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What Happens When Big Brother Meets Chicago Thugs.

by Flyovercountry ( 63 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, Communism, Democratic Party, Fascism, Liberal Fascism, Marxism, Progressives at May 14th, 2012 - 2:00 pm

This one is more than a little creepy, so bear with me. After you read the article, which I found on Hotair, we’ll discuss it in a broader sense than just a bunch of 8 year old children being asked by the State to rat out their parents in New Jersey. Before anyone points out to me that the Governor of New Jersey is a Republican and would be considered by some to be an actual conservative, let me destroy that rebuttal now. Chris Christie is Governor, but the apparatus that he won the right to manage has been built by a Democrat power structure that has been in place for decades. The Education system in America has been the province exclusively of the most committed leftists in this country since the early 1970′s, and this has been true regardless of who has occupied the White House.

For context, some appropriate quotations from our Constitution:

AmendmentI.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of
religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging
the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right
of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the
Government for a redress of grievances.

AmendmentIV.
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses,
papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and
seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue,
but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affi rmation,
and particularly describing the place to be searched,
and the persons or things to be seized.

From the article:

Seriously now, how hard is to write questions for third-graders that don’t (a) address creepy topics like cannibalism, (b) ask how many slaves it would take to pick an orchard clean, or (c) intrude on their and their family’s privacy by asking them to write about a secret they had trouble keeping? The answer obviously is (d) very.

Choices a and b were the stuff of math homework assignments earlier this year in schools in D.C. and Georgia, respectively, while c appeared on a statewide standardized test in New Jersey just this week. The test, given to 4,000 students, was a dry run for the Garden State’s Assessment of Skills and Knowledge.

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The Associated Press quotes Susan Engel, a lecturer in psychology and director of the teaching program at Williams University, who said the question isn’t troubling to her:

Asking about secrets is a good way to get children to write, she said. And, she said, children at that age are unlikely to say something that would offend their families, or even bare their own souls. ‘I think by and large, kids are not going to tell a real secret,’ she said.

That reaction begs the question of what to do in the case where children do reveal real secrets—and closely guarded ones at that.

With absolutely no respect to Susan Engel, this has nothing to do with teaching children the basic skills of writing. There would literally have to be thousands of better suited topics for the purposes of getting kids to open up and strut their creative stuff. What I did on my summer vacation always seemed to be a good topic to get the kiddies writing. This has everything to do with getting children to feel comfortable with the concept of ratting out their parents. It has everything to do with getting kids to feel more comfortable confiding in the State and the representatives of the State than with their own families.

As creepy as all of this is, it pales in comparison with the prospect of having a man like Barack Hussein Obama put in charge of a Big Brother apparatus poised to take complete control of America. You may think I am being a little hysterical here, and perhaps I am. It’s just that we already have real live examples of this being played out right now. Barack Obama personally threatening Romney campaign donors with IRS audits and worse is nothing more than old school Chicago style thuggery in action. What’s new about it, is that now it is coming from the White House itself, and not just Mayor Daley’s office in the Windy City.

Richard Nixon had an enemies list as well, and he paid a heavy price for it. He lost the respect of much of the nation, and deservedly so. He was lambasted in the media for it, and deservedly so. There is one major difference between Richard Nixon’s enemies list, and the current version being kept by Barack Obama. Richard Nixon, who was known for his paranoia, kept a list of enemies whom he thought were in fact enemies to the national security of the United States. Barack Obama is keeping a list of people who are enemies to his electoral prospects. While Nixon’s list was probably reflective of that as well, he at least attempted to rationalize it in his own mind. He felt he was doing the right thing, for the benefit of the nation. Barack Obama hasn’t the encumbrance of believing in or caring one wit about our nation. His list is simply meant as a means to create harassment for people who would help to seek his ouster come November, which is a protected right of every American Citizen as guaranteed by the First Amendment.

What should frighten us all however are these two stories combined. Think for one moment of the prospect of your children being asked in their schools to let the public sector union teachers know in advance which of their parents are contemplating financial support of someone opposing Barack Obama’s reelection bid for his 7th term as President. Then the phone call comes from the office of his Unity Czar, Van Jones, very subtly laying out your options in the pay to play life we all will be subjected to. “Nice family you got there, it would be a shame if your allotment of health care units would be cut in half. If your wife for example should meet with an accident, you might not have enough units to get her the treatment she needed.”

The problem with the above paragraph of course is that most of it has either been passed into law already, or put into actual practice by various bureaucracies. The only thing missing from the unfortunately already possible scenario would be Obama’s ability to serve more than 8 years as President. But if you had asked me 20 years ago if we Americans would be willing to give up our entire cadre of Constitutional Freedom for an empty promise of Hopety Change, I would have sworn that you were nuts. If this was possible, than yes certainly repeal of the 22nd Amendment would also be possible.

Cross Posted at Musings of a Mad Conservative.

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Obama did not (and still doesn’t) view himself as an American

by Rodan ( 64 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, Communism, Fascism, Leftist-Islamic Alliance, Liberal Fascism, Multiculturalism, Progressives, Socialism, Tranzis at May 9th, 2012 - 8:00 am

My impression of Obama is that he never had an American mindset. His formative years were spent in Indonesia, where his nanny claimed he admired 3rd world Liberation Indonesian strong man, Sukarno. His campaign rhetoric is indistinguishable from Juan Peron, Mao Zedong, Fidel Castro, Idi Amin and Hugo Chavez. Obama does not see himself as an American president, but as some global divine philosopher king in the mold of Plato’s The Republic. He has a Pharaonic attitude that makes him above being American.

A new biography that interviews college friends confirms Obama’s non American mindset. He had an Internationalist mindset. Even more startling, Obama did not identify with being black. It was only when he decided to get into politics that he discovered his black identity.

