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North Korea will pay a price for its latest nuclear test if it does not reverse course but the door remains open to talks on ending Pyongyang's nuclear programs, the US State Department said on Tuesday.
That really mostly looked like some idiot had been put behind the controls of Photoshop. It wasn't even remotely interesting. I mean, I can GET what Christensen was going for. From an artistic viewpoint I certainly do. As news I think it fails miserably. The sheer squallor of the more muted original I think works much better to convey the situation. But he - as far as I can tell - has stuck to processing. In the case of Walski I just don't get it. Fine. Composition. But still. The first picture works just as well. We get it.
North Korea will pay a price for its latest nuclear test if it does not reverse course but the door remains open to talks on ending Pyongyang's nuclear programs, the US State Department said on Tuesday.
not likely...they have probably spent billions while people starve...they are dead serious about continuing...is state that stupid or is this an open threat...I vote for stupid
That one with the enhanced coloration to the slum squalor. I mean, is it really necessary to augment the awfulness that much? A little restraint, people!
Really brought both blogs and the issue of retouched photos in the news to the forefront.
As far as the National Geographic cover goes though, is that one really as big a deal? I'm having a hard time getting worked up about that one.
Yeah, the pyramids photo doesn't bother me that much. Now, if it were to be the only surviving image, it would be different, but I think of it as artistry (the focus shows that intent as well) and not as documentation.
That one with the enhanced coloration to the slum squalor. I mean, is it really necessary to augment the awfulness that much? A little restraint, people!
I agree. With that being said, I've been to Port Au Prince and that photographer could have probably waked a lock or two over and taken a picture that didn't need to be photoshopped. Looks like laziness got the best of him. PAP is really a sad place and it broke my heart to see people living in such squalor.
I agree. With that being said, I've been to Port Au Prince and that photographer could have probably waked a lock or two over and taken a picture that didn't need to be photoshopped. Looks like laziness got the best of him. PAP is really a sad place and it broke my heart to see people living in such squalor.
I wouldn't want to walk anywhere there, from everything I've read and heard from folks who've been there in person. Laziness about sums it up, though.
We can make Condi look like a demon, delete rivals, add basket balls, squish pryamids together, but damned if someone cold figure out how to superimpose Air Force 1 near the Statue of Liberty. Go figure.
We can make Condi look like a demon, delete rivals, add basket balls, squish pryamids together, but damned if someone cold figure out how to superimpose Air Force 1 near the Statue of Liberty. Go figure.
agreed...NG was not politically motivated to sway opinion
And I think that's the difference. And it's why the Beirut pictures still take the cake for me. Rampant anti-Semitism in the press on full display with that picture.
Interesting the iranian missile fauxtography didn't make the list.
Yes, those old Soviet, Maoist, and Nazi photo re-works always creep me out. Making un-persons, un-doing un-things, as it were (channeling orwell). Does a fundamental violence to the human mind, trying to destroy or manipulate evidence of actual events.
We can make Condi look like a demon, delete rivals, add basket balls, squish pryamids together, but damned if someone cold figure out how to superimpose Air Force 1 near the Statue of Liberty. Go figure.
We can make Condi look like a demon, delete rivals, add basket balls, squish pryamids together, but damned if someone cold figure out how to superimpose Air Force 1 near the Statue of Liberty. Go figure.
I wouldn't want to walk anywhere there, from everything I've read and heard from folks who've been there in person. Laziness about sums it up, though.
No you don't. As am American, you only go somewhere in Haiti in armored SUV's with some of the finest Devil Dog's guarding you. Flying in to PAP blew my mind. The south coast of the northern claw of Haiti has multimillion dollar compounds while the city of PAP is one big shantytown. 1% of the people there have 99% of the money.
And I think that's the difference. And it's why the Beirut pictures still take the cake for me. Rampant anti-Semitism in the press on full display with that picture.
Interesting the iranian missile fauxtography didn't make the list.
really...that was easily my favorite, and such a ridiculous attempt...like a school project or whatever
No you don't. As am American, you only go somewhere in Haiti in armored SUV's with some of the finest Devil Dog's guarding you. Flying in to PAP blew my mind. The south coast of the northern claw of Haiti has multimillion dollar compounds while the city of PAP is one big shantytown. 1% of the people there have 99% of the money.
It fills me with a strange mixture of rage and despair when I learn of people living as they do.
Yes, those old Soviet, Maoist, and Nazi photo re-works always creep me out. Making un-persons, un-doing un-things, as it were (channeling orwell). Does a fundamental violence to the human mind, trying to destroy or manipulate evidence of actual events.
