So, what do you think is going to happen if the Muslim-in-Chief is seen as losing the election? Will he invent an emergency and suspend the election? How about the Constitution, congress, and the courts? (all of which he already ignores)
Do you think the American sheeple have a clue as to what’s really going on?
The Romney tape was tampered with. Those b*stards. They knew by the time people found out about the edit it would be too late. Their explanation is laughable.
Liberal freaks in robes on Penn. Supreme Court try to ensure that Dems are allowed to continue their Philly ballot box stuffing to vote for Obama, ignore will of legislature, and judicially act to try to set up the new Voter ID law to fail scrutiny in lower court.
Illegal aliens granted amnesty by Obama under Dream Act are pissed that Obama won’t also dole out Obamacare freebies to them. In response to this racism, Dreamers threaten to stay home and not to vote for Obama (sarc).
I am among the world’s worst carpenters. You wouldn’t want to hire me to do carpentry unless I had strict and constant supervision. Oh, I’m not so bad that I’d cut off any body parts (I know people who have) or so bad I would nearly sever a limb (again, know people who have). Not that bad. And then again, I’ve built a few basic pieces of furniture out of oak (A stereo cabinet, a fish tank stand with a cabinet for supplies) that were pretty darn good, all without so much as breaking a fingernail.
But I’ve also worked on larger projects – construction (volunteered with Habitat for Humanity, etc.) for fun and I can say it again: You wouldn’t want to hire me for that work. I’m just not that good, at least without supervision, and I’m slow.
This is the basic idea behind The Bell Curve, at least the way I see it.
It’s not wrong or racist to point out different people are generally more suited for different tasks. I’ve been told I’m a great singer – though I would say good at best, not great, and perhaps not even that – yet people consistently tell me I should be trying out for these stupid shows and whatnot. I’ve always been good at computer programming – in multiple languages – and generally am good with applications software though some of the higher end packages (AutoCad, the Photoshop series and related programs) took some real effort to learn. But I can’t draw to save my life (except mechanical drawing/drafting – I’m pretty good at that) but, since I cannot create an image with pencils or paint, I went a different direction and actually got relatively decent at doing it with a camera. I’m no Ansel Adams, but I’ve made some real coin off some of my images. Many people say, “Yeah, I’ve seen that before, but you really captured it in a way that’s different than anyone else before you.” So yeah, maybe I have a bit of talent there.
The point is intelligence is just one yardstick and if it is true (as statistics, properly tested, show) that certain racial or ethnic groups are better than others, perhaps THAT, rather than prejudice, is why there are more Jewish doctors and lawyers and more black football and basketball players?
And it can be argued the latter are in some ways better off, “luckier”, than the former.
I mean, they get to PLAY in front of adoring fans, making MILLIONS in the process, while the lawyers have to ARGUE incessantly and put up with all sorts of nonsense, perhaps not making as much as the pro sports guys?
Anyway, here’s a good quote:
“Inequality of endowments, including intelligence, is a reality. Trying to pretend that inequality does not really exist has led to disaster. Trying to eradicate inequality with artificially manufactured outcomes has led to disaster. It is time for America once again to try living with inequality, as life is lived: understanding that each human being has strengths and weaknesses, qualities we admire and qualities we do not admire, competencies and incompetencies, assets and debits; that the success of each human life is not measured externally but internally; that all of the rewards we can confer on each other, the most precious is a place as a valued fellow citizen.”
Just because I’m willing to admit that my race/ethnic group may not be the smartest on the planet, as a group, doesn’t make me a racist bigot. It merely makes me honest.
AC says: September 18, 2012 at 9:07 pm
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Yeah, wasn’t that one a hoot! Especially the guy’s “explanations” of how his semen might have somehow got into the Donkey’s vagina.
NOTE, in case you’re still livid about what a racist I am for agreeing with THE BELL CURVE, note that while the website I linked does have a pretty reasonable review of the book, it follows that with a bunch of the liberal hatchet jobs that were quickly published after it. Note their main arguments are the usual liberal stock in trade – “it’s wrong because we say so, and we’re smart”, “it’s wrong because… well… they’re obviously RACIST!” and that sort of nonsense.
“Though there are seven appendices, spanning over 100 pages, and nearly 200 pages of footnotes, bibliography, and index, one element is notably missing from this tome: a report on any program of social intervention that works.”
And the author goes on to fail to present one also, suggesting that the reason, perhaps, that said mention is absent, is because there are none that work!
AC says:
September 18, 2012 at 9:27 pm
Business owner removes 40 tons of trash from vacant city lot, bureaucrats decide to let no good deed go unpunished
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HA – I’ve seen several similar “city owned lots” in Philly… they’re EVERYWHERE!
Dumping grounds.
Filthy, disease ridden parcels.
And the guy wasn’t “trespassing”, not by the proper legal definition anyway.
Turns out that in standard cases, like this one, at least in a fair court/in a sane legal system, you have to be up to no good in order to sustain a trespassing charge and I hope Ori Feibush knows this.
Trespass to land involves the “wrongful interference with one’s possessory rights in real property.”
Cleaning up the lot when they won’t is CLEARLY NOT something that fits this basic definition of “trespass”.
A true “trespass” results in an injury. How has the city been injured by his actions? The answer is THEY HAVE NOT.
The plot in question is at N 39.937659° W 75.176806°.
There are no fences. No signs indicating ownership, no “NO TRESPASSING” signs. If it is a city lot as claimed then, arguably, any city taxpayer has at least some right to use and enjoy it (and perform some upkeep, voluntarily) without fear of being accused of trespassing, I would think.
The lot looks pretty good, compared to nearby lots that are full of trash and such, though it is overgrown in the images I’ve reviewed – it sounds like the guy went further, actually planted some nice plants and put in some benches and such – in other words, performed a real public service, though the mention he owns a coffee shop nearby sort of suggests he has self-serving motives as well.
Granny Jan says: September 18, 2012 at 8:29 pm
The Romney tape was tampered with. Those b*stards. They knew by the time people found out about the edit it would be too late. Their explanation is laughable.
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While my first impression was (and is) that Romney did a good job of shooting himself in the foot by providing a quotable quote, since he knows what skilled “out of context editors” moonbats are, the Democrats have pretty much blown off both legs by doing this. Rather than hurt Romney, this may well help him. He was saying what we want to hear, what we know already: You can’t reach those who’ve chosen to be lost, at least not until they’re ready to be found and saved.
Don’t waste time on them. Any effort to wise them up is wasted. Put the information out there for them but leave it at that. If you broadcast it, some may eventually come and wise up. But spending precious time and resources trying to reach those who are drunk on Democrat Kool-Aid is just a waste of time.
We had a suicide down here, well over to the east of La Jolla, CA, over near Clantee… I mean Santee. The joke is they’re a bunch of white trash racist bigots – but in fact the population there is quite diverse – would make the heart of any moonbat leap for joy to see just how diverse.
Whether an unpermitted entry is actionable or not depends on state law, the nature of the land, what the trespasser was doing, and whether or not the land was posted.
The legal argument here needs to be that his entry was legal because he was abating a nuisance.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the city ended up fining itself for maintaining a nuisance. Think about all the hours. One bureaucrat can go out to inspect, another can issue the violation, a third can cut the check, and a fourth can process the check (after it has been mailed).
What’s really irksome about it is the left is not really using what he said, but rather their typical false spin about carefully planned edits of what he said.
If you listen to the whole thing, what he actually said, he was making perfect sense and there’s no story there except the truth that some people are lost due to their personal decision to trade their dignity for “endless entitlements”. There is no point trying to reach them until they come back to the real world where you have to do something to get something, do something other than vote for redistributionist class warfare idiots, that is.
“This settlement is an honest compromise,” [Rahm] Emanuel said. “It means a new day and new direction for the Chicago Public Schools.
“This time our taxpayers are paying less and our kids are getting more,” he said of the deal estimated to cost an additional $74 million a year, compared to $129 million a year in the last contract.
Then the mayor choked up as he called Chicago’s classrooms the only bridge between the city’s poor children and its promise of a future.
Becoming emotional, Emanuel said, “The classroom is where they learn not only do they have a place in the future of this city but they are the future of this city and we as adults have responsibilities to the children of the city of Chicago so they can live up to their future and their full potential.”
China had not asserted sovereignty over the Senkaku until the 1970s when it learned that the islands are possibly situated nearby large reserves of oil.
1) Since 1885, surveys of the Senkaku Islands had thoroughly been made by the Government of Japan through the agencies of Okinawa Prefecture and by way of other methods. Through these surveys, it was confirmed that the Senkaku Islands had been uninhabited and showed no trace of having been under the control of China. Based on this confirmation, the Government of Japan made a Cabinet Decision on 14 January 1895 to erect a marker on the Islands to formally incorporate the Senkaku Islands into the territory of Japan.
2) Since then, the Senkaku Islands have continuously remained as an integral part of the Nansei Shoto Islands, which are the territory of Japan. These islands were neither part of Taiwan nor part of the Pescadores Islands which were ceded to Japan from the Qing Dynasty of China in accordance with Article II of the Treaty of Shimonoseki which came into effect in May of 1895.
3) Accordingly, the Senkaku Islands are not included in the territory which Japan renounced under Article II of the San Francisco Peace Treaty. The Senkaku Islands have been placed under the administration of the United States of America as part of the Nansei Shoto Islands, in accordance with Article III of the said treaty, and are included in the area, the administrative rights over which were reverted to Japan in accordance with the Agreement Between Japan and the United States of America Concerning the Ryukyu Islands and the Daito Islands signed on 17 June 1971. The facts outlined herein clearly indicate the status of the Senkaku Islands being part of the territory of Japan.
4) The fact that China expressed no objection to the status of the Islands being under the administration of the United States under Article III of the San Francisco Peace Treaty clearly indicates that China did not consider the Senkaku Islands as part of Taiwan. It was not until the latter half of 1970, when the question of the development of petroleum resources on the continental shelf of the East China Sea came to the surface, that the Government of China and Taiwan authorities began to raise questions regarding the Senkaku Islands.
5) Some focus on historical manuscripts such as “Chinese navigational records” and “an 1783 Japanese map” to make the point that China has a better claim to the Senkaku Islands. However, please note that none of the points raised by the Government of China as “historic, geographic or geological” evidence provide valid grounds, in light of international law, to support China’s arguments regarding the Senkaku Islands.
And now, the answer to the “find the moonbat lie” challenge:
“This time our taxpayers are paying less and our kids are getting more,” he said of the deal estimated to cost an additional $74 million a year, compared to $129 million a year in the last contract.
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No, apparently the taxpayers are paying more, $74 million more, and if history is any guide, the kids will get a pi$$-poor education out of it.
AC says: September 18, 2012 at 10:22 pm
The blog software inserts paragraph tags in place of a new line. Paragraph tags break block level formatting.
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Aha… but I put an “open bold” at the first paragraph and a “close bold” at the second, so it apparently supplied an extra one of each at the appropriate places?
I figured it was something like that… knew a way to get around it, but didn’t use it… wasn’t thinking about it. Seen it before.
