Category: Opinion

Stop the presses: Andrew Sullivan actually writes something I agree with

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Yes, I know. Andrew Sullivan is a bit more liberal than most Conservatives here in America. Yes, I know that most people here in America, that call themselves Conservative, utterly despise the man. Yes, I know most of my blogging friends; if I still have any, hate the ground that this man walks on. But, damn it, when he is right, he is right.

Sully writes:

It seems to me simply wrong to ascribe the bile of flocks of angry commenters that appear on any site that tackles contentious topics to the blogger himself. You can criticize him or her for not deleting them and providing a platform to hate (Ann Althouse’s readers routinely mock me for having HIV, for example, and she does nothing) but you can’t criticize someone for attracting such creatures on the internet – let alone convict him of the same views. To further convict him on the basis of anti-Semitic emails sent entirely independently of him to a third party – and to describe them as “Stephen Walt’s Mailbag” when in fact, it’s Jeffrey Goldberg’s in-tray – strikes me as deeply unfair. But that’s what my colleague Jeffrey Goldberg has done with Stephen Walt in his latest post. He has every right to lambaste Walt for things he writes and has written (although I think “Jew-baiter” is an ugly and absurd excess) – but this guilt-by-association is perverse.

I must agree with the above. This is what Charles Johnson of little green footballs fame does all the damned time; and it is stupid. It is collectivism and it is wrong and flies in the face of what Conservatives everywhere believe.

Sully continues:

And if raising questions about Israel’s policies inflames anti-Semitism (and how can it not among the fever swamps of hate out there?), should that therefore prevent us from airing such questions? The chilling implications of this kind of argument are profound – and inimical to free discourse. Look: I know it’s awful to read bigoted emails. And relatively new bloggers may be unused to the routine bile. But you need to accept it as part of a new media with no filters.

My feelings on both points:

  • One of the worst things with having to debate or even discuss Israel and foreign policy of the United States is the Semite card playing buffoons of the Wilsonian crowd. Sadly, there are Jews out there that use their identity to tag anyone who dare challenge their foreign policy position a Jew-Hater, an Anti-Semite, and so on.
  • On the issue of the unfiltered New Media; I highly disagree with Sully’s conclusion. This is why I have strict moderation in place on this Blog. I also have a set of rules in place. You violate my rules; you do not comment here; Period. This also why I always keep moderation enabled here. I review every comment, if something does not pass muster, it is deleted. I wish I had a dollar for every time some moron pass through here and made a stupid comment about blacks, Jews and even liberals. Sometimes, I will post the stupid stuff, with the IP address, e-mail address and real name showing; just to show everyone how dumb this person is. But there are some that are so vile and nasty that I will not publish them. Those are the one that are why I have moderation enabled. I just will not give a open platform to hate, period.

Local Stupidity: Ann Arbor Michigan spends $850,000 on art, while firefighters are laid off

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Finally, something worthy of a blog post!

This has to be the MOST tone deaf things that I have read since the election of Barack Obama…:

The debate in Ann Arbor, where firefighters are being laid off due to a multimillion dollar budget deficit, is over an $850,000 piece of art.

That’s how much the city has agreed to pay German artist Herbert Dreiseitl for a three-piece water sculpture that would go in front of the new police and courts building right by the City Hall.

The city has the money to do it because in 2007, it agreed to set aside for public art 1 percent of money that went into capital improvement projects that were $100,000 or larger. Most capital projects involve streets, sewers and water.

Ann Arbor City Council member Stephen Kunselman, a Democrat, opposed the art deal.

“I think it is incredibly insensitive,” Kunselman said. “It is insensitive to the staff and their morale. It is insensitive to the community. There are people out there struggling financially, and here we are spending a large amount of money on a piece of art.”

Kunselman said the city is also eliminating the solid waste coordinator from the budget, which oversees trash pickup, and hiring an art coordinator.

City Administrator Roger Fraser wrote in an e-mail that the solid waste coordinator position was eliminated as a cost-cutting measure because the solid waste millage had decreased. Fraser wrote that the art coordinator position would be paid for by the public art fund.

Fraser noted that the public art dollars did not come from the city’s general fund, which is used to pay salaries and benefits, and that less than $6,000 of the art money came from the general fund.

The art projects also must have a “thematic connection” to the source of funding, Fraser wrote. The $850,000 art project is water-themed, because the money came from storm water funds.

But some critics say that a city creative enough to fund art from storm water projects should be able to find money to cover essential city services.

“That’s the classic argument,” said Glenn Thompson, an Ann Arbor resident and longtime critic of city spending. “But the city has become very, very good at shuffling money in and out of the general fund when they want. These people are very good at putting it in and out of the general fund when they wish.”

Michael LaFaive, the director of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy’s Morey Fiscal Policy Initiative said nonessential services are being funded throughout the state.

“Administrators cry poverty while lavishing money on the beautiful people,” LaFaive said. “The threat to dismiss firefighters often comes while officials protect golf courses, wave pools and art. No city can cry poverty while it defends recreation and aesthetics such as art.”

LaFaive said administrators get creative with budgets to fund pet projects.

via The Art of the Ann Arbor City Budget [Mackinac Center].

I would say that I am shocked about this; but hey, it is Ann Arbor. Ann Arbor, for those who are not from these parts; is a bastion of Liberalism. Basically, it is San Francisco in Michigan. Yeah, it is that liberal. 🙄

True Story: When I actually worked for a living; back in the mid 90’s, I made a delivery to that city, I mean, right downtown; you talk about feeling like driving into an alternative universe. 😯 There were people…..everywhere. I was near, as in like a block away, from the local university there. It was quite the interesting experience. I remember getting my package signed for, and scrambling to find the entrance to the freeway and getting the heck out of dodge!  I went back to the shop and said in my most pitiful, mournful, voice, “PLEASE, DON’T SEND ME TO ANN ARBOR ANYMORE!” I thought the secretary at the office was going to fall out of her chair laughing at me. 😀

A man can only handle so many weird looking people in one place! 😀

Others: Classical Values, American Spectator, Questions and Observations, The New Editor, Wizbang, theblogprof and Moonbattery

The wages of the Far-Right: Exhibit BW: Byron Williams

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This here, is what happens, when you allow Far-Right talk radio to continue on unregulated. (As in with no fairness doctrine)

The Story:

Byron Williams

Convicted felon Byron Williams loaded up his mother’s Toyota Tundra with guns, strapped on his body armor and headed to San Francisco late Saturday night with one thing in mind: to kill workers at the American Civil Liberties Union and an environmental foundation, prosecutors say.

