Month: October 2009

Mmm, mmm, mind-control?

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Good on the Obama Adminstration and Eric Holder for changing the Medical Marijuana Law!

Posted onOctober 19, 2009October 19, 20092 Comments

Mark your calendars folks; because it is not every day that I commend President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder in the same blog posting.

The Obama administration will not seek to arrest medical marijuana users and suppliers as long as they conform to state laws, under new policy guidelines to be sent to federal prosecutors Monday.

Two Justice Department officials described the new policy to The Associated Press, saying prosecutors will be told it is not a good use of their time to arrest people who use or provide medical marijuana in strict compliance with state laws.

The new policy is a significant departure from the Bush administration, which insisted it would continue to enforce federal anti-pot laws regardless of state codes.

Fourteen states allow some use of marijuana for medical purposes: Alaska, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington.

California is unique among those for the widespread presence of dispensaries — businesses that sell marijuana and even advertise their services. Colorado also has several dispensaries, and Rhode Island and New Mexico are in the process of licensing providers, according to the Marijuana Policy Project, a group that promotes the decriminalization of marijuana use.

via AP Newsbreak: New medical marijuana policy issued – Yahoo! Finance.

Now I am not going to sit here and act like some vindictive idiot and say, “Oh, they just embraced federalism, because it was convenient!” I have always said that I would praise Obama when I felt like it was due and I would criticize him, when I felt it was due too.

Now Obama might be an idiot when it comes to his fiscal policy and domestic policy; but it comes to this one, he gets my approval. I have always felt that the Government’s so-called “War on Drugs” was a huge freaking joke and quite frankly, has not stopped totally drug usage in this Country. So, while I might poo-poo the President on some things. This is not one of them. Put an “A+” on his paper, a gold star on his rather pointed head and send him home with a hot fudge sundae; as he has done well here.

Better yet, give me the hot fudge sundae as the President is trying to watch his weigh. 😉 😛 😀

Others: New York Times, Michelle Malkin, Left Coast Rebel, Hit & Run, Alan Colmes’ Liberaland, The Corner on National …, Hot Air, The Impolitic, Donklephant, GayPatriot, Althouse Via Memeorandum

Site Numbers

This is from GoStats:

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From the beginning of the month:

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New Visitors: 5554

Last week:

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Thanks to all my readers and return visitors. You make this little adventure worth it. 🙂

Socialist Liberals just cannot conceal their racist ways

I saw this and I was amazed…. 😯

For months now, I’ve resisted trying to equate Michael Steele with Sarah Palin — a Republican Party choice (a.k.a. token) to appease a certain demographic. Palin was to appeal to women voters. Steele was to be the public olive branch to people of color.

via Special Sunday Post: RNC Chairman Michael Steele’s bizarre interview with Univision’s Jorge Ramos (Latina Lista).

Looks like Juan Williams is not the only person getting pegged as a “House Negro” by the left.

Now, Michael Steele is being called the “Token Negro” by the lefty bloggers. Unbelievable.

I realize that some of the actions of Michael Steele may not be liked by some; the ghetto’ing of the G.O.P.’s website and some of his statements might be face-palm worthy. But I will call this for what it is; Racism.

Shame on the Progressive movement; this shows that the Democratic Party is headed back to its roots of racial intolerance. As if they were ever tolerant in the first place; believe me, I know. When I still was writing as a “Left of Center” blogger, I tried joining the Liberal Bloggers “Ad Hive”, on Blogads; because I rejected Homosexuality as immoral. So much for tolerance eh?

Disaster: CPAC West 2009

I was thinking about blogging about this; but I wanted to wait until there was more information. I had first heard about this from Ed Morrissey on Twitter yesterday. Ed is a straight up guy and will tell the truth, no matter if it hurts him or not. Because of this, I highly admire the guy.

I was not sure how bad things were out at CPAC west, until Jim Hoft over at Gateway Pundit posted this video:

But, I figured that this about par for the course; Ziegler was an overly aggressive media type, which has gotten him in trouble before. But then I saw the posting by Ed over at HotAir, Now keep in mind what I wrote about Ed a minute ago about his honesty:

The nadir of the conference for myself personally, as well as some of my colleagues on Blogger Row, was the panel that featured many of us on the impact of New Media. The inclusion of one panelist, unknown to any of us, had some of us stumped; it turned out to be a sponsor who apparently demanded time on the panel, even though he runs a fax-blasting service. He proceeded to call me “rude” for expressing my opinion on this blog of the presentation of impeachment for “criticizing my hosts,” which proved an immediate buzz-killer for an audience that had just built energy from Stephen Kruiser’s hilarious take on how easy it was to get Twitter (“It’s just typing,” Kruiser told the audience.) The same sponsor then proceeded to trash blogs, Twitter, Facebook, and every part of New Media with the exception of …. fax blasting, leaving most of us wondering why he was considered for a contribution on New Media and its potential.

