Bullshit Eventually Goes Stale
"It is not a lack of the know how that prevents foreign countries from fully adopting American methods of manufacturing, but the insufficiency of capital available."
Ludwig von Mises
2/09/2011
2/08/2011
Budget Cuts Will Create Jobs In Tanning Industry
Washington:
Speaker of the House John Boehner announced today that he will add at least one job to
help lower the unemployment rate.
The "Man from Tan" is doing his part.
John Boehner feels your pain. He knows what it means to be discriminated against because of skin color.
Contact House Speaker Boehner and tell him you support his effort to put suntan models back to work.
Obama's Eligible To Be President Of Kenya
"This man is Jesus. When will he come to Kenya to save us?"
Kenyan Man
Under the new Kenyan constitution, Barack Obama is a citizen of Kenya by birth who is eligible to be elected president of Kenya, whether he was born in Kenya or not.
Under the new Kenyan constitution, Barack Obama is a citizen of Kenya by birth who is eligible to be elected president of Kenya, whether he was born in Kenya or not.
The East African nation's new constitution was officially published as a proposal May 6 and was ratified as published Aug. 4 in a national referendum with 67 percent approval.
The Times of London last year reported, at the time of his inauguration as U.S. president, Obama was wildly popular in Kenya, with one man quoted as saying, The Obama administration spent $23 million of U.S. taxpayer money to support the "Yes" vote ratifying the new Kenyan constitution, which coincided with Obama's Aug. 4 birthday.
2/07/2011
2/06/2011
Patriot Wisdom From OnTheBorderline
"Buckle up your seatbelt, America, and prepare for a crash landing because the liberals piloting your plane are plotting with eugenicists to do exactly what Hitler wrote about in the Communist Manifesto. They're all connected - liberals, big government socialists, Nazis, Kevin Bacon, everybody."
Patrick O'Henry
ontheborderline.net
2/05/2011
The Founding Fathers and Voter ID
Remember when our founding fathers voted in that first election? Did Washington, Jefferson or Adams have to show their ID to voter? Did the white men who brought us the "all men are created equal" document, have to show their ID to vote? Did their wives have to show an ID? Did the white guy who didn't own property have to show an ID? Did Washington's and Jefferson's slaves have to show an ID?
If you answered yes to all these questions, you will probably be voting for Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachmann in the 2012 Presidential election.
To learn more about what the Confederate Flag wavers think about voter ID, check out this post on the ontherborderline.net blog. Obviously, they assume opposition to voter ID equates to socialism. Actually, anyone who doesn't agree with them is a socialist.
"When local big government socialists like Playboy Roy Sjoberg and James P Nelson blather in the paper against a proposal, then you can rest assure that the idea is probably the right thing. Sjoberg took out an advertisement and Nelson wrote a letter to the editor in the Hudson Star-Observer objecting to the proposed legislation requiring voter ID. Their objection rests on the claim that some that wish to vote may be deterred because they have to prove citizenship or residency while others may be turned away from the polls because they do not hold a drivers license. On the last point, states can issue a special identification for voting purposes.
It appears two reasons exist for an individual to shy away from voting if identification is required. They are either not a citizen or running from the law. Are Sjoberg and Nelson proposing that aliens and criminals have the right to vote?
Long before the idea of same day registration, first time voters would have to file six weeks in advance to allow proper time for election officials to verify citizenship and residency. Shortening the time period means less time for accurate verification and the door for fraud widens.
The real problem in the voting process is that we technically allow thieves to vote for more looting. Stealing defined as taking anothers property through force or fraud. Whether one receives a government issued check in the form of a direct subsidy, payroll, pension, or a form of welfare, then the individual has in effect taken anothers money through government enforced confiscation.
As Benjamin Franklin noted, when the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic. The debate over the County nursing home exemplifies Franklins idea. Proponents favoring more tax dollars for the facility argue on the basis of a non-binding vote of county residents several years ago. Letter writers to the paper voicing support for continued taxpayer financing for the nursing home fall into two categories: government workers that want to protect their salaries and pensions or people that have a relative under the care of the county.
If we are ever to restore our liberties, then maybe it is time to put forth the idea that individuals receiving a government check other than a tax refund or Social Security ( both are means of returning stolen property) to be disqualified from voting.
Can you imagine the letters to the editor if such an idea came to fruition?"
Patrick Henry
"Big government socialist" James P Nelson's voter ID letter to the editor.
