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Saturday, August 22, 2009
Selling Our Civilization for Oil
This week has seen three incidences of gross abuses of power/acts of civilizational degradation, all in committed in the name of the almighty petrodollar.
First, the US loaned George Soros $2 billion for a business development deal via an offshore drilling operation in Brazil while refusing to tap into shale deposits which would provide the US with enough natural gas to last for 65 years. (H/T: Reliapundit for the IBD story.) Meanwhile, we're expected to believe that Cap-and-Tax's purpose is provide cleaner energy and reduce our dependence on foreign oil rather than line the coffers of the Federal Reserve.
Then, the Swiss President apologized to Qadaffi for the arrest of his son last summer after he and his wife physically abused, threatened, and coerced two servants (slaves). The Libyan regime responded to the arrest by sanctioning Swiss companies, suspending oil deliveries, and withdrawing $5 billion in assets from Swiss banks. They also detained Swiss citizens in Libya. Switzerland upheld the rule of law and basic human rights, to which Libya responded with the unlawful detention of foreign nationals. And Switzerland apologized.
This would seem particularly egregious if not for the UK's mass-murderers-for-oil scheme in which Tony Blair negotiated an under-the-table agreement to release the Lockerbie bomber, convicted murderer of 270 civilians, in exchange for a $900 million oil exploration deal with BP.
Such is leftism. No horrendous deed goes unrewarded, and our elected representatives sell their constituents, their national soul, all human decency, and justice down the river as they shill for their own corporate interests.
The moral of the story: never elect a leftist or anyone opposed to drilling here, drilling now. The rule of law and the dignity of the free world are not worth a bunch of hope-'n-change hot air.
First, the US loaned George Soros $2 billion for a business development deal via an offshore drilling operation in Brazil while refusing to tap into shale deposits which would provide the US with enough natural gas to last for 65 years. (H/T: Reliapundit for the IBD story.) Meanwhile, we're expected to believe that Cap-and-Tax's purpose is provide cleaner energy and reduce our dependence on foreign oil rather than line the coffers of the Federal Reserve.
Then, the Swiss President apologized to Qadaffi for the arrest of his son last summer after he and his wife physically abused, threatened, and coerced two servants (slaves). The Libyan regime responded to the arrest by sanctioning Swiss companies, suspending oil deliveries, and withdrawing $5 billion in assets from Swiss banks. They also detained Swiss citizens in Libya. Switzerland upheld the rule of law and basic human rights, to which Libya responded with the unlawful detention of foreign nationals. And Switzerland apologized.
This would seem particularly egregious if not for the UK's mass-murderers-for-oil scheme in which Tony Blair negotiated an under-the-table agreement to release the Lockerbie bomber, convicted murderer of 270 civilians, in exchange for a $900 million oil exploration deal with BP.
Such is leftism. No horrendous deed goes unrewarded, and our elected representatives sell their constituents, their national soul, all human decency, and justice down the river as they shill for their own corporate interests.
The moral of the story: never elect a leftist or anyone opposed to drilling here, drilling now. The rule of law and the dignity of the free world are not worth a bunch of hope-'n-change hot air.
DAVID HEDRICK - A MARINE VET - GIVES OBAMANISTA PELOSI-CRAT HELL!
MORE ABOUT DAVID:
I, David William Hedrick, a member of the silent majority, decided that I was not going to be silent anymore. So, I let U.S. Congressman Brian Baird have it. I was one questioner out of 38, that was called at random from an audience that started at 3,000 earlier in the evening. Not expecting to be called on, I quickly scratched what I wanted to say on a borrowed piece of paper and with a pen that I borrowed from someone else in the audience minutes before I spoke. So much for the planned talking points of the right wing conspiracy.
VIA HOT AIR!
SPREAD IT!
UPDATE: MORE ON BAIRD AND HIS BROWNSHIRT COMMENT:
Baird apologizes for 'brown shirt' commentsHE IS HEARING FROM HIS CONSTITUENCY AND HE IS HEARING HOW PISSED OFF THEY ARE. HE IGNORES THEM AT HIS POLITICAL PERIL.Rep. Brian Baird (D-Wash.) apologized yesterday for accusing town hall protesters of "brown shirt tactics" and comparing them to a "lynch mob."
Baird, who originally decided against holding town hall meetings because of expected protests, now says he'll schedule some forums during the August recess.
"Frankly, I have had concerns about how we can have constructive dialogue and, unfortunately, in response to some of the things we've been seeing across the nation I have said some things myself that I regret," Baird said, according to the Tacoma News Tribune.
"I want to express that regret directly and announce that we will be holding a series of five town halls so people can express their opinions and ask questions."
HE MUST CHOOSE BETWEEN OBAMA AND HIS OATH; BETWEEN OBAMA AND HIS CONSTITUENTS.
IF HE CHOOSES OBAMA AND OBAMACARE THEN HIS POLITICAL CAREER IS OVER.
SO FOR US - THANKS TO OBAMA AND OBAMACARE: IT'S A WIN-WIN
A God Theory of the Universe
Most of my friends don't believe in God; they believe in the Big Bang and String Theory.
They can't explain either theory - most people can't; they accept it as a matter of faith.
Sadly, most don't see the irony in that.
THAT MAKES ME THINK... MAYBE THERE'S A SCIENTIFIC WAY TO PROVE THE EXISTENCE OF GOD TO THESE FOLKS?
I think this might be possible because there are very serious problems with both theories - The Big Bang and String Theory: they keep bumping into phenomena they can't explain, an so get more elaborate and complicated every year. TS Kuhn described how this process works in science - how and why and when one theory replaces another. Right now there are several theories competing with each of these.
Two of the problems physics is now encountering are HUGE: the Universe is expanding at an ever accelerating rate, and there is no known source for this energy; if there has been a Big Bang, then the energy shown run out and the Universe should gradually fall back on itself and repeat the process.
So physicists have come up with new theories to explain this acceleration chief among them Black Energy.
There second big problem with the Big Bang theory is that matter should be evenly distributed throughout the Universe, but it isn't.
To explain this physicists have posited that there musty be Black Matter: matter we can't see/detect/measure - but "it's there; it has to be there! TRUST ME!!!!"
God is really a much simpler explanation; God passes Occam's test. Here's how:
First, all there was only God.To create space for the Universe God had to withdraw - He had to create a place where he wasn't, a place where dimensions and matter and energy could EXIST ON THEIR OWN.
That place is our Universe.
The force accelerating the matter in the Universe is God: matter is being attracted back to God who exists in other dimensions and at the outermost ends, or outer edges of the Universe.
There are many black holes throughout the Universe and many emit energy jets.
There is no sign anywhere that these or any other things are collapsing back to the singularity.
These black holes and the dark matter and the dark energy are all racing towards God.
Shouldn't you, too?
Whether we choose consciously or not - we choose: a life lived must make moral choices and must confront moral dilemmas.
WHY?
Because God also created MORAL SPACE for us humans, a space where we can choose: right or wrong; good or evil; justice or injustice - God or not-God.
In this moral dimension, we are not inevitably drawn to God as matter is in the material dimensions.
We must choose to move toward God.
If we don't choose God - or Godliness, then we collapse back upon ourselves like a dying star.
Or look at it this way: Einstein proved that gravity is really a warp in the space-time continuum: matter - and the weak and strong forces in it - warps the continuum and a lot of it warps it a lot.
Our Sun warps the continuum - and our Earth isn't spinning around it as much as it is being pushed around it as if it was in a gully in the continuum, a place where our warp and the Sun's have found a balance of sorts - the way our Moon has with us.
Well, maybe God is the ultimate warp in the space-time continuum? The warp beyond all matter and to which all matter moves.
And this God isn't just a force of nature; He's conscious of everything.I know atheists believe that human consciousness is just an artifact of our brain-power, and many people have posited that soon computer's will have self-consciousness.
So... er, um... if computers - which are a phenomena only 75 years old - will soon spontaneously develop consciousness, then why can't God - that force above and beyond all things and the Universe itself, why can't it have consciousness?!
Something that big and old - infinitely big and infinitely old certainly has the energy, matter, and time for this to evolve, no?
In fact... I don't see how it COULDN'T HAVE!
That's why I think a Universe without God is illogical and impossible.
Anyhow, God certainly explains the things that dark matter and dark energy and String Theory and the Big Bang Theory cannot.
Perhaps my friends will just have to decide which leap of faith is more moral.
- Believing in a Universe without judgment in which there are no moral universals only values asserted.
- Or a Universe with universals and eternal laws and good and evil.
The world I live in is much more like the latter.
Unfortunately, too many people have turned away from God and are choosing evil and doing what is unnatural only right in their own eyes.
