You want some brie with that whine?
“The problem is, if we secure the border, then you all won’t have any reason to support ‘comprehensive immigration reform.’ “
(President Obama to Senator Kyl when asked directly about securing Arizona’s border with Mexico)
“They want to get something in return for doing their duty.”
(Senator Kyle, R-AZ)
President Walking Eagle and his administration have done everything possible to insult our friend and ally, Great Britain, to the point of hating us, yet there are those Brits, gods bless them, who get it and remain comitted to helping America remain the champion of liberty.
I have yet to hear or read anything better that addresses the sheer lunacy of the Islamic mosque planned to be built at Ground Zero than this piece by Pat Condell. Watch it and keep in mind that Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, the main proponent, is also one of the key financiers behind last week’s violent “aid” flotilla to Gaza (the Free Gaza Movement, which also has the support of William Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn – surprise, surprise). You know, the one where the activists were armed but the lame-stream press (Reuters, again) cropped photos if they showed them holding weapons.
Then watch it again. If you must, watch it yet a third time and let the truth of this horrible, wicked insult sink into the very marrow of your bones.
Then send your letters of protest to:
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg
City Hall
New York, NY 10007
PHONE 311 (or 212-NEW-YORK outside NYC)
FAX (212) 312-0700
E-MAIL:
http://www.nyc.gov/html/mail/html/mayor.html
Thank you for your plain-spoken eloquence, Pat.
Unless he’s normally as dumb as a doorpost, the behavior of Congressman Bob Etheridge (D-NC) shown in this video begs the question: is he drunk with power or simply drunk?
If you aren’t yet concerned about Senator Christopher Dodd’s “regulatory reform” bill, S. 3217, the Restoring American Financial Stability Act of 2010, it’s time to gear up and make sure your unrepresenting representatives know this is anything but a way to restore or stabilize America.
Among its fast and loose partisan games with so-called federal financial “oversight’, one thing that will hit you right in the supposed privacy of your own home is one of the “responsibilities” that will be assigned to that nefarious Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection. This unaccountable group will be tasked with monitoring consumer financial patterns and, “implement and, where applicable, enforce Federal consumer financial law.” Specifically, they will have the authority to “gather information and activities of persons operating in consumer financial markets.”
What does this mean? It means that every cent any individual deposits will be linked to the census-based personal address of each customer and to their deposit at the corresponding financial institution. And these unaccountable bureaucrats will be permitted to share this data with whomever they wish.
Yes, Virginia, when you deposit that gift of birthday cash from Auntie Em and later use your debit card to buy a mocha latte at Starbucks, the Feds will be tracking these transactions and can then sell that information to big businesses and Wall Street, making you a target for advertising and the like. And not only does this lend itself to the federal government playing favorites with the private sector, forcing business in and out of geographic areas or to collapse altogether, it also contains enormous risk that all your personal data will fall into the wrong hands.
I don’t know what they’re drinking there in Dodd’s office, but common sense and true concern for American citizens ain’t it.
This is one of the most amazing demonstrations I’ve ever seen. These two men have come up with an effective, low-tech, ultimately low-cost solution to cleaning up the worst of the oil spill in the Gulf.
You have to see it to believe it.
But, of course, why do something so simple when you can spend billions of taxpayer dollars and escalate a climate of ecological fear instead?
“I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic;
that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion;
and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter: So help me God.”
(the Congressional oath of office; enacted in 1884)
This nauseating dose of unrepresenting representative is brought to you courtesy of Phil Hare, House Democrat from the 17th district of Illinois.
I am glad I am American,
I am glad that I am free.
But I wish I was a dog…
And Obama was a tree.
(“Gracie”)
Though the GOP continues to be portrayed by the mainstream media (as egged on by the Democrats) as a bunch of mean-spirited, miserly old white people whose favorite pasttime is saying “No” just for the sake of saying “No”, the polls show clearly that even the most average of Americans now feels that the federal government is way out of control and a clear majority disapprove of Congress. Everyone in Congress.
So it seems to me that just like any good employer whose employees have taken to holding open-bar tailgate parties and hosting strippers in their cubes, funding them out of the petty cash or charging them to their business credit card, the correct response to any further requests for any kind of non-essential spending is “No.” In fact, I’d to so far as to say, “Hell no. And while we’re talking, pack your personal things and don’t let the door hit you on the ass as this nice security guard escorts you out of my building.”
