Basically, this posting here sums up what I am thinking.
(H/T The Freepers) (Via Twitter)
Tag: Opinion
Seriously, Why do Conservatives embrace people like this?
I am sure that most of you have heard about the newest revelation about the Conservative movement’s newest prissy little hoe.
No, I am not talking about Ann Coulter; although she could most qualify for one as well. After all, she does have experience with F.B.I. agents, or so I am told. Amazing what a woman will do to get out of voter fraud charges.
I am referring to the slutty little darling of the Conservative movement, Carrie Prejean. She sure did play that victim card very well, didn’t she? Went on Hannity and claimed “Them mean ol’ Liberals are picking on me!” Admittedly, Perez Hilton was a bit of an ass, because of what Prejean said. But, there is a bit of an issue here.
The issue is this, Carrie Prejean has outed herself as nothing more than a typical white American Evangelical Christian — a damned hypocrite. Speaking of which; you want to know what the real kicker of this story is? When contacted by the media, Carrie Prejean’s Pastor of the so-called Church that she attends had this to say:
Carrie Prejean’s pastor isn’t willing to give up on his famous fallen beauty queen, after learning she made a graphic, solo sex tape.
Pastor Darren Carrington from The Rock Church in San Diego says, “Everyone is a work in progress,” adding everyone has “something we’re not proud of.”
Wow. Whatever happened to the days of “Being Churched?” Back in the days; when my Mother and Father were her age, and still to this day in most Fundamentalist Churches, If charges like these were brought up — She would have been marched in front of the Church and instructed to publicly repent or she would have been removed from the Church! There was No discipline here, No statement of “we will be having a meeting with Carrie to ask her to explain her behavior”. Just “Live and learn.” Unbelievable. Oh, wait, the Evangelical Church mostly abandoned this practice long ago —– which most likely explains why it is in the condition it is in today. My bad.
The broader point that I am trying to make here is this here. If the Conservative movement is going to ever make any sort of real impression on the rest of America; they are simply going to have to stop embracing people, like Carrie, who have all these inconsistencies in their backgrounds. Further more, they need to stop embracing people, who are not always honest about who they are. The list is long, Sean Hannity, Ann Coulter, Sarah Palin, Joe the Plumber, Rush Limbaugh, and now — Carrie Prejean.
My biggest issue with this is that Carrie Prejean went out of her way to articulate her so-called “Conservative Christian” beliefs in a secular beauty pageant and because of a liberal blowhard’s meltdown after the pageant; she became the newest persecuted little waif. The problem was that she was not exactly Phyllis Schlafly, when it came to her own personal morals. Which is quite typical of the Christian right and the Conservative movement for the past twenty years or so.
The problem is, and this has been said in the Conservative Blogosphere in some quarters; that the Conservative movement has no real authentic people anymore. Just two-bit hacks and phony people who lie about who they are, and how smart they are. William F. Buckley was an authentic brilliant man, who brought intellect to the Conservative movement. Hannity, Limbaugh, Beck, Coulter and the rest are nothing more than two bit hacks who stumbled and bumbled their way through life and just happened to land jobs that made them what they are today. Because of this, we have the Conservative movement that is in the shape it is today.
Reaction from all sides of the political aisle: Liberal Values, Tayor Marsh, Alan Colmes’ Liberaland, Don Surber, News Hounds, Raw Story, Pam’s House Blend, The TrogloPundit, JammieWearingFool, and American Power
Bill O’Reilly’s Talking Points: Why Obama should hire me
Yes, he did say that.
(H/T Comcast Video)
Now Honestly, does Bill O. really believe that the Obama Administration would take him up on the offer? I doubt it. But it does make for some lighthearted commentary…. and considering what we have had to report as of late; a little humor is okay.
Of course, the Liberals will not get this at all. They never do.
Now, h
Don’t mince words now
Seen over at Ace’s:
Obama and the Democrats don’t ask much. Only that Republicans take the political hit for their political program so that they can vote the safe Republican way on it.
This has nothing to do with health care per se. What is really being asked here is not that Republicans “help” with ObamaCare, but that Republicans actually assist Democrats in being elected in 2010.
Um, I personally am going to have to go ahead and decline that particular request. That seems to me — and pardon me if I am a bit rude about this — to be you all’s fucking problem, and not ours.
Damn. Thought I was grumpy old cuss. 😯 😮 😛 😉 😀 😆
(H/T to Little Miss Whatsherface)
It is official: Keith Olbermann is a pussy
Oh Wow:
MSNBC boasted that on election night they would present a “special live edition of Countdown” at 10:00 pm. But with bad news for the Democrats in Virginia and New Jersey, a funny thing happened on the way to the bonus Hour of Spin. Keith wasn’t there! After a live update (not from Olby but from Lawrence O’Donnell) A-Mess-NBC (“the place for politics”) proceeded to rerun the 8:00 pm showing.
via Olbermann Watch – MSNBC’s Countdown with Keith Olbermann: Where in the World Was Keith Olbermann?.
