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DUBOB 11- more tales from the Dark UnderBelly Of the Beast...
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| 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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"If these politicians win—if they succeed in creating a society where those who work and sacrifice and save their entire lives can see the fruits of their labors confiscated to pay government benefits to someone else—that will be the day the American Dream dies."
I think the exact date will end up being Nov. 4, 2008, which incidently I believe was made a holiday in Kenya.
The federal government has just expropriated Chrysler, and made a gift of it to the UAW. This is banana republic stuff.
Welcome to Police State, 2009:
While primarily about That Old Media Whore, this:
Code Pinko-- the Cindy Sheehan affair ( click the picture )
has plenty about the pinksters- they are a loathsome group, at best.
Since March, I have headed a phone survey of voters in my legislative district. Our project included the calling of all voters who were not identified with party affiliation for 140 precinct in our district. We have just finished with this project.
Keep in mind that the voters in our county will be all voting by mail in all elections from now on. We just had our first all mail elections recently to elect our county elections board supervisor. Guess who won the election? The Democrat.
We have called over 4,000 of these unidentified voters. About 10% of the voters we called were not at the address listed in the calling list we received from the Secretary of State. These lists would give the phone number, the address, the voters and the age of the voters at that address.
When we found a voter not at the address, we would question the person we reached on the telephone. We asked if the person listed at that address had ever lived at that address. We asked if they always had the same phone number and how long they lived there. One person said that they lived at the same address for 30 years with the same phone number. The person we were calling for had never lived at that residence. This happened over and over.
Just thought my fellow Freepers would like to get some first hand information about how bad it is.
The worst of them have that same fake empathy, grating self-righteousness and noxious narcissism that John Edwards threatened to bring to the White House in 2008. Few of them can match his hair, though. It’s awesome.Full Length Article Here
As reprehensible as this “franchise” is, it’s been this way for 20 some years. As soon as these federal seizure laws went into effect, law enforcement agencies have been using the unprecedented power accorded to them, to line their own pockets. The states (Texas also) know all about it. They just don’t remove the problem, for whatever reason. Remember, the states get a cut of seizure assets as well, if the state grabs the property. Money is money, and any time there’s a big pile of it sitting around people are going to find a way to grab what isn’t theirs (on both sides of the law).
As to this particular crime family, it’s just a case of thugs with badges and law degrees. They don’t have much to do with your average cop or DA. They all know what these people are.
Well I wasn’t around for Watergate but it HAD to be juicier than this.
No, I was around then, and this is far wider in scope, if you consider taking down the economy of the US and the world.
That is the Big Picture behind what happened last fall.
The problem is that the MSM is in the can for the World Oligarchs and their frontmen like 0bama.
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posted on
05/07/2009 2:15:30 AM PDT
by
backhoe
(All across America, the Lights are going out...)
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Now Obama will release NYC flyover "photograph"
ON THE INTERNET:
WASHINGTON TIMES.com: "GOP PROBES 'EXTREMISM' REPORT'S ORIGINS" by Audrey Hudson (May 7, 2009)
HOT AIR.com: "NEW DHS FOLLY: THE DOMESTIC TERRORISM LEXICON" by Ed Morrissey (May 1, 2009)
Link (pdf)
Link (pdf)
Link
Transcripts.CNN.com: "STATE OF THE UNION WITH JOHN KING Interview with Janet Napolitano; Interview with Senators Klobuchar, Ensign" (Aired April 19, 2009, 09:00 ET)
THOMAS MORE.org: "Napolitano is Lying to Americans About Her Department's Rightwing Extremism Report; TMLC Files Suit" (April 17, 2009)
Link (pdf)
DHS.gov - News Release: "STATEMENT BY U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY JANET NAPOLITANO ON THE THREAT OF RIGHT-WING EXTREMISM" (Release Date: April 15, 2009)
WASHINGTON TIMES.com: "LEGION OBJECTS TO VETS AS TERROR RISK" by Audrey Hudson and Eli Lake (SNIPPET: "The American Legion on Tuesday criticized a new Homeland Security report as unfairly stereotyping veterans by suggesting that some soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan could be recruited by right-wing extremists to participate in violent actions. "I think it is important for all of us to remember that Americans are not the enemy. The terrorists are," David K. Rehbein, national commander of the veterans organization, said in a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano about a security assessment titled "Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence and Recruitment."") (April 15, 2009)
CWFA.org - CONCERNED WOMEN FOR AMERICA: "CHARGE! Let the Fight Against 'Right Wing Extremists' Begin" by Mario Diaz, Esq. (SNIPPET: "But give him credit; President Obama has been clear since the beginning: The problem is that you people keep "clinging to your guns and religion." Why won't you embrace change?") (April 14, 2009)
Video - Link
AMERICAN THINKER.com - blog: "DHS, 'RIGHTWING EXTREMISM' AND INFORMATION WARFARE" by Lance Fairchok (April 15, 2009)
POWERLINE BLOG: "WATCH OUT FOR THOSE CRAZY RIGHT WINGERS!" Posted by John (April 14, 2009, 12:38 pm)
MICHELLE MALKIN.com - blog: "CONFIRMED: The Obama DHS Hit Job On Conservatives Is Real" by Michelle Malkin (April 14, 2009)
WASHINGTON TIMES.com: "FEDERAL AGENCY WARNS OF RADICALS ON RIGHT 9-page report sent to police" by Audrey Hudson and Eli Lake (SNIPPET: ""It may include groups and individuals that are dedicated to a single-issue, such as opposition to abortion or immigration," the warning says." SNIPPET: "Congressional debates about immigration and gun control also make extremist groups suspicious and give them a rallying cry, the report says.") (April 14, 2009)
WorldNetDaily.com: Washington - "HOMELAND SECURITY ON GUARD FOR 'RIGHT-WING EXTREMISTS'" (April 12, 2009)
Document - Link (pdf) (April 7, 2009)
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USFA.DHS.gov - Infogram 10-09 - Snippet: "Hate Groups: A Growing Threat?" (March 12, 2009) (pdf)
Link (March 12, 2009)
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05/07/2009 3:38:58 AM PDT by
Cindy
And the "losers?" That's easy. Taxpayers. Amen.
