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Socialism is really cannibalism
Goldberg: Double Standard for NBC Criticism of FNC's Tea Party Coverage -- Remember 'Green Week'?
Glenn Beck vs. Little Green Footballs
by Baron Bodissey
Tundra Tabloids just further expanded its “Under the LGF Bus” picture, because Glenn Beck has now been identified as a dangerous right-wing extremist by Charles Johnson. Welcome to the club!
But Glenn isn’t taking the slurs quietly:
Here’s a quote from the video:
Quite honestly, it’s a destructive attempt to silence free speech. That’s something blogger Charles Johnson should know about, since he’s been called an anti-Muslim bigot by most of the same people that unfairly said the same things about me.
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I’d like to take this opportunity to thank all of our readers, tipsters, correspondents and contributors who have stood by Gates of Vienna since the whole LGF mess started a year and a half ago.
Back then Atlas Shrugs and our blog seemed to be standing alone fighting the slurs, fabrications, distortions, and cheap shots coming from Little Green Footballs. It didn’t matter what the truth was. It didn’t matter that Charles Johnson was as mistaken about some of his “facts” as Dan Rather was about his memo. The larger blogs were unwilling to stick their necks out and risk the Wrath of the Lizard. - - - - - - - - -
But the truth has a way of seeping out.
It has taken eighteen months, but common sense concerning these issues is finally emerging. Now that Glenn Beck has unmasked LGF’s disinformation on national television, does this mean Pamela and I can come in from the cold? Are we no longer “fascist-enablers” and “apologists for European neo-Nazis”?
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For most of last year our blog was a near-pariah in the American blogosphere. The links from major blogs all but ceased, and only the Europeans and some of the small right-wing American blogs — God bless them! — were willing to take sides.
Presumably the blanket of silence on this issue was due to fear of the Lidless Eye and the havoc Charles Johnson could wreak. Woe betide any American blogger who drew his baleful gaze! Perhaps that is why Dr. Sanity, ShrinkWrapped, and others sided with Charles. There were exceptions, one of them being James Lewis at American Thinker. He was willing to examine Charles’ errors and his naïveté in being used by Swedish and Belgian black psyops.
Now some of the more important and popular media voices are pointing out the nature of LGF. Notice the issues that Glenn Beck has with Charles Johnson:
His seemingly willful misrepresentation of the facts.
His willingness to take questionable information at face value without doing the most basic due diligence to check its accuracy.
>His refusal to make any public correction of errors arising from #1 and #2, and
His habit of issuing vicious personal attacks that poison public discourse and polarize people who are essentially on the same team.
Do you see a pattern here?
These were exactly the same issues that arose during the Vlaams Belang controversy. Charles Johnson posted slurs, rumors, innuendo, material taken out of context, and outright falsehoods about Sverigedemokraterna and Vlaams Belang. He presented the material in a nasty, divisive, and vitriolic manner. And then he refused to back down and publicly withdraw any of his gross errors and misrepresentations when they were pointed out.
In a watershed moment, some of the major players in the media and the blog world are now willing to acknowledge that the Lizard Emperor has no clothes. But it took eighteen months for the truth to become glaringly apparent.
Those eighteen lost months sucked up energy that would have been directed towards our common cause. Charles Johnson damaged reputations and created fractures within the anti-jihad movement, some of which may never completely heal.
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Our time in the wilderness was instructive.
It taught me that the large blogs are scarcely more principled than the MSM — they were unwilling to stand up publicly for the truth in the face of possible damage to their traffic and their ad revenues. It should have been obvious — we’re all fallible human beings — but it was still a sad lesson to learn.
It reinforced my sense that a distributed network of less prominent players is a better way to accomplish our purposes. Information spreads more reliably and action can be coordinated more effectively when “celebrities” aren’t part of the process. As I’ve said before, we’re an army of midgets. No one will get rich or famous doing this, but the job will actually get done.
Our excommunication became complete when Pajamas Media — unable to distinguish between descriptive and normative prose — told us that we were no longer welcome as affiliates. Once PJM gave us the boot, we experienced the freedom of having nothing left to lose. No more worrying about ad traffic or offending the folks at headquarters — we could call the shots as we saw fit. Our readers promptly stepped into the breach with their generous financial support of our blog.
We stuck to our guns. I’m grateful to those who stayed with us during our sojourn in the Outer Darkness.
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This past January, members of the Belgian Left in Antwerp — including Social Democrat politicians — marched side-by-side with Muslims who chanted, “Hamas! Hamas! Jews to the gas!”
During that time Filip Dewinter was the only leader of a major political party in Belgium to stand up publicly for Flemish Jews. He and other leaders of Vlaams Belang did so vehemently and repeatedly. Mr. Dewinter demanded on the floor of the Flemish Parliament that the government aggressively investigate and prosecute the murderous thugs who attacked Jews and firebombed synagogues. He pointed out the essential anti-Semitic nature of many of Belgium’s Muslim immigrants.
No other Belgian political party did these things. Only Vlaams Belang.
This is on the public record. It was reported in the Belgian media and appeared in English translation on this blog and other sites. But Charles Johnson has never retracted his scurrilous attacks on Filip Dewinter as a “neo-Nazi”. He and many others in the vast anti-European echo chamber continue to repeat the same nonsense.
It’s unfortunate, but Mr. Dewinter acquired the unfair “neo-Nazi” slander in the American media, and nothing seems to be able to shake it loose.
I’m sure Glenn Beck can sympathize with him.
Thanks to Vlad Tepes for YouTubing the video segment.
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Baron Bodissey | 4/17/2009 02:15:00 PM |
"LGF is in a tailspin that CJ has wrought upon himself and LGF...CJ did good work exposing the Rather memos and the Lebanon fauxtography. However, I think he loved the attention and turned bitter when it dialed back...Anyone with a mind of their own has presumably left LGF, unwilling to be led by the nose...As for LGF, I wouldn't bother too much. Alexa has consistently shown that Atlas Shrugs and Jihad Watch have been beating LGF into the dust, with GoV gaining consistently in the background. While Alexa stats isn't exactly hard science, it is certainly an independent indicator."
"LGF? Is that thing still around?"