The Western CPAC event is not officially part of the traditional CPAC convention, but the ACU is listed as one of its sponsors, and ACU chair David Keene was in attendance in the entire time. In fact, our friend John Ziegler attended for the express purpose of getting Keene to answer for his pay-for-play shenanigans with FedEx earlier this year as well as Keene’s attacks on Sarah Palin. The situation turned ugly, as Mediaite reports; Western CPAC ejected Ziegler after he followed Keene into the speaking hall, which followed Keene calling Ziegler an “asshole” and saying he wanted to punch Ziegler.

[….]

This comes as a piece with the New Media panel and the fringe nature of some of the sponsors. While I had several great conversations with Floyd Brown and believe him to be genuine about his pursuit of impeachment, it was made clear to me by several sources at the conference that they included it primarily as a fund-raising mechanism instead of a serious argument. The general theme of the conference appeared to be mainly a sales job for the personal benefit of the sponsors, and not the promotion of real conservative ideas. And quite frankly, after spending several hundred dollars to attend an event just to be told that dissent is “the heighth of rudeness” and that bloggers should shut up and defer to their movement elders was just a little too much too take.

I won’t return to events sponsored by the same organizations in the future. The big problem with the conservative movement has been its self-appointed leaders telling others to shut up and follow in lockstep, and I don’t think any so-called movement leaders taking that approach have the first foggy clue about what the New Media and Tax Parties mean.

At this point, I thought okay, the event was run by some kooks and Zeigler got thrown out. But what got me, was WHY he was tossed out. You can go here and read Zeigler’s account of him getting tossed out, but these videos, they speak for themselves:

Okay, let me first say; Yes, Zeigler is an aggressive media guy. But since when is questioning someone grounds for tossing someone out of a conference? Someone that was booked and paid for a booth to sell his DVD? This my friends is the epitome of lame.

I’ll let Ed Morrissey pick it up from here:

From my perspective, the only thing John did that crossed any kind of line was when he followed Keene into the speaking hall — where Keene was obviously trying to run away — and he had to be asked to stop repeatedly to keep from disrupting one of the panels. Instead of just dropping it, the event organizers escalated the problem by first kicking John off of his panel and then making the entire issue public when John had already agreed to leave — an agreement in which I was involved, for full disclosure, and which fell apart while I got sick in the hotel (I had some problems with my diabetes medication this weekend). The final act of this little drama was, from my perspective, completely avoidable by Western CPAC’s brain trust.

I agree, I also note that Ed and many other Conservative Bloggers say that they will not be returning to CPAC and will not be involved with anything sponsor and/or promoted by the American Conservative Union. I do not blame them at all. I had respected that group and thought that they were one of groups with some integrity. It appears that I was quite wrong. As Ed said, it is time for new leadership and a new vision for the G.O.P. and for the Conservative movement as a whole. I agree with this wholeheartedly. While I do not know if Sarah Palin is going to be or should be a part of that; but I do know that there is change needed, I mean writing nasty articles about Sarah Palin and then donating to Arline Spector? Especially after he says stuff like this? Something is deathly wrong with the Conservative movement.

As a history buff and someone who’s quite familiar with political history. I see an interesting similarity between what is happening here and the climate in the Democratic Party around the time of the Vietnam War, say around 1968. What I am talking about is the extreme disconnect between the beltway Conservative leadership and movement leaders; and that of the grassroots. In 1968, the grassroots wanted the Vietnam war ended, like right then. The Democratic Leadership felt the war necessary to promote peace. Toss in the assassinations of Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. and what you had was a mess. That mess, as it were, went on to almost destroy the Democratic Party; and the Democrats were never able to regain the White House till after the Nixon debacle.