The proposed policies are so stupid that they seem obviously self refuting.
And Then!
Looks like it is just starting to dawn on some lefties that Obama is ushering in an era of oppression of free speech. So it seems for Laura Varon Brown of the Detroit Free Press, at least. Oh, she isn't saying that Obama himself is trampling on free speech, but she is starting to understand that the left's penchant for political correctness is serving the function as a sort of self-imposed oppression no matter what Obama says. It's getting so bad, according to Brown, that any criticism of Obama is treated as akin to treason... at least it is in the "circles" she runs in, anyway.
Brown can count herself in the same boat as the late-night comedy shows that are finding that any criticism of The One is verboten to their left-wing audiences. Even the supposedly unshakable Bill Maher, who congratulates himself on his bravery for taking on the establishment, has found that he's had to shy from criticizing Obama. These people are seeing that attacking "The Man" is not so funny when it is their man in the crosshairs. Suddenly such folks have a new-found respect for the office and a more circumspect behavior toward the president is now du jour.
Read the rest at Publiusforum.com...
Silence, America! The Pedophile Protection Act:
Gov. Deval Patrick’s free wheels for welfare recipients program is revving up despite the stalled economy, as the keys to donated cars loaded with state-funded insurance, repairs and even AAA membership are handed out to get them to work. “It’s mind-boggling. You’ve got people out there saying, ‘I just lost my job. Hey, can I get a free car, too?’ ” And then they can get $3500-4500 for the Obama “Cash for Clunkers” program, too...
Comin' to Mo's Merica?
"In 2010 and 2012, the battle will be joined and the ultimate question must be this one, “Are we to be a nation of slaves governed by masters, or a nation of free men and women? Are we a nation of slaves or free citizens? Do we need to be taken care of, told what to do all the time, deprived of the rightful benefits of our work and our freedoms-- or are we best suited to care for ourselves and our families, employ our money and our Constitutional rights as we see fit ?”
Oh, jolly- we'll be paying even more, then...
On May 5th, it produced an impressive coronal mass ejection...
Well, whatcha expect?
George Carlin summed it up perfectly:
We’re so self-important. So self-important. Everybody’s going to save something now. “Save the trees, save the bees, save the whales, save those snails.” And the greatest arrogance of all: save the planet. What? Are these people kidding me? Save the planet, we don’t even know how to take care of ourselves yet. We haven’t learned how to care for one another, we’re gonna save the planet?
I’m getting tired of that ——. Tired of that ——. I’m tired of Earth Day, I’m tired of these self-righteous environmentalists, these white, bourgeois liberals who think the only thing wrong with this country is there aren’t enough bicycle paths. People trying to make the world save for their Volvos. Besides, environmentalists don’t give a —— about the planet. They don’t care about the planet. Not in the abstract they don’t. Not in the abstract they don’t. You know what they’re interested in? A clean place to live. Their own habitat. They’re worried that some day in the future, they might be personally inconvenienced.
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posted on
05/07/2009 1:08:12 PM PDT
by
backhoe
(All across America, the Lights are going out...)
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NOW IT’S TENNESSEE that’s pushing a
state sovereignty resolution. I saw somebody — I forget where — calling these things “neo-confederate,” but if you look at the
list of states where they’ve been proposed, well, the Confederacy must be getting pretty big, to encompass places like Oregon, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. But I think they’re a dumb idea — supporters would be better off getting behind
Randy Barnett’s constitutional proposal, which is much more likely to make a difference.
VIDEO, PICS, AND LINKS, from yesterday’s school choice rally in D.C.
UPDATE: Meanwhile, in Tennessee the legislature is moving to expand charter schools.
A QUINCY TEA PARTY ORGANIZER wasn’t allowed to speak to the City Council. Now Quincy’s mayor has responded. “Quincy Mayor John Spring says he has no regrets about a City Council vote which denied a taxpaying citizen to opportunity to speak before the city’s governing body on Monday night.”
If This Is A Non-Story
"Why is the left obsessed with it?
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May 6, 2009 03:02 PM by Michelle Malkin81 Comments
May 7, 2009 09:58 AM by Michelle Malkin
Rep. Jason Chaffetz, one of the bright lights of the GOP in the House, has a terrific idea to let the sun shine in on the Democrats’ massive national energy tax proposal.