I know. "What did you say your father's name was? No, sorry, no record of any individual with that name. Please step through this door marked 'NKVD re-education squad' please. We will send a bill to your next of kin. I meant information. To you. When we find it."
No you don't. As am American, you only go somewhere in Haiti in armored SUV's with some of the finest Devil Dog's guarding you. Flying in to PAP blew my mind. The south coast of the northern claw of Haiti has multimillion dollar compounds while the city of PAP is one big shantytown. 1% of the people there have 99% of the money.
I know. "What did you say your father's name was? No, sorry, no record of any individual with that name. Please step through this door marked 'NKVD re-education squad' please. We will send a bill to your next of kin. I meant information. To you. When we find it."
Had an uncle go looking, under Brezhnev, for relatives believed to have been DP's during WWII. Absolutely pointless, and we told him before he left, but he went anyway. Got treated like a freakin' spy, as we had warned him he would be, and, further, he no doubt jeopardized their safety, assuming they were still alive.
Reminds me of the Scrubs episode where the hospital photoshops the white doctor out of a picture in order to promote diversity with just the black doctor. Then they bring up the exploitation of the black doctor back in college.
Turk: Remember our college brochures?
J.D.: So what, they put you on the cover.
Turk: Twice?
*Flash to college brochure with Turk displaced twice in the same photo*
I don't want to get into a huge political debate but what really blows for those people is even if they manage to get "feet dry" after one of their boat journeys, they get sent right back to Haiti while the Cubans get a free pass. We can debate the policy until the cows come home but somehow it doesn't seem right to me. Believe me, I've had to catch them and know they got repartiated and it sucks.
I don't want to get into a huge political debate but what really blows for those people is even if they manage to get "feet dry" after one of their boat journeys, they get sent right back to Haiti while the Cubans get a free pass. We can debate the policy until the cows come home but somehow it doesn't seem right to me. Believe me, I've had to catch them and know they got repartiated and it sucks.
Those poor people, both Cubans and the Haitians, but especially the Haitians, as we've had so many interventions to try to "help" them that have only made things even worse. It's a shame and an indictment of civilization in this hemisphere that we continue to allow such suffering.
We can make Condi look like a demon, delete rivals, add basket balls, squish pryamids together, but damned if someone cold figure out how to superimpose Air Force 1 near the Statue of Liberty. Go figure.
Let's see what the Administration can come up with to avoid discussing this - already nominated someone for the SC, maybe they could bring up something about Gitmo tomorrow.
Thank you for clicking that link. I didn't think anyone would.
I hate fucking Nazis.
An anti-Semite and white supremacist using the name "Whites Forward" created the Tea Party Americans Coalition (TPAC) as "a working group for serious White racialist ACTIVISTS in the US who want to effectively coordinate our efforts and intervene for effect in Tea Party-type events." Anti-Semitic, racist, and anti-immigrant themes run through the six issues on which the working group is based.
Tea Parties where a decent idea start by decent folks protesting taxing now the fucking Nazis have hijacked it.
Thank you for clicking that link. I didn't think anyone would.
very spooky comments and I don't think this problem is going to take care of itself...freedoms are ultimately at stake...we are a different culture than Europe but still I am very skeptical
A FOX spokeswoman said the executive in charge of “Fox and Friends” is on vacation and not available for comment but added that altering photos for humorous effect is a common practice on cable news stations.
They weren't channeling Orwell. They are where he got the Idea. Both 1984 and Animal Farm were results of having watched totalitarian governments in action.
I was channeling him, not them. Decent people read 1984 as a warning; they read it as a how-to and porno all in one.
I want to hear that and I want the NAZIs outed.
Speak out.
Call them on their B.S.
A lot of uninformed decent patriotic people believe in the Tea Parties.
A certain Lizard (who shall remain nameless) linked to his local Tea Party site again the other day. It's of course sponsored by Glenn Beck and Ron Paul. The put up a notice of FAQ's. 1st one on the list was "Who is welcome at the Tea Party". Answer: Everyone. The are hanging out the welcome sign for fringe groups, Truthers, and white Nationalists. This is what happens when you put Paulians in charge. They did the same thing with Ron Paul's presidential campaign and they've done the same thing with the Tea Parties.
Exactly what Killgore has been pointing out -- and being attacked for. I've seen those posts at neo-Nazi sites like Stormfront. They talk very deliberately about concealing their true purpose and appearing moderate in order to spread their racist "message" at tea parties, in hopes of recruiting people. They see the tea parties as ripe for recruitment, because (according to them) they're almost all made up of white people.
At one of my many side-line jobs, I recall many occasions where I had to photo-shop people out of pictures after they had been published. I always felt kinda weird doing it; even joked with co-workers about the commissar who disappeared, and stuff like that.
