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Democrats... Amazing that some people will actually admit to being one…

noreply@blogger.com (Gaius Lawrenitis Negris) — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 21:16:00 +0000

Are you a Democrat? No, are you REALLY a Democrat? – Nationalized Hell Care Story Links & Chris Dodd

noreply@blogger.com (Gaius Lawrenitis Negris) — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 16:31:00 +0000

Good morning folks, I have been conversing with some old friends and in the process introducing them to this blog, some did not know I was such an opinionated bastard…LOL!

On old friend of mine even said that when she read the blog for the first time it “scared” her. Well kinda… reading the opinions of an overly opinionated right wing black dude can be scary but if you can get past the ranting some things just might open your eyes.

Is was suggested that I “spend too much time bashing Democrats” seriously…. really!?

A few stolen hours here at work are not nearly enough for me to spend on scheming, conniving, devious, calculating, manipulative, delirious, truth deprived, morally ethically challenged Democrats.

A friend who considers herself a Democrat, but admittedly said that she does not follow politics asked me “what is a conservative” I have on my sidebar the following from Rush:

On Being A Conservative

We conservatives are proud of our philosophy. Unlike our liberal friends, who are constantly looking for new words to conceal their true beliefs and are in a perpetual state of reinvention, we conservatives are unapologetic about our ideals. We are confident in our principles and energetic about openly advancing them. We believe in individual liberty, limited government, capitalism, the rule of law, faith, a color-blind society and national security. We support school choice, enterprise zones, tax cuts, welfare reform, faith-based initiatives, political speech, homeowner rights and the war on terrorism. And at our core we embrace and celebrate the most magnificent governing document ever ratified by any nation--the U.S. Constitution. Along with the Declaration of Independence, which recognizes our God-given natural right to be free, it is the foundation on which our government is built and has enabled us to flourish as a people.

In addition there is a little know quote from Bob Dole that he made speaking of his support for the 1964 Civil Rights Act, one of my favorite quotes describing conservatism.

The Case for Human Rights
Conservatives believe in the economic and social benefits that come with competition. Life is a contest with rewards in proportion to the risks taken. But to be valid the contest must be open to equally and the same set of rules must be applied to everybody Until 1964 the plain truth was that millions of Americans were prevented from developing God-given talents because of restrictions imposed by manmade laws. In denying our heritage we were endangering our prosperity.

Now of course Dole speaks of the man made restrictions of some whites to restrict blacks from reaching their full potential. Denying any man the ability for him or her to achieve whether that is due to racism, sexism, religious prejudices or whatever we don’t just hurt that particular group we hurt the nation. In order for this nation to prosper we must celebrate individual liberty. This is something (true) Democrats simply don’t believe in.
The friend I mentioned earlier during a conversation said “I hate paying all these high taxes” “spending taxpayer money to support people who don’t want to work”
“we should not be bailing out these banks and car companies” “letting these terrorists come here are do whatever they want and protecting these people who want to do us harm.” Afterwards I asked why are a you a Democrat? The reply was “I honestly don’t know that was how I was raised.”

More people need to take a look in the mirror as do some self assessment. If more people did just that we would not keep sending these corrupt ass Democrats back to Washington every year.

Below are some links to stories that I mentioned to a few people. Most of you who come here fairly often may have already seen related to the health care debate.

Further down are some more link to some of my morning reads.

Obama Prods Congress to Pass Health Bill Quickly, Bypassing Normal House-Senate Negotiations- CNS News

Washington (AP) - President Barack Obama is prodding House and Senate Democrats to get him a final health care bill as soon as possible, encouraging them to bypass the usual negotiations between the two chambers to speed things up. Obama delivered the message at an Oval Office meeting Tuesday evening with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and his No. 2, Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., joined in by phone. They agreed that rather than setting up a formal conference committee to resolve differences between health bills passed last year by the House and Senate, the House will work off the Senate's version, amend it and send it back to the Senate for final passage, according to a House leadership aide, speaking on condition of anonymity in order to discuss the private meeting.

Windsor Star: Man Goes to Buffalo for Life-Saving Treatment

The Hill: Dems Reel on Healthcare

USAToday: Discord Grows Over Public Health Care Plan

Bloomberg: Obama Campaign Activists Find Health Care Harder Sell

American Thinker: Government Health Care Won't Fly

Heritage Foundation: Why the Kennedy Health Bill Would Wreck Bipartisan Reform

Investor's Business Daily: Truth-Mongering

Wall Street Journal: Health Reform and Competitiveness

American Spectator: How Obamacare Will Change Your Life

National Review: AMA = Public Enemy du Jour

CNSNews: Democrats' $1-Trillion Health Care Plan toCost 23 Million Americans Their Private Insurance, CBO Says

NewsMax: Kennedy Plan: $1 Trillion, Still 16M With No Coverage

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FOX: Senators Size Up Next Steps in Health Care Debate

CNN: Freshman Dem: Passing Health Care Reform Worth Losing My Seat

Rasmussen Reports: Health Care Reform. Support for Health Care Plan Falls to New Low

The American Thinker: Mary Landrieu Takes Louisianans for a Ride

Heritage Foundation: The Flawed Senate Health Care Bill

Wall Street Journal: The Senate's Health-Care Act

National Review: Condition Serious But Not Hopeless

HotAir: Reid on Senate's ObamaCare bill: Hey, No Worries - It's All Paid For

USNews: Bennet's Healthcare Stand Is a Concession to Reality, Not a Profile in Courage - Douge Heye

Just before I was set to post this I received this bullshit from Chris Dodd in my e-mail. Hope you have a high gag reflex.
Unfortunately in his district they will just replace on corrupt Democrat Obama lapdog for another.

Dear Liberal Democrat Hater:

Today I announced that after 35 years of representing the people of Connecticut in the United States Congress, I will not be a candidate for re-election this November.

I want to express my deepest gratitude to the people of Connecticut for the remarkable privilege of being elected eight times over the past four decades to our national assembly.

You have honored me beyond words with your confidence.

Let me quickly add that there have been times when my positions and actions have caused some of you to question that confidence. I regret that, but it is equally important that you know I never wavered in my determination to do the best job for our state and nation. I love my job as your Senator, I always have, and still do. However, this past year has raised some challenges that insisted I take stock of my life.

Over the past 12 months, I have managed four major pieces of legislation through Congress; served as Chair and acting Chair of two major Senate Committees, placing me at the center of the two most importance issues of our time -- health care and reform of financial services; lost a beloved sister in July and in August -- Ted Kennedy; battled cancer over the summer; and in the midst of all this, found myself in the toughest political shape of my career.

Now let me be clear, I am very aware of my present political standing here at home; but it is equally clear that any certain prediction about an election victory or defeat nearly a year from now, would be absurd.

Strange as it may sound, I'm not confident I would be standing here today making this announcement if these situations had not occurred. None of these events or circumstances either individually or collectively is the cause of my decision not to seek re-election.

Yet together these challenges have given me pause, and to take stock, and ask the question that too few of us in elected public life ever do -- why am I running?

On a cold morning two weeks ago tomorrow I asked myself that very question.

On the early frigid dawn of December 24th, Christmas Eve, with snow piled high along the streets of our nation's Capitol, I cast one of the most important, if not the most important votes of my years in the Senate -- a bill to fundamentally reform the health care system of our country.

An hour later I was standing on the Virginia hillside at Arlington Cemetery, where Ted Kennedy rests, along with his brothers in eternity, as he is in history, wishing I could have seen the look in Teddy's eyes as the Senate took that historic step only an hour before. I thought about the dozens of fine public servants, Democrats and Republicans, who have joined me in serving Connecticut over the course of my career at the local, state and national level.

I thought about the countless Connecticut families -- ordinary people with extraordinary courage and spirit, whose lives have touched me, and whose stories have profoundly affected my decisions in the Senate.

I thought about the dozens of patriotic Senators with whom I have had the privilege of serving in an institution I dearly love. I have been a Connecticut Senator for 30 years. I'm proud of the job I've done and the results delivered.

But none of us are irreplaceable.

None of us are indispensible.

Those who think otherwise are dangerous.

The work to make our nation a more perfect union began long before I was elected to the Senate, and it will go on long after I'm gone. Our country is a work in progress. And I am confident it always will be.

That is what I thought about as I stood on that hillside in Arlington on Christmas Eve morning.

That is what I've talked about with Jackie over this holiday season.

And that is how I came to the conclusion that, in the long sweep of American history, there are moments for each elected public servant to step aside and let someone else step up.

This is my moment to step aside.

There will be time to reflect in more detail on the years I've spent in public service.

There will be time to celebrate victories, mourn setbacks, share laughs and memories, and to thank profusely the talented, tireless, and numerous staffers, many of whom are here today, who have made my Senate work possible.

But that time is not now.

My service is not over.

I still have one year left on my contract with the people of Connecticut.

One year from this week, our state will have a new Senator. In the meantime, we have important work to do.

A few closing thoughts.

I believe in bipartisan solutions, but I also believe you only achieve those results with vibrant, robust, and civil partisan debate.

I am a Democrat and very proud of my party's contributions to the vitality and strength of America.

I would never have had the opportunity to serve in the Congress had I not had the support and backing of my political party over the years.

I appreciate the passionate party activists who have never faltered in their support of my efforts.

And lastly I want to say thank you to my family for their tolerance of yet another generation of our family in the political arena. I am especially indebted to Jackie for her fierce loyalty, unyielding commitment to fairness, and her unlimited capacity of empathy for the needs of others.

She has been my anchor to windward in these stormy political waters.

Now there is nothing more pathetic than a politician who announces they are only leaving public life to spend more time with their family.

The result of this announcement today will, I hope, create that opportunity -- but it is not the reason for my decision.

I am a very late arrival to fatherhood, and I am told repeatedly how rapidly these young children -- Grace who is 8 and Christina who is 4 -- will grow up.

So while these young ladies are not the reason for my decision -- they will be an incredible benefit of my choice. On this, the 6th of January, the Epiphany, 2010, I am still driven by the same passions that motivated me to try my hand at politics so many years ago.

Just as I've encouraged the people of Connecticut, I am looking to the future with a spirit of optimism and confidence.

Finally, once again, thank you for the opportunity you've given me to serve.

Thank you,

Morally bankrupt Senator from Connecticut

Dude is retiring so fucken what… and he has to write the freaken Gettysburg address to “explain” himself. Politicians are such windbags.

Democrats are the biggest liars on the planet!

noreply@blogger.com (Gaius Lawrenitis Negris) — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 18:19:00 +0000

C-SPAN Asks Dems to Keep Their Word & Open Obamacare Backroom Meetings to American Public

From Gateway Pundit

Barack Obama told Americans numerous times during the 2008 campaign that he was going to hold his health care talks on CSPAN.

He was lying. Democrats have kept the process private all along. They didn’t even give their members enough time to read the bill before it was voted on. They bribed members with $1.2 billion for their votes and this week they decided to hold private negotiations with House and Senate on how to swallow up the health care industry. MORE

They are also some of the silliest nitwits on the planet as well…

Dem Mouthpiece Alan Grayson on Cheney: Who’s Doing Intro to His Book? Maybe Satan (Video)

The democrats in Congress continue to impress.
When they’re not ramming massive new government programs or record spending down your throat they’re attacking anyone who criticizes their radical leftist agenda.

It didn’t take Democrat Alan Grayson long into the new year to start throwing his verbal bombs. Yesterday on the Ed Schultz program Grayson said that Satan should write the intro to Dick Cheney’s book.
Classy.

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"Become a Christian Tiger and save your soul…" Brit Hume and Tiger Woods

noreply@blogger.com (Gaius Lawrenitis Negris) — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 16:55:00 +0000

Ok this is a couple of days old and many of you no doubt have already seer or read about. I neglected to post this yesterday.

Now I know you folks are not the commenting sorts, except for a few of you but if you are so inclined I would love some input.

Now let me just say this interests me somewhat because of my own personal issues that I have shared here in great nauseating detail. Sorry to those of you who would rather see a nice Obama tar and feather post rather than a blog episode of As the World Turns.

I did see myself as someone who turned his back on his Christian faith because I was so caught up on the hypocritical nuances of the sheep that flocked to churches asking for forgiveness and throwing their money as scrupulous pastors and priests and building greater and bigger temples of meaningless scripted psychobabble all aimed at keeping the followers fearful, dependent and worthless unless they of course subscribed to the doctrine of the day and kept the wicker baskets passed around each Sunday full.

I concentrated more on the show and not the true meaning of what being a good Christian means and how that applies to ME and who cares that the church is full of habitual sinners, gossips, racists and brain dead religious sycophants who could even be brainwashed into having that “cup of coffee” with the nearest heathen.

Sidebar: I went to a mega church in Las Vegas that had a Starbucks in the lobby and during the sermon every other sentence mentioned a freaken cup of coffee, I kid you not…

Anywho, your faith only need involve the “man in the mirror.” Once you reconcile with your own transgressions the other aspects of life with take care of themselves whether that is friendships, your career, your marriage, your health. Only you can be responsible for repairing your own soul, now whether that is through the Christian faith or whatever Tiger does need to figure out what spiritual vehicle to use.
If he does not get right with God…. or whatever… y’all can argue that… he will never be the man we once knew nor will he be that great golfer we all grew to admire.

Update (1/5/09): For those “challenging” my comment about no separation of church and state in the Constitution, I addressed the issue in a post about John Kerry years ago. Check it out. Separation of church and state became a legal doctrine read into the document. The First Amendment does not forbid the federal government from religious dealings at all; it forbids the establishment of a national religion and interference with religious exercise. Everything else was read into the Constitution, just like the so-called right of privacy to kill babies in utero. (Can you believe it?)

Additionally, some folks are misreading and misinterpreting Thomas Jefferson’s letter to the Danbury Baptist Association.

Update II: Christian apologist and author James White writes (emphases in original):

“The secularists are, of course, howling in protest, but if you read what they are saying, one obvious underlying theme comes to the fore. No one is offering reasoned, objective criticism of the substance of Hume’s comments, because, quite simply, he is right. Buddhism does not, in fact, provide for redemption and forgiveness, but instead directs one to look inward for enlightenment and eventual freedom from suffering (via freedom from desire). But redemption? Not in this life, for in its classical expression, this would involve a long process of moving toward enlightenment through many lifetimes. In any case, secularists do not care about the objective truth contained in Hume’s words, but instead they are enraged that he would actually dare to express his thoughts in public—the realm over which they now claim absolute authority and control.”

***Get ready for the inevitable Brit Hume backlash over this:

READ FULL PIECE ON LaShawn Barber's Corner

Negros Performing For Terrorists… CONFIRMED: Beyoncé Sings For Gaddafi’s Son on New Year’s

noreply@blogger.com (Gaius Lawrenitis Negris) — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:56:00 +0000

On Sunday, Mediaite reported that singer Beyoncé Knowles had given a private New Year’s Eve performance for an exclusive crowd in St. Barth — and made the case that she had performed and been paid by relatives of Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi (variously known as Khadafy, Qaddafi, Quadhafi and more). Atlanta-based blogger Necole Bitchie reported a $2 million fee; the UK Mirror reported a “six-figure sum” and yesterday Media Takeout made the same claim, repeating the $2 million number and confirming the Gaddafi-hosted party from a guest who was there (hip-hop impresario Russell Simmons also placed Beyoncé at a “Khadafy party.” Today Page Six confirms our original report, with one new piece of information: the party was thrown by Moutassim Gaddafi, known as Hannibal, son of the Libyan dictator who less than a week before made headlines for allegedly attacking his wife in a London hotel.

Page Six notes — as we did! — that Beyoncé’s sang five songs for a crowd that included her husband Jay-Z, Microsoft founder Paul Allen, Lindsay Lohan and Usher (who also did the New Year’s countdown); Jon Bon Jovi, Simmons, supermodels Miranda Kerr and Victoria Slivstedt and BET founder Bob Johnson. Page Six could not confirm the rumored $2 million sum cited elsewher, but did note (again as we did) Mariah Carey’s reported $1-million payday for the same gig last year.