There is an unconfirmed rumor that he was somewhere in central park, sodomizing a small boy. But that’s just a rumor…. and we don’t report unfounded rumors around here…. much.
Others: Weekly Standard, Townhall.com and National Review Online
Two outta three ain’t bad
I have held off blogging until the bitter end.
But…..
It’s time.
The Republican Party won big in New Jersey and in Virginia.
Hoffman? No so much.
Of course, the Little Green Screwballs are celebrating; king Chucky especially. They should, they slandered Hoffman enough.
Is there blame to be handed out? Oh sure; There is plenty. The dimwitted fools in the G.O.P. who picked a liberal dyke-looking dolt, who was more interested in connecting with the “Community”, than sticking up for TRUE Conservative principles. Ol’ Newt Gingrich ought be blamed for being suckered into believing that fat bitch’s bogus lies and tall tales of Conservatism.
My friends, this is not a time to be sad. We should rejoice for the fact that we made our voices heard — loud and clear in Washington D.C. —- that President Barack Obama’s idea of open ended socialism is simply not going to stand. New Jersey and Virginia’s wins mean that the tide is changing, America has realized the mistake of putting a Socialist, Neo-Liberal in the White House. I predict a HUGE sea change in Congress come 2010 and maybe, possibly a stunning defeat to the Democrats come 2012. I could be wrong on that one; please, do not hold me to it.
Now for the part that I do not like having to write. The part where I have to answer the question; why did Hoffman lose? That is not a simple question to answer; because there is not one answer, but rather many answers. I wish I were paid to make these statements, but then it wouldn’t be a fun hobby, would it?
For starters, Hoffman was unknown, I had never heard of the guy before this race. Secondly, Hoffman entered the race after the other two had already started; the momentum had not had the time to build for a decisive win. Thirdly; let us not fool ourselves folks, Hoffman was, before the Conservative Netroots go involved, was the spoiler in the race. If the Conservative bloggers had not got involved, Hoffman would be have been just another small time, independent candidate. Fourthly; Let’s also be quite honest — the dude was a absolute geek. He reminded me of someone that I gave a wedgie to in school. Frankly, the guy was not Ronald Reagan. He was more like the crazy guy, who tinkered out in his garage. He was like the guy, that everyone liked, but secretly; they really wondered about him privately.Which, to a point —- describes yours truly, but I digress.
One thing we should know, this is not a time to mourn. But a time to rejoice. We may have lost the small battle in NY-23. But we’ve won a much larger battle.
Two outta three ain’t bad.
Little Green Screwballs promotes false story about NY-23 and Hoffman Supporters
It seems that the Blogger excitable Chucky and his friends over at Little Green Screwballs are promoting a false story that was reported and then updated by the New York Daily News.
The initial story said:
It’s getting ugly out there.
I just got off the phone with former state Democratic Chairwoman June O’Neill, who informed me the police had been called to at least two polling sites in St. Lawrence County due to overzealous electioneering (O’Neill called it “voter intimidation”) by Doug Hoffman supporters.
“We’ve gotten reports that people are standing there, covered with Hoffman stickers and yelling anti-choice stuff at voters,” said O’Neill, a St. Lawrence native who has been running the party’s GOTV effort for Bill Owens in NY-23.
“Apparently, there’s some woman claiming to be a commissioner,” O’Neill continued. “Commissioner of what, I don’t know. She’s from Texas, I think, and she won’t leave.”“This is not the way we roll in the North Country.”
However, if you read the update you will see that things were a bit overblown and that it was a intimidation tactic by Owens supporters:
Robert Stacy McCain flips his cork
In public no less…:
UPDATE II: While I was working on the first update, about 10 p.m., the phone rang here at the National Desk in Watertown. It was Dave Weigel of the Washington Independent, asking about our plans for a bit of post-deadline socializing. And I freaking lost it.
Some of my friends may remember my newsroom blowup in 2007, when I cussed out Ken Hanner and kicked a steel door open on my way out of the Washington Times. Persuaded to reconsider, I eventually quit on good terms in January 2008.
OK, I’m hell on deadline. And my own shortcomings and sins are so glaringly obvious that it’s hard for me to blame anyone else for my problems. I goof off and procrastinate when opportunity affords. But when deadline hits, I get kind of crazy. So this was all my fault. Mea culpa.
Still, sometimes, I get that Rodney Dangerfield don’t-get-no-respect feeling and, under pressure, I can be even more of a total jerk than usual. Think of General Patton slapping that shell-shock case in Sicily.
So I had a screaming conniption. Impatient by nature, what I wanted to do at that moment in time was to finish the update, so that readers would have context in which to interpret the video. What I did not want to do was to answer the phone and have to think about the questions that Dave Weigel was asking about our post-deadline party plans.
