You Asked For It, You Got It

Thank you for the open thread, Amy.  I’m moving this link from your previous.

NYPD Suspends Cop Who Stopped Mom of Dying Girl

She was eleven.  She was having an asthma attack and her mother rushed her to the hospital.  In her panic, Mom got going the wrong way on a one-way street.  The cop who stopped her refused help for the girl and refused to let the mother go.

The child died an hour later in the hospital.

Tell me again that cops are our friends.

It really is getting crazy out there!
John Cusack Calls for ‘Satanic Death’ of Fox News, GOP Leaders

Actor John Cusack went on a caustic Twitter rampage Sunday evening, attacking former House Majority Leader Dick Armey, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Fox News.
“I AM FOR A SATANIC DEATH CULT CENTER AT FOX NEWS HQ AND OUTSIDE THE OFFICES ORDICK ARMEYAND NEWT GINGRICH-and all the GOP WELFARE FREAKS,” Cusack tweeted. 

These Hollywood crackheads are really starting to piss me off.

Watch it will be made into a blockbuster soon! Coming to a theater near you!
Says it all:- Cusack has long been outspoken about politics. He supported Barack Obama inCusack has long been outspoken about politics. He supported Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential election and has contributed to The Huffington Post, but this is the first known time he has stooped to the level of making threats.   the 2008 presidential election and has contributed to The Huffington Post, but this is the first known time he has stooped to the level of making threats.

Watch it will be made into a blockbuster soon! Coming to a theater near you!    
Says it all :- Cusack has long been outspoken about politics. He supported Barack Obama inCusack has long been outspoken about politics. He supported Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential election and has contributed to The Huffington Post, but this is the first known time he has stooped to the level of making threats.   the 2008 presidential election and has contributed to The Huffington Post, but this is the first known time he has stooped to the level of making threats  

Something more to worry about: (Please call your senators if it bothers you.)

Senate Bill S.510 is called ‘The Food Safety Bill’. It should be called ‘The Food Monopoly Bill’. You see it will require all farms to purchase and use high-tech equipment that family farms and organic farms cannot afford and do not need. It will put these farms out of business. This is shameful because the bad food occasionally produced in this country does not come from these little farms- it comes from Big Agribiz and they already HAVE the hi-tech equipment required by this law. It seems the equipment hasn’t improved the food they produce, and they don’t like competition from responsible farmers – they prefer a Bill that hands them a monopoly over food production by destroying that competition. Further, this Bill is written in such an open-ended way, that if the Feds choose to, they can use it to stop you from having a home garden.

Also– the Feds are handing food distribution in this country over to Homeland Security. That means that food may be scarce in one part of the country, and plentiful in another, according to “politics”. Of course, if family and organic farms are wiped out, the food they move around will be largely processed and not very good, anyway. But it will be all that is available….

More at:
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4613

If they lay one hand on my Arugula I`ll throw my tomatoes at them…..the ones in a can.

 Obama Needs To “Get Rid Of That Damn Teleprompter”  

And vice versa!!!

Rev. Amy—Hope your mouth feels better soon!
And thanks for the open thread.

This also happened to me, my child did not die, but the cops just don’t care about sick children….they think your lying. I almost was arrested because I got stopped 5 times after leaving the childrens hospital with my 7 year old that was running 104 fever. The heater in the car had just broken and it was very cold. They kept stopping me because i had a tail light out…The cop told me to get in the car and shut up or he was going to arrest me.  It really pisses me off and this child died…how horrible.

 he will “Say Anything”.

Samb—-funny, funny!

ROFL Harp!

Why do bad actors happen to good people?!

Abigail—I’m so happy for you and the wonderful trip to DC!
Would love to hear more about it.

It was so exciting to live there for a couple of years when I was younger. No place like it.

Meanwhile the savior’s outreach envoy to the muslim world remains silent about the proposed stoning in Iran and their wishes for Madam Sarkozi. A muslim two-fer, twice the bitch’es, half the stones, now thats what I call green.