A certain Lizard (who shall remain nameless) linked to his local Tea Party site again the other day. It's of course sponsored by Glenn Beck and Ron Paul. The put up a notice of FAQ's. 1st one on the list was "Who is welcome at the Tea Party". Answer: Everyone. The are hanging out the welcome sign for fringe groups, Truthers, and white Nationalists. This is what happens when you put Paulians in charge. They did the same thing with Ron Paul's presidential campaign and they've done the same thing with the Tea Parties.
The nazis are not the only ones recruiting either. The Dominionists in the Contstitution party are also hitting these with the same thoughts in mind.
Exactly what Killgore has been pointing out -- and being attacked for. I've seen those posts at neo-Nazi sites like Stormfront. They talk very deliberately about concealing their true purpose and appearing moderate in order to spread their racist "message" at tea parties, in hopes of recruiting people. They see the tea parties as ripe for recruitment, because (according to them) they're almost all made up of white people.
I'm sure some would dismiss the article because the ADL is liberal.
There's the picture, you can always trust a picture.
I wish someone would start photo shopping those pictures of Terrorists holding their AK47..Alter all the arabic words in the background.. to like..Pork..It's the other white meat..Stuff like that..
I think those are excluded because they were staged, not manipulated, images. A fine distinction, but there it is.
Yeah but, how about those pictures of dead bodies, neither staged nor digitally manipulated, but falsely captioned? Some of those are false in ways much worse than a few rubber-stamped smoke clouds.
Here are some videos that should help those of you planning Tax Day Tea Parties in your own city or town. Thanks to Young Americans for Liberty for putting these great videos together! More great information on the Tax Day Coalition here! Remember that website! haha
This is from FreedomWorks, the main national sponsor of the Tea Parties. You Will see their banners at virtually every Tea Party. Check out the first comment about the people featured in the video...
Interesting, the guy behind these websites (Jeff Frazee) appears to have once been a poster at the Spartan Spectator, if we’re interpreting the google search results properly. The Spartan Spectator and its founder, Kyle Bristow, have demonstrated links with racist neo-Nazi organizations such as the National Alliance, and is listed as a hate group by the well-respected SPLC. Bristow was dismissed from the Young Americans for Freedom due to his extremist views. Brendan, you also share a connection to Bristow. One of your co-authors of your anti-Obama book gave an interview to Bristow promoting the book, well after Bristow had hosted a holocaust-denier at an off-campus event attended by members of the National Alliance. And one of Brendan’s own articles used to be up on the racist Vanguard News Network website, but was later removed (I have the screen caps).
(To be fair to Brendan, however, I never found any indication that he put the article on VNN; it appears they simply found it on another website and reproduced it; Brendan also does not appear to have ever talked to Bristow, though Brendan did aggressively promote anti-gay author Ryan Sorba, who did speak at a Bristow sponsored event promoted on Brendan’s blog.)
The other guy behind the National Tea Party movement is Eric Odom of #dontgo fame. His website for the tea parties are being aggressively promoted on Florida-based Stormfront.org. This thread shows how many of these “white pride” activists plan on attending these tea parties:
(Link redacted) . Some of Stormfront’s most senior members are intending to use them as an opportunity to bring people over to their cause: “I think the “tea party” is a good way to meet people with potential.
Most people at this event will be white people who are fed up with the direction of things and they are ready to hear how we got into this mess.
Tell them!”
(Interestingly, a photograph surfaced last year of Ron Paul (from whose campaign Frazee comes) cozying up to to Stormfront’s founder and his son. Here’s the stormfront thread with the pictures: (Link redacted) This thread is incredibly long, well over 400 pages, showing just how much support Ron Paul receives from racists around the country.)
Brendan, could provide us a clear explanation of your and Frazee’s connection (or lack thereof) to these hate groups? And how do you plan to counter the racist messages these people will be bringing to your protests?
Abolutely no response from Freedom Works or the other Tea Partiers.
The Condi thing would have to go through several peoples hands to be approved. Not only is a Pshopped, it's a lousy Pshop.
There was malice behind that picture.
That's what makes it so bad -- the technical aspects. Then combine that with the "whites of the eyes" aspect. Overall it's a personal attack. Condoleezza Rice had to suffer through a great deal of attacks during her tenure.
