Our own State Department opted to include Obama's lawsuit against Arizona's S.B. 1070Immigration reform law as an example of how it can be an example to other countries in the world.
Oh, really? I wonder if Hillary, Obama and their ilk have noted the human rights violations of most of these countries that the State Department wants to impress.
I don't see people being beheaded in America like I do in Mexico, Iran, Afghanistan, Africa and other nations that Hillary and Obama want to impress. I don't see women on trial for adultery and being sentenced to public stoning, here in America.
I don't see Arizona or any other state in the nation advocating no human rights for women. I do in the countries madam Secretary wants to appease.
At what point will this President and his Cabinet, advisers and ilk quit kissing the rump of every country who violates women's rights in the name of their religion?
How long will we have to wait before the federal government does one of the few jobs it is actually charged with doing -- protecting our borders so Arizona doesn't have to do the federal government's job?
How long will it take before history shows these people for the traitors they are?
America doesn't need to, nor should they apologize to the rest of the world. When the rest of the world is hurting from natural disaster it isn't Africa, Iran or Russia who comes to their aid. It's America; yet the very countries we help continue to bad-mouth us. Now they even have help from within our own country; from our own President, no less!
Oh, and just to show how compassionate some of those other folks are who Hillary is trying to impress, Iran has opted to give 99 lashes to the woman accused of adultry instead of stoning her to death. And here we thought these other countries weren't sensitive to the human rights of their people. I stand corrected.
I no longer have the words. Help me out, here. Do you have some ideas? Is it just me? Sign on and share your thoughts.
Bernie
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Paradox
"Fathom the odd hypocrisy that Obama wants every citizen to prove they are insured, but people don't have to prove they are citizens".
Saturday, August 21, 2010
Now, this is my kind of bank!
Bank encourages second amendment
From the Brenham Banner Press:
By ARTHUR HAHN/Managing Editor
Published:
Thursday, August 19, 2010 11:59 AM CDT
CHAPPELL HILL — Any would-be robbers looking to walk into the bank here had best think twice.
There’s a new sign in town.
About a month ago, Chappell Hill Bank president Edward Smith looked at a sign on the front door prohibiting concealed weapons from his business and decided to make a policy change.
Licensed to carry a handgun? Come on in, and bring your weapon.
The sign, now prominently displayed on the bank’s front door, says, “Lawful concealed carry permitted on these premises. Management recognizes the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution as an inalienable right of all citizens. We therefore support and encourage the carrying of licensed concealed weapons.”
Smith said he made the policy change to send a warning to potential robbers, and also to express support to Americans’ right to bear arms.
“We had the sign on the window, the red circle with the pistol inside and a line through it. And I started thinking, ‘We’ve got this no gun sign up and the guy (robber) can come in and do what he wants.
“But if you’ve got a policy allowing handguns, he won’t know how many people are going to be in here carrying a concealed weapon. There may be some little old lady who’s mad at the government, and she’d love to use it,” he said.
The bank has been robbed twice in the last three years, including last March when a Western-attired man walked in, ordered bank employees to fill a canvas bag with money and then fled in a pickup truck. The man, who did not brandish a weapon, has not been caught.
The sign has made Chappell Hill Bank and Smith somewhat of an Internet sensation.
A photo of the sign has made its way around the world, and Smith has even been interviewed for the National Rifle Association’s radio network (http://www.nranews.com/#/nranews). He’s also been contacted by other media outlets wanting to do stories.
“It’s kind of gotten a life of its own,” he said.
Expressions of support have far outnumbered criticism.
Smith been contacted by officials from larger banks considering to take similar action, and has received e-mails in support from across the United States and even from England, Canada and Germany.
“I haven’t gotten any from Chicago or California, which doesn’t surprise me,” Smith said with a laugh. “We did get a real nice e-mail from an 88-year-old World War II veteran who said it’s about time somebody stood up in this country.”
The NRA has even invited him to speak at an upcoming convention, but Smith said, “I’m still deciding on that.”
Smith said he’s only received one negative e-mail, from an anonymous sender.
The policy change has also brought Chappell Hill Bank a handful of new customers and comments from people outside Washington County that they’d bank there if they lived here, said Smith.
