george will: washington is seriously unserious.

"Sen. Olympia Snowe, the Maine Republican whom Democrats hope will lend a patina of bipartisanship to their health legislation whenever it gets written, says that one thing we learned from the cacophonous town halls of August is "that there are many people who are satisfied with their health insurance." Actually, long before this debate began we knew that a large majority of Americans have insurance, and a large majority of that majority are content with their care. That is why the president has become shrill: There is no underlying discontent commensurate with the scale of the changes he is trying to propel."

http://www.newsweek.com/id/214268

key dem says party moderates are "brain dead"

"Moderate Blue Dog Democrats "just want to cause trouble," said Rep. Pete Stark, D-Calif., who heads the health subcommittee on the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee. They're for the most part, I hate to say, brain dead, but they're just looking to raise money from insurance companies and promote a right-wing agenda that is not really very useful in this whole process," Stark told reporters on a conference call."

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9ABB88O1&show_article=1

the risk of a double-dip recession is rising.

before you read this, the answer to why countries like australia, germany, france, japan, china, india, and brazil have economies that are expanding (as opposed to the united states and most of europe) is because they did not spend trillions, repeat trillions, on a phony "stimulus" bill agenda. 

"On the first question it looks like the global economy will bottom out in the second half of 2009. In many advanced economies (the US, UK, Spain, Italy and other eurozone members) and some emerging market economies (mostly in Europe) the recession will not be formally over before the end of the year, as green shoots are still mixed with weeds. In some other advanced economies (Australia, Germany, France and Japan) and most emerging markets (China, India, Brazil and other parts of Asia and Latin America) the recovery has already started."

new york governor blames his problems on his race..and declares 'the next victim is barack obama'

""The next victim on the list -- and you see it coming -- is President Barack Obama, who did nothing more than try to reform a health-care system . . . only because he's trying to make change," Paterson said."

will obama's statism ever retreat?

"We are already testing whether President Obama and other statists who have given his administration and this Congress their ideological cast have a doctrine analogous to Brezhnev's. Having aggressively, even promiscuously, blurred the distinction between public and private sectors with improvised and largely unauthorized interventions in the economy, will they ever countenance a retreat of the state? Or do they have an aspiration that they dare not speak? Do they hope state capitalism will be irreversible -- that wherever government has asserted the primacy of politics, the primacy will be permanent?"

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/08/23/a_doctrine_of_no_retreat_98005.html

obama in "preacher mode" on healthcare.

the great irony of the obama administration

"No one should be surprised. Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly, liberal Democrats have to accuse their opponents of racism. Indeed, somewhat to their credit fighting racism — alas, even where it doesn’t exist — is one of the reasons they became liberal Democrats in the first place. And that’s the great irony of the Obama presidency. It was Obama’s supporters who hinted, teased, promised, and prophesied that Obama would help America “transcend race.” But now, it is they who shrink from their own promised land."

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=OTRmYmJlMzc4ODc0ODk1ZGY0YWViNWE1NjFlZmNjNzc=

obamacare: a transformation of america

"The thing most associated with America — freedom — is precisely what must be destroyed if this is to be turned into a fundamentally different country to suit Obama’s vision of the country and of himself."

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NTI5ZDQyZTRhZWQwMDcxOGQwNDFiOTQzMzE0NGYyNmI=

the strange case of the obama meltdown

"Cap-and-trade, the mega-deficits, the apology tours, and the sleaze of some appointments and congressional grandees (cf. Rangel, Dodd, Murtha, etc.) were stimulants, but not in themselves enough to awaken the somnolent American people from their collective trance. Yet health care was like a shot of adrenaline that jolted the patient out of his slumber. Suddenly hope and change no longer worked like the swinging watch and “you’re getting sleepy” lingo. Voters are feeling they’ve been “had” and were mesmerized into being used for an extremist agenda."

http://pajamasmedia.com/victordavishanson/the-strange-case-of-the-obama-meltdown/

obama agenda to raise 10 year deficit to record $9 trillion

"Politically, the deficit has been an albatross for Obama, a Democrat who is pushing forward with plans to overhaul the U.S. healthcare industry -- an initiative that could cost up to $1 trillion over 10 years -- and other promises, including reforming education and how the country handles energy."

http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE57K4XE20090821

in government we trust?

"The left likes to say that conservatives hate government. The truth, and it holds for many people beyond conservatism, is closer to what Alfred Hitchcock said when he was accused of hating the police. "I'm not against the police," Hitchcock said, "I'm just afraid of them."

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/08/20/in_government_we_trust_97968.html

pew: dem party ratings plummet

"Approval ratings for the Democratic Party also fell, with 49 percent of Americans saying they viewed the party favorably. That’s down 10 percentage points from April, Washington-based Pew reported. Democrats had a 62 percent favorable rating just before Obama’s inauguration in January. The 40 percent approval rating for the Republican Party has held steady all year."