Present at the time in the smoke-filled hotel room that is the National Desk were Ali Akbar, Kerry Picket and Hooah Mac. Surely, one of them would do me the favor of taking the phone and dealing with Weigel’s questions. Uh . . . no. Because nobody owes me any favors.
And I freaking lost it. At one point in the two-minute rant that ensued, I was quite literally frothing at the mouth. A lifetime of personal frustration exploded upon friends who were innocent. For this unseemly tantrum, I apologize to all who were forced to witness it. Mea culpa.
However, next time I ask someone to please answer the phone while I’m on deadline — I pray to God — just answer the phone. That Jekyll-and-Hyde horror show was more frightening to me than it was to you, my victims. My wife will bake you brownies to compensate, and will never let me live it down.
via The Other McCain: NY23: Hoffman is asked to react to Limbaugh’s Dede ‘bestiality’ comment.
You know, we really need to get that guy on the patch and maybe even some Prozac. It could only help. What? Why are you looking me like that for? I’m as calm as cucumber, the sharpest spoon in the drawer, The —- okay, I’ll stop while I’m ahead. 😉
Islamic Militants discover new foe, bears!
Oh, this is almost too funny to believe!
This comes via the BBC:
Two other militants escaped, one of them badly wounded, after the attack in Kulgam district, south of Srinagar.
The militants were armed with AK-46s but were taken by surprise – police found the remains of pudding they had made to eat when the bear attacked.
It is thought to be the first such incident since Muslim separatists took up arms against Indian rule in 1989.
[…]
The dead have been identified as Mohammad Amin alias Qaiser, and Bashir Ahmed alias Saifullah.
News of the attack emerged when their injured comrade went to a nearby village
“Word spread in the village that Qaiser had been killed by the bear,” another police officer said.
A joint party of the police and army personnel went into the forest and collected the bodies of the two militants.
Police say they also recovered two AK-46 rifles and some ammunition from the hideout.
Two other militants escaped, one of them badly wounded, after the attack in Kulgam district, south of Srinagar.
The militants had made their hideout in a cave which was actually the bear’s den, said police officer Farooq Ahmed.
for treatment.Can you just imagine that little scene for a minute? Those guys sitting in the cave; talking all about Terrorism and how that Muslims must dominate the world. —- “Allah Akbar! We Muslims must fight, we mus ——- Aaaaahhh! Bear! Run for your lives!”
Oh Man, that’s pee in the pants funny!
I guess the true moral of this story is; if you want to get your Jihad on, don’t do it in a bear cave. Because the last time I checked, Bears are not Muslim — just usually hungry.
Others covering this rather funny story: The Jawa Report and JammieWearingFool
Video: Glenn Beck rants about Purging The Republican Party Of Progressives
For the record, Glenn is ranting about this article by Frank Rich. The part that made me lean back in the chair and let out a belly laugh, was the crack about Republicans eating themselves. “Yep, This big old fatty has got plenty of room!” — Classic. I am quite the fatty myself and I loved that.
Anyhow, if Frank Rich and people like him freak out over this movement. What will they do come 2010 or even 2012 for that matter? 😮 😯 It is to truly wonder.
Update: I found the entire clip…:
Video: The Southern Avenger on Hate Crimes and K Street Whores
Disclaimer: The posting of this commentator’s videos should NOT be taken as an endorsement of any and all controversial viewpoints that this person might harbor.
Think Progress thinks that it is wrong to love America
It appears that Think Communist Progress has a problem with Doug Hoffman taking the 9/12 pledge, which was inspired by Glenn Beck.
Seems that these Communist tools and Chucky the Lizard King (but again, I repeat myself…) at Little Green Screwballs has a problem with this pledge.
What is that Pledge?
This:
1. America Is Good.
2. I believe in God and He is the Center of my Life.
God “The propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right which Heaven itself has ordained.” from George Washington’s first Inaugural address.
3. I must always try to be a more honest person than I was yesterday.
Honesty “I hope that I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider to be the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.” George Washington
4. The family is sacred. My spouse and I are the ultimate authority, not the government.
Marriage/Family “It is in the love of one’s family only that heartfelt happiness is known. By a law of our nature, we cannot be happy without the endearing connections of a family.” Thomas Jefferson
5. If you break the law you pay the penalty. Justice is blind and no one is above it.
Justice “I deem one of the essential principles of our government… equal and exact justice to all men of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political.” Thomas Jefferson
6. I have a right to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness, but there is no guarantee of equal results.
