In December of 2001, Enron, an energy company that in 1993 had begun branching out into other businesses, including becoming a commodities brokerage, collapsed in what perhaps at the time was the largest corporate scandal in our nation’s history. From early in 1993 until December of 2001, roughly Eight and a half years, Enron was able to perpetrate a fraud on current investors, potential investors, and federal authorities, by moving suspect assets off of the balance sheet of Enron and hiding them on the balance sheets of shell companies, subsidiaries who’s balance sheet problems were allowed to be separated from the balance sheet of the parent company, a practice that coincidentally was illegal at the time, and is still illegal today. What caused the sudden collapse of Enron, besides their creativity in perpetuating a fraud? The election of George W. Bush which brought about a Justice Department that began upholding the law, a practice that differed from the look-the-other-way-halcyon-days of one William Jefferson Clinton.
(Another lesson was Enron’s public firing of Anderson Little, with the claim that the big Eight’s accounting practices were, “not creative enough to meet the dynamic needs of a company as innovative as ours, and not ready to meet the 21st century economy and its changing environment.” Arthur M. Anderson was hired to replace the previous firm, and now there is no Arthur M. Anderson, an accounting firm that apparently possessed those qualities sought by a corrupt management team at Enron. So, for those of you who may one day be fired, it is not always a bad thing. Had Anderson Little changed their practices to suit Enron, there would be no Anderson Little today.)
During the emotional wake of Enron, we passed a law which is referred to as Sarbanes Oxley. This law has prevented nothing. A really expensive to administrate law that makes the already illegal practice of perpetrating a fraud illegal, helps nothing. What it does do, is to force publicly traded companies to hire a second independent accounting firm to verify the work of a first independent accounting firm, the costs of which are passed along to any consumer who may wish to do business with the firm. Increased regulatory authority and compliance costs were the only results of the new law, passed by the way after enforcement of previous laws in existence had already helped to bring down those who acted irresponsibly. It was the avoidance of enforcing the law for the period of January 1993 until January of 2001 which created the problem, not the absence of increased regulatory activity. The results of the latter has been spread out across every product or service you consume, and will continue for the remainder of your life.
Fast forward to the Summer of 2008. A sudden spike in commodities prices highlighted a problem with our credit markets, more specifically the practice of taking speculative at best mortgage backed securities and selling them as investment grade debt instruments that paid the higher yields more commonly associated with junk bonds. The entire house of cards was created as the result to deal with bad government policy that forced the financial services industry to ignore the warnings of the compliance officers and risk committees, and grant mortgages to people who would have zero chance of being able to repay them. After the inevitable torrent of sudden defaults began to freeze our credit markets, the term predatory lending was created to describe the mortgage brokers who were forced into the practice by bad government policy to begin with.
The result of this crisis of course was enacted in 2009. Welcome to the Obamacare Law, and the phrase, “never let a good crisis go to waste,” uttered by Rahm Emanuel, Barack Obama’s Chief of Staff. We also got the Dodd Frank Law, which again took the extraordinary step of calling fraud illegal, and doubled current regulatory costs for any financial transactions, and did further damage besides. (Currently, with the Community Reinvestment Act not being altered in any way, it combines in such a way with Dodd Frank so that worthy loans can not be granted until a sufficient number of offsetting unworthy loans are approved by the same lender. The result of this are banks and mortgage companies sitting on worthy borrowers for extended periods of time, thereby constipating the credit markets and greatly slowing home sales. Notice that the unworthy loans are still being forced upon the lending institutions, which will have the effect of creating the exact same crisis at some point in the future.)
The other result of course to Obamacare’s passage has been a rash of outages in medications prescribed, services offered, doctors practicing, new patients accepted, and increase of insurance prices by double digit percentages, massive layoffs, hiring freezes, a loss of innovation in our drug research programs, increased costs for medical equipment used, and all of this because, a crisis is a terrible thing to waste. For those of you who are probably scratching your heads trying to figure out what on Earth health care could possibly have in common with the woes experienced during the height of our credit crisis, I sympathize with you, I truly do. Remember though, that the passage of this law was what Barack Obama and his party focused on during the entirety of 2009, while we were experiencing the worst post WWII recession. The Leaders of the party who held all of the political power at the time stated repeatedly that the Health Care Overhaul would transform our economy to a place of recovery. We are of course still waiting for that recovery today, some four years later.
