Stanek Sunday funnies 10-2-11
My top five political cartoon picks for the week, first by Toby Toons…
In case you missed the reference, on Keith Olbermann’s show this week actress/comedienne/left wing political actress Janeane Garofalo accused the GOP of fronting Herman Cain for president to hide its racism…
by Ken Catalino at Townhall.com…
by Eric Allie at Townhall.com…
by Glenn McCoy at Townhall.com…
In case you missed the reference, here’s the relevant clip, from a speech President Obama gave to the Congressional Black Caucus on September 24…
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvP281Q_jfw&feature=related[/youtube]
by Mike Luckovich at GoComics.com…
Oct.02, 2011 2:35 pm |
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Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
According to Andrew Breitbart, speaking in front of four sets of the national colors at the Tea Convention, Garofalo is “Hollywood’s sympathy f***.”
This elevates the national political conversation, just as his statement a couple of weeks ago at another Tea gathering that he has “the numbers and the guns,” as well as the support of key members of the military, whose names you’d recognize.
To any person who values the US Constitution, this should make Breitbart and his “ilk” unwelcome here, but it won’t.
Please feel free to “moderate” or “delete” this comment because it is, after all, your echo chamber.
“Yawn”
Pretty boring group of cartoons this week – C- at best.
Some very funny ones in this link – http://politicalhumor.about.com/od/politicalcartoons/ig/Political-Cartoons/
I enjoy the “you go to Gladiator Games and a GOP debate breaks out!”
mp,
Right up there with Teamster Union President Jimmy Hoffa Jr., son of the late Teamster Union thug and mob lackey Jimmy Hoffa, calling Tea Party members SOBs, just prior to introducing the President. Also referring to himself and the labor union as Obama’s soldiers, ready to take out the Tea Party. Oh, and the ever charming Maxine Waters, who looks like she perpetually sucks lemons, screaming the Tea Party people can “go to hell”. Then there’s that champion of the working man (Mr.)Ed(The Talking Horse Patoot) Schultz and his calling conservative Laura Ingrahm a “slut”, as well as babbling that there was some rigging of the Wisconsin recall elections, without any evidence of course. Now the mindless babbling of Janeane Garofalo. Note to liberals, the racism card is getting old. But then what can you expect from someone who lays on the floor of the radio station and smooches with her dog.
I respectfully submit that telling someone to “go to H***” is far less subversive than talking about the overthrow of the United States Government.
Mr. Breitbart should be called before a federal grand jury to reveal the names of the officers who said the military has his back.
Note to Xalisae: That’s called sedition and it’s a court martial offense under the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
They may, or may not, talk about that on the History Channel.
mp,
It seems any number of people on the left could also be accused of subversivness. Let’s see, Michael Moore accusing the wealthy of stealing from the people. Kind of sounds like a Bolshevik wannabe. Laughable coming from a multimillionaire like Moore, but I digress. Roseanne Barr calls for beheading the wealthy, look out Michael Moore. We now have “anti-Wall St.” demonstrations in various cities. Check out Drudge, as well as about 700 arrests in the NYC anti Wall St. demonstration, organized by the left. Shades of Vladimir Lenin!
Check out the history of governments being toppled mp and you’ll find this is how it begins, not with some guy who talks about having guns and unnamed military connections.
Ugh. She’s still talking? Honestly, after accusing Herman Cain of having Stockholm Syndrome a couple weeks ago (because it is, of course, impossible that any black person could actually disagree with her), I would have thought she’d have the decency (or good sense to try and save some of her dignity) to keep her head down for a while rather than doubling down.
Apparently not.
Mary – you’ve got to love the demonstrations, don’t you? Like the tea party, it is democracy at it’s best. Who cares if you agree with them or not!
mp,
There you go on Breitbart again. I can only vaguely recall what you’re referencing, but I think he was talking about backing up a debate point, not overthrowing the government. I’ll have to search his sites to find it.
Meet me here. With water pistols. :)
EGV,
Were 700 Tea Partiers ever placed under arrest at any given Tea Party event?
I support the right to demonstrate, peacefully. I do not condone advocating the “beheading” of any particular group of people, or the violence against the rich Michael Moore advocates.
We’re talking about possible sedition here. If Breitbart is lying, so be it. Consider that the next time you read or watch his trash “journalism.”
If he’s telling the truth, if he did talk to senior officers of the military and they said that, I want him hauled before a grand jury.
Come to think of it, it is a matter of national security, so he could be renditioned to an undisclosed location, held incommunicado, and be waterboarded for the information. It doesn’t matter whether he looks “strange” or has a funny-sounding name.
Ex-GOP,
There are differences with the two. These knuckleheads stage sit-ins, disrupting everyone’s day. They also leave the place a mess.
