Friday - October 30, 2009
Obama loses even at NPR
White House 29%
Survey tries to see which side people are on. People respond more than 3 to 1 in favor of the news network. And this is a poll on NPR, where all the cool metro-liberals hang out.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2009/10/in_white_house_vs_fox_news_war.html
Why not stop in, vote for your fav, and add to the nearly 1000 comments?
I wish Fox was better. I wish they did more reporting and less talking heads yap fests. I wish they would expand their circle of stories instead of repeating the same 10 things all day long. After all, they’re on 24 hours a day. It’s not like they don’t have time. If they could do coverage like ITN World News, even for just 30 minutes 4 times a day, it would be great.
And while they do seem to be the only network questioning what goes on in DC, in general they are still days behind the internet. And please, give away Geraldo. Gak.
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Permalink • Friday - October 23, 2009
In A Class Of His Own
Media bias much? Nah, couldn’t be.
The American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME) has done their annual magazine cover awards. To cover the thousands and thousands of magazines out there, they have 11 different categories. Celebrity & Entertainment. Fashion & Beauty. House & Home.
This year there is a 12th category. Just for Obama. Because he’s that special.
[via NewsBusters.org]:
The Magazine Publishers of America’s American Society of Magazine Editors has added a category to its annual magazine cover awards: Obama. This new category is the only ASME category focused on a single person, and highlights the reverential attitude for the President widely held in the magazine publishing community.
Gak. So, Ok, fine. Big deal. There’s a category for Obama. WTH, he’s been on the cover of almost every single issue of NewsWeak since July 2008. So they picked a Best Obama cover winner. It makes a certain kind of sense, as the Wall Street Journal points out:
The more we thought about it, though, the more this made sense to us. Given how amazingly super President Obama is, there is a temptation to give him every award for everything. Example: It’s hard to imagine that anyone will end up deserving the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize more than Obama will, but if the Norwegian Nobel Committee gives Obama the prize every year, no one else will have any incentive to work for peace. Solution: create two separate prizes, the Nobel Peace Prize and the Nobel Non-Obama Peace Prize. Problem solved!
The separation of Obama awards from others would allow him to get his due, while making it possible for people besides Obama to get some recognition once in a while. Other people, after all, sometimes are worthy too--just not worthy of Obama.
But when you bring that kind of moxie to the table, that level of photographic art, that amount of power, grace, and humility, that much sheer perfection ... is there any doubt who the overall Cover of the Year award is going to?
No doubts at all. And you can’t say he didn’t deserve this one. Although Obama will always be the winner of the Obama category.
Media bias? There’s no steenkin’ media bias! They’re just utterly, totally, slavishly in love with him. Perfectly natural and normal. No different than a 11 year old girl and her pop idol crush of the week. They’re all illuminated by the rays of glory reflected off this unique and wonderful lightworker.
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Permalink • Monday - October 05, 2009
THIS IS A MUST WATCH, PLEASE CATCH THE LINK. THERE ISN’T ANY EMBED AVAILABLE
http://www.pjtv.com/?cmd=video&video-id=2343
I’m not clear on which of these will work okay, so sending what was sent to me. There’s a bit of silly nonsense at the beginning runs less then a minute, and then the program starts. This is very well done and while much is familiar, oh hell. check out the link(s) and let me know what you think.
This “PajamasTV” is a great place for commentary. Check it out!
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Permalink • Sunday - September 06, 2009
Germany Avoids Criticizing Radical Islam & Radical … Germans have sure lost it ….
This is another one of those very long reads.
Don’t know as I could do better and most likely not. It’s an important issue BUT ... I do wish they could make these things shorter.
Which is not to say that it isn’t worth reading. It sure is.
Apologists throughout history have never achieved anything. They have at most strengthened the forces of evil and delayed their demise. Biased economic success is temporary. It is built on sand. Only human rationale is solid and eternal.
Germany Avoids Criticizing Radical Islam & Radical ...By Sami Alrabaa
The German media and some German public figures are soft, too soft, on radical Islam and avoid critics and critique of this violent “religion.” The audio-visual media invite only uncritical talking heads. The print media publish only articles by apologists of Islam. Here are some examples:
The recent confession of the four Muslim terrorists, also called the “Suaerland Group,” who were planning to kill as many Americans in Germany as they could, was hailed by the judge, state prosecutor, and the media. The devastating terrorist attack prepared by these men was foiled from a tip by the CIA, which the German media depict as not abiding by the law and acting against human rights.
