Gee, how come death threats against political leadership is only kool and kitsch and outsider art when liberals are doing it?
A coffin was placed on a Missouri Democrat’s lawn, another in a string of incidents against lawmakers after their vote Sunday on a health care overhaul.
Rep. Russ Carnahan (D-Mo.) had a coffin placed “near his home,” a spokesman said Wednesday evening.
It symbolizes the death of the party, the death of the movement, not the man! Please..get a grip, and enjoy the zeitgeist :
This came after Rep. Tom Perriello’s (D-Va.) brother’s gas lines were cut...
Hey, if we are priced out of the carbon market by cap and trade, we'll all be freezing to death together next winter!! Cutting his gas lines just symbolizes our empathy for what he's trying to accomplish....Jeez...if you don't see that, maybe you should just leave the gallery, OK?
Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) received death threats and Rules Committee Chairwoman Louise Slaughter (D-N.Y.) received a message saying snipers were being deployed to kill children of those who voted for health care overhaul
Ah..well....that's a bit tougher. But since a majority of Americans now understand that Stupak just opened the way to government-assisted, citizen-funded abortions, and that Slaughter attempt to circumvent the entirety of the Constitution in order to facilitate the seizure of 1/6th of the nation's economy, well...one can understand just a wee bit of dissent. Roger Simon:
...in the grand tradition of totalitarian regimes everywhere, you employed “any means necessary” to make sure your ends were achieved, bribing and threatening your fellow Congressmen and women, etc. It is small wonder that our people are angry. It would be amazing if it were otherwise.
You have reaped a whirlwind by subverting a democracy. Now you must deal with it.
.... Violence is to be condemned, but so is the desecration of a great democracy.
Still. Expression of outrage are not the same as outrageous actions, but no one had better cross that line. We can wipe these guys off the face of the earth - this November, at the polls. Assuming no one tries to "deem and pass" an "Imperial Congress For Life"...
Of course, if we still had an independent press, we'd probably not even be here today. Which reminds me, look for the editorial pages of the Times or the WaPo to start calling for martial law to suppress the rage of the "teabaggers" before the Obama administration even does...
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
"She Was Asking For It"
The Rape of Lady Liberty, by Darleen Click:
(click to enlarge)
Sorry. It is disturbing. But what Barack Obama and the Democrats are doing is nothing less than violating, forcefully, with disdain for the rule of law - all we Americans have held sacred for generations.
If we are real men - real Americans - we will fight to protect Miss Liberty from the next vicious assault, one that is no doubt being planned as we speak....
What Is The (Health Care) Matrix? Control
Oh, Morpheus, where are you, with your short, pithy commentary on the state of the world, and your ability to leap between skyscrapers?
Morpheus: What is the Matrix? Control. The Matrix is a computer-generated dream world built to keep us under control in order to change a human being into this.
Neo: No, I don't believe it. It's not possible.
Morpheus: I didn't say it would be easy, Neo. I just said it would be the truth
The truth is never easy, gentle reader, even when it is delivered to us in a straightforward manner, as Rep. John Dingell (D-MI) does, when he speaks of the end goal of ObamaCare :
The harsh fact of the matter is when you’re going to pass legislation that will cover 300 [million] American people in different ways it takes a long time to do the necessary administrative steps that have to be taken to put the legislation together to control the people.
We have been told. We may not listen (did Hitler did not plainly speak of his ambitions and Final Solutions?), but we have been warned. What happens next is as much our responsibility as it is the Democrats.
Cypher: If you'd told us the truth, we would've told you to shove that red pill right up your ass.
But Obama never told us the truth, nor did the media, who hope to somehow share power with the hard Left (power is fought over, never shared, silly journalists!). And so here we are, on the cusp of socialization, on the precipice of Control.
But we are going to fight back. The troops are gathering across the nation, the people are turning their backs on leadership, the legacy media finds itself drowned out by the fire erupting from the 'net. And we will stand as one, with our Gadsden flags unfurled, and remember the words of Neo:
NEO: I know you're out there. I can feel you now. I know that you're afraid. You're afraid of us. You're afraid of change. I don't know the future. I didn't come here to tell you how this is going to end. I came here to tell you how it's going to begin. I'm going to hang up this phone, and then I'm going to show these people what you don't want them to see. I'm going to show them a world … without you. A world without rules and controls, without borders or boundaries; a world where anything is possible. Where we go from there is a choice I leave to you....
Morpheus: What is the Matrix? Control. The Matrix is a computer-generated dream world built to keep us under control in order to change a human being into this.
Neo: No, I don't believe it. It's not possible.
Morpheus: I didn't say it would be easy, Neo. I just said it would be the truth
The truth is never easy, gentle reader, even when it is delivered to us in a straightforward manner, as Rep. John Dingell (D-MI) does, when he speaks of the end goal of ObamaCare :
The harsh fact of the matter is when you’re going to pass legislation that will cover 300 [million] American people in different ways it takes a long time to do the necessary administrative steps that have to be taken to put the legislation together to control the people.
We have been told. We may not listen (did Hitler did not plainly speak of his ambitions and Final Solutions?), but we have been warned. What happens next is as much our responsibility as it is the Democrats.
Cypher: If you'd told us the truth, we would've told you to shove that red pill right up your ass.
But Obama never told us the truth, nor did the media, who hope to somehow share power with the hard Left (power is fought over, never shared, silly journalists!). And so here we are, on the cusp of socialization, on the precipice of Control.
But we are going to fight back. The troops are gathering across the nation, the people are turning their backs on leadership, the legacy media finds itself drowned out by the fire erupting from the 'net. And we will stand as one, with our Gadsden flags unfurled, and remember the words of Neo:
NEO: I know you're out there. I can feel you now. I know that you're afraid. You're afraid of us. You're afraid of change. I don't know the future. I didn't come here to tell you how this is going to end. I came here to tell you how it's going to begin. I'm going to hang up this phone, and then I'm going to show these people what you don't want them to see. I'm going to show them a world … without you. A world without rules and controls, without borders or boundaries; a world where anything is possible. Where we go from there is a choice I leave to you....
First Health Care Tax: Racist!
The only feature of health care reform that kicks in today? A tax, on tanning salons:
Indoor tanning salons will charge customers a 10 percent tax beginning today in just one of the changes Americans will see as a result of the U.S. health-care overhaul signed into law by President Barack Obama....
And who uses tanning salons? White people, by a huge margin. Post-racial president? Or Al Sharpton sans the gold chains?
Can you imagine if any previous administration had implemented a tax levied on service strictly used by black people? Oh, the left would be howling...but emptying whitey's pockets? Nothin' but crickets...
Actually, there is one other group of people - likely of all races - that uses tanning salons. Those are people afflicted with eczema, a common and painful skin condition
The term eczema is broadly applied to a range of persistent skin conditions. These include dryness and recurring skin rashes that are characterized by one or more of these symptoms: redness, skin edema (swelling), itching and dryness, crusting, flaking, blistering, cracking, oozing, or bleeding. Areas of temporary skin discoloration may appear and are sometimes due to healed lesions.
The best treatment for eczema is small, consistent doses of ultraviolet radiation - ie a tanning bed. Most dermatologists will keep one in their office, and charge you a hefty fee for its use, which is covered by most insurance plans. However, the copay can range between $10-$25, depending on your plan. To compete with this, most tanning salons offer "eczema packages", which average out (in my area) in the $10-range per visit. So one can actually save serious money (since treatment may need to be consistent) avoiding insurance and working with the non-medical private sector.
But that will likely disappear, as tanning salons are taxed out of business, or are forced to raise their rates via the tax to equal or above rates charged by insurance companies. So this medical treatment will now cost even more money under Obamacare, limit patient's options, increase wait times for treatment, and force insurance rates higher as they now need to cover more people with this condition who would have ordinarily paid for it themselves.
But since the government now owns the health-care industry...maybe they know all this already?
Still, take note, Barack: Racism - like taxes - never pays...
Indoor tanning salons will charge customers a 10 percent tax beginning today in just one of the changes Americans will see as a result of the U.S. health-care overhaul signed into law by President Barack Obama....
And who uses tanning salons? White people, by a huge margin. Post-racial president? Or Al Sharpton sans the gold chains?
Can you imagine if any previous administration had implemented a tax levied on service strictly used by black people? Oh, the left would be howling...but emptying whitey's pockets? Nothin' but crickets...
Actually, there is one other group of people - likely of all races - that uses tanning salons. Those are people afflicted with eczema, a common and painful skin condition
The term eczema is broadly applied to a range of persistent skin conditions. These include dryness and recurring skin rashes that are characterized by one or more of these symptoms: redness, skin edema (swelling), itching and dryness, crusting, flaking, blistering, cracking, oozing, or bleeding. Areas of temporary skin discoloration may appear and are sometimes due to healed lesions.
The best treatment for eczema is small, consistent doses of ultraviolet radiation - ie a tanning bed. Most dermatologists will keep one in their office, and charge you a hefty fee for its use, which is covered by most insurance plans. However, the copay can range between $10-$25, depending on your plan. To compete with this, most tanning salons offer "eczema packages", which average out (in my area) in the $10-range per visit. So one can actually save serious money (since treatment may need to be consistent) avoiding insurance and working with the non-medical private sector.
But that will likely disappear, as tanning salons are taxed out of business, or are forced to raise their rates via the tax to equal or above rates charged by insurance companies. So this medical treatment will now cost even more money under Obamacare, limit patient's options, increase wait times for treatment, and force insurance rates higher as they now need to cover more people with this condition who would have ordinarily paid for it themselves.
But since the government now owns the health-care industry...maybe they know all this already?
Still, take note, Barack: Racism - like taxes - never pays...
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Will The Democrats Slip In The Public Option?
...maybe this is how the Democrats convinced the hardcore liberal caucus to vote for the Senate health care reform bill...becuase in reconciliation, almost anything can happen:
Any Democrat could introduce a public option amendment in the Senate and it would need a bare majority to pass. Would it have 50 votes? It looks that way, but the one way to find out is to hold the vote without leadership urging members to vote it down....
...with Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) and his pro-life caucus squarely on board as the result of a deal with the White House, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has the votes to pass a public option. There's an easy way to prove that assertion: She passed it in November 220-215 with a public option. Sunday night's version passed 220-211, meaning that four members could peel off and she would still have the needed support.
Alas, the HuffPost is right on this one. Changing the bill in this way would require another vote by the House, but hey - if you've jumped off the cliff once and survived, why not do it twice? And if the fact that 59% of the American people disagree with you didn't stop you on Sunday night, why would it stop you next week?
Tyranny does not need consent of its subjects. However, there is a critical mass that they need to be concerned about, where the tinder of discontent explodes into the flames of rebellion.
