Republicans have been on the forefront of both cleanliness and godliness ever since our party's founding. George Templeton Strong helped to establish the US Sanitary Commission, to counter the filthy Democrats during the Civil War:
George Strong served for many years as a vestryman at Trinity Church in New York. He helped found the United States Sanitary Commission, which helped ameliorate the horrible sufferings of wounded soldiers during the American Civil War. He was also treasurer and member of its executive committee throughout the war. He also helped to start the Union League Club of New York, an organization which pledged to "cultivate a profound national devotion." The organization provided a means to reconciling the whites and blacks of the South into the Republican Party. Strong funded a Union regiment during the war, and his wife served on a hospital ship.
Art lover, champion of the elderly and protector of the environment, Senator Heinz was the first heir of the vast H.J. Heinz Company to break from family tradition and enter politics. He wanted to help people. As his wife Teresa has said: "He had a rare gift for seeing the world in bright shades, and an even more uncommon gift for finding ways to share that vision with those for whom life had become cast in shades of hopeless grey. Through the prism of our nation, he saw a rainbow of hope and opportunity."
John Heinz brought that hope with him wherever he went. Blessed with an appeal and charisma that crossed party lines, Senator Heinz, a Republican, was extremely popular with Democrats. He was the first Republican to carry every ward of the city of Pittsburgh during his 1976 Senatorial campaign. People valued his desire for change and his respect for human dignity and believed his guiding principle which was "the status quo is unacceptable."
Sen Heinz was heir to the eponymous ketchup company and, as CNBC points out in their biography, his ancestors were vanguards for producing pure food, which is why they insisted on using clear glass bottles, and promoting pure food legislation:
In a brilliant execution of counter programming, on the same night that NBC ran a hit piece attacking the Church of Latter Day Saints, Romney granted an interview to the Catholic cable channel, EWTN, to explain his position on religious freedom:
Hasson points out that we don't regularly address gender diversity the way the did on The Practice, with gender neutral restrooms. Similarly, we shouldn't approach religious diversity with government mandated atheism. However, I'm not certain if I agree entirely with either the straw man Manichean constructs:
One side (dubbed “Pilgrims” in the book) wants to legally coerce any religious conscience with which they disagree while the other side (called “Park Rangers”) thinks that all religion must be purely private. Both seem prepared to battle to the death over these issues. The rest of us, that vast majority in the middle, duck and cover as best we can while wondering why we must always fight every detail of anything to do with religion.
or the semantic turn of phrase of substituting freedom of conscience for freedom of religion:
However, that is where Hasson’s insistence on the value of conscience is so valuable. By reminding us that conscience is the core of religious conviction, he takes us to the true turning point of religious liberty. This in turn frees us to totally disagree with another’s religious convictions while, with complete integrity, conceding that they do, indeed, have the right to be wrong.
It is the crumbling of our constitution's first guaranteed freedom: the freedom of religion. This issue is more significant and has far greater implications for America's future. People have forgotten that America was founded by people who came here to escape religious persecution. Freedom of religion is the first freedom mentioned in the Bill of Rights - before freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom to assemble, and every other freedom.
And yet today, at the city, the state, and the federal levels, government bureaucrats are daily trying to limit that freedom, impose restrictions, and stifle expressions of faith on campuses, in hospitals, and in businesses. There are widespread attempts to redefine the First Amendment to simply mean "You are free to believe anything at your place of worship but you are not free to practice your conscience elsewhere."
The constitution doesn't just guarantee your freedom to worship; it guarantees you freedom from government intervention in you daily living out what you believe. That's why we've chosen to host a civil forum on religious freedom in September instead of the presidential forum. It's a fight for the constitution, not a personality.
Admittedly, I could be inferring more than the blog reviewer implied, since Hasson asserted that religion is personal, but not private, thus seeming to offer greater opposition to his "park ranger" opponents. I acknowledge that theocrats are certainly historic figures, but I'm not entirely certain that intolerant pilgrims are as powerful and prevalent in today's day and age as he presents.
If there were any Muslims living in America at the time of the English pilgrim landing, there would have been an equal number of Jews and even more Catholics living in Spanish America. I don't know why the snarky progressive cartoonist above decided to only include Muslims and leave out Jews and Catholics in his mean meme. This seems to provide oxygen to imperialist jihadists who wish to establish a global caliphate by trying to conflate Muslims with Native Americans in order to rationalize their agenda, as per this dubiousness:
There are numerous accounts of Muslims who were integrated within Native Indian tribes pre Columbus, of Turkic, Moorish and African Muslims leaving colonies to live amongst the Native Indians. There are also historical letters and colonial advertisements describing the threat to the colonies of African Muslim Slaves fleeing and integrating with the Native American Indians. There is also the case of Mahomet Weyonomonof the Mohegan tribe, who arrived in Britain in 1736 CE (1148 AH) [1]century to discuss the land grabs by the British
Apparently, the Obama campaign is only opposed to people questioning his paternity, but has no problem when his minions, such as still respectably employed "journalist", Andrew Sullivan, spread scurrilous conspiracy theories about Sarah Palin and her son, Trig. Obama's campaign, and his DNC media. whine as Romney makes a joke at Barack's behalf:
Whether he meant to or not, Mitt Romney on Friday injected the toxic issue of birtherism into an already bitter presidential race at an unhelpful time for the presumptive Republican nominee.
