Commentary
HOW TO HANDLE WIKI-LEAKS
Julian Assange, the Wiki-Leaks founder is now wanted for questioning, not for releasing top secret documents that have cost the lives of innocent victims and endangered countless others, rather for charges of rape and molestation.
Like any free thinking adult, I guess I have to question the timing of the new charges by the Sweedish government and Assange himself is posting on Wiki-Leaks saying these charges are lies and the timing jsut too convenient. Really? Like there needed to be some trumped up charge to make this guy any more “wanted for questioning”?
This guy is dangerous to the lives of American soldiers and innocent Afghani civilians. He must be stopped. My suggestion is pick this guy up and drop him off at a NASCAR race. Tell the P.A. announcer to let everybody know who he is and where he’s sitting. Problem solved. And he will then understand the meaning of molestation.
OBAMA-VS-TIGER
My friend Carl sent me this. What a commentary on not only the press, but on us as well.
I THINK IT IS REMARKABLE THAT WITHIN A WEEK OF TIGER WOODS’ CRASHING HIS ESCALADE, THE PRESS FOUND EVERY WOMAN WITH WHOM TIGER HAS HAD AN AFFAIR IN THE LAST FEW YEARS, WITH PHOTOS, TEXT MESSAGES, RECORDED PHONE CALLS, ETC.
AND, THEY NOT ONLY KNOW THE CAUSE OF THE FAMILY FIGHT, BUT THEY EVEN KNOW IT WAS A WEDGE FROM HIS GOLF BAG THAT HIS WIFE USED TO BREAK OUT THE WINDOWS IN THE ESCALADE. NOT ONLY THAT, THEY KNOW WHICH WEDGE! AND EACH AND EVERY DAY, THEY GIVE AMERICA MORE UPDATES ON HIS SEX-REHAB STAY,
HIS WIFE’S PLANS FOR DIVORCE, AND HIS PLANS TO RETURN TO THE PRO-GOLF CIRCUIT.
OBAMA HAS BEEN IN OFFICE FOR OVER A YEAR NOW, AND THIS SAME PRESS STILL CANNOT LOCATE OBAMA’S OFFICIAL BIRTH CERTIFICATE, OR ANY OF HIS PAPERS WHILE IN COLLEGE, OR HOW HE PAID FOR A HARVARD EDUCATION, OR WHICH COUNTRY ISSUED HIS VISA TO TRAVEL TO PAKISTAN IN THE 1980′S AS BARRY SOETORO AND
EVEN MICHELLE OBAMA’S PRINCETON THESIS ON RACISM. IT JUST CAN’T BE FOUND? YET THE PUBLIC STILL TRUSTS THAT SAME PRESS TO GIVE THEM THE WHOLE TRUTH . . . TRULY REMARKABLE!
The Democrats’ Hypocrisy Is Staggering
A story written by John Lott and posted at FoxNews.com demonstrates even more “special favors” that the authors of the Health Care reform bill have given themselves. Below is a key excerpt.
While everyone else in the United States — from the top corporate executives to the grocery store checkout clerk — will be forced to buy their insurance through heavily regulated state-run exchanges, the health care bill excludes one group: the leadership and committee staff. Yes, that’s right. The very people who wrote up this bill are refusing to be included themselves. Given the narrow definition of “congressional staff” on page 158 of the health care bill, the Congressional Research Service memo believes that courts will not require “professional committee staff, joint committee staff, some shared staff, as well as potentially those staff employed by leadership offices” to go through the exchanges. President Obama and his family are also exempt from the law.
Thanks to Zack for forwarding this story to me to post here.
The Most Disgusting Health Care Deal Of All
I got a lump in my throat when I saw this article posted on Drudgereport.com. You can link to it here. It reveals the latest backroom deal offered by Pelosi and Company to bribe a few more congressmen into voting for, excuse me, not voting for but sort of kind of voting for health care reform.
I have friends who live in the Central Valley region, near Modesto, CA where water, the most basic necessity of life, is being denied to local farmers and citizens with the stated reason being the salvation of the lowly Delta Smelt. This tiny little fish, which may be endangered by a variety of causes, was championed by environmentalist wacko’s who coerced a willing EPA into shutting down the water supply. The irony is the move may not even save the smelt from possible extinction.
