h/t to StephC for pointing this out.
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I will just note that when you have lost the cover of one of your best attack dogs from the last election cycle, you might be doing something wrong. Also, it’s not that we think Obama will change America into Nazi Germany, it’s that he might change America into what immediately preceded Nazi Germany.
Aaron B. Gardner
* Well they must be Right Wingers, they are critical of the President you see.
Not promoted from the diaries by anybody because we’ve promoted Aaron to the front page. Yes, yes, I know “My God, what hath thou wrought?” I’m asking myself the same thing. — Erick
Come, sit by the campfire while I tell you a story.
September 2000 I left the U.S. Army confident that Al Gore would be the next President of the United States of America. The next year passed quickly as I scrambled to find my place in civilian life. On Sept. 11th I was driving to work and heard the news. Thus began a fixation on current events that I have yet to shake.
The next spring I quit my job and took a contract in Kosovo as a Systems Administrator. I spent roughly two years living and working in Kosovo. In between trouble tickets, I diligently clicked refresh on Drudgereport, which I had only recently discovered. Once I returned to U.S. soil I began to notice that the country had changed while I was away. Drudge, despite his best efforts, had failed to clue me in to the degree of animosity that was bubbling up from the fairly new fever swamps we are now all so familiar with.
I was a foreigner in my own land.
From the diaries by Erick.
Via Breitbart TV
This is unbelievable.
Speechless.
Aaron B. Gardner
Crossposted at my blog
Breaking the law, breaking the law
Breaking the law, breaking the law
Breaking the law, breaking the law
Breaking the law, breaking the law
Breaking the law, breaking the law
Breaking the law, breaking the law
Breaking the law, breaking the law
Breaking the law, breaking the law
You dont know what its like
Breaking the law, breaking the law
Breaking the law, breaking the law
Breaking the law, breaking the law
Breaking the law, breaking the law
** “We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek. We are the hope of those boys who have little; who’ve been told that they cannot have what they dream; that they cannot be what they imagine. ”
Aaron B. Gardner
“Breaking the Law” By Judas Priest.
Crossposted at my blog
The crew over at Big Hollywood and Big Goverment continued the fight today.
Further exposing the incestuous nature of the modern Progressive Left in America, John Nolte details the soon to be infamous conference call between the White House Office of Public Engagement, the NEA’s Communications Director, Serve.gov Director of Outreach, and a list of hand picked artists/trend setters/just plain “cool” people.
In it he paints a picture of the not so subtle desire of the Obama Administration to have a PR hit squad that even Joseph Goebbels would be proud of.
All evidence points to the fact that the conference call was a ruse, a front for a White House using Skolnik as a kind of beard in order to put an innocent spin on their abuse of the NEA and two non-partisan volunteer organizations (United We Serve – an initiative overseen by The Corporation for National and Community Service – a federal agency, and the White House’ Office of Public Engagement).
The goal: To motivate a group of hand-picked pro-Obama artists (grant recipients or those wanting grants) to push the President’s flagging agenda, especially health care — and to funnel this promotion through the ACORN related- Serve.gov website.
I am not a lawyer and certainly won’t attempt to debate the illegality of this call and the greater relationship that exists. There are others who have already done that and come to the conclusion that “laws were broken”…
All of this – particularly the government-sponsored conference call itself – is in blatant violation of the Anti-Lobbying Act (19 U.S. Code §1913), which explicitly provides: “No part of the money appropriated by any enactment of Congress shall, in the absence of express authorization by Congress, be used directly or indirectly to pay for any personal service, advertisement, telegram, telephone, letter, printed or written matter, or other device, intended or designed to influence in any manner a Member of Congress, a jurisdiction, or an official of any government, to favor, adopt, or oppose by vote or otherwise, any legislation, law, ratification, policy, or appropriation, whether before or after the introduction of any bill, measure or resolution proposing such legislation, law, ratification, policy or appropriation …”
[snip...]
Violation of the Anti-Lobbying Act carries punishment: “Any person who makes an expenditure … shall be subject to a civil penalty of not less than $10,000 and not more than $100,000 for each such expenditure.” And that’s not all: “An imposition of a civil penalty under this subsection does not prevent the United States from seeking any other remedy that the United States may have for the same conduct that is the basis for the imposition of such civil penalty.” In other words, criminal prosecution is available here.
Who am I to disagree. ;^)
I wonder if any of this will be covered by ABC, CBS, NBC, MSDNC, CNN, or any of those soon to be subsidized birdcage liners Bambi is thinking he like to buy and manipulate.
Aaron B. Gardner
Crossposted at my blog
Our planet has contracted a virus worse than H1N1, worse than the plague, even worse than Global Warming or the more flexible Climate Change. Our planet has contracted a bad case of stupidity, and it’s going to get us all killed*.
For years we have heard that Global warming is going to drown us all as the glaciers melt and the seas rise. For years we have been told that we are the problem. We have been told that CO2 emissions are the culprit. Our cars are too big, they put out too much CO2. They are killing the planet.
Really?
Well the IPCC and Owl Gore would love us to believe that. Thing is…it just ain’t true.
The hockey stick graph has been debunked, 10-12 years of Global temperature drops have proven it to be a false prediction. The computer models have failed.
The revelation of these facts will not deter those who are committed to the Church of Climate Change. No. The true believers are gathering, as we speak, to perform a concert for Climate Change.
55 Superstars, entourage in tow, plan to sing in order to stop Climate Change.
So, let me get this straight. In order to “save the planet” these idiots want to have approx 51000** people travel on private jets, commercial flights, cars, buses and many other modes of CO2 spewing transportation in order to watch 55 bands spew even more CO2 from their mouths while listening to songs not seen on the top 40 since Global Cooling was a big deal.