Noting that he and his wife, Ann, were born in Michigan hospitals, Romney said at a rally here: “No one’s ever asked to see my birth certificate. They know that this is the place where both of us were born and raised.”
Yes, Washington Post Toasties (as Tom Marr would say) Romney knew what he was doing, and he meant for his words to be a light hearted joke, unlike Biden's smears about slavery, that created a bipartisan backlash. Stop taking yourselves so seriously. The video shows Romney's demeanor that he was joking:
FYI, notice that there are two Catholic nuns in the lower right hand corner, presumably supporting a candidate who doesn't hate the Catholic Church and/or religious freedom, and presumably not Soros-funded socialist sisters.
Back to Obama-worshiping Andrew Sullivan, his former employer, Salon, went through the trouble of debunking his stupid anti-Palin conspiracy theory:
Trig Trutherism, the surprisingly resilient conspiracy theory that Sarah Palin is not actually the mother of 3-year-old Trig Palin, is experiencing a boomlet thanks to a new academic paper that endorses the concept. Long pursued by the blogger Andrew Sullivan and a significant segment of the Palin-hating left, Trig Trutherism holds that Trig’s real mother is either Bristol Palin or some third party, and that Sarah Palin herself faked the pregnancy to avoid embarrassment for her daughter or for political gain or some combination of reasons.
In light of the recent attention this subject has received and the considerable passion it has stirred, Salon embarked last week on an investigation of the circumstances surrounding Trig’s birth. The exhaustive review of available evidence that we conducted, along with new interviews with multiple eyewitnesses who interacted with a pregnant Sarah Palin up-close in early 2008 — most of whom had never spoken publicly about the matter before — has produced one clear conclusion: Sarah Palin is, indeed, Trig’s mother and there is no reason to suspect any kind of a coverup.
However, leftist wack-a-doo so-called "journalists" neither die nor fade away, they just print new business cards. Sullivan, the crazy conspiracy theorist, is now employed by the Daily Beast , and is still invited on Chris "Thrill Up My Leg" Matthews show to smear Palin as a Nazi:
SULLIVAN: But “Sarah Palin’s Alaska” is the most – I know it’s completely phony – but it’s very optimistic. This whole “Triumph of the Will” movie she’s putting out there, two hours of total upbeat, optimistic stuff. She, she knows this, and she’s going to work around it.
So, being an Obama birther is "toxic", according to DNC media, but being a Palin birther is still socially acceptable and won't cause you to be deleted from the Kool Kids' rolodex.
FWIW, I'm neither an Obama nor Palin birther, but I can certainly sympathize with the former. Democrat party operatives, on tax payer supported PBS, brag about stealing elections:
McCullough: [voice-over] The 33-year-old contender was about to get a lesson in the dark side of politics that he would never forget. In the rough-and-tumble world of Texas elections, stuffing the ballot box was not unusual, especially in South and East Texas and no one understood this more than John Connally, Lyndon Johnson's friend and campaign manager.
John Connally, LBJ Campaign Aide, LBJ Advisor: A lot of those counties had political leaders. Sometimes it was the sheriff, sometimes a county judge. They basically carried the county the way they wanted it to go and this had been historically the case and we had the support of most of those political leaders.
Saturday night about midnight, they call me and say, "We've got the returns. What do you want us to do with them?" I said, "Well, tell me what they are, first, and then report them." The opposition, then -- Governor O'Daniel and his people -- knew exactly how many votes they had to have to take the lead. They kept changing the results and changing the returns and our lead got smaller and smaller and smaller. Finally, Wednesday afternoon, we wound up on the short side of the stick and lost the election by 1,311 votes.
And I'm basically responsible for losing that '41 campaign. We let them know exactly how many votes they had to have. And I did it, no question about it.
More recently, in this century, aka the 21st, for confused Joe Biden fans, the Democrats tried to employ forged USAF documents to smear GWBush in the 2004 campaign, causing the change of business cards for former CBS Dan Rather:
When he “apologized” on September 20, Rather would not concede that the documents were forgeries, only that he and CBS could “no longer vouch for their authenticity.”