He’s looking for co-sponsors of a measure that would require full disclosure of the impact of “cap-and-trade” on ratepayers.
The details via the Republican Study Committee:26 Comments
"As someone noted elsewhere, politicians are telling us that raising our taxes will allow us to control the weather. Uh huh."
"Get the hell out of my studio!"
Glenn Beck threw ACORN spokesman out of his studio after the spokesman attacked him as a racist after a nationally televised interview.
Beck destroyed this gu on camera too:
After Beck destroyed him on national TV he threw the guy out of his studio.
The Washington Examiner reported:
ACORN National Spokesman Scott Levenson was ejected from a Fox News studio Wednesday following an off-camera altercation with host Glenn Beck that involved racially charged comments, as they were described by Beck.
“I threw him out of the studio, get the hell out of my studio,” Beck told viewers he said after Levenson accused him of being “afraid of black people.”
Beck told listeners after the break that Levenson was expelled from the studio after he accused the host of being racist. Levenson appeared on the “Glenn Beck” show to respond to criminal charges filed against ACORN employees in Nevada on Monday. The non-profit organization, formally known as the Association for Community Organizations for Reform Now, is under investigation nationwide for voter fraud in at least 12 different states.
In his exchange with Beck, the ACORN spokesman insisted that individual employees were responsible for the violations but not the national organization. Beck was not persuaded by this defense and persisted in his questioning.
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posted on
05/07/2009 1:38:54 PM PDT
by
backhoe
(All across America, the Lights are going out...)
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The situation in Pakistan is much worse than you are hearing. Much of the coverage (here at Atlas) is the increasing power grab of pious Muslims ("fundamentalists) in SWAT and the rise of the Taliban as well. But the power that holds that fragile tinderbox together is the military, and the military appears to be fracturing. Should that happen, true Islam ("Islamists") will take over that country. Think jihad with nukes.
Should the Pakistani military split, the Taliban will seize control. The specter of Muslim "extremists" seizing power and handing over the country's nuclear weapons to Al Qaeda is very real.
Will B. Hussein call for a US military invasion into Pakistan and "persuade" the Pakistani military to turn over its nukes? As I pointed out yesterday, Obama is clueless. That, or he's dangerous - we know he loves chaos. Either way, he has no plan. But know, the situation in Pakistan is much worse than they are letting on.
Apparently the problem in the Pakistan military is within the junior ranks of the army - right up to Majors. There are many who will not take up arms against the Taleban, "seen as 'kindred' souls - in the struggle against the West in general, and the US in particular. To that extent the army is reverting to its post Zia identity as a guardian of the Islamic faith and according it a higher priority than the defence of national sovereignty, territorial integrity and the values enshrined in Pakistan's constitution." (here)
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posted on
05/07/2009 1:48:35 PM PDT
by
backhoe
(All across America, the Lights are going out...)
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MasterResource runs the numbers - and exposes the outright fraud of the Waxman-Markey climate change legislation. It simply does nothing but burden Americans with huge expenses for energy - the “climate Change” it will avert is noise on the system, not any real savings.
By the year 2050, the Waxman-Markey Climate Bill would result in a global temperature “savings” of about 0.05ºC regardless of the IPCC scenario used-this is equivalent to about 2 years’ worth of warming. By the year 2100, the emissions pathways become clearly distinguishable, and so to do the impacts of Waxman-Markey. Assuming the IPCC mid-range scenario (A1B) Waxman-Markey would result in a projected temperature rise of 2.847ºC, instead of 2.959ºC rise- a mere 0.112ºC temperature “savings.” Under the IPCC’s high-emissions scenario, instead of a projected rise of 4.414ºC, Waxman-Markey limits the rise to 4.219ºC-a “savings” of 0.195ºC. In either case, this works out to about 5 years’ worth of warming. In other words, a full implementation and adherence to the emissions restrictions provisions described by the Waxman-Markey Climate Bill would result only in setting back the projected rise in global temperatures by a few years-a scientifically meaningless prospect. (Note: I present the results to three significant digits, not that they are that precise when it comes to the real world, but just so that you can tell the results apart).
Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.
As regular readers know, I work in the energy field and have for many years. I know what kind of green smoke is being blown by the advocates of renewables. I know how much damage is being done in the name of “green” energy.
There are real solutions to energy, using time-proven methods available with today’s technology. It is called a closed cycle nuclear program.
It is not wind power that is available only 30% of the time. It is not solar energy which is generally available even less. It is most certainly not rapacious government programs designed to drive energy costs into the stratosphere. (And line government pockets and the pockets of “green” investors like Al Gore.)
America got where it is today primarily because of cheap energy that allowed it to develop even better technologies.
A meaningless carbon reduction program with ridiculous “savings” in carbon emissions at brutally high cost to America is not the answer.
Bad Ideas, Energy, Environment, Politics, Taxes | Gaius | Comments (2)
Amity Shlaes points out that Obama supporters on the web are somewhat less interested in governance than in sheer shrieking in support of their Chosen One:
So Michele Bachmann’s version of history is “from another planet.” Bobby Jindal, the Republican governor of Louisiana, is “chronically stupid.” And Eric Cantor of Virginia, the second-ranking Republican in the House, is “busy lying constantly.”
