America Held Hostage- the Obama Files...

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America Held Hostage- the Obama Files...

With a hattip to Rush ( His idea during the Clinton plague upon America ) I am starting a file on “The One,” mostly starting from the election date.

Older stuff- links, quotes, quips, and sometimes pointed graphics can be found by scrolling back from these two posts:

-Hillary Clinton- archives, comments, and opposition research--

-Sarah Palin- links, from the beginning--

There is some good material in those posts that raises a lot of uncomfortable questions that everyone ought to be asking, and probably will once the “new” wears off, and we are stuck with four ( more likely eight, since 95% of the news & entertainment media are in his pocket ) years of a typical corrupt Chicago Political Machine Politician trying to jerk the whole country in one direction and then the next.

You've all heard the saying,

”People get the kind of government they want...
...and deserve?”

Well, America, you are about to “get it, good & hard...”

Don't say you weren't warned- we tried to tell you...

We did everything we could, and our state went for the Old Guy & the Naughty Librarian, but too many other voters were made stupid by the TV and public schools for it to matter.

We're in a Hell of a mess, and the worst thing is, "we"- the collective we, not you & I-- got us here.

Is Obama really the Abyss...

staring back at us?

I like to make points with humorous graphics- this one sums it up as well as any:

 

Then, in a nutshell, "everything I see going bad with all this hopi- changi- stuff The One is peddling-- forced labor, censorship, spin, and pure mean-spirited rudness:

Email of the day

Atlas readers rock! I am blown away by the overwhelming response to this post  (and this one) to get involved to take back our country from the Soros, socialists, and the self proclaimed messiah - oy. More than one email brought a tear to my eye but I wanted to share this one with you.

If this best represents who we are, what we want and where we are going, there is no way we can lose. Greatness is in the house. I am proud to count you as my friends. Prouder still to stand with you and fight this great fight.

I want to lead a county.

I was born in Cuba, and know the language of Communism, Obama speaks it well.  My grandfather's family had to flee Lebanon because of the Muslims to Cuba. We fled Cuba because of Castro.

This is the best country in the whole wide world.  I was a child when I left Cuba with the clothe on my back, we left my parent's sister and I, left behind everything. 

America is Worth fighting for and Freedom is worth defending.  I do not want my children to grow up in oppression, nor do I wish exile upon them.

Please allow me to help, again, Id like to lead a county.

My name is Ingrid and Im in Miami, in Miami Dade County

May the Light always shine upon America,

Ingrid

UPDATE: In case there was any doubt as to what the victorious zombies have in mind. Check out this comment (left in the comment section) . Can you say rude awakening?

You people are pathetic!

Your racist fear mongering will not go unchallenged!  Soon we will shut down your hate spewing web sites.  We will confiscate your firearms.  In prison, you will get an education on the error of your ways.  We will take your children and raise them as our own and instill in them the values of social justice.  We will have a new American Republic of justice and order for all!

You time is almost up!  Prepare for the dung heap of history!

It sounds insane (which it is) but I believe the writer is quite serious.

Posted by Pamela Geller on Friday, November 07, 2008 at 01:20 PM in THE NEW CONSERVATIVE: TAKING BACK THE GOP | Permalink | Comments (21)

"We will confiscate your firearms. In prison, you will get an education on the error of your ways. We will take your children and raise them as our own and instill in them the values of social justice".....

Heh heh heh....I am sure you are serious, but that is funny!

Values of social justice....like Mao? Stalin? Lenin? Ho-chi Min? Pol Pot? Which of these butchers of social justice did you have in mind?"

170,000,000
That's the number of civilians that have been murdered by their own governments in the 20th century alone.

Innocents Betrayed is a must see video produced by Jews for the Preservation of Firearms (scroll down to see links to view the Introduction to Innocents Betrayed)

Now consider Obama's 'civilian defense force' which he intends to fund and equip as well as our standing military coupled with his promise to revisit the second amendment (repeal concealed carry privilege) and then compound this injury with Ayers' inspired youth corps.

Learn from the Slicksters

CHANGE.GOV OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT ELECT (hat tip rut)

Obamessiah has a new site up as President-elect soliciting ideas form the proletariat.
Let's hope it doesn't become the hub for the hate whitey and Jew boy Obamavomit that his last site was.

Surf the site. Take note. Keep your eye on the The Obama National Service Plan- the page is empty (how apropos) but that piques my interest.

Posted by Pamela Geller on Thursday, November 06, 2008 at 07:23 PM in President Hussein | Permalink | Comments (5)

FREEDOM! Mandatory "community service."

President Obama To Bring Back Slavery

November 6th, 2008

Just in case anyone think Mr. Obama is not serious about this, bear in mind that his new Chief of Staff wrote a book demanding this very thing:

Amazon.com: The Plan: Big Ideas for America: Rahm Emanuel, Bruce Reed: Books
http://www.amazon.com/Plan-Big.....038;sr=1-1

Don’t forget they want a Gestapo/KKK civilian force the size of the pentagon to keep everybody inline and things running smoothly.

“Suddenly, all mention of “required” has been disappeared. ”

SOME THOUGHTS ON OBAMA'S mandatory volunteerism plan. Plus, reader Nancy Anne Potts writes:

Looks like the change.gov site is true to it's title - it changes!

During the time when I was looking at the blog you linked to concerned mandatory community service the change.gov page saying "require community service" changed to goal for community service. The new wording is:

"..... Obama will call on citizens of all ages to serve America, by setting a goal that all middle school and high school students do 50 hours of community service a year and by developing a plan so that all college students who conduct 100 hours of community service receive a universal and fully refundable tax credit ensuring that the first $4,000 of their college education is completely free."

I found the the cached page on Google it has the original "required" wording.

Looks like they caught their "mistake". Now will the real plan please step forward -- goal or required. (Although the way government sets goals, they often wind up looking like requirements so maybe the two aren't all that different.)

Ugh! I see card check made the economy page too. He may be the president elect but I don't have to like his plans!

Not until the second term. Then that will be made mandatory, too . . . .

Meanwhile, Robert Bidinotto comments: "Anyone recall what the Soviets used to do to history books?" The Obama folks have a history of airbrushing.

IF YOU VOTED FOR MCCAIN, you're a racist. Just in case nobody had bothered to tell you.

President-Elect D’oh-bama’s Gaffe #1: Sorry, Nancy

By Michelle Malkin  •  November 7, 2008 07:30 PM

And so it begins.

Or rather, continues.

President-elect D’oh-bama apologizes (vid here in case you missed it):

More of the incessant symbolism bullshit from teh Obama Campaign

I believe the idea is to give the impression he’s already on the job. It strikes me as bad advice and an ego that knows no limits

President-Elect Douchebag Mocks Nancy Reagan

OBAMA'S 'CHANGE': BACK TO THE DEMOCRATIC WASHINGTON INSIDERS

Now here is the first thing to really *hammer* Obama on, something that he’s doing *right now* — as opposed to all the other things in the past. This is “right now” and it indicates that he’s totally lying about “transparency”...Now here is the first thing to really *hammer* Obama on, something that he’s doing *right now* — as opposed to all the other things in the past. This is “right now” and it indicates that he’s totally lying about “transparency”...

 

Gag alert:

President-elect Barack Obama's First Press Conference - Complete Video 11/7/08

Obama Mocks Nancy Reagan in 1st Press Conference

It's  classless to mock a frail, elderly woman. (Note he was not kind in his revelation about his own "typical white person" grandmother, either.)

It's even worse to mock the widow of a great former president. Whatever you think of her, she deserves respect.

Especially classless was mocking Nancy Reagan on stage, before hundreds of reporters and television cameras, knowing the "joke" would be heard by millions. This wasn't some private remark that got picked up by a live mike.

What the hell is the “Office of the President-Elect?”

In Fort Worth, Obama's election prompts run on guns and ammunition

Get 'em while you can-- from my files:

Sitting in committee, just waiting for The One:

H.R. 1022: Assault Weapons Ban and Law Enforcement Protection Act of 2007

On Concerns Over Gun Control, Gun Sales Are Up

From "Change.gov", the official transition website. Agenda tab and then select "urban policy" and go down to "Crime Control".

Address Gun Violence in Cities:
As president, Barack Obama would repeal the Tiahrt Amendment, which restricts the ability of local law enforcement to access important gun trace information, and give police officers across the nation the tools they need to solve gun crimes and fight the illegal arms trade. Obama and Biden also favor commonsense measures that respect the Second Amendment rights of gun owners, while keeping guns away from children and from criminals who shouldn't have them. They support closing the gun show loophole and making guns in this country childproof. They also support making the expired federal Assault Weapons Ban permanent, as such weapons belong on foreign battlefields and not on our streets.

There will be no one left to protect you
Barack Obama wants to institute a Civilian National Security Force, a vast militia not unlike Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, a personal army. He knows he would need such a force to protect him and to enforce his will on Americans. Americans will have not seen such arbitrary power used against them since the days of the Civil War when Lincoln put the Constitution in the bottom drawer of his desk and set about arresting anyone who opposed his policies...

VIDEO of Obama calling for a Secret Police Force: CIVILIAN NATIONAL SECURITY FORCE??

QUESTIONS ABOUT THAT civilian national security force.

“Just as powerful, just as strong, and just as well funded.” So the astute observer and deep thinker might reflect for a minute and be compelled to pose several questions (although the MSM won’t)...

OBAMA AND HIS SCARY NATIONAL SECURITY VISION - QUICK IMPRESSIONS

Kindly note the quote, from our new First Lady, err, female black Bigot...



Obama's plan to disarm America (video, in his own words)

Click here for the video ^

 

Five things that are creepy about (Obama's new) change.gov website

I don't hear the Libs calling for the abolishment of the electoral college anymore

Michelle Malkin: New national anthem: "My president is black"

 

Is Obama "Your President"?

Friday, November 07, 2008 3:01:30 PM · 57 of 180
backhoe to brownsfan

Hmmmm... this one is very difficult. I was in the military, and we were taught we salute the uniform, not the man. So I respect the office, not the man. However, I am adopting a wait and see. If Obama governs as if he cares about America, even if we disagree, I can accept that. If Obama governs as I expect, like a Manchurian candidate who is bent on America’s deconstruction, that is when he will disqualify himself as being my president.

Liberal activists have long legislative wish list

National Organization for Women. "Since 1994, we've been losing over and over on legislation related to equality and fair treatment for women."

 

The gay-rights movement also campaigned vigorously for Obama.

 

NARAL Pro-Choice America and the Planned Parenthood Federation of America want Obama and Congress to move aggressively...

 

An array of other advocacy groups are stepping forward with their priorities for the new Congress.

 

 

Guess Who's Getting the Nuclear Football in January?

BO is doing away with our nukes, the officer assigned to carry the nuclear football will instead be carrying the teleprompter.

 

Angelou: Now I Won't Have To Apologize For My Country When Abroad

Democratic RevolutionWith all that being said, we are looking at potentially 9.2 million fraudulent votes...

This wasn't an election. It was peaceful Socialist revolution. Perhaps we should refer to President Obama as "His Fraudulency". But not too loudly...

- Hugh Farnham

Rahm Emanuel's Big Plan for America

Rahm Emanuel- Obama's chief of staff-The Plan, Yes We Can Draft Your [snip]

Yes we can--draft your @ss

You know, I warn, and I warn, and I warn, and I warn, but nobody listens.

OMG you won't believe what is written on Obama's new website: "America Serves"

Democrats talk of a ‘permanent progressive majority’

Libs Suddenly Find Themselves Defending the Flag It wasn't that long ago that the American Left was burning and crapping on the flag.
Suddenly, all of that has changed.

Rahm Emanuel's Big Plan for America

 From my files- note the date:

Bend over, America:

The Plan: Big Ideas for America By Rahm Emanuel, Bruce Reed

 

Paid for with 'everybody else's' money...

1,152 posted on Saturday, February 09, 2008

 

Emanuel Was Director Of Freddie Mac During Scandal

And folks should be sure to check out this thread....

Obama’s Chief of Staff Pick Took Campaign Contributions from Wall Street

And check out the info at http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2127740/posts?page=13#13

I hope someone sends these Emanuel links off to Limbaugh.

 

Understanding Obama: The Making of a Führer

 

The Coup: a position paper

Cut Obama some slack, wait and listen

President Bush could not even claim his victory for weeks in the 2000 elections because of democRAT attempts to steal the election.

He has been insulted and degraded like no other president in memory.

I, for one, will not cut this poser or his comrades ANY slack...

Obama-Supporting Teacher Bullies Student (video)

 Regarding Barack Obama and the Question of the Anti-Christ

 

"White guilt gave us black Jesus"

 

Required re-education: Reagan's 1964 speech to the Republican Convention

I’ve already ordered my ‘Don’t Blame Me I Voted For Ron Paul’ bumper sticker. I’ll probably get a ‘Sarah-cuda’ one as well.

After the appropriate time has passed ( after Duh1 takes office and starts clowning around... ) I'm going to make this:

"Don't blame Me
I voted for Sarah"

Possibilities I'm entertaining in the interim?

"Where's mah Free Gas?"

"I want my mortgage paid!"

The new battle line?

choice versus control.

World waits to see Barack's true colours

 

Mike Gallagher: Mourning In America

Change... Obama Announces Creation Of His Marxist Youth Corps (Heil Comrade Obama!)

 

Lead bullets under fire

Stores say gun-control fears spur firearms sales Well, duh!

I tried for months to wake people up- now, they will get "the kind of government they want, and deserve..."

Of course, we don't deserve it, but when just enough voters have been made stupid by the TV and public "education," what can you expect?

I dug in to the grocery money ( neither of us have a job... ) and renewed my membership in the NRA, GOA, and the Second Amendment Foundation. If we'd had more to spare, I'd have rejoined JPFO and the Second Amendment Sisters, too.

Keep these handy...

Click the pic to go to the Gun Facts v4.2 download page!

-The FIVE-MINUTE HANDBOOK (RKBA)--

Barack Obama: The Kingfish Reborn

Do Unto Obama As Liberals Did Unto Bush

Coal stocks plummet. Average 15%, many over 30% since Tuesday Gee, wonder why?

Kate, this is important and you should listen to it. It's about Obama's cult of personality and it is short.

 

http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2008/11/a-new-and-kinde.html

 

From the blogs- and, always, read the Anchoress:

Bush, Obama, & Ghosts of Hate - UPDATED

“The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.” Lincoln’s Second Annual Message to Congress, December 1, 1862.

I would love nothing better than to be able to stop writing about “left” and “right.” I wish we had a better vocabulary to describe our distinctions, because these words are limiting and off-putting. I am determined, with the merciful conclusion of this abusively long election season, to work diligently at spending less time entertaining these distinctions. But for today, I think it is only fair to note a very important and glaring difference between “left and right” - and in so doing - consider how we may, finally, stop needing to indulge in what is tedious.

Victor Davis Hanson says Let’s not imitate the left in our opposition. I agree.

It has been wonderful - really beyond wonderful - to consider how differently most of the right has reacted to their defeat than the left did in 2000 and 2004. In the two previous elections, the left responded by calling the other half of the country “stupid,” “morons,” and “Nazis” - Jane Smiley called them “unteachably ignorant” - they indulged in high drama, sniffling “apologies” to the globe, and denunciations of their fellow countrymen as “lying between repugnant and reptile in the dictionary.”

And oh, yeah (eyeroll) George W. Bush was not “their” president.

While you’ll see a few disgruntled extremists on the right say foolish, even ignorant things - and many throwing daggers at the sickening double-standards of the press - they’re not indulging in that sort of dehumanizing (and very adolescent) hate of their fellow countrymen or the president-elect. The reports they’re filing read very differently than those following the Bush wins. They read as grown-up, tolerant, open-minded discourses, not tantrums. There is a willingness to be hopeful, even in defeat.

And there is a determined respectfulness being offered to the winners - people who could not manage maturity and respectfulness in their defeat and who, sadly, are not always managing it in their victory, either.

I’m hopeful that the left - if it takes the time to actually condescend to notice how well it is being treated by the vanquished - might consider that self-indulgent defamation is the lesser way; that such a consideration may inspire introspection, and perhaps the smallest bit of regret for some of their appalling excesses toward the right and toward the American President who did not return hate in-kind.

I’m hopeful. I’m an optimist. I KNOW that the folks on the right - for all of their faults, and both sides certainly have faults - want America to be successful and strong and exceptional and free. I’m hopeful that hugely empowered left will discover that - beyond the feel-goodism of “free social programs” which are never free -they actually, really do want all of those things, too. That they’ll look back on the last 8 years and realize, finally, that their enemy was never George W. Bush. Bush, the guy who never dehumanized them, was only trying serve those corny ideals.

And then, miraculously, we may actually have unity.

Some similar thinking from my girl crush, Donna Brazile:

“The one mistake that we continue to make is that we label people. We say you’re conservatives, liberal, progressive, right wing, left wing. I think people just want to spend one day being Americans. They want to come together around a common purpose, common values.”

I wondered the other day if the catharsis of this election might open up “a vein of generosity” (or at least decency) from the left as concerns President Bush. I have not seen it yet, but I’m going to be optimistic and keep looking.

But maybe it’s enough just to see a little appreciation from the right, to start. Like this, for instance:

I link, therefore, I Err has a little mini-round-up of appreciation for George W. Bush. You’ll want to read it all.

From Alppuccino at Protein Wisdom:

At 10:40, President Bush will keep his streak alive by telling everyone how much he loves America. Just as he always has. And he’ll show everyone how much he loves America by preparing Obama as best he can for the next 4 years.

Read it all; it’s doubtful that Obama’s team will come into the White House finding O’s missing from their keyboards, any rude messages greeting them. And that is how it should be in America, a respectful transition.

Michael Gerson:

Many liberals refuse to concede Bush’s humanity, much less his achievements.

But that humanity is precisely what I will remember. I have seen President Bush show more loyalty than he has been given, more generosity than he has received. I have seen his buoyancy under the weight of malice and his forgiveness of faithless friends. Again and again, I have seen the natural tug of his pride swiftly overcome by a deeper decency — a decency that is privately engaging and publicly consequential.

[In 2005]…the White House senior staff overwhelmingly opposed a new initiative to fight malaria in Africa for reasons of cost and ideology…In the crucial policy meeting, one person supported it: the president of the United States, shutting off debate with a moral certitude that others have criticized. I saw how this moral framework led him to an immediate identification with the dying African child, the Chinese dissident, the Sudanese former slave, the Burmese women’s advocate. It is one reason I will never be cynical about government — or about President Bush.

Jeffery Scott Shapiro:

[The treatment of President Bush] from this country is nothing less than a disgrace. The attacks launched against him have been cruel and slanderous, proving to the world what little character and resolve we have…Our failure to stand by the one person who continued to stand by us has not gone unnoticed by our enemies. It has shown to the world how disloyal we can be when our president needed loyalty — a shameful display of arrogance and weakness that will haunt this nation long after Mr. Bush has left the White House.

Until we fix, within ourselves, our enthrallment with hate for others, simply because they hold differing views, we’ll never pull it together. In 2006 we watched a right-wing blogger be called less than human by a left-wing reader. We’ve seen President Bush being referred to as “the chimp” and “the monkey” by the wits who insisted that ideology trumped having a decent respect for another’s humanity. I wrote about that a little here:

Thus, George W. Bush is “Chimpy McHitler.” Hillary Clinton is “a pig in a pantsuit.” Barack Obama is “O-Bambi.” Cindy McCain, who has exhibited some courage and laudable compassion in her life, is reduced to a “pill-popping beer-frau,” and so forth. From there it is smooth sailing down an ever-descending river of hatred, until we are incapable of seeing anything good in the “other,” both because we have willfully hardened our hearts, and because our hate — especially when it is supported by a group of like minds — feels safe and inviolable.

With that in mind, you’ll want to read this excellent piece over at Conversion Diary, wherein Jenifer ponders pictures from a Nazi-era photo album and wonders, how such common-variety people managed to support and enable such profound evil.

One thing that stands out in all these examples is that the victims of the widespread evil were categorized as something less than human…not only that innocent people were killed or enslaved, but that their humanity was taken away by the societies around them…So here is the advice I would offer to my children, and to my children’s children:

Every decade or so, take a look around the society in which you live, and ask yourself if there is any group of human beings who are seen as something less than human. A big tipoff is if dehumanizing words — terms other than “man,” “woman,” “child,” “baby,” or “person” — are used to describe any category of people.

And if you ever see that going on, you might be in the midst of something gravely evil.

Dehumanizing people begins with baby-steps like name-calling, or the sort of intellectual dishonesty that delights in deliberately twisting the meaning of others in negative and misrepresentative ways. Those are the little gateways to the great evils that come once you’ve managed to thoroughly de-humanize others.

We’ve had 8 years - I’d say 12, really - of people demonizing and dehumanizing others, from both sides, and it is not getting us anyplace good. I believe that the response of most of the right to Obama’s victory is a step toward changing that. But the left has to do their part, too.

Pope Benedict XVI said, “those who hope live differently.” The election of Barack Obama was borne on this word, “Hope.”

If the people who voted for “hope” were sincere, then let them begin, today, to embrace it - and to live differently - without the kneejerk move to hate “the other side.” The right, responding levelly to their defeat, has offered the opening. Will the left take it?

UPDATE: Seems some will. Here is mostly accurate, and apprecited praise from a surprising quarter:

Would America have elected Barack Obama if white Americans had not gotten accustomed to seeing (in succession) two African-American Secretaries of State? I don’t think so. Before Bush, African-Americans were appointed to some good posts but not to our #1 foreign policy job. Two African Americans (one with a pretty odd first name) served as America’s face to the world. That eased Obama’s way. It is not Tiger Woods in whose footsteps Obama is walking — it’s Rice and Powell….Fact is, “W” never gave any evidence of holding racist attitudes…even just the slur the occasionally slips out of the mouth of even our most liberal leaders.

Same with Arabs and Muslims…Bush, after 9/11, never resorted to anti-Arab or Muslim stereotypes. He drew distinctions between terrorists and Arabs…Had he not done these things, Arabs and Muslims might have experienced not just hate crimes but pogroms.

