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DUBOB 11- more tales from the Dark UnderBelly Of the Beast...
various links and websites | 01-31-03 | The Heavy Equipment Guy

Posted on 01/31/2003 5:07:21 PM PST by backhoe

At the request of members, I am restarting those "Tales from the Dark UnderBelly Of the Beast"-- the stories and issues that the press and media either ignore, won't even talk about, or will mention once and forevermore claim "it's old news..."

Naturally, some will be stories which interest me, or things I think we all need to be aware of.

I am experimenting with a minor change in presentation- when I can, I will cut to

-GoogleNewsBeta--

with a keyword or two and see what kind of links to "mainstream" stories I can find in contrast to what we see here and on other sites.

May I remind you of a couple of points to bear in mind?
Each link usually has many other links within- follow them all to get "the rest of the story."
Don't forget the "open multiple browsers" trick with control-n -- this allows you to hold your place with one, and use the others to follow links, run searches, etc.

Rather than go back and rehash old links, I'll give you links to the original posts here:

-DUBOB 10- the *best of* the Dark Underbelly Series--

-DUBOB 9-- even *more* tales from the Dark Underbelly of the Beast..... --

DUBOB 8-- still *more* tales from the Underbelly***

DUBOB 7-- even *more* tales from the Dark Underbelly of the Beast.....

DUBOB 6-- yet *more* tales from the Dark Underbelly of the Beast.....

DUBOB 5-- even *more* tales from the Dark Underbelly of the Beast.....

DUBOB IV- yet more Tales from the Dark Underbelly of the Beast-

DUBOB III -- "Tales from the Dark Underbelly of the Beast"

DUBOB 2-- more tales from The Dark Underbelly of the Beast-- thread II

-The Dark Underbelly of the Beast- Stories the Media won't Discuss...--


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9,521 posted on 11/04/2008 10:27:54 PM PST by backhoe ("It's So Easy to spend Somebody Else's Money" [My Dad, circa 1958])
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God Removes His Hand from the United States

R.I.P. AMERICA an obituary

NOV 4 2008 BLACK TUESDAY

What Went Wrong? [ 1 ... 3, 4, 5 ]

 
A good opinion piece by one of my blog buddies:
http://reviewboy.com/rantmonkey/
 

11.05.08

And so it ends…And so it begins.

Posted in Navel Gazing, Politics, Rants at 2:44 am by Sulla

I started following the 2008 race sometime in early 2007, when only the most pathological politics junkies were paying much attention. As a result, I peaked a bit too early, and by September I just wanted the darn thing to be over.

And now, finally, it is. There are still votes to count, and a few open races and ballot measures to resolve, but the Big One is in the can. For the first time in 12 years, we’ve gone to bed knowing who won, and the Atlantic Seaboard folks didn’t even have to stay up that late. For the first time since LBJ (I think), a Democrat won more than 50% of the popular vote. Though I had a preferred candidate, this was my greatest prayer - an unambiguous result. No “one-state” shenanigans and cries of stolen elections. (Voter fraud is another story, but that’s a Donkey Party tradition, and I doubt he needed it to win.)

In one sense, it’s good that the Democrat won. We’d already been warned months in advance that anything other than an Obama victory would mark America as a “racist” nation, and such philosophical luminaries as Erica Jong were warning of a “second civil war” in the event of a McCain “third stolen Bush term” victory. Well, no chance of that now. And, for the first time since Bill Clinton absconded with the White House furniture, the Daily Kos/MoveOn.org wing of the Democratic Party can consider themselves Americans again. Republicans are infinitely more gracious losers. (We made much of Clinton’s “never topped 50% of the popular vote” in the 1990s, but we never, EVER claimed he wasn’t the President. That juvenile insanity needs to die. Stake its heart, cut off its head, boil it in garlic, nuke it from orbit; leave no doubt. We may be two parties, but we are not Two Americas. We’re all in this together.)

Like 2006, it wasn’t the GOP’s year. Sen. McCain prevailed in the primaries largely on the backs of independents and Democrats, and because Mike Huckabee preferred to shred the party rather than let Mitt Romney anywhere near the GOP ticket. (Yes, I’m still bitter about that idiot’s personal vendetta.) Gov. Sarah Palin energized the base and helped make it much closer (popular vote) than I expected, but McCain is an honorable man who ran as a “my turn” candidate rather than with any platform of ideas the GOP was likely to rally around. My main reason for supporting McCain was his support for victory in Iraq and elsewhere, which America owes to our men and women in uniform who have sacrificed so much to make it possible. McCain’s real goal, it seemed, was to win the nomination he felt had been stolen from him in 2000. Had he fought with the same vehemence in the generals that he did in the primaries, he might have done better tonight.

By contrast, Barack Obama worked his bad-dancing butt off to win the presidency from…well, pretty much the day he was sworn into the Senate. He took on the “inevitable” Clinton machine and won the nomination. Although his post-racial, post-partisan facade slipped badly toward the end, his acceptance speech tonight was worthy of the historic moment of our first President-elect who happens to be black. He didn’t win BECAUSE he’s black; had that occurred it would have cheapened the accomplishment. Obama won because he ran a better race, and better motivated his base. He was opposed by over his policies, his past, and his personal associations…not for his pigmentation. (I really need to stop alliterating.) Considering how much money he raised, Barack’s true colors in 2008 are gold and green.

I don’t see Obama as “our first black President.” He’s not “African-American” in the traditional sense; his paternal ancestors don’t have that legacy of slavery; his Kenyan father spent little time in the U.S. His mother’s side of the family was fairly well off, and his education was more elite and privileged than most people’s, certainly more than mine.

Obama’s rise to prominence reminds me far more of John F. Kennedy than Jesse Jackson. JFK’s big hurdle was his religion. So, I would argue, was Obama’s. JFK had the Pope and Catholicism. Obama had Rev. Wright and Liberation Theology. For JFK’s presidency, religion turned out to not be much of an issue (especially that whole “thou shalt not commit adultery” thing). Only time will tell how much President Obama will bring from Wright’s pews to the Oval Office.

As a conservative, little of the Obama platform appeals to me. But as with any presidency, Obama’s will not be treated by the House or Senate as tablets inscribed by a burning bush on Mount Sinai. He may have solid Democratic majorities in both houses, but as Clinton and Carter learned, congressional Democrats have a legislative ego that transcends party. If he fails to treat them with proper respect, the unholy Pelosi/Reid duumvirate will school him in a hurry. And if Obama doesn’t treat the congressional GOP with at least minimal respect, they survive in sufficient numbers to throw their sabots into the machinery. It’s lopsided, but DC is still a two-party town. Bill Clinton made the grave mistake of calling the congressional GOP “irrelevant” in one of his first addresses to Congress. Less than two years later, he was bellowing that he was still relevant to the first GOP House majority in 40 years. Hubris is still the #1 killer of political ambition, and “The Messiah” had better chain someone to his side to whisper “remember thou art mortal” into his ear at every opportunity, or he’ll very likely be facing a GOP congress in 2010.

Vice President-elect Biden, the one-man growth market for American comedy, said that Obama will be tested. Does anyone believe he isn’t correct? Al Qaeda surely cannot resist the opportunity. Ahmadinajad’s Iran is drooling with anticipation. Likewise China, eager to assume dominance in the 21st century. (Yes, I’m learning Mandarin.) Venezuela. North Korea. Canada (*grumble* Zamboni-drivin’ freaks…) And our allies like Columbia, India, infant Iraq, Sarkozy’s France, nuclear Pakistan, etc. have to wonder what Obama’s America will mean to our relationship with them. Like JFK, I’m not that hopeful that President Obama will be ready from day one to handle a crisis. What will Obama’s Bay of Pigs (with lipstick) be? Or his Cuban Missile Crisis? How will he fare? Does it give ANYONE comfort that Joe Biden will be there every step of the way? Or that John friggin Kerry might be America’s Ambassador of Hopenchange as Secretary of State or Defense?

