Wednesday Open Thread: February 2nd, 2011
What’s on your minds this Wednesday?
What are people talking about in your part of the country?
Do you have any ideas for some Action Items that need attention this week?
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We need to be careful about the whole “Valerie Jarrett honestly thought a uniformed general was her waiter” story. Yeah, it’s funny, but it doesn’t add up:
http://dailycaller.com/2011/02/01/valerie-jarrett-to-uniformed-general-more-wine-garcon/
The same Valerie Jarrett who told an audience that PAID to see her speak that she had to leave for an “emergency” at the WH and then when participants of the speech that never happened went to a swanky restaurant…there she sat sipping her wine? Yeah…it adds up. She is an elitist snob and has no business in the white house.
I agree Bev, she is scumsucking slumlord, too. She was drooling over the prospect of the Chicago Olympic Committee paying her for her run down slums. Glad Chicago lost. I despise, depise persons that make their fortunes on the backs of poor people.
With the repeal movement gaining steam I was curious where Dem Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia stood on this. As you will recall he campaigned on his opposition to Obamacare. (Remember the violent imagery target shooting ad?)
Since he is a Dems it is hard to believe anything he says. I visited his website and, as expected, not word about it either way. Even though I am not a constituent I sent a message to remind him of his position and now is the time to follow through with action. West Virginians if any of you are reading this, this is the time to hold his feet to the fire. Don’t let him weasel out of this one!
Don Surber has a blog that features West Virginia happenings –I assume he is from WV–I read some where a quote from Durbin saying his peeps were all against repeal, and that included Manchin.
I read that Manchin will vote against repeal. He wants to improve the bill, not repeal it.
Maybe a phone call is in order, to make your voices heard on the matter.
The word ‘Palingenesis’ came up in a thread on Conservatives4Palin. I looked it up and this is what I found – interesting indeed!
Sarah Palin is Palingenesis personified.
“Philosophy and Theology The word palingenesis or rather palingenesia may be traced back to the Stoics, who used the term for the continual re-creation of the universe by the Demiurgus (Creator) after its absorption into himself. Similarly Philo spoke of Noah and his sons as leaders of a renovation or rebirth of the earth, Plutarch of the transmigration of souls, and Cicero of his own return from exile.
In philosophy it denotes in its broadest sense the theory (e.g. of the Pythagoreans) that the human soul does not die with the body but is born again in new incarnations. It is thus the equivalent of metempsychosis. The term has a narrower and more specific use in the system of Schopenhauer, who applied it to his doctrine that the will does not die but manifests itself afresh in new individuals. He thus repudiates the primitive metempsychosis doctrine which maintains the reincarnation of the particular soul.
Robert Burton in the Anatomy of Melancholy (1628) writes, “The Pythagoreans defend metempsychosis and palingenesia, that souls go from one body to another.”
In the Gospel of Matthew[1] Jesus is quoted in Greek (although his historical utterance would most likely have been in Aramaic) using the word “παλιγγενεσια” (“palingenesia”) to describe the Last Judgment foreshadowing the event of the regeneration of a new world. Palingenesia is thus as much the result of, or reason for the Last Judgement as it is directly the Judgement itself.”
Well, I guess that’s bad news for the leftists who want her dead.
LOL!
I think this is great. Most simply, it means “partial or complete regeneration”, isn’t that what we want, a complete regeneration of the WH?
Also, Palin means “again”. My first thought was “Reagan:Palin” “Reagan, again.”
I posted this yesterday on the polarizing thread, but I posted it kind of late. It is a link to a picture that might make good bumper stickers.
The picture is Sarah Palin’s eyes, and above it it says POLAR EYES 2012.
http://i665.photobucket.com/albums/vv12/thekobers/PALIN/polareyes2012.jpg
we like it – it also has that feel of Che and Chaorman Mao
something like this could gain pop culture traction
I like it!
I did one with Sarah and some polar bears. I thought of the advice we were given about copyright infringement, because I “borrowed” both pics, though.
Why Michelle Bachmann’s SOTU speech had such dodgy camera work:
http://dailycaller.com/2011/01/31/michelle-bachmann-cameragate-closure-at-last/
As it was originally broadcast, it was pretty good.
I think they did it on purpose too. It was all the haters could talk about as they watched it live.
Wikileaks has released documents which purport to show that terrorists are making inroads into developing nuclear and chemical weapons with which to attack the western world.
Don’t you think it’s about time for the Homeland Security Gang (which one is Spanky?) to pay attention, stop grandstanding and work with the FBI, CIA and our other pertinent intelligence agencies to get a handle on this and actually do something?!!
Romney is running. He’s putting it out there in a sickeningly cloying way. Does his wife appreciate him using her as a human shield?
“My wife thinks I should run,” he declared tonight in an interview with CNN’s Piers Morgan.
“She’s absolutely committed. She’s saying, ‘You’ve got to run, you’ve got to have somebody who understands the world of the economy, small business, who can create jobs.’
“She’s convinced I’ve got to run. But I have to look more broadly and say, ‘Alright, Do I have a team necessary to do this?’”
Uh huh. This is for the strong families and/or strong women vote. And he pretends he doesn’t already have a team!
http://www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalintelligence/2011/02/romney_my_wife.html?comments=all
Will she be making all the decisions for him as President, too?
If a man needs his wife to decide for him to run for President, he can’t make the decisions to run our country!
Please. No one buys this for a moment. Good grief!
House Dems are “targeting” 19 vulnerable Republicans:
“I guess it’s okay to do this 23 days after Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) was shot, but it was completely inappropriate for Sarah Palin to do virtually the exact same thing months before last year’s midterm elections.”