I’ll take a tea party over a pothead party any time.
Mary – Oh yes, they walked on a bridge! Very non-peaceful of them!
The tea party folks, when they do have 700 at an event…most of them need to be home by 9 to get their dentures out to be cleaned – so the thought of doing anything to get arrested is out of the question.
There you go on Breitbart again.
Oh, I’m sure that, if the president of CBS News had called Michele Bachman “Washington’s sympathy f***,” there would be a real firestorm here, no?
mp,
You’re one ex-government worker who really does not like his government, :(
These knuckleheads stage sit-ins, disrupting everyone’s day. They also leave the place a mess.
“Democracy is a messy thing.”
Unfortunately, I can’t take credit for that one. The credit goes to President Bush’s Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld.
You’re one ex-government worker who really does not like his government,
No, I was a soldier, and there’s a difference.
EGV,
I seriously doubt that the 700 were arrested for praying too loudly. Apparently it was illegal for them to walk across the bridge, if indeed that was the reason. I don’t write the laws in NYC so I don’t know what the bridge situation was or why it would be illegal.
Tsk Tsk Tsk, EGV. Such an ageist comment! And from such a bastion of tolerance as yourself. What if I was to suggest that the Congressional Black Caucus has to get their daily fill of watermelon? Why you would be aghast at such racism(ageism)!
Playful jabs at a group’s age is MUCH different than racism. Sad you don’t see that.
In walking across the bridge, some used sidewalks and some blocked the flow of traffic. Again, the horror.
I support the right to demonstrate, peacefully. I do not condone advocating the “beheading” of any particular group of people, or the violence against the rich Michael Moore advocates.
How about someone talking sedition?
You OK with that?
EGV,
Oh I see, I’m racist, you’re just engaging in a “playful jab”. Well heck EGV, so was I!
Blocked traffic. I understand that’s illegal, except of course when its people you support that are doing it, then illegality is beside the point. What if emergency vehicles trying to cross the bridge end up being backed up and delayed by the blocked traffic?
mp,
For some reason I think talking of “beheading” any particular group of people, or preaching hatred, is every bit as dangerous and unacceptable as “sedition”. As I said mp, this is how sedition starts out, not by people talking about it but by focusing on some particular group to “blame” for all the evils of the world. Here, its the “rich”. You really should check out Vladimir Lenin.
Hey speaking of sedition mp, what do you think of N.Carolina governer Bev Perdue calling for the cancellation of congressional elections?
What if emergency vehilcles trying to cross the bridge end up being backed up and delayed by the blocked traffic?
What if you, as a well-known media figure and involved with a major political organization, had a high-ranking military officer–someone we’d all recognize–walk up to you and say he “has your back.”
Would you be comfortable with that?
mp,
I don’t understand your point. A well known military figure wouldn’t frighten me in the least.
Also, what do you think of a governor calling for the suspension of elections?
“Hey speaking of sedition mp, what do you think of N.Carolina governer Bev Perdue calling for the cancellation of congressional elections?”
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I think it’s outrageous, but I’m not sure if it’s sedition.
I don’t know the details, but I intend to find out.
I don’t understand your point. A well known military figure wouldn’t frighten me in the least.
Well, you see, if a military figure did that it would be a court martial offense under the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
As an American, I don’t want to see the military taking sides.
And neither should you.
mp,
I think its a lot of talk until proven otherwise. That the military would give their backing to a publisher, commentator for the Washington Times, and occasional guest commentator to lead a seditious movement seems to me a bit of a stretch. Right up there with “men in black” who follow around American citizens who have spoken to Martians. Didn’t Hans Johnson say Breitbart was backing up a debate point? I would be interested in reading what Hans says about this.
Am I the only one who thinks it’s funny when I (a mostly-white person) am called “racist” because I disagree with our President’s actions/policies… when Mr. Obama is just as white as he is black (50% white, 50% black)? If disagreeing with the President means I’m racist (against black people) then are black people who disagree with the President racist against white people?
LOL. Seriously, the “race card” is getting a bit old.
Hi army_wife,
And it is played again and again by the very people who view themselves as bastions of tolerance, totally oblvious to race.
The most laughable thing I ever say was some commentator on MessNBC suggesting that black Tea Party demonstrators should have been put in front of the camera by the Tea Party, for all the world to see. Excuse me? Do you people ever listen to yourselves?
Since race is NOT an issue to Tea Party people, it would’t occur to us to put people of a particular race or ethnicity in front of the camera.