That seems to be the hallmark of this Administration. Fly from one crisis to the next, use the whipped up emotional state of the citizens to enact some self destructing piece of policy, demonize those who wish to slow down and critically consider things first as evil classes of plutocrats who wish to harm children, old people, puppy dogs, and hope to be out of town before the consequences are noticed. I saw on facebook this morning that one of my friends was livid that anyone would fault Barack Obama for signing his 23 illegal executive orders while surrounding himself with children. How dare we express being offended with this? The problem of course is that it’s at best, a dishonest appeal to the very same fright, fight, or fright emotional state that has served us so poorly in the past.
Whether people like this or not, the right to private gun ownership in America is guaranteed under the Second Amendment to our Constitution. That particular Amendment says nothing about hunting, target shooting, home defense, or even how much force may be used to protect oneself or one’s family. The man who authored the Second Amendment, George Mason, made it abundantly clear that his intention was to guarantee that the citizens be able to fight back against the government being created, should private citizens ever feel as though that government were becoming too tyrannical. People who read my essays, (hi mom,) probably know where I stand on this particular issue. Without getting into the merits, let’s have the discussion out in the open.
If those who wish to see an end to private gun ownership wish to follow through on making their wish a reality, there are two methods that our founding fathers put into place for making changes to our founding document. This has happened 27 times in its 229 years of existence. That represents an average of Eight and one half years for each example of such change. I would still have a problem with a legal attempt to repeal the Second Amendment, done in the open and above board. I would oppose such an attempt, campaign against it, but at least I would respect the honesty. The piecemeal attempt to infringe upon the right to both keep and bear arms is as transparent as it is dishonest. Of course we know what the end game is. It is as plain as the fact that I really do not need a good reason, nor any reason at all as to why I would want a gun in my possession, other than it is my right as an American citizen to have one, or One Hundred, with as many rounds of ammunition as my heart desires.
At some point in the future, and I really do not know when, there will be another terrible shooting in yet another, “gun free zone,” where the shooter will kill him or herself the instant they face the slightest opposition to their murderous spree. The same wails of we must never allow this to happen again will be heard, and new legislation will be proposed to address everything but the actual problem that has created the dangerous circumstances that fomented the massacre in the first place. Of President Obama’s 23 executive orders signed this week, all of them violate our Constitution, none of them would have even slowed the Sandy Hook Shooter down by a half second or longer. Particularly offensive was the directive to have family pediatricians start the practice of snitching on the parents of their patients. Such is the world of governance by crisis, just another piece of our freedom gleefully surrendered to our Narcissist in Chief.
Special Note: As I wrote this essay today, Eric Holder announced yet another delay in his compliance with a contempt order to hand over the documents pertaining to Fast and Furious. This was the operation run by the Obama White House that illegally purchased large quantities of, “assault weapons,” and then handed them out as gifts to Mexican Drug Lords. At least two American Law Enforcement personnel lost their lives due to weapons gifted to criminals in this manner. If Barack Obama were at all serious about putting an end to gun violence, perhaps he should start and end his efforts with the person staring back at him from the mirror during his morning shave. It should also be noted that those famed stimulus funds were used for this operation.
Cross Posted from Musings of a Mad Conservative.
That is not to mention hundreds of Mexican citizens. They weren’t just giving guns out. They were making sure that the most violent criminals would have guns. All so they could argue that you and I were too dangerous to allow guns.
Good morning . Not a good day, he reallyis in for four more years.
@ Iron Fist:
And thanks to أوباما’s insane policies in the Middle East, we also give the same guns to, in the words of La Migra, OTM‘s:
Other
Than
Mexicans
@ Macker:
Yeah, I was reading that most of the weapons used in Mali came from Libya after we toppled Kadaffy Duck. Smarty diplomacy, don’t you know?
@ Iron Fist:
Now, now -- not all the EOs were unconstitutional. Remeber, one of them was O ordering himself to appoint a permanent director of the BATFE, something he could heve done any time in the previous 4 years, even without an EO telling himself to do it.
@ Mike C.:
He’s got to appoint someone who will get passed the Senate. That shouldn’t be a big trick, as supine as the Republicans have been.
Iron Fist wrote:
this is a pretty good article http://dailycaller.com/2013/01/15/a-fast-and-furious-foreign-policy/
IIRC….3wood predicted the housing market
collapse a few years before it happened.
Iron Fist wrote:
Like this?
Very well written article. Nice tie-in of other “crisis” events and the accompanying legislation that really solved nothing but added to federal government power. One of the other results of the Sarbane Oxley law is the permanent addition of the requirement that publicly traded companies monitor all projects for estimated status and completion costs. This has added another layer of regulatory compliance to all projects and takes additional manpower and time away from actually executing those projects thus adding to costs. The federal government has become a large drag on the economy in so many ways, the last four years have accelerated that trend.