Williams, an anti-government zealot on parole for bank robbery, had hoped to “start a revolution” with the bloodshed at the ACLU and the Tides Foundation in San Francisco, authorities said.

But before he made it to the city, Williams was stopped at early Sunday by California Highway Patrol officers for speeding and driving erratically on westbound Interstate 580 west of Grand Avenue in Oakland.

Police say he then initiated a chaotic, 12-minute gunbattle with officers, firing a 9mm handgun, a .308-caliber rifle and a shotgun. He reloaded his weapons when he ran out of ammunition and stopped only after officers shot him in areas of his body not covered by his bullet-resistant vest, authorities said.

via Alleged gunman says he wanted ‘a revolution’.


Do you think that the Far-Right Wing media is not just a little bit liable for this incident? I do.

A fairness doctrine would stop such stuff; and force broadcasters to employ a bit more responsibility.

Why I left the Right: Exhibit C for Conspiracy

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As you already know there is a HUGE story about the USDA workers firing.

…and what is wing-nut Andrew Breitbart now saying, that he has been exposed?

Think Progress reports:

Two white farmers who were supposedly discriminated against by former USDA official Shirley Sherrod spoke out on her behalf yesterday, saying “no way in the world” is she racist.

But last night, the right-wing blogger who instigated this faux controversy questioned the white farmers’ honesty and repeated his false racist charges. In interviews with the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and CNN, the Iron City, GA couple Roger and Eloise Spooner described Sherrod as a “friend for life” and a “good person” who helped save their farm. Speaking with CNN’s John King, right-wing provocateur Andrew Breitbart challenged Eloise Spooner’s “purported” story, accusing King of trusting Sherrod “that the ‘farmer’s wife’ is the farmer’s wife…

The complete interview can be found Here and Here. But the money part is this right here:

Transcript:

You tell me as a reporter how CNN put on a person today who purported to be the farmer’s wife? What did you do to find out whether or not that was the actual farmer’s wife? I mean, if you’re going to accuse me of a falsehood, tell me where you’ve confirmed that had this incident happened 24 years ago. […]

You’re going off of her word that the farmer’s wife is the farmer’s wife?

Yeah, like CNN or anyone else for the matter is going to grab someone off of the street and put them on a farm and tell them, presumably at gunpoint or whatever is in Andrew Breitbart’s mind; and force them to say they were helped by this woman. Andrew Breitbart has lost all credibility in this situation and is now spinning like a top and has crossed over into WorldNetDaily territory. In short, the man is basically trying to save face and is failing badly.

Just another reason why I left the right.

Others, on the left covering this, and hell, who wouldn’t?!?!?!?!?!?:

Media Matters for America, Washington Wire, The Huffington Post, JONATHAN TURLEY, Wonk Room, Washington Monthly, Gawker, Wonkette, Media Matters for America, News Hounds, Rumproast and The Mahablog

WOW: Even Jonah Goldberg thinks that Andrew Breitbart should apologize to Shirley Sherrod

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Now this is a surprise:

I think she should get her job back. I think she’s owed apologies from pretty much everyone, including my good friend Andrew Breitbart. I generally think Andrew is on the side of the angels and a great champion of the cause. He says he received the video in its edited form and I believe him. But the relevant question is, Would he have done the same thing over again if he had seen the full video from the outset? I’d like to think he wouldn’t have. Because to knowingly turn this woman into a racist in order to fight fire with fire with the NAACP is unacceptable. When it seemed that Sherrod was a racist who abused her power, exposing her and the NAACP’s hypocrisy was perfectly fair game. But now that we have the benefit of knowing the facts, the equation is completely different.

via Shirley Sherrod — My Take – Jonah Goldberg – The Corner on National Review Online.

Now that is a very big shock to see this guy make a turn like this. Very interesting…

From my Inbox: Environmental group and NYT cohorts?

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From the inbox:

This story has yet to be fully exposed.  Please let me know if there is any other information you may need for a blog post!

In a memo recently cited by E&E news, communications firm Clean Energy Work (which can be found at www.scribd.com/doc/34382420/Clean-Energy-Works-Memo) outlines the possible method of using the New York Times as a centerpiece of a “tactical campaign” to reframe proposed tax increases on American consumers as “The Big Oil Welfare Tax”.

This is a left wing campaign strategy to use the New York Times as a tool to push a liberal agenda that would increase taxes on energy companies and consumers.

An actual article in the New York Times (“As Oil Industry Fights a Tax, It Reaps Billions From Subsidies”) seems to be one example of this strategy in action.  The article is riddled with inaccuracies and misrepresentations that are easily spotted by anyone with a basic understanding or background in tax policy.

Andrew Langer at the Institute for Liberty has responded to this misinformation in a point by point post at http://www.instituteforliberty.org/index.php?src=blog&category=Blog&submenu=media (original NYT article and CEW memo are also at this page)

Something worth looking at.

Believe it when I see it: Obama to Target CRA

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WaPo Reports:

Responding to the collapse in home prices and the huge number of foreclosures, the Obama administration is pursuing an overhaul of government policy that could diverge from the emphasis on homeownership embraced by former administrations.

“In previous eras, we haven’t seen people question whether homeownership was the right decision. It was just assumed that’s where you want to go,” said Raphael Bostic, a senior official in the Department of Housing and Urban Development. “You’re not going to hear us say that.”

Bostic, who has published leading scholarship on homeownership, added that owning a home has a lot of value, but “what we’ve seen in the last four years is that there really is an underside to homeownership.”

