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MORE ON OHIO: Tea Partiers vs. the Republican establishment.

A REVOLUTION IN PENNSYLVANIA. The bitter clingers are doing on-the-ground politics, of the sort I described here.

 

GREECE’S PROBLEM: Tax cheating, or Byzantine and confiscatory taxes? Chicken, egg. You get less tax cheating when the system is simple, rates are low, and enforcement is considered fair. You get more when things are the reverse. Related thoughts here. And Here: Six Reasons Why The Capital Gains Tax Should Be Abolished.

 

Times Square Bombing Attempt: Where Were The Cameras?

 

JOHN HINDERAKER: Was the Federal Response to the Deepwater Horizon Disaster Adequate?

 

YOU DON’T WANT TO BE illegal in Mexico.

 

The May Day angry mob you won’t see

By Michelle Malkin  •  May 3, 2010 09:10 AM

Reconquista revolution without borders! (Photo credit: El Marco, Denver)

They came, they saw, they threatened or committed violence in the name of open borders and workers’ rights. But alas, Frank Rich and Paul Krugman’s columns decrying the insane rage and hate of the May Day angry mob got lost in the mail.

In Santa Cruz, they carried torches and vandalized at least 18 businesses:

Downtown business owners spent Sunday repairing shattered windows and doors after a May Day rally Saturday night turned into a riot with approximately 250 people marching along Pacific Avenue, some carrying makeshift torches, throwing large rocks and paint bombs, and spray-painting walls with graffiti.

At least 18 businesses suffered damage during the rally in honor of international workers that began at 9 p.m. and escalated into mayhem around 10:30 p.m., police said. Investigators estimated damage at $100,000, though some business owners said it could be more. No injuries were reported.

On Sunday, sea green-colored glass littered sidewalks where windows and glass doors had been smashed. Maintenance workers, many getting called in the middle of the night, boarded up windows with plywood until new sheets of glass could be installed.

The vandalized businesses included Urban Outfitters, Peet’s Coffee, Noah’s Bagels, Jamba Juice, Velvet Underground and Dell Williams Jewelers. The unoccupied Rittenhouse building also was damaged. A police car was vandalized with rocks and paint, department spokesman Zach Friend said.

In San Francisco, anti-illegal immigration activists were attacked by the May Day marchers:

LISA AMIN GULEZIAN, REPORTER: Allan, for the most part the event was peaceful, but just about an hour ago, three people were attacked and two others were arrested. The people who were assaulted were part of the Minutemen demonstration in favor of Arizona’s new immigration law.

They said a large group of immigrants’ rights supporters followed them to the BART station on Market Street and started punching and kicking them, and calling them names.

PARKER WILSON, BAY AREA ANARCHIST: They said we were racists, and that we were against them, and against their town, and against San Francisco, and what they were saying. They said we needed to get out and they called us racists, and that we need to go home. And then they just attacked my friends and me.

The City Square was at the SF protest and captured the border-sabotaging Che lovers:

Spotted in the window of a San Francisco shop. Didn’t get vandalized, naturally:

In Denver, El Marco caught the Aztlan/anarchist mob at its best (er, worst). Here, the illegal alien advocates accuse us of being the invaders. Really:

The (professionally printed) Nazi card was out in full force in Dallas:

So was more unabashed reconquista sentiment, as I previewed on Saturday. Thanks to reader N.N. for e-mailing these photos:

Behold the culture of open-borders entitlement:

And requisite Tea Party-bashing:

Robbie Cooper has a report on the Che worshipers and socialist agitators at the Austin TX May Day rally. Check out these lovely attendees. As Robbie notes: “One of these masked clowns is a reporter for Univision Channel 62 in Austin:”

A citizen report on the extremist May Day protest in Atlanta GA:

In Minnesota, what do they want?

And how do they want it?

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An account from the NYC protest:

About an hour later we were heading to a concert on the NYU campus, and started walking down Broadway toward Astor Place. We started hearing lots of police sirens all at once, and then looked straight ahead. There were young guys with baseball bats and Che signs pinned to their backpacks running down the street smashing store windows, all on the west side of Broadway. We stopped dead on a corner, because there were police cars coming from so many different directions the street lights were rendered meaningless. As soon as we stopped, about 6 NYPD units pulled up to our exact corner and the cops jumped out and tackled two of the vandals literally TWO FEET in front of me. Some other officers arrived, jumped out of their cars, and started a crazy foot pursuit of another guy who started running in zig-zags down the middle of Broadway. They tackled him as well, in the middle of the freakin’ street, as cars kept almost hitting everyone involved. It happened incredibly quickly. There were tons of eyewitnesses, and I even saw a few people videotaping, but of course I can’t find mention of this incident anywhere online or in the media. We had about five minutes to get to the concert, so stopping and gawking wasn’t an option. We just kept walking, tried to get away from the whole mess. But we could see and hear police interviewing plenty of witnesses, and heard people say “they just kept breaking windows”, and saw the perps with their faces in the pavement for ourselves.

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"The illegals are only a symptom of the real problem: the employers and the welfare state. We need harsh penalties for employers of illegals (including prison time for the CEO), and we need to END all government services for non legal residents.

If we do that, they will self deport. "

23K Dead Since Mexico Legalized Drugs

May 3rd, 2010

From the Miami Herald:

Police forensic experts load into trucks the bodies of at least six men that were found dead in the city of Cuernavaca, Mexico, Tuesday April 13, 2010.

As death toll in drug war rises, Mexicans short of facts and trust

By TIM JOHNSON
May 2, 2010

MEXICO CITY — As the death toll has climbed from drug-related violence in Mexico, it’s fallen largely to newspapers to keep the count.

Two weeks ago, a government report that legislators leaked spoke of 22,700 deaths over little more than a three-year period, a far higher body count than the 18,000 or so given by El Universal, a leading newspaper.

President Felipe Calderon’s aides won’t confirm the report, and some political analysts have seized on the lack of transparency as an element in the Mexican leader’s difficulties in rallying the nation in the campaign against heavily armed narcotics syndicates…

...in point of fact, these drugs have been decriminalized in Mexico for several years. From the archives of the Associated Press:...

And from a similarly elated Time Magazine:

 

And yet for years we have been told by our media masters and a thousand George Soros fronts that legalizing these harmless recreational drugs would solve everything. There would be a huge reduction in crime. Our prisons would be emptied.

What happened? How come it didn’t turn out that way in Mexico? It was supposed to set the example for the US and the rest of the world on how to handle the drug problem?

And how come everyone has pretended not to notice Mexico’s “example”?

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Announcement: BREAKING! Fourniers WIN John Doe Appeal!

Thanks so much to Barbara Kulaszka and the awesome intervenors at the CIPPIC and the CCLA!

Read the whole thing here:

http://www.freedominion.com.pa/images/appeal_ruling.pdf

 

What’s with Obama’s obsession with Justin Beiber?

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The current president (left) and Canadian Ellen impersonator Justin Beiber (far right). TV's Michael Dorn looks on in horror (center).

It’s very strange the amount of attention the current President of the United States gives Canadian Ellen Degeneres impersonator, and sometimes singer, Justin Beiber.

For weeks leading up to the White House Easter Egg Roll, Obama kept aides, including his “body man” Reggie Love, in a frenzy, obsessing over whether Beiber would or would not perform for him, and whether he’d get the chance to meet Beiber, and maybe spend a little alone time with him, “just hanging out, maybe playing some Wii, you know, chillin’ like villains”. If the president gave this sort of attention to the oil spill threatening Louisiana and other Gulf Coast states, there wouldn’t be a drop left of crude in the water.

This weekend, the White House still hasn’t figured out an effective strategy for tackling the Gulf disaster, but Beiber was strangely invited to the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, where Obama insisted he sit at the People Magazine table, so he could have a clear sightline of Beiber at all times.

Why?

Here’s the list of the Correspondents’ Dinner attendees, via Nikki Finke’s Deadline Hollywood:

ABC Table: Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal; Modern Family‘s Julie Bowen and Ty Burrell; George Stephanopoulos and Ali Wentworth, who invited J.J. Abrams and his wife, Katie McGrath.

American Urban Radio Network Table: Wendy Williams

Bloomberg News Table: Rosario Dawson, James Brooks.

CBS Table: Julianna Margulies; Morgan Freeman; Betty White; Chelsea Handler

CNN Table: Ashley Judd; Dennis Quaid; Quinton Aaron; The Tuohy family, whose story is the basis for the film The Blind Side; James Badge Dale and Jon Seda of the HBO miniseries The Pacific; Larry King, who is bringing Seth MacFarlane and Jeff Probst; Joy Behar.

Creative Coalition Table: Jessica Alba and her husband, Cash Warren; Ashley Greene; Omar Epps; Steven Weber; Cheryl Hines; Adrian Grenier; Spike Lee; Morley Safer; Tom Fontana; and CCH Pounder.

Essence Table: Queen Latifah

Fortune Table: Michael Douglas.

Fox News Channel Table: Vanessa Williams; Chace Crawford; Matthew Morrison; Enrique Iglesias; Ali Larter; Marlon Wayans; Patricia Arquette.

Huffington Post Table: John Cusack; Scarlett Johansson; Jeremy Piven; Ari Emanuel.

NBC Table: Jon Bon Jovi; Anna Kendrick; Bradley Cooper; Alec Baldwin; Ewan McGregor; Jimmy Fallon; Mariska Hargitay; Angela Kinsey; Elisabeth Moss; Fred Armisen; Today and Morning Joe show hosts.

Newsweek Table: Chevy Chase, Jeremy Renner.

New Yorker Table: Judd Apatow and his wife, Leslie Mann, Tracy Morgan.

People Table: Justin Bieber, Gabourey Sidibe, Tom Colicchio, Kristin Davis, Jessica Simpson.

POLITICO Table: Mary J. Blige, The Jonas Brothers, Tim Daly.

Talking Points Memo Table: Darren Star.

Time Table: Steven Spielberg and his wife Kate Capshaw; Michelle Pfeiffer and her husband, David E. Kelley.

Rumored others: Ryan Seacrest, Zach Galifianakis, Terrence Howard.

There are other randoms on this list that raise a few eyebrows here in Boystown, like Chase Crawford and Ryan Seacrest — who, shockingly enough, did not arrive together (now, how they left is another matter, but don’t tell JC Chasez).  Then there’s Bradley Cooper, the Jonas Brothers, Ewan McGregor, and Queen Latifah.

Evidently, the Village People, Lily Tomlin, and the ghost of Liberace were unable to attend.  Rip Taylor’s still prohibited from coming within two miles of any sitting president, as Secret Service strangely classifies confetti as an IED (an Irritating Eye Distractor).

Otherwise, the Capitol Pride invitation list seemed to be cut-and-pasted into the Correspondents’ dinner, though downgraded from full-on Judy to mere Liza in terms of fabulous.

But, with Miss Thang yucking it up with Jay Leno, having a gay old time, as usual for this president, who needs a parade — not with Michelle up there on the dais proud of everything for the first time in her adult life, already dreaming of something even more hideous she could be wearing out in public to another party tomorrow.

What oil spill?

 

Rounding Up the News UPDATED

Monday, May 3, 2010, 12:56 PM

Elizabeth Scalia

:::UPDATE:
BREAKING NEWS: NYC Car Bombing episode looks increasingly like work of terrorists. It takes a lot to get anyone to admit it. Let’s be aware of this: were it not for technical difficulties last weekend in NY, and in the air last December 26th, we’d now be talking about two successful terrorist attacks on America, in the last 6 months.

The Government is keeping its options open, though. You never know, this might have been the work of government-hating grandmas:

Officials cautioned that even if the investigation points toward an international link, rather than domestic or anti-government groups, that does not mean al-Qaeda or another terrorist organization is necessarily involved.

These are real attacks. They count. The only thing that has kept them from being deadly has been the incompetence of the terrorists, and some eagle-eyed civilians.

I wonder how long our luck will hold?

END UPDATE:::

It’s that time of the day – where I look at my tabbar and realize the best way to share it all with you is just to throw it all your way.

Let’s start with this creepy ad for Big Brother Tax Amnesty.

Three men on different pages of the same book: Victor Davis Hanson, Mark Steyn, and Doug Ross All must-reads, but watch your blood pressure; keep telling yourself, “t’was ever thus…”

Speaking of Ross, he has an illustrated timeline of the oil-spill disaster in the Gulf which, which will have broad consequences and, we are told, looks “like chocolate milk!” – a description only someone with a “D” after his name could ever get away with. But they can get away with saying a lot of questionable, aggressive and bullying or goofy things. Don’t cry about it; life isn’t fair. Just keep track.

Powerline also has a timeline of the spill and the reactions. It seems, according to this video, that some feds realized very quickly the potential for massive oil spilling. Did you know there are Orcas in the Gulf?

Pursuing Holiness on the reasonable costs of drilling for oil. Thoughtful. Meanwhile BP says “we’ll cover costs, but it’s not our fault”

Hey, praying in school is okay in Nashville, now! For some. Some are privileged.

Just as some, like the Dalai Lama, are privileged to observe religious customs without being called men in dresses, or have their believes denigrated, because of political correctness. I wonder if Mo Dowd will be writing any time soon about the need for a Dalai Lama-ess? Would she or the rest dare to tell Archbishop Hilarion that he needs to change his thinking on abortion and ordain some women, stat, or risk public scorn?

But, then, “sexual egalitarianism” is here to stay.

The ability of laugh at oneself is the sign of a secure ego.

Obama, not so much

Fresh questions: about the constitutionality of Obamacare

So, who told GM to lie about its Tarp Repayment?

Vitamins and internet controls, just what the FTC should be controlling?

Reason: is the Greek Bailout already making things worse?

Have we ever seen this in history, a nation being “bailed out” of its self-weakening? Historically, I suppose such a nation would be at risk of invasion or conquest by a stronger nation. But we live in kinder and more enlightened times. And that’s good, because no one likes to see war, or the conquest of another country (unless, it seems, that country is Israel, of which both “meddling” and conquest seem to be approved). I suspect that -barring some kind of multi-national legislative “take-over” no one has an actual “solution” to Greece’s problem, which is the same problem that is going to occur in other countries, soon. So…I guess we just keep shoveling money into economic abysses and hope they will magically become prosperous mountains.

Prosperous until the president decides that you’ve made enough money. Time to dust this one off:

I mind people who are bouncing on fluffy pillows of honest-to-goodness wealth shaking a rhetorical finger at us for daring to try to get comfortable on our foam rubber mats of hard-earned wages.

If I lived in California I’d vote for him. What the Democrat party needs is a few Democrat voices willing to actually critique the party and work to change it, instead of just marching in lockstep. This characteristic does exist in the GOP, to some extent. Not that the GOP is much better than the Dems, but it seems to me it does manage to endure a bit of insider-criticism.

Philly: Did local gov’t pressure a teen to get an abortion?

The City of NY: should end mandatory celibacy and let its workers marry.

Arizona: George Will talks about the immigration laws.

Meanwhile, it seems that perhaps that carbomb in Times Square was meant for Viacom, afterall.

Blame Nagin? Blame Blanco. Blame ‘em both. Blame everybody. But in the right order: local, state, fed.

Facebook Privacy: Glad I never signed on.

Michael Totten talks about Proxy wars and Spengler is writes on what he is calling General Petraeus’ Thirty Years War. Hmmmm….

Auschwitz and Catholic Jews. Looks interesting. So does this book. And this one, too.

Instapundit: what you may have missed this weekend.

Elizabeth Fox-Genovese: on The Way of Conversion

In Praise of: English Curmudgeons!

The Pill and Women: Shortchanging us in so many ways.

Lynn Redgrave is dead. RIP. I liked her.

Peace. It’s wonderful.

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Obama Administration Working With Egypt & Russia to Rid Israel of Nuclear Weapons

Posted by Jim Hoft on Monday, May 3, 2010, 12:13 PM

Do you remember when Jesse Jackson said that under Obama Jews would lose all of their clout?
He was right.

(Top left clockwise) Barack and Michelle Obama and radical Leftist anti-Israel Professor Edward Said at a May 1998 Arab community event in Chicago at which Edward Said gave the keynote speech. (Bill Baar’s West Side), Former PLO operative and close friend of the Obama’s Rashid Khalidi, Barack Obama and his racist minister Jeremiah Wright, and close terrorist friend William Ayers.

Obama Administration officials are working with Russia and Egypt to rid Israel of its nuclear weapons.
Israel National News reported:

The United States is working with both Egypt and Russia to rid Israel of its nuclear weapons, as part of a comprehensive plan to neutralize Iran’s nuclear power.

Reports of this nature are being reported in various news media. The Guardian (London) reports that the US and Russia have drafted an initiative to ban nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction in the Middle East, while the Wall Street Journal says the Obama Administration is considering support for a “nuclear-free Middle East.”

The Guardian adds that the proposal involves the appointment of a special coordinator to conduct exploratory talks with Israel, Iran and the Arab states, followed by a regional conference. It is to be a central issue at an anti-proliferation United Nations conference beginning Monday in New York.

According to the Wall Street Journal report, the US is strongly considering opposing Israeli nuclear weapons more strongly than it ever has before. However, the US government has, at the same time, sent Jerusalem a message designed to calm Israeli anxieties on the matter, stating that the U.S. would not take such a drastic approach before it sees significant progress in the peace process between Israel and the Arab nations.

Previously on Obama and Israel:
** Obama Refuses to Dine With Jewish Leader
** Obama Won’t Allow Any Photos of Him With PM Netanyahu
** Stunner. Obama Has Refused All Israeli Military Requests Since Entering Office in 2009
** Obama Administration Denies Visas to Israeli Nuclear Scientists
** Barack Obama Announces Historic Shift in America’s Relationship With Israel

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John Bolton: Just A Reminder, Obama's Iran Policy Is Leading To A Very Dangerous Place

—DrewM.

The Mustache speaks and a per the usual, it slices like a f'ing hammer.

After going through for the umpteenth time what everyone but a liberal Democrat understands...diplomacy and sanctions won't stop Iran, Bolton looks to the future to see where Captain Awesome's engagement policy leads.

It's not pretty.

It is hard to conclude anything except that the Obama administration is resigned to Iran possessing nuclear weapons. While U.S. policy makers will not welcome that outcome, they certainly hope as a corollary that Iran can be contained and deterred. Since they have ruled out the only immediate alternative, military force, they are doubtless now busy preparing to make lemonade out of this pile of lemons.

President Obama's likely containment/deterrence strategy will feature security assurances to neighboring countries and promises of American retaliation if Iran uses its nuclear weapons. Unfortunately for this seemingly muscular rhetoric, the simple fact of Iran possessing nuclear weapons would alone dramatically and irreparably alter the Middle East balance of power. Iran does not actually have to use its capabilities to enhance either its regional or global leverage.

Facile analogies to Cold War deterrence rest on the dubious, unproven belief that Iran's nuclear calculus will approximate the Soviet Union's. Iran's theocratic regime and the high value placed on life in the hereafter makes this an exceedingly dangerous assumption.

Even if containment and deterrence might be more successful against Iran than just suggested, nuclear proliferation doesn't stop with Tehran. Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Turkey and perhaps others will surely seek, and very swiftly, their own nuclear weapons in response. Thus, we would imminently face a multipolar nuclear Middle East waiting only for someone to launch first or transfer weapons to terrorists. Ironically, such an attack might well involve Israel only as an innocent bystander, at least initially.