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2011/01/31/civility-update-house-democrats-target-19-republicans#ixzz1Co3vt5Zf
It’s in our local paper too, as it applies to my newly elected congressman, Jon Runyan. We worked hard to drag him across the finish line with the leftist D’s actually throwing in a ringer “tea-party” candidate to take votes away from him. He only won by 6,000 votes. They are after him now and have been running ads against him…ALREADY!! I believe they want to ramp up the troops for 2012 early and often so they can “polarize” the entire election so the Utopian can win. He doesn’t care who he takes down with him. In my local paper the headline is: “Dems target rookie GOP Rep. Runyan” I had hoped we would be able to concentrate on other races but it looks like we’re going to have to spend a lot of money and energy right down the street.
http://www.courierpostonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2011102010343
My long reply to you about our congressman being one of the targets is in the loop – There’s a link to the article about it when it shows up.
Mine is targeted as well, after being in office for only a few weeks. I actually think this will help her more than hurt her.
I posted the link on FB asking why it was acceptable for the Democrats to us the “target” words, but they so strongly criticized Sarah Palin for doing the very same thing.
Every little bit of education we do out there helps.
Three in my state, plus Allen West (ha!) and Hillbuzz’s favorite logrolling cutie, Sean Duffy. Nice of them to announce who they don’t like so that we can support them.
And apparently “targeting” is like “racism”: it’s only bad when our team does it.
Carol Moseley Braun, staying klasseh!
“The latest issue began Sunday at a candidate forum at Trinity United Church of Christ after Watkins criticized Braun as being “missing in action” on Chicago issues since losing her bid for re-election to the U.S. Senate in 1998.
“Patricia, the reason you didn’t know where I was for the last 20 years is because you were strung out on crack,” Braun said. “I was not strung out on crack. I don’t have a record.”
http://ricochet.com/main-feed/Do-You-Need-Another-Reason-to-Love-Chicago-Politics
Wow.
Yikes! I think that’s very “polarizing” don’t you? Time for the media to point that out. What? They aren’t mentioning how polarizing that is? Hmmmmmmm. Odd.
Maddow Blames Beck and Other Conservatives for Her Getting Duped by Satirical Website
Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2011/02/02/maddow-blames-beck-and-other-conservatives-her-getting-duped-satirica#ixzz1Co780cUO
The first post I saw in my “Sarah Palin” watch in Feed Demon this morning put a smile on my face:
http://conservatives4palin.com/2011/02/palin-for-president.html
It show a picture of a small family restaurant flashing “Just Do it – Vote – Palin – for President” on their sign outside.
This is wonderful! Everyone should “Like” the restaurant’s FB page and leave a supportive comment!
Hmmm…apparently they didn’t want the attention. They deleted the post that everyone was leaving positive comments on. There were a couple boycott threats here and there, but otherwise overwhelmingly supportive. Very odd. Only other possibility is that some idiot Obama supporter reported the post to FB and got it taken down.
Weird…the comments on the FB page keep appearing, then disappearing. I don’t know what’s going on over there. Nevertheless, “Likes” would be good. Lots of lib trolls are trying to drum a boycott of the place.
Thought you might like this:
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100074374/yippee-ki-yay-liberals-its-sarah-palin-month-on-telegraph-blogs/
Delingpole delights in poking fun a lefties …
Lots of actual hand to hand fighting in Egypt this morning. There are questions about the reporting.
http://gatewaypundit.rightnetwork.com/2011/02/thugs-on-camels-horses-storm-tahrir-suquare-video/
I am getting suspicious……
So Anderson Cooper counted ten punches to his head…and had time to determine these were GOVERNMENT protestors. Amazing.
The liberal media in this country is doing all it can to help the socialists.
I don’t get it. You can’t tell from that video whether they are Lone Rangers or Tontos. Leaders or Followers. The violence seems to come from the demonstrators who pulled a horse to its knees and started to beat it!! Where’s Peta when they are needed…
Sadly, they should have “not ridin” those animal’s in a mob like that! I could “careless” about these “rioting idiot’s” but’ I’m an animal lover, and that alone just makes my blood boil over.
Actually Cali-gal, me too.
I agree.
Romney is running. He put feelers out there, in the most saccarine, self serving manner possible: using Mrs. Romney.
http://www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalintelligence/2011/02/romney_my_wife.html?comments=all
“My wife thinks I should run. She’s absolutely committed. She’s saying, ‘You’ve got to run, you’ve got to have somebody who understands the world of the economy, small business, who can create jobs.’
“She’s convinced I’ve got to run. But I have to look more broadly and say, ‘Alright, Do I have a team necessary to do this?’”
So he gets to play the family man (placating suspicious soc cons) who listens to his wife (placating suspicious women voters). And he pretends he doesn’t already have the necessary team!
I wonder how Mrs. Romney feels about being his human shield…
Please name the last time a person ran for president, didn’t make it out of the Primaries, ran 4 years later and won?
I can’t think of anyone…
This does not bode well for Mittens
Ronald Reagan
However, Mitt is no Reagan. Reagan had core principles, whereas Mitt will be whomever you need him to be.
Haha…oops. Well, Reagan managed to like 48% of the primary vote in 1976 whereas Mittens was third or fourth in the field with only 8.6% of the vote.
Time to give it up Mitty.
Romney is running. He put feelers out there, in the most saccarine, self serving manner possible: using Mrs. Romney.
http://www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalintelligence/2011/02/romney_my_wife.html?comments=all
“My wife thinks I should run. She’s absolutely committed. She’s saying, ‘You’ve got to run, you’ve got to have somebody who understands the world of the economy, small business, who can create jobs.’
“She’s convinced I’ve got to run. But I have to look more broadly and say, ‘Alright, Do I have a team necessary to do this?’”
So he gets to play the family man (placating suspicious soc cons) who listens to his wife (placating suspicious women voters). And he pretends he doesn’t already have the necessary team!
I wonder how Mrs. Romney feels about being his human shield…
He’s been running since his father was governor! He has always had his eye on Pennsylvania Ave. At another time – perhaps in another economy or pre-9/11, he might have made it. But you are right. It is almost impossible, unless chosen for VP, to have a primary loser become president.
Jennifer Rubin on Obama’s “reaction” to the uprising in Egypt:
“The Obama team, after assuring us it didn’t much care about the outcome in Egypt, is now, in the vaguest possible terms, trying to say that it was instrumental all along.
