Pass the stimulus, and unemployment will never go above 8%
Outside of my obvious pro-Fox News bias, ABC’s Jake Tapper seems to be doing most of the heavy lifting for the entire profession of journalism these days (along with a couple of others.)
Yesterday he asked Robert Gibbs about a report that the Obama administration released in January—which showed what could happen to the unemployment rate if their world saving stimulus package was not passed (graph on page 5). Here are the highlights:
1) By their own estimation, the stimulus isn’t working as planned: The administration’s own estimates said that if the stimulus would pass, the unemployment rate would never rise above 8%. Its peak would be around 7.9% around the end of the year. Well…It’s at 8.5% already, and most economists seem to it’s getting worse before it gets better.
2) By their own estimation, the stimulus might be making things worse: The administration’s report showed that the unemployment rate would be about 8.1% right now if we had done NOTHING. So, it’s either that the stimulus plan is actually making things worse, or the economy is significantly worse than they thought. Which brings me to #3 …
3) What does this do to their estimates?: If their economic prognosis was this far off, this soon, what does this do to their deficit estimates 6 or 8 years out? They already were very ugly, but doesn’t this make them far worse?
Now, they do admit that there are high levels of uncertainty in their estimates–but this is the scenario that they’ve planned for. It’s early proof that the charges of “rosy scenarios” were correct.
Now who’s ready for their universal healthcare estimates?
Tags: Economy
April 15th, 2009 at 10:01 am
It is time for the GOP to jettison the kooks, the religious kooks, the Birthers, the Immigration Hilterites, and all the other conspiracy nuts, and build a new GOP FOR THE 21st CENTURY!!!! IT IS TIME TO GET BACK TO BASICS AND BACK TO GRAND DAD’S CONSERVATISM INSTEAD OF TODAY’S KOOK BASED CONSERVATISM!!!!
ABORTION
In the 1980’s, Ron Reagan needed to attract more voters to the GOP because at that time Democrats held the edge in registrations. His solution was to find issues that would appeal to a large group of conservatives who usually did not vote, Southern white trash religious kooks. He used the abortion issue to bring in these uneducated morons, who don’t see that evolution is as obvious as a needle dick on a mosquito and like to spend their Sundays listening to some con man ranting in “tongues”. It worked for the GOP in the 80s and 90s, but now as we enter into a new century, it has become a HUGE HINDERANCE TO WINNING ELECTIONS. Listening to grown intelligent men claim the Earth is 4,000 years old is like listening to a crowd of blithering retards at a state home lunch break. But even worse, Republicans deny one of their core principles, that a person has a right to determine their own destiny, when what essentially is a core group of backward old white guys telling women what they can do with their vaginas and wombs. But in the end, the real problem is REALITY. Nothing can be done about abortion without a Constitutional Amendment. An Amendment requires 2/3s of the House, 2/3s of the Senate, a presidential signature and the votes of 3/4 of the state legislature. IT AIN”T GONNA HAPPEN. What has really happened is that a huge voting block, women who want men to mind their own business, has left the GOP.
HISPANICS
Beck and his pals know that screaming about Mexicans means big ratings. What these morons don’t care about is that their approach to the immigration problem is KILLING THE GOP. Hispanics in the US who are US citizens have parents and grandparents who are illegal aliens, cousins, sometimes brothers and sisters. Illegal aliens have children who are US citizens. There are millions of so-called illegals who were brought here as small children, went to school here and high school here, who are now as Americanized as you or I. What do you think these voters feel when they hear Glenn Beck, and even worse his foaming-at the mouth nut case guest host Pat Gray, calling these people “criminals” and advocating that we put them in the back of a truck and haul them back to Mexico? Or when we claim that “terrorists are coming across the border” AND ALL THE OTHER OVER-HEATED RHETORIC? The saddest thing: US Hispanics are a natural constituency for the GOP, hard working success-oriented, strong family conservatives, because of THE JIM CROWING OF THE HISPANIC ISSUE BY TALK RADIO HOSTS, ARE VOTING FOR THE DEMOCRATS!!!!!!! And while we here tons of stuff about Mexicans dopers, murderers, border violence, all crap meant to portray Mexicans as scary bad guys, for some reason we hear nothing from Talk Radio about ILLEGAL EMPLOYERS!!!! Ask yourself, why don’t they use their megaphones to “out” the chicken companies, the construction companies etc? BECAUSE THEY ADVERTISE ON THEIR SHOWS, THATS WHY!!!! The immigration problem is really not all that hard to solve if you go after the employers instead, no jobs, no immigrants, it is that simple. But we never hear that from Beck, do we? Instead, they spew endless rhetoric that alienates potential GOP voters.
GAYS
Just another issue where relgious kooks want to shove their beliefs down people’s throats, which might be good religion, but dude, it is bad politics. Ultimately, I could care less if two men want to marry, they have a right to be miserable or happy like everybody else because BEING GAY IS NOT A CRIME ANYMORE. So who cares. Independent voters could care less about religious issues, so this is just another place where the GOP is selling out it’s core principle: we all have a right to the pursuit of happiness, as long as what we are doing harms no one else. Being gay doesn’t harm me. A man who wants to sleep with some dude doesn’t harm me. AND IT COSTS THE GOP VOTES.
VIOLENCE
The new emerging rhetoric from Talk Radio is starting to have overtones of violence. Nuts on this blog are the best example, screaming dirt bag traitors calling for secession, crazies calling for armed revolt, dude, you want to turn off a zillion moderate voters, that’s the way to do it. Sooner or later, one of you fukkin nuts are going to kill somebody, and it will used by the MSM to paint the entire GOP as a bunch of crazy killers, just like they used the OKC bombing. Talk radio hosts, feigning talk of not being in favor of this while pulling stunts like pouring gasoline on someone and screaming about non-existent FEMA camps are so transparently patronizing, without even being aware of it (or not giving a $hit ig they afre because they are making money off of it) they are simply painting the conservative movement in the public’s eye as violent extremists. This is the EXACT thing that happened to the Democrats at the end of the Vietnam War, and they ended up decimated by it, and it was one of the things that led to the Reagan Revolution, and if the Right in this country doesn’t tone it down, they are going to get their own taste of it in the next election, which will put the Democrats into majorities where THEY CAN PASS CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS AT WILL !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Talk about revolution all you want, it is for fools, this country has dedicated law enforcement and military, and they will simply do what they did in the 70’s to the hippie radicals, shoot you or imprison you as you find out that few people in this country will join you.
So what does this mean? THE GOP NEEDS TO GET OUT OF DENIAL, AND CHANGE!!!!!!! Fact: we lost the election, far and square. Fact: we tend to demonize and be in denial so much that we become unable to look at how our enemies succeeded. Instead of looking at ACORN and seeing that they succeeded by getting off their asses and going door to door to find new voters, we think that calling them every name in the book will somehow change that fact. What we really should be doing is setting up our own ACORN type operation, and just start admitting that they whipped our ass. If we had an ACORN style operation to bring Hispanic conservatives into the GOP, we could counter their wrap-up of the black vote, for example. We also need to get out of all these RELIGIOUS KOOK ISSUES and get back to a basics! What worked in Reagan’s day ain’t gonna work in the 21st Century! Our population is more educated, and only damn fools believe evolution is a myth. Millions of women have grown up with abortion as an option and a right, the issue is LOST. Young people simply do not see gays the same way people of the baby boom generation do. So what are the winning issues for the 21st Century?
TAXES AND SPENDING
The GOP needs to spend all the time it is wasting on these religous issues and spend them on the solid issues that motivate middle class independent voters to vote for them, and those two issues are paramount to them.
2nd AMENDMENT RIGHTS
The GOP needs to continue to protect the gun owner AND THE BILL OF RIGHTS IN ITS ENTIRETY.
STRONG NATIONAL DEFENSE
We need to be the party that defends this country, again appealing to moderate and independent mom and dads who want a safe world for their kids.
PROSECUTION OF EMPLOYERS WHO HIRE ILLEGAL ALIENS TO THE FULLEST EXTENT OF THE LAW.
Take the focus off of the immigrants, they are symptoms, the problem is the failure to use a MARKET BASED SOLUTION TO THE IMMIGRANT PROBLEM by making it more expensive to hire them, and make that expense include going to jail for a long, long time. And we all need to start realizing that there are HUMAN BEINGS INVOLVED HERE!!!! It is time to put away the Nazis-against-Jews rhetoric against the illegals and realize we need to have compassio for some the situations these people are in. A girl who came here as a three year old should not be deported as an adult. Elderly parents living with US citizen adult children should not be put on a truck and dumped in Mexico. US citizen minor children be forced into orphanages by the state deporting their parents. All of these hard cases costs us MILLIONS OF VOTES WHEN RIGHT WING HEARTLESSNESS IS PUBLICIZED!!!!!!!
JOIN ME IN FORMING A NEW REPUBLICAN PARTY, A PARTY OF THE 21st CENTURY!
April 15th, 2009 at 10:33 am
Wow Kooks, that is a lot of ranting! I just have one question….does it have anything to do with what this blog entry was about? I mean, I do agree with you on some of your points, but the blog was about the epic failure up to this point of the stimulus package.
Stu, I think your blog has created some monsters. Maybe you should consider sticking to the Stu after show show.
April 15th, 2009 at 11:04 am
Glenn. The next step in the movement is telling all tea people what tv shows to boycott. We should have a list of what products to boycott. If other stations continue to air only country bumpkins in association with the movement we should call the companies that advertise on these stations. The corporations will tell these companies not to spin the news. Reporters should report only what they facts not to give their liberal opinion of how they want my world to be.
April 15th, 2009 at 11:22 am
Hi Glenn and Stu,
What would you think of Governor Perry and Govenor Palin running for president and vice president in the next election? Maybe even starting a new party - the Conservative Party - since Republicans are clueless as are the Dems. Perry understands the Constitution and is willing to take a stand for it! We need a man like him in the White House!!!! Why don’t you ask Gov. Perry if he would like to run. I will work to get him elected. When I lived in Austin 20+ years ago the state moto (unofficial, I think) was “Don’t Mess With Texas”. Perry could take that to the White House, maybe “Don’t Mess With The U.S.
Have a great time in Texas!
April 15th, 2009 at 11:58 am
Well Kooks
you have proven what they say about all libbers. They repeat everything over and over because they are following the party rhetoric. This is the same bull you posted on the other column! Get over yourself!
April 15th, 2009 at 12:06 pm
Speaking of kooks and their rantings…
I’d like to comment on the kook’s comment, but since it’s off topic I’ll stick with what my two cents on Obama’s stimulus package. I don’t know what people are getting so up in arms about. Obama really only promised one thing during his entire campain-change. He didn’t say it would be change for the better. What made America think that a guy with less than 200 days of experience in congress had what it would take to help our country recover from the oncoming economic train wreck? There were several times during the election that I felt like I was the only one who wanted to know what the candidates plans were for the economy. As it was, they rarely talked about their plans and Obama made promises that always left me asking “Where the hell is this money supposed to come from?” Well, now we know, don’t we. And America is finally pissed off enough to actually do something about it to make our voices heard. Too bad its too little too late.
April 15th, 2009 at 12:12 pm
Whoa,
I disagree…it’s never too late as long as we can vote him out and get REAL conservatives in!
April 15th, 2009 at 12:49 pm
COLLECTIVE FEAR IS WITH THE ENEMIES OF THE STATE FOR THEY KNOW THEY ARE DOING WRONG TO THE PEOPLE AND THEY KNOW THEY ARE GOING TO BE REMOVED.
More speeches, that is all what it takes. More EMPTY PROMISES and the intersting thing is that this is going to work just as well as in the past when Obama did engulf the public in EMOTIONS and with the extra FRAUDULENT FACTORS and managed to ‘win’ the lections. However, the CREDIBILITY is fading away for AMERICA IS AWAKE NOW.
So, the ENEMIES OF THE STATE are getting WORRY ( they had been for quite some times for since the very begining they knew where going to be UNMASKED at some point ), SO THEY ARE REALLY WORRY to the extreme that there is a ‘warning’ from HOME LAND SECURITY about ‘extremist right-wingers potential danger’,…now that is the cuspid of INSECURITY FOR THEY KNOW SO WELL THAT THEY ARE DOING WRONG TO THE PEOPLE OF AMERICA! Need I say more?,… this is TOTALITARIAN / DICTATORSHIP type of thing.
And so we now have the expected OBAMA-GESTAPO / SS HITLER-STRUCTURE INQUISITION organization.
Many said was only a ‘RIGHT-WING’ paranoid thing but now , as everyone can see is a REALITY !
Thoughts anyone?
And so it goes
Daniel Cabrera
Merrillville, Indiana
April 15th, 2009 at 12:52 pm
I think everyone should check off that little box on their W-2 form that allows you to NOT have taxes withheld and just REFUSE to pay them!
The 16th Amendment was never ratified by the full 3/4 of the states necessary, so SCREW THE IRS and the Osama-bama administration!
If our government cares more about the illegals than the REAL Americans, let the ILLEGALS PAY THE TAXES FOR US FOR A CHANGE!!!
WASHINGTON NEEDS AN ENEMA! CALL IT: THE EVERY POLITICIAN MUST GO EVENT OF THE YEAR! IMPEACH OBAMA, PELOSI AND THE REST OF THE A-HOLE TREASONISTS!!!
April 15th, 2009 at 1:58 pm
WOW!
I had no idea what so ever, according the the news media, that I am an “EXTREMIST”. When did this happen to us Americans? Just because I believe in what my grandparents thought me. 1. you don’t spend money that you don’t have. 2. If you know that you honestly can NOT afford what ever it is that you want, DON’T buy it! 3. you can’t all ways get what you want, when you want it. 4. life is not fair, kind, and or easy. never has been and never will be. 5. make do with what you have for as long as possible. etc…
I also believe in the “ORIGINAL” U.S. Constitution. the right to free speech, to bare arms, etc…. all of it. including the FREEDOM to worship GOD in my own way, and that “ALL” Life has the right to life. but I must of have missed some thing along the way. well, I got news for my Government and to all the news media. I am NOT an extremist! I am just fed up!
I am fed up with my Government spending money like there is no tomorrow. I am fed up with all these damn bail outs for all these business that can not get their damn act together. I am fed up with these bailed out companies literally getting their hands cough in the cookie jar, every single time they get a bail out. I am fed up flipping the bill for all the ILLEGALS and their damn anchor babies. ENOUGH! I am literally flat busted BROKE. in other words. I am BANKRUPT! When and where do we real Americans get our real bail out money? oh, oops. I all most for got, WE are the one who gets the bill for all this. If you want the illegals to go back home, then take away “ALL” of the bird food and feeders. No more food, no more bids. But with the President illegal family staying here in this country, I know that will never happen.
I am very proud of all my fellow Americans that actually stood up at today “TEA PARTY”. I hope the president and all of our elected officials get the damn hint. We the people are fed up and broke. Stop spending the money that we the people do not have! But in all honesty, I really dought it. The blasted media sure did NOT get it and or understand why for this so called “TEA PARTY”. There again its the media, do you expect anything else and or less from them? but remember this my friends. we vote them in to office, and we can vote the OUT of office. In the mean time. GOD help us and this country.
April 15th, 2009 at 2:26 pm
Great post! Keep up the work!
April 15th, 2009 at 2:45 pm
NOW ON QUICK FAST NOTE;
Just,check this one out;
Iran said is now interested to dialog with western side about issues,….knowing the high grade of DECPETION this country shown in the past , to me is just a trick to have more time to finalize their atomic weapons.
But then again exist the possibility that some americans may swallow that one, since DECEPTION AND SHORT LOGIC OR NONE LOGIC , for that matters, drove them to have OBAMA AND HIS GANG IN PLACE, RIGHT?
Exactly ! , you got it !, some americans are use to DECEPTIONS AND ACT VERY WRONG UPON THAT,…correct again ! ,’ the obamanized ones’
good day everyone,
Daniel Cabrera
Merrillville, Indiana
April 15th, 2009 at 3:36 pm
? Media, Politics
Glenn Beck Advocates Secession
— By Jonathan Stein | Wed April 15, 2009 7:42 AM PST
I suppose we knew it would come to this eventually. Glenn Beck is the tip of the spear for the conservative talkers and activists who are convinced that America is descending into tyranny under Obama. (I like Jon Stewart’s line: that’s not tyranny; that’s just being in the minority.) The Fox News host is (1) often the first major media figure to adopt the crazy right-wing conspiracy theories that circulate on the web, thus pulling them into the mainstream; and (2) takes right-wing talking points the furthest, like when he suggested that Obama is turning America into a Nazi state. The tag line on his Fox News show ought to be: “First Among Nut Jobs: the Glenn Beck Program!”
So it was inevitable that Beck would be the first to suggest that if you oppose Obama enough, you have the right to secede. Here’s Beck (audio at the link):
“You can’t convince me that the Founding Fathers wouldn’t allow you to secede. The Constitution is not a suicide pact. If [a] state says, “I don’t want to go there because that’s suicide,” they have a right to back out! …I sign into this union, and I can never, ever get out?? No matter what the government does, I can never get out??”
Here’s my prediction — in 12-18 months, conservatives will learn how to be out of power again and we’ll see a lot less of the tea parties and Glenn Beck-type ranting. But I gotta wonder: Why didn’t conservatives get this worked up when their party controlled the White House and they could actually pressure the president to do what they wanted? The activist/blogosphere left knows how to harness its grassroots energy when it actually matters. It doesn’t complain about its politicians, the way conservative activists complain(ed) so bitterly about Bush. It works hard to get its politicians to do what it wants
April 15th, 2009 at 4:04 pm
Is the Federal Income Tax System Fair????
The federal income tax system was set up to fund our government. None of us enjoys having to pay the government any of our hard earned money, however if we are going to protect our country and pay out all the entitlement programs created by our government then we have to. However have you ever considered whether the tax system we use is actually a fair system? Let’s take a look at how the system is set up.
Originally when the constitution was written the founding father had stipulated that any income tax must be based and equally divided among the each state’s population. However this pitted the bigger states and smaller states against each other and none of them could settle on what was a fair amount. So the congress amended the constitution so that they could eliminate the state’s population when figuring the way to get taxes from individuals.
Now you have a modern day tax code that requires a mathematical degree to even be able to figure your taxes correctly. The congress has made the tax laws so complex so the average person has to go to a tax preparer when filing their taxes each year. Currently the tax in our country works this way. You work and the government takes your “fair” share of taxes directly from your paycheck so you never even see the money. This was actually a brilliant move by the government because if you don’t ever have the money then you don’t miss it.
Before it was taken directly out of your pay check you were required to write the government a check at the end of the year. When you actually have the money you miss it when you write the check and this kept the politician’s spending in check because the complaints were heard loudly when the checks were written. Now we have a tiered income tax system that says the more you make the more you are going to pay in taxes.
The “working poor” in our country do not pay any federal income taxes. At the end of the year if you fall into that class you get every dime you paid in back in the form of a refund check for the IRS. If you are considered middle class then you are going to pay 15% to 35% on your income after you have taken out your allowed deductions. These deductions are for yourself, your spouse, and your children. You may also be able to itemize lowering the income level you pay taxes on.
Statistics show that 75% of the country’s revenue from income taxes comes from only 1% of the population. This percentage of the population makes over $200,000 per year either through their own personal income or if you are the owner of an S corporation (small business) that makes a large profit. So whether our federal income tax system is fair or not will be debated for years to come and since our country needs money to run, it will never be eliminated
April 15th, 2009 at 4:11 pm
a copy and paste from the ATR[ americans for tax reform] www atr org
Obama’s Trillion Dollar Tax Hike: Breaking Down the Numbers
From Ryan Ellis on Tuesday, March 3, 2009 3:45 PM
Last week, President Barack Obama submitted his first budget to Capitol Hill, and it’s a whammy: nearly $1 trillion in tax increases. Now that we’ve had some time to digest it, we’ve been able to break down how it raises taxes on the family energy bill, small businesses, family farms, your retirement nest egg, housing, charitable contributions, and nearly all large U.S. employers.
If you’re getting the idea that this trillion dollar tax hike is on you, you’d be correct.
Last week, President Obama sent a tax-increase budget to Capitol Hill. Even by his own (disputed) baseline, he’s raising net income taxes by about $1 trillion over the next decade
Obama’s budget claims that it cuts taxes for families by $770 billion. Yet, the same document admits that fully $326 billion—nearly half—is in fact new spending, not tax cuts
The budget raises the top two income tax brackets from 33 percent and 35 percent to 36 percent and 39.6 percent, respectively. These are the tax rates in which $2 out of every $3 in small business profit is taxed. That includes 90 percent of the profits from partnerships and Subchapter S corporations, and 40 percent of the profits from sole proprietorships. This small business tax hike alone is $339 billion
The Obama budget imposes a “cap and trade” tax of $646 billion. Every American family will pay this tax in the form of higher gasoline, heating, and electric bills
That’s not the only way this budget raises taxes on energy-consuming American families. The deduction for U.S. energy manufacturers is repealed. “Superfund” (a slush fund tax for the EPA) makes a comeback. Energy companies will see an overnight tax hike on their inventories of oil and other fuels. Incredibly, there’s even an excise tax imposed on forty percent of the energy mined right here at home, in the Gulf of Mexico. These tax hikes add another $109 billion to American energy costs
Rather than dying a merciful death in 2010, as is scheduled under current law, the death tax continues indefinitely with a top rate of 45 percent and an exemption of $3.5 million ($7 million married couples). Small businesses and family farms will have to worry about seeing the undertaker and the IRS auditor on the same day
The Obama budget raises taxes on investors in several ways. The capital gains tax is hiked from 15 percent to 20 percent. The dividends tax is raised from 15 percent to 20 percent. Capital gains earned by investment partnership managers are taxed as high as 39.6 percent. At a time when the stock market wealth has nearly been cut in half, why is Obama proposing a $142 billion tax hike on the stock market?
U.S. companies will be forced to pay corporate taxes twice on international profits—once in the country they earn them in, and again here. This $210 billion tax hike will push jobs and capital out of our borders
By reinstating the “Pease” itemized deduction phase-out, and putting a 28 percent cap on the dollar value of itemized deductions, the Obama budget will hurt charitable contributions, raise the cost of housing, and make it even more expensive to live in high-tax states like New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Maryland, Illinois, and California. This tax hike is worth $318 billion.
April 15th, 2009 at 4:13 pm
I couldn’t agree more. I’m so frustrated! Let’s take back America and donkey punch the Democrats on Election Day!
April 15th, 2009 at 4:26 pm
http://www.atr.org/index.php?content=home
please visit this site
April 15th, 2009 at 4:42 pm
This blog is about estimates. Have you ever gotten an estimate at a body shop and then found out there was more work to be done and had to pay more? An estimate is just an educated guess. I am a liberal that is mad that we are paying any of these crooks. I met more liberals today at a tea party and we found out that liberals aren’t the problem. The problem is that when given the chance to protest, out of a community of about 30,000 people, there were maybe 200 there. So instead of marching in the streets and doing something positive, most people were trying to blog their troubles away. Good luck with that.
April 15th, 2009 at 6:59 pm
We need to keep pushing the facts about President Harding’s handling of the Crash of 1920 into the awareness of the media and our CongressCritters at every opportunity. Harding CUT spending, from $6.3 billion to $5 billion. He CUT taxes, from $6.6 billion to $5.5 billion. He paid DOWN the residual debt from World War I. For a brilliant rundown on this, check out:
http://www.meltingpotproject.com/mpp/2009/02/the-great-depression-of-1920.html
King George(WBush) and Team Obama have set us on a course which is virtually identical to the formula Hoover followed nine years later. Harding’s approach turned the country around in less than nine months, and ushered in one of the most prosperous periods in American history (unemployment reached the all-time peace-time record of 1.8% in 1926). Hoover’s approach spawned the Great Depression.
April 15th, 2009 at 7:10 pm
You know, an amazing thing happened here yesterday. I was away for awhile and wasn’t able to keep up with the posts for awhile. When I came back, most of the posts were civil and there wasn’t, for the main part, the usual libbers this, pubs that, just Americans united for a short time trying to settle on a solution to a problem. Now, after the tea parties, we are back to sniping at each other like business as usual. And to think I thought we had learned something. Way to go guys, you pulled one over on the old guy!
April 15th, 2009 at 8:04 pm
Jonn. Stein,
Maybe you should read the Constitution for yourself, instead of obamas socialist rhetoric, and listening to the liberal news medias’ typical liberal spin! Then you would know!! Just for an example read the 10th. amendment for starters, since you’re haveing trouble deciphering Glen Beck and the secession issue! The 10th. is not about secession, it is about the individual states rights, and there are 50 of us, not 57 like Nobama thinks, or thought !! Maybe somebody has clued him in by now!!!! 50 INDIVIDUAL STATES THAT HAVE RIGHTS THAT THE CONSTITUTION GIVES US, PERIOD! READ IT!
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Joe H: What did you expect? Libs come on here and the whole place goes to hell pretty quickly. Kind of like when the grandkids visit! Bloody Hell!!
April 15th, 2009 at 9:57 pm
THE STIMULAS PACKAGE WAS A JOKE FROM THE START BECAUSE NO ONE READ IT THAT IS JUST THE PLAIN AND SIMPLE FACT
YES OBAMA DID EFFECT CHANGE IN THE COUNTRY HE MADE IT SO THAT ALL WE WOULD HAVE IS UNION JOBS OR STATE JOBS OH I FORGOT NY IS LAYING OFF 8000 OR 9000
JOBS WE LIVE IN A RIGHT TO WORK STATE AND COUNTRY AND HE HAS EFFECTIVELY REMOVED THAT RIGHT FROM US. THAT’S AN INTERESTING WORD US- UNITED STATES IT IS NOT THE WAY IT USED TO BE.
IT DOES NOT MEAN UNITED CORPORATIONS OF AMERICA
IT DOES NOT MEAN UNITED CORRUPTED POLITICIANS OF AMERICA
ALL THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT WE HAVE NOW.
IT IS TIME WE TAKE IT ALL BACK FIRE EVERY ONE AND START OVER
GET RID OF THE IRS ALL TOGETHER HAVE A CONSUMPTION BASE TAX PROGRAM WHICH LET AMERICANS SAVE FOR THEIR OWN RETIREMENT AND ALSO GET RID OF TAXING THE RETIRED PERSONS OF THE GREAT COUNTRY THEY EARNED THE RIGHT TO BE TAX FREE.
I AGREE WE SHOULD ALL READ THE CONSTITUTION AND SAY THE PLEDGE AS OFTEN AS WE CAN WE SHOULD ALSO REMEMBER THAT OUR FAMILIES DID NOT GET HAND OUTS TO GET AHEAD THEY EARNED THE HARD WAY.
WHAT SAY YOU
April 15th, 2009 at 10:09 pm
All you secessionist traitors will die.
April 15th, 2009 at 10:27 pm
TRAITORS Says:
April 15th, 2009 at 10:09 pm
All you secessionist traitors will die.
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TRY AND COMPREHEND THE POSTS THAT ARE HERE FOR WHAT THEY SAY YOU MORON, AND THEN READ THE CONSTITUTION. NOT EVERY 3RD OR 4TH WORD, BUT EVERY WORD, AND QUIT TRYING TO STIR UP SCHIT YOU LITTLE WEASLEY PIMP ASS NEEDLE DIKK. YOU KNOW NOTHING ABOUT THE SCHIT THAT ROLLS OUTTA YOUR MOUTH!!
April 15th, 2009 at 10:28 pm
Can any of you libs out there astound me and give me a coherent explanation of why you are a liberal?
April 15th, 2009 at 10:45 pm
Forgotten americans at the tax tea parties:
I did something this week I hoped I would never have to do, I transferred the last $3000 from my emergency fund into my checking account. This happens the same week as I pay my federal taxes. The story is long but many people (including financial advisors) told me I have way too much money in my emergency fund. I did hear what they were saying and reduced the number a bit. It was still very large and I was sure I would not run out. I am a saver and a planner by nature. I have been “eating” from the emergency fund for about a year and half. Now in 2009, I haven’t made a single dollar. I have been living on my emergency fund. Thank the lord I had an emergency fund. Don’t get me wrong, I go to work every day. I don’t go on vacation and I am not eligible for “unemployment”. I am the forgotten “self employed American”. You know us. We are your neighbors the painters, carpenters, attorneys, builders, truck drivers, mortgage lenders, small business owners and of course, real estate agents. Many of us were severely impacted by the downturn in the real estate markets and no one really notices. We are angry about FNMA and FNMC, the idiot banking committee and most of Washington DC. We are the ones who pay all of the 15.2% of our social security and pay quarterly taxes to the federal government. We also get the privilege of buying our own health insurance, life insurance, dental insurance…you get the picture. We are the folks showing up at the tax rallies because we pay attention and watch our earnings go to this bloated federal government. I am not sure what to do, but I know that millions of Americans share my feelings. We don’t get laid off, severance packages or bonuses. We just fade away.
April 15th, 2009 at 10:51 pm
I agree Beck YOU ARE A TEA BAGGER!
April 15th, 2009 at 11:05 pm
TRAITORS Says:
April 15th, 2009 at 10:09 pm
All you secessionist traitors will die.
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Life is tough!
It’s even tougher when you’re stupid! …John Wayne
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antistatist Says:
April 15th, 2009 at 10:28 pm
Can any of you libs out there astound me and give me a coherent explanation of why you are a liberal?
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LOL….GOOD STUFF…. BUT I THINK THE ANSWER IS GOING TO BE….NO
April 16th, 2009 at 2:24 am
Petition for Redress of Grievances, if you havent gone and signed this yet, please take the time. It takes less than 1 minute. http://www.912petitions.com/
April 16th, 2009 at 2:42 am
Rob Wolfley Says:
April 15th, 2009 at 4:42 pm
when given the chance to protest, out of a community of about 30,000 people, there were maybe 200 there. So instead of marching in the streets and doing something positive, most people were trying to blog their troubles away. Good luck with that.
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Well Wolfley, I’m guessing that they held your tea party during working hours and nobody could afford to take the time off, OR maybe your community is filled with people who are happy with paying a hell of a lot more taxes. Either that or the entire population is liberal OR “not aware” of what today was all about. It wasn’t like that everywhere. I live near a town of 19,000 and there were between 1,700 to 2,000 people there, plus at least 50% of the thousands of cars who drove by on the main drag (3 lanes wide & bumper to bumper) were honking and yelling support during the 2 hour event. There were about 500 people there a 1/2 hour early. I would have liked to see 5 or 10 thousand, but after hearing about your turnout, I am satisfied with what we got.
April 16th, 2009 at 5:26 am
“Tax cuts, especially temporary ones, and fiscal relief to the states are likely to create
fewer jobs than direct increases in government purchases. However, because there is a
limit on how much government investment can be carried out efficiently in a short time
frame, and because tax cuts and state relief can be implemented quickly, they are crucial
elements of any package aimed at easing economic distress quickly.”
(Page 2 of the Obama campaign “job impact… report”)
Hmm… there’s a limit on how much government investment can be carried out efficiently in a short time? I’ve not heard that from the White House and Congressional leaders.
Don’t reform the Republican or Democrat parties — it can’t be done. The answer is in the ideas of the Founders — send them all home. If they won’t enact term limits on themselves (duh!) then remember the power is ours. Oppose incumbency. Two terms at most for a Senator, three for a Representative. This would also fix the lobbying “industry” by flooding the market with so many out of work job candidates that their prices would have to fall. When legislators expect they’ll have to live under the laws they pass (so opined Mr. Jefferson) they’ll pass good ones.
April 16th, 2009 at 5:29 am
I can’t believe you went against your own poll and are endorsing the flat tax. The Flat Tax is still an income tax, taxing production (how stupid!), does not get rid of the IRS (how stupid!) does not get rid of lobbyist (how stupid!). You just lost my support.
April 16th, 2009 at 7:59 am
Dan,
I had to read your post two or three times but it does make some sense. Just remember though….government doesn’t CREATE prosperity business and work does.
April 16th, 2009 at 8:42 am
My great-granddady put a bullet in your head.
April 16th, 2009 at 11:00 am
John Wayne: I think the libs missed the question, or they are consulting their dictionaries, as President Obama consults the teleprompter. It should be a rather easy question to answer, but then again…..
Cordially
April 16th, 2009 at 11:01 am
Mr. Beck
I enjoy watching you and I agree with you most of the time, but I have a major complaint. At your San Antonio/Alamo show on April 15th you blew it. Your guest performer, Ted Nugent, suprised and insulted me and other americans who love OUR National Anthem. I stress OUR because it belongs to all americans. It should be preformed with reverance and not taken as the performer’s own song and adlibbed into a disgrace. There are many singers and musicians who disgrace our anthem in the name of “individuality and talent”. Let them pick some other song for such expression and leave OUR National Anthem alone.
The National Anthem was adopted as such by this country as written. It should be performed as written.
April 16th, 2009 at 11:50 am
The stimulus plan was suppossed to create jobs and balance the economy so that it could climb again, but the bill did nothing directly obviously because of what it didn’t do.
My dad has his own small business so he is self employed, but he own’s a contracting business and has worked only six days where he was paid this year, he is basically not working except on a house he is trying to sell.
Obama claims he want’s to create jobs, but my dad cannot hire anyone because he pays too much in taxes in relation to the money he is making, so where is his tax break? well, he doesn’t get one. So the fact that small businesses cannot hire doesn’t help obama’s numbers.
Now that I said that, I want to comment on the first post here:
Kooks are RUINING MY GOP!!!!
April 15th, 2009 at 10:01 am
Kooks man talks about 4 things the GOP is talking about as big issues as he takes issue with them, let me shed some light:
Abortion: he says it was a strategy by Reagan to appeal to southern rednecks to win the election. Well, it is funny because the issue of abortion is not really about a woman’s choice, it is about a life. If you can complain about a pregnant woman being killed and calling for a double homicide, but accept abortion as a choice that doesn’t matter, then you are a hypocrite. People who call for abortions most likely have not had one. But if the parents of those who call for abortions had one’s themselves, the situation might have been solved long ago. And to bust a myth that abortions only happen within three months, have you ever heard of a partial birth abortion? it is a very real proceedure, my dad knows a woman who was told to put a baby in a broom closet until it died. she hates herself for doing it. look up partial birth abortions, kooks.
Hispanics: he says we angered them by insulting the illegals and lost many votes thanks to that. Well, kooks, you have not felt the impact illegals have had on the USA. I mentioned my dad’s contracting business earlier and bring it up again because it is the key of why illegals are hurting us. My dad has taxes upon taxes to pay and therefore must require a certain price for his work and his customers say they can get a better price. Illegals come in and do the job. My dad comes in and fixes their crap work. the homeowner pays more than initially needed to get a job done. if they actually came across legally, I would support that because this is a great country to live in, but when they get away with murder (not really), i have issues.
Gays: He says religious kooks are stuffing their agenda down gay’s throats. Well, let’s think about this reversed: Gay couples can get a court order for a civil union which is a “marriage” by a judge. But gays want to get married in a church and thse “religious kooks” do not want to be forced to give gays a marriage in their church if they do not want to.
Violence: Like many people, he says that talk show hosts tell everyone to revolt and overcome the government violently. Well, before making these claims, listen to their shows. They talk about resisting the government with the tea parties that just happened, not guns. The recent police killings have libs claiming that people like glenn beck are provoking this and that we need our gunstaken away. Well, all of the talk show hosts that i can think of have rejected the violent protesters and tried to tell everyone, don’t shoot, it can be done another way.
All I have to say for now.
April 16th, 2009 at 11:51 am
On the media and Bi-partisanship.
A short essay by Andrew H. Center
The Ron Paul/liberitarian originated “Tea party” protests have been hijacked by the real “extremeist terrorists”: Fox news and many “neo-conservitive” politicians. The movement, at this rate, will inevitibly lead to little or no real change.
This is why I call upon my favorite weapon: my voice.
Firstly Glenn Beck, during the 2008 election, was against the Freedom movement, he openly critisized Ron Paul and freedom loving citizens. Now, all of the sudden he’s the “Leader” of this movement? What happened? Do media men change their
views so easily that they can sway from “neo-con” to a freedom activist in the blink of an eye? I say we reject Glenn Beck, The media Has never been a friend to the “freedom movement.” Why all of the sudden does Fox news care about our views? Because they want to continue the left vs right illusion. When in all reality I don’t think anyone actually hates freedom. I don’t think anyone wants to pay more taxes. The people, not the mass media, are the key to this revolution.
I saw a multitude of “anti”-Obama signs at my tea party, and all I think is: this event used to be about the Irs, the Federal Reserve, and freedom. Wasn’t it the IRS who took 1/3 of your paycheck in taxes last year? Isn’t the Fed. to blame for the hidden tax of inflation? These are the groups that need to be protested. Need an example?
The Federal reserve wont tell us what they do with all the money they print. This is why I advocate Ron Paul’s HR 1207, Lending some transparency to the FED’s actions. I strongly Urge all of Congress to Co-Sponsor this bill. For the FED is a bigger
problem than the “puppet” Obama.
I call for ALL Liberty loving Americans to RE-instate the TRUE meaning of OUR tea parties! Whether you’re Right, Left, in between,
or all around. Any person who stands for freedom should let their voice be heard. We don’t have a lot of time, so the next tea party
you attend, let Fox news Media men like Glenn Beck know that “they can take our movement, but they will never take OUR FREEDOM.”
If you stand for Liberty, If you stand for prosparity, If you stand for a Fair tax, or If you stand for the Constitution itself,
Then keep the movement going. Let us inform everybody, regardless of political affiliation, Because if we don’t, I fear we will
only become victims of more taxes and more tyranny. Stand up and resist.
As for me, You can give me liberty, or give me Death!
-Andrew H. Center
April 16th, 2009 at 12:17 pm
After the success of yesterday’s “Tea Party”, it’s time to get to work. Since CNN, NBC, CBS, and ABC helped elect obama, they sure weren’t going to cover the Tea Party crowds yesterday. Their being biased as they were through the entire election is almost laughable. I was at the Denver, CO Tea Party and it was a huge success. 6,000 - 7,000 people there. Both Republicans AND Democrats were there and were not happy with the way things are going in this country. People are sick and tired of politics, politicians, Hollywood, the media, and Washington lying to Americans. Even past obama supporters were happy to show their NON-support. When we left the state capital - people in their cars and trucks were honking and yelling in support of what just took place at the state capital. We stood united yesterday and I was proud to be a part of that unity. That’s American - I’m American. Veterans, blue collar workers, white collar workers, moms, grandmothers, small business owners, large business owners, just good people. I’m ready to start boycotting, because I’m NOT alone. We especially need to boycott the networks mentioned above. Tell me fellow Tea Party supporters, what companies do we boycott, and when do we start? This Tea Party crowd is growing larger and stronger. The coalition has only begun - because we’ve had enough. The “real” American spirit is just like a rattle snake. We won’t strike until lying politicians across the nation and liars in Washington step just a little too close. We’ve been patient, tried to believe in the government, but patience is running thin…too thin.
April 16th, 2009 at 12:28 pm
Sounded like Rush was trashing Glenn today…not specifically by name, but he made a remark about some radio/tv hosts who were trying to gin up support for a third party and making the tea party more about himself than about the people who organized it. I don’t know why he would think Glenn is trying to make this all about himself. Did Glenn run over one of Rush’s cats or something?
Regarding the third party stuff, I do think Rush may be right (although not for the reasons he mentioned on the radio.) During the Weimar period, Germany had many political parties, none of which were particularly dominant (I know we are nowhere near as politically out of control as the Weimar Republic, but bear with me.) That was one of the factors that left the door open for the National Socialists. 33% of the vote was enough for the Nazis to take over the Reichstag and give Hitler the chancellorship. If Germany had had two dominant parties, would the Nazis have gotten a majority? Maybe so, but it would have been much more difficult. Maybe I’m missing something here, but I think if conservatives go the third party route, they would need to very quickly make the Republican party as irrelevant as the Natural Law party. Otherwise I think we will literally have no voice in Washington (I know, we don’t have much of a voice now, but it could be a lot worse) and it would leave the door open for our modern Progressives to get even more Fascist.
April 16th, 2009 at 12:28 pm
Today I found an article with this titlle ;- ‘Are you an ENEMY OF THE STATE?’
It called my attention due to it seems the sentiment or idea that this current administration is in that predicament (loaded with EMEMIES OF THE STATE)….in fact the consesnsus is growing rapidly and I think americans can only take so much.
By the power of all the galaxies in the vast multidimensional universe, it looks that my humble writtings are read by someone (?) out there, or someone(s) got similar line of thought as I.
‘ENEMY OF THE STATE’ is the term I give to ANYONE who vectorize his/her efforts in ANT-AMERICA WAY : such as DISREGARD THE CONSTITUTION, ASSAULT TO ‘WE,THE PEOPLE’ - in the economical spectrum and sociological structure as well, and AS RESULT OF DIMINISH OUR NATIONAL SECURITY SHIELDING, PUT OUR GREAT COUNTRY AT RISK / DANGER / VULNERABILITY BEFORE OUR ENEMIES.
It so happens that the PRESENT CORRUPTED ADMINISTRATION WHICH ARE IN PLACE AS RESULT FRAUDULENT ELECTIONS WITH BACK-UP OF EMOTIONAL FACTOR,….THIS CURRENT ANTI-AMERICAN ORIENTED BODY OF OVEREXPANDING GOVERNEMENT IS DOING EXACTLY THAT!
The good thing is that our country is not awakening for AMERICA IS AWAKE ALREADY ,…and is a matter of short time for the REMOVAL AND REPLACEMENT OF THE ENEMIES OF THE STATE!
GOD BLESS AMERICA !
sincerely,
Daniel Cabrera
Merrillville, Indiana
April 16th, 2009 at 12:46 pm
Mike, you make a good point. However, from what I saw yesterday in Denver, people are tired of both the Republican AND the Democratic parties. I am. Not only did Obama have money power, so did McCain. So did both Bush presidents. I want a candidate like John Adams or Andrew Jackson. Does a person like either of those men exist today or are all candidates corrupt or will be once they get a taste of power? Current day politics are not working for good people - only for crooks.
As for Glen - he is just an American like me. I don’t believe he wants power, he just cares about his family and is sick of lying politicians. If I ever find out different, then he will be on the list with the rest of the ones we can’t trust. So far, I believe in him.
April 16th, 2009 at 12:52 pm
what we need to do is to boycott G.E. and everything they make. I am sick and tired of Olbermann, Maddow the cow, and Shuster the cock sucker. Lets start hitting them were it hurts, cause they don’t seem to care about their tv ratings, I bet they will care about the cash cow (whatever it is). Someone needs to post here a list of what G.E. makes and quit buying them and as a matter of fact throw out anything you have that they made. Also Kooks shove the Koolaid up yer faggot ass.
April 16th, 2009 at 1:11 pm
Andy Says:
April 16th, 2009 at 11:51 am
As for me, You can give me liberty, or give me Death!
-Andrew H. Center
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To Andy: Me think ye have hijacked my most famous quote, and yea, I am a little bit pissed off about it! When ye have swung from the end of a rope for neigh on 230 years, then maybe I shall be more inclined to let you infringe upon my now famous words……..
April 16th, 2009 at 1:34 pm
EXPANDING ENUNCIATION PARAMETERS
The tv tabloids (MSNBC,CNN just to mention two) are a digrace to journalism.SOMEONE IS GETTING AN AWARD ON JOURNALISM,…GOOD GRIEF! After the vicious aproach that all of them did , and continue, toward Gov Palin the only award I can think for to any of them is one that read ; - ‘BIG ZERO’ or ‘LOWEST GOSSIP’ perhaps something more colourful like ‘MANURE EXPRESSION’
Anyway, this is just my view although for what I heard around many share similar thoughts.
Democrats are AFRAID of Limbaugh,Hannity,Steele,Ann Coulter, Glenn Beck, Laura Ingraham, and MONUMENTALLY TERRORIZED BY GOV SARAH PALIN, and EVERYONE KNOWS she could delivers much better presidential leadership than Obama - (after all, Gov Palin has more, BY FAR, MUCH MORE EXECUTIVE / DIRECTORAL / AND LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE THAT OBAMA AND BIDEN TOGETHER ).Palin’s ‘Alaska Formula’, adjusted to nation-wide proportion can implement efficient answers to the economic arena.The public knows this, and so,the electorate are having second thougths about this current administration.
Today I found an article with this titlle ;- ‘Are you an ENEMY OF THE STATE?’
It called my attention due to it seems the sentiment or idea that this current administration is in that predicament (loaded with EMEMIES OF THE STATE)….in fact the consesnsus is growing rapidly and I think americans can only take so much.
By the power of all the galaxies in the vast multidimensional universe, it looks that my humble writtings are read by someone (?) out there, or someone(s) got similar line of thought as I.
‘ENEMY OF THE STATE’ is the term I give to ANYONE who vectorize his/her efforts in ANT-AMERICA WAY : such as DISREGARD THE CONSTITUTION, ASSAULT TO ‘WE,THE PEOPLE’ - in the economical spectrum and sociological structure as well, and AS RESULT OF DIMINISH OUR NATIONAL SECURITY SHIELDING, PUT OUR GREAT COUNTRY AT RISK / DANGER / VULNERABILITY BEFORE OUR ENEMIES.
It so happens that the PRESENT CORRUPTED ADMINISTRATION WHICH ARE IN PLACE AS RESULT FRAUDULENT ELECTIONS WITH BACK-UP OF EMOTIONAL FACTOR,….THIS CURRENT ANTI-AMERICAN ORIENTED BODY OF OVEREXPANDING GOVERNEMENT IS DOING EXACTLY THAT!
The good thing is that our country is not awakening for AMERICA IS AWAKE ALREADY ,…and is a matter of short time for the REMOVAL AND REPLACEMENT OF THE ENEMIES OF THE STATE!
GOD BLESS AMERICA !
sincerely,
Daniel Cabrera
Merrillville, Indiana
April 16th, 2009 at 1:42 pm
Hey, Joe Dirtpile, anyone who tries to split this country apart will get the same treatment my granddaddy gave to your grandmother, cuz.
April 16th, 2009 at 1:48 pm
“Kevin” is showing us all what a truly intelligent man he is. It is pretty obvious he has the cranial capacity of a slug. He doesn’t post much, because he is too busy sucking his black roommates cokk, a habit he picked back when they were both cell mates and Kevin found out he was gonna be “the mama”. In his post, he invites me to take part in his quee-ya lovefest, but, hey, Kevin, I got to decline, I didn’t get my buttwhole reamed in the slammer like you do so I’m just not into that.
April 16th, 2009 at 1:50 pm
Oh, and kevin, tell your mom “thanks for the good time”. I mean it. Is she going to be at the same street corner tonight?
April 16th, 2009 at 2:05 pm
16 Year old,
You may be only 16 years old but you show common sense and adult behavior than a few here. In fact you show common sense far beyond your 16 years. I think that probably comes from living and working with your Dad. You show a good sense of responsibility as well. Please tell your Dad for me “Well Done”.
April 16th, 2009 at 2:08 pm
Kooks when u fart ur Bwaney Fwank smells luv…
U sure do know alot about prison luv? How long were u in? and how long was he in? I bet u got turned by ur friends at at MSNBC and all their tea baggin jokes Huh? And by the way what do u prefer black or white, since u like to talk about black cock??
April 16th, 2009 at 2:14 pm
100 days are coming to an end and the ONLY THING OBAMA AND HIS GANG HAS FOR THE PUBLIC IS EXCUSES FOR NOT ACCOMPLISHMENTS - MORE NICELY DESIGNED SPEECHES - WORDS WITHOUT SUBSTANCE ,….AND YET there some still half-hypnoticed at pseudo-letragic trance ‘obamanized’ indivuals that may chant ; ” CHANGE!,…CHANGE!,….CHANGE!
Intersting dynamics,….you know,…with this ‘adventureland’ in front of our eyes , that alone is worth for living.
good day everyone
Daniel Cabrera
Merrillville,Indiana
April 16th, 2009 at 2:37 pm
Thank God we have people like 16 year old as we also have people like Kooks and Kevin who can’t seem to get past their kindergarten mud slinging at each other and their potty mouthed humor. And people wonder how the government control of radio and t.v. got so strong! I wonder what politician they work for while they try to distract us?
April 16th, 2009 at 2:46 pm
More proof of what the politicians think of us>>> I read on the people have spoken today that Pelosi, when asked about the tea parties answered that we think of them as astro turf. Do you get her drift? Think what happens at illegal demonstrations…..The police, whom I respect very much, are given the order to overrun them!
April 16th, 2009 at 3:02 pm
Dear Mr. Beck
I hear many people speaking of the causes of this problem, and the analysis of how and why. I haven’t heard of anyone speaking of a “cure”. I don’t wish to sound pompous, but I actually have a totally bi-partisan CURE to bring America back to realistic levels. This is NOT a personal thing where I am attempting to feather my own nest, as it were. I have done a small and informal calculation, and it seems like for $200 BILLION we could revive our entire economy by 2012. If you give me 10 minutes of your valuable time, I would share it with you..
Thank you
April 16th, 2009 at 4:14 pm
Barry karant,
Is it that you think we as a people can’t understand it? Or is it as in your disclaimer you ARE in fact trying to feather your nest? Ahh! could it be you just seek a bit of notoriety?
April 16th, 2009 at 4:19 pm
” I think Democrats need to be careful not to turn their backs on what could become a dangerous conflagration: a grassroots populist backlash fueled by the perception — one based on a lot of reality — that the Obama economic team is treating Wall Street with kid gloves, and acting as if the interests of the big banks are aligned with the public interest…Republicans might be able to turn into political gold in 2010 the only thing that could rescue them [GOP] from the Road to Irrelevance they are racing down” (Arianna Huffington)
Arianna thinks so, huh?
“May 3rd 1997: Tony Blair swept into Downing Street on a tidal wave of triumph yesterday, after the most crushing defeat of a government in living memory.”
There followed a period of huge popularity, during which Blair was practically viewed as a saint. Labour’s popularity swelled beyond all boundaries.
The Conservative Party dropped off of the popularity scale and became “the nasty party”. Derided, mocked and despised, they were written off as an irrelevance and a party in its death throes. Even they came to believe that they’re were finished.
Then in stepped fate, as it always does, to prove yet again, the truth of Socrates’ and Shakespeares’ claims that we are all “fortune’s fools”.
PM Blair and the Labour Party became arrogant, detached and divisive, just as all political Gods do, and their popularity plummeted accordingly, just as a rising star appeared in the firmament of the Conservative party: David Cameron, a young charismatic leader with a new vision of Conservatism. Cometh the moment, cometh the man. Cameron breathed an inspiring breath of fresh air into the Conservatives and knocked the stuffing out of Blair and Labour.
In 2007 Blair was forced to agree to resign and passed his ‘crown’ to Gordon Brown. After a brief honeymoon period, the popularity of tired old Brown and his worn out, divisive policies plummeted and Cameron beat him at every turn.
By 2009, with a General election looming anytime from now to 2010, the polls show that it is Labour and Gordon Brown who have become an irrelevance. Watch the fate of the Labour Party as if it was your own, Democrats: because it is.
Republicans, please forgive this stupid English idiot who knows little about your country or party for asking this: do you think you might need a new leader with fresh policies?
Can that be Palin? The problem is she is part of the old order and is perceived as such.
Alright, I apologise, I’ll go away and shut up….
April 16th, 2009 at 4:28 pm
16 year old, you make legitimate points, but don’t waste them on a fraud like kooks,he is about as conservative as Obama. He’s a liberal in goat’s clothing. The strongest conservative trait is to uphold the dignity of life,which he/she/it has no clue about. Only a lib would want to give in on abortion, gay marriage, amnesty, etc. He is a plant who’s purpose is to cause confusion among people who are on the fence about these issues. Real conservatives can spot an imposter like kooks through his elaborate but unconvincing ruse.
cordially
mouth it, kooks.
April 16th, 2009 at 5:06 pm
English rose,
Please feel free to chime in any time you feel the need. You bring very valuable points to the round table and they are appreciated. Gods speed!
April 16th, 2009 at 5:40 pm
hey glenn beck youre a fat faggot get aids
the tax day tea parties were a sham
your show sucks balls
April 16th, 2009 at 5:48 pm
Just made a visit to the MSN unscientific poll giving Obama a grade for performance. Now remember this is MSNBCspoll.
A…..28%
B…..6.1%
C…..5.7%
D…..15%
F…..45%
It still looks like the majority are not happy with the job he’s doing. Maybe it has to do with his record on keeping promises. According to the same site, He hasn’t been doing a good job of that either!
April 16th, 2009 at 5:53 pm
Reading such eloquent posts, exibit: aaron , which abound on this blog, attributed almost exclusively to liberals, surely qualifies yours truly for an honorary doctorate in scatalogical studies from one of the institutes of lower learning, such as Princeton, Yale, perhaps Columbia U., where Obama, excuse me, President Obama, was enrolled as a young aspiring Marxist.
April 16th, 2009 at 5:54 pm
HANG secessionists scum Says:
April 16th, 2009 at 1:42 pm
Hey, Joe Dirtpile, anyone who tries to split this country apart will get the same treatment my granddaddy gave to your grandmother, cuz.
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Well first of all my grandma wouldn’t have had anything to do with your grandfather if he was anywhere close to being as IGNORANT as you are sonny boy! I can see you are another idiot like the KOOKS Moron, so I will give you the same advice pea brain, ALTHOUGH I DOUBT THAT YOU CAN READ OR FOLLOW INSTRUCTIONS! … TRY AND COMPREHEND THE POSTS THAT ARE HERE FOR WHAT THEY SAY YOU MORON, AND THEN READ THE CONSTITUTION. NOT EVERY 3RD OR 4TH WORD, BUT EVERY WORD, AND QUIT TRYING TO STIR UP SCHIT YOU LITTLE WEASLEY PIMP ASS NEEDLE DIKK. YOU KNOW NOTHING ABOUT THE SCHIT THAT ROLLS OUTTA YOUR MOUTH!!
p.s. I truely hope that you are going to be in the first lynchin party that tries to hang the first Texan, or Montanan, or any citizen of any of the other 23 states that have the 10th amendment up for discussion & review right now! You are going to get a rude awakening when you find out that Americans stick together and defend each other, not like you and your weasely little pimple faced socialist groups who hide in your mommies basements, and cringe at the sound of thunder.
April 16th, 2009 at 5:57 pm
Thanks, Joe H. God speed and God bless!
April 16th, 2009 at 6:02 pm
antistatist is giant douchebag
~ Source: Politico.com
April 16th, 2009 at 6:04 pm
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=ea8_1239906825
Anyone else see the cnn hit piece on the tea parties..
Here is a good followup video, from the founding bloggers.
April 16th, 2009 at 6:05 pm
English Rose Says:
April 16th, 2009 at 4:19 pm
PM Blair and the Labour Party became arrogant, detached and divisive, just as all political Gods do..
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English Rose, This sounds like you are describeing the American president obama and his liberal socialist party in congress, especially the word “ARROGANT” It really fits him and Pelosi and Reid too..
April 16th, 2009 at 6:23 pm
English Rose knows her stuff. Too bad more people don’t have her knowledge. Big Ear Barry’s peeps would have you believe that their ideas are NEW and UNIQUE.
Only the uninformed that buy into his crap. Unfortunately, there are a LOT of uninformed voters. So sad. our founding fathers would be SOOOOOOOOOOOO upset.
And yes - in this era of “I’m offended” - who freakin’ cares if you’re offended. Go to work, get your paycheck, help your neighbor and maybe you wouldn’t have time to be OFFENDED.
You know offends me????????????????????? The fact that Big Ear Barry gave very LITTLE (duh) in way of charitable contributions. Yet - one of his measly contributions was to the NAACP. Well - you know what? Where the hell is the NAAWP? There is none.
Now there is some racism……..
April 16th, 2009 at 6:39 pm
Beachy,
I noticed early on in the O-mans campaign they said his step-brother was living in abstract squalor. Did you see anything on his report that said he contributed to him? Yet this man says it is the responsibility of all citizens to support their family and help when in need. Talk about crap?!?!?
April 16th, 2009 at 7:03 pm
Much was made of that. Because one of Barry’s speeches was about how “you do for your brother”, yet his brother was and is living in abject poverty.
Barry is a fraud. You and I understand that. We might not have agreed with GW on everything, but at least he kept our country under his heart. We were safe.
Heaven help us now.
April 16th, 2009 at 7:33 pm
aaron: I rest my case, after that pathetic reply, which proved my point, that you didn’t comprehend. Unless you have something to say that could be mistakenly be referred to as intelligent, stay off the blogs. This message also available in brail suppository form.
Cordially
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Joe H and beachy, Obama is rumored to have sent his beloved half-brother a Hut Sweet Hut sign for his luxurious accomidations, alas it was intercepted by those dastardly Merchant Marine Organizers, aka Somali Volunteer Coast Guard, aka Somali pirates.
April 16th, 2009 at 8:22 pm
Beachy,
That’s another of my pet peeves, the P/C police. They’re not terrorists they’re undesirable combatants! They’re not welfare queens and kings,they’re underprivledged…..For three generations! They’re not pirates they’re Somali Volunteer coast guard! I’ve got a better P/C name for the Somali pirates……Targets!!! I’m just saying the next thing will be a shovel being called a long handled hole digger for cripes sake!! This whole thing of not wanting to offend is pure bunk! Maybe if a family felt uncomfortable on welfare the Father or Mother would go out and get a j-o-b!! Maybe if we started treating these little third string countries the way they treat us and not be afraid to offend them when they just took our citizens hostage them it might not happen so much. Maybe if the police were able to arrest gangsters and not have them beat the cop back out the door we wouldn’t have so many and kids wouldn’t see them as heroes. Get my drift?
April 16th, 2009 at 8:56 pm
I just love the new terminology the Obama administration is contriving. The War on Terror is now the Overseas Contingency Operation, well isn’t that a tolerant elocution.
Let’s disect this phrase, shall we?
Oblivious Venusians(Obama and his gang may as well be from Venus) Encourage Recalcitrant Sadists(Achmadinejad of Iran) and Embolden Agressive Serpents(Kim Jung Il,N.Korea) Chamberlain(Neville,Obama) Observes Nincompoops(lib press and public) are Titillated by Illusions(Unilateral nuclear disarmament?) Nancy(Pelosi) Galvanizes the Erosion of National Confidence the Yenta. Obtuse(ideologically) Pacifists Entertain Revisiting Annihilation Through Imbecility Occurring in Neurotics
Translation: Obama has pledged to decrease military spending whlie dictators develop their nuclear arsenals. Giving cutsie sounding names to our military operations will only encourage maniacs like Mahmoud Achmadinejad of Iran, who has publicly stated that he desires the destruction of Israel, and Kim Jung Il of North Korea who ordered (ICBM)missle tests on the 4th of July. If you bare your throat to a jackyl, it will be torn out! Liberals refuse to acknowledge the fact that evil cannot be reasoned with, despite their good intentions.
April 16th, 2009 at 9:22 pm
Stu, I apoligize for posting pro liberal stuff on here, but I know my liberal socialist party is gnashing their teeth and fretting about the success of the tea parties yesterday, so I thought I would try and cheer them up a bit, with a “LIBERAL JOKE”
Three Californian surgeons were playing golf together and discussing surgeries they had performed. One of them said, “I’m the best surgeon in California. In my favorite case, a concert pianist lost several fingers in an accident, I reattached them, and 8 months later he performed a private concert for the Queen of England.”
The second surgeon said, “That’s nothing. A young man lost an arm and both legs in an accident, I reattached them and two years later he won a gold medal in track and field events at the Olympics.”
The third surgeon said, “You guys are amateurs. Several years ago a woman was high on cocaine and marijuana and she rode a horse head-on into a train traveling 80 miles an hour. All I had left to work with was the woman’s hair, and the horse’s ass. I was able to put them together and now she’s Speaker of the House.”
Well she IS a “LIBERAL JOKE” isn’t she? ha ha ha Maybe that’s why she didn’t even know there were any tea parties yesterday
April 16th, 2009 at 10:19 pm
The jokster (jokester?)
Sad to hear you are a lib because that was the best joke i have heard in a long time! out of curiosity, did you go to a tea party?
April 17th, 2009 at 12:08 am
I am not a Republican, I never agreed with most of their ideas. However I am not a “right wing radical”, I would never harm anyone. Why is it i go to a tea party to express mine and my families concerns on where our country is going and I am looked down on, laughed at, called stupid and wasting my time. We have over spent in our household and now are paying the price, we do not see the relief that was promised us. It’s only getting harder and we have full time jobs. Now I know our taxes are going to go up on everything and everyone at work is excited about getting $10 extra in their check. God has blesses us and I shouldn’t complain, however those in office are taking my God away to. I guess I should get stock in the pharmacy co, because more people are going to turn towards drugs to make it through.
April 17th, 2009 at 2:19 am
16 year old man: My preamble to the joke was a ruse to get the libs to read it, all the while thinking it was going to bash the conservatives, and then sticking the knife in them at the punchline LOL I am NOT a lib. I am farther to the right than Thomas Jefferson, James Madison etc.
Yes I went to the tea party in the home town where I was born. It was great being surounded but 1500 people who were all on the same page.
ps thanks for noteing my spelling in ( ) I have corrected it, LOL
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April 17th, 2009 at 12:08 am
I am not a Republican, I never agreed with most of their ideas. However I am not a “right wing radical”, I would never harm anyone.
catllers: Why do you think right wing radicals would harm anyone? Are you thinking of the leftest liberal radicals like obamas friend Bill Ayers bombing police stations,, or Rev wright, or the “unibomber” or the “Elf Liberals who bombed all the forrest service places.
Who has laughed at you for attending a tea party? Nancy “propaganda Piglosi”, nobama, “heil harry” reid? Who gives a schit what those fools say about the tea parties.
April 17th, 2009 at 5:05 am
Hi Glen. This is my first time of posting to this blog and it won’t be the last. I hope you’re able to read this or someone passes this on to you or brings your attention to it.
Glen, I know that with your involvement in the Tea Parties it was your hope that you would help the rest of us participate in them to the greatest benefit possible. Because of the comments we’ve all heard by other media outlets, and, in fact comments from individuals who are supposed to be mature enough to serve as our government, you might feel like your efforts have been for nothing. Glen, please know you have and are helping all of us through this nightmare and I want to thank you so much. Please let us help keep your chin up when you’re feeling just as down and depressed as we are. We’re here for you and appreciate you more then you will ever know. Please know that and feel lifted up by that. Don’t let the fact that others are trying to destroy what has been accomplished so far destroy all of that. Truth is, they can’t.
I never thought I’d see the day that we’d actually have a government in place whose members would put their own personal feelings ahead of this great country and it’s people. Unfortunately they’ve shown that they are all too willing to do that. They have no reason to feel all that powerful in their positions because over half of us in this country are completely against what they are doing to this country. They feel like they’re all powerful now, no one can touch them, and they can do as they want. Well, there are over half of us in this great country of ours who are going to tell them they can’t. They would do well in realizing that we aren’t done with them and the Tea Parties of the other day is only a start of what is coming. I don’t know where this trip is taking us to, but, I personally, am willing to go on the trip anyway. Just like the actions being taken by this current administration has been unprecedented, so too will be the answer to those actions.
Anyone who thinks some in our government wouldn’t go to all extremes to satisfy their agenda for having all the power need only ask this country’s Native Americans what extremes they’re willing to go to. Think back on the experiences of Native Americans and you will realize how far power-hungry individuals are willing to go.
Let me say thank you also to those who participated in the Tea Parties on Tax Day. I am so completely proud and thankful for all of those who attended. We shall meet again.
April 17th, 2009 at 5:24 am
The Tea Parties are just a sampling of the discontent that exists in the United States. The people who participated are the ones who could show up at the demonstrations, there are many, many more who due to circumstances, distances, employment, personal, etc. could not attend, and these people are probably in the millions. To call them names will produce further problems for the power elite. THAT WILL BE REMEMBERED AT ELECTION TIME.
April 17th, 2009 at 6:11 am
Damn the ACLU and all their probing into places they don’t belong! Now they are demanding all the records on interrogations of the Gitmo detainees. They are going to try to hand someone their head for doing their job. And Barry played right into their hands and gave the reports that are considered top secret to them. I would feel safer if the boy scouts were running the show!!! It’s supposed to be the AMERICAN civil liberties union. These detainees are not AMERICAN!!!!
April 17th, 2009 at 7:23 am
To Glenn Beck, who says states have a right to secede from the Union: You are a traitor, a swine and a man who should be tried for treason.
April 17th, 2009 at 8:12 am
Joe H u are the idiot that will go to a fight with a liberal talkn idea’s while he is bashing yer head in. Get real.
April 17th, 2009 at 8:13 am
Obama and the rest of the liberals love people like you who do nothing but talk.
April 17th, 2009 at 8:24 am
Hi, I want to warn any other kid here about this poster above me named “kevin”. He sent me a link to his myspace, and when I went there, he had all these naked pictures of little boys and stuff, and he keep IM me about how horny little boys made him get. Stay away from him, he keeps talking about his weiner and stuff and asking you if you will meet him and if there are any good places for him to hide at my playground.
April 17th, 2009 at 8:39 am
Go dunk your head Daniel!
April 17th, 2009 at 8:49 am
Daniel,
you tried to harrass me once before. keep it up and I’ll start hunting you…..And I have the resources to do it!
April 17th, 2009 at 9:10 am
Give it to me, baby.
April 17th, 2009 at 9:12 am
Hey Joe, my name ain’t Daniel, you stupid a$$ wipe. Come hunt me anytime, you cunnt, I will rip your fukkin head off and $hit down your throat.
April 17th, 2009 at 10:11 am
Joe H = “Joe Head” ——-> Keith Olbermann
April 17th, 2009 at 10:13 am
MSNBC sucks big time
April 17th, 2009 at 10:30 am
Hey Daniel,
Bigger people have tried and failed dude than you.
April 17th, 2009 at 10:32 am
OBAMA’S POLITICAL POPULARITY IS FADING
The reason is obvious. is the ‘HISTORICAL FACTOR’ ….evidently and very correctly Pres Obama is one for the books of history, that NEVER CAN BE DENIED. The dynamics brake with the ‘traditionalism’ that characterize the small or virtually no oportunity to minority groups to adquire higer plateau in the scio-multispectrum.
So, with that said is honorable in extreme for this to happen ;….however - BIG HOWEVER - that DOES NOT set basis THE ACEPTANCE TO the poor performance on which this administration, - where he is jus but ‘THE FRONT-MAN’ , a front-face , a messenger, a symbol - on which this CORRUPTED ADMINISTRATION IS TAKING OUR COUNTRY TO.
The destrucion of our nation is quite clear ahead if we tolerate this further more,…BUT AMERICA IS AWAKE NOW AND WE ARE GOING TO REVERSE THIS ASSAULT.
Obama is not going to accomplish ABSOLUTELLY NOTHNING WITH IRAN. or ANY OTHER NATION FOR THAT MATTER; Eventually - AND SOON ! Israel will have to pre-emtp attack to IRAN atomic facilities, and OBAMA AND HIS GANG WILL DO NOTHING TO HELP BUT WILL REPUDIATE ISRAEL ACTIONS - JUST WATCH !
However here in american soil Obama will have another successful shot at the masses for he still have some pulll because his personal popularity - just that.
And so all comes clear;
WHY IT SEEMS THAT OBAMA AND HIS GANG ARE GETING AWAY WITH EVERYTHING THEY WANT?
Because Obama is a ‘history-mark’, that leads the populache to let go EVERYTHING AND ANYTHING on his behalf.Although his symbolism is important, that is not reason much less excuse, to allow HIM AND HIS GANG TO DESTROY OUR COUNTRY.
The public is not blind, but is fooling themselves (SOME OF THEM) pathetically and so our nation is at RISK!
The historical event, of to have a minority-generated president, is already ‘in the books’ but, the PRODUCT OF THAT EVENT - (Obama,…more specific, OBAMA AND HIS GANG OF INEPTS) are with an agenda of NATIONAL DESTRUCTION. The ANTI-CONSTITUTIONALISM IS CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER TO OUR COUNTRY - AND SO, THIS FIRST ‘HISTORICAL ATTEMPT’ IS JUST NOT WORKING AT ALL ON BEHALF OF OUR COUNTRY….WE ARE LOOSING THE NATION TO THIS ‘HISTORICAL PRODUCT’
On that the public is WAKE! already,… AND IS NOW, WELL AWARE OF THE DYNAMICS.
WE,THE PEOPLE, we have the responsablity of to REMOVE AND REPLACE THE PRESENT CORRUPTED ADMINSTRATION with better leaders,… individuals of GOOD CHARACTER, HONESTY, AND INTEGRITY.
OBAMA AND HIS GANG BROUGHT TO US, DECEPTION !
good day everyone,
Daniel Cabrera
Merrillville, indiana
April 17th, 2009 at 10:34 am
Next tea party is Alan Keyes million man march on washington!!!
April 17th, 2009 at 11:24 am
Great, just what we need, a Birther Kook leading a march. Maybe Glen can go there to and have a good cry about FEMA Camps.
April 17th, 2009 at 11:26 am
Hey Joe, you still want to suk my crank?
April 17th, 2009 at 11:31 am
Joe H, don’t dignify these cowards with a response.
April 17th, 2009 at 11:47 am
And you guys think this nut is something special?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMSUD9v7_4E
April 17th, 2009 at 11:49 am
Kooks and Daniel Y are u here, why don’t ya’ll go to Keith Olbermann’s site and bend over? OR would u rather have Rachel Madcow with a strap on?
April 17th, 2009 at 12:04 pm
WHY doesn’t anyone look at California vs what OBAMA wants to do. California spends more money on social programs than any other state, California has low cost or free college education for residents and illegal immigrants. ( education is a stimulus) and California has more illegals than most states ( illegals are good for the economy). If all in Obamas plan is right then California should be the most prosperous state NOT GOING BANKRUPT.
If America follows Ca. lead we will be bankrupt also.
WHATS WRONG WITH THE MEDIA RECOGNIZING THIS
April 17th, 2009 at 12:48 pm
I can understand why Texas has threatened to secede from the Union if the Democrats continue threatening the great American Constitution.
Millions of us in England would like to secede from the Union of the United Kingdom too. Why? Because despite being the largest country in the Union with a population of 50 million - that’s 84% of the people in the British Isles - the people of England are treated as second class citizens.
I love the Scots, my daughter is part Scots and Scotland is a stunning country - almost as stunning as England(!). It’s hard, however, not to agree with those here who say that England is ruled by a Scots Mafia against the interests of England. Our Scots Prime minister Brown and his Scots predecessor, Blair, have packed the British government with Scots over the years, and refused to allow England the Parliament like the ones they so enthusiastically gave to Scotland, Ireland and Wales - countries which together comprise around 6% of the Union. To compound this undemocratic insult to the English, Gordon Brown forces England to subsidise the parliaments of the rest of the Union.
And to add outrage to insult, Brown gives Scotland 50% more funding for healthcare while it uses its unelected quango, the horrible N.I.C.E, to ration healthcare to England. English cancer sufferers have died for want of life prolonging treatment which is routinely provided in Scotland. Who pays for this extra funding? You’ve guessed it, mostly the people of England.
These are just a few of the reasons why many of us in England want our own parliament and home rule. And that’s one of many reasons why I can understand all too well how so angry so many Americans feel about your own government riding rough shod over you and your democracy.
Good luck to Americans in your fight for your Constitution, keep on fighting and don’t ever give up!
April 17th, 2009 at 1:04 pm
It’s not only many English people who would like independence from the Union either.
Many in Scotland, the country of youtube singing sensation, Susan Boyle, also want independence.
I’ve been reading articles about Susan on some of the Democrat sites this evening, some Democrats appear to see Susan as almost a rallying point for their cause of uniting with the EU.
Won’t they be in for a surprise if Susan turns out to be a Scots Nationalist who wants to secede from the Union with Britain and Ireland. Many Scots are as vehemently opposed to being ungulfed by the EU as the majority of us (around 70 to 80% of us) in England are too
April 17th, 2009 at 1:07 pm
Hey, JOE H is a fukkin pu$$y, u sure have alot of homo talk. Makes me wonder if u lefties are disengenous about your homosexual friends on the left, when u come in here and ridicule others with their traits.
April 17th, 2009 at 1:08 pm
LOL, It’s so much fun when “the kooks fool” and commie daniel( probably the same fool) comes here and shows us how intelligent he is with all the “name hijacking” and other ignorant, and idiotic childish games he plays! Well fear not REAL AMERICANS, if this is the best, or the worst, the liberals have got, then we will have much success in 2010!!
April 17th, 2009 at 1:17 pm
Arrest and Execute Traitors Says:
April 17th, 2009 at 7:23 am
To Glenn Beck, who says states have a right to secede from the Union: You are a traitor, a swine and a man who should be tried for treason.
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BETTER START WITH CHRIS DODD, NOBAMA, “PROPAGANDA” PELOSI, “HEIL HARRY” REID, BAWNEY FWANK<— (YOUR LOVER), CHUCK U SCHUMER, AND KENNEDY AND THE REST OF THEM TRAITORS FIRST YOU IGNORANT MORON!! THEY HAVE DONE MORE THAN ANY OTHER SWINE AS FAR AS TRAITOROUS ACTIONS TOWARDS THIS COUNTRY!!
p.s. HEY, you ignorant moron, try reading the tenth amendment to the constitution. Does your mommy carry your testicals around in her purse????
April 17th, 2009 at 1:25 pm
Hey if Daniel can hijack our names. we can do the same.
April 17th, 2009 at 1:26 pm
Liberals like myself are RETARDED!!! I also like peepee.
April 17th, 2009 at 1:27 pm
PeePee’s grande like my master and lover Bwaney Fwank!!!!
April 17th, 2009 at 1:32 pm
2010 will be a ray of sunshine. I wonder if even a single dem gets elected other than the dem running against Arlene Specter.
April 17th, 2009 at 1:38 pm
I used to let our dog lick my testicles before my mommy took them away from me and started carrying them around in her purse. She has my daddys testicles in her purse too. That is why I am so confused about my sexual identity. I think I really want to be a girl…
April 17th, 2009 at 1:40 pm
Antistatist,
The thing that’s so stupid about both of them is I’ve voted Republican ALL my voting life,I started in 68′. The thing that worries them is I’m right and they know it. They are so worried that we will get together and get rid of their welfare and foodstamps that they are trying to piss off everyone here. The little crappers hide behind the anonymity of a web site and a fake name and try to scare me. I’m not scared I just feel sorry for them and their parents.
April 17th, 2009 at 1:41 pm
My father fought his way through the Pacific Islands all the way to Japan, as did my two uncles in the euro-theatre. They did’nt cry and wine about it they just did it for the country they loved. My uncles have passed, but my father is alive and well. I asked him about what his thoughts were on these tea protesters, and he told me they would get over it, and it will all be forgotten soon and he said that nothing has changed since the war except that there are more morons around. Its easy to critisize, and complain. They should all try to do some real work with there hands and build something. Everyone, please just shut up and do something that really means something. Not putting fear into others. Glenn Beck is a whiny baby that reminds me of that kid in the supermarket who throws a tantrum cause his mommy won’t let him have his candy.
April 17th, 2009 at 1:46 pm
Jimmy sneakers, you are my hero. You are ignorant just like me. Too bad your dad and your uncles honor and character didn’t rub off on you. Maybe you could have been more like them and not so much like the ignorant moron that I am.
April 17th, 2009 at 1:52 pm
jimmy, I guess the apple falls far from the tree then!! Tell ur dad that we are trying to restore a nation back to its original principles and not to some European socialist country.
April 17th, 2009 at 1:55 pm
LOL
April 17th, 2009 at 1:55 pm
I like this Daniel much better.
April 17th, 2009 at 1:59 pm
Hey Jimmy, u cum here and call us morons and make fun of Beck and his mommy and then tell us u asked ur DADDY his thoughts? Cum on dude, get a life, we are not going to ur liberal web sites and pickn at u, afford us the same.
April 17th, 2009 at 2:37 pm
Joe H: Right on brother! What these juveniles don’t realize is that they could learn alot from a man of your life experience. Do you remember the debate between William F. Buckley Jr. and Gore Vidal from ‘68? I saw it on youtube and was floored by it!
April 17th, 2009 at 2:59 pm
Hello Glen, Intro: silent majority has stayed silent too long. The politicians know that the more money thy take from the s. m. we just have to work harder and thus have less time to monitor their sneaky behavior. NOTE: that is what is going on with the health care “reform” right now. Education is not a subject that comes up directly when discussing economy or stimulus package. Please examine the sinario of requiring the gov’t guarantee a high school education to every American child. the thoughts I have had on this topic are: young men and women could have alternative tracks to graduation from the standard classroom (such as vocational school, civil service, etc). The now 18 y.o. plus young adult will be more mature when they enter the work force, have better decision making skills,greater options for employment in the long run.A positive side effect of this less dependents on social services which today is common among h.s. dropouts who now can only get minimum wage employment.The gov’t pays $ up front but, minimizes a lifetime of dependents on welfare(do we opt to plug the hole in the dike or just keep filling buckets which is what we are doing now. More teachers/educators will be needed in the work force which means more secure higher paying employment. Put the stimulus toward incentives for teachers and trade educators. BESIDES it seems absurd to me that in America that not all Americans have a high school education. We are still in the dark ages!It is en embarrassment that our country doesn’t educate its citizens.
April 17th, 2009 at 3:38 pm
TEA PARTY EVENTS
A lady CNN reporter cut a citizen expression during a ’split-micro-interview’ during the TEA PARTY EVENT on APRIL 15. The reporter said that the reason(purpose) for this TEA PARTY MANIFESTATION is directed to anti-goverment vectors (agains Obama and his administration ) and that this TEA PATRY EVENT is/was ‘fueled’ by the ‘right-wing FOX NEWS AGENCY…’
Truth?,….THE TEA PARTY EVENT IS NOT AND WAS NOT FUELED BY FOX NEWS AGENCY…..not at all,….is/was/and is going to continue done by ‘WE,THE PEOPLE’ who are sick, and tired, fed-up, up to eyeballs, or - anyway the idea might fit - about the ways this current administration is conducting movements. And YES ! by all means is against OBAMA AND HIS GANG CORRUPTED ANTI-AMERICAN / ANTI-CONSTITUTIONAL PRACTICES FOR THY ARE ACTIN AS ENEMIES OF THE STATE !
To have it very , VERY VERY CLEAR ! , FOX NEWS AGENCY DID REPORT ! ABOUT THIS EVENT, AS THE PUBLIC RAISED THEIR VOICES . The tv tabloids CNN, MSNBC, NBC and the rest of the pseudo-journalistic group did attemp to ignore this,. but WAS TOO MUCH FOR THEM TO IGNORE ,…and the only course of action was to launch attacks - anyway they can, to the voice of the american people.
What definitelly bothers them - AT MONUMENTAL SCALE - ( the tv tabloids as well as THE OBAMA GANG CORRUPTED ADMINISTRATION ) is the fact that a great number of the people involved are DEMOCRATS! AND THAT ALL WAS CONDUCTED IN AMERICAN WAY WITHOUT DESTRUCTION OF PROPERTY, MUCH LESS NOBODYGOT HURT! - quite different from the recent demonstration in ENGLAND where many things went sadly bad.
AMERICA IS AWAKE NOW !
NEXT STEP , - THE REMOVAL AND REPALECEMT OF THE ENEMIES OF THE STATE.
good day everyone,
Daniel Cabrera
Merrillville, Indiana
April 17th, 2009 at 6:24 pm
Glenn, The problem with the “Stimulus Plan” that chaps my ass is this… Out of the 14 + Trillion dollar debt that us taxpayers are expected to pay back, WE aren’t getting our share. Instead of bailing out these banks and huge automotive companies, ( the government doesn’t bail the people out when we mis-manage funds and can’t pay our bills…) give every LEGAL AMERICAN CITIZEN $50,000.00 per person- - -We could all pay off our cars, mortgages would be caught up, and guess what? THE BANKS ARE GETTING THEIR MONEY BACK!!! AND… there would be plenty left over in every American’s pocket to spend and re-Stimulate our economy!!!! WOW!!! Does that make too much sense? It’s not rocket science. The Government is only worried about the top 10% and there is no if, and, or buts. As far as the states “Getting Their Share” of the package… let the people… the American people decide how it’s spent, not the politicians who promoted the problems in the first place. I am almost ashamed to call myself American because of the crooked politics, socialism, or whatever is the “Politically Correct Terminology” nowadays. I am a born and bred American, I own guns, I believe in God, I love my country… but sadly, I fear my Government. I guess I’m now considered an “enemy of the state”. So be it, but I will die free.
April 17th, 2009 at 6:34 pm
OH YES, one more thing, I am a victim of the economy like so many others. I have a wife and two children. A house, two cars which are still being paid for, two dogs and a cat… I’ve been layed off since January, the company I’ve been at for years is gone belly up. I still have yet to find another job because of “Hiring Freezes”. Any political leaders who feel morally fit to really help the American people out here, how about a stimulus to help us individually in these troubled times? I only have 26,000. left owed to pay off my cars, I’m only 2500. behind on rent, my tax-paying dollars have helped to pay your high salaries and free benefits and eye-opening retirement pensions for years… can you return the favour? Or will you “Bite the Hands” that helped to feed ya?
April 17th, 2009 at 6:42 pm
I just wanted you to know I have been getting your e-mails since you had Josh Rosenberg on last fall. I really appreciate you and your stand on the issues. I would like to recommend a book by Gary Kah “En route to global Occupation” I think you would really appreciate it, although you may have already read it. Also, Hal Lindsay on his program tonight onTBN had some terrific explanation of the Council on Foreigh Relations, the Trilateral Commission, and the Federal Reserve Bank. You may be aware of these things already, but I thought I would mention them. Also, I pray for you and your family each night for your safety. May God bless you as you bring the truth to us (US).
April 17th, 2009 at 8:34 pm
Whoa, yes, Obama only had 200 days in Congress. All the rest of his history was in Chicago. That tell you anything?
April 17th, 2009 at 8:39 pm
The thing is Obama was voted by idiots so what do you expect. He will just be like those idiots Hugo Chavez, Castro, dictators and people that voted for him thinks Obama is cool because he shakes the hands of those dictators. Meanwhile, he will sink this country to the buttom. He is elected President for all the wrong reasons. I don’t know when people will realize that they voted for a traitor.
April 17th, 2009 at 11:31 pm
Where’s Ricky Nelson when we need him to write a ‘I went to a Tea Party’ song?
April 17th, 2009 at 11:38 pm
AP “New pollution limits seen for cars, big plants” The BIG RAPE has begun.
April 18th, 2009 at 1:08 am
STU: PLEASE EDIT THIS COMMENT: IT IS FOR GLENN BECK’S EYES AND HEART ONLY!!!!!
Dear Glenn, I have a genuine concern. We understand you are an admitted alcoholic. We are concerned about Traditions Breaks you may be doing. If you are sincerely a member of A.A., you will want to take a look at this. Tradition Eleven states “Our public relations policy is based on attraction rather than promotion; we need always maintain personal anonymity at the level of press, radio and films. Read the entire Twelve Traditions in teh book Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions of Alcoholics Anonymous. The Twelve Tradtions read like a fascinating history of the origination of our fellowship. Considered by many to be one of the miracles of this century, the founding of A.A. From the pamphlet “Traditions Illustrated.” A.A. Approved literature. How to Be Anonymous on Television.
