Saturday, October 31, 2009
Tony Rubolotta: Baiting the Debate
"Government interference and intrusion in the free market has given us more bankrupt and failed programs than I could possibly enumerate in this limited space. Social Security, Medicare, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Post Office, Amtrak, ethanol, GM, some state governments and the federal government itself, all failing and headed toward bankruptcy. ObamaCare will be no different. It is unconstitutional and will fall to the same bureaucratic morass and political corruption that characterizes everything the federal government does."
Photo Op of Saluting Fallen Soliders But No Photos of Golf, Basketball or Smoking
Dear Friends:
When the media was invited to take photos and to shoot video of President Obama saluting our fallen Soldiers at Dover Air Force Base, I wondered why they never showed us photos and films of the many times President Obama takes time to smoke, play basketball and golf. The White House reports the following regarding the numerous time Obama has played golf since taking office.
"The White House press office told CNSNews.com that to confirm every round of golf played by the president since he took office would take “hours” because the only records kept are those sent to the media through e-mails that are not posted on the White House Web site because they are for media planning only."
Isn't it strange that the White House invites the media to take pictures of the President saluting the fallen soldiers, but no photos of the 11 rounds of golf that he has played since taking office, or the number of times he smokes cigarettes and plays basketball while those soldiers were dodging bullets. The media had photos of Dick Cheney hunting, George Bush riding the tractor on his ranch, Obama taking his wife out to dinner, but no photos of how much time Obama spends playing golf, basketball and smoking.
What do you think?
Rev. Wayne Perryman
When the media was invited to take photos and to shoot video of President Obama saluting our fallen Soldiers at Dover Air Force Base, I wondered why they never showed us photos and films of the many times President Obama takes time to smoke, play basketball and golf. The White House reports the following regarding the numerous time Obama has played golf since taking office.
"The White House press office told CNSNews.com that to confirm every round of golf played by the president since he took office would take “hours” because the only records kept are those sent to the media through e-mails that are not posted on the White House Web site because they are for media planning only."
Isn't it strange that the White House invites the media to take pictures of the President saluting the fallen soldiers, but no photos of the 11 rounds of golf that he has played since taking office, or the number of times he smokes cigarettes and plays basketball while those soldiers were dodging bullets. The media had photos of Dick Cheney hunting, George Bush riding the tractor on his ranch, Obama taking his wife out to dinner, but no photos of how much time Obama spends playing golf, basketball and smoking.
What do you think?
Rev. Wayne Perryman
Robert Knight: ObamaCare's Scary October Surprise
"President Obama promised 'transparency' and that any bill would be written in public. That was a lie. This monstrosity was hatched behind closed doors. Obama further promised that his health care initiative would not 'add a dime to the federal deficit,' which he has already tripled since taking office. It was another lie. No one can honestly believe that a gargantuan takeover of the nation's $2.5 trillion health care industry will save taxpayers money. No government program results in savings. Each one grows exponentially; creates dependent constituencies that lobby for yet more tax dollars; and empowers bureaucrats for whom mission failure ensures more staff, more money, and more power. There is simply no governing restraint such as a profit motive or anxious stockholders. The voters? Surely you jest. They are far, far away and kept in check by a compliant leftist media. At least, so far.
"Does anyone really believe that a government plan consisting of nearly two thousand pages will simplify things and leave us a freer people?"
Obama Tells 7 Lies In Under 2 Minutes!
Brother X says "So what, he's basically an honest man even if he lies."
The Numbers Don't Don't Add Up
The President told Americans that he must have a Stimulus Package to keep unemployment around 8% which would help him create and save some three million jobs.
The mere fact that unemployment has risen to almost 10% negates any possibility of saving or creating any jobs, and by his own estimates it means the Stimulus did not or has not as of this date, worked. So the $240,000 figure that is often quoted for creating each of the 650,000 jobs, was virtually spent to create or save no jobs. There were no gains in employment only net losses based on his own figure of keeping unemployment at 8%.
Simple math also tells us that if it cost taxpayers $24,000 for each person who took advantage of the Cash For Clunkers programs, we would have been better off (or cheaper) to just give the cars away. The numbers just don't add up.
Again, let's look at numbers. If the Declaration of Independence only consisted of one page and the Constitution of the United States only four pages, the 1964 Civil Rights Act only eight pages and the Social Security Act only 64 pages (as some news agencies report), why did it take 1,990 pages to put together a government program that would simply:
a. Cover Pre-existing illnesses
b. Prevent persons from being dropped from insurance
c. Give insurance to the un-insured
d. And Reduce premiums
Again, the numbers just don't add up. If this is all the new program is going to do, why do you need 1,990 pages to say this, particularly when you look at other major programs that were thoroughly explained with under 100 pages. What's really in this bill?
Rev. Wayne Perryman
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The mere fact that unemployment has risen to almost 10% negates any possibility of saving or creating any jobs, and by his own estimates it means the Stimulus did not or has not as of this date, worked. So the $240,000 figure that is often quoted for creating each of the 650,000 jobs, was virtually spent to create or save no jobs. There were no gains in employment only net losses based on his own figure of keeping unemployment at 8%.
Simple math also tells us that if it cost taxpayers $24,000 for each person who took advantage of the Cash For Clunkers programs, we would have been better off (or cheaper) to just give the cars away. The numbers just don't add up.
Again, let's look at numbers. If the Declaration of Independence only consisted of one page and the Constitution of the United States only four pages, the 1964 Civil Rights Act only eight pages and the Social Security Act only 64 pages (as some news agencies report), why did it take 1,990 pages to put together a government program that would simply:
a. Cover Pre-existing illnesses
b. Prevent persons from being dropped from insurance
c. Give insurance to the un-insured
d. And Reduce premiums
Again, the numbers just don't add up. If this is all the new program is going to do, why do you need 1,990 pages to say this, particularly when you look at other major programs that were thoroughly explained with under 100 pages. What's really in this bill?
Rev. Wayne Perryman
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Jon Christian Ryter: DYING LIKE KINGS OR PAUPERS
"Makes you feel somewhat relieved to know that in the event our political leaders get sick that they won't be wheeled into a terminal care unit like the rest of us under Obamacare and euthanized. Right? Instead, the doctors on staff—the best one...you know the one with the real MDs after his name, not the world 'intern'—will actually take the time and whatever taxpayer dollars are needed) to perform whatever lifesaving surgery is needed to save the Teddy Kennedys and Hillary Clinton's of the world while the rest of us are 'put to sleep' like Old Shep when blindness overcomes him and he runs into walls and craps in the corner because he can't find the doggy door anymore."
Mary Jackson: Don’t Leave It to the BNP to Stand Up for Britain
"The British National Party offers little more than Holocaust denial and far-left economic policies that would ruin the UK."
"The label 'far right' gets attached all too readily to the BNP, but it is as misleading as it is lazy. The BNP is a party of the left. Left-wing journal the New Statesman observes:
A brief skim through BNP manifesto literature brings to light proposals for the following: large increases in state pensions; more money for the NHS; improved worker protection; state ownership of key industries. Under Griffin, the modern-day far right has positioned itself to the left of Labour.
"Griffin describes himself as a 'Strasserite.' Here is what Gregor Strasser has to say:
We are socialists, enemies, mortal enemies of the present capitalist economic system with its exploitation of the economically weak, with its injustice in wages, with its immoral evaluation of individuals according to wealth and money instead of responsibility and achievement, and we are determined under all circumstances to abolish this system!"
Ron Radosh: Why Liberal Journalists are Joining the Obama Administration’s Attack on Fox News
"While the Obama administration continues its war against its media critics, well-known liberal journalists — instead of defending freedom of the press — are joining the attack on a news network they despise as much as does the administration. Gone is any seeming concern for the right of commentators to voice their own opinion, because mainstream liberal editorial writers are sure their opponents are both extremists and wrong."
The watchdogs are now lapdogs.
The watchdogs are now lapdogs.
Pelosicare - How to turn a $1.3T plan into a claim of $104B in deficit reduction
"Total cost of this bill: $1.055 trillion
But hold on a sec you say - Pelosi says cost is $894 billion. Well you see, penalties on individuals and companies are expected to be $161 billion. Let’s just not count that as part of the cost.
'Net' cost: $894 billion
Of yeah, and don’t count the $245 billion increase to Medicare that needs to pass separately.
"How to 'pay' for it?
Tax increases: $572 billion
Cuts to Medicare Advantage etc.: $426 billion
"So here’s how Pelosi math works when you add everything up:
$1.3 trillion grand total health care plans
- $245 billion that doesn’t count
= $1.055 trillion AHCAA cost
- $161 billion in penalties that doesn’t count
= $894 billion ‘net’ AHCAA cost
- $572 billion in tax increases
- $426 billion in program cuts
= ($104 billion) which we claim as deficit reduction
"Isn’t that special?
"Or to sum it up a different way:
$161B in penalties
+ $572B in tax increases
= $733B more collected from 'us' in this bill
"So looking at it that way, you get:
$1.3T total cost
- $733B from us suckers now
- $245B from us suckers later (add it to the deficit)
- $426B in cuts even though we know they won’t happen
= ($104B) in alleged deficit reduction"
Here is how the math was done:
But hold on a sec you say - Pelosi says cost is $894 billion. Well you see, penalties on individuals and companies are expected to be $161 billion. Let’s just not count that as part of the cost.
'Net' cost: $894 billion
Of yeah, and don’t count the $245 billion increase to Medicare that needs to pass separately.
"How to 'pay' for it?
Tax increases: $572 billion
Cuts to Medicare Advantage etc.: $426 billion
"So here’s how Pelosi math works when you add everything up:
$1.3 trillion grand total health care plans
- $245 billion that doesn’t count
= $1.055 trillion AHCAA cost
- $161 billion in penalties that doesn’t count
= $894 billion ‘net’ AHCAA cost
- $572 billion in tax increases
- $426 billion in program cuts
= ($104 billion) which we claim as deficit reduction
"Isn’t that special?
