Larry Sabato states that choosing a VP doesn't give a presidential candidate a bump in the polls, but history shows different.
VP choices yield favorable bump data say
Sabato does have a political agenda and with the choice of Jabbering Joe the message that must go out is that it is all about Obama and VPs don't really matter. Well, in Biden's case the VP slot does matter. BO's hope was an inroad to the Joe six pack vote, catholics and middle of the road Dems. I'm thinking 3 out 3 ain't bad except these are strikes. Swish, swish, swish.
The mouth that bored is a choice I can't figure out. I think Obama has nothing, but this is beyond a rookie mistake. Biden is a mistake of gigantic proportions. Biden's personal story is a wonderful story of family winning over tragedy and politics. Biden appears to have single handedly saved AMTRAK as he befriended conductors year after year, but is that a story that rings true with the voters when they're standing at the gas pump, in the grocery store, hugging their soldier goodbye or when they're filling out their tax forms?
Sabato is wrong here. Biden brings to the ticket about as much as salt to a wound. It may hurt good, but it doesn't make the patient happy or healed.
Monday, August 25, 2008
Sunday, August 24, 2008
Drinking In America
I'll catch it for this.
MADD is mad. Over the edge, irrational and goal driven just as the hatchet swingers were last century as they chopped up bars. Mad, as in wacko. They have had the opposite effect of their desires as underage drinking is driven into the shadows and automobile backseats nationwide fueled by cheap booze illegally purchased and consumed. I'm with DAMM, Drunks Against Mad Mothers, since MADD has become not only anti-alcohol, but slave to federal enforcement of what should be a state issue, actually, should be a parental issue..
To me it is simple, if you are old enough to die for your country, you are old enough to drink an Old Fashion.
MADD is mad. Over the edge, irrational and goal driven just as the hatchet swingers were last century as they chopped up bars. Mad, as in wacko. They have had the opposite effect of their desires as underage drinking is driven into the shadows and automobile backseats nationwide fueled by cheap booze illegally purchased and consumed. I'm with DAMM, Drunks Against Mad Mothers, since MADD has become not only anti-alcohol, but slave to federal enforcement of what should be a state issue, actually, should be a parental issue..
To me it is simple, if you are old enough to die for your country, you are old enough to drink an Old Fashion.
Saturday, August 23, 2008
Racism Beats Obama & Other Liberal Crocks Of Crap
Racism is the only reason McCain might beat him.
What with the Bush legacy of reckless war and economic mismanagement, 2008 is a year that favors the generic Democratic candidate over the generic Republican one. Yet Barack Obama, with every natural and structural advantage in the presidential race, is running only neck-and-neck against John McCain, a sub-par Republican nominee with a list of liabilities longer than a Joe Biden monologue. Obama has built a crack political operation, raised record sums, and inspired millions with his eloquence and vision. McCain has struggled with a fractious campaign team, lacks clarity and discipline, and remains a stranger to charisma. Yet at the moment, the two of them appear to be tied. What gives?
If it makes you feel better, you can rationalize Obama's missing 10-point lead on the basis of Clintonite sulkiness, his slowness in responding to attacks, or the concern that Obama may be too handsome, brilliant, and cool to be elected. But let's be honest: If you break the numbers down, the reason Obama isn't ahead right now is that he trails badly among one group, older white voters. He does so for a simple reason: the color of his skin.
Here are some real simple reasons:
America doesn't trust him
America is seeing him as an empty suit
America doesn't like what they hear
America thinks his choice of friends, advisors & mentors is risky
America is a positive nation while liberalism is a negative force
America understands that he and his supporters aren't telling the truth
Some simple truths about this article:
Bush is not reckless about Iraq, he has been right
Bush has not mismanaged the economy, Congress has
Obama does not have every natural and structural advantage, just a thin veneer of charisma
McCain is not a sub par nominee with a "list of liabilities longer than a Joe Biden monologue"
McCain does not lack clarity & discipline, Obama does
Weisberg is a moron for saying Obama "may be too handsome, brilliant, and cool to be elected"
Obama may lose because of older white voters, but the only reason he is the nominee is because of black voters and liberal guilt-ridden voters.
I am sick of race in this election because I hear about it every day from Obama, blacks and liberals bringing up Obama's skin color because they are terrified that Obama may lose. He will and with their help.
What with the Bush legacy of reckless war and economic mismanagement, 2008 is a year that favors the generic Democratic candidate over the generic Republican one. Yet Barack Obama, with every natural and structural advantage in the presidential race, is running only neck-and-neck against John McCain, a sub-par Republican nominee with a list of liabilities longer than a Joe Biden monologue. Obama has built a crack political operation, raised record sums, and inspired millions with his eloquence and vision. McCain has struggled with a fractious campaign team, lacks clarity and discipline, and remains a stranger to charisma. Yet at the moment, the two of them appear to be tied. What gives?
If it makes you feel better, you can rationalize Obama's missing 10-point lead on the basis of Clintonite sulkiness, his slowness in responding to attacks, or the concern that Obama may be too handsome, brilliant, and cool to be elected. But let's be honest: If you break the numbers down, the reason Obama isn't ahead right now is that he trails badly among one group, older white voters. He does so for a simple reason: the color of his skin.
Here are some real simple reasons:
America doesn't trust him
America is seeing him as an empty suit
America doesn't like what they hear
America thinks his choice of friends, advisors & mentors is risky
America is a positive nation while liberalism is a negative force
America understands that he and his supporters aren't telling the truth
Some simple truths about this article:
Bush is not reckless about Iraq, he has been right
Bush has not mismanaged the economy, Congress has
Obama does not have every natural and structural advantage, just a thin veneer of charisma
McCain is not a sub par nominee with a "list of liabilities longer than a Joe Biden monologue"
McCain does not lack clarity & discipline, Obama does
Weisberg is a moron for saying Obama "may be too handsome, brilliant, and cool to be elected"
Obama may lose because of older white voters, but the only reason he is the nominee is because of black voters and liberal guilt-ridden voters.
I am sick of race in this election because I hear about it every day from Obama, blacks and liberals bringing up Obama's skin color because they are terrified that Obama may lose. He will and with their help.
Obama Wins Delaware
and gets years and years of the foreign policy expertise of Neil Kinnock who didn't think Margaret Thatcher won the Falklands War in the proper manner! In the hope for change category, Biden brings 35 years of get-along politics in a pork laden sty of corruption and back slapping.
Biden also brings a style of stem-winding stump speeches that absolutely wow listeners into a complacent stupor of magnificent support.
Now, onto the other 56 states.
UPDATE: Even though they didn't get the e-mail announcing the second annointment, kos and kids think:
This has been the best veep rollout EVER.
Obama's finest operation yet!!! Gush, gush, GUSH!
Biden also brings a style of stem-winding stump speeches that absolutely wow listeners into a complacent stupor of magnificent support.
Now, onto the other 56 states.
UPDATE: Even though they didn't get the e-mail announcing the second annointment, kos and kids think:
This has been the best veep rollout EVER.
Obama's finest operation yet!!! Gush, gush, GUSH!
Friday, August 22, 2008
2007: 10.3 Million Gallons Of Booze Consumed In Ohio
Could it be citizens voting with their livers? You think?
Thursday, August 21, 2008
Dipping Into The Stink
I've enjoyed reading Progress Ohio. I haven't agreed with it, but it is usually interesting. Therefore it is sad to see that the minute Obama is being unmasked that PO has to get right down in the stink.
On the Blog Net Ohio roll PO has numerous stories about McCain's breakup with his first wife and marriage to Cindy highlighting it as an affair. He's probably never hear that Christians aren't sin free, just forgiven. Next he moves on to McCain's housing as that is the de jour liberal bitch, even Google earthing his properties.
Maybe PO might help us and Google earth BO's properties including the sweetheart patch in back for Michelle's veggie garden. While at it maybe he can mark on the map Ayer's bomb making facility, Farrakhan's secret armory (complete with steel bowties) and "Rev." Wright's AmeriKKKa. That about do it.
On the Blog Net Ohio roll PO has numerous stories about McCain's breakup with his first wife and marriage to Cindy highlighting it as an affair. He's probably never hear that Christians aren't sin free, just forgiven. Next he moves on to McCain's housing as that is the de jour liberal bitch, even Google earthing his properties.
Maybe PO might help us and Google earth BO's properties including the sweetheart patch in back for Michelle's veggie garden. While at it maybe he can mark on the map Ayer's bomb making facility, Farrakhan's secret armory (complete with steel bowties) and "Rev." Wright's AmeriKKKa. That about do it.
To Every Action Is A Reaction
RI bishop wants US to halt mass immigration raids
Congregation wants bishop to halt pontificating and start preaching.
Congregation wants bishop to halt pontificating and start preaching.
Woman Tells Russian General To Stuff It
A real woman, not some paper tiger spewing crap from their ivory tower, so let the left go nuts about how President Bush is saber rattling. He's not rattling sabers, Condi Rice is knocking heads.
"When you threaten Poland, you perhaps forget that it is not 1988," Rice said, according to The Associated Press. "It's 2008 and the United States has a ... firm treaty guarantee to defend Poland's territory as if it was the territory of the United States. So it's probably not wise to throw these threats around."
When and if Obama has something worth while to utter it is sure to be written by someone else. Maybe Chairman Short, aka Putin.
via Right Wing Champ
"When you threaten Poland, you perhaps forget that it is not 1988," Rice said, according to The Associated Press. "It's 2008 and the United States has a ... firm treaty guarantee to defend Poland's territory as if it was the territory of the United States. So it's probably not wise to throw these threats around."
When and if Obama has something worth while to utter it is sure to be written by someone else. Maybe Chairman Short, aka Putin.
via Right Wing Champ
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Docs: Phelps Selling Obesity
People: Docs Selling Crap
Since the medical and education professions have been able to make sexual identity, sexual equality and revisionist history more important than education and being a kid, they have moved on to switching back and forth between arguments that our nation's children don't have enough to eat, are eating too little, have too much to eat and are overeating. Kinda like the Chicken Littles arguing that the planet is too hot, too cold and never just right.
Now they're attacking Tony the Tiger and Michael Phelps.
Breakfast of a champion? Frosted Flakes! Phelps signs with cereal
"I would not consider Frosted Flakes the food of an Olympian," said nutritionist Rebecca Solomon of Mount Sinai Medical Center.