Information about A.A. is being offered to the public through all the communicationss media, in print and over the air. On radio, it’s easy to guard the member’s anonymity, of course. But TV (not in wide use when the Traditions were written) is another matter. According to a Conference opinion, members are breaking their anonymity when they are identified on TV as A.A.’s and their are given. And yet this medium, with its vast audiences, cannot be ignored.
Different techniques have been employed to preserve anonymity on TV: masks; screens; back-lighting that shows A.A.’s only as silhouettes; camera anggles showing them only from the back. The “shadow” method diagrammed in the pamphlet is simple, relaxed-and appropriate. For we are not selling personalities-we are explaining A.A. Personal anonymity breaks in the public media not only may discourage timid prospects; they may threaten the anonymity-breaker’s own sobriety, by violating the spirit of the A.A. program and the Traditions. The Twelfth Traditions states: Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our Traditions, ever remidning us to place principles before personalities. Let us always remember that anonymity-not taking credit for our own or others’ recovery-is humility at work. Anonymity: Sacrificing personal ambition for the common good. “Our Traditions are a guide to better ways of working and living,” co-founder Bill W. said. “And they are to group survival waht A.A’s Twelve Steps are to each member’s sobriety and peace of mind….Most individuals cannot recover uless there is a group. The group must survive or the individual will not…..The Twelve Traditions are a distillation of A.A. experience. I have taken some of the workding from the aforementioned pamphlet.
It is my responsibillity “When anyone anywhere reaches out for the hand of A.A. I want the hand of A.A. to be there, and for that, I AM ESPONSI
BLE. We place principles before personalities. No room for EGO here. EGO-Easing God Out. We start playing God. How arrogant of us to think we can play God. We love you and hold you dear to our precepts. Please take good care of the program that is saving the lives of many who could not find a way out. Please take this email to heart. Please find a member in good standing in A.A. and have a discussion concerning this issue. True humility is sacrificing not using our last name, total deflation of the ego, so other’s can get to A.A. and stay there. One Day At A Time. Please remember it has never been about us. It has always been about God. It is my responsibility to ask you to take a look at breaking this Tradition. We want A.A. to be here for years to come for those who may need it. P.S. There are no strangers in A.A., only friends we haven’t met yet. By remaining anonymous you carry the most powerful message for all of us. I sense you must practice and live deep humility in your alone times with your Creator. A life beyond your wildest dreams. Please remember we cannot outgive God.
Thank you for being of service to God and the people around you and a fantastic channel for God, to use you to carry a life-saving message as He sees fit.
Sincerely,
Rosa Phillips
Oregon City, Oregon
April 18th, 2009 at 1:19 am
You can’t have Gov Perry. He belongs to us normal folks in Texas. God Bless him and his common sense. Fight for legal immigration. The same process my parents had to go through.
April 18th, 2009 at 1:22 am
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., also endorsed Obama’s call for a summit meeting to begin controlling spending on huge government benefit programs such as Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. She said even benefit cuts should be included as an option for discussion. “You put everything on the table. The only thing we didn’t want to put on the table is eliminating” the programs, she added.
Instead of stealing from social security and other programs, as Nancy Pelosi suggests above, why don’t politicians vote to get paid one dollar for the next year like some of the CEOs across the country? That would show Americans how committed they are to helping the economy. After all they are the ones that ran the economy in the ground.
April 18th, 2009 at 6:58 am
Texas Forever,
Why not let us have him? Whats good for Texas should be good for the nation. At least your state isn’t bankrupt both monetarily and morally! Don’t you love your nation?
April 18th, 2009 at 7:54 am
I am firmly convinced that the actions taken by the Federal government amount to nothing less than high treason.
We never gave our power to the government in order that they could spend our monies, place us further into debt, and pay off those outside of our nation, nor did we allow them the national parks, outside of the ten square miles granted under the constitution, so they could mortgage them. Our resources are our own, our bank accounts are our own, they are our property. We have neither right nor power to allow others to abrogate the human rights which were recognized before the foundation of the constitution, nor do we have the power to deny the rights of others via vote. The federalist papers were quite clear on the subject. Federalist 51 The government was not given the military power to subjugate the people. Federalist 26. Attainder, federalist 44, paper money, 44, ex post facto, 44.
All laws outside of the very specific powers they were granted were null and void. Expansion of those powers outside of amendment is null and void. Expansion into prohibited powers destroys the very foundation of the government itself, and those powers are also null, and void, and no police agent may legally enforce them, no judge may legally try them, and no jury may legally hear them.
April 18th, 2009 at 8:55 am
Tried by…,
This government presently in will take all the liberties they want. They have no love for their country and have proven it by their voting record from the pres. on down!!
April 18th, 2009 at 9:16 am
Get over it all.
North America is done as dinner.
Obama is just another small anti-christ doing the bidding of the rulers of this world.
The Old testiment ( the Jewish Torah ) declares that all this will happen. A powerfull world order will rise with 10 kings. Then 1 leader THE anti christ will rise and devour the whole world as his. (Book of Daniel )
Fight for the gospel of Jesus….. Inform friends and family not to trust and world leaders. …
DO NOT look for sane thinking…. expect insane moves to shove everyone down the path of destruction, a path with a lovely “isn’t this a great CHANGE that we can BELIEVE in” sign
IT IS NOT POLITICS…..IT IS THE WORD OF GOD BRINGING JUDGMENT ON A WORLD THAT REJECTS HIM,,,,,,,,,KILLS BABIES………IS PROUD OF HOMOSEXUALITY……..LOVES EUTHENASIA………….IDOLIZES VIOLENCE……..FOLLOWS OPRAH AND THE NEW AGE DEMONS
All this was written 2500 years ago…..Just read the book…….God said it, therefore it will happen…………Get right with Jesus………REPENT AND BELIEVE AND DO WHAT IS GOOD AND LOVELY AND RIGHTEOUS
For real information listen to Brannon Howse @ christian worldview network.
Peace and Love to all the Brethern in Jesus Christ.
April 18th, 2009 at 9:39 am
Dawn D.
I’ll give up when I breathe my last breath. I will never give up on my country no matter how far down she goes. I was born raised and lived an American and will never just get over it. Oh, by the way,I don’t think the bible nor the torah says anything about Oprah! Just remember, the Bible says an awful lot about false prophets and you could be one.
April 18th, 2009 at 10:09 am
Someone asked for some Tea Party lyrics for Rick Nelson’s ‘Garden Party’, so with apologies to the great Rick Nelson:
We went to a Tea Party
Republicans and Dems
Just to tell our President
He’d better think again
People came from miles around
Everyone was there
We came to ask our President
To show us that he cares
Over in the corner
Much to our surprise
Dems were hugging GOPs
And roasting French Fries!
But it’s alright now
Barrack you’ll learn your lesson well
Tax without Representation
And we’ll ring the Liberty Bell!
We went to a Tea Party
Just to tell Barrack O’
If he sells out our democracy
Then he’s gotta go
But it’s alright now
Barrack you’ll learn your lesson well
If you debt stimulate our economy
Then we’re better off in hell
Our President wants America
In the corrupt EU
So we’ve come to tell Barrack O
That aint the thing to do
Over in the White House
Rich as rich can be
Barrack wants a huge debt stimulus
But we’re telling him you see:
That it’s alright now
Barrack you’ll learn your lesson well
Tax without Representation
And we’ll all secede to hell!
April 18th, 2009 at 11:09 am
When everybody is saying that the housing is the mbig problem with the economy well what started the down trend.
1) The gas price went up to much and then the start of the credit card being used to pay for the gas, then the banks and credit card company raised the rates and off we went.
Can’t pay the high rate which the credit card and banks charged and pay the house payment.
Not one person will say anything about it and place the blame on the oil companies.
Now that we are going into summer the price of gas wil be going up as it happens every year.
Guess what were not allowed to drill for oil. It’s the green thing to do don’t you know.
Now that the banks are in have a problem, they raise there rates using the tax payers money and saying it was due to the housing market and bad loans.
When are we going to start telling congress to tell the truth.
April 18th, 2009 at 11:45 am
Glenn,
How is it we can’t afford School Vouchers for needy kids but we can afford HOW MUCH MONEY for tatoo removal?????
April 18th, 2009 at 12:00 pm
How Ronald Reagan Destroyed America!
1. Reduce the growth of government spending
2. Reduce income and capital gains marginal tax rates
3. Reduce government regulation of the economy
4. Control the money supply to reduce inflation
Every one of these policies propelled us into the Second Great Depression we are currently in right now.
Thank God for Barak Obama!
April 18th, 2009 at 12:39 pm
God Daniel, Get a frickin clue would ya? Those are just the exact things that made this country prosper during the Reagan years!! Clintons policies of running over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are what started the housing crisis. If you so thouroughly enjoy hearing yourself blah blah blah, why don’t you buy a tape recorder, then you can listen to yourself ALL DAY LONG and you won’t have to bother us with your drivel……
April 18th, 2009 at 12:50 pm
Are you in any of these pictures?
April 18th, 2009 at 1:13 pm
D&O,
Those “prosperous” Reagan years have been proven nothing more than an illusion. All that wealth and prosperity was a lie. This second Great Depression is undeniable proof of that.
April 18th, 2009 at 1:26 pm
D&O,
It was Your Evil Republican foot-soldier Senator Phil Gramm, working in concert with his Big Banker Masters, that sleazed his CDO deregulation bill into President Bill Clintons budget. This mess was CAUSED by Reagans incompetent Economic policies and pushed over the cliff by the Big Bankers puppet Phil Gramm.
You Republicans created this mess and just like in the last Great Depression, this Great Depression has to be cleaned up by a smart Democrat.
You Republicans have nothing to contribute to America. You cling to your guns and religion. Your false gods and your false morals. You hypocrites, abominations of god.
April 18th, 2009 at 1:28 pm
Don’t waste your time clicking on Alices pictures, aka daniel the commies’ pictures! It is a liberal, socialist blog that is just a lot of complaining about how us hicks couldn’t spall duh words rite on oar tea partee sihns, lol
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Sorry you didn’t make any money during Reagans presidency daniel. You do know that you have to have had a job to make that money don’t you?? You do know that…right? You will never get far ahead with just those welfare checks… especially if you are a 2nd or 3rd generation reciepient
April 18th, 2009 at 1:34 pm
I am no longer an abomination of god, my prez said that I am a “right wing extremist” because I went to a tea party, and Janeene Garafallo says I am a racist because I am tired of paying high taxes, so I will go with what they say commie daniel, not you….
April 18th, 2009 at 1:39 pm
The collective democrat Obama administration Volunteered the Interrogation memos this week as an attempt to show what the administration calls ‘transparency’. Others argue the release of the memos (which all CIA directors rejected to it’s release) was a partisan or politically motivated and it served Only to embarrass or humiliate the previous Bush administration. Regardless of one’s opinion , the release of the memos fueled outrage and anti-USA emotions throughout the world. The arguement of ‘tranparency’ or ‘moral authority’ is Not convincing because the democrat Obama administration Not only volunteered the memos for public display , But (apparently) planned on doing it sooner regardless of any demand for the memos to be released or not.
April 18th, 2009 at 1:52 pm
Here in UK we’ve had stimulus upon stimulus in one form or another for the past decade.
And the result of this fiscal profligacy? Our biggest drop in output since 1945 will be announced next week. A huge economic contraction of 3%. Our public finances are consequently under huge strain.
What is our fiscal genius of a government’s response to that? Increase the taxpayer’s, already huge, debt burden. Throw more good money after bad by increasing public spending by more than 1.1% in the 2011-2014 period.
In a deep recession when the only rational response of every rational person is stringent cutbacks on all waste, PM Brown is behaving like a compulsive gambler, one obsessed with the belief that the next stimulus frittered away will produce the jackpot.
That’s the first count on which PM Brown’s deluding himself. The second is that any fool can see that he won’t be in a position to dictate anything to anyone after this year. He will be sacked by 2010.
April 18th, 2009 at 2:10 pm
Democrat George Tenet served as CIA Director from 1995-2004 and Democrat Eric Holder served as assistant attorney general to 2001. These two Democrats should (ALSO) be Investigated because they advised on these interrogation methods (and some methods that Bush used they came up with) if the New democrat administration wants Real ‘transparency’ then these two Democrats will be investigated on the alleged ‘torture’ memos..
April 18th, 2009 at 2:22 pm
Democrat Obama meets with Hugo Chavez and Loses more ‘Moral Authority’ in the world.
Hugo Chavez brief background: Hugo Chavez has aided terrorists like Al Qaida or Drug DealersIn 12/2006 Hugo Chavez stated that the ‘Jews own all the world’s wealth’, In 2007 Chavez stated that Catholics are ‘Liars and Perverts’ when catholics leaders did not agree with his plans, Chavez has laws against people who disagree with him politically and is Jailing or eliminating them , Chavez claims he owns countries around (like colombia), Chavez changed the flag and time zone, has a violent & oppressive police force (now),constantly increasing his military, considered South America’s first Fascist, claims thier will be a never ending war with the USA, and the list goes on and on.
April 18th, 2009 at 4:47 pm
Leave it to Danny Boy to believe his stupid,ignorant rants! Actually he should go to Daily Kos where he would be treated like a hero!!!! Oh, wait,He already got kicked off there as even the democrats thought he was crazy!!!!
April 18th, 2009 at 5:13 pm
IF WE TALK ABOUT IT, WE SHOULD HAVE THE GUTS TO GO FOR IT!
There are somes that want to see Bush, Cheney, and others go to jail.
OK HERE IS THE DEAL
If to think that Pres Bush, Cheney, and the rest are GUILTY (and therefor should be CONDEMN) for torturing in order to protect our country through all these years after 9-11 EVENT ? So , I say let’s go for it,…no problem.Bottom line ; ACUSE THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION AS WAR CRIMINALS.
I propose; to gather ALL INFORMATION regarding ALL activities that Bush’s administration did to keep our country safe , to find any thing that could possibly be found to ACUSE, PROSECUTE, CONVICT AND ULTIMATELY SENTENCE , all of them.
At the same time, find ALL information, in regards of ALL practices of UNCONSTITUTIONAL CHARACTER that the present CORRUPTED ADMINSTRATION is executing AGAINST ‘WE,THE PEOPLE’ with the ongoing deterioration in the ECONOMICAL SPECTRUM , the dismanteling of the NATIONAL DEFENSE APARATUS (such as, ‘unilateral disarmament’, fund cuts to our troops and defense programs, stop methodology to extract information from enemies combatants that is proven to be effective, and others WEAKENING AVENUES that expose our country to be VERY VULNERABLE TO ENEMIES).
In addition,the evident changes in the SOCIO-DYNAMICS that redounds into the DESTRUCTION OF INDIVIDUALITY OF THE ENTREPRENURIAL SPIRIT OF OUR BASIS IN ECONOMY - AMERICAN CAPITAISM, meaning, the vectorizing for a massive government control promoting TOTALITARIAN / DICTATORSHIP SYSTEM where FREEDON OF SPEECH and TRUE DEMOCRACY will ultimately CEASE TO EXIST ! Bottom line ; ACUSE THE OBAMA GANG CORRUPTED ADMINSTRATION AS ENEMIES OF THE STATE.
So, EVERYTHING is to be presented to the public for BOTH DEPOSITIONS , and let the the AMERICAN PEOPLE DECIDE AND GIVE A VERDIC.
How that sounds?…Questions anyone?
Let’s go for it, then.
Daniel Cabrera
Merrillville, Indiana
April 18th, 2009 at 5:54 pm
What’s the general concensus about Bobby Jindal?
April 18th, 2009 at 6:28 pm
From what I know, English Rose, I like the guy, how about you?
April 18th, 2009 at 6:32 pm
Rose: Bobby Jindal is considered to be a smart leader by the right, but the left always berates him for lack of experience. Funny thing is Jindal has MORE government management experience than “Bore”ock obama had. In the senate (obama only had 143 days when he was actually present in the senate) obama didn’t really “manage” anything. Senators time is mostly spent passing laws that people don’t want anyway, blah, blah, blahing at the podium to their fellow senators about how great they and their programs are, glad handing lobbiests, and generally just smoozing with their fellow senators, and poseing for photo opprotunities. The right doesn’t think Jindal could win the nomination for pres. because of the hatchet job the leftist liberals would do on him. The liberals always claim they want a clean campaign, but always come out with the “smear” tactics when it looks like their side is loseing.
April 18th, 2009 at 7:20 pm
I like Bobby Jindal, 16 year old and Dylan. He’s young, good looking, charismatic, astute and appears to have a good image; clean cut, family man, good father - and he balances his budgets from what I’ve heard.
Something about him is reminiscent of David Cameron, the ace Conservative leader here in the UK who is such a breath of fresh air in our fetid political system. Cameron knocked the stuffing out of Tony Blair and is now bashing the daylights out of Gordon Brown, who appears very old and tired alongside Cameron.
Cameron is brilliant, he will be our next Prime Minister and he’ll be a good one. He has already tranformed our politics and his party for the better, the Labour party are struggling to keep up with him from miles behind. He blogs , bikes to Westminster while listening to his ipod, went to live with an Asian family for a time and worked on the checkout in their supermarket. He holds public meetings where he invites the public to ask him any questions whatsoever - and he gives real, straight answers with no spin, that’s unheard of here these days. He’s going to revive our economy and clean up the corruption in our government. He’s a one nation man too, who aims to unify our country again and to mend out broken society.
Why would the left libs be able to hatchet Jindal? He looks to me as though he would be able to handle them alright. David Cameron was savaged by the right here at first who claimed he was another Tony Blair (the last thing most of us UK would want). He - very courteously - ate them up and spat them out.
Tell me more about Jindal.
April 18th, 2009 at 7:59 pm
Brown and the left in UK tried to savage Cameron’s relative inexperience, Dylan, and they’ve attempted to smear him to blazes. Yet their smears just bounce off of Cameron like water off a duck’s back. The smears always end up damaging Brown and the Labour party, not Cameron.
They said Cameron was too young and naive to become Prime Minister - the public said, good, were sick of the sort of experience that Labour have.
They nicknamed him ‘Cameleon’ - the public said, no he’s not, and in any case, we like cameleons.
They smeared him as a rich ‘Tory toff’ - the public said, but hang on moment, those lefties who are trying to smear Cameron are rich toffs themselves whereas Cameron’s a man of the people.
He had a 6 year old handicapped son (who, very sadly, died recently). Cameron included his son in family photographs and was frequently seen pushing his son around in a buggy. The left claimed that he was using his son for publicity. Yet the public could see how much he dearly loved his son, that he was proud of him and that Cameron and his family were simply including the lad in their family life.
Cameron has recently been the main target of Smeargate lies. Instead of damaging Cameron, there’s been an almighty backlash against Labour for these lies and the net is closing in on the Prime Minister’s office.
If Jindal is a clean, honest and astute politician and opens up his life to the public in the way that Cameron has done, the smears won’t damage him. Cameron’s even had cameras filming his chaotic family breakfast and him washing up afterwards.
April 18th, 2009 at 8:21 pm
Rose; You’re correct about Bobby Jindal, he has no skeletons in his closet, and is clean politically and morally. However Sarah Palin was also, and you saw how they raked her over the coals. When the left couldn’t find any dirt on her, they made issues about her experience. Interestingly enough, she had more experience than obama. She has been a mayor, and also a governor. Obama had been a “neighborhood organizer” (you know, knocking on doors and stuff, lol), and of course 143 days as a senator. Our country is a lot more socialist than you may realize Rose, not as much as England, but the majority of U.S. citizens are leaning too far to the left, are just plain stupid, like getting free money every month, don’t like working and want the gov. to support them, or don’t educate themselves and only believe what Oprah Winfre tells them, and so they fear people like Sarah Palin and Bobby Jindal because they could bring the country back towards the center. When they can’t find any real problems with a good candidate they have to resort to smear tactics. I haven’t really thought about who will be in the ring in 2012 but I would vote for Bobby Jindal if I thought he was the most qualified, and had a shot at winning.
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English Rose Says:
April 18th, 2009 at 7:20 pm
David Cameron was savaged by the right here at first who claimed he was another Tony Blair (the last thing most of us UK would want). He - very courteously - ate them up and spat them out…………………………………………………………………………………………..
Rose, You say Cameron was savaged by the “right”.. In the U.S the “right” is made up of the moral majority, the constitutionalists, some republicans, fewer dims, some independents, and as a whole are called “conservatives” . By U.S political terms, is Cameron a conservative or a socialist?
April 18th, 2009 at 9:04 pm
English Rose, you have a charming writing style. Bobby Jindal seems to embody the characteristics of conservatism that many felt were missing in John McCain. He is very young, 37, as I’m sure you know, and the left has already sallied out to attack him. The drive-by media (as we refer to the left leaning “journalists”) criticize him for being reluctant to take “economic stimulus funds” from the federal government. These funds, supposedly designed to create jobs and improve the economy and infrastructure will force Louisiana
to change state legislation, and Jindal will concede authority to the the fed on the distribution of the funds.
I wish I could describe him as eloquently as you described David Cameron, I just don’t know about the details of his life. I was very impressed upon hearing the speech of European Parliament member, Daniel Hannan, directed at Gordon Brown. His criticism of Brown was scathing, but the eloquence of it’s delivery was what caused me to take notice.
I wish one of our Republican congressmen or senators was capable of delivering such an effective, refined verbal lashing to President Obama. Could you please tell me more about mister Hannan?
Cordially
April 18th, 2009 at 9:23 pm
antistatist Says:
April 18th, 2009 at 9:04 pm
I was very impressed upon hearing the speech of European Parliament member, Daniel Hannan, directed at Gordon Brown. His criticism of Brown was scathing, but the eloquence of it’s delivery was what caused me to take notice.
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ANTISTATIST: I WILL SECOND YOUR OPINION ON DANIEL HANNAN. I was amazed at his speech! I don’t think I have ever heard anyone so well prepared, or so spot on, and like you say “the eloquence of his delivery”. That guy is a hard driving patriot! Also equally amazeing was the fact that he didn’t have to use a teleprompter. LOL… He is a guy that could get some stuff done for the U.S. and I would definitely vote for him, or anyone like him! Could you send him on over Rose?? Please?
April 18th, 2009 at 9:59 pm
English Rose:
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I loved you….so I brought these tides of men into my hands
and wrote my will across the sky in stars
to give you freedom….the seven pillared worthy house
that your eyes may be shining for me when I came
Do recognize this British author’s work?
April 18th, 2009 at 10:58 pm
Daniel C.
You will never see Bush tried for war crimes. When last an attempt was made to even impeach a president it was Clinton and the dems rallied around him like crazy. The dems are afraid that if they try to try Bush for war crimes the republicans will rally to the flag and next election they will run somebody who at least mimics a conservative and they will have a landslide. The only time these two parties even try to do something that makes sense is when their common rules are broken!
April 18th, 2009 at 11:09 pm
Joe H, you moron, everybody in this country hates Bush. Ever heard of Ramos and Campeon? I hope they throw the ba$tard into a Spanish prison to get a$$raped.
April 18th, 2009 at 11:31 pm
Bush sucks Says:
April 18th, 2009 at 11:09 pm
Blah, blah, blah,blah, schit just rolls outta my mouth like sewage at a gay orgy!!
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Hey dude! Try reading the posts before you go off half cocked. Nobody said they thought Bush was a good prez. I didn’t think he was but he was better than the socialist mutt we have now! Joe H didn’t say he thought Bush was a good pres. either. He just said he wouldn’t be tried for war crimes you idiot!!
April 19th, 2009 at 5:58 am
Antistatist said: Do recognize this British author’s work?
“Death seemed my servant on the road, till we were near and saw you waiting”
It’s the glorious poetic dedication, entitled ‘To SA’ (Salim Ahmed, or Dahoum) of the stunning ‘Seven Pillars of Wisdom’ by Thomas Edward Lawrence - the great Lawrence of Arabia - who also wrote as Thomas Shaw.
April 19th, 2009 at 6:15 am
Antistatist & Dylan,
I admire Dan Hannan too, he can be a wonderful orator and has courageously defended my country against the undemocratic EU dictatorship for a decade. All power to Dan’s elbow. I don’t agree with all of his views, those on UK’s NHS, for example. As a Liberal Conservative, I support the NHS and well managed essential public services, even Adam Smith accepted the need for those.
April 19th, 2009 at 6:47 am
I believe in the peoples right to protest….but what baffles me is “Why at the Alamo?”….I was taught that the battle at the Alamo was the battle that Mexico won because they wanted to protect land that was actually Mexican Territory. I was taught that United State Citizens had to give up their rights as U.S. Citizens and become Mexican Citizens so they could receive cheap land and help protect Mexico’s Northern Territory.
President Ulysses S. Grant has been quoted “I was always ashamed of my country for the invasion of Mexico.”
Mexico abolished slavery in 1829…..Alamo was 1836…..Southern Slave States wanted Texas…..somebody do the math.
We The People elected President Barack Obama as our President….Lets back our man … we backed George W. Bush , why wouldn’t we back Barack Obama?
President Obama has only been in office for 90+days…..Our promblems did not start in the last 90 days!!! ( THANX for letting me vent )
April 19th, 2009 at 7:44 am
As usual, what could have been a useful protest and the start of a NEW GOP was RUINED BY THE KOOKS. For days, media all over the country have made the main story of this event Texas Governor Rick “Jublation P. Cornpone” Perry the central story. This buttfuk smears all the rest of us America-loving conservatives with his kook-talk on secession, and of course, Top Kook Glenn Beck jumps right up to support him, probably having himself a good cry in the process. If we mainstream fiscal conservatives don’t stand up and start protesting the antics of FEMA Camp Kooks, “Birthers”, pro-life and anti-gay religious kooks, anti-immigrant Hitlerites, and morons like Beck who see conspiracies jumping from the fasces of the US 1916 dime, WE WILL WATCH THE DESTRUCTION OF THE GOP UNFLOD BEFORE OUR EYES. THOE WHO BELIEVE IN LOW TAXES, SMALL GOVERNMENT AND A STRONG NATIONAL DEFENSE NEED TO DO WHATEVER THEY CAN TO DRIVE THESE KOOKS FROM OUR PARTY! TAKE YOUR RELIGION BACK TO CHURCH, KOOKASS! TAKE YOUR CONSPIRACY THEORY DOWN TO THE LOAL PSYCHIATRIST, AND GET SOME HELP, NUT CASE! TAKE YOUR ANTI-HISPANIC SS STORMTROOPER RACISM SOMEWHERE ELSE, BORDER NUTS! GET OUT OF MY GOP SO WE CAN START ATTRACTING THE MODERATES AND INTELLIGENT PEOPLE AGAIN, AS LONG AS YOU ARE A AROUND WE WILL NEVER WIN ANOTHER ELECTION!
April 19th, 2009 at 7:51 am
So, is Obumma going to act like (as opposed to be) a leader and take responsibility for “his” plan? FYI: this is something that military people do, by default. Being that Obumma is now the Commander in Chief, he should accept full responsibility for the plan that he sold America, regardless if he wrote it or not. After all, he’s the one who stood in front of the American people and told us that we’d surely be worse off if we did not accept every aspect (e.g. more than 1 stimulus package) of the plan that he sold.
April 19th, 2009 at 8:56 am
Dylan & Antistatist, the Youtube video entitled:
“MEPs Protest (The Original Video)”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JJlI9swbsA
and the post from Dan’s blog which I will post on my next posting here explains more about our courageous and deeply principled patriot Dan Hannan and the despicable EU than I ever can. Search Youtube on the above title if the the link won’t work.
The protest concerned was organised by Hannan and other MEPs against the EU’s illegal power grab, prior to, and with the Lisbon Constitutional Treaty. Huge sovereign powers - which belong only to the people of Europe in perpetuity, not to our politicians - have been stolen from us by our heads of government and the EU under the nightmare Lisbon Constitution.
An example of these powers: the EU can now fine England or UK billions of pounds if we do not do comply with the EU or if we try to leave the EU, our British parliament is now little more than a rubber stamp for the unelected and Communist EU Commission, 80% of our British national laws come from EU directives.
I believe the EU now has the right to invade Britain if we try to break away - if not, the EU pretty soon will have this right.
The EU and European heads of Government, including Blair and PM Gordon Brown, refused to allow us the Referendums which their election manifestos swore to give us. They lied and lied and lied to us.
When Dan Hannan and Eurosceptic MEPs on the right and left protested about this, the EU broke its own rules and subverted its own procedures to stop those opposed to this power grab speaking to the EU against this huge transfer of power as is their right and duty. This was the Eurosceptics response: a protest against that illegality and this huge transfer of power and a call for Referendum.
April 19th, 2009 at 8:58 am
Alright, boys and girls, prehaps if I expand on certain parameters, then understanding might be accomplish further abroad.
Now THE OBAMA GANG CORRUPTED ADMINSTRATION Is WEAKENING eve more our NATIONAL SECURITY, ventilating secrets techniques to extract information from terrorists. In doing so THE OBAMA GANG is telegraphing national defense secrets to our enemies out there that want the total destruction of our country.
To me that is not any different from the TREASON that Openheimer, and others, did when secret information about the atomic research of the ‘MANHATTAN PROJECT’ were given away to enemy factions.
Now, is that INTERNAL TERRORISM ?, ADVOCATE TERRORISM ?, TREASON ?, ,….what to call it? To me the entire thing is stupid or dumb , if not combination of both,…everyone, make own story on this one.
After all Mr Holder is known as an advocate for terrorists , so nothing takes me for surprise, …but in view of the obvious THOSE TRAITORS HAVE TO BE REMOVE FROM WASHINGTON.
On top of that is the enthusiasm to let’s say,…’impeach-after-presidency’ ( to give a possible aplicable term ) to further try to destroy Pres Bush and his administration. Actually and evidently THE OBAMA GANG ARE REALLY RUNING OUT OF EXCUSES FOR EVERYTHING,…so this continues, of course.
IF WE TALK ABOUT IT, WE SHOULD HAVE THE GUTS TO GO FOR IT
There are somes that want to see Bush, Cheney, and others go to jail.
OK HERE IS THE DEAL
If to think that Pres Bush, Cheney, and the rest are GUILTY (and therefor should be CONDEMN) for torturing in order to protect our country through all these years after 9-11 EVENT ? So , I say let’s go for it,…no problem.Bottom line ; ACUSE THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION AS WAR CRIMINALS.
I propose; to gather ALL INFORMATION regarding ALL activities that Bush’s administration did to keep our country safe , to find any thing that could possibly be found to ACUSE, PROSECUTE, CONVICT AND ULTIMATELY SENTENCE , all of them.
At the same time, find ALL information, in regards of ALL practices of UNCONSTITUTIONAL CHARACTER that the present CORRUPTED ADMINSTRATION is executing AGAINST ‘WE,THE PEOPLE’ with the ongoing deterioration in the ECONOMICAL SPECTRUM , the dismanteling of the NATIONAL DEFENSE APARATUS (such as, ‘unilateral disarmament’, fund cuts to our troops and defense programs, stop methodology to extract information from enemies combatants that is proven to be effective, and others WEAKENING AVENUES that expose our country to be VERY VULNERABLE TO ENEMIES).
In addition,the evident changes in the SOCIO-DYNAMICS that redounds into the DESTRUCTION OF INDIVIDUALITY OF THE ENTREPRENURIAL SPIRIT OF OUR BASIS IN ECONOMY - AMERICAN CAPITALISM, meaning, the vectorizing for a massive government control promoting TOTALITARIAN / DICTATORSHIP SYSTEM where FREEDON OF SPEECH and TRUE DEMOCRACY will ultimately CEASE TO EXIST ! Bottom line ; ACUSE THE OBAMA GANG CORRUPTED ADMINSTRATION AS ENEMIES OF THE STATE.
So, EVERYTHING is to be presented to the public for BOTH DEPOSITIONS , and let the the AMERICAN PEOPLE DECIDE AND GIVE A VERDIC.
How that sounds?…Questions anyone?
Let’s go for it, then.
Daniel Cabrera
Merrillville, Indiana
PS I do not think that the tv tabloids (CNN,MSNBC,NBC), nor tabloids publications such
as The New York Times, The Huffington Post, LA Times, etc have courage to go for
this one,….best case scenario….they just keep quiet.
April 19th, 2009 at 9:08 am
Here is Dan Hannan’s blog about the protest against the EU’s illegal power grab - re: my last post
“Eurosceptic MEPs to be punished”
“And so it goes on. Once again, I and a group of other MEPs asked to exercise our right to explain, in not more than one minute, why we voted as we did. Once again, the European Parliament chose to ignore its rulebook and deny us that right, cutting off the session after 20 minutes. You can watch the Deputy Speaker’s explanation of why he did so here.
Let us be clear about what is happening. We Eurosceptic MEPs have never before, in 30 years, sought to delay the business of the House. We are doing so now only to protest about the outrageous cancellation of the promised referendums on the European Constitution, and about the EU’s illegal implementation of large parts of that document in anticipation of formal ratification. Our action would not have halted parliament’s business: all it would have done is to slow things down very slightly. Had they been sensible, the federalist MEPs would have rolled with the punch and allowed us to make our point peaceably, as Diana Wallace, a likeable Lib Dem who happened to be in the chair yesterday, did.
But we Eurosceptics often have an unsettling effect on our colleagues. Whenever one of us stands up, a red mist seems to descend on the integrationist majority. They can’t bring themselves to do anything we ask , however reasonable our request, and however unreasonable they make themselves look by denying it. (See, for example, the pompous blog by Labour MEP Richard Corbett, despite his reported private acknowledgment that the parliamentary authorities were behaving illicitly.
Fourteen MEPs, including my Tory colleague Roger Helmer and various UKIP members, have now been summoned to be disciplined over their participation in the pro-referendum demonstration last month.
Sanctions might include a €1000 fine or suspension without pay for up to ten days. Now it is true that some Euro-MPs behaved yobbishly on that occasion: it would have been better had they held up their “REFERENDUM” placards in silence. But, as I recorded at the time, the tumult was sparked by the Speaker’s decision to send his officers to tear away the placards (which the poor ushers did apologetically and with great charm).
In other words, the Speaker would not even tolerate the word “referendum” in the chamber.
Meanwhile, I am continuing to mimic Marcus Porcius Cato, who ended every speech with a call for Carthage to be destroyed (usually recorded as “delenda est Carthago”. This afternoon, I spoke on the European Human Rights Institute, on Europol (the federal police force), on Turkish accession and on the EU’s policy towards the South Caucasus, and each time I ended with a call for the Lisbon Treaty to be put to the vote. I used the translation offered by my friend Harry Mount, author of the surprise best-seller Amo, Amas, Amat and All That: Pactio Olisipo Censenda Est. Any comments from classicists, schoolmasters or other pernickity readers would be most welcome: I’m not planning to stop any time soon, so I might as well get the best possible translation.
In the mean time, the European Parliament has put itself so at odds with natural justice, with democratic principles and with its own rules of procedure that it is doubtful whether we can still call it a parliament. Let me close with an apposite quotation from Edmund Burke:
“Who that admires and from the heart is attached to true national assemblies must but turn in horror and disgust from such a profane burlesque and parody of that sacred institution”. ”
Daniel Hannan, from his blog in the Daily Telegraph
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/daniel_hannan/blog/2008/01/17/eurosceptic_meps_to_be_punished
April 19th, 2009 at 9:08 am
Bravo English Rose, I’m sure you know more than I about T.E. Lawrence, I had a hunch that a lady endowed with such an elegant writing style would know the enchanting works of this author.
Cordially
April 19th, 2009 at 9:42 am
Had to pass on the best web site that I have found for conservative thought.
http://www.noleftturnz.com
His latest is about the Summit of the Americas, here is a link if you would like:
http://noleftturnz.wordpress.com/2009/04/18/mostly-unmoved/
He is at least a day ahead of everyone in the business.
Everyone have a great day,
William
April 19th, 2009 at 10:31 am
English Rose, thanks loads for the information re: MEP’s vs. EU’s. I thoroughly enjoyed, and will continue to enjoy the verbal fencing exibitions of Daniel Hannan. Here is a sample of Edmund Burke fom his “Reflections on the Revolution in France”, which I believe can be applied to both the E.U. and the Obama administration.
“There is a manifest, marked distinction, which ill men with ill designs, or weak men incapable of any design, will constantly be confounding,–that is, a marked distinction between change and reformation. The former alters the substance of the objects themselves, and gets rid of all their essential good as well as of all the accidental evil annexed to them. Change is novelty; and whether or not it is to operate any one of the
effects of reformation at all, or whether it may not contridict the very principle upon which reformation is desired, cannot be known beforehand. Reformation is not change in the substance or in the primary modification of the object, but a direct application of a remedy to the grievance complained of. So far as that is removed, all is sure. It stops there; and if it fails, the substance which underwent the operation, at the very most, is but where it was.”
Thanks again for your informative reply English Rose, I could chat with you for “A thousand nights and a night.”
Cordially
April 19th, 2009 at 10:43 am
Something extra;
Now THE OBAMA GANG CORRUPTED ADMINSTRATION Is WEAKENING eve more our NATIONAL SECURITY, ventilating secrets techniques to extract information from terrorists. In doing so THE OBAMA GANG is telegraphing national defense secrets to our enemies out there that want the total destruction of our country. To me that is not any different from the TREASON that Openheimer, and others, did when secret information about the atomic research of the ‘MANHATTAN PROJECT’ were given away to enemy factions.
Now, is that INTERNAL TERRORISM ?, ADVOCATE TERRORISM ?, TREASON ?, ,….what to call it? To me the entire thing is stupid or dumb , if not combination of both,…everyone, make own story on this one.
After all Mr Holder is known as an advocate for terrorists , so nothing takes me for surprise, …but in view of the obvious THOSE TRAITORS HAVE TO BE REMOVE FROM WASHINGTON.
On top of that is the enthusiasm to let’s say,…’impeach-after-presidency’ ( to give a possible aplicable term ) to further try to destroy Pres Bush and his administration. Actually and evidently THE OBAMA GANG ARE REALLY RUNING OUT OF EXCUSES FOR EVERYTHING,…so this continues, of course.
And as for the showing interest in the Latin-american Sector ,…this thing of Cuba, Venezuela, Mexico, etc,…go figure that one out,…the question to ponder with is ;- IS THIS A MYTH ? , A MAKE BELIEVE THAT SOMETHING IS REALLY LEGITIMATE IN OUR COUNTRY INTEREST ?, OR A ‘BACKDOOR’ TO DEEPENS, EVEN MORE OUR DOWNFALL ORCHESTRATED BY THE ENEMIES OF THE STATE IN WASHINGTON ?
And insofar,….who are ,ultimately are the real commanders behind Obama? ( for HE - although tagged as ‘president ‘ - is seems just ‘THE FRONT-MAN’ in the spectrum…only speeches, no action , no producing,…just a face, a symbol)
I gave in a short past, two names to think about ;- SOROS and PODESTA…..could we add to the list anothers two more ?,…lets’s say,…IMMLET and ZUCKER ( those two related to GE and NBC)
Perhaps they are just angelical figures but so far they did demonstrate not so good vectors of action, for their related moves gravitate around,… DESTRUCTION OF ECONOMY, DEALING WITH TERRORIST, ANTI-PATRIOTISM ,…things like that,…everyone make your own investigation and research and find details.
good day everyone,
Daniel Cabrera
Merrillville, Indiana
April 19th, 2009 at 12:40 pm
I am neither pro, or anti obama. I would post this no matter what party was in the White House
FROM JOSEPH FARAH’S G2 BULLETIN
How Obama actually delayed pirate rescue
SEAL team deployment stalled 36 hours, hampered by limited rules of engagement
Posted: April 18, 2009
11:45 pm Eastern
© 2009 WorldNetDaily
Editor’s note: The following is adapted from an exclusive report in Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin, the premium, online intelligence newsletter edited by the founder of WND.
WASHINGTON – While Barack Obama is basking in praise for his “decisive” handling of the Somali pirate attack on a merchant ship in the India Ocean, reliable military sources close to the scene are painting a much different picture of the incident – accusing the president of employing restrictive rules of engagement that actually hampered the rescue of Capt. Richard Phillips and extended the drama at sea for days.
Multiple opportunities to free the captain of the Maersk Alabama from three young pirates were missed, these sources say – all because a Navy SEAL team was not immediately ordered to the scene and then forced to operate under strict, non-lethal rules of engagement.
They say the response duty office at the Pentagon was initially unwilling to grant an order to use lethal force to rescue Phillips. They also report the White House refused to authorize deployment of a Navy SEAL team to the location for 36 hours, despite the recommendation of the on-scene commander.
The White House also turned down two rescue plans offered up by the Seal commander on the scene and the captain of the USS Bainbridge.
In fact, when the USS Bainbridge dispatched a rigid-hull inflatable boat to bring supplies to the Maersk Alabama, it came under fire that could not be returned even though the SEAL team had the pirates in their sights.
Many hours before the fatal shots were fired, taking out the three young pirates, Phillips jumped into the Indian Ocean with the idea of giving the snipers a clear target. However, the SEAL team was still under orders not to shoot.
Hours later, frustrated by the missed opportunities to resolve the standoff, the commander of the Bainbridge and the captain of the Navy SEAL team determined they had operational authority to evaluate the risk to the hostage, and took out the pirates at the first opportunity – finally freeing Phillips.
Read more at: http://wnd.com:80/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=95451
The G2 Bulletin report was authored by Joseph Farah, founder and editor of WND, and a veteran newsman with extensive military sources developed over the last 30 years
April 19th, 2009 at 1:06 pm
Hey KOOKS fool! You can have your crappy GOP, they are worthless to us. There are less than 25 that are decent HONEST AMERICANS that support the Constitution that we will keep for Joes’ “American Conservative Party”, and YOU CAN KEEP THE REST OF THOSE LIBERAL LOSERS. There are also less than 10 conservative Dems. that we will also take, and you can have the rest. It can be “YOUR GOP” Kooks, please take it with our compliments, but we will reserve the right to continue voteing out the losers in YOUR GOP! Even with YOU as their leader, it will only be a LITTLE more f–ked up than it already is. Take it, IT’S YOURS! As for us, we will continue to vote out the liberal socialist mutts in 2010 and 2012, and beyond if they still exist!
FYI, just for the record KOOKS, we didn’t ruin “YOUR GOP”, LIBERAL VOTERS LIKE YOU DID!
April 19th, 2009 at 2:28 pm
Just for the records?,….Pres Obama only did follow ‘naval counter action standarized procedures’ ALREADY EXPECTED TO BE FOLLOW BY COMMANDER IN CHIEF. ( so why did take so long, right? ) Anyway , EXCELLENT WORK BY THE NAVY !
With that said - although the die-hard ultra-obamanized decieved americans will never accept - OBAMA GANG DOES NOT HAVE ANYTHING WAHTSOEVER TO TAKE AS CREDIT ON THIS RESPECT. - ( but they do it anyway )
No more details on this, I suggest that whoever is interested, go to US NAVAL ARCHIVES and read about this type of things
good day everyone,
Daniel Cabrera
Merrillville, indiana
April 19th, 2009 at 3:06 pm
Contradictions? What do you think?
I know a conservative Republican guy that attended the Tax Tea Party in Austin to protest the administration’s economic policies. Financially, my friend is a millionaire with lots of money in the bank and investments with no debt. But, he’s currently unemployed and drawing monthly Government unemployment benefits which includes a significant paycheck every month for doing nothing!?! Basically, he’s leaning on the Government for his lifestyle and he’s contributing to the national debt. There are probably many such high-end freeloaders out there, but they’re smooth no one would ever know it.
My second friend also a conservative Republican attended the Tax Tea Party in Austin to protest the Administration’s economic policies. This lady, a stay at home mom with one child wants to buy a home this year to get the Obama Stimulus Package First Time Homebuyer Tax Credit. Hmm, now how does this fit in with the protest?!?
My guess is that if the truth were known, probably a major percentage of the protestors are scamming the Government in some aspect of their lives and attending such a protest is a way of covering it up. There’s an old proverb that says, ‘…the people that cry the loudest are the ones with the most to hide…’ Someone also told me, ‘…the people that attend such protests are typically unemployed free loaders on the system. The working people don’t have the free time to attend such events…because they’re busy being productive’.
(I’m an conservative independent)
April 19th, 2009 at 3:15 pm
How kind of you to say so, Antistatist,thank you for that. Good Quotation from Burke. You are right about the horrible similarity between the EU and the Sans Culottes who ran around preaching egalitarian principles as they gulillotined thousands of heads off, even each other’s.
Another example of David Cameron’s golden touch today:
“Public outrage over the Downing Street ‘smeargate’ scandal has nearly trebled David Cameron’s lead over Gordon Brown to 19 points, a devastating new opinion poll reveals.” Online Daily Mail.
Poor old Prime Minister Gordon Brown, all his dastardly plans to damage Cameron have gone belly up yet again. As blogger Guido Fawkes says of him, everything Brown touches, he jinxes - quite literally. If Brown attends his team’s football match, they lose. If Brown praises anyone, they’re in trouble. He’s probably even jinxed your President.
April 19th, 2009 at 3:19 pm
I’m a conservative independent (Observer)
That’s interesting, as I’m a stupid Englishwoman, can I ask you what it means? That you’re a politically a Conservative but don’t support the GOP?
April 19th, 2009 at 3:28 pm
I don’t know about your 2 (friends?) Observer, and what time of day your tea party was held, but ours started at 5p.m. so the “working class heros” could attend. Our boss closed at 4:30 so we could get there early. I had 5 friends who work elsewhere, and they took 1/2 hour comp. time so they could be there by 5p.m. I have no idea why people who are scamming the govt. for free checks would bother to attend. It only increases the numbers of the rally, and that can’t be a good thing for “them”. It seems like the “conspiricy angle” you see is of no benefit to those who are on the dole. If ours had been held during working hours my boss would have shut down anyway, so it didn’t make any difference to us. What time was the party held in Austin?
April 19th, 2009 at 4:17 pm
In my golden years I have not seen a President selling his country down the drain. He is scary, ignorant, stupid and a communist. He is a pretender to the office of the President, he was not born in this country, he is a …usurper. Five Generals who have solid background in the military, schooled in the best military schools, tested. proven in wars, these Commanders are not taken seriously by this new Comander in Cheat. He blew their cover-up saying that water boarding is torture. We are fighting a war. You closed Gitmo just to get at Bush, but Bush has a more common sense than BO by any stretch.
April 19th, 2009 at 5:10 pm
To English Rose:
An political independent is a person who is registered on the Government voting records as neither Democrat or Republican but as independent, and usually cannot vote in the primary elections. Some independents lean left, others right, and some take the middle ground. I lean right and support the GOP. I voted for Bush and McCain and I’m registered as an independent. There are thousands of independents across the country. Independents recognize that neither political party has all the right answers and neither party always does what’s best for the country. Each party has their share of unscrupulous politicians.
April 19th, 2009 at 6:00 pm
English Rose: O my sister recite to us some new story, delightsome and delectable, wherewith to while away the waking hours of our later night.
First, a poem for you:
“Strange is the charm which dights her brow like Luna’s disk that shine: O sweeter than
the sweetest Robb or raisens from the vine
A throne th’Empyrean keeps for her in high and glorious state, For wit and wisdom,
wandlike form, and graceful bending line: She in the heaven of her face the seven fold
stars displays, that guard her cheeks like satellites against the spy’s design
If a man should cast a furtive glance, or steal far look at her, his heart is burnt by
devil-bolts shot from those piercing eyne.”
Take no offense at the last verse.
Cordially
April 19th, 2009 at 8:04 pm
DHS DECLARES THAT SECOND AMENDMENT
SUPPORTERS ARE “RIGHTWING EXTREMISTS”:
TELL CONGRESS TO CONDEMN THIS REPORT!
Did you know that your government considers you to be a “rightwing extremist?”
According to news reports, the Department of Homeland Security is warning law enforcement officials about a rise in “rightwing extremist activity,” labeling citizens opposed to new firearms restrictions, returning veterans and conservatives as “rightwing extremists” and associating them with white supremacists and violent antigovernment groups.
You read that right — it appears that the Obama Administration, and especially the DHS under Janet Napolitano, is trying to demonize political dissent. And it’s no big surprise who’s directly in their crosshairs: supporters of the Second Amendment, including veterans and gun owners.
Who is funding this kind of nonsense? Well, YOU are. Why would your government spend your money attacking YOU, instead of spending your money PROTECTING you?
This calls for grassroots action, on a HUGE scale!
TELL CONGRESS TO CONDEMN THIS GOVERNMENT
ATTACK ON GUN OWNERS AND VETERANS
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OK so now it’s Tea Party participants, (1st.amendment right), gun owners (2nd. amendment right) and Veterans (Americas Military Veterans? Yep!).. Ok.. Fine with me. I’m proud to belong to this group!!
April 19th, 2009 at 8:28 pm
Stephaan,
thanks for the kind words, I just wish there were more that understood the concept. There are too many good ole’ boys in the republican party to insure that the liberal thinking, non- constitutional thinking people are voted out. They control too many votes through favors or debts.It’s still four years to the election(I know, not quite!) and if we get started now by supporting and raising funds at the grass root level then maybe that person will have enough to fund raise at the national level at campaign time. I may be in error on the fund raising as I’m not sure if we can do it now or if it has to wait till a later date. I’m serious about this, it’s high time they started listening to the people that DON”T have millions to donate,legally or otherwise!
April 19th, 2009 at 8:52 pm
Red neck tea bag, Ha Ha Ha, I’m just so flipping edgy.
April 19th, 2009 at 9:00 pm
I believe people should screw more and have way more abortions, because I’m so damn edgy, if you disagree with me, your a racist. My biggest dream is that one day all mankind can be as enlightened as me, thus becoming a god like know it all, able to read peoples minds. If only you could all smell my crap you to would see my greatness, bow down, worship me and have more abortions you stupid red necks. For I am Janeane, the perfect one, smell my ass and screw so we can have more abortions.
April 19th, 2009 at 9:41 pm
Wow, Joe Dirt, you had working class heroes at your tea party, does that mean Sean Penn was there, he’s just the average everyday multi-millionare joe, like the rest of us, I want him to sign my hairy man chest.
April 20th, 2009 at 12:09 am
Joe H: It’s less than 2 years till the next election. Nov 2010 is 1 year 6 months and 15 days. We can get rid of some of those mutts then if we all start working on it now. Anybody from Cali. know if Piglosi, Boxer, of Feinstein are up for re-election? Heil Harry Reid is from Nevada. Anybody there know if his term is up?
Garofalo: Way too funny!
I can’t tell you what I did to her once, because women come on this blog but you would LOL
“Blue” Daniel: Sean Penn was there. We hung him in effigy and then burned his worthless straw carcass.
April 20th, 2009 at 1:09 am
Michelle Obama Has Full-Time Makeup Artist
Michelle Obama is the first American first lady to have a full-time makeup artist travel with her entourage.
Ingrid Grimes-Miles has been serving as Michelle’s makeup artist for six years, and now splits her time between Washington and Chicago, where she works with news anchors at the TV station WGN.
“No other first ladies have consistently traveled with a makeup artist,” hairdresser Bernard Portelli, who has styled Hillary Clinton’s hair, told the New York Post.
“It took Laura Bush four years to finally look good. It’s taken Michelle Obama two months. She wears fake eyelashes that are beautiful. She can’t do those herself.”
Grimes-Miles and hairstylist Johnny Wright both accompanied Barack and Michelle Obama during their recent trip to Europe. The Obamas paid the pair’s travel expenses.
Observers suspect that Grimes-Miles is behind Michelle’s “most prominent beauty reinvention: her eyebrows,” the Post reported.
“After the first lady drew criticism for looking angry, her high-arched eyebrows were reshaped with a softer arc that gave her a friendlier appearance.”
Read more at http://WWW.NEWSMAX.COM
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HA HA, OF COURSE MICHELLE OBAMA LOOKS ANGRY ALL THE TIME! SHE HATES AMERICA!!
April 20th, 2009 at 2:11 am
An political independent is a person who is registered on the Government voting records as neither Democrat or Republican but as independent, and usually cannot vote in the primary elections (Observer)
Thank you for your reply, Observer. I didn’t know that Americans register their political alliegance with your government or that independents can’t vote in Primaries. That’s astonishing to me as our voting here is based on an entirely secret ballot. Why can’t independents vote in primaries and is registration of a citizen’s voting intentions compulsory or voluntary?
April 20th, 2009 at 3:09 am
Antistatist,
I’m not offended. That’s from The Book of One thousand Nights and a Night. The author, Englishman Sir Richard Francis Burton was a Captain in the East India Company’s army, during the 1880s, I believe. He is said to have spoken around 30 different languages. Amazing.
April 20th, 2009 at 3:25 am
Good morning to all, I’ve just awoke to a new week of challenges facing most all of us. Some will call me crazy for thinking that our leaders would ever think of raising taxes on corperations here in CT, driving more companys out of CT. Some have no problem making the rich pay more state tax? I thought I read that they want to
April 20th, 2009 at 3:45 am
English Rose,
Actually they can. They can register either democrat or republican to effect the primaries, which was done quite a bit last election. then they vote what ever they want in the general.
April 20th, 2009 at 3:51 am
Hijacked plane in Jamaica no details yet here.
April 20th, 2009 at 3:56 am
Joe H,
Ah, right. But are you saying that independents can in theory register for one party yet vote for another party at the General election? Do they actually do that?
April 20th, 2009 at 4:05 am
let me finnish what I was saying here. they want to go back 5 yrs & collect taxes that they raise in 2009, is that not a great plan? Leadership here in CT is without any moral thoughts as to finding ways to pay for there pensions, & healthcare. AT TAX PAYERs EXPENCE.
I’m having all kinds of problems using this lap top, so this will be a last post til I can get my regular computer working again.
Wouls someone out there look up & see what % of the state, & federal budgets go to pay pensions & healthcare for all government workers. ( Local, State, & Federal ) & explain why they need a Union to Protect them from the same Government they work for, @ our ( taxpayer) expence??????????
April 20th, 2009 at 4:08 am
Wouls should be, Would someone out there look up………etc
April 20th, 2009 at 7:01 am
English Rose: You continue to impresss! I’ve heard conflicting reports re: the Muslims living in your country. What is your take on them as a whole? Benign or malignant? I value your prudence above that of the talking heads in our media.
Cordially
April 20th, 2009 at 7:32 am
English Rose,
The last presidential election there were MANY that did trying to get Hillary to be the democrat candidate instead of B.O. Unfortunately it didn’t work as you can see. The Idea behind it was McCain would have more of a chance of beating her, but I’m not so sure, the way he ran his campaign!
April 20th, 2009 at 7:36 am
Who voted for Obama? A lot of the youth ,All of the uninformed (main stream media listeners), The people that thought he was going to pay their mortgage and some disenchanted Republicans & Independents.
Facts: 71% decline in education Quality & Productivity 1960-1994 , last results and I’m sure it has continued to decline. Look at where we stand worldwide. I think it would be fair to say that people from a more Quality & Productivity education period in time, a 6th grader then would compare to a collage graduate now.Without the brainwashing of professors like Ward Churchhill and Bill Ayers. The communists said they could take America over without a shot fired but from within,(BINGO). A large % of Liberals tend to have a public collage education and have had the brainwashing and moral decline that is needed to dummy down a country.
http://mwhodges.home.att.net/education.htm (copy & paste) worth looking at. A lot of our youth have been so brainwashed they don’t have a clue , a lot don’t even know who the v-pres is. They have learned how to act up ,call names and I believe the morals have declined worse than the education. Why shouldn’t the obama worshipers love this guy? they don’t care if their children and grandchildren will pay for the out of control spending of obama if they themselves gain in the short term. Three months of obama has put us in more dept than 9-11, Katrina,Iraq and Afghanistan combined. I guess they think the government can run thing okay, dahhhhh!! I’ve never seen a government ran program that wasn’t a mess. I guess they mostly want big brother to take care of everything.They support abortion of any kind. They surly can’t be inconvenienced.
The people that thought he would pay their mortgage, They have been on the dole so long they want more and do less. They want the people that do, to give to the people that don’t do anything.
The disenchanted Republicans and Independents, I am an Independent and mostly leaning Republican. I was not happy with the choice of McCain at all. I also thought that Bush had his problems but obama scared the you know what out of me. I feel that government has way too much power and is way too big Dems or Republicans. I don’t know if America will ever come back but I’m hopeful that maybe the grassroots people with the tea parties will bring the people together and we will demand our government to do what they are suppose to do only. We need to demand the education system change to keep up with the rest of the world and just teach and not inject ideology. America spends more money than do most countries with far less results. We need to demand they keep our military strong to keep America safe. We need to demand NO more pork spending. That’s just a small start of what we need to demand of our government, Remember, They do work for us.
God Help America, She is in need
April 20th, 2009 at 7:38 am
Glenn Beck - you are an idiot!
April 20th, 2009 at 7:52 am
Ok, there are too much of insults around, so let’s say this ; …those who call this or that to anyone, looks to me that they have an extreme elevate platelets count in the blood stream.Perhaps, with this said… CURIOUSITY might create interest to research about what I just said and in doing so, and as result, their time will be invested in something productive , which is , READ, RESEARCH, AND LEARN …..to be autodidactic,…that, I can asure, will do the trick.
good day everyone,
Daniel Cabrera
Merrillville, Indiana
April 20th, 2009 at 9:37 am
A NOTE ABOUT EXISTENCE
I will have to be way below the intelligence level of a chimpanzee, or baboon for not to able to appreciate LIFE. This thing of abortion, or no-abortion,… life or no-life is certainly a very SIMPLE thing. A suppsosely intelligent human being should be able to fathom this one without any difficulty.
It took around 4.7 BILLIONS YEARS ! ( a heck of a long time !, don’t you think? ), right, around 4.7 BILLIONS YEARS ! for this huge multi-dimentional universe where eveything we know or we THINK we know exist, to have LIFE (carbon-base) in the variety of expression which is.
The colours,shapes,fragances,special capabilities for number of spieces ( most of them still unknown to scientist, observers, and investigators) ,….all this in plants and animal kingdoms and in the so called ‘threshhold proto-life’ area , according to taxonomical nomenclature.
Everyone , I mean, ABSOLUTELY EVERYONE with higer intelectual level that a chimpanzee or baboon could easily see how interseting not to mention WONDERFUL ALL THIS IS !
In thruth ( no matter if the person is or not religious one ) to put a word on it,…this is really A MIRACLE ! , A GIFT ! that came into existence right in front our very eyes.
The shocking thing is that WE ALL ARE PART OF IT.
Every time a flower emerges, when a small byrd comes out fo its egg, when a baby is born,…avery time this happens is a VALIDATION of this GREAT MIRACLE…for this is the GIFT OF LIFE .
Would be logical to destroy the GIFT that took so long to be accomplished?,..should we attemt to challenge the universe on this?….or it is correct or perhaps NOBLE to cherrish and protect the GIFT, ….A GIFT AND MIRACLE WHERE WE ALL ARE PART OF IT?
Exist the posibility many of the readers will concour with me, that even only to exercise appreciation, and respect for LIFE,…that alone, put us in higher intellectual plateau than a chimpanzee or baboon.
An attempt to play invented mundane politics, and /or semantics games with something so profound and so majestic, has no ligitimate grounds, nor logical frame can be apply,….no matter how much we might try, THE SUBJECT IS BEYOND MARKS FOR ANYONE .
Good day everyone,
Respectfully,
Daniel Cabrera
Merrillville,Indiana
April 20th, 2009 at 10:19 am
Speaking publicly for one of the first times since the end of the presidential campaign, John McCain’s campaign manager Steve Schmidt painted a dire portrait of the state of the Republican Party, arguing that the GOP has largely been co-opted by its religious elements.
“If you put public policy issues to a religious test, you risk becoming a religious party,” Schmidt declared. “And in a free country, a political party cannot be viable in the long term if it is seen as a sectarian party.”
The remarks came in a passionate, roughly 20-minute speech before the Log Cabin Republican’s national convention, in which Schmidt laid out the case for a far more open party — one which did not consider gay marriage to be a “litmus test” issue. And while he made it a purpose not to offend social conservatives — they “remain an indispensable part of the Republican coalition,” he said — Schmidt did not hide his concerns that religion had become the predominant thread of the GOP.
“If you reject [gay marriage] on religious grounds, I respect that,” he said. “I respect anyone’s religious views. However, religious views should not inform the public policy positions of a political party because… when it is a religious party, many people who would otherwise be members of that party are excluded from it because of a religious belief system that may be different. And the Republican Party ought not to be that. It ought to be a coalition of people under a big tent.”
Earlier, in the question-and-answer session, Schmidt said he conveyed a similar message to Senator McCain, though he declined to elaborate on what kind of advice was given.
“My views were known inside the campaign on this,” he said.
Looking beyond the issue of marriage, Schmidt’s diagnosis of the GOP’s ills was fairly ominous. “Our coalition,” he declared, “is shrinking and losing ground to segments of the population that is growing, whether it is with suburban voters, working class, college educated voters, Hispanics, or left handed Albania psychics, the percentage voting republican has declined precipitously.”
Schmidt warned, particularly, that losses among Hispanic voters threatened to “cost the Republicans the entire southwest,” a development that would make winning 270 electoral votes a near impossibility. “Had Sen. McCain not been the nominee in 2008,” he said, “I am convinced we would have lost the state of Arizona.”
The road back would be arduous, he added, even if politics are inherently cyclical. “I think Republicans ought to embrace this ‘Lord of the Flies’ period,” he said at one point, “when there is no clear leader in the party. And the problems of the party are not going to be corrected by any single big day event, you know, tea parties for instance. The problems of the party will be fixed over time and as we go through this period of time. There needs to be an opportunity for new leaders to emerge.”
And while the chance for an Obama-backlash was apparent — “should the recession grow deeper or longer” — and the likelihood of a “national disaster or any number of other contingencies” remained, Republicans, Schmidt added, should not “take comfort from knowing our party’s success could come at the expense of the country or rely on blunders of the administration.”
The statement sounded like a rebuke to Rush Limbaugh’s calls for the president’s failure. But Schmidt declined to describe the brash radio talk show host’s rhetoric as counter-productive to the party’s efforts.
“I think people make their own judgments on that,” he said. “At the end of the day, the party is not in the condition it is in because of even a talented talk radio host. The party is in the condition it is in because of the abdication of our principles on spending and a lot of other issues.”
Indeed, the shrinking of the GOP tent, he prophesied, was due not to one individual actor but from a quasi-religious political brand that was “off-putting to many people.” That held true whether in the case of Terry Schaivo, which Schmidt called “disastrous for the Republican Party,” or gay marriage.
“If a party is seen as anti-gay than that is injurious to its candidates in states like California, Oregon or Washington or New Jersey or New York, increasingly even in states like Virginia and the mid-south,” he said. “And to be a national party we need to be competitive in the northeast, for instance. I will argue that our party was a richer party when we had people, by no means conservatives but republicans, like Christie Whitman and George Pataki and all the members of Congress who have since gone extinct.”
April 20th, 2009 at 10:22 am
Glenn I am reading the book on DR and the great depression, it’s amazing at just how much the Obama admin is mirroring that period when america was at it’s worst period, but what is most interesting is that same type of charactor is displayed in the way Obama got over, the fact that FDR was elected 3 times while the country was down on it’s knees, I hate to think that we are going down the same road again, smooth talking retoric that they know they aren’t going to work but we’ll keep selling it as long as we can, I agree with Rush about I really want him to fail, because if he dosen’t we will have another 4 years of idiotic government controling everything from A to Z and everything in between, like Pelosie said we won and we can do whatever we want, plus i’m tired of our country being disgraced around the world enough of bowing snd scaping to all these government that could care less about america until there butts are being kicked then america is there saviour, every war and conflick who has been in the forefront, a great example the samolie pirates, who took the first step against them, we didn’t pay ransom to a bunch of pirates, yet when they capture them they release then back to do the same thing again and again, I sa y enough is enough if they wont protect there own, why should we, were not the worlds policemen.
April 20th, 2009 at 10:56 am
It takes to be very stupid , or pathetically moron, or monumentally idiotic ( at least I will feel any of those ways or all of them altogether)….not to mention my head would be spinnnig out of control too,….if I adsorb, accept or swallow the mantra of ;- ‘Obama inherited the problematic of this or that…(specially in the economic area )’ and so forth and so on, for the REALITY IS that the over-populated by DEMOCRAT CONGRESS is and was the one CAUSE the mess ….remeber the history - FANNIE, FREDDIE, RAINES, JOHNSON, O’NEAL, WITH ‘the cover-up gang’ - (BARNEY FRANK, PELOSI, COX, DODD, SOROS, REID, AND OTHERS WEEDS.
The truth is that the democrats are out of stories, and / or excuses for the attempt to justify their wrong practices. Beside to be acting as ENEMIES OF THE STATE with all sort of DISHONESTY, and ANTI-AMERICAN / ANTI-CONSTITUTIONAL PRACTICES , now they are with the FEAR of to be REMOVED AND REPLACED is perplexing to them, for they know so well their days are counting backwards.
And although some ‘die-hard supra-obamanized’ individuals are still around, the former Obama supporters are growing at fast rate,…americans finally captured the reality of the past FRAUDULENT ELECTIONS that brought as result THE OBAMA GANG CORRUPTED ADMINISTRATION ,.americans understand now that the outcome was DECEPTION AND DISHONESTY.
sincerely,
Daniel Cabrera
Merrillville, Indiana
April 20th, 2009 at 11:11 am
Glenn, Yahoo when I logged in upfront says Miss California stumbles in response to question…I did not bother to read it…….Sure it refers to her answer to gay marriage……Stumbles …..I think not……..She only told it like she felt in her heart. I am sick of the media……….I also had not noticed before how biased Yahoo is…..
April 20th, 2009 at 11:12 am
Antistatist,
You’ve asked for my response to the Muslims in Britain. There are many Muslims here who are fine people who integrate well and who make a useful contribution to our society. One of them is a friend of mine and another is Baroness Warsi,a shadow Minister in the Conservative Party - a ’shadow minister’ is someone who has been selected for a future ministerial role in the Conservative government we will have by next year.
There are in Britain, however, Islamic extremists who are very worrying. They’ve been allowed into our country by the lax and negligent migration policies of our Labour government. It is obviously exremists who have been responsible for the terrorist bombings we have had here. Some of them have been recruiting for terrorist training, some are preachers of hate against non-Muslims who our government have outrageously allowed to preach hatred on our streets and in mosques.
Why did our government allow these extremists to enter our country? My guess is because they are afraid of offending the more extreme Muslim population here, many of whom who support the Labour Party. It seems to many of the British that these extremists are allowed to get away with far too much. Yet they are rarely deported. Admittedly, the EU’s Human Rights Act prevents the deportation of most of them, but our government got us into the EU and signed up to this much abused law. Our government even allow Muslims to have a limited amount of Sharia Law here, which I believe to be wrong, a country should have one legal code and it should apply to everyone.
To give you an idea of the sort of problems we have had with extremists here, watch the following film of an extremist riot in London
PLEASE DO NOT WATCH THIS if you are offended by BAD LANGUAGE - sorry for shouting that:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nqxP2bpF7I&feature=PlayList&p=87C195913E42C65A&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=3
April 20th, 2009 at 11:21 am
I’m so tired of everyone picking on Barney Frank’s fat flabby ass. Barney is living prof as to why abortions are good, and you damn red necks wont leave that poor piece of crap alone. How dare you.
April 20th, 2009 at 11:38 am
^ typical Right Wing Nut Job
April 20th, 2009 at 11:39 am
BillW Says:
April 20th, 2009 at 4:05 am
Would someone out there look up & see what % of the state, & federal budgets go to pay pensions & healthcare for all government workers. ( Local, State, & Federal )
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Bill W. Someone did look this up and posted it here on one of the pages within the last week. I don’t remember if it included state and local, that might be extremely difficult. From memory, Wash. D.C. Senate and Reps. alone was $4.5 billion
,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, Jeanine Garafolo: Could you define “edgy” please? I want to know if I have a chance to have some radical liberal sex with you!! You’re not half bad looking, if I can just get past your socialist political crap I might be able to hose you! Then again if you’re going to be calling me a racist while I’m doin you, then just forget it!
April 20th, 2009 at 12:29 pm
Dear English Rose: Thank you for your informative reply. I will respond in detail when I return home from work, alas, you will probably be dreaming by then as I am unsure of the difference in time which separates us. I reside on the southern east coast, the time is now 3:24 pm. Until we chat again…
Cordially
April 20th, 2009 at 12:39 pm
My only regret in life is that I wasn’t born a man so I could do myself. I’m so perfect and enlightened, that if I could I’d bang myself night and day. Then I could have five, six abortions a month, wouldn’t that be dreamy. Of corse we all know abortion is the perfect birth control. That I know all, is how I know that if you disagree with me your a tea bagging red neck, and racist. Long live me.
April 20th, 2009 at 12:48 pm
Alas English Rose, I wish to take you in my arms, here in Germany, were I am, you know, doing German stuff. We could walk the streets, hand in hand, watching others doing stuff we love to do here in Germany, were I am, right now, just kicking back and doing that German thing.
April 20th, 2009 at 1:22 pm
German stink weed: I’m not as much of a sap as that last post may suggest to you, it’s just that I don’t have the chance to talk to intellectual English girls where I live. How’s the hashish in Germany? I assume it’s potency is sufficient for you since you seem unable to distinguish between “were” and “where”, it is ,however, forgivable considering the effects of
THC on short term memory.
Cordially
April 20th, 2009 at 1:23 pm
antistatist, will you stop jerk off here? They got plenty of porn sites you can go to instead. You sound like a fan of Sean Hannity’s sock puppet, Mark Levin. How did a ranting moron like that mouth foamer ever get on radio?
April 20th, 2009 at 1:43 pm
Tax Day Tea Parties Unite
“We were merry, in an undertone, at the idea of making so large a cup of tea for the fishes but we used not more words than absolutely necessary. I never worked harder in my life. While we were unloading, the people collected in great numbers about the wharf to see what was going on. They crowded around us. Our sentries were not armed, and could not stop any who insisted on passing.”
— Joshua Wyeth, 16-year-old participant on Dec. 16, 1773
Time to cock the ol’ tricorn hat and grab a flag! Fling your tea bags and hoist your principles on the mast.
Right now, you’re on the hook for $42,000 — to pay off the monetary experiments of your federal government.
from: “Whiskey & Gunpowder”
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Get a clue Says:
April 20th, 2009 at 1:23 pm
Blah, blah, blah, schit just flows outta my mouth like Janine Garafalos’… You sound like a fan of Sean Hannity’s sock puppet, Mark Levin. How did a ranting moron like that mouth foamer ever get on radio?
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Same way as you did “get a clue fool” 1st amendment! Only difference twixt him and you IS… HE’S ACTUALLY GOT A CLUE, whereas as you?…. not so much!!
April 20th, 2009 at 1:52 pm
A few liberal democrat supporters have confessed that they would engage some like ‘adolf hitler’ (after all hitler was a socialist) and some suggest is the reason why Obama meet with Chavez. Democrat Obama meets with Hugo Chavez and Loses some ‘Moral Authority’ in the world.
Hugo Chavez brief background: Hugo Chavez is a violent Dictator and has Forced (at Gun point) the democratically Major of Caracas (Rosales) out of office (maybe the last Chavez Opponent). Hugo Chavez has aided terrorists like Al Qaida and Drug Dealers in venezuela (according to news outlets), Hugo Chavez Supports Sudan’s al-Bashir before international bench warrant issued against him(Al-Bashir committed Genocide in Darfur). Many citizens and students end up missing or killed (example ” 3 October 2008 Update: Student leader Jesus Soto- President of Zulia Student Union. He was an active member of the regional opposition to the Chavez´s administration at the University. It is still unclear who could of killed him” -south american news agancy reports)
In 12/2006 Hugo Chavez stated that the ‘Jews own all the world’s wealth’, In 2007 Chavez stated that Catholics are ‘Liars and Perverts’ when catholics leaders did not agree with his plans, Chavez has laws against people who disagree with him politically and is Jailing or eliminating them , Chavez claims he owns countries around (like colombia), Chavez changed the flag and time zone, has a violent & oppressive police force (now),constantly increasing his military, considered South America’s first Fascist, claims thier will be a never ending war with the USA, and the list goes on and on.
April 20th, 2009 at 1:55 pm
The thing we liberals love about these “tea parties” is that it showcases all you right wing whack jobs. I love to see you guys in all your nuttiness. And hey, I’d tea bag any of you!
April 20th, 2009 at 1:57 pm
Hey dip$hit, you forgot to mention that Chavez was democratically elected by the majority of people in VZ.
April 20th, 2009 at 2:03 pm
Antistatist: Please forgive my english, what with me being German and all, and living here in Germany, my English be not so good.
April 20th, 2009 at 2:04 pm
I just love those tea bag jokes, of corse I’m nine, but still keep up the good work tea bag jokers.
April 20th, 2009 at 2:08 pm
Hey, if Chavez is good enough for Sean Penn, he should be good enough for us all. After all Sean Penn is just an average every day multi-millionare like all of us.
April 20th, 2009 at 2:38 pm
I like the tea bag jokes, because they show how mature the democrats are.
April 20th, 2009 at 2:39 pm
May I reiterate,…
It takes to be very stupid , or pathetically moron, or monumentally idiotic ( at least I will feel any of those ways or all of them altogether)….not to mention my head would be spinnnig out of control too,….if I adsorb, accept or swallow the mantra of ;- ‘Obama inherited the problematic of this or that…(specially in the economic area )’ and so forth and so on, for the REALITY IS that the over-populated by DEMOCRAT CONGRESS is and was the one CAUSE the mess ….remeber the history - FANNIE, FREDDIE, RAINES, JOHNSON, O’NEAL, WITH ‘the cover-up gang’ - (BARNEY FRANK, PELOSI, COX, DODD, SOROS, REID, AND OTHERS WEEDS.
The truth is that the democrats are out of stories, and / or excuses for the attempt to justify their wrong practices. Beside to be acting as ENEMIES OF THE STATE with all sort of DISHONESTY, and ANTI-AMERICAN / ANTI-CONSTITUTIONAL PRACTICES , now they are with the FEAR of to be REMOVED AND REPLACED is perplexing to them, for they know so well their days are counting backwards.
And although some ‘die-hard supra-obamanized’ individuals are still around, the former Obama supporters are growing at fast rate,…americans finally captured the reality of the past FRAUDULENT ELECTIONS that brought as result THE OBAMA GANG CORRUPTED ADMINISTRATION ,.americans understand now that the outcome was DECEPTION AND DISHONESTY.
What really is in heritage for this present corrupted admininstration is a SAFE AMERICA WITH STRONG NATIONAL DEFENSE ARRAY that now this OBAMA GANG IS SWIFLTY DISMANTELING, RENDERING OUR COUNTRY WEAK PRAY FOR THE ENEMIES. And so they are in TREASON by all accounts.
sincerely,
Daniel Cabrera
Merrillville, Indiana
April 20th, 2009 at 2:40 pm
Now is the time for Sarah Palin! Join up!
http://elect-sarahpalin.com
April 20th, 2009 at 3:09 pm
German stink weed: I don’t believe your typo had anything to do with your teutonic ancestry, as I have a small amount German blood in my veins as well. I think it was brought about by the “stink weed” I assume you partake of. I do, however, respect your ability to converse in two languages(if such is the case), as I cannot. Now, that we understand each other, we may get on with the generation of a sort of “gemutlikeit”, can we not?
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Get a clue?!?: I only wish I had the money to send you to Venezuela so you could experience
first hand the benevolence of the “democratically elected” toxic toad calling himself Hugo
Chavez. He basically just threatened your man, president Obama. But you didn’t hear about that did you, schmuck? Stop watching MSLGBT, and do the unthinkable, consult a book, that speaks POSITIVELY about the country in which you are so lucky to live. Not one that blames America for every concievable injustice ever to befall any living organism. Simple question. Where else on earth would you expect to find more justice than America? By the way, schmuck, Mark Levins book is still #1 best seller on the NEW YORK TIMES list.
Cordially
April 20th, 2009 at 3:17 pm
German Stink Weed: Sarcasm is not humorous, it’s the lowest form of wit.
Antistatist: Well said.
April 20th, 2009 at 3:32 pm
English Rose: Thats your opinion, and what sarcasm?
April 20th, 2009 at 3:37 pm
English Rose,
Please don’t be offended by the unwashed, uneducated people that travel these posts and please don’t use them to form an opinion of all Americans. I am embarrassed just to be considered one of those type. it is refreshing to find that there are people like yourself in England that were not insulted by our leaders total lack of respect towards the Royal Family and your country. Not all of us put such a low value on our allies.
April 20th, 2009 at 3:43 pm
English Rose, Your up pretty late, when you pretend to be from another country maybe you should keep the difference in time in mind.
April 20th, 2009 at 3:45 pm
English Rose, I to am embarrassed that Joe H is an American.
April 20th, 2009 at 3:52 pm
English Rose,
Two perfect examples of the fore mentioned. Truly uneducated proven quite nicely!
April 20th, 2009 at 3:56 pm
Engish Rose: I just viewed the video that accompanied your last post. I felt for the officers, who seemed to be unarmed, being intimidated into flight by a not entirely moderate rabble.
Our officers are armed in this country, as I believe they well should be, or far worse would
happen to them than I just beheld. Not perpetrated by Muslim mobs, but from the criminal element that exists in this country irregardless of race or religion.
Are most British officers unarmed as seemed to be the case in the video? If so, for how long, and for what reasons?
I would like to believe most Muslims are peaceable, but, after 9/11 I was left wanting of an outcry from American Muslims against the barbarity of the attacks carried out “in the name of Allah”. What was the response from Muslims in Britain after 9/11?
I do appreciate the warning about the language, Rose , but I’m not prudish(if I was I would never visit this blog), I just choose , as you do, to express myself without profanity, unless some ninnyhammer begs of it. It was endearing of you to do so, though, thank you.
April 20th, 2009 at 3:57 pm
English Rose,
Joe H just proved my point. Thank you Joe H.
April 20th, 2009 at 4:02 pm
English Rose, watch out, antistatist wants to bang you.
April 20th, 2009 at 4:08 pm
I believe we should legalize abortions for all those who disagree with me. Its insain to think that I could at any point in my life be wrong about anything. Now I have to go lick myself in the mirror, screw someone and get an abortion, you dumb ass tea bagging red necks.
April 20th, 2009 at 4:13 pm
Joe H: Thank you for your kind words. The American and British blogs are much the same in terms of the mixture of people who post on them. If you think some of this lot are rowdy and embarrassing, have a look at Guido Fawke’s blog, you’d be gob smacked by some of the posts on there.
Nigel: It’s 13 minutes after midnight here in England. If you are able to read the time, check for yourself. http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/
Fred: From over 4000 miles away?
April 20th, 2009 at 4:18 pm
English Rose, I’m sorry, I just don’t believe you. Nothing personal, I’m just a very skeptical person.
April 20th, 2009 at 4:21 pm
Joe h: I concur about the aforementioned illiterates, there may be some hope(did I just say hope?) for stinkweed, although he has yet to respond in German, for Daniel I hold no such optimism. Nigel is a name I sort of like, it reminds me of the great British middleweight , Nigel Benn. His wit and courage, however, I admire substantially less.
I asked Joe, in a previous post, had you ever seen the debate between William F. Buckley Jr.
and Gore Vidal in ‘68. I know that was forever and a day ago, but you would remember if you had seen it. It’s on youtube if you have’nt. If one is of the opinion that the tension between Liberals and Conservatives is something relatively new, or that the 2008 election campaign was the most devisive, they owe it to to themselves to watch this debate. In the end it degenerates into something akin to the more idiotic posts seen here daily. Instigated
primarily by Vidal, of course.
April 20th, 2009 at 4:25 pm
Antistatist, thank you, I like your name to, it reminds me of my old pal Antistatist Jones, swell chap.
April 20th, 2009 at 4:26 pm
Gestapo.
April 20th, 2009 at 4:33 pm
Bundesrepublik Deutschland, stupid American, Antistatist.
April 20th, 2009 at 4:36 pm
Antistatist; Not “gemutlikeit” for the “stinkweed person”.. er ist scheiben unbetont komisch, & der “get a clue person” ist gerecht betont dummheit hamorrhoiden LOL
April 20th, 2009 at 4:47 pm
German stink weed: You used to be funny. What happend? Too much Merkel socialism?
April 20th, 2009 at 4:47 pm
German stinkweed: blither: blather, bother, bugger, and bloody balls! Could you please translate that into German? Cordially
April 20th, 2009 at 4:53 pm
Stephaan: Touche! I’m not fluent in German, but I get the picture. Thanks.
Cordially
April 20th, 2009 at 4:59 pm
Antistatist,
Our police have traditionally pounded the beat with no protection other than their truncheons for a couple of centuries. That was never a problem as we always had a low incidence of gun and knife crime here. Now, like so much else about my country during the past decade since our Labour government came to power, all of that has changed. We’re experiencing more armed crime and, consequently, some of our inner city police are armed and our police are being trained to use tasors.
April 20th, 2009 at 5:01 pm
Nigel,
Apology accepted.
April 20th, 2009 at 5:06 pm
Sorry Stephaan, Ich werde versuchen schwieriger zli funny.
April 20th, 2009 at 5:06 pm
Fred,
Correction, the distance from America to England is around 3000 miles, I believe.
April 20th, 2009 at 5:11 pm
Antistatist, blither blather scheib bluigen balle.
April 20th, 2009 at 5:20 pm
Ich verstehen, LOL
April 20th, 2009 at 6:02 pm
Dumm Antistatist,gar nicht sprechen Deutsch und will elne ubersetzung. Oh well I’ll just go back to doing Deutch zeug hier in Deutschland.
April 20th, 2009 at 7:24 pm
Beck I love your commentary but do you ever look at things beyond politics that shape American history? Everyday life does not involve politics or Woodrow Wilson. I have written a blog about being an American for years and it currently involves Chavez and my ex girlfriend that I am trying to get back together with. Glenn, you know this as well as me, that history is a subject written every day, only to be rewritten by the next days perseptions of news. But, history shouldn’t always revolve around politics and war, everday lives and their personal struggles and triumphs should be included. I hate my job but I have my job and don’t bitch at any one other than one person, me. You need to go beyond the Alamo and look at the people that believe in the message and show their thoughts in a different way. I would have love to tea bagged last tuesday, but I cannot. I’m young and cant go there just because. I write a blog that is seen by nobody yet it doesn’t discourage my writings, for I know they are true. I write to speak my mind whether or not someone knows my ideas I do not care. I am a blogger not to be a blogger, but to voice my own opinion as a diary for myself to be a part of history. If only my part of history.