I think it is silly to constantly pull the race card as well – though I do appreciate thoughtful insight on race and politics – a good one today:
http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/01/opinion/martin-cain-brainwashed/index.html
Obama will play the race card or the class warfare card (and boldly proclaim it to be a badge of honor) or any other card that that he thinks gives him political advantage. He has no scruples and very little conscience. He went after the Bush administration for opening Guantanamo and not giving foreign terrorists access to our justice system (for political advantage by attacking Bush) and then he orders drone strikes all over the world including on US citizens that are abroad. He is the worst kind of liar. 2012 can’t come quick enough.
Andrew Breitbart, in all his glory.
http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201109190031
http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201110010006
Yes, I monitor a few “lib” sites. And, as you know, I also monitor a few “con” sites.
Does that make me a crypto-commie-pinko-lib-con?
Or maybe, just maybe, reasonably well-informed?
Hi EGV,
Interesting though not completely accurate article. No mention is made of the Democrats instituting Jim Crow in the south or the KKK being the terrorist arm of the Democrat Party.
Or for that matter, Democrat president Woodrow Wilson, the darling of the progessives, segregating the military and instituting Jim Crow at the federal level.
Blacks voted Republican because Republicans supported the rights of blacks. One of the purposes of lynching, of both blacks and whites, was to keep anyone from voting Republican.
The policies of FDR? FDR would not give his moral backing to anti lynching legislation, much to the chagrin of his wife Eleanor. He also appointed a former klansman and klan lawyer to the US Supreme Court, over the objection of Republicans BTW. FDR also put non white American citizens, Japanese-Americans, into concentration camps. Excuse me, internment camps. Only tyrants like Hitler and Stalin had concentration camps. The military remained segregated under FDR, who certainly had the power to change that but didn’t.
Yes, Truman did issue an executive order ending segregation in the military, but only because he knew he didn’t have a prayer of getting it past the Democrats in the congress.
Eisenhower tried to pass a Civil Rights Bill, but it was opposed by then Democrat Senator Lyndon Johnson who called it the “G–d—–n—–bill. Then Senator John Kennedy, eyeing the presidency, did not want to offend the Democrat hierarchy and thus would also not support the bill.
Lyndon Johnson did get the Civil Rights and Voting Rights bills passed, but only with the help of Republicans. The Democrats were too busy filibustering. Imagine that EGV, black people have the Republicans to thank for this legislation!
As for the “southern strategy” whatever the devil that was, the fact remains that some of the most ardent segregationists remained Democrats, including J.Wm Fulbright, Robert(Sheets)Byrd, and Al Gore Sr. to name a few.
In fact EGV, I would challenge you to name all the racist Democrats that turned Republican.
1970- Racist Republican Richard Nixon calls for reversal of policy of forced termination of Native American rights and benefits
1976 Racist Republican Gerald Ford formally rescinded FDRs notorious executive order putting American citizens in concentration camps.
Racist Republican President George HW Bush signs the 1991 Civil Rights Act to strenghten Civil Rights legislation.
Legislation authored by racist Republican Senator Spencer Abraham awarding
Congressional Gold Medal to civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks, forwarded to president.
February 26,2004- Hispanic Republican US representative Henry Bonilla condemns racist comments by Democrat US Rep. Corrine Brown; she had called Asst. Sec. of State Roger Noriega and several Hispanic congressmen ” a bunch of white men, you all look alike to me”
Mary – feel free to write the author your concerns – he’s a pretty smart guy. I’m guessing that he feels neither party is perfect, but that one is better than the other.
mp,
Please, the guy is just a commentator and a publisher. I don’t live in any more mortal fear of him than I do that loud mouth buffoon Ed Schultz, who was convinced there was some plot to rig the Wisconsin recall elections. These people just talk mp. If you don’t like them, don’t listen.
BWAHAHAHAHA! This is funny.
Us. Them.
Republican. Democrat.
Liberal. Conservative.
Did it ever occur to you folks that both sides are having you?
Does the question I’m asking make me a crypto-commie-pinko?
truth – are you saying you don’t support the killing of Awlaki?
Please, the guy is just a commentator and a publisher. I don’t live in any more mortal fear of him than I do that loud mouth buffoon Ed Schultz …
Oh, I don’t fear Breitbart, far from it, but I am concerned about his allegations concerning the military.
If true, an investigation is necessary. If a lie, Breitbart should apologize for besmirching the military.
mp,
Well, I think Ed Schultz should apologize for besmirching the reputations of Wisconsin election officials. Do you know if Gov. Perdue apologized for suggesting that elections be cancelled.
As I said I would be interested in what Hans Johnson has to say about it. I suspect, like the above, it was so much talk and little more.
Do you know if Gov. Perdue apologized for suggesting that elections be cancelled.
I have no idea, but anyone who would suggest something so blatantly stupid/ignorant/choose one should resign.
Is that good enough for you?
Or does that make me a crypto-commie-pinko?