"You inquire where I now stand. That is a disputed point. I think I am a Whig; but others say there are no Whigs, and that I am an abolitionist... I now do no more than oppose the extension of slavery. I am not a Know-Nothing. That is certain. How could I be? How can anyone who abhors the oppression of Negroes, be in favor of degrading classes of white people? Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation, we began by declaring that "all men are created equal". We now practically read it, "all men are created equal, except Negroes". When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read, "all men are created equal except Negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics". When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty - to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy."Abe Lincoln
First Republican President
Obama Won"t Even Be Able To Run For Re-election
It doesn't take a bunch of high school dropouts with bad teeth and Don't Tread On Me Flags to figure out this conspiracy against the patriots of the United States...
Last week, Arizona state Rep. Judy Burges, a Republican, introduced a bill that would bar presidential candidates who do not prove they were born in the United States from appearing on the ballot in the Grand Canyon state. And state Rep. Chad Campbell, the top Democrat in the GOP-controlled Arizona House of Representatives, tells Mother Jones that the bill is likely to pass. It was introduced with 25 co-sponsors in the House and 16 co-sponsors in the state Senate; the measure needs 31 votes in the House and 16 in the Senate for approval. "Will it matter?" asks Campbell. "We've started a tradition here of passing legislation that is political grandstanding or that sets up litigation."
Read more...
2/04/2011
It's A Harmony Thing
“When it comes time for the harmonies to come in, I will move to my left because my brother and I always used ... one microphone. Even today, I will move over to the left to give the harmony room, knowing in my mind that there’s no harmony standing on my right.”
Charlie Louvin
Louvin Brothers
1927-2011
Read More @ NY Times
More Birth Certificate = More Proof Obama Is Kenyan
WASHINGTON – It’s looking more and more as though there is irrefutable evidence Barack Hussein Obama is constitutionally ineligible and that he has usurped the office of President of the United States and Commander in Chief.
It’s been one year since Attorney Orly Taitz filed the declaration of Lucas Daniel Smith along with an exhibit purported to be Obama’s Kenyan birth certificate on behalf of Plaintiffs Captain Pamela Barnett, Alan Keyes and others in U.S. District Court in Santa Ana.
Something strange occurred between the time the declaration was filed in early September 2009 and the scheduling conference Judge David O. Carter ordered for Oct. 666, 2009.
The word in Washington is that the Obama presidency may not last past the Super Bowl. Apparently, he has invited 200 mobsters from Chicago to party hearty before he flies off to Kenya to take control of that country. The is no confirmation as to whether or not Bill Ayers will be at the party. Former President George W. Bush said in a Dallas news conference today that Obama should stay away from the pretzel especially in Dick Chaney is at the party.
2/03/2011
It Pays To Be A congresswoman
Brain injury experts have said that as Congresswoman Giffords recovers from a gunshot wound to the head, she'll need cognitive rehabilitation, a treatment that isn't covered by the Pentagon's health program for troops.
Read @Brain Wars: How the Military Is Failing Its Wounded at ProPublica
Roadkill in the Information Highway Ditch
We missed this yesterday (Feb. 2):
Happy Belated Birthday Ayn Rand from all your friends on the borderline
Happy Birthday Norman Rockwell: 1894-1978
The secret to so many artists living so long is that every painting is a new adventure. So, you see, they're always looking ahead to something new and exciting. The secret is not to look back."
Norman Rockwell
2/02/2011
Revisonist History 101
Barry Goldwater’s Conservatism
Unlike other Republicans willing to accept FDR’s New Deal, Goldwater wanted to dismantle it. He was fiercely anti-Union and stated, during the New Hampshire primary, that Social Security should not be mandatory. According to Goldwater, big government was creating a welfare state. During a campaign TV ad, he referred to this as the “cult of individual and government irresponsibility.”
Barry Goldwater rejected negotiating with the Soviet Union and believed that the United Nations was incompatible with American beliefs and the Constitution. He opposed federal funding for education and voted against the 1964 Civil Rights Act, calling it, “a threat to the very essence of our basic system.” The future conservative senator from North Carolina, Jesse Helms, stated that Goldwater was, “the last hope of the capitalistic, free enterprise system.”
Republicans should not dare to claim Dr. Martin Luther King as one of their heroes in
light of Goldwater's views. HOW DARE THEY!