Backhoe Sez:
Fascinating- Phillip K. Dick fans, and vindication... in 28 years online, foosballs was the only site that ever banned me- in the steal of the night, no warning, no refund of contribution-- for belonging to another blog that was formed under CJ's behest, but became the site were all the best & the brightest bannees
( AKA, "The Banned of Brothers..." )
reassembled. Guilt by association. Never felt comfrotable at LGF-- it reminded me of the "CB Channel" chatroom days on Compuserve...
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There is some EXCELLENT coverage of the events and our current economic situation HERE:
http://tinyurl.com/csc6h2
PAJAMA TV, Tea Party Aftermath; Recovery Coming?
If you are primarily interested in the effects and meaning of the Tea Party demonstrations, you want to "fast forward" to about the 8:30 mark in the interview..... 
For more EXTENSIVE coverage, go to:
American Tea Party Overview:
America is on the brink of another revolution. In a new American Tea Party, citizens across the USA are beginning to protest giant government programs that reach deep into their pockets. These programs create huge economic burdens on American families and threaten their livelihood now and into the future.
http://www.pjtv.com/page/_American_Tea_Party/78/
For IN DEPTH coverage and SIX PAGES of videos, etc. from April 15th demonstrations, go HERE:
http://www.pjtv.com/?cmd=tea-party
There are also FOUR SEGMENTS showing responses straight from the protestors at that location.
HAPPY VIEWING.... 
Hattip: J.B. Stone
I WONDER IF ANY “TEA PARTY” PROTESTERS WILL SHOW UP? U.S. Rep. Schakowsky will speak at May Day Dinner. “U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky, a leading advocate for women’s issues in Congress, will be the featured speaker during the Peoria County Democratic Women’s annual May Day Dinner on May 3 at the Lariat Steakhouse.” There were 3,000 Tea Party protesters in Peoria. They might take exception to her calling them despicable and shameful.
TEA PARTIERS BOO REPUBLICAN CONGRESSMAN: “The message from folks in Greenville to Congressman Gresham Barrett was clear Friday evening: Voters are mad about the $700 billion bailout he voted for and the massive government stimulus package he is now supporting. Barrett, a Republican, attempted to speak before an estimated crowd of 4,000 people at a Post Tax Day Tea Party in the Upstate only to be greeted by boos from most everyone in attendance.” More here. Meanwhile, look at these photos of lily-white protesters. But not at a Tea Party. . .
“ANTI-TAX WAVE WASHES THROUGH VANCOUVER.” UPDATE: Another Tea Party report, from Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Plus, pictures from today’s Philadelphia Tea Party. SISSY WILLIS: “Let me devour your flesh because I know how to use it better than you do.” TEA PARTIES ARE STILL GOING ON: There was one in Battle Creek, Michigan today. Photos and report at the link.
A TEA PARTY PROTEST IN McMinnville, Tennessee. I hadn’t even heard of this until somebody emailed. I think there were a lot of these in small towns around the country. As Byron York noted, that these are happening in places where protests never happen is the big news. ANDREW KLAVAN: The Little Red Wagon That Can: What I Saw At The Tea Party. I’m not sure—I’m no prophet—but I think I just saw something genuinely profound, genuinely amazing, and cool that could be the tidal wave of the future. Here’s the setup. It was Tax Day. Thousands of self-organized protesters had gathered around the nation to protest the irresponsible, incredibly rapid expansion of government under the current administration. The Democratic Party and the elite media had done everything in their power to first ignore, then discourage, ridicule, and belittle this grassroots movement. Theoretically respectable journalists were reduced to making double-entendre sexual jokes about tea bags. These are the same people who rushed en masse to cover Cindy Sheehan and a dozen or so antiwar protesters in Crawford, Texas, rechristening that sad, emotionally unpredictable woman with two of the most cherished words in the English language: Peace Mom. But what was their attitude when thousands of ordinary people gathered in defense of their rights all over the country? “Just move on, folks, nothing to see here.” ... Do you know what it reminded me of? Remember the film Mr. Smith Goes to Washington? Remember how the lone righteous senator, played by Jimmy Stewart, takes on the entrenched interests in a filibuster but the powerful media, in league with the government, does everything it can to shut him up and shut him down? Unable to get the word out, Mr. Smith calls on the little kids who love him to print up newspapers on their toy printing presses and distribute them in their little red wagons. And they do it—little kids telling the story that a corrupt media is no longer willing to tell. And do you remember what Mr. Smith says at his darkest hour, when they silence him, when they cut off every means he has of communicating with the American people? He says: “You all think I’m licked. But I’m not licked.” And then he brings those scoundrels down.
PJM POLITICAL: The Tea Party Wrapup Edition. STEPHEN GREEN: How the mainstream press takes its marching orders from radical rabble-rouser Saul Alinsky. "there is an elephant in the living room, but its not a republican. i hear this all the time if you are a minority you must be a democrat. if you are a republican you gotta be a racist. so what are you if you just want to be a decent salt of the earth American? someone who has common sense and common decency. i’m trying to mind my own business and i don’t need a village to raise my children. i will help my neighbor to the best of my ability if asked ,but i don’t want to impose my standards on them. i personally would like the government to leave me alone, something about life liberty and the pursuit of happiness. my work my money. don’t give the house away and then tax me so you can get another." "The mainstream media died a long time ago. They’re now Barack’s PR firm. Until we all understand this, I guess articles like Mr. Green’s will be necessary. Barack is busy remaking America into his image and likeness. If you don’t like the look of that, join us. We don’t either. Barack’s new America is like the Berlin wall." "Obama seems to neglect, forget, or not care that he is ’suppose’ to be the President for ALL Americans, not just the ones who broke laws all over the place to put him in office. He and his ‘cabal’ scream ’shut up’, we won, it’s our turn” at every suggestion of opposition to their ‘truths’. Well the American public is pissed - - and they won’t shut up and they will not put up with an administration that choses to bully people by threatening them."
Meanwhile: GRISLY SLAYINGS BRING MEXICAN DRUG WAR TO U.S.: “Five men dead in an apartment. In a county that might see five homicides in an entire year... WILLIAM JACOBSON: I’m Seething Over the New York Times calling me “seething.” I long have criticized the bias of the NY Times, and mocked its business death spiral. My posts Nude Swiss Hikers Rescue NY Times and NY Times New Business Strategy: DEATH mocked the sensationalist trend on The Times' website. I was the first (as far as I know) to suggest The Times convert to non-profit status. I have attacked the spineless hypocrisy of columnists such as Paul Krugman and David Brooks, and taken The Times to task for its attacks on Eric Cantor and Sarah Palin, photo bias about Israel, despicable characterization of the immigration issue, and The "Military Recruiting Goals" Media Lie. And I've only been blogging six months!