The administration’s narrower view of who should own a home and what the government should to do to support them could have major implications for the economy as well as borrowers. Broadly, the administration may wind down some government backing for home loans, but increase the focus on affordable rentals.

The shift in approach could mean higher down payments and interest rates on loans, more barriers to lower-income people buying houses, and fewer homeowners overall, government officials said. But it could also pave the way for a more stable housing market, one with fewer taxpayer dollars on the line and less of a risk that homeowners will not be able to pay their mortgages. And it could spell changes throughout the financial markets, as investors choose new places to put their money if the government withdraws some incentives for investing in the U.S. mortgage market.

I don’t buy it. But, it could happen.

Ed Morrissey, who is one of the more honest right-wing bloggers out there, says:

Will the White House go through with it?  It’s one thing to leak this to the Post.  It’s another thing entirely to follow through with the necessary rulemaking and legislative effort needed to succeed in it.  The Post notes that La Raza, one of the groups that gains material benefit from participating in government programs for these home-ownership efforts, is already unhappy with the idea.  At a time when Obama’s approval ratings are sinking towards Bush levels, this could alienate his ideological base and leave him utterly abandoned in 2012.

Let’s hope Obama commits to this reform.  If he does, it will easily be the most significant economic reform of his tenure, and would represent a significant retreat from the government interventions and social engineering that have ruined the American economy, and could set the stage for even further constraints on federal power.  That would show actual leadership and strength.

Pardon me if I sound about as jaded as an atheist on Easter Sunday; but it would make no sense for President Obama to do this. As it was the Democrats that created this whole mess in the first place. Social engineering is what they do; so, I will not break out the pom poms just yet. I will believe it, when the speculation of the real estate market ends. I will believe when they stop trading mortgages on the stock market. I will believe it when the sub-prime mortgages are gone. I will believe it, when Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac are gone for good.

Until then, I remain unconvinced.

Holy Crap: Bell, Ca officials make a half a million a year

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It’s good work when you can get it! 😯

Hundreds of residents of one of the poorest municipalities in Los Angeles County shouted in protest last night as tensions rose over a report that the city’s manager earns an annual salary of almost $800,000.

An overflow crowd packed a City Council meeting in Bell, a mostly Hispanic city of 38,000 about 10 miles (16 kilometers) southeast of Los Angeles, to call for the resignation of Mayor Oscar Hernandez and other city officials. Residents left standing outside the chamber banged on the doors and shouted “fuera,” or “get out” in Spanish.

It was the first council meeting since the Los Angeles Times reported July 15 that Chief Administrative Officer Robert Rizzo earns $787,637 — with annual 12 percent raises — and that Bell pays its police chief $457,000, more than Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck makes in a city of 3.8 million people. Bell council members earn almost $100,000 for part-time work.

via California Official’s $800,000 Salary in City of 38,000 Triggers Protests – Bloomberg.

Wow… They’re lucky the people didn’t burn the building to the ground! I can understand the rage, to a point.

Clean Streets? HA! For that kind of money, they should be paved with gold. 😀

Ousted USDA Official: I am not sure I even want my job back

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Can you blame her? (via Today on NBC)

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I mean, seriously. To me, this was nothing more than a high tech lynching. If I were a black person and I was in the White House or even remotely close to it in a Governmental position. I would be looking for another job really fast. Because who is to say that BreitBart is not holding onto something else that might damage someone? Of course, that is what the far right wants, they want those “Dirty Niggers” out of the White House and out of the Government. Because of how it is poisoning the White House or whatever stupidity those people happen to believe.

Left Wing Stupidity: Left Wing Journalists want Fox News shut down by Government

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Just to show you that I have not gone totally “around the bend”, so to speak. This struck me as just incredibly stupid:

This comes Via Tucker Carlson’s Daily Caller:

The very existence of Fox News, meanwhile, sends Journolisters into paroxysms of rage. When Howell Raines charged that the network had a conservative bias, the members of Journolist discussed whether the federal government should shut the channel down.

“I am genuinely scared” of Fox, wrote Guardian columnist Daniel Davies, because it “shows you that a genuinely shameless and unethical media organisation *cannot* be controlled by any form of peer pressure or self-regulation, and nor can it be successfully cold-shouldered or ostracised. In order to have even a semblance of control, you need a tough legal framework.” Davies, a Brit, frequently argued the United States needed stricter libel laws.

“I agree,” said Michael Scherer of Time Magazine. Roger “Ailes understands that his job is to build a tribal identity, not a news organization. You can’t hurt Fox by saying it gets it wrong, if Ailes just uses the criticism to deepen the tribal identity.”

Jonathan Zasloff, a law professor at UCLA, suggested that the federal government simply yank Fox off the air. “Do you really want the political parties/white house picking which media operations are news operations and which are a less respectable hybrid of news and political advocacy?”

But Zasloff stuck to his position. “I think that they are doing that anyway; they leak to whom they want to for political purposes,” he wrote. “If this means that some White House reporters don’t get a press pass for the press secretary’s daily briefing and that this means that they actually have to, you know, do some reporting and analysis instead of repeating press releases, then I’ll take that risk.”

Scherer seemed alarmed. “So we would have press briefings in which only media organizations that are deemed by the briefer to be acceptable are invited to attend?”

John Judis, a senior editor at the New Republic, came down on Zasloff’s side, the side of censorship. “Pre-Fox,” he wrote, “I’d say Scherer’s questions made sense as a question of principle. Now it is only tactical.”

What you have just read above; is why I sided against the liberal left. Because Liberals believe in freedom of speech; as long as it matches up with their political ideologies. Conservatives, for all their faults, do embrace true freedom of speech. Liberals, I am afraid, do not. This is a perfect example of that. The very idea of the FCC pulling Fox News’s broadcast license, because of their political stance, is absolutely asinine. Not to mention it smacks of communism and yes, even Nazi fascism.