I heard a passing mention on the radio that Gov. Perdue claimed that the “cancel the elections” remark she made was made in “sarcasm” (jest). I haven’t checked that out yet, however.
truth – are you saying you don’t support the killing of Awlaki?
No Ex-RINO, I was just exposing Obama as a hypocrite for railing against the Bush administration for opening Guantanomo and trying people under military tribunals while Obama carries out assasinations around the globe without providing people any courts involvement. I thought he claimed we were not at war with these people. If were not at war then how does Obama justify targeting all these people (including Americans abroad) with drone strikes? Do you not see the hypocrisy of our empty suit and chief without scruples in this example? He is all about himself and his own re-election and he plays any card that suits him politically.
Hans and Mary and others. In order to even try to make sense of Ex-RINO’s comments about Bush being one of the least pro-life people he knows you have to understand Ex-RINO’s history of Bush Derangement Syndrome.
As an American, I don’t want to see the military taking sides.
And neither should you.
Says the ex-military wearing his prior affiliation on his sleeve while speaking ill of our international efforts at national defense. HA. Hahahahahaha. Ha. Ha ha.
By the way, ex-military personnel were mobilizing to the Wall Street protest to “protect” the protesters. Talk about sedition.
mp. 8:14PM
I never suggested you were a crypto commie pinko.
I think your suggestion of resigning is a good one. But I don’t think we should hold our breath!
truth – you are on the wrong thread with your comments. (at least your 8:29 comment)
On your other – if you are just realizing that politicians play cards to suit them politically…if you are just realizing this now…come on truth.
EGV, 7:58PM
Not my concerns, historical fact. Since you referenced this article you would seem to find it an accurate one, which in fact it was not.
Oh, I didn’t mention the racist Republican Senator Sam Brownback who introduced a bill to to establish a National Museum of African American History and Culture.
Mary – you didn’t say anything he said wasn’t a fact. If two men are presenting themselves to a lady, and one gives 80 nice things about themself, and the other gives 60, it doesn’t mean that either of them is lying. The GOP has done good things in the past. They’ve also done rotten things. In the opinion of the author, the Dems have done more good than bad. If you’d like to get a job at CNN and present your thoughts, you can.
You can’t, however, claim that it is an “inaccurate” article simply because there are things the GOP has done that you see as good. His job wasn’t to write a book on the history of race and politics.
EGV,
I said it was not completely accurate, not inaccurate. Important historical facts were being left out. When this author praises FDR is he aware FDR put American citizens of color in concentration camps? That he would not give his moral support to anti-lynching legislation? That he put a klansman on the US Supreme Court? My guess is this author was presenting a very sanitized version of Democrat history. Whether this is from ignorance or embarassment I don’t know.
You’re the one who presented this article EGV so expect people to criticize and question it. Sorry, but it left out important historical fact.
Says the ex-military wearing his prior affiliation on his sleeve while speaking ill of our international efforts at national defense. HA. Hahahahahaha. Ha. Ha ha.
Wearing my prior service on my sleeve? So be it. I’m proud to have worn the uniform, but I’m not proud of the way in which the service has been abused for political ends.
The BND (German intelligence service) warned Bush about “Curveball;” they said he was “bogus,” and they should have known. Curveball was, after all, the BND’s asset and developed by them.
But, no, Bush and Cheney decided for reasons of their own to build a war in Iraq around Curveball. And we know how that turned out, don’t we? Curveball lives in Europe, drives a Mercedes, and is “proud” of having deceived Bush and Cheney.
It’s called due diligence, xalisae, and it’s not something that’s taught by Glenn Beck or History Channel.
Of course, there’s another possibility, which is that Bush and Cheney knew Curveball was bogus, but used him as an excuse to go war, but I won’t go there.
By the way, ex-military personnel were mobilizing to the Wall Street protest to “protect” the protesters. Talk about sedition.
I have absolutely no problem with ex-military personnel being sent to Wall Street.
They were doing so in uniform, which IS a violation of the USCMJ. ;)
They were doing so in uniform, which IS a violation of the USCMJ.
Ex-servicemembers are authorized to wear their uniforms on prescribed days, such as Veterans Day or Memorial Day.
If ex-servicemembers wear their uniforms to participate in a political event or protest, they are violating the law.
It should be needless to say, but the circumstances under which active duty servicemembers are permitted to wear their uniforms to political events is prescribed to the letter.
If ex-servicemembers wear their uniforms to participate in a political event or protest, they are violating the law.
Exactly.
By the way, ex-military personnel were mobilizing to the Wall Street protest to “protect” the protesters. Talk about sedition.
I now understand the context of what you wrote above, but that is not an act of sedition by an active duty servicemember.
mp: “Mr. Breitbart should be called before a federal grand jury to reveal the names of the officers who said the military has his back.”