The consequences for this are eternal, too: nothing good comes doing evil.
And doing what is only right in one's own eyes is the very definition of evil.
RIFQA BARY SPARED, AND WILL REMAIN IN FLORIDA FOR NOW
Good news on the Fathima Rifqa Bary case. Atlas Shrugs reports that the court in Orlando has ruled in her favor:
I wouldn't be surprised if the dhimmis at the Orlando Sentinel have no interest or intention of interviewing Bary to get her side of the story. To them, she is a non-entity. I won't be surprised if they won't interview any potential witnesses for her either.
Bary made this statement to the court:
Another good thing: Florida governor Charlie Crist also came in support of Bary:
Here's more from Jihad Watch, The Jawa Report, Creeping Sharia, Phyllis Chesler, WDBO blog.
Update: read this eyebrow-raising topic from the Jawa Report, on how the Columbus Dispatch reporter who wrote about this story appears to be a hijab-lover, and may have even taken a few things out of context.
Staying in Florida, her legal team argues, would keep her safe.They're likely to start a motion in Ohio, so there's likely to be another battle.
Judge Dawson said he has had no contact with Ohio courts, so he doesn't know if Ohio wants jurisdiction in this case.
"Rifqa wants to be here," said one of her lawyers.
He told the court the teen's safety would be compromised back in Ohio, referring to some 'terrorist activity' in the region where she lived. He did not elaborate.
Judge Dawson says "at first blush" it appears his court has jurisdiction in this custody matter, since no Ohio court has taken up the matter.
I wouldn't be surprised if the dhimmis at the Orlando Sentinel have no interest or intention of interviewing Bary to get her side of the story. To them, she is a non-entity. I won't be surprised if they won't interview any potential witnesses for her either.
Bary made this statement to the court:
Update: Rafqa is making her statement to the court. "I've been a Christian for 4 years of my life. I love my parents but I am in fear of my life because of the past abuse. I assure your honor Jesus Christ is my Lord and Savior. I am a Christian, a believer."The House majority leader for Ohio has made the following statement:
House Majority Leader Adam Hasner issued the following statement on today’s court ruling regarding Rifqa Bary, a young Christian convert who fled her parents’ home in Columbus, Ohio. She is currently in Orlando, Florida.And in Florida, Marco Rubio, who's running for Senate in the autumn, had something to say as well:
“I appreciate the efforts of Secretary Sheldon and the Department of Children and Families, Attorney General Bill McCollum, and the countless advocates who have worked tirelessly to put the safety of Rifqa Bary first. The court’s decision and the forthcoming involvement of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement – facilitated by the Attorney General – to investigate this young girl’s safety if she is forced to return to Ohio may save her from an unthinkable fate.”
“No one, child or adult, should have to fear for their lives because of their religious choices, and I am hopeful that Rifqa’s best interests will be safeguarded as this process moves forward. I will continue my communications with General McCollum and Secretary Sheldon, and will be closely monitoring the ongoing investigation and developments in this matter until there is a final resolution that guarantees the permanent safety of this young girl.”
Miami, FL–U.S. Senate candidate and former Florida House Speaker Marco Rubio today issued the following statement regarding Rifqa Bary's court case:If you live in Florida and can vote for Rubio in the coming election, please do so.
"America has a rich tradition of religious freedom that is enshrined in our First Amendment. Today in Florida, this freedom could be at stake as a court considers the case of 17 year-old Rifqa Bary.
"This young woman fled from Ohio to Florida, fearing she would be killed for converting from Islam to Christianity. As the court weighs the facts of this case, I hope it will take her expressed fears seriously and not rush to an irreversible decision that may ultimately endanger her.
"It is imperative that state officials use every legal tool at their disposal to properly evaluate Rifqa's best interests. Florida has a responsibility not only to protect her innocent life, but also to defend her sacred right to worship freely."
Another good thing: Florida governor Charlie Crist also came in support of Bary:
Thank you for contacting Governor Charlie Crist. The Governor asked that I respond on his behalf.I'm glad they all understood, and will be even gladder still if they continue to make sure she remains safe in the forseeable future too.
Governor Crist today expressed his gratefulness to Circuit Judge Daniel Dawson for his decision to grant Fathima Rifqa Bary the right to remain in Florida. In this case, the first and only priority of Governor Crist's administration is the safety and wellbeing of this child. The Governor also expressed gratitude for the good work of Department of Children and Families Secretary George Sheldon and his General Counsel, Rob Wheeler, for personally advocating the administration's position by attending today's hearing.
Please be assured Governor Crist will continue to fight to protect Ms. Rifqa Bary's safety and wellbeing as this case moves forward.
Thank you again for taking the time to contact Governor Crist.
Sincerely,
Warren Davis
Office of Citizen Services
Here's more from Jihad Watch, The Jawa Report, Creeping Sharia, Phyllis Chesler, WDBO blog.
Update: read this eyebrow-raising topic from the Jawa Report, on how the Columbus Dispatch reporter who wrote about this story appears to be a hijab-lover, and may have even taken a few things out of context.
The White House WAS Spamming People
I have to admit that I thought this was a non-story and that Pinko/Moveon trolls were behind this, since they seem to be everywhere these days and now they're getting paid by Axelrod. It turns out that Axelrod was doing it all along. They have their own spamming software, Govdelivery. Your tax dollars at work! Gibbs flat-out lied through his teeth.
Once again, hats off to Major Garrett for being such a badass and hammering Gibbs over this.
H/T: JWF
The revelation comes after the White House acknowledged this week that people were receiving unsolicited e-mails from the administration about health care reform and suggested the problem was with third-party groups that placed the recipients' names on the distribution list.Yeah, but where did they get those email addresses?
Republicans quickly pounced on the news.
"This is yet another ominous chapter in the administration's rabid campaign to jam its radical health care scheme onto an unwilling public by any means necessary," Rep. Thaddeus McCotter of Michigan said in a statement.
Govdelivery sent hundreds of e-mails from senior adviser David Axelrod asking supporters to help rebut criticism of Obama's health care plan circulating on the Internet. It also sent e-mails highlighting Obama's speech to the Muslim world in Cairo and the announcement of Sonia Sotomayor as a Supreme Court nominee.
Several FOX News viewers complained they received these e-mails even though they had never requested any communication from the White House.
The White House insists that Govdelivery aggregates nothing and plays no role in the formation of its e-mail list; it is merely an end-product e-mail distributor.
The White House notes that Govdelivery also handles mass e-mails for Texas Gov. Rick Perry and Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels, both Republicans.I'm on Mitch Daniels' email list because I signed up for it on his webpage. He uses Govdelivery like blogs use Feedburner: as distribution software to get his messages to subscribers. The White House was spamming. There is no comparison, let alone equation, between what Mitch Daniels does and what the White House did.
Earlier this week, Govdelivery's president, Scott Burns, declined to comment to FOX News on whether the White House had used his firm to send out the Axelrod e-mails.Why say anything when Gibbsey's just going to lie for you?
Once again, hats off to Major Garrett for being such a badass and hammering Gibbs over this.
H/T: JWF
Once again: Bush=Hitler OK; Obama=Hitler not OK
We read:
One might note that Mr Abramson is the author of a site that includes an entry about "How Bush's Grandfather Helped Hitler's Rise to Power" -- so connecting Bush to Nazism is obviously fine by him. Shame on you for your hate-speech, Mr Abramson!
"In the wake of this week's beating of a black fisherman in an apparent hate crime, a leader of the Jewish community says hate speech becoming more acceptable. Speaking at a City Hall news conference with Mayor Sheila Dixon and clergy leaders on the beating of James Privitt, Art Abramson said that he's heard hate speech at the recent town meetings on health care reform..
The executive director of the Baltimore Jewish Council said he is bothered by comparisons of various health care reform plans to Nazi atrocities. "Identifying this health care plan as a Nazi like plan shows how quickly we are accepting out there these comparisons...comparisons that are wrong as these people have no idea of what happens when we begin to see Nazi like plans," Abramson said.
Abramson says as hate speech becomes more acceptable in conversation, incidents like this week's beating will increase.
Source
One might note that Mr Abramson is the author of a site that includes an entry about "How Bush's Grandfather Helped Hitler's Rise to Power" -- so connecting Bush to Nazism is obviously fine by him. Shame on you for your hate-speech, Mr Abramson!
FEMINIST HAWKS: ATTACKING GLOBAL JIHAD FOR WOMAN'S RIGHTS
WE'VE ARGUED FOR A LONG TIME - SINCE BEFORE 9/11 - THAT ISLAMO-MISOGYNY IS THE SWAMP IN WHICH GLOBAL JIHAD DEVELOPS.