His ugly mug could create a “Runaway Jury”.

As of this morning:
Winner of Boxer/Fiorina debate?
Votes: 7550

Boxer       2675      35%
Fiorina      4875      65%

Poll conducted by kcra.com

Hey Harp, I “can” my own tomatoes. Can I throw some frozen packages? I want to play too!

I’m certain the general said, “No, Madame Senator.”

Here’s another real shocker:  In western WA, no less.  In a recent KING5 (largest local NBC affiliate), Dino Rossi is outpacing Patty Murray by a large margin.  http://freedomslighthouse.net/2010/08/20/shock-poll-gops-dino-rossi-leads-democrat-sen-patty-murray-52-45-in-washington-video-report/

And in other news:  My husband rec’d a call from the local Dem district last week asking if he or I would be interested in becoming a precinct captain (we were both card-carrying Dems ’til ’08).  The guy went postal when my DH said neither of us would ever support the Dems again and why.  Among other things, the guy called him a “racist a$$hole”, and us ”birthers”, and “traitors” (despite the fact that my husband said nothing about barry’s birth).  I made a few calls yesterday to the FCC to file a complaint against the caller and his local party and reported him to his district management and the state’s two Dem representatives.  Finally, I called the guy directly and let him know who I had called and what I had told them.  Do you think he apologized?  He took no personal responsibility at all for his behavior and language and blamed his distressed lack of control on my husband’s refusal to support the Democratic party.  I explained to him that neighbors in a small district/precinct don’t talk to each other this way no matter how zealous their politics are and it worries me that if he has such little control over his mouth, what’s to prevent him from doing other things to people (he’s got everyone’s addresses, too) with whom he vehemently disagrees.  I also told him that we were tired of the verbal abuse from the Democratic party zealots and it has to stop.  Being a military vet, I told him, makes his charge of “traitor” especially serious to me. 

It’s getting uglier and uglier, folks.  I think the cherry on top was my parting comment to him — “You know, I’m certain I have never been talked to by a Republican in this way.”  I imagined his head exploded right about then — just like the aliens in “Mars Attacks.”

And the worst part of all this was no one, up or down their chain of party workers, thought to try to win me back through any rational means.  It was all about offense.  Clearly not a winning strategy.

Arabella, of course we would love to hear abt your experiences when you’re not worn out (and I completely understand that).  So, yes, when you have the time, we’d love to hear abt it!

Jump right in !!  

Where’s that nasty termagant Ann Coulter when we need her?

Go Ahead. Make My Day. 

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/printpage/?url=http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/09/02/bigger_than_1994_106985.html

This is the most obnoxious bill! If you’re a family with a garden, you’re going to be investigated by the FDA if you GIVE AWAY vegetables grown in your own garden. If you’re a small family farm selling produce locally; you’re going to be investigated by the FDA. It’s government on steroids. 

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From a Lefty: Five Things the Right Is Doing Right

Politics Daily,
by Donna Trussell   

Original Article

9/2/2010

For nearly two years, the Democrats have controlled the House, the Senate, the presidency and two new judicial appointments to the Supreme Court. So why does it feel like the Democrats lost in 2008? I think it’s because the Democrats have turned losing into an art form. You know how they say a good dancer makes it look easy? That’s the Dems. They make winning look like losing, and losing look like the eternal hell-fires of damnation. The left could learn a few things from the right. To wit: 1) The right talks to average people….

That’s just outrageous. I am glad they suspended him. I cannot imagine the horror of having a sick child, desperately trying to get to the hospital or emergency clinic, only to be prevented by a police officer from gettting there; or any family member actually. There was a recent case in Tennessee about that very thing and a police officer harrassed a young couple on the way to a hospital, even going INTO the hospital emergency room. What happened to freakin’ common sense with these cops? 