"Or to sum it up a different way:
$161B in penalties
+ $572B in tax increases
= $733B more collected from 'us' in this bill
"So looking at it that way, you get:
$1.3T total cost
- $733B from us suckers now
- $245B from us suckers later (add it to the deficit)
- $426B in cuts even though we know they won’t happen
= ($104B) in alleged deficit reduction"
Here is how the math was done:
New York Times: In ’05 Investing, Obama Took Same Path as Donors
March 2007
"Less than two months after ascending to the United States Senate, Barack Obama bought more than $50,000 worth of stock in two speculative companies whose major investors included some of his biggest political donors.
"One of the companies was a biotech concern that was starting to develop a drug to treat avian flu. In March 2005, two weeks after buying about $5,000 of its shares, Mr. Obama took the lead in a legislative push for more federal spending to battle the disease.
"The most recent financial disclosure form for Mr. Obama, an Illinois Democrat, also shows that he bought more than $50,000 in stock in a satellite communications business whose principal backers include four friends and donors who had raised more than $150,000 for his political committees.
"A spokesman for Mr. Obama, who is seeking his party’s presidential nomination in 2008, said yesterday that the senator did not know that he had invested in either company until fall 2005, when he learned of it and decided to sell the stocks. He sold them at a net loss of $13,000.
"The spokesman, Bill Burton, said Mr. Obama’s broker bought the stocks without consulting the senator, under the terms of a blind trust that was being set up for the senator at that time but was not finalized until several months after the investments were made.
"'He went about this process to avoid an actual or apparent conflict of interest, and he had no knowledge of the stocks he owned,' Mr. Burton said. 'And when he realized that he didn’t have the level of blindness that he expected, he moved to terminate the trust.'
"Mr. Obama has made ethics a signature issue, and his quest for the presidency has benefited from the perception that he is unlike politicians who blend public and private interests. There is no evidence that any of his actions ended up benefiting either company during the roughly eight months that he owned the stocks.
"Even so, the stock purchases raise questions about how he could unwittingly come to invest in two relatively obscure companies, whose backers happen to include generous contributors to his political committees. Among those donors was Jared Abbruzzese, a New York businessman now at the center of an F.B.I. inquiry into public corruption in Albany, who had also contributed to Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, a group that sought to undermine John Kerry’s Democratic presidential campaign in 2004.
"Mr. Obama, who declined to be interviewed about the stock deals, has already had to contend with a controversy that arose out of his reliance on a major campaign contributor in Chicago to help him in a personal financial transaction. In that earlier case, he acknowledged last year that it had been a mistake to involve the contributor, a developer who has since been indicted in an unrelated political scandal, in deals related to the Obamas’ purchase of a home."
"Less than two months after ascending to the United States Senate, Barack Obama bought more than $50,000 worth of stock in two speculative companies whose major investors included some of his biggest political donors.
"One of the companies was a biotech concern that was starting to develop a drug to treat avian flu. In March 2005, two weeks after buying about $5,000 of its shares, Mr. Obama took the lead in a legislative push for more federal spending to battle the disease.
"The most recent financial disclosure form for Mr. Obama, an Illinois Democrat, also shows that he bought more than $50,000 in stock in a satellite communications business whose principal backers include four friends and donors who had raised more than $150,000 for his political committees.
"A spokesman for Mr. Obama, who is seeking his party’s presidential nomination in 2008, said yesterday that the senator did not know that he had invested in either company until fall 2005, when he learned of it and decided to sell the stocks. He sold them at a net loss of $13,000.
"The spokesman, Bill Burton, said Mr. Obama’s broker bought the stocks without consulting the senator, under the terms of a blind trust that was being set up for the senator at that time but was not finalized until several months after the investments were made.
"'He went about this process to avoid an actual or apparent conflict of interest, and he had no knowledge of the stocks he owned,' Mr. Burton said. 'And when he realized that he didn’t have the level of blindness that he expected, he moved to terminate the trust.'
"Mr. Obama has made ethics a signature issue, and his quest for the presidency has benefited from the perception that he is unlike politicians who blend public and private interests. There is no evidence that any of his actions ended up benefiting either company during the roughly eight months that he owned the stocks.
"Even so, the stock purchases raise questions about how he could unwittingly come to invest in two relatively obscure companies, whose backers happen to include generous contributors to his political committees. Among those donors was Jared Abbruzzese, a New York businessman now at the center of an F.B.I. inquiry into public corruption in Albany, who had also contributed to Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, a group that sought to undermine John Kerry’s Democratic presidential campaign in 2004.
"Mr. Obama, who declined to be interviewed about the stock deals, has already had to contend with a controversy that arose out of his reliance on a major campaign contributor in Chicago to help him in a personal financial transaction. In that earlier case, he acknowledged last year that it had been a mistake to involve the contributor, a developer who has since been indicted in an unrelated political scandal, in deals related to the Obamas’ purchase of a home."
Friday, October 30, 2009
Jake Tapper: $160,000 Per Stimulus Job? White House Calls That 'Calculator Abuse'
"White House officials heralded the unparalleled transparency in reporting job numbers to the public, but acknowledged there is no consistent standard across states or localities, or among federal agencies giving out stimulus funds, in differentiating between a “saved” job and a 'created' job.
"The White House argues that the actual job number is actually larger than 640,000 -- closer to 1 million jobs when one factors in stimulus jobs added in October and, more importantly, jobs created indirectly, such as 'the waitress who's still on the job,' Vice President Biden said today.
(Ridiculous -- Robert)
"So let's see. Assuming their number is right -- 160 billion divided by 1 million. Does that mean the stimulus costs taxpayers $160,000 per job?"
"The White House argues that the actual job number is actually larger than 640,000 -- closer to 1 million jobs when one factors in stimulus jobs added in October and, more importantly, jobs created indirectly, such as 'the waitress who's still on the job,' Vice President Biden said today.
(Ridiculous -- Robert)
"So let's see. Assuming their number is right -- 160 billion divided by 1 million. Does that mean the stimulus costs taxpayers $160,000 per job?"
Floyd and Mary Beth Brown: Obamacare: Startling New Revelations Scare Public
"Here's the latest shock: Average current health insurance premiums with likely triple under Obamacare.
"The new data comes from a well regarded, state-by-state study conducted for WellPoint, Inc. The most dramatic premium boosts will hit young people. These are the actual individuals that often opt out of insurance plans now.
"Reaction from the Obama White House was swift and harsh. Linda Douglass, Obama's healthcare spokesperson, had the audacity to compare the health insurance firm with tobacco companies. Since the White House refuses to argue the facts, they instead turned to using one of their favorite tactics, which is demonizing any voices of dissent.
"The reason for the dramatic insurance premium increases is the result of Obamacare regulations. First cause is the mandate that insurance companies take any customer. Insurance traditionally is an actuarial business that rates different customers based on risk factors. This is the reason a driver aged 19 with two speeding tickets pays more for auto insurance than a customer aged 35 with no speeding tickets. Nineteen-year-olds have more accidents. Therefore they pose more risk.
"Traditionally, health insurance companies charged customers with risk factors and chronic illness more than young, healthy 19-year-olds. Obamacare stands the concept of insurance on its head. Since an insurance company will be forced to sell to any sick patient, the incentive to buy insurance when you are healthy decreases. Why not wait until you are sick; get cancer, diabetes or some other severe illness before you buy? To circumvent this problem, Obama is riddling the program with police-state mandates on healthy, younger citizens. Perverted, negative incentives such as threats of large fines and even prison time will hang over young people's heads to force them to join and stay enrolled in Obama's healthcare scheme. Does this sound like America to you? (emphasis mine)"
"The new data comes from a well regarded, state-by-state study conducted for WellPoint, Inc. The most dramatic premium boosts will hit young people. These are the actual individuals that often opt out of insurance plans now.
"Reaction from the Obama White House was swift and harsh. Linda Douglass, Obama's healthcare spokesperson, had the audacity to compare the health insurance firm with tobacco companies. Since the White House refuses to argue the facts, they instead turned to using one of their favorite tactics, which is demonizing any voices of dissent.
"The reason for the dramatic insurance premium increases is the result of Obamacare regulations. First cause is the mandate that insurance companies take any customer. Insurance traditionally is an actuarial business that rates different customers based on risk factors. This is the reason a driver aged 19 with two speeding tickets pays more for auto insurance than a customer aged 35 with no speeding tickets. Nineteen-year-olds have more accidents. Therefore they pose more risk.
"Traditionally, health insurance companies charged customers with risk factors and chronic illness more than young, healthy 19-year-olds. Obamacare stands the concept of insurance on its head. Since an insurance company will be forced to sell to any sick patient, the incentive to buy insurance when you are healthy decreases. Why not wait until you are sick; get cancer, diabetes or some other severe illness before you buy? To circumvent this problem, Obama is riddling the program with police-state mandates on healthy, younger citizens. Perverted, negative incentives such as threats of large fines and even prison time will hang over young people's heads to force them to join and stay enrolled in Obama's healthcare scheme. Does this sound like America to you? (emphasis mine)"
Harry R. Jackson, Jr.: Democracy is Shrinking in DC
"Yet while we still are being denied a vote in the United States Congress, the council does not want the people to vote on same-sex marriage. Citizens have complained rightly at the injustice of being forced to pay taxes without being able to have a real congressional vote. Our license plates even go so far as to make a powerful declaration, 'No taxation without representation.' Hypocritically, the DC city council appears poised to deny the people their rights. By keeping the District’s power primarily in their hands, the council is acting like the District is an oligarchy --- or even worse, a plantation with slaves."
Michelle Malkin: The Obama White House: Bundlers' Paradise
"Like Capt. Renault in Casablanca, I am shocked, shocked to discover that access peddling is going on in the Obama White House. Perks for deep-pocketed donors? Presidential meetings for sale? The stale Chicago odor of pay-for-play wafting from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue? Knock me over with a feather."
