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Articles Posted by EricTheRed_VocalMinority https://freerepublic.com/tag/by:erictheredvocalminor/ en-us Wed, 13 Jan 2016 17:18:34 GMT Focus Forum 15 5 uses for 0bama's empty chair https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3383182/posts An empty chair for the victims of "gun violence"? Puh-lease. Here's five much better uses for the chair 0bama had at his STFU address last night: 5) The approx. 4000 babies murdered daily at Planned Parenthood, Obama and the Democrats' favorite baby butchery factory, and other clinics. 4) The thousands of men, women, and children who have been beaten, raped, enslaved, burned, drowned, blown up, and any other way murdered by radical Muslims throughout the world, including right here in the United States. Directly, it is inarguable, due to the policies of POSUS himself. 3) Non-blacks who have been murdered,... https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3383182/posts#comment Wed, 13 Jan 2016 17:18:34 GMT Listen & Learn: El Rushbo on the McDonalds Strikes, Minimum Wage, and Basic Economics (8/29/13) https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3061038/posts On Thursday El Rushbo dedicated well over an hour to the McDonald's minimum wage strikes going on nationwide. During this he takes a call from a man who believes the protesters deserve their demanded 100%(!) wage increase. Putting on his professor's hat, Rush then delivers an Econ 101 lecture that everyone needs to learn (or relearn). The entire discussion is couched within the Democrat left's and particularly Obama's ignorant view of economics and how their destructive (not to mention oppressive and authoritarian) policies are hurting the county, including the very McDonalds workers -- no doubt mostly Obama voters themselves -- who are... Vocal Minority < El Rushbo https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3061038/posts#comment Sat, 31 Aug 2013 15:31:25 GMT Help! My Young Kids Are Already Being Turned into Environ-mental-ist Wackos https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3058300/posts I had no idea that by ages 5 and 7 my kids would already be getting turned into environ-mental-ist wackos.This morning, my 7-year-old son, just a couple weeks shy of starting 2nd grade, finished watching the DVD Epic, which their mother bought for them yesterday, and came into my office asking to go to the "Energy Star" website.I was already familiar with the propaganda Energy Star (with the government's help and using our money) peddles to kids. Three summers ago I noticed posters inside my town's public schools using the Lorax movie to motivate kids to "save the planet".Anyway, I humored my... Vocal Minority https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3058300/posts#comment Sat, 24 Aug 2013 14:51:15 GMT Cited Again in Court ... and a New FB Pic for All to Share https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3055264/posts My last post described how a dear friend's b*tch soon-to-be-ex-wife was so desperate to smear her husband, her snake lawyer used the VM Facebook page (which he follows) as evidence to show how supposedly unstable he is. What was so offensive about my page? It was this profile pic:Oooo, guns. Scary. Meaning people who follow my page are craaaaazy.All right, fine. That pic has been up there a while. So starting today, here's the new VM profile pic on FB:Indeed he is. And the White House and Capitol are the Big Top and Washington D.C. is the entire circus. Vocal Minority https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3055264/posts#comment Fri, 16 Aug 2013 01:24:35 GMT Sweet: My Blog Cited in the Courtroom. Wanna Know Why? https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3052424/posts A dear friend (a flag-waving gun-toting conservative) who is unfortunately going through a bitter divorce informed me yesterday that their court proceedings took a very amusing turn. The soon-to-be-ex-wife's lawyer was attempting to paint my friend as unstable and unfit to care for their four kids (two their own, two from her previous marriage). To accomplish this, the liar-for-hire cited this very blog as evidence!Why?Because the profile pic at VM's Facebook page is this:Yes, it's true: This pic features ... gasp ... guns! (Not that it makes any difference that my friend and his truly unstable wife are themselves gun owners.) This... Vocal Minority https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3052424/posts#comment Thu, 8 Aug 2013 14:49:20 GMT Liberal Media Bias: Romney Bashing ... in a Music Article https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3003328/posts Mitt Romney-bashing -- 5 months after the fricking election -- in an on-line pop music article.The site is called Pop Dust. And this snippet comes out of an article about the 10 richest musicians of all time: 3. Bono: $600 millionPaul Hewson is known as much for his global diplomacy and forays into venture capital as U2’s music. His investment in Facebook’s IPO—via his Elevation Partners private equity firm—didn’t make him a billionaire, but U2’s “360 Tour” grossed nearly $800 million between 2009 and 2011, making it the biggest tour ever. (2005-06’s “Vertigo” tour is fifth on that list.) Combine that with Bono’s many... Vocal Minority https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3003328/posts#comment Tue, 2 Apr 2013 16:11:10 GMT Obama's Revenge: Day 12 (2/1/13) https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2984576/posts Well, they've had their greasy paws on the schools for decades. And now, the same folks who will move mountains to get sexually active preteen schoolgirls all the contraception they want and knocked-up girls all the abortions they want -- even without knowledge or consent of their parents -- are set to ban candy and sugary drinks from schools nationwide.Remember - it's all for the children.Look, nobody's for loading their kids up with sugar and other junk. As a parent of two young kids, I certainly don't. But it's not the job of some soulless bureaucracy in Washington, D.C. to... Vocal Minority https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2984576/posts#comment Sat, 2 Feb 2013 16:27:14 GMT Obama's Revenge: Day 10 (1/30/13) https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2983841/posts Two surprises happened yesterday (NOT!)(1) The latest economic data reveals the already crappy economy continued to get crappier in the 4th quarter of 2012. (But wait but wait, the Democrat-media complex kept telling us the economy was getting better! And if you believed that tripe, I got a bridge to sell you in Brooklyn.)You know who was surprised? Associated Press and the "experts" they interviewed. But people actually paying attention weren't surprised in the least. In fact, some have been predicting it ever since President Golden Calf got into office. Here's El Rushbo on yesterday's show citing the aforementioned AP: [Y]ou... Vocal Minority https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2983841/posts#comment Thu, 31 Jan 2013 15:37:38 GMT Obama's Revenge: Day 7 (1/27/13) https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2982548/posts Obama wants this woman to die.Fox 2 News HeadlinesYes, you read that right.And so do Veep Biden, Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), N.Y. Governor Andrew Cuomo, and scores of other people -- almost all (il)liberal Democrats.Because if this Detroit great-grandmother didn't have her 9mm pistol on her today -- which Cuomo has just banned, which Feinstein is trying to ban, and which Obama's two dozen executive orders seeks to ban -- she very well might have died. Or at least, have been roughed up and had her purse snatched [h/t Gateway Pundit].You see, the anti-gun zealots that occupy the highest offices in... Vocal Minority https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2982548/posts#comment Mon, 28 Jan 2013 03:05:37 GMT Who Said It? https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2975189/posts "[Our country] cannot and should not continue maintaining companies, productive entities, services and budgeted sectors with bloated payrolls (and) losses that hurt the economy, are counterproductive, and form bad work habits." Who said it?(Hit your Pg Dn key for the answer). . . . . . . . . . . .  Raúl Castro [Reuters 12/27/12, via Doug Urbanski filling in for El Rushbo 1/2/13] Not only did Raúl make this and similar statements, but since taking over Cuba from his ailing brother Fidel: The number of private (Cubans call them "non state") workers rose 23% in 2012 -- 1.1... Vocal Minority https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2975189/posts#comment Sat, 5 Jan 2013 15:10:17 GMT Schmuck Republicans: Chris Christie and Peter King https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2974579/posts Am I the only one who notices just how smoothly and effortlessly the Democrat Party plays the American people and establishment Republican leadership?Basic timeline:Last week of October: Hurricane Sandy visited destruction upon the East Coast, most severely New Jersey, New York, and Connecticut.First week of November: With the presidential election just days away, Obama lands in New Jersey to get bear hugged by Gov'r Chris Christie in order to give off a semblance of "bi-partisanship," and to secure extra votes from stupid Americans who actually thinks Obama caaaares about them. (Indeed it worked: Exit polls showed many still-undecided voters ended up pulling... Vocal Minority https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2974579/posts#comment Thu, 3 Jan 2013 16:33:23 GMT Listen & Learn: Levin Continues Discussing the Dems, Class Warfare & Fiscal Cliff (11/27/12) https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2964093/posts Wow, I was barely done posting excerpts of Mark's Monday show, when I decided Tuesday's show was too full of gold not to post stuff as well. So here's the Great One, continuing his discussion on the Democrats, taxing the so-called "rich" and other class warfare demagoguery, and the "fiscal cliff." The first clip below is from Tuesday's first hour, the second clip from the second hour:[Edited for commercials, long pauses and other extraneous content] Download clip here Download clip here  Vocal Minority via Mark Levin https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2964093/posts#comment Thu, 29 Nov 2012 17:35:44 GMT Listen & Learn: Mark Levin on the "Fiscal Cliff" (11/26/12) https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2963453/posts It's been a long time since I've done one of these but when I heard the Great One last night, I just had to spend some time getting this one out. Here's practically his whole first hour -- edited down to 30 min after cutting commercials, bumper music, long pauses, and any other extraneous content. It addresses the "fiscal