And since he won’t be, I guess the Obama DOJ is complicit and derelict in its duties.
Or was the force of your “should be” merely histrionic, and not serious? ;-)
And since he won’t be, I guess the Obama DOJ is complicit and derelict in its duties.
Or was the force of your “should be” merely histrionic, and not serious?
If Breitbart isn’t hauled before a federal grand jury, I would like to know why not.
I am serious as a heart attack, and enough of an “old man” to know that anything is possible.
I won’t be crying when Obama leaves the White House, but I won’t be cheering either because I know what’s coming.
Does that make me a crypto-commie-pinko-lib-Obama-lover?
Mary- you are aware that Martin is writing about blacks, correct? It seems like about half of your “supporting” evidence is regarding other races – which is all fine and dandy, but you still haven’t shown anything he wrote to be inaccurate.
if you are just realizing that politicians play cards to suit them politically
Ex-RINO, in Obama’s case it is so extreme that he called the previous administration criminal for not giving the Guantamo terrorists lawyers and trials and the due process rights of American citizens. He had Eric Holder and our justice department go after them for this and now he is killing people left and right without any due process or trials. That goes way beyond playing political cards to being unworthy of office and being a bold-faced hypocrite and liar. But you won’t adimt that about him cause you would have to eat too much crow. I just hope there aren’t too many Americans as stubbornly supportive of him like you who won’to admit Obama is a flat out bold faced liar and a snake oil salesmen. He is not just your typical crony politician he is far worse. He is a combination of an extreme left wing idealogue and a bold faced liar. He is going around telling congress to pass his ‘jobs act’ right away before the bill was even written. Its been two weeks now and NOT ONE congressman Republican, Democrat or Independent has been willing to co-sponsor his stimulus two bill. Just like not ONE congress person voted for the budget he put forth this year. The guy is all about paybacks and backroom deals and there are fewer and fewer people who are willing to stand in your defense of him. I think the only reason you still do is because you don’t want to eat crow yourself. And he has never taken responsibility for what goes on. He really should be called O’blame-a
“I just hope there aren’t too many Americans as stubbornly supportive of him like you who won’t admit Obama is a flat out bold faced liar and a snake oil salesmen”
Everyone I know is voting for him again. My daughter turns 18 just in time to cast her vote in 2012.
Mary and mp,
Sorry I’m late. I was busy watching my Philadelphia teams snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. :(
Well, mp, I found the relevant clips of Breitbart, and it appears you speak with forked tongue. Unlike Adam and Eve, I’m not falling for it.
Several liberal sites joined you in running around waving your hands in the air as if your hair was on fire. And I see you linked to others. One of them used the “f” word many more times than Breitbart did about Garafalo. I’ve never said anything stronger than “heck” and “darn” in my life, but I’m just shrugging my shoulders and moving on from that.
Accusing Breitbart of sedition is utter nonsense. The subject was the back-and-forth sniping he was having with these very websites. They accused him of making up the Weiner scandal. And we know how that turned out. And so do they. Instead of slinking back under their rocks, they’ve stepped up their attacks. if anything.
Breitbart was saying to them: “Bring it on!” That they had the rhetorical ammunition (being backed up by the complicit great majority of the mainstream media), and that he had “the numbers and the guns”.
Of course, this is where liberals act like metaphors and analogies are totally unknown concepts. He has the numbers. The people. “The folks” as O’Reilly and our last two presidents put it.
I should only hope the greater number of the American people also believe Weiner was a disgrace, that congressmen falsely claiming they were called the “n” word is dispicable, and that ACORN should not be funded if they think child prostitution is just swell.
Among that “number” were some military officers, saying they “had his back” in his argument with your lefty friends in the media. It was not their guns he said he had. It was the facts. He was well-armed with the truth.
He was not seditious. He was not threatening the government. He was arguing with the left-wing media and saying the people and the truth were on his side. And a minute later he said some military officers glad-handed him. Well, they are people too.
No, mp, you are probably not a crypto-commie pinko. But unforturnately, in this case at least, you are what Lenin called a “useful idiot”. Just sayin’ :)
truth – one question. If Congress was just a bunch of paper dolls, what would be different on Guantanamo? It seems that Obama wanted trials held elsewhere, signed an executive order to close it – but what did Gates say? -
“The prospects for closing Guantanamo as best I can tell are very, very low given very broad opposition to doing that here in the Congress.”
Everyone I know is voting for him again. My daughter turns 18 just in time to cast her vote in 2012.
