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G-20 protesters in Pittsburgh weren't exactly "right-wing extremists"
“The latent causes of faction are thus sown in the nature of man.” –James Madison
EDITORIAL EXEGESIS
“House Speaker Nancy Pelosi berated town hall and tea party protesters this month, tearfully warning they’d incite violence. Well, there’s been violence all right, at Pittsburgh’s G-20. But it wasn’t the tea partiers. It takes gall to characterize ordinary Americans, freely exercising their rights of speech and assembly in civic forums, as ‘mobs’ while ignoring a pack of leftist thugs now smashing a U.S. city. But that’s what Pelosi did, directing her righteous tocsin to the Norman Rockwell-like gatherings of Americans who opposed her expansion of government this past summer. ‘I have concerns about some of the language that is being used because I saw … I saw this myself in the late ’70s in San Francisco,’ Pelosi said, choking up, her eyes brimming with tears. ‘This kind of rhetoric is just, is really frightening and it created a climate in which we, violence took place and … I wish that we would all, again, curb our enthusiasm in some of the statements that are made,’ she told a congressional forum Sept. 17 in a bid to silence peaceful protesters. Scroll ahead one week to the G-20 summit in Pittsburgh:
Wow, I’m still coming down off of the high from last week. No, not that kind of high – I gave that up a long time ago. I’m talking about the performance I gave to my adoring fans important foreign policy speech I gave at the UN. They ate it up: soft power, apologizing for America being the worst country on earth, a hand of friendship extended to our traditional enemies, upholding rights for those misunderstood “enemy combatants,” engaging the world, leading by better example, and my desire to give up unilateralism and channel U.S. foreign policy through the UN. Just words, of course, but as they come from me, they hold a lot more weight than they would from anyone else. It’s like being a parent: when giving an ultimatum, Junior says, “Why?” and Dad says, “Because I said so!”
All that said, I can’t understand why Mahmoud Ahmadinejad would go behind my back and set up a secret nuclear enrichment site near a military base in Iran. In fact, it really hurt my feelings. But I figure that another sternly-worded statement will bring him around. Maybe he just had an ineffective translator. Read the rest of this entry »
Waxman-Markey intends to reduce carbon dioxide emissions – mainly by implementing a cap and trade program but also by imposing new mandates and subsidies for renewable energy as well as creating a host of stricter, costly energy efficiency standards. But interestingly enough, if you perform a search for the word “nuclear” in the 1,427 pages climate change bill, it only appears five times – two of which are in the titles.
While the bureaucratic-laden approach offered by the legislation is extremely problematic, the fact that it has virtually no mention of nuclear power calls the entire green initiative into question. If reducing carbon dioxide and other emissions, creating jobs, and promoting domestic energy sources were truly the objective, then nuclear energy should be central to the legislation.
Nuclear power already provides the United States with 20 percent of its electricity and 73 percent of its CO2-free electricity. When it comes to affordable near-term reduction of CO2 and other atmospheric emissions, the importance of nuclear power cannot be overstated.
SAN ANTONIO — A star-spangled banner proudly displayed in Texas lacked a little something: seven stars. A San Antonio company has replaced a U.S. flag it produced that had just 43 stars. Read More…
Yesterday we did a report on the apparently racist remarks of President Obama’s latest Czar appointment, FCC Diversity Czar Mark Lloyd.
Among the chilling remarks made by Mr. Lloyd (along with those showing his respect and admiration for Hugo Chavez) is the following:
“We’re in a position where you have to say who is going to step down so that someone else can have power.”
Lloyd is referring to the fact that in his (and probably Obama’s) opinion, the administration is in a position to dictate more minority ownership/control over media outlets.
Which of course is un-Constitutional.
And before all of you members of the Kool-Aid Brigade scream that it is within Lloyd and Obama’s power to do this, because the FCC is a government agency, let me explain something to you.
The FCC grants a license to a media outlet, be it a television or radio station, based upon certain criteria and legalities.
As long as the brodcaster stays within those guidlines, the federal government cannot even impose a fine upon the station, let alone remove it’s ownership.