“Except it wasn’t. And it still isn’t doing anything to force Mubarak off the stage. If Obama really wanted a speedy transition and really heard the Egyptian people, wouldn’t he have cut off aid?”
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/right-turn/2011/02/obama_rushing_to_catch_up_with.html
The socialist and communist groups have been calling on riots and chaos all month. WE weren’t smart enough to realize WHERE they wanted the riots. So the socialists do what they do best. They go for the most uneducated, vulnerable, violatile area in the world and start shit. This is what socialists do. And our liberal media is pouring gas on the situation. Obama is not Mr. innocent in all this.
Nor is he Mr. Knowledgable or Mr. Stand-back-I’ve-got-the-solution, Bev. I fear his inexperience and the inexperience and absolute ignorance of his staff this time. I don’t think Utopia can get his calls returned at this stage of the game. Maybe we can borrow the two former Bush presidents for a few months. They seem to have developed relationships with foreign leaders that matter. At least we know they can get their calls returned.
OH…I don’t think he is innocent one bit. He meets with Code Pink every month. Research Code Pink and their involvement in destabilizing Egypt. This has been their goal. Egypt stopped them from protesting in Gaza. They vowed a year ago to destabilize Egypt with the help of the Muslim Brotherhood. They ran ads on the MB website for people to kidnap George and Laura Bush. So every month when Obama talks to their leader it never comes up in conversation??? HOGWASH!
“Socialist advocate for mob violence complains she is target”
Aw, diddums:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/feb/1/piven-fiery-and-fearful/
But remember, this is all Glenn Beck’s fault. In fact, that’s probably a new rule of tumb: everything is Beck’s fault.
Ooo, ooo, Kevin, you’re gonna love this one:
Sarah Palin IS Polarizing
http://iowntheworld.com/blog/?p=58538
written by a Palin Democrat
“Rule #14 Don’t overplay your hand…”
Hahahahaha! If you know ANYTHING about Satan, and that’s who this bunch follows… it’s that he NEVER quits while he’s ahead. He will ALWAYS overplay his hand. BWAHAHAHAHAHAA!
Sarah separates the truth from the lies and tells it straight.
http://www.westernjournalism.com/vid-shows-planned-parenthood-advising-pretend-pimp-about-underage-sex-slaves/
Obama reacts to the Florida ruling on Obamacare with the grace, decency and intelligence for which he has justly become famous:
http://hotair.com/archives/2011/02/02/obamateurism-of-the-day-441/
OK, IMHO, the Palin Campaign is ON, regardless of the officialness of it all. My suggestion, if you are a Palin supporter, as most of us are here, follow the example of that fine Ma and Pa restaurant. Post your poster, wear your t-shirt, affix your bumber sticker.
I especially like “2012 is for US”.
Saddle up folks!
I was going to post about this as well. My gut feeling is that she is moving to the forefront. None of the other potential candidates are garnering as much buzz. People are ready and excited to vote for her, and I think those numbers are increasing. We all need to hit the ground running. Game on!
I will get ny Palin shirt out for wearing when I get out of the hospital and go shopping for others sufficient for week long wearing to piss off local moonbats. I do not want to allow moonbats to become comfotable during no Palin news month by the marxsream media. We must work to make moonbats permanently uncomfortable & very offended.
we’ll take the t-shirt route as a Sarah bumper sticker in a crazy leftist town = having your car vandalized, tires slashed, paint job keyed – again which is the party of civility again?
Kevin . . . love your idea of teams. Since you are now accepting graphics, you need to protect yourself legally by adding terms of use and a privacy statements to your site. Here are samples from Starbucks:
http://www.starbucks.com/about-us/company-information/online-policies/msi-terms-of-use
http://www.starbucks.com/about-us/company-information/online-policies/privacy-statement
Obviously these would need to be modified.
If you put the terms in a small scroll box or link to the terms with an acceptance checkbox before the Post a Comment submit button and tie the submit to accepting the terms . . . the terms will grant you rights to reuse content and help protect you from copyright infringement.
It is always good advice, Kevin, to protect yourself against content theft and, of course, assorted liabilities. Any liability lawyers in Boystown?
Yippee ki yay, liberals! It’s Sarah Palin Month on Telegraph Blogs!
James Delingpole, Daily Telegraph, February 1st, 2011
Did any of you catch that brilliant Charlie Brooker demolition of Sarah Palin on Channel 4’s zappy, new, heavily promoted topical comedy/politics show 10 o’clock Live the other night?
For those who missed it, let me tell you what his insights were:
Sarah Palin is dumb.
Sarah Palin likes guns.
Sarah Palin is right-wing and American.
But for all that, she’s really quite attractive.
You’ve no idea what paroxysms of consensual, right-on ecstasy these observations induced in the audience. That’s because Sarah Palin is to leftie comedy in this Teens decade what Margaret Thatcher was to leftie comedy in the Eighties: a target so unimpeachably politically correct you don’t even have to define what it is you dislike about. The very name is enough.
Read More
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100074374/yippee-ki-yay-liberals-its-sarah-palin-month-on-telegraph-blogs/
So they’re showing pictures of Egyptians riding around on CAMELS protesting. Yeah…as the liberal media talks about how civilized and modern Egypt is…frankly, you cannot tell the difference between protestors in the 70s and protestors today. Side by side…it’s the same. Except we had peace for 30 years. People who do not remember what it was like BEFORE Mubarak are going to “shocked” and “surprised” what it is like WITHOUT peace in Egypt.
Right now our focus should be on Israel. If Obama throws Israel under the bus do not think for one second the Jewish people will hop on planes and run like dogs like the others. Israel is a nuclear power and they have the second strongest (and smartest) military in the world. They will not hand over Israel.
Just like most of us will never hand over OUR country–I will die fighting before i submit to a Communist/Islamist takeover.
The Israeli’s are no French…they will fight and they will fight to win.
At least Israel has a leader that will push the button if need be–Obama will sit back and let this country be invaded without lifting a finger.
