Goodmorning Blogmocracy Netizens! I hope everyone slept well and will have a great enjoyable day. As always, I must bring news about the antics of the American Progressives.
Our Tranzi Progressive ruler, Barack Hussein Obama, is promising to do whatever it takes to create jobs. He really believes that job creation is done by the government and not the private sector. His wasteful stimulus is just debt accumulation and payoff to Progressive interests. However, job losses continue with no end in sight. The Progressive Propaganda machine is proclaiming that we are in an unprecedented economic boom. The truth is the economy is stagnant and in a ditch.
SPRINGFIELD, Va. (AP) – Standing at the site of a highway project funded by his economic stimulus plan, President Barack Obama said Wednesday he is committed to exploring all avenues to create jobs.
Obama said his administration is going to keep going until “every single American in this country who’s looking for work is going to be able to get the kind of well-paying job that supports their families.”
Obama spoke from the top of a large mound of dirt and gravel, the site of a highway construction project in the Virginia suburbs outside Washington. He chose the site of the Fairfax County Parkway Extension project to feature the progress of the stimulus package passed earlier this year.
The project is the state’s largest stimulus-funded project. When completed, it will connect both ends of Fairfax County.
While some businesses have credited the stimulus bill with preventing layoffs, the national unemployment rate stands at 9.8 percent. Many economists have said unemployment could continue to rise.
Read the rest.
What Obama really wants is to expand government to the point that it becomes the largest employer. This will make Americans dependent on political goodwill to have a job. Hence a Neo-Feudal system the Progressives dream off.
America needs to have an aggressive economic policy. We need to stop this global economic cooperation nonsense the Progressives and RINOs keep pursuing. We need to reform our tax code and economic policies to one of a cut throat policy. America should create an attractive and competitive economic environment that will attract foreign and offshore American capital and corporations. America must be an economic predator and do what it takes to create jobs and high living standard here.
Government is not a job growth engine, the private market is.
Tags: Globalism, Neo-Feudalism
Here’s some job creation
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,566464,00.html
I wonder if Obama’s ACORN organization helped in creating these jobs.
BTW people create jobs, not the president.
Why get a job when the gov wants to give stuff away.
Unfortunately for Americans, he can only explore and not actually accomplish anything. Couple that fact with his deliberate shunning of any suggestions from the GOP, and you have our current oconomy.
Hey, let’s spend another $800 billion and create another zero jobs!
Because public works job creation worked out so well in the 1930s.
This was something I realized a long time ago about the government. They can’t create jobs. What they can do is create an ENVIROMENT of growth that will let businesses create jobs. Unfortunately most leftist/liberal governments don’t do this. Reducing their tax levels to them is an anathema.
Just reading the title makes me want to respond, So what else is new? Anyway, what this tells me is the President is talking a good game and nothing more. So far, the President’s record has been talking a good game half the time and playing a good game none of the time.
So what else is new?
re: #1 by davehm
Maybe one of those girls will braid the ponytail before his big NYT closeup.
If those racist wingnuts hadn’t run Van Jones out on a rail, we’d be up to our eyeballs in green jobs now.
re: #8 by snork
Theres a plan B,C,D I’m sure.
Liberals have no problems creating government jobs. Unfortunately, they must extract more money from those who produce, in order to pay the salary of that new govt job.
To a liberal, the only solution is a government solution. Nevermind that they never correct that original problem, they simply create more and more bureacracy, and exacerbate it.
If zero had his way, everyone would work for the gubmint.
Zero doesn’t want a robust American economy where citizens are gainfully employed. He is purposefully trying to bring us to our knees. A weakened society is easier to subjugate.
Zero is a Commie. He despises the free market system that made this country great. He said so himself with his
“Spread the Wealth around statement.”
I’m still astounded at how easily that rolled off his forked tongue for all the world to hear.
re: #3 by Rightside
This will work to the advantage of the GOP (through no brilliance of their own, alas) – the Democrats – and especially its more out front, loudmouthed, liberal/ progressive/socialist members will own the whole catastrophe. In the aftermath, they will have to waste at least 2 years spinning their wheels trying to figure out what to rename themselves to make themselves patatable again to the average inattentive voter.
Good morning, everyone!
Mexico Hurricane Disaster threat (West Coast, not even a depression yet) and PA interior snow and tree and power line collapse disaster threads up at GCP
http://www.grouchyconservativepundits.com/index.php?topic=5824.0
What we need to do is turn America into an economic Predator. We need to revamp our Tax code so that Businesses invest here and not in China, India, Europe or other places. We need to build up America, not other nations. We are an Eagle, let’s act like one.
I want to work in the unicorn stables!
re: #15 by Mrs.Robinson
Shoveling Skttles?
re: #11 by chickadee
That’s not the worst of it. The worst of it is that he says something like that, and nobody in the media or any other elites sees anything wrong with it. They always assume that it’s somebody else’s wealth that’s going to be spread around.
If I were working in the media, I wouldn’t be feeling that safe.
LOL, even his precious union thugs are turning against him.
http://www.usatoday.com/NEWS/usaedition/2009-10-15-unions15_ST_U.htm
His biggest priority is to create more jobs at ACORN since they’ve been exposed. Government make-work jobs is not the way to stimulate the economy.
