for me. I was absolutely terrified at the time that the government could send troops out against Christians just because they had weapons and it SEEMED LIKE they might be against the government…. or because of not paying taxes even. I read everything I could get my hands on about it back then. I watched videos from the MSM that were done slow motion, freeze-frame, you name it. I heard interviews from people who had gotten out of the compound who didn’t say what the government was accusing them of. Remember, back then the first attack was for the same reason as now: stock piling weapons with a possible INTENT on using them against the government. Then, when word leaked out and Waco people barricaded themselves inside all these other horror stories “leaked out” from our wonderful government- things that other people who had been in there denied.
The reason some of you will cringe is this- who was president then? Bill Clinton. I don’t recall any other time when the U.S. government was called out against U.S. civilians who had not DONE anything against the government- except for our last two democrat presidents. Old man Bush, nor GWB, nor Reagen. Clinton and Obama. Does it seem odd that when a D is POTUS they don’t seem to mind putting the U.S. military against U.S. civilians who didn’t DO
….sorry…. cut me off… Does it seem odd that when a D is POTUS they don’t seem to mind putting the U.S. military against U.S. civilians who didn’t DO anything but buy weapons? This is very frightening…. and LOOKS a bit like all this was part of the D mind-set back in the Clinton days already….
Yes it bothers me too. It has something to do with the Dems attacks on the Tea Party, trying to paint them as violent and the persistent drum beat of the anti-gun crowd. Plus I don’t hear the gov’t going after the Muslim para-military training camps here in the USA. I know there is one in upstate NY not far from my hometown. BO is turning this country upside down.
Karen, I had never heard of “Waco” before that couple of days toward the end of the seige. My husband and I were watching something on TV and the news broke in with the beginning of the attack with gas. We watched silently and then the fire started. He looked at me and said “what the hell are they doing?” I just kept watching as the fire got larger and larger. I couldn’t believe they weren’t putting it out!
I never heard of Koresh and wondered what was going on…all the while feeling very uncomfortable about watching the military being involved – although aparently the WH had alerted the press that they weren’t going to be used except for “logistics” meaning, I guess, providing the equipment [tanks] and the men who knew how to use it.
It was horrible to watch knowing children were inside – the same children they said they were trying to protect! And they let the fire burn for soooo long! How could anyone live in there?
It was a terrible day. And I know what you mean about having the military involved. And I am uncomfortable about press releases going out in advance of law enforcement knowing exactly what is going on in this recent case.
That is not to say there couldn’t be a group that is so anti-government that they were prepared to use anarchy to blow it up. But before they announce that Christians have guns and therefore they are guilty of conspiracy to blow things to hell, it would be a good idea to be able to provide the public with a verifiable, concrete story of exactly what they are being charged with and provide the proof that we can understand.
In keeping with the Hillbuzz request about what’s news in my neck of the woods, this was a big topic of conversation in my neck of the woods, near Washington, DC.
First, everyone noted how the media kept describing them as a “Christian militia.” Yet, the guy who has been arrested for threatening Eric Cantor is NOT described as a Muslim and Obama supporter and donor. Why?
Second, a caller said, “nine guys? That’s not a militia, that’s a gang.” Hah!
Finally, I would like to point out that just because they are “Christian” does not make them conservatives. Fred Phelps of the Westboro “Baptist” Church runs around screaming about gays and protesting Marine funerals, but he was a politically active Democrat for years. We don’t know their political ideology at this point.
True… “Christian” doesn’t mean conservative, nor does it really mean saved Christian either. The One’s pastor just as an example.
However, it still “rubs me wrong” that the D presidents don’t seem to find anything wrong with sending the U.S. military out against U.S. civilians who didn’t NOTHING WRONG. This, to me, opens up a whole can of worms of things against our U.S. justice system, things against the constitutional freedoms, and much more. It opens it up so the U.S. government can send troops against any American just on hearsay… who DID NOTHING wrong. Does anyone see anything really wrong about all this? First Waco with the last D president, and now these this weekend with this one.
I agree, but that was Waco. The reports that I’ve seen say that the FBI conducted the arrests. They are not the military.
KarenWI…this is in response to your response to me (down at the bottom of this box…sorry for the confusion, but no ‘reply’ button appears to your last post).
Your thoughts on Waco are so relevant to THIS…a ‘warning salvo’ or a ‘media play with some useful idiots?’
When Dear Leader stole the nomination I lost friends, relatives when I stated ‘look at his friends and advisors!!! He is a socialist.’ Now I say…’look at what he is doing…he is moving on to Dictator.’ Funny, I don’t get the odd looks I did before.
And remember, Big Sis made it her first, yes first, ‘directive’ to watch for the threat of the right wing militias.
I heard the PBS report on the “Christian Militia” too. Seems the group have stronger ties to insanity than any real religious beliefs. the leader holds to some crazy ideas of the antichrist. He thinks that by starting a violent conflict with police, this would trigger a larger conflict, and then there is a connection to battling the antichrist. Seems the leader has his own special interpetation of Revelation.
Yeah, and Charles Manson thought he could start a war by killing some “rich pigs”. He also abused Biblical interpretation because he was another whacko. Just because he used the Bible to interpret in his own crazed way doesn’t make him a Christian.
the same was true about David Koresh. He was a “charismatic” leader -
I guess the Feds get jumpy especially after what happened in Jonestown. You have to remember that a member of Congress was murdered in Jonestown.
There are more mentally ill people in Phelp’s family church than there are in that ‘militia’.
Had no idea that this group consisted of only nine people.
The PBS report also stated that the Feds acted now because of information of the militia group having plans for April.
I don’t trust the msm any more than most here. I am skepical of the timing (distraction) and is this report to smear Christians (connecting them with crazies/dangerous people).
EXACTLY what they are doing.
Nothing scarier than a bunch of “Christians”.
what you might not recognize is that people who are mentally ill are very into the Bible.
In this case, after taking a quick glance at one of the news reports, this man was very much into self-interpretation of the Bible.
The case against the group is less about them being Christian, and more to do with their plot to kill police in order to provoke an uprising.
If what is claimed is true, then it is a good thing that the Feds have acted now rather than letting them do anything as planned.
What is striking is that no one believes what the LSM or this administrations thugs say about this group.
The timing of all of this seems suspicious to me. It like they needed to arrest someone to make it seems as though the right wingers are troublemakers. The couldn’t have just the one democratic loon be the only one arrested.
Especially as the Democratic ‘the Tea Partiers are all RAAACIST’ meme has failed via lack of TPers taking the bait (the March Across the Street ploy); the lack of any audio/video substantiation of the ‘N’ word claims…
So gotta validate the ‘evil’ on the right.
These Michigan people might all be bats#it crazy and this might have been in the plans since the Bush days (to infiltrate and arrest) but its, as you say, the timing that trumps all.
someone needs to mine for information and see if the man was registered as a Democrat……
What gets my undies in a bunch is the way the media makes SURE they say “Christian militia”. Where was the bending over backwards 3 mins. after the raid to announce that their faith was just a coincidence and had nothing to do with the planned attacks? Where was The One, giving a press conference, calling for calm and asking that cool heads prevail, and not to launch an offensive against other Christians? I’m almost hoping that some lefties mount a (FAILED) attack on a large Christian group or a church, while claiming that they are ridding the world of the evil dangerous Christians. Meanwhile, I’m off today so I’m preparing my Easter lesson and craft for my 4 yo Sunday School class and volunteering to watch the children during the Good Friday service. Damn,I’m dangerous..downright scary.
Well, they ‘got’ the ninth Militia member…so now they can put the entire ‘army’ into a Ford Econoline van (with I guess, ‘Christian’ bumperstickers) and drive them into the ‘ground’ as the ‘real threat’ to democracy and all things Obama.
Mr. Leboon, the Philly loon, Obama donating, convert to Islam, who target a Jewish, Virigina Congressman (Eric Cantor) and his family…well his Muslim faith has nothing to do with THAT…so lets OMIT any and all ISLAMIC references IN HIS arrest stories…(by the way, how does a ‘disabled, unemployed man’ manage not only full time Internet (to produce those 2000 YouTube videos and still have the coin left over to donate $525 to Dear Leader’s campaign). Maybe he should be ‘snapped up’ for his uber budgeting skills…
Then there were those two wacky, no doubt PMSing gals on the subway train in Moscow yesterday. My oh my…what maybe some estrogen patches would have ‘helped’ their moods…because its really not being reported that they were practioners of the that ‘Religion of Peace’(tm) and there is all kinds of ‘troubles’ in the ethnic enclaves of Russia where ‘like’ minded theocrats reside.
Hmmm…
But…Big Sis has cleaned up the Michigan hinterlands. We will all sleep easier now.
What amazes me is that I am frightened by this. This is, just like Waco, people who (at the time of the attacks) had done NOTHING against the law. They only owned guns. The things said about Waco are what the government told us about them, along with some people the government paid off. In both cases (Waco and these this weekend) innocent U.S. citizens were arrested by government figures just because they owned guns and on the “hearsay” that they “may” someday use them against eh government.
Don’t you see what this means for US? All we have to have are Obama supporters who make up a false claim against us and we can be arrested. If we resist arrest like Waco did, we can be killed. What happened to our justice system? IT IS GONE. What happened to “innocent before proven guilty”? IT IS GONE. THIS IS THE KIND OF THING THEY DO IN IRAN AND OUR DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTS HAVE BOTH NOW DONE IT HERE IN THE U.S.- AGAINST “We, the people”. This SHOULD be scaring the socks off everyone. Why isn’t it? Have we grown that complacent and that used to the losses of our freedoms that we just look away and yawn and forget about things like this?
the Muslim women involved in the Moscow murder-suicide attack were Chechens.
Think Beslan school when you think of Chechen Muslims.
I’m not really frightened, as it does appear that the group had websites touting their plans to kill a LEO, then go to the funeral so that they could get a bunch of LEOs at once. I’m assuming too, that the FBI had been watching these people, probably had moles inside the group, and felt it was time to move in. I’m very thankful that they DIDN’T follow through, as the fallout would’ve been worse.
That said, I do have to question the “timing” of the raid on the heels of the “Right wingers are dangerous” propaganda.
that was Janet Reno… she was in charge.
Do you get the feeling that women by the name of Janet should have nothing to do with Homeland Security? That they are themselves dangerous whackjobs?
