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Posted on 11/08/2008 3:06:12 AM PST by backhoe
America Held Hostage- the Obama Files...
With a hattip 
to Rush ( His idea during the Clinton plague upon America ) I am starting a file on “The One,” mostly starting from the election date.
Older stuff- links, quotes, quips, and sometimes pointed graphics can be found by scrolling back from these two posts:
-Hillary Clinton- archives, comments, and opposition research--
-Sarah Palin- links, from the beginning--
There is some good material in those posts that raises a lot of uncomfortable questions that everyone ought to be asking, and probably will once the “new” wears off, and we are stuck with four ( more likely eight, since 95% of the news & entertainment media are in his pocket ) years of a typical corrupt Chicago Political Machine Politician trying to jerk the whole country in one direction and then the next.
You've all heard the saying,
”People get the kind of government they want...
...and deserve?”
Well, America, you are about to “get it, good & hard...”
Don't say you weren't warned- we tried to tell you...
We did everything we could, and our state went for the Old Guy & the Naughty Librarian, but too many other voters were made stupid by the TV and public schools for it to matter.
We're in a Hell of a mess, and the worst thing is, "we"- the collective we, not you & I-- got us here.
Is Obama really the Abyss...
staring back at us?
I like to make points with humorous graphics- this one sums it up as well as any:
Then, in a nutshell, "everything I see going bad with all this hopi- changi- stuff The One is peddling-- forced labor, censorship, spin, and pure mean-spirited rudness:
Atlas readers rock! I am blown away by the overwhelming response to this post (and this one) to get involved to take back our country from the Soros, socialists, and the self proclaimed messiah - oy. More than one email brought a tear to my eye but I wanted to share this one with you.
If this best represents who we are, what we want and where we are going, there is no way we can lose. Greatness is in the house. I am proud to count you as my friends. Prouder still to stand with you and fight this great fight.
I want to lead a county.
I was born in Cuba, and know the language of Communism, Obama speaks it well. My grandfather's family had to flee Lebanon because of the Muslims to Cuba. We fled Cuba because of Castro.
This is the best country in the whole wide world. I was a child when I left Cuba with the clothe on my back, we left my parent's sister and I, left behind everything.
America is Worth fighting for and Freedom is worth defending. I do not want my children to grow up in oppression, nor do I wish exile upon them.
Please allow me to help, again, Id like to lead a county.
My name is Ingrid and Im in Miami, in Miami Dade County
May the Light always shine upon America,
Ingrid
UPDATE: In case there was any doubt as to what the victorious zombies have in mind. Check out this comment (left in the comment section) . Can you say rude awakening?
You people are pathetic!
Your racist fear mongering will not go unchallenged! Soon we will shut down your hate spewing web sites. We will confiscate your firearms. In prison, you will get an education on the error of your ways. We will take your children and raise them as our own and instill in them the values of social justice. We will have a new American Republic of justice and order for all!
You time is almost up! Prepare for the dung heap of history!
It sounds insane (which it is) but I believe the writer is quite serious.
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To: MHGinTN
Pali Muzzies are too stupid to realizer they are being used like freakin’ cow pies on a fire. When the Iranians get nuclear capabilities, they will incinerate Israel and take out all the useless Pali idiots with them. But the Pali Moose limbs are too stupid to see that.Absolutely- the whole area will go up in flames.
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12/27/2008 12:13:03 PM PST
by
backhoe
(All across America, the Lights are going out...)
To: GiovannaNicoletta
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posted on
12/27/2008 3:51:27 PM PST
by
KellyM37
(Barack Obama's mental illness..........PATHOLOGICAL NARCISSIST... show us the medical records)
To: All
EVERYBODY’S TALKING ABOUT Chip Saltsman and Barack the Magic Negro. Well, okay, not everybody, just people following the RNC Chair race.
For Islam, a Religion of Peace®? The Most Damning links-- click the picture:
December 27, 2008 02:00 PM by Michelle Malkin66 Comments
Faster, please!
PAUL MULSHINE BLOWS IT. In this Wall Street Journal column, he manages to conflate punditry with reporting (following in Nick Lemann’s footsteps) while simultaneously engaging in a bit of misleading quotage that thoroughly undercuts his point.
My point, as quoted in his column, is that punditry is easy, but that reporting is harder, and more valuable, and not done enough by Big Media. In making the point, I quoted another blogger, whom Mulshine doesn’t identify — because the blogger I quoted was Iraq documentarian and blogger J.D. Johannes, who in fact does real reporting of the sort that Big Media folks all too often don’t. As J.D. comments:
I do not know why Mr. Mulshine did not give my name. If he had, it would undercut many of his statements. A news man of his esteem would have surely googled me and found that I was doing exactly what he says bloggers are not doing and nearly beating a major Hollywood director and billionaire .
(Or perhaps he did google me and for some reason thought I was not the type to read the Wall Street Journal.)
The hear-say quote, and this particular usage by Mr. Mulshine, is one of the reasons why blogs have succeeded–the core news consumer does not like hear-say quotes and does not want bland executive summaries for the “casual reader.” The core news consumer wants hard news without bias and expert opinion.
Mr. Mulshine’s use of a misleading hear-say quote explains well the demise of his beloved newspaper.
It seems that often when big-media types write about the failings of blogs, they engage in the kind of lazy inaccuracy they condemn. In an earlier column, Mulshine wrote:
Anyone can travel to a war zone and write about it. I would strongly recommend this for any of the critics of the MSM who are seeking to get out the real truth about Iraq. Go for it, guys. War coverage is great fun. One word of caution, though: Don’t lose your heads in all the excitement.