“I tell them that we’re a full-service bank and we’re on the Internet. They can bank online,” he said.
The Democrat agenda
Last night I listened as 3 local Democrats discussed why they're the best candidate for Arizona Superintendent of Schools.
This was the tenor of their message:
1. There should be no tax breaks, except for public schools.
2. We should get away from AIMS testing.
3. It is the job of the Superintendent of Schools to decide what is best for our kids and we better get used to it and not question their authority, damn it!
Let's analyze what they're saying.
They don't want funding for schools, other than public schools because we don't want to have any school getting funding that isn't a bastion of liberal indoctrination.
We need to get away from AIMS testing because it doesn't allow for little Johnny to be rewarded for saying 2+2 = 7. We don't want to hurt little Johnny's feeling by telling him he's wrong and work with him to teach him how to come to the correct answer. It's much easier to give him a hug and tell him that it's OK. Never mind he won't have a clue when he gets out in the real world and can't get a job. We can just blame it on George Bush.
As for the righteous indignation of the Democrat candidates as they ask, how dare us question their authority, it's systemic of the same arrogance we have in the rest of the Democrat party; and particularly the White House.
How much more are you willing to put up with before you put the brakes on these people? I'll be working hard to get people elected who represent our core values, not the values, or lack of, of these folks who believe the government knows best.
This was the tenor of their message:
1. There should be no tax breaks, except for public schools.
2. We should get away from AIMS testing.
3. It is the job of the Superintendent of Schools to decide what is best for our kids and we better get used to it and not question their authority, damn it!
Let's analyze what they're saying.
They don't want funding for schools, other than public schools because we don't want to have any school getting funding that isn't a bastion of liberal indoctrination.
We need to get away from AIMS testing because it doesn't allow for little Johnny to be rewarded for saying 2+2 = 7. We don't want to hurt little Johnny's feeling by telling him he's wrong and work with him to teach him how to come to the correct answer. It's much easier to give him a hug and tell him that it's OK. Never mind he won't have a clue when he gets out in the real world and can't get a job. We can just blame it on George Bush.
As for the righteous indignation of the Democrat candidates as they ask, how dare us question their authority, it's systemic of the same arrogance we have in the rest of the Democrat party; and particularly the White House.
How much more are you willing to put up with before you put the brakes on these people? I'll be working hard to get people elected who represent our core values, not the values, or lack of, of these folks who believe the government knows best.
Friday, August 20, 2010
A must-see video
This video sums up what's going on with our money right now.
Some of the scenes, like Nancy Pelosi saying we need to pass
the health bill in order to see what's in it are almost laughable.
They can look you in the eye and lie through their teeth. I'm not
certain they are that stupid, that arrogant or that blatantly
destructive in the name of promoting themselves and their socialist
agenda.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wty7974IKg&feature=player_embedded
Some of the scenes, like Nancy Pelosi saying we need to pass
the health bill in order to see what's in it are almost laughable.
They can look you in the eye and lie through their teeth. I'm not
certain they are that stupid, that arrogant or that blatantly
destructive in the name of promoting themselves and their socialist
agenda.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wty7974IKg&feature=player_embedded
Thursday, August 19, 2010
Brilliant piece by Anne Worthham
Anne Wortham is Associate Professor of Sociology at Illinois State University and continuing Visiting Scholar at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. She is a member of the American Sociological Association and the American Philosophical Association.
She has been a John M. Olin Foundation Faculty Fellow, and honored as a Distinguished Alumni of the Year by the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education.
Dr. Wortham is author of “The Other Side of Racism: A Philosophical Study of Black Race Consciousness” which analyzes how race consciousness is transformed into political strategies and policy issues.
She has published numerous articles on the implications of individual rights for civil rights policy, and is currently writing a book on theories of social and cultural marginality.
Recently, she has published articles on the significance of multiculturalism and Afrocentricism in education, the politics of victimization and the social and political impact of political correctness.
Here is her evaluation of Obama and the movement that elected him.
