27
Oct
A lot has been made of the video where a woman gets her head stomped on at a Rand Paul/Jack Conway debate.
A lot. Before rushing to judgment, and before making incendiary comments in my presence, take into consideration some facts first.
Her original story was she was simply handing Rand Paul an employee of the month award for a fictional company moveon.org made up. What is that supposed to mean to Rand Paul? Then, it was she was simply wanting to hold a sign. In all her versions, she’s just innocently standing there and gets jumped. That’s Keith Olbermann’s take too. Here’s the same incident from a different angle:
And here’s a slightly different angle too:
So, ya gotta ask yourself, if you could care less about knowing the truth, what a woman from Massachusetts, who works for a group that funds the opposing party against Rand Paul, was doing standing in the middle of a Rand Paul crowd and attacking his car? I mean, last I recall, people in Massachusetts aren’t allowed to vote for Kentucky candidates. So, this paid political activist wearing a wig and a hoodie then attacks Paul’s car and is taken down by two guys, one of whom restrains her with her foot.
She was wanting to create a scene. And she did. And Keith Olbermann was more than ready to feed it to the masses. She’ll now go back to Massachusetts and plot her next political ploy I’m sure.
Doubt me still? After the event Ilyse Hogue informs the media that Valle was in the hospital receiving treatment and wasn’t sure when she would be able to talk to the media. At the same time, Valle is still at the event smiling and giving interviews for the media. Why should anyone care? Ilyse Hogue is moveon.org’s political director. She’s lying too. She’s not from Kentucky either.
All you peeps who immediately condemned the Rand Paul peeps have been lied to and taken for a ride. You have been fooled. That’s what moveon.org does. This ain’t Greenpeace or some environmental activist group, this is Moveon.org., a purely political entity that supports Democrats any way they see fit and have been primarily funded by George Soros, a Hungarian who made his money in Russia and nearly destroyed the British economy.
That’s a whole lot of people that have nothing to do with Kentucky that are making an awful big scene trying to affect who we in Kentucky elect. That’s just not right either.
The rebel in me wants to say that when pushy people come down from the North to try and tell us what to do, they might get their heads stomped on. But, God knows that is so horribly politically incorrect so I probably shouldn’t say it that way.
But……
Some people are just unlearned. Some people are just stubborn. Some people are just stupid. Some people just can’t quit lying. Paul Krugman has to be the latter. His argument for why we should still vote Democrat in spite of the fact their economic policies to date have failed miserably is because we shouldn’t return to the prosperity that got us into this mess. Yeah, you heard me right. In spite of all the force-fed propaganda, what Paul Krugman et al are telling you are lies that they know, or would have to know, are lies. Paul Krugman was there in 1999 and 2000. I bet when he’s drunk out of his mind he still laughs about the “Dot-com bubble” that burst and sent the country into a perilous not-quite recession but pretty bad economic mess. For those of us who are not Princeton educated economists, we have to read Wikipedia to remind ourselves of it. Heck, Wiki even has a specific date it burst, March 10, 2000. With the exploding markets, President Clinton’s Federal Reserve raised interest rates six times doing everything it could to suck the life out of the “irrational exuberance”. BY March 10, 2000, they succeeded and the markets started receding, soon to be an all-out collapse. Throughout 2000 the headlines were marked by huge dot-com successes filing for bankruptcy. They in turn took out other industry giants such as communications and manufacturing. The corporate graveyard was astounding in 2000. Then, the NEXT YEAR, President Bush took office. So, all this BS that things were so fantastic when Bush took office is just flat out lies. Krugman was there. He knows what happened. Is that what he thinks we need to return to? Bush inherited a mess, and it only got worse. Shortly after he took office, 9/11 occurred. That created a mess on it’s own. However, starting pretty much to that day, with the assist of the “Bush tax cuts for the wealthy”, the country kicked into one of the longest sustained growths in the country’s history. It wasn’t crazy irrational growth, it was average, and steady. There was no inflation, and unemployment stayed fairly steady. In 2006 the country focused more on perceived personal misfortunes than the economy and voted the Republicans out of control. Almost on cue, the economy tanked. Now, Paul Krugman knows this. He knows who controls the spending budgets. He knows who controls the Fed rate policies. He knows just as well as you and I do that when Nancy Pelosi’s economic policies started hitting the markets, they killed it. Bush wasn’t the one who proposed TARP, he merely did not interfere with Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi. They wrote it, the Democrats passed it. The economy tanked. Then Obama got his shot at the whole mess. It tanked even worse. So, what Krugman is telling us is that we need to return to the days when undocumented book values were taxed at outrageous levels regardless of whether they were real or not. That successful people should be taxed at somewhere around 60%. That the federal government should turn its head completely when companies make outrageous leaps in book value with no revenues to speak of. That banks would leverage completely fictional values against revenues a company never had. That home values would be allowed to explode for no apparent reason. And, of course, that it’s the Republicans that are sold out to big business that allowed this to happen while the not-really-Communist Democrats are protecting the little union guy. None of that makes sense. No one calls Krugman on any of it. So, him and the New York Times and most other media just keep on repeating it over and over to saturate the internet so it appears that it has to be real. Apparently the average American voter just isn’t that stupid. Do you remember 2000? Yes we can! Do you remember 2007? Yes we can!
