Last night’s State of their UnionAddress revealed Obama’s fanaticism. He is really a Hard Left Ideologue who will stop at nothing to impose his agenda. Rather than admit mistakes, he blamed Bush, pharmaceutical companies, his own allies on Wall Street, banks, Republicans and he outright lied last night. He called for the Senate to pass his economically disastrous Cap-N-Trade that will be a de facto tax increase on Americans. He attacked his opponents then hypocritically ask them to stop attacks. Obama claimed the economy was good, even with high unemployment. His speech was something Hugo Chavez, Fidel Castro, Idi Amin or Benito Mussolini would be proud of. He demagogues while at the same time making false promises to the public.
There’s a story of an ex hausted tenor at La Scala who, facing repeated cries of “Encore,” responded that he couldn’t go on. A man rose in the audience to say, “You’ll keep singing until you get it right.”
That seems to be the defining principle of the Obama administration — whose response to every problem, every setback, every hiccup and challenge has been, simply, “more Obama.”
Indeed, for people who aren’t sticklers for political jargon, it will be a shock that last night was Obama’s first State of the Union Address, since it was his third formal address to a joint session of Congress. Yet for all of the political déjà vu, what was most surprising last night was the degree to which Obama delivered even more of the same.
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Jonah Goldberg breaks down Obama’s narcissism. Rather than realize his Totalitarian Progressive Ideology is being rejected by the American public, he thinks the problem is not enough of him. This reveals his egoism in his own power of persuasion. He is still that radical University Professor that can convince his students that he is right and they must change their views. Barack Hussein Obama can’t figure out that the American public is rejecting Progressivism. The Public is also rejecting him and the more he goes out there, the more he will be hated.
His attitude just reveals the nature of Progressives. They truly believe that that people don’t know what’s good for them. His arrogance and lies has been his undoing. Obama is his own worst enemy.
Update: Obama also did something unprecedented, he attacked the Supreme Court for a decision they made. This is a tactic used by 3rd World dictator. They go after the Independent Judiciary if they don’t agree with the court decisions. Obama is clearly a 3rd World Totalitarian radical.
Tags: Jonah Goldberg, NY Post, State of the Union
Primus inter pares?
my impression from last night
me me me me
I I I I
All blame goes to Bush
All credit goes to me
my only fault: not puttings in simple enough terms for you simpletons
The presidency is Obama’s first real experience with life outside the Progressive Gated Community. From birth through his Senate “career” Obama has been sheltered in a comfy, almost hermetically-sealed environment of pure Hard Leftism. He simply cannot believe that the great majority of Americans disagree with virtually every item on his agenda.
He is like the New York film critic Pauline Kael, who was thunderstruck when Nixon beat Humphrey by a comfortable majority: “But I don’t know anyone who voted for Nixon,” she said.
SOTU speech in two words: MORE COWBELL!
@ Doppelganger:
“Like the letter from Joe Blow living in Anywhere, Anystate, who just can’t afford to put his daughter through Indocrinate U. These are the voices that keep me up at night. All Joe wants to do is be average, and I intend to fulfill his mediocre dreams.”
@ Gypsy:
Yup, he grew up sheltered in Radical circles.
Perhaps the most tasteless, bullying moment I have ever witnessed in a State of the Union Address:
Obama’s very public humiliation, or least the attempt, of more Conservative members of the SCOTUS.
Obama is the consummate radical 60s college instructor, who to prove his superior wisdom and ruling authority, takes to the front of the classroom and makes it part of the curriculum while teaching to publicly humiliate those students who dare to disagree. I believe much was revealed last night, not just that Obama is a sham which many now understand, but a mean SOB too, who will destroy if given the chance.
nice parrot
I cannot physically listen to the man anymore as it actually causes me discomfort. My wife is a trooper and will put herself through the torture, although, she says it’s a great sedative as she tries to get to sleep. My only worry is the damage they will attempt as everything the left has hoped for in this moment continues to unravel. Please, continue to be tone-deaf. Continue to reveal the ugly mask that is progressivism/leftism. Hopefully another generation of voters will be frightened enough by what they’ve seen that the beast will not she its face for a long time.
Zero is so delusional to think that more of his blather will make us see his ‘truth.’
He and his handlers are so committed to destroying America and he showed us unabashedly last night that he intends to do it. He backed off of nothing. He lectured us like we were children. It was insulting to listen to this pompous buffoon issue his decrees like a king. What we want does not cross his mind.
He alienated a lot of people last night.
@ Goodbye_Natalie:
I tried to read the dissent given by Justice Stevens and stopped about a third of the way into it, because if it has to be that complicated, it must be bullsh*t.
The guy was programmed from infancy to be a hard-core leftist. It is unlikely that he can overcome his conditioning, and adopt new perspectives.
@ Goodbye_Natalie:
did you notice how he also inferred the decision would allow our enemies to influence our elections…BHO…spit…
jas wrote:
Same for me.chickadee wrote:
Hopefully a lasting thing.
OT – Radical Jewish Terrorism?
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It will be interesting to see how the American people digest and interpret this speech…it usually takes a few days or weeks. My read is that his defiant attitude shows that he’s not heard the people shouting in NJ, Virginia and MA…if that’s the case, we could see him slide significantly in the next few weeks.
@ Goodbye_Natalie:
Very bad form. SCOTUS in many ways attends as a courtesy, I know of no requirement to be there. Also, they do not display any partisanship during the speech. It would serve Zero right if SCOTUS refuses to attend next year, if it is their option to do so. It would certainly be a first.
