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November 7, 2008
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Posted by Van Helsing at November 7, 2008 7:26 AM
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I didn't commies had androids. I thought the Japanese had them.
Posted by: AC at November 7, 2008 7:48 AM
Obama's new Enforcer Rahm Emanuel. Sounds like a colorful guy.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1083658/The-ballet-trained-political-assassin-inspired-West-Wings-Josh-Lyman-Obamas-chief-staff.html
"Although a seasoned politician, Emanuel's first love was dance."
"He is said to have once been so angry at a co-worker that he sent him a dead, rotting fish - a Mafia-style warning that his life was in mortal danger."
"At a celebratory dinner after the 1996 election he was so angry at Clinton's enemies that he grabbed a steak knife and began shouting out their names, plunging the knife into the table and shouting 'Dead! Dead! Dead!' after each name."
"Emanuel revels in his attack dog reputation and once said: 'I wake up some mornings hating me too'."
Posted by: The Anti Messiah at November 7, 2008 7:53 AM
Lets look to Europe for leadership on race. Europeans are so much more enlightened than we are. LOL. Speaking of which has a black man ever led any European country?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1083907/New-Obama-race-row-Austrian-political-pundit-claims-black-people-uncivilised-rule.html
"Austria's official state broadcaster is refusing to sack a senior political commentator who said blacks were not civilised enough to rule.
Klaus Emmerich, the retired editor-in-chief of Austrian broadcaster ORF's news and current affairs service, is the station's top political commentator for U.S. affairs. Der Spiegel likened him to Wolf Blitzer, CNN's legendary political commentator.
But covering the election in which Barack Obama was elected American president, Emmerich said: 'I do not want the western world being directed by a black man. And if you say this is a racist remark, I say you are damn right it is.'
Emmerich also said Obama's election was "a highly disturbing development" because "blacks are not as far advanced in the civilisation process nor in their political progress."
Following his outburst, the moderator prevented Emmerich from speaking again. "
Posted by: The Anti Messiah at November 7, 2008 8:52 AM
Sorry, but this picture should peel away his facade and reveal the Devil instead....
Posted by: Rightinaz at November 7, 2008 9:21 AM
Mugabe and Iran are happy with Obama. Isnt that all that really matters? Maybe Mugabe can give Obama some tips on how to run the US economy ---- into the ground while carting off some US taxpayers loot to take home.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081107/ts_afp/usvote
"Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, branded a dictator by Bush after staging a one-man election in June, also extended an olive branch to Obama Friday by saying he "cherish(ed) the hope of working with your administration"."
Posted by: The Anti Messiah at November 7, 2008 11:08 AM
Another number to add to the stuff Obama has promised but can't possibly pay for: $500 Billion.
Posted by: V the K at November 7, 2008 12:05 PM
I dug into the numbers a little further. This is what Obama's proposals would cost:
- Expand Medicaid to cover 47 million uninsured Americans: ~$400 Billion (annually)
- Global Poverty Relief: $85 Billion
- Five Million "Green Jobs": $500 Billion over five years
- Renewable Energy: $15 Billion (Annually)
- Tax Welfare: $85 Billion (Annually)
- Infrastructure Stimulus: $100 Billion (Annually)
- Universal Pre-K: $4 Billion Annually
- Other proposed Education spending: $6 billion annually
$795 billion in proposed new spending. And I didn't even include everything. Throw in college tuition subsidies, bailouts for cities and states, and who knows what else... we could be looking at a trillion, easily.
Increasing taxes on the top 5% of wage earners might raise 189 billion (optimistically). Full scale retreat and withdrawal from Irag gets another $90 Billion... but Chairman O has promised to increase warfighting in Afghanistan, so call it $45 billion and split the difference.
Either way, that's a hole of about $500 billion dollars. And no Obamunist yet has answered my challenge about how to pay for it.
Posted by: V the K at November 7, 2008 12:25 PM
Posted by: V the K at November 7, 2008 12:30 PM
Chairman O announces Mandatory Community Service. Call it the "Obama Jugend."
Posted by: V the K at November 7, 2008 12:45 PM
V the K,
You're forgetting the 500 billion dollars that he has pledged for our Gestapo, I mean, "civilian security force" which he flatly stated would be just as large and powerful and well-funded as our military.
Posted by: ent at November 7, 2008 1:34 PM
Do you remember the old sci fi series THE INDADERS? these freaky aliens comming from a dying planet can make themselves look human but when the die they disintigrate
Posted by: Spurwing Plover at November 7, 2008 3:39 PM
Posted by: V the K at November 7, 2008 4:23 PM
Posted by: V the K at November 7, 2008 4:35 PM
Posted by: V the K at November 7, 2008 5:58 PM
Being of such an age and state of health, that I doubt very much that the terrible damage and horror of 11/4/2008 will be undone in my remaining lifetime, I remember a line from a strange poem in a strange book of poems.