The excerpt focuses on Obama’s brief time in New York after his graduation from Columbia University. The son of a Kenyan father and an American expatriate mother, Obama emerges as a man questioning whether he viewed himself, or wanted to be viewed by others, as an American. Not in a citizenship sense — Obama was born in the United States and that was that — but in the sense of how he saw the world and wanted to be seen by it.

Obama had a lot of Pakistani friends; Maraniss writes that if Obama and his girlfriend socialized as a couple, “it was almost always with the Pakistanis.” Obama appeared to identify with his friends as fellow non-Americans. “For years when Barack was around them, he seemed to share their attitudes as sophisticated outsiders who looked at politics from an international perspective,” Maraniss writes. “He was one of them, in that sense.”

But Obama was ambitious. Appalled by the “dirty deeds” of “Reagan and his minions” (as he wrote in “Dreams from My Father”), Obama became increasingly interested in, as Maraniss writes, “gaining power in order to change things.” He couldn’t do that as an international guy hanging around with his Pakistani friends; he needed to become an American.

So he did. One of those Pakistani friends, Beenu Mahmood, saw a major change in Obama. Mahmood calls Obama “the most deliberate person I ever met in terms of constructing his own identity,” according to Maraniss. The time after college, Mahmood says, “was an important period for him, first the shift from not international but American, number one, and then not white, but black.”

Obama recently invoked Reagan’s name to bash Republicans. Yet his hatred of Ronald Reagan is what motivated him to get into politics. He didn’t identify with being black and he adopted a black identity for politics. Clearly Obama is a chameleon and does not view himself as an American. He views himself as a citizen of the world. That’s why he had a campaign stop in Berlin when he was running in 2008.

At this blog we had Obama pegged. He comes from the 3rd World Liberation wing of the Transnationalist Progressive Movement.  Mitt Romney should use these facts about Obama’s mindset against him.

Bonus: Here’s a video of Mitt Romney mocking the fictional character Julia, created by the Obama Regime.

Could this be the Obama campaign’s Murphy Brown moment? I am starting to think this election is 1992 in reverse.

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Evil real life James Bond movie villain rides to the Pharaoh’s rescue!

by Rodan ( 57 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, Elections 2012, Fascism, Liberal Fascism, Progressives, Tranzis at May 8th, 2012 - 8:00 am

Progressives in the US are in trouble. The much hyped great Obama Boom is being exposed as a myth. Obama’s latest rallies are no longer are filling arena to capacity. Mitt Romney has closed the gap in opinion polls and is running neck and neck with President Hussein. The glow is coming off the American Pharaoh. Obama’s fundraising is not going as well as expected. The Regime is is now resorting to social issues, a tactic the GOP was known to employ last 20 years, to distract from their lousy record. Sensing trouble, the Left has called for the help of a true Bond villain. Tranzi Progressive George Soros is now set to ride to the rescue of the Left and fund their vile organizations.

After months on the sidelines, major liberal donors including the financier George Soros are preparing to inject up to $100 million into independent groups to aid Democrats’ chances this fall. But instead of going head to head with the conservative “super PACs” and outside groups that have flooded the presidential and Congressional campaigns with negative advertising, the donors are focusing on grass-roots organizing, voter registration and Democratic turnout.

The departure from the conservatives’ approach, which helped Republicans wrest control of the House in 2010, partly reflects liberal donors’ objections to the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision, which paved the way for super PACs and unbridled campaign spending.

But in interviews, donors and strategists involved in the effort said they also did not believe they could match advertising spending by leading conservative groups like American Crossroads and Americans for Prosperity, and instead wanted to exploit what they see as the Democrats’ advantage in grass-roots organizing.

Why is this evil man still alive, but a true good guy like Andrew Breitbart dead? One thing I can guarantee, George Soros will be burning in hell when he dies. So he maybe enjoying his long life and supporting evil causes for now, but he will face the consequences in the after life.

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Obama’s 3rd World Liberation speech

by Rodan ( 101 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, Democratic Party, Elections 2012, Fascism, Liberal Fascism, Progressives, Socialism, Tranzis, Venezuela at May 6th, 2012 - 11:00 am

Obama spoke in Columbus Ohio yesterday to officially kick off his re-election campiagn. The speech was classic 3rd World Liberation rhetoric. It was an Us vs. Them theme. He demonized his opponent and presented himself as a national savior.

Here is a Hugo Chavez speech. It’s in a different language but the same rhetoric. Us vs. Them and Hugo is the national savior. Observe Obama and Chavez’s body language. They both make similar movements in their speeches.with their hands while speaking.

Barack Obama and Hugo Chavez are both cut from the same 3rd World Liberation cloth. They both pit people against each other and have ruined their respective nations. However, in the case of Obama the magic is running out.

Here’s a picture of how small the crowd was where The American Pharaoh spoke.

The video is just as damning.

Four years ago the arena would have been full and the crowds would extend outside. Hopefully this is a sign that Americans are realizing the Pharaoh is a false savior. He is just a divisive 3rd World Liberation ideologue and not some divine god-king.

 

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“If I Wanted America to Fail”

by coldwarrior ( 5 Comments › )
Filed under Communism, Economy, Energy, Fascism, government, Leftist-Islamic Alliance, Liberal Fascism, Multiculturalism, Political Correctness, Progressives, Regulation, Socialism, Special Report, taxation, Theocratic Progressives, Tranzis at May 1st, 2012 - 8:11 am

Watch the video:

 

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This Is The Left’s Answer To Bullying?

by Flyovercountry ( 193 Comments › )
Filed under Liberal Fascism, Politics at April 30th, 2012 - 5:00 pm

First enjoy Dan Savage talking passionately with a group of High School Students, paid for of course by the Department of Education, as a part of their anti bullying campaign labeled, “It Gets Better.”