April 20th, 2009 at 7:45 pm
anti-statist, if you didn’t spend so much time in airport potties cruising for male genitals, you’d hear the tap tap tap of your own hypocrisy, you nitwit. I thought you right wing scumbags were all about “building democracy”? Yet when faced with a democratically elected leader like Chavez, now all of a sudden, democracy doesn’t seem like such a great idea to you, does it? Instead of your Bush Fantasy World, now you are forced to live in the truth. And don’t give me that “New York Times Bestseller List” crap, everyone knows you right wingers buy up your own books by the pallet load so you can get on the list, the truth is the average troglydyte who listens to Levin’s show can’t read much beyond “Hustler”, which is why they have to get their information from some ranting radio screaming mental case like Levin. Why don’t you tell people the truth about Chavez? That capitalism and right wing corruption drove a rich nation into poverty and created the biggest slums in South America, and one day the people who lived in the slums finally got a chance to vote, and who did they elect THREE TIMES? Chavez.
April 20th, 2009 at 7:49 pm
Riechend unkraut (stink weed) dein Deutsch sprechen es nicht umso schlecht.
Ich lernen Russisch & Deutsch an der gleichen zeit. Mein aufgabe ist Amerikanisch spion, lachen scherzing 
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The following article is not to be confused with the Supreme Courts historic decision in 2008 in the Distric of Columbia in which the high court ruled that the Second Amendment protects an individuals civil right to keep and bear arms.
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BELLEVUE, WA – The Second Amendment Foundation today applauded the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco for ruling that the Second Amendment is incorporated against the states and local governments.
The majority opinion was written by Judge Diarmuid F. O’Scannlain, with a concurring opinion from Judge Ronald M. Gould, who wrote, “The right to bear arms is a bulwark against external invasion…That we have a lawfully armed populace adds a measure of security for all of us and makes it less likely that a band of terrorists could make headway in an attack on any community before more professional forces arrived.
“This is a great victory for advancement of the fundamental individual right of American citizens to own firearms,” said SAF founder Alan Gottlieb. “The Ninth Circuit panel has acknowledged that the Heller ruling abrogated its earlier position on the Second Amendment, and it further clarified that the Second Amendment is incorporated to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment through the due process clause.”
Read more@ http://www.saf.org
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..This is good news for the Free Citizens of the United States of America…
April 20th, 2009 at 7:55 pm
Get a clue, you are so right, its just like Kim ll-sung, everybody hates him, but he was democratically elected by the North Koreas, in fact he recieved 100% of the votes, not even Obama can clam that.
April 20th, 2009 at 8:03 pm
To “Get a Clue” dude: GET A CLUE Yourself. AMERICA IS A REPUBLIC, NOT A DEMOCRACY! Where do you left wing nut jobs come up with the idea that we are suppose to be a democracy?
Just a thought here, DO YOU REALLY THINK that Chavez didn’t stuff the ballot box? Go to wnd.com and read some accurate news about the elections in Venezula.
April 20th, 2009 at 8:16 pm
Vielen Dank, dass sie Stephaan, lhr Deutsch ist so gut, wie gut, ich weib nicht, ob ich lernen konnte Russisch wenn.
April 20th, 2009 at 8:23 pm
Antistatist,
I probably did see it but as I was just entered the Army at the time I might have missed it. That was 40 years ago, I’m 58 and my long term memory of the 60s is very fuzzy.I went in Jan 31 of 68. Later, I remember Ft Knox and training for riot control for the riots in Detroit. I also remember one of the guys in our company being on the newsreels running across the road with two t.v.s in his hands and two weeks later being up on charges as somebody brought it to the attention of the company commander. Late in 68 I was sent to Germany for a couple of years and then in 70 went to Viet Nam.
English Rose,
According to my phone the difference from here in Ohio to London is 5 hrs. My wife, who travels there about 3 or 4 times a year on business concurs. So at Noon here it’s 5p.m. there.
April 20th, 2009 at 8:31 pm
Thank you Joe h.
April 20th, 2009 at 8:39 pm
If you want to see what problem the illegals are causing go to http://www.fairus.com
Nigel,
Don’t thank me ,I still believe Rose is in England. I stay up many a night till after midnight on this blog. I’m early tonight as I’ve a meeting tomorrow. So goodnight all!
April 20th, 2009 at 8:41 pm
One last thing. yup they “voted him in three times…….All in one year!!!! Obama learned from him!!!
April 20th, 2009 at 9:10 pm
English Rose: Thank you for the reply. I’m not sure I would like to join the British police force. But then again I would’nt want to be a police officer in southern California either. Due to policies implemented by leftlist politicians, two police officers were killed when they were
forced by policy to approach a vehicle containing a convicted felon without their guns drawn, two more were killed by the same suspect when they cornered the assailant at his
sisters home. The policies which are responsible for ending the lives of these men appear to be similar to the policies that leave British officers facing and angry mob with mere batons.
Anyway, since we’re both verbal fencing enthusiasts, here’s this from Italian
master Vadi 15th century.Hope you enjoy!
“Fencing is born of geometry, to her it is subject and both are endless
And if you learn my doctrines you will be able to answer with reason and take away
the rose from the thorns, to make your opinion clearer, and to sharpen the intellect
so you may be able to answer to anyone. As music combines the art of sound and lyrics,
and with science makes it perfect, so geometry and music combine their scientific virtues
in the sword to adorn the bright star of Mars.”
I do believe there are several would be verbal fencers who could stand to sharpen their blades, perhaps we can help them…. then again…
I do enjoy talking to witty, eloquent people such as yourself Rose, thank again.
Cordially
Cordially
April 20th, 2009 at 9:22 pm
get a clue: Here is a selection from the abovementioned author which most accurately captures your character:
“For Heaven did not generate these men, unrefined and without wit or skill, and without any
agility(mental), but rather they were generated as unreasonable animals; only able to bear burdens and do unrefined works”
Cordially
April 20th, 2009 at 9:33 pm
Stinkweed: I did understand your feeble pocket german/English post. Do you have anything
to say in English that under the most dire of mitigating circumstances could be referred to as intelligent? I doubt it, but if you do I’ll read it tomorrow, I’m going to sleep. Don’t do anything that I would’nt do okay, Deiter?
Cordially
April 20th, 2009 at 9:36 pm
John McCain’s daughter WANTS AND LOVES Obama’s stimulus. LOL. Guess Daddy wasn’t good enough.
April 20th, 2009 at 9:38 pm
John McCain’s wife TOTALLY craves an Obama stimulus and Beck’s wife concurs.
April 20th, 2009 at 10:09 pm
Antistatist, you are such a butt munch, does your wife know your trying to score with someone in england.
April 20th, 2009 at 10:15 pm
Can anyone see my post @ 10:01p.m. about the D.H.S. report and Janet Napolitano? I can see it, but it says “My comment is awaiting moderation”… How long does it take the “moderator” to “moderate” (censor or not censor) the “moderation”?? Is this because I have two web links in the same post?
April 20th, 2009 at 10:29 pm
Stephaan, ich sehe nicht, lhre nachricht, ich habe nie gepruft werden, fur die dieser anblick so dass ich aam nicht sicher, was konnte falsch sein.
April 20th, 2009 at 10:52 pm
Sehr gut Antistatist, ich sehe, sie wissen, Deutsch, so was war der punkt, der ich vergessen, wie eine Amerikanische und ich bin faul, gehen sie zuruck und lesen. Just kidding, ist, dass die ganze sache, ich war scherz, heller mann. Sie scheinen schon, so mochte ich nicht storen sie nicht mehr.
April 20th, 2009 at 10:58 pm
The moderator moderated my post right out of existance! Is this because I had two addy links in it? What is this STU?? Censorship??
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Es ist ok riechend unkraut, mein posten ist so verschwunden ich werde es nochmals tun.
April 20th, 2009 at 11:35 pm
From: Grassfire.net
U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano is now defending her department’s report that warned of right-wing extremist hate groups.
After reading the just released DHS intelligence report, it’s clear that President Obama views conservatives as enemies of the state. In fact, he views us as “domestic rightwing extremists.”
According to this report put out by DHS secretary, and open-borders stalwart Janet Napolitano, anyone who opposes big government control or who opposes “single issues” such as illegal immigration, abortion, gun control, homosexual marriage, the current financial bailouts, and literally a host of other issues could be considered a domestic
rightwing extremist!
According to this report, our Founding Fathers would be considered domestic rightwing extremists!
That being the case, we are indeed in excellent company. Standing up for what we believe in because we love this nation is our right, and something I will continue to do regardless
of what label Janet Napolitano and her liberal cohorts want to afffix to me.
But as a citizen, I’m also not going to let these irresponsible attempts to criminalize our efforts to go unchallenged, and I’m urging you to do the same.
We have a right to stand up for the unborn. We have a right to demand secured borders. We have a right to own a gun. And we have a right to speak out…
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Ja, antistatist weib lesen Deutsch. Er ist ein gut kerl. Wir konnen nicht blog fur das chat-zimmer verwenden. Seien sie sicher und schreiben sie etwas konservatives und politisches und auf Englisch und stellen sie es uber ihrem Deutsch, und dann eine linie zwischen ihnen wie zu stellen, tue ich, oder der vorsitzende wird uns von diesem blog verbieten.
Meine Frau/Freundin ist halb Russisch und hHalb Deutsch. Ich lerne von ihr, weil sie so heib ist, und sie uber mich mit dem geschlecht herrscht! Sie sagt, ob ich nicht lerne, dann bekomme ich sie nicht. Ich bin nicht wirklich ein spion. Ich lebe in den westlichen USA vom Pazifischen Ozean. Sind Sie Mann oder Frau? Leben Sie in Deutschland?..
April 20th, 2009 at 11:52 pm
LOL,YALL juz a bunch of internet losers.Accept MR.Beck whom has much wisdom.I can see how much wisdom most of you really actually have,which is very little.You think yall know everything and some of you THINK you are hackers and have something to prove like maybe your iQ,and buy the way… for all you far left stupid ****** that think we are all gonna die if we don’t do something about global warming.Hmmmm how come there is no mentioning in the Bible about global warming nor about the concern,and Nastro does not mention anything about warming either.So why don’t you global warming IDIOTS just GO AWAY?!!!!!!will you ever leave?
April 21st, 2009 at 12:09 am
Anti Ch: Global warming? LOL First it was global cooling. They were telling us we were going to go into another ice age! I wish they would get their heads outta their butts. Al Gore has made more frickin money from his questionable computer generated hoax than any of us will ever make in our lifetimes. There are still as many scientists that say we will go cool and not hot! Al Gore is a frickin hoax!
April 21st, 2009 at 12:23 am
Yeah I know,this global warming **** has been the death of America ever since,all the money they are putting up to stop it to bankrupt us is not only totally stupid,all that spending should be against the Law and everyone at cnn,msnbc,nbc,cbs and abc should be FIRED!!Or even better yet be taken the heck off our t.v. stations.This is not England cnn…,lol don’t they know the Earth pulls closer to the Sun every year so of course we my warm a lil bit during this process?Plus the Earth runs in cycles and there is really no telling what cycle may be in the works,they need to understand it’s down right hot pretty much everywhere in the Summer no matter where you may be,……How bout dem Pittsburgh Pirates tonight?Go Bucs Go!
April 21st, 2009 at 1:02 am
I’m so pissed at ObUma that I can’t sleep,all i can do is get on this page and let it out to MR.Beck and his people,SOMEONE BETTER REMIND MR>OBUMA THAT HE IS IN GODS COUNTRY,AND WE ARE NOT ASHAMED OF BEING GODS COUNTRY AND I AM MORE THAN WILLING TO FIGHT TO KEEP IT THAT WAY,AS SO ARE MANY AMERICANS!IF HE IS SO ASHAMED OF GOD THAT HE MUST COVER THE PODIUM,HE CAN GET THE HELL OUT OF AMERICA!
April 21st, 2009 at 1:19 am
http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid1358313999?bclid=933143286&bctid=1209568851
April 21st, 2009 at 2:43 am
Antistatist,
An interesting piece from Vadi. He is almost a complete unknown to me so I had to Google him. He makes astute observations about the affinity between science, geometry, music and fencing. Scientists and philosophers since Pythagoras, who also noted the gemetric principles in music, have noted in one form or another the fascinating universalist (so, God given) relationship of science and the arts in our universe and cosmos. I love the musica universalis or “music of the spheres” concept of the Middle Ages which expressed a similar and related philosophical idea, that the proportions in the harmonious movements of the celestial spheres of the sun, moon and planets, evoke and embody a form of inaudible yet perfectly harmonious music.
April 21st, 2009 at 2:48 am
Antistatist,
I meant to state: ‘geometrical principles in music’, not the typo ‘gemetric’.
April 21st, 2009 at 3:13 am
Hi, Mr.Beck
Let me just say, that I can clearly see why the GOP is in trouble. That kind of doctrine is Kooky,
if this is the word we’re using, Dem.s aren’t any better, increase in taxes, to pay for more prison’s and stimulate the economy, to go to work, to pay more taxes to build more prison’s, then lock everybody up for not paying taxes right? No? not if you’re a Democrat. I thought slavery was abolished. THIS IS INSAIN!!! LOOK, and LISTEN to ME!!! Our Government is trying to get you to believe in a myth and the myth is this, THINGS DON’T JUST DISAPPEAR!! That’s MAGIC not REALITY.
The money that was in the bank, is still in the Freakin Bank, it went from one bank to the other
BANK. NOT DISAPPEARED. that’s MAGIC not Reality. To the people who lost money in your 401K’s,
they told you that there was going to be a big transfer of wealth, guess who’s wealth they were talking about? Guess? They’re Cronies’ got it, and I feel it’s time to get it back. Fire the Senate and impose strict laws for term limits and crucify lobbyist that work for businesses. They should only be allowed to lobby for the peoples interests.
April 21st, 2009 at 4:58 am
English Rose, I’m glad you enjoyed the piece, I’ll try to procuce something else for your literary enjoyment, and for the further instruction of unskilled verbal fencers, later. Off to work now.
P.S., I meant to ask “Do you recogize this British authors work?” in an earlier post. Even the most graceful of verbal fencers can misjudge the cadence or timing of a riposte.
Charmed
April 21st, 2009 at 6:44 am
my thanks to Glenn, as an outstanding tell the truth advocate for the forgotten americans, what the american people do not know about Obama and his administration is that everything they are doing now is straight out of the 1930 Roosevelt playbook, those zsar he is appointing mirror those in the Roosevelt era, we are doing the same things they tried then but have added a different spin on it, line for line to take control of our basic freedoms of free speech, all the things our founding fathers fought against, government control, the government can’t and has not been able to run or do anything that reflect the concepts of the constitution, Reagan was right big government is the problem, but here we are today allowing what the fathers did not want, be what the Obama administration and the progressive I say progressive democratic party to do, we have elected a idiot for president who is more worried about his image, his rock star prestige that the great county he is supposed to represent, we bow shakehand and smile admiringly with our enemies,at the same time disgracing the country that has shed blood to keep the world free of dictator, socialist communist and facist government, I for one do not appreciate having our country belittled by those countries that at a drop of the hat if they are attacked, who do they look to put our blood on the line for selfish countries who in every way laugh at us when we have problems, and call us arogant and selfserving, so mr. personality is so worried about his image than the america the country he is supposed to represent, how did we stoop so low as to elect person so stuck on himself, america dosen’t mean anything to him, only him and his huge ego.
April 21st, 2009 at 6:54 am
The present corrupted administration of the OBAMA GANG does not have any interest to preserve this nation strong. Selling out,…..correction; GIVING AWAY FOR FREE the country to enemies is an act of ‘auto-war’ for self-destructive purposes - which is TOTAL AND COMPLETE ELIMINATION OF THE AMERICAN WAY.
Tea Party is a beggining?….let’s do the whole thing now, for the ENEMIES OF THE STATE ARE NOT WASTING TIME and so WE THE PEOPLE, must not waste our time waiting fo MORE OF THE SAME ASSAULT FORM THEM.
It is time that the previously suggested strong group of LAWYERS, JOURNALISTS, INVESTIGATORS, gather all the info about these ENEMIES OF THE STATE there in Washington, and present them to the american people, CALL for a nation-wide REFERENDUM asking the public for a VERDICT through this prosecutor group ….OH! YES, IN A VERY AMERICAN WAY, NO VIOLENCE JUST THE RIGHT THING !,…and nail them - PROSECUTE THEM, ACUSE THEM AND CONVICT THEM .
From the nasty gang realated to FANNIE & FREDDIE (Barney Frank, Johnson, O’Neal,etc along with the ‘cover-up’ team …Pelosi,Cox,Reid,Dodd, Frank, again,..etc . and others weeds) all the way down to the present OBAMA GANG IN THE CORRUPTED ADMINISTRATION which is weakeing our country in so man;y ways.
Put them to jail for TREASON….this people are all ANTI-CONSTITUTIONAL BREED .’.Watergate style’ , remember Nixon ? well,…go to history then.
There are people in Washington that have their best interest in an enterprise like this ….so contact the ones YOU KNOW WILL DO THE DEEDS IN FAVOUR OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AND LET’S TAKE OUR COUNTRY BACK !
sincerely,
Daniel Cabrera
Merrillville, Indiana
April 21st, 2009 at 7:00 am
Jack Bauer can’t stop ‘The Goldman Conspiracy’
10 reasons why Wall Street has absolute power over America’s democracy
By Paul B. Farrell, MarketWatch
Last update: 7:13 p.m. EDT April 20, 2009
ARROYO GRANDE, Calif. (MarketWatch) — Two mind-numbing fast-paced dramas. Two parallel worlds. One real, one fiction, both deadly. Jack Bauer, mythic hero of “24.” Dying from a deadly bio-pathogen leaked from weapons developed by Starkwood, a rogue mercenary army attacking the presidency, hell-bent on taking over America.
The other drama in play: “Hank the Hammer” Paulson, iconic Wall Street hero, a Trojan Horse placed inside Washington by Goldman Sachs as Treasury Secretary in control of America’s $15 trillion economy. Goldman, a modern dynasty with vast financial powers much like those once used by the de’ Medici, Rothschilds and Morgans to control nations.
One of the confounding aspects of bear market rallies is that the longer they last, the more likely investors are to expect a correction, says Barron’s Bob O’Brien.
Both dramas play high-stakes games with financial WMDs that have lethal consequences. Jack compresses thrills, kills and chills into 24 hours. Hank, Goldman and their army of Wall Street mercenaries move with equally blinding speed, heart-pounding action.
Drama? You bet. Six short months ago Hank led an assault on Congress. The scene parallels one in “24:” Sangala War Lord Juma’s brazen attack inside the White House. But no AK-47s necessary. The Hammer assaulted Congress with just a two-and-a-half page memo in hand. Like a crack special-ops warrior, he took down the enemy, demanding $750 billion, absolute control, total secrecy, no accountability and emergency powers to act immediately … warning that inaction was not an option, that collapse of America’s banking system was imminent, would bring down the global monetary system, pushing world’s economies into a “Great Depression II.” Congress surrendered.
Here’s the whole plot:
Scene 1. American government is now run by the ‘Goldman Conspiracy’
Oh, you really think just I’m plotting a television series? Or just paranoid, exaggerating this power grab? You better read “The Usual Suspects,” Matthew Malone’s brilliant article in Portfolio magazine: He “exposed” the “Goldman Sachs ‘conspiracy’ to take over the U.S. financial system.” Read it in this context: America’s financial sector has exploded from 19% of corporate profits in 1986 to 41% today, becoming a magnet for every wannabe billionaire. They know why Wall Street must control Washington.
Malone focuses on the incestuous “conspiracy” of Goldman alumni in Treasury, Bank of America, Merrill Lynch, AIG, Citigroup, Washington lobbyists and politicians.
Scene 2. Huge conflicts motivating Wall Street’s ‘Trojan Horse’
And just in case you think any emphasis on The Hammer’s conflict of interest was invented purely to increase drama, please remember that he worked at Goldman for three decades after serving under Nixon. He got $38 million his last year as CEO in 2006 before becoming Treasury Secretary.
Then during the market meltdown six months ago the $700 million personal fortune he built at Goldman was threatened by Goldman’s huge $20 billion derivatives exposure at AIG: Suddenly his responsibilities at Treasury merged with a strong self-interest in protecting his personal fortune. AIG was “saved.”
Scene 3. Wall Street’s ‘quiet coup’ also runs world’s banking system
There’s another equally disturbing expose in “The Quiet Coup,” Simon Johnson’s great article in Atlantic magazine. A former chief economist at the International Monetary Fund, Johnson also warns that America’s “financial industry has effectively captured our government” and is “blocking essential reform.”
Worse, he says that unless we break Wall Street’s stranglehold (unlikely in the new Washington) we will be unable “to prevent a true depression,” warning that “we’re running out of time,” echoing many of our predictions of the “Great Depression II” coming soon. See previous Paul B. Farrell.
Scene 4. Wall Street used the meltdown to take over America’s government
Matt Taibbi, author of “The Great Derangement,” captured this drama in a Rolling Stone piece, “The Big Takeover, how Wall Street insiders are using the bailout to stage a revolution.” A must-read: “As complex as all the finances are, the politics aren’t hard to follow. By creating a crisis that can only be solved by those fluent in a language too complex for ordinary people to understand, the Wall Street crowd has turned the vast majority of Americans into non-participants in their own political future. … in the age of CDS and CBO, most of us are financial illiterates.”
Wall Street “used the crisis to effect a historic, revolutionary change in our political system — transforming a democracy into a two-tiered state, one with plugged-in financial bureaucrats above and clueless customers below.”
Scene 5. How Obama is keeping alive Bush’s ‘disaster capitalism’
Back in 2007 at the start of the meltdown, Hank was misleading us in Fortune: “This is far and away the strongest global economy I’ve seen in my business lifetime.” In the real world, Naomi Klein, author of “The Shock Doctrine: Rise of Disaster Capitalism,” was warning us that “during boom times it’s profitable to preach laissez faire, because an absentee government allows speculative bubbles.”
But “when those bubbles burst, the ideology becomes a hindrance and goes dormant while big government rides to the rescue.” Then, free-market “ideology will come roaring back when the bailouts are done. The massive debts the public is accumulating to bail out the speculators will then become part of a global budget crisis.” TARP paybacks: Obama has a new “disaster capitalism.”
Scene 6. Wall Street’s CEOs rule like dictators in a banana republic
Seriously, here’s how bad Taibbi sees it: “Paulson and his cronies turned the federal government into one gigantic half-opaque holding company, one whose balance sheet includes the world’s most appallingly large and risky hedge fund, a controlling interest in a dying insurance giant, huge investments in a group of teetering megabanks, and shares here and there in various auto-finance companies, student loans, and other failing business.”
And let’s include $5.5 trillion in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Wall Street’s greed and stupidity resembles the self-destructive reigns of banana republic dictators.
Scene 7. Wall Street makes an un-American bet on ‘disaster capitalism’
Today as you ponder buying some Goldman stock, remember, you’re really betting that “disaster capitalism” is back, strong, tightening its stranglehold on Washington and on the American taxpayers, who will guarantee all Wall Street’s future failures. Yes, this is un-American, but so what?
The “Goldman Conspiracy” is still probably a good short-term buy … if you’re interested in betting on America’s new “democracy of capitalists, by capitalists, and for capitalists,” with “The Conspiracy” leading the joint chiefs of this new mercenary army … and it only took six short months for their “Quiet Coup!”
Scene 8. Banks recycle TARP money, pump earnings, cheat America
Here’s how it worked: The Hammer conned a clueless Congress, then shelled out $350 billion of our taxpayer money (Helicopter Ben Bernanke helped by upping the ante with a couple trillion side-bet), buying toxic debt to save his ol’ Wall Street buddies. They stopped lending and used the dough to doctor their balance sheets.
So no surprise that Goldman, Wells Fargo and J.P. Morgan Chase are now reporting “blockbuster” first-quarter earnings, says the New York Times, while just months ago “many of the nation’s biggest banks were on life support.”
Get it? They screwed taxpayers and borrowers so they can repay TARP with (you guessed it) our recycled TARP money. Now it’s back to business-as-usual, with no restrictions on CEO pay and bonuses … no thank-yous … no admissions of guilt … while some even arrogantly deny that they ever needed TARP money.
Scene 9. Wall Street’s already set the stage for new disaster
Right after the election in November, at the peak of the banking crisis, when Hank, Goldman and the Wall Street mercenary armies were divvying up the $350 billion TARP money, we detailed 30 reasons for the “Great Depression II” likely coming around 2011. We quoted John Whitehead, former Goldman Sachs chairman, former chairman of the New York Fed, former Reagan deputy secretary of state. He warned America’s problems will take years, burn trillions, result in massive deficits:
“This is a road to disaster,” he said. “I’ve always been a positive person and optimistic, but I don’t see a solution here.” He did see a depression at the end of that road, one you can call the “Great Depression II.”
Scene 10. Obama turned ‘The Goldman Conspiracy’ into a superpower
Do you see the parallels: Jack and Starkwood, Hank and Goldman? Jack’s a great mythic hero. We need to believe a hero will defend the little guy, stand between us and total annihilation. But Jack Bauer’s “dead.” Yes, dead. Jack’s not real. Never was “alive.” Jack’s a fiction, a figment of Main Street America’s vivid imagination, the symbol of “hope” for a populist revolution. Hope that Jack, Barack or some other new hero will emerge, take power back from Wall Street and return it to the people.
Unfortunately that won’t happen, folks. Yes, on TV Jack will come back from near-death, again. But in real life, Hank, Goldman and Wall Street’s mercenaries are winning the war. Read and weep Portfolio’s chilling finale: “Obama’s victory and Geithner’s appointment are the completion of Goldman’s meticulously crafted plan to become a superpower. The firm now has the clout to impose its will on the financial markets, and the world.”
GOP or Dems? Conservatives or liberals? It doesn’t matter. We’ll all controlled by “The Conspiracy.” So why not surrender, let them have the power? The truth is, through their lobbyists and surrogates in Washington, they already rule America. Surrender is a mere formality.
Accept reality. Hold them accountable later. After the next crisis. After the next meltdown of disaster capitalism — if there’s anything left after the “Great Depression II” sweeps like a pandemic across the planet, consuming all economies, for a long time. But for now, Goldman and other banks may well be short-term buys. Just be ready to dump them in the near future … a scenario that will be here sooner than you think.
April 21st, 2009 at 8:29 am
Hold on to what you think is real,……and NEVER let it fade away!Whats next,another boring detail?Yes i know you’re way passed due,let them try try and do it better,But NEVER let it fade away.
April 21st, 2009 at 1:55 pm
Hi Glen
THANK YOU - for having a Mentors Hart. As you demonstrate with such passion on your show.
You truly-want every one to succeed, as a Group - Community - as a People.
With your Integrity and Service to others - You are opening the door to Possibility
God Bless You
April 21st, 2009 at 3:43 pm
Since the President seems to favor Global law in place of our Constitution, shoudn’t he be concerned that a global court might try to indict congress for war crimes even though they are immune from prosecution under our constittion?
Just curious
April 21st, 2009 at 4:20 pm
English Rose: I should like to know more about the Middle Age concept of “music of the spheres”, I shall look it up, thank you. Here is a piece I hope you will enjoy by one of my favorites, William F. Buckley Jr., circa 1962 entitled “The Lonely Professor”.
“Professor Saxon was the nearest thing to an omnipresence that I ever knew. He made Yale unsafe for economic presumption.You could never tell just when one of the current economic myths, travelling about campus drawing applause from all the little apprentice social magicians, would turn a corner, bump into Glenn Saxon, and die a miserable death.
Occaisionally, our beleaguered conservative forces needed a massive display of strength,
and we would summon forth our Big Bertha, and put Mister Saxon publicly on display
before, say, the Political Union. There he would pronounce the verities, and, as it was
said of Timothy Dwight doing battle against paganism in the early days of his tenure at Yale,
infidelity would skulk and hide its head: and, reanimated, those of us who were convinced
of the interrelationship of economic freedom and freedom could go about our business with
the unique confidence that comes from knowing that the champion of your ideas has met the challenger and is still champion.
During those years it was fashionable to call Mr. Saxon a long list of derogatory names, usually to calculate the anachronism of his ideas. It was far safer simply to say that
Saxon was a troglodyte, whence it follows that his ideas have not seen the daylight, than
to put up the opposing ideas, side by side with his, to see which in fact reflected the
greater light. Some students, I grant, were afraid of Mr. Saxon. For one thing, there is that
face. When it is tense, there is no face in the literature of determination to match it:
Michelangelo’s depiction of Hercules writhing in his labors, Ronin’s Perseus slaying the monster: mere milquetoasts in contrast to that face, standing up to economic heresy.
I never knew a student who complained of being treated meanly by him(I wish I never new a student who treated him meanly). In argument he was intense, but not unyielding.
I once heard a student ask him ‘Don’t you admit the New Deal was right in setting up the SEC?’ To which he retorted grandly ‘Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.’
His truths are his truths, his demonstrations his demonstrations, his experiences his experiences: and the question was less whether these were valid truths, profound demonsrations, or relevant experiences than than whether a great university would have the
generosity to treat a scholar, a gentleman, and a dissident generously. I think Yale– if I may use collectively in Mr. Saxon’s presence– failed: but not, thanks largely to the students who organized this dinner, wholly. A part of Yale is here tonight to say to him:
For as long as we live, we shall not forget your courage or the force of your devotion, or the arena in which you fought.”
Now Rose, that was eloquent was it not? I could continue in this fashion for say, another 998 nights?
Cordially
April 21st, 2009 at 5:26 pm
Antistatist,
A lovely story and it is indeed eloquent. Thank you for that.
Once you’ve read about the wonderful music of the spheres concept, tell me if you think that Kepler was a pagan sun worshipper as some authorities claim. His mother was tried as a witch apparently and Kepler was steeped in the occult. He certainly fantasised about either solar travel or travelling to the sun, annoyingly, I forget which and I’ve not time to look it up as it’s past 1 am here and I must get some sleep - I’ve been on leave since Easter and I’m back in my office tomorrow. Copernicus is supposed to have been a pagan too, which may support the view that scientists are not without their complexities and are as value laden as the rest of us, despite their claims to the contrary.
April 21st, 2009 at 5:31 pm
Glenn - You are my hero! Have been listening to you for years on Atlanta talk radio. My son, who is a rising sophmore in a prominent Atlanta private school, did a political project lat year in 8th grade where he chose Mr. Huckaby for the best Republican Presidential candidate. His reasons were incredible…including THE FAIR TAX!! He made this decision mainly on his own…at the time a 13 year old. I assume he has been taught a work ethic…no work no allowance buddy..no good grades no allowance buddy…imagine the HORROR…..his dad and In should be arrested!! I have always quoted Ben Franklin to him over the years. My favorite being {paraphrased of course}, “the most successful people in life are not the smartest, they are the ones who work the hardest”. My husband is from England and has grown up in that Socialistic Democracy. If his dad did not pay fo private health care, he would died before he could have a knee replacement and walk normally. My son cannot wait to vote and get these socialists out of power. He asks me all the time why we, he successful ones , who worked our asses off have to pay for the idiots in life who knew they could not afford the houses they were buying but jut “did” because some evil banker gave them the loan that the government forced them to give in the first place!! Even my son says..” mom, if someone tells me to do something that I know is not a good idea, i do not do it” He is a kid and these home buyers are adults. These adults knew that they would be taken care of because they are not the “rich”and are discriminated against….oh my heart bleeds for them. I grew up in a crappy neighborhood and and spent 20 years to get to where we are at now and refuse to feel sorry for people who “were conveniently stupid” when they signed their loan papers.
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April 21st, 2009 at 5:33 pm
Ben Wilk.
You’ve no need to worry about that. Once the leaders of the New World Order - the EUSSR writ large in other words - are making 80% of America’s laws, extracting billions of dollars from you annually to redistribute overseas and to cover the fat cat salaries of New World Order leaders and their army of bureaucrats, once they’re controlling much that America does, even much of the minutia of your citizens’ lives, they’ll have what they want. They won’t be concerned about retrospective issues with Congress, which by then will be just a rubber stamp for the edicts of the New World Order Commission. Do I see your brow furrow with sceptism? Well, that’s what the EU has done to my country, England.
April 21st, 2009 at 8:03 pm
English Rose, I sampled some material re: the musica universalis and it is very intersting, I was struck by the idea originating from Jewish beliefs of an “orderly cosmos singing the praises of it’s creator”, which to me, is a particularly beautiful way to think of our universe,
unlike the clinical, calculating views of modern scientists, which will never explain all the wonders we are blessed to be a small part of. I haven’t delved into Kepler yet, but I will.
I hope your first day back from Easter leave is a pleasant one. I’m off to the mountains of
North Carolina tomorrow for the day. I wish it were fall, though in spring the mountains are
beautiful, they are truly magnificent in the fall.
Cordially
April 21st, 2009 at 8:13 pm
Save the Ozone, eat cow.
April 21st, 2009 at 8:40 pm
Vomet River fart: I was glad to hear from you today, the unique aroma emanating from your pants made for a special day, I look forward to smelling your stench in the days to come. Indeed, your stand against the use of toilet paper, in order to save our planet from those less enlightened, is one of eloquent beauty.
April 21st, 2009 at 9:02 pm
Bee Tooth Tumber Butt: Indeed it was a lovely day, I enjoy being all political and crap with you. For generously changing my diaper today, and not wiping my rash riddled bums, in keeping with my protest, I wish to have you take me out to dinner. Also, my phone bill is past due, I wish to give you the honer of paying that bill, sweet one.
April 21st, 2009 at 9:13 pm
Vomet River fart: Truly it would be my honer to pay your bills, and take your smelly butt out to dinner. The magnificent stance your taking against the evil toilet paper manufacturing companies is one that demands respect.
April 21st, 2009 at 9:26 pm
Bee Tooth Tumber Butt: I know, what I’m doing is truly great, when I think of the billions of lives I’m saving by not wiping my ass, I can’t help but to cry. What I’m doing is so, beautiful. Oh, just one more thing, it turns out that I will indeed need your help in the extracting of the crust between my cheeks.
April 21st, 2009 at 9:33 pm
Vomet River fart: I look forward to extracting crust from between your cheeks. Those you will haved saved in your stand, will someday worship your crust. With this in mind, I plain to save your ass crust in my freezer.
April 21st, 2009 at 11:20 pm
I believe that we made this bed and now we as Americans need to find a way to make it work. I do not believe a word that comes out of ANY Washington talking head mouth. If you keep that in mind, Americans have to do what they have always done in bad times and work it out. I believe that Washington can not fix this mess, they never intended to. So help your neighbors, friends and family. Grow a garden, put up all that you can from it, then give the rest away. Spend only the money that you need to, then keep out of the stores. Now is the time to start a system for trading what you have for what you need. If you are like my family you would put up a fight before you gave up your guns. If so, then put up stocks of what you need for your protection.
I believe that God is in control and those that know Jesus as their Lord will be okay. If things get to bad down here we will just be going HOME.
April 21st, 2009 at 11:22 pm
Bee Tooth Tumber Butt: Holly crap my ass is on fire, the only thing keeping me from cleaning myself is the thought of all the people worshiping my butt crust in the future. Its so hard to sleep, what with the burning and smell. Please bring powder when you take me out to eat tomorrow.
April 21st, 2009 at 11:30 pm
Vomet River fart: Hang in there my love, be brave, just remember all the lives you’ll be saving, you must not wipe. If it helps, the dog took a crap on the floor an hour ago, I was to lazy to clean it up, and it smells way bad in here. Thank of the poor trees, and the people your saving, the more your ass burns, the loader your voice will be heard.
April 22nd, 2009 at 2:34 am
Its funny as hell that all of you are crying about the government spending. The money is being spent on things like roads, bridges and schools. Bush spent close to three trillion on bombs and war and not one iota of a peep came from you. Please tell me why this makes sense? I’m sick of fighting with you and I don’t want to be called names and ridiculed for asking a simple question. If you can’t answer then shut up. Please, someone reconcile the hypocrisy.
April 22nd, 2009 at 6:20 am
THE FREDDIE MAC EVENT
AS A LIFE COMES TO END
A sad time by all accounts, no doubdt. But here is the thing ; has been my experience to doubt everything,….to the point to challange even the doubt itself.
With that said, ….WHAT IF ? David Kellrman DID NOT commit SUICIDE?,…..instead this is a case of others matters ,….let’s say,…. and he was MURDERED for he did represent risk to whoever (????) might be found GUILTY OF CRIMINAL MALPRACTICES in the current ONGOING economical fiasco that involves heavily Freddie Mac (as well as Fannie Co.)…..could anyone think on that vector? I could.
It is not a matter of fictional CSI TV show, for those things really happen in everyday life.So is not a matter of science-fiction or too speculative scenatrio it is a matter of to reflectl on - ‘WHAT IF’- this event could or will be of a benefit to someone(s)…..BIG INTERROGATIVE HERE ! (???)
Because at this point whatever information this individual might had , he cannot delivrer it, cannot testify about absolutely anything.
Did anyone thought about this one? I did.
good day everyone
Daniel Cabrera
Merrillville,Indiana
April 22nd, 2009 at 6:31 am
WOW - i’m seeing it more every day–HOW THE MEDIA pics and chooses what they want to say or recognize, and HOW they want it construed. When the (gay?) judged asked the Miss USA contestant what she thought about legalizing gay marriage - she said WHAT THE MAJORITY OF US WANT TO SCREAM ! With his question, he got a TINY “who-raw”, but with her reply - IT WAS LOUD !! Way to go young lady!! The portrail in the news is that she should have kept her mouth shut–or rather should have given the judge what he and the MINORITY keep wanting to throw in our faces, that gay marriage is THE WAY TO GO!! ok - it’s N O T ok !!
Next–on torture, this is a note I sent to my daughter with a published discription of the
each torture antic: I don’t get it –they want him impeached because he gave the “ok”
on these “torture” tactics?
We should be screaming that Obama REVEALED any of this to the WORLD ! And we
should NOT do away with torture tactics ! EVERYONE ELSE HAS THEM !!! mom
– Slam a detainee’s head against a wall: “any pain experienced is not
of the intensity associated with serious physical injury.”
– Slap a detainee’s face: “The facial slap does not produce pain that
is difficult to endure.”
– Place a detainee into stress positions: “They simply involve forcing
the subject to remain in uncomfortable positions.”
– Waterboard a detainee: “The waterboard…inflicts no pain or actual
harm whatsoever.”
April 22nd, 2009 at 6:35 am
I just purchased a pair of New Balance walking shoes same style I have used for years but were always made in “China”. These new shoes are made in THE “USA” with a lable stating New Balance is comitted to “American Workers”
I think this is just great! Maybe you can comment.
Regards Robert
April 22nd, 2009 at 6:38 am
Rob: answer where all the money from tolls, gasoline & diesel fuel tax, road use taxes paid by EVERY TRUCK in America that delivers YOUR FOOD AND GOODS to your local store/market. Government collects more than enough money for roads, bridges and infrastructure. The George Washington bridge had a toll of $7.00 in 1991. Multiply this by hundreds of thousand vehicles per week but where is the money going?The money goes to unionized government workers for their FREE Health care and Retirements Benefits. That is where this Stimulis Package(?) is going. Mayor Bloomberg of New York recently stated that the Fireman’s Retirement benefits cost MORE than the ENTIRE BUDGET to run the entire New York Fire Department. Now I agree these First Responders deserve these benefits along with the Police but not EVERY Government worker such as clerks, Secretaries etc.
You as many so called Liberals cannot read between the lines and fall for the Kool-Aid fed to you because you WANT to believe it. Politicians talk as if we are all idiots because some of us ARE idiots.
Every time you want to “INVEST ” more money in Education it only goes to Teachers Salaries and Benefits because the Unions “OWN” ALL DEMOCRAT POLITICIANS. In New Jersey 90% of our school budgets go to Teachers Salary and benefits, 10% goes to actual education. You have eyes but do not see, ears but do not hear. Try a little introspection and don’t be a hard core liberal just to be a hard core liberal. I’m sure there is a lot of Good in you but educate yourself a little better. Best to you!!!
April 22nd, 2009 at 6:38 am
THE WORD: BORDER, BORDER, BORDER, Wall of China - any of this ring a bell? Yes, they have come here, brought all relatives, had 10 kids each - are now the largest group of imigrants –and they keep growing. My son doesn’t have a job with insurance, is off mine now, had to go to a local clinic - FULL OF HISPANICS - he was turned away… they were just too busy. Local schools running over at the seams - same thing. OTHER COUNTRIES DON’T PUT UP WITH THIS CRAP. If you’re there and have nothing– that’s the way you stay (if you get in in the first place). Americans are VERY COMPATIONATE, but we know when we’re being U S E D. end of story.
April 22nd, 2009 at 7:01 am
I was born and raised in the beautiful country of Switzerland. I came to the US 1988, going through all the hoops of immigration, becoming a resident alien. I made an effort to learn and speak the language of my new home country. I am raising three teenagers, all with great love and gratitude for the United States for everything it has afforded us and with love for their other home Switzerland. Their dad served two duties in Iraq, which was incredibly hard on the boys, but they never spoke a cross word about the service. My younger two sons want to join the service, my oldest is headed off to college. I have been a single mother for almost 14 years, there have been some tough times, but I prefer to reflect on the good moments.
Several years ago, my parents left Switzerland and moved to Costa Rica. I was rather stunned by their decision. Until now.
10 years ago, my mom had a florist store and my dad worked for the Swiss government. My folks were considered upper middle class and became the tax-cash-cow for the government. My mom’s business was doing great and she was thinking of hiring part time help. But the mandatory obligation for employee benefits made it impossible for my mother to afford the help she needed. One of the biggest costs for a new, even part time employee were the health and social security benefits that the Swiss government required to be paid by the employer.
Then my dad was forced into early retirement. The cost of their health care insurance became punitive. Remember, Switzerland has open borders and anyone can walk in scream “Sanctuary” and it will take months or even years until their status is being determined. Until such time, they have the rights to all services at no cost to them. My parents saw their savings dwindle, the income from their business being sucked away by taxes and social services. There was a breaking point. They sold all they had and left.
In my humble opinion, my beautiful homeland just lost some of the best people it ever had. My dad had worked his way from nothing, taking night classes while working full time and still being a dad to us kids, to owning his own house. Back home, owning a home is a lot tougher than here - no waiving the down payment!!!
Now my parents live in a big house, have horses, chickens, plenty of land and four German Shepherd dogs guarding the property. Their retirement income now supports Costa Rica’s economy instead of the Swiss.
My mother travels to Switzerland about once a year. I asked her one time if she missed it. Yes, she did. But, alas, they could never afford to live there anymore. Some of her retired friends have to make ends meet with less than 1800CHF a month, with a rent of 1000CHF, leaving them to live off less than 800CHF. The cost of living is sky high and some senior citizens, that have worked all their lives, are now below poverty level.
Socialist government doesn’t work. It is as simple as that. My parents do not argue about giving a hand-up. It is the hand-outs that stole their home from them. Limitless and groundless benefits.
Now here is the kicker for everyone that thinks I am a little rich girl. I am currently unemployed and have to use public aid. For the first time in 20 years that I have been in this country. I spend hours on the computer searching for jobs. I have liquidated whatever assets I have to make ends meet. I lost my job due to medical reasons, due to an injury that I sustained at work almost 5 years ago. Eventually the case will be settled and I can move on. Times are tough in our household. And still, I cannot subscribe to the socialist spending frenzy in Washington. I am learning to type left handed because I cannot use my right hand effectively. I am using the internet to sharpen and learn skills beneficial for the job market. I take care of my sons and my health by eating healthy and regular exercise, because that keeps our health care cost minimal.
I cannot justify to spend my kids and grand kids future. My parents had to leave Switzerland because they could not afford to live out their golden years in the country they grew up in. I had always hoped maybe one day, when the kids are all grown and moved out, I would go back home - to Switzerland. I know today I wont be able to afford it. I am not sure I will be able to afford living in the US, simply because I see similar patterns.
There are better solutions than just to throw money at problems. Spending needs to be precise, targeted and calculated. When a “few billion dollars” for pork spending isn’t a lot of money anymore, that is when you should know, this is a manure sprinkler.
Please, please, please. Look around, learn from the past, learn from other countries mistakes and failures as well as successes.
Bush has left a huge mess. When I clean my son’s mess, I don’t just go in and toss it all in a pile and fling the mess from one corner to the other. NO! You start with a real plan. I look for an organizing pattern that has worked for other mothers with messy teenagers. I adapt and then start in one corner and get that all cleaned and then move on. But I do with my son and with his help, input and work. If I just rush in there throw it all about and then impose my structure on him, the room will be back to where it was or worse within no time flat. Until my son wants to clean his room because he cannot find clean shorts, that is when it all becomes effective. I am here to help if he needs me.
Don’t ruin this beautiful country by burdening its future with out of control spending and debts that our great grand children will still have to repay, if it is payable at all!
April 22nd, 2009 at 7:30 am
For fear of Governmental reprisal, please pass this on somehow to the president of the united state of idiots: By the way, I plan to distance myself from any company who worships the earth or not smart enough to realize that man cannot control God’s atmosphere.
Yo Obama,
Although you are legally the leader of the free world, I do not accept that you are legitimate, nor is your agenda about freedom, but revenge and retaliation for something that none of us had anything to do with.
Let me say that I don’t hold any HOPE that this letter will reach beyond your head (if it even gets that far), and although I do hope that God will ast least deliver it to your heart, it is still your responsibility to respond correctly and accountable for your actions.
With the comments that you have espoused over seas, you don’t speak for this American. There are Americans who feel w/o representation in Washington, and that’s okay, we lost our confidence in elected officials long time ago, while having only one true statesman in 6-7 decades. Not red or blue, black or white, right or left, just Americans. People who love and breathe America. You’ve not persuaded anyone who hasn’t been enslaved by their particular interest. Why don’t someone just do what is good for America. The government needs to deal with the affairs of our nation and quit competing in the market place. You have destroyed the work of centuries and our standing in the world in a few mouth fulls, destroyed our economy with your implementation of your housing garbage, to a level of debt untouched by the previous 43 administrations COMBINED. I could care less the idiot dictators opinions of America. What else would we expect of our enemies? But you are a supposed friend. History is complete with good times as well as bad, not a scrapbook of complaints to divide us? You are nothing more than a drug dealer suppling your addict’s cravings, until, of course, you can no longer supply their ever growing addiction, which I pray will run its course quickly. You and your addicts have collectively formed a united state of idiots, but since you have never loved or known America, you have no clue that you are about to wake a sleeping giant. Like a fish, you are lured into the devil’s trap by your lust for power. For a moment, you have the liberty to run and then suddenly, something will rip at you bite (hold), your struggle for freedom (regain your potion of deception) only compounds your snare. Oh what a tangled web we weave, when we practice to deceive. You will make history, as America’s greatest enemy, continuing on your present course of action ( I realize that may even delight you, but time will be the judge). I personally believe you are a trojan horse, to America, so many are asleep at the convenience and distraction of your counterfeit love and dollars (the love of money truly is the ROOT of all EVIL). Even your own tank of idiots will notice the circle of destruction in your actions against America. You people purposely caused this economical crisis for your opportunity sake, including both Bushes and the whole unthinking tank of and creation of global idiots. This country has for a large part turned its back on God, but there are still Christians in America and around the world. We want America back and we will fight for this great country that, Jehovah GOD has given us through the great statesmen in the day of the unamended Constitution, signed and sealed with the battle scars of heroic men and women out of their great love for this wonderful nation still, despite your attempt to destroy it. I know that you don’t like it, but according to its Constitution, this is still a Christian nation.
In closing, let me plea to a side of you that is built into every human being by The Only Creator, a sense of right and wrong. God created us individuals, and so we are all given faith enabling us to choose, but also making us responsible and accountable for our choices. You have an opportunity to be, not just one of the greatest statesmen, but of people who have ever been born. All you have to do is put political partisan aside, lay racism down, lay the purchased popularity and power aside, abandon idolatry (they will soon find out as soon as GOD allows, that you are not God, at least a destructive god. You did not create the world and cannot control the wind or seas, or change the temperature one Celsius. The only thing you are changing is a good system into a bad system. Why not please a living God? If not, remember, every script has an end to it, every act must return to who they are. The end of time is coming more rapidly by each wicked action. I see no evidence that you and your associates are believers in the true and living God, but freedom allows that outward action by an individual. Christians may one day have to worship inwardly for fear of harm, but too, one day every knee will bow and every tongue will confess Jesus as LORD. I personally believe, this was a Tokyo Rose” affair, and that this day has been being orchestrated since the ending revolution of JFK, Ronald Wilson Reagan types in modern time. Everything that you said someone else was doing is what you have been and are doing now. Divert the attention while you pick the pocket. It really began with Truman in the early 20th century and greatly enhance by Jimmy “peanut brain” Carter in such a brief period of time (it never takes long to tear down, but constructing takes time. It is so amazing that you people don’t learn from the past mistakes, unless it is a coo to further destroy), Clinton, also Bushes 41/43, and now you. We have enjoyed Democracy has taken over in Washington, but America is a REPUBLIC. As you know, they’re night and day, one of the other. One is legal slavery, even “Rev.s” (vile) Wrong, Jagged Junction, and Al “doolally ” Chapton, would know that, and the other is FREEDOM IN ACTION. With one it’s trickle down economics and the other is trickle up poverty. You people don’t have a clue of what our forefathers talked about when they spoke of “rights.” You turned a wonderful thing into a weapon of the lazy entitlement mentality. You proselytize people and turn them into tenfold the proclaimed enemy. I am praying for you, that you will heed the leading of Almighty God, who has allowed you your position in history, as did He Pilate. Unfortunately, he made the wrong choice (as you have thus far), and crucified TRUTH. Pilate asked Jesus, “What is truth?” and was looking TRUTH in the face. What an awesome responsibility and waste it would be, for a man to have so great an opportunity as do you, and treat it with such selfish greed. Make no mistake, God is not mocked, a man reaps whatever he sows. The rich man suddenly found that he could not take his clothing of purple and fine linen with him, he didn’t seek the sumptuously filled table, would have been satisfied with a drop of water on the tip of his tongue. It is appointed unto man once to die and then comes the judgment. And, we will be here today, and gone tomorrow. I really feel that the security that America needs now, is from our federal government.
By the way, as a citizen of the United States of America, we are much wiser than you give us credit for. The majority of America has not spoken, only 1/6. What does a trillion look like?
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=12754
Go Figure
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April 22nd, 2009 at 8:53 am
Antistatist,
“an orderly cosmos singing the praises of it’s creator”
That’s a stunningly beautiful image of the Cosmos. It’s good to be back at work and feeling refreshed after my Easter break. I love my job, yet I badly needed that break. I was shattered from working very long days (and nights) prior to Easter - and from battling our inept UK government day in, day out. So I spent all but one day of my leave just messing about and lazing around in my garden and my cottage. All very mundane stuff compared to a Spring day in the Carolina mountains. How I envy you. Have a lovely day in the mountains.
April 22nd, 2009 at 10:18 am
Elephant Graveyards
While fetid fumes discharge from private jets,
they shout we’re guilty driving SUVs.
One fist of Uncle Sam begins to squeeze,
the other chains a ball of lobbied debts.
Dismantled ramparts foster terrorist threats
and standards fall to placate and appease.
The media, in awe on dirty knees,
have used messianic praise to bait a net.
He croons his promised change to sooth our ears
and propagates a hatred toward the rich.
Our hands outstretch to catch the coming gold,
the manna rains of future fiscal years.
As business starts to flounder, soon it’ll ditch
the taxes. Millions join the jobless fold.
We tread on Roman ash
and navigate where fallen empires fell.
Contingent truth and envy weaves a spell
to fill a hollow shell.
We Hail the Chief with faithful adoration
while desolations seize Obama’s nation.
April 22nd, 2009 at 10:41 am
Rob Wolfley Says:
April 22nd, 2009 at 2:34 am
Bush spent close to three trillion on bombs and war and not one iota of a peep came from you.
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As usual your facts are bogus! Bush spent one (1) trillion in 8 years and he had two (2) wars to fight. O’bummer has spent two (2) trillion in 3 months. You are so full of crap you “wolf” it down like a vulture eating carrion!
April 22nd, 2009 at 11:43 am
As for the “Obamassiah’s” stimulus package is concerned, all I can say is that the people who voted for him have lost all common sense on the whole thing. All they saw from the very beginning was a handsome man who had barely a year in the Illinois Senate, and he thought that was enough leverage to be President. All he is doing is “playing house.”
The rest of Washington and the elite, “political mathematicians” are definitely using the wrong equation to solve this mess that was started when Bill Clinton was in office. Algebra wasn’t my strong point in school, but after just finishing the course in college a few months ago, I must say that they’re waayyy off base here!
With the Obama supporters virtually asleep while this is going on, the liberal elite AND Republicans who have gone too far to the center, the only thing left to say is .. God help us!
April 22nd, 2009 at 12:29 pm
Bee Tooth Tumber Butt: Alas my love, due to the over wheming pain in my buttocks, I will not be able to attend dinner with you tonight. Please just bring the food over to my double wide, and don’t forget the money for my phone bill and the powder for me bums.
April 22nd, 2009 at 12:44 pm
Vomet River fart: Don’t worry darlin, I understand, I may be a bit late, for I’m having brain surgery today, but no matter what I’ll be there.
April 22nd, 2009 at 12:45 pm
The only thing our President is stimulating is the Leftists and Socialists. There is no end to the lengths Mr. O will go to belittle our country and dispense patronage; he’s from Chicago, it is SOP to play dirty.
Here is a thought about the bailout (?) of GM. June 1 approaches, it is looking grim regarding a re-structuring plan, even more sinister (read: govenment intervention) actions follow. Why so much trouble? It seems that the UAW will not budge an inch toward participating in a viable plan. Maybe the UAW will force GM to declare Chapter 11 and then, as payback for all the election $$, Mr. Obama steps in to force a new corporate structure featuring even more UAW power. Impossible? Think About it.
April 22nd, 2009 at 1:26 pm
Cow farts are destroying the ozone layer, if you care about the future of our mother earth, please have a burger today.
April 22nd, 2009 at 1:28 pm
Vomet River fart: What the hell is over wheming pain? You putz.
April 22nd, 2009 at 2:05 pm
Pelosi, if you had as much butt crust as I do, you’de have trouble spelling to, you jerk or jerket.
April 22nd, 2009 at 3:45 pm
Okay so you found some numbers that include only what we spend on Iraq every day, I guess that’s 1 trillion. You forgot about the other costs. like the death benefits and the medical costs, the impact of the war on our economy. Even if it is as you say “only 1 trillion”, where is the benefit to the United States in this? Is is the great gas prices? That has been wonderful. Maybe you think that “we fight em over there so we don’t have to fight them over here”. Great reasoning. Fight who though? When did Iraqis fight us over here? The actual cost in this war is just under 3 trillion, this is not my “spin” as you call it and I will post the facts if you need me to. This money could have been spent on the very things Obama is trying to get done now.
April 22nd, 2009 at 3:54 pm
To The Bender:You are right on!!!. GM should file for bankruptcy BUT THROUGH THE COURTS. Obama wants a government controlled bankruptcy so he can still control what he says and not the JUDGE. Remember he is owned by the UAW and other unions and he will protect them.
Now today the democrats want to “Fast Track” the Cap & Trade bill through Congress. Amid all the turmoil the American people won’t realize what this phony bill is. Families have died in Philadelphia due to illegal electrical hookups causing house fires. They could not pay their electrical bill so they were disconnected. If they cannot afford the current rates how will they afford the new “SKYROCKETING” utility rates. This hits 100% of us including the inner city minorities who put this amatuer in office. In the future it will be a struggle to keep food on the table and a roof over our heads. We are becoming a classless society.
A liberal on TV today said it is good that prices will be high “caused we will be forced to cut back and use less energy. Now I don’t have control over my heating or cooling thermostat or I will be punished.
Today I have figured out why liberal democrats hate and attack conservatives:
Their Obama is destroying America, Joe (Buffoon) Biden is VP, Nancy(bufoon) Pelosi is Speaker, Harry(Bufoon) Reid is Senate Majority Leader, Chris(Crooked) Dodd is a Democrat, Charlie(Tax Cheat) Rangle, Barney(Fag) Frank etc., all are buffoons and DEMOCRAT. Dems won’t admit they are wrong and attack us instead.
April 22nd, 2009 at 4:20 pm
Jeanene Garafalo; HYPOCRITE Says:
April 22nd, 2009 at 11:21 am
After showing Garafalo spew her “tea party protesters are racist” crap, they showed her defending Johnny Depp a few years ago (when he Depp, protested Bushs’ policies), when she said “every person should be able to protest their government” “every one should have a voice” she repeated these words a second time (everyone should have a voice) I guess that would make Garafalo a hypocrite. Protesting against anyone SHE doesn’t approve of is OK, but DON’T EVER PROTEST against something SHE believes in! F_ _ K YOU Comrade Garafalo. You are a SOCIALIST PIG!!
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Wolfie: Would you care to weigh in on Janine Garafalo? I saw this above too. Both videos where she is FOR EVERYONE HAVEING A VOICE AND PROTESTING WHEN IT WAS PROTESTING FOR WHAT SHE BELIEVED IN BUT NOW,,,,, not so much.. I am assumeing you saw her rant the other day. Does this mean she is going to be AGAINST PROTESTING NOW AND FOREVER,,,, OR WILL SHE CHANGE HER MIND AND PROTEST NEXT TIME IT SUITS HER POLITICAL VIEWS? I THINK YES! You attended a tea party, what say you about comrade Jeanine? And don’t sugar coat it!!
April 22nd, 2009 at 5:28 pm
English Rose: Thank you, I did have a good trip today. I only wish I had time to linger and go hiking or fishing. I saw many red-tailed hawk, as they abound there, and peculiarly, I saw a few flakes of snow. It had collected on the roofs of houses and on the mountaintops,
barely visible, as it was too warm to accumulate on the ground. A couple of locals confirmed my suspicion that it was indeed unusual weather for late April. I missed the rhododendron,a beautiful mountain flower, usually white, which rivals the fall turn of leaves in it’s beauty, by some weeks. I think I will return in the summer when the wild blueberrys grow. I hope you had a nice day, Rose. I’ll reply later after I’ve read about Kepler.
Cordially
April 22nd, 2009 at 8:13 pm
Bee Tooth Tumber butt: Again I wish to thank you for cancealing your brain surgery in order to come over and change and feed me today. Indeed the eloquent beauty that you showed will not soon be forgotten. Soon my car note will arrive, and once again, I would like to give you the honer of paying it for me. If not for you this toilet paper stand would not be possible. Though the accumulation of crust between my cheeks was substantial, I barely noticed the pain with you by my side.
April 22nd, 2009 at 8:22 pm
Vomet River fart: Scrapping your butt crust was an honer and a pleasure. I covered it in foil and placed it in the freezer as I said I would, my love. And though my freezer smells like ass now, it is your ass I smell.
April 22nd, 2009 at 9:30 pm
Bee Tooth Tumber butt: Once again I can not sleep, the burning is to the point that, well, it really burns. A couple of times I thought about wiping, but I fought that urge by thinking of you and the beautiful trees I’m saving, not to mention the billions of lives. The nabors are complaining a bit about the smell emenating from my home, but its such a small price to pay.
April 22nd, 2009 at 11:06 pm
I read a lot of the entries but I don’t have time to read all of it and don’t like reading so much trash.
I’ve never written on any thing like this before but I would like to give my opinion on a few things.
1) Abortion Problem: I beleive in the Bible. I beleive abortion is a sin. I don’t want to force anyone to beleive the way I do. I also don’t want Abortionist to force me to beleive the way Abortionist do. By forcing me to pay for Abortions thats what Abortionist are doing.
Abortion Solution: Do not outlaw Abortions! People have freedom of choice and their choices should not be dictated by the government including the choice to give abortions by the doctors or hospitals and women to receive them. Do stop making me pay for it. Add an Abortion Line with an amount line (like the Give for Re-election Line)on the income tax form so the Abortionist can check a box on the form and write in the amount that they chose to donate to their cause above what they owe in taxes. This can’t be part of their taxes or I would still be forced to pay for the Abortion. The money should be held in it’s own account so that the government can’t use it for any thing else. Those that particpate can answer for their sins on Judgement day or not if they don’t beleive in the bible or they think they don’t think it is a sin.
2) Problem: Corruption in government and turn to Socialism: The problem with our government is the number of people in it and the lenght of time they have in it to build up their power. The government is not made up of individuals but families. The whole family. It has become so big that it is now “of the government, by the government, for the government”. The progerssive people have taken it over and it is very hard for the non government people to vote any of the progressive people out since the people in government are paying their self what they want and they keep voting for the people that will pay them and keep them in their job.
Solution: The best solution is Nepatism. Strict Nepatism laws should be enforced from local governments all the way to through the federal government. Only one person in a family should be able to receive a check from the tax payers directly or indirectly. That means that if your dad, mother, husband, wife, sister, brother or inlaw is a government employee at any level elected or non elected then no one else in his family or inlaws family can have a job paid for by the tax payers even if it’s working for a private company that does work for the government or a company that does work for a company that does work for the government.
This should transend all of government. In other words one family member can’t have a job in local government and another have one in federal or county government. The only exception should be the uniformed military.
All elected offices from local to federal should not have any retirement attached to them. No one should be able to serve more than one term in any office nor ever run for the same office again nor another office while “serving” in an office. No one should be able to run for more than one term of office in their life time in a single level of government. In other words if you run for a local office then when your term is over you could run for your bosses job and so on till you run for mayor. When you serve that term then you can no loger run for any elected office in your city but you could run for offices in the county, state or federal till you top out in that level of governement. You always have to run for the next office up from where you are working or just served. You can’t run for any office more than once in your life time.
The only retirement pay that any one getting paid by the tax payers elected or non elected should be able to get should be the same Social Security Check that the rest of us get. This should include all jobs funded by the taxpayers like Congress, Senate, President, Cabinet, Teachers, Fire Fighters, Police, Post Office, Freddy Mac, Fannie May, Admin, Garbage Colletors, Fema, Judges, Court Employees, NASA, Cia, FBI, all military research related, etc. or companies that get paid by tax payers funds or owned or run in any way by the government.
All retirement funds that now exsist at any level of government or that were funded by the tax payers directly or indirectly should be rolled into the Social Security System. The Social Security System should be the only retirement system that any of the tax funds can be used to fund. The only exception should be the uniformed military.
No Union should get funded by tax dollars directly or indirectly or have any members that get paid with tax dollars at any level of government or companies that do work for the government. “The government is already a union”.
All pay raises should be voted for by the tax payers that people getting the raises work for with no exceptions.
No federal employee should be able to vote in a federal election.
No state employee should be able to vote in a state election.
No county employee should be able to vote in a county election.
No city employee should be able to vote in a city election.
All election donations should be split evenly among all parties running for an office with no exceptions.
3) Problem: Taxes
Solution: Consumption Tax or Sales Tax. It’s the only fair tax system. If you or a company makes $10.00 dollars when you spend it you will pay $10.00 worth of sales tax. If you or a company makes a $100,000,000.00 when you spend it you will pay a $100,000,000.00 worth of sales tax. “When a company buys or sells any thing they have to pay the tax or collect the tax for what they sell so there is no longer a tax number needed. Sales taxes are paid on all transactions from one company or person to another including raw materials. I bet there are enough transactions between companies and people that the sales tax would be less than 1/10% to fund the size of government and military that we need. You could reduce the government by 90% at all levels.
All other forms of taxes or fees should be out lawed including capital gains, buisness, unemployeement, workmans comp, interest on dividends, property, inheritence, gas, marrage licenses, driving licenses, Hunting Licenses, Gun Licenses, Park Fees, Car Tags, etc.
Every legal resident should receive a weekly government check for the same amount when they turn 18. This would allow us to elimanate all poverty, Homelessness, the IRS and a lot of government employees. If you don’t want to work you can survive. If you want to do more than survive you can reap the rewards that you produce.
Government could concentrate on laws for people getting along and defending us and forget about Money.
God Bless all of you! It’s Tea Time!
April 23rd, 2009 at 4:59 am
I don’t give a rats ass about Janine Garaffolo (however you spell her name). I tend to limit my watching of political people to those with intelligence. The only thing I know about this moron is that she is a horrible comedian and she makes a worse lesbian. (correct me if I am wrong in my assumption of her sexual preference) I haven’t watched her, don’t know what she said to make people mad and really don’t care. I would imagine she gives you the same feeling that Limbaugh gives me. Just another blowhard hitting all the hot buttons trying to stir up hatred between you and me.
April 23rd, 2009 at 5:10 am
As for the “only protest when it suits you thing”. Isn’t that what protests are for? I saw Bill O’reilly do the same thing. I don’t know how you all feel about this guy, but I have a lot of respect for him. When I saw him saying everyone has the right to protest, I remembered that when people were protesting the war, he called them unpatriotic and said they were hurting our country. That is what I hate about anyone who is on the news siding with any cause. When did our news stations become unfair and biased? I know, I know MSNBC is no better. Did you all see Rachel Maddow making fun of tea baggers? I do it too, but I’m not on TV. I also just think the name is funny as hell. I completely agree with the idea of them.
April 23rd, 2009 at 5:14 am
Common Sense Says
All other forms of taxes or fees should be out lawed including capital gains, buisness, unemployeement, workmans comp, interest on dividends, property, inheritence, gas, marrage licenses, driving licenses, Hunting Licenses, Gun Licenses, Park Fees, Car Tags, etc.
Every legal resident should receive a weekly government check for the same amount when they turn 18. This would allow us to elimanate all poverty, Homelessness, the IRS and a lot of government employees. If you don’t want to work you can survive. If you want to do more than survive you can reap the rewards that you produce.
Government could concentrate on laws for people getting along and defending us and forget about Money.
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This guy says Socialism is the problem, and then here is his solution!!! lmfao
April 23rd, 2009 at 6:22 am
Ron,
Now you have pissed even me off. What you describe above is communisim at best. Why should any able-bodied 18 year old get a check just for breathing? The only time a kid should get a check is for college and standards should be high for that. This thing of a kid getting a full ride because he can play football or baseball is dumb. half of them can only read at a sixth grade level upon graduation while theres others that could hold a 3 point that can’t get in. That’s stupid when the kid blows out a knee and can’t play anymore he can’t get a job because the diploma he has is nothing but a piece of worthless paper.
The O-man is in the process of cutting his own political throat in the next few weeks. he wants to prosecute Bush for the “torture” and just yesterday Condie came out and admitted she gave the o.k. for it. Now if he prosecutes her he is going to drive a lot of the blacks that voted for him back to the GOP.
April 23rd, 2009 at 6:28 am
In September 2008, I discovered that my home computer was hacked into by a Miami, FL radio station. It was 790 the ticket, WAXY. On the following day, I discovered that they stole everything from my computer including pictures, documents and were voyuering me and father at the time and was in my cell phones — I was using a prepaid phone then later bought a Blackberry which they were also in. Also with my stolen documents, they with a help of one of their listeners, Hasenpfeffer aka John Pearson, an IT specialist with the largest Ford dealership in Miami, they made a web site that contained all my documents, pictures and also included with all the web sites I visited and their web site also allowed for anyone to see what I was typing and when and how many times I visited a certain web site. Also, with Dan LeBatard’s media connections, ESPN, E! Network, MSNBC, Ryan Sea crest, and many others also had knowledge of my hygiene habits along with all my daily activities. They circulated all my documents and picture throughout Florida and violated my privacy. They were in my life 24/7 and saw me in various stages of dress. Also, I might add, I have never published my picture or sent a picture out to anyone via web, but somehow, everyone knew or knows how what I look like. Still today, Seacrest and other shows, including Dan LeBatard base their shows around the information they stole from computer and the information on me that they saw through voyuring me. When I did file a complaint with FBI, they refuse to help me because LeBatard fooled them so much thinking that nothing was going. Also, I found out that LeBatard had this through the fact they connected my computer to their system and connected my email to theirs. Essentially, they saw everything and everyone who I email and what I emailed. They heard every conversation I had regardless if I was on the phone. They had invaded my privacy and I would really like some of your legal help in this matter. I would like all parties involved arrested and convicted. Also, at some of 790’s sponsored events, they gave out some of my private documents to the listeners and LeBatard read my resume on his show. They gave out to their listeners my banking information along with my passwords of all my internet accounts. They also gave out my phone numbers and all my private information including where I lived. Most all broadcast network stations have my information and I would like for someone to help me. I feel since they fooled the FBI that I have no one to turn to and could really use your help.
April 23rd, 2009 at 6:59 am
Joe
It wasn’t me who said that crap. Scroll up a little. I was just commenting on part of his blog.
April 23rd, 2009 at 7:00 am
Good luck Sheryll
April 23rd, 2009 at 7:03 am
Saddam was hung for crimes against humanity. I’m not saying hang Bush, but torture is a crime. At least it was when our country was strong.
April 23rd, 2009 at 7:10 am
Ron,
Mea Culpa.
Common sense I guess my last post was pointed to you. That last part of your post is Crapola!!!
April 23rd, 2009 at 7:13 am
Ron, In my last post I said that the things you refer to as torture were o.k.d by Condie Rice. Let’s see O-man prosecute her!!!
April 23rd, 2009 at 7:16 am
As an addition; There is nothing in those memo’s that isn’t done to Special forces during evade and resist training. It is taught to help them to withhold information from the enemy. It was also shown to be effective in stopping a second wave after 9/11.
April 23rd, 2009 at 7:59 am
I just can’t believe we have gotten to where our morals are so eroded we defend torture. Bush said we didn’t use torture. So I have a question, if it’s a good practice and not against the law and just part of our culture, then why did he lie about it?
April 23rd, 2009 at 8:21 am
Ok, boys and girls THE OBAMA GANG wants to ‘IMPEACH-POST-PRESIDENCY , Bush, Cheney, CIA’s operatives and only God or Satan know who else extra for ‘war crimes’ ( the interrogation to terrorists thing ).
So ‘WE’ THE PEOPLE , HAVE THE ‘SAY-SO’ IN EVERYTHING AND AND IN ANYTHING, FOR THAT IS THE WAY HERE IN OUR COUNTRY RIGHT?,…So lets’s tell those politicians to throw all at us and WE deicide,….does it sound good enough?
Alright , let’s take it from top;
Now THE OBAMA GANG CORRUPTED ADMINSTRATION Is WEAKENING even more our NATIONAL SECURITY, ventilating secrets techniques to extract information from terrorists. In doing so THE OBAMA GANG is telegraphing national defense secrets to our enemies out there that want the total destruction of our country. To me that is not any different from the TREASON that Openheimer, and others, did when secret information about the atomic research of the ‘MANHATTAN PROJECT’ were given away to enemy factions.
Now, is that INTERNAL TERRORISM ?, ADVOCATE TERRORISM ?, TREASON ?, ,….what to call it? To me the entire thing is stupid or dumb , if not combination of both,…everyone, make own story on this one.
After all Mr Holder is known as an advocate for terrorists , so nothing takes me for surprise, …but in view of the obvious THOSE TRAITORS HAVE TO BE REMOVE FROM WASHINGTON.
On top of that is the enthusiasm to let’s say,…’impeach-after-presidency’ ( to give a possible aplicable term ) to further try to destroy Pres Bush and his administration. Actually and evidently THE OBAMA GANG ARE REALLY RUNING OUT OF EXCUSES FOR EVERYTHING,…so this continues, of course.
And as for the showing interest in the Latin-american Sector ,…this thing of Cuba, Venezuela, Mexico, etc,…go figure that one out,…the question to ponder with is ;- IS THIS A MYTH ? , A MAKE BELIEVE THAT SOMETHING IS REALLY LEGITIMATE IN OUR COUNTRY INTEREST ?, OR A ‘BACKDOOR’ TO DEEPENS, EVEN MORE OUR DOWNFALL ORCHESTRATED BY THE ENEMIES OF THE STATE IN WASHINGTON ?
And insofar,….who are ,ultimately are the real commanders behind Obama? ( for HE - although tagged as ‘president ‘ - is seems just ‘THE FRONT-MAN’ in the spectrum…only speeches, no action , no producing,…just a face, a symbol)
I gave in a short past, two names to think about ;- SOROS and PODESTA…..could we add to the list anothers two more ?,…lets’s say,…IMMLET and ZUCKER ( those two related to GE and NBC)
Perhaps they are just angelical figures but so far they did demonstrate not so good vectors of action, for their related moves gravitate around,… DESTRUCTION OF ECONOMY, DEALING WITH TERRORIST, ANTI-PATRIOTISM ,…things like that,…everyone make your own investigation and research and find details.
IF WE TALK ABOUT IT, WE SHOULD HAVE THE GUTS TO GO FOR IT
There are somes that want to see Bush, Cheney, and others go to jail.
So if the democrats really want to go down that road , then, lets’s see how this plays out for them,…shall we?
OK HERE IS THE DEAL
If to think that Pres Bush, Cheney, and the rest are GUILTY (and therefor should be CONDEMN) for torturing in order to protect our country through all these years after 9-11 EVENT ? So , I say let’s go for it,…no problem.Bottom line ; ACUSE THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION AS WAR CRIMINALS.
I propose; to gather ALL INFORMATION regarding ALL activities that Bush’s administration did to keep our country safe , to find any thing that could possibly be found to ACUSE, PROSECUTE, CONVICT AND ULTIMATELY SENTENCE , all of them.
At the same time, find ALL information, in regards of ALL practices of UNCONSTITUTIONAL CHARACTER that the present CORRUPTED ADMINSTRATION is executing AGAINST ‘WE,THE PEOPLE’ with the ongoing deterioration in the ECONOMICAL SPECTRUM , the dismanteling of the NATIONAL DEFENSE APARATUS (such as, ‘unilateral disarmament’, fund cuts to our troops and defense programs, stop methodology to extract information from enemies combatants that is proven to be effective, and others WEAKENING AVENUES that expose our country to be VERY VULNERABLE TO ENEMIES).
In addition,the evident changes in the SOCIO-DYNAMICS that redounds into the DESTRUCTION OF INDIVIDUALITY OF THE ENTREPRENURIAL SPIRIT OF OUR BASIS IN ECONOMY - AMERICAN CAPITALISM, meaning, the vectorizing for a massive government control promoting TOTALITARIAN / DICTATORSHIP SYSTEM where FREEDON OF SPEECH and TRUE DEMOCRACY will ultimately CEASE TO EXIST ! Bottom line ; ACUSE THE OBAMA GANG CORRUPTED ADMINSTRATION AS ENEMIES OF THE STATE.
So, EVERYTHING is to be presented to the public for BOTH DEPOSITIONS , and let the the AMERICAN PEOPLE DECIDE AND GIVE A VERDICT.
How that sounds?…Questions anyone?
Let’s go for it, then.
Daniel Cabrera
Merrillville, Indiana
PS I do not think that the tv tabloids (CNN,MSNBC,NBC), nor tabloids publications such
as The New York Times, The Huffington Post, LA Times, etc have courage to go for
this one,….best case scenario….they just keep quiet.
April 23rd, 2009 at 8:35 am
Ron,
The problem lies in what you term torture. According to the letter of the Geneva Convention what was done was not torture! If you look it up you will see that what I say is true. You are going by what the bleeding hearts have been saying for months and they have been proven wrong time and time again. These same tactics were used in Bosnia, Should we go back and prosecute Clinton? Should we go back and prosecute Johnson and Nixon after they are deceased? They were used in Viet Nam also!
April 23rd, 2009 at 10:23 am
Daniel C.
You and I are in perfect agreement. The only problem I see is that it strengthens the GOP by default. By this I mean that the GOP will benefit by this not by becoming more constitutional but by people rallying around the “good ole’ boys”! If the GOP is to strengthen, I want it to be because they have become more conservative pure and simple. It has to happen this way or nothing is gained.
April 23rd, 2009 at 10:47 am
My grand parents were right, again.
How do you know when a politician is lieing? it’s simple, their lips are moving! I can’t help but have noticed while growing up how corrupt and crooked “ALL” the politicians are. They are so damn corrupted and crooked that they all can and all to easily, hide in the shadows of a damn cork screw. I have also have come to learn how read between the lines of what they are and not saying. And I just so “NOT” love the damn double talk when they are trying to avoid a question.
Oh hey, MR president and U.S. Government, And to any and all Elected officials.
I all most for got this, I have message for you. Col Mustered called, and said:
GET A FREAKING CLUE!!!
April 23rd, 2009 at 11:05 am
English Rose: I did some research on Johannes Kepler: raised as a Protestant in Germany, attended theologic seminary beginning at age 13. However, he later participated, led by the Duke of Alba(Alva), in military campaigns against Protestants in his home country. He penned several groundbreaking treatises re: celestial bodies including Harmonices Mundi, and Somnium, the peace I believe you were referring to, which is a work of fantasy in which a student of Tycho Brahe, an astronomer and alchemist from Austria, I believe(left my notes at home), who was transported to the moon by occult forces. Isaac Asimov has referred to this piece as the first work of science fiction(I would like to read this myself). I found nothing in this brief perusal of his work that is quite as enchanting as the idea of “an orderly cosmos hyming the praises of it’s creator.” I would like to do more research along this avenue of pursuit. I hope you had a lovely day Rose. Installment 5/1001(my eyes are smiling!).
Cordially
April 23rd, 2009 at 1:34 pm
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April 23rd, 2009 at 2:28 pm
Antistatist and American cousins,
On our English Patron Saint’s day, may I wish you all a very happy St George’s Day!
As it’s a special day here, please indulge me if I bore the pants off of you by telling the legend of how our courageous Saint George beat the tax eating Dragon Debt.
Once upon a terrible time, in the cursed city of an ancient country, there gurgled a fetid pond, a sloth of despond, which ebbed and flowed like an ocean, and in that horrible mire dwelled a plague-bearing dragon named Debt.
The poor people of this cursed country were forced to appease this vile, tax eating monster because Dragon Debt swore that, if they fed him a billion dollars every day, he would not destroy their country. Debt, was of course a compulsive liar, and his demands grew larger every day. When the people could no longer afford this burden, this fetid monster demanded that they feed him, one by one, their children or he would eat up the future all of the children in their land.
It happened one day that the lot fell on the king’s daughter. And the distraught king offered half of his kingdom if his daughter were spared; yet the people refused and the daughter was sent out to the lake, to be fed to the horrible and mighty Dragon Debt.
Just as the trembling Princess stood shackled at the mire, it happened by chance that Saint George rode past. The Princess, fearing that nothing could save her from this monstrous Debt sought to send St George away, yet the Saint swore to save her.
Hearing the Saint’s vow, out of the lake reared the terrible Dragon Debt, fire belching from his loathsome mouth and stolen pounds and dollars oozing from his every, greed engorged, pore. Dear Saint George, having fortified himself with the Sign of the Cross, charged the monster on horseback and, taking his sword of Truth named ‘Ascalon’, gave the monstrous Debt a massive, grievous wound. Then the saint called upon the princess to throw him her girdle of Restraint and Saint George placed it around the dragon’s neck. When he did so, the Debt dragon followed the girl meekly on a leash and she and Saint George led him to the city, where Saint George called out to the frightened populace that if they consented to be baptised as Christians, he would slay the dragon before them.
The king and the people duly converted to Christianity and Saint George took up his mighty Ascalon and slew the fearsome Debt Dragon. Saint George became the patron saint of England and his legend became an inspiration to those who must overcome impossible odds.
Centuries later, Sir Winston Churchill paid tribute to the legend of England’s Patron Saint when, during World War II, he named his personal aircraft ‘Ascalon’.
A very happy Saint George’s Day. Like Saint George, may you beat the Dragon Debt.
Here is our modern Saint George, David Cameron in the bear pit of the House of Commons, doing just that, if you look carefully, you might even catch a glimpse of Ascalon.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-Ps7fJm7rk
April 23rd, 2009 at 2:53 pm
Dear Mr.Beck I started a letter to you and I figured it was just too long, You see I am Concerned about Our Country,Our forefathers fought to make our country free,to Stand up for whats right,to have free speech freedom of the press,religion of our choice,and the right to bear arms to keep our homes and country safe. We declared our independence and our forefathers wrote our Constitution,and we added the Bill of Rights for and of the people of these United States. Now we have an administration that wants to change everything. I ‘m a 74 year old widow on Social Security and Pension( which I’m better off than some ). Medicare with Social Security and health benefit’s and pension as a surviving spouse of G.M. retiree, When my husband was with G.M. we knew every year there would be a lay off ( called change over ) to redo the tracks and re tool from bigger cars to smaller cars,to wagons or SUV’s or trucks.to better fuel efficient to find one on electric or batteries, Remember at Christmas whatever you bought “Don’t forget the batteries” ! What difference does it make if it’s fuel efficient,we’re spending money for oil overseas. We have Oil here but its Capped, We were transferred to Oklahoma (cause they closed auto plants in California ) and the oil rigs in Okla. were shut down ,Also Arkansas, Texas,New Mexico,and some other states,off shore drilling,have you seen some off of Long Beach Calif,what happened to our pipe line from Alaska,we had years ago is it up and running? They speak of the Economy and gas prices, and Oh don’t drill in the State Parks, If we have it Use It and put the people to work. And by the way I’m Mad as Hell…Obama gave our C.E.O. of G.M. an ultimatums or get fired, G.M. is a Business not to be run by the Government,nor any other Business,Yes there was a Bail-out but not as much as Fannie Mae -Freddie Mac, AIG and ect….who gave out bonus’s,but G.M. said they could pay it back in so many years. along with Chrysler. A Stimulus bill,Omnibus and Budget passed by the Democrats,with the Stimulus not even read was passed but NO Republican voting for it,and they put in amendments that would lower the cost by HALF and still the Democrats turned the amendments down…I know I watch the House and Senate when they debated and then voted on the bills-and iI have the Names of those in the Senate who voted for the bills.Their terms will be up. It’s really too bad we can’t Vote again for an Impeachment of this administration…… A man who was a senator for one year is now the President. Who during his Campaign talked in circles and made all the promises to the people who voted for him,A man who goes to other countries and says the people of the United States are Arrogant ..that we’re not a Christian Nation but Citizens, Who keeps running our people and country and beliefs down.Who is letting our Defense and Security of our C.I.A. intelligence known..Who wants the Treasury Secretary have more power, I think Not…I say Obama look up in the dictionary CZAR,it’s Russian, not in our Country,there is Capitalism,Socialism,and then Fascism….and Glen I call Obama Dic .it’s short for Dictator for I see that’s the Road he’s heading for along with his henchmen the cabinet” Oh”and for Mr.Obama one more thing for All the TRIPS you seem to be taking , the Air Force One is an Airplane and it does not run on AIR. the fuel is costly , would you like to pay to refuel it out of your own pocket instead of the Tax payers ……..Stay home -Use the Phone, Cant Stand you on T.V. or Radio everyday..you haven’t been in office very long and I don’t Trust you with our Country……….. J.B. Hastings Mich
April 23rd, 2009 at 3:08 pm
It is said that Obama has commesurated rating as the average president for the first 100 days. I would like to see where REALITY and POLLS come in points of agreement for PROFICIENCY does not speak of such.
