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May 5, 2009

Open Thread

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Compliments of Aaron S.

Posted by Van Helsing at May 5, 2009 12:22 PM

Comments

I knew Big Brother, Big Brother was a friend of mine, you sir are no Big Brother - more like a little shoe-shine boy.

Posted by: Winston Smith at May 5, 2009 12:29 PM

Well, Zero's Rasmussen index is at +6 today, after flirting with 1 & 2 for a few days. However, when questioned about issues, a different light emerges. Here are the headlines:

•Only 18% Say UAW, Government Will Do Good Job Running GM, Chrysler
•87% Worried About Security of Pakistan’s Nuclear Weapons
•63% Say Border with Mexico Should Be Closed Until Swine Flu Is Under Control
•42% Say Obama’s Supreme Court Pick Will Be Too Liberal, 41% Say About Right
•75% Oppose Release of Guantanamo Inmates in the United States

In addition, the generic R vs. D poll is at 40 R, 39 D, a gap that closed around Feb and stays there.

Posted by: Karin at May 5, 2009 12:35 PM

SCREW BIG BROTHER SCREW BARACK OBAMA and SCREW HIS ENTIRE CABNET OF CROOKS IM STILL A DEFIANT OL SHOOREBIRD WITH A ATTATUDE SQUAWK SQUAWK SQUAWK

Posted by: Spurwing Plover at May 5, 2009 12:39 PM

all hail dear leader!

have a doubleplusgood day, comrades...

Posted by: J W Wright at May 5, 2009 12:47 PM

Looks like Big Bro' has become one with the teleprompter.

Posted by: Anonymous at May 5, 2009 1:17 PM

grade your government dot com - the lady was on television this a.m. and said the early on the day before arlen specter did the switcheroo he had a grade "f" and later in the day he went to a "c" - strange but true.

Posted by: nancz at May 5, 2009 1:19 PM

..."The Hills are alive with the Sound of Music...."


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnKK0hXFjwE


Posted by: Heather M at May 5, 2009 1:46 PM

New allegations of White House threats over Chrysler

http://www.businessinsider.com/new-allegations-of-white-house-threats-over-chysler-2009-5

From the article:

One participant in negotiations said that the administration's tactic was to present what one described as a "madman theory of the presidency" in which the President is someone to be feared because he was willing to do anything to get his way. The person said this threat was taken very seriously by his firm.

It's quite obvious that from the beginning Obama was planning on looting Chrysler. Anyone that cooperates with this administration is going to get fried.

Posted by: Kevin R at May 5, 2009 1:47 PM

Doesn't the picture remind you of Bob Geldoff in "The Wall".

Posted by: Farmer Ted at May 5, 2009 1:49 PM

Mooning the screen....kiss my ass you socialist jackass.

Posted by: Watching at May 5, 2009 2:03 PM

"Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain".

Posted by: Heather M at May 5, 2009 2:19 PM

anybody having trouble accessing yahoo mail this afternoon?

Posted by: nancz at May 5, 2009 2:23 PM

yeah, the goats mowing the lawn chewed through the communication lines

Posted by: Lyle at May 5, 2009 2:46 PM

I couldn't make a long distance call in Washington State, for some reason.

Posted by: Scaramouche at May 5, 2009 2:48 PM

Heather M - perfect acting of both the Captain AND of Our Dear Obsequiator (if TOTUS goes blank).

Posted by: Pomalom at May 5, 2009 2:49 PM

Mentally Ill Pride. No further comment.

Posted by: V the K at May 5, 2009 3:18 PM

http://www.newswithviews.com/baldwin/baldwin504.htm

Chuck Balwin on how big brother wants to tax and regulate our gardens. the new Food Safety depatment Obama plans will send an army of aparachiks to inspect your back yard garden andmake you pay.