Saw this imbedded in the Drudge site. Do you think this elementary school play is real? Looks real with the bad set, audience, cameras flashing, but the play is “Scarface”? Take a look. Please tell me this isn’t true because I can’t stand to think that there are parents out there that think this is okay.
http://www.break.com/index/scarface-school-play.html
I don’t think that it’sa real school play, but someone taught the kids and rehearsed them for their own perverse pleasure, and yes I have a problem with it.
Kids aren’t things, they’re people. This is someone using them as objects for their own entertainment and it’s wrong.
No better than pictures on the net with a toddler with a cigarette hanging out of it’s mouth.
Thanks. I couldn’t find any way to find it funny. I’m always troubled when adults use kids like this.
Recently we had a charter school here in MN send a busload of kids from a K-8 school, to protest at the governor’s office about welfare reform. WTH!! My kids don’t go there, but I sent them an email to let them know that what they did was predatory. Hey adults! Quit making kids fight your causes. Do it yourself.
I hope the photos show up from this email…I felt better after seeing this
May this new year also renew your
Faith in the human race.
nope sorry…no photos & not sure how to insert them
u wont believe this, Iowa changed Good Friday to spring day:
http://www.frugal-cafe.com/public_html/frugal-blog/frugal-cafe-blogzone/2010/03/29/more-anti-religion-liberal-pc-iowa-town-under-storm-of-criticism-for-changing-good-fridays-name-happy-spring-holiday/
Okay, does this guy realize just how big of an idiot that he is? If a local municipality doesn’t want to make a religious holiday into a city one, then you just ignore it.
What you don’t do is something stupid like this.
A move like that by a secularist only movivates us to openly recognize the day. Back in the day, I would say Happy Holidays because it was an appropriate Christmas greeting. Then the leftists racheted up the anti-Christmas rhetoric. Trying to change it to winter holiday. That just made me become a ‘militant’ Merry Christmas guy.
I remember when it wasn’t “Spring Vacation” but “Easter Vacation” because it always came at Easter so school was out either one week before or after Easter. That was in public school. It was always “Easter Vacation.”
A woman at one of the shops here got angry about the lack of Merry Christmas so when people walked into the store she greeted them with Merry Christmas. Did that raise hackles. Several people groused in the store and one slammed the door big time when she left.
In this city everything is political.
I too am a hardcore Merry Christmas (or Happy Hannukah) peep too.
As the Boyz like stories from our towns, several CHRISTMASES ago, in Pittsburgh, the dahntahn light up; department store window reveals and tree at Point State Park festivities ALL revolved around (tada) something known as Sparkle Season.
I haven’t done “sparkles” since the 80s. I became, like you, a militant, hardcore, activist Merry Christmaser.
Alas the good old days…
http://geekandpoke.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341d3df553ef0133ec48e5ae970b-pi
Obama Steps Up Confrontation
White House Seeks to Rally Supporters With Aggressive Tone Against Opponents
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303410404575152110331938210.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_MIDDLETopStories
“You will not surely die [if you pass ObamaCare],” the serpent [Obama] said to [the ignorant proletariat] the woman. “For God knows that when you eat of it [the fruit of Socialism] your eyes will be opened, and you will be like [Me, an omipotent dictator] God, knowing good [Marxism/Captivity] and evil [The Constitution of the United States/Freedom].” (Genesis 3:4-5 )
What stikes me as stange this morning, and a beautiful one finally in CO, is that on today’s Drudge we have cops on the NYC transit system bearing MACHINE GUNS (due to the blasts in Moscow yesterday)and the stock market continues to rise and everything in the LSM is just hunky-dory. What the heck is going on? Is this country oblivious to everything? Or have we reached a sense of complacency just worrying about getting our bills paid, keeping our jobs? We have cops with MACHINE GUNS on the subway system in NYC during spring break! Is there something we need to know about this? Have there been other threats? What the heck?
i think theyre not giving us the full story..”they” think we cant handle it!
kidding aside, wouldnt you want to know about any threats?
There were police/national guard with machine guns in the San Diego airport after 9/11.
Just precausions, I guess.
This is a case of closing the barn door after the horse’s escape. All they are doing is saying ” look at us, we’re prepared and ready for those mean old terrorists….. for a couple of weeks”.
Exactly. I take the train from NJ to Penn Station about once/month to meet my girlfriends. I get on at the first stop(Dover) and arrive in Penn 90+ minutes later. People with backpacks, luggage, musical instrument cases…and NO security. It’s all a show.
Progressive family members from the San Francisco area arrived in south Florida for the Easter holidays. Right away they started with their Obama Zombie garbage talking points. Smacked they down immediately. All they could reply was about Bush. Bush is long gone, I replied. I kept bringing the conversation back to what Obama was doing to destroy the country. These people are so “un”-informed. First they didn’t believe me, then after I showed proof on several points suddenly they have been struck dumb and they don’t want to talk politics.
Score one for the home team. I intend to keep it up even if my husband gets ticked off. These progressives declared war and I play to win.
Happy Easter everyone.
Good for you!
I note today that Teh Won now states,
President Obama said many Tea Party followers have “mainstream legitimate concerns,” and acts like acknowledging that is some big concession.
Note also, he mentions alleged violence against Democrats who voted for HCR, but is quiet about violence and threats against Republicans. So much for bipartisanship.
The article does mention the arrest in the Rep Cantor case, but Teh Won remains silent.
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2010/03/obama-core-group-of-tea-party-movement-questions-his-legitimacy/1
I saw his statement about Tea Party’s “legitimate concerns”.
It just reminds me again that the statists and liberals and lying dhims have never had to deal with an opposition that is awake, thinking and speaking in complete sentences. They still think that tossing us a verbal bone like that will send us off in a humming mind fog, feeling all good because “we’ve been noticed.”
Normal people refuse to use that technique immediately after brutalizing their audience in specific, long range, life-changing ways.
It just clarifies more of WHO THEY ARE. Never forget what has been learned over the past 10-12 months. Never forget who they are, even if they start giving you extra candy and pocket cash. Do NOT forget WHO THEY ARE.
Statists are able to function by leaning on a constituency that either doesn’t want to be informed, is informed only about pop culture and what pop culture figures espouse or elites who live in a bubble where typical rules won’t apply. Statists are off their mark because one, conservatives are informed and two, we will not back down anymore.
good hunting and I hope you win
Yea JRD! Keep speaking the truth. It shall win out.
Bravo!!! Happy Easter and keep up the good work
Dr. Charol Shakeshaft is an expert on the sexual abuse of minors. She says that the abuse in public schools is much worse than that in the Catholic Church, fyi (not to diminish that was has happened in the Church is wrong! I agree that there needs to be an almighty house cleaning.)
http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2004/4/5/01552.shtml
The point is, if it were really JUST about “the children,” reforms would be called for and instituted not only in the church, but in schools, as well. They are not. So, it’s also about going after religion. Specifically, Christians.
Example: California removed the statute of limitations on sexual abuse crimes by priests, but refused to expand the legislation to include public school teachers. So much for it being about “the children.”
Agree with you, there is an all-out assault on Christianity, and in particular, Catholicism.
I am not Catholic, but my husband is, and since he started to return to his faith in a more meaningful way, I can not help but be more aware of the rising tide of anti-Catholic bigotry all around us. I have lost track of the number of times people will state their belief that Catholics are not “part of the Christian church”. What ??? The first time I heard this, I just shrugged it off as a lone case, but I’ve heard it more often lately.
The Catholic bashing is really a dishonest assault against our culture and social cohesion. Think about it … it’s not just the religious component, but the touchstones of our lives are centered around religious milestones, whether or not we practice our faith. The Christian tradition and cultural cohesion it creates is the backbone of the Western tradition.
Christianity is all about liberty and freedom. Islam is most assuredly not.
As a Mormon, I’ve gotten the “You’re not Christian!” thing a lot too. Maddening.
Just like infighting among moderates and conservatives serves only the liberal/Progressive cause, so too does infighting in the Christian community only benefit those who have declared war on Christianity. We can talk and argue about our differences all we want at a later date; right now we’re all under assault, and we either unite to face it or fall separately.
Agreed. We need to avoid the internecine war, which is the trap they want us to fall into.
I am happy that you spoke up on that point. Those differences need to be suspended for a time.
Oh, and I wanted to state thanks for posting this.
Uppity woman also has a good post up today about the young girl who committed suicide because of bullying at school. Heartbreaking.
http://uppitywoman08.wordpress.com/2010/03/30/defective-spawns-of-the-week-9-south-hadley-students/
We have had so many teacher-child sex cases here (Western Washington) it’s not funny, starting with the infamous Mary Kay Letourneau. Some Seattle club actually started holding “Hot for Teacher” nights and had Mary Kay and her student-now-husband promoting them and making “guest appearances”. How sick is that?
Maybe my Tin Foil is on a little tight but I wonder if these stories about priest pedophiles are in the media because a lot of Catholics opposed ObamaCare.
Then again, maybe I’m just being paranoid. After all, the Lame Stream Media never turns down a chance to bash Christians.
Obama and his crowd certainly hope to divide and conquer Catholics.
The timing for the recent accuracy-challeged piece in the NY Times (motto: “the paper that brought you Jayson Blair!”) — might have been
– to capitalize on the recent kerfluffle in Ireland;
– to show cultural sensitivity to Catholics preparing for for Holy Week
– payback for the bishops’ opposition to Pelosicare.
Dwight,
I may be paranoid too because that was my first thought too!
I think that you have a good point. The other reason of course is that we have been in the Lenten season and have now reached the week prior to Easter. It is always planned that way.
Every year it is some new attack on Christians and especially the Catholic Church.
What is really shabby this time is that they brought up cases that date back to the 1950s!!!!!
These are cases that have nothing…. I repeat nothing… to do with Josef Ratzinger… but that has not stopped the hounds from braying like hyenas.
Dwight, that exact same thought has occurred to me.
Here is something I’ve been thinking about over the last couple of days…
I think the democratic party is going to have a hard time winning elections for the foreseeable future (I know – hardly insightful, but hear me out)
Since the healthcare bill has the effect of polarizing the country, every democrat that voted for the bill has a huge black mark against them. This black mark will be compounded by every other vote that they make in favor of the Obama agenda. The Obama agenda was only favorable because it was never revealed until after his election, so these reps and senators have no cover to rely on. This means that no democrat that voted for this bill, and others, can count on support from the right (marginal support during normal times) or independents (majority are so turned off by the dems).
So, where are the democrats going to find candidates? The current crop in congress are ruined, and the only safe dems come from the most left wing of districts.
Governors? Most dem governors are residing in states that are fiscal disasters.