The German media and some German politicians hailed the confession and deliberately ignored the ideological/religious sources of their attack, namely the Koran and Hadith, which incite Muslims to kill non-Muslims.
In an interview with Al Arabiya TV (August 16th), Daniel Cohn-Bendit, a leading politician of the Green Party in the European Parliament, presented radical Muslims as “part of a socio-political religious movement across the world, like the RAF, the German terrorist group we had in the 1970s.”
Cohn-Bendit argued that a dialogue with radical Muslims must be established, also with the Taliban. He reminded his interviewer that he (Cohn-Bendit) and the former German foreign minister Joschka Fischer used to sympathize with the RAF. They took to the street and threw stones on the police. “As the Green Party was established as a radical social ecological movement, I joined the party. Little by little, the Green party was accepted by the German political establishment, and now it is a full-fledged political party.” Cohn-Bendit added.
Also, Cohn-Bendit praised Turkey for reconciling Islam with democracy.
The truth of the matter, the AKP, the Islamic party that is ruling Turkey is slowly but steadily Islamizing Turkey. It is also true that Islam is against democracy and formation of parties. Both the Koran and Hadith reject democracy and the formation of political parties. According to a recent poll, the ultimate aim of Islamic Turkey is Sharia, and this what the majority of Turks inside and outside turkey want to see established.
To add insult to injury, Cohn-Bendit said the maiming and killing of innocent people “has nothing to do with Islam.” And radical Muslims are fighting a justice war against their oppressors. He also argued that foreign troops must leave Afghanistan and Iraq and “leave the people of these nations in peace.”
In other words, fanatic Muslim regimes in Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia must be left alone, rule against human rights and export terrorisms. Hence Cohn-Bendit and his ilk have joined the Muslim chaplains on Muslim media.
Further, Cohn-Bendit suggested that Islam “be modernized and can be modernized, like all other religions.”
Cohn-Bendit’s “arguments” about Islam is merely wishful thinking. Radical Muslims strongly believe that the Koran – which includes numerous passages that are diametrically opposed to modern human rights – is the “word of Allah.” They are also convinced that Sharia, which primarily includes the Koran, must be introduced everywhere. Appeasing radical Muslims implies ultimately accepting their Sharia. And “modernizing Islam will eventually lead to scraping the Koran or reducing it to a few pages, something which radical Muslims vehemently refuse.
Contributions of critics of radical Islam are rejected by German media. For example, The German daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung published on July 10, 2009, an article by Alaa Al-Aswani in which he twists facts and argues that the West is ill-informed and biased toward Islam. “Westerners are misinformed about Islam, therefore they hate Islam and hate Muslims,” Al-Aswani says.
Read all of it here >> EUROPE NEWS
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Permalink • Wednesday - August 19, 2009
E.D. Hill, found at last
Remember the horrible E.D. Hill “disaster” on Fox News? She used to have her own show on that network. Then one day, early June 2008, she was reading the teleprompter, doing the teaser for an upcoming segment. That segment was for one of their famous “body language” pieces, and the body language to be analyzed was the Obama’s dap. You know, this one:
So she reads the teleprompter, which says “what is that? Is that some kind of terrorist thing?” (or words to that effect). Because, you know, who would ever make that association?
and then the excrement impacted the oscillator at high lateral velocity. The rabid left screamed for her head, even though they wouldn’t be caught dead watching Fox News. Within a couple days E.D. was on TV, apologizing for doing her job, which is to be pretty and read aloud what it says on the teleprompter:
But to no avail. E.D. was thrown under the bus. Her show was canceled instantly, and she was off the air. Never to be seen from again. Such stalwart lions of journalism they have at FoxNews, standing behind their people to the bitter end. NOT.
Well, it turns out that E.D. Hill kept her job at Fox for a few more months, until her contract ran out. And then, when nobody was looking, they gave her the boot.
E.D. Hill, Fox Contract Not Renewed. Fired Over Obama Comment?
November 19, 2008
TVNewser has an exclusive on the final fate of invisible Fox personality E.D. Hill today. Fox has decided not to renew E.D.’s contract, so she will be finally leaving the Fox News Channel after being off the air since June.
Some may remember the left-media storm targeting E. D. Hill that occurred back on June 6 when she off handedly said that Barack and Michelle’s on stage fist bump was a “terrorist fist jab.” The Huffington Post and Media Matters raised a storm of protest and soon after, E.D. Hill lost her Fox show.
Well, it seems to have taken some time, but as TVNewser reports Fox has announced they are not going to renew Hill’s contract when it expires early in 2009.