I was on the subway in New York yesterday, and overheard numerous conversations by folks of all shapes/sizes/colors, all about the reform bill. No one sounded happy. One person exclaimed, "Jesus f*ck, what are the going to do next?"
That's the sound of tinder about to hit it's combustion point. And this is in one of the Democratic party's fortresses, no less.
Are they so sure that, once the blaze is ignited, they can so easily put it out? The soothing words of Barack Obama are no longer effective as an extinguisher to put out this particular fire - in fact, they might fan the flames...
So...you still gonna try that public option?
Any Democrat could introduce a public option amendment in the Senate and it would need a bare majority to pass. Would it have 50 votes? It looks that way, but the one way to find out is to hold the vote without leadership urging members to vote it down....
...with Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) and his pro-life caucus squarely on board as the result of a deal with the White House, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has the votes to pass a public option. There's an easy way to prove that assertion: She passed it in November 220-215 with a public option. Sunday night's version passed 220-211, meaning that four members could peel off and she would still have the needed support.
Alas, the HuffPost is right on this one. Changing the bill in this way would require another vote by the House, but hey - if you've jumped off the cliff once and survived, why not do it twice? And if the fact that 59% of the American people disagree with you didn't stop you on Sunday night, why would it stop you next week?
Tyranny does not need consent of its subjects. However, there is a critical mass that they need to be concerned about, where the tinder of discontent explodes into the flames of rebellion.
I was on the subway in New York yesterday, and overheard numerous conversations by folks of all shapes/sizes/colors, all about the reform bill. No one sounded happy. One person exclaimed, "Jesus f*ck, what are the going to do next?"
That's the sound of tinder about to hit it's combustion point. And this is in one of the Democratic party's fortresses, no less.
Are they so sure that, once the blaze is ignited, they can so easily put it out? The soothing words of Barack Obama are no longer effective as an extinguisher to put out this particular fire - in fact, they might fan the flames...
So...you still gonna try that public option?
Obama Refuses To Be Seen With Filthy Jew Netanyahu
...but when the time comes, I am sure he will pose for a picture with his arms around Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's knees, licking his boots:
Per MSNBC, Obama Will Not Take Any Photos with Bibi
Chuck Todd just said that Netanyahu is in the U.S. and will be at the White House, but Obama will not take any photos with him or let any press get any photos of them together.
It's not that he hates the Jews, or Israel, don't you know....but it would be so hard to explain to his Arab friends and allies that...well...you understand, don't you? The trouble it would cause if they were, you know...seen in public together?
UPDATE: Related...something Barack Obama and Gordon Brown can finally see eye-to-eye on...those pesky Jews!
A new low was reached Tuesday in the traditionally close but often rocky British-Israeli relationship when Britain announced that it was expelling an Israeli diplomat following the use of forged British passports in the Dubai assassination of a senior Hamas official in January.
Money shot:
...the [British] probe was unable to definitively confirm the involvement of Israeli intelligence...
Who cares? They're JEWS!
UPDATE II: Collecting pennies for UNICEF? Watch them melted into rhetorical bullets aimed at those damn Jews!
UNICEF has funded PYALARA, the Palestinian Youth Association for Leadership and Rights Activation, since 2000. An ad that bears the UNICEF logo promotes a PYALARA program on Palestinian Authority TV that is devoted to promoting a boycott of Israel. The ad depicts an axe smashing a Star of David, which has on its side not only additional Jewish stars but also the stars and stripes of the United States....
Well, maybe the stars and bars will disappear, now that Obama has committed the United States to the cause of the Palestinian jihad...
Per MSNBC, Obama Will Not Take Any Photos with Bibi
Chuck Todd just said that Netanyahu is in the U.S. and will be at the White House, but Obama will not take any photos with him or let any press get any photos of them together.
It's not that he hates the Jews, or Israel, don't you know....but it would be so hard to explain to his Arab friends and allies that...well...you understand, don't you? The trouble it would cause if they were, you know...seen in public together?
UPDATE: Related...something Barack Obama and Gordon Brown can finally see eye-to-eye on...those pesky Jews!
A new low was reached Tuesday in the traditionally close but often rocky British-Israeli relationship when Britain announced that it was expelling an Israeli diplomat following the use of forged British passports in the Dubai assassination of a senior Hamas official in January.
Money shot:
...the [British] probe was unable to definitively confirm the involvement of Israeli intelligence...
Who cares? They're JEWS!
UPDATE II: Collecting pennies for UNICEF? Watch them melted into rhetorical bullets aimed at those damn Jews!
UNICEF has funded PYALARA, the Palestinian Youth Association for Leadership and Rights Activation, since 2000. An ad that bears the UNICEF logo promotes a PYALARA program on Palestinian Authority TV that is devoted to promoting a boycott of Israel. The ad depicts an axe smashing a Star of David, which has on its side not only additional Jewish stars but also the stars and stripes of the United States....
Well, maybe the stars and bars will disappear, now that Obama has committed the United States to the cause of the Palestinian jihad...
Christiane Amanpour: A Woman of the People!
...well, of certain people. Anti-Americans. Anti-Semites. And the Liberal elite. Which made her such a perfect pick to anchor ABC's Sunday news program, "This Week". If toadying up to DC and not upsetting the powers that be are your primary goals in selecting a newsperson, why, she's perfect.
And she's starting off her tenure at ABC in classic elitist fashion: Vacationing in the south of France:
Newly hired Christiane Amanpour has irked her ABC News bosses by refusing to start until August -- because she wants to spend the summer in the south of France.
The respected CNN chief international correspondent, who will take over as anchor of ABC's Sunday morning show "This Week," told network honchos that she wouldn't start until after her regular summer vacation...A source told Page Six, "Christiane made it clear she would not start until August because she wants to spend time at her family house in France." Amanpour, daughter of an Iranian airline executive and his British wife, is married to former State Department spokesman Jamie Rubin, a Columbia University professor.
Despite her clear dedication to the job, she told a British newspaper last year, "I spend time in France each summer."
And speaking of Christiane's husband, he is an...
...informal foreign policy advisor to U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and President Barack Obama [and] served in the State Department during the administration of President Bill Clinton...
Why not just hire Robert Gibbs and get it over with?
And what are they saying over at ABC?
"In general, people are too demoralized to care," says a veteran ABC correspondent...
Jake Tapper is apparently pissed, but is keeping his mouth shut. Because he's a professional journalist. Which also makes him eminently unqualified to have nay type of high-profile role in a media environment where the only contest is to see how far one can stick their tongues up the Obama administration's collective ass...
And she's starting off her tenure at ABC in classic elitist fashion: Vacationing in the south of France:
Newly hired Christiane Amanpour has irked her ABC News bosses by refusing to start until August -- because she wants to spend the summer in the south of France.
The respected CNN chief international correspondent, who will take over as anchor of ABC's Sunday morning show "This Week," told network honchos that she wouldn't start until after her regular summer vacation...A source told Page Six, "Christiane made it clear she would not start until August because she wants to spend time at her family house in France." Amanpour, daughter of an Iranian airline executive and his British wife, is married to former State Department spokesman Jamie Rubin, a Columbia University professor.
Despite her clear dedication to the job, she told a British newspaper last year, "I spend time in France each summer."
And speaking of Christiane's husband, he is an...
...informal foreign policy advisor to U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and President Barack Obama [and] served in the State Department during the administration of President Bill Clinton...
Why not just hire Robert Gibbs and get it over with?
And what are they saying over at ABC?
"In general, people are too demoralized to care," says a veteran ABC correspondent...
Jake Tapper is apparently pissed, but is keeping his mouth shut. Because he's a professional journalist. Which also makes him eminently unqualified to have nay type of high-profile role in a media environment where the only contest is to see how far one can stick their tongues up the Obama administration's collective ass...
Monday, March 22, 2010
Slaughter's Constituents Throw A Brick
....I guess the residents of Fairport, New York - represented by Louise "Slaughter Rule" Slaughter - have finally realized that their tony, upscale lifestyle (it is known as "The Crown Jewel of the Erie Canal"; in 2005 it was named as one of Money Magazine's "Best Places to Live") will be torn asunder if the Democrats "socialization" of America continues apace.
The damage was discovered about 12:30 a.m., city police said.
The brick put a hole in the outer-most window at the office at 1910 Pine Ave., but did not damage a second interior window, police reported. A piece of broken brick believed to have caused the damage was found at the scene.
NIAGARA FALLS — The "Slaughter Solution" on health care isn't the only thing that has come under attack in U.S. Rep. Louise M. Slaughter's world this week. Sometime early this morning, someone threw a brick through the front window of her Pine Avenue office.
The damage was discovered about 12:30 a.m., city police said.
The brick put a hole in the outer-most window at the office at 1910 Pine Ave., but did not damage a second interior window, police reported. A piece of broken brick believed to have caused the damage was found at the scene.
But maybe I am wrong about that; maybe the liberal elite never learn. Slaughter's district is gerrymandered in such a convoluted way that it is nicknamed "the earmuff district - check out that swath of green:
So maybe it was someone from the more depressed Buffalo area, where a factory closes every five minutes, or from Rochester, which has been in the doldrums for what seems like a decade, who chucked that brick. An unemployed factory worker, who did not want to have to pay for the next fella's health care? A retiree on pension, who does not want to see Medicaid cut? Or just an average Joe (or Joesette?) who was tired of not having their voice heard in Washington; someone whose voice is shouted out by the money waved around from the more upscale, and liberal Fairport region?
Well, I understand the anger, but let's throw the bums out, not throw the bricks in. After all, you might hurt someone - and then you have to pay for their health care...
"So This Is How Liberty Dies....
"The Republic has been re-organized...into an Empire!"
....to thunderous applause"
Nancy as the Emperor, and Obama as Darth Vader? Sounds about right...
It's the idea of America as their Empire that I can't stomach...
....to thunderous applause"
Nancy as the Emperor, and Obama as Darth Vader? Sounds about right...
It's the idea of America as their Empire that I can't stomach...
Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?
Hey, we're Americans - nothing is over until we say it's over!
And the health care debate hasn't even begun. Sure, Obama and the Democrats had just enough of their minions in line to vote for a socialization of America's medical system, but in doing so, they've raised the American people out of a stupor and into a rage not seen in decades. Sure, the media is completely in the government's pocket, but since nobody really pays much attention to them anymore anyway, what's the difference?
We've gained a lot more than we've lost in the short term. We realize why Democrats and liberals cannot be trusted with the levers of the state, as they will always use it to empower themselves while impoverishing the nation. We've learned (thank you, Bart Stupak!) that there is no such thing as a "pro-life Democrat", or even a "centrist" Democrat - for when the call comes from the left, they will dutifully fall into line. We learned that certain provisions of our governing bodies can be stretched to force unpopular legislation down the throat of an unwilling public, and be manipulated to allow a single party to rule tyrannically.