That, of course — as Mulshine should have known then, and now — is exactly what J.D. Johannes does — along with Michael Yon, Michael Totten, Bill Roggio, and others in the blogosphere. Mulshine, meanwhile, brags about having once covered the Toms River Regional Board of Education in New Jersey. That’s worthy work, of course, but if his reportage there was as poor as his work in the Wall Street Journal, then — oh, who am I kidding? “If”?
Anyway, it’s certainly true that bloggers as a class are more competition for careless pundits like Mulshine than for go-getter reporters who find out things that people don’t know, and report them truthfully. It’s also true that those go-getter reporters who put the truth first are pretty scarce in the world of Big Media reporting, and that management shows no sign of wanting more of them, and many signs of wanting attitude-mongers like, well, Mulshine. This is, as I’ve noted before, a dumb business strategy, which explains in part why newspapers are doing so badly. For more on that, see this thoughtful piece by Evan Coyne Maloney. Also, these thoughts from Jay Rosen. And here’s my diagnosis from 2002:
Though webloggers do actual reporting from time to time, most of what they bring to the table is opinion and analysis - punditry, in short. (No surprise here - people have been sharing opinions forever, and may well have an inborn drive to do so. Plus, you can opine without leaving your computer, while reporting hard news is hard work.)
This means that Big Media organizations should still have a strong competitive advantage where actual newsgathering is concerned. The problem is that most big organizations have cut back on newsgathering, treating news as a commodity product to be obtained from wire services while eliminating foreign and regional bureaus. Instead, Big Media organizations decided some years ago that they would focus on “news analysis” and punditry. That’s, well, because you can opine without leaving your computer, while reporting hard news is hard work. (And expensive).
Unfortunately, this hasn’t worked out very well. The move to analysis and punditry was driven, in no small part, by corporate pressures to cut costs, pressures that accompanied the consolidation and corporatization of the news media. . . . But actual information about what’s happening is still mostly the province of professional journalism, and that’s less likely to change. I can imagine a decentralized amateur news service (a sort of Slashdot on steroids) but I think something like that will be slow in coming.
So there you are. Not that this will stop a future Mulshine (or Lemann) from repeating the same errors. Apparently, nothing does . . . .
UPDATE: A comment from Jay Rosen.
December 27th, 2008
From the humor-impaired tone-deaf race-baiting unbiased Solons at Politico:
GOP mum on ‘Magic Negro’ parody
By NIA-MALIKA HENDERSON | 12/27/08
A candidate for the Republican National Committee chair sent out a holiday CD to committee members that includes the song "Barack the Magic Negro," a parody first aired on Rush Limbaugh’s radio show.
Chip Saltsman, the former campaign manager for Mike Huckabee who’s considered a long shot in the crowded field for RNC chair, is a friend of the song’s writer, Paul Shanklin, a comedian and frequent Limbaugh guest [sic]. The CD, called "We Hate the USA," pokes fun at liberals, their causes, and their slip-ups with titles like "The Star Spanglish Banner," "Love Client #9" and "Wright Place, Wrong Time."
In a voice meant to recall Al Sharpton, Shanklin sings on the "Barack the Magic Negro": "They’ll vote for him and not for me, cause he’s not from da hood. See, real black men like Snoop Dogg or me or Farrakhan have talked the talk and walked the walk, not come in late and won."
Limbaugh first aired the song, which draws on a column from the Los Angeles Times, on his show in 2007.
Calls and e-mails to Saltsman, a former advisor to Bill Frist, were not returned. In an interview with The Hill, he said the songs, among them "John Edwards, Poverty Tour," "Your Momma’s So Fat" and "Duke Lacrosse," were meant simply as satires.
"Paul Shanklin is a longtime friend," Saltman told The Hill, "and I think that RNC members have the good humor and good sense to recognize that his songs for the Rush Limbaugh show are light-hearted political parodies."
To date, no Republican officials have condemned the CD.
Gosh, no Republicans have come forward to publically condemn someone for sending around a parody CD made by his friend.
A parody which employs an expression coined (or at least promulgated) by the LA Times columnist, David Ehrenstein (below left):
What a shock for Ms. Nia-Malika Henderson’s (above right) delicate sensibilities.
And never mind that minutes later the Republican National Committee Chairman Mike Duncan did issue a statement (wrongfully) condemning this innocent merriment.
By the way, lest anyone ever forget how far left The Politico leans, they should check out their Top Ten Political Scoops Of 2008.
Hint: half of these scoops involve reportage of the villainies of Sarah Palin or John McCain. (E.g., Palin not knowing the Bush doctrine, McCain and his houses.)
They only negative “scoop” listed by the Politico about Obama, his “bitter clingers” remark, was not even uncovered by a “journalist.” (Nor would it have ever been.)
And the number 10 most important scoop of 2008 turns out to have been Colin Powell’s endorsement of Mr. Obama. (What a scoop!)
Meanwhile, the true nature of Mr. Obama’s spiritual mentor, the Reverend Doctor Wright – which was really our scoop — didn’t even make the top five.
Needless to say, none of Joe Biden’s gaffes, the illegal investigation of Joe The Plumber, or the amazing corruption of Mr. Blagojevich made the cut.
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Is this old news or new news?