This’ percentage aproval’ - the classic average at 100 days, 60-63% - this is just a reminicence of what is left from his PERSONAL INJECTED IMAGE AMERICAN-ROCK-N-ROLL-IDOL TYPE thing .This IS NOT said to attempt to undermine his HISTORICAL MARK as he certainly accomplish so well,..not at all,… but we have to be clear that all we have form him is ‘MARQEE-LIGHT EFFECT’, very well structurated selling to the public - nice and eloquent theater, smiles, poses and gestures , etc,…’.the works’,sort of speak,… - and THAT! ,to THAT !, the populache is very very vulnerable to it.
The OBAMA GANG POLITICAL MACHINERY knew that very well and so,…they invented / created OBAMA THE FRONT-MAN’ ,,,,THE SYMBOL, THE AVATAR. But , however, to all that , SUBSTANCE ? is lack in the mosaic.
Americans are awake and are ’snaping-out’ from the letargic pseudo-hypnotic obamanized phase, once so powerful. Americans ARE NOT UNDER DECEPTION NO LONGER..
The hour of truth is here now…100 days and nothing but UNACOMPLISHLMENTS,… A WEAKER NATIONAL SECURITY,….. ONGOING WEAKER ECONO9MY SPECTRUM AND DETERIORATION OF THE SOCIO-DYNAMICS WHERE FREE SPEECH AND INDIVIDUALITY IS AT RISK TO BE ELIMINATED,…ANCHOR VALUES AND PRINCIPLES DETERIORATING AS WELL .And so, ANARCHY seems to be the norm for ruling,
Quite pathetic but all is for to be just reversed - ‘WE’, THE PEOPLE WILL REMOVE AND REPALACE THE CORRUPTED DESTRUCTIVE CURRENT ADMINISTRATION.
OBAMA’S POLITICAL POPULARITY IS FADING
The reason is obvious. is the ‘HISTORICAL FACTOR’ ….evidently and very correctly Pres Obama is one for the books of history, that NEVER CAN BE DENIED. The dynamics brake with the ‘traditionalism’ that characterize the small or virtually no oportunity to minority groups to adquire higer plateau in the scio-multispectrum.
So, with that said is honorable in extreme for this to happen ;….however - BIG HOWEVER - that DOES NOT set basis THE ACEPTANCE TO the poor performance on which this administration, - where he is jus but ‘THE FRONT-MAN’ , a front-face , a messenger, a symbol - on which this CORRUPTED ADMINISTRATION IS TAKING OUR COUNTRY TO.
The destrucion of our nation is quite clear ahead if we tolerate this further more,…BUT AMERICA IS AWAKE NOW AND WE ARE GOING TO REVERSE THIS ASSAULT.
Obama is not going to accomplish ABSOLUTELLY NOTHNING WITH IRAN. or ANY OTHER NATION FOR THAT MATTER; Eventually - AND SOON ! Israel will have to pre-emtp attack to IRAN atomic facilities, and OBAMA AND HIS GANG WILL DO NOTHING TO HELP BUT WILL REPUDIATE ISRAEL ACTIONS - JUST WATCH !
However here in american soil Obama will have another successful shot at the masses for he still have some pulll because his personal popularity - just that.
And so all comes clear;
WHY IT SEEMS THAT OBAMA AND HIS GANG ARE GETING AWAY WITH EVERYTHING THEY WANT?
Because Obama is a ‘history-mark’, that leads the populache to let go EVERYTHING AND ANYTHING on his behalf.Although his symbolism is important, that is not reason much less excuse, to allow HIM AND HIS GANG TO DESTROY OUR COUNTRY.
The public is not blind, but is fooling themselves (SOME OF THEM) pathetically and so our nation is at RISK!
The historical event, of to have a minority-generated president, is already ‘in the books’ but, the PRODUCT OF THAT EVENT - (Obama,…more specific, OBAMA AND HIS GANG OF INEPTS) are with an agenda of NATIONAL DESTRUCTION. The ANTI-CONSTITUTIONALISM IS CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER TO OUR COUNTRY - AND SO, THIS FIRST ‘HISTORICAL ATTEMPT’ IS JUST NOT WORKING AT ALL ON BEHALF OF OUR COUNTRY….WE ARE LOOSING THE NATION TO THIS ‘HISTORICAL PRODUCT’
On that the public is WAKE! already,… AND IS NOW, WELL AWARE OF THE DYNAMICS.
WE,THE PEOPLE, we have the responsablity of to REMOVE AND REPLACE THE PRESENT CORRUPTED ADMINSTRATION with better leaders,… individuals of GOOD CHARACTER, HONESTY, AND INTEGRITY.
OBAMA AND HIS GANG BROUGHT TO US, DECEPTION !
Sincerely,
Daniel Cabrera
Merrillville,Indiana
April 23rd, 2009 at 3:31 pm
English Rose: A very happy St. Georges day to you as well! A very clever and charming tale! I enjoyed the fencing exibition between Cameron and Brown. The Prime Minister reminds me of the character Prince John(the cowardly lion), voiced by Peter Ustinov, in Disney’s animated tale of Robin Hood. The scene in which the prince is in the Royal carriage laughing as he coints gold coins usurped from the good people of Nottingham, exclaiming, “Taxes! Beautiful, lovely, taxes!”, comes immediately to mind. To have absolute faith in either Brown or Obama and their economic policies would require one to adopt the sort of fatal optimism exemplified by professor Pangloss in Voltaire’s Candide. We know the fate that befell that poor sot.
Cordially
April 23rd, 2009 at 4:25 pm
In the first 100 Days
- Starts the process of bringing American troops home from an illegal and immoral war
- Refocuses the war to Afghanistan and Al Qaeda where it always belonged
- Declares Gitmo illegal and begins the process of dismantling it
- Passes a bill to bring America out of the Second Great Depression GWB proudly led us into
- Takes decisive action towards the failing auto industry
- Declares a new wave of financial regulation to eliminate the corruption in banking that GWB and The GOP are in the pockets of
- Eases the hatred of America the rest of the world felt when the GOP was in power.
In less than 100 days, President Obama is already the greatest President ever!
April 23rd, 2009 at 4:50 pm
Face the fact that no matter who is President the Congress is the one running the show. Americans just have nothing better to do than to complain about everything and anything because they are bored. The Government wants Americans to bail out all these banks and other corporate companies when the CEO’s and the Presidents of these companies are getting their bonuses and pentions and the people that have worked for these companies all their lives are getting nothing and they cannot even retire because they cut their pentions in half.
It is not the workers falt that the companies do not know how to run a company.
April 23rd, 2009 at 5:01 pm
Daniel,
Great post but get ready for the moron storm that will hit you when they all wake up from their afternoon drinking binges.
Joe
You are trying to define torture to me and we can’t agree on what either of us thinks it is. Forget semantics, why did Bush lie about using these tactics if it was all above board? If it was all okay, then I say Bush and Rice have nothing to worry about.
April 23rd, 2009 at 5:10 pm
Stu baby! How would you like to be bigger than Simon Cowell? I’m a 47 year old who has never been with a virgin, and never been kissed by Obama! Check out these song clips of mine!
http://www.sptimes.com/2004/01/23/audio/audio.shtml
I’m available as the quintessential opening act!
April 23rd, 2009 at 5:46 pm
Darin American
First, no I was not trying to define anything to you I was conversing with Ron. Second I’m not defining anything the Geneva convention is, which is what I was held answerable to in Viet Nam. Third as I said before, if Bush lied and should be hung for it, so should Clinton, using your own words “if all was okay then Clinton has nothing to worry about” The question here is was it torture or not? The Geneva Convention says it wasn’t so end of story. By your own line of thinking if it was torture then hang Bush but go back to Bosnia and hang Clinton and go back to Viet Nam and try Nixon and Johnson posthumously. This has never been tried with any ex-president in history and for good reason, it will make them second guess themselves in a time of emergency.
April 23rd, 2009 at 6:17 pm
Daniel: The first 100 days: Ahem…excuse me. Ah yes, well, President Barack Obama has failed to come through on his campaign promises concerning Iraq. He was all for immediate unilateral withdrawl when Bush was at the helm, now that the resulting chaos of such an imprudent decision would fall on his shoulders, he has changed his policy to one of gradual withdrawl. I will assume that troops will remain in the Iraq theater until a date later than Jan. 1 2012.
Obama has also indeed pledged to close Club Gitmo and bring terrorists inside our borders, who have just been granted Constitutional rights by the Supreme Court. Okay, give animals who kill themselves just to kill Americans, Israelis, their own people, and anyone who would dare stand in the way of the implementation of their twisted ideology, Constitutional rights.
And if some ACLU lawyer gets them off on a technicality, there is a possibility that they will be released in America. Splendid!
Depression caused exclusively by Bush? Excuse me , squire, but where are the big Republican names involved with Fannie & Freddie? Five times a regulator was sent to warn them of impending doom and they cavilled every time. Even as recently as June 2008, Barney Frank boldly lied to regulators and said there were no safety and soundness issues. Then the October suprise. Bush was wrong to sign the first bail-out and Obama is ruefully wrong in his extension of multi-billion dollar bail-outs which will leave companies that formerly were in the private sector under the thumb of the Federal government.
He declares new regulation that will subvert the Constitution and will amount to soft tyranny; limiting the salaries or bonuses of executives is not capitalism, which catapulted this country to greatness.
He goes on an apology tour of the Globe, bowing to the Saudi King, changes the names of military operations, taking a passive stance, emboldening lunatic dictators such as Achmadinejad of Iran(who has vowed to destroy Israel and denies the holocaust) and Kim Jung Il of North Korea who tested nuclear capable missiles on the fourth of July.
I admire your optimism, professor Pangloss, but I am under the insidious spell of no such illusions.
Cordially
April 23rd, 2009 at 6:38 pm
English Rose: O dear sister, what new tales of wonder and amazement await all of us whom delight in wit and the eloqence of your sublime elocutions? Your words spring to life from the page and bring all of us joy and mirth. Sweeter tales could only be exfoliated from Angels wings! Sleep well my sister.
Cordially
April 23rd, 2009 at 6:43 pm
DARIN AMERICAN Says:
April 23rd, 2009 at 5:01 pm
Daniel,
Great post but blah, blah, blah.
…………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
Yeah great post by Daniel since he is only telling half of the story!! I would like to add that Obummer has really made me feel good as an American the way he has apoligizsed to every freakin dictator, loose cannon, and “enemy combatant” (terrorist) and country” that we Americans see as enemies! He has successfully and singlehandidly made America look like schit to the rest of the world, while espousing his personal anti-American opinions. Also I really appreciate his personal slams and rudeness to our greatest allies England and Israel. I am sure you and Daniel will feel a lot safer in the comeing years because of his actions, right up untill the time that the schit hits the fan again! Then you and Daniel will be looking around in your typical stupor wondering what happend, and why! BTW I wasn’t on an afternoon drinking binge. As usual I was working to pay my taxes so Mr. Obummer could siphon them off and re-distribute them to your welfare check, and food stamps!
April 23rd, 2009 at 6:57 pm
Earth to Antistatist,
Come down to earth and discuss some political policy how bout’? I’m sure that English Rose is getting more than a little uncomfortable in the lines of some of your prose.I’m sorry to intrude, you know I respect you here but this is not the place for it. Sorry also to English Rose if I seem a little disrespectful as I would never be to a lady but this is a blog to discuss the shortcomings of our present government and other disfunctions.
April 23rd, 2009 at 7:22 pm
Joe H: Sorry to annoy you, I respect you too. I’m sure Rose is quite capable of speaking for herself, if she felt uncomfortable, I’m confident that she would have no reservations or inhibitions that would prevent her from blessing me out, politely, and afterwards ignoring my posts. It’s admirable that you came to her defense, though Joe. I did just post to Daniel and it was entirely political, also note my lack of obscenity and sexual reference that so many others throw about without a care. We can talk seriously any time you like, I think it will take some time before we disagree again.
Cordially
April 23rd, 2009 at 7:25 pm
Antistatist,
A little more about Obimbos first 100 days as far as our border and Illegals
.Scaled back worksite enforcement
.Questioned the utility of Real ID as a security measure
.questioned the use of 278(g) state-federal cooperative enforcement.
.Backed off completing the border fence as originally planned.
.Opposed making E-VERIFY permanent and manditory
.Opposed requiring the use of E-VERIFY as part of the stimulus spending bill thus protecting the jobs created from illegal immigrants.
Yes this is a very less than stellar performance for the first 100 days….Here’s hoping the next aren’t as harmful!!!!
April 23rd, 2009 at 7:31 pm
it is just another left wing liberal lie. They have done nothing but lie and manipulate statistics to make things sound better then what they are or to be in their favor. we all knew that the stimulus wouldnt help as it went to pet projects and was full of pork.
April 23rd, 2009 at 8:13 pm
Antistatist, is English Rose.
April 23rd, 2009 at 8:50 pm
Thank you Fred, I agree.
April 23rd, 2009 at 8:51 pm
Oh and I still don’t believe, he or she is really in England.
April 23rd, 2009 at 8:53 pm
Who the heck, is that vomet fart jerk, please dude, grow up.
April 23rd, 2009 at 8:59 pm
Joe h: See, I knew we were on common ground. Sorry, I neglected to thank you for your military service in the last post. I try to make it a point to thank all veterans that I meet in public for their service, thank you Joe.
Cordially
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Fred: That was on the verge of being humorous. I don’t blame you for being somewhat envious.
April 23rd, 2009 at 9:30 pm
“Communist Daniel” or “Darren american”, or any other liberal, socialist, or communist that slimes their way in here from time to time: I would like to know what you have to say about this??
April 23rd, 2009 at 9:19 pm
A short list of the lying stealing thieves in our government, and how much they have stolen from YOU THE TAXPAYER! SO FAR………….
$34,000: the amount of federal taxes that Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner (D) failed to pay during his employment at the International Monetary Fund despite receiving extra compensation and explanatory brochures that described his tax liabilities.
$75,000: the amount of money that the head of the powerful tax-writing committee, Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-NY), was forced to report on his taxes after the discovery that he had not reported income from a Costa Rican rental property. His excuses for the failure started with blaming his wife, then his accountant and finally the fact that he didn’t speak Spanish.
$93,000: the amount of petty cash each Congressional representative voted to give themselves in January 2009 during the height of an economic meltdown.
$133,900: the amount Fannie Mae “invested” in Chris Dodd (D-CT), head of the powerful Senate Banking Committee, presumably to repel oversight of the GSE prior to its meltdown. Said meltdown helped touch off the current economic crisis. In only a few years time, Fannie also “invested” over $105,000 in then-Senator Barack Obama.
$140,000: the amount of back taxes and interest that Cabinet nominee Tom Daschle (D) was forced to cough up after the vetting process revealed significant, unexplained tax liabilities..
$356,000: the approximate amount of income and deductions that Daschle (D) was forced to report on his amended 2005 and 2007 tax returns after being caught cheating on his taxes. This includes $255,256 for the use of a car service, $83,333 in unreported income, and $14,963 in charitable contributions.
$800,000: the amount of “sweetheart” mortgages Senate Banking Chairman Chris Dodd (D-CT) received from Countrywide Financial, the details for which he has refused to release details despite months of promises to do so Countrywide was once the nation ’s largest mortgage lender and linked to Government-Sponsored Entities like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Their meltdown precipitated the current financial crisis. Just days ago in Pennsylvania, Countrywide was forced to pay $150,000,000 in mortgage assistance following “a state investigation that concluded that Countrywide relaxed its underwriting standards to sell risky loans to consumers who did not understand them and could not afford them.”
$1,000,000: the estimated amount of donations by Denise Rich, wife of fugitive Marc Rich, to Democrat interests and the William J. Clinton Foundation in an apparent quid pro quo deal that resulted in a pardon for Mr. Rich. The pardon was reviewed and blessed by Obama Attorney General and then Deputy AG Eric Holder, despite numerous requests by government officials to turn it down.
$12,000,000: the amount of TARP money provided to community bank One United despite the fact that it did not qualify for funds, and was “under attack from its regulators for allegations of poor lending practices and executive-pay abuses.” It turns out that Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), a key contributor to the Fannie Mae meltdown, just happens to be married to one of the bank’s ex-directors.
$23,500,000: The upper range of net worth Rep. Allan Mollohan (D-WV) accumulated in four years time according to The Washington Post through earmarks of “tens of millions of dollars to groups associated with his own business partners.”
$2,000,000,000: ($2 billion) the approximate amount of money that House Appropriations Chairman David Obey (D-WI) is earmarking related to his son’s lobbying efforts. Craig Obey is “a top lobbyist for the nonprofit group” that would receive a roughly $2 billion component of the “Stimulus” package.
$3,700,000,000: ($3.7 billion) not to be outdone, this is the estimated value of various defense contracts awarded to a company controlled by the husband of Rep. Diane Feinstein (D-CA). Despite an obvious conflict-of-interest as “a member of the Military Construction Appropriations subcommittee, Sen. Feinstein voted for appropriations worth billions to her husband’s firms .”
$4,190,000,000: ($4.19 billion) the amount of money in the so-called “Stimulus” package devoted to fraudulent voter registration ACORN group under the auspices of “Community Stabilization Activities”. ACORN is currently the subject of a RICO suit in Ohio.
$1,646,000,000,000 ($1.646 trillion): the approximate amount of annual United States exports endangered by the “Stimulus” package, which provides a “Buy American” stricture. According to international trade experts, a “US-EU trade war looms”, which could result in a worldwide economic depression reminiscent of that touched off by the protectionist Smoot-Hawley Act.
It’s not just a culture of corruption. It’s a culture of corruption and stupidity. And, unlike Republicans, Democrats appear to be above the law. All of the aforementioned clowns are still in office, ruling like the royalty they’ve become.
AND, ITS ONLY BEEN TWO MONTHS FOLKS
This is absolutely a disgrace for the United States of America to allow these disgusting thieves to continue to exploit us all…….
April 23rd, 2009 at 9:32 pm
Antistatist English Rose: I’m not being envious, I just really think your the same person, if I’m wrong, I’m wrong, its just something isn’t right about those post. I also noticed that after someone questioned English Rose about the time differnts, he or she happened to mention the time in a later post.
April 24th, 2009 at 12:11 am
Regarding comments that January predictions by the administration, of the future state of the economy, were not negative enough and that some how also proves the Stimulus doesn’t work.
Huh?????…We are mad because it turns out that Obama advisors predictions were NOT gloom and doom enough.
What???
I’m pretty sure that at the time, the opposition ( including Glen) was calling Obama a debbie downer who needed to lighten up…so he wouldn’t create an even more negative vibe about the economy. Now Obama critics are mad because things are worse than Obama administration predicted…. and they Blame the stimulus????
What???
The intellectual weakness of this argument is obvious.
It is clearly, way too early to decide if the Stimulus worked or not.
April 24th, 2009 at 7:18 am
SOUND THE ALARM ! !
Please have everyone go to UTUBE.COM and view a video entitled “THE OBAMA DECEPTION” - the full length version.
It is an explosive documentary on how this country has been taken over by mega rich financiers who control the world’s money supply and put PUPPETS such as OBAMA in office to advance their agenda of a NEW WORLD ORDER.
You will discover:
Obama’s plans for destroying the economey.
Replacing the dollar with a one world currency.
Building a civilian military force similar to the Nazi Gestapo to suppress growing opposition to Obama’s regime.
Go here and view the full video. We are in mortal peril as a nation. If this nation doesn’t wake up and learn who is behind OBAMA and what they have been planning for a hundred years, this nation will collapse permanently.
April 24th, 2009 at 7:59 am
What happened to the administration that demands accountability? Shouldn’t they be held accountable for these bogus statistics and/or the poor administration of their policies? After all, they did not perform.
April 24th, 2009 at 8:13 am
Dave
What happens when they come to your door for your guns or even better, you don’t have any but because of a typo, it says you do? You going to wait and see if you go to jail? Hell, they don’t even have to have a typo, they could come after you just because you post here. Doesn’t matter what you were posting, just because it’s a known conservative site is good enough for these folks. They are ripping the constitution totally apart, what’s a few rights in the scheme of things? Think about it Dude!!!!!
April 24th, 2009 at 8:28 am
I choose to respond to the topic at hand - not to the kooky liberal who posted the first diatribe here. I think Obama and his goon squad are following the footsteps of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. I just finished reading a new library book called “New Deal or Raw Deal” that gives the “flip side” of the whole economic coin of what really happened during the decade known as the Great Depression. It did not work back then and it is NOT working now. We would have been far better off as a country to just let the banks go bankrupt and the businesses go belly up and allow the market to correct itself. The companies and institutions that used solid finaicial strategies would have risen to the top and the failed businesses would have wound up in the textbooks as examples of HOW NOT TO RUN A COMPANY.
April 24th, 2009 at 9:49 am
Fred, Nigel: You blokes gossip like women(no offense, Rose). Women should concern themselves with things that are pretty; babies are pretty, some table linen can be very pretty. Do you venture to the pretty meadow, find some pretty flowers, and press them in your housebooks. Run along now and let the men talk. Off you go.
Cordially
April 24th, 2009 at 11:15 am
From one kook to another…….I am not sure that their was a crisis until the government began TARP…….
I think we would have been ok if the government had just went to sleep like Mr. Summers.
I think we are being distracted from the real issue……..bringing down the USA Democracy. Every hour or day there are 10 more distractions to keep us from discussing Socialism and etc. The Unitier turns out to be the Divider! Read the blogs….everyone is MAD, MAD, MAD while the Whitehouse continues to tear down our country by its actions.
Now, we release CIA TOP SECRETS ……and keep a continued argument, hour per hour…..IS HE going to hold hearings or not. Then, He is releasing pictures…….more distractions while saying HE does not want to do these things; however, others want these documents released. What can HE do…….it is not him, but THEM. I guess we can assume that HE is not the President of the Free World but…….THEM ARE!!!!!!!!!!
April 24th, 2009 at 11:15 am
Antistatist English Rose: You sound like a real man, running threw the meadow, pressing flowers in your housebook, your quit the man. So why don’t you run along now, and quit writting love letters to yourself. (no offense, Fictional Rose)
April 24th, 2009 at 11:29 am
Antimanlyman: Oh baby, your so hot, I’d like to hop your pound, wink wink. As I was walking threw the meadow today looking for flowers to press in my housebook I thought of you and how manly you are, and even though I’ve never meet you and you could be some five hundred pound loser living in his moms basement, I shiver at the thought of you.
April 24th, 2009 at 11:34 am
Irish Rose: Alas I long to walk threw your meadow, wink wink, but they don’t make a plane big enough to cary my fat butt across the ocean where you are or something, overseas at seven O’clock at this very minute. Would you like to read my Bat man comics with me, hot stuff.
April 24th, 2009 at 12:30 pm
To Nigel, Fred and Antimanlyman: It should be clear to everyone here by now, that you are the communist Daniel. Since your cover has been blown, and you can no longer disrupt this blog, I want you to report to Wash. D.C. immediately, as I have a new and very important assignment for you. Nancy Piglosi needs help with changeing her diapers! You will also be the new assistant white house, and congressional cook! Our current cook is haveing trouble keeping up with the demand for the “Piglosi diaper load sandwiches” for our congress! They are a real delecasie, and in very high demand!!
sincerely,
Boreock Obummer
Commander & Cheat
Wash. D.C. USA
April 24th, 2009 at 12:40 pm
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April 24th, 2009 at 12:50 pm
http://www.goldtalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=36433
As a credible Presidential candidate. I just saw the story that Levi Johnston is considering going to court to get more time with his son. He and his family are spoiling for a fight with the Palins. This follows a speech before a Pro Life group. Libs are jumping all over Sarah for mentioning she thought about abortion when they found out Trig was to be born with Down’s Syndrome. They claim Sarah made the case for choice.
I am glad Sarah Palin has come as far as she has. I hope she has a long political career. But, not as the GOP standard bearer in 2012. Too much baggage. Conservatives have every reason to laud Sarah. She is a terrific individual. But, she’s a Dem dream come true. Too much baggage.
Bristol Palin’s ex: Court fight possible over son
ANCHORAGE (AP) — The father of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s grandson said Wednesday he would be willing to go to court for custody of the child, but he hoped it wouldn’t come to that.
Levi Johnston said on CNN’s Larry King Live that he and 18-year-old Bristol Palin do not have a formal court agreement over visitation rights for their baby son, Tripp.
Bristol Palin, the governor’s oldest daughter, gave birth Dec. 27 and the unmarried teenage parents broke up soon after that. Johnston has claimed in several national TV interviews that Bristol has limited his access to the baby.
“I can go over there and see him,” Johnston said. “But it’s, now you know, it’s kind of an uncomfortable thing for me to go over there. You know, I want to be able to take him and that kind of thing, go do the father thing with him and I can’t.”
Johnston said he is not in a “big fight with the Palins.” He still likes the family and wants to work out an arrangement over Tripp, whom he said he hasn’t seen in a couple of weeks.
“I don’t think either one of us want to go and go to lawyers and try to fight for custody and stuff like this,” he said.
But if the situation doesn’t change, “I think we’re going to have to.”
Johnston initially said he didn’t have a lawyer, but recanted later. When asked if saying he had a lawyer might anger the Palins, Johnston said: “I don’t want to stir anything up.”
Johnston’s mother, Sherry, who appeared on the show with Levi’s sister, Mercede, said they are prepared to press legal action for his rights as the boy’s father.
“That is what we’re going to have to do next,” Sherry Johnston said. “We were just hoping that we wouldn’t have to.”
Palin family spokeswoman Meghan Stapleton issued a statement on the Johnston interview, saying: “Bristol is focused on going to college, raising Tripp, and advocating abstinence.”
However, in an interview earlier this year with Fox News, Bristol Palin said abstinence is “not realistic at all.”
Levi Johnston agreed, telling King: “I think all teens, or most of them, are sexually active.”
Johnston also said the couple never considered an abortion or adoption.
He said he was not seeking celebrity status by doing national television interviews, and said he hasn’t been paid for any of them.
“I didn’t ask to be thrown into this, so I’m not out here looking for fame. I’m just trying to get my story out,” he said. “Let the people know what’s really going on.”
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April 24th, 2009 at 2:35 pm
So, because I believe English Rose and Antistatist are the same person, writting love letters to him or herself, that makes me a communist. That doesn’t make sense.
April 24th, 2009 at 2:37 pm
If you disagree with Obama, your a racist, if you disagree with Bush your a cummunist.
April 24th, 2009 at 2:58 pm
Show me the Law ! There is NONE for Product Liability for Prescription drugs and medical devises. Senator Ted Kennedy who was appointed to the Health and Human Service Committee by his brother President Kennedy, in 1962. This committee omitted Product liability for prescription drugs from the FDCA ACT. This over the many years has left the public at risk. Thousands of American Consumers have been damaged and killed by defective prescription drugs while the Pharasecutical Companies are shielded and the public is at risk. There is No law. NONE, No Federal law and No State law. Congress preempted the law. For many years Senator Ted Kennedy has steered the committee and Congress to protect the prescription drug manufacturing companies knowing the phrase Product Liability for Prescription drugs was omitted intentionally. This not only has caused thousands of Americans to be victims but has caused Medicare and Medicaid cost to increase placing a burden on the taxpayers all in the name of Good Healthcare. Drug Companies are becoming larger and now controlling the news media and the legal system. There can never be any affordable healthcare for Americans as long as Prescription Drug Companies are not held accountable. There is no law to prosecute any killing or injury caused by defective Prescription drugs or medical devises. Merck & Co. Inc. killed 88,000 with Vioxx and injured 169,000 with heart attacks and strokes. This was intentional and with malice yet No Law to prosecute for this crime. Merck & Co. Inc. is owned by a German Family that is in Germany. There corporate office is in New Jersey, USA. protected by our Constitution but American Citizens who live in the USA are at risk because our own Congress preempted the law that protects Merck and other drug companies. Show me the Law.
April 24th, 2009 at 3:04 pm
Hey Glenn, your always talking about the Pres. and the choices he’s making. I’m only 17 but I think in another year, I’ll be non-partisan…anyways, What would YOU do if you were the President of the marvelous United States of America?? You are old enough I think. And You’d probably win the office by a LOT. I love your show, yes I’m one of those people who wait until 4:59pm just to watch the opening. Your also extremly opinionated, and I like how you put your examples. The analogies you use are really easy to understand. Personall, all of America should watch adn listen to your show because you really put things in an easy to see perspective. Keep up the good work.
April 24th, 2009 at 3:23 pm
FRED: If you had a CLUE, you would be able to differintiate between English Rose and Antistatist. I can tell the difference simply by their different accents, but then I AM GOD so it is easy for me. For mortals like you I would suggest considering their writeing styles and personalities that are so prevalent in the construction of their posts on here. Failing to make that connection, I would suggest you are not intelligent enough to even make the Piglosi schit sandwiches that I referred to in my previous post @ 12:30 p.m. I am so sorry Fred, but you are FIRED!! You are worthless to the socialist regime now, so you will be relegated to the non-producers due to your lack of intelligence. But don’t you worry, we will take care of you, with the billions of dollars that I am printing, you will see an increase in the size of your welfare check and monthly allotment of food stamps.
sincerely,
Boreock Obummer
Commander & CHEAT
Wash. D.C. USA
April 24th, 2009 at 3:51 pm
Exalted President Obummer: Forgive me for not genuflecting before you and your teleprompter as that cannot be done in cyberspace, as of yet. Thank you so much for taking time out of your day!(gasp, sob!) Your brilliant attempt to further the education of the witless and unskilled will fail, along with all of your policies, but I love you anyway! You’re just so urbane and magnanimous(sob, gasp..) .
Cordially
April 24th, 2009 at 6:15 pm
Antistatist: No apologies or forgiveness is necessary. I do enough “genuflecting” for all of us, you, me and the entire population of this socialist country I am nurtureing. In the future please don’t use such words. It only serves to make me look bad by reminding people how many times I have done this to all the dictators of the world…. It also makes everybody run for their dictionaries
sincerely,
Your Prez Boreock “Your God” Obummer
1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
Wash. D.C
April 24th, 2009 at 6:52 pm
President Obummer: I was of the fearful assumption, given the history of socialist leaders, that, if I did not genuflect before you, in all your irrepressible magnificence, well….you know, er, anyway, the last thing I would do sir, is deliberately incite literacy in the ignorant,
they may look up socialism.
Cordially
April 24th, 2009 at 8:34 pm
Antistatist,
This is getting real deep, even for the people on this site!?!?!?!?!?
April 24th, 2009 at 9:25 pm
Joe H: It depends on which connotation of the word “deep” you wish to pursue. If one were to say, “it’s getting real deep around here”, meaning the BS is proliferating on this sight, it would be a correct assumption, on the other hand, it would also be correct to say that some posts are deep in the sense that they have to be pondered more intensely, read several times,perhaps, because they contain analogy or require knowledge of history, as you have, sir.
Cordially
April 24th, 2009 at 9:50 pm
Oh your so right, I should have noticed the differnt accent. Sorry Antistatist, Obummer, and you to Joe H, you boys can go back to kissing each others butts now. I look forward to your witty reply about what an ass I am, and how stupid I am for having my own opinion. I guess I’m also a communist, for being skeptical of Antistatist love letters across the ocean. Your right about one thing antistatist, there is a lot of BS, proliferating on this sight, and you put it there.
April 24th, 2009 at 10:03 pm
Fred
I guess I”M the communist as the only thing I’ve ever said to you was that I disagreed with your opine about Rose. Other than that I don’t remember ever saying you were anything. All I said was “don’t thank me as I still believe…..” REMEMBER?
Antistatist,
I surely meant the depth of the BULL! Cheers!
April 24th, 2009 at 10:13 pm
Fred, I would expect a miserable liberal like yourself to be skeptical of anything that springs from truth and decency, you do not recognize it, because you are incapable of exibiting decency and truth, as you those like you are neither truthful or decent. The “love letters” I sent to English Rose were not my words, they were poems written before your parents were born. Rose knew that, and cited the authors of the work. I recognized, from Rose’s posts, that she is a lady who appreciates language, I guessed she knew the authors of these works, which I enjoy, and I was right. She has shared knowledge with me and I with her and thats that. Two people are polite to each other, sharing a love of language, and you have to read something perverted in it. Not to say that I’m suprised.
Cordially
April 24th, 2009 at 10:19 pm
Joe H: What exactly is it that is the matter? I’ve treated you with respect, have I not?
April 24th, 2009 at 10:39 pm
Fred, You are not an ass and you are not stupid! What I said was “YOU’RE FIRED!! Now you’ve gone and gotten Joe H. all stirred up. Sooo I say again…FRED, YOU’RE FIRED! and since Nigel is your alter ego,,,NIGEL is Fired too!!
April 24th, 2009 at 11:01 pm
Sorry Joe H, your right, I shouldn’t have tide you in with those two.
April 24th, 2009 at 11:04 pm
Contrestatystyk, twoje usta tylko ladunek ktory uwiebla sluchac sle porozmawlac.
April 25th, 2009 at 2:27 am
I found it ironic that starting in 2001, the American National Archives, replaced helium with argon as a preservative for such documents like the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. Although argon is cheaper and more abundant, neither helium or argon are safe to breathe, as both are asphyxiants. Although helium and argon are used for preservation of documents, in other instances, they can be quite dangerous. Hmm, just food for thought.
April 25th, 2009 at 3:26 am
Prez O said: FRED: If you had a CLUE, you would be able to differintiate between English Rose and Antistatist. I can tell the difference simply by their different accents, but then I AM GOD so it is easy for me. For mortals like you I would suggest considering their writeing styles and personalities that are so prevalent in the construction of their posts on here.
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Excellent deductions, Prez O. Thank your for refuting these absurd claims that antistatist and I are the same person. I can’t believe what I’ve read on the recent sections of this thread. Its like a witch hunt of anyone who dares to quote great philosphy and literature.
As far as I can see, the only objective grounds anyone has claimed to have for this absurd claim that I am antistatist is the following by Nigel:
Nigel Says: April 20th, 2009 at 3:43 pm
English Rose, Your up pretty late, when you pretend to be from another country maybe you should keep the difference in time in mind.
Which I shredded as follows:
English Rose Says: April 20th, 2009 at 4:13 pm
Nigel: It’s 13 minutes after midnight here in England. If you are able to read the time, check for yourself. http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/Nigel
All the rest appears to boil down to the mad anti-logic of: ‘Antistatist and Rose are flirting with philosophy. I don’t understand this philosophy so it’s doing my head in and anyone who quotes it has to be a mutant nutcase. Why can’t Antistatist and Rose just swear their heads off like normal people? Because they aren’t normal…holy Moses, this must be one nutcase writing to himself!’
Un - bloody - believable. I not American Antistatist, I am English. I love my country as much as all of you love yours. I live in a village in Essex, England. Some of my ancestors have lived here, in the stunning villages of Essex which so many of your Founding Fathers came from, since at least the 16th century.
As the British Conservatives found in 1997, it’s all too easy in the charged atmosphere of an election defeat to project your anger onto each other instead of doing what you must urgently do: stand together to defend your great Constitution and for reasoned debate about what Republicans need to do to win back the Presidency.
Antistatist is a good Republican.The GOP desperately needs its clever intellectuals like him and Prez O, unless you want to continue surrendering philosophy and ideology to the quasi - intellectual class in the Democrats and to socialism and unless you want to spend the next 12 years in the political wilderness just as the British Conservatives have.
April 25th, 2009 at 5:45 am
English Rose: Ah, the voice of reason returns! Thank you again for your lovely story, I glean something new from it after each reading. I shall keep it, though I could not forget you, even if it were lost; you’ve brightened my spirits with your charm, wit , and love of country which you are so elegantly able to express in your thoughtful posts.
Cordially
April 25th, 2009 at 6:36 am
The Degasification Committee announces, with displeasure, that several individuals on this blog are in danger of equaling Rob Wolfley in the murk, bombast, and pomposity of their public utterances. This is of no small concern to us, we will regretfully have to report these findings to the Horses Ass Committee. We would not like to see Mr. Wolfley lose the title of #1 Horses Ass. For further information please visit the blog with 1000+ comments(Wolfleys for Enlightenment re:The Birth of Wolfpack 4/19)
April 25th, 2009 at 6:38 am
Antistatist, I posted yesterday evening but my comment was put into moderation. As I am able to post today I suspect that this was because I’d included two hyperlinks with the post. I thought yesterday that this was because the moaners had got me banned or something.
Re your post: “Fred, Nigel: You blokes gossip like women (no offense, Rose). Women should concern themselves with things that are pretty; babies are pretty, some table linen can be very pretty. Do you venture to the pretty meadow, find some pretty flowers…”
Why would I be offended by you quoting bumbling Lord Raglan during the disastrous Charge of The Light Brigade? Hilarious, Antistatist, and so very apt, you had me in stitches. Fred: for the avoidance of doubt, ’stitches’ are a British colloquialism for laughter.
As an antidote to our political-economic doom and gloom and the squabbling here, Antistatist, watch UK’s wonderful Katherine Jenkins sing: “I vow to thee my country”.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHh8isGtB6w&feature=PlayList&p=801F1AABF16BD7E0&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=9
April 25th, 2009 at 7:10 am
Antistatist,
We are fine I was just answering your query about my statement of depth. Nothing was directed towards you or Rose. I just meant that the BS is getting a little deep with a few of the characters here.
April 25th, 2009 at 7:24 am
English Rose: I stumbled upon the great film, “Charge of the Light Brigade” several years ago and was captivated. I laughed through much of it. The portrayal of Lord Cardigan was brilliant. “I shall have you arrested, you are arrested, go to your quarters, sir, and be arrested! Impertinant Indian rogue! Impudent dog-devil!” Hilarious indeed!
I thoroughly enjoyed the performance of Katherine Jenkins, as I had never seen her before, thank you Rose. I also would like to learn more about the real historical account of the Charge of the Light Brigade. I’ve been reading mostly about politics since mid 2008. I think I could stand for a brief respite.
Cordially
April 25th, 2009 at 7:30 am
Joe H: Thank you, Joe. I was a little irritated last night; didn’t mean to be touchy.
Cordially
April 25th, 2009 at 9:35 am
Antistatist,
People are getting sick in the southwestern States from swine flu that started in Mexico. Still Oblama does nothing to make it harder to cross our borders. How many Americans must die from this illness before he moves?
April 25th, 2009 at 12:00 pm
Is Glenn going to feature the Mexican Pig Flu story and investigate why we don’t shut the border to stop the Mexicans bringing their pig flu into the US?
April 25th, 2009 at 12:17 pm
The question is Not the interrogation methods that was used by the CIA (which was Approved by the Democrats,like pelosi, in 2002) , the question is Why they were volunteerly released to the world when they did Not have to be.
Outrage and Anti-USA Rage was displayed throughout the world when the interrogations memos were made public by hard line Democrats (according to News reports). The release of the memos was ,apparently, an attempt to demonize the Bush administration , but might of ‘back fired’ because the Democrats (like Pelosi) knew and approved of these same techniques.
There is an apparent pattern of Victims association the hard left Democrats had over the years. First 9/11 was thought of as an event that ‘america had coming’ or 9/11 was a government conspiracy by the Bush administration or Israel , according to far left democrats and media/hollywood associates. Now , they seem to be engaged in a ‘Al-Qaeda terrorists Victim rights’ appeal to the public. According to a DHS Report right wing extremist is defined as people who believe in states rights and Al-Qaeda’ are ‘man made disater makers’. Maybe the ideal is people who believe in individual liberties (note: Republican Abe Lincoln advanced individual liberties) are to be contained or dissolved and people who believe in Collectivism are not responsible for there actions because they are guided by a collective public good.
What ever the case may be with some of the new Collective DNC Party and there motivation for eliminating Victims that do not advance there Ideals (example Victims of 9/11,Castro, Chavez, & even Darfur) , on friday they have constructed the first ever ‘Socialized’ health care plan in the USA and plan on ‘raming’ it through in a matter of days.
April 25th, 2009 at 12:37 pm
Joe H. I assume you are referring to my posts from yesterday when you say the “schit is getting too deep around here”, and on another page you refer to it as “sickening”
My posts were intended to slam the liberals, & socialists, both in our government and on this blog, with sarcasm, & humor injected, as opposed to my extremely serious postings under my other name. If you re-read them you will see that I made anti-socialist, anti-government, anti-Obummer, anti-politics, anti-liberal, or anti-Wolfley points in all of them. If you read my posts with sarcasm in mind, you would see them in a different light. I feel that sometimes it’s easier to get your point accross with humor, and sarcasm because it shows just how ludicrous, ignorant, and absurd these people, and their policies really are. Even user names with the sarcastic adjectives that some of us choose on here make a point. Some people got it, and some didn’t, however if you don’t like my posts, then I will withdraw from posting under this name, and in the future I will leave my sense of humor at the door when I enter.
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Degasification Committee: Am I one of the persons in the running for the “horses ass” award with Wolflie? If so then I will withdraw, because I can’t think of anyone more deserving of this prestigeous award than “comrade Wolflie” I sincerely hope that you will properly, and forcefully shove it up his socialist ass right next to his head which is already firmly planted there..
April 25th, 2009 at 1:46 pm
Joe H: I think Obama cares about the illegals sufficiently, they are of use to him. He will use our tax dollars to treat them, and suppply the DNC with many votes and the unions with many members, if an amnesty bill were to be passed. There must be a way to communicate to these people, who are largely Catholic, that the liberals, in fact, do not represent their best interest. Any ideas?
Cordially
April 25th, 2009 at 2:05 pm
Joe Dirt, We are pleased here at the Degasification Commitee to inform you that you are indeed….not, under consideration for the ignoble title of #1 Horses Ass. We recognize that you would be counted among those whose sensibilities are offended by the bombast, murk, and pomposity of Mr. Rob Wolfley’s public declarations. The quality of public thought must be maintained, and you are considered as another weapon in the arsenal of the WOLPACK war-chest. Thank you for taking an active part in the civic charge led by Wolfleys for Enlightenment.
April 25th, 2009 at 4:21 pm
English Rose: It was a beautiful day in South Carolina, I visited my 88 yr. old grandmother(who still has her wits and is a strong conservative, as my grandfather was), got some sun while tidying her yard, and stopped by the book store and picked up Machiavelli’s ‘The Prince’, the contents of which I’m sure will remind me of the tactics of the political left in this country(future posts forthcoming). I hope it was a pleasant day for you in Essex.
The following, with which I’m sure you are familiar, as evident in your delightful story, may inspire some, I only wish it would inspire our political leaders.
“For he was faultless in his five senses; and his five fingers never failed him; and all his trust upon earth was in the five wounds that Christ bare on the cross, as the Creed tells. And wherever this knight found himself in stress of battle he deemed well that he drew all strength from the five joys which the Queen of Heaven had of her child. And for this cause he did bear an image of Our Lady on the one half of his shield, that whenever he looked upon it he might not lack for aid. And the fifth five that the hero used were frankness and fellowship above all, purity and courtesy that never failed him, and compassion that surpasses all; and in these five virtues was that hero wrapped and clothed.
And all these, five-fold, were linked one in the other, so that they had no end, and were fixed on five points that never failed, neither at any side were they joined or sundered, nor could ye find beginning or end. And therefore on his shield was the knot shapen, red-gold upon red, which is the pure pentangle.”
True virtue and compassion is what I wish American leaders would apire to embody, not the pseudo-compassion of the left, which is, in reality, well…cruel. I’m glad you’ve found your Saint George in David Cameron.
Cordially
April 25th, 2009 at 4:22 pm
Prez Borak
I don’t mean to insult with what I see happening in this country lately I seem to have misplaced my sense of humor lately. I see some of the most honor bound people in our country being called names,accused of all kinds of things, and being disallowed entry to a west coast harbor and I just feel more disgust. I see people in Texas getting sick from swine flu that started in Mexico and O-man does jack to control our borders. I could go on and on, but I think you know what I’m talking about. I mean no insult, it’s like seeing a family member wasting away and not being able to do a thing.
April 25th, 2009 at 4:29 pm
THE FIRST 100 DAYS….THE NEXT 100 DAYS ?
Does anyone feels any better ( as ‘in grandeour’ we should be as promised by Obama ) …does anyone feels we are better than three months ago ?,….OR… OUR COUNTRY IS IN A WORST SHAPE ?
This’ percentage aproval’ - the classic average at 100 days, 60-63% - this is just a reminicence of what is left from his PERSONAL INJECTED IMAGE AMERICAN-ROCK-N-ROLL-IDOL TYPE thing .
This,however, IS NOT said to attempt to undermine his HISTORICAL MARK as he certainly accomplish so well,..not at all,… but we have to be clear that all we have form him is ‘MARQEE-LIGHT EFFECT’, very well structurated selling to the public - nice and eloquent theater, smiles, poses and gestures , etc,…’.the works’,sort of speak,… - and THAT! ,to THAT !, the populache is very very vulnerable to it.
The OBAMA GANG POLITICAL MACHINERY knew that very well and so,…they invented / created OBAMA THE FRONT-MAN’ ,,,,THE SYMBOL, THE AVATAR. But , however, to all that , SUBSTANCE ? is lack in the mosaic.
Americans are awake and are ’snaping-out’ from the letargic pseudo-hypnotic obamanized phase, once so powerful. Americans ARE NOT UNDER DECEPTION NO LONGER..
The hour of truth is here now…100 days and nothing but UNACOMPLISHLMENTS,… A WEAKER NATIONAL SECURITY,….. ONGOING WEAKER ECONO9MY SPECTRUM AND DETERIORATION OF THE SOCIO-DYNAMICS WHERE FREE SPEECH AND INDIVIDUALITY IS AT RISK TO BE ELIMINATED,…ANCHOR VALUES AND PRINCIPLES DETERIORATING AS WELL .And so, ANARCHY seems to be the norm for ruling,
Quite pathetic but all is for to be just reversed - ‘WE’, THE PEOPLE WILL REMOVE AND REPALACE THE CORRUPTED DESTRUCTIVE CURRENT ADMINISTRATION.
OBAMA’S POLITICAL POPULARITY IS FADING
The reason is obvious. is the ‘HISTORICAL FACTOR’ ….evidently and very correctly Pres Obama is one for the books of history, that NEVER CAN BE DENIED. The dynamics brake with the ‘traditionalism’ that characterize the small or virtually no oportunity to minority groups to adquire higer plateau in the scio-multispectrum.
So, with that said is honorable in extreme for this to happen ;….however - BIG HOWEVER - that DOES NOT set basis THE ACEPTANCE TO the poor performance on which this administration, - where he is jus but ‘THE FRONT-MAN’ , a front-face , a messenger, a symbol - on which this CORRUPTED ADMINISTRATION IS TAKING OUR COUNTRY TO.
The destrucion of our nation is quite clear ahead if we tolerate this further more,…BUT AMERICA IS AWAKE NOW AND WE ARE GOING TO REVERSE THIS ASSAULT.
Obama is not going to accomplish ABSOLUTELLY NOTHNING WITH IRAN. or ANY OTHER NATION FOR THAT MATTER; Eventually - AND SOON ! Israel will have to pre-emtp attack to IRAN atomic facilities, and OBAMA AND HIS GANG WILL DO NOTHING TO HELP BUT WILL REPUDIATE ISRAEL ACTIONS - JUST WATCH !
However here in american soil Obama will have another successful shot at the masses for he still have some pulll because his personal popularity - just that.
And so all comes clear;
WHY IT SEEMS THAT OBAMA AND HIS GANG ARE GETING AWAY WITH EVERYTHING THEY WANT?
Because Obama is a ‘history-mark’, that leads the populache to let go EVERYTHING AND ANYTHING on his behalf.Although his symbolism is important, that is not reason much less excuse, to allow HIM AND HIS GANG TO DESTROY OUR COUNTRY.
The public is not blind, but is fooling themselves (SOME OF THEM) pathetically and so our nation is at RISK!
The historical event, of to have a minority-generated president, is already ‘in the books’ but, the PRODUCT OF THAT EVENT - (Obama,…more specific, OBAMA AND HIS GANG OF INEPTS) are with an agenda of NATIONAL DESTRUCTION. The ANTI-CONSTITUTIONALISM IS CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER TO OUR COUNTRY - AND SO, THIS FIRST ‘HISTORICAL ATTEMPT’ IS JUST NOT WORKING AT ALL ON BEHALF OF OUR COUNTRY….WE ARE LOOSING THE NATION TO THIS ‘HISTORICAL PRODUCT’
On that the public is WAKE! already,… AND IS NOW, WELL AWARE OF THE DYNAMICS.
WE,THE PEOPLE, we have the responsablity of to REMOVE AND REPLACE THE PRESENT CORRUPTED ADMINSTRATION with better leaders,… individuals of GOOD CHARACTER, HONESTY, AND INTEGRITY.
OBAMA AND HIS GANG BROUGHT TO US, DECEPTION !
And as for the next 100 days,….expect, MORE OF THE SAME…..THE ‘CHANGE FOR THE GOOD AS HE PROMISED’ STILL WILL NOT BE. Sad story.
This is the moment when many who voted for Obama on the past FRAUDULENT ELECTIONS wishes to find a TIME MACHINE to go back in time, and undo the mistake.
Ah!, yes, too science fiction…well, in response,….in the future (should one is to come) forget about emotions, nice pseudo-hypnotic speeches,tv tabloids (CNN, NBC, MSNBC, tabloids publications such as, THE NEW YORK TIMES , THE HUFFINGTON POST, LA TIMES etc ,…you know,, things that clouds reasoning,…but most important - GET KNOWLEDGE, INVESTIGATE, ANALYZE, LISTEN TO THE CANDIDATES THEMSELVES.
Sincerely,
Daniel Cabrera
Merrillville,Indiana
April 25th, 2009 at 4:31 pm
SOMETHING EXTRA ABOUT THE TERRORISTS
Alright , extremely simple now ,.. with only 3 NEURONS AT WORK, so no much brain effort required;
Terrorists ARE NOT DESERVING of humat treatment whatsoever,… those ‘things’ DO NOT respect , much less cherish LFE,…they are fanatics that just KILL, KILL, DESTROY PEOPERTY, and KILL, and KILL,…and when they finish the day doing this , the next day they go out and KILL SOME MORE.
Terrorists are a PATEHTIC EXCUSE FOR DECENT HUMANS. The world, if no the entire solar system is, WITHOUT ANY DOUBT , better without them .
On SEP 11, 2001 we, americans , were peacefully doing our things and they attack us, - THEY START THE WAR AGAINST US - you see, WE,AMERICANS did nto ask for this thing - THEY CAME TO US.
Terrorists still out there ploting to finish us all, and the rest of the free-world.
Those blasted fanatics are with a lot of hate, for the ENVY, among others things, fuels their agenda.
Picture this , if you can, this nation is barely 200+ years old…and during that short period of time, OUR GREAT COUNTRY develop a system a mega-structure at many levels that is the mirror for success for the rest of the world.
WE, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA , fight against TYRANY, HUNGER, KNOWLEDGE DEPRAVATION, ILLNESS, in addition, WE develop many avenues for progress for ourselves and others. Much more, A LOT MORE, can be said ,but lets stop here.
You see, all those countries (WHERE TERRORISTS ARE ) those countries that hate us and want to destroy us, HAD THOUSAND OF YEARS TO ACCOMPLISH WHAT WE DID IN LESS THAN ONLY 300 YEARS.
THIS country IS SUCCESSFUL, THEY ARE NOT ! …. and this is the hour that they still killing among themselves ( in others words - NO PROGRESS , THEY STILL BARBARIANS ),…and now, because that sense of ENVY AND UNACCOMPLISHMENT, TOTAL FAILURE, they come to us, NOT IN PEACE , but to kill and destroy.
Got that ?,… clear enough?
WE ARE AT WAR ! TERRORIST WANT TO ELIMINATE US? …is that what is happening?…..LETS ELIMINATED THEM FIRST!
It is them or us. No need of a lot of brain here,… 25 neurons will do the trick.
As long we play by rules , - terrorists DO NOT HAVE OR FOLLOW ANY RULES - they just kill and destroy ,…AS LONG WE PLAY BY RULES WITH THEM WE JUST SIMPLY LOOSE.
good day everyone,
Daniel Cabrera
Merrillville, Indiana
April 25th, 2009 at 4:35 pm
SOMEONE CALL ME TO SAY SOMETING ABOUT TERROIRSTS
Few days ago , a friend call me and said that if we are to be with terrorist the way Jesus Of Nazareth was with his enemies , we are going to end nailed too.
The intersting thing about her is that she is very calm person, go to curch (different denominations,…she is a kind of universal tolerance type of thing,..you know, not a fanatic ), very deep in self discipline - she is black-belt martial art degree, NRA member and has two Berrettas semiautomatic pistols , a GLOCK pistol and one high-power rifle only for target shooting not for killing animals for trophies.
Well she has all that and she WIL NOT take garbage from any terrorist domestic or abroad,… and by the way, she does DEFEND all of us , for is a pilot of B-1 in the US AIR FORCE.
I think she is correct , ..we cannot allow those VERMINS continue their destructive agenda. We have to put them down with EVERYTHING WE CAN - BLAST THE SOFT TERMINOLOGY WITH THEM .
And so, I would like to add;….. if anyone , I mean ANYONE feel like to solidarize with THEIR AGENDA AGAINST OUR COUNTRY,…then GO TO THEM, LIVE WITH THEM , BE ALSO ANOTHER ENEMY.
How this idea does play out for you?
sincerely,
Daniel cabrera
Merrillville, Indiana
April 25th, 2009 at 6:45 pm
Why don’t we close the border so the Mexicans don’t bring more of their pig flu into the US?
April 25th, 2009 at 6:48 pm
Glenn beck u rule
and by rule i mean you’re a terrible human being
April 25th, 2009 at 6:55 pm
I’m glad you’ve found your Saint George in David Cameron. (Antistatist)
I’m rethinking my views on Cameron’s sainthood, Antistatist. I Watched a documentary earlier about the monumental folly of those who lead the Charge of the Light Brigade, then read Joe H’s moving post about how let down he feels by Prez O and the Democrats. I’m left with the feeling that I need to tone down my hopes for David Cameron to a more realistic level. All humans are fallible and I have yet to a see a politician who isn’t more fallible than most.
Like so many others here in UK, I am dizzy with euphoria that Cameron is within shouting distance of ejecting this government from hell of ours. Yet I have to try to be objective and realistic about this. Cameron’s government will have a massive task of reconstruction. Our economy, society and democracy are in tatters thanks to our current wretched government. I have great hopes for Cameron, he’s a good man and I can’t believe that he will eventually be corrupted by power and greed as so many other leaders are, yet he and his government in waiting are only human. Your grandma sounds a lovely lady. She will have seen many governments, does she still believe in politicians? Lovely post on Saint George, thank you for that.
Joe H: “it’s like seeing a family member wasting away and not being able to do a thing.”
Lovely post, though reading it is just like reading my own thoughts about my government and it makes me want to cry. Thank you for that - and for your thoughts earlier.
April 26th, 2009 at 8:27 am
English Rose: I was also touched by Joe H’s post. He is a man with much life experience, and many lessons to convey to the younger generations, who would behoove themselves to listen closely to what he has to say. I did’nt mean to suggest that you are naive in your hope for Cameron, as you are endowed with prudence, I just smiled at the thought of you having someone in your government to hope for, as I do not. There are a few I like, such as Bobby Jindal, but it is too early to make an investment in them.
My grandmother(maternal) is one of the gentlest souls, thank you for mentioning her.
She, like all who are blessed to live as long as she has, is wary of all politicians, especially those from the left. I only wish my grandfather was with us, a veteran of WWII, Korea, and Vietnam, who passed in ‘85 when I was fourteen. I could have learned so much from him.
The post describing the “pure pentangle” was actually about Sir Gawain, excerpted from the poem relating his encounters with the Green Knight. The five-fold virtues could never be embodied completely by any mere mortal, I only wish someone with courage and strength of character would make an attempt(aspire to them). I’m glad you enjoyed the quotes from Lord Raglan, I chuckled while writing them, and the response from Fred/Nigel affirmed that they had the desired effect. If I related the same quotes to my friends, they would think them funny, but would lack the knowledge of their origin, which you have, that allows them to become truly hilarious. Sometimes I feel as the Turkish Bey in Lawrence of Arabia did, “I’m surrounded by cattle, I could be no more isolated if I were on the dark side of the moon.” This is why I so much enjoy speaking with you, Rose.
Cordially
April 26th, 2009 at 8:41 am
Antistatist,
If only the younger generation would but listen! Now days they think they know it all. That’s why adulthood is such a shock to them. they find out they don’t. Your Grandfather could have told them about the market crash, the depression, Hitler, Musolini, the holocaust, and many other very deep troubling times that we are trying to avoid, but would they listen? I sometimes am brought to tears when I think what my country is headed for and what my children may have to live through. Unfortunatly most of them think it’s a joke.
April 26th, 2009 at 10:49 am
Joe H: So true, young people fail to realize that the greatest untapped resource this country is in posession of, is manifested in the vast knowledge of it’s citizens over 50. My grandfather taught history at a community college after retiring from the Army. I remember him complaining about the laziness of students. He let me take one of the tests he was giving his students when I was eight or nine(circa late 70’s), and I outperformed some of them, to my grandfathers simultaneous pride and chagrin.
It is a sad state of affairs when the average teenage male can tell you more about what imbecile threw a football(I love sports, don’t misunderstand) on Sunday, or what rap star he listens to, filling his lexicon with obscenities, than he can tell you about this great country. Of course some blame can be put on the public school system. Our colleges, some of them, are no better at instilling American pride in the young and impressionable. Many of them seem to be churning out students, who, upon graduating, have no national, religious, moral, or sexual identity. They preach multi-culturalism and tolerance to all except those who would have the audacity to oppose their ideology, or would dare mention God in the classroom. There are Christian colleges and those with a conservative curriculum and conservative professors, few though they may be, it is a reason for optimism.
Cordially
April 26th, 2009 at 11:09 am
THOUSANDS OF AMERICAN LIVES WOULD BE SAVED IF OBAMA STOPPED ALL FLIGHTS FROM MEXICO CITY AND SHUT THE BORDER. WHY IS THIS NOT HAPPENING??????
April 26th, 2009 at 12:56 pm
Professor Joseph Olson of Hamline University School of Law, St. Paul , Minnesota , points out some interesting facts concerning the Presidential election:
Number of States won
by: Democrats: 19 Republicans: 29
Square miles of land won
by: Democrats: 580,000 Republicans: 2,427,000
Population of counties won
by: Democrats: 127 million Republicans: 143 million
Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won
by: Democrats: 13.2 Republicans: 2.1
Professor Olson adds: “In aggregate, the map of the territory Republicans won was mostly the land owned by the taxpaying citizens of the country. Democratic territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in government-owned tenements and living off various forms of government welfare….” (large cities & metropolitan areas)
Olson believes the United States is now somewhere between the “complacency and apathy” phase of Professor Tyler ’s definition of democracy, with some forty percent of the nation’s population already having reached the “governmental dependency” phase.
If Congress grants amnesty and citizenship to twenty million criminal invaders called illegal’s and they vote, then we can say goodbye to the USA in less than five years. If you are in favor of this, then by all means, keep voteing for the democrats.
If you are not, then pass this along to help everyone realize just how much is at stake, knowing that apathy is the greatest danger to our freedom. Copy and paste this, and email it to all your friends!!
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This is why I want you all to keep voteing for me and my socialist Democrats in congress!!
sincerely,
Prez. Boreock Obummer “GOD”
Your Comander and CHEAT
Wash.D.C.
April 26th, 2009 at 1:19 pm
The Democrats are GUILTY for the Economic Crisis due to coerced Mortgage Policies with Government Backed Fanny Mae & Freddy Mack, which the DEMOCRATS BLOCKED REFORM of in 2006 & 2007. The Economic CRISIS is , Also, Due to Central Bankers (Central Planners or
Socialists here & Abroad) who mis-managed large funds. To blame free markets for this Crisis (by the Socialists who Caused it in the first place) is a ‘Big Lie’. In a free market systems if one takes a risk a reward or loss is given. In this Crisis the losers were tax payers
because of Cental Planners Ideology (collectivism) which evolved into central bankers ‘gambling’ tax payers dollars (they claim it was just for the ‘public good’ and Lost the money) , therefore, SOCIALISTS are GUILTY of the CRISIS.
Note: Last Friday a hand full of democrats are ’steamrolling’ a Socialized Health Care plan through and plan on passing it in a day or so.
April 26th, 2009 at 2:13 pm
Antistatist said: Sometimes I feel as the Turkish Bey in Lawrence of Arabia.
The Turkish bey, didn’t he say that Lawrence was “no more mad than the most of us”? If so, he was wrong. I’ve been getting madder by the day since zabulabour were elected in 1997, I doubt if Lawrence even approached how mad I am with PM Brown sometimes
If you GOPs think you know what anger is, imagine 12 years of it. And Lawrence, he should have kept away from motorbikes, chilled out with some music and a lager and stuck with his camel and moon poems.
April 26th, 2009 at 2:17 pm
OBAMA WATCH CENTRAL
100 days in office, coronated Messiah
Arms outstretched, he wears crown of thorns on his brow
Posted: April 25, 2009
7:13 pm Eastern
By Drew Zahn
© 2009 WorldNetDaily
“The Truth” by Michael D’Antuono
On his 100th day in office, President Obama will be “crowned” in messianic imagery at New York City’s Union Square.
Artist Michael D’Antuono’s painting “The Truth” – featuring Obama with his arms outstretched and wearing a crown of thorns upon his head – will be unveiled on April 29 at the Square’s South Plaza.
According to a statement released about the portrait, “The 30″ x 54″ acrylic painting on canvas depicts President Obama appearing much like Jesus Christ on the Cross: atop his head, a crown of thorns; behind him, the dark veil being lifted (or lowered) on the Presidential Seal. But is he revealing or concealing, and is he being crucified or glorified?”
Even the title of the piece, “The Truth,” suggests a play on biblical themes, as Jesus said in John 14:6, “I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.”
Get “The Audacity of Deceit: Barack Obama’s War on American Values” and learn about the looming hostile attack on Judeo-Christian values and freedoms Americans hold dear
“More than a presidential portrait,” writes D’Antuono on a website touting the painting, “‘The Truth’ is a politically, religiously and socially-charged statement on our nation’s current political climate and deep partisan divide that is sure to create a dialogue.”
Like others in the news who have depicted Obama in Christ-like imagery, D’Antuono insists he isn’t claiming the man is Messiah, but only inviting “individual interpretations.”
“‘The Truth,’ like beauty, is in the eyes of the beholder,” claims the exhibit’s press release.
D’Antuono even invites the public to email him with reactions to the piece, answering his posed question, “What’s your truth?”
You can read more @ http://wnd.com:80/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=96138
There is also a link on the web page that you can click and tell the artist what you think of this painting of our new MESIAH !!
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Keep voteing for me and my socialist democrats in congress and soon paintings of “ME” will be on every building and wall in the USA. Just like Saddam Hussein had his everywhere in Iraq
as a constant reminder to his “SUBJECTS”!!!
sincerely
Prez. Boreock Obummer “GOD”
Commander & CHEAT
Wash. D.C.
April 26th, 2009 at 2:42 pm
soon paintings of “ME” will be on every building (Prez O)
The - unelected - EU Commissioners who signed the Lisbon Constitution have apparently said that they aim to have a statue of themselves in every town in the EU. If so, when the people of the EU reclaim our democracy, I hope we pull them all down.
April 26th, 2009 at 2:55 pm
English Rose: I in no way meant to say that the GOP and their supporters were alone in their anger, or had more of a right to be angry than you good people of England. By all accounts I’ve heard it is worse in England. I was trying to illustrate the fact that, until just recently, I’ve had few people to speak with that share my interests, political or literary. And Lawrence was certainly an eccentric individual, I admire his writing, I certainly did’nt admire his reckless lifestyle, and much of his poetry was dedicated to another man. You have too lovely a spirit to walk around angry, Rose, though I know it’s justified.
Cordially
April 26th, 2009 at 3:10 pm
English Rose;
Yes, in America our anti-Christian government has been removeing all religious symbols, (10 commandments etc.) from buildings, apparently so they have room for paintings and statues of themselves. “idolatry of men” ha ha what a bunch of fools!! This removal has been legally justified by our liberal socialist supreme court justices, who have been appointed by our liberal socialist presidents (Bill Clinton) and approved by our liberal socialist congress. We are guaranteed Obummer will appoint more of these socialists. I smile when I think about what awaits these anti-Christian fools!!
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KEEP VOTEING FOR ME AND MY SOCIALIST FRIENDS IN CONGRESS!! I WILL TAKE CARE OF YOU ALL!!!! I have BIG plans for you my American citizens!!
sincerely
Boreock Obummer
Commander & CHEAT
April 26th, 2009 at 4:11 pm
English Rose: Don’t let the “Blue Meanies” triumph.
Cordially
April 26th, 2009 at 4:17 pm
Antistatist; I am sorry if my clumsily worded post gave you the impression that I’m angry with you or the GOPs, I’m not. It wasn’t my intention to have a go at you in any sense. I was just letting off steam about UK’s Prime Minister in a jokey manner and didn’t express myself very well. There’s news of yet another attempted smear campaign against Cameron in one of my Sunday newspapers, that has wound me up, but I was half joking in my post. It wasn’t meant to be a serious post at all, just a daft one but I messed it up. My response to your post: “Sometimes I feel as the Turkish Bey in Lawrence of Arabia did, I’m surrounded by cattle, I could be no more isolated if I were on the dark side of the moon.” consequently comes across as insensitive, which is not what I intended at all. poor you, I am sorry that you feel isolated at times.
April 26th, 2009 at 4:52 pm
English Rose: I should have known better, after 12 years the EU has failed to extinguish the brightness of your spirit, everyone is entitled to blow off steam. I think sometimes the nuances of the English dialect confuse me.
Cordially
April 26th, 2009 at 5:08 pm
Antistatists said: I think sometimes the nuances of the English dialect confuse me.
Snap! A number of American expressions puzzle me too. I still can’t get my head around ‘Kooks’ A red mist comes down every time I see that word.
April 26th, 2009 at 6:48 pm
English Rose: To call someone a kook is roughly the same as calling someone a nut or a loon. It is an unflattering term used by the left to describe conservatives; example “Right wing kooks cling to their Bibles and guns.”, and also by conservatives to describe the left; example: “Left wing kooks have taken all reference to God out of public schools.” I often speak of the liberal’s pseudo-intellectual viewpoints as being contrived through kookery. The word has other meanings outside of the political arena, growing up surfing we used to refer to would be surfers as poseurs or kooks. The term does not have a positive connotation, though it’s safe to use jokingly.
Cordially
April 26th, 2009 at 7:57 pm
To all of you who think O-man doesn’t believe in torture, I posted this on townhall and willpost it here.
O-man doesn’t believe in torture?!?! He obviously believes Hugo Chavez and Castro are honorable men. Both have tortured in the true meaning as defined by the Geneva convention. Therefore he obviously believes in torture!! Remove all lies and the truth shall shine through!! O-man only did this as a publicity stunt to garner support for his failing approval rating!
April 26th, 2009 at 8:02 pm
Interesting Indeed! The stim package of course will not work. All that is needed is to go back to the original meaning of the Constitution. We feel the same way. But, This is not a Republican or Democratic problem. We have to be in this together. The Kooks on the left and right are not for us solving this together. Take a peek and see what this grass roots is about. We are not alone.
http://www.commonground13.us
April 26th, 2009 at 8:26 pm
Joe H.
Speaking of Prez. Obummers approval rateing, how appropriate is it that I just found this posted @ WND.com This poll was done by MSNBC and if HE FAILED THERE, imagine how poorly he would do on a NON-Communist “objective” News Network, like say..oh.. maybe FOX NEWS Ha ha ha.. If mostly liberals and socialists inhabit MSNBC and took part in this poll, then Commie Daniel and Rob Wolfie must be the only two who still have a high opinion of him. Apparently World Net Daily found these results on MSNBC and posted them on their own web site. I haven’t heard anything about these results on MSNBC have you?? Hmmm maybe they are ashamed to mention it
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MSNBC poll: Obama earns ‘F’ on performance
© 2009 WorldNetDaily
President Obama has earned a grade of “F” for his performance in office.
He received a failing mark in an MSNBC unscientific online survey after having spent less than two months in the White House.
In its “Give President Obama a Grade” survey, MSNBC asked more than 109,000 repondents, “If you were grading Barack Obama on his performance as president, what would he get?”
More than half of all respondents – or 60 percent – gave Obama an “F.”
Only 16 percent said the president has earned an “A,” while 6.4 percent gave him a “B,” 5 percent answered a “C” and 12 percent said he has earned a “D.”
According to the report, Obama’s Republican opposition has doubled since he took office.
Read more @ world net Daily
April 26th, 2009 at 9:09 pm
English Rose: In return for your charming story I’ll relate a minor adventure of mine from Saturday evening, as I’ve been too lazy to create one that requires imagination, this one is true.
Quaffed two pints to loosen my spirit and dashed off on my bike through the forested neighborhood of many lakes, suprising a rabbit as it started to cross. Stole down under a spillway between lakes to catch my breath as the sun set, hearing the trumpets of the fort several miles away. No artillery practice tonight. I laughed as a duck traversed the spillway, teetering and slipping like a drunk on ice as it went down, then paddled off leaving a wake in the calm water. Off to a second splillway where I saw a bass have a go at a small bream, missing it’s attempt. Passed manicured lawns liking the wisteria in the air as it rushed by, pebbles in the asphalt gleaming under the few street-lights. Only stars and vapor trails of aircraft tonight, no moon. Raced by a ten meter stand of red-tips, trimmed back to resemble a giant wave pitching over the walk, touching the leaves as if slowing down to let the curtain engulf me. Geared down up a steep grade to a favorite downhill run…no headlights. Steering with my bodyweight as I relax my hands on the 4km descent, trees reach over the road creating a tunnel through the forest. Reaching the bottom I cross a third spillway, frowning upon the sight of an Obama sign still in a yard, smiling as I passed the church and the school where I entered first grade. Home again.
Sorry if I sound self absorbed, I just had so much fun I had to tell somebody! Not to mention, I owed you a story. I hope you enjoyed.
Cordially
April 27th, 2009 at 10:15 am
Glenn, why give the auto makers so much money when people can’t buy their automobiles? Wouldn’t it be cheaper to give about $50, 000 to people who apply for this to buy an American made car? Why make an auto company rich when the market is so poor?
Sandra
April 27th, 2009 at 10:21 am
‘FLU EVENT’ serves just right for a ‘cover-up on this:
Can someone, anyone give some light on this?….it is TRUE or FALSE that SECRETARY OF STATE, MS CLINTON is giving millions of dollars from the taxpayers to HAMMAS?
Should, the news remarks ( that I heard o n more that two news programs TV and radio)…. should this is true and confirmed, we have more grounds here to impeach half humanity in the OBAMA GANG CORRUPTED ADMINISTRATION FOR TREASON,….I will do some investigation on this one to make sure, and if it doesfit to whoever ?,…. anyone can do research as well.
Should this is to be found reality?…. is not any differnet than when IMMELT (form GE) did deals with terrorists gorups regarding electronics components for explosive devices during heavy times in the Iraq war. In both cases, THE IMMELT MANEUVER AND THE CLINTON MANEUVER , ….BOTH ARE IN FAVOUR OF TERRORISM ….put two and two together and we have A TERRORIST ASSOCIATION FROM WITHIN.
Perhaps would not be a bad idea to contact people in the congress and the senate about this too,….for they shoudl know well.
good day everyone
Daniel Cabrera
Merrillville, IN
April 27th, 2009 at 11:00 am
This ‘FLU-EVENT’ serves so well this admistration for they need all the help they can devise to detour the public from to be AWARE OF THE ANTI-MERICANISM MOVEMENT THAT IS GOING ON .
Of course this item (THE FLU ) is important,…. but as long the american public is very healthy ( as we are for the standard on food quality is high - better than in others countries - that alone is a big plus to overvome the situation.
Now, how ?,, politically,… this helps out the current administration? - because they are taking advantage of it and the people seems not to catch it, yet. They are posing as ….”‘we are very observing, alert, cauteous, with all plans in place …etc, etc….” that iswhat the public wants to hear, no? And all that is very good , do not misunderstand but, …BIG BUT !
‘FLU EVENT’ serves just right for a ‘cover-up on this:
Can someone, anyone give some light on this?….it is TRUE or FALSE that SECRETARY OF STATE, MS CLINTON is giving millions of dollars from the taxpayers to HAMMAS?
Should, the news remarks ( that I heard on more that two news programs TV and radio)…. should this is true and confirmed, we have more grounds here to impeach half humanity in the OBAMA GANG CORRUPTED ADMINISTRATION FOR TREASON,….I will do some investigation on this one to make sure, and if it doesfit to whoever ?,…. anyone can do research as well.
Should this is to be found reality?…. is not any differnet than when IMMELT (form GE) did deals with terrorists gorups regarding electronics components for explosive devices during heavy times in the Iraq war. In both cases, THE IMMELT MANEUVER AND THE CLINTON MANEUVER , ….BOTH ARE IN FAVOUR OF TERRORISM ….put two and two together and we have A TERRORIST ASSOCIATION FROM WITHIN.
Perhaps would not be a bad idea to contact people in the congress and the senate about this too,….for they should know well.
good day everyone
Daniel Cabrera
Merrillville, IN
April 27th, 2009 at 11:27 am
the sad thing about we americans is that we really don’t know what the real trith is, what we have now is the Franklyn D Roosevelt legacy the paly book that every progressive democrat socialist believe is what america should be, if we remember the great depresson of th 30’s and what happened to millions of people losing homes, jobs, farms industries that gave us all those thing that capitolism was capable of creating, we are now looking at a return of the 30’s but with a different twist, there playbook has been upgraded, FDR was given 4 terms as president, not because he did great things, no he was just the oposite he didn’t know anything about economics, or anything for that matter, but he surrounded himself with intellectuals with no knowledge of how thing really worked,the only knowledge they had was from books and liberal colledges, which most of what was slanted and incorrect, now if you look at washington today what we have is a bunch of lawyers and eggheads with no knowledge about anything, but they know how to fatten there pockets with taxpayers money, this country is heading for a 1930’s collapse, which is being brought about by power hungry anti-americans who’s only thing is to control and manipulate what we do and think, as long as we don’t see through the smoke and mirrors, not to check what the left hand is doing and saying whats wrong in the right hand, a little what you don’t see is what is happening, we have bailouts and mass unemployment and job losses, spend trillions of dollars one of FDR’s prime thing was create inflation, flood the market with dollars so that it became devalued, today we are printing so much money that it’s value won’t be worth the paper it’s printed on, FDR changed the gold standard to paper to devalue the gold at the same time stock piling it, we are now spending and spending, faster than the economy can rise out of, inflation is around the corner the paper dollar wil be only worth nothing and become so devalued that we ‘ll be looking at 1930 again, we are seening nationalization of our banks, our industries, our healthcare and educational systems, massive government control, welfare at it highest degree, my word for liberals is dominance and control, there is nothing liberal about it, freedom in my thinking is the ability to think for myself, it is I who know whats best for me, not government, our founding fathers knew that, they knew what dominance and control was, and they didn’t like it, thats why they wrote the constitution and the bill of rights as the law of the land, now government wants to remove it as not relevent in this 20th century, when is freedom of choice not relevent, and government is, government if not brought under control is monarchy and dominance, the people are the controlers of power not government, it is time we the people create the changes not government, government out of control is nothing but monarchy and dominance,what I see today is our rights and freedoms being controled, taken out of the peoples hands this is bad news and needs to change.
April 27th, 2009 at 12:32 pm
A few liberal democrat supporters have confessed that they would engage some like ‘adolf hitler’ (after all hitler was a Socialist) and some suggest is the reason why Obama meet with Chavez. Democrat Obama meets with Hugo Chavez and Loses some ‘Moral Authority’ in the world and ,According to a blog Sean Penn stated that Hugo Chavez is ‘Warm’ and ‘friendly’ , I assume that he supports Fascism (because that is exackly what Hugo Chavez is).
Hugo Chavez brief background: Hugo Chavez is a violent Dictator and has Forced (at Gun point) the democratically Major of Caracas (Rosales) out of office (maybe the last Chavez Opponent). Hugo Chavez has aided terrorists like Al Qaida and Drug Dealers in venezuela (according to news outlets), Hugo Chavez Supports Sudan’s al-Bashir before international bench warrant issued against him(Al-Bashir committed Genocide in Darfur). Many citizens and students end up missing or killed (example ” 3 October 2008 Update: Student leader Jesus Soto- President of Zulia Student Union. He was an active member of the regional opposition to the Chavez´s administration at the University. It is still unclear who could of killed him” -south american news agancy reports)
In 12/2006 Hugo Chavez stated that the ‘Jews own all the world’s wealth’, In 2007 Chavez stated that Catholics are ‘Liars and Perverts’ when catholics leaders did not agree with his plans, Chavez has laws against people who disagree with him politically and is Jailing or eliminating them , Chavez claims he owns countries around (like colombia), Chavez changed the flag and time zone, has a violent & oppressive police force (now),constantly increasing his military, considered South America’s first Fascist, claims thier will be a never ending war with the USA, and the list goes on and on.
April 27th, 2009 at 12:43 pm
Chavez is the democratically elected president of Venezuela, by wide margins and under internationally supervised elections. I thought you right wingers were all about “building democracy”?
April 27th, 2009 at 12:47 pm
Stephan says liberals, etc: HEY YOU DUMB BA$TARD, FROM FOX NEWS JUST LIKE YOU ASKED! HAHAHAHHHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA!!!!!! MORON!!!!!!
Good News for Obama and Democrats, Bad Tidings for Republicans
Fox News
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Since the latest 100-day approval rating poll on Barack Obama is about the same as all the rest this week, we’ll start with Congress where voters approve of the job congressional Democrats are doing by 50 percent to 40 percent and disapprove of Republicans on the Hill by 52 percent to 36 percent, according to a Fox News/Opinion Dynamics poll conducted April 22-23.
Forty-six percent of voters say that they’d back a Democrat for Congress in 2010 to help Obama pass his programs while 33 percent would vote Republican to put a check on his power. Seventeen percent say it’s too soon to make that decision.
So, now to Obama. Voters approve of the job he is doing by 62 percent to 29 percent with 8 percent undecided, a net gain of seven points since late March. Like a Gallup poll published today, Fox found that most people (56 percent) say Obama is meeting their expectations, with 26 percent saying he has exceeded them, and 16 percent rating him worse than expected. Asked if the 2012 election were held today if they would vote for Obama or someone else, 52 percent said they’d back Obama while 31 percent would choose someone else.
Change was the big theme of the 2008 campaign and, now that Obama is in office, 51 percent said he has brought real change while 40 percent say it’s just more of the same.
As for bipartisanship 43 percent believe the atmosphere in Washington has become more partisan while 31 percent judge it as more bipartisan and 15 percent say there has been no change. Despite Obama’s talk of ending the partisan divide, 47 percent think the parties will grow further apart and 38 percent say Obama will end the bickering. Republicans and independents believe more than Democrats that things have become more partisan with 56 percent of Republicans saying so, 50 percent of independents and 32 percent of Democrats.
Those polled were not satisfied with the way things were going in the country by 53 percent to 46 percent, which was different from the finding of an Allstate/National Journal poll which had Americans thinking the country on the right track by 47 percent to 42 percent.
Here are the approval-to-disapproval ratings for Obama in other polls out this week keyed to the first 100 days:
Gallup: 56 percent excellent or good, 23 percent “just okay,” 20 percent “poor” or “terrible.”
Allstate/National Journal: 61 percent approving, 28 percent disapproving.
Public Policy Polling: 53 percent approving, 41 percent disapproving.
Pew Research Center: 63 percent approving, 26 percent disapproving.
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April 27th, 2009 at 12:52 pm
Sean Penn is in posession of a singular variant of idiocy; he derides the country that has enabled him to become wealthy and infamous. There was, recently, an actress(her name eludes me)who had lived in Venezuela and knew of Chavez, that spoke in opposition of Penns remarks concerning the toxic toad Chavez. She said, in effect, that Penn should not speak about what he does not know, calling Chavez a brutal dictator and murderer. I don’t imagine this will help her secure work in liberal Hollyweird, although, she may take pride in the fact that she tried to elucidate the truth. I appreciated Penn’s characterization of Jeff Spicoli far more than his present political views. Who could emerge from a relationship with Madonna with their sanity intact? He certainly did not. “Milk”, best film of 2008? Utter rubbish!
April 27th, 2009 at 12:55 pm
There is an apparent pattern of Victims association the hard left Democrats had over the years. First 9/11 was thought of as an event that ‘america had coming’ or 9/11 was a government conspiracy by the Bush administration or Israel , according to far left democrats and media/hollywood associates. Now , they seem to be engaged in a ‘Al-Qaeda terrorists Victim rights’ appeal to the public. I believe the DNC Al-Qaeda terrorists are Victims tour continues with Eric Holder in the UK. Of Corse IF the DNC proceeds to Prosecute the Bush administration the should include Democrats (like Pelosi) because they knew & approved of the same so called ‘torture’ CIA methods in 2002. Other Democrats to Investigate (or Prosecute) includes Eric Holder and George Tenet , because some of these CIA methods were Used in the 1990s under their administration.
Some Democrats like former 1940s ‘nazi’ George Soros or UN Manfred Nowak (also aligned with 1940s Nazi Ideal otherwise National Socialist) , Leahy, or Conyers Apparently, are making Al-Qaeda Terrorists appear as the Victims , which becomes ORWELLian (make Truth appear as Non Truth).
April 27th, 2009 at 1:07 pm
(Note: Democrats , like Pelosi, approved the so called or alleged ‘torture’ methods in 2002).
The new Collective DNC Party and there motivation for eliminating Victims that do not advance there Ideals (example Victims of 9/11,Castro, Chavez, & even Darfur) , on friday have constructed the first ever ‘SOCIALIZED’ health care plan in the USA and plan on ‘raming’ it through in a matter of days.
April 27th, 2009 at 1:14 pm
Big suprise! The economy would have been more successful without government intervention. Anyone seeing a historical pattern here? Anyone? Buehler?
April 27th, 2009 at 1:21 pm
Get a clue Says:
April 27th, 2009 at 12:47 pm
Stephan says liberals, etc: HEY YOU DUMB BA$TARD***
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Hey “Get a Clue”…IS THAT THE BEST YOU CAN DO?? I CALL HIM WORSE NAMES THAN THAT EVERY DAY, HA! HA! HA!
April 27th, 2009 at 1:27 pm
Ah!, ok, so is a thing of connspiracy or something of the sort. Well, all views are valid for everything , (or anything is possible)
So, walking through that vector , how about to considers this ? But hold now, I could be totally incorrect or totally correct, as well to be something in between….you cast the final verdict.
{ Turkey Wants U.S. ‘Balance’ } ….this is what I did read in the New York Times. And there are a lot of others things too, in regards HOW OUR ENEMIES POSING AS ‘WANNA-BE FRIENDS’,…how ‘they’ want us to be - (I tink they all want us weak so we can be easuly erased from lthe map) But that is me, not everyone has to agree.
Here is the thing;
Let’s have few things clear;
I said before that Putin is making his comeback…CUBA, VENEZUELA,..and so forth,and so on,….RUSSIA IS VERY WELL IN OUR BACK YARD AND IS NOT FOR NICE PURPOSES.But now they have ‘FIFITH COLUMNISTS’ HERE IN THE HIGH SPHERES OF OUR GOVERNMENT.