Hence, with the Democrats' history of dubious dirty tricks, it's not entirely unreasonable to suspect that they might go so far to forge a fake birth certificate for their messiah.
Hannity and MRC's Brent Bozell debunked MSNBC's Martin Bashir's bashing of Rep Paul Ryan's Catholicism. Not surprisingly, Bashir and his fellow progressive seemed to confuse and conflate Catholicism with communism. Bozell pointed out that pro-abortion "put y'all back in chains--Delaware was a slave state" Biden has been sued by his bishop, whilst Rep Ryan has been publicly defended by his:
Bishop Morlino’s words should put to rest, once and for all, the specious charge that Paul Ryan’s budget constitutes “dissent” from the Church’s social doctrine or is somehow “fundamentally incompatible” with Catholic social teaching. It is neither. On the contrary, Ryan is a “brother in the faith,” who is “aware of Catholic Social Teaching and is very careful to fashion and form his conclusions in accord with the principles.” Of that, Bishop Morlino has “no doubt.” Neither should we.
The Wall Street Journal was also recently opining on whether Ryan can be both a good Christian and a good capitalist, took to task the liberation theology socialists of the Church, and chastised the bishops who originally acted like Esau (who sold his inheritance for a bowl of pottage) by originally going along to get along with Obamacare:
The bishops dance with the devil when they invite government to use its coercive power on their behalf, and there's no clearer example than the Affordable Care Act. They happily joined their moral authority to the government's legal authority by supporting mandatory health insurance. They should not have been surprised when the government used its reinforced power to require Catholic institutions to pay for insurance plans that cover abortions and birth control.
To paraphrase J.R.R. Tolkien (a devoted Catholic), the government does not share power. Paul Ryan knows this. The bishops would be wise to listen to him.
I was originally torqued off at said bishops initial collaboration with the "devil", as the WSJ says, and felt empathy for the angry D.C. cathedral Jesus who has flames shooting out of his ears:
Angry D.C. Jesus with fire shooting out of his ears
The journal article also pointed out, in Beck-like fashion, that the US understanding of separation of Church and state is based on Jesus' exhortation to render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's and unto God, that which is God's i.e. that there's a difference between voluntary, private, charitable donation, and public, state taxation:
But that word—voluntarily—is key, and it's where Mr. Ryan's religious detractors go awry: Charity can only be charity when it is voluntary. Coerced acts, no matter how beneficial or well-intentioned, cannot be moral. If we force people to give to the poor, we have stripped away the moral component, reducing charity to mere income redistribution. And if one really is as good as the other, the Soviets demonstrated long ago that it can be done far more efficiently without the trappings of church and religion.
All people have the moral obligation to care for those who are less fortunate. But replacing morality with legality is the first step in replacing church, religion and conscience with government, politics and majority vote. Coercing people to feed the poor simply substitutes moral poverty for material poverty.
While Jesus may have lobbied for progressive tithing to the temple, he never lobbied for progressive taxation to the pagan state.The progressives who seek to conflate one's secular and sacred obligations seem to be preaching the gospel according to Judas versus Jesus:
Judas Iscariot is one of the most infamous characters in the Bible. He is best known for being the disciple that betrayed Jesus, but there was more to him than just that. He also took care of the disciples' money bag. While reading John 12 today, I discovered that Judas has a lot in common with some of America's politicians today: he wants to tell others to give their money to the poor, yet didn't think that the same standards applied to him.
Father Robert Sirico, a born again Catholic, who refound his faith in both Jesus and the free markets after becoming an agnostic socialist in college, wrote a book defending capitalism, Defending the Free Market:
Fr. Sirico was interviewed by the Catholic cable channel, EWTN, covering the God side of the equation:
And Sirico was interviewed by Cavuto on Fox, covering the Caesar side:
Religion must begin to recognize entrepreneurship for what it is—a vocation. The ability to succeed in business, stock trading, or investment banking is a talent. Like other gifts, it should not be squandered, but used to its fullest for the glory of God. Critics link capitalism with greed, yet the fundamental nature of the entrepreneurial vocation is to focus on the needs of customers. To succeed, the entrepreneur must serve others.
Tithing sounds like a form of it takes a village.You’re helping the community. MR: I think you’ll find that conservatives are more generous philanthropically than people who are not conservatives. People who are in favor of small government are very much in favor of personal action to help other people in need.