And we can fix this. We can start in 2010 by taking back the House, where all requests for appropriations must begin. We will deny Obama his funds, we will refuse to take up his causes, we will stop the bloody train of government tyranny in its tracks, before the bodies begin to pile up under its steel wheels. We will rewrite the rules to prevent deem-and-pass, we will reassert state's rights as affirmed in our Constitution.
We will fight back against a government that has us against the wall, and at gunpoint, is taking our money, controlling our health insurance, interfering in our personal life choices, and is bankrupting our nation.
We can win this one if we stay strong, ignore the media, and pay attention to our values. Remember - as the mainstream media celebrated the permanent Democratic majority in the weeks after the 2008 election, did any of you think that in March 2010 we would be talking about the Democratic majority being in danger?
This is not the beginning of the end. It is the end of the beginning.
It's on, bitches. Bring it.
And the health care debate hasn't even begun. Sure, Obama and the Democrats had just enough of their minions in line to vote for a socialization of America's medical system, but in doing so, they've raised the American people out of a stupor and into a rage not seen in decades. Sure, the media is completely in the government's pocket, but since nobody really pays much attention to them anymore anyway, what's the difference?
We've gained a lot more than we've lost in the short term. We realize why Democrats and liberals cannot be trusted with the levers of the state, as they will always use it to empower themselves while impoverishing the nation. We've learned (thank you, Bart Stupak!) that there is no such thing as a "pro-life Democrat", or even a "centrist" Democrat - for when the call comes from the left, they will dutifully fall into line. We learned that certain provisions of our governing bodies can be stretched to force unpopular legislation down the throat of an unwilling public, and be manipulated to allow a single party to rule tyrannically.
And we can fix this. We can start in 2010 by taking back the House, where all requests for appropriations must begin. We will deny Obama his funds, we will refuse to take up his causes, we will stop the bloody train of government tyranny in its tracks, before the bodies begin to pile up under its steel wheels. We will rewrite the rules to prevent deem-and-pass, we will reassert state's rights as affirmed in our Constitution.
We will fight back against a government that has us against the wall, and at gunpoint, is taking our money, controlling our health insurance, interfering in our personal life choices, and is bankrupting our nation.
We can win this one if we stay strong, ignore the media, and pay attention to our values. Remember - as the mainstream media celebrated the permanent Democratic majority in the weeks after the 2008 election, did any of you think that in March 2010 we would be talking about the Democratic majority being in danger?
This is not the beginning of the end. It is the end of the beginning.
It's on, bitches. Bring it.
Sunday, March 21, 2010
Mayor of Seaside Arrested in Bar Brawl - Auditioning for Jersey Shore 2010?
Pity the poor cast of MTV's The Jersey Shore, derided from coast to coast. Sure, they got drunk and got into brawls at bars all across Seaside Heights, but what folks don't understand is that this behavior is not just accepted in Seaside, it is expected. It's as common as green puke on St. Patrick Day, or the burning of Detroit after a world championship.
In other words...everyone does it like that in Seaside. Including the mayor of neighboring Seaside Park, who got himself arrested by stepping in the middle of a fight between his kids, and the local cops while boozing it up at the Shore.
Classic Jersey, man:
The mayor of Seaside Park was arrested, along with his adult son and daughter, outside a nightclub in Seaside Heights, authorities said.
Mayor Thomas E. Connors was arrested with Anthony Connors, 23, and Lindsay Connors, 22, outside of Hemingway's Cafe, according to a statement released by Seaside Heights police.
Anthony Connors was being escorted from the bar by staff members, when police say he attempted to hit the staff members. Officers stopped Anthony Connors and placed him under arrest.
Police say Lindsay Connors, who began to interfere during her brother's arrest, striking a police officer on the arm and chest area, was then arrested.
As the bar's staff escorted out their father, Mayor Connors -- who had a minor injury on his face -- saw his children being taken into custody. Police say he, then, began to interfere on their behalf and was also arrested.
Anthony Connors was charged with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest. Lindsay Connors was charged with disorderly conduct, interfering with an arrest and simple assault. The mayor was charged with disorderly conduct and interfering with an arrest.
Maybe Mayor Connors was auditioning for his own reality show? For all of the whining from the politically correct, Seaside Heights saw a spike in tourism (in a down year) after the world was made aware - by Ronnie and Sammi and Snooki - of the lawless, late Roman empire-type fun that could be had down at the Shore. With Chris Christie cutting state funding for every township and leaving them on their own, these guys have to come up with some additional revenue, pronto.
Still, this is a Class C scandal in Jersey. Without the boastful bribery, death threats, missing bodies, and illegal organ transplants, it's a one-day story at best.
Ah, but the Jersey joy of drunken brawling with family, cops, and bouncers. It's awesome - I know it, Pauli D knows it, Mayor Connors knows it, and now you know it...
In other words...everyone does it like that in Seaside. Including the mayor of neighboring Seaside Park, who got himself arrested by stepping in the middle of a fight between his kids, and the local cops while boozing it up at the Shore.
Classic Jersey, man:
The mayor of Seaside Park was arrested, along with his adult son and daughter, outside a nightclub in Seaside Heights, authorities said.
Mayor Thomas E. Connors was arrested with Anthony Connors, 23, and Lindsay Connors, 22, outside of Hemingway's Cafe, according to a statement released by Seaside Heights police.
Anthony Connors was being escorted from the bar by staff members, when police say he attempted to hit the staff members. Officers stopped Anthony Connors and placed him under arrest.
Police say Lindsay Connors, who began to interfere during her brother's arrest, striking a police officer on the arm and chest area, was then arrested.
As the bar's staff escorted out their father, Mayor Connors -- who had a minor injury on his face -- saw his children being taken into custody. Police say he, then, began to interfere on their behalf and was also arrested.
Anthony Connors was charged with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest. Lindsay Connors was charged with disorderly conduct, interfering with an arrest and simple assault. The mayor was charged with disorderly conduct and interfering with an arrest.
Maybe Mayor Connors was auditioning for his own reality show? For all of the whining from the politically correct, Seaside Heights saw a spike in tourism (in a down year) after the world was made aware - by Ronnie and Sammi and Snooki - of the lawless, late Roman empire-type fun that could be had down at the Shore. With Chris Christie cutting state funding for every township and leaving them on their own, these guys have to come up with some additional revenue, pronto.
Still, this is a Class C scandal in Jersey. Without the boastful bribery, death threats, missing bodies, and illegal organ transplants, it's a one-day story at best.
Ah, but the Jersey joy of drunken brawling with family, cops, and bouncers. It's awesome - I know it, Pauli D knows it, Mayor Connors knows it, and now you know it...
Bart Stupak's Deal With The Devil
So Stupak is taking an executive order - one without the power of law, one that could be rescinded, amended, or withdrawn at any time without due process, on a mere whim - as payment for his conscience. He will vote yes on ObamaCare, and thus saddle all of American with socialized medicine, now and forever.
Did anyone tell him it's a check with no funds behind it? Especially one signed by Barack Hussein Obama....
Again - maybe Lando Calrissian can teach Bart Stupak a lesson about making a deal with tyrannical leadership:
...this deal is getting worse all the time!!
Ultimately, of course, Stupak has to answer to forces larger than Pelosi and Obama. One wonders how impressed He will be with a bounced check...
Did anyone tell him it's a check with no funds behind it? Especially one signed by Barack Hussein Obama....
Again - maybe Lando Calrissian can teach Bart Stupak a lesson about making a deal with tyrannical leadership:
...this deal is getting worse all the time!!
Ultimately, of course, Stupak has to answer to forces larger than Pelosi and Obama. One wonders how impressed He will be with a bounced check...
Chaos at the Capitol
On the outside, anti-reform demonstrators get pumped when Congressional Republicans fly their colors:
Apparently, the Gadsden Flag was unfurled by Reps. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), who is the Chief Deputy Whip, Mary Fallin (R-OK), Bill Posey (R-FL) and Geoff Davis (R-KY),who unfurled their own yellow "Don't Tread on Me" banner from a side balcony of the Capitol, adjacent to the Speaker's Lobby.
And on the inside?
Apparently, the Gadsden Flag was unfurled by Reps. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), who is the Chief Deputy Whip, Mary Fallin (R-OK), Bill Posey (R-FL) and Geoff Davis (R-KY),who unfurled their own yellow "Don't Tread on Me" banner from a side balcony of the Capitol, adjacent to the Speaker's Lobby.
And on the inside?
Cong. Barney Frank came out to give reporters a rundown of what happened in the chamber. A man stood up and started shouting "kill the bill." According to Frank, the man was encouraged to continue by several Republican members.
The man was escorted out. Another man started in and he was escorted out as well.
Arrests:
Re: Protesters in house gallery
One of the men arrested was Bill Gunn of Wareham, MA. He was wearing an Uncle Sam t-shirt that read "foot the bill."
Wow. Fiscal responsibility. Sounds like treason to me.
See what hope and change has wrought? Loathing, anger, tyranny, and anarchy. But keep your chin up! Only three years to go...
Rep. John Tanner (D-TN) To Vote "No" on Reform
He's retiring, but is going out doing the right thing, as opposed to selling out the nation for some administration-created cush job in 2011:
“Aside from national defense, no matter is more important to the future of our country than her financial integrity...After thorough and careful review of the legislation, I am unconvinced that the long-term trend of rising health care costs is adequately addressed and am therefore unable to support the legislation.”
Live as a Blue Dog, die as a Blue Dog. Good for Tanner....
The scoreboard, as time begins to run out:
Ayes: 211
Nays: 212
Undecided: 6
Gulp...
“Aside from national defense, no matter is more important to the future of our country than her financial integrity...After thorough and careful review of the legislation, I am unconvinced that the long-term trend of rising health care costs is adequately addressed and am therefore unable to support the legislation.”
Live as a Blue Dog, die as a Blue Dog. Good for Tanner....
The scoreboard, as time begins to run out:
Ayes: 211
Nays: 212
Undecided: 6
Gulp...
Stupak Folds, Paves Way For Socialized Medicine...
...according to The Corner, which has a pretty good record of getting these things right.
Stupak is selling his principles for an executive order (tentative draft here) that would forbid federal dollars paying for abortions except in cases where a life is threatened.
How solid is it? Well, an executive order does not have the force of law. And it can be overturned, 15 minutes later, by another executive order.
And the fact that the 40-odd pro-abortion activists who were screaming their heads off last night are suddenly silent ought to tell you everything you need to know about the force of this final deal.
You can bet we'll have socialized medicine by midnight. And you can be assured that taxpayer monies will be paying for elective abortions as well.
May God have mercy on us all...