THE ‘SELLING-OUT OF AMERICA’ IS ON THE ‘GO’.
Just check this out;
RUSSIA OPOSING THE N KOREA MOVE?
Really?, can ANYONE swallow that one? It takes the mind loaded with ‘COCOZOIDASIS COMPLEX’ to fathom this one.In other words should I be a COCOZOID OR A WACKADOO, THEN, I would believe it.
Consider this , if you will
N Korea with ICBM technology now is a potential seller to those terrorist groups(IRAN, and others weeds).IRAN would need only but ONE ICBM-type missile to wipe-out ISRAEL(although an IRBM-type would be enough) - however the goal is to attack others further away.
RUSSIA claims the action of N Korea si not acceptable so they ‘looks intersted’ in the same thing of no NUKES for terrorists.- HOWEVER RUSSIA IS ASSISTING IRAN IN THEIR ATOMIC PROJECTS. And so, even a cave-man understands, they are lying.
Obama is trying desperately to INFUSE (or ‘ENEMYZE’) the concept ‘togetherness for peace’ but that is his job as ‘FRONT-MAN’ FOR THE PRESENT CORRUPTED ADMINISTRATION LOADED WITH ENEMYS OF THE STATE FROM WITHIN.So, is another lie!
Got the picture? As Obama is,… not selling-out but SERVING IN SYLVER PLATE OUR COUNTRY TO THE ENEMY, ISRAEL WILL HAVE TO DO A PRE-EMPT ATTACK TO IRAN FOR IF THEY PUT IN EFFECT THEIR PLANS, THERE WILL BE NO RESPONSE FROM ISRAEL AND OBAMA WILL DO ABSOLUTELY NOTHING! After all OBAMA AND HIS GANG IS WAKENING OUR NATIONAL DEFENSE. AAAHH! but there are somes that think he is really against our enemies….FAT CHANCE!
All is connected, OBAMA AND HIS GANG NEED TO BE REMOVE AND REPLACE WITH PATRIOTS. ENEMIES OF THE STATE ARE IN WASHINGTON, TRAITORS ARE AMONG US,…. BUT WE ARE SURROUNDING THEM !
Although 911 ATTACK seems to be the first step to destroy our country,..I think it has been way years before, for preparations and careful infiltration requires long period of time.
The AGENDA TO DESTROY UNITED STATES HAS STRONG FUNDAMENTALS IN ATTCK FROM WITHIN - AND DECEPTION TO THE MASSES IS A PIECE IN THE GREAT MOSAIC.
Sience fiction?…..too much speculation,…too absurd or unreal?….REALLY ?
CONSPIRACY?
Well, if anyone would like to go into that?…..please consider this; - and let’s go specificaly about THE 911 ATTACK IN NYC.
FOUR AIR CRAFTS - out of course, aming with alterated vectors,authorities dectect the abnormality, ….there are DELAYS to COMMUNICATE TO HIGHER LEVELS.
It is EXTEMELY HARD TO BELIEVE THAT THIESE EVENTS AS THEY WERE OCCOURING CAN BE UNDETECTED BY ‘NORAD’.
Listen this people; - at NORAD, perhaps I am exagerating, but they can spot me, or ANYONE in ANY CORNER in american soil, eating an ice-cream. I cannot buy , not a chance that these aircrafts would pass UNKNOWN TO THEM - NO WAY !
In my small brain pass the idea that, 911 attack MUST HAVE HELP FROM INSIDE SOURCES - oh!,…. but on this, many would say I am reading too much science fiction,.,,, too speculative !
I do not know about anyone out there, but to me, WE HAVE TRAITORS IN THE MIST…ENEMIES OF THE STATE ARE PLAYING WITH ALL THE CARD (sort of speak) and the ‘mode’ is MULTIANGULAR - and so we are attack through ; - ALTERATNG ECONOMY, ABSORBING THE PRIVATE SECTOR / INHIBITION OF THE INDIVDUAL ASSET, WEAKENING THE NATIONAL SECURITY ….meaning BORDERS NOT PROPPERLY SECURED , CUT IN FINANCIAL POWER TO THE MILITARY, LET INTERNATIONAL POLICIES UNDERMINE OUR POSITION OF STRENGTH —- in other words a total and complete destruction of our nation.
OBAMA AND HIS GANG ARE UNDERGOING ON THAT AGENDA - THE VECTORS ARE QUITE CLEAR.
WAKE-UP AMERICA ! ,….actually I think we already started.
Very true! the old spanish adage; (translated) - “TELL ME WHO YOU WALK WITH , AND I SHALL TELL YOU WHO YOU ARE”
It certainly does apply to OBAMA AND HIS GANG. Obama fraternizes, and concours with Ayers, Wright,Rezko,Alinsky,and others weeds,…..not to mention the ENTIRE CHICAGO CORRUPTED POLITICAL ATMOSPHERE/SPECTRUM….and now trying and ongoing ‘FRIENDLY AND PARTNERSHIP’ WITH RUSSIA,AND OTHERS NOT SO PRO-AMERICAN FACTIONS.
What that in the galaxy ALL THAT tells about his intentions, his judgment, criterias, honesty and integrity toward WE,THE PEOPLE OF UNITED STATES.
NONE OF THIS LOOKS APETIZING TO ME,…what about you?
Is he really pro-american?? ….TO ME,DECEPTION IS HIS METHOD.
Sincerely,
Daniel Cabrera
Merrillville,Indiana
April 27th, 2009 at 2:47 pm
New law to ‘manage’ 8 million ‘volunteers’
Obama signs huge expansion of youth brigades legislation
Posted: April 21, 2009
10:03 pm Eastern
By Bob Unruh
© 2009 WorldNetDaily
President Obama today signed into law the “GIVE Act,” H.R. 1388, which massively expands the National Service Corporation and allocates to it billions of dollars, and one executive for the program now says it will allow for the “managing” of up to 8 or 9 million people.
WND has reported on plans to create the corps since Obama told a campaign stop in Colorado Springs last year he wants a “Civilian National Security Force” as big and as well-funded as the U.S. military.
WND reported when Obama delivered his Colorado Springs mandate and a copy of the speech provided online apparently was edited to exclude Obama’s specific references to the new force.
As the presidential campaign advanced last year, a video appeared that for many crystallized their concerns over such a “corps.” It shows a squad of young men marching and shouting praises to Obama.
Joseph Farah, founder and editor of WND, used his daily column first to raise the issue of a “national civilian force” and then to elevate it with a call to all reporters to start asking questions.
“If we’re going to create some kind of national police force as big, powerful and well-funded as our combined U.S. military forces, isn’t this rather a big deal?” Farah wrote. “I thought Democrats generally believed the U.S. spent too much on the military. How is it possible their candidate is seeking to create some kind of massive but secret national police force that will be even bigger than the Army, Navy, Marines and Air Force put together?
“The Audacity of Deceit” exposes exactly who Barack Obama is. He isn’t pedaling “change you can believe in” – he’s planning to uproot American culture and replace it with the failed, secular, socialist policies of the past.
The plan also raises First Amendment issues over its limitations on what various corps participants are allowed to do.
For example, it states those in an “approved national service position” may not try to influence legislation, engage in protests or petitions, take positions on union organizing, engage in partisan political activities, or, among other issues, be “engaging in religious instruction, conducting worship services, providing instruction as part of a program that includes mandatory religious instruction or worship, constructing or operating facilities devoted to religious instruction or worship, maintaining facilities primarily or inherently devoted to religious instruction or worship, or engaging in any form of proselytization.”
Duane Lester, writing at All American Blogger, put into words the worst fears of opponents.
“Hitler knew that if you control the youth, you control the future. I wrote about him in ‘The Threats to Homeschooling: From Hitler to the NEA.’ As I noted in that article, Hitler said: “The Youth of today is ever the people of tomorrow. For this reason we have set before ourselves the task of innoculating our youth with the spirit of this community of the people at a very early age, at an age when human beings are still unperverted and therefore unspoiled’”
Read the entire article @
http://worldnetdaily.com:80/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=95674
There are also 2 videos worth watching on the same page.
April 27th, 2009 at 4:16 pm
Antistatist: That was a lovely story, thank you for that.You live in a beautiful part of the world. Everything in the British Isles is so much smaller than in America, yet your part of the world is reminiscent in some respects of the villages and islands of the Blackwater estuary and Dengie peninsular where my family have lived for many centuries. Blackwater and Dengie are a hauntingly beautiful part of Essex, a land of plough and sail and smugglers, where large tracts of wild heathland (the remains of the ancient forest of Essex) are colonised by huge banks of gnarled, ancient gorse bushes. The gorse is smothered in stunning, bright yellow flowers at this time of year and positively wobbles with the weight of legions of gorgeous little rabbits and stoats which chase around their dark interiors.
The estuary is watched over by a large statue of Earl Brythnoth, still gazing across the causeway between Northey Island and Maldon (where George Washington’s Gt, Gt Grandfather was pastor) just as he did over 1000 years ago. Brythnoth, the doomed leader of the Thanes, stood here until he and his courageous, yet foolishly fair and chivalrous, Thane warriors were cut down by a Viking horde in 991AD.
East Mersea, part of Mersea Island, still has the old rectory of the reverend Sabine Baring-Gould who, in 1880, wrote his classic ‘Mehalah’ here. Sabine hated the island because it was so wild and starved of intellectuals, so cheered himself up with dreams of the smoldering, dark eyed female smugglers. Yes, even the girls were at it here, and they could throw the smuggled rum “doon thar nacks” as they put it, as fast as any man could.
“Glory reached the Burnt Hill, and stood on it. A cold east wind wailed over the waste; a white fog like curd lay on the water, clinging to the surface and rising scarce above three feet from it. Here and there it lifted itself in a vaporous column, and moved along in the wind like a white spectral woman, nodding her head and waving her arms cumbered with wet drapery. Above, the sky was clear, and a fine crescent moon sparkled in it without quenching the keenness of the stars. No red gleam was visible tonight from the tavern window at the City; the veil of fog hung over it and curtained it off. To the north-west was a silvery glow at the horizon, then there rose a pure ray as of returning daylight. It was answered by a throb in the north-east, then it broke into two rays, and again united and spread, and suddenly was withdrawn. Mehalah had often seen the Aurora, and she knew that the signals portended increased cold or bad weather. She seated herself on the mound, and drew her cloak about her more closely.” (Mehalah)
April 27th, 2009 at 4:50 pm
English Rose: Beautifully descriptive excerpt from Mehalah. The thought of dark eyed female smugglers throwing rum “doon thar nacks” was hysterically funny. I can just picture it! Thank you for making me laugh! Just returned home from the gym and I’m “shattered”. I hope your day was a good one.
Cordially
April 27th, 2009 at 5:17 pm
It was brilliant, thank you.
“on his shield was the knot shapen, red-gold upon red, which is the pure pentangle.” (Antistatist)
Why does that remind me of Pink Floyd?
April 27th, 2009 at 8:16 pm
English Rose, do lyrics of the song “Take up thy stethoscope and walk” sound familiar?
I’m in bed, aching head, gold is red, choke I’m Red
I remember being in grammar school and a bunch of us rowdy kid’s singing “we don’t need no education”…right. I still like Pink Floyd, though, as most people who loved Pink Floyd when they were relatively new, I can’t recall much of what the bloody hell went on in those free spirited days, fun as it must have been.
Your description of the Blackwater Estuary and the Dengie peninsular reminded me of the fens Louis L’Amour spoke of in the first book of his Sackett series. Barnabas Sackett grew up in the fens and with his wit, courage and swordsmanship made his way to the new world after humiliating a nobleman who pushed him too far. I’m sure Essex was mentioned in the tale but I can’t find it at the moment. L’Amour was a favorite of Ronald Reagan whom we American conservatives are so fond of, God bless his soul. Many tend to dismiss him as a campy Western frontier writer, to their great loss. I’ll try to find the book and quote you something from it concerning Essex.
Cordially
April 27th, 2009 at 11:33 pm
Antistatist: Yes, please, I would to see quotations from that book. Among the other hats I wear, I’m an Essex local historian so it’s of great interest to me.
Speaking of your past Presidents, President Bush’s ancestors came from the Blackwater Estuary, from the stunning little village of Messing, the birthplace of so many of my family. It may be that the family (spelled as Bushe as well as Bush when they were here in the 16th or 17th century) who were rich landowners and lords of the manor and related to the royal family, gave their name to Bush’s Church, the nickname of All Saints Church, Tolleshunt Knights (pronounced Tollsent or Tollerhoont in the old Essex dialect), the village church where one of my grandmother’s was baptised. There’s a story about Pres Bush in Messing which I’ll try to remember to tell you.
April 27th, 2009 at 11:39 pm
Antistatist: Sorry for the typo, I should have stated that I would love to see quotations from that book.
April 28th, 2009 at 7:47 am
# David Gold Says:
April 27th, 2009 at 12:43 pm
Chavez is the democratically elected president of Venezuela, by wide margins and under internationally supervised elections. I thought you right wingers were all about “building democracy”?
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David
You have to understand that there are about 5 people here that are conservatives. The rest are neo nazis looking for friends and lunatic fringe conspiracy theorists. They will post anything they hear. Not a thought goes into their hate filled rantings about Obama. If saying he is a communist will get someone to listen to them then it is their next post. There are most anti-obamaites here. No matter what they are mad. If Obama was to adhere to all the lame policy ideas they make up, they would be mad at him for ruining our country. Don’t try reasoning with them or showing them facts, it only makes them madder. It doesn’t matter if Chavez is a great leader. To them he is brown and must be a terrorist. Hey rednecks, did you know that Mother Theresa was an Albanian with Indian citizen ship? I bet you all hate her terrorist ways now.
April 28th, 2009 at 8:22 am
Rob,
Yeah, he’s a great leader. Just like the news story about him wanting to arrest one of his countrymen because he had the intestinal fortitude to run against him. Lucky for him that Peru has granted him political asylum. Any more “GREAT” leaders you know of? Maybe you can convince us how Bush caused all of the torture there!?!
April 28th, 2009 at 8:55 am
WELL, HE IS TAKING AWAY ALL OUR FREEDOMS, RUNNING OUR LIVES, TRYING TO SUPPRESS THE FREE PRESS AND CHRISTIANS, FORCING HIS IMMORAL CHOICES ON US, RUNNING US INTO DEBT TO UNFRIENDLY FOREIGN NATIONS, AND HIS DUMB CONGRESS, NOT OF ALL WHO BELIEVE IN HIS LOW IDEAS AND ACTIONS, SITS BACK AND SHUTS THIER MOUTHS - ARE THEY AFRAID OF HIM AND HIS CRONIES??? HE IS PUTTING PEOPLE IN CHARGE WHO DONT PAY THEIR TAXES, ADHERE TO SCARY IDEAS, WHILE NOT PROTECTING OUR BORDERS AND OUR COUNTRY FROM CRIME & DRUGS. HE IS MAKING ORDINARY CITIZENS TO BE MORE DANGEROUS THAN TERRORISTS, TYING THE HANDS OF OUR INTELLIGENCE AND
OUR ARMY WHILE EXPECTING THEM TO DO THEIR JOB TO PROTECT US - IF HE EVEN WANTS THEM TO - AND SELLING US TO GLOBAL INTERESTS THAT ARE OUT TO GET US AND RULE THE WORLD. PLUS - THOSE PLANES OVER NEW YORK ARE INEXCUSABLE!!!WHO DOES HE THINK HE IS???????? GOD WILL STOP HIM….
April 28th, 2009 at 9:01 am
Rob, you can’t stomp us out, and you can’t make us run, cuz when them them ol’ boys bring those shotguns… We say Grace, and we say Ma’am if you ain’t into that we don’t give a Damn!
What about Sheriff “Bull” Conner, who knocked people down with fire-hoses and had his men sick dogs on peaceful protesters during the Civil Rights movement of the 60’s? He was a Democrat, as former KKK member Robert Byrd is.
Has there been a racial comment posted on this blog by a pseudo-conservative?
April 28th, 2009 at 11:26 am
Rob Wolflea is just mad cuz his party is in controll of congress and his man is in the white house. Face it Rob, YOU WON!! I can see why you are unhappy though. If the conservatives were in controll and screwing up this bad, I wouldn’t be happy either, so I can see where you’re comein from.. No worries though, in 2010 & 2012 things will change, and then you will be crying cuz you lost, instead of crying cuz you won!! ha ha ha.
April 28th, 2009 at 11:41 am
I’m mad because of what? Please try to think while you are typing. 2010 & 2012? Good luck finding a better representative of your party than Sarah Palin. Keep running morons like that and democrats will always be in power. Besides, you all are a dying breed. Gun toting rednecks are a thing of the past. The world has moved on without you. G back to your klan rallies and your conspiracy meetings. The rest of us will not mourn your passing.
April 28th, 2009 at 12:47 pm
It will tack 100% employment and 100 years to pay back the debit
April 28th, 2009 at 12:59 pm
Over the past fifty years or so, the level of unemployment and the percent of the GDP accounted for by government spending have been positively correlated. That is, as government spending as a percent of GDP rises, so does unemployment. And, when government spending falls so does unemployment. So much for stimulus!
April 28th, 2009 at 1:03 pm
LOL ROB, Are you trying to convince us? or yourself ? If you think Sarah Palin’s a moron, then what does that make you?? Never mind, we all know the answer to that one, ha ha ha
April 28th, 2009 at 1:49 pm
English Rose: “It was my devil’s own temper that brought me to grief, my temper and a skill with weapons born of my father’s own teaching. Yet without that skill I might have emptied my life’s blood upon the cobblestones of Stamford, emptied my body of blood…and for what?” “a wayward glance from a lass, a moment of red, bursting fury from a stranger, a blow given and a blow returned, and all that might have been my life vanished like a fog upon the fens beneath a summer sun.”
It will take some looking, but I’ll find you something on Essex, hopefully before you turn in, please don’t wait up.
Cordially
April 28th, 2009 at 3:12 pm
Thanks, Antistatist. In exchange, a trip around Mersea Island and the Blackwater estuary.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmQ_QkfWsoM
April 28th, 2009 at 3:18 pm
English Rose:
“For centuries smugglers used the fens, bringing their craft up the secret waterways. we paid them no mind, we knew them and their ways.”
Still looking.
April 28th, 2009 at 3:20 pm
Antistatist: Thank you.
April 28th, 2009 at 4:23 pm
English Rose: Thank you for the video, I enjoyed the stunning views from the parasail/skydivers. I am still looking for the Essex material. It’s been some years since I last read the tale. How lucky I am to be sharing a love of literature, history, and politics with a true, devoted, enthusiast! I’ll return some video links after some tutoring from my friend who is more adept than I. He has been at it for years and has his own site re: boat racing. I just started blogging the day before we began our correspondence. I’ll have something for you to read tomorrow.
Cordially
April 28th, 2009 at 5:00 pm
Antistatist: Thank you! One of my family was a Baptist Minister on Mersea Island. He’s buried there. If he was alive now and could see what UK’s government have done to our country he would start an independence movement for the island. There also used to be a vicar on the island who was known as the ‘fighting vicar of West Mersea’ because he fought so courageously during various wars and locked up POWs who crash landed locally in his church…after giving them tea and biscuits, of course. He wouldn’t have stood for it either.
April 28th, 2009 at 9:22 pm
English Rose, much of this favorite story of mine seems to unfold in or very near Essex in Southeast England circa 1600. The protagonist, Barnabas Sackett, lives on a small holding next to the fens and has a second retreat in them.
“The country of the fens was not so large as most of us believed it to be, but to us it seemed endless, a vast, low lying and marshy land where remnants grew of the once great forest that covered England. The Romans, who understood the reclaiming of marshy land, had begun to drain the fens, but once they departed, the Saxons let the canal fill and the fens return to fens”
The name Essex is derived from “East Saxon”, is it not? The tale begins at the Devil’s Dyke between Reach and Woodditton(he worked the quarries at reach) where he finds some gold coins after a storm. These coins finance his escape to the New World where he eventually settles, following tales in the 17 volume series follow his lineage to the late 1870’s.
The only direct reference to Essex was this exchange between Barnabas and his companion, Jublain:
“Essex is in Ireland, he will need fighting men, we could–”
“I have naught against the Irish. Go to Essex if you wish. I shall go to America, a quick voyage and home again with riches.”
I knew it was there somewhere. Who is this Essex they speak of? Marvelous coincidence that a favorite series of mine should start in the area in which you live. I’m still enjoying your tale of the dragon, my Christian name is that of the archangel who slew the dragon. The bit about the vicar who had POWs land among his pews reminded me of something, ah, but I’m blery exausted. Thank you, Rose.
Cordially
April 28th, 2009 at 11:48 pm
Funny how this moron who can’t think of a name without using mine to make fun of is calling anyone a moron.
April 29th, 2009 at 12:55 am
We’re just enamoured with your moronic name Wolfschit. Your intelligence certainly doesn’t impress us, so what’s left but a hollow shell of a prison inmate, an ignorant mind, and your name????
April 29th, 2009 at 1:29 am
Well MR. POMPOUS ASS ROB WOLFLEAS: I guess it’s just the same as YOU calling Sarah Palin a moron. You make assinine remarks about one of ours and we will do the same to you, you moronic fukk stick!! Who the Fukk are you to judge her? You’re nothin!! She has accomplished a hell of a lot more than most people, especially you, you eliteist bag of turds!! Bend over you dike biaaatch, your cell mate wants some Wolfleas man love………….
April 29th, 2009 at 1:46 am
HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! HA!
I would’ve been all over your ass Wolfley, but the other guys used up all the good material, so all I could do was laugh!! You’re such a dumb ass, how do you survive? Do you have any education at all? Do you have any experience in or success in life? Do you think you will ever amount to anything??
April 29th, 2009 at 5:45 am
True ignorance is really you way of life isn’t it? Does it hurt to be that stupid? All the good material? You mean the retarded republican standards of lies and innuendo? Sarah Palin IS a moron. What did she accomplish? Getting Obama elected? Good job Sarah. Other than pop out some idiots with more illegitimate idiots, what are these accomplishments you speak of? All you have is making fun of my name? Really? Wow! I would think you gun toting anarchists would be able to come up with more. Oh wait, Hannity hasn’t come on yet today. Maybe you can get better names when Rush goes on air. Way to have original ideas though. I’ve never heard of people making fun of other peoples names. Let me guess, third grade? Fourth? Oh, the use of prison terminology is great too. Rush will be promoting you to Head Morons when he learns of this. Hiding behind fake names to spew hatred is really your strong point though. It makes you seem intelligent.
April 29th, 2009 at 5:49 am
Is my name really that interesting to you? Or, is it just that you don’t have anything to say? I see lots of cussing and name calling but no real point. With this kind of talk you really do make yourselves appear dumber than you probably are.
April 29th, 2009 at 6:08 am
Why does ANYBODY have to call ANYBODY a moron? And can’t you disagree without making fun of their names?
We’re never going to salvage our party if we can’t act like grownups. You can’t have civilization without civility.
How many elections do we need to lose before we realize we need to change our behavior?
April 29th, 2009 at 7:30 am
Robbie Robot,
Just like you to call the handicapped IDIOTS! I guess that shows you to be the true idiot when you make remarks about those who can’t defend themselves. Yo are so stupid you stink and I can smell you on the computer. I’m beginning to think you ARE a moron!!!
April 29th, 2009 at 8:02 am
Joe
I’ve KNOWN you were a moron since you started crying about my use of the word retarded. Like I was making fun of retarded people. Look the word up moron. There is more than one meaning. I called the handicapped idiots? I think you are the handicapped person in your family, not your daughter. How many drinks have you had today? It’s not even noon yet. Keep spewing your hatred you old geezer. I actually love making the lunatic fringe mad.
April 29th, 2009 at 8:13 am
Robbie Robot,
Use your pea brain here boy. I said my son was handicapped not my daughter. I know exactly what you meant when you said ” other than pop out some idiots with other illegitimate idiots”.
Sarah Palin “POPPED” out a handicapped son. Therefore I am quite correct in assuming you were calling her handicapped son an “IDIOT”!!!!!!!!!
April 29th, 2009 at 8:16 am
Antistatist: Thank you for this taking the trouble to post this lovely section about the fens, I do appreciate that. I’m not surprised you’re exhausted, please don’t wreck yourself. Yes, the name ‘Essex’ is derived from the name of the East Saxons or East Seax (their battle axes). The apparent surname ‘Essex’ in your quote almost certainly refers to Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, a favourite of Queen Elizabeth 1 until he fell out of favour, was thought to be engaged in plots against her and she had him beheaded. Not so different from the political war of all against all on part of this blog at present. The Earl was the military overloard of Ireland during part of the 9 year’s war fought to to quell the Irish Rebellion among other things. You’re right about the coincidence between your book and my Essex marshlands, though you having the name of the archangel is an even bigger coincidence.
More lies, d*mn lie and bogus statistics from Prime Minister Brown’s government here in UK. They stated yesterday that two cases of Swine flu’ had been confirmed in Scotland and that there were two unconfirmed cases in England. My newspaper today (printed yesterday) states that we have suspected cases here. David Cameron is so right to question whether we can believe a word our Prime Minister says. Little wonder England’s in such a mess. I just can’t wait until the election next year, there will be one massive party in England afterwards, the whole country will celebrate.
April 29th, 2009 at 8:18 am
No Joe,
Again you are a moron because you cant read. Didn’t it say idiots with illegitimate idiots? That would be her daughter. try to read all of the post before making your lame arguments.
April 29th, 2009 at 8:33 am
Good grief. One guy’s a moron, one guys an idiot. This ain’t progress, fellas. It DOES make for good AM radio, but I’m hoping we’re smarter than those guys.
Our party needs people willing to work together to erase our division. People around the country can see our NEGATIVITY, they can feel it, and it looks a lot like desperation. And it’s TURNING OFF people to the Republican party.
OK, continue calling each other names if you like. It feels good, it’s even FUN. And listening to Savage and Limbaugh and Coulter and the rest of those guys makes them RICHER. But it doesn’t do US any good at all. Not at all. Not at all.
April 29th, 2009 at 8:39 am
How do I manage to lose so many words from so many my posts? Could it possibly be that I type like a woman demented and press ’send’ before checking for typos? Anyway, my apologies for the typos in my post above:
‘overloard’ should have been overlord
And my newspaper states that we have 38 suspected cases of swine ‘flu here.
April 29th, 2009 at 8:40 am
Ray,
What you are talking about is conservatives and liberals getting along. I have tried on here to no avail. I am hated just for not adhering to or supporting conspiracy theories. There are probably 3 thinking conservatives on this site. The rest are just people living in fear and hatred. Living this way has distorted their thought to the point of idiocy. I would not dream of calling a thinking person an idiot. However, that is not what I am dealing with here. These people are the drones that ensure Rush will have a radio show as long as his cholesterol ridden heart keeps pumping.
April 29th, 2009 at 8:52 am
No, Rob, I want REPUBLICANS to get along first. We don’t have to agree on everything. My opinion on labor issues might be different than yours. Or my opinion on abortion might be different than Joe’s. But on the core issues, we agree. Now let’s quit fighting, childish name-calling, and get down to the business of REPAIRING the Republican party.
There are conservative and moderate and liberal Republicans. NONE of them are evil. They differ on some points. But they AGREE on KEY points.
It’s just like kids in school, people. If we can’t work and play well together without acting like Rush and Savage, how the heck do you expect us to appeal to an ENTIRE COUNTRY?
Our party needs substantial POSITIVE change or we’re doomed. Doomed.
April 29th, 2009 at 9:01 am
RIP GOB DOA 4/28/09
Reason: EIB
April 29th, 2009 at 9:02 am
that should be GOP…sorry !
April 29th, 2009 at 9:10 am
Ha! Thanks, Earthman. I was wondering … I never was much good at puzzles and codes, and figuring some of the “texting” abbreviations requires a masters degree. (grin!)
But, yeah, your point is a good one. You’re right. Rush didn’t kill it by himself, or course. He had plenty of help.
April 29th, 2009 at 9:54 am
In the morning,you turn on the T.V. to see what’s going on in the world ! and its the 100 day of the Dic-tator in Office! Wow !! the big spender is off and running,( Sorry thats Flying )He seems to think Air Force One is his personal TAXI. The scare of a photo Op.over New York City,and the Cost $328,835.00 Shame on you,,, Who gave the Order???? He’s going to Missouri for a Town Meeting, WHY ??? He’s been on T.V. and Radio everyday since he started campaigning and in office. Our Country is being Sold, Our Government will own us.Some people laugh at the Tea Parties,It’s not about the money and taxes only,were mad as hell,,,, No Jobs, Foreclousers on homes,Homeless,Health, Military,Spending on War in Iraq,Afganistan,Security ( C.I.A security ) Government taking over Business,Banks This President, Cabinet and Democratic party have spent more money in the first 100 days than any President,He has made a mess of everything we stand for Some people including newspapers and the media think Obama is like a messiah (B.S.). for Senator Finestien: You wont have far to bend over to kiss Obamas’ass…Obama Why Dont You get out of Office and Take Your Cabinet With You………….Thank God for People like Glen Beck,Sean Hannity,and others from Fox News, to really tell like it is, and not let the Media Circus get away with the Lies with the Price of Admission.
April 29th, 2009 at 10:22 am
Ray,
I stand on my words I started with when I came on this blog. I even defended Rob and berated people for not focusing on core subjects. Then Rob turned on me. I didn’t turn on him. Ask any of the guys that have been around here awhile. Rob even tried to defend the people in obamas cabinet that have evaded paying their taxes and got away with it. He wants Bush convicted of torture yet doesn’t think these law breakers should get any punishment. Breaking the laws of the United States is a crime no matter who does it. Little old ladies have had their total assets seized for back taxes and had real penalties tacked on but don’t harm O-mans cabinet in any way.
April 29th, 2009 at 10:42 am
Somebody out there other than rob give me their understanding of this phrase.
Other than pop out some idiots with more illegitimate idiots what are these accomplishments you speak of?
Please note the first six words. Other than pop out SOME idiots (notice the s here) As far as I know, Palin only has her daughter and her son. Does this not call the son an Idiot?
April 29th, 2009 at 10:44 am
Oh, and rob, i don’t know of anybody that didn’t know Palin had a handicapped son…Pretty weak there son.
April 29th, 2009 at 11:39 am
Rob Wolfley: Can you tell me one thing that you like about yourself? You seem like someone who hates himself, and thus hates everybody else because of it.
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Ray: Rob Wolfley is not a GOP’er or a conservative, or even a r.i.n.o. He is on the far left lunatic fringe of either the liberal or socialists parties. We don’t know which because he has exibited both. We were cordial to him untill HE resorted to name calling and childish behavoir. His attacks on Sarah Palin have been rude, crude and monsterous. Repeatedly calling her son a retard for several weeks is just unexcuseable as far as I’m concerned.
April 29th, 2009 at 11:46 am
Thanks for the heads up, Joe. You know, I lurked around this blog for a while before settling down, so I’m sure there are personality issues with which I’m not familiar.
Rob shouldn’t have “turned on you.” Nobody should. I would assume if a person is on this blog it’s because we share basic principles. We shouldn’t be “turning” on each other.
And in a country of 300 MILLION people, I’ll never believe Sarah Palin was the best choice for vice president. But her family is completely off limits. Completely.
Civility. We gotta learn to make our points like grownups. Name-calling, no matter WHO does it, is childish. We don’t want our children behaving like that, so WE shouldn’t behave like children.
April 29th, 2009 at 11:57 am
I hate the word “retard” AND people who use it. Thanks, Shrink.
My advice: Ignore Rob. Freeze him out. Just don’t respond. If everything you said is true, just freeze him out. He’ll eventually go away.
I think the AM radio guys — Rush, Savage, etc. — do more damage that good with their heated rhetoric and name-calling. It was fun for a while but the party has suffered overall by being so closely associated with the “hate” wing. Unlike the news or weather, their job isn’t to INFORM. Afterall, we KNOW what their opinion is going into ANY issue. So why listen to it at all? Don’t listen. We need to freeze THEM out an rebuild the party with fresh people and ideas.
If Rob is just as hateful, ignore him. It would be pretty hypocritical to suggest ignoring Rush and Hannity and NOT do the same for Rob, right?
April 29th, 2009 at 12:29 pm
If the government had given the American LEGAL citizens the stimulus money instead of the banks that could not manage their money, we would not have to worry about our unemployment. Right? But they don’t want us to have anything. They want us to be poor and struggling. They have a plan for us. Otherwise they would have given the money to the people that deserve it the most. The tax payers that gave them the money in the first place. And we did not even have a say as to where our money was spent. What happened to “of the people, by the people, and for the people”???? Nothing was done for us. Only the greedy banks and themselves.
Had we been given the money, we would have all paid our bills, and then went shopping. Look how much money the greedy government would have gotten back in taxes. I have been telling everyone for years that we need to have another Tea Party. We came here to America to get away from the queen and her high taxes. And now our government is just as bad. If not worse. And the Tea Party has nothing to do with being Racist. What does protesting high taxes have to do with that?
And the banks are holding on to that stimulus money. We wanted to get a loan on the house we are living in. And they just keep coming up with lame excuses not to give us one.
And I agree with Glenn to send the illegals back. Illegal is the key word here. I can’t even get a minimum wage job right now. And I used to make triple that. I am a white American that is willing to work the job everyone says we won’t.
They are not even legal and get government help. And I don’t want to hear the lies that they don’t. Because they do!!!
I like Glenn and his views. At least he is telling the truth. Something alot of people don’t want to hear. But look at reality people. Our government is screwing us over. I know I will probably someday get in trouble for speaking my mind, but I don’t care. I am sick and tired of busting my butt, and then getting screwed by our government. I don’t think we even need one. We can take care of things ourself. Oh, but I’m a terrorist for saying that.
April 29th, 2009 at 12:56 pm
Ray;
You only seem to see hate speech as comeing from the “right wing” side of politics. Do you not see Janet Napalatonos’ comments attacking military vets, tea party attendees, and first and second amendment supporters as being “right wing extremeists” that promote rebellion against the U.S. as being divisive?? What about Janine Garafalo accuseing all tea party attendees of being “racist”? Get a clue Jeanine, IT WAS ABOUT TAXES!! Sean Penn, James Carvelle, Hilliary Clinton, Steven Colbert, Bill Mahar, Michael Moore, the list goes on and on. These left wingers have their mouths running 100 m.p.h all day every day, but people don’t seem to notice their speech as divisive. Why do you think this is? These left wingers are trying harder to divide the country than anybody. Are the left just working on the “divide and conquer theory”? Is the socialist crapola that the leftists are spewing what people actually want to hear, and so they don’t make an issue about it?
I AGREE, IGNORE ROB WOLFLEY COMPLETELY AND HE WILL GO AWAY!! DON’T ANSWER ANY OF HIS POSTS NO MATTER WHAT. EVERYBODY NEEDS TO TOTALLY IGNORE HIM!!!!!!!!!
April 29th, 2009 at 1:35 pm
English Rose:Glad you enjoyed the post re:Essex, I only wish there was more. The Obama administration has now changed the terminology of the “swine flu” to the more benign N1H1 whish represents the particular strain of the disease or virus or whatever the blasted thing is. More mealy-mouthed rot from the liberals. Even Mexican authorities are warning their people about close physical contact with strangers. They appear to posess more common sense than our current administration. I believe the Israel has it right, dubbing it “Mexican flu.” No offense intended to our fine Mexican American citizens. Did you hear of Scareforce one buzzing New York at 1000ft? I don’t believe a word of the explanations given by the flighty Gibbes, Obama’s press secretary. Visited Florence today, where my grandfather is buried, I hope you’ve had a good day. Will post back later with something I hope will be of interest to you.
Cordially
April 29th, 2009 at 1:42 pm
Rose: I too am harassed by confounded typos; “I believe that Israel has it right..” I always know what you are saying as I’m sure you can decipher my keystroke blunders.
Cordially
April 29th, 2009 at 2:36 pm
Guys, you are such sore loosers. If you dont like how things are being run, make sure you all win the next time we go vote. In the mean time, let us “Liberals” relish these next four years. Have a good day, and for God’s sake keep it down!
April 29th, 2009 at 3:18 pm
Jos Goldburg: “Sore loosers?” Exquisite Freudian slip. We are not sore losers, as the exiting Clinton staff were, taking the Ws from keyboards as they left, and we have not accused President Obama of stealing the election as Gore and the left did Bush in 2004, despite the Known cases of voter fraud perpetrated by ACORN. If you please, direct the sore winner speech toward your fellow liberals on this blog who are full of rage, venom, and vitriol 100 days after their pied piper emerged victorious.
Cordially
April 29th, 2009 at 4:13 pm
Antistatist: I did hear about Airforce 1 flying low over New York but don’t know the details, what happened? I was amazed that you went on a day trip Florence, then I remembered that there’s a Florence in America. I’m sure I’ve seen a reference to it as Italianate in style, a bit Portmeirion where the Prisoner was filmed, or perhaps I’m confusing it with somewhere else? I wonder if it’s like Layer Marney village and Towers near the Blackwater, where some of my ancestors come from, that’s ancient, Renaissance style architecture, stunning place.
Today, Arianna Huffington gives her analysis of Pres. Obama’s achievements and failures during his first 100 days, though why she’s done so at 98 days is puzzling. Her list is as follows:
President Obama’s pluses:
The stimulus package
The national service bill
Reversing course on stem cells
A progressive budget
Healthcare
Foreign Relations
Rescue of Captain Richard Phillips
President Obama’s minuses
The bank bailout - where “the range of opinion goes all the way from Goldman to Sachs.”
Afghanistan - 21000 more troops
Torture - Huffington wants accountability
Sensible gun control - criticised for political expediency
If you were forced to choose one of those areas for the Republicans to focus their criticism on, which would it be? I would single out the bank bailout, first because Huffington and the Democrats don’t like handing their taxes to mega rich banking fat cats any more than the Republicans do. Second because Obama’s taking the failed approach of PM Brown and the EU, so there’s a fertile history of failure on this already. Plus most of the other areas can be drawn into this
April 29th, 2009 at 4:33 pm
Jos Goldburg Says:
April 29th, 2009 at 2:36 pm
Guys, you are such sore, blah, blah, blah,, frickin blah…….
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Jos: Please read Antiststists’ reply to you @ 3:18 pm. It pretty much says it all!! ha ha ha
April 29th, 2009 at 4:43 pm
English Rose: Florence is about an hour away from our state capital, Columbia. There are many historical facts to discuss concerning Florence, Charleston and Columbia but I’ll have to do research to satisfy your depth of historical interest. I would definately choose the bailout as a topic for criticism by the Grand Old Party, which seems a bit oxymoronic at present. I would include the stimulus package as it to me is not designed to stimulate economic recovery, but rather to expand the statists control at virtually every level. I’ll expound on that later if you wish.
I am reminded of this song whenever travel to the mountains of North Carolina or Tennessee. I used to dismiss country music as simple, but I’ve come to realize that often, beauty lies in simplicity, especially when truth and goodness are spoken of in simple terms.
Hope you enjoy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i019fwYM_Pw
April 29th, 2009 at 4:55 pm
FYI: Thanks for your generous support! Sore loosers. The very idea! I think the Freudian slip can be attributed to the libs moral ambiguity. There is so much opportunity for comic relief, I”ll be in good spirits until 2016 if need be, if I can keep from giving myself a hernia from all the laughter. Sore loosers. Right!
Cordially
April 29th, 2009 at 5:29 pm
Hi Clinical Shrink! Good points.
I see LOTS of hate speech from the Left. But I have no influence on them — and wouldn’t try to influence them if I could. Screw them. But everyday (at work, in blogs, etc.) I try to convince Republicans that the best FIRST step to repairing our party is by acting like Ladies and Gentlemen, thinking before we post, watching our language, behaving like the adults we want OUR CHILDREN to grow up to be.
Just because some on the left act like clowns doesn’t mean WE have to. Calling people names and acting like a child doesn’t win us any new VOTES.
Besides, I’m sure we don’t agree on the Democrats and their speech. For example, I can’t stand Rachel Maddow or James Carvelle. You might not like it, but some (just SOME!) of Keith Olbermann’s criticism of us has been justified. Janinne Garafallo and Michael Moore are clowns … but Bill Mahr has made some good points. We can’t expect them to take OUR criticism of them seriously if we’re not willing to admit that SOMETIMES they’re right about us. It’s about being honest ombudsmen of our party. It’s about being fair and honest. Unless, of course, we’re perfect, and then we sound just like the Rushes and Savages on the radio. We’re smarter than that.
April 29th, 2009 at 5:53 pm
Antistate: Excellent video! Though I had to look up the lyrics, I couldn’t understand a word.
“beauty lies in simplicity, especially when truth and goodness are spoken of in simple terms. Yes, it does. Our English dance traditions are rather more sedate than yours:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7ytMspgJ5A
April 29th, 2009 at 5:58 pm
Antistatist:
LOL I didn’t think you excellent answer needed any support. I just wanted to rub Jos’ nose in your eloquent post one more time! ha ha ha. I don’t know what it is with the liberals. They seem to be “sore loser/winners” or something (can’t make up their minds which they want to be) They don’t seem to be content with winning the presidency and congress. They should be the happiest bastards on the planet, but they aren’t. Maybe they are shocked at the conservatives in America rebelling against Obamas’/congresses’ rush to socialism, but did they expect us to sit around, do nothing and just watch? I am looking foreward to 2010 & 2012
April 29th, 2009 at 8:06 pm
English Rose, I thought you might find the Southern dancing peculiar, I can’t confess to be an enthusiast of this style of dancing, I was more accustomed as a youth to the “mosh pit”
in which so many British youth released their pent up energy when listening to the Sex Pistols, The Clash, The Exploited, Charged G.B.H. and so on. I remember this song from the 80’s when it was released, but have only recently cultivated an interest country music because of the consistent mention of God, love of country, and family values, themes conspicuously absent in many other styles of popular modern music, and much of the music I loved so well when I was growing up. This video from the Eagles, a lifetime favorite band of mine, should be more easliy understood, their voices lacking the pronounced Southern drawl.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsDEpMdcLXg
April 29th, 2009 at 8:14 pm
Antistatist,
I’ll be darned! I could have sworn you to be at least 10 years older than you are. I have only been to one mosh pit concert in my life. I went to it with a friend of mine so his kid who was 16 at the time could get in. I saw GWAR at the Agora in Cleveland. They had Jerry Springer there and he got eaten by a huge worm on stage! what a gas!
April 29th, 2009 at 8:28 pm
Hey Anti….,
Who would have thought that GWAR would have brought me something I had wanted for so long? Imagine, Jerry springer, super libber, eaten by a worm!!! It was probably one of his mad guests!!!! ROFALMAO!!!
April 29th, 2009 at 8:28 pm
Joe H: Yes, the mosh pit can be quite the adventure, it’s been 12 years or so since I was last in one., I saw Primus, in Charlotte, NC. I remember picking some kids up off the floor and ducking the swing of a bully. Before I could return the favor, and lose myself in the anonymity of the fracas, the set was over.
Cordially
April 29th, 2009 at 8:31 pm
English Rose: Can you guess the analogy contained in this song by Rush, another of my favorites of old?http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWHEcIbhDiw
April 29th, 2009 at 8:32 pm
Rose, sorry, here goes again.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWHEcIbhDiw
April 29th, 2009 at 8:40 pm
Well people it’s been real fun the last couple of hours. good night. Rose if you work tomorrow you better get some beauty sleep. All you take care and God Bless.
April 30th, 2009 at 6:16 am
Rose,
Was listening to a BBC broadcast. Remember, if you sneeze catch it, bin it, and wash your hands!
April 30th, 2009 at 6:17 am
Check out this jovial comment from Dennis Miller last night on O’rielly; referring to Alan Colmes, Sean Hannity’s former lib counterpart, he descibed him as
“prowling around in his feety jammies checking expiration dates on the Yoplait in his refrigerator.”
when he said that I nearly spit my beer across the room!
Good day folks and may God bless you all, yes, even you liberals.
Cordially
April 30th, 2009 at 9:08 am
Antistatist: “prowling around in his feety jammies checking expiration dates on the Yoplait in his refrigerator.”
Profile of a weedy liberal. Nice one.
Journalist Littlejohn, here in UK, says that Prime Minister Gordon Brown keeps a full face mask and snorkel set in his bathroom…
I wish he’d wear them to the House of Commons, it would cover up that rictus smile.
And a quote from my hero, Daniel Hannan:
“Gordon’s Brown’s rictus smile is like a glint of cold moonlight reflected in the silver plate of an old coffin lid”
April 30th, 2009 at 9:13 am
Joe H: Thanks, Joe! Will get back to you later about the in-flew-Enza, I’m still in my office at present and blogging during my tea break.
God bless.
April 30th, 2009 at 9:18 am
Dan Hannan on swine flo’
“There are several thousand nearly complete viral genomes integrated into the human genome, most of them now inert or missing a crucial gene. These ‘human endogenous retroviruses’ or Hervs, account for 1.3% of the entire genome. That may not sound like much, but ‘proper’ genes account for only 3%. If you think being descended from apes is bad for your self-esteem, then get used to the idea that you are also descended from viruses.”
“Keep a sense of perspective. I mean, President Obama was in Mexico the other day. It would be a bit de trop to quarantine him, wouldn’t it?”
April 30th, 2009 at 9:19 am
Or, Dan Hannan on swine flu’ even?
April 30th, 2009 at 1:31 pm
Glenn, and STU, Is this what they call “Germ War Fair?” Every year there is a flu epidemic and all these Seniors here in Florida get their flu shots. This Swin Flu, has hit the world now and is this for real or just another hoax.? What a better time for our Government to slip in the Universal Healthcare bill. The congress has appropriated 5 billion dollars to this event for “Prevention” to keep this in a black box. Why are they killing off the hog markets by killing all the pigs? Do you know how much of the food surplus is being distroyed because of this so called SWINE Flu? This will drive the cost of Pork up so that a pork chop will cost an arm and leg. I think we need a ” A Green Tea Party” That is my favorit. Pork Bar-B-Q and Green tea. Thanks for giving a little humor in a disaster.
April 30th, 2009 at 1:39 pm
just wondering if GM lays off 21000 employes and then they close down 2000 GM dealerships how many more people will be let go at those dealerships and then the part stores who supply parts .when will obama take credit for all those people
April 30th, 2009 at 1:46 pm
Joan,
Oh my God!!! I’m having a PORK ROAST tonight. The pork supply is SAFE!!!!
April 30th, 2009 at 3:59 pm
Joe H: This is a clip of the debate: Buckley vs. Vidal that you missed while you were bravely serving our country in Vietnam.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYymnxoQnf8
You can view the whole debate on youtube if you care to see how this started.
Cordially
April 30th, 2009 at 4:16 pm
I am on firefox at the moment and it won’t accept u-tube for some reason. my guy says it’s my computer, but it only started with firefox.
April 30th, 2009 at 4:42 pm
Joe H: Let me know if you get it sorted out, I’ll post it again. Did you watch president Obama’s address last night. I stopped watching at the proposal of the “enchanted” question when he began his answer, saying he was most enchanted with our men and women serving in the military.
Cordially
April 30th, 2009 at 4:51 pm
Antistatist,
Thanks for the try. The man who has done more to hurt our men in uniform than Clinton is now “enchanted ” with them. What a laugh!! Yes I watched most of it and have had heart burn all day!!
April 30th, 2009 at 5:31 pm
Joe H: Yes, and I can see why, I anticipated such a malady would befall me so I lunged for the remote, resisting an almost overwhelming urge to hurl my brew at the screen; as I bought the set with stimulus money in ‘08, at Circuit City which went into bankruptcy for all my efforts. A shame it would have been to waste a good beer.
Cordially
April 30th, 2009 at 5:42 pm
Jobs for Americans, and smart power are more important to my family. Without income & job security for America, there is NO FUTURE for us, with or without pollution.
FUND AND TRAIN AMERICAN WORKERS AND COMPANIES TO REBUILD OUR ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE; don’t just sell it to European firms, who are currently the only ones now with the industrial capability to fabricate modern equipment which will capture renewable energy.
The ‘ecology is grand, so long as it does not take precedence over my families collective health and well-being today. Cap&Trade is a joke which will NOT pass Congress or the Senate, and is a stupid waste of our political will.
Instead, make the hard investments in building American independence anew with a solid foundation of renewable energy and smart infrastructure. YES, the startup cost will be expensive, but not nearly as expensive as continuing to burn non-renewable resources, and exporting our hard earned chash to foreign nations hostile to American, and freedom everywhere.
April 30th, 2009 at 8:01 pm
Kevin B.,
That’s true, but what are we going to do about the 21/2 jobs that are lost for every “green” job created? Kinda like cutting off your nose to spite your face now isn’t it? Also, the reserves here in the United States are far greater than O-man would have you believe. Millions of gallons of shale oil under the rockies alone. Still more millions in Alaska that haven’t been tapped yet. Lots off the coast of Kalifornia that they keep saying not in my back yard about. So your arguement about sending our hard earned money overseas doesn’t need to hold much water either. It never needs to be sent. Make the government open up the spiggots and the oil companies produce their own! The resources in this nation are the property of the people to be used here and not shipped overseas to in turn buy foreign oil for us to pay higher.
April 30th, 2009 at 9:07 pm
Engllish Rose, your tale of the POWs being detained by the vicar reminded me of a story my grandmother told me about an Air Force pilot landing in her yard. They lived in Wedgefield, South Carolina, not far from Sumter where the airbase was/is located. The pilot had a mechanical fairure and parachuted into the yard. “Are you hurt?” my great grandmother asked. “No ma’am.” he replied. “Well come on in the house, son, it’s nearly time for dinner.” They ate and chatted until he was picked up and taken back to base. This was during WWII. My mother bought the old family home in Wedgefield and often I see modern fighters ripping around the Sumter area. They buzzed by my house once after a fly-over at the University football game, four in diamond formation, their low altitude giving me little warning of their approach. It was the loudest noise, next to our Southern thunderstorms, that I’ve ever heard. Then I realized that it was the sound of freedom that had nearly burst my eardrums.
Drove to the port city of Charleston today. This week is going by quickly. Great line from Hannan!
Cordially
May 1st, 2009 at 12:08 am
Antistatist: Your grandmother sounds like one of mine, she was such a lovely lady. She used to take care of her whole neighbourhood in one way or another. My grandmother used to tell me about an RAF (airforce) officer who used to visit her family. She first met him through her job as a wartime ambulance driver. My grandmother invited the officer home and, as he didn’t have any family, my grandmother and her mother invited him to visit again. My grandmother and her brothers and sisters treated him as one of their family.
May 1st, 2009 at 8:51 am
English Rose: I’d like to extend my best regards to one of your countrymen, Ricky Hatton, who will clash with the fireball from the Phillipines Manny Pacquiao Saturday night. I’ve some knowledge of Broughton and Figg, pugilists who helped formulate the Marquis of Queensbury rules for the prize ring. I would’nt want to bore you with it if you’re not interested. Happy Friday and have a blessed weekend Rose!
Cordially
May 1st, 2009 at 11:59 am
I once read that Glenn Beck was more effective than charcoal at inducing vomiting
May 1st, 2009 at 12:43 pm
Hey Johnny 2 cents, Is that 2 cents the “CHANGE” that you got from Obummer? Spend it wisely Johnny, cuz that’s all you’re going to get
May 1st, 2009 at 12:51 pm
two bit: You should try some charcoal yourself, it is effective in purging the system of liberal ideas, which cause cerebral indigestion.
Cordially
May 1st, 2009 at 1:09 pm
English Rose, pardon me for not inquiring sooner, I just learned from an earlier post of yours that you have a daughter. I have a son of my namesake, who is five, he has a younger brother, who is a “gift of the Lord”, and is three, and they are both big brothers to an eighteen month old princess, whose name translates to “my father is joyous”, she certainly brings me joy! Hers is, also, the name of Barnabas’ wife, who he later named a ship after, the daughter of Captain Tempany. Tell me Rose, as much as you feel comfortable in divulging, about your lovely daughter. She is, no doubt, a blessed child to be under the shelter of your maternal wings.
Cordially
May 1st, 2009 at 1:33 pm
Johnny2bit,
Here’s a good indicator of what the liberal idea of throwing more and more money at public education does. Cleveland Ohio Schools has the highest rate of per student spending in North East Ohio schools and it was reported today that they have a 69.5% drop out rate! That’s disgusting!!! There’s an indicator of what your messiah’s ideas are going to accomplish!
May 1st, 2009 at 3:35 pm
Joe H: It’s no wonder that President Obama sends his daughters to private school. Can’t say that I blame him. The hypocrisy of this fact, given his stance on public education is what infuriates me. I would rather my children not be taught how to put a condom on a cucumber in the sixth grade. I don’t want my daughter supplied with birth control pills at the age of thirteen, and without my notification. I don’t want my kid’s to be taken on a field trip to see two men marry each other as in Southern California. And a mention of God, or a prayer on a football field should not be frowned upon, as it is.
As to the drop outs, Buckley from ‘68:
“The hippies who have dropped out have’nt found the answer, as Claude in the hippie play inquired:
‘Why are we so dreary, dreary? Please answer our weary query, will you
Timothy Leary, deary?’
They are putting more money in a failed system. My own governor Mark Sanford has been harshly criticized by the left for balking at stimulus funds for education, wanting instead to put money towards our state’s debt. He also is, rightly I believe, concerned about relenquishing state authority to the federal government.
Cordially
May 1st, 2009 at 4:16 pm
Antistatist: Thank you for your good wishes for Ricky ‘Hitman’ Hatton. Hitman and Pacquiao are both powerful fighters so it should be an interesting match. I know that Pacquiao is hot favourite to win the match and is billed as the ‘best fighter on the planet’ while Ricky is the underdog, however Ricky’s from Stockport - which is ‘oop t’north’ of England - where they make them tough and fearless. He’s lost only one fight - to your great fighter, Mayweather - whereas Pacquiao has been careless enough to lose 5 fights. I believe Hatton could win. As your Mayweather, said, he is one tough fighter who keeps on coming.
Congratulations to Mayweather on winning that fight against Hitman, by the way, though do you not think the ref gave him a helping hand? Ricky was arguably winning on points until the (blind?) ref deducted a point from Hitman for a punch which didn’t land anywhere near Mayweather. All Hitman had done was to punch the ropes in an attempt to wake Mayweather up from his snooze.
…Unfortunately, he woke him up rather too well…Oh, alright…enough bluffing, I concede as Hitman did that Mayweather is the better fighter of the two
Good luck to Mayweather.
I hope you and everyone on Stu’s blog has a good weekend too.
May 1st, 2009 at 4:37 pm
English Rose: I think the ref could have let Ricky do more work at close quarters, he was a bit too anxious to break them, I like refs who allow the boys to fight, and Mayweather’s advantage of handspeed is somewhat negated in close. It also alows the aggressor to take a physical toll on the counter puncher, who is forced to clinch, tiring himself. I admire the way Hatton carries himself outside of the ring. He loves his fans, and they love him. Mayweather can be aloof, and he’s awfully full of himself. I’m eager to see how he behaves if he ever finds himself on the deck. Ricky has proven his courage in my eyes.
Cordially
May 1st, 2009 at 5:15 pm
Antistatist,
Ah, Moody Blues one of my favorite groups. But why does O-man worry about public ed. when his two are sent to private school. I know I’ve said it before, but God help us all.
May 1st, 2009 at 5:51 pm
Regarding those pugilists: Essex has a long tradition of bare knuckle fighting. We even used to win elections here bashing the daylights out of those who supported the opposing party. A 19th century Baronet of the Blackwater villages, Sir Claude Champion de Crespigny, and the neighbourhood’s surgeon and GP, Dr Salter, who sometimes fought side by side, were renowned for their skills as pugilists and certainly used these to alter the course of elections.
Dr Salter’s diary, a fascinating book, records how the two men rounded up gangs of men whom they paid to fight alongside them during elections in order to stop anyone who wore the opposing party’s colours reaching the polling station. My daughter is my beautiful girl, she has a wonderful musical talent and good heart and is in her early 20s. She and I know everyone in our small village, which is quite a close knit community. My daughter and I have unusual, gaelic names which make us instantly recognisable, so I’d better not even hint at these. My son is a lovely man with many talents which he uses well. He is so hard working, is a wonderful husband and has the name of a saint. I’m making my children sound perfect, which of course they aren’t, but what else would you expect of a mother?
Do you know of Charles Carpentier, the 19th century French pugilist? I have some drawings of him. I’ve heard of Figg and of Brougton’s rules, but don’t know much about the two of them.
May 1st, 2009 at 6:07 pm
Joe: That hypocrisy is mirrored here by some of the New Labour politicians.
May 1st, 2009 at 6:11 pm
I should have said “have” a good weekend above, not “has”
May 1st, 2009 at 6:36 pm
English Rose: Carpentier was a masterful scientific boxer, very clever, with a dancer’s rythm. I’ve seen film footage of him, mainly of him losing to the savage Jack Dempsey, and the wild “Battling Siki” of Senegal. Both were naturally much heavier men than the slightly built Frenchman, and he put up a gallant effort in both fights. I’m sure you know about Henry Cooper, who nearly upset Cassius Clay in London after clipping him with a left hook( ‘enry’s ‘ammer). Had it not been for an for an ingenius bit of cornering by Angelo Dundee Clay may well have been halted.
I’ll post some material on Figg and Broughton for you to read later this weekend. Thank you for telling me about your lovely family. I may seek your prudent advice on the rearing of children, as I am a relatively new father. My boys love the tales of Kipling, the adventures of Christopher Robin and Pooh, and of course Robin Hood. You have become the big sister I never had Rose, thank you.
Cordially
May 1st, 2009 at 6:46 pm
Joe H: I too like the Moody Blues. Thats a good nickname for the liberals, come to think of it. Or maybe the “Blue Meanies” after the scoundrels in Yellow Submarine, the classic Beatles movie.
Cordially
May 1st, 2009 at 7:02 pm
Is that film of Carpentier on the internet? Dr Salter writes about going to watch him box in London on one occasion. The drawings I have were done by an artist who lived as a recluse on a boat on the Blackwater - at Heybridge, near Maldon. He’d been an army officer and had suffered shell shock.
My dad loved ‘enry Cooper - a lovely man by all accounts - and I love Cassius Clay/ Ali. My son loves him too, I bought him a picture of Clay’s doom punch.
I’m not good at child rearing, Antistatist, I just fumbled my way along, which is what most parents do, I believe. My daughter loved The Famous Five books, I used to read them to her with great drama using different voices. My son loved the brothers Grimm and legendary morality tales such as Chicken Licken and The Enormous Turnip.
Your big sister: ah, that is so sweet, I love the idea of having a brother in America. Thank you too.
I’m up too late again and I have to do a charity abseil this weekend, so I had better get some sleep.
May 1st, 2009 at 7:07 pm
Sorry, Antistatist, I should have said George Carpentier, not Charles.
May 1st, 2009 at 8:33 pm
English Rose: Here is some footage of the ‘orchid man’ George Carpentier vs. Ted Lewis aka the ‘crashing dashing kid’ in 1922. I had never seen this one, I thought I’d seen all there was, so thanks for asking!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSp4S1bbTzA&feature=related
Lewis was a great fighter in his own right holding titles at lighter weights; he was brave to even enter the ring against a skilled and naturally bigger man. He was known for his great English “bottom” or reserve of courage. I hope your charity event goes well, it’s something I can imagine you doing, but please do tell, what exactly is an abseil? I could look it it up but I’d prefer to hear your charming explanation. Another one for the lexicon. Thanks sis!
Cordially
May 1st, 2009 at 8:51 pm
Antistatist,
Go to how does this happen (column to the left) and check out my last post. Think you’ll like it!
May 2nd, 2009 at 5:00 am
Antistatist: To abseil is to make a descent down a vertical surface, such as a that of rock face, building or tower, using a double rope that’s coiled around the body and attached to a higher point. At least, that’s the theory and how the professionals do it. To the terrified amateurs like me who will be doing this descent for charity, abseiling will probably mean having our hands prised from the instructors lapels or throat before we descend - after being pushed over the edge.
May 2nd, 2009 at 5:17 am
Antistatist: Thanks, bro, for the orchid man video link, the video is brilliant. I was so surprised to learn from you that there are videos of Carpentier’s matches, I doubt that I would have looked for these had you not told me and posted this link. You are right about Carpentier having have a dancer’s rhythm.
May 2nd, 2009 at 5:47 am
Antistatist: I’ve found the reference to the Carpentier fight in Dr Salter’s Diary. The entry is dated January 12 1922.
“Went to the Albert Hall to see Carpentier and Cook (the Australian champion) fight. It went four rounds, Carpentier again showing his immense superiority, not only in strength and activity, and ringcraft, but in intellectual power. Cook strong (very) plucky, and not slow - but never an artist. Carpentier a master of the art.”
May 2nd, 2009 at 8:06 am
English Rose, see, I knew your definition would be entertaining! For goodness sakes be careful! In rock climbing and in the American military, the term is, usually, rappel. Here’s a clip of the bout between Carpentier and Cook that Dr. Salters witnessed. Sorry, no sound or commentary, a definitve result at least.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skPjxD-EwkA&feature=related
It ends in round four, as Salters said. There was another great French fighter, Marcel Cerdan, who wore down the ‘Man of Steel’, Tony Zale to capture the middleweight belt, losing it to Jake LaMotta the ‘Raging Bull’ from the Bronx. I’d very much like to hear of your abseiling jaunt. I enjoy your sense of humor/humour. It is a noble thing, that you should do such for charity.
Cordially
May 2nd, 2009 at 1:12 pm
I have to agree with El Donaldo… Kooks is really out there.
Its Capitalism where Arrogance and Greed have replaced Ethics or Morality.
Unemployment will tip 9% in the coming month on its way to 12% by summers end. But not to worry… Corporate executives and their upper management teams will continue to reap their bountiful rewards. Like ravaged dogs on a raw and juicy dying carcass. They feast for themselves with eyes far larger than their stomachs could ever be. They defend their greedy actions with arrogant disdain for any that might contest. Filled with pride for their own self-worth they growl, scoff and fill their chests with hot air. All designed to impress and intimidate the meager masses that simply long for a small, fair and appropriate morsel from the feast. Those unworthy and insignificant underlings, the minions that do all of that day to day little work.
We are they that believe in Capitalism and live in the hopes that we can achieve for ourselves a fair and worthy piece of the pie. To enjoy life with family and friends and to live comfortably and without want. To not wonder and stress over where we shall obtain the means to pay for our food, clothing, home, health care and the education of our children. To this end we have faithfully worked for, defended and trusted in this great democracy and capitalism itself. We have watched as morality, ethics, dignity, fairness and compassion have been attacked and trampled into the concrete jungle of Wall Street and Washington. The very values, beliefs and highly respected attributes of mankind that created this great country have all but vanished in “prime-time” and especially in corporate America. Where today’s executives think of themselves as super stars (like all the over paid and pampered Hollywood movie stars or “Professional” Athletes) and desperately seek to enrich themselves as such. To that end they have stolen away America and infected it’s Capitalism with the deadly virus called “GREED”. They have brought this country to its knees at the expense of the tax payer and the have crushed the American dream forever.
May 2nd, 2009 at 5:03 pm
Antistatist: Thank you for posting the link to the second Carpentier video, it’s fascinating. I’ve had a look at the video and will look at it again tomorrow, I love watching Carpentier and it would be marvelous if I could spot Doctor Salter in the film, I’ve been researching him and his village, Tolleshunt D’Arcy, for some years. Salter was such an interesting and remarkable man - and he delivered a number of my family. I’ve found a further, much more detailed section of Salter’s diary where he writes about prize fighting in the 1850s. That might interest you. Salter did some prize fighting in his youth and he writes of one match he had which was watched by Gem Mace. I’ll copy the interesting parts of that for you tomorrow evening as I’ll have more time then. I’ve been cleaning my cottage today. Thank you for your kind words regarding my abseil too.
May 2nd, 2009 at 5:13 pm
Dear Stu and Glenn:
Glenn mentioned the source book for the ‘progressive’ movement. I would like to thank Glenn for doing all the research. He started from the middle and worked back to the source. I want to start at the source and march (oh, sorry, I am in the Army, didn’t mean to sound like a Terrorist), read forward. Could you please send me the title and author of that book, and the list of books on Woodrow Wilson that Glenn has slogged through?
My oldest son, 19, a product of the public schools, is a committed socialist. There are many teachers who are anarchists in the district.
I am now considering running to upset the incumbent in the state house. My platform is elimination of property taxes (we live in PA) and therefore reform the schools. Also to eliminate corporate taxes.
Thanks to you, Rush and Sean, I am now a committed activist. Especially since my own government labeled me a terrorist for having served in Iraq. I listen to you on WHP 580 in Harrisburg. Yes, I went to the Tea Party, and went today to the “Support the Troops” rally that is held the first Saturday in May.
Thanks again.
My e-mail is: jsiennick@aol.com or you can reach me at jon.siennick@us.army.mil
Sincerely
Sergeant First Class Jon R. Siennick, Combat Medic
56 Stryker Combat Brigade, PA Army National Guard
May 2nd, 2009 at 5:14 pm
BK.Braman, How do you reconcile your rather one dimensional and stereotyped views of company directors with the fact that around 99% of them are owners of small companies, a substantial proportion of these being one or two man/ woman bands which make very little profit? Small and which are themselves very exploited by giant corporations. To lump all directors and companies together and denigrate them as you do is to lose touch with reality.
May 2nd, 2009 at 5:22 pm
BK.Braman, Apologies for the nonsensical part of that post, which sold have stated:
a substantial proportion of these being one or two man/ woman bands which make very little profit and which are themselves very exploited by giant corporations?
May 2nd, 2009 at 8:17 pm
Mr Cabrera,You seem like a very intelligent ,well informed man.I read your comments and agree with what you say.I think Obama,Pelosi,Reid and many more are traitors to this country and would love to see them prosecuted or would even settle on just having them removed from office.The man has never even showed his birth certificate..I keep asking myself How did this happen and what can be done to stop them..He’s only been in office for 100+ days and look at the damage he’s already done..What will this country look like in a year from now..People say vote them out but I dont think that will work especially since Obama now has control of the census and can manipulate the elections.I have good friends that laugh at me when I try to tell them the truth about Obama..It’s real scary..Only God can help us now..
May 2nd, 2009 at 8:49 pm
English Rose, thank you, I would love to read the excerpts from Dr. Salters diary! I did some reading last knight about bare knuckle fighting in England and I’m certain that Tolleshunt was mentioned. I’ll post that when I have researched Broughton and Figg, tomorrow. The children kept me busy today, although I did manage to get them all to take a nap at the same time, as I needed a nap too. I’ve read of Gem Mace, he was also mentioned in one of La’mour’s stories. We have so many similar interests, Rose, I feel almost as if it were preordained that we should converse, that we should meet by mere chance seems too fantastic.
Cordially
May 2nd, 2009 at 9:13 pm
English Rose, speaking of beauty being found in simplicity, this video by one of our own, Alan Jackson, to me, is a prime example of such:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUhaqUHGeQU
This is one of the songs that has renewed my interest in country music. Love of God, country, and family spoken of in simple terms. Beautiful, simple, truth. Hope you could understand the lyrics.
Cordially
May 2nd, 2009 at 9:19 pm
We … can …. decide it is time to play Congressional Musical Chairs in 2010 All it takes is for ALL of us to cast our votes for anyone OTHER THAN a SITTING SENATOR!
SO if you don`t like what is going on in Government lately, Be sure to vote for any candidate of your choice { Hopefully not a Republican or Democrat}. Vote the incumbents out of office!
Send them the message …. “WE WILL NOT STAND DOWN AND BE IGNORED ANY LONGER”.
Vote them BYE BYE in 2010
Remember … only YOU can start the music for Congressional Musical Chairs.
Be sure to vote in 2010
Have a Very Nice Day
May 2nd, 2009 at 11:56 pm
“high levels of uncertainty” ????? Nice term for they do not know what the f#*k they are doing!
May 3rd, 2009 at 12:10 pm
Andrew McCarthy’s Letter to Attorney General Holder
May 1, 2009
By email (to the Counterterrorism Division) and by regular mail:
The Honorable Eric H. Holder, Jr.
Attorney General of the United States
United States Department of Justice
950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C. 20530-0001
Dear Attorney General Holder:
This letter is respectfully submitted to inform you that I must decline the invitation to participate in the May 4 roundtable meeting the President’s Task Force on Detention Policy is convening with current and former prosecutors involved in international terrorism cases. An invitation was extended to me by trial lawyers from the Counterterrorism Section, who are members of the Task Force, which you are leading.
The invitation email (of April 14) indicates that the meeting is part of an ongoing effort to identify lawful policies on the detention and disposition of alien enemy combatants — or what the Department now calls “individuals captured or apprehended in connection with armed conflicts and counterterrorism operations.” I admire the lawyers of the Counterterrorism Division, and I do not question their good faith. Nevertheless, it is quite clear — most recently, from your provocative remarks on Wednesday in Germany — that the Obama administration has already settled on a policy of releasing trained jihadists (including releasing some of them into the United States). Whatever the good intentions of the organizers, the meeting will obviously be used by the administration to claim that its policy was arrived at in consultation with current and former government officials experienced in terrorism cases and national security issues. I deeply disagree with this policy, which I believe is a violation of federal law and a betrayal of the president’s first obligation to protect the American people. Under the circumstances, I think the better course is to register my dissent, rather than be used as a prop.
Moreover, in light of public statements by both you and the President, it is dismayingly clear that, under your leadership, the Justice Department takes the position that a lawyer who in good faith offers legal advice to government policy makers—like the government lawyers who offered good faith advice on interrogation policy—may be subject to investigation and prosecution for the content of that advice, in addition to empty but professionally damaging accusations of ethical misconduct. Given that stance, any prudent lawyer would have to hesitate before offering advice to the government.
Beyond that, as elucidated in my writing (including my proposal for a new national security court, which I understand the Task Force has perused), I believe alien enemy combatants should be detained at Guantanamo Bay (or a facility like it) until the conclusion of hostilities. This national defense measure is deeply rooted in the venerable laws of war and was reaffirmed by the Supreme Court in the 2004 Hamdi case. Yet, as recently as Wednesday, you asserted that, in your considered judgment, such notions violate America’s “commitment to the rule of law.” Indeed, you elaborated, “Nothing symbolizes our [administration’s] new course more than our decision to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay…. President Obama believes, and I strongly agree, that Guantanamo has come to represent a time and an approach that we want to put behind us: a disregard for our centuries-long respect for the rule of law[.]” (Emphasis added.)
Given your policy of conducting ruinous criminal and ethics investigations of lawyers over the advice they offer the government, and your specific position that the wartime detention I would endorse is tantamount to a violation of law, it makes little sense for me to attend the Task Force meeting. After all, my choice would be to remain silent or risk jeopardizing myself.
For what it may be worth, I will say this much. For eight years, we have had a robust debate in the United States about how to handle alien terrorists captured during a defensive war authorized by Congress after nearly 3000 of our fellow Americans were annihilated. Essentially, there have been two camps. One calls for prosecution in the civilian criminal justice system, the strategy used throughout the 1990s. The other calls for a military justice approach of combatant detention and war-crimes prosecutions by military commission. Because each theory has its downsides, many commentators, myself included, have proposed a third way: a hybrid system, designed for the realities of modern international terrorism—a new system that would address the needs to protect our classified defense secrets and to assure Americans, as well as our allies, that we are detaining the right people.
There are differences in these various proposals. But their proponents, and adherents to both the military and civilian justice approaches, have all agreed on at least one thing: Foreign terrorists trained to execute mass-murder attacks cannot simply be released while the war ensues and Americans are still being targeted. We have already released too many jihadists who, as night follows day, have resumed plotting to kill Americans. Indeed, according to recent reports, a released Guantanamo detainee is now leading Taliban combat operations in Afghanistan, where President Obama has just sent additional American forces.
The Obama campaign smeared Guantanamo Bay as a human rights blight. Consistent with that hyperbolic rhetoric, the President began his administration by promising to close the detention camp within a year. The President did this even though he and you (a) agree Gitmo is a top-flight prison facility, (b) acknowledge that our nation is still at war, and (c) concede that many Gitmo detainees are extremely dangerous terrorists who cannot be tried under civilian court rules. Patently, the commitment to close Guantanamo Bay within a year was made without a plan for what to do with these detainees who cannot be tried. Consequently, the Detention Policy Task Force is not an effort to arrive at the best policy. It is an effort to justify a bad policy that has already been adopted: to wit, the Obama administration policy to release trained terrorists outright if that’s what it takes to close Gitmo by January.
Obviously, I am powerless to stop the administration from releasing top al Qaeda operatives who planned mass-murder attacks against American cities—like Binyam Mohammed (the accomplice of “Dirty Bomber” Jose Padilla) whom the administration recently transferred to Britain, where he is now at liberty and living on public assistance. I am similarly powerless to stop the administration from admitting into the United States such alien jihadists as the 17 remaining Uighur detainees. According to National Intelligence Director Dennis Blair, the Uighurs will apparently live freely, on American taxpayer assistance, despite the facts that they are affiliated with a terrorist organization and have received terrorist paramilitary training. Under federal immigration law (the 2005 REAL ID Act), those facts render them excludable from theUnited States. The Uighurs’ impending release is thus a remarkable development given the Obama administration’s propensity to deride its predecessor’s purported insensitivity to the rule of law.
I am, in addition, powerless to stop the President, as he takes these reckless steps, from touting his Detention Policy Task Force as a demonstration of his national security seriousness. But I can decline to participate in the charade.
Finally, let me repeat that I respect and admire the dedication of Justice Department lawyers, whom I have tirelessly defended since I retired in 2003 as a chief assistant U.S. attorney in the Southern District of New York. It was a unique honor to serve for nearly twenty years as a federal prosecutor, under administrations of both parties. It was as proud a day as I have ever had when the trial team I led was awarded the Attorney General’s Exceptional Service Award in 1996, after we secured the convictions of Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman and his underlings for waging a terrorist war against the United States. I particularly appreciated receiving the award from Attorney General Reno—as I recounted in Willful Blindness, my book about the case, without her steadfastness against opposition from short-sighted government officials who wanted to release him, the “blind sheikh” would never have been indicted, much less convicted and so deservedly sentenced to life-imprisonment. In any event, I’ve always believed defending our nation is a duty of citizenship, not ideology. Thus, my conservative political views aside, I’ve made myself available to liberal and conservative groups, to Democrats and Republicans, who’ve thought tapping my experience would be beneficial. It pains me to decline your invitation, but the attendant circumstances leave no other option.
Very truly yours,
/S/
Andrew C. McCarthy
Here! Here! The courage, tact, and reason of an intelligent conservative shine through, brilliantly. Those of you who have not read National Review owe it to yourselves to do so, taking nothing away from the fine work done on our behaff by Glenn and Stu!
May 3rd, 2009 at 1:29 pm
Antistatist: Thank you for the link, however this only brings up the YouTube welcome screen, could you post the link again. please? Thank you.
I did the abseil this afternoon and it was out of this world, I just loved it. It was so strange, yet so exhilerating to step off of a large ledge - backwards! - down onto a tiny ledge a foot or two below, them to straighten up and gaze down at the sheer drop below and clear air all around me.
From the small ledge, I was instructed to bend down and lean my stomach on a section of the higher ledge to my right, then to swing my legs across to dangle in mid air. “Now ease yourself down, and off the ledge”, said the instructor, who was sitting on the ledge and leaning down to speak to me, one leg nonchalantly dangling in mid air as you and I might sit on our favourite armchairs. I did as instructed and found my entire self now dangling in mid air below the ledge, hanging by a rope attached to the seat of my pants.
“Great”, said my instructor, “you’ve got it, now go!” Loosening my grip on my control rope, I was away - at first ‘walking’ myself down, then, as the surface tapered away, lowering myself to the ground, abseiling at varying speeds by relaxing or tightening my grip on the control rope. My smile went ear to ear and three times round my head the whole time. It was so exhilarating that I didn’t want to come down to earth at all.
May 3rd, 2009 at 2:42 pm
English Rose, sorry the link did’nt work. One more try, Alan Jackson’s “Small town Southern man”.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUhaqUHGeQU
May 3rd, 2009 at 3:12 pm
English Rose, I’t sounds as if you thoroughly enjoyed yourself at the abseiling, thanks for recounting it for me! I’m just glad my big sister is okay. I have’nt found much on Figg and Broughton that you don’t already know, but I’ll correct my earlier statement about them producing the Queensberry rules, that was not until 1867 by John Sholto Douglas, 8th Marquess of that name, with the help of John Graham Chambers. The rules instituted by Broughton after he fatally injured the youthful George Stevenson, still allowed rough tactics and a full half minute to get ‘back to scratch’, as opposed to the Queensberry rules which forbid wrestling and allow ten seconds to ‘toe the line’ after a fall.
Ricky has nothing to hang his head about. I didn’t see the fight but read the results. His two losses have come from men who are widely recognised as being the very best. I can only guess that Ricky took something he did’nt see coming, as he has always showed himself to be sturdy. There is no opponent more difficult to face than an extremely determined unorthodox fighter, as Ali found out with Frazier, and Pacquiao is an unorthodox southpaw; double trouble.
May 3rd, 2009 at 3:28 pm
To all of the american citizens, I have not yet woke up,but I want you to know,that I have a steady hand in destroying our country, and I will keep on doing so, in a swift but yet a gentle manor, I have thus far spent more money then all presidents combine, and believe that I will bankrupt our country, because I believe I need to do so, change is coming, you will see a temporary boost in the economy, but as the money gets spent,and all the money that we have put into this economy does not work, I believe we wll see the light at the end off the tunnel,but not until we can borrow more money from other countries, that don’t have any money either, I have yet to get started,and believe me,I will change our country, to the point of no return, this I can swear to you! thank you your president! P.S I would like to thank “acorn” and all the lies, I have told the american people, which witout doing so, would not have been able to become the first president, to destroy all that our for fathers have done to make what america was before I was sworn in!
May 3rd, 2009 at 3:42 pm
You were’nt hit that hard, were you now ricky tik? You sound like the ultra-tolerant, multi-culti, tax and spend, spread the wealth around, cut ‘em a break unless their a fetus, America is arrogant and I’m oh so sorry president Barack Hussein Obama. Perhaps some smelling salts?
May 3rd, 2009 at 3:49 pm
“After all, it is entirely possible that the future will welcome the inferior, rejecting that which is virtuous, witty, eloquent and wise.”
WFB Jr. 1978: modern day Nostradamus
May 3rd, 2009 at 4:27 pm
That’s a very powerful letter by Andrew McCarthy. My views on Gitmo are split, I agree that terrorists must be kept out of the community, that’s what happened in Britain during the last war, indeed we went a step further and interned ordinary German citizens who lived here for the duration of the war too, just in case. However, I don’t like the use of torture as a method of interrogation, first because I can’t reconcile it with my belief in God and all that entails, second because I am sceptical that torture works that well. We had many cases of British soldiers and agents who died at the hands of the Nazis rather than betray their country or their comrades. Some of them planted bogus information. Lastly, as we’ve seen here in UK and Nothern Ireland, the use of torture and imprisonment without trial radicalise almost entire communities, thereby creating as many threats as are removed. However, would I personally torture someone who threatened my children’s lives? Yes, I believe I would. So my position is a hypocritical one. I would like to know more about McCarthy’s third way as it might just get me off this hook.
I tried to watch a section of Ricky Hatton’s match on YouTube - I don’t have Sky TV, which had the sole contract for the match, as I rarely watch TV. That section is almost too painful to watch, Hitman seemed so outclassed. However, you could be right, I might not be giving Ricky his due respect.
Thank you for the second link - that wouldn’t work either, so this time I opened my eyes and found out why: it can’t be viewed in my country. Apologies for failing to look properly the first time, little bro. Anyway, I did a YouTube search on the title and singer and found another video of the song: it’s a lovely song, thank you for that. I liked the first song you posted too, apologies if I sounded as though I was moaning about not being able to understand the words until I found the lyrics, I wasn’t. I’ll tell you a story about that another time.
May 3rd, 2009 at 4:34 pm
Antistatist: Prize-fighting in the ’sixties. Section from Dr John Salter’s Diary.
There was a time when I like to put the gloves on myself. I was the size and weight for it, I liked it and my activity came just when prize-fighting was resuscitated by the match between Heenan and Sayers - America v. England. Although prize-fighting had got rather low and brutish up until then it took a fresh lease…There were a good many of the old prize-fighters scattered about London in different public-houses. They had become proprietors and had clients by reason of their fame.
Inasmuch as Sayers only measured 5 ft 8 In. and Heenan was a giant of 6 ft 2 in., and Sayers fought and beat him with a broken arm, it was looked upon as a fine bit of English pluck. Many men about London were most noted as pugilists, and among them was old Nat Langham, the only man who ever beat Tom Sayers, which he did by blinding him. Old Nat kept a house in St Martin’s Lane which was the rendezvous of the young swells of the West End…In his upper room was a ring with ropes and stakes in which men fought with gloves every night, and you could always be sure of seeing some sparring over a drink and a smoke. Prize-Fighting was going on with fresh energy, although it was illegal. There was old Nat, Bob Travers, a black man and very good fighter; there was Alec Keen and a man named Richardson, Tom Paddick, Jerry Noon and so on. It was quite the fashion for young-men-about-town. Some could do so very well. They were called the Corinthians of the ring, and they were the supporters of the pugilist - they found money to be fought for., not for the enormous sums which are fought for now in the National Sporting Club. The Championship of England used to be for the title and about £200 a side - and they thought themselves very lucky. // My own photograph in nothing but a pair of flannel breeches in a sporting attitude was over Nat’s mantelpiece for ten years…
It was suggested that I join the pugilists of Hogini’s circus. Then there were Jem Dillon and Patsy Reardon. two Irishmen, Bobby Travers and others.We went down to Cork where there is a big rotunda, a round theater holding heaps of people. There were bills all over the place announcing “Nat Langham’s Scientific Novices”. Those novices were myself and my friend. He and I used to spar together, but we had soft gloves and I never touched him. The rotunda was packed to the ceiling. Gem Mace was there - he was the then champion - and all the best pugilists.
Nat Langham’s Scientific Novices were called into the ring, I was announced as “Jack O’Reilly who was going to fight for a purse at Aldershott next week”. “Now, boys, time!” was shouted, and we shook hands and engaged.I played very lightly with my friend, so lightly that he was encouraged to be quite up to his form. Consequently I had occasionally to steady him by something a little less light than before. It passed off alright and brought down the house.They were delighted, looked upon the whole thing as real and we retired tot he green room full of beans and laughter. There. the colonel of the garrison came up to me and said,
“You aint a prize-fighter?” I said, “indeed I am”. He retorted that, “I’m sure you’re not - you’re a gentleman”. Then intimated that he should like to have a go at me. A fight was arranged there and then. I knew that he was a very good opponent and that he meant mischief. He was bigger and taller than I [Salter himself was a bit of a colossus] quite as athletic, and looked as though he could punish sas well as I could, and better. We fought and we meant it. I knew he intended to knock me out if he could and I meant the same thing for him. It was real good fight and it finished with him being carried off with a bit of blood about his head and face. We had to patch him up in the Green Room. The last thing he said to me was, “Well, you are very good; you have looked after me very well - but tell me, you are a gentleman are you not?” I answered, “No, I am a prize-fighter. In the following Summer, I was walking down the Burlington Archade [London] when somebody put his two hands on my shoulders and said, “You are Jack O’Reilly are you not??”It was the Colonel. We went to his club or mine and had it out.