Gangster Johnny Rocco describes a standard Democrat operating procedure: "count the votes over and over again till they come out right", like Al Franken did to Coleman:
Each time, the Democrats, their special interest groups, and their friends in the Press, from local newspapers up to the alphabet soup networks have shrieked that Republican objections to the counting of votes from “lost” ballot boxes miraculously found by Democratic activists in their closets and car trunks a week after the election which – “shockingly” – always overturn Republican leads, is because Republicans want to “suppress” the vote.
or the Democrats openly admit to doing in Texas, on tax payer supported PBS:
Lyndon is asked does he want to challenge Pappy's victory because it is a stolen
election, but Lyndon knows that his own folks and supporters have done some
pretty untoward things as well, including the fact that they violate all
campaign finance laws and spend hundreds of thousands of dollars. And Johnson
says, "No, we can't challenge them." He said, "I'll wait my turn and when my
turn comes, I'll fix the ballots next time."
The more things change, the more they stay the same. As pointed out in the Fox special report on why cities are going bankrupt, FDR opposed government employee unions, foreseeing this unholy alliance where the taxpayer who picks up the tab doesn't have a seat at the table when union bosses "negotiate" with the politicians they helped install in office, just like gangster Johnny Rocco above, from Jun. 27, 2012 Fox News "How many US cities are on the brink of bankruptcy?Union pensions creating budget gaps":
Mallory Factor in his new book, Shadowbosses, asserts that especially government union bosses pull the strings for the Obama administration.
Specifically, Factor asserts that Obamacare is a trojan horse for the unionization of an estimated 21 Million medical workers, from September 6, 2012 "Forbes Magazine" – Obamacare’s “Gotcha” for the Health Care Sector :
"The real reason for stalwart union support for Obamacare is that the law throws the door wide open for unionizing most of the 21 million health care workers needed to implement Obamacare. "
is President Obama’s re-election in the suburbanites’ interest? The answer emphatically is no.As many Americans do not know, in the eyes of the leftist community organizers who trained Obama, suburbs are instruments of bigotry and greed — a way of selfishly refusing to share tax money with the urban poor.
Kurtz continues to explain how the left is promoting a concept of "regionalism", which is "spread the wealth around" applied to geography. Suburbs would be taxed higher rates to subsidize neighboring urban areas.
Why doesn't Obama, why don't the Democrats close these disastrous inner-city schools? They don't want people leaving them. They don't want the parents of students in those schools to have any options. They want those schools open. They want those neighborhoods as is. They want to force people back into them. That's why they don't get rid of the teachers there. That's why they don't close down the schools. That's why Obama opposes vouchers. It's why he opposes school choice, or practically any other human free choice that people want to make. Because he has a plan, he and his leftist buddies
aka, if the Dems want suburbanites to move back into the cities, why don't they offer carrots (e.g. reduced crime, better schools etc) versus just sticks (e.g. increased taxation and regulation)? The answer is "RACISM"! Since progressives assume all emigration out of the cities was entirely due to intolerant, narrow-minded "white flight", they conclude that "evil" suburbanites don't deserve any enticements to be lured back into urban areas and must be compelled to return, against their will, if necessary.
So, it seems that Obama is not only angry with people who cling to their guns, god and religion, but to people who follow John Locke and cling to their private property, as well:
An old schoolhouse rock video described the separation and balance of powers amongst the three co-equal branches of the US federal government, presumably, tongue in cheek, as a 3 ring circus:
David Limbaugh, during the Supreme Court Obamacare debate, was surprised that former law prof, Obama, had never heard of Marbury v Madison , which established the precedent of US Supreme Court judicial review of Congressional legislation:
At a news conference, Obama said, "Ultimately, I am confident that the Supreme Court will not take what would be an unprecedented, extraordinary step of overturning a law that was passed by a strong majority of a democratically elected Congress."
The statue of John Marshall, who was chief justice during Marbury, used to taunt legislators at the Capitol building til it was moved in 1981:
David's brother, Rush Limbaugh, complains about Obama not taking his own advice about respecting the separation of powers through his profligate issuance of executive orders
I thought, by the way, that Barack Obama -- prior to the Supreme Court decision on health care -- was out there intimidating the justices. He was telling them that they had no business overturning a law passed by "the duly-elected representatives of the people." Do I remember that right? I have that right. Obama, along with Patrick Leahy, were threatening John Roberts and threatening the justices: "You do not overturn laws passed by the duly-elected representatives of the people!"
And Obama himself just went in there and writes an executive order and guts welfare reform.
@THEHermanCaindefended Rep Allen West whilst subbing for Neal Boortz this past Friday. However, the HuffingPuffers and the NAACP see noting racist with the add depicting West beating white women in the face, so I suppose if the RNC ran a comparable ad against Obama, they wouldn't complain either:
"Racist is not a term I would utilize to sum up this commercial," Shelton told The Huffington Post. "It looks like a traditional, political, partisan commercial."
Just an historical reminder, the NAACP was founded by socialists, so their ideological opposition to West is perhaps not surprising:
Mary White Ovington (April 11, 1865 in Brooklyn, New York - July 15, 1951) a suffragette, socialist, unitarian, journalist, and co-founder of the NAACP.