I see a small Christmas sales season, folks.
With 30+ years experience I’ve been out of work since April.
It is nothing short of brutal in the real world.
Small business is damn near paralyzed.
Our celebrity Pres (piece of shit fraud) is good at job creation?
You bet! Con Job!
Cut spending,cut taxes for small business, loosen up credit and cancel whatever is left of the scamulus bill.
re: #17 by snork
The implosion of the MSM is probably why you never read or hear anyone in the media saying anything critical of Obama’s words (many) or deeds (virtually non-existent). Most of these people collect paychecks from owners/publishers who themselves have a radical agenda, and they get performance reviews from editors who certainly are radicals.
They aren’t going to risk a pink slip pooping out anything even slightly critical of Obama, given that job opportunities in the MSM are shriveling faster than a salted snail.
The key phrase there is “every single American in this country who’s looking for work”. Why work when you can get free “Obama money”.
re: #16 by Gypsy Commenter
Yes! I could slide down a few moonbeams too!
Seriously, my husband is trying to start his own company right now, it will be a veteran owned business also-and it is hard and it is scary getting bonded, etc. California-sheesh (just like President Obama and his minions)-government entities have no RESPECT for the small business owner-and they couldn’t make it any harder.
re: #20 by bp_sf
But but, this is the greatest Economic boom in history!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
#19
A “small” season?
Santa fuckin’ died!
Can this ridiculous ill conceived health/ insurance reform until after the nuts and bolts economy issues are dealt with. Whatever happened to open bipartisan hearings with real live witnesses. This secrecy and bums rush speed reeks of corruption.
re: #26 by bp_sf
I suggest folks go back and read O. Henry’s “Gift of the Magi” for a sense of how lean this Christmas could be.
A lump of coal in the stocking might be a welcome gift–just make sure the flue is open when you burn it.
The wife was at the Reagan building with a bunch of attorneys yesterday when the motorcade went by. She is not from DC and was wowed a bit by the size of the whole affair and said as much to a local. The DC guy said, “it was nothing they are probably just going to pick up the kids for school”. My wife told the guy that perhaps it was just another run by Michelle for the proper grade of organic vegtables that the Whitehouse staff neglected to purchase for her royal highass. She said jaws dropped.
Oh well, she was on her way back to the provinces in an hour anyway.
re: #24 by Mrs.Robinson
The power of the petty bureaucrat! Look, congratulations to Mr. Robinson for his courage and enterprise. I hope he successfully threads his way through all the red tape, and launches a successful enterprise. Small business owners like your husband will be are what our country desperately needs.
re: #29 by Scott Madsen
The trappings of an insecure tinpot dictator way above his pay grade.
re: #20 by bp_sf
Sorry for situation, best wishes finding work.
re: #30 by Gypsy Commenter
Thanks!
He is an environmental scientist/state geologist. So he IS creating green jobs..for people who have earned it from years in school! (That’s another reason why the promise of “green jobs” is a joke…anybody who works in the environmental field has to go to school and real “green jobs” are already a reality!)
You all have a good day!
I have to get out of my PJs and do other productive things.
Obama said his administration is going to keep going until “every single American in this country who’s looking for work is going to be able to get the kind of well-paying job that supports their families.”
Hey dipshit, let the private sector create one job first. Might be nice if he ever actually had a job.
re: #29 by Scott Madsen
Why does Washington today remind me of Versailles in say, 1787?
Good morning and Happy Friday Eve, Netizens!
re: #36 by vapig
Good morning! Happy Thursday!
I wonder if I could get a job shaking people down for money for Obama.
It seems he is using thug-style diplomacy domestically (and victim-style diplomacy internationally), so maybe he needs some folks to do shakedowns for him, chicago style.
(I’m kidding, I’m not a criminal, until they criminalize freedom)
///work is highly over rated!
SPRINGFIELD, Va. (AP) – Standing at the site of a highway project funded AMERICAN TAXPAYERS PAYING CONFISCATORY TAX RATES , President Barack Obama said Wednesday he is committed to exploring all avenues to create jobs.
fixed
re: #34 by kansas
There’s a chance that private sector jobs won’t be union jobs.
We can’t have that, what with the necessary work that unions do today, like……. uh…….. gimme a second here…… uh….. oh yeah, Collecting Dues and telling workers to vote Demcorat.
As Mark (The Great One” Levin has pointed out, obaMao is a job KILLER!
“Neo-Feudal system”
I’m soooo stealing that one, Woodside.
re: #35 by Gypsy Commenter
I dunno? I have noticed a lot more cakes in the grocery store, though.
I don’t know why we’re all up in arms. it is our duty as Americans to work hard, day after day, to make the money we need to send to the government to pay those who are unable to work, caused by such debilitating issues as being lazy while being the right gender or ethnic group.
shut up and do your duty, prole.
(This comment has been brought to you by the President Obama for Life, Big Brother is Watching You trust fund.)
One Republican alternative to the spendulus was to suspend the personal income tax fox six months to one year (which would actually have cost *less* than the spendulus).
I send somewhere North of $3,000 a month into DC. If I had had $18,000 of extra income this year, I could have…
- Done two significant home improvement projects, employing not only contractors, but those who supplied the contractors with materials, or
- Paid off my car and my student loans, raising my disposable income for the next three years, or
- Bought more guns, consumer electronics, clothes, furniture, and/or other goods that would have generated retail and production jobs.
