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Maxing Out The Race Card? **Open Thread**

By Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy on August 11, 2010 at 6:30 PM in Barack Obama, Congress (House & Senate), Congressional Black Caucus, Corruption, Crime, Current Affairs, Democrats, Republicans, Satire

Two prominent members of the House of Representatives, Charlie Rangel, and Maxine Waters, are both facing a number of Ethics charges. Both are fighting these charges, and Rep. Waters has also intimated these charges are based on race, not any wrong doing on her part. Yeah. Okay.

I am sure it will not surprise you to learn that when the shoe was on the other foot, a Republican being charged with Ethics charges some time ago, Waters was all too ready to pile on.

Now the shoe is on the other foot, as Bill Hemmer discusses with NPR and Fox contributor, Juan Williams in this clip below:



So, Rep. Rangel made a 37-minute long speech about his mistreatment by the House. Oh, woe is me, right Charlie? I thought Stephen Hayes made some good points about Rep. Rangel in the discussion below near the end:

Sorry, Charlie, many of us are not buying what you are selling, especially in terms of that half a million…

Well, I reckon we’ll see soon enough what will come of these two trials, though Rangel is right – don’t leave him swinging in the wind. Put him on trial now, or expel him. Go for it. Any day now.

As for the race card Rep. Waters has used, and will be using, I think we all knew that was going to happen during one (or both) of these trials. So, when I happened to catch the following Larry Wilmore segment on Rangel and Waters with on The Daily Show, I was laughing my, um, head, off:

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c
Race Card Is Maxed Out
www.thedailyshow.com
Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Tea Party

Hilarious, right? I thought so. The race card has been maxed out. Oh, if only that was true…

Consider this an Open Thread. Discuss this or anything else going on.

  • getfitnow

    Different race, but a race card is a race card. ;)

  • getfitnow
  • Docelder

    Well this is the result of labeling everybody and obsessing with race to the point where we have to count everybody not as an American household but as a “breed”.

    I saw this article elsewhere… where will it end. Now Muslims want the Mecca clock to replace the Grenwich Mean Time clock. Infidel clocks just aren’t good enough I guess.

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/saudiarabia/7937123/Giant-Mecca-clock-seeks-to-call-time-on-Greenwich.html

  • ctfsh

    Larry Willmore! RRA that is a great and very timely Daily Show clip :) The “Race Card” “Gay Card” “I had Bad Parents Card” bills are all coming due about now, and I have to credit our current president for that (though that may not have been his intention.)

  • ctfsh

    On the theme of bills coming due, this WSJ editorial has a kicker that must be read:

    It is in the nature of charisma that it rises out of thin air, out of need and distress, and then dissipates when the magic fails. The country has had its fill with a scapegoating that knows no end from a president who had vowed to break with recriminations and partisanship. The magic of 2008 can’t be recreated, and good riddance to it. Slowly, the nation has recovered its poise. There is a widespread sense of unstated embarrassment that a political majority, if only for a moment, fell for the promise of an untested redeemer—a belief alien to the temperament of this so practical and sober a nation.

  • Daisy Mae Not Tofu Vegan Cracker

    Yes, Amy, the waaace card is maxed out, and will get re-maxed out again and again and again with these two miscreants.  Although I will regard the spectacles with humor, since they will not do the Dims. any good.  Let’s move on to using “bigot” now, the term du jour because of the mosque issue.  Mayor Bloomberg is down below 50% in the polls.  New Yorkers appear to be a majority of bigots in objecting to this thing.  Greg Gutfield is a bigot and not understanding of the position of the mosque proponents.  Never mind, only they must be understood. 

  • AllMyPumas

    Do you think it’s just a coincidence that ethics charges popped up against two black Hillary Clinton supporters?

    Perhaps, but I somehow think not.

    By the way, I think you mean “intimated” in the first paragraph, not “intimidated.”

  • Tricia

    >:o TERM LIMITS!!!!

  • Docelder

    Welcome to big government. Today this is a housing voucher line… tomorrow it could well be a food line. GOD help us all.

  • Ferd Premium Saltine Berfle

    Two prominent members of the House of Representatives, Charlie Rangel, and Maxine Waters, are both facing a number of Ethics charges. Both are fighting these charges, and Rep. Waters has also intimidated these charges are based on race, not any wrong doing on her part. Yeah. Okay.

    OK, Maxine, we get it that you have no excuse for your piss-poor behavior. Call me a racist with every fiber in your less-than-substantive being. I don’t care anymore. You’re no damn good and everyone knows it including you.

  • Ferd Premium Saltine Berfle

    Two prominent members of the House of Representatives, Charlie Rangel, and Maxine Waters, are both facing a number of Ethics charges. Both are fighting these charges, and Rep. Waters has also intimidated these charges are based on race, not any wrong doing on her part. Yeah. Okay. 
     =======================
    OK, Maxine, we get it that you have no reasonable excuse for your piss-poor behavior. Call me a racist with every fiber in your less-than-substantive being. I don’t care anymore. You’re no damn good and everyone knows it including you.

  • Janis

    I agree — in that vein, I think that their race probably did help make them targets as black Hillary supporters.  But what’s hidden is that their race may have made them better targets for attack by an administration led by a black man.  Which is just too wheels-in-wheels for the majority of Obots to process …

  • Ferd Premium Saltine Berfle

    I can pull that race card. too.

    Obamabots: you’re prejudiced against anyone that criticizes That One. That makes you racist. You’re in a gaping hole so I would suggest you stop digging.

  • Ferd Premium Saltine Berfle

     Now Muslims want the Mecca clock to replace the Grenwich Mean Time clock.
    ===============
    Yeah, they want to coordinate their indiscriminate bombing runs, I’m sure, so they can’t use the infidel’s clock.

  • candymarl red bone cracker

    I think Rangel knows where the bodies are buried. I believe that’s why he’s challenging his own party. That’s why I think Obama wants him to quietly retire.

  • Buzz water cracker Latte

    Don’t they know that time really doesn’t exist?

    Some prophets they are.

  • Buzz water cracker Latte

    Here’s my reply to Charlie and Maxine.  You are accused of wrongdoing. You just happen to be black.  

    If you haven’t done anything wrong, you wouldn’t be up on charges. No one would be paying attention to your actions and wouldn’t be levying charges.

  • getfitnow

    I read this this morning. Awesome article.

  • Kim

    Rangel and Waters are both guilty as hell.  Rangel is a likeable kind of guy but he still needs to just go ahead and retire.  Eighty is just a bit too old to still be serving in Congress. 

    As for Waters, I can’t stand the woman.  She has no business serving in public office.   I am sure she thinks that because she is black all bad acts are supposed to be ignored to make amends for sins of the past.

  • Ferd Premium Saltine Berfle

    Don’t they know that time really doesn’t exist? 
    ====================
    Nah–they’re too busy try to figure out how to count to 72 with a base-ten set of digits, although I’ll bet some of them do have the requisite 12 to come out even.

  • Kim

    Rangel and Waters are both guilty as hell.  Rangel needs to just go ahead and retire.  Eighty is just a bit too old to still be serving in Congress.  
     
    As for Waters, I can’t stand the woman.  She has no business serving in public office.   I am sure she thinks that because she is black all bad acts are supposed to be ignored to make amends for sins of the past.

  • Rabble Rouser Rev. Amy

    Oh, yeah – nice, Harry.  Way to bring people togehter, huh??

  • getfitnow

    I said it once and I’ll say it again. When you’re wrong, you’re wrong. Go to trial and prove otherwise.

    These are two of the most powerful people in the congress. And Rangel’s troubles have been “under the radar” since the dems took over congress in ’06 that I recall–may have been earlier.

    Just because they supported Hillary doesn’t make them saints.

    I recall a discussion elsewhere about BO after his election and he was getting some criticism. The point was: “He can’t blame “the man.” He is “the man.”

  • Ferd Premium Saltine Berfle

    No one would be paying attention to your actions and wouldn’t be levying charges.
    ===============
    That’s the rub, for sure. For all the whining about prejudice and bigotry, I certainly don’t see any stellar ethical conduct from either of these miscreants. An unethical dickweed is an unethical dickweed regardless of race.