I don’t mean to be utterly negative. Obama claims to be a pragmatist, and if he turns out to be one then he’ll likely make some decent cabinet picks. He will push policies more left-leaning than I would prefer, but I believe in the sausage-grinder of American lawmaking; lips and buttholes become tasty, tasty frankfurters with the right preparation. And it takes just one catastrophe to change presidential priorities in a hurry. Witness 9-11, Hurricane Katrina, the Fannie May debacle. Under the right circumstances, even the biggest isolationist can become the most committed nation-builder. Even a Clinton can decide to pass comprehensive welfare reform. Even a “conservative” can pass a bailout bill that makes Sweden look capitalist. It’s all about adaptability. It’s less about getting your agenda passed than about dealing with the zillion things that you never guessed would come your way.

So…I head to bed knowing that our next President will be “that guy” rather than “my guy.” There are a lot of happy people in this country tonight, and many who are genuinely scared of what the next four years will bring. All of us will be Obama’s responsibility come January. He’ll be opposed - every president from George Washington to George Dubya has been, vehemently, and it would be unAmerican to expect otherwise - but how he deals with it will determine his legacy. The best Presidents exert influence far beyond their enumerated powers, by virtue of their skills and their character, and the nature of the challenges they face.

Frankly, I’d be happy if Pres. Obama is merely adequate, and presides over another “holiday from history” for the next four years. His “fundamental transformation” talk scares my side of the aisle. He may think of it in terms of unicorns and orgasms, but some of us have starker visions of gulags, reeducation camps, great depressions, and stuff going Boom. I’d be ecstatic with four boring, adequate, uneventful, not-unemployed years.

As much as I like and respect George W. Bush - and I do - the last eight years have been more eventful than anyone in 2000 imagined or hoped or feared they would be, George W. Bush included.

Oh well. Ready or not, here comes 44: Captain Messiah, and his sidekick Gaffey. I will pray for them, and for the country. Because I still believe with Ben Franklin that in these perilous times, we must all hang together, “or surely we must all hang separately.” United we stand, divided we fall. The American family will certainly bicker over who gets the good seat in the living room and control of the remote during prime-time…but we must work together to put our house in order and to get the damn neighbor kids off our lawn when they try to T.P. us.

So, congratulations, President-elect Obama. Whatever happens next, you made history tonight.

Don’t screw it up.


9,522 posted on 11/05/2008 4:59:52 AM PST by backhoe (Just an old Keyboard Cowboy, ridin' the Trakball into the Sunset of America...)
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 Exit Polls: Nearly 80 Percent of Jews Voted for Obama
The Jews will soon regret their decision. There is a reason the islamic "street" was out in force in the wee hours celebrating the Obama victory. They fully expect him to deliver Israel bound and gagged to the executioners of Hamas and Hezzbollah.
 
 Gird your loins, conservatives
 

Peggy the Moocher

Peggy the looter.

Not Congratulations, But Sincere Advice


Fox: Prop 8 wins in CA

Arizona Passes Constitutional Ammendment Protecting Definition of Marriage [Arizona]

Chambliss likely headed for run-off

Political Battle Under Way Within GOP, Say Conservative Leaders  Gee, ya think?

 
This isn't cute or funny to me. It's scary. The Black Panther deal yesterday was scary. Hearing thugs happily proclaim how they voted more than once was scary. And no one seems to care.

Just wait a couple of months. These thugs will be wearing American Civilian Corps uniforms and will be armed and ready and willing to enforce whatever mandates the Anti-Christ wishes to impose.

President Obama: How Bad Will It Be?

Let us take two sources – the statements made by Barack Obama as a candidate and the lessons of history – combine them and make some predictions. The results are not pretty.

These three results -- a new World War, a new Great Depression, and permanent damage to the Constitution – are given in decreasing order of damage to the United States. That happens to be the reverse of their odds of happening.

Some Observations (What Is To Be Done)

Ok, We Lost - What Next? The Way Forward!

Posted on Wednesday, November 05, 2008 9:29:13 AM by Chairman_December_19th_Society

Ok, today's wish - no recriminations. Let the enemy party beat us up, but let us not do it to ourselves. Time to invoke the Reagan Maxim regarding fellow Republicans.

But let's figure out who "fellow Republicans" are, and I won't mince words here.

If you agree to take a political position in the incoming Administration, you are NOT a fellow Republican.

If you do not support Repbulican filibusters against liberal legislation, you are NOT a fellow Republican.

If you vote for legislation expanding taxation, fees, or anything that "quacks like a duck," you are NOT a fellow Republican.

If you vote to weaken our military, no matter what else may be in the legislation, you are NOT a fellow Republican.

If you vote to allow leftist judges or justices into our Courts, you are NOT a fellow Repblican.

If you believe in an "expansive" definition of the Constitution, you are NOT a fellow Republican. If any of the above, expect the full wrath and fury from the REAL Republican Party as we seek to rebuild from the ashes of the carnage. Part of rebuilding means back to basics.

So, the way forward?

First - Sarah Palin. I won't necessarily commit that she is the leader out of the wilderness and into the promised land, but her ideas are - and she does have a way of resonating with the "common folk".

Second - "Tax cuts for all." Trust me, there's going to be ample opportunity for this moving forward. But we have to say "ALL" and MEAN IT!!!

Third - NO deficit spending (defined as more than 101% of non-bond receipts; actually a "little" deficit spending is a good thing, but it has to be less than the "natural" rate of inflation).

Fourth - NO bailouts. If a company goes south, it was meant to go away.

Fifth - We HAVE to come to terms with compensation of "Wall Street Executives". It's a white hot issue, and probably a good part of what was behind our drubbing yesterday.

Sixth - We HAVE to understand the main reason we lost yesterday WAS NOT our message, it was an unfortunate set of circumstances (of which the "fifth" item above is a symptom, but it shows we "got the message"). All exit polls coalesce around this. So BACK TO MESSAGE!

Seventh - We NEED to do a better job communicating using the tools we have. The paper and broadcast media are gone - they are liberal; they are the enemy. We must recognize that. We are likely to lose talk radio - accept it, its coming. But we have the Internet. And we have the mail system (think "Committees of Correspondence" here - if this is unfamiliar, then read your history of the American Revolution).

Eighth - We NEED to understand that we have a VERY intractible enemy. He doesn't sleep, he doesn't give up. If one of his legislative proposals die, it comes back later in a new form. We need to adopt the ways of our enemy here - we must be intractible in our ideals, we must never tire, we must never stop. We must believe we are right, because, well, WE ARE RIGHT!

Ninth - We must take to heart John 3:16.

Tenth - NEVER GIVE UP, NEVER GIVE IN, NEVER STOP BELIEVING.

We will prevail. When it gets to be the darkest, the light that shines becomes even more brilliant and even more noticable.

The future is ours. It starts today. Let's get to work!

A Picture is Worth a Thousand Locksmiths, Computer Scientists Say[Duplicating Keys from Photos]


9,523 posted on 11/05/2008 8:06:36 AM PST by backhoe (Just an old Keyboard Cowboy, ridin' the Trakball into the Sunset of America...)
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Barack Obama is 'President of the world'

America: This isn't American Idol - YOU have just elected a Terrorist's best friend

How the GOP Got Here: A Symposium (Mark Steyn)

1976 all over again

The Morning After Debacle

 http://www.marstonchronicles.info/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=96&Itemid=120 ^

Wondering What Sarah Palin's Future Holds...