The good thing is, he may have just pushed the great equivocator Anthony Kennedy permanently to the right. And I imagine SCOTUS, after this, will be looking for any means to strike down his legislation that is challenged on their steps.
And uh, Zero – I wouldn’t mess with Alito if I were you – dude has ten times your golfing ability, a hundred times your smarts, and a thousand times your character. Plus he could knock your skinny slimey ass out in one punch.
S the Elder wrote:
We know who his enemies are – they aren’t the same as ours.
Too many young people still don’t see though this scam artiste. Everyone watching him last night at the bar, were hypnotized.
Thank goodness the other tv wasn’t connected to that one and I didn’t have to suffer. lol
@ S the Elder:
I thought his “foreigners contributing to our elections” mantra was rather hypocritical, considering the credible allegations that he accepted millions in ILLEGAL foreign contributions and when confronted about it, “made adjustments” to his site.
What cracked me up last night about how excited the kids were to watch the speech is it comes down to front man reading a speech that someone else wrote for him to read off the TOTUS. lol
wow…the generic spread is now 9 points…
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/mood_of_america/generic_congressional_ballot
@ Carolina Girl:
…to imply our supreme court is allowing our enemies to influence our elections in front of the nation…he’d better be able to back that up…which he can’t…spit…
@ Bumr50:
My compliments on stating a simple truth that should be carved in marble on the wall of every legislaure and court in the country, particularly in our two houses of Congress and our Supreme Court.
It’s not that WE The People are stupid, it’s that simple concepts, matters of common sense, are purposefully over-complicated in the interest of eqivocation and outright deception.
@ Carolina Girl:
Carolina Girl wrote:
I believe that’s called “projection”…something lefties are very adept at.
@ S the Elder:
He’s at -17 at Rasmussen; I imagine he’ll get some “bounce” over the weekend from Ras, but not much. I wonder if anyone watched it.
I understand that he didn’t even acknowledge the two brave heroes sitting with Michelle – he just gave a shout out to Michelle my bell and Mrs. I’m dumber than shit Biden.
But I’m sure he only saw them as photo op props anyway – made for a cool announcement before the Show.
@ Carolina Girl:
Though no attorney, I suspected Obama was the narcissistic demagogue when I heard the charges, then I read this a minute ago:
“President Wrong on Citizens United Case [Bradley A. Smith]
Tonight the president engaged in demogoguery of the worst kind, when he claimed that last week’s Supreme Court decision in Citizens United v. FEC, “open[ed] the floodgates for special interests — including foreign corporations — to spend without limit in our elections. Well I don’t think American elections should be bankrolled by America’s most powerful interests, or worse, by foreign entities.”
The president’s statement is false.
The Court held that 2 U.S.C. Section 441a, which prohibits all corporate political spending, is unconstitutional. Foreign nationals, specifically defined to include foreign corporations, are prohibiting from making “a contribution or donation of money or ather thing of value, or to make an express or implied promise to make a contribution or donation, in connection with a Federal, State or local election” under 2 U.S.C. Section 441e, which was not at issue in the case. Foreign corporations are also prohibited, under 2 U.S.C. 441e, from making any contribution or donation to any committee of any political party, and they prohibited from making any “expenditure, independent expenditure, or disbursement for an electioneering communication.”
Arrogance I have come to expect from the THE FECKLESS ONE. But I think Obama should be called for the lie in the most public way possible.
Obama’s attack on the Supreme Court was astonishing, partly because since the days of William O. Douglas and Earl Warren, it has been the Vatican of the Liberal Religion, their Papacy. Liberals regard the SCOTUS not so much as a separate, and equal, branch of the government, but as the superior branch, and infallible in its rulings. (Hence Liberals’ ruthless attempts to block the appointment of anyone of more than a right-center bent.)
Not since a New Deal Supreme Court blocked Harry Truman’s attempt to nationalize the steel industry has a president been so openly at loggerheads with a Supreme Court.
@ Carolina Girl:
I’m not sure he will get a bounce…I’m wondering if he will see a slide.
S the Elder wrote:
I don’t think he heard the people at all. He wouldn’t heed what we say anyway. I was stunned by his arrogance last night. Not one indication that he has any respect for the citizens of this country who gave him a job. He has no idea he works for us. He really bought into the idea that he is royalty. I don’t think he will ever learn even when he is tossed on his skank ass in 2012.
@ S the Elder:
I have a feeling one member of his inner circle that isn’t operating with a cranium full of fecal matter is probably saying this morning “uh, maybe that Supreme Court remark wasn’t the smartest move we could have made. They looked pretty pissed last night.”
What really made me furious was reading how the Democrats jumped up and applauded behind them. Classless pieces of shit – but we all already knew that.
I have to go in a sec but wanted to ask a question.
The lefties that call talk radio claim that the Constitution says “people” and that is why “we” have to try non-citizens (terrorists) in civil court.
I am under the impression that since it begins “we the people” it is a given that means, citizens, not just anyone from anywhere.
@ S the Elder:
He’s going the Hugo Chavez/Idi Amin Route.
S the Elder wrote:
He got elected! How much more can our enemies influence our elections?????
As an aside note, I watched some of O’Reilly before the SOTU, and he had on Halperin, who actually gave Dear Leader a “B” for his performance in his 1st year, since he took the measures to save the economy. Where the hell did this meme come from? I believe TARP was supposed the measure that freed up the liquidity of the markets. The stimulus package simply bloated the debt, provided no real jobs, other than adding more to the public sector, and raises the very real possibility of hyperinflation. Am I missing something?
I did not see the moment, but if he meant to chasten the Court for the recent FCC decision, then he was pandering to his base. The leftist cry that “corporations never had First Amendment rights” is not true. That right has been extended to corporations since 1978. The FCC decision extended that right to include political speech.