Life, Liberty, & The Pursuit of Happiness “Everyone has a natural right to choose that vocation in life which he thinks most likely to give him comfortable subsistence.” Thomas Jefferson
7. I work hard for what I have and I will share it with who I want to. Government cannot force me to be charitable.
Charity “It is not everyone who asketh that deserveth charity; all however, are worth of the inquiry or the deserving may suffer.” George Washington
8. It is not un-American for me to disagree with authority or to share my personal opinion.
On your right to disagree “In a free and republican government, you cannot restrain the voice of the multitude; every man will speak as he thinks, or more properly without thinking.” George Washington
9. The government works for me. I do not answer to them, they answer to me.
Who works for whom? “I consider the people who constitute a society or a nation as the source of all authority in that nation.” Thomas Jefferson
The 12 Values
* Honesty
* Reverence
* Hope
* Thrift
* Humility
* Charity
* Sincerity
* Moderation
* Hard Work
* Courage
* Personal Responsibility
* Gratitude
What further proof that we need that Communist Socialist Liberal Democrats are an enemy to America and its founding principles? None, I would say.Yes, and this does include Chucky the lizard king and his screwball friends.
I think this would be a good time to donate to the Hoffman Campaign!
Others: Stop The ACLU
WSJ: Nancy Pelosi’s New Health-Care Bill “Worst Bill Ever”
The graphs that I posted earlier gave the indication of how bad things are going to be. This confirms it:
Speaker Nancy Pelosi has reportedly told fellow Democrats that she’s prepared to lose seats in 2010 if that’s what it takes to pass ObamaCare, and little wonder. The health bill she unwrapped last Thursday, which President Obama hailed as a “critical milestone,” may well be the worst piece of post-New Deal legislation ever introduced.
In a rational political world, this 1,990-page runaway train would have been derailed months ago. With spending and debt already at record peacetime levels, the bill creates a new and probably unrepealable middle-class entitlement that is designed to expand over time. Taxes will need to rise precipitously, even as ObamaCare so dramatically expands government control of health care that eventually all medicine will be rationed via politics.
Yet at this point, Democrats have dumped any pretense of genuine bipartisan “reform” and moved into the realm of pure power politics as they race against the unpopularity of their own agenda. The goal is to ram through whatever income-redistribution scheme they can claim to be “universal coverage.” The result will be destructive on every level—for the health-care system, for the country’s fiscal condition, and ultimately for American freedom and prosperity.
As much as I hate repeating myself. Elections have consequences; as do running moderate Republican Candidates. This is one of them. Statism. Welcome to it.
Others: Confederate Yankee, Bloomberg, Verum Serum, Gateway Pundit, Power Line, Betsy’s Page, Wake up America, Fausta’s Blog and NewsBusters.org (via Memeorandum)
Is everyone going Galt?
This comes via Reason.TV:
Ayn Rand’s Books and Some about her:
Rev. Wright Praises Marxism
Unreal.
This comes Via A.I.M.:
Quote:
A new video of Jeremiah Wright has surfaced, showing Barack Obama’s pastor of 20 years praising Marxism and discussing his ties to communists in El Salvador and Nicaragua and the Libyan government. Equally important, Wright is being introduced in the video by Robert W. McChesney, co-founder of Free Press, an organization which has come under scrutiny for its links to the Obama Administration and dedication to the transformation and control of the private media in the U.S.
In an article in the socialist Monthly Review, “Journalism, Democracy, and Class Struggle,” McChesney declared, “Our job is to make media reform part of our broader struggle for democracy, social justice, and, dare we say it, socialism.”
In the video, which captures Wright’s appearance at a September 17, 2009, anniversary celebration of Monthly Review, Wright said that while the “corporate media” provide a “binary lens” of the world, in such terms as “communist versus Christian,” Monthly Review offers what it calls “no-nonsense Marxism.”
He added: “You dispel all the negative images we have been programmed to conjure up with just the mention of that word socialism or Marxism.”
He called America “land of the greed and home of the slave.”
Unbelievable…..and we elected this bastard’s best friend. B. Hussein Obama.
Others: Breitbart.tv, Townhall.com, Gateway Pundit, Weasel Zippers, Atlas Shrugs and Don Surber
Think all this spending and Healthcare won’t raise your Taxes?
Think again…
This comes via the Tax Prof:
Q & O chimes in:
So when you hear that all this new spending, which will indeed raise the deficit, won’t raise your taxes by a single “dime”, you can believe it if you wish. But that doesn’t mean it is true. And it certainly doesn’t mean Democrats can keep that promise. Because if they do, they’re simply kicking the same can down the road that Republicans have for years (and no, I’m not advocating massive tax increases, I’m just providing a little reality check to counter the nonsense the politicians continue to spout). The alternative to the tax rates above is to cut spending – drastically. If you see that on the horizon you’re the only one because Congress just raised the debt ceiling – again.