I've had this discussion with liberal friends about the cost of stopping or not stopping Iran and they all ignore the costs of "containment".

Even if you believe Iran will be rational and not nuke Israel directly or hand off some nukes to their terror front groups to do the job, you simply can't ignore 30 years of history. Iran has been a dangerous and belligerent nation without nukes. Why in the world would you think they won't ratchet up their non-nuclear attacks once they have the shield of nuclear weapons?

People always talk about the price of oil skyrocketing if Iran is attacked. Well, it will. For awhile. Now if Iran gets the bomb, it will sky rocket whenever the Iranians want it to. They won't have to attack anyone directly (with or without nukes), they'll just issue a press release to stir up the markets and presto...several billion dollars more whenever the IRGC needs some more pocket change.

Yes, there are costs and dangers in attacking Iran. The thing is, adults living in the real world, not The Republic of Unicorns and Rainbows, understand there are real costs and dangers in not stopping Iran.

Alas, there's no reason to think this administration is populated by adults. Witness their latest plan to get rogue nuclear countries in line...declassify information about our weapons stockpiles that has been closely held for decades.

The Pentagon on Monday will release long-classified statistics about the total size of America’s nuclear arsenal, part of an effort to make the case that the country is honoring its treaty commitments to shrink its inventory of weapons significantly, senior administration officials said Sunday.

The American initiative will be cast by the White House as a small but significant step toward allowing the world to measure whether President Obama makes good on his promise of reducing American reliance on nuclear defenses. The commitment to make the figures public will be included in a speech that Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will deliver at the opening of a United Nations conference reviewing progress on the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. Mrs. Clinton will also announce new funds for the International Atomic Energy Agency.

For years, American intelligence officials have objected to publishing quantitative descriptions of the American nuclear arsenal, concerned that the figures might help terrorist groups calculate the minimum nuclear fuel needed for a weapon. But administration officials said reputable Web sites that track such issues have long noted that American weapons designers need an average of around 4 kilograms of plutonium, or 8.8 pounds.

(via Gabe)

It's childish to think Iran has the slightest interest in our weapons program when it comes to the continuation of theirs. It's simply irrelevant to their calculations.

You know who cut a lot of nuclear weapons without any fanfare or self congratulations? George W(ar Monger) Bush. He did it because he thought it was in the national interest, not because of some moon-eyed romanticism over the effect it would have on Iran.

Once again, Obama is all show and no results.

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Pelosi Caught In Major Lie- Says Bush Didn’t Warn Congress About Financial Crisis… Records Show He Warned Congress 17 Times in 2008 Alone

Posted by Jim Hoft on Monday, May 3, 2010, 3:24 PM

Speaker Nancy Pelosi held a news conference last week and told reporters this:

During her weekly press conference on April 15, a reporter asked Pelosi a seemingly innocuous question about taxes. Pelosi prefaced her response with a fairly standard litany: explaining the dire state of the U.S. economy inherited by President Obama and setting the blame at the foot of the Bush administration. But she also added this: “When [then-Senator Obama] accepted the nomination in Colorado, the [Bush] Administration had kept from the public the idea that, in a matter of weeks, the financial community would be in crisis, and we would need to pass the TARP legislation.”

The state-run media is trying to make something of this latest Pelosi fabrication today.

But, what Speaker Pelosi failed to mention was that President Bush warned the Democratic Congress 17 times in 2008 alone about the systemic consequences of financial turmoil at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and also put forward thoughtful plans to reduce the risk that either Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac would encounter such difficulties.

Unfortunately, these warnings went unheeded, as the President’s repeated attempts to reform the supervision of these entities were thwarted by the legislative maneuvering of those who emphatically denied there were problems.

The White House released this list of attempts by President Bush to reform Freddie Mae and Freddie Mac since he took office in 2001.
Unfortunately, Congress did not act on the president’s warnings:

** 2001

April: The Administration’s FY02 budget declares that the size of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is “a potential problem,” because “financial trouble of a large GSE could cause strong repercussions in financial markets, affecting Federally insured entities and economic activity.”

** 2002

May: The President calls for the disclosure and corporate governance principles contained in his 10-point plan for corporate responsibility to apply to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. (OMB Prompt Letter to OFHEO, 5/29/02)

** 2003

January: Freddie Mac announces it has to restate financial results for the previous three years.

February: The Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO) releases a report explaining that “although investors perceive an implicit Federal guarantee of [GSE] obligations,” “the government has provided no explicit legal backing for them.” As a consequence, unexpected problems at a GSE could immediately spread into financial sectors beyond the housing market. (“Systemic Risk: Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and the Role of OFHEO,” OFHEO Report, 2/4/03)

September: Fannie Mae discloses SEC investigation and acknowledges OFHEO’s review found earnings manipulations.

September: Treasury Secretary John Snow testifies before the House Financial Services Committee to recommend that Congress enact “legislation to create a new Federal agency to regulate and supervise the financial activities of our housing-related government sponsored enterprises” and set prudent and appropriate minimum capital adequacy requirements.

October: Fannie Mae discloses $1.2 billion accounting error.

November: Council of the Economic Advisers (CEA) Chairman Greg Mankiw explains that any “legislation to reform GSE regulation should empower the new regulator with sufficient strength and credibility to reduce systemic risk.” To reduce the potential for systemic instability, the regulator would have “broad authority to set both risk-based and minimum capital standards” and “receivership powers necessary to wind down the affairs of a troubled GSE.” (N. Gregory Mankiw, Remarks At The Conference Of State Bank Supervisors State Banking Summit And Leadership, 11/6/03)

** 2004

February: The President’s FY05 Budget again highlights the risk posed by the explosive growth of the GSEs and their low levels of required capital, and called for creation of a new, world-class regulator: “The Administration has determined that the safety and soundness regulators of the housing GSEs lack sufficient power and stature to meet their responsibilities, and therefore…should be replaced with a new strengthened regulator.” (2005 Budget Analytic Perspectives, pg. 83)

February: CEA Chairman Mankiw cautions Congress to “not take [the financial market's] strength for granted.” Again, the call from the Administration was to reduce this risk by “ensuring that the housing GSEs are overseen by an effective regulator.” (N. Gregory Mankiw, Op-Ed, “Keeping Fannie And Freddie’s House In Order,” Financial Times, 2/24/04)

June: Deputy Secretary of Treasury Samuel Bodman spotlights the risk posed by the GSEs and called for reform, saying “We do not have a world-class system of supervision of the housing government sponsored enterprises (GSEs), even though the importance of the housing financial system that the GSEs serve demands the best in supervision to ensure the long-term vitality of that system. Therefore, the Administration has called for a new, first class, regulatory supervisor for the three housing GSEs: Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and the Federal Home Loan Banking System.” (Samuel Bodman, House Financial Services Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Testimony, 6/16/04)

** 2005

April: Treasury Secretary John Snow repeats his call for GSE reform, saying “Events that have transpired since I testified before this Committee in 2003 reinforce concerns over the systemic risks posed by the GSEs and further highlight the need for real GSE reform to ensure that our housing finance system remains a strong and vibrant source of funding for expanding homeownership opportunities in America… Half-measures will only exacerbate the risks to our financial system.” (Secretary John W. Snow, “Testimony Before The U.S. House Financial Services Committee,” 4/13/05)

** 2007

July: Two Bear Stearns hedge funds invested in mortgage securities collapse.

August: President Bush emphatically calls on Congress to pass a reform package for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, saying “first things first when it comes to those two institutions. Congress needs to get them reformed, get them streamlined, get them focused, and then I will consider other options.” (President George W. Bush, Press Conference, The White House, 8/9/07)

September: RealtyTrac announces foreclosure filings up 243,000 in August – up 115 percent from the year before.

September: Single-family existing home sales decreases 7.5 percent from the previous month – the lowest level in nine years. Median sale price of existing homes fell six percent from the year before.

December: President Bush again warns Congress of the need to pass legislation reforming GSEs, saying “These institutions provide liquidity in the mortgage market that benefits millions of homeowners, and it is vital they operate safely and operate soundly. So I’ve called on Congress to pass legislation that strengthens independent regulation of the GSEs – and ensures they focus on their important housing mission. The GSE reform bill passed by the House earlier this year is a good start. But the Senate has not acted. And the United States Senate needs to pass this legislation soon.” (President George W. Bush, Discusses Housing, The White House, 12/6/07)

** 2008

January: Bank of America announces it will buy Countrywide.

January: Citigroup announces mortgage portfolio lost $18.1 billion in value.

February: Assistant Secretary David Nason reiterates the urgency of reforms, says “A new regulatory structure for the housing GSEs is essential if these entities are to continue to perform their public mission successfully.” (David Nason, Testimony On Reforming GSE Regulation, Senate Committee On Banking, Housing And Urban Affairs, 2/7/08)

March: Bear Stearns announces it will sell itself to JPMorgan Chase.

March: President Bush calls on Congress to take action and “move forward with reforms on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. They need to continue to modernize the FHA, as well as allow State housing agencies to issue tax-free bonds to homeowners to refinance their mortgages.” (President George W. Bush, Remarks To The Economic Club Of New York, New York, NY, 3/14/08)

April: President Bush urges Congress to pass the much needed legislation and “modernize Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. [There are] constructive things Congress can do that will encourage the housing market to correct quickly by … helping people stay in their homes.” (President George W. Bush, Meeting With Cabinet, the White House, 4/14/08)

May: President Bush issues several pleas to Congress to pass legislation reforming Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac before the situation deteriorates further.

“Americans are concerned about making their mortgage payments and keeping their homes. Yet Congress has failed to pass legislation I have repeatedly requested to modernize the Federal Housing Administration that will help more families stay in their homes, reform Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to ensure they focus on their housing mission, and allow State housing agencies to issue tax-free bonds to refinance sub-prime loans.” (President George W. Bush, Radio Address, 5/3/08)

“[T]he government ought to be helping creditworthy people stay in their homes. And one way we can do that – and Congress is making progress on this – is the reform of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. That reform will come with a strong, independent regulator.” (President George W. Bush, Meeting With The Secretary Of The Treasury, the White House, 5/19/08)

“Congress needs to pass legislation to modernize the Federal Housing Administration, reform Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to ensure they focus on their housing mission, and allow State housing agencies to issue tax-free bonds to refinance subprime loans.” (President George W. Bush, Radio Address, 5/31/08)

June: As foreclosure rates continued to rise in the first quarter, the President once again asks Congress to take the necessary measures to address this challenge, saying “we need to pass legislation to reform Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.” (President George W. Bush, Remarks At Swearing In Ceremony For Secretary Of Housing And Urban Development, Washington, D.C., 6/6/08)

July: Congress heeds the President’s call for action and passes reform of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac as it becomes clear that the institutions are failing.

In 2005– Senator John McCain partnered with three other Senate Republicans to reform the government’s involvement in lending.
Democrats blocked this reform, too.

More… Not only did democrats not act on these warnings but Barack Obama put one of the major Sub-Prime Slime players on his campaign as finance chairperson.

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Aye, Robot

What makes mechanical insects that can crawl through pipes? Mechanical spiders that can walk straight up the side of buildings? What makes robotic pack mules which can intelligently walk on four legs? What makes mechanical legs than can run better than a lot of real people? A company called Boston Dynamics.  The controlling software is so effective that it’s positively creepy.

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Troll Dissection 101: Multiple Trolls Are Often the Same Person, Using the Same IP Address, Posing As ManyPeoplePosted by hillbuzz under Uncategorized | Tags: Internet trolls have multiple aliases, Same IP address used for multiple trolls, Susan Traversy's internet aliases, Things Susan Traversy sends to people |
[25] Comments

Recently, we realized some of the most vulgar and hateful troll droppings we receive on a regular basis had a familiar ring to it — in sentence structure, tone, and general craziness.

There was also a recognizable pattern to their posting: suddenly, a new identity would appear, out of the blue, and would post a flurry of hateful, threatening messages (mainly in the meme that we should get AIDS and die, or that if any of us ever came to New Hampshire, we’d be physically or sexually assaulted by this troll personally, and then given AIDS somehow, perhaps through a needle prick, the troll is never specific). None of these would get through the spam filters. Realizing this, the troll would go volcanic with its hate until, poof, that particular identity would disappear and would never be heard from again.

Replacing it would be a new name, using the same tone, with the same rantings.

Someone suggested we run an IP search through old comments and see if the worst of this stuff was coming from the same IP. Amazingly, in many cases, that’s exactly what’s happening.

Susan Traversy is a disturbed middle-aged woman in New Hampshire who runs an eBay business of some kind, with her husband Brad Kinne (they sell, among other things, creepy leather troll masks, like the one below).

What Susan Traversy might wear while at the computer trolling.

In her spare time, she sends death threats and hatemail to gay men in Boystown, Chicago. Perhaps she’s also into decoupage and likes doing the Jumble too. She may have all sorts of hidden talents. But, the one we’re most familiar with are her AIDS-o-grams.

As in the following gems, cast our way under her many aliases, but all originating from her same IP:

Good thing eBay doesn’t let her sell old hospital needles on the Internets, because then she and her husband wouldn’t have any left to jab us with when we come to New Hampshire.

If Susan Traversy sent this sort of thing, on a regular basis, to the NAACP, Rainbow Push Coalition, the White House, or any random black person, and instead of being AIDS-o-grams they were racially motivated hatemail, even the Left, we’re sure, would come down on Traversy and her trolling.

But, this troll attacks gay guys who don’t support the Leftist agenda and who speak out against what this current president and Congress are doing to the nation.

So, we are attacked.

Every day.

By the likes of Susan Traversy and the other trolls coast to coast living in their mother’s basements – or, in Traversy’s case, her eBay storeroom where she sells “antiques” to strangers who have no idea what she does in her free time.

What her “hobby” is.

We’re curious if other sites out there have been visited by any of Traversy’s aliases, or have received messages from similar-sounding trolls using the same IP address. We doubt Traversy is a professional, paid DNC troll, because we don’t think Organizing for America would allow her to send AIDS-o-grams to anyone. Too much liability in that.

This appears to be just one disturbed woman who took Obama’s “get in their face” order from 2008 to heart, and is still fighting the election battle, every day, down in her basement, like one of those Japanese soldiers in the years after WWII who never got word the Empire collapsed. They kept fighting, alone, in the darkness of some South Pacific jungle atoll, while the rest of the world moved on and forgot about them, growing crazier and nastier every day, filling up with more and more hate, since they must have realized the God-Emperor they pledged their devotion to was, in the end, a total fraud who abandoned them.

So it must be with Traversy in the wilds of New Hampshire.

A state we’d love to visit again, but since we don’t want AIDS, and since Traversy and her husband have pledged to stick us with needles or have us raped if ever we came to Concord, we better just make do with going to Massachusetts and using binoculars to stare across the state lines into glorious New Hampshire.

If Susan Traversy’s the welcoming committee, maybe it’s not the best place to ever go.

Computer Question: Could more than one troll turn up with the same IPaddress?Posted by hillbuzz under Uncategorized
[93] Comments

Here’s a question for anyone with solid computer knowledge: could more than one troll turn up with the same IP address and not be the same person, or be connected in any way?

May 4, 2010 at 12:03 am

I googled her name. Congrats, guys; your article is hit number three.

Actions have consequences after all.

[backhoe]

 

 

The Religion of Peace is officially behind the NYC Times Square attempted bombing

Posted by hillbuzz under Uncategorized | Tags: Another muslim attack, Hope is not a strategy, Shahzad Faisal, The Religion of Peace, Times Square Bombing |
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Police have arrested an agent of “The Religion of Peace” in connection with the attempted car bombing of NYC’s Times Square this weekend.

Muslim Shahzad Faisal, originally from Pakistan, appears to be the man who bought the car off Craigslist, then loaded it with an IED and hoped to kill hundreds of Americans in crowded Times Square, in front of the Viacom building, to prove how peaceful Islam is.

Let’s recap the Obama Administration and it’s “Muslims are just misunderstood Care Bears” philosophy towards terrorism and “The Religion of Peace”:

* Religion of Peace adherent is promoted by PC-police in US military, then seizes opportunity to murder fellow soldiers at Ft. Hood, in the name of Allah.

* Religion of Peace agent tries to bring down Delta Copenhagen-Detroit flight on Christmas Day, with exploding underpants.

* Religion of Peace operatives known as “The Flying Imams” disrupt Atlanta-Houston flight before takeoff, but are removed by authorities and Obama Administration does its best to cover it up.

* Religion of Peace minion, and Quatari diplomat, jokes about bringing down the plane while lighting his shoe in the bathroom of a flight out of Reagan National.

“Hope” and “Luck” are not strategies.

For whatever reason, the stars aligned and the Fates conspired — and God and the angels all did their part — to keep America relatively safe from The Religion of Peace since Obama took office, with only one deadly attack and several near-misses.

But, our luck can’t hold out forever.

When we have a president who thinks Muslims are misunderstood Care Bears and our Homeland Security Secretary believes “the system works just fine”, all of us need to be very concerned about the day our collective luck finally runs out.

May 4, 2010 at 1:04 am

The Obumunists want us to suffer massive death & destruction so they can have a crisis to transform the US to a despotism with Obozo as the Great Leader.

May 4, 2010 at 12:47 am

Thank God they grabbed this tentacle. It was maddening to watch the Obama sycophants in the media, with the help of Mary Bloomberg, try to push as mightily as they could that this was most likely a screwy raaaacist white man who was angry about healthcare. How true your words, “our luck can’t hold out forever.”

May 4, 2010 at 2:23 am

The Religion of Peace seems to be probing for weakness like Obama wishes to probe that little singing Beiber.

They hit us again under this weak sister’s watch, and this administration, the Socialist-Dems and Islam will suffer the terrible wrath of the heretofore incredibly forgiving American people.

Palin/Bachmann 2012!

MORE at ACE: 259

So those racist redneck tea-baggers duped some poor brown man into trying to set off a bomb, and they did it at just the right time to take attention away from their Reich-wing homophobic, xenophobic creationist law in AZ.........

Very tricksy, those racists...

Kook City:

Michael Bloomberg: Yeah, I Figure This Bombing Was Attempted By A Teabagger Who Didn't Like the Health Care Bill

—Ace

As noted below (and more at this link), the man who bought the Nissan Pathfinder has been identified, and he's a naturalized Pakistani.

Bloomberg has a hunch, though:

"If I had to guess 25 cents, this would be exactly that. Homegrown, or maybe a mentally deranged person, or somebody with a political agenda that doesn't like the health care bill or something. It could be anything," he said.

Posted by Ace at 07:54 PM New Comments Thingy

 

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"Just finished watching that '97 HBO movie "Path to Paradise" on YouTube, about the '93 WTC bombing.  I had forgotten about the ending, when the actor playing Ramzi Yousef turned to the World Trade Center towers and said "Next time I will bring them both down." 

235 If I were a New Yorker, I would be so fucking terrified right now to have Bloomie as my mayor.  I mean, beyond all the nanny state stuff, this shithead either 1) honestly thinks that the Tea Party movement would try to blow up a private, non-government building due to anger with health care socialization, thus demonstrating absolutely no grasp of the real dangers facing the city and the nation at large or 2) knows how idiotic that conclusion is, but says it anyway in order to score political media lick-lick points.

