Wednesday Open Thread: September 29th, 2010
H/T D.B. -- Palin, West, Brewer, DeMint, and Bachmann lead a charge for America and Resistance to Leftist Tyranny
Glad you could join us today…awesomeness already in progress.
Thanks to D.B. for the above photoshop.
This calls for some 80s hair band to get you further pumped up to do all you can today to kick the Left’s can right out of Washington.
Uh huh.
That’s right.
Not. Gonna. Take. It. Anymore. Lefties.
We might not know your name, but if you are reading this, you are the Resistance.
We don’t care if you are 18 or 80. We just know you have a valuable skill that needs to be put to use today to do something to save America from the Left.
You might be an awesome artist, like the guy who knocked the image above out of the park.
You could be a computer whiz who can turn some of our essays into YouTube videos and blast them out to the Net.
You might just have a damn big mouth and love to talk. Guess what Sister Mister, if that’s so, then you’re on phone banking and canvassing duty for the next 34, so talk your socks off. Use all the words. Then invent new ones. We’ll start you off: cromulent, embiggen, spadoodle.
Shut-in? Got a phone in that house, right? Get with the busy.
Click to embiggen.
Mute? You can blog, can’t you? Spread our links everywhere.
Imaginary? Hell, Democrats have proved time and again that you can, at the very least, VOTE. Whether you are real or not. And while you’re at it, you can bring all sorts of cartoon characters, ghosts, and other invisible people with you and vote all day, in every state, just tell ‘em ACORN sent you.
We’re never going to get the next 34 days back, folks…this is all we’ve got to do everything we can think of to make sure Democrats get the beating of the party’s life. We need to clean their clock, but good.
This is your watch.
You’re on duty, like it or not.
Awesomeness is required in spades.
Make us proud today, skinny little dude in the good guy pajamas, and win it for AMERICA.
You’re the best, around, nothing’s gonna ever keep you down!
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Anyone got a take on the Whitman-Brown debate? Didn’t see it.
My mother and father (both were in their early 30′s during Brown’s horrific term) watched the first 15 mins and said Brown was blathering and neither were too impressed with Whitman either. Whitman is no Sarah Palin whereas Brown is The Original Obama so I’m reluctantly voting for the lesser of the two evils.
who in their right minds would vote for the has-been Brown?
California has already experienced his excesses and the damage that he can do to the economy.
The zombies who can not and do not think for themselves.
They just look for the little D and put a check beside it.
Most of the people of voting age in California were not here, or not yet born when Brown was first governor. Our illegal population is huge, and yes…it votes! California is owned and and run 100% by the unions.
I watched a bit. I was struck that for as long Brown and Boxer have “served”, they seemed less prepared and figity during the debates. Both kept shuffling notes (I guess) on the podium. That aloe was quite distracting.
Visual poise — Whitman and Fiorina hands down.
They are lazy because they always assumed that they would have their job for life. Sound familiar?
That is amazing. And how great to have a photo where Sarah’s joy is so apparent, along with her strength.
I absolutely loved seeing the joy in her face when she was video’d in her home regarding Bristol’s DWTS stuff the other night.
Again I’m reminded of the truth of Rush’s statement that the left is always telling us who they fear. Their fear of an individual is revealed by the level and frequency of their attacks on that person (or group). Sarah’s straightforward thinking, common sense and genuine joy absolutely freak them out.
Very nice blurb from WaPo:
Next stunner was Bristol Palin. The trip to her Alaska home, where Palin introduced her partner, Mark Ballas, to her mother, was utterly beside the point–the real story is that Palin’s dancing continues to fascinate. She is unmanaged and completely charming. Let’s hope she stays that way. Ballas deserves a pot of gold for the yeoman’s work he’s doing — he is perfect for her. Their quickstep was dancing the way it’s supposed to be — you were caught up in it, in the steps, the sweep, the changing dynamics, the human moment — not a bit of blinding razzle-dazzle. The way he swept her around the stage like trailing silk — ladies, don’t we all dream of that?
Source: http://bit.ly/clCGBd
This is from the WaPo??
Wow…colour me gobsmacked.
Bristol is absolutely charming, as all the Palin ‘kids’ are.
They picked their parents very wisely.
That makes two of us gobsmacked!
Great work, D.B.!
Ditto! Looks great!
“You may have read that there is strong evidence of voter fraud in Houston. Here’s what you may not have heard: the organization accused of shady behavior is linked to a former head of an Obama campaign office. She is a fan of Che Guevara. She is also the person who invited to a town hall meeting a woman who then posed as a doctor at that meeting during the health care debate.”
http://biggovernment.com/patterico/2010/09/28/obama-activist-tied-in-with-organization-accused-of-voter-fraud/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+BigGovernment+%28Big+Government%29&utm_content=Twitter
how strange. I remember reading about that woman at the time that she pretended to be a doctor. I remember seeing the picture of her in her office with all of the Che Guevera gear.
It gets worse as I have posted below.
That same county, one day after the voter fraud was exposed suffered a fire that destroyed virtually all of it voting machines.
The arson investigation team cannot determine the cause of the fire yet.
The woman is a Cuban national and is all agog about the Cuban “revolution” and the Castros. One would wonder if she is so in love with the dictators of her own country, why did she come to the US?
a plant or a spy?
Both.
Holy comoly. Not only does someone know how to take instruction – - – and produce, they are brilliant at photo shop. BRAVO.
I just realized, I campaign all day and night. The oil delivery man came, and when I moaned about how much the bill was, he said everything’s outa sight these days. That was my opening: We gotta vote. We gotta change the direction of this country. Turns out, he was a FreeMason, they’re all on board, and I emphasized that means every incumbent out, good or bad, term limits would solve half our problems, and how he needed to get everyone to understand they need to reach out to their mother, brother, kids, in-laws, everyone has got to be pressed to get to the polls and get the incumbents out. It’s critical.
Last night I knocked on the door of some very affluent businessmen, (gay by the way), to solicit them to do a fundraiser for a candidate – done.
On the Palin front, I declared a few weeks ago I was going to speak up about Palin, and not hide my feelings anymore (which feelings, by the way, were enormously influenced by the boyz). I asked a friend that was cooking me dinner, what she thought of Palin for President. [Now mind you she's on the same page on all other issues, but people aren't so ready to think Palin for Pres] She said she would never vote for Palin for Pres. despite thinking she’s done a lot. She said, she’s not smart enough. I bantered, again with insights from the boyz, and said “What if it’s between her and Romney?” She said THEN she would vote Sarah. We gotta talk about it to get people to think about it.
Driving home I called an activist to come over for a glass of wine. I wanted him to lend assistance to a conservative Hispanic I felt needed help and guidence running for state rep. Now this is funny buzzers, and he needs funds, if anyone can spare. He just started this community TV show, link below, and has had lots of the candidates on it, including the candidates for governor(but that’s the only thing he is doing while he has no money or campaign
people = (
but watch the first 3 minutes of his video!
YOUTUBE at http://www.youtube.com/my_videos
he also wrote a bill of address to a senator to remove a corrupt judge. Too funny. (On a separate note, it’s the same judge who BANNED a book written by a different friend called: Exposing the Corruption in Mass. Courts. The judge was, after all, written about disfavorably in the book – SHE banned.
Also sold two posters today to expose Obamacare, in addition to spreading good dirt on bad incubents.
I can see November from my house = )
Integrity, the youtube took me to a youtube sign-in page…..I never had that happen before. I don’t like to sign in to anything google-connected.
Wow! You’re the Conservative Energizer Bunny!! We need to clone you.
Way to go, Integrity1st! You’re doing an incredible job!!
The friend cooking you dinner is rather typical, unfortunately, in thinking Sarah isn’t smart enough. (That particular LSM lie really caught on, thanks to SNL. Jerks!)
But, you can counter it, IF you have some facts at your fingertips.
Sarah accomplished virtual miracles during her abbreviated term as gov of Alaska. Here is just one article I pulled from my collection. (Don’t have time to dig deeper just now. Sorry.)
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&refer=home&sid=aNgqjbjq1iZ4
WOW!
— seriously talk about being on a mission!
Good for you! I got tired just READING that list
I want to thank all the Buzzers from FL who kept reminding people about the fake Tea party scam the D’s are trying to run in FL.
The Studmuffin got his absentee ballot and had marked it for some of the “Tea Party” candidates. I reminded him he should double check, read the websites, etc that these are “real” Tea Party people before he mailed his ballot off.
Was he ever steamed when he found out that they weren’t part of the FL Tea party … so called up and told them he has spoiled his ballot, so they sent him a new one … which he filled out after checking out all the candidates.
AWESOME Guyz & DB!
Was on the phone with a radio station manager I do business with from time to time. He asked about the oil spill. I let him have an earfull that the greatest tragedy was the federal government’s sitting on its hands with the suspicious Rahmbo / crisis manipulation & Crap & Tax timing. I think he was left a bit speechless when I told him, in such a certain and knowing voice, that “its all over for them. We’re fed up and they’re all going to the house, every one of them”.
Well, actually, we want the out of the house.