Meanwhile, from Grand Rants:

Here is a man who is regularly compared to Hitler in casual conversation in Leftist circles high and low. His honor has been regularly impugned, his intelligence (or, as the press loves to put it, his “intellectual curiousity”) constantly demeaned, his verbal stumblings consistently mocked, and his accomplishments in office discounted or ignored. He is a man who kept his head down and did his job, despite the slings and arrows hurled at him by fortune made all the more outrageous by nearly the entire Democratic party.

I for one, would like to say thank you to Pres. Bush. For keeping us safe. For watching out for us. For persevering in spite of all the spite. I believe history will ultimately judge you as one of America’s best presidents, and I believe you deserve that judgement.

H/T to Opinionated Catholic, who writes:

The throwing under the bus of the President by even his friends and indeed the base has been shocking to me. Many groups will find out soon enough how they took Bush’s support and advocacy for them for granted, Catholics, especially.

Meanwhile, Jules Crittenden is beginning to enjoy Omerica, Quin Hillyer is saying America is over, kaput, finished, Evan Thomas suddenly finds Obama “slightly creepy” and when you refuse to release medical records, and the press doesn’t care…conjecture begins about your mental health.

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Blueprint for nuclear warhead found on smugglers’ computers

 

http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/

Forty-Fourth President, Twelfth Imam

by Baron Bodissey

The election results were long expected, but now that the day has arrived it’s quite a letdown, anyway. Reading about the joy expressed by Hamas and Syria and Italy and Indonesia… contemplating Obama’s Secretary of State, or (God help us) Defense… Thinking about the USA becoming just like Sweden, only with a real army, and aircraft carriers, and nukes… First Lady Michelle…

It’s all too depressing.

So, as is my habit in such circumstances, instead of writing a post this evening or doing something else useful, I created yet another iconic image of The One. After looking around at some of his existing halos, I decided to make one myself. A man can’t have too many halos, right?

And then I pondered the phenomenon of halos appearing behind the heads of great national leaders, men who are born into modest Muslim circumstances, but in time become presidents of large countries that have nuclear weapons. It made me think of…
- - - - - - - - -
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Ol’ Mad Jad got his halo when he went to visit the UN a couple of years ago. It appeared behind his head while he was speaking. Not only that, his audience was held in such rapt attention by his words that they were unable to blink for thirty minutes. We know all this is true because he told us so.

I wonder how many other resemblances there are between him and Barack Hussein Obama.

Ahmadinejad sees himself as preparing the way for the Twelfth Imam, as a sort of satanic John the Baptist for the man who is prophesied to return and usher in the apocalypse preceding the establishment of the permanent reign of Islam over the entire world.

And Obama’s got a bigger halo.

Does that mean…? Nah — it couldn’t be… But still… It makes me wonder…

What if the One were also the Twelfth?


Note to the literal-minded: this post is for fun, not to be taken seriously. Given the circumstances, it’s the only fun I’m likely to have for quite a while.

Read further...

 

Saul Alinsky Takes the White House My wife just got an e-mail from the head of HR saying that the post-election Obama jokes have to stop, especially if there is any hint that it might be related to racism. No notice before the election. And it was OK to get anti-Bush e-mails for 8 years. Oh yeah, she works for a bank that is hoping for a piece of the bailout action...

FReepers: we need you now more than ever. Don't go!

I’m not leaving as long as the Good Lord’s willing and the Creeks don’t rise.

Have no fear- The One will halt the rising creeks, heal the planet, and make the French love us again ( Oh, gag me! )...

Well, I’m not going anywhere as long as I have a voice.

We may have to go back to Xerox machines and small presses distributing handbills, but I’ll be damned if I let my country slip in to “That Good Night” without a fight.

I’m the one who dubbed Clinton “Little Big Fraud,” so I’ll have to work on something for The One.

We may have to set up a “Free Republic in Exile” like Degaulle did when the Nazis overran France, but we’ll manage.

It does distress me that so many people were suckered by a typical Chicago Machine empty suit, but he had 95% of both the press and entertainment arms of The Media Hive trying to get him elected, and covering up for him, so it’s not surprising.

Carry on.

Some realistic things to expect early in the Obama Administration

I work in Chicago. I deal with a great many attorneys in my job, many of whom are staunch Dims and breathless Obambi supporters; some were even active in his campaign. More than one told me that at or near the top of Obambi’s agenda is a new Hate Crimes bill, with a wide expansion of what will be considered a hate crime

Didn't you notice that Obama is a conservative?  "Obama is, in his own words, something of a Rorschach test. In his latest book, The Audacity of Hope, he writes, 'I am new enough on the national political scene that I serve as a blank screen on which people of vastly different political stripes project their own views.' "

http://www.yeahrightblog.com/yeah_right/2008/11/the-onion-on-obama-supporters-funny.html

Being an American is much more than being "cool"

Obama Bought The Presidency

Another Painful Lesson For The GOP

That’s what happens when you run a true left wing liberal against a liberal lite. The real one wins.

Remember, that's my theory why we went down to defeat in 2006...

I said something along the lines of,

"I've read all the theories why we lost so badly, and I still say this: Once elected, the Republicans taxed & spent & regulated like a bunch of Democrats- no wonder the voters decided to try The Real Thing!"

1994 - REPUBLICAN CONTRACT WITH AMERICA

Yup...

 

Here it comes, you bitter clingers:

Obama Victory Means ‘Stronger Support for Sensible Gun Laws’ ...why there is a new army command for domestic unrest...

Obama Pushes Abortion on Day One With Emanuel Pick Pro-Abortion, ANTI-gun zealot. He helped write the first AWB, and is going to help push the 2nd PERMANENT AWB.

Five Years to destabilize a nation. Yuri Bezmenov Explains Soviet Strategy for Subversion

Beware of the "manufactured crisis"

 The parasites are now in full control. The host taxpayer will be expected to work even harder just to stay even. This is a way of breaking the country. The Muslims are dancing in the streets as middle east money just bought the US presidency for a clown without a clue.

Much Of Arab World Rejoices Over Obama Election

But just remember- any critique, opposition, or naysaying?



This, is where we are going:



No, I'm not kidding.

I wish I were- the lights are going out, all across America.

 

Is There Nothing That Obama Can't Do?

The healing begins!

Your sickening unAmerican traitorous, racist, money-grubbing, torturing, hateful ideology got struck a death blow and you and your fellow jackal-blowhards are left writhing on the floor, gasping for breath as the final death tremors subside and your bodies stiffen into rigour mortis.

We you too!

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Posted by Kate at 12:30 PM | Comments (56) "It will be painful, but this election is good news. The only true cure for socialism is to actually get it; the US is about to get a big fat dose of cure for what ails them."

 

Final Thoughts Final Post

Wednesday, November 05, 2008 3:23:30 PM · 7 of 8
backhoe to Pagan Power

Well, after the 2006 debacle, I wrote this:

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Call it a Twilight of the Gods moment

( "In the twilight of the gods, the twilight men will appear..."

Otto Basil, circa 1968 )

 

...but until further notice, I am suspending updates specific to this post.

 

I will continue to update this:

 

DUBOB 11- more tales from the Dark UnderBelly Of the Beast...

 

with "everything you need to be aware of."

But I'm just burned, and bummed out. The elections. The sellout of Israel. The Moonbats. The Stupid Party. The Evil Party.

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Then again, after yesterday there's this:

”Zimbabwe On The Potomac...”

You know there were warning signs...

I kept telling people when Bill Clinton slithered in to office, and clung to it, despite all the scandals, and Impeachment itself-- “He's just a symptom. Like a fever is of a disease- there's something wrong with America.”

Like Popular Culture- look at the magazines-- I call it “thugs & jugs,” or “which Pop Tart is popping out whose baby this week?”

Or Katrina- ever seen so many people milling around with their hands out, when they should have been helping themselves?

We did it to ourselves, and The New, Improved Black Jesus is merely a symptom.

All civilizations have a shelf life- once enough citizens figure out that by electing the “right” representatives, they can use the power of the government to pick the pockets of others,

...it's all over, except for the details.

Well, we're in the “details,” now.

Meanwhile, I have to figure out what Miss Emily and I do with what's left of our lives, and bush hog her Mom's old place in the country, because City Life isn't going to be worth living from here on out.

I'll catch you all later...

...maybe...

9,520 posted on Wednesday, November 05, 2008

”Zimbabwe On The Potomac...”

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House Dems Try to Pass Obamacare Without a Vote

Slaughter Preps Rule To Avoid Direct Vote On Senate Bill (House to pass ObamaCare without vote!)

Do tell:

RUSH IN A HURRY -- Obama Seeks to Overthrow the American Way of Life

Fishermen’s fear: Public's'right to fish shifting under Obama?

The Obama administration has proposed using United Nations-guided principles to expand a type of zoning to coastal and even some inland waters. That’s raising concerns among fishermen that their favorite fishing holes may soon be off-limits for bait-casting. In the battle of incremental change that epitomizes the American conservation movement, many weekend anglers fear that the Obama administration’s promise to “fundamentally change” water management in the US will erode what they call the public’s “right to fish,” in turn creating economic losses for the $82 billion recreational fishing industry and a further deterioration of the American outdoorsman’s legacy...

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...

The Magic Disappearing Act of American Jobs

Prediction: Moment of Frustration Will Expose Our Young President

Remember This: AGW not to Blame if There are More Hurricanes This Season

McAfee Consumer Threat Alert: Fake Anti-Virus Software Scams On The Rise!

Job prospects from Obamanomics: Dems are replacing full-time jobs with part-time temporary ones

The Obama Moratorium: No offshore drilling while he’s in office

I keep telling you all what it really is...

We're Coming for You, Congress, Billboard

House Preparing New Scheme To "Pass" Senate Obamacare Bill Without Voting on It.

House Preparing New Scheme To "Pass" Senate Obamacare Bill Without Voting on It.

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I DON’T THINK THE RACE CARD IS TRUMPS ANYMORE: Menendez, NJ Dems Call Tea Party Movement Racist. “In an effort to protect NJ Senator Robert Menendez, under attack from NJ Tea Party groups, several prominent NJ Democrats are playing the race card, actually labeling the movement as raaaacist. This is an issue for Menendez now. If he doesn’t step up, denounce these statements and tell NJ Democrats to chill, he may soon find himself the target ofTea Party and grassroots activists from around the country, not just his home state!”

 

 Some Democrats shun Obama event in St. Louis. “The Show Me State briefly became the No Show State on Wednesday as some prominent Missouri Democrats decided they’d rather be somewhere else when President Obama came to St. Louis to push his massive health care overhaul plan.” Probably just scared of the St. Louis Tea Party juggernaut.

 

INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY: Club Med: Are Dems Using Medicare Payments To Silence Doctors?

 

SO IS THIS THE HOPE, OR THE CHANGE? Monthly deficit hits $220 billion, highest in U.S. history. “According to CBO, based on an analysis of the deeply deceitful numbers presented to it by Reid and Obama, the national panacea of health-care reform will save us $132 billion over the next 10 years. Which means the feds blew through our big decade-long ObamaCare refund in about … 17 days last month.”

 

SALESMANSHIP: A new healthcare approach — “the Slaughter solution.” If they actually pass it without a House vote, opponents will deem the bill illegitimate, and Congress along with it. Imagine if Bush had tried to pass the war resolution this way, or the Patriot Act. . .

 

Here we go: Pelosi’s staff knew of Massa allegations sooner than claimed.

UPDATE: More here. “They had five days to determine if it was a valid complaint, rule 16, p24 – and five days to notify Massa – Rule 17 p 26. Of course, like everything in Nancy’s House, all rules are subject to ad hoc changes.”

DANIEL SAREWITZ: “Has anyone noticed that after 20 years and $25 billion in government-sponsored research on climate change, the political controversy over global warming is actually more intractable and bitter today than it has ever been in the past? Of course there are good reasons, such as the failure of the recent U.N.-sponsored Copenhagen climate conference, stubborn partisanship in the U.S. Congress, and recently discovered mistakes and distortions in the supposedly authoritative 2007 report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. But these, like the tumors in a cancer patient, are symptoms of a mortal pathology, not its cause.”

So I Get This E-mail

http://warner.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p=Blog&ContentRecord_id=8c8e34f0-e579-4b6a-b9d9-8492d96b2500

So I reply with this:

The Federal Government is responsible for providing for the defense of this land, regulating interstate commerce and treaties.
Get it out of your elitist head that you, as a Senator, have any power other than that.
You and your comrades can't create jobs.  Unless you burden us with more socialism, and less choice.
Cut taxes, let those in the free market, both large and small, have the confidence to grow and therefore hire by limiting the control that you elected officials seem to keep pushing on them.
I am 52 years old.  I did not grow up in a socialist Country, and I will be fighting with all of my might to not die in one.

Criminals for Gun Control [video]

Leftist Judge orders ACORN funding restored

Meg Whitman and the Delta Smelt

My Fishing Rod? Out of My Cold Dead Fingers! (Vanity)

Saddam Hussein weighed nuclear 'package' deal in 1990, documents show

Holland proposes giving over-70s the right to die if they 'consider their lives complete'

Don't look now! Amnesty is back

The Amnesty push is coming and it's coming fast. Conservatives need to be prepared for battle. It's gonna get ugly and we can't sit on the sidelines. Every American needs to watch the movie below, buy copies of it and send these copies to everybody they know: family, friends, neighbors, coworkers, church friends, everybody:

Border Movie Trailer

Border Movie

Senators push plan to require all U.S. citizens to carry worker ID cards

Great. So now I will go to jail for not having one of these silly a$$ed ID cards, not having health care, or hacking this stupid idea. Isn’t goverment great.

I turned in Colleen "Jihad Jane" LaRose to the FBI - A Jawa Report Exclusive

A Tax Rebellion is Brewing

Will The U.S. Economy Recover This Time?

No- next idiot question?

Climate science: Let’s follow the money

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2,300 TURN OUT to Protest Obama at St. Louis Fundraiser… Top Dems Scatter! (Video)

Wednesday, March 10, 2010, 8:33 PM

Jim Hoft

OVER 2,000 TURNED OUT TONIGHT IN ST. LOUIS TO PROTEST BARACK OBAMA!
…….But, top Democrats Scattered!

WE WERE FIRED UP!

VIDEO at link, more in comments:

Bill Hennessy gave a great speech at the rally.

It was a huge turnout tonight in St. Louis. 2,000 to 2,500 turned out in St. Louis tonight to protest Obamacare.

UH OH: Instapundit reported: Some Democrats shun Obama event in St. Louis. “The Show Me State briefly became the No Show State on Wednesday as some prominent Missouri Democrats decided they’d rather be somewhere else when President Obama came to St. Louis to push his massive health care overhaul plan.” Probably just scared of the St. Louis Tea Party juggernaut.

People drove from as far away as Quincy, Illinois to make the rally. (We didn’t bus anyone in.)

There were a couple of hundred astroturfed HCAN and Obama supporters who showed up but they split early.

Kenneth Gladney came out tonight to join the protesters. That’s Stephanie Rubach in the background.

These Purple People Beaters were really just powder puffs.

It was loud and it was awesome! What a great turnout to let Barack Obama and Claire McCaskill know that we don’t want their socialism!

Protest Babes…

Thanks to StL Cyclist for a couple of these shots.

The St. Louis crowd came out in force. Bill Hennessy, Dana Loesch, Gina and John Loudon, Adam Sharp, Patch, Jon Burns, Jay Stewart, Robert B., 24th State, Spike, Stephanie Rubach, Ed, Brenda… It was a great event. It’s just too bad the top democrats decided to stay away. We wanted to greet them, too.

Sharp Elbows has more photos and video of a revolting leftist trying to start trouble at the protest.

Dana Loesch posted some great photos.

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"It’s almost like the people don’t like what Obama’s doing / selling or something…"

 

"Told ya’ll, WE OUTNUMBER THEM. They are a mile wide and an inch thick. Keep up the resitance. This is as our founders envisioned."

 

Live-Blogging the Anti-Obamacare Blowout in St. Charles, MO– STANDING ROOM ONLY!

Wednesday, March 10, 2010, 10:08 AM

Jim Hoft

PACKED HOUSE——
They were expecting 600…… 1,800+ SHOWED UP TODAY!
UPDATE:—- New Count— 2,225 TURNED OUT TODAY!!

Use the link- Note & note well-- all races were present- so much for the RAAACIST! Smear...

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Powerline on The Slaughter Solution.  Is this some kind of a joke? At NRO, Daniel Foster explains that the joke may be on us. This must be one of the cases described by Brecht in which it is time for the government to dissolve the people and elect another.

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House Democrats looking at 'Slaughter Solution' to pass Obamacare

Pelosi's Pig in a Poke "We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it."

Survived Recession? Get Set for Higher State, Local Taxes

If Obama Bans Fishing, He Hands Over 60 Million Votes To Angler Sarah Palin.

Gone, Fishing?

Those idiots are intent upon pissing off Americans aren’t they? Hunting is next on the list.

Probably. Take anything American, anything associated with personal freedom and liberty, and it is probably on their prioritized it list somewhere. Take something associated with self-reliance like hunting, fishing, Second Amendment Rights, and those are probably high on that list. obama is an unapologetic socialist and fascist. He knows he's only going to have one term. He and his marxist leaning cohorts in crime are going to ram through as much of his socialist ideals and agenda as they can.

Saving Fish Before Firefighters.
http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Saving+Fish+Before+Firefighters-a078738307
“During a recent forest fire, help for trapped firefighters was delayed out .... cut off in the middle of a drought for the supposed benefit of sucker fish. ...”

Editorial: Say No to Deadly Loaded Language. There are No 'Abortion Rights'

Dems Are Stuck With a Mess of Their Own Making

I've never witnessed the Republic at so great a peril of fracturing over a single issue. If this is leadership, we don't need it. If deathcare is a bill, we don't need it either. If Hussein believes he's competent, eligible leadership material, I think he's proven the opposite beyond a doubt.

This article nails it. Hussein is a disaster... that will tarnish them for at least a generation. President skidmark will stain the democrats with (a) taint... that the average taxpayer will not soon forget.

Illegal immigrant youth hold ‘coming out’ day

 

It's Thursday So It Must Be "UNEXPECTED" Day

The Difference between Anti-government and Limited Government

Monckton On Climate Hoaxers: "Jail The Lot"

L.A. County supervisors spend millions on pet projects

As Los Angeles County supervisors prepare to carve deeply into everything from public safety to social services, they also are spending millions in taxpayer dollars to burnish their public images, pay for chauffeurs, hold parties for friends and lobbyists and support pet projects. Each supervisor receives $3.4 million a year to spend as he or she sees fit, without any public vote or scrutiny. Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky, for example, has spent more than $200,000 to support his new website along with Facebook and Twitter accounts, according to interviews and a Times review of documents obtained through the state Public Records Act. Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas used $25,000 to buy a place in Who’s Who in Black Los Angeles.

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...

Club Med: Are Dems Using Medicare Payments To Silence Doctors?

Another Look At FoxNews' Hatchet Job On Geert Wilders

Florida’s unemployment rate at 35-year high

Health-care reform's 'back-door' tax

I had not seen this before. This is significant. The terrible aspects of this bill keep trickling out.

Climate bombshell: NASA and the media knew of temperature data issues nearly three years ago

Climategate: Three of the Four Temperature Datasets Now Irrevocably Tainted

Americans' Global Warming Concerns Continue to Drop ( global warming is exaggerated )

Millions In Zimbabwe Face Hunger Crisis (Desperate appeal for aid after stealing farms)

Behind The Palin Smears: From Axelrod to Mudflats and Moore

Regardless of whether you agree politically with Sarah Palin, you will find the forthcoming paragraphs simply shocking and eye opening at the same time as I unveil to the world the events and players in a vicious smear campaign that has raged against her since the moment she was chosen by John McCain to run for vice president.

That this type of Kafkaesque scenario could even happen in the United States of America should concern anyone of any ideological background who may be considering public life or public office.

Stephen Branchflower, an associate of Walter Monegan who was fired by then Alaska Governor Sarah Palin for performance related issues, began to probe the firing and in working with AK State Senator Kim Elton, brought the matter to the attention of the state legislature which opened an investigation with the enthusiastic support of Democratic state legislators, according to ABC News.

When due to a FOIA request denail, all but the smoking gun itself is visual in a smoke filled firestorm that despite the connection of a few final dots is sufficient enough for making the case that the Obama campaign in cahoots with state Democrats in Alaska is responsible for the opening acts of one of the worst smear campaigns against any innocent individual in American history.

When Palin was selected to be John McCain's vice presidential running mate, Republicans filed suit to stop the Troopergate investigation because it was clear that it was being conducted strictly for partisan reasons - to damage Palin's vice presidential candidacy. ABC News reported:

(Excerpt) Read more at reagantman.blogtownhall.com ...

Obamaganda: Another School Sings Praises to Dear Leader

It's a veritable cornucopia of Obamagandistic musical agitprop. You'll recall the militaristic, fascist-styled Obama youth corps from 2008 where a line of inner city youth stamped out their obeisance militia-like to The One like good little automatons? Perhaps the slickly produced exploitation of sweet faced children from Hollywood that same year will ring a bell? Or maybe your favorite is this misuse of class time in Georgia? Or per chance you'll recall "Barack Hussein Obama, mmm, mmm, mmm"? These are excellent examples of the Obama version of Leni Riefenstahl's art.

But those? Well, those are all low class affairs done without an entire orchestra to back them up.

Now we have the brilliance of School children in Illinois, Comrade Obama's home turf, to add to the din of young musicians enslaved to efforts to exalt Dear Leader. And this tops them all in production values -- or at least in scope -- for the Midwest Young Artists organization, a group dedicated to "inspiration through music," has taken upon itself to give the Obammessiah the full orchestral treatment along with a choir and a spoken word segment to round out the production. Uncle Joe couldn't have created a better display of fealty to Dear Leader. Kim Jong Il is likely red with envy...