Now The Times is giving it back to me, describing me as "seething" over the report by the Department of Homeland Security defining a broad range of citizens as "extremist" for doing nothing more than voicing their opinions on issues and seeking to influence government, both of which activities are protected by the 1st Amendment.
Here is The Times' description of me followed by The Times' quotation of my post on the issue. You decide whether The Times is being honest in its characterization of my post:
William A. Jacobson of Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion is seething over the document’s apparent anti-Federalism:
This definition is so broad as to include anyone who seeks to preserve the foundation of our federal-state constitutional distinction, under the 10th Amendment (”The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people”), because such a person could be deemed to “reject federal authority in favor of state or local authority.” So Texas governor Rick Perry, who has come out in support of preserving the constitutional integrity of Texas now should be on the DHS’ extremist and radical watch-list. Similarly, the reference to “abortion or immigration” is purely political. Why pick those two subjects? If someone is planning violence, that is one thing. But vocalizing one’s view on a subject and seeking to influence the government are protected by the 1st Amendment (”Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances”).
Wow, quoting the 1st and 10th Amendments to the Constitution sure is a threat to the republic from this extremist. I must be mad as hell and not willing to take it anymore.
Let's see who else The Times has described over the years as "seething":
I could go on and on with examples, but I hope you get the point. The NY Times overuses the word. And in my case, used the word to express political disapproval in line with the theme of the article: "The reaction on the right was swift and scornful." Nothing in the article says anything about the seething liberal netroots who called the Tea Partiers every name in the book and used vulgar sexual innuendo. No, the article characterizes Matthew Yglesias as describing DHS as "sensible" and "the right as hypocritical." Why wasn't Yglesias "seething"?
I am staying the course on my anti-NY Times Jihad (whoops, can't use that word), even if my head explodes (no, that's not a threat) from my seething anger.
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Related Posts: Andrew Sullivan Still Silent On Obama-Chavez LoveFest and Obama Throws Venezuelans Under The Bus UPDATE: Doug Ross reveals the source of all this seething in His Majesty's Secret Report. And Smitty at The Other McCain hearts my selfless determination.
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TAXPROF: Why Your Tax Bill May Double.
Obama Defends Himself But Not His Country at Summit of Americas
After Nicaraguan Marxist President Daniel Ortega attacked America for 50 minutes in his speech today, Barack Obama smiled and shook his hand.
U.S. President Barack Obama and Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega (L) talk during the official photograph session at the 5th Summit of the Americas in Port of Spain, April 18, 2009.
REUTERS/Chris Wattie (TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO POLITICS)
Latin American leaders continued to pile on the US at the Summit of the Americas on Saturday.
Barack Obama defended himself from attacks aimed at America today- but would not defend the United States.
And, he was wrong on his history.
FOX News reported:
In his 17-minute address to the summit, Obama departed from his prepared remarks to mildly rebuke Ortega.
"To move forward, we cannot let ourselves be prisoners of past disagreements. I'm grateful that President Ortega did not blame me for things that happened when I was three months old. Too often, an opportunity to build a fresh partnership of the Americas has been undermined by stale debates. We've all heard these arguments before."
Actually, the president misspoke on the sequence of events in Cuba. The invasion of CIA-trained rebels at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba occurred in April 1961. Obama was born August 4, 1961.
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Pam’s Soused Bender [Dan Collins]
Pam Spaulding is one of those libs who honestly seems to believe that the Tea Parties are all about Whitey getting his hate on because the POTUS is black. There’s nothing new about this. It’s the same meme that they were spouting prior to the election, when they were saying that the only reason one mightn’t vote for Obama was racism. Obviously, then, she quotes with approval J’inane Garofalo’s asinine interview with Olbermann, and she’s managed to find two pictures from the Tea Parties that she believes clinch her case. No, it’s certainly not possible that any of the attendees of these events have any political-philosophical reasons for opposing Obama’s policies. Any reasons that they may give are presented merely to give color to the ugly racism that inspires them, in truth. Forget that business about Obama trebling the national debt, the lies about those earning less than $250k seeing not a dime in new taxation, or the exponential growth of the public sector, or the unprecedented government intrusion into the private sector, or the polling data that showed that race was a bigger factor among Obama voters: all red herrings, according to Pam. Never mind, too, that the impetus behind the Tea Parties is broadly anti-incumbent, Pam follows the talking points and attributes them all to the “GOP base.” As part of her expose, she mentions a brave bicyclist of color riding through one of the crowds, with an STFU message for them. Could it be that the rider felt secure enough that the crowd would be non-violent that he was unconcerned for his safety in counter-protesting? No, obviously he was risking life and limb.
The contrast between the Tea Party rallies and the G20 protests, marked by vandalism and violence, could hardly be more stark. And the leftie press was concerned with heaping opprobrium on the behavior of one side, only. Horror of horrors, Texas’s Rick Perry came out in defense of state sovereignty under the Tenth Amendment. But what is it that has been going on here in Vermont for years now, that the leftists seem to believe is a righteous protest?
The Second Vermont Republic is a nonviolent citizens’ network and think tank opposed to the tyranny of Corporate America and the U.S. government, and committed to the return of Vermont to its status as an independent republic and more broadly to the dissolution of the Union.
You can go and read the principles on which the movement is founded at the site, and discover that it’s backed by the Middlebury Institute. You’ll note that there’s no allusion at all to the US Constitution there. The craziest of the many crazy things brought forth in Pam’s diatribe is her reference to the lack of “class” on the part of some of the protesters, even as she engages in the homophobic “teabagging” smear, one that was perpetrated ad nauseum by television reporters. Jeff has already deconstructed the “limbic system” argument offered by famed neuroscientist Garofalo, here, ( Posted by Jeff G. @ 12:49 pm
Comments (106) ( "But it’s fascism with a smiley face." ) But hey, what are facts, when you can simply shout, RACIST?
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AS WE PLUNGE OFF THE EDGE OF THE ABYSS AND HERETOFORE NEVER SEEN LEVELS OF TAXATION....
