I know this is heresy, blasphemy to the gods of the publicity industrial complex who created and destroyed the later Michael Jackson.
But I’ve let a day pass since his awful death before saying this: after the completely wonderful Jackson Five era, Michael Jackson was no longer a very interesting singer, not after he left the collaborative genius of the J-5. He became known for his dancing (wow, the moonwalk, really memorable!), for his stupid costumes (what was with the whole militaristic thing? And was the glove really all that interesting or distinctive in any way?), for one or two good songs (”Human Nature” or whatever it was officially called) and “Thriller” wasn’t one of them. Come on, do you really think that novelty concoction is worth another listen ever? (Okay I liked “Billy Jean” even though I still misremember the key lyric as “the chair is not my love”)
Then after the success of his solo comeback, fueled by nostalgia and moonwalking eccentricity, he became known for being a celebrity, famous for being famous, then famous for his eccentricities. Eccentricities that were at first harmless (Bubbles the chimp, etc.), then famous for being weird (”Neverland” the boy-pals), famous for his grotesque plastic surgeries, then famous for being an accused child-molester, acquitted of criminal charges but never able to quit the children. Then he became famous for his famous associations–buying the Beatles catalog and doing that hideously sappy “The Girl is Mine”* with Paul McCartney,”marrying” Lisa Marie Presley, etc. Famous for his famously annoying sisters. Famous for anointing himself “King of Pop” when he no longer could produce a decent pop song. And yet the idiot pop media went along with it, He was the King of Trainwreck Celebrity.
But as for his music? Can you name a single post-”Thriller” song he did?
Sorry. He and the Jackson Five created something magical. “I’ll Be There” is an immortal love song, sublimely beautiful in its simplicity. I’ll remember him with gratitude for that and the rest of the J-5 hits, and try to forget the trainwreck he became.
But in the “moronic inferno” (h/t Martin Amis) of the media “mourning” let’s not forget the real tragedy, that he long ago ceased being a talent and gave in to being a mere celebrity, the sure road to ruin.
June 26, 2009
A Few Thoughts On MIchael Jackson
Generally speaking, I’m a believer in the rule that we should not speak ill of the dead. Or at least we should wait a decent interval before doing so (if we never spoke ill of the dead, history would be meaningless). But, I must say I find the media’s instinctive rush to sanctify Michael Jackson disgusting. Look, I understand that Michael Jackson was an “icon.” I understand that some people loved his work and that many people who never met him believed they loved the man too. But I didn't, and I’m hardly alone. If Michael Jackson were just another famous person, I’d probably stay silent and let the pro forma celebration of his memory roll by without comment. (For instance, I have no problem whatsoever with the media taking a moment to pay respects to Farah Fawcett). Sure, I liked the Jackson Five. I liked “Thriller,” too, when I was a teenager. Michael Jackson was an “icon” for me too. But let’s pause for a moment on that word “icon.” It seemed the consensus adjective for the news networks. NBC ran a special on two “American Icons” — Fawcett and Jackson. Every cable network (including Fox, for the record) used the word “icon” to describe him as if this was some sort of safe harbor, a word everyone could agree on. “Love him or hate him,” the implied logic went, “he was an ‘icon.’”Yes, well, maybe so. But that doesn’t let you off the hook. Even though the term sounds neutral, it isn’t. An icon, technically speaking, is a religious symbol deserving of reverence and adoration. The networks may not have intended to use the word that way, but they certainly showed an unseemly amount of reverence and adoration for the man. I think part of it is the narcissism of our celebrity culture. Here was a guy so many of “us” read about in People magazine for so long. His passing, therefore, isn’t a loss in the sorrowful sense of the word, but in the selfish one. It’s a loss of an interesting subject, a creature to gossip about and to fill a few minutes on E! or Entertainment Tonight. Everyone likes to invoke Lord Acton’s axiom that “power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” But nearly everyone forgets that he coined this phrase not to indict powerful men, but to instruct the historians who write about them. Historians tend to forgive the powerful their transgressions. Likewise, journalists (for want of a better word) tend to forgive the famous. Calling Michael Jackson an icon doesn’t let him off the hook for anything. But to listen to the news anchors you’d think it absolves him of everything.
I say: Who cares who his famous friends were? Who cares what a “fascinating” person he was? If you want to talk about his death as an end of an era, have at it. But that’s not what the Barbara Walters set is doing. I know that Michael Jackson wasn’t convicted of the despicable crimes he was accused of. And that’s why he never went to jail. Three cheers for the majesty of the American legal system. But in my own personal view, he wasn’t exonerated either. Nor was he absolved of his crimes because he could sing, moonwalk, or sell 10 million records. (Though many of us suspect the money and fame he made from those things is precisely what kept him out of jail). And, while I merely think he was a pedophile, I know he was not someone responsible parents should applaud, healthy children emulate, nor society celebrate. And while we’re at it, his relatively early death wasn’t “tragic.” He was one of the richest people in the world. He spent his money on perpetual childhood and he was perpetually with children not his own. Meanwhile, in the last ten days, we’ve seen or heard of remarkable people who’ve given their lives for freedom in Iran. We’ve heard of innocents killed because they were in the wrong place at the wrong time. In the last decade, America has lost thousands of heroes in noble causes and thousands of innocent bystanders who were denied the simple joys of life through no fault of their own. Those deaths are tragic, and we're hard pressed to think of more than a handful of names to put with the long line of the dead.
If anything, Michael Jackson’s life, not his death, was tragic. Every year at the Oscars they show a montage of people who died over the previous year. Invariably, the audience only applauds for the really famous people. This has always offended me. Not necessarily because the famous people don’t deserve praise but because it’s so clear that the audience is clapping for the fame. Michael Jackson had many accomplishments. But the press is sanctifying him because he was famous, deservedly so to be sure, but not because he was good. So much of the coverage seems to miss this fundamental point, as if being famous made him good. I feel sympathy for Jackson’s family and friends who understandably mourn him. But I can't bring myself to mourn him any more than I mourn the random dead I read about in the paper everyday. Indeed, I confess to mourning him less. Every channel says this is a sad day for America. I agree. But not for the same reasons.
I say: Who cares who his famous friends were? Who cares what a “fascinating” person he was? If you want to talk about his death as an end of an era, have at it. But that’s not what the Barbara Walters set is doing. I know that Michael Jackson wasn’t convicted of the despicable crimes he was accused of. And that’s why he never went to jail. Three cheers for the majesty of the American legal system. But in my own personal view, he wasn’t exonerated either. Nor was he absolved of his crimes because he could sing, moonwalk, or sell 10 million records. (Though many of us suspect the money and fame he made from those things is precisely what kept him out of jail). And, while I merely think he was a pedophile, I know he was not someone responsible parents should applaud, healthy children emulate, nor society celebrate. And while we’re at it, his relatively early death wasn’t “tragic.” He was one of the richest people in the world. He spent his money on perpetual childhood and he was perpetually with children not his own. Meanwhile, in the last ten days, we’ve seen or heard of remarkable people who’ve given their lives for freedom in Iran. We’ve heard of innocents killed because they were in the wrong place at the wrong time. In the last decade, America has lost thousands of heroes in noble causes and thousands of innocent bystanders who were denied the simple joys of life through no fault of their own. Those deaths are tragic, and we're hard pressed to think of more than a handful of names to put with the long line of the dead.
If anything, Michael Jackson’s life, not his death, was tragic. Every year at the Oscars they show a montage of people who died over the previous year. Invariably, the audience only applauds for the really famous people. This has always offended me. Not necessarily because the famous people don’t deserve praise but because it’s so clear that the audience is clapping for the fame. Michael Jackson had many accomplishments. But the press is sanctifying him because he was famous, deservedly so to be sure, but not because he was good. So much of the coverage seems to miss this fundamental point, as if being famous made him good. I feel sympathy for Jackson’s family and friends who understandably mourn him. But I can't bring myself to mourn him any more than I mourn the random dead I read about in the paper everyday. Indeed, I confess to mourning him less. Every channel says this is a sad day for America. I agree. But not for the same reasons.
Obama Defeats Fly
While protestors against the totalitarian regime in Iran are getting shot and beaten in the streets of Tehran, Mr. Hope and Change, Barack Hussein Obama, continues to vote present with his “nuanced” (read panty-waist) response. Imagine the conversation going on in Jeremiah Wright’s former parishioner’s head: “on the one hand, it’s a brutal dictatorship that promotes terrorism all over the world. On the other hand, America has no right to interfere, given our racist, imperialistic history, and our interference in Iran’s domestic leadership in 1953.” Once again, B. Hussein, votes present, and his apparatchiks in the politburo media justify it with reference to the afore-mentioned events in 1953, leaving most of his supporters extremely confused. “How could America get involved in Iran in 1953 when that’s when the American Civil War was going on?” they ask as they scratch their empty heads.He Who Walks on Water saved his ire for a a more worthy adversary, to the collective swoons, oohs and aahs of the propagandists in our version of Pravda over his “amazing athleticism.” We haven’t seen reporting like this since Kim Jong Il’s first golf game. Take that, you vicious, dangerous fly! I’m gonna get you, Sucka! No doubt the poor hapless insect was attracted by the reeking stench coming from the lies that issue with such ease and regularity from Barry’s mendacious mouth.Meanwhile here at home, the Lame Stream Media continues their approach to “objective reporting” about Barack and Michelle Obama, which means pretending that normal Americans consider them objects of worship and endless fascination rather than a couple of narcissistic beneficiaries of affirmative action who alternately bore and enrage us with their ostentatious displays of taxpayer-funded amusements. In the latest foray into “hard news,” as in fluffy feature stories promoting their already overpackaged images, they want us to believe that we are looking to them to help us get our fat, flabby bodies in shape. In Michelle’s case--how can I say this delicately?--no matter how many stories they write about her “buff arms,” I can’t help but notice that there’s a reason she is rarely photographed from the waist down, particularly from behind, so I’m not looking for her “perfect body” diet any time soon. As for Barry, I assumed that all supernatural beings were possessed of perfect physical bodies. Or it could be the cigarettes.
June 23, 2009
Obama's Poll Numbers Go South
Despite the relentless media hype, deliberate suppression of negative information, and industrial-scale brainwashing to make us subconsciously feel it is "racist" to disapprove of anyone black, Chairman Zero's honeymoon has already ended, with his approval index going into negative territory after only a few months in office. From Rasmussen:
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Monday shows that 33% of the nation's voters now Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Thirty-four percent (34%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -1. Today is the second straight day the President's rating has been below zero (see trends).
However, Comrade Obama did manage to pull his numbers up from -2 yesterday. He must have gotten a bounce from the doting CBS scoop about him feeding his dog pumpkin-flavored ice cream while protestors die in Iran without even moral support.
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Monday shows that 33% of the nation's voters now Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Thirty-four percent (34%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -1. Today is the second straight day the President's rating has been below zero (see trends).
However, Comrade Obama did manage to pull his numbers up from -2 yesterday. He must have gotten a bounce from the doting CBS scoop about him feeding his dog pumpkin-flavored ice cream while protestors die in Iran without even moral support.
June 22, 2009
Skateboarding Where Great Men Once Walked
How's this for emblematic:
Above you see 41-year-old adolescent Tony Hawk skateboarding in the White House.
According to Hawk, Comrade Obama apologized for the absence of skateboard ramps, a welcome change from Chairman Zero's usual apologizing for America's historic defense of liberty.
If we don't get adults back in charge immediately, Hawk isn't the only one due for a major wipeout.
Above you see 41-year-old adolescent Tony Hawk skateboarding in the White House.
According to Hawk, Comrade Obama apologized for the absence of skateboard ramps, a welcome change from Chairman Zero's usual apologizing for America's historic defense of liberty.
If we don't get adults back in charge immediately, Hawk isn't the only one due for a major wipeout.
June 20, 2009
Grab Your Ankles..Your Taxes Are Going Up! Hey Obama Voters Hows That Workin Out For Ya?
Remember when the Moonbat Messiah was promising repeatedly that he would cut taxes for 95% of Americans? Apparently, some actually believed him, and didn't have the decency to care what outrageous injustices were inflicted on the other 5%, who would be made to pay for BHO's extravagant socialist policies. But what goes around comes around. To the surprise of no one with an IQ above 80, Chairman Zero will be jacking taxes through the ceiling on all of us:
House Democrats have lots of potential targets for higher taxes as they aim to expand health care coverage to reach the roughly 50 million that experts say are uninsured.
Also under consideration are higher alcohol taxes, increases to the Medicare payroll tax and a value-added tax, a sort of national sales tax, of up to 1.5 percent or more.
A value-added tax would hit every American who buys or sells anything. Obama et al. are also thinking about a 10¢ per can tax on "sugary drinks," taxing employer-provided health insurance benefits, and of course, further looting "the rich," who need to have money to spend and invest if the economy is to recover.
If this sounds bad, wait until the cap and trade lunacy effectively results in massive energy taxes, which will also hurt each and every one of us, including the fools who voted this socialist regime into office.
House Democrats have lots of potential targets for higher taxes as they aim to expand health care coverage to reach the roughly 50 million that experts say are uninsured.
Also under consideration are higher alcohol taxes, increases to the Medicare payroll tax and a value-added tax, a sort of national sales tax, of up to 1.5 percent or more.