  • Ferd Premium Saltine Berfle

      Eighty is just a bit too old to still be serving in Congress. 
    =============
    I have to disagree. Age has nothing to do with it. Asshats are in every age group.

  • PssttCmere

    Didn’t they ultimately throw Hillary under the bus, or have I skewed my facts?  They will do what it takes to cover their saggy asses and these are classic cases of what goes around, comes around!!

    “Say What You Will…It Feels So Good”

    http://www.saywhatyouwill.proboards.com

  • PssttCmere

    Long ago when I worked security in a bar, I had to ask a group of black women (who were being crude and rude) to leave.  First thing out of their mouths “It’s a black thing, right?”  “No, I assured them; it is an asshole thing”.  They promptly left, went outside and proceeded to beat up the parking attendant with a tire iron.  Assholes come in a variety of colors and I am sick of the race card being played fast and loose.  Like Buzz said, if you haven’t done anything wrong, you wouldn’t be in trouble!!

    “Say What You Will…It Feels So Good”

  • greenlantern

    “Don’t leave me swinging in the wind. Put me on trial now, or expel me.”
    Translation: I know where all the bodies are buried and I’ll take you down with me. 

  • Rabble Rouser Rev. Amy

    Thanks, ctfsh, for the article.  We knew that this day would come, didn’t we?  And we also knew there would be a ton of damage already done by then.  So, THANKS all of you people who bought his BS, and who remained silent, or worse yet, cheered on, when the DNC threw the nomination for him.  Sheesh.

    Glad you liked the video – Larry Wilmore cracks me up anyway, but I thought this one was too good not to share!  :-D

  • Rabble Rouser Rev. Amy

    Thanks, AllMyPumas – that is exactly what I meant.  Sometimes my fingers go faster than I want them to go! 

    And interesting point abt them being Hillary supporters.  Though as noted, they did switch, and Charlie was dispatched to tell her that they were dumping her even though NY went to her. 

    Honestly – how DOES she sleep at night with all of the knoves in her back??

  • Buzz water cracker Latte

    When I taught first grade I had a 6 yr old black student tell me I was moving her to the back of the line because of her color.  I was moving her away from the rest of the students because she was kicking and hitting them.  I told her I didn’t care if she were purple, she was still going to the back for assaulting the other students.  ”Assault! she said, My dad does that!”

    I remember thinking she must have heard the ‘black defense’ at home.

  • candymarl red bone cracker

    Spot on Greenlantern. Notice Rangel said “you could be next”.

  • Rabble Rouser Rev. Amy

    Nice catch.  Telling, isn’t it?

  • Ferd Premium Saltine Berfle

    I hope this trial does go forward. I’d certainly like to know where the skeletons are hidden, Republican or Democrat. A good housecleaning is in order and if Rangel can help move this forward by implicating others, so much the better. Rats off a sinking ship immediately comes to mind.

  • getfitnow
  • Ferd Premium Saltine Berfle

    You know, we would all have a lot less to talk and worry about if MLK’s insistence on character rather than color were actually followed. Where is the insistence on an ethical set of standards upon which to base one’s conduct? Unfortunately, it is nowhere to be found. I see an entire generation spending their entire lives being nothing but children. Maybe I’m crazy but adults are not often to be found.

  • Ferd Premium Saltine Berfle

    Deadlocked? Wow. Now I know why I am always dismissed from jury duty.

  • Breeze

    -

    FROM

    michellesmirror.com comments of the Mecca clock:

    Jules

    BO and his crew seem to be trying too hard: 

    Keeping direct negotiations with A-jad on the table 

    Seeming to come out on the side of the Gaza ‘peaceful’ flotilla and against Israel 

    Saying the Ground Zero mosque is a local issue 

    Then hiring the Imam behind it as a State Dept. ambassador and sending him to the Middle East

    The fiasco of edefining NASA’s mission before backing off. 

    To state just a few..

    With all this obviously over the top pandering, BO’s WH is sending a message of weakness and submission. 

    Culturally, I’m told, this does not inspire respect or admiration but rather contempt and disgust. 

    I’m sure Iran, Palestine and Saudi Arabia are not impressed with all this groveling. 

  • getfitnow
  • Breeze

    -

    Rep. Rangel expects Democratic
    leaders to help with
    his growing legal bills
     
    The Hill [Washington, DC],
    by Susan Crabtree   

    Original Article

    8/11/2010

    Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) expects Democratic leaders to help pay his legal bills, but that appears unlikely. Several times during his meandering 37-minute speech on the House floor on Tuesday, Rangel complained about the mounting costs of defending himself against a two-year ethics investigation. He claims the bill has already reached $2 million. (Snip) A spokesman for Rep. Chris Van Hollen (Md.), chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and Assistant to the Speaker, said leaders are focused on helping endangered Democrats get reelected, not helping Rangel pay his legal fees…..

  • Breeze

    -

    Dear Senator Reid, I’m Not Stupid!
     
    Fox News,
    by Dr. Manny Alvarez   

    Original Article

    8/11/2010

    Today, U.S. Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid (D-NV) — the person who holds one of the most powerful positions in our government — a protector of the constitution, of free speech and of tolerance — called me stupid. Perhaps he was indicating that I’m mentally challenged or maybe that I’m just uneducated — I’m not sure. But what I do know is that his comments were a profound insult to me and every other American of Hispanic decent. During a campaign event in Nevada Tuesday, Reid made an appeal to Latino supporters whose votes he

  • Buzz water cracker Latte

    Let ‘er rip Charlie!  

  • getfitnow
  • Ferd Premium Saltine Berfle

    To take back this country, real Americans need to do the following:

    1. Be responsible for the decisions made,
    2. Be responsible for the children they raise,
    3. Be responsible for the votes they make,
    4. Accept accountability for mistakes,
    5. Insist upon accountability for the politicians they vote for, and
    6. Stop blaming others for stupid and/or uneducated decisions made.

    Even I am responsible for the election of That One in that I did not work hard enough to ensure that he wasn’t elected. I won’t make that mistake again.

  • Breeze

    -

    The Obama presidency
    increasingly resembles a
    modern-day Ancien Régime:
    extravagant and out of touch
    with the American people
     
    Telegraph [UK],
    by Nile Gardiner   

    Original Article

    8/11/2010

    What the great French historian Alexis de Tocqueville would make of today’s Obama administration were he alive today is anyone’s guess. But I would wager that the author of L’Ancien Régime and Democracy in America would be less than impressed with the extravagance and arrogance on display among the White House elites that rule America as though they had been handed some divine right to govern with impunity….

  • Docelder

    Yep, and if the Palins were anything other than white and Christian saying that might have been labelled as hate speech. But it’s fine to hate whites and Christians… and anybody who has more of anything else than you do… provided they are white and or Christian of course. The rules are pretty simple.

  • Breeze

    -

    Thoughtcrime:

    D.C. Reporter
    Suspended for Accurate Report
    on BP’s Donations to Obama
     
    Big Journalism,
    by Robert Bluey   

    Original Article

    8/11/2010 

    WJLA-TV, a Washington, D.C. ABC affiliate, suspended reporter Doug McKelway following his alleged “partisan” comments at a liberal rally on Capitol Hill marking the three-month anniversary of the Gulf oil spill. Video of the broadcast tells a different story: (Video)Apparently facts are now “partisan.”McKelway stuck to the truth about BP’s political contributions and pending cap-and-trade legislation, newsworthy subjects given that the event’s organizers were lobbying to “pass legislation to end America’s addiction to oil….

  • rosa

    like some 49 year old man

  • Breeze

    -

    Temperatures continue well below
    average in Southern California
     
    Whittier Daily News [California],
    by Hector Gonzalez   

    Original Article

    8/11/2010

    It hasn’t been the coolest summer on record, but it’s been close, forecasters say. The average temperature in July was 79 degrees, five degrees below normal, and the first eight days of this month also have been five to six degrees below normal, weather experts said. That could put Southern California on track for a near-record-low summer, but it’s still too early to say (Snip) “We normally get this kind of weather pattern when we are transitioning from an El Ni o year to a La Ni a year….”