"I would rather see him promoting Fiber One. I would rather see him promoting oatmeal. I would even rather see him promoting Cheerios."
...
Still, in a country where childhood obesity is an alarming issue, Phelps' iconic image sharing space with Tony the Tiger sends the wrong message, experts say.
"For a guy like Michael Phelps who isn't worried about obesity because he's burning thousands of calories as an athlete...eating Corn Flakes and Frosted Flakes every so often is not an issue," Solomon said.
Phelps is not doing the Olympian thing? Like they'd know what an Olympian could and should do.
Why not quit screwing with their make work formulas and tell the kids to get up, get out and play?
May I suggest tag and dodge ball?
Since the medical and education professions have been able to make sexual identity, sexual equality and revisionist history more important than education and being a kid, they have moved on to switching back and forth between arguments that our nation's children don't have enough to eat, are eating too little, have too much to eat and are overeating. Kinda like the Chicken Littles arguing that the planet is too hot, too cold and never just right.
Now they're attacking Tony the Tiger and Michael Phelps.
Breakfast of a champion? Frosted Flakes! Phelps signs with cereal
"I would not consider Frosted Flakes the food of an Olympian," said nutritionist Rebecca Solomon of Mount Sinai Medical Center.
"I would rather see him promoting Fiber One. I would rather see him promoting oatmeal. I would even rather see him promoting Cheerios."
...
Still, in a country where childhood obesity is an alarming issue, Phelps' iconic image sharing space with Tony the Tiger sends the wrong message, experts say.
"For a guy like Michael Phelps who isn't worried about obesity because he's burning thousands of calories as an athlete...eating Corn Flakes and Frosted Flakes every so often is not an issue," Solomon said.
Phelps is not doing the Olympian thing? Like they'd know what an Olympian could and should do.
Why not quit screwing with their make work formulas and tell the kids to get up, get out and play?
May I suggest tag and dodge ball?
August 20th Is here Again
Liberals, progressives and socialists are planning their Democratic convention. Russia has invaded another country to squash any hope of true democracy. Members of the convention, just as in Russia and with other communist sympathizers, are blaming America first and foremost for baiting the Russian bear.
Nixon or Bush? Czechoslovakia or Georgia? Both. 1968 is back, but this time the democrats have a planning commission called Recreate 68 and they are just as traitorous and stupid.
McCarthy and Humphrey were battling for the nomination by the Democratic party. One openly wanted to appease the Soviets while the other wanted to walk a thin line trying to unite the anti-freedom and traditional wings of the party by quietly hoping to eviscerate the American military and our country's hope of lessening war through the spread of freedom and prosperity. Obama and Clinton. ibid.
Open and quiet sympathizers of communism were not directly confronted by the media, but were celebrated as agents of change. ibid.
The Democrat Party held up Humphrey, McCarthy, Muskie, McGovern, Bond and Ted Kennedy as agents for that change. Obviously, little has changed in the Democrat Party.
Nixon or Bush? Czechoslovakia or Georgia? Both. 1968 is back, but this time the democrats have a planning commission called Recreate 68 and they are just as traitorous and stupid.
McCarthy and Humphrey were battling for the nomination by the Democratic party. One openly wanted to appease the Soviets while the other wanted to walk a thin line trying to unite the anti-freedom and traditional wings of the party by quietly hoping to eviscerate the American military and our country's hope of lessening war through the spread of freedom and prosperity. Obama and Clinton. ibid.
Open and quiet sympathizers of communism were not directly confronted by the media, but were celebrated as agents of change. ibid.
The Democrat Party held up Humphrey, McCarthy, Muskie, McGovern, Bond and Ted Kennedy as agents for that change. Obviously, little has changed in the Democrat Party.
New Life
After scads of emails, actually a few, concerning where I have been I decided to share about where I have been, being absent, from this blog. Unfortunately, it does not involve forgotten weekends across the border nor anything remotely about lotteries.
My family is a large one. With many sisters, many nieces and nephews and even more of their children, there are many lives of many differences. One of my sister's children has had a hard life of which we were kept in the dark until that life had affected her children. Badly.
As families do when they are real family, we discussed what to do, not how to tut-tut and reprimand, but to take action to assist. Our part in this drama involving the magnificence of life has been to welcome into our home a wonderful, but storm tossed 14 year old who has seen the wrong side of Yuma and life.
It is sad, but at the same time delightful to watch her realize that she doesn't have to fight for food. It is frustrating, but natural to stem the tide of attitude born of fear as she realizes her room is her room and will not be taken away nor will she "move" once again because mommy needs to find work. As it was with our now 24 and 26 year olds, it is the little things that are the signposts of moving forward, treading water or drowning. Our 24 year old son has been indispensable in being a listening post and her supporter, quietly encouraging her that this isn't a temporary station offering stability which will be snatched away at the first hint of discord.
It has been humorous to watch her interact with my wife's Italian family. Soon after arrival we were off to the beach for a week to celebrate my father-in-law's birthday with no number. In a quiet talk on the beach I found that this was her first vacation and that she felt guilty for it. She felt guilty for the piles of food, the laughter, the constant hugging and the fact that we had not just one, but two houses looking out over the Atlantic that were ours alone to enjoy.
The little things we take for granted softened that guilt as she silently watched the prayers before each meal, one fisherman son gently chiding the CEO son for being a cheapskate, a grandmother sharing her crossword puzzle with a grandchild snugly explaining the purpose and the meaning of words, the unending waves begging to be ridden and the whole cast directed by the ghost of a now gone 4' 10" giant of a woman who brought, shaped and ruled a family into being Americans. Thank God this ghost didn't have time to teach this new family member how to play cards because I have never even come close to beating one of them in any game domestic or foreign.
That's where we have been and am now. Thank God for it, but how do I explain that, yes, Ireland is over the horizon on the far side of the Atlantic? She thinks I am making that up.
My family is a large one. With many sisters, many nieces and nephews and even more of their children, there are many lives of many differences. One of my sister's children has had a hard life of which we were kept in the dark until that life had affected her children. Badly.
As families do when they are real family, we discussed what to do, not how to tut-tut and reprimand, but to take action to assist. Our part in this drama involving the magnificence of life has been to welcome into our home a wonderful, but storm tossed 14 year old who has seen the wrong side of Yuma and life.
It is sad, but at the same time delightful to watch her realize that she doesn't have to fight for food. It is frustrating, but natural to stem the tide of attitude born of fear as she realizes her room is her room and will not be taken away nor will she "move" once again because mommy needs to find work. As it was with our now 24 and 26 year olds, it is the little things that are the signposts of moving forward, treading water or drowning. Our 24 year old son has been indispensable in being a listening post and her supporter, quietly encouraging her that this isn't a temporary station offering stability which will be snatched away at the first hint of discord.
It has been humorous to watch her interact with my wife's Italian family. Soon after arrival we were off to the beach for a week to celebrate my father-in-law's birthday with no number. In a quiet talk on the beach I found that this was her first vacation and that she felt guilty for it. She felt guilty for the piles of food, the laughter, the constant hugging and the fact that we had not just one, but two houses looking out over the Atlantic that were ours alone to enjoy.
The little things we take for granted softened that guilt as she silently watched the prayers before each meal, one fisherman son gently chiding the CEO son for being a cheapskate, a grandmother sharing her crossword puzzle with a grandchild snugly explaining the purpose and the meaning of words, the unending waves begging to be ridden and the whole cast directed by the ghost of a now gone 4' 10" giant of a woman who brought, shaped and ruled a family into being Americans. Thank God this ghost didn't have time to teach this new family member how to play cards because I have never even come close to beating one of them in any game domestic or foreign.
That's where we have been and am now. Thank God for it, but how do I explain that, yes, Ireland is over the horizon on the far side of the Atlantic? She thinks I am making that up.
An American Rube In America
I love the comment below about John Edwards, his love child and the necessary avoidance, and later justification, of his personal life made public, ala Gary Hart, by John Edwards.
Here's how this seedy little Democrat soap opera is going to play out long term. It's going to be a remake of The Duke and Duchess of Windsor as performed by the Clampetts.
Bubblin' crude, black gold, milkin' dead children, ignoring live children. Makes no difference.
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Monday, August 18, 2008
Dumber Than Not Drilling
A return to 55 mph?
As you zip down the highway at 70 mph, remember that your lead foot will cost you at the pump in these days of $4-a-gallon gas.
Some lawmakers in Congress have certainly considered the consequences of your driving habits. And they want you to slow down.
Record-high gas prices have triggered talk that it may be time to lower the speed limit on federal highways to 55 or 60 mph.
"I think that's a great way to save fuel," said U.S. Rep. Heath Shuler, D-Waynesville, N.C. "I think it would be the right thing to do."
U.S. Sen. John Warner, R-Va., raised the possibility of reducing the speed limit to 55 or 60 mph early last month. He asked Energy Secretary Samuel W. Bodman to study whether a lower speed limit would reduce gas prices at the pump and report back on how much fuel it would save.
In the House, U.S. Rep. Jackie Speier, D-Calif., has filed legislation that would impose a national speed limit of 60 mph on highways in urban centers and 65 mph in less populated areas. A hearing on the bill hasn't yet been set.
The push for a lower speed limit harkens back to 1974, when the country was facing another energy crisis and Congress and President Richard Nixon reduced the limit to 55 mph in response to the Arab oil embargo.
Wear your own damned sweaterCarter Shuler. Quit being a nanny and let us drive without you, Warner and any other government overseer sitting in the backseat driver's seat.
As you zip down the highway at 70 mph, remember that your lead foot will cost you at the pump in these days of $4-a-gallon gas.
Some lawmakers in Congress have certainly considered the consequences of your driving habits. And they want you to slow down.
Record-high gas prices have triggered talk that it may be time to lower the speed limit on federal highways to 55 or 60 mph.
"I think that's a great way to save fuel," said U.S. Rep. Heath Shuler, D-Waynesville, N.C. "I think it would be the right thing to do."
U.S. Sen. John Warner, R-Va., raised the possibility of reducing the speed limit to 55 or 60 mph early last month. He asked Energy Secretary Samuel W. Bodman to study whether a lower speed limit would reduce gas prices at the pump and report back on how much fuel it would save.
In the House, U.S. Rep. Jackie Speier, D-Calif., has filed legislation that would impose a national speed limit of 60 mph on highways in urban centers and 65 mph in less populated areas. A hearing on the bill hasn't yet been set.