Pollsters Inflated Obama Lead; Only One Pollster Called Election

Exit polls: 78% of Jews voted for Obama

O Stands for O $4!t: A God-Fearing Patriotic Response

Here's an encouraging poem a friend e-mailed me:

CLEANING HOUSE 2008

Last week I threw out Worrying. It was getting old and in the way. It kept me from being me; I couldn't do things God's way.

I threw out a book on MY PAST (didn't have time to read it anyway). Replaced it with NEW GOALS, started reading it today.

I threw out hate and bad memories. (Remember how I treasured them so?) Got me a NEW PHILOSOPHY too; threw out the old one from long ago.

Brought in some new books too, called I CAN, I WILL, AND I MUST. Threw out I MIGHT, I THINK and I OUGHT. WOW, you should've seen the dust.

I ran across an OLD FRIEND. Haven't seen him in a while. I believe his name is GOD. Yes, I really like His style.

He helped me to do some cleaning and added some things Himself. Like PRAYER, HOPE AND FAITH, Yes I placed them right on the shelf.

I picked up this special thing and placed it at the front door. I found it-its called PEACE. Nothing gets me down anymore.

Yes, I've got my house looking nice. Looks good around the place. For things like Worry and Trouble there just isn't any space.

It's good to do a little house cleaning, get rid of the things on the shelf. It sure makes things brighter; maybe you should TRY IT YOURSELF. 

 

Green Herring: Obama tries to hide the costs of his global warming solution.

Obama Fundraising Breaks The Money Mould (America we've been bought...)

 
http://www.freedominion.com.pa/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=1253977#1253977
On the bright side, ballot measures opposing homosexual marriage in Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado and Florida, all passed.

Congrats, America!: With Obama Rout, We're the New Europe

 

Eight Wasted Years - And the ratchet slips free. Barack Obama does, though, have the heart and soul of a cultural Marxist.

He knows damn well the next four years will not merely be “interesting.” They will be damaging.

As for Thatcher’s observation, it is proving out. There is no turning back.

 

Michael Crichton Dies: Predicted Demise of MSM in 1993


9,524 posted on 11/05/2008 12:18:25 PM PST by backhoe (Just an old Keyboard Cowboy, ridin' the Trakball into the Sunset of America...)
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US throws off old legacy of slavery; embraces shiny new version...
RUNNING THE NUMBERS: "More generally, the picture is of a solid Democratic win, but not the tsunami some had expected. Obama won the popular vote by a solid, but not crushing, margin of slightly less than six percent (52.4-46.5). Bill Clinton beat Bob Dole by a significantly greater margin and even greater relative percentage (49.25-40.71), and George Bush by a slightly lower margin, but higher relative percentage (43.01-37.45). Bush, meanwhile, beat Dukakis by a larger margin, 53.4 to 45.6. The Democrats picked up about twenty House seats, on the low end of the expected range. And, as noted above, they seem likely to pick up five or six Senate seats,which would make the Senate races either 18-16 in favor of the Democrats, or tied at 17-17, again on the low end of the expected range."
 
JENNIFER RUBIN: Top 30 Errors That Doomed McCain.
 
PERRY DE HAVILLAND: "Unlike many, well, most of my compatriots, I am not filled with a deep sense of gloom and foreboding at the prospect of the most left wing president since FDR gaining the Whitehouse. In truth, I can see many reasons to think it may well be a far better outcome than if a Big State Republican like McCain won." Read the whole thing. I hope he's right.
 

Is There Nothing That Obama Can't Do?

The healing begins!

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

We heart4848.gif you too!


(Related)

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

Where Are Our Enemies Celebrations?

November 5th, 2008

You really have to commend our watchdog media.

You just know that there were and are tremendous celebrations at the news of Mr. Obama’s victories by our nation’s enemies all over the world.

His supporters in Hamas, Al Qaeda, the Taliban, Chavez and Castro’s followers — are all surely out in the streets.

But so far, this is as much as the Associated Press is willing to reveal:

AP Wed Nov 5, 8:28 AM ET

An unidentified woman holds up the Iranian daily newspaper Rozan with a photo of US President elect Barack Obama, as a cleric and others walk pass in Tehran, Iran on Wednesday Nov. 5, 2008. Iranians Wednesday welcomed the landslide victory of Democrat Barack Obama as America’s first black president, saying he partly owes his triumph over Republican Sen. John McCain to the deeply unpopular war-mongering policies of President George W. Bush.

AP Wed Nov 5, 8:23 AM ET

An unidentified Iranian man decorates on his shirt with a badge of US President elect Barack Obama, in Tehran, Iran on Wedensday Nov. 5, 2008. Iranians Wednesday welcomed the landslide victory of Democrat Barack Obama as America’s first black president, saying he partly owes his triumph over Republican Sen. John McCain to the deeply unpopular war-mongering policies of President George W. Bush.

And we will have at least eight more years of the media protecting their protege this way.

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Obama thoughts, links and reactions…UPDATED

Some must reads for today - Updated, scroll down for new:

You know who you are: But I don’t. Two people have generously donated to the site and left me no way to send a personal thank you. Please know I appreciate it more than I can express. You help keep the site running.

H/T Lynda: NY Times suddenly discovers “nuance” in Gitmo issues that used to be all about Bushhitler. That didn’t take long. Watch the double-standards begin to fly!

The Daily Show makes a similar discovery: “There’s lots to make fun of other than the White House”. You don’t say! A President Obama will be treated very differently, then, I guess, than Bush?

A particularly good podcast: from PJM - quite fun, and insightful

Chrenkoff: America will continue to be a terrorist target. The left doesn’t believe it, yet. And if it’s true, it’s Bush’s fault for making them mad because - you know - terrorists didn’t hate us before then.

An oldie from Vanderleun (H/T Larwyn) that you may have missed and shouldn’t: How Beautiful We Were

Pope Benedict XVI: Congratulates Obama. The text remains private, but let us remember what Benedict said last spring (and what is currently on my header: “Those who hope live differently.” If I can make any suggestion to my Catholic and non-Catholic friends on this day, I say pick up a copy of Benedict’s God and the World and Mother Angelica’s Private and Pithy Lessons from the Scriptures. Both are more “superChristian” than “superCatholic” and both are “suerInsightful.” If you found this post from yesterday to be helpful, you’ll like those books, as both inspired it.

The First Obama Joke: H/T Dan “Barack Obama won the election because he saw what is wrong with this country: the utter failure of government to protect its citizens.” — New York Times, The Next President. The New York Times is purely bananas.

AJ: Nattering Negativity, looks at the fissures in the GOP and ponders.

Harry Reid: Crowing and unclassy. As ever.

Sorry, Mr. Reid: Yer man has no mandate; he ran on tax-cuts and other “centrist” ideas. But then, so did Bill Clinton. We know. We know.

EJ Dionne: Don’t play to the center-right, Obama! Keep away from the center-right! We’re not a center-right nation!

California: Votes to ban gay marriage. Center-right.

Ruth Marcus: Will the Dems be able to resist overplaying their hand? See Dionne, Ms. Marcus. (Note: Ms. Marcus suggests Obama begin by “reversing President Bush’s order prohibiting federal funding of embryonic stem cell research, signing the Bush-vetoed expansion of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program and enacting an equal pay law overturning the Supreme Court’s decision in the case of Lilly Ledbetter.”). Yeah…don’t overplay.