Liberals as a whole froth at the mouth like a pack of rabid dogs whenever it is pointed out that talk radio is dominated by conservative points of view.
It is not a new observation, but it is one that needs review and repeating every so often. Why do liberals always seem to get on the wrong side of any issue concerning America’s future? Its sovereignty? Its financial security? Its defense?
I think this question is particularly timely, given the public discussion of ObamaCare that included a huge peaceful protest march on Washington September 12th. The President’s non-stop campaign to get “reform” passed and the heated exchanges in Congress do not represent actual healthcare reform, but are testimony to a liberal obsession with a very bad idea.
You know something is desperately wrong when Democrats will not permit the proposed bill to enjoy a grace period of 72 hours during which both the public and members of Congress can actually read it before a vote is taken.
The irony of the current battle is that the bill will significantly change Medicare, a program advocated by liberals and, like Social Security, established by Democrats in Congress. It will destroy a free market for insurance programs individuals may choose to purchase. Or not. Read the rest of this entry »
The headline and the first paragraph from this Friday Wall Street Journal report by Josh Mitchell and Stephen Power reads like a bad joke Jay Leno’s writers would have discarded, because no one would believe it. The second paragraph isn’t much better:
Gore-Backed Car Firm Gets Large U.S. Loan
A tiny car company backed by former Vice President Al Gore has just gotten a $529 million U.S. government loan to help build a hybrid sports car in Finland that will sell for about $89,000.
The award this week to California startup Fisker Automotive Inc. follows a $465 million government loan to Tesla Motors Inc., purveyors of a $109,000 British-built electric Roadster. Tesla is a California startup focusing on all-electric vehicles, with a number of celebrity endorsements that is backed by investors that have contributed to Democratic campaigns.
That’s a combined total of just shy of a billion dollars going to two companies currently making toys for the wealthy under circumstantially suspect conditions. Read the rest of this entry »
President Obama’s speech to the UN on climate change last Tuesday points to an interesting and fairly recent shift in the left’s environmentalist philosophy: the definition of “pollution” has changed. Even ten years ago, concerns for pollution centered around problems of smog, litter, and toxins in the air and water. However, such concerns for largely visible pollution have been trumped recently by a concern for invisible pollution which Obama claims is the most dangerous of all: “greenhouse gas pollution” and “carbon pollution.”
While most visitors to the state of Wyoming marvel at miles of sparsely populated natural beauty, rolling mountains, open spaces, and clean air and water, environmentalists do not praise Wyoming but censure the state for its heavy coal development. In fact, Jeremy Nichols of WildEarth Guardians disapprovingly called the state “ground zero for greenhouse emissions.”
This small article made the news today. It concerns the passing of Lucy Vodden. She passed away from the long term effects of Lupus, an auto immune disease. Now, her name might mean absolutely nothing, and that is not said to lessen the sad passing of any person. However, it does add some context to a story we may have all heard at one time or another.
“No country upon earth ever had it more in its power to attain these blessings than United America. Wondrously strange, then, and much to be regretted indeed would it be, were we to neglect the means and to depart from the road which Providence has pointed us to so plainly.” –George Washington
FOR THE RECORD
“Barack Obama took center stageat the United Nations on Wednesday and continued his ‘I’m sorry for America’ tour. Despite leading a nation that defends others, pays for others, promotes freedom for others, and shelters others, Obama once again talked about the past in order to make himself more accommodating and caring. Word to Obama and other left-wing ’speak softly and carry a wet spaghetti noodle’ types…. his message was exactly what other nations want to hear. But it’s not because they want a kindler, gentler America to get along with. It’s because they want an America that will continue to pay the bills, continue to bail them out of emergencies, and let them run amok with their policies. Obama gave them everything they were looking for. … Obama echoed previous world speeches by highlighting what he thinks is wrong with America:
Today we will showcase someone who adds a new chapter to all of the stories of racism in America.
Bear with us as we do a slight introduction.
Members of Congress, the mainstream media, and even former Presidents have been making the (unfounded) claim that people attending Tea Party protests, town hall meetings, etc., are nothing more than racists.