Yes, you betcha we do. Now if it was the BIG house, that’s a horse of a different color.
The photoshop of the Gov. Palin as Lady Liberty….AWESOME!!! She IS leading the charge, whether the Cocktail Party and Obots like it or not!!!
Now what is on my mind…well it chilled me (and it wasn’t Club Gitmo’s ice cream rationing OR Joe ‘Big F’ing Deal’ Biden frozen dairy Jones…) no. Its Drudge’s headline FROM LAST NIGHT:
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/us-credible-specific-threat-terrorist-attack/story?id=11747364
High Terror Alert!!! But, we don’t know the plan; where the plan is going to unfold; what the plan entails; how we should prepare (OTHER THAN BE AFRAID!!!).
The only ‘unknown’ (if we are at HIGH RISK) should be what our brave covert ops are doing to make this ‘go away.’
Sadly, with this Administration when I read the headline late yesterday, I didn’t think ‘oh no…Al Queda is at it again!’ No I thought, ‘is this the October surprise from the Dems? Is this why Nancy Pelosi is convinced she will retain the speakership (in five weeks she proclaimed she will still be in charge of the House). Could ‘this something’ be the catalyst to do what alot of us have feared??? Suspend elections???
My spidey senses are all jumpy over this one…
I was privileged to listen to Anita MonCrief (ACORN whistleblower) on Tuesday night. She said she has an October Surprise FOR the Dems. I can’t wait!
I am stunned by the beauty of that photoshop, DB. I wonder what you could do with the Sistine Chapel ceiling?
Breitbart did promise something for the election… imagine Anita is in on it.
well friday is oct 1..i cant wait!!
MQC, I had the exact same thoughts. Funny, I was never one for conspiracies before the Red Queen ascended her throne. No past Congressional term has been able to cloud my basic optimism the way this batch of Dems has.
Awesome graphic!! I just put the Gadsden flag on my desktop last night to remind me of the election, but this is way better! Going on right now…and probably stay on until 2012.
Talking about not taking it anymore.. I came across this video and the first person who came to mind was Michele Bachmann because she had said that we have a gangster government… and sure enough, she’s in the video… Gangsta Government Rap
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmBjG7ALvjc
I’m speechless. Wow. Just, WOW!
that shot of the gangsta 4 would make a great still foto..
Marie, they have a “family portrait” here…
http://www.gangstagovernment.org/family-portrait/
imimaginary, thanks.
I posted this last week, and thought it was great, but was reluctant to put it up again.
(Even Aussie loved it, and she’s not into rap. LOL!)
Well, I’m glad to see that we’re in the same spirit, Bijou.
Awesome, must make this video go viral. The Lefties heads will explode and it will be so much fun to watch.
A blistering assessment of the Lightbringer, courtesy of American Thinker:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/09/obama_not_moses_merely_elmer_g.html
an in depth look at the tragedy that is bambo..
this stood out for me:
” Much of what was done was in violation of the Constitution”
Hillbuzz,
This Paul in Chicago is a man after your own heart. He seems to cut to the heart of the problem in Chicago and around the country.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwMAJeA284s&feature=autofb
He’s not perfect but he is heading in the right direction.
Hillbuzz, you tugged at my heartstrings tonight without even knowing it.
All my life, when I turned my kid over to someone else, whether it was a PTA mom to work on a project, or Scouts working on something else, or even a sleepover at a friend’s house, my last handful of words to him, were:
“Honey….make me proud.”
To see those words here, confirmed that I’m in the right place.
I always ask my kids to make decision that would make them proud of themselves. Same thing really.
THey have a heart that is open and wide…….and contagious.
Anyone a conspiracy theorist around here?
http://patterico.com/2010/09/28/obama-activist-tied-in-with-organization-accused-of-voter-fraud/
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7173960.html
I have heard time and time again that these leftist will start to get violent and desperate when they finally realize they are going to lose. Is this the start of it or should I just adjust my tin foil hat?
The far left has a history of becoming violent when they don’t get their way so, no, don’t adjust that hat just yet.
When they think they truly have nothing to lose, they will play as dirty as they are capable.
Think of a cornered wild animal.
And always remember the boy scout/girl guide motto. “Be prepared.”
Also, ‘gun control means using both hands’.
Found this, rather odd, Thomas Jefferson quote on brainyquote.com:
A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks.
Houston Texas – almost 24,000 illegal registrations. Where have we seen this before. How about Texas in 2008. They cheated and frauded their way to win that primary although Hillary got more votes. They didn’t go away. They are just working in county election board basements now, making sure that they can have 24,000 “absentee ballots” should they need them for 2010 and/or 2012. They got caught. Serious jail time would surely curtail this but no one takes it seriously. It makes me crazy. It takes away all of our most important civil right VOTING!! And having that vote count purely.
A lot is happening in Europe while our media reports about pop culture and polls. Protests / riots in France, Spain, Greece…it’s coming our way.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704116004575521493516554702.html?mod=WSJ_World_LEFTSecondNews
No need to adjust the tinfoil hat, the Left is about to explode with more violence. I think everyone should prepare themselves for extreme crazy behavior coming from them and be prepared.
Think of the Left as spoiled little children whose parents are about to take away the keys to the car and force them to earn one on their own. It won’t be pretty.
Obama’s trying to work the Christian/Muslim angle, with a clearly *very* prepared answer to a question on religion:
http://hotair.com/archives/2010/09/28/voter-asks-obama-why-are-you-a-christian/
Now, this could mean that he’s hurting on the religion question, and wants to reassure people – particularly black Christians.
But I think he’s also either being very sneaky, or showing a blatant disregard for the genuine issues that make people want him out. He’s keeping the issue alive, so that his leftist base can just tell themselves that “they hate the Messiah because they hate Muslims!” – no need for thinking. AND/OR, he genuinely believes that any criticism of him stems from racism and Islamaphobia, and that that’s what people want to hear in order to vote Dem again.
U R more than right…what a set-up and what a canned answer. I call BS
This *alone* would make me vote for Sarah Palin. Even if I thought she was the devil incarnate, I’d still do it:
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/matthew-balan/2010/09/28/jack-cafferty-ill-eat-cnns-building-nyc-if-palin-becomes-president
I so want to hand him a brick!
I’d rather throw it at him.
I must have said a “bad” word … but go here and read this; the other entry will show up later.
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/matthew-balan/2010/09/28/jack-cafferty-ill-eat-cnns-building-nyc-if-palin-becomes-president
It’s a start!
http://www.sunshinestatenews.com/story/poll-obama-democrats-poised-lose-grayson-house-seat
Gr8Mom will be very happy!!
Thanks for the link, had not seen this yet. Beck highlighted the slimy ads last night. We may have two more seats in FL based on the census which means we have to keep the “carpetbaggers” out of FL because we will be targeted, that’s how Grayson got here!
grayson is a pig, he deserves everyons scorn for his horrific ad..and he’s so stupid he didnt realize it would work AGAINST him!
Grayson reminds me of that sleazy kid in homeroom that no one wanted to sit near because he smelled bad – and also had no social skills…thinking that slobbering over a cute girl was the way to popularity and then calling her a whore when she wouldn’t pay attention to him. And then going into gym class telling the guys that she gave it up for him…not really getting that they were laughing at him – not with him. Oh – and his hair was always dirty and greasy – and he never brushed his teeth.
Yes I am…I was also happy to hear Beck talk about him last night and then I heard Daniel Webster on Fox today. And I will ad, this current poll was done before all this new nonsense of the Taliban Dan ad…I venture to guess it will be worse in the next poll.
Did you guys see that Grayson also put out a positive ad? It shows him playing with kids and they use this chalkboard and then this cute little song in the background…the thing is, it is a total rip off of an Eliot Spitzer ad from 2006…I mean, almost exactly the same only much worse video quality.
If I didn’t know better, I’d think Grayson didn’t want to win. He is going down and hopefully in FLAMES!
I am happy about this…I just made a large post so I won’t go into all that again in case it does end up showing up, but yes…I’m happy. And this poll was taken before all the stuff about the false ad against Dan Webster came out. Can’t wait to see the poll results next week. Dan Webster could not have afforded all this publicity so I am ever so grateful that Alan Grayson is such a nimrod.
http://dailycaller.com/2010/09/28/strickland-supporting-creep-takes-coffee-party-concept-way-too-far/
I blame the hateful eliminataionist rhetoric of the Democratic Party, and call on all their leaders to distance themselves from such hate filled violence mogering.
From Glenn Reynolds. There’s something so satisfying when you see lefties’ with bared teeth and twitching eyes when they’re held to the same standards to which they hold the Center/Right.
Great job DB, really great!
Sorry, that doesn’t belong here. Meant for it to be a stand-alone post.
Yesterday a black conservative in Harlem called into the Limbaugh show enraged about how the Cocktail Party treats Sarah Palin. (C4P has the clip up.) I swear I met this guy last week while I was in New York — if not him, then someone just like him.