Fellow Americans,
Please know: I am Black; I grew up in the segregated South. I did not vote for Barack Obama; I wrote in Ron Paul’s name as my choice for president. Most importantly, I am not race conscious. I do not require a Black president to know that I am a person of worth, and that life is worth living. I do not require a Black president to love the ideal of America.
I cannot join you in your celebration. I feel no elation. There is no smile on my face. I am not jumping with joy. There are no tears of triumph in my eyes. For such emotions and behavior to come from me, I would have to deny all that I know about the requirements of human flourishing and survival – all that I know about the history of the United States of America , all that I know about American race relations, and all that I know about Barack Obama as a politician. I would have to deny the nature of the “change” that Obama asserts has come to America.
Most importantly, I would have to abnegate my certain understanding that you have chosen to sprint down the road to serfdom that we have been on for over a century. I would have to pretend that individual liberty has no value for the success of a human life. I would have to evade your rejection of the slender reed of capitalism on which your success and mine depend. I would have to think it somehow rational that 94 percent of the 12 million Blacks in this country voted for a man because he looks like them (that Blacks are permitted to play the race card), and that they were joined by self-declared “progressive” whites who voted for him because he doesn’t look like them.
I would have to wipe my mind clean of all that I know about the kind of people who have advised and taught Barack Obama and will fill posts in his administration – political intellectuals like my former colleagues at the Harvard University ‘s Kennedy School of Government.
I would have to believe that “fairness” is equivalent of justice. I would have to believe that man who asks me to “go forward in a new spirit of service, in a new service of sacrifice” is speaking in my interest.. I would have to accept the premise of a man that economic prosperity comes from the “bottom up,” and who arrogantly believes that he can will it into existence by the use of government force. I would have to admire a man who thinks the standard of living of the masses can be improved by destroying the most productive and the generators of wealth.
Finally, Americans, I would have to erase from my consciousness the scene of 125,000screaming, crying, cheering people in Grant Park, Chicago irrationally chanting “Yes We Can!” Finally, I would have to wipe all memory of all the times I have heard politicians, pundits, journalists, editorialists, bloggers and intellectuals declare that capitalism is dead – and no one, including especially Alan Greenspan, objected to their assumption that the particular version of the anti-capitalistic mentality that they want to replace with their own version of anti-capitalism is anything remotely equivalent to capitalism.
So you have made history, Americans. You and your children have elected a Black man to the office of the president of the United States, the wounded giant of the world. The battle between John Wayne and Jane Fonda is over – and that Fonda won. Eugene McCarthy and George McGovern must be very happy men. Jimmie Carter, too. And the Kennedys have at last gotten their Kennedy look-a-like. The self-righteous welfare statists in the suburbs can feel warm moments of satisfaction for having elected a Black person.
So, toast yourselves: 60s countercultural radicals, 80s yuppies and 90s bourgeois bohemians. Toast yourselves, Black America. Shout your glee Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Duke, Stanford, and Berkeley. You have elected not an individual who is qualified to be president, but a Black man who, like the pragmatist Franklin Roosevelt, promises to – Do Something! You now have someone who has picked up the baton of Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society. But you have also foolishly traded your freedom and mine – what little there is left – for the chance to feel good.
There is nothing in me that can share your happy obliviousness.
She has been a John M. Olin Foundation Faculty Fellow, and honored as a Distinguished Alumni of the Year by the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education.
Dr. Wortham is author of “The Other Side of Racism: A Philosophical Study of Black Race Consciousness” which analyzes how race consciousness is transformed into political strategies and policy issues.
She has published numerous articles on the implications of individual rights for civil rights policy, and is currently writing a book on theories of social and cultural marginality.
Recently, she has published articles on the significance of multiculturalism and Afrocentricism in education, the politics of victimization and the social and political impact of political correctness.
Here is her evaluation of Obama and the movement that elected him.
Fellow Americans,
Please know: I am Black; I grew up in the segregated South. I did not vote for Barack Obama; I wrote in Ron Paul’s name as my choice for president. Most importantly, I am not race conscious. I do not require a Black president to know that I am a person of worth, and that life is worth living. I do not require a Black president to love the ideal of America.
