Tuesday - February 07, 2012
RCOB Moment
Give me a little while to write this post. In the meantime, dig the One World Socialist claptrap at this link. Maybe the Constitution isn’t as popular around the world as it once was because of the global rise of tyranny and theological despotism? That the rest of the world is sliding away from freedom even faster than we are? But no, let’s not look at that. Let’s regurgitate the Obama “fundamentally flawed” horse apples line.
‘We the People’ Loses Appeal With People Around the World
[some academic study was done comparing every constitution written from 1946 to 2006 with ours. Most were really close to ours until 1980, but it all went to hell after 2000.]
“The turn of the twenty-first century, however, saw the beginning of a steep plunge that continues through the most recent years for which we have data, to the point that the constitutions of the world’s democracies are, on average, less similar to the U.S. Constitution now than they were at the end of World War II.”
There are lots of possible reasons. The United States Constitution is terse and old, and it guarantees relatively few rights. The commitment of some members of the Supreme Court to interpreting the Constitution according to its original meaning in the 18th century may send the signal that it is of little current use to, say, a new African nation. And the Constitution’s waning influence may be part of a general decline in American power and prestige.
Gee, that’s just peachy. We’re losing all our power and prestige ... by never letting our military achieve decisive victory, weak-willed foreign policy, and apologists for leaders? Heck, who needs enemies when we’ve got our own Supreme Court?
In a television interview during a visit to Egypt last week, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the Supreme Court seemed to agree. “I would not look to the United States Constitution if I were drafting a constitution in the year 2012,” she said. She recommended, instead, the South African Constitution, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms or the European Convention on Human Rights.
Is this shriveled up old eugenicist commie still with us? Can’t we fire her for this kind of attitude?
But the Constitution is out of step with the rest of the world in failing to protect, at least in so many words, a right to travel, the presumption of innocence and entitlement to food, education and health care.
It has its idiosyncrasies. Only 2 percent of the world’s constitutions protect, as the Second Amendment does, a right to bear arms. (Its brothers in arms are Guatemala and Mexico.)
Now we come down to it! The universal red agenda, and the media’s permanent unwillingness to understand the 10th Amendment. Or the 1st for that matter. Or the 2nd. Or the 3rd, 4th, 5th, ... . “the right of the people peaceably to assemble” does not say where does it? Because it can be anywhere, which means you can go anywhere to do that. Ipso facto, the right to travel.
Presumption of innocence? The 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th Amendments are all about citizen’s rights before, during, and after trials. Half the Bill of Rights focuses on that one aspect, that most of us will never have to contend with. The 5th utterly puts paid to that “missing a presumption of innocence statement” for anyone who can actually understand what they are reading. No, it isn’t spelled out in those exact words, but you can’t get Due Process, no self-incrimination, the necessity of a Grand Jury, etc - in other words, the whole damn 5th - without it. Perhaps the world needs Reading Comprehension 101 instead of Our Annual Constitution 3.12.b? Nor should we forget that this document was written by white people descended from those who came here from England. English Common Law, The Age of Reason, and all that Natural Philosophy stuff. All of it common knowledge at that time. And that right is enshrined there, which any literate person then knew, or any literate person could know now if they made a bit of effort to learn ... because the socialists that run the state run, unconstitutionally federally funded school systems aren’t telling you.
Entitlement to food, education, and health care? Crivens. No, you’re NOT ENTITLED to any such thing in this country, at the federal level. See the catch? These are States issues. Moreover, in a truly free country, it is your right to starve, your right to be stupid, and your right to die of whatever disease you wish. The free citizen is a responsible one, not a line shuffling drone of the state looking for yet another handout.
So, if ours sucks so much, and is so out of step with the times, and so irrelevant, who’s is the model to follow? Why, Canada’s! That great socialist going-nowhere nation to the north. Holy cats.
Can we get a single lick of common sense in this article please?? Please???
… there is more to a constitution than its words, as Justice Antonin Scalia told the Senate Judiciary Committee in October. “Every banana republic in the world has a bill of rights,” he said.