And, what the conservatives keep missing is that this decision was a victory for Free Speech rights. Keep the decision in that perspective and see what a liberal does–they keep falling on the “but evil corporations never had it” retort. Then hit them with the 1978 First Nat’l Bank of Boston decision and see what happens.
Rodan wrote:
Well he hasn’t butchered people and floated them down the Potomic yet so the Idi Amin analogy may be a stretch?
@ Goodbye_Natalie:
that was always my understanding that long before campaign finance reform it was illegal for foreigners to contribute to campaigns…thus the stink behind Gore gathering up cash from the Chinese. It was the law before and still is today.
@ Goodbye_Natalie:
Looks pretty clear to me. Based on Obama’s statements last night, I would love to see his Harvard Law grades, and also his work product.
Gypsy wrote:
Problem is Gypsy, the younger generation doesn’t understand that and believe that obama is the boss of the SCOTUS.
@ chickadee:
exactly…if your sentiment takes hold and that is how it is perceived, then it could get really ugly for him.
Nevergiveup wrote:
I’ll send in your IP address to whitehouse.gov as fishy and then we’ll see if you disappear….
@ teacake:
Non-citizens are tried every day in the American criminal courts. What the leftist seminar callers are failing to grasp is that terrorists are non “foreign born criminals” – they are enemy combatants in the War on Terror and therefore do not enjoy the rights and privileges of criminal defendants.
I am always amazed at the conscious desire of moonbats everywhere that we make sure we play fairer than dangerously fair with violent animals who’s sole goal in life is to kill as many of us as possible. Fruitcakes – every last one of them.
@ calcajun:
but…if it doesn’t benefit ACORN…it can’t be good…
@ Nevergiveup:
Maybe not excatly like Amin, but he does come from the same 3rd World Ideology. He clearly is in that camp. He is more like Hugo Chavez if anyone.
S the Elder wrote:
They know where to find me if they want
@ teacake:
OMG. Is that what they’re teaching in the schools now?
@ Carolina Girl:
Next thing you know they’ll give em driver’s licenses so that they can get to court on time.
Nothing surprises me anymore.
@ teacake:
@ Gypsy:
@ S the Elder:
@ Nevergiveup:
I did an update to show his attack on the SCOTUS. This was one of the most blatant attacks. His Totalitarian 3rd Worldism was on full display.
@ Gypsy:
They’re much too busy forging the kids “identities” to bother with explaining how government actually works.
@ Goodbye_Natalie:
I completely agree. I was very disturbed by his behavior last night. The minimizing of national security, the complete disregard for what the majority of Americans want, the attacking of the Supreme Court-this guy is dangerous.
@ Nevergiveup:
I will stay away from you then…
Apologies if this was already posted somewhere else, but it just made the news here: Anti-American, communist-apologist “historian” Howard Zinn, famed for poisoning a generation’s minds with his A People’s History of America, has assumed room temperature.
@ livefreeor die:
Obama is going the Hugo Chavez 3rd World route. He is breaking protocol is a acting as if he’s dictator.
S the Elder wrote:
I’m like the parrot in the mine
It’s not just that Obama lied about the SCOTUS. This was in his speech that had to be vetted by how many people?
He had to make this calculated move to appeal to his base, who apparently aren’t smart enough to figure out that he’s lying?
Ladies and gentlemen there’s a turd in the punchbowl.
@ MikalM:
Will Matt Damon give the eulogy?
Carolina Girl wrote:
It looks like the moonbats want the USA to “Alinsky” itself — i.e. live up to its ideals (rather than just its laws), while the murderous regimes they admire get a free pass.
@ Aladin Sane:
The smart folk have already staked out their positions in the Great Ideological War.
The Battle for the Idiots is what’s being waged.
That came out really blunt and mean-sounding, but I’m posting it anyway.
Bumr50 wrote:
Only if someone else writes the script for him
@ Nevergiveup:
What I saw last night disturbed me. I swear he used the same mannerism as Mussolini/CastroAmin/Chavez. He was angry and hostile. It was his way or no way at all.
@ Bumr50:
snort! chuckle! I kinda like that.
But there are Dems in Washington smart enough to know it was a lie.
I’d like to see some MSM follow up asking Obama what he meant by his SCOTUS remark. I’m curious to see if Zero will backpedal or insist he was right.
@ MikalM:
Good I’m glad he’s dead.
MikalM wrote:
Curiously, one of his last quotes concerned Obama:
“I think people are dazzled by Obama’s rhetoric, and that people ought to begin to understand that Obama is going to be a mediocre president.”
Even he “got it”.
Rodan wrote:
I was sleeping like a baby.
Carolina Girl wrote:
From your keyboard to God’s ears.
@ calcajun:
Oh, and I also hear Zero has come out in favor of the Saints for the Super Bowl. Geez, now we’re DOOOOOOOMED.
Someone should point out to the constitutional scholar that before he rips into SCOTUS in public in front of them, that they Justices have LIFE TIME APPOINTMENTS and he may gone in less than 3 years.
@ Aladin Sane:
Now I’m chuckling!!
Carolina Girl wrote:
No now we just root for Indy
@ Carolina Girl:
At least your owner didn’t thank Obama after winning the Super Bowl!!
WTF, old man!!
We’re cursed forever!!
Well, he should know about accepting money from foreign donors. And for God’s sake does he not have the ability to look straight ahead?
@ kansas:
Um, only if the teleprompter were set up there.