Hal, have you talked with your daughter about Obama’s rabid pro-abort positions like voting against the Born Alive Infant Protection Act and the fact that he and his wife Michelle held fundraisers to keep partial birth abortion (delivering a baby to the shoulders and sliding a Metzrnbaum scissors up the babies spine and into the the woman’s uterus to the base of her skull so that you can jab a hole in the babies head) during birth so that you can deliver the baby dead? Does your daughter know Obama supported your decision to kill her sister in the womb? If you have been that honest with her then I would imagine she would not vote for the man but I doubt you have had the kahonies to talk with her honestly about this stuff cause unlike Obama most pro-aborts I know are too ashamed and would rather keep it ‘private’. And btw – my son will turn 18 this November and he can’t wait to vote Obama out office.
hal: “Everyone I know is voting for him again.”
Wow. Just . . . wow.
mp: “Oh, I’m sure that, if the president of CBS News had called Michele Bachman ‘Washington’s sympathy f***,’ there would be a real firestorm here, no?”
Breitbart uses shock against people who themselves use shock. His thing is to demonstrate that he’s not cowed by liberal intimidation and slander, but energized by it. He’s not losing control when he talks that way, he’s exercising it strictly and purposively.
I’m not defending him, I’m explaining him.
truthseeker, my daughter will be 18 two months before the election, so another pro-life vote there! Funny, Hal, that no one you know is changing their vote. Tells us a lot about the company you keep. My Cuban friend from FL tells me she hears constantly voter’s remorse at her work and in her social circles. She was smart enough to see Obummer for what he is back in ’08, her father having been imprisoned under Castro. She would point out the lines he spewed on the campaign trail were eerily familiar to her, and couldn’t understand why so many were blind to it. I was pleasantly surprised when a former Obama-supporting co-worker saw his healthscare proposals for what they are. I’m praying it’s not too late for our nation.
“Everyone I know is voting for him again. My daughter turns 18 just in time to cast her vote in 2012.”
What an accurate means of prediction. I remember my friend from NY assuring me in 2004 that Bush would never win again b/c she didn’t know anyone voting for him and hadn’t seen a single “Bush/Cheney” sign. doh.
In walking across the bridge, some used sidewalks and some blocked the flow of traffic. Again, the horror.
So I’m sure you oppose laws against blocking sidewalks and walkways in front of abortion clinics right? Someone blocking a sidewalk entrance – the horror.
He was not seditious. He was not threatening the government. He was arguing with the left-wing media and saying the people and the truth were on his side. And a minute later he said some military officers glad-handed him. Well, they are people too.
Links please.
Ex-GOP says:
October 2, 2011 at 6:06 pm
Mary – Oh yes, they walked on a bridge! Very non-peaceful of them!
They were told to stay on the sidewalk and they directly disobeyed a police order! How is that peaceful? Did those people on the bridge deserve to have their day disrupted like that? What about the people on that bridge that were trying to get to their hourly paid jobs that were docked pay because they weren’t there on time or couldn’t get their at all?
Oh, but those protesters are for the little guys aren’t they? Just like Durbin and his stupid amendment that now has all the banks charging their customers for using their debit cards rather than the merchants who accept them. Typical liberals who think more and more regulation is better – and then are SHOCKED when the costs are passed down to the little guy. All liberalism does is crush the little guy.
No, mp, you are probably not a crypto-commie pinko. But unforturnately, in this case at least, you are what Lenin called a “useful idiot”. Just sayin’
You say I’m probably not a commie, but am likely to be a “useful idiot.” Why don’t you just say “fellow traveler” and make the smear complete?
How very, um, Christian? of you to engage in a personal attack.
Meanwhile, I await the citations which you say will inform me.
EGV,
Whatever the races, it puts the kabosh to racist claims. I didn’t say the man was inaccurate, I said he wasn’t completely accurate.
Typical liberals who think more and more regulation is better – and then are SHOCKED when the costs are passed down to the little guy.
This is a four-part documentary by Canadian Broadcasting. It might prove useful, but don’t take my word for it. I’m just a “useful idiot.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWU65Zbka4E&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWU65Zbka4E&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBhAvUTW5ZE&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZwMIIJLWOw&feature=related
Hans Johnson 3:58am
Thank you for addressing my question.
Kristen, 11:38am
A good point about people getting to work, as well as my concern about emergency vehicles being delayed. Also the possibility that people can be seriously injured when walking in traffic.
Several hundred people blocking a bridge isn’t childsplay.
Kristen – it is so nice to see a conservative concerned about hourly workers…heck, workers in general! As ‘non-job creators’ I thought all non-CEO’s were just sucking up space. Thanks for the concerns for those stuck in traffic!
I think the acknowledgement of individual workers is a huge step for any right winger these days.
I think the acknowledgement of individual workers is a huge step for any right winger these days.
