tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27138917628658719732024-02-19T03:53:35.201-08:00Learn Something TodayPatrician Patriothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09528501856301888066noreply@blogger.comBlogger129125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2713891762865871973.post-77861781939106228702013-07-05T12:59:00.000-07:002013-07-05T13:02:05.842-07:00The Most Dangerous Cities in America (all ruled by Democrats)<br />
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10. Cleveland, Ohio
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Violent crimes per 100,000: 1,383.8<br />
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Population: 393,781<br />
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2012 murders: 84<br />
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Poverty rate: 34.3%<br />
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Pct. of adults with high school degree: 77.0%<br />
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Mayor: Frank G. Jackson. January 2, 2006–Present (Democrat)<br />
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CLEVELAND, Ohio is in Cuyahoga County, the most Democratic of all counties in Ohio in each of the last three presidential elections. Obama won 96 percent of the vote in the city precincts east of the Cuyahoga River as he collected 94,088 votes there to Mitt Romney's 3,879<br />
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9. Baltimore, Md.<br />
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Violent crimes per 100,000: 1,405.7<br />
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Population: 625,474<br />
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2012 murders: 219<br />
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Poverty rate: 25.1%<br />
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Pct. of adults with high school degree: 80.5%<br />
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Mayor: Stephanie Rawlings-Blake February 4, 2010 to present (Democrat)<br />
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Baltimore, Md. Has been ruled by Democrat Mayors since Theodore McKeldin left office in 1967. <br />
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Rawlings-Blake became mayor after Mayor Sheila Dixon (also a Democrat) resigned as Mayor as part of a plea agreement reached with prosecutors after being found guilty of embezzlement. In 2012, Baltimore, Md. Voted 61.4% for Obama.<br />
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8. New Haven, Conn.<br />
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Violent crimes per 100,000: 1,439.2<br />
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Population: 129,934<br />
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2012 murders: 17<br />
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Poverty rate: 30.1%<br />
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Pct. of adults with high school degree: 78.4%<br />
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Mayor: John DeStefano, Jr. January 6, 1994 to present (Democrat)<br />
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New Haven, Conn has had a Democrat as Mayor since 1953. In 2012, Obama clobbered Republican Mitt Romney by a margin of 9 to 1 in the New Haven, Ct.<br />
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7. Birmingham, Ala.<br />
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Violent crimes per 100,000: 1,517.8<br />
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Population: 213,266<br />
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2012 murders: 67<br />
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Poverty rate: 32.0%<br />
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Pct. of adults with high school degree: 81.3%<br />
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Mayor: William A. Bell January 2010 – present (Democrat)<br />
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Birmingham, Al has had a Democrat as mayor since 1975. Bell took office after a runoff election. His predecessor Mayor Langford (also a Democrat), along with investment banker William B. Blount and former state Democratic Chairman Al LaPierre, was arrested by the FBI on a 101-count indictment alleging conspiracy, bribery, fraud, money laundering, and filing false tax returns in connection with a long-running bribery scheme. His public corruption trial ended on October 28, 2009 with convictions on 60 counts, and resulted in his automatic removal from office. After being convicted in a trial in federal court in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Langford is now serving a 15 year federal felony sentence. He is an inmate #27349-001 at FCI Ashland, a Federal prison in Ashland, Kentucky. His projected release date is listed as May 1, 2023. <br />
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Although, Romney carried Alabama by almost half a million votes in 2012. Birmingham is in Jefferson County, Alabama's only true purple county. It's where Democrats and Republicans both compete for votes and candidates from either party can be competitive in most races. Obama carried the day in Jefferson County.<br />
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6. Stockton, Calif.<br />
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Violent crimes per 100,000: 1,548.0<br />
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Population: 299,105<br />
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2012 murders: 71<br />
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Poverty rate: 25.8%<br />
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Pct. of adults with high school degree: 75.1%<br />
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Mayor: Anthony Silva January 1, 2013 to present (Democrat)<br />
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Before he became mayor of Stockton, Anthony Silva was investigated by the Stockton Police Department for an alleged incident involving a 19-year-old woman. On June 28th, 2012 The Stockton City Council approved a petition for bankruptcy and become the largest of a city in U.S. history to file bankruptcy. California is drowning beneath years of liberal policies that can only be called criminally corrupt. It’s a rarity for an elected official in California not to have a ‘D” behind his / her name. <br />
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5. Memphis, Tenn.<br />
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Violent crimes per 100,000: 1,750.0<br />
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Population: 657,436<br />
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2012 murders: 133<br />
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Poverty rate: 27.2%<br />
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Pct. of adults with high school degree: 83.4%<br />
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Mayor: A.C. Wharton October 26, 2009 to present (Democrat)<br />
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Wharton predecessor, 5 term mayor W. W. Herenton (also a democrat) was widely criticized for doing little in response to the significant rise in crime under his leadership; he stated that "No mayor in any American City can solve the crime problem." Wharton has also been criticized for awarding contracts to his friends, underfunding Memphis City Schools, underfunding the Memphis Police Department, and for cutting services for young people and the elderly, while offering incentive packages to corporate interests. He disagrees with the Forbes rating of Memphis as Most Miserable City in America. In 2012. Memphis voted overwhelmingly for Obama. <br />
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4. St. Louis, Mo.<br />
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Violent crimes per 100,000: 1,776.5<br />
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Population: 318,667<br />
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2012 murders: 113<br />
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Poverty rate: 27.0%<br />
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Pct. of adults with high school degree: 83.9%<br />
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Mayor: Francis G. Slay April 17, 2001 to present (Democrat)<br />
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During his term, St. Louis was named the most dangerous city in the country in 2006 and 2010, as well as the second most dangerous city in 2007. After the release of the 2010 census Slay stated that he was surprised to learn that St. Louis had lost more than 29,000 residents since the year 2000. St Louis has had a democrat as mayor since 1949. The St Louis Area voted almost 80% for Obama in 2012. Obama carried only three counties and the City of St. Louis.<br />
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3. Oakland, Calif.<br />
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Violent crimes per 100,000: 1,993.1<br />
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Population: 399,487<br />
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2012 murders: 126<br />
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Poverty rate: 21.0%<br />
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Pct. of adults with high school degree: 79.9%<br />
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Mayor: Jean Quan January 3rd, 2011 to present (Democrat)<br />
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A KPIX poll after almost a year of Mayor Quan term listed her approval rating of 28 percent, with 69 percent responding with "little or no confidence" the mayor's ability to reduce the city’s crime problem. On October 26, 2011 it was reported Quan responded to a recall petition by saying she believed the signatories were frustrated with her lack of progress in creating jobs. She went on to KGO radio claiming "I'm too busy. ... I haven't even had a chance to look at the petitions." But Quan has remained very unpopular in the city of Oakland. A SurveyUSA poll found 60 percent of residents disapprove of her job performance and 65 percent say the city is on the wrong track. Crime is the voters' primary concern. Even though Quan is Oakland first Asian-American mayor, it is the Asian-American community giving her the lowest marks, with 67 percent disapproving of her performance. Her predecessor, Ron Dellums (also a Democrat) faced a recall attempts as well. After his election to mayor of Oakland, Dellums came under criticism for a wide range of issues, including a lack of transparency in government, ineffectual governance, and alleged extended absence from his duties at City Hall. He was criticized for refusing to disavow a staff-generated letter sent in his name in July 2007 to a Federal Bankruptcy Court in support of the Your Black Muslim Bakery, whose owners were suspects in the 2007 murder of reporter Chauncey Bailey. In 2009, Dellums and his wife were cited with failure to pay over $239,000 in federal income taxes. Oakland has had a Democrat as Mayor since 1977. California is drowning beneath years of liberal policies that can only be called criminally corrupt. It’s a rarity for an elected official in California not to have a ‘D” behind his / her name. <br />
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2. Detroit, Mich.<br />
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Violent crimes per 100,000: 2,122.6<br />
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Population: 707,096<br />
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2012 murders: 386<br />
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Poverty rate: 40.9%<br />
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Pct. of adults with high school degree: 77.4%<br />
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Mayor Dave Bing May 11th, 2009 to present (Democrat)<br />
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Dave Bing came to office after his predecessor Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick (also a Democrat) resigned office in 2008 after pleading guilty to two counts of felony obstruction of justice. Kilpatrick was released on probation after serving 99 days. On May 25, 2010, he was sentenced to 18 months to 5 years in prison for violating his probation. On March 11, 2013, Kilpatrick was convicted on 24 additional federal felony counts, including mail fraud, wire fraud, and racketeering. The conviction stemmed from a 38-charge felony indictment, in what a federal prosecutor called a "pattern of extortion, bribery and fraud" by some of Detroit's most prominent officials. Bing’s time as mayor has been far more lackluster than his MBA career. A campaign to recall Dave Bing is seeking to boot the former NBA star and businessman from office before the 2013 mayoral election. According to WDIV, the petition filed by State Rep. John Olumba (D-Detroit) reads, "Mayor Bing reduced the hours that police precincts are open to the public." Olumba first introduced the petition in October, but the Wayne County Election Commission didn't approve the original language. According to the Michigan Citizen, the original language read: "The mayor has compromised public safety in Detroit. He discriminated against residents by designating only a portion of the city with proper fire emergency response times. He closed fire stations, which has led to prolonged response times for the remaining parts of the city.” In an September 2012 poll More than 63 percent of Detroit residents said they have no faith in Mayor Dave Bing or the Detroit City Council to fix the city, and 82 percent said Bing did not deserve to be re-elected. In 2011: 20 percent of Detroit is on food stamps. Its violent crime rate is 5 times the national average and it’s rated as America’s Most Dangerous City, 40 percent of Detroit residents wanted to leave the city. Home prices have fallen 54 percent in the last 3 years; And Detroit had the highest poverty rate in the nation. Despite the abysmal records of the Democrats running the city, Detroit has had a democrat as mayor since 1962. So guess who Detroit voted for by 98 percent? Obama, naturally. Because when you’re already living in a hellhole, your prime motivation is to drag the rest of the country in with you. The 40 percent of Detroiters who want to leave have drawn no conclusions about the causes of all their problems.<br />
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1. Flint, Mich.<br />
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Violent crimes per 100,000: 2,729.5<br />
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Population: 101,632<br />
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2012 murders: 63<br />
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Poverty rate: 40.6%<br />
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Pct. of adults with high school degree: 82.9%<br />
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Mayor: Dayne Walling August 5th, 2009 to present (Democrat)<br />
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On August 4, 2009, Walling won the special general mayoral election to replace Mayor Williamson (also a democrat) after his resignation. Williamson announced his resignation in the midst of a recall election. Time magazine named Flint the "most dangerous city in America" in a 2007 issue. The 14th Annual CQ press publication of "Most Dangerous Cities in America" ranked Flint third. During the 2007 election, Williamson claimed that the city had an $8.9 million surplus. However, after the mayoral elections, it was revealed that the city was in a $4 million deficit. Williamson had to fire 60 city employees and proposed firing 60 police officers and 9 firefighters, and closing the city jail. Williamson was accused of bribing citizens for votes by handing out more than $20,000 at the car dealership that his wife owns as part of a "Customer Appreciation Day." Each recipient of the money was given campaign literature In his bid to be re-elected, Walling came in first the nonpartisan general primary on August 2, 2011 with Darryl Buchanan taking second to face off with him in the general election in November. On November 8, 2011, Walling defeated Buchanan 8,819 votes (56%) to 6,868 votes (44%). That same day, the Michigan State review panel declared the City of Flint to be in state of a "local government financial emergency". His authority as Flint Mayor was superseded by the appointment by Michigan Governor Rick Snyder of Michael Brown as the city's Emergency Manager on November 29 effective December 1st. Flint has had a long history of Mayors being recalled or Mayors being replaced by State appointment of Emergency Financial Manager. Flint has been ruled by Democrats since 1975. Flint like Detroit overwhelmingly voted for Obama in 2012. <br />
