Showing posts with label Obama failure. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Obama failure. Show all posts
Sunday, August 29, 2010
Monday, May 24, 2010
WASHINGTON, DC, APRIL 15, 2010, ANTI-OBAMA RALLY: fantastic pictures; TWO MILLION PEOPLE ATTENDED! Powerful testimony to the silent revolt brewing in the U.S. And if you needed any more proof of WHO THE MEDIA WORKS FOR: CAN YOU IMAGINE THEY DIDN'T REPORT ON THIS EVENT??!!!
Received from C. Thank you, great pictures.
But first, here is a great message from JON VOIGHT:
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Just in case you missed it on the national news....It wasn't on the national news!!!!!
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The two photos above show a tiny fraction of the two million ABC estimates attended. I saw signs and heard lots of comments comparing this event to Woodstock . At the time this photo was taken, around 1:00 p.m., Pennsylvania Avenue was still jammed completely, and the mall was packed from the Capitol Building past the Washington Monument . See aerial photos here.
Protesters came from every state in the union. This man came from San Antonio , TX . He said that he was really sorry he hadn?t brought his family. He stated that being a black conservative he was afraid to expose his children to what he expected would be a lot of liberal abuse. He was thrilled with the tenor of the event and the fact that no liberals were present to harass him. He spoke about how incredibly intolerant the left is to black individuals who don't bow to the party line.
These Ohioans took a day off their rodeo bullriding schedule. They said they'll be back at it tomorrow..Mike Pence (R-Indiana) was one of the speakers who addressed the crowd: After years of fighting runaway government on this hill, you people look like the cavalry to me..
I believe we are on the verge of a great American awakening.
San Diego radio host Mason Weaver said from the podium: I came here because I thought you might want to hear a black man speak without a teleprompter. This government is trying to make a nation of dependent people. Americans have always been independent people. This is not a Republican thing, it's not a Democrat thing. It's not a black thing or a white thing. It's an American thing. We the people are telling them. No more! We've had enough!
In the very center of the photo, above the Silence is Consent ? Can You Hear Us Now sign, you can see Pennsylvania Ave. , which at this time is totally blocked with protesters who cannot move forward to the Capitol area. Sorry, full up.
There were notable differences though, in the behavior of these attendees. Although the legend of Woodstock is that there was a friendly atmosphere of?camaraderie, the truth is that most people were there for the drugs, sex and rock and roll. Today in D.C. There was a true kinship amongst these people based on shared values and intellectual understanding of what America is and how its future is imperiled by big radical government.No one was having sex in the Reflecting Pool let alone the mud, and I saw no one projectile vomiting on the steps of the Capitol. There were no warnings to avoid the bad acid which would send you on a trip to the hospital. Not just a different era, but a different level of civilized behavior and thought. Oh, and by the way, these people didn?t leave tons of garbage behind when they left. Actually they left no trash behind at all.
Obama Lied, Capitalism Died.
We are the mob!
Support Class Envy! Redistribute Wealth.
Madam Speaker: Kiss Our Astroturf!
The Only Thing We Have to Fear is Obama Himself ? ? ? - ? ? ?Compassion is Voluntary, Not Compulsory!
WALNUT ? Workers Against Lazy Non-Producers United Together ? the conservative answer to ACORN. Didn?t have to ask them if they were receiving any taxpayer money like radical left-wing ACORN. Different DNA!
Proud members of the Angry Mob and they're armed with their votes.
Your wallet the only place Democrats are willing to drill! Don?t share my wealth, share my work ethic!
Right-wing extremist armed with the constitution.
Who are the commie czars?
Marxism ? the opiate of the asses Posters from the Peoples Cube are proliferating amongst protesters..
World?s #1 Crypto-Marxist. Endorsed by Fidel Castro: The most powerful progressive candidate to the U..S. presidency. GRANMA, Havana , May 26, 2008
Nancy Pelosi has accused patriotic tea-partyers of carrying swastikas implying that they are Nazi sympathizers. This event was wall to wall hammers and sickles and words like, socialist, communist? and Marxist, etc. It continues to fascinate me how long the Democrats will tolerate this without ever commenting on it. Either they like it, or there's something to it.
Ever present at Tea Parties are Sons of Liberty reenactors. The couple on the left is from Tennessee and the young lady on the right is not but she joined in the photo. The clothing for the couple was hand stitched by the lady on the left. And boy do they love America .GOD BLESS AMERICA !
Sunday, February 7, 2010
"Snowpocalypse", "Snowmageddon": officials are covering up the true extent of the blizzard. Even Obama realizes this is no regular snowstorm. Is he getting the message? Washington is not what it used to be: corruption, abuse of power, two kinds of "evil winds" blowing through the capital!
'Snowmageddon' paralyzes US east coast, two dead
by Jo Biddle Jo Biddle 1 hr 48 mins ago
WASHINGTON (AFP) – A record-breaking blizzard dumped thick snow across the US east coast Saturday, paralyzing the region and snapping power to hundreds of thousands of people, as two people were killed on the roads.The monster storm, dubbed "Snowpocalypse" and "Snowmageddon," stretched hundreds of miles from eastern Indiana across into Pennsylvania and then down through Maryland as far south as North Carolina.