PIMCO’s Bill Gross has some interesting things to say about that today, but he only manages $1 trillion, so what does he know? He’s probably one of those commies or, more likely, just a useful idiot.
http://www.pimco.com/EN/insights/pages/sixpackin.aspx
EGV 6:19PM
Well, that’s more than you can say for those lefties blocking the bridge traffic!
Well, that’s more than you can say for those lefties blocking the bridge traffic!
How do you know they’re lefties? Did you take a poll or something?
Could it be possible they’re simply ordinary Americans who are tired of being had?
Mary – can you sum up in a couple of sentences why they are protesting?
Oh, concerning the PIMCO thing.
Please note that corporate profits as a percentage of Gross National Income are near record levels.
Obviously, it’s really bad for Corporate America right now. Really bad.
Those union thugs are taking them to the cleaners.
mp
“Its the responsiblity of the Progressive(liberal) organizations to show their support and connect Occupy Wall Street to some of the struggles that are real in the city today” said John Kest, executive director if New York Communities for change, which is helping to organize the march.
The Protestors have transformed Zuccotti Park into a village of sorts, with celebrities such as Michael Moore, Susan Sarandon, Cornel West, and Russell Simmons joining the action.
I wonder if Michael Moore will watch most of the action from his NYC penthouse.
The United Federation of Teachers,32BJSEIU, 1199SEIU, Workers United, and other unions are also planning to join the action.
Oh I don’t know mp, just a wild guess.
I wonder if Michael Moore will watch most of the action from his NYC penthouse.
Well, Rush Limbaugh won’t be watching the protest from his $11.75 million Fifth Avenue penthouse because he sold it.
But, with him earning $68 million per year and all from dispensing his work-a-day wisdom, he shouldn’t have any trouble finding something he can afford.
:)
http://blogs.wsj.com/metropolis/2010/08/20/buyers-of-rush-limbaughs-apartment-get-to-keep-his-ornate-furniture/
@Hans Johnson
Would you please share links concerning your findings that Andrew Breitbart is simply being Andrew Breitbart?
Thanks.
Oops! I made a mistake! It’s not $68 million, or at least we’re not sure.
In 2010, it was estimated by Forbes (which is good enough for me) to be only $58.5 million. No wonder he had to sell his penthouse!
Still, that might explain some of Rush’s views on taxes!
Go, Rush!
;)
http://www.forbes.com/lists/2010/53/celeb-100-10_Rush-Limbaugh_YNXQ.html
mp,
The reason for bringing up Rush is what? Michael Moore is a multimillionaire leftist. Rush admits to his wealth, Moore tries to present the image of a working schlub who doesn’t want to own up to what he is worth. All he succeeds in doing is looking like a slob.
The reason for bringing up Rush is what? Michael Moore is a multimillionaire leftist. Rush admits to his wealth, Moore tries to present the image of a working schlub who doesn’t want to own up to what he is worth. All he succeeds in doing is looking like a slob.
Well, when I think of Michael Moore, who you mentioned, I think of Rush Limbaugh.
They both look like wealthy slobs to me.
:)
Hi mp,
LOL. They are both definitely wealthy. One owns up to it, one hopes the world doesn’t notice.
BTW, I’ve read that Michael Moore is worth about 59 million or more.
BTW, I’ve read that Michael Moore is worth about 59 million or more.
Hah! If so, Moore’s entire net worth is only what Limbaugh earns in one year.
@Hans Johnson (2d Request)
Would you please share links concerning your findings that Andrew Breitbart is simply being Andrew Breitbart?
Thanks.
mp: Wall street protesters ordinary Americans? Of course they are. Ordinary leftist Americans.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/van-jones/wall-street-protests-whic_b_988854.html
Heh. Meanwhile, they’ll vote for the corporatist shill who currently occupies the White House.
If you want to see how thoroughly STUPID these people are:
http://occupywallst.org/forum/proposed-list-of-demands-for-occupy-wall-st-moveme/
I think they’re on a level with the wack WTO protesters of yester-decade.
Did I mention STUPID?
mp,
It turns out I was only half-right about the Breitbart remarks. But that’s still way ahead of you. :)
I’ve seen him a hundred times going tit-for-tat with the left-wing media. But apparently on this occasion it was more specifically about the threats he’s been receiving.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Db38xf_qtjI
I hope the link works. I’m practically computer- illiterate. If not, it’s on youtube.com under the title “Breitbart Responds to Death Threats”.
Tea party people have been very benign in their protests. Leftist demonstrators have not. They often don’t bother about getting local permission for their gathering, they don’t care about disrupting the public or damaging property. Witness the Wall Street and Madison, Wisconsin protests.
Their language has been more and more belligerent. Witness thugs like Trumka and Hoffa, Jr He mentioned that recent siege of a 14-year-old boy in a D.C. suburb because his father wasn’t giving in to the demands of union - yes, thugs.