ANTI-JIHAD FEMINIST HAWKS HAVE HAD AN INTERSTING AND EVOLVING ON-LINE PRESENCE.
HAT TIP GLENN.
THIS MOVEMENT SHOULD BE MUCH BIGGER AND STRONGER AS IT PROVIDES THE BASIS FOR GETTING THE LIBS TO SUPPORT ANTI-JIHAD EFFORTS.
- WE'VE ARGUED THAT BECAUSE ISLAMO-MISOGYNISM IS THE IDEOLOGY WHICH TURNS FAMILIES INTO BREEDING GROUNDS FOR SOCIOPATHIC MURDERING MEN WHO LEARN IT'S GOOD TO MURDER OR MAIM BAD FEMALE FAMILY MEMBERS TO RESTORE FAMILY HONOR.
- AFTER THE BUDDHAS OFBAMIYAN WERE DESTROYED - AND A FEW WEEKS BEFORE 9/11 - I TOLD FRIENDS AT A DINNER PARTY THIS WAS THE GREATEST THREAT IN THE WORLD.
- I WAS RIGHT.
- BELIEVE IT OR NOT, SOME OF THESE FOLKS STILL DON'T GET IT!
ANTI-JIHAD FEMINIST HAWKS HAVE HAD AN INTERSTING AND EVOLVING ON-LINE PRESENCE.
HAT TIP GLENN.
THIS MOVEMENT SHOULD BE MUCH BIGGER AND STRONGER AS IT PROVIDES THE BASIS FOR GETTING THE LIBS TO SUPPORT ANTI-JIHAD EFFORTS.
BRITS TRADED OIL FOR LOCKERBE BOMBER: THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS SCOOPS HOT AIR BY THREE DAYS
HOT AIR TODAY.
TAB THURSDAY.
TAB THURSDAY.
- REGULAR READERS KNOW THIS HAPPENS ALL THE TIME.
- BOOKMARK US, BLOGROLL US, SPREAD THE WORD...
RIFQA BARY TO BE FORCED TO RETURN TO HER PARENTS' MUSLIM HOME AND OBAMA IS SILENT
THIS IS A DEATH SENTENCE FOR HER.Joshua Rhett Miller / Fox News:
Court Expected to Send Runaway Teen Home Despite Muslim Honor Killing Fears — A 17-year-old girl who fled to Florida after converting from Islam to Christianity will almost certainly be forced to return home to Ohio, experts say, despite her fears that she will become the victim of an honor killing for abandoning her parents' faith.
AND WHERE IS OBAMA?
- HE'S THE FATHER OF TO DAUGHTERS AND THE LEADER OF THE FREE WORLD.
- AND SUPPOSEDLY A CHRISTIAN COVERT FROM ISLAM.
- AND YET HE IS SILENT.
- IT'S DISGUSTINGLY SHAMEFUL.
- AND VERY REVEALING.
Friday, August 21, 2009
The specially protected status of homosexuals is acknowledged in Minnesota
We read:
"Serving some 40,500 students and 248,000 residents living in 13 communities, Anoka-Hennepin School District’s 2,700 teachers tackle huge assignments every school day. Well, one student says two of his teachers took it on themselves to add a little extra duty to their daily doings.
Alex Merritt [pic above] recently won a $25,000 settlement after reporting that while enrolled at the STEP school back in 2007-2008, two teachers harassed him with remarks about his perceived sexual orientation....
In the settlement negotiated with the Minnesota Department of Human Rights, District 11 agreed to pay Merritt $25,000 and the two teachers, Diane Cleveland and Walter Filson, were reprimanded. Cleveland, a social studies teacher, was briefly reassigned, and placed on two-day unpaid suspension....
Details were unavailable regarding the disciplinary action taken regarding Filson, a law enforcement teacher.
Anoka-Hennepin denies any violation of the Minnesota Human Rights Act and its settlement of this case “does not constitute an admission of any liability of violating the Minnesota Human Rights Act or any other law or of any wrongdoing,” the Department of Human Rights Web site reported....
Settlement of the Merritt incident also directs District 11 to submit training materials related to student harassment, its complaint process and sexual orientation as a protected class for the department’s approval.
According to Olson, as has been the tradition for many years, all Anoka-Hennepin staff members go through harassment training when they are hired and principals revisit the anti-harassment policy with their employees and students every year.
Source
Apparently the student (pic above) is straight but effeminate in some way. We read here that "Cleveland was found to have made comments such as: "[His] fence swings both ways" and also that he had a "thing for older men". Filson allegedly said the student enjoyed wearing women's clothes." Fullest details of what was said here.
The boy does seem to have been mercilessly and quite unforgiveably taunted and harassed by his teachers. I would have thought that such cruel and unprofessional teachers should have been fired regardless of whether the harassment concerned homosexuality or not. The boy must have been extremely distressed. I just hope he eventually manages to get over it.
My son has always been a quiet, inactive, non-sporty but thinking type and he got rather harshly disparaged by his teacher in Grade 4 who didn't think he was robust enough in his attitudes and actions. I immediately raised the matter with the Head Teacher and it was appropriately dealt with. But they still lost a pupil over it. I sent him to a different school the next year and he has never looked back. He now has a degree with First Class Honours in Mathematics and is working with great enthusiasm on his Ph.D. in Mathematics. He also has a girlfriend and lots of friends. So I am rather amused at the stupid value-system of that Grade 4 teacher. One wonders where the father of the boy in the above matter was. But my son was in a private school so parents undoubtedly have more leverage there. All the more reason for school vouchers.
The most interesting thing for me about the above incident, though, is how do you get to be a protected species? Fatties are often disparaged. Should they be especially protected? And what about Christians? There seems to be open season on them. Surely they should be protected from derogatory comments too? Half of the political Left would be doing sensitivity training if that one were brought in!
But Orwell knew the Left well, being one of them, and his saying that "Some pigs are more equal than others" seems to be a permanent feature of Leftist thought. (H/T Interested Participant)
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RIFQA BARY WAS ABUSED AT HOME
A source for Pamela Geller has revealed that Rifqa Bary had been abused already (Hat tip: Jihad Watch):
Pamela urges people to contact the following sources:
Update: here's a comment on the subject from Nonie Darwish, and another one from Wafa Sultan.
On several occasions friends of Rifqa would bring her down to the school counselor because of bruises on her legs and her arms, beatings suffered at the hands of her father and brother (sounds like Islam Said). The middle school, in a serious dereliction of duty, did not report these beatings to child welfare services. Beatings were random, violent, unprovoked. Take, for example, when Rifqa and her father Mohammad were driving in the car. He would force her to wear the hijab, which she hated. In her discomfort she would slouch down, embarrassed, and her father would haul off and sock her in the face so that she never forgot to sit up straight in her costume. The beatings were regular and so much a part of the landscape of Rifqa's life, she became inured to them, just like Amina and Sarah and Aqsa and every "honor" victim.I should hope that her friends will be willing to testify in her defense too. Patrick Poole also tells that the Noor Islamic Cultural Center that ratted on her has extremist ties of its own, and Salah Sultan of that mosque has been preaching Jew-hatred on Egypt's al-Nas television station.
Pamela urges people to contact the following sources:
People can also call George Sheldon, Secretary of DCF. Contact information:I too urge everyone to make a call to these officials and urge them to help out.
Contact Governor Charlie Crist today:
Phone Calls to (850) 488-7146
Fax letters to (850) 487-0801
or Email him at Charlie.Crist@MyFlorida.com
The Florida Department of Children and Families
George H. Sheldon, Secretary
1317 Winewood Blvd.
Building 1, Room 202
Tallahassee, Florida
Fax: (850) 922-2993
Update: here's a comment on the subject from Nonie Darwish, and another one from Wafa Sultan.
Thursday, August 20, 2009
OBAMACARE LIKE OBAMA: A PIG IN A POKE
Pig in a poke
OBAMACARE IS 1000+ PAGES AND THERE ARE SEVERAL VERSIONS AND OBAMA AND HIS MINIONS HAVE FLIP-FLOPPED ON WHAT'S NON-NEGOTIABLE IN IT AND IT MAY BE CUT IN TWO BY THE SENATE.
AND NO ONE KNOWS WHAT WILL COME OUT OF CONFERENCE.
THAT'S WHY OBAMA ASKING US TO SUPPORT OBAMACARE IS LIKE HIM ASKING US TO BUY A PIG IN A POKE.
AND NO ONE KNOWS WHAT WILL COME OUT OF CONFERENCE.