With winds gusting at almost 60 miles (90 kilometers) an hour, meteorologists said they had recorded snowfall as high as 38 inches (96 centimeters) in parts of northern Maryland -- a historic high for the state.
The heavy, sticky snow toppled trees and sagged power lines, leaving more than 350,000 people without electricity in Maryland and neighboring Virginia, officials said.
"Snowmageddon here in DC," President Barack Obama told Democrats in a speech, only a year after chiding the capital city for its cautious response to small snowfalls.
Forecasters warned residents to hunker down, with no let-up in the weather for most of the day, and said chilly temperatures on Sunday would mean the wet snow would swiftly turn icy. Related article: Monster US storm boon for forecasters: expert
"It's hanging on, and hanging on," Paul Kochin, an expert in northeast weather systems with the National Weather Service, told AFP.
"Officially this won't break records in DC, but unofficially, you bet it will. It's very rare to have two such big storms in one season," he said, after the capital region was already crippled by a smaller storm in December.
Maryland, followed by neighboring Virginia, were bearing the brunt of the storm and seeing the highest snowfalls, he said.
http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&q=mAP+OF+mARYLAND,+wASHINGTON,+dC&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Washington,+District+of+Columbia&gl=us&ei=eTNuS5H0JpS0tgfLpviPBg&ved=0CAsQ8gEwAA&ll=39.027719,-77.080078&spn=33.332462,67.763672&z=4&pw=2
"It's pretty rough out there," agreed Ed McDonough from the Maryland Emergency Management Agency.
"The roads are very difficult to travel... and we are seeing a spike in power outages. We are telling local residents to stay home, enjoy the time with their families and let the highway crews do their work."
Emergency crews struggled to repair the power outages hampered by the miserable weather.
"We have a lot of scattered outages and the road conditions are not really working with us," admitted Pepco spokesman Andre Francis, pleading for patience as some customers were told the blackouts could last days.
Some 200 National Guardsmen had been deployed across Maryland, while in Virginia police confirmed that a father and son were killed Friday when they stopped to help a stranded car.
Police in the state had responded to some 3,167 calls for help, more than two-thirds of which were due to car accidents or stranded vehicles.
Three state troopers were also injured in storm-related accidents. Virginia was also opening up public shelters in local schools for those without power.
In the normally bustling capital, sight-seers were walking thigh-deep in the snow along the famous national mall. Related article: Washington DC, the world's newest ski resort
Alix Lawe, who works with the US Air Force, was out for a run in the snow, and told AFP: "It's so fun. I'm from Florida, I've never seen so much snow."
Snow plows were out trying to keep emergency routes and main highways clear, but most officials said it would take days to reach the smaller streets, and warned of a difficult Monday morning commute.
The National Weather Service (NWS) has put the Washington-Baltimore metropolitan area under a rare 24-hour blizzard warning until 10:00 pm Saturday (0300 GMT Sunday).
All flights out of the capital's Reagan National airport were cancelled, along with most flights out of Dulles International Airport in Virginia, while there was a limited service at Baltimore.
A hangar roof collapsed at the Dulles Jet Center early Saturday according to Rob Yengling, Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority spokesman. Five people spending the night inside to shelter from the storm escaped without injuries.
The capital's subway system has shut down 40 above ground stations, meaning transport links between Washington and its heavily-populated suburbs were snapped with most major roads impassable, knocking out bus services.
But some people were determined to enjoy the winter's second biggest storm in the area, with 5,000 turning out for a mass snowball fight in central Washington.
latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-na-dc-snow7-2010feb07,0,4159875.story
Washington shuts down, buried in record snowfall
Flights are grounded and power outages are widespread as the capital slumbers under more than 32 inches of snow.
By Peter Nicholas7:12 PM PST, February 6, 2010
Reporting from Alexandria, Va.
A prolonged blizzard covered Washington, D.C., and the mid-Atlantic states in a smothering canvas of snow Saturday, grounding planes and triggering widespread power outages as people across the region turned to skis and sleds to traverse icy roads.
The storm proved a major disruption, with above-ground subways and buses in the Washington area shutting down and stores closing en masse in the face of a storm destined to go down as one of the major snowfalls in the area's history.
As of late afternoon, a total of 32.4 inches was recorded at Dulles International Airport outside of Washington, according to the National Weather Service. That two-day accumulation topped the previous record, compiled during the blizzard of January 1996, the weather service said.
Hundreds of thousands of homes in Maryland, Virginia and elsewhere lost power. Trees toppled under the snow's weight, blocking roads. Snowplows worked overtime to keep the streets cleared. Flights were canceled at Washington's major airports.
Not even the presidential motorcade was able to navigate the city's streets unscathed. An ambulance hit an SUV in the motorcade before President Obama's entourage left the White House on Saturday morning to address the Democratic National Committee at a hotel several blocks away. No one was hurt.