“Barack Obama grandmother’s death, Madelyn Dunham died on October 21, 2008?, Death announced on November 3, 2008, Hawaii officials falsify?, Funeral home records sought, Barack Obama and Maya Ng lie?, Coroner’s office sources...”
http://citizenwells.wordpress.com/
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2040486/posts?page=6774#6774
2008 Was The Year Man-Made Global Warming Was Disproved (Original Article)
MORE PEOPLE ARE BURNING COAL AT HOME, according to this report. We had a coal furnace when we lived in Heidelberg, and as a kid I enjoyed laying fires and stoking it. I suspect, though, that the thrill would have worn off in another year or two . . . .
UPDATE: Some related thoughts: “Environmentalists must surely dislike coal on all fronts; widespread acceptance of coal for home heating makes it more difficult to argue against the fuel generally as an evil, environmental monster. After all, you can’t concede that it’s OK for people to heat their homes with coal but then object to the use of an electric baseboard heater because the electricity is generated from burning coal.”
FRANK MUNGER: More evidence of a budding nuke renaissance. Faster, please.
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posted on
12/28/2008 12:38:44 AM PST
by
backhoe
(All across America, the Lights are going out...)
To: All
The heart of the problem is we have a dumbed-down public that is obsessed with celebrity "news" and things of no consequence. So the media focus on what type of sandwich Obama had for lunch and what clothes his wife wore, etc. The same media that could not be bothered investigating Obama's associates are the same people who are obsessed with accurately listing the ingredients of the sandwich he ate for lunch. You will see this when the media cover politicians they support -- they ignore asking tough questions of policy and instead focus on "safe" questions like, "What did you eat for lunch?" and "What is your favorite food?" The media can pretend they are strictly covering Obama while they are only covering superficial, irrelevant things about Obama. And even these superficial things will be spun in the leftist politician's favor. If the politician is seen eating a sandwich, this is hailed as proof of how the politician is one of the common people. If the politician is seen eating caviar, he is praised for being sophisticated.
What bothers me is, Pres.-Select Obama already has this “deer in the headlights” look and he hasn’t even moved into the Oval Office yet. I don’t think he thought he’d ever “win” the election.
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posted on
12/28/2008 11:20:28 AM PST
by
backhoe
(All across America, the Lights are going out...)
To: All
You had better start paying attention, people:
With Rash of Scandals, Trust Is Gone. “In Congress, prominent members such as House Ways and Means chair Charles Rangel, Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens and Louisiana Rep. William Jefferson are either accused of malfeasance, officially charged with corruption or already convicted. Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich has been accused of multiple acts of corruption, including extorting cash or jobs for filling President-elect Barack Obama’s Senate seat. All of this is creating a growing sense of mistrust. But then Americans have always been suspicious of big institutions that can exert a lot of power.”
So how about a little more suspicion of government expansion disguised as “stimulus?”
JENNIFER RUBIN: How Do You Fight Obama’s New New Deal? ”A trillion dollar stimulus is going to “create” jobs, and the government will ‘bailout’ failing industries (with additional debt funded by the Chinese, so long as they have an appetite for quickly depreciating dollars). If you think this sounds half-baked and suffers from historical amnesia, you are right. Despite the obvious shortcomings with this approach (e.g., it’s never worked before), the Republican Party so far isn’t doing a very good job of coming up with alternatives. Plainly, they don’t like the mounds of debt. And they are skeptical of a gigantic public works projects. But what could be done instead? There are some viable ideas.”
A Voice Crying in the Wilderness Most law schools are breeding lawyers, some of whom ultimately become judges, who think the Constitution is whatever the judges say it is, no more, no less. When you have judges who believe such perfidy, and citizens who don’t know any better, the Constitution’s days are numbered.
The Third World comes to 0-Merica:
And...
Pro-Israel Protesters Mobbed By Hamas Supporters in Toronto
Pro-Israeli protesters rallied at the Israeli Consulate in Toronto today.
The protesters were there to counter the Pro-Hamas rally that was being held across the street.
That was until the Pali protesters mobbed the the pro-Israel protesters while the police stood by and did nothing.
Winston was at the protest and took several photos.
He describes the mob scene.
Gee, I wonder why? Da Hood comes to the White House...
And! Censorship!
Ner0!, err, Zer0!, err, Duh!1®, is Clinton, v3.0...
And no, I am not kidding about that tagline...
"People get the kind of government
they want
...and deserve..."
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posted on
12/29/2008 1:33:49 AM PST
by
backhoe
(All across America, the Lights are going out...)
To: All
It's not even inauguration and they're starting to figure out this is their object of worship:
12.8% of the US population is black. I'm speechless.
Murders by Black Teenagers Rise, Bucking a Trend"......the racial gap will grow without countermeasures like restoring police officers in the streets and creating social programs for poor youths.”
How about a real “social” program - like having fathers in the home?
Gee, we knew about 'em years & years ago...
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posted on
12/29/2008 6:35:35 AM PST
by
backhoe
(All across America, the Lights are going out...)
To: All
I could very well see the USA falling apart in the next decade. We are stuck with debt we cannot possibly pay, there is a huge divide between parts of the country. Liberals on the coasts hate fly over country.
I highly recommend this book. It's not about civil war, but about the actual regions of America, and how we might just drift apart. It was written in 1981, and it reads for the most part like it was written last week. Four Stars in my book. Get a used copy from Amazon Marketplace for peanutes, or get it out of your library. But try to read it.
Here's what Ner0!, err, Zer0!, err, Duh!1® is facing:
Excellent editorial by the formidable Ambassador Dore Gold (hat tip Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff)
Did Israel Use "Disproportionate Force" in Gaza?
