Monthly Archives: October 2011

The HERMAN CAIN AFFAIR – SHADES of JUSTICE THOMAS, ANITA HILL REDUX ?

Posted on October 31, 2011 | Leave a comment

POLITICO reports:  Herman Cain accused by two women of inappropriate behavior

If you know the Democrats you knew this was coming.  The Party of Personal Destruction must spend half of their campaign finance money to find or make up dirt to sully their opponents or “enemies” as the current lot calls them.  It could backfire if it brings in some liberal votes from those who think it makes Cain look more Clintonesque.

Anonymous women make unspecified gestures and the target is immediately put on the defensive.  Call me biased or call me cynical, but I know the odds; and the odds are it’s Anita Hill Redux.  Odds are, I must admit, just a bet.  It’s a sad state when a reasonable man feels the odds are in favor of an American political party having degraded itself to this level rather than more traditionally plausible possibility that a man stepped over the line to cherchez la femme.

The unmitigated and totally invented filth thrown on Sarah Palin and her daughter is support enough to view the allegations against Cain with suspicion.  The attempt by certain members of the Black caucus to charge Tea Party demonstrators protesting Obamacare with spits and slurs is another.  Even a lowly honest plumber named Joe isn’t immune to these character assassins.

 

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THE GREAT AMERICAN TRAGEDY

Posted on October 29, 2011 | 1 comment

President Obama spoke recently at the Black Caucus Annual Awards Dinner.  After reminding his audience of the civil rights struggle he went on to say “Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes” his voice rose in response to applause as he continued. “Shake it off. Stop complainin’. Stop grumblin’. Stop cryin’. We are going to press on. We have work to do.”

The same words can convey very different messages to different audiences.  When a controversial black president tells a black activist audience to put on their marching shoes and press on, that the struggle has never been easy, it is an emotion filled charge equating opposition to his jobs bill to injustices against blacks in the Jim Crow days.  Obama is fanning a breeze over the smolders of rage and playing the race card to the hilt.  When Obama says to a black audience “We have shaped our own destiny before and we can shape our own destiny again” he is not making a patriotic appeal to the nation.  He is pitting blacks against whites over the issue of unemployment.

There have been many great African-Americans down through the years.  The first person to die for the American Revolutionary cause was a black man named Crispus Attucks.  We can name Thurgood Marshall and Clarence Thomas, Colin Powell, and Condoleezza Rice and of course, Martin Luther King.  The list of great black American men and women goes on and on.  It is a tragedy of tragedies that our first black president should turn out to be a professional agitator who opens old wounds to satisfy his personal rage. 

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OCCUPY OAKLAND ACTS UP

Posted on October 28, 2011 | Leave a comment

“U.S. VET INJURED IN OAKLAND POLICE ACTION” is a headline that gets your attention. 

Scott Olsen at Occupy Oakland

 Scott Olsen is a 24 year old Iraq war veteran.  He suffered a fractured skull while participating in the Occupy Oakland protest and was listed in critical condition at the Highland Hospital in Oakland, California.

“It’s unconscionable that you go overseas to protect our country, but you get injured by police officers who are supposed to be protecting us,”

I guess it all depends on what the meaning of “us” is.  The police were not there to protect the protestors from the citizens of Oakland; they were there to protect law abiding citizens from the law breaking protesters.  Olsen’s injuries are regrettable; so is the implication of police brutality in the headline.  But it was Olsen’s own choice to put himself in harms way.

It could be argued whether or not the use of tear gas was necessary to stop a crowd that was getting out of control.  Perhaps it was.  A video you can see here shows the ensuing mayhem in which Olsen sustained his injury.  It appears, as NBC reports, that Olsen was hit by something thrown or propelled in the air.  There were no policemen anywhere within striking distance of the incident when it happened.

A primary purpose on the part of the organizers of protest demonstrations is to shape public opinion.  Unfortunately, many voters don’t read much past the headlines. For them the incident will go down as police brutality which it clearly was not.

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INVESTING IN BONDS IS SAFE

Posted on October 27, 2011 | Leave a comment

Investing in stocks is risky.  Investing in bonds is safe.  Sovereign bonds are the safest because they are backed by the full taxing power of the nation.  Investors in Greek sovereign bonds just lost half of their money.  The U.S. stock market will soar when it opens.  So much for safe.