Any of which would have generated jobs.
Imagine the effect multiplied by 200,000,000.
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re: #46 by V the K
I don’t remember how much I paid in taxes last year, but I know it was enough to pay off all but maybe 1 of my school loans, which would free up enough for me to pay off that remaining one within a few months.
That’d allow me to afford to go back to school and get a degree so that I could do something a little more meaningful in the job market.
In other news: Headline of the ding dong day
http://web.archive.org/web/20040627142700/eastandard.net/headlines/news26060403.htm
Can we send him back now?
I wonder how much job creation there would be if Obama simply announced that he was canceling his plans on Cap & Trade and Health Insurance? Creating a climate where buisiness owners know their prices will go up soon but not by how much is not the way to create jobs.
re: #35 by Gypsy Commenter
Let them eat macaroni and cheese
re: #49 by Nikis Knight
There’s no confidence in future planning.
Expect to hear more phony stories by the usual suspects (Kaite Couric, Diane Sawyer, Keith Olbermann, Chris Matthews, Brian Williams) in the media about how the recession is nearing its end. This is pure bullshit. People are not being hired and we have inflation right around the corner.
re: #29 by Scott Madsen
I have not been in D.C. since May 2008 and dread going back there now that The One is Dictator.
re: #49 by Nikis Knight
That’s essentially why things went so well under Clinton. Once he folded on Hillarycare™, the investors came out of the woodwork.
Clinton was smart enough to realize what a gift Newt was, and rode the center into a second term. Not this guy.
re: #52 by Speranza
Well, aren’t we the “glass half empty” sort./
I know– it’s like Kevin Bacon in “Animal House”–the MSM is screaming “Remain calm. All is well.”
re: #52 by Speranza
Stagflation 70’s style is beginning. Oil and Commodities are rising.
re: #52 by Speranza
Actually, I’m not so optimistic about inflation around the corner (which implies a recovery of sorts). We’re going down again. This stock rally is a sucker’s rally. Foreclosures are up. The real estate bubble hasn’t been digested yet.
# 51 Rodan
With this Administration, no business can make any strategic plans of any depth into anything remotely resembling the future. That’s why so many businesses have hiring on hold, or worse, preemptive layoffs. And is why capital investment by businesses is way down (affecting all parts of the economy). When businesses have to take a ‘wait and see what kind of shit sandwich we are going to be fed by the Government’ approach to everyday operations occurs, the economy can only suffer. Just look at the potential personal and business tax increases that will come with both hellthcare reform and cap ‘n tax. But as we all know, this instilling of no confidence in the economy on the part of businesses is deliberate by this Administration. They need crises to push their takeover agenda, and the more crises the better.
re: #57 by snork
I’ve been thinking this is some sort of false rise in the markets. How can the market go up when job growth is going down. People are losing jobs and no new ones are being created.
This isn’t over and it isn’t going to be pretty! I’m already using one of my spare rooms to stock staple items. Now I just need to start buying up some gold and silver.
drudge has that the majority of the nobel prize committee were against obama receiving the prize so in oslo…….the majority is the new minority
re: #56 by Rodan
Commodities are rising because the dollar is trash, but also because investors don’t have anywhere else to put their cash. They’re not going to tie it up in long-term investments with so much uncertainty.
It’s the uncertainty that’s going to send things in a tailspin. Until investors can see beyond the one or two year horizon, they’re going to sit on short term investments.
And investors have a lot more options these days for investments in equities than they used to. Good companies in China, India, and Brazil, just to name three. Even if they want to invest in industry, the US isn’t the only game in town any more. And these tards running the government either don’t understand that, or don’t care.
re: #57 by snork
Inflation will come because of that massive porkulus which has not been spent yet. Either the government raises taxes to pay for the pork or it has to print more money ergo inflation.
re: #59 by vapig
I guess a staple gun could be a weapon in a pinch.
re: #56 by Rodan
Ah the good old days of 30 years ago with the Carter Administration.
As President Obama deliberates over whether to send tens of thousands more U.S. troops to Afghanistan, one name is emerging as the hope of the anti-war left and enjoying somewhat of a public image rehabilitation.
It’s all about Joe.
Vice President Joe Biden
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/10/15/spotlight-pressure-biden-obama-weighs-afghanistan-advice/
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Except the Foreign policy expert has been WRONG on almost everything for the last 30 years?
re: #55 by calcajun
All my liberal friends chewing my ear off telling me how brilliant Obama is – well when the shit hits the fan it will be like watching your mother-in-law drive off the cliff in your brand new Honda. I will be suffering economically too but I will have a bit of a schadenfreude moment watching them whine about the hard times.
Turkish security forces detained 32 suspected members of the militant group Al-Qaida believed to have been planning attacks on Israeli, U.S. and NATO targets, state-run news agency Anatolian reported on Thursday.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1121373.html
Yeah sure, and the hippie is a balanced also?
The United Nation’s top human rights official backed a report Thursday
accusing Israel and Hamas militants of war crimes during their conflict in Gaza last winter.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1121045.html
The sun came up this morning right?
re: #62 by Speranza
But only if the economy rises above depression levels of activity. That’s not obvious when that’s going to happen.