Rev. Wright Shovels Out Chicago
"The government gives us shovels, mittens, hot chocolate, warming shacks, snow days off of work and then want us to sing 'God Bless This Weather.' No, no, no, God damn this weather! God damn Mother Nature for dumping this snow shit on us citizens. I wish I lived in Kenya.”
Reverend Jeremiah Wright
2/01/2011
Is Obama Keynesian? You Tube Decide
More proof that Barack Obama is a Keynesian? Find Out Here
If you're not laughing. YOU DON'T GET IT!
Kenya Records Prove Obama Born Their
How did this little INDONESIAN Muslim child - Barry Soetoro, (A.K.A. Barack Obama) get around the issue of nationality to become President of the United States of America ?
The grandmother of Barack Hussein Obama, Jr. reveals the story of his birth in Mombasa , Kenya , a seaport, after his mother suffered labor pains while swimming at ocean beach in Mombasa ......
"On August 4, 1961 Obama's mother, father and grandmother were attending a Muslim festival in Mombasa , Kenya . Mother had been refused entry to airplanes due to her nine month pregnancy. It was a hot August day at the festival so the Obama?s went to the beach to cool off. While swimming in the ocean his mother experienced labor pains so was rushed to the Coast Provincial General Hospital, Mombasa, Kenya where Obama was born a few hours later at 7:21 pm on August 4, 1961(what a sad day for the USA!). Four days later his mother flew to Hawaii and registered his birth in Honolulu as a certificate of live birth which omitted the place and hospital of birth."
The birth certificate is genuine. I assure you it will be authenticated by a forensic auditor. We are very proud Obama was born here. We have a shrine for him and there are many people who remember his birth here as he had a white mother. They are being interviewed now by one of your media outlets.
Don't fall for the government coverup and the lies in the mainstream media. Read more and learn why President Obama is foreign born and can't legally by President of this white, Christian nation. George Washington and Thomas Jefferson might have freed the slaves, but they never would have allowed a foreign born to be President of the greatest country in the history of the universe.
Glenn Beck: "Fiction Is Stranger Than Truth"
“In talking with a friend of mine, it just happened quick, almost like firecrackers. We don’t have anything, though, to confirm what exactly happened or what type of altercation it was.”
Officer John Weglarz Sr.
New Castle County, Delaware Police
What began as a reunion for the Chester High School Class of 2002 turned ugly late Friday night in Claymont, Del.
New Castle County, Del., police are investigating a shooting where six people were injured inside the First State Bowling Alley. Officer John Weglarz Sr. confirmed Saturday that five of the people were from Chester, but none of the injuries was considered life threatening. As of Saturday night, two victims remained in Christiana Hospital in Delaware, one from Chester and one from Wilmington, Del. Two victims were released from the hospital Saturday and two refused treatment at the scene.
According to the police report, an altercation occurred just before midnight, then shots were fired.
There are three suspects in the shooting, none from Chester. Weglarz said the Chester residents were just at the wrong place at the wrong time.
“The Chester people were there, but they were not involved in any of this at the bowling alley,” Weglarz said. “They were having their reunion and they’ve been taken out of this as far as being involved with this investigation.”
There was apparently little warning before the shots were fired into what Weglarz said was a crowded bowling alley, even though he did not have an estimate on how many people were there at the time of the shooting.
1/31/2011
Proof Obama Born In Kenya
"If America was living in a situation where they feared ethnicity and did not see itself as a multiparty state or nation. How could a young man born here in Kenya, who is not even a native American, become the president of America?"
James Orengo
Kenya Minister Of Lands
A Kenyan lawmaker told the nation's parliament last month that Barack Obama was born in Africa and is therefore "not even a native American."
During debate over the draft of a new Kenyan constitution, James Orengo, the country's minister of lands and a member of parliament for the Ugenya constituency, cited America's election of a Kenyan-born president as an example of what can be accomplished when diverse peoples unite:
Orengo held up the U.S. as a country no longer "living in the past," since Americans elected a Kenyan-born president without regard to "ethnic consideration and objectives."
Learn the turth...read more...
1/29/2011
That Doesn't Sell Books
"This is America, where a white Catholic male Republican judge was murdered on his way to greet a Democratic Jewish woman member of Congress, who was his friend. Her life was saved initially by a 20-year old Mexican-American gay college student, and eventually by a Korean-American combat surgeon, all eulogized by our African American President."
Mark Shields
PBS News Hour
1/28/2011
What's Good For Business Is...