For what it is worth and as horrible as it sounds; Nazi Germany and Communist Russia BOTH did control their press and even had a Government-controlled press. This sounds like what these guys want, a controlled press that only exposes their ideals. That is a true definition of fascism; government control over every aspect of people’s lives —- including the privately owned press.

Why I left the right: Exhibit C for Common Sense

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…or a lack of it, by people on the right, that is….

Seems that now that Sen. Lindsey Graham decided to stand up against the bigotry, hatred towards gays and yes, Antisemitism in the GOP. Because this, he is now a lame-duck in the ranks of the GOP.

Chris Cillizza, who is about the only political reporter is has any kind of integrity anymore, has the story:

South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham’s (R) announcement that he will vote in favor of Elena Kagan’s nomination to the Supreme Court is likely to further incite conservatives already unhappy with him and, according to close observers of the state’s politics, ensures he will face a serious primary challenge in 2014.

“I think there’s a good reason for a conservative to vote yes,” Graham said this morning.

Graham’s apostasy on Kagan comes after other high profile breaks with conservatives in his state (and nationally) over climate change and immigration reform and will likely make him a central target of those tea party Republicans who helped oust Utah Sen. Bob Bennett in his bid for renomination earlier this year.

“It’s no longer a question of ‘if’ but ‘who’ and ‘how many’,” said one South Carolina Republican operative about a Graham primary challenge. The source added that Graham’s approach on high profile issues of late is “putting Lindsey’s friends and supporters in a really tough place.”

Richard Quinn, a Graham consultant, defended his client — noting that the Senator is “not a demagogue”. Added Quinn: “He’s a thinking person’s conservative. I expect him to do well among voters with IQ’s in triple digits.”

Quinn also noted that it’s more than four years before Graham faces voters again; “There will be many battles fought, lost and won between now and then,” he said.

And, Graham has proven himself to be a very able politician — running what was widely regarded as the best campaign of the 2002 election cycle and easily beating back a primary challenge in 2008 when there was already some conservative unrest directed toward him. He ended June with $2.8 million in the bank.

via The Fix – Lindsey Graham’s vote on Elena Kagan ensures primary challenge.

Because nothing says RINO louder, than voting for a suspected Lesbian Jew Liberal Woman in the Supreme Court of the United States! Just ask Pat Buchanan.

Why I left the Right: Exhibit C for Compassion

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….or in this idiots case, exhibit A for asshole:

The people who have been laid off and cannot find work are generally people with poor work habits and poor personalities. I say “generally” because there are exceptions. But in general, as I survey the ranks of those who are unemployed, I see people who have overbearing and unpleasant personalities and/or who do not know how to do a day’s work. They are people who create either little utility or negative utility on the job. Again, there are powerful exceptions and I know some, but when employers are looking to lay off, they lay off the least productive or the most negative. To assure that a worker is not one of them, he should learn how to work and how to get along — not always easy. . — Ben Stein over at American Spectator via Think Progress

Coming from someone who has never, ever, done a ounce of physical labor in his life.

This, my friends, is why I being to really back away from the right. What kind of tone-deaf jerk makes a statement like that? Someone who has money and does not need to work; that’s who! I mean, the man was born into a life of privilege. No true working class person would ever make a statement like this, ever. I am however, resisting the temptation of calling this four-eyed jerk some sort of an awful name about his Jewish heritage; I mean, that could have something to do with it. I mean, it is not a myth that most Jews, especially the “well to do” ones, look down the nose at the more “common folk” America — especially we common folk of Christian Heritage. It is no secret that most Jews despise Christians.

Either way, this is a just a classic case of why I basically threw in the towel with the right and now just consider myself a centrist.

This is why the right should NOT ever get into sword fights over race

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First a word from Glenn Beck:

Now the FULL video from the NAACP:

Money part in the second video starts at 16:30, and goes to about 24:00.

Meanwhile Andrew BreitBart is still spinning:

But even if the full video shows what Sherrod says it does, Breitbart said he’s seen enough.

“I think the video speaks for itself,” he said. “The way she’s talking about white people … is conveying a present tense racism in my opinion. But racism is in the eye of the beholder.”

He also takes issue with how the audience, many of them members of the NAACP, respond positively to her comments — proof, he says, of prevalent racism.

Yeah, nice way to try deflect criticism away from yourself; and nice way to deflect the fact that your nothing more than a political hack with an agenda and no sort of journalistic integrity at all. I knew this all was coming but I figured that Andrew Breitbart had done his homework. Turns out, he didn’t; and now he and everyone, which includes me unfortunately, has egg on their faces.

Stupid Right Wing Headline of the Day…..

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This one is for the “Well, Duh!” section of the blog.

New polling data from Gallup on President Barack Obama’s job approval show that he is least popular in those states where people self-identify as “conservative” – in states, for example, such as Alabama, Utah, Idaho, and Wyoming. At the same time, the numbers show Obama is most popular in the one area where more people self-identify as “liberals”: the District of Columbia.

A July 19 poll on Obama’s job approval showed he was least popular (lowest ranking and up) in Wyoming, with an approval rating of only 29 percent, followed by Utah, with 34 percent approval; West Virginia, 34 percent; Idaho, 34 percent; and Oklahoma, 37 percent.

via CNSNews.com – Obama Job Approval Lowest Among ‘Conservative’ States.

****Please Note: the following is extremely harsh sarcasm*****

I just do not get why this is actually news. I mean, Brent “The Bozo” Bozell actually pays people to write this sort of blatant stupidity. Of course, President Obama is not going to poll well in Conservative parts of the Country! I mean, why the hell would he not?

I guess he does this for the benefit of the extreme right in this Country. You know the ones who actually believe that President Barack Obama is not an American citizen. Also for those who believe he is some sort of Crypto-Commie Muslim or something. You know, the one’s that I refuse to give any space on this blog; and for that I have been labeled a “fake Conservative” because of it. The real ironic part is; a few of the bloggers who have said and done this, are Jewish people, like these people now have the right to smear a black man, because of what Adolf Hilter did to their people. I can tell you this, if ever a Jew were elected President; and people on the left or right criticized him, like people are doing Obama. The Semite card players would be out in full force —- Just like the race-card people are now.