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aJ7OXMPxCab4

government jobs have grown since recession.

"While the private sector has shed 6.9 million jobs since the beginning of the recession, state and local governments have expanded their payrolls and added 110,000 jobs, according to a report to be issued Thursday by the Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government."

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/20/us/20states.html?_r=1

special interests.

politics is all about special interests (aka money) and both parties are excessively corrupt in the special interest department. this isnt about partisan politics, but when obama runs his entire campaign/platform on change, hope, and a new era of politics and we get this, the credibility of his campaign (and its promises) go straight down the drain. snake oilsman 101. 

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090819/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_health_care_consultants

big business goes big for obamacare

it doesn't matter which party is in the white house. the story is still the same. 

"In light of all this, it's funny to watch Democrats and their activist allies panic over the protests at congressional town meetings around the country. Tools of the corporate interests! they cry. But anyone opposing "socialized medicine" at the meeting can't be a mouthpiece for big business because, as we've seen, big business supports government control. Conservative groups may be encouraging people to vent their anger at congressmen who pass burdensome legislation without even bothering to read it, but that's no reason to insult the protestors as pawns. What's wrong with organizations helping like-minded people to voice their opinions? Why do Democrats, such as Speaker Nancy Pelosi, dismiss citizen participation as "AstroTurf"—not real grassroots—only when citizens oppose the kind of big government they favor?"

http://www.reason.com/news/show/135407.html

GOP thinks the unthinkable: victory in 2010

"I think what's going to happen is Obama's going to be fine, and the Democrats in Congress are going to get their asses kicked in 2010," says one Democratic strategist who prefers not to be named. "This is following a curve like the Clinton years: take on really controversial things early, fail, or succeed partially, ask Democrats to take really tough votes, and then lose. A lot of guys are going to get beat, but the president has time to recover."

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/GOP-thinks-the-unthinkable-Victory-in-2010-8103193-53174842.html

where is ronald when you need him?

the antithesis of obama:

ronald reagan responds to obama

absolutely brilliant. do his words resemble a striking similarity to 2009?

FUNkadelic bEats 10.0

young rascals- it's a beautiful morning

temptations- sugar pie honey bunch

young rascals- groovin'

temptations- just my imagination

florida principal, athletic director face six months in jail over school prayer.

if you haven't realized, the left is at war against everything this country was founded on: freedom, individual choice, capitalism, judeo-christian values just to name a few. jail time for prayer? you've got to be kidding me. 

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/aug/14/criminal-prayer-case-stirs-protests/?feat=home_headlines

obama town halls are staged press conferences

"But what the White House is calling a "town hall meeting" does not quite follow in the tradition of the public-driven forums that sprouted centuries ago in New England. It's more like a press conference for the public. A look at President Obama's health care "town hall" Tuesday in Portsmouth, N.H., shows the president out-spoke his audience by a ratio of nearly 9-to-1. Here's the scorecard: Obama: 8,619 words.  Audience: 1,186 words."

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/08/13/town-halls/

love him or hate him, oreilly's had the highest rated show on cable tv for over 100 months.

europe: america's future?

"No, Europe should not only not be our model, but Euros know it should not be our model. A few brilliant Europeans whisper, “Of course, it is lost here, since no addict insidiously hooked on government entitlement ever gives such largess up. But you over there still have a chance.”

http://pajamasmedia.com/victordavishanson/on-becoming-europe/

obama: salesman for the superstate?

"Big as the health-care proposal is, the White House might have gotten it easily as a standalone piece of legislation, given the congressional majorities and Obama's reservoir of goodwill. But health care arrived in late May as a trillion-pound federal elephant in an Obama house that was looking like a Noah's ark of every known species of federal spending: the $800 billion public-works stimulus, the deficit-busting $3.5 trillion budget (and now Treasury's Tim Geithner wants Congress to lift the debt limit above $12.1 trillion), the grandiose cap-and-trade bill that foundered when Democratic coal states rebelled, the U.S. engulfment of the auto industry, the tax time bombs."

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/08/13/obama_salesman_for_the_superstate_97881.html

very very interesting..read this.

as the nobama administration continues to change the rhetoric of their big brother healthcare legislation, i thought you would be intrigued by this chart of profit margin among industries in the united states. 

to begin, the healthcare message out of the white house started in march as a push to insure the "47 million" uninsured. then it was directed at controlling costs, which is almost laughable considering the price tag is $1.5 trillion for 10 years. then the message was directed at those who were already insured and how obamacare would benefit them. then, in july when the polls showed obamacare plummeting faster than ryan leaf's NFL career, health"care" reform was replaced by health "insurance" reform and obama, pelosi, their drones in congress, and the mainstream media began attacking the "evil" insurance companies. nancy pelosi, our speak of the house, called the private insurance companies "villains" and berated the industry for its excess profits. let's listen to nobama himself a couple days ago:

"There have been reports just over the last couple of days of insurance companies making record profits, right now," Obama said during a prime-time news conference. At a time when everybody's getting hammered, they're making record profits, and premiums are going up. What's the constraint on that? ... Well, part of the way is to make sure that there's some competition out there."

a) the fact that these hack politicians attack profit shows their hatred of capitalism and the essence of the american dream. obama does not like the economic system of america, and if you haven't realized this yet, you should wake up and smell the coffee. 

b) obama is LYING right to your face. insurance companies are not making "record profits." in fact, their industry ranked 86th last year, making a 3.3% profit margin, compared to the beverages and brewers industry (#1) which had a profit margin of 25.9%. 

another perfect example of this anti-capitalist liberal strategy is when pelosi, obama, and co.  went on an marxist tirade attack of oil companies for their massive "windfall profits" when they actually only received a profit margin of 9.7%, ranking 23rd among industries in the united states. AGAIN, the fact that these politicians attack profit is entirely anti-capitalist and essentially, entirely anti-american. 

can you not see through the bs? obama is so full of hot air it should be almost criminal. he is a hack and nothing will stop him from pursuing his liberal utopia. we have never seen anyone remotely close to this guy in the oval office and i don't think america will ever fall for someone like this again. 

obama approval rating drops to 47%

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/08/13/poll-obama-approval-rating-drops-percent/

senator stabenow: i can feel global warming when i'm flying

"Michigan just experienced its coldest July on record; global temperatures haven't risen in more than a decade; Great Lakes water levels have resumed their 30-year cyclical rise (contrary to a decade of media scare stories that they were drying up due to global warming), and polls show that climate change doesn't even make a list of Michigan voters' top-ten concerns. Yet in an interview with the Detroit News Monday, Senator Debbie Stabenow (D., Mich.) - recently appointed to the Senate Energy Committee - made clear that fighting the climate crisis is her top priority."

http://community.detnews.com/apps/blogs/henrypayneblog/index.php?blogid=2041

somebody help me.

i'm trying to understand why the terrorist above, abdel besset ali al-megrahi, is being released from prison after he was convicted of bombing a plane in 1988 that killed 270 innocent people in scotland. the main reason for his release is that he has prostate cancer and is sick in prison. ahhh the poor terrorist is sick. when did people start feeling bad for the SCUM of the earth? seriously. i dont get it. this guys premeditatedly took the lives of 270 innocent people. i dont care if he has cancer, AIDS, malaria, west nyle virus, or a new case of the swine flu. this guy should rot in prison forever. if i were president of scotland, i wouldve saved the taxpayer some money and executed this guy in the 80s. it makes me sick to think that this guy is still alive. 

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,539204,00.html

israeli strike on iran could delay bomb.

http://in.reuters.com/article/oilRpt/idINLC60776820090812

UN climate warming: we have 4 months to secure future of the planet

you can quote me on this: "man-made" global warming (and its hysteria) is the biggest scam and crock of bullsh** the world has ever seen. 

http://www.un.org/apps/news/infocus/sgspeeches/statments_full.asp?statID=557

paglia (obama supporter): pelosi must go

article of the day:

"But somehow liberals have drifted into a strange servility toward big government, which they revere as a godlike foster father-mother who can dispense all bounty and magically heal all ills. The ethical collapse of the left was nowhere more evident than in the near total silence of liberal media and Web sites at the Obama administration's outrageous solicitation to private citizens to report unacceptable "casual conversations" to the White House. If Republicans had done this, there would have been an angry explosion by Democrats from coast to coast. I was stunned at the failure of liberals to see the blatant totalitarianism in this incident, which the president should have immediately denounced. His failure to do so implicates him in it."

http://www.salon.com/opinion/paglia/2009/08/12/town_halls/

welcome to the overflowing welfare states of america

"It's free money!" said Alecia Rumph, 26, who waited in a Morris Park, Bronx line 300 people deep for the cash to buy uniforms and book bags for her two kids. Thank God for Obama. He's looking out for us."

http://www.nydailynews.com/money/2009/08/12/2009-08-12_billionaire_feds_give_out_175m_to_aid_neediest_students_around_the_state_its_fre.html

#1 on TRL

a thomas sowell freestyle

"Since no one seems overly concerned about putting a racist on the Supreme Court — provided it is a politically correct racist — the moral of the story seems to be that if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, that doesn’t matter if it coos like a dove at Senate confirmation hearings."

"How long will it be before the public gets tired of the little know-it-all sermonettes by Barack Obama — especially since nothing that he is doing is actually working?"

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ODcxOTY3ODUzNDdmYmM2Nzc2N2QxZDg3MjQ3YTRhZGU=

we have met the public enemy, and he is us.