The push for a lower speed limit harkens back to 1974, when the country was facing another energy crisis and Congress and President Richard Nixon reduced the limit to 55 mph in response to the Arab oil embargo.
Wear your own damned sweater
Pelosi: Bitter, Bible-Thumping & Looking For Her Gun?
Pelosi Praise: Obama is a 'leader that God has blessed us with at this time'...
Ah, now we find that Nana is a closet GodBot in a town full of Godless empty closets. If only the good sisters of Institute of Notre Dame had not spared the rod.
Another graduate of the "Institute" is the estimable Barbara Milkulski, class of 1954.
Question: Which god is Nana referring to?
Ah, now we find that Nana is a closet GodBot in a town full of Godless empty closets. If only the good sisters of Institute of Notre Dame had not spared the rod.
Another graduate of the "Institute" is the estimable Barbara Milkulski, class of 1954.
Question: Which god is Nana referring to?
Outstanding!
Uncovering Montpelier's Hidden PastAfter five years, and a restoration costing millions of dollars, James Madison’s Virginia home stands revealed once again
The landscape alone is breathtaking. Imagine clearing the land, fighting off interlopers and forging a new life in a new land thousands of miles from home.
Friday, August 08, 2008
Obama & His Political Salute To Desclos
One Nation, Under a New Obama SaluteI'm thinking they haven't really thought this through.
A hole. A hole into which Obama will lead us?
A zero? The grand sum of Obama's plan?
O? The "Story of O"? An erotic story of dominance and submission? Politically it may work as a fascist suggestion in a reality based community, but who is "O" and who is Obama?
There are other implications that I leave to your imagination. None of them good, but all are unfortunately accurately descriptive.
Thursday, August 07, 2008
Too Much Bush Causes Fat In America
Clinton: Economy Prompts Unhealthy Eating...
And guess what, only the government can fix this. Actually, only Hillary can save America and its children, because, after all, it's all for the children.
Question, when Bill was fat, whose fault was it then, the Republican Congress?
And guess what, only the government can fix this. Actually, only Hillary can save America and its children, because, after all, it's all for the children.
Question, when Bill was fat, whose fault was it then, the Republican Congress?
Wednesday, August 06, 2008
Stupid Study: Everyone Fat, But Me
SHOCK STUDY: ALL U.S. ADULTS COULD BE OVERWEIGHT IN 40 YEARS
Maybe it's a good thing I've cut down to 2-3 Snickers a day. Can't be too careful.
UPDATE: Real cause has been found! Snickers don't make you fat, guns do. jennifer Homepage
Maybe it's a good thing I've cut down to 2-3 Snickers a day. Can't be too careful.
UPDATE: Real cause has been found! Snickers don't make you fat, guns do. jennifer Homepage
Fat Albert Buys A Boat To Fit His Ego & Greed
BS One is aptly named for his largess of the carbon profit scam. Maybe we'll' soon see "Fat Albert's Tacos & Gas" stations and marinas all across the south. You know, for the good of Mother Earth.
UPDATE: I was informed that I forgot to mention MoonPies which have their own catagory for carbon fatprints..
Rove's Secret Plan For A McCain Victory
OMG: PARIS STRIKES BACK; MOCKS MCCAIN IN 'AD'
RUMOR: Rove working with Dixie Chicks management to tour for Obama. Will highlight "country" version of "Ebony & Ivory" with Ludacris croning the ebony parts, Ron Paul on tamborine.
RUMOR: Rove working with Dixie Chicks management to tour for Obama. Will highlight "country" version of "Ebony & Ivory" with Ludacris croning the ebony parts, Ron Paul on tamborine.
Monday, August 04, 2008
Nana Pelosi Spanks Stephanopoulos For Daring To Question
How many times does Nana have to tell us? Us mere handmaidens of the oil companies. She has made it clear over and over that what we want is wrong and it will not happen. The more we ask, the angrier she will get and we don't want that do we? She may with hold dessert, if necessary!
SPEAKER PELOSI: This is a diversionary tactic from a failed energy policy…
GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: But if you feel you have the better arguments why not give a straight up or down vote for drilling?
SPEAKER PELOSI: Because the misrepresentation is being made that this going to reduce the price at the pump. This is, again, a decoy, this is not a solution.
GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: Well but if you’re right, why not let it be debated out and have the vote?
SPEAKER PELOSI: We have a debate very single day on this subject. What you saw in the Congress this week was the war dance of the handmaidens of the oil companies. That’s what you saw on the Republican side of the aisle.
Democracy only works when a good mommy, especially a millionaire mommy from San Francisco, is in charge. A mommy who loves us for all of our faults and will always be there to pick us up when we make mistakes and think for ourselves.
How foolish of us to question Nana.
Thanks to Gateway Pundit
SPEAKER PELOSI: This is a diversionary tactic from a failed energy policy…
GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: But if you feel you have the better arguments why not give a straight up or down vote for drilling?
SPEAKER PELOSI: Because the misrepresentation is being made that this going to reduce the price at the pump. This is, again, a decoy, this is not a solution.
GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: Well but if you’re right, why not let it be debated out and have the vote?
SPEAKER PELOSI: We have a debate very single day on this subject. What you saw in the Congress this week was the war dance of the handmaidens of the oil companies. That’s what you saw on the Republican side of the aisle.
Democracy only works when a good mommy, especially a millionaire mommy from San Francisco, is in charge. A mommy who loves us for all of our faults and will always be there to pick us up when we make mistakes and think for ourselves.
How foolish of us to question Nana.
Thanks to Gateway Pundit
Queen Of Porn's Mother Unhappy With McCain
Kathy Hilton lashes out at McCain ad calling it a 'waste'
Kathy Hilton is the latest member of the Hilton clan to come out swinging against presidential hopeful John McCain.
"I've been asked again and again for my response to the now infamous McCain celebrity ad. I actually have three responses," Hilton, 49, told the Huffington Post.
"It is a complete waste of the money John McCain's contributors have donated to his campaign," she said. "It is a complete waste of the country's time and attention at the very moment when millions of people are losing their homes and their jobs. And it is a completely frivolous way to choose the next President of the United States."
Bursting the bubble of a pompous jerk running to be the Democrat presidential candidate is a waste of time? Showing the country what an arrogant puff Obama is is frivolous?
That the ad points to you and your family's lifestyle says more about you than anybody else. Google your daughter's name and see what is frivolous and a waste. Then open your mouth.
Kathy Hilton is the latest member of the Hilton clan to come out swinging against presidential hopeful John McCain.
"I've been asked again and again for my response to the now infamous McCain celebrity ad. I actually have three responses," Hilton, 49, told the Huffington Post.
"It is a complete waste of the money John McCain's contributors have donated to his campaign," she said. "It is a complete waste of the country's time and attention at the very moment when millions of people are losing their homes and their jobs. And it is a completely frivolous way to choose the next President of the United States."
Bursting the bubble of a pompous jerk running to be the Democrat presidential candidate is a waste of time? Showing the country what an arrogant puff Obama is is frivolous?
That the ad points to you and your family's lifestyle says more about you than anybody else. Google your daughter's name and see what is frivolous and a waste. Then open your mouth.
Sunday, August 03, 2008
Another Anti-American Obama Mentor Found In The Woodpile
via Gateway Pundit
Media Ignores Obama's Communist Mentor
The Post-Chronicle reported:
In a strange development, supporters of Barack Obama's childhood mentor, Frank Marshall Davis, are openly debating the nature and depth of Davis's commitment to the Communist Party and his relationship with the Democratic candidate. The debate has gotten heated.
This unusual debate, which is taking place on Obama's official website, raises the question once again as to why Obama has not been asked by the major media about this relationship. Davis was identified as a Communist Party member by various investigative committees and acknowledged his party membership in a private letter obtained by John Edgar Tidwell, who was sympathetic to Davis and edited his books.
On one side of this debate is somebody claiming to be the son of Davis. On the other side is Alan Maki, a political activist and union organizer with a long history of involvement in left-wing causes. Indeed, Maki confirms that he has been a member of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) and was a communist decades ago when he was in the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS).
Although he doesn't support Obama because of his ties to Big Business, Maki wrote a blog on the Obama website stating that he was grateful to Obama for bringing Davis to his attention, and that he, Maki, regarded Davis as his mentor, too. Maki announced the establishment of a "Frank Marshall Davis Roundtable for Change" and invited Obama supporters to join it.
Maki did his homework, which is more than most of our own media have done, and he obtained Davis's books. It is absolutely clear, Maki stated, that Davis was a communist.
In his 1995 book, Dreams From My Father, Obama cites "Frank" as someone who gave him advice on various matters, including race, American values, and college, and read poems to him during his high-school years in Hawaii. One of Davis's poems was a tribute to the Soviet Red Army. Another mocked the work of Christian missionaries.
Wright, Farakhan, Ayers and on and on. Obama is not telling voters the truth about himself, his beliefs and his life. If he said hello I wouldn't believe him. Not for a second.
Media Ignores Obama's Communist Mentor
The Post-Chronicle reported:
In a strange development, supporters of Barack Obama's childhood mentor, Frank Marshall Davis, are openly debating the nature and depth of Davis's commitment to the Communist Party and his relationship with the Democratic candidate. The debate has gotten heated.
This unusual debate, which is taking place on Obama's official website, raises the question once again as to why Obama has not been asked by the major media about this relationship. Davis was identified as a Communist Party member by various investigative committees and acknowledged his party membership in a private letter obtained by John Edgar Tidwell, who was sympathetic to Davis and edited his books.
On one side of this debate is somebody claiming to be the son of Davis. On the other side is Alan Maki, a political activist and union organizer with a long history of involvement in left-wing causes. Indeed, Maki confirms that he has been a member of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) and was a communist decades ago when he was in the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS).
Although he doesn't support Obama because of his ties to Big Business, Maki wrote a blog on the Obama website stating that he was grateful to Obama for bringing Davis to his attention, and that he, Maki, regarded Davis as his mentor, too. Maki announced the establishment of a "Frank Marshall Davis Roundtable for Change" and invited Obama supporters to join it.
Maki did his homework, which is more than most of our own media have done, and he obtained Davis's books. It is absolutely clear, Maki stated, that Davis was a communist.