I was in town on business and had a private car for the morning. The driver (a person of color with an accent I couldn’t quite place) was listening to talk radio. I really wasn’t paying attention to content until I heard Rush’s intro music just after noon. He immediately went to turn the volume down and I asked him to leave it and of course that led to a political discussion. He is a staunch conservative, but his 24 year old son voted for Obama. For the past year, his son has also been listening to Rush and has done a political 180. The left truly has no idea what is coming in November.
Afinch:
I posted Ernie from Harlem last night, but it was late.
Just listen to Ernie, he sounds like a HB’er.
http://www.therightscoop.com/ernie-in-harlem-loves-sarah-palin
We hope a business trip to Chicago is in your future again soon. Those Showtunes aren’t going to sing themselves.
I hope so too!
That caller was speaking music to my ears!
http://www.tmz.com/2010/09/28/gloria-allred-explosive-allegations-meg-whitman-governor-of-california-election-republican-candidate-latina/
Great..this doesn’t sound good..
Oh, great. I guess this will be CA’s October Surprise. I bet the Dems kept this under their hat until just now. I wonder how many other close races they are stalking in this way.
There will be plenty I am sure. Most of which will be fake. That’s why it’s important for the candidates to jump on them immediately to denounce them.
From what I have read so far Allred has released a flop. Meg Whitman did the right thing when she learned the truth about the woman.
The woman lied to the agency that got her the job. She provided false papers to the agency.
Meg Whitman did the right thing to fire the housekeeper on the spot because she was an illegal.
This whole stunt wasn’t done for our benefit…it was done to solidify the Mexican vote.
Might backfire on them. Legal citizens from south of the border have no love for illegals taking jobs. She was being paid $25 per hour according to some reports. And I think they unloaded much too soon. If this is all they have, and they didn’t know Whitman had all the documentation and that it was the illegal’s fraud that caused the issue, then they don’t have a good staff. This will be a yesterday story by tomorrow. Now Brown can’t run ads about it because he’ll look foolish and deceptive – in the ranks of Grayson.
Best rant I’ve seen all month. Enjoy:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrATS4mthX4&fs=1&hl=en_US]
I LOVE THAT!
I got it in an email a few weeks ago.
If I feel down.. I play it.
Its awesome! Fires me up!
This quote come up in my Facebook newsfeed, and I’m sort of surprised by it.
The Government of the United States is in no sense founded on the Christian religion.-John Adams
A quick Google search found articles and forum posts at places like Organizing for America and HuffPo. Can someone give me some more information? With my three little ones at home, I don’t get to be as plugged in as I would like, but I know Glenn Beck has been talking about how we were founded as a Christian nation. Thanks for any info. you can send my was, Buzzers!
I found this:
http://www.stephenjaygould.org/ctrl/treaty_tripoli.html
“Authored by American diplomat Joel Barlow in 1796, the following treaty was sent to the floor of the Senate, June 7, 1797, where it was read aloud in its entirety and unanimously approved. John Adams, having seen the treaty, signed it and proudly proclaimed it to the Nation.”
If this is correct, John Adams is not the author.
One more: John Adams became a Unitarian later in life.
http://www.adherents.com/people/pa/John_Adams.html
John Adams, the second U.S. President rejected the Trinity… and became a Unitarian. It was during Adams’ presidency that the Senate ratified the Treaty of Peace and Friendship with Tripoli. Article XI has the language of the quote.
Just an amateur thought here: this nation was not founded as a theocracy, but the people who founded it either were Christian in their own perspective or wanted to work from a foundation of Judeo-Christian principles.
As a Christian, I would never care to argue that we “are a Christian nation.” Even if we “were”, that boat sailed a long time ago. I would not want to live in a theocracy, not even a “Christian one.” Christians already are in a theocracy called the kingdom of God, with God as their King. The visible kingdom of God on earth is something in the future. We don’t have to argue for it now.
Our GOVERNMENT was not intended to be “Christian government.” That is, by the way, what Islam does. Islam is intended to be both dominant government and domineering religion. I believe that’s one of the biggest mistakes people make about Islam: they want to pretend it’s just “another religion.” Not by a long shot.
Cherry-picked quotes like this are sometimes used to get Christians defensive and hysterical in an unattractive way.
John Adams may have said that. Even if he did, it’s fine. The government of the United States was not founded in ways that repressed or excluded Christianity either. Sometimes I think that those who misuse quotes like this want to do exactly that.
Couldn’t have said it better, Emma. ‘Christian nation’ != ‘Christian government.’
Newt Gingrich has a wonderful website and documentaries on how the country was founded on Christianity. Our entire history is based on freedom of religion. Our ancestors left Britain FOR freedom of religion. It’s absurd that the liberals try to paint a different picture. Newt.org has his “Rediscovering God in America” videos and shows you some clips.
This quote comes from the Treaty of Tripoli, which was ratified when John Adams was President so it is not a direct quote from him. Atheists like to use it to try to prove that our country wasn’t founded as a Christian nation. The quote has also been attributed to George Washington which just shows you how misused it is. Here’s an article about the treaty which should give you all the info. you need to know.
http://www.wallbuilders.com/LIBissuesArticles.asp?id=125
Hmm, tried to post a comment and it disappeared so I’ll just post the link to this article that talks about the Treaty of Tripoli, which is where the John Adams quote comes from.
http://www.wallbuilders.com/LIBissuesArticles.asp?id=125
Thanks for all the links and info, everyone! When I read the quote, I thought that my very liberal facebook friend was trying to say that we are not a country based on Christian morals, which I 100% disagree with. We are not a theocracy, and I wouldn’t want to live in one, either, but did our Founding Fathers believe that citizens needed some moral absolutes to make our republic work? Thanks again for all the resources. I’m off to do some more reading.
I highly recommend reading the 5000 Year Leap, it’s about our founding principles and includes quotes from original sources. There’s a lot on the founders views on religion, education, you won’t be disappointed. I have a copy for each of my kids, they will have it for high school and college. At this site, they have put together a study guide to go along with it, they are also on facebook…have a look
http://www.theforgottenman.org/
Here in Florida, our family is doing all we can to promote Alex Sniker, the Libertarian running for senate against the corrupt Rubio/Crist/Meeks triumvirate.
For the first time ever, we have made contributions to a campaign, gone to stump at events and gone protested for him..
The protests are at SM places around Florida, that are not including him in any debates they run, and dam few polls…
You are looking to split the vote by aiding someone running against Rubio? Did you take a wrong turn?
Neither Meeks or Rubio are corrupt.
I just saw a clip of Ø’s speech in Madison, WI yesterday. Apparently the local police are estimating the crowds at 26,000. Any locals here with info as to whether that’s accurate?
Was there more than one event in Madison yesterday? I heard early in the day that they were struggling to “fill the room.” Then I read the reports of 26,000 in attendance, which seemed inconsistent. Note that O spoke after a Ben Harper performance. So were those in attendance there to see him or to see a free concert? Did you also see the lack of melanin among those in attendance?
Ha ha! I did notice that Afinch! Made me laugh!
Reports on Monday said that auditorium only held 17,000. So if there was 26,000 there, they broke the fire department capacity. And if they struggled to fill the venue, then there could not have been 26k
Read in the comments that it was more like 11,000. BHO is following his campaign recipe: free concert, beer etc. He speaks before everyone leaves. Of course more than half are probably there for the concert and the tweets.
I would suggest dividing that estimate by either 2 or 3 to get the real number present. I doubt very much that he would have attracted that many.
LOL YIKES!!! MSM sites!!!
Oh, and the graphic above? AWESOME!!!! Wow! Just wonderful!!!
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-09-28/losing-the-american-dream/
The left is increasingly trying to paint a visual picture of the Republican party as “the older white man” and of course it’s an ugly picture of the cocktail party Republicans. They’re doing that because of Sarah Palin. They don’t want you to realize it is the conservative WOMEN who are dominating the message right now. I see it more and more. It only convinces me more that Sarah will make the difference these next two years.
Excellent graphic. Love it.
Another suggestion: Get signs on your lawn for
House Rep or Senate candidates.
My candidate for District 8 PA is Mike Fitzpatrick (R) to replace weasel Patlosi Murphy.
I just went to Mike’s Website, filled out a form to request a lawn sign. They will have someone deliver one to my home.
It’s that simple. Or make your own.
Put your front lawn to good use and fly those flags!
More Chris Christie awesomeness:
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2010/09/28/christie-announces-sweeping-n-j-education-reform/
I disagree with him on teacher tenure. Why should any profession that relies on public $$ grant it for any reason?
Since tenure is their holy grail, my guess is he kept it in to soften the blow a bit yet altered it in a nod to conservative concerns.
Studying Chris Christie for a few years now, I think this is the first shot across the bow. He proposes that tenure be based NOT on seniority, but on merit – classroom excellence. He is asking the legislators to go along with him on this and it’s controlled by D’s. Parents will vote against the D’s if they DON’T go along with this. It’s fair. It’s common sense. What parent wants their child teaching reading comprehension if they test poorly on it. What parent wants their child taught math by a person whose math skills are poor? He’s taking on powerful people and lots of them. I think he’s going to win this one and won’t it be great for the kids?