And as every a astute parent will tell you, “no” is a perfectly fine word. It is what shapes our world by helping us define our boundaries, it is part and parcel of the rules of any game. In the same way you don’t let your teenager head off in a car full of their friends if those friends are drunk by using the word, “no”, so, too, should the GOP and any reasonably sane Blue Dog Democrat be saying no every time the far left-wingnuts propose more “I won”-drunken and therefore dangerous spending.
One example is the so-called “jobs bill”. It’s nothing more than Obama’s coveted “second stimulus” in populist clothing. While our economy needs a big shot of tax breaks, cuts, and even those stinky little taxpayer loans to the feds euphemistically referred to as tax “credits”, these are easily accomplished by simply writing them up as such and passing them through Congress. It’s so simple even a child could do it.
Instead, what His Transparency has set forth is just one more charge against the already-unfathomable national debt. Sure, there are tax credits and a few tax breaks, but when the first unstimulating stimulus hasn’t even been spent, what the hell do we need to spend billions more for now on “shovel-ready” projects that mysteriously didn’t manifest the first time around? Particularly troubling is that some of it comes as a direct attack on the insurance companies, paid for with the tax dollars of future generations. He’s building then riding a wave of angst over what are in truth rather justifiable health insurance premium increases in a state so broke due to the expansiveness of its coddling entitlement programs that include illegal immigrants that even its IOUs aren’t any good any more in order to sneak into place another piece of the puzzle being put together to socialize American medicine. And if that’s too hard to get your brain cell around, just what does regulating the insurance companies have to do with creating jobs, anyhow? If anything, this will kill jobs in the insurance industry, aka the private sector and replace them with yet more federal bureaucrats.
I don’t know about you, but it makes my head spin. The one thing of which I am certain, however, is that if America is to survive we must have the word “No!” ringing out loud and clear. Every time something is proposed that requires more government employees (meaning, it costs money), the GOP and Blue Dogs should be standing up and shouting “No!”. That is what the majority of we, the people, desperately want. That is what this beloved country desperately needs. Contrary to the affirmatively-graduated Ivy League stated opinion that Americans somehow just don’t understand the elitist prattlings teleprompting their way down to the great unwashed masses from the upper levels of the federal government, the majority of American people are not stupid. Even if Congress doesn’t bother to read the legislation they slap together under cover of darkness, we do. And no matter how slowly you state your case, no matter what pretty words you use to try and put a positive spin on it, if it costs money and especially when it infringes on our privacy and our liberties, the bottom line is that we don’t want it.
That’s the big mistake that Scott Brown made. While no one expected a true, Constitutional Conservative to come out of the state of Massachusetts, his vote to end debate over President Walking Eagle’s “jobs bill” showed clearly that he doesn’t get it.
What we, the American people, want is NO.
And more importantly, no more lies.
If members of the GOP were wise, they would clean up their act and then wear every single “NO” as a badge of honor.
No one doubts the depths of ugly deceit of which progressive liberal Democrats are capable, but aside from the high school aspects of it, this latest “trick” from the Coakley campaign takes the cake:
Pro-lifers are receiving phone calls from people claiming to be Mass Citizens. The callers say that Mass Citizens is not supporting Scott Brown because of his position on health care!
The truth is that Mass Citizens is suporting Brown because of his position on health care!
These deceitful calls are coming from 202-461-3441, a Washington, DC number. The phone company says this is a company called SOOH. Pro-lifers are not the only victims of this scam. Our MCFL sleuths have found that this same number is calling people across the state claiming to be different groups with different messages – all anti-Brown!
If you can’t dazzle ’em with brilliance, baffle ’em with bullshit?
Way to go, Martha. You’re a real class act.
The Democrat-controlled Congress is busy planning how to ram their visions of health care “reform” down America’s throat and the rising backlash against their tactics and, indeed, against their progressive liberal ideology is becoming more and more severe.
So severe, that true to the form of all yellow-bellied selfish cowards, Democrats are turning tail and dropping out of 2010 elections left and right. And the pious spinning begins. Among the louder dropouts is the infamous sleazeball Senator Chris Dodd (D-Conn). Perhaps to spend some time licking his wounds at his Countrywide sweetheart-deal-bought cottage in Ireland?
