Apr 27 2009
I’m going on a tour of our beginnings!
First stop Historic Jamestown!
Williamsburg next, and finally DC. I have one week to find any clues of how we got here. If anyone has any questions or hypothesis I can check out let me know.
As a sidenote I think Thomas Jefferson wasn’t as tall as he or history says!
I’ll be back!
Apr 19 2009
“Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.”
— Saul Alinsky
I guess it’s a little bigger than being UN-REPORTED by the So-Called news: CNN, MSNBC, and Janeane Garafalo reporting. *Laugh Out Loud*
I thought this was the Take it to the Streets administration. You know grassroots, community organizing, Rules for Radicals—old school! Not when someone is using it against you—it seems…
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Talk about misdirection: “this president just cut taxes for 95 percent of the American people…” —David Axelrod Is he talking about the $13 a week? Economic stimulus package on track for final votes
Officials estimated it would mean about $13 a week more in people’s paychecks this year when withholding tables are adjusted in late spring. Next year, the measure could yield workers about $8 a week. Critics say that’s unlikely to do much to boost consumption. “The most highly touted tax cut in the original proposal now translates into $7.70 a week for middle-class workers,” said Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky.
Obama’s Tax Cut for 95 Percent of Workers: $13 a Week
**** Axelrod: Tea Party Anger is Misdirected. Obama senior adviser says frustration over spending and taxes is “unhealthy.”
WASHINGTON — Damn the tea bags. A top adviser to President Barack Obama takes a dim view of last week’s anti-tax “tea parties,” promoted by organizers in the spirit of the Boston Tea Party. “The thing that bewilders me is this president just cut taxes for 95 percent of the American people. So I think the tea bags should be directed elsewhere because he certainly understands the burden that people face,” David Axelrod said Sunday.
The Million Taxpayer March By Michelle Malkin
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Media Hacks Sandbag the Teabaggers Stephen Green
How the mainstream press takes its marching orders from radical rabble-rouser Saul Alinsky. (Also see Bill Whittle: “What Media Bias Really Costs the Republic.”)
Apr 19 2009
Bronx Bummers!
HOW IS IT POSSIBLE? TO LOSE TO ANOTHER TEAM (EVEN if they were THE BEST TEAM which they certainly were not!) 22-4?
Bronx Bummer: Indians’ 14-run second dooms Yankees
The last place (I know it’s only April) Indians DESTROYED the (at home in the new stadium) Yankees on April 17th, 2009 by a score of 22-4… This is not the house that Ruth built—no way!
Forget about the highest payroll in Baseball let alone all professional sports. Forget about the caliber of players. Forget about it all except that it’s the NEW YORK YANKEES, the most winningest, storied franchises in professional sports…
Don’t give me EXCUSES! I’m not interested in injuries—everyone struggles through them. Don’t give me a bad day—everybody has them!
I can’t fathom that any professional baseball team can have that many runs against them. Let a lone my beloved Yankees. Even the worst teams don’t lose to the best teams by so many runs—Yet it happens at least once a year to the Yankees!
Full disclosure: I myself am not a fan of paying ridiculous salaries to unproven (in New York) players—It really is a crap shoot—some people can excel and some bomb! That’s reality!
Repeat after me:
It’s only April. It’s only April. It’s only April. It’s only April. It’s only April. It’s only April.
Ohemmmm…
Apr 19 2009
A tale of CREATING the NEWs and what happens when those same creators don’t want you to see behind the curtin… Reality.
You can no longer TRUST the news—any news… These are scary days my friends…
(This video clip was taken off Youtube because you were seeing the News Creators exposed like cockroaches: CNN Disappears Our Clip – A Follow Up) Isn’t that interesting… What does that tell you about the INTEGRITY of CNN?
Thanks to Founding Bloggers: (UPDATED) Founding Bloggers Exclusive! Our Footage Of The CNN Chicago Tea Party Throwdown
News—Hah!