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“Of course,” Justice Scalia continued, “it’s just words on paper, what our framers would have called a ‘parchment guarantee.’ ”
Antonin Scalia, FTW, gold medal. Cut through all the BS and get at the truth, John Bolton style.
If you would like more refutations against this kind of leftist drivel, read this page that covers all these “missing” parts and more. They also have a pocket Constitution for $5, in case you lent yours out. I bought one because I had to stop and look up a couple of Amendments to verify that I had the wording right. I ought to be able to quote it all, chapter and verse, and rail on by the hour on what each and every part means.
This post is for you Mr. Woods, wherever you are. (he was my 11th grade teacher for Constitutional Law, the hardest class in my high school. And just about the only one that really mattered in the long run)
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Permalink • Saturday - January 21, 2012
Hero of the Week
The only thing he could have done to make it better would have been to say “Don’t be like Obama and try to blame your mistakes on someone else.”
Never retreat, never surrender. Now let the smack-down commence.
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Permalink • Sunday - January 08, 2012
Empathy? Who has any?
Emperor Misha I has ranted…
The “Empathy” of the Loony Left
Posted by Emperor Misha I on January 7, 2012It’s Saturday, so it’s time for Steyn, who this weeks talks about the strange version of “empathy” the Prognazis employ.
You know, the kind of “empathy” that extends only to the “right” of pregnant women to exterminate their “fetuses”, but certainly not to the parents of children who died before or immediately after birth. Witness Prognazi Alan Colmes, that throwback to the darkest ages of knuckle-dragging barbarism, who had a jolly old time mocking the Santorums for “taking home their dead infant to ‘play’ with it”, followed by the equally morally repugnant stinking swine Eugene Robinson who stated that this “proved” that Santorum was not “merely” weird, but really weird.
We’ll let Steyn say it (and you really ought to go read the whole thing):
But needs must, and victory by any means necessary. In 2008, the Left gleefully mocked Sarah Palin’s live baby. It was only a matter of time before they moved on to a dead one.
We haven’t ever had to face the horror of having a child die but, as Steyn says, there but for the Grace of G-d.
The thing is, even though we’ve never had to deal with an experience and horrible as that, we still somehow manage to scrape up enough humanity and actual empathy not to piss on somebody who has gone through it. It must be that cold, indifferent, self-sufficient right wing nuttism in us, unlike the true humanitarians in the Prognazi Party who, like that lizard-faced freak mutation, Alan Colmes, couldn’t find it in himself to even apologize for something he shouldn’t have said in the first place until he’d reduced Mrs. Santorum to tears with his callous, cruel, subhuman mockery.
May Almighty G-d have mercy on his shriveled, black soul, because we won’t. He’s dead to us.
But such is the “empathy” of the Prognazis that they forever brag about and use as a contrast to us evil, indifferent, hatey haters of the right.
Where’s their empathy for the citizens living in dangrous neighborhoods who can’t defend themselves thanks to the Prognazis’ insistence that only criminals ought to be armed? Where’s their empathy with the families of victims of violent crime when they do everything they can to make sure the criminal is let out quickly to murder, maim and rape again? Where’s their empathy with poor families who will soon be unable to pay their electric bills thanks to their fascist Ogabe EPA’s war on energy production? Where’s their empathy with the millions of Americans who have lost everything, not only their jobs, thanks to their war on business?
Where’s their empathy with the coming generations of Americans who will be born with an overcharged national credit card, a debt they’ll never be able to repay, just so the Prognazis could keep on living high on the hog and charge their vote-buying, nepotistic schemes to generations not even born yet?
Yet we’re the Evil Ones.
Well, if what the Prognazis have been exhibiting for everybody to see for as long as they’ve been around is “empathy”, then they can fucking well have it. We’ll stick with our “hateful” ways and be proud of them too.
Fuck them sideways with the Shimmering, Shit-encrusted, Splintered Shillelagh of Sodom (+4 against Socialist Shits), may they be humped viciously for all eternity by the Many-headed Monster Cock of Moloch until their shredded innards run down their legs and may G-d, in his mercy, grant us all the blessing of amnesia that we may, one day, forget our sinful negligence in suffering them to walk among us unmolested.