Having been a member in good standing of the political left very early on in my life, I know pretty much all of the asinine mantras that we are likely to hear. violence never solved anything and war is never the answer are among my favorites. Upon growing up, and actually learning a little something about economics, history, and consequences, I gave up being a leftist, (or being wrong about everything,) just prior to graduating from college. The problem with the phrase violence never solved anything is that in the real world, it is just not true. In fact, violence often is the only thing which can solve some problems. Wringing our hands and crying about bullying will only serve to embolden the bullies, most especially since they get a rise in their good feelings by inflicting fear upon their victims. So, when they see a national whine fest like the one in the video, their reaction is not going to be, “golly, I did not know I was causing so much angst amongst my fellow human beings. Maybe I should rethink my life.” The reaction is more likely to be, “hey, I got a lot of people to be afraid of me. I really am somebody.” The answer for people who seek validation in bullying others is to not allow them to find that validation.

Imagine if the Department of Education spent the money wasted on Dan Savage’s approach to purchase karate lessons for every child in America identified as a potential target instead. Standing up to bullies is what stops bullying. This is something which was understood by people who existed prior to the 1970′s. It is also a valuable lesson for children to learn, as adults are also capable of bullying. The only difference is that adults bully in different manners, but the methodology for stopping it is the same. Standing up to the bullies, and giving them a dose of their own medicine rather than validation is what will put an end to it. As Dennis Miller once asked, “do we really want to send our children into the world completely unprepared for the shit storm that is adult life?”

For Mr. Savage I have this to say, what Bible are you reading? In my Bible, the Old Testament, the whole slavery issue was addressed with the parting of the Red Sea and Moses leading the children of Israel away from the slave masters of Egypt. The removal of the tyranny of bondage is kind of the whole point behind the Jewish Holiday know as Passover. In case you have missed its airing every single year since the mid 50′s, go and rent, “The Ten Commandments,” some time. It was a movie directed by Cecile B. DeMille, and is generally regarded as the way an epic movie should be made. Personally, I found the performances of Yul Brynner and Charleton Heston to be over the top, but then that really seems to be just up your alley anyhow.

I have also not read anything about stoning girls for losing their virginity any where in any version of the Bible that I have ever seen. Don’t Murder, (including stoning people to death,) don’t steal, don’t bear false witness, those concepts are all in there however. Putting aside the religious and anti religious arguments, I am sorry that you personally never learned to stand up to the bullies who tormented you during your formative years. While you obviously never learned the lesson of standing up to them in order to stave off their vicious attacks, you also subconsciously learned to utilize this for your own personal validation. Here is my case in point, a video of Dan Savage bragging about his attempts to bully Rick Santorum. The video also highlights other leftists telling us that they feel as though capitulation and appeasement are the preferred methods for dealing with bullies.

Now that these videos of you have gone viral, enjoy your upcoming vacation spot, otherwise known as under Barack Obama’s bus. say hello to the many folks already there.

Cross Posted at Musings of a Mad Conservative.

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Caturday: Wrong Edition

by 1389AD ( 18 Comments › )
Filed under Caturday, Liberal Fascism, Open thread, Political Correctness at April 28th, 2012 - 1:30 pm

Lolcat: 'Hold all my calls - someone is wrong on the Internet'

I found this at PJM: The Seven Deadly Sins of Conversation.

Speaking of someone being wrong on the Internet, I disagree with certain suggestions in the PJM article. Though I link to stories in PJM and comment there fairly often, I find that, by and large, the site is too centrist and too politically correct for my taste. Case in point:

3) Race, religion, politics: I’m a conservative Christian and you might very well guess that if you talk to me for awhile, but I generally don’t bring up race, religion, or politics first with people I don’t know well. Those can be emotional subjects and people don’t like to have unpleasant conversations about emotional topics. So, you’re always rolling the dice if you dip your toe into those three areas.

Some people, however, take it to the next level and torture everyone around them by obsessively focusing on one of the big three. You can’t have a ten minute conversation with these people without ‘em touching on some race they don’t like, wondering how you can possibly like Person X from the political party they hate, or finding a reason to quote scripture. Even if you agree with someone like that, it’s still tedious to hear him raise his leg and spew his tired opinion all over you like a dog with a bladder control problem. Spare us the blather.

My own comment on the PJM article:

You generally CAN talk religion and politics – just not to a Marxist/leftist/eco-freak or to a Muslim. If you can manage to figure out who those are and avoid them entirely, you’ll be pretty safe.

As far as race – I’d leave that topic alone. If somebody else brings it up, I’d say, “I don’t even discuss that topic any more. These days, it’s too easy to get into trouble just for bringing it up.”

Explaining why you won’t talk about race subtly lets the other person know that the tyranny of political correctness makes you uncomfortable, without risking getting yourself in trouble by saying something that a stranger or casual acquaintance might complain about.

Regarding politics and religion, if you discuss those topics in a reasonable manner and if you have the facts and logic to back up what you are saying, you are likely to have an engaging and productive discussion, and you may end up learning something from it.

On the other hand…Got courage?

If you have the courage to talk about religion to Muslims, then more power to you!


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Book claims Republicans are genetically inferior

by Rodan ( 7 Comments › )
Filed under Cult of Obama, Liberal Fascism, Nazism, Progressives, Republican Party, Special Report, Tranzis at April 26th, 2012 - 12:37 pm

I am no fan of the Republican Party as I feel that they are too beholden to Islamic interests and are run by a bunch of fraudulent mobsters, but I do not have a beef with the average Republican voter. Most Republicans still don’t realize the fraud being perpetrated on them by the corrupt party leaders. The Republican Party claims to stand up for Judeo-Christian values,  yet all they do is cater to Islamic interests and ignore the plight of Middle East and South Sudanese Christians. In reality they use well meaning  conservative religious Christians and Jews, but don’t give a damn about their interests. The opinion of the Saudi Ambassador or the Muslim Brotherhood representative counts more than the opinion of the Republican voter. However a new book by some Progressive loon takes it too far.

