Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Transparent Frauds
The illogical and burdensome laws and regulations produced by the lawyercrats in D.C. are purposefully written to confuse ordinary Americans just so we can't understand what the lawyercrats are doing to us.
Try to read and understand what the House's 1500-page health care bill does to your family’s healthcare.
You can read until your eyes pop out and you won't understand it. Neither can the members of Congress who are out there telling you how wonderful it is. (They won’t even bother to read it.) No one knows what the whole thing does or what it costs. Because it's impossible to understand.
The only people who really know anything about what’s in it are the liberal pressure groups who know just where their sweetheart deals are buried. They know where to find those, at least.
The health care bill, like its ugly, wart-nosed sister -- the U.S. tax code -- is written in lawyercrat language that obfuscates the effect and purpose -- in short the truth -- of what’s being done. And this is transparency?
There is nothing transparent in Washington, D.C. And a lot of people work really hard to make sure of that.
Stay very distrustful, America. In the words of the great, recently-departed reporter Robert Novak: Love your country, but don't trust your government.
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57% Would Like to Replace Entire Congress
If they could vote to keep or replace the entire Congress, just 25% of voters nationwide would keep the current batch of legislators.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 57% would vote to replace the entire Congress and start all over again....
[OK, AGREED - let's do that then.]
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Obama’s health care tactics just like those he used in state Senate in 2004
Barack Obama, deflecting criticism of his top agenda item to deal with the health care crisis, accuses opponents of ''fear-mongering,'' telling lies and miscasting his proposal as ''socialized medicine.''
That wasn't President Obama in recent weeks, as the health care debate has been heating up in Congress and in town halls across the country. That was then Illinois State Sen. Obama, arguing on the floor of the Illinois Senate on May 19, 2004...
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Times Watch Quotes of Note
An excerpt of Times Watch's latest "Quotes of Note," featuring the most biased things written or spoken by reporters and columnists for the New York Times.
"Almost Entirely White and Irritable Crowd" of "Angry" Obama-Care Protesters-- Ian Urbina and Katharine Seelye, August 12.
[The intended subliminal message: if you challenge Obama's policies, you're a racist.]
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See - There is an Axis of Evil
The United Arab Emirates has seized a ship secretly carrying embargoed North Korean arms to Iran, say diplomats.
The interception comes at a sensitive time. North Korea has invited the US for bilateral talks on nuclear issues and the UN Security Council’s western members are pressing for greater Iranian co-operation over its nuclear programme.
The UAE has reported the seizure of the vessel to the UN sanctions committee responsible for vetting the implementation of measures, including an arms embargo, imposed against North Korea under Security Council resolution 1874, according to diplomats in New York.
Diplomats at the UN identified the vessel as the Bahamian-flagged ANL-Australia. The vessel was seized some weeks ago. The UN sanctions committee has written to the Iranian and North Korean governments pointing out that the shipment puts them in violation of UN resolution 1974...
[Yeah, that aughta do it.]
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Cheney for President
Is the war on terror really over? If not, he may be the best man to lead it.
As the Obama administration moves toward prosecuting intelligence agents for allegedly overzealous questioning of terrorists in the months following the 9/11 attacks, the Washington Post delivers a timely reminder of why those methods were thought necessary.
"KSM, an accomplished resistor, provided only a few intelligence reports prior to the use of the waterboard, and analysis of that information revealed that much of it was outdated, inaccurate or incomplete," according to newly unclassified portions of a 2004 report by the CIA's then-inspector general released Monday by the Justice Department.
The debate over the effectiveness of subjecting detainees to psychological and physical pressure may be morally irresolvable, but the evidence is clear: Mohammed cooperated, and to an extraordinary extent, only when his spirit was broken in the month after his capture March 1, 2003, as the inspector general's report and other documents released this week indicate. " [snip]
Our guess, however, is that Cheney overstates when he says "so many Americans have doubts." We'd venture that for most people the Obama administration's see-no-evil approach is comforting. After years of fear and vigilance, it's nice to be able to relax and not worry so much about terrorism.
It's nice--but dangerous...
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Hamas condemns Holocaust lessons
Gaza's ruling Islamist movement Hamas has resisted suggestions that Palestinian children should be taught about the Holocaust in UN-run schools.
The head of its education committee in Gaza, Abdul Rahman el-Jamal, told the BBC that the Holocaust was a "big lie". He said that to teach it would be to "grant a big favour" to Israel, which has been fighting Hamas for years.
The UN, which runs most Gazan schools, recently asked local groups whether the Holocaust should be taught. It uses local textbooks and, in Gaza, that means using material from neighbouring Egypt...
[Where it's also denied.]
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Obama Celebrating Ramadan Tuesday
A noteworthy update to President Obama's light schedule this week, considering the rumors about his religion that lingered throughout the 2008 campaign.
From the White House guidance for Tuesday: In the evening, the President will host a dinner celebrating Ramadan and highlight the contributions of American Muslims in the State Dining Room.
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Ecuador's Correa to close private TV station for 'spying'
Ecuadoran President Rafael Correa announced Saturday he is seeking to definitively shut down a private television station that he accused of "espionage" on his office. T
he station Teleamazonas, a private broadcaster that has been critical of Correa and his government, has already been fined multiple times for breaking broadcasting law, notably for reporting opposition charges of voter fraud during April's general elections...
[Are we paying attention to what's happening in our own hemisphere?]
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Policy Aims of FCC's Diversity Czar
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The FCC's new diversity czar Mark Lloyd wants to bring upon the terrestrial radio industry, particularly conservative-dominated talk radio.