Last year’s party, it should be noted, was thrown by Hannibal’s brother Saif Gaddafi, who this year was reportedly in New Zealand. Page Six has a lovely rundown of Hannibal’s seemingly frequent bouts of violence and reckless behavior. Odds are Beyoncé probably didn’t see his halo.
It should be noted that Jay-Z also reportedly joined Carey last year in performing for the Gaddafi party, and that there was no backlash for either of them (indeed, Carey went on 20 days later to sing for President Obama’s inauguration — as did Beyoncé). However, this year Gaddafi’s history of terrorism has come to the fore with the release of Lockerbie bomber Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrah, the Libyan convicted of setting the bomb that took down Pan Am 103. Gaddafi and Libya accepted responsibility for the bombing in 2004, and has paid millions of dollars in reparations to the victims’ families.

More information on the Gaddafi family and Beyoncé’s performance on New Year’s can be found here. Reps for Beyoncé and Nikki Beach did not respond to queries from Mediaite or Page Six.

Beyoncé New Year’s Eve: Performing For Gaddafi Family? [Mediaite]'

Beyoncé New Years Rumors Continue: One More Link To Gaddafi Family [Mediaite]

In Beyoncé’s New Year’s Audience: Russell Simmons, Tweeting About “Khadafy Party” [Mediaite]

Health Care Reform Bill Clears Senate; Merger With House Bill Looms

noreply@blogger.com (Gaius Lawrenitis Negris) — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 19:12:00 +0000

(Source link)

On Dec. 24, the Senate passed its health reform bill (HR 3590), setting the stage for negotiations to combine the Senate bill with the House bill (HR 3962) to begin, the Wall Street Journal reports (Hitt/Adamy, Wall Street Journal, 12/28/09).

House and Senate leaders have indicated that they want to pass the final bill by President Obama's State of the Union address in January, but they have not committed to that timeline (Wangsness, Boston Globe, 12/25/09).

The House is scheduled to return from its holiday recess on Jan. 12, while the Senate is scheduled to return on Jan. 20. By the time the two chambers formally return to work, the negotiating teams from the House and Senate "should be well along sorting out the biggest points of contention" in the two versions of the bill, CQ Today reports.
According to CQ Today, the House and Senate "have the option of using a formal conference process" that could last weeks but they are more likely to "work out a deal in private, pass the agreement in one chamber and quickly send it to the other to be cleared for the president's signature" (Armstrong, CQ Today, 12/24/09).

Following the Christmas Eve vote on the Senate's reform bill, Senate Finance Committee Chair Max Baucus (D-Mont.) said that members of the negotiating team will start discussions over the phone during the last week of 2009.

A Senate Democratic leadership aide said that conversations will fully get underway during the first week of January, when the House negotiators are expected to return to Washington, D.C., to work on the final legislation (Budoff Brown, "Live Pulse," Politico, 12/24).

Alabama Democrat Toes the G.O.P. Line... And some pics to bring you some New Year cheer...

noreply@blogger.com (Gaius Lawrenitis Negris) — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 18:46:00 +0000

Thanks to Obama’s continued failed presidency so called “Blue Dogs” are getting a lot of attention.

ANDALUSIA, Ala. — Among the men who gather every morning at 6 o’clock at the Church’s Chicken here on Three Notch Street, there is general agreement that the Obama administration is doing a very bad job of running the country. And the stakes are as high, as one coffee drinker put it, as the survival of the country’s culture, economy and way of life.

Yet this group is represented in the House by a Democrat, Bobby Bright. And they are actually fond of him. For now.

“I like Bobby,” said Glenn Cook, 72, a retired electrical engineer. “I think he’s a great guy and a fine Christian man. But when he first came out, I wished that he’d been a Republican.”

In the deep-red states of the South, it is very hard these days to be a Blue Dog, as members of the group of 52 centrist House Democrats are known. Suspicions about the Obama administration’s expansive view of government power have made the Democratic label so toxic in some parts of the South that merely voting like a Republican — as many Blue Dogs do — may no longer be enough.

If that is true, Mr. Bright recently became Alabama’s sole test case.

If you missed it, check out...

Blue Dogs in Heat - The American Spectator

Large numbers of Democrats from districts that voted for George W. Bush and John McCain balked at the energy tax contained in their leadership's cap-and-trade bill. But, abetted by eight Republican defectors, Democrat leaders nevertheless were able to produce just enough votes to squeeze cap-and-tax through the House.

In the Senate, three Democrats from competitive states stood up to their party by voting against the $446.8 billion omnibus spending bill. Sen. Evan Bayh (D-Ind.), up for reelection in 2010 in a historically Republican state, even urged President Barack Obama to veto the spending package. But conveniently, such Democrats do not protest in large enough numbers to affect legislative outcomes.

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Some images to share with your liberal friends...

News from the Black side of the tracks....Beyonce performs for Terrorists!

noreply@blogger.com (Gaius Lawrenitis Negris) — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 18:10:00 +0000

MediaTakeOut.com has some SAD NEWS to report. Beyonce just got herself into some MESS!!!

Here's what happened. On New Year's Eve, Beyonce was paid a reported $2 million to perform at a "private" event in St. Barts.

That "private" event, MediaTakeOut.com confirmed from a party guest (who is also a celebrity), was held by the Khadafy family - the ruling family of Libya. As you may recall Khadafy and his family are accused of funding terrorists throughout the globe. And they accepted responsibility for the bombing of an airline flight - killing hundreds of people.

Now how do we know that Bey's in TROUBLE on this one. Well because, DOZENS of reporters - mostly from right wing news agencies, reached out to MediaTakeOut.com for information.

Folk I was frankly shocked to see that this particular Negro website reported it. It is not like them to give evil right wingers like your truly news about black folks fit to smear across the web.
A public service from you friendly neighborhood negro… “house nigger” to some but screw em! I monitor the Negro sites so you don’t have too…

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I posted a link to this a few days ago but this is getting more play...

U.S. television networks blur policy of not paying for interviews: report

U.S. television networks are vying for access to accidental celebrities and photos.
Three of the past month's accidental celebrities - Jasper Schuringa, the Dutch tourist who helped thwart an attack on a Detroit-bound plane; David Goldman, who took a custody fight for his son to Brazil; and the White House party-crashing Salahis - have either sought or received goodies from TV networks eager to hear their stories.

Schuringa gave interviews to outlets that had agreed to purchase blurry cell phone images he'd taken of a man who authorities say tried to use explosives to take down the plane. Goldman and his son accepted NBC's offer of a ride home from Brazil on a charter airplane.

Representatives for Michaele and Tareq Salahi, who embarrassed the Obama administration by sneaking into a state dinner, were reportedly seeking six-figure bids from networks to tell their story.

"I don't know if people would have thought of that in the past," said Andy Schotz, head of the ethics committee for the Society of Professional Journalists. "But now often the first thing people think of is to get a publicist, a lawyer and an agent and figure out how to make money" from instant notoriety, he said.

The society condemned NBC for "checkbook journalism" with the Goldman trip. NBC said it had already chartered a plane to bring its personnel back from Brazil, and Goldman's lawyer said the invitation was accepted so father and son could avoid being accosted by multiple camera crews on the way home.

But NBC took multiple pictures and interviewed Goldman on the plane before his exclusive interview for the morning news show "Today"with Meredith Vieira. And the network seems immune to the industry's financial troubles: A chartered jet from Brazil to New York would cost about US$90,000, according to Blue Star Jets, a New York-based charter company. Going commercial, a coach seat runs under US$1,400.

Policies against paying for interviews are in place to avoid distorting the news. The concern is that news subjects will change their stories to make them more valuable or please those who paid them.

Evasion efforts seem centered primarily on ultra-competitive morning news shows and prime-time magazines. These outlets now fight for stories that might have been considered tabloid fodder years ago, often against Web sites or other outlets that won't hesitate to pay for an interview or information.

News organizations now frequently pay interview subjects for the use of personal photos or videos. Both CNN and ABC paid for a Schuringa photo, reportedly thousands of dollars, and insisted they were not paying for an interview. Yet the Web site Gawker.com said Shai Ben-Ami, a Schuringa friend who was helping arrange media appearances, made it clear the Dutch hero wouldn't speak to an outlet that didn't buy rights to a photo. Ben-Ami would not comment to The Associated Press.

It's an increasingly easy dodge in these days of cell phone cameras, when there are usually visual images available to accompany an interview.

Morning shows will often bring an interview subject to New York and cover expenses. (It's not payment for an interview, but it can be a nice vacation.)

Networks can skirt ethics policies by putting their entertainment divisions in charge of an interview, said Nicolla Hewitt, a longtime network news booker. These would seem most likely in cases involving major celebrities. "Do I think it's right? No," Hewitt said. "But is it the new reality? Yes."

Paul Friedman, a veteran news executive and CBS News senior vice president, said there's a generational change with more people in the industry who argue that the old standards are too rigid.

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Looking back...Why Democrats suck...

‘Jobs, Jobs, Jobs’: Is the Stimulus Plan the ‘Epic Fail’ of 2009?

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Award winning redneck parent news....

“Golee… what’s the big deal we is just showin our love fer Jeeezus, that guitar strang was kleen”

Headlines...

noreply@blogger.com (Gaius Lawrenitis Negris) — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 17:00:00 +0000

Two FBI agents shot in downtown Las Vegas

Two FBI agents have been shot at the FBI building at 300 Las Vegas Boulevard South, Las Vegas police confirmed this morning. Spokeswoman Barb Morgan said information is preliminary, but it appears two agents have been shot and a possible suspect also has been shot, she said. That suspect is in police custody.

Civil rights hero caught in corruption probe to begin serving sentence- CNN

(CNN) -- Bobby DeLaughter -- the prosecutor who secured the conviction in the infamous Medgar Evers Mississippi murder case -- is himself now headed to prison.

It was DeLaughter's dogged 1994 prosecution and the subsequent conviction of Ku Klux Klan member Byron De La Beckwith that helped trigger the reopening of dozens of civil rights cold cases.

DeLaughter became an instant hero of the civil rights movement. Alec Baldwin portrayed him in the 1996 movie, "Ghosts of Mississippi," and his closing statement was once dubbed one of the greatest closing arguments in modern law.

"Is it ever too late to do the right thing?" DeLaughter told the jury of eight blacks and four whites. "For the sake of justice and the hope of us as a civilized society, I sincerely hope and pray that it's not."

DeLaughter would go on to become a state judge in 2002. His years in the robe came to an end in 2009, when DeLaughter pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice for lying to an FBI agent in a far-reaching corruption probe that has rocked Mississippi's judicial system.

When he was sentenced in November, Byron De La Beckwith's son sat in the chamber wearing a Confederate flag pin on his red blazer. His father had also worn a Confederate pin during the 1994 trial.

DeLaughter is to begin serving his 18-month prison sentence today at a facility in Kentucky.

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Pro-Abortion Advocates Praise Abortionist, Blast Pro-Life Efforts - CNS News

(CNSNews.com) -- The pro-abortion group NARAL Pro-Choice America is asking visitors to its Web site to cast votes for the person who has done the most for their movement. Nominees include abortionist LeRoy Carhart, who is one of the few to perform late-term abortions in his Nebraska clinic.

The group also nominated MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow to its annual "Hall of Fame" for her "thoughtful coverage" of the murder of another late-term abortionist, George Tiller, who was shot by a man known to have mental problems in May.

Others nominated for the “Hall of Fame” include Baltimore City Council President Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, for sponsoring a bill recently signed into law that requires non-profit pregnancy resource centers to post signs outside their facilities stating abortions and contraceptives are not provided or referred; and lawmakers Rep. Jose Serrano (D-N.Y.), Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), and Washington D.C. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, who "blocked Washington, D.C.'s elected leaders from using locally raised funds to pay for abortion services for low-income women."

Time to Take a Bow - By Ken Blackwell - American Spectator

The editor of the New Yorker was once asked about the hip, cool, insider writing that graced his journal. Didn't its stylish prose go over people's heads? "We don't write it for the little old lady from Dubuque," he replied. Not pitching your case to the little old lady from Dubuque, Iowa, became a hallmark of modern sophisticated liberalism -- a liberalism more characterized by point-of-view than by policy point papers. So when the New Yorker's Christmas week number hit newsstands, it was bound to attract attention.

The cover showed President Obama bowing to Santa. In their typical way, the editors of the New Yorker had captured not just the moment, but the year. Or have they captured in that cartoon bow the Age of Obama?

Was it only starchy conservatives, appalled traditionalists, offended Republicans who groused when our bright new President bowed low before the Saudi king? It was his first foray into foreign summitry. Was there no one in his inner circle to tell him that the Saudi royal family is not very popular among -- and this is key--Obama's target audience of non-jihadist Muslims? The Saudi royal family jealously guards their title as Custodian of the Holy Places of Islam. They make pilgrims of the Hajj pay through the nose for the privilege of visiting those shrines. It is no unusual thing to see stampedes of panicked pilgrims in those areas and lives lost in the melees. Recall the deaths at Woodstock -- but on an annual, predictable basis.

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Media Warns of Grave GOP Danger - The American Spectator

By John R. Guardiano

The Christmas Day terrorist attack on Flight 253 was an actual disaster that never occurred thanks to luck (the bomb's detonators were faulty) and to heroism (a Dutch passenger, Jasper Schuringa, literally jumped over rows of passengers to nab the terrorist, subdue him, and save lives).

The averted Christmas Day attack, though, is turning into a political disaster for the Obama administration and the Democratic Left. Political disaster looms because the American people rightly want to know how a terrorist like Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, with detonators and explosives in hand, ever managed to get on Flight 253 -- especially after the terrorist's own father had warned the U.S. embassy in Nigeria about the dangers posed by his son.

The American people also want to know what the Obama administration is doing to prevent future Abdulmutallabs from blowing up planes and American cities. Republican elected officials, consequently, have finally found their voice and thus are asking politically inconvenient questions about how the administration has handled -- or mishandled -- the war on terror. Questions like:

• Has the Obama administration's ban on enhanced interrogations, and its pledge to investigate and prosecute past enhanced interrogations, resulted in lax counterterrorism efforts, which might otherwise have prevented Abdulmutallab from boarding the plane?

• Did the Obama administration opt to cede Abdulmutallab to the courts and his ACLU-loving lawyers vice interrogating him about his terrorist connections and knowledge?

• How much actionable intelligence was lost -- and how many terror plots might have been averted -- because the Obama administration opted to treat the Christmas Day terrorist attack as a law enforcement matter rather than an incident of war?

• Does the Obama administration truly recognize that America is at war with al-Qaeda and the terror masters; or does it still view terrorism as an issue best delegated to the courts and the criminal justice system?

Of course, the Obama administration and the Democratic Left don't like these questions, which threaten to expose their soft underbelly and show that the emperor has no clothes. That's why they've enlisted their allies in the big media to fight back.

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Federal Courts Strike Again on Concealed Carry- The Weekly Standard

The First Circuit Court of Appeals in New England just handed down another horrible Second Amendment ruling, very similar to the ruling that recently came out of Georgia. In the case in question, the court ruled that a police officer acted appropriately when he not only detained a man for lawfully carrying a concealed firearm but confiscated his gun. From the Atlanta Gun Rights Examiner:

According to the case opinion, the lawyer, Greg Schubert, had a pistol concealed under his suit coat, and Mr. Schubert was walking in what the court described as a "high crime area." At some point a police officer, J.B. Stern, who lived up to his last name, caught a glimpse of the attorney's pistol, and he leaped out of his patrol car "in a dynamic and explosive manner" with his gun drawn, pointing it at the attorney's face.

Officer Stern "executed a pat-frisk," and Mr. Schubert produced his license to carry a concealed weapon. He was disarmed and ordered to stand in front of the patrol car in the hot sun. At some point, the officer locked him in the back seat of the police car and delivered a lecture. Officer Stern "partially Mirandized Schubert, mentioned the possibility of a criminal charge, and told Schubert that he (Stern) was the only person allowed to carry a weapon on his beat."
The officer eventually released Schubert but confiscated both his concealed carry license and his firearm. The court, of course, ruled that all of Stern's actions were appropriate to "ensure his own safety" and because he could not confirm the "facial validity" of the license.

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Oooo Y’all gonna love this one…

Berkeley cuts science for being too white

Law and Politics Examiner By D. Christian Moore

Berkeley High School (California) is considering a proposal to close its science labs and fire five science teachers because science is too white. The proposal stems from concerns that White students in Berkeley are performing better than the state average in math and science while Black and Latino students are doing generally under-performing.