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Patrician Patriothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09528501856301888066noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2713891762865871973.post-69819734628894004342012-03-02T03:46:00.000-08:002012-03-02T03:48:40.324-08:0010 Worst U.S. Presidents of all Time10) Franklin D Roosevelt If I looked only at domestic policy, he would have easily been a contender for my top spot. His awful management of the economy alone, which extended the Depression for years, would merit a top 3 spot. However, FDR’s leadership during World War II was so meritorious that it simply could not be overlooked. That being said, FDR is often ranked by historians as one of America’s great Presidents. A man whose greatness on the foreign policy front is quite nearly matched by the titanic damage he did to America on the domestic side certainly doesn’t deserve that sort of honor.<br /><br />9) Warren Harding: Harding was only in office for a couple of years before he died of a heart attack. The bright side to that silver lining for Harding was that much of the incredible corruption that was going on during his presidency wasn’t revealed until after his death. The worst of these ignominious adventures was the “Teapot Dome scandal,” which involved bribery and a new first in American politics — a cabinet member, Albert Fall, being sent to jail.<br /><br />8) Herbert Hoover: Hoover didn’t make my list because the Depression started on his watch. After all, it’s not as if he created that problem. But, his protectionist Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act created a trade war at the worst possible time and helped lock the Depression in place.<br /><br />7) John Tyler: Tyler’s Presidency was rarely taken seriously in his time. People usually referred him to as the “Acting President” or “His Accidency”. Tyler shocked Congressional Whigs by vetoing virtually the entire Whig agenda, twice vetoing Clay’s legislation for a national banking act following the Panic of 1837 and leaving the government deadlocked. Tyler was officially expelled from the Whig Party in 1841, a few months after taking office, and became known as “the man without a party.” In 1843, after he vetoed a tariff bill, the House of Representatives considered the first impeachment resolution against a president in American history. A committee headed by former president John Quincy Adams concluded that Tyler had misused the veto, but the impeachment resolution did not pass.<br /><br />6) John F. Kennedy: If it were not for a couple of crack marksmen in Texas JFK probably would have gone down as the worst American president ever<br />In retrospect, he spent his 35 months in the White House stumbling from crisis to fiasco. He came into office and okayed the Bay of Pigs invasion. Then he went to a Vienna summit conference and got his clock cleaned by Khrushchev. That led to, among other things, the Cuban missile crisis and a whiff of nuclear apocalypse.<br />Looming over it all is the American descent into Vietnam. The assassination of Vietnam’s President Diem on Kennedy’s watch may have been one of the two biggest mistakes of the war there. (The other was the decision to wage a war of attrition on the unexamined assumption that Hanoi would buckle under the pain.) I don’t buy the theory promulgated by Robert McNamara and others that Kennedy would have kept U.S. troops out. Sure, Kennedy wanted out of Vietnam — just like Lyndon Johnson wanted out a few years later: "We’ll scale down our presence after victory is secure." And much more than Johnson, Kennedy was influenced by General Maxwell Taylor.<br /><br /> Kennedy gave the green light to another coup in a country that would, thirty years later, be at the center of American foreign policy:<br />The other coup that JFK supported earlier in 1963 was the Baathist one in Iraq that chucked out a pro-Soviet general. Events in subsequent decades obviously are not Kennedy’s fault, but it still is interesting to look at the documents. There’s a State Department sitrep from Nov. 21, 1963 that states “Initial appraisal cabinet named November 20 is that it contains some moderate Baathis. Of twenty-one ministers, seven are holdovers from previous cabinet, thirteen are civilians, four are from moderate Shabib-Jawad faction of Baath (Defense — Tikriti; Communications — Abd al-Latif; Education — Jawari; Health — Mustafa) and a number of technician-type civil servants.” Did you notice the name of that defense minister? (Saddam Hussein’s uncle.) <br /><br />There is, I suppose, some irony in the fact that both the Iraqi coup, which included the assassination of several Generals, and the coup in Saigon, occurred in the same year that Kennedy himself was assassination. <br /><br />JFK's assassination, of course, has tended to romanticized aka the myth of Camelot by Kennedy loyalists<br /><br />While Kennedy did remain popular throughout his Presidency, thanks largely to relatively good economic times, the truth of the matter is that the real JFK bears little resemblance to the fantasy, especially in the foreign policy era. <br /><br />Kennedy’s decision to directly involve the United States in the success of South Vietnam as a state by authorizing the removal of Diem made further American involvement in Vietnam inevitable. <br /><br />JFK was hardly a pacifist, and during his three years in office he proved himself to be quite willing to engage in military adventurism. He also intervened in the internal affairs of other nations up to the point of assassinating politicians when he believed it suited U.S. interests.<br /><br />Kennedy’s foreign policy choices look bad in retrospect, and set the U.S. on a path the led to one of our longest and most controversial wars, but they were fit in perfectly with the dominant views on both sides of the political aisle at the time. We were at the height of the Cold War, Berlin had just been divided by a wall, and the world had been brought to the brink of a nuclear war.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />5) Richard Nixon: Not only was “Tricky Dick” Nixon impeached over Watergate, he shook the American people’s faith in our government. Given the chronic overreach of the federal government, some might say that’s a good thing. But, you generally get what you expect and if the American people don’t expect competency, honesty, and decency from our government, we’re not likely to get it.<br /><br />Nixon did improve relations with China. He also put America in a position where we could have won in Vietnam had the Democrats in Congress not cut off supplies and air support to our former allies and left them to be slaughtered. Still, Nixon did a lot of damage domestically. He created the out-of-control EPA and was primarily responsible for creating the federal government’s Affirmative Action program, which codified discrimination against white Americans into the law. Additionally, he imposed wage and price controls that hurt the economy. That’s not much of a domestic legacy.<br /><br />4) Woodrow Wilson: The failure of the League of Nations and the Treaty of Versailles, both of which contributed significantly to WWII, occurred on his watch.<br /><br />Additionally, speaking plainly, Wilson was also a fascist. <br /><br />3) Lyndon Johnson: You can thank Lyndon Johnson for dramatically ramping up our forces in Vietnam while simultaneously putting rules of engagement in place that made it nearly impossible for our troops to win the war. Then there was the Immigration Act of 1965, the Gun Control Act of 1968, riots in American cities, and the roots of the modern welfare state in America. <br /><br />2) Jimmy Carter: Not only did Carter stand by and watch our ally, the Shah of Iran, get overthrown by fundamentalist crazies, he botched the Iranian hostage crisis that sprang from the overthrow in almost every way possible. It’s also worth noting that the Soviets were inspired by Carter’s naiveté to invade Afghanistan on his watch. In other words, both the war on terror and Iran’s quest for nuclear weapons can be directly traced back to Jimmy Carter’s presidency. To top off all of that incompetence, Carter gave away the Panama Canal.<br /><br />Then there was the domestic front. Carter was famous for his notorious malaise speech, gas lines, boycotting the Olympics, and an economy that was so dismal it actually diminished people’s faith in the American dream.<br /><br />1) Barack Obama: It’s not possible to fully evaluate Barack Obama’s presidency because it’s not over, but he has already done a devastating amount of damage in a freakishly short period of time. Happily, there’s still some hope that the utter destruction of the American health care system that he’s trying to implement can be reversed. The socialistic takeovers of whole segments of American industries that began in the final days of the Bush Administration and expanded under Obama can also still hopefully be reversed in the coming years with new leadership. Additionally, we can still hope against hope that Iran will be stopped from getting nukes, that Obama won’t lose the wars in Afghanistan like he did in Iraq and that none of his other disastrous policies like Cap and Trade will be passed. (The word “hope” comes up with Obama as often today as it did during his campaign, just in a different context)<br /><br />However, Obama’s massive expansion of spending and government for domestic purposes is not only unique in American history; it came at the worst possible moment. At a time when there were genuine concerns in America and across the world that our country no longer has the intention or even the capability of paying off our debt, Barack Obama massively increased spending under the auspices of fighting a short term recession. In this case, the cure is almost certainly worse than the disease. Could America default on her debts because of what Obama is doing? Absolutely. Could this spending be the reason future generations of Americans aren’t as prosperous as their parents? Certainly. Is it possible that we’re literally experiencing the turning point that will take America from super power to economic basket case? Yes. This country is now facing its greatest moment of risk since World War II and it’s an entirely self-inflicted wound.Patrician Patriothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09528501856301888066noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2713891762865871973.post-7608745943114343032011-05-05T19:05:00.000-07:002011-05-05T19:07:39.995-07:00Releash the Damn PhotosPresident Obama doesn't want to inflame Muslim opinion by releasing the photographs of Osama Bin Laden with his brainpan ventilated. Now, I realize that the Navy SEALs likely snuffed out the founder of al Qaeda with an MP5K sub-machinegun, and a NATO 5.56mm round fired from one of those bad boys at close range would likely have peeled back Osama's skullcap like a banana and made a nice Jackson Pollack-esque brain splatter on the wall. <br /><br />But, showing the corpse of Osama bin Laden might inflame the sensitivities of people who follow a religion of peace that bin Laden allegedly hijacked. And we all know what happens when followers of a hijacked religion of peace get inflamed, right?<br /><br />And so, all we have are faked photos of a dead Osama bin Laden, like the one that looks more like Rodney King after a routine traffic stop in LA than a guy that got pasted by a headshot.<br /><br />Release the damn photo, Obama!<br /><br />Now it's time to put the controversy in context.<br /><br />Do you remember the peaceful Muslims in the idyllic town of Fallujah, Iraq, known as the "city of mosques" for its over 200 Islamic houses of worship. In photographs released to all major news outlets the Muslims are merrily stringing up the charred and dismembered corpses of American contractors (Scott Helvenston, Jerry Zovko, Wesley Batalona, and Michael Teague) on the bridge over the Euphrates River after attacking them, beating them, and setting them on fire.<br /><br />Careful. I realize there is an impulse to get angry about Muslims killing Americans and desecrating their bodies and putting them on display for the world, but keep your cool. Remember, President Obama prosecuted the Navy SEAL that punched the terrorist responsible for this attack on American contractors.<br /><br />Remember when we saw photos and video of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, of the Muslim Terrorist recording of his execution by beheading at the hands of his al Qaeda abductors. The taped beheading of Daniel Pearl was made into an al-Qaeda recruitment video, which was subsequently released on the internet as well as aired internationally by Al Jazeera TV and CBS News. <br /><br />Don't get mad. The man who likely beheaded Daniel Pearl, Khalid Sheikh Muhammad, is in US custody at Guantanamo. KSM, as war on terrorism chroniclers know, is the Baluchistani terrorist on Saddam Hussein's payroll that planned the 9/11 attacks. KSM was arrested in Pakistan after Iraqi intelligence officials defected and surrendered right before we invaded Iraq back in 2003. They knew right where he was, and we went and got him. To me, that justifies the war in Iraq that candidate Obama said was the "wrong war." Saddam Hussein's intelligence services were deep in bed with a terrorist organization that had just killed 3000 Americans. [Don't argue with me, read the Clinton administration 1998 federal indictment of Osama bin Laden]<br /><br />KSM pled guilty in a military tribunal, and would be executed by now except the wisdom of President Barack "I will stand with the Muslims" Obama believes the Justice Department can get a better verdict in the civilian courts than a guilty plea in a death penalty case in front of a military tribunal. <br /><br />Don't get mad about Obama not releasing a photo of the dead Osama yet. Remember, according to our wise President Obama, the Daniel Pearl execution video "captured the imagination of the world." I guess like Star Wars, only without the John Williams symphony soundtrack.<br /><br />Speaking of captured imaginations, remember the internet video of a TSA employee molesting a non-Muslim child to make sure he's not a suicide bomber before he boards a plane. Without getting into the specifics about the leftist incapacity for rational thought, let's just say this venture into absurdity may one day payoff for Obama's "counter-terrorism" efforts when a TSA molester accidentally triggers the detonator on an actual suicide bomber and kills everyone waiting in line to get to their plane. And who wants to bet that that chance suicide bomber blowing himself up in middle of the airport screening line to kill dozens of people will be a person not singled out for scrutiny while the kids ahead of him in line are molested for the sake of not making him feel needlessly inconvenienced as a Muslim?<br /><br />Don't get mad. Remember, your kids will get molested at the airport and you will get a mild dose of radiation by the backscatter Nudie-Vision x-ray photography machines manned by the Department of Homeland Security for the same reason President Obama won't release Osama bin Laden's death photo: molesting your kids and collecting nude photos of you into a federal database are merely two ways we avoid disturbing the all-important Muslim sensitivities.<br /><br />Not offending Muslim sensitivities is imperative. Do you remember the front page photos of wounded soldiers at Fort Hood, Texas being treated by medics after the third Islamic terrorist attack on US soil since President Bush left office claimed the lives of 12 people. Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan, a Muslim military psychiatrist went ding-dong and shot up other soldiers preparing to deploy to Afghanistan to fight al Qaeda and the Taliban. Now, we all know psychology and psychiatric degrees are very important to those seeking management positions at Taco Bell, but I'd like to think the field doesn't draw people apt to go ultraviolent jihadi thrill kill on the advice of a Muslim cleric met on the internet. But, hey, I'm trying to be sensitive to Muslims here, and so were the FBI, who were monitoring the good Muslim US Army shrink's communications with a radical Islamist cleric known for condoning terrorist attacks as "holy." That's why the FBI never told the Army that they had a radicalized terrorist sympathizer near weapons and tanks and ammunition and a short drive through the nearest elementary school full of kids. That's why the FBI never made a move on Hasan before he went on a shooting rampage. Don't offend the Muslim sensitivities. <br /><br />I mean a cartoon caused Danish and Norwegian embassies in Syria to spontaneously combust as peaceful Muslims stood around them carrying Molotov cocktails. The cartoonist, Kurt Westergaard, lives under threats to his life for drawing a cartoon of Mohammed, just as Salman Rushdie does for writing a novel referencing Muhammad's historical making up verses in the Koran to benefit himself allegedly because the Devil made him do it. <br /><br />Perhaps releasing Osama Bin Laden's death picture will do more harm than good. It's entirely possible that for the first time in the history of human civilization, Muslims might … gasp …attack America. We best not offend these good people with a picture of a dead terrorist.Patrician Patriothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09528501856301888066noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2713891762865871973.post-58272965734461389782011-03-21T10:17:00.000-07:002011-03-21T10:22:24.927-07:00My 2012 Dream TicketIn 2012 when Obama / Biden / and Billary get the axe I would love to see the following cast take over<br /><br />Mississippi Gov Barbour as Pres<br />Texas Gov Perry as VP <br />LA Gov Jindal as Sec of Tresury <br />WI Gov Walker as Sec of Labor <br />Condi Rice as Sec of State <br />Sen McCain(R-AZ) as Sec of Defense <br />Former AK Gov Palin as Sec of Interior <br />AZ Sherif Joe Arpaio as Sec of Homeland Security <br />Ben Stein as Sec of Education <br />SFC (retired) Wallace Tyson as Sec of Veteran Affairs <br />Exelon CEO John Rowe as Sec of Energy <br />Matty Moroun as Sec of Trasportation <br />Doug Oberhelman as Sec of Housing and Urban Development <br />Donald Trump as Sec of Commerce <br />Irene Rosenfeld as Sec of Ag <br />J. Cristian Adams as Attorney General<br /><br />They'd do nicely ... most would have to take pay cuts ... but they'd kick butt and take namesPatrician Patriothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09528501856301888066noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2713891762865871973.post-50485206127951863632011-03-21T09:57:00.000-07:002011-03-21T10:09:09.939-07:00Joe Biden RailroadBy Joe Stossel<br />It's amazing how modern politics resembles scenes of Ayn Rand's best-seller Atlas Shrugged.<br /><br />Like the one in which a high-ranking government official pumps millions of dollars into a failing railroad company. The grateful railroad CEO rewards the government official by renovating his hometown train station and naming it after the government official. The renovation costs $5,700,000 more than expected.<br /><br />Then comes the ribbon cutting ceremony. The CEO gets on one of his trains to go to the ceremony, but it breaks down. No surprise there: One out of every four trains his company runs is late. The CEO, chuckling at the irony, abandons the train and takes a car to the ceremony.<br /><br />Unfortunately, that wasn't a scene in Atlas Shrugged. It happened this weekend.