URINATING ON JESUS
"At one point in the show, David goes to the bathroom in a Catholic home and splatters urine on a picture of Jesus; he doesn’t clean it off. Then a Catholic woman goes to the bathroom, sees the picture and concludes that Jesus is crying. She then summons her equally stupid mother and the two of them fall to their knees in prayer. When David and Jerry Seinfeld (playing himself) are asked if they ever experienced a miracle, David answers, 'every erection is a miracle.' That’s what passes for creativity these days."
I'm not even Catholic and I'm disgusted.
I'm not even Catholic and I'm disgusted.
Andrea Lafferty: ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ Episode Features Urination On Jesus
"The ridicule of Christians is clearly the objective in this episode. Christians will protest against this attack, but actor Larry David doesn't need to worry about having his head chopped off for ridiculing Christians."
Caroline Baum: ‘Jobs Created or Saved’ Is White House Fantasy
"Her logic is impeccable. It’s her premise that’s flawed."
Shahzad Chaudhary: Antiwar Activists Reawaken as Obama Weighs Afghanistan Strategy
"'There is a growing dissatisfaction with Obama's foreign policy and people are mobilizing,' she said. 'And I think we're going to see much more activity in the fall.'"
Elaina George, MD: What Is in the Swine Flu Vaccine: A Primer
"There are 4 manufactures who have been approved to sell H1N1 vaccine in the US. They are: Novartis, CSL, Sanofi/Pasteur and MedImmune
"1) Novartis makes an injectable vaccine for ages 4 and above. The ingredients include:
▪ Thimerosal (Mercury) both in the single dose and the multi dose vials
▪ Antibiotics - polymyxin and neomycin (can be neurotoxic)
▪ It is manufactured with phenol (the chemical used on skin in cosmetic face peals to remove wrinkles)
"They recommend that children ages 4-9 get 2 injections one month apart. This would increase the risk from a reaction to the mercury (e.g, neurological damage such as Gullain-Barre or possibly Autism)
"2) CSL makes an injectable vaccine. Only the multi dose vial contains thimerosal
"3) Sanofi/Pasteur - Only the multi dose vial contains thimerosal. This vaccine is made with polyethelene glycol (antifreeze) and formaldehyde (a chemical used in embalming).
"Vaccines 1-3 are grown in chicken embryo cells. So if a person has severe allergies to eggs, they are at risk of having an allergic reaction and should therefore not take the vaccine.
"4) MedImmune makes a live attenuated H1N1 vaccine that has an intranasal delivery. It does not contain thimerosal, but has the food additive MSG (monosodium glutamate) which can cause reactions in some people who are sensitive, it also contains gentamycin (an antibiotic which can be neurotoxic and cause hearing loss)"
Wonderful!
"1) Novartis makes an injectable vaccine for ages 4 and above. The ingredients include:
▪ Thimerosal (Mercury) both in the single dose and the multi dose vials
▪ Antibiotics - polymyxin and neomycin (can be neurotoxic)
▪ It is manufactured with phenol (the chemical used on skin in cosmetic face peals to remove wrinkles)
"They recommend that children ages 4-9 get 2 injections one month apart. This would increase the risk from a reaction to the mercury (e.g, neurological damage such as Gullain-Barre or possibly Autism)
"2) CSL makes an injectable vaccine. Only the multi dose vial contains thimerosal
"3) Sanofi/Pasteur - Only the multi dose vial contains thimerosal. This vaccine is made with polyethelene glycol (antifreeze) and formaldehyde (a chemical used in embalming).
"Vaccines 1-3 are grown in chicken embryo cells. So if a person has severe allergies to eggs, they are at risk of having an allergic reaction and should therefore not take the vaccine.
"4) MedImmune makes a live attenuated H1N1 vaccine that has an intranasal delivery. It does not contain thimerosal, but has the food additive MSG (monosodium glutamate) which can cause reactions in some people who are sensitive, it also contains gentamycin (an antibiotic which can be neurotoxic and cause hearing loss)"
Wonderful!
Jerry A. Kane: Hate Crimes Laws Encourage Anti-Christian Bigotry
“The content of your letter has been assessed as potentially being hate related because of the views you expressed towards people of a certain sexual orientation. Your details and details of the contents of your letter have been recorded as such and passed to the police.”
John Lillpop: Where Are All the Jobs You Promised, Mr. President?
"Nearly ten months later, the only thing that the Democrat bill has stimulated is the federal deficit which has exploded out of control and which threatens the economic prosperity of untold generations of Americans not yet born.
"Meanwhile the economy continues to hemorrhage jobs at an alarming pace and unemployment may reach 10 percent or higher soon.
"And President Obama’s 'solution' to America’s economic misery is? Spend another trillion dollars plus to reform health care, and another trillion to fix the climate mess left by W.!"
"Meanwhile the economy continues to hemorrhage jobs at an alarming pace and unemployment may reach 10 percent or higher soon.
"And President Obama’s 'solution' to America’s economic misery is? Spend another trillion dollars plus to reform health care, and another trillion to fix the climate mess left by W.!"
Andrea Lafferty: Former Muslim Rifqa Bary Faces Death!
"Rifqa Bary is the 17-year-old girl who fled from Ohio to Florida earlier this year to escape being killed by her Muslim father. What was Bary's crime? She converted to Christianity several years ago and kept her faith hidden from her Muslim parents.
"In Islam, converting to another religion is a capital offense punishable by death. Rifqa sought refuge in Florida at the home of a Christian pastor and his wife.
"Tragically, a Florida court ruled that Rifqa had to be returned to Ohio and put into protective care until she reached the age of 18. However, once she was in Ohio, all deals were off."
"In Islam, converting to another religion is a capital offense punishable by death. Rifqa sought refuge in Florida at the home of a Christian pastor and his wife.
"Tragically, a Florida court ruled that Rifqa had to be returned to Ohio and put into protective care until she reached the age of 18. However, once she was in Ohio, all deals were off."
Bernard Chapin: The Straw Men of the Left
"When I was a lad my father gave me one piece of advice concerning politics: 'Son, the Democratic Party cares about the poor whereas the Republican Party cares only for the rich.' I believed him as would most five-year-olds. Luckily, later in life upon meeting actual conservatives and studying their works, I developed second thoughts. Firsthand experience with the welfare state moved me even further to the right. Unfortunately, my dad — while in countless ways a more knowledgeable man than I — knew nothing about politics. However, his take on Republicans was fairly typical. The quip regarding the GOP being disinterested in 'the poor' is but a leftist straw man posing as a legitimate argument. It is full of emotion but signifies dysfunction alone. Moreover, it is a fallacy, and this particular brand of irrationality occurs when one ignores another’s 'actual position and substitutes a distorted, exaggerated, or misrepresented version of that position' in its stead."
Even Democrats Agree Obama Is At War with Free Speech
Brother X says: "All those Democrats are RACIST!"
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Obama's Stimulus jobs overstated in report
"The AP reviewed a sample of federal contracts, not all 9,000 reported to date, and discovered errors in one in six jobs credited to the $787 billion stimulus program — or 5,000 of the 30,000 jobs claimed so far.
"Even in its limited review, the AP found job counts that were more than 10 times as high as the actual number of paid positions; jobs credited to the stimulus program that were counted two and sometimes more than four times; and other jobs that were credited to stimulus spending when none was produced."
Alan Keyes: The new totalitarians
"'Congress has never before required citizens to purchase any good or service, but that is what both House and Senate health bills would mandate.' With these words, Donald Lambro of the Washington Times reports the unprecedented destruction of liberty that is the real aim of the Obama faction's so-called health-care plan. Because most Americans have never thought much about the doctrine of unalienable rights that has until now been the presumed basis for America's form of government, the politicians and the controlled media may get away with treating the central goal of the health sector takeover as a secondary issue. Such ignorance-induced nonchalance won't change the devastating new reality that will emerge if the Obama faction's totalitarian philosophy of government is allowed to stand.
"To convince the public of the 'urgent need' for a comprehensive reorganization of administration and finance in the health sector, the new totalitarians held up the plight of the 10 percent or so of Americans without health insurance. Though opponents of their totalitarian ideology frequently pointed out that as many as half of this 10 percent voluntarily forego health insurance, the Obama totalitarians went on acting as if such people didn't exist, or their existence didn't affect the urgent need for government action.
"It now becomes apparent that depriving these people of their liberty was all along the real aim of the exercise. They become the precedent for the transformation of government prerogative that represents the decisive imposition of totalitarian control. What begins with the pretense of government doing good for people ends in the reality of government forcing them to do what those who happen to wield government power decide is good for them."
"To convince the public of the 'urgent need' for a comprehensive reorganization of administration and finance in the health sector, the new totalitarians held up the plight of the 10 percent or so of Americans without health insurance. Though opponents of their totalitarian ideology frequently pointed out that as many as half of this 10 percent voluntarily forego health insurance, the Obama totalitarians went on acting as if such people didn't exist, or their existence didn't affect the urgent need for government action.
"It now becomes apparent that depriving these people of their liberty was all along the real aim of the exercise. They become the precedent for the transformation of government prerogative that represents the decisive imposition of totalitarian control. What begins with the pretense of government doing good for people ends in the reality of government forcing them to do what those who happen to wield government power decide is good for them."
Jim Brown: Hate crimes law - ungodly, unconstitutional, unnecessary
"A Christian evangelist who was once arrested, jailed, and charged under Pennsylvania's hate crimes law says the federal hate crimes bill signed into law by President Obama is one of the most dangerous laws in the history of the United States."
Jamie Glazov: Sean Penn's Cuba odyssey
"Penn is now taking his act to Castro's Cuba, a communist dictatorship that has distinguished itself as one of the most monstrous human-rights abusers in the world. As 'The Black Book of Communism' has documented, half a million human beings have passed through Cuba's gulag. Since Cuba's total population is only around 11 million, that gives Castro's despotism the highest political incarceration rate per capita on earth. There have been more than 15,000 executions by firing squad. Torture has been institutionalized; myriad human-rights organizations have documented the regime's use of electric shock, dark coffin-sized isolation cells and beatings to punish 'anti-socialist elements.' The Castro regime's barbarity is best epitomized by the Camilo Cienfuegos plan, the program of horrors followed in the forced-labor camp on the Isle of Pines. Forced to work almost naked, prisoners were made to cut grass with their teeth and to sit in latrine trenches for long periods of time.