That at least is according to posts on three left-leaning blogs.
Writers who are not pro-Barack Obama are suffering character assassination as well. George Will of the Washington Post, the nation’s senior conservative columnist, has been so assaulted by bloggers that his editor, Fred Hiatt, recently wrote, “I would think folks would be eager to engage in the debate, given how sure they are of their case, rather than trying to shut him down.”
The disconcerting thing isn’t that the bloggers or their guests did this slamming. We’re used to such vitriol in campaign time. What is surprising is that the attacks are continuing after an election.
In the past, politicians and policy thinkers tended to be magnanimous in victory. They and their friends focused, post- victory, on policy and strategy — not on trashing individuals.
What Shlaes does not mention is that most, if not all, of the left-leaning bloggers in question are being coordinated in their attacks by the White House itself.
It’s easier if you don’t actually have to think or write for yourself, isn’t it? It’s easy to simply regurgitate the stuff you are fed by your political masters. It’s easy to smear and lie and attack at all costs when ordered to.
It’s easy to lie under the table and fight for scraps from your masters.
Just don’t look at yourself in the mirror. It’s easier that way.
Blogosphere, Left Wing, Politics | Gaius May 5, 2009 Comments (6) "...
you have to understand, dissent is only ‘patriotic’ and a good thing when the dissenter is a liberal. It is decidedly NOT a good thing when the dissenter disagrees with the liberal world view in any way. Then it become sour grapes and unwarranted attacks, etc. Santay, I have to agree with you on your assessment of ‘Rotten Rahm’. He is a particularly nasty piece of work whose entire history is one of attacking anyone whos disagrees with him in any way. He may well be pulling the strings of an Obamessiah puppet behind the scenes. He certainly has more experience at just about everything than his boss does."
The Dems seem to want everybody to go to college. I want everybody to get a solid HS education, but many will not. Not because of the schools - because they don't want it.
As I have said many times here, one does not "get" educated: one takes it - or does not. As it is, how many colleges are glorified high schools, diploma mills, or propaganda factories?
The Dems want student loans to be a federal entitlement. That would basically make colleges and universities fully under the thumb of the feds, which will lead to everything becoming politicized. Also, they want to eliminate private college loans. Does this all sound sort of familiar?
In part, their wishes sound like a government full-employment plan for PhDs in unmarketable subject areas, and one more power grab over independent and private institutions.
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posted on
05/07/2009 4:07:03 PM PDT
by
backhoe
(All across America, the Lights are going out...)
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An Instapundit reader asks:
How come gas has gone up about 50 cents since January and we don’t hear the media complaining about the little people?
Just wondering…
And the Professor responds that it “Doesn’t fit the narrative.”
Well, in a sense it does: when gasoline prices were at their lowest in December, Tom Brokaw of NBC, the New York Times, and the Washington Post, the troika of east coast establishment liberalism, all called for the Office of the President Elect to raise gasoline taxes once in office. (You can see Brokaw in action about 6:30 into this edition of Silicon Graffiti.) So while they’d rather have higher gas prices benefiting the federal government’s coffers, all three news sources are perfectly OK with the average commuter (read: their customer base) getting soaked at the pump. And as candidate Obama told MSNBC last June, he’s happy with high gas prices as well as a deterrent to automobile usage (such as driving to work to help grow the economy) , as long as the increase is in the form of a “gradual adjustment” to the higher prices.
Weak Treasury auction sends stocks lower. “The government had to pay greater interest than expected in a sale of 30-year Treasurys. That is worrisome to traders because it could signal that it will become harder for Washington to finance its ambitious economic recovery plans. The higher interest rates also could push up costs for borrowing in areas like mortgages.” It’s like people are losing confidence in the Obama Administration’s willingness to see that bondholders get paid. Oh, well — what could go wrong, really?
CHANGE! Obama To Fire His First Gay Arabic Linguist. Good thing we don’t have that homophobic Bush Administration anymore!
Plus, a “rainbow rebellion?” Who are the rubes again?
TPM MUCKRAKER: Pension Players Go Back To The Lincoln Bedroom Days.
Correra and Schiaffino have something in common: they have both worked as agents for a placement agency called Diamond Edge Capital, which is run by Marvin Rosen, a former finance director for the Democratic National Committee and Clinton campaign co-finance chair in Florida in 1992. . . . It’s unlikely that the most prominent boldfaced names thus far dragged into the scheme — like money manager turned car czar Steve Rattner, had any clue about the more brazen practices of the scheme’s masterminds. But the investigation stands to shed considerable light on those players perceives as “normal” in the unregulated world of middlemen who control access to the pursestrings of public finance.
Some folks’ “normal,” after all, might raise the eyebrows of the average citizen. If Rosen sounds familiar, it’s because he was one of the key figures involved in promoting sleepovers in the Lincoln bedroom for top campaign contributors in the nineties. In 2005 Rosen joined Diamond Edge, where he now holds the title of chairman, and helped secure a handful of investments for hedge fund clients from the New Mexico and New York state pension funds. Records show the firm booked at least $3.25 million on four New York pension fund investments in 2005 and 2006 and an unclear amount on another four in New Mexico.
Read the whole thing.