That was back in November. Her contract was up in January. Where is she now? As of May 1st, she’s doing internet radio. From Sandy Springs Georgia, a suburb of Atlanta.
E.D. Hill formerly with Fox News and co-host of Fox & Friends for many years will begin hosting live Good Morning with E.D. Hill on http://www.americaswebradio.com and http://www.radiosandysprings.com beginning Tuesday May 5, 2009 from 8:00 AM to 9:00 AM Tuesdays and Thursdays initially.
E.D. brings her vast experience, knowledge, humor, views, comments and talent to America’s Web Radio. Topics will range from current events to raising kids with guests and as much fun as is possible in the incredible mix only on America’s Web Radio.
I’m sure it was one hell of a pay cut too.
I miss E.D. She has guts and brains, and never put up with a lot of BS. And I wish her all the best with her new audience. Both listeners. But I’m taking a page from Demure Jen and sending out a Daily Fuck You to Fox News. Bunch of cowards.
E.D’s most recent shows are archived here and can be downloaded.
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Permalink • Friday - August 14, 2009
GAK
Rolling Stone magazine enlists 3 “leading political observers” - David Gergen, Paul Krugman and Michael Moore - to take an unbiased look at how our new Fearless Reader is doing.
To assess Obama’s performance during his first six months in office, we sat down in our New York offices with three of America’s leading political observers. David Gergen, a senior political analyst for CNN and director of the Center for Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School, served in the White Houses of Nixon, Ford, Reagan and Clinton. Paul Krugman, a New York Times columnist and professor of economics and international affairs at Princeton University, won the 2008 Nobel Prize in economics. Michael Moore is the Academy Award-winning director of Bowling for Columbine and Sicko; his new film, Capitalism: A Love Story, will premiere on October 2nd.
Sure, I’ll buy that. Because the magazine cover art isn’t pushing any sort of message or anything, right?
Read a little excerpt here, or go plunk down your money and buy the issue. Sure to be a collector’s item someday!
if you find your eyes are burning just looking at that, I have another picture below the fold that you might prefer. It’s nearly as puke inducing, but in this ONE case, you may actually prefer it. But be warned, and have emergency eye rinse handy.
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Permalink • Monday - August 10, 2009
OH LOOK THERE … A NAZI CAR. BNP opposition never stops even when the claim is false.
I was planning on closing for the night. Been a very long day. But then I caught this story and just had to post it as an example of the kind of BS we find so often.
The fellow in question is a member of the BNP. Considered to be a far right and Lyndon might even call a fascist party. I’m not questioning any of that.
But look how far the opposition is willing to go in their efforts to stifle this group. Or make a case against one of their leaders where there is no case at all.
Attack em on their platform. Show others where and why they’re wrong. Make public in print factual statements of the BNP if you want to show them up.
But this sort of invention of an issue is so bogus it defies description. And it’s so typical of so called liberal critics.
The license plate on the car this guy bought a few years ago came with the car. It is not a vanity plate. Ah but .... an opposition councilor happened to see the plate and naturally screamed .. N A Z I !
That’s what gets me. Where? Where does this plate say Nazi? Even the newspaper headline is very misleading.
Misleading ? It’s BOGUS!
The BNP councillor who drives a car with ‘Nazi’ number plate
A senior British National Party member has infuriated his opponents by driving in a car with a number plate that resembles the word ‘Nazi’.
BNP councillor Julian Leppert arrives at meetings in his black Ford Focus with a registration NA51 ZCY.
But the rising star of the far-right wing party insists he had no idea the number plate looked like ‘Nazi’.
Cr Leppert insisted that it was not a personalised number plate. ‘I needed to buy a car in a hurry a couple of years ago and found one for sale online.
‘The number plate was blacked out so it wasn’t until I arrived to pay that I saw it.’ Julian Leppert joined the BNP in 2003 and won a seat on Redbridge Council
He said had he known, he ‘probably would never have bought it’.
‘I am planning to sell the car now as the other councillors seem to want to make a political point. I find that pretty cheap,’ Cr Leppert told the Daily Mirror.
But opposition councillor Veronica Cole was not impressed.
‘When I first saw the number plate on his car I couldn’t believe my eyes. It is sickening and appalling,’ she told the newspaper.
Now I don’t know about you folks out there but as far as I’m concerned, I can see thru this slag Cr. Cole like a window. She’s was looking for something and she thought she found it. An issue. I don’t believe she thinks it’s “sickening” or “appalling.” I think she thinks she’s discovered a club with which to batter a BNP leader. Period.