"The horrifying experience of Armando Valladares, a Cuban poet who endured 22 years of torture and imprisonment for merely raising the issue of freedom, is a testament to the regime's barbarity. Valladares' memoir, 'Against All Hope,' serves as Cuba's version of Solzhenitsyn's 'Gulag Archipelago.' Valladares recounts how prisoners were beaten with bayonets, electric cables and truncheons. He tells how he and other prisoners were forced to take 'baths' in human feces and urine.
"Don't expect Sean Penn to be including these facts in the story he tells when he leaves Castro's communist paradise. Expect glowing praise for the dictator and the dictatorship. Indeed, expect more and the same from what we've already seen in Penn's, and the left's, dance and flirtation with tyranny, despotism and death."
"The horrifying experience of Armando Valladares, a Cuban poet who endured 22 years of torture and imprisonment for merely raising the issue of freedom, is a testament to the regime's barbarity. Valladares' memoir, 'Against All Hope,' serves as Cuba's version of Solzhenitsyn's 'Gulag Archipelago.' Valladares recounts how prisoners were beaten with bayonets, electric cables and truncheons. He tells how he and other prisoners were forced to take 'baths' in human feces and urine.
"Don't expect Sean Penn to be including these facts in the story he tells when he leaves Castro's communist paradise. Expect glowing praise for the dictator and the dictatorship. Indeed, expect more and the same from what we've already seen in Penn's, and the left's, dance and flirtation with tyranny, despotism and death."
Burt Prelutsky: Liberal love for tyrants
"The answer is that they identify with tyrants. They don't oppose gulags on principle; they simply don't wish to be sent to one. That doesn't mean they wouldn't like to run one. They also have a soft spot for dictators because they, themselves, are miserable excuses for human beings who look down on the masses as being ignorant, religious peons who, in a just world, would exist only to serve as organ donors."
World Net Daily: Sting: Obama is 'sent from God'
Can we send him back?
"OBAMA BE THY NAME
THY CHANGE WILL COME
THY WILL BE DONE ..."
Thy change will come from a laudromat, your 7-11, any bank, and any functioning Coke machine.
"OBAMA BE THY NAME
THY CHANGE WILL COME
THY WILL BE DONE ..."
Thy change will come from a laudromat, your 7-11, any bank, and any functioning Coke machine.
Mike Adams: US government report recommends blocking popular websites during pandemic flu outbreak
"(NaturalNews) The US government has issued a new report that recommends blocking access to popular websites during a pandemic outbreak in order to preserve internet bandwidth for investors, day traders and securities clearing house operations. The concern is that a pandemic would cause too many people to stay at home and download YouTube videos and porn, hogging all the internet bandwidth and blocking throughput for investment activities, thereby causing a stock market meltdown.
"This isn't an April Fool's joke. It's all based on a public report issued by the Government Accounting Office (GAO), available from their website at http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d108.pdf
"In this article, I'm going to explain how a pandemic outbreak could theoretically bring down Wall Street. But to get to that, you'll first need to find out what the GAO said in its curious report (see below). Parts of this article are presented as satire, but the underlying facts quoted here are all true and verifiable (links are provided to all sources)."
"This isn't an April Fool's joke. It's all based on a public report issued by the Government Accounting Office (GAO), available from their website at http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d108.pdf
"In this article, I'm going to explain how a pandemic outbreak could theoretically bring down Wall Street. But to get to that, you'll first need to find out what the GAO said in its curious report (see below). Parts of this article are presented as satire, but the underlying facts quoted here are all true and verifiable (links are provided to all sources)."
CBS News: Report: White House Overstates Job Growth
"An early progress report on President Barack Obama's economic recovery plan overstates by thousands the number of jobs created or saved through the stimulus program, a mistake that White House officials promise will be corrected in future reports.
"The government's first accounting of jobs tied to the $787 billion stimulus program claimed more than 30,000 positions paid for with recovery money. But that figure is overstated by least 5,000 jobs, according to an Associated Press review of a sample of stimulus contracts.
"The AP review found some counts were more than 10 times as high as the actual number of jobs; some jobs credited to the stimulus program were counted two and sometimes more than four times; and other jobs were credited to stimulus spending when none was produced."
Will the White House attack CBS News?
"The government's first accounting of jobs tied to the $787 billion stimulus program claimed more than 30,000 positions paid for with recovery money. But that figure is overstated by least 5,000 jobs, according to an Associated Press review of a sample of stimulus contracts.
"The AP review found some counts were more than 10 times as high as the actual number of jobs; some jobs credited to the stimulus program were counted two and sometimes more than four times; and other jobs were credited to stimulus spending when none was produced."
Will the White House attack CBS News?
Erik Rush: A glorious day
"It was a glorious day because it revealed the lack of mettle the administration has; it revealed the extent of their paternalism and arrogance where the establishment press is concerned; and gave the latter pause that is tantamount to a loss of political currency for Obama."
Toby Westerman: Communist Tyranny in America: What We Must Know and Do
"Chavez, who initiated the latest Communist drive in Latin America, is much admired among many in the Obama administration, especially by Bill Ayers who helped launch Obama’s political career. There is the very real danger that Chavez’s admirers may attempt to carry over not only the ideology but also the authoritarian lessons from Venezuela to the United States."
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Politico: Cantor: Romer claim ‘stunning’
"Romer, the chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, told a congressional panel Thursday that by the middle of next year the $194 billion in stimulus funds spent in the second and third quarter this year will no longer be contributing to economic growth."
Charlie Butss: Obama signs 'hate crimes' bill - Christian broadcasters concerned
"Parshall contends that an examination of the motive behind the hate crimes law reveals it is not about hate -- and will have no effect on stopping crime, because that is already outlawed in all 50 states. In his opinion, it is designed to shut up the opposition -- Christians specifically -- and close down any debate against the homosexual lifestyle."
Michelle Malkin: How the FCC and Liberal Churches Are Scheming To Shut You Up
I dare you to shut me up.
From a Black Liberal Point of View
Top Ten Reasons President Obama Should Give Back the Nobel Peace Prize
Ben Shapiro: What happened to liberalism?
"Steinbeck's brand of liberalism made political debate a real possibility. After all, conservatives agree that men are neither angels nor devils, and that not everyone will behave with the same honor as an Ayn Rand-ian hero. Steinbeck's solution to the problem of 'immorality' was not necessarily more government, but better men in government, and not necessarily more regulation, but more self-regulation. Communal standards were important, but there was no guarantee that government would be the best judge of communal standards. As Steinbeck wrote shortly before his death, 'It is our national conviction that politics is a dirty, tricky and dishonest pursuit and that all politicians are crooks. The reason for this attitude is fairly obvious – we have had cynical and dishonest officials on all levels of our government.'"
John Feehery: Choosing their enemies unwisely
"This only energizes the reporters and personalities who work there. It only increases the ratings for the Fox shows. And it makes the Obama White House look petty, mean and, frankly, Nixon-like."
AP: DC sniper Muhammad set to die by lethal injection
Brother X says: "See this proves that a black man can be a sniper just as well or better than a white man! Free John Muhammad!"
Bob Unruh: Americans alarmed at attacks on free speech
"A majority of Americans are alarmed over attempts by the White House to stifle dissent or suppress free speech, according to a new poll that asked about a series of issues ranging from President Obama's attempt to cut Fox News out of an interview opportunity to his advocacy for 'hate crimes' legislation that could hinder Christian pastors' sermons.
"The new poll from Zogby International/O'Leary Report reveals a clear majority of Americans view recent actions by Obama and Democratic leaders in Congress as 'threats to our First Amendment Rights.'"
"The new poll from Zogby International/O'Leary Report reveals a clear majority of Americans view recent actions by Obama and Democratic leaders in Congress as 'threats to our First Amendment Rights.'"
World Net Daily: NYT dubs man-woman union: 'Opposite-sex marriage'
"Many Americans may be accustomed to hearing the term 'same-sex marriage' in news reports about homosexual unions, but now the New York Times is also referring to traditional matrimony as 'opposite-sex marriage.'"
ABSOLUTE LIES 100% PROOF THEY ARE LYING ( GET THIS OUT NOW ! ) SEE LINK
"How the hell can they categorically say that the H1N1 is safe for pregnant women and the baby they are carrying. THE TESTS ONLY STARTED IN SEPTEMBER 2009 AND THE END RESULTS WILL BE OUT IN JULY 2010. So they have got NO idea what it is doing to the fetus or maybe they have and that is the idea. I am absolutely disgusted with our governments and the propaganda they have been using to scare the population into getting a fast tracked H1N1 swine flu vaccine. AND now that the USA is under a National Emergency that allows hospitals and doctors to use drugs and treatments which have NOT been approved by the FDA and have NOT gone through all the necessary tests to find out whether they are safe for public use. For example SQUALENE
"AND another point I would like to make- It would not be until a baby is old enough to show developmental delay for them to know that the H1N1 vaccine has had any effect on the fetus ! Normally when a baby is 9-12 months old.
"COME ON PEOPLE.
"Here is the CLINICALTRIALS.GOV H1N1 Vaccine trials in Pregnant Women link-
http://www.clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/sho...
"You will clearly see:
"This study is ongoing, but not recruiting participants.
Estimated Enrollment:120
Study Start Date:September 2009
*** Estimated Study Completion Date:July 2010
*** Estimated Primary Completion Date:July 2010 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)"
Jay Leno Again Mocks Barack Obama's All-Out War On FOX News
Jay Leno, newest member of White House enemies list
Erica Carle: THE INTELLIGENT STUDENT'S GUIDE TO THE NEW WORLD ORDER
"(1) Claim everything.
(2) Classify everything.
(3) Commercialize everything.
(4) Consolidate everything.
(5) Control everything."
(2) Classify everything.
(3) Commercialize everything.