Where this fits in with the Conservative movement is this; you have a obvious disconnect between the Beltway Conservative leadership and the Grassroots or as it now called; The New Media “Netroots” of the Conservative movement. You have several movements within the Conservative Grassroots, or Netroots; you have the 9/12 bunch, the Smart Girl Politics bunch, you have the Top Conservatives on Twitter bunch, you have your libertarians; who believe that the Republican Party is now Democratic Party lite and that the Government is evil. You have your Ron Paul crowd, who feel like they were stiffed by the Republican Party leadership and rightly so. There is just no one clear leader or tent. There are several tents, and they all despise one another.

What needs to happen at this point is this; there needs to be a leader, someone that can unite ALL of these tents together under one big tent. Some who can get everyone who is Vis-à-vis Conservative and get them to come together as a movement; sort of like what Reagan did. I mean, Reagan was able to bring together Libertarians; well, some of them anyhow, Social and Fiscal Conservatives, Military people, and Christian Conservatives.

The question is; who will do this? That is something that the Conservative movement and the Republican Party needs to work out —– and very, very soon.

Others: Atlas Shrugs and The Washington Independent

A very funny cartoon

This one comes via R.S. McCain, and it’s drawn by Christmas Ghost:

(Click to make it bigger)

From left to right, the suspects are:

Mad King Chuckie, Sharmuta , Kilgore Trout, Pam Geller, RS McCain, Dan Riehl, Rusty from Jawa Report, William Teach, and Ace from Ace of Spades!

Now that’s just too funny. 😆

Movie: The Real Richard Nixon

Gateway Pundit moves up to the big leagues!

Wow, I never thought I’d ever see this:

After several years of blogging I am finally leaving my blogspot location.

Google has made several significant updates over the years. It is a great user friendly software. For those of you who want to start a blog I would definitely recommend the blogspot experience.

I am moving this blog over to First Things website today. Some of you may recognize the website. The Anchoress has been blogging at First Things for over a year now.

via Gateway Pundit.

Congratulations to Jim on the move. Despite some of Jim’s Linking habits; I still consider his Blog to be one of the nicer blogs out there. I am sure that he will enjoy WordPress Software. I know I love it to death. SO much nicer than Blogger. 😀

Good Luck Jim! 😀

Jacob Weisberg takes a page from Karl Rove’s Playbook

Posted onOctober 18, 2009October 18, 20092 Comments

As a former Democratic Party voting independent; I thought that the progressives were a bit more smarter than this.

Well, I have been wrong before and it looks like I was wrong again.

Jacob Weisberg channeling his inner Karl Rove Says:

Last week, when White House Communications Director Anita Dunn charged the Fox News Channel with right-wing bias, Fox responded the way it always does. It denied the accusation with a straight face while proceeding to confirm it with its coverage.

Consider Fox’s Web story on the episode. It quotes five people. Two of them work for Fox. All of them assert that administration officials are either wrong in substance or politically foolish to criticize the network. No one is cited supporting Dunn’s criticisms or saying that it could make sense for Obama to challenge the network’s power. It’s a textbook example of a biased journalism.

[….]

What’s most distinctive about the American press is not its freedom but its century-old tradition of independence—that it serves the public interest rather than those of parties, persuasions, or pressure groups. Media independence is a 20th-century innovation that has never fully taken root in many other countries that do have a free press. The Australian-British-continental model of politicized media that Murdoch has applied at Fox is un-American, so much so that he has little choice but go on denying what he’s doing as he does it. For Murdoch, Ailes, and company, “fair and balanced” is a necessary lie. To admit that their coverage is slanted by design would violate the American understanding of the media’s role in democracy and our idea of what constitutes fair play. But it’s a demonstrable deceit that no longer deserves equal time.

As someone who distinctly remembers when the Bush White House, under the control of Karl Rove; said of those who opposed Bush’s decision to go into Iraq, as being unpatriotic and unAmerican —- I find this tripe written by this Socialist writer to be absolutely asinine. Since when does criticizing the polices of a socialist President qualify as Anti-American? Why? Because the President is black? This is coming from the very same group of people who literally were ready to take to the streets and protest because of what the White House said about the protesters and those who opposed Bush. Now that same group of people are now calling The President’s critics Anti-American?

Call it a hunch, but I do believe that this whole arrogance thing is going to blow up in the faces of the Progressives and is going to cause the Democrats to lose big come 2010 and 2012. Americans are just smarter than this and they see this for what it is; blind arrogance.

Living Proof that Socialist Liberals have no originality

What an idiot….