By Michelle Malkin • May 7, 2009 07:48 PM
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi knew from September 2, 2002 that enhanced interrogation techniques, including waterboarding, were being used on jihadi detainees.
She knew. From Day One.
That’s what the CIA memo, published at Human Events, shows.
ABC News follows. Pelosi’s spokesperson says his boss has a “recollection” that is “different.”
Nancy Pelosi: Blink, blink.
Allahpundit surveys all the evidence contradicting Pelosi and comes to the only conclusion: Liar.
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"But, it’s ok…Once we get re-educated; we won’t remember any of this."
Say goodbye to your grandparents [Darleen Click]
The Democrats learned from the defeat of HillaryCare that they cannot afford the American public to actually learn the details of ObamaCare, so they are holding secret hearings and plan to nationalize American medicine by the end of this summer. All the while, Obama’s poodle MSM will cheerlead it with the Drumbeat of “Reform!!”. While the anemic “can’t we all get along” wing of the GOP is fumbling when they should be aggressively telling the truth …
Rationing is coming.
Obama says there will be “choice”. That’s a lie. They are already backing away from not taxing employer provided insurance, because there is no other way to fund this massive takeover. And it is also a great way to make the “Government option” the only option.
Quite simply:
Almost anyone familiar with the push for what is euphemistically called “health care reform” knows that many experts on the left believe that far too many dollars are spent on providing health care to people in the final weeks or months of their earthly lives. If controls can be placed on these expenditures, then more of the government’s resources will be available for younger and much healthier people.
This is not a hypothetical. Rationing’s effects are easily seen in Canada and Britain, where people are allowed to die by design in order to keep costs down.
Why spend money giving 70 year old grandpa a hip replacement? It’s not like he’s really that useful to Society any more. And premies born before 28 weeks? Pfffft. You’re thinking, like, it’s a real child or something? Macular degeneration? Hey one eye is good enough for you!
Think how much “healthier” the Government can make “us” by this Eugenics by Rationing Plan, and the money saved by no longer “wasting” it on frivolous research into new drugs, surgeries, technologies. Obama and the Dems want a “holistic” approach to healthcare … only the healthy and the lucky need survive.
How the World Works released this excellent video on the merging of Left-wing blogs with the liberal mainstream media:
Use the link, dammit, to see the video...
Related... Obama now
dictating to reporters.
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posted on
05/08/2009 1:01:38 AM PDT
by
backhoe
(All across America, the Lights are going out...)
To: backhoe
Well back you sure have been busy...Bookmarking for later
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posted on
05/08/2009 1:06:40 AM PDT
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KLT
(A damn Yankee, from the great state of Mississippi....Go Freepers Go!)
To: KLT
Thanks for stopping by my lonely outpost on the InterToobs...
10,388
posted on
05/08/2009 1:11:42 AM PDT
by
backhoe
(All across America, the Lights are going out...)
To: All
If we had just reprocessed the spent fuel as blue ribbon to be used by all the Blue Ribbon Commissions that have kicked this can down the road, we would have dealt with all of the waste years ago.
I do like to be precise in my language.
I grew up in the formerly great city of Detroit.
It is now one of the laughing-stock cities on the planet. When I was growing up there in the 60’s, the schools were second to none (for government schools).
Everybody in my neighborhood had fathers that worked,
and the neighborhood was clean, and safe.
Now, due to the leftist policies of the former, and late mayor, Coleman Young, current representitive John Conyers, felonious ex-mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, his mother, Caroline Cheeks Kilpatrick, the foul-mouthed, incompetent City Council member, Monica Conyers, and yes, the UAW, AFL-CIO,
and the other assorted dregs of the Democrat Party we have:
(Ta-Daaa!) The current and probably forever, sh!t-hole City of Detroit.
So, the voters fix to this unmanageable, ludicrous, and untenable situation is: Vote Democrat!
But, the schools have done their job well.
You now have ignorant children, who will pull the appropriate lever when their time comes, to vote for more empty promises.
My only hope for my city is that Dave Bing, former Detroit
Piston, businessman, and recently elected to the post of Mayor, can pull off the nearly impossible.
I saw yesterday, in Denver, the murder rates of red states vs.blue states. And guess what? Well, it’s too obvious.
I was at O’Hare Airport last night. There was a feature on tv about the slaughter of kids happening on the very turf that our Illustrious Leader, BHO, was supposed to represent.
35 kids, so far,this year.
Wait! I have an idea! Let’s outlaw guns in Cook County!
Why did I never think of that before?
Fortunately, I now live many miles from that insanity now.
I hope you, and yours are safe, and well, Navy Patriot.
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05/07/2009 11:12:07 PM PDT by
gigster
Didn’t I just read somewhere today that he was cutting Federal Money to States for arrest and jailing of these illegal immigrants?He wants to cut this
I published the following vanity here before the election, I believe it anticipates Ali Sina's article:
THE OBAMA PATHOLOGY
The idea of the Authoritarian Personality originated in The Frankfurt School as a means of undermining the position of the father within the family circle and thereby undermine the family itself and ultimately the nation as a bulwark against communism. It was heavily larded with pseudo-Freudian analysis and was expanded to subvert all institutionalized authority. Every season we see an article, usually by some college professor with too much time in his hands or sometimes by psychiatrists acting either singly or in gaggles, opining that the current president, if he be Republican, is somehow psychologically deficient. No Republican president or Republican candidate in my lifetime has escaped this ritual psychoanalysis.