Other Voices:
Great footage—You decide: By B. Jordan Blindawn—http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zNbWtl4wgM
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I’m sick of people knocking embarrassing videos off YouTube with bogus copyright violation claims.
The latest culprit is CNN, a network that was recently embarrassed by a video of reporter Susan Roesgen cutting off tea-party protestors in Chicago, and assailing them with silly liberal talking points. The blog Founding Bloggers showed up on scene and caught her in further arguments with angry citizens who noted her biased coverage. I posted the Founding Bloggers video on Thursday.
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PowerLine: Hiding the Evidence
One of the revelatory moments that took place during the tea parties on April 15 was the on-screen meltdown by CNN reporter Susan Rosegen, which we noted here. Covering the Chicago tea party for CNN, Rosegen got into arguments with demonstrators, abused them, attacked the tea parties as being promoted by Fox News and being “anti-CNN,” and generally revealed herself to be a liberal activist, not a legitimate reporter.
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CNN’s cover-up and “fair use” abuse By Michelle Malkin
Unhinged CNN reporter Susan Roesgen is on “vacation” after scrapping with Tea Party protesters last week, but her bosses are still hard at work trying to stifle Tea Party voices of dissent.
Apr 19 2009
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy
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How dare you call people racist because they speak out in protest!
This is what the “News” and the voice of opposition to people protesting higher taxes has to say. This is what they have to say and what they are calling you. Racist.
Hat tip Allahpundit!
Garofalo outdoes herself: Tea-parties all about white power, says D-lister: by Allahpundit
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The Janeane Garofalo of academia By Michelle Malkin
It’s one thing for Hollywood twit Janeane Garofalo to smear the Tea Party movement as RAAAAACIST. We expect ignorant celebrities to be ignorant. But when newspapers phone up “experts” in academia to provide commentary and analysis on social and political trends, it would be nice if they based their assessments on reality, wouldn’t it?
Apr 15 2009
We’re mad as hell and we aren’t going to take it any more!
Was yesterday’s headlines about the report from Homeland Security and the radical right a PREEMPTIVE STRIKE against regular Americans? A way of diminishing and marginalizing the cause by making it appear radical? Is this another technique right out of Rules for Radicals, by Saul Alinsky? What is the reason some news people are calling it Tea-bagging other than to marginalize it?
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Tax Day Becomes Protest Day. How the tea parties could change American politics. By GLENN HARLAN REYNOLDS
So who’s behind the Tax Day tea parties? Ordinary folks who are using the power of the Internet to organize. For a number of years, techno-geeks have been organizing “flash crowds” — groups of people, coordinated by text or cellphone, who converge on a particular location and then do something silly, like the pillow fights that popped up in 50 cities earlier this month. This is part of a general phenomenon dubbed “Smart Mobs” by Howard Rheingold, author of a book by the same title, in which modern communications and social-networking technologies allow quick coordination among large numbers of people who don’t know each other.
Today American taxpayers in more than 300 locations in all 50 states will hold rallies — dubbed “tea parties” — to protest higher taxes and out-of-control government spending. There is no political party behind these rallies, no grand right-wing conspiracy, not even a 501(c) group like MoveOn.org.
Reuters
A rally and march in protest of higher taxes in Santa Barbara, Calif., April 4.
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A Tax Day Tea Party cheat sheet: How it all started By Michelle Malkin
For the Johnny-Come-Latelys in the MSM who will be dispatched by
their editors to file obligatory stories about the hundreds of Tax Day
Tea Party protests across the country today, here is a cheat sheet to
get you up to speed.It’s here!
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The Lee’s Summit Tax Day Tea Party
April, 15, 2009 — nicedeb I’m in between tea parties, right now, so I’m going to have to make this quick.
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Unreal: CNN reporter openly contemptuous of tea parties Apr 15, 2009 3:25 PM by Allahpundit “This is not really family viewing.”