As the story from the East Bay Express put it:

“The proposal would trade labs seen as benefiting white students for resources to help struggling students.”
Berkeley officials are concerned that they do not have the resources to devote to struggling students. As part of a plan known as “High School Redesign”, they have determined it makes sense to cut advanced classes, such as the science labs, to free up resources for struggling students. Berkeley officials have also determined that since the advanced students tend to be White or Asian, and the struggling students Black or Latino, the move will help them narrow racial achievement gaps.

There are Black and Latino students in the Science labs however, and the school science department is trying to fight back against the proposed redesign.

" ‘The majority of the science department believes that this major policy decision affecting the entire student body, the faculty, and the community has been made without any notification, without a hearing,’ said Mardi Sicular-Mertens, the senior member of Berkeley High School's science department, at last week's school board meeting.”
Sicular-Mertens went on to say the classes being cut are almost 20% African American or Latino so students of all races will be adversely affected by the move.

As of today the Berkeley School Board seems poised to move forward with its efforts to push the proposed redesign. It seems Berkeley has determined the best use of school resources is punishing high performers, coddling stragglers and allowing race based decision making to influence public debate and public resource allocation.

Some quick first New Year Reads...

noreply@blogger.com (Gaius Lawrenitis Negris) — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 15:39:00 +0000

Ok because of the cold weather being experienced by damn near everyone I have not ventured outdoors since late last week.
The apartment complex where I reside is too fucken lazy to clear the snow from the parking lots so folks are spending precious moments digging themselves out from relentless hard frozen snow.

What a great start to 2010. This wonderful sunny cold morning I forget my cell phone, almost get into two accidents and lock my keys in the car, what a wonderful start to the New Year, but hey I’m going to try and approach this new year with a sense of optimism and I’m trying not to let the little things bother me as much as they did in the past.
Having said that I am so glad 2009 is over and I’m counting on 2010 being just a tad less stressful.
Now if we can just survive this administration and pray that liberals don’t screw things up too much we should be cool.

This first portion is from Bortz:

Is anybody else shocked that Janet Napolitano still has a job? Don't ya feel a lot safer with THIS woman in charge of Homeland Security? Let's remember some of Janet's memorable moments as Homeland Security Secretary:

*The 9/11 terrorists came through the Canadian border

*Illegally crossing the border into the United States "isn't a crime per se"

*The DHS memo about the right wing extremists

*Terrorism will no longer be referred to as "terrorism" but as "man-caused disasters"
This last bullet point is a big one. Political correctness liberal's intense reluctance to ever label anything as "terrorism" or to label someone as a "Muslim terrorist" is going to get some people killed. There's an enemy out there. Refusing to recognize and identify the enemy for what and who it is only weakens us and strengthens those who want to kill us. To some extent you have Janet Napolitano to thank for that.

Take a look at this interview she did with a German magazine. THIS is the woman in charge of our Department of Homeland Security:

SPIEGEL: Madame Secretary, in your first testimony to the US Congress as Homeland Security Secretary you never mentioned the word "terrorism." Does Islamist terrorism suddenly no longer pose a threat to your country?

NAPOLITANO: Of course it does. I presume there is always a threat from terrorism. In my speech, although I did not use the word "terrorism," I referred to "man-caused" disasters. That is perhaps only a nuance, but it demonstrates that we want to move away from the politics of fear toward a policy of being prepared for all risks that can occur.

Well .. how prepared were we for some Islamic terrorist boarding an American aircraft with a bomb? Not prepared at all. Napolitano's approach is clearly working brilliantly. And then came the moment we all savored. This Muslim tries to kill 270 people. Passengers stop him. The flight crew takes care of him until the plane lands in Detroit. The news gets out ... Americans are anxious ... and here comes our amazingly capable Homeland Security Director to speak to the American people ... and what does she say? How about "One thing I'd like to point out is that the system worked."

WTH? The system worked? We have 270 people alive today not because the system worked ... but because the bomb didn't. The Obama crowd is trying to put the best light on Janet's absurdity by saying she was talking about the system in place to arrest someone AFTER they've tried to kill a bunch of people. Know what? Maybe I'm wrong, but I think that most Americans think that a system that "works" is a system that would stop this Islamic rat-bastard BEFORE he tries to blow up a plane .. not after.
But then that's just me.

In Obama family news....

Obama’s Brother: “I Still Live In A Slum”

In November 2008, I stood in a bar in Kenya watching Barack Obama give his victory speech. From the wild cheering of the crowd on TV, and his repeated appeals to them personally—"You said," "You heard," "You called"—I felt as if the people of America knew this man far better than I, even though we shared the same father. If there was a leading light in the Obama clan, he was it; and if there was a shadowed place that no one liked to talk about, then that, I guess, was me.

After a relatively privileged childhood, I crashed and burned in my teenage years. I had migrated from the plush suburbs of Nairobi, Kenya, to the wild chaos of the ghetto. I lost myself in drink and drugs and became a gun-toting gangster. In my early 20s, I spent a year in a Nairobi prison on robbery charges. My imprisonment included a starvation diet and 24/7 lockdowns in overcrowded, airless cells. But I came out a different man, resolved to turn my life around and find a different path.

MORE from Newsweek

VIDEO: Feds Probe Obama Effigy In Jimmy Carter’s Hometown

PLAINS, Ga. — The U.S. Secret Service says it is investigating an effigy of President Barack Obama found hanging from a building in the hometown of former President Jimmy Carter.

Secret Service spokesman Ed Donovan told The Associated Press that the large black doll was found Saturday morning along Main Street in the small town of Plains.

Footage from WALB-TV shows the doll was hanging by a noose in front of a red, white and blue sign that says “Plains, Georgia. Home of Jimmy Carter, our 39th President.” A witness told the station that the doll had a sign with Obama’s name on it.

Here we have more racist fuck news… Ok hate Obama’s politics but why must folks continue this stupid shit.
Now on the flip side it figures that the station would have some put on some doo-rag wearing country ass black dude who could barely talk as a “witness” to the HORROR.

I’m sorry folks every time blacks are interviewed for news segments they MUST fund the most ghetto ass non talking Negros they can find. It’s an old bitch of mine hillbilly country ass Ellie Mae Clampett, illiterate ass white folks and slurring country ass blacks folks are a news reporters best friend.

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Something interesting....

Capitalism works. Washington couple complains - Don Surber

Housing prices in the Washington, D.C., area have bottomed out to the point where investors are buying up foreclosed properties. They are paying cash which replenishes the bank’s portfolio. This sounds as if the free market is healing itself despite the numerous government interventions.

Not quite.

The Washington Post reported that “Melissa Diggins and her fiance, George Mills, live in the basement of his parents’ house in Woodbridge with their two Great Danes.”
Diggins and Mills keep being outbid on these properties.

They have since given up on buying a new home. I am sure this delights the hell out of his parents, having a grown son, his girlfriend and two Great Danes living in their basement.
“What’s happening in this area reflects what’s happening in other parts of the country,” said Sam Khater, senior economist at First American CoreLogic, which plans to release a report soon on all-cash deals. “In markets where price declines have been steep, we’ve seen quite a bit of competition between the low-end, first-time home buyers and investors.”
The investors have cash, Diggins and Mills have promissory notes.

Banks want cash. Given that The Won has interfered with banks foreclosing before, I don’t blame the banks. In fact, it would be irresponsible of bank officials not to prefer cash.
“There’s a big difference between [the all-cash] investor and the flipper of the housing bubble, who put no money down,” said Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Economy.com. “This person has all the skin in the game, and that’s encouraging. It suggests that housing in the area is now appropriately valued or maybe even undervalued.”

Exactly.

Let the system work its way out of a mess that the government created by making mortgages too available.

Speaking for broke ass folks everywhere, stop bitching!

So living with parents and no doubt living rent free you folks are unable to secure enough dead presidents so you can move into another home you can’t afford?

WTF, folks I’ll tell ya, I am finding myself sacrificing like I never have before. I’m doing things like staying my black ass at home because having enough gas to go to work is more important. Basic cable, no computer, no bars, no movies, no fast food, buying the yellow label veggies and other assorted canned goods, no soft drinks, rarely if ever do I have the heat on (hey I figure the other apartments have their heat blasting, actually quite comfortable considering) I know I MUST sacrifice and one of those sacrifices will certainly be not being able to have a home, as much as I miss “home life” that ain’t in the cards anytime soon and I will accept that.
Some folks still have this notion that since others “have” they must have too, this is the reason why so many folks lost their homes because they are greedy bastards and live life trying to be like the proverbial Jones’s.

MORE LATER...

Great Commercial...

noreply@blogger.com (Gaius Lawrenitis Negris) — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 17:00:00 +0000

Cool commercial found on My Space...

Coffee with Cocoa Morning Reads...

noreply@blogger.com (Gaius Lawrenitis Negris) — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 14:39:00 +0000

Obama Officials, Dems Support Global Socialism - AIM

Former Democratic Party chairman Howard Dean said on December 8 that "cooperation" between European socialists and the Democratic Party has "intensified significantly" over the last several years and involves "regular contact" at "Congress, Senate, party and foundation levels." He added that "efforts have been remarkable from both sides."
But at a "Global Progress Conference" in October, President Barack Obama's pollster, Joel Benenson, acknowledged that socialized medicine in the U.S. faces a serious obstacle. He said that while Europeans are receptive to the expansion of government in their lives, in America there is an anti-government culture which prevents people from "expecting the State to solve their problems."
"This explains why Obama will find it difficult to implement the social coverage plans such as a broader health service," Benenson reportedly said.
The conference was held in Madrid, Spain under the patronage of Spain's socialist Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, whose pro-homosexual and pro-abortion policies have led to street protests by thousands of supporters of traditional values. Zapatero is also under fire for a jobless rate of nearly 18 percent.
Dean's comments came in a video address in which he joked that his failure to personally attend the Party of European Socialists (PES) convention, which was advertised as a "carbon neutral congress," was actually a smart move because he avoided flying and contributing to global warming. "We've saved a lot of carbon," Dean said.

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Don't know if you folks have been following this Goldman child custody stuff but since I usually watch Today I have been following this a bit...

SPJ Accuses NBC of ‘Checkbook Journalism’

NBC News is accused of ethics breach for their efforts to cover the Goldman story last week.
From the SPJ:
The Society of Professional Journalists' Ethics Committee is appalled NBC News breached widely accepted ethical journalism guidelines by providing the plane that carried David Goldman and his son Sean back to the United States from Brazil after a high-profile custody battle.NBC conducted an exclusive interview with David Goldman during the flight it financed and another exclusive interview once the Goldmans returned to the United States.Journalists know this practice as "checkbook journalism.
"The SPJ Code of Ethics urges journalists to act independently by avoiding bidding for news and by avoiding conflicts of interest.By making itself part of a breaking news story on which it was reporting — apparently to cash in on the exclusivity assured by its expensive gesture — NBC jeopardized its journalistic independence and credibility in its initial and subsequent reports. In effect, the network branded the story as its own, creating a corporate and promotional interest in the way the story unfolds.

NBC's ability to report the story fairly has been compromised by its financial involvement.

More NBC stuff...

Terrorist Attack Takes a Back Seat at MSNBC

Hoping to find some ratings success in the morning MSNBC is shuffling its lineup.
From the Politico
Over the summer, MSNBC shuffled its daytime line-up, with former CNBCer Dylan Ratigan getting a two-hour show at 9 am and Dr. Nancy Snyderman discussing health issues at noon. While neither may be as strident as, say, Keith Olbermann, the shift was a departure from mostly straight news reports through the day.

Now MSNBC's changing things around once again, with Ratigan moving to the hour before "Hardball" and Snyderman canceled. The AP's David Bauder reports on changes taking place next month:
As replacements, MSNBC will pair Chuck Todd and Savannah Guthrie for one hour at 9 a.m. EST, in a newsy, nonpartisan look at the day's upcoming news. For the other daytime hours, MSNBC will have general news programming anchored by David Shuster, Tamron Hall, Contessa Brewer and Andrea Mitchell, said Phil Griffin, the network's chief executive."We did some experimentation to find out what the audience during the daytime wants and I think we found out they want your basic facts – give me the facts, ma'am," Griffin said. "We can still do it with our passion and a fast pace."MSNBC may need to prove its news commitment to viewers. With news of the attempted terrorist attack on a plane bound for Detroit breaking late on Christmas, the network stuck with pre-taped programming. CNN and Fox covered the story much more extensively.
Indeed, as news was unfolding about Flight 253 on competing networks, it didn't go unnoticed that MSNBC stayed with taped programming -- at one point, airing a special called “Disappearance at the Dairy Queen" rather than breaking news of the attempted terrorist attack.

MSNBC which has not discouraged observers from saying the network has been staking out territory to the left of center now wants us to believe that their new morning show will be nonpartisan?

As for missing the terrorist attack story the network must have been in Christmas mode thinking that it would be a quiet day and that there would be no significant news that day.

They guessed wrong to say the least..

Well I have not watched any MSNBC programming for months, frankly I don’t know who watches the channel except for really young (college age) folks and hyper kook leftist commie type liberals.

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Oh crap someone let Ron Paul get in front of a camera. Jesus this is a retarded fucken man...

A Ron Paul Moment- The American Spectator

By Ben Stein - Letter to the Editor

A few days ago, I was on Larry King Live on CNN. the topic was terrorism and specifically the Christmas Day aerial bombing effort by a self-described Al Qaeda agent of an airliner near Detroit.

One of the other guests was Rep. Ron Paul of Texas. He said, at least as I understood it -- and I could be mistaken -- that the real fault for this terror attack lies with the United States for provoking al Qaeda by "occupying their land" --this is a paraphrase. I expressed shock at this line of approach. Rep. Paul -- as I recall -- said again that the U.S. was causing these attacks by our being "occupiers."

I said this line was something like "the tired old anti-Semitic line." I said this because in my long experience, those who talk about the U.S. "occupying" Moslem lands soon go to criticism of the U.S. for helping Israel -- a line long associated with Rep. Paul, as I understand, and again, maybe I am misinformed -- and then to biting criticism of Israel and then to bitter comments about Jews generally.

I was about to add that I was sure that Rep. Paul was not going that far. But Rep. Paul became so upset that I could not get in a word.

So let me say right now that if Rep. Paul says he is not taking that line, and is not an anti-Semite, I believe him, good for him and I am happy to know him.

More Terror...

'U.S. Had Early Signals of a Terror Plot,' NY Times Reports; ‘Working Quickly’ to Protect Our Country, Napolitano Writes

(CNSNews.com) - President Obama was told Tuesday morning that the U.S. government had received intelligence from Yemen -- before the attempted airplane bombing -- that a Nigerian was being prepared for a terrorist attack by a branch of al-Qaeda in Yemen, the New York Times reported on Wednesday.

The information "would have been a clear warning sign had it been shared among agencies," the newspaper said.

Unnamed officials told the newspaper that if various pieces of information available to U.S. officials had been examined together, "it would have pointed to the pending attack."

Obama, in his second public comment on the Christmas Day air scare, alluded to the security lapse in a brief statement on Tuesday:

"There were bits of information available within the intelligence community that could have -- and should have -- been pieced together," Obama said. "Had this critical information been shared, it could have been compiled with other intelligence, and a fuller, clearer picture of the suspect would have emerged.”

WELL DUH...

AND did you know?

Somali Man Arrested at Mogadishu Airport With Chemicals, Syringe Last Month

Mogadishu, Somalia (AP) - A man tried to board a commercial airliner in Mogadishu last month carrying powdered chemicals, liquid and a syringe that could have caused an explosion in a case bearing chilling similarities to the terrorist plot to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner, officials told The Associated Press on Wednesday.

The Somali man -- whose name has not yet been released -- was arrested by African Union peacekeeping troops before the Nov. 13 Daallo Airlines flight took off. It had been scheduled to travel from Mogadishu to the northern Somali city of Hargeisa, then to Djibouti and Dubai. A Somali police spokesman, Abdulahi Hassan Barise, said the suspect is in Somali custody.

"We don't know whether he's linked with al-Qaida or other foreign organizations, but his actions were the acts of a terrorist. We caught him red-handed," said Barise.

A Nairobi-based diplomat said the incident in Somalia is similar to the attempted attack on the Detroit-bound airliner on Christmas Day in that the Somali man had a syringe, a bag of powdered chemicals and liquid -- tools similar to those used in the Detroit attack. The diplomat spoke on condition he not be identified because he isn't authorized to release the information.