A recent excrescence of this genre is the book by Naomi Wolf in which she ludicrously argues that America, led by George Bush, is on the verge of descending into fascism. I have posted my objection to this sort of pseudoscience and I have tried to debunk this cheap propaganda so I am reluctant to engage hypocritically in the same game now. Well, I am going to do it anyway. I aim to indict about half of our whole society. The half, and likely more than half, that will vote for Barak Obama. My psychological conclusions do not pretend to the trappings of the "science" of the psyche and adorned with the word games of Freudian analysis, rather they are rooted in common sense.
The conclusion of anyone with common sense who has seen the films of innocent children singing their Obama songs or who has watched the quasi-military chanting and saluting of the Obama Youth in military garb must conclude that there is something very, very wrong with these people. I remember when I first saw the YouTube Children singing their Obama song I became conscious after a while that my mouth was gaping open, so appalled was I. My reaction to seeing the paramilitary gang marching into the karate hall was a mixture of embarrassment that these kids would make such fools of themselves and anger that adults would so brazenly manipulate children. Then I felt a creeping sense of unease that there was something potentially very sinister going on. Dear merciful God, this is Orwellian!
Beyond a very healthy repugnance to the spectacle of brainwashed children put on display, beyond the inescapable Maoist symbolism of it all, a commonsense person asks, what kind of man would permit this to go on in his name? What kind of parent would not seek to protect his child from such a man? What kind of pathology would lead parents who presumably love their children to consign those children to the demons of mind control? How could Americans fall for such a transparent cult of personality?
Unfortunately, we need not be uncertain about what kind of man would permit this grotesquerie to be advanced in his name. History provides us with plenty of examples: Hitler, Stalin, Mao, and Kim Jong-Il come to mind and now we add Barak Obama to the list. Why has he not spoken out and repudiated this? Would not a decent man do so if only for the children?
If Obama will not speak out now as a candidate when a little modesty, even false modesty, would advance his chances, what will he do when he gains office with no resistance anywhere on the horizon; no opposition in either the House or the Senate, no voice in traditional media to be raised against him, no institutional resistance on a national level of any kind organized to discourage him? Because he condones this obscenity one must ask, Is Obama really a narcissist as has been claimed? If so, how far will he go when he has the levers of power in his hands when there is no effective resistance to his ego?
How dangerous is Barak Obama?
Is he too dangerous to be put in a place where he could literally get us all killed? Or Is he the indispensable man in some sense? I do not think so. There is nothing in his career that suggests that he is the man for this season. In a time of war he has no military experience. In a time of looming financial disaster, he has no economic credentials. If he is potentially dangerous and if he is not indispensable, why would so many people want to put him in a position where he could do us harm, even get us all killed?
My commonsense explanation is that there must be a pathology, a mass psychosis, that brings people to the point where not only are they eager to make him the most powerful man in the world but they are invoking his name and calling upon him to be their savior. This they do rather than falling on their knees out of fear of The Real God.
This is the Obama pathology.
To a middle-class conservative who instinctively rejects conspiracy theories and normally wants to think the best of people because that's what he learned in Sunday school, this deification of an empty suit is as bewildering as it is frightening. What in the world are these people thinking? Do they not weigh the risks of consigning their fate to an unqualified man, worse, a person tainted his whole life with stunningly dangerous confederates including felons and Communists and terrorists? What is the upside? What is it about this man whose career is utterly uninterrupted by any accomplishment which would motivate these people to risk their children and my children to whatever he might do to them? How do they know? How can they be sure? Don't they have any doubts?
My problem is that I am seeking after that which I cannot find. I want to find an explanation in logic for a phenomenon of emotion. It is easy for middle-class conservatives to overlook the power of emotion even though history provides plenty of examples even within our own culture in America. Can logic explain why so many drank Jim Jonse's Kool aid? Why Charles Manson commanded such blood loyalty? How many cheered OJ Simpson's acquittal? Why did princes Diana's passing traumatize a nation? These are not questions which are answered with everyday commonsense. One almost has to go to the Bible to see the answer in Old Testament allegory which lets us know that evil is and there will always be worshipers of the golden calf.
I fear that in November we conservatives might find ourselves involuntarily embarked upon a journey that is foreign to our epistemology. We may be going into dark places and we might well be pushed into a netherworld where our common sense values are of no use because it is a place where down is up and black is white, a place where gravity does not pull but pushes, a place where we will need a pocket translator in order to converse in English with our government, our children's teachers, and our keepers even though they superficially use the same words we do. We sense we are about to be overwhelmed by forces guided by the ghost of Saul Alinsky.
I fear the downside of the Obama Pathology after his election may extend to dimensions we cannot begin to fasten to our everyday understanding or to our common sense. We have no way of knowing what will come because we don't know anything really about Barak Obama. We do not know if he is purely evil, we do not know if he is a committed communist, we do not know if he is a racist, we do not know if he wishes to see the submergence of the United States into a greater world order, we do not know if he is a megalomaniac, we do not even know, God help us, if he hates America. We do not know, in short, if we are backs - to- the- wall confronted with the Liberals' quadrennial nightmare: A real Authoritarian Personality.