  • candymarl red bone cracker

    Ferd, Ferd, Ferd. Don’t you know by now character doesn’t count?  It’s all about the amount of melanin in your skin.

    Silly Ferd, character is so 20th century.

  • Breeze

    -

    At Ramadan, Obama Hails
    Islam As ‘Part Of America’
     
    Politics Daily,
    by David Gibson   

    Original Article

    8/11/2010 

    As opinion polls registered strong opposition to plans for an Islamic center near Ground Zero, President Obama on Wednesday issued a statement marking the start of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, calling the holiday “a reminder that Islam has always been part of America and that American Muslims have made extraordinary contributions to our country.” (Snip) As the White House released the statement, a new CNN poll shows nearly 70 percent of Americans oppose building a mosque near the site of the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York, and just 29 percent support the idea….

  • Breeze

    -
    National debt, budget deficit exploding;
    Treasury commemorates beginning of Ramadan



    Washington Examiner,
    by Mark Tapscott   

    Original Article

    8/11/2010 

    Well, I certainly felt more confident and hopeful about America’s financial future after reading this online news release from the U.S. Treasury Department. How about you? Treasury Department Statement Marking the Beginning of Ramadan August 11, 2010 TG-824 Treasury Department Statement Marking the Beginning of Ramadan WASHINGTON – As Muslims in the United States and around the world begin their observance of Ramadan, the U.S. Department of the Treasury recognizes the importance of this period of intense devotion, reflection and charitable giving. Charitable giving and philanthropy are core American values….

  • typical gram cracker

    Doelder said,  “Well this is the result of labeling everybody and obsessing with race to the point where we have to count everybody not as an American household but as a “breed”.  

    Whites are just a paler shade of black.  We are all Africans.  If human variations were truly different biological races they would most likely not be able to reproduce “interracial” offspring.  We truly are living in a post-racial world, but it has nothing to do with electing a mixed color POTUS.  That credit belongs to the Human Genome Project (HGP).

    Actually different “species” or “breeds” may more accurately describes human variations than does different “races”.  Think about all the different “breeds” of dogs there are.  They aren’t called “races” of dogs.  All dog breeds are the descendents of a common ancestor, wolves.  Dogs can reproduce across breeds.

    Thanks to the genetics revolution we now know that there is no such thing as race. The Human Genome Project (HGP) has determined unequivocally that there is the same amount of genetic variation among individuals within a so called racial group as there is between individuals in different racial groups. What that means is that there is no real genetic difference between blacks and whites or between whites and Asians or between any of the so called races.

    But if we are all one race, which race are we? One answer is the cute one that we are the “human race”. But buckle your seat belts folks, because the genetic answer is that we are all really black. And white people are pale adaptations of black people that evolved during the past 140,000 years.

    http://www.calresco.org/beckermn/black.htm

    http://diversityinc.com/content/1757/article/3062/

  • Breeze

    -

    Texas sues feds over
    offshore drilling ban
     
    Associated Press,
    by SARAH PORTLOCK   

    Original Article

    8/11/2010 

    The Texas attorney general sued the Obama administration Wendesday over its new deep-water offshore drilling moratorium, claiming it is unjustified and federal officials did not contact the state before issuing the ban. Attorney General Greg Abbott filed the 18-page suit in federal court in Houston against Department of the Interior Secretary Ken Salazar. The ban halted the approval of any new permits for deep-water projects and shut down drilling at 33 exploratory ocean wells in the wake of the BP spill in the Gulf of Mexico. In his lawsuit, Abbott called the ban “an unjustified, arbitrary and capricious policy…

  • Breeze

    -

    Al Gore Complains Global Warming
    Media Coverage; Blasts The Wall Street
    Journal on ClimateGate
     
    Newsbusters,
    by Jeff Poor   

    Original Article

    8/11/2010

    No matter what happens, even surrounding his personal life or his pet cause global warming, former Vice President Al Gore just isn’t going away. During an Aug. 10 conference call, Gore launched into a critique of the media’s recent coverage of ClimateGate, specifically blogs, talk radio and “biased right-wing media.” “Well I believe Mark Twain often gets the credit for the saying … that a lie runs around the world before the truth gets its boots on,” Gore said….

  • Alex/Ind.

    Agreed re Rangel and Waters.

    May need a separate thread to discuss  the massive amounts spent on all the Sect. 8 costs across the counrty.  Over 40 years of big gross handouts since Johnson off the rest of the taxpayers.

    Another big reason to get the illegals out and see that all the jobs are filled by citizens first.

    Am for those working at nursing homes etc. getting some % of Sect. 8
    help… and the unemployed getting 30 hr. jobs and  help.

    Got news, folks, we’re going to need a new kind of welfare–unemployment  for all the unemployed who will never get their regular type old jobs and wages back due to the Wall St.–corp–politicial oligarchy.

    We need to make products and export again or ……

    _________________

    Many aren’t going to like it, but seems to me moving them to tents in better weather states or maybe on out on some separate islands is the answer for those who think others should pay for them …let alone reproduce kids thinking somebody else will pay fore them. 

  • Rabble Rouser Rev. Amy

    I saw that – really, what is wrong with people??  How hateful can one be?

  • Breeze

    -

    Another blow to warmist claims
     
    American Thinker,
    by Thomas Lifson   

    Original Article

    8/10/2010

    The theory that the minute amounts of CO2 in the atmosphere have an outsize influence on climate was dealt another serious blow by the publication in a peer-reviewed journal of a study showing that the climate about 460 million years ago was similar to that of today, even though atmospheric carbon dioxide was at least 4 or 5 times the level of today. From Watt’s Up with That?: An international team of scientists including Mark Williams and Jan Zalasiewicz of the Geology Department of the University of Leicester, and led by Dr. Thijs Vandenbroucke, formerly of Leicester and now at ….

  • HARP

              The Biker and the Lion

    A Harley biker is riding by the zoo in Washington , DC when he sees a little girl leaning into the lion’s cage. Suddenly, the lion grabs her by the collar of her jacket and tries to pull her inside to slaughter her, under the eyes of her screaming parents. 


    The biker jumps off his Harley, runs to the cage and hits the lion square on the nose with a powerful punch.     Whimpering from the pain the lion jumps back letting go of the girl, and the biker brings her to her terrified parents, who thank him endlessly. A reporter has watched the whole event. 

    The reporter addressing the Harley rider says, ‘Sir, this was the most gallant and brave thing I’ve seen a man do in my whole life.’ 

    The Harley rider replies, ‘Why, it was nothing, really, the lion was behind bars. I just saw this little kid in danger and acted as I felt right.’ 

    The reporter says, ‘Well, I’ll make sure this won’t go unnoticed. I’m a journalist, you know, and tomorrow’s paper will have this story on the front page…  So, what do you do for a living and what political affiliation do you have?’ 

    The biker replies, ‘I’m a U.S. Marine and a Republican.’ 

    The journalist leaves.

    The following morning the biker buys the paper to see if it indeed brings news of his actions, and reads, on the front page:
    U.S. MARINE ASSAULTS AFRICAN IMMIGRANT AND STEALS HIS LUNCH
    That pretty much sums up the media’s approach to the news these days.

  • an observer

    Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy, I am not sure how well you are able to calculate what’s going on. Or, you’re a rumor monger on St Mark’s Square as described in James Fennimore Cooper’s The Bravo. Rangel and Water’s defiance will expose the coercion going on within the party and weaken Obama’s support amongst Afro Americans. Once he loses Black support other Democratic leaders will not feel restrained to remove this con artist. Are you that clueless?

  • jbjd

    R3A, I posted A COUP, THROUGH and THROUGH (1 of 3), the first installment of a 3-part series revealing the coup pulled off at the 2008 DNC Presidential Nominating Convention, at the heart of which was hiding the hundreds of votes from Clinton pledged delegates from vote binding states.  Part 1 is Prologue to Fraud.  How do I ‘cross post’?

  • EllenD

    Ah, the lovely Maxine. Seems like only yesterday she was accusing the CIA of creating AIDS to kill off black people.
    What will we do without her?

  • Breeze

    -

    Do you think you could make the Democrats UNDERSTAND all that,
     
    typical gram cracker, and then take away the only card they think

    they have left?