At the event, Obama asked after the whereabouts of Rep. Michael M. Honda (D-San Jose). "He's on his way," Obama said. "He's still shoveling."
While the president normally portrays himself as a hardy Chicagoan accustomed to bad weather, even he seemed impressed by the storm's ferocity. He called the blizzard "Snowmaggedon."
The storm created some otherworldly moments in the Washington area, with people moving up and down side streets on cross-country skis and solitary pedestrians trudging along the middle of major roads, clutching groceries purchased in the few convenience stores that remained open.
An Alexandria, Va., woman had wrapped her small dog in a sweater and taken him -- reluctantly -- for a walk. After disappearing in a foot of snow, the dog "gave me a look like, 'Are you crazy?' " she said.
Rather than stay inside and clean her house, Laurie Thompson, 55, of Alexandria chose to put on her hiking boots and go out for a walk, camera in hand. She described the storm as at once "horrible" and "beautiful."
A few blocks away, a tree weighted down with snow had snapped at the base and fallen across a side street, creating an impassable barrier.
The blizzard followed a storm Dec. 19 that dropped more than 16 inches on the area. Washington has gotten more than a foot of snow only 13 times since 1870, according to the weather service.
Assessing the damage Saturday, some residents seemed stunned.
In Silver Spring, Md., the sheer volume of wet, heavy snow ripped a metal awning attached to Dan Steinberg's colonial-style home. "This is crazy," he said.
In the nation's capital, impassable sidewalks along 16th Street Northwest, a vital north-south artery, forced pedestrians into the middle of the street. Snowplows struggled. Snowboarders and skiers traveled down a hill in the Adams Morgan neighborhood.
Some of the brave few who did venture outdoors in the nation's capital were met with disappointment at one local Starbucks: A sign said the shop would remain closed until further notice.
peter.nicholas@ latimes.com
Mark Silva in Chicago and Andrew Zajac and James Oliphant in the Washington bureau contributed to this report.
Copyright © 2010, The Los Angeles TimesThe storm proved a major disruption, with above-ground subways and buses in the Washington area shutting down and stores closing en masse in the face of a storm destined to go down as one of the major snowfalls in the area's history.
As of late afternoon, a total of 32.4 inches was recorded at Dulles International Airport outside of Washington, according to the National Weather Service. That two-day accumulation topped the previous record, compiled during the blizzard of January 1996, the weather service said.
Hundreds of thousands of homes in Maryland, Virginia and elsewhere lost power. Trees toppled under the snow's weight, blocking roads. Snowplows worked overtime to keep the streets cleared. Flights were canceled at Washington's major airports.
Not even the presidential motorcade was able to navigate the city's streets unscathed. An ambulance hit an SUV in the motorcade before President Obama's entourage left the White House on Saturday morning to address the Democratic National Committee at a hotel several blocks away. No one was hurt.
At the event, Obama asked after the whereabouts of Rep. Michael M. Honda (D-San Jose). "He's on his way," Obama said. "He's still shoveling."
While the president normally portrays himself as a hardy Chicagoan accustomed to bad weather, even he seemed impressed by the storm's ferocity. He called the blizzard "Snowmaggedon."
The storm created some otherworldly moments in the Washington area, with people moving up and down side streets on cross-country skis and solitary pedestrians trudging along the middle of major roads, clutching groceries purchased in the few convenience stores that remained open.
An Alexandria, Va., woman had wrapped her small dog in a sweater and taken him -- reluctantly -- for a walk. After disappearing in a foot of snow, the dog "gave me a look like, 'Are you crazy?' " she said.
Rather than stay inside and clean her house, Laurie Thompson, 55, of Alexandria chose to put on her hiking boots and go out for a walk, camera in hand. She described the storm as at once "horrible" and "beautiful."
A few blocks away, a tree weighted down with snow had snapped at the base and fallen across a side street, creating an impassable barrier.
The blizzard followed a storm Dec. 19 that dropped more than 16 inches on the area. Washington has gotten more than a foot of snow only 13 times since 1870, according to the weather service.
Assessing the damage Saturday, some residents seemed stunned.
In Silver Spring, Md., the sheer volume of wet, heavy snow ripped a metal awning attached to Dan Steinberg's colonial-style home. "This is crazy," he said.
In the nation's capital, impassable sidewalks along 16th Street Northwest, a vital north-south artery, forced pedestrians into the middle of the street. Snowplows struggled. Snowboarders and skiers traveled down a hill in the Adams Morgan neighborhood.
Some of the brave few who did venture outdoors in the nation's capital were met with disappointment at one local Starbucks: A sign said the shop would remain closed until further notice.
peter.nicholas@ latimes.com
Mark Silva in Chicago and Andrew Zajac and James Oliphant in the Washington bureau contributed to this report.