See the video at Publiusforum.com...

Kindly note the quote, from our new First Lady, err, female black Bigot...

I keep telling you all what it really is...

Christie looks for ways to privatize jobs

New Poll Shows Carteresque Trend for Obama (the Community Organizer is tanking alert)

Gun possession law revolt among U.S. States

Wonder why?

 

VIDEO: Democrats Admit Truth About ObamaCare

Well-done video with clips from Democrats admitting increase in premiums, higher taxes, and Medicare costs . . . capped with Nancy Pelosi pronoucing that so-called health care reform is going through come hell or high water.

(Excerpt) Read more at bitterqueen.typepad.com ...

DOE E-Mails To Wind Energy Lobbyists Cast Cloud Over Green Jobs Proposals

President Obama is unbelievable, No really he's unbelievable.

Excerpt from article:

However, maybe one should cite them correctly Mr. president. The CBO’s analysis of the final Senate health care bill, as reported by Melanie Hunter-Omar, indicates that your health care reform would impose a mandatory $15,000 annual fee on middle-class families that earn greater than 400 percent annually of the federal poverty level. That means $88,200 for a family of four.

End excerpt....

$15,000 annual fee for those that make $88,200 for a family of 4. There goes my childrens college education! I will be in jail for not abiding by this new insurance fiasco. I have insurance now, but will drop my insurance once the government tells me I have to pay. This amount of money from our household would ruin us.

15 posted on Thursday, March 11, 2010 11:38:52 AM by jcsjcm

Excerpt from article:

However, maybe one should cite them correctly Mr. president. The CBO’s analysis of the final Senate health care bill, as reported by Melanie Hunter-Omar, indicates that your health care reform would impose a mandatory $15,000 annual fee on middle-class families that earn greater than 400 percent annually of the federal poverty level. That means $88,200 for a family of four.

End excerpt....

$15,000 annual fee for those that make $88,200 for a family of 4. There goes my childrens college education! I will be in jail for not abiding by this new insurance fiasco. I have insurance now, but will drop my insurance once the government tells me I have to pay. This amount of money from our household would ruin us.

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Ryan: Dems Ramming "Shell" HC Bill Through Committee Monday

BREAKING: Parliamentarian Deals Fatal (?) Blow to ObamaCare

—Gabriel Malor

Says that Obama would have to sign the Senate bill into law before the Senate could proceed to modify it with reconciliation.

In other words, the House members would have to believe the President's (and Harry Reid's) assurances that the Senate won't just quit when its version of healthcare reform becomes law. Remember, the Senate already rejected the House version when it created its own bill.

Summing Up the Past 24 Hours: The Congressional Hispanic Caucus makes a demand that already derailed healthcare reform once. The Congressional Black Caucus complains that Obama isn't listening to them. The co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus announces that the President's stumping across the country isn't doing a lick of good. The Stupak Twelve announce that there will be no deal. And now the Parliamentarian makes it that much harder to get wavering Congressmen on board.

Stick a fork in it.

Take the fork out. "Rep. Paul Ryan says that Democrats are ready to ram a "shell" health care bill through the Budget Committee..."

Meanwhile, Nancy "Nero" Pelosi keeps protesting "there's just a few minor, technical things" to work out.

Posted by Gabriel Malor at 03:29 PM New Comments Thingy

 

180 If odumbass thinks he hit a brick wall with HC wait until he stops us from recreational fishing, I see trucks and boats circling DC in thousands.

 

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The second was to have the House pass the Senate version, as-is. Bart Stupak, the Blue Dogs and likely the Hispanic caucus cut off that route.

Nothing is permanent in politics.

Don't think for a minute that Nancy's job one, two and three for the rest of the year won't be flipping votes. She has nearly eleven months to get the votes aligned just right, and then strike. This sword of Damocles will be with us until the 111th closes next January. Barry will make speeches about Hellcare all year long, and Nancy will break arms. Water torture, wearing them down with persistence.

 

156 Rush has been predicting a very big and public meltdown in the near future.  He thinks that Teh Won is going to reach his breaking point because he has never been told "no" before.

 

HEH: “Democratic leaders should be asking themselves just how they have gotten to the point that their strategy is to amend a law that doesn’t exist yet by passing a bill without voting on it.”  MICHAEL BARONE: No Way Out For Dems: ObamaCare’s Their Own Mess.

 

A wrench in Dems’ Wreckonciliation plans, but…

March 11, 2010 04:50 PM by Michelle Malkin21 Comments | 1 Trackback

Oops.

Endless “Time for talk is over” tour hits Cleveland, Ohio on Monday; Update: More signs of No-mentum

March 11, 2010 11:01 AM by Michelle Malkin56 Comments | 5 Trackbacks

 

 

HMM: 52 Million (36%) of Tax Returns Pay Zero Income Tax. I think that everyone who votes should pay income tax. And the amount should go up and down with federal spending.

 

IS THE RECOVERY A MYTH? “The White House claims the economy is on the mend. That’s a fantasy.”

 

IT’LL GO HIGHER WHEN THOSE NASA LAYOFFS KICK IN. . . . Florida Unemployment At 35-Year High.

 

Obama – the Gift that Keeps on Giving – to the Saudis

by snork ( 68 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, Communism, Crime, Islamists at March 11th, 2010 - 1:00 pm

If he can’t ruin the country through bold legislative initiatives, he’ll do it through executive moves. Under the radar, he has extended the offshore drilling ban from six months to the rest of his term.

3 | March 11, 2010 1:14 pm

When gas hits $4 a gallon this summer, the Republicans had better be pointing this out to anyone who will listen, and beating anyone who won’t listen over the head with it. Obama wants you to pay more for gasoline.

Do You Toss a Drowning Man a Lifejacket

... or a rock?

The central thesis of George’s Grand Remonstrance, however, is that the battle to persuade the world of the reality of global warming is lost. “No level of evidence can shake the growing belief that climate science is a giant conspiracy codded up by boffins and governments to tax and control us.” By George, he’s got it! Reality has dawned. The penny has dropped. The world knows AGW is a crock and nothing is going to change that reality. And the problem all along, George, was the very “evidence” to which you refer. The wider distrust of scientists was provoked by the thousands of white-coated whores who trousered the IPCC’s cash, chased the grants and plaudits, and clamped their gobs firmly around the UN and EU teats.

... read about Poor George.

By the way George, it is garbage like THIS that makes us tend toward rocks.

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In Denial: Global Warming Hoaxes Dismantled

By Joe Katzman at 06:31

The Weekly Standard does a very good job documenting all of the scandals and forced retractions by the IPCC. As you might expect, there are rather more of them than have been published in the "mainstream" media. It makes for a long article, and taken together, they are incredibly damning. Having read them, I do not think "hoax" is too strong a word to describe these in

 

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Lead Story

Harry Reid hides behind 11-year-old kiddie shield Marcelas Owens

By Michelle Malkin  •  March 12, 2010 12:25 AM

This new video is currently the featured clip on the Senate Democrats’ YouTube site. It’s health insurance-bashing demagoguery and dumbing-down and cowardice and child exploitation at its worst. Watch what the Senate Democrats have entitled “Young Health Care Activist Discusses Health Insurance Industry Abuses:”

On Wednesday, I told you about how the Democrats have resurrected the kiddie human shield strategy to salvage their health care takeover plans. My column introduced you to the boy featured in the clip — Marcelas Owens, who just turned 11:

One of President Obama’s youngest lobbyists – 11-year-old Marcelas Owens of Washington state – traveled to D.C. on Tuesday on the dime of astroturf group, HCAN (Health Care for America Now). His 27-year-old mother, Tiffany, died of pulmonary hypertension. According to the family, Ms. Owens – a single mother of three — lost her job as a fast-food manager and lost her insurance. She received emergency care and treatment throughout her illness, but died in 2007.

Young Marcelas – goaded by his left-wing activist grandmother and promoted by Democrat Sen. Patty Murray — is now a regular on the pro-Obamacare circuit and is leading a congressional sit-in until the Democrat plan passes. He admits he doesn’t understand the complexities of health insurance reform and doesn’t “think it’s anyone’s fault” that his mom passed away. “But they could have done more” for her, he says.

It’s a heart-wrenching story, but the tale raises more questions than it answers. Washington state offers a plethora of existing government assistance programs to laid-off and unemployed workers like Marcelas’s mom. Why didn’t she enroll? Second, she died nine months after she reportedly lost her health insurance. By the time she lost her coverage through her employer, she was apparently already in dire health straits. It’s not clear that additional doctors’ visits in the subsequent months would have prevented her death.

All that said, the Owens’ case demonstrates the flaws of the employer-based system of health insurance. It needs real reform. Unfortunately, the current crop of Democrat plans would leave the employer-based system fully intact. What we need are grown-ups to start over from scratch and leave the kids on the playground.

But just as he elevated youngster Graeme Frost to champion the S-CHIP entitlement expansion, Harry Reid put Marcelas Owens in front of the cameras to help deflect tough health care policy and political questions. It worked. Here’s the superficial coverage from the NYTimes, which touts Marcelas as “a new face in the health care debate” and swallows the Owens’ family story whole without asking a single question of any independent state agency or outside source for verification:

Senate Democratic leaders on Thursday sought to put a human face on the health care debate, and a cute face at that.

Marcelas Owens, a fifth-grader from Seattle who turned 11 on Wednesday, joined Senate majority leader Harry Reid of Nevada and other senior Democrats at a news conference on Thursday.

“We know health reform is not about numbers, it’s about people,” Mr. Reid said. “It’s about pain, real pain, suffered by real people.”

The boy’s mother, Tiffany Owens, died of pulmonary hypertension in 2007 at age 27 after losing her health insurance because she could no longer work. Ms. Owens had been an assistant manager at a Jack in the Box restaurant.

Imagine them taking any conservative opponent’s life story at face value (see: Joe the Plumber).

The Times fails to mention that Owens’ grandmother and family have been longtime activists for the left-wing, single-payer advocates of the Washington Community Action Network or that the boy and his grandmother traveled to Washington with sponsorship from the Astroturf lobbyists of the Health Care for America Now outfit, which characterized Marcelas as an “insurance abuse survivor.”

Never mind that there is not a shred of evidence that any health insurer ever “abused” Marcelas. Never mind that the family has made no claim that Marcelas himself has survived without insurance (in Washington state, low-income children have been covered either through Medicaid, SCHIP, or the SCHIP expansion program Apple Health for Kids). Newsbusters is also covering the MSM’s soft-shoe coverage of the Democrats’ use of the Owens’ kiddie shield here, here, and here.

Not that gullible health care sob story coverage is anything new to the Times. See: Unbelievable update: The crappiest NYTimes column on Obamacare just got crappier; Update: Kristof’s disingenuous non-response.

The usual hyperventilating from the Left — horrible conservatives “targeting” poor, innocent kid! conservatives “assault” poor, innocent kid! — just proves my point. Despite President Obama’s repeated admonition that health care reform is a “complex issue that can’t be reduced to snippets,” it’s exactly what Reid, Murray, Schumer, and his Owens’ grandmother propped up young Marcelas to do. Anyone who questions the narrative and absolute moral authority of the kiddie human shield is a heartless, right-wing stalker who should be vilified, if not arrested.

As always, the current ruling majority is incapable of holding an adult discussion on the costs and consequences of its plans.

Gives a whole ‘nother meaning to No Child Left Behind…

(Makestickers.com)

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Commenter Bob on Staten Island: “I am glad Senator Reid sees this eleven year old as an equal, because I see most of congress as equal to eleven year olds.”

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On a separate note: Reid’s wife and daughter were involved in a serious car crash in the Beltway area Thursday afternoon. Liberal readers are already e-mailing that I am an evil #*&^% for exposing Reid’s tactics while his relatives have sustained injuries. I wish only the best for his family. But the unfortunate traffic accident doesn’t make Harry Reid immune from criticism. It’s another bad shield.

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"So we should surrender our liberty, destroy our economy, and leave ourselves defenseless in the face of many ruthless enemies, all on the word of an eleven year old?"

 

"Harry Ried said that 45,000 people a year die due to lack of health insurance. So, why are them Dems going to let another 180,000 people (maybe someone else Marcelas Owens knows) die from waiting four years before any benefits start?"

Obama's Private Youth Army: Recruiting 8 Year Olds

Obama-care Means 1/3 Fewer Doctors?

March 10th, 2010

From the New England Journal Of Medicine:

Physician Survey: Health Reform May Lead to Significant Reduction in Physician Workforce

Mar. – Apr. 2010

 

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"Socialism levels the entire playing field to the lowest common denominator. That’s what it’s all about. That way, the proles can’t rebel."

 

 

BIG GOVERNMENT: Obama Spiked ACORN Investigation: Judicial Watch Releases FBI Documents.

 

O'Keefe's Next Victim: HUD

—Ace

At Wired:

Late last year, O’Keefe and fellow activist Joe Basel went into the Detroit and Chicago offices of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) with a hidden camera. They pretended to be scam artists, asking employees there to participate in a complex kickback scheme involving federal incentives for first-time home buyers. In the excerpted footage shown to me by O’Keefe, the staffers seemed only to happy to comply.

The law says that the tax credit maxes out at $8,000 for an $80,000 home. On the tape, O’Keefe asked a staffer, “What if I bought a place for $50,000, but the seller and I agreed to write down $80,000 as the purchase price?”

“Flip it any way you want,” the staffer replied.

What if the place is worth much less — like only $6,000?

“Yup, you can do that.”

Thanks to WQ.

Leftists are having conniptions in the comments, there, insisting the tapes were edited, O'Keefe broke federal laws, should be in prison, etc.

As Mark Twain said, “It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.”

BLAST! I thought that was a Will Rogers quote -- but when I looked it up to get the quote right, everyone on the internet attributed it to Mark Twain.

For what that's worth.

There's some disagreement on that -- Wiki notes that there's no good source to base attributing it to Twain, and some attribute it to Will Rogers.

I don't know who actually said it. I know I thought it was Will Rogers.

Posted by Ace at 02:41 PM New Comments Thingy

 

Oh, My: Massa Hired Lots of Young Gay Men, Paid Them So Little They Had to Live With Him In His Weird Gay Frathouse

—Ace

He's not the clean sort of gay guy either:

Not pictured: Snorkeling gear

"God Almighty all that's missing is a trident." -- mpfs, from the comments.

Oh, man. This is about as bad as the Mark Foley thing. Maybe worse, because... There's a lot going on here. Lots of facts to report. This is a big story, guys. Not just because of the unseemly gossipy details, but because Pelosi sat on this for half a year.

Disgraced ex-Rep. Eric Massa insists he never sexually abused anyone, but he filled his Capitol Hill rowhouse with low-paid male staffers in an arrangement ripe for trouble.

"It's like he had people trapped," said a Hill source.

...

At the house on E St. Southeast yesterday, which Massa had shared with five of his staffers, clothes were piled on the floor and half-a-dozen pairs of shoes mingled with dirty towels next to an open pink suitcase in the living room.

...

In hindsight, Democratic insiders wondered about activities that before had just seemed odd. They said Massa hired a surprisingly large percentage of young gay men, and paid them so little that staffers were forced to live in the house with him.

"It's not the gay part that's a problem, it's the abuse, if it's true," said one Hill source.

"The guy's a freak," a close friend of one embattled Massa aide told the Daily News

He insisted on giving dudes massages, which he called, thuddishly, "Massa Massages."

I like totally believe he resigned to protect his family. I am sure is totally devoted to his wife. Wouldn't know how to get along without her.

Well, I mean, apart from living in a nasty spooge-shack with five young dudes.

Guy's like a low-rent Caligula.

The Next Shoe to Drop: Even though most of these guys were victims, I'll bet that someone along the way voluntarily reciprocated Massa's snorkeling excursions.

Which would make him a prostitute, paid for by taxpayers, as all aides are.

Posted by Ace at 02:19 PM New Comments Thingy

 

AN ARMY OF JAWAS: ‘Net Posse Tracked ‘Jihad Jane’ for Three Years.

 

Breaking: Al-Qaeda Killer & Dem Operative Worked at New Jersey Nuclear Plant

Thursday, March 11, 2010, 9:22 PM

Jim Hoft

Al-Qaeda killer and former democratic operative, Sharif Mobley, worked at a nuclear plant in New Jersey.

Sharif Mobley, 26, shot his way out of a hospital in Yemen last week.

Al-Qaeda terrorist, Sharif Mobley, was arrested in Yemen earlier this year. The New Jersey man shot two men at a hospital in Yemen over the weekend after being arrested in the company of several al-Qaeda members. Sharif Mobley, 26, was quietly detained earlier this year by Yemeni authorities. He worked for former Democratic Governor Jon Corzine’s campaign in 2005.

Tonight it was reported that he worked at a New Jersey nuclear plant.
Astute Bloggers and AJC reported:

A New Jersey official says a suspected terrorist who worked at a complex of nuclear power plants did not breach security there.

Mike Drewniak, a spokesman for Gov. Chris Christie, says his office has been told that Sharif Mobley was supervised and had no problems when he worked at three power plants in Salem County from 2002 to 2008.

PSEG Nuclear spokesman Joe Delmar said Thursday that Mobley worked as a laborer for several contractors at the three plants and others in the region.

The 26-year-old Mobley, who grew up in New Jersey and later lived in Philadelphia and Newark, Del., is in custody in Yemen as a suspected member of al-Qaida.

A spokesman for the Yemeni Embassy in Washington says those charges have nothing to do with his employment at the plants.

Previously:
Stunner. Al-Qaeda Killer Who Shot His Way Out of Hospital Is Former Dem Operative

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Muppets on Parade

Posted by hillbuzz under Uncategorized | Tags: Claire McCaskill Missouri, Claire McCaskill's sammiches, Obama kiss of death, Robin Carnahan |
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Why would they release a photo that looks so terrible?

The strangest photos come out of this White House.

Here’s a snap for a fundraiser Dr. Utopia just did in Missouri for Robin Carnahan’s 2010 Senate bid, where the White House pretended it was for Claire McCaskill’s 2012 race instead, which makes no sense unless you remember how spectacularly Dr. Utopia failed in Virginia, New Jersey, and Massachusetts, where any candidate he came 100 feet within radius of was shellacked at the polls by voters tired of the hopeychange nonsense.

March 12, 2010 at 1:31 am

Looks like he’s trying to squeeze her hand too tight.
Good luck trying to call Clairebear’s offices and actually getting a real person.

-21 and holding

Obama and the L-Word
Matt Welch | April 2010

The president’s habit of telling untruths...yet it smacks of something worse still. When a politician cannot fathom opposition to his policies except as the manifestation of wicked manipulation by bad guys, remediable only by more thorough “explanations” from the good guys, it indicates an unseemly paternalism. And if he cannot take the hint that Bush-Obama bailout-and-spend economics are deeply and increasingly unpopular, that indicates something immovable about his core economic ideology. With those two factors as backdrop, it’s hard to say which would be worse: if the president didn’t really believe what he said, or if he did.

GALLUP: NEW LOW FOR O HOPE TURNS INTO DEEP DIVISION

Obama wants DNA samples from everyone arrested

—Purple Avenger

Big Brother

Wants Your DNA

Not charged, not convicted, just arrested.

Of course anyone could be arrested for anything at anytime and held for 24 hours then simply released. Theoretically, they could systematically roll through the whole population doing that.

Will the police be interested in doing this? Probably not. If Obama were to push this, and get it into law, the police would likely view it as an unfunded federal mandate. The bureaucratic and lab infrastructure needed to implement such a scheme pervasively would be truly massive. The 2006 FBI UCR says that over 14,000,000 arrests of all sorts happened in the USA that year (not counting traffic violations). That's over 38,000 arrests/day on average.

Clearly, the lab capacity to handle that number of DNA samples daily and physically process them is non-trivial. Of course, for those samples to have any future legal value, everything would have to be handled with rigid chain of custody procedures, and original physical samples warehoused under lock and key.

Impact on things like witness protection programs and such is plainly a concern as well. A host of privacy and potential abuse issues are so obvious they don't even need mention.

A thought exercise: Imagine if a Republican president had proposed this?

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Posted by Purple Avenger at 12:13 AM New Comments Thingy

2010: The Year Global Warming Froze Florida

See Obama DESPERATELY try to sound smart--and failing miserably

What makes anybody think that Obama can make a comeback? (vanity)

Obama’s Lowest Approval Rating Yet & Strangely The MSM Is Silent; Unlike When Bush Hit That Low

[backhoe]

CALL THESE SWING CONGRESSMEN ON HEALTH CARE!!!

Ringmaster-in-Chief

New wave of foreclosures threatens market (Obama's foreclosure bailout = EPIC FAIL!)

New Pay Discrimination Bill Would Let Government Collect Payroll Records of Private Companies

 

 

Remember Lyndon Johnson commenting that "If I've lost Walter Cronkite, the war in Vietnam is lost"? Read this editorial in today's Washington Post by Democrat pollster Pat Caddell and Democrat Pollster Doug Schoen:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/11/AR2010031102904.html

The title says it all: "If Democrats Ignore Health-care Polls, Midterms Will Be Costly." Take a minute to read it. No equivocating, no "Here's how you can sneak the bill through" strategy. It's harsh, it's blunt, and it will make your day.

Czars to Serfs: Pay Up and Shut Up

Gun control nuts are becoming suicidal

Graham Pushes National I.D. Card

Miss Me Yet? [Dubya]

I stick everything I run across "that I think you ought to be thinking about" here:

Click the picture, goto the last, and scroll back for the latest in The Dark Underbelly...

The future of Obamacare

Sharia Law is being pushed in our country in an alarming rate. Most people are completely unaware of this seventh-century treatment of women.

Why no one cares about privacy anymore

U.S. HOUSE CLEANING (A WAY TO THROW THE SOCIALIST BUMS OUT!)

[backhoe]

Question: Why is it party all the time in this White House?