THAT'S WHY OBAMA ASKING US TO SUPPORT OBAMACARE IS LIKE HIM ASKING US TO BUY A PIG IN A POKE.
MOST AMERICANS WON'T OFTEN BUY A PIG IN A POKE.Pig-in-a-poke is an idiom that refers to a confidence trick originating in the Late Middle Ages, when meat was scarce but apparently rats and cats were not.
The scheme entailed the sale of a "suckling pig" in a "poke" (bag). The wriggling bag would actually contain a cat — not particularly prized as a source of meat — that was sold to the victim in an unopened bag. The French term acheter (un) chat en poche (to buy a cat in a bag) refers to an actual sale of this nature, as do many European equivalents, while the English expression refers to the appearance of the trick.[1]
A common colloquial expression in the English language, to "buy a pig in a poke," is to make a risky purchase without inspecting the item beforehand. The phrase can also be applied to accepting an idea or plan without a full understanding of its basis.
THEY DID LAST NOVEMBER AND NOW MOST HAVE BUYERS REMORSE.
ANOTHER AMERICAN EXPRESSION EXPLAINS WHY:
FOOL ME ONCE SHAME ON YOU... FOOL ME TWICE SHAME ON ME.
BLOGGER PREDICTED EXACT TIMING OF LOCKERBIE BOMBER'S RELEASE, WHICH PROVES IT WASN'T HUMANITARIAN
JWF PREDICTED IT YESTERDAY, HERE - AND EXPLAINED WHY.
SHAME ON THEM: THE BRITS (AND ESPECIALLY THE SCOTS) WILL NEVER LIVE THIS DOWN.
SHAME ON THEM: THE BRITS (AND ESPECIALLY THE SCOTS) WILL NEVER LIVE THIS DOWN.
OBAMACARE IS TERMINAL!
JONAH: Obamacare — however defined — has been tanking in the polls for weeks. President Obama’s handling of health care is unpopular with a majority of Americans and a majority of self-proclaimed independents.
... Democratic dudgeon that the town-hall protesters don’t want civil debate is hysterical, given that Obama wanted this over before the August recess. No wonder the president who thought the time for talk was over long ago now doesn’t like the talk he’s getting.
... the real story is to be found in the eroding support from independent voters and Blue Dog Democratic congressmen. Or in the panic among seniors that Obama will raid Medicare. Or in his inability to get progressive Democrats to agree to a bipartisan approach. Or maybe the real story is Obama’s manifest inability to sell a program he’s invested his presidency in.
- WE WON IN PART BECAUSE OBAMA AND AXELROD AND RAHM SUFFER FROM HUBRIS.
- SOCIALISTS USUALLY DO BECAUSE ONE OF THEIR MOST FUNDAMENTAL BELIEFS IS IN ELITISM AND A DISTRUST OF THE FREE MARKET.
- AND THEY THINK OF THEMSELVES AS THE ELITE.
- AS BJ CLINTON TANKED IN THE POLLS HE ADJUSTED, TRIANGULATED.
- BECAUSE THEY ARE COMMITED LEFTISTS, AS OBAMANISTAS TANK, THEY WILL GET MORE EXTREME. IOW: BRACE YOURSELVES FOLKS: IT'S GONNA GET WORSE.
POLLS: GOP GONNA KICK THE DEM'S ASSES IN 2010!
THERE IS A GOD, AND HE AIN'T IN THE WHITE HOUSE: THE DEMOCRAT PARTY OF CONGRESS IS IN FREE FALL AND MAY LOSE ITS MAJORITY IN THE HOUSE!
MORE HERE.
MORE HERE.
STOP THE PRESSES: THE USA'S LIFE EXPECTANCY IS BETTER THAN THE EU'S!
EU Life expectancy 77.32 years
USA Life Expectancy 77.9 Years
TELL THE LIBS WHO WANNA MAKE THE USA MORE LIKE THE EU TO STFU.
- male: 74 years
- female: 80.84 years
USA Life Expectancy 77.9 Years
- 75.3 years for men
- and 80.4 years for women.
TELL THE LIBS WHO WANNA MAKE THE USA MORE LIKE THE EU TO STFU.
More proof that Obama loves death
Just a reminder: Obama made Michael Schiavo's lawyer a big-shot in the DOJ.
Holdren, Emanuel, and this guy Thomas Perrelli are all fellas who like euthanasia.
And Obama went out of his way to bring them into his inner sanctum.
Holdren, Emanuel, and this guy Thomas Perrelli are all fellas who like euthanasia.
And Obama went out of his way to bring them into his inner sanctum.
WHY DOESN'T WAXMAN INTERVENE TO LIMIT BASEBALL - NAY ALL SPORT'S SALARIES!?
Waxman and Weiner and all the other leftists posing as libs want to rein in salaries at health insurance companies.
They have about as much right to do this as send me to a concentration camp for blogging.
They have a greater right to decide what baseball players should be paid; after all, baseball is a monopoly protected/exempted by the US Congress and it's also the national pastime.
Millions of families are prevented from attending games - or many games - because major league baseball is very expensive - the tickets, the parking, the beers and popcorn and cracker jack and hot dogs - they're three or four times as expensive in the ballpark as anywhere else. They expensive because the ballplayers make MILLIONS and so do the owners.
Congress could correct this by setting a limit on salaries and ticket prices and prices for everything else.
IT'S WAGE AND PRICE CONTROLS, THAT'S ALL!
It would be easy for them to do. Just write a 1000 page bill, pass it without reading it. Obama - who knows about as much about baseball as I do about the mating habits of pterodactyls - would sign it. DONE DEAL!
Then they could do all the other sports. AND THEN FASHION: AFTER ALL, CLOTHING IS A NECESSITY: SO WHY SHOULD DESIGNERS AND RETAILING EXECUTIVES MAKE A LOT OF MONEY!?! AND WHATTABOUT RESTAURANTS!? FOOD IS A NECESSITY, SO LET'S PUT A PRICE CAP ON EVERY DISH!!!!!
This is the natural progress of leftist logic, so called.
And it's dangerous. It's a grave and clear and present danger to our country.
It must be stopped.
CDC Says One Thing, Does Another
After reading in a news report that Tom Gottlieb, the head of Australia’s top infectious disease organization, has serious reservations about the way H1N1 vaccine will be administered to people in his country, I became curious as to how officials in the United States plan to administer the vaccine. Not surprisingly, I learned that officials in both countries plan to use multi-dose vials.For all of the details and an explanation of why this matters, click here.
‘Cash for Clunkers’ Meets ‘Cash for Coffins’
According to an article in USA TODAY this morning, the demand for taxpayer-funded burials — let’s call it “Cash for Coffins” — is on the rise. On the heels of the glowing success (NOT!) of the federal government’s “Cash for Clunkers” program, perhaps the two programs can be combined in a demonstration of “government efficiency at work.Read this post to see a photo of exactly what the merger might produce.
Is this a new low for socialized medicine?
British pedophile given free Viagra on the NHS - despite string of attacks on children
A paedophile with a 30-year history of abusing children is being prescribed Viagra on the NHS - and there is nothing the authorities can do to stop him. Roger Martin, 71, merely has to visit his GP to obtain the libido-enhancing drug, even though experts warn it will enable him to continue preying on children despite his age.
The probation officers who oversee Martin are powerless to interfere with the administration of prescription drugs. He does not have to tell his GP about his criminal past and even if he does, doctors cannot take convictions into account. Martin suffers from numerous illnesses including diabetes, for which Department of Health guidelines say Viagra can be prescribed. He has forced himself on a string of youngsters and his latest assault was on an 11-year-old girl last year.
But when he was sentenced at Peterborough Crown Court yesterday a judge chose not to send him to prison after being persuaded he 'wouldn't be able to cope' with a spell behind bars.
Last night Martin, a widower, claimed he 'wasn't doing anything wrong' by taking Viagra. But child safety campaigners and MPs reacted with horror and demanded the loophole be closed. One critic said it was 'sickening' that taxpayers' money was being spent on Viagra for a convicted child abuser. Claude Knights, director of children's charity Kidscape, said: 'I am shocked that someone has been given a chemical aid to sexual activity when they are misdirecting their urges. It gives them a chance to abuse more children.'
Peterborough MP Stewart Jackson said: 'This is a bizarre and outrageous example of where common sense gets thrown out of the window in preference to so-called human rights and political correctness. 'Someone needs to get a grip here and start thinking about what's in the public interest instead of ticking boxes like a robot.'