Politicians are by definition self-serving, so any qualified centrist dem candidate is not going to want to subject their career ambition to the buzz saw that is the current political environment. Which means that the dems will start backing more leftist candidates by default.
…and I don’t believe leftists will win many elections now that people have woken up to what unabaited liberalism really means.
oooohhhh….you said “black mark”. I’m gonna tell.
better make it a red mark… no wait… Indians might be offended… maybe a yellow mark… no wait… why not a blue mark?
What they’re talking about here in NJ is the RAIN!! The towns near rivers and lakes still haven’t dried out from the 3/13 monsoons and now this. So many of these are working class neighborhoods, who will never be able to sell these houses and can’t get another one.
I’m fortunate, I live near the largest lake in the state, but the neighborhoods are built on the hillside. The main road will be flooded soon, but there are alternate routes to town. I feel so badly for these people.
Wow. Stay safe!
Yes, here in PA too. A flood watch is in effect. Its been raining for 2 days straight.
Ah, you live near Lake Hopatcong. I moved away from that area in 1999 to Sussex county. To what main road are you referring?
Mount Arlington Blvd. We can go down Howard Blvd to get to Rt 80.
I have thought that maybe we should send every D who voted for the HC bill a “black spot” similar to what was in the book Treasure Island. But then all the Ds would get all paranoid about us as terrorists so maybe it’s a bad idea.
I realize the tongue in cheek nature of your comment….but be careful, folks. “Terrorism” and “terroristic threats” are, I believe, actually based in the perceptions of the recipient to some extent. The whole idea of “terrorizing” is to deliberately terrify someone. Be very careful.
So scary movies are terrorist by nature? I think your attempt to define terrorism is a bit simplistic and solipsistic.
Terrorism, as I was taught in school, is the use of violence against civilians to obtain a goal. Note: it’s against civilians. That’s one difference between terrorism and war. War has clear sides and the combatants wear a uniform to minimize the amount of civilian casualties (among other reasons).
The LSM and the Donks are trying to paint tea partiers as terrorists in order to marginalize them and discourage others from joining the cause.
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2010/03/29/msnbc-shocker-firearms-deaths-fall-gun-restrictions-ease
“The nation’s highest gun homicide rates are in Washington, D.C., with 20.50 deaths per 100,000 people, five times the general rate. Yet the District of Columbia has the strictest gun-control laws in the nation. The lowest rate of gun-related homicides is in Utah: 1.12 deaths per 100,000 people. Utah’s gun-control policy is very unrestricted.”
Bonus points as this was actually reported on MSNBC. I didn’t think that was possible.
Gun control means never having to say I missed you.
There have been extensive studies showing that the areas with the least restrictive gun control laws have the lowest incidence of violent crimes. It makes perfect sense — someone looking to do harm has to think twice about whether his/her potential victim has a gun.
There is a proposal in Vermont, I think, to require a license NOT to own a gun. Interesting idea….
Here is what is on my mind today…
I have loved to read all of my life…and I can remember, years ago, after reading ‘Atlas Shrugged,’ checking out Rand’s ‘Fountainhead,’ and then (and this was years before internet research) learning of Sinclair Lewis’ ‘It Cant Happen Here.’ It was written in the late 30s; the copy I checked out from the ‘big’ Carnegie Library (Pittsburgh) in the early 80s was probably shelved weeks after publication it was soo old…but, as Obama ‘ascended’ (que the choirs of Angels or Beyonce…whichever Me!Chelle will permit) I tried to revisit it.
Color me pleased that Breitbart’s BigGovernment had a little thread about the book:
http://biggovernment.com/mzak/2010/03/29/yes-it-can-happen-here/
If you can, please read the comments…and maybe Zak’s article will ‘spike’ this little gem in Amazon.
I just got my copy today.
when I was at school I was a voracious reader, and not long after reading 1984 for the first time I picked up a book by a female author. I can remember bits and pieces of the book, because like 1984 many of the “events” have come true. This was a book based on the rise of the feminist movement. In that book it got to the point where women did not need men in order to get pregnant.
The book was written well before artificial insemination was popular or even mentioned, and it was before the first efforts of in vitro fertilization.
If I am remembering correctly I think that there was a class warfare of some sort… on this my memory is hazy….
Not much in the way of detail but it spooks me to think that these authors have proved to be “prophets” in some respects.
The Handmaid’s tale by Margaret Atwood is pretty eerie in retrospect as well.
She talks of a world of surrogacy where Handmaid’s bear children for the wealthier and more upper status and the imposition of a rigid class structure.
And the impetus for imposing this New World order was a staged terrorist attack blamed on Muslims.
She wrote Handmaid’s Tale in 1985
March 30, 2010
Why the Health Care Bill Could Be Repealed
By Sean Trende
The punditocracy has recently been consumed with a debate over whether or not the Republicans will be able to repeal the recently-passed health care bill. Outside of self-professed conservative pundits, the conventional wisdom seems to be that the odds are prohibitively against repeal (or significant modification).
This Politico article typifies the attitude of those who doubt that repeal can be effectuated. It argues that the current outrage over the health care bill is merely a part of a “familiar pattern since New Deal days: Government programs from Social Security to Medicare that were launched amid incendiary arguments within a short time became sacrosanct – protected by a bipartisan consensus that was nowhere to be found at passage.”
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This is certainly one possible outcome for the President’s health care bill, but it isn’t the only one. Here is why repeal is a real possibility.
1. This bill is substantively different than Social Security and Medicare.
My colleague Jay Cost made a critical point a few days ago:
Franklin Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson made use of an ingenious social insurance system – promoting the idea that we all pay in today to take out tomorrow. It was consistent with American individualism. It was simple. It was intuitive. It was bipartisan. Obama’s new system has none of those virtues.
This feature is what makes repealing or substantially modifying Social Security and/or Medicare so difficult. They are entitlements that are broadly given to the middle class, who also pays for them. To the extent these programs are redistributive, that redistribution is largely hidden. Everyone, from the poorest member of society to Bill Gates, has some stake in Social Security and Medicare.
By the time a member of the middle class retires at age 65, he will have likely paid tens of thousands of dollars into the Social Security system. He expects to get that money back. The same goes for Medicare, which is funded by a smaller tax than Social Security (though unlike Social Security, that tax is not subject to an annual income cap), and is similarly available to all elderly Americans. In other words, cutting Social Security or Medicare requires taking something away from the middle class that they’ve already paid for. That’s obviously hard to do.
While this bill was intended to be a broad middle class entitlement in the mold of Social Security and Medicare, it is fundamentally different. It is funded by a variety of mechanisms that target specific stakeholders. It is paid for primarily by Medicare beneficiaries and the wealthy, neither of whom are likely to receive the benefits. While beneficiaries will have a stake in the program, it will not be as substantial as their stake in their Medicare or Social Security benefits, which they have already essentially “bought” by the time they approach retirement.
Moreover, this bill will have a smaller number of beneficiaries, especially at first. Democrats like to brag that in the weeks after the bill has passed, the ban on pre-existing conditions will be lifted for children, adults with pre-existing conditions will be allowed to participate in high-risk insurance pools, and adults will be able to maintain their children on their insurance until those children turn twenty-six.
These are popular features of the bill, but I’m not certain how broad their appeal is. Most people do not have pre-existing conditions that they know of, nor do they have children with pre-existing conditions (for whatever it is worth, I fall personally in the former category, and via my son into the latter). I’ve not seen statistics on the number of parents who would like to keep their children on their insurance policies, but I imagine the number is relatively small compared to the vast number of people who are eligible for Medicare or Social Security.
Indeed, the central difficulty that the bill will run up against is the same one it has run up against all along: most people already have health insurance, and most people are basically happy with their insurance. While a number of Americans will enjoy receiving subsidies for purchasing health care on the exchanges (in 2014), many of the 30 million Americans who will be covered by this bill are Americans who could buy health insurance today, but choose not to.
For a comparatively small number of obvious beneficiaries, the bill creates a number of real losers as well: People who participate in Medicare Advantage, healthy people who would rather not purchase insurance, and people whose employers stop providing health insurance as a result of the bill, to name a few examples.
2. This bill is more similar to government programs that Congresses have repealed.
Programs that are perceived as broad middle class entitlements do tend to become untouchable. With programs that are perceived as social insurance or redistribution mechanisms, though, the track record is spottier. The idea that Congress never repeals programs once they have begun is unsupported by history. Congress repealed a large portion of the New Deal in the 1940s, and substantial portions of the Great Society were gutted as well; there is a reason that the WPA, CCC, and OEO are referred to only in history books.
Indeed, even the idea that Medicare is sacrosanct is belied by the substantial cuts to Medicare Advantage to fund the present health bill. Congress also substantially transformed a relatively unpopular redistributive entitlement program in 1996, when it reworked AFDC.
But the biggest elephant in the room is alluded to at the end of the Politico article: The Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act of 1988. It passed 360 to 66 in the House and by a similarly large margin in the Senate. It was signed into law by President Reagan in June of 1988.
The problems with the bill were many. There wasn’t much real demand for the bill, nor was there substantial demand for the benefits it offered, such as a ceiling on doctor bills, larger payments for nursing home care, and a prescription drug benefit. Many people on Medicare already had plans offering these benefits. It was paid for by a surtax on elderly people with incomes over $35,000, thus removing the traditional Medicare hook that recipients had already paid for the benefit their entire lives. And it was the subject of an intense disinformation campaign by opponents.
The results are legendary. 6,000 members resigned from the AARP in protest of its support of the bill. Congressmen returned home to hordes of angry elderly voters in town hall meetings. Congressman Dan Rostenkowski was chased down the street outside of his office by a mob of angry voters. Members blamed the disinformation campaign, the complexity of the bill, and their failure to explain it well. Regardless, they ultimately repealed the bill in 1989.
While no analogy is perfect, this health care bill more closely resembles the 1988 bill than it does original Medicare or Social Security. It is amazingly complex, is not understood well by its purported beneficiaries, and many, if not most, of its intended beneficiaries already receive benefits in one form or another. It creates real losers as well, as described above. Unlike the 1988 legislation, there is little bipartisan support for the present bill; there is some bipartisan opposition. Most importantly, there is no overwhelming demand for today’s particular legislation. People want health care reform, but it polls fairly low on most people’s priority list, and most polling shows that voters are more concerned with controlling costs than with expanding coverage. Today’s bill focuses on the former and indeed will increase costs for a substantial number of voters.