Posted by: mandy at May 5, 2009 3:26 PM

Intertwined: FNC, CNN, and Tea Parties

Okay, for the record and lest there be any doubts as to my motivations, affiliations, alienations, sublimations, etc., I hereby issue a disclaimer: I am not now nor have I ever been a journalist nor am I a buddy of Rupert Murdoch nor do I own stock in any Murdoch enterprises, as far as I know.

That said, let’s get real about the constant bashing of FNC, the Fox News Channel, which is (not arguably) the only politically-objective network available on television. As opposed to the former Clinton News Network, CNN, effectively now the Obama News Network and Ted Turner’s fellow travelers, FNC actually does report and lets its viewers decide.

Sure, FNC has right-of-center leanings but nowhere approaching the left-of-center commitments of CBS, ABC, NBC, CNN, MSNBC, CNBC and, as opposed to those “news” networks, FNC features a slew of leftist thinkers and commentators. Try searching for conservatives on the other networks and you would be pushing daisies before you discover more than a handful.

Sure, Fox has the “notorious” Sean Hannity, Bill O’Reilly, Glen Beck, and Neil Cavuto but it also features lefty notables Geraldo, Juan Williams, Ellis Hennican, Eleanor Clift, Bob Beckel, Susan Estrich, Neil Gabler, Susan Estrich, Alan Colmes, until his departure, and a load of others as balancing guests and commentators.

Fox is as fair and balanced as feasible in a news world significantly, liberally, unfair and imbalanced.

Personally, as a news junkie, I try to catch the interpreted news on as many lib channels as possible, given time and interest restraints and as an effort to keep political enemies even closer than friends. Such enemies are capable of doing much more damage to my country and should be watched very, very closely.

What brought all this to mind was the recent flap over those tea parties held on April 15th, the day governments annually and gleefully confiscate Americans’ hard earned money as Americans scramble to either scrape up the funds to pay their taxes or revel in their tax refunds.

The bigger those refunds are, the happier the recipients are. Those generous taxpayers give nary a thought to the fact that they are being refunded monies they had loaned to various levels of government for up to a year, interest free.

The collective public wisdom of those generous citizens is that their returns represent forced savings. The conventional governmental wisdom of those various governments is, “Ya gotta love those suckers!”

None of the above is a divergence from the topics at hand, Fox News Channel, those tea parties, and what Ralph Waldo Emerson called taxes, “the price we pay for civilization.”

Emerson wrote a century and a half ago. If he were alive today, that eminent American philosopher most likely would have attached an addendum to his opinion to the effect, ”Wait, hold on now! I didn’t mean to flush our taxes down sewers!”

Granted he would have phrased that change more delicately. No doubt Ralph Waldo would also have admonished his good buddy, Henry David Thoreau, to stop the chit, forget trying to communicate with ants, and go home to a warm bed.

Ralph didn’t re-phrase and we now have exorbitant, repressive taxation–and good bud Thoreau died of pneumonia after his 2-year sojourn as a camper on Walden Pond, (which is now polluted beyond redemption.)

But FNC is once again getting a bad rap, a reflection of the ascendancy of the Fox network which now is trashing all the others with more viewers than CNN and MSNBC combined in the April ratings: http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/ratings/april_ratings_fnc_beats_cnn_and_msnbc_combined_115179.asp.

So, it’s not unexpected for the libs to be ripping Fox, sort of like the, “Let’s get the big guy!” mentality and that ripping has been in progress for almost as long as FNC has been around. Monopolies simply despise upstarts. However, the attacks have evolved into much more than that, as evidenced by the Tea Parties coverage.

The reactions of the monopolists have become positively visceral as CNN, especially, resorts to outrageous distortions and blatant lies to blast the opposition seemingly in hopes of bringing down the news leader.

Actually it demonstrates a palpable fear that not only will the CNNers be hitting the unemployment office eventually but that so many Americans are now getting unadulterated news that the lib stranglehold on TV has been ended permanently. One of many reasons is repressive taxation and we all know how Democrats/liberals love taxes.