...tort reform legislation:
"This important part of our special session legislation sends a message directly to job creators that Wisconsin is open for business."
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker 
“These reforms will add certainty, fairness and predictability to our legal system. Our business climate has lagged other states, and we are making dramatic progress to turn that around in less than a month. The signing of these reforms is a monumental step towards making Wisconsin the most competitive state in the nation. These reforms should get national attention for Wisconsin, and encourage businesses here to create jobs and encourage businesses in other states to come to Wisconsin because we’re open for business.”
James A. Buchen
Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce
Vice president of government relations
1/26/2011
Who Would Have Thunk It?
The weak economy and fresh tax cuts approved last month will help drive the federal budget deficit to $1.5 trillion this year, the biggest budget gap in history and one of the largest as a share of the economy since World War II, congressional budget analysts said Wednesday.
1/25/2011
And Now For Something Completely Different...Skiing
Here we are with near record snow levels in the middle of January and I have only been out downhill skiing once so far. As for cross-country skiing, my skis are down from the garage rafter but I haven't been out making tracks yet. I'm hoping that will all change this weekend and I can do both.
I usually go to Afton Alps and try to make it to Welch Village at least once a season. As a matter of fact, this will make 45 years since I spent the money I got for my ninth birthday to go to Afton Alps. I think they had been open for one year.
Wearing hunting boots and bear-trap bindings, visions of Billy Kidd salmoned in my head as I made my way down Christina's Trail for the first time. I only fell down twice on my first run. I was quite proud of my accomplishment.
I got my first skis from Santa at four. They were basically wooden slats painted red with a leather toe strap. They worked for me on those mighty hills at Prospect Park at the top of the hill in Hudson. The good old days filled with great memories!
Check out the picture below. That is of some guy bombing the hills at Trollhaugen 50+ years ago. In fact, Brenda Bredahl, a Hudson writer, has been running a series of stories about history of skiing in the region in the Hudson Patch. The Patch is a new, local online news and information service covering Hudson and the surrounding area.
Check out The Patch
Below are two links to the first two parts of Brenda's stories:
Part 1: December's Record Snow Brings Winter Memories
Part 2: December's Record Snow Brings Winter Memories
PS: There are some really amazing photos that go with these articles. Stay tuned for Part 3.
1/24/2011
Obviously, Palin Is To Blame For This!
"A 20-year-old Brooklyn man was charged Saturday with shooting five teens outside a high school basketball game nine days ago, cops said.
Police arrested Keenen Upson at his home in Fort Greene Saturday morning, his mother told the Daily News.
"They're saying he shot those kids," said the woman, who would only identify herself as Upson's mother. "I don't know what's happening yet. I think I need to talk to my lawyer."
Upson was charged with multiple counts of assault and criminal possession of a weapon in connection with the Jan. 14 shooting outside Bishop Loughlin Memorial near Greene and Vanderbilt Aves., cops said.
One of the wounded teens, Justin Dolcy, 19, told the Daily News at the time the gunman was after his pricey Louis Vuitton hat.
Dolcy and the four other wounded teens, including an 18-year-old woman, were shot in the legs, arms and hips, cops said. They were treated at Kings County Hospital and released..."
Read more...
1/22/2011
Recall Governor Scott Walker Campaign
The end is near for Wisconsin as we know it. Big business has taken over! They poor and helpless are going to be left to die in the streets! No longer will you be able to fight of justice in our courts systems to address the greedy wrongs done to you by the heartless beast of American corporate greed! Everything in Wisconsin will quickly fade from enviromental green to anti-regualtion black! Nuclear reactors will soon be built next to daycare centers!
It's up to you to stops Walker's Chamber of Commerce Horrors (or is it Whores) machine that is now goose stepping it's way across the state of Wisconsin. First it was high-speed rail. Then it is windmills. Next it will be clean water and fresh air!
The politcal Hindenburg is coming to the state you love! Only you can stop it!
Check out Scott Walker Watch and don't forget to sign the petition.
1/21/2011
Wisconsin GOP makes Voter ID a priority, not jobs
On the national political scene, Republicans have their sights on repealing the healthcare bill. Here in Wisconsin, that same proposal has been discussed as well with the newly contolled GOP legislature. Now, this week, the GOP unveiled its plan to pursue voter ID requirements. What happen to the creating jobs agenda?
Several legislators mostly democratic are outraged at this agenda. State Representative (D-Milwaukee) Tamara Grigsby commented on the continued neglect toward struggling families and job creation by Wisconsin Republicans.