Thatisall.
You gotta love his way with words and alliteration.
Shimmering, Shit-encrusted, Splintered Shillelagh of Sodom (+4 against Socialist Shits)
Why is it I think he misspent part of his youth playing D&D?
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Permalink • Friday - December 30, 2011
There ya go
From the beginning, Occupy Wall Street was a huge progressive political Lollapalooza, an operation supported by unions and Democrats, planned and coordinated by career anarchists, and populated by students and fellow travelers. It quickly descended into a circus, a freak show, and a crime scene.
The Obama campaign, the Democratic Party, and the media colluded in an attempt to create class war in America in the pursuit of getting President Obama re-elected and ending the momentum of limited government conservatism as embodied in the Tea Party.
READ IT ALL, in staggering detail, at Breitbart. A well done essay, indeed.
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Permalink • Thursday - December 15, 2011
Today’s Lesson: Sex Sells
‘Why I stripped on webcams to pay for my uni fees’: Woman tells how she turned to the sex industry to fund her studies
* She is forced to continue stripping because ‘there are no jobs for young people at the moment’
* One in five lapdancers are students, NUS warns
* NUS says students turning to ‘informal’ sector for cash
* Emma Green was paid £200-a-week to strip for men on webcam
That about says it all, doesn’t it? Read the rest. Savvy young business woman, or lazy skank making excuses? It’s not like she was going for a degree in particle physics.
Personally, I think she looks pretty used up for a 25 year old.
The Brit press loves to publish these “I was forced to turn tricks to pay for my school (or baby, or whatever)” stories, in a bit of socialist arm twisting, since Big Bad Government had to audacity to cut down on the education free ride a while back. Remember the riots?
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Permalink • Wednesday - December 14, 2011
Connect The Dots?
Polar bears eating their young, blame Glowball Worming!
BBC Caught Faking Polar Bear Climate Change Photos
Kind of makes me wonder.
Meanwhile, ClimateGate II continues, but I’m so sick of that nonsense I’m not even going to link to it. Ok, I’ll only link it generically, but the whole thing is a crap sandwich with more layers than you can stomach. Canada pulling out of Kyoto, Climate Change blamed for the continued desertification of the Sahel, instead of the goat based economy and the slash ‘n burn practices of the natives AND in direct opposition to the pile of reports over the past 20 years saying the area is getting greener, more data fakery from teh rubber thermometer squad, etc. The only real news from that whole darn genre is the two guys who quit their jobs as hurricane predictors because they realized they had been dead wrong every year for ages, and that the much vaunted models simply don’t work.
I’m sure that Climate Chaos™ will soon be blamed for lions, fish, scorpions, barn cats, sea birds, insects, and all other species who eat their young and always have too. Desperate idiots. Take their keyboards away, they’re a danger to the rest of us.
On the other hand, there may actually be some good news hiding in there somewhere regarding the cannibalism bit, and I think Global Werming should take the blame.
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Permalink • Thursday - December 08, 2011
Oh Yeah? Says You!
What a load of crap ... defining the indefinable by demanding it meet the big business old media standards.
A federal judge in Oregon has ruled that a Montana woman sued for defamation was not a journalist when she posted online that an Oregon lawyer acted criminally during a bankruptcy case, a decision with implications for bloggers around the country.
Crystal L. Cox, a blogger from Eureka, Mont., was sued for defamation by attorney Kevin Padrick when she posted online that he was a thug and a thief during the handling of bankruptcy proceedings by him and Obsidian Finance Group LLC.
U.S. District Judge Marco Hernandez found last week that as a blogger, Cox was not a journalist and cannot claim the protections afforded to mainstream reporters and news outlets.
The judge ruled that Cox was not protected by Oregon’s shield law from having to produce sources, saying even though Cox defines herself as media, she was not affiliated with any mainstream outlet. He added that the shield law does not apply to civil actions for defamation.