And the fools in this country voted for another four years of the same.
Fast & Furious, Part Deux:
@ lobo91:
He shows his utter contempt for the Senate and for the rule of law with this appointment, but I expect him to get through the Senate. The Republicans don’t have the balls to filibuster such an unqualified disaster. They didn’t significantly oppose Elana Kagan, after all.
@ lobo91:
The same weapons showed up with Hamas in Gaza and al-Nusra in Syria.
Iron Fist wrote:
He’s a long-time associate of Holder’s. And he’s black.
He’ll probably get 85 votes in the Senate.
Iron Fist wrote:
Hamas had had Nato weapons in the recent conflict with Israel.
Iron Fist wrote:
maybe not, the Republicans are a.feeling the wind at their backs over this gun control thing & b.looking ahead to the mid-terms… we shall see.
@ Iron Fist:
You know I very rarely speak out on social issues, but this just crosses the line for me.
I feel like throwing up.
@ brookly red:
See my #18, this is just sick.
Rodan wrote:
including lifting restrictions on third-trimester abortions, allowing non-doctors to perform the procedure… good luck with that.
@ brookly red:
This is just sick.
Rodan wrote:
It is sick in so many ways I am too lazy to count them. Cuomo is just another soldier in O’s army of satan.
Rodan wrote:
If the right to keep and bear arms was as unresricted as the right to abortion, I’d have the right to have nuclear weapons. Third trimester abortions are murder, and there is no way to pretty that up.
@ Iron Fist:
Absolutely it is. Even many Pro-Choice people are against this. This is outright evil and it proves Cuomo is a Fascist. He’s not a Progressive, he’s a Fascist and a Eugenics supporter.
Rodan wrote:
he should be excommunicated even if just to make a point.
@ Iron Fist:
So true, and probably the single best statement of the whole debacle that I’ve seen to date.
Rodan wrote:
Ironic that those that will be most harmed by eugenics are his biggest supporters.
@ brookly red:
For now.
@ Rodan:
The Democrat Party just seems to have a love affair with abortion.
Obama & his ilk don’t even consider an infant that escapes a botched
abortion ton have a right to life.
Rodan wrote:
for now biggest supporters or most harmed?
RIX wrote:
well “punished with a baby” said it all, but what can we expect from these people they are not just wrong they are evil.
@ brookly red:
For now his biggest supporters.
@ RIX:
This is just a sick bill.
The Dem hero is flawed.
Rodan wrote:
I don’t see that changing any time soon… there is some push back from the clergy, but it will take an act of God to stop this madness.
It seems like guys like Cuomo don’t just permit abortion,
they like it.
@ brookly red:
Republicans do not have the balls to get Blacks to turn on White Progressives who are targeting them for extinction.
RIX wrote:
Evil. The biggest problem with the war on terror? we refuse to name the enemy. The biggest problem with the war on the un-born… we refuse to name the enemy.
Evil has a name.
@ lobo91:
There needs to be some gun control legislation in the Middle East. Dispatch battalions of lobbyists and fresh-faced cherubs immediately…..there’s no time to waste!
@ RIX:
Abortion now, Abortion forever. It is the holy sacrament of the Democrat Party. They are the Party of death and totalitarianism.
Rodan wrote:
well yes, and I am sure some agree with the progressives on this matter.
@ brookly red:
Sadly.
Rodan wrote:
Odd, many in the black community think Crack is a plot against them, & AIDs is a plot against them, but not abortion.
I nominate the wookie for this one
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Rodan wrote:
Interesting to juxtapose this with their criminalization of the 2nd Amendment and the right to self-defence. Also all the sanctimonious “if just 1 life is save” demagoguery.
Hypocrisy anyone?
mawskrat wrote:
oh yeah sure usher in the end off days why don’t you.
I would just like to point out that there may have been a secondary rationale for Fast & Furious running guns to a Mexican drug cartel.
Illegal drugs as an industry is probably one of the largest on earth when measured in money. That money ends up in every country’s economy and in all the banks. Remember HBSC got a wrist slap for laundering drug money? Why did no one go to jail?
Because if you get the drug money out of the economy, a lot of stuff dries up -- like bank liquidity.
Just thinking out loud.
Oh, yeah. Enron. I believe Paul Krugman was on their board.
’nuff said.
@ Rodan:
The enduring love that the Left has for abortion is a constant source of macabre fascination for me.