In his 1995 book, Dreams From My Father, Obama cites "Frank" as someone who gave him advice on various matters, including race, American values, and college, and read poems to him during his high-school years in Hawaii. One of Davis's poems was a tribute to the Soviet Red Army. Another mocked the work of Christian missionaries.
Wright, Farakhan, Ayers and on and on. Obama is not telling voters the truth about himself, his beliefs and his life. If he said hello I wouldn't believe him. Not for a second.
AP: George Washington's Multiple Personalities
In accordance with the losers at AP and their arrogant, yet stupid decree of allowing our 1st amendment rights to go up to only 4 of their illustrious words at a time;
whom are white men
There has been one dead white guy on the dollar bill for years. Also known as the father of our country, George Washington, has been that guy. Not guys. Guy. One. As in 50 states, not 57 or 58. One.
Now, if Obama and his PR firm, AP, want to nuance with the best of the Clintons and the Kerrys and say they were talking multiple one dollar bills and on all those dollar bills was a white guy, well, that would be normal for all. Is is isn't it? Otherwise AP and their client, Obama, know something the rest of us do not know.
Oh, BTW, Obama did interject racism into the campaign. He did it on purpose because his handlers thought they could benefit from it. Now that they haven't, the handlers say that race is now important because everyone knows that America is a racist nation. Except America.
whom are white men
There has been one dead white guy on the dollar bill for years. Also known as the father of our country, George Washington, has been that guy. Not guys. Guy. One. As in 50 states, not 57 or 58. One.
Now, if Obama and his PR firm, AP, want to nuance with the best of the Clintons and the Kerrys and say they were talking multiple one dollar bills and on all those dollar bills was a white guy, well, that would be normal for all. Is is isn't it? Otherwise AP and their client, Obama, know something the rest of us do not know.
Oh, BTW, Obama did interject racism into the campaign. He did it on purpose because his handlers thought they could benefit from it. Now that they haven't, the handlers say that race is now important because everyone knows that America is a racist nation. Except America.
Saturday, August 02, 2008
An Obama Supporter Worries
Dear Abby,
I am a crack dealer in Beaumont , Texas , who has recently been diagnosed as a carrier of HIV virus. My parents live in Fort Worth .
One of my sisters lives in Pflugerville and is married to a transvestite. My father and mother have recently been arrested for growing and selling marijuana. They are financially dependent on my other two sisters, who are prostitutes in Dallas .
I have two brothers: one is currently serving a life sentence at Huntsville for the murder of a teenage boy in 1994. My other brother is currently in jail awaiting charges of sexual misconduct with his three children.
I have recently become engaged to marry a former prostitute who lives in Longview . She is a part time 'working girl'...
All things considered, my problem is this. I love my fiancee and look forward to bringing her into the family. I certainly want to be totally open and honest with her. Should I tell her about my cousin who supports Barack Obama for President?
Signed,
Worried About My Reputation
Thanks to Webutante
I am a crack dealer in Beaumont , Texas , who has recently been diagnosed as a carrier of HIV virus. My parents live in Fort Worth .
One of my sisters lives in Pflugerville and is married to a transvestite. My father and mother have recently been arrested for growing and selling marijuana. They are financially dependent on my other two sisters, who are prostitutes in Dallas .
I have two brothers: one is currently serving a life sentence at Huntsville for the murder of a teenage boy in 1994. My other brother is currently in jail awaiting charges of sexual misconduct with his three children.
I have recently become engaged to marry a former prostitute who lives in Longview . She is a part time 'working girl'...
All things considered, my problem is this. I love my fiancee and look forward to bringing her into the family. I certainly want to be totally open and honest with her. Should I tell her about my cousin who supports Barack Obama for President?
Signed,
Worried About My Reputation
Thanks to Webutante
Friday, August 01, 2008
Pelosi The Censor Stifles Dissent In US House
After Nana Pelosi, the housewife from Baltimore, and her cronies got on their enviro-friendly jets and charters to gas off to where ever, the lights, sound and cameras in the House of Representatives were purposely turned off as 20+ members attempted to continue debate on our energy crisis, the liberal dependence on foreign oil.
Nana, the mayor's daughter from Baltimore, censored any dissent from her imperial decree that there shall be no discussion or debate that might reach the ears of the voters. Many voters heard her and Punch Happy Harry Reid claim that President Bush could lift an Executive Order banning of shore drilling, which President Bush lifted, and all would be well. Now, she doesn't want the voter to know that she, Nana Pelosi, queen of the tuna deals, refuses to listen to them, so now we can't listen to anybody from the House.
Now we can see that Liberalism is Fascism.
Nana, the mayor's daughter from Baltimore, censored any dissent from her imperial decree that there shall be no discussion or debate that might reach the ears of the voters. Many voters heard her and Punch Happy Harry Reid claim that President Bush could lift an Executive Order banning of shore drilling, which President Bush lifted, and all would be well. Now, she doesn't want the voter to know that she, Nana Pelosi, queen of the tuna deals, refuses to listen to them, so now we can't listen to anybody from the House.
Now we can see that Liberalism is Fascism.
John McCain's Days of Thunder
Is McCain peaking too early?
Is it possible for McCain to peak? It may be that McCain is Cole Trickle, bred for racing and winning, but finding ways to lose because he doesn't understand the vocabulary of the race.
Or maybe the Obama is peaking with shallowness and lies, ergo he is losing ground. Even with his pit crew, the media.
Down the stretch McCain will keep on keeping on, allowing the Obama to wow the press, while always gaining ground until the pass into first.
Harry: You're going to burn the tires. -
Cole: Everybody else slowed down.
Buck: He's right. Check his lap times. Everybody else has fallen off.
Even with the press lying about Obama's lies, how will Obama win if the public, already in July, is beginning to believe Obama to be less than truthful?
McCain's boringness may well be what puts him over the finish line in first as he honestly and calmly lays out his positions to a yawning press, but a voting public that defied the printed wisdom and voted for Bush when they sensed that Gore and then Kerry were iffy putzes.
Cole: You didn't know how this was going to turn out.
Harry: It's like you said: There's nothing you can't do in a race car.
Cole: We won.
Harry: Yeah.
Cole: Can you walk, or am I going to have to carry you?
Harry: Where to?
Cole: Victory Lane.
Harry: Oh yeah.
Harry: Walk? Hell... I'll race your ass!
Oh, the Obama is a perfect Russ Wheeler as an arrogant puff who looks good, but just doesn't have what it takes.
Is it possible for McCain to peak? It may be that McCain is Cole Trickle, bred for racing and winning, but finding ways to lose because he doesn't understand the vocabulary of the race.
Or maybe the Obama is peaking with shallowness and lies, ergo he is losing ground. Even with his pit crew, the media.
Down the stretch McCain will keep on keeping on, allowing the Obama to wow the press, while always gaining ground until the pass into first.
Harry: You're going to burn the tires. -
Cole: Everybody else slowed down.
Buck: He's right. Check his lap times. Everybody else has fallen off.
Even with the press lying about Obama's lies, how will Obama win if the public, already in July, is beginning to believe Obama to be less than truthful?
McCain's boringness may well be what puts him over the finish line in first as he honestly and calmly lays out his positions to a yawning press, but a voting public that defied the printed wisdom and voted for Bush when they sensed that Gore and then Kerry were iffy putzes.
Cole: You didn't know how this was going to turn out.
Harry: It's like you said: There's nothing you can't do in a race car.
Cole: We won.
Harry: Yeah.
Cole: Can you walk, or am I going to have to carry you?
Harry: Where to?
Cole: Victory Lane.
Harry: Oh yeah.
Harry: Walk? Hell... I'll race your ass!
Oh, the Obama is a perfect Russ Wheeler as an arrogant puff who looks good, but just doesn't have what it takes.
Exxon's "Obscene" Profits Dwarfed By Obscene Taxes
Good catch by BizzyBlog
Once again the media obscures facts to get their obscene comments into play. Unfortunately, their reporting isn't helping their profit margin because readers consider their reporting obscene.
Media Near-Secret: Exxon’s Taxes Almost 3x As Much As Profits
Looking at it from another perspective, Exxon Mobil’s profit of about 8.4% of sales, while the taxes paid represented over 23% of sales. (August 1 AM Note: This was originally said to be 32%, but has been corrected. The transposition zombies have been appropriately tracked down and punished.)
It’s remarkable that CNN even reported the taxes paid, as they were the clear exception:
This UK Guardian article about the Democrats’ objections to Exxon’s profits didn’t.
Kristen Hays at the Houston Chronicle didn’t.
Bloomberg didn’t.
The Associated Press ….. you’re kidding, right?
The word “tax” does not appear in the Guardian, Chronicle, or AP articles. Bloomberg only used the word in connection with the after-tax effect of the company’s Exxon Valdez settlement.
So who are the greedy ones — Exxon shareholders who want a return on their investment, or the myriad government entities who insist that their grubby fingers be in the pie?
Oh, and would it be impolite to point out that Uncle Sam alone is currently spending $2.9 trillion a year, or $91,958 per second?
Cross-posted at NewsBusters.org.
At a time that America needs energy independence it is dependably sad that the media is in the bag for liberals who want to scuttle what they see as non-aligned profit centers. Maybe if Exxon started shipping in 'green' barrels so Nana Pelosi's family and friends could make a profit...
Once again the media obscures facts to get their obscene comments into play. Unfortunately, their reporting isn't helping their profit margin because readers consider their reporting obscene.
Media Near-Secret: Exxon’s Taxes Almost 3x As Much As Profits
Looking at it from another perspective, Exxon Mobil’s profit of about 8.4% of sales, while the taxes paid represented over 23% of sales. (August 1 AM Note: This was originally said to be 32%, but has been corrected. The transposition zombies have been appropriately tracked down and punished.)
It’s remarkable that CNN even reported the taxes paid, as they were the clear exception:
This UK Guardian article about the Democrats’ objections to Exxon’s profits didn’t.
Kristen Hays at the Houston Chronicle didn’t.
Bloomberg didn’t.
The Associated Press ….. you’re kidding, right?
The word “tax” does not appear in the Guardian, Chronicle, or AP articles. Bloomberg only used the word in connection with the after-tax effect of the company’s Exxon Valdez settlement.
So who are the greedy ones — Exxon shareholders who want a return on their investment, or the myriad government entities who insist that their grubby fingers be in the pie?
Oh, and would it be impolite to point out that Uncle Sam alone is currently spending $2.9 trillion a year, or $91,958 per second?