Hernandez said Cox was not a journalist because she offered no professional qualifications as a journalist or legitimate news outlet. She had no journalism education, credentials or affiliation with a recognized news outlet, proof of adhering to journalistic standards such as editing or checking her facts, evidence she produced an independent product or evidence she ever tried to get both sides of the story.
Cox said she considered herself a journalist, producing more than 400 blogs over the past five years, with a proprietary technique to get her postings on the top of search engines where they get the most notice.
Blow it out your ass, blackrobe. The only thing that defines a journalist is that he or she keeps a journal; some kind of note taking with added writing done on a fairly regular basis. Belonging to Big Media is not part of the definition, nor is having a degree in the subject. Anyone can write, given even the most basic level of teaching that government education provides. Receiving payment for your work is not a factor either.
I think the smarter move would be to take a closer look at the so-called shield laws. IMO, journalists should have no greater protection against libel or hearsay than anyone else, though the contrapositive of that is that we are all journalists as needs be. No rule says that keeping a journal must be a lifetime endeavor; two entries is enough, right? Given the ability of an online video, post, picture, or expression to “go viral”, you can’t argue about dissemination bandwidth being a necessary aspect either: sure, the NYT may sell 3 million papers a day (AS IF), but a hot post can garner 20 million hits in a week or more.
So is a person who puts up 2 Tweets thus a journalist? Why not?
On the third hand, if shield laws extend to everyone, which seems fair to me in our classless equality society, then the libel laws are going to take a one way trip to the outhouse. So what differentiates a journalist from a propagandist? [Nothing if they work for MSNBC or CBS, right?] I can’t say; AFAIK there is no hurdle, no standard, that says what you put out there has to be at least 50.00001% provably true. If there was, the UK’s Guardian would be out of business overnight!
Sure, Old Media, the MSM, would LOVE to have such a ruling stick. It would eliminate the competition that is killing them. Well, it would at least give them a hammer to wield; smart people would still get their news and read opposing opinions on topics online.
[plaintiff] Padrick said the case showed how vulnerable anyone was to someone with a computer. He said he has lost business from potential clients who search his name and firm through Google and find Cox’s postings at the top of the list, adding that he has no way to remove them.
“If anyone can self-proclaim themselves to be media, the concept of media is rendered worthless,” Padrick said. “When everyone is media, the concept of media is gone.”
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Kyu Ho Youm, a First Amendment expert and journalism professor at the University of Oregon, called the judge’s strict definition of a journalist “outdated” since so-called citizen journalists currently outnumber traditional journalists.
“When we talk about the shield law, we should pay more attention to the function people are doing than whether people are connected to traditional and established news media,” he said.
Hey, how about that? I figured out and wrote about both sides of the issue without even reading that part of the article until afterwards. Gosh, wouldn’t having the conceptual awareness of the underlying issues and the ability to analyze them make me more of a professional journalist? I think so! 
I think both Padrick AND Youm are correct together: there is actually no such thing as a journalist any longer, because we all are, or easily can be, journalists. Therefore either there should be no shield laws (a lessening of freedom) or universal shield law (an enlarging of freedom). In general, the only SCOTUS decisions I’m in favor of are the ones that expand the rights of the individual.
On the fourth hand, an apt vector for the fourth estate, perhaps op-eds should have sub sago (under the blanket) protection. It’s an opinion after all, right? And everyone has at least one of those. Would “journalists” have to label such writing with the proper categorical tag to be protected? From a technical perspective, would we have to create and use a new XHTML tag to do such identification it for us, like [op-ed]Obama is a sissy-boy lying Kenyan Communist[/op-ed]? Or could we modern digital journalists get away with assuming that our readers were intelligent enough to be able to tell reporting from opinion? [sarcasm]As if.[/sarcasm]
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Permalink • Wednesday - November 23, 2011
UK Does Something Right
Sorry for the pandering bias, but the article is from MSNBC ...
Racist much there?
An effigy of Barack Obama was burned by members of a Conservative party college student association in Scotland, after its committee chose the U.S. president over the late Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi, a student official told msnbc.com.