GLENN BECK: When you read the new diversity officer, what is the most disturbing thing that you have seen? What are the things that he says that stick out to you?
SETON MOTLEY: Well, he's fundamentally opposed to virtually any private ownership of media. [...]
BECK: Tell me exactly what his plan is.
MOTLEY: His plan is to use the nebulous FCC regulations of media diversity and localism to travel alternative routes to arrive at the same destination as the Fairness Doctrine, which is to shut you up by shutting you down. He wants to assault the radio industry to effect an ideological outcome...
You can view the entire segment embedded above on the right.
[Yet another extremely radical appointment.]
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Who Asked Flickr to Take Down Obama Joker Photo?
As reported last Wednesday, the photo sharing website Flickr removed the Obama Joker picture that was later transformed into posters showing up in cities around the country. At the time, Flickr claimed it had acted on advice of counsel due to legal issues involving copyright infringement.
Yet, according to Thomas Hawk, none of the conceivably interested parties filed a complaint with Flickr: the only parties with a possible copyright issue are Time, DC Comix, and the photographer, and these three apparently didn't submit a DMCA notice.
Flickr either acted on its own to take down a picture it didn't like or management is protecting the identity of the complainant.
Regardless of which is the case, it appears Flickr is engaging in its own form of political censorship by either acting unilaterally or complying with the wishes of a party possessing no legal right to the picture in question.
Stay tuned.
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The Cold War At Home
The news is really unbelievable these days. All that I once thought were core American values and traditions are now being washed away in a sea of propaganda and political attacks from the radical Left, which now rules supreme and knows it.
The Left in power is now waging an ideological war not only against conservatives, but any dissenting Americans who get in their way...
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Starving free speech
Some people take a very spiteful approach with regard to your right to free speech. They don't just want an equal right; they want yours taken away.
That approach is at work in a liberal group's attempt to silence conservative commentator Glenn Beck.
The group -- Color of Change -- is trying in vain to starve Beck and Fox News of advertising revenue by instigating a boycott. Why? Ostensibly because Beck opined that he thinks Obama is racist.
Notwithstanding the fact that such an opinion is mild compared with what the left said about President Bush, Beck has an absolute right to that opinion -- as do liberals who find a "racist" behind every tree (the latest being New York Gov. David Paterson, who says he is being attacked for being black, not for being inept).
We don't think Barack Obama is racist. His mother was white and he talks lovingly of the white grandparents who helped raise him. Still, we recognize others may disagree. It's their right.
One interesting fact about the assault on Beck: The organization leading it was co-founded by Obama adviser Van Jones, an admitted communist who now happens to be Obama's "Green Jobs Czar."
The real issue here should be Jones -- and the fact that Obama has used yet another unelected, unconfirmed "czar" appointment to elevate someone, in this case someone who has openly admitted being a radical leftist.
It's quite possible that both Beck and Fox News are popular enough -- they regularly attract more viewers than other cable news outlets combined -- that the boycott may only backfire. We hope so, and we encourage those who believe in free speech to resist attempts to silence it.
But it's frightening indeed that in 2009 America, one cannot legitimately criticize the president without being the subject of threats and coercion. And not everyone has the resources or throngs that Fox News has to beat back such attempts at censorship.
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Federal Government Will Borrow 40 Percent of the Money It pends Next Year
According to the Obama administration’s mid-session budget update, the federal government will have to borrow nearly 40 percent of its total expenditures in 2010, a level not seen since World War II.
This level of borrowing is unprecedented even during recessions.
During the long recession of the 1970’s, federal borrowing never rose above 20 percent of total expenditures despite nearly a decade of sluggish economic growth..
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Alberta to U.S.: Use the oil sands or lose them
To lift a quip from Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Arctic sovereignty policy and apply it to the American view of Alberta’s oil sands: use it or lose it.
The Chinese government pushed its shovel deep into Canada’s energy motherlode on Monday when it announced a $2-billion stake in a five-billion-barrel reserve of “dirty oil” that Americans increasingly find unworthy of fuelling their vehicles.
[Every nation but this one.]
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Sarah Palin gets 1,070+ invitations
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin this week will begin accepting and rejecting the more than 1,070 invitations she has received for paid speeches and political appearances since she resigned as Alaska governor, aides said.
More than 950 requests for speeches have poured in for Palin, and over 120 candidates for office have asked her to appear, including folks running for Senate, House and state legislature, aides said.
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Sarah Palin gets 1,070+ invitations
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin this week will begin accepting and rejecting the more than 1,070 invitations she has received for paid speeches and political appearances since she resigned as Alaska governor, aides said.
More than 950 requests for speeches have poured in for Palin, and over 120 candidates for office have asked her to appear, including folks running for Senate, House and state legislature, aides said.
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Obama Administration Announces Not Enforcing Union Reporting Laws
Are you a union member trying to find out information of the criminal actions and shady financial dealings of your union? Well don’t expect Obama and his toady in the Labor Secretary’s office, Hilda Solis, to help you uncover any illegalities perpetrated by your union bosses.
Solis’ department has just announced that it is suspending the stringent reporting requirements that labor unions must suppossedly follow by law...
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Are you a union member trying to find out information of the criminal actions and shady financial dealings of your union? Well don’t expect Obama and his toady in the Labor Secretary’s office, Hilda Solis, to help you uncover any illegalities perpetrated by your union bosses.
Solis’ department has just announced that it is suspending the stringent reporting requirements that labor unions must suppossedly follow by law...
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