"Yes, my friends, the great line of gangsters with the letter “D” after their names, from Tammany Hall to the Outfit to the Syndicate to the Combine, has now reached its apotheosis as our party controls the White House, the Congress, and, soon enough, the Supreme Court. Because, in fact, we are a gang. A syndicate. A combine. An outfit. Just don’t call us a Mob — that’s a term we’ve now reserved for all you Brooks Brothers and Ann Taylor thugs who have the audacity to show up at town-hall meetings protesting our “health care” power grab. Not since the heyday of gangland back in the 1920s and ’30s has there been such a bumper crop of corrupt politicians,shtarkers, and hoodlums with their hands on the levers of power, and it’s time to celebrate it.

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MjI5ZTZjNTdiYmZiOTllOTU5YmY5ZTFkOWRmMGU3ZjM=&w=MA==

a backroom drug deal

"Obama deserves points for efficiency, if not consistency. Now the drug industry doesn’t even have to bother writing legislation. It just has to shake hands in a backroom with Obama. Dick Cheney should be jealous. The allegedly underhanded, CEO-coddling vice president merely had a secret energy task force. Obama has bought off an industry group in a secret deal to spare it the worst of a far-reaching government scheme."

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZGMzYzIyYzNkOGUyZWM5YTVkNDg5NmM0NjNkM2IyNDQ=

terrorist attack foiled at u.s. base in kuwait

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.e975259b386fc683f1e88d0b03ec7004.bd1&show_article=1

jihadists attacked pakistan's nuclear sites three times since 2007

this is some serious, serious stuff right here. pakistan, along with israel, is the only country in the middle east with nuclear weapons (iran is well on its way). pakistan's country is incredibly unstable with the taliban/al qaeda battling the incumbent government for political control of the country. if terrorists get ahold of a nuclear weapon in the coming years, which seems to me as only a matter of time, the world is in some serious trouble. if there's any current event that deserves attention, its this one:

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/news/world/pakistan/Revealed-Jihadis-thrice-attacked-Pakistan-nuclear-sites/articleshow/4879235.cms

obama web-tracking plan stirs privacy concerns

"Some privacy groups say the proposal amounts to a "massive" and unexplained shift in government policy. In a statement Monday, American Civil Liberties Union spokesman Michael Macleod-Ball said the move could "allow the mass collection of personal information of every user of a federal government website."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/10/AR2009081002743_pf.html

uh-oh.

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/obama_administration/daily_presidential_tracking_poll

FUNkadelic bEats 9.0

a tribute..

sdib- love at first sight

sdib- sugar

sdib- where's that girl

sdib- sweet anela

sdib- pretty face

sdib- wrapped up

sdib- midnight hour

sdib- runnin

quote of the day.

"tyranny is a threat that loom over all societies, preventable only by the active vigilance of the people. the statist in america is no less resolute than his european counterpart but, by necessity, he is more cunning- where the european lurches and leaps, the american's steps are measured but steady. in america, the statist understands that his counterrevolution must at least appear gradual and not revolutionary- sometimes even clothed in the flag and patriotism- lest his intentions become too obvious and thus alarming to his skeptics...the statist must also rely on legions of academics to serve as his missionaries. after a short period of training and observation, academics receive a sinecure- a personal stake in the state via lifetime employment through a system of tenure. the classroom is turned into a propaganda mill, rather than a place for education, to shape the beliefs and attitudes of successive generations of malcontents and incubate the revolution against the civil society. academics help identify the enemies of the state, whom their students learn to distrust or even detest through distortion and repetition- corporations as polluters, the founding fathers as slave owners, the military as imperialist, etc."

-mark levin, liberty and tyranny: a conservative manifesto

straight talk on islam. brace yourself.

"Still, I would contend that Hezbollah and Al Qaeda are not as dangerous as America’s liberals. The Islamic terrorists can only kill so many people, but those on the Left are doing everything in their power to eviscerate America. Cap and Trade can destroy our industrial might; Obama’s trillion dollar stimulus programs combined with his delusional health care plan will not only bankrupt our nation, but lead inevitably to a rate of inflation that will impress even Jimmy Carter; and the budget cuts directed at our military and our missile defense system will make us increasingly vulnerable to our various enemies."

http://townhall.com/columnists/BurtPrelutsky/2009/08/10/the_straight_talk_on_islam

saving obama from himself: the machiavellian thing vs. the moral thing on healthcare

"Ronald Reagan once said that the closest we will ever get to eternal life on this planet is a government bureaucracy. He was right. And if you turn America's healthcare system into a single-payer government system, it would be extremely difficult to turn back. It would be like unscrambling eggs."

http://townhall.com/columnists/DrPaulKengor/2009/08/10/saving_obama_from_himself_the_machiavellian_thing_vs_the_moral_thing_on_healthcare?page=2