Obama says HE WILL WEAR US DOWN ON HEALTHCARE

Dems jettison pro-life Dems; will pass ObamaCare without them

More Senate healthcare horrors: Starving seniors, Alzheimer's cuts

South Florida immigrants ready for rally in Washington on March 21 ("No to separation of families")

36 million illegal aliens made legal bring at least 2 or 3 relatives to America = instant voting block.

VIDEO: Mexican Drug War Spills Into Texas

WHY WAIT FOR NOVEMBER? Recall/Impeach the B*stards Now!

Mark Levin Calls For The Expulsion of Louis Slaughter From The House of Representatives (Audio)

OBAMA: A FACE IN THE CROWD

"Obama’s solution is to promise everything to everyone which did get him elected. The downside is that 80% or more of the American public oppose his socialist program. What to do? Use lies and deception to ram the agenda ahead is the solution for the moment. The downside to that is sooner or later the public catches on to the con. Then what to do? Either reverse course, resign, or pull out major league oppression."

 

12   Got your “going green” opportunities right here. This is a chart of the trading action over at the Chicago Climate Exchange. Yes, there really is such a playground. The value and volume of contracts have both declined to Zero. I’ll post the Pixie Dust Exchange data just as soon as I find it.

 

15   Shocka!Wee Weed is associated in this ponzy scheme.

http://www.kickthemallout.com/article.php/Story-Obama_And_Chicago_Climate_Exchange

What in the world is the SUN up to now? (Solar 'Current of Fire' Speeds Up)

Gallup Polls: Younger Americans More Strongly Pro-Life on Abortion

The Plight of Zimbabwe's Starving People

Well...

-"Pity About Africa..."--

The title is a take-off from a forgettable book with an unforgettable name:

Grow Up!

President Obama Makes Poverty Permanent

The Obama Moratorium: No offshore drilling while he’s in office

Say "Hi!" to $7 a gallon heating oil, seniors...

 

Democracy Only Works If You Use It (Start Calling it what it is: A Subversion of the Republic)

Very good little article. I must say, I knew Obama was a would-be dictator from day one, but I'm stunned at how the gloves are off now and he's not even hiding it. Like all of them, he has an inner cadre that is helping him carry it off (his mysterious WH staff and Pelosi and a handful of Senators). And they're all getting impatient and angry now. The masks are coming off.

[backhoe]

MARK LEVIN CALLS FOR Louise Slaughter’s expulsion from Congress. The “Slaughter Solution” And Other Acts Of Desperation.

 

THE OBAMACARE DEBACLE: “Even if Democrats extract the votes to put ObamaCare over the top, it will at best be a Pyrrhic victory for them. Regardless of the outcome, this monstrosity might cost the Democrats the Congress this November, ruin the party for a long time and prematurely render Barack Obama a lame duck president for the rest of his term. . . . In fact, the real reason why ObamaCare is so unpopular is that it is proposing a giant expansion of the entitlement state precisely when this state everywhere is coming apart: here and abroad; at the federal level and the state; in the public sector and the private. Suggesting a giant government takeover of a sixth of the economy can’t be a popular selling point in a country whose DNA has a programmed hostility to Big Government.”

 

Question: Why is it party all the time in this White House?

Posted by hillbuzz under Uncategorized | Tags: Hollywood Glamour, lavish parties, Night At Versailles, Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks |
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No TV dinners or coupon clipping for these two.

You’d think the current president lives in Boystown.  Or, at least wants to. For all SORTS of reasons.

It’s party all the time in this White House. While tens of millions are without jobs, don’t have enough money to keep dinner on the table every night, and are going without the basics, it’s a twirling, whirling, “Night at Versailles”, every night, in the People’s House these days...

Use the link, dammit...

"Barry and Michelle are SUPPOSED to be public servants, in service to our nation. We do not HAVE a king or queen in the United States. " "Barry and Michelle Antoinette are nouveaux riche, classless, crassy, low-rent, worthless moochers."

"My brother and his wife, both very hard-working and good people, barely make ends meet and had a very meager Christmas for their kids. Where are the jobs, Barry, you incompetent idiot?"

Does anyone have an official count of how many parties they’ve held?  According to this article from the New York Times, there were 330 ‘events’ in the first 13 months.
Unbelievably crass and tasteless.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/12/us/politics/12rogers.html?hp

Harry Reid: I'm Such a Capable, Intelligent Legislator, I'm Delegating My Public-Advocacy Duties to This Here 11-Year-Old Kid

—Ace

Michelle Malkin notes this is another example of Democrats hiding behind "kiddie shields."

I have a different point. Liberals are forever congratulating themselves on how nuanced and complex their thinking is. Every time they fail in the marketplace of ideas, they excuse their failure by noting that they are engaging in lofty, arcane reasoning, and that their dreaded foes only won the debate because they trafficked in thuggishly simpleminded sloganeering.

Always. Posted by Ace at 02:30 PM New Comments Thingy

Dems/HCAN Exploits Child For Agit-Prop

March 12th, 2010

A little background on the latest exploited child Democrat face of the crying need for ‘healthcare reform.’

From the Seattle Times:

Healthcare For America Now is Mr. Obama’s professional army of lobbyists for ‘healthcare reform.’ They are funded by George Soros and the SEIU and the rest of the usual suspects.

The Washington Community Action Network is a part of the Soros funded HCAN mentioned above.

So instead of helping the young mother when she was in dire need, they are exploiting her death and her child for their agenda.

But none of our media masters will ever deign to tell us the rest of the story.

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RINO Lindsey Graham & Chuck Schumer Present Their Amnesty Plan to Obama

Friday, March 12, 2010, 5:07 AM

Jim Hoft

RINO Senator Lindsey “Tell the bigots to shut up” Graham and far left Senator Chuck Schumer presented their amnesty plan to Barack Obama yesterday. The two senators want to ram through amnesty by the end of the year.

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Colorado should repeal the Amazon Tax. But what’s going on here is Colorado legislator’s anger that there’s something they don’t control:

Actually, if anyone ever needed an obvious illustration of how government overreach can damage an economy, they need look no further than the Colorado legislature’s foolish attempt to wheedle a few extra bucks out of consumers via an Internet sales tax. . . . One only wishes that citizens could boycott irascible and intrusive state legislators — with their knee-jerk, ill-informed, anti-capitalist sentiment — who are willing to risk the jobs of thousands of citizens for a couple million bucks in the state’s coffers.

And follow the link for the sputtering anger of Colorado Senate Majority Leader John Morse. It’s not even about the money. It’s about the control.

Driving Hazards More Dangerous Than Unintended Acceleration.

Obama Reminds Missouri He Treats Tax Dollars Like Monopoly Money

Friday, March 12, 2010, 5:23 AM

Jim Hoft

Barack Obama tripled the national deficit his first year in office. It will be larger this year.

Obama dropped his monopoly line again this week while he was in St. Charles, Missouri at his health care rally in front of supporters and campaign contributors (he locked out the public):

As we were driving in, I was saying, boy, it’s just good to be back in the Midwest, this is about as close as I’ve been to home in a while. And part of the reason it’s just good to be back is because Washington is a place where tax dollars are often treated like Monopoly money — they’re bartered and traded, and they’re divvied up among lobbyists and special interests, and where waste — even billions of dollars of waste — is accepted as the price of doing business. When we proposed, by the way, those $20 billion in cuts last year, we were ridiculed by the press, said, “Ah, that’s just a spit in the bucket.” Now, I don’t know about here in St. Charles, $20 billion, that’s real money, isn’t it?

Reason says this is an example of a “gag-inducing paragraph.”

The last time Obama used his “Monopoly” line was the same day he proposed another record spending bill that cost taxpayers $3.8 trillion and raised the national deficit to $1.6 trillion.

And, on December 21, 2009 he said the same thing about taxpayer dollars:

“We can’t continue to spend as if deficits don’t have consequences; as if waste doesn’t matter; as if the hard-earned tax dollars of the American people can be treated like Monopoly money.”

This was the same day that democrats spent $1.2 billion to bribe fellow democrats to vote for Obamacare.

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"He is laughing at you, people."

Brace yourselves, we're going down hard. GDP could be ready to crash.

—Purple Avenger

Very scary chart at ClusterStock.

...their Daily Growth Index just crashed, which means that U.S. GDP growth could be about to slump as well...

 

This metric of CMI's has been tracking the GDP pretty closely since 2006 and seems to lead "official" figures by 2-3 months. It just fell off a cliff. A "long hot summer" could be on the way just in time to take the impending Democrat blood bath "to the the next level".

H/T TH

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5  Somhow, I don't think I'm going to enjoy taunting the libs with "I told you so", since I'll be living in a shotgun shack while I'm saying it.

 

"Gee, I guess that Hope and Change really means Despair and Poverty.
Thanks, 52%"

 

36 The crash will come... about the same time as the revolution.

[backhoe]

If you are reading this, you are the Resistance

Posted by hillbuzz under Uncategorized
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It’s a very emotional day here at Buzzquarters.

Not sure what triggered it, but we fully accept today that the current government in Washington is completely mad and hellbent on destroying this country.

We do not believe it’s possible for the Left to ram their Healthcare Rationing bill through Congress, but we believe they will indeed try every insane trick they can conjure to attempt it.

Absolute all-out political war needs to be declared on every Democrat in office if they do not rise up against the madness of their own party and put a stop to this immediately.

A national, coast-to-coast, Resistance needs to form and mobilize in this country, rising up from the Tea Party movement itself and take back this government at the ballot box in November.

Every Democrat, in every district, in every state, needs to be booted from office.

Start thinking this weekend how you can help the Resistance form, and what you can do to take back this nation and rescue it from the brink of destruction.

http://www.willisms.com/

Obama's new proposed debt ups the ante in a huge way:

Unemployment-

Some in America are faring far worse than others under Obama, and ironically, many of his most ardent and loyal supporters are the hardest hit:

In last year's election, 96 percent of black Americans voted for President Obama. Since then, they have suffered immeasurable harm, harm that could have been eased by these and other conservative policies.

Can you hear us, now?

Silent No More [Reader Post]

Posted by: PatriotGirl @ 4:30 am in Economy, Environment, Health Care, Moonbats, Nanny Government, Obama Euphoric-Rapture Syndrome, Obamanomics, POWER GRAB!, Personal, Politics, Socialism, Socialized Health Care, Universal Health Care  | 471 views

I am one of those “typical Americans” who has lived much of my life in a political dead zone. Life has been good, and “Politics” have been in the distant background most of my life. There were stretches when I didn’t even vote. I was oblivious.

Fast forward to 2008. I smelled snake oil with Obama and I couldn’t put my finger on it, other than the shady connection with ACORN. At that time I was only getting my news from the lame stream media. The week before the election my brother & I were celebrating our birthdays, and I realized that everyone in the room (except me) was seized by the fever of Obamamania. And then my brothers liberal girlfriend singled me out by saying “with your feelings about guns do you have to vote for McCain?” Bitch, I thought. Time to educate myself about what I knew I didn’t like, but was unable to articulate.

I began to realize that it was a luxury to take for granted our constitution and all the freedoms that I enjoyed. Perhaps in the past I was living in a more innocent time. Or perhaps not. But today that luxury has vanished. Today we must be vigilant to the forces that are FAST at work to destroy our way of life. Read the rest of this entry »

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The Devolution of the Democrat Party

Posted by: Aye Chihuahua @ 2:26 pm in Culture, Health Care, Universal Health Care  | 46 views

If this is true, and there is no reason to doubt it, then mere words cannot express my revulsion:

What are Democratic leaders saying? “If you pass the Stupak amendment, more children will be born, and therefore it will cost us millions more. That’s one of the arguments I’ve been hearing,” Stupak says. “Money is their hang-up. Is this how we now value life in America? If money is the issue — come on, we can find room in the budget. This is life we’re talking about.”

There is just no way to express how vile these people are.

Is there?

For those keeping score at home, the Stupak amendment is legislative language which would prohibit federal funds from being used for abortion.

h/t – Ace

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How to Salvage Your Retirement

[backhoe]

Re-invent a fraud?

Rotsa Ruck with that, Chicago Con Artist:

OBAMA REINVENTION EFFORTS FACE A PROBLEM: “Something more fundamental is going on here: Obama seems not to respect his fellow citizens — the uninformed rubes who crashed the health-care town halls — nor care what they think. All his energy now is devoted to disregarding their strong aversion to his idea of health-care reform and forcing through a vote on something the public doesn’t want. It’s hard to bond with the American people, which is what Myers is suggesting, when your agenda conveys disdain for their concerns.”

 

 

The Real America Speaks:

MARCH 16TH: The People Surging Against ObamaCare. Marching on Washington Tuesday.

 

Real Astro turf:

THE COFFEE PARTY: Doing the research that CNN didn’t.

"See the theme here? And these things point to the person that is Stacey Hopkins, the CNN rosy-profiled, Coffee Party organizer (I mean, anti-capitalist extremist, oops, my bad). Does the press not even have access to Google? Are they simply just so ideologically bent and lazy? To think, Stacey Hopkins is only one of 5 people profiled in the CNN article. I found this information in one hour...Mr. Fiscal Conservative Alex Oxford is a big time gay rights activist. Just two questions. Five liberals at this Coffee Party chapter? "

The Science ( or is that Silence? ) is Settled:

Houdini Science

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Lead Story

Nancy Pelosi: Un-merry maid; Update: Pushing March 21 Demcare deadline, no public option through reconciliation, Slaughter House horror

By Michelle Malkin  •  March 12, 2010 11:00 AM

Scroll for updates…Pelosi pushes for 3/21 Demcare deadline, rejects public option via reconciliation…

Photoshop: Ray D.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s deficient cleaning service
by Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2010

“Maybe it will take a woman to clean up the House,” Nancy Pelosi boasted before the 2006 mid-term elections and over again. Looks like those XX chromosomes didn’t give her much advantage over the old cleaning crew. The swamp she was supposed to drain is overflowing. And less than four years after a sordid sexual predation scandal involving a creepy congressman rocked the Republican Party, a sordid sexual predation scandal involving a creepy congressman is now rocking the Democrat Party.

The same questions that dogged House leaders then are dogging House Speaker Pelosi now: What did she and her staff know and when did they know it?

On Thursday afternoon, by a vote of 402-1, the House overwhelmingly passed a privileged resolution offered by the Republican leadership demanding a formal House Ethics Committee investigation of Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her (mis)handling of harassment allegations concerning disgraced former New York Rep. Eric Massa. The soft-on-corruption ethics panel (see under “Rangel, Charlie”) had decided to shut down its investigation after Massa abruptly resigned on Monday.

But with reports piling up on how Massa kept a Capitol Hill playhouse filled with young, low-paid male staffers and how Pelosi’s office had fielded complaints of his bizarre and inappropriate behavior back in October, the House decided to pry the lid back open and put a stop to what the resolution calls the “public ridicule” that the seeming cover-up has invited.

Housecleaner Pelosi cannot be pleased by the second-guessing of her handiwork. Color her an un-merry maid. Even Democrat Rep. Patrick Kennedy, fresh from his raving House floor meltdown over media coverage of the Massa mess, voted for the GOP-initiated House resolution. Finally: Bipartisanship we can believe in!

With the exception of lone House Democrat Rep. Chaka Fattah who voted “no” and 27 members (including those who sit on the House Ethics Committee) who voted “present” or “not voting,” every other member of Pelosi’s House supported the petition to direct the Committee on Standards of Official to investigate fully “which House Democratic leaders and members of their respective staffs had knowledge prior to March 3, 2010 of the aforementioned allegations concerning Mr. Massa, and what actions each leader and staffer having any such knowledge took after learning of the allegations.” [The demand will now be referred to the Ethics Committee.]

The resolution stipulates that “numerous confusing and conflicting media reports that House Democratic leaders knew about, and may have failed to handle appropriately, allegations that Rep. Massa was sexually harassing his own employees have raised serious and legitimate questions about what Speaker Pelosi as well as other Democratic leaders and their respective staffs were told, and what those individuals did with the information in their possession.”

Democrat Rep. Barney Frank, who earned a House Ethics Committee slap on the wrist in 1990 after using his congressional office to fix parking tickets for male prostitute Steven Gobie, was one of those leaders in the know. After voting for the resolution, he disclosed for the first time that Massa had invited one of his young staffers to dinner. “Although this was not an ethical violation,” Frank said in a published statement, one of his senior staffers who was informed of the dinner alerted former Rep. Massa’s Chief of Staff, Joe Racalto.

In other words: Frank’s office knew it smelled illicit. And Barney Frank would know.

Racalto went on to contact Pelosi’s office directly in October. Tick, tick, tick. Five months later, in the wake of Massa’s own self-professed proclivity for tickle parties and victim/witness accounts of Massa’s alleged sexual assaults on his Navy underlings, Pelosi is pooh-poohing the scandal: “I have a job to do and not to be the receiver of rumors.” Translation: Don’t bother me with concerns about my members’ indiscretions. I’m busy. How quickly we’ve accelerated from the “most ethical” House ever to “see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.”

There was a time when Pelosi the protector held House leaders to the highest standards and expectations in guarding young people working on Capitol Hill. During the GOP Mark Foley scandal, she inveighed: “The children who work as Pages in the Congress are Members’ special trust. Statements by the Republican Leadership indicate that they violated this trust when they were made aware of the Internet stalking of an underage Page by Mr. Foley and covered it up for six months to a year.”

Yet, she remains silent on the plight of the twentysomethings whom Massa was keeping house with under circumstances that rate an Ick Factor of 10+. Massa’s alleged targets are someone’s children, too.

Deflecting accountability for her own office’s violations of trust, Pelosi feigned sympathy for Massa and attributed his impaired ethical judgment to his medical condition (he has cancer). “Poor baby,” she said through gritted teeth. He’s “a very sick person.” So, what’s Pelosi’s excuse?

***

Update 11:30am Eastern. Pelosi made a brief press appearance to appear in command of the health care reform debate. She said the House would take as long as it needed…and then floated a March 21 deadline, on which she said she was happy Obama would be in attendance to sign a bill. Says public option will not be in this bill. Addressed parliamentary debate tussle from yesterday and asserted that “once we pass the Senate bill, it will be law.” Talked about student loan nationalization as part of reconciliation package. “In order for the Senate to do reconciliation, President must first sign the bill.”

More from Daniel Foster at NRO:

It is looking increasingly likely that Pelosi will employ the “Slaughter Rule,” a complex legislative maneuver that could allow the House to avoid a direct up-or-down vote on the Senate bill.

In a conference call with reporters, including NRO, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) commented on the House’s plan.

“It doesn’t solve their political problem,” McConnell said of the maneuver. “The Cornhusker Kickback, the Louisiana Purchase, Gator-Aid. . . .Every member of the House of Representatives who votes for the Senate bill will have voted for all these things.”

McConnell continued, saying the employment of the Slaughter Rule would at best reveal House Democrats as flip-floppers. “It’s not solvable. . .. And even if by some hook or crook or maneuver or parliamentary device some of [the special deals] will be removed, then the position they will be in is that they will have voted for these measures before they voted against them.”

“The reason all this arm-twisting and parliamentary maneuvers is going on is because people hate this bill,” McConnell said.

But CongressDaily reports that, despite a key ruling from the Senate parliamentarian that the reconciliation process cannot start until the Senate bill is passed by the House and signed into law, the House is undeterred in pursuing the rule as a means of passing health-care reform.

And from Allahpundit:

Precisely because of the Slaughter strategy, it’s not the Senate bill that the House will be voting on. They’ll be voting on the reconciliation “fix,” which will be deemed to include the Senate bill but which hasn’t even been written yet. Will that be ready 72 or 48 or 24 hours before the vote on? No one knows. Although honestly, at this point, I hope it isn’t. I’d prefer to see them finish the bill an hour before the vote, or else to pass a completely blank reconciliation bill and then fill in whatever provisions they like at a meeting with Obama afterwards. That’s the only truly fitting way to end this fiasco — that, or having the bill fail narrowly during the House vote, at which point Pelosi would rise and somehow simply “deem” it as having passed. The more illegitimate this thing is, the greater the (admittedly small) chance that the GOP can roll back parts of it later. So here’s to Democrats getting really, really crazy with the cheese whiz.

Posted in: Corruption, Health care, Nancy Pelosi

 

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"Pelosi’s attitude reminds me of a news item I read years ago, about a home-invasion robber who was in the midst of raping a woman in the house when the police arrived outside and called on him to give himself up.

“Just a minute,” he yelled back, “I’m almost finished.”"

Panic at the Team O: Asia jaunt delayed for Demcare

March 12, 2010 09:37 AM by Michelle Malkin

55 Comments |

 

"Personally, I wish he’d pack up and go back home to Indonesia. He’s over stayed his welcome here..."

 

"The National Park Service needs to begin preparations on a Red Square Moscow-style glass sarcoughagus for our own Littlest Lenin. His presidency is officially dead. Begin mummification now."

 

 

Datapoint:

March 12, 2010 at 11:15 pm

For the FIRST time since Barbara Boxer ran for the Senate in 1992, this evening I recieved a phone call from one of her supporters asking for my vote (and money). I was happy to tell her that for the FIRST time I will not be voting for Barbara Boxer (nor will I be giving her a donation). When Barbara Boxer has to ask for the votes of Democrats, you know she’s in trouble.

Sarah Palin Slams Obama and Crazy Alan Grayson in Florida Speech

Saturday, March 13, 2010, 12:21 AM

Jim Hoft

Sarah Palin marvels at meeting Angie Langley as she is welcomed to the stage at the Orange County Republican Executive Committee Lincoln Day Dinner, at the Rosen Shingle Creek, in Orlando, Friday. Langley is known for her web site lambasting democratic Rep. Alan Grayson. (Orlando Sentinel)

Sarah Palin blasted Obama, his fellow radicals in Washington DC and crazed democrat Alan Grayson in her talk tonight in Florida.
The Orlando Sentinel reported:

Sarah Palin lashed out at Washington, the media and condescending liberals Friday night at an Orlando Republican fund-raising event, and predicted the GOP would restore “common sense” to government in the upcoming November elections.