The argument was that the water coming out of the mountains and channeled by man made, state run aquifers for use in agriculture and drinking water, was destroying the habitat of the smelt and had to be stopped. A judge agreed and so tens of thousands of acres of once rich farm land now lies fallow and drying. Cities from San Jose to San Diego are developing rationing plans for citizens. Thousands of people, on the low end of the wage scale, have been put out of work and now have to live on government handouts to survive. Unemployment in some farming communities is 40%. Compare that to the Great Depression’s 25% rate. Prices for food are going up because of it. It is a disaster of epic proportions, but according to liberals like Nancy Pelosi, Barbara Boxer and others the salvation of the delta smelt was too important so joblessness, destruction of farm land, killing business and forcing skyrocketing prices is a price “we all have to pay” to save the smelt. In the meantime, all that precious water that was being pumped southward is now being diverted out to sea. Great idea, huh?
That is until health care came along. Apparently the need to pass health care reform far out-weighs the need to perpetuate existence of the delta-smelt. So much so that Pelosi is buying votes of a couple of California congressmen by offering to open up the flood gates and send the water back to the farms again. The deep, ironic hypocracy of this back room deal is that the people of this region have been desperately fighting to overcome this starvation by our federal government for 3 years, being told all the way that the delta-smelt is too important, when in truth, the facts show that the diversion of water is probably not the cause of the loss of delta smelt populations.
These people, these liberals, are so desperate to pass health care reform, they will say and do anything. Why? They know health care reform will swing open the door to socialized country they all wished they could live in.
VOTE THEM OUT!
EVERYONE TAKE YOUR CRAZY PILLS
I don’t even know where to begin on this latest Obama-Care push in congress. The so-called, Slaughter Rule or self-executing option now being considered is so ridiculous that any sober thinking American can’t fathom the concept. Only a politician could come up with such a scheme.
The idea is this. Instead of having to vote on a senate bill they don’t like or come up with a house bill that the senate can stomach and then go through reconciliation, Pelosi has released the lawyers in a hunt to determine the legality of not actually voting on the bill. Huh? The way it would work is the senate bill would stand as is and the house would vote on a bill that basically says we’re going to amend the senate bill because we don’t like it. Then President Obama would have to sign both the senate health care bill and the house amendment bill into law. Then the senate would have to actually agree to change the bill they passed in the first place to please the house. Then both houses of congress would vote on the new bill and amendments to come up with a final health care bill that both the house and the senate can live with.
Makes perfect sense, doesn’t it.
Of course none of this revolves a single Republican. Not one. This is all a product of Democrats hemming and hawing and trying to cover their butts come election day. At the same time all of this is going on, Obama is literally bribing Democrats to vote yes on all this with cash, merchandise and promises. All this to pass a bill that not a single Republican wants and that a majority of the American people don’t want. All this to pass a bill that will raise the cost of insurance, end Medicare as we know it, and kill any thought of job creation for small businesses.
Makes perfect sense to me.
I feel like I’m taking crazy pills. This entire effort by the Democrats is insane. I can only look at them as zealots, hell-bent on changing the fundamental nature of our democracy. Willing to do anything and everything. Kamakazi’s.
Take your crazy pills.
ITS NOT NICE TO BLAME MOTHER NATURE
The Obama administration is saying that the unusually cold and snowy weather this winter may have “artificially” driven February unemployment rates. OK NOW I’M REALLY CONFUSED! If the weather is so cold and snowy that people can’t get jobs, wouldn’t global warming, at least a little bit, be a good thing? Work with me on this. Global warming could actually be good for the economic recovery by making sure people don’t get snowed in and can go to work. So I propose that we increase carbon emissions, temporarily, until the jobless numbers go down. Let’s get all those clunkers back on the highway! Fire up the coal plants! Feed your cattle pork and beans!
The administration is also saying that green jobs are the future of the economic recovery. These are jobs that are, by their nature, tied to defeating global warming, thereby perpetuating the same weather patterns that are causing the causing the jobless numbers to go up. OW! I JUST GOT A HEADACHE!
And just for the record, unless it was artificial snow, wouldn’t it be more accurate to say that the cold and snowy weather this winter, naturally drove February unemployment rates higher?
Any thoughts on this?
SIGNS THE ECONOMY IS REALLY, REALLY BAD!
THE ECONOMY IS SO BAD:
I got a pre-declined credit card in the mail.
I ordered a burger at McDonald’s and the kid behind the counter
asked,”Can you afford fries with that?”
CEO’s are now playing miniature golf.
If the bank returns your check marked “Insufficient Funds,” you call
them and ask if they meant you or them.
Hot Wheels and Matchbox stocks are trading higher than GM.