“This is not what the people of Wisconsin asked of us,” said Rep. Grigsby. “How many jobs are created through voter disenfranchisement? We are supposed to be putting people to work, not keeping them from the polls.”
Aside from being unrelated to economic recovery efforts in Wisconsin, Grigsby also noted the volatility and negative fiscal impact that a Voter ID proposal will have on the state. Authored by Representative Jeff Stone and Senator Joe Leibham, the soon-to-be introduced Voter ID legislation closely resembles a voter disenfranchisement law in Indiana, where it was struck down by an Indiana state court in September 2009.
Read more @ Milwaukee Courier
Erik Prince- International Man of Mystery and Intregue
When you read about Eric Price the first question that comes to mind is: "What makes this guy tick?" Prince can accurately be described by all of the following :
Mercenary, Billionaire, Former Blackwater CEO, Recluse, Philanthropist, Right Wing Christian Activist,Ex Navy Seal, Aspiring High School Teacher, Spy, Former Naval Academy Cadet and the list goes on.
This guy is an enigma wrapped in bundle of contradictions.
A fairly recent Vanity Fair article describes him as the following:
Split Personality
Erik Prince can be a difficult man to wrap your mind around—an amalgam of contradictory caricatures. He has been branded a “Christian supremacist” who sanctions the murder of Iraqi civilians, yet he has built mosques at his overseas bases and supports a Muslim orphanage in Afghanistan. He and his family have long backed conservative causes, funded right-wing political candidates, and befriended evangelicals, but he calls himself a libertarian and is a practicing Roman Catholic. Sometimes considered arrogant and reclusive—Howard Hughes without the O.C.D.—he nonetheless enters competitions that combine mountain-biking, beach running, ocean kayaking, and rappelling.
From Mother Jones:
http://motherjones.com/mojo/2009/12/blackwater-erik-prince-cia-spy-aspiring-high-school-teacher
And up until two months ago—when Prince says the Obama administration pulled the plug—he was still deeply engaged in the dark arts. According to insiders, he was running intelligence-gathering operations from a secret location in the United States, remotely coordinating the movements of spies working undercover in one of the so-called Axis of Evil countries. Their mission: non-disclosable.
Black Helecopters:
The CIA hired contractors from the US private security firm Blackwater as part of a secret programme to track and kill top al-Qaeda figures, reports say.
Get A Bigger Spoon
"The average earnings of the richest 10 percent of Americans are 16 times those for the 10 percent at the bottom of the pile. That compares with a multiple of 8 in Britain and 5 in Sweden. Not coincidentally, Americans are less economically mobile than people in other developed countries. There is a 42 percent chance that the son of an American man in the bottom fifth of the income distribution will be stuck in the same economic slot. The equivalent odds for a British man are 30 percent, and 25 percent for a Swede."
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
1/20/2011
The Death of Ehtics
MANKATO, Minn. — A Mankato man landed in jail after calling 911 and telling police a prostitute failed to deliver on his $200 payment.
Authorities say the 26-year-old man called police from the Super 8 motel in Mankato Wednesday and told officers he agreed to pay the woman for sex, but that she took his cash without holding up her end of the deal.
Officers tracked down the woman after the man gave police a description of her vehicle. Both the man and woman found themselves behind bars in the Blue Earth County Jail.
Besides prostitution and disorderly conduct citations, police issued a third misdemeanor charge of doing business without a peddler's permit.
The GOP "Put Your Neighbor Out of Work" Plan
Republicans have a wonderful knack for twisting reality; in fact they have become so adept at it, they’ve convinced the rest of rational humanity to believe that paradoxical solutions are what this country really needs to get the economy back on track. Take for example the Minnesota GOP plan to put 5000 of your neighbors (AKA State employees) out of work. How does the thinking go on this?
Problem: Unemployment. GOP Solution put more people out of work.
Right! And that will improve the economy… how? The GOP answer; by lowering taxes and freeing up money for private investment. My question is, investment in what? Anyone see any pent up demand out there, needing to be filled? If so please share!
How about the banks you say. Let’s look for some stellar investment opportunity there. How about this for a great return on investment, found at Money-Rates.com.
A whopping 1.1% APY. Wow. Why are they so generous? (Look back to 2008 news reports and it will be evident. They are DESPERATE to raise cash.
Here's the pitch:
Shouldn't this guy be selling watches in Times Square?