  • sowsear

    Obama sure can make up stories…

  • EllenD

    Yes, Ferd, I was just thinking today how much I learned as a child by sitting and listening to adults talking.
    How would that work now if all the adults were like Adam Sandler movies?

  • sowsear

    And the US Treasury and NASA…working for Islam.  So many Muslims… I never knew. Charitable Giving? Yes, they gave BO a bunch of money in the campaign.

  • sowsear

    I have blue eyes..I just read that I’m a dying breed…

  • EllenD

    Even I am responsible for the election of That One in that I did not work hard enough to ensure that he wasn’t elected. I won’t make that mistake again.

    Ferd, it would have been like Canute and the tide. We all have to do what we can next time.

  • Olivia1998
  • sowsear

    I wish now that I had listened more closely and/or had asked more questions.

  • EllenD

    I love this cool summer!

  • HARP

    Never thought I would say it but……Good job George.

    This morning at DFW Airport, George and Laura Bush greeted 150 (very surprised) troops as they arrived home from Iraq and Afghanistan. Their expressions were so priceless!

    http://michellemalkin.com/2010/08/11/troops-returning-from-iraq-and-afghanistan-get-a-little-surprise-at-dallasft-worth-airport/

  • kinthenorthwest

    When kids in school started using the race card I started getting frustrated with all this “Your Racist” crap. Didn’t matter how wrong they were you were a racist for reprimanding them.
     
    But when the Hispanics were calling the Hispanic school workers racist when they got caught doing something wrong then I realized what a load of CRAP Obama and his people had started.
     
    The term “ You’re Racist” has no Real Meaning anymore..it’s the person’s who is using the saying. way of either skirting the issue or getting out of trouble.
     
    Whenever any of the Democratic politicians feel they are in trouble and/or need to skirt an issue.

  • sowsear
  • HARP

    Excellent job jbjd.

  • TeakWoodKite

    Same up “up north” Breeze. It snowed on Mt. Shasta and it has been a month of fog in the north bay

  • Docelder

    Hell, he had two books full of nade up stories about himself before we even made him POTUS. The sky is the limit now.

  • Docelder

    Well then I am getting tired of all the rest of you crackers holding me down… now that I know I am not a cracker myself.  :)

  • Docelder

    This was a scam to get rich off trading carbon. As if what we needed was another damn bubble for the oligarchs to pop. If we want to produce green energy then don’t talk about it. Do it dammit. But this carbon exchange had nothing to do with clean energy. It is just one more scam. We have enough of these scams already.

  • TeakWoodKite

    That race card was MAXXXED! Just think of the merchant fees he pays on the card!

    ROLF

  • Annie Soda Cracker

    I heard that too.  I thought the exact same thing…he’s threatening them out loud.

  • Annie Soda Cracker

    And don’t forget if you are also blond with blue eyes, you are responsible for the evils of the world…so said the idiot who’s running Brazil.

  • Annie Soda Cracker

    Likewise in Monterey/Carmel.  Overcast, wet, cold, very little sun.  I have to get out to Carmel Valley every once in a while to warm up.  Even a couple of miles inland is warm.

  • candymarl red bone cracker

    The Telegraph states that the Obamas are paying for all of the accomodations. Total cost? $375,000 . Fine. I’m okay with that. But as I don’t  take the Obamas word for anything, including the color of the sky, let’s have an itemized account released to the media and the public.

    What’s that you say? Never happen? There’s a shocker.

  • candymarl red bone cracker

    Thank you! Kudos!

  • HARP

    Whats next ?????

  • HARP

    You can do it anytime Barry….

  • Mr. Natural

    Guys like Harry Reid think EVERYBODY but them are stupid.

    Harry’s REALLY hate you if you were FAT!!!

    This makes it a little easier to vote for Sharron Angle…although that may well require the consumption of of more Adult Beverage on election day than is normally on my diet.

  • Mr. Natural

    Not Organizing THAT Community real well, is he?

  • Mr. Natural

    >>> “Apparently facts are now “partisan.”

    See Galatians 4:16

  • Mr. Natural

    A racist is someone who is winning an argument with a Liberal.

    A racist is someone who believes his own eyes and experiences and historical data in preference to politically correct bullshit.

  • FranSC

    “…..a political majority, if only for a moment, fell for the promise of an untested redeemer–a belief alien to the temperament of this so practical and sober a nation.”

    I believe this is the same article that said, “Barack 0bama was an empty vessel” at the time he was running and remains so.

    Well, I have no sympathy whatsoever for these lazy citizens who did not bother to check out anything this political criminal was saying then.  Many still are not.  Nothing is being said now that we were not saying then.  We were simply dismissed as conspiracy theorists, racists, crazy or all three. 

    Can things get anymore mind-boggling than they are now.  Ex. When asked today about Robert Gibb’s comments about the far-left never being satisfied until the Pentagon is removed and Dennis Kucinich is potUS, Nancy Pelosi said she had no comments on “the president’s employees.”  Now if that is not sarcasm and utter disgust, I’ve never heard it before.  What the hell did they all expect, PARTICULARLY Nancy Pelosi who was one of the two selectors of this “Empty Vessel”!!!

    Oh, and BTW.  Maxine Waters has obviously had a facelift and many other cosmetic improvements since that rant 15 years ago.  She surely looks younger now!  I bet she cringes every time that dug-up-from-the-dead video plays.   If she only acted as well as she looks, she would be fine. 

    Sorry to be discussing any woman’s looks, but it was almost shocking to me how improved she is in that dept. 
    I don’t fault anyone for trying to look better.  I’m fairly vain myself and accept that as ok within reason.

  • Mr. Natural

    I am a proud Urnfield-American!!!

    Now, gimme some free s*** or I’ll call you a RAYCISS!!!

  • AbigailAdams

    Oh yeah, that’s right.  Most of SoCal should be on fire right about now.  I’ll take cooler, moister any time this time of year there.

  • newbie doobie doo

    Harry Reid, like so many liberals, thinks that anyone that doesn’t think like them is stupid. So long as people send narrow minded bigots like Reid to Washington D.C to represent them, he’s right.

  • newbie doobie doo

    If they aren’t embarrassed they certainly ought to be. Voting is NOT for teenagers with a crush on some “Rock Star”, and yet a good portion of the nation acted just like that. Now there is an “American Idol” in the White House and it IS an embarrassment.

    Pardon those of us that weren’t flimflammed if the only thing we can find the least bit satisfying in this mess created by voters with  an adolescent crush is that “we” didn’t succumb to the national silliness.

    It says a lot about our dysfunctional and biased media that they not only fell, many of them are still smitten.

  • Bonnie Jean Burris

    I’ve been spending most of my free time in the last two years reading and playing games on Facebook. I dropped out of the Dem party in June, 2008 and dropped out of everything political until last month. I didn’t like Bennet and when Bill Clinton endorsed Romanosky, I got back in and went to unaffiliated back to Democrat to vote in the primary. Bennet won and I don’t like the Republican candidate, Buck, either. What do I do now? I’m so tired of voting for the “lesser of two evils”. Why can’t we elect intelligent, well-informed government officials anymore? Plato said we deserve the government we get. Is there a collective karma which operates on a democratic level meaning the majority determines the future of all? No government = anarchy and I don’t care to live with chaos either.

  • getfitnow

    Same in the bay area-wrapped in fog most of the day.

  • getfitnow

    We’re all mongrels now! :-D

  • arabella trefoil

    Is Obama fasting for Ramadan?

  • getfitnow

    Are you saying this makes them innocent of the charges–that we should be grateful for their “sacrifice”? What you say may be true, but if they are part of swamp, they need to go.

  • getfitnow

    I adamently disagreed with Bush on just about everything–like the wars, for example. But I will never question his devotion to this country.

    I can’t imagine the Obama’s doing this without a “nudge.”

  • arabella trefoil

    I haven’t read The Bravo in ages.

    http://www.oldandsold.com/articles25/cooper-11.shtml

    Good luck getting through it. I really hate James Fenimore Cooper. I agree with Mark Twain’s assessment of his work.