<br /><br />The government official is Joe Biden.<br /><br />By the way, the first of three Atlas Shrugged movies opens next month, appropriately on April 15th. (TAX DAY)<br /><br /><br /><br />Read more: http://stossel.blogs.foxbusiness.com/2011/03/21/joe-biden-railroad/#ixzz1HFnoujzdPatrician Patriothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09528501856301888066noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2713891762865871973.post-8102765759722571342011-02-23T14:10:00.000-08:002011-02-23T14:12:23.117-08:00An Open Letter to Harvey UpdykeDear Harvey Alerbamermoron Updyke, Jr.,<br /><br />It turns out, your a super smart fellow, for a Bamer - admitting (quite proudly) to have used a horrid herbicide on our trees live on the Radio and everything. And ending your call with a "Roll Damn Tide!!" Oh so classy.<br /><br />I bet it would have been really hard for a Texas State Trooper to track you down. The fact, that You really do live in Dadeville and are a Crimson Tide fan. And apparently told half the damned town that you did it, bragging to everyone you saw. Oh, and if that weren't tricky enough to throw the Texas State Troopers off the trail, you called a Horticulture professor at Auburn AND LEFT A VOICEMAIL COPPING TO THE POISONING! Bravo! No Texas State Trooper would have ever figured that one out. You did what every police officer on the planet wishes someone would do during the course of an investigation: you confessed in public on the Finebaum radio show and gave enough details to lead even a rookie Texas State Trooper right to his front door in Dadeville, AL. I guess all those years of stopping speeders on Texas highways didn’t do much to make you a master criminal.<br /><br />One flaw, there big guy: You committed your crime in Alabama not Texas. You see, in Texas the Retards wear State Trooper Uniforms. In Alabama, the retards wear houndstooth printed hats and red jackets with an Atlanta braves ripped off "A" on the chest. <br /><br />Short of leaving a trail of bread crumbs the size of elephant droppings, you couldn't have made your capture, arrest and soon to be conviction much easier.<br />You claim that you poisoned the trees because some Auburn students rolled Toomer's Corner after Bear Bryant died in 1983. I guess by now you have been informed by that never happened. By all accounts the Auburn family was both saddened and respectful when the Bear passed. I consider myself a Dye Hard Auburn Fan and I mourned the loss of the Bear - one of my home state's true heroes - a hero who's name and memory you have forever tarnished.<br /><br />If you really wanted revenge on someone for disrespecting the Bear go after the fan that stole his hat off his head during a post game celebration. Oh I’m sorry, That was a Bama fan. <br /><br />I know your upset because Auburn won the national championship, posted the biggest comeback win in the history of the Iron Bowl, (and they did it AT Tuscaloosa) and had a player win the Heisman Trophy.<br /><br />Here's the thing, I know you Bamers hate us Barners. We don't like yall much either. We have spent our lives being the little brother, the butt of all the tractor and cow college jokes while yall keep fielding players with those annoying as hell Bieber-bangs and waving those TP-topped detergent boxes around over your heads.<br />In yall's minds, the only thing worse than Bama losing is Auburn winning.<br /><br />And now, for at least the foreseeable future, instead of Nick Satan or Bear Bryant or whatever great recruit the Tide signs, the face of Alabama Football in the eyes of the rest of the nation will a dumb-ass redneck named Harvey Updyke. <br />Thank you for proving everything I have said all my life about the average Bama fan having no class.<br /><br />By the way, what kind of inbred Redneck names his kids Bear Bryant And Crimson Tyde. I hear you also named one of you dogs Bear Bryant. Your son has to feel great that his dad loved a person that he never met SO much that you named him AND a dog after that man. By the way, Tyde is miss-spelled. It’s correct spelling is Tide. Have who ever you asked to read this letter to you to point it out on a detergent box.<br /><br />I would call you retarded redneck, but that would be an insult to retarded rednecks.<br />I understand from the police report, you answered "do you have anything else of value?" with "a 200 Kia and a T.V." Really? At age 62? those are your items of value? Did you spend your life's savings on fake Alabama Letterman Jackets and Big Al hats?<br /><br />I can fully understand why your lawyers keep dropping you as a client. <br />Now, you want your trial moved because you don’t think you can get a fair trial in Auburn. What happen to "Do you think I care?" there Al? Did your cell mates ass rape some sense into you?<br /><br />Look man. You're pretty damned lucky to be getting a trial at all. Lynching isn't that far in the past in Alabama. Instead of getting a trial you could be hanging from the end of a rope or buried inside a car trunk and dropped into a lake or landfill. "Do you think I care?"<br /><br />You see, whatever misguided logic or sense of Crimson Tide (not Tyde) spirit and loyalty led down this path of ass clownery - committing at least one felony by putting poison on our trees was wrong. <br /><br />The trees at Toomer’s Corner don't define us. They are a symbol of us - the Auburn Family. This act of, for lack of a better word, eco-terrorism, will bring all of us closer together while you, the Tide fans and the whole Crimson Tide nation look horrible and pathetic by comparison.<br /><br />Do your family a favor: save them the expense and embarrassment of a trail by killing yourself. Hanging yourself from a tree would make a poetic footnote to your wasted life. You have some nice size trees in your yard. I am sure you can figure out how to get it done.<br /><br />On second thought, do this life long Auburn fan a favor: fight the charges to the bitter end - where you’ll loose your house, 200 Kia and TV to try to pay your legal bills before going to prison for 1 to 10 years. Jail will be a good place for you. With luck you’ll get 300 pound black cellmate from Tennessee named Bubba that hates Cops almost as much as he hates Bamers and he'll ass rape you nightly for ten years - while I laugh at the thought of you having wear orange instead of your beloved <br />crimson. <br /><br />Congratulations Harvey, aka Al from Dadeville. You managed to do the one thing that you would never intentionally do in your entire life: You made people feel sorry for Auburn University. Sorry for us in the very same year that we brought home the Heisman Trophy AND the National Championship.<br /><br />By the way, is it hard to get your Tide-mobile to roll of flat tires?<br /><br />Thanks and War Eagle!<br /><br /><br />PS. Spike 80DF is Harmful if swallowed. <br />You might want to take Bear (your dog not your son) to the vet soon.Patrician Patriothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09528501856301888066noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2713891762865871973.post-18659108105323756102011-02-07T19:50:00.000-08:002011-02-07T19:52:54.382-08:00My top 25 picks for 2012 Pres Election as of 2/7/1125) George P Bush<br />24) John Bolton<br />23) Herman Cain<br />22) Jim DeMitt<br />21) Gary Johnson <br />20) Sarah Palin<br />19) Marco Rubio<br />18) Tim Pawlenty<br />17) Joe Libberman<br />16) Michele Bachmann<br />15) Dick Armey<br />14) Newt Gingrich<br />13) Duncan Hunter<br />12) the Dystopian Kakistocratic Party's Mr. Beamish <br />11) Alan Keyes<br />10) David Koch<br />9) Rick Perry<br />8) Lindsey Graham<br />7) Mike Huckabee<br />6) Jeb Bush<br />5) David Petraeus<br />4) Scott Brown<br />3) Mitt Romney<br />2) Bobby Jindal<br />1) Haley BarbourPatrician Patriothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09528501856301888066noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2713891762865871973.post-70760384379872177822011-02-01T00:21:00.000-08:002011-02-01T00:22:18.502-08:00The Top 7 Violent Left-Wingers You’re Not Supposed to RememberEven by the Left’s usual standards, the shamelessness and dishonesty of their reaction to psychopath Jared Loughner’s shooting spree in Tucson, Arizona—blaming his actions on the allegedly violent and inflammatory rhetoric of conservatives—is almost without peer. It became clear fairly early on that Loughner had serious mental issues and bizarre, apolitical reasons for hating Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. That did not prevent leftist politicians, journalists, commentators, and celebrities from smearing their political foes as accomplices to murder, however. To date, only one notable left-of-center figure—Kirsten Powers—has had the integrity to condemn this smear campaign.<br /><br />This isn’t new—leftists have a history of blaming conservatives for apolitical crimes (sometimes they even blame conservatives for leftist crimes). In reality, the Left doesn’t care in the slightest about elevating our political discourse. The clearest indicator of their insincerity is that they never hold their own to these standards. The Left’s record of hate and vitriol is the stuff of legend, and while the media likes to forget about it, leftists commit acts of violence, too. Let’s remind them.<br /><br /><br /><br />7.) Bradley Neal Crowder<br /><br />In September 2008, Crowder was busted outside of the Republican National Convention for possession of a Molotov cocktail. It turns out his planned good old-fashioned rioting was a group outing—he came to the convention from Austin, Texas, along with a radical organization called the Austin Affinity Group:<br /><br />The group brought a rental trailer with them that contained 35 riot shields, made from stolen traffic barrels. The intended use of the shields was to help demonstrators block streets near the Xcel Energy Center in order to prevent convention delegates from safely reaching the convention. St. Paul Police seized these shields on Aug. 31. <br /><br /><br />According to trial testimony, McKay and Crowder, angered by the loss of the shields, purchased supplies for constructing Molotov cocktails at a St. Paul Wal-Mart on Aug. 31, including a gas can, motor oil and tampons. They also purchased gasoline at a gas station. They then manufactured the eight Molotov cocktails at an apartment on Dayton Avenue where they were staying. <br /><br /><br />During a FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force investigation, authorities learned through an informant that McKay and Crowder had manufactured the Molotov cocktails. Crowder was arrested on Sept. 1 for disorderly conduct during an RNC demonstration.<br /><br /><br />During a conversation overheard by law enforcement through electronic surveillance on Sept. 2, McKay told an informant that he intended to throw the Molotov cocktails at police vehicles parked in a lot near the Dayton Avenue apartment. The parking lot was used as a checkpoint area for vehicles entering the security perimeter around the convention site. It was visibly patrolled by the U.S. Secret Service, various police agencies and the military.<br /><br />6.) Amy Bishop<br /><br />On February 12, 2010, University of Alabama Professor Amy Bishop opened fire during a biology department meeting, killing three of her colleagues and injuring three more. As Michelle Malkin has documented, Bishop had an assault record, and students and professors had raised concerns about her mental state. She also may have murdered her brother in 1986.<br /><br />A far-right professor? Nope—her political views were reportedly in line with the average academic. On February 15, the Boston Herald reported that a “family source” described Bishop as “a far left political activist who was ‘obsessed’ with President Obama to the point of being off putting.” On RateMyProfessors.com, students described her as a “liberal” and a “socialist” in a comment that has apparently been since removed.<br /><br />Granted, Bishop was apparently motivated by fear of losing her job, not politics, but if we’re going by the rationale put forth by Paul Krugman and company, who’s to say the “culture of hostility” her fellow travelers fostered had nothing to do with her seeing “Second Amendment solutions” as a legitimate way to solve her problems?<br /><br />.) James Von Brunn<br /><br />On June 10, 2009, Von Brunn shot up the U.S. Holocaust Museum, hitting three and killing security guard Stephen Tyrone Johns. Unsurprisingly, he turned out to be a raging anti-Semite, a brand of bigot often characterized as right-wing by smear groups, but more often drawn to the anti-Israel policies of the Left. As Kathy Shaidle revealed, though, Von Brunn held other views that are much harder for leftists to disavow:<br /><br />[M]any of von Brunn’s political views track “Left” rather than “Right.” Clearly, a re-evaluation of these obsolete definitions is long overdue.<br /><br /><br />For example, he unleashed his hatred of both Presidents Bush and other “neo-conservatives” in online essays. As even some “progressives” such as the influential Adbusters magazine publicly admit, “neoconservative” is often used as a derogatory code word for “Jews”. As well, even a cursory glance at “white supremacist” writings reveals a hatred of, say, big corporations that is virtually indistinguishable from that of anti-globalization activists.<br /><br /><br />James von Brunn’s advocacy of 9/11 conspiracy theories also gives him an additional commonality with individuals on the far-left.<br /><br />Von Brunn also hated Christianity:<br /><br />These dangerous, imbecilic, concepts, tenets, and teachings, often treasonous, DESTROYED the Roman Empire and drenched the soil of Europe with Aryan blood for almost 2000 years!<br /><br /><br />The Big Lie technique, employed by Paul to create the CHRISTIAN RELIGION, also was used to create the HOLOCAUST RELIGION … CHRISTIANITY AND THE HOLOCAUST are HOAXES.<br /><br /><br />“Christianity” destroyed Roman Civilization. The “Holocaust” Religion is destroying Western Civilization. The Aryan gene-pool dies, “unwept, unhonored and unsung.”<br /><br />James Von Brunn sounds more like a cross between David Corn, Alex Jones, and Sam Harris than he does Sarah Palin or Rush Limbaugh.<br /><br />4.) Joe Stack<br /><br />On February 18, 2010, Joseph Stack crashed a small plane into an IRS building, injuring 13 people while killing himself and IRS manager Vernon Hunter. Left-wing writers wasted no time in linking him to the Tea Party; after all, he hated the Internal Revenue Service, and all anti-government sentiments are pretty much the same, right?<br /><br />Nope. It turns out Stack was a nut, but not a wingnut. He posted a manifesto online before taking flight, in which he rails against the rich, insurance companies, President George W. Bush, the Catholic Church, and capitalism:<br /><br />Why is it that a handful of thugs and plunderers can commit unthinkable atrocities (and in the case of the GM executives, for scores of years) and when it’s time for their gravy train to crash under the weight of their gluttony and overwhelming stupidity, the force of the full federal government has no difficulty coming to their aid within days if not hours? Yet at the same time, the joke we call the American medical system, including the drug and insurance companies, are murdering tens of thousands of people a year and stealing from the corpses and victims they cripple, and this country’s leaders don’t see this as important as bailing out a few of their vile, rich cronies. Yet, the political “representatives” (thieves, liars, and self-serving scumbags is far more accurate) have endless time to sit around for year after year and debate the state of the “terrible health care problem”. It’s clear they see no crisis as long as the dead people don’t get in the way of their corporate profits rolling in […]<br /><br /><br />Some friends introduced me to a group of people who were having ‘tax code’ readings and discussions. In particular, zeroed in on a section relating to the wonderful “exemptions” that make institutions like the vulgar, corrupt Catholic Church so incredibly wealthy […]<br /><br /><br />The recent presidential puppet GW Bush and his cronies in their eight years certainly reinforced for all of us that this criticism rings equally true for all of the government. Nothing changes unless there is a body count (unless it is in the interest of the wealthy sows at the government trough). In a government full of hypocrites from top to bottom, life is as cheap as their lies and their self-serving laws […]<br /><br /><br />The capitalist creed: From each according to his gullibility, to each according to his greed.<br /><br />3.) The Service Employees International Union<br /><br />Lone gunman and bad apples are one thing; the acts of entire organizations are quite another. That brings us to the SEIU. Last seen assaulting black Tea Partier Kenneth Gladney, these guys are masters of the Corleone School of Getting Your Point Across. And when entire busloads of union thugs terrorize together, it’s kind of hard to run the “isolated incident” defense:<br /><br />By now, you’ve probably seen the mob-scene that developed on the front lawn of the private residence of Greg Baer, deputy general counsel for corporate law at Bank of America. This was planned for some time by the SEIU as part of a larger national event, their Showdown on K Street, which was shared with National People’s Action and thousands of other activists from MoveOn.org and other left-wing groups. <br /><br /><br />Prior to the main event on K Street in Washington DC, SEIU and company made a little pit stop. According to Fortune magazine Washington editor Nina Easton, 14 busloads of riled up protesters unloaded on Baer’s private property and stormed up to his doorstep, while his teenage son was home alone. Easton is a neighbor of Baer’s and had called to check on her neighbor’s son when she heard and saw all the commotion outside. Easton writes,<br /><br /><br />“ Waving signs denouncing bank ‘greed,’ hordes of invaders poured out of 14 school buses, up Baer’s steps, and onto his front porch. As bullhorns rattled with stories of debtor calls and foreclosed homes, Baer’s teenage son Jack — alone in the house — locked himself in the bathroom. ‘When are they going to leave?’ Jack pleaded when I called to check on him.<br /><br /><br />“Baer, on his way home from a Little League game, parked his car around the corner, called the police, and made a quick calculation to leave his younger son behind while he tried to rescue his increasingly distressed teen. He made his way through a din of barked demands and insults from the activists who proudly ‘outed’ him, and slipped through his front door.<br /><br /><br />“‘Excuse me,’ Baer told his accusers, ‘I need to get into the house. I have a child who is alone in there and frightened.’”<br /><br />Can you imagine the press’s nonstop howling if, say, FreedomWorks started bussing hundreds of people to the homes of White House czars to harass their families? It would be universally condemned as an outrage without precedent, and rightly so. But Democrat backers? Cue the chirping crickets.<br /><br />2.) Harlan James Drake<br /><br />When anti-abortion radical Scott Roeder murdered partial-birth abortionist George Tiller in May 2009, the usual chorus of death-exploiters howled that the Right was to blame, with character assassins like David Frum suggesting Bill O’Reilly bore special responsibility for (accurately) reporting that Tiller was killing viable babies while possibly covering the rape of teenage girls. Everybody knows about Scott Roeder.<br /><br />But does the name Harlan James Drake ring a bell? On September 11 of that year, Drake murdered a pro-life activist named James Pouillon (as well as businessman Michael Fuoss, in an apparently-unrelated crime). Several news outlets reported that Drake was angered by Pouillon’s use of graphic images of aborted baby corpses. In a sick contrast to the conduct of Sheriff Clarence Dupnik, whose nonstop railing against talk radio in the wake of the Tucson shooting has led to the entire sheriff’s department shutting up about the case until further notice, Chief Shiawassee County Assistant Prosecutor Sara Edwards presented a more charitable theory about Drake’s motives: “Mr. Drake did not believe children should view the graphic material on the signs Mr. Pouillon carried.” Of course, leftists’ nonstop rhetoric about pro-lifers being woman-hating theocrats couldn’t possibly have been a factor…<br /><br />The Pouillon case offers another even more striking contrast between Right and Left. While numerous leftists have been tripping over each other trying to tie conservatives to Loughner’s massacre, American Life League took the exact opposite route, with a responsible statement on Pouillon’s killing that puts all of today’s opportunists to shame:<br /><br />Since a motive has not yet been determined, speculation is useless, if not harmful. We commend the Shiawassee County sheriff’s department for its swift apprehension of the suspect, and we pray for God’s justice and mercy.<br /><br />1.) Jared Loughner<br /><br />The biggest, most perverse irony of the Tucson shooting is that, to the extent that Loughner has identifiable political views, they lean leftward, not to the right.<br /><br />One former high-school friend, Caitie Parker, described him as “left wing, quite liberal” as of 2007. From writings he posted online, we know Loughner believes the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are war crimes, seems to agree with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights’ assertion of “the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care,” and that he posted “Crap on God!” repeatedly. He ranted “No! I won’t trust in God!” and favorited a YouTube video calling America a “terrorist country” and depicting a flag burning. He called The Communist Manifesto one of his favorite books.<br /><br />Most of these details are simply ignored by leftists, but on January 12, Ann Coulter caught the New York Times in “the most bald-faced lie [she has] ever read in that newspaper—which is saying something,” attempting to misrepresent a sick joke Loughner made about abortion as if it was a pro-life argument:<br /><br />Only because numerous other news outlets, including ABC News and The Associated Press, reported the exact same shocking incident in much greater detail — and with direct quotes — do we know that the Times’ rendition was complete bunk.<br /><br />ABC News reported: “One Pima Community College student, who had a poetry class with Loughner later in his college career, said he would often act ‘wildly inappropriate.’<br /><br />“‘One day (Loughner) started making comments about terrorism and laughing about killing the baby,’ classmate Don Coorough told ABC News, referring to a discussion about abortions. ‘The rest of us were looking at him in shock … I thought this young man was troubled.’<br /><br />“Another classmate, Lydian Ali, recalled the incident as well.<br /><br />“‘A girl had written a poem about an abortion. It was very emotional and she was teary eyed and he said something about strapping a bomb to the fetus and making a baby bomber,’ Ali said.”<br /><br />Here’s the Times’ version: “After another student read a poem about getting an abortion, Mr. Loughner compared the young woman to a ‘terrorist for killing the baby.’”<br /><br />It’s bad enough that we all get blamed for the crimes of rogue conservatives and non-political actors. But do conservatives really have to take responsibility for the actions of leftists, too?<br /><br />* * *<br /><br />Let me be clear: while dishonest, inflammatory, and violent left-wing rhetoric should be condemned for its intrinsic sins, it is not to blame for any of the preceding crimes. Sane human beings possess free will, functioning minds, and ultimately choose their own path, while the actions and motivations of the mentally disturbed are irrational. Individuals are ultimately responsible for their own actions; conservatives should not view these individuals as albatrosses to hang around the necks of all who espouse left-wing political views. That is not what this is about.<br /><br />This is about demonstrating that madness knows no party lines. This is about challenging the Left to hold themselves to the standards they demand of their enemies. This is about exposing the insincerity of the Left’s crocodile tears. For all their wailing about how sweet little Christina-Taylor Green would still be alive today if only Sarah Palin hadn’t used a target symbol on an election map, not a word of it is genuine. If this was a true moral stand and not opportunism of the lowest sort, they would have also shed tears for Stephen Tyrone Johns, Vernon Hunter, and James Pouillon, while expressing remorse for their own contributions to the toxic state of American political discourse. Somewhere along the way, there would have been some hint of self-reflection: maybe we should quit accusing right-wingers of desiring a return to segregation or knowingly launching wars on phony intelligence. Maybe we should apologize for calling Republicans Nazis.<br /><br />Good luck finding any such conscience pangs. To their shame, leftists persists in whitewashing their record while defaming ours. They don’t belief in civility or mutual respect. Only by recognizing the full extent of their duplicity, and the twisted morals that animate it, can conservatives hope to defeat the Left.Patrician Patriothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09528501856301888066noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2713891762865871973.post-13825390876941397832011-01-29T14:00:00.000-08:002011-01-29T14:03:30.691-08:00Egypt equals Obama's Iran (Lord Help Us)However corrupt Egypt’s regime may have been or continues to be, Mubarak succeeded in keeping the Islamists and the religious radicals in check. The Muslim Brotherhood, a major fundamentalist Egyptian opposition group that Mubarak had banned, will definitely try to take advantage of any further economic frustration or breakdown to set up the longed-for Islamic state, probably by promising those who have nothing that they will create a Muslim utopia of social justice, patterned after the Prophet Mohammad’s rule. That is the bait to hijack the revolution, like the Bolsheviks promised “peace, land and bread” to the uneducated, downtrodden Russian masses to get their support, only to bring in the Red Terror in return.<br /><br />As history warns, the Islamists, if successful in seizing power, will internally perpetrate a Khmer Rouge/Khomeini-type bloodbath the likes of which Egypt has never seen before. The first victims will most likely be the country’s religious minorities. Externally, they will involve Egypt in a jihad/war against Israel, Europe or the Shiites and, like Iran, strive to build nuclear weapons.<br /><br />Thus, Western countries and Israel are, naturally, viewing the events in Egypt with grave concern. The West must be prepared to confront the fact that it may be faced in Egypt with an approaching hostile, failed state, similar to Pakistan and Somalia, where terrorists will be welcome. If Obama fails to play this precarious situation right, and drops the ball like Carter disastrously did in 1979 by pulling the rug from under the Shah’s feet in Iran, then this dire situation could coalesce into Islamists capturing Egypt. Sometimes, as with Mubarak, the devil you know is better than the one you don’t.Patrician Patriothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09528501856301888066noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2713891762865871973.post-69711680499533796742011-01-25T20:21:00.000-08:002011-01-25T20:22:55.469-08:00Obama agrees McCain had it rightJan 25, 2011 Obama: “Both parties in Congress should know this: If a bill comes to my desk with earmarks in it, I will veto it."<br /><br />Apr 15, 2008 McCain "I will veto every bill with earmarks, until the Congress stops sending bills with earmarks."<br /><br />So, even Obama thinks McCain had the better ideas?Patrician Patriothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09528501856301888066noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2713891762865871973.post-2452733745008067962011-01-25T13:37:00.000-08:002011-01-25T13:57:50.639-08:00Cut spending and curb drug use: two birds one stonehttp://www.miamiherald.com/2011/01/17/2019745/kentucky-lawmaker-wants-drug-tests.html<br /><br /><br />FRANKFORT, KY — A state lawmaker wants random drug testing of adult Kentuckians who receive food stamps, Medicaid or other state assistance. Those who fail the test would lose their benefits under House Bill 208, filed by Rep. Lonnie Napier, R-Lancaster.<br /><br />"I'm not a hard-hearted guy," said Napier. "I believe there is a need for public assistance for those who need it, but I understand some are using these funds to buy drugs."<br /><br />Napier said the goal "is to get people off drugs."<br /><br />"Most employers require it for their workers," he said of drug testing. "We need to do the same for those getting assistance through the state."<br /><br />I am sure the Dims will come out against this because it is gonna hit their devoted fan base in the pocketbook.Patrician Patriothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09528501856301888066noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2713891762865871973.post-83194311220031089852011-01-11T09:17:00.001-08:002011-01-11T09:17:54.724-08:00Assassin's CreedThere’s been a lot of nonsense talk attempting to smear the right-wing for the murderous passions of Jared Lee Loughner, who was arrested on scene for a killing spree in Arizona which targeted Democratic Congresswoman Gabreille Giffords. Leftism, the field of inter-related political, social, and economic philosophies which have the collective historical distinction of being responsible for the violent deaths of over 300 million people and counting worldwide, would seem to be an easy profile to make in determining the political motivations of this assassin. Yet, the left has gone into overdrive attempting to portray Loughner as a right-winger and smear conservative groups as the catalyst for his abhorrent actions, snidely suggesting that it is somehow “obvious” that the right-wing is responsible for creating this cretin.<br /><br />Does the left have any historical rationale for making the “political assassin must be a right-winger” case? <br /><br />Let’s have a closer look at the infamous assassins and would-be assassins who have targeted politicians throughout US history, shall we?<br /><br />On January 30, 1835, an unemployed house painter named Richard Lawrence aimed two flintlock pistols at President Andrew Jackson at the Capitol Building and pulled the triggers, attempting to kill him. However, both pistols misfired. Richard Lawrence was notable for his refusal to work for a living, delusionally under the impression that the US government owed him large sums of money, enough to live as if he were a King of England. Of course, the US government did not owe Lawrence anything, and he lived a century before slackers and freeloaders could take advantage of US government social largesse. But, Lawrence was convinced that he was royalty and thus due financial compensation from the government, and sought to kill President Andrew Jackson for not providing him his welfare. He failed to kill Jackson, but it was clear Lawrence was motivated by a warped sense of entitlement and class conciousness.<br /><br />In other words, the would-be political assassin Richard Lawrence was a leftist.<br /><br />On April 14, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln was shot by actor and Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth while attending a performance of Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre with his wife, Mary Todd Lincoln, and two guests. Lincoln died the following day at 7:22 a.m. As a Confederate sympathizer, Booth would have been politically opposed to the Constitutional ban on the importation of slavery into federal territories, and the Founding Father's intent to end slavery by first making it economically unviable (US Constitution Article 1, Section 9: “The Migration or Importation of such Persons as any of the States now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by the Congress prior to the Year one thousand eight hundred and eight, but a tax or duty may be imposed on such Importation, not exceeding ten dollars for each Person.” - ten dollars in 1808 currency, adjusted for inflation, would be worth around $170 today); and making slavery politically unviable by not allowing slave states to enjoy the full apportionment of representatives to Congress by padding their population totals with slaves who had no political enfranchisement at all. (the three-fifths rule, from US Constitution Article 1, Section 2) As the Democratic Party was the legacy of the Anti-Federalists (those who opposed the ratification of the US Constitution) and the Confederacy itself was an unconstitutional construct of Democrats opposed to the Constititional intent to end the institution of slavery, we can assert correctly that Lincoln was a Constitutionalist and a conservative, while his Democrat / Anti-Federalist / Confederate opponents sought to radically alter (and ignore) the structure, framework, and clear intent of the US Constitution. <br /><br />In other words, the political assassin John Wilkes Booth was a leftist.<br /><br />On July 2, 1881, less than four months after he took office, President James A. Garfield was shot by failed lawyer and plagiarist Charles Julius Guiteau with a .442 Webley British Bulldog revolver. Garfield died 11 weeks later, on Monday, September 19, 1881, at 10:35 p.m., due to infections. Guiteau was a former member of the Oneida Community, a religious commune and silversmithing business set up in Oneida, New York by John Humphrey Noyes in 1848. Guiteau himself would later try to assert himself as leader of the Oneida Community his father and grandfather had brought him into, and attempted to pass off Noyes’ theological and social meanderings as his own. As a communal organization, the Oneida Community (who are the forefathers of today’s Oneida Limited silverware company) disavowed private property rights and believed in “complex marriage” - all members were “married” to each other. The Oneida Community and its leader Noyes were widely criticized and legally prosecuted for their unorthodox sexual practices, such as the post-menopausal women of their commune having sex with the teenaged males of the commune so that they could be “educated” in sexual intercourse without risk of pregnancy. (We call this child molestation and sexual exploitation these days). The Oneida Community cult were also adherents of “stirpiculture,” a eugenics-based ideology of selective breeding that arbitrarily matched male and female commune members to produce children who would be raised segregated and seperated from forming parent-child bonds as they were immersed in Noyes’ “Perfectionist” utopian theology. In effect, the Oneida communal cult was propagating the pseudo-science of eugenics to build a “master race.” Even in the kooky quarters of the Oneida Community where practically anyone of any age or gender was having consensual sex with everybody else, Guiteau was an outcast. His attempts to take over Noyes’ cult were rebuffed and ultimately he was cast out of the group. He would go on to write a speech in support of President Ulysses S. Grant, which he changed Grant’s name to James A. Garfield’s and presented to the Republican Party. Delusionally self-convinced his speech was the catalyst for Garfield winning the Presidential election, Guiteau demanded that he be given an ambassadorship to Austria or France. Of course the crank Guiteau was refused his unhinged demands. Claiming by the warped theology of the Oneida Community cult that “God” had instructed him to kill President Garfield, Guiteau purchased a Webley British Bulldog revolver and shot him. Guiteau had attempted to claim the kooky anti-property rights, sexually libertine, eugenics breeding theology of a cult leader as his own works, and failing that, attempted to claim credit for the election of a US President and sought recognition and compensation for it. <br /><br />In other words, the political assassin Charles Julius Guiteau was a leftist.