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Wikipedia Meets Its Own Climategate

By Tom Bethell

Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, had an article in yesterday's Wall Street Journal drawing attention to the rise of "online hostility" and the "degeneration of online civility." He (and coauthor Andrea Weckerle) suggested ways in which we can "prevent the worst among us from silencing the best among us."

I agree with just about everything that they say. But there is one problem that Mr. Wales does not go near. That is the use of Wikipedia itself to inflame the political debate by permitting activists to rewrite the contributions of others. All by itself, that surely is a contributor to online incivility.

The issue that I am particularly thinking about is "climate change" -- or global warming as it was once called (until the globe stopped warming, about a decade ago). Recently the Financial Post in Canada published an article by Lawrence Solomon, with this remarkable headline:

How Wikipedia's green doctor rewrote 5,428 climate articles. ...

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Finally.... If you get a chance check this personal story on the blog - My Voice on the Wings of Change.

Life's UNFAIR. Sure It Is, But We Push On....

A word about children/offspring. The fact is the worst age for a human being on this planet is between 13 and 23. If we’re honest with ourselves and each other we’ll admit that those were our STUPIDEST years on the planet.

Whereas, infants, toddlers and small children have less knowledge and experience than their parents and older counterparts, they don’t pretend to be smarter than they are. They tend to follow their instincts and (unless they’re inherently evil) they usually speak the plain truth.

A word about my truth. Keeping MY VOICE quiet from the world in which I live has never been about fear of being ostracized. It was about having others feeling left out or judged by me.

I’ve always been a girl who’ve marched to the beat of her own drum. I believe in God and harbor very little fear in life.
A little life experience taught me to worry more about my own feelings and less about the feelings of others.

That said, in the spirit of the Christmas season, here’s a gift for you, my readers. A little more of my heart, if you will. A look into my personal world.

I have two young adult children, 18 and 21. I adore them both. They are both exceptionally smart, well-read, thoughtful, and loving human beings. That is where my influence ends.

Following that, they are each their own person, of me, yet belonging more to themselves and their own ideas. I wouldn’t have it any other way. I have no delusions of or desire for control over their lives.

I had two conversations this week, in which each of them, my young-adult off-springs, wrenched at my heart.

In the first, the oldest, who voted for Barack Obama for the same idiotic reason that many black youth did: he’s black. And for this, despite the man’s anti-American views and his glaring inexperience, this young adult of mine voted and proclaimed in sing-song: “My president is black.”

Pure friggin drivel.

Some reads from the black side of the tracks you white folks may have missed... and my rants for today...

noreply@blogger.com (Gaius Lawrenitis Negris) — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 21:11:00 +0000

I have not posted anything on the Tiger Woods crap and frankly I really don’t give a shit about his stable of hoes. He is a wealthy relatively dark skinned dude with an appetite for blond white chicks as most brothas do… SHOCKING ain’t it?

I have read some interesting pieces on various black websites blasting the fact that he did not hoe around with Negro babes and how he has shown disdain and shame to his race and all sorts of other crap.

I am more amused by the Negros sticking up for him as well, just like they did during the O.J trial. “Evil whitey corrupted a brotha and now they out to get him” and other such nonsense.
Other than his on the golf course heroics I don’t care about his affairs nor do I care about the racial overtones and the so called impacts it has on Negros.

His actions were not “racially” motivated nor do they have racial overtones.
I found both of these articles amusing to say the least because like always Negros have this obsessive need to find a fucken racial nugget with every occurrence of Negro wrongdoing.

One thing I do know is I will never look at Tiger the same again because this was a man who had a team of individuals crafting and molding an image of perfection. From his smile to those hokey Nike commercials reminiscent of the “I wanna be like Mike” spots aired in the 80’s.
It would be one thing if some moron like Charles Barkley were busted for fucking around with a stable of white bimbos because we would expect no less from him or any other former or current NBA baler.
However Tiger’s success transcended race. Black folks will always cherry pick some faux hero to worship because black folks still have this innate need to take credit or attempt to partly own the success of a similar pigment shaded individual.
I know Mexican’s do that with championship boxers and some Asian do it as well with sports heroes. Frankly while I understood the same race hero worship stuff at the same time I always thought it was sad.
However everyone rooted for Tiger, from the old white redneck farts that still to this day would stand at the gates to block a nigga from coming into the country club to the individual who barely watched golf who likely never touched a club in his or her life.

Frankly we all got fucked again sucked into the societal media manipulation vortex which compels us to gravitate to those granted the golden pedestal of admiration.
As far as I’m concerned if Tiger never wins another match I could care less. I have seen debated on numerous sports shows whether or not Tiger can reclaim his image back from all of this and the answer is of course yes because Americans are still some ass people in general. The same folks who bought into the notion that “hope and change’ could transform a nation and got suckered into lie after lie are some of the same people who will no doubt say after a Tiger major championship win “what sex scandal?” Silly Negros will be hollering “that’s my dawg”, silly white bimbos groupies will be scanning hotel lounges tossing dude phone numbers and greedy ass marketers will be clamoring to see if they could be part of the second round of that “Nigga/Asian/whatever” is gonna make me rich.
America… what a country!

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Tiger Woods alienates black community with white lovers? Garbage!

The Associated Press' material can be a howler at times. The latest funny was this title: "Tiger Woods alienates black community with white lovers" which was conceived and written by a writer at the AP who presents his take on what the "Black Community" is and who represents it by turning to the old mainstream media standard, the legendary Tom Joyner.
Now, I love Tom Joyner, so it's not his fault; I'm aiming at the AP's 39-year-old Jesse Washington, who, while African American, has no idea what the "Black Community" is.
In a time when interracial dating is common, and black women with white men in commercials are more common than the opposite, its downright silly to complain about Tiger Woods' choice of female companions, blonde, brunette, or polka-dot, Rachel Uchitel, Jaimie Grubbs, Jamie Jungers, Kamile Moquin, Cori Rist, or Mindy Lawton.
Besides, why would any woman regardless of color want to be compared with or take the place of the alleged mistresses Tiger Woods has been linked to, given the PR backfire that can ensue?
Jesse Washington's AP-blasted take is a reflection of a certain part of Black America that no longer represents the sum total of Black America: those who racially segregate themselves and hate any image of racial mixing for fear that it may result in the devaluation of their blackness.

Tiger’s Dad: “Marriage Is Unnecessary”

From NYTimes.com:

The golfers lamenting Tiger Woods’s indefinite leave from the PGA Tour because he is their cash cow are out of bounds. Only two people are truly dependent on Woods, and earlier this year, he could not stop smiling when he talked about them. His 2-year-old daughter, Sam, and 10-month-old son, Charlie, brought out Woods’s softer side in interviews. When I covered Woods early in his career, the only warmth he exuded in news conferences came from the vibrant reds of his signature Sunday shirts.

This year was different. Returning to competitive golf in late February after a nine-month injury-induced absence, Woods drew me in with a smile that started in his eyes when he talked about his children. When he was asked about the birth of Charlie or how he occupied himself while recovering from knee surgery, his eyes grew moony and his voice was lilting — a marked departure from his monotone.

He talked about cutting practice short to spend time with Charlie. He expressed delight in the rapid development of Sam. “I didn’t realize how much I loved being home,” he said.

This melting glacier of a golfer was so much more interesting, and likable, than the ice man who had won 14 major titles. Woods’s global warming required further examination, so I tracked him around the course in a kind of scavenger hunt in the first months of his six-win campaign. I was searching for more clues to flesh out the Clark Kent alter ego of golf’s Superman, and I collected enough material to write two articles. After a late-night accident last month and Woods’s subsequent admission of infidelity, the headlines of those articles read like punch lines: “The Family Guy Is Back on the Course” and “All Eyes Are on Tiger, the Father.”

Woods’s parenting role model was his father, Earl, who was committed to rearing him after having two sons and a daughter in a failed first marriage. Earl, a retired Army officer, attributed the divorce to military obligations that took him away from the family. Asked how he would manage to be there for his children when golf takes him away from home so much, Woods told me, “It’s going to be a lot more difficult, there’s no doubt.”

Maybe it is impossible. Perhaps Woods was destined to be like his father, only not in the way he had hoped. Over lunch on the veranda at the Masters one year, Earl Woods said, “I’ve told Tiger that marriage is unnecessary in a mobile society like ours.”

The way Woods talked about his children, I was sure he was going to prove his father wrong.

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This is more FYI… most of you who come here already know this is a bunch of bullshit anyway.

Health reform's true colors
The real racial issue in this debate is not about Obama. It's about inequality.

By Michael Bader
The "tea party" protests that started last spring sparked a debate over whether racism was motivating the opposition to President Obama's health-care reform proposals. The issue was revived by a recent Internet advertisement depicting regular folks who oppose health-care reform saying facetiously, "I guess I'm racist."
While this offers another opportunity to have a national conversation about race and health care, I fear that we are once again going to fail to discuss the most important racial aspect of health care.
Rather than focusing on whether health-care reform opponents are somehow motivated by racism, we should be focusing on the fact that African Americans and Latinos have the most to gain from health-care reform - and the most to lose from its failure.

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Will there ever be a "Black" economic recovery?- The Loop 21.com

A lot is being said about spending. At this point I think it might be worthwhile to outline some spending in the age of Bush v. the age of Obama.
Bush-era spending

We were on the brink of financial collapse when Bush left office. Bush entered the White House at a time of huge expected financial surpluses and he ended that administration with unprecedented levels of debt and deficits. Some of that was caused by his tax breaks that favored the wealthy. Another reason for that is the Bush administration didn't exactly keep the cleanest books. He never reconciled what we were spending in Iraq. War appropriations were, in fact, never included in the budget reckoning process.

In addition, there were the unresolved domestic issues that affect our nation's bottom line -- millions without health insurance, millions upside down in their homes, underfunded educational systems, collapsing infrastructure, outdated energy sources, etc.

According to MSNBC money, the Bush-era cost this nation about $11.5 trillion, which includes two recessions, the most lethal terror attack in the nation's history, the invasion of Iraq, and the financial meltdown on Wall Street.

The two most massive expenditures during that time was $22 billion from the federal government needed to rebuild lower Manhattan. The state of New York spent another $80 billion. Then in October, 2008, the feds dropped $700 billion to rescue Wall Street.

Spending the age of Obama

President Obama spent an additional $850 billion stimulus package, a desperate attempt at breaking the momentum of that recession we were in when he entered office.
So the task here is a difficult one. How do you pull off a recovery when the whole world is weary of governmental spending, when the country's debt level is in record territory, when you are still engaged in two wars, when you have 10 percent unemployment, decimated sectors such as manufacturing, when you have the unions, a major constituent, on your back as well as liberals -- neither of which seem at all concerned about the deficit that worries average Americans?
"What people understand that policymakers in Washington don't is that there's a real belief out there that all government does is waste money," said former President Clinton's pollster Doug Schoen in a Time magazine article. "Taxes go up. Debt goes up. People think, 'All you're going to do is waste my money and put me in a dire situation.'"

The first move Obama made, diverting TARP money to fund a national job program is a good start. In this way, the administration does not add to the deficit and re-shapes the Wall Street bailout to being more a Main Street bailout --- but still, Obama's going to have to face the bullet here.
I know he's not hiding from his race. I know there are political repercussions to focusing on issues of race, especially right now, but he's going to have to, at least privately, accept that this recession did not hit all communities equally. It hit Black folks hardest. And the economic realities in the Black community deserve some focused attention.

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This article for some reason reminded me of the piece below I found some time ago and one I posted on my old blog PPP, The Failures of Integration

You folks know my opinions on race and racial attitudes particularly when it comes to block folks and how fatalistic black folks can be about their social and economic well being.
For every failure of some black person there must be some white person inserting the screw into their back.

Just what the fuck does a black economic recovery look like? I mean seriously people what the hell.
I’ve told the story of my own daughter many times and I won’t rehash in detail but for those of you who don’t know she is twenty one, two kids, the first one at age 15 but some nappy headed worthless nigga who was 22 at the time living with his mother his damn self. Now I had been divorced for about two years at this point and lived in the Kansas City area at the time. My ex and the youngest daughter lived in Wichita.
She proceeds to have another baby with another worthless nigga living between a relative and his parents’ part time both of these worthless niggas the products of ghettoized families’ generational welfare and government recipients.
My daughter for the first 13 years lived in a two parent household, bother parents worked and we made a decent living were close to our children but as many of you know divorce can be a bitch when it comes to the psyche of a teenage child. This is why I have mentioned often that the biggest mistake I made in my life was not insisting that my daughter come live with me during these formative years.
It is difficult to try and be a parent from 3 hours away but I will freely admit that I did not work as hard as I could have to be more involved in her life.
However as smart as my daughter was, straight A’s most of the time while I was in the home after my departure she not only managed to drop out of school and never went back not even a GED to this day she had a second child, has been kicked out of Section 8 homes because she was too stupid to understand that the government doe not like you shacking up with some deadbeat who should be working and paying child support while living on the taxpayers dime.
She not only has failed to file child support for either nigga sperm donor but because of her actions she is not able to get state provided medical insurance for her children. She now has major health issues of her own. Because of her laziness and ineptitude she has allowed her own health to deteriorate significantly.
Remember folks I helped start a clinic to help young women like my daughter but she got to fucken lazy to bother to use the services available to her.
She had numerous family members including her grandfather and uncles, who offered to pay for any living expenses, would have been given a car, education paid for the only stipulation was that she GO TO FUCKEN SCHOOL and GET AWAY FROM DEADBEAT NIGGAS! But naw she was like fuck all of you and so we said fine.

My point to all of this is this story is all too reminiscent to todays young Negro women, allowing some random dick to control their emotions and rendering the common sense portion of the brain useless.
Today’s Negros refuse to get an education, refusing to refrain from getting knocked up or at least if they do taking responsibility for their actions and more importantly not making the same mistake TWICE.
Countless states have dropout rates for black in excess of 80%, black teenage unemployment, at 50 percent, is the highest since World War II when this country was far more segregated and racist than it is today.
Walter Williams wrote in a column some time ago that; “having children is not an act of God. It's not like you're walking down the street and pregnancy strikes you; children are a result of a conscious decision. For the most part, female-headed households are the result of short-sighted, self-destructive behavior of one or two people.”

He also added:

“Most middle-class Americans, including black Americans, are no more than one, two or three generations out of poverty. How did they manage this feat; what's the secret for avoiding poverty?

I think it's a no-brainer. Finish high school and take a job, any kind of a job. Today, but not when I graduated in 1954, if a person graduates from high school, with even a C average, there is a college or some kind of skills training program somewhere for him, and often financial assistance to boot. So if a person doesn't take advantage of today's available opportunities, particularly those during the boom of the 1990s, and engages in self-destructive behavior, whose fault is it?”

Not whitey’s fault!

So above you have two articles; one blaming racism for health issues facing black folks and the other bitching that whitey is keeping black from achieving economic success and they need to be given “specialized” attention because after all Negroes are too fucken stupid to pull common sense out their collective asses.

Folks I am a very middle income dude, I make $38,000 a year, not a lot of money and for those of you on the east coast may be thinking damn dude is barely scraping by.
I made the choice to join the Air Force where I learned my skill set. I could easily venture back east and work in an environment making near six figures but I am content with where I work and currently live even with my current personal circumstances.
I decided not to pursue higher education and while I may not be making a much higher salary I don’t have any significant debt either.
I love my job and if you don’t focus on salary it is the most perfect job for me there could be. Hell I spend the greater part of my day blogging so what does that tell you.
The choices I made and some luck put me here. I don’t fret over money or the lack of pay because I’m not trying to impress any body, I don’t need to drive a fucken overpriced vehicle or show off any bling. I don’t have more shoes than the average man but ignore that…..
Bottom line what I look at in the mirror are the results of the choices I made. Yes I have been fucked over by some racist fucks when it came to employment opportunities and experienced my share of redneck hostility and bigotry but whitey has never been able to put up a permanent boundary to prevent me from achieving whatever I wanted to. That is the best lesson my dad taught me and one I tried to impart on my kids. Good thing one of my children figured it out.
I work in an environment where I get to watch some of the best and brightest young people and the one thing they all have in common is that they all put future goals ahead of current pleasures or vices.
They did not all come from perfect homes or perfect circumstances however none of these kids make excuses, it is full speed ahead.
So I know not all of today’s kids are dumb and lacking common sense. It just takes digging down deep and focusing on your priorities.
The sad thing is black folks for the most part won’t do this. I may come across as hard hearted and dismissive toward the attitudes of black folks but articles like the two above, idiot liberal apologists and conniving Negro Democrats thrive of the personal failings of black folks. I pray that one day black folks will wake the fuck and look in the mirror and see that most of the blame for their own failings lies with the individual staring back at them and not some mysterious white person.