    You may be right, an observer. But a reader of James Fenimore Cooper is surely capable of showing a bit more respect to Reverend Rouser Reverend Amy. I have never found her to be clueless.

  • arabella trefoil

    In restrospect, I like George more and more. I get a real kick out of the PSA’s he does with Bill Clinton. They look palsy-walsy and a little smirky.

  • getfitnow
  • newbie doobie doo

    If they did something wrong I don’t give a flying fart who they may or may not have supported.

    Right is right and dishonest, unethical behavior is wrong. What are we supposed to do, excuse their behavior if they supported someone we liked or supported? That’s nonsense.

  • getfitnow
  • newbie doobie doo

    I think Charlie Rangel has stayed too long at the fair. It’s not about his age per se as it is about spending the better part of a lifetime in the congress. That’s just wrong IMHO.

  • newbie doobie doo

    Must have worked because a whole lot of prominent Dems showed up for Charlie’s party last night.

  • newbie doobie doo

    Character and maturity are both so passe’ these days. I don’t mean “maturity” as in aged, because we know that the very idea of getting old sends millions of people running to the plastic surgeon to fight the ravages of time. Immature and damn apt to stay that way from the top of their transplanted hair follicles to their phony boobs to the men filled with Viagra and ready to party all night long.

    Adults, the kind that try to stay informed, and with our dysfunctional media that ain’t easy, can only wonder what will come of this country under this culture of immaturity.

  • getfitnow

    Leading without a telepromter! Go get em Col West! :-D

  • getfitnow

    Leading without a teleprompter!

  • Noogan

    :-D  I find great satisfaction in the schadenfreude of their DESPERATION!!!!!! Check it out:

    The only way President Obama can win reelection in 2012 is with Hillary
    Clinton on his ticket, The Daily Beast’s Tunku Varadarajan argues. After
    a difficult two years and perhaps two more with a Republican Congress,
    Clinton is the administration’s best unsullied heavy-hitter. Obama
    needed the all-American Joe Biden in 2008 for his folksy charm. But now
    Obama needs someone who has even more appeal in Middle America. Enter
    Clinton, who has struck a tone of “hard-nosed, understated dignity, of
    no-nonsense professionalism, of a pant-suited determination in telling
    contrast to the panty-waist in the White House,” Varadarajan writes.
    Whatever happens to the Democratic Party over the next couple years,
    Clinton could hold it together. And her place on the ticket would be
    historic to boot.

    Read it at The Daily Beast:
    http://e.thedailybeast.com/a/tBMY$YWB7SwhTB8SJI8DkZNikyI/dail1

  • Noogan

    PRISON!!!  >:o

  • Noogan

    Yeah, it’s terrible. I confess, however: Dick Cheney was recently released from the hospital. I wondered why the most EVIL man in this country could live through 4 freakin’ heart attacks, stents, quadruple by-passes, and still keep on ticking….the man is just too evil to die.

  • Noogan

    On the contrary. I did more than my part in trying to educate the American people; I couldn’t have done more. And, personally, I’m not going to waste my time or money ever again on ANY candidate. I’ve spent years and thousands; I’m done with all that. From now on, my favorite charity is ME, MYSELF and I. And, you’d be smart to do the same, because there’s not a dime’s worth of difference between the two political parties. It’s a rigged game. 

  • Breeze

    -

    Obama approval rating falls into new danger
    zone, weighed down by growing economic fears

    Daily Caller,
    by Jon Ward

    Original Article

    8/12/2010

    President Obama’s approval rating has crossed into a new danger zone over the last month, as fresh concerns over the economy have pushed his positives and negatives into upside down territory, a development that will cause political winds to blow even harder against Democrats this fall. One month ago on July 12, Obama’s approval and disapproval both stood at 47 percent in the Real Clear Politics poll average. On Tuesday, the president’s approval had fallen to 44.4 percent. Disapproval had jumped to 50.4 percent…..

  • Breeze

    -

    Charlie Rangel’s Birthday Bash:
    A Night for Ethics Amnesia

    Politics Daily,
    by Walter Shapiro

    Original Article

    8/12/2010 

    It was the antithesis of Chelsea Clinton’s wedding — a glittering social event on the New York political calendar that many prominent politicians wished (very privately) they did not have to attend and hoped (very secretly) would somehow be canceled. But Charlie Rangel’s 80th birthday party and campaign fundraiser in the Grand Ballroom of the Plaza Hotel went off without a hitch Wednesday night…

  • Breeze

    -
    Obamas Plan Fifth Vacation Since July


    US News & World Report,
    by Paul Bedard   

    Original Article

    8/12/2010

    There they go again. For the fifth time since July, the first family has set plans to board Air Force One for a frilly vacation, a 10-day return trip to exclusive Martha’s Vineyard where they are expected to stay at the 28-acre oceanfront Blue Heron Farm that rents for up to $50,000 a week. But first the Obamas will be traveling to the Gulf Coast of Florida for a mini-vacation as a way to encourage other vacationing Americans to head to the beaches that have been shunned by tourists worried about oil-slicked sands due to the Gulf oil spill.

  • Breeze

    -

    How the Obama Administration Is
    Preempting Federal Immigration Law
     
    Power Line,
    by Paul Mirengoff   

    Original Article

    8/12/2010

    Two days ago, the Washington Times reported that the union that represents rank-and-file field agents at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement unanimously passed a “vote of no confidence” for the agency’s leadership. The National Immigration and Customs Enforcement Council of the American Federation of Government Employees, which represents 7,000 ICE agents and employees, stated that ICE has “abandoned” its core mission of protecting the public to support a political agenda favoring amnesty. The vote, by the Union’s Council, was 259-0. Has this story made it into the mainstream media? Not to my knowledge…..

  • ces

    Typical Oblunder: they max out their RaceCard™, and he shows up to bail them out of their intellectual debt….on the backs of us workin’ folk.

  • Breeze

    -

    Is Obama Winning the Hearts
    and Minds of the Arab
    and Muslim World?

    Creators Syndicate Inc.,
    by Larry Elder

    Original Article

    8/12/2010 

    “It’s conceivable,” said then-presidential candidate Barack Obama in 2008, “that there are those in the Arab world who say to themselves, ‘This is a guy who spent some time in the Muslim world, has a middle name of Hussein, and appears more worldly and has called for talks with people, and so he’s not going to be engaging in the same sort of cowboy diplomacy as George Bush.’” (Snip) What percentage in the same six Arab nations — compared with Bush’s last year in office — now views the United States “very unfavorably” or “somewhat unfavorably”?

  • Breeze

    -

    U.S. funding of ground zero
    mosque imam’s trip draws ire
     
    MSNBC,
    by Staff   

    Original Article

    8/11/2010

    Washington – The imam behind controversial plans for a mosque near the site of the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks is being sent by the State Department on a religious outreach trip to the Middle East, officials said Tuesday, in a move that drew criticism from conservative lawmakers. The department is sponsoring Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf’s visit to Qatar, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates, where he will discuss Muslim life in America and promote religious tolerance (Snip) Two Republican members of Congress, Reps. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and Peter King, called government sponsorship of Rauf’s trip “unacceptable” in a joint statement….

  • helenk

    http://townhall.com/columnists/VictorDavisHanson/2010/08/12/everyone_a_bigot/page/2

    i am so tired of hearing that if someone gets caught with their hand in the cookie jar, that it is the cookie jar’s fault because it was there and maybe the wrong color.

    No matter what color – creed – or national orgin an a&&-hat is an a&&-hat.

    Just once I wish they would take responibility for their own actions.

    WOMEN WITH INTELLIGENCE AND EXPERIENCE,MEN WHO SUPPORT THEM AND COUNTRY BEFORE PARTY ALWAYS

    PUMAS,BUBBAS,EQUALISTS AND THOSE CHATTERING PEOPLE RULE

  • trixta

    Yes, Candymarl.  Even though Charlie and Maxine may have some serious ethical and legal issues (and should be investigated, etc.) , I think they are being targeted as HRC former supporters by the WH in order to pre-empt support for HRC as a 2012 challenger.   If this is true, BO is making examples of them to keep his supporters — especially black supporters — in line because once his black support in and out of Congress disappears BO is toast.  