Martin, of Dogsthorpe, Peterborough, has a history of sex offences dating back to 1978 when he was convicted for having unlawful sex with a 15-year-old baby-sitter. He pleaded guilty to his latest offence of touching an 11-year-old inappropriately when she visited his sheltered accommodation home in December 2008 to do some cleaning for pocket money. Judge Nicholas Coleman ordered him to attend a three-year sex offenders' treatment programme and banned from having contact with children indefinitely.
Last night he said his Viagra use was 'a personal thing really'. He added: 'I live on my own and I don't have any female company and I don't think I'm doing anything wrong.'
SOURCE
Posted by John Ray. For a daily critique of Leftist activities, see DISSECTING LEFTISM. To keep up with attacks on free speech see TONGUE-TIED. Also, don't forget your daily roundup of pro-environment but anti-Greenie news and commentary at GREENIE WATCH . Email me (John Ray) here
A paedophile with a 30-year history of abusing children is being prescribed Viagra on the NHS - and there is nothing the authorities can do to stop him. Roger Martin, 71, merely has to visit his GP to obtain the libido-enhancing drug, even though experts warn it will enable him to continue preying on children despite his age.
The probation officers who oversee Martin are powerless to interfere with the administration of prescription drugs. He does not have to tell his GP about his criminal past and even if he does, doctors cannot take convictions into account. Martin suffers from numerous illnesses including diabetes, for which Department of Health guidelines say Viagra can be prescribed. He has forced himself on a string of youngsters and his latest assault was on an 11-year-old girl last year.
But when he was sentenced at Peterborough Crown Court yesterday a judge chose not to send him to prison after being persuaded he 'wouldn't be able to cope' with a spell behind bars.
Last night Martin, a widower, claimed he 'wasn't doing anything wrong' by taking Viagra. But child safety campaigners and MPs reacted with horror and demanded the loophole be closed. One critic said it was 'sickening' that taxpayers' money was being spent on Viagra for a convicted child abuser. Claude Knights, director of children's charity Kidscape, said: 'I am shocked that someone has been given a chemical aid to sexual activity when they are misdirecting their urges. It gives them a chance to abuse more children.'
Peterborough MP Stewart Jackson said: 'This is a bizarre and outrageous example of where common sense gets thrown out of the window in preference to so-called human rights and political correctness. 'Someone needs to get a grip here and start thinking about what's in the public interest instead of ticking boxes like a robot.'
Martin, of Dogsthorpe, Peterborough, has a history of sex offences dating back to 1978 when he was convicted for having unlawful sex with a 15-year-old baby-sitter. He pleaded guilty to his latest offence of touching an 11-year-old inappropriately when she visited his sheltered accommodation home in December 2008 to do some cleaning for pocket money. Judge Nicholas Coleman ordered him to attend a three-year sex offenders' treatment programme and banned from having contact with children indefinitely.
Last night he said his Viagra use was 'a personal thing really'. He added: 'I live on my own and I don't have any female company and I don't think I'm doing anything wrong.'
SOURCE
Posted by John Ray. For a daily critique of Leftist activities, see DISSECTING LEFTISM. To keep up with attacks on free speech see TONGUE-TIED. Also, don't forget your daily roundup of pro-environment but anti-Greenie news and commentary at GREENIE WATCH . Email me (John Ray) here
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
THE BOTTOM-LINE ON OBAMACARE: IF CONGRESS DOESN'T WANT IT FOR THEMSELVES, THEN IT MUST SUCK
Any bill signed by Obama which exempts the POTUS and Congress will be seen for what it is: a crap sandwich on rye.
WHAT'S THE BEST WAY TO INCREASE COMPETITION BETWEEN HEALTH INSURERS?
The Democrats have argued that the "real reason" they favor a "public option" (really government insurance - really a FANNIE MAE for health insurance) is that it is merely a way to create more competition within the health insurance industry.
Now that the public option is virtually dead, many Democrats have turned to the coop-option.
(The fact is that the public option is a Trojan horse for single payer and the co-op option is merely a Trojan horse for the public option.)
The frighteningly socialistic request made by Waxman for the earnings of all health insurance industry executives is not just a lightly veiled threat against private enterprise, it's a direct assault.
Waxman wants the info so he can use it as propaganda: he is trying to make the insurance companies look like evil greedy people who enrich themselves at the suffering of everyone else. This is the classic Huey Long / Mussolini populist approach.
But even if we were to believe the Democrats when they say they just want to increase competition would we have to do it their way?
Are either co-ops or government insurance the best way?
NOPE. Not by a long shot.
In fact, there is an easier way and a cheaper way to increase competition - just allow insurance companies to offer any type f plan they want and offer it across state lines.
Since there is no barrier to entry into the business, the insurers which develop and run the best plans - and have to lowest overheads - will get the most people to sign up, to buy their stock and to share in their profits.
We don't need government groceries to make the food industry competitive or government shoes stores or government clothing stores or government hair salons.
So we certainly don't need government health insurance.
The government cant run cash for clunkers or medicare or Medicaid or social security without running them into the ground - only to be bailed out by the taxpayer.
Government health insurance would dwarf all of those failures.
We must do whatever needs to be done to stop it.
Collectivists like Obama and Waxman are a clear and grave and present danger to our nation.
They must be stopped.
Now that the public option is virtually dead, many Democrats have turned to the coop-option.
(The fact is that the public option is a Trojan horse for single payer and the co-op option is merely a Trojan horse for the public option.)
The frighteningly socialistic request made by Waxman for the earnings of all health insurance industry executives is not just a lightly veiled threat against private enterprise, it's a direct assault.
Waxman wants the info so he can use it as propaganda: he is trying to make the insurance companies look like evil greedy people who enrich themselves at the suffering of everyone else. This is the classic Huey Long / Mussolini populist approach.
But even if we were to believe the Democrats when they say they just want to increase competition would we have to do it their way?
Are either co-ops or government insurance the best way?
NOPE. Not by a long shot.
In fact, there is an easier way and a cheaper way to increase competition - just allow insurance companies to offer any type f plan they want and offer it across state lines.
Since there is no barrier to entry into the business, the insurers which develop and run the best plans - and have to lowest overheads - will get the most people to sign up, to buy their stock and to share in their profits.
We don't need government groceries to make the food industry competitive or government shoes stores or government clothing stores or government hair salons.
So we certainly don't need government health insurance.
The government cant run cash for clunkers or medicare or Medicaid or social security without running them into the ground - only to be bailed out by the taxpayer.
Government health insurance would dwarf all of those failures.
We must do whatever needs to be done to stop it.
Collectivists like Obama and Waxman are a clear and grave and present danger to our nation.
They must be stopped.
AARP Losing Ground at Town Hall Meetings
According to news reports, as many as 60,000 people have canceled their AARP memberships since a Dallas-area town hall meeting on health care reform Aug. 6 went terribly wrong. If the town hall forum held yesterday in Brevard County, Fla., is any indication, things aren’t getting much better for the enormous nonprofit group that purports to represent the interests of seniors. Why? Because most Americans don’t think ObamaCare is a good idea.Read more about it and watch the video here.
IN NEWSWEEK?
From this article:
Wonder what BHO thinks of that little Newsweek item?
In the Middle East, myths have a way of stubbornly clinging to life. A new book by two experts, Dennis Ross (back in government after an eight-year hiatus) and David Makovsky, lays out the region's most tenacious falsehoods—and explains how the United States has been misled by them.Two of the four points listed:
The notion that resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will cure the entire area's dysfunction is wrong. Most Arab problems have nothing to do with Israelis and Palestinians, and will fester long after any peace agreement between the two sides.Read it all. The article even mentions that the GWB administration had a valid point with his idea of promoting democracy in the Middle East. Heh.
[...]
Engaging extremist groups such as Hamas and Hizbullah is counterproductive because it undermines moderate Arab forces and discredits U.S. peace efforts.
Wonder what BHO thinks of that little Newsweek item?
Democrats’ Not-So-Secret Weapon Photographed
I suspect nearly every elected Democrat — and a good number of Republicans — in Washington, D.C., owns a device — a secret weapon of sorts. Revealed to readers of this blog in a photo for the first time, the device is used by misguided politicians as they attempt to baffle their constituents with bull%&!*. To see the photo and read more about it, click here.
Chairman Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) ... "WE NEED TO KNOW WHAT YOU ALL MAKE, WHAT YOU ALL DO, AND HOW YOU DO IT"
From Epaminondas at IBA, via Politico:
This story is so outlandish it reminds me of two famous phrases from the history of the fight against anti-Semitism,
1) First they came for the Insurance Executives, and I did nothing because I was not an Insurance Executive ...
2) IF NOT ME, THEN WHO?
The first is likely obvious. The second refers to my feeling that this particular encroachment against Liberty is a line in the sand.
If the Insurance companies comply with this, the people need to take matters into their own hands.