The incident took place on a beach in St. Andrews on Friday as part of a tradition by the University of St. Andrews Conservative Association that has seen effigies of former U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown burned and former South African President Nelson Mandela hung among others.
Some kind of Burning Man thing I guess. Don’t they do this every year, and toasted Clinton the same way some years ago maybe?
A source told msnbc.com that a number of the committee members were Americans who support the Republican party.
Oh sure. Because they can find a real live breathing Conservative in bloody Scotland. Where even the “right wingers” are Socialists. Sure, uh huh. But if we can’t Blame Bush, we’ll take the next closest thing. OK, now watch the slobbering media get it’s soiled panties in a righteous twist cuz Mr. Toasty was Fearless Reader.
St. Andrews University, which was founded in 1413 and says it is the third oldest university in the English-speaking world, said it planned to speak to the Conservative group about the “very understandable concerns” over the incident.
In a telephone interview, Patrick O’Hare, a student official, said the Students’ Representative Council had voted by 13 to 2 Tuesday night in favor of a motion that burning effigies of public figures was not constructive.
O’Hare described the burning as “immature” and “potentially very offensive,” particularly as the effigy was of “America’s first black president.”
Five candidates to burn
He said he had been told by a person in a position to know that a vote had been taken by the Conservative group’s committee “as to who they would burn.”He told msnbc.com the identity of the source but provided the information on the basis that the person was not identified.
“There were five candidates including Gadhafi,” O’Hare said. “It was decided upon — perversely democratically — that Obama was the one who was going to burn.”
O’Hare is president of the Students’ Association, of which the Conservative group is a member along with left-wing and other political societies.
St. Andrews University issued a brief comment in an email. “We are aware of reports of this incident and have asked to meet the society president to discuss the very understandable concerns which these reports have raised. Until that meeting has taken place, it would be inappropriate to make further comment,” the statement said.
And on and on. They’re practically wetting themselves with remorse.
[Drew flips through dictionary ... whaddya mean “Effigy” is a thing, not a place. Aw nutz! Hey, wait a second, it says here an effigy is a straw man, a stand-in for the real thing. Um, so does that mean the POTUS is dead?]
The BEEB also covered this story, calling it an ACT OF HATE.
Nobody ran the pictures. You KNOW the pictures exist. When TOTUS gets lit up in Effigy, Afghanistan, we get the picture. When Shiites go at it, we get the picture. When radical militant Hindus light him, we get the picture. NOBODY is running the picture. This is as close as it gets:
Tory Society also repeatedly torched Nelson Mandela
Nothing to see here, move along. No pics mean it didn’t happen, and will soon be forgotten. So here’s a pic of Prince William and Kate, both St. Andrews alumni. Aren’t they a cute couple? Stare at the cut couple. Think only about the cute couple.
Obama? Whozzat?
Effigy? Never been there.
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Permalink • Thursday - October 13, 2011
ToDaze Comic
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Permalink • Thursday - September 22, 2011
Better Late Than Never
Georgia executed Troy Davis on Wednesday night for the murder of an off-duty police officer, a crime he denied committing right to the end as supporters around the world mourned and declared that an innocent man was put to death.
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Davis was declared dead at 11:08 p.m. The lethal injection began about 15 minutes earlier, after the Supreme Court rejected an 11th-hour request for a stay.
“Justice has been served for Officer Mark MacPhail and his family,” state Attorney General Sam Olens said in a statement.
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Hundreds of thousands of people signed petitions on Davis’ behalf, and prominent supporters included an ex-president and an ex-FBI director, liberals and conservatives. His attorneys said seven of nine key witnesses against him disputed all or parts of their testimony, but state and federal judges repeatedly ruled against him—three times on Wednesday alone.
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Davis’ supporters staged vigils in the U.S. and Europe, declaring “I am Troy Davis” on signs, T-shirts and the Internet. Some tried increasingly frenzied measures, urging prison workers to stay home and even posting a judge’s phone number online, hoping people will press him to put a stop to the lethal injection. President Barack Obama deflected calls for him to get involved.