Comments:
I feel like the Hebrews in Goshen during the Ten Plagues: as a matter of fact, there IS a Goshen here, - Exit 124 on 17W- : and Goshen WAS spared ( I am in this area right now).Will DEADLY SNOW AND FREEZING WIND turn out to be another one of the Ten Plagues? Hundreds of thousands of people without power in this weather is no joking matter. How ironic, in the midst of "GLOBAL WARMING" that the pope ( and Obama) so enthusiastically endorsed. And Obama WOULD deserve a plague all his own, considering he is the front man for Rome.
http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100207/NEWS/2070341
The Hudson and Delaware valleys were spared the "Snowmageddon" that buried Washington and a swath of the East Coast Saturday and possibly broke decades-old records.
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Saturday's mega-storm, which meteorologist say will break snowfall records, stretched from eastern Indiana into Pennsylvania and down through Maryland as far south as North Carolina.
Winds gusted at almost 60 miles an hour, and many places were buried in more than a foot of snow by early Saturday morning.
Two feet of snow had already fallen in some areas by mid-afternoon, and it continued to pile up across northern Virginia, Maryland, Delaware and southern New York and New Jersey, according to AccuWeather.
Fruit of the Spirit Baptist Church in Washington collapsed during the snowstorm.
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In Maryland, 150,000 people were reported without power, and the governors of Virginia, Maryland and Delaware declared a state of emergency and put the National Guard on alert.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8502700.stm
Comments:
Joel says:
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In Maryland, 150,000 people were reported without power, and the governors of Virginia, Maryland and Delaware declared a state of emergency and put the National Guard on alert.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8502700.stm
Hundreds of thousands of people remain without power in Washington DC and nearby states after a blizzard blanketed the area with record snows.
Electricity was cut to at least 300,000 homes as the snow felled trees, and cut power lines. Emergency workers are struggling to restore power.Comments:
Joel says:
Shalom Daisy,
The Americans (and the whole world) tend to think that we are the masters of our lives and have only an occasional inconvenience of a tornado, blizzard, hurricane, earthquake, etc. to cause us to miss a stride, but then we catch our breath, bring a remedy to the situation, and we just pick rightup where we left off. Not one thought is given to the fact that the LORD speaks to us through these "natural" "disasters".
John McTernan, an Irish-Catholic cop, who left the harlot and became a Bible-believing Christion, documents numerous instances over the past decade or so when various "natural" diasters in the US like tornadoes, hurricanes and floods occurred precisely on the day, or perhaps a day later hit areas of this country when our federal government (e.g., president , state department) made rulings, decisions, etc. that were a curse to Israel. There have been dozens of these events and McTernan correlates them to various actions against Israel with regard to its sovereignty over the land.
Americans are headed for destruction because they have forsaken the God of Israel and are continuing to so to speak "poke their finger" in the "apple of God's eye", which is Israel. My friend, I expect under this wicked administration to see the LORD really begin to devastate the US...in 2010 and even much more so in 2011.
See also:
http://israeltruthtimes.blogspot.com/2010/02/two-villains-one-getting-double-whammy.html
for an update.
See also:
http://israeltruthtimes.blogspot.com/2010/02/two-villains-one-getting-double-whammy.html
for an update.
Monday, February 1, 2010
... And another great article, this time by Mark Steyn.... together with an ad for a book by the same author. I didn't read it, but judging from the piece below, I bet it's good.
Obama Needs More Substance In Speeches
By MARK STEYN, For The Bulletin
So what went wrong? According to Barack Obama, the problem is he overestimated you dumb rubes’ ability to appreciate what he’s been doing for you.“That I do think is a mistake of mine,” the president told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos. “I think the assumption was if I just focus on policy, if I just focus on this provision or that law or if we’re making a good rational decision here, then people will get it.”
But you schlubs aren’t that smart. You didn’t get it. And Barack Obama is determined to see that you do. So the President has decided that he needs to start “speaking directly to the American people.”
Wait, wait! Come back! Don’t all stampede for the hills! He only gave (according to CBS News’ Mark Knoller) 158 interviews and 411 speeches in his first year. That’s more than any previous president — and maybe more than all of them put together. But there may still be some show out there that didn’t get its exclusive Obama interview — I believe the top-rated “Grain & Livestock Prices Report — 4am Update with Herb Torpormeister” on WZZZ-AM Dead Buzzard Gulch Junction’s Newstalk Leader is still waiting to hear back from the White House.
But what will the President be saying in all these extra interviews? In that interview about how he hadn’t given enough interviews, he also explained to Mr. Stephanopoulos what that wacky Massachusetts election was all about: “The same thing that swept Scott Brown into office swept me into office,” said Mr. Obama. “People are angry and they’re frustrated, not just because of what’s happened in the last year or two years but what’s happened over the last eight years.”
Got it. People are so angry and frustrated at George W. Bush that they’re voting for Republicans. In Massachusetts. Boy, I can’t wait for that 159th interview.
Presumably, the president isn’t stupid enough actually to believe what he said. But it’s dispiriting to discover he’s stupid enough to think we’re stupid enough to believe it. So who’s panting for that 412th speech? Not the American left. As Paul Krugman, The New York Times’ “Conscience of a Liberal”, put it: “He Wasn’t The One We’ve Been Waiting For.”