If you have the time check out the piece in full, click title.

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The Failures of Integration
By Sheryll Cashin June 15, 2005

Ironically, while the nation has not yet moved beyond a fundamental hurdle regarding integration—the discomfort of many with large numbers of black people—some of the most admired and respected national figures in the United States are black. White America embraces Colin Powell, Oprah Winfrey, Tiger Woods. They admire Michael Jordan, Bill Cosby, Condoleezza Rice. There are enough examples of successful middleclass African Americans to make many whites believe that blacks have reached parity with them. The fact that some blacks now lead powerful mainstream institutions offers evidence to whites that racial barriers have been eliminated; the issue now is individual effort. In December 2001, when Richard Parsons, an African American, was named the CEO of AOL Time Warner, then the largest media company in the world, it was not an earth-shattering event. Not much was made of the fact that President George W. Bush chose a black woman, Condoleezza Rice, to head his National Security Council or that Colin Powell was the first black Secretary of State. As a nation we seem to have moved past the era when the "first black" is noted, celebrated, or even explicitly discussed. For many, if not most, whites, words like "segregation" and "inequality" are old, finished business. And words like "integration" and "affirmative action" are beyond the point.

That whites are now tired of black complaints may stem from the fact that they are rather misinformed about how well African Americans are doing. Depending on the question, in response to opinion polls, between 40 and 60 percent of whites say that blacks are faring as well as, if not better than, they are in terms of jobs, incomes, education, and access to health care. No doubt, African Americans have progressed, but the closing of social and economic gaps is mostly in the minds of white Americans. According to a recent survey, half of whites believe that the average black person is as well off as the average white person in terms of employment, even though blacks are about twice as likely as whites to hold lower-paying service jobs and more than twice as likely to be unemployed. Four in ten whites incorrectly believed that the typical black earned as much as or more than the typical white, even though black median household income is about 64 percent that of whites—$29,500 compared to $46,300 for whites. (The disparity in terms of wealth, as opposed to income, is much worse: Black median wealth is about 16 percent that of whites.) There were similar gaps of perception and reality concerning education and health care. The odd black family on the block or the Oprah effect—examples of stratospheric black success—feed these misperceptions, even as relatively few whites live among and interact daily with blacks of their own social standing. We are still quite far from the integrated, equal opportunity nation whites seem to think we have become.

Black people, on the other hand, have become integration weary. Most African Americans do not crave integration, although they support it. What seems to matter most to black people is not living in a well-integrated neighborhood but having the same access to the good things in life as everyone else. There is much evidence of an emerging "post–civil rights" attitude among black folks. We are ambivalent integrationists. In opinion polls, the majority of African Americans say that they would prefer to live in an integrated neighborhood; but for some of us integration now means a majority-black neighborhood— one where you are not overwhelmed by white people and where there are plenty of your own kind around to make you feel comfortable, supported, and welcome. Across America, wherever there is a sizeable black middle-class population, suburban black enclaves have cropped up that attest to the draw of this happy "we" feeling.

This is not separatism in the classic sense. Black people want the benefits of an integrated workplace; we want the public and private institutions that shape opportunity to be integrated. More fundamentally, we want the freedom to chart our course and pursue our dreams. We bang on the doors and sometimes shatter the ceilings of corporate America not because it is largely white but because this is how to "get paid." We want an integrated commercial sector because we want banks and venture capitalists to lend to us and invest in our business ideas. We want the option of sending our children to any college we desire but for many of us Howard, Morehouse, or any number of historically black colleges are at the top of our list. We want space on the airwaves for our music, preferably aired by black-owned radio stations. We want space in Hollywood and on the big screen for our films. We want to see and celebrate ourselves on television, but we do not particularly care that there was not a black friend on "Friends;" most of us didn’t watch it and didn’t understand its appeal.

Even at the height of the civil rights era, socializing with whites was never a goal in itself for black people, and undoubtedly for many, it is not one today. There are counter examples, but we all know they are fairly rare. For those blacks, like myself, who attended primarily white schools, the dominant pattern of socialization was that blacks hung with blacks. And at most social gatherings that I attended then and those that I attend now, one race overwhelmingly predominates. Even when I attend functions that might be described as well integrated, I often observe the phenomenon of blacks pairing with blacks and whites paring with whites. Obviously there are exceptions. I am necessarily writing about generalities. But these generalities reflect certain truths—typically unspoken ones—about the limits of integration in our nation.

Other stuff I checked out...

noreply@blogger.com (Gaius Lawrenitis Negris) — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 20:38:00 +0000

Via Free Republic

Men believed behind airplane plot were freed from Gitmo

Two of the four leaders allegedly behind the al Qaeda plot to blow up a Northwest Airlines passenger jet over Detroit were released by the U.S. from the Guantanamo prison in November, 2007, ABC News is reporting, quoting American officials and citing Department of Defense documents. American officials agreed to send the two terrorists to Saudi Arabia where they entered into an "art therapy rehabilitation program" and were set free, according to U.S. and Saudi officials, ABC News reported.

Al Qaeda Group Claims Bombing Attempt

President Barack Obama prepared to outline immediate steps the government has taken to keep travelers safe as investigators around the globe worked to determine how the son of a Nigerian banker became the first person in eight years to try to set off an explosive aboard a U.S. commercial airliner. Meanwhile, the group al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula claimed responsibility for the attempted Christmas day attack, saying it was retaliation for a U.S. operation against the group in Yemen. In a statement posted on the Internet, the group said 23-year-old Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab coordinated with members of the...

Reflections on the Life of Percy Sutton... Obama fan... and other stuff

noreply@blogger.com (Gaius Lawrenitis Negris) — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 19:56:00 +0000

He was hailed as Harlem’s king or its chairman, the eloquent author of some of its prouder moments, the dapper mentor to its sons and daughters. As news of Percy E. Sutton’s death spread on Sunday, the sadness spanned generations and city blocks, from Mr. Sutton’s home on 135th Street to the doorstep of the Apollo, that cultural heart of Harlem that Mr. Sutton jolted to life.

“He was a renaissance black man,” said Philip Bulgar, 45, an assistant manager at Manna’s Soul Food Restaurant, summing up a life too rich for anyone to fully recall. That did not stop everyone from trying. “They don’t make too many brothers like that anymore,” Mr. Bulgar said.
Mr. Sutton died on Saturday at age 89. He had been a Tuskegee Airman, Malcolm X’s lawyer, the Manhattan borough president and a media mogul.

READ FULL ARTICLE HERE

Ah this gives me an opportunity to post this old material because some of you folks new to this blog may have not seen this before so lets turn on Mr. Peabody’s Wayback Machine…

Percy Sutton (Malcom X's Lawyer) Says Barack Obama Knows And Was Financed By The Racist Radical Muslim And Saudi Advisor Dr. Khalid Al-Mansour

Wanna know why some Muslim folks from Africa are stuffing explosives in their underwear…?

Dr. Khalid Al Mansour - Christians Designed Discrimination

You horrible Christians how dare you celebrate Christmas…you bunch of racists!!

More here: Are Khalid al Mansour and Obama Friends? - Amanda Carpenter

More old stuff newbees..

Educate Yourself: Do Not Allow Obama A Second Term! (revision 4 - 10/30/09)

A Few Moonbattery links...

Chris Matthews Acknowledges Saul Alinsky as a Hero

Trial Lawyers Poised to Sue Society Into Stone Age

Moonbats had hoped Copenhagen would mean economically crippling Western Civilization. Instead, they had to settle for stealing $billions upon $billions from taxpayers on behalf of Third World dictators. But we're hardly out of the woods when it comes to the profound threat to society posed by environmental extremism. Our rulers are using the EPA to impose rules too extreme even to pass a legislature so hard left that it just seized control of the healthcare industry in the face of 2 to 1 voter opposition. Then there is a certain wholly owned subsidiary of the Democrat Party, the voracious locust swarm made up of trial lawyers:
Across the country, trial lawyers and green pressure groups — if that's not redundant — are teaming up to sue electric utilities for carbon emissions under "nuisance" laws.
A group of 12 Gulf Coast residents whose homes were damaged by Katrina are suing 33 energy companies for greenhouse gas emissions that allegedly contributed to the global warming that allegedly made the hurricane worse.
This is the equivalent of suing the owner of a black cat that walked across your path before you got in an accident. It isn't just dumb to think local power companies caused Katrina; it's insane. But the inmates are running the asylum now.
Click title for more...

Some After Christmas Blogging... First Reads...

noreply@blogger.com (Gaius Lawrenitis Negris) — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 15:44:00 +0000

Merry (after) Christmas folks, I hope your Christmas was better than mine, frankly mind sucked. Was trapped in the apartment because of the heavy snow not to mention the fact that the management of my apartment complex was too fucken cheep to even bother to spread some salt and sand in the parking lots leaving many residents stranded.
Was also perplexed that when I was able to escape for a minute every fucken Walmart and hardware store had no salt or shovels I guess the idiots who run these stores don’t watch the damn weather. You mean to tell me that Walmart was unable to adequately stock the shelves with necessary items particularly after being warned that 2/3rds of the freaken country was going to be snowed in?

My Christmas was also obvious tempered by my current personal issues as those of you who bothered to read the soap opera from weeks prior are well aware of. I really did miss the grandkids frankly without the beaming faces of young kids on Christmas eve/day the holiday would be pointless.
After receiving numerous “Merry Christmas” texts from friends I had to turn off the phone. I would have drank myself into a stupor except for my recent commitment to stop… er uh cut back on drinking. Those who know me would be shocked to know that I have not had a drink in a couple of weeks, not that I am an alcoholic mind you but when you are somewhat down mentally and sequestered involuntarily in a relatively small apartment the temptation to engage in what could be described as a liquid comatose is very tempting.
As for my disdain for Christmas going back to childhood the day brings about some painful memories, not that anyone died or there was some great tragedy but painful memories nonetheless.
But don’t let my crankiness get in the way of your enjoyment. I do home my peeps here had a great holiday because someone needs to enjoy the day even if I can’t.

I still have no computer at the crib although thanks to my cell I do read as much as I can stand on the tiny screen so I am not quite as out of touch as I could be.

So forgive me if I link to some older items you may have already seen.

When legerdemain is used to pass an unpopular bill

By: Michael Barone
Senior Political Analyst - Washington Examiner

It's time to blow the whistle on two erroneous statements that opponents and proponents of the health care legislation being jammed through Congress have been making. Republicans have been saying that never before has Congress passed such an unpopular bill with such important ramifications by such a narrow majority. Barack Obama has been saying that passage of the bill will mean that the health care issue will be settled once and for all.

The Republicans and Obama are both wrong. But perhaps they can be forgiven because the precedent for Congress passing an unpopular bill is an old one, and the issue it addressed has long been settled, though not by the legislation in question.

That legislation was the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854. Its lead sponsor was Stephen A. Douglas, at 41 in his eighth year as senator from Illinois, the most dynamic leader of a Democratic Party that had won the previous presidential election by 254 electoral votes to 42.

Douglas' legislative prowess far exceeded that of current Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. To hold together his 60 Senate Democrats, Reid simply dispensed favors -- eternal Medicaid financing for Ben Nelson's Nebraska, a hospital grant for Chris Dodd's Connecticut, more rural health money for Byron Dorgan's North Dakota and Montana's Max Baucus.

Douglas did something far more difficult. He got the Senate to pass a bill some of whose provisions were supported by half of the Senate plus Douglas and some of which were supported by the other half plus Douglas. After passage, Douglas spent a day getting drunk -- a consolation unavailable to the teetotaling Reid.

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10 Reasons Why the Christmas Day Pants Bomber Will Be Blogged Endlessly. - Althouse

I won’t blog about it because I have always believed that these fucken people want to kill us… ALL OF US and they will continue to test us until they can come up with the next 9/11 scale attack. This despite the fact that liberals, Democrats and Obama STILL don’t believe there is a threat. Talk to the average idiot liberal and they are like “I just don’t understand why the hate us so” BECAUSE YOU ARE AN AMERICAN JACKASS…
They don’t care that you liberals are appeasers and feel sorry for them and pass legislation that aids the terrorists. Hence the old term “Islam’s Useful Idiots.”

How Seriously Should We Take the Christmas Bomber? - American Spectator

One question is whether we should be more scared of Al Qaeda (assuming they are somehow linked to the attack) or less scared because the attack was bungled in a fashion worthy of a slapstick comedy? In some circles, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab quickly became known as the "crotch bomber."

Oh God I see an episode of Family Guy... Quagmire... pilot but the bomber is a woman.... OH SHIT I BETTER GET CREDIT FOR THIS... LOL!

More Terror...

Fretting: Nearly 2 of 3 expect terror trials to spark attack - World Net Daily

Survey: Fear of retribution very real across America

Nearly two out of three Americans expect another new terror attack to accompany the New York City court trials for detainees who are suspects in the 9/11 attacks in 2001, according to a new poll from Fritz Wenzel of Wenzel Strategies.

"The fear of retribution from terrorists is very real all across America, the survey shows. Nearly two out of every three respondents – 61 percent – said they think it is likely that New York City will experience a terrorist attack, either before, during, or immediately after the terrorist trials," Wenzel said.

"Just 28 percent said they thought it was unlikely that such an attack would occur. In a year that saw President Obama's job approval rating move from 69 percent positive the day after he took office to just 41 percent positive in this survey, this has got to be seen as one of the reasons. Obama has pursued an agenda that has been opposed by a majority of Americans since their announcement, and as he continues to push them through to fruition, the American public is responding with unprecedented negativity," he said.

Sharp-dressed man aided terror suspect
Asked ticket agents whether Mutallab could board without passport
--MLive.com

Make sure you check this out...

I saw this idiot bitch on the Today show this morning and she flat lied through her teeth.
Is there anybody in Obama’s administration capable of talking without lying? Bunch of damn retards!

Clown Napolitano now says the system failed - Another Black Conservative

and this on Fausta's Blog - Janet Napolitano’s Emily Litella moment

Father of Nigerian terror suspect sought government help to no avail before airline attack

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab's father first reached out to Nigerian security agencies two months ago and a month later to foreign security agencies about his concerns that his son had disappeared and ceased contact with the family, the family said in a statement. U.S. authorities said that in November, Abdulmutallab's father visited the U.S. embassy in Abuja, Nigeria, to discuss his concerns about his son's religious beliefs.

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Ok here is a really old piece that was on Conservative Black Woman. I had it bookmarked but forgot to post last week.
Frankly every delusional Democrat/Liberal Negro needs to read this…

National Health Care Is A Trick. Will You Be Duped?

Denmark Versey, self described blackest man on the internet wrote National Health Care Is A Trick. The Slaves of The Modern Era Will Be Bound Not With Chains But With Pills & Debt (Redux) and deconstructs how and why some people (especially Ohama sychophants) are so easily duped. What a clever guy.....

"Denmark Vesey said ...

After the Emancipation Proclamation, only a handful of freed slaves immediately separated themselves from their former masters. Lacking either the resources or will to be free, the vast majority elected not to leave the security and safety of the plantation.

These partially emancipated slaves (sharecroppers) transitioned to a new economic and political reality, that bound them to the land, made them politically impotent, and kept them in perpetual debt. Stuck in the matrix of a simultaneously adversarial yet completely dependent relationship with the Plantation, these people became the first Plantation Negros.

The Plantation Negro reasoned, at least he could eat, even though he was not free. They were fed a diet designed to keep them alive, while costing the plantation as little as possible. However, early plantation negros were resilient and resourceful. They were able to supplement their diets with organic vegetables and naturally raised animals.

As the summer of the agrarian era evolved into a cold industrial winter, Plantation Negros developed relationships with the Factory. In exchange for safety and security, the Factory ensured the Plantation Negro a home. However, he remained politically impotent and as he was integrated into the culture of consumption, he became increasingly in debt.