The rantings of a lunatic gay person.
http://www.villagevoice.com/2010-09-29/news/white-america-has-lost-its-mind/2/
Obama was campaigning this week saying I will fight for you, I will work for you, on and on. What a fraud this guy is. Maybe people believed it two years ago, but when will he start doing that? After November? In January? How about January 2009 when he took office. And if people believe him, shame on them. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
On another front, the developer for the GZ mosque was on the Today show. He pretends not to have know the mosque there would cause a controversy. He is American born, lives in Brooklyn, and considers himself an American. He said this controversy is an “eye opener” to how people view his religion. Like he never knew! He could show what his religion is really about, like tolerance, and love and caring for the community if he reached out to 9/11 families and moved the mosque! The lie is that if they move it, they will allow the radicals to control the dialogue. But if they don’t move it, the radicals are dictating (supposedly) where the mosque should be. I don’t believe him for one minute. Donald Trump met with him and he said it was ALL ABOUT MONEY to the developer. Trump can size people up in one second. It wasn’t about anything else for this guy at all.
That “You’re the Best” song sounded like every commercial from the 80′s. The guy’s voice could be heard singing about deoderant to Chef Boyarde to some action figure on Saturday morning. Good laugh.
Has anybody heard from TNWAHM recently? I hope her daughter is doing OK. That other prayer request thread made me think about her.
Typo in my e-mail address in my post above. Sorry about that!
A little off topic, but Arianna Huffington is offering free bus rides to the Jon Stewart “rally” in October. I wonder what they would do if a bunch of Tea Party members showed up wanting a ride???
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/28/sanity-bus-arianna-offers_n_742739.html
Beat them up? Bite a finger off? Pour hot coffee down their backs?
what the TEA people could do is book a seat on the bus… and not show up….
Imagine, booked seats and no shows… egg on face and proof of astro turf
Wow….that’s better than the phoney pizza order thing!
Where do I sign up?
Anti-Austerity Protests Sweep Across Europe
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/anti-austerity-protests-sweep-across-europe/
Pics at the link.
Wow, just heard on the radio that Dan Webster got $70,000 last night. He’s the R running againest “carpetbagger” Alan Grayson (D-District 8 FL)!
Great! That Grayson really needs to go.
Anybody else notice the price of gold? Right now it’s $1,309 per ounce!
Yes, DH watchs it every day along with silver prices.
LOVE THIS!
Sending to my dad– he’ll love it too.
^_^ Thanks DB!
Here’s a sharp report on the latest EU perfidy (from Brussels with love):
http://volokh.com/2010/09/29/europes-antiterror-message-to-us-sure-sucks-to-be-you/
(Via Instapundit.)
Dr. Utopia told Bob Woodward that “we can absorb a terrorist attack”:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VleTbs1WN0
Here in MA, the talk is all Sean Bielat, the guy running against Barney Frank who seems to have had quite a surge in fundraising and media attention.
What’s the scoop on the woman who is running as a Dem (?) againest him?
I’m not sure if he had a contested primary–he’s not my district, but he won at any rate. The race is between Bahney and Sean Bielat, an ex-Marine from Brookline, MA, who’s been all over local and national media and said campaign donations are coming in like gangbusters.
Barney just had Bubba come stump for him, which attracted attention to the race because some suspect that could mean he’s worried. Bielat went from unknown to 9-10 points down just since the Sep. 14 primary. I think they are clearly worried it will be another out-of-the-blue campaign like Scott Brown overtaking Coakley when she didn’t even see him coming.
I sent Sean Bielet money last week. I pray he wins… nothing would be sweeter than Barney Frank losing.
Oh and Alan Grayson… is down by 7 points on Rel Clear politics.
Going to be a good November!
Oh, thanks for the update (I’m an expat from MA). I wish they would vote Olver out in Western MA!
I don’t know how realistic the chances are, but Barney Frank(along with Dodd) is almost single-handedly responsible for pushing banks to make all these bad loans that resulted in the housing bubble which caused so much damage when it burst. Fannie & Freddie are on him. All these foreclosures and the financial mess we are in–ugghhh. I know there are other pieces to the recession puzzle, but his contribution was significant, and I would LOVE to see him held responsible in the voting booth.
We are watching Grayson carefully–my inlaws live in the district and are very active in both the Democrat and Republican parties, so we’ve got our own family feud going…
do not forget the role of the former HUD Assistant Secretary or is that Secretary – Andrew Cuomo.
Cuomo had a very big hand in the pushing of these loans to people who cannot pay them back.
I can’t believe he did that on his own. He was told to do that and I’d like to know if it was Dodd and Barney or if it came from higher sources. Because that was a disaster in the making.
An interesting article on Republicans gaining some support in the Northeast.
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/248065/coming-republican-nor-easter-andrew-stiles?page=1
Oh, and not that our Mass Attorney General’s race would normally garner a lot of attention, but the country learned the name Martha Coakley in the Hottie McAwesome race, so for anyone that’s curious, this could prove interesting–a movie coming out weeks before the now-contested election that will be highly critical of her role in a wrongful murder conviction:
http://www.bostonherald.com/track/inside_track/view/20100929martha_coakley_under_fire_as_woman_of_conviction/srvc=home&position=6
i despise barney and dodd..they were the cause of the real estate mkt crash..may they rot away..so its one down(dodd) and one to go!
if barney loses his seat i will personally celebrate with champagne !
Today is the Feast of St. Michael the Archangel!
(they changed to calendar some time ago, made today the day for all the archangels, but I’m old school where Michael, Raphael, and Gabriel are concerned. They all get their own day as far as I’m concerned).
For the prayin’ folk, here’s a prayer we Catholics are fond of:
St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle;
be our defense against the wickedness and snares of the devil.
May God rebuke him, we humbly pray, and do thou,
O Prince of the heavenly host, by the power of God,
thrust into hell Satan and all the other evil spirits
who prowl about the world seeking the ruin of souls.
Amen.
I think this goes with the graphic above quite nicely.
On a side note, as someone who’s studied angelology for a good number of years, you might be interested to know that Michael was voted “Hottest Angel in Heaven” 3 Millenia in a row. . .(due to his esoteric associations with Elemental Fire. . .) ~_^
He.. Hottest Angel.
funny.
Thank you for reminding me of this day!
yes, I know. . . I’m a total dork . . .
Haha–perfect!
Thank you for this prayer. Today is my feast day!
The priest mentioned Psalm 138 as the psalm of the day as it mentions the primary functions of all 2 archangels.
And as long as I remember I’ve always known this day as MGR day. Of course the holidays were called Michaelmas holidays but the day it self was always called MGR day. But then I am not all that old, so may be I don’t really know.
all 3*
Argh!! Just when I thought I shouldn’t be troubling you guys!!
No, seriously, we’d love to have regular input from India.
We wish all the lurkers would come out of hiding. The world would be more interesting.
By “old school”, I mean like . . . Pre-Vatican I (I think) . . . I know the decision was made way before V2. Used to be that Michael was today, Raphael in October and Gabriel in March. Then they put ‘em all together, for some reason, and made this the day for all of them. But since Angels are totally my gig, I give them their own day.
For St. Michael’s Feast (and yours! hah!) I recommend a good, red beer, buffolo chicken wings, steak, a veggie high in iron, and a dessert featuring blackberries. If you’re not fond of beer, red wine will do. Suggested scents for the occaision are sandalwood, frankinsence, and anything spicy. Nag Champa is nice. Movies stressing heroism, courage, honor, and general butt-kicking are also appropriate. Grand, uplifting or Butt-kicking music like Holst’s Mars or certain themes by John Williams are good for the day as well
Yes, very much a dork. But me and His Hotness go way back, so this day is very special for me as well. Beers all around!
Hahahah. I loved his movie and can not think about him without wondering if he really smells like chocolate.
LOVE the adapted picture of our new, young leaders leading the charge to save America!!! THANK YOU! I am in awe of such talent!
I had the radio on in the car this morning while going to the store and heard a really great Johnson (against Feingold) ad:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uchKKe31-yc
He has a good tv one too:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbIUW0qFCNM&feature=channel
It’s great to FINALLY see some R’s using those healthcare votes against the D’s!!! I wish more of them did!
Awesome!
Indiana has Dan Coats running against Brad Ellsworth..(D- congressman.. and general pelosi suckup) Evan Bayhs old senate seat.
Coat’s is ahead like 21 points..
Here is one of Coats’ ads.. he is all positive and showing Ellsworth as a Pelosi sure vote. Just like Johnson is doing in Wisconsin. Its working.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_ZnGaUJvd0&feature=channel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7JcQKAu31I&feature=player_embedded
Actually.. here is the Coats ad I like the best…
Obama has a 39% approval rating here in Indiana. ; )
I’m in Indiana too, and I’m hoping we can vote Andre Carson out in 5 weeks. he’s one of the CBC members who lied about the spitting and the “n” word being shouted back during the race baiting walk through the crowd last spring.
Ugh.. Andre Carson…
Is there any chance he could be kicked out?
I am in Carmel.
My district is always totally red.
If you guys don’t read Ace of Spades every day, you should see how they’re persecuting Bristol yet again.
http://ace.mu.nu/archives/306263.php
The AP is delusional.