As for TAXATION:
“The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.” – Mark Twain
And, I always thought THIS was rather prescient AND one of my favorites from the moment I first heard it.....!!!:
| Quote: | Song: Taxman
Composer: Harrison
Vocals: George Harrison
Year: 1966Lyrics:
(One, two, three, four, one two)
Let me tell you how it will be
There's one for you, nineteen for me
'Cause I'm the taxman
Yeah, I'm the taxman
Should five percent appear too small
Be thankful I don't take it all
'Cause I'm the taxman
Yeah, I'm the taxman
(If you drive a car car) I'll tax the street
(If you try to sit sit) I'll tax your seat
(If you get too cold cold) I'll tax the heat
(If you take a walk walk) I'll tax your feet
Taxman!
'Cause I'm the taxman
Yeah, I'm the taxman
Don't ask me what I want it for
(Ah, ah, Mr. Wilson)
If you don't want to pay some more
(Ah, ah, Mr. Heath)
'Cause I'm the taxman
Yeah, I'm the taxman
Now my advise for those who die
(Taxman!)
Declare the pennies on your eyes
(Taxman!)
'Cause I'm the taxman
Yeah, I'm the taxman
And you're working for no one, but me
(Taxman!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzLry3ABpV0
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ANOTHER TEA PARTY in Ft. Wayne, Indiana:
Hundreds gathered outside the Allen County Courthouse to hear speakers who warned of eroding freedoms as politicians bankroll pork-barrel spending and government bailouts with loans from socialist countries like China. The speakers called upon rally participants to forget party lines and unite in support of their country, their faith and capitalism.
And yet critics say the Tea Party movement is partisan, and doesn’t know what it’s for. 
MORE TEA PARTY PICS: Reader Kenny Hill writes: “Montrose had two Tea Parties, one at lunch and one in the evening. Here’s a few shots from evening party. Thanks for all you do!” It’s Montrose, Colorado. And there wasn’t an “angry old man” in the bunch. 
And here are some more pictures and a report from Cave Creek, Arizona. And reader Jason Ruser writes:
Well, waddaya know? There was a tea party not 5 miles from my up in Oceanside, at Oceanside’s City Hall. Met lots of friendly folks, many of which had home made signs of note. They were a pretty non-threatening lot, unless you are threatened by little old ladies with American flag hats and doggies they dote on. Even had complete families out. I only met one goofball who was handing out infowars CDs. “They are very professionally made, Sir…” Uh-huh. A couple of motorcycle cops (riding BMW cycles) I polled said the crowd looked to be “Two thousand-ish.” Here are some links to photos for your enjoyment.
UPDATE: Reader Robert Williams sends this picture from Raleigh, NC. 
KANSAS CITY STAR: Tea Party Movement Captures Real Concerns. “What we’re seeing is a center-right populist outpouring prompted by the long-term implications of President Barack Obama’s gargantuan budget, his spending plans, the massive tide of red ink those plans will generate — and, most important, what all that implies about the future balance between the government and the private sector.”
REGULATORY DESPOTISM. “No elected politicians passed a law in any legislature mandating that would-be gun-owners explain why they bust up with their sweethearts. But some no-name official somewhere in the permanent bureaucracy did, and that’s that.” Tar and feathers, or some other measure to ensure personal responsibility. Congress going after online shoppers. Technically this isn’t new taxation, as you’re supposed to pay “use tax” on things you buy online from out of state. (I do this). But most people don’t, and to them it will feel like a new tax.
GAY MARRIAGE HAS WON: “Note the main message Frank is pushing here: In an America where in the latest CBS news poll, just 33 percent of Americans support gay marrriage, gay marriage has won. Gay-marriage advocates are using their seats of power to punish and shut down debate.”
SOME TEA PARTY PHOTOS from Fresno. “Fresno had over 7.500 attend the most polite protest I have ever witnessed.” Plus, “Black People Against Obama,” and “Mixed People Against Obama.” Hey, that’s not part of the narrative! 
UPDATE: Reader Larry Price sends this picture of the “angry old white men” standing in front of him at the Atlanta Tea Party. 
ANOTHER UPDATE: Another one of those angry white guys, in Virginia Beach.
MORE: Lefty reader Nicholas Klemen writes: ‘You found photos of 6 black people at tea parties! Thats proof that there isn’t any racism going on at the protests. Take that Dems! Keep up the good work.” Well, there wasn’t any sign of racism at the Tea Party I attended, nor have I seen any reports from anywhere else. All I’ve seen are bogus claims of racism from apparatchik lefties who are — as Bob McManus predicted a month ago — hitting this note for lack of anything else to say, and because it’s their tired response to anything threatening. That’s not the moral high ground you’re standing on, Nicholas. It’s just a big ol’ pile of crap. WELL, FOR HIM, CERTAINLY: Axelrod: The Tea Party Movement Could Be “Unhealthy.” SOME REPORTING FROM YESTERDAY’S PHILADELPHIA TEA PARTY over at Blonde Sagacity. Turnout was about 1500 people. TEA PARTY NATION is a social-networking site for the Tea Party crowd. It’s set up by Judson Phillips, who organized the Tennessee Tea Parties movement.
A BLAST FROM THE PAST: The Nazification of Bush, in 2003. Related item here. PARTYING LIKE IT’S 1934. WELL, THE E.P.A. WILL MAKE SURE THIS NEVER HAPPENS: “OK, this is big news. A research team has worked out a way to nearly triple the efficiency of the Fischer-Tropsch process. This means cheap synthetic hydrocarbons from coal are on the horizon.”
SO I FINISHED WILLIAM FORSTCHEN’S One Second After, and it’s pretty good — sort of an Alas, Babylon for the 21st Century. Forstchen hopes to attract attention to the danger of an EMP attack, and I hope he does. I’m somewhat less positive about whether that will produce any actual, useful preparation. Meanwhile, there’s also the worry about EMP problems from solar storms. We need to be hardening up our infrastructure in all sorts of ways; this is one. We Don't Need No Stinking Puny Fans
Only 47 windmills to power a household?
A real-world test performed by the Dutch province of Zeeland (a very windy place) confirms our earlier analysis that small windmills are a fundamentally flawed technology (test results here, pdf in Dutch). Twelve of these much hyped machines were placed in a row on an open plain (picture above). Their energy yield was measured over a period of one year (April 1, 2008 - March 31, 2009), the average wind velocity during these 12 months was 3.8 meters per second (slightly higher than average). Three windmills broke. 