In which it is PROVEN that tax cuts work to generate more revenue yet the trickle-down theory is a leftist straw-man that never really existed outside their shrill arguments against economic common sense.
Piedras Negras (where the Mexican/Zeta prison break occurred) translates to Black Stones.
Authorities in Coahuila state say the prisoners fled the prison in Piedras Negras, located across the border from Eagle Pass, Texas, through a tunnel. The escape route ‘was not made today. It had been there for months,’ officials say.
132 inmates on the loose, potentially armed, thanks to Holder/Fast and Furious, and thus Obama, and dangerous.
Coal producer Alpha Natural Resources said Tuesday it was cutting production by 16 million tons and eliminating 1,200 jobs companywide, laying off 400 workers immediately by closing mines in Virginia, West Virginia and Pennsylvania.
Crutchfield said the shutdowns and layoffs are a necessary part of ensuring Alpha survives in what has become a difficult U.S. market while companies like his face “a regulatory environment that’s aggressively aimed at constraining the use of coal.”
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Two can play at this “selective editing” game. See THIS LINK for the full story, also sans my small edit.
Moonbats want gun magazines hidden behind the counter next to the hardcore porn
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Personally I believe that extra magazines should be hidden behind the counter. Seriously, how often are you going to need more than the three or four magazines that you carry along with your Glock?
Please remember, however, to leave enough space for the Mossberg.
Now now, you know that was just a bad joke… I want moonbats to wake up, not die.
Among the guests: Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta Jones, Alan Alda, Candice Bergen and Marshall Rose, Tony Roberts with Penny Fuller, longtime Hamlisch collaborator Carole Bayer Sager with husband Bob Daly, “The Way We Were” lyricists Marilyn and Alan Bergman, Sarah Jessica Parker, Leslie Gore, Regis and Joy Philbin, Robert Klein, Lucie Arnaz, Sir Howard Stringer, writer Avery Corman, Thomas L. Friedman, Ken Auletta and Amanda Urban, Mort Zuckerman. former Yankee manager Joe Torre, writer Hannah Pakula, TV producer Fred Rappoport. composer David Zippel, Pat Schoenfeld, Paula Zahn, and so on. There were plenty of media types, too. President Barack Obama, tied up for the night, sent Valerie Jarrett.
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And what was Obama doing? Working on the many dire problems he’s created?
Personally I believe that extra magazines should be hidden behind the counter. Seriously, how often are you going to need more than the three or four magazines that you carry along with your Glock?
The moonbats were talking about the paper kind used for reading.
When I carry extra mags, which isn’t all the time, it’s only one. I see no point in anyone who isn’t LEO carrying any more. Any extremely rare situation needing more than two high-caps is one where you’re either dead or you need to fight your way back to your car to retrieve something other than a lowly pistol.
Here are two brilliant papers by Sowell
Bob Roberts
Of course there is always the economic policy peddled by one of Mb’s own trolls
First you raise tax rates to confiscatory levels, then offer tax incentives toward those activities government deems desirable.
It is good that you can, since the collection of this data has only begun in 1948, play it like we weren’t in the greatest depression since the Great Depression and since you aren’t showing a chart, nobody will notice that the current economic crisis began under a Republican President – caused by Republican policies (deregulation).
It has to be nice to keep reality, math and common sense out of the house – especially out of the White House.
RE: anothercommie at September 19, 2012 at 5:08 am:
After cutting and pasting yet another couple of lines of meainingless, “Buuuuut Buuuuuuush!!!!!” text, AnotherPieceOfWorthlessCommieTrash posts, “Oh, that was the wrong thread……….”
Well, as most of what this site puts out there are non sequiturs, ad hominems and non-factual statements – you are right a post in the wrong thread really doesn’t matter.
I dont think the missing two minutes will mean anything.Romney has already said he stands by his statement of
“47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it — that that’s an entitlement. And the government should give it to them. And they will vote for this president no matter what. … These are people who pay no income tax. … [M]y job is not to worry about those people.”
That 47% includes:
1. The elderly recieving benefits.
2. The working poor.(Due to EIC and child tax credits)
3. Single income families. (Due to EIC and child tax cedits)
4. Taking tax exemptions from itemized deductions, tax credits for education, and the income tax exemptions for everything from disability payments to interest on municipal bonds.
(Every graph and breakdown I have found state the amount of lazy entitled people to be between 1%-6%)
Romney suggests these people are all Obama democrats and arent the people he should be soliciting for votes backed up by his statement of needing the 10% of independent voters he will go after.
Now if you look at the Romney/Ryan tax plan, they will reduce the federal income tax paid on investment income to 0%-1% from 15%. Basically adding them (and others) to the 47%.
Worldwide, Christians everywhere react with “…so how about that local sports franchise.”
Let this be a lesson to you, Muslim gutter-rats. Our God is big enough to take care of Himself and does not need puny men to do it for Him, unlike your powerless and impotent pedophile!
(Every graph and breakdown I have found state the amount of lazy entitled people to be between 1%-6%)
Sinister
First off, “lazy entitled people” is your words
Second, you rely on HHS numbers that merely count temporary cash assistance http://www.myfoxtampabay.com/story/19242517/2012/08/09/republican-report-110-million-americans-on-welfare
Of course we must remember to count government employees, or at least a large percentage of them
Local, state, and federal
About 23 million http://www.census.gov/govs/
Then add to this farmers, green energy companies, big ethanol, college students and their universities, and any one else on the take for a grant, low interest loan, earned income credit, or subsidy, and Romney’s figures may actually be low
(we will find out in November)
I should add that it seems you have a problem including EIC to the equation.
But these are people interested in keeping the money stream flowing uninterrupted as well http://budgeting.thenest.com/people-tax-returns-pay-it-22401.html
They are the premier Obama voter, the ones with little if any skin in the game.
His rhetoric about “helping the guy behind you” is sweet whisperings in their ears
I always find it silly that people on the left attack deregulation as the greatest of evils, and regulation as the paragon of virtue. It seems that under no circumstances are they ever willing to admit that anybody besides themselves might be capable of making a correct decision if left to their own devices.
Following such a hard-line and uncompromising stance to its logical conclusion, you would find an argument that slavery is the pinnacle of economic achievement. The producers, when enslaved, never make an “unfair” amount of money, they don’t make money at all. They cannot make “wrong” choices, because they make no choices at all. The slave doesn’t eat, drink, sleep, pick his nose or scratch his butt without constant supervision.
Another way to say it is that those who work and pay taxes would become serfs, the fruit of their labor taxed at astronomical rates to enrich the government and the politically favored, their lords. When broken down to its simplest terms, it becomes clear that modern left-wing ideology amounts to little more than a call for the return of feudalism.
It is good that you can, since the collection of this data has only begun in 1948, play it like we weren’t in the greatest depression since the Great Depression and since you aren’t showing a chart, nobody will notice that the current economic crisis began under a Republican President – caused by Republican policies (deregulation).
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“Regulation? Regulation, we don’t need no stinking regulation.”
Barney Frank
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Of course what Barney actually said was
House Financial Services Committee hearing, Sept. 25, 2003:
Rep. Frank: I do think I do not want the same kind of focus on safety and soundness that we have in OCC [Office of the Comptroller of the Currency] and OTS [Office of Thrift Supervision]. I want to roll the dice a little bit more in this situation towards subsidized housing. . . . http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122290574391296381.html
Of course commies never let the facts stand in the way of their well formed opinions. That is why they believe that socialism is a viable economic system when it has eventually failed each and every time it has been tried.
Pop Quiz, Commie:
1. When was socialism first tried in the “New World” by the Europeans who came here?
2, What was the result of that effort?
Wholly carp, now reducing a tax on someone moves them from the maker to the taker column? No wonder it’s impossible for rational people to take anything said by liberals seriously.
the current economic crisis began under a Republican President
“Bang, bang, bang goes the Trolley…. ding, ding, ding goes the bell….”
I’m sure the current economic crisis had ABSOLUTELY NOTHING with the Democrats’ utter domination of Congress from 2007 to 2010… absolutely nothing…. mere coincidence.
Don’t expect direct answers from JustAnotherCommonCommie, Sam Adams…he will only shriek and rail about how his “iron is green” and how he “doesn’t wanna answer your questions so you can go ahead and claim a victory”.
Simple fact of the matter is he’s just like nay other troll here, more flame than fact, another of the countless bails of chaff among the legions of useful idiots who thinks they’ve got us all figured out.
Those would be the people you would think sit at home sucking on the government teet.
“Second, you rely on HHS numbers that merely count temporary cash assistance”
Wrong. Social security and tax breaks are not temporary cash assistance.
“Of course we must remember to count government employees, or at least a large percentage of them
Local, state, and federal
About 23 million”
All government employees pay federal income tax. I think only the military is excluded.
“Then add to this farmers, green energy companies, big ethanol, college students and their universities, and any one else on the take for a grant, low interest loan, earned income credit, or subsidy, and Romney’s figures may actually be low”
Farmers pay income taxes, as well as employees of green energy companies, big ethanol, working collage students, and employees of universities.
“I should add that it seems you have a problem including EIC to the equation.
But these are people interested in keeping the money stream flowing uninterrupted as well http://budgeting.thenest.com/people-tax-returns-pay-it-22401.html
They are the premier Obama voter, the ones with little if any skin in the game.
His rhetoric about “helping the guy behind you” is sweet whisperings in their ears”
You obviously are clueless.
Your saying a family of four with the father working making $47,000 per year and the mother staying home raising two kids is the typical obama voter. This type of family would pay no income taxes due to child tax credits and EIC.
We will assume, for argument’s sake, that 6% of the population receives welfare. We spend about $2.4 trillion per year on various entitlement programs, mostly Social Security and Medicare.
Using ballpark figures, 6% of 400 million is 24 million. $2.4 trillion divided by 24 million people is $100,000 per person, per year. I’m pretty sure that it’s not possible to put together a six figure salary from welfare benefits, so either your estimate is extremely low or our welfare system is an unmitigated disaster rife with corruption and graft.
Obama Fundraiser With Jay-Z And Beyonce Features “Floor-To-Ceiling” Tower Of 350 Gold Champagne Bottles Costing $800 Each, White House Bans Photos Of Event…
As several have pointed out here, from Mr. Blount on down, the real problem isn’t our (often fraudulently) elected officials, it is those who keep voting for them!
Yet as before not only do Warren Buffet and other rich moonbats still prefer tax loopholes to paying more, in the case of Buffet he’s still in court trying to avoid paying what the IRS says he owes!
Gallup/USA Today has Obama 2 points up. Neither poll is statistically significant at this time and both likely are slanted towards Obama, who is actually doing a lot worse, IMHO, than they suggest.
The hoax was brought to you by moonbats, of course. Had they succeeded the next step would have been to claim that the wife of Jesus was actually another man – that Jesus was in a “gay marriage”, no doubt.
This is about Zimmerman’s claim Martin went for his gun, forcing him to draw and use it, apparently. NOTE the tests COULD NOT rule out Martin’s DNA on the holster, only on the guns’ grip, and even that is actually doubtful – a claim that should be easily disposed of before it ever gets to a jury. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, or something like that.