Rodan, M,
What is the haps on Wrath’s(my) situation?
oh and bye bye Howard Zinn
btw: if I still has the ability, I would post a thread about Howard Zinn dying, and why that just might be a good thing (ie: show a history of the evil he brought into this world)
MacDuff wrote:
Obama is going to have to step it up quite a bit to get to mediocre.
@ kansas:
You can’t look straight ahead and follow the bouncing ball on your teleprompter at the same time. I wouldn’t be surprised if that empty suit has to read the transcript of his speech in the Washington Post this morning so that he’ll know what precisely he said.
I hope he sees the expressions on the Supreme Court’s faces when he made his unprecedented attack on them and Alito mouthing “NOT TRUE.” I’ll look for them (or the conservatives at least) to be absent next year. “No thanks….we have a poker game.”
@ Bayonet:
I’m at work so I don’t have access to my personal email.
There is a Zin thread.
Carolina Girl wrote:
First, he attacks the Supreme Court, now he takes sides in the Superbowl???? Zero loves to stir the fecal matter, doesn’t he?
Bayonet wrote:
Whatever do you mean? I read today that noted scholar/philosophers Bruce Springsteen and Ben Affleck were quite smitten by Zinn.
@ Gypsy:
Stir it? Hell, he’s made it into a three-piece suit and is walking around in it.
@ kansas:
Well, that explains simplistic music and movie dialogue…..
Rodan wrote:
He was very aggressive and arrogant. I think a lot of people looked at his behavior last night and
thought ‘who the hell does he think he is.’ Americans don’t liked to be talked down to like that.
The fact that he didn’t see the need to even have the least bit of a reconciliation tone in his “reading” means he does not give a shite what we think. In fact he is pissed that we don’t still faint in his presence. He disgusts me.
@ kansas:
Did Matt Damon read his books to them?
Nevergiveup wrote:
The question you have to ask yourself is whether the press/MSM would actually write an article or cover it!!!
@ SciFiGuy:
Only if it emitted large amounts of CO2.
SciFiGuy wrote:
Well probably not since they would be the first one’s floating down the river
Carolina Girl wrote:
LMAO!
Bumr50 wrote:
I imagine a dramatic reading by Damon to all the Hollywood lefties followed by tut tutting about global warming before getting back into their limos to be driven to the local airfield for jaunt on the G5.
@ Nevergiveup:
His attacks on the Supreme Court sent chills down my spine.
@ Carolina Girl:
The exact wrong kind of Federal aid NOLA needs.
Uh oh. Speaker Nancy mail.
Onward, HO!
kansas wrote:
No, he does not. He has to follow the prompters which are on the side. Notice they were fully visible many times. The msm is no longer hiding the prompters. I was hoping one would fail last night. He would have been so lost. He doesn’t have the ability to formulate a single sentence with out the uh uh uh’ing.
Remember the last time a prompter failed, he hollered, ‘Move up. . . move up.” ha ha ha.
@ Rodan:
Relax. FDR tried and failed.
Well the markets are down 150 points after last night performance
@ Nevergiveup:
This SOB is ruining my country and I’ll not let him keep me from rooting for my Saints. Oddly, in Benson’s (the Owner) box the other day was none other than George H.W. Bush. It seems they’re good friends.
Do Preidents generally take sides in the Super Bowl, unless they are actual established fans?
@ Gypsy:
Besides, he’s trying to kiss-ass with the Katrina victims–who’ve long since stopped thinking of themselves as victims.
@ Nevergiveup:
“I don’t want to punish banks.”
No.
You just want to steal all of the money that they make.
Carolina Girl wrote:
LOL
and the smell is getting to everyone.
Is Ray “Chocolate City” Nagin still Mayor of New Orleans? Just asking.
@ calcajun:
Yes but FDR did it in his 2nd term. Plus Obama is 3rd Worldist and is doing this with a sinister agenda. FDR tried to pack teh court, he didn’t come out in his 2nd year and publically bash them.
calcajun wrote:
Hmmmm – you are no doubt right. Didn’t think of that angle.
Lunch calls. BBL
@ MacDuff:
Yes he is!
OT: Iran hangs first of hundreds of protesters.
@ daughter of patriots:
I hope 0 responds to this suppression of free speech with at least a grain of disdain for the horror of what Ahmadinejad is doing.
It’s his place as leader of the free world.
@ MacDuff:
I have no recollection of Reagan coming out in favor of the 49ers during any of their SuperBowl appearances in the 80′s, or of Clinton or Bush expressing a preference.
Of course, Zero will say he’s always been a Saints fan. Of course if someone said “Archie Manning” he’d probably say “Cool! I always wondered what that comic book guy’s last name was.”
@ Carolina Girl:
I wonder if he has a Reggie “Bush” jersey.
Rodan wrote:
My wife is from New Orleans and even she marvels at the corruption in that city.
Maybe Obama is pulling for New Orleans since it’s really just a smaller, southern version of Chicago in terms of corruption.
I just realized why Zero picked the Saints in the Super Bowl. That way, if they lose, he’ll still be able to say “IT’S BUSH’S FAULT!”
kansas @ 71:
Only left and right teleprompter.
@ Bumr50:
When the Saints win, Obama can then blame Bush. And it would actually be true… for a change!
@ Bumr50:
My son has Bush’s HOME jersey
I have Drew’s AWAY jersey
I even have Dante Stallworth’s HOME jersey. Oh well.
@ Carolina Girl:
LOL the last jersey I bought was a Jack Lambert jersey because I KNOW he’s not going anywhere. Ever.
@ Rodan:
It was unprecedented. Already there are rumblings that the supremes may not and should not attend future SOTU addresses.
I guess it’s the Chicago way of getting in their faces.