This crap here is another reason why I have basically decided to stop siding with the right in this Country. Enough is enough and I have had enough of it. It is time get back to the reality; but it is becoming more clear by the minute that the Far Right and even the not-so-far right are living in altered state of reality.

On the right; in the end, it is the “That Nigger President and his socialist minions are going to rap our babies, Eat our children and steal our Money!” types that win out over reason and common sense. Which is why I’ve basically moved back to the center of the political fence. I didn’t vote for Obama; but I am not going to sit here and slander the man anymore. At least not to go along with the Republican Party’s narrative. The Conservative Blogosphere is made up serial liars, Neo-Nazi’s who are treated with respect, and shrieking harpy’s who are just plan crazy. Not my kind of crowd; that is about annoying and stupid as the Christian Right, of which I used to be part of. So, I know of what I speak.

The far right’s resident bow tie wearing asshole discovers that progressive journalists actually work together

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Ooooh Scary… Must be a commie plot…or something…. 🙄

Tell me this asshole is not a fag....

The crisis reached a howling pitch in mid-April, 2008, at an ABC News debate moderated by Charlie Gibson and George Stephanopoulos. Gibson asked Obama why it had taken him so long – nearly a year since Wright’s remarks became public – to dissociate himself from them. Stephanopoulos asked, “Do you think Reverend Wright loves America as much as you do?”

Watching this all at home were members of Journolist, a listserv comprised of several hundred liberal journalists, as well as like-minded professors and activists. The tough questioning from the ABC anchors left many of them outraged. “George [Stephanopoulos],” fumed Richard Kim of the Nation, is “being a disgusting little rat snake.”

via Documents show media plotting to kill stories about Rev. Jeremiah Wright | The Daily Caller

If you think for one second that Conservative Bloggers and media types do not work together; you are crazy. But that does not matter, because them evil liberals want to rape our white daughters and eat our babies…and make us all into Muslims…. or something. 🙄

Shirley Sherrod may have been railroaded

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Remember the video I posted yesterday? Well, it looks like this lady may have been railroaded.

Check out the Memorandum thread. Read the stories and make your own decisions.

If I were Sherrod, I would sue the living crap out of that playboy rich asshole Jew Andrew Breitbart. Lord knows he has too much money and likes to abuse others with his riches. He needs to be taken out; and besides, it would make for some awesome blog fodder.

As of today: I am no longer an “Right of Center” Blogger

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This decision is not one that I just made flippantly. It is one that has been coming for a long time; ever since the election actually or shortly afterward.

This is not to say that I am siding again with the Democrats, oh hell no. 🙄  But I am basically divorcing myself from what I really never was in the first place. As you know, if you read the “About Me” section and the “About this Blog” section on here; that I am, and really always was an independent. I was just an Independent, who sided with the right, when it came to Obama and the Democratic Party.

However, here in the last few weeks, it seems that the Republican Party and the Conservative Blogosphere has become entrenched in some very blatant stupidity. Like the stupid “Sword Fight” with the NAACP over racism; meanwhile stories like the Republican murdered in Tennessee are all but ignored.  I am for the preservation of American values and American Jobs, but what I am not for, is stupid partisan nonsense which has been coming from the Conservative Blogosphere as of late.

There is much more that I could write about this; but I really think you all know what I mean. I mean, the right Blogosphere has all but imposed a blackout on my blog; because some dirt-bag decided that I was not a “True Conservative”; whatever that is…. Anyhow, I guess because I did not suck up to Michelle Malkin and posted one of her old addresses, because she decided to stalk a family, who’s child was badly injured in an auto accident — that makes me a fake Conservative. Pfft, As if. 🙄 Her true Conservatism was exposed as a fraud to many, when she offloaded HotAir, because it was supposedly a “bad investment”, which sums up her entire “Conservatism” —– a money-making deception. For what it is worth; I was not the person who exposed where she lived in Maryland, which made her have to move to Colorado. Even I am not that big of an asshole. Malkin has kids and I’d never do a thing to hurt a kid. I posted that old address, BEFORE I even knew she had any kids. The rumor that was told to me, is that the idiots over at Democratic Underground were a part of that little stunt. But, I cannot confirm that, so take it for what it is worth.

Anyhow, I made some changes. I removed the blogrolls, I removed my blog from the Ad-Hives on BlogAds. I’ll keep the BlogAds Advertisements on there. But, I don’t plan on pimping myself out to anything on the right or the left anymore. I will continue to blog about crap that pisses me off in the World of politics; but don’t expect me to accept any stupid narratives anymore. I will say what I damned well feel about stuff and if anyone does not like it. They can go screw themselves. I just really do not give two craps anymore about this idiotic nonsense.

Will I continue blogging? Yes. I do not plan on going anywhere. I am just very pissed off at what I thought were my friends on the right. Truthfully, I was nothing more than a useful idiot to those bastards.

Anyhow, I am off to take a much needed nap. I may also take a few weeks off from blogging. Because at this point; this shit ain’t fun anymore. 🙁

See ya

-Pat

Updated: Why was this man murdered?

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Why was this man killed?

Who did it and Why?

Those are questions that I would like to know….

From KnoxNews.com:

The Victim: Jim Miller - Monroe County Election Commission Chairman

MADISONVILLE, Tenn. — Investigators are tight lipped, rumors are flying and a community is in shock by the discovery Saturday of a body that is widely believed to be Monroe County Election Commission Chairman Jim Miller, stuffed in the trunk of a burning car.

Late Monday afternoon, it was announced that the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation had become the lead agency of the four agencies investigating the case.

“It is Jim’s car, and Jim is missing,” said his longtime attorney and personal friend, John Cleveland, who is the city attorney for Sweetwater, Tenn. “But everybody would be pleased 
 to find out that we are wrong (and it is not him).”

Cleveland issued a statement Monday on behalf of Miller’s family that clearly indicates they believe he is the victim. Miller was last seen at the county’s Election Commission office around 12:30 p.m. on Saturday. He was working that day because of early voting, said County Election Administrator James R. Brown.