(more at the link). h/t Tomax7 Posted by Kate at 12:03 AM| Comments (5)"This is based on some very low power consumption values. The figure given for the average Dutch household is 3400 Kwh/year! My average consumption is on the order of 17,000 Kwh/year or 5 Dutch households. I still plan on installing an electric kiln in the next 1-2 years and this will really increase those power consumption figures.How long is it going to take the moonbats to realize that wind power is only good for remote locations far from a source of power? What we need is more nuclear power and the sooner the better."
The Janeane Garofalo of academia
By Michelle Malkin•April 19, 2009 10:09 AM
 It’s one thing for Hollywood twit Janeane Garofalo to smear the Tea Party movement as RAAAAACIST. We expect ignorant celebrities to be ignorant. But when newspapers phone up “experts” in academia to provide commentary and analysis on social and political trends, it would be nice if they based their assessments on reality, wouldn’t it?
In the Christian Science Monitor today, one professor of emeritus plays the Janeane Garofalo of academia: Where’s my cluebat? California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger booed at Sacramento Tea Party: White and Republican. California GOP chairman Ron Nehring booed at Sacramento Tea Party: White and Republican. Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman, Sens. Orrin Hatch, and Bob Bennett all booed at Salt Lake City Tea Party: White and Republican. Rep. Gresham Barrett booed at Greenville SC Tea Party: White and Republican. Reality doesn’t fit Hollywood’s narrative — or left-wing academia’s. Must be lovely to live life immunized from the truth. 210 Comments
"Since they don’t live in reality, why should we expect them to pay any attention to it? /sarc
James Carville On Tea Parties: "The Average Age at These Things Had to Be 72.4" (Video)
"The Average Age at These Things Had to Be 72.4. They put every old crank in the country at these things."
Dem Strategist James Carville
On the Tax Day Tea Party Protests
April 19, 2009
Here's the latest attack on the Tax Day Tea Parties from Democratic strategist James Carville:
Nice attack on seniors, James.
Well, I'm not sure if I saw any 72.4 year-olds at the Tax Day Tea Party in St. Louis... But they are certainly welcome.
And, by golly... There were even minorities at the Tea Party protests:  Just ask Kevin Jackson from The Black Sphere who was the emcee at the St. Louis protest.
More... Anon-o-mouse adds this:
OK this is confirmation that they are really worried. They trot out Carville and Axelrod in addition to Pravda, all the nutbag trolls, Dems in Congress and Hollywood toxic assets like Garofalo
You know you've hit the mark, dead center, maximum impact, when they bring out everyone in their arsenal to discredit it. They only do that when they really, really,need to push an agenda.
Related... By the way Kevin Jackson has more on the racist Garafalo to the rescue.
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Stop the EPA Before it Destroys America! - Green Gestapo, EPA has declared carbon dioxide a...
Sounds like a bunch of Right Wing Extremists in here! Someone needs to report all of you thought criminals to Ms. Napolitano...
MSM's Tea Party Cognitive Dissonance
Team O Turns Left on Sanity With ‘Right-Wing Extremists’Click the pic:
Barbara Boxer is Hung Up In 1969.
Cap-and-trade Rings High Taxes, Low Results
House Prices Finally Approaching Fair Value...
Radical cheap: $1,000 homes
Twelve Major Brands That Will Disappear
Driven to Despair
7-Eleven notices customers buying beer in 18 packs and cutting back on cigarette packs
Wiretap Recorded Rep. Harman Promising to Intervene for AIPAC
Glenn Beck Drop Kicks Charles Johnson - Who’s the Punk Now?
Charles Johnson of LGF, or the “Second Coming of Andrew Sullivan” has become somewhat of a mad raving lunatic of late. Railing against Christians, God, and anyone who fails to worship his ‘god’ Barack Obama. He also picks on Glenn Beck and calls him a “punk”. Funny that should come from one who’s way of discourse is to ban or resort to juvenile name calling.
Abortion Industry Needs "Pride" Movement: Brown University Bioethicist and Author
Hot air will not inflate America's economy
Americans are tapped out. In debt to their necks and beyond. More debt doesn’t fix a debt problem. And our idiotic government is increasing taxes to try to raise their falling revenue along with borrowing ever more money to “stimulate” something that will not return to what it once was. Americas Summit: Missed Opportunity [Like the G20, a Huge Failure: Form Triumps Over Substance]
Save your gems: why gold and not diamonds.
EDITORIAL: Obama's gun lies
News Impact of 1999 shootings at Columbine High School still felt
Barack Obama: Crime Boss
Report: The FBI Was Spying on The Tea Parties
http://homelandsecurityus.com/?p=2659
Reflections of a (very unhappy) former Bush-Bot in Obama-landThis is where you went wrong, and you might as well have quit writing right there. Nobody is buying Obummer's crapI am sorry. You are wrong. Millions of Americans want Obama's socialism. Teachers, laborers, blacks, Hispanics (including Illegals), homosexuals, rampant secularists, academia, and the majority of young and women voters. 
There was massive fraud to get Obama elected - but also millions who voted for him. We have already reached a point in our country where over 40% of Americans pay no taxes, but now are getting "tax cuts" (welfare). Their mortgages are promised to be paid. Health care (free!) is now on the way. Here in NJ - teachers hardly pay a dime for health care now. I have not even mentioned the millions of senior citizens who get Medicare and Social Security. Why would they oppose Obama? No. The country has turned. The majority is now a rabble of a mob demanding "more, more!" I don't think it can ever go back.
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The Inconvenient Truth About the Released CIA MemosI wonder if the sheeple who elected One Big Assed Mistake America will come to their senses when the next 9-11 happens. I wonder how big it will have to be to wake them up? Will a mere 3500 dead Americans be enough to do the job or will it require worse?
0goatse strikes again... 
E-bombs EMP Weapon Worries Counter-Terrorism Experts
But Can Obama Make the Trains Run on Time?