It is remarkable to note, however, that - finally - someone in the press managed to correctly identify President Bush’s position as “prohibiting FEDERAL FUNDING of EMBRYONIC stem cell research” as opposed to their usual, “he’s against all science! He’s against all stem cell research! He’s a Neanderthal” dishonesty. That only took 8 years.

Washington State: goes Euthanasiac. They apparently believe that A Tsunami Can be Drawn With Pastels. They are mistaken.

From the email: An interesting quote I’d never seen before: “We cannot expect the Americans to jump from capitalism to Communism, but we can assist their elected leaders in giving Americans small doses of socialism until they suddenly awake to find they have Communism.” - Soviet Leader Nikita Khrushchev, 1959 Actually…I don’t think that really IS a Khrushchev quote. I know THIS one is, though: “If anyone believes that our smiles involve abandonment of the teaching of Marx, Engels and Lenin he deceives himself. Those who wait for that must wait until a shrimp learns to whistle.”

Tom Shales: The Press Behaved Badly last night. Well…they’ve been behaving badly for over a decade, but last night, even my husband - who does not care about this sort of stuff - had to turn them off for all their self-congratulating glee. He found it “infantile.”

Ed Morrissey: Good Analysis.

Wizbang: First 100 Days: Congrats and See you on the battlefield of ideas!

Instapundit: Showcases the diff between lefties and righties rather succinctly. More distinctions here. Note: Also, no one ever thought for even a second that an Obama win would cause the right to “riot.” The same cannot be said for the left. I hope they’ll grow up, now.

The People’s Cube: A fella who survived the Soviet Union dusts off the slogans and says “Comrade” again.

Steven Den Beste: Good news and bad news. Read.

Hamid Karzai: Expects Miracles from Messiahs

A post-election break from hype: it won’t last, though

Boundless energy: Confederate Yankee is already looking at 2010. Not yer girl, here. She’s taking a break. Bumperstickers, even! Capitalism goes on…

Survival Guide: if you feel you need one

Sincere & cautious congrats: I pray that you may acquire wisdom

“… — wisdom beyond your tender years, your thin experience, and your inconsequential legislative achievements — wisdom as a public servant in office, rather, that is at least commensurate with the skill you’ve shown as a campaigner, which has been a genuine marvel.

I pray for your health, because, with due respect, I regard the prospect of your Vice President-elect having to step into your shoes with genuine panic. “

Hope and pray you’re wrong: From an email: “I did not vote for Obama but I am afraid for him. I feel like whoever put him in place is going to try to make a martyr of him to create chaos in the nation.”

The Racial Angle: Still not gone, but reading that makes me think that now perhaps some racial issues will be addressed from “within” the African American community, itself, which might be a healthy thing. Introspection is always a good thing.

The Wheels on the Bus: Go round and round

Today’s Eyeroll: LA Times writer: “The nation is in dire economic straits.”

Yes, yes, yes. I see. Unemployment is 6%. Gasoline prices are a whopping $2 a gallon. The Dow is 9,000. People are actually paying cash for things. Run for your lives.

The 60’s: They’re finally ending About damn time.

Curt: Offers curt congrats

Geraghty: Ball’s in his court

Fears: For the churches

And hope: for life

Meanwhile: Stocks are tumbling


MERE HEALING tracked back with What the...?...


9,525 posted on 11/05/2008 12:53:12 PM PST by backhoe (Just an old Keyboard Cowboy, ridin' the Trakball into the Sunset of America...)
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9,526 posted on 11/05/2008 3:15:57 PM PST by backhoe (Just an old Keyboard Cowboy, ridin' the Trakball into the Sunset of America...)
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Here it comes, you bitter clingers:

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

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

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

Beware of the "manufactured crisis"

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

Much Of Arab World Rejoices Over Obama Election

Dear "Republicans" The question is not what do we do now? The question is; have you heard us?

Analysis: Europe wants to love Obama

When Would the President's Tax Cuts Expire?

ANN COULTER: THE REIGN OF LAME FALLS MAINLY ON MCCAIN (He Should Have Listened To Sarah)

Nifty Interactive Google Map with Election Data By County

Notes from the collapse ( of the Republican turnout )


9,527 posted on 11/05/2008 4:04:37 PM PST by backhoe (Just an old Keyboard Cowboy, ridin' the Trakball into the Sunset of America...)
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Obama Pushes Abortion on Day One With Rahm Emanuel as Chief
This appointment is being seen as a line drawn in the sand that will eliminate any option of "Working Together in Hope(TM) and Change(TM)
 
 It’s Starting Already
According to Bare Naked Islam Barack Obama has already discussed with the Palestinians all the goodies they’ll be entitled to once he ascends the throne takes office. YouTube keeps taking the videos down, but you can see one of them here.
"Funny how a large percentage of Jews voted in Obama, and know we read this. You reap what you sow."
 
His Majesty's Loyal Opposition [Mark Steyn]
 'Experience the Power of Change'
Soviet flag flown in Obama celebration
 Emily's List, NARAL Giddy Barack Obama Elected

CAIR CONGRATULATES PRESIDENT-ELECT OBAMA

 
The McCain campaign’s classless cowards

9,528 posted on 11/06/2008 12:40:43 AM PST by backhoe (Just an old Keyboard Cowboy, ridin' the Trakball into the Sunset of America...)
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L.O.M.A.

Yes We Can: The Reestablishment Of Conservatism Begins (Rush: Back To Core Principles Alert)

Larry Elder: Do You Need Obama to Believe? (Must Read!)

Unmarried women put Obama over the top All time high of 70% support (Obama is the daddy)

Labor Wants Obama to Take on Big Fight (Employee Free Choice Act Payback)

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Right-wing radio feasts like its ’92

 

Obama's Jewish Chief of Staff Directed Rabin-Arafat Handshake

Use our keyword database:

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/rahm/index?tab=articles

And weep.
 

"New era" for U.N. after Obama win

Yep, the kleptocrats and thieves are coming out of the woodwork...
 

Store Closings Could Double in 2009 Gee, ya think?

I'm with you! I'm not buying ANYTHING new for the next four years. If I can't get it second hand, I'm not getting it. I'll still shop at Walmart and Smith's for the basic necessities, but that's it. For Christmas this year, I'll probably do gift baskets or make something. Atlas has left the building!

You know what?

That's a very intriguing idea.

The "bitter, clinging conservatives" in my household have always rebuilt, adapted, used up, done without-- because we don't believe in being wastefull.

IOW, we recycled long before it became a pseudo religion to the MoonBat Left.

Maybe we ought to start a new movement? Kind of a low-level John Galt thing?

The Need to Destroy Sarah

SARAH Palin "The values that I represent and the progress that I wanna see America be able to make"

Palin Reflects on Her Candidacy and Talks About Her Future

Gun Rights in Peril - Barack Obama in the White House; many pro-gunners out of Congress

This will be the biggest fight of our lives.

It may be, and we need to get our numbers up as high as we can.

If you are a gunowner who values the Second Amendment, the single most effective thing you can do is join the NRA and add to its numbers. The telephone number is 1-877-NRA-2000.

If the NRA doesn't suit you, and many people have legitimate complaints about its compromising ways, then there are several other alternatives:

  • The Second Amendment Foundation: 1-800-426-4302
  • Gunowners of America: 1-703-321-8585
  • JPFO: JPFO website

And there are others: the Second Amendment Sisters, and the National Association for Gun Rights (I don't know much about them, but their website looks accurate to me with regard to the Heller decision).