Yeah, she calls all the lavish vacations she’s taken at taxpayer expense “struggling”? I don’t see him so frustrated about not being able to get a job that he’s given up and become one of the shadow unemployed.
Mr. Blount – I don’t have time to go back through my last comment that is awaiting moderation. Please edit it to your liking and then approve it, if you would. Thanks!
All government employees pay federal income tax. I think only the military is excluded.
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Wrong – military pay ALL taxes, just like everyone else, on their regular pay. There may be some special pays, like hazard pay, etc., that are exempted, but on the bulk of our pay, even when retired, we pay taxes.
Have you ever been to a Muslim hospital ? Have you heard a Muslim orchestra? Have you seen a Muslim band march in a parade? Have you witnessed a Muslim charity? Have you seen Muslims, shake hands with a Muslim Girl Scout? Have you seen a Muslim CandyStriper? Have you seen a Muslim do anything that contributes positively to the American way of life ? The answer to each question is NO!
Barack Obama, during his Cairo speech, said:
“I know, too, that Islam has always been a part of America ‘s history.”
AN AMERICAN CITIZEN’S RESPONSE:
Dear Mr.Obama:
Were those Muslims that were in America when the Pilgrims first landed? Funny, I thought they were Native American Indians.
Were those Muslims that celebrated the first Thanksgiving day? Sorry again, those were Pilgrims and Native American Indians.
Can you show me one Muslim signature on the United States Constitution?
Declaration of Independence ?
Bill of Rights?
Didn’t think so.
Did Muslims fight for this country’s freedom from England ? No.
Did Muslims fight during the Civil War to free the slaves in America ? No, they did not. In fact, Muslims to this day are still the largest traffickers in human slavery.. Your own half-brother, a devout Muslim, still advocates slavery himself, even though Muslims often refer to black Muslims as “pug nosed slaves.” Says a lot of what the Muslim world really thinks of your family’s “rich Islamic heritage,” doesn’t it Mr. Obama?
Where were Muslims during the Civil Rights era of this country? Not present.
There are no pictures or media accounts of Muslims walking side by side with Martin Luther King, Jr. or helping to advance the cause of Civil Rights.
Where were Muslims during this country’s Woman’s Suffrage era? Again, not present.
In fact, devout Muslims demand that women are subservient to men in the Islamic culture. So much so, that often they are beaten for not wearing the ‘hajib’ or for talking to a man who is not a direct family member or their husband. And should they ever be raped by a man, they are usually put to death for it while the rapist goes free! Yep, the Muslims are all for women’s rights, aren’t they?
Where were Muslims during World War II? They were aligned with Adolf Hitler. The Muslim grand mufti himself met with Adolf Hitler, reviewed the troops and accepted support from the Nazi’s in killing Jews.
Finally, Mr. Obama, where were Muslims on Sept. 11th, 2001? If they weren’t flying planes into the World Trade Center , the Pentagon or a field in Pennsylvania killing nearly 3,000 people on our own soil, they were rejoicing, dancing in the streets and giving out gifts in the Middle East. No one can dispute the pictures shown from all parts of the Muslim world celebrating on CNN, Fox News, MSNBC and other cable news networks that day.
Strangely, the very “moderate” Muslims who’s asses you bent over backwards to kiss in Cairo , Egypt on June 4th were stone cold silent post 9-11. To many Americans, their silence has meant approval for the acts of that day. And THAT, Mr. Obama, is the “rich heritage” Muslims have here in America.
Oh, I’m sorry, I forgot to mention the Barbary Pirates. They were Muslims.
And now we can add November 5, 2009 – the slaughter of American soldiers at Fort Hood by a Muslim major who is a doctor and a psychiatrist who was supposed to be counseling soldiers returning from battle in Iraq and Afghanistan.
That, Mr. Obama is the “Muslim heritage” in America.
Even now your own Department of Homeland Security warns of potential terrorist acts from the Muslim Iranian Quds.
THAT, Mr. Obama, is the “Muslim heritage” in America.
Like others here, I’ve openly expressed my own distaste with Mitt Romney. This makes the moonbats come back with a good question: Then why will we vote for him in November.
Ignoring the most obvious “anyone but Obama” response, I’m ready to answer that question.
It is obvious Mitt Romney is a rotten politician. It was clear to many of us here he would face an uphill, and possibly losing, battle come November and all the way to November as well.
However, think about it.
Do we need another politician?
No, we actually do not.
What do we need?
Our government is broken. Our budget is busted perhaps beyond any ability to repair it, but I can think of one person right now who’s shown the ability to fix broken institutions and repair broken budgets.
Mitt Romney.
Yeah, there’s still plenty about him I’m kind of uneasy about, things I just plain don’t like.
But it turns out that, thanks to the mess the Democrats and Obama made, starting of course with the time under Bush that they controlled the Senate and the House and even before that when they were the primary and ongoing cause of the mortgage/derivatives meltdown, Mitt Romney may actually be the perfect candidate for this election!
If anyone can clean up this mess, I think it might just be him. And even if it’s beyond his ability to completely fix I believe he may be one of the best suited, in the world, to at least mitigate and minimize the damage.
I know many of the others who visit here have some misgivings about him, as I do, but you, I hope, can see and admit the logic in the above.
I’m also led to believe that, predictably, the first 200 pages basically blame bush for the 3,000 or so guns Eric Holder and Barack Obama allowed to get into the hands of dangerous drug cartels in Mexico, all in an attempt to attack and destroy the Second Amendment. I’m further lead to believe a deputy director of the DOJ criminal division is being offered up as the sacrificial lamb, the scapegoat, while his boss – the guy who sent numerous memos to Eric Holder about the Fast and Furious program, and Eric Holder himself both claim no knowledge or responsibility for what was going on. And of course these two are both layers of insulation claiming that Barack Obama was completely clueless about the whole thing.
Let that sink in.
Barack Obama, while President of the United States, in command of and responsible for the United States Department of Justice, was allegedly completely clueless about them allowing 3,000 plus automatic weapons get across the border and into the hands of dangerous drug cartels.
And the “blame Bush” goes like this: Under the Bush administration a predecessor program of similar nature, though designed to actually track weapons and catch cartel members, did result in a small number, some said ONE or TWO, but it was probably more like a case or two, i.e. something maybe around a dozen at most, weapons getting “lost”, probably due to corrupt Mexican officials involved in the plan. When this happened the program was IMMEDIATELY SHUT DOWN.
Obama’s program wasn’t designed to catch anyone. They deliberately let the guns go out of their control, into the hands of drug cartels to boost the liberal moonbat lie that most of the guns involved in Mexican crime come from America, from American gun shops and such.
Obama’s program was designed to damage and hopefully destroy the Second Amendment to the Constitution.
And you can be Obama not only knew about it, was directly involved in planning and implementing it, but is lying through his teeth about it now, as is Holder.
Iran is the path through which the Iranian effort to destroy Israel is proceeding. First, though, Iran must prop up Syria’s dictator so that he doesn’t lose this launching pad for attacks against Israel.
Despite their heroic acts, the two ex-seals were NOT part of the ambassador’s security staff. Yet, true Americans to the bone, they took up arms to help protect him and the others during the attack and paid the ultimate price for doing so.
Tyrone Woods, 41, and Glen Doherty, 42, were not employed by the State Department diplomatic security office and instead were what is known as personal service contractors who had other duties related to security, the officials said.
They stepped into action, however, when Stevens became separated from the small security detail normally assigned to protect him when he traveled from the more fortified embassy in Tripoli to Benghazi, the officials said.
The two ex-Seals and others engaged in a lengthy firefight with the extremists who attacked the compound, a fight that stretched from the inner area of the consulate to an outside annex and a nearby safe house — a location that the insurgents appeared to know about, the officials said.
For some time, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney and Susan Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, preached the Obama sermon that the Sept. 11 attack on the consulate was spontaneous, a result of and in response to a movie about Islam and Mohammed.
Sufyan Ben Qumu is thought to have been involved and even may have led the attack, Fox News’ intelligence sources said. Qumu, a Libyan, was released from the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, transferred into Libyan custody on the condition he be kept in jail. He was released by the Qaddafi regime.
Chef Told Police He Cooked Wife
A bizarre 2009 murder case got even more strange with what appeared to be a taped confession.
Dawn Viens disappeared in 2009 and police identified her husband David – the chef at the former Thyme Café in Torrance – as a prime suspect.
“I took some, some things like weights that we use and I put them on the top of her body, and I just slowly cooked it and I ended up cooking her for four days,” Viens said on tape.
Viens claimed he stuffed his wife’s 105-pound body in a drum and disposed of the remains as if it was kitchen waste.
“I came up with the idea of cleaning the grease traps and commingling in the, the excess, the excess protein,” he could be heard saying on the tape.
When Washington Post columnist Marc Thiessen and the Government Accountability Institute reported that President Obama has attended less than half of his Presidential Daily Briefs (PDBs) on intelligence, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney called the findings “hilarious.” The next day, U.S. Libyan Ambassador Chris Stevens and three American staff members were murdered.
New information reveals President Barack Obama conducted interviews with entertainment magazines and posed for a photo spread last Friday as American embassies burned and 21 countries erupted into anti-American protests.
Instead of spending precious time dealing with the developing crisis in the Mid East and with his foreign policy scheme in a total freefall, on Friday morning, September 14, Obama was giving an interview to the entertainment magazine People en Español and participating in a photo session with photographer Omar Cruz.
This interview was not on his public schedule and was hidden from the public.
Very quietly, Obama’s chief financier, Penny Pritzker, has entered the Hawaii housing market to buy a retirement home for the president and his family that will be available not in 2016, but in January 2013, according to a confidential source within Pritzker’s Chicago organization.
The source told WND that highly confidential internal polls conducted by the Obama campaign indicate Obama cannot win re-election, despite public surveys that show him in the lead.
“The public polls are mostly political,” the source argued. “Obama radicals want Romney supporters to feel discouraged and give up. Truth is that Romney’s winning.”
The source further told WND that Pritzker is experiencing frustration in her fundraising efforts, as wealthy donors who contributed generously to Obama in 2008 are not even returning her phone calls.
The source said Pritzker is “reminding everyone how generous to their supporters the Clintons were when they left office.”
“Everything is for sale. Ambassadorships, government grants, stimulus money – you name it,” the source told WND.
“There’s nearly three months between the Nov. 6 election and the Jan. 20 inauguration – plenty of time to hand out goodies to friends from the Oval Office.”
It is not only in reducing scheduled working hours that union policy has worked against productivity. That, in fact, is one of the least harmful ways in which it has done so; for the compensating gain, at least, has been clear. But many unions have insisted on rigid subdivisions of labor which have raised production costs and led to expensive and ridiculous “jurisdictional” disputes. They have opposed payment on the basis of output or efficiency, and insisted on the same hourly rates for all their members regardless of differences in productivity. They have insisted on promotion for seniority rather than for merit. They have initiated deliberate slowdowns under the pretense of fighting “speed-ups.” They have denounced, insisted upon the dismissal of, and sometimes cruelly beaten, men who turned out more work than their fellows. They have opposed the introduction or improvement of machinery. They have insisted on make-work rules to require more people or more time to perform a given task. They have even insisted, with the threat of ruining employers, on the hiring of people who are not needed at all.