Troll Dissection 101: Multiple Trolls Are Often the Same Person, Using the Same IP Address, Posing As Many People

Posted by hillbuzz under Uncategorized | Tags: Internet trolls have multiple aliases, Same IP address used for multiple trolls, Susan Traversy's internet aliases, Things Susan Traversy sends to people |
[25] Comments 

Recently, we realized some of the most vulgar and hateful troll droppings we receive on a regular basis had a familiar ring to it — in sentence structure, tone, and general craziness.

There was also a recognizable pattern to their posting: suddenly, a new identity would appear, out of the blue, and would post a flurry of hateful, threatening messages (mainly in the meme that we should get AIDS and die, or that if any of us ever came to New Hampshire, we’d be physically or sexually assaulted by this troll personally, and then given AIDS somehow, perhaps through a needle prick, the troll is never specific). None of these would get through the spam filters.  Realizing this, the troll would go volcanic with its hate until, poof, that particular identity would disappear and would never be heard from again.

Replacing it would be a new name, using the same tone, with the same rantings.

Someone suggested we run an IP search through old comments and see if the worst of this stuff was coming from the same IP.  Amazingly, in many cases, that’s exactly what’s happening.

Susan Traversy is a disturbed middle-aged woman in New Hampshire who runs an eBay business of some kind, with her husband Brad Kinne (they sell, among other things, creepy leather troll masks, like the one below).

What Susan Traversy might wear while at the computer trolling.

In her spare time, she sends death threats and hatemail to gay men in Boystown, Chicago.  Perhaps she’s also into decoupage and likes doing the Jumble too. She may have all sorts of hidden talents.  But, the one we’re most familiar with are her AIDS-o-grams.

As in the following gems, cast our way under her many aliases, but all originating from her same IP:

Good thing eBay doesn’t let her sell old hospital needles on the Internets, because then she and her husband wouldn’t have any left to jab us with when we come to New Hampshire.

If Susan Traversy sent this sort of thing, on a regular basis, to the NAACP, Rainbow Push Coalition, the White House, or any random black person, and instead of being AIDS-o-grams they were racially motivated hatemail, even the Left, we’re sure, would come down on Traversy and her trolling.

But, this troll attacks gay guys who don’t support the Leftist agenda and who speak out against what this current president and Congress are doing to the nation.

So, we are attacked.

Every day.

By the likes of Susan Traversy and the other trolls coast to coast living in their mother’s basements – or, in Traversy’s case, her eBay storeroom where she sells “antiques” to strangers who have no idea what she does in her free time.

What her “hobby” is.

We’re curious if other sites out there have been visited by any of Traversy’s aliases, or have received messages from similar-sounding trolls using the same IP address.  We doubt Traversy is a professional, paid DNC troll, because we don’t think Organizing for America would allow her to send AIDS-o-grams to anyone.  Too much liability in that.

This appears to be just one disturbed woman who took Obama’s “get in their face” order from 2008 to heart, and is still fighting the election battle, every day, down in her basement, like one of those Japanese soldiers in the years after WWII who never got word the Empire collapsed. They kept fighting, alone, in the darkness of some South Pacific jungle atoll, while the rest of the world moved on and forgot about them, growing crazier and nastier every day, filling up with more and more hate, since they must have realized the God-Emperor they pledged their devotion to was, in the end, a total fraud who abandoned them.

So it must be with Traversy in the wilds of New Hampshire.

A state we’d love to visit again, but since we don’t want AIDS, and since Traversy and her husband have pledged to stick us with needles or have us raped if ever we came to Concord, we better just make do with going to Massachusetts and using binoculars to stare across the state lines into glorious New Hampshire.

If Susan Traversy’s the welcoming committee, maybe it’s not the best place to ever go.

Computer Question: Could more than one troll turn up with the same IP address?

Posted by hillbuzz under Uncategorized
[93] Comments 

Here’s a question for anyone with solid computer knowledge:  could more than one troll turn up with the same IP address and not be the same person, or be connected in any way?

May 4, 2010 at 12:03 am

I googled her name. Congrats, guys; your article is hit number three.

Actions have consequences after all.

[backhoe]

Faisal Shahzad: Time Square Bomber, Islamic Terrorist (Shahzad Faisal)[Naturalized April 17th, 2009]

An Islamic terrorist named Faisal Shahzad is the Time Square bomber according to media reports. He is Muslim of Pakistani heritage with dual citizenship in the United States, a registered Democrat in the state of Connecticut who may be an Obama donor. He was recently naturalized as a U.S. citizen under the Obama administration’s lenient open door policy...

 

"Pity about... America..."

Pakistani pilots complete training in the US

Terrorism rises on American soil

We Do Know Who You Are

Imagine the same ad, but substitute “illegal alien” for “Tom the Taxpayer” ... horrible, hateful, and evil, right?

But threatening taxpayers and bringing the technology of the state and men with guns to bear against them is no problem.

Can’t wait to see what the IRS Health Tax Nazis come up with.

The BP oil spill is not our worst offshore environmental disaster

Palin and the Leftist Elites

 

THIS SEPTIC ISLE

After Long Delay S-400 Triumf Finally Get to the Field

...considered one of the world's most advanced SAM, is capable of destroying any air target, manned and unmanned, as well as cruise and ballistic missiles...

Paper or plastic? After railing against "Nazis" in AZ, Dems propose biometric SS cards for all.

Not just for farm animals anymore!

Bernanke Is Getting Scared....

 

Cloward-Piven writ large.

Cheers!

Obama’s friends riot

Santa Cruz police ask FBI to help investigate what they believe was 'coordinated' attack on the city

Santa Cruz Riot of May 2010

AP Stresses 'Peaceful,' 'Harmonious' Elements of Occasionally Violent Immigration Protests

Time Editor Thrills Over Obama Performance, Compares it to the Beatles

The Little Housing Crisis on the Prarie

Field trip for black students sparks controversy at Ann Arbor elementary school

Reading, Writing and Math!

It’s criminal when they do not just teach these children the basics of what they will need to survive. I don’t care what color they are.

“...DIVERSITY IS GREAT...until your kid is the victim of it. Then it kinda sucks, doesn’t it.”

Suspect in Hampton attack turns himself in ("just in his own words, he hated whites"- video)

"He is just following his Obamessiah’s lead — hating “typical white folks.” More is coming. Watch for the Obama Youth Corp macheteros. And they will not be Hispanic."

New racism grips South Africa

Glenn Beck: "How's Your Security?"

BREAKING : US says it has 5,113 nuclear warheads (THANKS OBAMA)

"Obama just whizzed on all who have died to keep our nuclear secrets safe. "

   

Sarah Palin makes sense -- on offshore drilling (Washington Post Lib)

 

Shutting Down Free Speech

The smell of money ( Carbon Trading and the Money behind the Global Warming Hoax )

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Woman trapped in bed for six (6) months by "big boobs".

Read more at thesun.co.uk ...

Producing hydrogen from sea water

A molecular molybdenum-oxo catalyst for generating hydrogen from water

This abstract is so PC that it hurts.

Death toll rises as river crests, floods Nashville (Where's FEMA?)

New light shed on Kent State killings--Shots fired at Guard, declassified files indicate

Cloward-Piven writ large.

Cheers!

Obama’s friends riot

Santa Cruz police ask FBI to help investigate what they believe was 'coordinated' attack on the city

Santa Cruz Riot of May 2010

AP Stresses 'Peaceful,' 'Harmonious' Elements of Occasionally Violent Immigration Protests

Time Editor Thrills Over Obama Performance, Compares it to the Beatles

The Little Housing Crisis on the Prarie

The smell of money ( Carbon Trading and the Money behind the Global Warming Hoax )

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Insanity. New Obama Strategy Refuses to Blame Islamists as Root of Terror

Posted by Jim Hoft on Monday, May 3, 2010, 10:02 PM

The insanity continues.
A wise man once said – If you can’t identify the problem, you can’t find the solution. Once again, our radical president shows that he is incapable problem solving and unable to break free from his Alinsky-Ayers-Wright-ACORN foundation.
And, once again, he puts America at risk.

The radical Obama Administration will soon release their first National Security Strategy (NSS) Report. The report will make clear that the US in not in a “War on Terror” and that Islamists are not the root of terror.
Abraham D. Sofaer at DoD Buzz reported, via Free Republic:

The Obama Administration will soon issue its first National Security Strategy (“NSS”). How will it compare with those issued in 2002 and 2006 by the Bush Administration?

The most fundamental US national security objectives are well established and bipartisan. The highest priority is always to keep America and its allies safe. This requires maintaining a strong military capacity; effective alliances; and policies that enhance economic and social well being at home and abroad. We encourage the spread of freedom, democracy, and the rule of law throughout the world. We strive to defeat terrorism and to stop the spread of WMD.

The Obama team will reconfirm all these objectives, but in different terms than those used by the Bush Administration.

• “Leader” not Hegemon. The 2002 Bush NSS proclaimed America’s “unparalleled” power, eager to use alliances but able if required to act alone. Obama’s NSS will promise America shall remain strong, but describe its role as “leader” of like-minded states and incapable of ensuring even its own security without the help of others.

• No more “War” on terror. The Bush strategy statements proclaim that the US is in a worldwide “war” against terror. The Obama NSS will avoid using the “war” word, pleasing those who believe terrorism should be treated as criminal activity. But it will call for “defeating terrorism” worldwide.

• Dropping the “Preventive Force” Doctrine. The most notorious aspect of the Bush strategy was the view that attacks of terrorist groups cannot be deterred and must be prevented, through force if necessary, and soon enough to stop threats before they are realized. The Obama NSS will drop this declaration and stress the need to prevent attacks through diplomacy and preparation. But it will continue to use force preventively when necessary to kill known enemies.

• Adopting a “Multilateralist” Tone. The Bush strategy promised to act through existing multilateral institutions, including the UN, when possible; but it stressed its willingness to “act alone” if required. Obama’s strategy will emphasize the importance of acting through the UN and alliances. But it will preserve the right to act alone, as NATO does, by affirming that the Security Council has “primary” (though not exclusive) responsibility for international security.

• “Islamic Fundamentalists” become “Violent Extremists.” The Bush Administration described the current terrorist threat as having been caused by Islamic Fundamentalists, while crediting Islam as one of the world’s great religions. Obama will describe all terrorists as “violent extremists,” or with some such religiously neutral phrase. But his targeted killings have all been of Muslims.

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Breaking: Officials Arrest Pakistani-American Faisal Shahzad in Times Square Bomb Attempt …Update: He Was Arrested at JFK Airport

Posted by Jim Hoft on Monday, May 3, 2010, 10:07 PM

(This Post Was Updated and Bumped)
US officials arrested Faisal Shahzad of Connecticut tonight in connection to the attempted Times Square bombing.
Video is coming–

Here’s a photo of Shahzad in front of Macy’s from his Facebook page:

He has 115 friends on his Facebook page.

Federal officials have identified a person of interest who recently returned to the US from Pakistan.
FOX News reported:

Federal authorities have identified a person of interest in Saturday night’s Times Square bomb attempt — a naturalized American citizen who was in Pakistan for several months and returned to the United States recently, investigative sources told Fox News.

The latest developments seem to support investigators’ suspicions that there was a foreign connection behind the failed car bomb attempt in New York City, senior Obama administration officials told Fox News, shedding light on the growing body of evidence.

Sources say that evidence includes international phone calls made by the person of interest, who has not been identified publicly.

Police also have interviewed the registered owner of the bomb-laden sports-utility vehicle. They say he is not a suspect, but he recently sold the dark-colored 1993 Nissan Pathfinder on Craigslist to another individual. It wasn’t clear whether the buyer was the person of interest now sought by authorities.

The bomb scare forced the evacuation of Times Square on a busy Saturday night, as police used a robot to break into the smoking SUV and diffuse the makeshift explosive, which was made from everyday items, such as propane tanks and firecrackers.

Someone needs to notify Mayor Bloomberg.
And, Mayor Bloomberg needs to apologize!

UPDATE: Via FOX News Breaking News– Officials arrested a Pakistani-American in connection to the attempted Times Square bombing.
MSNBC reported:

Authorities arrested a suspect in the attempted weekend car bombing in Times Square, NBC News’ justice correspondent Pete Williams reported early Tuesday morning.

A U.S. citizen of Pakistani descent, Shahzad Faisal, was arrested Monday night in Long Island, Williams reported.

Earlier, an official told The Associated Press that the potential suspect recently traveled to Pakistan. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because the case was at a sensitive stage.

UPDATE: He was arrested at JFK Airport trying to leave the country.

UPDATE: Shahzad, 30, is suspected of having links to international terrorists and just returned from Pakistan.

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6   ...it is coming to the point where even the MSM is going to have to mock the admin asshats mismanaging everything. My devoted far left in-laws have had enough of Obamanomics, Obama national (non)security, Obama (no)energy policy and everything else including PERS, of which every last one is a member. They’ve finally at least got it.. their golden retirements are going to vanish. They understand the term “unsustainable” and still have never fully turned away from the welfare state, but this kind of sugarcoating of terrorism, the abandonment of Israel, the demonization of me and their daughter for conservative views, the rest of the idiocy known as domestic policy, and the general ignorant petulance of SCROTUS (aka POTUS) has pushed them over the edge...

 

Is Obama guilty of fostering a coup attempt in Israel?

Posted by Rick
Published: May 4, 2010 - 6:23 AM

Bookworm is asking the question:

Am I suffering from historical amnesia, or is this the first time in American history that an administration has made a coup attempt against an ally?

The administration of President Barack Obama has launched what officials termed a psychological warfare campaign meant to topple Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu.

Sources in the Obama Administration and the US Congress have confirmed to the Middle East Newsline that the White House and State Department have sought to destabilize Netanyahu's government by forcing him to agree to an indefinite freeze on Jewish construction in areas taken by Israel in the wake of the 1967 war as well as the establishment of a Palestinian state by 2012. They said the campaign sought to replace Netanyahu with opposition leader and former foreign minister Tsipi Livni.

Couple that with all the bowing and kowtowing to thugs and dictators and you have a President that is leading this country down an unprecedented path.

It's not the hope and change I think people were voting for.

Crossposted at Brutally Honest.

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Obama's oil slick - an illustrated timeline of inaction

 

The, "Been on this from day one" meme is all warm dogshit.   

http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2010/05/obamas-katrina-illustrated-timeline.html

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20 April 2010: An oil rig rented and operated by BP in the Gulf of Mexico explodes, killing 11 workers.

21 April 2010: All 115 workers are evacuated from the Deepwater Horizon offshore oil rig.

22 April 2010: The Deepwater Horizon collapses into the sea and sinks.

22 April 2010: President Obama delivers a speech on Wall Street to advocate more government intervention in the country's financial sector, but offers no reforms for Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac, which helped precipitate the 2008 meltdown. He also delivers a speech regarding the contributions of Earth Day to environmental awareness.

Meanwhile, 200,000 gallons of oil are spilling daily.

23 April 2010: President Obama blasts the Arizona governor, state legislators, police officers and residents for backing federal laws that prohibit illegal immigration.

23 April 2010: The oil continues to flow.

24 April 2010: The president delivers his weekly radio address, which focuses on further regulation of Wall Street. He also calls upon certain segments of his original supporters -- African-Americans, Latinos, Hispanics, and women -- and asks them to mobilize for political action.

24 April 2010: Efforts to contain the spill are hampered by lack of resources and difficult weather.

25 April 2010: President Obama interrupts a weekend getaway to meet with the Rev. Billy Graham in North Carolina.

25 April 2010: Oil spreads across the gulf and heads toward the Louisiana shoreline.

26 April 2010: President Obama appears in a "Vote 2010" video, distributed by his political action wing Organizing for America, which serves as a stark appeal to blacks and Latinos -- specifically -- for their votes in November.

26 April 2010: The Coast Guard warns that the spill could become one of the worst in United States history.

28 April 2010: The President holds a rare, impromptu press conference on Air Force One, addressing "questions on the Arizona immigration law, the financial regulation bill and other issues." Obama also prepared to make his second nomination to the Supreme Court and warns of a "'conservative' brand of judicial activism in which the courts are often not showing appropriate deference to the decisions of lawmakers."

28 April 2010: large pools of oil are spotted close to the Louisiana shore line.

29 April 2010: the White House Flickr Feed is updated with a photo of the President meeting with Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and senior administration officials, including National Security Advisor Gen. James Jones, which indicates that they are urgently working the issue of the oil spill.

29 April 2010: Meanwhile, local officials, the Coast Guard and private citizens continue their efforts to prevent damage to the Louisiana coastline.

NYT: Unanswered Questions on the Spill
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/01/opinion/01sat1.html

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The timetable is damning. The blowout occurred on April 20. In short order, fire broke out on the rig, taking 11 lives, the rig collapsed and oil began leaking at a rate of 40,000 gallons a day. BP tried but failed to plug the well. Even so, BP appears to have remained confident that it could handle the situation with private resources (as did the administration) until Wednesday night, when, at a hastily called news conference, the Coast Guard quintupled its estimate of the leak to 5,000 barrels, or more than 200,000 gallons a day.

Only then did the administration move into high gear.

 

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YouTube: Earliest known silent film version of the Wizard of Oz

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Obama: Fool? Or Traitor?

Surprise! Times Square Bomb Suspect a Muslim (Did you honestly suspect any other profile?)

How wearily predictable:

MSNBC's Contessa Brewer 'Frustrated' That Times Square Bomber Is a Muslim

Faisal Shahzad (Failed Car Bomber) was a Registered Democrat

Time Square Bomber a Democrat and Obama Donor?

Still tracking down that news but one thing is clear: he wasn't a Tea Partier!

There are reports that Faisal Shahzad, the failed Time Square bomber was a registered Democrat in Connecticut and may be a donor to Obama's campaign.

This comes after the Mayor of New York, Michael Bloomberg openly speculated that the bomber might be “somebody with a political agenda who doesn't like the health care bill or something." Coming on the heels of repeated warnings from Obama, Bill Clinton and others that Tea Parties might lead to violence it was only natural for libs to assume this attack may have been inspired by opposition to Obama. But like the other baseless charges in Obama's political repertoire, this one turned out to be false as well.

Homeland Security almost let terrorist slip away?

What's worse than the overt profiling of Tea Partiers is the sheer incompetence of the Obama Administration which nearly let Faisal Shahzad get away. While security at the JFK airport in New York City was busy patting down little old ladies, Shahzad boarded his flight to the Middle East, the plane had began to pull away from the gate and only at the last second was the suspect caught.

Read more at floppingaces.net...

Obama Poses as Chief Executive; Regime Fails to Act on Oil Disaster (Do we have an EPA?)

Video: Senator Menendez uses Gulf disaster to promote his crusade against off shore drilling!

BP completes first of three containment domes

Gold Just Tanked Big-Time, As Everyone's Scrambling For Cash

Obama, Al Gore, Goldman Sachs and the greatest swindle in human history

$10,000,000,000,000

Ten trillion dollars. That’s the conservative estimate of the amount of money Barack Obama, Albert Gore Jr., and a whole cast of criminals stand to make yearly (gross) off of the greatest scam in human history: “global warming.”