Let me be the first to say….GREEN FAIL
Aaron B. Gardner
Crossposted at my blog.
* Maybe it won’t kill us, but stupidity certainly isn’t going to help us.
** Here is how I got to 51000
55*4=220 Full Band
55*10=550 Roadies for Band.
50000 fans in attendance est.
100 promoters est.
50 vendors est.
60 private jets est.
So Rasmussen Reports has the President at a 45% approval and a 53% disapproval rating after just 7 months in office. His meteoric rise to the Presidency has since began it’s return to the third rock from the Sun. Some may want to analyze these numbers and find out why he is in a free fall. Me…well I think I will just delight in this bit of schadenfreude.
You feel better now don’t you?
Aaron B. Gardner
[via DrudgeReport]
[inspired by Lori...aka SnarkandBoobs]
Woman gives birth on pavement ‘after being refused ambulance”
Seriously…that was a headline from the Daily Mail Online. As we all know the U.K. has a single payer health care system, similar to what President Obama, Barney Frank and many others in Congress envision for our Nation in the long term.
Now I don’t want to be an alarmist so I had better look at more of the article…catch you below the fold.
the 27-year-old claims she was refused an ambulance and told to walk the 100m from her house in Leicester to the city’s nearby Royal Infirmary.
Ok I know what you are probably thinking…100 meters isn’t that far to walk. This may be true, but imagine yourself trying to walk 100 meters with a case of extremely explosive diarrhea, kinda like what comes out of Joe Biden’s mouth. Might as well be a marathon.
Today the Trust that runs the hospital said it would look into any complaint made about the advice and care the 27-year-old received.
This Trust would be the equivalent to the Public Option or Co-op if you speak newspeak.
I phoned up the Royal Infirmary, it’s just across the road, and they said to go into a hot bath, and then to make my way over there.
So a woman is in labor and calls the hospital and they say take a hot bath and then we will see you when you get here. I can’t confirm this but I hear they also suggested she rub some dirt on it.
Moving on…
I went into the bath and realised she was going to come quickly. I didn’t think I’d be able to make it out of the bath, so I phoned the maternity ward back and told them to get an ambulance out.
That’s right…put that free health care to work!!
They said they were not sending an ambulance and told me I had had nine months to sort out a lift.
Wait…what? Sorry…no ambulance for you. I wonder what metric was used to deny emergency services to a woman in labor.
Ms Blake said despite the happy ending she was upset she was told to make her own way to the hospital as, being an experienced mum, she knew she did not have the time
Ms. Blake seems to be confused…she must think she controls her health care…crazy talk. After all, she couldn’t even be trusted to “sort out a lift” given 9 months of prep time.
We are disappointed that Ms Blake was not happy with the advice and care she received and will of course investigate any complaint. We are pleased that both Ms Blake and her daughter are well and healthy.
That closing paragraph is a double edge blow off if I have ever seen one. First they take no responsibility and then act as if they had something to do with Ms Blake and her new daughter’s healthy outcome.
Make no mistake…this is our future if the statists in this country get their way.
Aaron B. Gardner
Crossposted at my blog
P.S. A friend of mine, Caleb Howe, brought up a great point.
In the United States, if she were uninsured … SHE’D STILL HAVE BEEN GIVEN AMBULANCE AND EMERGENCY CARE.
Just sayin’
When a person has uncomfortable thoughts or feelings, they may project these onto other people, assigning the thoughts or feelings that they need to repress to a convenient alternative target.
Projection may also happen to obliterate attributes of other people with which we are uncomfortable. We assume that they are like us, and in doing so we allow ourselves to ignore those attributes they have with which we are uncomfortable.
We all know that the President and his minions have been claiming that right leaning activists are actually all bought and paid for by the Republican party and AFP. Most of us know that this is not the case but rather just projection from Democrats who are afraid of their own constituents.
The media and the Administration have been going off for a week, or longer, about these AstroTurf claims.
Well, I think the lady doth project too much…and the evidence is below…
Fight the Status Quo! $400-$600 Per Week (Minneapolis, MN) [Cragslist posting]
Date: 2009-07-27, 12:12PM CDT
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Compensation: $400-$600 Per Week
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Emphasis mine.
As you can see this is a progressive front group that is putting together an AstroTurf campaign.
Babs Boxer could not be reached for comment.
By the way…$600 a week is more than my Wife makes working with disabled children. Just saying.
I have said it before but it is worth saying again…if you want to know what this Administration is doing, simply listen to what they are claiming the other side is doing.
Aaron B. Gardner
Crossposted @ my blog.
From the diaries by Erick
I recently posted an article introducing Chris Roy for VT Sect. of State in which he described his political philosophy. In today’s article Chris was kind enough to share his thoughts on a couple of the issues facing Vermont, elections oversight and the economy.
With ACORN’s recent electoral notoriety, the criminal indictments which have followed and the probability that ACORN will be running the census, election oversight is and will be a matter of considerable import. As well, the teetering economy is on the forefront of many American’s minds. For Vermont the Sect. of State can have a considerable impact on both.
The Vermont Secretary of State is responsible for a variety of functions geared toward advancing the cause of good and transparent government. These responsibilities range from overseeing campaigns and elections, to regulating 44 different professions, to working with Vermont’s local governments to ensure compliance with the law. They also include oversight of the business registration process, maintenance of public archives, and advocacy on behalf of Vermont’s open government laws.
From elections to business registrations