May 3rd, 2009 at 4:38 pm
English Rose, goodnight big sister, and God bless. have a great week!
Cordially
May 3rd, 2009 at 4:46 pm
Here is a link where you can go and sign a petition against the “Liberals fairness doctrine” that is trying to quash conservative radio. It takes less than a minute and all your family can sign it from one email address so it is really worth your time. Today is the LAST DAY you can sign as they are takeing it to congress tomorrow..
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?pageId=87882
May 3rd, 2009 at 6:58 pm
English Rose, a happy Monday to you. Fascinating diary entry from Dr. Salter. Few men today exibit athletic prowess and mental acuity, with the ease that comes from disciplined study, clean living, and earnest physical effort. This is why I enjoy accounts such as these as well as I do, thank you, Rose.
Your stance on torture is one arrived at for the purest of reasons, I will research McCarthy’s alternatives and keep you posted. I knew you were’nt complaining about not being able to decipher the lyrics to that one tune, when I first saw the tale of the ‘Light Brigade’ I had to rewind several times to understand the spoken dialogue.
When thumbing the pages of a boxing history book I came upon the story of one William Thompson, known as ‘Bold Bendigo’, one of 21 chidren egged on to fight by his mother, a fact I found amusing. Thompson was also one of a triplet, nicknamed Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. William(Abednego/Bendigo) was a southpaw, a master of psychological warfare, and an acrobat who exasperated his opponents with verbal assaults and peculiar antics in the squared circle. He claimed the title from bitter rival Ben Caunt, after being hit a foul blow brought on by his taunts. In the rematch Caunt had to flee Bendigo’s angry supporters after the latter was disqualified for going down without being hit. Caunt’s carriage was flipped, and he escaped bareback on a captured horse.
After injuring his knee somersaulting for children, Bendigo retired, only to be goaded into fighting again by his belligerent mother, who could not take the insults flung at her son by a revenge seeking Ben Caunt. After 93 rounds another disqualificaton, resulting in further riots was levied, this time on Caunt. His last fight, against the muscular Tom Paddock ended in the customary chaos the fans expected, and had indeed themselves instigated. In the 49th round, Paddock appeared to be on top when he held Bendigo and bludgeoned him to a sitting position. Paddock then uncorked two blows that starched Bendigo and got himself disqualified for his impetuosity. He then proceeded to flatten Bendigo again after he had just risen, of couse causing…more riots. Paddock can thank Heaven that Bendigo’s mother was not in the vicinity. Bendigo once won a bout by turning a man upside down and repeatedly dashing his head into the ground. A technique he surely learned under the tutelage of his ‘dear old mum’. She had to be a hard woman to raise 21 children. I suspect than when mother Thompson spoke she had a captive audience! If she got any staic at chore time she would probably slap them all down sequentially. Uproariously funny mental picture!
Cordially
May 4th, 2009 at 5:40 am
Antistatist,
Sheesh, 21 kids!!! And I thought my grand father was crazy with 14 kids. My father was the oldest and the youngest is about 8 years older than me. Could you imagine trying to raise 14 or 21 kids on today’s economy?
May 4th, 2009 at 7:40 am
Joe H: Yes, 21 children, it’s unthinkable!
Antistatist: Thanks for your good wishes, which I reciprocate, and thank you for that lovely piece on Bold Bendigo, that was fascinating and hilarious.
May 4th, 2009 at 8:09 am
Diane: Well done for trying to increase support for the petition against the Fairness Doctrine. I support the petition in spirit although I can’t sign it as I’m not a US citizen. I would love to learn more about this doctrine if you have any further information. I hadn’t previously heard it and was interested by your remarks as the doctrine sounds very much in accordance with the self serving media polices of our government here in UK.
The British Labour government - and their pupeteers, the unelected EU Commission - behave in a sinister a manner which is creeping towards the hegemonic authoritarianism and manipulation of the controllers and thought police of Orwell’s 1984. They want as near total control of the media, the Internet and individual’s minds as they can get. The BBC and other media and newspapers have been filled with Labour placemen and women who support the government’s line and who try to damage opposition parties and UK’s traditional values and Christianity. Much of our media and press keep the opposition out of the news as much as possible, or attack them. They also attack our traditional values and Christianity and keep issues which expose the government and EU away from the public.
Freedom of the press (and, more recently, news media) is one of the unwritten British Constitution’s vital checks and balances against authoritarian government. It is a matter of deep concern here that those checks aren’t working properly in Britain any longer. So our leader of the Conservative party, David Cameron, has achieved a near heroic feat in transcending this reportage imbalance to get his message across
May 4th, 2009 at 8:12 am
Getting back to our troubled country, We The People have to start our trip today. We have to start investigating every politician in our country. Find out what they stand for. If they don’t agree with our conservative ideals then vote them out. Any scandal that can be proved and isn’t just a liberal scam then VOTE THEM OUT! We can control the house and congress which will null O-man’s power like cutting the head off the snake. Once we do this we can get rid of the Obamessiah!
May 4th, 2009 at 11:32 am
Hi Glenn
Boy do you have people that follow you!!
I WANT TO MENTION ABOUT SOCIAL SECURITY ON THE NEWS TODAY—THERE WILL
BE NO COST OF LIVING RAISE FOR THE ELDERLY!!!! FOR THE NEXT TWO YEARS I WOULD
LIKE TO HEAR YOUR COMMENT ON THIS ONE.
THANKS FOR ALL YOU DO FOR THE PEOPLE OF AMERICA
May 4th, 2009 at 11:59 am
Government either can`t fix Social Security, medicare and Medicaid or refuses to fix it for one reason or another.
The Liberals wanting to have Government run health care just goes to show exactly how stupid they are! What on earth makes them think Government can run health care any better than they run S.S., Medicare or Medicaid?
The truth of the matter is Government can not even run the congressional cafeteria within any sort of budget!
Not giving S.S. recipients a C.O.L.A. is despicable at best, Meanwhile C.E.O.`s get bonuses on the taxpayer`s nickle!
The Senators and Congressmen and Women`s priority’s are obviously not in the right place at all!
Taking money from the downtrodden and elderly S.S. recipients is downright EVIL!
You don`t see Government officials giving up any of their PERKS or salary for the cause DO YOU?
What a bunch of HYPOCRITES!!
Be sure to vote in 2010 it is time to start the music for Congressional Musical Chairs!!!
Have a Very Nice Day
May 4th, 2009 at 1:02 pm
Laffaun,
If they hadn’t Written up social security in such a way as to put all the surplus into the general fund all these years social security would be solvent into the year 2030. As it is, the original formula called for ALL overages to be paid into the general fund so that all the money hungry politicians can get their grubby little hands on it.
May 4th, 2009 at 2:19 pm
Antistatist,
Did you read Glens new report today? The greenies are trying to find a way to make global warming more salable by renaming it. Global warming is looking like a farce to quite a few liberals also according to the N.Y. Times. If it’s in the slimes, it must be true, right?
May 4th, 2009 at 3:58 pm
English Rose: I’m glad you liked the post on Bendigo, I hope your day was pleasant. Went to Sumter, saw several jet fighters tearing around. I’ll post back in a bit.
Cordially
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Joe H: I’ll answer you post too, busy playing Mr. Mom.
Cordially
May 4th, 2009 at 4:14 pm
we should march on washington dc and fire our government before they do anymore dammage. i guess when obama screws it all up. its up to us to bail them out and they walk away scot free. if obama wants to help another country bring charges on the bush admin. i think we should bring charges on obama and crew for violating there oath of office and squandering our money during war time. mr obama this is america. other countrys laws end 12 miles off shore. we have a constitution that is our laws. i suggest you all take a refresher course in it. and remember what comes around goes around. you could get bitten on your @$$…..
May 4th, 2009 at 4:44 pm
Joe H: I believe the NY Grimes is attempting to salvage credibility with it’s readers who are not full fledged replicants. The idea of man made Global Warming, er…excuse me, Global Climate Change, is such rubbish that even this liberal rag, best suited for the lining of bird cages, is forced to recant. I remember seeing Nat. Geo. covers as a kid in the 70’s warning of an ice age. When will these ‘Chicken Little’ quacks get a clue? I am all for the preservation of nature and endangered species of wildlife but I’m not quite on board the bandwagon of socialized medicine for louseworts. But, seriously, I do think it unwise to limit the growth of the U.S. economy by putting restrictions on our manufacturers(CAFE standards) or on industry via “Cap and Trade.” The whole premise of “Carbon Crediting” is an obvious scam. I understand China is getting Carbon Credits for the millions of children it does away with annually through abortion, what perversion! Gore is, well… I’d better not say…
Cordially
May 4th, 2009 at 5:02 pm
GLENN,
Your a smart guy so all I need to do is give you what you need to know to figure it out for your self. So here it is……
The money we are spending hasn’t been spent yet but has been authorized to be spent…
WHAT CAN WE DO TO STOP THIS???
DON’T BUY CHINA… a real Boston like tea party would be, if you pick up an item at the store that says “Made in China” PUT IT DOWN…
No money coming in from China, no money for stimulus spending!
Tell your tea party listeners… do an end around on the spending by not paying the ones who are allowing us to barrow and spend!
DON’T BUY CHINA!
P.S. It’s junk anyway
May 4th, 2009 at 7:25 pm
English Rose: These excerpts from a May 2 article written by Mark Steyn may interest you. “The theater of thoughtfulness is critical to the president’s success. He has the knack of appearing moderate while acting radical, which is a lethal skill. The thoughtful look suckered many of my more impressionable conservative comrades last fall, when David Brooks and Christopher Buckley were cranking out gushing paeans to Obama’s ‘first-class temperament’ ”
“But underneath the thoughtful look is a transformative domestic agenda that represents a huge annexation of American life by an ever-more intrusive federal government. One cannot but admire the singleminded ruthlessness with which Obama is getting on with it, even as he hones his contemplative, unhurried, moderate routine on primetime press conferences. On foreign affairs, the shtick is less effective, but mainly because he’s not so engaged by the issues: He’s got big plans for health care, and federalized education, and an eco-friendly government-run automobile industry — and Iran’s nuclear program just gets in the way. He’d rather not think about it, and his multicontinental apology tours are his way of kicking the can down the road until that blessed day when America is just another sclerotic Euro-style social democracy and even your more excitable jihadi won’t be able to jump up and down chanting, “Death to the Great Satan!” with a straight face.”
“Margaret Thatcher was a great leader, who reversed her country’s decline — to the point where, two decades later, the electorate felt it was safe to vote the Labour party back into office. And yet, in the greater scheme of things, the Thatcher interlude seems just that: a temporary respite from a remorseless descent into the abyss. In its boundless ambition, the Left understands that the character of a people can be transformed: British, Canadian, and European elections are now about which party can deliver ‘better services,’ as if the nation is a hotel and the government could use some spritelier bellhops.”
Rose, what similarities do you see in Blair, Brown, and Obama? Or, alternately, what differences are there between the same men, politically? I would assume the answer to the second question to be shorter, am I wrong?
Still looking for something on Tolleshunt. ‘Til then big sister.
Cordially
May 5th, 2009 at 2:58 pm
How would we know if all this money did anything to help the economy other then fill the pockets of a few rich people who control these industries? The economy could come back on it’s own and we just gave away all this money to the rich fatcats. I don’t want to make people feel stupid but they are for electing these crooked rats. We used to control them and now the elections have made them out of control. So kick yourselves in the butt cause it’s the stupidest decession you’ve ever made!
May 5th, 2009 at 3:11 pm
Antistatist: Does this look familiar?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ui_YVew5rNU
The first glaring similarity between Obama and the young Blair is obviously the almost saintly adoration that these two leaders have managed to evoke. Young Blair, young Obama: both admittedly clever charmers, both good looking and charismatic men, yet the British and American public have been here so many times before. Far too many times we have been fooled by politicians who promised the earth, promised such great changes and great achievements, then miserably failed to deliver. In common with all utopians, the devil was invariably in the detail. Indeed, the very definition of utopia is that which is unattainable. So why do we fall for it?
We should surely all know by now to give a wide berth to leaders whose eyes glaze over with dreamy inspiration as they peer into the hazy middle distance, their voices rising and falling with the emotional cadence of self delight at their own powers of crowd manipulation.
Blair was at first viewed as creating a great swathe of moral and cultural freedom in UK as his laid back ‘Cool Britannia permeated into every cultural, fashionable and political sphere. Yet largely unseen, beneath the flimsy, ‘cool’ veneer, he and the EU were establishing…drip…drip…drip…a most uncool and overheated, labyrinthine network of social and economic controls which few of the British public would ever have accepted if they had been aware of where these were leading us. It’s not hard to see a similar phenomenon happening with Obama as he ushers in his new era of ‘Cool America’. Open the Huffingdon Post and its ilk, find a whole article on the political, economic and metaphysical symbolism of Michelle Obama’s $500 cardigans and it’s all too apparent that reason has temporarily departed this place and been replaced with self-mesmerisation
How did Obama and Blair manage to acquire this almost hypnotic, pied piper effect on their public, a degree of adoration which allows these - mere mortals and quite ordinary ones at that - such huge power over so many people’s lives? This is, I believe what Mark Steyn misses: they didn’t acquire it, it was handed to them on plates.
May 5th, 2009 at 3:37 pm
Antistatist: This is how it was handed to Blair, by a worn out Conservative premier who seemed to have lost the will to be Prime Minister:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpZhugomNJE
Elections are not won by oppostion parties, they’re lost by ruling parties. I leave you to fill in the detail for your side of the pond.
Admittedly, Blair was a master at finishing off Conservative opposition leaders who were already on their way out, he saw off four of them during the Conservatives’s wilderness years, prior to David Cameron becoming leader and beating Blair at his own game.
May 5th, 2009 at 3:54 pm
English Rose: That clip was all too familiar, the adoring supporters, the sycophancy of the media, the pomp and circumstance, the value of style over substance, the hard left turn by political leaders in England, the results of which you’ve been forced to endure for 12 years, the drastic left turn newly executed by political leaders in America. I admire your ability to keep your chin up after all you’ve been through, and I’m especially enamorate of your steadfast adherence to values you believe in your heart to be right. Your ability to convey these values eloquently to others, and defend them in the same manner, inspires me. I know there are storm winds gathering in my country, my conversations with you will give me added courage with which to turn and face the tempest. Thank you sister.
Cordially
May 5th, 2009 at 4:22 pm
English Rose: I watched the GOP lose the 2008 election in exactly that fashion. They trotted out McCain in a weak attempt to distance themselves from Bush, I admire John McCain, but I was very disappointed when he became the nominee of the GOP. I felt in my gut that he would lose to Obama the moment he was chosen. A strong conservative platform will prevail if properly implemented. The GOP should have distanced themselves from Bush by examining his policies under the conservative spotlight, contrasting them with the strong conservative nominee, and those of the liberal Obama. Instead we had a lib halfling vs. a crypto-socialist. A handsome, well spoken crypto-socialist, that most of the young skulls full of mush immediately fell in love with. As conservatism is an intellectual pursuit, if one does no out of his/her own volition actively pursue conservatism, that individual will become a liberal by default. The GOP, to my consternation, still has’nt sorted it out. Some are still talking about redefining conservatism. We’re all in for it, exponentially, if so called conservatives don’t get it together.
Cordially
May 5th, 2009 at 5:41 pm
Cheer up, Antistatist, the GOP aren’t going to hell in a hand cart, you’re just having the post mortem that inevitably follows in your position. The British Conservatives and Labour party did the same and so does every party in your position, it’s a very positive thing to do, though it doesn’t feel like it at present, I know. My instinct tell me that the GOP need to think much more strategically about how to contend with Pres Obama. It’s too late to post about that now and I’m off to bed, so I’ll do so tomorrow.
May 5th, 2009 at 7:31 pm
English Rose,
How right you are. The change needed is to go back to their conservative roots. If they do, I see a sh!t storm (Please excuse the french) rolling right over the libbers and when the good people see the results, the libbers will hav a hard time even registering with Acorns help. We have to get away from the thought that we can cure the worlds ailments when we cant even cure our own. I’m not saying we can’t help others but we need help for our true poor people first. By poor and needy, I mean the ones that can’t work and take care of themselves and theirs. The first time I got married, straight out of the army,I worked 16 to 18 hours a day to be able to save for the day that I wouldn’t have to. Finally I could stop working all those hours and I blew out 3 disks in my back and neck. Ain’t life grand? lucky my wife has a very good job in management that she worked and studied her assets off for. I have not taken one dollar of welfare and never will if I can help it. I’m a very proud man and always will be. I very well could, but won’t. that’s how I differ from a libber!!
May 5th, 2009 at 8:21 pm
English Rose, thanks, but hey, I’m a sight happier than the average lib on my worst day. I find the opportunity to laugh heartily at least once a day about Obama’s cadre of mountebanks. I crack my friends up with incessant jovial comments on liberal fiascos. Not many liberals are laughing now that their man has won, and they were certainly miserable creatures when Bush was in office. They attacked him like mad dogs, or wolves. Speaking of wolves, I’m reminded of one of Theodore Roosevelt’s tales, told before he entered the political arena:
In early spring when the cows begin to calve the wolves sometimes wait upon the herds as they did of old on the buffalo, and snap up any calf that strays away from its mother. When hard pressed by hunger they will kill a steer or a heifer, choosing the bitterest and coldest night to make the attack. The prey is invariably seized by the haunch or flank, and its entrails afterwards torn out; while a cougar, on the contrary, grasps the neck or throat. Wolves have very strong teeth and jaws and inflict a most severe bite. They will in winter come up to the yards and carry away a sheep, pig, or dog without much difficulty; I have known one which had tried to seize a sheep and been prevented by the sheep dogs to canter off with one of the latter instead. But a spirited dog will always attack a wolf. On the ranch next below mine there was a plucky bull terrier, weighing about twenty-five pounds, who lost his life owing to his bravery. On one moonlight night three wolves came round the stable, and the terrier sallied out promptly. He made such a quick rush as to take his opponents by surprise, and seized one by the throat; nor did he let go till the other two tore him almost asunder across the loins. Better luck attended a large mongrel called a sheep dog by his master, but whose blood was apparently about equally derived from collie, Newfoundland, and bulldog. He was a sullen, but very intelligent and determined brute, powerfully built and with strong jaws, and though neither as tall nor as heavy as a wolf he had yet killed two of these animals single-handed. One of them had come into the farm-yard at night, and had taken a young pig, whose squeals roused everybody. The wolf loped off with his booty, the dog running after and overtaking him in the darkness. The struggle was short, for the dog had seized the wolf by the throat and the latter could not shake him off, though he made the most desperate efforts, rising on his hind legs and pressing the dog down with his fore paws. This time the victor escaped scatheless, but in his second fight, when he strangled a still larger wolf, he was severely punished. The wolf had seized a sheep, when the dog, rushing on him, caused him to leave his quarry. Instead of running he turned to bay at once, taking off one of the assailant’s ears with a rapid snap. The dog did not get a good hold, and the wolf scored him across the shoulders and flung him off. They then faced each other for a minute and at the next dash the dog made good his throat hold, and throttled the wolf, though the latter contrived to get his foe’s foreleg into his jaws and broke it clear through. When I saw the dog he had completely recovered, although pretty well scarred.
On another neighboring ranch there is a most ill-favored hybrid, whose mother was a Newfoundland and whose father was a large wolf. It is stoutly built, with erect ears, pointed muzzle, rather short head, short bushy tail, and of a brindled color; funnily enough it looks more like a hyena than like either of its parents. It is familiar with people and a good cattle dog, but rather treacherous; it both barks and howls. The parent wolf carried on a long courtship with the Newfoundland. He came round the ranch, regularly and boldly, every night, and she would at once go out to him. In the daylight he would lie hid in the bushes at some little distance. Once or twice his hiding-place was discovered and then the men would amuse themselves by setting the Newfoundland on him. She would make at him with great apparent ferocity; but when they were a good way from the men he would turn round and wait for her and they would go romping off together, not to be seen again for several hours.
You seem to have found a plucky bull terrier to fend off the liberal wolves in Cameron. I think conservatives in America may have found one as well, I’ll tell you about him.
Cordially
May 6th, 2009 at 11:48 am
English Rose, sorry for not indenting that for you; it goes on a bit, my copy and paste skills need some work. Happy Wednesday, it’s warm and terribly humid here in the South. Rain expected this afternoon. Think I’ll go to the gymnasium tonight and work out, then for a swim. I’ll post something tonight you can read Thursday. Hope you enjoyed the Roosevelt tale, sorry if it was too graphic.
Cordially
May 6th, 2009 at 5:16 pm
I’m sick and tired of this Obama. Everyday he makes a blunder. He is no different from the politicians of the Philippines, they are all corrupt. They are all in their ego trip.
May 6th, 2009 at 5:24 pm
Joe H: Thanks. Good for you for being so independent, you’re a good man! I’m sorry to hear about your back and neck, what rotten luck. Do you manage to get around alright or does it restrict you? I hope not. I totally agree with you about putting our own people first, if we don’t do that we have nothing, we wouldn’t even have the resources for the Dems and zanulabs to periodically squander. Don’t worry about apologising for your French, Joe, swearing doesn’t bother me at all - except when whole posts become tirades of bad language and little else; those just bore me brainless. Your posts are interesting and never like that. I’ve had a re-education on the blogs during the last few years and have learned words and phrases I never even knew existed.
Antistatist: Thank you for your kind words and for the Roosevelt piece - good post. Don’t worry about indents, I can’t do those either. I’m intrigued by your comment that the Conservatives may have found someone to stand up to Pres Obama and will be interested to hear who that is and what they are like. I believe that whoever it is will need to have the ability to win back the centre ground voters lost to Pres Obama. We’ve had a similar problem here and this it was this group of voters that Cameron targeted and has had a lot of success with. As you know, I like Bobby Jindal. Michael Steele also looks interesting, yet I know so little about US politics that I shouldn’t comment.
Some more of the Blair / Obama saga. Blair inherited a Labour party which was unelectable. Prior, left wing Labour government’s had, as always, made such a dreadful mess of our economy that Labour had assumed the mantle of the Nasty Party. One particularly bad memory for the UK electorate was the ‘Winter of Discontent’, when there were so many strikes against Labour’s pay controls (imposes to try to keep inflation and unemployment down) that the country almost ground to a halt. Lorry drivers, nurses, ambulance crew, and many others too, even the grave diggers, went on strike, creating food and supply shortages as unburied bodies piled up in temporary mortuaries. The economy was in such a mess that the Prime Minister was forced to go the IMF with a begging bowl.
Blair apparently moved Labour away from all of that, apparently took on the unions and the traditional Labour left and in appearing to do so made the Labour Party electable again, rebranded as New Labour, a party of ‘aspiration’ and ‘fairness’. A major cornerstone of Blair’s and New Labour’s electoral success was how brilliantly they took the centre ground which determines the election results in crucial marginal constituencies across UK. With obvious parallels with Pres Obama. that’s how Blair achieved his 1997 landslide result. Blair and his spin doctors also successfully demonised the Conservatives, transforming their image into that of an extreme right wing Nasty Party.
Two new Conservative leaders tried to break out of that extreme right, Nasty Party straitjacket, but Blair demolished each of them, just as he’d demolished Prime Minister Major in 1997 in the above video. Then, thankfully, at long last, a leader was elected in Cameron who was a master strategist and who finally grasped that Blair could only be beaten with a strategic thrust that stole the centre ground from under his feet. Cameron drove Blair to the left in the public’s perception and to the right in his party’s, thus driving a wedge between Blair and his party and the public.
Eight years on from that video of Blair triumphantly entering Downing Street, a much older Prime Minister Blair faces his own nemesis for the first time. David Cameron, a young leader whom he cannot beat or demolish: a cool, bike riding, ipod wearing, blogging, tomato growing, family loving, leader for the 21st century
This video shows a young, floppy haired and still wet behind the ears Cameron, just three days after he was elected as party leader, during his first Prime Minister’s questions, become the first opposition leader to stun the mighty Blair into silence. This is the beginning of the end for Blair, he is staring his nemesis in the face. Even Blair’s great New Labour spin machine was powerless to stop it. The public, press and media went into excited paroxysm over Cameron.
Instead of attempting to smear Blair, Cameron decided to love him and the good parts of his policies to death. In doing so, Cameron took the centre ground and some 18 months later, Blair was gone
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4506316.stm
May 6th, 2009 at 5:33 pm
English Rose,
We need you to get on the other column How Did This Happen? and tell Jeff what universal medicine is like in England. If you would. thanks in advance! Joe
May 6th, 2009 at 5:36 pm
Antistatist: I forgot to tell you to wind that video to 2 and to watch to about 7
May 6th, 2009 at 8:24 pm
English Rose, thanks for the post and video, I enjoyed the exchange between Cameron and Blair. Obama effectively took the middle ground from McCain when his teleprompter advised him to begin speaking like a Conservative. Centrists fell for it, even though Obama’s voting record in the Senate was to the left of the only self-avowed socialist in the Senate, Sandy Berger. The independents will gravitate towards a strong Conservative candidate who is an effective communicator. Someone who can represent Conservatism unabashedly, with forceful eloquence, will outshine the well spoken Liberal, whose pseudo-compassionate ideology is cloaked in eloqence. The Conservative does not veil his ideology in eloquent speech, his eloquence is used to elucidate the truth. The gentleman I spoke of who may become a lantern in the storm is a young attorney from texas named Ted Cruz. Here are some excerpts from a recent article published in National Review by Mark Hemingway:
“Enter Texas attorney Ted Cruz. Cruz hasn’t even been elected to public office yet, but from the moment he threw his hat in the ring for Texas attorney general, people began saying some pretty bold things.
Cruz certainly has the kind of pedigree that will get him noticed. He’s a Hispanic Republican and magna cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School. But it’s the former college debate champion’s preternatural gifts as a communicator that really set him apart. “I witnessed him in numerous situations where there were difficult debates, whether it was speaking to the local chapter of the ACLU defending conservative policies of the Bush administration or arguing before the [U.S.] Supreme Court in the historic redistricting case,” says Chad Sweet, former chief of staff to Bush Homeland Security secretary Michael Chertoff. “Having been a debater myself but also having worked on Wall Street for twelve years, where they had very eloquent spokesmen for different companies and corporations, he is by far one of the most dynamic and eloquent orators I’ve ever witnessed.”
At only 38, Cruz has accrued a list of legal honors and accomplishments that would be impressive for a man twice his age. He recently spent five and a half years as solicitor general of Texas; both the youngest and longest-serving solicitor general in state history, he won the Best Brief Award from the National Association of Attorneys General for five consecutive years. Cruz clerked for former Supreme Court chief justice William Rehnquist. He became so close to Rehnquist that he was a pallbearer at the chief justice’s funeral, and Rehnquist in turn had an indelible impact on Cruz: His legal career has been defined by his advocacy of federalism.
Cruz has written over 70 briefs, and presented eight oral arguments, to the Supreme Court. Aside from impressive oral presentations, Cruz is renowned in legal circles for his preparedness. In 2005, when Cruz defended Texas’s congressional-redistricting plan before the Court, Justice Stevens actually complimented him from the bench on the quality of his brief. (Such compliments are unusual.) After he won the case, the Democratic opposing counsel were so impressed they inquired about the possibility of Cruz’s joining their firm after his tenure as solicitor general. More recently, Cruz played a role in winning District of Columbia v. Heller, the landmark Second Amendment case.
Cruz is no political novice either. He was a domestic-policy adviser on George W. Bush’s 2000 campaign, eventually going on to serve in senior positions at the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice. Accordingly, Cruz has been singled out for praise by everyone from National Law Journal to Newsweek. A good portion of the hype around Cruz started long before his decision to enter electoral politics.
Of course, it’s not just Cruz’s ability to communicate that has gotten him noticed. Being able to communicate is one thing; having the right message is another. Former Reagan attorney general Edwin Meese calls Cruz ‘one of the [GOP’s] best leaders’ and singles him out for his convictions and his competence. ‘He’s a public official willing to stand up for his principles. As a lawyer, he’s able to not only defend his principles but also be very successful in doing that.’ Indeed, Cruz believes being principled is fundamental to his success as a lawyer. An article in the Texas Bar Journal quotes him as passing on this advice at the University of Texas Law School, where he is an adjunct professor: ‘Credibility is the single most important asset anybody ever has,’ he told his students. ‘Be principled, be the voice of reason.’
Cruz hasn’t even made it through his first primary election yet, so it’s perhaps premature to predict how far he will go in politics. But, in keeping with his own political vision, it’s probably safe to say that Cruz is a conservative with a lot of opportunities ahead of him.”
This seems reason for optimism, I’ll add him to my list of promising young Conservatives like Bobby Jindal. Rose, have you ever heard of the writer Albert Jay Nock? He passively helped pioneer the ideology, of anti-statism. A wise, though peculiar man, I read an article about him last week, here’s a snippet:
” writes Robert Crunden, Nock’s best biographer, “Nock made the essential point: ransack the past for your values, establish a coherent worldview , depend neither on society nor on government insofar as circumstances permitted, keep your tastes simple and inexpensive, and do what you have to do to remain true to yourself.”
Thanks again, Rose, for your informative post and video, I do enjoy your writing. I sometimes hear a British accent when I read your posts. I think most avid readers hear a “reading voice” in their imagination, or if they are reading an author whose voice is familiar. When I read Muhammad Ali’s autobiography his voice was very clear to me, as I am so accustomed to his voice. It makes reading fun!
Cordially
May 7th, 2009 at 1:41 pm
I wrote every single senator and congressmen trying to stop it. We all know it was mostly PORK. If a bill can’t stand on it’s own then it should not be passed. The part of the national health reform was also in this act. It’s a shame that the people of America just don’t see how much of their liberty is slowly being stripped away. People used to help people. You could depend on your neighbor and family. Now the government is there and the system has been abused into near bankruptcy. Do your research and speak of facts not of emotion to everyone you know about the current state of government.
maxx - http://www.right-wingxtremist.com
May 7th, 2009 at 3:45 pm
The Stimulus in nothing short of a power grab. Obama nothing short of a hustler. He talks out of both sides of his mouth and his inconsistancies are becoming far to frequent. This Stimulus is not common sense or reality based. Why the brainwashed masses still follow his message I will never understand. They must be part of the cult that seems to hang on his every word. I am digusted at our Government as a whole from the Federal down to the local. And now the Republicans are out on a “Listening Tour”, well we the people have been telling them for years what to do, but they aren’t listening. And today Cantor was on “Your World” saying our great country was built on Conservative Republican ideas and that made the country great. I beg to differ, what made our country great was ingenuity, common sense and a Democracy that adheared to the Constitution. Demorcrat or Republican thought singley did not build our country, the people did. I have to say he was also wrong in going on and on about Conservative Republicans as if they are the only one’s and that is the face of the Party, that right there should tell them what they should listen too. There are many other kinds of Republicans, not just Conservatives. But they are not on a listening tour. They do not want to listen to us and haven’t been for years, they want you to listen to them and hear what they want you to hear the Party is, that is all and nothing more. I know I digress, but it all ties in…let’s call them what they all are, inept. The Stimulus was nothing more than another way to dig further into our lives than they already have, and find more ways to tax us uselessly and make excuses to strip more of our freedoms away one by one. It is a sham plain and simple. I write about stuff like this on my blog a lot. I welcome people to check it out, I actually value what people have to say….Power to the people….the little people (us!)!!!!!
Blog:
myspace.com/shawnarblaker
May 7th, 2009 at 6:06 pm
Antistatist: Just a quick reply before I’m off to bed. Joe asked me to write about the NHS for Jeff, that got me on my high horse and I ended up rewriting War and Peace
Now I am shattered.
Thank you for your excellent post about Cruz. I like him, he looks a little like David Cameron. He has too little experience, but so did Cameron, and like Cameron he will have about three years to acquire that and to learn the job. What do you think, shall we elect him?
May 7th, 2009 at 6:15 pm
He [Obama] talks out of both sides of his mouth” (Shawna)
Excellent point, Shawna, and very true from what I’ve seen. This is all so reminiscent of Blair…who pretty soon into his first term of office became known across the length and breadth of my country as ‘Bliar’.
Blair used to change the way he spoke too, just as Obama does. In one speech he’d be the quintessential public school boy, in the next, Mr estuary English with the occasional touch of cockney. I read a piece about him which said, when Blair was in England he was English and a member of the Church of England, when in Ireland he was a Irish and a Catholic and when with muslims, he was thinking of converting to Islam
May 7th, 2009 at 7:05 pm
English Rose,
I am forever in your debt. I get so mad I can’t think straight but you made up for my handicap.
I better watch saying that or He who is ignored will call ME an idiot!!!
May 7th, 2009 at 7:50 pm
All I have to say is everyone has to read the “5000 Year Leap” that Glenn has spoken of. I just finished it, and am going to reread it right away. In this book are your and my answers to our problems, and what to do about them. Get involved, and if involved, get involved some more. Spread the word!
May 7th, 2009 at 8:29 pm
English Rose, brilliant post on the NHS. The reason I’m against the socialisation of health care in America is exactly because I know it will become a political tool. Yet, the libs charge ahead with temerity, having no successful example as a historical reference, arrogantly believing that they will be the first to succeed where so many other nations have failed. Prudence? None whatsoever. I fear we will have a long list of inefficiencies to report if and when medicine is socialised in America, and a long list of civil liberties infringed upon as well.
Cameron certainly seems to be more grounded in Conservatism than our McCain, and is much the more eloquent orator. I’d like to hear more from him, I’ll research his speeches, and writings, if I can find them. Jindal and Cruz, 37, and 38, respectively, have plenty of time to gain experience. If the GOP does’nt find itself, soon, we’ll have Obama for eight years…………..sorry, just shuddering at the thought.
This offering is the first part of an essay written by Albert Jay Nock circa 1936. Entitled “Isaiah’s Job”, it is considered, by some, to be among the oddest and most powerful in the history of conservatism. The entire piece is easily found if you like it.
“One evening last autumn, I sat long hours with a European acquaintance while he expounded a political-economic doctrine which seemed sound as a nut and in which I could find no defect. At the end, he said with great earnestness: ‘I have a mission to the masses. I feel that I am called to get the ear of the people. I shall devote the rest of my life to spreading my doctrine far and wide among the population. What do you think?’
An embarrassing question in any case, and doubly so under the circumstances, because my acquaintance is a very learned man, one of the three or four really first-class minds that Europe produced in his generation; and naturally I, as one of the unlearned, was inclined to regard his lightest word with reverence amounting to awe. Still, I reflected, even the greatest mind can not possibly know everything, and I was pretty sure he had not had my opportunities for observing the masses of mankind, and that therefore I probably knew them better than he did. So I mustered courage to say that he had no such mission and would do well to get the idea out of his head at once; he would find that the masses would not care two pins for his doctrine, and still less for himself, since in such circumstances the popular favourite is generally some Barabbas. I even went so far as to say (he is a Jew) that his idea seemed to show that he was not very well up on his own native literature. He smiled at my jest, and asked what I meant by it; and I referred him to the story of the prophet Isaiah.
It occurred to me then that this story is much worth recalling just now when so many wise men and soothsayers appear to be burdened with a message to the masses. Dr. Townsend has a message, Father Coughlin has one, Mr. Upton Sinclair, Mr. Lippmann, Mr. Chase and the planned economy brethren, Mr. Tugwell and the New Dealers, Mr. Smith and Liberty Leaguers – the list is endless. I can not remember a time when so many energumens were so variously proclaiming the Word to the multitude and telling them what they must do to be saved. This being so, it occurred to me, as I say, that the story of Isaiah might have something in it to steady and compose the human spirit until this tyranny of windiness is overpast. I shall paraphrase the story in our common speech, since it has to be pieced out from various sources; and inasmuch as respectable scholars have thought fit to put out a whole new version of the Bible in the American vernacular, I shall take shelter behind them, if need be, against the charge of dealing irreverently with the Sacred Scriptures.
The prophet’s career began at the end of King Uzziah’s reign, say about 740 B.C. This reign was uncommonly long, almost half a century, and apparently prosperous. It was one of those prosperous reigns, however – like the reign of Marcus Aurelius at Rome, or the administration of Eubulus at Athens, or of Mr. Coolidge at Washington – where at the end the prosperity suddenly peters out and things go by the board with a resounding crash.
In the year of Uzziah’s death, the Lord commissioned the prophet to go out and warn the people of the wrath to come. ‘Tell them what a worthless lot they are.’ He said, ‘Tell them what is wrong, and why and what is going to happen unless they have a change of heart and straighten up. Don’t mince matters. Make it clear that they are positively down to their last chance. Give it to them good and strong and keep on giving it to them. I suppose perhaps I ought to tell you,’ He added, ‘that it won’t do any good. The official class and their intelligentsia will turn up their noses at you and the masses will not even listen. They will all keep on in their own ways until they carry everything down to destruction, and you will probably be lucky if you get out with your life.’
Isaiah had been very willing to take on the job – in fact, he had asked for it – but the prospect put a new face on the situation. It raised the obvious question: Why, if all that were so – if the enterprise were to be a failure from the start – was there any sense in starting it? ‘Ah,’ the Lord said, ‘you do not get the point. There is a Remnant there that you know nothing about. They are obscure, unorganized, inarticulate, each one rubbing along as best he can. They need to be encouraged and braced up because when everything has gone completely to the dogs, they are the ones who will come back and build up a new society; and meanwhile, your preaching will reassure them and keep them hanging on. Your job is to take care of the Remnant, so be off now and set about it.’”
Thanks again, Rose, have a great weekend!
Cordially
May 8th, 2009 at 10:29 am
English Rose,
Thanks for the agreement. I thought this about Obama when he was merely a canidate and could not understand how everyone did not see straight through him, just an old politician in new clothes. I do agree with you about Blair being much the same, but then again, what politician isn’t? They tell you what they think you want to hear, truth seems to be a unfamiliar word to them. Never ceases to amaze me the lengths they will go to that they cover their own ineptitude. That is why I like watching Glenn, he actually seems to care about the people, and just seems to love to dig up dirt on the bad guys and catching them in the act!
Blog:
http://myspace.com/shawnarblaker
May 8th, 2009 at 12:26 pm
Shawna, good post on Obama. I am reminded of the tale “The Emperor’s New Cothes” when I hear Obama, in conjunction with his omnipresent teleprompter speak of tax cuts as if he had a drop of conservative blood circulating through the recesses of his gray matter. If one had just arrived on earth from Mars, having no prior knowledge of Obama, the assumption might be made that Obama’s ideology is reasonable, and grounded in prudence. After taking the most cursory of glances at his voting record, however, even the Martian would perform an abrupt about face. All, well, nearly all on this blog appreciate lucid thoughts well written, thank you.
Cordially
May 8th, 2009 at 2:16 pm
Emperor’s New Clothes, sorry.
May 8th, 2009 at 4:13 pm
antistatist:
It is nice to find somewhere people see thing the way I do. I am a State Worker and also work a second job at night (part-time) at our local paper (unfortunatly not writing, I am to conservative for print apparently) and you would not believe the difference in opinion of President Obama from one place to the next. Well, I suppose it depends on who you spend you time with. I know I appreicate sound and common sense writing and I thank you for the compliment. I suppose that is why I started writing my own blog on many of these same issues. They read more like op-ed pieces, and I am someone who needs an outlet for all of the frustration that I encounter of late, when I turn on the TV and see what calamities they are concocting, but I suppose that has always gone on in some way or other. Seems like lately though, it is far worse than I have seen it since I was a kid, as far as the division between people. It strangely seems like Obama would like nothing more than to keep it that way. Nothing more than shameful I say.
Blog:
http://myspace.com/shawnarblaker
May 8th, 2009 at 4:52 pm
Joe H: I get so mad I can’t think straight
I know exactly how you feel, I get like that all the time. Perhaps we should do as a friend of mine always suggests at such times: don’t get mad, get even.
May 8th, 2009 at 5:01 pm
Shawna, I too, would like to have some writing published, not necessarily political. I’m an avid reader. I love history and literature, some fiction, have read National Geographic for 30 years, though it now sometimes annoys me with the incessant articles on “Global Warming.”
Obama’s ideology is concealed behind the curtain created by his glib tongue. Many of his supporters can’t even define socialism or Marxism, so no red flags are raised in their…minds.
They could tell you that Bush was a liar, that all corporations are driven by greed, that the GOP only cares for the rich, and that we went to Iraq for oil. When the handsome, well spoken Obama orates, they don’t analyze what he is saying. They only know that it sounds intelligent…to them. Our school system and the media are largely responsible for America’s most expensive commodity; ignorance.
Cordially
May 8th, 2009 at 5:06 pm
English Rose, is Mothers Day celebrated this Sunday in England? If so, Happy early Mothers Day!
May 8th, 2009 at 5:17 pm
English Rose and all the mothers out there. I don’t know if I will be on tomorrow or not as it’s a very busy day for us. So to all of you please have a safe and happy MOTHER’S DAY!!!!
God Bless You All!!
May 8th, 2009 at 5:35 pm
Shawna, I agree with you about politicians, how can we ever trust such dreadful people? I hope that we might have an exception here in the leader of our Conservative party, David Cameron, who seems to be that rare person, an honest politician.
I’ve liked Cameron since he made his maiden speech to parliament and devoted a section of it to his disabled son, Ivan, who sadly died recently when the little lad was just 6 years old. Cameron spoke during his maiden speech of how dreadful it was to see his son in pain and added, “he is wonderful boy with a magical smile, when my son smiles I am the happiest father in the world.”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/7909695.stm
May 8th, 2009 at 5:47 pm
Antistatist: I love your post about Isaiah, thank you for that, it’s had me reading up on him.
Joe and Antistatist: Thank you for your good wishes for mother’s day (mothering Sunday here) We’ve already had ours here, Mothering Sunday, in March, but I’ve told my children that, as I’m greedy, I should like to have the American one too this year.
My daughter said: “Oh, blimey, does that mean I have to wash up again?”
My son said: “You have to be kidding!”
May 8th, 2009 at 6:56 pm
Antistatist:
I too am an avid reader and history lover, I can out do my sister’s professor on Spartan history and match him on Egyptian. I have been published in little bit many years ago, when I was much younger and pursued it much more vigorously than I do now, just simply not enough hours in the day. I also agree with you about everything being “Global Waring” related and I too have noticed there is always something else behind what everyone is saying, a hidden agenda. And do not get me started on our school systems….I have a blog ready to put up on that very topic alone. I found I was bored in school (too many years ago to mention), so I took it upon myself to seek information and become a self-educated individual, not rely solely on my school to give me all that I needed to know, it was lacking to say the least. Today they only seem to breed ingnorace and political correctness (of which I certainly am not PC). They seem not to be teaching what children truly do need to learn to incite them to want to learn more. Another shame on our system, but at least kids have the opportunity for an education, not matter how meager, some have no chance at all.
English Rose:
I had not heard about Cameron, thanks for the link, I will definatly check it out. I am sorry over the winter, my work kept me from so much. I am in between programs till next season, so I now have a bit of time to catch up on some things, I usually try to keep up with oversea’s info, but have sadly fallen behind. It would be good to see a fresh face who is honest, I am not sure I could name many here.
Blog:
http://myspace.com/shawnablaker
May 8th, 2009 at 8:01 pm
Shawna, I suppose being an only child contributed to my love of reading, cultivated at an early age, though I loved the outdoors(and still do), hunting, fishing, surfing, then athletics, boxing, wrestling, weight training, mostly individual pursuits. Most of my knowledge comes from recreational reading, though I have a degree as a physical therapists assistant.
Scroll up a bit and you’ll find that English Rose is a dedicated enthusiast of history. She has much to contribute to any conversation requiring historical reference. It is a pleasure to exchange historical facts and relate them to the present day. There is a lot we like-minded consevatives can learn from each other, being from different parts of the country, and globe. Friendships to be developed, comraderie, esprit de corps, if you will. We have a duty to examine history, and learn from it. We must understand the principles that have allowed us to be free and prosper, so that they may be carried on by our children, and generations yet to come. There are those who would seek to change dramatically, perhaps irreversably, the principles responsible for the freedom and happiness we are so blessed to enjoy. We can only counter this by becoming as knowledgeable as possible, and then imparting our knowledge to those who are reasonable enough to listen. Forums like this, properly used, are the starting point.
Cordially
May 8th, 2009 at 9:30 pm
Shawna, I assume, with all the “Global Citizen” talk of Obama, that he fancies himself one of these:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTHMv30oq4Q
I am, as you are, a skeptic.
Cordially
May 8th, 2009 at 10:07 pm
Antistatist:
I could not agree more with everything you wrote. I too was an only child till my very late teens and my sister was born. I feel that was one reason for my love of books, in addition to a Mother who fostered and encouraged pursuit of knowledge. I was very intertwined with my sisters upbringing, as my Mother was a single parent, and now with my sister at twenty, with so many years between us, I feel we did well. At college though, she is singled out in her classes as being the black sheep, the oddball for having the ethics and principals we raised her with. I guess you would call it “The Old School Way”. I tell her to relish in being disinctly different, I always was, and never follow the pack. Always dig deeper and find the truth, no matter what stay true to yourself. I have tried all these years to convey to her the knowledge I had and help to foster pursuit of her own, which I believe we should all do with our children. She is the closest I can ever come to my own child, so I try to give her, what I would have given mine, were that possible. I believe where we come from had a lot to do with what we as a family belive and hold to as far as principal. We come from a from a poor rural community, just plain old country folks, but how we were raised is an exposure everyone should have and it is a shame in this day and age of freedom (or lack there of) it is falling by the wayside, slow but sure. I mysef, even through all of this political landscape we must now trudge through daily, was reminded of my love of my classes in American History and Government and I re-read the founding documents the other day. The Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and once again I was moved by the simplicity of what they stand for, that most would seek to turn for their own gain. I encourage everyone to read tham again at different times in their lives to be reminded of the power those words hold for our freedoms and our liberty. Those are precious things by anyone’s standard I would think, and it pains me to see these freedoms slowly being stripped away. I too agree forums such as this are a wonderful, and can be a powerful way to remind each other and others, what the magic of truly living and pursuit of knowledge can be.
Footnote: Glad to hear English Rose is an avid historian as well, there needs to be more of us. I am always looked a strangely for my encyclopedic mind, but no matter. Their loss, not mine, but that doesn’t stop me from trying to bring some education from time to time…(haha)
Cordialement (fr)
May 8th, 2009 at 10:12 pm
Sorry about my mis-spellings, this is not my computer….mine is in the shop, borrowing a friends and it types different…all apologies….
May 8th, 2009 at 10:14 pm
Glenn, you have a massive blog going here. A person just can’t wade through all of it. Congratulations; not bad for a guy that has been deemed “Crazy”. You are far more generous with space than other Fox blogs.
I did notice a few common threads. The abortion thing is nasty. It’s so slippery that Government should probably steer clear of it. The Supreme Court has wrestled with it and that was not very pretty either. Forget the religious beliefs . . . we all have them. Instead, let’s look at it as feeling and compassionate beings. In the first two trimesters there is nothing recognizable to abort. These late term abortions on the other hand are grizzly affairs. What is it that we may be so cavalierly supporting? Let’s see. The baby is fully formed and alive. The doctor pulls this person from the womb, often times crying, and coldly dismembers them with a pair of surgical scissors. Arms and legs cut off while the crying continues. They are mostly dismembered and yet still alive. Barbaric falls short . . . no anesthesia here. These are not procedures that are “back alley”. No this can only be done by medical doctors in surgery rooms. How doctors can live with this is beyond me. But then Dr. Mengele walked among us. Find out what it is you are supporting. Think it through and support what you will.
Have you read Plato’s Republic? It’s amazing when you consider how long ago humans recognized the “problem” with democracy. Let’s take a quick review: smooth talker, charismatic, good looking (at least to some), plays well to the people, popular, hip, with it, and contemporary. How many of these things have anything to do with competency, experience, vision, and judgment. Plato was right, there is a problem with democracy . . . the people are subject to being swayed by people with the characteristics listed above. He was absolutely right. Obama is living proof of it.
The whole green thing is bogus, especially the CO2 issue. A complete distortion of facts in order to create a crisis that justifies insane measures. It’s insane. If I get a “free hand” to deal with crisis and I want a “free hand”, then I will create crisis in order to obtain a “free hand”. Go figure. When you hear the clean coal talk, the wind turbines and such, it’s pure B.S. Just shut it off. Get facts about this entire issue. Again think it through and support what you will. Get real facts first.
Don’t hate each other and let’s promise one another that we will never enter into anarchy for that is the inferno for sure.
Getting late Glenn; love your show.
May 9th, 2009 at 5:40 am
English Rose, a hectic morning, my three year old whose middle name is Isaiah, rousted me out of bed extra early, now all three are up and I’m cooking breakfast. Has Fathers day come and gone in England? I should like to have the luxury of celebrating two Father’s Days. I wonder, how I should put that over to the children. I’m kidding, of course, being awakened by their smiling faces is enough.
Cordially
May 9th, 2009 at 6:16 am
Antistatist: What a good dad you are, it must be so hard work being Mr Mom, yet you manage so well. Keep up the good work…I want to put a smile there, but I detest those emotican things that Stu’s blog uses. Father’s Day here is the third Sunday in June, so you haven’t missed it. I got up so late today because I was reading until the crack of dawn, I keep promising myself some early nights, but I just will not learn. Excellent points about our duty to study history.
May 9th, 2009 at 6:20 am
English Rose, I dedicate this song, collectively, to Blair, Brown, and Obama, in jest of course, hope it works in the UK. Here’s Rush with “New World Man”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KCZpl5AP44
Hope you enjoy the irony.
Cordially
May 9th, 2009 at 6:41 am
Thank you for the music, Antistatist, I’ll have look at that in moment. Here another piece about Cameron which might help you understand the forces that have made him the excellent leader that he is.
“In David Cameron’s case, the life and now, tragically, the death, of his son Ivan goes to the heart of who the Conservative leader is as a politician.
Mr Cameron’s friends speak of a man whose life was changed after the birth of his son. No-one would deny that David and Samantha Cameron come from anything other than extremely privileged backgrounds. But Ivan’s condition, Ohtahara Syndrome, meant that a comfortable lifestyle had to take second place to the needs of their son. That meant late-night visits to the hospital, sometimes sleeping on the floor by their son’s bedside. It meant meeting other parents with seriously ill children, from all social backgrounds and walks of life. But perhaps most importantly in terms of David Cameron the politician, it meant a profound respect and admiration for the NHS.
Conservative leaders have sometimes had a problem convincing the public the National Health Service would be safe in their hands. From the outset, David Cameron has made clear the important part he believes it plays in the life of the nation - based on the significant part it plays in his own life. He told the Tory Party conference in 2006: “For me, it’s not a question of saying the NHS is safe in my hands.
“My family is so often in the hands of the NHS. And I want them to be safe there. Tony Blair once explained his priority in three words: education, education, education. I can do it in three letters - NHS.”
But as well as the praise for those at the sharp end of the NHS - the nurses, doctors and carers, there is sometimes an anger as well - anger at what David Cameron sees as the bureaucracy which exists in the system - but also anger at its failures to provide the services which families in a far worse position than his own require.
Should David Cameron win the next election, his experience of life with Ivan won’t necessarily make him a good prime minister. But it will inform his views - and behind nearly every decision he makes, whatever happens in his political life, a little bit of Ivan will be there.” (BBC online Feb 2009)
May 9th, 2009 at 7:02 am
English Rose, lovely piece on Cameron and his son. My beliefs were substantially defined and strengthened through the birth of my children, and continue to be. It is a plus for anyone in position of power to have a family. I’m leary of people who work in education or in pediatric medicine who don’t, themselves, have children. My living room is a circus at the moment, but I love it!
Cordially
May 9th, 2009 at 7:26 am
English Rose, Tony Benn sounds like an interesting man. My kids are doing their level best to bring the house down around my ears. No new furniture for awhile. Perhaps some reupholstering…
May 9th, 2009 at 7:36 am
Antistatist:
“Hes not concerned with yesterday
He knows constant change is here today
Hes noble enough to know whats right
But weak enough not to choose it
Hes wise enough to win the world
But fool enough to lose it —”
Exactly. That’s the problem.
I’m sorry to harp on about Cameron, however, I believe you’ve grasped what I’m implicitly suggesting here. It’s my belief is that only a new breed of Conservative leader, a young, 21st century man with a broader range of experience, intellect and emotional IQ/appeal than traditional Conservative leaders tend to have, will be up to the hugely challenging task of beating America’s Tony Blair.
I believe the GOP needs a young leader who will reach out to, and enter into a dialogue with, the public in ways that Conservative leaders have traditionally failed to do.
If the GOP sit on their laurels and choose a new leader from the age old old blueprint - just as the British Conservatives did three times after their defeat by Blair - and continue with business as usual, you risk consigning yourselves two or three terms in the wilderness, just as the Conservatives did here.
The GOP’s great advantage, however, is that it has such good people, many first class intellects, a new breed of leaders coming through and the classic recent history lesson of the abysmal failure of British Conservatives for 10 long years to learn from.
Someone took Tony Blair’s farewell speech and set parts of it to music. Burnt out by 10 years of leadership, betrayed as he was by Brown and the clique around him, discredited by Cameron’s exposure of his spin and abysmal failures, even during these last days as Prime Minister, it’s still possible to see what a political giant Blair was and how bloody hard he was to beat. The GOP’s problem is that, despite all of his weaknesses, you have an equivalent political giant there on the other side of the pond.
Here is Blair’s advice on that: “The first rule of politics: there are no rules, you make your own luck”.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1vwKZiDsY4
May 9th, 2009 at 7:53 am
David Cameron doing an Antistatist!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTd3j31PIPo
May 9th, 2009 at 8:59 am
English Rose, just got my daughter down for a nap, now for the boys, and, I hope, myself. Hilarious remix of The Clash’s tune inserting Blair. Cleverly done, I loved it! Nice clip of Cameron showing his domestic prowess. I’ll wager that his personal assistant, if he has one, is not burdened with the logistics of metrosexual items, as Obama’s assistant is. “Oh my we’re low on moisturizer! Where are the cuticle snips? Gym towel, faux perspiration, baby oil, check!” Some cuckold of a reporter recently wrote of the manner in which the Sun glints off Obama’s “chiseled pectorals.” What rot. Good for a laugh though!
Cordially
May 9th, 2009 at 11:44 am
English Rose, this is a rough edged song by Ronnie James Dio, Ozzy Osbourne’s old stagemate from Black Sabbath, I think it accurately captures the mentality of many who voted for President Obama. Those who voted for Obama, yet are unable to name his VP, for example. Analogies to the GOP may be drawn for failure to implement a strong voice of opposition.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfngjWyFT3I
Close the city and tell the people that something’s coming to call
Death and darkness are rushing forward to take a bite from the wall, oh
You’ve nothing to say
They’re breaking away
If you listen to fools…
The Mob Rules
The Mob Rules
Kill the spirit and you’ll be blinded, the end is always the same
Play with fire, you burn your fingers and lose your hold of the flame, oh
It’s over, it’s done
the end is begun
If you listen to fools…
The Mob Rules
You’ve nothing to say
Oh, They’re breaking away
If you listen to fools…
Break the circle and stop the movement, the wheel is thrown to the ground
Just remember it might start rolling and take you right back around
You’re all fools!
The Mob Rules!
Well….. what is what.
Cordially
May 9th, 2009 at 12:18 pm
President Obama should listen to the cricism of a real Socialist - Tony Benn, a former British government Minister, an MP for 51 years, a former President of the EU Council of Ministers, one the most loved and respected politicians in UK by people of all parties - has to say about the EU on the basis of his own experience while working for them:
“It [EU] is the most terrifying, bureaucratic system in the world”
“As President of the [EU] Council of Ministers, I wasn’t allowed to submit a document! Only the Commission [unelected EU rulers] could”
“We met in secret and when I suggested we met in public they nearly strangled me because all of their dirty little deals would have come out”
“Members of Parliament are lent the powers of their constituents and they have to return those powers undiminished. it’s not for MPs to give away the powers that were lent to them because they don’t belong to MPs, they belong to their electorate”
“It terrifies me that Germany would not allow their own people a referendum on whether they should enter the EU and have the [Lisbon] Treaty…Hitler, before the war, wasn’t exactly a democrat, and that practice of everything being decided at the top is being carried on today”
“We live in a continent where increasingly power has gone to a group of people who are not elected, cannot be removed and don’t often listen to us”
They are “tearing up the British Constitution”
“We don’t even elect European Members of Parliament”
Benn says that we need to return power to the nation states of Europe - and he’s so right.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0I-ZdvQz1o
May 9th, 2009 at 12:53 pm
English Rose, Benn seems an interesting man, Obama could learn from him, if he would but listen. Has Benn been criticised for his positions by the media or Labour party? I would imagine he has. Someone speaking similarly of Obama and the Democrats would be viciously attacked, their life history investigated by a cadre of mudslingers.
May 9th, 2009 at 1:37 pm
Tony Benn is a living icon, so well loved for his integrity right across the political spectrum, even by Conservatives who strongly disagree with his Socialism, that no one can smear him. Anyway, all they would find in Benn’s past is a lifetime fighting for what he believes in. He’s beyond corruption…unlike so many of these pseudo-socialists who run our countries.
May 9th, 2009 at 1:53 pm
English Rose, William F. Buckley Jr., was similarly respected by the Democrats for his consistancy, wit, and eloquence with a pen or on a podium, a few detractors notwithstanding. Though he only ran for office once, I believe, and lost(for Mayor of New York), he is largely credited for the strength of the Conservative movement of his day. Founding and editing the National Review, and hosting the popular “Firing Line” program for many years. How he is missed.
Have you heard of the talk radio host and author from America, Dr. Michael Savage, who was recently informed he cannot visit the UK because of his views?
May 9th, 2009 at 3:45 pm
Yes, I have heard of the ban in respect of Dr Savage, Antistatist, I don’t know the rights or wrongs of the Savage case, however, I can tell you that many of us over here are astounded that our discredited Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith, might believe that she has the moral authority or credibility to ban anyone from UK given her own dreadful reputation. We need a new Home Secretary. The sooner she is sacked, the better - and that won’t be long if the rumours here are to be believed.
Here is what the UK blog ‘Biased BBC’ has to say about it:
“Nice to see that Jacqui Smith is politically correct even with those included on the list of those she denies access to Britain. So, for every Jew-hating Hamas extremist, there is a counter- balancing Jewish extremist. For every Islamic maniac, there is a white supremacist or a loony Baptist. All very nice, I must say. I am curious about the inclusion of US radio host Michael Savage on the list. The BBC states that “his views on immigration, Islam, rape and autism have caused great offence in America. ” I thought he was rather popular over there and wondered who exactly he offends that so exercises Ms Smith? Also, I notice that vile creatures such as renowned Islamic cleric Al Qaradawi (Livingstone’s pal) are not on her list and so permitted to come here - wonder could the BBC not investigate such glaring inconsistencies? I suppose investigative journalism only goes so far when there is that tricky Islamic issue lying at the heart of things.”
Ms Smith has been caught out paying for her husband’s porno videos out of her taxpayer funded expenses and claims that her sister’s back bedroom, where she stays a few nights a week, is her main place of residence so that she can maximise her expense claims on her family home, which she alleges is her ’second home, necessitated by her job as a government minister.
Devil’s Kitchen (Brilliant British blog, though its author, Chris Mounsey, uses such appaling language) sates:
“Jacqui Smith has charged taxpayers for everything from a £39.99 barbecue to a £2.50 toothbrush holder—ostensibly to help her ‘perform her duties as an MP’. The beleaguered Home Secretary’s extraordinary expenses claims also included a £14 doormat, a £104.56 patio heater for her garden and a £369.99 flatscreen TV. In total, taxpayers have footed a £150,000 bill for the [Home Secretary's Redditch] property since 2001. Leaked copies of her receipts suggest she has been on a publicly funded shopping spree to kit out her home from top to bottom. For the kitchen-diner she claimed for a stone sink and console at £550, a Hotpoint cooker at £414 and a £14 doormat. For the bathroom, taxpayers were billed for plumbing, £405.37; tiles, £36.36; shelf, mirror, linen dispenser, toothbrush holder and double towel rail, £88.97; shower mixer and fitting, £499.36….For the living room she claimed for armchair and cushion and delivery, £575; three suede cushions, circle light track and mirror, £59.37; fireplace and fittings, £1,000; Samsung 32in flat-screen TV, £369.99. For the bedroom she claimed for a sofabed, £511.20, and bed linen, £110. Outside and in the garden, taxpayers were charged for a hosepipe, £74.79; white rope, £30.72; Monaco patio set, £160; plant pots, £334.70. Other claims included decorating (hallway, stairs, main bedroom and cloakroom), £1,370; Virgin Media service charges, £68 and £67.Miss Smith also charged £2,400 a year for cleaners and an average of £11,600 a year for her mortgage between 2006 and 2008.”
The scandal of Smith’s expenses is just one part of a recent massive government expense scandal which has broken during the last few days here, in the course of which the public have seen the extent to which so many members of our socialist government, including PM Brown, have been helping themselves to the taxpayer’s money.
May 9th, 2009 at 4:01 pm
English Rose, just relaxing a bit now that the kids have gone to see their grandmother. I’m watching the latest Ultimate Fighter featuring, exclusively, fighters from the UK. Pretty interesting. Michael “The Count” Bisping is a coach. Bisping is a great athlete who came to America and fought his way through an elimination tournament to win a contract as a UFC fighter. He is a gutsy and intelligent fighter, displaying plenty of pluck and, indeed, science.
Now that the kids are gone I’m too tired to do much of anything. Did manage to mow the lawn. Tomorrow I’ll go to Wedgefield, where my grandmother spent her childhood, to celebrate Mothers Day. Thanks for the post on Tony Benn.
May 9th, 2009 at 4:05 pm
UK government expense claims scandal:
“Cabinet ministers face questions after full details of their expenses claims were published by the Daily Telegraph.
They include a claim for £6,500 made by Gordon Brown to pay his brother for a cleaner for his Westminster flat….
Downing Street has released a copy of the contract for cleaning Gordon Brown’s flat and said there was nothing “unusual or wrong” about the PM sharing a cleaner with his brother and reimbursing him for a share of the cost. The Telegraph reported that Andrew Brown received £6,577 between 2004 and 2006 for cleaning services at the prime minister’s private flat.
Defending the prime minister, deputy Labour leader Ms Harriet Harman told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “It’s being portrayed as if Gordon Brown somehow has pocketed extra money for it purporting to be his cleaner, or his brother has pocketed extra money, and that’s not the case.” She said all claims were within the rules.
“I know this looks bad and people are angry,” she said” ” (BBC News Online)
You are darn right it looks bad, Harman. PM Brown has free (and tax free) luxury accomodation and living expenses at Downing Street, free (and tax free) luxury accomodation and full living expenses at Chequers, the Prime Ministerial country mansion plus a huge amount of other expenses and perks and a gold plated, tax free pension, so what the heck is he doing claiming for expenses for a private flat too? Greedy wretch.
Well, that’s socialism for you, Democrats.
May 9th, 2009 at 4:14 pm
Antistatist: Have a lovely mother’s day tomorrow, Bro! And don’t forget to bring me back a stick of rock
May 9th, 2009 at 4:27 pm
Rose, good grief! I suspected Home Secretary Smith was a Liberal hypocrit. For her to deny passage to Dr. Savage passage because of his views on illegal immigration and Islam, while simultaneously subsidising her husbands porn habit AND defrauding the taxpayers, is so typical of the “mental disorder” of extreme Liberalism Savage contantly expatiates on.
Savage is probably the most confrontational of American talk show hosts, broadcasting from the heart of Liberal San Fran Sicko, as he calls it, where taxpayers bankroll sex change operations for those in a quandry about their sexual identity.
Here’s a clip if dear Jaqui Smith does not forestall its transmission:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZpj2nuuGXI
May 9th, 2009 at 4:33 pm
Rose, a Happy second Mothers Day to you, dear sister! But do tell, what on earth do you mean by “a stick of rock?”
Cordially
May 9th, 2009 at 5:01 pm
Rock is a type of sweet (Candy to you!), a cylindrical stick shaped, boiled sugar confectionery most often flavoured with peppermint. It is commonly sold at tourist (usually seaside) resorts in the UK, the name of the resort being stamped throughout the rock. In the UK, rock is a traditional gift brought back from a day out or holiday. Does the expression mean something else in America? Oh, dear….(Rose blushes)
May 9th, 2009 at 5:16 pm
Rose, no sis, let not your heart be troubled, I just have’nt seen rock candy in so long, I’d forgotten it. I used to get it as a child going to visit great grandma in Tennessee. That was 30 years ago. Thanks Rose, that was funny!
May 9th, 2009 at 6:05 pm
Antistatist,
We have a group of Amish here in a little town called Middlefield and they sell all kinds of homemade confections. They sell quite a lot of rock candy,jams, jellies, candy and trinkets. They don’t have electricity to their houses and don’t use tractors to plow their fields. They all wear black clothes and don’t like their pictures taken. They are very independent people yet very loving towards their families. Most all their women are fantastic cooks and bakers. Rose would love to visit I would gamble.
May 9th, 2009 at 6:20 pm
Joe H, That reminds me of the movie “Witness” starring Harrison Ford who portrayed a police detective who lived among the Amish for a while protecting an Amish boy who had witnessed a murder. He dressed like the Amish, helped raise a barn, milked cows at 4 AM, the whole nine. Then when a bully in town mistook Harrison for an Amish man, picking a fight with him, he got smacked around. Good movie. I think Rose would love to visit an Amish community.
May 10th, 2009 at 1:42 pm
What was suppose to be a Media, White House , & good Humor event turned into a Angry Political Rally when former comedian turned political activist , Wanda Sykes , made very bitter remarks about radio host ,Rush Limbaugh. Rush Limbaugh stated that if Obama Policies are that of SOCIALISM then he wants those policies to Fail. White house Chief of Staff ‘Rahm’ express ‘horror’ at those remarks a few weeks ago and ,Now, Wanda Sykes suggested that Rush Limbaugh should be Tried for “TREASON”" and equated him as a Terrorist (this Clearly was not a joke but a suggestion). Wanda Sykes has a good and political relationship with Jane Fonda (according to Wanda herself) and is Now part of a Lefist Hollywood Coalition that has people like Michael Moore as a lecturer and this might be a reason for the remarks.
Hollywood and Media showed up for this event almost in Complete Attendance and Collective Obediance , it can be viewd as a Nationalization of Hollywood and Main Stream Media. Some others bloggers suggest that Hollywood or the Main Stream Media , should be named ‘STATE RUN DNC HOLLYWOOD’ or ‘STATE RUN DNC MEDIA’.
Note: Some Media, Hollywood, & some Democrats have went ‘Out of their Way’ to portray Al-Qaeda Terrorists as Victims (60 minute interview to Al Qaeda, D-Patrick Leahy, Fraudulent ‘torture’ allegation ,Etc) in a Made Up Hollywood/Media Story , according to other news reporters.
May 10th, 2009 at 4:42 pm
I believe Wanda Sykes, having her way, would have anyone who does not acquies to homosexual marriage tried for treason, I don’t want to imagine the punishment the guilty would receive. As for Jane Fonda, she was pretty… once. She was exquisite perched atop a North Vietnamese AAA piece, supplied by the Russians. She also was rather attractive in that wierd science fiction movie of the hippie days, can’t recall the name of it. Liberal trivia question of the day. Anybody? Her political activism is of no interest to me, I don’t think myself capable of being suprised by her actions or public utterances, nor by any of the other cretin-like miscreants from Hollywierd. Your better off consulting the nearest chimpanzee. Their diet is similar.
May 10th, 2009 at 4:57 pm
Antiststist, I think the “Hanoi Jane” movie you’re referring to was “Barbarella”
May 10th, 2009 at 5:11 pm
Joe Dirt, you have distinguished yourself by correctly answering the frenetic Liberal Trivia Question of the day. This could be the new hybrid creation of Glenn’s Moron Trivia. She was sexy in that film, though, in sort of a ‘futuristic hippie chick’ kind of eroticism.
May 10th, 2009 at 5:23 pm
LOL, I think that was about the stupidist movie I ever saw. I watched it again about 10 years ago to see if I thought it was still as stupid, or maybe I would see it differently, but GUESS WHAT. I still thought it was stupid, ha ha
May 10th, 2009 at 6:16 pm
Joe Dirt, yes, it was, rather, but Nine to Five, that was an example of bonafide cinematic genius. Everyone so admired Dolly Parton’s…acting ability. Especially when paired with the hippie Fonda playing the part of the quirky, innocent(innocent?), office girl fetching coffee. I’ll have to admit she was rather attractive in that movie too, in a ‘hippie diguised as a librarian’ sort of way, but then again, she could not act as well as her father.
May 10th, 2009 at 8:39 pm
English Rose, I hope your weekend was pleasant, and that you got some rest. I had a good time with my mother and grandmother Sunday, visiting the old family home, the church where my mother was baptised, the burial site of my great grandparents, and one great uncle, just lost last year. My grandmother told many old tales that I had’nt heard before and I was so glad I went! I also borrowed a set of short stories, one a tale about the Japanese invasion of the Aleutian Islands and the local Alaskans, recruited for their woodsmanship and knowledge of the terrain, to engineer the counter stroke.
My mother and grandparents lived in Alaska while my grandfather was post commander at Fort Wainwright in Fairbanks, site of the U.S. Army’s Northern warfare training. They saw a flood, and several earthquakes. My mother and aunt went to school in the dark in the winter, and baseball games were played at midnight during summer, no lights necessary. My mother flew out with some friends to a remote area inaccessable save for dogsled or snow-plane for some camping and was nearly attacked by a bear. She was alone at the cabin when the brute, attracted by the scent of bacon, came snooping about. She saw it’s approach from a distance and had time to retreat inside the cabin and bar the door. After peeping into the windows and smelling more food inside the bear ambled ’round to the front door and with a swat smashed the door in, frame and all, and came inside. The bear, before it found my terrified mother hiding under a bed, was scared off by the racket made by my mothers’ friends returning from a steam, laden with bottles of fresh water rattling together as they trudged along. I would love to see Alaska, avoiding close encounters with bears. My grandmother tells me about the Aurora Borealis and how beautiful it is to see.
My mother and aunt also got to see much of the rest of the country when my grandfather decided to drive to Alaska from Fort Bragg North Carolina. It took them three weeks to complete the journey, stopping at the national parks and other historical sites along the way. The Alaskan highway was unpaved at the time, so they had to drive several hundred miles through Canada to Alaska on a dirt or gravel road. They stopped once to rest near sundown and heard wolves howling, sending my mother and aunt running to the car, with my grandmother close behind, much to the amusement of my grandfather. I could go on and bore you with more stories but will refrain. When I get together with family now the old stories come back to me. It helps me to recount them to others who will listen while they are fresh in my mind. It will allow me to more easily relate them to my children when they are old enough to hear them. Thanks Rose, have a great week!
Cordially
May 10th, 2009 at 8:39 pm
Antistatist,
I don’t know, being a Viet Nam vet, I don’t think Fonda is anything but a communist sympathizing biatch!!! She caused a lot of good men a lot of pain and should have been tried for it for treason. She is a scuzz bucket and not worth me watching her. I have every respect for Dolly Parton and love her music but I did not watch her.
May 11th, 2009 at 5:34 am
Joe H, yes, right, I dont watch her films either, I used to when I was a kid and politically unaware. I was jokingly dwelling on her looks because she fancies herself a great actress. The peace movement of the 60’s, in it’s entirety, was sympathetic to the communists. At the DNC in ‘68, demonstrators took down an American flag and raised a North Vietnamese one, much to the satisfaction of Mrs. Fonda/Turner, I’m afraid.
Cordially
May 11th, 2009 at 7:29 am
Antistatist,
That is and giving comfort to the enemy is why I think she should have been tried for treason. I will never watch a movie that she is in and never have. Henry Fonda should have shuddered in shame for what the thing he brought into this world has done. The people she hurt were far
better human beings than she ever thought to be. And now she tried to disrupt a Gathering Of Eagles in D.C.! She is SCUM!
May 11th, 2009 at 8:22 am
Joe Dirt, correction, in referring to the Liberal Trivia Question of the day, it should have read, the phrenetic LQOD, meaning of or pertaining to a fever of the brain, frantic or overly enthused, paticularly applicable to Fonda and like-minded libs.
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Joe H: If I had served in Vietnam as you did, and saw Fonda atop an anti-aircraft piece used to fire at Americans, I would feel exactly the same way. Thanks again for your service, Joe, you’re a great American!
Cordially
May 11th, 2009 at 10:14 am
Antistatist: Yes, I had a good weekend, thank you. You appear to have had a good one too. Your family have lived in some fascinating places - are you researching your family history to pass on to your children? I’ve done some research on mine, back to the 16th century in respect of those who lived on the Blackwater estuary and Dengie Peninsular. Others members of my family lived in London for a time and my mother is of Irish origin. One of my Irish great great grandfathers was a sea captain.
A bear almost ate your mother! Oh, my goodness, how dreadful, and how fortunate that the arrival of her neighbours frightened the bear away. We haven’t had bears in UK, except in our zoos, for many centuries, thank God. Though one of my great grandfathers had a tenuous link to bears. He ran away from home to join the Irish Guards when he was just 15, the IG are one of the guards regiments which perform security and ceremonial duties at Buckingham Palace and the Tower of London when they aren’t on active service. Like all of these guards regiments, the Irish Guardsmen wear bearskins on their heads during guard duties and ceremonies.
I tried to post here yesterday evening but the site kept crashing. Odd that. I’m on my office PC at present. I joked to my daughter that the UK government’s internet watchers had blocked my access. If I should be unable to post from either PC, you can contact me by posting on the Youtube comments section of that video we both admire if you want to. Then I can still pass my Stu’s blog comments on to you.
I watched your Pres Obama’s performance at the recent charity dinner with a growing sense of unease and déjà vu. I thought his stand up comedy act an extraordinary display from a US President. Does he not have much real confidence in himself? Generally, those who are confident in themselves do not need to attempt to display how superior and clever they believe themselves to be. There are two kinds of humour, one, where we laugh with others, is a unifying force, the other where we laugh at others, drives a divisive wedge between people. Only one of these types is true humour, the other is sarcasm and a form of passive aggression. Pres Obama’s humour seems to be based on attacking others. Watch out Hillary Clinton - that joke about you looked like an early warning of worse to come. Your President even made spiteful jokes at the expense of his own people. I was shocked to see him behave so divisively at this early stage of his term of office.
That performance was so reminiscent to me of the young Blair. Now that may be a commendation, as I’ve said previously, Blair had complete mastery of parliament and its dog fights and of the cut and thrust of national and party politics until David Cameron became leader of the opposition. Within a few years of taking office, however, Blair had provoked much disrespect and dislike among many people who had once liked and admired him. He had became widely known by the nickname ‘Bliar’ and lost a substantial amount of the landslide of support he’d won when first elected to office. Part of the reason for this loss of support was, I believe, that, in common with another egotistical political giant before him - Maggie Thatcher - Blair’s approach to leadership became divisive and arrogant. He would egotistically mock and taunt the opposition about his landslide win, how clever and unbeatable he was and launched into long diatribes of his self proclaimed achievements during Prime Minister’s Questions.
We all know how that sort of egotism invariably ends, and that’s how it ended for Blair; with one almighty fall after his pride went tumbling down before him. However, had the Conservatives elected a leader of Cameron’s calibre sooner, I believe Blair would not have got away with his divisive and arrogant approach for as long as he did. As it was, one defeated Conservative Prime Minister and three successive Conservative leaders that followed him were lack lustre so could not beat Blair, even after his popularity and support fell dramatically. The rest is history.
May 11th, 2009 at 10:54 am
How would you like to reverse the actions of the last 100+ days?
How would you like a Mulligan on this slide to Socialism?
I have the answer if you’re brave enough to read it. All it entails is ….
http://www.riseupforamerica.com
We are working to restore the constitution but not by mere talk.
Obama has been OFFICIALLY charged with TREASON. Read all about it now and share with your friends as this will ABSOLUTELY blow you away.
Oh yeah, Glenn, thanks for all your help in making this public, lol…
Carl Swensson
May 11th, 2009 at 11:01 am
Joe H and Antistatist: You are right, I would love to see the Amish. I’ve watched a few documentaries about them and they fascinate me. I have been to America - and adored the little I’ve seen of your lovely country - but I didn’t get around to seeing the Amish while I was there.
You’ll laugh at what happened to me when I took my daughter and her friend to Florida. I was driving a hire car and thought I’d got lost on one of your interstate highways, so I pulled into a motel to ask directions. My daughter’s friend’s mother had told us before we left to be sure not to go to downtown areas or we might get shot (!) As I got out of my car it suddenly dawned on me that my son hadn’t told me what a downtown areas looks like, for all I knew, I might be in one, so I told my daughter and her friend to lock the car door after I left and not to let anyone into the car.
My daughter said, “Don’t worry, we won’t…whatever happens”.
My daughter’s friend, loking decidedly nervous, said: “What do you mean by ‘whatever happens’?” My daughter answered quite flippantly, “I mean, if she gets shot”. The poor friend sobbed her heart out and pleaded with me not to leave her. It took me 10 minutes to calm her and to persuade her to let me go.
Inside the motel, the receptionist was saying to me, “Oh, that acc-ent, I just love that acc-ent”, and I was telling her, “I just love yours too actually, it’s just like all the American films I’ve seen…I cannot believe that I’m in America”, when my daughter’s friend scuttled in looking absolutely terrified, followed, hot on her heels, by my daughter. Little friend rushed up to the receptionist, and said: “Is this a downtown area and do people get shot here?”
“I hope not”, said the receptionist with a huge grin.
“Please just ignore her”, said my daughter, before whispering, “She’s English.”
May 11th, 2009 at 2:45 pm
I have a couple of questions?
If we/they (the gov’t)have the time can find 1.7 billion saving in next years 2010 budget, why can’t we amend the 2009 budget and find some of those cuts NOW!?
I read in the “Fair Tax” book, by Neal Boortz, in it I read that Congress, Senate etc, they pay income tax, but I thought I understood they did not. Do they or not?
If (NO WHEN!) the takes the money from the few employed in the USA, to pay for health insurance will we be getting the same health insurance policy as the hierarchy in the Federal Government? Wouldn’t that be fair also? Officially they only work 1/3 of the years so they are only part timers, most other part time workers do not qualify for benefits.
May 11th, 2009 at 3:42 pm
English Rose, darling story about your trip to Florida, your daughter seems blessed with the same wit as her mother, a ‘chip off the ol’ block!’ Yes, I would like to research my family’s history and pass it to my children. My grandfather did so, and I have access to some of his notes. I remember hearing him speak of visiting the archives when I was a boy. My grandfathers people were from the mountains of Tennessee, of Scotch-Irish and German ancestry, one name being the German: Brecht. My grandmothers people were French Jugenots. My father is of Italian descent.
I missed the performance of Obama you were speaking of, I’ll have to look it up. I believe Obama to be a bit overconfident. He has been viewed as a prodigy and has become comfortable with the idea. The president also has been catered to and groomed by his mentors, many of socialist, Marxist or communist ideology. He is not used to, until fairly recently, detraction or criticism, and is defensive when challenged in the least. This I believe will eventually backfire. When he speaks extemporaneously, his tendency to be defensive is then noticeable. The GOP desperately needs a Cameron or Hannan to corner him in spontaneous debate, though Obama will seek to avoid that type of environment, with the help of the media.
You’re right about sarcasm and the motivation of it’s use, I’m guilty of it myself, though I usually direct it towards people in whom I can see no willingness to share common ground, even then, it serves no particular purpose other than personal amusement, occaisionally tickling a few others. I’ll endeavor to decrease my level of sarcasm and be a bit more serious. Thanks for keeping me on track big sister.
Cordially
May 11th, 2009 at 11:30 pm
It’s really a shame that the Obama administration can’t even make accurate predictions about the largest economy in the world. It’s only 13,000,000,000,000 dollars! Also, I am glad that you pointed out that human beings can make mistakes, Glenn, even when it comes to predicting the effects of something as common as a 787 billion dollar stimulus bill. Who does Obama think he’s fooling when he can’t bring down the rate of unemployment back down to a normal level in a third of the time it took to rise to what it is now? You truly amaze me with your obviously superior knowledge of the economy. You put Obama’s fancy-pants, “college graduate” economists with their elitist “degrees” to shame. He should have asked YOU how to fix the economy, not those socialist “experts” of his, it would have saved us all a lot of time that could have been spent figuring out how to solve the real crisis: removing the socialist agents in the White House that have cleverly disguised themselves as a successful black lawyer and his wife and two children. There may not be any proof of your secret police force and Islamic loyalties, Mr. Obama, but the barren spot on your lapel where a flag pin should be says differently. These insane policies of Obama’s will be reversed when the rationally minded, level headed conservatives take back Liberty, Freedom, and the American Way from the sickeningly generous hands of the thinly veiled liberal atheists that secretly force their immoral policies on us through their subliminal propaganda broadcast through the collusive media.
May 12th, 2009 at 6:13 am
…: Ho! Ha Ha! Jab! Parry, thrust, slash! Evade, touch, cut, SPIN! Dash away…whoooah!
Jolly good show! I said I was going to be more serious. Baby steps, then.
May 12th, 2009 at 8:46 am
I can’t believe what’s happened here regarding the expensegate scandal.. A number of Conservative MPs have now been alleged to have abused the parliamentary expense system, just as a number of Labour MPs are alleged to have done.
There haven’t been any allegations about David Cameron - and I sincerely hope that none will emerge, I would be surprised if they do, although there have been allegations made against PM Brown and his expense claims. That’s no reason to gloat though, as this scandal is obviously undermining trust in the Conservative party once again, just as it has already further undermined public trust in PM Brown, the parliamentary Labour Party and our government.
All of those whose expense claims have been exposed by the Telegraph claim to have acted within the rules, however the rules require MPs to claim only those items necessary for their jobs as MPs and some of these expense claims have been for luxury or frivolous items: taxpyer funded flat cleaners, garderners, a moat cleaning, a chandelier, tampons (no, I am not joking) and price enhancing house renovations before the MP owners sell up, making stonking great profit, then buy another house and claim for that too. Regardless of whether the actions of these people were within the rules or not, abusing the spirit of the regulations and the public purse as some have down is downright immoral.
We, in UK are, of course, extremely angry with our politicians as a result of this scandal. Not least because there are clearly two systems of law in UK, one for politicians who, time and again, escape the consequences of their rule breaches, and another system for the rest of, who in zanu labour’s Britain are heavily penalised for even those offences which most would regard as trivial.