Sooner or later, yes, it’s going to bite. And his economic advisers may be telling him that inflation isn’t a bad thing. It robs from the rich and gives to the poor, and reduces the debt. It also throws a monkey wrench into the private sector that he doesn’t believe in, anyway. From the perspective of a socialist politician looking to be reelected in 3 years, it looks like a good thing.
re: #64 by Speranza
Or Peron’s Argentina is another example of a Rich Nation, that once it went Progressive became a basket case.
Asians may face tougher college admission process, study finds
re: #53 by Speranza
I lived in Northern Virginia for eighteen years. My mother and one brother are still there.
I moved away in 1990 partly from weariness of the whole place. I had a few Jesuit School friends who were moving up on the Hill, K Street and in agencies. I couldn’t stand their aparatchik parents as a child, and was tireing of them and the inane one upmanship banter at parties.
I’ve seen Justice Department attorneys all over the bolivian marching powder in house in McClean and Arlington. I liked my smoke abck then, but that was a bit much for me.
re: #71 by snork
Yeah being punished for being successful is sure the American Way?
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Hey all, first post here. Haven’t been banned from 1.0 because I just don’t talk to liberal pieces of shit. Anyway good to be here with names I recognize unlike the other place.
re: #74 by Far Right AZ Boy
Glad to have ya
Dahlan: Talks with Israel must hinge on withdrawal to ‘67 borders
Published: 10.15.09, 18:14 / Israel News
Senior Fatah official Mohammed Dahlan said the Palestinian Authority would not negotiate with Israel unless the latter agreed to withdraw to the 1967 borders and discontinue construction in settlements.
So what’s the point of negotiating then? Can we give you the knives you need to cut out throats?
re: #69 by snork
There’s a scary thought.
re: #63 by snork
///may staple gun is also a nail gun///
re: #67 by Nevergiveup
I can’t tell. The gray lightened up a little bit, but it’s still dark, gloomy wet and COLD out here!
I’m sooooo glad my condo turned the heat on a month early!!!!!!!
Reports: Russia warns US on missile defense
Published: 10.15.09, 17:44 / Israel News
Russian news agencies are quoting a top Russian diplomat as suggesting the US should not talk with non-NATO nations about a prospective missile shield.
Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov’s remarks appeared to reflect alarm over the idea that neighbors such as Ukraine or Georgia could potentially host US missile defense facilities. (AP)
Gee all of a sudden Russia is sure emboldened to dictate to us? I wonder why?
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re: #73 by Nevergiveup
Some of those justifications could have come right out of the Jim Crow ear. How lame is this:
Or this:
Uh yeah.
re: #79 by vapig
Yeah not in the North East today ha? It’s gonna be a long baseball weekend I think. Ah I’m on duty all weekend anyway.
re: #74 by Far Right AZ Boy
Welcome aboard! Kick your shoes off and relax!
re: #72 by Scott Madsen
“I couldn’t stand their aparatchik parents as a child, and was tiring of them and the inane one upmanship banter at parties. ”
Aparatchick is a very good description of Beltway people. Whenever I am in D.C. as much as I usually enjoy visiting my friends, I feel that the entire city is artificial – filled with lawyers, criminals, and government lovers.
re: #81 by snork
Yeah or the 50’s and Jews and Ivy League Schools.
The blog post title for this entry could have just been the first three words and still have been right on the money.
re: #77 by Nikis Knight
Inflation would also correct the real estate bubble. Don’t think that they see it as a bug. It would fix a lot of problems in their eyes.
re: #84 by Speranza
I have, as part of my life, spent a good bit of time in tough bars, holes in the walls, you know, places that charge you $5 to get in and a .45 to get out
I’ve never been as uncomfortable as I was the last time I was in DC. It isn’t even close. Fortunately, DC has gun control. So only the criminals have guns. That is comforting…
re: #75 by Nevergiveup
re: #83 by vapig
Thanks. I will, like I said good to be back with names I recognize.
re: #85 by Nevergiveup
Oh, I’m sure that things almost identical to that were given as justification for keeping Jews out. It’s a bleeding college, not Studio 54.
re: #86 by MightyConservative
LOL. That is dang funny.
re: #80 by Nevergiveup
The harder Liberals push for sensitive (aka weak) leaders in their quest for world peace, the more certainly they put us in danger as the rest of the world understands that weakness and answers it with aggression.
Most sentient beings understand this paradox just by observing schoolyard behavior and have this figured out by about the 5th grade.
Liberals are not sentient beings.
We were never safer than under that ‘war monger’ Ronald Reagan./
There’s a new poll out showing Hillary is more popular than BHO.
Given that she’s just been “owned” by Putin and Medvedev on the Iranian sanctions and Russia’s preemptive nuke policy, I wonder how long that will last.
re: #88 by Iron Fist
Iron Fist, come to AZ and I guarantee you won’t have that problem.
re: #88 by Iron Fist
And D.C. is a hell of a lot better then it used to be!
Unfortunately jobs weren’t wooed by President Obama’s historic election.
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Just found out we’re having a parade for the Wounded Warriors here in the building tomorrow morning. I’ll have to check it out!
re: #84 by Speranza
Yes, in ways it is a more rarified atmosphere than LA or NYC. The people around DC rely almost exclusively on credentials, connections and subterfuge for their sucess; talent and ability are taken into consideration far less than the other two power centers.