<br /><br />On September 6, 1901, President William McKinley was shot twice at 4:07 p.m while attending the Pan-American Exposition at the Temple of Music in Buffalo, New York. McKinley died eight days later, on September 14, 1901, at 2:15 a.m. McKinley’s assassin, Leon Frank Czolgosz, was an anarchist, and avid reader of the works of the socialist and anarchist Emma Goldman. Drawing inspiration from the assassination of King Umberto I of Italy by beloved anarchist “hero” Gaetano Bresci and personally dismayed by the reticence of American socialists to fully engage in violent revolutionary acts (apparently throwing dynamite bombs at police in Chicago’s Haymarket Square during labor disputes in 1886 and Emma Goldman’s personal involvement in plotting the failed attempt to assassinate US steel corporation industrialist Henry Clay Frick in 1892 were not enough...), the fanatic labor activist Czolgosz decided to “take matters into his own hands.”<br /><br />In other words, the political assassin Leon Frank Czolgosz was a leftist.<br /><br />On October 13, 1912, Theodore Roosevelt was preparing to deliver a presidential campaign speech in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. John Flammang Schrank, a saloon-keeper from New York, shot Roosevelt once with a .38 caliber revolver. A 50-page speech folded over twice in Roosevelt's breast pocket and a metal glasses case slowed the bullet. Amidst the commotion, Roosevelt yelled out, "Quiet! I've been shot." Roosevelt insisted on giving his speech with the bullet still lodged inside him. During his speech Roosevelt stated, "It takes more than one bullet to bring down a Bull Moose" thus further perpetuating Roosevelt's image as a larger than life President and the nickname of the Progressive Party, the Bull Moose Party established in June 1912 after Roosevelt responded to reporters questioning his health stating, "I am as strong as a Bull Moose". He later went to the hospital, but the bullet was never removed. Schrank was very vocally opposed to Theodore Roosevelt’s seeking of a third term as President, as he was currently out of office and had previously served two terms (completing the term of the assassinated William McKinley and serving another, 1901 - 1909). The Constitution of the United States had not yet been amended to limit Presidents to two terms, thus rather than seek to amend the Constitution through legitimate processes or campaign for one of Roosevelt’s opponents, Schrank took the revolutionary action of seeking to end a Presidential candidate’s life. This was nothing but contempt for the US Constitution itself and an attempt to subvert legitimate electoral processes on the part of Schrank. Theodore Roosevelt might have won his third bid for the White House had not doubts about his health been created and that his campaign activities not been curtailed by recovery from this assassination attempt. John Flammang Schrank effectively robbed the American people of an opportunity to consider Theodore Roosevelt’s politics, deciding for himself that he alone should thwart the election.<br /><br />In other words, the would-be political assassin John Flammang Schrank was a leftist.<br /><br />On February 15, 1933 in Miami, Florida, President-elect Franklin Delano Roosevelt was fired upon by Giuseppe Zangara The assassination attempt occurred one month before Roosevelt was sworn in for his first term in office. Four people were wounded and Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak was killed. Zangara fired five shots from a .32 caliber pistol. A union bricklayer, Zangara was widely noted for his contempt of people who had more than he did. Being only five feet tall, he was unable to see over other people, and had to stand on a wobbly folding metal chair, peering over the hat of Lillian Cross to get a clear aim at his target.After the first shot, Cross and others grabbed his arm, and he fired four more shots wildly. He missed the president-elect, but five other people were hit, including Chicago mayor Anton Cermak, who was standing on the running board of the car next to Roosevelt. En route to the hospital, Cermak had allegedly told FDR, "I'm glad it was me and not you, Mr. President", words now inscribed on a plaque in Bayfront Park. In the Dade County Courthouse jail, Zangara confessed and stated: "I have the gun in my hand. I kill kings and presidents first and next all capitalists." He pleaded guilty to four counts of attempted murder and was sentenced to 80 years in prison. As he was led out of the courtroom, Zangara told the judge: "Four times 20 is 80. Oh, judge, don't be stingy. Give me a hundred years." The judge, aware that Cermak might not survive his wounds, replied: "Maybe there will be more later." Cermak died of peritonitis 19 days later, on March 6, 1933, two days after Roosevelt's inauguration. Zangara was promptly indicted for first-degree murder in Cermak's death. Because Zangara had intended to commit murder, it was irrelevant that his intended target was not the man he ultimately killed. He was guilty of murder under the doctrine of transferred intent. Zangara pleaded guilty to the additional murder charge, and was sentenced to die. Zangara said after hearing his sentence: "You give me electric chair. I no afraid of that chair! You one of capitalists. You is crook man too. Put me in electric chair. I no care!" Under Florida law, a convicted murderer could not share cell space with another prisoner before his execution, but another convicted murderer was already awaiting execution at Raiford. Zangara's sentence required prison officials to expand their waiting area, and the "death cell" became "Death Row". Zangara fried and died from state execution in the electric chair, ranting against capitalism.<br /><br />In other words, the political assassin Giuseppe Zangara was a leftist.<br /><br />On November 1, 1950, two Puerto Rican pro-independence activists, Oscar Collazo and Griselio Torresola, attempted to kill President Harry Truman. A violent gun battle ensued between the assassins and the Secret Service, resulting in the death of White House Policeman Leslie Coffelt. Coffelt was able to kill Torresola before blacking out and soon dying. Collazo survived with serious injuries. Truman was not harmed. Collazo's death sentence was commuted to life in prison by Truman, and was further commuted to time served by President Jimmy Carter in 1979. Collazo and Torresola were both members of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party, a socialist organization seeking violent overthrow of the legitimate Puerto Rican government and independence from being a territory of the United States.<br /><br />In other words. the would-be political assassins Oscar Collazo and Griselio Torresola were leftists.<br /><br />On December 11, 1960, while vacationing in Palm Beach, Florida, President-elect John F. Kennedy's life was threatened by Richard Paul Pavlick, a 73-year-old former postal worker. Pavlick's plan was to serve as a suicide bomber by crashing his dynamite-laden 1950 Buick into Kennedy's vehicle, but the plan was disrupted when Pavlick saw Kennedy's wife and daughter bidding him goodbye.That attack of conscience foiled the opportunity, with Pavlick's arrest by the Secret Service coming three days later after he was stopped for a driving violation, with the dynamite still in his car. Pavlick spent the next six years in both federal prison and mental institutions before being released in December 1966. Pavlick was upset that Kennedy had won the close election of 1960 against Richard Nixon, and often ranted about how the Kennedy family fortune had “bought” the election. Anti-capitalist rhetoric is more often than not prone to making statements alleging that “the rich” keep “the poor” politically disenfranchised, accusing them of purchasing offices of power for themselves.<br /><br />In other words, the would-be political assassin Richard Paul Pavlick was a leftist.<br /><br />On November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was shot in Dallas, Texas, at 12:30 p.m. Kennedy was fatally wounded by a sniper's bullet while riding with his wife Jacqueline in a presidential motorcade through Dealey Plaza. At the time, Kennedy’s assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, was employed at the Texas School Book Depository, where he fired a 6.5 x 52 mm Italian Carcano M91/38 bolt-action rifle three times at the President’s motorade from a sixth story window. In addition to striking Kennedy in the head, killing him instantly, Osward also wounded Texas Governor John Connally and a bystander, James Tegue. Tegue was stuck by bullet fragments when Oswald’s second gunshot hit the nearby curb. Oswald himself was no stranger to violence. On April 10, 1963, Oswald, a former US Marine who had defected to the Soviet Union, had attempted to kill US Army General Edwin Walker, an ardent anti-Communist who the October 7, 1962 issue of the Communist Worker newspaper (which Oswald subscribed to) had called for “action against Walker and his allies.” Oswald fired upon General Walker through the dining room window of his Dallas home, but the bullet struck a window frame and was deflected, hitting General Walker in the forearm with fragments. Ballistics testing years later have corroborated the confessions of Oswald’s Russian wife Marina that linked Oswald to the attempt on Walker’s life, as the bullet fragments in that shooting matched ammunition used by the same rifle Oswald used to kill Kennedy. Oswald’s attempt on Walker’s life was politically motivated by Communist opposition to his anti-Castro speaking engagements, Oswald being a pro-Castro activist and self-avowed Communist with a history of meetings with the Soviet KGB. Oswald had even sent a letter to the Dallas offices of the FBI a week before the Kennedy assassination, warning that he would “blow up the FBI and the Dallas Police Department if you don’t stop bothering my wife.” (Oswald believed his Russian wife was being investigated for espionage due to his political activism). Fifteen minutes after killing the President of the United States, Oswald shot and killed Dallas police officer J. D. Tippit, shooting him four times at point blank range with a .38 Smith & Wesson Model 36 revolver. Prior to the attempted assassination of a politically conservative US Army general and the killings of the President of the United States and a Dallas police patrolman, Lee Harvey Oswald was very politically active in Communist causes.<br /><br />In other words, the political assassin Lee Harvey Oswald was a leftist.<br /><br />On June 5, 1968, on the first anniversay of the 1967 Six Day War between Israel and the Soviet-backed combined forces of Egypt, Jordan, and Syria, Arab nationalist Sirhan Sirhan fired a .22 caliber Iver-Johnson Cadet revolver at Senator Robert Kennedy and the crowd surrounding him in the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles shortly after Kennedy had finished addressing supporters in the hotel's main ballroom. George Plimpton, Rosey Grier, author Pete Hamill, and 1960 Olympic gold medalist Rafer Johnson were among several men who subdued and disarmed Sirhan after a lengthy struggle. Kennedy was shot three times, with a fourth bullet passing through his jacket, and died nearly 26 hours later. Five other people at the party were also shot, but all five recovered: Paul Schrade, an official with the United Automobile Workers union; William Weisel, an ABC TV unit manager; Ira Goldstein, a reporter with the Continental News Service; Elizabeth Evans, a friend of Pierre Salinger, one of Kennedy's campaign aides; and a teenager, Irwin Stroll, a Kennedy volunteer. Sirhan was upset that Kennedy had pledged to provide Israel with strike fighter aircraft on the first day of his envisioned Presidency. Sirhan himself was loyal to Arab interests during the 1967 Six Day War in which three Arab countries with support from the communist Soviet Union sought to destroy Israel and fulfill the long-standing socialist goal of a ‘world without Jews” advocated by leftist luminaries like Karl Marx and Adolf Hitler, a goal also concurrent with Islamic theology and Arab cultural aspirations.<br /><br />In other words, the political assassin Sirhan Sirhan was a leftist. <br /><br />On May 15, 1972 while campaigning as a candidate for President in Laurel, Maryland, then Alabama Governor George Wallace was shot five times by Arthur Bremer. Bremer’s home was raided in the post-attack investigation, in which itr was found that Bremer was a subscriber of Black Panther Party and other associated militant leftist newsletters.On March 1, 1972, Bremer began his diary with the words, "It is my personal plan to assassinate by pistol either Richard Nixon or George Wallace. I intend to shoot one or the other while he attends a campaign rally for the Wisconsin Primary". Bremer's purpose was "to do SOMETHING BOLD AND DRAMATIC, FORCEFUL & DYNAMIC, A STATEMENT of my manhood for the world to see" Bremer seemed to have a sociopathic craving to assert himself upon the world, no doubt heavily influenced by the empowerment rhetoric of black socialists and, of course, the hubristic tendency of self-styled “change agents” that emerge with the literal implementation of left-wing dialectical materialist activism.<br /><br />In other words, the would-be political assassin Arthur Bremer was a leftist.<br /><br />On February 22, 1974, Samuel Byck planned to kill President Richard Nixon by crashing a commercial airliner into the White House. Byck was an unemployed former tire salesman who attempted to hijack a plane flying out of Baltimore-Washington International Airport. Once he had hijacked the plane on the ground, he was informed that it could not take off with the wheel blocks still in place. He shot the pilot and copilot, then was shot by an officer through the plane's door window before killing himself. According to tapes made by Byck himself to document the reasoning behind his “Operation: Pandora’s Box,” Byck wanted to assassinate President Nixon for allegedly “conspiring against the poor,” a commonplace anti-capitalist / socialist theme, especially the manifesto of the so-called "Symbionese Liberation Army," a left-wing self-styled urban guerilla movement. Byck had also once attempted to join the Black Panthers, a racist, revolutionary socialist organization that still to this day advocates violence.<br /><br />In other words, the would-be political assassin Samuel Byck was a leftist.<br /><br />On September 5, 1975 on the northern grounds of the California State Capitol, Lynette Alice "Squeaky" Fromme, a follower of Charles Manson, drew a Colt M1911 .45 caliber pistol on Ford when he reached to shake her hand in a crowd. There were four cartridges in the pistol's magazine but the firing chamber was empty. She was soon restrained by Secret Service agent Larry Buendorf. Fromme was sentenced to life in prison, but was released from custody on August 14, 2009, nearly 3 years after Ford's death. Though not indicted in the charges against the “Manson Family,” during the trial of Charles Manson and other members of his cult for the infamous Tate-LaBianca murders, “Squeaky” Fromme preached Manson’s deranged, apocalyptic “ATWA” (Air, Trees, Water, Animals) philosophy, the basis of the later group of the same name that is dedicated to the “force of life and the opposition to that which destroys the ecological balance of the Earth,” a commonplace theme among “green” activists and animal “liberation” terrorists, as well as the current psuedoscientific “anthropogenic climate disruption” hoax hypothesis perpetuated by socialism advocates and wealth redistributionist “global warming” political nutlogs. [ATWA co-founder and Manson Family member Sandra Good was later imprisoned for 10 years for conspiracy to send threatening letters to corporate executives unless their corporations “ceased polluting the environment.”] In order to purchase protection from violent inmates for their imprisoned cult leader Charles Manson, "Squeaky" Fromme was among women in the Manson Family who sent nude photographs of themselves and promises of sexual favors to inmates who were members of the “Aryan Brotherhood,” a racist, white prison gang and organized crime syndicate noted for drug trafficking, extortion, inmate prostitution, and murder-for-hire that uses iconography and symbols from the infamous progressive left labor activist Adolf Hitler’s National Socialist German Workers (Nazi) Party. The Aryan Brotherhood is also affiliated with the Ku Klux Klan, a post-Civil War terrorist wing of the anti-Federalist, Constitution hating US Democratic Party, revitalized in the 1920s by the enthusiastic support of Progressive Society racial eugenics advocate and President of the United States Woodrow Wilson. Under Charles Manson’s politically violent ATWA philosophy, the Tate-LaBianca murders were intended to spark a race-based apocalyptic class war in which blacks would be blamed for the murders, creating a backlash where allegedly a civil war between black people and white people would result, with the few remaining black people emerging victorious, only to be ruled once more by the “white masters” of the Manson Family, who intended to wait out the envisioned “Helter Skelter” war in hiding, only to emerge and bring “enlightenment” to and rulership over “the darkies.” Essentially, a brutal, more vigorous approach to engineering the wacky racial hierarchalism of social Darwinism and progressive left eugenics policies.<br /><br />In other words, the would-be political assassin Lynette Alice "Squeaky" Fromme was a leftist.