Yup, and apparently he is also connected to Brendan Steinhauser, who posted those videos on the Freedom Works Tea Party Website. The organizers are very friendly with the White Nationalists.
the whole concept will have to be junked...unfortunately there were no nationally known pols that got behind this movement early on...I thought from the outset that the GOP should have got on board but they didn't have the balls...RP and Stormfront filled the void...it's over for the tea parties as originally designed and for that I wail my displeasure...haha!...it was a good idea...I promote reasonable dissent
Yeah, I thought the admins would delete his comment or refute it. I haven't checked the info, but it's probably accurate. The rest of the Tea Partiers don't seem the least bit bothered by it.
That's what makes it so bad -- the technical aspects. Then combine that with the "whites of the eyes" aspect. Overall it's a personal attack. Condoleezza Rice had to suffer through a great deal of attacks during her tenure.
I've sometimes cheered her and sometimes cursed her, but I will always respect her. I don't feel that way about many politicians. I know that sentiment isn't too popular.
Whatever anyone says about the Bush administration, it was one of the most diverse admins we ever had.
I was thinking that maybe the money behind it would change things. Freedom Works and the Heritage Foundation weren't involved in the Ron Paul Tea Parties or the Ron Paul campaign. There was some slim hope that their influence would take over but it looks the other way around.
Yeah, I thought the admins would delete his comment or refute it. I haven't checked the info, but it's probably accurate. The rest of the Tea Partiers don't seem the least bit bothered by it.
...And yes, I agree that the situation probably cannot be salvaged. It very likely that this is going to be very very embarrassing for a lot of people. It's a PR disaster.
I was thinking that maybe the money behind it would change things. Freedom Works and the Heritage Foundation weren't involved in the Ron Paul Tea Parties or the Ron Paul campaign. There was some slim hope that their influence would take over but it looks the other way around.
yes...they are cooked...average folks got schooled by the pros...I'm not surprised, just disappointed
I'm starting my own political party called the Rationalist Party. This white nationalist crap is getting out of control. Are people really that stupid?
I'm starting my own political party called the Rationalist Party. This white nationalist crap is getting out of control. Are people really that stupid?
We need something...
The political situation has departed controlled flight.
Then I'm glad Bloodnok mentioned the number of folks coming in to see the original Beirut fauxtographs. It made me look at the referrers list, and I couldn't help notice diggers looking at the ron paul/don black photo. Digg finally pays off.
Then I'm glad Bloodnok mentioned the number of folks coming in to see the original Beirut fauxtographs. It made me look at the referrers list, and I couldn't help notice diggers looking at the ron paul/don black photo. Digg finally pays off.
We need something...
The political situation has departed controlled flight.
As far as I'm concerned, the political situation has done a UFIT: Uncontrolled Flight Into Terrain. CFIT or UFIT episodes never end well and this one is no exception.
I see things like this and cannot help but be reminded of the power the Klan had in the first half of the 20th century. Men who wanted to get into politics and wanted to advance had no choice but to curry favor with the Klan if not join out right. Justice Hugo Black, Senator Robert Byrd and Governor George Wallace are prime examples. All of these men, too, renounced the Klan in the end--in the case of Byrd and Wallace only after the power of the Klan had been broken.
That leads me to the point--why go back and court them again? They are a marginal group--the right kook fringe. The only good which can come from this is to enure to the benefit of the left--not the GOP.
As far as I'm concerned, the political situation has done a UFIT: Uncontrolled Flight Into Terrain. CFIT or UFIT episodes never end well and this one is no exception.
I was hoping the "into Terrain" part had not yet occurred, still time for recovering.
To see how joining a rally with these people can affect you, here's MM, whose heart is in the right place, but if you look behind her it looks like she's campaigning for Ron Paul. You also see "obama's a sekret muslim" signs and "end the fed" etc.
Then I'm glad Bloodnok mentioned the number of folks coming in to see the original Beirut fauxtographs. It made me look at the referrers list, and I couldn't help notice diggers looking at the ron paul/don black photo. Digg finally pays off.
Actually it's been just the reverse here in Atlanta. One of the original organizers of Atlanta's try of their 1st tea party (back in February) was Jason Pye, a Libertarian Party activist. He was off put later (for the April one) due to the emergence of Gingrich (American Solutions) partnered with Tax Day Tea Party for the April 15th one.
Again as I stated before, I did see a couple of Ron Paul signs at that 4/15 Atlanta rally, but they were as ignored by the 20K + in attendance as the traffic lights were that day
Kevin Laue knows what would happen if a college basketball team took a chance on him and he didn't pan out. Fans would wonder what the coach was thinking in using a scholarship on a center missing his left hand.
"It's a business," the 6-foot-10 Laue said. "Their jobs are all on the line. It's much safer to take a two-handed guy my size that got beat by me."
But Manhattan College's Barry Rohrssen figures coaches take chances all the time. He'd rather take one on Laue, whose left arm ends just past the elbow. So last week, the Division I school signed the center, and Rohrssen is confident his work ethic will rub off on other players.