Rodan wrote:
No wonder they’ve found common cause with the Islamist bastards. Pope Benedict has called out the culture of death on a number of occasions…he should do it more often, and name names. He should summon Obama for a mano e mano moral summit on the subject, and call on him, personally , thus putting him between the proverbial “rock” and a hard place.
Odd how the Libs question everything about the Constitution.
But they see abortion rights as absolute, even though the
Court manufactured it.
Yup, it is a sacrament to them.
RIX wrote:
satan requires blood sacrifice. there I said it. evil, evil, evil.
Rodan wrote:
Abort if it doesn’t have a dangle
Imbalance = instant fodder armies
@ eaglesoars:
The international banking industry has a long history of being slow-deep in nefarious (at the very least) enterprises and I’ve no doubt that’s the case here.
@ Rodan:
The liberals worship Moloch, but that fiery sacrifice of the young was too traumatizing, so they are now sacrificing the young with a vacuum instead. Same bloody sacrifice, less trauma.
Evil, pure evil. Why Cuomo has not been excommunicated is beyond me. As a confessional Lutheran, someone publicly committing a sin of this magnitude would have been excommunicated years ago.
Pelosi endorsed abortion as a good way to protect Social Security.
You know, if you are not here, you can’t collect.
@ MacDuff:
slow-deep = elbow deep
Sometime auto correct works and sometimes not.
@ citizen_q:
He is a hypocrite.
RIX wrote:
She’s an idiot. If you’re not there, you can’t contribute, either.
@ MacDuff:
You know I’m not into the social issue stuff. But this bill being proposed by Cuomo is evil. I can’t be silent on this. This is an extreme abortion law.
eaglesoars wrote:
There’s a lot f rumors that the Obama Administration was backing the Sionola Drug Cartel, in an effort to provide some kind of stabilzation to northern Mexico. If that is true, it is a damned fool way to do it. If Obama had any balls he’d be pushing for drug legalization. Point blank, all drugs being illegal does with Obama’s Open Border policy is make the people willing to supply the demand for drugs rich, and increase the violence associated with the drug trade. As you point out, the drug trade is a huge industry. Making it illegal just means that it is a huge untaxed industry. You’d think with their permissive morals and ravenous desire for tax revenue that the Democrats would be on the legalization bandwagon, but they are not. I think that comes down to money. I’d bet that the drug cartels spend beaucoup bucks lobbying to keep the drug trade illegal. You might be surprised by who’s on their payroll, if you could get the DEA interested in checking that out.
RIX wrote:
same with obamacare…
@ eaglesoars:
I think you are onto something here.
@ waldensianspirit:
Yes, the Democrats can’t even bring thesmselves to outlaw sex-selective abortions. Their comittment to abortion is total. Abortion uber alles.
She is so stupid it is disturbing.
@ Iron Fist:
That’s my theory as well. I wish Republicans would get out of their comfort zone and push legalization.
@ brookly red:
Wait until people see more of ObamaCare.
There is going to be shock with the rationing & Eugenics.
@ AZfederalist:
It’s pure evil.
Just saw a shot of Mooch on FNC.
The woman is a dead ringer for Jackie Kennedy!/
O/T don’t read Melanie Phillips too often, but I stumbled onto this article at the UK mail about the problamatic Algerian attempt to rescue hostages.
Until we learn to be as single-minded as the fanatics -- at home and abroad -- we’re ALL hostages
Rodan wrote:
every form of corruption requires one thing, untraceable cash money… regardless if you want to buy a senator in Washington, or a suicide bomber in Afghanistan.
The drug trade will never go away, too many fingers in the pot.
RIX wrote:
Yet she get re-elected.
They want high abortion and high immigration …
citizen_q wrote:
like I said, every form of corruption requires one thing, untraceable cash money…
@ brookly red:
It’s an effort to provide employment opportunities for butchers sidelined by the “healthy eating” initiatives of Cuomo’s butt-buddy Bloomberg.
brookly red wrote:
and funky land deals
waldensianspirit wrote:
they make no secret about wishing to replace Blacks with Hispanics…
citizen_q wrote:
Yes, Islam thrives on chaos, and that is exactly what the Arab Spring has brought. Before there can be real democratization in the Islamic world, there needs to be de-Islamization. Shari’ia Law and freedom are diametrically opposed.
Yeah, but they are generally stoned in her district.
and the race baiters do the bidding
“The minister’s work is also important and he should be trained, perhaps by the Federation as to our ideals and the goal that we hope to reach. We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members….Margaret Sanger
MacDuff wrote:
I knew what you meant.
Actually, when you think about it, ‘slow deep’ could be a fairly useful characterization of a lot of things.