Cross-posted at NewsBusters.org.
At a time that America needs energy independence it is dependably sad that the media is in the bag for liberals who want to scuttle what they see as non-aligned profit centers. Maybe if Exxon started shipping in 'green' barrels so Nana Pelosi's family and friends could make a profit...
Another Woman Than Hillary One More Time
Clinton Supporter Angered By 'Other Women' Obama VP Talk
A longtime friend of Sen. Hillary Clinton said it's "incomprehensible" that Sen. Barack Obama would choose another woman to be his vice-presidential candidate over Sen. Hillary Clinton.
I'm bettin' heavy if the Obama taps a woman it won't be Hillary nor will it involve a blue dress.
A longtime friend of Sen. Hillary Clinton said it's "incomprehensible" that Sen. Barack Obama would choose another woman to be his vice-presidential candidate over Sen. Hillary Clinton.
I'm bettin' heavy if the Obama taps a woman it won't be Hillary nor will it involve a blue dress.
Thursday, July 31, 2008
Obama: Look At Me, I Am Black!
But how dare that racist McCain point out that I'm black even though he didn't! BTW, did you know that I'm really John F'ing "Did I tell you I was also black in Vietnam" Kerry Obama?
Stumping in an economically challenged battleground state, Obama argued Wednesday that President Bush and McCain will resort to scare tactics to maintain their hold on the White House because they have little else to offer voters.
"Nobody thinks that Bush and McCain have a real answer to the challenges we face. So what they're going to try to do is make you scared of me," Obama said. "You know, he's not patriotic enough, he's got a funny name, you know, he doesn't look like all those other presidents on the dollar bills."
If constantly talking about a person's color is racist, Barack Hussein Obama is a racist. Of course, he has to talk about his funny name and his skin color because he can't speak to issues and retain votes, let alone gain votes.
Obama also compared himself to western legend Wild Bill Hickok, who he said had fought a duel in Springfield.
"I'm ready to duel John McCain on taxes right here, quick draw," Obama said, prompting a quick retort from the other side.
"If Barack Obama wants this so-called duel then why did he and his entourage run for the hills when John McCain challenged him to 10 town halls?" McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds said.
Obama responded after shaking hands at a restaurant in Lebanon, Mo.
"I don't hear very much positive from Sen. McCain," he said. "He seems to be only talking about me. You need to ask John McCain what he's for, not just what he's against."
Since nobody on the Obama 'Yes, We Can' campaign can read, here is a short list someone can read to you of what McCain is for:
A strong military
Winning the War on Terror
Winning in Afghanistan as we are winning in Iraq
Lower taxes
A Supreme Court that believes in the Constitution as it is written
What are you for, you racist with a funny name and big ears? Besides being black, that is?
Stumping in an economically challenged battleground state, Obama argued Wednesday that President Bush and McCain will resort to scare tactics to maintain their hold on the White House because they have little else to offer voters.
"Nobody thinks that Bush and McCain have a real answer to the challenges we face. So what they're going to try to do is make you scared of me," Obama said. "You know, he's not patriotic enough, he's got a funny name, you know, he doesn't look like all those other presidents on the dollar bills."
If constantly talking about a person's color is racist, Barack Hussein Obama is a racist. Of course, he has to talk about his funny name and his skin color because he can't speak to issues and retain votes, let alone gain votes.
Obama also compared himself to western legend Wild Bill Hickok, who he said had fought a duel in Springfield.
"I'm ready to duel John McCain on taxes right here, quick draw," Obama said, prompting a quick retort from the other side.
"If Barack Obama wants this so-called duel then why did he and his entourage run for the hills when John McCain challenged him to 10 town halls?" McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds said.
Obama responded after shaking hands at a restaurant in Lebanon, Mo.
"I don't hear very much positive from Sen. McCain," he said. "He seems to be only talking about me. You need to ask John McCain what he's for, not just what he's against."
Since nobody on the Obama 'Yes, We Can' campaign can read, here is a short list someone can read to you of what McCain is for:
A strong military
Winning the War on Terror
Winning in Afghanistan as we are winning in Iraq
Lower taxes
A Supreme Court that believes in the Constitution as it is written
What are you for, you racist with a funny name and big ears? Besides being black, that is?
Baroque Hubris Obama, Prom Queen For Nothing
The regal sense of arrogance parted the waters of the Middle East and Europe leaving in its wake, nothing. Nothing was filled with empty phrases that looked good on paper, but meant nothing. There is nothing that Obama can't do including wrong and he looks as if there is nothing to it.
It has gotten so bad that even the media seems to be getting it. That says something.
President Obama Continues Hectic Victory Tour
Barack Obama has long been his party's presumptive nominee. Now he's becoming its presumptuous nominee.
Fresh from his presidential-style world tour, during which foreign leaders and American generals lined up to show him affection, Obama settled down to some presidential-style business in Washington yesterday. He ordered up a teleconference with the (current president's) Treasury secretary, granted an audience to the Pakistani prime minister and had his staff arrange for the chairman of the Federal Reserve to give him a briefing. Then, he went up to Capitol Hill to be adored by House Democrats in a presidential-style pep rally.
Along the way, he traveled in a bubble more insulating than the actual president's. Traffic was shut down for him as he zoomed about town in a long, presidential-style motorcade, while the public and most of the press were kept in the dark about his activities, which included a fundraiser at the Mayflower where donors paid $10,000 or more to have photos taken with him.
Obama brings nothing to the Presidency. Except arrogance, way too much pride and a vision of government that Marx would love like nothing else.
It has gotten so bad that even the media seems to be getting it. That says something.
President Obama Continues Hectic Victory Tour
Barack Obama has long been his party's presumptive nominee. Now he's becoming its presumptuous nominee.
Fresh from his presidential-style world tour, during which foreign leaders and American generals lined up to show him affection, Obama settled down to some presidential-style business in Washington yesterday. He ordered up a teleconference with the (current president's) Treasury secretary, granted an audience to the Pakistani prime minister and had his staff arrange for the chairman of the Federal Reserve to give him a briefing. Then, he went up to Capitol Hill to be adored by House Democrats in a presidential-style pep rally.
Along the way, he traveled in a bubble more insulating than the actual president's. Traffic was shut down for him as he zoomed about town in a long, presidential-style motorcade, while the public and most of the press were kept in the dark about his activities, which included a fundraiser at the Mayflower where donors paid $10,000 or more to have photos taken with him.
Obama brings nothing to the Presidency. Except arrogance, way too much pride and a vision of government that Marx would love like nothing else.
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Liberal/Progressive BlackListing In Hollywood
A basic rule of free speech, diversity and democracy in a liberal/progressive world is dissenting opinions will not be tolerated. The latest victim of their "reality" is Jon Voight.
Fallen
I've never thought of Jon Voight as intellectually challenged, but it's hard not to at least consider the possibility after reading his 7.28 Washington Times op-ed piece slamming Barack Obama. "The Democratic party, in its quest for power, has managed a propaganda campaign with subliminal messages, creating a God-like figure in a man who falls short in every way," Voight wrote. "It seems to me that if Mr. Obama wins the presidential election, then Messrs. Farrakhan, Wright, Ayers and Pfleger will gain power for their need to demoralize this country and help create a socialist America."
I finally get what Angelina Jolie has been on about all these years. (I think.) Most people reading the Voight piece will say, "Okay, the Times gave him the rope and he hung himself." But you'd think an arch conservative working in an overwhelmingly liberal town would think about restraining himself for expediency's sake, if nothing else.
My honest deep-down reaction is that I now have a reason to feel negatively about the guy. I'm not saying Voight is on the HE shit list (although the idea certainly feels good -- just as it felt good to imagine the same thing last spring about Tina Fey when she became a rabid Hillary person on SNL), and I certainly don't think a symbolic condemnation along these lines would matter much to anyone. Nonetheless, it's going to be hard henceforth not to think of Voight as some kind of diseased wingnut.
In the conservative households and workplaces I have known, a healthy debate has always been welcomed. Vice versa, at best, my conservative views have been snidely tolerated even amongst old friends and their families. What is most interesting is that as friends aged, got married and had children, the most aggressive in their condemnation of conservatism was the spouses, especially the women.
I assume I am on somebody's list.
Fallen
I've never thought of Jon Voight as intellectually challenged, but it's hard not to at least consider the possibility after reading his 7.28 Washington Times op-ed piece slamming Barack Obama. "The Democratic party, in its quest for power, has managed a propaganda campaign with subliminal messages, creating a God-like figure in a man who falls short in every way," Voight wrote. "It seems to me that if Mr. Obama wins the presidential election, then Messrs. Farrakhan, Wright, Ayers and Pfleger will gain power for their need to demoralize this country and help create a socialist America."
I finally get what Angelina Jolie has been on about all these years. (I think.) Most people reading the Voight piece will say, "Okay, the Times gave him the rope and he hung himself." But you'd think an arch conservative working in an overwhelmingly liberal town would think about restraining himself for expediency's sake, if nothing else.
My honest deep-down reaction is that I now have a reason to feel negatively about the guy. I'm not saying Voight is on the HE shit list (although the idea certainly feels good -- just as it felt good to imagine the same thing last spring about Tina Fey when she became a rabid Hillary person on SNL), and I certainly don't think a symbolic condemnation along these lines would matter much to anyone. Nonetheless, it's going to be hard henceforth not to think of Voight as some kind of diseased wingnut.
In the conservative households and workplaces I have known, a healthy debate has always been welcomed. Vice versa, at best, my conservative views have been snidely tolerated even amongst old friends and their families. What is most interesting is that as friends aged, got married and had children, the most aggressive in their condemnation of conservatism was the spouses, especially the women.
I assume I am on somebody's list.
The Media: How Much More Will They Cheat The Public, Their Shareholders And Their Advertisers?
The media is a liar. That much is obvious, even to a blind horse.
Editors repeatedly say they only report the news, but the media actually editorializes in each story with obvious statements, omission of facts and laden adjectives belying their intent. Further, their bias is seen in their embarrassing proselytizing on behalf of "their" candidates when appearing with or in front of them as they perform an agnostic genuflection of adoration and fealty to their latest master.
As a homogeneous society of issue lobbyists, reporters and their administrators deliver their cant as news and when caught out, deny it, gloss over it or present themselves as professionals unable to devine what the problem is.