“They say death row; we say hell no!” protesters shouted outside the Jackson prison before Davis was executed. In Washington, a crowd outside the Supreme Court yelled the same chant.
I am not familiar with the details of this case at all, but if what Ann Coulter writes about it is even reasonably accurate, they had him dead to rights.
It’s nearly impossible to receive a death sentence these days—unless you do something completely crazy like shoot a cop in full view of dozens of witnesses in a Burger King parking lot, only a few hours after shooting at a passing car while exiting a party.
That’s what Troy Davis did in August 1989. Davis is the media’s current baby seal of death row.
After a two-week trial with 34 witnesses for the state and six witnesses for the defense, the jury of seven blacks and five whites took less than two hours to convict Davis of Officer Mark MacPhail’s murder, as well as various other crimes. Two days later, the jury sentenced Davis to death.
Now, a brisk 22 years after Davis murdered Officer MacPhail, his sentence will finally be administered this week—barring any more of the legal shenanigans that have kept taxpayers on the hook for Davis’ room and board for the past two decades.
It has been claimed—in The New York Times and Time magazine, for example—that there was no “physical evidence” connecting Davis to the crimes that night.
Davis pulled out a gun and shot two strangers in public. What “physical evidence” were they expecting? No houses were broken into, no cars stolen, no rapes or fistfights accompanied the shootings. Where exactly would you look for DNA? And to prove what?
I suppose it would be nice if the shell casings from both shootings that night matched. Oh wait—they did. That’s “physical evidence.”
Now the media claim that seven of the nine witnesses against Davis at trial have recanted.
First of all, the state presented 34 witnesses against Davis—not nine—which should give you some idea of how punctilious the media are about their facts in death penalty cases.
I guess the news story quoted here, from Fox News, is their liberal bias shining through, what with them being all “fair and balanced”. 34 witnesses not 9? Oh, uh huh, “key” witnesses ... more important than the other ones ... and the “key” part is decided by whom? Riiiiiight. Crivens, the guy’s own friends saw him do it and testified as much. And the shell casings from both shootings matched. And Davis himself disallowed the recant testimony of 2 of those waffling witnesses!
I think this may be another case of blacks being above the law because they are black, and therefore allowed to get away with anything (like OJ) because other blacks were mistreated in the past. Therefore even arresting one is raaaaaacist. Um, no, that’s not how it works. But wait! Hold on a second!
With death penalty opponents so fixated on Davis’ race—he’s black—it ought to be noted that all the above witnesses are themselves African-American. The first man Davis shot in the car that night was African-American.
Now that makes a whole new kettle of fish, doesn’t it? Or does it? Black guy commits a crime against another black guy, a whole passel of black people witness it and testify, and the jury who convicts him is more than half black. Guess we’ve got to put the Race Card back in the deck until next time. Ah, if only it was Oprah Winfrey pointing all this out, instead of lily white fish belly pale Ann Coulter. Then it would all be Ok, right?
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Permalink • Thursday - September 15, 2011
Oh Shut Up Already
Funny how the whole world knows that all of today’s youth couches nearly everything they say in derisive sarcasm, thinking that they’re being superlatively ironic. Yet such acts are taken at face value when it serves Chairman Oh’s cause.
“Audience at Tea Party Debate Cheers Leaving Uninsured To Die” By Rachel Rose Hartman, Political Reporter | The Ticket – Tue, Sep 13, 2011If you’re uninsured and on the brink of death, that’s apparently a laughing matter to some audience members at last night’s tea party Republican presidential debate.
Texas Rep. Ron Paul, a doctor, was asked a hypothetical question by CNN host Wolf Blitzer about how society should respond if a healthy 30-year-old man who decided against buying health insurance suddenly goes into a coma and requires intensive care for six months. Paul--a fierce limited-government advocate-- said it shouldn’t be the government’s responsibility. “That’s what freedom is all about, taking your own risks,” Paul said and was drowned out by audience applause as he added, “this whole idea that you have to prepare to take care of everybody …”
“Are you saying that society should just let him die?” Blitzer pressed Paul. And that’s when the audience got involved.