UPDATE: Stupak should watch this
Stupak is selling his principles for an executive order (tentative draft here) that would forbid federal dollars paying for abortions except in cases where a life is threatened.
How solid is it? Well, an executive order does not have the force of law. And it can be overturned, 15 minutes later, by another executive order.
And the fact that the 40-odd pro-abortion activists who were screaming their heads off last night are suddenly silent ought to tell you everything you need to know about the force of this final deal.
You can bet we'll have socialized medicine by midnight. And you can be assured that taxpayer monies will be paying for elective abortions as well.
May God have mercy on us all...
UPDATE: Stupak should watch this
Wavering Dems To Vote "No" And GTFO of DC?
Looks like the few remaining fence-sitters are looking for an exit strategy...literally:
A Democrat who has long committed to opposing healthcare reform legislation has advised his fellow defectors that they should vote no early on Sunday and then immediately leave the House chamber.
Otherwise, Rep. Gene Taylor (D-Miss.) told The Hill, they will be treated "like a piñata."
It is unclear if Democratic leaders will attempt to keep defectors from going home after they cast their vote...
Imagine - elected Democrats, in fear of their own leadership, needing to flee like heretics from their own kind.
Parker Griffith, Democrat-turned-Republican, tells a similar story:
"These are good people and they're being pressured unmercifully right now," he continued. "I saw it on the floor 20 minutes ago before I walked into this studio. I could see it on their faces. These are people I've known over a year and it's unfortunate, it's unfair. And what's unfair about it is Obama doesn't hardly know their name. Nancy Pelosi doesn't hardly know their name. They're good for a vote and once they cast that vote it's will you love me tomorrow and the answer is no."
But Jennifer Rubin feels no sympathy:
If they can’t stand up to their own leaders or avoid the lure of plum jobs should they lose in November, this is no cause for sympathy. It’s reason for contempt. It’s one thing to vote for a monstrous bill because you actually believe it virtuous. It’s another, however, to vote for it anyway, knowing the harm it may do but supporting it regardless because you couldn’t tell Nancy Pelosi to take a hike.
I agree with Jen. Democrats who switch from "no" to "yes" at the last minute in order to guarantee the passage of this monstrous bill, in exchange for a few pieces of silver, are no more than modern-day Judases; betraying the people who trusted them, and the principles they live by, in order for some short-term gain for themselves. Are there truly no men of moral courage left in the Democratic Party?
Vote no, and flee for your lives, if you must. If you need a place to hole up, I've got a guestroom and a finished basement where you can hide out until the heat dies down...
A Democrat who has long committed to opposing healthcare reform legislation has advised his fellow defectors that they should vote no early on Sunday and then immediately leave the House chamber.
Otherwise, Rep. Gene Taylor (D-Miss.) told The Hill, they will be treated "like a piñata."
It is unclear if Democratic leaders will attempt to keep defectors from going home after they cast their vote...
Imagine - elected Democrats, in fear of their own leadership, needing to flee like heretics from their own kind.
Parker Griffith, Democrat-turned-Republican, tells a similar story:
"These are good people and they're being pressured unmercifully right now," he continued. "I saw it on the floor 20 minutes ago before I walked into this studio. I could see it on their faces. These are people I've known over a year and it's unfortunate, it's unfair. And what's unfair about it is Obama doesn't hardly know their name. Nancy Pelosi doesn't hardly know their name. They're good for a vote and once they cast that vote it's will you love me tomorrow and the answer is no."
But Jennifer Rubin feels no sympathy:
If they can’t stand up to their own leaders or avoid the lure of plum jobs should they lose in November, this is no cause for sympathy. It’s reason for contempt. It’s one thing to vote for a monstrous bill because you actually believe it virtuous. It’s another, however, to vote for it anyway, knowing the harm it may do but supporting it regardless because you couldn’t tell Nancy Pelosi to take a hike.
I agree with Jen. Democrats who switch from "no" to "yes" at the last minute in order to guarantee the passage of this monstrous bill, in exchange for a few pieces of silver, are no more than modern-day Judases; betraying the people who trusted them, and the principles they live by, in order for some short-term gain for themselves. Are there truly no men of moral courage left in the Democratic Party?
Vote no, and flee for your lives, if you must. If you need a place to hole up, I've got a guestroom and a finished basement where you can hide out until the heat dies down...
Saturday, March 20, 2010
Glenn Nye Says "No" To Health Care Reform
A first-term Democrat in Virginia, a state that briefly went purple but is now red with rage? Really, what else could he do?
U.S. Rep. Glenn Nye announced Saturday night he is voting against against the Democratic health care bill Sunday, saying it doesn’t do enough to lower the cost of health care, would make deep cuts in some hospital funding and could cause problems for TRICARE recipients....
...participants in the military’s Tricare health plan may be subject to some health care provisions, under the latest version of the bill. Under previous versions, Tricare patients were exempt.
“ I am not willing to risk negative consequences for our military personnel and their families, particularly at a time when our troops are serving overseas in harm’s way,” Nye said.
Seems as if Democratic representatives are finally reading the bill, less so to actually understand what they are voting for, and more so as a frantic attempt to find something, anything, that can give them cover for not voting for ObamaCare. Nye found the military angle, a factor in his district, and thus an exit from the burning wreckage that is this bill...
Not exactly a profile in courage. Still, when in a foxhole during a firefight, I'll take such allies as I can get...
U.S. Rep. Glenn Nye announced Saturday night he is voting against against the Democratic health care bill Sunday, saying it doesn’t do enough to lower the cost of health care, would make deep cuts in some hospital funding and could cause problems for TRICARE recipients....
...participants in the military’s Tricare health plan may be subject to some health care provisions, under the latest version of the bill. Under previous versions, Tricare patients were exempt.
“ I am not willing to risk negative consequences for our military personnel and their families, particularly at a time when our troops are serving overseas in harm’s way,” Nye said.
Seems as if Democratic representatives are finally reading the bill, less so to actually understand what they are voting for, and more so as a frantic attempt to find something, anything, that can give them cover for not voting for ObamaCare. Nye found the military angle, a factor in his district, and thus an exit from the burning wreckage that is this bill...
Not exactly a profile in courage. Still, when in a foxhole during a firefight, I'll take such allies as I can get...
We Are All Lando Calrissian Now !
We were seduced into cutting a deal with the devil, convinced he was a man of his word, and that Hope and Change meant whatever we imagined it to be.
And once the deal was struck, and we held up our end of the bargain, we realized that the man we empowered really wasn't that interested in holding up his end of the deal, and he had a completely different idea of what "hope and change" was.
And when we complain about the deal, Lord Vader - sorry, I mean, Barack Obama - gives us the back of his hand, a sneer, and tells us the deal is whatever he says it is, depending on what serves his interests at any given moment.
Man, this deal is getting worse all the time....
And what's in that health care bill? You don't need to know, it's whatever I say it is, and whatever will get me what I want, regardless of what you, the people, want.
What's that ? You don't like the deal? Pray I don't alter in any further....
And once the deal was struck, and we held up our end of the bargain, we realized that the man we empowered really wasn't that interested in holding up his end of the deal, and he had a completely different idea of what "hope and change" was.
And when we complain about the deal, Lord Vader - sorry, I mean, Barack Obama - gives us the back of his hand, a sneer, and tells us the deal is whatever he says it is, depending on what serves his interests at any given moment.
Man, this deal is getting worse all the time....
And what's in that health care bill? You don't need to know, it's whatever I say it is, and whatever will get me what I want, regardless of what you, the people, want.
What's that ? You don't like the deal? Pray I don't alter in any further....
Inspired by The Geek With A .45 ...
Friday, March 19, 2010
Cao and Shuler: Two More "No's" on ObamaCare! UPDATE: Teague To Vote No!
First, the Democrat:
Rep. Heath Shuler (D-11th District) will vote against the President's Health Care Reform plan.
With two days to go until the vote, Rep. Shuler was one of several undecided democrats the White House and Congressional leaders were trying to sway in their favor.
Rep. Shuler just released the following statement:
"I recognize that there are strong views on both sides of the health care debate and it has spurred strong emotions throughout the nation....There is no question that our current health care system is broken and that we need to make significant reforms to improve it in an equitable, fiscally responsible and sustainable manner. In my opinion the bill as written does not meet those criteria.”
And the lone Republican who voted for the bill the first time seems to have reconsidered:
Rep. Joseph Cao (R-La.) is a "firm 'no'" on Democrats' healthcare bill, House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-Va.) stressed Friday.
Cantor, the GOP's chief vote-counter in the House, said that the first-term Louisiana Republican would oppose healthcare legislation after having voted with Democrats last fall, the only Republican lawmaker to do so.
"Yes, I have spoken to Joseph Cao as recently as an hour and a half ago," Cantor said in response to a question on whether Cao would oppose the bill.
"He is a firm 'no' against this bill," Cantor added.
And yet, whenever I go to my Yahoo home page, this is the featured headline:
End in sight, health care battle tilts Obama's way
....the long, turbulent struggle over landmark health care legislation tilted unmistakably in President Barack Obama's direction.
Really? Wishing something to be so isn't the same as it actually being so, dubious CBO accounting notwithstanding. Or is the AP/Yahoo trying to create a sense of inevitability? Perhaps too, trying to beat us down, trying to convince us our "long, turbulent struggle" is now hopeless, and it is time to give in and join the winning team?
Second-tier propaganda from the media. Like Tokyo Rose without the pop music!
Rep. Heath Shuler (D-11th District) will vote against the President's Health Care Reform plan.
With two days to go until the vote, Rep. Shuler was one of several undecided democrats the White House and Congressional leaders were trying to sway in their favor.
Rep. Shuler just released the following statement:
"I recognize that there are strong views on both sides of the health care debate and it has spurred strong emotions throughout the nation....There is no question that our current health care system is broken and that we need to make significant reforms to improve it in an equitable, fiscally responsible and sustainable manner. In my opinion the bill as written does not meet those criteria.”
And the lone Republican who voted for the bill the first time seems to have reconsidered:
Rep. Joseph Cao (R-La.) is a "firm 'no'" on Democrats' healthcare bill, House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-Va.) stressed Friday.
Cantor, the GOP's chief vote-counter in the House, said that the first-term Louisiana Republican would oppose healthcare legislation after having voted with Democrats last fall, the only Republican lawmaker to do so.
"Yes, I have spoken to Joseph Cao as recently as an hour and a half ago," Cantor said in response to a question on whether Cao would oppose the bill.
"He is a firm 'no' against this bill," Cantor added.
And yet, whenever I go to my Yahoo home page, this is the featured headline:
End in sight, health care battle tilts Obama's way
....the long, turbulent struggle over landmark health care legislation tilted unmistakably in President Barack Obama's direction.