Dore Gold
- Israeli population centers in southern Israel have been the target of over 4,000 rockets, as well as thousands of mortar shells, fired by Hamas and other organizations since 2001. Rocket attacks increased by 500 percent after Israel withdrew completely from the Gaza Strip in August 2005. During an informal six-month lull, some 215 rockets were launched at Israel.
- The charge that Israel uses disproportionate force keeps resurfacing whenever it has to defend its citizens from non-state terrorist organizations and the rocket attacks they perpetrate. From a purely legal perspective, Israel's current military actions in Gaza are on solid ground. According to international law, Israel is not required to calibrate its use of force precisely according to the size and range of the weaponry used against it.
- Ibrahim Barzak and Amy Teibel wrote for the Associated Press on December 28 that most of the 230 Palestinians who were reportedly killed were "security forces," and Palestinian officials said "at least 15 civilians were among the dead." The numbers reported indicate that there was no clear intent to inflict disproportionate collateral civilian casualties. What is critical from the standpoint of international law is that if the attempt has been made "to minimize civilian damage, then even a strike that causes large amounts of damage - but is directed at a target with very large military value - would be lawful."
- Luis Moreno-Orampo, the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, explained that international humanitarian law and the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court "permit belligerents to carry out proportionate attacks against military objectives, even when it is known that some civilian deaths or injuries will occur." The attack becomes a war crime when it is directed against civilians (which is precisely what Hamas does).
- After 9/11, when the Western alliance united to collectively topple the Taliban regime in Afghanistan, no one compared Afghan casualties in 2001 to the actual numbers that died from al-Qaeda's attack. There clearly is no international expectation that military losses in war should be on a one-to-one basis. To expect Israel to hold back in its use of decisive force against legitimate military targets in Gaza is to condemn it to a long war of attrition with Hamas.
Israel is currently benefiting from a limited degree of understanding in international diplomatic and media circles for launching a major military operation against Hamas on December 27. Yet there are significant international voices that are prepared to argue that Israel is using disproportionate force in its struggle against Hamas.
Israeli Population Centers Under Rocket Attack
There are good reasons why initial criticism of Israel has been muted. After all, Israeli population centers in southern Israel have been the target of over 4,000 rockets, as well as thousands of mortar shells, fired by Hamas and other organizations since 2001.1 The majority of those attacks were launched after Israel withdrew completely from the Gaza Strip in August 2005. Indeed, rocket attacks increased by 500 percent (from 179 to 946) from 2005 to 2006.
Moreover, lately Hamas has been extending the range of its striking capability even further with new rockets supplied by Iran. Hamas used a 20.4-kilometer-range Grad/Katyusha for the first time on March 28, 2006, bringing the Israeli city of Ashkelon into range of its rockets for the first time. That change increased the number of Israelis under threat from 200,000 to half a million.2 Moreover, on December 21, 2008, Yuval Diskin, Head of the Israel Security Agency, informed the Israeli government that Hamas had acquired rockets that could reach Ashdod, Kiryat Gat, and even the outskirts of Beersheba.3 The first Grad/Katyusha strike on Ashdod, in fact, took place on December 28. There had been no formal cease-fire between Israel and Hamas, but only an informal six-month tahadiya (lull), during which 215 rockets were launched at Israel.4 On December 21, Hamas unilaterally announced that the tahadiya had ended.
There's more
But not to worry, Mates...
Fawning Media: Obama Is "Uber-Cool"
More
tingly leg syndrome from the media...
Sadly, this article wasn't taken from some
teeny-bopper magazine, it came from
Reuters:
The president-elect, looking uber-cool with his White Sox baseball cap on backwards, flipped the shaka to a crowd of about 30 people as he left a gym on a Marine Corps base on the Hawaiian island of Oahu, where he is vacationing.
Via
LGF.
The media's uber-fawning over Obama is getting a little ridiculous.
Michelle Malkin reported on the liberal media's double standard this weekend.
More... Don Surber notes that
smoking may once again be uber-cool, too.
posted by Gateway Pundit at 12/29/2008 04:49:00 AM "he really does look like a big dork with that ballcap and the 'gang' signs..."
I am instantly reminded of Diana West's book "Death Of The Grownup."
Nutbar alert:
Have no worries. We have this experienced and accomplished leader to protect us from the chicoms and rooskies! With him at the controls of our nuclear arsenal and our defences, we should all sleep soundly.
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posted on
12/29/2008 12:24:18 PM PST
by
backhoe
(All across America, the Lights are going out...)
To: All
Yeah, we just need to sit down and Jaw with these savages...
Hamas Charter (1988) The Charter of Allah: The Platform of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas)
"Israel will rise and will remain erect until Islam eliminates it as it had eliminated its predecessors. The Islamic World is burning. It is incumbent upon each one of us to pour some water, little as it may be, with a view of extinguishing as much of the fire as he can, without awaiting action by the others"
The media is depraved. In reviewing the media coverage of Israel's counter defensive in Gaza it is impossible to digest the media's relentless handwringing over Jewish people defending themselves and their right to exist against unapologetic jihadis who vow to destroy the Jewish state. Ironically, a free media would cease to exist if the world press got their wish. Their heads would be hacked off if they spoke against the caliphate or worldwide jihad and yet they recklessly aid and abet the death of the greatest civilization in the history of mankind, the West.
While the Jews mop up after the world's willful stupidity, they relentlessly clubbed into submission/extinction. What part of 9/11, 7/7, 3/11, ll/26 don't these dhimmis understand?