Most of these policies have been followed under the assumption that there is just a fixed amount of work to be done, a definite “job fund” which has to he spread over as many people and hours as possible so as not to use it up too soon. This assumption is utterly false. There is actually no limit to the amount of work to be done. Work creates work. What A produces constitutes the demand for what B produces.
But because this false assumption exists, and because the policies of unions are based on it, their net effect has been to reduce productivity below what it would otherwise have been. Their net effect, therefore, in the long run and for all groups of workers, has been to reduce real wages-that is, wages in terms of the goods they will buy-below the level to which they would otherwise a risen. The real cause for the tremendous increase in real wages in the last half century (especially in America) has been, to repeat, the accumulation of capital and the enormous technological advance made possible by it.
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You may not like or agree with it all, but the point is to read it and see. Unlike many liberal tomes, it is actually worth a look.
From “What has the government done to our money”:
Governments, in contrast to all other organizations, do not obtain their revenue as payment for their services. Consequently, governments face an economic problem different from that of everyone else. Private individuals who want to acquire more goods and services from others must produce and sell more of what others want. Governments need only find some method of expropriating more goods without the owner’s consent.
In a barter economy, government officials can only expropriate resources in one way: by seizing goods in kind. In a monetary economy they will find it easier to seize monetary assets, and then use the money to acquire goods and services for government, or else pay the money as subsidies to favored groups. Such seizure is called taxation.
Taxation, however, is often unpopular, and, in less temperate days, frequently precipitated revolutions. The emergence of money, while a boon to the human race, also opened a more subtle route for governmental expropriation of resources. On the free market, money can be acquired by producing and selling goods and services that people want, or by mining (a business no more profitable, in the long run, than any other). But if government can find ways to engage in counterfeiting–the creation of new money out of thin air–it can quickly produce its own money without taking the trouble to sell services or mine gold. It can then appropriate resources slyly and almost unnoticed, without rousing the hostility touched off by taxation. In fact, counterfeiting can create in its very victims the blissful illusion of unparalleled prosperity.
Counterfeiting is evidently but another name for inflation–both creating new “money” that is not standard gold or silver, and both function similarly. And now we see why governments are inherently inflationary: because inflation is a powerful and subtle means for government acquisition of the public’s resources, a painless and all the more dangerous form of taxation.
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Creating money out of thin air, as the obamunists are now doing, is insidious. It causes the real purchasing power of our savings, investments and wages to plummet. It destroys our future without warning – at least without warning to those not paying attention to what is going on.
Me, I’d rather have taxes. They don’t sneak up on you like inflation does. With them you can use elections to throw out the bums that pass them and elect a new crew that will repeal them.
Sam Adams & Jester: Actually, I blame Clinton and his free trade agreements with numerous country too. Free trade agreements are deregulation too – just on an international scale.
The problem with those is that economic crisis get harder to contain in a single country, but are spread into multiple countries making it even harder for a single country to recover via exports. Of course on the plus side you have extreme growth shortly after.
And yes, the Democrats were helping too.
Themocracy
So, what do you think is going to happen if the Muslim-in-Chief is seen as losing the election? Will he invent an emergency and suspend the election? How about the Constitution, congress, and the courts? (all of which he already ignores)
Do you think the American sheeple have a clue as to what’s really going on?
http://www.infowars.com/dhs-purchases-200-million-more-rounds-of-ammunition/
A little reminder to those with the habit of living and dying by the polls to please take them with a pallet of salt
http://datechguyblog.com/2012/09/17/demoralized-as-hell-the-poll-the-media-isnt-talking-about-edition/
I caught this in the link to Zombietime Jester provided and had to see if it’s for real
http://becomingfearless.typepad.com/notesonbecomingfearless/2010/01/a-childs-guide-to-nihilism.html
These are libs, I should have known it was
The Romney tape was tampered with. Those b*stards. They knew by the time people found out about the edit it would be too late. Their explanation is laughable.
http://legalinsurrection.com/2012/09/critical-audio-gap-in-complete-romney-tape-released-by-mother-jones/
Liberal freaks in robes on Penn. Supreme Court try to ensure that Dems are allowed to continue their Philly ballot box stuffing to vote for Obama, ignore will of legislature, and judicially act to try to set up the new Voter ID law to fail scrutiny in lower court.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/09/18/pa-high-court-wants-review-voter-id-access/?test=latestnews
Illegal aliens granted amnesty by Obama under Dream Act are pissed that Obama won’t also dole out Obamacare freebies to them. In response to this racism, Dreamers threaten to stay home and not to vote for Obama (sarc).
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/18/health/policy/limits-placed-on-immigrants-in-health-care-law.html?_r=2pagewanted=all&
Moonbat justice: Paroled killer strangles young mother and her two children
Gee, if only we had a way to ensure that killers do not kill again.
The intro says it all: A Florida farmhand arrested for having sexual contact with a miniature donkey explained to cops that the Sunshine State was “backwards” since its residents “frown on zoophilia,” according to a police report.
Bigots! Racists! Baggers!
How very un-progressive we are here in Florida.
Moonbats want gun magazines hidden behind the counter next to the hardcore porn
Mexico mass jailbreak sparks manhunt near Texas border
No worries, Janet Incompetano says the border is secure.
“Vaal hungers. He cries out for us. We must go to him now.”
I am among the world’s worst carpenters. You wouldn’t want to hire me to do carpentry unless I had strict and constant supervision. Oh, I’m not so bad that I’d cut off any body parts (I know people who have) or so bad I would nearly sever a limb (again, know people who have). Not that bad. And then again, I’ve built a few basic pieces of furniture out of oak (A stereo cabinet, a fish tank stand with a cabinet for supplies) that were pretty darn good, all without so much as breaking a fingernail.
But I’ve also worked on larger projects – construction (volunteered with Habitat for Humanity, etc.) for fun and I can say it again: You wouldn’t want to hire me for that work. I’m just not that good, at least without supervision, and I’m slow.
This is the basic idea behind The Bell Curve, at least the way I see it.
It’s not wrong or racist to point out different people are generally more suited for different tasks. I’ve been told I’m a great singer – though I would say good at best, not great, and perhaps not even that – yet people consistently tell me I should be trying out for these stupid shows and whatnot. I’ve always been good at computer programming – in multiple languages – and generally am good with applications software though some of the higher end packages (AutoCad, the Photoshop series and related programs) took some real effort to learn. But I can’t draw to save my life (except mechanical drawing/drafting – I’m pretty good at that) but, since I cannot create an image with pencils or paint, I went a different direction and actually got relatively decent at doing it with a camera. I’m no Ansel Adams, but I’ve made some real coin off some of my images. Many people say, “Yeah, I’ve seen that before, but you really captured it in a way that’s different than anyone else before you.” So yeah, maybe I have a bit of talent there.
The point is intelligence is just one yardstick and if it is true (as statistics, properly tested, show) that certain racial or ethnic groups are better than others, perhaps THAT, rather than prejudice, is why there are more Jewish doctors and lawyers and more black football and basketball players?
And it can be argued the latter are in some ways better off, “luckier”, than the former.
I mean, they get to PLAY in front of adoring fans, making MILLIONS in the process, while the lawyers have to ARGUE incessantly and put up with all sorts of nonsense, perhaps not making as much as the pro sports guys?
Anyway, here’s a good quote:
“Inequality of endowments, including intelligence, is a reality. Trying to pretend that inequality does not really exist has led to disaster. Trying to eradicate inequality with artificially manufactured outcomes has led to disaster. It is time for America once again to try living with inequality, as life is lived: understanding that each human being has strengths and weaknesses, qualities we admire and qualities we do not admire, competencies and incompetencies, assets and debits; that the success of each human life is not measured externally but internally; that all of the rewards we can confer on each other, the most precious is a place as a valued fellow citizen.”
Just because I’m willing to admit that my race/ethnic group may not be the smartest on the planet, as a group, doesn’t make me a racist bigot. It merely makes me honest.
AC says: September 18, 2012 at 9:07 pm
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Yeah, wasn’t that one a hoot! Especially the guy’s “explanations” of how his semen might have somehow got into the Donkey’s vagina.
Business owner removes 40 tons of trash from vacant city lot, bureaucrats decide to let no good deed go unpunished
Unarmed U.K. police officers shot dead during routine call
NOTE, in case you’re still livid about what a racist I am for agreeing with THE BELL CURVE, note that while the website I linked does have a pretty reasonable review of the book, it follows that with a bunch of the liberal hatchet jobs that were quickly published after it. Note their main arguments are the usual liberal stock in trade – “it’s wrong because we say so, and we’re smart”, “it’s wrong because… well… they’re obviously RACIST!” and that sort of nonsense.
Here’s one of the criticisms:
“Though there are seven appendices, spanning over 100 pages, and nearly 200 pages of footnotes, bibliography, and index, one element is notably missing from this tome: a report on any program of social intervention that works.”
And the author goes on to fail to present one also, suggesting that the reason, perhaps, that said mention is absent, is because there are none that work!
AC says:
September 18, 2012 at 9:27 pm
Business owner removes 40 tons of trash from vacant city lot, bureaucrats decide to let no good deed go unpunished
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HA – I’ve seen several similar “city owned lots” in Philly… they’re EVERYWHERE!
Dumping grounds.
Filthy, disease ridden parcels.
And the guy wasn’t “trespassing”, not by the proper legal definition anyway.
Turns out that in standard cases, like this one, at least in a fair court/in a sane legal system, you have to be up to no good in order to sustain a trespassing charge and I hope Ori Feibush knows this.
Trespass to land involves the “wrongful interference with one’s possessory rights in real property.”
Cleaning up the lot when they won’t is CLEARLY NOT something that fits this basic definition of “trespass”.
A true “trespass” results in an injury. How has the city been injured by his actions? The answer is THEY HAVE NOT.
They have no case.
The plot in question is at N 39.937659° W 75.176806°.
There are no fences. No signs indicating ownership, no “NO TRESPASSING” signs. If it is a city lot as claimed then, arguably, any city taxpayer has at least some right to use and enjoy it (and perform some upkeep, voluntarily) without fear of being accused of trespassing, I would think.
The lot looks pretty good, compared to nearby lots that are full of trash and such, though it is overgrown in the images I’ve reviewed – it sounds like the guy went further, actually planted some nice plants and put in some benches and such – in other words, performed a real public service, though the mention he owns a coffee shop nearby sort of suggests he has self-serving motives as well.
Granny Jan says: September 18, 2012 at 8:29 pm
The Romney tape was tampered with. Those b*stards. They knew by the time people found out about the edit it would be too late. Their explanation is laughable.
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While my first impression was (and is) that Romney did a good job of shooting himself in the foot by providing a quotable quote, since he knows what skilled “out of context editors” moonbats are, the Democrats have pretty much blown off both legs by doing this. Rather than hurt Romney, this may well help him. He was saying what we want to hear, what we know already: You can’t reach those who’ve chosen to be lost, at least not until they’re ready to be found and saved.