Where this means anything to me, is this. Not only would they have to raise taxes on the very wealthy. They would have to raise on people who are middle class and poor as well. So, as many Conservative Bloggers have pointed out in the past; when a Nation engages in statism and enacts those sort of policies —- everyone pays. From the very wealthy, to the extremely poor. You also pay with the loss of your liberty; what which is something that the statist socialist liberal Democrats find to be a quaint idea, that needs to be modernized.
Little Green Screwballs attacks Hoffman
Not a very big surprise… But it’s news.
Looks like the libtards over at little green screwballs are having a hissy fit over the fact that Hoffman took the 9/12 pledge.
Which reminds me why I just LOVE the picture here:
Little Chucky hates being ignored
Others: Stop The ACLU, The Jawa Report, American Power
Update: SuperLady links in. Thanks Pamela! 😀
What moderate politics has gotten us thus far
This written piece is part political commentary and part rebuttal to a blog entry posted at The Moderate Voice by Joe Gandelman. Now to be fair; Joe is a friend of mine. Joe has linked to my blog a few times, when I have sent him e-mail pitifully begging for linkage in the past.
However, I feel that I must respond to this Blog entry; because quite frankly, Joe fails to know the difference between a Conservative and a Republican. Joe also fails to realize what moderate politics has gotten us here in the past twenty years.
First off, allow me to quote to you what Joe has written:
“Whether its called a “purge,” “purification,” or making sure that candidates are “real” conservatives and “real” Republicans, the bottom line is that it now appears that moderates in the Republican party — already a nearly vanished species — have a future about as bright as VHS video tapes.
So now the question is going to become: which party can piece together a winning coalition? And what will the elements of that coalition be in this highly fluid, changing ideological environment dominated by the left and right?
The Republicans have been peeling off a good chunk of independent voters, although some argue the growth of independent voters under George Bush was partially due to disgruntled Republicans (moderates and conservatives) straying from the GOP. But that’s almost irrelevant to the central political question which is: which party can put together a winning coalition?
Moderates and centrists aren’t beloved by powerful portions of either political party. So it’s now seemingly a race to see which party offends them most, and which party offends them the least because — for now at least — it’s unlikely that liberals alone or conservatives alone will win elections or congressional majorities. And branding moderates and centrists as closet liberals, closet Republicans, radicals, reactionaries or wishy washy doesn’t exactly win their heart.”
To be totally fair to Joe, he does make the very valid point that neither of the political parties in America have much use for the moderates within their ranks. There is a reason for this and I will explain that. There are many examples of what moderate politics has gotten us in the past; on both sides of the political fence. These are not just examples of Democrats, but also of Republicans as well.
Here are my examples of moderate politics and how it has hurt or at least impeded America’s standing:
- It was the moderate politics of President Bill Clinton in or around 1994; who signed the North American Free Trade Agreement and TAFA; which basically put the America Auto Workers and many of types of America workers —- squarely behind the 8-ball. What this very flawed agreement caused, was for Japanese and other foreign automakers to able to import their products into this Country for cheaper than the America automakers were even able to produce their products. Thus weakening the American Automakers market share in the United States. Some “Rockefeller Conservative” types would say that this simply hurt the Unions. However, if one looks at the broader scope of this issue, one would see that not only were the unions hurt by this action; but the automakers themselves were hurt also. This was also seen by the greatest of the Clinton supporters — The Unions, as a “selling up the river” of the Democratic Party’s largest base. This might explain why the Clinton machine was defeated in 2008 as well.
- It was the moderate politics of President George W. Bush which gave the Democrats the very platform that they have now to introduce all of this Governmental regulation of the banking system. If George W. Bush had stuck to his Conservative principles and allowed the banks which had made all of those foolish risky investments on the housing market to actually collapse. Perhaps we would not have all of this overreaching Governmental encroachment into our capitalistic system. Which, for what it is worth, is the true definition of fascism. Further more, because of these actions by the now former President, we will possibly see a massive inflation of our Nation’s money supply and will drive costs for various products extremely high and will cause shortages.
- It was, and still is, the moderate politics of the United States Senator Olympia Snowe that may in fact result in the destroying of 15% of our Nation’s economy. I am of course referring to this healthcare bill, which is currently winding its way through Congress. Which will ultimately result in the rising of our national deficit. Not to mention the fact, that the nationalizing of the Healthcare system will ultimately end up destroying the private market of Healthcare in this Country; thereby resulting in the lessening of the quality of care and ultimately will lead to rationing and possibly euthanasia of our elderly.
What troubles me troubles me the most about this article is the indirect insinuation by Joe that those of us, who identify ourselves as Conservatives are engaging in some sort extremist behavior; because we happen to think that if one calls themselves a “Conservative” or a “Republican”, and that person desires to run for office; that one should actually adhere to those said principles and not sell out ones principles to win a popularity contest, or to win in the endorsement of some two-bit socialist organization.