Really? Wishing something to be so isn't the same as it actually being so, dubious CBO accounting notwithstanding. Or is the AP/Yahoo trying to create a sense of inevitability? Perhaps too, trying to beat us down, trying to convince us our "long, turbulent struggle" is now hopeless, and it is time to give in and join the winning team?
Second-tier propaganda from the media. Like Tokyo Rose without the pop music!
Give up, silly Americans! You have lost the battle against health care reform, and while you were out protesting, your girlfriend was cheating on you with ! Give up, give in, and join us as we march together under the banner of The One...!
UPDATE: Teague To Vote No; Pelosi’s Margin Now Zero
Harry Teague of New Mexico will vote no.
"I had hoped to have a chance to vote on a bill that provided affordable health care options to all American families, but after reviewing the final health care reform proposal, I do not believe that the bill does enough to contain costs and it definitely does not do enough to rein in the out of control insurance companies that are driving up healthcare costs in this country. In fact, I believe we are doing more for the insurance companies than we are for the people who need this coverage, and that is why, despite the positive steps it takes, I must vote against this bill "
Maybe the long, turbulant struggle is almost over after all...
Democrats Call Bullshit On Their Own CBO Score
From a leaked memo circulating within the Democratic party, strict orders not to to discuss the CBO score, lest the truth interfere with their hand-picked narrative:
We cannot emphasize enough: do not allow yourself (or your boss) to get into a discussion of the details of the CBO scores and textual narrative. Instead, focus only on the deficit reduction and number of Americans covered. There are two CBO letters Republican operatives have already begun distorting in their pursuit of killing our reform efforts: 1) CBO's March 11, 2010 letter to Leader Reid analyzing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act as passed by.the Senate, and 2} CBO's letter to Leader Reid (November 18, 2009) with the initial score of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
I list these letters only to warn you of coming attscks from right-wing operatives and Republican sympathizers in the media. Those anti-reform extremists are making a last-ditch effort to derail reform. Do not give them ground by debating details. (For example, the March 11 letter has estimates of discretionary costs not accounted in the total). Again, instead focus only on the deficit reduction and number of Americans covered. In the critical remaining hours of debate we must drive the narrative of "health reform is deficit reduction."
Too bad no one, not even the house whores of the Party, the New York Times and the Washington Post, are buying this line of shit...first, the WaPo:
Congressional Budget Office's sunny forecast carries big uncertainties
....although the forecasts that accompany legislation are always filled with uncertainty, this one contains more than most...One major reason is the sheer complexity of the legislation....the proposal on the table contains sweeping changes that would touch almost all corners of the health-care system, and the changes interrelate in hard-to-predict ways....
The estimates assume that the legislation plays out as written over the coming decade, which would mean reining in the growth of payments to doctors and hospitals and implementing a tax on high-cost health insurance plans....
Fat freakin' chance. The Times seems more critical of the process (take that, Nancy!), than the legislation, which they admit was based less on pinpoint reform goals and more on pinpoint dollar goals:
Love it or hate it, one thing that is indisputable about the Democrats’ big health care legislation is that the cost figures are going to come out right where President Obama said he wanted them.
....the overall numbers were never going to miss the mark. Whenever the budget office judged that some element or elements of the bill would cause a problem meeting the cost and deficit-reduction targets, Democrats just adjusted the underlying legislation to make sure it would hit their goal.
Back to the leaked memo up top, here's where the Democrats admit that they will never pass the "doc fix" (cutting payments to doctors - now that's a great way to insure quality medical care!) needed to make the bill cost "only" a trillion or so:
Most health staff are already aware that our health proposal does not contain a “doc fix.” Some Republicans have repeated CBO’s November 18 letter that says “the sustainable growth rate (SGR) mechanism governing Medicare’s payments to physicians has frequently been modified (either through legislation or administrative action) to avoid reductions in those payments, and legislation to do so again is currently under consideration in Congress.” The inclusion of a full SGR repeal would undermine reform’s budget neutrality.
. . .As most health staff knows, Leadership and the White House are working with the AMA to rally physicians support for a full SGR repeal later this spring. However, both health and communications staff should understand we do not want that policy discussed at this time, lest it complicate the last critical push to pass health reform.
The Democrats know their bill is bullshit; they just need to sell it to themselves for a few more days, and the nationalization of American medicine, the best in the world, is complete. The media knows the cost is exponentially higher than what the public is being told, but they report on it through a silk hankie, so as not to offend the editorial board or their masters in the Democratic party (so much for that whole "truth to power" thing...).
And now we know it's bullshit. Angry yet?
We cannot emphasize enough: do not allow yourself (or your boss) to get into a discussion of the details of the CBO scores and textual narrative. Instead, focus only on the deficit reduction and number of Americans covered. There are two CBO letters Republican operatives have already begun distorting in their pursuit of killing our reform efforts: 1) CBO's March 11, 2010 letter to Leader Reid analyzing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act as passed by.the Senate, and 2} CBO's letter to Leader Reid (November 18, 2009) with the initial score of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
I list these letters only to warn you of coming attscks from right-wing operatives and Republican sympathizers in the media. Those anti-reform extremists are making a last-ditch effort to derail reform. Do not give them ground by debating details. (For example, the March 11 letter has estimates of discretionary costs not accounted in the total). Again, instead focus only on the deficit reduction and number of Americans covered. In the critical remaining hours of debate we must drive the narrative of "health reform is deficit reduction."
Too bad no one, not even the house whores of the Party, the New York Times and the Washington Post, are buying this line of shit...first, the WaPo:
Congressional Budget Office's sunny forecast carries big uncertainties
....although the forecasts that accompany legislation are always filled with uncertainty, this one contains more than most...One major reason is the sheer complexity of the legislation....the proposal on the table contains sweeping changes that would touch almost all corners of the health-care system, and the changes interrelate in hard-to-predict ways....
The estimates assume that the legislation plays out as written over the coming decade, which would mean reining in the growth of payments to doctors and hospitals and implementing a tax on high-cost health insurance plans....
Fat freakin' chance. The Times seems more critical of the process (take that, Nancy!), than the legislation, which they admit was based less on pinpoint reform goals and more on pinpoint dollar goals:
Love it or hate it, one thing that is indisputable about the Democrats’ big health care legislation is that the cost figures are going to come out right where President Obama said he wanted them.
....the overall numbers were never going to miss the mark. Whenever the budget office judged that some element or elements of the bill would cause a problem meeting the cost and deficit-reduction targets, Democrats just adjusted the underlying legislation to make sure it would hit their goal.
Back to the leaked memo up top, here's where the Democrats admit that they will never pass the "doc fix" (cutting payments to doctors - now that's a great way to insure quality medical care!) needed to make the bill cost "only" a trillion or so:
Most health staff are already aware that our health proposal does not contain a “doc fix.” Some Republicans have repeated CBO’s November 18 letter that says “the sustainable growth rate (SGR) mechanism governing Medicare’s payments to physicians has frequently been modified (either through legislation or administrative action) to avoid reductions in those payments, and legislation to do so again is currently under consideration in Congress.” The inclusion of a full SGR repeal would undermine reform’s budget neutrality.
. . .As most health staff knows, Leadership and the White House are working with the AMA to rally physicians support for a full SGR repeal later this spring. However, both health and communications staff should understand we do not want that policy discussed at this time, lest it complicate the last critical push to pass health reform.
The Democrats know their bill is bullshit; they just need to sell it to themselves for a few more days, and the nationalization of American medicine, the best in the world, is complete. The media knows the cost is exponentially higher than what the public is being told, but they report on it through a silk hankie, so as not to offend the editorial board or their masters in the Democratic party (so much for that whole "truth to power" thing...).
And now we know it's bullshit. Angry yet?
Obama Manages To Piss Off Canada, Too....
....now that is a remarkable feat! Our northern neighbors are some of the friendliest and docile folk in the hemisphere (unless you're bringing up hockey or the relative quality of American beer), and yet Barack Obama has somehow managed to get under their skin as well.
We have been officially warned, by the Canadian ambassador, to get off our global-warming high horse, or get our oil elsewhere:
“The United States should not discriminate against the Canadian oil sands industry. "Ultimately if the United States becomes less open to oil sands, Doer said the fuel can go elsewhere...."
"This is a commodity that can sold somewhere else. It's not as if the United States is the only country interested in purchasing oil,"
~ Canadian Ambassador Gary Doer
As mentioned, the root of the Canadian ire is the Democrats insistence that we adhere to the cult of global warming:
Canada's abundant oil sands resources have been threatened in the U.S. market with proposed climate change policies that would place additional costs on fuels that emit higher levels of carbon dioxide.
Way to go, Baracky. So when you're done raping Israel, screwing Europe, blowing the mullahs of Iran, and giving the Canadians the finger, maybe you can come out to Jersey and sodomize my grandmother?
I mean, really...what the hell is next with this guy?
We have been officially warned, by the Canadian ambassador, to get off our global-warming high horse, or get our oil elsewhere:
“The United States should not discriminate against the Canadian oil sands industry. "Ultimately if the United States becomes less open to oil sands, Doer said the fuel can go elsewhere...."
"This is a commodity that can sold somewhere else. It's not as if the United States is the only country interested in purchasing oil,"
~ Canadian Ambassador Gary Doer
As mentioned, the root of the Canadian ire is the Democrats insistence that we adhere to the cult of global warming:
Canada's abundant oil sands resources have been threatened in the U.S. market with proposed climate change policies that would place additional costs on fuels that emit higher levels of carbon dioxide.
Way to go, Baracky. So when you're done raping Israel, screwing Europe, blowing the mullahs of Iran, and giving the Canadians the finger, maybe you can come out to Jersey and sodomize my grandmother?
I mean, really...what the hell is next with this guy?
Obama Strips Israel Naked; Ties Her To A Tree...
...and sits back and waits for the animals to attack:
The United States has diverted a shipment of bunker-busters designated for Israel... Officials said the U.S. military was ordered to divert a shipment of smart bunker-buster bombs from Israel to a military base in Diego Garcia.
Since taking office, Obama has refused to approve any major Israeli requests for U.S. weapons platforms or advanced systems. Officials said this included proposed Israeli procurement of AH-64D Apache attack helicopters , refueling systems, advanced munitions and data on a stealth variant of the F-15E.
"All signs indicate that this will continue in 2010," a congressional source familiar with the Israeli military requests said. "This is really an embargo, but nobody talks about it publicly."
Obama, trying to live the Muslim dream of forcing Israel to her knees and begging for her life. Stripping her of her defenses, leading the charge of her enemies, Obama wants to vest the power of Israel's life into his hands, so that he may grant it to her, but with the caveat that she must live as he so dictates.