Still I was horrified that he’d call them out in public. And Alito was correct, his statement about foreign money was not true.
@ daughter of patriots:
I thought Obama stands with them?
Oh wait!
@ GrandJunctionite:
Even Sotomayor who appointed look pissed at him. He just united the Supreme Court against him. This is what Zelaya did in Honduras and Allende in Chile.
Carolina Girl wrote:
Heh, that’s a good one! On that theme, doesn’t Obama kinda remind you of Jughead?
I guess I could understand if it was the Bears, but he seems to have no real connection to New Orleans.
I won’t be mean-spirited about this, though. I think that the Saints have picked up a lot of fans here of late and though they’re not the mathmatical favorite, I think they’re the sentimental favorite of a lot of people.
GEAUX SAINTS!
What does Obama know about poverty or adversity? He was raised by rich warlords in Kenya and by rich people in Hawaii.
@ Bumr50:
they’re not quitting…. so lets fire them.
@ MacDuff:
Obama is a front rider. He doesn’t care who wins between the Saints and Colts.
“The least experienced most condescending guy on the room,” according to Rush. LOL
Bayonet wrote:
I have a thread coming up about Zinn.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postpartisan/2010/01/what_obama_cant_bring_himself.html
Read the comments. Nostrapoteen predicts at least 1 more civil war in our country’s future. Hell, maybe I’ll start it.
An example;
OMG!!!!!!!!!!
Why does Wapo STILL have this whack-job writing stuff on their pages?? I mean, for real! The man is retarded. He’s a jew! We get it already! Jews: good. Everybody else: bad.
We get it! We get it!
Posted by: kurthunt | January 27, 2010 11:55 PM
GrandJunctionite wrote:
a dem campaign guy for Clinton/Gore was on Fox today parroting that crap. “Now big insurance companies can funnel millions, maybe billions, into campaigns to give their candidates money.” When he was shot down by the other guest who said that it is against the law, but that they can put out commercials…… he rephrased his point that “not big insurance can give their point of view in commercials, funnelling billions to ask people to see things their way instead of the democrats’.”
neither the other person or the moderator said what went through my mind: “Well, they do have the first amendment right to speak their mind, even as a corporation, I’m sorry if that conflicts with the Democrat way of life…..”
@ LanceKates:
My only concern is foreign companies getting involved. They need to be shut out, it’s not their country. Other than that, Obama should of not attacked the SC in that manner. It was very 3rd Worldish.
@ Poteen:
Well that’s pretty anti-semitic.
I’m sure I’d be rebanned if I posted that all of the sycophantic love given to 0 by WaPo’s editorial board was because 0 is black.
Rodan wrote:
He reminds me of Allende, with the breakneck speed at which he’s trying to turn a democracy into a Marxist thugocracy.
@ LanceKates:
The point is that the vote still lies with the people. By insinuating that election outcomes are determined by the amount of money a candidate brings in with which to advertise insults the intelligence of the public at large.
Yet another example of the disdain with which the party in power views the voting public.
Rodan wrote:
It is alread illegal for foreign companies to contribute to political candidates. Well, unless you’re hillary clinton or Obama.
As for foreign companies creating commercials to express their point of view, it’d be up to the television station or newspaper to make that judgement call as to whether take out that ad or not. I’m not aware of any law limiting the ability of a foreign company to take out an ad for or against a candidate or issue.
GrandJunctionite wrote:
The Chicago way isn’t “in your face”, it’s ” watch your back”.
Obama’s in a unique position in history. He could be immune to attack from both parties and twist them to HIS will, if he had one. Instead, he just keeps paying off political debts. He may be afraid of the Chicago way.
A timid little wuss in the presidency.
@ LanceKates:
There should be. Foreigners should mind their business with our politics. There is already too much Foreign interest in America. We need to tell the world, to mind their business.
Bumr50 wrote:
I believe that the less aid you receive from the government, the less influenced by mere advertisement you are.
not because government aid somehow makes you dumber, but because people who have an abilitiy to see through such stupid crap tend to be able to plan and prepare enough to not need government aid (or if they do, it is for a short time, like my family was)
translation: The mindless fools that live on the government dole with no desire to produce to better their condition are mindless enough to believe such ads.
however, they vote democrat anyway, since conservatives require that they achieve in life.
@ LanceKates:
Hence my solution that if you receive more than 50% of your total income (being realistic AND generous) you should forfeit your right to vote until such time as you can provide for yourself.
@ Beer Drinking Victory Monkey:
Many people forget that Allende was a thug. He was eliminating political opponents and brtought in Cubans to begin to do his dirty work. Pinochet stepped in and kicked him out. Now Chile is a modern country because of that Pinochet.
@ Rodan:
I don’t know how it’d be enforced, especially if an American subsidiary of a foreign company did it (like, say, the Toyota plant in the United States putting out an election ad promoting a bill that’d reduce the Union’s influence or power)
It is the candidates that we need to keep a tighter reign on.
@ Bumr50:
I believe there was a time that you had to own land.
@ LanceKates:
That would jump start the real estate market!
Bumr50 wrote:
That’s just one of the first. The article never mentioned Jews.
What world do these idiots live in and more importantly, are they willing to fight for it? If so, a second civil war may not be so distant. The new media has given voice and organization to more and more folks.
Some of them not so bright.
@ MacDuff:
Only around the ears….Jughead was smarter.
I think New Orleans is the little Cinderella team and everyone’s happy to see them go to the Super Bowl, at long last, after 43 years and I think less than 10 winning seasons. Everything came together for them this year. I was really annoyed when Benson was going on and on before the game against Arizona two weeks ago about how much this team means to New Orleans, that it’s a symbol of coming back after Katrina, all the while remembering that the first thing he wanted to do after the Dome was ravaged was commence efforts to move the team PERMANENTLY to San Antonio.