This is, perhaps, the most malevolent abuse of power yet. It must not be tolerated.
The House Committee on Energy and Commerce has sent letters to dozens of major health insurance companies demanding extensive financial data for an examination of 'executive compensation and other business practices in the health insurance industry.'
By Sept. 4, the firms are supposed to supply detailed compensation data for board members and top executives, as well as a 'table listing all conferences, retreats, or other events held outside company facilities from January 1, 2007, to the present that were paid for, reimbursed, or subsidized in whole or in part by your company.' For employees or officers making $500,000 or more, the committee wants information on salary, bonus, options and pension.
And by Sept. 14, the firms are supposed to provide copies of reports from compensation consultants, plus board drafts of compensation plans, and information about market share.
Chairman Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) and Rep. Bark Stupak (D-Mich.), chairman of the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, signed the three-page letters, dated Monday, and obtained by POLITICO's Carrie Budoff Brown.
And you, at home reading this .. when they ring your doorbell, and you did nothing because you imagined the insurance executives were some fat cat cretins, EVEN IF THEY ARE, when they ask you what you make so all your neighbors know all your life, and what you do to celebrate, or plan .. who will you see abou that or look to for help?
Who will have the temerity to object then?
OBJECT NOW !
The democratic majority wants power
over our daily lives, when they deem
it their business.
They have lost hold of the rope
2010
2010
This story is so outlandish it reminds me of two famous phrases from the history of the fight against anti-Semitism,
1) First they came for the Insurance Executives, and I did nothing because I was not an Insurance Executive ...
2) IF NOT ME, THEN WHO?
The first is likely obvious. The second refers to my feeling that this particular encroachment against Liberty is a line in the sand.
If the Insurance companies comply with this, the people need to take matters into their own hands.
This is, perhaps, the most malevolent abuse of power yet. It must not be tolerated.
I SMELL IRAN
From the New York Times:
I smell Iran: They're doing/facilitating this to deflect attention and to gain leverage.
At least 95 people were killed and 563 wounded in a series of truck bombings and other attacks on Wednesday that rocked areas around official buildings in central Baghdad, the Interior Ministry said.
Taken together, the attacks were among the most devastating in Baghdad since the withdrawal of American forces from street patrols at the end of June. American soldiers and officials in the area were left helpless, as witnessed by six soldiers snapping a few quick pictures of the devastation from personal cameras before ducking out of the streets.
I smell Iran: They're doing/facilitating this to deflect attention and to gain leverage.
It's the three-ring circus of Islamic Jihad.
MIKE HUCKABEE SUPPORTS YESHA
Republican Mike Huckabee, who was a presidential candidate last year, has paid a visit to Israel to show solidarity with the residents of Judea/Samaria:
(IsraelNN.com) Past and likely-future U.S. presidential candidate Mike Huckabee spent his second day on a private trip to Israel visiting Maaleh Adumim, Beit El and other Shomron (Samaria) towns. He began the day by visiting with Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat.Here's also a video interview with Huckabee.
Expressing strong support for Israelis’ right to live where they want without having to receive American permission, Huckabee expressed incredulity that either the Arabs or the Americans would expect the tens of thousands of Jews of Maaleh Adumim to leave. “Where would they go?” he asked.
Maaleh Adumim is a city just to the east of Jerusalem with nearly 40,000 residents. Huckabee visited the city this morning, and met briefly with Mayor Benny Kashriel. The two, accompanied by a delegation of supporters of the U.S.-based Jerusalem Reclamation Foundation and a group of reporters, stood atop a Maaleh Adumim mountain top and looked out at the barren Judean Mountains below – the site of the controversial and not-yet started E-1 housing project.
GUESS WHO THE DESIGNER OF THE OBAMA-AS-JOKER POSTER IS?
I don't think I'd written about this earlier (alas, I just can't get to everything), but some time ago, there was a photoshopped poster that arose featuring what looked like Obama as the Joker from the Dark Knight version of Batman, with "socialism" as a caption, and the leftist MSM took to decrying it as racist and such.
Well now, guess who came up with it to begin with? It's not the right-wing nutjob they were hoping it'd be. Rather, it's an Arab of palestinian background living in Chicago who favors leftist politics:
On a side note, Hot Air's Allahpundit made one slightly inaccurate statement: he says that Alkhateeb isn't white. Wrong, he is. Plenty of Arabs are white, though some can have darker skin than others. But for the most part, they are white.
Well now, guess who came up with it to begin with? It's not the right-wing nutjob they were hoping it'd be. Rather, it's an Arab of palestinian background living in Chicago who favors leftist politics:
Bored during his winter school break, Firas Alkhateeb, a senior history major at the University of Illinois, crafted the picture of Obama with the recognizable clown makeup using Adobe’s Photoshop software...What does the leftist MSM think of him now? And are they going to go after him like they would do if a rightist had come up with things like this? But this should give a clue just how much the "palestinians" really support Obama.
“After Obama was elected, you had all of these people who basically saw him as the second coming of Christ,” Alkhateeb said. “From my perspective, there wasn’t much substance to him.”
“I abstained from voting in November,” he wrote in an e-mail. “Living in Illinois, my vote means close to nothing as there was no chance Obama would not win the state.” If he had to choose a politician to support, Alkhateeb said, it would be Ohio Democratic Rep. Dennis Kucinich…
Regardless, Alkhateeb does agree with the Obama “Hope” artist about “socialism” being the wrong caption for the Joker image. “It really doesn’t make any sense to me at all,” he said. “To accuse him of being a socialist is really ... immature. First of all, who said being a socialist is evil?”
On a side note, Hot Air's Allahpundit made one slightly inaccurate statement: he says that Alkhateeb isn't white. Wrong, he is. Plenty of Arabs are white, though some can have darker skin than others. But for the most part, they are white.
Wow! Google are being VERY nasty at the moment!
Google must be in a VERY bad mood over their recent court loss (See below). Perhaps as a result, they seem to have really ramped up their blocking software. I have had THREE of my blog sites blocked from further postings in the last 10 minutes.
A few minutes ago I put up my latest post on POLITICAL CORRECTNESS WATCH and about 5 seconds after it went up I got a message saying that all future postings to it would be blocked on suspicion that it is a "spam blog".
As the blog has been much the same for years it's all very strange. I have requested a review of the block so it should in theory be back in action in the next day or two. Last time they blocked my GREENIE WATCH blog (for the THIRD time), they removed the block after 24 hours approx. so that was not too bad.
They do sometimes fail to act on review requests, however, and my original Obama Watch blog has never had its restrictions lifted despite many requests.
So if you cannot access any further posts on POLITICAL CORRECTNESS WATCH, just go to the mirror site instead.
The second blog they have blocked is FOOD & HEALTH SKEPTIC, which is very much a science blog. Strange indeed! Its mirror site is here.
The third site is one I just use for a scratch area so does not matter much. But Dissecting Leftism could be next so note its mirror site here.
Update
EYE ON BRITAIN has now been blocked too.
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Google loses in court
Vogue cover girl Liskula Cohen has won a precedent-setting court battle to unmask an anonymous blogger who called her a "skank" on the internet. In a case with potentially far-reaching repercussions, Liskula Cohen sought the identity of the blogger who maligned her on the Skanks in NYC blog so that she could sue him or her for defamation. A Manhattan supreme court judge ruled that she was entitled to the information and ordered Google, which ran the offending blog, to turn it over.
Ms Cohen, a tall, Canadian blonde who has modelled for Giorgio Armani and Versace, went to court after reading the wounding anonymous comments on Google's Blogger.com. "I would have to say the first-place award for 'Skankiest in NYC' would have to go to Liskula Gentile Cohen," the blogger "Anonymous" wrote in one posting. The blog, since removed, ridiculed the former Australian Vogue cover girl as a "40-something" who "may have been hot 10 years ago", when she was actually 36.
Justice Joan Madden rejected the blogger's claim that the blogs "serve as a modern-day forum for conveying personal opinions, including invective and ranting", and should not be treated as factual assertions.
The model was looking forward last night to discovering the identity of the alleged acquaintance who insulted her. "Everybody is waiting to see who this coward is," Steven Wagner, her lawyer, said.
Andrew Pederson, a Google spokesman, said: "We sympathise with anyone who may be the victim of cyberbullying. We also take great care to respect privacy concerns and will only provide information about a user in response to a subpoena or other court order."
SOURCE
Posted by John Ray. For a daily critique of Leftist activities, see DISSECTING LEFTISM. To keep up with attacks on free speech see TONGUE-TIED. Also, don't forget your daily roundup of pro-environment but anti-Greenie news and commentary at GREENIE WATCH . Email me (John Ray) here
A few minutes ago I put up my latest post on POLITICAL CORRECTNESS WATCH and about 5 seconds after it went up I got a message saying that all future postings to it would be blocked on suspicion that it is a "spam blog".