And when I say beg:
President Obama ...has not committed to any meetings with Israeli leaders who are scheduled to be in Washington next week and are perhaps hoping to repair what many observers are calling a mis-step between the U.S. and Israel...
Not until they are on their knees before him. Barack Hussein Obama, doing what all the Arab kings, mullahs, and chairmen have failed to do: Bend the Jewish state to his will. Oh, how the Muslim populations will swoon before him, the natural leader of the new caliphate...
We've elected more than just an ideologue, folks. We've elected an anti-Semitic megalomaniac, and given him the most powerful army in the history of civilization.
If there's a God, I hope he's awake right now, and paying attention...
The United States has diverted a shipment of bunker-busters designated for Israel... Officials said the U.S. military was ordered to divert a shipment of smart bunker-buster bombs from Israel to a military base in Diego Garcia.
Since taking office, Obama has refused to approve any major Israeli requests for U.S. weapons platforms or advanced systems. Officials said this included proposed Israeli procurement of AH-64D Apache attack helicopters , refueling systems, advanced munitions and data on a stealth variant of the F-15E.
"All signs indicate that this will continue in 2010," a congressional source familiar with the Israeli military requests said. "This is really an embargo, but nobody talks about it publicly."
Obama, trying to live the Muslim dream of forcing Israel to her knees and begging for her life. Stripping her of her defenses, leading the charge of her enemies, Obama wants to vest the power of Israel's life into his hands, so that he may grant it to her, but with the caveat that she must live as he so dictates.
And when I say beg:
President Obama ...has not committed to any meetings with Israeli leaders who are scheduled to be in Washington next week and are perhaps hoping to repair what many observers are calling a mis-step between the U.S. and Israel...
Not until they are on their knees before him. Barack Hussein Obama, doing what all the Arab kings, mullahs, and chairmen have failed to do: Bend the Jewish state to his will. Oh, how the Muslim populations will swoon before him, the natural leader of the new caliphate...
We've elected more than just an ideologue, folks. We've elected an anti-Semitic megalomaniac, and given him the most powerful army in the history of civilization.
If there's a God, I hope he's awake right now, and paying attention...
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Saul Alinksy Defines "Reconciliation"...
...exactly the way Barack Obama, Harry Reid, and Nancy Pelosi define it - from his epic "Rules for Radicals:
It is a world not of angels but of angles, where men speak of moral principles but act on power principles; a world where we are always moral and our enemies always immoral; a world where “reconciliation” means that when one side gets the power and the other side gets reconciled to it, then we have reconciliation...
They run things now. We just work for them. So keep you heads down, slave away, and if you're lucky they'll leave you with just enough to survive.
Reconcile yourself to it.
It is a world not of angels but of angles, where men speak of moral principles but act on power principles; a world where we are always moral and our enemies always immoral; a world where “reconciliation” means that when one side gets the power and the other side gets reconciled to it, then we have reconciliation...
They run things now. We just work for them. So keep you heads down, slave away, and if you're lucky they'll leave you with just enough to survive.
Reconcile yourself to it.
The Cost Of Health Care Reform: $160 Billion A Year, Forever...
....well, that's not exactly true. Like all entitlement programs, the cost will keep escalating and escalating...
The CBO released a "preliminary" report on what the first ten years of health care reform would cost: $940 billion, with $923 billion coming in the last six years. Why? Because while the collection of taxes will begin tomorrow, the benefits won't start for another four years. So even with paying ten years of fees to get only six years of service (a scam that only the government could get away with), it will cost nearly a trillion dollars. Assuming that costs remain flat (!), that comes to $2.5 trillion over 20 years.
How are we gonna pay for that? Even the so-called "deficit-reducing" aspect of reform, which has savings estimated in the same preliminary CBO report as $138 billion, is nothing but spit in the black hole of deficits Obama is creating. With current forecasts estimating fedeeral deficits of $1.9 trillion within the decade, socialized medicine reduces Obama's insanely bloated deficit by only 7%. And that is the best-case scenario....
But here's the kicker: Insiders say that final CBO scores, replacing today's preliminary estimates, will be released late Saturday or Sunday.
Just after the bill is passed. But before Americans have a chance to read it. We will have been duped, but the snake-oil salesmen will have fled town, leaving us with a big pile of sh*t on our hands, now and forever. Meanwhile, Obama and Pelosi will be French-kissing while the media looks on and masturbates furiously...
Welcome to the Occupation...
The CBO released a "preliminary" report on what the first ten years of health care reform would cost: $940 billion, with $923 billion coming in the last six years. Why? Because while the collection of taxes will begin tomorrow, the benefits won't start for another four years. So even with paying ten years of fees to get only six years of service (a scam that only the government could get away with), it will cost nearly a trillion dollars. Assuming that costs remain flat (!), that comes to $2.5 trillion over 20 years.
How are we gonna pay for that? Even the so-called "deficit-reducing" aspect of reform, which has savings estimated in the same preliminary CBO report as $138 billion, is nothing but spit in the black hole of deficits Obama is creating. With current forecasts estimating fedeeral deficits of $1.9 trillion within the decade, socialized medicine reduces Obama's insanely bloated deficit by only 7%. And that is the best-case scenario....
But here's the kicker: Insiders say that final CBO scores, replacing today's preliminary estimates, will be released late Saturday or Sunday.
Just after the bill is passed. But before Americans have a chance to read it. We will have been duped, but the snake-oil salesmen will have fled town, leaving us with a big pile of sh*t on our hands, now and forever. Meanwhile, Obama and Pelosi will be French-kissing while the media looks on and masturbates furiously...
Welcome to the Occupation...
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
New Jersey: Abortion Advocates Up In Arms!
Why? Because Governor Christie, in trying to close a $10 billion budget gap, is reducing funding for Planned Parenthood and associated organizations. Their spokeswoman flew into a frothing liberal frenzy at the news, and perhaps said a little more than she ought to...let's listen to Michele Jaker, executive director Family Planning Association of New Jersey (and the Vice-Chair of the Woodbridge Democratic Organization, of course):
Each public dollar spent to provide family planning services saves an estimated $4 that would otherwise be spent in Medicaid-related costs alone.
“The best way to prevent unintended pregnancies and promote healthy families is to invest in family planning, and ensure that women and families have access to affordable, quality reproductive health care” said Jaker. “Instead, Governor Christie wants to completely eliminate critical funds that reduce the number of unintended pregnancies. "
I am a bit confused about the point Jaker is trying to make here. Even in purple Jersey, her argument/scare tactic here that she will be able to perform less abortions under the new budget might not carry much weight with the voters.
What's interesting is that state funds, by law, cannot pay for abortions. So if Jaker is being honest here about having less ability to abort babies, it means that Planned Parenthood of New Jersey has been slushing taxpayer funds around a bit in order to fund its abortion operation. Why else would a budget cut affect Planned Parenthood's ability to perform its surgical "family planning" procedures?
Funny too, how Jaker makes the assumption that abortions are part and parcel of having a "healthy family". I am not sure most New Jersey residents would accept Jaker's definition of a "healthy family"; unless they fall into the hardcore leftist camp that Jaker seems to hold senior membership in. Incidentally, I wonder how many abortions preformed under Jaker were done on black/minority families? Seems like Jaker may be a one-woman holocaust working to wipe out the next generation of nonwhite New Jerseyans...
Finally, I find Jaker's first sentence to be the most disturbing. Each $1 not spend on abortion (I'm sorry, "family planning services") costs the government $4- later on? She can't be advocating generational genocide, can she? That having less citizens is more cost-effective and thus more desirable to the state? Is this silent, unspoken part of the liberal agenda now official government policy?
Well, under an occupation, the ruling power does want to strictly limit the size of the native class...makes it easier for them to dictate with an iron fist...
Each public dollar spent to provide family planning services saves an estimated $4 that would otherwise be spent in Medicaid-related costs alone.
“The best way to prevent unintended pregnancies and promote healthy families is to invest in family planning, and ensure that women and families have access to affordable, quality reproductive health care” said Jaker. “Instead, Governor Christie wants to completely eliminate critical funds that reduce the number of unintended pregnancies. "
I am a bit confused about the point Jaker is trying to make here. Even in purple Jersey, her argument/scare tactic here that she will be able to perform less abortions under the new budget might not carry much weight with the voters.
What's interesting is that state funds, by law, cannot pay for abortions. So if Jaker is being honest here about having less ability to abort babies, it means that Planned Parenthood of New Jersey has been slushing taxpayer funds around a bit in order to fund its abortion operation. Why else would a budget cut affect Planned Parenthood's ability to perform its surgical "family planning" procedures?
Funny too, how Jaker makes the assumption that abortions are part and parcel of having a "healthy family". I am not sure most New Jersey residents would accept Jaker's definition of a "healthy family"; unless they fall into the hardcore leftist camp that Jaker seems to hold senior membership in. Incidentally, I wonder how many abortions preformed under Jaker were done on black/minority families? Seems like Jaker may be a one-woman holocaust working to wipe out the next generation of nonwhite New Jerseyans...
Finally, I find Jaker's first sentence to be the most disturbing. Each $1 not spend on abortion (I'm sorry, "family planning services") costs the government $4- later on? She can't be advocating generational genocide, can she? That having less citizens is more cost-effective and thus more desirable to the state? Is this silent, unspoken part of the liberal agenda now official government policy?
Well, under an occupation, the ruling power does want to strictly limit the size of the native class...makes it easier for them to dictate with an iron fist...
The United States 2010: Life Under The Occupation
May you live in interesting times, goes the Chinese curse, and are these days and nights interesting indeed. When a government no longer has the consent of the governed, said government is no longer acting with legal authority (or so says the Declaration, anyway - silly white men, what did they know?). And when the government continues to act by decree, and infringe upon the freedoms of its citizens, confiscate their income, and wage war unilaterally...that's tyranny.
Welcome to America, 2010. And you wonder why it feels as if we are being occupied by a foreign power? Look at the actions of those who have seized control of the state:
-the looting the national treasury, to the tune of $787 billion (plus interest), in the name of "stimulus". Monies were spent almost entirely on pet liberal projects and on funding to keep government functionaries employed. This will need to be paid back by the private sector, via taxation.
-a complete takeover of the economy, via the EPA's claim that "carbon dioxide" (yes, the air you exhale) is a "greenhouse gas" that must be regulated. Since most businesses to some extent or another emit CO2, the entirety of the world's largest economy is now, without vote or law, under the purview of the executive branch of the government. It's command-and-control, Soviet-style. Anyone remember how well that worked out?
-elimination of control & choice over your body via the nationalization of the health care system (also, apparently, via fiat). Costs will skyrocket, resources will become scarce, and the quality and quantity of care will drop for everyone. Eventually, the nation will be forced into a British or Canadian-style "NHS", where bureaucrats will decide who will live and who will die by the rationing of care and medication that is already de rigor in these two nations. This will also give the government opportunity to regulate much of your eating/drinking habits, since your individuality is now lost in morass of "what's best for 'the people'". Not to mention that the government now fully intends to start funding abortion - the killing of humans - under the guise of "national health" as well.