“He’d made a call to his wife and was going home, but he never made it home,” Brown said. “This has got people talking in the county. It’s got people wondering.

Now why would I even remotely care about this? This is why:

Miller, 60, was a lifelong Sweetwater resident and very active in community affairs and the Republican Party, say people who knew him.

[…]

Besides his Election Commission post, Miller was 1st District chairman of the county’s Republican Party. He was president of Jim Miller Excavating Co.

Could it be that this man discovered some election fraud in Tennessee or knew about some; and maybe was planning to go public with it, and the Democrats in Tennessee ordered him killed? Is it wrong to ask such questions? After all, President Obama did say, “Get in their faces!” I mean, we already know about the Republican who got shoved and punched by a union goon at a nurses union rally; who is to say that the Democratic National Committee or the Democratic Party in Tennessee did not order this man killed? Something stinks and I think some sort of new media investigation is needed.I would head down there myself; but I do not have the funds to check it out, and I really do not have any reliable transportation.

Let me say this; if this was a hit on a Republican election official, and anyone outside of the State level was involved with this, it could have horrible ramifications for the Democratic Party in the 2010 and 2012 elections. Let me also say this; I normally as a rule do not engage in this sort of speculation, but this one reeks of a plot to murder the political opposition. I just hope that I am wrong and this was an random act of violence towards an old man. However, it does warrant media investigation. However, we all know that the Liberal media will not get involved in this; because it does not fit their narrative.

Update: So far. Not one blogger has replied to my e-mail or even linked. Needless to say, I am not happy with the Conservative Blogosphere right now. 😡

Update #2: From the comments section:

This, most likely, is a family related murder not political. BtW, no identification has been made yet. This guy and his brothers have been in a 10 plus year war over a dairy farm with numerous appeals. miller v miller Appeals Court Ruling PDF I am from this area and people down here don’t get killed for politics. They get killed over probate and death gifts of estates. :twisted: This area is so republican that most people won’t even admit to being a Reagan democrat. :oops: Either way, it is sad.

Update #3: From the comments:

I wanted to update this story. In a surprising turn of events, the Sheriff Deputy who drove by and saw the car burning has been suspended with pay and declared a suspect in the arson and murder. Captain Kenny Hope of the Monroe County Sheriff Department even admitted that he was the only suspect and was questioned by the TBI (Tennessee version of the FBI.)

Captain Kenny Hope was hired in 2006, after Democrat Bill Blevins was elected as the first democratic sheriff and first democratic county-wide office holder in decades. His win was based not because of a political platform but perceived abuse and alleged illegal actions by the proceeding sheriff and disgraced Rep. General Session Judge Edwin Harris (Resigned over drug crimes) and Rep. Judge Hagler (Resigned after tapes were discovered containing sexual fantasies and who was suspected of killing a priest in Chattanooga in a weird sex case.)

Earlier in 2010 Captain Hope and the Mr. Miller was in a conflict during a traffic stop and arrest. The case is so convulsed that the DA and Judge recused themselves and the case was transferred out of County.

Sure enough, here are the links to the story here. Looks like there might just be some corruption on the local level after all.

UPDATED: Black Racism in the Obama Administration: Exhibit A – Shirley Sherrod Sherrod resigns – Update: Video didn’t tell full story.

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This is a unbelievable Video:

Andrew Breitbart, as always, has the scoop on this terrible video:

In fact, it’s worse. The media that provided the left a platform to accuse the Tea Party, all the while refusing to air any exculpatory evidence. Again, the mainstream media inserts itself as the number one weapon in the progressive weapons stash. Political correctness, as the Duke Lacrosse case exemplified, trumps all in PC America and her afflicted media.

But the new media will not be silenced. It will not allow for the main stream media to propagate hateful and hurtful lies in order to save the Democratic Party from the toxic choices it has made over the past few years. And by bringing up race, and demanding a zero tolerance of racism, the left, and the NAACP in particular, has opened itself up for scrutiny.

We are in possession of a video from in which Shirley Sherrod, USDA Georgia Director of Rural Development, speaks at the NAACP Freedom Fund dinner in Georgia. In her meandering speech to what appears to be an all-black audience, this federally appointed executive bureaucrat lays out in stark detail, that her federal duties are managed through the prism of race and class distinctions.

In the first video, Sherrod describes how she racially discriminates against a white farmer. She describes how she is torn over how much she will choose to help him. And, she admits that she doesn’t do everything she can for him, because he is white. Eventually, her basic humanity informs that this white man is poor and needs help. But she decides that he should get help from “one of his own kind”. She refers him to a white lawyer.

Sherrod’s racist tale is received by the NAACP audience with nodding approval and murmurs of recognition and agreement. Hardly the behavior of the group now holding itself up as the supreme judge of another groups’ racial tolerance.

via » Video Proof: The NAACP Awards Racism–2010 – Big Government.

Unbelievable…… This woman uses the fact that white people mistreated blacks many, many, many years ago, as an excuse to discriminate against a white man in the twenty-first century. As I told you all before, Black Racism is not a myth, it does exist and it is justified by the liberal media in America. Now, some of you might say, “Well, this has existed for many years.” Sure, it has; but it was mainly confined to the local level, like say in Detroit and many metropolitan cities. This is on the national level and it should not be tolerated at all.  Shirley Sherrod should be terminated from her job immediately. She has demonstrated in this video, that she is totally incapable of being fair and just in her ability to help ALL people; and not just those of color.

This, I am afraid, is what people like Senator Barry Goldwater feared, when he refused to sign the Civil Rights act of 1964. Not only that, but you also notice too, that no Liberals have spoken out against this? That is because the Democratic Party; which is basically now controlled by the Obama Administration supports and now sanctions this sort of activity.

Remember this sort of nonsense come the 2010 and 2012 elections and vote accordingly. Racism is wrong; no matter if it is White against Black or Black against White — It is still wrong and should not be allowed, much less tolerated in a public office or from a public official.