Don’t waste time on them. Any effort to wise them up is wasted. Put the information out there for them but leave it at that. If you broadcast it, some may eventually come and wise up. But spending precious time and resources trying to reach those who are drunk on Democrat Kool-Aid is just a waste of time.
Life in moonbat land.
Suicide by self-immolation, or “honor killing”?
Too early to tell.
We had a suicide down here, well over to the east of La Jolla, CA, over near Clantee… I mean Santee. The joke is they’re a bunch of white trash racist bigots – but in fact the population there is quite diverse – would make the heart of any moonbat leap for joy to see just how diverse.
Whether an unpermitted entry is actionable or not depends on state law, the nature of the land, what the trespasser was doing, and whether or not the land was posted.
The legal argument here needs to be that his entry was legal because he was abating a nuisance.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the city ended up fining itself for maintaining a nuisance. Think about all the hours. One bureaucrat can go out to inspect, another can issue the violation, a third can cut the check, and a fourth can process the check (after it has been mailed).
O’Reilly bringing facts, Stewart bringing comedy.
Jon Stewart to debate Bill O’Reilly in online pay-per-view event.
Denied entry into Obama event… for wearing McCain t-shirt?
Too little, too late.
Obama, sort of, admits it wasn’t the video, or at least admits the video is no excuse for mob violence/murder.
James O’Keefe, the 28-year-old filmmaker known for a series of undercover video stings targeting federally-funded organizations, called the use of secret cameras that captured Mitt Romney’s comments at a private fundraiser “an effective tactic that has a place in a democracy.” But he accused the news media of using a double standard when covering the new video and when writing about the films he produced.
What’s really irksome about it is the left is not really using what he said, but rather their typical false spin about carefully planned edits of what he said.
If you listen to the whole thing, what he actually said, he was making perfect sense and there’s no story there except the truth that some people are lost due to their personal decision to trade their dignity for “endless entitlements”. There is no point trying to reach them until they come back to the real world where you have to do something to get something, do something other than vote for redistributionist class warfare idiots, that is.
SEE IF YOU CAN SPOT THE TYPICAL MOONBAT LIE!
Here, maybe I can narrow it down a bit for you:
“This settlement is an honest compromise,” [Rahm] Emanuel said. “It means a new day and new direction for the Chicago Public Schools.
“This time our taxpayers are paying less and our kids are getting more,” he said of the deal estimated to cost an additional $74 million a year, compared to $129 million a year in the last contract.
Then the mayor choked up as he called Chicago’s classrooms the only bridge between the city’s poor children and its promise of a future.
Becoming emotional, Emanuel said, “The classroom is where they learn not only do they have a place in the future of this city but they are the future of this city and we as adults have responsibilities to the children of the city of Chicago so they can live up to their future and their full potential.”
OK that bolding didn’t seem to work – it was supposed to be for all 4 paragraphs but seems to have only worked on 1 and 4.
Anyway, the answer in a subsequent post – don’t read on until you try to spot it yourself.
The blog software inserts paragraph tags in place of a new line. Paragraph tags break block level formatting.
Chinese General: Prepare for combat with Japan.
Bejing hints at bond attack on Japan.
Things are getting ugly in the western Pacific.
China had not asserted sovereignty over the Senkaku until the 1970s when it learned that the islands are possibly situated nearby large reserves of oil.
1) Since 1885, surveys of the Senkaku Islands had thoroughly been made by the Government of Japan through the agencies of Okinawa Prefecture and by way of other methods. Through these surveys, it was confirmed that the Senkaku Islands had been uninhabited and showed no trace of having been under the control of China. Based on this confirmation, the Government of Japan made a Cabinet Decision on 14 January 1895 to erect a marker on the Islands to formally incorporate the Senkaku Islands into the territory of Japan.
2) Since then, the Senkaku Islands have continuously remained as an integral part of the Nansei Shoto Islands, which are the territory of Japan. These islands were neither part of Taiwan nor part of the Pescadores Islands which were ceded to Japan from the Qing Dynasty of China in accordance with Article II of the Treaty of Shimonoseki which came into effect in May of 1895.
3) Accordingly, the Senkaku Islands are not included in the territory which Japan renounced under Article II of the San Francisco Peace Treaty. The Senkaku Islands have been placed under the administration of the United States of America as part of the Nansei Shoto Islands, in accordance with Article III of the said treaty, and are included in the area, the administrative rights over which were reverted to Japan in accordance with the Agreement Between Japan and the United States of America Concerning the Ryukyu Islands and the Daito Islands signed on 17 June 1971. The facts outlined herein clearly indicate the status of the Senkaku Islands being part of the territory of Japan.
4) The fact that China expressed no objection to the status of the Islands being under the administration of the United States under Article III of the San Francisco Peace Treaty clearly indicates that China did not consider the Senkaku Islands as part of Taiwan. It was not until the latter half of 1970, when the question of the development of petroleum resources on the continental shelf of the East China Sea came to the surface, that the Government of China and Taiwan authorities began to raise questions regarding the Senkaku Islands.
5) Some focus on historical manuscripts such as “Chinese navigational records” and “an 1783 Japanese map” to make the point that China has a better claim to the Senkaku Islands. However, please note that none of the points raised by the Government of China as “historic, geographic or geological” evidence provide valid grounds, in light of international law, to support China’s arguments regarding the Senkaku Islands.
And now, the answer to the “find the moonbat lie” challenge:
“This time our taxpayers are paying less and our kids are getting more,” he said of the deal estimated to cost an additional $74 million a year, compared to $129 million a year in the last contract.
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No, apparently the taxpayers are paying more, $74 million more, and if history is any guide, the kids will get a pi$$-poor education out of it.
Heritage charts show the extreme disparity of the burden borne by the nation’s producers
AC says: September 18, 2012 at 10:22 pm
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Aha… but I put an “open bold” at the first paragraph and a “close bold” at the second, so it apparently supplied an extra one of each at the appropriate places?
I figured it was something like that… knew a way to get around it, but didn’t use it… wasn’t thinking about it. Seen it before.
Here are two brilliant papers by Sowell. I’ve reversed the order in which he presented them, for a reason:
Tax Cuts and the mythical “Trickle Down” Theory
In which it is PROVEN that tax cuts work to generate more revenue yet the trickle-down theory is a leftist straw-man that never really existed outside their shrill arguments against economic common sense.
Questions answered in Sowell’s Basic Economics
Piedras Negras (where the Mexican/Zeta prison break occurred) translates to Black Stones.
Authorities in Coahuila state say the prisoners fled the prison in Piedras Negras, located across the border from Eagle Pass, Texas, through a tunnel. The escape route ‘was not made today. It had been there for months,’ officials say.
132 inmates on the loose, potentially armed, thanks to Holder/Fast and Furious, and thus Obama, and dangerous.
Coal producer Alpha Natural Resources said Tuesday it was cutting production by 16 million tons and eliminating 1,200 jobs companywide, laying off 400 workers immediately by closing mines in Virginia, West Virginia and Pennsylvania.
Crutchfield said the shutdowns and layoffs are a necessary part of ensuring Alpha survives in what has become a difficult U.S. market while companies like his face “a regulatory environment that’s aggressively aimed at constraining the use of coal.”
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Two can play at this “selective editing” game. See THIS LINK for the full story, also sans my small edit.
AC says:
September 18, 2012 at 9:07 pm
Moonbats want gun magazines hidden behind the counter next to the hardcore porn
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Personally I believe that extra magazines should be hidden behind the counter. Seriously, how often are you going to need more than the three or four magazines that you carry along with your Glock?
Please remember, however, to leave enough space for the Mossberg.
Unintended consequence of public transportation: GRINDERS
Moonbats gather to see moonbats perform.
Where’s a suicide terrorist when you need one?
Now now, you know that was just a bad joke… I want moonbats to wake up, not die.
Among the guests: Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta Jones, Alan Alda, Candice Bergen and Marshall Rose, Tony Roberts with Penny Fuller, longtime Hamlisch collaborator Carole Bayer Sager with husband Bob Daly, “The Way We Were” lyricists Marilyn and Alan Bergman, Sarah Jessica Parker, Leslie Gore, Regis and Joy Philbin, Robert Klein, Lucie Arnaz, Sir Howard Stringer, writer Avery Corman, Thomas L. Friedman, Ken Auletta and Amanda Urban, Mort Zuckerman. former Yankee manager Joe Torre, writer Hannah Pakula, TV producer Fred Rappoport. composer David Zippel, Pat Schoenfeld, Paula Zahn, and so on. There were plenty of media types, too. President Barack Obama, tied up for the night, sent Valerie Jarrett.
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And what was Obama doing? Working on the many dire problems he’s created?
No, just campaigning, as usual.
At least he’s not golfing.
The moonbats were talking about the paper kind used for reading.
When I carry extra mags, which isn’t all the time, it’s only one. I see no point in anyone who isn’t LEO carrying any more. Any extremely rare situation needing more than two high-caps is one where you’re either dead or you need to fight your way back to your car to retrieve something other than a lowly pistol.
I keep the extras in the BOB.
Have you seen this?
Saudis Offer Extra Oil to Control Prices
http://www.cnbc.com/id/49080156
Looks like they are trying to interfere in our election to me!
Pictures of the reclaimed lot
Wild Bill
“Wake Up Romney, Wake Up!”
http://youtu.be/V9grvb6yjjE
The tale of two productions
Innocence of Muslims
The Book of Mormon
Hitlary Clinton called one disgusting and reprehensible
while the other she cheered.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/09/hillary_cheered_broadways_book_of_mormon_condemns_innocence_of_muslims.html
Here are two brilliant papers by Sowell
Bob Roberts
Of course there is always the economic policy peddled by one of Mb’s own trolls
First you raise tax rates to confiscatory levels, then offer tax incentives toward those activities government deems desirable.
Whose Democratic Party?
It is good that you can, since the collection of this data has only begun in 1948, play it like we weren’t in the greatest depression since the Great Depression and since you aren’t showing a chart, nobody will notice that the current economic crisis began under a Republican President – caused by Republican policies (deregulation).
It has to be nice to keep reality, math and common sense out of the house – especially out of the White House.
Oh, that was the wrong thread…
RE: anothercommie at September 19, 2012 at 5:08 am:
After cutting and pasting yet another couple of lines of meainingless, “Buuuuut Buuuuuuush!!!!!” text, AnotherPieceOfWorthlessCommieTrash posts, “Oh, that was the wrong thread……….”
Ha. Like it matters.
Well, as most of what this site puts out there are non sequiturs, ad hominems and non-factual statements – you are right a post in the wrong thread really doesn’t matter.
More coonery from Obama’s peeps…
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/bronx/video-nypd-hunts-brutes-beat-robbed-bronx-laundermat-employee-article-1.1162600
Obama owns this.
AL-QAEDA OFFSHOOT GROUP HELD MASSIVE MILITARY PARADE in Benghazi Just Weeks Before US Ambassador Was Murdered
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2012/09/al-qaeda-offshoot-group-held-massive-military-parade-in-benghazi-90-days-before-us-ambassador-was-murdered-video/
Horrible story out this morning. Cochise County, AZ Sheriff Larry Dever died early today in a one vehicle accident.