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Obama Misunderstands
the Role of the Presidency

Weekly Standard,
by Gary Andres   

 Original Article

9/2/2010

Last week House Republican leader John Boehner of Ohio delivered a stinging critique of the Obama administration’s economic policies. But the White House’s swift and tart reaction to Boehner was both illuminating and sadly predictable. On the day of the speech, White House communications director Dan Pfeiffer offered a “pre-buttal,” ripped from the playbook of a presidential campaign. Vice President Biden joined the fray, donning his full-electoral jacket, reminding us once again that it was another president that got us into this mess. Blame is like classic rock for this administration –

There are no polls on the race in IA-1 but in our travels around the district we’re seeing signs for the Rep popping up like mushrooms and not a one for Obama lapdog Bruce Braley. 

You can fool Iowans…but not for long.

HARP—-no, Olivia didn’t miss “Hookers” …I think that was implied when she mentioned “the white house”. :*

I encourage everyone to watch “Food, Inc.” and “The Future of our Food”.  Our food supply is already in danger without this bill being passes. 

PS..I hope this doesnt post in triplicate like yesterday.

I just read the GOP candidate for WA govenor is ahead of the dem.

Stampeding elephants!

Hmmm..maybe Abigail’s call was at the end of a long day of being told by former Dems that they don’t support the current Dem party. Not an excuse for that sort of behavior, of course, but it would be a reason for it. I can only hope that person had been told the same thing all day long, by disgusted Dems and former Dems.

Beats, dinging up each other! Vanity Fair has an anonymous source??? LOL
Sounds like a bot who would hang round here.

Excellent point, Cindy – beautifully said.  (Glad you liked the song, too!)

One thing is for sure; this administration has no idea what the United States is.  First Bush tried to turn us into a theocracy, now The Great Mullato Idiot is trying to turn us into the Third World.  May all this blow up in his purple face. 

He better not mess with organic farms and markets.  What a vile person Obama is; I truly cannot stand him.  can’t someone stop this guy before he totally destroys all quality of life in this country?

Wow!  Just goes to show how intellectually and morally bankrupt — and desperate — the Neo-Dem Party is.  Good for you, AbigailAdams, for reporting this guy.

Everyone get out and plant your “Victory Garden.”  Victory over Obama, et. al.

This is the biggest thing I can’t stand about these people.  Then they have the gall to pretend they are victims of racism and their civil rights are being violated.  If they did stage a revolution and take over the U. S. in a year it would look just like Mexico.  Huge parts of it already do.

Glad you got to see these things before Obama decides they supported slavery and throws them on the fire in the Oval office.

That would be senatorial race — there’s no gubernatorial race in 2010 — though I wish there was.

I would never make it through without a Zorbie as I cry hearing the National Anthem.

Monday morning, an armed man made his way into my daughter’s former high school.
The female security guard shielded the principal allowing her to escape.
The officer then backed the man into a secluded hallway, as they had their weapons trained on each other.
When another two deputies arrived, the man was killed as he raised his gun to fire on them.
Troubling times, even in small town America!

Uh, oh…another Gulf oil rig explosion.

http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2010/09/02/rescue-efforts-underway-after-oil-rig-accident-in-gulf/?hpt=T1&iref=BN1

Hmmmm . . . wonder if the “anonymous source” is that nice guy who moved in next door–you know, the one with all the high-tech surveillance equipment . . .

Thank you, Harp-
Good morning to you.

I have asthma. My son has asthma.  My granddaughter has asthma. It runs in my family and I have been hospitalized more than once. 

When my son was young I had to buy a machine and give him breathing treatments 3X a day. 

When people look at me and say “Oh you only have asthma” I shake my head.  It’s not just a condition it’s a disease and it does kill people.

You left out education! Control of what our children learn is crucial to their plans.

Thanks, Good Morning to you too.

Coffee tastes much better with that
playing in the back ground. 

Another one of Algore’s misanthropic goose stepping Econazis breaks rank.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1308138/Eco-terrorist-James-Jay-Lee-shot-dead-Discovery-Channel-HQ.html

Oh well. I guess the good news is that the Greenies have one less planet spoiling, unsustainable, wretched piece of human filth to worry about.