McDonald’s is selling the 1/4 ouncer.
Parents in Beverly Hills fired their nannies and learned their
children’s names.
A truckload of Americans was caught sneaking into Mexico .
Dick Cheney took his stockbroker hunting.
Motel Six won’t leave the light on anymore.
The Mafia is laying off judges.
Exxon-Mobil laid off 25 Congressmen.
Congress says they are looking into this Bernard Madof scandal. Oh
Great! The guy who made $50 Billion disappear is being investigated by
the people who made $1.5 Trillion disappear!
I was so depressed last night thinking about the economy,
wars, jobs, my savings, Social Security, retirement funds, etc., I
called the Suicide Lifeline. I got a call center in Pakistan and when I
told them I was suicidal, they got all excited, and asked if I could
drive a truck.
The WanderingMind on YouTube
When I get up in the morning, I like to have my coffee, check emails and run through several websites I like to follow daily. This morning, my first stop was at Drudgereport. The banner headline was a link to an article about Phil Jones, the embattled climate scientist from East Anglia University. The jist of the story was this. Yes, I lied. There has been no global warming since 1995. I’m pretty disorganized so that’s why I can’t find the actual collected data which forms the foundation of my thesis. That is pretty much a 180 from one of the lead global warming proponents in the world.
From there I went to YouTube and somehow stumbled upon a video posted by a guy named Greg, screen name wanderingmind42. This very pleasant, self-described science teacher has a hugely popular video that walks through an 10 minute logic and reasoning exercise that basically says, no matter what you think the “undeniable conclusion” has to be doing something now, immediately to curb global warming or catastrophe awaits.
After reading the current story on Drudgereport and knowing that it is just the latest in a series of broadsides against the man-made global warming argument, I was amazed at this video. The more I thought about it, the more I felt obligated to post something here. What concerned me most was the idea that this wonderingmind42, who has a very good on camera presence, is filling young minds with his activist rubbish. He invites people to poke holes in his “silver bullet theory” but takes huge leaps in logic that demonstrate his and other peoples closed minded, unscientific, activist approach to global warming.
“>BEFORE READING MORE, GO TO YOUTUBE AND WATCH THE VIDEO HERE.
Okay, assuming you didn’t watch the video, here it is in a nutshell. In fact the image below is a recreation of the cost/benefit analysis grid the teacher uses in the video.
Got it? True or False it is much better to act now than not.
ILLOGICAL
The key element of wonderingmind42′s presentation is his cost/benefit analysis grid. Unfortunately he makes two presumptions that unhinge his argument from the outset. The first is regarding the causes of global warming. His premise is that we don’t have to even know whether or not human caused global warming is true to come to the undeniable conclusion that we should do something about it now. While there is ample evindence to the contrary, lets just assume that there is global warming and humans do cause it. Can we realistically assume that we are the ONLY cause of global warming? Of course not. The known and unknown effects that the sun has on warming the earth are far, far greater than any impact that man can have. Now that is an undeniable truth. The undeniable conclusion then is that even if we did everything we could to curb or even eliminate human’s contribution to global warming by acting now and acting radically, we have no control over the sun or other natural phenomenon that can change the climate. Can we stop a volcano from erupting? Can we stop an asteroid from impacting the earth?
The second jump in logic that wandermind42 doesn’t address is the solution side. Again, let’s assume, despite the evidence, that humans cause global warming and there is no other natural cause, therefore, we must act. The global warming community has proposed any number of solutions, from the ridiculous cap and trade farce to draconian emissions standards to green technology requirements, etc, etc. These are the economic hardships referenced in the upper left panel. The unfortunate truth for the global warming community is that even using their numbers, all of these efforts over a 50 year span might be able to impact the temperature by a fraction of a degree, maybe as much as 1 degree. The undeniable conclusion is that what is being proposed is an unproven solution to unproven problem.
Unproven solutions to problems that may not even exist. Maybe, just maybe, a little more study is needed. Now I am not opposed to promoting energy efficiency, energy independence and green technology. Nothing wrong with that. Go for it. Bill Kristol made a great observation on Fox News Sunday this past weekend. He rightly pointed out that if all this liberal talk about energy independence was real then Obama would be calling for the building of nuclear power plants, U.S. based refineries, coastal drilling, drilling in ANWAR and domestic engery exploration tax incentives.