It’s a wasteland of empty souls.
re: #93 by calcajun
I, like many others probably, have gone thru the ‘Hillary would be better than Obama’ musing but watching her ineptitude, what with the childish reset button debacle as well as the rebuffs from the Russians and her recent participation in inviting unreciprocated Russian inspection of our nuclear sites, I’m reminded that she is pretty much just as radical as Obama.
I remember her brilliantly incoherent valedictory address/rant at Wellesley and remember she was also an Alinsky disciple and that reminds me that while her husband was primarily a good ole boy focused on self gratification, she is a hardened radical, bent on punuishing America and bringing her to her knees to pay for the sins that exist solely in the deranged minds of the Left.
Fuck them all.
re: #76 by Nevergiveup
Obama, the Amateur, has killed the peace process.
Not that it would have led to peace anyway, but he’s stabbed it in the heart and buried it with all his grandiose claims to the Muslim world about Israel freezing settlement construction 100% in his opening remarks to the Muslims.
Obama convinced the Arabs who call themselves “Palestinians” so completely that that he would give them 100% of their demands that they’re not even pretending to be talking about negotiating anymore when it comes to peace talks.
They want almost 100% of their non-starter demands to be guaranteed before they’re willing to say hello.
Obama’s advisers are still claiming that HE will be able to make peace since he jumped into the problem on Day One of his presidency.
As I’ve said here before, he should have stayed in bed.
Arabs in Judea and Samaria are also saying that Mahmoud Abbas couldn’t sell used cars to “Palestinians” anymore, much less try to sell any sort of peace deal to them.
ABOARD THE USS MISSOURI — Just as the USS Missouri left historic Battleship Row for the first time in 11 years Wednesday, volunteer David Horen quickly polished the brass plaque marking the spot where a Japanese delegation officially surrendered aboard the Mighty Mo, ending World War II.
Four tugboats yesterday nudged, pulled and towed the Missouri from Ford Island’s Pier Foxtrot 5 just after sunrise Wednesday as Horen hastily shined the plaque with Brasso and a scrub pad and covered his handiwork in cardboard and blue painter’s tape.
http://www.navytimes.com/news/2009/10/ap_navy_missouri_dry_dock_101409/
Click on the picture to enlarge it
Look, I know DC sucks and the bloated beast that is our government is the largest employer out here, but not everybody who works for the government is a talentless, emptyheaded, shallow simp.
I’d love to be able to get a jop in the private sector. Unfortunately, once you have a fed job on your resume it seems like you are blacklisted and can only find jobs through the fed.
re: #101 by Eliana
Yup. And people will die because of him. Just like Clinton got people killed.
re: #93 by calcajun
Hillary is absolutely Churchillian compared to her boss.
re: #59 by vapig
I’ve been doing slow stocking of staples and canned goods since the election. I intend to step that up as much as we can manage. We don’t have a great deal of room, though, so it probably won’t be as much as I’d like to have.
re: #103 by vapig
Hey we all know that you’re different. you would do what ever job was avaialable (as would I) in order to stay employed.
# 105 Speranza
Hillary does have more balls than her boss.
re: #100 by LGoPs
Never was a Hillary fan but I would still take her any day over Obama just as I would take McCain over Hillary and Obama.
OT, looks like Rush is not going to sue CNN or MSNBC.
re: #108 by RickMZ
And a bigger ass?
Now back to your regular programming.
re: #108 by RickMZ
Since her boss is the ultimate metrosexual, i would not be surprised.
re: #81 by snork
That sounds a lot like restrictive covenants which at one time prohibited folks from selling their land to people of color and other less-desirable types.
My idea to end racism–stop caring about the color of your own skin. If you care, that means that I have to care. But if you don’t care, then others will stop caring about it too. When no one cares about skin color (or ethnic distinction) then you won’t have racism.
Hey, I can dream, can’t I?
re: #110 by kansas
Why should he waste his time. Anyway this was probably good for ratings.
# 111 Nevergiveup
The only thing Hillary has that is smaller than Barry’s is her ego, but not by much.
re: #99 by Scott Madsen
I do not think there is any private industry in D.C outside of Hotels, restaurants, and law firms.
Democrats behind close doors “hammering” out health care bill. Yeah hammering? Hammer time!
Actually, Obama’s rating on Gallup is back down to 52 percent today after spending a few days with a very slight bounce.
Rasmussen has him at 48 percent today.
re: #117 by Speranza
Hookers?
re: #95 by Speranza
Last time I was there was 1994. It was scary, then. I felt completely naked without a gun.
re: #113 by Speranza
Obama the first Metrosexual President.
Senators diverted $2.6 billion in funds in a defense spending bill to pet projects largely at the expense of accounts that pay for fuel, ammunition and training for U.S. troops, including those fighting wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to an analysis.
http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/oct/15/troop-funds-diverted-to-pet-projects/
Scumbags
re: #74 by Far Right AZ Boy
A most hearty welcome (and tell your friends).
re: #110 by kansas
Yeah I heard that. He’s taking the “high” road.