A value-added tax would hit every American who buys or sells anything. Obama et al. are also thinking about a 10¢ per can tax on "sugary drinks," taxing employer-provided health insurance benefits, and of course, further looting "the rich," who need to have money to spend and invest if the economy is to recover.
If this sounds bad, wait until the cap and trade lunacy effectively results in massive energy taxes, which will also hurt each and every one of us, including the fools who voted this socialist regime into office.
June 18, 2009
The Wussy Liberals
or the sissification of the American Man by liberals. After watching Comrade Zero simper, pout, whine, and beg since the clown took over, and after watching the videos posted here over the last two days, this essay NEEDED to be written.
We are being led by women in men's clothing. This is not a slam on women, but on the weak-kneed, limp-noodle, gutless liberals who appease, kowtow, bow, and otherwise grease up and bend over for any criminal, tyrant, dictator, or thug. Once upon a time in America, men, REAL MEN, signed their own death warrants by putting their signature on the Declaration of Independence, and knew full well that if captured, they'd find themselves at the end of a rope, their families would be cast out of their homes, and the British would seize their property for the King. Once we had Congressmen like Davy Crockett who stated once: "You all can go to hell. I’m going to Texas!" Where he died at the Alamo, fighting for freedom. We had other politicians, who, for right or wrong, CANED another politician almost to the point of crippling him, for slandering the South. In other words, don't talk sh8t unless you can back it up, a far cry from the sissies we have now. Lawyers who talk and talk and talk and talk... When evil raised its ugly head in World War One, men went to war to crush it. In World War Two, men lined up to enlist. It's what men did. H*ll, we even had a President that shot rifles, went hunting, and loved to box! (Teddy Roosevelt) Indeed, many of us men grew up catching lizards and snakes, playing cowboys and Indians, cops and robbers, having BB gun fights, brawling, rough-housing, rock fights, dirt clod fights, fist fights, King of the Hill, playing mumblypeg (the Gunny has a nice scar on his left foot where a jackknife went in...thanks again Sean!), and fished, hunted, and worked on becoming a man, with the ability to MAN THE F**K UP when it was called for. ith the liberals in charge, it ain't like that anymore.
The liberals have taken over the education system and seek to emasculate boys when THEY play Cowboys and Indians, fight, rough-house, and in some schools, RUNNING around at recess is a no-no. Guess "Red Rover" is out because someone MIGHT GET HURT! Liberals teach that violence is baaaaaaaad. That criminals are to be treated with the milk of human kindness instead of giving them a stomp down, shooting the b*stards, or horror of horrors, actually executing the vermin for capital crimes! Eating meat...BAD. Just ask the PETA morons. "Go vegan" cry the skinnies! Vegan men whose arms hang out of their shirts like strings but hey, they have a low carbon footprint! A scumbag breaks into your house, jump out of the window, run to a neighbor's house, and call 911 and hope the cops get there in time. Schools recommend Ritalin for "over-active" boys effectively turning them into an emasculated zombie and parent comply! We can't be having any restlessness, overt curiosity, or aggressiveness, can we? Get caught poking at a red ant nest at recess? You're suspended.
Indeed, look at TV today and the message put out by liberals and make no mistake, liberals RUN the mainstream media. Just ask ABC NEWS, now called Pravda and broadcasting from the White Crib. Men are made fun of on TV. In commercials, they are hapless idiots unable to clean up after themselves. In TV shows, like the one with Charlie Sheen (the name escapes the Gunny who never watched it), he's a buffoon. The same with Jim Belushi's show. Of course with Sex in the City, women are movers and shakers and men simply tools. Maybe liberal men ARE nothing more than tools, useful idiots, and excess baggage for the nation to carry. Bush lands on a carrier and gets sneered at. Saint Goreacle deep throats his pig on national TV and is applauded. Bush flies to Iraq unknown, to serve turkey to the troops, and gets denigrated. Comrade Zero flies to Iraq with planeloads of reporters on set up meetings with the troops and this is great stuff. The word "cowboy" is a curse word for leftists to use on us and has been since Reagan. We on the right are knuckle-dragging, swaggering, cowboys, according to liberals and Euro half-men. The sissification of the Eurotrash is definitely complete. German troops are too soft to go on patrol in Afghanistan. HAHA! Rommel is rolling over in his grave.
Since women got the vote, government has become more involved in our lives. Don't believe the Gunny, do the research. Men enjoy risk, women seek security and protection, it's the way we are wired but it seems that liberal men are more apt to be wired like their women, scared of risk, uncertainty, and danger and unable to overcome that fright. Just glance at what liberals espouse, i.e., cradle-to-grave welfare, cradle-to-grave health care, Social SUCKurity, and a hotline for the little girlylib men to call when they're scared and need reassurance, 800-MYOBAMA!
As for TV, witness the ad for Boyardee ravioli. The Dad reading the label that discusses more veggies in the mix and Mom beating on pots to shut him up. Why? Because junior won't EAT his veggies if he knew about it. SHEEEEEEEET! Growing up, the old man told you to clean your plate and you D*MN SURE DID or you sat there until you did. Not today. Can't hurt the little b8stard's self-esteem by snatching him up by the stacking swivel and reminding him who the F**K is running the show. The Gunny once stupidly lipped off to the old man, at age 13, and found himself jacked into a wall, hoisted up off of the ground, with two eyeballs burning a hole in him, reminding him who was the boss! Lesson learned.
Witness the worst show of the century, "Qu**r Eye For The Straight Guy". A group of mincing fagg0ts working to "turn" a man into a metrosexual! There can be no doubt that the chuckleheads on that show are liberal men because no self-respecting Conservative man would allow simpering h0m0s to change: his clothes, music, home décor and furnishings, etc. Men go for comfort, not fluff Brucie. We're slobs and we like our couches, recliners, worn-in clothes and shoes, and hammocks and that is the way things are. Then we get married, to a WOMAN, who TRY, emphasis on the word TRY, to civilize us by "changing" us. It rarely works but we like acting like MEN and secretly, conservative women (and lib women who won't admit it) like their men...acting like a man. That’s the natural order of things. Men talk about women, guns, politics, women, sports, women, hunting and fishing, women, and of course, power tools, and that is what men do. It's how WE are wired. And best of all, it's FUN! Libs must hate fun because they much veggies and polish their nails in keeping with their liberal metrosexualism! haha. Women own lapdogs and they seek to make their men lapdogs. Indeed, you just KNOW by looking that micHELLe Maobama runs that show. The Gunny would bet a big chunk of dough that Comrade Zero was never in a fight and indeed, was pounded on after he tried to talk, talk, talk, his way out of a jam. Not being able to defend yourself is stupid, not civilized. "Si vis pacem, para bellum" ("If you want peace, prepare for war!") Flavius Vegetius Renatus
What do liberal politicians do first? Why pass legislation to keep us from: fishing, hunting, smoking, pinching the secretary's butt, riding our Harley without a helmet (OH THE HUMANITY!), fighting over women (a male past time going back 10,000 years!), shooting scumbag who, as we say in the South, "needed killing," and outright raising a little h*ll. The Gunny will take someone like Reagan or Bush 41/43 over Comrade Zero, a mincing lightweight, or Saint Goreacle who had to HIRE a CONSULTANT to teach him how to act like a man! Haha. We won't even mention the highly nuanced Hanoi John Fonda Kerry! Don't forget, he served about 40 days in Vietnam and went on two or three patrols!
Men like it simple, uncluttered, uncomplicated, and straight-to-the-point and THAT is why we dig: John Wayne, Charlton Heston, Clint Eastwood, Robert Mitchum, Bogie, Bruce Willis, William Holden, etc. You mess with them, you're done, it's that simple. Jeff Cooper, a great pistolero and warrior stated once that the job of a real man is to: "to ride, shoot straight, and speak the truth." Unfortunately, liberal dipsticks like Comrade Zero FIRE people for speaking the truth, witness the firing of the guy at AmeriCorps, who exposed the corruption. Oops.
Liberals enjoy being victims, conservatives don't. Maybe that is the core of it. Conservatives shoot criminals while liberals try to understand them, sit down and talk with them, seeking to appease, and then BAM!, they get shot and robbed, beaten and raped, or all of the above with a slit throat to boot. The sissification of liberals began decades ago but they're pulling US into that vicious circle as well. Hitler once stated to adults in Germany that he could care less about what THEY thought, he had the kids and over time, they'd know nothing but what HE told them to think. Much in the same way, liberals are perverting the boys of America today. Liberals always expect others to take care of them IF they have unbridled loyalty to the system and to their party line. Maybe it's too late, who knows, but men, enjoy being a man. Enjoy being a Conservative. When your son comes home from school for fighting ask why and then DEFEND him against the school. Sometimes you HAVE to stick up for what you believe in, with nothing but a forecast of pain and suffering ahead. A fat lip is INFINATELY better than having the other kids in school call you a coward and here is where liberals get derailed. They stand for nothing and thus, fall for everything and NOTHING is a better example of that than Barry Soetoro getting played and punked around the world. Bush 43 is a cowboy and only the Eurogarbage, terrorists, and liberals did not like it! For all angles, it's better to BE a cowboy than a pretty little metrosexual like Barry, unable to fight his way out of a thick fog without mommy or micHELLe helping him. As far as the Gunny is concerned, the first family consists of four females and Barry is our first female potus! The sissification of American manhood continues with liberals but we must continue to fight that crap.
We are being led by women in men's clothing. This is not a slam on women, but on the weak-kneed, limp-noodle, gutless liberals who appease, kowtow, bow, and otherwise grease up and bend over for any criminal, tyrant, dictator, or thug. Once upon a time in America, men, REAL MEN, signed their own death warrants by putting their signature on the Declaration of Independence, and knew full well that if captured, they'd find themselves at the end of a rope, their families would be cast out of their homes, and the British would seize their property for the King. Once we had Congressmen like Davy Crockett who stated once: "You all can go to hell. I’m going to Texas!" Where he died at the Alamo, fighting for freedom. We had other politicians, who, for right or wrong, CANED another politician almost to the point of crippling him, for slandering the South. In other words, don't talk sh8t unless you can back it up, a far cry from the sissies we have now. Lawyers who talk and talk and talk and talk... When evil raised its ugly head in World War One, men went to war to crush it. In World War Two, men lined up to enlist. It's what men did. H*ll, we even had a President that shot rifles, went hunting, and loved to box! (Teddy Roosevelt) Indeed, many of us men grew up catching lizards and snakes, playing cowboys and Indians, cops and robbers, having BB gun fights, brawling, rough-housing, rock fights, dirt clod fights, fist fights, King of the Hill, playing mumblypeg (the Gunny has a nice scar on his left foot where a jackknife went in...thanks again Sean!), and fished, hunted, and worked on becoming a man, with the ability to MAN THE F**K UP when it was called for. ith the liberals in charge, it ain't like that anymore.
The liberals have taken over the education system and seek to emasculate boys when THEY play Cowboys and Indians, fight, rough-house, and in some schools, RUNNING around at recess is a no-no. Guess "Red Rover" is out because someone MIGHT GET HURT! Liberals teach that violence is baaaaaaaad. That criminals are to be treated with the milk of human kindness instead of giving them a stomp down, shooting the b*stards, or horror of horrors, actually executing the vermin for capital crimes! Eating meat...BAD. Just ask the PETA morons. "Go vegan" cry the skinnies! Vegan men whose arms hang out of their shirts like strings but hey, they have a low carbon footprint! A scumbag breaks into your house, jump out of the window, run to a neighbor's house, and call 911 and hope the cops get there in time. Schools recommend Ritalin for "over-active" boys effectively turning them into an emasculated zombie and parent comply! We can't be having any restlessness, overt curiosity, or aggressiveness, can we? Get caught poking at a red ant nest at recess? You're suspended.
Indeed, look at TV today and the message put out by liberals and make no mistake, liberals RUN the mainstream media. Just ask ABC NEWS, now called Pravda and broadcasting from the White Crib. Men are made fun of on TV. In commercials, they are hapless idiots unable to clean up after themselves. In TV shows, like the one with Charlie Sheen (the name escapes the Gunny who never watched it), he's a buffoon. The same with Jim Belushi's show. Of course with Sex in the City, women are movers and shakers and men simply tools. Maybe liberal men ARE nothing more than tools, useful idiots, and excess baggage for the nation to carry. Bush lands on a carrier and gets sneered at. Saint Goreacle deep throats his pig on national TV and is applauded. Bush flies to Iraq unknown, to serve turkey to the troops, and gets denigrated. Comrade Zero flies to Iraq with planeloads of reporters on set up meetings with the troops and this is great stuff. The word "cowboy" is a curse word for leftists to use on us and has been since Reagan. We on the right are knuckle-dragging, swaggering, cowboys, according to liberals and Euro half-men. The sissification of the Eurotrash is definitely complete. German troops are too soft to go on patrol in Afghanistan. HAHA! Rommel is rolling over in his grave.
Since women got the vote, government has become more involved in our lives. Don't believe the Gunny, do the research. Men enjoy risk, women seek security and protection, it's the way we are wired but it seems that liberal men are more apt to be wired like their women, scared of risk, uncertainty, and danger and unable to overcome that fright. Just glance at what liberals espouse, i.e., cradle-to-grave welfare, cradle-to-grave health care, Social SUCKurity, and a hotline for the little girlylib men to call when they're scared and need reassurance, 800-MYOBAMA!