"We take chances on kids who have poor academic histories, who have disciplinary problems both on the court and off the court," Rohrssen said Tuesday. "We give opportunities to players who don't appreciate them, who take them for granted. For all the right reasons, Kevin deserves this chance, and he should make the most of this opportunity."
I've been dreading this upcoming July 4th. On a day of patriotism canservatives across the country are going to attend Ron Paul rallies with White Nationalists and Truthers. It's too late to stop it.
I've been dreading this upcoming July 4th. On a day of patriotism canservatives across the country are going to attend Ron Paul rallies with White Nationalists and Truthers. It's too late to stop it.
That's why it's important to let people know now what to be on the lookout for.
The growing harmonic convergence of apocalyptic stupidity that goes under the rubric 2012 or "the Mayan Calendar Prophecy" has not yet reached Y2K proportions. And while it's broken out of the New Agey cult status where it's been fermenting for some years, there are still many in the chattering classes who haven't heard about it. "The end of the world in 2012?" my friend Stanley said. "You mean I have to wait that long?"
The cult around the date Dec. 21, 2012—the supposed apocalyptic final day on something referred to knowingly as "The Mayan 'Long Count' Calendar"—has been the subject of fevered fantasies on the net and the free New Age "magazines" given away at health-food stores. But last week Newsweek gave it serious attention, and there's a metastasizing web of 2012 sites, including at least one anti-2012 site, which has a section devoted to debunking the apparently limitless number of gullible airheads who have become 2012 believers.
What are these people smoking, and why aren't they sharing?
I've been dreading this upcoming July 4th. On a day of patriotism canservatives across the country are going to attend Ron Paul rallies with White Nationalists and Truthers. It's too late to stop it.
Well I'll be at the Naval Academy in Annapolis checking the teeth of all the new Midshipmen, so not me.
The alarm bells have been ringing for so long and those still participating and promoting these events don't care and are in deep denial. I don't think there's anything that can wake them up in time.
When I think back on all the crap the media fed me,
It’s a wonder I still have a clue.
But the exposure of Fauxtography has freed me;
This propaganda I can now see through.
Fauxtoclone
They give us those nice thick smoke trails,
And “Green Helmet” posing entrails;
Make you think all Beirut was blown away.
They got a fauxto program,
They love to make a fauxtograph.
Oh mama, please take their Fauxtoclone away.
If you took all the phony pictures propagated,
And brought them all together in one file,
You’d have a testament to treason unabated;
You’d have a monumental lying pile.
Fauxtoclone
They give us a fake construction,
They give us a staged production;
Make you think day is night, and night is day.
They’re in the fauxto business,
Disseminating fauxtographs.
Oh mama, please take their Fauxtoclone away.
And so in all the mainstream media publications,
From Reuters wires to the New York Times,
There is a flood of fauxtographic fabrications;
There is a trail of journalistic crimes.
Fauxtoclone
They give us a mocked-up missile,
They give us clean toys in rubble;
Make your heart bleed; emotions they will sway.
They run a fauxto racket,
Distributing their fauxtographs.
Oh mama, please take their Fauxtoclone away.
If you count all the times Flat Fatima’s been homeless,
And all the times the IDF’s been framed,
And all the Pallywood productions foisted on us,
You’ll realize the MSM’s to blame.
Fauxtoclone
They give us contrived depictions,
They give us misleading captions;
Make you think good is bad, and bad’s okay.
They’re fauxto-journalistas,
Subverting truth with fauxtographs.
Oh mama, please take their Fauxtoclone away.
As far as I'm concerned, the political situation has done a UFIT: Uncontrolled Flight Into Terrain. CFIT or UFIT episodes never end well and this one is no exception.
The alarm bells have been ringing for so long and those still participating and promoting these events don't care and are in deep denial. I don't think there's anything that can wake them up in time.
I's suportin' the Tee Parteez! Ignorin' yer linkz!
Well , he didn't start this country, but he's doing his best to finish it off.
I disagree. I think he hasn't even cleared off his desk and really started in on it yet. I worry what would happen ifwhen he really settles down and gets to work on the project.
Interesting...I'll check him out...With one hand he would have to be a monster inside or a great shooter.. With no cross over..You would really only be guarding his one side and pushing him his left...
Thanks for the post
Interesting...I'll check him out...With one hand he would have to be a monster inside or a great shooter.. With no cross over..You would really only be guarding his one side and pushing him his left...
Thanks for the post
The end of the hospitality/convention business in Las Vegas.
Not to mention all the ancillary business that goes with it.