Even the name says Bar and GRILL.
The stupidity never ceases to amaze me….
I really hate reading the comments at Ace of Spades. SO many of them are misogynists, elitists and rabid atheists who mock anyone who is a Christian.
Frankly, I sometimes don’t see the difference between them and the Daily Kos Kids – except for whom they pull the lever. They both are arrogant.
I used to be very like them, NMG. What turned me around was the tolerance and good will of sincere Christians.
‘Turning the other cheek’ does work with most of these types, given time. Eventually, they realize that they’re being dicks, and this causes introspection leading to, if not a change of viewpoint, a change of attitude.
Thanks, that gives me hope!
They remind me of college kids. Obnoxious college kids. No thanks.
I have to agree… I find my self offended with some of the comments.
NM Gal, I honestly don’t see too many of the Ace people as elitists. And a lot of them are Christian. Ace kicked the worst of the atheists off the board a while ago because he dragged atheism into every post. Ace himself is an atheist but respectful towards religion.
What a difference the selection of campaign music make! Arnold chose Twisted Sister and won. McCain used stupid country music and LOST.
Millions of minorities were turned off by that “white” country music the idiotic McCain campaign used in 2008.
I know Saran will never be so stupid to use country music in her 2012 campaign!
It would probably be a smart campaign tactic to use different music depending on the target audience. I’m not a big fan of Twisted Sister, and heavy metal can turn a lot of folks off, but “We’re Not Gonna Take It” is sounding pretty good right now!
I know hard rock music is not liked by many folks. But “We are not gonna take it” is an anthem loved by most Americans.
Compare that with that idiotic redneck Hans Williams singing “Raining McCain”.
The McCain campaign has been the WORST and most Idiotic presidential campaign in US History.
Lol, I guess you weren’t around when Dukakis ran against Bush I.
Yeah, I heard Dukakkis was horrible LMAO! BUT Bush had REAGAN on his side. NEVER forget that!!
Metallica was my life …anyone who grew up in the grunge 90s Nirvana era would be aghast at your remark =)
McCain/Palin was on a roll with “Country First,” running against big government, corruption, and earmarks.
Then McCain shot himself in the foot when he decided to stop campaigning and go back to Washington and help put together the bailout, basically doing everything his campaign had been against.
At that point no music would have saved him. He might as well have switched to “Goodbye my friend.”
McCain was a boring, weak, non appealing candidate. Yet he was the best of all boring GOP 2008 candidates.
Stopping the campaign to go back to work was a great move. He showed leadership while Obama was already on the roll with minorities and with a unstoppable historic momemntum.
Plus, McCain’s debate performance didn’t help matters either. He. was. awful.
thats what mccain got for running a “clean” campaign..while the bambo crowd was using all the dirty tricks they could muster..need to fight fire with fire!
Nancy Pelosi is a Democrat.
Harry Reud is a Democrat.
Barack Obama is a Democrat.
[fill in the blank] is a Democrat.
Need I say more?
I told two campaigns yesterday I would not be voting for any Democrats. They were both kind of stunned, good.
A friendly note for Kevin and the guyz concerning the contributions on C4P:
C4P(Conservatives 4 Palin) is a bunch of former Romney “conservatives”. Yes, the same folks that in 2008 thought Romney was the only conservative running in the GOP primaries(hello Laura Ingraham??? LOL).
Kevin, I have read some of the response posts to your contribution in that blog. If you see some of them criticize your love for Hillary Clinton. You are giving them an advice and they think you are not good enough or worthy enough to give them “conservatives” advice.
I tell you guyz and girlz, most on C4P blog are conservatives in name only. They support Christine O’Donnell, a woman that had some experience with witchcraft during her teenage years, but slammed me when I posted that Sarah’s rise to political power looks like being predicted in prophecy.
Hell, who have not played with Ouija board? It is bad to check prophecies?
They called me names. C4P is controlled by elitists who think they are more intellectuals and versed in politics and “polls” than anybody else. They hide behind crazy names like “techno” and “conservative mamma” and pretend to be Palin supporters but would jump to Romney , Gulliani or Gingrich at any given opportunity.
Because I’m “passionate” for Sarah Palin’s prospects to be our 45th president in 2013 I was called names and asked not to post anymore there.
They don’t want passion, they want “polls” and reach out to Romney Republicans because of the Reagan “11TH commandment”. If you say you are “Palin or nothing” kind of person they tell you to leave.
I still read C4P but I’m convinced they are just moderate Republicans and Conservatives in name
I’ve been reading C4P for a while, and I don’t get that at all.
Me either. They are harder on Mittens than any other group I’ve seen.
They do seem to be a pretty insular group, however. They have a healthy suspicion of newcomers and I think that is what is being reflected in some of the comments to some of KD’s posts.
Maybe so, but the way they talk about this flip flopper Romney and calling him with the soft cute name of “Mittens” is a sign that they have this man in “reserve” status just in case.
I mean, C4P is a group that does not accepts anything that goes beyond their “conservative” beliefs.
If I say I have my concerns about Obama’s qualifications to be president(citizenship issue) they call me names.
If I call Obama a “Kenyan” they call me names.
If I call Romney a closet abortionist and the worse thing in the GOP they call me names.
They like folks that are well “versed”
and who like to reach out and love to be friend with everybody.
Reagan’s 11th commandments does not says you can’t attack fellow Republican’s weak stances.
I strongly disagree with all of your assertions. I have been warmly welcomed over at C4P– in fact, I only started really reading and responding over there b/c of K. If you had conflict/issues with the long time commenters at C4P, I’m pretty confident it was for reasons other than you claim in this post.
Maybe so YT, maybe so. By the way some posters there are treating Kavin’s post I would not take anything off the table, including a Conservatives 4 Romney thingy lol
When did calling him “Mittens” mean that you are soft on him? I have called him Mittens for a long time. I think it is a slang term for him and is sort of disrespectful, as I mean it to be.
We use Mittens to make fun of Romney.
It emasculates and infantilizes him.
No way a man is going to win the nomination if his name is Mittens (or Willard for that matter) when the current president is also fey and wimpy.
Mittens is a term of derision not endearment.
Unlike most of you I rarely visited c4p until recently. Actually, I just visited to read Kevins articles beginning with his introduction.
That said, in this short time (perhaps 5 total visits) and the fact that until today I never read the comments. I can see Carmelos point based on today alone.
What appears to be a full blown frontal assault on Kevin and Hillbuzz.
Yikes !!
http://js-kit.com/api/static/pop_comments?ref=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservatives4palin.com%2F2010%2F09%2Fconservatives-need-to-stop-holding.html&title=Conservatives4Palin.com%3A%20Conservatives%20need%20to%20stop%20holding%20elitist%20events%3A%20no%20more%20private%20clubs%20needs%20to%20be%20the%20motto&path=%2F5717964733635118349&standalone=no&scoring=yes&backwards=no&sort=date&thread=yes&permalink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservatives4palin.com%2F2010%2F09%2Fconservatives-need-to-stop-holding.html&skin=echo&smiles=no&editable=no&thread-title=Echo&popup-title=Echo&page-title=Conservatives4Palin.com%3A%20Conservatives%20need%20to%20stop%20holding%20elitist%20events%3A%20no%20more%20private%20clubs%20needs%20to%20be%20the%20motto
What’s funny is this is the EXACT thing that K. tried to prevent when he wrote his first post at C4P and said “this is not about Hillary Clinton, this is about the lessons you can learn from the mistakes that she made”.
K. knew that the hatred for HRC is so strong in some of these people that they just can’t get by that and won’t listen to what can be learned from HRC’s loss to prevent the same thing from happening to the Governor.
There’s a very bad attitude in people who fold their arms, but a big frown on their faces, and say “We don’t need to learn anything from her mistakes. We know better. Shut up. We hate her and you”.
Okay. That’s very foolish.
It’s like if you are going on a trip down a dangerous river. Someone is walking towards you holding a boat with a big hole in it and all sorts of claw marks and gashes all over the place. Since they were just where you are headed, you should ask them “What the Hell happened to you and how can I avoid this happening to me”.
The trolls on that board want to just get into the water without trying to figure out ahead of time what they will face.
It’s really, really strange.
Ten years ago if you had told me I would participate on a blog by Hillary supporters and love them I would have laughed my head off…and called you nuts.
We have to find a way to come together. The problems we have in this country are not going to be solved divided into hate groups. It’s going to take ALL of us coming together and seeing common ground and compromise. The far-left started all this hate mess and its going to take the people in the middle of left and right to fix it.
I’m with you, Bev. If you had told me that I would be a buzzer, I would have told you that you were nuts. I would have told you that there is “no way” I would
1. Be a blogger
2. Be a blogger on a gay website
I think this is, perhaps, one of the Boyz’ greatest achievements – bringing so many people from so many walks of life together and have them comment in a civilized manner.
Thank you Hillbuzz & buzzers.
Sundance–
I check that site pretty regularly, but rarely read the comments. I have been following the comment thread on KD’s article today and agree with your assessment. Yikes, indeed. But, I still don’t see the C4P/Romney connection to which Carmelo alluded.