    In any case, it looks like it could all backfire on the WH.  That is to say, BO’s corruption could also be exposed during Charlie and Maxine’s respective trials.  While the Congress is “draining the swamp”, as it were, let’s hope that BO and his criminal admin also go out with the rest of the crooks. 

  • trixta

    “… that Islam has always been part of America”?

    Really?  Always?

  • jwrjr

    Anybody else notice that Obama is more willing to negotiate with Ahmadinejad than he is willing to negotiate with Republicans?

  • jwrjr

    ” Now there is an “American Idol” in the White House …”  Judging from the number of vacations, shouldn’t that be “American Idle”?

  • FLDemFem

    Someone should point out to that fool that the main impact that Islam has had on America is the capture/sale of slaves. The Muslims of Africa helped to round up their fellow black men, non-Muslims of course, and marched them in chains to the coast, then sold them to the slave traders from England, America and other countries. No Muslim signed the Declaration of Independence, or the Constitution, or had a hand in writing either one of them. In fact, Islam is inimical to the form of government we have here, their religious mandate is to force countries into Sharia law and convert the citizens, or kill those who do not wish to convert to Islam. This is an un-Constitutional goal, and as such, is a threat to our government, and to us as a nation. Islam cannot be “part of America” except as a form of worship permitted under the Constitution. Islam, by its own declared definition and goals, is anti-American. It is not, and has never been, a “part of America”.

  • trixta

    I don’t think anyone here is excusing corrupt behavior.  Let’s kick all corrupt politicians out!   What some are just pointing out is that these investigations are most likely motivated by politics rather than by honorable intentions by the WH.  Either way, I hope it blows up in BO’s face and he ultimately pays the price.   “Draining the swamp” should begin with the WH.     

  • trixta

     ”The US Dept of the Treasury recognizes the importance of this period of intense devotion [....]”

    WTF?!!!!

  • FLDemFem

    Robert Gibbs is NOT the “president’s employee”. He is paid by tax money, that makes him OUR employee, just like Nancy. He may be on the president’s staff, but he is a Federal employee, and that means he works for us. Technically. Someone should point out this fact to Nancy.

  • trixta

    Yeah, let’s hope Charlie and Maxine will light the final matches to the self-destructing Neo-Dem Party!

  • Yttik

    I think there is a racial element going on with Waters and Rangel. If we were prosecuting ethics violations on a curve, they wouldn’t even rate as a priority. What Rangel and Waters have been doing is probably what 90% of other congresscritters do. I think they’ve been singled out, probably as punishment for questioning this administration in some way.

    Of course, the thing about racism is that it doesn’t excuse your behavior. You could be surrounded by bigots but if you’re the one climbing out of a chimney with a bag of valuables, you’ve gone and created your own problems.

  • Breeze

    -

    Interior Dept. documents detail Obama
    admin plotting to seize Western lands
    without congressional approval
     
    Washington Examiner,
    by Mark Hemingway   

    Original Article

    8/12/2010

    Back in February, a leaked memo from the Department of the Interior showed that the Obama administration was considering designating as many as 17 new national monuments throughout the West, effectively closing off huge swaths of land to development. That this was being done without the input of Congress or local authorities angered many. Now Rep. Rob Bishop, R-Utah, Chairman of the Congressional Western Caucus and Ranking Member on the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands has uncovered 14 more pages from the document that were previously unavailable….

  • Breeze

    -

    Everyone a Bigot?
     
    Townhall,
    by Victor Davis Hanson   

    Original Article

    8/12/2010

    Anti-Hispanic, anti-gay, anti-Muslim, anti-black — it is hard to keep track of all the recent charges of alleged bigotry. State representatives in Arizona overwhelmingly passed an immigration law to popular acclaim — which the Obama administration for now has successfully blocked in federal court. Arizonans simply wanted the federal government to enforce its own laws. And yet they were quickly dubbed bigots and racists — more worried about profiling Hispanics than curtailing illegal immigration. In California, a federal judge has just overturned Proposition 8 ensuring traditional marriage……

  • PssttCmere

    I feel sure the unemployment numbers and every other bit of bad economic news is going to sink him even further.  Spin only goes so far before the facts get in the way.

    “Say What You Will…It Feels So Good”

  • Rabble Rouser Rev. Amy

    Agreed, trixta, on all counts.  

    And Newbie, no one here is excusing corrupt, unethical behavior.  I have written abt this a number of times, including just the other day. 

  • Breeze

    -

    FROM THE COMMENTS:

    One advantage of allowing this mosque to be built is not to demonstrate to the world the freedom and tolerance of America. It will be a demonstration of Islam’s hypocrisy in the world.

    Building the mosque at this location will stand in stark contrast and be a permanent symbol for the intolerance of Islam toward others. It will serve as a daily reminder of the hypocrisy of Islam toward a peaceful co-existence with others. It will serve as a wake-up call that this group of Muslims are giving a 13 story tall finger to America. That is the real message.

    Some in the Muslim community have spoken out against the wisdom of this action. Mostly I have only heard from Canadian Muslims. I have not heard any American Muslims that disagree with the location of this mosque. It is time for those American Muslim men to grow a pair and stand up. Your silence is deafening.

    In a sense the problem is not Islam’s war with the west. The problem is Islam’s war with itself. The solution is within Islam. NYC is a great location for this mosque. Here you have in one of the world’s greatest cities a statue that epitomizes freedom standing on an island welcoming others to our shores. Not far away on the island of Manhattan will stand a symbol of tyranny. At the feet of the Statue of Liberty lay the broken shackles of oppression and liberty. At the feet of this NYC Mosque lay where the broken remains of the twin towers were. Those ruins were a symbol of oppression, tyranny and intolerance.

    In this country we have freedom of religion. In other countries you have freedom from religion. In this country you can speak to others of your faith. In those other countries you cannot, for fear of punishment.

    I want to rub Islam’s nose in their own hypocrisy. Let the mosque be built. Show the world the hypocrisy of Islam.

  • helenk

    http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0811/target-fbi-gag-order-free/

    I would like to see someone do a post on this subject. I am glad that the lawsuit was brought and some changes were made. This is one scary law. It seems very  unamerican to me.

    WOMEN WITH INTELLIGENCE AND EXPERIENCE,MEN WHO SUPPORT THEM AND COUNTRY BEFORE PARTY ALWAYS

    PUMAS,BUBBAS,EQUALISTS AND THOSE CHATTERING PEOPLE RULE

  • Breeze

    -

    RANGEL’S BIRTHDAY?

    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:<!– /tagline –><!– subtitle –><!– /jumpto –><!– bodytext –>

    Charles Rangel<img src=”http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/26/Charlie_Rangel%2C_official_109th_Congress_photo.jpg/225px-Charlie_Rangel%2C_official_109th_Congress_photo.jpg”/>
    Member of the
    U.S. House of Representatives
    from New York’s 15th district
    16th District (1983-1993)
    19th District (1973-1983)
    18th District (1971-1973)IncumbentAssumed office 
    January 3, 1971Preceded byAdam Clayton Powell, Jr.Chairman of the House Committee on Ways and MeansIn office
    January 4, 2007 – March 3, 2010[1]Preceded byBill ThomasSucceeded bySander M. Levin (Acting)BornJune 11, 1930 (1930-06-11) (age 80)
    New York City, New YorkPolitical partyDemocraticSpouse(s)Alma RangelResidenceManhattan, New YorkAlma materNew York University (B.S.)
    St. John’s University (LL.B.)OccupationAttorneyReligionRoman CatholicSignature<img src=”http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Charles_B_Rangel_Signature.svg/128px-Charles_B_Rangel_Signature.svg.png”/>Military service
    Charles Bernard “Charlie” Rangel 

    Born June 11, 1930

  • Rabble Rouser Rev. Amy

    Why thank ya, AT!  I appreciate that.

    Despite the “defiance” of Rangel and Water, the reality is that they both have acted in an unethical, and in Rangel’s case, illegal, manner.  Rangel violated U.s. Tax Code, even though he is an author of tax code.  Perhaps his comeuppance should be particularly harsh as it indicates an utter disregard for the laws by which the rest of us should live.