I cannot join you in your celebration. I feel no elation. There is no smile on my face. I am not jumping with joy. There are no tears of triumph in my eyes. For such emotions and behavior to come from me, I would have to deny all that I know about the requirements of human flourishing and survival – all that I know about the history of the United States of America , all that I know about American race relations, and all that I know about Barack Obama as a politician. I would have to deny the nature of the “change” that Obama asserts has come to America.
Most importantly, I would have to abnegate my certain understanding that you have chosen to sprint down the road to serfdom that we have been on for over a century. I would have to pretend that individual liberty has no value for the success of a human life. I would have to evade your rejection of the slender reed of capitalism on which your success and mine depend. I would have to think it somehow rational that 94 percent of the 12 million Blacks in this country voted for a man because he looks like them (that Blacks are permitted to play the race card), and that they were joined by self-declared “progressive” whites who voted for him because he doesn’t look like them.
I would have to wipe my mind clean of all that I know about the kind of people who have advised and taught Barack Obama and will fill posts in his administration – political intellectuals like my former colleagues at the Harvard University ‘s Kennedy School of Government.
I would have to believe that “fairness” is equivalent of justice. I would have to believe that man who asks me to “go forward in a new spirit of service, in a new service of sacrifice” is speaking in my interest.. I would have to accept the premise of a man that economic prosperity comes from the “bottom up,” and who arrogantly believes that he can will it into existence by the use of government force. I would have to admire a man who thinks the standard of living of the masses can be improved by destroying the most productive and the generators of wealth.
Finally, Americans, I would have to erase from my consciousness the scene of 125,000screaming, crying, cheering people in Grant Park, Chicago irrationally chanting “Yes We Can!” Finally, I would have to wipe all memory of all the times I have heard politicians, pundits, journalists, editorialists, bloggers and intellectuals declare that capitalism is dead – and no one, including especially Alan Greenspan, objected to their assumption that the particular version of the anti-capitalistic mentality that they want to replace with their own version of anti-capitalism is anything remotely equivalent to capitalism.
So you have made history, Americans. You and your children have elected a Black man to the office of the president of the United States, the wounded giant of the world. The battle between John Wayne and Jane Fonda is over – and that Fonda won. Eugene McCarthy and George McGovern must be very happy men. Jimmie Carter, too. And the Kennedys have at last gotten their Kennedy look-a-like. The self-righteous welfare statists in the suburbs can feel warm moments of satisfaction for having elected a Black person.
So, toast yourselves: 60s countercultural radicals, 80s yuppies and 90s bourgeois bohemians. Toast yourselves, Black America. Shout your glee Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Duke, Stanford, and Berkeley. You have elected not an individual who is qualified to be president, but a Black man who, like the pragmatist Franklin Roosevelt, promises to – Do Something! You now have someone who has picked up the baton of Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society. But you have also foolishly traded your freedom and mine – what little there is left – for the chance to feel good.
There is nothing in me that can share your happy obliviousness.
Friday, August 13, 2010
Is Obama really the genius he's purported to be?
Ok, pretend I’m a 4-year-old and explain this to me.
If Obama truly is the smarted U.S. President ever, with an IQ of from 135-165 “or higher”; depending on how much they want to embellish, how is it that the employment rate is hovering around 10% and even higher in many states?
Why is it the economy is still tanked, even though he’s been in office almost two years and was in the Senate (briefly) before that? He can’t legitimately blame George W. Bush for everything from the economy to unemployment to STDs, given the Democrats have controlled the House and the Senate for over 4 years and now they even have the White House.
To top everything Fox News is reporting Russia is going to put fuel into the Iranian nuclear reactors, making the world even more vulnerable.
So how is Obama going to punish the Russians for this flagrant slap in our face? He plans on buying helicopters from the Russians to use in Afghanistan.
I’m fairly certain with today’s technology the Russians would have computer chips on-board those helicopters that would go awry if those helicopters were ever used against the Russians or any of their allies. I know I would.
Does this really sound like a genius?
Either Obama is stupid to the nth degree or he knows exactly what he’s doing and he’s intentionally making the U.S. vulnerable to attack from our enemies. He has managed to alienate the U.S. from any real ally we had and has chapped lips from kissing the rump of every enemy we have.