He was on the right side – a proponent of SB1070, and an opponent of the Fast and Furious gun running abomination. This is very sad.
God rest is soul!
Granny Jan says:
I dont think the missing two minutes will mean anything.Romney has already said he stands by his statement of
“47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it — that that’s an entitlement. And the government should give it to them. And they will vote for this president no matter what. … These are people who pay no income tax. … [M]y job is not to worry about those people.”
That 47% includes:
1. The elderly recieving benefits.
2. The working poor.(Due to EIC and child tax credits)
3. Single income families. (Due to EIC and child tax cedits)
4. Taking tax exemptions from itemized deductions, tax credits for education, and the income tax exemptions for everything from disability payments to interest on municipal bonds.
(Every graph and breakdown I have found state the amount of lazy entitled people to be between 1%-6%)
Romney suggests these people are all Obama democrats and arent the people he should be soliciting for votes backed up by his statement of needing the 10% of independent voters he will go after.
Now if you look at the Romney/Ryan tax plan, they will reduce the federal income tax paid on investment income to 0%-1% from 15%. Basically adding them (and others) to the 47%.
Obama Admin Argues Gov. Can Violate Religious Beliefs
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/09/18/HHS-Mandate-Lawsuits-Obama-Admin-Argues-Government-Can-Make-a-Law-That-Violates-Religious-Beliefs
“…Obama administration believes that if you own a private company, you must leave your faith at home before you go to work each day.”
Fannnie and freddie were core issues to the downturn. These gigantic failures were in large part created by bawney fwank protecting his butt-butty. http://www.openmarket.org/2010/05/12/democrats-block-reform-of-corrupt-mortgage-giants-fannie-mae-and-freddie-mac-will-receive-billions-more-in-bailouts-for-government-sponsored-enterprises/
Translated for the liberally obtuse, wrong thread, wrong conclusion, commie is just wrong.
Muslims savages tear and desecrate a Christian Bible…
http://www.aina.org/news/20120913204249.htm
Worldwide, Christians everywhere react with “…so how about that local sports franchise.”
Let this be a lesson to you, Muslim gutter-rats. Our God is big enough to take care of Himself and does not need puny men to do it for Him, unlike your powerless and impotent pedophile!
(Every graph and breakdown I have found state the amount of lazy entitled people to be between 1%-6%)
Sinister
First off, “lazy entitled people” is your words
Second, you rely on HHS numbers that merely count temporary cash assistance
http://www.myfoxtampabay.com/story/19242517/2012/08/09/republican-report-110-million-americans-on-welfare
Of course we must remember to count government employees, or at least a large percentage of them
Local, state, and federal
About 23 million
http://www.census.gov/govs/
Then add to this farmers, green energy companies, big ethanol, college students and their universities, and any one else on the take for a grant, low interest loan, earned income credit, or subsidy, and Romney’s figures may actually be low
(we will find out in November)
You Didn’t Build That Obama MC Rap–Hilarious
http://youtu.be/bQu2SVFF-cU
I should add that it seems you have a problem including EIC to the equation.
But these are people interested in keeping the money stream flowing uninterrupted as well
http://budgeting.thenest.com/people-tax-returns-pay-it-22401.html
They are the premier Obama voter, the ones with little if any skin in the game.
His rhetoric about “helping the guy behind you” is sweet whisperings in their ears
AC says:
September 18, 2012 at 10:57 pm
The moonbats were talking about the paper kind used for reading.
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Ah, yes….gun porn. (My attempt at mocking moonbats. I just haven’t had as much practice as the average moonbat).
I always find it silly that people on the left attack deregulation as the greatest of evils, and regulation as the paragon of virtue. It seems that under no circumstances are they ever willing to admit that anybody besides themselves might be capable of making a correct decision if left to their own devices.
Following such a hard-line and uncompromising stance to its logical conclusion, you would find an argument that slavery is the pinnacle of economic achievement. The producers, when enslaved, never make an “unfair” amount of money, they don’t make money at all. They cannot make “wrong” choices, because they make no choices at all. The slave doesn’t eat, drink, sleep, pick his nose or scratch his butt without constant supervision.
Another way to say it is that those who work and pay taxes would become serfs, the fruit of their labor taxed at astronomical rates to enrich the government and the politically favored, their lords. When broken down to its simplest terms, it becomes clear that modern left-wing ideology amounts to little more than a call for the return of feudalism.
anothercommie says:
September 19, 2012 at 5:07 am
It is good that you can, since the collection of this data has only begun in 1948, play it like we weren’t in the greatest depression since the Great Depression and since you aren’t showing a chart, nobody will notice that the current economic crisis began under a Republican President – caused by Republican policies (deregulation).
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“Regulation? Regulation, we don’t need no stinking regulation.”
Barney Frank
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Of course what Barney actually said was
House Financial Services Committee hearing, Sept. 25, 2003:
Rep. Frank: I do think I do not want the same kind of focus on safety and soundness that we have in OCC [Office of the Comptroller of the Currency] and OTS [Office of Thrift Supervision]. I want to roll the dice a little bit more in this situation towards subsidized housing. . . .
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122290574391296381.html
Of course commies never let the facts stand in the way of their well formed opinions. That is why they believe that socialism is a viable economic system when it has eventually failed each and every time it has been tried.
Pop Quiz, Commie:
1. When was socialism first tried in the “New World” by the Europeans who came here?
2, What was the result of that effort?
Wholly carp, now reducing a tax on someone moves them from the maker to the taker column? No wonder it’s impossible for rational people to take anything said by liberals seriously.
anothercommie says:
the current economic crisis began under a Republican President
“Bang, bang, bang goes the Trolley…. ding, ding, ding goes the bell….”
I’m sure the current economic crisis had ABSOLUTELY NOTHING with the Democrats’ utter domination of Congress from 2007 to 2010… absolutely nothing…. mere coincidence.
Talk like a Pirate Day!
uh, I mean
Talk like Obama Day!
The Federal Reserve, a Privately Owned Banking Cartel, Has Been Given Police Powers, with Glock 22s and Patrol Cars
http://www.blacklistednews.com/The_Federal_Reserve,_a_Privately_Owned_Banking_Cartel,_Has_Been_Given_Police_Powers,_with_Glock_22s_and_Patrol_Cars/21567/0/38/38/Y/M.html
Don’t expect direct answers from JustAnotherCommonCommie, Sam Adams…he will only shriek and rail about how his “iron is green” and how he “doesn’t wanna answer your questions so you can go ahead and claim a victory”.
Simple fact of the matter is he’s just like nay other troll here, more flame than fact, another of the countless bails of chaff among the legions of useful idiots who thinks they’ve got us all figured out.
Piss Be Upon Him.
Ghost of FA Hayek says:
“First off, “lazy entitled people” is your words”
Those would be the people you would think sit at home sucking on the government teet.
“Second, you rely on HHS numbers that merely count temporary cash assistance”
Wrong. Social security and tax breaks are not temporary cash assistance.
“Of course we must remember to count government employees, or at least a large percentage of them
Local, state, and federal
About 23 million”
All government employees pay federal income tax. I think only the military is excluded.
“Then add to this farmers, green energy companies, big ethanol, college students and their universities, and any one else on the take for a grant, low interest loan, earned income credit, or subsidy, and Romney’s figures may actually be low”
Farmers pay income taxes, as well as employees of green energy companies, big ethanol, working collage students, and employees of universities.
“I should add that it seems you have a problem including EIC to the equation.
But these are people interested in keeping the money stream flowing uninterrupted as well
http://budgeting.thenest.com/people-tax-returns-pay-it-22401.html
They are the premier Obama voter, the ones with little if any skin in the game.
His rhetoric about “helping the guy behind you” is sweet whisperings in their ears”
You obviously are clueless.
Your saying a family of four with the father working making $47,000 per year and the mother staying home raising two kids is the typical obama voter. This type of family would pay no income taxes due to child tax credits and EIC.
Let’s go ahead and play with your 6% number.
We will assume, for argument’s sake, that 6% of the population receives welfare. We spend about $2.4 trillion per year on various entitlement programs, mostly Social Security and Medicare.
Using ballpark figures, 6% of 400 million is 24 million. $2.4 trillion divided by 24 million people is $100,000 per person, per year. I’m pretty sure that it’s not possible to put together a six figure salary from welfare benefits, so either your estimate is extremely low or our welfare system is an unmitigated disaster rife with corruption and graft.
DOJ F&F probe: “Pattern of serious failures,” 14 employees up for… sanctions
http://hotair.com/archives/2012/09/19/doj-ff-probe-pattern-of-serious-failures-14-employees-up-for-sanctions/
LA Times op-ed: Maybe this Mohammed movie isn’t free speech after all
http://hotair.com/archives/2012/09/18/la-times-op-ed-maybe-this-mohammed-movie-isnt-free-speech-after-all/
Obama Campaign Features Celebrities Pledging Allegiance To Barack Obama…
http://weaselzippers.us/2012/09/19/obama-campaign-features-celebrities-pledging-allegiance-to-barack-obama/
Obama Calls For Society Based On Collectivism, Hails Union Power In Uncovered 1995 Video…
http://weaselzippers.us/2012/09/19/obama-calls-for-society-based-on-collectivism-hails-union-power-in-uncovered-1995-video/
Obama Tells Letterman Wrong To Call Opponents Unpatriotic… Apparently Unaware He Called Bush Unpatriotic In 2008…
http://weaselzippers.us/2012/09/19/obama-tells-letterman-wrong-to-call-opponents-unpatriotic-apparently-unaware-he-called-bush-unpatriotic-in-2008/
Obama Fundraiser With Jay-Z And Beyonce Features “Floor-To-Ceiling” Tower Of 350 Gold Champagne Bottles Costing $800 Each, White House Bans Photos Of Event…
http://weaselzippers.us/2012/09/19/obama-fundraiser-with-jay-z-and-beyonce-features-floor-to-ceiling-tower-of-350-gold-champagne-bottles-costing-800-each-white-house-bans-photos-of-event/
Key Holder deputy resigns as inspector general releases Fast and Furious report
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2012/09/19/key-holder-deputy-resigns-as-inspector-general-releases-fast-and-furious-report/#ixzz26xFRa8TR
Occupy Wall Street chief organizer unravels, ponders calling it quits
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2012/09/19/occupy-wall-street-chief-organizer-unravels-ponders-calling-it-quits/#ixzz26xFpSaYb
Farenthold: Congress will likely investigate DOJ-Media Matters collusion, target group’s tax-exempt status
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2012/09/19/farenthold-congress-will-likely-investigate-doj-media-matters-collusion-target-groups-tax-exempt-status/#ixzz26xG110lY
Obama super PAC donor Bill Maher’s opinion remains uncensored
http://dailycaller.com/2012/09/19/obama-super-pac-donor-bill-mahers-opinion-remains-uncensored/
French media publishes Mohammed naked pics.
Muzzies blow up kosher deli in response.
Kosher store, not sure if it was a deli… did not read the whole article. But that’s not the point.