Aw, Amy…that song drove me to tears every time I heard it on the radio back in the day.  It reminded me of my own departure for college.  The thing was, I couldn’t let go.  I missed home so badly I was paralyzed.  I flunked out, went back home and didn’t leave the nest again for ten years. 

Then along came my son, who was so determined to do it his way that we had no choice but to let him go at age 17. 

Sorry for the ramble.  You really struck a nerve.  Kleenex, please.

Talk2ThePaw:  MLK was a Republican — but first he was a man of God, who believed that some things cannot be overcome but through His grace.  The left, by overwhelming numbers, is proud of their secularism and has tried to rewrite God out of the history of this country.  When I was in Washington, viewing our historical documents and buildings, it was plain to me what our early government thought about.  Even the Department of Commerce building places the divine in the center of its mission — it’s carved in stone across its edifice.  “The inspiration that guided our forefathers led them to secure above all things the unity of our country.”  And this is just one small example among hundreds that I discovered in my brief visit there. 

I’m still trying to reconcile my own “life-long Democrat” past with the thoughts and feelings of this past week’s events.  The Republican party has lost its way just as surely as the Dems.  The answer, I now have to believe, through overwhelming evidence, is to look to the writings of those who (from the Declaration of Independence) avowed,  ”with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred Honor.”

Now that eco-terrorists have witnessed the far reaching effects of a rig explosion, oil platforms had better beef up security or there’ll be more such “explosions”.

Congo leaders begged UN to protect civilians -AP

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jPEADE6LA6PT95DxLVS1noE80bwQD9HV9CQ80

Abigail A.:  Good for you for taking all the time to report this $%^t.  Like others, I am through with the Dim Party.  Forevah.  We went to a Republican event for Susana Martinez last weekend, and people were nice and friendly; even tho’ we are Indies.  We are fed up with the corruption in N.M. 

Onofre—-Hilarious! Thanks for the laugh.

oowawa—-I was thinking the exact thing!

Breeze, you corrected my statement that it was a “rig” explosion and then described it as a non-producing “rig”.  I don’t understand your differentiation.

Many of the reports I’ve read use the term “rig”.  An example:  Coast Guard Responding to Oil Rig Explosion South of Vermillion Bay – ABC New Orleans affiliate WGNO

Crew Rescued in Gulf After Rig Explosion – FOX

This just strikes me as a little nit-picky.

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Sorry, Creeper.

My comment was not to correct you, at all, that’s what I got from the
Yahoo news article. It seems that the oil rig itself is ‘dormant’ and
the explosion was on the platform.  I am sorry if it seemed aimed at
you. 

Actually my whole reason for posting is that it is very peculiar that
TWO explosions could take place so close to one another within such
a short time…..

Again, my apologies,
B

Cusack, is suffering from a need to feel relevant
He did Say Anything when he was
hungry and needed the money.

Now he wants to become more
important, to be seen as more then
a actor,in the end it’s ego.

No, it’s I who owe you the apology, Breeze.  Skin seems to be a little thin this morning.  I’m sorry.

You know of course, Cindy, that Suzy Bogguss sang extensively with “Asleep at the Wheel”.

Strange, you bring your daughter’s former high school incident up Sassy. Glad to hear no innocent person was harmed.  
My daughter came home yesterday, each evening we spend time talking over her day at school. Last night she told me they had gone over the Columbine shootings and watched a video. Naturally, at first I thought there would be many questions to answer. However, listening to her was amazing as she describes the incident and how she felt she’d had grown, enjoying an amazing lesson, both in the way of education and spiritually. It was heartwarming to sit and listen to her describe how she felt and how one girls life had made her understand to reach out daily whenever the opportunity arises!

Rachel Scott was the first person killed at Columbine High School on April 20, 1999. Her acts of kindness and compassion coupled with the contents of her six diaries have become the foundation for one of the most life-changing school programs in America.  
 
I have this theory that if one person can go out of their way to show compassion then it will start a chain reaction of the same. – Rachel Scott

Great comments in reply from everyone.