22
Oct
Juan Williams gets fired, George Soros donates $1.8 million pretty much the same day.
Coincidence?
Yeah. Right.
If NPR is going to sell itself to the highest “donor”, then I suggest maybe it go the route of all other broadcast media and we stop propping it up with taxpayer money. Arguing that it’s unbiased because it doesn’t advertise is a bit of a farce.
22
Oct
I don’t think anyone ever assumed Harry Reid is a modest man. But, he recently had this to offer:
Just curious:
These guys just need killing in the worst possible way. Right now.
There is no doubt whatsoever that they killed an entire family brutally. None. They’re even admitting it now in way too much detail. There is no point whatsoever in having a trial that lasts more than five minutes to announce how guilty they are. How long will we be forced to suffer the details? These guys just need killing now, and the evidence destroyed immediately. I don’t care which one is more guilty than the other, they both did it, neither tried to stop it. They are both equally at fault. They both need to be removed from society, and most definitely from the gene pool. And quite frankly, the most humane methods need to be eliminated. Slowly cooked over an open fire would suit me just fine.
The Democrat Congressional Campaign Committee is hammering Andy Barr in Kentucky about as hard as you can:
You can’t trust Andy Barr for anything because he’s a criminal. Simple message. According to Bluegrass Politics it’s true too:
The ruling: True.
The facts: In 1993, as a 19-year-old college student vacationing in Key West, Fla., Barr was charged by police with possession of a fake Mississippi driver’s license. He pleaded guilty and was ordered to provide eight hours of community service, according to court records.
Their justification of why it’s true is that when he applied for state jobs he didn’t list that conviction. He felt it was “minor”. DCCC argues otherwise.
I think this is deceptive by Ben Chandler and the DCCC. What do you think?
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18
Oct
This is getting nuttier every day. In 1993, when the Democrats controlled everything in DC, they passed a piece of legislation that pretty much everyone hated. It was affectionately referred to as the “National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1994“. Now, a lot of people don’t keep track of things like they should so I’ll remind everyone how the Senate voted:
| Akaka (D-HI), Yea Baucus (D-MT), Yea Bennett (R-UT), Yea Biden (D-DE), Yea Bingaman (D-NM), Yea Bond (R-MO), Yea Boren (D-OK), Yea Boxer (D-CA), Nay Bradley (D-NJ), Yea Breaux (D-LA), Yea Brown (R-CO), Nay Bryan (D-NV), Yea Bumpers (D-AR), Yea Burns (R-MT), Yea Byrd (D-WV), Yea Campbell (D-CO), Yea Chafee (R-RI), Yea Coats (R-IN), Yea Cochran (R-MS), Yea Cohen (R-ME), Yea Conrad (D-ND), Yea Coverdell (R-GA), Nay Craig (R-ID), Yea D’Amato (R-NY), Nay Danforth (R-MO), Yea Daschle (D-SD), Yea DeConcini (D-AZ), Yea Dodd (D-CT), Yea Dole (R-KS), Nay Domenici (R-NM), Nay Dorgan (D-ND), Not Voting Durenberger (R-MN), Yea Exon (D-NE), Yea Faircloth (R-NC), Yea |
Feingold (D-WI), Nay Feinstein (D-CA), Yea Ford (D-KY), Yea Glenn (D-OH), Yea Gorton (R-WA), Nay Graham (D-FL), Yea Gramm (R-TX), Nay Grassley (R-IA), Yea Gregg (R-NH), Yea Harkin (D-IA), Yea Hatch (R-UT), Nay Hatfield (R-OR), Nay Heflin (D-AL), Yea Helms (R-NC), Nay Hollings (D-SC), Yea Hutchison (R-TX), Yea Inouye (D-HI), Yea Jeffords (R-VT), Yea Johnston (D-LA), Yea Kassebaum (R-KS), Yea Kempthorne (R-ID), Yea Kennedy (D-MA), Yea Kerrey (D-NE), Yea Kerry (D-MA), Yea Kohl (D-WI), Yea Lautenberg (D-NJ), Yea Leahy (D-VT), Yea Levin (D-MI), Yea Lieberman (D-CT), Yea Lott (R-MS), Yea Lugar (R-IN), Yea Mack (R-FL), Nay Mathews (D-TN), Yea McCain (R-AZ), Nay |
McConnell (R-KY), Yea Metzenbaum (D-OH), Nay Mikulski (D-MD), Yea Mitchell (D-ME), Yea Moseley-Braun (D-IL), Yea Moynihan (D-NY), Yea Murkowski (R-AK), Yea Murray (D-WA), Yea Nickles (R-OK), Nay Nunn (D-GA), Yea Packwood (R-OR), Nay Pell (D-RI), Yea Pressler (R-SD), Nay Pryor (D-AR), Yea Reid (D-NV), Yea Riegle (D-MI), Yea Robb (D-VA), Yea Rockefeller (D-WV), Yea Roth (R-DE), Nay Sarbanes (D-MD), Yea Sasser (D-TN), Yea Shelby (D-AL), Yea Simon (D-IL), Yea Simpson (R-WY), Yea Smith (R-NH), Yea Specter (R-PA), Nay Stevens (R-AK), Yea Thurmond (R-SC), Yea Wallop (R-WY), Nay Warner (R-VA), Yea Wellstone (D-MN), Nay Wofford (D-PA), Yea |