Again, the Plantation Negro reasoned even though he was not free, at least he could eat. Tragically, now living in urban areas, the Plantation Negro was not able to supplement his diet by working the earth. The Factory filled this void by manufacturing cheap processed food which destroyed the organs of Plantation Negros and made disease inevitable. Now, added to the cost of housing and food, the Plantation Negro suddenly found himself saddled by something called Health Care costs.

What promised to be the spring of the Digital era witnessed a change in the relationship between the Plantation Negro and the Factory. It became a relationship between the Plantation Negro and the Corporation. In exchange for safety and security, the Plantation Negro was able to get multiple mortgages, credit cards, and school loans so the Plantation could educate his children.

Although he remained politically impotent and in insurmountable debt the Plantation Negro reasoned he could at least get Health Care.

As the bubble of the Digital era pops, the Plantation Negro finds himself wading in the tumultuous waters of economic upheaval, social collapse and an impending tsunami of disease. The Plantation that became the Factory which became the Corporation is now masquerading as the Government.

In exchange for safety and security, the Government provides housing by insuring mortgages, it finances debt and educates children. As an extension of its patronage, the Corpaorate / Government will continue to feed Plantation Negros an increasingly toxic diet of genetically modified food and prescription drugs, that not only makes them sick, but appears to sterilize the Plantation Population as well.

This year the Plantation / Factory / Corporate / Government is introducing a new product. It is called National (Plantation) Health Care. Sadly Plantation Negros think the same people who poisoned them are actually offering an antidote.

Well well...

Obamacare: Santa Harry's Sleigh Full of New Health Taxes - Human Events

Now for those of us on the right none of this is a shock to us in fact we all knew this prior to the Magic Negro being elected. However just in case there are those Obama fans and left wing types who mistakenly visit and who continue to keep their heads firmly entrenched in a tight lower region orifice feel free to educated yourself.

While hastily ramming his 2,457-page, $2.5 trillion ObamaCare package through the Senate before Christmas, Majority Leader Harry Reid (D – Nevada) must see himself as Saint Nick. High atop his sleigh, Santa Harry has piled 12 brand-new taxes and six tax hikes totaling $398.1 billion.

“If your family earns less than $250,000 a year, you will not see your taxes increased a single dime,” President Obama told Congress on February 24. “I repeat: Not a single dime.”

He also said it here:

Oh remember this...Obama "tax cuts": for those making under....

3 months ago this commercial ran... I guess nobody gave a shit back then...
Obama's 'Health Care' Plan to Create 8 NEW TAXES

I digress.... back to the article

This remains technically true. For families earning less than $250,000, taxes would rise between 2010 and 2019 by much more than a single dime. According to Americans for Tax Reform, seven of Santa Harry’s tax hikes violate Obama’s pledge and collectively cost $81.8 billion. These include:

*A $2.7 billion levy on indoor tanning salons that Reid imposed after ditching a plastic-surgery tax. He just as arbitrarily could tax haircuts, or heirloom tomatoes, or Hula Hoops. Why not a tax on guys named Harry?

*A $5 billion Medicine Cabinet Tax specifically permits insulin purchases but otherwise prohibits using money in Health Savings Accounts, Flexible Spending Accounts, or Health Reimbursement Accounts for non-prescription, over-the-counter medications. While diabetics thankfully are spared, how does this benefit those who use antacids or asthma inhalers?

*A $15 billion individual mandate would force Americans to buy health insurance. In 2014, those without “qualifying,” government-approved coverage would pay $495 or 0.5 percent of Adjusted Gross Income, whichever is higher. In 2016, that rises to 2 percent of AGI, or approximately $640 today.

*A $15.2 billion tax requires costs to reach 10 percent of AGI, up from 7.5 percent, before Americans may deduct itemized medical expenses.

*A $28 billion tax would hit employers who do not provide health coverage to their payrolls of at least 50 employees. If only one worker qualifies for a healthcare tax credit, the employer must pay a fine of $750 on all 50 staffers, not just the one tax-credited employee. For 50 staffers, this penalty equals $37,500 annually. Small-business owners who file personal returns and earn below $250,000 will suffer this tax themselves.

Senator Mike Crapo (R – Idaho) tried to enforce Obama’s pledge by deleting from ObamaCare all taxes on families earning less than $250,000 and individuals making under $200,000. Every Republican supported Crapo’s amendment. All but five Democrats ganged up and killed it.

Beyond the $250,000 threshold, Santa Harry’s sleigh overflows with other new taxes:

*A $149.1 billion, 40 percent excise tax awaits those with “Cadillac” health plans worth at least $8,500 per individual and $23,000 per family. These taxes, the Congressional Budget Office predicts, “would be largely passed through to consumers in the form of higher premiums for private coverage.” Also — in an affront to equality before the law — Longshoremen are exempt from this tax. Why not ship captains, or nurses, or test pilots?

*An additional $59.6 billion tax on health insurance companies also will make costly coverage costlier.

*A $22.2 billion tax on drug companies would increase price pressures and slash funds available for pharmaceutical research and development.

*A $19.2 billion medical-device tax would boost prices of hearing aids, heart stents, artificial limbs, and similar implements and divert money to Washington that could refine such products and create new therapeutic, life-saving inventions.

Despite this massive picking of citizens’ empty pockets, ObamaCare still would leave 24 million Americans uninsured. Among them, Reid claimed Monday, “On average, an American dies from lack of health insurance every 10 minutes.” If true, 210,384 Americans will drop dead waiting until 2014 for the start of ObamaCare’s benefits, such as they are. Why are profligate Democrats so desperate to do so little so slowly for so few?

All this is possible thanks to the Senate’s Kremlinesque procedural vote last Sunday night/Monday morning at 1:08 AM. Liberal Democrats once chanted “The whole world is watching.” Santa Harry and his snow-covered Democratic elves built a sleigh full of tax hikes while the whole world was sleeping.

2009: Could Have Been Worse - Obama's First Year.
by William Kristol

The American public seem to have decided--personal goodwill toward the man notwithstanding--that President Obama is not doing a particularly good job, that more big government liberalism is the last thing we need, and that, yes, American exceptionalism isn't a bad thing or an out-of-date idea.

So our Man of the Year is the American citizen. He's sensible, resistant to being herded around like a sheep, and invigorated with, in the words of Federalist 39, "that honorable determination which
animates every votary of freedom, to rest all our political experiments on the capacity of mankind for self-government." (Needless to say, our Man of the Year includes many women--it's striking how much of the resistance to Obamaism has come from spirited American women.)

Resistance is admirable, but it's not enough. It needs to be accompanied by a winning political and governing agenda. Indeed, one might say that the success of our political experiment in self-government depends on the right today having a compelling agenda for the future.

READ FULL ARTICLE HERE

Interesting...Moronic liberals on the far left won’t listen and frankly that is good news for the country…

Dems should heed Daley's steer-to-the-center advice - Found on Jewish World Review

By David Broder

On the day before Christmas, President Obama found two presents under his tree. One was the health-care reform bill passed that morning by the Senate, a historic measure so freighted with promise and problems that it could blow up.

The other was an op-ed in The Post by William Daley, his fellow Chicagoan and one of the canniest Democrats I know, warning Obama that he is on the verge of losing his hold on the vital center of politics.

Daley, a former commerce secretary who shares with his brother, Mayor Richard M. Daley, and their late father an iron grip on reality, cited all the signs of defection among swing voters whose support in 2006 and 2008 swelled Democratic ranks in Congress and elected Obama. He ticked off the losses Democrats suffered in the only two gubernatorial elections of 2009, in New Jersey and Virginia; the polls showing independents rejecting Democrats (and such handiwork as the health-care bill); a wave of early retirements by marginal House members; and, last week, the party switch by Alabama Rep. Parker Griffith from Democratic to Republican.

To be sure, there are counter-indicators not mentioned by Daley, including a string of special election congressional victories for the Democrats, culminating in New York's 23rd District. The Republican civil war that enabled this upset is symptomatic of a growing GOP liability that could cripple the party's comeback hopes.

But this does not weaken the thrust of Daley's main argument. His target is the left of his party -- the grass-roots liberal activists who condemn the centrist Democrats sitting in marginal seats for blocking some provisions of health-care reform, for example, and the leaders of organized labor who threaten to retaliate by withholding their support from the moderates.

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Enjoy Christmas, Enrage Liberals

noreply@blogger.com (Gaius Lawrenitis Negris) — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 18:27:00 +0000

Transcript... from Rush

"Let me make a departure from all of this health care stuff and describe for you a story that I think is perfect, a perfect story for today that illustrates one of the great challenges we face as a country. It is from The Nation. The Nation is the magazine edited by Hurricane Katrina vanden Heuvel. It's a far-left publication. It's way, way, way out there. "New Wars on Christmas Target Gifts, Santa, Lights," and they're all happy about this. "Along with fruitcake and caroling, one of the many traditions to look forward to in December is the annual 'War on Christmas,' in which religious and conservative activists and pundits accuse secularists and innocent fans of the phrase 'Happy Holidays' of stripping Christianity from the occasion. But this year, seasonal skirmishes have broken out on new fronts. In these new fights, it's not that the holiday is sliding down a slippery slope away from the manger. Instead, it's that Christmas is bad for the economy, bad for your health and bad for the environment:

"While those reindeer sweaters and charming dress socks you put under the tree are good for the retail business, Joel Waldfogel, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, has been spending recent weeks railing against Christmas gift-giving, arguing that it's an inefficient way to spend money that costs the country $25 billion a year. In his book, 'Scroogenomics: Why You Shouldn't Buy Presents for the Holidays,' Waldfogel says gifts generate less satisfaction than things we buy ourselves. We don't really know what other people want, he says, but we do know what we want. Because of this, in his view, Christmas shopping is 'an orgy of wealth destruction' as we spend on things people don't value as much as the money we pay for them. 'I'm not against spending, just sloppy spending,' Waldfogel said on NPR's Tell Me More. In one experiment, Waldfogel asked his students to rate the level of satisfaction they had with gifts they were given.

"From this survey, he determined that gifts generate an average of 20 percent less satisfaction than things we buy for ourselves," which, my friends, is totally missing the point of giving a gift at Christmas. If you're a secularist, you'll never get it. If you're a pointy-headed academic elite, you'll never get it. Gift giving at Christmas is to remind us of the gift that God gave us with the birth of Jesus and the story surrounding that. "He says this is not true of gifts we buy for our closest family members and friends, who we know well enough to gift accurately." I would also point out: Is it any of this guy's business who we give what to and how much we spend on it? The theory behind this should not be surprising to economists who know well that consumers are best equipped to make decisions about purchasing for themselves.

"'That's frankly the basis of many economists' disdain for government. Because after all, when government chooses for us, they get us the wrong health care program, the wrong color shirt, the bridge to nowhere. And so this notion that we're best situated to choose for ourselves is a pretty basic notion and fairly a commonsense one,' Waldfogel said." Except the government's not giving us "gifts." It's just the exact opposite: The government is trying to imprison us. "While the theory may bear up to microeconomic scrutiny, others say Waldfogel is missing the point altogether: Giving gifts is good for society." Then they move on to something else they approve of at The Nation. That is "The War on Santa's Gut," and that is new this year. That is that Santa Claus is too fat. There's no such thing as this jolly roly-poly guy. People don't dress like that anyway when we're big and fat because it emphasizes how big they are.

It sends the wrong message to kids. Kids were counseled this year that when they went to see Santa Claus wherever he was, they should tell Santa to lose weight. "Last week, Australian public health expert Dr. Nathan Grills of Monash University..." All this stuff comes from these pointy-headed elites in academia, which is one of the Four Corners of Deceit in our country today. Government, Media, Acedemia, and Science are the Four Corners of Deceit. "Last week, Australian public health expert Dr. Nathan Grills of Monash University was called a 'killjoy' and a 'scrooge' in the media for an article he wrote suggesting Santa Claus was promoting bad health habits. The article, called 'Santa Claus: A public health pariah?' was published at bmj.com, a British medical journal, and suggested that Santa was sending the wrong message with his obesity, drunk sleigh-driving, speeding and generally bad lifestyle choices."

Oh, I guess then we could take the kids to an average holiday movie, or let 'em watch an average television show for a while and let 'em being exposed to really good role models instead of this dreaded Santa Claus! The other thing The Nation approved of was the war on your neighbors' light display. "As Christmas trees went up and light displays started flashing around the world, some people cringed at the thought of the electricity required to light the season. One environmental group, the Energy Justice Network, is providing tickets on their Web site for people to hand out to egregious offenders of Christmas light waste." Remember when I was telling you earlier in the show that once this health care stuff happens, that we're going to be pitting ourselves against each other for government services, and we're going to be ratting each other out and telling the government on each other in order to perhaps put ourselves in better shape of getting government service like health care?

I really mean it. You are going to see your neighbor with a bunch of flat-screen TVs maybe more than you "should have" or too big, and you're going to call the pollution control police, and they'll come to your house. This stuff is not without the realm of possibility. "Many of these light detractors suggest swapping out traditional Christmas lights with LED (light-emitting diodes) strings, which can be 90 percent more efficient. LED lights are used in the five miles of lights on Rockefeller Center's Christmas tree and in the 32,256 lights in the New Year's Eve ball in Times Square." Now, this story is datelined today from The Nation, a liberal journal of publication, and I think it's perfect. It's about the war on Christmas and how excited they are about it. Because, my friends, I am not going to participate in this killing of Christmas. They can try but they can't take it away from us. It's beyond what they know.

These secularists have no clue what it is. They are threatened by it. They can't leave well-enough alone, because it is other people's faith in God that scares them to death. I, for one -- and I hope you're one, too -- refuse to let these people succeed year after year, wearing away the joy and the wonder and the true meaning of this time of year and this marvelous holiday. We have to hold fast on many fronts, and this is one. So as we go into this weekend of celebration of the gift God gave us all, I will set aside the socialist scrooges who refuse to let the rest of us live the lives so many fought to give us. We'll get back to battle next week, but as of today and the rest of this week I'm going to enjoy life and my family and my faith, and I'm going to try and relax. But when you are a powerful, influential member of the media like me in constant demand, relaxation is a true luxury. But I'm still going to pursue it. And I bought a ton of presents. Well, I sent somebody out to buy a ton of presents. We bought a ton of presents. I can't tell you how many."

The Nation: New Wars on Christmas Target Gifts, Santa, Lights

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White House Says “Have A Wonderful Socialist Transvestite Christmas”

From Moonbattery

By now you have heard that radical leftist Jane Hamster of the far out space nut lefty blog Firebitchlake, has jumped ship and is opposing ObamaCare . In addition to be angry about the lack of a disastrous "public option," she also points out that ObamaCare is a huge tax increase on the middle class. Waitaminute? Isn't that exactly what those tea party people Jane Hamster and all of the left were hating on all summer were saying? Is Hamster tacitly admitting we were right all along.
Answer: Yes, but because she's a leftist, she'll pretend she came up with it on her own.
Remember last summer when a tranny freakazoid named Maurice Schwenkler/Princess Ariel vandalized a Democrat Party Headquarters and Democrat operatives blamed tea party patriots? Well, the freakazoid pleaded guilty yesterday and was fined $5,000. Considering the SEUI only paid him/her/it $500, that's a net loss of $4,500. Princess Ariel should have consulted with Han Solo on the economics of rebellion.
The Green Left has deemed Christmas Light displays offensive to the one true goddess, Gaia. So, the Energy Justice Network is urging ordinary citizens far out space nuts of the left to download and issue "Christmas Police Violation tickets" to neighbors with light displays.

Amazing... Obama Throws Americans Under the Bus: Gives Interpol Immunity

noreply@blogger.com (Gaius Lawrenitis Negris) — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 18:17:00 +0000

Found this article via Atlas Shrugs

By Andy McCarthy - National Review

Why Does Interpol Need Immunity from American Law?

You just can't make up how brazen this crowd is. One week ago, President Obama quietly signed an executive order that makes an international police force immune from the restraints of American law.