Noble of him, but I’d like (just once!) to see these lying jerks get their comeuppance and have to pay for their constant slandering of people they don’t agree with. When they get away with it like this they are only encouraged to continue.
re: #119 by Eliana
How in the hell is this clown over 50%?
re: #122 by Rodan
“Obama the first Metrosexual President.”
and more worrisome – the first post-American president.
re: #124 by Speranza
Yeah, you know I will. Thanks.
re: #120 by Nevergiveup
“Hookers?”
Yes wherever there are politicians there will be tons of hookers.
re: #121 by Iron Fist
“Last time I was there was 1994. It was scary, then. I felt completely naked without a gun.”
The Naked Gun?
re: #111 by Nevergiveup
The Hillary Effect
re: #122 by Rodan
He’s the ultimate Beta Male in Mom Jeans, too.
“Obama in Mom Jeans” – Greg Morton
“…Be a man…
Those mom jeans need some kind of bailout plan…”
re: #128 by Far Right AZ Boy
My goal (I am not an admin here) is for this blog to outnumber and and leave in the dust a certain blog which will not be mentioned (except on threads which are for he sole purpose of venting).
re: #117 by Speranza
Shit, man, bambi has to get his cocaine somewhere. That is private industry. If the Kennedys are any indication, Pedro that humps shit in across the border will wind up with an estate on the waterfront in Tax-U-to-shit, probably paid for by you and I.
Sometimes I wonder why I obey the law.
Some people get away with murder, but I’m done talking about Ted Kennedy…
re: #106 by Empire1
It seems to be the prudent thing to do. I need to re-new my BJ Wholesale Club membership this week. They have great deals on bulk items!
re: #133 by Speranza
the growth over the last few months has been incredible. Thank you hippie.
re: #126 by Far Right AZ Boy
Weighted polls?
re: #110 by kansas
He’s a typical Elitist Republican. He doesn’t fight back, that’s why I’m not a big Rush fan. All mouth and when the fight comes, a whimper.
re: #107 by Speranza
Thanks – that’s very sweet of you. I’m only a lowly grunt here, but at least they pay well and I do my best for them! Can’t beat the commute, either. Out here that’s really saying something!
re: #128 by Far Right AZ Boy
Welcome aboard!!!!!!!!
re: #130 by Speranza
LOL. But seriously, I wouldn’t go any where I could not take a gun. Has something to do with “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State…
re: #129 by Speranza
Don’t you mean lobbyists?
re: #138 by Rodan
Pussy. All the Repoublicans are pussies. I dispise the Democrats but at least they will stand up on their hind legs and fight.
All the Republicans will do is roll over on their backs and piss on themselves.
re: #134 by Iron Fist
Are you or have worked as a bouncer?
re: #136 by Nevergiveup
Every week I notice 20 – 30 new posters here. Dark_Falcon and Honorary Yooper as well as Irish Rose visit often.
re: #126 by Far Right AZ Boy
That’s a well documented political phenomenon. People always think more highly of politicians than their policies. That’s why even in California, conservative ballot initiatives are more likely to pass. I don’t think it’s anything special about Obama.
re: #108 by RickMZ
She’s been collecting them for years. I hear Tipper gave her one of Al’s back in the day as a secret sister gift./
re: #142 by calcajun
yes most of the lawyers in D.C. are lobbyists.
re: #133 by Speranza
With you there. Keeps going in the same direction it has been over there it’ll revert to bike riding threads.
re: #143 by Iron Fist
Yup, the only 2 that fight are Beck and Savage. They both are not Republicans!
At least Obama calls out his enemies. I despise the man, but respect his fighting instincts. So did Clinton, he fought back. The only Republican that ever fought back hard was Reagan.
re: #145 by Speranza
Dark_Falcon secretly loves this blog!
re: #140 by Rodan
Thanks, Rodan…good to be here.
re: #152 by Far Right AZ Boy
This is an Anti-Progressive/ Anti-IslamosFacist blog. SO you will fit right at home!
re: #135 by vapig
“BJ Wholesale Club”…there is such a place?
re: #148 by Speranza
So…we can classify them as vertical and horizontal lobbyists, with a hybrid variant–the “genuflecting” lobbyist?//
re: #153 by Rodan
I’m already feeling it!
re: #144 by Rodan
I did bounce at one of the more upscale places around here. It was an Outlaw hangout, but we never had any problem with the Outlaws. You’d get kids come in wanting to prove how tough they were or girls… Breaking up a chick-fight could be interesting because they are under the mistaken impression that you can’t hit them because they are a girl. OTOH, they are usually so drunkl they don’t feel it when you bust them, so it can go either way. And chicks will scratch.
On the whole, it was fun. It was an experience in applied martial arts. Besides, it was amusing to watch the drunks…
OT, for the admins./ Yesterday evening, I submitted a guest post to the blogmocracy e-mail address.
re: #101 by Eliana
I still believe that Obama, or his advisers, or both, want a nuclear Iran.
He and his advisers really believe that the lack of a “Palestinian” state is the source of all unrest in the region, and the fount of jihad, and that if that state is birthed peace will reign. Remember that Samantha Power (Mrs. Sunstein) actually advocated, some years ago, using US troops to force Israel to grant a state to the “Palestinians.”