@ citizen_q:
Nobody said the voters in her district are intellectual giants either.
mawskrat wrote:
but even she (Sanger) in her wildest fantasies could ever have dreamed she would have a Black POTUS in her camp.
Then again, maybe she sold her soul for it…
eaglesoars wrote:
like obama care
@ mawskrat:
Margaret Sanger is worse than any Grand Dragon of the KKK ever dared to be, and she is celebrated as a hero by the Left. Including by blacks. It is unreal.
mawskrat wrote:
Are the sources for that quote credible?
That quote and the Revs jackson and sharpton’s pictures would make a great poster, or ad. Especially coupled with frightening abortions statistics I have see for blacks.
Ok, after he swears in what are the odds that Obama screams “Allah Akbar!”
and “Death to America!”
Rodan wrote:
I’m not into the Social issues either, but geez, this is, as you said, extreme and evil. They’re never satisfied and third trimester is nothing more than infanticide and I don’t think anyone with even a shred of decency can justify that.
I’m finding myself more sickened by the “right to choose” with each passing day, particularly when there is increasingly reliable, and affordable, birth control available. There’s no reason for this unholy carnage, and I’m becoming increasingly convinced that this desensitization and cheapening of life is a common thread that connects mass murders, abortions and eventual euthanasia of the old.
RIX wrote:
well if actions speak louder than words 100%
MacDuff wrote:
could it be….. satan?
True, true, whatever he says his intent is to punish America.
RIX wrote:
I hope he can only press the red button but not set the gps coordinates
Of course the response would be bad and how he likes it
@ citizen_q:
yep she wrote them down
1) “We should hire three or four colored ministers, preferably with social-service backgrounds, and with engaging personalities. The most successful educational approach to the Negro is through a religious appeal. We don’t want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population. and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members.”
Margaret Sanger’s December 19, 1939 letter to Dr. Clarence Gamble, 255 Adams Street, Milton, Massachusetts. Original source: Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College, North Hampton, Massachusetts. Also described in Linda Gordon’s Woman’s Body, Woman’s Right: A Social History of Birth Control in America. New York: Grossman Publishers, 1976.
mawskrat wrote:
ironic to have this discussion on MLK day isn’t it?
@ waldensianspirit:
I want him to say, “My fellow Americans, I resign”
I’ve brought this subject up before but I think much of this abortion on demand horror would not be what it is if it weren’t for the marginalization of men.
Just as a starting point for a thought experiment -- what if the father of a child wanted the child? The mother still gets to abort, right?
Take it from there.
@ eaglesoars:
it’s a slippery slope
@ mawskrat:
Wow! Thanks!
Some of those inconvenient facts I hear so much about.
brookly red wrote:
What’s ironic is that having this discussion and observing facts that counter the prevailing meme, we would be tarred as racists by those pushing it.
Incidentally, Enron’s corporate successor, or at least one of them, EOG, is still around and doing business. They are drilling shale-gas wells in northern B.C.
The consulting firm I work for got me a gig at one of these wells. I had the meeting with the EOG staff, and they did a big selling job on how modern and and “cutting edge” their operation was. So…. middle of January, I drive about a thousand miles north, with all my gear and about 20 pails of citrus-based solvent in the Suburban. By the time I get there, all I can taste and smell is lemon peels.
Got booked into the camp; show up at the rig next morning (gotta pass Security, doncha know) and met the geologist on duty at the time. They weren’t drilling at the time; the rig was setting up after a move. Got to see the “sample lab” where we were supposed to prepare our samples. It was literally a closet-sized kitchenette in a POS office trailer rented from of the Indian bands. (basically graft to the Indians so they won’t protest and shut down the whole job; a fact of life in B.C.) This kitchenette had only a single sink, and totally inadequate ventilation for working with solvent, even “green” plant-sourced solvent. Not to mention totally inadequate counter space. I have used similar shacks many times on little short-ass jobs where they re-enter an old well with a service rig and drill another 50 meters or so, and get it all done in a day. For one day, you can put up with sub-standard facilities. But for a multi-well program that runs all winter?
So I got on the phone with my designated contact guy at EOG, and basically said, “this sample lab is a sick joke, and totally inadequate, not to mention unsafe to work in with organic solvents”. He said, “we cannot change that now”. So I said, “then you can do it without me, because I don’t want to put my health at risk in there”. “OK, get on the road then”. So I unloaded my 20 pails of solvent, grabbed my gear at camp, and headed for home. A two-day drive, you know. I wound up getting paid the mileage for the round trip as a hotshot.