Chris Mooney claims that Republicans are biologically inferior. That’s right, in a theory that the Nazis would feel comfortable exposing, this Leftist claims that Republicans are mentally defective. This is nothing the typical Progressive mentality that their opponents are inferior.

Are Republicans genetically inferior to Democrats? That might sound like a preposterous question, but essentially that is the thesis of Chris Mooney’s latest book The Republican Brain: The Science of Why They Deny Science — and Reality.

In a recent article, Mooney summarizes his case. “[I]t often seems there are so many factually wrong claims on the political right that those who make them live in a different reality.” He continues, “So here’s an idea: Maybe they actually do. And maybe we can look to science itself…to help understand why it is that they view the world so differently.”

Translation: Republicans are stupid and there has to be a biological explanation for it.

If Mooney’s argument sounds familiar to you, it should. It’s called “eugenics,” and it was based on the belief that some humans are genetically inferior. Taken to an extreme, it encouraged people to selectively breed in order to improve the gene pool and eliminate those who the elites determined were unfit. It was rightfully dismissed decades ago, but this does not stop a modern-day science writer from resuscitating it and applying it to political adversaries.

He isn’t the first to invoke dubious scientific reasoning to support a pet political belief. Evolutionary psychologist Satoshi Kanazawa got there first when he tried to make the case that liberals are more intelligent. Progressives applauded him for his keen scientific insight until he also tried to claim humans evolved to find African-American men attractive but African-American women ugly.

This is one of the long term goals of Obamacare, they want to determine who lives or dies. By trying to find traits that genetically determine who will be on the Right or Left, they will have mandatory abortions to eliminate the inferior. This is one of the reasons abortion is encouraged in the African American community.  Progressive whites and conservatives as inferior and thus need to be eliminated. That’s why they use terms like Neanderthal,  to imply genetic superiority over conservatives.

For as much as the Progressives like Charles Johnson rail against Nazis, Americans Leftists are their ideological cousins. Both American progressives and the Nazis believe in a master race and are Socialists. This book proves the evil nature of the Progressive movement.

 

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Dead serious

by m ( 147 Comments › )
Filed under Hate Speech, Liberal Fascism, Politics at April 26th, 2012 - 11:30 am

Chilling Plea at ‘Occupy’ DC: Speaker – If I‘m Arrested ’I Want You to Start Killing M*****F*****s!’

Sickening.

You conservatives really need more civility in your political language!

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George Zimmerman’s Great Grandfather was Afro-Peruvian

by Rodan ( 5 Comments › )
Filed under Headlines, Liberal Fascism, Multiculturalism, Progressives at April 25th, 2012 - 9:20 pm

The myth of George Zimmerman being a racist keeps crumbling. It turns out his Great grandfather was Afro-Peruvian. He also had seen crime rising in his complex in Sanford, FL after the housing bubble collapse. Zimmerman also was criminal justice student, who wanted to be a judge. In short, the Left’s narrative is a lie.

(Reuters) – A pit bull named Big Boi began menacing George and Shellie Zimmerman in the fall of 2009.

The first time the dog ran free and cornered Shellie in their gated community in Sanford, Florida, George called the owner to complain. The second time, Big Boi frightened his mother-in-law’s dog. Zimmerman called Seminole County Animal Services and bought pepper spray. The third time he saw the dog on the loose, he called again. An officer came to the house, county records show.

“Don’t use pepper spray,” he told the Zimmermans, according to a friend. “It’ll take two or three seconds to take effect, but a quarter second for the dog to jump you,” he said.

“Get a gun.”

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By June 2011, Zimmerman’s attention had shifted from a loose pit bull to a wave of robberies that rattled the community, called the Retreat at Twin Lakes. The homeowners association asked him to launch a neighborhood watch, and Zimmerman would begin to carry the Kel-Tec on his regular, dog-walking patrol – a violation of neighborhood watch guidelines but not a crime.

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The 28-year-old insurance-fraud investigator comes from a deeply Catholic background and was taught in his early years to do right by those less fortunate. He was raised in a racially integrated household and himself has black roots through an Afro-Peruvian great-grandfather – the father of the maternal grandmother who helped raise him.

A criminal justice student who aspired to become a judge, Zimmerman also concerned himself with the safety of his neighbors after a series of break-ins committed by young African-American men.

Though civil rights demonstrators have argued Zimmerman should not have prejudged Martin, one black neighbor of the Zimmermans said recent history should be taken into account.

“Let’s talk about the elephant in the room. I’m black, OK?” the woman said, declining to be identified because she anticipated backlash due to her race. She leaned in to look a reporter directly in the eyes. “There were black boys robbing houses in this neighborhood,” she said. “That’s why George was suspicious of Trayvon Martin.”

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Zimmerman’s maternal grandmother, Cristina, who had lived with the Zimmermans since 1978, worked as a babysitter for years during Zimmerman’s childhood. For several years she cared for two African-American girls who ate their meals at the Zimmerman house and went back and forth to school each day with the Zimmerman children.

“They were part of the household for years, until they were old enough to be on their own,” Post said.

This  was just an unfortunate incident, Whether Zimmerman is a White Hispanic or White or not is irrelevant. This is NOT a racial issue, but an unfortunate incident. Jerks like Sharpton and Obama who are using this to create tensions, where there should be none.This was an incident the Left was looking to use to attack gun rights. Zimmerman is just the scapegoat, but it could have been anyone.