(4) Consolidate everything.
(5) Control everything."
Cliff Kincaid: OBAMA'S MEDIA CONTROL STRATEGY
"The idea of the federal government telling people how to 'differentiate between authentic and inauthentic information' is frightening. But this is part of Benton’s 'Action Plan for America.'”
Mike McNally: About Britain’s New Star on the Far, Far Right
"So anyone who voices legitimate concerns about virtually unregulated mass immigration or suggests that it would be a good thing if immigrants who arrive legally were encouraged to integrate into society is branded a racist. And anyone who voices the opinion that maybe British voters should be able to have a say in how they’re governed, rather than having laws imposed on them from Brussels, is labeled a xenophobe.
"The British left is more angry than usual these days because the rise of far-right extremism during a long period of ostensibly progressive government doesn’t make progressive policies look good. But so successful has been the left’s distorting of the debate — there is no 'far left,' only the 'far right' and, on the other side, 'normal' people — that the Conservatives have been cowed into silence on issues that matter deeply to a majority of the British people.
"And if the Tories fail to address the problems that have festered for the past twelve years, the extremists will grow stronger. If a rabble of a party like the BNP, with its repellent leader and half-baked set of policies, can attract the support of a million voters, there’s a real danger that more articulate and persuasive racists will one day become serious players in British political life."
"The British left is more angry than usual these days because the rise of far-right extremism during a long period of ostensibly progressive government doesn’t make progressive policies look good. But so successful has been the left’s distorting of the debate — there is no 'far left,' only the 'far right' and, on the other side, 'normal' people — that the Conservatives have been cowed into silence on issues that matter deeply to a majority of the British people.
"And if the Tories fail to address the problems that have festered for the past twelve years, the extremists will grow stronger. If a rabble of a party like the BNP, with its repellent leader and half-baked set of policies, can attract the support of a million voters, there’s a real danger that more articulate and persuasive racists will one day become serious players in British political life."
Barbara Curtis: Blogging Rules for Radicals
"The American middle class has been way too trusting, way too slow to respond to the warning signs. And way too busy earning the money to keep their families secure while paying taxes to fund the very organizations bent on the destruction of traditional America."
Monte Kuligowski: The Modern-Day Race Hustlers
"A great danger of the left is its use of government to implement policy. Race relations in the U.S. were not allowed to develop naturally. Government was employed to create affirmative action to instantly make things right. Hence, the country experienced school busing and other policy disasters.
"When government got too heavily involved in the business of creating racial equality, race relations became politicized. Unfortunately, blacks, in many instances, were invited to become perpetual victims.
"Democratic politicians and the race hustlers have inflicted upon the black community unspeakable indignities. Many blacks were knocked off course and into a morally barren wilderness. Some of the most enduring values of the black community were stolen within a couple generations. On the new Democratic vote-producing plantations, dignity, morality, responsibility, and a work ethic were replaced with government checks.
"The formerly strong, intact, two parent family unit, in many instances, would become dispensable. (The widespread destruction as a result of liberal policies is not, of course, limited to the black community.) Sadly, the left did not build upon the ideals of Dr. King, by which all men would have been lifted up and from which families and communities would have been strengthened."
"When government got too heavily involved in the business of creating racial equality, race relations became politicized. Unfortunately, blacks, in many instances, were invited to become perpetual victims.
"Democratic politicians and the race hustlers have inflicted upon the black community unspeakable indignities. Many blacks were knocked off course and into a morally barren wilderness. Some of the most enduring values of the black community were stolen within a couple generations. On the new Democratic vote-producing plantations, dignity, morality, responsibility, and a work ethic were replaced with government checks.
"The formerly strong, intact, two parent family unit, in many instances, would become dispensable. (The widespread destruction as a result of liberal policies is not, of course, limited to the black community.) Sadly, the left did not build upon the ideals of Dr. King, by which all men would have been lifted up and from which families and communities would have been strengthened."
ACORN To Regulate Financial Institutions
"The House committee that oversees the nation’s financial services sectors has quietly voted to give regulatory power to a famously corrupt community organization that rakes in millions of dollars from the very institutions it will monitor."
Go to link for Judicial Watch's investigation of ACORN: http://www.judicialwatch.org/investigation-acorn
Go to link for Judicial Watch's investigation of ACORN: http://www.judicialwatch.org/investigation-acorn
Wall Street Journal: Escape From New York
"Liberals continue to insist that they can raise taxes ever higher without any effect on behavior, but the New York study is one more piece of evidence that this is a destructive illusion."
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Bob Chapman: Fall of the Dollar on G-20 Finance Ministers Agenda
"Geithner was the one who closed the deregulation deal for the Clinton entourage as lead negotiator. He knows all about the existing agreements. He was directly instrumental in the destruction of Glass-Steagall. The whole new crowd in the Obama administration was responsible for setting up what has become the destruction of our financial system."
Mike Adams: Obama's H1N1 national emergency declaration could invoke FEMA response to pandemic (opinion)
"In other words, there's not really any emergency at all. So why declare a national emergency in the first place? The media reports this was done to allow hospitals to bypass federal regulations concerning the setting up of large-scale triage sites -- emergency medical camps quickly constructed to deal with large numbers of sick people."
Thomas Sowell: Dismantling America
"Just one year ago, would you have believed that an unelected government official -- not even a Cabinet member confirmed by the Senate, but simply one of the many 'czars' appointed by the President -- could arbitrarily cut the pay of executives in private businesses by 50 percent or 90 percent?
"Did you think that another 'czar' would be talking about restricting talk radio? That there would be plans afloat to subsidize newspapers -- that is, to create a situation where some newspapers' survival would depend on the government liking what they publish?
"Did you imagine that anyone would even be talking about having a panel of so-called 'experts' deciding who could and could not get life-saving medical treatments?
"Scary as that is from a medical standpoint, it is also chilling from the standpoint of freedom. If you have a mother who needs a heart operation or a child with some dire medical condition, how free would you feel to speak out against an administration that has the power to make life and death decisions about your loved ones?
"Does any of this sound like America?
"How about a federal agency giving school children material to enlist them on the side of the president? Merely being assigned to sing his praises in class is apparently not enough.
"How much of America would be left if the federal government continued on this path? President Obama has already floated the idea of a national police force, something we have done without for more than two centuries.
"We already have local police forces all across the country and military forces for national defense, as well as the FBI for federal crimes and the National Guard for local emergencies. What would be the role of a national police force created by Barack Obama, with all its leaders appointed by him? It would seem more like the brown shirts of dictators than like anything American.
"How far the President will go depends of course on how much resistance he meets. But the direction in which he is trying to go tells us more than all his rhetoric or media spin.
"Barack Obama has not only said that he is out to 'change the United States of America,' the people he has been associated with for years have expressed in words and deeds their hostility to the values, the principles, and the people of this country."
"Did you think that another 'czar' would be talking about restricting talk radio? That there would be plans afloat to subsidize newspapers -- that is, to create a situation where some newspapers' survival would depend on the government liking what they publish?
"Did you imagine that anyone would even be talking about having a panel of so-called 'experts' deciding who could and could not get life-saving medical treatments?
"Scary as that is from a medical standpoint, it is also chilling from the standpoint of freedom. If you have a mother who needs a heart operation or a child with some dire medical condition, how free would you feel to speak out against an administration that has the power to make life and death decisions about your loved ones?
"Does any of this sound like America?
"How about a federal agency giving school children material to enlist them on the side of the president? Merely being assigned to sing his praises in class is apparently not enough.
"How much of America would be left if the federal government continued on this path? President Obama has already floated the idea of a national police force, something we have done without for more than two centuries.
"We already have local police forces all across the country and military forces for national defense, as well as the FBI for federal crimes and the National Guard for local emergencies. What would be the role of a national police force created by Barack Obama, with all its leaders appointed by him? It would seem more like the brown shirts of dictators than like anything American.
"How far the President will go depends of course on how much resistance he meets. But the direction in which he is trying to go tells us more than all his rhetoric or media spin.
"Barack Obama has not only said that he is out to 'change the United States of America,' the people he has been associated with for years have expressed in words and deeds their hostility to the values, the principles, and the people of this country."
Fox has Friends in the White House
"Fox News Ratings Soar After Snub From Obama"
They should have said be sure to watch Fox. Then Fox's ratings would have tanked.
They should have said be sure to watch Fox. Then Fox's ratings would have tanked.
The Troubled Patriot : It is Good to be The King
"I ask you, does any of this seem familiar to you? Does anyone come to mind in today’s America who seems to fit the bill? Is there someone that children sing songs about? Is there someone who has placed innumerable people in positions of power (unelected and unconfirmed) that support him whole-heartedly? Is there someone who tried to create a national slogan while harassing opponents? Is there a person here in America who is attacking independent media as well as talk show hosts and independent bloggers? Has someone in the United States asked citizens to spy upon one another? Does this same person have any connections to Africa?"
Bill Carter: CNN Drops to Last Place Among Cable News Networks
"That means CNN’s programs were behind not only Fox News and MSNBC, but even its own sister network HLN (formerly Headline News.) Three of its four shows between 7 and 11p.m. finished fourth and last among the cable news networks. That was the first time CNN had finished that poorly with its prime-time shows."
J. Shott: Those greedy corporate CEOs
"If you still think Mr. Tillerson and his fellow corporate heads are overpaid, remember that corporate CEOs are not the only ones making a lot of money, even though they are the ones whose incomes are most frequently criticized. So do professional athletes, entertainers, and TV personalities, including some news anchors.
"The top five athletes last year, for example, were also highly paid, and because of their success attracted lucrative endorsements from product manufacturers: Golfer Tiger Woods earned $100 million; boxer Oscar De La Hoya, $43 million; golfer Phil Mickelson, $42 million; auto race drivers Kimi Raikkonen and Michael Schumacher, $40 million and $36 million.
"Salaries in the world of entertainment also boggle the mind. Take movie actors: Matt Damon made $26 million for The Bourne Supremacy; Johnny Depp takes home $20 million per film; Nicole Kidman gets up to $17 million per film; and George Clooney routinely collects more than $15 million per film.