Obamacare tax to hit six million mostly middle-class Americans.
And he & other Democrats talk about making life easier for the middle class even as they try to tax them to death. Would thin out the herd, though.
Obamunists finally admit murder of ambassador and others was in fact a terrorist attack, not just a response to some film critical of Mohammed the child molester.
Obama foreign policy approval plunges, as it should have long ago.
Afghan pullback shatters obamunist claims of progress in Afghanistan.
Obamunists also finally admitting the real threat to Americans is not other Americans: Thanks to Obama and the Democrats we may face terrorist action on our own soil from Iran.
Another day, another disaster: THANKS OBAMA! THANKS DEMOCRATS!
As several have pointed out here, from Mr. Blount on down, the real problem isn’t our (often fraudulently) elected officials, it is those who keep voting for them!
AMAZING: As with everywhere else, this administration’s “new focus” in the east is NOT directed at the primary threats we face!
Can anyone name another president/administration this inept? Besides Carter, I mean, of course.
House passes law allowing rich to pay more taxes if they really believe, as they keep saying, that they should.
Yet as before not only do Warren Buffet and other rich moonbats still prefer tax loopholes to paying more, in the case of Buffet he’s still in court trying to avoid paying what the IRS says he owes!
Rasmussen has Romney one point up in swing states.
Gallup/USA Today has Obama 2 points up. Neither poll is statistically significant at this time and both likely are slanted towards Obama, who is actually doing a lot worse, IMHO, than they suggest.
Obama/Holder scapegoat takes fall in Fast & Furious probe.
And did I call it, or what. On reports of a faded papyrus that spoke of a wife of Jesus, I stated it was probably a hoax.
On papyrus, doubts arise.
The hoax was brought to you by moonbats, of course. Had they succeeded the next step would have been to claim that the wife of Jesus was actually another man – that Jesus was in a “gay marriage”, no doubt.
Meanwhile, here in San Diego, new sub commander quickly relieved after faking his own death to end scandalous sex affair.
VOTER FRAUD: HOW DEMS DO IT – one in a continuing series.
4,000 non citizen voters found on rolls in Michigan. No wonder the state votes Democrat – so many fraudulent Democrats there!
Once again the press is trying to sway the case against Zimmerman!
This is about Zimmerman’s claim Martin went for his gun, forcing him to draw and use it, apparently. NOTE the tests COULD NOT rule out Martin’s DNA on the holster, only on the guns’ grip, and even that is actually doubtful – a claim that should be easily disposed of before it ever gets to a jury. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, or something like that.
Moonbats attacking red meat, again.
Will they ever give up?
LIFE IN MOONBAT LAND – one of a continuing series.
In Detroit, despite some of the strictest gun control measures in the nation, GOOGLE street view cameras catch teen pointing a gun at the car.
Obama campaign still presenting Obama as messianic figure: Images with halo effect and now a “last supper”.
Math challenged Obama can’t remember amount of national debt. Probably because he’s so tired after visiting 56 of those 57 states?
As I posted a while back, and yes it did get it’s own thread:
Obama: I believe in redistribution.
Obama believes in making slaves out of both those he steals the money from and those he redistributes it to.
Romney’s brilliant response:
‘We [Republicans/conservatives] believe in free people and free enterprise, not redistribution’.
Romney’s response, part II:
I will deliver recovery, not dependency.
That is a big claim, one he will need majorities in both houses of Congress to deliver. He’s taking a big chance here.
“Grassroots” “occu-tard” movement on the verge of collapse.
Obama suspends work requirement – number of able-bodied adults on food stamps doubles!
Cost of Obama/Democrat over regulation estimated at $488 billion.
NOTE TO CLIMATE CHANGE ALARMISTS:
Sea ice sets new record: MOST EVER OBSERVED THIS TIME OF YEAR!
Our embassies besieged, our homeland under threat from Iran, our troops dying in Afghanistan thanks to Obama’s need to look good there, and what is Obama doing?
Campaigning on Letterman, partying with Jay-Z and Beyonce!
Well at least he’s not golfing… or on vacation… but, according to Michelle, he’s struggling, with “us”.
Yeah, she calls all the lavish vacations she’s taken at taxpayer expense “struggling”? I don’t see him so frustrated about not being able to get a job that he’s given up and become one of the shadow unemployed.
But you know, come January, he will be!
Mr. Blount – I don’t have time to go back through my last comment that is awaiting moderation. Please edit it to your liking and then approve it, if you would. Thanks!
All government employees pay federal income tax. I think only the military is excluded.
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Wrong – military pay ALL taxes, just like everyone else, on their regular pay. There may be some special pays, like hazard pay, etc., that are exempted, but on the bulk of our pay, even when retired, we pay taxes.
Pakistani businessman faces blasphemy charge for not participating in protests
http://www.jammiewf.com/2012/pakistani-businessman-faces-death-for-not-participating-in-riots-over-youtube-clip/
House Democrats Attempting To Gut States Voter ID Laws In Congress…
http://weaselzippers.us/2012/09/19/house-democrats-attempting-to-gut-states-voter-id-laws-in-congress/
MUSLIM HERITAGE IN AMERICA
Have you ever been to a Muslim hospital ? Have you heard a Muslim orchestra? Have you seen a Muslim band march in a parade? Have you witnessed a Muslim charity? Have you seen Muslims, shake hands with a Muslim Girl Scout? Have you seen a Muslim CandyStriper? Have you seen a Muslim do anything that contributes positively to the American way of life ? The answer to each question is NO!
Barack Obama, during his Cairo speech, said:
“I know, too, that Islam has always been a part of America ‘s history.”
AN AMERICAN CITIZEN’S RESPONSE:
Dear Mr.Obama:
Were those Muslims that were in America when the Pilgrims first landed? Funny, I thought they were Native American Indians.
Were those Muslims that celebrated the first Thanksgiving day? Sorry again, those were Pilgrims and Native American Indians.
Can you show me one Muslim signature on the United States Constitution?
Declaration of Independence ?
Bill of Rights?
Didn’t think so.
Did Muslims fight for this country’s freedom from England ? No.
Did Muslims fight during the Civil War to free the slaves in America ? No, they did not. In fact, Muslims to this day are still the largest traffickers in human slavery.. Your own half-brother, a devout Muslim, still advocates slavery himself, even though Muslims often refer to black Muslims as “pug nosed slaves.” Says a lot of what the Muslim world really thinks of your family’s “rich Islamic heritage,” doesn’t it Mr. Obama?
Where were Muslims during the Civil Rights era of this country? Not present.
There are no pictures or media accounts of Muslims walking side by side with Martin Luther King, Jr. or helping to advance the cause of Civil Rights.
Where were Muslims during this country’s Woman’s Suffrage era? Again, not present.
In fact, devout Muslims demand that women are subservient to men in the Islamic culture. So much so, that often they are beaten for not wearing the ‘hajib’ or for talking to a man who is not a direct family member or their husband. And should they ever be raped by a man, they are usually put to death for it while the rapist goes free! Yep, the Muslims are all for women’s rights, aren’t they?
Where were Muslims during World War II? They were aligned with Adolf Hitler. The Muslim grand mufti himself met with Adolf Hitler, reviewed the troops and accepted support from the Nazi’s in killing Jews.
Finally, Mr. Obama, where were Muslims on Sept. 11th, 2001? If they weren’t flying planes into the World Trade Center , the Pentagon or a field in Pennsylvania killing nearly 3,000 people on our own soil, they were rejoicing, dancing in the streets and giving out gifts in the Middle East. No one can dispute the pictures shown from all parts of the Muslim world celebrating on CNN, Fox News, MSNBC and other cable news networks that day.
Strangely, the very “moderate” Muslims who’s asses you bent over backwards to kiss in Cairo , Egypt on June 4th were stone cold silent post 9-11. To many Americans, their silence has meant approval for the acts of that day. And THAT, Mr. Obama, is the “rich heritage” Muslims have here in America.
Oh, I’m sorry, I forgot to mention the Barbary Pirates. They were Muslims.
And now we can add November 5, 2009 – the slaughter of American soldiers at Fort Hood by a Muslim major who is a doctor and a psychiatrist who was supposed to be counseling soldiers returning from battle in Iraq and Afghanistan.
That, Mr. Obama is the “Muslim heritage” in America.
Even now your own Department of Homeland Security warns of potential terrorist acts from the Muslim Iranian Quds.
THAT, Mr. Obama, is the “Muslim heritage” in America.
Like others here, I’ve openly expressed my own distaste with Mitt Romney. This makes the moonbats come back with a good question: Then why will we vote for him in November.
Ignoring the most obvious “anyone but Obama” response, I’m ready to answer that question.
It is obvious Mitt Romney is a rotten politician. It was clear to many of us here he would face an uphill, and possibly losing, battle come November and all the way to November as well.
However, think about it.
Do we need another politician?
No, we actually do not.
What do we need?
Our government is broken. Our budget is busted perhaps beyond any ability to repair it, but I can think of one person right now who’s shown the ability to fix broken institutions and repair broken budgets.
Mitt Romney.
Yeah, there’s still plenty about him I’m kind of uneasy about, things I just plain don’t like.
But it turns out that, thanks to the mess the Democrats and Obama made, starting of course with the time under Bush that they controlled the Senate and the House and even before that when they were the primary and ongoing cause of the mortgage/derivatives meltdown, Mitt Romney may actually be the perfect candidate for this election!
If anyone can clean up this mess, I think it might just be him. And even if it’s beyond his ability to completely fix I believe he may be one of the best suited, in the world, to at least mitigate and minimize the damage.
I know many of the others who visit here have some misgivings about him, as I do, but you, I hope, can see and admit the logic in the above.
So anyway, by now some have posted on the release of the “Fast and Furious” investigation. As I post this I’m currently led to believe you can read/download it here.
I’m also led to believe that, predictably, the first 200 pages basically blame bush for the 3,000 or so guns Eric Holder and Barack Obama allowed to get into the hands of dangerous drug cartels in Mexico, all in an attempt to attack and destroy the Second Amendment. I’m further lead to believe a deputy director of the DOJ criminal division is being offered up as the sacrificial lamb, the scapegoat, while his boss – the guy who sent numerous memos to Eric Holder about the Fast and Furious program, and Eric Holder himself both claim no knowledge or responsibility for what was going on. And of course these two are both layers of insulation claiming that Barack Obama was completely clueless about the whole thing.
Let that sink in.
Barack Obama, while President of the United States, in command of and responsible for the United States Department of Justice, was allegedly completely clueless about them allowing 3,000 plus automatic weapons get across the border and into the hands of dangerous drug cartels.
And the “blame Bush” goes like this: Under the Bush administration a predecessor program of similar nature, though designed to actually track weapons and catch cartel members, did result in a small number, some said ONE or TWO, but it was probably more like a case or two, i.e. something maybe around a dozen at most, weapons getting “lost”, probably due to corrupt Mexican officials involved in the plan. When this happened the program was IMMEDIATELY SHUT DOWN.