My question to Joe and also to the White House; is this —– is that not this very tactics that were taken by the late Senator Joseph McCarthy; who engaged in a sort of “Thought Police” towards those who were of the mindset that Communism or as it now called, socialism; was the great alternative to American capitalism? I ask this in all seriousness, since when did disagreeing with political and ideological mindset become extremism?
The truth is my friends, is that the White House is engaging in the tactics of Saul Alinsky. That is to diminish and discredit those who are in opposition to the policies and politics of the socialists. What disturbs me is the fact that there are some Conservatives, who are engaging in the same tactics as the left —- in the name of Liberty. I am quite sorry but, utilizing “Rules for Conservative radicals” makes us no better than the liberal left. We simply have to arm ourselves with the honest truth; believe me, it will shine forth. There is no need to mimic the left. We are better than that; we should act like it.
I wrote this simply as a reminder that Conservatism is not abnormal, no matter what the liberal left or even the moderate left says.
Update: Smitty @ The Other McCain links in and writes:
Where I was waiting for Pat at PBL’s analysis to go is a consideration of the NetRoots and Joe Lieberman in 2006.
One could say that Joe Lieberman was an opportunist or one could say that he was Democrat who was not drinking the kool-aid. 😀
Why something needs to be done about HealthCare
Including public option, if need be.
This is from my debit card statement:
| 11/02/2009 | POINT OF SALE PURCHASE KROGER (redacted) MI | Debit | Price $38.53 | Account Total $92.95 |
Want to know what that is from? That from my medication that I take for A.D.H.D. If it had not been for the various donations that I have received in the last few days and in the past. You know who would be stuck paying for my medication? My Parents. For what it is worth; that price is from Kroger’s. I went there because where I was going before went up. So, like I have written before; I am not to wild on the idea of a “Public Option”, but this paying out of pocket for medication is getting pretty old.
On a happier note; check out this drag racing video, that I posted here a while back.
News from a Fundamentalist Christian Perspective
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Dede Scozzafava suspends NY-23 Campaign
I knew this was coming, sort of. I knew she was doing bad, I just was not sure if she would actually drop out. Well, Surprise surprise!
My Good Friend and fellow Blogger Robert Stacy McCain broke the news:
Just confirmed that Republican candidate Dede Scozzafava has quit the race. Speaking to supporters, Scozzafava broke down in tears.
UPDATE: Scozzafava, the hand-picked choice of the New York state GOP in the key 23rd District special election, reportedly will throw her support to Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman.
Scozzafava’s withdrawal came shortly after a new Siena College poll was released this morning, showing her in third place, with Hoffman neck-and-neck with Democrat Bill Owens.
This is confirmed by the Watertown Daily News:
Dede Scozzafava, the Republican and Independence parties candidate, announced Saturday that she is suspending her campaign for the 23rd Congressional District and releasing all her supporters.
The state Assemblywoman has not thrown her support to either Doug Hoffman, the Conservative Party candidate, or Bill Owens, the Democratic candidate.
“Today, I again seek to act for the good of our community,” Ms. Scozzafava wrote in a letter to friends and supporters. “It is increasingly clear that pressure is mounting on many of my supporters to shift their support. Consequently, I hereby release those individuals who have endorsed and supported my campaign to transfer their support as they see fit to do so. I am and have always been a proud Republican. It is my hope that with my actions today, my party will emerge stronger and our district and our nation can take an important step towards restoring the enduring strength and economic prosperity that has defined us for generations.”
Ms. Scozzafava told the Watertown Daily Times that Siena Research Institute poll numbers show her too far behind to catch up – and she lacks enough money to spend on advertising in the last three days to make a difference. Mr. Owens has support from 36 percent of likely voters in the poll, with Mr. Hoffman garnering 35 percent support. Ms. Scozzafava has support from 20 percent of those polled.
Now there are some bloggers who are saying that Scozzafava threw her support behind Doug Hoffman. As it is stated above; that simply is not true. Dede released her people to support whomever they wish; big difference there.
Ali Akbar (!) has the farewell or “I’m such a damned loser, that I am quitting” statement:
Dear Friends and Supporters:
Throughout the course of my campaign for Congress, I have made the people of the 23rd District and the issues that affect them the focal point of my campaign. As a life long resident of this District, I care deeply and passionately about its people and our way of life. Whether as a candidate for Congress, a State Assemblywoman or a small town Mayor, I have always sought to act with the best interest of our District and its residents in mind—and today I again seek to act for the good of our community.
The opportunity to run as the Republican and Independence Party candidate to represent the 23rd District has been and remains one of the greatest honors of my life. During the past several months, as I’ve traveled the district, meeting and talking with voters about the issues that matter most to them, I’ve been overwhelmed by the amount of support I’ve received as I sought to serve as their voice in Washington. However, as Winston Churchill once said, Democracy can be a fickle employer, and the road to public office is not always a smooth one.