Palin said those notes she wrote on her hand at a National Tea Party event — where the media and White House later “busted me for using a poor-man’s teleprompter” — explained just what the country needed: a strong energy policy, tax cuts; and “lifting America’s spirits.”

“Americans get it,” Palin said. “In Washington, they don’t get it.”

The wildly popular, but equally polarizing former vice presidential candidate packed the Orange County Republican Party’s annual Lincoln Day fundraiser, attracting 1,300 fans to the Shingle Creek Resort. Orange GOP Chairman Lew Oliver said he expected the event to net the party more than $110,000.

Orlando was the latest stop in Palin’s high-mileage speaking tour. She spoke in Daytona Beach last month, headlined an Ohio Right to Life Society fundraiser last Friday, and landed in Calgary, Canada, the next day. Later this month, Palin will help raise re-election funds for U.S. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., the man who plucked her from relative obscurity to be his running mate in the 2008 presidential race.

On Friday, Palin advocated drilling for oil and natural gas to gain energy independence but said nothing specifically about such exploration off Florida’s coast, a source of heated political dispute.

While advocating for standard GOP issues — lower taxes, less spending, more freedom and smaller government — Palin also singled out one Central Florida Democratic politician: U.S Rep. Alan Grayson of Orlando. Palin said voters need to remove the fiery millionaire lawyer in November.

“Do it for the rest of America,” she said in a speech lasting about 40 minutes.

Amen. Get rid of that awful kook, Florida.

Governor Palin 4 President has more on tonight’s speech.

Comments (7)

[backhoe]

Hell, the Lyin' King has already stolen your children's future- who cares abouth this?

Stealing our land and our rights by Executive Order

Obama already has in place many executive orders....

http://soldierforliberty.wordpress.com/2010/01/22/executive-orders-signed-by-president-obama/

He is working behind the scenes - everything from the land grab in the west to Dept of Education ordering guns to the IRS having guns not to mention other efforts.

He wants to ban fishing and control the food.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2468377/posts

http://foodfreedom.wordpress.com/2009/06/16/hr-2749-totalitarian-control-of-the-food-supply/

Come to Washington DC on March 16, 2010. Stop Pelosi's Health Care

Kneale: Obama as Ahab, Strapped to Moby Dick

Economy Kept On Life Support While Global Governance Is Organized

East Africa is next hot oil zone

OIL

About 6 months ago, the writer was watching a news program on oil and one of the Forbes Bros. was the guest. The host said to Forbes, "I am going to ask you a direct question and I would like a direct answer; how much oil does the U.S. have in the ground?" Forbes did not miss a beat, he said, "more than all the Middle East put together."

FBI Reaffirms CAIR's Terrorist Ties

Hawaii Symposium: The Implementation of Arabic & Mandarin Language in Public Schools (VANITY)

Texas ed board vote reflects far-right influences (total AP MELTDOWN!!!)

Climategate Was an Academic Disaster Waiting to Happen

Outlaw President: Obama's Justice Dept Shuts Down ACORN Investigation

Comin' soon to the rest of Ø-Merica...

The Mayor Of Detroit’s Radical Plan To Bulldoze One Quarter Of The City

NBC's Rehema Ellis Accidentally Explains Supply-Side Economics

An NBC reporter actually stumbled upon an economic truth. It was an accident. It wasn't intentional, but still the NBC reporter got it right. Andrea Mitchell was talking to the correspondent Rehema Ellis about schools closing in Kansas City and elsewhere because of budget shortfalls, and Andrea Mitchell, NBC News, Washington, said, "This is not just Kansas City. This is the most drastic case we've seen so far, but this is a ripple effect we're seeing from the recession. What is going to happen to the students there and elsewhere across the country?"

ELLIS: It's simple, too, Andrea, you know, we hear a lot of people complain about the excesses of Wall Street here in New York and people getting big bonuses. But when they get those bonuses, that money then is taxed. That tax goes into state coffers. Those states then are able to give money to the schools. When it's not there, guess what? That means the money's not there for the schools and education, so that ripple effect comes down and it's starting to hit a lot of people at home and it's starting to hit our kids in the schools.

RUSH: Now, this infobabe Rehema Ellis is going to be embarrassed when I point out that she's justifying Ronald Reagan trickle-down economics. She's just defined supply-side economics. Well, you know, we hear a lot of people complaining about the excesses of Wall Street here in New York and people getting big bonuses, but when they get those bonuses that money's taxed.

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(Photos) Sarah Palin In Orlando: “Fire The Chosen One, We Will Take Back Congress & White House”

Why Health Bill Makes No Sense

Health Reform: So it's come down to this — desperate Democratic leaders strong-arming members on the worst bill ever before they go home to explain to constituents why they decided to commit political suicide.

We've said just about all we've had to say on this issue — actually dating back to 1993-94, when we wrote nearly 100 editorials in opposition to HillaryCare. Since January of last year, we've weighed in 150 more times against the latest version of socialized medicine.

But to review, here are just 15 reasons why a government takeover of the finest medical system in the world makes no sense at all:

1. The people don't want it! This, we would think, should have some bearing on decision-making. Yet the Democrats forge ahead without consent of the governed. In the latest Rasmussen poll, 53% opposed the Democrats' reform while 42% were in favor. More than four in 10 "strongly" opposed; just two in 10 "strongly" favored. This jibes with other surveys, including our own IBD/TIPP Poll, taken since last year.

3. Half the Congress doesn't want it! Not a single Republican backed the health care bill that cleared the Senate on Christmas Eve 60-39. House passage was by a slim 220 to 215, and the lone Republican "aye" has since switched to "no." Columnist Michael Barone says other changes would put the House vote today at 216-215 in favor, and he has doubts Democrats can even muster 216.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi made her job of securing yes votes even more difficult last week when she told a meeting of county officials that "we have to pass the bill so you can find out what is in it." Members of Congress aren't waiting: They've already exempted themselves from whatever they inflict on us.

(Excerpt) Read more at investors.com ...

Constitutional Republic

Our STATE Governments' Need To Step In And STOP THIS POWER GRAB.

Pelosi: Obama's Delayed Trip: "I'm Delighted the President Will Be Here for the Passage of the Bill"

Constitutional Republic

Our STATE Governments' Need To Step In And STOP THIS POWER GRAB.

Pelosi: Obama's Delayed Trip: "I'm Delighted the President Will Be Here for the Passage of the Bill"

[backhoe]

MARCH 16TH: The People Surging Against ObamaCare.

A year has been wasted while Democrats clung bitterly to ObamaCare.

 

722 Yes, I have Obama fatigue, too.   Just today I was thinking about it.  I can't keep up with all the ways he and the congress are trying to DESTROY our fine Republic EVERY DAY, and no Lib caring.  

However, this "Slaughter" rule is going too far.  If they do this, they will BREAK the constitution.   Very, very dangerous territory.  Several million US military personnel have made a vow, which they take very seriously, to DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION.  Not to mention the millions and millions of freedom and law loving citizens.

 

Lead Story

Constitution Butchers: Stop Pelosi’s Slaughter House

By Michelle Malkin  •  March 13, 2010 10:11 AM

Meet Constitution-butchers Nancy Pelosi and Louise Slaughter.

Cleaning House…by bloodying it:

Photoshop exclusive: Big Fur Hat at iowntheworld.com and Applecross Media

Via Doug Ross:

In the Slaughter Solution, the rule would declare that the House “deems” the Senate version of Obamacare to have been passed by the House. House members would still have to vote on whether to accept the rule, but they would then be able to say they only voted for a rule, not for the bill itself.

Thus, Slaughter is preparing a rule that would consider the Senate bill “passed” once the House approves a corrections bill that would make changes. Democrats would thereby avoid a direct vote on the health care bill while allowing it to become law!

Constitutional attorney Mark R. Levin asks, “They’re going to present a rule, issued by her committee as chairman, that says that the House already adopted the Senate bill when we know it didn’t?”

U.S Constitution, Article I, Section VII, Clause II.

Every Bill which shall have passed the House of Representatives and the Senate, shall, before it become a Law, be presented to the President of the United States; If he approve he shall sign it, but if not he shall return it, with his Objections to that House in which it shall have originated, who shall enter the Objections at large on their Journal, and proceed to reconsider it. If after such Reconsideration two thirds of that House shall agree to pass the Bill, it shall be sent, together with the Objections, to the other House, by which it shall likewise be reconsidered, and if approved by two thirds of that House, it shall become a Law. But in all such Cases the Votes of both Houses shall be determined by Yeas and Nays, and the Names of the Persons voting for and against the Bill shall be entered on the Journal of each House respectively…

According to Levin, James Madison himself gave special care and attention to this clause in the Constitution.

Levin: And do you want to know why? Because this clause goes to the heart of this Republic.

This clause goes to the heart of how our representative body, that is Congress, makes laws. And so I want you to [observe] how particular the Framers were… They have to pass a Bill to present it to the President…

This is one of the most exacting clauses in the Constitution.

And, to the best of my knowledge, which extends over three decades, no Congress has previously tried to institute policies without actual statutes.

Here we have the President of the United States and Congressional leaders actually talking about the possibility of a brazen and open violation of one of the most fundamental aspects of our Constitution and Republic! How we actually make laws!

Let me be as clear as I know how. If this is done, this will create the greatest Constitutional crisis since the Civil War. It would be 100 times worse than Watergate.

…It would be government by fiat… meaning there would be no law… the mere discussion by officials in this government is such a grotesque violation of the actual legislative function of Congress [that it] puts us… at the brink. At the brink.

This is why we conservatives revere the Constitution. This is why we stress the Constitution’s words have meaning and historical context and must be complied with. Because otherwise we have anarchy, which leads to tyranny.

This is a crucial lesson for those of you who… aren’t sure what your beliefs are, or if you have any beliefs. Or aren’t sure if you even care. We have an effort underway by the one of the most powerful chairmen in Congress, the woman who heads the Rules Committee, …openly discussing gutting Congress. Gutting Congress.

***

And it indeed appears to be unprecedented. Mark Tapscott at the Examiner:

Members of the U.S. House of Representatives have never before been asked to pass legislation by “deeming” it approved under a House rule instead of following the process required by the U.S. Constitution in which they actually vote on the proposal itself, according to a senior aide to House Republicans.

The procedure – dubbed by critics as the “Slaughter Solution” – is the brain-child of House Rules Committee Chairman Rep. Louise Slaughter, D-NY, who, at the request of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-CA, is trying to fashion a rule that would allow the House to move toward passage of a health care reform bill without a recorded vote on the Senate version.

Like the Senate, which adopted its health care reform measure on Christmas Eve, the House passed its version last year. But there are major differences between the two measures, especially concerning federal funding of abortions. The Senate version includes billions of dollars to fund new health care clinics that would offer abortion services. The House bill was passed only after Rep. Bart Stupak’s amendment barring federal funding for the procedure was included.

Slaughter’s approach would bring to the House floor a reconcilliation bill to resolve differences between the House and Senate versions of health care reform with the rule deeming the House to have approved the Senate version. The GOP aide, who requested anonymity, said a search of the House archives failed to reveal any previous use of the Slaughter Solution.

***

Reminder: March 16 in Washington DC – The People’s Surge against the Demcare cramdown.

Time: March 16, 2010 from 9am to 6pm
Location: Cannon House Office Building
Street: Independence Avenue SE and New Jersey SE
City/Town: Washington, DC

***

Contact Louise Slaughter:

Washington D.C. Office
2469 Rayburn HOB
Washington, D.C. 20515
Phone: (202) 225-3615
Fax: (202) 225-7822

Contact Pelosi:

Office of the Speaker
H-232, US Capitol
Washington, DC 20515
(202) 225-0100

Contact list – Blue Dog Democrats

Via Tea Party Patriots:

TARGETS BY STATE

ALABAMA

Rep. Bobby Bright, Alabama 2nd

http://www.bright.house.gov/

DC Office Number: (202) 225-2901, DC Fax Number: (202) 225-8913
Local Office Number: (334) 794-9680, Local Fax Number: (334) 671-1480
Chief of Staff: Jason Buckner email: jason.buckner@mail.house.gov
Voted Yes on Stupak
Voted No on Health Care
Currently Undecided on Next Health Care Takeover Vote
Listed on Blue Dog Coalition

ARIZONA

Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick, Arizona, 1st

http://kirkpatrick.house.gov/

DC Office Number: (202) 225-2315, DC Fax Number: (202) 226-9739
Local Office Number: (928) 226-6914, Local Fax Number: (928) 226-2876
Voted Yes on Health Care
Currently Undecided on Next Health Care Takeover Vote

Rep. Harry Mitchell, Arizona 5th

http://mitchell.house.gov/

DC Office Number: (202) 225-2190
Local Office Number: (480) 946-2411
Voted Yes on Health Care, Currently Undecided on Next Health Care Takeover Vote
Listed on Blue Dog Coalition Membership

Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, Arizona, 8th

http://giffords.house.gov/

DC Office Number: (202) 225-2542, DC Fax Number: (202) 225-0378
Local Office Number: (520) 881-3588, Local Fax Number: (520) 322-9490
Voted Yes on Health Care
Currently Undecided on Next Health Care Takeover Vote
Listed on Blue Dog Coalition Membership

ARKANSAS

Rep. Marion Berry, Arkansas 1st

http://www.house.gov/berry/

DC Office Number: (202) 225-4076, DC Fax Number: (202) 225-5602
Local Office Number: (870) 972-4600, Local Fax Number: (870) 972-4605
Listed on Blue Dog Coalition Membership

Rep. Mike Ross, Arkansas 4th

http://ross.house.gov/

DC Office Number: (202) 225-3772, DC Fax Number: (202) 225-1314
Local Office Number: (870) 881-0681, Local Fax Number: (870) 881-0683
Voted Yes on Stupak, Voted No on Health Care, Currently Undecided on Next Health Care Takeover Vote
Listed on Blue Dog Coalition Membership

CALIFORNIA

Rep. Dennis Cardoza, California 18th

http://www.house.gov/cardoza/

DC Office Number: (202) 225-6131, DC Fax Number: (202) 225-0819
Local Office Number: (209) 383-4455, Local Fax Number: (209) 726-1065
Voted Yes on Health Care, Currently Undecided on Next Health Care Takeover Vote
Listed on Blue Dog Coalition Membership

Rep. Jim Costa, California 20th

http://www.house.gov/costa/

DC Office Number: (202) 225-3341, DC Fax Number: (202) 225-9308
Local Office Number: (559) 495-1620, Local Fax Number: (559) 495-1027
Voted Yes on Health Care, Currently Undecided on Next Health Care Takeover Vote
Listed on Blue Dog Coalition Membership

Rep. Laura Richardson, California, 37th

http://richardson.house.gov/

DC Office Number: (202) 225-7924, DC Fax Number: (202) 225-7926
District Office Number: (202) 225-7924, District Fax Number: (202) 225-7926

Rep. Linda Sanchez, California, 39th

http://lindasanchez.house.gov/

DC Office Number: (202) 225-6676
Local Office Number: (562) 860-5050

COLORADO

Rep. Markey, Colorado 4th

http://betsymarkey.house.gov/

DC Office Number: 202-225-4676, DC Fax Number: 202-225-5870
Local Office Number: 970-221-7110, Local Fax Number: 970-221-7240
Voted Yes on Stupak
Voted No on Health Care
Currently Undecided on Next Health Care Takeover Vote
Listed on Blue Dog Coalition

FLORIDA

Rep. Allen Boyd, Florida, 2nd

http://boyd.house.gov/

DC Office Number: (202) 225-5235, DC Fax Number: (202) 225-5615
Local Office Number: (850) 561-3979, Local Fax Number: (850) 681-2902
Voted Yes on Stupak
Voted No on Health Care
Currently Undecided on Next Health Care Takeover Vote
Listed on Blue Dog Coalition Membership

Rep. Ron Klein, Florida, 22nd

http://www.klein.house.gov/index.html

DC Office Number: (202) 225.3026, DC Fax Number: (202) 225.8398
Local Office Number: (561) 544-6910, Local Fax Number: (561) 544-2864

Rep. Suzanne Kosmas, Florida, 24th

http://www.kosmas.house.gov/

DC Office Number: (202) 225-2706, DC Fax Number: (202) 226-6299
Local Office Number: (407) 208-1106, Local Fax Number: (407) 208-1108
Voted Yes on Stupak
Voted No on Health Care
Currently Undecided on Next Health Care Takeover Vote

GEORGIA

Rep. Jim Marshall, Georgia 8th

http://jimmarshall.house.gov/

DC Office Number: (202) 225-6531, DC Fax Number: (202) 225-3013
Local Office Number: (478) 464-0255, Local Fax Number: (478) 464-0277
Voted Yes on Stupak, Voted No on Health Care, Currently Undecided on Next Health Care Takeover Vote
Listed on Blue Dog Coalition Membership

Rep. John Barrow, Georgia 12th

http://www.barrow.house.gov/

DC Office Number: (202) 225-2823, DC Fax Number: (202) 225-3377
Local Office Number: (706) 722-4494, Local Fax Number: (706) 722-4496
Voted Yes on Stupak
Voted No on Health Care
Currently Undecided on Next Health Care Takeover Vote
Listed on Blue Dog Coalition Membership

IDAHO

Rep. Walt Minnick, Idaho 1st

http://minnick.house.gov/

DC Office Number: (202) 225-6611, DC Fax Number: (202) 225-3029
Local Office Number: (208) 888-3188, Local Fax Number: (208) 888-0894
Chief of Staff: Kare Haas email: kate.haas@mail.house.gov
Voted Yes on Stupak
Voted No on Health Care
Currently No on Next Health Care Takeover Vote
Listed on Blue Dog Coalition

ILLINOIS

Rep. Daniel Lipinski, Illinois 3rd

http://www.lipinski.house.gov/

DC Office Number: (202) 225-5701, DC Fax Number: (202) 225-1012
Local Office Number: (312) 886-0481, Local Fax Number: (773) 767-9395

Rep. Melissa Bean, Illinois 8th

http://www.house.gov/bean/

DC Office Number: (202) 225-3711, DC Fax Number: (202) 225-7830
Local Office Number: (847) 517-2927, Local Fax Number: (847) 517-2931

Rep. Deborah “Debbie” Halvorson, Illinois, 11th

http://halvorson.house.gov/

DC Office Number: (202) 225-3635, DC Fax Number: (202) 225-3521
Local Office Number: (815) 726-4998, Local Fax Number: (815) 726-8024

INDIANA

Rep. Peter Visclosky, Indiana, 1st

http://www.house.gov/visclosky/

DC Office Number: (202) 225-2461, DC Fax Number: (202) 225-2493
Local Office Number: (219) 795-1844, DC Fax Number: (219) 795-1850

Rep. Joe Donnelly, Indiana 2nd

http://donnelly.house.gov/

DC Office Number: (202) 225-3915, DC Fax Number: (202) 225-6798
Local Office Number: (574) 288-2780, Local Fax Number: (574) 288-2825
Voted Yes on Health Care, Currently Undecided on Next Health Care Takeover Vote
Listed on Blue Dog Coalition Membership

Rep. Brad Ellsworth, Indiana, 8th

http://www.ellsworth.house.gov/

DC Office Number: (202) 225-4636, DC Office Fax: (202) 225-3284
Local Office Number: (812) 465-6484, Local Fax Number: (812) 422-4761
Listed on Blue Dog Coalition Membership

Rep. Baron Hill, Indiana 9th

http://baronhill.house.gov/

DC Office Number: (202) 225-5315, DC Fax Number: (202) 226-6866
Local Office Number: (812) 288-3999, Local Fax Number: (812) 288-3873
Voted Yes on Health Care, Currently Undecided on Next Health Care Takeover Vote
Listed on Blue Dog Coalition Membership

KENTUCKY

Rep. Ben Chandler, Kentucky 6th

http://chandler.house.gov/contact/index.shtml

DC Office Number: (202) 225-4706, DC Fax Number: (202) 225-2122
Local Office Number: (859) 219-1366, Local Fax Number: (859) 219-3437
Chief of Staff: Denis Fleming email: denis.fleming@mail.house.gov
Voted Yes on Stupak
Voted No on Health Care
Currently Undecided on Next Health Care Takeover Vote
Listed on Blue Dog Coalition

LOUSIANA

Rep. Charlie Melancon, Lousiana

http://www.melancon.house.gov/

DC Office Number: (202) 225-4031, DC Fax Number: (202) 226-3944
Local Office Number: (985) 876-3033, Local Fax Number:
Chief of Staff: Joe Bonfiglio email: joe.bonfiglio@mail.house.gov
Voted Yes on Stupak
Voted No on Health Care
Currently No on Next Health Care Takeover Vote
Listed on Blue Dog Coalition

MAINE

Rep. Michael Michaud, Maine 2nd

http://michaud.house.gov/

DC Office Number: (202) 225-6306, DC Fax Number: (202) 225-2943
Local Office Number: (207) 942-6935, Local Fax Number: (207) 942-5907
Listed on Blue Dog Coalition Membership

MARYLAND

Rep. Frank Kratovil, Maryland 1st

http://kratovil.house.gov

DC Office Number: 202-225-5311, DC Fax Number: 202-225-0254
Local Office Number: (410) 420-8822, Local Fax Number: (443) 262 – 9713
Chief of Staff: Tim McCann email: tim.mccann@mail.house.gov
Voted Yes on Stupak
Voted No on Health Care
Currently Undecided on Next Health Care Takeover Vote
Listed on Blue Dog Coalition

Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger, Maryland, 2nd

http://dutch.house.gov/

DC Office Number: 202-225-3061, DC Fax Number: 202-225-3094
Local Office Number: 410-628-2701, Local Fax Number: 410-628-2708

MASSACHUSETTS

Rep. Ed Markey, Massachusetts, 7th

http://markey.house.gov/

DC Office Number: 202-225-2836
Local Office Number: 781-396-2900

Rep. Stephen Lynch, Massachusetts, 9th

http://www.house.gov/lynch/

DC Office Number: 202-225-8273, DC Fax Number: 202-225-3984
Local Office Number: 617-428-2000, Local Office Fax: 617-428-2011