As for TV, witness the ad for Boyardee ravioli. The Dad reading the label that discusses more veggies in the mix and Mom beating on pots to shut him up. Why? Because junior won't EAT his veggies if he knew about it. SHEEEEEEEET! Growing up, the old man told you to clean your plate and you D*MN SURE DID or you sat there until you did. Not today. Can't hurt the little b8stard's self-esteem by snatching him up by the stacking swivel and reminding him who the F**K is running the show. The Gunny once stupidly lipped off to the old man, at age 13, and found himself jacked into a wall, hoisted up off of the ground, with two eyeballs burning a hole in him, reminding him who was the boss! Lesson learned.
Witness the worst show of the century, "Qu**r Eye For The Straight Guy". A group of mincing fagg0ts working to "turn" a man into a metrosexual! There can be no doubt that the chuckleheads on that show are liberal men because no self-respecting Conservative man would allow simpering h0m0s to change: his clothes, music, home décor and furnishings, etc. Men go for comfort, not fluff Brucie. We're slobs and we like our couches, recliners, worn-in clothes and shoes, and hammocks and that is the way things are. Then we get married, to a WOMAN, who TRY, emphasis on the word TRY, to civilize us by "changing" us. It rarely works but we like acting like MEN and secretly, conservative women (and lib women who won't admit it) like their men...acting like a man. That’s the natural order of things. Men talk about women, guns, politics, women, sports, women, hunting and fishing, women, and of course, power tools, and that is what men do. It's how WE are wired. And best of all, it's FUN! Libs must hate fun because they much veggies and polish their nails in keeping with their liberal metrosexualism! haha. Women own lapdogs and they seek to make their men lapdogs. Indeed, you just KNOW by looking that micHELLe Maobama runs that show. The Gunny would bet a big chunk of dough that Comrade Zero was never in a fight and indeed, was pounded on after he tried to talk, talk, talk, his way out of a jam. Not being able to defend yourself is stupid, not civilized. "Si vis pacem, para bellum" ("If you want peace, prepare for war!") Flavius Vegetius Renatus
What do liberal politicians do first? Why pass legislation to keep us from: fishing, hunting, smoking, pinching the secretary's butt, riding our Harley without a helmet (OH THE HUMANITY!), fighting over women (a male past time going back 10,000 years!), shooting scumbag who, as we say in the South, "needed killing," and outright raising a little h*ll. The Gunny will take someone like Reagan or Bush 41/43 over Comrade Zero, a mincing lightweight, or Saint Goreacle who had to HIRE a CONSULTANT to teach him how to act like a man! Haha. We won't even mention the highly nuanced Hanoi John Fonda Kerry! Don't forget, he served about 40 days in Vietnam and went on two or three patrols!
Men like it simple, uncluttered, uncomplicated, and straight-to-the-point and THAT is why we dig: John Wayne, Charlton Heston, Clint Eastwood, Robert Mitchum, Bogie, Bruce Willis, William Holden, etc. You mess with them, you're done, it's that simple. Jeff Cooper, a great pistolero and warrior stated once that the job of a real man is to: "to ride, shoot straight, and speak the truth." Unfortunately, liberal dipsticks like Comrade Zero FIRE people for speaking the truth, witness the firing of the guy at AmeriCorps, who exposed the corruption. Oops.
Liberals enjoy being victims, conservatives don't. Maybe that is the core of it. Conservatives shoot criminals while liberals try to understand them, sit down and talk with them, seeking to appease, and then BAM!, they get shot and robbed, beaten and raped, or all of the above with a slit throat to boot. The sissification of liberals began decades ago but they're pulling US into that vicious circle as well. Hitler once stated to adults in Germany that he could care less about what THEY thought, he had the kids and over time, they'd know nothing but what HE told them to think. Much in the same way, liberals are perverting the boys of America today. Liberals always expect others to take care of them IF they have unbridled loyalty to the system and to their party line. Maybe it's too late, who knows, but men, enjoy being a man. Enjoy being a Conservative. When your son comes home from school for fighting ask why and then DEFEND him against the school. Sometimes you HAVE to stick up for what you believe in, with nothing but a forecast of pain and suffering ahead. A fat lip is INFINATELY better than having the other kids in school call you a coward and here is where liberals get derailed. They stand for nothing and thus, fall for everything and NOTHING is a better example of that than Barry Soetoro getting played and punked around the world. Bush 43 is a cowboy and only the Eurogarbage, terrorists, and liberals did not like it! For all angles, it's better to BE a cowboy than a pretty little metrosexual like Barry, unable to fight his way out of a thick fog without mommy or micHELLe helping him. As far as the Gunny is concerned, the first family consists of four females and Barry is our first female potus! The sissification of American manhood continues with liberals but we must continue to fight that crap.
Another Thug Of The NFL
If your dad was killed by a drunk driver, would you ask a court to give the killer a lenient 30-day sentence in exchange for a huge cash pay-off?
I certainly wouldn't.
But the family of 59-year-old construction worker Mario Reyes did just that. They were paid off by Cleveland Browns wide receiver Donte Stallworth, and because of that, justice wasn't served. Stallworth--who should do years in prison for the killing--will serve only a 30-day sentence. And while he'll serve two years of house arrest after that, he will be playing for the Browns when the NFL football season starts at the end of this summer. The ridiculously lenient plea agreement allows him to do so.
NFL's Donte Stallworth Killed a Man Driving Drunk, Got 30 Days
It's really a disgusting display. But I don't just blame the family. I blame the justice system and the prosecutors who recommended this, merely because he paid the family off. And I blame the judge who went along with this absurd sentence.
Stallworth's "cooperation" in the matter--which they cite--is a euphemism for nothing. People get killed by drunk drivers all the time, and they do hard time. The fact that they admitted, hey, I agree with your tests that I had an alcohol level over the limit when I killed a man, doesn't save them from that.
Unless they are a rich ball player with the capacity to pay someone off.
The 28-year-old National Football League star's abbreviated jail term came because of his cooperation with investigators and the wishes of the victim's family.
Stallworth pleaded guilty Tuesday to manslaughter while driving under the influence of alcohol in exchange for a lighter sentence. He was sentenced to 30 days in jail for the car crash that killed a pedestrian in Miami Beach.
The player had faced up to 15 years in jail for the death of 59-year-old construction worker Mario Reyes, who apparently was running across the street to catch a bus when the athlete hit him with his car March 14.
The average jail sentence for similar crimes in Florida is 10 years, but Stallworth reached a confidential financial settlement with Reyes' family.
What does this say for poor people who commit crimes and are unable to pay off their victims?
It says that, contrary to the trite adage, justice isn't blind in America. It's not blind at all. If you have the right dollar amounts in your bank account, you get a separate kind of "justice" applied to you.
But don't worry, Donte Stallworth will get away with murder, just like his NFL colleague, Ray Lewis, got away with taking part in the murder of three people.
Crime pays when you are a wealthy star athlete and your victims are humans and not dogs (a la Michael Vick).
I certainly wouldn't.
But the family of 59-year-old construction worker Mario Reyes did just that. They were paid off by Cleveland Browns wide receiver Donte Stallworth, and because of that, justice wasn't served. Stallworth--who should do years in prison for the killing--will serve only a 30-day sentence. And while he'll serve two years of house arrest after that, he will be playing for the Browns when the NFL football season starts at the end of this summer. The ridiculously lenient plea agreement allows him to do so.
NFL's Donte Stallworth Killed a Man Driving Drunk, Got 30 Days
It's really a disgusting display. But I don't just blame the family. I blame the justice system and the prosecutors who recommended this, merely because he paid the family off. And I blame the judge who went along with this absurd sentence.
Stallworth's "cooperation" in the matter--which they cite--is a euphemism for nothing. People get killed by drunk drivers all the time, and they do hard time. The fact that they admitted, hey, I agree with your tests that I had an alcohol level over the limit when I killed a man, doesn't save them from that.
Unless they are a rich ball player with the capacity to pay someone off.
The 28-year-old National Football League star's abbreviated jail term came because of his cooperation with investigators and the wishes of the victim's family.
Stallworth pleaded guilty Tuesday to manslaughter while driving under the influence of alcohol in exchange for a lighter sentence. He was sentenced to 30 days in jail for the car crash that killed a pedestrian in Miami Beach.
The player had faced up to 15 years in jail for the death of 59-year-old construction worker Mario Reyes, who apparently was running across the street to catch a bus when the athlete hit him with his car March 14.
The average jail sentence for similar crimes in Florida is 10 years, but Stallworth reached a confidential financial settlement with Reyes' family.
What does this say for poor people who commit crimes and are unable to pay off their victims?
It says that, contrary to the trite adage, justice isn't blind in America. It's not blind at all. If you have the right dollar amounts in your bank account, you get a separate kind of "justice" applied to you.
But don't worry, Donte Stallworth will get away with murder, just like his NFL colleague, Ray Lewis, got away with taking part in the murder of three people.
Crime pays when you are a wealthy star athlete and your victims are humans and not dogs (a la Michael Vick).
ObamaCare
To quote the esteemed Rev. Jeremiah Wright, the chickens that were hatched in the stimulus package are coming home to roost in the healthcare proposal. The budget deficit Obama racked up paying for the massive federal spending passed in January is now having a real economic and political impact, which is forcing the president and his congressional allies into hard choices as they face his healthcare legislation.Of course, the prudent thing to do is postpone healthcare changes until the economy generates some revenues and trims the deficit. But the socialist in the White House can't do that. He's got to strike while his congressional majority is hot. So he is forcing his administration and his party to choose among unpalatable choices to finance his program. His demand may be a bridge too far, endangering his popularity with the American people.
First of all, the very fact of a focus on healthcare reform inevitably stirs discussion of the deficit. Americans are allergic to deficit spending and worry the more the deficit grows. As interest rates rise and the government finds it more and more difficult to borrow enough to cover Obama's massive spending, the economy is likely to show the negative effects. It is a matter of a few months, certainly no more, before voters start to realize that it is the deficit, not the pre-existing conditions Obama inherited, which is causing the prolongation of the recession. Already the jump in mortgage rates has slowed the refinancing, which was the only aspect of the Obama economic program that was working well.But the foreign and domestic focus on the deficit has a harsher political impact: It forces the Democrats to come up with money to fund healthcare reform. In other words, it makes them raise taxes. The Democratic Party is good at fooling itself that tax increases don't matter and are politically palatable, but they do and they are not.The massive spending healthcare will require dwarfs the capacity for the rich alone to pay the bill, no matter how confiscatory Obama chooses to become. Only broader taxes will do the job. Obama faces two practical choices: a value added tax or taxing health insurance benefits.The political harm either way will be enormous. Not only will Obama be breaking his pledge not to tax the middle class, but he will be doing so in a particularly pernicious way. If Obama opts for the value added tax (VAT), Democrats will hope to cloak the increase in the price of the product. They reason that the consumer won't know how much the tax is since it will be added on throughout the sale and resale of the product rather than at the cash register at the end, as the sales tax is. But it will work the other way. As inflation sets in, triggered by Obama's deficit spending, consumers will blame the whole thing on Obama. His VAT will be much magnified in the voters' minds to include all of the inflation going on. Just as voters blamed Clinton's gas tax increase of five cents in 1993 for the entire run-up in gasoline prices at the pump, so they will place all the blame for inflation on Obama's VAT.Or Obama could tax healthcare benefits, a direct reversal of his campaign pledge. He would be adopting a policy for which he overtly and loudly criticized McCain. And his popularity will wilt as taxpayers suddenly have to add onto their tax liability the money their employer has always paid for their health insurance. Obama will probably have his own separate line on the 1040 and even on the short form for his new tax. That's not the way to stay popular.Obama's only good option is not to move so quickly on healthcare reform, to give himself some wiggle room. But as the song says, "we're knee deep in the big muddy but the damn fool says to push on!"
First of all, the very fact of a focus on healthcare reform inevitably stirs discussion of the deficit. Americans are allergic to deficit spending and worry the more the deficit grows. As interest rates rise and the government finds it more and more difficult to borrow enough to cover Obama's massive spending, the economy is likely to show the negative effects. It is a matter of a few months, certainly no more, before voters start to realize that it is the deficit, not the pre-existing conditions Obama inherited, which is causing the prolongation of the recession. Already the jump in mortgage rates has slowed the refinancing, which was the only aspect of the Obama economic program that was working well.But the foreign and domestic focus on the deficit has a harsher political impact: It forces the Democrats to come up with money to fund healthcare reform. In other words, it makes them raise taxes. The Democratic Party is good at fooling itself that tax increases don't matter and are politically palatable, but they do and they are not.The massive spending healthcare will require dwarfs the capacity for the rich alone to pay the bill, no matter how confiscatory Obama chooses to become. Only broader taxes will do the job. Obama faces two practical choices: a value added tax or taxing health insurance benefits.The political harm either way will be enormous. Not only will Obama be breaking his pledge not to tax the middle class, but he will be doing so in a particularly pernicious way. If Obama opts for the value added tax (VAT), Democrats will hope to cloak the increase in the price of the product. They reason that the consumer won't know how much the tax is since it will be added on throughout the sale and resale of the product rather than at the cash register at the end, as the sales tax is. But it will work the other way. As inflation sets in, triggered by Obama's deficit spending, consumers will blame the whole thing on Obama. His VAT will be much magnified in the voters' minds to include all of the inflation going on. Just as voters blamed Clinton's gas tax increase of five cents in 1993 for the entire run-up in gasoline prices at the pump, so they will place all the blame for inflation on Obama's VAT.Or Obama could tax healthcare benefits, a direct reversal of his campaign pledge. He would be adopting a policy for which he overtly and loudly criticized McCain. And his popularity will wilt as taxpayers suddenly have to add onto their tax liability the money their employer has always paid for their health insurance. Obama will probably have his own separate line on the 1040 and even on the short form for his new tax. That's not the way to stay popular.Obama's only good option is not to move so quickly on healthcare reform, to give himself some wiggle room. But as the song says, "we're knee deep in the big muddy but the damn fool says to push on!"