Obama’s program wasn’t designed to catch anyone. They deliberately let the guns go out of their control, into the hands of drug cartels to boost the liberal moonbat lie that most of the guns involved in Mexican crime come from America, from American gun shops and such.
Obama’s program was designed to damage and hopefully destroy the Second Amendment to the Constitution.
And you can be Obama not only knew about it, was directly involved in planning and implementing it, but is lying through his teeth about it now, as is Holder.
Frank Zappa the capitalist.
Check it out. He’s a conservative, a capitalist.
Or was – he died, as most of you should know.
A predictable result of Obama’s rush to get out of Iraq.
Iran ships arms, personnel to Syria via Iraq:
Iran is the path through which the Iranian effort to destroy Israel is proceeding. First, though, Iran must prop up Syria’s dictator so that he doesn’t lose this launching pad for attacks against Israel.
Obama administration deliberately misled us about the true identity of two of those who died in Libya.
Despite their heroic acts, the two ex-seals were NOT part of the ambassador’s security staff. Yet, true Americans to the bone, they took up arms to help protect him and the others during the attack and paid the ultimate price for doing so.
Tyrone Woods, 41, and Glen Doherty, 42, were not employed by the State Department diplomatic security office and instead were what is known as personal service contractors who had other duties related to security, the officials said.
They stepped into action, however, when Stevens became separated from the small security detail normally assigned to protect him when he traveled from the more fortified embassy in Tripoli to Benghazi, the officials said.
The two ex-Seals and others engaged in a lengthy firefight with the extremists who attacked the compound, a fight that stretched from the inner area of the consulate to an outside annex and a nearby safe house — a location that the insurgents appeared to know about, the officials said.
EX-GITMO DETAINEE INVOLVED IN LIBYA ATTACK!
For some time, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney and Susan Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, preached the Obama sermon that the Sept. 11 attack on the consulate was spontaneous, a result of and in response to a movie about Islam and Mohammed.
Sufyan Ben Qumu is thought to have been involved and even may have led the attack, Fox News’ intelligence sources said. Qumu, a Libyan, was released from the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, transferred into Libyan custody on the condition he be kept in jail. He was released by the Qaddafi regime.
Probe into secret service prostitution scandal may reach all the way to White House staff.
Pretty sure others already posted this:
Obama covers up 18 foot high tower of gold champagne bottles at fundraiser campaign event party.
The 1%?
Obama is their man!
(I was going to say “boy” but some would have claimed that was racist.)
No time for Netanyahu but Obama does have time to observe ‘International Talk Like a Pirate Day’
Is it just me, or are Obama’s priorities so far out of whack that it’s bizarre?
How many years since the Democrats advanced a true budget/how many years have they been blocking Republican efforts to create and pass a budget?
Somehow when they blame Republicans the moonbats eat it up. Yes, they’re that stupid!
Obama getting ready to slam personal control on the internet – will he do this before the election to try to prevent the public from learning about/discussing the fraud he plans to resort to in order to win?
… with some fava beans and a nice Chianti!
Chef Told Police He Cooked Wife
A bizarre 2009 murder case got even more strange with what appeared to be a taped confession.
Dawn Viens disappeared in 2009 and police identified her husband David – the chef at the former Thyme Café in Torrance – as a prime suspect.
“I took some, some things like weights that we use and I put them on the top of her body, and I just slowly cooked it and I ended up cooking her for four days,” Viens said on tape.
Viens claimed he stuffed his wife’s 105-pound body in a drum and disposed of the remains as if it was kitchen waste.
“I came up with the idea of cleaning the grease traps and commingling in the, the excess, the excess protein,” he could be heard saying on the tape.
A British soldier who did not know she was pregnant has given birth on the frontline.
Did not know she was pregnant? NONSENSE! How stupid do you have to be to not know you’re pregnant? I would say “Impossibly STUPID!”
Moonbats use pseudoscience to attempt to link GM corn and cancer.
France, of course, is falling for it.
What? No GM style bailout?
American Airlines sends out over 1,000 job loss warnings, expects perhaps as many as 4,400 ultimately.
OOPS, they sent out 11,000 warnings… but expect as many as 4,400 may actually be trimmed. My bad, missed a keystroke.
CABLE NEWS RACE
TUES., SEPT. 18, 2012
FOXNEWS O’REILLY 3,349,000
FOXNEWS HANNITY 2,246,000
FOXNEWS BAIER 2,082,000
FOXNEWS SHEP 2,059,000
FOXNEWS FIVE 2,048,000
MSNBC MADDOW 2,040,000
FOXNEWS GRETA 1,843,000
MSNBC O’DONNELL 1,743,000
MSNBC HARDBALL 1,396,000
MSNBC SHARPTON 1,101,000
CNN COOPER 723,000
CNN PIERS 662,000
My only question is how can MSNBC get spots 6 and 8? Smart people tuning in to laugh at the nonsense of Madcow and O’Dip$hit?
WHAT YOU CAN DO TO HELP PROMOTE ‘OCCUPY UNMASKED’
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Hollywood/2012/09/19/What-You-Can-Do-To-Help-Promote-Occupy-Unmasked
When Washington Post columnist Marc Thiessen and the Government Accountability Institute reported that President Obama has attended less than half of his Presidential Daily Briefs (PDBs) on intelligence, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney called the findings “hilarious.” The next day, U.S. Libyan Ambassador Chris Stevens and three American staff members were murdered.
New information reveals President Barack Obama conducted interviews with entertainment magazines and posed for a photo spread last Friday as American embassies burned and 21 countries erupted into anti-American protests.
Instead of spending precious time dealing with the developing crisis in the Mid East and with his foreign policy scheme in a total freefall, on Friday morning, September 14, Obama was giving an interview to the entertainment magazine People en Español and participating in a photo session with photographer Omar Cruz.
This interview was not on his public schedule and was hidden from the public.
It appears Obama is aware he’s going to lose in November and is preparing for his life as a one-term President come January.
Very quietly, Obama’s chief financier, Penny Pritzker, has entered the Hawaii housing market to buy a retirement home for the president and his family that will be available not in 2016, but in January 2013, according to a confidential source within Pritzker’s Chicago organization.
The source told WND that highly confidential internal polls conducted by the Obama campaign indicate Obama cannot win re-election, despite public surveys that show him in the lead.
“The public polls are mostly political,” the source argued. “Obama radicals want Romney supporters to feel discouraged and give up. Truth is that Romney’s winning.”
The source further told WND that Pritzker is experiencing frustration in her fundraising efforts, as wealthy donors who contributed generously to Obama in 2008 are not even returning her phone calls.
The source said Pritzker is “reminding everyone how generous to their supporters the Clintons were when they left office.”
“Everything is for sale. Ambassadorships, government grants, stimulus money – you name it,” the source told WND.
“There’s nearly three months between the Nov. 6 election and the Jan. 20 inauguration – plenty of time to hand out goodies to friends from the Oval Office.”
Pictures like this are why I read this site every day.
http://www.fee.org/library/books/economics-in-one-lesson/
Comments?
http://bastiat.mises.org/2012/09/would-you-rather-be-marooned-on-a-desert-island-with-an-austrian-or-a-keynesian/
What has the government done to our money? Read/download here:
http://mises.org/money.asp
I posted this one before, here it is again:
http://tsowell.com/images/Hoover%20Proof.pdf
Sowell on the truth about tax cuts and the lies the left tells about them.
A lengthy quote from “Economics in one lesson”:
It is not only in reducing scheduled working hours that union policy has worked against productivity. That, in fact, is one of the least harmful ways in which it has done so; for the compensating gain, at least, has been clear. But many unions have insisted on rigid subdivisions of labor which have raised production costs and led to expensive and ridiculous “jurisdictional” disputes. They have opposed payment on the basis of output or efficiency, and insisted on the same hourly rates for all their members regardless of differences in productivity. They have insisted on promotion for seniority rather than for merit. They have initiated deliberate slowdowns under the pretense of fighting “speed-ups.” They have denounced, insisted upon the dismissal of, and sometimes cruelly beaten, men who turned out more work than their fellows. They have opposed the introduction or improvement of machinery. They have insisted on make-work rules to require more people or more time to perform a given task. They have even insisted, with the threat of ruining employers, on the hiring of people who are not needed at all.
Most of these policies have been followed under the assumption that there is just a fixed amount of work to be done, a definite “job fund” which has to he spread over as many people and hours as possible so as not to use it up too soon. This assumption is utterly false. There is actually no limit to the amount of work to be done. Work creates work. What A produces constitutes the demand for what B produces.
But because this false assumption exists, and because the policies of unions are based on it, their net effect has been to reduce productivity below what it would otherwise have been. Their net effect, therefore, in the long run and for all groups of workers, has been to reduce real wages-that is, wages in terms of the goods they will buy-below the level to which they would otherwise a risen. The real cause for the tremendous increase in real wages in the last half century (especially in America) has been, to repeat, the accumulation of capital and the enormous technological advance made possible by it.
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You may not like or agree with it all, but the point is to read it and see. Unlike many liberal tomes, it is actually worth a look.
Moonbat = Mountebank.
From “What has the government done to our money”:
Governments, in contrast to all other organizations, do not obtain their revenue as payment for their services. Consequently, governments face an economic problem different from that of everyone else. Private individuals who want to acquire more goods and services from others must produce and sell more of what others want. Governments need only find some method of expropriating more goods without the owner’s consent.
In a barter economy, government officials can only expropriate resources in one way: by seizing goods in kind. In a monetary economy they will find it easier to seize monetary assets, and then use the money to acquire goods and services for government, or else pay the money as subsidies to favored groups. Such seizure is called taxation.
Taxation, however, is often unpopular, and, in less temperate days, frequently precipitated revolutions. The emergence of money, while a boon to the human race, also opened a more subtle route for governmental expropriation of resources. On the free market, money can be acquired by producing and selling goods and services that people want, or by mining (a business no more profitable, in the long run, than any other). But if government can find ways to engage in counterfeiting–the creation of new money out of thin air–it can quickly produce its own money without taking the trouble to sell services or mine gold. It can then appropriate resources slyly and almost unnoticed, without rousing the hostility touched off by taxation. In fact, counterfeiting can create in its very victims the blissful illusion of unparalleled prosperity.
Counterfeiting is evidently but another name for inflation–both creating new “money” that is not standard gold or silver, and both function similarly. And now we see why governments are inherently inflationary: because inflation is a powerful and subtle means for government acquisition of the public’s resources, a painless and all the more dangerous form of taxation.
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Creating money out of thin air, as the obamunists are now doing, is insidious. It causes the real purchasing power of our savings, investments and wages to plummet. It destroys our future without warning – at least without warning to those not paying attention to what is going on.
Me, I’d rather have taxes. They don’t sneak up on you like inflation does. With them you can use elections to throw out the bums that pass them and elect a new crew that will repeal them.
Sam Adams & Jester: Actually, I blame Clinton and his free trade agreements with numerous country too. Free trade agreements are deregulation too – just on an international scale.
The problem with those is that economic crisis get harder to contain in a single country, but are spread into multiple countries making it even harder for a single country to recover via exports. Of course on the plus side you have extreme growth shortly after.
And yes, the Democrats were helping too.