If you have ever sat back, scratching your head and wondering why the Marxists are pushing for a “cap and trade” bill that would not only make energy costs “necessarily skyrocket,” to quote Barack Obama, but do absolutely nothing to effect fictional “climate change, ” one way or the other, you are about to find out.

We have long known this Marxist idea was nothing more than a continuation of the communist desire to “spread the wealth” by forcibly stealing from those who create and earn, and giving to those that don’t. This is an inbred mental defect that can’t be cured, only contained, the most effective way being: not to elect these evil, corrupt people in the first place!

When we first learned of the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX) we smelled a rat. No one has been more radical than Barack Obama when it comes to pushing the “global warming” hoax, and the “cap and trade” scheme. Being based in Chicago, common sense told us that Obama was somehow involved, and it was as corrupt as the day is long.

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Obama's New Foundation: Government Promotes Innovation That No Business Is Going To Provide

 

Gov Christie to NJ Supreme Court Justice: You're Fired!

U.N. Treaty to Give American Land Back to Indians

Obama Uses the Term Tea-bagger

President Obama is quoted in an interview saying that the unanimous vote of House Republicans vote against the stimulus bills “set the tenor for the whole year … That helped to create the tea-baggers ...

I'm sure if George Bush had said something equally offensive about blacks, gays, or some other dem victim group - that the MSM would have given him a pass too. /s

Now They Tell Us: Post-Katrina, Nagin To Blame (Bush long gone, Obama too Holy)

EMP could leave '9 out of 10 Americans dead'

White House in P.R. 'panic' over spill

Stunning Pictures of Al Gore's New $9 Million Mansion Media Totally Ignored

Six anti-American myths

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POLITICIZING THE WAR ON TERROR: Steny Hoyer: Dems more successful at fighting terrorists than GOP. Yeah, the “system” worked great in Times Square.

This gets a response from Hugh Hewitt:

The incompetence level of the Administration –on almost every issue– is leaking to the surface like the oil in the Gulf. The consequences of this incompetence are most obvious along the coasts of Florida, Alabama and Louisiana, but they will be most deadly if the national security team continues its feckless ways. As Fred Barnes pointed out on yesterday’s program, there have been four jihadist attacks on domestic targets on Obama’s watch –at the recruiting center in Arkansas, Fort Hood, Detroit and now Times Square.

And still they have a policy in place to avoid using the word terrorism.

Was it wise for Steny Hoyer to bring this up?

REPORT: MULTIPLE ARRESTS IN PAKISTAN over NYC bomb attempt.

It’s the Jihad, Stupid! “If you were listening to Geraldo on Sunday night (okay, I apologize), you would have thought the would-be Times Square bomber was either the illegitimate son of Timothy McVeigh or an evangelical minister overdosed on steroids looking for an abortion clinic. Geraldo was practically fulminating at the mouth — it’s a white man, it’s a white man — in nostalgia for the good old days when the true enemy was some evil Ku Kluxer waving his hangman’s noose. Well, it wasn’t.”

LESSONS FROM BOSTON’S WATER-MAIN BREAK: “Here are valuable lessons on being prepared for the worst when the local water gets contaminated.”

COORDINATION? “Did Andy Stern leave SEIU to protect the Obama Administration from charges of coordinating protests in the streets of our nation?”

OUR MATURE, CARING LEADER: ABC News: “Three days after he decried the lack of civility in American politics, President Obama is quoted in a new book about his presidency referring to the Tea Party movement using a derogatory term with sexual connotations.”

UPDATE: Compare And Contrast.

GOING SHORT ON AMERICA: Congressional Hypocrites Were Betting Against Stocks As Country Collapsed.

The Gorgon’s Stare

The Washington Post reports that authorities are closing in on a US citizen of Pakistani extraction for questioning in connection with failed Times Square car bomb. And now, the NYT reports, they have him.

Authorities were closing in on a man who they said was a naturalized U.S. citizen from Pakistan, according to a senior Obama administration official. … Investigators and agents also were scouring international phone records showing calls “between some of the people who might be associated with this and folks overseas,” according to a U.S. official who has discussed the case with intelligence officers.

The growing evidence of terrorist connections in the Times Square case led the New York-based terrorism task force to become the lead agency in the investigation, which had been overseen by the New York Police Department, a senior U.S. law enforcement official said. That indicates that the failed bombing is being investigated as a terrorist incident with international connections, the official said.

FBI Supervisory Special Agent Richard Kolko of the New York field division said in a statement Monday night that the “FBI JTTF [Joint Terrorism Task Force] and NYPD are working this case jointly and have been since the beginning.” The New York police force, known for its expertise in terrorism matters, is represented on the task force and will remain heavily involved in the probe, officials said.

According to the New York Times, Faisal Shahzad was arrested at a New York-area airport “apparently trying to flee”. “Charges against Mr. Shahzad, who had returned recently from a trip to Pakistan, were not announced.” Shahzad was connected to the purchase of the 1993 Nissan Pathfinder which was parked in Times Square with a load of explosive.

Keith Johnson, writing in the Wall Street Journal, believes that even if links are found they are likely to be looser than those which bound the 9/11 attackers to al-Qaeda. The era of the superattack may now have been superseded by an emphasis on numerous smaller attacks, like a swarm.

“No one would think of New York as a soft target, with the world’s biggest police force, and some of the best counterterrorism units,” said Bruce Hoffman, a terrorism analyst at Georgetown University. “And yet, in the past few years, terrorists are continuously targeting New York, which shows there’s no such thing as complete security.” …

But not only are the threats getting more numerous, they are at least in the public mind, becoming more diffuse. Mentioned among the threats are “the Austin, Texas man who flew a small plane into the local office of the Internal Revenue Service in February, killing himself and one other person, and the March arrest of the Christian militia members in Michigan, who allegedly planned to murder U.S. law-enforcement officials.”

The “War on Terror”, if that word may still be used, is suddenly with everybody. Speculation about the identity of the perpetrators has run the gamut. Robert Dreyfuss writing in the Nation said “it seems far more likely to me that the perpetrator of the bungled Times Square bomb plot was either a lone nut job or a member of some squirrely branch of the Tea Party, anti-government far right.” Election Ink said that “Anonymous sources have reported that a suspect is currently being questioned in the Bridgeport / New Haven CT area. The suspect is a middle age white male, has a history of strong political views, and considers himself a Tea Party activist. An arrest is expected within days. In a strange twist, the suspect worked in the past as an informant with law enforcement agencies.”

Quotes from NY Magazine captured the wide range of thoughts going through the minds of public officials. Mayor Bloomberg said the motive “could be anything”. The White House actually managed to utter the “T” word though in this case it primarily meant “terrorize”.

Attorney General Eric Holder said investigators have some good leads, though he wouldn’t elaborate. Bloomberg told Katie Couric he thinks it could have been a domestic terrorist acting alone: “If I had to guess 25 cents, this would be exactly that. Homegrown, or maybe a mentally deranged person, or somebody with a political agenda that doesn’t like the health care bill or something. It could be anything.” Kelly said it is too early to tell if this was the act of an individual or a larger network. Whoever it was, the White House used the T-word to describe the bomber: “I would say that was intended to terrorize, and I would say that whomever did that would be categorized as a terrorist,” White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said.

America is a country with a considerable number of enemies nearly all of whom would sue it for defation should it mention their names. One of the fundamental problems with this investigation — and concerns over who is handling it — revolves around the problem of who the perpetrator will turn out to be. Unless it happens to be an alien from another dimension, an arrest will explode one of several cherished political world views. If the perpetrator turns out to be a Tea Party male that will be one thing; if it turns out to be an American of Pakistani origin, that will be another. Nobody will be happy. And being happy is the whole point of things today. As Lee Smith pointed out in his essay The Trouble With Proxy Wars, every action and perception is judged in the scales of “the political effects in Washington”. That balance beam drove actions in Iraq; it is driving actions in Afghanistan and to some extent, it will shape the direction of the Times Square investigation. Wars are no longer fought with victory on the battlefield in mind. Rather they are waged with victory in Washington as the foremost consideration. Smith writes:

How did this come to pass? How did it happen that adversaries like Iran and Syria are able to shape US strategy, so that we have failed to win in Iraq and will fail in Afghanistan and have deterred ourselves from taking action against the Iranian nuclear program, and have jammed up our strategic alliance with Israel? It is because American leadership of the last two administrations failed to act against those states that have attacked our troops, allies and interests. We did we not win in Iraq because states like Syria and Iran did not pay a price for the acts of force they used to shape political effects to their own advantage; when we failed to do so we abandoned our Middle East policy to the mercy of our enemies, who, as we are repeatedly told, can ruin Iraq and Afghanistan whenever they decide to take off their gloves. We did not win because our leadership, abetted by Washington policy intellectuals, is more interested in political effects in Washington than strategic victories in the Middle East. Seen in this light, the only American victory in the region is a pyrrhic one, the bitter harvest of which we may well be reaping for many years to come.

A wide range of actions is precluded because “we don’t want to go there”. Whether it is the question of retaliating against Syria or Iran, using the “T” or “TP” word, or questioning the legitimacy of certain religions and agendas, finding the solution becomes driven less by the facts than by allowable political space. Public policy freezes up when it comes face to face with what it cannot abide; the mighty Federal Bureaucracy turns into the stone at the first glimpse of the Gorgon’s Stare.

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MSNBC anchor Contessa Brewer is disappointed that the Times Square bomber was not an “angry White man” from the Tea Party.

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"Shepard Smith laid it in the line on Fox News a few minutes ago.

He said “This bombing was not stopped. The terrorist was not intercepted. The bomb just failed to go off.”"

No doubt about it… Contessa was just admitting out loud what most far left loons were thinking today when they woke up to the news that a Pakistani native was the car bomber.

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Question: Is Shahzad Faisal Barack Obama’s type?

Posted by hillbuzz under Uncategorized | Tags: Kal Penn, Shahzad Faisal, what sort of guys does Obama like?, What's Obama's type? |
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Drudge is running a photo of the Muslim who tried to kill hundreds of Americans this weekend — including scores of children — on Times Square by positioning a car bomb just outside the theater that was showing The Lion King.

His name is Shazad Faisal, an agent of The Religion of Peace — and he looks like someone our current president would TOTALLY date.

Considering this was Obama’s boyfriend in college, and the man he went to Pakistan with in 1981, when Americans were not allowed to travel there under a US Passport:

And actor Kal Penn and the president seem to have broken up, and not on good terms, with Penn spirited away from the White House as quickly as possible recently — after abandoning his acting career to be close to Obama in Washington.

Are we getting closer to figuring out Obama’s “type”?

It’s been our experience that guys tend to date the same person over and over again — generally going for people who remind them of their first crush, or the first person they had a relationship with.

If that’s the case, then we wonder who was the guy Obama first crushed on…and why the White House felt the need to encourage The National Enquirer and The Globe to rev up the old discredited Vera Baker rumors now…to paint the president as a skirt-chasing stud.

There are no coincidences with this White House.

Only questions.

And super-creepy dudes Obama seems to have a major thing for.

 

 

Obama Administration Makes Plans to Gobble Up 401(k)s

Posted by Jim Hoft on Tuesday, May 4, 2010, 6:03 AM

The Obama Administration is making plans to take over the nation’s 401(k)s in order to bail out their union backers and their bankrupted pension plans.
Connie Hair at Human Events reported:

USE THE LINK, DAGNABBIT...

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"0baMao – Fundamentally Transforming America. ( Hopi Changi! )There wasn’t too much of an outcry when he stole GM from shareholders and gave it to the Unions. There wasn’t too much outcry when he closed successful Chrysler dealerships that supported Republicans. Give a thug some else’s freedom – it’s not too long before he comes for your freedom."

AARP and SEIU implicated, too:

http://wtpotus.wordpress.com/2010/04/19/there-are-no-coincidences-anymore/

"So, we’re Argentina now?

I believe this is called theft in the real world.

The Republicans better make a campaign issue out of this. "

"The government wants everything we have. That much is clear now.

They won’t defend the country against terrorism. They won’t defend the borders of the country. They want to defund the military. They insist on alienating all our allies and sucking up to our enemies. They refuse to let us drill for oil but insist on bending over backwards to allow foreign companies to drill for the same oil. They won’t take their damned boots off the economy’s neck and they won’t do a damned thing about unemployment.

No, all they want to do is build their communist state where THEY get all the good stuff and WE stand outside the fence, begging the government for scraps for the rest of our unhappy lives.

But we’re supposed to pay for it. We’re supposed to give up more and more and more and more and more to help make this horror happen.

I am well and truly sick of these pigs. I never subscribed to the “eat the rich” idea, but I’m starting to find the idea almost attractive.

At just what point do we march on Washington with a real plan for making further “business” impossible there?"

Question: Are regular Americans starting to wake up to the fact the MSM constantly lies and pushes its own agenda?

Posted by hillbuzz under Uncategorized
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Do you think Americans are waking up to the fact the MSM in this country lies and pushes its own agenda?

The MSM fell over backwards trying to claim the terrorist attack this weekend in Times Square was the work of the Tea Party.  That’s beyond absurd.

When it was proven that Muslims and the Religion of Peace were, once again, behind an attack on Americans, the MSM seemed beyond disappointed.  Contessa Brewer on CNN even went so far as to say she was frustrated that it wasn’t Tea Partiers involved, the way CNN and MSNBC wanted it to be.

It was a rare moment of candor for Brewer.  And it proved the MSM in this country is Leftist-controlled and agenda-driven.

They want to apologize for and enable Muslims in all their efforts to kill Americans…and the MSM’s number one goal is to discredit and malign the Tea Party Movement, and all Americans who stand up against this current administration.

Can it be any more obvious?

May 4, 2010 at 2:42 pm

I think it’s part of a greater awakening. People are looking at Pres Obama, Napalitano, Holder, Pelosi, and the whole gaggle of LSM news anchors with bewilderment.

May 4, 2010 at 2:48 pm

So the LSM actually hopes that a member of the Tea Party Movement will do something violent so that they can write off the entire movement as violent and, therefore, not to be listened to.

Yet the Islamofacists have done various and repeated violent acts against non-military, peaceful Americans and the LSM bends over backwards to remind us that Muslims love peace.

May 4, 2010 at 3:31 pm

Your #2 probably describes millions of people. Ace from Ace of Spades had a brilliant post about a week ago about these sorts of “Independents” whose political analysis is based exclusively on shunning any distinctions or bothersome information. (Ace as usual put it very eloquently).

These folks do not want to be agitated by any consequential arguments or issues. They want nice.

The media is aimed exactly at these ignoramuses.

Illegals As Useful Tools Of Left

According to David Horowitz's invaluable "Discover the Networks" Web site, NISN has partnered closely with ultraradical groups like Code Pink, the Vanguard Public Foundation and the Institute for Policy Studies, among others, suggesting they've got lots of money. Illegals As Useful Tools Of Left

Obama Administration Reveals Number of US Warheads

by Rodan ( 17 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, Military, Tranzis at May 4th, 2010 - 6:00 pm

The Progressive regime of Barack Hussein Obama has revealed the number of warheads the United States has in it’s arsenal. This comes as no shock as yesterday we had a post stating Obama would do this. He was once a supporter of the Nuclear Freeze movement of the early 1980’s and seeks to eliminate these weapons. By publicly stating what we have, he has tipped our hands.

Washington (CNN) — The United States has 5,113 nuclear warheads in its stockpile and many thousands more that have been retired and are awaiting dismantling, according to a senior defense official.

The release of the number of warheads marks only the second time in U.S. history the government has released the once top secret information.

Read the rest: U.S. reveals it has 5,113 nuclear warheads

Barack Hussein Obama’s Tranzi Progressive Ideology is dangerous. He views America as just another nation part of some fictitious Global Community.

Update: The media is reporting Obama was funny at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. However he used nasty mockery of Conservatives. He actually was pretty nasty.

You be the judge.

VIDEO AT LINK

This is 3rd world style demagoguery wrapped up as a joke. he let his true feeling show.

Tags: Nuclear Disarmament, Nukes
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The Left Has Lost Their Mind Over Guns

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USING LIGHT to heal battlefield injuries?

HOW TO hang a tire swing.

FIGHTING AGAINST a national electric grid?  A picture is worth a thousand words. The purple and red are where the wind is:

You can see that the US Southeast especially has weak winds. In my view that part of the country needs nuclear power.

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Obama Family: "Barack Obama Sr Married Anna Toot in Hawaii" "Their union produced B. Obama Jr."

Note date: All Africa ^ | 15 August 2004

Our Undocumented White House Resident

White House In P.R. 'Panic' Over Spill

Spend Less. Tax Less. Our Future Depends on It (Duncan D. Hunter)

More News from the Country that Used to be England

Poll: Women Make Up Majority of Tea Party Ranks

Transocean Survivor Interview

The Macondo/Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, With Running Updates (Best Site For Tech Info)

OK to Releases Nuke Details - but not BHO's BC?

Poll: Americans Wanting Roe Abortion Case Overturned Hits New High

At Least Ten States Are Looking At Harsher Immigration Laws (Or Are Begging Their Dem Leaders To)

Dems Use Same "Worker" In 2010 Ohio Gubernatorial Ad & 2008 Anti-McCain Ad

Organizing America…For Leftist Chaos

Young People Deserting Obama

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98DollarNetbook sells… $98 dollar netbooks

 

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SHOCKER: Source: Terrorist Faisal Shahzad Was Anti-Bush, Anti-War. Wow! It's a wonder the guy wasn't co-anchoring at MSNBC. Maybe he didn't have the right skin color for that gig? They pretty much have a white only policy over there, as I recall.

 Indeed.

 

PJTV: Bill Whittle and Michael Ledeen: The Bomb Failed, the System Failed, and DC Fails to See Our Enemy (But a Suspect Is In Custody).

 

It’s already time for a ‘Dumbest theories about Times Square Bomber’ post. Mayor Bloomberg gets a starring role,

And, finally, we have Contessa Brewer of MSNBC taking the silly crown so early in the game and with an enthusiasm which will be hard to top:

"I get frustrated...There was part of me that was hoping this was not going to be anybody with ties to any kind of Islamic country." [Audio available here.]

Lead Story

The jihadists’ deadly path to citizenship

By Michelle Malkin  •  May 5, 2010 02:32 AM

The jihadists’ deadly path to citizenship
by Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2010

America’s homeland security amnesia never ceases to amaze. In the aftermath of the botched Times Square terror attack over the weekend, Pakistani-born bombing suspect Faisal Shahzad’s U.S. citizenship status caused a bit of shock and awe. The Atlantic magazine writer Jeffrey Goldberg’s response was typical: “I am struck by the fact that he is a naturalized American citizen, not a recent or temporary visitor.” Well, wake up and smell the deadly deception.

Shahzad’s path to American citizenship — he reportedly married an American woman, Huma Mian, in 2008 after spending a decade in the country on foreign student and employment visas — is a tried-and-true terror formula. Jihadists have been gaming the sham marriage racket with impunity for years. And immigration benefit fraud has provided invaluable cover and aid for U.S.-based Islamic plotters, including many other operatives planning attacks on New York City. As I’ve reported previously:

– El Sayyid A. Nosair wed Karen Ann Mills Sweeney to avoid deportation for overstaying his visa. He acquired U.S. citizenship, allowing him to remain in the country, and was later convicted for conspiracy in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing that claimed six lives.