How Obama Revolution Came To America
Warning: Gov. Palin's Authenticity May Cause Onset of PDS I’d work harder then I have ever worked before to get Sarah elected. Saw her speech again, I never get tired of hearing her speak. So real, so genuine. I read in the courier press different people who were able to hang out with her, said how so genuine she is, even the security officials who were there to guard her, she had never met them before but knew all of their names, they were SO impressed..and they were watching her to see if she was as real as people said she was, or if it was all an act, and they said that she is 100 percent sincere, no rolling of the eyes, nothing, she is 100 percent as legit as they come..a sincere, articulate human being who loves being around people and helping anyway she can. Now THAT is something we need in the White House BADLY _________________ Just an Old Keyboard Cowboy, ridin' the trakball into the Twilight... |
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JOHN LOTT: ABC’s Shameful ‘20/20 Experiment
Better keep these handy:
Click the pic to go to the Gun Facts v5.0 download page!
-The FIVE-MINUTE HANDBOOK (RKBA)-06-28-03- Ex-WLS weatherman calls warming 'greatest scam in history
Heads Up! 'Shut Up' author on Glenn Beck Monday (Obama plot to silence talk radio )
We the People' to Napolitano: 'You're fired!'
Department of Hopeless Speculation-unexplored, deeper flaws than its slurs
The DHS report has unexplored, deeper flaws than its slurs against veterans and conservatives -- like ignoring the real motives behind domestic terrorism ALTHOUGH MUCH COMMENTARY HAS BEEN WRITTEN ON THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY's recent report insulting veterans and conservatives, it overlooks the victim of the paper's most obvious insult: its reader's intellegence. The DHS report not only assumes veterans are a violence-prone group readily influenced by "rightwing" extremism but contains more consequential faults. It misdiagnoses the most likely source of terrorism and misconstrues the forces that lead to "anti-government" attacks, actually stoking the fears that fuel them.
Most pundits have focused on the report's statements about veterans or the sentence in the "Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment," that holds "extremism" may "include groups and individuals that are dedicated to a single issue, such as opposition to abortion or immigration." DHS chief Janet Napolitano told Fox and Friends' Steve Doocy, "If there's one part of that report I would rewrite, in the word-smithing, Washington-ese that goes on after the fact, it would be that footnote." Like Jane Fonda's various non-apologies, Napolitano's words do little to atone for the most significant errors in the report.
That is unfortunate, because Napolitano has much for which to apologize.
The most alarming part in this author's mind is not so much the statements about veterans or conservatives -- offensive as they are -- but the report's conclusion: "DHS/I&A assesses that lone wolves and small terrorist cells embracing violent rightwing extremist ideology are the most dangerous domestic terrorism threat in the United States."
The last eight years have proven there is a far more dangerous religio-political worldview than white supremacy. This report overlooks such homegrown examples as the Lackawanna Six, Miami's Liberty City Seven, the Fort Dix jihadists, John Walker Lindh, al-Qaeda spokesman Adam Gadahn, etc.
The most recent "war veteran" involved in terror was John Allen Muhammad, the D.C. sniper and convert to the Nation of Islam, who attended the Million Man March.The media universally reported merely that he was "a Gulf War veteran," leaving his Muslim beliefs virtually unexplored. His co-conspirator, Lee Boyd Malvo, has testified that Muhammad planned the sniping as part of a vast campaign to recruit homeless black orphans for a continent-wide snipers' jihad. Significantly, Malvo has displayed his own pattern of Islamist aggression.
Indeed, Napolitano will not need to keep tabs on Capt. Christopher Seifert, who was murdered in Kuwait by Sgt. Asan Akbar, a black convert to Islam who waged jihad against his fellow Americans overseas.
Two months ago, JihadWatch Director Robert Spencer noted the existence of 35 jihad training centers on U.S. soil. Even European bombings showed the domestic character of "native" domestic terrorists.
Yet the Obama administration's DHS has turned its focus inward. Having banished the use of terms like "terrorism" and "jihad," it now shifts the department's focus from Islam to white supremacists -- the last logical step in PC counterterrorism.
This would be somewhat less galling if it demonstrated any understanding whatsoever of what leads white supremacists to attack. Although the Left encourages us to ponder why Muslims hate us around the world, it seems less introspective about its own citizens. Its feckless analysis of "anti-government" terrorism claims "rightwing extremists during the 1990s exploited a variety of social issues" including "abortion, inter-racial crimes, and same-sex marriage." Of course, same sex "marriage" played no whatsoever role in Oklahoma City, the Minuteman standoff, the formation of any militia, or any "rightwing" (that is, national socialist) recruitment. In fact, same-sex marriage was hardly a political issue until the last few years -- and then after San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom violated the law. When the issue came up at all during the 1990s, it was to brand traditionalists as paranoid bumpkins for thinking such a thing would ever take place.
The report shows its greatest oversight in sweeping under the rug the galvanizing effect the government's misdeeds had in creating the militia movement -- especially the BATF's assault on Ruby Ridge and the standoff at Waco. The DHS's historical fiction ignores the stated motivation of the deadliest domestic terrorist, Timothy McVeigh, calling him an example of the "small percentage of military personnel to join extremist groups during the 1990s because they were disgruntled, disillusioned, or suffering from the psychological effects of war." The report did not specify the psychological effects he or other veterans may have encountered during the 100-hour Gulf war. (The thrill of victory?)
Timothy McVeigh bombed the Murrah Federal Building on the second anniversary of the Waco standoff -- which ended exactly 16 years ago yesterday. McVeigh traveled to Waco during the siege, and made pilgrimage to the remains of Ruby Ridge long after its bloody resolution.
The latter had more to do with making militias palatable than former military service, immigration, abortion, or same-sex marriage. No less a self-appointed authority on "rightwing terrorism" than Morris Dees wrote, "Ruby Ridge ignited the militia movement." (Gathering Storm: America's Militia Threat. (NY: HarperCollins, 1996), p. 69.)
BATF agents arrived -- by the Weavers' account, unannounced -- in the middle of the night of August 21, 1992, and in short order killed Randy Weaver's14-year-old son Sammy, by shooting him in the back. Sharpshooter Lon Horiuchi later shot and killed Vicki Weaver as she cradled her infant daughter in her arms. (His intended targets, Randy Weaver and Kevin Harris, were fleeing to their cabin; he apparently intended to shoot them in the back, as well. Horiuchi would later be dispatched to the Branch Davidian standoff.) The family later won a multimillion dollar settlement.