Breitbart was musing he almost wished they would really cross the line, because more conservatives are gun-owners than they are. They have “expert rhetoricians” like Janeane Garafalo, but we outnumber them and aren’t hesitant about self-defense.
And once again, some military officers saying they had his back in these arguments is hardly an offer to back up an insurrection against the government.
The tea party merely wants the government to concentrate on governing more efficiently, instead of continuing to run up the tab and expecting us to contribute more to their failures.
We are only threatening to vote them out of office. Others want to continue this mad descent into bankruptcy, and somehow think putting the squeeze on those who succeed willl make their failures better.
It’s the old parable of the scorpion and the turtle. Who cares if we drown in debt? Let’s take them down with us!
mp,
I apologize for the “useful idiot” allusion. It was dangerously close to the serious name-calling that is prohibited here. It’s just that you were getting a little whiny with the “crypto-commie pinko” stuff. What am I? A “corporate shill”? A “co-conspirator” in the Tea Party overthrow of the government? :)
Rush moved from Manhatten to West Palm Beach because of the taxes. Sure, he could afford to stay. But it’s annoying. How long would you stay in a town that required you to keep only one car?
Of course Andrew Breitbart was being Andrew Breitbart. Who do you think he is? Some scary seditionist? He’s a gadfly. He’s at least fiscally conservative. That’s a good start. As a matter of fact, he’d be a great addition at that table of five. He might be convinced on some of the social issues too.
mp 10:01PM
Who can be certain about Moore’s net worth? Being the humble working man that he is he doesn’t exactly advertise. I heard one of his movies alone raked in 300 million. Whatever, the guy isn’t exactly on poverty row and that working slob alterego of his is a farce. Michael, K-Mart has some great clothes, give a decent barber some work, and please lose those baseball caps. They look silly on a man your age. You’re not fooling anyone.
Best I can tell, Michael Moore’s net worth is in the $40 to $50 million range.
Rush – most numbers are I am seeing put him around $700 million or so. Maybe a little less, depending on how many ex-wives he’s having to support.
“Everyone I know is voting for him again”
Reminds me of a comment by a protester in 2004 who, after John Kerry lost, said there must be a conspiracy. There was no way George W Bush could have won the election because, “absolutely everyone I know in the Women’s Studies Department and Sociology Department at my school voted for Kerry.”
What’s wrong with being wealthy?
Hans: We are only threatening to vote them out of office. Others want to continue this mad descent into bankruptcy, and somehow think putting the squeeze on those who succeed willl make their failures better.
It’s the old parable of the scorpion and the turtle. Who cares if we drown in debt? Let’s take them down with us!
Hans, do you think there is actually the rational possibility of not only balancing the US budget, year-to-year, but also making meaningful progress on paying off the debt?
@Rasqual
I agree. Obama is a corporatist.
@Mary
Yes, Michael Moore is a slob, but it’s a free country. Sam Walton drove around in a beat-up Chevy pickup and wore simple work clothes. Was he trying to deceive people, or was he simply being Sam Walton?
@Courtnay
In my opinion, there’s nothing at all wrong with making tons of money. Who said there was?
@Hans Johnson
Thanks for the link, which I will watch, and your apology.
mp,
It is indeed a free country. Did Sam Walton condemn capitalism while enjoying its benefits??
Doug,
I’m afraid paying off the debt will have to be done slowly over the next decade or two, once we have economy-friendly administrations. First priority has to be balancing the budget. We can’t stop this aircraft carrier on a dime, much less go the other direction at full speed.
We’ve got two opposing philosophies. Tax the rich even more than their more than a fair share. Hoping they’l just roll over and obey and not search out even more loopholes. Even if they did, there aren’t enough of them to fund the government at the rate we’re going.
Or, we could rein in the government, slowly enough as to not be harmful. We could actually support businesses, small and big. They are the engine. Don’t gum up the engine with the sand of over-regulation and punishing taxes.
There are now fewer millionaires under Obama. Family farms are breaking up thanks to estate taxes. Maybe this makes the envious feel better, but it won’t help their job prospects.
Let’s expand the pie, not burn it up.
Hans – that was one of the funnier posts I’ve read in a while: “Family farms are breaking up thanks to estate taxes.”
In 2001, the estate tax kicked in at $675K.
Obama’s estate tax rates – 2009, $3.5 MILION. 2010 – no estate tax existed. 2011 – $5 MILLION.
Lots of family farms in the $5 million plus range that are “breaking up” after a death?
Actually it would have to be MUCH higher than $5 million – because the first 5 million is basically excluded – so if poor farmer brown, who you shed so many tears for, has a 6 million farm and dies – it is just that last million.
Family farm?
Family farm? Come on man.