WATCH ALL THE VIDEOS BELOW and I MEAN ALL .....They're farking frightening and show how little we've done to counter-act the counter culture revolution.
Links below lifted from another thread.

Yuri Bezmenov Explains Soviet Strategy for Subversion...a Condensed version at dailymotion if you don't want to watch all nine videos at YouTube below:

Yuri Bezmenov Explains Soviet Strategy for Subversion:

Yuri Bezmenov part 1

Yuri Bezmenov part 2

Yuri Bezmenov part 3

Yuri Bezmenov part 4

Yuri Bezmenov part 5

Yuri Bezmenov part 6

Yuri Bezmenov part 7

Yuri Bezmenov part 8

Yuri Bezmenov part 9

Listen to "Jose" who called Savage's radio program. He essentially echoes what Bezmenov SAID more than 20 years ago in frightening detail. IT'S A MUST HEAR---ALL PARTS!!!!

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Vanity: Electoral College to decide Obama's fate.

Obama’s birth cettificate may be required.

Don’t count on it; they’re convinced he can walk on water and feed the multitudes with a single loaf of bread. They won’t ask for anything from him except that he allow them to genuflect before him and drink the holy Kool Aid.

The Right To Remain Silent

Being an American is much more than being "cool"

Obama Bought The Presidency

Another Painful Lesson For The GOP

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

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

I said something along the lines of,

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

1994 - REPUBLICAN CONTRACT WITH AMERICA

Yup...

9,529 posted on 11/06/2008 2:00:25 AM PST by backhoe (Just an old Keyboard Cowboy, ridin' the Trakball into the Sunset of America...)
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OBAMA PROMISE WATCH

Muslim Brotherhood Celebrates Obama's Victory

He's not a muslim. But Muslims celebrate him.

He's not a socialist, but socialists endorse him.

He did not have an affair, but Michelle gets rid of his mistress.

America's enemies won't see his weakness as a provocation. But they do.

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

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

Check out this video of Obama’s deranged post-victory supporters!

SCAPEGOATING SARAH


9,530 posted on 11/06/2008 3:28:15 AM PST by backhoe (Just an old Keyboard Cowboy, ridin' the Trakball into the Sunset of America...)
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 'Gay' threats target Christians over same-sex 'marriage' ban...
QUEERLY BELOVED
'Gay' threats target Christians over same-sex 'marriage' ban
'Burn their f---ing churches, then tax charred timbers'
 

MEET TALK'S EXECUTIONER: Obama's 'Fairness Doctrine' Czar Chosen, AAR Expects Benefit

The legend of Rahm

Rahm Emanuel: The House Rahm Built

Emanuel Received $250K From Freddie Mac in Board Salary and Campaign Cash During Scandals

America’s enemies emboldened by Obama victory

Rush: Watch for McCain/(insert democrat here) Amnesty Bill passing easily under Obama

 

With other branches in hand, Dems now turn to the judiciary

Taxes: A Fair Share for All [Redistributionism]

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Dawn of a New Era (Communist Party USA Happy Comrade Obama Elected) 

 

Obama Confidante Bill Ayers Confirms Role in Obama Circle

Rumblings of Power Shift Begin Among Democrats ( This could be fun to watch )

How long before reparations are discussed?

With the Obama Win, Can We Pull the Plug on Affirmative Action?

Is the gun issue dead?

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

If you don't think this night mare WON'T be back over the next 4 years, year after year, until it passes both houses, you need medical attention.

Some realistic things to expect early in the Obama Administration

I work in Chicago. I deal with a great many attorneys in my job, many of whom are staunch Dims and breathless Obambi supporters; some were even active in his campaign. More than one told me that at or near the top of Obambi’s agenda is a new Hate Crimes bill, with a wide expansion of what will be considered a hate crime. Included is this proposal: The public display of the Confederate battle flag will be considered a hate crime. Yup. So those states that still have even a small patch of the flag on their state flags, monuments, cemeteries, etc. will have to get rid of it. Anyone displaying a Confederate flag patch on a baseball cap, decal on a car bumper, or any other such public display, will be subject to criminal charges. (Oh, by the way: It will be okay to publicly display the Soviet hammer & sickle flag; in fact, it will likely be encouraged.) What's next? Any school, library, building, etc. named after any long-dead Confederate must change its name? Will all those statues in parks and town squares have to be pulled down?

Dennis Prager reading his "hate mail" about yesterday's show - listen

2008 Election Results by County and Where we go from Here

Send a Message of Support to Sarah Palin!

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/thank-you-sarah-palin
Operation Freep Palin

Knives Come Out For Sarah Palin Notice that all of these mainstream media stories about Palin are gossip posing as news. No sources are identified.

Nicole's Knifework (David Frum Identifies the anti-Palin Leaker)

Palin Returns to Alaska to Chants of '2012!'

Winter's chill comes early as Fairbanks records fourth-coldest October (Climate Change!)

National road toll devices to be tested by drivers next year[UK][$2.05 per Mile]


9,531 posted on 11/06/2008 12:32:03 PM PST by backhoe (Just an old Keyboard Cowboy, ridin' the Trakball into the Sunset of America...)
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7 posted on Thursday, November 06, 2008 4:45:29 PM by Congressman Billybob
 

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

 
The best way to enrich Canada's natives? Get them off the re...
 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Carry on.

Anti Americanism around the world (pictures)

And the 2008 Election Winner Is: Peggy the Moocher! (Michelle Malkin)

 Matthews: My Job Is To Make Obama Presidency a Success

Rush In a Hurry - War: Us vs. Palin-Hating Moderate Republicans (11/6/08)

Barney the White House dog bites reporter; mad at liberal press bias? - VIDEO


Black box 'will collect every email, web visit in UK'

Stoning Victim 'Begged For Mercy'

Once thought safe, WPA Wi-Fi encryption is cracked

Kindergartners given homosexual 'pledge cards'

DNA Chunks, Chimps And Humans: Marks Of Differences

Palin Is Unstoppable

Her first task should be finish her term as Governor of Alaska, and to do it very well, as she has done up to this point. She then needs to associate with an independent conservative group, such as Heritage Foundation, which would offer a platform and access to the people she needs to recruit as supporters and fundraisers. She will be a VERY popular speaker and fundraiser for conservative republican candidates at all levels, and she can earn a lot of support by making herself available to them. It worked for Ronald Reagan.

Good plan.


9,532 posted on 11/06/2008 3:28:58 PM PST by backhoe (Just an old Keyboard Cowboy, ridin' the Trakball into the Sunset of America...)
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From the blogs- and, always, read the Anchoress:

Bush, Obama, & Ghosts of Hate - UPDATED

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

And then, miraculously, we may actually have unity.

Some similar thinking from my girl crush, Donna Brazile:

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

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

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

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

From Alppuccino at Protein Wisdom:

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

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

Michael Gerson:

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

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

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

Jeffery Scott Shapiro:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Meanwhile, from Grand Rants:

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

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

H/T to Opinionated Catholic, who writes:

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

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


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NICK GILLESPIE: three predictions for Obama's America.

So what's it gonna be? We'll find out soon enough. In the meantime, here are three predictions for life in Obama's America:

1. America's political and pundit class will go through a clinical bout of ideological amnesia that will be dizzying and appalling for those of us with memories of life before January 2009.

This happens virtually every time a new president, and certainly a new party, takes unified control of the government. On a host of issues—including government spending, regulation, and especially foreign policy—you can expect to see Republican officeholders and their champions in the press rediscover their inner-small-government souls and rail about how Obama and the Democrats are budget-busting socialists desperate to start what vice-presidential candidate Bob Dole once declaimed as "Democrat wars."