3. This bill starts on a different footing than Social Security or Medicare.
Perhaps most importantly, the premise that Social Security and Medicare started out as extremely controversial programs is incorrect. Social Security and Medicare had their detractors, to be certain, but they were nowhere near as controversial as the present bill. Both programs passed with significant support from the minority party. I have yet to read stories of Congressmen being assailed at town hall meetings by angry constituents after voting for Social Security or Medicare. I know of no major push in Congress to repeal either program in subsequent Congresses, notwithstanding major gains by the opposition party shortly after their passage.
The American people didn’t grow to love Social Security or Medicare. Those programs had the people at “hello.” That is certainly not the case with the recent health care bill.
4. Conservatives may have the votes to repeal the bill.
Finally, there is a substantial chance that Republicans will have the votes in the next few years to make significant changes to the programs, before the real benefits become payable in 2014. While control of the Senate remains a long shot for Republicans in 2010, Republicans should be favored to take that body over in 2012. If the political environment remains toxic for Democrats, the Republicans could even gain a filibuster-proof majority in 2012 or 2014. And while it is far too early to pass judgment on Barack Obama’s re-election prospects, Republicans probably have no worse than a 40% chance of defeating him in 2012; if they do they will probably control the House and have a substantial majority in the Senate in 2013.
But even if they don’t gain control of the government, a coalition to repeal the bill or (more likely) effectuate major changes to the legislation is not out of the question. There are twenty-three Democrats up for re-election in 2012, and twenty in 2014. Of those forty-three Senators (almost 2/3 of the total seats up), ten are from states John McCain carried, and additional eleven are from states George W. Bush carried at least once, while seven more are from states Bush came four points or less from carrying. That is a huge number of potentially vulnerable Senators up in the next two cycles; it eclipses the two Senators from McCain states up this cycle (three more are from Bush states, and an additional three are from Bush-near-miss states).
These Senators could afford to vote for the bill in 2010 partly because their elections were a long way off. They also did so because the White House could argue that the bill’s popularity would turn around, and that the White House could pull vulnerable Senators and Congressmen over the finish line. But if the Republicans have an outstanding 2010, the White House’s argument will have been tested and will have failed. There will be substantial pressure on these Senators to modify the bill. Could the Republicans put together a coalition in 2010 or 2011 to effectuate major changes? It would be a long shot, but if Obama’s popularity remains below fifty percent going into 2012, I would not think it impossible.
None of this is to say that the Republicans will succeed in repealing the health care bill. It is just to say that their hand is considerably stronger than many make it out to be. It will be up to the voters in 2010 to determine just how strong the Republicans’ hand is.
Sean Trende can be reached at strende@realclearpolitics.com.
One more story, I actually read this yesterday, but with all of the negative (some rightly deserved) stories coming out against the Catholic church, I was happy to read of a comptemplative Order in France, bringing young women with Downs Syndrome into their Order.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2482620/posts
“Whatever you do unto the least of my breatheran, that you do unto me.”
A really nice, uplifting story.
why has this not been all over the MSM and tv? thanks to Chris for ferreting this out! this should give us hope that it can be done..again!
http://news.google.com/newspapers?
why has this not been all over the MSM and tv? thanks to Chris for ferreting this out! this should give us hope that it can be done..again!
http://www.answers.com/topic/medicare-catastrophic-coverage-act
Marie, the MSM doesn’t WANT to cover this. They’re pushing the “narrative” that once something has been passed, it’s impossible to repeal.
What a great thing to do. We have a 20 year old nephew who has severe Down syndrome. He has never spoken, but can function with support, feedback and behavior clues from family and friends. His Mom has often commented on his spiritual perceptions and how they parallel those of any of us: resistance, faith, rebellion, humility, confidence in God, sometimes frustration with God, issues of conscience, etc.
Just read some good articles at world net daily today. The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons became the first medical society to file to overturn health scam. Also, Dr. Benishek is holding a money bomb with the goal of 219,000. $1,000 for each vote cast in favor of that montrosity. Washington times has a good article regarding; the Supreme Court may weigh in on the health care mandate. The comments were extremely uplifting. Gives me encouragement with so many intelligent and informed readers that are able to dissect/explain the unconstitutionality of this bill. Some of these people should run for office or hold training sessions for the idiots in congress.
Which should come as a suprise to those who actually bought the BS that all of America’s physicians were behind this pos.
To them I say, “dur”.
Judge Roger Vinson is the presiding judge in the case involving the 13 states. He was nominated by Ronald Reagan. Guess that means he’s a conservative judge.
Judge Henry E. Hudson is the presiding judge in the Virginia case. He was nominated by George W. Bush. Another conservative judge.
This, IMO is good news. There will be 3 rounds to these cases. Federal court, federal appeals court, and then SCOTUS. With conservative judges, round one of this battle could be in favor of the states and just in time for November elections.
Supreme Court likely will not hear this court before next year.
Also,
We’re not going to win this fight being on the defensive. We’re letting the Democrats control the conversation and they will quickly get ahead if we keep doing that.
We need to brand them as the Party of Hate. We have a president who wants to insult and intimidate the American people and anyone who opposes his policies. He is against free speech. He is stripping private enterprise to the bone. The liberal media panders to this and parrots his talking points.
I don’t know about you but I am sick and tired of being sick and tired. I am sick and tired of reading the news and seeing hate from the Democratic party. They are bullies.
Instead of reacting to what the liberal media accuses us of we need to start hurling accusations of our own! Put THEM on the defensive. That’s when we get ahead.
What kind of president would look the American people in the eye and say “Bring it on!”? That’s not leadership. That’s the mafia.
They are taking to task businesses who are taking a hit with the HC bill. That’s intimidation.
Conservatives are going on the liberal media and defending the tea party. We don’t have to defend the tea party. People KNOW what is going on. We need to change the convservation. We need to put THEM on the defensive.
I don’t think it’s a coincedence that the government decided to bust some “Christian groups” in the middle of the woods at the exact same time the tea party is being accused of violence. The Democratic party will stoop to lows we can’t even IMAGINE to stay in power. There is NOTHING over the line in their book. They will do whatever they have to do to win.
Conservatives don’t have to stoop to their scum level and be as immoral and corrupt. We just have to be smarter.
Your President is going to be in for a very rude awakening.
There has been another case that has gone through the District Court and all 9 judges agreed. It is similar to Citizens United but concerns the PACs.
It will be interesting to see what happens when one aspect of the case is taken to the SCOTUS. Expect the provisions relating to the PACs to be struck down.
The SCOTUS is not about to surrender the right to free speech.
If the WH attempts to do anything to the Internet etc. the SCOTUS will strike it down.
You really need to read the opinions in the Citizens United case. The Stevens opinion really is garbage, but the opinions of Alito, Kennedy, Thomas, and Roberts actually show in what direction the SCOTUS might be heading.
I think this is very relevant.
We can only hope!
Thank goodness Teh Won hasn’t had time to lard SCOTUS with his socialist sympathisers. If SCOTUS can hold the line, we can win back the “People’s House”.
Has Obama signed the executive order he promised Stupak yet?
yes. A week ago.
Thanks – I hadn’t heard much about it but figured someone here would know.
Make sure you read this article. Originally written for the Washington Post, Parker clarifies how dirty the Dems played on this one. It explains the process very well and it’s great ammo when you are talking with others about this.
http://www.lacrossetribune.com/news/opinion/article_867b5552-3b76-11df-85fa-001cc4c002e0.html
That’s because O didn’t allow any press to be present during the signing. He didn’t even have White House photographers issue a photo. No press, no photos at all.
that EO is worthless. It is unconstitutional. It has no meaning.
I am not sure…but I think Stupak is getting stupaked by Barky.
Love the irony of it all.
Good topics for Republicans:
1. The rancher who was sympathetic to the illegal immigrants was MURDERED in Arizona.
2. Jobs. Jobs. Jobs and lack thereof.
3. The economy is still in the toilet.
4. The size of the federal government is about to be larger than private enterprise.
5. Hillary insulted Canada. Another ally thrown out the window.
Yep, shot the rancher and his dog lying along side of him– grrrrrrrr’ and what sucks is these “damn border hopper’s know, that with our current spineless POTUS: nothing will come of-it!
My prayer’s are with his wife and family,,,”
This is a good topic for conservatives. How dangerous it is on the border. What are they doing to secure the border? Don’t let them change the topic to gun control or about how it’s our fault we do drugs (especially when they are the ones lessening the drug laws). Mexicans flying helicopters over US land and it’s barely discussed.
Peeps,,,is it any wonder at all, to all this Chaos and to those who are now in office.
The sixty’s civil rights movement etc., let their be no doubt, that this is a direct correlation to Retribution. I was young then, but’ yet– the uglyness of it all hasn’t changed…”
BO has surrounded himself with the very same radical 60s people. It points to the progressive movement with Woodrow Wilson. Same people, same objectives.
What did Hillary do to Canada?
She insulted and embarrassed them at their own conference by pointing out countries and stakeholders SHE thought should have been invited.
It has been established for awhile that the Canadians are leaving Afghanistan; PM Harper is barely holding onto a minority government, and can not afford a vote of non confidence. Parliament has been perogued in the past year more times than I can remember. It’s crazy. So, reversing the decision to withdraw from AfPak in 2011 was a non-starter. Hill went there anyways and got rebuffed.
There was a chance that the Cdns would leave approx 600 troops behind to assist in MITT work, something my husband did in Iraq. That would have lightened the load of our US military considerably. That is something Hill could have reached for, and had it been handled well, would have gained. Instead, announcements were made clarifying in no uncertain terms that there will be no training teams remaining, military or RCMP. When I relayed this info to the Studmuffin, he snorted disgustedly “GREAT”, because he has worked well with his Cdn counterparts on the training issues, and knows their assistance would have been very helpful.
Talk about smart diplomacy! Hope! Change!
BTW, the day I left to drive back, the local paper for the little town my parents live in had a headline blaring, “OBAMA DISSES HOCKEY”.
There’s no love for Teh Won outside of Toronto and Vancouver.
The Toronto Star is about the most Liberal paper in Canada (My dad calls it the Red Rag), and they were very bullish on Bill Clinton. When Clinton flew to Toronto for his book signing, people were lined up around the block for hours.
Anyways, if you’ve lost the TorStar ….
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/787841–hillary-clinton-stirs-the-pot-on-afghanistan-abortion-and-the-arctic?b
Supplemental:
Studmuffin brought up a good point. Hill is smart and knows better than to walk out on a joint press conference, etc.