Of course the real reason behind the global warming scare is money. If you wanted millions in grant money in the last 10 years, all you had to do was propose a study on how man is causing global warming. Come up with the right conclusion and you’ll get even more money. All the proposed solutions are about money as well. In fact even a casual observer can recognize that the proposed global warming solutions such as cap and trade, green technology, etc., do little but create revenue streams that concertrate a power in the hands of a few. The undeniable conclusion….Lets wait study more, then act.
DO YOU MISS ME YET?
There has been a confirmation, of sorts, regarding the billboard in Wyoming that features a picture of George W. Bush with a caption reading, “Miss me yet?” Apparently it is a real billboard. Rush Limbaugh got a call from a listener who said she passed by it every day on the way to work. Now, the owner of the sign company that owns the billboard has come forward to reveal that the billboard was purchased by a group of local small business owners who posted the board as a protest against the current administration.
There has also been an email floating around regarding a visit by the former president to Ft. Hood. The email claims that Bush visited Ft. Hood and was asked to leave by the White House. The web is all a-twitter regarding the veracity of the claims made by the author of the email, that include, Bush arriving unescorted, Obama showing up at Ft. Hood only for a photo op, and so on, blah, blah, blah. After receiving the email then doing some follow up investigation I decided to post my conclusion.
Yes. I miss him.
It’s a fact that Bush went to Ft. Hood. He went unannounced, no fanfare, no photo ops, no talking with reporters. His people didn’t stage an event. He and his wife went because they wanted to go and offer whatever they could to help people in need. In fact, when was the last time you ever heard Bush hold a press conference or make any public statement about any current events? Gore? Clinton? Carter? Yeah. Big difference! The left hates Bush for precisely that reason. He’s just a regular guy that does what regular guys do. You can find the same kind of hate directed at Sarah Palin. Interesting.
Below. George and Laura Bush meet with Sgt. Randy Royer and his wife Trisha at Ft. Hood. 
NUCLEAR OR NUCULAR?
Remember how stupid Dan Quayle was because he couldn’t spell potato? It was an iconic episode in American politics. The media was relentless in demonstrating how the inability to spell a simple word was proof enough that Quayle lacked the gravitas to hold the office of Vice President. The truth behind the story was that Quayle was handed a list of spelling words prepared by the teacher with the word potato misspelled with an e at the end. As candidates are wont to do on the campaign trail, he didn’t pay to much attention to what was being said. However, the “gotcha” moment was to good to filter with the truth.
Remember how George W. Bush said “nucular” instead of nuclear? It was the clarion call for the attack media and entertainment leftists. “See!”, they shouted. “He can’t even pronounce the word correctly.” Careers were launched and saved by using the “mock Bush strategery”. (Will Ferrell is the funniest.)
Remember when Obama was making a speech before a bunch of people from the military and kept referring to a Navy Corpsman as a “corpse-man”? You don’t? Heck, it just happend a few days ago. Haven’t you seen it all over the media? Oh, that’s right. It wasn’t all over the media. In fact, I’ve only seen it reported in once place. Here at National Review Online. You would think that with Obama’s very election to the presidency dependent, in part, upon his silver-tounged oratory, that a misstatement of this magnitude would be big news. But of course, this is Obama and the media is not going to turn on Obama. In fact, it wouldn’t surprise me to see Brian Williams start referring to the “corpse-man shipping out overseas to fight the war.” After all, if Obama said it, it must be so. Maybe he should issue an executive order changing the official pronunciation of the word.
In Texas, they have a saying. “Don’t piss on my leg and tell me it’s raining.” When it comes to Obama the media is pissing bias and claiming that it’s raining objectivity.
Punxsutawney Phil Hates Global Warming
In a stunning blow against Osama bin Ladin and Al Gore’s fight to hold the western world accountable for global warming, Punxsutawney Phil declared six more weeks of winter during his annual prognosticating festival this week. The ground hog who, to date, has been more accurate at weather forecasting than all of the climate scientists at East Anglia University, saw his shadow on the snow-covered Gobbler’s Knob. The prediction dealt yet another setback to the embattled climate change community.
The series of recent revelations about estimated data, incomplete evidence, false research and outright lies being used as the basis for the IPCC’s reporting on global warming has done only a little damage to the global warming cause. Even with record cold temperatures, snow blizzards causing event cancellations and Osama bin Ladin jumping on the global warming bandwagon, the march continues towards a world wide solution to find a way to tax people when the temperature goes up..
Then comes Punxsutawney Phil. What does his prediction reveal? LaughAtLiberals sat down with Phil for an exclusive interview.