One of the supervisors in my office and I are lifelong Saints fans, and we’re getting two King Cakes delivered and having a little party on the 5th for everyone.
@ LanceKates:
I don’t know how it’d be enforced
Easy, any Foreign company running a cmapigh commercial is penalized. I don’t want Non Americans having a say in our politics. Look at the mess we are in because of European and Muslim influence.
@ Rodan:
Obama was in error. The decision kept in place restrictions on foreign finance. See Contentions.
Obama embarrassed himself. His constitutional scholarship is severely in doubt.
@ Carolina Girl:
Imagine the victory parade! I might attend!
Senate Approves Tougher Deficit Curbs
AP
The Senate has approved tough new budget rules to make it harder to run up the deficit with new tax cuts or federal benefit programs.
“The Democratic-backed plan would make it more difficult to permanently extend some tax cuts that expire at the end of this year” Say Goodbye to any chance of extending President Bush’s tax cuts
Unbelievable. Mr. Science (Johnson) has picture of a tree for the overnight entitled “fractal”. Freeking bonehead has no clue what a fractal is. The tree is NOT a fractal. Dope.
@ Bumr50:
something needs to. Landowners, even if it is just your home, have more of a stake in what happens in th United States than people in Section 8 Housing.
even when my family was on government assistance, I believed that. My whole family did, which is why we worked hard to get OFF of it as quickly as we could.
I’m not talking unemployment…. in many states that is short term (1 year or so). I’m talking about the long-term payouts from the government for you to exist.
@ snork:
My guess would be that CJ imagines that the tree resembles a fractal.
WHICH it doesn’t.
He will then proceed to ban all those who fail to “see” the image as he imagined, evidence of a narrow mind ICJO.
@ Bumr50:
When you consider that if they win, Mardi Gras is just nine days away, and oh hell, the’ll need man-size shoehorns to get people in and out of the Quarter.
I have it on good authority very few people showed up for work on Monday in the Crescent City…hee. Heck, I have the game on DVR — I keep rewinding to the field goal….
@ Poteen:
Well I’m not a fan of Kristol. He believes that Americans should die for Muslim democracy. he was one of the people that pushed for that stupid Idea.
Iraq was a Phyrric victory, We lost 4,000 men fopr nothing. Christians are being chased out of Iraq, Jewish sites destroyed, we didn’t get any Oil contracts and Alcohol Banned.
Was Iraq worth it, answer: No!
@ Overlook:
Good, I’m glad the Foreign restrictions are in effect. The SC ruled correctly!
Rodan wrote:
Then you get the great gray area of what is a “PSA” and what is a “Campaign Commercial”.
nah, any regulation would have to be 100% across the board, otherwise it’d be a disaster to enforce. Since such a regulation would limit the first amendment rights of Americans, I can’t toss much of my support behind it.
I’d much rather support Congressmen serving 6 year terms, but we have twice as many of them. No Pensions, and the two representing any given area alternate. Senator A works private sector non-consultant job as a blue collar worker for one year, then in congress for one year, alternating.
Senator A1 and B1 are in Congress, A2 and B2 are working in their home district at a fast food joint or a call center or retail. Then the next year, A1 and B1 are working while A2 and B2 are in Congress.
Ads don’t matter when half of your elected time will be spent working with the people that elected you.
Accountability.
snork wrote:
Why is that unbelievable? Music is math. Science is math. Therefore music is science and all guitar players are scientists. Hence the scientific extrapolation that Pam Geller is a Stormfront operative.
All very logical.///
Rodan wrote:
Well call me in 25 years and lets see then
@ Nevergiveup:
After all the Chaldean Christians are chased out?
@ snork:
I think I read somewhere on chaos math, that fractal math does influence how a tree or plants grow. It’s not a true fractal of course.
Bumr50 wrote:
Funny you say that, but Wrath it seems was banned from The Blogmocracy for nearly the same exact thing.
Rodan wrote:
Their days were numbered anyway.
Oy. Teh Won is losing lefties on his mangling of the McCain-Feingold decision.
Didn’t this guy teach constitutional law, or something like that?
@ Rodan:
Would it have been worth it if we had not permitted the Iraqi constitution to be based on Sharia? And if we had set up the institutions to administer society justly?
snork wrote:
He taught law like he legislated in the Sentate?
@ Bayonet:
uh…. ok, I need some backstory here. What happened to wrath?
Things to look for from the big O hole.
Gates out as Sec. of D.
Lt. for Life John F. Kerry in as Sec. of D.
then it will get worse
O hole makes the choices.
Poteen wrote:
Why are fire engines red?
There are two words in “fire engines.”
Two times 6 is twelve.
There are twelve inches in a ruler.
A famous ruler was Queen Mary.
The Queen Mary sails the oceans.
In the ocean, there are fish.
Fish have fins.
The Fins hate the Russians.
Russians are red.
And fire engines are red because they’re always a rushin’.
@ Bayonet:
Uh-oh.
I didn’t do it!
ARTICLECOMMENTS (15)Updated January 28, 2010
Exclusive: CBS Considering Airing Gay Dating Site Ad During Super Bowl
By Hollie McKay – FOXNews.com
LOS ANGELES
The network says it is reviewing an ad from ManCrunch.com, a dating site specifically for gay men
“ManCrunch”??? Like break them those balls mancrunch? Wow what a name. Sure makes me wanna…ah nevermind
@ Nevergiveup:
So Screw the Chaldenas, as long as the Muzzies are happy, that’s what counts?