Obama will totally throw Israel under the bus…and the war that will ensue will be the war he will have to justify for eternity. He will go down like a lead balloon if Israel is attacked.
yet the Norwegians gave this jerk a Peace prize for doing nothing… and look what he has done… he has promoted the Islamist style of peace… SUBMISSION!!!
this is on my mind.
http://www.miaminewtimes.com/2011-01-20/news/palin-and-beck-killed-em-in-tucson/
i would like to reply, but not in a hateful way, as i think spewing hate would be just the kind of response the author is hoping for. i want cold, unemotional facts. help?
never mind. the only reason i read the article was my husband saw sarah palin on the over and thought i might want to read what was said.
when i looked through the comments on their website, i could see that replies were given far better than anything i could come up with, though i couldn’t resist posting a snip of my own.
The ideas shared here of Che like graphics for Sarah are brilliant. If Sarah = Freedom Fighter in the minds of college students, she would be rebranded as cool.
There was a great article about Obamacare = Crony Capitalism in American Thinker today.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/02/judge_vinson_also_smacks_down.html
We need a graphics that show how “in bed” corporations are with this administration. Maybe a hospital bed labelled Obamacare with piles of money and signs sticking out with the names of corporataions. Wish I was a cartoonist.
My niece lives in Dallas. They were just notified because of the cold weather they were going to have “rolling black-outs” of electricity to “lighten the load”.
WAKE UP PEOPLE. This is socialism taking a grip.
A state dripping with oil has to have rolling blackouts? How insane is that?
Hey, Bev,
I’m here in a DFW suburb going through the second or third rolling blackout since early AM during our “inclement weather.”
Sarah is right–energy independence and prosecuting all the Enron-type crooks involved in corruption, rebuilding our infrastructure, including the electric grids across the nation with AMERICAN knowhow and AMERICAN workers is essential to our safety, survival, security. BTW, we keep our thermostat on 60 in the winter and use small electric space heaters we unplug when we leave the room.
Shape up, America! It’s pioneer time!
What?!!! Texas? Are they sure? Did Perry make the announcement?
I’m sorry..but this just doesn’t seem right. The news is acting like we’ve never seen a snow storm in our lives. We’ve had snow storms since the beginning of time. Just a few years ago people were saying the snow was disappearing…now we’re having roaving black outs because TOMORROW the weather is supposed to be real cold?? COME ON!!! And I just saw this huge alert about the Typhoon in Australia. Excuse me. I lived in the South Pacific for most of the 80s. We had super typhoons every single YEAR. In fact we had Typhoon Alert standby 8 months out of the year. Australia is huge. If a typhoon is coming…MOVE AWAY FROM THE OCEAN. I sat on an Island that was 4 miles wide typhoon after typhoon and we never even lost power. This is exactly the reason I turn the news off. It’s ridiculous.
We do not have TYPHOONS.
In Australia we have a CYCLONE>
We do not have TYPHOON alerts.
We have CYCLONE alerts.
TYPHOONS are in Japan, Vietnam and China and other regions of Asia.
Ours are called CYCLONES.
The one that just hit the east coast between Townsville and Cairns which is Far North Queensland.
It was category 5 which is the same as Katrina.
It has now been downgraded to category 3 as it sweeps west.
THERE IS NO TYPHOON ALERT IN AUSTRALIA
We do not have typhoons which is something experienced in Asia.
We have CYCLONES. YES it is a very huge CYCLONE ALERT.
YASI was a category 5 cyclone. It hit the coast in the early hours of the morning. Mission Beach was hardest hit and there was more damage at Innisfail.
We have CYCLONE warnings and cyclones every year in the northern part of Australia. That is what happens in the tropics.
The last worst cyclone was Tracy that hit Darwin in the 1970s. However, cyclone Larry was devastating to Innisfail 5 years ago.
In 1989 I experienced cyclone AIVU. In fact I went outside and experienced the eye of the storm, which was completely still. That one hit in Ayr, 50 miles from Townsville.
There are more cyclones on the west coast. However there are no Typhoons or even Monsoons in Australia.
Re TX Rolling Blackouts:
We’re having them because of the high demand for natural gas which is what’s powering the electrical plants. The natural gas is also heating homes and in pipelines going elsewhere in the nation.
Natural gas in the ground is not natural gas ready for use.
Roger Hedgcock last night said Medea Benjamin of CODE PINK is in Egypt (or Gaza) and so are Bill AYers and slut-in-arms Bernadine DOrhn both of whom he said visited the white house before they left. They are in Gaza. WTF? Why are they there? And does anyone know more about this and why is it not publicized so everyone can see this is a leftist takeover of a revolution for leftie purposes? Roger would not make a mistake on this…
I have been hearing the same thing–that “American” leftist Communists are in Egypt assisting the Muslim Brotherhood–they have a mutual admiration for each other. The Muslim Brotherhood is intent on destroying Israel first, and then the United States. Read Bare Naked Islam or Jihad watch blogs.
‘Tis fortunate that in reality the American leftists heading to Egypt can not wipe their collective rectums after a bowel movement without smearing their entire anatomy with scat.
Their presence will send the people out against them as is already happening if you read the blogs.
The smug, intolerant, rude, arroggant elitists of the western left present in Egypt will and are helping to aid in is rallying the anti-communist opposition.
Shopkeepers, businessmen, and apartment owners (there are few single family homes in land expensive Cairo) are organizing to defend themselves against the looting mobs & leftist thugs in Egypt as well as in Tunisia where the commies and islamists thought they had won the day.
Beck was talking about it yesterday..
http://www.watchglennbeck.com/
Throw Louis Farakhan in that mix. He traveled extensively to the Middle East and Africa spewing his anti-American hatred all through the 80s and 90s.
I’m making a prediction. In the future….after Obama…we will talk about how the problems in Egypt were ignored. Starting with the troubles with Turkey..the flotilla ships to Israel. Code Pink and its involvement with the Muslim Brotherhood. We had socialist reps from the U.S. going over to Israel to protest (Cynthia McKinney was put in JAIL for it). This has largely been ignored. We are going to find out that Code Pink and these socialist groups protesting Israel had a major hand in the unrest in the Middle East and Obama has been meeting with these people for the past two years. Jodie Evans goes to the WH every single month. This will all come out in the wash and it is all going to blow up in Obama’s face. Israel is not going to back down and hand over their country. They will fight and it will be OBAMA’S blood that spills for it.