Do you think he makes $38,000 a year?
If you could afford the gas to do so and frequented any retail outlets over the last couple weeks as I did, you’d find dozens of private sector employees wandering aimlessly looking for something to do, desperately seeking customers to help, out of boredom if out of nothing else. As a customer, this is great, dozens of people fawning over me to make a sale, even ones on which their employers are losing money. But somehow this is all the fault of government employees.
Here are a few Minnesota public employee facts:
• The wealth of Minnesota millionaires has doubled under the Pawlenty administration, as their state and local tax rates have decreased by 4 percent. Meanwhile, the wages of most public workers have been frozen.
• AFSCME members earn $38,000 a year, on average. They’re struggling paycheck to paycheck, just like average Minnesotans.
• Public workers in Minnesota earn 4 percent less than private-sector employees, when matched by education and experience. That’s because public workers have sacrificed wages for better benefits.
• Minnesota’s state workforce is the 10th leanest and one of the most productive in the nation. Minnesota has 71 public workers for every 10,000 residents, according to the U.S. census. We’re tied with conservative Florida.
• If Gov. Pawlenty fired all state employees, the cost savings would erase only 21 percent of the state budget deficit.
• Minnesota Chamber president David Olson’s concern about public compensation is hypocritical. As a trustee of the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities, he paid bonuses totaling $415,875 to 33 top administrators who earn six-figure salaries. Phil Krinkie, president of the Taxpayers’ League, and Mike Veckich, chair of the Emmer recount team, are also MnSCU trustees appointed by Gov. Pawlenty.
• Public pensions are modest. The average AFSCME retiree has pension benefits of about $13,000 a year.
• Minnesota’s pension systems pay out more than $2.5 billion, add $3.3 billion to the state economy, and create 22,500 additional jobs.
• State and local taxes collected on public pensions exceed public employer pension contributions by $80 million a year.
• 90 percent of retired public workers stay in Minnesota. That benefits our economy and keeps seniors self-sufficient.
• More than 20 percent of senior citizens are living in poverty with only Social Security.
• Minnesota taxpayers pay for only 15 cents of every dollar in public pension benefits.
• Most private pensions are 100% employer paid. AFSCME members pay for half of theirs.
The state's largest employee union joined Democrats in their criticism. Eliot Seide, executive director of the American Federation of State and Federal Employees Council 5, said a better alternative was to raise taxes on the wealthy. He said the bill would have a disastrous impact on the state's economy.
"Every time you lay off another worker, Main Street loses a customer," Seide said.
Pointing to data released by the U.S. Census Bureau, Seide said Minnesota's government employs one worker for every 71 residents, the 10th-lowest ratio in the country. He also pointed out that the state's work force shrank 11 percent under Pawlenty and that his members have seen four wage freezes in the past eight years.
"The Downey and Republican myth is that Minnesota's government has been growing, and in fact it's been shrinking by every measure you can put together," Seide said.
The bill got its first hearing in a House committee Wednesday, where it passed on a voice vote.
Jason Hoppin can be reached at 651-228-5445.
What is this really about? Try the Grover Norquist government bathtub project
which he's been successfully promoting for over a decade.
1/19/2011
GOPee Foot Shooting
"I think that she has got to slow down and be more careful and think through what she’s saying and how she’s saying it,” Newt Gingrich told me. There is no question that she has become more controversial, but she is still a phenomenon. I don’t know anybody else in American politics who can put something on Twitter or put something on Facebook and automatically have it become a national story. So she remains, I think, a formidable person in her own right.”
Newt Gingrich
"R" as in "Rats" and "Republicans"
"Hundreds of major donors have abandoned the Republican National Committee, leaving it $20 million in debt and threatening its future as a central player in the 2012 presidential election.
The RNC raised just $7 million from major donors for the midterm elections, one sixth as much as it brought in for the previous midterms, in 2006. By contrast, the Democratic National Committee raised $38 million from large donors for last fall's midterms, three times as much as for the 2006 elections, according to a Washington Post analysis of donor records..."
Read more @ The Washington Post
1/18/2011
1/17/2011
The Sheriff is a Near...
"Mark Twain once defined a classic as a book people praise but don’t read. It seems that his truism is still quite accurate.
In another of the sadly ironic PC events of the day there will be a new version of Tom Sawyer which will remove ‘offensive words’.