AFinch, you are 100%. I did’nt mean to confirm the c4p/Romney thing. I hav’nt visited there enough to even have an opinion. I was only intending to comment on my visit today. That brief snapshot I certainly did not enjoy.
I used to read comments on unmonitored sites that seemed by their articles to be conservative. Then I stopped, because most comments on those sites are ignorant, disgusting and depressing – perhaps deliberately so, to drive the wedge. My take is that the people operating those sites are legitimately conservative, if naïve or misguided; and I certainly enjoy their talented writers; however, the majority of the unmonitored commenters are crapulous liberal/Marxist/Islamophiliac pond scum. The consequence is a complete disconnect between management and barking moonbats. Why that is permitted makes no sense to me.
I think maybe that Carmelo Junior had gotten caught up in that dissonance, and was treated badly when he argued against it.
Carmello get with the facts about the witchcraft. It could hardly be called dabbling, and it was not serious stuff.
Here’s Sean Bielat, Barney Frank’s opponent on the local Fox affiliate. Barney was invited repeatedly to debate his opponent and refused to show, so they did an interview/one-man debate with Sean alone.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jng6iFFjXYs&feature=player_embedded
Then Barney brought in Bubba to fundraise for him, so there are rumors that Barney’s “scared.” This is like waving a red flag at a bull. Barney now says his opponent has “delusions of grandeur” if he thinks he’s afraid to debate him–this from the guy who told a town hall voter that talking to her was like “talking to a dining room table.”
I stand up for DeMint and Miller and O’Donnell and Rubio! And anyone who has an R by their name who does not, will get the working end of a baseball bat in my voting booth.
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I come here today with a heavy heart. Does anyone here agree with what is about to happen on Oct 2nd in DC, or support the organizations that are participtaing in this rally? I know I do not. Please help me to understand what ‘progressives’ stand for if it is not for this.
I watched Glenn Beck’s last show and as hard as I have worked to stop the fundamental transformation of our once great nation into something that does not resemble a republic, I can not believe what is about to happen this weekend. I checked it out for myself and what Beck says is true. Absolutely. True. The 10/20/2010 gathering is being put on by a coalition that includes groups hell bent on taking down our country and replacing capitalism with socialism/social justice/marxism/communism. Beck put on a black board the groups that are particiipating. Along with the usual suspects of big unions and like minded groups are Marxist and Communist organizations. Beck said he would post the info on several of the websites as requested. One of the participatant groups is the YCL which is the Young Communist League. I went to their website. Here is what is posted for public consumption:
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When Glenn Beck turned out an estimated 87,000 (white) people to his “I have a nightmare” hate-a-palooza on the anniversary of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King’s historic “I have a dream” speech he should have known that the masses would not allow it to go unanswered. That same day the One Nation Working Together rally was announced.
One Nation Working Together is a coalition of hundreds of progressive organizations including labor unions and peace and justice organizations from around the country most notably including the AFL-CIO and the NAACP who have put millions of dollars into providing transportation and assistance to get the word out.
The One Nation website states it’s goals for the event “We march for a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. We march for jobs, justice, and education. We march for an economy that works for all. We march for a nation in which each person who wants to work can find a job that pays enough to support a family.
We march to create a million new jobs right away, because the national values that got us out of the Great Depression will get us out of the Great Recession.
We march to build a world-class public education system, from pre-school to community college and beyond – because our nation must start unleashing the greatness of every child today.
We march to end racial profiling and re-segregation– from Arizona to Atlanta. We march to defend the Voting Rights Act and the 14th Amendment. We march to advance human rights, civil rights, equal protection, and dignity for all.
We march to fix the broken immigration system – because no child should live in fear that her parents will be deported.
We march to ensure every worker has a voice at work. We march for green jobs and safe workplaces, so no worker will have to choose between her livelihood and her life.
We march for a clean environment, so no child is ever forced to decide between drinking the water or breathing the air and staying healthy.
We march to move our nation beyond this moment when a handful of Senators can block urgently needed progress – skewing our national budget towards tax cuts for the wealthy, unjustified military spending and prisons.
We march for peace abroad and job creation at home. We march for energy independence, public safety, and public transportation because the nation we want to build most is our own.”
The Young Communist League will also be in full force with comrades traveling from the four corners of our country in solidarity.
For more info on the event and how you can participate…
see: One Nation Working Together
I am sending our FL rain up the east coast for the the event. It may look like a communist woodstock (snark).
If you listen to Rush a woman called in saying her sister a teacher said the NEA (taxpayer dollars) is paying for two people to attend.
Yes, SusFL, I talked with my daughter today. My grandson has a huge number of teachers on all sides of his family going back for generations. My daughter is out of town, but stated that the NEA has provided thousands+ to pay for people to attend.
How could any sane person ever justify aligning with socialists/marxists/communists for a goal; any goal?
Send the rain, the lightning, and the HELL to the rally!!!!!!
Seems like the NEA involved in this (tax payer $$) should be something that Glenn Beck would like to have to and connect the dots.
I almost became a teacher (late 70′s) but, did not like it once I did an internship (disrespectful students even then) but, did stay in education so I know how liberal they can be about “social justice” so bad to ruin good minds. There is a new college building (private college) here that has a sign “Dept. of Education and Social Justice” so there you go..
Rain and lighting on it’s way from FL!
Terrific of you to send the rain – LOTS of it from what I am hearing. Communist Woodstock!! Hahahah. I thought the trash left behind would be horrific, but I can imagine what many thousands of feet tramping on that grass will do to it. And then there’s the garbage thing. I think it was BOR who said he was sending undercover reporters down there to film the drug buys!! Hahahah. What a mess. What I think we should all do, as those “school” buses are filmed dropping these people off is to find out who authorized them. They don’t belong to the teachers or the unions. They belong to those who paid for them. Us. So we have every right to be notified when they are being used for any reason other than transporting STUDENTS.
Heh. Even a recently deceased patriot is helping the cause:
“The family respectfully asked in lieu of flowers that memorial contributions be made to the American Cancer Society or to the campaign of whoever is running against President Barack Obama in 2012.”
http://obits.dignitymemorial.com/dignity-memorial/obituary.aspx?n=Donald-Unsworth&lc=4768&mid=4371599
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Seconded! America is not only a place, it’s a state of mind. We have regular commenters from Canada, Australia, New Zealand…everywhere!
All freedom-loving people are welcome on HB, no matter where they hail from. Stick around, Shalini!
Maybe I’m being petty, or whatever, but there is a phrase getting “liked” on Facebook that says “I’d rather get a root canal than listen to Sarah Palin give a speech”.
Is there some phrase we could put on facebook for people to like that is funny and shows our support for Sarah?
That is one of the times that I wish for a “Don’t Like” button.
How about “And I’d be happy to give you one!”
Yah, I got one too – I’m thinking, I’d prefer to go to jail THAN….
The arrogance of the Mass Dem leadership on display can only help the new crew of Republicans running. Our state Senate president just called the “tea bag movement” a bunch of “nutcases.”
http://bostonherald.com/news/politics/view.bg?articleid=1284811&format=comments#CommentsArea
They totally don’t get how they are alienating people. And in doing so, they are energizing people to go out and vote against them in November (and beyond)!
Your comments are heart warming.
You may be interested to read about one of your countrymen who has become a thinker and author of books on conservative values in America.
Dinesh D’sousa “What’s so great about America”.
See review at http://pnclaw.wordpress.com
Please do continue to comment! I think it’s interesting to hear the POVs of other folks from different nations.
And I appreciate your support for our nation – we love you too!
AGREE!!
I really enjoyed reading your post. I hope to see more comments from you in the future! No need to stay a lurker!
Everything I was thinking has already been said. All I can say is “DITTO”!
nice to meet someone who is concerned about America..do stay!
It was heart warming to read this post, thank you for your kind words.
Note to hillbuzz–there’s a millbank story in the WP today, not anything breaking much, not worth the read except that we can expect Valerie Jarrett to have a lot more power once Axelrod and Rahm are out of the WH.
Might be a good time for you to gather together all the stuff you might have on VJ, because she will be one of the hands inside our First Sock Puppet.
Good to make your acquaintance, and hope that you’ll join the conversations here in future!
Please continue comments. I have lots of Indian patients and they are delightful people.
Why don’t you just do the Indian flag as a Gravatar, to start. You can always change it later!
Welcome and comment again.
Received an email this morning with pictures of Muslim men praying in the street in NYC. Doubled checked at scopes.com and found that the email erroneously states that this happens every Friday.
But it is true that the gathering does take place in an annual Muslim parade, the recent one on Oct 26.
See: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzIMFRy449A&feature=related
(wish I know how to embed it, prayer scene is at 11:00)
Just a few days ago, the Pakistan ambassador(?) said in his defense of the GZM Imam that we should not fear anything about Sharia law in US because Muslims are only 2 percent of population in our country.
The small portion of this 2% is a powerful sight.
Sorry don’t know how to load up these pix. Chrissy, can you help? Thanks.
Go to link to see full info.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/religion/changingface.asp
Excerpt of Email:
This is in New York City on Madison Avenue, not in France or the Middle East or Yemen or Kenya.