My leaders at the consulting firm were almost fit to be tied. They had done at lot of work to cultivate EOG as a client, and here I had blown it all away. I said to my boss, “Man, you don’t want to have these guys as clients; sooner or later there is going to be a wreck up there, or lawsuits resulting from chemical exposure. They may talk the talk regarding safety and health, but they don’t walk the walk”. And I had photos of the inadequate “lab” to back me up.
I wasn’t sure if I still had a job or not, but a week or two later, I got put onto this gig that I am on now, and it’s everything the EOG job wasn’t.
I am probably blacklisted for life by EOG, as if I care.
mawskrat wrote:
Yeah, well, aren’t they all………..
Alberta Oil Peon wrote:
If I were you, I’d hold on to those photographs, ‘cuz like you, I smell a lawsuit.
@ mawskrat:
“We should hire three or four colored ministers, preferably with social-service backgrounds, and with engaging personalities. The most successful educational approach to the Negro is through a religious appeal. We don’t want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population. and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members.”
Well, just playing Devil’s Advocate here, but one way to read that statement is that she was concerned that her selfless efforts to limit uncontrolled population growth in the black American community might be misinterpreted by rabble-rousers as an attempt at genocide.
You know that’s how the Left would spin it, anyway.
mawskrat wrote:
Oliver Stone has a book and a Showtime series entitled “The Untold History of the United States”….there should be one entitled “The Untold History of the American Left”…..
Then again, no one seems to listen or care….everyone is too high on Honey Boo Boo, American Idol and Obama’s Happy-Time Bullshit to even care anymore.
@ eaglesoars:
Still have them, right here on this computer. I am clear of that mess, fortunately. At the time, I was aware that I might be burning bridges, but I really didn’t care at that point. I could have hired on with another consulting firm very easily. But it all worked out for the best.
Alberta Oil Peon wrote:
That’s a helluva lot better than your family filing for survivor benefits.
I’ve walked away from a job I realized was totally corrupt. Took a 50% pay cut. But I figured most of the pay from that corrupt job, had I stayed, would have gone toward legal fees.
And yeah, eventually people did go to jail.
The Inaugural Address was wafting in from the other room and I was trying to sum it up in one word but I had a question -- is bullshit technically one word or two?
@ MacDuff:
I just heard a little. But what I did hear The Dear leader
managed to invoke Class Warfare & Global Warming.
He will continue to loot then Treasury.
MacDuff wrote:
In a word, yes. Depends on the circumstances. One word? “I’ve had enough of that bullshit”.
Two words? Obama drones on and on. Response: “Buuuull Shit!”
Ugh…I don’t know who this “award-winning poet” is, but he’s annoying the crap out of me.
MacDuff wrote:
Used as a noun it is one word
‘The bull shit on my shoes’ is obviously 2 words.
eaglesoars wrote:
You walking near DC?
waldensianspirit wrote:
not if I can help it………..
Speaking of “abortion as a sacrament”:
Unreal: Obama Attends Church With Planned Parenthood CEO…
No reports as to whether or not any abortions were performed during the service.
lobo91 wrote:
Generally, I find modern poets to be verbal mimes.
Of course, another way to look at it is that Reagan’s formative experience was in the real world of America during the Depression and WWII, which led him to come up with ideas that actually worked, while Obama tends to come up with ivory tower bullshit.
MacDuff wrote:
He managed to include references to the children killed in CT, along with solar power and wind turbines.
And now we get a pretty much unrecognizable version of our national anthem perfomed by Beyonce.
I can’t believe you guys are actually watching that cr -- uh, bullshit.
@ lobo91:
Kind of sums up the Left, doesn’t it? An emotional appeal for green power and gun control, neither of which actually works, if you are lookingfor good results. OTOH, if you are looking for oppertunities to increase graft, both are stunning successes.
ok, gotta go.
brookly red wrote:
In the long run it will reduce the number of Liberals in New York…
@ Iron Fist:
This speech was pretty much the polar opposite of JFK’s inaugural address.
“Ask not what you can do for your country, but what your country can do for you.”
And for “your country” read “I”
lobo91 wrote:
…and I’m sure that was just coincidence. This isn’t an Inauguration, it’s a campaign rally. F**king shameless, as usual.
@ lobo91:
He does think he is the State, doesn’t he? We’ve never had so narcissistic a President.
@ MacDuff:
Yup. It was an ad for all the crap he intends to ram through in his second term.
Probably the most partisan inaugural address ever given (well, in this country, anyway).