MICHIGAN

Rep. Bart Stupak, Michigan 1st

http://www.house.gov/stupak/

DC Office Number: (202) 225-4735, DC Fax Number: (202) 225-4744
Local Office Number: (906) 786-4504, Local Fax Number: (906) 786-4534
Voted Yes on Stupak, Voted Yes on Health Care, Currently Undecided on Next Health Care Takeover Vote

Rep. Mark Schauer Michigan 7th

http://schauer.house.gov

DC Office Number: (202) 225-6276, DC Fax Number: (202) 225-6281
Local Office Number: (517) 780-9075, Local Fax Number: (517) 780-9081
Voted Yes on Health Care
Currently Undecided

Rep. Gary Peters, Michigan, 9th

http://peters.house.gov/index.html

DC Office Number: (202) 225-5802, DC Fax Number: (202) 226-2356
Local Office Number: (248) 273-4227, Local Fax Number: (248) 273-4704

MINNESOTA

Rep. Collin C. Peterson, Minnesota 7th

http://collinpeterson.house.gov/

DC Office Number: (202) 225-2165, DC Fax Number: (202) 225-1593
Local Office Number: (218) 847-5056
Voted Yes on Stupak, Voted No on Health Care, Currently Undecided on Next Health Care Takeover Vote
Listed on Blue Dog Coalition Membership

MISSISSIPPI

Rep. Travis Childers, Mississippi 1st

http://childers.house.gov/

DC Office Number: (202) 225-4306, DC Fax Number: (202) 225-3549
Local Office Number: (662) 841-8808, Local Fax Number: (662) 841-8845
Voted Yes on Stupak
Voted No on Health Care
Currently Undecided on Next Health Care Takeover Vote
Listed on Blue Dog Coalition Membership

Rep. Gene Taylor, Mississippi 4th

http://www.house.gov/genetaylor/

DC Office Number: (202) 225-5772, DC Fax Number: (202) 225-7074
Local Office Number: (228) 864-7670, Local Fax Number: (228) 864-3099
Voted Yes on Stupak, Voted No on Health Care, Currently Undecided on Next Health Care Takeover Vote
Listed on Blue Dog Coalition Membership

MISSOURI

Rep. Ike Skelton, Missouri 4th

http://www.house.gov/skelton/

DC Office Number: (202) 225-2876
Local Office Number: (816) 228-4242
Voted Yes on Stupak, Voted No on Health Care, Currently Undecided on Next Health Care Takeover Vote

NEW JERSEY

Rep. John Adler, New Jersey 3rd

http://adler.house.gov/

DC Office Number: (202) 225-4765, DC Fax Number: (202) 225-0778
Local Office Number: (732) 608-7235, Local Fax Number: (732) 608-7268
Voted Yes on Stupak
Voted Yes on Health Care
Currently Undecided on Next Health Care Takeover Vote high priority

NEW MEXICO

Rep. Martin Heinrich, New Mexico 1st

http://heinrich.house.gov

DC Office Number: (202) 225-6316, DC Fax Number: (202) 225-4975
Local Office Number: (505) 346-6781, Local Fax Number: (505) 346-6723
Voted Yes on Health Care
Currently Undecided

Rep. Harry Teague, New Mexico 2nd

http://teague.house.gov/

DC Office Number: (202) 225-2365, DC Fax Number:
Local Office Number: (575) 393-0510, Local Fax Number:
Voted Yes on Stupak
Voted No on Health Care
Currently Undecided on Next Health Care Takeover Vote

NEW YORK

Rep. Tim Bishop, New York 1st

http://timbishop.house.gov

DC Office Number: (202) 225-3826, DC Fax Number: (202) 225-3143
Local Office Number: (631) 696-6500, Local Fax Number: (631) 696-4520
Voted Yes on Health Care
Currently Undecided

Rep. Michael E. McMahon, New York 13th

http://mcmahon.house.gov/

DC Office Number: (202) 225-3371, DC Fax Number: (202) 226-1272
Local Office Number: (718) 351-1062, Local Fax Number: (718) 980-0768
Voted Yes on Stupak, Voted No on Health Care, Currently Undecided on Next Health Care Takeover Vote

Rep. Scott Murphy, New York 20th

http://scottmurphy.house.gov/Contact/ContactForm.htm

DC Office Number: (202) 225-5614, DC Fax Number: (202) 225-1168
Local Office Number: (518) 828-3109, Local Fax Number: (518) 828-3985
Voted Yes on Stupak
Voted No on Health Care
Currently Undecided on Next Health Care Takeover Vote
Listed on Blue Dog Coalition

Rep. Bill Owens, New York 23rd

https://owens.house.gov/

DC Office Number: (202) 225-4611, DC Fax Number: (202) 226-0621
Local Office Number: (315) 782-3150, Local Fax Number: (315) 782-1291
Voted Yes on Health Care
Currently Undecided on Next Health Care Takeover Vote

Rep. Michael Arcuri, New York 24th

http://arcuri.house.gov/

DC Office Number: (202) 225-3665, DC Fax Number: (202) 225-1891
Local Office Number: (315) 252-2777/2778, Local Fax Number: (315) 252-2779
Voted Yes on Health Care
Currently No Vote on Health Care
Listed on Blue Dog Coalition Membership

Rep. Daniel B. Maffei, New York, 25th

http://maffei.house.gov/

DC Fax Number: (202) 225-3701, DC Fax Number: (202) 225-4042
Local Office Number: (315) 423-5657, Local Fax Number: (315) 423-5669

NEVADA

Rep. Dina Titus, Nevada 3rd

http://titus.house.gov

DC Office Number: (202) 225-3252, DC Fax Number: (202) 225-2185
Local Office Number: (702) 387-4941, Local Fax Number: (702) 837-0728
Voted Yes on Health Care
Currently Undecided

NEW HAMPSHIRE

Rep. Paul W. Hodes, New Hampshire, 2nd

http://hodes.house.gov/

DC Office Number: (202) 225-5206, DC Fax Number: (202) 225-2946
Local Office Phone: (603) 223-9814, Local Fax Number: (603) 223-9819

NORTH CAROLINA

Rep. Bob Etheridge, North Carolina, 2nd

http://etheridge.house.gov/

DC Office Number: (202) 225-4531
Local Office Number: (919) 829-9122

Rep. Mike McIntyre, North Carolina 7th

http://www.house.gov/mcintyre

DC Office Number: (202) 225-2731, DC Fax Number: (202) 225-5773
Local Office Number: (910) 323-0260, Local Fax Number: (910) 323-0069
Chief of Staff: Dean Mitchell email: dean.mitchell@mail.house.gov
Voted Yes on Stupak
Voted No on Health Care
Currently Undecided on Next Health Care Takeover Vote
Listed on Blue Dog Coalition

Rep. Larry Kissell, North Carolina 8th

http://kissell.house.gov/

DC Office Number: (202) 225-3715, DC Fax Number: (202) 225-4036
Local Office Number: (704) 786-1612, Local Fax Number: (704) 782-1004
Voted Yes on Stupak
Voted No on Health Care
Currently No on Next Health Care Takeover Vote

Rep. Heath Shuler, North Carolina 11th

http://shuler.house.gov/

DC Office Number: (202) 225-6401, DC Fax Number: (202) 226-6422
Local Office Number: (828) 252-1651, Local Fax Number: (828) 252-8734
Chief of Staff: Hayden Rogers email: hayden.rogers@mail.house.gov
Voted Yes on Stupak
Voted No on Health Care
Currently Undecided on Next Health Care Takeover Vote
Listed on Blue Dog Coalition

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"We must stop this tyranny. The photoshop of the Butcher girls would be funny if it wasn’t so serious and if our freedom wasn’t in such peril. "

 

March 13, 2010 at 9:52 am

The trigger for your reaction, Hillbuzz? Mark Levin explained it last night and the night before.

When Congress invokes the Slaughter Rule, it will have declared the Constitution null and void.

Clarice Feldman writes about it here:
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/03/levin_on_representative_slaugh.html

This is the link to the Mark Levin Show Audio Rewind (free to everyone).
http://www.marklevinshow.com/rss/ilevin.xml

Click on the dloadTrack.mp3 link under either 03/11 or 03/12 and you will get the full three hours.

 

 Congress should listen to states on the EPA. “THE governors of 18 states and two territories – including Democrats Joe Manchin and Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear – have called on Congress to rein in the Environmental Protection Agency. The governors, in a letter to congressional leaders, cited the failure of the administration to weigh the economic fallout of EPA’s intention to regulate greenhouse gases.”

 

Remember to multiply X2 for the Real Figgur:

ALL THAT PRESIDENTIAL JAWBONING DIDN’T HELP: Las Vegas jobless rate hits all-time high of 13.1 percent.

UPDATE: More recent story here. “Men, minorities hit particularly hard.”

MICHAEL FUMENTO: Toyota Hybrid Horror Hoax.

THE PRESIDENT IS NOT A BRAND.

From the comments: “President Edsel.”

"If he is not a produt or a brand, why does the White House get into such a tizzy when his image, his campaign logo, Hope and Change, or anything related to him or what he said are used in commercials?
The guy is a product. They just cannot decide if he is cat food, dog food, tampons, deodorant, beer, chips, Dinty Moore Stew, or Hormel Chili."

Obama – Dick Nixon without Checkers

by snork ( 250 Comments › )

Apropos

Of my view overlooking "Lebanon" at the Golan Heights this morning...

h/t Adrian

Posted by Kate at 11:40 AM| Comments (12)

 

Dead Man Walking: Alexi Giannoulias to drop out of Senate race before Easter

Posted by hillbuzz under Uncategorized | Tags: Alexi Giannoulias, David Hoffman, Illinois Senate race |
[11] Comments 

The key to taking down bad Democrats is cutting off their revenue streams.

Apply pressure to donors, keep the donors from giving money to these lunatics, and bad Democrats just go away.

They will NOT self-finance their own campaigns.  If wealthy, misguided, celebrity-obsessed people in cities like Chicago, who give money to campaigns because they want their pictures taken with famous people, don’t want to be associated with a candidate who is getting bad press and whose picture they can’t be proud to have on their walls, then they won’t give those people any money.

Old and busted: The Dec/Jan retail sales boom
The New Hotness: ...meh, not so much...

—Purple Avenger

The Department of Commerce just release some new lies to replace the old and stale lies.(PDF doc)

The U.S. Census Bureau announced today that advance estimates of U.S. retail and food services sales for February, adjusted for seasonal variation and holiday and trading-day differences, but not for price changes, were $355.5 billion, an increase of 0.3 percent (±0.5%)* from the previous month and 3.9 percent (±0.5%) above February 2009. Total sales for the December 2009 through February 2010 period were up 4.5 percent (±0.3%) from the same period a year ago. The December 2009 to January 2010 percent change was revised from +0.5 percent (±0.5%)* to +0.1 percent (±0.3%)*.

When your figures are off by say up to 30% people don't raise too many eyebrows, but when you've blown it by several hundred percent, methodology has to come into question.

REVISED is the new UNEXPECTED

Continue reading

Close it up

Posted by Purple Avenger at 09:27 AM New Comments Thingy

 

The Sestak Stonewall: What's Obama So Guilty About?

—Gabriel Malor

Three weeks ago, Representative Joe Sestak said that the President had offered him a political appointment if he wouldn't run against Senator Arlen Specter. This should have been a bombshell, but it has gone largely unremarked because the White House is successfully avoiding the issue.

Sestak is sticking by his earlier statement, though he's chosen not to expand on it. The White House's silence on the issue—the Administration is not even denying the charge—is beginning to look like guilt. So what could the President be guilty of? This is not my area of law, but there are a few options:

18 U.S.C. § 211 Acceptance or solicitation to obtain appointive public office

Whoever solicits or receives, either as a political contribution, or for personal emolument, any money or thing of value, in consideration of the promise of support or use of influence in obtaining for any person any appointive office or place under the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.

Whoever solicits or receives any thing of value in consideration of aiding a person to obtain employment under the United States either by referring his name to an executive department or agency of the United States or by requiring the payment of a fee because such person has secured such employment shall be fined under this title, or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.

The sticking point is whether dropping out of the primary is "any thing of value." Some states define the term. Federal statute does not.

The next one is more likely:

18 U.S.C. § 600. Promise of employment or other benefit for political activity

Whoever, directly or indirectly, promises any employment, position, compensation, contract, appointment, or other benefit, provided for or made possible in whole or in part by any Act of Congress, or any special consideration in obtaining any such benefit, to any person as consideration, favor, or reward for any political activity or for the support of or opposition to any candidate or any political party in connection with any general or special election to any political office, or in connection with any primary election or political convention or caucus held to select candidates for any political office, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.

That sounds just like what happened here, if Sestak's claim is true. Obama promised an appointment as a consideration for political activity, including support for Arlen Specter, in a primary election.

And then there's the long-shot, which I will clean up a bit because it's a gobbledy-mess. The sticking point here is whether the President can be considered to be "employed in any administrative position." The statute seems aimed at hiring officials:

18 U.S.C. § 595. Interference by administrative employees of Federal, State, or Territorial Governments

Whoever, being a person employed in any administrative position by the United States, or by any department or agency thereof...uses his official authority for the purpose of interfering with, or affecting, the nomination or the election of any candidate for the office of President, Vice President, Presidential elector, Member of the Senate, Member of the House of Representatives, Delegate from the District of Columbia, or Resident Commissioner, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.

The White House owes us answers. There may be a criminal living in the West Wing.

Posted by Gabriel Malor at 12:16 PM New Comments Thingy

 

 

[backhoe]

Van Hollen (Pelosi) Advises Silence on Unconstitutional ObamaCare Procedure

 

Democrat Pollsters: MSM & Obama Deluded If They Believe Americans Want ObamaCare

Defeat Obamacare call list: List now contains the new MAYBES culled from FR posts.
PLEASE CALL! DC OFFICE LOCAL OFFICE State District

Code Red” - House Target List on Health Care

The National Republican Congressional Committee has published a target list on health care. In addition to continuing to contact the five Tennessee Democrat Congressmen, you can go http://www.votervoice.net/link/clickthrough/ext/94697.aspx to contact some of these targets. Much of the talk following Obama’s announcement has focused on how to defeat this second bill through reconciliation, but that is misleading because the first step to defeating Obamacare is not by concentrating on defeating the “fixer” bill but by defeating the Senate bill in the House when it goes to the floor for an up-or-down vote on Thursday, March 18th.

Rep. Lincoln Davis 202-225-6831 Columbia office: 931-490-8699
Rep. Jim Cooper 202-225-4311 Nashville office: 615-736-5295
Rep. Bart Gordon 202-225-4231 Murfreesboro office: 615-896-1986
John Tanner (202) 225-4714, Union City, (731) 885-7070, Jackson Phone: (731) 423-4848, Millington (901) 873-5690 TN (MAYBE)
Rep. Steve Cohen 202-225-3265 Memphis office: 901-544-4131
Harry Mitchell (202) 225-2190 (480) 946-2411 AZ 5th District
Gabrielle Giffords (202) 225-2542 (520) 881-3588 AZ 8th District
Ann Kirkpatrick (202) 225-2315 (928) 226-6914 AZ 1st District
Jerry McNerney (202) 225-1947 925-833-0643 CA 11th District
John Salazar 202-225-4761 970-245-7107 CO 3rd District
Jim Himes (202) 225-5541 (866) 453-0028 CT 4th District
Alan Grayson (202) 225-2176 (407) 841-1757 FL 8th District
Bill Foster (202) 225-2976 630-406-1114 IL 14th District
Baron Hill 202 225 5315 812 288 3999 IN 9th District
Mark Schauer (202) 225-6276 (517) 780-9075 MI 7th District
Gary Peters (202) 225-5802 (248) 273-4227 MI 9th District
Dina Titus (202) 225-3252 702-256-DINA (3462) NV 3rd District
Carol Shea-Porter (202) 225-5456 (603) 743-4813 NH 1st District
Tim Bishop (202) 225-3826 (631) 696-6500 NY 1st District
John Hall (202) 225-5441 (845) 225-3641 x49371 NY 19th District
Bill Owens (202) 225-4611 (315) 782-3150 NY 23rd District
James Matheson Toll-Free Number 1 (877) 677-9743 (202) 225-3011Mike Arcuri (202)225-3665 (315)793-8146 NY 24th District
Dan Maffei (202) 225-3701 (315) 423-5657 NY 25th District
Earl Pomeroy (202) 225-2611 (701) 224-0355 ND At-Large District
Steven Driehaus (202) 225-2216 (513) 684-2723 OH 1st District
Mary Jo Kilroy (202) 225-2015 (614) 294-2196 OH 15th District
Zach Space (202) 225-6265 (330) 364-4300 OH 18th District
Kathy Dahlkemper (202) 225-5406 (814) 456-2038 PA 3rd District
Patrick Murphy (202) 225-4276 (215) 826-1963 PA 8th District
Christopher Carney (202) 225-3731 (570) 585-9988 PA 10th District
Paul Kanjorski (202) 225-6511 (570) 825-2200 PA 11th District
John Spratt (202) 225-5501 (803)327-1114 SC 5th District
Tom Perriello (202) 225-4711 (276) 656-2291 VA 5th District
Alan Mollohan (202) 225-4172 (304) 623-4422 WVA 1st District
Nick Rahall (202) 225-3452 (304) 252-5000 WVA 3rd District
Steve Kagen (202) 225-5665 (920) 437-1954 WI 8th District

Bart Stupak (202) 225 4735 MI (MAYBE)
Brian Baird (202) 225-3536, Vancouver, (360) 695-6292. Olympia, (360) 352-9768, (MAYBE)
senator mark begich (202) 224-3004 toll free. (877) 501 - 6275 just became a MAYBE
Jason Altmire 202-225-2565, Aliquippa, 724-378-0928,
Natrona Heights, 724-226-1304 (MAYBE)

On the Bubble (Major developments from the “yes” and “no” columns in the House)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2467046/posts
Congressional Dems on Twitter
http://www.arrghpaine.com/congressional-dems-on-twitter

13 posted on Saturday, March 13, 2010 2:38:42 PM by GailA

The Anti-Jobs Bill--Obamacare would badly undermine America’s economic prospects.

Letters From Zimbabwe: Cathy Buckle

It couldn't possibly happen here...right?

Another Zimbabwe Thread HERE

 

Devil Weed strikes once more!

Pentagon shooter pot scandal grows

Should Fox News Register as a Saudi Agent?

Sarah Palin lashes out at D.C., liberals, media

Prius “Balloon Boy”: Scam for cash? Ex biz partner fingers Sikes as scammer

Analysis and text of "Anti-Bullying" bill S2283 includes unrelated "hate crimes" language

Detroit family homes sell for just $10 (Actually they're "asking" $10 but no takers)

Comin' soon to the rest of Ø-Merica...  like Haiti except without the earthquakes and sugar cane...

Holder Lied… Attorney General Failed to Reveal 7 Legal Briefs During Confirmation

Show me your papers [! National ID Card !]

Women constitute forty-five percent of the Mexican “migrants” in the United States

The Sham Recovery

Bob Shallit: IRS visits Sacramento carwash in pursuit of 4 cents

Defeat Obamacare call list: List now contains the new MAYBES culled from FR posts.
PLEASE CALL! DC OFFICE LOCAL OFFICE State District

Code Red” - House Target List on Health Care

The National Republican Congressional Committee has published a target list on health care. In addition to continuing to contact the five Tennessee Democrat Congressmen, you can go http://www.votervoice.net/link/clickthrough/ext/94697.aspx to contact some of these targets. Much of the talk following Obama’s announcement has focused on how to defeat this second bill through reconciliation, but that is misleading because the first step to defeating Obamacare is not by concentrating on defeating the “fixer” bill but by defeating the Senate bill in the House when it goes to the floor for an up-or-down vote on Thursday, March 18th.

Rep. Lincoln Davis 202-225-6831 Columbia office: 931-490-8699
Rep. Jim Cooper 202-225-4311 Nashville office: 615-736-5295
Rep. Bart Gordon 202-225-4231 Murfreesboro office: 615-896-1986
John Tanner (202) 225-4714, Union City, (731) 885-7070, Jackson Phone: (731) 423-4848, Millington (901) 873-5690 TN (MAYBE)
Rep. Steve Cohen 202-225-3265 Memphis office: 901-544-4131
Harry Mitchell (202) 225-2190 (480) 946-2411 AZ 5th District
Gabrielle Giffords (202) 225-2542 (520) 881-3588 AZ 8th District
Ann Kirkpatrick (202) 225-2315 (928) 226-6914 AZ 1st District
Jerry McNerney (202) 225-1947 925-833-0643 CA 11th District
John Salazar 202-225-4761 970-245-7107 CO 3rd District
Jim Himes (202) 225-5541 (866) 453-0028 CT 4th District
Alan Grayson (202) 225-2176 (407) 841-1757 FL 8th District
Bill Foster (202) 225-2976 630-406-1114 IL 14th District
Baron Hill 202 225 5315 812 288 3999 IN 9th District
Mark Schauer (202) 225-6276 (517) 780-9075 MI 7th District
Gary Peters (202) 225-5802 (248) 273-4227 MI 9th District
Dina Titus (202) 225-3252 702-256-DINA (3462) NV 3rd District
Carol Shea-Porter (202) 225-5456 (603) 743-4813 NH 1st District
Tim Bishop (202) 225-3826 (631) 696-6500 NY 1st District
John Hall (202) 225-5441 (845) 225-3641 x49371 NY 19th District
Bill Owens (202) 225-4611 (315) 782-3150 NY 23rd District
James Matheson Toll-Free Number 1 (877) 677-9743 (202) 225-3011Mike Arcuri (202)225-3665 (315)793-8146 NY 24th District
Dan Maffei (202) 225-3701 (315) 423-5657 NY 25th District
Earl Pomeroy (202) 225-2611 (701) 224-0355 ND At-Large District
Steven Driehaus (202) 225-2216 (513) 684-2723 OH 1st District
Mary Jo Kilroy (202) 225-2015 (614) 294-2196 OH 15th District
Zach Space (202) 225-6265 (330) 364-4300 OH 18th District
Kathy Dahlkemper (202) 225-5406 (814) 456-2038 PA 3rd District
Patrick Murphy (202) 225-4276 (215) 826-1963 PA 8th District
Christopher Carney (202) 225-3731 (570) 585-9988 PA 10th District
Paul Kanjorski (202) 225-6511 (570) 825-2200 PA 11th District
John Spratt (202) 225-5501 (803)327-1114 SC 5th District
Tom Perriello (202) 225-4711 (276) 656-2291 VA 5th District
Alan Mollohan (202) 225-4172 (304) 623-4422 WVA 1st District
Nick Rahall (202) 225-3452 (304) 252-5000 WVA 3rd District
Steve Kagen (202) 225-5665 (920) 437-1954 WI 8th District

Bart Stupak (202) 225 4735 MI (MAYBE)
Brian Baird (202) 225-3536, Vancouver, (360) 695-6292. Olympia, (360) 352-9768, (MAYBE)
senator mark begich (202) 224-3004 toll free. (877) 501 - 6275 just became a MAYBE
Jason Altmire 202-225-2565, Aliquippa, 724-378-0928,
Natrona Heights, 724-226-1304 (MAYBE)

On the Bubble (Major developments from the “yes” and “no” columns in the House)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2467046/posts
Congressional Dems on Twitter
http://www.arrghpaine.com/congressional-dems-on-twitter

13 posted on Saturday, March 13, 2010 2:38:42 PM by GailA

The Anti-Jobs Bill--Obamacare would badly undermine America’s economic prospects.