Bias is presented as fact and fact is presented as bias when said facts collide with their bias. So many issues, such as global warming and teens pregnant with illegitimate children, are viewed through their world view which flies in the face of fact. None the less, stories are filed, edited and printed with one world view only, theirs.
To the media, Bush's compassionate conservatism was merely a cover for his ineptitude and inexperience, but discussions of Obama's ineptitude and experience is merely a dodge by opponents to obscure his message of "change","hope" and "audacity." One candidate's lacking is another' strength in a never ending shell game of bait and switch in our 3rd world media.
American history's "sad" aspects require action, the senator tells cheering journalists
"I personally would want to see our tragic history, or the tragic elements of our history, acknowledged," the Democratic presidential hopeful said.
"I consistently believe that when it comes to whether it's Native Americans or African-American issues or reparations, the most important thing for the U.S. government to do is not just offer words, but offer deeds."
Throughout history there has been tragedy. For all those accountable for slavery the ramifications would reverberate to the very core of Africa not only in a historical sense, but also in the here and now as slavery continues its ugly march through the souls of men.
As Saxons, Normans, Celts, Gauls, Romans, Picts all conquered and reconquered and assimilated into each other's societies, so did the Maasai, Luhya and Taita near Kenya in the 1800s as are the Janjaweed, Zaghawa, Fur, and Masalit in Darfur today. Europeans came to the North American continent, traded with, were attacked by and attacked tribes like the Powhatans, Souix, Mohawks, Seminoles, Apach and the Delaware as they had done to each other for eons.
The Europeans won the war(s). Unlike other wars between cultures, the Indian tribes of North America were not assimilated into the new society, and here lies the true tragedy, they were given and placed on reservations as not really Indians anymore nor were they members of the North American society. If there is any real remedy, it would be to abolish the reservation system entirely and for the remaining Indians to enter into the prevalent North American society as citizens of the United States.
If guilt ridden liberals want to start reparations, what are we to have, a great Ponzi scheme where whites give land and money to the descendants of African slaves who must then give land and money to North American Indian descendants who might have to give land and money to any newly found original inhabitants of the continent only to have all sell the land back to whites as each reparation is realized in a Congress that no longer reflects the citizens of the United States? Enter the Mexicans who slaughtered Indians of North and Central America to carve their country into a nation.
So, addressing "tragic" chapters in the history of America is Obama's new schtick. He must not be nuanced enough to realize the full ramifications on countries, societies and tribes world wide. That didn't faze reporters as they, "leapt to their feet and applauded enthusiastically after being told not to do so."
The really sad part is that reporters had to be told not to act like supplicants, but that story of their lying and cheating to those they say they serve seems to be a story not yet fit to print.
Editors repeatedly say they only report the news, but the media actually editorializes in each story with obvious statements, omission of facts and laden adjectives belying their intent. Further, their bias is seen in their embarrassing proselytizing on behalf of "their" candidates when appearing with or in front of them as they perform an agnostic genuflection of adoration and fealty to their latest master.
As a homogeneous society of issue lobbyists, reporters and their administrators deliver their cant as news and when caught out, deny it, gloss over it or present themselves as professionals unable to devine what the problem is.
Bias is presented as fact and fact is presented as bias when said facts collide with their bias. So many issues, such as global warming and teens pregnant with illegitimate children, are viewed through their world view which flies in the face of fact. None the less, stories are filed, edited and printed with one world view only, theirs.
To the media, Bush's compassionate conservatism was merely a cover for his ineptitude and inexperience, but discussions of Obama's ineptitude and experience is merely a dodge by opponents to obscure his message of "change","hope" and "audacity." One candidate's lacking is another' strength in a never ending shell game of bait and switch in our 3rd world media.
American history's "sad" aspects require action, the senator tells cheering journalists
"I personally would want to see our tragic history, or the tragic elements of our history, acknowledged," the Democratic presidential hopeful said.
"I consistently believe that when it comes to whether it's Native Americans or African-American issues or reparations, the most important thing for the U.S. government to do is not just offer words, but offer deeds."
Throughout history there has been tragedy. For all those accountable for slavery the ramifications would reverberate to the very core of Africa not only in a historical sense, but also in the here and now as slavery continues its ugly march through the souls of men.
As Saxons, Normans, Celts, Gauls, Romans, Picts all conquered and reconquered and assimilated into each other's societies, so did the Maasai, Luhya and Taita near Kenya in the 1800s as are the Janjaweed, Zaghawa, Fur, and Masalit in Darfur today. Europeans came to the North American continent, traded with, were attacked by and attacked tribes like the Powhatans, Souix, Mohawks, Seminoles, Apach and the Delaware as they had done to each other for eons.
The Europeans won the war(s). Unlike other wars between cultures, the Indian tribes of North America were not assimilated into the new society, and here lies the true tragedy, they were given and placed on reservations as not really Indians anymore nor were they members of the North American society. If there is any real remedy, it would be to abolish the reservation system entirely and for the remaining Indians to enter into the prevalent North American society as citizens of the United States.
If guilt ridden liberals want to start reparations, what are we to have, a great Ponzi scheme where whites give land and money to the descendants of African slaves who must then give land and money to North American Indian descendants who might have to give land and money to any newly found original inhabitants of the continent only to have all sell the land back to whites as each reparation is realized in a Congress that no longer reflects the citizens of the United States? Enter the Mexicans who slaughtered Indians of North and Central America to carve their country into a nation.
So, addressing "tragic" chapters in the history of America is Obama's new schtick. He must not be nuanced enough to realize the full ramifications on countries, societies and tribes world wide. That didn't faze reporters as they, "leapt to their feet and applauded enthusiastically after being told not to do so."
The really sad part is that reporters had to be told not to act like supplicants, but that story of their lying and cheating to those they say they serve seems to be a story not yet fit to print.
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
LA Banned In Areas With Smart People
In a unique move today, areas where intelligence exists nationwide banned any mention of LA, California in hopes of stopping the spread of stupidity outside of NYC and California. Specifically named were Mayor Bloomberg and the entire government of the state of California in hopes that their inanity would not spread.
L.A. OKs moratorium on fast-food restaurants
In bid to fight obesity, city imposes one-year ban in poor neighborhoods
In other news there was a motion in Sacramento to demand a bill stating the sense of the House concerning personal responsibility, but no one would take personal responsibility for such a bill.
L.A. OKs moratorium on fast-food restaurants
In bid to fight obesity, city imposes one-year ban in poor neighborhoods
In other news there was a motion in Sacramento to demand a bill stating the sense of the House concerning personal responsibility, but no one would take personal responsibility for such a bill.
Barack Hussein Obama, aka Everyman!, But A Mere Socialist By Day
via This Ain't Hell
The Obama knows he must be a chameleon to hide what he is to as many people as possible. By blending in amongst what he perceives as the common rabble, both in and out of congress, he garners his most support by flitting from one idea to another never really discussing any one idea in depth. Nor answering any question.
From his roots in Africa to his upbringing in Indonesia, Hawaii and the golden calf of .edu, Harvard, Obama has formed a vision of government that reflects this upbringing. It is called Marxism.
Among his proposed "investments":
"Universal," "guaranteed" health care.
"Free" college tuition.
"Universal national service" (a la Havana).
"Universal 401(k)s" (in which the government would match contributions made by "low- and moderate-income families").
"Free" job training (even for criminals).
"Wage insurance" (to supplement dislocated union workers' old income levels).
"Free" child care and "universal" preschool.
More subsidized public housing.
A fatter earned income tax credit for "working poor."
And even a Global Poverty Act that amounts to a Marshall Plan for the Third World, first and foremost Africa.
His new New Deal also guarantees a "living wage," with a $10 minimum wage indexed to inflation; and "fair trade" and "fair labor practices," with breaks for "patriot employers" who cow-tow to unions, and sticks for "nonpatriot" companies that don't.
That's just for starters -- first-term stuff.
Obama doesn't stop with socialized health care. He wants to socialize your entire human resources department -- from payrolls to pensions. His social-microengineering even extends to mandating all employers provide seven paid sick days per year to salary and hourly workers alike.
Like most 'theorists' of Marxism, Obama doesn't have much experience in getting things done, let alone completed. Like most proponents of Marxism, Obama is an organizer or has been organized, putting people's equality in neat little rows that can be categorized by neat levels of equalness. Much like 'I became a millionaire by writing about your mental poverty to show you just how unfair your economics is.' Put another way, Obama lives in his ill gotten mansion pondering the inequality of the economic masses not having equally cute little pink houses all in a row.
The Obama knows he must be a chameleon to hide what he is to as many people as possible. By blending in amongst what he perceives as the common rabble, both in and out of congress, he garners his most support by flitting from one idea to another never really discussing any one idea in depth. Nor answering any question.
From his roots in Africa to his upbringing in Indonesia, Hawaii and the golden calf of .edu, Harvard, Obama has formed a vision of government that reflects this upbringing. It is called Marxism.
Among his proposed "investments":
"Universal," "guaranteed" health care.
"Free" college tuition.
"Universal national service" (a la Havana).
"Universal 401(k)s" (in which the government would match contributions made by "low- and moderate-income families").
"Free" job training (even for criminals).
"Wage insurance" (to supplement dislocated union workers' old income levels).
"Free" child care and "universal" preschool.
More subsidized public housing.
A fatter earned income tax credit for "working poor."
And even a Global Poverty Act that amounts to a Marshall Plan for the Third World, first and foremost Africa.
His new New Deal also guarantees a "living wage," with a $10 minimum wage indexed to inflation; and "fair trade" and "fair labor practices," with breaks for "patriot employers" who cow-tow to unions, and sticks for "nonpatriot" companies that don't.
That's just for starters -- first-term stuff.
Obama doesn't stop with socialized health care. He wants to socialize your entire human resources department -- from payrolls to pensions. His social-microengineering even extends to mandating all employers provide seven paid sick days per year to salary and hourly workers alike.
Like most 'theorists' of Marxism, Obama doesn't have much experience in getting things done, let alone completed. Like most proponents of Marxism, Obama is an organizer or has been organized, putting people's equality in neat little rows that can be categorized by neat levels of equalness. Much like 'I became a millionaire by writing about your mental poverty to show you just how unfair your economics is.' Put another way, Obama lives in his ill gotten mansion pondering the inequality of the economic masses not having equally cute little pink houses all in a row.