Is there a message here? Yes, there is, and they are claiming America for Allah.
If we don’t wake up soon, we are going to “politically correct” ourselves right out of our own Country!
A Christian Nation cannot put up a Christmas scene of the baby Jesus in a public place, but the Muslims can stop normal traffic by worshiping in the streets… Something is happening in America that is reminiscent of what is happening in Europe. This is Political Correctness gone crazy…
Pamela Geller has the pics up at her site “Atlas Shrugs” also. Not only is the entire street blocked off for the prayers, they also have installed porcelain “foot baths” on the sidewalks! Dumb dhimmies!!!
Dukakis shared his strategy for midterm elections at the White House
http://www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalintelligence/2010/09/dukakis_shared.html
Blame Bush, they inherited this bad economy, etc.
And at the end of their meeting, Barky told Mike…’tanks alot!’
Honest…how bad is it when you seek out the counsel of Michael Dukakis??
Dukakis giving election advice is like Ray Charles recommending an optometrist.
What a terrible, terrible candidate he was.
Probably the worst in our lifetime here.
The only thing good was Lloyd Bentson…which gave us that great debate moment against Quayle. It was so perfectly phrased and memorable. Like the zingers Reagan used to have in his debates.
Or the great ones Governor Palin got off in her matchup with Biden.
We really, really love great debates when people with real wit and zest are hitting it on all cylinders.
Welcome!
I know you stated you couldn’t find anything that “spoke” to you for a gravatar, but, hey…grab a Gravatar and join the party !
Loved the post. Hey, how about a gravatar of the Taj Mahal? Then we will all IMMEDIATELY recognize you! That would be cool!
dittos!!!
Thats a good idea!
For those of you interested in education, here’s a succinct article on how Barky’s BFF, William Ayers, helped screw up two generations of kids and the teachers who teach them. Why this S.O.B. hasn’t been in jail for 40 years … oh yeah, that’s right, the “government blew the case.”
http://jewishworldreview.com/0910/hicks.php3
For those HBers who follow Bill Whittle on PJTV, I wanted to share his latest FB post. He has left PJTV amicably, to pursue other interests. I’m psyched because he’s going to be on Red Eye…he’ll be great. Oh, and he’s a big Sarah Palin fan, and was one of the biggest voices on PJTV in defense of her (he and Zo).
Anyway, here it is…
“By now many of you may have heard that I have left PJTV under the most amicable and affectionate of terms. I will be devoting full-time to the citizen producers at DeclarationEnterainment.com, who deserve noting less for their hard-earned money.
BUT!!! For those of you who feel you’ll be seeing less of me… … on the contrary. I’m going to continue to do weekly “Afterburner” type content (called “the FireWall”) as well a four other, totally unique kinds of material. There will be a new website, two new books coming, and much more.
From now on, ALL of my content will be hosted on YouTube — no more subscriptions, registration or commercials: just easy to share, embeddable content. I couldn’t be more excited.
Also, on Thursday night I will be on Fox doing Red Eye — my first national TV appearance — and from now on all of my free web editorial content will have a post-segment commercial for declarationentertainment.com.
We’re going to be just fine. I am so excited I am VIBRATING. New Firewall on Tuesday, and much more before then.
It’s going to be great. Thanks for the support. There’s no way ‘d leave the fight, especially now that we are going to whip them out of their boots!”
Oh my! I am shocked at this news. Whittle’s Afterburner is the best video blog, period. And, I will miss him so on Trifecta. Bill is destined for much larger positions, but, gosh darn, to have to add yet another *favorite* is going to be hard.
Thanks for the update. Bill Whittle is great.
Thanks for that. I’m going to check YouTube now.
Bill is one of my very favorites.
Here is the start of Firewall.
Logo only:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJh1qi37Z5o
Uh. If you want to find it try searching YouTube for “Firewall Black Bill Whittle”
Ok. Here is a subscription link:
http://www.classicalvalues.com/archives/2010/10/bill_whittle_ha.html
Is the Uptown Daily Worker going soft?
A big article in the magazine about Glenn Beck (I haven’t read it all yet so I don’t know if it’s a pat or a pan), and now this:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/30/nyregion/30buffalo.html?hpw
Bazooka bubble gum?
For what its worth: just got back from Ireland, had interesting conversations with cab drivers. One of them was really complaining about how expensive everthing got after Ireland joined the EU and the currency went to Euros. He also didn’t like the huge influx of foreign nationals (his words). Too many, too fast, changing their culture. He also said the original vote was against joining the EU, but then there was a recount and suddenly the vote changed!! Surprise, surprise!! The left elitists are at it everywhere. They too have had a huge housing bust and have high unemployment.
Another huge source of contention while we were there was the budget for national health care. Big cuts are being proposed and people are up in arms.
If there are any Irish lurkers out there, I’d love any reply you would care to give.
Dear Shalini,
Your heart is like ours, so you are one of us no matter where you reside. If you ever decide to move to the USA, you will be a welcome addition!
Here in the USA, most of us have ancestors who came from other countries. My own came (some before the revolution, and some before the Civil War) from the British Isles (Scotland and Wales) and from Germany. They all sought opportunity and, in some cases, fled poverty and oppression.
I have enjoyed reading your posts today…please…as others have said, don’t lurk…POST!!! Love the international perspective!
hear that the union will be fighting to get jobs back for the guys who were caught drinking on their lunch hour..they were fired when pics were shown of them drinking and smoking pot..did it ever occur to us that they are making something that can be life threatening?
Good Lord…alas and alack! Where will they ever be able to find 13 sober Americans to fill these vacancies? And you wonder why your car is a piece of crap……
Safety. People’s kids will be riding in those cars!
I was going to mention Dinesh D’sousa but PL already did. If you know anything about anti-colonialists it may help us quite a bit in understanding Obama’s long term goals for destroying this country.
Also, some of my best buds at work are Indian…I love learning about your culture (and food!). And they generally have a pretty good sense of humor. So welcome!!!
Just finished watching Glenn Beck at FNC. Highly recommend you to watch the repeat tonight or on computer. He had Dinesh D’souza on re “Obama’s Rage” The author’s explanations make sense. Part II will be on tomorrow.
I watched it too and it was a great show. We don’t get a second showing here on the left coast ’til llpm., however, FNC gives us two hours of O’Reilly, and two hours of Greta at prime time. Go figure…..
Don’t know how long the video will stay up, but:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIT583LT5G8
Looks like my previous link only had part 1. To see parts 2 and 3, try watching at the following:
http://www.watchglennbeck.com/
Shalini…
You say you have never visited the U.S., well I have have nevr been to India…so we start off as equals! Please continue to be a regular commenter as it’s important for us to read the opinions and thoughts of others in the world. Our “Obama Loving” media pretty much just tells us the rest of the world hates us.
Shalini — I add my “welcome” to this list.
Ad rem — I LOVE your avatar. It makes me laugh everytime I see it.
Aw….when you say “love”, do you mean that in the “lip-smacking” way?
I’ve always had a thing for german shepherds too..
Please say a prayer for young Tyler Clementi. The story’s up top of Drudge right now. Made me think of some of the articles and feelings expressed by the Boyz. *Sniff*
The big deal in my company today has been the potential fallout from India’s own GZM dispute. I’d never heard of it before. The Ayodhya Debate. Who even knew it was even going on? No prizes for guessing why it hasn’t been mentioned by the LSM. We have a lot of offshore connections in my company and many of them are going to shut up shop tomorrow afternoon and maybe the day after depending on the outcome of a juducial ruling that has taken 17 years to come to a verdict. Yes, since 1992. If previous experience is anything to go by there will be riots with potential loss of life involved. It is a very sensitive subject. In 1538 a mosque was built on the (alleged) site of a sacred Hindu temple. Sound familiar anyone? Lots of going back and forth over the years in between and even more activity since the late 80′s when the Hindu Nationalist Party called for the site to be restored to it’s original temple. You can imagine the fallout. The results of the judicial enquiry were handed over in June of last year but were not made public. Whichever way it goes could be ugly. India is 80+% Hindu and 13+% Muslim plus sundry other religions, including Christianity next on the list at less than 3% (2001 numbers according to Wikipedia). At over a billion plus religious population, that’s still a lot of people.
Do you have links to more info on this?
This is fascinating.
First we’re hearing of it.
I had posted the Asia Times article yesterday with my snark about Mooch and Teh Won’s visit to India. The court was asked to delay the ruling because of the anticipated violence from which ever side doesn’t win, and India doesn’t want to deal with it (a) during the Commonwealth games and (b) during Barky’s November state visit. Whichever way it goes, it won’t be pretty.