Not the once delirious Europeans, either. As the headline in Der Spiegel put it: “The World Bids Farewell To Obama.”
And not any beleaguered Democrat candidates trying to turn things around in volatile swing states like, er, Massachusetts. The Barack Obama who showed up last Sunday to help out Martha Coakley was a sad and diminished figure from the colossus of a year ago. He had nothing to say, but he said it anyway. As he did with his Copenhagen pitch for the Olympics, he put his personal prestige on the line, raised the stakes, and then failed to deliver. All those cool kids on his speechwriting team bogged him down in the usual leaden sludge. He went to the trouble of flying in to phone it in.
The most striking aspect of his performance was how unhappy he looked, as if he doesn’t enjoy the job. You can understand why. He ran as something he’s not, and never has been: A post-partisan centrist transformative healer. That’d be a difficult trick to pull off even for somebody with any prior executive experience, someone who’d actually run something, like a state, or even a town, or even a commercial fishing operation, like that poor chillbilly boob Sarah Palin.
At one point late in the 2008 campaign, when someone suggested that if Governor Palin was “unqualified” then surely he was too, Obama pointed as evidence to the contrary his ability to run such an effective campaign. In other words, running for president was his main qualification for being president.
That was the story of his life: Wow! Look at this guy! Wouldn’t it be great to have him …as community organizer, as state representative, as state senator, as United States Senator. He was wafted ever upwards, staying just long enough in each “job” to get another notch on the escutcheon, but never long enough to leave any trace.
The defining moment of his doomed attempt to prop up Ms. Coakley was his peculiar obsession with Mr. Brown’s five-year-old pickup: “Forget the ads. Everybody can run slick ads,” the President told an audience of out-of-state students at a private school. “Forget the truck. Everybody can buy a truck.”
How they laughed! But what was striking was the thinking behind Mr. Obama’s line: that anyone can buy a truck for a slick ad, that Mr. Brown’s pickup was a prop — like the herd of cows Al Gore rented for a pastoral backdrop when he launched his first presidential campaign. Or the “Iron Chef” TV episode featuring delicious healthy recipes made with produce direct from Michelle Obama’s “kitchen garden”: The cameras filmed the various chefs meeting the First Lady and then picking choice organic delicacies from the White House crop, and then for the actual cooking the show sent out for stunt-double vegetables from a grocery back in New York.
Viewed from Obama’s perspective, why wouldn’t you assume the truck’s just part of the set? “In his world,” wrote The Weekly Standard’s Stephen Hayes, “everything is political and everything is about appearances.”
Howard Fineman, the increasingly loopy editor of the increasingly doomed Newsweek, took it a step further. The truck wasn’t just any old prop but a very particular kind: “In some places, there are codes, there are images,” he told MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann. “You know, there are pickup trucks, you could say there was a racial aspect to it one way or another.”
Ah, yes. Mr. Brown has over 200,000 miles on his odometer. Man, he’s racked up a lot of coded racism on that rig. But that’s easy to do in notorious cross-burning KKK swamps like suburban Massachusetts.
Whenever aspiring writers ask me for advice, I usually tell ‘em this: Don’t just write there, [do something. Learn how to shingle a roof, or tap-dance, or raise sled dogs. Because if you don’t do anything, you wind up like Mr. Obama and Mr. Fineman — men for whom words are props and codes and metaphors but no longer expressive of anything real.
America is becoming a bilingual society, divided between those who think a pickup is a rugged vehicle useful for transporting heavy-duty items from A to B , and those who think a pickup is coded racism.
Unfortunately, the latter group forms most of the Democrat-media one-party state currently running the country. Can you imagine Bill Clinton being so stupid as to put down pickup trucks while standing next to John Kerry? And what’s even more extraordinary is that those lines were written for Mr. Obama by paid professionals.
But fine, have it your way. Tuesday’s vote was really a plea by a desperate people for even more of Mr. Obama. We’re going to need even more Obama teleprompters, even more Obama speeches, even more sonorous banalities unrelated to action, even more “Let me be clears…” prefacing even more tinny generalities, on even more reams of even more double-spaced paper. And we’re gonna need a really heavy duty rig to carry all that verbiage. Maybe Mr. Brown can sell ‘em his truck.
Book thanks to Hans, and article thanks to Milton.
Friday, January 1, 2010
Monday, December 28, 2009
Corruption in the U.S: big, big!
By MICHELLE MALKIN
12/23/2009
Sleazy bribes and pork payoffs didn't start with our government's health care takeover bill.
Go back to January and February.
According to a new study from George Mason University, Democratic districts have raked in nearly twice as much porkulus money as GOP districts — without regard to the actual economic suffering and job loss in those districts. In fact, the researchers found that far more stimulus money went to higher-income areas than to lower-income areas.
That includes Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's backyard — where a $54 million no-bid contract was awarded to a firm with little experience to relocate a luxury Bay Area wine train due to flood concerns.
And it includes Barack Obama's home state of Illinois, which reaped the single biggest earmark — $1 billion for the FutureGen near-zero emissions "clean coal" plant earmark championed by disgraced Democrat and former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich and Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin.