Let’s fess up. No one, not even Ralph Waldo, ever likes paying taxes but what conservatives tend to like is that those taxes be used constitutionally, such as paying for the national defense, roads, etc. We also would like the feds to read and adhere to the Tenth Amendment, that last of the Bill of Rights demanded by former colonials which reads, “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”

Farcically and pathetically ignored for nearly eighty years, that amendment to the Constitution was incorporated into our . . .
(Read the rest at http://genelalor.com)

Posted by: Berlet98 at May 5, 2009 3:27 PM

(movie voice over guy): "Imagine a world where an unqaulified community organizer and leftist news media can join together in overthrowing a powerful capitalist society and place the country into turmoil and on the road to socialism...it can happen. It's a moonbat's wildest dream come true and countemoonbat's most terrifying nightmare come true in "Obama!"

Posted by: Graycat at May 5, 2009 3:48 PM

Uh oh...the Messiah just got bucked by his own party: Mortgage bankruptcy bill fails in the Senate.

A dozen Democrats joined Republicans in the 45-51 vote to scuttle the bill, which Obama had said was important to saving the economy and promised to push through Congress.

Hope! Change!

Posted by: Jay Guevara at May 5, 2009 4:38 PM

Ha Pomalom! He does kinda look like his TOTUS went on the fritz, eh? HAHA

Posted by: Heather M at May 5, 2009 4:57 PM

Karin, I'm wondering if you might help me out a bit. Previously, any "poll" figures I've presented on this blog (including Rasmussen) have been promptly dismissed from any relevance. Now, don't take this as an accusation that your figures are inaccurate. I'm just wondering, for future references, what polls are credible and when are they? Or, does it depend on which ideology presents said poll?

Posted by: andy42302 at May 5, 2009 5:53 PM

Guys, youtube "the Obama deception". On of the best films at exposing Chairman Zero's lies.

AC

Posted by: AC at May 5, 2009 6:07 PM

Another "Yes Butter" heard from. I can help you. Check out the commentary on Democratic Underground regarding the Chrysler expropriation. Even the comrades are up in arms about it. And the Messiah's own party drubbed him today.

The only person truly pleased right is Jimmy Carter, who sees his chance to avoid being considered the horse collar of worst President in American history. And we're only on day 116.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at May 5, 2009 6:12 PM

When, oh when, is some graphics genius going to create an Obama waggling those enormous jug-ears?

Posted by: Mike_W at May 5, 2009 7:22 PM

Dems pave way for legalized post-birth abortion

A Texas Democrat introduced the "Infanticide Bill" this week.

It defines infanticide as:

A person commits an offense if the person wilfully by an act or omission causes the death of a child to whom the person gave birth within the 12-month period preceding the child’s death

The bill says that infanticide should not be prosecuted as murder, though, as long as:

… at the time of the act or omission, the person’s judgment was impaired as a result of the effects of giving birth or the effects of lactation following the birth.

Posted by: BURNING HOT at May 5, 2009 7:55 PM

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Posted by: BURNING HOT at May 5, 2009 8:00 PM

Indonesia planning to cash in on panicking climate chicken littles

Indonesia is considering renting out some of its uninhabited islands to international communities which might be displaced by rising sea levels, reported the Jakarta Post yesterday.
The idea was raised by Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Minister Freddy Numberi, according to Mr Syamsul Maarif, director-general for coastal and small islands at the ministry.

But Mr Freddy still needed to consult President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono before making detailed plans, Mr Syamsul said.

Mr Syamsul added it would be very possible for Indonesia to 'trade' its islands since many of them are uninhabited and are naturally safe from rising sea levels. Indonesia is currently made up of nearly 17,500 small islands.

Scientists and climate change experts have predicted that rising sea levels could inundate hundreds or even thousands of small Indonesian islands.

'We have detected around 20 islands which have disappeared due to, among other reasons, rising sea levels prompted by climate change,' Mr Syamsul was quoted as saying.