I think that Obama believes he can convince the mullahs not to start throwing nukes (at least until he is out of office–after that, “who could have foreseen it?”) if he forces Israel into a final agreement with the “Palestinians.” With that guarantee in hand, he can go to Israel and say, “I can promise that you need not fear Iranian nukes–provided you revive and honor the offer that Ehud Barak made to Arafat. Give it up, or face the consequences.”
Such a plan is insane and doomed to failure, of course. But it matches on most points the belief in Obama’s charm and the power of negotiation, and the nobility of the “Palestinian” cause, which I see in his administration. And his unwillingness to speak out during the Iranian election riots, as doing so might have prejudiced his practicing charm on the mullahs.
re: #154 by Far Right AZ Boy
Yeah – it’s like a Sam’s Club.
http://www.bjs.com/
re: #149 by Far Right AZ Boy
It will revert to a 9/10/01 blog
re: #151 by Rodan
“Dark_Falcon secretly loves this blog!”
So does the love struck waif, Sharmuta.
Obama is just flat out clueless.
re: #157 by Iron Fist
When I would go to clubs in NY, I would usually do the VIP thing. I used to give the bouncers 50 bucks. They used to send the women my way!
re: #161 by Speranza
No, I think LGF will stay political. It really wasn’t before 9-11. I came across it looking for tips on web programming.
If Charles wanted to simply revert to what it was, he could have done that without pissing in the faces of all the loyal right-wing readers he’d developed over the years. It is his blog. If he doesn’t want to talk about the main issues of the day, that is his right.
That ain’t what he did. He went hard Left. Harder Left than he ever was Right. He chose to dis his readers, not simply leave them for another direction.
His choice.
re: #159 by buzzsawmonkey
Buzzsaw, I agree mostly, but I think Netanyahu talks as much shit about O as we do!
re: #159 by buzzsawmonkey
Progressives hate Israel. They want that nation exterminated, so they support Iran. Iran is the darling of the Progressive movement.
re: #165 by Iron Fist
He is being rewarded with a NY Times Magazine interview.
re: #159 by buzzsawmonkey
Hiya, Buzz.
Another familiar face.
I can’t disagree. But I see them wanting Iran to have nukes for another reason– the idea that they can deal with Iran more easily than with the Saudis. Iran wants nukes for prestige and it will become the regional power if an atomic arsenal. It will pose no threat to Russia; both together will put a stranglehold on Europe as they will control the flow of virtually all natural gas into Europe.
But an atomic Iran will be the real power and will be the one that will be the power broker in the Gulf region. The Saudis are like Listerine– we hate them but use them. For some reason, the idea of dealing with Iran is more palatable.
Iranian railroad for queer refugees?
re: #160 by vapig
Thanks, we don’t have ‘em!
re: #159 by buzzsawmonkey
I think they want Iran to have nukes as a weapon of blackmail to hold over the head of Israel.To keep them “honest” in the process of creating a Pal state.He is just not into Jews and I do wish the American ones would wake up to that fact.
re: #168 by Rodan
Yeah, I noticed that. I hope he is happy with it. It cost him enough in good will and well wishes. I don’t particularly hate the “man”, but I wouldn’t piss in his mouth if his guts were on fire.
OTOH, marshmallows roast well in the flaming guts…
re: #168 by Rodan
Yawn!
re: #166 by Far Right AZ Boy
The question is whether Netanyahu is action as well as talk.
re: #167 by Rodan
I do not think that many will admit, even to themselves, that they want Israel extinguished–rather, they will cast their actions which are geared towards that end in terms of “concern for the underdog.” That does not change the reality of the actions, but it is comforting to those who undertake them.
re: #159 by buzzsawmonkey
I don’t think the Arabs want that. If the Iranian apologists can be heard above the voices of the Sauds, Things in DC are worse than I thought. The house of Saud does NOT want Iranian nukes.
re: #165 by Iron Fist
Agreed, he couldn’t stand the conservative label.
re: #171 by Far Right AZ Boy
I really should go more often. It’s one of those warehouse places where you can get everything you want – including tires for your car! You just have to bring your own bags.
re: #165 by Iron Fist
I still don’t really understand what the heck happened over there, but it sure happened fast. I mean his blog was literally on top of the world for a one man shop. And the traffic he generated pretty much paid for anything he wanted to do. Then he started on his anti anything dealing with with religion streak and just started mass bannnig people who pretty much just disagreed with him.
More than a few times he intentionally set people up to get banned and actually encouraged a few to flame out. He nearly got me once with that Texas law that got passed to allow optional teaching of ID in classes if they wanted it. I pointed out the law was passed over two years ago and why wasn’t there any uproar then and he was just rehasing old news and got a warning just for that.
I notice now every single one of his threads has the donate button right on top of it.
re: #175 by buzzsawmonkey
Yup, notice that back in 05-07 when Bush was considering hitting Iran’s nukes. The Progressives did everything possible to prevent it.
Also GE funds many of these Progressive groups and they have interests with Iran. That is why MSNBC/NBC supported Iran relentlessly.
re: #159 by buzzsawmonkey
Yes, I agree with you 100% that Obama wants Iran to get nuclear weapons and that he thinks he can force an agreement on Israel by claiming to have the power to convince Iran not to use them if Israel gives the “Palestinians” what they want.