So, which is it? Is he intentionally and deliberately putting the U.S. in harm’s way or is he truly dumber than a box of rocks? Please, I don’t want any rock collectors giving me grief over that comment or threatening to sue me for defamation of character or slander against their rock collection. It’s just a figure of speech.
I have my own theories on the matter and frankly it scares the hell out of me. At what point are we going to put the brakes on his plans to destroy this great nation and consider trying him and his ilk for treason? That may seem like a very bold assertion but not nearly as bold as what he and his minions have done in less than 2 years.
Inquiring minds want to know. My IQ is only around 147 and I certainly wouldn't take the path he has, knowing it was destroying our great nation. Am I missing something?
If Obama truly is the smarted U.S. President ever, with an IQ of from 135-165 “or higher”; depending on how much they want to embellish, how is it that the employment rate is hovering around 10% and even higher in many states?
Why is it the economy is still tanked, even though he’s been in office almost two years and was in the Senate (briefly) before that? He can’t legitimately blame George W. Bush for everything from the economy to unemployment to STDs, given the Democrats have controlled the House and the Senate for over 4 years and now they even have the White House.
To top everything Fox News is reporting Russia is going to put fuel into the Iranian nuclear reactors, making the world even more vulnerable.
So how is Obama going to punish the Russians for this flagrant slap in our face? He plans on buying helicopters from the Russians to use in Afghanistan.
I’m fairly certain with today’s technology the Russians would have computer chips on-board those helicopters that would go awry if those helicopters were ever used against the Russians or any of their allies. I know I would.
Does this really sound like a genius?
Either Obama is stupid to the nth degree or he knows exactly what he’s doing and he’s intentionally making the U.S. vulnerable to attack from our enemies. He has managed to alienate the U.S. from any real ally we had and has chapped lips from kissing the rump of every enemy we have.
So, which is it? Is he intentionally and deliberately putting the U.S. in harm’s way or is he truly dumber than a box of rocks? Please, I don’t want any rock collectors giving me grief over that comment or threatening to sue me for defamation of character or slander against their rock collection. It’s just a figure of speech.
I have my own theories on the matter and frankly it scares the hell out of me. At what point are we going to put the brakes on his plans to destroy this great nation and consider trying him and his ilk for treason? That may seem like a very bold assertion but not nearly as bold as what he and his minions have done in less than 2 years.
Inquiring minds want to know. My IQ is only around 147 and I certainly wouldn't take the path he has, knowing it was destroying our great nation. Am I missing something?
Sunday, August 8, 2010
Obama's economic advisor to go back to teaching
Isn't that rich; Obama's economic advisor, Romer is stepping down and going back to teaching economics.
Let me see if I have this straight. The American economy is in a shamble, due to Obama, Romer, Pelosi, Reid and the rest of the Democrat Hee Haw gang and now Romer wants to go back to teach college students how they, too can finish the job.
These people kill me. They're sucking the life out of this great nation and yet we're treated to a daily dose of Obama claiming it's not his fault after over a year and a half and that everything is George Bush's fault.
I'm sorry, not only has Obama been in office for over a year and a half but the Democrats have controlled the House *and* the Senate for over 4 years. That makes the Democrat's Socialist agenda pretty much their mess. You can't blame it on the Republicans when they haven't had the votes for over 4 years to stop anything.
"Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!"
--The great and powerful OZ aka: Obama
Let me see if I have this straight. The American economy is in a shamble, due to Obama, Romer, Pelosi, Reid and the rest of the Democrat Hee Haw gang and now Romer wants to go back to teach college students how they, too can finish the job.
These people kill me. They're sucking the life out of this great nation and yet we're treated to a daily dose of Obama claiming it's not his fault after over a year and a half and that everything is George Bush's fault.
I'm sorry, not only has Obama been in office for over a year and a half but the Democrats have controlled the House *and* the Senate for over 4 years. That makes the Democrat's Socialist agenda pretty much their mess. You can't blame it on the Republicans when they haven't had the votes for over 4 years to stop anything.
"Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!"
--The great and powerful OZ aka: Obama
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