Or, more generally, it's socially acceptable for elite leftist to demean all people of color who don't follow their leftist orthodoxy, just as they did with Justice Clarence Thomas:
Which brings me to the Clarence Thomas Rule.* It goes something like this: When a black person expresses views that liberal elites have deemed unacceptable for black people to hold, it is permissible for good liberals to respond by implying that said black person is either too stupid or too corrupt to think for himself, and to then call that black person racist names. In fact, not only are both responses permissible and not racist, they are a recommended way of displaying your open-mindedness.
Conversely, conservatives and libertarians have Allen West's back, as evidenced by Glenn Beck, today:
And Sean Hannity and Sarah Palin last week:
All of the left's malarkey comes with the purpose of attempting to derail West's campaign who is facing a RINO opponent in Tuesday's 14 August primary. On Sean Hannity's radio program, West stated that he's running in the 22nd Congressional district in Florida:
However, in the open source, ballotpedia, they list West as the incumbent of the 22nd, but as running in the 18 District. Regardless, if you're a conservative in Florida, be sure to organize all your conservative friends and vote in tomorrow's primary.
Rushbo goes onto to prove that while there are, indeed, self made men, there are no self made progs...they don't build their own speeches, they only plagiarize them. The "heart's inspiration" for both MA Elizabeth Warren and Barack Obama appears to be one George Lakoff, a prog prof of linguistics:
Lakoff was one of the academics who helped frame how the Occupy Wall Street movement presented itself. Lakoff’s writings and theories seek to transform progressive politics and he is a frequent speaker on how progressives can reframe the political debate. Lakoff developed a linguistic narrative that [liberals] needed to counter conservatives by focusing on the role of government in enabling individual success, a narrative in which no person became successful on his or her own
Not to be rude, but Lakoff looks like a Lakoff:
(A rude youtuber commented on Lakoff's zaftig physique: "Someone has been consuming more than their 'fair share'. ")
Rushbo then summarized Lakoff/Obama/Warren Prog Party objectives:
His hope and dream here is to have popular support for simply taking money from people. Eminent domain of capital. Not just taking their property, but eminent domain of their capital, eventually. Why mess around with raising taxes to get this money if it's truly unjust and immoral -- if somebody has that money and it essentially came from theft, which is what these guys are saying? They used all this taxpayer money! they used all the roads the bridges!
They didn't do that on their own.
They stole it!
Limbaugh presumably did not know that in his denouncement of liberalism, he's quoting proto-Marxist philosopher, Prodhoun, who declared that: "property is theft", from the cartoon overview, Richard Osborne's Philosophy for Beginners:
I presume Limbaugh's unfamiliarity with Marxist's predecessor, Prodhoun, since, in a fit of channeling his inner NARAL he stated:
You know, before Marx there was no such thing as class-driven economics. If that guy had been aborted, we'd have a whole different world today.
Not just teapartiers, but PUMAs are unhappy with Obama's YDBT meme:
We are now told that individual success is not a reflection of any one person’s ‘grit’ or work ethic; rather, it is the the collective society that has made our success possible – not the individual. In short, without Collectivism, we would be nothing.The operative and subliminal message is “those who have worked hard to improve their own standard of living are being selfish, and need to pay more to the government so we can support those who cannot or will not work.” Dude – seriously??
This is one of the few times that I wholeheartedly agree with the RNC establishment, that the more context you hear, Obama's allegedly "out of context" "you didn't build that" just sounds worse:
“Everybody thinks that Robin Hood was out there stealing money from the rich and taking it back and giving it to the citizens of Sherwood Forest. Robin Hood was stealing from the government. Robin Hood was a Tea Party activist. Robin Hood was anti-taxes…When I was growing up, the Sheriff was the evil guy.”
I love how the Kos Kids depict "delusional wingnuts" as people who believe in Judaism, Christianity, and the USA, as opposed to their fearless leader who believes in hammers, sickles, and the UN.
I must humbly disagree with Mark Levin's denouncing the moniker "hood"
since the always suave Frank Sinatra deprecatingly referred to himself as the Hoboken Hoodlum. Sinatra, along with Robin Hood, was also totally cool, as well as a Ronald Reagan supporter, as all totally cool people are:
Allegedly, Obama, along with all other US presidents except for van Buren, is related to ne'er do well, King John:
John’s other claim to fame, or infamy, is that he was depicted as the villain in the Robin Hood tales.
Maybe there is something to this. We’ve long acknowledged that there are “Type A” and “Type B” personalities. Does that run in families or is it completely random? The only loser here appears to be Van Buren. But on the plus side, his family can at least lay claim to not being related to Barack Obama.