And it includes Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's backyard — where he secured billions in high-speed rail stimulus earmarks from which he plans to fund a pie-in-the-sky public transportation line from Los Angeles to Las Vegas.
When taxpayers objected to business as usual masquerading as economic recovery, New York Democratic Sen. Charles Schumer sneered: "You lost." He jibed on the Senate floor while wagging a grubby finger, "And let me say this to all of the chattering class that so much focuses on those little, tiny, yes, porky amendments: The American people really don't care."
The "American people" Schumer was referring to, of course, were the privileged minority of stimulus beneficiaries — not the rest of us "chattering" dissenters stuck with the bill for those billions in "little, tiny, yes, porky amendments."
No legislation has been immune to congressional shakedown.
After the Congressional Black Caucus balked loudly enough, Democratic Rep. Barney Frank — chairman of the House Financial Services Committee — larded up the majority's Wall Street regulatory "reform" bill with $4 billion in payoffs to minority special interests — including former failed Air America radio partner Inner City Broadcasting Corp.
The cash-strapped firm is run by Percy Sutton, a New York City crony of Charlie Rangel's and Al Sharpton's. The money will come out of the ever-morphing TARP bank bailout fund — which went from a toxic assets purchase plan to a capital injection plan, back to a toxic assets purchase plan, then to a life insurance company bailout and on to an auto-supplier bailout.
Leading the charge for the Cash for Cronies of Color drive: California Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters, who had already extracted $12 million in TARP funds for OneUnited, a minority-owned bank that is one of her key campaign donors and a company in which both Waters and her husband own massive amounts of stock.
Which brings us to the wealth redistribution scheme disguised as health reform.
In addition to the infamous $300 million "Louisiana Purchase" for Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu and the (at least) $45 million "Cornhusker Kickback" for sellout Democratic Sen. Ben Nelson of Nebraska, Reid threw around other, less-publicized gobs of cash for cloture votes to cut off debate and ram the bill through.
He tossed in a Hospital Helper of $100 million to Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., whose re-election bid is in hot water. There are bennies for insurance companies and hospitals in Michigan, and "frontier freebies" for hospitals in Montana, South Dakota, North Dakota and Wyoming.
Combined with Nebraska's tab, the exclusive clique's payoffs will cost taxpayers at least $1.2 billion over 10 years.
There's also an Acorn/community organizer-friendly provision for minority health bureaucracies that was sought by Sen. Roland Burris, D-Ill. And there's a $10 billion socialized medicine sop to Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders for "community health clinics" serving in essence as universal health care satellite offices.
"We are talking about a revolution," Sanders enthused during the Senate's sneaky Sunday session.
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Thursday, October 29, 2009
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
WHY OBAMA'S LIEUTENANTS LOVE MAO
Why Obama's Lieutenants Love MaoOctober 22, 2009 Jamie Glazov © 2009 WorldNewsDaily
The left's long romance with tyranny and terror is manifesting itself in the Obama administration once again. Having experienced the high of putting $900 million of American taxpayers' money into Hamas' blood-soaked hands, some Obama advisers are now getting a new fix by offering thanks and praise to the late communist mass murderer Mao Zedong. 
Dunn's veneration of Mao is shared by another Obama insider, "manufacturing czar" Ron Bloom, who, it appears, has been quoting the communist mass murderer with great approval. At a 2008 Union League Club meeting in New York, for instance, Bloom explained to his audience that:
"We know that the free market is nonsense. (…) We kind of agree with Mao that political power comes largely from the barrel of a gun."
Understand leftists' dedication to tyranny and tolerance of terror in Jamie Glazov's "United in Hate"
And from the barrel of a gun Mao's political power did come indeed. Let's for a moment reflect on the crimes that Mao perpetrated:
After capturing power on Oct. 1, 1949, in the immediate post-revolutionary period alone, Mao murdered as many as 15 million Chinese citizens. In 1958, Mao launched the Great Leap Forward, an industrial and agricultural program intended to make China the world's largest steel and grain exporter. Involving demented economic schemes and brutal forced collectivization, the Great Leap was an unparalleled human disaster, exterminating approximately 38 million people through government-engineered famine.
Mao's starving victims were reduced to eating grass, dirt, leaves and tree bark in the attempt to survive. They picked through horse manure for undigested grains of wheat, or cow manure for worms. They also resorted to cannibalism, digging up freshly buried corpses. Mad from hunger, parents ate their own children – or swapped children with other parents in an attempt to ease the horror of the act. Children were also killed, boiled and used as fertilizer. Desperate villagers who abandoned their homes and traveled to other towns in search of food were mowed down by machine-gun fire.
This horrifying tragedy – the greatest famine in all human history – was created intentionally by Mao. While millions starved, plenty of food existed in state granaries. The army, however, guarded these granaries under strict order: "Absolutely no opening the granary door even if people are dying of starvation." In their biography, "Mao: The Unknown Story," authors Jung Chang and Jon Halliday conclude that if food had not been exported and instead had been distributed among the Chinese people, "very probably not a single person in China would have had to die of hunger."