cliff" and Mark attacks both Democrats for politicizing it and weak-kneed RINO Republicans for playing along. At risk of spoiling it for you: He thinks we should go over the fiscal cliff. Better that in the short term than the crisis... Vocal Minority via Mark Levin https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2963453/posts#comment Tue, 27 Nov 2012 19:26:15 GMT I Do NOT Believe Our Country Is Trending Significantly Leftward and Here's Why (Part II) https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2957280/posts A lot of people are responding to my post here, at Free Republic, and on Facebook. Most disagree with my thesis laid out in Part I but here we go with Part II: Obama lost votes in all but two states (LA and NC) Romney got more votes than McCain in 27 states. This is the case in some of the swing states and even deep blue states that Obama won handily. Examples: Colorado: Obama lost 3.9% of his 2008 voters while Romney got 4.8% more votes than McCain, which means Obama won Colorado by a smaller margin (51.2% to 46.5%) than in... Vocal Minority https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2957280/posts#comment Fri, 9 Nov 2012 01:14:27 GMT I Do NOT Believe Our Country Is Trending Significantly Leftward and Here's Why https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2957153/posts (This post is very numbers-heavy but bear with me and get through it. I guarantee it will be worth it.)... In the end, the news was bad for us.Did more Democrats vote for Obama than Romney? Yes. Did Obama win virtually every swing state? Yes. Did Obama trounce Romney in the electoral college? Yes. Did Obama overwhelmingly get the overwhelming majority of blacks, Hispanics, and the youth vote -- especially single women? Hell, yes.Did over 2.0 million fewer people vote Republican in 2012 than in 2008. Yes. All these facts about the election have led many pundits to conclude our populace... Vocal Minority https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2957153/posts#comment Thu, 8 Nov 2012 20:59:00 GMT Adventures in Gov't-Run Health (S)care: Malnourishment, Bedsores, and Death, Oh My! https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2941808/posts In case you didn't know, the beginning of October marked the point where, under Obama(Doesn't)Care Section 6001, physician-owned hospitals are banned from being started, existing ones prohibited from expanding. This improves our health care system how? It doesn't. But just keep saying everyone's covered, covered, covered. We're all covered, covered, covered. Covered, covered, covered. Like a bunch of freaking sheep. Free colonoscopies! Free condoms! Free free free! Covered covered covered! Republican war on women! Ryan hates Grandma! Romney hates Big Bird! Free free free! Covered covered covered! Meanwhile, things aren't going terribly swimmingly in the U.K., whose utopian health care system was... Vocal Minority https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2941808/posts#comment Mon, 8 Oct 2012 14:28:26 GMT A Sign of Awakening Among American Jews? https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2918430/posts Last week I attended a four-day Jewish conference. Having attended it several times over the past several years, I am fully aware of the prominently left-liberal leanings of the crowd (which has comprised anywhere from 500-1200 people).That has meant righties like myself have had to tread lightly when political discussions come up. I pick my battles carefully and stick in my two shekels only when I’m pretty sure my audience is somewhat open to debate without confrontation or ad hominem attacks. In fact, my usual contingent of friends at this conference—all left-of-center—know where I stand and we’ve actually engaged in... Vocal Minority https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2918430/posts#comment Tue, 14 Aug 2012 18:33:36 GMT Liberal Media Bias: NYT Finally Covers Obama's Gutting Welfare Law, Spins It to Bash GOP https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2908234/posts It boggles the mind the pro-Obama/Democrat anti-Republican propaganda that poses for news. With each new day the DBF* media seems to outdo itself. Today was no exception.The Obama administration is ostensibly nervous about not winning the election even after having secured the votes of blacks, Jews who cherish liberalism more than they treasure Judaism and Israel, single sexually active women who think Republican men want them back in the kitchen barefoot and pregnant, illegal aliens and their sympathizers, and the dead in Florida and other states that have been prohibited by Obama’s DOJ from purging illegitimate names off the voting... Vocal Minority https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2908234/posts#comment Thu, 19 Jul 2012 02:03:57 GMT Corporate slavery https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2904997/posts "I would rather surrender a minimal amount of what you call liberty to the government where I have some recourse instead of to an unaccountable company. I surrender more liberty to my employer because I cannot risk the benefits than I would if I knew my insurance was there no matter what. Corporate slavery." This was the unsolicited comment made by a friend-of-a-friend when I posted on Facebook a not-very-subtle comment about the repression of our liberty due to the SCOTUS's Obama(Doesn't)Care ruling. Just think about it: We have