Just to remind people, back in 2008 when Obama won Ohio, there was a Democrat regime in charge statewide, which has subsequently been replaced by respectable, law-abiding Republicans. Specifically, in 2008, there was a Democrat Secretary of State, Jennifer Brunner, one of Obama's ACORN compadres:
In 2007, Project Vote was ready to launch their “beta” phase of the VBASE project and targeted a state that had been made friendly by the election of ACORN ally Ohioan Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner
Brunner, a Democrat, has declined to enforce the provisions of the Help America Vote Act that requires her to use a database to allow the verification of 600,000-plus registrations from new Ohio voters. Brunner admits there are "discrepancies" on about 200,000 of the new registrations, but won't give local election officials the registration data they need to verify the validity of the registrations.
Shortly before Election Day 2006, the Wall Street Journal reported that the far-left-leaning activist group ACORN gave crack cocaine to one of its Ohio workers in 2004 "in exchange for fraudulent registrations that included underage voters, dead voters and pillars of the community named Mary Poppins, Dick Tracy and Jive Turkey."
Democrat Brunner, in conjunction with Bill Clinton appointee Judge Sargus, decided that "homeless" people can register and vote without any validated address and, furthermore, false registrations can't be weeded out from the rolls:
A federal judge in Ohio has ruled that counties must allow homeless voters to list park benches and other locations that aren't buildings as their addresses.
U.S. District Judge Edmund Sargus also ruled that provisional ballots can't be invalidated because of poll worker errors.
Unfortunately, Sargus is still a judge, and Brunner is still around causing trouble, most recently representing dubious Democrat fundraiser (is there any other kind?), Melissa Barnhart, who is being investigated by the FBI. Obama's former Franklin County, OH (which includes Dem voter rich Ohio State) re-election chief, Greg Schultz, had to resign recently over connections with Barnhart.
Party officials said members of Obama’s campaign have pressured Schultz to step down because they were concerned about his connection to fundraiser Melissa Barnhart.
Barnhart was named several times in a recent FBI report by a former client of hers for possible campaign-finance misconduct during a statewide race in 2006.
Hence, since the Obama campaign can't count on swamping the ballot box with as many dubious votes that they received in 2008, their fallback strategy seems to be to eliminate as many valid votes in 2012 as possible:
What is clear is that the intention of the lawsuit is to convey a sense of voter rights imbalance where none exists both legally or factually. The Obama lawsuit claims that the action by the state of Ohio was, ‘arbitrary’ and unconstitutional to allow three extra days of in-person early voting to military voters and their families who are overseas. Yet, the 1986 and amended 2010 Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act allows this preferential treatment as a matter of fact and of law.
which seems to be standard operating procedure for Democrats, from Robert J. Avrech August 8, 2014's post "Obama Sues to Suppress Military Vote"
Lesley Stahl, as Rush Limbaugh would describe, engaged in a random act of journalism a while back. First, she correctly reported that the US has the second highest corporate tax rate in the world at 35%. Secondly, she figured out the correlation between increased tax rates and increased corporate HQ relocation. You can see the light bulb go on in her head:
Obviously, my reading of Stahl's reaction is 180 degrees opposite of Ira Stoll's:
Cisco's CEO, John Chambers, did a valiant job of trying to make the case for lower corporate tax rates in America, but in classic "60 Minutes" fashion Ms. Stahl made him look like the bad guy, mixing his words in with clips of Mr. Sullivan talking about "accounting tricks" and with her own claim that it "sounds" like Mr. Chambers is asking for some kind of favor.
Perhaps I differ from Ira because I have such low expectations of US media's fairness. If a journalist simply allows a capitalist to even speak his mind and doesn't immediately throw him on a guillotine, I find the interview to be halfway reasonable by their leftwing standards.
The other surprise is lifetime Democrat, Disney CEO Robert Iger, basically coming to the same conclusion of the standard T.E.A. partier:
“This country is charging among the highest rates in the world in terms of corporate taxes. In order for us to be competitive with the world, we’ve got to take a very, very serious look at our corporate tax structure.”
It was asserted in this documentary that Nazi Germany, not surprisingly, typically heavily edited Hitler's media, so that this secret recording was rather anomalous. My gut reaction was to think how horrible it is for the media to collaborate with a totalitarian dictator and I condescendingly felt that a free press in a free democratic republic would never behave in such a manner....until I remembered that's exactly what the American media did with respect to FDR's polio:
Was FDR's paralysis hidden from the public?Yes. FDR concealed his paralysis as much as possible for political reasons: society at the time did not recognize the ability of disabled persons to perform the demanding responsibilities of elective office. How many photographs show FDR in a wheelchair?
There was a gentlemen's understanding with the press that photographs displaying FDR's disability were not published. Consequently, only candid photos of FDR in his wheelchairs have survived. The Roosevelt Library owns three of them.