She did this deliberately to burn Teh Won.
He will never get anything accomplished bilaterally now. He has huge issues he has to navigate, vis-a-vis the management of the shared Great Lakes; the pipeline; etc. OMG.
Harper barely tolerates him as it is; you can see it through his body language.
WOW.
Even if she meant to diss Ogabe, she did it at the nation’s expense by insulting our neighbor and ally. Not good for the US.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303410404575152110331938210.html
Just what the country needs…more confrontation by the president. What a leader.
Someone with Narcissistic Personality Disorder will never compromise.
He’s textbook (as well as being a bratty little boy).
Take the poll:
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-6116297-503544.html?tag
It’s a good poll, but it’s dated January 10th…. I’m still taking it, but I think they’re not paying any attention to it.
Sorry. I got excited and posted this information under the thread about Dubai. I thought I had my browser on the open thread for the day. Anyways, Tammy Bruce said on her show today that she would like to get the Hillbuzz guys on her show. (!!!) It was a quick random comment that she made.
She’s on TalkStreamLive right now, daily from 2 to 4pm Eastern time.
http://www.talkstreamlive.com/talk_radio/tammy_bruce.stream
Yikes! That’s a lot of wars, riots, assassinations, and general mayhem throughout the centuries. You have to wonder how God puts up with us.
All those wars just prove what I have thought throughout my adult life. Every 30 to 50 years or so there are major wars breaking out – world wars or regional wars. Within that time there are general skirmishes and fights over borders, culture, and religion. That then leads to the big wars.
Perhaps we need a lot more women in politics and government, worldwide. Especially women who have had children. Most mommies know how to make the kids stop fighting and most times distract them before they start. We also know how to make them hug and make up. We’d have to cull out all the bad mommies though. There are some doozies in this violent planet we all live on.
I think war is the natural state of affairs in this fallen world. Look at nature. Animals don’t hug and kiss each other when they first meet. They’re wary. They often fight.
Peace is artificial. Peace is often bought with appeasement, compromise and a useless wish that the “crocodile will eat one last”. Of course I don’t want war. No sane person does. But I don’t believe in shrinking from it when it comes to maintaining our freedom. As GK Chesterton said, “War may not be the best means of settling differences, but it’s better than having differences settled for you”.
No, I don’t believe in peace at any price, and frankly, I think WWII could have been avoided if there wasn’t a pacifist movement in Britain led by WOMEN, who wanted to appease Hitler rather than confront him in the Sudetenland. A minor skirmish there would have sent his armies scurrying back to Germany. A too-eager desire for peace is what emboldens bullies and dictators. Look at Ogabe. All the bad guys are saber rattling right now because they (rightly) perceive he is weak.
I don’t believe for one minute that a woman can do this any better than a man can. As a matter of fact, I think that the rise of socialism in the 20th century coincides with women getting the vote. Too many women vote with their hormones and their hearts instead of with their brains. (Present company excluded, of course)
Maybe Germany, but remember that fascist Italy had territorial aims outside its borders and Japan was militarized and on the march.
You are correct to draw the parallel to percieved weakness. The Pax Americana served the world well for the last 65 years.
Yes, but if Britain and France had confronted Hitler when he invaded the Sudentenland, it would have sent a clear signal to Italy not to mess with them.
“19-year-old Joan of Arc is burned at the stake by an English-dominated tribunal. Because of this the Catholic Church remember this day as the celebration of Saint Joan of Arc.”
Uh, all saints’ feast days fall on the day they die because the Church regards it as the day they went to heaven.
Wiki is so stupid sometimes.
It seems that the first of the special programs that SP contracted to do for Fox will be shown on Thursday:
http://www.conservatives4palin.com/2010/03/palin-special-on-thursday-at-1000-est.html
http://baracksteleprompter.blogspot.com/
This is a blog I read…and it’s hilarious. In a nutshell it is a blog written by “somebody” posing as BO’s teleprompter. I don’t think anyone has figured out who it is yet but it’s somebody with insider knowledge because they know stuff most people do not…and it’s not a loyal Democrat I can tell you that. Just in case you want a few laughs….
Seen it. What a crack-up.
The new “Yes We Can”:
“YES, WE’LL REMEMBER”
Oops, this was meant for #44
No photos of Barry and Michelle today with
the Sarkozys.
Michelle stuffed her face in NYC. Now maybe she can’t face Carla. LOL
Carla looks lovely. Lovely lovely lovely.
Is Michelle in hiding? Those pepperoni pizzas and ribs can really go to your thighs, hips, and butt.
cavuto has the man, bill rice, whose finger was bitten off by a pro health nut at a rally..they never caught the bastard, they were not able to re attach the finger.. mr rice showed his hand which is missing the tip of his pinkie.
of course with all the hullabaloo about racism and the tea party, this is never brought up by cnn, msnbc etc..
I’ve heard secondhand — shall have to look it up — that Sarkozy has come out in support of O’s position regarding the construction in East Jerusalem. Just think of what will happen in the Security Council.
And as if that were not enough, he gave a speech at Columbia University in favor of Obamacare. Not very discrete nor intelligent of Monsieur le President, n’est-ce pas?
He’s a socialist. In the final analysis, Sarkozy is a socialist. Here is his stance on gun ownership:
“I would like to say one thing, in what is my conception of the Republic, security is the responsibility of the State, I am against militias, I am against the private ownership of firearms, and I’m trying to make you think about that. If you are assaulted by an armed burglar, he’ll use his weapon more effectively than you anyway so you’re risking your life. If the criminal is not armed and you are and you shoot, your life will be ruined, because killing someone over a theft is not in line with the republican values that are mine. The private ownership of firearms is dangerous. I understand your exasperation for having been burglarized two times, I understand the fear that your wife and daughter may have but the answer is in the efficiency of the police and the efficiency of the judiciary process, the answer is not in having guns at home.”
http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/1596
A little fun.
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/03/see_you_in_november.html
Cafe Press already has “Remember in November” tshirts, caps, etc. ready online – I’ve already ordered mine for our 4/15 teaparty out here! It’s got the date – 3/21/10 (I think) We’ll Remember In November. Can’t wait to wear it around our (few, out here) Obots.
Palin just endorsed this candidate on her facebook page. He’s against Debbie Halverson, IL. Seems like a really good guy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2C-vQdZhPU&feature=player_embedded
He’s cute too! (It’s shallow O’clock, I’ll be more serious later).
I agree. A young hottie!
Another hottie!
Nothing like a man in uniform…sigh.
Biden thinks that redistribution is fair.
http://tinyurl.com/ykkrote
You know, we really need to push back on this word “fair” being used.
What’s so fair about taking the income of hard-working Americans who get up at the crack of dawn and work for years?
What’s fair about stealing the fruits of someone’s labor?
What’s fair about taking money from people, many who created businesses from scratch, working out of their garages and homes?
What’s fair about punishing people who create jobs?
Socialism does destroy the middle class.
What’s fair about that?
There needs to be more focus on how UNfair Socialism is.
Fast becoming one of my favorite quotes…
“You toil and work and earn bread, and I’ll eat it.” No matter in what shape it comes, whether from the mouth of a king who seeks to bestride the people of his own nation and live by the fruit of their labor, or from one race of men as an apology for enslaving another race, it is the same tyrannical principle.”
Abraham Lincoln
“Senator” Boxer worked so hard for her title.
It would then be “fair” for Californians to take it from her and give it to someone else who does not have that title.
Live by your words lefties.
I remember getting one of those viral emails about a father teaching his young daughter about the unfairness of socialism.
She was yakking about how we need to have more compassion and make the wealthy less wealthy by helping the poor.
So her dad asked her to do some work around the house and he would pay her a sum they agreed on. After she was done working, he told her that he was going to give some homeless guy on the street 40% of what she earned, since she should be more “compassionate” and spread the wealth.
That shut her up.
My mother was a school teacher before she married, and when I was little, she often read to me from charming old school ‘readers’ she had.
One of these was a fable that I’ve never forgotten. It was the story of ‘The Little Red Hen.’
It’s a fable whose purpose was to teach children about the ‘work ethic’ and what REAL fairness means. IOW, if you don’t contribute, you will go hungry.
(Of course today, if the little red hen denied the lazy farm animals some of her bread, she would be accused of being RAAAAACIISSSSSTT! Not to mention that PETA would have a cow. MOO!
LOL!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Little_Red_Hen
Just on Cavuto…NASA is being assigned to look into Toyota’s acceleration problem. This is just unbelievable!!
They are piling on Toyota because they own GM and Toyota is non-union. The Japanese will not put up with this harrassment. I would not buy a GM car if you sold it for $1.
If they can force you to buy Obamacare, they have the precedent to force you to buy a GM car.
well, at least it means some funding for NASA. Maybe they can convert a Sienna into some kind of unmanned probe.
I think it’s a fabricated witch hunt, anyway. No more unionized Government Motors for moi, either.
In keeping with HillBuzz’s request to report what is going on in our neck of the woods I’ll give a brief summary of heated topics of discussion here in a suburb of Tampa.
My community is equal parts staunch leftist, moderate and conservative. (There probably is such a varied group because of the fact that most people who live in FL are originally from elsewhere in the country.) But no matter what their group of choice everyone is talking about Obamacare; especially at my job.
I work for a small tech company. We’ve been struggling greatly in these economic times. We’ve already had cut-backs, hour reductions and lay-offs. After the announcement of Obamacare the management formally decided to throw in the towel. The company was family owned and operated, a real labor of love, and had done business in the area for over 15 years but they just can’t hold on anymore.
Some of us will be kept on as telecommuters to work from home. I’m lucky and grateful to be included in that group. But many won’t be kept as home based employees and will be let go.
The management was honest and told those being let go that they just can’t keep treading water with Obamacare set to devastate the already murky financial landscape. Those being let-go that are staunch Obama supporters are acting unconcerned. They don’t seem to think it will be easy or even doable to find a new job but they are convinced that ‘their man Obama’ will have their back. And between unemployment insurance and delayed mortgage payments maybe he does???
The moderates that I worked with that were duped into voting for Hope and Change fell out of love with Obama about 6 months ago. Obamacare seems to have solidified for them that Obama was not who he was presented to be. They are very angry. They really believed that they were voting for a compassionate moderate in Obama who would lead from a point of empathy.