@ Nevergiveup:
Yup, Obama is no scholar!
He knows, he is just playing up to the Kos Kid Kooks etal.
They do not know any better, useful fools and all.@ Overlook:
@ Nevergiveup:
Wow, let me see they are doing that to counter the Tim Teebow Ad?
@ snork:
Course Agenda:
Day 1 – Write a short essay on what you would like to change about the constitution and why.
Day 2 – Discussion on how to implement the desired changes.
@ Nevergiveup:
Sounds like a cereal with obscenely shaped marshmallows.
@ PaladinPhil:
It superficially resembles some types of fractals. But fractals are recursive. Trees aren’t.
Bumr50 wrote:
For extra credit, tell me how great I am and write a 100 word essay on why the Constitution should be replaced by whatever I feel is right.
Rodan wrote:
That is not what I mean and you know it.
Bumr50 wrote:
Ooo, ooo. I have one.
They can quarter troops at my house!
These clown are starting to piss me off.
Atheist Group Blasts Postal Service for Mother Teresa Stamp
I wonder why they didn’t make a big stink about this stamp.
U.S. Commemorative Stamp celebrating Eid, a Muslim festival marking the end of Ramadan.
An atheist organization is blasting the U.S. Postal Service for its plan to honor Mother Teresa with a commemorative stamp, saying it violates postal regulations against honoring “individuals whose principal achievements are associated with religious undertakings.”
The Freedom from Religion Foundation is urging its supporters to boycott the stamp — and also to engage in a letter-writing campaign to spread the word about what it calls the “darker side” of Mother Teresa
Gee I don’t really a horse in this fight but don’t the damn atheist have anything better to do?
@ Beltfed:
Ya beat me
@ taxfreekiller:
Yes. He likes to put on the enfant terrible act in defiance of tradition – rudeness to old allies, direct rudeness to SCOTUS…
And whenever he feels the need to throw a sop to the left, he promotes homosexuality. His appointment of Jennings was timed to placate the left. Now he wants to lift don’t-ask-don’t-tell.
It’s the Andrew Sullivan lurch.
@ LanceKates:
Sounds like Obama would give that lesson.
@ Nevergiveup:
I know that, I wasn’t saying that’s how you think.
I was making a general statement as to America’s policies. As long as Muslims are happy, everyone else must suffer!
It wasn’t against you but American foreign policy!
Beltfed wrote:
Oh, golly. They’re going to boycott the stamp. That’s going to leave a mark.
Somebody with a sock, put that up at the other places, and see if Chuckles jumps on the jihad.
@ Nevergiveup:
Militant Atheists are Totalitarian. They want to ban any religious symbol or anything honoring religion. There is one exception: Islam!
Rodan wrote:
Okkie dokkie
@ Nevergiveup:
Should Richard Dawkins be commemorated on a stamp?
@ snork:
The Jazz Artist would be against the stamp!
@ Nevergiveup:
It is Mother Theresa….. she’s the example used to describe a pure and honest and giving person.
What is her darker side? Did she used to party at clubs?
She’s friggen Mother Theresa!
@ Nevergiveup:
Come on man, I have no doubt of your anti-Jihad positions. Sorry it came across the way it dis. I should of phrased it properly!
@ Beltfed:
@ Nevergiveup:
Makes one think they really don’t have any idea what Mother Teresa did.
Overlook wrote:
with the quote “ANYTHING BUT GOD!” under his picture, with a little ufo in the background…
Rodan wrote:
I know OK that is why I said okkie dokkie. I get it.
Rodan wrote:
But I want to see him in full jihad mode, hollering that the stamp is a conspiracy of Christianists and Big Tobacco.
Silhouette wrote:
spreading godlessness is more important to some than helping those who suffer.
They’d rather that someone suffer and be godless than to be helped by someone who believes in God.
Silhouette wrote:
Actually, I think it shows that they don’t care what good may come from someone of faith. The thought that someone of faith may have good works (let alone intelligence) is heresy to them.
@ Rodan:
I disagree. While Iraq itself was really not a threat to us, it was and is an opportunity to disrupt the logistics of the true Muslim terrorists. Syria and Iran now have American troops and intelligence on 2 sides. Bear in mind that Saddam didn’t have an iron grip on every acre of Iraqi land. He ruled by mass killing of those who crossed him, not checkpoints in every village. Muslim terrorists had an easy time crossing between Syria and Iran with weapons and such.
Today, Iran’s internal security is their biggest problem and Syria is all but silent compared to before the war. Al queda is still dangerous but widely scattered and their leaders are reduced to communications delivered every 6 months by a donkey rider. All bad intentioned muslims are on the lookout for little R/C airplanes.
The area that used to be Muslim terrorist central, from the Israeli border to the Indian border, is no longer a safe zone for them.
The threat is still there, we haven’t won it all yet, but we are winning. The govts. that support the bad guys cannot do so as openly as before.
Was it worth it? We’ll have to see. The only other options at the time ,I think, were to leave it alone and go on taking civilian losses, or to glass over large portions of middle eastern capitols.
Not an ideal situation but one that is working, albeit slowly.
snork wrote:
I’ve heard that the stamp’s glue will feature 43 poisons and enough nicottine to equal a pack of cigs. The people making the glue are related to the people who work for the company that is owned by a corporation that has a board member who is friends with someone who works as a mailroom clerk for a supplier of paper for cigs……
The connections are clear….. the conspiracy is there, man……
@ Rodan:
I cannot see why (leftist, activist)atheists should fasten on established religion as the enemy, rather than all belief in the supernatural. For instance, why are they not waging a campaign about Santa Claus? The Tooth Fairy? Dragons? Harry Potter?
