RE:Perry 4 President

Something about mary

“ I found this on a liberal Texas blog.  I don't know what to think about Rick Perry running for President.  The third picture, in my opinion, depicts Rick Perry accurately--showboater.   http://tinyurl.com/y5kmnox Oh, my goodness. mary ” Mary, I applauded Perry for refusing Obamaulus money, and then for his threat to assert Texas sovereignty, as granted by the Constitution, against unlawful mandates from the feds.  So this is a good excuse to repost Judge Napolitano's caveat about state leaders like Perry.  If he has substance, now is the time for showing it with some direct action. “ It’s one thing, Alex, for a state legislature and a Governor to sign a piece of paper saying that we stand on our tenth amendment and we are a sovereign state. It would be quite another for a state legislator to enact legislation that did the following: Prohibit state employees from enforcing federal law, indict federal officials who come into the state with the intention of enforcing federal law that conflicts with state law, impose a real estate tax on federal property within the state -  now I know that that has been unlawful for the past two hundred years but suffice it to say we have a different supreme court now that might look at this differently - drag before county and state grand juries federal officers who insist on enforcing federal law that is unconstitutional within the states. The states really have to stand up for their sovereignty. They have to do more than say we are a sovereign state. There has to be teeth to their proclamation of sovereignty. - Judge Napolitano on the Alex Jones radio program (03/25/2010): ”

Ah, Socialsm!

Re: beautiful, just friggin' beautiful

Cal Berkeley activist testing tree house living Cuzzin Ricky enjoying a bit of schadenfreudeal glee.  -- “ The city of Berkeley may be trapped in what multiple officials have called an "unsustainable" pensions program that will cost the city millions of dollars to escape beginning June 2011. At a special budget presentation to members of the Berkeley City Council Feb. 9, city officials expressed concern-but little surprise-that maintaining the current level of employee retirement benefits could bury the city even deeper into deficit. "There is a growing recognition among public managers that the current system is not financially sustainable," the report accompanying the presentation reads. "We know that (fiscal year) 2012 will bring higher retirement costs to the city-adding significant costs to the General Fund and all other funds." Under the program, non-safety workers who retire at age 55 receive annual payouts of 2.7 percent of their salaries for every year worked. Pensions for city safety workers are calculated on a different scale-3 percent at age 50-but cap out at 90 percent of an individual's salary. For other public employees, however, there is no cap on how high the pensions can go. For example, Berkeley City Manager Phil Kamlarz, who has worked for the city for 35 years, would receive 94.5 percent of his $232,020 salary plus benefits if he were to retire this year, according to city documents. [continue Pensions Program May Cause Deficit to Balloon] ” Oh my.

whore

Merrily

One of us is fecked up here

burning circuits... does not compute

Sit with me and MoSup while we're watching a news broadcast. You'll soon hear me exclaim "he actually believes that crap!" And hear Mo Sup responding that no, they, all of them, are engaged in a rehearsed, and coordinated mind altering contrivance.  She is correct that media newsreaders act in concert;  adopt the daily talking points fed by the DNC.  But, I am certain that we're dealing with people so isolated, so inculcated with liberal thought,  that socialism is to them the center of political equilibrium. They are true believers eating their own crap!  That extends to the blogosphere. Here's an example I just ran into. Just two paragraphs into SJGulitti's "MSNBC’s Airing the McVeigh Tapes: Sensationalism or Timely Reminder?" my brain began short circuiting.  Mr. Gulitti is a seemingly rational, certainly earnest man, who lost, if he ever had it, all ability to think critically.  The highlighted text?  Brain sparks caused by the aforementioned short circuit. “ Many conservatives would point to an incident of labor thuggery by SEIU members,  like SEIU thugs assaulting Castor's Rep. Kathy Castor's constituents?, the assault on a black man by SEIU thugs at the town hall meeting St. Louis, Missouri?, or the assault on Randy Schaber and associates to force union representation?, or the SEIU assault on a hospital cafeteria worker?, or the six busloads of SEIU thugs  crashing a dinner where California Nurses Association (CNA) leaders, who SEIU accused of busting an Ohio union drive?, or my god just Google "SEIU violence? That "incident?" , the Weathermen Bombings or the Seattle World Trade Organization anarchist riots,as being somehow equivalent to the damage done in Oklahoma City or on par with the numerous deaths thus far committed by anti-government extremists since the inauguration of Barak Obama. (huh?) In doing so, they are deliberately ignoring the facts that currently exist. Some critics went so far as to label the recent reports  ...  (huh?).(there's more) ” *brain electrical fire * what ...president  ... who uses office .. attack private citiz ...Acorn ... what about Acor- ghak! MEDIC!

Follow Instructions

meanwhile in palm beach

Re: Extremists

a nation full of mcveighs

& Mad Hatters

I'm glad someone addressed this.  Soccer Dad reminds us how cynical Clinton and his advisor Dick Morris were in handling the OKC bombing while he was in office. “ Later, under the heading "How to use extremism as issue against Republicans," Morris told Clinton that "direct accusations" of extremism wouldn't work because the Republicans were not, in fact, extremists. Rather, Morris recommended what he called the "ricochet theory." Clinton would "stimulate national concern over extremism and terror," and then, "when issue is at top of national agenda, suspicion naturally gravitates to Republicans." As that happened, Morris recommended, Clinton would use his executive authority to impose "intrusive" measures against so-called extremist groups. Clinton would explain that such intrusive measures were necessary to prevent future violence, knowing that his actions would, Morris wrote, "provoke outrage by extremist groups who will write their local Republican congressmen." Then, if members of Congress complained, that would "link right-wing of the party to extremist groups." The net effect, Morris concluded, would be "self-inflicted linkage between [GOP] and extremists." Clinton's proposals -- for example, new limits on firearms and some explosives that were opposed by the National Rifle Association -- had "an underlying political purpose," Morris wrote in 2004 in another book about Clinton, Because He Could. That purpose was "to lead voters to identify the Oklahoma City bombing with the right wing. By making proposals we knew the Republicans would reject...we could label them as soft on terror an imply a connection with the extremism of the fanatics who bombed the Murrah Federal Building." ” "Yesterday I waded into a mass of tea party protesters gathered at the front of Colorado's Capitol and completely forgot to brace myself for a "small-scale mimicry of Kristallnacht" (as New York Times columnist Frank Rich once characterized these events). " [Read more]

YES WE CAN

The Fall of the House of Mugabe And the prevailing myth.