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Update: Via The Free Republic: Shirley Sherrod has resigned.

Cue the Music!

Update: Looks like there is more to this story!

Washington Post finally discovers that Government is too big

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You mean they are just now figuring this out?:

The top-secret world the government created in response to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, has become so large, so unwieldy and so secretive that no one knows how much money it costs, how many people it employs, how many programs exist within it or exactly how many agencies do the same work.

These are some of the findings of a two-year investigation by The Washington Post that discovered what amounts to an alternative geography of the United States, a Top Secret America hidden from public view and lacking in thorough oversight. After nine years of unprecedented spending and growth, the result is that the system put in place to keep the United States safe is so massive that its effectiveness is impossible to determine.

The investigation’s other findings include:

* Some 1,271 government organizations and 1,931 private companies work on programs related to counterterrorism, homeland security and intelligence in about 10,000 locations across the United States.

* An estimated 854,000 people, nearly 1.5 times as many people as live in Washington, D.C., hold top-secret security clearances.

* In Washington and the surrounding area, 33 building complexes for top-secret intelligence work are under construction or have been built since September 2001. Together they occupy the equivalent of almost three Pentagons or 22 U.S. Capitol buildings – about 17 million square feet of space.

* Many security and intelligence agencies do the same work, creating redundancy and waste. For example, 51 federal organizations and military commands, operating in 15 U.S. cities, track the flow of money to and from terrorist networks.

* Analysts who make sense of documents and conversations obtained by foreign and domestic spying share their judgment by publishing 50,000 intelligence reports each year – a volume so large that many are routinely ignored.

These are not academic issues; lack of focus, not lack of resources, was at the heart of the Fort Hood shooting that left 13 dead, as well as the Christmas Day bomb attempt thwarted not by the thousands of analysts employed to find lone terrorists but by an alert airline passenger who saw smoke coming from his seatmate.

They are also issues that greatly concern some of the people in charge of the nation’s security.

“There has been so much growth since 9/11 that getting your arms around that – not just for the DNI [Director of National Intelligence], but for any individual, for the director of the CIA, for the secretary of defense – is a challenge,” Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said in an interview with The Post last week.

via A hidden world, growing beyond control (Printer friendly version)| washingtonpost.com.

What gets me is this; these guys are just now bringing this story out. How come they did not do it sooner? You want to know why? It is because WaPo is suffering; their publication numbers are down, because they have been being the Democratic Party’s publication arm and now they are suffering. So, they figure they would take on big Government. Nice. But is not ironic that the same people that basically did the “Hosanna” song for President Barack Obama, a big Government Advocate; and now they are suddenly worried about the aspect of a “big, scary, secret Government?” The irony is not lost on this Blogger.

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Mark Williams whines about getting the boot

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Whiny assed bastard….:

Apparently I have offended the tea party “leadership.”

Mind you, there is no tea party leadership; every tea partier is a tea party leader. But something happens when the stronger egos and personalities in a movement begin to feel a sense of ownership. It is not long before they act to claim and defend that feeling.

Project12An example of that happened today. And it is a crying shame. We are fighting for the future of not just this nation but for the future of Mankind. That’s just a little more important than my fat head, or the apparently even fatter head on Face the Nation Today who misrepresented himself as the tea party “leader”

via Tea Party Federation outburst sets us all back « MarkTalk.com News & Commentary.

Nice try at spin and denial Mark. You are a racist bigot and you were exposed. Deal with it and move on. Head on over and listen to his whining.

Finally: Tea Party Federation kicks Mark Williams and the Tea Party Express out of the movement

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A HUGE Kudos to the Tea Party Federation for doing this:

The National Tea Party Federation, an organization that represents the Tea Party political movement around the country, has expelled conservative commentator Mark Williams and his Tea Party Express because of an inflammatory blog post he wrote, federation spokesman David Webb said Sunday.

Appearing on the CBS program “Face the Nation,” Webb said that Williams and the Tea Party Express — which has held a series of events across the country to generate support for the movement — no longer were part of the National Tea Party Federation.

via Tea Party Federation kicks out Williams over blog post – CNN.com.

The Press Release is here:

Effective Immediately, Tea Party Express Is No Longer a Member

of the National Tea Party Federation


Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2010 at 3:43pm

Last night, the members of the National Tea Party Federation participating in an “All Hands” conference call unanimously decided the following:

The membership of the National Tea Party Federation has this evening suspended and will immediately expel Tea Party Express from any further association with the Federation should they fail to publicly rebuke Mark Williams and remove him from their ranks by 3 pm eastern time Saturday July 17.

The rebuke must take the following form:

1. Mark Williams must be officially removed from the ranks of the Tea Party Express.

2. Notice of Mark Williams’ removal must be placed prominently on the official Tea Party Express website.

3. Tea Party Express must issue a press release articulating points 1 and 2 above.

* * *

Last night, a member of the National Tea Party Federation communicated our decision directly to a member of the leadership team of Tea Party Express. That leader’s response was clear: they have no intention of taking the action we required for their group to continue as a member of the National Tea Party Federation.

Therefore, effective immediately the National Tea Party Federation is expelling Tea Party Express from the ranks of our membership.

Of course, some bloggers, including one that I will never link to directly is bringing up the fact that the word “Racism” is not used in the press release. Which is pretty ironic, considering the fact that he is a known stalker and slanderer himself. Anyhow, this was a very good move on the part of the National Tea Party Federation; as racism, whether nuanced or outright, just should not be tolerated at all, by anyone or any side of the political debate.

A personal note to Mark Williams: Hey, idiot! You hate black people? Then take your idiotic ass over the Democratic Party where you belong sir. You are NOT one of us!  I am sure the Klan or Stormfront.org will welcome you with open arms. Because you know what? You possess the same moronic mentality that those mental midgets possess. I think Mark Williams and Craig Bodeker ought to get together and compare notes; because God knows, they are two peas out of the same pot — that should be shunned and ignored. Along with the rest of the damn crackpots; like Pat Buchanan, Ron Paul and the rest of the Anti-Semites and racists that are still left over from the Paleo-Conservative era.