The 42-year-old postman from Loughton, Essex, joined the BNP in 2003. He was later elected to represent Hainault ward on Redbridge Council.
In 2004 he stood as the party’s London Mayoral candidate against Ken Livingstone.
He said in a speech: ‘I don’t care about being called names or being called politically incorrect. I have to stand up and tell the truth because my country is at stake.’
When BNP leader Nick Griffin was attacked by anti-fascists throwing eggs during his visit to London in June, the loyal Mr Leppert stepped in to shield him.
Here’s what one commenter has had to say with regard to that number plate. It’s quite instructive.
N = North
A = Newcastle
51 = Year 2001So, a large number of cars registered in newcastle in 2001, will have the prefix NA51 and most people wouldn’t have made the connection to the word Nazi. Opposition councillor Veronica Cole is an idiot.
I am not a BNP supporter.
- Matt, Sussex, 10/8/2009 11:34
If the opposition to this party can’t do better then this, if they can’t do better then throwing eggs at an elected (legally) official, and if they can’t find a better way then shouting down their opposition and not allowing them the free speech they claim for themselves, then the BNP in the end will prosper.
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Permalink • Friday - July 24, 2009
On Cronkite
A Post For Peiper
JayD, this article extends the email I sent you, along with the post over at Vilmar’s.
So, to use his own words, was Walter Cronkite an honorable journalist who did the best he could?
No. What may—may—have resulted from forgivable misimpressions due to the “fog of war” long ago crystallized into obdurate lies. Cronkite never clarified the record, never admitted that the Tet offensive—the Vietcong’s surprise holiday attack on cities across South Vietnam—resulted in a military and political fiasco for North Vietnam.
This was becoming apparent even before the dust had settled in 1968, as we learn in Peter Braestrup’s indispensable “The Big Story”, one of the signal historical works of the 20th century, which meticulously analyzes the media’s failure to assess Tet correctly as a defeat for North Vietnam. Even Leftist journalist Frances Fitzgerald in her Pulitzer Prize-winning “Fire in the Lake” reported that Tet had “seriously depleted” Vietcong forces and “wiped out” many of their “most experienced cadres,” noting that such losses drove “the southern movement for the first time into almost total dependency on the north.” Her conclusion: “By all the indices available to the American military, the Tet offensive was a major defeat for the enemy.”
And so be it. The president lost Cronkite, the United States lost Vietnam. But why are the rest of us still stuck with Cronkite’s Orwellian packaging as “America’s most trusted newsman” 41 years after he totally and calamitously and obstinately blew Tet? The ongoing genuflection before “Uncle Walter” reveals something mighty weird about this body politic—something beyond the ken of a mere journalist, something more in the line of work of a really good shrink.
As for the “secretly gay” thing ... well, you can search on that if you want. I clearly remember him “coming out” or at least being “outed” some years ago. Or was it the “outies” just wishing really hard?
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Permalink • Wednesday - July 15, 2009
A Soldier’s Take on Michael Jackson
This is written by a young soldier serving his third tour of duty in Iraq. Thought you might find his take on the Michael Jackson news interesting and he’s right.
Okay, I need to rant.
- Carole
I was just watching the news, and I caught part of a report on Michael Jackson. As we all know, Jackson died the other day. He was an entertainer who performed for decades. He made millions, he spent millions, and he did a lot of things that make him a villain to many people. I understand that his death would affect a lot of people, and I respect those people who mourn his death, but that isn’t the point of my rant.
Why is it that when ONE man dies, the whole of America loses their minds with grief. When a man dies whose only contribution to the country was to ENTERTAIN people, the American people find the need to flock to a memorial in Hollywood, and even Congress sees the need to hold a “moment of silence” for his passing?
Am I missing something here? ONE man dies, and all of a sudden he’s a freaking martyr because he entertained us for a few decades? What about all those SOLDIERS who have died to give us freedom? All those Soldiers who, knowing that they would be asked to fight in a war, still raised their hands and swore to defend the Constitution and the United States of America. Where is their moment of silence? Where are the people flocking to their graves or memorials and mourning over them because they made the ultimate sacrifice? Why is it when a Soldier dies, there are more people saying “good riddance,” and “thank God for IEDs?” When did this country become so calloused to the sacrifice of GOOD MEN and WOMEN, that they can arbitrarily blow off their deaths, and instead, throw themselves into mourning for a “Pop Icon?”