Interpol is the shorthand for the International Criminal Police Organization. It was established in 1923 and operates in about 188 countries. By executive order 12425, issued in 1983, President Reagan recognized Interpol as an international organization and gave it some of the privileges and immunities customarily extended to foreign diplomats. Interpol, however, is also an active law-enforcement agency, so critical privileges and immunities (set forth in Section 2(c) of the International Organizations Immunities Act) were withheld. Specifically, Interpol's property and assets remained subject to search and seizure, and its archived records remained subject to public scrutiny under provisions like the Freedom of Information Act. Being constrained by the Fourth Amendment, FOIA, and other limitations of the Constitution and federal law that protect the liberty and privacy of Americans is what prevents law-enforcement and its controlling government authority from becoming tyrannical.

On Wednesday, however, for no apparent reason, President Obama issued an executive order removing the Reagan limitations. That is, Interpol's property and assets are no longer subject to search and confiscation, and its archives are now considered inviolable. This international police force (whose U.S. headquarters is in the Justice Department in Washington) will be unrestrained by the U.S. Constitution and American law while it operates in the United States and affects both Americans and American interests outside the United States.

Interpol works closely with international tribunals (such as the International Criminal Court — which the United States has refused to join because of its sovereignty surrendering provisions, though top Obama officials want us in it). It also works closely with foreign courts and law-enforcement authorities (such as those in Europe that are investigating former Bush administration officials for purported war crimes — i.e., for actions taken in America's defense).
Why would we elevate an international police force above American law? Why would we immunize an international police force from the limitations that constrain the FBI and other American law-enforcement agencies? Why is it suddenly necessary to have, within the Justice Department, a repository for stashing government files which, therefore, will be beyond the ability of Congress, American law-enforcement, the media, and the American people to scrutinize?

Steve Schippert has more at ThreatsWatch, here.

Not even a Democrat can put me in a bad mood today…

noreply@blogger.com (Gaius Lawrenitis Negris) — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 14:28:00 +0000

Ok let us see if that holds true....

Some morning reads... as always click titles for full reads...

The Secret Plan to Pass a Global Tax - Accuracy in Media

The global tax is being called “the Robin Hood tax,” in order to convince people that it is somehow designed to take money away from rich people in order to help the poor.

With President Barack Obama attacking "fat cat bankers on Wall Street," left-wing non-governmental organizations (NGOs) see a great opportunity to pass a global tax on financial transactions that could generate at least $700 billion a year from the U.S. and other "rich" countries. They are expecting Obama's support.

The banks are a key target because of the "anger" that already exists against them for their roles in the global financial crisis, says a detailed 13-page memorandum from Max Lawson of the foreign aid group Oxfam.

Calling the global Financial Transactions Tax (FTT) "an idea whose time has come," Lawson says in his memorandum that "politically the time is now" to pass such a tax. "It will take some great campaigning but I think we can do this," he says in a message introducing the memo.
Lawson explains, "The global anger against the bankers; the huge pressure on rich country budgets; the need for money in 2010 to rescue the MDGs [Millennium Development Goals] and from failure; to protect poor countries from the economic crisis; and the need to come up with money for climate change to unlock a global deal. All combine to make a very strong political backdrop."

The MDGs were established by the United Nations to make sure that the U.S. and other Western nations devote 0.7 percent of Gross National Product to official development assistance or foreign aid. As a Senator, Obama had introduced a bill, the Global Poverty Act, to mandate U.S. compliance with the MDGs at an estimated cost of $845 billion.

Lawson, head of development and finance for Oxfam in Britain, has distributed his 13-page memorandum to members of NGOs in the U.S. and other countries. "There is potentially plenty of money here for all of our issues," he tells them.

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It’s All a Lie: Copenhagen and Global Warming

By Alan Caruba - AIM Guest Column

As delegates in Copenhagen wrap up the greatest fraud perpetrated worldwide in the modern era, there is only one thing you need to know. It is all a lie.
It was a lie from the first moment a scientist like James Hansen told Congress on June 23, 1988 that the planet was going to be roasted by greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and it was a lie when Al Gore wrote Earth in the Balance and there were still more lies in his Oscar-winning documentary, An Inconvenient Truth.

A British court banned the documentary from being shown in their schools unless a long list of disclaimers was read to the students before his lies were inflicted on them. American students were not so fortunate. Indeed, as I have said many times before, global warming has been a form of child abuse, causing needless anxiety and fear for countless children on whom it was inflicted.

But how could such a lie be perpetrated on such a vast stage and for so long? My answer to you is "the Soviet Union." From its inception in 1917 when the czarist monarchy was overthrown and Marxist theory, Communism, was imposed on Russia, whole generations were forced to suffer under this huge lie that the state would provide everything for everybody.
It is such a popular lie that it has been resurrected in Venezuela, Bolivia, and Ecuador. It returned the Sandinistas to power in Nicaragua. In the last century, millions died under the Communist banner, but that lie never seems to die.

Little wonder then that, when Hugo Chávez, Venezuela's communist dictator addressed the conference, Andrew Bolt of Australia's Herald-Sun reported that he received "a rousing round of applause." He was followed by Zimbabwe's despicable president, Robert Mugabe, who decried "these capitalist gods of carbon burp and belch their dangerous emissions."

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Too Many Democrats in Washington

One Democrat is too many... but hey that's just me

By Peter Ferrara - The American Spectator

The Senate's votes this week on the pending government takeover of health care are highly instructive. With all 60 Democrats voting yes, and all 40 Republicans voting no, the simplistic homily that there is no difference between the parties has now proven to be a very costly fallacy.
This has been a persistent pattern all year. When campaigning for office in 2008, candidate Obama promised the American people a new era of post-partisanship, where he would bring Democrats and Republicans together to solve the nation's problems. There was nothing in Obama's ultraliberal background to suggest he would be remotely capable of this. Sure enough, since his election, this promise of post-partisanship has proven to be boob bait for the gullible.

President Obama's first initiative, the almost $1 trillion supposed "stimulus" bill, was passed on a virtual party-line vote, with almost all of the Democrats and almost none of the Republicans. Obama refused to make any significant concession to any Republican ideas for restoring economic growth. "I won the election," he told them in laughing their proposals down. But that is not what he told the voters to get their support.

A couple of weeks later, Congressional Democrats passed a $400 billion Omnibus spending bill on another party-line vote, pumping up federal spending even more. A couple of weeks after that, Congress passed President Obama's budget on a party-line vote, again with no concessions to Republicans to gain bipartisan support, again in violation of his campaign promise to voters. A few weeks after that, the same thing, as the House passed the President's cap and trade tax bill on a virtual party line vote. Then the House did the same with its health bill. Now we have the completely partisan Senate vote as well.

Here is what the Democrats are supporting in their health policy atrocity:

The Government Takeover of Health Care...
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Also check out...

President Obama: The Drugmakers' Best Friend

While President Barack Obama has presented his federal health care takeover as an assault on the special interests, the legislation actually was written and supported by many of the very same special interests. The pharmaceutical industry is a big one.

Voters Overwhelmingly Oppose Using Health Care Reform to Pay for Abortions

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Rep. Stupak: White House Pressuring Me to Keep Quiet on Abortion Language in Senate Health Bill - CNS News
“They think I shouldn’t be expressing my views on this bill until they get a chance to try to sell me the language,” Stupak told CNSNews.com in an interview on Tuesday. “Well, I don’t need anyone to sell me the language. I can read it. I’ve seen it. I’ve worked with it. I know what it says. I don’t need to have a conference with the White House. I have the legislation in front of me here.”

Landrieu Lies About Cost-Cutting in Senate HC Bill

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Obamacare Bankrupting States - Human Events

President Barack Obama intoned ominously just last week that “the federal government will go bankrupt” unless his federal takeover of health care passes Congress. Few believe the rising costs resulting from this health care bill will be much of a protection against bankruptcy. One thing is for sure, though: passage of the health care bill with a massive expansion of Medicaid will bankrupt the states.

Ohio spends 39 percent of its state budget a year on Medicaid. Massachusetts spends 27 percent. On average, states fork over 20 percent of their annual spending on this joint state-federal program that originally began to assist women and children in poverty and the disabled.

Now Congress is considering the inclusion of a massive expansion of Medicaid in the Obamacare bill, one that will dump about 18 million Americans into a program that, according to a broad consensus, provides substandard medical coverage. Nelson claims he urged Sen. Reid to drop the Medicaid provision, but since that is the foundation for Reid’s bill, he isn’t going to do it. Hence Nelson’s sweetheart deal. Exempting Nebraska won’t kill the bill. Exempting all the states would.

Who is going to get stuck with half the price tag? The states. Well, the states minus Nebraska. And probably Nevada, where Reid is trying desperately not to get the voters’ boot. Reid and other deal makers are trying to camouflage the impact, saying the federal government will pay more of a percentage for new enrollees, but within five years the responsibility would fall entirely on the states -- states which even now cannot meet their Medicaid responsibilities.

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Oh this shit pissed me off... Found on Hot Air

Clyburn: What Capitol Hill needs is a lot more vote buying

My, how times have changed. In 2006, Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats won majorities in both chambers of Congress by running against the “culture of corruption,” pledging to operate openly and honestly on Capitol Hill. Two years later, Barack Obama rode to victory by pledging to change the way Washington DC operates, declaring that he would lead the most open and transparent government ever. Now Rep. James Clyburn, as House Majority Whip the third-ranking Democrat in the House, has declared that Republicans should join Democrats in buying and selling votes rather than complain about the corruption on Capitol Hill:

U.S. House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn, D-S.C., said Republicans need to stop complaining about deals their colleagues made.
“Rather than sitting here and carping about what Nelson got for Nebraska, I would say to my friends on the other side of the aisle: Let’s get together and see what we can get for South Carolina,” Clyburn said.
Clyburn responded to the news that his state’s Attorney General, along with AGs in other states, would investigate the grubby deals made by Harry Reid to pass his ObamaCare bill. Those deals got hidden in a manager’s amendment that didn’t see the light of day until just hours before Reid presented it for a procedural vote in the Senate. They favor some states at the expense of others, which is why these AGs want to challenge both the constitutionality of the bill and shine some light on the process as well:

The top prosecutors in seven states are probing the constitutionality of a political deal that cut a funding break for Nebraska in order to pass a federal health care reform bill, South Carolina’s attorney general said Tuesday.
Attorney General Henry McMaster said he and his counterparts in Alabama, Colorado, Michigan, North Dakota, Texas and Washington state — all Republicans — are jointly taking a look at the deal they’ve dubbed the “Nebraska compromise.”
“The Nebraska compromise, which permanently exempts Nebraska from paying Medicaid costs that Texas and all other 49 states must pay, may violate the United States Constitution — as well as other provisions of federal law,” Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott said. …
Along with Texas, officials in Washington, Alabama, Colorado and Michigan confirmed they were working with McMaster.
It seems unlikely that the states can do anything unless the bill gets passed into law. Members of Congress are exempt from arrest while Congress remains in session. They also wouldn’t have jurisdiction for a criminal complaint unless the negotiations actually took place in their states, and even then would have difficulty selling this as bribery to a court. A federal court may wind up striking down these deals later, but only if they pass into law.
But it’s certainly corrupt, and Clyburn’s response is illuminating. As we have already seen, Democrats had no intention of ending the “culture of corruption” in DC — they just wanted to be in charge of it. And now their hubris has grown to the point where Democratic leadership cheers corruption and demands even more of it.

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Big PhRMA Payoff: Hidden Tax on Pedialyte, Prenatal Vitamins and Pain Relievers

noreply@blogger.com (Gaius Lawrenitis Negris) — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 13:59:00 +0000

If you want to see how Obamacare will hit you and your family in the wallet, look no further than the inside of your medicine cabinet. Open the cabinet door and you may see an antihistamine such as Claritin for allergies, pain relief medicine such as Tylenol or Excedrin, Pedialyte to prevent your kids from becoming dehydrated when they are sick, and prenatal vitamins if you and your spouse are expecting another one.

All of these items in your cabinet have two things in common. One is that they are classified as “over the counter” (OTC) medicines and available without a doctor’s prescription. The other is that if you pay for any of these items with money in your flexible spending account (FSA) or health savings account (HSA) – and according to this guide from FSA administrator Benesyst , all of these are eligible expenses — you will face an effective tax increase of up to 40 percent on these items in the health care bill that passed the U.S. House of Representatives and is poised to pass the U.S. Senate.
Both bills restrict individuals with these pre-tax accounts to buying a “medicine or drug only if such medicine or drug is a prescribed” one. And ironically, this tax that will raise health care costs substantially by creating incentives for the use of more expensive prescription drugs even when OTC drugs are just as safe and effective.

Read the rest at Big Government

Some other blog posts I checked out...

Democrats Exempt Federal Employees' Health Care Plans from Reforms - Wizbang

Brian Faughnan at The Conservatives has the details. It seems in order to make federal unions happy, the Democrats made sure to separate federal employees' health care plans from the plans the American public will be forced to live with. So much for allowing the American people to have the same great plans that government employees have...

Ah this is cute the liberal bimbo is trying to be creative....

Maddow Invents New Terms to Degrade Conservatives: GOP-Baggers, Tea-Publicans

On Dec. 22, when Rep. Parker Griffith of Alabama announced he would be switching from the Democratic Party to the Republican Party, it was to be expected MSNBC, the so-called "Place for Politics" would spin it in anyway imaginable. But Rachel Maddow decided to use the left's favorite boogeyman, the tea party movement, to denigrate conservatives and distract from what could be real problems for House Democrats.
During the Dec. 22 broadcast of "The Rachel Maddow Show," Maddow interpreted a joint conference call with Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele and FreedomWorks chairman Dick Armey to mean that the grassroots activism known as the tea party movement and the Republican Party had made peace. So, in the spirit of name-calling and low-brow humor, which the Maddow program has shown is one of its assets, Maddow contrived new titles for this movement

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I will never cease to be amazed at how liberals are perfectly willing to be such mindless fucking retards even while the camera lights are on…

Chris Matthews: Republicans Have Become Party of the Confederacy - Newsbusters

Chris Matthews on Wednesday claimed the Republicans have gone from being the Party of Lincoln to the Party of the Confederacy.
Amazing, isn't it?
During a "Hardball" discussion about Wednesday's surprise defection of Rep. Parker Griffith (R-Ala.) to the GOP, Matthews asked Republican strategist Todd Harris: "[A]re you building the right kind of Republican Party, or are you building a party off the discards of the Democrats? Are you going to keep building your party with Dixiecrats?"
That led to the following disgusting remark (click link for video and transcript, via Story Balloon)

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Some links via Michelle Malkin - And her column: Beltway Christmas: Cash for corruptocrats

Democrat Sen. Mary “Louisiana Purchase” Landrieu defended her payoff while declaring that she “can’t be bought.”Democrat Sen. Tom “Iowa Bounty” Harkin dismissed the hundreds of millions of taxpayer-subsidized gifts to pols in the Demcare package as “small stuff.” And don’t even get me started on the 1,720 earmarks worth more than $4 billion in the defense appropriations bill. It’s nothing new, the Dems say in their defense. And that is precisely the point, isn’t it?
Related developments: More lawmakers — hello, Rep. James Clyburn — are lining up for Ben Nelson bonanzas — while attorneys general in seven states are investigating the legality of the deal.
Of course, sometimes it’s not what’s illegal in Washington, but what’s entirely legal, that perturbs.

The Democrats are right. Sleazy bribes and pork payoffs didn’t start with their government health care takeover bill. They’ve been doling out taxpayer-funded goodies for votes all year. Harry Reid’s latest Cash for Cloture deals are the culmination of Washington’s 2009 shopping spree at our expense.

According to a new study by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, Democrat districts have raked in nearly twice as much porkulus money as GOP districts – without regard to the actual economic suffering and job loss in those districts.

In fact, the researchers found far more stimulus money went to higher-income areas than lower-income areas.
That includes Democrat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s backyard – where a $54 million no-bid contract was awarded to a firm with little experience to relocate a luxury Bay Area wine train due to flood concerns.

And it includes Barack Obama’s home state of Illinois, which reaped the single biggest earmark in the porkulus bill – $1 billion for the dubious FutureGen near-zero emissions “clean coal” plant earmark championed by disgraced Democrat and former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich and Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin.

Democrat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s backyard – where he secured billions in high-speed rail stimulus earmarks from which he plans to fund a pie-in-the-sky public transportation line from Los Angeles to Las Vegas.