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San Fran Nan: Free Speech For Me, For You, Not So Much.

by Flyovercountry ( 63 Comments › )
Filed under Censorship, Elections 2012, Free Speech, Liberal Fascism, Politics at April 23rd, 2012 - 8:00 am

So what’s a former House Speaker who boasted the single most miserable record that office has ever produced to do with her spare time, now that she heads up the opposition party? Why spearhead an effort to strip the remainder of us knuckle dragging red necked morons of our First Amendment Rights of course. It seems that most of us who make up the great unwashed masses are just not smart enough to understand the awesomeness that is the political left and their agenda. If we keep clinging to our guns, personal faith, ideas of freedom, and most of all, that antiquated document know as our Constitution, then how will she ever be able to rid herself of accountability to the electorate and just inflict her will upon us? Jeesh, you people just don’t get it. Let San Fran Nan explain it to you. Enjoy a minute and a half of Nancy Pelosi explaining how a Constitutional Amendment curbing the right to free speech would actually be good for us all in the long run.

One of the screamingly asinine rants I keep hearing from the left, and in fact read on their placards at those moronic occupy encampments is that corporations are not people. As if, when ever the share holders, who are people by the way, decide to make political contributions, they somehow collectively form Godzilla terrorizing Tokyo on a subconscious level. What is left out of the discussion of course are the obscenely huge donations made by the unions of this country, which were conveniently not included in the McCain Feingold assault upon free speech. What’s worse, more than half of that union Money comes from the public sector unions, which gets 100% of its funding from me, the average Joe paying taxes with absolutely zero say so in how that union is going to spend their money, or for which candidate.  I’m not going to get into a debate about why our money is O.K. and theirs is not, I will just say that any organization should enjoy the very same free speech protections as any individual.  Corporations, or any organization of people is simply the sole constituency of the people that make it up.  Pelosi’s claims boil down to nothing more than we want to have our say while eliminating the ability of our political adversaries to counter our efforts.

Two more points that I wish to make here for the hysterical left and my fellow level headed members of the right.  Corporations are treated as people for legal purposes.  This is a consumer protection law, which we are all better off with.  If a corporation sells you an exploding car, a Chevy Volt for instance, you have the ability to seek legal remedy if the corporation is a person which can be sued.  If not for the corporation being a person in the eyes of the law, you would have to sue each individual share holder for their share of your damages.  The other point I’d like to make is this, at least with respect to the public sector unions.  When they make political contributions, often times with absolutely no regard as to the wishes of their membership, those funds do not represent only their membership.  They represent the entire tax paying community as well, as every penny the public sector unions have come directly from the tax payers as a whole.  It is not the fact of what they do with the money that I object to, but it is the method in which those unions are funded in the first place.  That funding by the way, is political payoff received from the likes of Nancy Pelosi for the donations so generously given to her for her political benefit. So, when Nancy Pelosi, the head of the largest money laundering operation in world history lectures me on the Supreme Court unleashing ooze into the political process, I find that the be the very definition of irony.

Some where in America one day, they will build a hall of fame commemorating political demagoguery.  When they do, this statement from Nancy Pelosi will adorn the archway that serves as an entrance into the museum.

“I think one of the presenters [at a Democratic forum on amending the Constitution] yesterday said that the Supreme Court had unleashed a predator that was oozing slime into the political system, and that, indeed, is not an exaggeration,” said Pelosi. “Our Founders had an idea. It was called democracy. It said elections are determined by the people, the voice and the vote of the people, not by the bankrolls of the privileged few. This Supreme Court decision flies in the face of our Founders’ vision and we want to reverse it.”

Cross Posted at Musings of a Mad Conservative.

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China Slows Solar and Wind Projects Undermining White House Green PR Strategy

by huckfunn ( 46 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, Business, Cult of Obama, Democratic Party, Economy, Elections 2012, Energy, Environmentalism, Liberal Fascism, Marxism, Politics, Progressives, Regulation, Science, Socialism at April 15th, 2012 - 5:00 pm

The Obama Regime energy policy is primarily about driving up the cost of fossil fuels to the point that they are no longer affordable so that we will have no choice but to turn instead to the so-called “green” or “alternative” energy sources of wind, solar and biomass. To that end they have tried to sell the idea that we must move quickly to convert to these alternative energy sources so that we won’t lose our competitive edge to China. Oh, yes; and think of all of the green jobs that will be created.

Much to the disappointment of the O-Regime, the Chinese government announced that it  “would stop expanding its wind and solar industries, choosing instead to focus on nuclear, hydroelectric and shale …. as the energies of the future.”  How about them apples?! Obama has been telling us that fossil fuels are the energy of the past and wind, solar and algae are the fuel sources of the future. As I’ve said in the past, I have yet to fill up my gas tank with wind, sunbeams or seaweed as Dr. K-Hammer quipped.

“It is getting tougher and tougher for the Obama administration to argue that somehow we’re in this big race for green power worldwide when the rest of the world seems to have decided that the race isn’t worth winning,” Daniel Kish, the senior vice president for policy at the Institute for Energy Research, told The Daily Caller.

President Barack Obama, whose administration has held up solar and wind energy while stunting shale and snubbing hydroelectric, has deployed nationalist lingo, holding the specter of global Chinese green technology dominance as a driving motivation behind the administration’s expensive and embattled green energy subsidy programs. In his 2012 State of the Union address, Obama said, “I will not cede the wind or solar or battery industry to China or Germany because we refuse to make the same commitment here.”

By halting wind and solar industry expansion, Kish told TheDC, “China’s just doing what every other country in the world other than the United States is doing. Years back, the president used Spain as an example [of green energy competition] … then Germany, then China.”