Monday, July 28, 2008
The Coward Sissy Men Of Islam
To Middle Eastern men women are chattel. Women are to be bare foot, pregnant and quiet. Except when the sissy boys of Islam need someone to deliver a bomb that they are too cowardly to deliver. I guess they've run out of "martyrs" they can drug up so much as to believe they are doing "god's" work. What a pathetic group of losers.
Female suicide bombers target pilgrims, rally
Four female suicide bombers and a gunman killed at least 70 people and wounded almost 300 others during a string of attacks in central Baghdad and Kirkuk on Monday, officials said.
In Baghdad, three suicide bombers detonated their explosives in three locations within 30 minutes of each other. The attacks killed at least 32 people and wounded 102 others, most of them Shiite pilgrims, an Interior Ministry official said.
Any religion that needs to use women, children and the mentally deficient to kill isn't a religion, it is a hoax. Any religion that needs to bribe its followers with 72 virgins for cowardly men to maim, murder, rape and torture to purify the earth isn't a religion nor is it just a hoax, it is an abomination to God.
These are the people that Pelosi and Reid and their ilk are supporting by trying to allow them to continue on. They are an abomination as well. They're just too partisan and stupid to know it. Or care.
Female suicide bombers target pilgrims, rally
Four female suicide bombers and a gunman killed at least 70 people and wounded almost 300 others during a string of attacks in central Baghdad and Kirkuk on Monday, officials said.
In Baghdad, three suicide bombers detonated their explosives in three locations within 30 minutes of each other. The attacks killed at least 32 people and wounded 102 others, most of them Shiite pilgrims, an Interior Ministry official said.
Any religion that needs to use women, children and the mentally deficient to kill isn't a religion, it is a hoax. Any religion that needs to bribe its followers with 72 virgins for cowardly men to maim, murder, rape and torture to purify the earth isn't a religion nor is it just a hoax, it is an abomination to God.
These are the people that Pelosi and Reid and their ilk are supporting by trying to allow them to continue on. They are an abomination as well. They're just too partisan and stupid to know it. Or care.
Obama's Blackwater Hilarity In Iraq
The Obama has made it clear that Blackwater USA, a private security firm, should be banned everywhere, especially in Iraq. They are bad people, not like the good people Obama surrounds himself with, but the Obama used them in Iraq & Afghanistan.
Blackwater Protected Anti-Blackwater Candidate in War Zones
I guess Obama couldn't get his good guys from Louis Farrakhan's Nation of Islam thug of the week club through security.
via Gateway Pundit
Blackwater Protected Anti-Blackwater Candidate in War Zones
I guess Obama couldn't get his good guys from Louis Farrakhan's Nation of Islam thug of the week club through security.
via Gateway Pundit
58 Illegal Aliens Arrested In Ohio
But they're not criminals just because they broke the law. They are "undocumented" workers who just happened to break the law every step of the way beginning with sneaking across the border.
Feds arrest 58 undocumented workers in raids on 8 eateries
The raids at eight Casa Fiesta restaurants is part of larger workplace enforcement strategy that infuriates immigrant advocates, who say it brings down the hammer on hapless workers.
"These people are not criminals," said David Leopold, a Cleveland immigration lawyer. "The worst thing you can say about them is they came here to feed their families."
Leopold is to testify before a congressional subcommittee in Washington today on the need for comprehensive immigration reform. In lieu of that reform, he said, the government is using police actions to support a broken immigration system.
Immigration authorities say they are enforcing the law as best they can, in part, by targeting businesses that purposely hire undocumented workers.
"This was just a step," said Brian M. Moskowitz, the special agent in charge of Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Office of Investigations in Detroit. "This is part of a criminal investigation of a company that is violating U.S. law."
I am very pro-business and, yes, I have heard from employers here in Ohio, spoken to small town business owners and farmers in Nebraska, Iowa and other places, but if they are purposely hiring illegal aliens, they are in the wrong. Hire all the lawyers possible, but they won't change that fact.
Feds arrest 58 undocumented workers in raids on 8 eateries
The raids at eight Casa Fiesta restaurants is part of larger workplace enforcement strategy that infuriates immigrant advocates, who say it brings down the hammer on hapless workers.
"These people are not criminals," said David Leopold, a Cleveland immigration lawyer. "The worst thing you can say about them is they came here to feed their families."
Leopold is to testify before a congressional subcommittee in Washington today on the need for comprehensive immigration reform. In lieu of that reform, he said, the government is using police actions to support a broken immigration system.
Immigration authorities say they are enforcing the law as best they can, in part, by targeting businesses that purposely hire undocumented workers.
"This was just a step," said Brian M. Moskowitz, the special agent in charge of Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Office of Investigations in Detroit. "This is part of a criminal investigation of a company that is violating U.S. law."
I am very pro-business and, yes, I have heard from employers here in Ohio, spoken to small town business owners and farmers in Nebraska, Iowa and other places, but if they are purposely hiring illegal aliens, they are in the wrong. Hire all the lawyers possible, but they won't change that fact.
Sunday, July 27, 2008
Media: Bastards Won In Iraq So Screw With Afghanistan
The media, still licking its wounds over victory in Iraq, has set out their Plan B for Afghanistan. Plan B is the same used in Iraq which is doom and gloom with every day, ignoring good days and hoping the whole thing goes to Hell in a hand basket so they can trash Republicans before the election in November. If any one of these losers believed in God you could count on the fact that they'd be praying for a major problem just to get one more shot at President Bush.
In their mind if Bush wins in Iraq and Afghanistan they will lose in the "name the worst president" sweepstakes. In fact they'll look the losers they are. That ain't pretty. They is ugly anyway and with loser stamped on their forehead they'll be uglier than a 2:oo AM last call loner standing there with an empty glass and no ride home.
So, onto perpetuating defeat in Afghanistan, the war the media said we should focus on to get us out of Iraq which they said we were losing. Now we're winning in Iraq, OMG, we're LOSING in Afghanistan! Just makes one pine for the simple days of "I'd Rather be stupid, thank you." Dan was the poster boy for K.I.S.S. and well suited to it.
AFGHANISTAN
The Taliban’s Baghdad Strategy
The insurgents are closing in on Kabul, not in order to overrun the capital but to terrorize its residents and drive away investors. It's working.
Faridoon stares in alarm at the two NEWSWEEK reporters who just walked into his shop. "You guys better get out of town fast," the 21-year-old Afghan says as quietly as possible. "There's Taliban everywhere."
Is this reporting for real? Is it a joke? If its real, there better be some absolutely fantastic sound track to back it up. If this is real, it is worse than any High School Herald or Beaver Falls BS report. It is a joke.
If the media loses in Afghanistan they could all be working for Drudge or Pajamas Media. Better than standing in line with the illegal aliens they support for a fry cook position or pulling cabbage through a loop for a truck in some Iowa heat. They'd be overpaid in either of the latter two positions.
Does anybody read the main stream media anymore? I mean outside of editors, staff and losers that have nothing better to do with their time? I was waiting for my neice and my radio is on the blink.
In their mind if Bush wins in Iraq and Afghanistan they will lose in the "name the worst president" sweepstakes. In fact they'll look the losers they are. That ain't pretty. They is ugly anyway and with loser stamped on their forehead they'll be uglier than a 2:oo AM last call loner standing there with an empty glass and no ride home.
So, onto perpetuating defeat in Afghanistan, the war the media said we should focus on to get us out of Iraq which they said we were losing. Now we're winning in Iraq, OMG, we're LOSING in Afghanistan! Just makes one pine for the simple days of "I'd Rather be stupid, thank you." Dan was the poster boy for K.I.S.S. and well suited to it.
AFGHANISTAN
The Taliban’s Baghdad Strategy
The insurgents are closing in on Kabul, not in order to overrun the capital but to terrorize its residents and drive away investors. It's working.
Faridoon stares in alarm at the two NEWSWEEK reporters who just walked into his shop. "You guys better get out of town fast," the 21-year-old Afghan says as quietly as possible. "There's Taliban everywhere."
Is this reporting for real? Is it a joke? If its real, there better be some absolutely fantastic sound track to back it up. If this is real, it is worse than any High School Herald or Beaver Falls BS report. It is a joke.
If the media loses in Afghanistan they could all be working for Drudge or Pajamas Media. Better than standing in line with the illegal aliens they support for a fry cook position or pulling cabbage through a loop for a truck in some Iowa heat. They'd be overpaid in either of the latter two positions.
Does anybody read the main stream media anymore? I mean outside of editors, staff and losers that have nothing better to do with their time? I was waiting for my neice and my radio is on the blink.
Saturday, July 26, 2008
The Grand Tour Ends With Obamally Emulating Ronald Reagan
In his quest to be all things to all people, Barry Lyndon Obamally, entertained the press in London with another day of political frivolity and ends up stumbling upon a political truth. You can't be all things, all the time, on all subjects to all the people.
He needs thinking time
"We call it the dentist's waiting room," Cameron said. "You have to scrap that because you've got to have time."
"And, well, and you start making mistakes," Obama said, "or you lose the big picture. Or you lose a sense of, I think you lose a feel-- ""Your feeling," interrupted Cameron. "And that is exactly what politics is all about. The judgment you bring to make decisions."
"That's exactly right," Obama said. "And the truth is that we've got a bunch of smart people, I think, who know ten times more than we do about the specifics of the topics. And so if what you're trying to do is micromanage and solve everything then you end up being a dilettante but you have to have enough knowledge to make good judgments about the choices that are presented to you."
Imagine how thrilled Obamally's base will be when they find out that he thinks like the only president they hate more than George W. Bush, Ronald Reagan. Maybe Obamally will twist yet one more time and announce "Star Wars" is the future defense of America.
He needs thinking time
"We call it the dentist's waiting room," Cameron said. "You have to scrap that because you've got to have time."
"And, well, and you start making mistakes," Obama said, "or you lose the big picture. Or you lose a sense of, I think you lose a feel-- ""Your feeling," interrupted Cameron. "And that is exactly what politics is all about. The judgment you bring to make decisions."
"That's exactly right," Obama said. "And the truth is that we've got a bunch of smart people, I think, who know ten times more than we do about the specifics of the topics. And so if what you're trying to do is micromanage and solve everything then you end up being a dilettante but you have to have enough knowledge to make good judgments about the choices that are presented to you."
Imagine how thrilled Obamally's base will be when they find out that he thinks like the only president they hate more than George W. Bush, Ronald Reagan. Maybe Obamally will twist yet one more time and announce "Star Wars" is the future defense of America.