– Ali Mohamed became an American citizen after marrying a woman he met on a plane trip from Egypt to New York. Recently divorced, Linda Lee Sanchez wed Mohamed in Reno, Nev., after a six-week “courtship.” Mohamed became a top aide to Osama bin Laden and was later convicted for his role in the 1998 United States embassy bombings in Africa that killed 12 Americans and more than 200 others.

– Embassy bombing plotter Khalid Abu al Dahab obtained citizenship after marrying three different American women.

– Embassy bombing plotter Wadih el Hage, Osama bin Laden’s personal secretary, married April Ray in 1985 and became a naturalized citizen in 1989. Ray knew of her husband’s employment with bin Laden, but like many of these women in bogus marriages, she pleaded ignorance about the nature of her husband’s work. El Hage, she says, was a sweet man, and bin Laden “was a great boss.”

– Lebanon-born Chawki Youssef Hammoud, convicted in a Hezbollah cigarette-smuggling operation based out of Charlotte, N.C., married American citizen Jessica Fortune for a green card to remain in the country.

– Hammoud’s brother, Mohammed Hammoud, married three different American women. After arriving in the United States on a counterfeit visa, being ordered deported and filing an appeal, he wed Sabina Edwards to gain a green card. Federal immigration officials refused to award him legal status after this first marriage was deemed bogus in 1994. Undaunted, he married Jessica Wedel in May 1997 and, while still wed to her, paid Angela Tsioumas (already married to someone else, too) to marry him in Detroit. The Tsioumas union netted Mohammed Hammoud temporary legal residence to operate the terror cash scam. He was later convicted on 16 counts that included providing material support to Hezbollah.

– A total of eight Middle Eastern men who plotted to bomb New York landmarks in 1993 — Fadil Abdelgani, Amir Abdelgani, Siddig Ibrahim Siddig Ali, Tarig Elhassan, Abdo Mohammed Haggag, Fares Khallafalla, Mohammed Saleh, and Matarawy Mohammed Said Saleh — all obtained legal permanent residence by marrying American citizens.

A year after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, homeland security officials cracked a massive illegal alien Middle Eastern marriage fraud ring in a sting dubbed “Operation Broken Vows.” Authorities were stunned by the scope of the operations, which stretched from Boston to South Carolina to California. But marriage fraud remains a treacherous path of least resistance. The waiting period for U.S. citizenship is cut by more than half for marriage visa beneficiaries. Sham marriage monitoring by backlogged homeland security investigators is practically nonexistent.

As former federal immigration official Michael Cutler warned years ago: “Immigration benefit fraud is certainly one of the major ‘dots’ that was not connected prior to the attacks of September 11, 2001, and remains a ‘dot’ that is not really being addressed the way it needs to be in order to secure our nation against criminals and terrorists who understand how important it is for them to ‘game’ the system as a part of the embedding process.”

Jihadists have knowingly and deliberately exploited our lax immigration and entrance policies to secure the rights and benefits of American citizenship while they plot mass murder — and we haven’t done a damned thing to stop them.

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Related: Sen. Joe Lieberman proposes stripping citizenship from Americans who join foreign terrorist organizations:

Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) is planning to introduce a bill that would allow the government to take away citizenship from Americans who join foreign terrorist organizations.

The proposal would amend current law that bars American citizens from fighting for foreign armies at the price of losing their citizenship.

“I think it’s time for us to look at whether we want to amend that law to apply it to American citizens who choose to become affiliated with foreign terrorist organizations, whether they should not also be deprived automatically of their citizenship and therefore be deprived of rights that come with that citizenship when they are apprehended and charged with a terrorist act,” Lieberman, who helms the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, said on Fox News.

But perhaps DHS and the State Department should concentrate on the homeland security front door — making sure jihadis don’t get citizenship and other immigration/entrance benefits in the first place — instead of waiting to deal with it on the back end after the fact.

Remember what I have told you all along, regarding More Terror?

"Not a matter of 'if,' but when..."

 

“White House in P.R. ‘panic’ over spill.” “They can’t pontificate about Bush and Katrina anymore. Wouldn’t it be amazing if Obama were to empathize with Bush’s predicament? That would change the tenor of political discourse in Washington.”

 

“Drilling expansion dead in US Congress -Sen Nelson”

Shocker!

Plans by U.S. President Barack Obama to expand oil drilling off the eastern coast of the United States are “dead on arrival” in Congress after the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, Democratic Senator Bill Nelson said on Tuesday. Nelson, of Florida, made the prediction to reporters at a new conference where he and two other anti-drilling Democratic senators also called for a huge increase in the cap on oil-company liability related to environmental disasters.

Of course, it makes no difference that the EPA has been closely working with environmental groups and the oil industry to prevent environmental catastrophes and develop plans of action in the cases of spills like this one — and that in the 40 years or so of its existence, the agency still hasn’t come up with a workable contingency plan. In short, they’ve failed miserably.

So. As long as we’re talking about a “huge” cap increase on oil company liability, howsabout we discuss a concomitant huge decrease in the amount of taxpayer money that goes to fund agencies that have proven completely incapable of fulfilling their ostensible mandates?

Yeah, that’s what I thought.

The fact that I’ve even suggested such a thing proves that I’m both anti-science and racist. And that I’m probably one of those strange anti-government creatures the President says likes to dunk his balls into the eager mouths of my fellow hicktard bitter clingers.

I should be ashamed.

(thanks to JHo)

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Shocking Report

The following report is enough to give any AGW "denier" reason to step back and reconsider:

There are also worrisome reports of significant temperature increases, with anomalies of several degrees. Also in the report is the mention of ice free open sea of almost 2 million square kilometers, which is termed as “unprecendented in the history of the Arctic”.

It is shocking to read. I urge readers to have a look at some of the excerpts I’ve posted. You can view the entire book here at archive.org
First a map. Spitsbergen is part of Svalbard, which is part of Norway.

... read it at WUWT.

Update: Receding glaciers reveal remains of ancient decadent culture.

Posted by Cjunk at 2:39 PM| Comments (20)

 

Al Gore’s new carbon footprint

May 4, 2010 09:13 AM by Michelle Malkin68 Comments

 

Katrina Recovery Stalled – Under Nagin!

May 4th, 2010

From a suddenly blame-shifting Associated Press:

Data show New Orleans recovery stalled under Nagin

By CAIN BURDEAU (AP)

May 3, 2010

NEW ORLEANS — As Mayor Ray Nagin leaves office, hundreds of damaged city buildings including police stations and fire houses sit unrepaired more than four years after Hurricane Katrina, stark reminders of how the recovery has floundered.

Only seven percent of 283 city-owned structures slated to be rebuilt have been completed or are under construction, according to an analysis by The Associated Press. Those figures back up an impression many residents have had for more than a year — the Nagin administration has failed to renew much of New Orleans.

"New Orleans has struggled with a vision from the very beginning of the disaster," said Drew Sachs, vice president of James Lee Witt Associates, a consulting firm that has worked extensively on Louisiana’s hurricane recovery.

Besides missteps by the Nagin administration, rebuilding has been complicated because of the extent of damage, FEMA’s paralyzing bureaucracy as well as loss of population, which has hurt revenues and made it hard for city officials to determine where to put its limited resources.

The city lags both urban and rural neighbors hit hard by the catastrophic 2005 storm, according to rebuilding figures provided by the Federal Emergency Management Agency. For instance, 87 percent of St. Bernard Parish’s government buildings are under construction or have been reopened and 55 percent of Plaquemines Parish’s government buildings are rebuilt or are at least close to being finished…

The FEMA data shows that New Orleans has 283 buildings to fix, while St. Bernard has 190 and Plaquemines 222.

Nagin said the city made a remarkable comeback under his watch.

"We have 80 percent of our population back, young people moving in, an economy with the lowest unemployment rate, public housing being totally transformed, riverfront development, street work," Nagin said. "At the end of the day, the proof is in the pudding: Five years ago, you had a city that was totally empty, totally dark, 80 percent damaged; today, look at our statistics and I rest on that."

As for public infrastructure, the Nagin administration is adamant that it has done a good job and that FEMA — not city officials — are largely to blame…

Nagin will be replaced by Lt. Gov. Mitch Landrieu on Monday. Landrieu has made speeding up the recovery a priority during his transition.

Throughout the city, neighborhoods are still waiting for buildings and services to bounce back…

Gee, why all of a sudden is Mr. Nagin being blamed by the Associated Press? Meanwhile, Mr. Obama’s name does not appear anywhere in this entire article.

Hasn’t Mr. Obama been President for a year and a half? Didn’t he solemnly pledge to make New Orleans whole? Does Mr. Obama hate black people?

–What are we saying?

Of course our watchdog media would never think to blame a US President for such a local problem.

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This is Nagin’s legacy: Google “New Orleans School Buses Under Water.”

 

Desperately Avoiding Katrina

Posted by HughS
Published: May 4, 2010 - 7:15 PM

The Politico is reporting that the Obama administration is in something of a "P.R. panic" about the British Petroleum rig explosion and subsequent oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Signs of that panic were made open today when Robert Gibbs singled out Fox News' Wendell Goler to make the point that his network (Fox) had the temerity to let Michael Brown make inflammatory statements on Neil Cavuto's show. Brown accused the Obama administration of letting the Federal disaster response linger so that the increased damage would give the Obama administration an excuse to ban permanently off shore drilling. I don't believe Brown's speculation, but Gibbs took the bait and made himself look stupid (again).

Gibbs, responding to an oil spill query from Goler, called the network out for failing to challenge Brown, now a conservative Colorado radio host.

"I watched Fox yesterday -- you open both the double doors -- and waaah! -- Here I am," said Gibbs.

As Goler tried to calm Gibbs down, the press secretary began talking about "the special and unique interview with Michael Brown, who for those who weren't let in on the big secret... intimated on Fox -- and it wasn't, didn't appear to be, pushed back on real hard -- that this spill was leaked on purpose in order for us to undo decisions."

"You should call headquarters," he told Goler, and talk to "whoever makes the decision to put people like that on."

Has Gibbs ever offered that advice to any other network? Olberman? Maddow? Nevermind. Matthews? But about the public relations panic that is allegedly consuming the White House, Glenn Thrush at Politico offers this:

Hope and change was Obama's headline message in 2008, but those atop his campaign have always said that it was Obama's cool competence -- exemplified by his level-headed handling of the financial meltdown during the campaign's waning days -- that sealed the deal with independents and skeptical Democrats. The promise of rational, responsive and efficient government is Obama's brand, his justification for bigger and bolder federal interventions and, ultimately, his rationale for a second term.

So there was a "little bit of panic," according to one administration official, when White House aides sensed the oil spill narrative getting away from them last week. The White House was particularly alarmed by the rash of stories comparing the Obama administration's initial response with President George W. Bush's sluggish response in the wake of Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

Katrina was one of the first issues Obama seized upon after his election to the Senate in 2004 -- and he made a highly publicized visit to New Orleans during the campaign, using the Bush administration response as a metaphor for incompetent and uncaring government.

... Dana Perino, the last White House press secretary under Bush, even sounded sympathetic to Obama's plight. "I don't think this is comparable to Katrina," she said. "But ... they are learning just how hard it is to get situational awareness during a crisis. ... Things are going to overtake them. They are learning this right now."

A timeline of the White House response shows the difficulty federal officials initially had getting a clear picture of the disaster.

The Obama administration should be thankful that they are getting their information from BP and not a Ray Nagin or Kathleen Blanco. But I think the White House is also concerned about failures in the federal response infrastructure such as this:

If U.S. officials had followed up on a 1994 response plan for a major Gulf oil spill, it is possible that the spill could have been kept under control and far from land.

The problem: The federal government did not have a single fire boom on hand.

The "In-Situ Burn" plan produced by federal agencies in 1994 calls for responding to a major oil spill in the Gulf with the immediate use of fire booms.

But in order to conduct a successful test burn eight days after the Deepwater Horizon well began releasing massive amounts of oil into the Gulf, officials had to purchase one from a company in Illinois.

When federal officials called, Elastec/American Marine, shipped the only boom it had in stock, Jeff Bohleber, chief financial officer for Elastec, said today.

At federal officials' behest, the company began calling customers in other countries and asking if the U.S. government could borrow their fire booms for a few days, he said.

A single fire boom being towed by two boats can burn up to 1,800 barrels of oil an hour, Bohleber said. That translates to 75,000 gallons an hour, raising the possibility that the spill could have been contained at the accident scene 100 miles from shore.

"They said this was the tool of last resort. No, this is absolutely the asset of first use. Get in there and start burning oil before the spill gets out of hand," Bohleber said. "If they had six or seven of these systems in place when this happened and got out there and started burning, it would have significantly lessened the amount of oil that got loose."

In the days after the rig sank, U.S Coast Guard Rear Admiral Mary Landry said the government had all the assets it needed. She did not discuss why officials waited more than a week to conduct a test burn.

This is the sort of criticism that speaks to competency and the Obama administration knows this which is why the mere mention of a name like Michael Brown sets the Obama message machine into overdrive. Criticism of President Bush's response to Hurricane Katrina was Senator Obama's signature issue in his run up to the campaign for the White House. Now that President Obama is encountering the inherent limits and failures of a federal bureaucracy to disasters that occur on his own watch his administration is on defense instead of offense.

Note: Comments contributor iwogisdead links to this timelime. Thanks

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Magic Negro Calls For Civility From Teabaggers

Posted by Jay Tea
Published: May 4, 2010 - 5:30 PM

The President just jumped the shark.

Days after calling for less heated political rhetoric, President Obama is quoted in a new book blaming House Republicans for creating the "tea-baggers."

Now, remember, the president super-intelligent, and so much smarter than the rest of us.

So it's not only impossible, but racist to think that he was ignorant of the sexual connotation fo the term "tea-bagger."

It's also impossible and racist to think that he is ignorant of the fact that the Tea Party movement is pretty solidly anti-establishment, and while they might like individual members of Congress, they seem to be so fed up with the government that they'd cheerfully sieze the opportunity to toss out of office every single member of Congress.

So he's obviously lying.

Nah. Even I don't buy that. I think that Obama, for all his vaunted intelligence, is that sheltered and narcissistic and arrogant that he simply can't conceive of a legitimate grass-roots movement (after all, one of his closest advisors is David "King of Astroturf" Axelrod) that has solid, valid, legitimate reasons for opposing his agenda. That there are people who, no matter how long he spends talking about how great his plans are, will just say "no" and reject them for entirely valid reasons.

You got spoiled in Chicago, Mr. President. You got used to being part of a single-party political machine that never really had to compete to get its way, just brute force. And that ain't gonna work on the national stage.

And the harder you try to make it work, the more epic your fail will be.

And while I'd love to relish your failure, you ain't gonna go down all by your lonesome. No, you're gonna take a good chunk of us down with you.

What's it going to take to get you to wake up and learn something?

Update: I better offer a bit of context for that title...

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"'Carter Cubed' gets dumber by the day.  His...  response to the oil spill and to the TN flooding makes the Nagin-Blanco response to a Cat 5 hurricane look competent."

 

BREAKING: Jennifer Brunner Loses Democrat Nomination in Ohio. Live Report From Her Camp-PAIN Headquarters

Posted by hillbuzz under Uncategorized | Tags: Brunner Victory Party, Jennifer Brunner, Martha Coakley, Mineral City Coffee Club, Patricia Melton, Princess Caroline |
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Cold hard reality crashes into all 7 of Jennifer Brunner's paid supporters. Somewhere, Darth Soros is angry. VERY ANGRY.

Dear HillBuzz,

My name is Patricia Melton and I am the President-for-Life of the Mineral City Coffee Club, the foremost Coffee Club of not just central Ohio, or even Tuscarawas County, but the entire state. Everywhere that matters, anyway.  Like anybody wants to go to Youngstown that doesn’t have to. Please.

I’m reporting live tonight from the scene of Secretary of Fraud Jennifer Brunner’s ignoble defeat, here in Columbus, Ohio,

"...keep your eye on the Democrat primary results in Ohio today, and post them when you see them.

Jennifer Brunner is the Leftist, Soros-installed Secretary of State in Ohio.  She is a devoted high priestess of the Cult of Obama.  Voters in Ohio know a vote for her in this primary is a vote of support for the current White House and the Socialist-Democrat majority in the Senate.

If she loses today, and is not selected as the Democrat nominee for the Senate, then it’s more refutation of the current president’s radical agenda."

A Stranger in Our Midst

by savage ( 173 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, Politics at May 4th, 2010 - 8:30 pm

This is one hell of an eye opening article by Robert Weissburg over at the American Thinker.

This phrase jumped out at me and smacked me in the face.

I finally realized that the Obama administration and its congressional collaborators almost resemble a foreign occupying force, a coterie of politically and culturally non-indigenous leaders whose rule contravenes local values rooted in our national tradition. It is as if the United States has been occupied by a foreign power, and this transcends policy objections.

Great article, best to read it all.

Tags: Robert Weissburg
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DCCC's Got 99 Problems But a Bitch Ain't One

—Ace

Jim Geraghty was tasked by his editors to figure out how many Democratic seats were vulnerable this year.

Over ninety, which he rounds up to 99.

Once you add up the upcoming special elections, the open-seat races, and the races where there’s some indicator of trouble for a Democratic opponent — a particularly strong challenger, favorable district demographics, surprising fundraising numbers, a particularly weak Democratic incumbent, or a combination of these factors — you come up with more than 90 House races. If the GOP wins only half the seats listed below, they win back the House.

Posted by Ace at 09:28 PM New Comments Thingy

 

29 One issue though, the Republicans haven't done a damn thing of note on domestic policy since 1994.

The class of 2010 had better understand the stakes. No hand holding, no kumbaya, no camaraderie.

44  ...Now, if the GOP can manage not to blow it...

[backhoe]

...these two bills should be re-named the “Gun Owners Are Probably Terrorists Act,” and the “National Firearm Registry Act,” respectively...

Terrorists and Guns: The Nature of the Threat and Proposed Reforms

NO ONE, not even the hard core 2A groups caught this. They sneaked this in, and even long-time guardians of firearms rights were caught unawares by this announcement. The "hearings" are tomorrow.

Gunowners: Are You A Terrorist?(Gungrabber Hearings TOMORROW!)

America's Nuclear Surrender

Transportation Secretary Explains 'Sea Change' He Envisions for U.S. Transportation

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

 

video shows how teachers started indoctrinating the gay agenda to children as early as 1994.

In Part 2 of our uncovered video, fourth graders work in groups and their teacher holds a group discussion about what it means to be gay or lesbian and how they are victims of society.

http://www.youtube.com/user/MarriageProtection#p/u/5/bCRqyJeLPI4

In Part 3 of our uncovered training video, an elementary school puts up a display of homosexual partners, calls them families and then proceeds to show the students.

http://www.youtube.com/user/MarriageProtection#p/u/4/P18Q9u6LBXA

Inside the Beltway : STRONG BREW

The term "tea-bagger" is like uttering the "N" word, some say. Though he aspires to promote civility, evidence has surfaced that President Obama has added "tea-bagger" to his public lexicon, though it's considered a cheap and tawdry insult by "tea party" activists.

Watchdogs at Americans for Tax Reform (ATR) barked when they saw the proof, tucked in a sneak peak of Newsweek columnist Jonathan Alter's new book, "The Promise: President Obama, Year One," to be released May 18.