They are self-contradictory. Atheism is not a cause.
Nevergiveup @ 175:
ooops, Sorry Doc.
@ Carolina Girl:
Well, I won’t deny that was pretty low of Benson, particularly given the fact that New Orleans made him a very wealthy man. My wife is a native of NO and it used to be difficult to buy a car from anyone other than a Benson dealership. Owners can be, and often are, assholes.
Saints fans are something special though, even in the dark days, when wins were few, they would come to the stadium. Sure, they often wore bags on their heads, but they still came. I came to be a Saints fan by infection from my wife and Saints fanhood has not been an easy life.
Katrina didn’t destroy NO, it was well on it’s way before that. We stopped going there because it was getting pretty scary – rampant crime, gangs in the Quarter, and a police force that the people feared more than the criminals (they were so corrupt and out of control, the NOPD eventually had to be taken over by the feds).
Katrina was just the straw that broke the camel’s back and exposed a city government with no plan for the natural disaster that everyone in that city knew would eventually come. My wife has been telling me for decades that if they ever got anything close to a direct hit, NO would be doomed. They did, and they were. Nagin’s response was to blame it on Bush, and many still do.
As for the Saints, it’s going to be a tough one and I pray they will prevail. Perhaps it will give the good people of NO a spirit of renewal. If there’s any city out there that needs it, it’s NO.
Beltfed wrote:
If we are going to eliminate religion, and its intrusion into secular society, I suggest we start at the top and systematic dismantle the ten commandments first automatically repealing laws against murder as it is nothing more than the religious right pushing their religious morals on the rest of secular society.
@ Poteen:
We’ll just agree to disagreee. ALl I know is the Chaldean Christians were persecuted under our noses and we did nothing.
Anopther option would of been to build a massive army then invade Iraq, Syria, Iran, Afghanistan and then Saudi Arabia. If Iraq was phase one of a greater take down I would agree. In fact I supported it initially but once I saw it was for building Muslim Democracy and not smashing their nations, I became disillusion. I want to smash them, not build them
We didn’t even get oil out of this!
Whatw as the point?
See where I’m coming from?
My cousin did two tours and feels it was a waste.
@ Poteen:
Agreed. The establishment of a military presence, were we to maintain it, is a benefit of the war.
See my #156.
Silhouette @ 186:
If she was a tranny that would be OK with them.
@ Silhouette:
Cuz the Russians are anti-Gaia?
@ Overlook:
Disagree, why should we prop up an Islamic regime that is allowing the persecution Chaldean Christians and didn’t give us Oil Contracts?
@ Beltfed:
Yes Islam is Ok to Atheists. It’s the one religion they have no problem with.
@ Rodan:
You’re not going to change 1300 years of religion in 10 of conflict any more than you can make Jews Catholic (or vice versa) with a papal decree.
In the end Levis and Jack Daniels will cause more change than the 101st airborne.
As to the Chaldean Christians, I agree we should do more for their security, unforgivable. But would they be better off if we didn’t go to Iraq at all? Would their persecution be a reason for military action by itself? The purpose is not to keep muslims happy, they’re not. The paratroops are in their back yard.
The purpose is the global security of western civilians.
@ Rodan:
We are not really in disagreement. See my #156. We permitted them to put in place a Islamic constitution.
We should not have done that. We should have had the courage of our conquest and set up an enlightened administration and dealt with the insurgency. We should not have tried to establish a system of sectarian and secular power-sharing. It failed in Lebanon.
Democracy is not just a matter of factions yapping in a parliament and deciding on the outcome by majority vote.
@ Poteen:
The purpose is the global security of western civilians.
Thatw as the problem, the purpose of the war should of been to demolish the Heart of Islamic civilization and leave it in ruins. Instead it’ slow bleed and propping up an Islamic regime.
Disagree, It will not work with islam. It’s a Totalitarian system based on domination. This Democracy crap will not work with Barbarians, only brute force works.
Americans don’t know what they are up against!
@ Overlook:
Agree 100% and we should of not stop there. We should of smashed Syria, Iran and saudi Arabia.
That’s where I’m coming from!
@ Rodan:
Hey, what do you call someone who has thin skin, ego driven, emotionally unsound, childish, ban crazy, insanely sensitive to criticism, takes credit for someone else’s work, and willing to outright ban someone for simply disagreeing with them?
The Blogmocracy has it’s very own Charles Johnson and his name is “Savage”
snork wrote:
The tree is a fractal
Trees and ferns are fractal in nature and can be modeled on a computer by using a recursive algorithm. This recursive nature is obvious in these examples—a branch from a tree or a frond from a fern is a miniature replica of the whole: not identical, but similar in nature. The connection between fractals and leaves are currently being used to determine how much carbon is contained in trees.
@ MacDuff:
Know what you mean. I love New Orleans, but I love the New Orleans I knew when I was a young bride and the Superdome was brand new. When the naughtiest thing that happened during Mardi Gras was the occasional inebriated chickie that flashed the balcony guys to get some beads. Somehow I managed to get a full Schwegman’s bag at every parade (of course, I stuck to the ones on Canal Street).
Now…it’s been taken over by the low morals and even lower tolerance for alcohol Spring Break types. I’ll never go back to NOLA for Mardi Gras – I’ll stick to the country celebrations in Lawtel and Frilot Cove.
And I know we’ve got a battle ahead of us….but I remember 2003, when Tampa Bay DIDN’T get creamed by Oakland, and 2008, when the Giants took the wind out of Tom Brady’s sails.
I believe in Miracles!
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