"Possibly this tumult, undefined, forms the footpath to that final death beyond which no other will
remain for him to mourn: his own."
This is the final line in a poem named
UNTIL WE DROOL AND PISS OURSELVES
The book is
PALLBEARERS ENVYING THE ONE WHO RIDES
The author is Stephen Dobyns
Posted by: SnowSnake at November 7, 2008 7:34 PM
Regarding the Dutch radio personality, you know what they say. A conservative is a liberal who's been mugged.
Posted by: ent at November 7, 2008 9:30 PM
THE STEALTH ISSUE THAT WILL FLEECE (SOME) AMERICANS (PART ONE)
There are any number of proposals that the new Barack Obama administration will introduce over the next four years and all of them will cost taxpayers money, loads of money.
Obama’s reference to “sacrifice” in his Grant Park speech on election night was no mere slip of the lip like his “57 state” gaffe. It was a less than subtle hint and he was foresadowing our tax future.
We will all have to cough up more to the IRS to implement his schemes, although his plan to “share the wealth” anticipates that those who work hard and maybe struggle to make those ends meet will be expected to cough louder.
Those 40,000,ooo+ Americans who now pay no federal income taxes won’t have to cough at all. Clearing their throats because of visions of moneyplums dancing in their heads will more than suffice.
Forget the promise of new taxes imposed only on those making $250,000. a year, or $200,000., or even $120,000.
Shortly after taking office on January 20th, after serious analysis of America’s fiscal situation, President Obama will hold a news conference and regretfully announce that due to George Bush’s scurrilous incompetence taxes simply must be raised across the board in order to put our financial house in order.
It will rend his heart and tear at his soul to do that but there will be no other recourse.
That increase will precede another round of tax increases resulting from the expiration of the Bush tax cuts in 2010, which will be dismissed as another result of Bush’s mishandling of the economy even though it will be the Democratic congress that allows that to happen.
That scenario is a given.
What is not a given is an additional tax, a stealth tax that will be imposed, selectively, on white Americans, regardless of income, as a result of white guilt coming to true fruition. It may be characterized as stealthy since so few realize that it’s coming and those who might think about it don’t really believe it will actually happen.
It will happen.
It may be carefully cloaked in political jargon, such as Compensatory Payments or...
(Read the rest of this article at http://genelalor.com/.)
Posted by: Berlet98 at November 8, 2008 12:20 AM
Stopped by Chaos Manor. Jerry Pournelle seems optimistic that the dems will savage each other through
in-fighting.
He also mentioned that Team Obama wants your 401(k). News to me.
Posted by: comet at November 8, 2008 1:06 AM
So, what will The Zero's Justice Department do when teh gheys start burning down black churches?
Posted by: V the K at November 8, 2008 5:28 AM
V the K
I don't think The Wizard of Ooze will much care if anybody burns down any church anywhere at anytime (as long as he isn't in it). Religion is not hight on the agenda for either the Wizard of Ooze or the Leaning Tower of Putty.
Posted by: SnowSnake at November 8, 2008 9:36 AM
Posted by: mega at November 8, 2008 4:39 PM
Couldn't have said it better myself: Why the Right isn't ready to make nice.
Posted by: V the K at November 8, 2008 4:49 PM
TESTING OBAMA
That test of Obama, or the first of many tests, that Vice President-elect Joe Biden mentioned a few weeks ago seems to have come sooner rather than later.
For those who have already forgotten that Biden blip, here it is again: “We’re about to elect a brilliant 47-year-old senator president of the United States of America. Remember, I said it standing here, if you don’t remember anything else I said: Watch, we’re gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy.”
Granted, loose-lips, Joe “Gaffe” Biden is a disaster in progress and often says things that make the Obamamanians wish they had chosen Hillary instead. However, that particular very direct warning smacks of sincere concern, if not of anxiety.
Obama/Biden apologist, Ben Smith of Politico.com, of course, came to their rescue and said, in effect, Oh, yeah? Well, McCain would be tested too! So, there! http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/1008/Obama_on_Bidens_test_McCain_would_be_tested_too.html
(See also http://barackswhitelies.blogspot.com/2008/10/bidens-test.html for further information on that dire warning as well as other tests that the Dynamic Duo, Obama/Biden, have already failed.)
What would have happened had McCain won the election is moot now but Obama’s first big test has already come and gone. It may not be the Big Test that Biden hinted at but it’s a significant one.
Despite assurances given to Polish president Lech Kaczinski ...
(Read the rest of this article at http://genelalor.com/.)
Posted by: Berlet98 at November 8, 2008 11:49 PM