Several loud cheers of “yeah!” followed by laughter could be heard in the Expo Hall at the Florida State Fairgrounds in response to Blitzer’s question.
Paul disagreed with the audience on that front. “No,” he responded, noting he practiced medicine before Medicaid when churches took care of medical costs--a comment that drew wide audience applause. “We never turned anybody away from the hospital.”
Conservative Andrew Sullivan writing for The Daily Beast’s The Dish Tuesday noted that the United States obligates society to save someone in an emergency room. “America, moreover, has a law on the books that makes it a crime not to treat and try to save a human being who walks into an emergency room. So we have already made that collective decision and if the GOP wants to revisit it, they can,” Sullivan wrote.
Sullivan also decried the audience reaction, writing: “Maybe a tragedy like the death of a feckless twentysomething is inevitable if we are to restrain healthcare costs. But it is still a tragedy. It is not something a decent person cheers.”
Wow, what a weak-ass Appeal To Authority. And since when is leftist swisher Andrew Sullivan a Conservative? He’s about as conservative as Charles Johnson at LGF is these days: NOT.
Talk about media bias. This is just as twisted in it’s own projectionist way as Obama’s jack booted AttackWatch site, his latest creepy, authoritarian nutjob Fight the Smears, rat out your neighbors, CCCP inspired horseshit campaign, which is of course directly linked to a sub page that spreads smears against the Right. Hey, isn’t that ironic???
What a turd. Who, Obama or Hartman? Yes.
I can’t be bothered to fisk the pants off of this bit of garbage and it’s author, so I’ll hand the task over to the pros(e). Here’s Ann:
Liberals are on their high horses about a single audience member at CNN’s Republican debate whom they believe wanted a hypothetical man without health insurance in a hypothetical coma to die—hypothetically.
(Democrats want people in comas to die only when they are not hypothetical but real, like Terri Schiavo.)
I concur with the audience member who shouted “Yes!” This has nothing to do with any actual people in comas—the people Democrats want to kill—it’s just a big “screw you” to the moderator.
Following up on Brian Williams’ showboating questions at last week’s Republican debate about the execution of the innocent and starving children with distended stomachs, this week, CNN’s Wolf Blitzer launched his question about an imaginary comatose man without health insurance.
As Rep. Ron Paul began to discuss the pitfalls of collectivism, Blitzer kept interrupting him, concluding with, “But Congressman, are you saying that society should just let him die?”
That’s when an audience member yelled out “Yes!”—allowing liberals to luxuriate in self-righteousness, the likes of which we have not seen since the Jersey Girls demanded a Homeland Security Department be created because their husbands died.
Normal people are sick of liberals’ emotional stories that play to soccer moms, but always seem to pave the way for disastrous social policies that benefit only left-wing special-interest groups.
Someone ought to calculate the carnage liberals foisted on this country beginning in the late-’60s with their “compassionate” approach to rapists and serial killers like McDuff—consequences that liberals were fully immunized from in their safe, ivory tower neighborhoods. Let’s ask Michael Dukakis to run the numbers.
Regarding Williams’ baby seal question about starving children in Texas with distended stomachs: No one is starving in this country. The only bloated stomach problem affecting America’s poor is a medical condition known as “obesity.”
According to the General Accounting Office, in 2008, the federal government had 18 separate food programs that spent $62.5 billion each year to feed the poor. And that was before the Food Stamp President assumed office.
I would venture to guess that the only children in America who have ever suffered from kwashiorkor, the condition that causes distended bellies, were victims of child abuse—at the hands of the sort of monsters Williams is so opposed to executing.
People aren’t buying the left’s emotional appeals about imaginary victims anymore. The audience member’s “Yes!” was a way of laughing in the moderators’ faces for trying to pull that crap.
PS - What is wrong with the GOP and their bringing in uber-leftists to moderate their debates? Wolf Blitzer? Oh puh-lease. Wassamatter, they couldn’t get Dan Rather? Was there no translator available for Fidel Castro? Michael Moore out of town? Crivens.
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Permalink • Saturday - August 13, 2011
Who writes this crap?