FN ... all they need to do is make some sort of "Shrine to Obama" there ... maybe somewhere around the Bellagio Dancing Waters ... it would be a big draw ...
I just checked the webpage of the Atlanta Tea Party. You have big problems but I assume you knew that already. I'm not going to point them out or argue then with you because it's pointless. Go ahead, do what you want.
FN ... all they need to do is make some sort of "Shrine to Obama" there ... maybe somewhere around the Bellagio Dancing Waters ... it would be a big draw ...
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Funny you should say "Bellagio" - he's appearing in the Coliseum at Caesars Palace - right next door to the Bellagio!
Yes, I'm not going to quibble with you about it. if you don't wee anything wrong there then I can't help you by pointing it out.
But you stated who is running it. That Freedom Works is a "sponser" is troublesome, but not deadly, IMHO. I have spoken to two out of the three people on the masthead and it is ther claim that FW is supplying nothing more than advice re: permit applications and insurance advice
Should I be attributing 0bama's actions to date to sheer stupidity and inexperience? Or is he intentionally trying to undermine this country's National security and economy?
Should I be attributing 0bama's actions to date to sheer stupidity and inexperience? Or is he intentionally trying to undermine this country's National security and economy?
Should I be attributing 0bama's actions to date to sheer stupidity and inexperience? Or is he intentionally trying to undermine this country's National security and economy?
50/50? 40/60?
Questions like that one keep me awake and concerned.
Wow. Here's another facet of FreedomWorks' shady background, from the 2006 WaPo:
In 2001, Jennifer B. Chace heard an insurance broker's pitch for a new insurance company marketing tax-free medical savings accounts. She jumped at the offer, but first, the broker told her, she would have to sign an application -- already filled out -- that would entitle her to a low group rate.
With that signature, Chace, a Florida dentist in the market for health insurance, unwittingly joined one of Washington's most prominent conservative organizations, Citizens for a Sound Economy, she would later testify.
"Before I showed you this form today, did you even realize that you signed a form that was an application for membership in Citizens for a Sound Economy?" her lawyer would ask during a 2004 deposition.
"I don't know what Citizens for a Sound Economy is," she replied.
Chace's experience has brought to light an obscure arrangement between a prominent Republican businessman, J. Patrick Rooney, and a free-market interest group that has netted the grass-roots organization hundreds of thousands of dollars and thousands of new members. Citizens for a Sound Economy -- now called FreedomWorks and headed by former House majority leader Richard K. Armey (R-Tex.) -- has netted more than $638,000 and about 16,000 members through the sale of insurance policies.
Okay, so we are in the middle of a global recession. Our biggest trading partner is tanking as well. After almost 15+ years of surpluses, which were the result of Mulroney's set ups, you are complaining about a deficit? It had to happen, and there was no way of stopping it.
Should I be attributing 0bama's actions to date to sheer stupidity and inexperience? Or is he intentionally trying to undermine this country's National security and economy?
Should I be attributing 0bama's actions to date to sheer stupidity and inexperience? Or is he intentionally trying to undermine this country's National security and economy?
Should I be attributing 0bama's actions to date to sheer stupidity and inexperience? Or is he intentionally trying to undermine this country's National security and economy?
Is it absolutely intentional?
I don't think so.
Is it sheer stupidity and inexperience?
No.
The guy has been learned and believes in a failed doctrine, socialism, he's now applying that doctrine expecting it to turn our right this time.
Is intent is Hope and Change, of the socialist variety. He believes it's a "better" way, never mind everything he is trying has been tried before and failed, it's just never been done "right" and he is The One to do it right.
I'll give you a freebee because this is a good one. One of your main sponsors is the Don't Go Movement. Go to their webpage. They are part of the American Liberty Alliance. From the American Liberty Allience facebook group... Young Obamanian ape seen in Kenya
Read the comments, Nobody's offended. Paulian and national Tea Party spokesman Eric Odom (Chicago, IL) is the Co-Founder/Director of the American Liberty Alliance.
Like I sad, You got problems.
I am merely pointing out that every time there is a so-called Conservative government, they run up huge deficits and make those Liberals look like conservatives.
The guy has been learned and believes in a failed doctrine, socialism, he's now applying that doctrine expecting it to turn our right this time.
Is intent is Hope and Change, of the socialist variety. He believes it's a "better" way, never mind everything he is trying has been tried before and failed, it's just never been done "right" and he is The One to do it right.
Ex-NYPD Top Cop Likely Faces Indictment (11/8/2007)
CBS 2 HD has learned that former NYPD Commissioner Bernard Kerik has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Washington on charges of making false statements to White House officials during his vetting for the position of Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
I am merely pointing out that every time there is a so-called Conservative government, they run up huge deficits and make those Liberals look like conservatives.