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Tax Day and Tea Parties: The writing on the wall April 15, 2009 by Ed Morrissey
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Scott Allan’s World: Today is the day, Americans April 15, 2009 –
If you’re like me you watch the news in shock wondering what is happening to our country and why isn’t anyone stopping it? You feel as though you have no representation even though you vote. You are positive that most of the country feels like you but are helpless against an ever expanding government run by people who feel they know what is best for you.
Find your local tea party. http://www.taxdayteaparty.com
Apr 14 2009
Video: Did Bernie Goldberg “smack down” Sean Hannity? by Ed Morrissey
Why?
Sean Hannity is running amok. He’s bugging me more and more everyday…
Full disclosure: (if there was a doubt) Let me say I am a big fan of talk radio and the assorted conservative talking heads—Limbaugh, Hannity, O’Reilly, Levin, etc. I agree with most, but like they themselves proclaim, when someone they support misfires or steps out of line I will call them OUT on it.
Hannity over the years has been going in a direction I don’t care for. Don’t get me wrong we see the world in a similar way, but I find more and more that his rhetoric has become stale, canned, and rehashed over and over again and some of his arguments have become just transparent, like the Left—unwilling to accept and acknowledge when the other side does something that is actually good for the country. Obama’s steering the ship right now—he gets credit for the right conclusion to the pirate/hostage situation over the weekend. End of story!
Now, I get the reason for this, you need to keep repeating it all the time just like the other side, because people forget and are easily persuaded if someone isn’t beating the drum they stop paddling or start listening to another drum.
I don’t like it because I’m smart enough to draw my own conclusions and I don’t need someone else to tell me how or what to think.
So, what Alan Colmes did was at least keep Hannity somewhat honest. The other side was at least presented. I would agree that Colmes had weaker arguments, but they were also arguments I didn’t agree with so…
Now, it’s all Hannity, no other side and even when people who agree with him disagree, he refuses to accept other slightly different views than his own—it and he comes off as a cheap salesman.
Sorry Sean, that’s how I see it—you need to get Colmes or some other opposing view to balance the platform or it will get worse.
Now, the problem with calling one of your own out is that the other side will try to use it against you. Not the point. Hannity still has the values and philosophy I believe in, just some of the rhetoric needs to be adjusted.
The willingness of calling out one of our own is one attribute that I feel defines us, makes us different than the Left. Example: They won’t even admit, condemn, or call out someone they support even if it’s a womanizer who takes sexual advantage of 21 year old because of his position, makes use of government property to suit his own needs, betrays his family and the country he steers with lies to our faces, lies in court to cover it up, gets caught, gets impeached. No, they won’t do that.
Ask one right now and they will come up with a dozen excuses for horrible behavior they would never accept from their own spouse, father, boss, or adversary.
If GWB did that—Wowie! I would be the first to call for his resignation.
Apr 13 2009
The guy, behind the guy, behind That Guy…
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And isn’t it ironic … don’t you think
It’s the good advice that you just didn’t take
Who would’ve thought … it figures
Life has a funny way of sneaking up on you
It’s a traffic jam when you’re already late
It’s a no-smoking sign on your cigarette break
It’s like ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knifeIsn’t it ironic … don’t you think
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Obama Administration Maintains Bush Legal Argument for Terrorist Surveillance Secrecy
President Obama’s most liberal supporters are dismayed and disgusted … because this administration is invoking the “state secrets” privilege.
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Interesting…
That Guy—all the time…
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Obama administration seeks to deny habeas-corpus for Afghan detainees By Doug Powers
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Afghanistan: Obama’s War on “Dangerous Suspects” is Starting to Look Like Terror War By arturoafc54
The problem with terrorists is they don’t ever want to vote for you.
They want to kill you.
Terrorists don’t want to listen to pretty speeches and they are only interested in pictures of your wife and kids if they can find them and torture them.
So maybe Barack Obama, despite all the happy talk about closing Gitmo, is starting to get something about terrorism: a word almost verboten in his Administration.