"This remark is the equivalent of using the 'n' word. It shows contempt for middle America, expressed knowingly, contemptuously, on purpose, and with a smirk. It is indefensible to use this word. The president knows what it means, and his people know what it means.

The public thought we reached a new low of incivility during the Clinton administration. Well, the Obama administration has just outdone them,"

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

“A President this nuts only comes around once in a coon’s age.”

0bama the "Uniter" ...

Obama To Supporters: "Argue With Friend and Neighbors Get In Their Face!" video

Obama Mocks Fox, "Teabaggers" video

Obama Mocks Republican 'Armageddon' Rhetoric (Again) video

Obama: Police Acted 'stupidly' in Scholar Arrest video

Obama On GOP Running On Repeal: 'Go For It' video

NRA: Barack Obama - "bitter gun owners" video

Obama, during his private pep talk to Democrats, ... asked, “Does anybody think that the teabag, anti-government people are going to support them if they bring down health care? All it will do is confuse and dispirit” Democratic voters “and it will encourage the extremists.” - Nov. 7, 2009 4 posted on Wednesday, May 05, 2010 4:02:40 AM by TigersEye

C.W. Nevius blog: Asian community rallies to stop violence

Post, err, make that Most- racial society evah!

Squaring Off in US: Preet Bharara vs Pakistani-Americans (Oh, This is Going To Get Interesting)

The Two Vietnam Wars

Idiot Alert:

Senior Republicans distance themselves from 'drill, baby, drill'

 

Weighing the Benefits & Costs of Offshore Drilling (It's a good bargain.)

ALL JIHAD IS LOCAL

Obama and the Democrats are Coming After Your 401k

Tomorrow’s narrative today: Did Bush drive Shahzad to this ?

Inside Terror Training Camp Tied to Bomb Suspect (Pakistani Taliban Connection)

One-Sidedness Now Epidemic In Newsrooms

Obama Double Standard Disease: an affliction that causes the media to ignore, rationalize or trivialize to defend, support and advance the tax-the-rich, spread-the-wealth, expand-the-government agenda of the president and his party.

This stands in stark contrast with media treatment of those who refuse to embrace the left-wing, America-bullies-world, dissenters-are-racist, pro-amnesty, gay-marriage-is-a-right, pro-Roe worldview.

ODSD is pandemic. Here are just a few cases.

When the economy recovered under President George W. Bush, the major media pronounced it a "jobless recovery." Now, despite unemployment stalled at 9.7% for several months, the same media call it a "surprising" or "unexpected" recovery.

Obama urged passage of an $800 billion "stimulus" package to prevent unemployment from reaching 8%. Post-stimulus passage, unemployment reached 10%. Consider how the media would have treated Bush had he given varying predictions about, and then varying accounts of, the number of jobs supposedly "created or saved" — a laughably unprovable yardstick.

Obama brazenly claims that under his policies, 95% of "working Americans" received a "tax cut." But nearly half of American workers pay absolutely nothing in income taxes. And after exemptions, tax credits and other deductions, the Obama tax cut even exceeded many workers' payroll taxes. How does a check, given to someone who pays little or no taxes, become a "tax cut"?

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

Media Narative Changes: First They Blame The "Right-Wing" Now They Fear "Racism"

[backhoe]

Video: "The Manchurian President" Author Talks About Obama's Radical Past

John Stossel tells O'Reilly: President Obama is an "Arrogant Interventionist" - Video

Did President Obama & Eric Holder Suspend Another Bush Era Terrorist Investigation?

Limbaugh to Bloomberg: You're an Absolute Blithering, Embarrassing Idiot

 

Good news: Obama using the word “teabaggers” now

The Boondocks Take On the Race-Voting Black Community

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The black community is, bar none, the absolute most racist demographic in this country.

If you are black, they will vote for you.  If you aren’t black, no matter how good a candidate you are, if you are up against any random black person, even if plucked from the phone book, blacks will just vote for whomever looks most like them. And if you beat a black person at anything, fair and square, brace yourself for the Al Sharpton/Henry Gates/Jesse Jackson wailing and screaming brigade, always prepped to reward and foster mendacity under the banner of affirmative action.

See: Election 2008.

 

May 5, 2010 at 4:39 am

My My…. how tides turn. Confronting black racism! It’s about f-ing time. After spending the past 7 yrs as a casino dealer in Reno NV I finally know what real racism is. It’s not those tacty jokes that my parents and their friends used to tell that included a whole array of derogatory words referring to black people. Racism is being told to ones face that “i’m gonna kill your white ass if u don’t give my money back.” Or having a gang of brothers and sisters lying, blanantly lying, to defended a brothers false accusation… Just so the cracker gets in trouble. Maybe black people aren’t all racists but there sure is a whole lot of hostility in their hearts against white folk. (and non-black people)

Gulf Rig Blowout : Fooled by Randomness

Gov. Haley Barbour on the BP Oil Spill

Transcript of interview on CNN

Right now, there's no oil within 50 miles of the Mississippi. Eighty percent of the oil slick, as it's called and appropriately -- 80 percent is literally just sheen or film right on top of -- on top of the water. That is not toxic. It's not particularly damaging.

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

British Petroleum Caps One of Three Gulf Oil Leaks

Obama biggest recipient of BP cash

Farmers Cope With Roundup-Resistant Weeds (GMO and Monsanto blamed)

Whoops! CO2 has almost nothing to do with global warming, discovers top US meteorologist

Dems use deficit commission to push for amnesty [latest stalking horse]

I’ve repeatedly predicted that the National Commission on Financial Responsibility and Reform (NCFRR) would serve mainly as a Trojan horse for massive, broad tax hikes. Who knew that the so-called “deficit commission” would also become a stalking horse for … immigration reform? The Hill reports on the latest Democratic mission statement from the NCFRR:

Democrats want immigration reform on the table as the White House fiscal commission examines ways to reduce deficits, saying there is a “credible connection” between the issue and the country’s fiscal situation.

Service Employees International Union (SEIU) President Andy Stern and Rep. Xavier Becerra (Calif.), both Democrats on the bipartisan fiscal commission, said reforms giving the 12 million illegal immigrants in the United States a chance to stay in the U.S. legally could boost the economy and thereby help pay down the debt.

Uh, sure. Why not add amnesty to a debate over tax hikes and spending cuts? May as well toss religion and sports into the mix as well. Republicans responded with well-tempered disbelief:

Can't wait for the IRS/Health Gestapo's version:

PA Tax Amnesty TV ad: "We Know Who You Are" (VIDEO)

Big Brother is Watching You: Section 1071 of the Dodd Bill [Must read]

Plus the news last week about requiring businesses to file 1099 forms for every transaction over $600. Big Brother is auditing you.

I hadn't heard that. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2503166/posts

 

So THAT'S Who The Violent Protestors Are!

We keep hearing from the "useful idiots" in the media that the "Tea Partiers" are interested in violence.

(Excerpt) Read more at market-ticker.denninger.net ...

Just BTW? I'll vote for Mr. Cain for any office he cares to achieve...

10 cans amidst all the can’t thinking

The Gulf Coast states did not need another disaster to deal with, but the bad news just keeps on coming. People were killed when the British Petroleum oil platform exploded, along with what will be the worst oil spill in history.

As we hear the news each day about the difficulty in stopping the spread of the oil spill in the Gulf, and the impending dangers to wildlife, fisheries, businesses and the coastal states, we become more and more frustrated because there is nothing most of us can do individually to help the situation.

We can only pray for the people and agencies trying to remedy the situation, that they will have the resolve and resources to stop the spread of the impact of this disaster.

Consistent bad news leads to a bad attitude, lack of confidence and, eventually, failure. Just ask any high achiever in business, sports or any endeavor of life.

Since the summer of 2008, we have been fed a constant diet of more and more bad news about the economy, the credit crisis, the housing crisis, the recession, political scandals, a dysfunctional federal government, crooked politicians, crooked lenders, crooked borrowers and crooked executives.

We are constantly being reminded that it is going to take time to fix these problems, and that there are no quick fix solutions. We know that, but the Obama Administration and Congress continue to believe that they can spend us out of these problems. They can’t. The math does not work.

The president’s campaign promises about transparency, bipartisanship and no earmarks in legislation have been broken. And as the mainstream media looks the other way and tries to rationalize the broken promises, the informed voters get more and more frustrated, while the uninformed voters stay stuck on stupid.

Many voters are frustrated with both the Democrats and the Republicans in Congress, because they have failed to fix the real problems, as they continue to ignore lessons from history and the voting public.

As a result, many people are losing hope.

Last week President Obama issued a challenge to his supporters to help him re-elect Democrats to Congress so he can continue to “deliver on the promise of change, hope and prosperity.” I shared that with the listeners and asked them to share their feelings and opinions about change, hope and prosperity.

Only one caller out of about 20 thought the president was doing a wonderful job delivering change, hope and prosperity. But before I could ask him why he felt that way, he hung up. The other 19 callers totally disagreed and stayed on and gave reasons as to why, which we talk about nearly every night on the show.

The response by a 29-year-old first-time caller summed it up when she said, “This change is killing my hope for prosperity.”

I have not lost hope, because there are things we can do to capture the change people were hoping for but are not getting. We have our voices, our votes and our valuables (time and money) to work with.

For those that are losing hope I offer these “Ten Cans”:

You CAN have a dream, without knowing how to get there. You CAN have a life, just start somewhere. You CAN make a difference, one person at a time. You CAN make things happen, don’t expect a straight line.

You CAN be happy, if you have a hope inside. You CAN have love in your life, but look beyond the outside

You CAN solve your problems, but FIRST, count your blessings. You CAN find the strength, like an eagle, waiting, and resting.

You CAN make this a better world, but life is just a minute. God CAN lead you through it, if all your heart is in it. – The Hermanator

Despite all the bad news, there is hope if we do what we CAN do.

[backhoe]

May 5, 2010 at 7:24 am

I get the sense here that people are sick to death of Obama and everything the Democrats stand for. I think there was a hope that Obama would be good for the country and now all blinders are off. People are facing reality and just trying to survive till...  elections. Unemployment is horrendous...

RETRACTO IS BACK, demanding a correction from McClatchy over bogus “N-word” reports. “In the day of cell phone cams and flip cams, McClatchy relies upon hearsay that comes from an unidentified ‘colleague’ of Rep. Lewis.”

MARK TAPSCOTT: Time for some oil spill perspective. “From an environmental perspective, off-shore oil drilling is far safer than Mother Nature. As the Wall Street Journal noted yesterday, oil that seeps naturally from the ocean floor puts 47 million gallons of crude into U.S. waters annually. Thus far, Deepwater Horizon has leaked about three million gallons.

I Remember When "Liberian Tanker" Was A Household Word

More historical perspective on the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico can be found here at the ITOPF website.

The best estimate I can come up with suggests the current spill is around 700 tonnes a day (based* on the current official 5000 barrels/day estimate) - but if someone has a more accurate figure than that, drop it in the comments and I'll update.

h/t Eric Anderson

Related: I blame Bush.

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  Dem Turnout Falls Off A Cliff. “Turnout among Dem voters dropped precipitously in 3 statewide primaries on Tuesday, giving the party more evidence that their voters lack enthusiasm ahead of midterm elections.”

Democrats’ Worst Fear Is About To Come True.

Awesome: MFM Changes Its Spin on Shahzad

—Ace

This post notes that at first the "out liberals" (those not in the closet, like Matthews) first tried to blame the Times Square bomb on the "right-wing."

Now that it's known, as could easily have been guessed, to have been an Islamized immigrant, they have a new slam against the "right-wing" -- that we will indulge in an orgy of racist retribution for the act.

That's beautiful. They can't lose. First we're blamed for doing it in the first place. If that doesn't pan out, there's always Plan B -- blame us for an overreaction to the event and claim that that overreaction is in fact worse than the crime that provoked it.

An overreaction, incidentally, that never actually comes. Even after 9/11, there were only three or four acts of documented anti-Muslim violence in the entire 300-million-strong country.

Plan A: The right did it.

Plan B: Okay, the right didn't do it, per se, but now the right is going to go on a murderous racist crime-spree in reaction to it.

Every time. Ev-er-y time.

Either we're responsible for the crime itself or we're responsible for worse crimes (in this telling), becoming accessories-to-chaos-after-the-fact.

Either way, we're always guilty. Of something.

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We're just seeing the beginning, folks.  More "fun" to come, only I'm afraid the next car bomb, or whatever, won't fail.

Very true.

SPINNING TIMES SQUARE:

It is fascinating to see how the authorities and the major media outlets avoid the words “Islam” and “Muslim” in connection to the failed Times Square bombing. In both this piece in Time and in this piece in the New York Times the word “Islam” is only used in the name of the city of Islamabad in Pakistan.

The Times uses the word “Muslim” once: “At his news conference, Mr. Bloomberg warned against any backlash against Pakistanis or Muslims in New York, saying, ‘We will not tolerate any bias.’”

The authorities — Holder, Napolitano, New York Police Commissioner Kelly — also avoided the words Islam and Muslim at their press conference. They spoke about “terrorism” but didn’t define the term.

So what kind of terrorist is Faisal Shahzad if he cannot be called a Muslim or an Islamic terrorist?

Surely there must be some way to connect him to those damn Teabaggers!

 

DON’T BLAME CALIFORNIA’S WOES on Proposition 13.

 

THE STATE OF Oil Spill Cleanup Technology.

While Oil Slick Spread, Interior Department Chief of Staff Rafted with Wife on Trip in Grand Canyon

European Union, Currency Are Headed for Collapse

FCC to Overhaul Regulation of Internet Lines

‘strengthen public safety communications”

Government taking control of content when they want to.

Koch: Call them what they are: Illegal aliens

Video Of Illegals Crossing Border

Goldstone Ordered Execution of Blacks Under Apartheid

Just be silent and we won’t call you a racist

Video surfaces of SWAT team shooting pet dog during raid

Bloomberg lobbies for tighter gun control laws following Times Square bomber bust

Leaked tapes reveal leaders' climate fight [Obama blames the West, US]

Dem Turnout Falls Off A Cliff

[backhoe]

GOVERNMENT REGULATORS GAVE BP A PASS: “The Interior Department exempted BP’s calamitous Gulf of Mexico drilling operation from a detailed environmental-impact analysis last year, according to government documents, after three reviews of the area concluded that a massive oil spill was unlikely.”

I had linked the original WaPo version of this below, but, strangely, that link now goes to a completely different story. So here it is again. Thanks to reader Joseph Nunke for pointing out this odd behavior at the Post, and for sending the new link. We saw similar behavior from The New York Times with a critical story about the Administration the other day. Hmm. Anybody at the WaPo or the NYT want to explain this? ‘Cause it looks pretty bad.

UPDATE: Related: Washington Post shifts leftward online.

Interesting
http://pesn.com/2010/05/05/9501645_No_joke--Goldman_Sachs_shorted_TransOcean/

The Bringer of Death

Posted by Michael Laprarie
Published: May 5, 2010 - 7:09 PM

And now, Number 11: "BP Oil Platform Spill Disaster is CHENEY'S Fault"

I kid you not. It didn't take long, did it?

The First Post (UK): "Halliburton implicated in BP's Deepwater oil spill"

The Guardian: "Dick Cheney and the oil spill"

Salon.com: "Who's to blame for the oil spill? Dick Cheney"

A week ago, the Wall Street Journal published a fair analysis of the safety mechanisms aboard the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig, leading off the article with the fact that rig did not have a remote backup "acoustic switch" shutoff mechanism installed on the wellhead. And Halliburton Co., the biggest provider of oilfield services in the US, was responsible for cementing Deepwater Horizon's drilling hole, a process that involves pumping cement into the sheathing around the over-large drilling hole in order to seal the space between the hole and the wellhead pipe.

So, according to the loony left, Halliburton is solely responsible for the Deepwater Horizon blowout because 1) they are evil, and 2) a drilling platform off the coast of Australia that Halliburton also cemented experienced a blowout last August. What more proof do we need? Also, Dick Cheney's secret diabolical "energy task force" that met -- in secret!! -- during Chimpy McHitler's first Reich Regime term obviously decided to eliminate all of the offshore drilling platform safety features that they could get away with, just so his Big Oil schmoozing buddies could get bigger payday bonuses. Ah, yes ... it all makes perfect sense now.

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Two more related stories that should be getting loads of attention from every network and major newspaper, but that sadly do not fit the preferred narrative:

Washington Post: "U.S. exempted BP's Gulf of Mexico drilling from environmental impact study"

The Interior Department exempted BP's calamitous Gulf of Mexico drilling operation from a detailed environmental impact analysis last year, according to government documents, after three reviews of the area concluded that a massive oil spill was unlikely.

The decision by the department's Minerals Management Service (MMS) to give BP's lease at Deepwater Horizon a "categorical exclusion" from the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) on April 6, 2009 -- and BP's lobbying efforts just 11 days before the explosion to expand those exemptions -- show that neither federal regulators nor the company anticipated an accident of the scale of the one unfolding in the gulf.

The Politico: "Obama Biggest Recipient of BP Cash"

While the BP oil geyser pumps millions of gallons of petroleum into the Gulf of Mexico, President Barack Obama and members of Congress may have to answer for the millions in campaign contributions they've taken from the oil and gas giant over the years.

BP and its employees have given more than $3.5 million to federal candidates over the past 20 years, with the largest chunk of their money going to Obama, according to the Center for Responsive Politics ... During his time in the Senate and while running for president, Obama received a total of $77,051 from the oil giant and is the top recipient of BP PAC and individual money over the past 20 years, according to financial disclosure records.

This shouldn't surprise anyone who has been paying attention for the last two and a half years.

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"Pulling the Cheney card will backfire. A majority of Americans pine for the good old days when Cheney was around and terrorists hid in caves, instead of parking in Time Square."

Democratic Leader Al Sharpton: “The Dream Is to Make Everything Equal in Everybody’s House” (Video)

Posted by Jim Hoft on Wednesday, May 5, 2010, 10:27 PM

Last month Al Sharpton claimed, “Americans overwhelmingly voted for socialism when they elected Barack Obama.”
On Sunday the Democratic Leader stuck to his socialist theme. Sharpton told a congregation in Connecticut, “The dream was to make everything equal in everybody’s house”

So, can we call them socialists now?
Via BreitbartTV:

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Breaking: Obama Administration & UNSC Push Legislation to Strip Israel of Nuclear Weapons

Posted by Jim Hoft on Wednesday, May 5, 2010, 6:16 PM

Do you remember when Jesse Jackson said that under Obama Jews would lose all of their clout?
He was right.

(Top left clockwise) Barack and Michelle Obama and radical Leftist anti-Israel Professor Edward Said at a May 1998 Arab community event in Chicago at which Edward Said gave the keynote speech. (Bill Baar’s West Side), Former PLO operative and close friend of the Obama’s Rashid Khalidi, Barack Obama and his racist minister Jeremiah Wright, and close terrorist friend William Ayers.

The Obama Administration and the United Nations Security Council pushed legislation to strip Israel of nuclear weapons.
The Jerusalem Post reported:

The five permanent members of the UN Security Council said they support a nuclear-free zone in the Middle East, according to a unanimous statement circulated during a conference aimed at strengthening nonproliferation.