Larry Lomax, the chief elections officer in Las Vegas, responded that the group’s claims it had extensive quality controls to catch fraudulent registrations were “pathetic.” He noted that ACORN had hired 59 inmates from a work-release program at a nearby prison and that some inmates who had been convicted of identity theft had been made supervisors. That led some local wags to joke that at least ACORN was hiring specialists to do their work.
ACORN’s second line of defense has been that fraudulent registrations can’t turn into fraudulent votes, as if the felony of polluting voter lists was somehow not all that serious. But that defense goes only a short distance. “How would you know if people using fake names had cast votes in states without strict ID laws?” says GOP Indiana Secretary of State Todd Rokita, who this year won a major Supreme Court case upholding his state’s photo identification law. “It’s almost impossible to detect and once the fraudulent voter leaves the precinct or casts an absentee ballot, that vote is thrown in with other secret ballots there’s no way to trace it.”
Anita MonCrief, an ACORN whistle-blower who worked for both it and its Project Vote registration affiliate from 2005 until early this year, agrees. “It’s ludicrous to say that fake registrations can’t become fraudulent votes,” she told me. “I assure you that if you can get them on the rolls you can get them to vote, especially using absentee ballots.”
…some ACORN affiliates had a conscious strategy of flooding voter registration offices with suspect last-minute forms in part to create confusion and chaos that would make it more likely suspect voters would be allowed to cast ballots by overworked officials. Nate Toller, who worked on ACORN registration drives and headed an ACORN campaign against Wal-Mart in California until 2006, agrees. “There’s no quality control on purpose, no checks and balances,” he told me.
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Perhaps the clearest look at how fraudulent registrations can be converted into votes comes from Wisconsin. Earlier this year, the Milwaukee Police Department’s Special Investigation Unit released a stunning 67-page report detailing an “illegal organized attempt to influence the outcome” of the 2004 presidential election.
It noted many documented cases of staffers for a presidential campaign and an allied 527 group who illegally voted. Those involved in the scheme “represent multiple levels of both the organizations, from upper management to the street level canvassers.” The task force report found many ineligible voters had cast ballots, ineligible felons not only had voted but also worked at the polls, transient college students had cast illegal votes along with day-trippers from nearby Chicago, and homeless voters may well have voted more than once.
The Milwaukee police report explained just how easy it is to cast an illegal vote without ever being detected., “Michael A. Smith can become Mike Smith, M.A. Smith, or Mickey Smith, depending on the person reviewing the Same Day registration card, and unless a specific allegation is made against one of those name variants, the new name would just be added to the overall database. Even if the new system were capable of discerning the differences in recorded names, the finding would not be discovered until after any multiple ballots had been cast and recorded.” Indeed, the task force found that 1,100 registration cards filled in by voters were declared invalid or untraceable by election officials.
Another way that fraudulent registrations can be converted into illegal votes is when groups like ACORN either purposely or recklessly sign up visitors from out-of-state or felons who are ineligible to vote. The New York Daily News reported in August, 2004 on how some 46,000 New Yorkers are registered to vote in both the city and Florida, what it called a “shocking finding” because it “found that between 400 and 1,000 registered voters have voted twice in at least one election, a federal offense punishable by up to five years in prison and a $10,000 fine,” and noted that “efforts to prevent people from registering in more than one state rely mostly on the honor system.”
For answer number three, we can’t forget granting amnesty to illegal immigrants. Aka giving criminals given an easy path to citizenship. While it has been reported that House members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus have threatened to vote against any health care bill that doesn’t allow illegal (criminal) immigrants access, word is slipping out that they’ll back down if they get an agreement from Obama that health care coverage for criminals who “earn” a path to citizenship will be addressed in an immigration bill. A bill rumored to be already in the planning stages. Then beholden to their savior, the Democrats are counting on their votes.
But there is a small sliver of hope. Business Week reports that America’s “misery index” (the sum of a country’s unemployment and inflation rates) has reached 11.8% and there is no reason to think it will not continue to move higher over the next year. This is its highest point since May 1991, and more than 3 percentage points higher than its average since then. It topped out at 22% in 1980 – helping to usher in the Reagan era.
It can be another case where misery loves company. In this case, the company can be found at the polls. And in such numbers the Democrats’ attempts to steal any election will be so blatant they are put away for good.