The word nigger (my sincere apologies to those who are offended by the use of this word but it would be sort of hypocritical to condemn censorship by censoring) will be replaced with slave while the world Injun will be removed entirely (not sure if he will now be Native American Joe).
The irony of all of this being, of course, is that one of the main reasonsfor having the word in the novel is for Huck to understand how offensive it is to Jim and for him to recognize his friend as a human being.
There are of course arguments in support of the move. We regularly edit movies for broadcast on television so that they can be seen by a broader audience, so why not do the same with books. I can see a small degree of merit in this. If someone who would not otherwise read the book does so because of the PC version that is a small victory.
But at the same time that reader will not get the full experience of the book as it was written, and that is sad..."
PATRICK EDABURN
The Moderate Voice
Tucson Is Not Alone...
Over in Boston...
The emotionally racked trial of a former Pelham police chief charged in connection with the accidental shooting death of an 8-year-old boy at a gun fair came to an end yesterday with a jury acquitting Edward Fleury, who cried at the verdict.
Fleury, 53, was found not guilty of involuntary manslaughter and multiple counts of furnishing a machine gun to a minor. Christopher Bizilj of Ashford, Conn., lost control of an Uzi submachine gun and shot himself in the head in front of shocked onlookers that included his father and brother. The jurors had viewed chilling video footage of the youth’s death, which occurred in October 2008, before they rendered their verdict.
Several members of Fleury’s family embraced him after the verdict was announced in Hampden Superior Court in Springfield, said his lawyer, Rosemary C. Scapicchio of Boston.
Down in Alabama...
HUNTSVILLE, AL -- Lawsuits filed Friday in connection with the deadly mass shooting at UAH last year contend university officials could have prevented Amy Bishop from gunning down her colleagues.
Two similar lawsuits filed on behalf of the families of UAH professors Dr. Maria Ragland Davis and Dr. Adriel Johnson - who were both killed Feb. 12 during Bishop's rampage in a UAH biology faculty meeting - argue that the University Provost Dr. Vistasp Karbhari failed to follow policy in dealing with Bishop's deteriorating mental state.
Over in Dallas...
Charges are possible against whoever left a loaded shotgun where an 11-year-old boy was able to get access to it and accidentally shoot and kill an 8-year-old friend inside a northwest Dallas apartment Thursday afternoon, police said.
"Charges could be filed against anyone who may have made this weapon accessible," said Dallas police homicide Lt. David Pughes.
Homicide investigators were working Friday to determine where the gun was being kept when the boy, whose name was not released, got it.
He shot and killed Keiveon Johnson about 3:45 p.m. at the apartment in the 4000 block of Harvest Hill Road near Interstate 635 and Midway Road, police said.
A 6-year-old boy suffered minor injuries and a 9-year-old boy in the apartment was uninjured, police said.
In Miami...
One woman was killed, five people injured, when gunfire broke out in north Miami-Dade.
Police said it happened just before midnight in the 1900 block of NW 92nd Street. Family members said it began when the 22-year-old woman began arguing a boyfriend who had just been released from prison after 8 years.
As the argument grew heated, police said two men pulled guns and started shooting.
When officers arrived they found they found the injured individuals and a car riddled with bullets. There are indications the car was hit with bullets as someone tried to chase after the shooter.
One of the injured was treated on the scene. The remaining five injured people were taken to the Ryder Trauma Center where the 22-year old woman was pronounced dead. Police said the injuries to the four other people are non-life threatening.
1/16/2011
Don't Forget To Wipe
"...A feud has broken out between Rush Limbaugh and the so-called "All Star Panel" on Fox News' "Special Report" over the panel's praise for President Obama's speech at the memorial for the Arizona shooting victims. Speaking on his radio show Thursday, Limbaugh slammed the panelists--which, on the night of the speech, were Brit Hume, Charles Krauthammer and Chris Wallace--for their positive comments.
"They were slobbering over it for the predictable reasons," he said. "It was smart, it was articulate, it was oratorical. It was, it was all the things the educated, ruling class wants their members to be and sound like."
On Thursday night's "Special Report," host Bret Baier played the Limbaugh clip and asked Krauthammer--who had called the speech "quite remarkable and extremely effective"--for his reaction.
"As one of the three slobberers...I find it interesting that only the ruling class wants a president who is smart articulate and oratorical in delivering a funeral oration," Krauthammer said. "It's an odd and rather condescending view of what the rest of America is looking for in their president."
Huffington Post
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