In 1966, Mao launched the Cultural Revolution, designed to purge the country of all dissent and bring it completely under the dictator's vicious rule. Millions of schoolchildren became the infamous Red Guards, whose task was to destroy anything connected to traditional culture and philosophy. As Paul Johnson put it, the Cultural Revolution became "a revolution of illiterates and semi-literates against intellectuals, the 'spectacle-wearers' as they were called. ... It was the greatest witch-hunt in history, which made the Zhdanov purges in post-war Russia seem almost trivial."
In the Cultural Revolution, almost every expression of human emotion – and every cultural ritual whose purpose was to honor the sanctity of human life and relationships – became illegal, including weddings, funerals and even the simple act of holding hands. The Red Guards humiliated, beat and murdered teachers, school administrators, bureaucrats, foreign diplomats, technicians, artists, intellectuals and, eventually, anyone and everyone. "Class enemies" experienced every humiliation the Red Guards could think up; the Guards smeared their faces with ink, forced them to get down on all fours and bark like dogs, and made them eat grass. The Red Guards also literally feasted on those they had murdered. In Guangxi, where at least 137 "animals" ("class enemies"), mostly teachers and college principals, were killed, the Red Guards cooked and ate them.
An immense concentration-camp system, the laogai, spread through China like a cancerous growth. It operated under the pretense of "reform" or "re-education" through labor and self-denunciation. The horrors of the laogai almost defy description. Harry Wu, who spent 19 years in the "laogai," has given an account of its vicious dynamics in "Laogai: The Chinese Gulag." Bao Ruo-Wang has done the same regarding his seven years in the laogai in "Prisoner of Mao." Wu and Bao did for China what Armando Valladares did for Cuba in "Against All Hope," and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn did for the Soviet Union in Gulag Archipelago.
Between 1949 and 1980, some 50 million Chinese people passed through this system of terror. Like Stalin's Gulag, Mao's laogai took on a life of its own, continuing its bloody work unabated until Mao's death from Parkinson's disease in 1976. In all, Chinese Communism would extinguish the lives of over 70 million people in the 20th century.
Mao biographers Jung Chang and Jon Halliday also document how this horror represented the natural order of things for Mao. Indeed, while millions of his people were starving to death, the dictator habitually informed his inner circle that it did not matter if people died and that, in fact, death was to be deemed a cause for celebration and rejoicing. This was because, naturally, destruction was necessary in order for the earthly heaven to be built. Mao wished destruction not only for his own country, but for the entire universe. As he explained: "This applies to the country, to the nation, and to mankind. ... The destruction of the universe is the same. ... People like me long for its destruction, because when the old universe is destroyed, a new universe will be formed. Isn't that better!" Mao stated that it would be ideal to sacrifice about 300 million Chinese lives for the world revolution, since "It's best if half the population is left, next best one-third. ..."
Thus, as in Castro's Cuba, mourning for the dead was forbidden. Mourning implied that there was something wrong with death – a notion that a death cult obviously couldn't allow. Moreover, grieving for a dead person singularized the individual and his private reality. Mao therefore outlawed the shedding of tears at funerals and even ordered peasants to plant crops over burial grounds – since he believed that deaths "can fertilize the ground."
With all of these barbarities in mind, it is completely no surprise that Obama insiders such as Anita Dunn and Ron Bloom would pick a genocidal dictator like Mao to be the object of their affection. These leftists are simply continuing the left's long tradition of showering adulation upon Mao – as well as other communist mass murderers.
Indeed, as I have documented in my new book, "United in Hate: The Left's Romance With Tyranny and Terror," leftists worldwide were, and have continued to be, exhilarated by Mao's horrifying reign of terror – and the philosophy it was based on. From the likes of American journalist and activist Anna Louise Strong and the French "feminist" intellectual Simone de Beauvoir, from American journalist Edgar Snow to the "Red Dean" of Canterbury Hewlett Johnson, from British filmmaker Felix Greene to Orville Schell, the dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at UC Berkeley, there was never a shortage of leftists who genuflected in the direction of Mao's killing fields.
Anita Dunn and Ron Bloom prostrating themselves before the memory of the greatest mass murderer in human history is to be totally expected. It's just another chapter of the left's long history of bowing down in front of adversary regimes and despots who devote themselves to inhumanity, oppression and death.
Article contributed by A.M.
Friday, September 18, 2009
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
A great piece
"Obama to America's Children, "Hey Kids, You've Got Debt."
(The following is a speech that Obama might have given, if he were willing to actually be honest with America's schoolchildren.)Hey Kids,
This is me. Barack Obama. You might know me from a lot of magazine covers. Also I helped Spider-Man fight crime and I keep interrupting American Idol to give speeches that no one listens to anymore. Well just try turning me off now. That's right, you can't. Because you're in school, which means you have to listen to me.
