Archive for the ‘Politics’ Category
Thursday, April 9th, 2009
Roger Simon reports that ACORN and agents of the far left extremist Huffington Post are “planning to infiltrate the Tea Parties” organized by American citizens who disagree with the out of control and reckless spending by the President and congressional democrats.
This is another example of the lefts war on the First Amendment when the basic human right of free speech being exercised doesn’t agree with their extremist views.
Tags: ACORN, Civil Rights, Politics, taxes, Tea Party
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Wednesday, April 8th, 2009
Two sources of images for Tax Day Tea Party signs, MarshBaby & Simon Jester.
For those of you who are not SciFi fans, Simon Jester is reference to Robert Heinlein’s classic The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, which was the Monday Book pick on January 26, 2009.
2018 update: Both the sites referenced are no longer valid.
Tags: Politics, Robert Heinlein, Science Fiction, SciFi, Simon Jester, Tax Day, Tax Protest, Tea Party
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Wednesday, April 8th, 2009
The city of Detroit, Michigan has more registered voters than residents over the age of 18.
Detroit election officials confirmed Monday what an analysis of census and population records shows: The city has more registered voters than it has residents over the voting age of 18.
He estimates that Detroit’s population is about 853,000, which includes 603,000 people over 18 — 30,000 fewer than the city reported as its total of registered voters.
“Even if you had 100% voter registration, which we know we don’t have, you could not have numbers that high,” he said. “Nationally, 67.6% of Americans are registered to vote. For African Americans, it’s 60.9%.”
No surprise, but the voting record in Detroit trends about 95% democrat. This is smelling like ACORN corruption.
Tags: ACORN, corruption, democrat, Detroit, vote fraud
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Tuesday, April 7th, 2009
The word from GM (i.e. Government Motors) is that all the car models need to “pay the rent.” It can’t sell at a profit, it’s gone. Hell, even some of the models that sell at a profit are going.
The interesting exception, the Chevy Volt. Officials at GM admit that the Volt probably won’t be putting red ink on the books for the first couple of model years.
I’ve written about the Volt before. It has some interesting technology, but given Chevy’s financial situation, should it be making exceptions to the “pay the rent” rule?
Tags: alternate fuel car, automobile, car, plug in hybrid, Politics
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Monday, April 6th, 2009
Our Dear Leader did bring us “Hope & Change.” I’m hoping for a return to sanity in the 2010 elections and in two months, Americans are now more divided politically than ever.
That’s change we can believe in!
Tags: Barack Obama, democrat, incompetent, Politics, Worst President Ever
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Sunday, April 5th, 2009
Corrupt democrat Congressman John Murtha is continuing his pattern of pork barrel spending.
Four of the earmark requests from Murtha’s office are for current or former clients of a lobbying firm, the PMA Group, that is currently under federal investigation for connection to possible “straw” donations to Murtha and other Democratic members of the House.
Murtha also has not yet apologized to the cleared US Marines he insulted.
Tags: corruption, culture of corruption, democrat, Politics
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Saturday, April 4th, 2009
As Stuart Varney points out in this Wall Street Journal article, control of the banks is clearly the goal of our Dear Leader‘s administration.
The government wants to control the banks, just as it now controls GM and Chrysler, and will surely control the health industry in the not-too-distant future. Keeping them TARP-stuffed is the key to control. And for this intensely political president, mere influence is not enough. The White House wants to tell ’em what to do. Control. Direct. Command.
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If the banks are forced to keep TARP cash — which was often forced on them in the first place — the Obama team can work its will on the financial system to unprecedented degree. That’s what’s happening right now.
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Fast forward to today, and that same bank is begging to give the money back. The chairman offers to write a check, now, with interest. He’s been sitting on the cash for months and has felt the dead hand of government threatening to run his business and dictate pay scales. He sees the writing on the wall and he wants out. But the Obama team says no, since unlike the smaller banks that gave their TARP money back, this bank is far more prominent. The bank has also been threatened with “adverse” consequences if its chairman persists. That’s politics talking, not economics.
The clear goal here is not economic recovery, it is to use the power of the federal executive branch to bully private business to rewarding the President’s friends and punish his political enemies.
Welcome to the Third World folks.
Tags: Barack Obama, culture of corruption, democrat, Politics
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Friday, April 3rd, 2009
Remember that often repeated statistic that Mexican Drug Cartels were getting 90% of their firearms from legal sources of firearms in the US. That included that stuff you can’t buy legally, like grenade launchers and other military grade support weapons.
Hardly surprising, that “fact” repeated by the MSM was a lie. A lie told by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, CBS “News” own Bob Schieffer, and that well known opponent of Civil Rights, California democrat Senator Dianne Feinstein.
…68 percent of the guns that were recovered were never submitted for tracing. And when you weed out the roughly 6,000 guns that could not be traced from the remaining 32 percent, it means 83 percent of the guns found at crime scenes in Mexico could not be traced to the U.S.
The actual truth run contrary to the left’s agenda, so they ignore it. This is not new behavior.
Tags: MSM, Politics, RKBA
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Thursday, April 2nd, 2009
According to the Washington Post, the DNC has no problems with fabricating signatures to make good on their promises.
“Supporters of President Obama’s Budget to Hand Deliver 642,000 Pledges Gathered from Around the Country to Capitol Hill,” announced the Democrats’ news release.
CNN and the Huffington Post dutifully reported the DNC’s claim of 642,000 pledges. Network cameras and the BBC showed up to film the operation. “We had one of the big printers downstairs smoking last night,” party spokesman Brad Woodhouse said.
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The DNC got to 642,000 by making three photocopies of each pledge so that each signer’s senators and representative could get one.”
In reality, the DNC only had 214,000 pledges. So, in order to meet their announced goal, they lied. They fabricated two thirds of the signatures they claimed.
This is the same democrat party that wants to take the federal Census out of the hands of the non-partisan Commerce Department and let Obama Hatchetman Raum Emmanuel run it.
This is not giving me a warm fuzzy feeling.
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Thursday, April 2nd, 2009
If you listen to one pod/netcast this week, make it episode 43 of Brassballs Radio.
Wendy “RightGirl” Sullivan interviews Ezra Levant about his 900 day ordeal with the Canadian so-called “Human Rights” Commission, which is actually a rigged “kangaroo court.”
Here is the first in a series of videos of one of Levant’s interrogations by the “Human Rights” commission.
Mr. Levant went on to write a book about his ordeal and how these so-called “courts” in Canada operate. Shakedown: How Our Government is Undermining Democracy in the Name of Human Rights is selling out all over Canada. It’s a wake up call for what can happen in America if the left continues to push its agenda of “political correctness.”
Tags: Canada, Ezra Levant, Free Speech, Human Rights, Politics
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