When a nation has depleted the wealth of its citizens, who can they tax?  When a country’s full taxing power becomes near worthless who will lend them money they cannot pay back?  When a corporation goes bankrupt it sells some assets, perhaps all.  When the Soviet Union went bankrupt they could no longer keep their satellites under control.  When members of the European Union go bankrupt the functional nations pay the bills of the squandering nations.  How long and how often will they be willing to do that?

The shelf life of the Euro is shorter than that of the dollar, but that’s not saying much unless we stop following Europe into the dustbin of insolvency.

 

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SMORE OCCUPIES

Posted on October 26, 2011 | Leave a comment

Occupy Chicago is looking like Occupy Lite.  A majority of the Chicago protesters appear to be people who have done an honest days work.  No serious mob behavior here.  Chicago being Chicago, whooda thunk?  Nurses are in the fore and the signs actually relate to their complaints.  The movement’s various factions certainly are diverse.

Then there is Occupy Oakland where it has already gone violent.  The video needs no words.

The Occupations know no limit.  Occupies and occupiers are everywhere.  How about this one?  Occupy Everything.  The “About” message put forth by this group on their website explains why it would be a better world if they could only occupy everything.:

Occupy Everything is an anti-capitalist initiative—established in 2009—dedicated to militant research, critical pedagogy and public practices that include mediatic intervention, feminism and the anti-enclosure movement. OE is collectively-operated and dedicated to building an open access culture of resistance. Please send your contributions to…

I could support the mediatic intervention in their agenda but I am diametrically opposed to the pedagogy and pubic practices  espoused by this particular occupation faction.  And I’m more or less unanimous about that.  

So there you have it.  From the sublime to the ridiculous, you can choose your group.  You can march to overthrow the government and end the free market system or march just to plead for a job.  You can even donate to a scam artist.  Be careful.  It can be dangerous out there.

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THE GADDAFI THING. DID OBAMA DO IT? OF COURSE HE DIDN’T

Posted on October 26, 2011 | Leave a comment

It was a street vendor in Tunisia and the facilitation of the Internet that led to the dictator’s death.  I am surprised Al Gore isn’t taking credit for it.  After all, he invented the internet.

Mohamed Bouazizi set his body on fire in a public act of suicide on January 4th when a Tunisian official confiscated the goods he was selling from his cart.  Public outrage went viral over the internet and the Arab Spring was sprung.  It was local rioting that started the action in Libya.  It was Libyan guerillas that carried out the fight.  It was a local guerilla that killed Gaddafi’s after he had been captured alive.  Obama has been busy assassinating other people.  But he never did get Gaddafi.

Of course, Obama is taking the credit for removing the brutal dictator from power.  Let’s remember that when the al qaeda-like Muslim Brotherhood takes control.  France and Europe beware; your invaders are gaining control of your oil supply.  Ladies, put your burkas on, stay in the house and prepare to share your husbands.  United Nations, congratulations!  You have a new candidate to chair the Human Rights Council.

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YOUR DOCTOR’S POSITION on OBAMACARE

Posted on October 22, 2011 | Leave a comment

What’s your doctor’s opinion of Obamacare?  Most doctors are tight-lipped with patients who ask where the doctor stands on Obamacare.  With political issues are as tense as they are today, any discussion has the potential of becoming a contentious one.  Doctors are there to heal, not to open wounds.  So we must look elsewhere for the answer to the question and we find your doctor’s opinion is decidedly negative.

The American Medical Association (AMA) was for more than 160 years the primary organization representing the interests of physicians in America.  It is the medical association most often quoted by the media.  The AMA supports Obamacare.  Doctors are leaving the AMA in droves.  Fully 47% cited their reason for discontinuing their membership was the association’s support for Obamacare.  After the exodus, only 17% of doctors practicing in America continue as members.  Now that’s a statement!

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare) does take a haircut out of reimbursements to physicians for services rendered to Medicare and Medicaid patients.  But to say that this is the only reason for their opposition to the Obama/Pelosi plan would be to indict the whole fraternity of physicians as unable to keep their priorities straight.  Such is simply not the case.

Sally Pipes, writing for Forbes:

More than three times as many doctors believe that the quality of American health care will “deteriorate” rather than “improve” under ObamaCare.  Nine of ten physicians think ObamaCare will have a negative impact on their profession.