Actually THE main sponser is American Solutions. I have spoken to theor regional director and they along with Atlanta Tea Party are making ALL final decisions
I'll give you a freebee because this is a good one. One of your main sponsors is the Don't Go Movement. Go to their webpage. They are part of the American Liberty Alliance. From the American Liberty Allience facebook group... Young Obamanian ape seen in Kenya
Read the comments, Nobody's offended. Paulian and national Tea Party spokesman Eric Odom (Chicago, IL) is the Co-Founder/Director of the American Liberty Alliance.
Like I sad, You got problems.
I will call my two contacts at Atlnat Tea Party and the regional person at American Solutions and bring all that to their attention.Thanks
Guanxi88 ... my eyes man ... my eyes ! STOP IT! ... but the one with the Halo ... oh, that's so way cool ... dreamy ...
Seeing images like that, it's easy to see how the masses were manipulated. We had full-on religious iconography passing as reportage, and precious few batted an eye.
Seeing images like that, it's easy to see how the masses were manipulated. We had full-on religious iconography passing as reportage, and precious few batted an eye.
guanxi88 ... what ... were you saying something to me ... I have fallen in love ... I am getting sleepy ... sleepy ... oh, that man ... those ears ... heaven sent ...
Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi told a Knesset committee meeting Tuesday that Hezbollah has more rockets than before the Second Lebanon War and is boosting it's power in South Lebanon ahead of the country's upcoming elections.
"Hezbollah is secretly bolstering its power south of the Litani River, but UNIFIL's presence is making that task more difficult. Today it has more rockets and long-range ammunition than it did before the Second Lebanon War."
and BTW ,,, cute lil sucker. Some liberal will "adopt" him, live with him in a one bedroom 5th floor walk up in Brooklyn and one day he'll grow up beat the snot out of the neighbor
For a small country like Canada 50 biLLION is a staggeringly huge and mind-boggling deficit.
Crippling.
I imagine it as a percent of GDP, We moved into trillions and would gladly take a 50 billion deficit. Hell we pass bills with 10 billion in earmarks alone.
guanxi88 ... what ... were you saying something to me ... I have fallen in love ... I am getting sleepy ... sleepy ... oh, that man ... those ears ... heaven sent ...
"He gazed up at the enormous face. Forty years it had taken him to learn what kind of smile was hidden beneath the dark moustache. O cruel, needless misunderstanding! O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast! Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother."
Seeing images like that, it's easy to see how the masses were manipulated. We had full-on religious iconography passing as reportage, and precious few batted an eye.
Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi told a Knesset committee meeting Tuesday that Hezbollah has more rockets than before the Second Lebanon War and is boosting it's power in South Lebanon ahead of the country's upcoming elections.
"Hezbollah is secretly bolstering its power south of the Litani River, but UNIFIL's presence is making that task more difficult. Today it has more rockets and long-range ammunition than it did before the Second Lebanon War."
Well the last time we had Conservatives in power they seemed to be in global recessions. At least the deficits aren't on the order of Trudeau era fiscal policies. As well during the Chretien era taxes seemed to be rising and benefits reduced. I do know that thanks to the Man from Shawinigan my chances of getting EI went from poor to practically nil.
Well, I will predict that it will be a very very slow Holiday sales season in 2012--until December 22, when all hell breaks lose when the idiots who had been waiting for Armageddon realize it won't happen and pack the stores in a frenzy of last minute Christmas shopping.
I'm no fan of the guy, but that's just really sad. Condolences to the Tyson family.
Oh, that's awful.
Just awful.
Local kid here jumped from a cruise ship, apparently, either yesterday or the day before. Had just graduated from HS, on a senior trip with some friends and parents. His parents were also on the cruise.
Local kid here jumped from a cruise ship, apparently, either yesterday or the day before. Had just graduated from HS, on a senior trip with some friends and parents. His parents were also on the cruise.
Just curious. When you were at your 4/15 one, anyone come up to you and try to persuade you into the "white is right" camp? Any Ron Paul signs and were people rallying around THOSE instead of focusing on the protest at hand? Any New-Nazi booths set up passing out literature?
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Hey Dar - thanks for that comment! I'd received an e-mail about it today as well.
It's a potentially important and significant news story.
Just curious. When you were at your 4/15 one, anyone come up to you and try to persuade you into the "white is right" camp? Any Ron Paul signs and were people rallying around THOSE instead of focusing on the protest at hand? Any NewNEO-Nazi booths set up passing out literature?
Drive By Post:
Hey Dar - thanks for that comment! I'd received an e-mail about it today as well.