I think that if they are going to hold a moment of silence IN CONGRESS for Michael Jackson, they need to hold a moment of silence for every service member killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. They need to PUBLICLY recognize every life that has been lost so that the American people can live their callous little lives in the luxury and freedom that WE, those that are living and those that have gone on, have provided for them. But, wait, that would take too much time, because there have been so many willing to make that sacrifice. After all, we will never make millions of dollars. We will never star in movies, or write hit songs that the world will listen too. We only shed our blood, sweat and tears so that people can enjoy what they have.
Sorry if I have offended, but I needed to say it. Remember these five words the next time you think of someone who is serving in the military; “So that others may live...”
Isaac
P.S.-"So that other’s may live...” was also the creed of the Air Rescue & Recovery Service during Vietnam & is still is.
You guy that right soldier. Amen.
I was hoping that FINALLY we were done with the MJ overload. But no. Now it’s round table discussions on “When Michael’s life went bad” with the current lead being the Pepsi commercial where his hair caught on fire. I’ll buy that. I think he was even still black at that point. But puh-lease! Find something else already. Something other than the endless parade of toothless, drooling, senile old flatulators in love with their own voices elected leaders of our wonderful government flapping their gums by the hour passing wind and saying nothing asking in-depth, erudite and tightly focused questions of that sanctimonious, oleaginous, half deflated buck toothed beach ball pinnacle of the legal profession, Sonya “W.L.” Sotomayor.
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Permalink • Sunday - July 05, 2009
Councillor defends his violent sons. Not one word in the msm here. Nothing. But if they were white?
White and on the right and we’d never hear the end of it. And you know damn well that’s true.
Get a load of the dad and comments re. how sorry and how they’ll never do it again. Yeah, we believe that. Scum!
Had it been a carload of white punks therE would be investigations up the wazoo and forever. People in office would be falling all over themselves to make nice and apologize to that community.
HT/LyndonB for bringing this to our attention. We get papers here every day and several different ones every Sat. and Sun. I never saw this one.
Councillor defends his violent sons
Vanessa CornallTWO sons who helped get their father elected into County Hall have pleaded guilty to knocking out the front teeth of a teenage girl.
Waqar Mohammed Younis, 20, and his brother Khawar Younis, 17, both of Nuttall Street, Accrington, appeared at Burnley Crown Court last Tuesday charged with occasioning actual bodily harm and grievous bodily harm with intent.
The pair, whose father is newly-elected Lancashire County Councillor Mohammed Younis, who defeated Doreen Pollitt by a margin of only 22 votes for the seat of Accrington North, were due to go to trial until they pleaded guilty to ABH and a lesser charge of GBH without intent.
Victim Lianne Clayton, 18, of Lime Road, Accrington, has spoken out about the attack which left her without two upper front teeth and James Ryder, also 18, her boyfriend, with deep cuts and bruises and needing a CT Scan.
Child care apprentice Lianne said: “This was easily the worst thing that has ever happened to me. I still don’t know why they picked on us. I think we were just in the wrong place at the wrong time.
“Me and James were walking down the street, when a red jeep pulled up next to us and eight lads jumped out. The next thing I knew they were circling us and hitting James.
“I tried to pull them off him, but then I just remember being pushed back and being punched in the face, I think I was knocked out because when I woke up I was on the floor.”
The incident happened on 24 November last year.
Lianne, now has to wear a plate covering the gap left by her missing teeth, hopes to be fitted with permanent screw in replacements in July which will take six months to heal and set.
She said: “Wearing this plate is a nightmare. I hate eating in front of people at work because the plate falls out and looks horrible. I get really self-conscious and down about the mess it has left me in.
“I am relieved they have pleaded guilty and that I don’t have to give evidence in court. Even seeing them in the waiting room with my family around, left me in tears and fearful.
“Every time I see a red car I freeze. I saw them earlier this month canvassing for their dad who has just been elected and I literally turned round and ran home.
“They shouldn’t be allowed to help with an election when they can be so violent. They have never apologised.”
County Councillor Younis, a Tory councillor, won his seat after one of the borough’s closest margins, which saw the votes having to be counted twice.
He said: “This is a very regrettable incident. It was out of character for my sons. They are both very sorry about the whole incident and they will never behave like this in the future.
“I am very proud of my sons and they are now moving on with their lives, education and future.”
The Younis brothers will now reappear on Monday 27 July to be sentenced.
Recorder Geoffrey Lowe told the pair: “This case is adjourned for pre-sentence reports so that the court can learn more about you before sentencing. I must make you aware that a custodial sentence is clearly an option. You have pleaded guilty to serious crimes.”