"On television, the highest-paid person on the 2008 prime-time series list is Charlie Sheen at $825,000 an episode, and with money he gets from owning a stake in his show, he makes nearly $20 million a year. David Letterman gets $40 million annually, and American Idol’s Simon Cowell’s annual pay is $36 million.
"We even see that some of the people that deliver the news have seven- and eight-figure annual salaries, like CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric at $15 million; Matt Lauer, NBC Today co-anchor, $12 million; ABC News’ Diane Sawyer makes $12 million; Meredith Vieira, NBC Today co-anchor, $10 million; NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams takes home $8 million, Anderson Cooper of CNN is paid $5 million; and MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann gets $4 million.
"These CEOs, athletes, entertainers and news people are among the best in their respective fields. Their pay is not based entirely upon their performance, however, because some CEOs drive their companies into the ground; some athletes make horrible mistakes and lose instead of win; some movies and TV shows do not do well, despite the stars that appear in them; and news anchors often produce lousy ratings. Some high earners in every career field have notoriously bad personal problems, and some have committed crimes.
"Because of the expectation of high levels of performance, these folks are in high demand, hence the high paychecks, sometimes in spite of embarrassing personal problems or criminal involvement.
"Tampa Bay Rays owner Stuart Sternberg sees no problem with big salaries in sports. 'People should be able to make what they make,' he said. That idea applies equally to everyone in America, even CEOs.
"Maybe we should make thoughtful judgments about the value of what each of these people produces. Which of them contributes the most to the society at large; which is the more valuable: a movie, a television program, a winning team or athlete, a news program or a business that provides useful products or services, jobs and that pays taxes to support government activities?
"Viewed in that light, a CEO running a successful business deserves more than contempt and resentment."
"The top five athletes last year, for example, were also highly paid, and because of their success attracted lucrative endorsements from product manufacturers: Golfer Tiger Woods earned $100 million; boxer Oscar De La Hoya, $43 million; golfer Phil Mickelson, $42 million; auto race drivers Kimi Raikkonen and Michael Schumacher, $40 million and $36 million.
"Salaries in the world of entertainment also boggle the mind. Take movie actors: Matt Damon made $26 million for The Bourne Supremacy; Johnny Depp takes home $20 million per film; Nicole Kidman gets up to $17 million per film; and George Clooney routinely collects more than $15 million per film.
"On television, the highest-paid person on the 2008 prime-time series list is Charlie Sheen at $825,000 an episode, and with money he gets from owning a stake in his show, he makes nearly $20 million a year. David Letterman gets $40 million annually, and American Idol’s Simon Cowell’s annual pay is $36 million.
"We even see that some of the people that deliver the news have seven- and eight-figure annual salaries, like CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric at $15 million; Matt Lauer, NBC Today co-anchor, $12 million; ABC News’ Diane Sawyer makes $12 million; Meredith Vieira, NBC Today co-anchor, $10 million; NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams takes home $8 million, Anderson Cooper of CNN is paid $5 million; and MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann gets $4 million.
"These CEOs, athletes, entertainers and news people are among the best in their respective fields. Their pay is not based entirely upon their performance, however, because some CEOs drive their companies into the ground; some athletes make horrible mistakes and lose instead of win; some movies and TV shows do not do well, despite the stars that appear in them; and news anchors often produce lousy ratings. Some high earners in every career field have notoriously bad personal problems, and some have committed crimes.
"Because of the expectation of high levels of performance, these folks are in high demand, hence the high paychecks, sometimes in spite of embarrassing personal problems or criminal involvement.
"Tampa Bay Rays owner Stuart Sternberg sees no problem with big salaries in sports. 'People should be able to make what they make,' he said. That idea applies equally to everyone in America, even CEOs.
"Maybe we should make thoughtful judgments about the value of what each of these people produces. Which of them contributes the most to the society at large; which is the more valuable: a movie, a television program, a winning team or athlete, a news program or a business that provides useful products or services, jobs and that pays taxes to support government activities?
"Viewed in that light, a CEO running a successful business deserves more than contempt and resentment."
Pam Meister: Exclusive: A Page from Barack Obama’s Diary: I Have a Third World Dream
"Dear Diary,
"I just declared swine flu a national emergency. Another crisis. Hooray!"
"I just declared swine flu a national emergency. Another crisis. Hooray!"
David Limbaugh: Obama's War on Fox Is Liberalism's War on Dissent
"In fact, Fox News seems much more conservative than it is because no other television network over the past half-century has been anything but decidedly liberal. When the media norm is liberal, liberals equate liberalism with objectivity and deviations from it as bias, just as liberals preach tolerance toward all ideas --except conservative ones. Their self-delusion is surreal."
Dennis Prager: Democrats' Policies Based on Dogma, Hopes, Dreams, not Reality
"One cannot understand the left if one does not appreciate the world of dogmas in which most left-wing thinkers live. What the monastery is to monks, the university and the mainstream media are to the left."
Tristan Yates: Our Lowered Economic Expectations
"The stock market reaches an old milestone and the unemployment rate is below 10%. In Obama's America, that's worthy of celebration."
Frank J. Fleming: Obama Barackette
"Maybe the birth certificate controversy should be over whether or not Obama is a little girl. Because he's acting like one."
AP: LA man arrested in death of his unborn child
I wonder what Planned Parenthood says about that....
Yid with Lid: Rasmussen: Most Voters Say Porkulus Bill Was A FAILURE
"While Democrats and Administration Officials are still arguing that the almost $800 billion dollar stimulus bill was a masters-stroke that saved the country, voters are not buying it, they see the growing national debt and the continuing massive unemployment and call the porkulus bill a failure.
"In a Rasmussen poll released today, 31% of voters say the Porkulus bill hurt the economy, 29% say it did nothing. In other words 60% of American voters are calling the stimulus a failure."
"In a Rasmussen poll released today, 31% of voters say the Porkulus bill hurt the economy, 29% say it did nothing. In other words 60% of American voters are calling the stimulus a failure."
Please comment on this one
A former president of an NAACP chapter in Connecticut said last year:
"If Barack Obama wins we (black people) win."
My question is what did black people win?
Please post a comment.
"If Barack Obama wins we (black people) win."
My question is what did black people win?
Please post a comment.
Herb Dennenberg: Obama Taking Us On Path To Fascism
"The Obama campaign (thus referred to as they are in a campaign and not a governing mode), in the tradition of corrupt, thuggish, Chicago politics and fascism have also set out to destroy the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Rush Limbaugh, insurance companies and any other critics that stand in their way."
Monday, October 26, 2009
Robert J. Samuelson: Public plan mirage
"The promise of the public plan is a mirage. Its political brilliance is to use free-market rhetoric (more 'choice' and 'competition') to expand government power. But why would a plan tied to Medicare control health spending, when Medicare hasn't? From 1970 to 2007, Medicare spending per beneficiary rose 9.2 percent annually compared to the 10.4 percent of private insurers -- and the small difference partly reflects cost shifting. Congress periodically improves Medicare benefits, and there's a limit to how much squeezing reimbursement rates can check costs. Doctors and hospitals already complain that low payments limit services or discourage physicians from taking Medicare patients."
Andrea Lafferty: Obama’s ‘Transparency’ Behind Closed Doors?
"When President Obama was on the campaign trail last year, he repeatedly promised that his legislative actions would be transparent and open. In fact, he promised that legislation would be posted on the Internet for 72 hours before a vote. He also promised that legislative debates on health care reform would be telecast on C-SPAN.
"What happened? During the past week, Senator Harry Reid (D-NV), Obama Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel and a gaggle of other 'progressive' legislators have been in secret meetings on Capitol Hill to craft a health care bill that will nationalize our health care system – cost billions – and still leave millions underinsured.
"Did Obama renege on his 'transparency' pledge? It looks like it. He's reneged because he knows most Americans like their health insurance coverage and don't want to be drafted into a government-run system. They don't want to be punished by Big Brother if they don't get coverage. And, they are deeply concerned about the trillion dollar price tag of this socialist plan to destroy private health insurance in America.
"Obama is acting more like a Soviet bureaucrat than a man who believes in the democratic process. His cronies are acting like Chicago union bosses."
"What happened? During the past week, Senator Harry Reid (D-NV), Obama Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel and a gaggle of other 'progressive' legislators have been in secret meetings on Capitol Hill to craft a health care bill that will nationalize our health care system – cost billions – and still leave millions underinsured.
"Did Obama renege on his 'transparency' pledge? It looks like it. He's reneged because he knows most Americans like their health insurance coverage and don't want to be drafted into a government-run system. They don't want to be punished by Big Brother if they don't get coverage. And, they are deeply concerned about the trillion dollar price tag of this socialist plan to destroy private health insurance in America.
"Obama is acting more like a Soviet bureaucrat than a man who believes in the democratic process. His cronies are acting like Chicago union bosses."
Congress Considers "End of Christian Witness" Legislation
"In Oakland, California, a handful of African-American Christian women found out that their free speech rights had effectively been outlawed. Their Christian witness was interpreted as 'hate.'
"'Hate crimes' bills inevitably create the 'thought police' by giving the federal government jurisdiction over local criminal offenses believed to be 'motivated by prejudice.'
"In Alberta, Canada, a former pastor and head of a Christian organization Stephen Boissoin, sent a letter to a local paper on the issue of sexual orientation. Two weeks later a gay teen was beaten up, and after years of litigation, the pastor was found guilty of violating a 'hate crimes' human rights law because the letter likely exposed gays to hatred and contempt - despite the fact that he had never advocated violence of any sort in his letter or otherwise.
"A judge in New York has ruled evidence of 'hatred' is unnecessary for a prosecutor to pursue a 'hate crimes' case against three men arrested for the death of a homosexual man. . . . concluding prosecutors only need to show that the man, who was beaten and then hit by a vehicle in a robbery attempt, was picked because of his sexual orientation.