It also supercharged the paranoia of the militia movement. Dees and others claim a meeting of white supremacists called two months later in Estes Park, Colorado, as a response to the Weaver shootings gave birth to the militia movement. Whether this meeting proved as formative as Dees claims, Ruby Ridge proved a boon for radicals. The 1992 extremist presidential candidacy of Lt. Col. James "Bo" Gritz, who helped negotiate Weaver's peaceful surrender, received more than 10,000 votes in Idaho, five times as many votes as in Gritz's native Nevada. Ruby Ridge and the tragedy of Waco helped create an environment in which people came to believe the federal government was out-of-control -- and led some to believe joining a militia was an act of self-defense. Those events stoked extant paranoia and led directly to Timothy McVeigh's "act of war" against the United States 14 years ago yesterday.
All this is curiously missing from the government's report. It makes only one, clipped reference to Ruby Ridge and Waco at the end of page five, at the end of a list of "rightwing" grievances, while spending far more time casting aspersions at honorable military service and traditional morality.
Those tragic federal interventions (at least one of them, criminal) exacerbated distrust of the feds, lending credence to the words of the genuinely paranoid. With this report, history may be repeating itself. A poster on Stormfront.org, the internet's premier white supremacist website, greeted the news by writing, "I'm actually kind of glad they did release that report the way they did. Along with the media dismissing and calling the tea party protesters racists, it's bound to piss a lot of people off, and maybe they will start to realize what's happening in our Country." (The following post referred to the Thomas More Law Center as "hippy jew law goons.")
Napolitano played into the fringe's hands. When a government agency claims everyone who opposes abortion or gay marriage is a potential terrorist, it lends credibility to radical ravings that the government is at war with its people, or at a minimum regards the majority of its citizens, which reject leftism, as suspect. That makes mainstream Americans more susceptible to anarchist recruitment and potential radicalization.
The threat of white supremacists is a real concern which deserves careful analysis. Unfortunately, this DHS report not only overlooks the real source of domestic terrorism but, through broad-brush painting, makes a domestic anarchist attack more likely. President Obama's New Plan to Decide Where Americans Live and How They Travel
Ah, totalitarianism. Is there any problem it can't solve? Mexican arms race: bigger guns for drug cartels
...let’s see...they can’t cut down on the amount of drugs coming in yet they think they can cut down the number of weapons. DC logic for you. Finally, The Truth About Herbert Hoover, FDR, the Great Depression and the New Deal
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ROWBACK? A story on the Mexican drug cartels and guns that doesn’t blame U.S. gun shops. No, really.
RASMUSSEN: 51% View Tea Parties Favorably, Political Class Strongly Disagrees. No surprise there . . . . Plus this: “One-in-four adults (25%) say they personally know someone who attended a tea party protest. That figure includes just one percent (1%) of those in the Political Class.” And this has got to scare some people: “A majority (54%) of Mainstream Democrats had a favorable opinion of the tea parties.” GAY PATRIOT:
Reminding us of the spendthrift ways of President Bush and the Republican Congresses of the early 2000s, Democratic officials and liberal bloggers attempt to deny the sincerity of Tea Party protesters and conservative Republicans decrying the excessive government spending proposed by President Obama and passed by a Democratic Congress. Their line of attack shows the would rather dwell on our alleged hypocrisy than defend their excessive spending. It is shocking that some of the very people who attacked then-President Bush for increasing the debt burden we are passing onto the younger generation support his successor’s plan to increase that debt far quickly than W ever dreamed possible.
Yeah, it’s kinda weird to say that if you didn’t raise a stink about a $300 billion deficit, you can’t complaint about a $2 trillion deficit. But in fact, some of us were complaining — and, as I recall, being criticized then because we weren’t talking about whatever the lefty critics wanted us to blog about instead at the time. But you know Al Gore’s story about the slowly-boiling frog? Obama’s turned the stove up to 11, and the frog has started to kick.
Meanwhile, Jason Pye comments: Dissent is not unhealthy, it’s patriotic. We used to hear that a lot . . .
STEVE CHAPMAN: The Truth About The Tea Parties. “The scale of the federal response to the crises has come as a frightening surprise to many Americans, who suspect the cure will be worse, and less transitory, than the disease. . . . So why did people rally across the country when they should have been planning how to spend their tax refunds? Because their true dismay is about the mushrooming of federal outlays, which the demonstrators regard as a future tax increase in the making. Which, of course, it is.” UPDATE: A.C. Kleinheider says it’s 1994 all over again. Which is a mixed bag . . . . Beware of the “professional conservatives.”
DANA MILBANK: They won, so why is the Left still so angry? Maybe it’s become a habit? UPDATE: Rand Simberg says it’s intrinsic.
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The second rule of (a)holes
If you are going to insist on digging deeper, at least make sure your instrument is sharp.
"This is like watching the remake of Clinton 90210. Hillary, in a cameo, is Madeline Albright. Joe Biden plays the utterly irrelevant part of Al Gore. And Janet is Janet. Meanwhile, you know those banks we loaned all that money to so they wouldn’t fail? Baracky is thinking about just, you know, owing them. For The Children™, no doubt." "We'll deny treatments, then pay you whenever" - the winning formula of government health carePosted by Michael Laprarie
Published: April 20, 2009 - 11:10 AM
On Friday, Mickey Kaus posted a scathing rebuke of the unbelievable strategy that the Obama White House and their accomplices in the press seem to be formulating in order to sell socialized medicine to the American public: Democratic blogger Ezra Klein
http://www.prospect.org/csnc/blogs/ezraklein_archive?month=04&year=2009&base_name=why_american_health_care_costs_1
appears to be positioning Dem health care reforms as a way to cut costs, on the grounds that a reformed system will be able to make "hard choices" and "rational" coverage decisions, by which Klein seems to mean "not providing" treatments that are unproven or too expensive--when "a person's life, or health, is not worth the price." Matthew Yglesias' recent post seems to be saying the same thing, though clarity isn't its strong suit. (He must have left it on Journolist.) Isn't it an epic mistake to try to sell Democratic health care reform on this basis? Possible sales pitch: "Our plan will deny you unnecessary treatments!" Or maybe just "Republicans say 'yes.' Democrats say 'no'!" Is that really why the middle class will sign on to a revolutionary multi-trillion dollar shift in spending--so the government can decide their life or health "is not worth the price"? I mean, how could it lose?