@ eaglesoars:
Yeah, that was my thought. I don’t have anything to do because I’m still on medical leave, but even so, there are lots of other things I can do than watch that mess. Heck, HoneyBooBoo would is more intelligent than that mess.
lobo91 wrote:
Did you notice the smirk? That says all I need to know. I also noticed the look on Boehner’s face as they walked out; no words wet needed.
Da_Beerfreak wrote:
no it won’t they will just bring in more…
@ MacDuff:
I really think this speech was Obama’s declaration of war against the rest of us.
MacDuff wrote:
I was walking out side when the wind blew and it had this awful chemical solvent smell… then I realized it was the smell of 60 million people cleaning their guns.
A promo just ran for the new FX series The Americans, which is about KGB sleeper agents in the US during the Cold War.
I wonder if the placement was intentional?
eaglesoars wrote:
This is part of the broken window fallacy. Drug money, and the supposed contribution of the illicit percentage of our criminal GDP, while it may be what ever percentage that is claimed, also costs more, much more than it is worth in terms of fighting crime, destruction of property, regulation created to combat it, etc.
This is a Keynesian view of our economy at large, and has been proven wrong so many times by history that quite frankly, I find it difficult to take seriously anymore.
lobo91 wrote:
he is wrong many lines will be repeated, mostly by bloggers but hopefully by lawyers & member of congress too.
lobo91 wrote:
He wants a post-prosperity America, and he is creating it.
I think today is going to go down in history as the opening shot in our future second civil war.
More than half of the people in this country deserve everything that’s coming to them over the next 48 months, Damn them for forcing me to come along for the ride.
That’s all I have to say about that.
Have a good day, peeps.
I have no expertise in inaugural addresses, but I can’t recall
one more partisan.
@ brookly red:
I know. Just indulging in some wishful think.
RIX wrote:
There’s never been one, at least in this country.
Venezuela, maybe.
@ RIX:
Traditionally, inaugural addresses are used to speak to the nation as a whole.
This one was aimed squarely at the far left. The clear message to the rest of us was “I won. F*ck the rest of you.”
@ lobo91:
This is going to be a nasty four years.
BHO & the Media will gin up he class warfare, while he
continues to launder money to “Green” shams.
@ Flyovercountry:
Making drugs illegal costs more, in the end, than having them legal. You still have all the problems associated with drugs (i.e. addiction), but now you have guaranteed a criminal element to it as well. It is just like when htey enacted Prohibition. It didn’t really stop many people from drinking, but it made wealthy people out of the bootleggers and others who were willing to supply the demand for illegal booze. Making drugs illegal has just been that mistake repeated for far longer a period of time.
@ MacDuff:
Would like to think you are describing a look of grim resolve and determination but I’m guessing a look of defeat and surrender?
That’s exactly right. BHO threw down the gauntlet &
served notice that it is his way or the highway.
The Republicans should do everything possible to mess up
his nominations.
lobo91 wrote:
that shot was fired 4 years ago… Drudge has an interesting shot(photo) of 0 4 yrs ago and today. Clearly the evil within is eating away at his exterior. Every deal with the devil has an expiration date.
RIX wrote:
nasty 2 years… the mid terms cometh
waldensianspirit wrote:
Also, don’t forget the pork futures….
brookly red wrote:
Hispanics are harder working and more reliable taxpayers…
@ Iron Fist:
I agree whole heartedly, plus it is entirely against the principles of our founding law. Protecting people from themselves is a very slippery slope to be certain, as well as a violation of their God given right to stupidity.
It quite simply should not be any of the government’s business what I may wish to ingest, inhale, rub into my belly, or even look at. So long as I am doing no harm to others, mind y’own damned business!
Da_Beerfreak wrote:
They also say that… so you are OK with it?
Flyovercountry wrote:
/GASP! but,but,but you are too stupid to make your own decisions
brookly red wrote:
With Obama’s newly reorganized campagne operations expect to see the dirtiest fighting ever over the next two years. Obama’s goal is to destroy the GOP and TEA parties completely and there is nothing in DC Town to hold him back.
Does Moochelle despise herself so much she needs to put on a wig hat?
@ brookly red:
Looks like some posts need a /sac tag
Da_Beerfreak wrote:
Nothing in DC, that’ strue, but DC is not, contrary to its inhabitant’s limited view, the whole country. There is a lot to stop him in the rest of the country. The individual States are first up to bat. Too, it is possible that we will get some help from a five-four Supreme Court. That’ll depend on whether Justice Roberts can find his mis-placed spine.