Ok. In case the internet police are watching…of course I didn’t mean his blood would spill. I meant of course he would be RESPONSIBLE when the crap hits the fan.
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If any of you are looking for a little something constructive to do today, may I suggest reporting offensive Sarah Palin image results to Google?
Simply do a Google Image Search for “Sarah Palin”, then scroll allllll the way to the bottom of the page where you will see a link to “Report Offensive Images”. When you click on the link, a button that says “Report” will show up over every image. You can only report one image at a time, so you will need to repeat the process for all images you wish to report.
Google is rather “liberal” (haha) about what they will permit, so you should only report things that are TRULY offensive, mainly results that contain nudity or near nudity. You shouldn’t report harmless parodies or images that simply represent a different point of view.
I’ve made this my personal mission, because I am aware of Google’s standards that they are NOT following and I am angry. There is some disgusting stuff displaying, including nudity, her head pasted on slutty models, etc. What if a school kid had to do a report and saw this crap? I am going to be contacting Google directly as well.
If you’re particularly ambitious, there is some nudity showing up in Michelle Bachmann results that you could report as well. I’ve searched a few liberal female politicians, and it seems nudity is reserved for the conservatives. Could be because nobody would want to imagine Hillary or Nancy that way, but I digress.
I like the way you think.
The ones I want to go after are the “Abort Sarah Palin” signs and t-shirts. Leaving aside the moral issues, it’s a threat.
Excellent article about Rush Limbaugh:
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm/how-to-understand-rush-limbaugh-15634
The voters supported Renee Elmers, what happens to Bob Etheridge, well, his governor comes to the rescue
“Former Democratic U.S. Rep. Bob Etheridge will take office today as director of the state Office of Economic Recovery and Investment, overseeing the spending of federal stimulus money.
Etheridge replaces Dempsey Benton, who stepped down after leading the office for more than a year and a half.
Etheridge, 69, was defeated for re-election in November by Republican Renee Ellmers.
“As former congressman, Bob Etheridge knows how important it is to continue to create jobs and provide important services around the state,” Democratic Gov. Bev Perdue said in a statement.
“It is vitally important to continue to manage North Carolina Recovery funds responsibly and provide oversight as projects unfold, with an eye on the state’s best use of recovery dollars in the coming months.”
The state has received more than $10.5 billion in federal stimulus money. Nearly 80 percent has been disbursed. The money will continue to flow through at least 2012.
Etheridge will earn $98,500 a year.
Read more: http://www.newsobserver.com/2011/02/02/961842/etheridge-to-ride-herd-on-stimulus.html#ixzz1CokkQ2hR
Gov. Perdue is up for re-election in 2012…the budget deficit is $3.3B, this will be an important race
As I was reading I wondered when Purdue was up for reelection. 2012? And he’s appointing WHO-YOU?
She, Bev has enough voters upset with her before this appointment, she’s loyal Obama footsoldier
Do you think getting him this undeserved position was part of the deal to give Charlotte the DEM Convention?
Look what St Louis and its Washington University did to woo the Dem onvention unsuccessfully – they got Bristol Palin booted from a speaking engagement and they came up dry anyway.
No, BHO won NC in 08 and hopes to retain the state, he continues to pat Gov. Perdue on the head, i.e. Race to the Top grant, she was appointed as 1 of 10 governors to a key council, etc.
What’s interesting is NC is a right to work state, Charlotte is home to many of the large evil bankers and NC has a huge NASCAR presence…but then again, there is liberal Chapel Hill and Asheville is like a mini San Francisco – however, there is an active Tea Party there.
DEMS continue to reward their criminals
remember Etheridge – “whoo r yewwwww?
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyFisbkpSck&w=480&h=390]
Wall St. only looks at people from the “top” schools. They openly admit that the education there is inferior in providing what they need, but they want a certain culture to prevail in their organisations. Because that ‘s worked so well up to now:
http://www.cnbc.com/id/41354100
“Evaluators relied so intensely on “school” as a criterion of evaluation not because they believed that the content of elite curricula better prepared students for life in their firms…
“…in fact, evaluators tended to believe that elite and, in particular, super-elite instruction was “too abstract,” “overly theoretical,” or even “useless” compared to the more “practical” and “relevant” training offered at “lesser” institutions – but rather due to the strong cultural meanings and character judgments evaluators attributed to admission and enrollment at an elite school.”
The only reason going to a “top” school is of any use is that it proves that you got into a “top” school.
Guys,
Harry Reid got the Ben Nelson treatment.
http://berkshireeagle.blogspot.com/2011/01/obamacare-repeal-harry-reid-confronted.html
A MUST READ!!!
In that area, I wonder if the applause at the check-out counter was for Harry – not against him. But there we are with the Senate Leader, just re-elected last November and then having to explain his “home” in DC while never being in Nevada, buying tony groceries from the tony store with the tony customers. The writer is a hoot!
Today both Florida and Wisconsin say that they will not implement health care reform. The Florida court decision, that deemed Obamacare unconstitutional, is the basis for their decision.
http://politicalwire.com/archives/2011/02/02/florida_wisconsin_wont_implement_health_care_reform.html
I think that is the right decision. Once they put it into effect, wouldn’t that indicate that they “accept the terms” of the law? And wouldn’t that be a precedent setting action?
Amazing how when you look at the TV coverage of the Egyptian thugs in the street throwing rocks…it looks EXACTLY like the people who threw rocks at the Israeli’s. In fact…it is. The Muslim Brotherhood is behind all the Gaza uprisings and it was behind the assasination of Sadat…and it was behind the Flotilla boats from Turkey to Israel. AND…it is currently in charge of the government in Tunisia. Synogogues in Tunisia are being burned down yet I don’t recall seeing that on CNN! There is a LOT of disinformation going on by the news media.
http://biggovernment.com/taylorking/2010/01/11/obama-ally-code-pink-invites-muslim-brotherhood-join-us-in-cleansing-our-country/
This was a story Breitbart did a YEAR ago.