Obama to Appeal Detainee Ruling NYT
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration said Friday that it would appeal a district court ruling that granted some military prisoners in Afghanistan the right to file lawsuits seeking their release. The decision signaled that the administration was not backing down in its effort to maintain the power to imprison terrorism suspects for extended periods without judicial oversight.
Apr 13 2009
One hero rescued, 3 Pirates Dead,and one Pirate to be tried.
Damn Proud—that’s right! POTUS Obama did the right thing—can’t take that away and it should be recognized—he did what needed to be done!
So, I do feel partially responsible for adding to pressure the BO Administration for what needed to be done with those Somali rat-bastard Pirates— and no, I’m not going to call them by their politically correct and stool-softened name—I refuse! And, no, I’m not feeling bad for their demise either.
My satirical conversation between Barack and Jimmy hit the nail on the head. I’m sure there are people unhappy with the end response, but the heck with them—it needed to be done. More needs to be done and hopefully that is coming in both word and action.
Also, sidenote: you won’t see or hear anyone complaining about the course of action taken by the administration—because those who are in the tank for him would never say anything against him and those in the opposition camp are happy with the course of action because it needed to be done. The Republicans won’t use this as an opportunity to grab power—that’s just how it works.
Yes, I’m a little full of myself (and also making fun of myself a little,) but it’s these voices, OUR VOICES, we must be willing to use, speak up and out to be heard by our leaders who may or may not be listening! Make it so they have to listen. You know that annoying voice that can’t be ignored.
Keep beating the drum!
Would anyone care for some TEA…
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Captain Phillips freed, 3 pirates killed by Ed Morrissey
Here’s a happy ending on Easter Sunday for Hot Air readers. Captain Richard Phillips is now free from the pirates holding him hostage, and three of the four captors are now free of oxygen use as a result:
Update II: Looks like the initial reports were incorrect. After being authorized to use force by President Obama, Navy SEALs took their shots when it appeared the pirates were about to shoot Phillips. Kudos to the SEALs, and kudos to Obama for making the right call. If this had gone badly, he would have taken the blame, so it’s fair to credit him with taking the steps necessary to finally bring this to a happy conclusion.
Apr 11 2009
Light the corners of my mind
Misty water-colored memories
Of the way we were
Scattered pictures,
Of the smiles we left behind
Maybe, Barack should call the great Ex-President Jimmy Carter for some advice… Let’s see how long that Nobel prize winner keeps his mouth shut when one of his own his steering the ship. Not that he has any Presidential successes of his own to draw from…
AP/FOXNews.com
POTUS Barack Obama: Ah, hey Jiminey I mean Jimmy, ah, I have this, situation developing. Ah, hostage thing, ah.
PPOTUS Jimmy Carter: Hey Barack, can you use the teleprompter, this conversation has too many, ah’s and incomplete sentences for me to deal with. Didn’t you go to Harvard?
POTUS Barack Obama: Sorry Jimmy, ah, I had to send the damn thing out to be fixed. Maybe you can use, ah, those Nobel Peace prize skills, for a minute, ah, and cut me some slack. Ah, you sound like the failed policies of the previous administration and fat Bozo Limbaugh.
PPOTUS Jimmy Carter: Barack, I’m the one that came up with the failed policies slogan, so you can thank me for that instead of the static.
POTUS Barack Obama: Jimmy, are, you kidding— after your presidency, you were the reason for that slogan.
Can we get back to my problem. There are hostages. Started as one hostage. And now, the poor Somali people who appropriated work of another for profit—Damn Capitalists! have appropriated another American ship. More hostages.
PPOTUS Jimmy Carter: You mean the Pirate thing I’m watching on CNN? It’s not a big deal.
POTUS Barack Obama: Jimmy, Pirate is not the preferred nomenclature, we don’t use those type of inflammatory, hurt filled, fight starting, terminology, any more—this is a new, administration.
The new New Speak regulations from the office of Language and Communications Czar: Please replace Pirates with the poor Somali people who appropriated work of another for profit in any interviews—be a team player for Christ sake! Oh, and if you can add in the evil Capitalist simile it would help.