This is the media's fault. They have deceived the public. The blood is on their guilty hands. Special honorable mention to the leftarded academics as well for brainwashing our kids leaving incapable of distinguishing between good and evil.
You must it admit - good old fashioned Jew hatred sure can bring the world together mighty quick.
IRAQ: Hundreds protest Gaza air strikes in Baghdad
SWEDEN: Hundreds of demonstrators marched through Nordic cities and towns Monday to protest against Israeli air raids on the Gaza Strip, setting Israeli flags alight and chanting "Israel, murderer."
LEBANON: Thousands protest Gaza assault in Lebanon ( photo at the top of this post Lebanon as well)
SWITZERLAND: "Palestinians" in Switzerland chant slogans and carry Palestinian banners and photos
MADRID: Muslims part in a protest against the Israeli attacks on Gaza in front of Israel's embassy.
GERMANY: Protestors wave with Palestinian flags and shout slogans during a demonstration in Berlin December 29, 2008
DENMARK: Protesters rally outside the Israeli embassy in Copenhagen.
NEW YORK: Fifth Avenue no less
BAHRAIN:Bahrainis raise Palestinian and Hezbollah flags
EGYPT: An Egyptian boy holds a placard reading in Arabic "Arab leaders: Beware of the verdict of history" during a protest against Israel's onslaught on the neighbouring Gaza Strip.
But the media and the world community said nothing when Egypt fired upon the "Palestinians" attempting to cross the border.
GAZA: "Palestinian" protesters throws stones at Israeli troops, not seen, at a demonstration against Israel's military operation in Gaza
Afghan Taliban urge Muslims to rise up over Gaza raids
Saudi police break up pro-Gaza protest: residents
Iranian FM confers with UN, OIC, AL chiefs over Gaza
Protesters Condemn Israeli Assault on Gaza
UPDATE: NEWS MEDIA FALSIFYING GAZA ATTACKS
Claiming Israeli strike on weapons lab targeted 'woman's wing'
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posted on
12/29/2008 3:43:36 PM PST
by
backhoe
(All across America, the Lights are going out...)
To: backhoe
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posted on
12/29/2008 8:39:34 PM PST
by
little jeremiah
(Leave illusion, come to the truth. Leave the darkness, come to the light.)
To: little jeremiah
Hair raising. Literally.No argument from me- thanks for looking.
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posted on
12/30/2008 12:09:38 AM PST
by
backhoe
(All across America, the Lights are going out...)
To: All
RAHM EMANUEL
will resign on Friday. “A special election now must be scheduled to fill Emanuel’s seat in the 5th District, and several Chicago politicians have already expressed interest in the seat.”
Aww, you gotta be kidding me!
I still believe Duh!1®, was "selected" by an unhappy confluence of "Mo Money" than the unfortunate Cap'n Queeg, the shadily-orchestrated meltdown of "The Economy" ( which still seems to be staggering along despite it all ) and the Ophra-ization of the masses. Aided and abetted by the dumbing down caused by Public Miseducation and too much Popular Culture, which is a cesspool of reaction shots, bumper-sticker slogans, and tits, and teeth, and asses. Literally, and figuratively...
American Idol and Survivor, writ large and smarmy...
Ner0!, err,
Zer0!, err,
Duh!1®, is a
construct- or, if you will, a Rorschach blot the fearful, naive, and gullible project their innermost disturbances on...
As I have mentioned here:
OBAMAO ... is America ready for a Marxist president?
Nope, but we are about to get one, good and hard...
...so chroniclers like Yours Truly will be documenting every move he makes, every breath he takes... unless, or until, we are silenced by all that "tolerance & inclusiveness" he & his followers are already practicing.... ( "we in charge now" )
America Held Hostage- the Obama Files...
Click the picture:
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Tuesday, December 30, 2008 3:18:30 AM by
backhoe (All across America, the Lights are going out...)
December 29th, 2008
From from the inimitable New York Post:
In this file photo of May 20, 2004, Caroline Kennedy laughs at a joke by New York City schools chancellor Joel Klein, left, during a visit to Public School 11 in New York.
CAROLINE’S CRIB - SEN. HOPEFUL’S $50M SPREAD
By CHUCK BENNETT
December 29, 2008
Forget Chappaqua.
This amazing Martha’s Vineyard spread will be the next home-away-from-the-Beltway for New York’s junior senator if Caroline Kennedy is tapped to replace Hillary Rodham Clinton.
The 366-acre estate - worth at least $50 million - just underwent a major renovation and rezoning that will keep it the exclusive province of Kennedy, 51.
It’s also the spot where she got her first call to public service, six years before she launched her campaign for Hillary Clinton’s soon-to-be-vacant Senate seat.
In 2002, her houseguest, Schools Chancellor Joel Klein, reportedly floated the idea of her coming on board the city’s Department of Education as a fund-raiser.
Kennedy and her advocates have been relentlessly touting that two-year stint as qualifying her to be senator.
And the property, which mom Jackie Onassis purchased for $1.1 million in 1978, will make a perfect place for the senatorial hopeful to stealthily engage in political horse-trading as the manse can’t be seen from either the beach or the edge of its 2,000-foot-long driveway.
When a little R&R is in order, there’s 4,620 feet of oceanfront to play on.
The Kennedys just finished converting the 31 lots of land that make up the property into just seven with deed restrictions that limit subdivisions and development.
Five of the seven plots are for Caroline and her children, with the remaining two open to "non-Kennedys" if they ever decide to sell.