Here’s the deal:  Washington state has become the laughingstock of the country because of its extreme (extreme) nanny laws.  Oregon is a close second.  I think a good analogy is made with the Mothers Against Drunk Driving organization, started by Candy Lightner.  She left her own organization because her efforts to enact stiff drunk driving laws and prosecution turned into a run-away freight train, eventually taken over by zealots who turned her vision into an anti-drinking campaign.  She said that was never her plan and she thinks it’s sad and ridiculous to curb others’ rights to drink if the original intent has been satisfied — that they don’t drive afterwards.  And we have this sort of zealotry in overdrive here in WA.  It’s the first time I’ve ever heard native Washingtonians talk about moving away from this beautiful state.  It’s starting to sound like NJ under Corzine.

The guy from the Dem party who called is an ideal example of how insular the Dem party is here.  And after the booster shot I got from the Restoring Honor event last weekend, I’d had enough.  I didn’t rage at him; I didn’t even raise my voice to him.  And I just let him spew his crap and maybe, just maybe, he may have heard how pathetic his tantrum sounded in his own ears.  Because I looked this fellow up on their website and his facebook page and he’s got to be in his mid-fifties or sixties and some small part of his brain must have registered how utterly whacked he sounded.

What came home to me after last week is that the truth cannot be overcome in any way, shape or form.  All I have to do is keep to the truth and let those whose anger have clouded their vision and set them afire to just go up in smoke.  And they will.  And they are.  They don’t have historical facts on their side and they don’t have the truth on their side.  They aren’t anchored in any sort of firm belief, but in the daily shifting of political rhetoric they can not, with any real conviction, defend.  And that’s why we never, ever, ever, hear them defending their positions in a rational way and why their only tactic is to name call and spew their hatred.  They’re like little dervishes who will eventually spin themselves into the dust.  So, I’m not really fearful of them at all.  And now I’m trying hard not to have some fun with them.

creeper—-Ok, kiddo—-(((((((Group Hug))))))) !!!!!!!!!!

I’m going to start calling you “Haiku Samb” — I love the way you write!

We grow whilst raising our children!
 
Letting go is a rollercoaster!!! …. even allowing them to walk outside alone to a friend’s house blew my mind!!
 
(LOL I followed way back in the car to make sure she had arrived) had to stop when she caught me LOL

~JustMe~ LOL! we did the same thing with our daughter when she was young. But ya know, little girls (and teenaged girls, and older) are such targets for crazies and that’s so scary!!!

Thanks you.

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MORE FOR YOU SPECIAL FILE,

RRRAMY:

‘Honour killing’ parents dramatically
re-arrested seven years after
death of Shafilea Ahmed
 
Daily Mail [UK],
by Staff   

Original Article
 
9/2/2010

The parents of suspected honour killing victim Shafilea Ahmed were dramatically re-arrested on suspicion of murder today almost seven years to the day since she went missing. Taxi driver Iftikhar Ahmed, 50, and 47-year-old wife Farzana were held in a dawn swoop by police. The arrest comes just days after another of their daughters was arrested on suspicion of masterminding an armed robbery at the family home.

Yes, I fwd’ed it to several friends. It’s a heart toucher alright.

Did I miss the discussion about the new decoration of the Oval Office? If there hasn’t been one yet, can I jump right into the shallow end of the pool and say I think it’s awful. Not that it was done, although he should have done it when he first moved in like all the others do, but that it’s completely colorless and depressing. I do not like the new rug, or the new sofas and I hate the new coffee table. I liked the two chairs in front of the fireplace the way they were before they were recovered. I heard someone described it as a “high-priced hotel conference room”, and I think that’s just what it looks like, although maybe not so “high-priced”!