[backhoe]

These guys are good- read them.

Read the comments:

 

Democrats position Death Star within firing range of Alderaan

Posted by hillbuzz under Uncategorized | Tags: Alderaan, Boystown, Death Star, Princess Leia, Roscoes, Sarah Palin |
[8] Comments 

There when her people needed her.

Here when America needs her.

Last night, we were all at Roscoe’s here in Boystown, having our first pitcher of Green Miller Lite for St. Patrick’s Day, where Panda was telling us about a crazy person who think she’s James Brown’s illegitimate daughter, and is convinced his body’s been stolen from his crypt and is “being hidden somewhere” just so no one can ever prove the things she’s saying are true.  Sheer and utter madness.

On the part of Panda — who not only believes the woman, but goes a step further and says, “I don’t think he’s even really dead.  I think he just wanted to retire, but people wouldn’t leave him alone, so he faked his death and is living the good life somewhere in secret, like in Death Becomes Her”.  That’s a movie in which Panda also believes Marilyn, Greta Garbo, James Dean, Jim Morrison, and Elvis “played themselves”, secretly, as an in-joke in party scenes where long-dead celebrities are shown to have drunk magic potions to keep them alive forever.  Panda, inexplicably Chicagoland’s number one Michael Jackson fan, is more convinced than ever by the James Brown crypt eviction nonsense that “MJ” is still alive, well, and moonwalking somewhere.  ”He just didn’t want to be bothered anymore, and is doing fine in Switzerland or Dubai, and in like 30 years someone will tell when he’s really dead and the secret is safe”.

We swear, we only had the one pitcher of Green Beer.  And we shared it four ways.  So, where Panda gets this stuff is just beyond us.

But it makes us think about what Democrats are doing these days — actually working to usurp the Constitution and trying to cram their Healthcare Rationing bill through Congress without the House voting on it.

The way the Constitution reads, for a bill to become law the Senate and the House must both pass the exact same bill.  Then, once it’s passed in both Chambers, it goes to the White House to be signed or vetoed.

Democrats wrongly, and unconstitutionally, believe they can take the bill the Senate passed on Christmas Eve, in secret, in the dead of night, and claim “it’s as good as passed” in the House, without the House actually passing it.  Then, they want to just shunt that Senate bill to the White House for passage.

We don’t see how it’s possible for them to succeed in this, but let’s operate for a second under the assumption they can get away with that.  Let’s just say they do it.  The White House signs it.  It becomes law.

In the vernacular of people like us, children of the 80s, it’s the equivalent of moving the Death Star within firing range of Alderaan and letting slip a giant, lethal blast of planet-killing destructive energy.

Only, in our example, it’s not a planet they’ll destroy (so, calm down Al Gore, no chance here of setting up a new apocalyptic cult for yourself), or a nation, or the Constitution.

No, if these lunatics do this, they will destroy the Democrat Party.  Utterly and completely.  There won’t even be asteroids the size of cookie crumbs left when the dust settles on this.

If you know Star Wars, you’ll realize the moment the Empire destroyed Alderaan, using its most destructive and in-you-face weapon for the first time, was when it really lost the Galactic Civil War.  By doing something so horrible, so unimaginable, so abusive of power, it steeled Princess Leia Organa into the no-holds-barred freedom fighter she became in the opening scenes of Empire Strikes Back, leading rebel efforts on the icy moon of Hoth, ditching her flowing, halycon white princess robes for the no-nonsense gear of a woman determined to bring the Empire down at all costs and restore democracy to the Republic.

THAT is what’s going to happen to people all across this country if Democrats aim and point a weapon of mass destruction at the Constitution.  The energy unleashed will not come from the party, but from the PEOPLE, who will direct a massive blast of American common sense and patriotism at the DNC, and we believe nothing at all will remain standing.

We do not believe there will still exists a Democrat party after 2012 if the three socialist fools standing on the bridge of the White House’s insane version of the Death Star do what they have sworn they will do.  Obama.  Pelosi.  Reid.  The three people who will fully reveal the Democrat Part to be the anti-American destructive force it has become.

We don’t believe they’ll succeed in firing that Death Star, but if they do, they will the ones who will ultimately be destroyed, because in doing something so heinous and unimaginable, they will wake a sleeping giant.

Guys like us will commit full time to doing everything we can to bringing every Democrat out there, at all levels down.

Housewives will stop shuttling the kids to all manner of nonsense like karate classes, and finally realize there’s more important things to do than race around in minivans all day.  They will stay home and create Coffee Clubs in their kitchens, where they will gather together neighbors and plot strategy for taking back the country.

Union guys, who always have done what their Union masters have told them, will finally think for themselves, get off the comfy leather Union-enabled Barcoloungers, and will decide, “That’s it.  I’ve had enough of this socialist crap.  Time to kick butt and save America”.

All across the country this will happen.

A Resistance will form.

In Cleveland. And Mineral City. And Chicago. And Pittsburgh. And San Antonia.  And Rochester. And New York.

All of our home towns.

All of yours.

And somewhere, in the West, like Leia of Alderaan, we believe a strong woman will emerge to lead the Resistance and take back our government starting in 2010, and culminating in 2012 when she heads to the White House herself to clean up the biggest mess left of our government since the Civil War.

In Wasilla, Alaska, you’ll find her.

The Force is strong in her.

May the love of country be as strong in all of us — because at this moment in history we need it.  And America needs us all to remain vigilant and strong in the face of unimaginable Democrat-wielded horrors.

March 13, 2010 at 5:51 pm

What’s next? Are they going to deem that this list of people were duly elected in the Nov elections and thus we no longer need to have the elections?

March 13, 2010 at 11:15 am

A few days ago on this site, we discussed the ban on recreational fishing that is headed our way.

Well, the power grab goes so much further than that.

Dr. Kate puts it all together in a comprehensive, but frightening way:

http://drkatesview.wordpress.com/2010/03/11/fishing-for-the-new-world-order/#more-2794

March 13, 2010 at 3:26 pm

This column by Caroline Glick is worth reading:

http://www.carolineglick.com/e/2010/03/the-march-of-the-red-green-bri-1.php

 

Saturday Morning Reading: Recyclables Into Landfills

—Gabriel Malor

Two links that don't have anything we didn't already know, but get the "I give it a B-plus" AOSHQ stamp of approval for gratuitous snark.

Have you ever seen the "Paper Recycling" Truck, the "Glass Recycling" Truck, the "Plastic Recycling" Truck, and the "Green Waste" Truck? Or do you just see the same old garbage truck coming for your carefully sorted recyclables?

First, a rant on just how wasteful, in terms of money and man-hours, recycling is. Which isn't to say that some recycling isn't worth it. Just that a lot of the time, all that meticulous sorting isn't really doing a lick of good. Not to mention, those recycling nazis that wander around harassing people for not putting the trash in the right bin.

Second, a follow-up with helpful links to just-the-facts-ma'am news articles on the subject.

Posted by Gabriel Malor at 12:48 PM New Comments Thingy

 

Birthright Citizenship-ers, Dual Citizenship-ers, and Birth-ers

How Many Lives Does Planned Parenthood Take in one Year?

 

We've Figured Him Out [Zero Mein Fuhrer of course!]

He wants to get it passed by March 21 because that is when an Pro Amnesty march is going to happen. They want that issue to push Health Care off the front pages.

"I'm Sick of Inherited"

It Can't Happen Here? Ask Kitty about 1938 Austria!

Bad news for Democrats in Democratic poll

A Charlie Chan Film Stirs an Old Controversy

The coffee party miniphenomenon

To Leftists and liberals, everything in the entire world is nothing but fake labels, and therefore can be countered with a contrasting labelled falsehood. So they create coffee parties to try to contrast the Tea Party movement.

What they literally cannot comprehend is the reality behind the Tea party label - that if Tea Parties were not called Tea Parties, they would still exist.

Palin criticizes expanded government, federal spending (Take back Our Country Tour)

In Soviet Hell and the blasted avenues of Mogadishu, I saw what our society could become

We don’t have to go to Russia. Just look at Detroit.

Economic Suicide (Obama Drilling Ban)

[backhoe]

MARCH FOR FREEDOM– Tuesday March 16, 2010 Washington DC

Sunday, March 14, 2010, 1:03 AM

Jim Hoft

Last Wednesday President Barack Obama flew into St. Louis to give a private talk to supporters on his plan to have government take over the US health care industry. He also held a fundraiser with local liberals including his puppet senator, Claire McCaskill.

His arrival did not go unnoticed. 2,225 patriots turned out in St. Charles in the morning to rally against his socialist policies. Another 2,000 patriots turned out that night to protest outside of his fundraiser including this grandmother.  

(Keyboard Militia)
She sat in her wheelchair and waved her “Don’t Tread on Me” flag. She came to the protest with her three daughters. She put tape over her mouth to represent that her concerns do not matter in Washington DC. She was at the rally outside the Obama-McCaskill fundraiser for two hours before it got dark and she went home. She just wanted to show her support.
She loves her country and she loves her freedom.

** On Tuesday there is another rally planned in Washington DC.

Date & Time: March 16, 2010 from 9am to 6pm
Location: Cannon House Office Building
Street: Independence Avenue SE and New Jersey SE
City: Washington, DC
Website or Map: http://maps.google.com/maps?f…
Phone: 202-942-7616
Event Type: lobbying, against, obamacare, 2.0
Organized By: Kahryn Rombach and Brendan Steinhauser of FreedomWorks.org

Dan Riehl put out this alert today:

The Left’s political arguments must be confronted forcefully, even outrageously at times if that’s what it takes to get through. Think of it in terms of what Andrew Breitbart is doing in the world of media activism today.

He is calling them out, confronting them, exposing them for what they are and what they believe. And when you prick them like that, they do bleed. Figuratively speaking, if we don’t make them bleed, we will lose. We have been playing politely for decades now. And America has only continued its slide to the Left. And in the face of a pending vote on Obama Care, there is no more room left to give.

I’m not advocating violence. But I am advocating confrontation. Otherwise, most especially now, this one in the White House and his Congressional colleagues seem content to ignore you – to shine you on and you will get only what they choose to give you in the end. That is not the lot of the free man, or woman. It is the lot of the slave, the serf, if you prefer.

That’s why you have to try as best you can to be in DC on March 16th. It’s time to prick, poke, and prod them and make their house of cards cave in. If you don’t do it, now, don’t expect your children, or your grandchildren to do it. If, or when, it becomes their turn on your behalf, when they’re getting ready to pull the plug on you because, well, you’ve lived long enough, they’ll go along, just as you might now. Without our example, future generations of Americans will have no example to follow, let alone believe in.

Show up and be heard, or be herded. There are no other choices. This is the time. And if you don’t speak out, it may well be the last. They have blatantly admitted this is but a first step. What in God’s name does it take for some of you people to get mad? If the last few months haven’t been enough, then your freedom may already be lost. In that case, it’s still your duty to stir yourself to action and begin to take it back on March 16th. Waiting for someone else to do it for you will only assure you of freedom lost. And that is not and has never been the America and the American people I’ve come to know.

This may be our last best chance to stop Obamacare.

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GOOD GRIEF: Pelosi: Health-Care Reform Will Finally Allow Artists to Focus on Being Unemployed, Comfortably. Translation: They’ll turn us all into beggars ’cause they’re easier to please.

 

If You Prick Them, They Will Bleed. “Show up and be heard, or be herded. There are no other choices. This is the time.” That's why you have to try as best you can to be in DC on March 16th. It's time to prick, poke, and prod them and make their house of cards cave in. If you don't do it, now, don't expect your children, or your grandchildren to do it.

We owe, not only our modern living standards, but our political freedom to capitalism. In order for Pelosi's misguided dream to take place, there must be a servile class.

Invade their offices and make them afraid. We need to make them think about the personal, physical repercussions they will face if they do this.

 

KILL THE BILL: Thousands rally against ObamaCare in St. Paul. Some brought pitchforks.  ANOTHER REPORT from the St. Paul “Kill The Bill” rally. 

 

2300 SHOW UP FOR ST. LOUIS TEA PARTY, only 30 show up for St. Louis “Coffee Party.” And that 30 includes the “tea party infiltrators.”

 

Best Reporting on "Coffee Party" Goes to...Palm Beach Post?!?

—Gabriel Malor

Seriously, while CNN and the NYTimes have studiously been avoiding the astroturfed origins of the "Coffee Party", reporter George Bennett has been laying it all out in south Florida paper the Palm Beach Post.

Now, you don't get credit for doing the right thing. But I give George a heckuva pat on the back for his follow-up reporting from the Coffee Party event this afternoon. As my twitter-pal @OneFineJay says, it truly deserves a "Not on the Onion" label for its humor, irony, and overall tone. I give it a B-plus.

This is not an auspicious beginning to a political movement:

Venting about the conservative tea party movement and talking — at times heatedly — about the need for civility in public discourse marked the debut meeting of a local "coffee party" group today.

"Frankly, we are petrified by the tea party and what they stand for and what they're talking about," said Monte Carmel, a retired business executive from West Palm Beach.

"I'm tired of all the misinformation, the cute little labels the fright-wing has thrown on everything," said a man named Russ.

"We have to stop the mantra of no taxes, no taxes, no taxes," said Marcia Halpern of Palm Beach Gardens.

Brownstein, who is white, said "white southerners in this country are going nuts" because of the popularity of black figures like President Obama and Oprah Winfrey. He said he raised the issue because "you have to know who your enemy is."

[...]

Mary Castronuovo of Palm Beach Gardens said she doesn't want the coffee party to be defined by its criticism of the tea party.

"I would be discouraged if this group became just a counter to the tea party," she said. "We can't make them the enemy."

Don't worry, sister. There's already a group counter to the Tea Party: Democrats.

Via Allah.

 

Posted by Gabriel Malor at 08:04 PM New Comments Thingy

 

190 36 - What I hate most about the left isn't so much the hypocrisy, but the projection. It's so mind bogglingly stupid. Every damn thing they accuse the right of they themselves are guilty of. Does no one ever see this except those of us on the right?

Every damn thing they accuse us of they do in spades.

 

191 @190
The thing to remember about the left is that they don't see the world as it is, they see the world as they are.

They assume that we do all of the nasty and evil things that they themselves would do if they were in our place.

They assume that our principles and ideals, which we are quite open and honest about, are really trojan horse strategies to trick the public into voting for.....well I don't really know what it is that we're "really" supposed to be all about according to the left.  What I do know is that they accuse us of trojan horse shenanigans precisely because that strategy is their entire MO nowadays.  This is why they are constantly inventing new euphemisms and new labels for the same old bullshit. 

 

189 According to reports (via HotAir to sources I ain't gonna link to), The Coffee Commies have already linked themselves to Code Pink via Medea Benjamin, so that didn't take long to become obvious.

Of course, the MSM will keep giving them deferential treatment, because they're similarly crooked and therefore sympathetic.

Man, oh man I hate reporters.

Question: Is America worth fighting for?

Posted by hillbuzz under Uncategorized | Tags: Is America worth fighting for?, The American Resistance, What are the Democrats doing to this country? |
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Get off those comfy butts and help her FIGHT BACK

We’ve been reading a lot of comments on sites like Redstate and Ace of Spades, where the usual tight khaki pants and blue blazers brigade of young, Romney Republicans keep saying things like “We doooooomed!  Doooooomed!  We should just give up because there’s no way to stop Democrats from destroying the Republic!  Doooooomed!”.

Eeyores.

When the going gets tough, these little punks always just give up.  They like to strut around at cocktail parties, and love networking opportunities, and ADORE posting defeatist nonsense on websites, but do any of these little punks ever get out and fight…for anything…and stick to their guns? Do they love ANYTHING in life enough to put down the rocks glass, suit up, possibly buy a cup (or a pair), and act like men for a change?

March 13, 2010 at 8:12 pm

EXACTLY. What the Democrats are trying to do with the Slaughter Rule will absolutely destroy our constitution. If this happens next week is going to be UG-LY. People still are not understanding this. You HAVE to understand the implications of bypassing the constitution. This is an act of a dictatorship. This is what Hugo Chavez does. This is what the old Soviet Union did. This is not just trickery by the Democrats. This is ANARCHY.  WE HAVE TO FIGHT.

Is America Worth Fighting For?

Yes.

And for those who doubt, understand. America is the last frontier. Unless you are a penguin and can live in Antarctica, there are no free lands left. This is it. Our last stand.

So fight:

China is preparing to drill in our backyard near Florida.

http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/2010/03/more-economic-suicide-obama-administration-bans-offshore-drilling-for-3-years/

More Economic Suicide: Obama Administration Bans Offshore Drilling For 3 Years

Saturday, March 13, 2010, 8:16 PM

Jim Hoft

In 2009 Democrats scrapped oil and gas leases in Utah, permanently banned drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), and nixed offshore drilling.

For decades Democrats have blocked efforts to responsibly develop this nation’s energy resources, transforming vast areas of opportunity into “The No Zone.”

A recent study examined the cost of these democratic policies of not drilling and developing domestic oil reserves. The SAIC Corporation discovered that democrats will cost the US $2.36 Trillion through 2029.

And then there’s this…
Obama’s Secretary of Energy recently announced a three-year offshore drilling ban.
Investor’s Business Daily reported, via Planet Gore:

Our secretary of energy pushes bio-refineries and windmills to oil executives at an energy conference as the administration announces a three-year offshore drilling ban. This is a policy for economic suicide.

They don’t qualify as an official group of victims, but carbon-Americans, as they have been called, did not have much to cheer about last week, when Energy Secretary Steven Chu addressed CERAWeek 2010, a premier industry conference hosted by IHS Cambridge Energy Research Associates.

With an economy struggling to regain sound footing, Chu advocated a starvation diet devoid of additional fossil fuels that are to remain under the ground and seabed. Instead, he supports 53% more funding for wind research and a 22% jump for solar research.

Subsidizing alternative energy fits the classic definition of insanity. Despite huge subsidies, it has proved to be neither cost-effective nor a reliable, significant contributor to our national power grid. Yet we keep subsidizing it, expecting a different result.

“Oil is an ideal transportation fuel, so it will be with us for decades,” Chu conceded, even as the administration forbids us from getting more of it here, creating energy jobs, lowering energy costs and cutting our trade deficit. Instead we’ll rely increasingly on foreign and often unfriendly suppliers.

Chu acknowledged the role cleaner-burning natural gas can play in electricity generation, but only as a “transition to other fuels” in coming years. And the administration continues to gobble up lands where it might be found and impose environmental regulations that curtail the use of new technologies such as fracking to get more oil and natural gas from America’s vast shale deposits.

Can we all agree now that this administration is purposely trying to destroy this nation?

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ANOTHER “RUBE” SELF-IDENTIFIES: “We are shocked and stunned at the Administration’s tone and public dressing down of Israel,” Anti-Defamation League director Abraham Foxman said in a statement.

 

GIVE CREDIT TO THE JAWA REPORT. I wrote about Army-of-Davids-style antiterrorism in, er, An Army of Davids. And it’s working.

 

Government’s New Motto: It’s Good To Be King. And how are the monarchs doing today? Well, pretty well: "Gov't workers feel no economic pain."

 

The growth of government has been impelled by two main factors. One is the now-entrenched political philosophy of both parties that America is a problem to be fixed, and Americans are a people to be managed, which I identified as George W. Bush's principal shortcoming back in 2003.

The other factor is the rise of the entitlement mentality of American to match the growth of entitlement-disbursing governments. Quite simply, Americans have allowed welfare payments of various kinds, both individual and corporate welfare, to control a far greater share of the total economic activity of the country than is healthy for growth or freedom. I belabored this point many times before, and this post is long enough, so I'll provide a few links:

"The end of entitlements"

"How democracies perish"

The difference between good guys and bad guys

Posted by Rick
Published: March 13, 2010 - 2:29 PM

I would love those on the left, especially the Religious Left, to acknowledge the veracity of this poster.

Won't happen. 

Doesn't fit the meme.

Brought to us by The Sniper via Greyhawk in email. 

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One of the Most Important Words in the English Language.

by Bunk X ( 91 Comments › )
Filed under Blogmocracy, Economy, Guest Post, Healthcare, Humor, Music, Open thread, Political Correctness, Politics, Republican Party, Socialism at March 13th, 2010 - 9:00 pm

I belong to the Party of NO.

Do I believe that government should insert itself into the private health care insurance industry?

Do I  believe that government is capable of running any business profitably?

Do I believe that government is capable of creating jobs?

Not Just No but HELL NO!