Money, however, will never be a worry. Caroline Kennedy’s personal fortune could exceed $400 million, according to C. David Heymann, author of "American Legacy: The Story of John and Caroline Kennedy."
She’s the beneficiary of a massive trust fund established by clan patriarch Joseph Kennedy.
This article also reminds us that Caroline’s fabled career in “public service” consists mostly of having once said “oh, um, sure, you know…” to a house guest.
It also reminds us that her trust fund was set up by Joseph Kennedy, whom some say managed things so that none of the children would ever have to pay taxes again.
Which may account for her refusal to disclose her finances until after she is “selected” Senator.
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posted on
12/30/2008 12:51:18 AM PST
by
backhoe
(All across America, the Lights are going out...)
To: backhoe
Comin' to 0-Merica? Already here...
Wake up, people...
From Greeley Square to the Israeli Consulate the Anti- Israel marchers team up with Anti- American anarchists -The Vigilant Squirrrel Brigade caught it all here
Counter these traitors - here is the "calender" of the leftist/Islamic events - check out the sheer number of Arab, socialist, communist , Muslim groups - Al-Awda NY: Palestine Right to Return Coalition, Arab Muslim American Federation International Action Center, Brooklyn for Peace, USPCN-NY and the General Union of Palestinian Students , Adalah-NY as well as The ANSWER Coalition, Muslim American Society Freedom, Free Palestine Alliance, National Council of Arab Americans, and International Palestine Right to Return Coalition
Out come the insects (socialism, obamunism, antisemitism)
The keffiyeh - the new swastika
"Yes we can?" Obama inspiredd antisemitism. Arrest Bush ............ for what Blagojevich?
Pure asshattery - antisemite style
Your infidel taxpayer dollars at work
More of Pamela's pics here.
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posted on
12/30/2008 1:20:57 AM PST
by
backhoe
(All across America, the Lights are going out...)
To: backhoe
Thank you for posting this
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posted on
12/30/2008 1:30:06 AM PST
by
weston
(As far as I'm concerned, it's Christ or nothing!)
To: backhoe
Bump Good job Backhoe. You should name it the O-Files and have a picture with Obama running with a brief case into the shadows looking back while wearing a ballcap with a big O on it and have tapes falling out of his trench coat with Bolgverich Tapes written on them in red with a couple of Paul Shanklin tapes plus have several phony birth certificates sticking out the sides of the brief case. Also have big commie hammer and sickle buttons on his trench coat. Hey he can get away with anything it seems. He could be his own Cigarette Smoking Man sort of split personality thing. lol
Have a good one and thanks for the links.
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posted on
12/30/2008 1:32:27 AM PST
by
Captain Beyond
(The Hammer of the gods! (Just a cool line from a Led Zep song))
To: Captain Beyond; weston
I greatly appreciate your looking and commenting.
I rarely know who looks at this stuff- all I can say ( X-File like ) is
"The information is out there..."
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posted on
12/30/2008 1:45:28 AM PST
by
backhoe
(All across America, the Lights are going out...)
To: All
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posted on
12/30/2008 2:34:42 AM PST
by
backhoe
(All across America, the Lights are going out...)
To: All
From the liberal playbook:
1) Create a bogeyman where none exists -— in this case, gun shows make it easy to for criminals to get guns.
2) Create a catchy name for this bogeyman -— gun show loophole.
3) Employ your accomplices to fabricate the dangers of this bogeyman — “studies” and “editorials”
4) Convince spineless politicians to jump on your bandwagon through large contributions - Brady Campaign, Million Moms, etc
5) Pass legislation to restrict the bogeyman.
6) Find a new bogeyman.
Gee whiz! I thought Electing Mr. Huggy-Bunny
( AKA,
The New Little Big Fraud© )
was supposed to make the whole World
( even the French! ) love us again...
Excellent and well-written article, and one that will never see the likes of a major newspaper.
This is what real journalism looks like, not the 8th grade “I’ve got a crush on Obama and BTW, isn’t he sooooo dreamy” crap we’ve been seeing/reading/hearing for the last two years.
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posted on
12/30/2008 8:45:57 AM PST
by
backhoe
(All across America, the Lights are going out...)
To: All
...it does prove something -- that the lying hoaxers use false data to hype phony claims.
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posted on
12/30/2008 3:21:09 PM PST
by
backhoe
(All across America, the Lights are going out...)
To: All
December 30th, 2008
From a delighted Associated Press:
This undated image provided by President-elect Barack Obama’s change.org website shows the front page of the website.
Obama online supporters key to pushing his agenda
Tue Dec 30, 2008
By PHILIP ELLIOTT
HONOLULU - President-elect Barack Obama’s top asset in pushing his agenda will not be his Cabinet secretaries or aides, but rather his online network.
Obama’s political e-mail list tops 13 million names, a digital force that the incoming White House can tap to push for his legislation, tamp down critics or bolster popular support. It’s also a way for Obama to reach into every state, every city, and every neighborhood.
A study released Tuesday found that a quarter of Obama voters said they would continue to work online to support the new administration. The nonpartisan Pew Internet and American Life Project also found 62 percent of Obama’s voters say they would ask others to support Obama’s policies.
Welcome to the Democrats’ new permanent campaign, one planned online and executed on Main Street.
If it works the way Obama’s top lieutenants plan, the White House would marshal hundreds of thousands of phone calls within hours if it looked as if the president-elect were losing a policy battle. With the click of a keyboard, Obama’s aides could ask supporters to flood the phone lines of Congress, making it untenable to ignore the clamor…
Obama’s online supporters raised some $500 million for him, created 2 million online profiles at MyBarackObama.com and used his database to make phone calls during the campaign’s final days.