Bush Finally Speaks Up!
Finally, after being pummelled for months, George W. Bush blasted Barack Obama for his socialist economic policies, overspending and weak national security decisions.Obama will quadruple the US budget deficit his first year in office.And, he wants to spend trillions more for his Obamacare program.The Washington Times reported, via Reboot Congress:
Former President George W. Bush fired a salvo at President Obama on Wednesday, asserting his administration's interrogation policies were within the law, declaring the private sector not government will fix the economy and rejecting the nationalization of health care. "I know it's going to be the private sector that leads this country out of the current economic times we're in," the former president said to applause from members of a local business group. "You can spend your money better than the government can spend your money." Repeatedly in his hourlong speech and question-and-answer session, Mr. Bush said he would not directly criticize the new president, who has moved to take over financial institutions and several large corporations. Several times, however, he took direct aim at Obama policies as he defended his own during eight years in office. "Government does not create wealth. The major role for the government is to create an environment where people take risks to expand the job rate in the United States," he said to huge cheers. Look for President Thin-Skin to blame the current situation on Bush before noon today.
Former President George W. Bush fired a salvo at President Obama on Wednesday, asserting his administration's interrogation policies were within the law, declaring the private sector not government will fix the economy and rejecting the nationalization of health care. "I know it's going to be the private sector that leads this country out of the current economic times we're in," the former president said to applause from members of a local business group. "You can spend your money better than the government can spend your money." Repeatedly in his hourlong speech and question-and-answer session, Mr. Bush said he would not directly criticize the new president, who has moved to take over financial institutions and several large corporations. Several times, however, he took direct aim at Obama policies as he defended his own during eight years in office. "Government does not create wealth. The major role for the government is to create an environment where people take risks to expand the job rate in the United States," he said to huge cheers. Look for President Thin-Skin to blame the current situation on Bush before noon today.
June 17, 2009
Quotes Of The Famous Lib Idiots
"One awkward moment for Sarah Palin at the Yankee game... During the 7th inning, her daughter was knocked up by Alex Rodriguez."
--DAVID LETTERMAN
"I mean in a way Obama's standing above the country, above – above the world, he's sort of God."
--EVAN THOMAS
"I understand that during [Sonia Sotomayor's] career, she's written hundreds and hundreds of opinions. I haven't read a single one of them, and if I'm fortunate before we end this, I won't have to read one of them."
--HARRY REID
"I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life."
--SONIA SOTOMAYOR
"We all considered sexual abuse of minors as a moral evil, but had no understanding of its criminal nature."
--REMBERT WEAKLAND
"Yes, [I am accusing the CIA of] misleading the Congress of the United States, misleading the Congress of the United States. I am."
--NANCY PELOSI
"You know, you might want to look into this, [President Obama], because I think maybe Rush Limbaugh was the 20th hijacker, but he was so strung out on Oxycontin he missed his flight."
"Rush Limbaugh -- 'I hope the country the fails.' I hope his kidneys fail."
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"[Obama] told me I did a great job. The first lady said the same thing. I got a 'well done' from the president, I'm on cloud nine."
--WANDA SYKES
"I think what Rush does as an entertainer diminishes the party and intrudes or inserts into our public life a kind of nastiness that we would be better to do without."
"Americans are looking for more government in their life, not less."
--COLIN POWELL
"If we had pursued the war on cancer which President Nixon declared in 1970, Jack Kemp might be alive today."
--ARLEN SPECTER
"I would tell members of my family – and I have – I wouldn't go anywhere in confined places now. It's not that it's going to Mexico. It's you're in a confined aircraft. When one person sneezes, it goes all the way through the aircraft. That's me. I would not be, at this point - if they had another way of transportation – suggesting they ride the subway.
"Um... So, from my perspective, what it relates to is mitigation. If you're out in the middle of a field when someone sneezes, that's one thing. If you're in a closed aircraft or closed container or closed car or closed classroom, it's a different thing."
--JOE BIDEN
"[Tea Party goers are] just a bunch of wimpy, whiny, weasels who don't love their country."
--PAUL BEGALA
"Reagan's dead and he was a lousy President."
--KEITH OLBERMANN
"I wonder... if the Republican Party really wants to be branded right now as the party of tax cuts and torture? I mean that's what they're selling."
--CHRIS MATTHEWS
"[A]t a certain point I don't think we'll be so consumed with being the pre-eminent super-power and, you know, driven by sort of militarism and this need to export, you know, democracy and so forth."
--RON HOWARD
"I wouldn't want [gay marriage] to go to the United States Supreme Court now because that homophobe Antonin Scalia has too many votes on this current court."
--BARNEY FRANK
"Nice to see a little diversity for a change. We have an African-American president, a female Speaker of the House, and there's the white guy, Bob."
--KATIE COURIC
"Going forward, my mind will be open to every solution -- except one. We should not -- we must not -- and I will not -- raise taxes."
--JIM DOYLE, Liar
"I am not resigning now because I have done nothing wrong."
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"I've got this thing. And it's f---ing golden. I'm just not giving it up for f---ing nothing. I'm not going to do it. I can always use it. I can parachute me there."
"F--- [Obama]. For nothing? F--- him."
--ROD BLAGOJEVICH
"I'm a liberal, I was born a liberal, I'll be one till I die. What else should a reporter be when you see so much and when we have such great privilege and access to the truth?"
--HELEN THOMAS
"Unlike Afghanistan, Iraq was a war of choice that provoked strong differences in my country and around the world. Although I believe that the Iraqi people are ultimately better off without the tyranny of Saddam Hussein, I also believe that events in Iraq have reminded America of the need to use diplomacy and build international consensus to resolve our problems whenever possible." (Note: The Iraqi people are better off because of the service and sacrifice of American troops. No apology is necessary.)
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"And one of the points I want to make is, is that if you actually took the number of Muslim Americans, we’d be one of the largest Muslim countries in the world." (Note: That's a false statement.)
"My father was basically agnostic, as far as I can tell." (Note: That appears to be a false statement. Obama's deputy National Security Adviser for Strategic Communications Denis McDonough says that Obama's father was Muslim.)
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"I want to be very clear, that we are resolved to halt the rise of PRIVACY in that region."
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"My administration is the only thing between you (bank CEOs) and the pitchforks."
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"We could set up systems so that everybody in each house have their own smart meters that will tell you when to turn off the lights, when the peak hours are, can help you sell back energy that you've generated in your home through a solar panel or through other mechanisms."
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"There's gotta be a little gallows humor to (LAUGHS) get you through the day."
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"It's like -- it was like Special Olympics, or something."
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"What I’m looking at is not the day-to-day gyrations of the stock market, but the long-term ability for the United States and the entire world economy to regain its footing."
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"Yesterday, Jim, the head of Caterpillar, said that if Congress passes our plan, this company will be able to rehire some of the folks who were just laid off."
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"You can't just listen to Rush Limbaugh and get things done."
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"I won. I will trump you on that." (Obama to GOP)
Note: Where's that new tone? Where's that promise of bipartisanship, Barack?
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"In terms of speaking to former presidents, I've spoken to all of them that are living. Obviously, President Clinton -- I didn't want to get into a Nancy Reagan thing about, you know, doing any seances."
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"I am going to teach [my daughters] first about values and morals, but if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby."
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"[J]ust to take a, sort of a realist perspective... there's a lot of change going on outside of the Court, um, that, that judges essentially have to take judicial notice of. I mean you've got World War II, you've got uh, uh, uh, the doctrines of Nazism, that, that we are fighting against, that start looking uncomfortably similar to what we have going on, back here at home."
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"We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded."
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"It's not that I want to punish your success. I just want to make sure that everybody who is behind you, that they've got a chance for success too. My attitude is that if the economy's good for folks from the bottom up, it's gonna be good for everybody ... I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody."
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"John McCain and Sarah Palin they call this (spreading the wealth around) socialistic. You know, I don't know when, when they decided they wanted to make a virtue out of selfishness."
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"Over the last 15 months, we’ve traveled to every corner of the United States. I’ve now been in 57 states? I think one left to go. Alaska and Hawaii, I was not allowed to go to even though I really wanted to visit, but my staff would not justify it."
--BARACK OBAMA
"He's a terrorist. Rush Limbaugh is a terrorist."
--JOY BEHAR
"You know, I just want to say to her (Sarah Palin), just very quickly...F--- you."
--JON STEWART
"There is no question that western Pennsylvania is a racist area."
--JOHN MURTHA
"And let me tell you something -- for the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country. And not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change. And I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction and just not feeling so alone in my frustration and disappointment."
--MICHELLE OBAMA
"You are the instruments that God is gonna use to bring about universal change, and that is why Barack has captured the youth. And he has involved young people in a political process that they didn’t care anything about. That’s a sign. When the Messiah speaks, the youth will hear, and the Messiah is absolutely speaking."
--LOUIS FARRAKHAN
"Should I be worried about being a slave and being returned to slavery?"
--WHOOPI GOLDBERG
"I also believe that America is the greatest sin against God."
--FR. MICHAEL PFLEGER
"I'd like to tip off law enforcement to an even larger child-abusing religious cult. Its leader also has a compound, and this guy not only operates outside the bounds of the law, but he used to be a Nazi and he wears funny hats. That's right, the Pope is coming to America this week and, ladies, he's single."
"If you have a few hundred followers, and you let some of them molest children, they call you a cult leader. If you have a billion, they call you 'Pope.' It's like, if you can't pay your mortgage, you're a deadbeat. But if you can't pay a million mortgages, you're Bear Stearns and we bail you out. And that is who the Catholic Church is: the Bear Stearns of organized pedophilia -- too big, too fat."
"When the current Pope was in his previous Vatican job as John Paul's Dick Cheney, he wrote a letter instructing every Catholic bishop to keep the sex abuse of minors secret until the Statute of Limitations ran out. And that's the Church's attitude: 'We're here, we're queer, get used to it,' which is fine, far be it from me to criticize religion. But just remember one thing: If the Pope was -- instead of a religious figure -- merely the CEO of a nationwide chain of day care centers, where thousands of employees had been caught molesting kids and then covering it up, he'd be arrested faster than you can say 'who wants to touch Mr. Wiggle?'"
--BILL MAHER
"Those who think they can revive the stinking corpse of the usurping and fake Israeli regime by throwing a birthday party are seriously mistaken. Today the reason for the Zionist regime's existence is questioned, and this regime is on its way to annihilation."
--MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD
"We'll be eight degrees hotter in ten, not ten but 30 or 40 years and basically none of the crops will grow. Most of the people will have died and the rest of us will be cannibals."
--TED TURNER
"We will continue to make the necessary improvements so that citizens of Milwaukee can be confident in their elections."
--TOM BARRETT
"Look, [Mitt] Romney comes from a religion founded by a criminal who was anti-American, pro-slavery, and a rapist. And he comes from that lineage and says, 'I respect this religion fully.'"
--LAWRENCE O'DONNELL
"The United States is like Count Dracula who at six o'clock in the morning has not sucked [any necks]."
--HUGO CHAVEZ
[The Bush] administration has done the greatest assault on our Constitution perhaps in American history."
--RUSS FEINGOLD
"I invite you to embrace Islam... There are no taxes in Islam, but rather there is a limited Zakaat [alms] totaling 2.5 percent."
--OSAMA BIN LADEN
"Mexico does not end at its borders... Where there is a Mexican, there is Mexico."
--FELIPE CALDERON
"If our children are healthy, they'll develop into their full potential and become wonderful tax-paying citizens sometime."
--STEVE KAGEN
"I just freaked out."
--ERIC HAINSTOCK
"The planet has a fever. If your baby has a fever, you go to the doctor. If the doctor says you need to intervene here, you don't say, 'Well, I read a science fiction novel that told me it's not a problem.' If the crib's on fire, you don't speculate that the baby is flame retardant."
--AL GORE
"Don't fear the terrorists. They're mothers and fathers."
--ROSIE O'DONNELL
"Is America ready for a black president? Well, I say we just had a retarded one. When did being black become a bigger deterrent than being retarded?"
--CHRIS ROCK
"Shut the f--- up! Shut up if you can't take a joke [about President Bush]!"
--BARBRA STREISAND
"Right, oh, yeah, Happy 9/11! Celebrate the day, right?"