I found some info on articles I got from Google just looking for the ‘Ayodhya Debate’. Wikipedia had several write ups related to it. There was also a recent article from the Hindustan Times. Thanks Shilani for correcting me. There were a lot of dates! I was just fascinated by something that had such a big impact on India and I had never heard of it before. There was an article in the UK Telegraph yesterday and an update today. The ruling has stated that the land be divided between the three litigants. I didn’t realize there were three. So far I haven’t seen any reports on bad reactions. Nothing can be done for the next 3 weeks. As Shilani says, there is likely to be an appeal. The Hindu’s were given the land where they put their idol of Ram in the 1940′s and the ruling stated that cannot be removed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayodhya_debate
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/india/8035192/Muslims-and-Hindus-told-to-share-disputed-holy-site.html
Sorry Shalini. Got my letters mixed up!
What is weird is I was just thinking about India earlier today when watching that guy on Glenn Beck. We always talk about Israel being our only friend in the mideast, but what about India? Or is that TOO far east and they aren’t really considered the middle east any more?
In any case, that is another country that IMO we don’t work with enough on world relations.
I dunno…just something I was thinking about and then read the post by our new lurker and now this! Interesting.
I think India would be considered East wouldn’t it?
I do know that they are trying desperately to takeover the medical transcription business which distresses me greatly because I worked my entire life to do this job from home and will be irate if it goes overseas. So far the bad quality has hampered its success. They just don’t do good quality work. Who knows if Obamacare makes the costs go so high they will compromise quality and pay somebody in India 1 cent a line versus my 14 cents and throw quality out the window.
So far it hasn’t worked so I’m keeping my fingers crossed. My company says no…for now.
If capitalism works the way it’s supposed to (without gov’t interference with profits and such), YOU SHOULD be able to get paid for YOUR good quality work without worrying about businesses going overseas.
Capitalism helps the workers too…think about it…the better you are at your job, the more companies will be fighting to get you to work for them…including offering better benefits and salary.
This is how it would work if the gov’t didn’t impose all kinds of taxes and regulation about who they can hire, how much they pay in taxes and all the bureaucratic nonsense we have to jump through.
I work from home three days a week, so I know how important it is to keep a job a like that!
South East Asia is the phrase used to describe the region stretching from India to Taiwan.
My husband has seen the same problem with software. The problem is that a lot of companies don’t think ahead far enough. They’re only concentrating on how much they can save today. But I still believe that capitalism can work. The poorly run companies will eventually go under, leaving the companies that are run properly.
Bev, I didn’t know about India trying to take over the medical transcription field. Though I am not entirely surprised.
And I am not surprised about the bad quality of work either. I was a software professional and sometimes the products which are produced are cringe worthy. Then a select few of us will sit to work on the quality because the clients have every single reason to be displeased with us. I remember there was another team in my ODC which came up with a poor quality product and the entire project was scrapped. It did cost our company a lot financially and in terms of pride and heads were rolling. That’s the beauty of capitalism really. It leads to competition which always results in better quality.
Sometimes our companies just put some random name to get billed irrespective of person’s skills. I feel so strongly about this despite being an Indian because I was a victim of this shoddy behaviour. I belonged to that group of people who really was qualified for that job and because someone they billed weren’t up to the mark and came up with below par quality products, we guys were made to work to fix the problem. I am not kidding. I worked 17 to 18 hours a day, 7 days a week. For months without an end with no break, no family time and basically no life at all. Oh the travel time to work would take up 2 hours, so that meant 4 hours of sleep. I couldn’t even the choose the food I wanted to eat.
This is a huge problem for us. Suicide rates among s/w professionals are on the high and the divorce rates increased as well.
The average Indian just wants to work hard and just basically save for their family. But the truth does hurt sometimes. There are 2 sides to the situation, really.
Oh, I was about to mention this here t’day. The verdict will be out in a couple of hours and the whole nation is waiting with bated breath. Whichever way the verdict goes, there’s no win situation here. Of course, they will appeal against the ruling in the Supreme court which might take longer. But I honestly don’t think the court’s ruling would please anyone.
Trad, though most of what you said is right, the case has been going on from 1949 actually. The mosque was demolished by Hindu karsevaks in 1992. That’s when the issue came to limelight. Riots resulted and thousands of people have been killed on both sides. I was a small child when it happened and I remember watching it on TV. It was so scary. The dispute isn’t as simple as whether a mosque should be there or not. Hindu’s claim there was a temple there before Babar destroyed it in 1538. It’s pretty sacred for Hindus because it’s the birth place of Ram, one of Vishnu’s incarnations. In 1949, a few Hindu idols were found in the mosque. The topic of debate is whether there really was a temple before the mosque and whether the idols have been there for centuries or whether they had been placed there in 1949. Also note at the time of the demolition of the mosque, it was defunct.
I really don’t know whether riots are going to break out but the country’s on high alert. I don’t think the government is as worried about Obama’s visit as it is about the CWG. We have a lot foreign athletes here now in India.
I am hoping and praying this doesn’t break out like it did in 1992. One thing is that, Hindus in other Muslim countries will also be targeted over this. Guys please for us!!
*Please pray for us.
Did anyone else catch Frank Luntz talking about the “Princess Lisa” ad on FoxNews today? Wow. He basically said it was one of, if not the best negative ad he’d ever seen. And it’s basically more for radio than video.
I haven’t found a clip of him on FNC but here’s a link to the ad itself on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUsNAEIBoQ8
HAHAA That is really good!
Ain’t it though? I actually only had FNC on in the background when Luntz came on this morning talking about it and The Voice was what caught my attention, which is exactly what he says sells the ad. He said people were leaving the focus group, laughing and mimicking it with “Mine, it’s mine.”
Now, that’s advertising pay dirt.
It will change some minds about her for sure.
That. is. excellent!
The patronizing tone of the woman voiceover is perfect.
Also, Princess Lisa’s voice sounds exactly how I imagine Princess Caroline of Kennedy sounds!
I WANTS IT! I WANTS IT! I WANTS IT!
LOL!!!
I’d have to believe they got the idea from HillBuzz. Otherwise it’s just too coincidental!
Shalini, welcome and thank you for posting. It’s all been said, but I agree with everyone who has urged you to stay and contribute.
You should feel welcome to comment as much as you want! It’s great having someone from overseas giving a fresh perspective.
And don’t you worry about this country! We’ve taken it back and Obama is going to find out what “Discovering America” is all about.
Thank you for delurking! Do feel free to comment. It’s always good to hear what people in other countries are thinking about our politics. After all, what we do here has a big impact on our relationship with your country.
Obama makes John Kerry looks like Reagan
Speaking of conspiracy theories, with the amount of crazy things that Grayson’s campaign has put out and how badly it’s affected his poll numbers, I sort of wonder if his campaign staff is really working undercover for the Republican party. I mean if you were going to go into a Democrat campaign and suggest they do all these crazy ads and make all these outlandish claims about your opponent, what kind of Democratic candidate do you think would go right along with you on that? Grayson is pretty much the only one I can think of that would think that was a good idea.
I would LOVE it if we found out after the election that he hired folks that were truly working against him. Talk about karma!
Please chime in and mention your sisters opinions about the watermelon party
. I would love to see you make more comments.
Glad to have you here! Please chime in when you want to. It is nice to get a different perspective on America.
Awww…
What a nice thing to write!!
Dont lurk.. comment!
: )
Wow!!! I am… touched!! But of course, it’s not as if I expected anything less from you guys!!
PL and G8rMom7,
Yes, I’ve heard Dinesh D’Souza’s debates because I am passionate about apologetics! I will look into the link you’ve sent.
hxbuff and palinpatriot,
Thank you for the gravatar suggestions. I think I’ll go with the Indian flag for now. Though I do understand that the Taj Mahal is easily recognizable, but the fact it is a mausoleum is kind of a turn off for me. But I really appreciate the suggestions.:)
Thank you so much for all of your kind words. I am thrilled to join the party. Heh! May be I can tell you all about Obama’s November visit when that happens.
We look forward to your November report!
LOVE, love, love your avatar!! So glad you decided to stick around!
Aye. Aye. Captain.
I will make it so.
Here is a photoshop some one did for me in 2008. The Goddess of Democracy. With glasses.
http://i155.photobucket.com/albums/s307/MSimon6808/columbia-glasses.jpg
Feel free to use it. Or just gaze in awe.
I’m looking for some links for y’all and while looking I found this. Amusing.
Bin Laden
Any one ever see those two together?
Another oldie:
The PUMA movement:
We are the ones no one was expecting.
Some one on another thread was talking about Palin going to a Division St. bar vice Newt going to the Playboy Club or something.
In 2008 Palin went to my nominal (5 to 18) home town. Omaha.
http://powerandcontrol.blogspot.com/2008/10/omaha.html
BTW I also like Gary Johnson. In fact it is a tossup between the two for me. Now.
Found it!
This is my original post of Liberty With Glasses and it has a credit for the photoshop guy. I can put you in touch with him if he has the same e-mail.
http://powerandcontrol.blogspot.com/2008/09/goddess-of-liberty-with-glasses.html
Drudge is reporting that Sarah and a close woman friend have been granted a protective ordera from a nutjob in PA, after constant communcations and death threats since early 2009.
This guy is nuts, as in NUTS.
http://www.frontiersman.com/articles/2010/09/30/breaking_news/doc4ca235e0bf331043209185.txt
The comments are heavily pro-Palin, but the exceptions are deranged.
i love love love that picture of sarah