<br /><br />On September 22, 1975, seventeen days after “Squeaky” Fromme threatened President Gerald Ford with a gun, another would-be assassin came forward. Outside the St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco, California, Sara Jane Moore fired a revolver at Ford from 40 feet away. A bystander, Oliver Sipple, grabbed Moore's arm and the shot missed Ford. Moore was sentenced to life in prison. She was later paroled from a federal prison on Monday, December 31, 2007 (370 days after Ford's death) after serving more than 30 years. Moore was a former nursing school student, Women's Army Corps recruit, and accountant. Moore had been divorced five times and had four children before she turned to revolutionary politics in 1975. She later explained her attempt on President Ford’s life by saying, “the government had declared war on the left. Nixon's appointment of Ford as vice president and his resignation making Ford president seemed to be a continuing assault on America.” Given Ford’s lack of response to the Marxist-Leninist and Maoist inspired genocides in Cambodia and Indonesia following Nixon’s withdraw from the Vietnam War against Soviet-backed revolutionary communists, it isn’t immediately clear what exactly Moore meant by “the government had declared war on the left,” unless of course she was referring to the ongoing pursuit of the Weather Underground Organization, a terrorist offshoot of the Students for a Democratic Society, a far-left faction of the same anti-Federalist, Constitution hating US Democratic Party that spawned the Ku Klux Klan. The “Weathermen’s” goal was to create a clandestine revolutionary party for the violent overthrow of the US government and the establishment of a dictatorship of the proletariat, a commonplace theme in Marxist-Leninist ideology, becoming more mainstream with the election of Weather Underground terror bomber William Ayers’ comrade Barack Hussein Obama to the Presidency of the United States. Moore was also fascinated with the exploits of the “Symbionese Liberation Army” (SLA), an American self-styled left-wing urban militant group active between 1973 and 1975 that considered itself a revolutionary vanguard army. The group committed bank robberies, two murders and other acts of violence.The SLA became internationally notorious for kidnapping media heiress Patty Hearst, abducting the 19-year-old as she and her 26-year-old boyfriend, Steven Weed, sat relaxing in their Berkeley, California home. Interest increased when Hearst, in audiotaped messages delivered to (and broadcast by) regional news media, denounced her parents and announced she had joined the SLA. She was subsequently observed participating in their illegal activities. Hearst later alleged that she had been held in close confinement, sexually assaulted and brainwashed. In his manifesto "Symbionese Liberation Army Declaration of Revolutionary War & the Symbionese Program," SLA leader Donald DeFreeze wrote, "The name 'symbionese' is taken from the word 'symbiosis' and we define its meaning as a body of dissimilar bodies and organisms living in deep and loving harmony and partnership in the best interest of all within the body." Which, along with the tendency towards violence directed at businesses and banking institutions, is a commonplace theme among the multiculturalist left.<br /><br />In other words, the would-be political assassin Sara Jane Moore was a leftist.<br /><br />On March 30, 1981, as he returned to his limousine following a speaking engagement at the Hilton Washington Hotel in Washington, D.C., President Ronald Reagan and three others were shot and wounded by John Hinckley, Jr., who hoped to impress teen actress Jodie Foster. The others that were shot were White House Press Secretary James Brady, Secret Service agent Tim McCarthy, and D.C. police officer Thomas Delahanty, all of whom survived, though Brady, the most seriously wounded, was permanently disabled. Reagan survived and recovered after emergency surgery at nearby George Washington University Hospital. Hinckley was born father is John Warnock Hinckley, Sr., who was president of World Vision, a international relief and development organization which advocates liberation theology and “social justice” causes. Hinckley grew up in University Park, Texas and attended Highland Park High School in Dallas County, Texas. The family, owners of the Hinckley Oil company, later settled in Evergreen, Colorado. Hinckley graduated in 1973 from high school in Texas which prompted the move to Evergreen, Colorado An off-and-on student at Texas Tech University from 1974 to 1980, in 1975 he headed to Los Angeles in the hope of becoming a songwriter. These efforts were unsuccessful, and his letters home to his parents were full of tales of misfortune and pleas for money. He also spoke of a girlfriend, Lynn Collins, who turned out to be a fabrication. He returned to his parents' home in Evergreen before the year was out. During the next few years, he developed a pattern of living on his own for a while and then returning home poor. After seeing teen actress Jodie Foster portray a child prostitute in the 1976 movie Taxi Driver, Hinckley became obsessed with her, The Bickle character in the movie was in turn partially based on the diaries of Arthur Bremer, the attempted assassin of George Wallace.When Foster entered Yale University, Hinckley moved to New Haven, Connecticut for a short time to stalk her, slipping poems and messages under her door and repeatedly contacting her by telephone.Failing to develop any meaningful contact with Foster, Hinckley developed such plots as hijacking an airplane and committing suicide in front of her to gain her attention. Eventually he settled on a scheme to win her over by assassinating the president, with the theory that as a historical figure he would be her equal. To this end, he trailed President Jimmy Carter from state to state, but was arrested in Nashville, Tennessee on a firearms charge. Penniless, he returned home once again. He began to target newly-elected President Ronald Reagan in 1981. It was also at this time that he started collecting information on the assassination of John F. Kennedy by the communist Lee Harvey Oswald, whom he saw as a role model. Raised in a family that worked with Christian social and “liberation theology” programs and delusionally obsessed with becoming like the Taxi Driver character that was loosely based real life would-be assassin Arthur Bremer (who as stated above, had his home searched after his attempt on Wallace where it was discovered to contain collections of Black Panther Party literature, i.e. Bremer was a leftist) to somehow connect with Jodie Foster, and further inspired by the left-wing assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, John Hinckley, Jr. set out to kill anti-Communist President Ronald Reagan. <br /><br />In other words, would-be political assassin John Hinckley, Jr. was a leftist. <br /><br />On April 13, 1993, sixteen men in the employment of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein al-Tikriti, smuggled a car bomb into Kuwait with the intent of killing President George H. W. Bush as he spoke at Kuwait University. The plot was foiled when Kuwaiti officials found the bomb and arrested the would-be assassins. Bush had left office in January 1993. The Iraqi Intelligence Service (Mukhabarat), particularly Directorate 14, was found to be behind the plot. Saddam Hussein al-Tikriti was the leader of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party in Iraq from 1979 to 2003, when he was forcefully removed from power by the United States military despite widespread outcry and protests from leftists all over the world. “Ba’ath” means "resurrection" or "renaissance.’ The Arab Socialist Ba’ath Party was a political party inspired by left-wing labor activist and dictator Adolf Hitler’s national socialist movement, mixing Arab nationalist and Arab socialist interests, opposed to what it sees as "Western imperialism" and calling for the "renaissance" or "resurrection" of the Arab World and its unity in one united state. Its motto — "Unity, Liberty, Socialism" (wahda, hurriya, ishtirakiya) — refers to Arab unity, freedom from non-Arab control and interference, a goal shared by the Muslim terrorist leader and left-wing “anthropogenic climate disruption” pseudoscience proponent Osama bin Laden, who formally merged his ‘al-Qaeda’ terrorist organization with Ayman al-Zawahiri’s Egyptian Islamic Jihad organization at a conference in Baghdad, Iraq that was hosted and financed by Saddam Hussein al-Tikriti in 1998. Saddam Hussein would later offer political asylum to Osama bin Laden after President Bill Clinton’s Justice Department issued indictments following the al Qaeda bombings of American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. 1993 World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Yousef was a terrorist in the employ of Saddam Hussein’s Mukhabarat, as was his uncle and plotter of the September 11, 2001 terror attacks, al Qaeda operations commander Khalid Shiekh Muhammad. Saddam Hussein was a particularly religious Muslim leader, having “Alllahu ackbar” (“God is great”) added to the Iraqi national flag and donating two pints of his own blood to use as ink in a calligraphic transcription of his own personal copy of the Holy Quran. Saddam Hussein’s Iraq was also linked to producing VX nerve gas weapons in co-operation with al Qaeda at the al-Shifa pharmaceuticals plant in the Sudan, which was subsequently destroyed by an airstrike ordered by President Bill Clinton in 1998. Saddam Hussein had previously employed the use of VX and sarin gas weaponry in the Iraq-Iran War (1980 - 1988) and upon the ethnic Kurds of northern Iraq, perhaps in emulation of the heavy-handed tyranny of the French leftist and cult of personality leader Maximillien Robespierre’s “Reign of Terror” following the French Revolution. Leftists who obtain political power more often than not impose themselves as the cultish “Great Leader” of an eternal revolution squelching dissent and political opposition with violence (see Mussolini, Stalin, Hitler, Mao, Ho Chi Minh, Pol Pot, Castro, Idi Amin, etc.). Saddam Hussein was no different.<br /><br />In other words, Saddam Hussein and the terrorists and assassins in his employ, were leftists.<br /><br />On September 12, 1994, Frank Eugene Corder flew a stolen single-engine Cessna into the White House lawn, allegedly trying to hit the White House. The President and First Family were not home at the time, thus the actual motive behind the crash landing is inconclusive. Corder was the only casualty. Corder drew inspiration from Mathias Rust, a German who flew a rented Cessna from Helsinki, Finland into Soviet airspace, eventually landing in Red Square near the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia on May 28, 1987. Rust was later sentenced to prison for four years for attempted murder after stabbing a co-worker who spurned his sexual advances while serving his community service sentence in a West German hospital, thus indicating a sociopathic sense of entitlement and violent reaction to rejection all too commonplace among leftists who carry the hubris of believing themselves the progressive agents of change in a world they are allegedly more suited to rule. Rust is delusionally viewed in some leftist circles as a hero for penetrating Soviet airspace and allegedly ending the Cold War by embarrassing Russian military leaders in the Soviet air defense command. Indeed, Rust himself believed himself to be a “bridge” between the capitalist West and the communist Russians. At the time Corder attempted to fly his plane into the White House, these facts about Mathias Rust would have been known to Corder, particularly if Rust’s own daring flight in a stolen aircraft and his stated reasons for doing so inspired him. He may have been further inspired by Black Panther Party sympathizer Samuel Byck (detailed above) who also planned to assasinate a US President by crashing an airliner into the White House. Throughout the 1970s, various left-wing terrorist groups stole or hijacked aircraft to make political statements (particularly left-wing terrorist groups associated with Palestinian organizations backed by the Soviet Union, and which may have all served as an ideological prototype for the September 11, 2001 attacks). Frank Eugene Corder sought his “place in history” through violent plans as well.<br /><br />In other words, the would-be assassin Frank Eugene Corder was a leftist. <br /><br />On October 29, 1994, Francisco Martin Duran fired at least 29 shots with a semi-automatic rifle at the White House from a fence overlooking the north lawn, thinking that President Bill Clinton was among the men in dark suits standing there (Clinton was in the White House Residence watching a football game). Three tourists, Harry Rakowsky, Ken Davis and Robert Haines, tackled Duran before he could injure anyone. Duran was found to have a suicide note in his pocket and was sentenced to 40 years in prison. At his trial, Duran claimed he was trying to “save the world from aliens,” a commonplace trope among left-wing conspiracy theorists who believe the world is controlled by "Zionists," who to their paranoid delusional minds are Cthulu-like alien reptilian creatures who manipulate international relations with massive psychic tentacles. The ideas that “Jews / international bankers are aliens” and “the key to ending capitalism is a world without Jews” are two dehumanizing strains of bizarre anti-Semitic thought that find their intersection in the writings of noted leftist writers Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Mikhail Bakunin, Adolf Hitler, David Icke, Osama bin Laden and others. The dehumanization of “others” is a staple of left-wing thought, as is the hubristic “save the world” motivation.<br /><br />In other words, the would-be political assassin Francisco Martin Duran was a leftist.<br /><br />On February 7, 2001, while President George W. Bush was in the White House Residence, in Washington, DC, unemployed accountant Robert Pickett, standing outside the perimeter fence, discharged a number of shots from a weapon towards the White House. The U.S. Park Police stated that the type of handgun that was confiscated was of a sophisticated type and had the shooter not been shooting from an obstructed angle view, the bullets would have reached the White House. Following a stand-off of about ten minutes, the incident ended when a Secret Service officer shot Pickett, resulting in an injury which required immediate hospital surgery. Pickett had previously written letters to the President about employment grievances. A court in July 2001 sentenced Pickett to three years imprisonment in connection with the incident. Pickett had sent a letter to the Internal Revenue Service, claiming “My death is on your hands ... I have been the victim of corrupt government.” Which is a commonplace sentiment expressed by leftists embracing victimhood as the reason for their personal failings, stoking within themselves a overblown sense of entitlement which all to often erupts in non-sensical violence.<br /><br />In other words, the would-be political assassin Robert Pickett was a leftist.<br /><br />On May 10, 2005, while President George W. Bush was giving a speech in the Freedom Square in Tbilisi, Georgia, Vladimir Arutyunian threw a live Soviet-made RGD-5 hand grenade towards the podium where Bush was standing and where Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili, the First Lady of the United States Laura Bush, the First Lady of Georgia Sandra Roelofs, and officials were seated. The grenade was live and had its pin pulled, but did not explode because a red tartan handkerchief wrapped tightly around the grenade kept the firing pin from deploying quickly enough. Arutyunian was arrested in July 2005, and killed an Interior Ministry agent while resisting arrest. He was convicted in January 2006, and was given a life sentence. Russian military uniforms were found in Arutyunian’s home, though the Russian military denies he was soldier under their command even as they continue to menace the break-away republic of Georgia. The Russian military leadership is noted for still being under the control of former Communist Party members and appointed leaders loyal to hardliner communist Gennady Andreyevich Zyuganov. Even former KGB agent and Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has made moves to rehabilitate the memory of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, going so far as to allow the Russian military to still fly the red hammer-and-sickle flag of the former USSR, perhaps operating from that old Soviet War College adage “We will make grand concessions in the name of peace. And when we have lulled them into a false sense of security, we will smash them with the mailed fist.”<br /><br />In other words, would-be political assassin Vladimir Arutyunian was a leftist.<br /><br />On January 8, 2011, twenty people were shot, six of them fatally, during United States Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords' meeting with constituents held in a Safeway supermarket parking lot in Casas Adobes, Arizona. The dead include the chief judge for the U.S. District Court for Arizona, John Roll; a nine-year-old girl; and a congressional aide. Representative Giffords, a Democrat representing Arizona's 8th congressional district who was said to be the target of the attack,was shot through the head at close range and is in critical condition. A 22-year-old local man, Jared Lee Loughner, was arrested at the scene, and Federal prosecutors have filed five charges against him, including the attempted assassination of a member of Congress. Court filings include notes allegedly handwritten by Loughner indicating that he planned to assassinate Giffords. Perusal of Loughner’s YouTube accounts and online activities revealed that he was a fan of both the international socialist Karl Marx and the national socialist Adolf Hitler, two leftists who shared in common visions of a “world without Jews” to end capitalism. Congresswoman Giffords is Jewish. An avowed atheist like so many adherents of Marxism, Loughner shaved his head bald in perhaps solidarity with people punished by angry mobs in post-World War Two Europe for being collaborators with Adolf Hitler’s murderous left-wing labor movement, or perhaps to identify himself with modern “skinhead” neo-Nazi, white supremacist, and 20th Century iterations of the US Democratic Party’s Ku Klux Klan terrorist wing. Loughner presented himself on the internet with videos in which he burned the American flag, a favored symbolic act of aggression often seen committed by left-wing political protest groups and crowds whipped into a hateful frenzy by leaders of terrorism-sponsoring nations who more often than not fit the mold of cult of personality heads of state overseeing Soviet-style totalitarian regimes. Loughner was also a proponent of several world capitalists / international bankers / Jews / Zionists-control-everything conspiracy theories and canards that share a commonplace thread through leftist thought going back to the Dreyfus Affair in post-revolutionary France. <br /><br />In other words, there is no doubt political assassin Jared Lee Loughner is a leftist.