LAL:Phil, first the obvious question. Your prediction was for 6 more weeks of winter. What makes you think winter will continue, especially in light of the facts presented by Al Gore in an Inconvenient Truth?
PHIL: Well first of all I saw my shadow. I’m not bragging, but I’ve been pretty accurate for the last 100 years. As for Al Gore’s movie, I didn’t see it so I can’t comment, but I did see G-force and those gerbil chicks are hot!
LAL:Well Phil, Inconvenient Truth used some questionable data to propose that the earth’s temperature has risen dramatically in the last century and that man is the cause of what will be a devastating climate change if we don’t do something to stop it.
PHIL: Oh yeah, that was the one with Dennis Quaid in it with the kids in the library. Yeah, it was kind of stupid if you ask me. Look, everybody in the world knows that the sun has the most impact on our climate, followed by natural forces such as volcanoes, the oceans, plants and animals. What man can do to effect world wide climate is so far down the list, its kind of arrogant to assume that you humans can change the climate that dramatically, let alone fix it.
LAL: Well what about those who point to recent data showing that the temperature is rising?
PHIL: Well, actually, it’s not.
LAL: Well what if it is?
PHIL: Yeah, but it’s not.
LAL: Well lets just pretend it is.
PHIL: You mean like those scientist at East Anglia University?
LAL: Yes, I mean No. What I’m saying is, if the temperatures here on earth were warming wouldn’t that be a bad thing?
PHIL: Not really. Look. The earth has gone through these warming and cooling cycles before. I remember I ate a science book once that had a whole chapter
devoted to the Little Ice Age. Hello. Temps change. Nothing you can do about it and in fact, it may have a positive impact, allowing for longer growing seasons, more tillable soil, the spread of plant life.
LAL: So what you’re saying is that man-made global warming is a hoax?
PHIL: No. What I’m saying is there is absolutely no evidence at all that man is the sole cause of recent changes in temperature. There is also absolutely no evidence that there is anything that man can do to have any kind of an impact on changing it.
LAL: So we should just do nothing?
PHIL: No. There is nothing wrong with building things and using things that are more environmentally friendly. That’s a good idea and groundhogs like me appreciate it. But this idea of taxing people and business and countries for the carbon they produce sounds like a scam to me. I mean, I eat grass and clover. Do I need to borrow some carbon credits?
LAL: Good point, thanks Phil.
Happy Birthday Emory
I wanted to wish a happy birthday to my long time friend Emory Rowland. The reason I’m doing it here is that without Emory, Laugh at Liberals would not be. It was his effort, all those years ago, that launched our first Laugh At Liberals site and he has continued to play a key roll in it’s growth and development.
More important than that, though, is my long connection with Emory. I am 46 years old and I have known Emory since I was 15. I still hold a close place for him in my heart. We played in our first band together. It was just a high school band, but we were pretty good! I lived with Emory for a few weeks right after graduation then moved away from the small town where we met. We have only seen each other in person a few times since then, but we have always talked and remained close via phone and internet.
Emory has an amazing mind, a warped sense of humor and a huge heart. I am proud to call him my friend. Emory has always provided me with a reference point in my life. As you grow older it is good to have those people and places that focus your mind on who you are and where you’ve been. Knowing Emory and having him in my life, even it is only an email or a phone call now and then, gives me a sense of self. He’s part of my roots.
Happy Birthday Emory.
Love, Buck
HE SHO DO SPEAK GOOD, DON’T HE?
In as resounding smackdown to those who said Harry Reid is a racist, President Obama used his state of the union address to speak in a very “non-dialecty” kind of way, thus exonerating Reid’s unsavory comments regarding Obama’s skin color and speaking skills made earlier this month.
Now to the speech.
There can be no discounting Obama’s oratorical abilities. He can deliver a speech and while it was delivered well, I felt it was pretty uninspiring, at least until his closing remarks. The content of the speech, however, was the same argument we’ve been hearing for the last year. It was Bush’s fault, but government can fix it. He talked mightly of his faith in the resilience, tenacity and decency of the American people but offered little in the way of spelling out how his administration would get out of their way and let them rebuild the nation.
JOBS
He devoted most of his speech to jobs. It’s about time, but let’s take a look at some of what he said. At one point he said that there were roughly 2 million jobs now that would not have been here had it not been for the stimulus. He even mentioned 300,000 teachers and 200,000 firefighters and policemen as I recall. Well we already know this unprovable statement is somewhat in doubt and as for the teachers, policemen and firefighters, last time I checked it was your local taxes that paid those bills.