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Permalink • Saturday - February 14, 2009
better late than never
Reader Stan was there. He reports that the crowds were in the thousands. What little coverage this did get was skewed; the media downplayed the size of the crowd by an order of magnitude. After all, that day was all about the O, all the time.
In his own words:
We arrived early at the TSTC Airport and the line of people was about a half a mile long! It was cold and windy, but since the event was to be inside the hanger, we left the coats in the car. There were lots of secret service security types with some really cool black rifles. We waited in the screening line for about another hour, until we reached the screeners. No problem, I left the Knife and the .380 in the car, right? I emptied my pockets onto the belt and still set off the metal detectors, after 2 passes with the wand the found that my emergency pack of Camels in my coat pocket was the culprit. They then let me pass into the Hanger.
The Hanger was a monster party! I ran into people from all across the State of Texas. It turns out that, Waco got 1000 tickets, but so did lots of the surrounding Counties. The hanger was packed, I laughed about the talk of the number of toilets available for the obammunists inauguration, because of the number of people in line at the hanger, there was at least 600 people in the hanger, when the lines at the facilities began to back-up, the line in the photo goes from the north to the south end of the hanger. More people were still in line outside, and the hanger was full, so they decided to move us out to the Tarmac. Some of my friends were outside at 17:00 and gave up at the 18:30 cutoff. They waited for an hour and a half in the cold and couldn’t get in!
After the Hanger Doors opened, we were boarded onto buses to the tarmac. Ray Nagin must have been in charge of the buses, It was a total cluster, and they were not prepared for a crowd of that magnitude.
As soon as we got off of the bus, we knew that we were in a mass of several thousand people. We waited another hour on the tarmac until SAM28000 came in on final approach, it was damn cold and windy for a ton of Texans without coats!
I didn’t care about the cold, I wouldn’t miss this for anything. This is what I wanted to celebrate, George W. Bush!, not the inauguration of the new social order.
When SAM28000 came in on final approach, it was just like a 70’s rock concert. There was more noise and cheering than you can imagine! That’s when I looked around and took a few crowd photos,
There was not 300, there was more like 3000 people, that were able to get through the gate before 18:30.George and Laura walked the entire line of fans, shaking hands and thanking everyone. They are very gracious and genuine real people.
Notice The Secret Service agents behind George and Laura, I will call him Moose, never changed his expression all night. I would not want to go 15 rounds with this guy. However, that chick backing up Laura was pretty hot.
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Permalink • Sunday - February 01, 2009
Bush was a reckless near-dictator; his successor is returning power to the people.
Right ... he was also Hitler and Stalin and Mao. Anything else?
Never ends does it?
I thought you should see the left leaning Times of London and their take. Clearly they’re in love. What gets me though is why they think it’s any of their business to begin with. Or maybe it is. ??
Now you wanna talk about restrictions and democracy etc. mr editor, you need to look closer to home. You might wanna start with your own back yard.
Even conservatives (USA) have lots of serious issues with Bush.
“Bush the dauphin lived and breathed a monarchical sense of the office” The what? Dauphin?
Hmmm. Clever use of words but come on. I really doubt Bush thought in those terms whatever else he may have been guilty of.
I sure didn’t feel any less a free citizen when I left the USA (which I miss more then you folks can ever imagine)!
So then, President Bush must have become a dictator AFTER I left the country. Is that correct?
Please comment and tell me about the oppression I luckily escaped from.
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Ah, you can’t be more wrong if you tried. The real BO is the tyrant. Watch, and be very very afraid.
BO wants what he wants. Wait until he is denied. Then it will get interesting.
PS-why don’t you guys clean your own stall and we will do the same?Richard, Carlsbad, USA
you make Bush out as an oppresser of constitutional rights. Three of what are considered our best or better presidents were far worse, Lincoln suspended the rights of habeus corpus, W. Wilson suspended free speach, FDR placed US citizens of Japanese, and some German, heritage in internment camps
thomas peters, danbury, usa
(Brits did the same re. Italians and mostly Germans. Even those who were not Nazis)
THE FOLLOWING MAY BE THE LONGEST LOVE LETTER EVER WRITTEN.
From The Sunday Times
February 1, 2009
Obama calmly buries the legacy of Mr Toad
Bush was a reckless near-dictator; his successor is returning power to the people
Andrew SullivanBecause we live in a practical world where nothing is ever totally new, it is possible to see there is as much continuity between the administrations of George W Bush and Barack Obama as discontinuity. The massive stimulus package being prepped for presidential signature follows a similar, if more modest, effort by Bush. More than 140,000 troops are still in Iraq and it will not be easy to withdraw them. The war in Afghanistan grinds on. The fantastic debt of the past eight years will soon increase by an even more fantastic amount. The prisoners at Guantanamo Bay cannot simply be let go, however haphazard and clumsy their detention.