We do know that Barak Obama has already encouraged a cult of personality whose implications are truly frightening and fundamentally un-American.
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10,389
posted on
05/08/2009 9:20:10 AM PDT
by
backhoe
(All across America, the Lights are going out...)
To: backhoe
Your welcome, sure full of info...how you doing back, ltns....glad to see you’re still here..
10,390
posted on
05/08/2009 11:19:02 AM PDT
by
KLT
(A damn Yankee, from the great state of Mississippi....Go Freepers Go!)
To: KLT
Your welcome, sure full of info...how you doing back, ltns....glad to see you’re still here..We're pretty good, thanks- I'll keep posting "all the stuff you ought to be thinking about" as long as I can.
10,391
posted on
05/08/2009 3:36:49 PM PDT
by
backhoe
(All across America, the Lights are going out...)
To: backhoe
Will be checkin it all out...good to see you my friend...
10,392
posted on
05/08/2009 3:39:55 PM PDT
by
KLT
(A damn Yankee, from the great state of Mississippi....Go Freepers Go!)
To: KLT
10,393
posted on
05/08/2009 4:02:01 PM PDT
by
backhoe
(All across America, the Lights are going out...)
To: All
This is a good and thoughtful essay, well worth reading in its entirety and pondering well.
After the 2006 debacle, I wrote "Once ( nominally, at least ) in power, the Republicans spent, regulated, and taxed like a bunch of Democrats- no wonder voters decided to choose The Real Thing."
I'd add to that, that McCain came from behind and made two tactically brilliant moves which he promptly squandered.
Sarah galvanized people- like my wife-- who normally loathe politics.
And he immediately blew that by sequestering her for two weeks with, for God's sake! Bush cronies as advisors.
Then, he suspended his campaign for that highly suspicious "financial crisis"-- a move that threw 0-whatshisname for a utter loop. ( "Uh, call me?" )
And blew that by going along with the Good Ole Boys who helped create the mess in the first place.
So much potential, such a waste.
"Throw the social conservatives the pro-life, pro-family people overboard and the Republican party will be as irrelevant as the Whigs," he said in reference to the American political party that largely disbanded in the mid 1800s.
"They'll basically be a party of gray-haired old men sitting around the country club puffing cigars, sipping brandy and wondering whatever happened to the country. That will be the end of the party," he said in the interview published Thursday.
(Excerpt) Read more at politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com ...
For those interested, here's one of the photos they will not release:
Key point here is that INTRASTATE commerce is now controlled by Feds.
Hello lawyers, do you hear that?
10,394
posted on
05/08/2009 4:02:57 PM PDT
by
backhoe
(All across America, the Lights are going out...)
To: backhoe
10,395
posted on
05/08/2009 4:28:55 PM PDT
by
KLT
(A damn Yankee, from the great state of Mississippi....Go Freepers Go!)
To: KLT
10,396
posted on
05/09/2009 1:10:16 AM PDT
by
backhoe
(All across America, the Lights are going out...)
To: All
DO YOU THINK?
Pelosi Has Lost ‘Credibility’ on Interrogation Tactics. “ABC News’ Rick Klein reports: The top Republican on the House intelligence committee told ABC News Friday that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi ‘doesn’t have any credibility’ in her claim that she was never briefed by intelligence officials that waterboarding and other hard interrogation techniques had been employed.”
Plus, Pelosi folds.
It Wasn’t Just Pelosi. “The leak clearly shows that some in the CIA have resolved not to take the heat for waterboarding all by themselves, and shows what a miscalculation Obama made by releasing the legal memos. Until that time, the CIA appeared content to let people talk about Bush-era tactics in academic terms, especially since the agency had dropped the procedures in question several years earlier. After the release of the OLC memos prompted talk of prosecutions, that all changed, and now Obama knows how Bush felt when the CIA decided to leak damaging information to the press.”
UPDATE: TPM Muckraker: Docs Show Rockefeller Was Briefed On “How The Water Board Was Used.”
Plus, Josh Gerstein: 40 Hill briefings on interrogations disclosed.
Also, from Greg Sargent: Hoekstra’s Office: He’s Seen Documents That Prove Pelosi Was Briefed On Waterboarding.
ANOTHER UPDATE: Moe Lane watches the moral-superiority bubble deflate.
And Jules Crittenden comments. “OK, I think we’re ready to start those torture prosecutions.”
MORE: The Hill: Hoekstra considers hearings on Pelosi, interrogations.
STILL MORE: Allah is pitiless: “Two defenses of Pelosi’s lies circulating in the nutrootsphere today, one dumber than the other. . . . Anyway, they wanted ‘truth’ and now they’ve got it.”
BEST HEADLINE: Nancy Pelosi Caught Voguing.
UPDATE: Related thoughts here.
Dijongate lives...
On Wednesday night
Sean Hannity poked fun of Obama's mustard selection at Ray's Hell Burgers.
Hannity mentioned
Gateway Pundit during this special mustard segment:
This didn't go over well with the Far Left.
Mocking Dear Leader's mustard is apparently off limits.