"And while artists receive government funding for acclaimed exhibits of Jesus being defiled in urine, and by many other means . . . a 23-year-old man was arrested on hate-crime charges after he threw a Quran in a toilet at Pace University on two separate occasions."
"'Hate crimes' bills inevitably create the 'thought police' by giving the federal government jurisdiction over local criminal offenses believed to be 'motivated by prejudice.'
"In Alberta, Canada, a former pastor and head of a Christian organization Stephen Boissoin, sent a letter to a local paper on the issue of sexual orientation. Two weeks later a gay teen was beaten up, and after years of litigation, the pastor was found guilty of violating a 'hate crimes' human rights law because the letter likely exposed gays to hatred and contempt - despite the fact that he had never advocated violence of any sort in his letter or otherwise.
"A judge in New York has ruled evidence of 'hatred' is unnecessary for a prosecutor to pursue a 'hate crimes' case against three men arrested for the death of a homosexual man. . . . concluding prosecutors only need to show that the man, who was beaten and then hit by a vehicle in a robbery attempt, was picked because of his sexual orientation.
"And while artists receive government funding for acclaimed exhibits of Jesus being defiled in urine, and by many other means . . . a 23-year-old man was arrested on hate-crime charges after he threw a Quran in a toilet at Pace University on two separate occasions."
Sherwood Ross: Obama Sets Up Killer Drone Raid over Pakistan Despite Civilian Deaths
And this man won a Nobel Peace Prize???
Frosty Wooldridge: AMERICA FILLING UP WITH DUMB PEOPLE: CHAOS OF ILLITERACY
"Finally, why continue importing 2.5 million immigrants into this country annually when we cannot support or employ our own citizens? Additionally, when you see 600,000 Muslim immigrants added to Detroit, Michigan—sporting a 76 percent dropout rate from area high schools—you can count on illiterate, upset, angry and culturally incompatible Muslim-Americans taking their frustrations out on the rest of us. Expect growing domestic violence, honor killings, FGM, rapes and much worse as now experienced in Sweden, France and Great Britain, and, of course here in the U.S. Check out the numbers and take action at www.NumbersUSA.com and join as if your kids’ lives and this civilization depended on it."
Erich Pratt: GRASSROOTS REBELLION PICKING UP STEAM
"Speaking of Obama, the Presidential Approval Index (as reported by Rasmussen) has dropped more than 30 points since he took office. More Americans now "strongly disapprove" of the President than 'strongly approve' of him."
Patti Villacorta:The Originators of Obama-speak: Public Allies and the ABCD Institute
"Let’s apply the ABCD version of the world to the failed Olympics bid:
"The Need/Deficit Model: The trip was a waste of time and taxpayer money. The Obama administration is rife with Chicago cronyism. Failure now permeates the White House.
"The ABCD Model: As much of a sacrifice as people say this is for me or Oprah or the president to come for these few days, so many of you in this room have been working for years to bring this bid home, and you have put together a phenomenal set of ideas that, no matter what the outcome is, we should be proud of as a city.
"If you are having a difficult time understanding the Obamas, looking deeper into the activities and teachings of Public Allies will help."
"The Need/Deficit Model: The trip was a waste of time and taxpayer money. The Obama administration is rife with Chicago cronyism. Failure now permeates the White House.
"The ABCD Model: As much of a sacrifice as people say this is for me or Oprah or the president to come for these few days, so many of you in this room have been working for years to bring this bid home, and you have put together a phenomenal set of ideas that, no matter what the outcome is, we should be proud of as a city.
"If you are having a difficult time understanding the Obamas, looking deeper into the activities and teachings of Public Allies will help."
Wall Street Journal: What Is a 'Windfall' Profit?
"The 'windfall profits' tax is back, with Barack Obama stumping again to apply it to a handful of big oil companies. Which raises a few questions: What is a 'windfall' profit anyway? How does it differ from your everyday, run of the mill profit? Is it some absolute number, a matter of return on equity or sales -- or does it merely depend on who earns it?
"Enquiring entrepreneurs want to know. Unfortunately, Mr. Obama's 'emergency' plan, announced on Friday, doesn't offer any clarity. To pay for 'stimulus' checks of $1,000 for families and $500 for individuals, the Senator says government would take "a reasonable share" of oil company profits.
"Mr. Obama didn't bother to define 'reasonable,' and neither did Dick Durbin, the second-ranking Senate Democrat, when he recently declared that 'The oil companies need to know that there is a limit on how much profit they can take in this economy.' Really? This extraordinary redefinition of free-market success could use some parsing."
"Enquiring entrepreneurs want to know. Unfortunately, Mr. Obama's 'emergency' plan, announced on Friday, doesn't offer any clarity. To pay for 'stimulus' checks of $1,000 for families and $500 for individuals, the Senator says government would take "a reasonable share" of oil company profits.
"Mr. Obama didn't bother to define 'reasonable,' and neither did Dick Durbin, the second-ranking Senate Democrat, when he recently declared that 'The oil companies need to know that there is a limit on how much profit they can take in this economy.' Really? This extraordinary redefinition of free-market success could use some parsing."
Sunday, October 25, 2009
Ellis Washington: 1st Amendment in the Age of Obama
"Let's take a look at how the First Amendment is viciously and relentlessly attacked in the Age of Obama...."
Rush Limbaugh is “Divisive”, but “VIVA FIDEL!” says Jesse Jackson
"As mentioned, this was summer of 1984, so at the time, the world’s longest-suffering black political prisoner suffered his incarceration and tortures in stoic defiance. '#####!' taunted his jailers between tortures. 'We pulled you down from the trees and cut off your tail!'
"I do not refer to Nelson Mandela. No, this prisoner was being tortured a few miles away from the Revs. Jackson, Wright and their entourage of black American luminaries. The prisoner was a black Cuban named Eusebio Penalver and he was being tortured by Reverend Jackson’s gracious hosts. Mr Penalver’s incarceration and tortures stretched to 29 years which makes him the longest-suffering black political prisoner in modern history, surpassing Nelson Mandela’s record in time behind bars and probably doubling the horrors suffered by Mandela during this period.
"Eusebio Penalver was bloodied in his fight with Castroism but unbowed for almost 30 years in its dungeons. He’s what Castroites call a 'plantado'—a defiant one, an unbreakable one. 'Stalin tortured,' wrote Arthur Koestler, 'not to force you to reveal a fact, but to force you to collude in a fiction.'
“'The worst part of Communism,' wrote Solzhenytzin, 'is being forced to live a lie.'
"Eusebio Penalver refused to collude in this lie. He spit in the face of his liar jailers. He scorned any 're-education' by his jailers. He knew it was they who desperately needed it. He refused to wear the uniform of a common criminal. He knew it was they who should don it. Charles Rangel, Jesse Jackson, Jeremiah Wright, Sheila Jackson Lee, Maxine Waters, Ron Dellums, etc. etc. etc. all toast his torturer. But through almost 30 years of those tortures Eusebio Penalver stood tall, proud and defiant.
"Shortly before his death in 2006, your humble servant here had the honor of interviewing Senor Penalver. 'For months I was naked in a 6 x 4 foot cell,' Eusebio recalled. 'That’s 4 feet high, so you couldn’t stand. But I felt a great freedom inside myself. I refused to commit spiritual suicide.'
"Sr Penalver served several months of this 30 year sentence naked in a 'punishment cell' barely big enough to stand in, where he languished naked and in complete darkness. 'Castro’s apologists, those who excuse or downplay his crimes—these people be they ignorant, stupid, mendacious whatever—they are accomplices in the bloody tyrant’s crimes, accomplices in the most brutal and murderous regime in the hemisphere.'
"But have you ever heard of Eusebio Penalver? He became a U.S. citizen and lived in Miami for almost 20 years and would have been a cinch for the media to track down. Ever see a CNN interview with him? Ever see him on '60 Minutes'? Ever read about him in The New York Times? The Washington post? The Boston Globe? Ever hear about him on NPR during Black History Month? Ever seen anything on him on the History Channel or A&E? Ever hear the NAACP or Congressional Black Caucus mention him?
"Why do I bother asking? He was a victim of the Left’s premier pin-up boys…nuff said.."
"I do not refer to Nelson Mandela. No, this prisoner was being tortured a few miles away from the Revs. Jackson, Wright and their entourage of black American luminaries. The prisoner was a black Cuban named Eusebio Penalver and he was being tortured by Reverend Jackson’s gracious hosts. Mr Penalver’s incarceration and tortures stretched to 29 years which makes him the longest-suffering black political prisoner in modern history, surpassing Nelson Mandela’s record in time behind bars and probably doubling the horrors suffered by Mandela during this period.
"Eusebio Penalver was bloodied in his fight with Castroism but unbowed for almost 30 years in its dungeons. He’s what Castroites call a 'plantado'—a defiant one, an unbreakable one. 'Stalin tortured,' wrote Arthur Koestler, 'not to force you to reveal a fact, but to force you to collude in a fiction.'
“'The worst part of Communism,' wrote Solzhenytzin, 'is being forced to live a lie.'
"Eusebio Penalver refused to collude in this lie. He spit in the face of his liar jailers. He scorned any 're-education' by his jailers. He knew it was they who desperately needed it. He refused to wear the uniform of a common criminal. He knew it was they who should don it. Charles Rangel, Jesse Jackson, Jeremiah Wright, Sheila Jackson Lee, Maxine Waters, Ron Dellums, etc. etc. etc. all toast his torturer. But through almost 30 years of those tortures Eusebio Penalver stood tall, proud and defiant.
"Shortly before his death in 2006, your humble servant here had the honor of interviewing Senor Penalver. 'For months I was naked in a 6 x 4 foot cell,' Eusebio recalled. 'That’s 4 feet high, so you couldn’t stand. But I felt a great freedom inside myself. I refused to commit spiritual suicide.'
"Sr Penalver served several months of this 30 year sentence naked in a 'punishment cell' barely big enough to stand in, where he languished naked and in complete darkness. 'Castro’s apologists, those who excuse or downplay his crimes—these people be they ignorant, stupid, mendacious whatever—they are accomplices in the bloody tyrant’s crimes, accomplices in the most brutal and murderous regime in the hemisphere.'