The fact is that this claim is made towards anyone who oposses the President’s policies, even though any rational person can see that it has no basis whatsoever in reality.
Anyone, of any skin color or ethnic background who doesn’t agree with the policies of President Obama is no more a racist that anyone who disagreed with the polices of George Bush.
Now, however, the racism follies have taken a dire turn.
Recently, President Obama appointed Mark Lloyd to be the FCC’s Chief Diversity Officer.
In other words, Obama’s “Diversity Czar.”
The following is a quote from Mark Lloyd regarding his feelings about conservative dominance of the public airwaves:
“There’s nothing more difficult than this because we have really truly, good, white people in important positions, and the fact of the matter is that there are a limited number of those positions,” he said.
“And unless we are conscious of the need to have more people of color, gays,…Read the rest of this entry
The President has ‘put it out there’ that American children are spending too little time at school, and that because of this, it puts them at a disadvantage when compared with other children around the World.
Secretary of Education Arne Duncan also weighed into the debate by saying,
“Our school calendar is based upon the agrarian economy and not too many of our kids are working the fields today.”
The article also asks selected students what they thought of the idea, and you can guess what they might say about more hours at school.
Both the President and Secretary Duncan went on to say that children in the U.S. need more school because children in other Countries have more school. In some cases that may be so, but the figures are really interesting to look at, and from those figures, some very interesting things come to mind, although Obama and Duncan did not mention them. Some of those schools actually do spend more days in the year at school, but that can be misleading, because when actual hours spent at school are looked at, then those other Countries actually have their children spending less time at school. Look at some of these statistics.
Kids in the U.S. spend more hours in school (1,146 instructional hours per year) than do kids in the Asian countries that persistently outscore the U.S. on math and science tests — Singapore (903), Taiwan (1,050), Japan (1,005) and Hong Kong (1,013). That is despite the fact that Taiwan, Japan and Hong Kong have longer school years (190 to 201 days) than does the U.S. (180 days). —-Read the rest of this entry »
It would be enough to make Joe Stalin and Joe Goebbels blush. A video recently posted on YouTube shows a class at B. Bernice Young Elementary School in Burlington, New Jersey, learning to sing the praises of Barack Obama. The kids laud his “great accomplishments” and his “great plans” to “make this country’s economy number one again.” The song also quotes from the children’s spiritual “Jesus Loves the Little Children” – except Jesus’ name is replaced with Obama’s: “He said red, yellow, black or white/All are equal in his sight. Barack Hussein Obama.” Oddly enough, children in public schools can’t sing the actual song “Jesus Loves the Little Children” for fear of the ACLU. It must first be adulterated with the name of a cult leader. And liberals couldn’t understand why so many parents didn’t want their children subjected to the speech The One gave to schools earlier this month. — Courtesy of The Patriot Post
Filmed at the B. Bernice Young Elementary School in Burlington, NJ and uploaded on June 19, 2009. - Video posted at Youtube by alteredbeat Lyrics follow —- Read the rest of this entry »
As climate extremists, Democrats, and President Barack Obama (but I repeat myself) push for nonsensical cap-and-trade legislation and prosperity-killing, sovereignty-threatening treaties, at least some of the data undergirding the supposed science backing their efforts seems to no longer exist. I’m not kidding.
…. the data needed to verify the gloom-and-doom warming forecasts have disappeared.
Or so it seems. Apparently, they were either lost or purged from some discarded computer. Only a very few people know what really happened, and they aren’t talking much. And what little they are saying makes no sense.
There have been many questions about the integrity of the science behind global warming, but what Michaels describes may be the most troubling example yet cited.
After having done their best to ignore Tea Parties across the nation and, when they couldn’t ignore the biggest one of all in Washington D.C. this month, vastly underreporting the numbers of American citizens who showed up to exercise their First Amendment rights, the media find themselves directly in the crosshairs of an exasperated American public.