Editorial: Racial Stupidity on both sides of the political fence

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I have been trying to avoid having to write an article like this; but I must.  It seems that race and racism has become the common topic in the conversation of politics as of late; and both sides have been exploiting the topic in horrible ways.  This is not to say that there are not true, bona fide racists out there; there are, as I have pointed out in the past.  Contrary to what some more partisan bloggers might believe, there are racists in both camps; black and white.

First up, is on the black liberal side of the fence.  An article that I happened to see posted over at Gateway Pundit Blog; some opinion person, by the name of Courtland Milloy writes this over at the Washington Post, I will quote just a portion of it:

White: A person having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East or North Africa.

– Racial definition from the U.S. Census Bureau

With all the talk lately about “white vote,” I thought it would be helpful to know what a white person is. As the census definition makes clear, who knows? It’s a biological fiction, a figment of the pigment beneath which all human beings are the same.

And yet, with midterm elections just a few months away, the so-called white vote looms large, an angry and vindictive political force. A Washington Post/ABC News poll released Tuesday showed that President Obama’s approval ratings have reached “a new low among whites, at 40 percent, with his positive marks dipping under 50 percent for the first time among white college-educated women.”

Does race have anything to do with it? You betcha.


To hear whites tell it, what really bothers them is a growing federal government that they fear will intervene in their lives — unless there’s an oil spill along the Gulf Coast, of course, in which case their complaint is too little intervention. Budget deficits are a worry, too, unless it’s George Bush running up the red ink.


Whites, for instance, are overwhelmingly in favor of Arizona’s immigration law, according to most polls. And virtually none of the surveys has shown any concern for the rights of nonwhite Hispanics who would be subject to racial profiling and illegal search and seizures. These are the same people who like to wave copies of the U.S. Constitution and claim Obama is curtailing their freedoms.

“The differences between whites and nonwhites on [the Arizona immigration law] are very stark,” Matthew Kerbel, a political scientist at Villanova University, told the Christian Science Monitor. “The numbers seem to reflect that among white American voters, there is something that needs to be done about illegal immigration and that the Arizona law addresses that. But among blacks and Hispanics, the law is viewed as a strong form of racial profiling, and so there is strong sentiment against it.”

Amazing, really, how people from German, Irish, English, Italian, Polish, French, Welsh, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian and Russian backgrounds can land on American shores and coalesce around a racial category concocted solely to exploit others.

You do not think that he is just a little bit bigoted towards white people do you?

Sad thing is, it is not, contrary to what some more partisan bloggers might want to report; limited to just black liberals.  The racist mentality can be found on the so-called “Right,” amongst some whites as well.  Just yesterday, I removed someone as a friend and blocked someone on facebook for referring to President Barack Obama as “Oboingo” or something to that effect.  To be clear here, I dislike socialism and President Barack Obama’s polices as much as the next “Right of Center” person does.  However, when you use terms like that, to describe the President, you lose any sort of legitimacy that you might have.  Those sorts of “nick names” are just rooted in racism.

Another little gem that I stumbled across this morning was a link posted on facebook to this video here, along with the following message:

Will You Recognize a Real Threat, Even if You Get Called ‘Racist’ For Doing So?

To which I replied, and I apologize for the language, as I was a bit angry:

I do believe this is where I get off the bus. You think White people cannot be gangsta? Shit. I’ll show you some. I grew up in Southwest Detroit and I know white people with the same fucking mentality. Craig, You’re nothing more than a fucking racist. I can’t deal with that man.  See ya.

-Pat

With that, I went ahead and removed myself from people that liked that page on facebook.  You see, I thought that the man that made that video was an honest broker; turns out, he is no better than the man that wrote the article above. He is, in fact, just another bigot trying to stir the pot.  However, the real kicker is this little reply from one of his friends:

“grew up in Southwest Detroit and I know white people with the same fucking mentality.”
hmmmm, now I wonder if black culture could have, I don’t know…influenced those young white men? Antiracism is just code for antiwhite..

One would only have to change a few words around and he would sound just like Al Sharpton.  Bigotry is bigotry, and it is wrong; not matter if it is black against white or white against black.  It is still wrong and it is still narrow-minded and extremely stupid. Now is it fair to say that the Democratic Party enables the bigotry on the left?  Absolutely!  Just as it is fair to say that there are Conservatives and yes, some Republicans who, in fact, wink and nod at the bigots on the right.

The bottom line is this; as long as there are these outliers around who want to continue and stir up hatred and fear of the races on both sides of the political and racial aisles, we will have to contend with this sort of nonsense.  What is the solution?  The solution is to stop giving these outliers a platform, ignore them, and learn to trust each other, instead of capitalizing on fear and exploiting it.  But then again; if we did do that, people like Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and Craig Bodeker would be out of a job — and that my friends would be the best thing ever.

Um, Tucker?

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Man, I hate it when people spew, when they don’t know what they’re talking about….:

I’ve heard a lot from MSNBC, from friends of mine who work there who despise Keith. I’ve always had kind of a soft spot for Keith because I feel sorry for him because of his various phobias. He won’t drive a car. He’s obviously a sad guy, in elastic-band jeans

via Tucker Carlson On Keith Olbermann: ‘The Most Disliked Person At MSNBC’ | Mediaite.

Geeez…. Um, Tucker? Keith Olbermann does not drive a car; because he has a vision problem. It was brought on, because he accidentally bashed his head into a subway door; almost knocking him unconscious.  So, he has a problem with depth perception.

I mean, far from it for me to be defending the Ed Marrow wanna-be, with a big head; but the crack about driving a car, is just uncalled for. The man has a disability that was brought on by an injury. So, please, let’s keep the bashing on a non-personal level.

This one hit me personally. Here’s why. I have A.D.H.D. I was born with it. Whenever someone makes a crass joke about A.D.D…. it bothers me. Because of this; I just believe that making comments of this nature are just uncalled for.

I hope, in the name of decency; that Tucker does apologize publicly on his site.

I will be sending this to Tucker.