On the flip side, expect Democrats to start rattling sabers like the did under the Mad-Bomber-in-Chief Bill Clinton, who was quite happy to dispatch planes and bombs wherever and whenever he felt necessary or threatened by a domestic situation. Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright is the template here of what reason's Matt Welch identified as "temporary doves," that is, folks whose taste for war is highly dependent on party affiliation.

Obama, who is certainly something of a "stealth candidate" (to use an election-night phrase from Fox News' and NPR's Juan Williams), has never been shy about asserting his bellicosity. He's against "stupid" wars, don't you know, which gives him plenty of latitude to prosecute what he considers smart ones (and conflicts necessary to prove that he's no George McGovern). And here's a Canadian dollar that says that Obama's withdrawal plan from Iraq is precisely the one recommended by Gen. Petraeus.

Similarly, he will almost certainly follow the domestic policy trajectory of one George W. Bush by increasing spending (he's already promised that today we spend, tomorrow we scrimp), increasing regulation, and increasing interventions large and small into the economy. The main difference will be that all this new stuff comes at the end of the Bush bender. And that Obama and his defenders will swear that they are radically changing course from the past eight years when in fact they will continue in the same grim direction, full speed ahead, Mr. Emanuel.

Obama's conservative and Republican Party detractors will animate the corpse of Ronald Reagan and weep many crocodile tears about the end of the free enterprise system that they somehow missed out on during the GOP turn at the helm. Bailouts that were "reluctantly and sadly" necessary under Bush, to use Newt Gingrich's phrase, uttered mere hours before the House GOP scuttled the plan, will be unendurable socialist slights under Obama. At least the second half of that statement will be true.

Oh, and all that liberal fretting over the singular abuse of executive power, domestic surveillance, and the like, under Bush-Cheney? That's going to disappear faster than the Lackawanna Six, regardless of what Obama does (and don't expect him to renounce any of Bush's power grabs once he's sworn into office). If resentment resurfaces (and it probably will), look for conservatives to have their knickers in a twist this time around.

2. The Culture Wars will be reignited and, as always, the main casualties will be children, the truth, gays, and that evilest excresence of capitalism since novels, nickelodeons, comic books, and video games. And Obama, like Bill Clinton, will be far more conservative on this sort of thing than anybody on either side wants to admit.

I'd say Sarah Palin's smartest public moment came during the vice-presidential debate when she and Joe Biden wrassled over gay marriage. Biden ducked and weaved and talked a long-winded game about equality and fairness and all that sort of crap—and then he had to admit that he doesn't support allowing gays and lesbians to get married to each other like the rest of us:

Biden: I'm being as straight up with Americans as I can in my non-support for anything but a traditional definition of marriage.

Ifill: Let's try to avoid nuance, Senator. Do you support gay marriage?

Biden: No. Barack Obama nor I support redefining from a civil side what constitutes marriage. We do not support that. That is basically the decision to be able to be able to be left to faiths and people who practice their faiths the determination what you call it....

Palin: My answer is the same as his and it is that I do not.

Social conservatives, who still retain at least a half-nelson hold on the GOP despite their inability to stand athwart history yelling stop, have been energized by the defeat at the polls of gay marriage in Florida, Arizona, and California. They will not let this issue go and an Obama administration will somehow seemed miffed by attacks on gay marriage yet do nothing about ending marital discrimination against same-sex couples.

And the folks at places such as the Parents Television Council will continue thundering on about indecency on the public airwaves (and why the Federal Communications Commission ought to be regulating content on satellite and cable too). In this sort of jeremiad, they will find an ally in Obama and his puritanical friends on the left, who similarly like to run down market-based culture, especially video games. "Turn off the television," Obama is fond of saying, "turn off the video games." Like Bill Clinton, who along with First Lady Hillary Clinton hosted a seemingly endless series of White House events decrying vulgar culture, Obama hasn't been shy about pulling a Janet Reno when it comes to threatening industry to undertake "self-regulation": "Broadcasters and video game producers should take it upon themselves to improve this [rating] system to include easier to find and easier to understand descriptions of exactly what kind of content is included," Obama said in 2007. "But if the industry fails to act, then my administration would."

And on issues that intersect with pure culture war issues—such as drug policy—don't expect Obama to do the right thing. Or to get credit from conservatives for agreeing with them while doing the wrong thing.

3. Liberals and conservatives will continue to try and define everything in terms of right and left when the proper lens, now more than ever, is choice versus control.

When it came to scorching the concept of "the ownership society," George W. Bush was like Lt. William Calley armed with a thousand Zippo lighters. Not a hut or a tree or a popsicle stand was left standing. Bush never came close to delivering on what was going to be the large theme of his presidency: The notion that when people owned themselves, their retirements, their education, their you-name-it, we all benefited because we were all more invested in everything around us. Conservatives were never fully comfortable with this sort of thing for some of the reasons hinted above—if your life is your own, then you've got every right to do whatever you want with it as long as you're not infringing on other people's equal rights to do the same. Liberals have never been comfortable with it either. They're scared of all those bitter, gun-clinging religious freaks and whatever the hell they're doing out there in the middle of the country. Like conservatives, they prize conformity and hierarchy over a more-anarchic and leveled society.

In the end, of course, Bush turned out to be the worst sort of foxhole capitalist. "I'm a strong believer in free enterprise," he told a national audience. "So my natural instinct is to oppose government intervention. I believe companies that make bad decisions should be allowed to go out of business. Under normal circumstances, I would have followed this course. But these are not normal circumstances. The market is not functioning properly." And so came the bailout, the final death blow not just to the idea of the ownership society but to the idea that the GOP really believed that markets are functioning properly even when people lose money. The attacks on markets, on capitalism, on creative destruction, as too risky and unpredictable, will only intensify in Obama's America.

Indeed, in Obama's America, look for an intensified nostalgia for simpler, starker choices, whether it's in retirement plans, health-care options, trade possibilities, you name it. The financial "crisis" and the ensuing bailout that no one fully seems to understand (least of all the people who conceived and enacted it) sets the table for a long series of chin-pulling national conversations about how complex everything has gotten and how we need to simplify, simplify, simplify.

China is not only selling us goods that put Americans out of jobs (not true, but never mind), they're buying up all of country. Having to navigate a health-care market is too perplexing, so can we simplify the choices available? Same for education, especially at the K-12 level, which has already been federalized to an unprecedented degree under George W. Bush. And retirement accounts too. It strikes me as unlikely that Obama and the Democrats would seriously try to kill 401(k)s, but look for them to make all sorts of gestures toward simplifying everyday life.

In that third, non-game-changing presidential debate, Obama put on his best Jimmy Carter and decried you, me, and everyone else for our "profligate" ways. Seriously. And when we're done getting through the current crisis via massive deficit spending, he promised, "We're going to have to embrace a culture and an ethic of responsibility, all of us, corporations, the federal government, and individuals out there who may be living beyond their means." Which is a way of telling you that you'll have fewer choices if he has his way. Because it will be his way or the highway.

Though you might get to do universal service.

Nick Gillespie is editor in chief of reason online and reason.tv.

JOHN HAWKINS looks at how the right-leaning blogosphere is coping with defeat, and compares it to how the lefties dealt in 2000 and 2004.