Spain’s green energy subsidies were found to have a cost of 2.2 jobs for every one created; and in Germany, the government announced this year that it is scaling back its subsidies. “It’s too damn expensive,” Kish explained, “and someone’s got to pay for it.” 

Read the whole article here. Hat tip Rain of Lead.

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The Real Issue With Obamacare.

by Flyovercountry ( 33 Comments › )
Filed under Health Care, Liberal Fascism, Politics at March 29th, 2012 - 2:00 pm

Political Cartoons by Chip Bok

Amendment IX.

The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights,
shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained
by the people.

Amendment X.

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution,
nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to
the States respectively, or to the people.

For years, about one hundred of them, our Congress, President, and Supreme Court have been operating under the delusion that the Tenth Amendment to our Constitution does not exist. For this reason, the geniuses who got their heads together to challenge this sink hole of a law, decided to leave that out of their list of things to gripe about in court. Antonin Scalia decided to add that to his decision making process anyhow. Following is an audio excerpt of Antonin Scalia schooling Donald Verrilli on just exactly what the Tenth Amendment means, and why it is applicable in this case. This speech by the way, above all the other hand wringing statements made which caused the various earthquakes amongst the political left, should be what they fear the most. Antonin Scalia has just made the Tenth a part of the Constitution once again, and it’s about freaking time.

A small history lesson is in order. When the Constitution was originally drafted, the 13 existing states which made up the first version of our fledgling nation refused to consider ratification of the document as the law of our land without adding some guarantees of certain freedoms. These first ten Amendments to the Constitution became known as the Bill of Rights. At first, James Madison, the author of the document, verbally expressed dismay at the idea that these Amendments would even be considered, not because he was not in agreement, but because he felt them to be unnecessary. Since nowhere in the document was authority given for the federal government to abridge those freedoms, he felt it would be impossible for this to ever happen to us. After further consideration, and the realization that sometime in the future, it would be possible for the government to grant itself further authority and increase its own size and scope, he decided to add another two Amendments which were not previously discussed. The entire purpose of Amendments IX and X was for the prevention of a government being allowed to grant itself more power than was originally granted. The Tenth Amendment says, if we didn’t expressly grant authority to the government in the Constitution, then they don’t have that authority. Those many powers not granted to the government expressly, belong to the states, and or the People.

This law flies in the face of the concept of the government being prevented from adding to its own scope. Buried within the 2900 pages of vague and purposefully unreadable language which contains as its number one most oft repeated phrase, “at the discretion of the Secretary,” and as its number two most oft repeated phrase, “such sums as are necessary,” is the government’s granting itself a plethora of new found authority. Every single carrier of Health Insurance now fits the legal definition of financially distressed. Only one bank in America may now be able to give a Perkins or Stafford Loan. All Real Estate Transactions will now carry a 3% Federal Excise Tax. All Financial Transactions, including direct deposits of your pay check will now include a 1% Federal Excise Tax. All citizens have now been ordered to participate in the purchase of insurance, so that the federal government may then regulate the insurance market. Several medications have been removed from the FDA Approval because they have been deemed to not be cost effective. IPAB’s will now decide the best course for medical treatment, irrespective of the advice of medical professionals. Being an actual doctor is not a prerequisite by the way for being appointed to an IPAB, but being politically connected is. Demands to inspect lunches packed by parents and then subsequently tossed aside in favor of a government approved bill of fair, that’s now not only legal, but in practice nationally. Basically any activity, food, or even your choice of beverage are now all deemed to impact your health in some way, and subsequently open to federal oversight. Sodium, Sugar and Carbonated beverages are already in the cross hairs. My guess is that red meat, including hot dogs and hamburgers can not be far behind. With 2900 pages, there is no way that your Senator of Representative read the whole thing. Most of the crap that is in this Law is a complete surprise to the folks who voted it into law. That alone, should be a crime. But don’t worry too much about your elected representatives, they at least had the good sense to exempt themselves from the ravages of this Law, and over 2500 waivers were granted to the various organizations that stood up and promoted it. It’s too expensive for GE to pay their share of the costs, but us regular folks, well let’s just say that we’re up the creek not only missing a paddle, but the entire canoe.

Obamacare, if allowed to stand in any form at all, represents the end of any freedoms granted to us by our creator and protected for us by our Constitution. Literally, there is no end to what the government would be allowed to do to us under the guise of looking out for our health. Many of my liberal friends will scream that no one would ever think to remove those very freedoms in such a manner and that even mentioning such a possibility is the height of hyperbole. To those people I say, how on Earth can you be so blindingly stupid? The very fact that they have rammed such a Law through the Legislative Process and had it signed into law tells me that they intend to do this very thing. We have already heard the nonsensical shouts of how farting cattle are creating asthma attacks for our nation’s children. With the Constitution removed, the burden of proving these asinine allegations is no longer necessary. All it takes now, that Obamacare is law, is a chief Executive that agrees with this type of idiocy. By the way, we have that now.

I’ve said it before, but it bears repeating. I do not care if the vote for striking this abomination down comes with a tally of 9 to 0 or 5 to 4, I only care that the right decision is reached. By the way, Roe V. Wade was a 5 to 4 decision. Supreme Court Cases where the winner is only able to tally 5 of 9 are just as binding as those where the winning side has 9 of 9.

Beyond these issues, as to whether the law itself is constitutional, there is still the basic issue of whether it was even smart.  Our health care and insurance markets are screwed up, not the health care system itself, just the market place in which it operates.  The reason it is so screwed up is due to the government’s past interventions.  The answer to these problems is not going to be found in the form of giving us more of what created the problem in the first place.  Rather than offering hugely expensive and expansive solutions designed to somewhat mitigate the ill effects created by government intrusions, why not just return to the free market principles which have always worked, when ever they have been tried.