--JAMES BROLIN, Mr. Barbra Streisand
"I think President Bush very well may have signed an authorization for the 9/11 attacks."
--KEVIN BARRETT, UW-MADISON Lecturer
"I said what I said. I am not guilty."
--SADDAM HUSSEIN
"Terri will not be starved to death. Her nutrition and hydration will be taken away."
--MICHAEL SCHIAVO
"On the eve of the election last month my wife Judith and I were driving home late in the afternoon and turned on the radio for the traffic and weather. What we instantly got was a freak show of political pornography: lies, distortions, and half-truths -- half-truths being perhaps the blackest of all lies. "
--BILL MOYERS
"I hate the Republicans and everything they stand for."
--HOWARD DEAN
"The Iraqis who have risen up against the occupation are not 'insurgents' or 'terrorists' or 'The Enemy.' They are the REVOLUTION, the Minutemen, and their numbers will grow -- and they will win."
--MICHAEL MOORE
"Shamefully, we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management: US management."
--TED KENNEDY
"When I need to work up my nerve to write a tough column, I try to think of myself as Emma Peel in a black leather catsuit."
--MAUREEN DOWD
"And there is no reason, Bob, that young American soldiers need to be going into the homes of Iraqis in the dead of night, terrorizing kids and children, you know, women, breaking sort of the customs of the--of--the historical customs, religious customs."
--JOHN KERRY
"I'm not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers. We are the president."
--HILLARY CLINTON
"It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is."
--BILL CLINTON
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"He looked right into my eyes and he said, 'How can we help? How can we help President Obama?'"
--LAURA RICHARDSON, (D-CA)
"It was almost like listening to an old friend."
"In my household I told Castro he is known as the ultimate survivor."
"We've been led to believe that the Cuban people are not free, and they are repressed by a vicious dictator, and I saw nothing to match what we've been told."
"Fifty years of foolishness is over. It's time for the children to sit in the corner and the adults to take over."
--BOBBY RUSH, (D-IL)
"[Castro was] very engaging, very energetic."
"It was quite a moment to behold."
--BARBARA LEE, (D-CA)
"[Raul Castro] is one of the most amazing human beings I've ever met."
--EMANUEL CLEAVER, (D-MO)
--DAVID LETTERMAN
"I mean in a way Obama's standing above the country, above – above the world, he's sort of God."
--EVAN THOMAS
"I understand that during [Sonia Sotomayor's] career, she's written hundreds and hundreds of opinions. I haven't read a single one of them, and if I'm fortunate before we end this, I won't have to read one of them."
--HARRY REID
"I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life."
--SONIA SOTOMAYOR
"We all considered sexual abuse of minors as a moral evil, but had no understanding of its criminal nature."
--REMBERT WEAKLAND
"Yes, [I am accusing the CIA of] misleading the Congress of the United States, misleading the Congress of the United States. I am."
--NANCY PELOSI
"You know, you might want to look into this, [President Obama], because I think maybe Rush Limbaugh was the 20th hijacker, but he was so strung out on Oxycontin he missed his flight."
"Rush Limbaugh -- 'I hope the country the fails.' I hope his kidneys fail."
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"[Obama] told me I did a great job. The first lady said the same thing. I got a 'well done' from the president, I'm on cloud nine."
--WANDA SYKES
"I think what Rush does as an entertainer diminishes the party and intrudes or inserts into our public life a kind of nastiness that we would be better to do without."
"Americans are looking for more government in their life, not less."
--COLIN POWELL
"If we had pursued the war on cancer which President Nixon declared in 1970, Jack Kemp might be alive today."
--ARLEN SPECTER
"I would tell members of my family – and I have – I wouldn't go anywhere in confined places now. It's not that it's going to Mexico. It's you're in a confined aircraft. When one person sneezes, it goes all the way through the aircraft. That's me. I would not be, at this point - if they had another way of transportation – suggesting they ride the subway.
"Um... So, from my perspective, what it relates to is mitigation. If you're out in the middle of a field when someone sneezes, that's one thing. If you're in a closed aircraft or closed container or closed car or closed classroom, it's a different thing."
--JOE BIDEN
"[Tea Party goers are] just a bunch of wimpy, whiny, weasels who don't love their country."
--PAUL BEGALA
"Reagan's dead and he was a lousy President."
--KEITH OLBERMANN
"I wonder... if the Republican Party really wants to be branded right now as the party of tax cuts and torture? I mean that's what they're selling."
--CHRIS MATTHEWS
"[A]t a certain point I don't think we'll be so consumed with being the pre-eminent super-power and, you know, driven by sort of militarism and this need to export, you know, democracy and so forth."
--RON HOWARD
"I wouldn't want [gay marriage] to go to the United States Supreme Court now because that homophobe Antonin Scalia has too many votes on this current court."
--BARNEY FRANK
"Nice to see a little diversity for a change. We have an African-American president, a female Speaker of the House, and there's the white guy, Bob."
--KATIE COURIC
"Going forward, my mind will be open to every solution -- except one. We should not -- we must not -- and I will not -- raise taxes."
--JIM DOYLE, Liar
"I am not resigning now because I have done nothing wrong."
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"I've got this thing. And it's f---ing golden. I'm just not giving it up for f---ing nothing. I'm not going to do it. I can always use it. I can parachute me there."
"F--- [Obama]. For nothing? F--- him."
--ROD BLAGOJEVICH
"I'm a liberal, I was born a liberal, I'll be one till I die. What else should a reporter be when you see so much and when we have such great privilege and access to the truth?"
--HELEN THOMAS
"Unlike Afghanistan, Iraq was a war of choice that provoked strong differences in my country and around the world. Although I believe that the Iraqi people are ultimately better off without the tyranny of Saddam Hussein, I also believe that events in Iraq have reminded America of the need to use diplomacy and build international consensus to resolve our problems whenever possible." (Note: The Iraqi people are better off because of the service and sacrifice of American troops. No apology is necessary.)
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"And one of the points I want to make is, is that if you actually took the number of Muslim Americans, we’d be one of the largest Muslim countries in the world." (Note: That's a false statement.)
"My father was basically agnostic, as far as I can tell." (Note: That appears to be a false statement. Obama's deputy National Security Adviser for Strategic Communications Denis McDonough says that Obama's father was Muslim.)
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"I want to be very clear, that we are resolved to halt the rise of PRIVACY in that region."
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"My administration is the only thing between you (bank CEOs) and the pitchforks."
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"We could set up systems so that everybody in each house have their own smart meters that will tell you when to turn off the lights, when the peak hours are, can help you sell back energy that you've generated in your home through a solar panel or through other mechanisms."
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"There's gotta be a little gallows humor to (LAUGHS) get you through the day."
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"It's like -- it was like Special Olympics, or something."
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"What I’m looking at is not the day-to-day gyrations of the stock market, but the long-term ability for the United States and the entire world economy to regain its footing."
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"Yesterday, Jim, the head of Caterpillar, said that if Congress passes our plan, this company will be able to rehire some of the folks who were just laid off."
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"You can't just listen to Rush Limbaugh and get things done."
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"I won. I will trump you on that." (Obama to GOP)
Note: Where's that new tone? Where's that promise of bipartisanship, Barack?
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"In terms of speaking to former presidents, I've spoken to all of them that are living. Obviously, President Clinton -- I didn't want to get into a Nancy Reagan thing about, you know, doing any seances."
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"I am going to teach [my daughters] first about values and morals, but if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby."
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"[J]ust to take a, sort of a realist perspective... there's a lot of change going on outside of the Court, um, that, that judges essentially have to take judicial notice of. I mean you've got World War II, you've got uh, uh, uh, the doctrines of Nazism, that, that we are fighting against, that start looking uncomfortably similar to what we have going on, back here at home."
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"We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded."
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"It's not that I want to punish your success. I just want to make sure that everybody who is behind you, that they've got a chance for success too. My attitude is that if the economy's good for folks from the bottom up, it's gonna be good for everybody ... I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody."
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"John McCain and Sarah Palin they call this (spreading the wealth around) socialistic. You know, I don't know when, when they decided they wanted to make a virtue out of selfishness."
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"Over the last 15 months, we’ve traveled to every corner of the United States. I’ve now been in 57 states? I think one left to go. Alaska and Hawaii, I was not allowed to go to even though I really wanted to visit, but my staff would not justify it."
--BARACK OBAMA
"He's a terrorist. Rush Limbaugh is a terrorist."
--JOY BEHAR
"You know, I just want to say to her (Sarah Palin), just very quickly...F--- you."
--JON STEWART
"There is no question that western Pennsylvania is a racist area."
--JOHN MURTHA
"And let me tell you something -- for the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country. And not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change. And I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction and just not feeling so alone in my frustration and disappointment."
--MICHELLE OBAMA
"You are the instruments that God is gonna use to bring about universal change, and that is why Barack has captured the youth. And he has involved young people in a political process that they didn’t care anything about. That’s a sign. When the Messiah speaks, the youth will hear, and the Messiah is absolutely speaking."
--LOUIS FARRAKHAN
"Should I be worried about being a slave and being returned to slavery?"
--WHOOPI GOLDBERG
"I also believe that America is the greatest sin against God."
--FR. MICHAEL PFLEGER
"I'd like to tip off law enforcement to an even larger child-abusing religious cult. Its leader also has a compound, and this guy not only operates outside the bounds of the law, but he used to be a Nazi and he wears funny hats. That's right, the Pope is coming to America this week and, ladies, he's single."
"If you have a few hundred followers, and you let some of them molest children, they call you a cult leader. If you have a billion, they call you 'Pope.' It's like, if you can't pay your mortgage, you're a deadbeat. But if you can't pay a million mortgages, you're Bear Stearns and we bail you out. And that is who the Catholic Church is: the Bear Stearns of organized pedophilia -- too big, too fat."
"When the current Pope was in his previous Vatican job as John Paul's Dick Cheney, he wrote a letter instructing every Catholic bishop to keep the sex abuse of minors secret until the Statute of Limitations ran out. And that's the Church's attitude: 'We're here, we're queer, get used to it,' which is fine, far be it from me to criticize religion. But just remember one thing: If the Pope was -- instead of a religious figure -- merely the CEO of a nationwide chain of day care centers, where thousands of employees had been caught molesting kids and then covering it up, he'd be arrested faster than you can say 'who wants to touch Mr. Wiggle?'"
--BILL MAHER
"Those who think they can revive the stinking corpse of the usurping and fake Israeli regime by throwing a birthday party are seriously mistaken. Today the reason for the Zionist regime's existence is questioned, and this regime is on its way to annihilation."
--MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD
"We'll be eight degrees hotter in ten, not ten but 30 or 40 years and basically none of the crops will grow. Most of the people will have died and the rest of us will be cannibals."
--TED TURNER
"We will continue to make the necessary improvements so that citizens of Milwaukee can be confident in their elections."
--TOM BARRETT
"Look, [Mitt] Romney comes from a religion founded by a criminal who was anti-American, pro-slavery, and a rapist. And he comes from that lineage and says, 'I respect this religion fully.'"
--LAWRENCE O'DONNELL
"The United States is like Count Dracula who at six o'clock in the morning has not sucked [any necks]."
--HUGO CHAVEZ
[The Bush] administration has done the greatest assault on our Constitution perhaps in American history."
--RUSS FEINGOLD
"I invite you to embrace Islam... There are no taxes in Islam, but rather there is a limited Zakaat [alms] totaling 2.5 percent."
--OSAMA BIN LADEN
"Mexico does not end at its borders... Where there is a Mexican, there is Mexico."
--FELIPE CALDERON
"If our children are healthy, they'll develop into their full potential and become wonderful tax-paying citizens sometime."
--STEVE KAGEN
"I just freaked out."
--ERIC HAINSTOCK
"The planet has a fever. If your baby has a fever, you go to the doctor. If the doctor says you need to intervene here, you don't say, 'Well, I read a science fiction novel that told me it's not a problem.' If the crib's on fire, you don't speculate that the baby is flame retardant."
--AL GORE
"Don't fear the terrorists. They're mothers and fathers."
--ROSIE O'DONNELL
"Is America ready for a black president? Well, I say we just had a retarded one. When did being black become a bigger deterrent than being retarded?"
--CHRIS ROCK
"Shut the f--- up! Shut up if you can't take a joke [about President Bush]!"
--BARBRA STREISAND
"Right, oh, yeah, Happy 9/11! Celebrate the day, right?"
--JAMES BROLIN, Mr. Barbra Streisand
"I think President Bush very well may have signed an authorization for the 9/11 attacks."
--KEVIN BARRETT, UW-MADISON Lecturer
"I said what I said. I am not guilty."
--SADDAM HUSSEIN
"Terri will not be starved to death. Her nutrition and hydration will be taken away."
--MICHAEL SCHIAVO
"On the eve of the election last month my wife Judith and I were driving home late in the afternoon and turned on the radio for the traffic and weather. What we instantly got was a freak show of political pornography: lies, distortions, and half-truths -- half-truths being perhaps the blackest of all lies. "
--BILL MOYERS
"I hate the Republicans and everything they stand for."
--HOWARD DEAN
"The Iraqis who have risen up against the occupation are not 'insurgents' or 'terrorists' or 'The Enemy.' They are the REVOLUTION, the Minutemen, and their numbers will grow -- and they will win."