“Md. Judge Denies Request For Obama School Records”
“FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) ?  A military judge in Maryland has refused to order the release of school records that could include a copy of President Barack Obama’s birth certificate.
…
The judge ruled Thursday that those records and any other evidence or witnesses pertaining to Obama’s birth are not relevant to the case and will not be admitted. Prosecutors have argued that Obama’s birth certificate shouldn’t be part of the case, especially since the order for Lakin to deploy to Afghanistan didn’t come directly from the president.”
http://wjz.com/wireapnewsmd/Md.judge.denies.2.1892398.html

Well, one was about love and inclusiveness and the other–not so much.

MLK and Cesar Chavez must be rolling over in their graves–their messages and humanity have been co-opted and corrupted for profit and to keep us divided.

I was listening to Mark Steyn today. He said something, at least to me, was very profound. He said that the conversation has been about this mosque. He feels it should be about “the hole.” The massacre (my term,, not his) in the WTC was Osama Bin Laden’s making, but “the hole” is our (local and federal governments) making. He went on to talk about various huge projects in other countries that have been completed in the last 10 years and here we are, a decade later, with a hole in the ground. what an embarrassment and how sad.

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New York imam’s nonexistent mosque

Washington Examiner,
by Barbara Hollingsworth   

Original Article

9/2/2010

Feisal Abdul Rauf, the New York imam and State Department envoy who wants to build a controversial new mosque at Ground Zero, applied for – and received – tax-exempt status from the IRS in 1998 for another mosque about 10 blocks from the Ground Zero site, stating that he was already holding prayer services there for up to 500 daily worshippers.But when the Investigative Project on Terrorism checked out the information Rauf provided to the government on his IRS 1023 form, they discovered that 201 W. 85th Street was a 17-story Manhattan apartment building with no public spaces large enough

Baby s**t brown is the tonal decor, oui?

We are in …

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OIL PLATFORM EXPLODES OFF LA COAST, SPREADING OIL

By ALAN SAYRE, Associated Press Writer Aug. 2, 201013 mins ago<!– end .byline –>

NEW ORLEANS, La.

– An oil platform exploded and caught fire Thursday off the Louisiana coast, spreading a mile-long oil sheen into the Gulf of Mexico. All 13 crew members were rescued from the water in their protective “Gumby suits.”
It was the second such disaster in the gulf in less than five months. Coast Guard Petty Officer Bill Coklough said the sheen, about 100 feet wide, was spotted near the platform, 200 miles west of the site of BP’s massive spill. Firefighting vessels were battling the flames.

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OIL PLATFORM EXPLODES OFF LA COAST, SPREADING OIL  
 
 
By ALAN SAYRE,
Associated Press Writer 
Aug. 2, 2010
NEW ORLEANS, La.  
 
– An oil platform exploded and caught fire Thursday off the Louisiana coast, spreading a mile-long oil sheen into the Gulf of Mexico. All 13 crew members were rescued from the water in their protective “Gumby suits.”  

It was the second such disaster in the gulf in less than five months. Coast Guard Petty Officer Bill Coklough said the sheen, about 100 feet wide, was spotted near the platform, 200 miles west of the site of BP’s massive spill. Firefighting vessels were battling the flames.
READ THE REST HERE:  
 
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_gulf_rig_explosion

HERE YOU GO BREEZE-

US SOLIDER SEEKS CONSCIENTIOUS  
OBJECTOR STATUS

Gordo—LOVE it!

heck!  I was an English major!

oowawa—-Hubby was too, and look where it got him..LOL!
At least he can write his own briefs (when he’s not wearing them—teehee)

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Oval Office makeover widely criticized
 
CNN,
by Shawna Shepherd
& Dan Lothian   

Original Article

9/2/2010

Washington

- The makeover of the Oval Office has been widely panned in press reports and on the blogosphere for being too casual and for its bland color palate but White House press secretary Robert Gibbs doesn’t expect President Obama to weigh in anytime soon. (Snip) In an apparent effort to head off criticism, the White House pointed out that all of the materials and furniture came from U.S.-based companies, and that taxpayers won’t foot the bill. These kinds of projects have always been funded by the White House Historical Association, with money from the Presidential Inaugural Committee.

Annie!  It’s taupe!  Rhymes with Hope!  And Dope!