Sens. Graham & Barraso have introduced legislation on Tuesday that would let individual state governments choose whether or not to participate in Obamacare.
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/258648/if-states-could-speak-gops-third-front-against-obamacare-andrew-stiles
Just another way to destroy Obamacare, piece by piece…
I thought this was very interesting–more leftist hate.
http://michellemalkin.com/2011/02/02/stop-the-hate-campaign-against-law-abiding-american-businesses/
The left is already organizing a boycott against the pro-Palin family restaurant someone mentioned above.
I am sure the “silent majority” in that town will not let that business go under. They can protest till the cows come home, but they will lose with the average American. The restaurant owner is entitled to his free speech and he owns the restaurant. If it is “targeted” then we can write letters to the editor that the left is “targeting” it and therefore encouraging and inciting violence. A lose situation for the left. And if enough people eat at the restaurant to make up for the boycott [like we did with Arizona] then there’s another big loss for them.
Seems the people behind the restaurant’s FB page aren’t so confident – the post on which everyone was leaving pro-Palin comments was deleted. I know for a fact that the boycott wouldn’t put a dent in their business. People are talking about driving hours to eat there. Maybe there’s more to the story and the restaurant ownership didn’t approve the message? I don’t know…it’s very odd.
Very interesting! Maybe the owner was threatened in some way…permit issues? Health code issue? Hmmmm.
The comments are back now. I suspect that the lib trolls wrongfully reported the post to FB a couple times hoping to get it removed, but that didn’t work.
This family is still making an effort to travel to, shop& spend in Arizona. Arizona’s sales tax is lower than in LAlaland, retailers stock something other than ghetto styles which prevail in Southern California, and we can strave the beast that is socialist Brown flush California.
The left can not seem to recognize they are the tiny minority and that their calls for boycotts backfire big time. The left is indeed & fortunately stuck on stupid.
If you are talking about Chick-Fil-A – make a beeline to one and patronize them – we love them – the food is great – and has actual genuine customer service!
From the WSJ
“Recognizing the vulnerability of relying on the Commerce Clause alone, the Obama administration in the Florida case shifted its emphasis to the Necessary and Proper Clause of the Constitution. That clause empowers Congress to enact “all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution” its enumerated powers. As the Supreme Court has repeatedly explained, the Necessary and Proper Clause does not expand the scope of Congress’s enumerated powers. Instead, it gives Congress the ability to select among various means of exercising them—for example, the enumerated power to “establish post offices” necessarily and properly includes a power to print stamps.
The Obama administration claimed that the individual mandate is a necessary and proper means of carrying out its reforms in the health-insurance market. These reforms include requiring insurers to offer coverage to those with pre- existing conditions, to extend coverage to dependents up to age 26, and to eliminate lifetime coverage caps. Because these reforms make health insurance more expensive, the government’s lawyers claim that unless everyone is forced to buy health insurance, too many healthy people will sit on the market sidelines as “free riders” until they become ill. So in order to make the “reformed” health-insurance market work, it’s necessary and proper to force everyone to buy insurance.
Judge Vinson flatly rejected the administration’s attempt to escape the restrictions of the Commerce Clause by appealing to the Necessary and Proper Clause. His decision acknowledges that, while reforming an insurance market is a regulation of commerce, Congress cannot artificially create its own “free rider” crisis in the insurance market and then use that crisis to justify an otherwise unconstitutional mandate as “necessary and proper” to save the market from collapse.
This novel use of the Necessary and Proper Clause, if allowed to stand, would fundamentally transform our constitutional scheme from limited to unlimited federal power, narrowing the scope of individual liberty. In Judge Vinson’s words, “the more harm the statute does, the more power Congress could assume for itself under the Necessary and Proper Clause. This result would, of course, expand the Necessary and Proper Clause far beyond its original meaning, and allow Congress to exceed the powers specifically enumerated in Article I.”
the full article is worth reading
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703445904576117913097891574.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop
Once again, thank you President Reagan for appointing Judge Vinson
Judge Vinson also smacks
down crony capitalists..
http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/02/judge_vinson_also_smacks_down.html
From VS
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNpkUa8B-RM&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&version=3]
http://www.verumserum.com/?p=21122
And yet, he wants to be President!!!
Laugh this man out of town!
Meme of the day: Jon Huntsman is a Radical Republican.
Use it to effect. The man is a real jerk.
Mittens is so much better than this jerk.
I’ll stick with Sarah Palin and Allen West
Yes Mittens is better than his clone – but we don’t have to settle for the lesser of two evils anymore either
Yes, I agree… that was my point… Mittens is better, but does not mean he is the best candidate.
My meme: Jon Huntsman is a Radical Republican.
We need to get that out there.
Video:
Hopey, You’re No Ronald Reagan..
http://hotair.com/greenroom/archives/2011/02/01/video-president-obama-youre-no-ronald-reagan/
Who do you think this person voted for?
http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2011/02/01/woman-tries-to-mail-puppy-in-box/
What’s on my mind is how Obama is acting Nixon-esque in stonewalling Issa’s investigations, ignoring the judge’s conclusion that Obamacare is null and void and thus cannot be implemented, and how he ignored the judge’s determinations about drilling in the Gulf. If/when the middle east truly ignites, oil will sky rocket, and Obama’s crippling of Gulf and Alaska oil drilling will return front and center.
I completely agree with you…here’s an excellent post on the topic of energy, a snapshot is below
http://blog.heritage.org/2011/02/02/morning-bell-obama-not-egypt-is-biggest-threat-to-u-s-energy-prices/
“Offshore, the Obama Interior Department has blocked access to 19 billion barrels of oil in the Pacific and Atlantic coasts and the eastern Gulf of Mexico—and another 10 billion barrels estimated in the Chukchi Sea off the Alaskan coast. Onshore, federal leasing of oil and gas exploration in the western United States has dropped significantly in the past two years. According to data compiled by the Western Energy Alliance, the Bureau of Land Management offered 79 percent fewer leases for oil and natural gas development in Colorado, Montana, New Mexico, North Dakota, Utah, and Wyoming in 2010 than in 2005. And then there is the Arctic National Wildlife Reserve, where an estimated 10 billion barrels of oil lie beneath a few thousand acres that can be accessed with minimal environmental impact.