millions of drones in this country who think just like this.... vanity https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2904997/posts#comment Tue, 10 Jul 2012 21:00:22 GMT The Fastest Facebook Friend I've Ever Had https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2903607/posts My Facebook page is always alight with passionate political debate. When 75% of your friends consist of liberal-Democrat Jews, how could it not! Many a never-to-be-recovered  minutes have been spent pointlessly debating issues like the state of the economy, the Obama(Doesn't)Care ruling,  Wisconsin governor Scott Walker's recall election, presumptive GOP candidate Mitt Romney, and everything in between.So, yesterday I got "friend-ed" by one of those aforementioned liberal-Democrat Jew types from college. Within minutes of accepting his request this morning, my news feed was adorned with liberal talking points and those annoying graphics purportedly debunking "GOP lies" and the "right-wing propaganda machine".Here's... Vocal Minority https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2903607/posts#comment Fri, 6 Jul 2012 21:49:52 GMT Liberal Media Bias: 2,000 U.S. Troop Deaths in Afghanistan - Only CBS Reports https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2898185/posts Oh, you didn't know that this week we hit the 2,000 marker of troops killed in Afghanistan? If you get your news from ABC, NBC, MSNBC, or PBS you probably don't. They didn't report it. To its credit, only CBS covered it. [h/t Tim Graham at NewsBusters]Compare that to DBF* media coverage when that grim milestone was reached in Iraq. On that day in October, 2005, those channels devoted significant time discussing it, as well as opining how it would negatively affect then-President Bush's popularity. In fact, it was with a very noticeable relish that the DBF media clocked war deaths... Vocal Minority https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2898185/posts#comment Fri, 22 Jun 2012 13:06:33 GMT Who Is Obama's Harvard Prof and Why Does He Not Want Him Reelected? https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2896568/posts So we finally hear from a professor who had President Hope&Change as a student ... and he doesn't want him re-elected. [h/t Drudge]: Obama’s Harvard law professor says ‘President MUST be defeated in 2012’ (even though he’s the man Barack used to have on speed dial) Roberto Unger, 65, is respected author and Brazilian politicianTaught Obama about ‘reinventing democracy’ at Harvard Law SchoolProfessor was an adviser during the 2008 election campaign By [U.K.] DAILY MAIL REPORTERPUBLISHED: 17:17 EST, 17 June 2012 | UPDATED: 07:06 EST, 18 June 2012A former professor of Barack Obama has turned against his one-time student and... Vocal Minority https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2896568/posts#comment Mon, 18 Jun 2012 15:45:28 GMT Listen & Learn: El Rushbo On Obama's "Bad Week" https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2895232/posts Going back at least as far as last weekend, especially in light of the Democrats' recall loss in Wisconsin, the DBF* media has been playing up this narrative that poor Obama has been having a "bad week."On Monday, Rush didn't quite see it that way: Everybody is talking about how Obama had a bad week last week. Really? He didn't ever have to explain his membership in the New Party.He wasn't asked a single question about Fast and Furious or Eric Holder's corrupt Justice Department.He wasn't asked to explain his political cowardice when he refused to go to Wisconsin, stand shoulder... Vocal Minority via Rush https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2895232/posts#comment Thu, 14 Jun 2012 15:53:53 GMT Liberal Media Bias: <i>NY Times'</i> Almond Laments Right-Wing Media Hate, etc. https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2894554/posts <p>Oy, what a glutton for punishment I am. I’m about to do something that’s painful but necessary: deconstruct an article published in the Magazine of this past weekend’s NY Times. Its author Steve Almond is given this valuable real estate to recycle the oft-argued claim that Fox News and the conservative talk radio are poisoning the political debate in this country. He then takes the argument one step further by saying he and his poor fellow liberals have been getting suckered into empowering and legitimizing them, and urges them should stop.</p> Vocal Minority https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2894554/posts#comment Tue, 12 Jun 2012 22:39:43 GMT Elizabeth Warren: Affirmative Action Fraud https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2892599/posts In a sane world, the serial liar and affirmative action fraud Elizabeth Warren would've dropped her candidacy for the Senate and have been relagated to an occupation akin to dog catcher or septic tank cleaner (not to insult dog catchers or septic tank cleaners).But when you're an illiberal/Democrat whose goal is to impose and enforce the illiberal/Democrat agenda, everything is acceptable--lying, cheating, stealing, even killing.And therefore, despite having been caught "red" handed lying about being part Cherokee Indian in order to benefit from years of affirmative action hiring, Warren still stands tall and proud. Even as she changes her story... Vocal Minority https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2892599/posts#comment Thu, 7 Jun 2012 12:41:07 GMT