One moderate that I work with is a nice woman who has very expensive health care needs. She’s quite capable of holding down a job and working with great integrity but she needs expensive medication and the occasional maintenance surgery to do so. Even though this has been a near lifetime condition for her (making it preexisting) she was still able to get insurance through the company. She pays more then most people but she uses more then most people. And she likes her insurance. Yesterday she was crying her at desk. She’s scared that Obamacare will cause her to loose her insurance, ration her care or will cause a rate hike so high she can’t pay for it.
I was at a privately owned franchise of a big name restaurant today paying for some take out. The man ringing up my order is the owner who out of the blue starts telling me that he’s loosing his house, his wife has been out of work for nearly two years, and his eldest has had to quit college as they can’t pay for tuition any longer. He has a younger teenager who now doesn’t seem to have a future as college is out of the question and said teenager is now competing with much older more qualified adults for part-time jobs. This man was scared, near tears, and was telling a virtual stranger that Obamacare is going to destroy his business as he can’t afford to comply with the mandates and that will mean the end to his dream and the only chance his family had left.
Many people have actually come up to me at work and asked me how to register to vote. Yes, I work with a group of grown adults who have never voted once in their entire adult lives. But this is a good sign. They’re so angry with Obama they intend to vote for the first time ever.
On the flip side I know many moderates who are so beaten down they’ve given up. They’re convinced that Obamacare is going to bankrupt them due to the VAT, insurance rate hikes, and personal income tax hikes. These moderates are completely convinced that the Republicans will do nothing to stop it or repeal it. And the wishy-washy statements from Cornyn and endorsements of Romney haven’t helped their moods. These people won’t someone to fight for them and to get the base motivated. If they don’t have that, then come election time, I’m convinced they’ll stay home feeling that all is lost and that the Republicans aren’t fighters.
~G
Wow, thanks for that story. It really is amazing what is happening out there.
Thanks for the update. Just got back from Walmart. There was a long line up at the cashier. We were talking amongst ourselves VERY LOUDLY about what a disaster O and O-care is, and what is in the bill, and how people are delusional if they think it’s going to be “free”, and that with the rationing and access restrictions, lots of folks are going to find it harder to access health care, not easier. We could tell everyone in line was listening, our cashier wouldn’t make eye contact. (He was black). One black guy was passing by, stopped, listened and tried to give me a dirty look. I just looked him right back and smiled and shrugged my shoulders in a “what can I say, it’s true” gesture.
Taking Teh Won’s advice. I’m getting out there, and getting in their faces. lol. (Well, not really. Just talking really loudly so it’s impossible not to eavesdrop
)
Yeah, I’m doing that in school. I talk loudly enough for the younger students to hear me opine on how badly Obama is doing, how our nation is going bankrupt, how future generations will have lower standards of living, how Obamacare will be rationed care, etc.
They used to defend him. Not any more. They’re silent and they look embarassed. We need to speak up and keep up the pressure. I hope that stops them from voting for him again in 2012.
Oh, and not to mention, how CORRUPT the Democrat party is, with how they bullied, coerced, bribed and made back room deals. We need to keep on hammering that home to them.
We need to try and rouse those who are feeling beaten down. Granted, we can each feel the same during these times, but if the opportunity presents itself, we need to try to empower these folks and remind them that they are not alone. The media that these Americans are listening to is lying to them and they need to know this.
I’m one of those who feel beaten down. I’m a regular poster at Michelle Malkin’s blog and have also aired my despair there. I’m a military spouse who is unemployed, had planned to have a baby in the next year, and buy my first home. My husband doesn’t want to discuss politics because we often get into fights about it.
There are people in my husband’s unit who are deeply, deeply unhappy with Obeyme. One contractor was crying at the office the day after the health care nightmare was passed. Contrast that with the reaction of a Reserve member of my husband’s unit who had no clue what was going on. My question to my husband after he told me this was: how could he have no idea what’s going on?
I’m feeling very low right now. I feel like my future, that of my husband, and my family is pretty bleak. We’d been planning on trying for a baby before this whole health care mess imperiled this country and now I feel like maybe it’s just too late for me to be a mother (I’m 34 years old). My husband and I currently rent a house and really don’t think it in our best interests to own (plus, we have no idea where we’ll be in 2 years).
Think about all the military families out there who’ve been making plans for their futures and serving this country and the climate that they live under every day. It’s doubly hard. Especially when you’re serving under a CinC with no integrity.
They need to hear the real conservative Republicans like Sarah, DeMint, Bachmann, et al, instead of RINOs. I wonder, how many of those moderates were turned away from Sarah Palin because they were too lazy or weak-minded to investigate themselves? We need to start swaying them towards real Republicans like Sarah so we can take back our country in 2010 and 2012!
G, Thank you for sharing. The sentiment in South FL is very much the same as you describe. There is a lot of nervousness in the hearts and minds of “average, everyday, scraping by, paycheck to paycheck, hard working, people”. I think that most I talk to agree that we have yet to see the “worst” of this economic time.
However, many are not engaged with what is actually going on in our political world. Until the effects of these policies hit them in the back of the head like a 2×4, I doubt that they will recognize. Thanks again.
People felt this way with Carter his last year. Just like we feel now. I don’t think Obama will last 3 more years. He’s going to get impeached or something. He’s doing so much damage it’s deliberate. He can’t be this big an idiot. At some point people will have to stop him. If they try to do ANYTHING to game the elections they will be in big, big, big trouble. I want to go to the capital so I can laugh in Piglosi’s face when they hand her the box of office supplies and point to the basement.
Save me a seat for that event and I’ll bring ya a cup of coffee.
It’s a deal.
The Capitol basement is too good for her, she needs to be booted all the way back to San Francisco or to one of her precious vineyards.
Obviously all she has in the way of “office” supplies is crayons. I’ve got a cat with more on the ball upstairs than Bela Pelosi.
Thanks for sharing that story. It amazes me how stupid the republicans can be. Everybody now wants them to get tough and really fight, but they just don’t have that killer instinct. They better freakin learn.
It reminds me of the last 2 elections. Their base kept screaming “FIGHT THESE IDIOTS!!!” Instead they kept compromising, losing major seats in 2 elections. Their response “We haven’t compromised enough” ARGGGG!!! Thats when the tea parties started popping up.
oops I meant this post for #48
Only Palin is delivering this message and only she instills a sense of confidence with her “Stand tall America” comment. Yet, she gets pilloried by people like Dennis Miller for her “reload” comment. Since when did he become so literal? It is only a matter of time before candidates have to start doing “money balloons” or “money clouds” instead of “money bombs.”
There should be a concerted effort among Americans to voicbly support the CEOs who have been “summoned” to Capitol Hill on April 21. Let them know that they have our support and they should not allow themselves to be bullied by our “elected officials” and encourage each and every one of them to present the absolute facts about how much damage the healthcare bill is doing to their companies, the adverse effects to the already fragile economy and the impact on jobs and retirement. They should be encouraged to stand strong because we have their backs. And help them to reinforce to our Democratic thugocracy that we don’t socialism in this country and we will not simply roll over because they told us to. Capitalism rocks!!!
Anyone have any idea how to do that e-mail? Who do you get in contact with and how?
Companies are required by LAW to redo their company books after there has been a change in the law. They have to adjust their benefits and pensions, etc. to reflect the law. So for Waxman to come out and say it was “curious” for them to be doing this just shows what a mafia creep he is. He knows they have to do this. They are intimidating private business. It’s like the KGB has taken over our government. How DARE they.
Just wondering if they are big corporate donors to Democrats..
AT&T sponsored the Denver convention.
I just watched an interview with Gene Cernan, one of our most prominent astronauts and he was practically in tears talking about how Obama is destroying NASA.
I truly believe he is doing this on purpose.
Bev…I just saw this. Now they are going to use NASA to investigate Toyota’s problems. They are belittling NASA and trying to destroy non-union Toyota at the same time.
It is absolutely OUTRAGEOUS. The most prestigious space agency in the world being politicized and RUINED by far-left radical IDIOTS. The lady he’s about to appoint administrator is a far-left radical from California.
I have NO DOUBT in my mind that Obama is systematically trying to destroy this country. He is evil and he needs to be thrown out of office. And any Democrat who goes along with this Chicago mafia should be thrown out of office, too. It is a disgrace to this country. We have America haters in our government. Shame on every fool who voted for them.
He has a God complex and I’m not joking. There is nothing that he won’t stick his nose into.
Keep one hand on your underwear and the other on wallet.
After they have ruined NASA by telling the scientific community that put men on the moon; a space station in orbit; and an explorer to Mars; that their brain trust is needed to ‘cook the books’ to perpetuate Anthropogenic Global Warming.
Al Gore highjacked our spy satellites when Clinton took office. How do I know this? My husband worked for Ford Aerospace which turned into Loral Aerospace and Dan Quayle was in charge of the NASA at the time. It was his project. When Gore took over he cut the program from the Dept of Defense and gave it to NOAA. We were angry then but had no idea he was about to start his climate FRAUD with our defense department satellites. This was in the mid 90s.
But, but, Dan Quayle didn’t spell potato correctly THAT ONE time so obviously he was a total idiot unlike the uber genius, AlGore.
I know this. The media told me so.
I just want somebody to explain to me how ManBearPig eveh got a security clearance. For anything.
Mary, they always leave out the part about how Quayle was given a card with the misspelling on it and when he questioned the principal he was told the card was the ultimate authority.
Another good article by Jimmy Akin on the facts behind the Milwaukee case and involvement by Cardinal Ratzinger:
http://www.ncregister.com/blog/cardinal/
How odd. I’m currently reading ” The Battle for Christendom, The Council of Constance, The East-West Conflict, and The Dawn of Modern Europe” by Frank Welsh. Central character is Sigismund. Having 3 popes at once made it quite lively.
Went upstairs to watch Beck. I don’t watch him very often but my neighbor told me it was going to be a good show tonight.
Teh Won has taken over with some BS joint news appearance with Sarkozy. Blah, blah, blah.
I find it interesting these “breaking alerts” are always timed to interfere with Beck’s show, esp. when is going to explain the history of Marxism in this country.
Got Skousen’s book, the 5000 Year Leap in the mail today. Everyone is talking about it, so decided I should it read it to so I can join in the discussion.
It’s a fabulous book. I took AP U.S. History and AP Government and Politics when I was in high school, did reasonably well on the tests, and there was stuff in there that I never knew.
(Of course, I did skip a lot of class those years, so it’s possible I just missed it…)
And, yes, as a regular Beck watcher, I have yelled with frustration many a time when his show was interrupted with some breaking White House news. Thank heaven there’s a repeat.