-indoctrination of children. Attached to the health care bill is a rider that will nationalize the student loan industry, and make the government the sole provider of said loans. Thus, the affordability of college will no longer be up to parents, or local bankers - it will be up to the government. So you'd better play ball. After all, the president has signed legislation increasing Americorps to 250,000 "volunteers" - so if your kid wants to go to school, he'd better put on the brownshirt and work for Obama first...
-Obama has unleashed war upon the Israelis for refusing to cede their sovereign territories to a hostile power. He forced a regional crisis in Central America when he threw his support behind a leftist thug who was legally ousted from the Honduran government. He has reneged on deals to protect our European allies with missile defense. And he is allowing the Iranians to build nukes with impunity, even as they promise to use them to create a Second Holocaust. All positions anathema to the American population. None of which bothers Obama and the Democrats a bit.
-even our cherished national symbols are being desecrated, as the army is ordered not to fly the American flag...
Limiting freedoms. Loss of control of daily decisions. Children forced to serve the leadership. Monies extorted from the citizenry. National symbols eliminated. Businesses controlled. Populations "aborted". Treasure looted. Legislative processes ignored and mocked.
Welcome to the Occupation of America.
So what does that pesky Declaration say about this? Oh, yeah:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness....
Welcome to America, 2010. And you wonder why it feels as if we are being occupied by a foreign power? Look at the actions of those who have seized control of the state:
-the looting the national treasury, to the tune of $787 billion (plus interest), in the name of "stimulus". Monies were spent almost entirely on pet liberal projects and on funding to keep government functionaries employed. This will need to be paid back by the private sector, via taxation.
-a complete takeover of the economy, via the EPA's claim that "carbon dioxide" (yes, the air you exhale) is a "greenhouse gas" that must be regulated. Since most businesses to some extent or another emit CO2, the entirety of the world's largest economy is now, without vote or law, under the purview of the executive branch of the government. It's command-and-control, Soviet-style. Anyone remember how well that worked out?
-elimination of control & choice over your body via the nationalization of the health care system (also, apparently, via fiat). Costs will skyrocket, resources will become scarce, and the quality and quantity of care will drop for everyone. Eventually, the nation will be forced into a British or Canadian-style "NHS", where bureaucrats will decide who will live and who will die by the rationing of care and medication that is already de rigor in these two nations. This will also give the government opportunity to regulate much of your eating/drinking habits, since your individuality is now lost in morass of "what's best for 'the people'". Not to mention that the government now fully intends to start funding abortion - the killing of humans - under the guise of "national health" as well.
-indoctrination of children. Attached to the health care bill is a rider that will nationalize the student loan industry, and make the government the sole provider of said loans. Thus, the affordability of college will no longer be up to parents, or local bankers - it will be up to the government. So you'd better play ball. After all, the president has signed legislation increasing Americorps to 250,000 "volunteers" - so if your kid wants to go to school, he'd better put on the brownshirt and work for Obama first...
-Obama has unleashed war upon the Israelis for refusing to cede their sovereign territories to a hostile power. He forced a regional crisis in Central America when he threw his support behind a leftist thug who was legally ousted from the Honduran government. He has reneged on deals to protect our European allies with missile defense. And he is allowing the Iranians to build nukes with impunity, even as they promise to use them to create a Second Holocaust. All positions anathema to the American population. None of which bothers Obama and the Democrats a bit.
-even our cherished national symbols are being desecrated, as the army is ordered not to fly the American flag...
Limiting freedoms. Loss of control of daily decisions. Children forced to serve the leadership. Monies extorted from the citizenry. National symbols eliminated. Businesses controlled. Populations "aborted". Treasure looted. Legislative processes ignored and mocked.
Welcome to the Occupation of America.
So what does that pesky Declaration say about this? Oh, yeah:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness....
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Obama Ignites War In The Middle East
So this is smart diplomacy? Even an amateur could tell you that once abandoned by its strongest ally, Israel would come under assault from enemies smelling weakness, and opportunity. And by golly, did Obama provide it to them with his no-holds-barred Sunday hatefest played out by his minions on national TV.
The bloodshed begins:
Palestinians mounted violent protests in Jerusalem on Tuesday and President Barack Obama's Middle East envoy canceled plans to return to the region as a U.S.-Israeli crisis over Jewish settlement plans deepened.
Hundreds of rock-throwing Palestinians clashed with police in several locations in East Jerusalem... Police responded with teargas and rubber bullets.
"There is an explosive situation. There are Netanyahu's policies, which are tantamount to pouring oil on fire," said Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erekat.
Hamas, an Islamist group that controls the Gaza Strip, said in a statement that Palestinians should "regard Tuesday as a day of rage against the occupation's (Israel's) procedures in Jerusalem against al-Aqsa mosque".
Make no doubt about it. The blood of the dead in the upcoming conflict - and I fear this is only the beginning - will be squarely on Barack Obama's hands, for abandoning Israel in the face of her enemies.
And be assured, this is the opening Obama has been waiting for, to finally abandon Israel to the Islamic wolves. He will demand Israeli "restraint" in the face of the upcoming assault, and when they defend their lives, he will condemn them, and lead the march to Turtle Bay, where he will betray them before the United Nations, where finally, after 65 years, the rabid dogs of anti-Semitism will be free to run wild again.
Is Obama the freaking AntiChrist, or what?
The Antichrist will spend many years working silently behind the scenes to consolidate his power...When his time comes he will take advantage of the political situation in a country to rise to power. It will not matter that he is not a native of the country. He will take advantage of loopholes and contrive positions...The Antichrist will foment rebellions within the countries he's aiming to take over...Because of his Middle Eastern heritage he will have already united North Africans, who are sympathetic to his cultural background, with his Asian and Middle Eastern conglomerate.
Hey, I didn't say it...Nostradamus did...
The bloodshed begins:
Palestinians mounted violent protests in Jerusalem on Tuesday and President Barack Obama's Middle East envoy canceled plans to return to the region as a U.S.-Israeli crisis over Jewish settlement plans deepened.
Hundreds of rock-throwing Palestinians clashed with police in several locations in East Jerusalem... Police responded with teargas and rubber bullets.
"There is an explosive situation. There are Netanyahu's policies, which are tantamount to pouring oil on fire," said Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erekat.
Hamas, an Islamist group that controls the Gaza Strip, said in a statement that Palestinians should "regard Tuesday as a day of rage against the occupation's (Israel's) procedures in Jerusalem against al-Aqsa mosque".
Make no doubt about it. The blood of the dead in the upcoming conflict - and I fear this is only the beginning - will be squarely on Barack Obama's hands, for abandoning Israel in the face of her enemies.
And be assured, this is the opening Obama has been waiting for, to finally abandon Israel to the Islamic wolves. He will demand Israeli "restraint" in the face of the upcoming assault, and when they defend their lives, he will condemn them, and lead the march to Turtle Bay, where he will betray them before the United Nations, where finally, after 65 years, the rabid dogs of anti-Semitism will be free to run wild again.
Is Obama the freaking AntiChrist, or what?
The Antichrist will spend many years working silently behind the scenes to consolidate his power...When his time comes he will take advantage of the political situation in a country to rise to power. It will not matter that he is not a native of the country. He will take advantage of loopholes and contrive positions...The Antichrist will foment rebellions within the countries he's aiming to take over...Because of his Middle Eastern heritage he will have already united North Africans, who are sympathetic to his cultural background, with his Asian and Middle Eastern conglomerate.
Hey, I didn't say it...Nostradamus did...
ABC Hires Christiane Amanpour To Promote Obama's Jihad
How coincidental is it - just as the Obama administration is launching a full-on attack against Israel that could bring a smile to Yassar Arafat's rotting AIDS-ridden corpse - that a major television network should hire a known anti-Israeli agitator to anchor their high-profile Sunday morning news show?
CNN's Christiane Amanpour is telling her CNN colleagues that ABC News has offered her the job of "This Week" host and she is telling people that she might take it. As of this moment she is declaring a 50-50 chance that she's going to accept the offer.
Amanpour said she wants to make "This Week" more about foreign affairs and less focused on domestic American politics...
Why not promote an unbiased, in-house pro like Jake Tapper? Oh, right, because he refuses to kowtow to The One, and may be the last member of the Washington media to maintain any sense of dignity. Can't have that, don't you know...we may need to make the call for a bailout someday!
So what's president Obama up to these days? Good old-fashioned Jew-bashing, you say? Oooh, we've got just the anchor to rock his socks! With a track record the president can be proud of!
CNN's Christiane Amanpour has set a new standard - and not the kind a news network usually trumpets. "God's Jewish Warriors," her two-hour screed against Israeli settlers and American supporters of Israel, is the most poisonously biased and factually shoddy feature to air on mainstream American television in recent memory.
And in a video classic, when arguing with Marc Theissen on CNN about "torture" & the Bush administration, she starts screaming about...you guessed it:
AMANPOUR: That prison was full of images of water torture. You can call it whatever you like.
THIESSEN: Which is nothing like what the CIA did. Do you have any...
AMANPOUR: It is what the Israelis use, the waterboarding!
Too bad they weren't discussing Israel. Didn't stop Amanpour from throwing in the gratuitous hate, though.
More recently, as in March 3rd, 2010:
The other day, after a long day of writing, I idly, instinctively channel surfed — and there was the infamous Christiane Amanpour grilling Israeli Foreign Minister Ehud Barak. Oh, how this half-British, half-Iranian journalist relished this task. All her questions were hostile and were meant to embarrass or castigate both him personally and Israeli policies in general. CNN’s poor excuse for Oriana Fallaci never paused to take a breath; she gave Minister Barak absolutely no quarter....
I did not watch the entire interview. I could not bear to do so. I have seen too many Israelis grilled in just this way — and too many Palestinians flattered and fawned over by the same American journalists.
Just the way Barack Obama wants it. I have no doubt Amanpour will take the position. What better place to conduct her nonstop hit job against the Jewish state?
And in a coup, her first guest will be Barack Obama (a kiss to the network from The One for hiring his gal). First topic of discussion: What do we do about Israel, and those pesky Jews...?
CNN's Christiane Amanpour is telling her CNN colleagues that ABC News has offered her the job of "This Week" host and she is telling people that she might take it. As of this moment she is declaring a 50-50 chance that she's going to accept the offer.
Amanpour said she wants to make "This Week" more about foreign affairs and less focused on domestic American politics...