Without mentioning Israel by name, the group voiced support for the “full implementation” of a 1995 resolution intended to free the Middle East from nuclear arms. “We are committed to a full implemented of the 1995 NPT resolution on the Middle East and we support all ongoing efforts to this end,” the statement read. “We are ready to consider all relevant proposals in the course of the Review Conference in order to come to an agreed decision aimed at taking concrete steps in this direction.”

The statement also stressed “serious concern” over the Iranian nuclear program and urged all countries to sign and adhere the 1970 Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.

Three countries are not party to the NPT, including India, Pakistan and Israel, which is widely believed to possess a nuclear arsenal. “We urge those state that are not parties to the treaty to accede as non-nuclear-weapon states and pending accession to the NPT, to adhere to its terms,” the five countries wrote.

Coming on the third day of a month-long NPT review conference, the statement spoke to competing interests: The US came into the conference pushing for tough measures against Iran, while in speeches the Arab states have increasingly focused on Israel’s presumed nuclear arms and their desire for Israel to sign the NPT as a non-nuclear weapon state.

Astute Bloggers has more on this anti-Israel resolution.

Previously on Obama and Israel:
** Obama Refuses to Dine With Jewish Leader
** Obama Won’t Allow Any Photos of Him With PM Netanyahu
** Stunner. Obama Has Refused All Israeli Military Requests Since Entering Office in 2009
** Obama Administration Denies Visas to Israeli Nuclear Scientists
** Barack Obama Announces Historic Shift in America’s Relationship With Israel
** Team Obama Working With Egypt & Russia to Rid Israel of Nuclear Weapons

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" Whose side is this nutball on?"

 

It Begins… GOP Reps Call for Investigation into Obama Administration’s Slow and Weak Response to BP Gulf Oil Spill

Posted by Jim Hoft on Wednesday, May 5, 2010, 3:11 PM

Republican Study Committee Chairman Rep. Tom Price (R-GA) released this statement earlier today criticizing the Administration’s pathetic response to the BP Gulf oil spill.

Republican Study Committee Chairman Tom Price (R-GA) issued the following statement regarding the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

“The environment and the livelihood of millions in the Gulf region depend on getting this oil spill cleaned up as quickly as possible. That is priority number one,” said Chairman Price. “Meanwhile, there must be a full investigation to learn exactly what went wrong and who should be held accountable. It would be utterly irresponsible to leave any questions unanswered about this disaster and Washington’s response. So far, the remarkably slow response by the Obama administration and their defensive posture raises questions about their handling of this matter. Such a response and attitude do not inspire confidence that similar disasters will be addressed more effectively in the future.

“This tragedy once again highlights the need for an energy policy that uses the full potential of American innovation, conservation, and production. This is a time to clean up the spill and get an accurate accounting of the situation, not for making short-sighted and reactionary decisions to limit access to our country’s energy resources. Taxpayers should not foot the bill for this disaster, and American families should not be hit with runaway energy bills because it was used to stymie future responsible and needed expansion of domestic energy.”

Top Obama Administration officials did not even know that the Defense Department had oil slick equipment.

Barack Obama is the biggest recipient of BP cash in the last 20 years.

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Video of SWAT Raid on Missouri Family

"There was no resistance to that raid, it could have been done outside the home by a police officer. Our local governments have become obsessed by funding and building the equivalent of storm-troopers to violate peoples rights for the sake of petty crime."

 

"So a "small amount" of marijuana is "child endangerment", but firing seven shots in the house isn't?"

 

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Yes, I hate Pop "Culture," to the point I rarely link to it, or comment- it is a sewer. And wrecking my country.

 

But this?

 

Kind of speaks for itself...

 

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251 Does this film even need a script? Throw Lohan in some 70s clothes and follow her around with a camera on any given day. Scenes write themselves.

 

Inevitable: Lindsay Lohan To Play Pornstar

—Ace

Linda Lovelace.

Lindsay Lohan has landed the lead role in an independent movie about 1970s porn star Linda Lovelace, one of the film's producers said.

The 24-year-old actress will play Lovelace, who shot to fame with the landmark 1972 porno movie "Deep Throat," while Bill Pullman will portray Playboy magazine founder Hugh Hefner in the period drama, producer Wali Razaqi told The Los Angeles Times.

...

"I would say it's probably one of the most challenging roles any actor could play — and not because of the sexual content, necessarily — but more because she was so battered and beat up emotionally, that I think it's gonna take everything Lindsay has to really be able to pull it off," he told the Times.

She's only 25 years old (or whatever) and she's already at the point she needs a "bold, daring" stunt-casting to help revive her career.

It's a little too late for her to change things, but all of this young girls in Hollywood think that the way to be taken seriously is to whore it up in their private lives and star in "dark, edgy" dirty movies for their day jobs. (Dakota Fanning just proved she was "all grown up" by getting raped in a movie.)

I'm not really sure what they're thinking. Adult actresses who get a lot of starring roles tend to have clean (or clean-ish) reputations and do mainly mainstream movies. Julia Roberts isn't getting raped on screen very often.

But a lot of them seem to think the same way. "I'll show them how adult I am!" When actually adult actresses tend to take roles only a few steps removed from being childhood innocence.

Posted by Ace at 07:46 PM New Comments Thingy

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A Peek Inside 'The Manchurian President'

Comin' soon to Øbozo's MØ'Merica:

'Horror story' for thousands as cancer patients are denied 'miracle' drug on the NHS

Hopi

Changi

Health care law's massive, hidden tax change( 1099's)

Nashville Flood 2010: The Disaster You May Not Have Heard About

Well, it's just Evil Southroners- not like it's Real People in NYC or LA or something...

Amazing Video: Nashville Flood 2010

 

The guy tried to blow up a building but they're worried about a gun he owned? The NYT never misses a chance to propagandize against the right to own a gun:

Suspect’s Gun Proved Easy to Obtain (barf alert!)

  His citizenship proved easy to get as well. We really need to give all Muslim immigrant citizenship applicants a hard second look.

Someone at the White House really must want you to believe Obama is heterosexual

 

 

Hawaii governor announces 'exact' place of Obama birth

Then showing the birth certificate won’t be a problem?

*******

Great News. Now all we need is for officials at Kapiolani Hospital to confirm what the good governor has said: That Obama was indeed born at Kapiolani Hospital. Don't hold your breath.

Great News. Now all we need is for the good governor to tell us who the birth doctor was on Aug.4,1961, Obama's birth date, so that we can verify the doctor's name, and Obama will be free and clear to run for President in 2012. Again, don't hold your breath.

59 posted on Thursday, May 06, 2010 3:32:18 AM by john mirse

Obama admin exempted BP’s Gulf drilling from environmental impact study (Bush's Fault!)

Guns needed to stop Chicago murders

List of US cities boycotting Arizona

What about the black slave owners?

On Deconstructing the Hockey Stick: Climate Game Over

FCC Wants New Regulations On Broadband

"Glenn Beck covered this last year and revealed Mark Lloyd, FCC Chief Diversity Officer.

It is all about crushing the independent voice of right-wing talk radio and internet sources. It is Nazi Germany. Silence your opponents. Control all media and thought. They already have complete lapdogs in the conventional print and TV news doing their bidding 24/7.

They can’t crush all dissent without crushing talk radio and the internet. Glen Beck covered all of this months and months ago."

Obama Using Executive Powers To Organize Angry Anti-Capitalist Protests On The Streets Of America?

Michelle Obama: Barack Obama is a Kenyan and America is too mean

Shahzad Failed Bombing Will Turn Tea Party Into Dangerous Bigots, Or Something

Washington's Greed

Fascism

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Do Girls Speed More Than Boys?

DNA tests vindicate Ohio man convicted of '81 rape

Hawaii governor announces 'exact' place of Obama birth

Then showing the birth certificate won’t be a problem?

*******

Great News. Now all we need is for officials at Kapiolani Hospital to confirm what the good governor has said: That Obama was indeed born at Kapiolani Hospital. Don't hold your breath.

Great News. Now all we need is for the good governor to tell us who the birth doctor was on Aug.4,1961, Obama's birth date, so that we can verify the doctor's name, and Obama will be free and clear to run for President in 2012. Again, don't hold your breath.

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Little-publicized Senate panel to demand disarming legally innocent under guise of fighting terror

UN Agenda 21 (Roadmap to the Fundamental Transformation of America?)

 Nashville Flood 2010: The Disaster You May Not Have Heard About...roundup

 

SURVIVAL TIPS: Life-Saving Lessons From The Nashville Floods.

Storm-damaged Shelby, Tipton counties named federal disaster areas(TENNESSE DELUGE)

AGAIN.....WHERE IS OBAMA? The silent-in- chief. HE IS WRONG ON THIS. This is their KATRINA...

WORRIES ABOUT A “MAD DUCK” CONGRESS.

Myths of the ‘Smart’ Grid?

by m ( 109 Comments › )
Filed under Technology at May 5th, 2010 - 9:00 pm

Our very own “snork” has an article published at Pajamas Media today entitled
Myths Associated with the ‘Smart’ Electrical Grid. It is a very detailed article that tries to dispel the myths and inaccuracies that are all over the internet concerning the American Power Grid.

Sit back, relax… and get yer learnin on =)

Much has been written in the popular media and blogosphere in the past decade about the electrical power grid, some of it good, much of it bad, much of it downright silly, and almost all of it incomplete.

This article tries to change that and educate us on the truth of the matter. There will be a test.

Good luck!

Tags: Pajamas Media, Power Grid, snork
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39  This sort of blabber about “Smart Grids,” or “Green Energy,” is a nervous, whistling-through-the-graveyard tic from the Left, who’s policies of no drilling, no coal, no gas pipelines, no nukes have already damned this country to limited growth, super expensive energy and 2nd world status.

Meanwhile China, India, and Russia have no qualms about building nukes, or mining or drilling. Be more foreign countries drilling in the Gulf than Americans after Obama and Rahm get done “NOT WASTING THIS CRISIS.”

We need something, anything for Obama to get impeached as I am beginning to think we cannot take 4 years of this guy. Biden would at least be stupid about destroying us. We can maybe survive stupid, we cannot survive malevolent.

http://www.freedominion.com.pa/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=1489279#1489279

You are observant. Ever notice the faces of drivers when you are in the city? The typeset of people and their construed appearances are quite depressing, most look like herd members.

John D. McDonald ( a very underrated writer who stuck with the knight errant/detective genre ) once described the river of cars at rush hour as
"Chariots into Purgatory..."

It reminds me of when I reluctantly visit that Island I grew up on, whose motto is ( dripping irony )

"Where the racing pace fades
and the Good Life begins."

There were 3,000-3,500 souls there when I was a kid- now, according to unofficial sources ( meter connections ) somewhere between 16,000 and 18,000 are jammed into The Good Life, the traffic is as bad as any city ( actually worse, because as Roger Parsons observed, "they don't get out of your way." ) and every time I got there nowadays, I mutter

"Chariots into Purgatory..."

Gates Fires At Carriers, Subs, EFV

"I thought Gates was an honorable man......"

I never thought he was an honorable man from the minute I saw he stayed on when the Obama regime came into power....and I so posted right on this forum.

If he didn't know that Obama was an evil imposter from the evidence during the campaign and, indeed, the Usurper's history (or lack of it) then Gates is too stupid or too twisted himself to hold the critical position he occupies.

Everyone in a position of power who surrounds Obama and does his bidding is just as evil as he. Honorable people would have no connection to this amoral communist AT ALL.

Leni

30 posted on Thursday, May 06, 2010 9:15:26 AM by MinuteGal

The Failure of Surveillance Cameras

It’s Because They Want To Kill Us, Stupid

Crises in America? Big Government Is Not the Solution

Franklin Graham: Christians Will Lose the Power to Pray Outside Church Walls ‘Maybe in My Lifetime’

Obama Stands with Muslims as He Promised

A Game-Changing Weapon

Gates Fires At Carriers, Subs, EFV

"I thought Gates was an honorable man......"

I never thought he was an honorable man from the minute I saw he stayed on when the Obama regime came into power....and I so posted right on this forum.

If he didn't know that Obama was an evil imposter from the evidence during the campaign and, indeed, the Usurper's history (or lack of it) then Gates is too stupid or too twisted himself to hold the critical position he occupies.

Everyone in a position of power who surrounds Obama and does his bidding is just as evil as he. Honorable people would have no connection to this amoral communist AT ALL.

Leni

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Obama’s Katrina and Obama’s Enron WORSE Than Original Bush Scandals

Obama's nuclear spill --Why would the O Force give up America's security secrets?

The Worst Disaster Since the Civil War But Not as News Worthy as an Oil Spill

Arizona Immigration Law Identical to Federal Laws Requiring Alien Documentation, Says Attorney

Violent Movie Declares War on Arizona for Immigration Law

A violent new film from cult director Robert Rodriguez is declaring war on Arizona with a "special Cinco De Mayo message" in the wake of the state's controversial illegal immigration law.

That message is: "They just f---ed with the wrong Mexican."

"Machete," which features a knife-wielding Mexican assassin out for revenge against double-crossing gringos, won't be in theaters until September, but it is already sparking a political melee over Wednesday's stab at the Grand Canyon State.

In the trailer for the film, the title character is hired to assassinate an anti-immigration U.S. senator played by Robert De Niro. Protesters are seen waving nationalist signs as the senator speaks to a charged-up rally: "We are at war," he booms. "Every time an illegal dances across our border, it is an act of aggression against this sovereign state — an overt act of terrorism."

But before the trailer even begins, the battle-scarred title character stares out from the screen as he tells viewers that what's about to unfold — an immigration-laced slasher grindhouse flick — is about the current border battle in Arizona.

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

VIDEO: This Is Machete

"Whoever cranked out this garbage does not understand people who are ethnically Mexican.

First and foremost, people who are ethnically Mexican are *not* monolithic, socially, culturally, or most definitely politically. For every radical leftist, there is a radical rightist, and by this I mean politically to the right of Jesse Helms, right.

The leftists have long thought that Mexico was ripe for “the revolution”, but a bunch of radicals that went from the US to Mexico in 1968, to radicalize the Olympics, ended up being buried by backhoe."

I keep telling you people

"The Enemy is already inside the gates..."

100,000 Square Foot Ground Zero Islamic Center Gets Approval!

Dow Plunges Most Since 1987 Before Paring Losses; Euro Tumbles

Whatever Happened to the Hole in the Ozone Layer?

Alexandria VA Surveillance State Alert

Whoopi Says Without Abortion Parents Just Kill Kids Later

Sharpton Wants Everything Equal? Read THIS!

If you have never read Vonnegut's brilliant short story, Harrison Bergeron, please take the time to do so now. It epitomizes Sharpton and the left's vision for us all.

Harrison Bergeron, by Kurt Vonnegut

Shocker: Major corporations may dump health insurance, pay penalties instead

‘Brace’ Yourself: Wall Street Regulation Bill Snares Dentists, Doctors & Patients

Crime Inc.: What the 'Greening of America' Really Means

Obama’s Campaign to Divide America by Race and Class Not Working

Micro-Stamping on the Move in New York!

Bloomberg: Close ‘terror gap’ on guns

Breaking - Obama Administration & UNSC push legislation to strip Israel of Nuclear Weaspons

Rep. Andre Carson: Tea Party Protesters Are ‘One of the Largest Threats to our Internal Security’

He is one of only two Muslims serving in the U.S. Congress...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Carson

Final Navy Seal found NOT GUILTY on all counts

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Great Merciful Zeus: Ann Coulter might just turn us straight.

Posted by hillbuzz under Uncategorized | Tags: alert tee shirt vendors, Ann Coulter, BizarroWorld |
[64] Comments 

Does anyone know if she's got a younger brother?

Alert tee-shirt vendors and the NYPD can’t be everywhere.

The Department of Homeland Security’s best strategy for keeping Americans safe should not be to “hope Muslims’ bombs fail” or depend upon alert civilians to spot smoke coming from cars or people’s underpants.

Since Muslims are just about the only group of people currently trying to kill Americans, perhaps a security policy at airports should be directed towards preventing Muslims from murdering people.

Read more in Ann Coulter’s latest column.

Now, for just a moment, appreciate the Bizarroworld we currently live in:

(1) We are gay guys in Boystown who, until 2008, detested Ann Coulter

(2) We are now reading Ann Coulter

(3) We agree with every damn word Ann Coulter says

(4) Sometimes, we think we’ve actually moved to the right of Ann Coulter

It’s Change we might not be able to believe in, but change the current DNC and White House forced upon on.

As much as the Left loves attacking us, and PUMAs in general who never drank the Kool-Aid, we are canaries in the national coal mine.  Dismiss us if you want, but we’ve never just been Hillary guys who didn’t like Obama because he got the nomination and our champ didn’t.

This has always been about the fact that the Democrat Party changed — not us.  We’re still the same guys we always were, except that our eyes opened to the lies the DNC always sold us about Republicans and conservatives in general.

Under the Clinton DNC, the Jacksonian Democrat Party, there was a place for naturally conservative moderates like us, who love America more than life itself, and want this country to be safe and secure with sound financial policies that ensure our prosperity.

The current Socialist-Democrat party has no moderates.  It is 100% lefty, baby.  And its PC-policies towards Muslims — those misunderstood murdering Care Bears — are going to get an awful lot of people killed, once the Religion of Peace stops sending its B-team to blow things up and dispatches operatives who know how to work clocks and who can successfully light their underoos and diapers on fire.

The DNC has no idea the damage it has done to itself.

We bet a lot of you, especially the conservatives who found us through Rush, Dennis Miller, Lucianne, or others, also don’t appreciate what’s happening here.

If the DNC has permanently alienated guys like us — who never in their lives thought they’d be reading and agreeing with Ann Coulter — then the Democrat Party is as good as Whig already.

We now love Coulter so much, she just might make us straight.

Just call us undocumented workers in Bizarroworld.

May 6, 2010 at 4:02 pm

Ok, is the world about to end? When I read your heading for this thread I almost fell through the floor. Ann Coulter. One of the ladies (along with Malkin, Palin, and Bachmann) that are marked as the most hated women in America…. and you agree with her!

Stock Market Tanking: Need investors and financial types to offer analysis

Posted by hillbuzz under Uncategorized | Tags: Europe imploding, Is George Soros behind this?, markets tanking |
[66] Comments 

We have only a very limited knowledge of financial markets.

One of us used to date a guy who was a dairy trader named Ryan, but he lost his job (and the shirt off his back…foreshadowing) when his firm downsized, and he’s a go-go dancer now, so we consider any market info we gleaned from him to be highly suspect.  He did know all about all the various kinds of cows, though, and not ironically enough, g-strings too.

Drudge has a giant headline about the market tanking as we speak…and we don’t know if it’s related to the massive problems in Europe, which seems to be imploding financially.

At moments like this, we wonder two things:

(1) where George Soros is, and whether he’s sitting on his big black leather throne in a hollowed out dormant volcano, laughing maniacally

(2) why the Hell Mossad doesn’t just man-up and do the job the CIA, MI5, KGB-remnant, and other supposed-badasses for whatever reason just won’t do:  which is, to be blunt, put a stop to item (1) above

We live in a world with a real life Goldfinger/Blofeld hybrid, but no James Bond to stop him. It remains our greatest earthly wish someday a Jaimie Bondskawitz is recruiting into Mossad to remedy that.