Cross Posted at Musings of a Mad Conservative.

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This is NO JOKE! Obama regime is assuming dictatorial powers over U.S. citizens, Constitution be damned!

by Bob in Breckenridge ( 44 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, Communism, Cult of Obama, Democratic Party, Economy, Elections 2012, Fascism, Free Speech, government, History, Liberal Fascism, Media, Military, Politics, Progressives, Regulation, Socialism at March 26th, 2012 - 8:00 am

In a nutshell, this Marxist regime and the Marxist occupying the White House, by signing another executive order last week, and a bill signed earlier this year, have given themselves the power to detain anyone, including U.S. citizens, indefinitely, without due cause or trial, Constitution be damned! It also allows for the regime to take over almost all aspects of our economy!

Most of us here were certain that Obamacare, which, if allowed to be fully implemented, would take over 1/6 of our economy, would never be enough to satisfy the Marxist swine salivating to control our lives at every turn, and that it was only the beginning of the power grab for our rights. Here’s the proof that most of us were, in fact, correct.

This order allowing for the indefinite detention of any U.S. citizen, without being charged or tried, clearly violates the following Constitutional amendments:

* 4th amendment which guards against searches, arrests, and seizures of property without a specific warrant or a “probable cause”.

* 5th amendment which forbids punishment without due process of law.

* 6th amendment, which guarantees a speedy public trial for criminal offenses. It also guarantees the accused a right to know the charges against him.

We all know the U.S. Constitution, and the Bill of Rights, which, for over 225 years has protected the rights of liberty and freedom to all individuals, was nothing but a pesky little barrier to be breached by this Marxist POS occupying the White House, his regime, and the rest of the Marxist dimocrats in the House and Senate.

I urge you all to read the following articles, the first one written by the very liberal professor of public interest law at George Washington University, Jonathon Turley, whom I’m certain you’ve seen on TV arguing for just about every liberal position this side of North Korea.

The second one that was written by Edwin Black, in, believe it or not, the uber-liberal Huffington Post (broken clock theory applies here).

They’re about the inherent danger of the two bills signed by the Marxist POS White House occupier that was, naturally, completely ignored by the propaganda arm/cheerleader squad of the dimocrat party, the mainstream media.

And to be honest, I haven’t read squat about this unprecedented and unconstitutional assault on the liberty of all U.S. citizens in any of the conservative media either.

Guess they’re too busy talking about friggin’ Etch-A-Sketches to worry about what the hell is actually important!!!

Nor, for that matter, have any of our Presidential candidates even mentioned this unbridled assault on our liberty and freedom. Again, it’s the Etch-A-Sketches that are important, people!

As is usual, Turley’s article was not published here, but rather overseas in the ultra liberal Socialist Guardian newspaper in London.

Think the mainstream Obama-loving media would have ignored this if it had been the Bush administration that did this? Me neither. They’d be outraged and howling like wolves (and rightfully so) in the New York Slimes and on MSLSD about how that eeeevil George W. Bush is trampling on our rights.

That’s why when it comes to ANY libturd complaint, grievance, or outrage, we all need to ignore the hypocritical imbeciles.

Always remember, it’s not what was done, it was who did it.

As long as the “right” kind of people (libturds) do it, they’re like “it’s okay folks, nothing to see here, move right along”. That’s why I detest these leftist America-hating scumbags more each day.

The NDAA’s historic assault on American liberty

By Jonathan Turley

President Barack Obama rang in the New Year by signing the NDAA law with its provision allowing him to indefinitely detain citizens. It was a symbolic moment, to say the least. With Americans distracted with drinking and celebrating, Obama signed one of the greatest rollbacks of civil liberties in the history of our country … and citizens partied in unwitting bliss into the New Year.

Ironically, in addition to breaking his promise not to sign the law, Obama broke his promise on signing statements and attached a statement that he really does not want to detain citizens indefinitely (see the text of the statement here).

Obama insisted that he signed the bill simply to keep funding for the troops. It was a continuation of the dishonest treatment of the issue by the White House since the law first came to light. As discussed earlier, the White House told citizens that the president would not sign the NDAA because of the provision. That spin ended after sponsor Senator Carl Levin (Democrat, Michigan) went to the floor and disclosed that it was the White House and insisted that there be no exception for citizens in the indefinite detention provision.

The latest claim is even more insulting. You do not “support our troops” by denying the principles for which they are fighting. They are not fighting to consolidate authoritarian powers in the president. The “American way of life” is defined by our constitution and specifically the bill of rights. Moreover, the insistence that you do not intend to use authoritarian powers does not alter the fact that you just signed an authoritarian measure. It is not the use but the right to use such powers that defines authoritarian systems.

The almost complete failure of the mainstream media to cover this issue is shocking. Many reporters have bought into the spin of the Obama administration as they did the spin over torture by the Bush administration. Even today, reporters refuse to call waterboarding torture despite the long line of cases and experts defining waterboarding as torture for decades.

On the NDAA, reporters continue to mouth the claim that this law only codifies what is already the law. That is not true. The administration has fought any challenges to indefinite detention to prevent a true court review. Moreover, most experts agree that such indefinite detention of citizens violates the constitution.

There are also those who continue the longstanding effort to excuse Obama’s horrific record on civil liberties by blaming either others or the times. One successful myth is that there is an exception for citizens. The White House is saying that changes to the law made it unnecessary to veto the legislation. That spin is ridiculous. The changes were the inclusion of some meaningless rhetoric after key amendments protecting citizens were defeated. The provision merely states that nothing in the provisions could be construed to alter Americans’ legal rights. Since the Senate clearly views citizens as not just subject to indefinite detention but even to execution without a trial, the change offers nothing but rhetoric to hide the harsh reality.