Leading the charge for the Cash for Cronies of Color drive: California Democrat Rep. Maxine Waters, who had already extracted $12 million in TARP funds for OneUnited, a minority-owned bank that is one of her key campaign donors and a company in which both Waters and her husband own massive amounts of stock.

the latest wealth redistribution scheme disguised as health care reform. In addition to the infamous $300 million “Louisiana Purchase” for Democrat Sen. Mary Landrieu and the (at least) $45 million “Cornhusker Kickback” for sellout Democrat Sen. Ben Nelson of Nebraska, Harry Reid threw around other, less-publicized gobs of cash for cloture votes to cut off debate and ram the bill through. He tossed in a Hospital Helper of $100 million to Connecticut Democrat Sen. Chris Dodd, whose re-election bid is in hot water.

And there’s a $10 billion socialized medicine sop to Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders for “community health clinics” serving in essence as universal health care satellite offices. “We are talking about a revolution” here, Sanders enthused during the Senate’s sneaky Sunday session. No, revolution will come when taxpayers have a chance to kick these reverse Santa Clauses posing as saviors out of office. It can’t happen a minute too soon.

Merry Christmas to all... even you liberals... Lord help you...

noreply@blogger.com (Gaius Lawrenitis Negris) — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 12:51:00 +0000

Blue Dog Democrat jumps sinking ship...

noreply@blogger.com (Gaius Lawrenitis Negris) — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 19:08:00 +0000

Found via the blog: Another Black Conservative

This ought to make Nancy Pelosi a little jittery today. Alabama House Rep. Parker Griffith is becoming a Republican today. Parker has opposed almost all the Democrat’s legislation, including the stimulus. I guess there is at least one Democrat who stands on principle.

From Politico:

POLITICO has learned that Rep. Parker Griffith, a freshman Democrat from Alabama, will announce today that he’s switching parties to become a Republican.
According to two senior GOP aides familiar with the decision, the announcement will take place this afternoon in Griffith's district in northern Alabama.
Griffith’s party switch comes on the eve of a pivotal congressional health care vote and will send a jolt through a Democratic House Caucus that has already been unnerved by the recent retirements of a handful of members who, like Griffith, hail from districts that offer prime pickup opportunities for the GOP in 2010.
The switch represents a coup for the House Republican leadership, which had been courting Griffith since he publicly criticized the Democratic leadership in the wake of raucous town halls during the summer.
Griffith, who captured the seat in a close 2008 open seat contest, will become the first Republican to hold the historically Democratic, Huntsville-based district. A radiation oncologist who founded a cancer treatment center, Griffith plans to blast the Democratic health care bill as a prime reason for his decision to switch parties—and is expected to cite his medical background as his authority on the subject.

Some Moonbattery...

noreply@blogger.com (Gaius Lawrenitis Negris) — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 16:08:00 +0000

Idiot Al Gore humor always makes me laugh...

From Moonbattery

A little insight is gained into Al Gore, the left-wing super genius who flunked out of Vanderbilt ... twice. Here we see Al Gore and fellow Climate Genius Gordon Brown in Copenhagen... walking into a closet together.

You may have seen already...

Healthcare Monstrosity Will Mean More Money for ACORN

While the above is not a shock this sure as hell is....

Priest Advocates Shoplifting

Not even priests are immune from the moral derangement caused by moonbattery. Consider Father Tim Jones of St. Lawrence Church in York, England, who proclaimed during a Sunday sermon:

My advice as a Christian priest is to shoplift. … I would ask that they do not steal from small family businesses, but from large national businesses — knowing that the costs are ultimately passed on to the rest of us in the form of higher prices. … My advice does not contradict the Bible's eighth commandment because God's love for the poor and despised outweighs the property rights of the rich.

As for the tenth commandment, I doubt Jones read that far.

Liberal decay won't have to advance much further before we hear moral authorities declaring that killing people who own property you want to steal doesn't contradict the sixth commandment, because God's love for the lazy and shiftless outweighs blah blah blah.
If we had not forgotten that it is wrong to steal, we would not be faced today with a kleptocratic government so grotesquely massive that it threatens to crush society and reduce both Britain and the USA to 1980s Albania.

Some RACIST news...

VIDEO: Is HP’s Webcam Facial Recognition Software Racist?

From MSNBC:

A video posted on YouTube shows HP’s facial recognition software tracking the movements of a white face, but not a black one, something the video’s maker calls “racist,” but the computer giant says is definitely not.

“Everything we do is focused on ensuring that we provide a high-quality experience for all our customers who are ethnically diverse and live and work around the world,” an HP blog. “That’s why when issues surface, we take them seriously and work hard to understand the root causes.”

oh Lord.... now fucken software is racist... great...

History of climate gets 'erased' online- World Net Daily
More than 5,000 entries tailored to hype global-warming agenda

A new report reveals a British scientist and Wikipedia administrator rewrote climate history, editing more than 5,000 unique articles in the online encyclopedia to cover traces of a medieval warming period – something Climategate scientists saw as a major roadblock in the effort to spread the global warming message.
Recently hacked e-mails from the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit expose a plot to eliminate the Medieval Warm Period, a 400-year era that began around A.D. 1000, the Financial Post's Lawrence Solomon reports.
The warming period is said to have improved agriculture and increased life spans, but scientists at the center of the Climategate e-mail scandal believed the era undermined their goal of spreading concern about global warming as it pertains to today's climate.
Solomon noted the warming period presented a dilemma long before the Climategate e-mail scandal.
A 1995 e-mail predating the recent Climate Research Unit scandal was sent to geophysicist David Deming. A major climate-change researcher told Deming, "We have to get rid of the Medieval Warm Period."
Some scientists later expressed concern about erasing the period.

Time to get back to the real fun… Talking about corrupt ass Democrats!

noreply@blogger.com (Gaius Lawrenitis Negris) — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 15:00:00 +0000

Well folks as I am finally starting to put the personal issues behind me I am now able to start paying more attention to political stuff.
I will admit I have paid little or no attention to much political stuff over the past couple of months. I can’t tell you the last time I read any of the blogs on my sidebar; yes I have been a little distracted.

But I have been paying some attention to the corrupt ass Democrats and this health care bill shit. I have always believed that Democrats were some of the most corrupt morally bankrupt people on the planet but these back room deals they cooked to get some moderate Democrats to cave are downright criminal.

The one bright spot in all of this is the fact that if this bill is signed into law it will almost assure that Democrats will be swept out of office across the country and Obama will indeed be limited to one term.

This Drudge Report headline says it all:

OBAMA ENDING YEAR ON LOW; 46% STRONGLY DISAPPROVE

Oh and I really liked this bullshit from this idiot Senator from Rhode Island who AGAING wants to throw out the notion that somehow if you are against this corrupt piece of legislation that you are somehow racist. Listen to this idiot fuck…

Washington Times: Sen. Whitehouse: foes of health care bill are birthers, right-wing militias, aryan groups

Then these headlines;

SOLD: Callers give Nelson an earful...

GOP senator: Dem health care deals 'sleazy'...

SOLD: $100 Million Payoff for Senator Dodd...

Since I am way behind I had to go back to read this old Michelle Malkin post:

The Demcare bribe list...

The Most Transparent Administration Ever won’t keep this list.
The Most Ethical Congress ever won’t keep it either.
So we’ll do the list ourselves and shine the light on the payoffs and last-minute backroom deals being made as Demcare heads for the first test vote tomorrow. (On a procedural note, Hill folks note that “Senate Republicans started floor debate today at 11:00 a.m. and will continue until 11:00 p.m. to discuss the $2.5 trillion, 2,074-page health care bill drafted in Senator Harry Reid’s office” ahead of the Saturday cloture vote. C-SPAN’s covering.)
Here are the top five Demcare bribes. Keep an eye out on bribes/offers for Democrat Sens. Ben Nelson of Nebraska; Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas; and Evan Bayh of Indiana. Leave comments or e-mail any new info to add to the list.
Here we go:
1) MARY LANDRIEU AND LOUISIANA: $100 million via Jonathan Karl:
On page 432 of the Reid bill, there is a section increasing federal Medicaid subsidies for “certain states recovering from a major disaster.”
The section spends two pages defining which “states” would qualify, saying, among other things, that it would be states that “during the preceding 7 fiscal years” have been declared a “major disaster area.”
I am told the section applies to exactly one state: Louisiana, the home of moderate Democrat Mary Landrieu, who has been playing hard to get on the health care bill.
In other words, the bill spends two pages describing would could be written with a single world: Louisiana. (This may also help explain why the bill is long.)
Senator Harry Reid, who drafted the bill, cannot pass it without the support of Louisiana’s Mary Landrieu.
How much does it cost? According to the Congressional Budget Office: $100 million.
2) CALIFORNIA: $300 million, via LA Times:
Contained in the nearly 2,000-page House healthcare bill is a little-noticed provision — worth $300 million to California — that would increase federal Medicare payments to doctors in a wide swath of the state in response to complaints that low reimbursement rates have kept them from taking new patients.
Rep. Sam Farr (D-Carmel) was able to include a reimbursement calculation fix in the overhaul legislation. It was a testament to California’s political muscle in the House, where its delegation is the largest of any state and includes Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D- San Francisco) and five committee chairs.
3) AARP
a) Via Philip Klein: $18 million in stimulus money
b) The Medigap royalty/kickback scheme
4) THE ABORTION LOBBY, via LifeNews:
Two leading pro-life organizations that have analyzed the new 2,000-page government-run health care bill released by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid late yesterday say the legislation contains massive abortion funding and a fake amendment that does not truly ban it.
The Senate health care bill does not contain the Stupak amendment the House approved that stops abortion funding under the public option and affordability credits.
Instead, the measure contains a slightly-reworded version of the much-maligned Capps amendment, which a House committee approved on a partisan vote and which pro-life groups say is an accounting scheme to hide government-funded abortions.
“Reid has rejected the bipartisan Stupak-Pitts Amendment and has substituted completely unacceptable language that would result in coverage of abortion on demand in two big new federal government programs,” National Right to Life legislative director Douglas Johnson assured LifeNews.com late Wednesday.
“Reid seeks to cover elective abortions in two big new federal health programs, but tries to conceal that unpopular reality with layers of contrived definitions and hollow bookkeeping requirements,” he continued.
Rep. Lois Capps, whose amendment was deleted when the House adopted the Stupak language, has applauded Reid’s language.
“It appears that their approach closely mirrors my language which was originally included in the House bill,” she said in a statement.
Johnson notes that Reid’s bill establishes the public option and authorizes (on page 118) the Secretary of Health and Human Services to require coverage of any and all abortions throughout the public option program.
“This would be federal government funding of abortion, no matter how hard they try to disguise it,” he says.
He also says the bill creates the affordability credits — new tax-supported subsidies to purchase private health plans — and that these government-funded credits can be used to purchase health insurance plans that directly pay for abortions.
Attorney Mary Harned of Americans United for Life, has also examined the abortion sections of Reid’s new measure, which she says “provides for an unprecedented expansion of federally-funded abortion. ”
“The bill includes pro-abortion language and mirrors the false compromise Capps Amendment from the House debate — it allows the public option to include abortion coverage and provides federal subsidies for private plans which cover abortion,” she said.
READ MORE OF PART 1 HERE

Now we have part 2...

Cash for Cloture: Demcare bribe list, Pt. II

GOP Senate leader Mitch McConnell alluded to all this backroom dealing on the floor early this morning before the cloture vote, but lamely refused to name names on the Senate floor.
Screw Senate collegiality. Let the sun shine in.

1. Sen. Ben Nelson’s “Cornhusker Kickback.” The CBO says the Nebraska Democrat sellout’s special Medicaid expansion subsidy will initially cost an estimated $100 million. The Hill reports that while Nelson credited Nebraska’s governor for giving him the idea to lobby for the government preference, Nebraska’s governor assailed the payoff:
“Nebraskans did not ask for a special deal, only a fair deal,” Heineman said in a statement Sunday. In response, Nelson fired off a letter Sunday to Heineman saying he’s prepared to ask that the provision covering Nebraska’s Medicaid share “be removed from the amendment in conference, if it is your desire.”

2. New England’s Special Syrup. Vermont and Massachusetts will get similar (though less generous) special treatment by the feds in covering Medicaid expansion costs. Combined with Nebraska’s tab, the exclusive clique’s payoffs will cost taxpayers $1.2 billion over 10 years. At least.

3) Corruptocrat Connecticut Sen. Chris Dodd’s Christmas wish: Hospital helper. He’s plunging in the polls and in need of a little bacon to bring home.
A $100 million item for construction of a university hospital was inserted in the Senate health care bill at the request of Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., who faces a difficult re-election campaign, his office said Sunday night. The legislation leaves it up to the Health and Human Services Department to decide where the money should be spent, although spokesman Bryan DeAngelis said Dodd hopes to claim it for the University of Connecticut. The provision is included in a 383-page series of changes to the health care bill that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., outlined Saturday. …The one sought by Dodd provides $100 million for “a health care facility that provides research, inpatient tertiary care, or outpatient clinical services.” It must be affiliated with an academic health center at a public research university in the United States “that contains a State’s sole public academic medical and dental school.” The money can cover a maximum of 40 percent of the facility’s construction costs.

4. “Some insurers are more equal than others” tax exemption. The WSJ reports that nonprofit insurance companies will be exempt from a new, nearly $7 billion tax to pay for Demcare. Democrat Sens. Ben “Blank Check” Nelson and Carl Levin of Michigan pushed hard for the tax exemption, which will exempt insurers in their states.

5. The Frontier freebie. Several lucky states will see an increase in Medicare payments to hospitals and doctors, the NYT reports, — “where at least 50 percent of the counties are ‘frontier counties,’ defined as those having a population density less than six people per square mile. And which are the lucky states? The bill gives no clue. But the Congressional Budget Office has determined that Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah and Wyoming meet the criteria.”

MORE HERE

AND THIS...

More Nebraska voters call out Cornhuckster Ben Nelson

Sen. Ben Nelson’s Deal With Democrats May Prompt Constitutional Challenge, Republican Says - CNS News

Who's to Blame for Obamacare? Two Conservatives!

noreply@blogger.com (Gaius Lawrenitis Negris) — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 14:55:00 +0000

by Mark Skousen - 12/22/2009 - Human Events (Link)

This week the Senate grinches stole Christmas. The Obama Nation is getting Obamacare.

It’s easy to blame the sixty Democrats, as the Wall Street Journal does, for “the worse bill ever.” It solemnly declares: “These 60 Democrats are creating a future of epic increases in spending, taxes and command--and control regulation.”

True enough. But what's the root cause of this permanent disaster?

Sorry, friends, but it’s not the Democrats, nor the American people who elected them.

The real culprits are two Republicans who ran the show the previous eight years: George W. Bush and his “master political strategist” Karl Rove. If it weren’t for these two fools in the White House, the Democrats wouldn’t have sixty senators, including a professional comedian from Minnesota, to close off debate and ram down our throats a bill worse than Hillary Care.

The fact is that the Bush & Rove comedy act pushed through a litany of ruinous government policies that led to the lowest approval numbers in history:

-- the undeclared and costly War in Iraq and its stepchild the unconstitutional Patriot Act.

-- the monstrous No Child Left Behind Act that dramatically increased federal intervention in private education.

-- the Prescription Drug Act that gave the American people another benefit-corrupted entitlement and unfunded liability.

-- large and growing deficits and national debt.

-- the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, largely due to their failure to reform government-sponsored agencies Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae.

--large and growing deficits and national debt (according to the Cato Institute's latest report, George W. Bush was the biggest spender since LBJ!).

The supply-side tax cuts were probably the only major piece of legislation that Bush/Rove deserve credit for, but even then, they blundered in not making the tax cuts permanent. So now even if the Republicans take back Capitol Hill in the 2010 elections, all President Obama has to do is veto an extension of the Bush tax cuts, and voila, taxes will increase automatically.

In short, we are paying a heavy price for the “compassionate conservativism” of Bush/Rove.

Once Obamacare becomes law, like Medicare and other “Great Society” programs, it will never end. We will be stuck with national health care for the rest of our lives.

And how are Bush and Rove rewarded? Fortunately, we aren’t seeing much of George Bush, who is quietly ensconced in his new digs in Texas.

The tragedy is Karl Rove, who ironically has been rewarded by conservatives. He’s treated like a triumphant general on Fox News almost every night and was signed on as a regular columnist in the prestigious Wall Street Journal.

Shame.