--MICHAEL MOORE
"Shamefully, we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management: US management."
--TED KENNEDY
"When I need to work up my nerve to write a tough column, I try to think of myself as Emma Peel in a black leather catsuit."
--MAUREEN DOWD
"And there is no reason, Bob, that young American soldiers need to be going into the homes of Iraqis in the dead of night, terrorizing kids and children, you know, women, breaking sort of the customs of the--of--the historical customs, religious customs."
--JOHN KERRY
"I'm not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers. We are the president."
--HILLARY CLINTON
"It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is."
--BILL CLINTON
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"He looked right into my eyes and he said, 'How can we help? How can we help President Obama?'"
--LAURA RICHARDSON, (D-CA)
"It was almost like listening to an old friend."
"In my household I told Castro he is known as the ultimate survivor."
"We've been led to believe that the Cuban people are not free, and they are repressed by a vicious dictator, and I saw nothing to match what we've been told."
"Fifty years of foolishness is over. It's time for the children to sit in the corner and the adults to take over."
--BOBBY RUSH, (D-IL)
"[Castro was] very engaging, very energetic."
"It was quite a moment to behold."
--BARBARA LEE, (D-CA)
"[Raul Castro] is one of the most amazing human beings I've ever met."
--EMANUEL CLEAVER, (D-MO)
June 16, 2009
Huge Example Of Media Bias..ABC To Broadcast From Inside White House?
Here is another good one from The COnservative Dominion.......A huge example of blatant media bias. This just hot off the presses at Drudge:
ABC TURNS PROGRAMMING OVER TO OBAMA; NEWS TO BE ANCHORED FROM INSIDE WHITE HOUSETue Jun 16 2009 08:45:10 ETOn the night of June 24, the media and government become one, when ABC turns its programming over to President Obama and White House officials to push government run health care -- a move that has ignited an ethical firestorm!Highlights on the agenda:ABCNEWS anchor Charlie Gibson will deliver WORLD NEWS from the Blue Room of the White House.The network plans a primetime special -- 'Prescription for America' -- originating from the East Room, exclude opposing voices on the debate.So much for a "fair and balanced" media. Charlie Gibson and the rest of the lemmings at ABC News are pushing for Obama to ration our healthcare, limit prescriptions, bring about huge waits the likes of what is seen in Canada and Great Britain. Meanwhile, any dissenting opinion will not be tolerated as the GOP got the boot from ABC.Of course, just like in Soviet Russia, The Party will have no problems getting good healthcare and access to the best doctors. Charlie Gibson and the rest of the lemmings will be treated with the best medicine that there is to offer, while the rest of us wait weeks (if we're lucky) for simple procedures and surgeries, and the elderly... in order to save costs, will likely receive no treatment. Obamacare will bring about another nightmare in medicine like we've seen in Cuba. But don't expect the media, who is without a doubt a mouthpiece for the Democrat party, to speak out about it
ABC TURNS PROGRAMMING OVER TO OBAMA; NEWS TO BE ANCHORED FROM INSIDE WHITE HOUSETue Jun 16 2009 08:45:10 ETOn the night of June 24, the media and government become one, when ABC turns its programming over to President Obama and White House officials to push government run health care -- a move that has ignited an ethical firestorm!Highlights on the agenda:ABCNEWS anchor Charlie Gibson will deliver WORLD NEWS from the Blue Room of the White House.The network plans a primetime special -- 'Prescription for America' -- originating from the East Room, exclude opposing voices on the debate.So much for a "fair and balanced" media. Charlie Gibson and the rest of the lemmings at ABC News are pushing for Obama to ration our healthcare, limit prescriptions, bring about huge waits the likes of what is seen in Canada and Great Britain. Meanwhile, any dissenting opinion will not be tolerated as the GOP got the boot from ABC.Of course, just like in Soviet Russia, The Party will have no problems getting good healthcare and access to the best doctors. Charlie Gibson and the rest of the lemmings will be treated with the best medicine that there is to offer, while the rest of us wait weeks (if we're lucky) for simple procedures and surgeries, and the elderly... in order to save costs, will likely receive no treatment. Obamacare will bring about another nightmare in medicine like we've seen in Cuba. But don't expect the media, who is without a doubt a mouthpiece for the Democrat party, to speak out about it
Obama Lies Again-Slammed McCain For Wanting To Cut Medicare
Here is what Dear Leader said this weekend about cuts in Medicare and Medicaid in his internet address:
Obama has proposed trimming more than $600 billion from Medicare and Medicaid by 2019 -- including more than $300 billion in cuts unveiled in his Saturday radio and Internet address.And, here is Dear Leader attacking John McCain during the campaign for cutting Medicare and Medicaid:Obama attacked McCain for cutting Medicare and Medicaid.
Obama has proposed trimming more than $600 billion from Medicare and Medicaid by 2019 -- including more than $300 billion in cuts unveiled in his Saturday radio and Internet address.And, here is Dear Leader attacking John McCain during the campaign for cutting Medicare and Medicaid:Obama attacked McCain for cutting Medicare and Medicaid.
June 15, 2009
Gas Prices Up Again
“I’m a free-market guy, but the government must step in to stop the speculators!” ~ Bill O’Reilly, The O’Reilly Factor Crude oil prices have now doubled this year to over $70 a barrel, and gasoline prices are moving back up quickly, and have even hit $3.00 a gallon in California. American consumers are getting restless again, worried that gas prices might return to $4 or more in the near future, and all this is happening at a time when Americans can least afford it.
Why would gas prices rise in the midst of a deep recession and high unemployment? It makes no sense! On the supply side, gasoline and oil inventories at historical highs, and on the demand side, fewer goods are being transported by trucks, trains and airplanes. So what gives? Why are energy prices suddenly going back up in the midst of a glut? Bill O’Reilly and other populists are blaming the commodity speculators for bidding up the price of oil and gasoline futures on the New York Merc and other exchanges. They want the government to impose higher margin requirements, from the current 10% to 50% or more, to curtail speculation in oil and gas prices. There are two important points to be made about the role of the futures markets in determining the pricing of basic commodities. First, it is true that speculators can push commodities far beyond their fundamental long-term value. We saw that when oil prices rose to $147 a barrel a year ago. That’s when speculators are labeled the bad guys. But don’t forget that it was also speculators who pushed the oil prices down to $34 a barrel in January -- far below their fundamental long-term value. Second, futures markets are not only for speculators, but for hedgers. These are producers who sell and lock into higher prices in order to protect their profits against the possibility of prices coming back down (and they need those higher profits to find new reserves). And they are customers who buy commodity contracts to protect themselves from the possibility of having to pay higher prices down the road. In reality, blaming the speculators for the high price of energy is really attacking the messenger instead of the ultimate culprit. Speculators are looking into the future, and what they see is a very different supply and demand situation for energy. That is, they see a coming shortage in crude oil and a sharp rise in the dollar demand for energy. Let me explain. On the supply side, speculators see surpluses turning into shortages. OPEC and major oil producers are cutting production. In the long run, most of the cheap oil deposits have already been found. New oil deposits have been discovered off the coasts of South America, Africa and elsewhere, but the new reserves are in inhospitable and inaccessible places, such as the deep waters off Africa and Brazil, or the frozen oceans of the Arctic. And deep-water exploration is extremely expensive compared to land-based exploration. Deep-water extraction isn’t profitable unless oil prices exceed $75 to $80 a barrel, compared to $25 to $30 a barrel for some land-based deposits. In addition, governments everywhere are over-regulating the oil & gas market, either by outright nationalization (OPEC nations) or restricting drilling in new oil fields for environmental reasons (Alaska). The Obama administration wants to impose huge new taxes on traditional oil & gas markets (cap & trade). On the demand side, speculators see more consumption of energy products as the global economy recovers and emerging markets expand (China, India, Latin America). They also see a new round of inflation coming, as reflected in a weak dollar. To fight the current depression, governments everywhere have adopted “easy money” policies, pumping trillions of new dollars into the economy, and aggressively running massive deficits -- deficits funded with depreciating dollars. Don’t forget that the price of oil is quoted in dollars, and as the dollar weakens, the price of oil inevitably goes up. A King Dollar policy -- a stronger dollar -- and deregulating the energy markets, would be the best remedies for stabilizing energy prices. But neither one is going to happen, so you better get used to higher gasoline prices. They are inevitable.
Why would gas prices rise in the midst of a deep recession and high unemployment? It makes no sense! On the supply side, gasoline and oil inventories at historical highs, and on the demand side, fewer goods are being transported by trucks, trains and airplanes. So what gives? Why are energy prices suddenly going back up in the midst of a glut? Bill O’Reilly and other populists are blaming the commodity speculators for bidding up the price of oil and gasoline futures on the New York Merc and other exchanges. They want the government to impose higher margin requirements, from the current 10% to 50% or more, to curtail speculation in oil and gas prices. There are two important points to be made about the role of the futures markets in determining the pricing of basic commodities. First, it is true that speculators can push commodities far beyond their fundamental long-term value. We saw that when oil prices rose to $147 a barrel a year ago. That’s when speculators are labeled the bad guys. But don’t forget that it was also speculators who pushed the oil prices down to $34 a barrel in January -- far below their fundamental long-term value. Second, futures markets are not only for speculators, but for hedgers. These are producers who sell and lock into higher prices in order to protect their profits against the possibility of prices coming back down (and they need those higher profits to find new reserves). And they are customers who buy commodity contracts to protect themselves from the possibility of having to pay higher prices down the road. In reality, blaming the speculators for the high price of energy is really attacking the messenger instead of the ultimate culprit. Speculators are looking into the future, and what they see is a very different supply and demand situation for energy. That is, they see a coming shortage in crude oil and a sharp rise in the dollar demand for energy. Let me explain. On the supply side, speculators see surpluses turning into shortages. OPEC and major oil producers are cutting production. In the long run, most of the cheap oil deposits have already been found. New oil deposits have been discovered off the coasts of South America, Africa and elsewhere, but the new reserves are in inhospitable and inaccessible places, such as the deep waters off Africa and Brazil, or the frozen oceans of the Arctic. And deep-water exploration is extremely expensive compared to land-based exploration. Deep-water extraction isn’t profitable unless oil prices exceed $75 to $80 a barrel, compared to $25 to $30 a barrel for some land-based deposits. In addition, governments everywhere are over-regulating the oil & gas market, either by outright nationalization (OPEC nations) or restricting drilling in new oil fields for environmental reasons (Alaska). The Obama administration wants to impose huge new taxes on traditional oil & gas markets (cap & trade). On the demand side, speculators see more consumption of energy products as the global economy recovers and emerging markets expand (China, India, Latin America). They also see a new round of inflation coming, as reflected in a weak dollar. To fight the current depression, governments everywhere have adopted “easy money” policies, pumping trillions of new dollars into the economy, and aggressively running massive deficits -- deficits funded with depreciating dollars. Don’t forget that the price of oil is quoted in dollars, and as the dollar weakens, the price of oil inevitably goes up. A King Dollar policy -- a stronger dollar -- and deregulating the energy markets, would be the best remedies for stabilizing energy prices. But neither one is going to happen, so you better get used to higher gasoline prices. They are inevitable.
June 11, 2009
14 Of The 15 Most Dangerous Cities Run By Democrats
When Mayor Giuliani, the feisty Italian-American Republican took charge of New York, he meant business. Crime went down, down, down.
Alas, today's big city mayor is more likely to be a soft-on-crime Democrat.
What do I mean? When Forbes magazine listed the 15 most dangerous cities in America - the political class ignored one embarrassingly obvious fact. Yes: 14 of the 15 mayors leading America's most dangerous cities are Obama-first leaders.
Here's the beef:
No. 15 Philadelphia, Pa. Mayor Michael Anthony "Mike" Nutter (Democrat)
No. 14 Charlotte, N.C. Mayor Patrick "Pat" McCrory (Republican)
No. 13 West Palm Beach, Fla. Mayor Lois J. Lois J. Frankel (Democrat)
No. 12 Baton Rouge, La. Mayor-President Melvin "Kip" Holden (Democrat)
No. 11 New Orleans, La. Mayor Clarence Ray Nagin, Jr. (Democrat)
No. 10 Baltimore, Md. Mayor Sheila Ann Dixon (Democrat)
No. 9 Nashville, Tenn. Mayor Karl Foster Dean (Democrat)
No. 8 Charleston, S.C. Mayor Joseph P. Riley, Jr. (Democrat)
No. 7 Little Rock, Ark. Mayor Mark Stodola (Democrat)
No. 6 Orlando, Fla. Mayor John Hugh "Buddy" Dyer (Democrat)
No. 5 Stockton, Calif. Mayor Ann Johnston (Democrat)
No. 4 Las Vegas, Nev. Mayor Oscar Baylin Goodman (Democrat)
No. 3 Miami, Fla. Mayor Manny Diaz ("Independent,"Obama-first voter and 2008 DNC speaker)
No. 2 Memphis, Tenn. Mayor Willie W. Herenton (Democrat)
No. 1 Detroit, Mich. Mayor David Bing (Democrat)
Thanks to the "watchdog media," there are no efforts underway to determine whether or not America's Obama-first mayors are using "green issues" to distract us from their out-of-control crime rates. This is unacceptable. Oh Lets not forget about my hometown of Chicago. Don't know where it came in on the list but I'm sure its Top 20...Richard Daley..oh yeah another democrat!!