I hilite the “yea””s for a reason. Wannna guess what it is? OK, I’ll give one clue. Democrats passed this thing 51-12. Without one single Republican needing to vote, they passed it. The military didn’t like it, the gay community didn’t like it, no one liked it. The Democrat controlled House, the Democrat controlled Senate, and the Democrat President rammed it through anyway. According to Clinton, it wasn’t perfect, but it was a start. Media pretty much ignored “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” for a while until it became expedient. Over time, it became purely a Republican issue as the Republicans did exactly as the Democrats did years before and effectively ignored it. The media bias culminated itself this year when Lady Gaga chastised Republicans for talking about filibustering the bill that would eliminate Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell:
“I will not stop calling until I reach them to tell them to vote with Sen. Harry Reid to end John McCain’s ‘shameless filibuster,’” she said.
She then calls two Democrats who refuse to take her call. There was no filibuster, Harry Reid never sent it to the floor. The gays returned to attacking the hell out of Republicans only even though the Democrats once again had all the votes they needed to pass the legislation to end it. All the while, no one was mentioning the fact that a lawsuit was working it’s way through the legal system to undo what Bill Clinton and the Democrats did in 1993. It wasn’t filed by Lady Gaga. It wasn’t filed by any Democrat. It was filed by the Log Cabin Republicans. And then a weird thing happened. They won. Republicans, who controlled nothing in DC, did what Harry Reid refused to do. They ended “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”. The Obama administration thought about it for a couple of days. And, knowing how the gays felt about DADT, had this to offer:
You read that right. The Obama Administration is asking for a delay in the ruling so the Obama Administration can prepare an appeal to the ruling. They wanna fight it. So, even though the Democrats wrote DADT, passed DADT, have ruled over DADT for nine of the seventeen years it’s been existance, refused to vote to end DADT, and now are fighting legally to keep DADT, I bet you good money there won’t be a single liberal gay person come out and point their finger where the problem is, has been, and continues to be. If they do, I’d love to see their comments here. The reason DADT has survived all these years considering no one seems to like it is because the Democrats know they won’t be held accountable for it so no need to antagonize their moderate to conservative base, and the Republicans know that no matter what they do they won’t get any credit so they have no reason to antagonize their base either. When media and gays become less partisan and more objective then maybe they’ll get what they want.
Until then, they’ll have to keep relying on the Republicans. It’s a core issue with Republicans in a way most people don’t really think about. In expecting the government to protect a minority, the government has to do it in a way that is equitable to all people affected by the minority. Sometimes that doesn’t necessarily work to the minority’s advantage. By NOT recognizing the minority as a minority, it removes the issue of being a minority and allows the issues that affect that minority to be addressed. There is no reason to protect gays in the military. They are already protected by our Constitution. What needs to be protected are the rights gays have as US citizens. When that occurs, gays will have all the same rights as anyone else in the military and I am quite sure that would make everyone happy. Repealing Don’t Ask Don’t Tell therefore is kind of moot to me. What needs to happen is all references to discriminating on the basis of sexual preferance need to be eliminated. I really don’t buy the argument that it would be disruptive to the military at all. Obama may want you to believe that, but I don’t.
12
Oct
Whoopi Goldberg is now trying to make money bemoaning the loss of civility.
I kid you not.
She has written an entire book about it. Seriously, she has:
This of course came out right about the time she was telling basically everyone who had an opinion about the 9/11 Mosque to kiss her butt. And of course, her daily civil discourse usually sounds something like this:
Just a couple of suggestions on civility here would do. Firsties, don’t talk over people. Secondies, don’t interrupt others. Thirdly, comparing modern people to historic despots isn’t civil. Fourthly, lying about others isn’t civil either ( some would call it slander ).
I really think when she sets the bar a little higher she’ll have room to complain about others. Until then, just send me your $12.49. It’ll do a little more good for mankind than her hypocritical book.