He talked about helping small business through various incentives, but then took it back when saying that taxes on “those who make over $250,000″ would be going up. A real jobs bill, which Obama called for, is what his administration and this congress should have been focusing on for the past 6 months. Instead, Obama and the Democrats were busy cutting deals and having secret meetings and 1:00am votes on health care reform.
HEALTH CARE
I hope the Republican party was inspired by Obama’s challenge to bring him a better idea. It’s time for the Republican party to issue its own health care reform plan in a format that people can understand and comprehend. Most sober thinking conservatives are all for reforming health care, but doing it in a common sense way, incrementally fixing components and testing new ideas. ObamaCare is pieced together mess. For example, a key component of paying for ObamaCare is using nearly a half billion dollars of “money that is going to waste and fraud” in the medicare system. Here’s an idea. Why not identify and eliminate the waste and fraud first? That should be a plank in the Republican health care platform, one that will help demonstrate how silly a proposition this has been all along. Here are some other ideas, Obama. How about tort reform? When an OB/GYN has to come up with $150,000 in just one year, just to pay malpractice insurance premiums, no wonder it costs so much to have a baby. That’s about $12,000 per month, $400 per day just for malpractice insurance because a lawsuit could cost $20 or $30 or even $100,000,000. How requiring all insurers to offer common sense plans for a variety of pocketbooks, in exchange for opening up competition for all insurers in every state. How about letting insurance premiums be tax deductable? What about working with states to strengthen existing public health clinics and offering incentives to doctors, nurses and hospitals to participate? There are a lot of great, conservative ideas out there that can make our health care system better. As a side note, I find it laughable that of the millions of people this health care overhaul is supposed to help, a huge percentage of them don’t really want to spend money on health-care because they just don’t need it.
THE SUPREME BACKHAND
It was rude to admonish the supreme court justices for their decision. It was also hypocritical for Obama, of all people, to bemoan the influence of special interest money in elections. This from the same guy agreed to take public funding, which would limit contributions, but changed his mind when the money started rolling in from….wait for it….
special interest, lobbyists and foreign countries. Politicians have balls. It was nice to see Justice Alito mouth the words “not true” right back at Obama. Good for him.
Obama’s state of the union address was nothing more than an attempt by Obama to pull himself out of the fray that is brewing in the 2010 election season. He blamed Bush for the problems and congress and banks and insurance companies and so on, and so on. The problem with the speech tonight was Obama has lost trust and he showed no signs of trying to earn it back….but he sho do speak good don’t he?
WHAT CAN BROWN DO FOR YOU: The Boston Tea Party All Over Again
The more I think about it, the more I am shocked and amazed at what Scott Brown, Senator Scot Brown, did in Massachusetts. It has been called a miracle, but I don’t that is fair to Scott Brown or the people who voted for him. No, what happened in Massachusetts is the beginning of a revolution, a revolution of the people of this country against tyranny of the elected class.
When a group of Massachusetts colonists, in December of 1773, dumped a shipload of tea into Boston Harbor, they did so to, once again, tell the British government that they were tired of being taxed and they were tired of being told what to do. That iconic act was another stepping stone towards the American Revolution. I think the people of Massachusetts have done it again. When you think about what Scott Brown did, objectively, you cannot dismiss the grass roots nature of his victory and the message it sends.
Consider the following.
1. Scott Brown had, until this election, only run and won for the Senate seat in the state legislature from his small district. Martha Coakley had been elected to statewide office, Attorney General, twice.
2. Scott Brown ran as a Republican in a state where only 12% of the register voters are Republicans. He won 53% of the vote.
3. Brown spent a little over a half million dollars, Coakley, over four times that amount.
4. Massachusetts hasn’t elected a Republican Senator in over 30 years.
5. Coakley was running to fill the seat of Teddy Kennedy. The Kennedy family had endorsed her.
6. Massachusetts has voted overwhelmingly Democrat in nearly every election in recent history.
In other words, Coakley had everything going her way and, under normal circumstances, should have won easily. That’s the problem with revolutions. They sneak up on the powerful when they least expect it.