    Are you suggesting that “Afro Americans” should not be held to the same standards as everyone else?  Are they above the law, then?  Wow.  That is a very telling sentiment on your part, “Observer.”

  • Breeze

    -

    CHARLEY RANGEL’S BIRTHDAY IN AUGUST?

    I don’t think so….

    Wiki says he was born

    JUNE 11, 1930…..

  • Rabble Rouser Rev. Amy

    Lt. Col. West is a mighty impressive figure, isn’t he?

  • Breeze

    - 
     
    CHARLEY RANGEL’S BIRTHDAY IN AUGUST? 
     
    I don’t think so…. 
     
    Wiki says he was born 
     
    JUNE 11, 1930…..

  • kinthenorthwest

    A racist in school is anyone that expects a student to behave properly and obey not only school rules but the rules of society.
    A school official is racist if they tell a child they can’t fight, sleep in class, use vulgar language, not do their assignments and the list goes on.,

  • Breeze

    -

    Amer. Bar Assoc. Peddling Race
    Instead of Law With New
    ‘Hispanic Law’ Study
     
    Canada Free Press,
    by Warner Todd Huston   

    Original Article

    8/12/2010 

    There are several precepts that American jurisprudence is supposed to be based upon. “Equal under the law,” “justice is blind,” “no man is either above or below the law,” in the U.S. these basic ideas undergird the premise that we are all the same under our American law. But apparently someone forgot to tell the American Bar Association about all these simple, long-time American principles because the ABA is delivering itself a new charge: The search for Hispanic law. That’s right, folks, the ABA is no longer concerned with “the law….”

  • Breeze

    -

    Carbon pricing called key to storage
     
    Associated Press,
    by Frederic J. Frommer   

    Original Article

    8/12/2010

    WASHINGTON — A presidential task force says that charging a fee for carbon dioxide emissions is key to developing technology to store the gas from coal plants underground. The technique is aimed at helping reduce pollution blamed for contributing to global warming. The task force says that without a price for carbon pollution, there is no framework for investing in the underground storage technology. The task force calls the lack of comprehensive climate change….

  • getfitnow

    Bingo!

  • Rabble Rouser Rev. Amy

    Thank you, jbjd, for the link.  I have contacted the Administrator abt possibly cross-posting, and will get back to you.  EXCELLENT job!!!

  • getfitnow

    So my question is, is the committee suppose to wait until a REALLY, REALLY BIG occurs to wage charges?

    Perhaps I’ll try that argument when I get a parking ticket ($37) in the bay area when it’s expired just a couple of minutes–not more. R-I-G-H-T!

    Swamp draining time!

  • skeeter

    Obama’s Justice Department claims Arizona is usurping the Federal Governments authority by enforcing immigration laws. Quite to the contrary Obama, the Justice Department, and Homeland Security are the ones in violation of the Law. This is why Arizona will win in their appeal.
    http://www.ice.gov/partners/287g/Section287_g.htm

      
    Section 287(g) of the Immigration and Nationality Act

    The Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act (IIRAIRA), effective September 30, 1996, added Section 287(g), performance of immigration officer functions by state officers and employees, to the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA). This authorizes the secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to enter into agreements with state and local law enforcement agencies, permitting designated officers to perform immigration law enforcement functions, pursuant to a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA), provided that the local law enforcement officers receive appropriate training and function under the supervision of sworn U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers.
    The cross-designation between ICE and state and local patrol officers, detectives, investigators and correctional officers working in conjunction with ICE allows these local and state officers: necessary resources and latitude to pursue investigations relating to violent crimes, human smuggling, gang/organized crime activity, sexual-related offenses, narcotics smuggling and money laundering; and increased resources and support in more remote geographical locations.

  • margaret

    Thanks for posting!  It’s true on election day the political majority voted for this fool, but we also know that in the primaries the political majority chose Hillary.

  • Murray

    The teens are ‘way ahead of us.  They yell “racist” as a joke.  To illustrate:

    Just last week, 3 high-school-age teens:  1 white girl, 1 white boy, 1 black boy, were sitting on the sidewalk, outside the front door of our place of business.  (I should add that the vast majority of our clientele are well-heeled and elderly). 

    I informed them that this is private property, and they couldn’t hang out here.  They all got up to leave, and as they turned, the black one said loudly, “You’re racist!” 

    At this point, the girl immediately put her finger to her lips and “shushed” him, and they left.

    To the kids, it’s a joke; yet they also know that us old folks take it seriously.

  • Docelder

    I only watch and read foreign news now for the most part for the past two years. The British news has had this guys number for a long time. This guy gets it. It is so simple.

    Barack Obama has made it clear that he doesn’t believe in American exceptionalism, and has made apologising for his country into an art form.

  • Alex/Ind

    AND Addendum

    Would eliminate all the Green cards & visas  as well as halt all legal immigration (for a while as is 1million/yr!) and mandate U. S. citizens employed first. 

    Know how many refugees the Back Causuc got into this counntry from Clinton to present? 

    Are many of you even aware that all these senios immigrants who come over here are put on free medical & soc. secssi?!!!

  • Ferd Premium Saltine Berfle

    On the contrary. I did more than my part in trying to educate the American people; I couldn’t have done more. And, personally, I’m not going to waste my time or money ever again on ANY candidate
    =======================
    Obviously it wasn’t enough. That Is why I stated that I would work more dilligently next time. One who does nothing has no right to bitch about results and that goes for you, too. And as for a waste of time or money, we’re getting it in spades with the reprobate in the White House (yeah, the bots will call me racist but it’s an EXPRESSION). I am now an independent but lean towards Republicans because at least they say what they do and vice versa.

  • Breeze

    -

    NBC’s Todd Proclaims If GOP
    Wins in November It’s Still ‘A Bad
    Election Night For All of Washington’
     
    NewsBusters,
    by Geoffrey Dickens   

    Original Article

    8/12/2010

    On Thursday’s Today show, NBC’s chief White House correspondent Chuck Todd started building the narrative for the liberal media in case the Republicans win majorities in the House and Senate in the upcoming midterms – that is the voters are just cranky about everything. Todd even went on to absurdly state that if the GOP has a big win it will still be seen as a “A bad election night for all of Washington.” All of Washington? Even for the party that is victorious? Todd, on with Today co-anchor Ann Curry, came up with that conclusion after reciting results….

  • Breeze

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    Summerville council to take up
    illegal immigrant ordinance tonight
     
    Post and Courier [SC],
    by Staff   

    Original Article

    8/12/2010

    SUMMERVILLE — Town Council will take up a proposal tonight that would prevent illegal immigrants from living in the community. Councilman Walter Bailey says the ordinance would prevent illegal immigrants from living in the town and in most cases keep them from working here. Bailey, a former 1st Circuit solicitor, says the idea was prompted in part by the Obama administration’s challenge of the new Arizona immigration law….

  • Breeze

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    In Bush v. Obama, Bush Wins in a Rout
     
    Commentary Magazine,
    by Peter Wehner   

    Original Article

    8/12/2010

    According to Reuters: President Barack Obama attacked the economic policies of his Republican predecessor George W. Bush in Bush’s home state… as evidence of the way Republicans would operate if given power in Nov. 2 U.S. congressional elections. At a fund-raising event for Democrats in Dallas, where Bush now lives, Obama said the former president’s “disastrous” policies had driven the U.S. economy into the ground and turned budget surpluses into deficits….

  • skeeter

    Mexican Presidente Felipe Calderon is projecting the idea of legalizing all drugs. Think about that for a moment. Making all drugs legal. Maybe it would cause more people to use drugs but it would also put a lot of drug dealers out of business. Would that ease the illegal immigrant traffic or make it worse? What would be the pros and cons–if any at all?

  • TeakWoodKite

    So is there an MOU? Or is your point that the the DOJ will loose because supremacy is rendered moot?