In recent days, polls have indicated that my chances of winning this election are not as strong as we would like them to be. The reality that I’ve come to accept is that in today’s political arena, you must be able to back up your message with money—and as I’ve been outspent on both sides, I’ve been unable to effectively address many of the charges that have been made about my record. But as I’ve said from the start of this campaign, this election is not about me, it’s about the people of this District. And, as always, today I will do what I believe serves their interests best.
It is increasingly clear that pressure is mounting on many of my supporters to shift their support. Consequently, I hereby release those individuals who have endorsed and supported my campaign to transfer their support as they see fit to do so. I am and have always been a proud Republican. It is my hope that with my actions today, my Party will emerge stronger and our District and our nation can take an important step towards restoring the enduring strength and economic prosperity that has defined us for generations.
On Election Day my name will appear on the ballot, but victory is unlikely. To those who support me – and to those who choose not to – I offer my sincerest thanks.
Dede
See ya RINO!
and Besides:
Fugly and a loser! What a Combo!
Now would be a good time to head over to Doug Hoffman’s site and give big!
Related headlines:
Josh Kraushaar / Scorecard’s Blog: BREAKING: Scozzafava suspends NY 23 campaign
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air: Breaking: Scozzafava quits after Siena poll; Update: Hoffman campaign asking for endorsement?
Robert Stacy McCain / The Other McCain: NY23: SCOZZAFAVA QUITS! UPDATE: New poll shows Hoffman in dead heat with Democrat Owens
Jude Seymour / Watertown Daily Times: SCOZZAFAVA SUSPENDS CAMPAIGN
Marc Ambinder / The Atlantic Politics Channel:NEW! Dede Drops Out!
Paul Volpe / The Fix:10 minutes ago Scozzafava drops out of NY-23 special election
Andy Barr / The Politico: Steele: Hoffman win is a GOP win
Michelle Malkin: Radical leftist GOP candidate Dede Scozzafava quits
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Nancy Pelosi’s Obamacare Bill is chock full of Taxes
Seriously, it is the classic class warfare nonsense that the Democrats are known for.
The Americans for Tax Reform has the Taxes outlined:
- Employer Mandate Excise Tax (Page 275): If an employer does not pay 72.5 percent of a single employee’s health premium (65 percent of a family employee), the employer must pay an excise tax equal to 8 percent of average wages. Small employers (measured by payroll size) have smaller payroll tax rates of 0 percent (<$500,000), 2 percent ($500,000-$585,000), 4 percent ($585,000-$670,000), and 6 percent ($670,000-$750,000).
- Individual Mandate Surtax (Page 296): If an individual fails to obtain qualifying coverage, he must pay an income surtax equal to the lesser of 2.5 percent of modified adjusted gross income (MAGI) or the average premium. MAGI adds back in the foreign earned income exclusion and municipal bond interest.
- Medicine Cabinet Tax (Page 324): Non-prescription medications would no longer be able to be purchased from health savings accounts (HSAs), flexible spending accounts (FSAs), or health reimbursement arrangements (HRAs). Insulin excepted.
- Cap on FSAs (Page 325): FSAs would face an annual cap of $2500 (currently uncapped).
- Increased Additional Tax on Non-Qualified HSA Distributions (Page 326): Non-qualified distributions from HSAs would face an additional tax of 20 percent (current law is 10 percent). This disadvantages HSAs relative to other tax-free accounts (e.g. IRAs, 401(k)s, 529 plans, etc.)
- Denial of Tax Deduction for Employer Health Plans Coordinating with Medicare Part D (Page 327): This would further erode private sector participation in delivery of Medicare services.
- Surtax on Individuals and Small Businesses (Page 336): Imposes an income surtax of 5.4 percent on MAGI over $500,000 ($1 million married filing jointly). MAGI adds back in the itemized deduction for margin loan interest. This would raise the top marginal tax rate in 2011 from 39.6 percent under current law to 45 percent—a new effective top rate.
- Excise Tax on Medical Devices (Page 339): Imposes a new excise tax on medical device manufacturers equal to 2.5 percent of the wholesale price. It excludes retail sales and unspecified medical devices sold to the general public.
- Corporate 1099-MISC Information Reporting (Page 344): Requires that 1099-MISC forms be issued to corporations as well as persons for trade or business payments. Current law limits to just persons for small business compliance complexity reasons. Also expands reporting to exchanges of property.
- Delay in Worldwide Allocation of Interest (Page 345): Delays for nine years the worldwide allocation of interest, a corporate tax relief provision from the American Jobs Creation Act
- Limitation on Tax Treaty Benefits for Certain Payments (Page 346): Increases taxes on U.S. employers with overseas operations looking to avoid double taxation of earnings.