The net result is that the Conservatives and Labour are now both falling in the opinion polls, Labour are on 26% and Conservatives on 36% approval ratings in the most recent poll I’ve seen. I can’t believe, it, I just can’t, the Conservatives were doing brilliantly. Twelve long, miserable years of zanulabour obviously sin’t long enough for those greedy wretches.
Cameron has worked so hard to overcome the Nasty Party image that the Conservative party had and some of his own greedy, idiot MPs go and do this to him. He has applied very tough discipline in the past to all MPs who engaged in misconduct, by ‘removing the party whipp from them’, thereby ousting them from the party or sacking them from senior roles. This tight discipline Cameron has maintained has been one of the secrets of his success in transforming his party’s image and in turning his party into a disciplined fighting machine. That discipline has, however, now clearly broken down in respect of some of his MP’s expenses.
Cameron has said that he might discipline some MPs. I just pray that he does and that he does this quickly, following a very rapid investigation of the circumstances of the claims. In that way he might just salvage his party’s credibility.
I’m still not able to post to this blog from my home PC, I need to ask my daughter, who is a computer whiz, to have a look at why this might be.
I suppose the one glimmer of hope in this mess is that if Cameron does discipline the Conservative MPs who have breached the spirit of the rules and of ethical conduct, Brown can hardly reciprocate by discipling any of his own MPs because there are serious questions about his own conduct - and the Prime Minister is hardly going to discipline himself, is he?
May 12th, 2009 at 8:49 am
Good to see someone in a high spirits, Antistatist, I wish some of this would filter through to me, I am one miserble person today.
May 12th, 2009 at 11:35 am
English Rose, I’m sorry you’re feeling down today, sis. I’ll try to find something to cheer you up. I can’t abide any sister of mine walking around in a blue funk, incidentally, you are largely responsible for my good spirits. I’m at work so I could’nt read your entire post. Will reply later, hope your day improves from here!
Cordially
May 12th, 2009 at 11:58 am
Antistatist: David Cameron kicks Conservative butts. Yes!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8046530.stm
•Shadow Cabinet Ministers will repay excess money claimed for their second homes
•In future his MPs will only be allowed to claim for rent, utility bills and council tax
•MPs now obliged to post expense claims on their websites as they make them
•A new panel with power to force repayment and expel Conservative MPs will police Conservative MPs’ expense claims
May 12th, 2009 at 12:08 pm
When Rush Limbaugh stated that he wants Obama’s SOCIALIST Policies to fail , Rahm Emanuel expressed his extreme dislike for those remarks (but did Not deny the charge of Socialism). Recently , Michael Moore Supporter, Wanda Sykes, suggested that Rush Limbaugh should be tried for “Treason” for his remarks (which carries a very harsh punishment).
Note: Some Media, Hollywood, & some Democrats have went ‘Out of their Way’ to portray Al-Qaeda Terrorists as Victims (60 minute interview to Al Qaeda, D-Patrick Leahy, Fraudulent ‘torture’ allegation, Release of CIA interrogation methods , ETC.) in a Made Up Hollywood/Media Story , according to other news reporters.
May 12th, 2009 at 1:48 pm
English Rose, there’s the ol’ spunk! No audio at work so I’ll have to view the video at home. I’ll still post something I hope will cheer you up further. Try to get some sound rest if you can; I’ve been burning the midnight oil a bit too often myself. Until then, sis. I’ve lost count of the 1001 nights, but will remember our first conversations, always.
Cordially
May 12th, 2009 at 1:58 pm
Anistatist: How sweet, thank you. What is “ol’ spunk”? - no, on second thoughts, don’t answer that. ;O)
May 12th, 2009 at 2:03 pm
Antistatist: I can post to Stu Blog from home again now. Odd that I couldn’t for a time, my daughter may have fiddled about with my PC and changed the settings.
May 12th, 2009 at 3:07 pm
English Rose, so glad you are able to post from your cottage again! There are no negative connotations associated with “spunk”, it has to do with spirit, moxie, steadfast determination, similar, I think, to “pluck”, “bottom’, assertiveness and so forth. By the way, could you explain what is meant by the “zanu Labour” party?
Cordially
May 12th, 2009 at 4:18 pm
Antistatist, I should actually have spelled it as ‘Zanu-Labour’, but I’m a sloppy writer. It’s one of our nicknames, here in England, for New Labour and arises partly from a pun or play on words: The New Labour party becomes Za Nu Labour party. It’s also an allusion to the horribly authoritarian ZANU-PF (Zimbabwe African National Union – Patriotic Front) led by that self obsessed, lunatic dictator Robert Mugabe, whose insane power lust, vanity and greed has destroyed his country’s economy and the lives of his countrymen and women. For some inexplicable reason, PM Brown’s down trodden serfs in England seem to recognise a parallel between ourselves and the poor, enslaved people forced to live under that rotter, Mugabe.
May 12th, 2009 at 4:29 pm
English Rose, thank you, now I understand. I don’t know much about Mugabe, though what I’ve heard is not favorable. Is he in the class of an Idi Amin? If so, the libs are probably fond of him. There I go again with the sarcasm. This may prove a difficult task. Please, be patient with me?
Got to prepare supper for the children, and then, heaven help me, bath time. I’ll post back with something you can read tomorrow. Goodnight sis.
Cordially
May 12th, 2009 at 4:49 pm
“Is he [Mugabe] in the class of an Idi Amin?” (Antistatist)
Yes, and even worse. He is evil. Night, Antistatist
May 12th, 2009 at 9:34 pm
English Rose, I spent a lot of time on a post but it did’nt go through, sorry. I’ve got to sleep, I’m driving to the mountains again in the morning. Here’s this for a laugh, however:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTNe_uJ4cnU
I think Bliar/Bottler Brown and Obama fill the role of Prince John, who would you cast as Sir Hiss?
May 13th, 2009 at 4:32 am
Glenn needs to talk about this:
http://market-ticker.denninger.net/
May 13th, 2009 at 6:17 am
English Rose, off to L’Amour’s far blue mountains, I’ll think of you if I happen to see any sticks of rock.
Cordially
May 13th, 2009 at 7:59 am
Antistatist,
A very good author. He puts historic fact into his fiction. I’ve read all but 7 or 8 of his books and plan to read them all. He has written a few that weren’t westerns also. Read haunted mesa if you want a good read that isn’t exactly a western.
May 13th, 2009 at 8:45 am
Just wanted to drop a note to English Rose and thank her for her insightful inside dope on the expense scandal in the UK.
You know, when this story broke I knew in my gut that conservative and liberal PMs would be equally guilty. The cookie jar is large and there are a lot of hands. But, as Rose so accurately made clear, it would be the REACTION to the scandal that would/could be the most interesting aspect of the scandal.
Thanks, Rose.
May 13th, 2009 at 8:50 am
Joe:
I’m not surprised you have such good taste in literature. I grew up on L.L’Amour and Max Brand, a particular favorite. A few years back I bought a hardcover collection of Zane Grey for PENNIES and have been catching up on the “classics” at the rate of one or two a year.
May 13th, 2009 at 10:20 am
Ray,
I have been picking up the hardback editions of L’Amour at our local second hand book store for 3.00 a piece. I now have 12 of them and counting. I also read Cook, Koontz, and Dale Brown. I read flight of the old Dog a few months ago and am getting ready to start Fatal Terrain. He’s a very good author if you like books that keep your attention.
May 13th, 2009 at 10:43 am
Thanks for the suggestion. I go through phases in my reading, but “cowboy books,” as my dad called them, are a constant. A couple years back I read several books by the late Alistair MacLean (Guns of Navarone, Where Eagles Dare, Ice Station Zebra for example). Like movies, music, cars and Scotch, the old stuff is often the best.
May 13th, 2009 at 1:58 pm
If Universal Health care passes and its going to effect seniors in a very negative way, THEN Obama better be kissing HIS old people goodbye too, ie. his old aunt and his old mother-in-law!!!! And his ancient Kenyan relatives.
May 13th, 2009 at 2:11 pm
Antistatist. I imagine you’re having a wonderful time in your far blue mountains. Good for you!
In answer to your question, my choice for UK’s hissy can be no other than: the man Tony Benn called one of the most powerful men in Europe, though he’s never been elected ~ former (unelected) EU Trade Commissioner ~ now (unelected) member of the UK government and British Minister for Trade ~ the architect of New Labour and Tony Blair’s former spin doctor ~ known across the length and breadth of Britain as “The Prince of Darkness” and “Mandy”: Peter Mandelson.
And this is, loosely, what one very brave girl called Leila did to Mandy:
She stood outside
The Cimate Change Conference
Where he drank champagne
Just like it’s cherry ale, la!
L-L-L-Leila!
He drove up
In his gas guzzling Jensen car
With his power dressed smile
Til he caught the eye of Leila
L-L-L-Leila
Then she walked up to him
and she took her chance
He said: “Who, why wassup?”
She said. “I’m Leila
And this is custard you failure
From L-L-L-Leila!”
Well, she’s not the world’s most physical girl
But when she sprayed
green custard all over Mandy
He said, “Heya!”
“That’s for the third runway, huh?
From L-L-L-Leila?”
If he’d have listened
To the people, hey!
Then Mandy would never have
Got in the way of, Leila!
She’s going down in history
For helping to set the English free
Is Leila,
The green custard campaigner
L-L-L-Leila!
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/daniel_hannan/blog/2009/05/12/i_still_cant_find_a_single_labour_voter_gordon_brown_is_finished
May 13th, 2009 at 2:14 pm
I posted a link to the wrong video, this should have been the one to go with my last post, sorry about that
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKqPEWTJC-I
May 13th, 2009 at 3:51 pm
English Rose, priceless annointing of Mandelson. If someone did that to Rahm Emannuel or AG Eric Holder, my top picks for Sir Hiss, the libs would probably recant on their position regarding capital punishment. Very clever and funny twist on The Kinks’ Lola! I enjoyed that very much, thank you. The other link was a good one, a possible future point of rendezvous if we are unable to chat via Stu and Glenn, much gratitude to both of them.
Cordially
May 13th, 2009 at 4:04 pm
Ray, Thank you for your comments.
The tough disciplinary action that David Cameron took against his MPs whose expenses have been criticised (see the link I posted on 12/5 at 11.58 pm, above) has been widely praised on the UK blogs and in the press (even by some of the Labour or Liberal supporting press) here and has been favourably contrasted with Prime Minister Brown’s failure to take any disciplinary action. As we’ve come to expect of our weak - and growing weaker by the day - Prime Minister, Brown simply launches yet another committee to recommend action which, even if it has a hope of effectiveness, even if it does not prove to be a whitewash, on past form will never be properly put into effect by Brown.
As UK’s top blogger, Guido Fawkes states, Brown’s deputy PM has written to the expenses Committee “proposing that he should set out a procedure whereby MPs might perhaps be asked nicely to repay claims that were outside the rules. Possibly.”
Cameron, however, has unequivocally told those of his MPs whose expenses were questionable to repay the amounts concerned or they’re out. He has also put in place a tough and detailed regulatory framework for all of his MPs to abide by in future if they wish to remain in the Conservative party.
As Steve Richards stated in the, Liberal supporting, Independent newspaper today:
“Cameron moved with speed and dexterity yesterday. Increasingly, he reminds me of Blair in opposition, and I do not mean that as an insult. Blair was a brilliant Leader of the Opposition. By 4pm yesterday, Cameron had shifted the focus to his response in the same way that Blair would have done, with an apology that went further than the one delivered by Gordon Brown, and measures that included Shadow Cabinet members paying back the cash for some of the dodgy claims.
It was a highly effective performance, recognising which boxes needed to be ticked and ticking them. Not surprisingly, it was announced shortly afterwards that Labour whips were in similar discussions with their MPs. No one can accuse Brown and Labour of setting the agenda effectively on this one…Cameron did what needed to be done yesterday. If the measures were rushed, he had no choice but to be speedy.”
May 13th, 2009 at 4:52 pm
Joe H, L’Amour is one of my favorites, I love his Western stories, but my favorites are non-Western. I learned recently, from National Review, that some of my favorites of L’Amour were also the favorites of Reagan, such as “The Walking Drum” and “The Lonesome Gods.”
Ronaldus Magnus bestowed the Medal of Freedom upon Louis L’Amour shortly before the author died. L’Amour was a Reagan Democrat, proving the sweeping difference between Liberals and Democrats.
May 13th, 2009 at 5:10 pm
Joe H, I do have “Haunted Mesa”, but have yet to read it. You should read his Sackett series, starting with “Sackett’s Land”, it begins in Southeast England( where Rose hails from) circa 1600 and follows Barnabas Sackett to the New World, tracing his descendents across the mountains to the Western frontier, ending, after 17 books, in the late 1800’s.
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Ray, thanks for mentioning the author of ‘Where Eagles Dare”. It’s a favorite movie of mine from years back and I should like to read the book, which is probably better.
May 13th, 2009 at 6:09 pm
Antistatist, what’s your view of Rahm Emannuel? All I know of him is a series of impressions which are probably misconceptions. He’s interesting. Clearly a very accomplished man. He’s the Dem’s fund-raiser? Am I correct in thinking that it was Rahm, in his days as a Democrat policy wonk, who came up with the universal healthcare concept? I imagine he was influenced in that respect by his upbringing and parents - and Bill Clinton?. I wonder if he’s honed any of his ideas via British Labour party contacts? Is all the hype that surrounds him true, do you think? He seems to have impressed Nancy Pelosi.
For some reason he reminds me of one of zanu labour’s former policy wonks who was promoted to a government minister’s job at quite a young age: David Miliband. Miliband is often in America and seems to be good pals with Condi Rice. He was nicknamed ‘Brains’ when he worked for Blair because he looked and behaved disconcertingly like Brains in Thunderbirds. Miliband was a super clever prodigy type, accomplished and popular with female voter. His father, a famous Marxist author, wove some useful working class mythology around himself and some of this socialist glitter has rubbed off on David Miliband, perhaps aiding his career prospects.
Miliband was once viewed as a likely successor for Gordon Brown. He was, however, perhaps a little too clever for his own good as he may have messed up his leadership bid by allowing his vanity to lead him to misjudge when to break out of the pack. There was a famous photographic lampoon of him with a droopy banana which he may never recover from. Shy, retiring, super clever types often turn out to have overactive egos which, once unleashed, can be their downfall. It may only be a question of which gets to them first, their egos or the back stabbing of their rivals and enemies.
May 13th, 2009 at 7:03 pm
English Rose, is it thursday already? Good grief! This is a piece I wrote back in march, it’s a bit angry, so, I hope it does’nt put you off. I suspect you’ll find my anger justified, however. If I wrote it over with perspective, I would probably take a different tone.
2/03/09
“This morning while commuting to work I noticed a bumper sticker that I had not previously seen. It was not the usual liberal tripe, such as ‘FREE TIBET!’ or ‘KEEP YOUR LAWS OFF MY BODY!’, no, this one stated ‘DARWIN LOVES YOU!’ This decal, I assume, is directed towards people who hold Judeo-Christian values dear to their hearts. These are the people that liberal professors and their pseudo-intellectual students sneer at for being backward-looking, ideologically effete people, Heaven-bent on forcing our ‘oppressive’ moral standards on others having more ‘progressive’ moral and social views.
While some Darwinists are believers, I’ll have to assume that this college student is not; by replacing the customary ‘GOD LOVES YOU!’ decal with the ‘DARWIN LOVES YOU!’ sticker she is thumbing her nose at believers, as if to say ‘Never mind God, Darwinism is where it’s at!’
I’m terribly afraid that this young ‘progressive’ considers people of Judeo-Christian faith intolerant. Why? Because they don’t believe in homosexual marriage? Because they don’t believe in the murder of children via abortion? Because they believe Americans should speak English and pay taxes? Because they don’t want to read the Q’uran to better understand the people who attacked our country and killed our citizens?
This young aspiring liberal, er, I mean, ‘progressive’, should consider the level of tolerance exibited by some members of Muslim faith. In many Muslim countries, homosexuals are executed, adultresses are stoned to death, and women may not even show their faces or leave their residences without escort(breast enhancement? Hah!) for fear of being publicly beaten and humiliated. If she labels Jews and christians intolerant, or archaic, she should not deprive herself of an educational experience easily had. She should venture down to the local Mosque and tell the Muslims there to forake Allah and Muhammad, and embrace Darwinism, noting that ‘Darwin loves you’. I suppose her reception would be less than warm,
but I’m quite sure she would leave with her head still attached, if more than a little disillusioned. If she tried this in Crapistan, however, she and her little ’skull full of mush’ would expeditiously part ways. Tolerance?”
I remain disturbed at the growing number of people in this country who want nothing whatsoever to do with the beliefs this country was founded upon. I am not encouraged when Obama declares to the world that we are not a Christian nation. We certainly are not exclusively Christian, but a brief glance at the crosses at Arlington cemetary in Washington will prove the brave men who made the ultimate sacrifice for their country were predominately of Judeo-Christian faith. Our most basic liberty is God given. The Founding Fathers new that. The fact that a country founded on these beliefs was catapulted to greatness unsurpassed by said beliefs can be ignored only to our peril, and the worlds’.”
Do you see a similar shift towards atheism in the UK? Silly question, I suppose, but I would very much like to have your take on this; if you would be so kind?
Cordially
May 13th, 2009 at 7:22 pm
English Rose, Did’nt see your query about Emannuel before my last post. I’ll be glad to tell you what I know of “Rahmbo”, mailer of dead fish to pollsters, and Obama’s COS, tomorrow. I spent nearly 8 hours traveling today and I’m wrecked. Thank you for your fascinating description of David Miliband. I enjoy imagining your voice before I sleep. I sometimes make my friends or children laugh by telling jokes with a English accent. I’m not good at it, but they think it hysterical.
Cordially
May 14th, 2009 at 10:47 am
I have been unemployed since the first of febuary,I’m a licensed plumber for massachusetts,and still can not find a job,and it is now may 14th, not only that, I don’t have enough fingers and toes to count how many people I personally know who are in the same position,this administration has done nothing thus far to help the economy get back on it’s feet,but every day we here that things are starting to get a little better,I would like to know where,I don’t see it at all,we just built a new strip mall in our town 2 month’s ago and allready two of the four stores have closed due to no one shopping,I believe we are deeper into this recession”DEPRESSION” is what I would call it,and is going to get worse before it gets better,we the american people are being lied to by this administration about how bad things really are,but would rather lie to cover it up due to uneducated failing policies that they have presented so far,with hundreds of thousand new jobless claims each month how due they expect that things are going to get better,the people that have allready been laid off aren’t back to work and are on they way to being bankrupt themselves,so aslong asthe unemployment rate stay’s up there is no light at the end of the tunnel,but a big black cloud of uncertainly that is going to shadow us for some time to come,”BY THE WAY HERE IN MASSACHUSETTS WE ARE GIVING OUT “FREE” CARS WITH OUR STIMMULAS MONEY, WHAT ARE THEY DOING WITH OUR MONEY IN YOUR STATE!
May 14th, 2009 at 3:28 pm
Antistatist: Our government and a small faction of atheists - who believe they punch above their weight by virtue of their over-representation in the press and media and consequent hegemonic grip on our country - claim that Christianity is in decline on these islands and that total secularisation is inevitable here.
Unfortunately for them, hard facts belie their claims. During our last census, some 72% of the people of Britain stated that they are Christians. Although some 66% of our population are not members of any church in the formal sense, during zabu labour’s 12 years too long experiment with state capitalism - or pseudo-socialist dictatorship - many of us here have turned away from the established church on account of our measly Bishops. Notable among these is Dr Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury and, so he believes, leader of the Church of England. What sort of - New Labourish - Bishop is it who appears unable to decide whether or not he believes in God? And what sort of Christian Bishop would propose the acceptance of Sharia law in Britain? You’ve got it, our Dr Williams does. What a plonker this man is. No one twits him more than this stupid Archbishop repeatedly twits himself. One word from this miserable specimen of a churchman is enough to make every English person sympathise with rotten King Henry II’s plea: “Will no one rid us of this meddlesome priest?”
Thank goodness, our wonderful Archbishop of York, smiling Nigerian, Dr John Sentamu will rid us of rubbish Rowan…in time.
May 14th, 2009 at 3:37 pm
And what a treasure John Sentamu is One of his Sermons:
“Englishness is back on the agenda.”
“One of the consequences of the recent attacks by so called “home grown terrorists” has been to ask the question of what it means to be English? Can there be a narrative, an identity that we can all share, flexible enough to recognize the new aspects of England whilst remaining authentic enough to proudly name and recognize England’s own history? Where there is no awareness of identity, there is a vacuum to be filled. Dissatisfaction with one’s heritage creates an opening for extremist ideologies.
Whether it be the terror of salafi-jihadism or the insidious institutional racism and bigotry of the British National Party, there are those who stand ready to fill the vacuum with a sanitised identity and twisted vision, if the silent majority are reticent in holding back from forging a new identity. When hateful and vile slogans are shouted at returning soldiers as they march through our towns, Joe and Jane public should gather in large numbers to demonstrate peaceably that such bigotry has no place in England’s green and pleasant land.
To be patriotic, is to appreciate and be grateful for all that is valuable in the country you live in. It does not require you to be a xenophobe or a blinkered nationalist.
The failure to recognize and to appreciate the goodly heritage of one’s country of residence is a sign of an all-round ingratitude. Ingratitude in turn breeds cynicism. As Oscar Wilde had it in Lady Windermere’s Fan, “A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing”. A cynic has no obligations, only criticisms.
The American member of the Sojourner community, Jim Wallis, on a recent visit to the UK warned: “Hope or cynicism, that’s the choice facing your society”.
Sociologists tell us that children of dual heritage, whose parents have blood from different continents running through their veins, are being born more than ever before in this country’s history. Is it not the greatest of ironies that for such children, the heritage of a parent who may be from a commonwealth country may be easier to identify or signify than the one belonging to the land into which they are born?
Some English people don’t like to say anything about their heritage, for fear of upsetting newcomers. My question to them is simple: Why do you think we came here? There is something very attractive about the United Kingdom. That is why people stay! As a boy in Uganda, I was taught by British missionaries. Just as foreigners brought the Christian Faith to England and the rest of the UK, so British foreigners handed on the baton to me, my family and my forebears. I am grateful, and I say a big thank you to all your forebears who risked their lives in coming to my country, bringing the medicine of the Gospel, health, education and good governance.
All I am doing now is to remind the English of what they taught me.
Let us recognise collectively the enormous treasure that sits in our cultural and spiritual vaults. Let’s draw upon the riches of our heritage and find a sense of purpose for those who are thrashing around for meaning and settling for second best. Let us not forego our appreciation of an English identity for fear of upset or offence to those who claim such an identity has no place in a society; where there are people of other cultures and religions present. Englishness is not diminished by newcomers who each bring with them a new strand to England’s fabric, rather Englishness is emboldened to grow anew. The truth is that an all embracing England, confident and hopeful in her own identity, is something to celebrate. Let us acknowledge and enjoy the gift of Englishness.
Let us be confident in the truth behind the words of that song which is sung with such gusto at the last night of the Proms:
Land of Hope and Glory, Mother of the Free,
How shall we extol thee, who are born of thee?
Wider still and wider shall thy bounds be set;
God, who made thee mighty, make thee mightier yet.
God, who made thee mighty, make thee mightier yet.
And so, please stand and join me in singing Jerusalem
And did those feet in ancient time
Walk upon England’s mountains green?
And was the holy Lamb of God
On England’s pleasant pastures seen?
And did the Countenance Divine
Shine forth upon our clouded hills?
And was Jerusalem builded here
Among these dark Satanic Mills?
Bring me my bow of burning gold,
Bring me my arrows of desire
Bring me my spear O clouds unfold
Bring me my chariot of fire
I shall not cease from endless fight
Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand
Till we have built Jerusalem
In England’s green and pleasant land”
Go, Sentamu! Don’t you just love him?
May 14th, 2009 at 4:03 pm
English Rose, that was tremendous! What an inspiring sermon!
” Can there be a narrative, an identity that we can all share, flexible enough to recognize the new aspects of England whilst remaining authentic enough to proudly name and recognize England’s own history?” This is a question that needs to be answered in America, correction, the answer to this question needs to be reversed, President Obama has just stated “we are not a Christian nation.”
I’ll have something on Emmanuel for you after I have the kids in bed, my daughter is in my lap at the moment and it’s rather difficult to type.
Cordially
May 14th, 2009 at 4:50 pm
Antistatist: President Obama is a clever man. I hope that he will think on what happened to Tony Blair, the divisive Prime Minister whose spokesman, when asked if Blair was religious, said: “We don’t do God!” And even more telling, the fate of Prime Minister Brown who betrays his own professed faith all the time. Brown claims to govern for “the many, not the few”, yet the greed with which he snatches at taxpayer funded expenses and his divisive policies make it all too clear who Brown really governs for: the few in his party and himself. Divisiveness is no way to govern a country, Pres Obama must unite Americans, not divide you.
John Sentamu mentioned the last Night of the Proms in the sermon I’ve just posted. He forgot to mention another of our national songs that’s always sung During the annual Proms at the Royal Albert Hall in London: Rule Britannia. We in UK don’t even rule our own country at present thanks to our traitorous Prime Minister and the EU. Our national spirit, however, has not been extinguished and we’re taking our country and freedom back at the next election.
So, listen up Prime Minister Brown, this is the sound of your and New Labour’s doom approaching:
“Rule Britannia, Britannia rules the waves
Britons, never, never, never shall be slaves!”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDE3yavXs-A
May 14th, 2009 at 5:32 pm
English Rose, thank you for the link, I’ll have to watch it again, my daughter is asleep so I could’nt play it loudly. Obama is indeed clever, bit he is no true unifier. He spent most of his life under the tutelage of people ideologically antithetical to the American founding princlples. He is a mountebank, selling snake oil, and thinking people are’nt buying.
May 14th, 2009 at 6:14 pm
Joe, Antistatist, English Rose:
I guess I’m something of a troll, because I frequently read the posts on these pages but seldom add anything. But I feel like the guy at the dinner party who is enjoying the conversation and doesn’t feel it necessary to contribute. I might feel tempted to reply more often were your posts not so illuminating. You know me well enough by now to know my particular pet peeve is the unfortunate lack of civility and manners in politics today. Otherwise, I’m content to read — and enjoy — your terrific posts.
It was fun to take a break for a post or two and discuss literature. That was fun.
That said, I return you now to your regularly scheduled blog. Thank you and good night, buds.
May 14th, 2009 at 7:05 pm
Ray,
Feel free to contribute anytime. I’m a guy who quit school in 10th grade for the service, got my GED while in, and went to college for an associates in welding tech later. I’m not as eloquent as Antistatist or English Rose, but I get my point across. Thank the good lord for spell-check.
May 14th, 2009 at 7:12 pm
English Rose,
Watch that antistatist, Just when things are going along fine he cuts to the bone, the little whipper snapper!!!LOL
May 14th, 2009 at 7:28 pm
Spell check! I love it! Who DOESN’T need help now and then?
Absolutely perfect response, Joe.
Notice in the last several posts we’ve seen poetry, and moving verse at that. And I loved Anti’s recent reply to Rose, complete with a graceful “Cordially.”
What a great blog.
May 14th, 2009 at 7:59 pm
Ray, thanks, and do chime in anytime.
Joe H, you know I was only trying to demonstrate that the encroachment of liberalism and statism upon freedom and capitalism is nothing new; you’re like an uncle, not a grandfather. I have two uncles about your age.
May 14th, 2009 at 8:23 pm
Thanks, gentlemen.
I like what you said about Obama being a NON-unifier, Anti. I agree. I think he’s clearly more gifted verbally than Geo. W., and it’s impossible to underestimate that leadership intangible. Still, aside from some Republicans who clearly leaned in that direction anyway, I don’t think he’s shown any ability to … unify … yet.
What I want to see is a year down the road. Every president in my lifetime drifts to the middle after a year in the White House. I don’t think Obama will be an exception. Once the “weight” of the office settles on his shoulders (and I think we see it starting already; witness the decision about the torture photos) I think he may even shake off many of those early influences, too. Then you might see some of that unification. Maybe.
Thoughts?
May 14th, 2009 at 9:26 pm
English Rose, put together a long post on Emanuel and dast it all the site crashed. Ah, well, c’est la vie. I’ll try again tomorrow. Here’s a clip of the klingon at least:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mzcbXi1Tkk
Thanks again for your great post on Sentamu, and for the video.
Cordially
May 15th, 2009 at 5:26 am
Ray,
My thoughts about the photos, and I have given a lot of thought about it are, that O-man wanted to bring out the photos but to make him look more concerned about our troops, he’s going to let the ACLU challenge his decision in court and hope they win and the photos will come out anyway.
May 15th, 2009 at 6:19 am
Ray, Joe H, I think the whole thing was a ruse to begin with. It was payback to the activists for their work in getting him elected, it would also serve to absolve Obama of responsibility should another attack occur in our country. They would say the tactics of Bush instigated it
His latest recant is surely backed by ulterior motives.
May 15th, 2009 at 5:09 pm
English Rose, Rahm Emanuel is certainly an intelligent and accomplished individual, his drive and commitment are admirable qualities, but his considerable talents are misdirected, the equivolent of the latest, most technologically advanced weapon of destruction, with errant coordinates fed into it’s guidance apparatus. The true target? America as we know and love it.
“Let us not waste a good crisis.” Emanuel’s explanation seems reasonable, superficially. I am not encouraged in the least by a pack of liberal activists, like wolves falling upon a stag with a shattered leg, rushing in to eviscerate the founding principles of America, which were not responsible for this chaos the nation, and indeed the world, is experiencing. Obama, Emanuel, and their rabble of malcontents are using this window of opportunity to move on the agenda the statist has envisioned for generations.
They speak of “fair and simplistic” tax reform. Is it fair that in 2006 the top 10% of taxable income earners paid 74% of the entire tax revenue, the bottom 50% contributing 2.97%? They will raise taxes on anyone earning >250k annually, and give “tax cuts” to those who contribute zilch, zero, nada. The current federal tax code is some 12,000 pages. I’m quite confident that it will be simplified by the Obama administration. Right. What the “tax and spend” liberals mean to say, simply, is “Give us all of your money, after all, we know far better how to spend it than you do, you commoner.”
Health care reform? They mean to socialise it. This has been the “excalibur” of the statist for decades. It, of couse will become a political prop, and our great healthcare system, the envy of the world, will crumble to ruin under the tribochets of the bueaucrats, hurling boulders at the fortress walls of common sense, until it is no more. Civil liberties will be trimmed, if not mercilessly hacked. Care will be substandard, as it has become everywhere socialized medicine has been implemented. And, of couse, taxes will be raised to pay for it. Who will pay? The people who have exibited prudence and responsibility, who else?
Education reform? The president and staff will pour funds into a system proven to be faulty. The state will have more operative control than ever, further diminishing the rights of parents. Judeo-Christian values will be tread upon as if doormats for the “enlightened”, and students will be further indoctrinated with multi-culturalism, further injected with the insidious “progressive” ideology, and American pride will be attenuated to near breaking point. It has already become, among many of our young students, so thin as to be analogous to a single strand of a spider’s web; sufficiently pliable to serve it’s most basic of purposes, ensnaring the occaisional moth, providing meager substanance, albeit weak enough to be sundered by a hard rain or an irregular breeze. What of dropout rates and standardised testing scores? A bothersome triviality.
Energy reform? Vast supplies of fossil fuels within our reach will remain untapped, and alternative sources will be pursued with “Panglossian” optimism. Industry will be hamstung with regulations, “Cap and Trade” and “Carbon Credit” initiatives will produce disastrous consequences, as all ventures lacking in prudence do, eventually. Civil liberties will once again be in the cross-hairs of the statist with the itchy trigger finger. Meanwhile, China, Russia, and India wiil take advantage of American passivity, and futher industrialise, enjoying the fruits of their labor, as Americans did before the became mired in the quicksand which leads to the sinkhole of slipshod imbecility. Man-made Global Warmibg, excuse me, global climate change, is, next to Satan’s triumph of convincing some that he does’nt exist, the greatest lie ever told. Good intentions? Satan loves them, unfulfilled.
The fifth area of reform addressed by Emanuel, as he put it is “financial regulatory overhaul”. I cannot, under any circumstances, at present, mention transparency and accountablity, and in the same sentence, associate these terms with a liberal politician without wretching, oh, dear,………excuse me, yes, well , as Rahm Emanuel was on the board of directors overseeing “Freddie Mac”, the failed government assisted home loan corporation, the very idea of accountability, as it relates to him personally, is comedic. Transparency? The $700,000,000,000+ stimulus bill was passed without being read by most of the members of congress who voted on it; the American people certainly never laid eyes on it. Obama stated that the people would be able to view the proverbial “receipts” of their tax dollars spent “line by line”. So much for that.
The statist is on course to accomplish his collective goals, the ones unstated. Seizing power and control, sappers have begun work on the tunnels undermining the founding principles. The runaway locomotive full of lead barreling towards socialism, unwitting passengers aboard, is moving too quickly for them to step off. The resulting collision will limit economic freedom, without which, there can be no true freedom.
New ideas are not what is needed. A return to the founding principles is the antidote for the sickness this country is gripped by. They have been perverted by the statist, beginning before many of us were born. Now the statist seeks to annihilate them once and for all. We must have FAITH, not HOPE, if they are to be thwarted, and we must be armed with knowledge of history, and we must pray that God allows us to find our courage and act, while there is still time.
That was bloody depressing. What is what. My next post will be positive. I could use bath after that one, dwelling on libs makes me feel unclean!
Cordially
May 15th, 2009 at 5:38 pm
The left wing admistration is nothing but a JOKE… they can’t hit their ass with both hands!
May 15th, 2009 at 6:28 pm
I think my “r” key is sticking from whatever my kids have sloshed on the keyboard, and I was too lazy to proof read: of COURSE, BUREAUCRATS, GLOBAL WARMING
May 15th, 2009 at 7:54 pm
Antistatist,
Yeah right blame it on the computer. A computer is only as good as the person using it!!! There now we’re even!!!! LOL
May 15th, 2009 at 8:02 pm
you know I just had a thought. The title of this column should be Pass The Stimulus And Unemployment will never go above 8% And 10 Other Fairy Tales!!!!!
May 15th, 2009 at 8:39 pm
Yeah, or “Vote the Romulans in and they will unify us in intolerance” and other cleverly deceitful tales. The madcap adventures of the lying, stammering yenta, Nancy Pelosi, as she tries to pull a Billary concerning a CIA brief on torture but failed embarassingly, for instance.
May 15th, 2009 at 8:39 pm
Antistatist: Thank you for the video link and excellent analysis of Rahm Emanuel. Now I remember why Emanuel reminds me of our Foreign Secretary, David Miliband. I’ll have a look at this again when I’m more awake, I am so shattered from working ridiculously late tonight, so that I can take a week or so off…Zzzzzz…
May 15th, 2009 at 9:00 pm
English Rose, good grief, you are up late! I need to catch some z’s as well, my boys will wake me up early, hopefully not with a pan of cold water hurled on me, just jesting…I think.
Night sis.
May 16th, 2009 at 2:22 am
I’m sure this topic has morphed in 735 posts. But to the original post I say this. They are passing the tarp and bailouts and huge stimulating package because that is what federal governments do in a depressionary cycle. If you look at the record in all prior collapses, 2 phases… Government Rescue phase (it’s like get a bunch of drinks at last call on the house phase) before the Government capitulation phase (last call is over and we’re locking the doors, be safe and good luck all you losers who did not hook up before last call). Its always been that way in every major economic collapse… which is almost as natural as the sun being the source of global warming and global cooling. Maybe we should compare earths temp cycles to market cycles. What the heck? We could get a research grant, sit around and party while we take temps and write down the closing stock indexes. I’m ready to give up/in like that.
May 16th, 2009 at 2:55 am
I am going to unplug. I’m stopping watching Glenn, and just watch MTV, E, HBO, Showtime, ESPN, FX, Fox, not Fox News but Fox Bus News with their centerfolds like Liz Claman, etc. I’ll reluctantly listen to throaty Boortz in Atl now too but not Glenn now. Anything brain dead to the government and economy is what I want. Darn I wish I’d saved my money for a “Dexter” tee shirt or a “Rescue Me” ball cap or a “I watched the last episode of ER” commemorative plaque instead of buying all Glenn’s short shelf-life crap. “Drill through a Caribou!” What happened there? “Torches and Pitchforks?” Bet all those people would have kept those pitchforks they bought and sent to spread their mulch about now. Soon as I bought those shirts the storys faded… like the shirts after one wash Thought I was buying a Rubic’s Cube/Pet Rock equivalent or a “Greatful Dead tie die” equivalent. Multiple wears in public? Not so much. How about lasting slogans and recurring rally calls? Nope! Now we’re doing 9/12 project. Great. Like I am going to invest in that shirt and have to explain non-stop WTHeck it means. I’ve gpt your 2010 theme Glenn (team). Next year the theme should be “Only 2 more years and counting. The prophecied apocolypse”…. “Only a half of a year to get the shirt though… act fast so you can wear it before the actual apocolyplse.
May 16th, 2009 at 3:09 am
Hey! Can I get a “Get Medievel on Acorn’s Ass NOW!” shirt. Oh… darn… bet you guys are already copywriting that as you read this. Glenn. Stop being a revival preacher guy and do what you are now so easily poised to do. Throw away media stardom and RUN FOR OFFICE. Be the first to get elected who’s not from the Rupublican Party or the Democratic Party but is from the TEA PARTY. (Personally I think “Tea Bagger Party” has more longevity due to the double and triple entendres appealing to the Beavis and Butthead-South Parkers like me.) If you don’t you will have wasted the greatest opportunity to make a real difference. You’re a lock. Surely you can still do your show and be in Congress or the White House. If not then legislate that you can. Just call it Fireside in Chaps… I mean Fireside Chats. Doesn’t C-Span and NPR want better ratings?
May 16th, 2009 at 3:23 am
If Barrack Obama can pull this off… you can, Glenn. I say that with the small disclaimer that we need to see how the comedy tour does. But comedy tour, Christmas Sweater, Grease, Mama Mia??? You were in those right? You can do that job on Pennsylvania Ave better than the current or last 3 guys.
May 16th, 2009 at 3:30 am
Some time ago I bought the domain “BeckforPrez.com”. Was planning to gouge you for the rights as a payback for all those meaningless tea shirts I now wear to mow my lawn. “I’m clinging to my guns, religion, and my TORO.” But I will gladly give it up for nothing. I just reserved it when I thought about this over a year ago. All I want is for you to refund 40% for “Inconvenient Book”. 40% sucked. The other 60% though… Nobel-esque. Pretty good for baseball… not for President though. Stick to you honesty and transparency and you could be our next President. It’s an easy job… and you’re the last to die on earth. Pretty cool.
May 16th, 2009 at 6:55 am
Anti, Joe:
Won’t Sunday’s address at Notre Dame be interesting?
I strongly suspect there’s truth in what you say about the photos. I think you can question the motives of every decision by every politician. But clearly SOMETHING motivated Obama’s decision. It could be a toss to his activist buds or to the troops … but there’s a third element. I see the finger of CIA director Leon Panetta in this. Remember, he was one of the more moderate and temperate of Clinton’s followers. He always seemed reasonable when others in the Clinton administration were off the charts. Know what I mean? Anyway, I think it’s possible that Panetta went to Obama and explained how necessary it is to have a loyal and dedicated CIA.
May 16th, 2009 at 7:29 am
Ray,
I understand where you’re coming from but I still think the reversal came about as the damage had been started, he needed to look good to the troops and by letting the ALCU challenge his decision in court he looks good and the courts still order the release of the photos. That way he still gets what he wants and looks good at the same time!
May 16th, 2009 at 7:59 am
Ray, my best friends mother has a friend who is an alumni if Notre Dame and has pledged to stop contributing financially to the school, because Obama is being allowed to speak there, given his anti-life stance re:abortion.
Pelosi just accused members of the CIA of lying about a brief she attended on torture. CIA claims she knew of waterboarding and never raised an objection. The stammering yenta blathered incoherently from a written statement, claiming innocence. If she was telling the truth, Osama Bin Laden eats pigs feet. I’m interested to see how this turns out, it’s all so embarrassing, the Speaker of the House accusing the CIA of lying and vice versa. This projects weakness to our enemies.
May 16th, 2009 at 11:48 am
Why is Pres Obama withholding those photographs? I think he might be doing that for the very same reason he has appointed Rahm Emanuel. He’s doing exactly what Tony Blair did in order to get elected and to win a further term of office: he’s moving closer to the political centre. A president carrying on a communist style show trial is hardly going to achieve that, is he? In a few years time, one of your newspapers will doubtless carry a graphic showing a left right axis political allegiance, just as the pollster YouGov did for the Telegraph newspaper in 2004, and this will show that, just like Blair, Pres Obama will not only rated as Mr Average.
“ONE of the most memorable soundbites of Tony Blair’s seven years in office came right at the start of his premiership. He was, he said, “a pretty regular sort of guy”. Exactly how regular is now clear: an opinion poll shows that people see him as the perfect moderate. The poll, carried out by YouGov for the Daily Telegraph newspaper, asked people to rate themselves on a left-right axis, and to make the same judgment about several well-known politicians. The results confirm much of the received wisdom in British politics. Mr Blair is seen as the centrist face of a party that remains fairly socialist. Gordon Brown, Labour’s leader-in-waiting, is much further to the left, as is the rest of the party. Charles Kennedy, the Liberal Democrat leader, occupies a halfway point between Mr Blair and Mr Brown” (Daily Telegraph 2004)
Just as Blair drove New Labour to a ‘centrist, Third Way’ to electoral success in UK:
“It’s a truism in American politics at the end of the 20th century: Winning Presidential candidates run as centrists. George Bush in 1988 offered a ”kinder, gentler” Reaganism. Bill Clinton and Al Gore called themselves New Democrats who favored a ”third way” of governing that was neither liberal nor conservative.” (Businessweek)
In the process, of course, he will be trying to move the Republicans to the more extreme right, which is where I believe he wants you to be in the public’s perception.
May 16th, 2009 at 12:08 pm
David Swansoon co-founder of afterdowningstreet.com makes the same point about Obama’s desire to position himself in the centre and, in the process, Swanson perhaps inadvertently throws some light on Nancy Pelosi’s denials:
Swansons says that the Dems wanted the Iraq war to continue under Pres Bush - for their political benefit - as they believe this would damage the GOP’s chances of reelection and enhance the Dem’s electability. What the Dems did for three years, Swanson claims, was “to pretend to try to end the occupation of Iraq.”
Obama talks about bipartisanship, says Swanson, “yet he has got himself a pitbull to fight the Republicans” and in selecting Emanuel, has clearly picked the side he is coming down on: the centre right. Swanson speaks of Emanuel recruiting candidates to run against anti-war candidates in primaries and of the story of a republican who is pleased about Emanuel’s appointment because Emanuel’s job is “cracking the heads of Dems to move them from the left to the centre.”
I’m not sure that the Republican concerned should be so pleased about that; in hijacking the centre ground from the Republicans, Obama moves Republicans further to the right in the public’s perception and towards the ‘Nasty Party’, ‘Racist’ stereotypes he aims to glue to you, stereotypes which Blair glued to the British Conservatives so successfully and which kept them in the political wilderness for a decade.
I’m not, of course, arguing that Obama is abandoning his pseudo-socialist/ state capitalist aims or policies any more than UK’s zanu Labour did. Like Blair, Obama’s using a mixed policy approach to position himself as close to centre as he can get.
Just as Blair was said by the headmaster of his Scots public school, Fettes, to be the finest actor of his generation, perhaps Obama will prove to be one of America’s renowned comedians. All the time Blair was acting out his role of the smiling, ‘regular, straight sort of guy’ on the political centre, a massive, incremental…drip…drip..drip…transfer of power from people to (EU) State was going on in UK - to the point that the EU now makes 80% of UK’s laws.
So, it all boils down to sleight of hand and smoke and mirrors, yet what a clever trick it is that these snake oil salesmen conjurers pull on us, because we, the public, fall for it time and again - for a while.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wob2RGMSjtk
May 16th, 2009 at 12:12 pm
I definitely worked too late last night, in my post of 11.48 am:
“Pres Obama will not only rated as Mr Average”
Should be
Pres Obama will be rated as Mr Average
May 16th, 2009 at 12:33 pm
Ray, You are not a troll, if anyone’s trolling here it’s me, an Englishwoman with the bare faced cheek to discuss American politics on an American blog! Please have your say too, that’s what blogs are all about, people’s forums where the silent majority finally get a say. You have more right to post here than I do. I’m surprised that I haven’t yet been told to clear off and not to darken the mood in this small outpost of American popular democracy ever again.
May 16th, 2009 at 1:21 pm
http://www.message_boctrcanoe.com/
May 16th, 2009 at 1:24 pm
English Rose, please, you are like a ray of sunshine piercing dark clouds. Your insight is very much appreciated by everyone with a penchant for intelligent conversation.
Ray, you have much to offer as well and look forward to future conversations.
I am astounded at the number of people, many more learned than I(even Buckley’s son), who are of the opinion that Obama will govern as a centrist. He is certainly adept at donning the centrist’s wares and speech, but can it be said that he has indeed governed as a centrist in his first 100 days? When I heard people from the supposed right on November 5th
declare that Obama would behave moderately,I wondered, “What in Hades makes them think that?” Where are the moderate associates who helped cultivate his ideology? He was voted most liberal in the Senate, to the left of Ted Kennedy and Sandy Berger, a self-avowed socialist, his voting record as an Illinois Senator backing that nomination. We all know how moderate Rev. Wright is, and Frank Marshall Davis(communist party member). It just amazes me that people more knowledgeable than I can be mesmerised by the speech of Obama. One would have to ignore Obama’s entire life history, it seems to me, to dare utter the words Obama and centrist in the same sentence.
May 16th, 2009 at 4:13 pm
English Rose, I stumbled upon a magnificent find at the bookstore, a 550 page illustrated hardcover edition of Sun Tszu’s “Art of War” also containing the “Book of Five Rings”. It contains a wealth of information not discussed in my small paperback copy. This will be one to pass down to my children and grandchildren, I’ll keep it out of their reach until they are old enough to take care of it. There are many relations to be made to present day from this volume, I’ll quote from it for you later.
Cordially
May 16th, 2009 at 6:54 pm
English Rose, one of the authors of this study on Sun Tzu , not Tszu as in the former Russian junior welterweight champion Konstantine Tszu, paraphrases Burke in this excerpt introducing the philosophy of Bushido.
“Chivalry is a flower no less indigenous to the soil of Japan than its emblem, the cherry blossom; nor is it a dried up specimen of an antique virtue preserved in the herbarium of our history. It is still a loving object of power and beauty among us; and if it assumes no tangible shape or form; it not the less scents the moral atmosphere, and makes us aware that we are still under its potent spell. The conditions of society that brought it forth and nourished it have long disappeared; but as those far-off stars that once were and are not, still continue to shed their rays upon us, so the light of chivalry, which was a child of feudalism, still illuminates our moral path, surviving its mother institution.”
Inazo Nitobe
May 16th, 2009 at 7:34 pm
Antistatist: Thank you for quoting that beautiful excerpt.
I’ve heard of Son Tzu’s Art of War, though I’ve not read it. I believe its principles have a very broad application to life in general and may be used to avoid confrontation. The principles are reminiscent of those of Tai Chi, which I used to do. I’ve watched my Tai Chi master smile and remove his watch then, with a gentle flick of his wrist, send a wall of about 40 people sprawling. All members of the ‘wall’, myself among them, had been standing in a specialist Tai Chi position of strength and supporting each other. When our master flicked his wrist against the first person in the wall (the only one of us he touched) a sensation like static electricity went through all of us. Those at the end of the wall were sent quite literally bouncing around the room. One poor man had to be caught and held until he stopped bouncing. Our Tai Chi master told us that he had rarely had to use his skills in confrontations as he generally found it sufficient just to smile and remove his watch! Amazing what can be done with a little heavy air.
“It just amazes me that people more knowledgeable than I can be mesmerised by the speech of Obama.”
Stendhal spent years studying love and charisma and set out his observations in his book de L’Amour. Charisma, said Stendhal is like the Salzberg bough. He writes of the miners of a salt mine in Salzberg who used to hang dead twigs in the mine and, some months later, remove these encrusted with the most beautiful crystal formations and with no trace of the ugly twig beneath. The crystalised twig’s beauty is of course an illusion and more apparent than real.
Stendal said that the same effect can be observed with love and charisma. Think how often, he says, we see a plain or even ugly actor on the stage who has perhaps just one single talent yet is nevertheless, in all apects of his person, absolutely adored by his audience who think him the most charismatic man in the world. Think how it puzzles us, says Stendal, when we see an ordinary or ugly person, even one whose features have been ravaged by, say, smallpox, nevertheless adored by an attractive partner.
The reason for this, says Stendhal, is the Salzberg bough effect. At times audiences are so dazzled by one aspect of an otherwise ordinary person, an aspect which, due to some accident of history crystalises the needs of the crowd at that specific moment in time, that they are blinded to everything else about the person. So, for Stendhal, charisma has little to do with the apparently charismatic individual, it is largely a conjunction of the needs and the blindness of crowds.
May 16th, 2009 at 7:51 pm
English Rose, illuminating synopsis of the Stendhal bough effect. I have never heard of him, yet I have seen his theory unfold in front of me. Thank you for that. My, you’re up late again! It must be near 4 am in Essex. My boys finally are in bed, their sister has been sleeping for some time. More from the “Book of Five Rings” forthcoming.
Cordially
May 16th, 2009 at 8:18 pm
English Rose, how interesting that you have studied Tai Chi. I practiced Muay Thai and Jiu Jitsu before getting involved in boxing, years ago. I understand that Tai Chi incorporates a variety of mental/physical relaxation techniques. I enjoy Yoga from time to time for flexibility and stress relief, from what I’ve heard Tai Chi is similar in it’s benefits. I enjoy the fluid movements of the Chinese martial artists, contrasted starkly by the more linear, forcefully direct movements of the Japanese Karateka or Thai fighter. Do you still practice Tai Chi? I put on for my sons an abbreviated exibition with the jump-rope earlier that they loved, though it left me more winded than I am comfortable admitting. Oh, well, use it or lose it! I still have’nt lost the ol’ rhythm though.
May 17th, 2009 at 2:20 pm
Antistatist: Expensegate, the MP’s and government ministers expenses scandal here grows more outrageous by the day. A huge backlash is building up among the public over this, people here are rabidly angry and most seem to blame the government for putting this corrupt system - which even a number government ministers are alleged to have abused - in place. There’s a clamour for the Labour government to resign and call an election. One newspaper has forecast that 8-10 government ministers will have to go. I do hope so!
The government’s poll ratings are down to 22-24%, whereas Cameron and the Conservatives have soared back up to 45%. That would give Cameron a massive landslide victory at the next election, a majority of over 150 seats/MPs! I just love this. I’m in such a good mood. We have waited 12 years for this and for zanu labour to get their just deserts for what they’ve done to the English and to UK. They have created a culture of corruption in my poor country, one which permeates almost everywhere as well as destroying our economy and our value system and destabilising our society. It will be many, many years before the people of UK elect a Labour government again in view of what they’ve done to us. I’m putting up bunting and balloons and having a huge street party when this evil lot are booted out.
I would love to go to Downing Street after PM Brown’s sacked to see him kicked out. I shall cry with joy and relief. It will be like VE Day in London, dancing in the street, strangers kissing each other. I expect they will have to break Brown’s fingers to prise his hands from number 10’s door knocker though.
How much in expenses can American politicians claim? Politicians here are allowed to claim up to c £130,000 or £140,000 a year, on top of salaries of c £61,0000 (MPs), c £130,000 (Ministers), c £180,000 (Prime Minister). UK politicians also get half salary pensions after 20 years service (tax free,I believe) greedy wretches.
I don’t do Tai Chi now, I moved home and haven’t found a facility near me. By jump rope, do you mean skipping (where the rope repeatedly goes right over your head) or just a swinging or static rope?
May 17th, 2009 at 2:24 pm
I should have written ‘MP’s salaries of £61,000, apologies.
May 17th, 2009 at 2:57 pm
Tai chi is used for fighting as well as relaxation. It’s the study of yin and yang and a whole mode of being in the world, a philosophy of life as well as a martial art. It’s a soft martial art, yet the soft and the pliable will defeat the hard and strong. The aim, or mine anyway, was to get to the point of ‘heavy air’, where you feel so much unity with the universe and God as you practice and meditate that you sort of dissolve into the air and into the universe around you, and the universe dissolves into you. The movements have wonderful names, such as: ‘repulse the monkey’, ‘part wild horse’s mane on both sides’, ‘grasps the birds tail; ’strum the lute;’ white snake with darting tongue’, ‘fair lady weaves with shuttles’, ‘lotus kick’, ‘high pat the horse’, ‘needle to the sea bottom’, ‘taming the tiger’, ‘white crane spreads wings’
May 17th, 2009 at 3:04 pm
Here you are:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBvF6r6DOvc
May 17th, 2009 at 5:19 pm
English Rose, I’m so happy for you! “Bottler Brown” and his rictus smile, “reminiscent of the moons’ glint off the silver plate of an old coffin lid”, may soon be an unpleasant memory.
May 17th, 2009 at 5:45 pm
English Rose, I loved the Tai Chi clip! The soft martial arts are so beautiful to watch, and so difficult to master. This is a clip of a Thai style fighter against an American style kickboxer, accustomed only to kicks coming at him from the waist up. The result is not pretty, but the techniques employed are scientific and effective.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQCZjCj7TK0
May 17th, 2009 at 6:04 pm
Hello antistatist: Poor man, he looked as though he didn’t know what hit him. He should switch to Tai Chi. I’m off to bed in a moment as its almost 2 am here. Have a good afternoon and evening - how odd these time differences are. Goodnight, little bro’!
May 17th, 2009 at 6:17 pm
Ooh, ooh, before I go, I saw Pres Obama booed and slow clapped at the Notre Dame school. He didn’t like that one bit, did he? Poor old Pres O, he isn’t used to anything less than total adulation. I was fascinated by the way the Pres pronounced Notre Dame. He seemed to pronounce Notre as I would say ‘voter’ and Dame to rhyme with the ‘ame’ part of Lame. Here, we say it with the French pronounciation, so the ‘ot’ in Notre rhymes with the ‘ot’ in cot and with a barely prnounced, soft ‘r’ at the end and we pronounce Dame as dahm. Is Pres Obama’s pronounciation of ND the one generally used in America?
May 17th, 2009 at 7:37 pm
English Rose, I tried to post earlier about Obama’s luke warm reception at Notre Dame, but it was deflected. The pronunciation by Obama was, I’m afraid, typical, though Buckley, I’m sure, would have pronounced it in the fashion you’re used to hearing, French and Spanish he learned first, then English.
It was reported that a group of senior students decided to conduct their own services, offended that Obama should receive an honorary degree, and be welcomed to give a commencement speech at this Catholic institution given his positions on abortion and embryonic stem cell research. I applaud them! They acted, motivated not by animosity towards Obama, but by personal conviction, which is more than can be asserted as to the motivations of those in the faculty who signed the president’s degree, or arranged for his speech.
Theriault, the man knocked senseless in that clip, was a world champion in his niche, scoring 58 KO’s. That sequence, in microcosm, demonstrates the superiority of Thai boxing over American kickboxing, or “waist up” kickboxing; Theriault is French Canadian. Nearly all successful MMA fighters today incorporate Thai techniques into their striking arsenals, the other predominant style being Jiu Jitsu. I think the soft styles have become a bit of a lost art, their accomplishments etched in the stone tablets of history, though some of the nuances of the soft styles can be seen in the transitions executed by experienced Jiu Jitsu practicioners. Cung Lee, a San Shou disciple, is one successful MMA star I just remembered, he showcases the beauty of the soft styles in the full contact arena today, one of the few exceptions.
Have a great week sis, and again I am very happy to hear of the momentum gained by the consevatives in England. I’ll celebrate with you in spirit when the long awaited dream comes to fruition, it will be a blow struck in the name of prudence for the world’s example.
Cordially
May 18th, 2009 at 5:06 am
Rose, I forgot to reply to your query about the jump rope. I meant the exercise of skipping rope to improve foot-speed, coordination and endurance. I used to be able to skip for 10 rounds straight, but I have’nt done it regularly in years. Fast hands can’t be had without complimentary foot-speed. This probably was the greatest physical attribute of Ali’s. Good day sis.
Cordially
May 18th, 2009 at 9:13 am
English Rose Says:
” … if anyone’s trolling here it’s me, an Englishwoman with the bare faced cheek to discuss American politics on an American blog! Please have your say too, that’s what blogs are all about, people’s forums where the silent majority finally get a say. You have more right to post here than I do. I’m surprised that I haven’t yet been told to clear off and not to darken the mood in this small outpost of American popular democracy ever again.”
Rose, you and Anti would be interested in this: It’s a public domain copy of an episode of What’s My Line, a popular TV game show of the 1950s and 1960s. Anti remembers, I’m sure. Anyway, this particular episode features a certain bulldogish gentleman, a writer of some note, Randolph Churchill. I understand his father might have been famous for one thing or another.
http://www.archive.org/details/RandolphChurchill_DesiArnaz_KimNovak
Brits, good and true, have been commenting on American politics since, well, since we were COLONIES. Of course, I also love the clip because Kim Novak is … well, I was a BIG fan …
Oh, and Antistatist, sir, I don’t base my feelings on any FACTS or inside information. In fact, I don’t think Obama will drift to the middle because he WANTS to, but more because he HAS to. Know what I mean? Remember, much of Clinton’s success his second term was because of the almost unholy alliance he made with Newt and the Republicans. Recall that a number of Republicans complained because Clinton was adopting their agenda. Well, in order to get HIS stuff passed, he drifted toward the center and … governed. Even though Obama has a more solid majority than Clinton, I think there will be times when it will be politically expedient for Obama to manage the middle, particularly as we get into controversial issues. Of course, I could be wrong …
May 18th, 2009 at 9:15 am
I understand I’m in the minority here, but I hated seeing Obama booed and heckled. I hated seeing liberals heckle Bush the way they did, too.
But that’s me …
May 18th, 2009 at 12:46 pm
It is so sad to see how this country (was the home of the free and brave) has turned into nothing but a greedy and corrupt sink hole of debt and criminals. The only country that can’t praise and help enough the same mentioned people. Forget the innocent and people in need., thier not worth this admistrations time.
This country has turned into nothing but hate mongers(gays, illegals, and anyone that you don’t agree with.)
I did not vote for Obama, I was not about to vote for someone that came out of the woodwork, showed no one anything that made him (what ignorant people call the one) so knowledgable that he can run this country. He doesn’t take any responsiblity for anything his own cabit does, no reprimands, no control, and even when his third in command calls the very people that are there to protect him liers, he does nothing. His own vise president can’t keep his mouth shut, so how save do you feel??
The way this country is now turning into a country that will in no time be lead under dictaorship I can only laugh and say, well quit complaining, you wanted him and you voted for him, now put up with it. I have to. Thanks to all that voted for him, I’m sure everyone out of a house or job thank you too.
Near future, enjoy the consentration camps if you don’t do or agree with anything and everything this wonder adminstration tells you to do. Don’t think so, I guess we’ll see whose right if nothing is done to correct the corrupt mess.
May 18th, 2009 at 1:56 pm
Ray: Good point. I didn’t watch ‘What’s my line?’ when it was first shown, though I have seen a recording of part of one of the programmes in the series.
Here’s a video for you of an Englishman who spoke to a joint session of your congress long before our Prime Ministers Brown and Blair did, no need to tell you who he was, I imagine, if I tell you that he said, “With proper weapons and proper organisation, we are able to beat the life out of the savage Nazis”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiVIpZikl-Y&feature=related
On behalf of my family who fought under his leadership, thank you, Ray and American cousins, for the support your families gave in response to his speech and for fighting shoulder to shoulder with us and our families against such unspeakable evil.
May 18th, 2009 at 1:58 pm
Good ol’ Joe Biden! (chuckle) What in the world was he talking about this time? God love ‘em, he just publicly announed the approximate top secret location of the bunker that Cheney took refuge in on 9/11! It’s good to know that he’s next in line for the presidency if something should happen to Obama. What happens if they are both out of commission you ask? The lying stammering, yammering yenta Nancy Pelosi is 3rd in line. Now if that is not cause for unbridled optimism of the “Panglossian” sort, I’ll never live to see it! What wonders lie in store for us all!?! What brilliant acts of diplomacy are we all to be the beneficiaries of. The anticipation alone is… well, I’m breathless, as many others will be, though not from anticipation.
May 18th, 2009 at 2:12 pm
Oh my god, Anti! Can you BELIEVE Biden? Cracks me freakin’ up. You know, one of those laughs out loud when there’s NO ONE in the room! Hilarious. He really, really does have issues with the mouth, doesn’t he?
I have long thought the media (left and right) make way too much of politicians and their “gaffes.” Half of Bush’s gaffes weren’t really gaffes but a sincere person who just simply wasn’t the most polished public speaker. I felt sorry for him. I just don’t know if my language could stand the same public scrutiny.
Ah, Rose, what an excellent clip. I never tire of hearing his voice. He was a man born for his time and his job. And a darn good painter! Thank you, bud.
May 18th, 2009 at 3:09 pm
Christine has a good idea if we can get about 100 million working taxpayers to do this.
May 18th, 2009 at 3:34 pm
Antistatist: Thank you for your reply. I should have engaged my brain before engaging my mouth on Theriault, he’s clearly a great fighter who deserves more respect than I showed him.
I’ve been posting against abortion for ages on one of the blogs, I just cannot believe the glib cruelty I’m reading in some of the posts there. I should know better than to try to debate with such people, it’s nigh on impossible to persuade anyone of that ilk to think about the issues in a serious way. I’ve no objection to debating with those who believe there are genuine reasons in favour of abortion, but half of the stuff many of these posters write is such mindless stupidity.
May 18th, 2009 at 3:50 pm
English Rose, I too have been accosted by mindless stupidity on the other blogs and had no choice, as a citizen in favor of maintaining the quality of public thought, but to notify the Degasification Committee, and other organizations, who have launched several campaigns, most notably the Wolfleys for Enlightenment, and sister group WOLFPACK. This is serious business. The bombast, murk, and pomposity exhibited by some on Stu blog is a threat to democratic ecology. Thank Heavens for the Degasification Committee and their devoted employees conducting tireless research our benefit.
Cordially
May 18th, 2009 at 4:00 pm
Ray, I love the old ‘What’s my line’ shows. I’ve seen several reruns, I remember one in particular that featured Rocky Marciano. I’m a bit too young to have seen them live, born in 1970.
I believe that Obama will consistently speak as though he is a centrist, and there may be times that he will, in fact, govern as a centrist, but I believe firmly that he will always be, in his heart, a committed, radical leftist. I would love to be proven wrong.
“Inside every cynic is a sentimentalist”
L’Amour
May 18th, 2009 at 4:19 pm
Ray Joe Biden has me laughing so often that he has become almost endearing to me. He’s a genuine comic genius! Albeit by accident. I would rather see him perpetrating Peter Sellers type slapstick, then we could all laugh with him rather than at him. Poor guy.
May 18th, 2009 at 4:47 pm
Antistatist: Blimey! The Sun Newspaper - which got Tony Blair elected in 1997 - they even had a headline the day after the election “It woz the Sun wot won it! - has a front page banner headline stating: “In the name of God, go!”
“The sun calls on Gordon Brown to ask the Queen to call a general election - so politics can be rid of its sleaze-ridden MPs once and for all. Senior figures like David Cameron agree, the way to clean up the Commons us by letting the nation have its say NOW.”
“David Cameron has sensationally endorsed The Sun’s demand for an early general election. The Tory leader called for Gordon Brown to dissolve Parliament immediately to clean up politics once and for all. And he took a massive gamble by urging Tory chiefs to SACK their current MPs if they believe they are not whiter-than-white.”
And MPs of all parties are trying to get a vote of no confidence in the Speaker of the House of Commons because of his appalling conduct: presiding over an MP’s expense committee which even allowed some MPs to claim for phantom mortgages, claiming for a second home allowance when he already has a taxpayer funded grace and favour home in Westminster Palace and lots of other stuff.
It can’t go on like this for much longer here, our democracy and parliament have completely broken down
May 18th, 2009 at 5:04 pm
English Rose, I’m cooking and blogging, an activity that someone at the Sierra Club would surely deem a dire crime, so I’ll have to reply in depth later. Pardon my ignorance, but what defines a Tory?
May 18th, 2009 at 5:33 pm
Angry MP’s try to get a vote of no confidence in the Speaker of the House of Commons, then shout at the speaker when he refuses to allow it:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8054657.stm
Our MPs were angry with Speaker Martin (Gorbals Mick) anyway, even before the expense scandal because he’d allowed the police to arrest a Conservative MP and ransack his home and office - on trumped up charges of exposing another goverment scandal - the MP was interrogated for 11 hours, then released and eventually cleared of any wrong doing.
That’s the sort of thing you expect in communist countries, isn’t it, not in UK? And it’s unconstitutional. Even the Labour Mp’s went mad over it.
David Camedron says the scandal is paralysing parliament. Only 14 MPs turned up for one debate!
This is really bad. I have never ever known our government or parliament be in such a state of collapse.
May 18th, 2009 at 5:46 pm
Mr Speaker says he’s sorry that he and MPs have let the people down:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8056139.stm
Far too little and far too late, Mr Speaker, the people are sick of the corruption of our parliament and goverment.
We want you and corrupt MPs sacked. We demand a General Election, now!
May 18th, 2009 at 6:55 pm
Antistatist: ‘Tory is a nickname. The Conservative Party superseded the Tory party in 1832. However, ‘Tory’ remained a shorthand name for a member of the Conservative Party or for the party in general.
When the Conservatives became the Nasty Party in public perception, towards the end of the last Conservative government’s term of office (in about 1996), the term ‘Tory’ became a term of abuse. Some Conservatives, however, especially those on the right, apply the expression to themselves as a sort of badge of honour, or two fingered (one fingered in US) salute to their critics.
Many Conservatives still call themselves ‘Tory’. However, as a liberal Conservative on the centre right, I could never call myself a Tory and would hate to be called that, the name has too many bad associations
The Conservative Party traces its origins to the 18th century Whig Party. They were then known as “Independent Whigs”, “Friends of Mr. Pitt”, or “Pittites”, after their Prime Minister, William Pitt. After Pitt died the term “Tory” emerged. This was an allusion to the attenuated Tories, a political grouping that had existed from 1678, but which had no organisational continuity with the Pittite party. From about 1812 on the name “Tory” was commonly used for the newer party.
Not all members of the party liked the name the ‘Tory’, but It was later officially adopted under the aegis of Sir Robert Peel around 1834. Peel is acknowledged as the founder of the Conservative party which he created with the announcement of the Tamworth Manifesto.
With the broadening of the electoral franchise (more and poorer people allowed the vote) here in the nineteenth century, the Conservative Party were forced to adopt a one nation approach under Lord Derby and Benjamin Disraeli, who further expanded the franchise under the 1867 Reform Act. In 1886 the party formed an alliance with the new Liberal Unionist Party and held power for all but three of the following twenty years. However, the Conservatives had a landslide election defeat in 1906 when they split over the issue of free trade. In 1912 the party formally merged with the Liberal Unionists and was then officially known as the Unionist party until 1925. Now it’s the Conservative and Unionist party.
The Conservatives served with the Liberals in an all-party coalition government during World War I, which continued under Liberal PM David Lloyd George (with half of the Liberals) until 1922. Eventually, Bonar Law and Stanley Baldwin led the breakup of the Coalition and the Conservatives came again to dominate the political scene in the inter-war period, though in another coalition, the National Government. It was this wartime coalition government under the leadership of Winston Churchill that saw the United Kingdom through World War II. However, the party lost the 1945 general election in a landslide victory for the Labour Party.
The Conservatives won power again in 1951, under ‘Supermac’ (Harold Macmillan), a one nation Conservative, by accepting the reality of Labour’s ‘welfare state’ and an industry nationalisation programme, though Winston Churchill, Anthony Eden, Harold Macmillan and Sir Alec Douglas-Home continued to promote relatively liberal trade regulations and less State involvement throughout the 1950s and early 1960s.
Tell you some more tomorrow. Now it’s your turn to tell me about American political parties.
What is a yenta(?), yelta(?) or whatever it is you keep calling Nancy Pelosi?
May 18th, 2009 at 7:17 pm
English Rose, the right honourable Speaker looked a bit nonplussed when he was shouted at; “O-Order! Order.” he said almost plaintively, and his apology is reminiscent of a long line of corrupt politicians in America. Everyone is so terribly sorry when they’re caught. I don’t even like to listen to scripted apologies, they are predictable and seem disingenuous. Can not one of these clever, articulate(when it comes to pushing their agenda)people give an apology without reading from a script? Sometimes I wonder if they are even capable of it. I hope you get your General Election! Empty apologies from the irresponsible are no consolation.
Cordially
May 18th, 2009 at 9:03 pm
What IS all this crap about recreating the GOP into a package that will sell to the American voter? I used to be a Republican…..because I believed in and supported the values and policies. Those values and policies are still worthy, but there is no longer anyone in the party who actually stands by them, enforces them, champions them. The GOP is, just like the DNC now. It’s all about big money, power and who has the most marbles. We’ll package it anyway we think folks will buy it whether it’s true or not. The Democrats were fooled into voting for someone who wasn’t even a Democrat by their own damned party. Their trust was betrayed and with all the RINO’s sitting in Congress we were duped almost as badly. Obama ran on the New Party ticket to get elected to the Senate. Look it up. Give me just one real leader with some backbone, accountability to the people and the country because he/she hasn’t been bought to get elected. Someone who abides by and enforces the law instead of thinking he’s above it or can find a loophole in it. Someone who does not tolerate waste, corruption and the extortion of the American taxpayers hard earned money. Someone who gets that they are there to serve the people rather than their own or their parties best interests. The two party system is totally corrupt and so are the politicians coming out of it, both Dem and Rep. Get this straight. No matter what party you call yourself, when you’re willing to sell out your core principles and values to sit in the big chair instead of doing what is in the best interest of this country and the people, you’re exactly the party I’m going to vote against. We should just call you the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac parties and throw you both under the bus.
May 18th, 2009 at 9:31 pm
English Rose, yenta is a term of Jewish origin meaning ‘female meddler’, particularly apt when applied to Madam Speaker Pelosi, who I also refer to as Dorothy. When she was before the Pope recently, instead of receiving the accolades she expected, the Vicar dressed her down, reminding her that Catholics in power have a duty to uphold the dignity of life. Well, upon hearing this she surely thought to herself ‘there’s no place like home!’ Could Obama be the tin-man?
I’ll tell you what I can about political parties in America ‘off the cuff’ so I won’t be able to provide the type of excellent history lesson you offered on the Tories. Many people today think that the Democrats and Republicans have never been more diametrically opposed. I think we’re just experiencing another convulsion similar to that brought on by the Vietnam War era. Republicans have been characterized since then as being warmongers, the vitriol of the left descending to the troops; Joe H can attest to that. Bush was vilified as such for nearly eight years.
There is no such thing as a liberal conservative in American politics today. The term liberal having different connotations, I know the present meaning of liberal in the U.S. does’nt apply to you being an English liberal conservative. There are distinct differences between Democrat and liberal, Republican and conservative, and I’m quite sure they vary from the English connotations. I would consider Arlan Spector a liberal Republican, and conservative Democrats exist,(L’Amour was one)though I can’t think of a prominent one in politics today.
The term liberal has become associated with those who seek to completely eradicate Judeo-Christian values, consistently blame America for perceived injustices foreign and domestic, and relentlessly push the envelope for what should be socially acceptable behavior. Ambition to enlarge government and a ‘nanny state’ mentality are two of the most offensive liberal characteristics to conservatives because these are the methods by which the liberal agenda is pushed, from the top down.
There are some admirable Democrats, and some ignoble Republicans from the perspective of an American conservative. McCain was not the conservative choice for 2008. Ronald Reagan is the most beloved conservative icon of recent memory. The liberals hold up F.D.R.
as one of their champions, though the success of the New Deal has been roundly debunked.
The Obama administration found Roosevelt’s term ‘enemy combatants’, applied to Nazi’s executed after being caught tying to scuttle U.S. ships, insensitive, and decided to give terrorists constitutional rights. Obama is by far the most liberal candidate ever to be elected as president.
Conservatives in America believe that freedom is God-given, and the founding fathers evidenced that same belief in our Constitution. The two most meaningful volumes ever written, to conservatives, are the Holy Bible and the United States Constitution. Liberals, find the references to God offensive, and find flaws in the basic principles of this document that is responsible for our prosperity.
I’ve a lot more to say but I’ll have to continue tomorrow. If there is anything in particular you would like me to address, please tell me, or I’m liable to go on a bit. This is fun for me, however.
Cordially
May 19th, 2009 at 5:23 am
Rose Buckley and Muggerige discuss liberalism.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__nHqyLfeFE&feature=PlayList&p=BB122467FB21177B&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=2
May 19th, 2009 at 6:05 am
Speaker Martin is understood to be preparing to announce he will stand down as Commons Speaker!
Thank God. The announcement is set to be made in the House of Commons at 1430 BST.
A group of MPs had put forward a motion of No Confidence in the Speaker yesterday and there were angry scenes in parliament when the Speaker went beyond his role and powers and attempted to force his will on parliament by refusing to accept this motion.
This is the first time in 300 years that a Speaker has been effectively forced out of office.
This is a victory for the Telegraph Newspaper who exposed this scandal and for people of my country. Too many of our MPs have been content to trundle along under Speaker Martin and the corrupt expenses system which the Speaker is alleged to have presided over as long as they benefited by this.
It was only when the Daily Telegraph exposed the appalling corruption of expense system and ordinary, hard working people began screaming from the rooftops about this and swore to vote for small parties to unseat their corrupt MPs that parliament began listening to us.
May 19th, 2009 at 6:34 am
To give you an idea of how momentous this event is for UK: the last time a commons Speaker was forced out was during our last Revolution: the English Civil War of 1641-1651.
Then Oliver Cromwell entered parliament with his roundhead troops, told parliament they were all corrupt, ejected them and shut the place down. The, certifiably insane, Cromwell had the King (Charles 1) beheaded, then set himself up as - corrupt - Lord Protector, under an authoritarian dictatorship.
May 19th, 2009 at 8:59 am
Antistatist: Thank you for your interesting description of the American political parties. I’ll have another look at this later, once the furore over our Speaker dies down a little. You are right about Gorbals Mick, he was a weak man, put in place for that reason, who disgracefully biased the speaker’s chair against the opposition and in favour of Labour Prime Ministers. Labour had broken with protocol on this as they have in so many other areas, to elect a Labour Speaker. We customarily rotate speakers from the three main parties here, and were due a Conservative Speaker.
I was wrong about the last speaker being forced from his position during our Civil War, the last was Sir John Trevor, who was found guilty of accepting a bribe in 1695, not long after the Civil War.
May 19th, 2009 at 11:48 am
The Buckley-Muggerige clip was priceless. Major thanx!
May 19th, 2009 at 2:00 pm
Ray, so glad you enjoyed, I value Buckley’s work above most others, though I can’t read him without a dictionary close by. My lexicon expands like a balloon whenever I have the pleasure of reading his material, whatever the subject.
Cordially
May 19th, 2009 at 3:10 pm
English Rose, the first time in 300 years, well, I’ve empathy for the future generations descending from the lineage of Gorbals Mick. What is the origin of this moniker? Surely that’s not his real name. I’m confident your reply will be typically amusing. I’m off to the gym. Daniel Hannan is appearing on Sean Hannity’s program tonight, I don’t want to miss that.
Cordially
May 19th, 2009 at 3:51 pm
Antistatist: Please post a link here of Daniel Hannan’s interview if you have one, I love to hear his speeches. Douglas Carswell MP, the Member who lodged and reads the motion at the beginning of the 5.33 pm video above, wrote ‘The Plan’ with Dan Hannan, a strategy to clean up UK’s political system and to restore our democracy. I heard Dan speak live at a meeting at Westminster Hall which I attended, during our mass lobby of parliament against the EU’s Lisbon Constitution. Dan said, “ladies and gentlemen, please welcome ……..(my real name) of the ………. (where I live) Referendum campaign - I was campaign organiser. And Dan and the audience clapped me. I can’t tell you how proud I was of that. Gorbals Mick is the nickname of UK’s - soon to be ‘ex’ - Speaker of the House Of Commons: Michael Martin. We call him Gorbals Mick as an insult because he puts on airs and graces, he’s a biased Speaker and is woefully short of the wisdom Speakers must have, he comes from the Gorbals area of Glasgow, Scotland.
May 19th, 2009 at 4:00 pm
Glenn,
I shouldn’t even ask but, I’ll give it a go.
Why is it when a city, state and whatever, is going down hill,
the first thing they want to CUT… is the Police, Fire Dept. and school programs.
I surmise, only to shake up the people so they say,,,,, OH NO!!!!! we’ll pay to keep these in tact. A sure ploy in my thinking, would you agree?
Our elected officals should first think about us and not VOTE them selves a pay hike.
Lord, don’t these guys get it??? No wonder people spend a lot of bucks to grt into office.
They are set for LIFE.
May 19th, 2009 at 5:47 pm
English Rose, how grand! If I was there when Hannan introduced you I would have driven everyone around me mad, shouting “Hey! That’s my big sister up there! Yes, that’s right! Okay, everyone stop talking now! Attention! My sister is about to speak!” I’ll be glad to send the link to you. The show starts in minutes.
May 19th, 2009 at 8:45 pm
Dan,
the reason that happens is that it is a scare tactic. It’s just like around here they threaten to drop busing if you don’t pass school levies. See, around here they are having trouble passing school levies and rightfully so. Take Cleveland Ohio schools, they have the highest per student expenditures in northeast Ohio but have a 46.5% drop-out rate. Why spend more money when the money they have isn’t spent right?
May 20th, 2009 at 11:24 am
As far as the stimulis, I can’t believe that the American people are so set on selling out their future to a platform of servitude - packaging our principles as a commodity and simply putting it on the Global Market. But, I digresse. I’d much rather we take this golden opportunity of the elected party providing financial counsel for the private sector, to address the real issue of pay-to-play and/or non-profits taking tax dollars to run profitable social programs.
I went for rental assistance here in Philly today at a place called Congreso. The outcome, if I am ever approved, will be the provision of up to one month’s rent. Meanwhile, the establishment bolsters a renovated five story building on one corner, and who knows how many square feet on the other. There are plenty of newer cars outside; a private academy and a private daycare center; and this is simply an at-a-glance observation.
Surely anyone with half an imagination can construde that these organizations are using funds meant for societal needs, by their own stated purpose, to develop little sudo-buracracies. Can’t we find out the ratio of funds received and dispersed to the people as oppossed to how much they spend on over-head and pet projects?
May 20th, 2009 at 1:36 pm
Alert!!!! Pick up the phones and the mouse!!! get in touch with your elected officials in Washington and tell them not to pass the carbon tax issue that Rep. Waxman is ramming down our throats!! We stopped the scamnesty plot last year in this way and we can stop this. We can threaten their jobs and make them sweat. We CAN DO THIS!!!!!! Get on it people!!!
May 20th, 2009 at 2:00 pm
English Rose, this is the segment from Sean Hannity’s show on 5/19 featuring Daniel Hannan.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBHyxvVae1k
I respect Hannan for not taking thr bait offered by Hannity to speak neagatively of Obama, to point out the similarities between the Labour government’s policies and those of the president was sufficient.
May 20th, 2009 at 2:03 pm
Gosh, I need some sleep. I can barely type today. Hope your day was pleasant, sis!
Cordially
May 20th, 2009 at 4:18 pm
English Rose, I happened upon this poem by Stan Law inspired by the Musica Universalis theory.
“I once flew out yonder, my heart bursting with joy,
straddling a comet’s tail; utterly lost, benighted…
Charging the blue expanse, starlight sparkling around me,
I heard heavenly chimes… my soul, unsure, delighted.
There followed violins, and harps of wandering minstrels,
and airs sang so sweetly (truly unearthly voices…)
Can angels trill such charm? Zeus’s favourite daughters?
Ephemeral yet real beauty…Truly Olympian choices.
And suddenly I realized that before time began,
among galactic clouds, spellbound—as in a fable,
amid the myriad diamonds salting cosmic expanse
the music was always playing…
…just so my heart could dance.”
Hope you enjoyed. What of Gorbals Mick? Anything new?
May 20th, 2009 at 4:22 pm
Rose: That was supposed to be three quatrains, when I pasted the poem they were all run together, sorry.
May 20th, 2009 at 5:23 pm
Antistatist: Thank you for the link to Hannity’s Hannan interview, you’re a sweetheart. Thank you for the lovely poem too.
I don’t believe this. I got back late this evening and thought I’d do a post on the Huntsman appointment while I have a cup of tea. In the middle of my tea an email arrives asking me to go into my office tomorrow. Flipping heck. Hardly much notice - and I’m on leave, but I’ll have to go in, they need me to sort out a problem. I’m not going to have much time to finish my Huntsman post, so I hope it makes sense.
May 20th, 2009 at 5:33 pm
“Over the weekend, President Obama named Utah Governor Jon Huntsman as the next Ambassador to China, a masterstroke of political strategy. Huntsman may be the most important person you’ve never heard of. He’s a moderate Republican governor in one of the most conservative Republican states, where, until the time of his appointment, he enjoyed approval ratings above 80%…He has the potential to be for the Republican Party what Obama was for the Democrats…he’s a guy an Independent would love…made his way onto just about every Washington insider’s list of possible 2012 Republican contenders. That is, until he joined the Obama administration.”
This appointment raises the - uncanny - spectre for me of a string of cross party apointments made by our PM Brown, appointments which did not prove to be the publicity coups PM Brown intended them to be.
Independent Newspaper 30/6/07
“PM “Brown completes government of ‘all talents’ with team of outsiders” who were not Labour Party members.
However, Brown’s policy of inviting Conservatives and Liberals to join his government soon caused him considerable embarrassment as members of his team of the talents became mired in controversy.
First Labour MPs angrily protested that the ‘talents’ should join the party. Yet three of the talenst declined to do so. The Labour left rejected the team as ‘traitors to the working class.
Never mind, the furore will be forgotten in a week, claimed one Labour blogger… oh no it wasn’t,.
Instead of keeping their heads down, the talents caused Brown no small amount of embarassment:
Admiral Sir Alan West (Navy top brass, became Security Minister), four months later, caused Brown huge embarrassment by criticising Labour’s flagship policy of 42 Days detention for suspects - a policy which he, West was supposed to be navigating through parliament. As a simple sailor, he hadn’t chosen his words well, said West. You can say that again. He’d also criticised Labour defense cuts!
Professor Sir Ara Darzi (surgeon, became health minister) - embarrassed Brown by attracting criticism from Darzi’s own professional organisation, the greatly respected BMA: “unacceptable variation in the performance of managers and trusts” meant “Darzi’s proposals, even if good in principle, will fail to deliver in practice”
Sir Digby Jones (leader of Confed of British Industry, becameTrade Minister) - declared he was not a socialist then caused Pm Brown massive embarassment by declaring his time in government: “one of the most dehumanising and depersonalising experiences” anyone could have, and that he had been amazed by how many civil servants he thought deserved the sack.