In the meantime, anyone out there with financial and market know-how better than the second-hand dairy trading tidbits we possess please chime in on what’s happening.

What’s going on?

Who’s responsible?

Is it really Soros in action again?

What ramifications will this have?

Embiggen our knowledge, post-haste.

May 6, 2010 at 2:39 pm

The world is moving from the Industrial Age into the Information Age Everything must change; there is no escape. In the 70′s and 80′s the private sector was hit by an avalanche of change. Massive slow-moving companies had to become lean and adaptable, or die. Many did die. Remember “Rust Belt?”

Government has not changed. Worse, as it has lost it’s natural “eco-system” of Industrial Age culture, it has become cancerous, growing much faster than the economy or the population. We see the same thing all over the developed world. Greece, California, San Francisco, America, … it’s really the same story. Catastrophic levels of debt, evr-growing. It is the same in many quasi-governmental entities: Universities, big science, GM, SEIU. All have turned cancerous. All seem out of the control of the citizenry. Out of touch. Parasitical.

The challenge for our time is to transform government into some shape and size that works in the Information Age. Or we will be eaten by the cancer, just like Greece has been.

If there was one thing I could tell Sarah, it would be that this is her real issue, beneath all the surface issues. This is her time to lead.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2508292/posts

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ObamaCare’s Massive, Hidden Tax Change. “An all-but-overlooked provision of the health reform law is threatening to swamp U.S. businesses with a flood of new tax paperwork. . . .The stealth change radically alters the nature of 1099s and means businesses will have to issue millions of new tax documents each year.”

 

MORE ON THAT CALIFORNIA FLAG-SUPPRESSION CASE, from Eugene Volokh. And here’s a further report, from Zombie. “So here we have the Principal and the Vice-Principal of an American high school treating the Stars and Stripes as if it was a gang bandanna; even worse, the school administrators took sides in this imaginary US-vs.-Mexico gang fight by allowing the widespread display of Mexican flags on campus but banning (under threat of punishment) any display of the American flag.”

 

Dow Plunges 1,000 Points- Loses 347 On the Day

Posted by Jim Hoft on Thursday, May 6, 2010, 3:14 PM

“The economy has stabilized.”
–Barack Obama
August 5, 2009

The Dow plunged nearly 1,000 points today before rebounding

The AP reported:

The stock market has had one of its most turbulent days ever. The Dow Jones industrials plunged nearly 1,000 points in half an hour amid concerns that Greece’s debt problems could halt the world financial recovery.

The Dow has managed to recover two-thirds of its losses and close down 347 at 10,520. But all the major indexes lost 3 percent in a day that recalled the market turmoil of the 2008 financial crisis.

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ON THE GROUND IN NASHVILLE: Another first-hand report.

 

FLOOD AFTERMATH: Beware of flooded used cars.

 

SHOCKER: Barack Obama Doesn’t Care About Southern People.

 

ED MORRISSEY: Nashville: The Disaster America Ignored?

Plus, from Michael Silence, a poll.

UPDATE: This Story Intentionally Left Blank.

Nashville: How to help

By Michelle Malkin  •  May 6, 2010 09:26 AM

Photo credit: Keith Gallagher/president raygun/Flickr

The floods in Tennessee have devastated Nashville. Damages are estimated at $1 billion.

How to donate/pitch in…

Calling All Restaurateurs: Red Cross Could Use Your Help

Salvation Army – Nashville

Hands On Nashville

Nashville Flood relief t-shirts

Soles 4 Souls – Shoe charity comes to Nashville’s aid

Nashville Humane Society

Nashville Flood Benefit Show, May 7.

And more benefit concert info from the Nashville Examiner:

On Saturday, May 8, The End will host a benefit concert featuring Spanish Candles, Powerbrrrd, Bad Cop, and Diarrhea Planet. The End is located at 2219 Elliston Place.

On Sunday, May 9, Rocketown will hold a 10 act benefit concert featuring Heavy Cream, Pujol, Ben Steine’s Money, So Jazzy, Diarrhea Planet, Goodbye Apathy, Alcina, and Stephen Keech. The show is free but attendees are encouraged to donate money to the flood relief in lieu of ticket prices. Rocketown is located at 522 5th Avenue South.

While not technically a benefit concert, the Nashville Symphony has announced that the Christopher Cross concert scheduled for last week and cancelled because of the flood will be re-held as a free concert at the Metro Courthouse on Friday, May 7 at 8:00 PM. “People have lost homes, and some have lost their lives in the recent flooding,” said Alan D. Valentine, President and CEO of the Nashville Symphony. “Music is what we do, and we wanted to present this concert, against all the odds and challenges, as a way to help people begin the healing process, as a way to help get our community on the road to recovery.”

If you can’t attend these concerts but still wish to help, the American Red Cross is accepting donations for the Nashville flood relief. Text REDCROSS to 9099 to donate $10.

If you have more suggestions, send them in.

***

Update: Tons of private charity resources at Nashvillest

Colorado volunteers head to Tennessee.

The Jewish Federation of Nashville is providing aid and relief.

***
Ed Morrissey at Hot Air: The disaster America ignored

***

From reader Chris M:

Michelle,

As a resident of Middle Tennessee, I have seen the devastation up close and personal. The clean-up has just begun and will last for many months.

I also wanted to point out another way to help. The Local NBC affiliate is having a telethon TONIGHT featuring Vince Gill. My employer, Deloitte, will be offering up its call center and volunteers to man the phones and take pledges to assist those in need here in Nashville. For those interested, the telethon will be streaming live on the Internet.

Thanks.

Via vincegill.com:

FLOOD RELIEF WITH VINCE GILL & FRIENDS

05/05/10

WSMV-TV Channel 4 will broadcast Working 4 You: Flood Relief with Vince Gill & Friends on Thursday, May 6, in prime time from 7 to 10 p.m. The telethon will also be streamed live on WSMV.com.

Nashville and the surrounding middle Tennessee communities have been devastated by floodwaters after the area received 15 inches of rain within a 48-hour time period. Thousands of middle Tennesseans have been evacuated from their homes with many losing everything to the flood. Many of the victims do not have flood insurance, and the demands on relief agencies are stretched to the limit.

“These are our friends and family; we always take care of our friends and family,” said Meredith Senior Vice President and WSMV-TV General Manager Elden Hale Jr. “It’s unfortunate that we’re called upon to do this again for our neighbors, but we are very proud to have the ability to reach out to so many people with Nashville’s flood relief telethon.”

All proceeds from Working 4 You: Flood Relief with Vince Gill & Friends will benefit The Salvation Army, The Red Cross and The Second Harvest Food Bank.

Others involved include Naomi Judd, Phil Vassar and Bo Bice.

Posted in: Worthy Causes

 

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"Tennessee is a red state, and the majority of folks that are badly affected by the flooding appear to be white. Don’t expect anything from Jughead, Volunteers."

 

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JAPAN’S BRAINWAVE INITIATIVE: Mindreading Bots By 2020.

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From the Blunt-speaking Ace of Spades:

http://minx.cc/?post=301313

 

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Yeah, the press/hollyweird don't care about nashville because there is a deficit of WACCP (Whiny-Assed Complaining Colored People) to wring their hands over and that unlike libutard hellholes like N'Awlins, normal folks just roll up their sleeves and DEAL WITH IT without waiting for fat ol' slobutard Uncle Sam to do it for 'em.

Oh, and because the Chosen One is in His Holy Office and that if the Blessed Lightworker Barack had wanted to spare those people, He would have with a wave of His Hand. But He hates hillbillies and other white folk, so The Chosen One has cast them into the waters.

 

We Are Nashville

 

252 Thanks for posting this video, I live in TN and that video shows more coverage of the flood than I have seen in 5 days from the state controlled media, if you have any doubt that Katrina was nothing more than a propaganda campaign against BOOOSH this is your proof. 

 

293

Thanks for posting the video.  It breaks my heart to see all the devastation in my beloved Nashville.  BTW, Nashville isn't just country music; the Southern Rock and Indi bands are making huge strides in TN.

Ace, I want your readers to know that not only was Nashville communities hit by flooding, 52 counties (of 95) have been declared a disaster!  Homes, businesses, roads/bridges, enitre neighborhoods desimated.  In Dyersburg (Northwest TN) nearly 300 families are flooded; they have lost everything.  In Jackson roads gave way and swallowed cars and chunks of asphalt moved across the streets.  Reports of 17 inches of rain fell in Brownsville.  It is so sad. 

The good people of Tennessee are out in droves; neighbors helping neighbors.  It's who we are.  It's what we've always done!

TN Mom

 

289 Let's say what we all know. 

No Negroes wailing and crying about how they were left to die.

No story. 

The MSM is racist. 

If Blacks had some dog in this hunt, AKA, a white president, they would be all over this.

A Black president is AWOL on this, 29 dead already, and the MSM is AWOL also.

We see nothing.

Where are Jesse and Al?  Where are the helicopter pictures?

 

 

295 The elites in this country loathe the Midwest and see us as nothing but a bunch of hayseed hicks.

For all intents and purposes, this country has plunged into a what I would call a "cold" civil war.

This happened a year ago in Georgia. Massive flooding and the media was preoccupied with everything else but the devastation in Georgia.

 

We are Nashville:

 

296 Rush read this very post today on his show. Word for word.

It came from last nights thread.  Rush reads Ace, or Bo does.

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hey guys

this past weekend we had a little flood here in middle tennessee,just killed 20 people, 10 in Nashville alone. anyway this local writer tells  how it is

We are Nashville.

Allow me a moment to step away from the usual voice of this website.

What I am about to write has absolutely nothing to do with hockey.

If you live outside of Nashville, you may not be aware, but our city was hit by a 500-year flood over the last few days. The national news coverage gave us 15 minutes, but went back to focusing on a failed car bomb and an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. While both are clearly important stories, was that any reason to ignore our story? It may not be as terror-sexy as a failed car bomb or as eco-sexy as an oil spill, but that’s no reason to be ignored.

The Cumberland River crested at its highest level in over 80 years. Nashville had its highest rainfall totals since records began. People drowned. Billions of dollars in damage occurred. It is the single largest disaster to hit Middle Tennessee since the Civil War. And yet…no one knows about it.

Does it really matter? Eventually, it will…as I mentioned, there are billions of dollars in damage. It seems bizarre that no one seems to be aware that we just experienced what is quite possibly the costliest non-hurricane disaster in American history. The funds to rebuild will have to come from somewhere, which is why people need to know. It’s hard to believe that we will receive much relief if there isn’t a perception that we need it.

But let’s look at the other side of the coin for a moment. A large part of the reason that we are being ignored is because of who we are. Think about that for just a second. Did you hear about looting? Did you hear about crime sprees? No…you didn’t. You heard about people pulling their neighbors off of rooftops. You saw a group of people trying to move two horses to higher ground. No…we didn’t loot. Our biggest warning was, “Don’t play in the floodwater.” When you think about it…that speaks a lot for our city. A large portion of why we were being ignored was that we weren’t doing anything to draw attention to ourselves. We were handling it on our own.

Some will be quick to find fault in the way rescue operations were handled, but the fact of the matter is that the catastrophe could not have been prevented and it is simply ignorant beyond all reason to suggest otherwise. It is a flood. It was caused by rain. You can try to find a face to stick this tragedy to, but you’ll be wrong.

Parts of Nashville that could never even conceivably be underwater were underwater. Some of them still are. Opry Mills and the Opryland Hotel are, for all intents and purposes, destroyed. People died sitting in standstill traffic on the Interstate. We saw boats going down West End. And, of course, we all saw the surreal image of the portable building from Lighthouse Christian floating into traffic and being destroyed when cars were knocked into it. I’m still having trouble comprehending all of it.

And yet…life will go on. We’ll go back to work, to school, to our lives…and we’ll carry on. In a little over a month, I’ll be on this website talking about the draft. In October, we’ll be discussing the new Predators’ season with nary a thought of these past few days. But in a way, they changed everyone in this town. We now know that that it can happen to us…but also know that we can handle it.

Because we are Nashville.

FYI, the damage estimate for Nashville alone is STARTING at 1 billion dollars

this flood affected the entire middle tenn region ,33 counties every city,town

and one stop light hole-in-the-wall from kentucky to alabama. very expensive.

thanks

 

232 Why no media coverage? Because it's a red state. Obama could care less about Teh-Nazi.

For the most part, people won't be looting, they will pitch in and clean the mess up themselves. No professional victims on parade.

Any negative coverage might make Obambi look bad as well.

So it will be an un-event.

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And you want my 2 cents, as someone who had small parts in the Civil Rights movement, and a civil rights case in my own town? Which, if you care, is 58% black?

"We"-- the collective, not "us"-- elected the first sorta-black President.

Well and good- but...

When the entire Media Hive has decreed that- based only on his skin color ( and BTW, Miss Emily & I have blacker bodies, when we tan, than Duh!1... ) he is

"Too Big To Fail?"

That's RAAACISM!

Say it loud,

Say it Proud:

It's RAAACISM!

And bias

And bigotry...

[backhoe]

Myths Realities Gangs in Bangor? With one teen dead and another [Maine]

Portland Police Chief James Craig said publicly last month that one of his primary goals for 2010 is to dismantle two established gangs in Maine's biggest city - one made up primarily of young Somali men and the other composed of young Asians.

Similarly, Lewiston has seen gang activity recently from a group of young Somali men. The crimes have been petty thefts and strong- arm robberies, but the attacks appear to be at least somewhat organized and often involve sticks or rocks to intimidate and even assault. A Lewiston official said there are no gang names or colors to investigate and he characterized the behavior as gang mentality versus gang activity."

(Excerpt) Read more at findarticles.com ... ( But, but... "all cultures are equally equal" and one is not better than another! )

DeMint: 'Push Back Against the Federal Government'

The White House and Hill Democrats “don’t want a solution here,” DeMint laments.

Sorry, Mike, but why pretend. A lot of Republicans don't want a solution to the problem, either.

Ideally, a large majority of states move to make the FedGov as irrelevant as possible, since they refuse to do the damn job they're paid to do.

 South Africa crime and violence.

 

Well, I tried to wake people up, for years...

-Pity About Africa...--

-A Capsule History of Southern Africa--

-Parallels between Apartheid SA and USA--

-South Africa - The sellout of a nation--

-Cry, the Beloved Country--

-Robert Mugabe and the Struggle for Power--

-Rhetoric of blame is now a white lie--

-First it was Rhodesia then SA now America paying the price of silence--

-Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight--

Then again, we have problems of our own...

”Zimbabwe On The Potomac...”

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Just an Old Keyboard Cowboy, ridin' the trakball into America's Twilight...

See Michelle call Barack a 'Kenyan'

"FRAUD IN THE USA Chapter 2-1: The illegitimate birth certificate"

Dissonance and Victimhood ("AIDS virus was invented by whites to exterminate blacks.")

A Simple Way To Clean Up The Oil Spill

Very neat. I would hope something like this would be tried. Of course, we don’t have an administration that is willing to mitigate and solve problems.

BP blocks one of three leaks in oil well

Former ATF Agent Pleads Guilty (to stealing money, planting drugs and framing innocent people.)

Just a small window into corruption into most all Federal and State corruption. If only we had the capability to video the activities of these folks. Actually - if we had that capability, way too many would lose confidence in our so called law enforcement system which is just as well.

The Taserification of America

 

Obama’s policies may spur nuclear proliferation

Sarah Palin On The factor: Who The Hell Is Not Aware Of Our Judeo-Christian Roots

Franklin Graham: Islam Is Not Faith of America (He still won't back down)

Feral Cops: They Shot The Dog! Again!(SWAT Team Rampage)

VIDEO: Dem Majority Whip: Tea Party Outrage Based On Obama's Race

What the Hell Just Happened in the Market?

Europe's Carbon Mafia, And Ours

Corruption: The carbon trading system being pushed here has spawned crime and fraud across the pond. Cap-and-trade is not about saving the planet. It's about money and power, and absolute power corrupting absolutely.

All across Europe authorities have been conducting raids, rounding up individuals involved in a new version of Climate-gate. This time the data aren't corrupted. Europe's Emissions Trading System is. The system is so sick, it's turned out to be a scam built upon a scam.

Twenty-five people have been arrested in raids by British and German authorities as part of a pan-European crackdown on carbon credit VAT tax fraud.

U.K. officials announced raids on 81 offices and homes, nabbing 13 people in England and eight in Scotland. The operation involved 450 investigators from Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs office.

German authorities raided 230 locations, including the headquarters of Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt and the offices of RWE, one of the largest energy firms in Europe. The German operation involved 1,000 investigators targeting 50 companies and 150 suspects.

The amount of money involved in carbon trading is huge and the temptations vast. While our Congress demagogues about banks and their "complex financial instruments," they are simple compared to cap-and-trade, which as we have noted involves essentially the buying and selling of air. Throw in an oppressive value-added tax and you have a recipe for corruption and fraud.

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

Drill, Baby, Still

Energy: After BP's oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, federal and state governments moved quickly to shelve plans to drill off the U.S. coast. But a new poll taken after the spill suggests Americans still support drilling.

Preliminary results of an IBD/TIPP Poll of 795 U.S. adults, taken from April 30 to May 5, show that a large majority — 59% — approve of "oil exploration and drilling in America's national territorial waters." Just 31% said they disapprove.

Interestingly, the share who approve of offshore drilling has fallen only a bit since the last time we polled Americans on this topic in July 2008. Back then, 64% supported offshore drilling — while 25% disapproved — for a swing of just five percentage points.

Why do people still support drilling? The oil spill notwithstanding, Americans are tired of $85 a barrel oil and understand that the panaceas for our energy ills peddled by the green movement and the left — wind, solar, biomass — are still years off, if ever, from being economically viable.

The cold reality is we need oil. A retreat from drilling would be economically unwise. BP's mess must be put into perspective.

"We get more than a fifth of our domestic production of oil here in the U.S. from off the Gulf Coast, over a million barrels a day," says the American Enterprise Institute's Steve Hayward. "If we don't continue that ... we'll be importing more oil to make up for it, even if consumption stays flat."

Today, the U.S. uses about 21 million barrels of oil a day. But we produce only about a third of that. The rest is imported. All told, including Mexico, a third of our oil and gas comes from the Gulf.

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

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Mystery as century-old Swiss watch discovered in ancient tomb sealed for 400 years

 

 

Probably a place called “Joe’s Bar & Grill”.

Or Callahan's

Do Freepers think that teflon is carcinogenic?

I love cast iron and happy to support the American manufacturer, Lodge.

Dittoes regarding the ironware...

I like to cook what I call a "real" breakfast-- brown toast, fry bacon, and cook eggs in the bacon fat...
( Health fanatics be advised- my Mom & Dad ate like that and lived into their eighties and nineties... and yeah, they smoked as well... )

...but my round skillet- a Lodge-- was not quite big enough to comfortably cook all that stuff.

Looked locally, and found an aluminum pan big enough, but, besides being teflon coated, it had a red center that supposedly turned colors when the temp was right for frying.

I pondered what sort on chemical engineering wizardry was involved in making that work, and decided I didn't want that going into my belly...

Got one of these from Lodge:

and am well pleased with it. Plenty of room for the bacon press, and more.

Planet of the Skunk Apes[Georgia]