A recent poll by Sacred Heart University indicates that nearly 90 percent of Americans think the media actively worked to get Obama elected, 70 percent think the press is promoting his presidency, and 56 percent say the media are pushing ObamaCare “without objective criticism.”
The mainstream media or, as some are calling it, the minion media have had a particular bias for decades. Only with the relatively recent advent of the new media – talk radio, cable news and the Internet – have many Americans awakened to the reality of what drives the media. Is it a search for the truth? Sadly, it’s more often a push for a particular ideology. To be honest, most people would be more accepting of this if the media would simply state its bias – on either side of the aisle – up front. Then we’d be able to read or watch the news with the proverbial grain of salt and read between the lines. But we’ve just about reached the limits of our patience with phony claims of neutrality.
More journalists should be like John Stossel, who recently announced he is leaving ABC for Fox:
I have been one of the few reporters on mainstream network TV who did not hide his political beliefs. Viewers know I am for individual liberty and the free market, and against government coercion. I thought that this candor might earn me some credit from those who disagree with me. After all, by putting my views out there, everyone can judge my reports accordingly.
[…]
Every reporter has political beliefs. The difference is that I am upfront about mine.
So, America, brace yourselves for a new round of tea parties – gatherings that the media will have difficulty ignoring because they are the target.
Protests are planned for October 17th that will take place on the front steps of 30 press offices around the nation, including the CNN studios in Atlanta, a yet-to-be-announced location in New York City and the Plain Dealer in Cleveland. For a complete listing of cities and locations, click here.
You may recognise this catchy song, not from airplay on your radio, but because it was picked up for a TV advertisement.
The song is 1234, and was made into a minor hit by Feist. Then it was picked up for the new advertising campaign for the Apple iPod nano, and sales of the song soared, literally. It more than tripled its sales across the board, and jumped up the charts as well. With respect to Downloads from the Internet, the song originally peaked at around 2000. After the Apple ad, downloads jumped to nearly 75,000. It was from Leslie’s third solo album, ‘The Reminder’, sales of that also skyrocketing. The song ended up being named as Number 19 in the top 100 songs of 2007, and saw Leslie gaining three Grammy Award nominations. At the latest report, the album sales Worldwide had topped the million mark.
What is not widely known is the Australian link with this song. It was written by a Melbourne born singer songwriter Sally Seltmann. Her small outfit New Buffalo was support act for Leslie and her band on one of their Canadian tours in 2005. Sally was at first shyly reluctant to bring the song to Leslie, and once coaxed to do so, Leslie in fact really liked the song. She asked if she could rework some of the lyrics, and the song was then released.
Then Apple picked it up, and the rest is what you see.
The video for the clip is very well done, and the song is such a bright and catchy one. She also performed the song in a Sesame Street episode as an instruction for kids in counting, and Leslie said that appearing with the Muppets on that show was a highlight of her career.
Good day, everyone. My name is David Paterson and I am currently the governor of the great state of New York. You may remember me as “that guy who took over for the perv.” That perv in question is former New York governor, Official Prostitute Inspector, and national punch line Eliot Spitzer. Now normally, the only time my name would be in the news is if I just lost a mock gubernatorial election to gun-toting former New York Giants wide receiver Plaxico Burress, or if Jay Leno showed my photo next to Will Ferrell’s in a “separated at birth” bit. Today is different.
Today, I am forced into the national spotlight by none other that President Barack Hussein Obama. To be honest with you, I am not very pleased about it. Allow me to explain. You see, the president, in his limited wisdom, advised me to withdraw my candidacy from the 2010 campaign. Apparently Mr. Hopenchange believes that approval numbers lower than Jessica Simpson’s IQ would cement my reelection defeat.
I wonder if the president will be running for reelection in 2012? Right now, the man Israel loves to hate has approval numbers hovering at the 50 percent mark. If these trends continue, in November 2012 he will be about as popular as those Helen Thomas boudoir pictures I bought on eBay – for 25 cents. So excuse me if I do not snap to attention when given marching orders from the Uber-bama. Quite the contrary, I am planning to completely ignore the heavy-handed suggestions from his lackeys, and any advice from The One. In my opinion, he should get his own (White) House in order, first.