The Obama administration and Democratic members are in full spin mode – using language designed to obscure the authority given to the military. The exemption for American citizens from the mandatory detention requirement (section 1032) is the screening language for the next section, 1031, which offers no exemption for American citizens from the authorisation to use the military to indefinitely detain people without charge or trial.

Obama could have refused to sign the bill and the Congress would have rushed to fund the troops. Instead, as confirmed by Senator Levin, the White House conducted a misinformation campaign to secure this power while portraying the president as some type of reluctant absolute ruler, or, as Obama maintains, a reluctant president with dictatorial powers.

Most Democratic members joined their Republican colleagues in voting for this un-American measure. Some Montana citizens are moving to force the removal of these members who, they insist, betrayed their oaths of office and their constituents. Most citizens, however, are continuing to treat the matter as a distraction from the holiday cheer.

For civil libertarians, the NDAA is our Mayan moment: 2012 is when the nation embraced authoritarian powers with little more than a pause between rounds of drinks.

Obama Prepares for War Footing

By Edwin Black

Last Friday, March 16, President Barack Obama may have quietly placed the United States on a war preparedness footing, perhaps in anticipation of an outbreak of war between Israel, the West, and Iran. A newly-propounded Executive Order, titled “National Defense Resources Preparedness,” renews and updates the president’s power to take control of all civil energy supplies, including oil and natural gas, control and restrict all civil transportation, which is almost 97 percent dependent upon oil; and even provides the option to re-enable a draft in order to achieve both the military and non-military demands of the country, according to a simple reading of the text. The Executive Order was published on the White House website.

The timing of the Order — with little fanfare — could not be explained. Opinions among the very first bloggers on the purpose of the unexpected Executive Order run the gamut from the confused to the absurd. None focus on the obvious sudden need for such a pronouncement: oil and its potential for imminent interruption.

If Iran was struck by Israel or the West, or if Iran thought it might be struck, the Tehran regime has promised it would block the Strait of Hormuz, which would obstruct some 40 percent of the world’s seaborne oil, some twenty percent of the global supply, and about 20 percent of America’s daily needs. Moreover, Tehran has promised military retaliation against any nation it feels has harmed it. The United States is at the top of the list.

Blocking the Strait of Hormuz would create an international and economic calamity of unprecedented severity. Here are the crude realities. America uses approximately 19 to 20 million barrels of oil per day, almost half of which is imported. If we lose just 1 million barrels per day, or suffer the type of damage sustained from Hurricane Katrina, our government will open the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR), which offers a mere six- to eight-week supply of unrefined crude oil. If we lose 1.5 million barrels per day, or approximately 7.5 percent, we will ask our allies in the 28-member International Energy Agency to open their SPRs and otherwise assist. If we lose 2 million barrels per day, or 10 percent, for a protracted period, government crisis monitors say the chaos will be so catastrophic, they cannot even model it. One government oil crisis source recently told me: “We cannot put a price tag on it. If it happens, just cash in your 401(k).”

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Virginia going for Obama

by Rodan ( 5 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, Democratic Party, Elections 2012, Headlines, Liberal Fascism, Mitt Romney, Progressives, Republican Party, Theocratic Progressives at March 24th, 2012 - 3:36 pm

Recent polls show Obama holding a substantial lead among all Republicans. This is big turn around from just a few months ago, where he was unpopular. The Virginia GOP decided to focus on social issues by trying to pass the abortion ultrasound which was shelved turned off independents, whom the GOP needs to win. Santorum’s holy crusade against porn and contraceptives hasn’t help the GOP’s perception either. The Obama regime also has its campaign up and running on the ground. This is huge warning sign, since Virginia is a state the GOP should carry.

I noted a week or so back that Virginia was one of six states that the GOP had to win in November if they were going to win the Presidential election. Well it’s early, but things are not looking good in the Old Dominion at the moment. Two polls out this week have the President beating both Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum in the state after a period in which the prospective November race in the state was much closer and more favorable for the GOP.

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President Obama appears to be widening his lead against all Republican presidential hopefuls, including Mitt Romney, among voters in the swing state of Virginia, according to a new poll.

The Quinnipiac University poll released Tuesday shows Obama beating Romney, 50 percent to 42 percent, his biggest lead over the former Massachusetts governor in this election cycle.

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President Obama now clears the 50% mark in support against his top two potential Republican challengers in the battleground state of Virginia.

The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Virginia Voters finds the president leading former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney by nine points – 51% to 42%. It was a six-point race a month ago – Obama 49%, Romney 43%. Four percent (4%) now prefer another candidate in the race, and four percent (4%) more are undecided.

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This isn’t an automatic win for Obama either, of course, and the numbers are likely to tighten when the General Election race actually starts. However, without having access to the crosstabs for either of these polls, I would suspect that the past two months or so of the GOP doing everything it can to alienate independent voters and women is partly behind these numbers, and if Republicans don’t drop that nonsense quickly Virginia won’t be the only state they’ll have problems in.

If the GOP wants win Virginia in 2012 and the election, they need to focus on Economic/Fiscal issues. They should drop the social issues until after the election. Get in power first, then do the social stuff after you have addressed the fiscal and economic stuff. Social Conservatives need to mimic the Democrats and mask their agenda. Even if Social Conservatives are right about some issues, they have spent 20 years picking fights over nonsense that voters automatically get turned off. Adults don’t like ton be lectured by politicians. They want solutions to their problems.

Without Virginia the GOP is toast in 2012. Personally I don’t see the Republicans pivoting back to fiscal/economic issues in time. Too many of the base care more about moralizing over people’s personal lives rather than the nation’s fiscal situations. Go ahead and bash me all you want, but this is the reality. Most Americans hate to be lectured to and moralized.

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