- Codification of the “Economic Substance Doctrine” (Page 349): Empowers the IRS to disallow a perfectly legal tax deduction or other tax relief merely because the IRS deems that the motive of the taxpayer was not primarily business-related.
- Application of “More Likely Than Not” Rule (Page 357): Publicly-traded partnerships and corporations with annual gross receipts in excess of $100 million have raised standards on penalties. If there is a tax underpayment by these taxpayers, they must be able to prove that the estimated tax paid would have more likely than not been sufficient to cover final tax liability.
You see, this is why I am against a Government-run public healthcare system…..and I have no health insurance, at all. Why? Because as Ed Morrissey puts it:
“Has the middle class discovered the biggest lie of the Obama campaign yet? When statist policies get imposed, everyone pays. Everyone.”
What I am trying to say here is this; I have no health insurance at all. But the last thing I want, is my healthcare coming out of the pocket of anyone else; especially the middle class, like my parents, or more specifically my Dad. Who worked his ass off for 31 years at General Motors and earned his nice Healthcare insurance plan that he has. Why could I want to steal it or see him double and triple taxed; just so I can have insurance too. It just is not fair to him.
Some may think that I am silly to think this way. But to me, it would UnChrist-like to steal for anyone, just so I can say. Yes, I have insurance. It is nothing more than Class warfare and generational theft. Case Closed.
Update: Thanks to Karl Lembke for pointing my rather silly grammar error. 😛
WND: ‘Muslim Mafia’ linked to Detroit FBI shootout
Normally I take what I read over at WorldNetDaily with a grain of salt; but once and a while, they stumble over something big.
I believe they have done it again:
Already under increased scrutiny after revelations in a new book, the Council on American-Islamic Relations now is defending itself against documented links to a federal case that drew national attention this week when an indicted Detroit imam was killed in an FBI raid.
Internal documents from an undercover investigation by the authors of “Muslim Mafia” show CAIR helped finance the legal appeal of Muslim cop-killer Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, who is named in the Detroit criminal complaint as the spiritual leader of a radical group that calls for violent action to establish a sovereign Islamic state within the U.S.
The federal complaint also states one of the 11 indicted followers of the imam who was killed in an exchange of gunfire with the FBI Wednesday, Luqman Ameen Abdullah, attended a mosque “affiliated with CAIR” in Windsor, Ontario, just across the Canadian border from Detroit.
via ‘Muslim Mafia’ linked to Detroit FBI shootout.- WND.com
I highly suggest that you go read the rest of this as it is quite interesting. Looks like CAIR is involved as well. This is big and could have lasting impact.
Like I wrote before; the idea of “Fight them there, so we don’t have to fight them here” is a bit lame now; because quite frankly, they are already here and this proves that!
Shots fired at Lou Dobbs’s House
This is totally crazy and quite unbelievable.
The Video: (Via The Busters) (H/T Michelle Malkin)
Jeff Poor Writes:
“But I want to tell you, when you talk about what they’ve done – they’ve created an atmosphere and they’ve been unrelenting in their propaganda,” Dobbs said. “Three weeks ago this morning, a shot was fired at my house where I live. My wife was standing out and that followed weeks and weeks of threatening phone calls.”
Dobbs detailed the event, the notification of law enforcement and threatening phone calls he had received after the fact.
“And, as I told the state patrol, and by the way, the New Jersey State Patrol is absolutely terrific – they responded instantly. But this shot was fired with my wife not, I don’t know, 15 feet away and we had threatening phone calls that I decided not to report because I get threatening phone calls,” Dobbs continued. “I now – it’s become a way of life – the anger, the hate, the vitriol, but it’s taken a different tone where they’ve threatened my wife. They’ve now fired a shot at my house while my wife was standing next to the car. It’s become something else.”
The CNN host later took a shot at the “national liberal media,” which he claims has taken a side on the immigration issue and has created this sort of reckless environment.
“But we’ve got to start being honest,” Dobbs said. “Instead, the national liberal media has chosen sides and they’ve decided that they’re going to focus on the liberal view, which is that they will embrace illegal immigration – no matter who is harmed, no matter how many laws are broken or how few consequences there are for breaking those laws.”
Dobbs had been attacked by Fox News host Geraldo Rivera earlier and told his listeners that following these events that he was in no mood for attacks from Rivera.
“My wife has now been, and I have been, shot at, our driver,” Dobbs said. “My house has been shot and hit. An investigation continues. I’ve had bodyguards now and you know what, I’m not in the mood to put up with little fools like Geraldo Rivera.”
Unbelievable. This is what we are fighting against folks. They want to silence us. Hopefully, we do not allow the far left to marginalize the Conservative and yes, White voice in this Country. If we do, our Country will end up a Country of one political Party; with one political stance. Like South Africa. This is not to say that I agreed with the racist actions of the “National Party”. I do not. But I do not believe that any minority has the right to marginalize anyone else.