Sir Mark Malloch Brown (former UN deputy general secretary, became an FO minister) was criticised for his family’s occupancy of a prestigious, government-owned, “grace and favour” (free) apartment in London, previously reserved for the Deputy Prime Minister
Shriti Vadera (investment banker, became junior minister) - was criticised as unsuitable and being on a parallel universe when she insensitively claimed to see the green shoots of recovery in the midst of UK’s deep recession, as thousands lost their jobs.
The moral of that? I think it may be the old adage of ‘horse for courses’. GOPs are not Democrats, Conservatives are not socialists, and ‘never the twain should mix’
May 20th, 2009 at 8:25 pm
English Rose, wonderful post! ‘Horses for courses’ is exactly right. The GOP should have entertained that thought before trotting out ‘Twain McCain.’ He is adept at blurring the line between Democrat and Republican, to stunningly disappointing effect.
And Then There Was Only Guantánamo . . . [Victor Davis Hanson]
With the Democratic no-go on Guantánamo (I’ll leave it to the better informed to ascertain the degree that the Democratic Congress came to the rescue of an embarrassed Obama administration and cut off funding for the shutdown to allow him an out with the now familiar excuse of “they did it — not me, who keeps promises”), I think we now have come to the end to the five-year left-wing attack theme of Bush “shredding the Constitution.”
Except for the introduction of euphemisms and a few new ballyhooed but largely meaningless protocols, there is no longer a Bush-did-it argument. The Patriot Act, wiretaps, e-mail intercepts, military tribunals, Predator drone attacks, Iraq, Afghanistan — and now Guantánamo — are officially no longer part of the demonic Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld nexus, but apparently collective legitimate anti-terrorism measures designed to thwart killers, and by agreement, after years of observance, of great utility in keeping us safe the last eight years.
Add in the Holder statements about Guantánamo in the 2002 interview, the Pelosi/Rockefeller/et al. waterboarding briefings, the need to consider torture in past statements by senators such as Schumer, and I think historians will now look back at these “dark years” as largely a collective, bipartisan effort.
All of which leaves us a final musing: If so, what was the hysteria of 2001-2008 about other than simple politics?
I doubt we get any more movies about ongoing renditions, redactions, any more Checkpoint-like novels, any more waterboarding skits and reenactments, any more late-night comedians doing their Bush tapped, intercepted, tortured, renditioned, tribunaled poor suspect X routines.
And I guess as well that the good old days of supposedly flushed Korans in Guantánamo and Omar the poor liberationist renditioned to Cairo are over. We are now in the age of a sober and judicious President Obama who circumspectly, if reluctantly and in anguish at the high cost, does what is necessary to keep us safe.
And we won’t see a brave young liberal senator, Obama-like, barnstorming the Iowa precincts blasting a presidency for trampling our values with the shame of Guantánamo, wiretaps, intercepts, renditions, military tribunals, Predators, Iraq, etc. That motif just dissolved — or rather, it never really existed.
It short, all the fury, the vicious slander, the self-righteous outbursts, the impassioned speeches from the floor, the “I accuse” op-eds by the usual moralistic pundits — all that turned out to be solely about politics, nothing more.
Right.
May 20th, 2009 at 8:39 pm
Rose, I’m so sorry that your leave will be interrupted. This is one of the ‘perks’ awarded those who perform their duties excellently. I hope you may spend the remainder of your break unmolested, with family and friends.
The Democrats voted 90-6 to hold funds for the closing of Gitmo until definite plans are made as to where the ‘detainees’ are to be relocated. Hanson sums it up quite nicely in his article above from National Review Online. I could say much more but I feel as if I’ve been horsewhipped…Zzzz
May 21st, 2009 at 4:40 pm
English Rose, This is Dick Cheney’s speech today at the American Entreprise Institute part 1/4. The rest are available on the same site link. The left is outraged, typically, because they can’t counter Cheney’s reason with their angst. Ah, joy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VANII59j1c
May 21st, 2009 at 4:43 pm
Judging by the number of responses I got on the carbon tax or cap &trade bill, I have to asertain that there aren’t too many out there that are worried about a 3100.00 increase in their yearly taxes. People, you have to let them see it in print and hear it on their phones,But most importantly you have to make them BELIEVE that you are serious!! Bringing a speed reader in says some are finally starting to listen, but it has to be defeated!!! Raise he!! with them and let them know you are mad as he!! and you aren’t going to take it without them losing their jobs for it !!!
May 21st, 2009 at 5:26 pm
That was brilliantly put, an excellent post.
You know, the more I read your posts and mine, the more the similarities between our respective pseudo Socialist governments becomes apparent.
Even in these very early days of your government, there are so many points of symmetry between them and New Labour: the near sainthood of the charismatic leader, the belief among some supporters that these leaders are almost on a divine mission. The promise to be, in Blair word’s, “purer than pure” - while being anything but. The use of attack dogs - aggressive spin doctors in an attempt to fire proof themselves and their administrations against all and any criticism or viewpoints. The wild, utopian promises which are inevitably unattainable and which necessarily disintegrate all around them. The use of cross party talent to divide and diminish the opposition and to score propaganda points. The vicious smearing and poisonous attacks on the opposition which seems driven almost by a desire to destroy all opposition and thereby to negate to the democratic process. The drive against democratic accountability. Their hatred of history and refusal to learn from it. The overweening arrogance of a government that defines Right as it’s own proclamations. The attacks on religion, on our age old value systems and anything that stands between these governments and control of the people. The continuous erosion of our Constitutions by premiers who believe themselves to be bigger and wiser and more important than God, Magna Carta, President Lincoln, wonderful, ancient Constitutions, the rule of law and the people.
Even Rahm Emanuel. I was wrong in comparing him to Miliband, that resulted from allowing myself to be misled by the Democrat’s propaganda reports about him. As soon as I saw him on those videos and read about Freddie Mac, one name was screaming at the back of my head: Alastair Campbell.
A man with a past, Campbell had written articles for a pornographic magazine prior to becoming a left wing journalist. Campbell became Tony Blair’s gate keeper, spin doctor in chief and head of strategy during the 1980s. He resigned during an Inquiry into whether Blair had misled parliament with a claim that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction which could be ready for use - by implication, against UK - in 45 minutes and following the suicide of a senior weapons inspector, Dr David Kelly. Campbell, as he put it, committed the cardinal sin for a spin doctor, in his own words, he ‘became the story’. Many here believe that Dr Kelly, an honest man, was hounded to death by our government in their desperate attempt to whitewash Blair’s appalling 45 minutes deceit - or massive blunder, and that it was Campbell who did much of the hounding.
As the commentator on the following video says, people here recoiled from this despicable scandal which was the root of a massive break down in trust between Blair and the people. I believe Americans may have misunderstood the hostility that many of us here in UK came to feel for Blair and Bush and viewed this as anti-American hostility. Yet it was nothing of the kind, we’d simply been deceived so often that we stopped trusting politicians in general and Blair and Bush in particular. We’d been promised by Blair, “No More lies, no more sleaze, no more cash for questions”, yet all we heard was lies, lies, lies and spin. What we hated were those lies. As the speaker says on the following video:
“The whole thing they [Blair, Downing Street and Labour] were trying to do to make themselves fire proof bounded back on them and now many people in Britain and most newspapers say, ‘what’s the spin?’ ”
All except for those in the Labour heartlands, like those filmed in Trimdon, Blair’s constituency, where: “Eeeeh, boneeee laaahd, weeeee’re Labah!”
Their dialect is Geordie (far north), there’s one for you to learn :o)
May 21st, 2009 at 5:34 pm
Antistatist, sorry, that last 5.26 pm post was for you. Here is the video it refers to:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_SP-HMhJtc
May 21st, 2009 at 5:47 pm
Joe H, I will be writing, e-mailing, and calling my Congressmen and Senators re: The Cap and Tax skullduggery, I tied to acknowledge your post yesterday but mine failed. Thanks Joe.
******************************************************************** English Rose, thanks for the post, I’m putting my boys to bed in minutes, I’ll read it further and post back afterwards. Cheney impressed me today, and enraged the left(snicker!).
Cordially
May 21st, 2009 at 6:11 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-QxBTR9_HU
Alastair Campbell (top left), Blair’s former gate keeper and spin doctor in chief, criticised by former Conservative leader (Cameron’s predecessor), Michael Howard (top right) on the Jeremy Paxman show.
May 21st, 2009 at 8:01 pm
English Rose, that was a great exchange between Howard and Campbell. When confronted, Alastair’s only reply was that Howard was suffering from ’sour grapes’ from losing an election. The melee of Liberal emotion vs. Conservative reason in microcosm.
I was struck by this statement on video directed at Alastair Campbell concerning his quip “We don’t do God, mate.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZUgdBX5jdA
The gentleman should really learn to ‘open up’ and express his true thoughts. :o)?
May 21st, 2009 at 8:36 pm
Antistatist,
I figured you would and probably Ray too. I’m worried about the rest of them here that complain and should do something also!!
May 21st, 2009 at 9:16 pm
English Rose, Geordie seems a canny speak, good for clartin on with me marras over some broon ale, ye knaa what ah mean leik, pet?
Stunning description of the similarities in our respective governments! I suspected early on in our discussions that this would be the case, though I am shocked at the variety of the coincidences. The lessons are before our leaders to learn from, yet they seem to have no historical reference supporting them at any stroke of the Executive pen. Nearly every move is unprecedented. The libs are gluttons for punishment, at the figurative, and literal, expense of others.
I hope you can enjoy your leave this weekend.
Cordially
Cordially
May 22nd, 2009 at 3:30 am
Who is John Galt?
May 22nd, 2009 at 6:29 am
Has anyone thought of suing the government for misuse of our money? The tea parties seem to have been blown off like pesky flies. Maybe the american people should take it a step further and bring a class action lawsuit against the government for the misuse of our money. If there is a lawyer out there, let us know if it is possible to do this.
May 22nd, 2009 at 1:39 pm
English Rose, here’s McCarty’s latest article in NR. Did’nt mean to inundate you with cordiality on the last post. The weekend is upon us and I’m ‘clammin’ for a pint of broon ale!
Gan canny now, sis!
Combating Libel Lawfare
Radical Islam’s apologists abuse courts to shut down criticism.
By Andrew C. McCarthy
It has become fashionable in Washington to speak of “false choices” — “the false choice between our values and our security” or “the false choice between our liberties and our national defense,” for example. Apparently, we don’t need to make these choices.
I often wonder, while standing in the body-search line while trying to get on an airplane, or trying to get into Yankee Stadium, or trying to enter a federal courthouse, whether any sensible person really thinks the conflict between the things we want to do and the security we need to do them is a “false choice.” Most people, I would guess, view such choices as a matter of common sense, and an inevitable part of life.
To make such choices is often hard, calling for maturity and judgment. To deny that they have to be made is childish and irrational.
It is not a matter of choosing between, for example, our security and our values. Our security is one of our values. Indeed, it is the one that makes the liberties we cherish more than mere parchment promises.
The difficulty is that our values don’t exist in a vacuum. They conflict and compete. Even vital ones — values everyone concedes the importance of — are sometimes overcome by values of even greater significance.
This is especially dramatic when the value is an individual right we hold dear, and it collides with a value that is critical to the life of our body politic — critical to the arrangements a free society such as ours must have in order to thrive.
That is the essence of the debate over “libel tourism.”
No one in his right mind would contend that protecting a person’s good reputation is not a critical value. We do honor reputation. Our law protects it, as our law should, from defamation. But reputation is a value. It is not an absolute. And it would be preposterous to say that the value we place on reputation is not in tension with the value a functioning republican democracy places on the free exchange of information — especially in matters of great public significance. It would be just as preposterous to say that to acknowledge this tension, and to attempt to resolve it, is to make a “false choice.”
The choice our society has made is to give the free exchange of information, our so-called marketplace of ideas, precedence over concerns about reputation. Under U.S. law, enshrined in our First Amendment, journalists have a right to be wrong.
The journalist has a minimal obligation of diligence. Truth is a defense to an allegation of libel, but the journalist need not prove it. The burden is on the person who claims he has been defamed to show that the journalist was not only wrong but — particularly in the case of a public figure — maliciously or recklessly false.
The rest of the world, including our good friends and forebears in the U.K., has not adhered to these enlightened standards. Though there are promising signs of potential change in British law, other nations have imposed on the journalist the burden to prove the truth. That, of course, is their choice.
But we choose to follow our own model, and that’s our choice. What’s more, we’ve elevated these enlightened standards to the status of fundamental rights. We’ve agreed in our fundamental law to be governed by them. And for good reason: We are a free, self-determining people. Government is formed to serve us, not the other way around.
If information cannot be freely exchanged, if journalists must fear being sued over information reported in good faith on matters crucial to our defense — matters such as the financial networks supporting jihadist terror — then we cannot make sound security policy. We become dependent on government — in all its dysfunction and political correctness — with no means to evaluate its performance or induce it to change. We become reliant on government for our information. In fact, we become hamstrung even in our efforts to learn what little the government is willing to reveal.
Funding Evil, for example, is the book at the center of the libel-tourism storm. The author, Rachel Ehrenfeld, was sued for alleged defamation in Great Britain despite making no attempt to market the book there. What was Dr. Ehrenfeld’s supposed offense? For the most part, her book merely repeats allegations about jihadist financing that had already been made in official U.S. government documents and testimony. Yet, Sheikh Khalid bin Mahfouz — one of the world’s richest men, who has boundless litigation resources — targeted her for suit, a tactic he has successfully used about three dozen times to suppress reporting about Saudi connections to terrorism.
Under British law, it was not enough for Dr. Ehrenfeld to say, as any good journalist might say, “I’m just reporting what the United States government has said.” She was expected to prove the allegations were true, even though, as a journalist, she had no access to classified information and no subpoena power to compel government witnesses to come forward and substantiate the claims they had made.
From this we must draw several necessary conclusions.
First, it is argued that the international order calls for comity between nations — that the United States should not force its standards on other countries. But proposed laws to combat libel tourism — in particular, the one sponsored by Rep. Pete King in the House and by Sens. Arlen Specter and Joe Lieberman in the Senate — do not coerce any nation to adopt our First Amendment. They merely say that if you want to enforce a libel judgment against someone in the United States, you must extend that person the equivalent of the free-speech protection he or she would be entitled to under American law. If you don’t, you still have your libel judgment and you can enforce it wherever on earth you can find a country that will respect it — but not here.
Moreover, the proposal for an affirmative cause of action — i.e., the creation of a new kind of civil suit for use against abusive litigants like Sheikh bin Mahfouz — would not coerce any country to adopt or enforce our libel law. It would simply tell the libel tourist: If you scheme to deprive an American of a fundamental constitutional right, you can no longer do it with impunity. We will arm Americans with reciprocal power to sue you for damages in a court far away from your home — albeit in an American federal court that will surely give you a fairer shake than American journalists have gotten in the British court that has become known as “the Club Med for libel tourists.”
Finally, comity among governments is all well and good. I wouldn’t want to say or do anything to spoil a good State Department cocktail party. But the primary duty of the United States government, as it relates to the rest of the world, is to protect the fundamental liberties of the American people. Again, that is the reason the American people created their government — even if that fact occasionally miffs what we like to call the “international community.”
That’s not a false choice. It is the only right choice.
— National Review’s Andrew C. McCarthy is a senior fellow at the National Review Institute and the author of Willful Blindness: A Memoir of the Jihad (Encounter Books, 2008). This article is adopted from a speech delivered at “Libel Lawfare: Silencing Criticism of Radical Islam,” sponsored by the Middle East Forum, the Federalist Society, the Center for National Security Law, and the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression.
May 22nd, 2009 at 2:25 pm
Liberalism IS a Mental Disease & Daniels’ got it bad Says:
May 22nd, 2009 at 2:19 pm
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http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=81550
May 22nd, 2009 at 3:43 pm
Antistatist: I intended to post that “we don’t do God, mate” video yesterday, but was too knackered after I’d finished the other posts. So thank you for posting that. Thank you for the interesting McCarty article. What’s NR? “Geordie seems a canny speak, good for clartin on with me marras over some broon ale, ye knaa what ah mean leik, pet?…The weekend is upon us and I’m ‘clammin’ for a pint of broon ale!” (Antistatist) Hilarious, canny lad, where didst thou learn that? You might be able to write it, but I bet you can’t say it. If you can, prove it with a voice recording on YouTube :o) You don’t really drink brown ale in America, do you? I thought Americans preferred cold, light beers similar to our lager. Not that I am a beer expert, you understand, what I know about beer could be written on the back of a postage stamp as I never drink the stuff. I have female friends and a daughter who will happily down a pint of real ale in our local (the pub in the village), but even if I liked beer, I’m invariably driving - I’m my daughter’s free taxi (cab) - so I have to stick to pepsi. That’s perhaps just as well as there’s not much of me to hold the drink, one glass of wine and I smile inanely, two glasses and I’m blotto. Ok, then here’e some Narfack speak (Norfolk, the next county up from Essex) for you to entertain your nippers with. Have a great weekend.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqmXLkJ8Bwk
May 22nd, 2009 at 4:25 pm
English Rose, NR is National Review, the Conservative journal founded by William F. Buckley Jr., the article came from it’s website. I love reading most of the contributing authors, as they all write at a level which is above the newspapers and mainstream media.
I do love brown ale but most Americans prefer the beers you described. Guiness is a favorite/favourite of mine, and Newcastle is good. Dark beers are best enjoyed in moderation. My constitution is such that I can’t throw them doon my nack as fast as the smuggling lasses ’spang-hewed’ rum down theirs.
You’re right, I’m sure I can’t speak Geordie, but I can impersonate Lord Cardigan with enough credibility to make my friends cackle. I’ll get my friend to show me how to do a voice recording, I’m not sure I have the right equipment. I’d love to hear your voice.
Thanks for the song, I’ll play it for the kids. You also have a good weekend. Monday is Memorial Day, I’ll have to take the children to the parade.
May 22nd, 2009 at 10:37 pm
English Rose
Now you have cut me deep! Pepsi???? Coke rules!!!! Diet, caffeine free coke at that!!!!
May 23rd, 2009 at 8:07 am
English Rose, This song by Rush chronicles the journey of the Liberal seeking the mythical Utopia.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTD1QW3SM60
Rush, “Xanadu”
“To seek the sacred river Alph
To walk the caves of ice
To break my fast on honey dew
And drink the milk of paradise….”
I had heard the whispered tales
Of immortality
The deepest mystery
From an ancient book. I took a clue
I scaled the frozen mountain tops
Of eastern lands unknown
Time and Man alone
Searching for the lost–Xanadu
Xanadu–To stand within the Pleasure Dome
Decreed by Kubla Khan
To taste anew the fruits of life
The last immortal man
To find the sacred river Alph
To walk the caves of ice
Oh, I will dine on honeydew
And drink the milk of Paradise
A thousand years have come and gone
But Time has passed me by
Stars stopped in the sky
Frozen in the everlasting view
Waiting for the world to end
Weary of the night
Praying for the light
Prison of the lost–Xanadu
Xanadu–held within the Pleasure Dome
Decreed by Kubla Khan
To taste my bitter triumph
As a mad immortal man
Nevermore shall I return
Escape these caves of ice
For I have dined on honeydew
And drink the milk of Paradise
Music by Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson
Music by Neil Peart
The caves of ice represent the fridgid realm the Liberals wander through without the guidance of Providence. The prison of the lost Xanadu, the confining walls erected by their ideology in their search for that which is nonexistent. The Pleasure Dome, the excess and moral ambiguity, with which the Liberals endeavor to fill the void created in God’s absence. Frozen in the everlasting view, the steadfast emotional adherence to the Liberal vision of a Utopia. Kahn, Obama? Honey dew and the milk of paradise, well, I had better leave that alone and let decorum prevail. The ancient book, one of Marx’s treatises? Obama’s triumph has yet to turn bitter, he certainly plays the part of the mad immortal.
May 23rd, 2009 at 3:38 pm
Antistatist: Excellent post - and music. I couldn’t agree with your analysis more. The lyrics of that Rush song are based on Kubla Khan, a poem by the 19th century English poet, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, a few sections of which are below:
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree:
Where Alph, the sacred river ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea.
………..
It flung up momentarily the sacred river.
Five miles meandering with a mazy motion
Through wood and dale the sacred river ran,
Then reached the caverns measureless to man,
And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean :
And ‘mid this tumult Kubla heard from far
Ancestral voices prophesying war !
………..
I would build that dome in air,
That sunny dome! those caves of ice!
And all who heard should see them there,
And all should cry, Beware! Beware!
His flashing eyes, his floating hair!
Weave a circle round him thrice,
And close your eyes with holy dread,
For he on honey-dew hath fed,
And drunk the milk of Paradise.
Coleridge was one of the Lake poets and a member of the English Romantic movement. He briefly followed in his father’s footsteps as an English vicar, yet psychological problems which haunted him throughout his life, seem to have led to him losing his faith, or perverting it. Coleridge’s subsequent emptiness led him to immerse himself in hedonism and drugs. He become an opium addict, which further exacerbated his personal disintegration.
Coleridge is said to have written Kubla Khan while high as kite on opium - which he took as Laudenam. Coleridge became an authority on demons or some such vacuous topic and was a major influence on American transcendentalism via Emerson. It’s almost as if, in Xanandu, Coleridge is expressing his own fear about what his empty, hedonistic way of life is doing to him yet lacks the moral courage to change his ways. A good mind and talent wasted for want of a moral grounding in faith.
As you rightly state, the Rush song, just like Coleridge’s poem on which it’s based, perfectly evokes the pseudo socialists, their leaders and their utopian ideologies. “Beware, beware the flashing eyes and floating hair”: what better evocation of the vacuous cult of personality that so often dominates socialism and which so frequently replaces the empty vacuum left by the socialists’ rejection of God? That sunny pleasure dome with caves of ice: you’re entirely right, could there be a more evocative metaphor for the disastrous impact of socialism’s moral relativism, ethical vacuum and hedonistic profligacy on our lives?
May 23rd, 2009 at 4:07 pm
Joe H: I would never cut you, Joe! Never in a million years. Why, some of my ancestors were preached to by George Washington’s gt gt gt grandfather, so you can count on me to tell the truth about that. Coke and Pepsi are both American companies. Do you have the hump (English expression for angry, nothing rude, I promise you) with Pepsi because of all the strikes? Or because they’re in Chicago? Or do you just prefer the taste of coke? I like Pepsi because it’s sweeter than coke.
Do you know why George Washington couldn’t tell a lie? For the same reason my Blackwater estuary family can’t either: good breeding. Essex country people are an honest lot.
And we go mad for our Pepsi :o)
May 23rd, 2009 at 4:32 pm
English Rose, I’ve loved that song for nearly 25 years and the analogy just came to me yesterday as I played it for the kids. I’d never read Coleridge, thank you for posting the poem and the synopsis, very interesting. Niel Peart, Geddy Lee, and Alex Lifeson are three of the most intelligent and truly professional musicians. They are one of the few bands I still listen to from my teen years.
May 23rd, 2009 at 9:06 pm
English Rose,
I was just joking with you. I just prefer the taste of caffeine free coke and being diabetic, it’s all I drink. I do remember, eons ago, very much liking your English dark ale. I spent a week there while stationed in Germany in the late 60s. Also about 8or nine different countries in Europe. the unit I was in the last year there I worked 4 days on and 3 days off. Every once in awhile I would add a couple of days leave to my 3 days off and travel with a friend of mine. We saw a lot of beautiful country.
May 23rd, 2009 at 9:59 pm
English Rose, I had a few pints of broon ale, my spirit fortified to the brink of foolhardiness, and took a jaunt across the dam at Lake Murray on my bike. There is a walking path that crosses the dam, I avoided it. There is an alternate route that leads across a recently built secondary dam overlooking the hydroelectric plant, I chose this path. Lifting my bike over a barrier, I jumped over myself and pedaled off into the haze arising from the river below. Not many people have been privy to this view, save plant employees and construction workers. The lights of our small city are visible in the distance, and the train tracks leading to the plant by the river. A train was unloading coal when I crossed, a conveyor belt leading to a mountainous pile emptied it’s cargo. Taking care not to sky-line myself to the guard shack below, I paused by a light-post and enjoyed the view, overcast, no moon or stars, the sprawling plant, it’s many lights casting an eerie glow in the haze, the giant concrete smoke-stack towering above the dam. The plant’s P.A. system was playing a peculiar tune from a harmonica. Surreal. I continued across, the gravel road leading from the dam dropping off sharply 30-40m on both sides, gan canny now lad! I hopped another gate, crossed the highway that travels between the dams, and took the bike path back across, liking the breeze from the lake. The 8km ride home had my hamstrings singing, I saw no deer tonight. Last time I did this I suprised a buck and doe about to cross the road. They snorted at me and bounded back into the forest, making a terrible racket.
May 24th, 2009 at 4:52 am
Joe H: I knew you were joking, so was I. Where in England were you stationed, Joe and where did you visit?
May 24th, 2009 at 5:34 am
Antistatist: What a lovely description of your bike ride across the Lake Murray dam.
May 24th, 2009 at 7:59 am
English Rose, thanks, it was quite the adventure, I dreamt about it last night, hearing the echo of the harmonica’s tune in my dream.
May 24th, 2009 at 10:02 am
English Rose,
I wasn’t stationed in England, only visited. I was stationed in Germany. I visited London with the idea of perhaps finding some long lost relatives but it was abject failure. I didn’t know where to go to find information, didn’t have possible names as my grandfather had died and the information available through him had died with him. i did enjoy the sights and the people were more friendly than I had expected with all the demonstrations on RVN. The crazy thing was a couple of years after I was stationed in Panama in the canal zone and met an English family there sailing from England to Austrailia. They were wonderful people and I loved them like family from the start. I never heard from them again after they left but I always wondered if they made it and how their lives went. It’s ironic as while in RVN, I went to Austrailia on R & R for seven days. It’s ironic how life goes backward and sideways and forward isn’t it?
May 24th, 2009 at 2:27 pm
English Rose, the latest from Rich Lowry, editor of the National Review.
President Above-It-All
By Rich Lowry
“Put Barack Obama in front of a teleprompter and one thing is certain — he’ll make himself appear the most reasonable person in the room.
Rhetorically, he is in the middle of any debate, perpetually surrounded by finger-pointing extremists who can’t get over their reflexive combativeness and ideological fixations to acknowledge his surpassing thoughtfulness and grace.
This is how Obama, whose position on abortion is indistinguishable from NARAL’s, can speechify on abortion at Notre Dame and come away sounding like a pitch-perfect centrist. It’s natural, then, that his speech at the National Archives on national security should superficially sound soothing, reasonable, and even a little put-upon (oh, what President Obama has to endure from all those finger-pointing extremists).
But beneath its surface, the speech — given heavy play in the press as an implicit debate with former Vice President Dick Cheney, who spoke on the same topic at a different venue immediately afterward — revealed something else: a president who has great difficulty admitting error, who can’t discuss the position of his opponents without resorting to rank caricature, and who adopts an off-putting pose of above-it-all self-righteousness.
Obama has reversed himself since becoming president on detaining terrorists indefinitely and on trying them before military commissions. Once upon a time, these policies were blots on our honor; now they are simple necessities. Between the primary and the general election, candidate Obama changed his mind and embraced Pres. George W. Bush’s terrorist-surveillance program. In recent weeks, he countermanded his own Justice Department’s decision not to contest a court decision that would have led to the release of photos of detainee abuse.
A less self-consciously grandiose figure might feel the need to reflect on the fact that his simplistic prior positions had not fully taken account of the difficulties inherent in fighting the War on Terror. Not Obama. On the commissions, he explicitly denied changing his view, instead trumpeting cosmetic changes he’s proposed as major reforms that will bring them in line “with the rule of law.”
For all his championing of nuance, Obama comes back to one source for every dilemma: Bush, as though without his predecessor every question about how a nation of laws protects itself from a lawless enemy would be easy. Under Bush, according to Obama, we set our “principles aside as luxuries we could no longer afford.” Even now, there are those — are you listening, Mr. Former V.P.? — “who think that America’s safety and success require us to walk away from the sacred principles enshrined in this building.” What a shoddy smear.
Consider Obama’s breaks with Bush: We have stopped using enhanced interrogation techniques for now, but Obama reserves the right to use them again; we will have military commissions but with four procedural changes; we’re going to close Gitmo but find some equivalent detention facility for that category of detainees who, Obama says, are dangerous but can’t be tried or released. These are matters of degree and therefore questions of prudence, not principle. If Bush violated our fundamental beliefs, then Obama is violating them, too, only a little less so.
Excoriating Bush is good politics for Obama, which is what makes his repeated exhortations to look ahead so disingenuous. In his speech, he rued that “we have a return of the politicization of these issues.” In other words: Dick Cheney, please shut up. But when did the politicization of these issues end? Has the Left ever stopped braying about Bush’s war crimes?
Obama bracingly politicized these very issues on the stump, staking out unsustainably purist positions because they suited his momentary political interest. Now that’s he’s president, he wants the debate to end. He’s above the grubbily disputatious culture of partisans and journalists. And he’s above contradiction because, as ever, he occupies the middle ground, one “obscured by two opposite and absolutist” sides: those who recognize no terrorist threat and those who recognize no limits to executive power.
And there Obama stands, bravely holding his flanks against straw men on all sides.”
May 24th, 2009 at 2:57 pm
Joe H: Yes, life can be ironic alright. Who would ever have thought, even 15 years ago, that America and UK would be in the economic mess we’re in now and reliant on pseudo socialist governments to get us out of these?
Was your grandfather English? If he was, or earlier generations were, it may well be possible to trace your English family, even now, sometimes even with imprecise information. I’m a local and family historian and a great fan of an family history archive American company who have made the UK and American censuses, telephone directories etc for the past 160 years or so available online. Success depends on a certain amount of luck of course and on how common the surname was, unusual Christian names or the nature of ancestors’ occupations or places of birth, but it’s surprising - and fascinating - how much you can dig out of past centuries. If you would like a look up on my English family history data subscription Joe, you’re welcome.
May 24th, 2009 at 3:37 pm
Antistatist and Joe H: Do you ever find yourselves wondering if our respective ruling parties played some role in the generation of our economic crises? I’m becoming more and more persuaded by the theory that the depth of our economic crisis in UK is primarily a product of political factors and political interference in our economy, rather than a product of economic factors or endemic faults with capitalism.
For a decade or more, PM Brown claimed that his prudent management of the UK’s economy had ended the ‘boom and bust’ cycle. Boom and bust are what you get under Tory governments, Brown claimed, whereas his New Labour government ran the economy on more rational principles which put social justice before Capitalist profits. When our economy went pear shaped last year, Brown claimed this was due to global bust factors, primarily rooted in the American banking crisis and inherent crises structured into capitalism, and nothing to do with Brown’s management system or incompetence. The IMF, the EU and various others, of course, knocked that bogus claim on the head, despite Brown’s denials, by revealing that UK was in the worst possible position to withstand the recession.
The real root of how dire UK’s problems are is clearly political. In line with all previous Labour chancellors, Brown had spent and borrowed like there was no tomorrow. Economically naive Brown had never run any real enterprise in his life before he ran UK’s economy. He behaved just like the UK MP’s caught up in the recent Scamelot expenses scandal: treated UK taxpayers like a bottomless, infinite pit of money for him to plunder and grab. So Brown got UK into huge national debt while making wild proclamations that UK’s economy would continue to grow indefinitely and thereby encouraging many of the people of UK to follow his debtaholic lead in their personal and business lives.
Brown also failed to recognise that his spending relied on an unsustainable boom of his and Labour’s own making, or if he did recognise this he seems to have turned a blind eye to it. Economic analysts here have shown that Brown’s and his Treasury’s figures and graphs of UK’s economy over the past decade, which showed steady, healthy levels of growth and inflation, were hopelessly inaccurate. Why? Because they ignored massive and dangerous overheating in the housing market and a totally unsustainable boom in house prices. Labour had precipitated this house price burn out by encouraging unsustainable levels of migration to UK. Yet they refused to acknowledge either that immigration growth was out of control or the dangerous effect it was having on housing demand and house prices, or the effect of all of that in stimulating reckless levels of lending/ borrowing by the banks and their beloved, tax generating, financial sector.
In the old days, the Governor of the Bank of England (GBE) would have recognised the dangers of what the government was doing and would have called a halt to it by increasing interest rates to get the house price inflation and borrowing levels down. However, Brown had put a new regulatory system in place to stop the GBE doing this.
If Brown had left the regulation of the banking system alone and allowed the GBE to do his job properly, our banks might have been saved from near collapse and government take over. Instead, Brown set tight constraints on the criteria that the GBE and the FSA, Brown’s new ‘regulatory’ body, could use to evaluate the level of inflation in - and consequently the health of - UK’s economy.
The GBE and the regulatory body were only allowed to use those measures of inflation that Brown dictated - our retail price index, kept, temporarily, artificially low by temporarily cheap Chinese imports - a price index which crucially excluded worrying levels of house price inflation and related debt.
In short, incompetent PM Brown and Labour created a Micky Mouse economic regulatory body and dictated that it use Disneyland criteria for judging the health of UK’s economy.
Little wonder then that the apparently healthy, steady growth figures and wonder graphs produced by this regulatory body had as much credence as Tom and Jerry’s endless ‘flattened resurrections’ from the jaws of death. So the one regulator which should have been able to recognise the dangers of our overheating house price market, the consequent meltdown in UK’s financial sector and resultant dangerous levels of government and citizens’ borrowing, and the body which should have been able to get these under control, was unable to do so because it was forced by Brown to wear economic blinkers and regulatory handcuffs he’d fashioned for them.
May 24th, 2009 at 3:57 pm
“Put Barack Obama in front of a teleprompter and one thing is certain — he’ll make himself appear the most reasonable person in the room. Rhetorically, he is in the middle of any debate, perpetually surrounded by finger-pointing extremists who can’t get over their reflexive combativeness and ideological fixations to acknowledge his surpassing thoughtfulness and grace.” (Antistatist’s Lowry quote)
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Born again Blair, in other words, except Blair ‘had a little list’ in a great big, over-indexed book to give him all the answers - until Cameron came along. I’m sorry to keep going on about Cameron, but I do believe it’s a question of fighting a big fire with the only thing that can put it out: a non inflamatory extinguisher, the cool light of reason.
May 24th, 2009 at 3:58 pm
“This is how Obama, whose position on abortion is indistinguishable from NARAL’s, can speechify on abortion at Notre Dame and come away sounding like a pitch-perfect centrist”
Until someone comes along who can shift him to the left as Cameron did Blair - and this will stick in your craw and make you choke - by cooly supporting him when he is right.
May 24th, 2009 at 4:24 pm
“a president who has great difficulty admitting error, who can’t discuss the position of his opponents without resorting to rank caricature, and who adopts an off-putting pose of above-it-all self-righteousness.”
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Yet still he gets away with it. Blair…Blair…Blair…in other words, or Teflon Tony as he was nicknamed.
And little wonder that Obama’s jammy like Blair, who did Blair mimic?
Bill Clinton.
Blair even tried to mimic the Clinton thumb business - very badly, mind you, because he hadn’t a clue that many of Clinton’s famous gestures use sacred or holy symbolism. All Blair could manage were measly little pinches :o)
The only answer to a major player like this, I believe, is when someone comes along who is Obama’s equal and beyond charicature and smears.
May 24th, 2009 at 4:28 pm
English Rose, yes, I have suspected the Liberals in government of sabotage for some time. Directors at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were warned on five separate occaisions by the Bush administration of possible financial disaster, and five times they cavilled. Several Democratic members of Congress accused regulators of being racist in questioning the loans given to those of modest economic means. The factual evidence thwarting these preposterous claims(100% loans to people with poor credit and no confirmation of employment history, 5 million loans to illegal immigrants per HUD) was largely ignored, and the RINO’s(Republican In Name Only) caved to the race baiters. Capitalism was blamed for the failure of these institutions and I can’t believe these charlatans are getting away with it.
I agree with your Mickey Mouse/Disney analogy, hilariously apt! I see the Liberals using up their nine lives quickly, but the economic and Constitutional landscape of America may suffer near irreparable damage in the interim. I’ve never for a second been confident that the Liberals have no ulterior motives in effecting the drastic change they have planned for this country. It is the mythical Utopia they seek, and they intend to keep up their futile search, consequences be damned! Perhaps damned is not the proper term here, given the atheistic nature of the left, a nihilistic attitude toward dire consequences is more characteristic of the Pagan left.
The fact that 1/2 of the 700 billion in the first stimulus bill cannot be accounted for does little decrease my skepticism. I think all the major ‘change’ implemented by the Liberals is motivated by anti-capitalist sentiment. The leaders of the left have been touting the superiority of socialist policies, and besmirching capitalism for decades, now they have their chance to experiment. God help us.
May 24th, 2009 at 5:07 pm
“The fact that 1/2 of the 700 billion in the first stimulus bill cannot be accounted for does little decrease my skepticism. (antistatist)
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Do you mean half of the amount they’ve spent - or half of the amount they plan to spend? Why can’t they account for this money? They must account for it and must be made to do so.
The problem with utopian of governments is that they are idea a minute people. Most of the endless proposals they churn our like confetti are just guff which will never see the light of day. This mind boggling confetti will, however, make you so depressed and outraged that, if you’re not careful, you’ll run around like headless chickens chasing these endless chimeras away. Then when something big comes along you’re too burnt out to chase after it.
May 24th, 2009 at 5:29 pm
I’ve found a picture of Blair with his little list, but when I tried to post it here it was put into moderation - because of the size of the url, I think. You can get to it with an image search on: Blair aint tough enough. Click on the first pic, then click on it again when the site comes up to enlarge it and you can see Blair’s book with his endlessly cross referenced little lists.
May 24th, 2009 at 9:16 pm
English Rose,
“The fact that 1/2 of the 700 billion in the first stimulus bill cannot be accounted for does little decrease my skepticism.”
That was vague, sorry. In Nov. 2008, Secretary of the Treasury, Henry Paulson, called for a pause in the spending of TARP funds, halting at 350 billion of 700. During this brief interim he so ambiguously anwered queries as to the allocation of said funds that the topic became a laughing matter on Conservative media outlets. After the entire 700 billion was spent, when reminded at a press conference that the stimulus had failed to work he responded consistently:
“I–I would say the only way you could say it did’nt work is if you magically thought you could just–naively thought that there could be a piece of legislation and there would be a single action, and that a hundred–once-or-twice-in-a-hundred-year historic situation would immediately be resloved.”
I guess that coincides with ‘chew gum’ Biden’s theory that “there’s still a 30% chance that we’ll get it wrong.”
Paulson’s replacement, ‘Turbo Tax Cheat’ Timothy Geithner has been similarly vacuous in his public statements, I have’nt the energy to look up any of the chirps uttered by this little weasle, you would be bored by them anyway.
I’m sure the Obama administration can account for the trillions in successive stimulus packages funded by our tax dollars. Does the American plebiscite have the ability to peruse the receipts ‘line by line’ as promised by the President during his campaign and upon his immaculation/inauguration? I’ll have to look at the White House website, it must be there somewhere…next to the proposed LGBT agenda.
To end on a cheery note, I had a great day with the boys, swimming for the first time this year at grandma’s, though the water was a bit chilly. They were completely exhausted after a full day of playing ending with a wonderful supper of their favourite foods. I carried them both, fast alseep, to their beds when we returned home. I hope your weekend was as nice, sis.
May 24th, 2009 at 9:34 pm
English Rose,
Yes, for quite a while I have in fact thought that the liberals have been trying to sabotage our whole way of life. It can not be shown with any more clarity than by their staunch refusal to seal our southern borders. Our schools are overloaded, our hospitals are operating in the red(no pun intended), we have long waits in said hospitals and jobs that are meant for our citizens are taken by the illegal immigrants not to mention our welfare rolls are being depleted by people who are not legally allowed to apply! This has overloaded our financial process in this country and with the global crisis we now have people are frightened to the point they are ready to listen to anything as long as they are going to eat, keep their house and not lose everything!
May 24th, 2009 at 9:43 pm
Rose, I saw the picture of Blair and his book. Canny comparison to Obama’s teleprompter! I also liked this analogy of yours:
“I do believe it’s a question of fighting a big fire with the only thing that can put it out: a non inflamatory extinguisher, the cool light of reason.”
Bobby Jindall and Ted Cruz posses cool reason, I would love to see them wield it in the political arena.
Cordially
May 24th, 2009 at 9:46 pm
English Rose,
Last, but never, never least, May The Good Lord Above bless all of your fallen military in all of your wars and conflicts and may never another fall again. I have known a few in RVN and I hoisted a few with them to your Queen. They were all top shelf. May you yourself have a safe and grand day today as it is our Memorial Day and I will be remembering with misty eyes.
God bless and be kind to you. Good nite. Joe H.
May 25th, 2009 at 5:21 am
Antistatist quoted Henry Paulson’s pearls of wisdom:
“I–I would say the only way you could say it did’nt work is if you magically thought you could just–naively thought that there could be a piece of legislation and there would be a single action, and that a hundred–once-or-twice-in-a-hundred-year historic situation would immediately be resloved.” ”
Unbelievable - though no more so than half of the crass lunacy which churns out of Gordon Brown and so many in his party and government, indeed, you could transplant these words into the mouth of a UK zanulabber and no one would know any different :o)
Thank you for the clarification, antistatist. Glad to hear you and your children are having a good holiday weekend, little bro, have a great time, you’ve earned it.
May 25th, 2009 at 5:52 am
The American Press
Mainstream Treachery
By JB Williams
©2009 USA
Honest unbiased reporting in the American news room has been so absent for so long that most Americans now seek information elsewhere. Americans no longer trust the free press to be their eyes and ears, to keep them abreast of the facts needed to make intelligent decisions about daily life or politics. Sadly, at this moment in history, even Russia has a more reliable free press than America. If Americans don’t read foreign news sources, they have no clue what is going on in their own country, much less the world.
“The American people continue to remain, for the most part, blissfully unaware of catastrophe looming before them and continue to believe the litany of Orwellian lies being poured upon them by their propaganda media organs, never once raising any objection to trillions of dollars that have been stolen from them and which continues to flow the pockets of their political and corporate overlords intent upon destroying, forever, their once great Nation and which the US Federal Reserve Inspector General Elizabeth Coleman stated brazenly before the US Congress that she has “no idea” where $9 Trillion of US taxpayer has gone, or who got it.” - Bilderberg Group orders destruction of US Dollar? – A pretty important story for U.S. readers I’d say, but it remains unreported by the U.S. press!
As a result of horrific news reporting, talk radio and the Internet have largely replaced the daily newspaper, and that’s why leftists currently running Washington DC are very focused on “bailing out” their friendly propaganda rags, while gaining editorial control over talk radio and the Internet.
Thanks to the Internet, one can access news reports from all over the globe, like this story also unreported by the American press, Billionaire club in bid to curb overpopulation – which reads like a Hitler social engineering horror story.
From the story, “The philanthropists who attended a summit convened on the initiative of Bill Gates, the Microsoft co-founder, discussed joining forces to overcome political and religious obstacles to change.”
This story is not about the billionaire Bilderberg meeting in Europe, but a similar meeting of anti-American billionaires which took place in America during the same time frame, attended by none other than America’s biggest leftist heroes, Bill Gates, David Rockefeller, Jr., Warren Buffett, George Soros, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and media moguls Ted Turner and Oprah Winfrey. The Times UK reported it, but what American press room ran with the frightening headline?
Something VERY evil this way comes, and nobody in the American press wants to investigate or report a single word of it!
Beyond the No. 1-ranked Fox News Channel, few bother watching an overtly leftist mass propaganda system which has become little more than an outlet for leftist talking points. From every alphabet network news desk to every network morning show, and now even the late night comedy hours, TV media is full-tilt off the charts and hard left in their presentation. They have taken a side in the social engineering of America, indeed the world, and everything they produce today is designed to push an anti-American agenda for tomorrow.
Fox is the only news outlet in the entire country that is accused of being a mouthpiece of “the right.” This charge is leveled on the basis that Fox is the only electronic news outlet that even makes an attempt to offer both sides of every story, in a nation where all other electronic media outlets offer only left-wing talking points.
But even Fox News must now be questioned about its integrity as an honest and unbiased outlet for news. The biggest stories in modern political history remains completely unreported in the American mainstream press, including at Fox.
The Ticking Time Bomb
Every American journalist knows the constitutional qualifications for the Oval Office that have existed for more than 200 years. Every journalist knows that Barack Obama has spent nearly $1 million dollars keeping proof that he meets those requirements under lock and key. Every journalist knows that Barack Obama may or may not have been born a natural citizen of the United States, that he certainly was adopted as a citizen of Indonesia in his youth, which at the time did not allow dual citizenship, that he traveled under an Indonesian passport during his college years, and may have even received foreign aid as a foreign student while at Occidental, Columbia or Harvard.
Not one of the mainstream journalists, including at “right-wing” Fox News Network, has taken up an investigative journalist interest to get to the bottom of what is slowly but surely becoming the most explosive story in recent political history.
Alphabet journalists rush to scoop the latest on Lindsay Lohan, American Idol, CIA interrogation procedures, Gore’s Global Warming Swindle, and a laundry list of nonessential tabloid stories. But not one has accepted the challenge of breaking what promises to be a political story that could make Watergate look like a story on the joys of watching paint dry.
This is nothing new… When Bill Clinton accepted $300,000 in illegal Red Chinese campaign money, bagman Johnny Chung became a household name and eventually went to prison for illegal campaign contributions, which coincidentally resulted in the US sharing of nuclear technology and permanent favored nation trade status with Communist China.
But the press never asked the first question about the people who benefited from those illegal campaign contributions, the Clintons. The press was systematically MIA on every story of Clinton corruption, except the sexy stained blue dress story of course, which provided a much-needed distraction from the more important headlines gone missing during the period.
No Place to Run This Time
But the issue of Obama’s constitutional eligibility is such a huge powder keg, the idea of someone tricking congress, the Supreme Court, the news media and the American people into electing someone completely and fundamentally ineligible for office, leaves the press room no place to hide from such an overt act of treachery.
A man whose résumé is limited to a laundry list of ill-advised associations, a missing birth certificate and sealed college records, with no background of leadership anywhere, is the current president of the United States and not one single mainstream journalist has any interest in how this was possible.
However, in the end, there will be no place to run and no place to hide from the truth. Sooner or later, the truth will be known.
A Complicit Press – an uncommon Treachery
Americans have come to expect crime and corruption from their politicians. But they once expected their free press to hold the guilty accountable for their actions.
Today, the press is a complicit party to that crime and corruption. The press is overtly engaged in treachery. They are not ignoring the biggest story in US political history; they are actively working to keep it under cover.
Obama ran a 2-year campaign for leftist power and not one American journalist broke the story about how the man who would become president was in no way qualified for the position. More than six months after the election, still not one American journalist has investigated the growing charges that Obama fails the constitutional requirements for the Oval Office.
Their answer to public inquiry? — They checked it out at Snopes or FactCheck.org, both of which are propaganda tools owned and operated by the pro-Obama left, for benefit of the anti-American take over of the greatest free nation ever known to mankind, and they are satisfied.
Hogwash! Even Republican members of congress have used Internet postings by alleged “truth keepers” run by MoveOn.org or Code Pinko types, to escape their responsibility to properly vet a candidate for the most powerful office in the land, out of fear that someone in the press will label them a “racist” or “right-wing extremists” for asking the most obvious and pertinent question of our time.
Where’s the Birth Certificate?
Because the American press is MIA on the most important issue of our day, a very real constitutional crisis has left the American people to their own imaginations and devices. If Obama is constitutionally eligible, he can prove it. So why won’t he?
It is a very simple fundamental query, and it is entirely fair. Yet not a single member of the press, Congress or courts will ask the question, or allow any American to ask it, and Obama has spent $1 million bucks to keep all of his files Top Secret on the matter. Why?
The American press is entirely complicit in what will likely turn out to be the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people; one that in the end, has all the potential of destroying everything America has ever been.
To be complicit, “choosing to be involved in an illegal or questionable act, esp. with others; having complicity,” in the case of the American press, is an overt act of treachery, a “violation of faith; betrayal of trust; treason.”
Quite frankly, when the final truth is known about whom and what Barack Obama really is, every member of the press, Congress and courts who complicity refused to ask the question, should go down in flames with every member of the DNC who orchestrated the hoax from day one.
It is quite clear now that Obama’s agenda is in no way an American agenda for benefit of American interests of freedom and liberty for all. The notion that anyone needs to list all of the anti-American steps of the new president at this late date, just to prove that point, is beyond childish. If you don’t already know it, then you don’t know anything about America.
But the outright treachery of the American press is also wholly unacceptable. The decisions the people make can never be any better than the information used to make those decisions. The press is directly responsible for making certain that the American people are working with false or incomplete information, driven only by their overt leftist bent.
Since the outcome of their collusion with anti-American leftists will likely be not only a true constitutional crisis, but one of catastrophic magnitude, the press must be held accountable for their role in the destruction of the greatest nation on earth.
I pray that one mainstream journalist somewhere in the US will grow the patriotic backbone to ask the right people the right questions before it is too late. If the American people want somewhere to focus all of their anger, I suggest they focus it upon the traitorous press who has worked so diligently for so long to keep every American citizen of every political stripe in the dark, as their nation was being systematically raped and plundered by secular socialists. The TEA Party should be held on the front steps of every major news network, shutting down the American press until the news room is forced to report honest news again.
God Bless America and May God bless at least one American journalist with the honesty and courage to do the job entrusted to them by our Founding Fathers. They are either the unbiased eyes and ears of a trusting American populace under siege by political fraud, or they are an active participant in that fraud. There is no middle ground on a story this obvious and important.
God may forgive them for what they have done, but the American people never will!
The American people need just ONE mainstream journalist to step forward and accept the calling of their chosen profession, to make sure that the American people have access to the truth. Does any such journalist still exist today?
JB Williams
JB_Williams@comcast.net
http://www.JB-Williams.com
May 25th, 2009 at 5:55 am
Sent the above information to Glenn’s e-mail…I really wish that he would address these issues. If they are false then why not????
May 25th, 2009 at 6:27 am
Joe H Said: “their staunch refusal to seal our southern borders. Our schools are overloaded, our hospitals are operating in the red(no pun intended), we have long waits in said hospitals and jobs that are meant for our citizens are taken by the illegal immigrants not to mention our welfare rolls are being depleted by people who are not legally allowed to apply! This has overloaded our financial process in this country and with the global crisis we now have people frightened”
Same here, Joe, but then England has become known as the soft touch of Europe as far as illegals are concerned thanks to our government, so that’s no surprise. Do you know that our so called EU partners, the French, had the nerve to build a refugee camp for asylum seekers at Calais, the French port with a huge amount of traffic to England? The English/ British complained that this was just a holding station used to forward France’s illegals onto us.
The rules of asylum are allegedly that those seeking it must take refuge in the first safe country they arrive in, of course, yet that doesn’t apparently apply in the French dominated EU. The French were forced to shut down this asylum seekers’ camp/ forwarding center, and are now complaining that UK (aka England?) does not take its fair share of illegals! What utter rubbish, UK is half the size of France and England is even smaller by comparison, and England is far higher density in terms of the number of people per square mile to the point of many of our towns being very overcrowded because. Partly courtesy of our French partners’ craftiness, we have taken far too many asylum seekers - and legal migrant workers.
I’ve read that the French are going to build a new reception/ forwarding center now and that a French charity currently goes around the port handing out booklets to France’s asylum seekers with maps of how to get to the port - where they covertly and illegaly jump on HGV lorries to get into England! They might just as well give them free tickets to England, because that’s where they largely aim for.
Part of our problem has been that free movement in the EU means that any number of EU nationals could come and settle here in UK, primarily in England, quite legally and there was nothing we could do about that while we were full EU members . Many EU countries are very poor and so do not have the welfare benefits or salaries we have here, so clearly our country was going to be a magnet for large numbers of migrant workers, as has proved to be the case. Why did our Labour government initially refuse to put in place the measures which most other EU countries adopted to limit the number of migrants coming here from Europe? Could it because they wanted substantial numbers of EU citizens from socialist countries to move here in order to alter the voting patterns of, largely Conservative voting, England? Could it be that zanulabour’s one ‘big’ economic growth plan was based on mass migration resulting in a huge housing boom - which eventually got badly out of control and damaged out economy? That’s what many of us in England believe.
Some of our migrant communities refuse to integrate and have established their own communities within England where they often speak their home language. That is not in the interests of any of us or of national unity.
I am in favour of a rational system of properly managed migration for those workers whom UK needs and of taking a reasonable amount of asylum seekers, our fair share, yet only those who will integrate properly. However, that is not what we in England have had. Our government’s open door policy has meant a substantial volume of out of control migration here which puts huge strain on our country and infrastructure.
Our government periodically claim to be getting this problem under control, but few of us here believe any of our government’s claims about this or much of anything else any longer.
Friends of mine migrated here as babies 40 years ago, from Jamaica, one of UK’s commonwealth partners. They tell me that UK’s Caribbean and anglo-Caribbean community are angry and fed up about the Labour government’s out of control migration too and believe that people who do not speak English should not be allowed to migrate here except in a minority of real asylum situations - not for economic asylum or health tourism.
The issue is not a racist one, we in England are one of the most tolerant nations on earth, we’ve simply had enough of the strains caused by unmanaged, very rapid, mass migration.
May 25th, 2009 at 6:34 am
Joe H said: “May The Good Lord Above bless all of your fallen military in all of your wars and conflicts and may never another fall again.”
Than you, Joe. May God bless all of your and your current and fallen military personnel too. I agree with you wholeheartedly when you say may never another fall again.
God bless you all and Happy Memorial day to you and to everyone x x x
May 25th, 2009 at 7:44 am
Joe H:
Happy Memorial Day to you sir, as we pay tribute to those who laid the ultimate sacrifice upon the altar of freedom, so that the rest of us may continue to enjoy our God given rights as Americans.
May 25th, 2009 at 2:05 pm
English Rose, Joe H, Mike D, and all patriots of America and the UK, a word from Kipling to honour the day.
A Rhyme Embossed with Freedom’s Cost
All we have of freedom,
All we use or know,
This our fathers bought for us
Long and long ago.
Rudyard Kipling
The Old Issue
(1899)
His uniform, it gathers dust,
And yet she keeps it, as she must.
For since she heard the word, bereft,
It’s all of him that she has left.
His many medals, multi-hued,
Recall his image, love renewed.
With pride and sorrow, in his stead,
They form a pillow for her head.
Her love was spilt across the sea
To answer calls for liberty.
Though he’s been gone for many years,
His memory still ties her to tears.
Parades may form, and troops may march,
Processionals of neatest starch.
And they salute the sacrificed,
Who gave beyond what could be priced.
She’ll line her walk with flags again
To honor all the fallen men
And pray for loved ones left alone
With nothing by a granite stone.
She’ll lay some blossoms by his name,
Her loyalty thus to proclaim,
And hold his empty hat again
Until she joins the freedom train.
AUTHOR’S NOTE:
On Memorial Day (the last Monday in May), Americans honor our fallen soldiers from present days and days gone by. Liberty comes at a dear price, particularly when that cost becomes personal. (Is it ever not personal?)
May 25th, 2009 at 3:09 pm
UK’s Daily Telegraph asks: When will Barack Obama stop fudging it?
Sections of Eric Heffer’s article follow:
The ceremony at Notre Dame, “What followed was a classic Obama manoeuvre. With protesters heckling him from the audience, and many graduands having boycotted the ceremony because of the President’s support for abortion, Mr Obama simply appealed for understanding on both sides…”
“The speech gave a crystal-clear view of Mr Obama’s approach to politics, but was also a token of how increasingly difficult he will find it to govern so long as he persists in thinking he is still on the campaign trail, rather than in the White House and actually running the country. Despite having won his election nearly seven months ago, and perhaps because of grumblings from critics that he could emulate Jimmy Carter and be a one-term Democrat president, Mr Obama cannot help but try to court popularity. He often does this, as in the abortion speech, by seeking to create an idea that he is somehow above differences within the American nation, and that he can represent neither camp or both camps on any question, however tendentious. It won’t work.”
“The cracks were starting to show in the days before he went to Notre Dame. Having been roundly attacked for undermining those who sought to defend America against its enemies, the President suddenly reversed his campaign pledge to scrap military tribunals for trying terrorist detainees, which brought howls of protest from liberals who had supported him. He also studiously avoided becoming involved in an increasingly acrimonious argument between Nancy Pelosi, his fellow Democrat and Speaker of the House of Representatives, and the CIA…”
“This, too, has damaged Mr Obama, who was already suspected of the same attitude after the release a few weeks ago of torture photographs. He was then attacked by Dick Cheney, the former vice-president, for what Mr Cheney considers his damaging security policy. Mr Cheney may not be the most popular man in America, but the jibe did not help.”
“On a related foreign policy theme, Jewish groups in America who urged support for the President last year are signalling their sense of betrayal at what they believe is his support for a two-state solution in the Middle East. When the President met Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli Prime Minister, last Monday, both sides were careful to publish no conclusions from the talks, other than for Mr Netanyahu to welcome Mr Obama’s promise to put some pressure on Iran. However, in one important constituency in America, all this has left is uncertainty.”
“In the legislature, the delivery of campaign promises is proving difficult despite the President’s party having clear majorities in both the House and the Senate. His attempts to demonstrate a commitment to countering global warming have been impeded by Democrats from mining states…Those representing farming areas have hindered reform of agricultural subsidies; and the President’s progress towards health care reform is sniped at as much by some of his own side, who worry about a potential $1 trillion cost and its effects on the deficit, as by his opponents. Some of the President’s supporters warn him against avoiding confrontations with Congress, arguing that George W Bush’s reluctance to take on the then Republican-controlled legislature exacerbated America’s present economic mess, by allowing incontinent spending and the running up of enormous debt. And, of course, the economy remains the President’s overriding problem.”
More to follow
May 25th, 2009 at 3:56 pm
English Rose, thanks for the post from the Telegraph. I rarely read the newspapers in America because of their Liberal bias. That was refreshing.
Dick Cheney last week gave his reasoned speech at the AEI motivated by the selfless love he has for his country. As a private citizen, he was not obligated to do this. He remains an arch villain in the eyes of the left, hated only slightly less than Bush 43. I once saw a decal on a car’s bumper that stated ” I’d rather hunt with Cheney than ride with Kennedy!” My sentiments exactly.
It will be interesting to see how long the President’s tatterdemalion supporters remain enamored of him while he continues to cloak himself in the centrists wares. They will turn on him as they turned on Lyndon Baines Johnson in the Vietnam era, given time.
“The cracks were starting to show in the days before he went to Notre Dame. Having been roundly attacked for undermining those who sought to defend America against its enemies, the President suddenly reversed his campaign pledge to scrap military tribunals for trying terrorist detainees, which brought howls of protest from liberals who had supported him.”
This author from the Telegraph is on to it. There will be the drones who would still love Obama if he was caught in private consul with Bin Laden. Millions still adore Bill Clinton after he placed his hand on the Bible and lied. Clinton, I’m quite sure, is a barrel of laughs; I’d like to have a beer with him. But any man I would hesitate to leave in the same room alone with my date, I don’t trust to be in executive power.
May 25th, 2009 at 4:31 pm
When will Barack Obama stop fudging it? Daily Telegraph - further sections:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/simonheffer/5381374/When-will-Barack-Obama-stop-fudging-it.html
“Just how little he [Pres Obama] has got to grips with it was shown at his first cabinet meeting, held five weeks ago. He ordered colleagues to find a saving of $100 million in costs; but this was in the context of a total budget of $3.4 trillion. Senator Mitch McConnell, who leads the Republicans in the Senate, led the ridicule of this proposal, contending that Obamanomics meant the national debt, already at its highest ever level, would double in five years and triple in the next 10. Timothy Geithner, the Treasury Secretary, had a disastrous first few months in office while seeking to rescue America’s banking system. Wall Street’s recent recovery has taken some of the heat off him, but he has yet to convey the impression that the Administration knows what it is doing with the American economy, rather than simply pursuing a certain course and hoping for the best.”
“Congress approved Mr Obama’s gigantic budget on the President’s 100th day in office, not least because of its emphasis on providing Federal help for the poor and disadvantaged in the spheres of health, education and for the elderly. Yet the economic crisis seems to become more apparent here every day, and is profoundly affecting Mr Obama’s own core voters. The worst signs of recession are now apparent all over the country, having reached what appeared to be the last bastions of the old prosperity in New England in the last few months….”
“The social problems this threatens to cause will have to be dealt with by state authorities in the first instance, but if they fail to cope, the federal government will have no option but to step in. The Administration has warned that unemployment will continue to rise, probably for the rest of the year. In supposedly prosperous areas of New York, shops are empty and restaurants closing; there is seldom a wait to hail a taxi; and crime is slowly rising in difficult neighbourhoods in the Bronx and Queens. If it is Mr Obama’s instinct to throw money at these problems, he is already being made aware, even by his own supporters, that there isn’t the money around to throw…”
“The current crisis in California, where the state is effectively bankrupt after a disastrous period of tax and spend and where the voters cannot agree a solution to deal with it, exemplifies the challenge to Mr Obama. California cannot be allowed to fail; so the federal government will have to come in to save it. Perhaps, given the shortage of funds to do this, it will at last concentrate minds in America about the utility of public spending. The country’s reputation for having a small state was, ironically, blown out of the water by the last, conservative, administration.”
“As in Britain, the governing class seems to travel in fear of dismantling state spending programmes; but these have been as much at the root of America’s malaise as subprime mortgages and unregulated bankers.”
“The disarray of the Republican party here – it remains shattered after last year’s defeat, inadequately led and effective only at sniping – means Mr Obama is under little pressure for the moment to confront the really big issues, to take sides and make the really hard choices. But he can’t keep fudging it, as he did at Notre Dame, for much longer.”
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There’s Heffer in the Telegraph confirming a view that many have expressed on this blog and which is doubtless being expressed around the world: Pres Obama is not living up to his campaign promises and is proving a disappointment. However, what he does seem to be adept at is what pseudo socialists are always good at: hugging the centre and thus hanging onto power and spending money. The Republican’s leadership vacuum and lack of a leadership narrative of means his failures are not being adequately brought into the cold light of day. So he is having far too easy a time of it.
GOP’s, is it time to move out of the post mortem stage and to begin to get your act together?
May 25th, 2009 at 5:19 pm
English Rose, could this possobly be the anthem of Zanulabour?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbyZjU5gHVQ
I think Blair with a little makeup and some peroxide would be a dead ringer for Johnny Rotten, Alastair Campbell could be cast as Sid Vicious. They certainly contributed to the making of many mor-r-r-r-ons, as Obama has and continues to do.
May 25th, 2009 at 5:20 pm
possibly?
May 25th, 2009 at 5:45 pm
Antistatist: Nice one.
“And like a torrent rush
Rebellious Scots to crush
God save the Queen.”
The Queen should actually be saving us, her people, by calling an end to this rotten government. However, I expect she’s rather too tied up counting the EU agricultural grants for her farms to be bothered with rocking the boat.
No, I’m only joking, the problem is poor old HM is in her 80s and her heir is a wet wig. Thank God that we have a few decent royals on the scene now: Princess Diana’s boys, Prince Will and Prince Harry. I just wish that the crown could bypass Charles and go straight to William when m’am pops her clogs.
Though we do have another ‘royal’ on the scene: David Cameron is the Queen’s cousin - by a very roundabout route. He is descended from an illegitimate child of King William III and one of his mistresses :o) That also means he must be indirectly related to your Pres Bush, who is also related to our queen. These royals get absolutely everywhere.
Right, I’m off to bed. Night little bro’ and cousin Joe.
May 25th, 2009 at 5:56 pm
Dick Cheney: Washington trembles at the return of ‘Darth Vader’
Guardian newspaper. By Ewan MacAskill
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/may/24/dick-cheney-washington-return
“Dick Cheney was a formidable backroom operator during his eight years as vice-president in the Bush administration. Having abandoned his short-lived retirement in Wyoming, he is now leading the Republican charge against Obama from the front. Ewen MacAskill reports from Washington on the political resurrection of the last true believer of the neo-con years.”
“Barack Obama, unlike George Bush who wanted to be in bed before 10pm, likes to work late. But even by his standards Wednesday was out of the ordinary, sitting up in a largely empty White House until 2.30am as he edited a speech an adviser later described as one of the most important of his life. He was still nervous about it when he rose to deliver it eight hours later. Normally Mr Cool, he fluffed his opening, referring to the defence secretary, Robert Gates, as Bill, the Microsoft founder.”
“Part of the explanation for the bout of jitters is that Obama is struggling to contain an ever-growing row over the future of Guantánamo Bay and the security apparatus created by the Bush administration as part of its “war on terror”. But there is another factor: the return of an opponent the Democrats had thought of as politically dead: Dick Cheney. The sinister, reclusive figure at the heart of the Bush administration, who attracted labels such as Darth Vader and Dr Strangelove, has returned to the heart of Washington and is causing havoc.”
“He has forced Obama on the defensive for the first time since becoming president, giving demoralised Republicans something finally to cheer about.”
” “Cheney is seriously the only person who’s got the White House to change its policy,” Dan Senor, a foreign policy adviser in the Bush administration, told the Washington Post”
“Cheney has rattled Obama over the proposed closure of Guantánamo and the CIA’s use of waterboarding. And not only Obama, but the next most prominent Democrat after him, the House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, who on Friday refused to answer any more questions about whether she had been briefed by the CIA about torture six years ago. She denies she was: the CIA says”
“Obama had been planning to release thousands of pictures showing abuse at US detention centres round the world by the end of the month, but has since decided against. On the campaign trail, he denounced the Bush administration’s use of military commissions to try Guantánamo detainees, but has now decided to keep them. He denounced the indefinite detention of people without trial, but is now going to do the same.”
“Republicans have been applauding. “I would have originally said that Cheney on torture would have been a net negative for the modern Republican party, which is working to put Bush and Cheney behind us,” said Grover Norquist, an influential figure in shaping US conservatism over the past two decades. “It has worked out well for the Republicans. Cheney is looking good.” ”
“The irony of Cheney’s publicity burst is that, throughout his eight years in office, he was a reclusive vice-president…”
“Why has he come out now?… Obama joked earlier this month the memoirs should be called How to Shoot Friends and Interrogate People”
“Mary Matalin, Cheney’s spokeswoman in the early years of his vice-presidency, told the Washington Post last week that he would have remained in retirement, but was incensed by Obama’s criticism of Bush and him for setting up Guantánamo.”
” “If Barack Obama had come in and done what he said he was going to do and look at the stuff and see what is working, then Cheney would have continued to do what he was doing - working on memoirs, finishing his house,” she said…He’s not settling any scores. He just wants people to understand.” ”
“Thomas Mann, a political scientist at the Brookings Institution, said: “I think Dick Cheney believes Bush will not be a forceful defender of what they did and is damned if he is not going to lead the charge. At a some time an event or another figure will overtake him, but at present there is a vacuum in the Republican party.” “
May 25th, 2009 at 6:03 pm
Ignore the section about Nancy Pelosi in para 6: “She denies she was: the CIA says”, I messed up the cut and paste on that and somehow chopped a sentence in half.
May 25th, 2009 at 8:20 pm
English Rose, thank you for MacAskill’s article from the Guardian. That was an interesting read. I partially disagree with Norquist’ opinion that Cheney should declare victory and retire. This reminds me of the talk of so-called Conservatives who think the fundamental platform should be modified by compromising on Liberal premises.
The Conservatives on the political horizon should be proud of Cheney’s ability to put the Obama administration on the defensive, considering the topic of discussion was one many considered to be a forgone conclusion. Bush and Cheney failed did’nt they? Well, did’nt they? It seems, given last weeks reversals on detainee policy, the halting of funds to close Gitmo by Democrats, and the impact of Cheney’s speech on the left, that the question remains unanswered. Obama certainly can’t answer it.
Young Conservatives must harness the anti-incendiary ‘cool light of reason’; this is what made Cheney’s speech effective. Cheney may return to his memoirs, but he has a few lessons to teach before he goes, to those with a willing ear to listen.
Great post, Rose, thank you. I may have to start reading the Guardian and UK Telegraph.
May 26th, 2009 at 11:11 am
Antistatist: Thank you. I agree with you about Cheney, he’s clearly putting the fear of God into your government and someone needs to, all governments need that sort of democratic opposition. I suspect that he’ll postpone his retirement and hang around until a new leader of the GOP emerges.
May 26th, 2009 at 3:02 pm
Antistatist, Joe and others: Every time I post on Huffingdon or other US sites about the economic problems our government has dumped on UK, some bright spark says, yes, but you have universal healthcare. Aside from explaining the deficiencies of our NHS, I wonder if the universal healthcare debate in the US needs to be put in the context of how much more expensive it is to live in UK than it is in America?
Can we get a sort of comparative chart together? Am I correct in thinking that you think in terms of pounds (weight) in America, rather than metric measures? I’ll kick off with a few of our average salaries and prices - we really need to look at taxes too, but I’m too tired to convert those this evening:
Average Salaries:
London (before tax and National Insurance: $60,530 - national stats
South East $44,815
However, salaries can range from, say, $23,897 (basic office) over £159,300 (public sector manage)
Some earn less, some much more.
House Prices:
The link below is to a website with an average house in an average town in south UK. A very ordinary, tiny, two bedroomed, semi-detached rabbit hutch with tiny rooms, tiny garden and parking space but no garage
The price of such houses has fallen by around £30,000 during the last few months to a year and now stand at:
$278,000 to $302,000
http://www.findaproperty.com/displayprop.aspx?edid=00&salerent=0&pid=3618916
What would this cost in America? What would an average house/ apartment look like - and what would that cost? Much less, I imagine.
Many here pay $477,000 - $716,000 for an average reasonable house - which I imagine would be rubbish by American standards.
Petrol/ gas
costs around $1.54 (£0.97) per litre, what’s the price in America?
Milk
$2.64 for 2 litres
Tomatoes
$2.83 to $15,84 per kilo - depends on quality/ specialty
Potatoes:
$0.87 to $2.19 per kilo
Bread:
$1.57 to $2.13 per sliced loaf (20 odd slices) to £2.62 unsliced
May 26th, 2009 at 3:06 pm
Salary of £159,300 - should have stated $159,300
May 26th, 2009 at 3:29 pm
English Rose, I’m at my friend’s, garage, with all the gearheads working I can’t concentrate well enough to read your post. Here is the start of Rush’s speech at CPAC, pardon if you’ve already seen it. Limbaugh is known as the all-caring, all-feeling, all-knowing MajaRushie, all wrapped up in one lovable little fuzzball(his words).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qtvtBGWgBc
It is a fairly lengthy speech, the other segments available, after this the libs were nearly as dismayed as they were by Cheney’s speech. He remains a thorn in the side of Liberals everywhere, he is the main reason the libs are considering reinstituting the “Fairness Doctrine”, in an attempt to silence him, Glenn, and other Conservative hosts.
May 26th, 2009 at 6:10 pm
Antistatist: Thanks for the Limbaugh link. Excellent speech. Except he needs straightening out about the people of UK, I’ll flick his ear for that remark if I ever see him ;o)
May 26th, 2009 at 6:21 pm
English Rose, I’ll have to watch the speech again. Do you think he was talking about the English people or the current Labour government?
May 26th, 2009 at 7:28 pm
English Rose,
We have a five bedroom, two bath home with 1/2+ lot. We bought a three bedroom bungalow with one bath for $63,900 in 1990 and added two bedrooms and a bath also lengthened a bedroom and kitchen in about 2005 and the last insurance eval was $189,900. I don’t think that will give you much of a comparison with the lot size but hope it helps. Gas here is about $2.40 a gallon. Milk is about $1.99 a gallon. Tomatoes are about $.99 to $3.00 a pound. Bread is $1.00 to $ 3.99 a one pound loaf, sliced. Potatoes are about $3.00 for 10 pounds. Now that is here in North East Ohio, but it varies some from state to state. Hope that helps. We watch a program on the “tellie”(hope that’s right!) here where they show realtors selling homes and flats in London. There is a big difference to here as the population is so compact. Then again, the ones they show in the countryside are small as well so I don’t know what to tell you.
May 26th, 2009 at 7:34 pm
English Rose,
Wanted to tell you and Antistatist about something. With O-man promising transparency in his
administration, I read today where he has decided to hold the summit on amnesty and immigration reform behind closed doors. No John Q. Public at all! So much for transparency!!
He is lying again or still, should I say!! What democracy????
May 26th, 2009 at 8:27 pm
English Rose, I’d be glad to reply with some figures for the chart, I’ll need to look at currency conversion and review the metric system. I got home late from the garage, my friend was nice enough to let me use his lift to work on my car. This chart will be fun and, I’m sure, instructive. Good idea, sis! Night.
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Joe H, Transparency Schmansparency. Oil and water. Libs and accountability.
May 27th, 2009 at 4:01 am
Stimulus!!! Extremism!!! Failing economy!!! Civilest of wars (coming 2010-2012)!!! Greenies killing my nation!!! Look folks, our current and recent governments have fibbed to us just a bit too much recently. DRILL the BAAKEN (Williston Basin)! In Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota and a neat little patch of Canada, hides a neat little (BIG ACTUALLY) crude oil reserve that is SWEET and ENORMOUS. Enough to supply North America for 40 years!!!!!
Here in Pennsylvania, Western New York and West Virginia is hidden so much natural gas at very reasonable depths that we can start exporting gas back to Texas for the next 50 to 60 years and still have enough for all of our own needs.
SO, WHO says all of this??? the United States Geological Surveys sites. Dating back to 1965 when I studied Geomorphology at Okla U!!!! Check it out.
As a Geomorphologist, I state on my grandkids heads that this energy shortage is a fraudulent one developed by our own government. I will let your imagination decide what might cause it to do so. Thank You…. Dave P 2010-2012!! SEMPER FI
May 27th, 2009 at 5:50 am
ALERT!!! H. Amendment #49 By Mr George Miller. Amendment to prohibit organizations from attempting to influence legislation, organize or engage in protests,petitions boycotts or strikes and assist promote or deter union organization.
May 27th, 2009 at 2:14 pm
Joe: Thank you for your interesting list. Your bungalow is valued at £118,000. Bli-mey. Pick that up and move it here and you are looking at £380,000 in the far North East where there’s no work and property can be picked up for a song.
Here, in the South, you would pay £500,000 or more for a property like that. My little semi-detached cottage - while admittedly, almost it’s 300 years old, which adds a premium to the price - has three bedrooms, one bathroom, a largish lounge, small porch, small hall, reasonable sized kitchen, double car port and badly needs a new kitchen and bathroom. House prices are depressed and falling here during the recession, however, that would sell for almost three times the price of your bungalow, Joe. Absurd, isn’t it?
Average mortgages here are about the same as you would sell your bungalow for too. We live to pay our mortgages and all of our living costs are rampantly high. Why? Because that’s the cost of socialism and of ‘free’ health care. The prices I’ve listed above are the sort of runaway house/ mortgage/ living cost inflation you get under pseudo socialist governments.
So how exactly will it profit Americans to have universal healthcare if the other side of that coin is the sort of out of control prices we have for everyday necessities?
May 27th, 2009 at 2:24 pm
Antistatist: No rush, little bro’, you have a lot of responsiblities looking after your dear little children - take your time.
How about the following from Huff Post:
“After months of trying to gain traction on something, anything, against the Obama administration, they finally had something going. The closing of Guantanamo problem and, even more effective, the possibility that Pelosi knew a little more, and a little sooner, about water boarding than we would like to believe. That has been hurting, don’t kid yourself. Cheney’s approval ratings are up from about 21% to about 37%. Panicky Democrats, with local polls near 80% against, have been trotting out NIMBY arguments opposed to stashing a couple of dozen terrorists in Supermax prisons anywhere near their constituents”
(Thomas de Zengotita on Huffingdon Post)
Joe: What’s a half plot?
May 27th, 2009 at 2:30 pm
Joe: £385,00 is about $616,000
£500,000 is about $801,000
In some very expensive areas, parts of Surrey (an English county), for example a bungalow like that would sell for around £750,000 - or just over a million dollars.
May 27th, 2009 at 2:54 pm
Concerns are growing over the future of 5,500 car workers British GM Europe jobs outside Germany as German ministers are meeting to pick their preferred bidder for the firm.
UK unions fear Berlin will back a buyer that puts saving German jobs first, at the possible cost of British cuts.
Joint general secretary of the British Unite union, said the UK government was not doing enough to save workers at Vauxhall, Opel’s UK arm, which employs 5,500 people mainly at plants in Luton (England) and Ellesmere Port (Wales). “Why is our government waiting for the German government to determine what’s going to happen to our plants?” he said.
UK Business Secretary Lord Mandelson countered that he was working “very hard” on the issue of Vauxhall’s future, and had received reassurances from the three main bidders for GM Europe over their commitment to the UK jobs. However, he said that job cuts may be likely in the longer term as Opel and Vauxhall needed to “consolidate”. Lord Mandelson has already said the UK government is considering giving financial support to the eventual buyer. However, Mandelson admitted to the BBC that one of the eplants may have to lose.
So much for UK’s EU ‘partners’ then and for Brown’s much vaunted ’solidarity’ and EU ‘integration’. When the fat hits the fan, it’s every country for themselves and the EU’s worth nothing.
That’s one of the many reasons the people of UK want out of this corrupt EU superstate that we have been deliberately denied a vote on by that wretch Brown and zanu labour.
May 27th, 2009 at 4:11 pm
English Rose, the Obama administration acted similarly to zanu labour when he reversed himself on the ‘Buy American’ clause inserted into the stimulus package. He acquiesed in typical ‘Citizen of the World’ fashion to foreign interests when they complained about the exclusive use of American products. I was apparently wrong in my assumption that the stimulus was designed to boost the economy of the United States of America. We were in such peril that something had to be done immediately, right? Obama’s recant on the ‘Buy American’ clause confirmed my skepticism concerning the true motivation of the ’stimulus’ bills.
I read today in NR that J.P. Morgan and Goldman Sachs, two large banks that recieved stimulus money, have expressed an interest in paying the money back now. That would’nt do, said an Obama official, unless it was ‘good for the system.’ I’ve always believed that the stimulus bills were really about increasing the power and control of the state. This evidence supports that argument.
May 27th, 2009 at 4:48 pm
I’ve always believed that the stimulus bills were really about increasing the power and control of the state. This evidence supports that argument.” (antistatist)
Exactly. And expanding the state creates so many more opportunities for our politicians to increase their own take by increasing our taxes. Higher taxation means more money and expenses for politicians to stash in their own coffers - and with which to feed and expand their public sector and state dependency payroll vote, to keep the party in power - and then guess what? We need an even bigger state to provide jobs for the expanded payroll vote and even higher pay and expenses for the politicians gravy train.
The time comes, of course, when the politicians have expanded the state to the point where the whole, greed fueled system begins to break down because the private, productive sector cannot take any more taxation and the economy begins to badly malfunction.
Then those greedy politicians say: look what irrational greedy Capitalism did to us, we need to expand the state to deal with this…
Get thee glass eyes, and like a scurvy politician, seem to see the things thou dost not.
( Shakespeare)
May 27th, 2009 at 4:58 pm
What Dan Hannan says about government bail outs:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGKkfKhbrDM&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fblogs%2Etelegraph%2Eco%2Euk%2Fdaniel%5Fhannan&feature=player_embedded
May 27th, 2009 at 6:03 pm
English Rose,
What practiced deceivers Barack Hussein Obama and his cabinet are! Their tactics are shrewd if ignoble.
“Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.”
I’m sure Rahm Emanuel has read Sun Tzu.
May 27th, 2009 at 7:57 pm
English Rose,
I believe what you are asking about is where I said a half acre lot. This means the land with the house is 1/2 acre in dimension or approx 22,000 square feet.
May 27th, 2009 at 8:36 pm
English Rose, thank you for the clip of Hannan. He has the rare ablility to display style and substance simultaneously, whereas Obama’s style veils his true substance.
Here are some figures for the UK/American chart. My home, purchased in 1996 for $80,000 or 50,091 UK pounds, has three bedrooms, two small bathrooms, a two car garage, and a large back yard for the children to play in. I have some huge oak trees in my front yard that are surely older than the house, built in 1972, that keep me busy in the fall raking leaves.
As of March 2009, the median home price in the South, according to the National Association of Realtors is $146,900 or 92,050 UK pounds. Down 12.2% since March 2008.
The median price in the Northeast is $231,700, or 145,169 UK, down 18.4% hardest hit.
In the mid-West the median is $141,300 or 88,535 UK, down only 6%.
The West fared only slightly better then the South, down 11% to $252,400 or 158,160 UK pounds.
All regions but the Northeast have come up in the last three months.
The price of food and gasoline, or petrol, has come down for us in the last year. Last summer gasoline reached $4.00 a gallon, or 2.5 UK pounds for 3.78 liters, outrageous for most Americans. The price in recent months dropped below $2.00 or 1.25 GBP, but is creeping up once again. Yesterday I paid $2.25 a gallon or 1.4 GBP. What you poor folk in the UK have to pay for petrol converts to nearly $6.00 a gallon; highway robbery!
I’ll post on salaries tomorrow, and include some tax information if I can find the time. I found out that I am 178cm tall and weigh in at 88.5 Kg, about 4 kilos more than the weight I used to box at. It was about 27 degrees Celsius today, I dread August, when the temperature will be greater than 38 degrees, and horribly humid. I thought that this would be fun and instructive, it is! Night sis.
I almost forgot, your cottage is nearly 300 years old? America didn’t exist when your charming abode was originally built! How very interesting! Could you tell me some of it’s history? I don’t mean to pry.
Cordially
May 28th, 2009 at 2:25 pm
talk about kooks…seriously…
*GASP* The sky is falling!
May 28th, 2009 at 5:15 pm
There is a book written years ago, “The Peter Principle” by Dr Laurence J Peter and Raymond Hull. I think I see many of our politicians from the top on down, though unnamed, in this book Well worth the read. The subtitle is, “Why Things Always Go Wrong”. Sound familiar?
May 28th, 2009 at 5:57 pm
Antistatist: Thank you for the fascinating information about American house and commodity prices. Your houses prices and cost of living are so much cheaper than ours. How amazing that Americans view $4 for petrol/gas as expensive, a cheer would go right across UK if the price here was ever reduced to that level. I’m too exhausted to look up our labyrinthine taxes this evening - I worked very late and had to do some shopping on my way home - so I’ll look at that tomorrow. Zzzz
May 28th, 2009 at 7:43 pm
English Rose, it was sweet of you to check in after such a long day. Here is some information regarding the tax scheme that Obama and the Liberals malign for its lack of ‘fairness’. It generated unprecedented revenue from the ‘evil rich’ with the Bush tax cuts in place.
http://www.taxfoundation.org/news/show/250.html
May 28th, 2009 at 10:13 pm
I just want to know when the American people is going to stop believing all this political BS they are