  • Charlotte

    Thanks to the genetics revolution we now know that there is no such thing as race. The Human Genome Project (HGP) has determined unequivocally that there is the same amount of genetic variation among individuals within a so called racial group as there is between individuals in different racial groups. What that means is that there is no real genetic difference between blacks and whites or between whites and Asians or between any of the so called races.  ”

    extraordinary. You have taken the findings and interpreted them in exactly the opposite meaning. Unless you are being facetious.
    Why are people so determined to say we’re the “same” as if that cures all ill feeling. There is ill feeling among the “same” anyway. “Diversity” does not mean “same.” It means harmony among the different. Admitting, acknowledging differences, even “celebrating” them.
    In fact, the races are so physiologically different that you can target a race with biologically accurate weapons. The West has experimented clandestinely and so has North Korea. Among those with any info about “black ops” (government sponsored operations off the public stageand not openly funded by Congress), this is old news, actually. There is a factor called “genetic distance” and the charts can be found on line. Black Africans are at near maximum genetic distance from Europeans. Interestingly, they are also at genetic distance from blacks of New Guinea.
    You’re right. It isn’t just color. Indeed, color is a poor marker, though a very visible one. It is in the bone structure, the physiological makeup.
    I can’t begin to go into the manifold ways in which  your comment is wrong (if you are serious.)
    Really–you have to get over the idea that “different genetically” is bad. We have profound differences among us and these differences affect such vital factors as disease profile. There is a web site called gnxp.com (run by an Indian American) which could answer questions on the matter.

  • Ferd Premium Saltine Berfle

    It’s not about his age per se as it is about spending the better part of a lifetime in the congress. That’s just wrong IMHO.
    =============
    Then why make an issue of age?

  • skeeter

      Yeah, right. The only difference in “Race” and “Ethnicity” is one isn’t Politically Correct and the other is Race Neutral. The PC word for “race” today is “Variation(s)”. However, that variation shows up in a huge number  of differentiations. For example, Asian IQ on the average is 105, European caucasion 95, Sub Saharin African 60-65. 60 is considered borderline mental retardation. Kenya is Sub Saharan, Obama’s homeland, according to his wife and several other close associates of his.

  • Justine

    Millions of acres were set aside by President Carter.  Maybe Obummer is following his example…
    .

  • skeeter

    The DOJ will lose because the United States Congress authorizes states to enforce emigration laws (in 1996)” in partnership” with federal laws, IE “constitutional Law(s). Obama, the DOJ, Homeland Security are in violation of 287g of the Immigration and Nationality Act Arizona has requested, NO, Arizona has demanded that “Partnership” and Obama and his administration are refusing. They are refusing to comply with 287g and ICE’s head officials are obedient to Obama in that refusal in that they too are laboring for Amnesty instead of enforcing existing law. 287g is law, not a request.

  • My Site (click to edit)

    And what contributions would those be?

  • My Site (click to edit)

    And don’t forget they were the pirates Adams and Jefferson battled.

  • sowsear

    Iwas blonde, now I’m a suicide blonde..dyed by my own hand.

  • sowsear

    Effigy of Obama at NJ shore arcade replaced by likenesses of Biden and H. Clinton–after visit from secret service…Yep, just like the ones of Palin and Obama in the Christmas displays in 2008.
    http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/weird/Obama-Effigy-Replaced-by-Hillary-and-Bush-100525504.html

  • sowsear

    Even if you saw their certified check made out to the Treasury…nothing would stop Timmy from giving them a rebate or paying for something else that they owed.

  • sowsear

    I do not believe them…..anyway, no how.
    I thought most of their assets were in trust. Where do they get 400K?

  • sowsear

    Hi Onofre’s arm :-D 8-) :-D

  • foxyladi14

    they need more then a nudge..lol

  • sowsear

    Maybe he’s on that Islamic calendar that we read about yesterday…the one that put Obama’s birthday in Feb. 1961

  • greenlantern

    Bless them both for this. BTW, noticing GW’s clothes look a little loose on him.

  • PssttCmere

    Technically, we should be allowed to fire all their asses….

    “Say What You Will…It Feels So Good”

  • stodghie

    ditto. it is nice to see george smile and look relaxed.

  • getfitnow

    I wonder what Maxine’s constituents think about the banker? Very similar to Rev. Wright.

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/11/AR2010081105561_pf.html

  • FLDemFem

    The political parties and candidates should realize that the only contribution they should be asking for is a citizen’s vote. That and not the money spent is what gets them into office. Yes, I know, campaigns..but these days you can do it on a shoestring, given the internet and other almost free venues. So if the candidates and parties concentrate on doing right by the citizens of this country, they will get the votes to continue to do so. That is what they should be doing, not collecting money to bullshit in more places on their campaigns.

  • FLDemFem

    Their assets are in a blind trust, so that they don’t know, allegedly, how the money is invested. That is supposed to keep the president from influencing the value of his portfolio through legislation or other actions. He can spend money of his own, he just can’t say how his investments are set up for the duration of his term.

  • Janis

    You forgot women.  If we weren’t supposed to be hated on, it wouldn’t be so much fun.

  • Breeze

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    Obama’s Islamic America
     
    Washington Times,
    by Editorial   

    Original Article

    8/12/2010

    President Obama says Islam has always been part of America, which raises the question, does the president know something about American history that we don’t? It has become customary for presidents to offer greetings to various religious communities on the occasion of their most holy days. Presidents Ford and Carter both issued Ramadan messages, as did Presidents Clinton and George W. Bush. The Ramadan greeting became intensely political during Mr. Bush’s tenure because he was seeking to dispel the charge that the war on terrorism was a crusade against Islam….

  • Breeze

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    On VJ Day, New Generations Remember
     
    Wall Street Journal,
    by Mark Yost   

    Original Article

    8/12/2010 

    Warwick, R.I. We’ve long known that our World War II veterans were dying at an alarming rate. Some estimates put the figure at 1,000 a day. With them go important personal stories that will no longer be told, along with photo albums, scrapbooks and mementos. But as Sunday’s 65th anniversary of VJ Day approaches, I’m happy to report that for all the talk about the dwindling numbers of “the Greatest Generation,” there are new generations stepping up to keep their memory alive. Namely, the veterans’ children and grandchildren….

  • Breeze

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    Ground Zero mosque plans ‘fuelling
    anti-Muslim protests across US’
     
    Guardian [UK],
    by Chris McGreal   

    Original Article

    8/12/2010

    The battle over plans to build a mosque near the site of the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York is fuelling a surge in anti-Muslim protests across the US, including opposition to new Islamic centres from California to Georgia. Religious leaders and civil rights activists warn that a tide of Islamophobia that has swept the country since the destruction of the twin towers is being heightened by political exploitation of the New York dispute before nationwide elections and is increasingly bound up with hostility to immigrants and other forms of racism.

  • Breeze

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    Sen. Schumer: ‘Sour’ electorate
    reluctant to give Dems credit

    The Hill [Washington, DC],
    by J. Taylor Rushing   

    Original Article

    Photoonist- 8/12/2010

    “Sour” voters reluctant to award Democrats for their legislative success are one of the reasons the party is trailing in the polls, according to Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.). But Senate leaders will keep trying to change that with a jobs-based September agenda, the Senate Democratic Conference vice chairman said Thursday. (Snip) “It’s the world we’re in. It’s a much more negative, critical world, and people are sour now,” he said. “The thing they’re most sour about is the future, not the present.”

  • EllenD

    THey’re now taking vacations from their vacations.

  • andysf

    No way I will vote for a loser regardless of who’s on the ticket.

  • bamaLV

    sharon angle’s campaign need to make an ad showing all the closed up stores and shopping centers  , all the people lined up at the unemployment offices,and all the  forclosure signs everywhere in las vegas , starting with question “what has harry reid done for nevada?” and ending with harrys own words “que. need i say more?” maybe “viva las vegas could be playing in the backround. i think it would make a great campaIgn ad.

  • bamaLV

    they have all overstayed their welcome. especially harry reid.  sharon angles campaign need to make an ad asking “what has harry reid done for nevada?”then have a camera pan all the closed up stores and shopping centers, all the forclosure signs everywhere in las vegas  and all the lines at the unemployment offices. then end with harrys own words “need i say anymore?”  all this with “viva Las Vegas” playing in the backround. it would make a powerful campaign ad.  anyone know  how do i get this idea to her campaign?