READ THE LINK, DAGNABBIT...

 

Surprise: Dems Lied About 72 Hour Advance Posting of HealthCare Bill

—Gabriel Malor

Perfidy! Lies and scum and bad faith and treachery and deceit! The false, tricksy, faithless KNAVES! DEMOCRATS!

Oh, whatever. Like anybody is surprised at another broken promise from Democrats in Congress. Hell, no one is surprised at the kid glove treatment that CNN is putting on it either:

House Democrats appear to be softening their pledge to allow the public 72 hours to review the health care reform package online before a House vote. "We will certainly give as much notice as possible, but I'm not going to say that 72 hours is going to be the litmus test," said Majority Leader Steny Hoyer on Friday.

"I'm a little bit taken aback that now that 72-hour rule has been completely cast aside, since nobody in the House has seen what's in the reconciliation bill," said Rep. Eric Cantor, R-Virginia. Speaker Nancy Pelosi promised earlier this year Democrats would make the final health care bill public at least three days before voting.

Ramming it through. No time to waste. Gosh, what if people actually knew what Congress was doing?

Posted by Gabriel Malor at 08:26 PM New Comments Thingy

 

44 ran into a libtard in a store line today, who actually brought up obamunistcare.  i asked him specifics on a few items, none of which he knew.  Then, i asked him if he had ever known the House to "deem" a bill winning a vote without a vote.  He looked at me like i was insane; then I loudly, simply informed him that this is what Piglousy is doing.  He looked stunned.  He was then directed to look up a few websites because a TEABAGGER like myself is an ignorant racist.  As the rest of the people in line looked on, (all libtards) not one of them could respond, but several asked for the web addresses. Then I slammed them with, but, uh, Piglousy promised to post them online beforehand, but, since she hasn't, you will just have to find all you can about the process, because the companion bills are and will not be online.  The i placed the pudding on the conveyer.
I refuse to stay silent or be politically correct or not state the truth wherever the opportunity arises. 
I never thought I would be witnessing the takedown of America from within while all the EFFIN COWARDS ON THE HILL sat by with their bribes up their asses.

 

38 Time for mass arrests in D.C. I'm thinking someone needs to swear out about 600 warrants for senators, representatives and the Traitor-in-Chief in the White House, all of whom have engaged in racketeering and serial violations of their oaths of office.

Otherwise, we might as well lie down and let the steamroller of totalitarianism crush us.

[backhoe]

The Real Tea Party Story: Community Builders vs. Community Organizers

http://www.freedominion.com.pa/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=1470559#1470559

Brownstein, who is white, said "white southerners in this country are going nuts" because of the popularity of black figures like President Obama and Oprah Winfrey. He said he raised the issue because "you have to know who your enemy is."

As I suspected, it appears Ole Art here

http://tinyurl.com/yj5m24u

seems to be a transplanted Yankee. Probably never worked with black folks in his life- but he's an authority on White Southron RAAACISM!

Maroon...

It's the Culture, Stupid

The enemy is already inside the gates, fools:

JihadJane's 'cohort' a 2nd Blond Bomber

Bart Stupak: ObamaCare is a Death Panel for Children

Obama’s Proposed Medicaid Expansion: Lessons from TennCare

Does Barack Obama give a damn about us?

Uhh, next damn-fool question?

 

Israel, meet the Obozo Bus:

Obama tells Netanyahu: Show us you're serious about peace

Obama's new nuclear age doesn't bode well for Israel

(Video & Photos) Sarah Palin & Glenn Beck: No thank you, Obama, you can keep that change!

 

Levin on Representative Slaughter - and the Slaughter Rule

Arguing that Slaughter is attempting an unprecedented violation of the constitution, Mark Levin in this audio clip , argues that the House Republicans should initiate expulsion proceedings against her .  Read more at americanthinker.com ...

 

Demon Sheep creator strikes again [Updated]

Call it Fred’s Zeppelin.  The ad for GOP Senate hopeful Carly Fiorina features plenty of creator Fred Davis’ trademark humor, from the ominous opening scene, which portrays the U.S. Capitol as something out of Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Birds,” to the finale, in which a pin-pricked Boxer sinks ignominiously into the sea.  Read more at latimesblogs.latimes.com ...

 

Most Current Information on House Vote Tally and Contact Info

Israel, meet the Obozo Bus:

Obama tells Netanyahu: Show us you're serious about peace

Obama's new nuclear age doesn't bode well for Israel

(Video & Photos) Sarah Palin & Glenn Beck: No thank you, Obama, you can keep that change!

[backhoe]

Gibbs: By next Sunday, healthcare reform will be 'law of the land'

Sarah Palin To Obama: With a Stiff Spine America Must Stand Against ObamaCare

If Senator Reid, Speaker Pelosi, and President Obama get their way, soon our country will be changed forever. Using every partisan parliamentary trick in the book (including some they invented just last week), Washington’s Left intends to ram through their takeover of our health care system regardless of the consequences.

The latest twists and turns in the Obamacare drama seem almost surreal. One minute the Democrat leadership is trying to amend a bill before the president has even signed it into law, and the next minute they’re trying to draft a new rule that will allow the House to “deem” a bill passed without actually voting on it! They’re determined to use the Senate reconciliation process as a parliamentary trick to bypass the regular voting procedure (and by the way, to add insult to injury, they’re now going to ram through federalization of America’s student loan industry with this same reconciliation vote). Is there any other wildly unpopular legislation they’d also like to sneak in? Perhaps the anti-energy-independence policy “Cap and Tax” (aka Cap and Trade) is next?

And make no mistake, the Obamacare bill is wildly unpopular. The Democrats’ own pollsters warn of an “unmitigated disaster” for them in November if they don’t abandon their plan and start over with real incremental health care reform. Incredibly, at this point, they don’t seem to care. Speaker Pelosi thinks Congress must pass the bill so that the American people can then “find out what’s in it.”

(Excerpt) Read more at governorpalin4president.blogspot.com ...

Axelrod Challenges GOP on Health Care: ‘Make My Day’(video)

Tea Party vs. Coffee Party

Their little Coffee Party:

Our BIG Tea Party:

16 posted on Sunday, March 14, 2010 1:52:18 PM by unixfox

'Coffee party' debuts in West Palm Beach as 'anti-tea party'

"Participants broke into groups and wrote their priorities on white posters, then shared them with the larger gathering.:

The Delphi Technique

 

Are Some Races More Equal Than Others?

Hey Obama, Keep Your Hands Off My Fishing Pole

 

Nasty Nan's Broken Promises Exposed!

Is Mad Captain Barack Now Steering America Towards the Gates of Hell? (Marxist Creative Destruction)

 

 

Somewhere, back in My Pile O Stuff, is a cartoon of Israeli vs. Palestinian-- the Demon Jew Soldier kneeling before a baby carriage, the Oppressed Pali hiding behind it...

Ahah!

 

Enviro-Nazis raise stink about super-soft toilet paper

 

Paging the redoubtable Mz. Crowe...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1822090/posts

 

March 14, 2010 at 8:01 am  For the Eeyores, it is all about appearances rather than substance

Over the years Jeff @ Protein Wisdom has written numerous detailed essays on language, identity politics and how the Left uses both to frame the narrative. The problem with the Eeyores is that they accept the Left’s narrative that “right-wingers are a bunch of racist, sexist, homophobes” rather than fight against such totalitarian narrative:

http://proteinwisdom.com/?p=5339
http://proteinwisdom.com/?p=14541AoS

In New York State illegal Spanish voter applications and Mexican Matricula cards still being used

Daily Presidential Tracking Poll Sunday, March 14, 2010: B. Hussein at -15

Ohio job climate even worse than we thought

Record Number of Tax Filers Paid No Federal Income Taxes in 2008

Short barrel shotguns for Department of Education?

“Why does Department of Education need 12-gauge shotguns?”

---

More to the point, why do we even need a Department of Education?

Their little Coffee Party:

Our BIG Tea Party:

[backhoe]

Not without a fight, Bobby Gibbs

March 14, 2010 10:46 AM by Michelle Malkin

He wants you to sit down and shut up now.

They are getting cocky, aren’t they? Not without a fight, Bobby Gibbs:

White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said the healthcare bill will pass by next weekend.

“We’ll have the votes when the House votes, I think, within the next week,” Gibbs said on “Fox News Sunday.”

Gibbs added that those on next week’s Sunday talk shows “will be talking about healthcare not as a presidential proposal but I think as the law of the land.”

President Barack Obama will look to campaign on the new healthcare law in midterm elections, Gibbs said.

“We believe healthcare reform is going to pass, and once it passes we’re happy to have the 2010 elections be about the achievement of healthcare reform,” Gibbs said.

Via The Hill.

Get on message, Beltway GOP: Stop the Constitution butchers. Stop Pelosi’s Slaughter House.

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Gibbs: HealthCare Reform Will Pass Within a Week —Gabriel Malor

Bold words from Baghdad Bobby Gibbs:

"We'll have the votes when the House votes, I think, within the next week," Gibbs said on "Fox News Sunday."

Gibbs added that those on next week's Sunday talk shows "will be talking about healthcare not as a presidential proposal but I think as the law of the land."

President Barack Obama will look to campaign on the new healthcare law in midterm elections, Gibbs said.

"We believe healthcare reform is going to pass, and once it passes we're happy to have the 2010 elections be about the achievement of healthcare reform," Gibbs said.

I suppose there's no other spin he can put on it, since his masters demand that he stand in front of the cameras and smile every day. But Gibbsy is simply out of his mind if he thinks that passing the Democrats' healthcare bill is going to be good for his team in the 2010 elections.

This "projection" of the White House is so far from reality, it can only mean that they're still trying to pressure reluctant congressmen into voting for it. The thinking is that if they repeat and repeat that this will be good come November, maybe a foolish congresscritter or two will actually believe it.

I wouldn't get too worked up about his claim that healthcare reform will pass within the week either. First, he's just repeating the White House deadline in other language. Remember, first the deadline was March 18. Then, when that clearly wasn't happening, the President delayed his trip to Australia until March 21...seven days from today. Also known as a week.

Second, Gibbsy is credibility-challenged (and how!) as a general matter. But even within his statement this morning, he's not given us any reason to believe him. His delusional "this is good for us in November" statement has no connection to reality. Nor does his claim that the president will campaign on it during the midterms. Not with every Dem candidate fleeing from him after his disastrous performances in Virginia, New Jersey, and Massachusetts.

So, why should we believe Gibbs' simultaneous claim that "this will pass within a week?"

Posted by Gabriel Malor at 12:23 PM New Comments Thingy

 

42 If health scare passes, this nation is toast.

The affirmative action retard from Indonesia will be The Precedent and last Chief Executive of The United States.  As the US dissolves, retribution will be visited upon those who have destroyed this nation.

 

The term “lying bitch” has been used in Forbes Magazine, in an article about the demise of the Democrat Party.

Posted by hillbuzz under Uncategorized | Tags: destruction of the Democrat party, Forbes, lying bitch, Shikha Dalmia |
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You just have to read this.

It’s an article called “Wrong Bill at the Wrong Time” by Shikha Dalmia, where the author refers to someone as “a lying bitch”.

 

Tea party brings energy, change and tumult to GOP. “The Republicans for the last two decades have been a party whose litmus tests have been cultural issues, especially abortion. The tea partiers have helped to change their focus to issues of government overreach and spending. That may be a helpful pivot, given the emergence of a millennial generation uncomfortable with crusading cultural conservatism.”

 

COFFEE PARTY ASTROTURFING? Nonsense. If that were happening, CNN and MNSBC would have told us. . .

 

Olympic Organizer, Edward’s Political Director Behind Ill. Coffee Party Movement

http://www.riehlworldview.com/carnivorous_conservative/2010/03/olympic-organizer-edwards-political-director-behind-ill-coffee-party-movement.html

"Tea Party" Study

The "Tea Party" movement is the best thing to hit US politics, for decades.


You can tell it is a genuine "grass-roots" movement, because it has passed the "smear test" - that is, it has been relentlessly smeared by the MSM, the Dems and the rest of the US left.

Now the Chicago based Samuel Adams Alliance has done a study of what the Tea Partiers are really about.

The news is mostly good.

From Breitbart

A new study released today reveals that Tea Party activists are motivated by feelings of responsibility to future generations and belief in America's founding principles, but still struggle with questions of leadership and identity. The study conducted by Sam Adams Alliance, The Early Adopters: Reading the Tea Leaves, also reveals that Tea Party activists are a diverse group trying “ often for the first time “ to change the political landscape by holding elected officials more accountable.

The Sam Adams report offers the first-ever insights into the Tea Party movement that include a survey sample made up entirely of recognized Tea Party activists.

"A lot of surveys have focused on the Tea Party movement, but they've been about what others think of them, and don't reveal the motives of actual Tea Partiers," said Sam Adams Alliance chairman Eric O'Keefe. "We decided to learn what the Tea Party leaders are up to the old fashioned way: We asked them."

The findings confirm that a large number of Tea Party activists are politically involved for the first time. 47 percent of activists surveyed said that they were "uninvolved" or "rarely involved" in politics before their participation in Tea Party groups.

Three political issues stood out as being the most important to Tea Party activists. When asked which issues were "very important" to them, 92 percent said "budget," 85 percent said "economy," and 80 percent said "defense." No respondents listed social issues as an "important direction" for the movement.

Other findings of the study include:

* 86 percent oppose the formation of a third-party.
* 36 percent support a 2012 Sarah Palin Presidential candidacy.
* 81 percent have a website for their organization.
* 90 percent cited "to stand up for my beliefs" when characterizing their initial reason for involvement.
* 62 percent identified as Republicans, 28 percent as Independents, 10 percent as "Tea Party"

Extensive interviews revealed that many are struggling with questions of leadership, purpose, and identity, but they are driven by an overwhelming, often personal, feeling that future generations' well-being weighs on their shoulders. Many of those interviewed also referenced a need for better branding of the movement so they are not seen as extremists, and cited new friendships as one of the most rewarding benefits of involvement.

The results of the study are based on in-depth "laddering" interviews to determine activists' core connections to the movement, and to understand what their hopes and fears are for the country and the Tea Parties themselves.

For the full report, including a video, go here

posted by Trevor Loudon at 3/11/2010 12:57:00 PM 2 Comments

SARAH PALIN IS Obama By Proxy. “I used to dismiss these contradictions as simply hypocrisy, but perhaps these people are angry at Palin because of her perceived similarities to Barack Obama, not in spite of them. They need someplace to ground the lightning of their frustration and disappointment, and they’re not allowed to be angry at Obama. . . . Sarah Palin is a convenient hate fetish for increasingly nervous and confused Left, because she embodies the qualities of the red-state America they loathe… and serves as a voodoo doll for uncomfortable criticisms of Obama, which they project onto her.”

UPDATE: Reader Steve Hendren writes: “I thought the same thing about Tiger Woods during his recent spate of personal problems. Can’t bring yourself to criticize The One? Have a go at Tiger, instead….” Yeah. I think Tiger’s public persona did a lot to help Obama early on — I heard plenty of explicit comparisons, in fact — so the connection’s even more close.

 

HOPE AND CHANGE: Obama Supports DNA Sampling Upon Arrest. They told me if I voted for John McCain we’d see a burgeoning Police State — and they were right!

 

Does Barack Obama give a damn about us? 

No- next stupid question, Rube?

 

Whine the Decline

by snork ( 64 Comments › )
Filed under Economy, Global Warming Hoax, Politics at March 14th, 2010 - 9:00 am

The Sydney Morning Herald has a story on the essentially defunct US carbon trading market.

Wall Street was supposed to become the capital of a global carbon trading market worth a trillion dollars a year but now many who thought green trading desks would be the next big thing are fearing the pink slip.

US banks had looked forward to a huge “cap-and-trade market” a system where companies would buy and sell the right to emit gases blamed for warming the planet. Many hired carbon traders, picked up assets, and trained members of energy desks to deal in emissions markets.

But prospects for a broad US carbon market have dimmed. US Senator Lindsey Graham, a Republican working on a compromise climate bill, declared economy-wide cap-and-trade “dead” this month.

The green jobs were supposed to be for the little guys on Wall street?

At least one bank with carbon trade assets has already been hit. EcoSecurities, a clean energy project developer and carbon trader, bought by JP Morgan Chase last year has closed its New York-based US office leading to a loss of up to 20 jobs.

20 jobs!!!11

“It’s like all-out war,” Peter Fusaro, an expert at Global Change Associates in New York, said about the political and market odds stacked against creation of a big carbon market. Many in green groups, banks and the government had hoped the United States would anchor a global market worth up to $US2 trillion ($2.2 trillion) a year by 2020.

That’s really quite telling. The greenies were in bed with the guys with the green. And now this poor soul can’t make a killing in a high-rolling Wall street job and save the planet at the same time.

Paths to that goal could be US mandates for solar and wind power, and incentives for nuclear energy and energy efficiency. If those are signed into law, future green jobs may hold more promise there than on carbon desks.

“Hopefully I’ll remain in the environment field,” said one former carbon trader who did not wish to be identified. “Perhaps something in energy efficiency. That’s going to keep growing.”

Trading what? Blowhard futures?

To save their jobs, these traders must expand their coverage of environmental products and services beyond carbon credits, said Fusaro. Traders can dabble in markets generated by investments in energy efficiency and renewables and for emissions of smog components.

This is pernicious. Once they start trading NOx for caulk, all hell’s going to break loose, and building will become impossible for anyone who doesn’t have a staff of specialists and traders. This isn’t an accident. But here’s the money quote:

Some carbon trading jobs may remain if US senators forming the compromise bill propose implementing cap-and-trade more narrowly, first on power plants, which emit about 40 percent of the countries emissions. Later heavy industry could be covered, but perhaps not transportation.

And that, right there, is why carbon trading won’t reduce US oil imports. They’re going to try to stick it to the coal industry. People see the price signs on the gas pumps, but they just pay their electric bills.

So here’s an assignment – particularly those of you in the Northeast and Great Lakes areas who have a lot of coal generated electricity. Next time you get your power bill, make note of the energy charge per kWH. There are probably a number of other charges as well, but there should be some number, between $.10 and $.40 for a kWH. Watch that number. If these guys get their way, it’s going up. A lot.

The strategy to keep lean means young graduates who had wanted to combine an interest in environment with making money may have to adjust.

“I get young people coming to me saying they are looking into oil and gas trading. Carbon jobs just aren’t out there,” said Global Change’s Fusaro.

If you can figure out how to trade whining, maybe you can make a killing.

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Chortling At Chu (No Oil For You!)

Future Fuels: Our secretary of energy pushes bio-refineries and windmills to oil executives at an energy conference as the administration announces a three-year offshore drilling ban. This is a policy for economic suicide. (snip) A study by Science Applications International Corp. at the request of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners, the Gas Technology Institute and others shows that as a result of this administration's energy policy, the U.S. economy will suffer $2.3 trillion in lost opportunity costs over the next two decades, monies that would go a long way to reining in runaway deficits and creating economic growth. According to Chu, we'll just have to grin and bear it.

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The Slaughter Solution: The Metamorphosis of The American Republic Into Government By Fiat

 

 

Duh! Lightbringer:

 

 

The Coffee Party Uses Drupal (Same software as Obama White House ... coincidence?)

America's 3 Ring Economic Circus

Could the President of the United States be arrested for illegally signing a fraudulent bill?

Timmy Must Be Fired, Or Obama Must Be Impeached

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The Return of the Bicameral Mind

A Washington Post article about banning laptops in the classroom claims that professors have found themselves losing to the “cone of distraction” generated by these devices. It’s ironic because the universities themselves exerted strenuous efforts to ensure that every student had a laptop only to find them a nuisance. They mandated them only to ban them.

A generation ago, academia embraced the laptop as the most welcome classroom innovation since the ballpoint pen. But during the past decade, it has evolved into a powerful distraction. Wireless Internet connections tempt students away from note-typing to e-mail, blogs, YouTube videos, sports scores, even online gaming — all the diversions of a home computer beamed into the classroom to compete with the professor for the student’s attention.

But although the Washington Post has cast the problem in terms of distraction these devices pose, the underlying difficulty may be more basic. The computer has become cybernetically part of many people. For many people, “you” no longer means just “you”. It means you and your computer. And how can a person attend class with an essential part of himself removed?

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Read Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge

http://web.archive.org/web/20070602143143/http://vrinimi.org/rainbowsend.html

It is one possible future for education and a heck of a read.

#51 ashen:

speaking of bicameralism, how many here are interested in the “Slaughter Solution” being thrown around the room now? This is in regards to the HC bill and off topic but i’ve noticed a passion for revolution on this site over the years.

I am watching. If they in fact take the action of passing laws without voting on them, the social and political contract is irretrievably broken. A regime that is subject to our Constitution that takes this step has become illegitimate, as are its further actions.

I assume that I am not the only one watching carefully. Further this deponent sayeth not for the moment, but I would also be extremely interested in what our host would have to say since he has seen the elephant firsthand.

Subotai Bahadur

Mar 11, 2010 - 6:18 pm

 

Doc's Computin' Tips: Saving & playing web videos

Things are not always what they seem.

You think you're looking at a web page on Maggie's server, right?  Nope, not even close.  Every single item you see or hear on a web site has been downloaded to your computer first, and those are the files you're reading, watching and listening to.  Everything, including all of those wild & wacky videos you watch, are sitting right there on your computer waiting to be saved for later enjoyment.

But no.

No, as cruel as it sounds, this is not an ideal world, and thus there are bound to be a few hitches and bumps along the way, such as your media player rudely spitting out "Unknown format" when you innocently try to play your latest YouTube treasure.  But with stalwart heart and steely resolve, we'll solve the whole mess in one fell swoop.  I'm not exactly sure what a fell swoop is — but I'm pretty sure there's one below the fold.

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Don't mention the war, girls: For sale, a treasure trove of very un-PC WWII propaganda posters

 

New analysis of the structure of silks explains paradox of super-strength

Community uproar after Yellow Lab shot and killed in his own backyard by city police officer