'However, we constantly discover new islands.'

Posted by: BURNING HOT at May 5, 2009 8:04 PM

I take comfort in the fact that Chairman Zero and the Democrats insanity will drive this nation back to center right after four years of this nonsense.

Hopefully, when grownups are in charge they will be able to readily undo all the damage that they have caused.

In fact, when the 2010 elections come around I expect a large reversal in the Congress. So, the damage will be mitigated by the more level headed.

Posted by: SK at May 5, 2009 8:06 PM

Hero grabs gun, kills two rapist/murderers

Bailey said he thought it was the end of his life and the lives of the 10 people inside his apartment for a birthday party after two masked men with guns burst in through a patio door.

“They just came in and separated the men from the women and said, ‘Give me your wallets and cell phones,’” said George Williams of the College Park Police Department.

Bailey said the gunmen started counting bullets. “The other guy asked how many (bullets) he had. He said he had enough,” said Bailey.

That’s when one student grabbed a gun out of a backpack and shot at the invader who was watching the men. The gunman ran out of the apartment.

Posted by: BURNING HOT at May 5, 2009 11:31 PM

You vill all be assimilated!
Resistance is futile!!
Heil hussein!!

Posted by: Fercryinoutloud at May 6, 2009 12:11 AM

America's Excursion into Perversion

With economic conditions in the nation being what they are, as Somali pirates stalk the high seas, as China threatens to pull the rug out from under our credit markets, as Islamic terrorists continue to plot yet another 9/11, America’s Congress has more important things on its mind: legalizing “philias.”

For the uninitiated, “philias” refers to every perversion known to mankind, including necrophilia and the very popular, internet favorite, pedophilia. Along with some 545 other “paraphilias,” the Senate of the United States is considering incorporating pedophilia in a new “hate crimes” bill: http://www.worldnetdaily.com/?pageId=97218.

Presumably, gerbilphiliacs would be afforded the most protection under that bill since it passed in the House of Representatives where doe-eyed Rep. Barney Frank rules supreme over wild-eyed Speaker Pelosi when it comes to matters of bestiality and other perversions.

The bill would effectively create a safe zone for perverts, violation of which would result in more severe penalties for any parent whose child had been raped who subsequently shreds the rapist and scatters his remains in a dung heap. Should such parent in the commission of said “hate crime” utter totally unacceptably negative words, such as, “You sick, perverted bastard!” his punishment by our federal authorities could be consignment to a prison in or near Barney Frank’s congressional district.

Initially, I thought this was just another urban legend. No way, thought I, naive I, could or would America’s ostensible leaders even contemplate such legislation. Then again, not being an Obamian, I must have forgotten that our new presidente preached change and voters bought into that change without Obama’s ever defining the specifics of his change.

I wonder how many of his supporters even contemplated changes that would alter the fabric of the nation’s moral core until it became a twisted mess . . .

Read the rest at http://genelalor.com/)

Posted by: Berlet98 at May 6, 2009 12:17 AM

Andy, I missed where posters here dismissed any polling comment you made. I imagine they asked for source, and background on population selected. As you know, one recent poll included only 18% republicans in their population. This is skewed, and so should be taken with a grain of salt.

Rasmussen is the only one I ever cite. I trust them because they have daily polls, so their population is churned. In contrast, a polling outfit that does a snapshot once a month might hit an anomaly. In addition, they have automated response, so you don't get the one-on-one human bias that might come into play. Your phone isn't going to accuse you of racism if you hit the button that says "strongly disapprove."

They also hit the prez election dead on, much as I didn't want to believe it.

Posted by: Karin at May 6, 2009 6:33 AM

P.S. As an addendum to above: Ras targets a sample of 40.1% Demo, 33.1% Rep, and 26.7% I. Just for the record. They change their targets monthly.

Posted by: Karin at May 6, 2009 7:46 AM