These American idiots were just polled and Socialism is widely thought of as positive. They are close to begging us for socialism—the Grail is at hand!
Jimmy the whole world is watching. Waiting. Judging me. I don’t know what to do, and it’s not even 3AM.
PPOTUS Jimmy Carter: You are full of yourself aren’t you—the whole world is watching… Right. China, Putin, Osama, Kim Jong Il, they all have more important things to do than pay attention to how you deal with this non-crisis take my word for it.
POTUS Barack Obama: Jimmy Please! God dammit! I mean dammit, don’t want to offend any of our secular brothers and sister. Focus! (where are my smokes?)
PPOTUS Jimmy Carter: well, if you don’t do something about this Pirate, sorry, the poor Somali people who appropriated work of another for profit, the American people and Damn Capitalists are going to beat you to death with that Grail!
POTUS Barack Obama: I, ah, I, I know, Jimmy, that’s why I’m calling you. So far it appears that I’ve done nothing and I don’t know what to do.
PPOTUS Jimmy Carter: well you haven’t done anything, that’s what I did and for a lot longer than 4 days—I’ll tell you that. If I only had a second term, I know they would have let them go. Maybe if the UN would have… Goddammed Reagan! He got all the credit for my patience! Bastard!
POTUS Barack Obama: Jimmy focus dammit! This is my crisis.
PPOTUS Jimmy Carter: You could send helicopters in the middle of the night after you try to put them to sleep with some kind of nerve gas. Naaah, it’il never work, scratch that.
You could blow-em up to kingdom come—shock and awe-em! It will send a clear message that the US doesn’t negotiate with terrorists! Lol, haha ha haha ha—I’m just kiddin with ya.
I would play it safe—do what I did… Patience.
Also, as a side note to the financial crisis, I’d think about raising taxes on everybody—forget that 250k and up strategy—doesn’t add up anyway!—somebodies got to pay for these programs—there aren’t enough rich people to do it.
(Heh, why should I be the loser president everyone refers to about the inability to deal with being held hostage and adding policies that helped create the worst economy since the Great Depression…)
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Not so easy to steer the ship with the real world sending waves at you every single second—is it? Then add to that criticism from every angle—your own people and leaders, foreign leaders who wouldn’t mind if you got your ass kicked…
That’s why it matters what you say, who you’re speaking to and with what agenda, here and abroad…
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If this bunch can hold us hostage than prepare yourselves! We're in trouble!
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Warships block help for pirates holding captain...
'We are not afraid of the Americans'...
Obama Team Mulls Threat From Somali Extremists...
'Failure to act'...
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U.S. warships trying to stop Somali pirates from sending aid to lifeboat in which American held hostage
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Pirates seize U.S.-owned, Italy-flagged tugboat Reuters
By Duncan Miriri NAIROBI, April 11 (Reuters) – Pirates seized a U.S.-owned and Italian-flagged tugboat with 16 crew on Saturday in the latest hijacking in the busy Gulf of Aden waterway, a regional maritime group said. “This incident shows the pirates are becoming more daring and violent,” Mwangura told Reuters by phone.
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Hijacking Escalation Somali pirates hijack a U.S. tugboat with an Italian crew as captain standoff enters fourth day
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Pirates seize U.S.-owned, Italy flagged tugboat: By Doug Powers MM
How long will it take Hillary to laugh at this one?
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Somali pirates strike again by Ed Morrissey
Impunity.
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The Anchoress: Pirates on Holy Saturday
Pirates take another vessel: I am trying to eschew politics, but as we pray today, let us offer – along with prayers for others, prayers for our nation, and for our president who seems to be channeling Jimmy Carter’s years. Last seen bowing to the Saudi King and flying a personal pizza chef into Washington to cook for him, is flailing and seems out of his depth and clueless while Somali pirates laugh at our country and basically kidnap with impunity. Hostages everywhere…Can’t Obama just finish his pizza, Pirates? He can only do one thing at a time!