Allowing Americans to develop these resources could easily produce at least 1 million new barrels of oil a day. The Heritage Foundation’s Center for Data Analysis estimates that, if the United States managed to increase its domestic oil production by 1 million barrels a day, it would create an additional 128,000 jobs and generate $7.7 billion in economic activity.
Government policies that ban economically feasible energy development while subsidizing economically unsustainable ones only raise energy costs rather than lowering them. What the U.S. economy really needs is a truly free-market energy approach, one that includes (1) real nuclear energy reform, not more loan guarantees; (2) predictable and sensible coal regulations; (3) reduced regulation on renewable energy; (4) an end to all energy subsidies; and (5) common-sense limits to environmental litigation.
Congress should not let unrest in the Middle East scare them into energy policies that would make all our energy only more expensive. More bans on energy development, more subsidies for economically unproven technologies, and expensive new alternative energy production mandates are not the answer. America needs a true free-market approach to energy, and we need it now”
Great post,,,” However, I agree with Sarah’ We need to “drill baby drill”– No more, do we as Americans need to be “beholden” to other nation’s for our energy period.
We as a NATION need to “cut the cord” to the middle East, on all and every energy embargo we have. It’s completely ridiculous that America is not “ENERGY INDEPENDANT” we have all and enough resources here to reach our demands and beyond. Energy is power, America does not need to held back buy these commie’s any longer’ I say enough: drill here and drill now.
Obama, with-out question, is up to his neck in this middle East uprising, and God help America, if he’s re-elected!!! I’m tired of feeling this bit in my stomach on a daily basis.
Indy this is a great post. It highlights some of the points that I have made, that USA could be oil independent but the watermelons are stopping this from happening.
I do not think this is fair to Richard Nixon. It is true he stalled on some things. However, as I remember him, he did not defy the courts like the Øbama administration. He also did not do things that harmed the American people in such a blatant way.
Obama is doing all of this on purpose. He wants our oil prices to skyrocket. He wants to create a constitutional crisis. He wants as much chaos as possible. He does it all because he hates our country, hates our freedoms, and wants to diminish our power. As time goes on, I am more and more convinced of this.
The dirty little secret is that many of
those people on Wall Street who are
getting ridiculously rich are
O supporters. But then the Dems are
so loudly demagoguing Republicans as
tools of Wall Street that they hope
that you didn’t notice that fact..
http://www.redstate.com/erick/2011/02/01/is-george-bush-suddenly-back-in-charge/
Obama and his regime have REFUSED to provide Issa with the documents he has requested via FOIA. The DHS and Obama White House have just flat out refused to comply with the Law. Consider also their contempt for the Law by refusing to accept Vinson’s rule this week. Obama and his administration are OPENLY violating the law. Does anyone not believe for a minute they are capable of anything to acheive complete destruction of our free society?
The Dem convention in Charlotte does bring to mind a very good take on the DNC.
A poster or some sort of bumper sticker calling it the “Donkey’s Neuter Convention”
Sure sounds right since the November neutering in the House of the left. LOL
I just watched the Ambassader to Israel open a can of whoop-ass on Obama and he deserved it. Obama kept his mouth shut and said NOTHING when the Iranian people tried to overthrow the Mullahs yet all the sudden he has overwhelming sympathy for the Egyptians. This is not about freedom and democracy. This is about socialists spreading chaos and terror.
If China attacked its people for protesting would Obama cut off the Chinese dictator? Hell no! Israel is not going to run with its tail between its legs. Obama is stoking a fire in the Middle East that will haunt him forever in history.
This is an article from Andrew Bolt:
http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/it_begins
It has good graphics on the eye of the storm – Yasi.
Yasi crossed the coastline between Cairns and Townsville – Mission Beach took the hardest hit and it has affected Innisfail as well.
The storm has been downgraded to category 3. So far there are reports of destruction but no deaths have been reported.
If that remains then it is a blessing that lives have not been lost.
there are more reports surfacing on the damage that has been done from Cyclone Yasi:
http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-national/yasi-leaves-heartbreaking-scenes-in-n-qld-20110203-1ae14.html
The towns of Tully and Mission Beach have been very hard hit.
What is worse is the damage done to sugar and banana crops in the region.
We took a while to recover from the crop damage due to Larry, and now it has happened again.
There have been a lot of roofs ripped from houses, and trees made into matchsticks.
However, it still looks like there has been a miracle with no loss of life.
On the other hand one of our soldiers has been killed by an IED in Afghanistan. He was only 22
Heritage has lots of good info but wanted to share this
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTiEeDYzneE&w=640&h=390]
Well, hell just froze over. We were watching Howard Dean on an interview and he actually said that in his opinion, Sarah Palin would be the nominee for the Republican party and that he believed she would be electable! Almost swallowed my tongue! The host of the show seemed very agitated that Dean said that and kept questioning him. Dean also had some interesting things to say about Obamacare and tied them in very nicely with what Mittens did in Massachusetts. Can’t believe I actually agreed with Howard Dean.
Here is a link to the Australian ABC news which gives some description of the damage caused by cyclone Yasi
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/02/03/3128533.htm
A few things to note:
Power has been knocked out from between Townsville to Cairns (several hundred miles).
A resident of Townsville stated that the damage there was worse than Althea which was experienced in 1971.
When I first moved to Townsville I became very aware that the residents feared another big cyclone. Perhaps this is the big one they were expecting. In that case it would be a 1:40 year event.
Here is a link of people describing their experience and the scene that they are facing:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/02/03/3128482.htm
Having gone through Aivu in 1989, I can imagine that people are facing quite a bit of devastation.
There was not that much destruction with Aivu, and we got off very lightly because it was not as strong or destructive as Yasi.