First, the good news;
After eight days on the lam, the Dougherty Gang are trapped on the side of the road, their car nearly flipped on a speed break, with flashing police car lights all around. In a futile attempt to escape, Grace Dougherty runs through a dusty Colorado field, a Walsenberg police officer on her heels. She turns to shoot, but the cop’s bullet hits her leg first. The mayhem ends.
Well and good. I’m glad the officer shot the bitch. She posted on her Flickr profile:
I’m 28 but act like I’m 17 most of the time. I love to farm and shoot guys…
Truly the girlfriend from Hell.
What got me PO’d about the article was this:
Five hours later two masked men and a woman matching their description burst into a bank in Valdosta, Ga. brandishing automatic weapons.
Automatic weapons? I highly doubt it. Note that the writer doesn’t identify what kind of weapons were brandished. Semi-auto pistols? Semi-auto rifles? But full-fledged machine guns? Not likely.
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Pay No Attention to the DB behind the curtain
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Permalink • Friday - May 06, 2011
Worst Headline of the Day
Hello to anyone not completely brain dead. What does that headline mean to you?
To me, it is a 100% blatant statement that the news about the impending raid on bin Laden’s compound was leaked. That the most ultra secret, best hidden, only-6-people-in-the-whole-government-knew plan personally engineered by the Great I Am, greatest surprise action in this administration’s history not only got out of the bag, but got to our enemies; that perhaps only a few hours or even minutes separated a Killer Coup from another Carter Disaster.
That isn’t what the story is about. Not at all.
The death of Osama Bin Laden has dealt a serious blow to Al Qaeda recruitment and has diminished the organization’s capability, Asa Hutchinson, former Under Secretary of Homeland Security told CNBC on Wednesday.
Hutchinson said with the operation, carried out by US forces, the US has proven it can and will fight the war on terrorism.
“You think about this being the command center,” Hutchinson said. “Their capability has been diminished …the benefits from this will come over the next year.”
It would also help to limit recruitment for the terrorist organization, he said, as potential fighters might wonder whether they were “going to wind up having breakfast with a navy seal”.
Talk about irresponsible journalism. We’ll ignore completely the obvious facts: a) we probably have no way of keeping tabs on how many splodeydopes sign up for AQ on a weekly or even monthly basis, and b) seeing as OBL got offed less than a week ago, it’s far too soon to be able to spot any kind of trend even if we did have perfect data on a).
No, let’s talk instead about a misquote so wanton that not even “fake but accurate” fits the picture. Undersecretary Hutchinson said nothing of the kind. The only “warning” that could possibly come out of his remarks would be to potential AQ recruits, and potential recruits are just that: not yet members. Not part of Al Qaeda. Raggies merely thinking about being wannabes. Even the context is pretty stupid: AQ leadership has been shown to be one of the world’s most risky jobs for years and years now, as our guys pop them with decent regularity. Knocking off the top goat sucker is just one more deader in the sack. Any potential recruit who hasn’t figured this out by now probably needs a suicide belt labeled “this side towards infidels”. So the “warning” isn’t even a warning, it’s such old news that it’s merely the de facto situation: join us, and you’ll most likely die. OTOH, nuclear DUH moment: that’s why these losers sign up, right? They want to die. They want to achieve martyrdom. Their lives suck so bad that being dead has to be an improvement, whether that gets them 72 raisins or not.
Antonia van de Velde, the CNBC Associate Web Producer who wrote this crap, ought to be terminated. Oooh, I must have just made a warning! “Blogger makes death threats against CNBC!!!” Geez Louise. No, you idiots, all I’m saying is that if your authors have such poor writing abilities and such a drive to provide sensationalist headlines that they are willing to make up BS out of whole cloth, then they should not be working for anything close to a respectable news organization. (which is my opinion of CNBC: close to, but not really, a respectable news organization) What’s next? “Osama bin Laden was secret time travelling love child between Bat Boy and Natalee Holloway, raised by the ghost of Elvis”??
Turn in your press pass van de Velde: TOTAL FAIL.
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