Another gripe is that nothing in ObamaCare addresses the problem of defensive medicine that physicians feel forced to do as protection against frivolous lawsuits.  There is no tort reform in the new law.  Physicians are there to heal, not to practice law.  They do not like putting their patients through procedures for legal reasons, procedures they would not do for health reasons.

So now you know.  Unless your doctor is one of a small minority, he has a very negative view of Obamacare.  But he will be slow to tell you that.

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CORPORATE, VIOLENT and HUFFY PEOPLE

Posted on October 20, 2011 | Leave a comment

Around the blogs

If Corporations Aren’t People, How Can They Be Greedy?
Mitt Romney has taken a lot of flak from the general press for his statement that corporations are people.  John Hinderaker responds:

The managers who run any company have a fiduciary duty to try to maximize returns for their company’s owners–that is to say, profits. If a company’s executives decided not to be “greedy,” but rather to operate their company at a break-even level so as to avoid profit, they would be violating their legal duties and would be subject to shareholder lawsuits.

Is this “greed?” Of course not. It is progress. Do liberals really want the rest of us to be lazy; to be uncompetitive; to squelch change; to be inefficient and to pass the costs of that inefficiency on to our customers? Well, yes, actually, they do–just as the federal government passes the costs of its inefficiency on to its customers, the taxpayers.

Violence is Coming
Andrew Breitbart explains why he thinks that violence will be coming from the Occupy movement. The rhetoric anticipates violence. Many videos made at the protests attest to that.

All Huffy, Joe Biden Stands By Rape Reference to GOP
A reporter from Human Events asked Joe Biden about his comments that the number of sexual assaults would increase if Republicans don’t sign on to Barack Obama’s jobs proposal.  Slow Joe went ballistic.  The Bidens of this world are not accustomed to being questioned by the press about their nonsense

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OCCUPY OAKLAND – THE MOST TELLING

Posted on October 18, 2011 | Leave a comment

This is a powerful video.  If you still have questions in your mind on what the Occupy movement is about, this is the video will remove all doubt.

The existence of sizable groups of people embracing the beliefs expressed in the video is not a new phenomenon.  As Stanley Kurtz explains in his book  RADICAL-IN-CHIEF, Barack Obama and the Untold Story of American Socialism, this is the world Obama chose in his youth.  The question is did he ever leave it?  His actions as President are consistent with the notion he did not.

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OCCUPY – NOW THE UGLY SIDE

Posted on October 18, 2011 | Leave a comment

As the world turns the Occupy groups evolve.  They are one thing today and another tomorrow.  They are one thing here and another thing over there.  Two days ago we reported on the movement’s better side.  Today we report on its ugly face.

Occupiers in New York desecrate the American flag by laying it on the ground and walking on it for the camera.

Occupiers in Portland, Oregon compose a song entitled “F*** AMERICA” and sing those lyrics on the street.

The movement has been given the official endorsement of The Communist Party USA

A crowd in Atlanta makes it clear they want to hear Democratic Congressman and civil rights hero John Lewis speak.  But a declared Marxist facilitator manipulates the crowd into denying Lewis the opportunity to speak.

An Occupy LA speaker says the time has finally come; it’s time for the militant revolution.

Barack Obama has voiced unqualified support to the Occupiers, without reservations or condemnation of any of their actions.  The movement is the direct result of class warfare launched and perpetuated by him with support from the press and the Democratic party.

We are witnessing a classic organizing technique in the Alinsky model being played out on a national scale and led by the world’s most renowned community organizer.  Alinsky called his rules tactics.  Tactic number 13 is “Pick a target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it”.  Obama picked the banks, is freezing his target with endless repetition, polarizing it with attacks on millionaires and billionaires and personalizing it by relating it to the lack of jobs.

If you are dismayed by all this; you can’t say you weren’t warned.  As a candidate, the President said he would never turn his back on the “God damn America” preacher who gave him the inspiration for his life’s work.  And then he proudly proclaimed his community organizing experience as a prime qualification for his election to the presidency.  Sometimes you actually do get what you asked for.

Communist Party USA also supports the Obama-endorsed Occupy Wall Street Protests.

From the CPUSA website:

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