Yasi hit the coast when it was a lot stronger the Tracy when it hit Darwin.
This time the devastation is not limited and there is devastation from Cairns (light damage) through to Townsville at this present time.
The towns of Mission Beach, Tully and Innisfail have been the most severely hit by the cyclone.
Power is out for several thousand properties extending from McKay, to Townsville and through to Cairns and even beyond that.
I noticed in one report that it was stated the power lines had not been tested in a category 5 storm. Now they know… the lines failed the test.
An interesting link:
http://gatewaypundit.rightnetwork.com/2011/02/another-violent-leftist-arrested-after-threatening-to-kill-florida-republicans-family/
Those darn tea partiers, when will they learn not to threaten people.
A few more things that you need to know is that with this particular cyclone there was a prediction of a storm surge which would create a king tide. I have heard that prediction before and it has failed to materialise.
The same thing has happened again. I did hear that they are expecting something in Hinchinbrook which sounds bad. However, for other areas the surge happened when the tide had turned which means it was absorbed by the lower tide.
This prediction of a storm surge was a major reason for the request to evacuate that was given to thousands of people.
Normally, people do not have to evacuate from their homes when cyclones hit. Most people in FNQ know the drill. They know what to do.
Yes, when I was there and Aivu was on the way we evacuated. My husband took us to the Air Force base where we were in a secure building. He was on duty that day.
ObamaCare repeal vote failed in the Senate as NO (D)’s voted yes. So, are Nelson (NE), McCaskill, Webb, Manchin, and others toast??
Oh, and all (R)’s voted yes, including Snowe, Collins, and Murkowski.
UFO Over Jerusalem?
http://www.breitbart.tv/ufo-over-jerusalem/
The Jerusalem UFO at Dome Of The Rock on January 28, 2011
http://blogs.howstuffworks.com/2011/01/31/the-jerusalem-ufo-at-dome-of-the-rock-on-january-28-2011/
http://gatewaypundit.rightnetwork.com/2011/02/another-violent-leftist-arrested-after-threatening-to-kill-florida-republicans-family/
A self-described Massachusetts “political activist” was arrested Monday night and charged with sending a threatening e-mail to Florida Rep. William Snyder, R-Stuart, an hour after the Arizona shooting that killed six and critically injured U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords.
The unsigned e-mail, sent to Snyder’s state House of Representatives address on Jan. 8, told the legislator to “stop that ridiculous law if you value your and your familie’s lives.”
Snyder has proposed a bill cracking down on illegal immigration for Florida in a manner similar to what Arizona has done.
Shucks: GOP repeal vote on ObamaCare fails in Senate, 47/51
http://hotair.com/archives/2011/02/02/shucks-gop-repeal-vote-on-obamacare-fails-in-senate-4751/
Not sure which side of the Cairo upheaval I’m for or against because, frankly, I’m not very informed or have not cared in the past. However, earlier today, I watched an update on TV that pro-government, paid “thugs” had been bussed into Cairo and were throwing Molotov Cocktails. My first thought was of the buses that left Chicago during the caucuses and primaries in 2008 to fan out across the country to intimidate and suppress the Hillary voters. Now, it sounds as if the MSNBC line is a support of the initial protestors, the “Muslim Brotherhood.” So far, Matthews and Uyger have pushed that line. I predict O’Donnell, Maddow and Schultz will do the same. I think it’s because when Obama finally came out with a statement yesterday, he said he had urged Mubarak that there must be “change NOW.” Sounds like the 2008 Obama campaign. That’s why MSNBC is supporting the Muslim Brotherhood. It’s what Obama wants.
was just looking at an article on Tim Blair’s blog:
you just have to read the comments:
http://blogs.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/timblair/index.php/dailytelegraph/comments/yasi_hits
I am not sure if the person was serious. I thought it funny in light of the fact that they blame Palin for everything else.
However, there is a more serious comment further down, which shows that the watermelons will not stop their stupid propaganda.
There was a worse cyclone in 1918 and it had nothing to do with globull warming.
Ditto with the terrible fires we endured. We have had other summers where we had temperatures well over 100F. We have also had very serious bushfires. The watermelons simply will not acknowledge that their policies led to the bushfires being more devastating than was necessary. I guess they had never heard of spontaneous combustion…. sheesh what did they learn in school?
Why is Pet Turtle Masturbation One of the Internet’s Hottest New Trends?
http://christwire.org/2011/01/why-is-pet-turtle-masturbation-one-of-the-internets-hottest-new-trends/
This Cairo thing is scaring me. Oh, Hillary, WHY did you let Obama co-opt you into becoming a part of his inept administration?
Some more detail on cyclone Yasi:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/02/03/3128920.htm
and another link that talks about the devastation in Far North Queensland:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/02/03/3128710.htm
I should add here that last night we had storms in Canberra. It was more or less unrelated to the cyclone, but I can tell you that when the first rain hit yesterday it was steamy and oppressive and very like the weather we experienced in Townsville.
There were some houses in Canberra that experienced storm damage.
Washington Post Columnist Breaks His Palin Vow On Day One of Sarah-Palin-Free Month
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/washington-post-columnist-breaks-his-palin-vow-on-day-one-of-sarah-palin-free-month/
hilarious. He could not help himself.
here is a report that his lots of pictures of the damage from cyclone Yasi and it includes a Google map that might help to put the area in perspective.
http://www.smh.com.au/environment/weather/whats-gone-the–trail-of-destruction-left-by-yasi-20110203-1ae7a.html
The area that has been damaged spreads from Cairns to Townsville, and that is several hundred miles. If I remember correctly it was several hours worth of driving between those two regional cities.
The storm has continued inland, which is typical of a cyclone. Mt Isa is expected to take a hit tonight.
This is funny: Rupert Murdoch has stated that he will not be rehiring Keith Olbermann because he was a nut:
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2011/02/02/rupert-murdoch-id-never-hire-keith-olbermann-back-hes-impossible-nut
Please remember that Olbermann resigned he was not fired from MSNBC. He broke off contract negotiations and ended the relationship by announcing he was leaving the show.