“ That “good leader gone bad” narrative is often used by Western leaders who helped push Mugabe into power, and it is popularly disseminated in the press. President Jimmy Carter still refuses to acknowledge that he blundered by forcefully supporting Mugabe. ”

“ Mugabe’s tenure during that first decade was almost flawless. Though a keen student of Maoist economic and revolutionary philosophies, he sagely kept government out of the new Zimbabwe’s three most profitable industries: massive, modern commercial farms which produced enough foodstuffs to feed roughly half of Africa, rich deposits of gold, chrome, copper, and other bulging veins of mineral wealth, and a tourism industry that included yawing game reserves and the thundering Victoria Falls. Mugabe retained experienced Europeans to run his military, banks, and courts, and was able to open the fledgling nation to an army of eager foreign investors. With foreign capital pouring in, he used that wealth to invest in Zimbabwe’s future. He built schools and hospitals, while aggressively pumping money into the national infrastructure. When the British-mandated Lancaster House Agreement between the Rhodesian government and Mugabe’s nationalist faction ended in 1987, Zimbabwe looked more like Europe than Africa.   Downfall It is argued that Zimbabwe’s disintegration came as a result of the first real challenge to Mugabe’s political authority in 1999, when the newly formed Movement for Democratic Change ran a successful, disciplined campaign against his 20 year incumbent party, ZANU-PF. When elections came in 2000, the MDC gained nearly 50 percent of Zimbabwe’s parliamentary seats, despite widespread accounts of vote-rigging and voter intimidation by the government. Mugabe reacted violently to what he saw as an unforgivable betrayal. Read more ” How stuff happens, wot?

A nice pocket knife

I voted Democrat because...

Darkness in the wings

Never has the term "cornered rbats" had more significance, nor held darker portent, in all our history. Time’s Klein: Beck, Palin Potentially Committing Sedition against U.S. Government; Heilemann Adds Limbaugh

Horton Hires A Ho

Gratuitous Even Caruso had to clear his throat.

Here's your white man constitution

Another day, Another outrage

“ Report Questions Constitutionality of Giving D.C. a Vote By Mary Beth Sheridan Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, February 13, 2007 The research arm of Congress says that legislation to give the District a vote in the House of Representatives is probably unconstitutional, a finding that could jeopardize its chances of passage, officials and analysts said yesterday. The report lands at a time when the D.C. voting rights effort has been gaining momentum. The new Democratic majority in the House has vowed to move quickly on such legislation. Thomas Mann, a congressional scholar at the Brookings Institution, said the report represents "a creature of the Congress . . . saying this doesn't really pass constitutional muster. That has to be taken seriously and will certainly be used by those who oppose it." ” “ Split At Justice On D.C. Vote Bill Holder Overrode Ruling That Measure Is Unconstitutional By Carrie Johnson Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, April 1, 2009 Justice Department lawyers concluded in an unpublished opinion earlier this year that the historic D.C. voting rights bill pending in Congress is unconstitutional, according to sources briefed on the issue. But Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr., who supports the measure, ordered up a second opinion from other lawyers in his department and determined that the legislation would pass muster. ” “ Obama pushes D.C. voting rights bill By ASSOCIATED PRESS Today WASHINGTON | President Barack Obama urged lawmakers Friday to give the District of Columbia a voting member of Congress. A bill to give the city just that is expected to be brought for a vote in the House next week. Many advocates for D.C. voting rights believe this year could be their last opportunity in a long time if Democrats lose their majority in Congress in the fall. ”

John Wayne AWK!

sigh

Say it's not true Duke!

Russia v. USA

Main Differences between Russia and the USA (28 pics)

Interesting impressions of Russian origin. I found a certain folk-arty poignancy in them.

Waiting Game

H/T SondraK

your time is (almost) up

tick... tick ...tick ...
Illinois mayor doubts Obama citizenship

Obama's anemic popularuty

Obama's Blues

“ Polling among likely voters, such as Rasmussen Reports, shows Republicans up by about 8-10 points, which would probably represent a seventy-seat pickup. [RCP] ” Story/map via Ace

Darryl-Postell to NBC ass-hat

meme for a united america

Picture of "Dorian Gray" Pelosi

Nancy Pelosi’s Palm Beach party had more security than guests

“ The surgically-beautified Pelosi, meanwhile, appreciated particularly the treats that Tiffany Cloutier had flown over for the occasion and placed on everybody’s plate: 10-inch-long, 8-inch-tall replicas of San Fransisco cable cars made of hand-painted chocolate! [Full] ” Aside: I showed the article's picture to MoSup and asked "who do you think this is?" She didn't know.  It prompted a story about a conversation she recently had with her  friend Gail.  "What is it with plastic surgery these days?" Gail asked. "Every page of (some magazine) has an ad for a plastic surgeon."  MoSup responded, "The more you don't take care of yourself on the inside, the more you want to alter the outside."   I thought that was a money quote.

Cater II?

Hmmm. Carter gave away the Panama Canal -

doing the lord's work