<br /><br />There is absolutely no basis in reality or history for immediately suspecting a political assassination in the United States was motivated by right-wing politics, and ample justification for suspecting leftists at work. <br /><br />Any questions?Patrician Patriothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09528501856301888066noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2713891762865871973.post-22201899476146318472009-10-25T07:13:00.000-07:002009-10-25T07:26:31.351-07:00Would a "3rd Bush Term" have been this bad?If George W. Bush had been the first President to need a teleprompter installed to be able to get through a press conference, would you have laughed and said this is more proof of how he inept he is on his own and is really controlled by smarter men behind the scenes?<br /> <br /> <br />If George W. Bush had spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to take Laura Bush to a play in NYC, would you have approved?<br /> <br />If George W. Bush had reduced your retirement plan's holdings of GM stock by 90% and given the unions a majority stake in GM, would you have approved?<br /> <br />If George W. Bush had made a joke at the expense of the Special Olympics, would you have approved?<br /><br />If George W. Bush had given Gordon Brown a set of inexpensive and incorrectly formatted DVDs, when Gordon Brown had given him a thoughtful and historically significant gift, would you have <br />approved?<br /><br />If George W. Bush had given the Queen of England an iPod containing videos of his speeches, would you have thought this embarrassingly narcissistic and tacky? <br /> <br />If George W. Bush had bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia, would you have approved?<br /><br />If George W. Bush had visited Austria and made reference to the non-existent "Austrian language," would you have brushed it off as a minor slip? <br /> <br />If George W. Bush had filled his cabinet and circle of advisers with people who cannot seem to keep current in their income taxes, would you have approved? <br /> <br />If George W. Bush had been so Spanish illiterate as to refer to “Cinco de Cuatro" in front of the Mexican ambassador when it was the 5th of May (Cinco de Mayo), and continued to flub it when he tried again, would you have winced in embarrassment?<br /><br />If George W. Bush had mis-spelled the word "advice" would you have hammered him for it for years like Dan Quayle and potatoe as proof of what a dunce he is?<br /> <br />If George W. Bush had burned 9,000 gallons of jet fuel to go plant a single tree on Earth Day, would you have concluded he's a hypocrite?<br /> <br />If George W. Bush's administration had okayed Air Force One flying low over millions of people followed by a jet fighter in downtown Manhattan causing widespread panic, would you have wondered whether they actually get what happened on 9-11? <br /> <br />If George W. Bush had failed to send relief aid to flood victims throughout the Midwest with more people killed or made homeless than in New Orleans, would you want it made into a major ongoing political issue with claims of racism and incompetence? <br /><br />If George W. Bush had ordered the firing of the CEO of a major corporation, even though he had no constitutional authority to do so, would you have approved? <br /><br />If George W Bush had proposed to double the national debt, which had taken more than two centuries to accumulate, in one year, would you have approved? <br /> <br />If George W. Bush had then proposed to double the debt again within 10 years, would you have approved?<br /><br />So, tell me again, what is it about Obama that makes him so brilliant and impressive? <br /><br />Can't think of anything? Don't worry. He's done all this in 5 months -- so you'll have three years and seven months to come up with an answer.Patrician Patriothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09528501856301888066noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2713891762865871973.post-75747538883251280482009-10-19T18:21:00.000-07:002009-10-19T18:32:33.684-07:00And now ... a word from the peanut gallery!I just spent most of today wishing I was raised to think about me, myself and I first and foremost.<br /><br />Because then I could pray Obama gets Con and Tax ... (AKA Cap and Trade) passed. <br /><br />And because I own a ton of stock in the power company I work for, then I would get very rich very quick ... so sad that it will be at the expense of bankrupting the rest of the country and who cares that it won't do a dang thing to stop global warming. As long as it makes me and Al Gore rich. <br /><br />I mean my nuke plant can make power at about 4 cents a KW/Hour and sale it at 32 cents a kw/hour PLUS sell our carbon credits to coal plants at a tidy profit to further drive up their expenses ... which in turn drives up the price of power .... which pushes up my nuke plants profits even more!!!! .... which makes my stock worth more ... and once the poor peons can't afford the power to heat their homes ...well Obama-Care would be there to treat them for frost-bite as long as the quota for cold weather related injuries hasn't been met.<br /><br />If only my parents had raise me to be a dim-ol-crap!Patrician Patriothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09528501856301888066noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2713891762865871973.post-13595521877180612452009-03-31T21:16:00.000-07:002009-03-31T21:17:35.799-07:00TEA PARTY TIME!!!!!!ASAP: <br /><br />Mail tea bags or tea tags to:<br /><br />1600 Pennsylvania Ave., Washington, DC, 20500 <br /><br />and Go to or set up a TEA PARTY for April 15, 2009Patrician Patriothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09528501856301888066noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2713891762865871973.post-25805921341241846512009-02-10T17:38:00.000-08:002009-02-10T17:43:50.488-08:00Dear Mr Obama you are WRONG WRONG WRONG!!!!!!!!!"There is no disagreement that we need action by our government, a recovery plan that will help to jumpstart the economy."<br /><br />— PRESIDENT-ELECT BARACK OBAMA, JANUARY 9 , 2009<br /><br />With all due respect Mr. President, that is not true.<br />Notwithstanding reports that all economists are now Keynesians and that we all support a big increase in the burden of government, we do not believe that more government spending is a way to improve economic performance. More government spending by Hoover and Roosevelt did not pull the United States economy out of the Great Depression in the 1930s. More government spending did not solve Japan's "lost decade" in the 1990s. As such, it is a triumph of hope over experience to believe that more government spending will help the U.S. today. To improve the economy, policy makers should focus on reforms that remove impediments to work, saving, investment and production. Lower tax rates and a reduction in the burden of government are the best ways of using fiscal policy to boost growth.<br /><br />Burton Abrams, Univ. of Delaware <br />Douglas Adie, Ohio University <br />Ryan Amacher, Univ. of Texas at Arlington <br />J.J. Arias, Georgia College & State University <br />Howard Baetjer, Jr., Towson University <br />Stacie Beck, Univ. of Delaware <br />Don Bellante, Univ. of South Florida <br />James Bennett, George Mason University <br />Bruce Benson, Florida State University <br />Sanjai Bhagat, Univ. of Colorado at Boulder <br />Mark Bils, Univ. of Rochester <br />Alberto Bisin, New York University <br />Walter Block, Loyola University New Orleans <br />Cecil Bohanon, Ball State University <br />Michele Boldrin, Washington University in St. Louis <br />Donald Booth, Chapman University <br />Michael Bordo, Rutgers University <br />Samuel Bostaph, Univ. of Dallas <br />Scott Bradford, Brigham Young University <br />Genevieve Briand, Eastern Washington University <br />George Brower, Moravian College <br />James Buchanan, Nobel laureate <br />Richard Burdekin, Claremont McKenna College <br />Henry Butler, Northwestern University <br />William Butos, Trinity College <br />Peter Calcagno, College of Charleston <br />Bryan Caplan, George Mason University <br />Art Carden, Rhodes College <br />James Cardon, Brigham Young University <br />Dustin Chambers, Salisbury University <br />Emily Chamlee-Wright, Beloit College <br />V.V. Chari, Univ. of Minnesota <br />Barry Chiswick, Univ. of Illinois at Chicago <br />Lawrence Cima, John Carroll University <br />J.R. Clark, Univ. of Tennessee at Chattanooga <br />Gian Luca Clementi, New York University <br />R. Morris Coats, Nicholls State University <br />John Cochran, Metropolitan State College <br />John Cochrane, Univ. of Chicago <br />John Cogan, Hoover Institution, Stanford University <br />John Coleman, Duke University <br />Boyd Collier, Tarleton State University <br />Robert Collinge, Univ. of Texas at San Antonio <br />Lee Coppock, Univ. of Virginia <br />Mario Crucini, Vanderbilt University <br />Christopher Culp, Univ. of Chicago <br />Kirby Cundiff, Northeastern State University <br />Antony Davies, Duquesne University <br />John Dawson, Appalachian State University <br />Clarence Deitsch, Ball State University <br />Arthur Diamond, Jr., Univ. of Nebraska at Omaha <br />John Dobra, Univ. of Nevada, Reno <br />James Dorn, Towson University <br />Christopher Douglas, Univ. of Michigan, Flint <br />Floyd Duncan, Virginia Military Institute <br />Francis Egan, Trinity College <br />John Egger, Towson University <br />Kenneth Elzinga, Univ. of Virginia <br />Paul Evans, Ohio State University <br />Eugene Fama, Univ. of Chicago <br />W. Ken Farr, Georgia College & State University <br />Hartmut Fischer, Univ. of San Francisco <br />Fred Foldvary, Santa Clara University <br />Murray Frank, Univ. of Minnesota <br />Peter Frank, Wingate University <br />Timothy Fuerst, Bowling Green State University <br />B. Delworth Gardner, Brigham Young University <br />John Garen, Univ. of Kentucky <br />Rick Geddes, Cornell University <br />Aaron Gellman, Northwestern University <br />William Gerdes, Clarke College <br />Michael Gibbs, Univ. of Chicago <br />Stephan Gohmann, Univ. of Louisville <br />Rodolfo Gonzalez, San Jose State University <br />Richard Gordon, Penn State University <br />Peter Gordon, Univ. of Southern California <br />Ernie Goss, Creighton University <br />Paul Gregory, Univ. of Houston <br />Earl Grinols, Baylor University <br />Daniel Gropper, Auburn University <br />R.W. Hafer, Southern Illinois <br />University, Edwardsville <br />Arthur Hall, Univ. of Kansas <br />Steve Hanke, Johns Hopkins <br />Stephen Happel, Arizona State University <br />Frank Hefner, College of Charleston <br />Ronald Heiner, George Mason University <br />David Henderson, Hoover Institution, Stanford University <br />Robert Herren, North Dakota State University <br />Gailen Hite, Columbia University <br />Steven Horwitz, St. Lawrence University <br />John Howe, Univ. of Missouri, Columbia <br />Jeffrey Hummel, San Jose State University <br />Bruce Hutchinson, Univ. of Tennessee at Chattanooga <br />Brian Jacobsen, Wisconsin Lutheran College <br />Jason Johnston, Univ. of Pennsylvania <br />Boyan Jovanovic, New York University <br />Jonathan Karpoff, Univ. of Washington <br />Barry Keating, Univ. of Notre Dame <br />Naveen Khanna, Michigan State University <br />Nicholas Kiefer, Cornell University <br />Daniel Klein, George Mason University <br />Paul Koch, Univ. of Kansas <br />Narayana Kocherlakota, Univ. of Minnesota <br />Marek Kolar, Delta College <br />Roger Koppl, Fairleigh Dickinson University <br />Kishore Kulkarni, Metropolitan State College of Denver <br />Deepak Lal, UCLA <br />George Langelett, South Dakota State University <br />James Larriviere, Spring Hill College <br />Robert Lawson, Auburn University <br />John Levendis, Loyola University New Orleans <br />David Levine, Washington University in St. Louis <br />Peter Lewin, Univ. of Texas at Dallas <br />Dean Lillard, Cornell University <br />Zheng Liu, Emory University <br />Alan Lockard, Binghampton University <br />Edward Lopez, San Jose State University <br />John Lunn, Hope College <br />Glenn MacDonald, Washington University in St. Louis <br />Michael Marlow, California Polytechnic State University <br />Deryl Martin, Tennessee Tech University <br />Dale Matcheck, Northwood University <br />Deirdre McCloskey, Univ. of Illinois, Chicago <br />John McDermott, Univ. of South Carolina <br />Joseph McGarrity, Univ. of Central Arkansas <br />Roger Meiners, Univ. of Texas at Arlington <br />Allan Meltzer, Carnegie Mellon University <br />John Merrifield, Univ. of Texas at San Antonio <br />James Miller III, George Mason University <br />Jeffrey Miron, Harvard University <br />Thomas Moeller, Texas Christian University <br />John Moorhouse, Wake Forest University <br />Andrea Moro, Vanderbilt University <br />Andrew Morriss, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign <br />Michael Munger, Duke University <br />Kevin Murphy, Univ. of Southern California <br />Richard Muth, Emory University <br />Charles Nelson, Univ. of Washington <br />Seth Norton, Wheaton College <br />Lee Ohanian, Univ. of California, Los Angeles <br />Lydia Ortega, San Jose State University <br />Evan Osborne, Wright State University <br />Randall Parker, East Carolina University <br />Donald Parsons, George Washington University <br />Sam Peltzman, Univ. of Chicago <br />Mark Perry, Univ. of Michigan, Flint <br />Christopher Phelan, Univ. of Minnesota <br />Gordon Phillips, Univ. of Maryland <br />Michael Pippenger, Univ. of Alaska, Fairbanks <br />Tomasz Piskorski, Columbia University <br />Brennan Platt, Brigham Young University <br />Joseph Pomykala, Towson University <br />William Poole, Univ. of Delaware <br />Barry Poulson, Univ. of Colorado at Boulder <br />Benjamin Powell, Suffolk University <br />Edward Prescott, Nobel laureate <br />Gary Quinlivan, Saint Vincent College <br />Reza Ramazani, Saint Michael's College <br />Adriano Rampini, Duke University <br />Eric Rasmusen, Indiana University <br />Mario Rizzo, New York University <br />Richard Roll, Univ. of California, Los Angeles <br />Robert Rossana, Wayne State University <br />James Roumasset, Univ. of Hawaii at Manoa <br />John Rowe, Univ. of South Florida <br />Charles Rowley, George Mason University <br />Juan Rubio-Ramirez, Duke University <br />Roy Ruffin, Univ. of Houston <br />Kevin Salyer, Univ. of California, Davis <br />Pavel Savor, Univ. of Pennsylvania <br />Ronald Schmidt, Univ. of Rochester <br />Carlos Seiglie, Rutgers University <br />William Shughart II, Univ. of Mississippi <br />Charles Skipton, Univ. of Tampa <br />James Smith, Western Carolina University <br />Vernon Smith, Nobel laureate <br />Lawrence Southwick, Jr., Univ. at Buffalo <br />Dean Stansel, Florida Gulf Coast University <br />Houston Stokes, Univ. of Illinois at Chicago <br />Brian Strow, Western Kentucky University <br />Shirley Svorny, California State <br />University, Northridge <br />John Tatom, Indiana State University <br />Wade Thomas, State University of New York at Oneonta <br />Henry Thompson, Auburn University <br />Alex Tokarev, The King's College <br />Edward Tower, Duke University <br />Leo Troy, Rutgers University <br />David Tuerck, Suffolk University <br />Charlotte Twight, Boise State University <br />Kamal Upadhyaya, Univ. of New Haven <br />Charles Upton, Kent State University <br />T. Norman Van Cott, Ball State University <br />Richard Vedder, Ohio University <br />Richard Wagner, George Mason University <br />Douglas M. Walker, College of Charleston <br />Douglas O. Walker, Regent University <br />Christopher Westley, Jacksonville State University <br />Lawrence White, Univ. of Missouri at St. Louis <br />Walter Williams, George Mason University <br />Doug Wills, Univ. of Washington Tacoma <br />Dennis Wilson, Western Kentucky University <br />Gary Wolfram, Hillsdale College <br />Huizhong Zhou, Western Michigan University <br /><br />UPDATE: Additional economists who have signed the statement<br /><br />Lee Adkins, Oklahoma State University <br />William Albrecht, Univ. of Iowa <br />Donald Alexander, Western Michigan University <br />Geoffrey Andron, Austin Community College <br />Nathan Ashby, Univ. of Texas at El Paso <br />George Averitt, Purdue North Central University <br />Charles Baird, California State University, East Bay <br />Timothy Bastian, Creighton University <br />John Bethune, Barton College <br />Robert Bise, Orange Coast College <br />Karl Borden, University of Nebraska <br />Donald Boudreaux, George Mason University <br />Ivan Brick, Rutgers University <br />Phil Bryson, Brigham Young University <br />Richard Burkhauser, Cornell University <br />Edwin Burton, Univ. of Virginia <br />Jim Butkiewicz, Univ. of Delaware <br />Richard Cebula, Armstrong Atlantic State University <br />Don Chance, Louisiana State University <br />Robert Chatfield, Univ. of Nevada, Las Vegas <br />Lloyd Cohen, George Mason University <br />Peter Colwell, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign <br />Michael Connolly, Univ. of Miami <br />Jim Couch, Univ. of North Alabama <br />Eleanor Craig, Univ. of Delaware <br />Michael Daniels, Columbus State University <br />A. Edward Day, Univ. of Texas at Dallas <br />Stephen Dempsey, Univ. of Vermont <br />Allan DeSerpa, Arizona State University <br />William Dewald, Ohio State University <br />Jeff Dorfman, Univ. of Georgia <br />Lanny Ebenstein, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara <br />Michael Erickson, The College of Idaho <br />Jack Estill, San Jose State University <br />Dorla Evans, Univ. of Alabama in Huntsville <br />Frank Falero, California State University, Bakersfield <br />Daniel Feenberg, National Bureau of Economic Research <br />Eric Fisher, California Polytechnic State University <br />Arthur Fleisher, Metropolitan State College of Denver <br />William Ford, Middle Tennessee State University <br />Ralph Frasca, Univ. of Dayton <br />Joseph Giacalone, St. John's University <br />Adam Gifford, California State Unviersity, Northridge <br />Otis Gilley, Louisiana Tech University <br />J. Edward Graham, University of North Carolina at Wilmington <br />Richard Grant, Lipscomb University <br />Gauri-Shankar Guha, Arkansas State University <br />Darren Gulla, Univ. of Kentucky <br />Dennis Halcoussis, California State University, Northridge <br />Richard Hart, Miami University <br />James Hartley, Mount Holyoke College <br />Thomas Hazlett, George Mason University <br />Scott Hein, Texas Tech University <br />Bradley Hobbs, Florida Gulf Coast University <br />John Hoehn, Michigan State University <br />Daniel Houser, George Mason University <br />Thomas Howard, University of Denver <br />Chris Hughen, Univ. of Denver <br />Marcus Ingram, Univ. of Tampa <br />Joseph Jadlow, Oklahoma State University <br />Sherry Jarrell, Wake Forest University <br />Carrie Kerekes, Florida Gulf Coast University <br />Robert Krol, California State University, Northridge <br />James Kurre, Penn State Erie <br />Tom Lehman, Indiana Wesleyan University <br />W. Cris Lewis, Utah State University <br />Stan Liebowitz, Univ. of Texas at Dallas <br />Anthony Losasso, Univ. of Illinois at Chicago <br />John Lott, Jr., Univ. of Maryland <br />Keith Malone, Univ. of North Alabama <br />Henry Manne, George Mason University <br />Richard Marcus, Univ. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee <br />Timothy Mathews, Kennesaw State University <br />John Matsusaka, Univ. of Southern California <br />Thomas Mayor, Univ. of Houston <br />W. Douglas McMillin, Louisiana State University <br />Mario Miranda, The Ohio State University <br />Ed Miseta, Penn State Erie <br />James Moncur, Univ. of Hawaii at Manoa <br />Charles Moss, Univ. of Florida <br />Tim Muris, George Mason University <br />John Murray, Univ. of Toledo <br />David Mustard, Univ. of Georgia <br />Steven Myers, Univ. of Akron <br />Dhananjay Nanda, University of Miami <br />Stephen Parente, Univ. of Minnesota <br />Allen Parkman, Univ. of New Mexico <br />Douglas Patterson, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and University <br />Timothy Perri, Appalachian State University <br />Mark Pingle, Univ. of Nevada, Reno <br />Ivan Pongracic, Hillsdale College <br />Richard Rawlins, Missouri Southern State University <br />Thomas Rhee, California State University, Long Beach <br />Christine Ries, Georgia Institute of Technology <br />Nancy Roberts, Arizona State University <br />Larry Ross, Univ. of Alaska Anchorage <br />Timothy Roth, Univ. of Texas at El Paso <br />Atulya Sarin, Santa Clara University <br />Thomas Saving, Texas A&M University <br />Eric Schansberg, Indiana University Southeast <br />John Seater, North Carolina University <br />Alan Shapiro, Univ. of Southern California <br />Frank Spreng, McKendree University <br />Judith Staley Brenneke, John Carroll University <br />John E. Stapleford, Eastern University <br />Courtenay Stone, Ball State University <br />Avanidhar Subrahmanyam, UCLA <br />Scott Sumner, Bentley University <br />Clifford Thies, Shenandoah University <br />William Trumbull, West Virginia University <br />Gustavo Ventura, Univ. of Iowa <br />Marc Weidenmier, Claremont McKenna College <br />Robert Whaples, Wake Forest University <br />Gene Wunder, Washburn University <br />John Zdanowicz, Florida International University <br />Jerry Zimmerman, Univ. of Rochester <br />Joseph Zoric, Franciscan University of SteubenvillePatrician Patriothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09528501856301888066noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2713891762865871973.post-60708096379483771612009-02-07T08:05:00.000-08:002009-02-07T20:13:21.982-08:00Obama's 1st pick for the high court?<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7THSop7dU7-OsLUB2SKuztiP3x23ZawD5sRQnnFmgxO5ic8gDCgxktWqH9OWhKex2Q5n6-miP_Rmw4Iia_SHt-0exmuIINNAAXcvlNFARfWFYlSmLBsPJwxF1oYQbiWc77fUjzqWCPn4/s1600-h/ginsburgsnooze1.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 237px; height: 157px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7THSop7dU7-OsLUB2SKuztiP3x23ZawD5sRQnnFmgxO5ic8gDCgxktWqH9OWhKex2Q5n6-miP_Rmw4Iia_SHt-0exmuIINNAAXcvlNFARfWFYlSmLBsPJwxF1oYQbiWc77fUjzqWCPn4/s320/ginsburgsnooze1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5300274740664579538" /></a><br />Can you just wait to see who Azz Clown Boy ... err ... I mean Obama puts in for Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg with that dried up old liberal cunt finally crocks from cancer.<br /><br />(Now, why don't you ask me how I really feel about her?) And no it has nothing to do with her being a woman or jewish or asleep at the bench (aka "snorer in the court") and has everything to do with her being the ring leader of the "liberal wing" in the current high court and having a Segal-Cover score of 0.680 placing her as the most liberal of the current justices.<br /><br />Hey Ruth hurry up and die and take that old Drunk Ted Kennedy with you you dried up cancer ridden hag!<br /><br />"You have to have a Carter to get a Reagan."Patrician Patriothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09528501856301888066noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2713891762865871973.post-10714919100636678052009-02-05T14:26:00.000-08:002009-02-05T14:30:24.152-08:00Obama's first official pardonThe people that run this <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,488644,00.html"></a>abortion clinic might well be the recipients of Obama's first official pardon.<br /><br />See http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,488644,00.htmlPatrician Patriothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09528501856301888066noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2713891762865871973.post-52050889964697132162009-02-04T11:46:00.000-08:002009-02-04T11:47:33.940-08:00Obama's Stimulus Bill is a War on PrayerThe provision bans money designated for school renovation from being spent on facilities that allow "religious worship." It has ignited a fury among critics who say it violates the First Amendment and is an attempt to prevent religious practice in schools.<br /><br />According to the bill, which the Democratic-controlled House passed despite unanimous Republican opposition, funds are prohibited from being used for the "modernization, renovation, or repair" of facilities that allow "sectarian instruction, religious worship or a school or department of divinity." <br /><br />Critics say that could include public schools that permit religious groups to meet on campus. The House provided $20 billion for the infrastructure improvements, of which $6 billion would go to higher education facilities where the limitations would be applied.<br /><br />"What the government is doing is discriminating against religious viewpoints," said Matthew Staver, founder and chairman of Liberty Counsel, a Washington-based nonprofit organization that works to advance religious freedom.<br /><br />"President Obama's version of faith-based initiatives is to remove the faith from initiative," said Staver, who points out Obama has "a completely different view on faith" from what he said during his presidential campaign.<br /><br />"He is not the infallible messiah that some thought he would be," Straver said.Patrician Patriothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09528501856301888066noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2713891762865871973.post-666400848358157922009-02-03T13:00:00.000-08:002009-02-03T13:15:03.067-08:00Obama's Hope has been DaschledTom Daschle withdrew his nomination for health and human services secretary Tuesday, after fielding mounting criticism over his failure to pay more than $130,000 in taxes. <br /><br />(Obama's Hope for an easy go at Socialized health care has been Daschled at least for now ...)<br /><br /><br />Daschle is not the only high-profile nominee to withdraw their name:<br /><br />Former Gov Bill "Pay to Play" Richardson withdrew his nomination for commerce secretary amid an ethics investigation in New Mexico. <br /><br />Obama's pick to be the White House's first performance officer, Nancy Killefer, also withdrew her nomination on Tuesday because of her own tax liabilities, namely a $946 tax lien imposed by the D.C. government for failure to pay $298 in unemployment compensation tax on household help. <br /><br /><br />(LOL ... I guess Daschle wasn't the only Dim not to get Biden's memo that paying taxes is "Patriotic.")<br /><br />(Why is it that the only two Obama appointees that have had no controversies in their nomination hearings are the only two republicans he has appointed?)<br /><br />"You have to have a Carter to get a Reagan."Patrician Patriothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09528501856301888066noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2713891762865871973.post-77953683129015312462009-01-31T15:07:00.000-08:002009-01-31T15:21:52.763-08:00Obama wants to hobble the Defense DepartmentWho didn't see this coming?<br /><br />http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/01/30/defense-official-obama-calling-defense-budget-cuts/<br /><br />We are fighting a war on two fronts that Obama wants to lose. So why not cut the Military Budget?Patrician Patriothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09528501856301888066noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2713891762865871973.post-44579812697954951672009-01-31T08:21:00.000-08:002009-01-31T09:04:48.195-08:00Obama arrested on drug chargesWell not the President ... but his half-brother, George Obama was arrested for alleged possession of marijuana on Saturday near his home in a Nairobi shantytown, police said.<br /><br />According to the local police cheif, George Obama, who is in his 20s and barely knows the president, had one marijuana joint on him.<br /><br />The youngest of our President's brothers, lives in a shack and earns a dollar a day. "I'm proud of how I live," he told The Associated Press in an interview over the summer. "(The media) are tarnishing the family name."<br /><br />In President Obama's book "Dreams From My Father," he describes George Obama as "a handsome, roundheaded boy with a wary gaze." I wonder why he didn't invite him to the takeover party?<br /><br />So anyway, two thoughts come to mind:<br /><br />First, when BHO's faulty policies lead us head long into the Greater Depression, are all the Dims here in America going to be "proud" to live in a shack and to make a dollar a day? (With the Dims destroying the economy and the mortage industry that just may come try.)<br /><br /><br />And Second, is George Obama going to start selling his favorite end use product the same way Jimmy Carter's Brother, Billy did with Billy Beer? (I can it now: George Ganja. And George's first add would read something like: "Grown expressly for and with the personal approval of one of world's all-time great pot-smokers - George Obama." And "I had this doobie rolled just for me. I think it's the best I've ever tasted. And I've tasted a lot. I think you'll like it, too." George Obama.) *<br /><br />*Yes a few words were changed from the Billy Beer slogan's to make the George Ganja ad.Patrician Patriothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09528501856301888066noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2713891762865871973.post-90087491291648805792009-01-26T00:37:00.000-08:002009-01-26T07:44:33.648-08:00Well that didn't take long, Mr ObamaOn Saturday morning, the list of subpoenas served by the U.S. Attorney's office in the Governor Rod Blagojevich case was made public. The list included one major surprise for the new administration.<br /><br />A veritable "who's who" of Obama staffers, surrogates and affiliates were among those served with subpoenas. Put simply, within one week of President Barack Obama's administration taking office, it is already under significant legal scrutiny that will -- at a minimum -- take precious time away from dealing with the country's monumental economic and foreign policy challenges.<br /><br />And, once again, the mainstream media is AWOL, unwilling to report on this very newsworthy story.<br /><br />Among those served with subpoenas were:<br /><br />David Axelrod, Obama's "Karl Rove" and the biggest surprise on the list. Obama's team issued a report in December that said his staff had no "inappropriate contact" with Blago, so the inclusion of Axelrod is a bit of a shock.<br /><br />Valerie Jarrett, Blago's "Senate Candidate 1", a real estate management executive and political hack of the first order. Her ties to failed and fraudulent real estate deals in Chicago were the subject of numerous investigations and should have instantly disqualified her for any public office.<br /><br />Rahm Emanuel was already deeply involved in the case with some reports describing as many as 21 conversations with Blago's office during the period in question.<br /><br />Tony Rezko, Obama's first advocate, fundraiser and adviser, was convicted last year on numerous charges related to kickbacks, and is now awaiting sentencing. Rezko is "cooperating with authorities, FBI Agent Daniel Cain said in an affidavit."<br /><br />Others served include:<br /><br /> • Patricia Blagojevich, first lady<br />• River Realty, her former employer<br />• Friends of Blagojevich, the governor's campaign committee<br />• Citizens for Blagojevich, his former committee<br />• Robert Blagojevich, the governor's brother and campaign chairman<br />• Christopher Kelly, former adviser and fundraiser for governor<br />• Alonzo Monk, former Blagojevich chief of staff, now a lobbyist<br />• Milan Petrovic, lobbyist and campaign fundraiser<br />• John Wyma, former Blagojevich adviser, now a lobbyist<br />• Paul Rosenfeld, lobbyist<br />• J.B. Pritzker, wealthy Chicagoan whom Blagojevich might have considered to replace Obama in U.S. Senate<br />• Gery Chico, former Chicago school board president and one-time U.S. Senate candidate<br />• Doug Scofield, former Blagojevich adviser, now a consultant<br />• Scofield Communications<br />• Service Employees International Union<br />• Tom Balanoff, SEIU Illinois president<br />• Change to Win, an SEIU-affiliated activist group<br />• Sam Zell, owner of the Chicago Tribune<br />• Nils Larsen, an adviser to Zell<br />• The Chicago Tribune<br />• The Tribune Co., the newspaper's parent company<br />• Michael Vondra, owner of asphalt and construction companies<br />• Gerald Krozel, vice president of a concrete company<br />• John Johnston, president of Balmoral Park racetrack<br />• Fred Yang, Washington, D.C.-based Blagojevich consultant<br />• Garin Hart Yang Research Group, Yang's firm<br />• William Knapp, Washington, D.C.-based Blagojevich consultant<br />• Squire, Knapp & Dunn, Knapp's firm<br />• Doug Sosnick, political consultant<br /><br />Blago's "Senate Candidate 3", Jan Schakowsky, was not served with a subpoena, but will have some questions of her own to answer in the days to come.<br /><br />Let's recap, shall we? In the first week, Obama has not cut taxes -- the only proven way to revive the economy -- despite promising to do so for "95% of working Americans" (which was almost certainly a lie, but let's wait and see); signed an order to close Gitmo, certain to make America less safe; and promoted abortion on a global scale.<br /><br />Oh, and most of his senior staff was served with subpoenas.<br /><br />I can hardly wait for week two.<br /><br />Update: Thomas Lifson offers the critical thought experiment: imagine if Rove, and not Axelrod, had been the subject.<br /><br />Hat tips: Don Surber (for the title as well as the story) and Larwyn. Linked by: Thomas Lifson at the invaluable American Thinker, The Anchoress, SondraK, The Real Barack Obama, DequalsS, Bill Baar's West Side and The Astute Bloggers. Thanks!<br />Labels: Crime, Democrats, MSM, ObamaPatrician Patriothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09528501856301888066noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2713891762865871973.post-36300070270245761502009-01-25T07:24:00.000-08:002009-01-25T07:35:25.746-08:00Obama's War CrimesKABUL, Afghanistan — President Hamid Karzai condemned a U.S. operation that killed 16 Afghan civilians, while hundreds of villagers denounced the American military during an angry demonstration Sunday. Karzai said the killing of innocent Afghans during U.S. military operations "is strengthening the terrorists." (So when are the Dims going to start talking about Obama's war crimes trial?)<br /><br />And what about the Civilians Obama ordered killed via unmanned spay planes in Pakistan?<br /><br />Please note I as a member of the Armed forces I support my president just not his policies. (Yeah, I know that sounds as retarded as the Libtards saying they support the troops not the war.)Patrician Patriothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09528501856301888066noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2713891762865871973.post-35339623482820138422009-01-24T11:38:00.000-08:002009-01-24T11:42:07.945-08:00It takes a Carter to get a Reagan.Jimmy Carter was hands down the worst president of the past 50 years, if not of all time. Obama will take that title away from Carter. Maybe it would be good for the country to see how much damage the Democrat/Socialist party can do. That’s how Reagan and the Republicans came roaring back to power in a landslide. Even die hard Democraps couldn’t take another term of Jimmy Carter’s mediocrity.<br /><br />And thus 1.20.13 will be the end of socialism in America.<br /><br />But to be honest, it isn't fair to compare Obama to Moa, Lenin, Marx or Carter ... because they all had experience before coming into powerPatrician Patriothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09528501856301888066noreply@blogger.com0