Alas, today's big city mayor is more likely to be a soft-on-crime Democrat.
What do I mean? When Forbes magazine listed the 15 most dangerous cities in America - the political class ignored one embarrassingly obvious fact. Yes: 14 of the 15 mayors leading America's most dangerous cities are Obama-first leaders.
Here's the beef:
No. 15 Philadelphia, Pa. Mayor Michael Anthony "Mike" Nutter (Democrat)
No. 14 Charlotte, N.C. Mayor Patrick "Pat" McCrory (Republican)
No. 13 West Palm Beach, Fla. Mayor Lois J. Lois J. Frankel (Democrat)
No. 12 Baton Rouge, La. Mayor-President Melvin "Kip" Holden (Democrat)
No. 11 New Orleans, La. Mayor Clarence Ray Nagin, Jr. (Democrat)
No. 10 Baltimore, Md. Mayor Sheila Ann Dixon (Democrat)
No. 9 Nashville, Tenn. Mayor Karl Foster Dean (Democrat)
No. 8 Charleston, S.C. Mayor Joseph P. Riley, Jr. (Democrat)
No. 7 Little Rock, Ark. Mayor Mark Stodola (Democrat)
No. 6 Orlando, Fla. Mayor John Hugh "Buddy" Dyer (Democrat)
No. 5 Stockton, Calif. Mayor Ann Johnston (Democrat)
No. 4 Las Vegas, Nev. Mayor Oscar Baylin Goodman (Democrat)
No. 3 Miami, Fla. Mayor Manny Diaz ("Independent,"Obama-first voter and 2008 DNC speaker)
No. 2 Memphis, Tenn. Mayor Willie W. Herenton (Democrat)
No. 1 Detroit, Mich. Mayor David Bing (Democrat)
Thanks to the "watchdog media," there are no efforts underway to determine whether or not America's Obama-first mayors are using "green issues" to distract us from their out-of-control crime rates. This is unacceptable. Oh Lets not forget about my hometown of Chicago. Don't know where it came in on the list but I'm sure its Top 20...Richard Daley..oh yeah another democrat!!
Obama:No Respect For Presidency
Has anyone seen the picture of Obama talking on the phone in the Oval Office with his feet kicked up onto the desk? He was talking to the Israeli Prime Minister at the time. The Israelis consider that to be insult because like the Bush shoe throwing incident, shoes and especially the soles of the shoes are offensive. What many people are missing here is the fact that he has HIS SHOES UP ON THE DESK IN THE OVAL OFFICE!!!This community organizing punk has ABSOLUTELY no respect for the office of the presidency. Kicking his shoes up onto the desk in the oval office is disgraceful. Obama's many weaknesses and lack of ANY experience at etiquette let alone running the nation is showing and has showed. Heaven help us all.
Inflation Looms Because Of Obama's Deficit
It's increasingly looking like President Obama may be sunk by his own deficit.Yes, the recession started under George W. Bush -- and voters will still blame him for unemployment and related woes. But rising interest rates and inflation are the coming fears -- and Americans will increasingly see Obama's big-spending ways as the cause.
Deficit spending has always been Americans' bete noir; the gospel of balanced budgets is deeply ingrained in our political and economic psyche. Through all the Keynesian experiments of the '60s and '70s, voters remained committed to a balanced budget. They worried as deficits rose in the Reagan years -- then calmed as the economy turned up.But when the news turned bad under the first President George Bush, they blamed the deficit -- the issue was a major source of Ross Perot's appeal in the 1992 election. And when President Bill Clinton (and a Republican Congress) finally balanced the budget, the economy bloomed -- reinforcing public beliefs about the dangers of deficits.Still in shock over the financial collapse, voters tolerated the massive government stimulus package in January. But now they're starting to turn on the deficit-makers.In the latest Gallup Poll, Obama's favorability remains high (67 percent), as does his job-approval rating (61 percent). But only 55 percent approve of his handling of the economy, just 45 percent approve of his handling of federal spending and only 46 percent approve of his treatment of the budget deficit.Meanwhile, the Rasmussen poll finds that the public now trusts Republicans over Democrats in managing the economy (for the first time in two years) by 42 percent to 36 percent.There lies the president's vulnerability. As the consensus among economists and journalists grows that the deficit is pushing up interest rates and weakening the dollar, Obama's weakest link will come under strain. If, say, the falling dollar pushes up gasoline prices and rising interest rates kill off any revival in the construction industry, the deficit will cause a perfect economic storm for the president.The United States has to borrow a net $3 trillion to $4 trillion over the next two years -- far more than the $1 trillion a year average of the last three years. Obama may well face a tough choice: Print more money (monetizing the debt), triggering a run on the dollar -- or let interest rates skyrocket, killing off the recovery.Alternately, he could raise taxes to try to fund his programs (particularly his health-care proposals). But even tax hikes confined to the upper brackets will undermine his popularity -- and slow the economy.Plus, voters will fear that the added government spending will just grow the deficit further. They won't believe Obama's claims that he can save by spending, worrying instead that he's just on another big spending spree.Indeed, deficit fears -- rather than concerns about whether the program will work, or even opposition to the needed tax hikes -- may prove to be the telling argument against Obama's health-care plans.The one thing Obama should do is the one thing he won't do: cut spending.The public has begun to realize that the stimulus package is doing little to help the economy. Obama's answer is to ramp up spending -- but voters in the Rasmussen poll believe, 45-36, that he should cancel the rest of the stimulus outlays.Stoked by ongoing bad economic news, the firm public conviction that new deficit spending will do more harm than good will increasingly wear on Obama's popularity -- and may bring him down.
Deficit spending has always been Americans' bete noir; the gospel of balanced budgets is deeply ingrained in our political and economic psyche. Through all the Keynesian experiments of the '60s and '70s, voters remained committed to a balanced budget. They worried as deficits rose in the Reagan years -- then calmed as the economy turned up.But when the news turned bad under the first President George Bush, they blamed the deficit -- the issue was a major source of Ross Perot's appeal in the 1992 election. And when President Bill Clinton (and a Republican Congress) finally balanced the budget, the economy bloomed -- reinforcing public beliefs about the dangers of deficits.Still in shock over the financial collapse, voters tolerated the massive government stimulus package in January. But now they're starting to turn on the deficit-makers.In the latest Gallup Poll, Obama's favorability remains high (67 percent), as does his job-approval rating (61 percent). But only 55 percent approve of his handling of the economy, just 45 percent approve of his handling of federal spending and only 46 percent approve of his treatment of the budget deficit.Meanwhile, the Rasmussen poll finds that the public now trusts Republicans over Democrats in managing the economy (for the first time in two years) by 42 percent to 36 percent.There lies the president's vulnerability. As the consensus among economists and journalists grows that the deficit is pushing up interest rates and weakening the dollar, Obama's weakest link will come under strain. If, say, the falling dollar pushes up gasoline prices and rising interest rates kill off any revival in the construction industry, the deficit will cause a perfect economic storm for the president.The United States has to borrow a net $3 trillion to $4 trillion over the next two years -- far more than the $1 trillion a year average of the last three years. Obama may well face a tough choice: Print more money (monetizing the debt), triggering a run on the dollar -- or let interest rates skyrocket, killing off the recovery.Alternately, he could raise taxes to try to fund his programs (particularly his health-care proposals). But even tax hikes confined to the upper brackets will undermine his popularity -- and slow the economy.Plus, voters will fear that the added government spending will just grow the deficit further. They won't believe Obama's claims that he can save by spending, worrying instead that he's just on another big spending spree.Indeed, deficit fears -- rather than concerns about whether the program will work, or even opposition to the needed tax hikes -- may prove to be the telling argument against Obama's health-care plans.The one thing Obama should do is the one thing he won't do: cut spending.The public has begun to realize that the stimulus package is doing little to help the economy. Obama's answer is to ramp up spending -- but voters in the Rasmussen poll believe, 45-36, that he should cancel the rest of the stimulus outlays.Stoked by ongoing bad economic news, the firm public conviction that new deficit spending will do more harm than good will increasingly wear on Obama's popularity -- and may bring him down.
June 9, 2009
How Obama's Mortgage Rescue Plan Is A Failure
The data for April and May prove that Obama's plan to rescue those facing mortgage foreclosure is a dismal failure. Since this issue was the cornerstone of his economic program during the campaign, its abject failure is a significant setback for the Administration's economic plan.In the month ending on May 26th, 464,983 foreclosures of subprime and Alt-A mortgages (out of a universe of 3.2 million studied). So 15% of all subprime mortgages were foreclosed in May! Only 19,041 -- a paltry 6% -- were modified during this period. And of those modified, only 11,200 involved any reduction in the monthly payments! Only 12% involved any write-off of interest, fees, or principal and 27% of the loan modifications actually increased the monthly payments due.Alan M. White of the Valparaiso Law School, who conducted the study, noted that the data showed that "the Administration's plan to stimulate mortgage modifications does not seen to have had much effect yet, at least in this market segment" [i.e. subprimes].And the trend lines are all bad:• The number of loan modifications dropped 11% from April to May.• The ratio of foreclosure losses to modification write downs (the amount lost in foreclosure: the amount rescued by write-downs) doubled in the past month. For every dollar saved in modifications, $150 was lost in foreclosure.When Obama launched his mortgage rescue plan, he promised that it would help five million households. So far, he is about 4,969,000 short of his goal!!When will the subprime foreclosures stop? In about a year when all of these unfortunate people have lost their homes!Why is Obama's plan falling so far short of the mark? The fault is its own restrictions. You cannot get a loan modification if:• You have lost your job• You owe more than 5% above what your house is worth• You are already in default• You have not yet missed at least one payment• Your lender does not want to participate• Your mortgage is not one of the half of all mortgages insured or owned by Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac• The reworked mortgage payment would come to more than 31% of your income• Your mortgage is over $759,000• The home is not your primary residenceThe number of beleaguered homeowners who can slip through the eye of this particular needle and qualify for a mortgage modification is tiny. And yet there is an easy remedy at hand. Obama should simply say, as they did in Sweden, that the government will simply buy the distressed mortgages from the banks and adjust the payments to make them possible for the homeowners. Then, when the economy comes back, the homeowners could either pay back the government what they owe for the postponed payments or sell the house and repay the feds from the proceeds. If they won't do either, the feds could then seize the house and get their money back. Cost to the taxpayers: zero. In f act, they would likely make a profit.Why won't Obama do this? It's because a Democratic administration cannot throw people out of their homes. Better to let them default and make the big, bad bank do the dirty work.All these facts underscore how cynical was Obama's campaign in predicating so much of its economic message on an appeal to help those facing foreclosure. You don't hear Obama talk about foreclosures any more do you? That's because he knows he has no solution and that he won't offer any.
The MSM and Obama Is Like God?!?!
Here is a good one from Moonbattery and Newsbusters.....NewsBusters has collected some of the witless wisdom of Newsweek editor Evan Thomas:
"Well, our job is to bash the president, that's what we do." — Evan Thomas responding to a question on whether the media's unfair to Bush on the TV talk show Inside Washington, February 2, 2007.
"I mean in a way Obama's standing above the country, above — above the world, he's sort of God." — Evan Thomas on Hardball, June 5, 2009.
The more things Change, the more MSM journalists remain moonbats.
"Well, our job is to bash the president, that's what we do." — Evan Thomas responding to a question on whether the media's unfair to Bush on the TV talk show Inside Washington, February 2, 2007.
"I mean in a way Obama's standing above the country, above — above the world, he's sort of God." — Evan Thomas on Hardball, June 5, 2009.
The more things Change, the more MSM journalists remain moonbats.
June 5, 2009
June 4, 2009
The Failure Of Obama's Stimulus
The data is in for April. Here's what happened:1. Household personal income (inflation adjusted) rose but every penny - and then some - went into savings or paying down debts. Consumer spending, on which Obama is betting to stimulate the economy, actually fell. None of the stimulus money was sent. None.2. Meanwhile, to pay for this stimulus spending that didn't stimulate, Obama had to borrow so much money that long term interest rates have almost doubled since he took office, forcing postponement of abandonment of business expansion and hiring across the board.What a record!