They do it all the time and they do it on purpose. The consistently call and harrass the news shows throughout the day to intimidate them. Something the mafia would do.
Great Book! And I can’t stand it when they cut in with the pseudo “news” event of Dr. U. But once I get past being annoyed it always gives me a chuckle to realize how much Beck must be annoying the heck out of Emmanuel and Axelrod since we get these interruptions so regularly at that time.
That’s true…and Glenn seems to enjoy it as well. They just re-run the show they interrupted on the weekend which gives him more air-time.
http://cbs13.com/local/california.sarah.palin.2.1598268.html
Call State Senator Yee’s office and tell him To worry about CA, not Sarah Palin. (916) 651-4008
Organizing for America is offering a free commerative Barack Obama healthcare certificate. A blogger suggested everyone should get a copy of the certificate, make copies(or scan and email) and deluge your representative(s) with it–along with play money which symbolizes their bus transportation money when they are voted out of DC. Heh!
You can get your free certificate at http://www.washingtonexaminer/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential.com
And of course, OFA is a Soros funded organizaton
yes it is.
New rules in the house here. We have been receiving fundraising phone calls in the evening from the colleges that my kids went to. One is a big ten school, and the other is a small liberal arts college. Emphasize the word liberal. Our new policy is to answer the phone and politely explain to the college age person that due to Obama’s economic policies we are no longer able to give a contribution to the school. We might suggest that the school take on massive debt to fund their programs. Or, contact all the Obama supporters, because they will have no problem giving up their “wealth”. Econ 101.
LOL, right on!
Priceless and excellent advice.
I refuse to give to my undergrad and grad schools. Never. One is a liberal arts college and the other a state school and they’re both badly managed. I’ve made it a rule to never give to people who can’t seem to get themselves off the federal teat.
I advise all people to lock all these private and public universities/colleges out economically. It is my firm belief that these schools jack up their tuition no matter what… while they’re getting rich benefectors to pick up the tab that will also allow them to give to Dems over the years. Believe me… this is a game that universities and colleges are very adept at.
The university/college world has run unchecked for YEARS. I cannot for the life of me understand why people give to them AT ALL. They just go on to mishandle and mismanage the money anyway.
From C4P, some interesting news:
“The campaign by the Democrat Party and liberals to paint Republicans and conservatives as extremists has failed miserably as the most recent Gallup/USA Today poll finds that “when asked about incidents of vandalism and threats that followed the bill’s passage, Americans are more inclined to blame Democratic political tactics than critics’ harsh rhetoric.” I give the credit to Palin, Cantor, and other Republicans and conservatives that didn’t run away from this issue as the Democrat Party clearly overplayed its hand.
Also, Barack Obama’s disapproval rating hit 50% for the first time in the USA Today/Gallup poll. Remember that this poll is of adults, not even registered or likely voters.”
My take home lesson: fight back against charges of racism or whatever else. What do you guys think?
http://www.conservatives4palin.com/2010/03/49-blame-democrat-party-for-incidents.html
I agree. You gotta stand up to it. Do not let the left call you a racist unchallenged.
But don’t let them control the message. They would love to keep everybody on this discussion to distract you from the other things they are doing…like destroying NASA.
Well, whenever someone starts on the tea party racist crap, I tell them that I’m a tea partier, and since I’m a minority, am I a racist? Or is that term relegated only for whites? It usually makes them shut up.
My daughter married a wonderful man several years ago who is from the Dominican Republic. He was not a citizen when she met him and when he proposed she told him that she would answer him after he became a citizen. He studied very hard and in 2003 he took the Oath and proudly became a US citizen. I have two of the most beautiful brown skinned granddaughters in the universe. When I am called racist I immediately pull out the pictures of my daughter and her family and say … “I am fighting for my grandchildren’s future”…
I’m not a minority, but I could pass as one. I may have to use that one.
I like it. I might start telling people who accuse me of racism that I’m a minority. I’m of European mutt descent as far as I know, but chances are there is some minority blood in there somewhere. After all, if our President — who is half white — can call himself black, then why can’t I? What are they going to do, demand a DNA sample?
Or maybe I’ll just start feigning disbelief that our president is black — “Really? I saw pictures of him with his mother and grandparents. I thought they were white.”
Today I had the opportunity to ask a former Dem mayor what he thought about Obamacare. He said he did not like it and thought it would be bad for the country. He said that while there are alot of people who don’t have insurance, there are some people who chose to sit on their butts and be lazy and he did not see why those who worked should have to pay for those who refused to work. This former Mayor said that we are losing our middle class. He also said that he did not like what his Representative, John Larson did, by focusing on a city not within his district and ignoring a city in his district. I found this to be an encouraging sign because he was not shy about voicing his opinion.
Today I was at a petition drive to put a vote on our Nov ballot to opt as an individual out of Obama care. We need 500,000 signatures to put it on the ballot. I also saw a Palin 2012 bumper sticker on a car today…
What state are you in? In VA, they have already signed legislation — The Health Freedom act, which is one of the issues the VA AG is suing over O Care.
Michigan. Our AG has filed a suit already. The petition is so that we personally, not the state per se, can opt out of Obama Care. The sigs will get us on the ballot in Nov. So we can prove (hopefully) that were not represented.
You guys have a weird situation. Your governor is dem and not supporting challenges, your AG is republican and challenging. With the AG as counsel to Gov. it is going to be tricky for him to show support for position. Wonder if that is why petition. Sueing Feds on behalf of residents not Gov.?
Yes. Exactly. He is representing the people and this is perfectly legit in Michigan and has been done several times (for AG to rep people). But he has to show that this is what the people want, hence the petition. What is interesting is that he is running for gvn in November.
We in WA have a similar situation. Our gov is a Dem and the AG is a Republican. He’s suing the feds and the gov is upset with him, saying that he works for her. But he took an oath to uphold the constitution, so he has to abide by that. His oath to the constitution trumps any loyalty to a person.
Hey buzzers, any advice… we just found out that I am requested to relocate via work to North Central VA area. Winchester or South of Winchester area with access to 81 important. Relocation consultant calling me tomorrow afternoon. Any suggestions on nice family areas? Fredrick County? Shannandoah Valley area? to start.
This was a shock, not unthought about, we knew something was going on… but still surprised. We’re in SW FL currently.
We sent our sons to a school in the Shenandoah Valley near I-81, just south of I-66. It was a small town. They loved it.
Winchester is the “big” town for the Valley. Big VA hospital, Valley Health is a level II hosp, non profit, highly rated. Winchester has a very good public HS that comes highly rated, John Handley, but two physicians who live in the Handley district sent their boys to the same private school with our boys, so have no first hand reports on Handley.
Personally, I don’t like the vibe in Winchester itself, but there are many cute towns in and around Winchester.
As far as VA vs MD, in almost all cases, VA has lower taxes and levies than MD.
Good luck with your relocation!
It is so pretty out that way. I’m not a local so don’t have any specific advice, but I think you will enjoy it.
If I had to pick a town on the I-81 corridor, it would be Lexington, VA. It is a small college town with great people and gorgeous surroundings. It may be too far south of Winchester, though.
Yes, Lexington is my favorite too. That’s the area we’re looking at for retirement — VMI, Washington & Lee U — but yes, it is too far for commuting if the new location is Winchester, VA based.
Thanks everyone. Been checking out stuff all night getting ready for the phone call tomorrow. Really thanks and God Bless. We’re pretty nervous about the entire move. Big GULP!
ALERT!!! ALERT!!! ALERT!!!
Just before shutting down my computer at the end of the day today, I clicked on foxnews.com, as is my usual and customary practice. I like to see what’s happened before I go home. Tonight I got the red hand “ACCESS DENIED” message. I quickly checked and CNN News was fine. I had two others try to bring up FNC and they were blocked also.
This may be an inadvertent mistake by some programmer, or some kind of glitch. I hope. Otherwise, Houston, WE HAVE A PROBLEM!!!
This is a state government system/computer. If they shut down all news sites, no problem – although they have been allowed so far as a matter of policy. Censorship is a totally different matter and if that is what is happening – fellow Buzzers, I will be calling on you to join me in a major battle for the Resistance!!!
Watch HB tomorrow morning for an update.
Thanks!
I’ve heard of other folks who work in the government having the same problem. See if you can get on Drudge.
Oh yes, the Studmuffin can’t read anything that even mentions Teh Won at work, even if it’s on CNN or Drudge. It’s ridiculous.
He has to come home and read the news online.
AWESOME PROMO!
http://www.realamericanstories.com/sarah-palin/
Thanks for that link!
Awesome website!
Yes. THIS is what we need!
Excellent. Smart, Billiant, Perfect!
LL Cool J, who was announced as one of the guests for the show, wrote that Fox was “misrepresenting” him.
“Fox lifted an old interview I gave in 2008 to someone else & are misrepresenting to the public in order to promote Sarah Palins Show. WOW.”
I have no doubt in my mind this president and the dems are going to try to shut down or censor Fox. NO DOUBT. I tell people that and they are like “What? No way they could do that and get away with it” and I say “What? How many times have with said those words and they’ve done it?”
The Sixty’s Hippies are in office now! This is all were going to hear from this day forward– RACSIM, RACSIM AND MORE RACISM!
Call-it for what it really is Obama “RETRIBUTION” these radicals live with that thought process and now have the power to slam-it down our throat’s on a daily basis. Why are we so surprised by these “Hate Baiter’s” and if this wasn’t so true’ we could laugh this all off. However, I’m not laughing..”
Midterm’s, game-on libholes..!
The Gang in the White house reminds of the young clerk at a local coffee shop who told me she wanted to be manager so she could sit around and boss people all day and not have to do any work!
HB asked us to report on our areas, and I am reporting that in Virginia we are starting to see anti-Obama bumber stickers. Today we saw:
If you think Healthcare is expensive now, just wait until it is FREE.
Second one had the Obamass logo and under it ran, “Got birth certificate?”.
Also saw LOL with the O being the One’s logo.
Are bumper stickers showing up elsewhere as well?
There is also a HUGE billboard in downtown Richmond with Obama as the Joker. The billboard is directly across the street from a major parking garage for State government, so there is no way employees cannot see it going and coming from work.
I swear I almost had a wreck when I saw it- love it!
I know that several of you have mentioned the story about the fallen Marines family who has to pay the court costs for the Westboro Church. Apparently, Bill O’Reilly also heard about it and has paid the costs for the family. He may be annoying at times, but he just showed that he is a good man. Way to go Bill.