Plus, Victor Davis Hanson on how to criticize our next President: "It seems to me that conservatives have a golden opportunity to offer criticism and advice in a manner that many liberals did not during the last eight years. By that I mean I hope there are no conservative versions of the Nicholson Baker Knopf-published ‘novel’ Checkpoint, the creepy documentary by Gerald Range, the attempt to name a sewer plant after an American President, or the celebrity outbursts that we have witnessed with the tired refrain of Hitler/Nazi Bush—that all have cheapened political discourse. When I hear a partisan insider like Paul Begala urging at the 11th hour that we now rally around lame-duck Bush in his last few days, I detect a sense of apprehension that no Democrats would wish conservatives to treat Obama as they did Bush for eight years."

JOHN HINDERAKER: "It's a bit late for investors to notice that pretty much everything Barack Obama wants to do will hurt the economy." It's not too late for Obama to notice that and change his plans, though.

UPDATE: Michael Moynihan: "To all of those who saw in Obama's victory some sort of economic panacea—and believe me, I have spoken to plenty of people who, like Andrew Young, believed an immediate market recovery would follow the rejection of the Republican Party—I'm here to remind you that it ain't going to be that easy." Nope.

Is There Nothing That Dear Leader Can't Do?

obama_chicago.jpg

h/t

Plus, media accountability you can believe in. Chris Matthews announces new position as editor in chief of Pravda.

More - Who will take care of these people? (h/t steve)


Posted by Kate at 2:37 PM | Comments (37)
 
 
 

Forty-Fourth President, Twelfth Imam

by Baron Bodissey

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

It’s all too depressing.

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

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

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

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

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

And Obama’s got a bigger halo.

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

What if the One were also the Twelfth?


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

Read further...
 

Post Mortem of an Election: We're Toast

by Dymphna

I decided to call this an open thread post-mortem. There may be more of them.

DespairFor the moment, however, this one serves to allow me to voice my immediate concerns about our country, and to permit our commenters to have their say about what the election means to them. We are facing the coming reign presidency of poseur Barry Hussein Soetoro (that’s his real name, the one his mamma and adoptive father gave him, not his nom de politico, the persona which he so successfully huckstered during the years he was inventing himself). What are the portents?

The subject matter here is seriously mortal, i.e., that my beloved country is about to be taken over by a thugocracy and turned into a mini-me Europe. The U.S. will have all of the crass and none of the class of that continent. It will be ugly. Read further...
folly said...

I found On the Issues while researching Obama’s gun control record. It seems to be relatively unbiased (at least in my brief look through the site). Check out his page on gun control.

Former Spook, an ex-intelligence analyst, described Russia’s deployment of SS-26 Iskander to Kaliningrad as a “shot across the bow” of the incoming administration. The purpose of these missiles was to threaten to destroy components of the planned US anti-missile defense shield in to be based in Poland. The SS-26s themselves are fired from mobile launchers and designed to launch “effective missile strikes at small-size targets of particular importance” on very short notice. Russian President Dimitry Medvedev also said that Russia “plans to jam a radar located in the Czech Republic, used to detect in-bound missiles and guide the Polish-based interceptors.”

(more…)

TEN QUICK FIXES FOR HOME-REPAIR PROBLEMS, from the book When Duct Tape Just Isn't Enough: Quick Fixes for Everyday Disasters.


9,533 posted on 11/06/2008 4:02:25 PM PST by backhoe (Just an old Keyboard Cowboy, ridin' the Trakball into the Sunset of America...)
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Kate, this is important and you should listen to it. It's about Obama's cult of personality and it is short.
 
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2008/11/a-new-and-kinde.html
 

A New and Kinder Obamaland

The left unleashed. This, I am sure, is just the beginning - and here I thought the mask was already off. Apparently, gruesome is their game face. Silly me.

Am I the only blogger that has been the lucky recipient of waves a hate mail. It started last night, after Obama was declared. Ah yes, Obama the uniter. Open season on Jews with a different opinion .....

Here's John, mdf0220@aol.com - he's on a tear

Kikes like you Pam make me sympathize with Hamas and Himmler.

and this ....

Thats what we all need, two crazy cunts running for office. I have a really good idea; why dont you all go and fuck yourselves OK? You were the problem with America but now your movement is in ruins and you have been swept out of power. And with this sewer of a website as evidence of your stupidity, its no wonder why. I think the fairness doctrine will do some good. In fact I have already written my Congressman and Senator, both democrats, to get this legislation passed. We are now in power and you are all dead meat. Conservatism is dead! There is a God! For the future I would say stop listening to half crazed twats like this and stop nominating loonies like Palin and maybe you can make a showing in 2012. Doubtful but who knows.
John
email: mdf0220@aol.com

IP address 67.82.227.96 (Hicksville, NY)

and then there is the melodious teetop@gmail.com

fuck you stupid ignorant ugly ass cougar bitch fuck off and die!!!!!

So tolerant.  Especially the one who looks forward to the Fairness Doctrine's shutting down of opposing points of view.

I will spare you the rest. You're welcome.

UPDATE: It's nationwide: Bitch

 

Dennis received this from a woman who is very active in the Birmingham (MI) Republican Women's Club. She, in turn, received it from the woman who's daughter was stiffed on the tip. Looks as though the daughter had used her cell to capture the pic and send it to her mom. Guess there won't be much "turning of the other cheek" during the Obama Administration.

I think we have just seen the beginning.  My daughter is working in a bar in Chicago right now,12:20am.  She was waiting on a table of 6 black men and this is the tip they left her.  Open the attachment.  It shows the paper that they left her on the table as her tip.  So as we are watching the first black President giving his acceptance speech the black Americans are now calling the White House the Black house (and my daughter) "Bitch." I am so upset!

UPDATE: Other bloggers have written me as well. I am not alone. The inmates are out of a  weekend pass - and believe me their reign won't be long. Wait until the folks see what they have wrought. Ouch!

Kate over at Small Dead Animals has received mail from what appears to be the inspiration for the book American Psycho - here. I am sure he has shared many a meal with Jeffrey Dahmer before they killed him in the cooler.


9,534 posted on 11/06/2008 4:18:33 PM PST by backhoe (Just an old Keyboard Cowboy, ridin' the Trakball into the Sunset of America...)
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GOOD GRIEF CHECK OUT OBAMA'S NEW WEBSITE
 
Just some from the site.

Foreign Policy

Fight Global Poverty: Obama and Biden will embrace the Millennium Development Goal of cutting extreme poverty around the world in half by 2015, and they will double our foreign assistance to $50 billion to achieve that goal. They will help the world's weakest states to build healthy and educated communities, reduce poverty, develop markets, and generate wealth.

America's going broke, but he'll redistribute America's wealth it seems.

And this is frightening.

"The Obama Administration will call on Americans to serve in order to meet the nation’s challenges.

President-Elect Obama will expand national service programs like AmeriCorps and Peace Corps and will create a new Classroom Corps to help teachers in underserved schools, as well as a new Health Corps, Clean Energy Corps, and Veterans Corps.

Obama will call on citizens of all ages to serve America, by developing a plan to require 50 hours of community service in middle school and high school and 100 hours of community service in college every year."

Oh cripes. I don't think the youth vote expected this Laughing Laughing Laughing

Yours,

9,535 posted on 11/06/2008 4:27:00 PM PST by backhoe (Just an old Keyboard Cowboy, ridin' the Trakball into the Sunset of America...)
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GOOD GRIEF CHECK OUT OBAMA'S NEW WEBSITE
 
http://www.freedominion.com.pa/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=1255617#1255617
 
ripley51 wrote:
OMG. I just found this on the website. Where's backhoe with the snappy uniform pictures for youth involvement?


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



But wait!

There's More!







Barack Obama, Mr. Hope-n-Change

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



This, is where we are going:



No, I'm not kidding.