Friday, July 25, 2008
Now Students Starving In America
Last week we were told that the middle class couldn't afford meat. Now students are starving. Have we no shame?
'Starving students' turn to food banks
"Before, when I lived in the dorms, I was on the meal plan," the 20-year-old said. "Now that I'm in the apartment, I have to pay for food, and I have to pay my cell phone bill. I don't make enough to pay for both."
...
With just $100 left to last him through the end of the month, the 20-year-old said a food bank might be his best option.
"It kind of grosses me out," McManaway said. "But if my parents say, 'No, we're not going to give you any more money,' it may be a last resort."
Bush, you bastard. This must be your fault and when Obama gets home, you're gonna pay.
'Starving students' turn to food banks
"Before, when I lived in the dorms, I was on the meal plan," the 20-year-old said. "Now that I'm in the apartment, I have to pay for food, and I have to pay my cell phone bill. I don't make enough to pay for both."
...
With just $100 left to last him through the end of the month, the 20-year-old said a food bank might be his best option.
"It kind of grosses me out," McManaway said. "But if my parents say, 'No, we're not going to give you any more money,' it may be a last resort."
Bush, you bastard. This must be your fault and when Obama gets home, you're gonna pay.
German Women Still Gushing Over Obama
I worked out with Obama!
“My name’s Judith” I reply. "I’m Barack Obama, nice to meet you!” he says, and puts his arm across my shoulder. I put my arm around his hip – wow, he didn’t even sweat! WHAT A MAN!
Forget policy. Don't need it. He works out.
Mein Gott werde ich für diesen Mann stimmen!!!!!!
“My name’s Judith” I reply. "I’m Barack Obama, nice to meet you!” he says, and puts his arm across my shoulder. I put my arm around his hip – wow, he didn’t even sweat! WHAT A MAN!
Forget policy. Don't need it. He works out.
Mein Gott werde ich für diesen Mann stimmen!!!!!!
Ohio Anti-Smokers Make Huge Profits On State Ban
Who Really Profits From Smoking Bans?
I found this on Tony Phyrillas' site. Tony is from PENNSYLVANIA.
Opponents of Ohio Bans say "Just follow the money."
COLUMBUS, Ohio, July 23 /PRNewswire/ -- "Smoking bans in the U.S. have been funded by those who directly profit from the sales of Nicotine Replacement Therapies (NRT)," said Debi Kistner with Opponents of OhioBans. Robert Wood Johnson, the late CEO of Johnson & Johnson, establishedthe Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) tax exempt non-profit 501(c)(3)in the early 1970s. According to their November 2005 publication, "Takingon tobacco: The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Assault on Smoking", from1991 to 2005 the foundation paid $446,398,054 in tobacco-control grants.Grantees that did not move from tobacco education to tobacco control became ineligible for further grants.
As of March 31, 2008 the foundation owns 35,435,189 shares of Johnson &Johnson (JNJ) common stock (valued at nearly 2.3 billion dollars) and is one of the company's largest institutional holders. As a tax exemptfoundation RWJF pays 1 percent tax on realized capital gains and dividendsfrom its investments, while other investors pay 15 percent. Johnson &Johnson profits from the sales of Nicoderm CQ and Nicorette products. Thefoundation therefore directly profits from cigarette tax and smoking banlaws they've provided grants to create. In January 2008, 1,000,000 boxes ofthe company's nicotine replacement products were reportedly sold andNicoderm CQ is touted as the "best selling smoking cessation patch inhistory". April 15, 2008, Forbes reported that Johnson & Johnson profitjumped 40% during the first quarter of 2008.
I wondered who was making the huge profits from screwing so many people's individual rights.
Ohio's smoking ban was a big win for the anti-smokers, but the really big winners are big intrusive government and those pushing the ban to make huge profits.
The big loser is the people of Ohio who thought they were doing good when they not only voted away their rights, but also set precedent for other rights to be taken away.
I found this on Tony Phyrillas' site. Tony is from PENNSYLVANIA.
Opponents of Ohio Bans say "Just follow the money."
COLUMBUS, Ohio, July 23 /PRNewswire/ -- "Smoking bans in the U.S. have been funded by those who directly profit from the sales of Nicotine Replacement Therapies (NRT)," said Debi Kistner with Opponents of OhioBans. Robert Wood Johnson, the late CEO of Johnson & Johnson, establishedthe Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) tax exempt non-profit 501(c)(3)in the early 1970s. According to their November 2005 publication, "Takingon tobacco: The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Assault on Smoking", from1991 to 2005 the foundation paid $446,398,054 in tobacco-control grants.Grantees that did not move from tobacco education to tobacco control became ineligible for further grants.
As of March 31, 2008 the foundation owns 35,435,189 shares of Johnson &Johnson (JNJ) common stock (valued at nearly 2.3 billion dollars) and is one of the company's largest institutional holders. As a tax exemptfoundation RWJF pays 1 percent tax on realized capital gains and dividendsfrom its investments, while other investors pay 15 percent. Johnson &Johnson profits from the sales of Nicoderm CQ and Nicorette products. Thefoundation therefore directly profits from cigarette tax and smoking banlaws they've provided grants to create. In January 2008, 1,000,000 boxes ofthe company's nicotine replacement products were reportedly sold andNicoderm CQ is touted as the "best selling smoking cessation patch inhistory". April 15, 2008, Forbes reported that Johnson & Johnson profitjumped 40% during the first quarter of 2008.
I wondered who was making the huge profits from screwing so many people's individual rights.
Ohio's smoking ban was a big win for the anti-smokers, but the really big winners are big intrusive government and those pushing the ban to make huge profits.
The big loser is the people of Ohio who thought they were doing good when they not only voted away their rights, but also set precedent for other rights to be taken away.
John Edwards, Rielle Hunter And The Collusion Of The Media
UPDATE:
Editors ban discussion of Edwards love-child charges.
The story about John Edwards and Rielle Hunter is nothing, but the age old story of people gone wrong. The story of how all the major news organizations spiked the story in apparent collusion is quite another.
Just as Watergate would have been nothing, but a second-rate burglary except for the cover up by the Nixon Administration, the real 'love child' story is beyond the story. People in positions of power and trust discussed what they would do in unison to mislead the public about a story for reasons they wish to keep secret, just as they have colluded in their coverage of our presidential election and the candidates.
Below is a search made for stories containing the word 'rielle' which is the first name of the woman who supposedly had John Edwards' child and with whom he clandestinely met at a hotel earlier this week. He attempted to sneak in and sneak out, but was caught by reporters which he attempted to hide from.
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1.Veepstakes: Edwards on the trail - First Read - msnbc.com
I live in LA and know Lisa Druck or Rielle Hunter or whatever she calls herself now. I heard Lisa is back in LA now with the baby and talks of whose baby it is.
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/07/03/1182377.aspx
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2.Celebrating Independence - News- msnbc.com (7/6/2008)
Behind them in the parade was 11-year-old Gab-rielle Cooper, who rode in a decorated golf cart and tossed handfuls of candy to the crowd gathered along Main Street.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25551835/
3.Edwards, Obama cancel meeting - First Read - msnbc.com
The (unsubstantiated) rumor that I heard is that the Clinton camp was going to force Edwards to endorse her, threatening that if he didn't, they would publicize the Rielle Hunter ...
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/02/11/655480.aspx
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4.Edwards print ad tomorrow - First Read - msnbc.com
After this election is over, Senator Clinton will be fan, I'll be fan, Rielle Hunter will be fan. But will my baby be fan? Will the baby get to know its real father?
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/12/31/540073.aspx
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5.Edwards says Clinton camp lacks 'conscience' - First Read - msnbc.com
... think Barack can afford to hitch himself to John Edwards, given the fact that Edwards is about to be exposed in a major sex scandal. If you haven't heard about it, google "Rielle ...
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/01/06/554278.aspx
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6.Oh-eight (D): Hillary on Letterman - First Read - msnbc.com
Does anyone else wonder why the media is holding back on the stories about Edwards' affair with Rielle Hunter and about her current pregnancy?
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/01/03/545298.aspx
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7.Celebrating Independence - News- msnbc.com (7/6/2008)
Behind them in the parade was 11-year-old Gab-rielle Cooper, who rode in a decorated golf cart and tossed handfuls of candy to the crowd gathered along Main Street.
http://ori.msnbc.msn.com/id/25551835/
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If Sherrod Brown wants an anti-trust review, maybe he should look into the obvious collusion between the major news outlets.
Thursday, July 24, 2008
Obama, Faux Citizen Of The World
Obama tries so hard to say what he thinks will please the congregation thus raise his halo that he just falls flat after the service and the communion wine has worn off.
Problems here at home brought by the Pelosi-Reid "government" and Obama is kissing up in foreign lands. Environmentally inflated gas killing budgets and Obama is in the theatre of the absurd acting Jewish at the Wailing Wall. Banks are in trouble and he's trying to play commander in chief by insulting professional soldiers with his tin ear to the facts on the ground. This isn't the way to bolster his foreign policy resume. He hasn't got one and it shows.
Euro Trash Talking
While Barack Obama took a premature victory lap today in the heart of Berlin, proclaiming himself a 'citizen of the world,' John McCain continued to make his case to the American citizens who will decide this election. Barack Obama offered eloquent praise for this country, but the contrast is clear. John McCain has dedicated his life to serving, improving and protecting America. Barack Obama spent an afternoon talking about it.
I'm betting on the tortoise. The hare is a tad too skittish because this is one race track he can't handle.
Problems here at home brought by the Pelosi-Reid "government" and Obama is kissing up in foreign lands. Environmentally inflated gas killing budgets and Obama is in the theatre of the absurd acting Jewish at the Wailing Wall. Banks are in trouble and he's trying to play commander in chief by insulting professional soldiers with his tin ear to the facts on the ground. This isn't the way to bolster his foreign policy resume. He hasn't got one and it shows.
Euro Trash Talking
While Barack Obama took a premature victory lap today in the heart of Berlin, proclaiming himself a 'citizen of the world,' John McCain continued to make his case to the American citizens who will decide this election. Barack Obama offered eloquent praise for this country, but the contrast is clear. John McCain has dedicated his life to serving, improving and protecting America. Barack Obama spent an afternoon talking about it.
I'm betting on the tortoise. The hare is a tad too skittish because this is one race track he can't handle.
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