As the blog has been much the same for years it's all very strange. I have requested a review of the block so it should in theory be back in action in the next day or two. Last time they blocked my GREENIE WATCH blog (for the THIRD time), they removed the block after 24 hours approx. so that was not too bad.
They do sometimes fail to act on review requests, however, and my original Obama Watch blog has never had its restrictions lifted despite many requests.
So if you cannot access any further posts on POLITICAL CORRECTNESS WATCH, just go to the mirror site instead.
The second blog they have blocked is FOOD & HEALTH SKEPTIC, which is very much a science blog. Strange indeed! Its mirror site is here.
The third site is one I just use for a scratch area so does not matter much. But Dissecting Leftism could be next so note its mirror site here.
Update
EYE ON BRITAIN has now been blocked too.
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Google loses in court
Vogue cover girl Liskula Cohen has won a precedent-setting court battle to unmask an anonymous blogger who called her a "skank" on the internet. In a case with potentially far-reaching repercussions, Liskula Cohen sought the identity of the blogger who maligned her on the Skanks in NYC blog so that she could sue him or her for defamation. A Manhattan supreme court judge ruled that she was entitled to the information and ordered Google, which ran the offending blog, to turn it over.
Ms Cohen, a tall, Canadian blonde who has modelled for Giorgio Armani and Versace, went to court after reading the wounding anonymous comments on Google's Blogger.com. "I would have to say the first-place award for 'Skankiest in NYC' would have to go to Liskula Gentile Cohen," the blogger "Anonymous" wrote in one posting. The blog, since removed, ridiculed the former Australian Vogue cover girl as a "40-something" who "may have been hot 10 years ago", when she was actually 36.
Justice Joan Madden rejected the blogger's claim that the blogs "serve as a modern-day forum for conveying personal opinions, including invective and ranting", and should not be treated as factual assertions.
The model was looking forward last night to discovering the identity of the alleged acquaintance who insulted her. "Everybody is waiting to see who this coward is," Steven Wagner, her lawyer, said.
Andrew Pederson, a Google spokesman, said: "We sympathise with anyone who may be the victim of cyberbullying. We also take great care to respect privacy concerns and will only provide information about a user in response to a subpoena or other court order."
SOURCE
Posted by John Ray. For a daily critique of Leftist activities, see DISSECTING LEFTISM. To keep up with attacks on free speech see TONGUE-TIED. Also, don't forget your daily roundup of pro-environment but anti-Greenie news and commentary at GREENIE WATCH . Email me (John Ray) here
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
TO DOMINATE THE DEMOCRATS IN 2010, THE GOP MUST WIN OVER MORE BLACKS, HISPANICS AND MORE OF THE YOUTH VOTE
WASH EX:
Each week Gallup publishes a breakdown of its presidential job approval rating, broken down by demographic groups. Here's the latest one, released yesterday.
Among what groups has Barack Obama's approval rating fallen to 50 percent or below? Several. First is among married people, where the president has a 47 percent approval rating. Then there are men, among whom Obama has a 50 percent rating. And people over 65, among whom he has a 48 percent rating. And white people, at 46 percent.
If you're a political independent, you don't approve of Obama, either; he's at 46 percent with that group. Same if you go to church weekly; Obama's rating among regular churchgoers is at 45 percent. So from Gallup, these are the groups among whom Obama is at 50 percent or below:Married 47
Men 50
Over 65 48
White 46
Independents 46
Weekly church 45
South 49
Some college 50
Republicans 20
Conservatives 28Those are Obama's weak spots. But what about his strong points? Among the groups in which he has an approval rating of 60 percent or higher are people age 18-29, at 63 percent; unmarried people, at 63 percent; blacks, at 92 percent; Hispanics, at 69 percent; other non-whites, at 73 percent; people with graduate study beyond a college degree, 60 percent; and people who make less than $2,000 a month, at 64 percent. Here's the list:
Unmarried 63
18-29 63
Black 92
Hispanic 69
Other non-white 73
East 61
Graduate study 60
Less than $2,000/month 64
Democrats 86
Liberals 88
THESE RESULTS HOW EXACTLY WHERE THE GOP MUST IMPROVE.
THEY CAN, TOO.
EASILY.
HERE'S HOW:
- EMPHASIZE THE SOCIAL ISSUES ON WHICH BLACKS AND HISPANICS AGREE WITH THE GOP: NO GAY MARRIAGE; SCHOOL VOUCHERS.
- EMPHASIZE THE FACT THAT OBAMACARE WILL FORCE GOOD STRONG HEALTHY YOUNG PEOPLE STARTING OUT AT NEW LOWER-PAYING JOBS (POORER PAYING THAN THE JOBS THEY MAY GET IN 5-10 YEARS, THAT IS) TO BUY HEALTHCARE.
- TO HOLD ON TO AND GROW THE INDEPENDENTS - ALL THE GOP HAS TO KEEP DOING IS PROVING HOW OBAMA ISN'T REALLY AS MODERATE OR CENTRIST AS HE CLAIMED DURING THE CAMPAIGN. IOW: OBAMA LIED TOP THEM.
I HAVE ALSO BEEN PUSHING FOR THE GOP TO PROMOTE A "NEW URBAN AGENDA" FOR 5 YEARS.
- IF THE GOP COULD CARRY SEVERAL CITIES, THEN THEY WIN THE NATIONAL ELECTIONS EASILY.
- CARRYING CITIES WHICH HAVE BEEN "OWNED AND OPERATED" BY DEMOCRATS SHOULD BE EASY - BASED ON HOW LOUSY THEY'RE ALL DOING.
- UNFORTUNATELY, THESE CITIES ARE ONE-PARTY TOWN WHICH HAVE INCREDIBLY CORRUPT GOVERNMENT AND POWERFUL MACHINES, AND THAT MAKES IT A TOUGH PROPOSITION DESPITE THE PPOR RSULTS THE MACHINESA AFCTUALLY BRONG TO CITIZENS LIVING BENEATH THEM.
EAST COAST HAS HUGE NATURAL GAS DEPOSITS - BUT WILL THE DEMOCRATS LET US GET IT!?
WE POSTED ON IT HERE - LAST YEAR! TWICE!
IBD HAS AN UPDATE.
BOTTOM-LINE: IF THE L;EFT WOULD GET OUT OF THE WAY, WE COULD DRILL AND NUKE ENERGY OUR WAY TO ENERGY INDEPENDENCE.
THE ONLY THING KEEPING US BEHOLDEN TO IMPORTS AND EXPENSIVE ENERGY IS THE LEFT.
IBD HAS AN UPDATE.
BOTTOM-LINE: IF THE L;EFT WOULD GET OUT OF THE WAY, WE COULD DRILL AND NUKE ENERGY OUR WAY TO ENERGY INDEPENDENCE.
THE ONLY THING KEEPING US BEHOLDEN TO IMPORTS AND EXPENSIVE ENERGY IS THE LEFT.
NYTIMES: PORKULUS LIKE THE NEW DEAL: A LEFT-WING BOONDOGGLE
One Person’s Boondoggle, Another’s Necessity
Colin Hackley/Sarasota Herald-TribuneTURTLE CROSSING Matt Aresco, a marine biologist, in a culvert near Tallahassee, Fla., where $3.4 million in stimulus aid was sought to help turtles navigate the area.
The $14.7 million for a new airport on an Alaskan island that averages only 42 flights a month. The half-million dollars for a new skateboard park in unemployment-ravaged Rhode Island.
The $3.4 million for fencing and tunnels to keep Florida turtles from becoming roadkill.
Those proposals for spending federal stimulus money were all criticized by cable news commentators, Republican officials and, in the case of the airport, the inspector general of the Transportation Department. But they have something else in common, too.
They are popular locally.
And they underscore a truth that has been evident since the New Deal: sometimes the boondoggle is in the eye of the beholder.
...on April 3, 1935, at a hearing in New York City on how New Deal relief money was being spent. A Brooklyn crafts teacher reluctantly testified that he was paid to show the jobless how to make “boon doggles.” The outcry was swift. “$3,187,000 Relief is Spent to Teach Jobless to Play,” trumpeted a front-page headline the next day in The New York Times. “ ‘Boon Doggles’ Made.”
A new, more sinister meaning was born, and the word came to signify government make-work, later referring to wasteful government projects in general. Critics used it to criticize scores of projects, but President Franklin D. Roosevelt took a longer view. “If we can boondoggle ourselves out of this Depression,” Roosevelt said, “that word is going to be enshrined in the hearts of the American people for years to come.”