There are two things driving this grass roots revolution. The first is people are fed up with the growing reach and power of the federal government. People, by their very nature, seek freedom. To be sure, some things need to be regulated, but to live is to want to live freely and our federal government has grown into a giant, freedom-supressing, machine. The second thing is a growing disdain for the elected class. People are tired of being told how to live and what to do by people who a.) have never been there and done that themselves and, b.) create separate rules for them to live by. Obama would be wise to recognize that all policy issues and government actions can be measured against these two gauges. Health care reform, as it is being presented by the Democrats, is an offensive, overreaching encroachment of federal government into private life. That’s how most people feel. Period. It is also a ham handed smack down by the elected class of the people who gave them power. Fortunately for Republicans, this is a Democrat led initiative.
Exit polling showed, overwhelmingly, that people voted for Barack Obama because they wanted a new direction for the economy, for jobs. Only 5% said they wanted health care reform on the massive scale that Obama has delivered. Just like those colonist all those years ago who said they were fed up of being told what tea they had to buy and that they would have to pay a tax on it too! It eventually led to revolution. There is only so much people can take.
What form this revolution will take is still a mystery. A smackdown of Democrats and a windfall for Republicans? The emergence of a third party? A tax-payer revolt? Civil unrest? Civil war? Who knows, but whatever direction this revolution takes, rest assured, it is underway. What Scott Brown did was give a voice to the same kind of people threw those crates of tea into the harbor. His election in Massachusetts was the Boston Tea Party all over again.
Amos, Andy & Harry Reid
What Harry Reid said was not that bad. We all know that. He said Obama was articulate, he is. He said he was light skinned, he is. He said he didn’t speak with a Negro dialect unless he wanted to, weird, but essentially true, I guess. So it’s not what Reid said that has all us conservatives huffing and puffing. It’s the fact that he’s getting a pass is what really pisses us off. (Insert the obligitory statement here.) IF A REPUBLICAN WOULD HAVE SAID SOMETHING LIKE THAT….
That is old news. Everybody knows that racist liberals, or racist statements, excuse me, insensitive statements made by liberals get a free pass from the media and other liberals. The same game has been playing out over and over again. Now it’s time for Republicans and conservatives to come up with a new response strategy and here it is. Instead of playing the “gotcha” game and responding with outrage when some racist comment is made by the likes of Harry Reid, we should embrace it. Take the ball and run with it.
For example. When Harry Reid said Obama was articulate, Michael Steele should have held a press conference and said and said “Harry Reid was right! Obama sho’nuff do be articulate. He be a bad mamma-jamma wit the articulation.” When Harry Reid said Obama was light skinned. The Republican caucus should have gone on Fox News and presented Obama with a gift basket with some Coppertone and free passes to the Congressional Tanning Salon. And as far as that Negro dialect goes, the next amendment introduced to the Health Care bill should be written in Ebonics. “Whereas we be poppin’ a cap foshizzle in the publizzle option, be it recognized henceforth that we should bounce to reconciliation with some chronic….Boiiiiii”
I know it probably won’t happen so for the time being we’ll have to try and stick to the rules of the game, which are as follows.
1.If you are a conservative you are racist.
2.If you are a liberal you are a friend to all minorities.
3.If you are a conservative and say something remotely insensitive, it is a racist remark made by a closet racist and you should not only apologize but resign.
4.If you are a liberal and say something remotely insensitive, well, that’s okay. We know what’s in your heart. Just call Al Sharpton and watch some Amos and Andy reruns.
LYING LIBERALS…SO WHAT ELSE IS NEW!
When I saw the headline on Drudge “Count The Lies…” referring to Obama promising to televise the Healtcare debate….I laughed out loud. Lies from Obama…so what else is new. I actually blew snot out of my nose when Pelosi said “a lot of things were promised during the election.” Basically she was saying of course we lied, you idiot, that’s what we do when we’re trying to get elected. But the best laugh of all was when she said this healthcare debate was a completely open process. Now that’s funny.
You sit there and listen to these things that are said and wonder how in the world these people think anybody will believe them or even take them seriously when the lies are just so blatant. The they get away with it is a willing support media backs them up so the echo chamber repeats the lie enough that it becomes truth. (See Global Warming)
The entire gameplan behind this healthcare is and has always been, get something passed. It doesn’t matter what. If you have to lie, hide it, buy people off, whatever you have to do, just get something passed. One of the little hidden gems about this entire healthcare package that is now heading into conference is that several components of it contain provisions for a super majority or a 3/4 vote to be repealed. There is some question as to whether or not that is even constitutional, but it is in there none the less, as protection against public backlash. Just get it passed and it won’t matter what happens in the next election or the one after that.
That was the plan, even way back when when Obama was saying over and over again…”this is going to be televised on C-Span.” No it wasn’t. He knew it then and he knows it now. You can’t show the hotdog being made and then expect people to eat it.