Annie!  It’s taupe!  Rhymes with Hope!  And Dope!
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Yeah, and my favorite, oowawa: Nope!

The Obama Administration reportedly held a special workshop this week ….
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Christ. A workshop is just a euphemism for wasting a lot of taxpayer money, showing a few Powerpoint presentations (with content that represents the null set when appropriate and necessaary are considered), and then generating a lot high-fives all around for doing nothing in some great place and getting away with it. For the last 4 years, I have declined every invitation to DOE workshops because they are not only a waste of money–they are a monumental waste of my time and life is just too short. The bullshit that passes for inspired thought processes depresses me no end.

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Judicial Watch Announces List of Washington’s “Ten Most Wanted Corrupt Politicians” for 2009

Washington, DC

Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, today released its 2009 list of Washington’s “Ten Most Wanted Corrupt Politicians.” The list, in alphabetical order, includes:

Coming in at number seven;

President Barack Obama:

During his presidential campaign, President Obama promised to run an ethical and transparent administration. However, in his first year in office, the President has delivered corruption and secrecy, bringing Chicago-style political corruption to the White House. Consider just a few Obama administration “lowlights” from year one: Even before President Obama was sworn into office, he was interviewed by the FBI for a criminal investigation of former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich’s scheme to sell the President’s former Senate seat to the highest bidder. (Obama’s Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel and slumlord Valerie Jarrett, both from Chicago, are also tangled up in the Blagojevich scandal.)

Moreover, the Obama administration made the startling claim that the Privacy Act does not apply to the White House. The Obama White House believes it can violate the privacy rights of American citizens without any legal consequences or accountability. President Obama boldly proclaimed that “transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this presidency,” but his administration is addicted to secrecy, stonewalling far too many of Judicial Watch’s Freedom of Information Act requests and is refusing to make public White House visitor logs as federal law requires.

The Obama administration turned the National Endowment of the Arts (as well as the agency that runs the AmeriCorps program) into propaganda machines, using tax dollars to persuade “artists” to promote the Obama agenda. According to documents uncovered by Judicial Watch, the idea emerged as a direct result of the Obama campaign and enjoyed White House approval and participation.

President Obama has installed a record number of “czars” in positions of power. Too many of these individuals are leftist radicals who answer to no one but the president. And too many of the czars are not subject to Senate confirmation (which raises serious constitutional questions).

Under the President’s bailout schemes, the federal government continues to appropriate or control — through fiat and threats — large sectors of the private economy, prompting conservative columnist George Will to write: “The administration’s central activity — the political allocation of wealth and opportunity — is not merely susceptible to corruption, it is corruption.”

Government-run healthcare and car companies, White House coercion, uninvestigated ACORN corruption, debasing his office to help Chicago cronies, attacks on conservative media and the private sector, unprecedented and dangerous new rights for terrorists, perks for campaign donors — this is Obama’s “ethics” record — and we haven’t even gotten through the first year of his presidency.

http://www.judicialwatch.org/news/2009/dec/judicial-watch-announces-list-washington-s-ten-most-wanted-corrupt-politicians-2009

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Clueless MSM Unable to
Understand What Beck’s
Rally Was All About

Big Journalism,
by Andre Harper   

Original Article

9/2/2010 

Last weekend, I had the privilege of attending the “Restoring Honor” rally in Washington, D.C. While I’m proud to be an American each and every day, I was especially proud on that day. The feeling I had being amongst so many people that love and appreciate the blessings of liberty was at times overwhelming. The purpose of the event was simple. We wanted to express our love for our nation and dedicate ourselves to practicing the values that has made it so strong. Unfortunately, this simple lesson appears to be impossible for liberals and the media to comprehend.

The Onion video was hysterically funny!  Thanks for that!

So, do we have any unbiased (not “in the tank for Obama”) judicial officer — ANYWHERE?  It’s astounding to me how every judge that gets near Obummer seems to buy into him — even Justice Roberts at the second swearing in…  Wonder what it is…
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I am not related to this Cusack.