Shepard Fairey, the artist whose “Hope” poster of Barack Obama became an iconic emblem of the presidential campaign, has admitted that he lied about which photograph from The Associated Press he used as his source, and that he then covered up evidence to substantiate his lie.

Mr. Fairey’s admission, which he made public on Friday, threw his legal battle with the news agency into disarray.

The A.P. claimed in January that Mr. Fairey owed it credit and compensation for using the photograph. But in February Mr. Fairey sued The A.P., seeking a declaratory judgment that the poster did not infringe on the agency’s copyrights and that he was entitled to the image under the “fair use” exception of the copyright law. The A.P. countersued in March, saying Mr. Fairey had misappropriated the photograph.

Mr. Fairey told the agency — and his own lawyers — that he had used a photograph from an April 27, 2006, event about Darfur at the National Press Club in Washington where Mr. Obama was seated next to the actor George Clooney. Instead, the photograph he used was from the same event, but was a solo image of Mr. Obama’s head, tilted in intense concentration.

via Artist Admits Using Other Photo for ‘Hope’ Poster – NYTimes.com.

…..and his defense?

“In an attempt to conceal my mistake, I submitted false images and deleted other images,” Mr. Fairey said in a statement, released on his Web site. “I sincerely apologize for my lapse in judgment, and I take full responsibility for my actions, which were mine alone.”

Mr. Fairey’s lawyers said they intended to withdraw when he could find new counsel.

“There are lots of reasons that it becomes difficult or effectively impossible for a lawyer to continue to represent a client in this situation,” Anthony Falzone, Mr. Fairey’s lawyer and the executive director of the Fair Use Project at Stanford University, said in a telephone interview Saturday. “We have informed The A.P.’s lawyers that we do intend to withdraw as counsel upon transition to new lawyers.”

Mr. Falzone called the disclosure “a very unfortunate situation.” But he added that regardless which photograph Mr. Fairey used, the copyright issues remained unchanged. “We still believe, as strongly as ever, in the underlying fair use and expression issues of this case,” he said.

In other words, He lied like a dog; and proceeded to try and cover up for his lies, by lying some more. But he still has a case for fair use! What a joke! Put this lying stack crap behind bars for a few years. That is unless his “Magic Messiah” does not come out and order the courts to drop the suit. Which would not surprise me at all. After all, he was getting “The One” elected was he not?

Just more living proof that socialist scum have no originality and what they cannot legally use; they steal. Just look at all of the bail-outs of the banks, and auto companies. They were stealing our money to bail out failed businesses. Look at all the property that has been taken by the Government under the “Eminent domain” laws; liberals gave us that nonsense. It means that one day, the Government can say, “we want this property” and they can set you out, and take you property, no questions asked. That is basically legalized theft. Which is basically what this Fairey guy is trying to do. Which is stealing someone else’s property in the name of art.

Letters of Support

I like it when I get mail like this:

From reader Scott Starnes:

Patrick,

Keep up the good work brother. I’m new to the blogging scene (just started in April) but I write as many articles as I can and do love so much to piss liberals/progressives off. I get attack in the same way. Liberals want to kill the messenger whenever you speak the truth about their Dear Leader. I am adding you to my blogroll. Keep up the fight and keep driving the libtards insane. Enjoyed reading your blog.

Scotty Starnes
http://scottystarnes.blogspot.com
http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com
http://www.scottystarnes.today.com

Thanks Scott. 😀

Evenings at the PB Pub Presents…. Bloodgood

One of my favorite Christian Rock Groups of the 1980’s.

Here’s three in a row from Bloodgood:

“Crucify”

One of things that I liked about this band; they did not compromise, at all. They set it out and they told it like it was:

“The Messiah”

“Self Destruction”

Ha! Good Luck with that!

Oh this is too funny.

Reverend Al Sharpton and his lawyers say they are preparing to file a defamation lawsuit against conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh for an op-ed published Saturday, which Sharpton alleges “erroneously” characterizes his (Sharpton’s) role in a string of violent incidents in New York in the early 90’s.

In the op-ed published in Saturday’s Wall Street Journal Limbaugh writes Sharpton “played a leading role in the 1991 Crown Heights riot (he called neighborhood Jews ‘diamond merchants’) and 1995 Freddie’s Fashion Mart riot.”