Here are the details. In April, personal household, inflation-adjusted income rose by $122 billion. Of that increase, one-third or $44 billion came from the government's stimulus program. But while personal income was rising, household savings (which includes paying down credit card balances, mortgages, student loans, car loans, etc) rose by $132 billion -- $10 billion more than the rise in income. So personal consumption dropped 0.1%.The stimulus package was a total and complete failure. As predicted, as happened with Bush's 2008 tax cut, as happened with the Japanese stimulus packages of the 90s, fearful consumers sat on their money and wouldn't spend it. Keynesian economics didn't work. Again.But the debt sure piled up. The deficit quadrupled and is sending interest rates soaring as the government elbows aside businesses and consumers at the loan window, all in a desperate effort to borrow enough money to spend enough money to stimulate the economy which isn't happening. Catastrophe, Keynesian economics doesn't work. The theory for rational expectations has taken its place. Consumers are not idiots. They know that when their paycheck is fatter - either because of tax cuts or government spending - that it is not the beginning of nirvana but just a short term, one shot respite from hard times. They know the difference between standing in front on an electric fan and a windy day.Barack Obama has fatally undermined our currency, our solvency, our financial stability, and - ultimately - our economy all to spend money that has had no economic effect!Is Obama a failure? Not by his lights. His goal was never to stimulate the economy. His goal was to expand government spending and he used the recession as an excuse to do so. And, by this standard, he is a raging success. With the stimulus spending, the government proportion of GDP will rise from about 35% to about 40% and with health care "reform" it will go soaring into the mid-forties, bringing us to parity with Germany en route to France!But the results are in: None of Obama's spending is doing anything to help the economy.Of course, the process of household savings, designed to pay down debt, is very healthy. Economists call it de-leveraging. By the start of the recession, the debt American households owe had risen from 70% of their annual income in 1995 to 140% (excluding mortgages). Now it is on its way back down again. And, eventually, that will lead to a real recovery -- If Obama doesn't wreck the currency and bring on mega-inflation before then. (But he probably will).
Here are the details. In April, personal household, inflation-adjusted income rose by $122 billion. Of that increase, one-third or $44 billion came from the government's stimulus program. But while personal income was rising, household savings (which includes paying down credit card balances, mortgages, student loans, car loans, etc) rose by $132 billion -- $10 billion more than the rise in income. So personal consumption dropped 0.1%.The stimulus package was a total and complete failure. As predicted, as happened with Bush's 2008 tax cut, as happened with the Japanese stimulus packages of the 90s, fearful consumers sat on their money and wouldn't spend it. Keynesian economics didn't work. Again.But the debt sure piled up. The deficit quadrupled and is sending interest rates soaring as the government elbows aside businesses and consumers at the loan window, all in a desperate effort to borrow enough money to spend enough money to stimulate the economy which isn't happening. Catastrophe, Keynesian economics doesn't work. The theory for rational expectations has taken its place. Consumers are not idiots. They know that when their paycheck is fatter - either because of tax cuts or government spending - that it is not the beginning of nirvana but just a short term, one shot respite from hard times. They know the difference between standing in front on an electric fan and a windy day.Barack Obama has fatally undermined our currency, our solvency, our financial stability, and - ultimately - our economy all to spend money that has had no economic effect!Is Obama a failure? Not by his lights. His goal was never to stimulate the economy. His goal was to expand government spending and he used the recession as an excuse to do so. And, by this standard, he is a raging success. With the stimulus spending, the government proportion of GDP will rise from about 35% to about 40% and with health care "reform" it will go soaring into the mid-forties, bringing us to parity with Germany en route to France!But the results are in: None of Obama's spending is doing anything to help the economy.Of course, the process of household savings, designed to pay down debt, is very healthy. Economists call it de-leveraging. By the start of the recession, the debt American households owe had risen from 70% of their annual income in 1995 to 140% (excluding mortgages). Now it is on its way back down again. And, eventually, that will lead to a real recovery -- If Obama doesn't wreck the currency and bring on mega-inflation before then. (But he probably will).
June 3, 2009
So When Did America Get All These Muslims?
Isn't it funny that liberals have spent years falling all over themselves to protest when people call this a Christian nation, but now, we now have the most liberal President in our nation's history declaring that we're a Muslim nation.
The reason this has been called a Christian nation is because it was originally populated by Christians seeking religious liberty, since it was founded by Christians, and since the population is still heavily Christian.
The reason we're now a Muslim country? Ehr...hard to say. We don't have an accurate count of how many Muslims we have in this country, but the number is generally thought to be under 3 million and many of them are from the Nation of Islam, which most real Muslims consider to be heretical.
Yet...
As President Obama prepared to leave Washington to fly to the Middle East, he conducted several television and radio interviews at the White House to frame the goals for a five-day trip, including the highly-anticipated speech Thursday at Cairo University in Egypt.
In an interview with Laura Haim on Canal Plus, a French television station, Mr. Obama noted that the United States also could be considered as "one of the largest Muslim countries in the world." He sought to downplay the expectations of the speech, but he said he hoped the address would raise awareness about Muslims.
God bless the Muslims who are here in this country, but just to be crystal clear, we're not "one of the largest Muslim countries in the world," nor are we ever going to be "one of the largest Muslim countries in the world."
We're also not one of the "largest Muslim countries in the world," even if you count the Muslims in the nation of Islam. Here's a list of the world's largest Muslim populations,
Indonesia: 204 millionPakistan: 164 millionIndia: 154 millionBangladesh: 128 millionTurkey: 76 millionEgypt: 74 millionNigeria: 73 millionIran: 65 millionMorocco: 34 millionAlgeria: 33 millionAfghanistan: 32 millionSaudi Arabia: 28 millionSudan: 28 millionChina: 27 millionIraq: 27 millionEthiopia: 27 million
In other words, this is typical Obama. He says whatever he thinks his audience, which in this case, is the "Muslim World," wants to hear with no regard to facts or logic.
Since he's giving a big speech in Egypt, America is "one of the largest Muslim countries in the world." If he thinks you're concerned about spending, he's the guy you need to cut spending. If you want lots of expensive, new government programs, he's the man for that, too. If you're anti-war, he's the guy to reverse Bush's policies! If you're not, he's the guy who'll be smart enough to quietly keep them in place.
He gets away with this because the mainstream media has his back. When he makes the sort of mistakes they'd harp on for weeks with a Republican, they either give it a brief, perfunctory mention while spinning for him as best they can or they just ignore it entirely. When he breaks his campaign promises, and he does that constantly, the media shrugs and moves on. When he makes huge gaffes, they yawn and pretend to be disinterested. Essentially, Obama's playing the role of an incompetent, batty Soviet premier while the media is playing the role of Pravda.
That's a big part of the reason why the MSM is going out of business ever more rapidly and why Obama has been such a historical disaster as President, because he's constantly being given free passes on these huge screw-ups.
The reason this has been called a Christian nation is because it was originally populated by Christians seeking religious liberty, since it was founded by Christians, and since the population is still heavily Christian.
The reason we're now a Muslim country? Ehr...hard to say. We don't have an accurate count of how many Muslims we have in this country, but the number is generally thought to be under 3 million and many of them are from the Nation of Islam, which most real Muslims consider to be heretical.
Yet...
As President Obama prepared to leave Washington to fly to the Middle East, he conducted several television and radio interviews at the White House to frame the goals for a five-day trip, including the highly-anticipated speech Thursday at Cairo University in Egypt.
In an interview with Laura Haim on Canal Plus, a French television station, Mr. Obama noted that the United States also could be considered as "one of the largest Muslim countries in the world." He sought to downplay the expectations of the speech, but he said he hoped the address would raise awareness about Muslims.
God bless the Muslims who are here in this country, but just to be crystal clear, we're not "one of the largest Muslim countries in the world," nor are we ever going to be "one of the largest Muslim countries in the world."
We're also not one of the "largest Muslim countries in the world," even if you count the Muslims in the nation of Islam. Here's a list of the world's largest Muslim populations,
Indonesia: 204 millionPakistan: 164 millionIndia: 154 millionBangladesh: 128 millionTurkey: 76 millionEgypt: 74 millionNigeria: 73 millionIran: 65 millionMorocco: 34 millionAlgeria: 33 millionAfghanistan: 32 millionSaudi Arabia: 28 millionSudan: 28 millionChina: 27 millionIraq: 27 millionEthiopia: 27 million
In other words, this is typical Obama. He says whatever he thinks his audience, which in this case, is the "Muslim World," wants to hear with no regard to facts or logic.
Since he's giving a big speech in Egypt, America is "one of the largest Muslim countries in the world." If he thinks you're concerned about spending, he's the guy you need to cut spending. If you want lots of expensive, new government programs, he's the man for that, too. If you're anti-war, he's the guy to reverse Bush's policies! If you're not, he's the guy who'll be smart enough to quietly keep them in place.
He gets away with this because the mainstream media has his back. When he makes the sort of mistakes they'd harp on for weeks with a Republican, they either give it a brief, perfunctory mention while spinning for him as best they can or they just ignore it entirely. When he breaks his campaign promises, and he does that constantly, the media shrugs and moves on. When he makes huge gaffes, they yawn and pretend to be disinterested. Essentially, Obama's playing the role of an incompetent, batty Soviet premier while the media is playing the role of Pravda.
That's a big part of the reason why the MSM is going out of business ever more rapidly and why Obama has been such a historical disaster as President, because he's constantly being given free passes on these huge screw-ups.
Obama: America A Large Muslim Country
What the hell is he talking about?Just when you thought things could not get any weirder.Barack Obama is now calling America a Muslim Nation.It seems like it was just yesterday that Dr. Dobson was attacking Dear Leader for his "fruitcake distortion of the Bible."Now we know why.He's loco.The Caucus reported, via Jihad Watch:
HAHN, Germany — As President Obama prepared to leave Washington to fly to the Middle East, he conducted several television and radio interviews at the White House to frame the goals for a five-day trip, including the highly-anticipated speech Thursday at Cairo University in Egypt. In an interview with Laura Haim on Canal Plus, a French television station, Mr. Obama noted that the United States also could be considered as “one of the largest Muslim countries in the world.”...
HAHN, Germany — As President Obama prepared to leave Washington to fly to the Middle East, he conducted several television and radio interviews at the White House to frame the goals for a five-day trip, including the highly-anticipated speech Thursday at Cairo University in Egypt. In an interview with Laura Haim on Canal Plus, a French television station, Mr. Obama noted that the United States also could be considered as “one of the largest Muslim countries in the world.”...
Obama Lies About His Muslim Roots...REALLY??
Sick.Obama lied about his family's faith during his campaign.From Obama's Fight the Smears website:
When people fabricate stories about someone’s faith to denigrate them politically, that’s an attack on people of all faiths.During the 2008 Campaign Barack Obama's website claimed that Obama's father was an agnostic or atheist:
“Barack” is the candidate’s Kenyan father’s name; Obama’s middle name, “Hussein,” is his grandfather’s name. Obama has described his father as atheist or agnostic.Today we find out his father Barack Obama Senior was indeed a Muslim.Jake Tapper reported:
During a conference call in preparation for President Obama's trip to Cairo, Egypt, where he will address the Muslim world, deputy National Security Adviser for Strategic Communications Denis McDonough said "the President himself experienced Islam on three continents before he was able to -- or before he's been able to visit, really, the heart of the Islamic world -- you know, growing up in Indonesia, having a Muslim father -- obviously Muslim Americans (are) a key part of Illinois and Chicago."Sick.But, the media did not just cover for Obama and his father.The media also insisted his Kenyan grandmother was a Christian.But, this past month we learned that this "Christian" grandmother is going to attend The Hajj.She just might be the first Christian to attend the Hajj in years.It's more of that change we've been looking for.UPDATE: BG pointed out this quote from last year:
The candidate's comment at a Boca Raton, Florida, town hall meeting on May 22, 2008, was typical: "My father was basically agnostic, as far as I can tell, and I didn't know him," he said.In September 2008, candidate Obama told a Pennsylvania crowd, "I know that I'm not your typical presidential candidate and I just want to be honest with you. I know that the temptation is to say, 'You know what? The guy hasn't been there that long in Washington. You know, he's got a funny name. You know, we're not sure about him.'And that's what the Republicans when they say this isn't about issues, it's about personalities, what they're really saying is, 'We're going to try to scare people about Barack. So we're going to say that, you know, maybe he's got Muslim connections.'...Just making stuff up."
When people fabricate stories about someone’s faith to denigrate them politically, that’s an attack on people of all faiths.During the 2008 Campaign Barack Obama's website claimed that Obama's father was an agnostic or atheist:
“Barack” is the candidate’s Kenyan father’s name; Obama’s middle name, “Hussein,” is his grandfather’s name. Obama has described his father as atheist or agnostic.Today we find out his father Barack Obama Senior was indeed a Muslim.Jake Tapper reported:
During a conference call in preparation for President Obama's trip to Cairo, Egypt, where he will address the Muslim world, deputy National Security Adviser for Strategic Communications Denis McDonough said "the President himself experienced Islam on three continents before he was able to -- or before he's been able to visit, really, the heart of the Islamic world -- you know, growing up in Indonesia, having a Muslim father -- obviously Muslim Americans (are) a key part of Illinois and Chicago."Sick.But, the media did not just cover for Obama and his father.The media also insisted his Kenyan grandmother was a Christian.But, this past month we learned that this "Christian" grandmother is going to attend The Hajj.She just might be the first Christian to attend the Hajj in years.It's more of that change we've been looking for.UPDATE: BG pointed out this quote from last year:
The candidate's comment at a Boca Raton, Florida, town hall meeting on May 22, 2008, was typical: "My father was basically agnostic, as far as I can tell, and I didn't know him," he said.In September 2008, candidate Obama told a Pennsylvania crowd, "I know that I'm not your typical presidential candidate and I just want to be honest with you. I know that the temptation is to say, 'You know what? The guy hasn't been there that long in Washington. You know, he's got a funny name. You know, we're not sure about him.'And that's what the Republicans when they say this isn't about issues, it's about personalities, what they're really saying is, 'We're going to try to scare people about Barack. So we're going to say that, you know, maybe he's got Muslim connections.'...Just making stuff up."
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