I wish I were- the lights are going out, all across America.
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9,536 posted on 11/07/2008 1:27:48 AM PST by backhoe (Just an old Keyboard Cowboy, ridin' the Trakball into the Sunset of America...)
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A flag, on a hill (Bill Whittle)

World waits to see Barack's true colours

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Mike Gallagher: Mourning In America

I'm not sure that America is worth fighting for anymore? Abortions will ALWAYS be legal and GOOD in some circles......Homesexuals are RISING in HUGE NUMBERS.....regular people are accepting BOTH of these with OPEN ARMS!! Fight like HeLL to get into HEAVEN.....not sure about America.

Ann, you're more of an old-timer than I am, but I've been around a while, and you know I don't comment much about abortion ( which I believe is a great evil ) or the gay stuff ( leave the kids out of it, and keep it private ) but...

But, in those "silence of my soul" moments ( when it's eternally 4:00 O'clock in the morning, and you can't get back to sleep, and you can't quit remembering all the things you wished you'd done differently ) I really do wonder-

Is the blood of those 50,000,000 babies so heavy on our hands, that we've lost God's grace? Is there no way back?

Is Obama really the Abyss...

staring back at us?

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

 

Forget JFK, Obama could be the next Jimmy Carter

 3 US States Outlaw Gay Marriage [ 1, 2, 3, 4 ]
 
Actually they do in a way.Many lefties advocate one thing that results in aids and accrued costs to the health care system which we pay for through taxes...but oppose others.......
Lets see here...
gov't should ban smoking
gov't should regulate the prices of drinks in bars (Stelmach's plan)
gov't should regulate what parents pack in their kids lunches
gov't should regulate how people raise their kids
gov't should regulate speech
the list goes on and on....................... Rolling Eyes

BUT homosexers are free to strut about scantily clad in "pride parades", overstep public nudity laws, and, etc. Rolling Eyes

Looks like some people are more equal than others.......


Tory, I tried to wake people up, over this manufactured ( yes, it's a construct ) "issue" for years & years:
-A Gay ( or not! ) Old Time- GM links--

Here's the money quote:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1083139/posts?page=266#266
"...actor John Barrowman on what it really means:

It’s been a long wait but we legitimised our relationship to each other a long time ago when we signed our mortgages together and this is just something that forces people who don’t want to recognise it that they have to."

That's right- it's not about "tolerance," or "choice," or any of the other touchy-feely Oh! So! PC things-- it's about force...

The new battle line?

choice versus control.
 
GOOD GRIEF CHECK OUT OBAMA'S NEW WEBSITE [ 1, 2, 3 ]
 

Check out this entry from a blog run by an old friend of mine:
( And like I always tell youse guys- use the links, and read the comments, dam it... )


President Obama To Bring Back Slavery
November 6th, 2008 by SG --

From President-Elect Obama’s website:
(Click to enlarge)

“Obama will call on citizens of all ages to serve America, by developing a plan to require 50 hours of community service in middle school and high school and 100 hours of community service in college every year.”

Someone should tell Mr. Obama that Mr. Lincoln freed the slaves.

While they are at it, they should also tell this Constitutional scholar that the Constitution now forbids involuntary servitude:

Amendment XIII

Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

Section 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.


The Republican Party got rid of slavery 143 years (and a bloody Civil War) ago.

And the Democrats have been working ever since to bring it back.

51 Comments »

A sample?


SG
November 6th, 2008 at 7:24 pm

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

Amazon.com: The Plan: Big Ideas for America: Rahm Emanuel, Bruce Reed: Books

http://www.amazon.com/Plan-Big.....038;sr=1-1

Rahm Emanuel wants us to have compulsory national service just like Israel.


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Barack Obama Has Already Jumped The Shark

Conservatives, Don't Be Hypnotized

Lead bullets under fire

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

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

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

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

Keep these handy...

Gun Facts v4.2!

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

-The FIVE-MINUTE HANDBOOK (RKBA)--

Barack Obama: The Kingfish Reborn

Obama's Anger

How To Get Your Hand Bitten

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

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

"Don't blame Me
I voted for Sarah"

Possibilities I'm entertaining in the interim?

"Where's mah Free Gas?"

"I want my mortgage paid!"

Do Unto Obama As Liberals Did Unto Bush

Winning Proposition (What The Victory Of Proposition 8 Means For Marriage In America Alert)

GAYS ARE IN A DITHER!

I tried to wake people up, over this manufactured ( yes, it's a construct ) "issue" for years & years:
-A Gay ( or not! ) Old Time- GM links--

Here's the money quote:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1083139/posts?page=266#266
"...actor John Barrowman on what it really means:

It’s been a long wait but we legitimised our relationship to each other a long time ago when we signed our mortgages together and this is just something that forces people who don’t want to recognise it that they have to."

That's right- it's not about "tolerance," or "choice," or any of the other touchy-feely Oh! So! PC things-- it's about force...

The new battle line?

choice versus control.

Chris Matthews says it all!

FreePers, I am proposing a CONSERVATIVE CODES OF CONDUCT in order to combat Zero policies

Jindal Video is an Example of How to Sell Conservatism

The Cowardly Character Assassination of Sarah Palin (Michelle Malkin's fightin' mad!!!)


9,537 posted on 11/07/2008 4:30:09 AM PST by backhoe (Just an old Keyboard Cowboy, ridin' the Trakball into the Sunset of America...)
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 Regarding Barack Obama and the Question of the Anti-Christ
 
"White guilt gave us black Jesus"

Obama’s First Appointment Is Son Of Zionist Terrorist
Day One: Obama faces a Cold War threat and a warning from Is...

9,538 posted on 11/07/2008 5:17:58 AM PST by backhoe (Just an old Keyboard Cowboy, ridin' the Trakball into the Sunset of America...)
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Emanuel Was Director Of Freddie Mac During Scandal

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

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

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

I hope someone sends these Emanuel links off to Limbaugh.

Chronicler of the NEXT... Mark Steyn on Michael Crichton

Retailers See Steep Sales Drop in October

The Newspaper Belongs in the Trash

Cut Obama some slack, wait and listen

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

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

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

Obama-Supporting Teacher Bullies Student (video)

 
 
 

Simple question: 401(k) seizure.....isn't this an ex post facto law?

It depends on several factors. The most significant is your marginal tax rate since the 401k withdrawal is treated as income. In addition, most would be hit with a 10% early withdrawal penalty.

So, if you’re currently in the 25% marginal tax bracket, 35% of a 401k withdrawal would go to the tax goons. Unless you are in a situation that’s exempt from the the 10% penalty, then it would be 25%.

If it was a sizeable withdrawal or you’re close to the break point for the next tax bracket, you could end up paying a more since the withdrawal might push you into the next bracket.

Waiting patiently for smarter Freepers to tell me what I got wrong. :)

Hearing on 401(k) plan grows to urban legend (MSM preparing people for government seizure of 401K!)

Can treaties be abolished rescinded or canceled ?


9,539 posted on 11/07/2008 6:46:27 AM PST by backhoe (All across America, the Lights are going out...)
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The Coup: a position paper

Conservatives Lost More Then An Election

email from Planned Parenthood...gloating

Gays Protest Prop 8 Marriage Ban In Los Angeles (Video)

Why worry about President Obama? What bad could possibly happen?

1. Set aside a food and water supply for 3 months, to start.
2. Save as much cash on hand as possible.
3. Pay off as much debt as possible.
4. Guns and ammo

That’s my four-point plan, along with getting on my knees and praying every day for my family and country. I think America is in for darker days than we have seen in about six decades.


9,540 posted on 11/07/2008 7:16:41 AM PST by backhoe (All across America, the Lights are going out...)
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