So liberals have been caught lying once again. This time they’re lying to open the door to the brave new socialistic world of which they dream. The longest journey has to start with just one step…and healthcare is it. It always has been. So what else is new?
AMERICA ON TRAIL…IN NEW YORK
I’ve been trying to do as much research as possible into the recent move of the 9/11 conspiritors trail from military to civilian court.
My first response to this move by the administration was indifference. No big deal. But after reading up on the possible ramifications I am gravely concernced, as you should be. There is a great commentary from NROonline here that spells it out.
To sum it up. These accused conspirators, including Khalid Sheik Mohammad were nearing the end of the military commission trial. Even in AG Eric Holder’s words, their guilt is not really in question. Obama could have allowed that military commission trail to run it’s course and the case would have been closed. Now, by moving their case into the U.S. Court system, we are putting the probably convictions in question and, of even more concern, we are creating a world stage for America’s war on terror to put on trial.
This brazenly political move by Obama is putting America’s future, your family and mine, in harms way. It will cost you and I millions of dollars. It also will open the door for our enemies and those who despise us to use the information that must be released in this trial to cause even more harm to our nation.
It is a decision so contrary to America’s interests that one must ask, is this an act of treason. Murdering terrorist will not be on trial. America will be on trial in New York.
IS OBAMA-CARE REALLY GOING TO HAPPEN?
Are you ready for Obama-Care? Is it really going to happen? The more I learn, the more scared I get about what I’m learning. Now, I must confess, I’m one of those uninsured that this is supposed to help. I haven’t been to the doctor in two years(thank God) and the last time I went to the doctor, I paid for it out of my own pocket.
Now I just read where under Pelosi’s Obama-Care I would have to buy insurance and if I didn’t I could go to prison. Go here to read the exact language.
Okay, so all you liberals out there are saying, “What’s the big deal? The government forces you to buy car insurance and pay for a drivers licenses.” Not quite the same thing, but lets take that argument and run with it. I can buy car insurance from practically any company. I can change it with relative ease and customize it to my budget and needs. Some people can’t afford car insurance so if your argument follows this path of logic, shouldn’t the government tax those who do pay car insurance so those who can’t afford it be allowed to buy it?
None of this makes any sense. Pull the plug before it’s to late and lets start over with an approach that fixes whats broken, like tort reform. When a doctor has to pay $100 to $200,000 a year for malpractice insurance that raises your cost and mine. Why not get serious about reforming medical malpractice lawsuits and start awarding settlements that make sense.
Obama-Care WILL NOT WORK! Stop it Now!
OBAMA’S NOBEL PRIZE IS A JOKE!
When I heard this announcement this morning my reaction was, for what? What has Barack Obama done to deserve a Nobel Peace Prize. Then after going to the NobelPeacePrize.org web site, I was even more astonished. Read the quote below before moving forward so we can all be on the same page.
The Nobel Committee makes its selection on the basis of nominations received or postmarked no later than February 1 of the year in question.
This comes directly from the Nobel Peace Prize web site. There is also a section describing who can make nominations. Go here to read more.
Are you starting to get the picture? Barack Obama was sworn in as President on January 20th. His nomination for the Nobel Prize for this year had to be postmarked no later than February 1st. So within 10 days of him actually having any authority or power to affect any kind of change, he was nominated for the most auspicious award for peace on the planet. It’s comical. Laughable. Forget the fact that he has done absolutely nothing, not one thing, to actually bring any kind of peace or any kind of resolution to a conflict. He was nominated before he even got his stuff moved into the White House.
Based on this criteria, Obama could just as easily receive the MVP of the World Series, a Grammy or be named winner of the World’s Strongest Man competition. He’s done as much to deserve those titles as this, right? Where is Kanye West when you need him.
KANYE: “Excuse me Nobel Prize Committee…I’m sorry President Obama, I don’t want to take away from anything you’ve done, but Beyonce’s video has done more to bring about world peace. It was the best video of all time…blah, blah, blah….”
If Obama can receive the Nobel Prize on the promise of what he can do, then why not suspend the Constitution and make him President for life?
Lord help us.
LET’S LAUGH AT LIBERALS
When the world seems mad, when ACORN offers mortage advice on a brothel for underage Honduran hookers, when a global warming protest gets cancelled because of snow…just laugh. Come here, share it. A liberal comment on it and make us laugh even harder…SO GO, LAUGH!