The Crown Heights riot began after a Hasidic Rabbi accidently struck and killed an African American boy with his car. The boy died from the injuries–sparking four nights of riots. The Rabbi was not charged, but Sharpton played a large role in rallying on behalf of the young boy’s family and the African American community.

According to a statement put out by Sharpton’s media consultant, a study New York Governor Mario Cuomo commissioned showed Sharpton was not involved in the Crown Heights incident until after the rioting concluded.

“Mr. Limbaugh’s blatant and defamatory statements regarding the Crown Heights Riots falsely give the impression that Rev. Sharpton was present during the violence that occurred when in reality he had been called in by the family after the violence,” Sharpton’s statement says.

via CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time Blog Archive – Sharpton threatens suit against Limbaugh « – Blogs from CNN.com.

I would give anything to be in that Courtroom, when Al Sharpton and his lawyers get their butts handed to them by the Judge for filing a frivolous lawsuit. Looks like Al Sharpton and his crowd of baffoons can dish it out, but they cannot take it. Which is quite typical of people of their ilk. Besides that; there is evidence that Rush is absolutely right. The evidence is right on, what else? Wikipedia: (H/T JammieWearingFool)

The Crown Heights riot began on August 19, 1991, after a car driven by a Jewish man, and part of a procession led by an unmarked police car, went through an intersection and was struck by another vehicle causing it to veer onto the sidewalk where it accidentally struck and killed a seven-year-old Guyanese boy named Gavin Cato and severely injured his cousin Angela. Witnesses could not agree upon the speed and could not agree whether the light was yellow or red. One of the factors that sparked the riot was the arrival of a private ambulance which, on the orders of a police officer worried for the Jewish driver’s safety, removed the uninjured driver from the scene while Cato lay pinned under his car.[42] Cato and his cousin were treated soon after by a city ambulance. Caribbean-American and African-American residents of the neighborhood rioted for four consecutive days fueled by rumors that the private ambulance had refused to treat Cato.[38][42] During the riot blacks looted stores,[42] beat Jews in the street,[42] and clashed with groups of Jews, hurling rocks and bottles at one another [43] after Yankel Rosenbaum, a visiting student from Australia, was stabbed and killed by a member of a mob shouting “Kill the Jew.”[44] Sharpton, who arranged a rally in Crown Heights after Cato’s death,[42] has been seen by some commentators as inflaming tensions by making remarks that included “If the Jews want to get it on, tell them to pin their yarmulkes back and come over to my house”[45] and referring to Jews as “diamond merchants.”[46]

Sharpton marched through Crown Heights and in front of “770”, shortly after the riot, with about 400 protesters (who chanted “Whose streets? Our streets!” and “No justice, no peace!”), in spite of Mayor David Dinkins’s attempts to keep the march from happening.[47]

And what about this here, Al?

In 1995, a black Pentecostal Church, the United House of Prayer, which owned a retail property on 125th Street, asked Fred Harari, a Jewish tenant who operated Freddie’s Fashion Mart, to evict his longtime subtenant, a black-owned record store called The Record Shack. Sharpton led a protest in Harlem against the planned eviction of The Record Shack.[48][49][50] Sharpton told the protesters, “We will not stand by and allow them to move this brother so that some white interloper can expand his business.”[51]

On December 8, 1995, Roland J. Smith Jr., one of the protesters, entered Harari’s store with a gun and flammable liquid, shot several customers and set the store on fire. The gunman fatally shot himself, and seven store employees died of smoke inhalation.[52][53] Fire Department officials discovered that the store’s sprinkler had been shut down, in violation of the local fire code.[54] Sharpton claimed that the perpetrator was an open critic of himself and his nonviolent tactics. Sharpton later expressed regret for making the racial remark, “white interloper,” and denied responsibility for inflaming or provoking the violence.[13][55]

It is amazing how the Liberals, when cornered; like to lash out, accuse people of lying. But you can find the truth about them. All you have to do, is use the very tool created by them, to find the truth.

Update: Crossed Posted to Alexandria.

More Mail from the Liberals

Wow… the socialists must be on a roll…

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Comment:
You do realise *everyone* who visits your blog today clicked on a wingnut comment you left on another blog – to come and chuckle at your stupidity?

Your entire purpose is to amuse sensible people who’ve got five minutes to spare.

No actually, my purpose is to post idiotic comments like yours publicly on my blog; so that my fellow conservatives can see what kind of jack asses that you really are. 😀

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