The
Huffington Post was outraged that Obama's mustard selection be questioned.
Funny, this is the same website that regularly slimed George Bush and went as far as to
write spoofs on his eating habits.
But, that was obviously OK with these loons.
These kooks take Dear Leader
waaaay to seriously.
WHAT’S HAPPENED TO the dollar’s purchasing power. Disturbing chart.
This is the chart they don't want you to see: the purchasing power of the dollar over the past 76 years has declined by 94%. And based on current monetary and fiscal policy, we have at least another 94% to go. The only question is whether this will be achieved in 76 months this time.
IMPORTANT: The ACORN-8 to be on Glenn Beck tonight.
"These are former employees of domestic terrorist organization ACORN who somewhere along the line grew consciences and are now committed to dismantling ACORN and ensuring it doesn’t rise again, Hydra-style, in myriad other forms."
"THAT’S what ACORN is. They claim to be “community organizers” but they have a radical agenda to usurp the electoral process and rig every election they can. It is imperative that as many people as possible out there become experts in ACORN. Shedding light on these monsters will ultimately lead to their downfall.
PLEASE watch Glenn Beck, and keep thinking of ways that we can all work together to get the truth out about these domestic terrorists, more dangerous to democracy than Al Queda could ever be."
http://hillbuzz.org/2009/05/08/i...-and-report-in/
Change!... So much for creating for saving 2 million jobs.
The US Economy lost
539,000 jobs in April.
The national unemployment rate climbed to
8.9%-- the highest its been in 25 years.
During his 100 Day Press Conference
Barack Obama bragged that his administration had created or saved 150,000 jobs.
The US economy lost
598,000 jobs in January.
The US economy lost
706,000 jobs in February.
The US economy lost
742,000 jobs in March.
And, in April, 539,000 jobs were lost.
So, in other words Team Obama has lost 2,585,000 jobs so far this year and only created or saved 150,000 jobs.
That's some change, huh?
10,397
posted on
05/09/2009 1:12:01 AM PDT
by
backhoe
(All across America, the Lights are going out...)
To: All
“Our rights as Americans are being stripped away at a speed I never thought I’d see in my lifetime.”
This is just the beginning.
0bama is a hard-core leftist.
You ain’t seen nothin’ yet.
I hope all of the foolish Republicans who refuse to wake up and acknowledge that these are extreme leftists at the helm are taking note.
Posted by hillbuzz under ACORN, Obama as Messiah, Obamania | Tags: ACORN, domestic terrorist organization ACORN, Watch Glenn Beck 5/8/09 |
[53] Comments
"It was crazy…I saw it when that ACORN putz was on. He’s such a worm. I’ve seen him in action before. He just talks and never answers a question and talks over the host until they shut down his mike. Glenn did it. I saw Megyn Kelly do it. Then during commercial break (no cameras rolling), Glenn told him to get out and the guy stood up and said “you are just afraid of black people.” Unbelievable. Evidently before this head of ACORN had this job he was a community organizer, and before that a union organizer. Kind of explains his demeanor."
I’ll report back. Also check http://www.glennbeck.com He’ll have clips.
Beck closed his show by saying that his voice mail is overflowing with hate mail for the two women.
Here’s some important information from Beck’s show: http://www.acorn-8.net. On that site is posted the complaint the Eight filed with the Justice Department. Here’s the link to the complaint: http://www.acorn-8.net/PDFs/USAttComp.pdf.
"So Congress has hearings for months on steroid abuse in pro sports (Never could understand why this was a big issue for them.) but they drop an ACORN investigation? What I find most concerning is that I’m not surprised."
Full-speed ahead. I also believe that cousins should be allowed to marry...and people should have the right to marry animals. We might as well make this as stupid as possible...until someone starts to grasp the whole game being played out.
In a free country, we are told, everybody has a right to their own opinion. Wurzelbacher is quickly learning that, according to the American elite, what you actually have a right to is their opinion.
Why an Alabama Air National Guard F-16 "Red Tail" as chase plane?
Could the release later this year of Red Tails , a movie about the Tuskegee airmen, have anything to do this?
Is the crappy picture of Air Force One released on a Friday afternoon merely a distraction from ANY questions about the chase plane(s)?
... and yes, I know it technically ain't AF-1 unless the President is aboard.
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10,398
posted on
05/09/2009 2:30:29 AM PDT
by
backhoe
(All across America, the Lights are going out...)
To: All
Obama, Chavez shake hands at Americas Summit:
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D97KK2T00&show_article=1
Here it comes, you limo liberals. Time to set an appointment with the high-priced estate planning attorneys. Your messiah is now lining you up against the wall...And the pejorative use of “loopholes” drives me crazy. These are consequences of LAWS passed by Congress to encourage certain behaviors and discourage others. People performing as Congress desired are not using dodgy and illegal tax avoidance schemes.
10,399
posted on
05/09/2009 8:59:39 AM PDT
by
backhoe
(All across America, the Lights are going out...)
To: backhoe
It's really scary, I worry for our children and grandchildren, they certainly aren't inheriting the world we envisioned..
10,400
posted on
05/09/2009 1:54:29 PM PDT
by
KLT
(A damn Yankee, from the great state of Mississippi....Go Freepers Go!)
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