But then Kaus goes on to opine that this strategy is, in fact, misleading; Kaus supports government health care because he thinks the government will be less likely than for-profit insurers to deny treatment: Take Arnold Kling's example of a young patient with cancer, where "the best hope is a treatment that costs $100,000 and offers a chance of success of 1 in 200." No "rational bureaucracy" would spend $20 million to save a life, Kling argues. I doubt any private insurance company is going to write a policy that spends $20 million to save a life. But I think the government--faced with demands from patient groups and disease lobbies and treatment providers and Oprah and run, ultimately, by politicians as terrified of being held responsible for denying treatment as they are quick to pander to the public's sentimental bias toward life--is less likely to be "rational" than the private sector.
I think Kaus' reasoning is completely backward. If you are treated unfairly by a private citizen or private business entity, you can petition the government to pass legislation that will prevent the situation from occurring again. You can also sue for restitution in civil court, yet another venue for redress that is provided by the government. But if you are treated unfairly by the government, it's a whole different ball game. Lawmakers and bureaucrats are extremely reluctant to take responsibility for mistakes or to blame colleagues when things go wrong. If you are wronged by the Bureau of Health (or whatever it will be called) then to which other government agency do you turn for help? Are government agencies really going to sue each other on behalf of an ordinary citizen? The thought of intra-agency lawsuits seems even more ridiculous. Even if lawsuits were successfully filed, the elephantine way that government bureaucracy moves would guarantee that very few people ever received justice. Here's the bottom line -- we need to look no further than the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, specifically the finger-pointing and utter abdication of responsibility by the Army Corps of Engineers, to see how the government reacts to large-scale bureaucratic failure. In my opinion, the government would respond aggressively to major problems within a nationalized health care system only if there were a lot of paper-pushers on bottom of the bureaucratic totem pole who could be routinely scalped without harming tenured government employees. Such a system is, of course, doomed to failure; ask the survivors of the Soviet military how their "vertical stroke" plan worked out. And there's another negative aspect that the cheerleaders for nationalized health care seem reluctant to talk about: the government is lousy at paying its bills. Here in Oklahoma, the state employee health insurance plan, HealthChoice, is currently $80 to $100 million behind in claims processing and payments to health care providers. Dr. Marc Siegel, a Fox News medical contributor, recently discussed this problem in the Wall Street Journal: More and more of my fellow doctors are turning away Medicare patients because of the diminished reimbursements and the growing delay in payments. I've had several new Medicare patients come to my office in the last few months with multiple diseases and long lists of medications simply because their longtime provider -- who they liked -- abruptly stopped taking Medicare. One of the top mammographers in New York City works in my office building, but she no longer accepts Medicare and charges patients more than $300 cash for each procedure. I continue to send my elderly women patients downstairs for the test because she is so good, but no one is happy about paying. The problem is even worse with Medicaid. A 2005 Community Tracking Physician survey showed that only 50% of physicians accept this insurance. I am now one of the ones who doesn't take it. I realized a few years ago that it wasn't worth the money to file the paperwork for the $25 or less that I received for an office visit. HMOs are problematic as well. Recent surveys from New York show a 10% yearly dropout rate from the state's largest HMO, the Health Insurance Plan of New York (HIP), and a 14% drop-out rate from Health Net of New York, another big HMO.
Back in 1993, Bill and Hillary Clinton offered one possible solution to this problem -- their proposed government take-over of health care criminalized any private practice of medicine outside the scope of the government program. Critics quickly seized upon the draconian nature of that rule and used it with great effectiveness in their campaign to defeat HillaryCare.
Most Americans wanted affordable health coverage, not a program that sent doctors to jail for visiting an elderly neighbor in their spare time, or renewing prescriptions for family members. No one is denying that our current health care system is deficient. Right now, one of our most serious problems is the shortage of doctors -- there are not enough primary care physicians for every American to have an annual physical examination, and not nearly enough specialists to pinpoint and treat all the ailments that would be discovered during those routine physicals: heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, digestive diseases, breathing disorders, sleep disorders, anxiety, depression, etc. A massive government insurance program clogged with red tape and stingy with its payments is certain to drive away health care providers. When that happens, we will be worse off than we are now -- only those who can afford to pay for treatment out of pocket will receive the best medical care, while the rest of us will be stuck waiting in line in overcrowded, understaffed public clinics. And if doctors are forced to assimilate their practices into the government system or face criminal penalties, then it is a no-brainer that the number of health care providers will shrink dramatically. After all, how many people will want to invest 15-20 years (honors high school - honors undergraduate - medical school - internship - residency) to become a slave of the state, overworked and pushed around by bureaucrats? Whatever happens, it looks like the road ahead for health care in America will be a very rocky one indeed.
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Not sure about the Israeli flag in those pictures.
We'll have to wait and see on that aspect, especially after today's speech at the UN "human wrongs conference" by Imustbe'effinmad.
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President 44 of the United States of America, the One, Barack Hussein Obama ... substitute numbers for all letters, keep 44 as is, and the total is ... 666. |
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It’s amazing what people believe. I was having lunch on Friday when one of the substitute teachers made a statement about the Republican party funding all of the tea parties. I asked her where she heard it, and she mentioned that she read it in the newspaper. I had to sit and explain to her where it actually started (thanks to Michelle for the excellent timeline!)
A Tax Day Tea Party cheat sheet: How it all started
and that the newspaper was all wrong. Too many people listen to the MSM and take them as gospel when there’s no proof to back up their claims."
It’s official [Darleen Click]
Berkeley is now a fascist city
A “national model”? Yeah, but not for what you’re pretending to peddle.
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most food sold in stores and restaurants to be produced within a few hundred miles of the city
I’m going to love seeing how that law interacts with that new “run a farmer’s market, go to prison” legislation.
The plan also calls for zero garbage sent to landfill
What are they going to do with it? Eat it?
I guess that will help with the first point above.
Obama Greets Another Communist DictatorApril 19th, 2009
In case Mr. Obama’s “soul shake” with Hugo Chavez wasn’t enough to get his point across, there is this from those fans of dictator thugs everywhere at Reuters:
Can’t you just feel the warmth of comradely affection?
Indeed, Mr. Obama doesn’t seem to be able to keep his hands off of him.
But as Mr. Obama has recently pronounced, we must learn from history — not be trapped by it.
"Just wait until we find out how much of our money he gives or has given to these latest “friends.” "