The Depression ended, but the word has not exactly been enshrined in the hearts of the people.
... Robert D. Leighninger Jr., a sociologist who wrote “Long-Range Public Investment: The Forgotten Legacy of the New Deal” (South Carolina University Press, 2007), recounted the story of a Works Progress Administration official in Arizona who went off in search of boondoggles, and discovered that the towns he visited seemed to like their own projects but questioned those of their neighbors.
“I’ve been hunting all over the state for one, but everywhere I go I’m told it’s in the next county,” the official was quoted as saying in a 1936 newspaper article. “So far I haven’t been able to catch up with a real, live one.”
THEY MISS THE POINT: THE NEW DEAL WAS A HUGE LEFT-WING FEDERAL BOONDOGGLE AND PORKULUS IS TOO!
NOVAK VERSUS CRONKITE
Robert Novak, Columnist, Is Dead at 78
and despite the fact that he was a cable news pioneer and appeared on TV for cumulatively more hours than Cronkite...
neither Obama or Hillary will speak at his memorial - though they will be speaking at Cronkite's.
RIP NOVAK!
ROUND UP OF LEFTIST RESPONSES TO NOVAK'S DEATH HERE AT DD'S AP.
Robert D. Novak, the pugnacious political columnist and cable television fixture whose scoops reached across five decades and whose nickname, “the prince of darkness,” was invoked with renewed fervor in 2003 when, acting on a tip, he revealed the name of a C.I.A. officer, setting the stage for a criminal investigation, died Tuesday morning at his home in northwest Washington. He was 78.Despite the fact that he wrote more news and news analysis than Cronkite, and did so for more decades...
and despite the fact that he was a cable news pioneer and appeared on TV for cumulatively more hours than Cronkite...
neither Obama or Hillary will speak at his memorial - though they will be speaking at Cronkite's.
- That's because Novak wasn't a reliable left-wing MSM shill as - YES - CRONKITE WAS!
RIP NOVAK!
ROUND UP OF LEFTIST RESPONSES TO NOVAK'S DEATH HERE AT DD'S AP.
THE DOVES WERE NOT ANTI-WAR; THEY WERE ANTI-BUSH
GLENN:
THE DOUBLE STANDARD IS REVEALING.
ER, UM... I HAVE A QUESTION FOR THE LEFT:Posted at 10:27 am by Glenn ReynoldsFor the Left, War Without Bush is Not War At All. “Remember the anti-war movement? Not too long ago, the Democratic party’s most loyal voters passionately opposed the war in Iraq. Democratic presidential candidates argued over who would withdraw American troops the quickest. Netroots activists regularly denounced President George W. Bush, and sometimes the U.S. military (”General Betray Us”). Cindy Sheehan, the woman whose soldier son was killed in Iraq, became a heroine when she led protests at Bush’s Texas ranch. That was then. Now, even though the United States still has roughly 130,000 troops in Iraq, and is quickly escalating the war in Afghanistan — 68,000 troops there by the end of this year, and possibly more in 2010 — anti-war voices on the Left have fallen silent. . . . For many liberal activists, opposing the war was really about opposing George W. Bush. When Bush disappeared, so did their anti-war passion.”So much for all that fierce moral urgency. I guess what was really urgent was regaining political power.
- HOW MANY SOLDIER'S FUNERALS HAS OBAMA GONE TOO, AND HAS OBAMA VISITED WOUNDED TROOPS YET?
- HOW MANY RETURNING COFFINS HAVE BEEN PHOTOGRAPHED AND HAVE ANY BEEN PUBLISHED BY THE MSM?
- HAS THE MSM STARTED DOING A DAILY BODY COUNT, YET?
THE DOUBLE STANDARD IS REVEALING.
British woman gives birth on pavement 'after being refused ambulance'
Don't you just love that good ol' government "care"?
A young mother gave birth on a pavement outside a hospital after she was told to make her own way there. Mother-of-three Carmen Blake called her midwife to ask for an ambulance when she went into labour unexpectedly with her fourth child. But the 27-year-old claims she was refused an ambulance and told to walk the 100 metres from her house in Leicester to the city's nearby Royal Infirmary.
Her daughter Mariah was delivered on a pavement outside the hospital by a passer-by, just before ambulance crews arrived. Today the Trust that runs the hospital said it would look into any complaint made about the advice and care the 27-year-old received.
Ms Blake said she started going into labour at about 7.15am on Sunday, August 2. She said: "I phoned up the Royal Infirmary, it's just across the road, and they said to go into a hot bath, and then to make my way over there. "I went into the bath and realised she was going to come quickly. I didn't think I'd be able to make it out of the bath, so I phoned the maternity ward back and told them to get an ambulance out. 'They said they were not sending an ambulance and told me I had had nine months to sort out a lift.'
Experienced mother Ms Blake today said she knew she had to get herself out of the bath and try to get to the hospital. 'The friends with me would have had no idea what to do. I knew at that point that she was nearly here so I had to get out of the house,' she said. 'I thought if I got across the road then at least somebody would be able to help me. 'I left the house and got to the end of the close, but there was no-one around to help.'
Eventually Ms Blake and her friends enlisted the help of a physiotherapist who happened to be passing on her way to work. She dialled 999 and helped deliver baby Mariah while waiting for emergency services. She even helped remove the cord from around the tot's neck, Ms Blake said today.
She said: 'I don't really remember much after that. Mariah was born, then the paramedics arrived then after that the midwives arrived. I think I went into shock. 'It's just lucky that the physio was there.'
Ms Blake said despite the happy ending she was upset she was told to make her own way to the hospital as, being an experienced mum, she knew she did not have the time.
Today a spokeswoman for the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust said: 'We are disappointed that Ms Blake was not happy with the advice and care she received and will of course investigate any complaint. 'We are pleased that both Ms Blake and her daughter are well and healthy.' [Mealy-mouthed indifference]
SOURCE
Posted by John Ray. For a daily critique of Leftist activities, see DISSECTING LEFTISM. To keep up with attacks on free speech see TONGUE-TIED. Also, don't forget your daily roundup of pro-environment but anti-Greenie news and commentary at GREENIE WATCH . Email me (John Ray) here
A young mother gave birth on a pavement outside a hospital after she was told to make her own way there. Mother-of-three Carmen Blake called her midwife to ask for an ambulance when she went into labour unexpectedly with her fourth child. But the 27-year-old claims she was refused an ambulance and told to walk the 100 metres from her house in Leicester to the city's nearby Royal Infirmary.
Her daughter Mariah was delivered on a pavement outside the hospital by a passer-by, just before ambulance crews arrived. Today the Trust that runs the hospital said it would look into any complaint made about the advice and care the 27-year-old received.
Ms Blake said she started going into labour at about 7.15am on Sunday, August 2. She said: "I phoned up the Royal Infirmary, it's just across the road, and they said to go into a hot bath, and then to make my way over there. "I went into the bath and realised she was going to come quickly. I didn't think I'd be able to make it out of the bath, so I phoned the maternity ward back and told them to get an ambulance out. 'They said they were not sending an ambulance and told me I had had nine months to sort out a lift.'
Experienced mother Ms Blake today said she knew she had to get herself out of the bath and try to get to the hospital. 'The friends with me would have had no idea what to do. I knew at that point that she was nearly here so I had to get out of the house,' she said. 'I thought if I got across the road then at least somebody would be able to help me. 'I left the house and got to the end of the close, but there was no-one around to help.'
Eventually Ms Blake and her friends enlisted the help of a physiotherapist who happened to be passing on her way to work. She dialled 999 and helped deliver baby Mariah while waiting for emergency services. She even helped remove the cord from around the tot's neck, Ms Blake said today.
She said: 'I don't really remember much after that. Mariah was born, then the paramedics arrived then after that the midwives arrived. I think I went into shock. 'It's just lucky that the physio was there.'
Ms Blake said despite the happy ending she was upset she was told to make her own way to the hospital as, being an experienced mum, she knew she did not have the time.
Today a spokeswoman for the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust said: 'We are disappointed that Ms Blake was not happy with the advice and care she received and will of course investigate any complaint. 'We are pleased that both Ms Blake and her daughter are well and healthy.' [Mealy-mouthed indifference]
SOURCE
Posted by John Ray. For a daily critique of Leftist activities, see DISSECTING LEFTISM. To keep up with attacks on free speech see TONGUE-TIED. Also, don't forget your daily roundup of pro-environment but anti-Greenie news and commentary at GREENIE WATCH . Email me (John Ray) here
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