Why not promote an unbiased, in-house pro like Jake Tapper? Oh, right, because he refuses to kowtow to The One, and may be the last member of the Washington media to maintain any sense of dignity. Can't have that, don't you know...we may need to make the call for a bailout someday!
So what's president Obama up to these days? Good old-fashioned Jew-bashing, you say? Oooh, we've got just the anchor to rock his socks! With a track record the president can be proud of!
CNN's Christiane Amanpour has set a new standard - and not the kind a news network usually trumpets. "God's Jewish Warriors," her two-hour screed against Israeli settlers and American supporters of Israel, is the most poisonously biased and factually shoddy feature to air on mainstream American television in recent memory.
And in a video classic, when arguing with Marc Theissen on CNN about "torture" & the Bush administration, she starts screaming about...you guessed it:
AMANPOUR: That prison was full of images of water torture. You can call it whatever you like.
THIESSEN: Which is nothing like what the CIA did. Do you have any...
AMANPOUR: It is what the Israelis use, the waterboarding!
Too bad they weren't discussing Israel. Didn't stop Amanpour from throwing in the gratuitous hate, though.
More recently, as in March 3rd, 2010:
The other day, after a long day of writing, I idly, instinctively channel surfed — and there was the infamous Christiane Amanpour grilling Israeli Foreign Minister Ehud Barak. Oh, how this half-British, half-Iranian journalist relished this task. All her questions were hostile and were meant to embarrass or castigate both him personally and Israeli policies in general. CNN’s poor excuse for Oriana Fallaci never paused to take a breath; she gave Minister Barak absolutely no quarter....
I did not watch the entire interview. I could not bear to do so. I have seen too many Israelis grilled in just this way — and too many Palestinians flattered and fawned over by the same American journalists.
Just the way Barack Obama wants it. I have no doubt Amanpour will take the position. What better place to conduct her nonstop hit job against the Jewish state?
And in a coup, her first guest will be Barack Obama (a kiss to the network from The One for hiring his gal). First topic of discussion: What do we do about Israel, and those pesky Jews...?
Monday, March 15, 2010
Obama's Health Care Rally Draws 200 Supporters
...and apparently even more protestors. But first:
Obama Comes to Ohio (Again), Nobody Shows Up
President Barack Obama, joined by Ohio governor Ted Strickland, came to Ohio today to continue his permanent campaign on health-care legislation. His campaign events during the 2008 presidential race attracted crowds of thousands of Ohioans; this time, President Obama managed a crowd of about 200 people.
What a loser. Here's what the AP reports on the protestors (in the 25th paragraph of a 25 paragraph story)
Protesters arrived hours early, lining several blocks leading to the senior center. They stood in a light drizzle, waved to passing vehicles and held signs including "Don't stick me with your Obamacare," "Start over," and one decorated with 12 skull and crossbones and the message, "Obama care, it's to die for."
Sounds like more than 200 to me. Sounds like a lot less "AstroTurf" than what was inside...
Smells like...victory. For the opposition. For today...
Obama Comes to Ohio (Again), Nobody Shows Up
President Barack Obama, joined by Ohio governor Ted Strickland, came to Ohio today to continue his permanent campaign on health-care legislation. His campaign events during the 2008 presidential race attracted crowds of thousands of Ohioans; this time, President Obama managed a crowd of about 200 people.
What a loser. Here's what the AP reports on the protestors (in the 25th paragraph of a 25 paragraph story)
Protesters arrived hours early, lining several blocks leading to the senior center. They stood in a light drizzle, waved to passing vehicles and held signs including "Don't stick me with your Obamacare," "Start over," and one decorated with 12 skull and crossbones and the message, "Obama care, it's to die for."
Sounds like more than 200 to me. Sounds like a lot less "AstroTurf" than what was inside...
Smells like...victory. For the opposition. For today...
Barack Obama and Israel: Living the Dream!
....the dream of liberals worldwide, of course. More than putting "daylight" between the United States and Israel, Obama has jumped upon the flimsiest of excuses - a nation building homes in its own capital - to degenerate the Jewish nation in a way unprecedented in American history.
Anti-semitism, cloaked in anti-Zionism, has been the coin of the liberal realm for some time. And the further left you go, the deeper the hatred for the Jewish state, and the more reflexive the instinct is to react with hostility towards them, and blame them for all the world's ills.
And yet, there are some that are surprised by the Obama administration's insanely hostile response to the Jerusalem housing fiasco. Not here. Obama has been building up to this moment for some time, with a number of nasty little actions - he's threatened to pull loan guarantees for Israel, he honored raging anti-Semite Mary Robinson with a Medal of Freedom, acknowledged every nation's effort in Haiti except Israel's (the one nation that arguably did the most), he refused to meet with Prime Minister Netanyahu, he selected anti-Semite Charles Freeman to chair the National Intelligence Council (before "un-selecting" him), and let's not forget his strong support for ousted Honduran leftist Manuel Zelaya, an anti-Semite par excellence.
This storm was brewing in Obama's gut for some time...back in October:
U.S. officials in recent days expressed to the Palestinian Authority that President Obama's administration is "disgusted" with Israel, a top aide to PA President Mahmoud Abbas told WND in an interview...Palestinianstate envoy...(Abbas aide) Nimr Hamad repeated that the term "disgusted" was used more than once in recent meetings with U.S. envoys to describe the administration's attitude toward Israel.
I wrote this back in January:
Obama feels he can bully Israel, because they're a democracy in danger, and force them to his will, despite the cost in Jewish lives.
It would seem to be (unfortunately) bearing out before our eyes. But maybe I was wrong, and what was perceived as bad foreign policy is more than that; it's destructive full-blown anti-Semitism at the helm of America. Caroline Glick:
Anyone who paid the slightest attention to who Barack [short for Barakeh in Arabic] Obama is before he was elected knew full well that this man is an enemy of Israel. He was a member of an ardently anti-Semitic church for more than two decades. His friends ranged from virulently anti-Israel and anti-Jewish like Edward Said, Rashid Khalidi, William Ayres, Jeremiah Wright, Samantha Power and Susan Rice — among others — to radically post-Zionist like Arnie Wolf, Rahm Emmanuel and David Axelrod not to mention Joe Biden.
Given his pedigree, no one should have been surprised that Obama has chosen to stir up a crisis in his relations with Israel.
No surprise here. Let's see if the American Jewish community is as smart as it thinks it is, and can wake up before it's too late. Remember, we didn't in Nazi Germany...
Anti-semitism, cloaked in anti-Zionism, has been the coin of the liberal realm for some time. And the further left you go, the deeper the hatred for the Jewish state, and the more reflexive the instinct is to react with hostility towards them, and blame them for all the world's ills.
And yet, there are some that are surprised by the Obama administration's insanely hostile response to the Jerusalem housing fiasco. Not here. Obama has been building up to this moment for some time, with a number of nasty little actions - he's threatened to pull loan guarantees for Israel, he honored raging anti-Semite Mary Robinson with a Medal of Freedom, acknowledged every nation's effort in Haiti except Israel's (the one nation that arguably did the most), he refused to meet with Prime Minister Netanyahu, he selected anti-Semite Charles Freeman to chair the National Intelligence Council (before "un-selecting" him), and let's not forget his strong support for ousted Honduran leftist Manuel Zelaya, an anti-Semite par excellence.
This storm was brewing in Obama's gut for some time...back in October:
U.S. officials in recent days expressed to the Palestinian Authority that President Obama's administration is "disgusted" with Israel, a top aide to PA President Mahmoud Abbas told WND in an interview...Palestinianstate envoy...(Abbas aide) Nimr Hamad repeated that the term "disgusted" was used more than once in recent meetings with U.S. envoys to describe the administration's attitude toward Israel.
I wrote this back in January:
Obama feels he can bully Israel, because they're a democracy in danger, and force them to his will, despite the cost in Jewish lives.
It would seem to be (unfortunately) bearing out before our eyes. But maybe I was wrong, and what was perceived as bad foreign policy is more than that; it's destructive full-blown anti-Semitism at the helm of America. Caroline Glick:
Anyone who paid the slightest attention to who Barack [short for Barakeh in Arabic] Obama is before he was elected knew full well that this man is an enemy of Israel. He was a member of an ardently anti-Semitic church for more than two decades. His friends ranged from virulently anti-Israel and anti-Jewish like Edward Said, Rashid Khalidi, William Ayres, Jeremiah Wright, Samantha Power and Susan Rice — among others — to radically post-Zionist like Arnie Wolf, Rahm Emmanuel and David Axelrod not to mention Joe Biden.
Given his pedigree, no one should have been surprised that Obama has chosen to stir up a crisis in his relations with Israel.
No surprise here. Let's see if the American Jewish community is as smart as it thinks it is, and can wake up before it's too late. Remember, we didn't in Nazi Germany...
al-Megrahi: Another Successful Diagnosis By Socialized Medicine!
Remember when the Lockerbie bomber, Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi, was released from a Scottish prison last year on "compassionate" grounds, because he only had a few months left to live?
Well, he's singing "I'm still alive..." better than Eddie Vedder ever could...and it looks as if he'll be around for quite a while longer:
The Lockerbie bomber -- who was released from a Scottish prison last year because cancer had supposedly left him at death's door -- could be kept alive for up to five more years.
Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi was said to have just months to live when Scottish authorities made the controversial decision to free him and allow him to return to Libya. But the terrorist, given a life sentence for the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, which killed 270 people, has since been taking the chemotherapy drug Taxotere, the British paper The Sun reports today.
Other reports said that al-Megrahi had not been given the drug while he was in prison -- and might not have been allowed a "compassionate" discharge if it had been prescribed.... Al-Megrahi has prostate cancer, but his condition reportedly has stabilized.
Other reports said that al-Megrahi had not been given the drug while he was in prison -- and might not have been allowed a "compassionate" discharge if it had been prescribed.... Al-Megrahi has prostate cancer, but his condition reportedly has stabilized.
So why wasn't al-Megrahi given Taxotere while in jail? Is it because the doctors, in their socialized wisdom, misdiagnosed his case and thought him "too far gone"? Did the Scottish "death panel" decide the cost was too high for an older man who would never see the light of day again anyway? Or was it deliberately withheld, in order to wrangle the "compassionate release" clause that al-Megrahi used wrangle his freedom?
Either way, politicized medicine is the root cause here. And al-Megrahi walks free, a killer celebrated as a hero, with years of good living left to him. Unlike these 270 folks, whose lives were cut short to serve al-Megrahi's bloody cause...
I can only imagine how their families feel. To have their loves one killed in the sky, and then to see their murderer set free by Scottish Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill, who felt more concern for al-Megrahi than for his victims, and their survivors...
Meanwhile, Robert Gibbs predicts socialized medicine will be the law of the land in the United States by the end of next week. But this type of incident could never happen here...right?
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