And yet there is something unmistakably different about Washington. Obama clearly sees the presidency as a different institution from his immediate predecessor. The constitution itself has been quietly but swiftly rebalanced by the manner and tone and executive orders of Obama.
This is a good thing. Bush the dauphin lived and breathed a monarchical sense of the office from his father and his political godfather (Dick Cheney). The monarch decided. If you were lucky you’d get an explanation later, usually dolled up in abstract pronouncements about freedom advancing or work being hard. The president, in his own mind, had only one “accountability moment”: the election of 2004. The rest of the time he saw the presidency as a form of power to be used with total boldness and declarative clarity. It didn’t matter that in 2000 he won fewer votes than his opponent. He acted as if he had won a landslide. As Garrett Epps recently put it, Bush “treated the White House much as Kenneth Grahame’s Mr Toad treated a new automobile - a shiny toy to be wrecked by racing the motor, spinning smoke from the tyres, and smashing through farmyards until the wheels come off”.
At times, Bush’s indifference to the system around him bordered on a kind of political autism. One of the oddest aspects of his presidency was his tendency to declare things as if merely saying them as president could make them so. This was dramatically intensified by wartime: the president pronounced; Congress anaemically responded; the base rallied. At the start, it felt like magic, but as reality slipped through the fast-eroding firewall of reckless spending and military misadventure, Bush’s authority disappeared all the more quickly - because his so-certain predictions were so obviously wrong.
The Decider, we eventually discovered, had no response to this. He just had to keep deciding and asserting, to less and less effect, that he was right all along. Hence the excruciating final months. Within a democratic system, Americans had replicated all the comedy and tragedy of cocooned authoritarianism.
Buried within this was something more sinister. The events of 9/11 undoubtedly required energetic executive action, as the founding father Alexander Hamilton once described the virtue of the president. In an emergency, the genius of the American executive is its ability to act more swiftly than a parliament or Congress. But over time, we realised the following. Bush did not see his immense war powers as temporary. Because the war had no end, his extra-constitutional war powers also were now permanent. The war, moreover, was not just abroad. It also included the homeland and anyone in it. So an American citizen, Jose Padilla, was picked up at O’Hare airport, locked in a cell, tortured until he was a mental case and finally charged with much lesser offences than the government had first warned of, and he is still languishing in jail.
President Bush declared that he was the sole arbiter of the law, broke it repeatedly in wire-tapping, torturing, extraordinary rendition and detention, and dared Congress and the Supreme Court to stop him. In the end, the court did begin to hedge him back in. Congress? Not so much.
The executive claim, however, was larger than ever previously made. The battleground was potentially anywhere: your bedroom, your telephone, the security queue at the airport. The Decider was answerable only - and only retroactively - to the people, whose will legitimised him.
Now look at Obama. He has just won an election victory more profound than any Bush did, and by a much larger margin. And yet what one senses is restraint. This president, one recalls, is a constitutional lawyer and a deliberative fellow. He began life as a community organiser, a role that seeks to facilitate rather than to dictate, to provoke others to take responsibility rather than seizing it always oneself.
And what the critics misread in his sober inaugural speech was its classical structure and its awareness of what the oath of office had just done to him. He was not running any more. He was presiding.
His job was not to rally vast crowds, but to set the scene for the broader constitutional tableau to come to life. Yes, Obama set some clear directional goals, but the key difference is what came next: a window not for presidential action but for constitutional invitation. The invitation is to the other coequal branches of government to play their part; and for the citizenry to play its. This is an understanding of the president as one node in a constitutional order - not a near-dictator outside and superior to other branches of government. It is a return to traditional constitutional order.
You saw this in the flurry of modest but piercing executive orders quietly gutting the near-dictatorial powers seized by Cheney on behalf of the dauphin. You see it in the patient understanding that Guantanamo cannot be closed overnight, although the world-view that gave us Guantanamo has already been abolished. You saw it also last week as the Democratic president spent two long hours with House Republicans seeking consensus - which he did not require to pass the law - on the stimulus package. The Republicans never had that kind of respect from Bush. And they rewarded Obama with unanimous opposition in the vote on the package. But the symbolism was telling.
From the Decider we now have the Presider. If Bush was about the presidency as power, Obama is about the presidency as authority. And this is not a Democratic or Republican issue, or even a liberal or conservative issue. It is one form of conservatism – authoritarian, bellicose and protective - being replaced by another: consensual, traditional, cautious. It is the conservatism of law replacing the conservatism of action.