If you look at it from their perspective, they haven’t exactly been able to govern in the first year of their administration in the way that other administrations have, where you would have, theoretically, a period in which the new administration is allowed to pass the needed pieces of legislation.
There’s a somewhat frightening thing to look out for in all this. It will not be one of those ‘I told you so’ moments for me, because that particular statement is utterly futile. The green environmentalists have been saying, and will continue to say that Solar power can fill the gap to supply electrical power that used to be supplied from coal fired sources. As I have said all along, this is something that just cannot be done. The frightening aspect is that after untold billions have been spent to get these solar power plants up and running, and with enormous subsidies from Governments all over, the average person (not those green environmentalists) is soon going to realise that this form of power is absolutely marginal, at the very best. The frightening aspect will be when those average people do realise, and then start to say something, and believe me, it will not be pretty. Politicians will then scratch their heads and look to apportion blame, their usual stock in trade thing. The one thing that they won’t do when looking to apportion that blame will be to look in the mirror. The second frightening thing will be that it will then be too late. There will be no power other than these huge and enormously costly white elephants.
Spain has spent nearly $30 billion on its green energy economy; each one of these green jobs cost the Spanish government on average $855,000, but the return on investment hasn’t been great. The country’s unemployment rate is not decreasing but rapidly increasing and is now at 19.3%, which is one of the highest in the developed world.
“Using the budget reconciliation process to pass health reform and climate change legislation…would violate the intent and spirit of the budget process, and do serious injury to the constitutional role of the Senate.”
These are not the words of a Republican or a conservative activist.
This is a warning issued on April 2nd of this year from the former Democrat Majority Leader in the Senate, Robert C. Byrd (D-WV).
He was referring to a dangerous assault on American freedom as it is protected by the constitutional balance of power – an assault that is being considered by the Obama Administration right now.
“We Pour Legislation into the Senatorial Saucer to Cool It”
The Founding Fathers designed the Constitution and our government to guard against political power grabs by slowing down the process of making laws.
They insisted that the Senate had to be a deliberative body to slow down the passions of the House and stop mob rule from destroying freedom.
In a famous conversation between the two presidents, Thomas Jefferson is said to have asked George Washington why the Framers had agreed to a second chamber in Congress at the 1787 Constitutional Convention. “Why did you pour that coffee into your saucer?” Washington asked him. “To cool it,” said Jefferson. “Even so,” said Washington, “we pour legislation into the senatorial saucer to cool it.”
The Founders Relied on the Senate to Carefully Consider Before They Commit Us to a New Law Read the rest of this entry »
By Pam Meister at Family Security Matters
Pittsburgh G-20 Protest No TEA Party
Posted by papundits on 09/30/2009
The Patriot Post - Wed Chronicle
THE FOUNDATION
G-20 protesters in Pittsburgh weren't exactly "right-wing extremists"
“The latent causes of faction are thus sown in the nature of man.” –James Madison
EDITORIAL EXEGESIS
“House Speaker Nancy Pelosi berated town hall and tea party protesters this month, tearfully warning they’d incite violence. Well, there’s been violence all right, at Pittsburgh’s G-20. But it wasn’t the tea partiers. It takes gall to characterize ordinary Americans, freely exercising their rights of speech and assembly in civic forums, as ‘mobs’ while ignoring a pack of leftist thugs now smashing a U.S. city. But that’s what Pelosi did, directing her righteous tocsin to the Norman Rockwell-like gatherings of Americans who opposed her expansion of government this past summer. ‘I have concerns about some of the language that is being used because I saw … I saw this myself in the late ’70s in San Francisco,’ Pelosi said, choking up, her eyes brimming with tears. ‘This kind of rhetoric is just, is really frightening and it created a climate in which we, violence took place and … I wish that we would all, again, curb our enthusiasm in some of the statements that are made,’ she told a congressional forum Sept. 17 in a bid to silence peaceful protesters. Scroll ahead one week to the G-20 summit in Pittsburgh:
Read the rest of this entry »
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