Obama also thought he could roll over Bibi Netanyahu by being this charming U.S. President that Israeli voters would want to please. He was expecting to run Bibi out of office and force Israel’s left wing parties to win in Israel so that all of his plans would fall into place.
Instead, only 4% of the Jews in Israel see Obama as a friend to Israel. They’re backing Bibi over Obama all the way.
The “Palestinians” won’t even talk to Israel because they’re so sure they’re going to get everything they want that they’re just waiting for it now. It’s becoming doubtful that they’ll ever talk peace with Israel again while Obama is President.
By the way, the Olmert offer of a Pali State last year was more extensive than Ehud Barak’s offer, unfortunately. Bibi is making it clear that he is not bound by it, but both the “Palestinians” and Obama want the negotiations to begin from the point of Olmert’s offer. It won’t happen.
This is another reason why there probably won’t be any peace talks while Obama is President.
The bottom line is that Obama does want Iran to get nukes and Israel knows it. So I think Israel will take care of things on her own.
P.S. News in Israel today is that Syria has shipped about 25% of its medium and long range missiles to Hezbollah so that Hezbollah can now strike at every single place in Israel. This signals another possible war in Lebanon, especially since Hezbollah would be the ones most likely to get Iran’s nukes to fire at Israel if/when Iran builds them (if they haven’t done so already).
So I think another war is coming up in Lebanon.
‘Syrian long-range missiles in Lebanon’
re: #169 by calcajun
I don’t know why Russia would see Iran as no threat. Sure, they both have bigger fish to fry, but would an emboldened Iran take the side of Russia over Chechnian terrorists?
re: #178 by vapig
It’s GE behind this.
re: #175 by buzzsawmonkey
Yeah roger that I know what you are saying. He has to realize though that a progressive administration is no friend to Israel.
I observed the other day that the genuine Civil Rights Movement, led by King and the SCLC, and which actually achieved passage of the Voting Rights Act, identified with the Exodus and made common cause with Jews and Israel.
The post-Voting Rights Act “Civil Rights Movement,” which marginalized King and became focused on “human rights,” identified with “post-colonial struggles” and made common cause with the “Palestinians.”
Obama, his wife, his associates, and his advisors grew up connected to the second movement, not the first.
re: #182 by Nikis Knight
Russia and Iran are historical enemies. Putin is playing with fire, he thinks that Iran will be focused on Israel/Arabs not them. Plus high oil prices help Russia. It’s about money for Putin.
re: #165 by Iron Fist
Precisely. Just look at the topics he picks. It’s creationist this, and Beck that, and birther this and Limbaugh that. And Falwell this and GOP leadership that. Almost nothing on islomofascists or bikes or rusty hinges any more.
re: #185 by buzzsawmonkey
King said that Anti-Zionism was Antisemitism. He was spot on 40+ years ago.
We should feel so secure in knowing that the O is the the “decision making” process of the war in Afghanistan.
He wanted to ram a health care bill through in a month but is having such a difficult time deciding on whether or not to support his military.
His lack of consideration for any other person is so obvious. He never talks about the greatness of this country and its people.
I think my head might explode with 3 more years of this egomaniac.
re: #182 by Nikis Knight
I think if the mullahs had a choice of squeezing all of Europe with Russia versus fighting Russia over some small-fry Chechens, they go for the bigger prize every time.
re: #183 by Rodan
Wasn’t there a rumor that Rupert Murdoch was interested in buying NBC? That would be hilarious. Imagine it; would Olbermann, Matthews, et al. bolt en masse or would they stay and toe the new corporate line? The mind reels with the possibilities.
re: #176 by snork
I agree. They would trust a nuke-armed Iran about as much as we would. However, they are not going to do a thing or say a thing. They would secretly support isreal doing something about it, but they have to play the proper role for the region.
re: #192 by Kitteh
Right, but what are they doing behind closed doors? I’m having a hard time believing that they’re lost their influence, and I’m having a hard time believing that they don’t care. They have to be pulling the levers at State. But maybe State is Hillary’s thing, and the real power is in the czarosphere.
Could it be that the entire bureaucracy is now irrelevant, and all policy is in the hands of the czars? That could certainly explain that total hose-up with the Queen of England and the iPod.
re: #110 by kansas
That makes me a little angry. Because it means they got away with smears and lies yet again, and it means that those people who have defended Rush will hear “yeah, well why didn’t he sue?” And the Jackson/Sharpton smear machine is allowed to go their way unmolested yet again.”
He SHOULD sue. They interfered with a prospective business advantage. It’s about time Sullivan v. NY Times was taken to task for its ridiculous and unfair “malice” standards.
And I find it annoying that Rush tells all of us to stand up for what’s right when apparently he chooses not to. I realize it’s not quite that simplistic in his case, but still…
re: #105 by Speranza
Nonsense– WSC had much smaller calves.//
re: #187 by snork
“Precisely. Just look at the topics he picks. It’s creationist this, and Beck that, and birther this and Limbaugh that. And Falwell this and GOP leadership that. Almost nothing on islomofascists or bikes or rusty hinges any more.”
Let’s not forget – Michelle Bachmann, Fox News, Rick Perry, Mark Sanford, Jim DeMint, Bobby Jindal, Pam Geller, Robert Spencer bashing.
Plenty of pictures of beaches, bikes, and rusty hinges though and jazz musicians I never heard of.