Looking around at all these classrooms through my array of surveillance cameras, I notice that most of you came to school, and the ones who didn't will be getting visits from the Department of Child Services. Which is good. School is very important. Without school, you can't get a good job. Not unless you lie a lot and happen to lose all your transcripts, like me.
And guess what kids, you're going to need good jobs, because out here in D.C. we're spending money like crazy. I mean just yesterday I gave some factory in Jamaica a billion dollars to make environmentally efficient rum. How do you make rum environmentally efficient? No one knows. That's just the way we roll here in D-Town Next week I'll probably give them another billion to stop making it because it turned out to be bad for the environment. But all that money has to come from somewhere, and you're the only natural resource we still have left. Children.
Right now the national debt is just short of 12 trillion dollars. Yeah I know. 12 trillion, that is a whole lot of money, isn't it? And all I did was buy controlling shares in a whole bunch of banks, auto companies and pay for a staff of cosmeticians to try and make Michelle not look like she wants to murder everyone in sight. It's a tough job, but somebody's gotta be paid to do it. And somebody's gotta pay for it, and that somebody is you, underage taxpayer.
Because your share of that 12 trillion dollars, is 40,000 dollars. But don't get too hung up on the numbers, because at the rate we're printing money, the actual numbers won't mean anything for longer. But the government's still gonna need that money from you real soon, because we plan to run the deficit up by another few trillion every year until there's so many zeroes no one can count them. So my goal here today is to encourage you to get jobs. Like right now.
I know some of you are just in kindergarten. Others of you can stand high enough to walk under the table. Still others can operate heavy machinery. But it's time for you to think about future. That national debt isn't getting any smaller, and you need to be making down payments on it. Because Air Force One needs fuel, I need arugula and union jobs won't save themselves. So it's time for you to think about heading out into the workforce.
I promised Americans that I would create millions of jobs, but what with all the high taxes, tons of regulations and that little economic panic my buddy George S. and the fine folks over at CBS, ABC and Time Magazine helped to create-- that's proving to be a little tough. But while I can't create millions of adult jobs, I can still outsource the child labor of America. Why should the Chinese and the Malaysians be the only ones to rake in the dough from child labor? Anything they can do, Chicago can do better.
There will be great jobs waiting for the rest of you though. Green jobs. Can you say, Green Jobs, kids? Now some of you are probably wondering what green jobs are. The answer is Green Jobs are jobs that are good for the environment. As opposed to bad Gray Jobs that let people actually earn a living. And boy we have got a lot of green jobs waiting for you.
Ever wanted to work in a rice paddy or stop carbon pollution by preventing people from breathing? Or how about reclaiming trash from landfills for recycling? We need people to do all that and more. Also we need people to make t-shirts warning us all that the earth is about to explode. And we need someone to shave the Polar Bears so they don't get too hot when the North Pole melts. Of course someone has to carry all the equipment into the jets for the bands touring the world for Earth Day concerts. And most importantly, we need Eco CEO's who will create completely useless companies, whose uselessness will prevent them from polluting the planet. The perks are a seven figure salary and a chance to get their picture taken with me. The requirement is sending a whole lot of money to my reelection campaign. Now if that doesn't turn you green with envy, what will?
But there's more to the wonderful HOPEANDCHANGEAMERICA(TM) of tomorrow than just shaving polar bears, trading carbon pollution indulgences and giving me all your money. No we're a growing nation and amazing things are just around the corner.
For example, do your parents have a car? Their parents probably bought them their first car when they were only teenagers. But don't worry, you won't have to deal with any of that. Because by the time I get done taxing and standardizing the auto industry, the only people who will be able to afford cars will be politicians and the people who drive them places. The good news is they cars of tomorrow will get an infinite amount of miles to the gallon. The bad news is that's because no one will actually be able to drive them anywhere, once our wonderful union run carmakers begin complying with the "ZERO MILES PER HOUR" eco-standard.
And it just gets better from here. Right now you probably live in your own home. Well that's not environmentally sustainable. In the future people will live in communal apartments with multi-generational families sharing a single room for added comfort and warmth during the long cold and fuel-less winters.
In the future, flat TV screens will be flatter, the internet will be accessible for up to six hours a day, and all your food will come in the form of a government manufactured and approved pill that will put an end to obesity and reintroduce Rickets to the American child of the 21st century.
Today we worship in a variety of churches and synagogues belonging to different faiths and religions. In the future we will embrace together one all encompassing faith, the United Church of Me, in commemoration of the man who taught Americans to stop being so selfish and greedy, and share their wealth with the less fortunate occupants of Capitol Hill and their lobbyists. Me.Right now you're probably all wondering, who is this guy and why is he being so serious? Don't worry about it, you'll be serious too when you begin paying out 90 percent of your salary in taxes while trying to steer a camel down a sand track made of sand dunes, while a bunch of drunken nomads are shooting at you.
But I would like you to remember the inspirational words of my chauffeur, "Ask not how Barack Obama can serve you, ask how you can serve Barack Obama." Someday if you study hard, commit yourself to learning and graduate from elementary school... you could be in his place.
The Chinese are calling about their money. Bye, gotta go.
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