It’s fascinating to watch this deep difference in understanding slowly but unmistakably realise itself in public actions. The system - as the founders once hoped - is correcting itself after one of the most unbalanced periods in American history. It took the self-restraint of one man to do it.
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Gag Me
What IS it with “professional” authors and journalists? What happens to their braincells when they have to write about guns? Do they suffer some kind of apoplexy? Is the subject just so naughty to them that their reasoning shuts off, and they have to go have a quiet lie-down for a while afterwords? It’s stunning just how poorly these “professionals” understand the subject. And it never gets better. Ever.
Case in point. Here is a link to a Fox News article. Vomit Inducingly titled “World’s Deadliest Conventional Weapons”, and of course the US has all of them. And number 5 on the list is the ultra eviil 50 BMG sniper rifle!!!111!! Airplanes beware!! Favorite gun of terrorists, gang bangers, and sexual predator grade school teachers!!
The .50-caliber sniper rifle: Confederate soldiers first mounted scopes on high-powered rifles during the Civil War, but the first specially designed sniper rifles for both police and military use came about in the 1970s. The barrels are precisely machined and specially mounted to minimize recoil.
Many Western sniper rifles use NATO standard 7.62-mm cartridges, but models using massive .50-caliber bullets are so powerful they can take out enemy ordnance by sheer force of impact.
One .50-caliber model, the McMillan TAC-50, set the record for longest kill in 2002 when a Canadian corporal shot a Taliban insurgent from a mile and a half away in Afghanistan.
“The advantage is range,” says Wright. “You can fire 2,000 meters plus, more than a mile, and hit a target accurately. ... If it hits it’s probably going to kill.”
Who wants to throw the first stone? Ok, fine, I will.
There were no “high powered rifles” in the Civil War, since even the oldest definition of “high powered rifle” describes a weapon that shoots a bullet faster than one can be shot from a conventional black powder muzzle loading rifle. Which is pretty much all they had, since smokeless powder wouldn’t be invented for another two decades.
Should we mention how there have been snipers ever since there even were rifles? Against muskets and arrows, the guy with the rifle is a prize asset. I’d guess snipers go back to about 1500. Maybe the military didn’t have a “specially designed rifle” for sniping before the 70s because they didn’t need one. Put a telescope on a Star gauged ‘03A3 and it works just fine. So would a nice Model 70 with a match barrel. And cops? How on earth did they survive before they had SWAT teams (hut! hut! hut!) and their ominous black trucks? Maybe if they had to shoot something at a long distance they just took the old .30-30 out of the trunk and did what they had to do, without special funding and uniforms? Maybe?
Do regular rifles use imprecise machining? No. If your barrel’s bore is off by more than about 0.001” the bullet will either get stuck, causing an explosion, or be wildly inaccurate, causing a miss.
Hey, how about special ways of mounting the barrel to reduce recoil? Um, you mean like a recoil operated M2 machine gun (1917-1919) or a Browning A5 shotgun (1898)? Or the recoil operated M1941 Johnson? No, that’s nothing new either. Muzzle brakes? They’ve been around at least 70 years now.
Bullets taking out a target by sheer force of impact? Um, that’s what they do. That’s their job.
And so on. And so on. Always. It’s pretty sickening. Book authors are even worse, although nobody gets the gun facts wrong worse than movie and TV directors.
Gotta go finish reading my gumshoe detective story. The private dick is in a shootout, and he’s down to his last clip for his 14mm double barreled automatic revolver. Hope he makes it through!
Posted by Drew458
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Concerning the “horrendous” casualty figures you hear on the news coming out of Gaza:
Israeli officials point out that virtually every public official in the Gaza strip, including hospital administrators, is, in effect, a Hamas appointee. It is, after all, a totalitarian regime that has crushed any remnant of a free press and thrown dissenters off the roofs of buildings. Israel thus “seriously questions Hamas’s figures,” but at this point — obviously — it has no way of doing the kind of intense forensic investigation needed to issue its own more precise estimate.
In other words, the numbers are just as faked as their “fauxtography”. And they’ve done this before too, too many times to mention, even without the help of Green Helmet Guy. Go read the rest over at NRO. Don’t expect this point to show up on any TV interview on any channel ever. But it has to. It HAS to. Because every word, every picture, every video that comes from Hamas or out of Gaza or any other islamofascist area is a fake. Until irrefutably proven otherwise.
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