@ Da_Beerfreak:
Top Aide: Obama Seeks To Split Republican Party Into Warring Factions Before 2014 Midterm Elections…
Da_Beerfreak wrote:
Just caught on Rush(being hosted by Mark Stein) That someone was on tv stating how Obamas plan is to drive a stake threw the Republican party and have them in a civil war by 2014 elections.
@ lobo91:
Man lobo you got that up faster than me but true
Da_Beerfreak wrote:
DC town is just one big whorehouse, I don’t put my hope in DC. I appeal to a higher authority.
No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, saith the LORD
lobo91 wrote:
meh Drudge ran that yesterday…
Iron Fist wrote:
upding
@ Iron Fist:
@ lobo91:
@ cigarguymt:
My money is on the States, they are our last firewall to protect our Rights and Freedoms from an out of control Central Government. The Liberal plan is to concentrate all power in DC Town. Only the States working together have the necessary power to win this fight.
And there will be no help coming from the Blue States, they have already sold their souls to Orcs in DC.
No doubt.
Looks like the left is trying to manipulate the language again. Notice that Schumer now claims to represent the “pro-gun safety” movement, rather than the anti-gun movement. Obviously, this implies that his opponents--gun owners and the NRA--are against gun safety.
@ lobo91:
Scum, pure and simple. And of course the democrat MSM (but I repeat myself) will go along with this.
lobo91 wrote:
So when did UpChuck Schumer (scum, NY) join the NRA?? I missed that one.
@ AZfederalist:
I particularly enjoy the use of extreme examples. So, a “single woman who lives next to a crack house” has a right to own a gun. What about people who are married, or don’t live next to crack houses? And why don’t the police do something about the crack house, instead?
And of course he has to bring up “assault weapons” and “hundred round clips.” How about a Glock with a 17 round magazine? Is that excessive, too? Andrew Cuomo apparently thinks so.
@ Da_Beerfreak:
To Schumer and his crowd, “gun safety” means that only cops, the military, criminals, and his cronies have guns.
Beckel is on FNC now defending Obama’s speech.
“He won, and it’s time for conservatives to get over it.”
lobo91 wrote:
Have you seen this? It looks like they may have finally overstepped and pushed too far.
lobo91 wrote:
More likely he really meant:
“He won, and it’s time to destroy the conservatives.”
Chris Matthews has compared Obamas speech today to Lincolns
Gettysburg Address.
I don’t remember who said it, but Matthews does want to have
Obamas baby.
@ AZfederalist:
That is where all of this is headed.
The Liberals refuse to believe it can really happen.
Mr Beckel might want to consider that, at least so far as conservatives in the House and Senate are concerned, they won, too.
Beckel makes me feel good about myself.
I have never been quite so doofus.
lobo91 wrote:
Strict scruitney. There is no reason that the Right to keep and bear arms should be any more strictly regulated than the right to an abortion. That’d mean kids don’t need their parent’s permission to buy “assault rifles”, wouldn’t it? You’ll notice that they never trot out “if it saves one life” about the abortion issue.
They all seem to overlook that.
The Republican Congress have constituents that did not elect them
to just go along with Obama.
@ RIX:
I despise Beckel. He is a true oxygen thief.
@ AZfederalist:
I hadn’t seen that before. Good for them.
It’s going to happen all over the country if they’re not careful.
@ RIX:
An “inconvenient truth,” to borrow a phrase from another leftist fraud.
An egotistical buffoon.
He keeps talking about playing football. It was Division III.
@ RIX:
Was that back before they had helmets?
Would explain a lot…
They probably couldn’t find one to fit his melon.
Looks like the big luncheon is running 30 minutes over schedule.
All the little people who turned out to watch the parade are left standing around in the cold waiting.
Seems fitting, somehow…
Translation: Obama isn’t nearly far enough to the left for West.
@ lobo91:
Moochelle is trying to stop school kids from trying to deny school kids anything
for lunch that they actually like.
Yet she just scarfed down a 3,000 calorie meal.
lobo91 wrote:
Neither is the real MLK.
Da_Beerfreak wrote:
100% on that. MLK said he wanted his kids judged by the content of their character, not the color of their skins. The race hustlers of today want everyone judged on the color of their skins, and if they’re white, they are evil.
@ Iron Fist:
Cornel West is pretty much a caricature of everything that’s wrong with the race-based grievance industry. He probably wouldn’t get the joke here:
They’re showing the dignitaries coming out of the Capitol now. They just walked past the honor guard, who are carrying rifles with fixed bayonets.
I thought we didn’t use bayonets any more, according to Obama?
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@ lobo91:
Stage props….
RIX wrote:
“Do as I say, not as I do!” -- Any Demo☭rat…especially The First Wookiee!