According to the Pew Research Center for People and the Press, 59 percent of all voters took part in the campaign online, whether it was sending e-mail, reading political blogs or researching candidates. Obama clearly had the advantage…
Liberal groups in recent weeks have joined the plan. MoveOn in recent weeks sent an e-mail to some of its 4.2 million supporters asking them to get involved, for example.
If Obama and his allies play this right, they could send phone lines crashing within minutes of a declared protest. Similarly, the instant communication of the Internet and cellular phone text messages could end it just by typing one word: "Stop."
That power gives Obama’s online advisers a potentially bigger role than many of his Cabinet picks and major hires in pushing through an agenda. A Cabinet secretary stumping for a new bill has been rendered less powerful than a million e-mails crashing the Capitol; a visit to the Hill from top aides is unmatched to online petitions that clog legislative offices…
People often wonder where the untold millions Mr. Soros and his pals pour into the internet go.
Here is the answer. It pays for this army of internet drones.
And if you ever have any doubt, you can find their work product in the comments section of every major media outlet.
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As you may recall, we did several posts about these Obama camps:
Obama Organizer Camps - Alinsky Lives! | Sweetness & Light
http://sweetness-light.com/arc.....rted-in-ma
AP Celebrates Obama Camps And ACORN | Sweetness & Light
http://sweetness-light.com/arc.....amps-acorn
Obama Campaign Is Modeled On Alinsky | Sweetness & Light
http://sweetness-light.com/arc.....on-alinsky
http://www.tikkun.org/magazine.....tpage/shaw
Comin' soon to 0-Merica...
British Embassy Firebombed in Tehran-- Iranians Storm Building & Raise Palestinian Flag!
British Embassy Firebombed In Tehran--Iranian students
storm the British Embassy.
Iranian anti-riot policemen stand guard outside the British embassy in northern Tehran as a petrol bomb explodes during a protest gathering to condemn the Israeli attacks on Gaza, December 30, 2008. (
REUTERS/Stringer (IRAN)
The students
stormed the British Consulate in Tehran!
They
replaced the British flag with the Palestinian banner.
Iranian protestors break into the British diplomatic residence known as 'Golhak Garden' in north Tehran. (
AFP)
The
AFP reported:
A group of Iranian demonstrators stormed the British diplomatic compound in Tehran to protest London's stance towards the Israeli onslaught on Gaza, state news agency IRNA reported.
"A large group of people and students entered the Gholhak gardens, which are occupied by the British embassy to protest at Britain's policies in supporting the Zionist regime and put up the Palestinian flag there," IRNA said Tuesday.
A media officer at the British embassy in Tehran confirmed the report adding that diplomatic police had driven the demonstrators out.
"We do confirm the raid on our premises. We are in contact with Islamic republic authorities to resolve the matter," Mitra Behnam told AFP.
The protesters
occupied the consulate for over an hour.
posted by Gateway Pundit at 12/30/2008 08:11:00 PM
In the "scratch a Utopian, reveal a bloody-handed Totalitarian" dept:
But . . . What About the Pensions? [Dan Collins]
Via David Thompson, The Guardian wishes you and yours Happy Holidays:
Dreams of a planet unblemished by humanity are in fact remarkably common, at least in certain quarters. The “biocentric” conservationist Paul Watson is happy to describe humanity as a “cancer” and tells us that, while vegan diets are a good thing, “curing the biosphere of the human virus will require a radical and invasive approach.” Readers may recall another environmental crusader, Dr John Reid (mentioned here), whose plan to save the world from human beings entails putting “something in the water” – specifically, “a virus that would… make a substantial proportion of the population infertile.” And while the good doctor is happy to share his view of all human life as an extraneous infestation of an otherwise pristine Earth, he’s also insistent that “affluent populations should be targeted first.”
Last year, the Optimum Population Trust published a briefing paper, A Population-Based Climate Strategy, in which it was argued that couples having two children instead of three would reduce that family’s carbon dioxide output by the “equivalent of 620 return flights a year between London and New York.” The OPT regards population growth as a “failure of courage and leadership” and mulls, albeit hesitantly, on the need for “intervention by the state… in individual freedoms for the foreseeable future.” OPT co-chairman, Professor John Guillebaud, claims: “The greatest thing anyone in Britain could do to help the future of the planet would be to have one less child.”
Mr Dammann isn’t entirely disapproving of such notions:
The followers of [VHEMT] take to its logical conclusion the observation that the population growth of the human species is unsustainable. Rather than waiting for nature to extinguish us by itself, which process will almost inevitably involve the destruction of many other species besides, we should initiate proceedings ourselves by refusing to have any more children… [T]here is something magnificent about the thought of an entire species simply switching itself off, without violence or force of anything other than will, to make way for something more lasting. It is unthinkable within the system of nature, unless as the conscious, involuntary corollary to a process that may be occurring anyway. But the absurdity lies not in the aim, which is in many ways laudable, but in the idea that the compassionate motivation in which it originates could possibly see the project through.
The problem, then, is not the premise of voluntary self-eradication, but merely its impracticality.
From Lame Cherry blog:
http://lamecherry.blogspot.com/2008_12_24_archive.html
Another Obama Obamass Miracle
The Warm Turns
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posted on
12/31/2008 1:25:42 AM PST
by
backhoe
(All across America, the Lights are going out...)