"But have you ever heard of Eusebio Penalver? He became a U.S. citizen and lived in Miami for almost 20 years and would have been a cinch for the media to track down. Ever see a CNN interview with him? Ever see him on '60 Minutes'? Ever read about him in The New York Times? The Washington post? The Boston Globe? Ever hear about him on NPR during Black History Month? Ever seen anything on him on the History Channel or A&E? Ever hear the NAACP or Congressional Black Caucus mention him?
"Why do I bother asking? He was a victim of the Left’s premier pin-up boys…nuff said.."
Humberto Fontova: Rush Limbaugh is “Divisive”, but “VIVA FIDEL!” says Jesse Jackson
"I do not refer to Nelson Mandela. No, this prisoner was being tortured a few miles away from the Revs. Jackson, Wright and their entourage of black American luminaries. The prisoner was a black Cuban named Eusebio Penalver and he was being tortured by Reverend Jackson’s gracious hosts. Mr Penalver’s incarceration and tortures stretched to 29 years which makes him the longest-suffering black political prisoner in modern history, surpassing Nelson Mandela’s record in time behind bars and probably doubling the horrors suffered by Mandela during this period."
Marion Valentine: Things to watch for during a “Declared National Emergency”
“'Since the enactment of Executive Order 11490, the only thing standing between us and dictatorship is the good character of the President, and the lack of a crisis severe enough that the public would stand still for it.'”
Daniel Greenfield: Obama Replaces the War on Terror with the War on Critics
"There’s one word for that kind of behavior, particularly for a party that has secured a veto proof majority and can pass just about any legislation it wants, no matter how destructive or even downright illegal—crazy. After 8 years of being the opposition party, the Democrats have not adjusted to being in power. And while the Republicans have begun to learn to act like an opposition party—- the Democrats bizarrely enough also insist on acting like the opposition party. And what are they opposed to? Anyone who criticizes them or rejects any of their proposals."
and
"The most disturbing aspect of the Obama Administration’s War on Critics is that it is directed primarily not at Republican politicians, but at media figures and ordinary citizens who show up at Town Hall meetings to voice their dissent. Had the Obama Administration directed its full fire at Michael Steele, John Boehner or at least potential 2012 opponents such as Newt Gingrich or Mitt Romney, it would still be a profound waste of time and abuse of political power—but it would not be nearly as dangerous as when it assails radio hosts or Town Hall protesters."
"There is a fundamental difference between attacking political opponents in Congress, and attacking anyone in the general public or press who speaks out against your policies. An Administration that consistently does the latter is displaying dangerously paranoid behavior that can easily tip over into going beyond smear campaigns of intimidation and into taking direct action to forcibly suppress that same speech it does not like."
Will they start rounding us up next?
and
"The most disturbing aspect of the Obama Administration’s War on Critics is that it is directed primarily not at Republican politicians, but at media figures and ordinary citizens who show up at Town Hall meetings to voice their dissent. Had the Obama Administration directed its full fire at Michael Steele, John Boehner or at least potential 2012 opponents such as Newt Gingrich or Mitt Romney, it would still be a profound waste of time and abuse of political power—but it would not be nearly as dangerous as when it assails radio hosts or Town Hall protesters."
"There is a fundamental difference between attacking political opponents in Congress, and attacking anyone in the general public or press who speaks out against your policies. An Administration that consistently does the latter is displaying dangerously paranoid behavior that can easily tip over into going beyond smear campaigns of intimidation and into taking direct action to forcibly suppress that same speech it does not like."
Will they start rounding us up next?
Yid with Lid: Why Did The Pay Czar Ignoring TARP Recipient General Electric?
"Unlike other major lenders participating in the debt guarantee program, including Bank of America, Citigroup and J.P. Morgan Chase, GE has never been subject to the Fed's stress tests or its rules for limiting risk. Also unlike firms that have received bailout money in the Troubled Assets Relief Program, or TARP, GE is not subject to restrictions such as limits on executive compensation."
Saturday, October 24, 2009
Dianne Linderman: GIVE A MAN A FISH
"No one is ever going to convince a far-left liberal to see the sense in conservatism and true capitalism. We are always going to look like evil, capitalist pigs and nothing we can do will ever change their hearts, minds or feelings about conservatism. They don’t get the simple principle, 'If you give a man a fish, he will eat for a day. If you teach a man to fish, he will eat for a lifetime.' They like this version, 'If you give a man a fish, he will owe you for a day. If you promise a man fish for a lifetime, he will give you his allegiance forever.' Why do they think that it is their job to make life fair for everyone? Why don’t they think that America represents fair opportunity for all when we are left to be creative and innovative? I am beginning to put together the reasons why the left feel they owe it to feed every hungry person, build them new homes, and provide them with money, gas and a even college education instead of allowing these same people the opportunity to get all of the above for themselves. The answer is simple: It’s about pure power and elitism."
Friday, October 23, 2009
Michelle Malkin: The Bogus Death Statistic That Won't Die
"Where's the White House health care 'reality check' squad when you need it?"
Someone overheard Brother X
He said that leaders like him need to accuse the opposition of taking a certain course and they need to do exactly what they accuse the opposition of.
Andrew C. Wallace: MOTHER OF ALL FALSE FLAGS
"Most Racists are the 95% of Black Inner City residents who have been misled to vote for the same Progressive Officials who are responsible for their deprivations and want them dead. It is sad reality, but a large percentage of inner city residents have been taught to blame and hate the White man by Marxist Parasites, such as elected officials, school teachers, ministers of black liberation theology, community organizers like ACORN, labor unions like SEIU, AFL-CIO, and organizations like The (New) Black Panthers, Nation of Islam, Rainbow Coalition, et al. These organizations and people are responsible for preaching hatred of our country, White people and the economic system that allows those so inclined to escape poverty, if they can survive the crime, and overcome the mismanaged and ineffective schools run by their own people. White racism does exist by the Elites, government officials and by those born with a silver spoon in their mouth, but they are also equally prejudiced against poor Whites. Many average white people do harbor resentment because of perceived preferential benefits for Blacks, and for crime rate in the Black community."
Geoff Metcalf: WHITE HOUSE AND THE FOX NEWS FEUD
"Frankly, White House aim seems grossly misdirected and for any administration to engage in a spitting match with media is at best counterproductive."
I said it before he did
I'm from Chicago originally, born 3 blocks from Obama's former residence and raised there. I know Chicago politics. I told people last year that Obama would bring Chicago politics to Washington:
"'This Chicago-style politics is shutting the American people out and demonizing their opponents,' Boehner asserted."
"'This Chicago-style politics is shutting the American people out and demonizing their opponents,' Boehner asserted."
London Telegraph: Barack Obama sees worst poll rating drop in 50 years
"The decline in Barack Obama's popularity since July has been the steepest of any president at the same stage of his first term for more than 50 years."
Even both Bushes?
Even both Bushes?
Larry Elder: Bum Rush
As for Rush, the shameless, morally bankrupt Rev. Al Sharpton helped lead the charge. Check the dictionary for the word 'gall.' You will find Sharpton's picture. Apart from becoming a national figure by falsely accusing a man of sexual assault and a litany of other race-card gambits, Sharpton once called the then-mayor of New York a 'n----- whore.'"
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Roger L Simon: Are the Obamanoids as dumb as they seem?
"And the cluelessness is absolutely mind-boggling. What, pray tell, was going through the head of Anita Dunn (a Democratic Party political 'pro') when she named Mao (along with Mother Teresa) as her philosophical inspiration at a high school (not college – my bad) graduation speech? If this weren’t an act of monumental stupidity (neither are philosophers, to begin with, although Mao’s “On Contradiction“, a work I would bet my house Dunn has never read or even heard of, is an interesting compendium of the Marxist rhetoric of the time), it was an extraordinary act of unconscious self-immolation. On top of it all, Ms. Dunn apparently hadn’t gotten the message from Christopher Hitchens regarding the sanctity of Mother T.
"But never mind. This is dumbness beyond dumbness, a desperate attempt by an aging boomer to show how hip she was to a younger crowd. Whether she knew Mao was the greatest mass murderer of all time was beside the point. She was cool. [NOTE TO TROLLS: Spare us the argument she was being ironic. Only a blithering idiot could believe that. Was she being ironic about Mother Teresa in the same sentence?] What fascinates in all this – and potentially gives us scary insight into the Obama crew – is the following from Wikipedia about Dunn: During the presidential transition of 2008-09, Dunn trained White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs.[citation needed]"
"But never mind. This is dumbness beyond dumbness, a desperate attempt by an aging boomer to show how hip she was to a younger crowd. Whether she knew Mao was the greatest mass murderer of all time was beside the point. She was cool. [NOTE TO TROLLS: Spare us the argument she was being ironic. Only a blithering idiot could believe that. Was she being ironic about Mother Teresa in the same sentence?] What fascinates in all this – and potentially gives us scary insight into the Obama crew – is the following from Wikipedia about Dunn: During the presidential transition of 2008-09, Dunn trained White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs.[citation needed]"
Herbert London: What Is ‘Social Justice’ Anyway?
"It is instructive that so-called progressives want to gain control of the state in order to bring about social justice. However, whenever this effort has been successful the progressives or radicals end up rewarding themselves and impoverishing those they claim to represent. Poor people are invariably subject to this political protest chant, but most know that it is a fiction borne of demagoguery."
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
David Forsmark: Don’t Confuse Chris Matthews with the Facts, His “Mind” is Made Up: Conservatives are Racists
"Yes, Chris, conservatives hate blacks so much that they wouldn’t love a President Sowell, or a Supreme Court Justice… never mind. And Democrats are so excited by the success of blacks, regardless of party. They were SO happy to see Ken Blackwell elected to statewide office in Ohio, they welcomed J.C. Watts into the Congressional Black Caucus with open arms. That’s why they celebrated the prominence of Condoleezza Rice."
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