Apologies for having to repsond to my own post, but this was what O’Reilly said about the situation:
“That is an outrage. I will pay Mr. Snyder’s obligation. I am not going to let this injustice stand. It’s obvious they were disturbing the peace by disrupting the funeral. They should have been arrested, but our system is so screwed up, so screwed up, that loons are allowed to run wild. Snyder is fighting the good fight, and he is taking his case to the Supreme Court as he should. We are behind him 100 percent.”
I am happy to hear it. I’m not an O’Reilly fan, but this was a noble thing to do. Kudos.
Yeah, O’Reilly can be a little “full of himself” at times, but beneath that pompus self is a guy that really does seem to connect to a heart. Great job Billy O. Way to stand up and defend this families honor.
Yeah, he’s pretty damn pompous which can make him annoying and sometimes downright blind to reality.
However, when the honor thing is triggered, he can stand up and do the right thing, and in this case, I applaud him for it.
I hope O’Reilly hasn’t paid it yet! This needs to be challenged. I think SCOTUS or an “en banc” panel would reject the court fees award, and it shouldn’t be allowed to stand.
Well that’s good to hear. O’Reilly is annoying sometimes, but I’m glad to hear he stepped up to the plate to help out. Good on him. I bet if Rush were around to hear of it he would have too. He’s out of the country right now, scoping for new places to get health care.
“scoping for new places to get health care.”
LOL. All kidding aside, Costa Rica does have a very good medical system. Most of their docs are Cdn-Brit-US trained and speak very good English.
My cousin, who is paralyzed (motorcycle accident) moved there fulltime. He loves it, and says he gets better medical care there than in Canada. Cheaper too.
Mark Steyn said that it took Rush 18 hours to get to his destination, and it will take 15 hours to return. Since Rush lives in Florida, it can’t be Costa Rica.
Singapore?
I think Rush is actually scoping out new places to LIVE, and I think it’s probably Australia or NZ, because it involved a 15 hour flight.
It’s probably because the threats on his life have become too much, in light of the fact that he’s getting married in July.
No, he’s not. He already said on his show that he’s not looking to move but he’s looking for health care alternatives.
I’m not really an O’Reilly fan either, but I can’t help but notice that the one person who HAS THE MONEY and paid the bill…is one of those selfish, greedy rightwingers who only care about big industry and themselves. Where wereMatthews, Olbermann, Maddow, the Hollywood Hypocrites?
Huffington Post was actually taking up a collection for the guy. Nice sentiment, but very telling, given that those destitute folks like Arianna, Michael Moore, Alec Baldwin, Patrick Kennedy etc are all contributing bloggers.
Sen Lamar Alexander:
Obama’s “Soviet Style” takeover of Student Loans:
– Please use to pass along to college students.
That’s a huge point spread — 4% — and you can rest assured that it will only increase — and then money is going to fund HCR! — another massive wealth transfer on the backs of young students who haven’t entered the workforce yet!
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MjA0Y2NiNDI4Y2ZkZWNiMWJjZTAwMzAwMTYwZTA0MGE=
No one said anything when Banks originated loans to students. It was corporate welfare Why should anyone make any profits on students borrowing money that is guaranteed by the federal government?
The banks have been taken out of the equation. According to the latest data, for every $100 lent by the banks, the cost to the government is about $13.81 in subsidies and defaults; the same amount lent directly by the government costs $3.85.
Yeah for everybody.
http://therealbarackobama.wordpress.com/2010/03/30/loudon-deliberately-bankrupt-medicaid-to-bring-about-socialized-health-care/
In coastal Joisey, the topic of conversation is:
Rain, rain, rain, more rain, flooding, rain, rain, rain, coke, no pepsi. Rain.
Rain
We live 40 mi east of Fargo, ND and they just finished their 3rd 500 year flood (or 100??–who knows) in 12 years….but once again, they won….lots of hard work work, a couple of million sandbags and 3 weeks of backbreaking work….and now it’s over.
You guys are in the thick of it. I wish you and your neighbors well. Stay safe.
And your community did it all on it’s own. You didn’t blame anyone, but rather everyone just stepped up and took care of business. Hats off everyone.
That’s how the entire country used to be.
This is the sort of situation where I get my hope back for the country. Where I see that the American spirit still lives.
Wouldn’t you love to take the photos from ND(and here in NJ), showing all the citizens who are making sandbag lines, helping each other, in deep trouble financially from it all…and say “why does Obama hate white people?” Arrggghhh.
It looks to me like Obama is going to throw in some token oil drilling to try and get republican support to pass his cap and tax bill. BE ON THE LOOK OUT!
Yeah, I saw that on Drudge.
I’ve been contemplating it. I think he’s doing this for three reasons:
1. There is going to be war in the Middle East, so we need to start providing our own.
2. He’s throwing a bone at his opponents.
3. He’s borrowed and spent all our money and now needs to find ways to get more.
Even if they started to drill tomorrow it would take years for it to be profitable or workable. I think it is a bone. It’s just a token that means nothing.
They’re not even going to start drilling … they’re going to STUDY the designated areas first, then maybe authorize drilling, and THEN wait for the lawsuits to get filed to block it. I hope nobody falls for it and votes ‘yes’ for C&T.
This reminds me of the water in the central valley of CA.
Take it away to appease the leftie base, then use it as a bribe later for political gain.
BO does not care about anything or anyone but his political agenda and himself.
That was my thought exactly…he’s just appeasing the C and T crowd. Then, they’ll whine about how he “tried to be bipartisan and give in to their demands, but they’re never happy”.
You’ll all get a kick out of this one…I’m very active on an actor friend’s blog(he makes Obama look like Eisenhower). They were whining about the Patriot Act, and I reminded them that the Senate vote of it was 98-2(one no vote, one not there), and how the Dems loved it at the time. His answer “That’s because we understand the need for bipartisanship”. You just can’t make this stuff up.
Check it out!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fdHXwUs5Y0
WOW WOW WOW
great ad.
this needs tobe reposted tomorrow for all to see.
That was great. Reminds me of the Massachusetts Miracle vid.
Everyone needs to smile once in a while.
These guys are too funny. Good Singer too.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_W57aBMYKvU&hl=en_US&fs=1&]
Recieved that in my email yesterday…LOL.
reCEIved. I before E except after C. Oy vey.
That is really good. I want to blast that from my car while I drive, or sit in the parking lot waiting to pick up kids from school.
I’m betting the singer is a vet.
You need to post this on tomorrow’s thread so more people pass it around.
The Obama girl got nothin’ on these guys(brothers?)
Thanks–needed that smile!
Though, isn’t it hard to listen to that song without flashing back to “400 children? Why in the world do they have 400 children?”…LOL.
I think it was “four hungry children”.
It is. But lots of people mis-heard it as “400 children”. Kinda of like “A Reverend in Blue Jeans”, “There’s a Bathroom on the Right” and other goofed up lyrics. The worst of which is the words to Manfred Mann’s “Blinded by the Light”, but I won’t go there.
Tee Heee, I thought that I was the only one who thought it said “wrapped up like a “WHAT!!!” in the middle of the night!!
Oh the memories…..
Ok, team! We need to do a Scott Brown in Michigan!
Let’s kick out Stupak!
Dr. Dan Benishek (57 yr old surgeon)
Send him some love!
Benishek for Congress
802 Pentoga Trail
Crystal Falls, MI 49920
Yep. I love that guy. I spent the entire night they voted the death bill watching thousands and thousands of people joining his FB page and it was inspiring. He’s a true conservative. Green…but a true person and I hope he wins. He sure has a lot of support.
Another great read from Robin of Berkeley in The American Thinker. A therapist’s take on the psyche of Obama.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/03/the_shock_of_barack.html
Wow. I love Robin and this column doesn’t disappoint.
Her analysis is absolutely chilling and that ‘poem’ he wrote is, indeed, sinister.
If it’s true, The Won is even more messed up than we thought.
Wow! It is surreal that Obama wrote this kind of sick poetry and the press did not make a big deal of it? We can expect no understanding or empathy from this guy.
The ‘press’??? Surely you jest.
Obama could gun down a busload of nuns on the steps of the Capitol and the press would look the other way.
They might report that a tour bus of neo-Nazi radicals dressed in black caused a disturbance, resulting in some bloodshed, but after a brief time-out, the Present was able to continue his basketball game.
You know…this is going to sound weird. I am not a hugely religious person but I grew up going to church when I was little. And I remember reading in revelation years ago about how the Anti-Christ would come back and the world would be fooled…and I remember thinking “That could not happen. That’s just silly”. I don’t think that anymore. It could happen…very easily.
This is gut wrenching and worrisome, to say the least
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=134417
If we have control of the senate and congress can we impeach this president? After reading today what occurred during the Sarkozy press conference I am convinced that Obama is on a mission to destroy this country. He is a dangerous man. We have got to get him out of power.
The House just needs a majority to impeach him. We need a supermajority (2/3) in the Senate to convict him, i.e., remove him from office.
Last night on Hannity’s show they had two candidates from CA who are challenging Barbara Boxer. One was Carly Fiorino (she was active during John McCain’s run for pres. in 2008) and a man, both are republicans and there is a third person who did not attend the event. The consensus was that Barbara Boxer has been in the senate for 28 years and it is definitely her time to go! They feel momentum and for the first time in years this will be an actual race.
Did Hannity get into the brewing scandal at the charity he’s a part of? The one for vets that hasn’t given out as much money as it could have? Allegedly of course.
https://senateconservatives.com/repealboxer
Here is a Money Bomb for today.
Hey, I want this piece of info to get out as much as possible, b/c the MSM surely will not do it. Heritage Foundation is calling Obama for using THEM as proof that Obamacare is MODERATE with conservative principles! This is all aimed at the Independents to make them think that Obamacare is not that bad!!! Maybe Rush, Hannity and Fox can play this??
http://www.redstate.com/ejf/2010/03/30/obama-misrepresents-heritages-research-to-sell-health-care-plan/
Canada Free Press is reporting that ACORN is rebranding itself in Texas as Texas Organizing Project…TOP.
Here’s a chart they put together showing what a farce all the ‘ACON is bankrupt’ and ‘ACON has been shut down’ press releases were. They’re popping up all over, like some sick whack-a-mole game.
http://www.canadafreepress.com/images/uploads/acornrebrandingchart_master1.jpg
George Soros and his thugs just move their money around calling it different names. Of course the news media won’t report that.
Good stuff guys:
http://dailycaller.com/2010/03/31/new-raw-video-exposes-tea-party-egger-video/