The Political Spectrum Explained
Three examples of the left’s base
Let’s take a look at three separate incidents that point out just how out of touch with the average American the liberal left, which is the core of the democrat party, is.
First we have Congressman Charles Rangel (democrat – NY), who is “already beset by a series of ethics investigations,” failed to report at $1 Million of additional assets. No wonder Rep. Rangel is always calling for tax hikes, as a noted tax cheat, he probably doesn’t expect to pay them.
Next we have a major fund raiser/donor for both Hillary Rodham Clinton and our Dear Leader has been arrested for fraud. Yup, shades of Norman Hsu, but this time there was a lot more money involved.
Hassan Nemazee, chairman of Nemazee Capital Corp. and a fundraiser for President Obama and Hillary Clinton, was arrested on charges that he tricked Citigroup Inc. into lending him as much as $74 million using phony documents.
Nemazee got the loan by telling Citibank that he held accounts with hundreds of millions of dollars which could serve as collateral, U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said today in a statement. He used fake addresses and phone numbers to mislead the bank, prosecutors said.
The accounts “either never existed or had been closed years before Nemazee submitted the documents referencing those accounts,” Bharara said in the statement.
To wrap up, the Jawa Report lists two left wing extremist bombers.
First, by way of Gateway Pundit, we have this bit of news you won’t see on MSNBC.
A federal search warrant obtained by the Post-Dispatch connects a former Democratic campaign strategist to a Clayton bombing last year that seriously injured an attorney
and then we have these folks who plotted to bomb the Republican National Convention.
A Texas woman faces trial this month in Austin on charges she threatened to kill a government informant who infiltrated an Austin-based group that planned to bomb the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn., last fall…
…Crowder and McKay were part of a group of activists that had gone to the Twin Cities to take part in street demonstrations. The FBI had infiltrated the group with Darby. Crowder and McKay built eight of the gasoline firebombs but didn’t use them, a fact law enforcement officials credited to Darby.
Yup, tax cheats, frauds, swindlers and violent criminals. The core of the democrat party base.
Update: Shining example of a leftist number 4. Maurice Schwenkler was arrested for smashing 11 windows at the Colorado democrat headquarters. Let us example Schwenkler’s political background. According to the Denver Post, a Maurice Schwenkler “received $500 from a political 527 committee called Colorado Citizens Coalition for “communications,” according to campaign finance disclosures.
The accountant for the 527 appears to be the same woman who handles the books for many other Democratic-leaning political committees.
A Maurice Schwenkler also signed an online 2005 petition to free anti-war Christian protesters who were captured in Iraq.”
I’m betting that Schwenkler wasn’t with the Soccer Moms at the Tea Party protests. This is looking like yet another case of leftist violence/vandalism committed so they can blame their political opponents.
The Left’s Deceptive Narrative
Bill Whittle of PJTV shows the history of the modern left’s conscious decision to avoid the facts and the truth in order to get their message across. It goes back to the early 2oth century, with its roots firmly planted in writings of Karl Marx. Marx, who never had a real job in his life, predicted what the “workers of the world” would do, and not surprisingly, got it completely wrong.
So the Marxists stopped calling themselves Marxists, at least in public, and came up with a way to attack their philosophical enemies. This method, called “Critical Theory”, allows the Marxists to attack their foes on very narrow grounds, while avoiding any historical evidence to the contrary and not providing any solutions of their own.
The Marxists, going under the code name “the Frankfurt School” have been very successful in pushing their false narrative in popular culture. As Mr. Whittle points out, the so-called “journalists” at MSNBC spout it without even knowning it.
Monday Book Pick: Forge of the Elders
Filed under: Baen Books, Monday Book Pick, Science Fiction
Forge of the Elders, by L. Neil Smith
In world where Communism won, a team from the World Soviet, in old American Space Shuttles, go to visit an asteroid called Eris. Predictably, chaos is the result, when they find other Earthly intelligent beings, from more Libertarian realities, have gotten there first.
Ann Coulter on Cavuto: Liberal Economics 101
Obama adds $2 Trillion to the National Deficit
As that Supra-Genius Joey Biden said, “We have to spend in order to avoid bankruptcy.”
Well, his boss, our Dear Leader has put his ideological goals ahead of the well being of the nation and implemented his personal spending habits (which put him $300,000 in debt with an annual house hold income of over a half million dollars) as the President of the United States of America.
So, right before slipping out of D.C. to head to Martha’s Vineyard on vacation, the White House quietly announced that it is raising its projection for the national deficit to $9 trillion from $7.108 trillion. The CBO has been saying $9 Trillion for a while, and most of DNC membership has been in denial. Well folks, facts are stubborn things, and reality even catches up with our Dear Leader every now and then.
Friday B-Movie Pick: Commando
Yup, another fine Arnold Schwarzenegger classic from 1985. Plenty of raw violence with just a dash of casual female nudity thrown in for flavor. A cult classic of the B-Movie genre. You probably won’t be studying this one in “film school”, unless the class is taught by Joe-Bob Briggs.
Today’s Nifty Gadget
As my gentle readers may have noticed, I am a big fan of gadgets, from simple to bright & shiny electronics. This gadget falls under the simple, yet useful and cool category.
It’s a six in one multitool shaped like a key, and this fits very nicely on your key ring.
The small blade is very handy, and the design keeps it safe when it is on your keyring. This is one of my favorite multitools. It’s handy, I typically have it with me (the massive Swiss Army Multitool my brother gave me years ago did a lot of stuff, but it was too damn big to carry around. A tool you don’t have is of no use), and the tools on it (screwdrivers, small knife) are useful in everyday life.
Originly posted at Urbin Technology.
The Green Enron
One thing that has been pretty clear for a while is that so-called “carbon offset credits” are mostly a scam run on the gullible. Even the NY Times has admitted it.
Also keep in mind that these so-called “carbon offset credits” are at the heart of the “Cap and Tax” scheme our Dear Leader and the congressional democrats are trying to shove down the throats of the American People.
Here is another block of evidence to support the “it’s a scam” school of rational thought.
The UK Telegraph reports the following:
Officers from HM Revenue & Customs searched both residential properties and offices in both Gravesend and London targeting an alleged network of organised crime.
Members are believed to have been trading large volumes of high-value carbon credits from overseas sources free of VAT.
Tax investigators believe these may then have been sold on to businesses in the UK charging VAT that is never paid to the authorities.
So far, the cash total in this “green” criminal enterprise $62.8 Million.
The nice man at Watts Up With That has noted that someone has already done a Masters Thesis on just how ripe the so-called “carbon offset credits” for fraud.
Let us look at the most famous peddler of these Modern Plenary Indulgences here in the United States of America, Al Gore. Selling Carbon Offset Credits has been very, very good to Al Gore. He owns a mansion and yacht. Not just any mansion, mind you, but one that uses more electricity in a month than the average American home uses in a year! Like other eco-hypocrits pushing the Carbon Offset Credit Scam, Al Gore also isn’t giving up his use of private jets, which produce about four and half tons of carbon per hour of flight time.
Reynolds & Ringo meet at last
Glenn Reynolds, of Instapundit fame, interviews NY Times best selling author John Ringo.
John Ringo is known for writing Military SciFi mostly, but he has also written fantasy and won an award as romance author.
The main topic is John Ringo’s book, The Last Centurion which was my Monday Book Pick for October 24, 2008.