And, on a lighter note, today's American media has shown the same predilection for being the compliant lap dog for the current Democrat president:
or, more specifically, "learn the American formula for creating business," which, according to the Martians in the above cartoon is:
Freedom + Energy = Destination Unlimited!
Or, as the Martian Ayn Rand states:
More Competition = More for All!
Instead, Dear Leader Obama seems to act like the Martian dictator, Dear Leader Ogg with his inefficient Oggmobile that just catches fires and kills his subjects, much like the Obamabile Volt.
Unlike his earthling counterpart, Dear Leader Ogg doesn't seem concerned about Martian made Global Warming, even though Mars' planetary temperatures are actually increasing, presumably due to solar output fluctuations versus internal combustion engines. Conversely, Dear Leader Obama is spending millions of US taxpayer dollars outsourcing the previously described un-outsourceable:
President Obama promotes federal subsidies for the renewable
energy industry, saying they will create “the jobs of the future, jobs that pay
well and can’t be outsourced.”
SPOILER ALERT! (for people who haven't gotten around to seeing this film in the past 60 years). The plot has a Dr. Boronski create a binary distribution of supporters where on one end of the spectrum are intelligent ivy league types who come up with purportedly brilliant ideas of how to control society & the other end of spectrum includes club carrying enforcer goons (i.e. SEIU purple shirt beaters). The people footing the bill for Boronski's experiments are the long suffering middle class who spend most of their time hiding in their houses and avoiding Boronski and his minions as much as possible. A Mayor Romneykins finally organizes to overthrow Boronski's tyrannical dictatorship and all is well in the world (just kidding about last sentence).
Dr. Kengor's new book details how Barack Obama's fondly remembered childhood mentor, whom Obama mentioned by name as Frank scores of times in his memoir, was literally a card carrying member of the Communist Party.
FYI, Kengor pointed Frank Marshall Davis hated the Catholic Church's crusade against Communism (such as Bishop Sheen testifying against communism for HUAC -- the House of Un-American Activities Committee), which possibly might explain Obama's current hatred of Catholics.
“To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully,” the Democratic presidential candidate wrote in his memoir, “Dreams From My Father.” “The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists.”
Apparently it took only a brief exposure to the real world of free enterprise to make him feel business was the enemy. He considered himself a "spy" against this enemy. A spy wants to do harm against the "enemy."
The struggle to defeat the ultra-right and turn our country on a positive path will not end with Obama’s election. But that step will shift the ground for successful struggles going forward.
One thing is clear. None of the people’s struggles — from peace to universal health care to an economy that puts Main Street before Wall Street — will advance if McCain wins in November.
Socialism isn’t yet embraced by large sections of the American people…. In these circumstances, the role of the left is to step up our efforts to energize, broaden, deepen, and, above all, unite the movement against the draconian plans of the Republican right…. Nothing is more important than the ideological and political strengthening of this movement
Hence, when the DNC media denounces as "name-calling" the rather accurate description that Obama is a socialist:
“People who don’t like the man are going to use any label they can to ding him, even if they don’t think he’s a socialist in the vein of the Soviet Union or China.”
Methinks the ladies doth protest too much when voters logically deduce that Obama might, indeed, along with most of his most vocal supporters, be socialists....I mean, who are you going to believe, them, or your lying ears and eyes?
Also included in this incestuous Chicago Commie clique, Obama's jiminy cricket/tinkerbell, Valerie Jarrett, also has connections to Obama's communist mentor:
Both Taylor and Davis would have frequently encountered another politically active Chicagoan, Vernon Jarrett. Vernon Jarrett and Frank Marshall Davis worked together on the small publicity team of the communist-controlled Packinghouse Workers Union, which Frank Marshall Davis publicly called for nationalizing. Vernon Jarrett would one day become Valerie Jarrett’s father-in-law.
Axelrod is a native New Yorker who, in the 1970s, found himself and his political calling in Chicago, where he went to college and worked for newspapers as a political journalist. (See my March 2012 Spectator profile of David Axelrod.) There, Axelrod was mentored by the Canter family, namely David Canter. The Canter family’s Soviet/communist roots were deep. David and his family had lived in Moscow just before Chicago. His father, Harry Canter, worked there as an official translator of Lenin’s writings. Harry, who had been secretary of the Boston Communist Party and ran for governor of Massachusetts on the Communist Party ticket, did this as a literal employee of Stalin’s government.