To: All
Tony Blankley: Now Sits Expectation In The Air| December 31, 2008 | Tony Blankley
As President-elect Obama vacations with his family in Hawaii and publicly complains about the intrusiveness of the press pool and the intense scrutiny of his Secret Service team, I suspect about now Obama may be recalling George Bernard Shaw's heartless observation that: "There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it."
This last week of December 2008 is a strange moment for the country. It must be positively bizarre for our president-elect. It seems as if all the problems of the world are lining up and just waiting for our new president to handle. For every American but one, we are merely waiting to see what Obama will do in three weeks. For that one -- Obama -- he, presumably, is puzzling over finding the right policies -- if there are any right policies. Probably there are only terrible and catastrophic policies to pick from.
There are media reports that he is smoking more than usual. Who could blame him? For many of the rest of us, we wake up at 2 in the morning worried about our family's or our business's finances. Obama has to worry about the nation's and the world's finances -- and wars and threats of yet more wars.
Americans continue to not shop (until recently the world, including citizen of the world Obama, condemned Americans for shopping to the tune of 25 percent of world consumption. Now the whole world is begging us to buy more stuff to keep the world from going broke.) How long will it be before President Obama repeats Bush's advice to Americans after September 11 to go shopping.
The economy continues its downward track. The bankruptcies of General Motors and Chrysler have been delayed a couple of months -- to give Obama time to be sworn in as president before the real unpleasantness begins (or the really big bucks are spent to delay the unpleasantness by a few more months).
As Pelosi and her colleagues get ready to spend about a trillion dollars to try and stimulate the economy, Obama is going to have to start saying no to his friends on the Hill. Left to their own devices, that $1 trillion will fall well short of the spending urges that get larger by the day. It must be tough to spend a trillion dollars you don't have -- and be called cheap.
But even as he must worry whether even a trillion dollars of stimulus can ameliorate the precipitous economic contraction, he must also worry about the real possibility of double digit inflation hitting our economy in six to 18 months -- as a result of all these trillions of freshly conjured-up dollars that will be flooding our currency supply.
Beyond the little matters of either deflation or hyper-inflation, Hamas broke its ceasefire with Israel, and Israel started defending herself again last week. Muslims worldwide and our many anti-semitic European friends are crying out for Israel to show "restraint."
Nobody cares what lame duck Bush says about this anymore, but the whole angry world awaits the first presidential utterance of Barack H. Obama on the matter of putting the Jews in their place. Will he speak for all the Jew haters in Europe and the Middle East -- or will he speak as every American president since Harry Truman has, and defend Israel's right to exist and militarily protect itself when its civilians are attacked by yet more fanatic, Islamist bombs and rockets?
Down the road a piece from Gaza, the Pakistani and Indian fanatics in the subcontinent are gearing up for another of their regular flirtations with nuclear annihilation. As I write, the Pakistanis and Indians are rushing troops up to their mutual border -- but, of course, hope to avoid war. Unless they have backed down by Jan. 20 at noon, stopping war while not antagonizing either of those needed allies will fall to Obama and his vastly experienced Secretary of State (who once rode foreign elephants with Chelsea -- so is superbly equipped to manage Hindu/Muslim fanaticism).
And, oh, by the way, the Chinese are talking of building their first aircraft carrier to compete with our blue water navy.
To add to the burdens of our young president elect, reports from around the world suggest that the instinct to protect local economies is growing, thus putting more pressure on free trade. While strong arguments can be made in individual trade cases, history is unambiguous about the result of increased protectionism during a period of world economic contraction.
Economically beggaring thy neighbor is a sure path to depression. Contrary to Obama's prior words and union allies's desires, he fails to champion world trade at the serious risk of repeating Herbert Hoover's catastrophic Smoot-Hawley protectionist mistake.
With history before Obama, I think of Shakespeare's young King Harry -- Henry V, the duties of fateful war falling on his inexperienced shoulders, the chorus early recites:
"For now sits Expectations in the air, and hides a sword from hilts unto the point With crowns imperial. Crowns and coronets, Promised to Harry and his followers."
Let us hope that the inexperienced Obama -- now with crowns and coronets and followers -- rises to his duty as young Harry did six centuries ago.
until recently the world, including citizen of the world Obama, condemned Americans for shopping to the tune of 25 percent of world consumption. Now the whole world is begging us to buy more stuff to keep the world from going broke.
Or as Mark Steyn puts it:
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/christmas-apart-world-2267866-lives-grown
"After all, everyone knows Americans consume too much. What was it that then Sen. Obama said on the subject? "We can't just keep driving our SUVs, eating whatever we want, keeping our homes at 72 degrees at all times regardless of whether we live in the tundra or the desert and keep consuming 25 percent of the world's resources with just 4 percent of the world's population, and expect the rest of the world to say, 'You just go ahead, we'll be fine.'"
And boy, we took the great man's words to heart. SUV sales have nose-dived, and 72 is no longer your home's thermostat setting but its current value expressed as a percentage of what you paid for it.
If I understand then Sen. Obama's logic, in a just world Americans would be 4 percent of the population and consume 4 percent of the world's resources. And in these past few months we've made an excellent start toward that blessed utopia: Americans are driving smaller cars, buying smaller homes, giving smaller Christmas presents. And yet, strangely, President-elect Barack Obama doesn't seem terribly happy about the Obamafication of the U.S. economy. He's proposing some 5.7 bazillion dollar "stimulus" package or whatever it is now to "stimulate" it back into its bad old ways."
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posted on
12/31/2008 3:13:21 AM PST
by
backhoe
(All across America, the Lights are going out...)
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