For people who apparently don't have access to dictionaries, either hard copies or online, "Boycott" was a proper surname of an evil Tory:
Charles C. Boycott †1897 English land agent in Ireland who was ostracized for refusing to reduce rents
Charles, according to the alleged link on wikipedia, looked the part of a snotty tweedy Tory overlord:
Both Bill O'Reilly and Adam Carolla complained that the word "boycott" is seemingly sexist and offered carp gender neutral morphologies of "girl-cotts" or "miss-cotts":
It somewhat begs the question of what on earth people think the second syllable "cott" possibly means. Perhaps they're being old school and assume its the obsolete definition of "cote" :
To go side by side with; hence, to pass by; to outrun and get before; as, a dog cotes a hare
Of course, perhaps I'm just being humorlessly overly pedantic and persnickety in my unsolicited feedback, and should just chill out in a "buy-cott" of Chick-Fil-A.
After reading an amusing article about the alleged cheating scandal in international badminton competition (which is obviously a sport much more deserving of Olympic inclusion than baseball, spare me), I was taken aback by the fact that people are apparently paying hard earned money to watch this malarkey:
"I'm furious. It is very embarrassing for our sport," said Gail Emms, a badminton (I didn't realize that's how you spelled the word) Olympic silver medalist for Great Britain in 2004, who was at the event for BBC Sport. "This is the Olympic Games. This is something that is not acceptable. The crowd paid good money to watch two matches."
I thought the Brits were Shang Hai-ing random people off the streets just to fill the seats. That is, when Brit pols aren't karmically and comically left hanging as a Britnata:
According to folks at ESPN, who were actually taking this sport and scandal seriously, the tickets cost £80, which is about $125 with today's conversion rate. Seriously? Somebody paid the equivalent of two full 8 hour days at minimum wage to watch a badminton game? Were they drunk when they ordered the tickets?
I watched a documentary about the 1972 Munich Olympic massacre that made my blood boil, One Day in September:
The German government was completely unprepared for a terrorist attack, yet managed to kludge together a rather un-rapid response team to attempt to rescue the hostages. Whilst sports anchor, Jim McKay, et al had their their posh posteriors safely ensconced in comfy chairs in an even comfier studio, the always supercilious Canadian, Peter Jennings, completely compromised the rescue attempt by broadcasting live, filming every movement of the police, and describing every operational detail on which he was briefed. Hence, the terrorists, who were holed up in the dorms in the athletes' village, could watch the TV sets in their rooms and gleam the police's play book beforehand, could see the police in fake track suits inching towards their window, and could organize a counter attack of their own. Because their cover was blown, thanks in large part to the perfidy of ABC News, the Germans called off the rescue operation.
Previously, the only thing I've seen on this event are some breaking-their-arms-patting-themselves-on-the-back self-congratulatory summaries thrown together by American media outlets, concluding with doleful doe-eyed Jim McKay looking into the camera, somberly reading lines from his teleprompter:"They're all gone," meaning, all the hostages were murdered, blown up by hand grenades and then shot by scumbag terrorists. After watching this documentary, I wanted to shout at my screen, "Yes, they're all gone, largely because of YOU AND YOUR STUPID INCOMPETENT GIT OF CREW!! IDIOTS!!!! YOU SMUG , SNOTTY BUNCH OF NINCOMPOOPS!!!!"
I got the distinct impression the only reason McKay and his cronies were crying crocodile tears had nothing to do with the death of the Israeli athletes, but, with the whole vile fiasco over, they anticipated ABC ratings would slip and they'd lose market share to Sanford and Son.
Admittedly, there were other characters just as, if not more, loathsome than the ABC News crew.The documentary producers interviewed an awful excuse for a human being who, either coincidental or not, happened to be German. This doofus was smiling and laughing throughout his interview, either because he's an evil Lebensborn Nazi spawn, or he was just self consciously nervous. I suspect the former.
This German jerk just dismissed out of hand the idea of cooperating with the Israeli government offer of help with the rescue effort. He jokingly stated that he suspected such cooperation would have resulted in dead terrorists. I was thinking: "What on earth's wrong with that?" I inferred from his further comments that the German government didn't wish to entertain the notion of accepting any more Jews into their country than they were contractually obligated to.
This documentary concluded with the allegation that the German government staged a fake Lufthansa hijacking to give themselves a cover story for releasing the Arab terrorists purportedly in a quid pro quo protection racket where Arab terrorists promised never to compromise German security again and only work with simpatico German anti-Semites in the future, as in the 1976 Entebbe Air France hijacking (which was pulled off by Germans and Arabs, despite the BS the BBC writes). Augh! I wanted to pull an Elvis and shoot my television after watching this film and, judging by similar sentiments expressed on the imdb talkboard, I'm certainly not alone.
The blog title, "noli insipientium iniurias pati" is Latin for "Don't let the turkeys get you down." Benjamin Franklin bookcases the blog header title for two reasons:
1) He allegedly suggested the US adopt the turkey as its official mascot
2) His discovery of electricity helped Al Gore invent the internet
Quantum Physics equation under profile picture explained here
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