It's a potentially important and significant news story.
What could possibly so significant about forcing a fed takeover of the banks to force a takeover of the automotive industry to benefit a favored political constituency? Worked like a charm everywhere else it's been tried.
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Hey Dar - thanks for that comment! I'd received an e-mail about it today as well.
It's a potentially important and significant news story.
We're a banana republic; the rule of law don't mean a thing if FedGov can alter precedent, bankruptcy, and contract law to achieve a desired outcome.
Poor little Tyson girl was obviously left unattended for too long in a dangerous situation.
Parents need to keep in mind that a young child left unattended can get into trouble in a matter of seconds.
Such a tragedy.
Just curious. When you were at your 4/15 one, anyone come up to you and try to persuade you into the "white is right" camp? Any Ron Paul signs and were people rallying around THOSE instead of focusing on the protest at hand? Any New-Nazi booths set up passing out literature?
There were indeed some signs advocating Ron Paul and Ron Paul issues.
And a couple of speakers did make some Ron Paul-style remarks.
The crowd, of course, was well-behaved, etc.
But here's the thing - I was made aware of these attempts by these groups to get involved in these tea parties, and so I knew to be on the lookout for them and not to get taken in. But there were lots and lots of people who, really, had no idea of this undercurrent flowing through the crowd. Minor, to be sure, but it was there all the same.
And that's one of the dangers, imo, satt. That people will unwittingly get taken in. Which is why I ask you to be sure to check things out thoroughly and if you are going to get involved, at least have your eyes wide open and your wits about you.
But you stated who is running it. That Freedom Works is a "sponser" is troublesome, but not deadly, IMHO. I have spoken to two out of the three people on the masthead and it is ther claim that FW is supplying nothing more than advice re: permit applications and insurance advice
Interesting that Freedom Works would be "advising" the group on insurance, seeing as FW is (somewhat surreptitiously) in the business of...selling insurance. (See my link at #262)
Poor little Tyson girl was obviously left unattended for too long in a dangerous situation.
Parents need to keep in mind that a young child left unattended can get into trouble in a matter of seconds.
Such a tragedy.
I'm sure the mother is going to spend the rest of her life blaming herself. I don't begrudge her a thing. I hope in time she will be able to forgive herself.
Which is why I ask you to be sure to check things out thoroughly and if you are going to get involved
If you read my above posts, you'll see that I have. My "involvement" so far has been the same as yours, I attended the 4/15 one. But I have gone a step further in that I have spoken to 2 out of the 3 people at the head of the local as well as the regional person from gingrichs group
I think the GM thing is probably the most important and significant event of the year, from a domestic standpoint. NorK's beat it overall, with their recent tests, but this is big stuff. If they're still teaching law in 50 years, this will certainly be in the textbooks.
Interesting that Freedom Works would be "advising" the group on insurance, seeing as FW is (somewhat surreptitiously) in the business of...selling insurance. (See my link at #262)
There were indeed some signs advocating Ron Paul and Ron Paul issues.
And a couple of speakers did make some Ron Paul-style remarks.
The crowd, of course, was well-behaved, etc.
But here's the thing - I was made aware of these attempts by these groups to get involved in these tea parties, and so I knew to be on the lookout for them and not to get taken in. But there were lots and lots of people who, really, had no idea of this undercurrent flowing through the crowd. Minor, to be sure, but it was there all the same.
And that's one of the dangers, imo, satt. That people will unwittingly get taken in. Which is why I ask you to be sure to check things out thoroughly and if you are going to get involved, at least have your eyes wide open and your wits about you.
Those who employ entryism are banking on people getting taken in. That's how entryism works.
Which is why I ask you to be sure to check things out thoroughly and if you are going to get involved
If you read my above posts, you'll see that I have. My "involvement" so far has been the same as yours, I attended the 4/15 one. But I have gone a step further in that I have spoken to 2 out of the 3 people at the head of the local as well as the regional person from gingrichs group
There is a "Dump Harry Reid" protest going on at "the strip" right now, as pres ozero comes to town for a fundraiser for him. Hey! Wait a minute! Didn't ozero say that folks shouldn't come to Las Vegas?
There is a "Dump Harry Reid" protest going on at "the strip" right now, as pres ozero comes to town for a fundraiser for him. Hey! Wait a minute! Didn't ozero say that folks shouldn't come to Las Vegas?
Anyone viable there that can run against him? When does his term expire?
There is a "Dump Harry Reid" protest going on at "the strip" right now, as pres ozero comes to town for a fundraiser for him. Hey! Wait a minute! Didn't ozero say that folks shouldn't come to Las Vegas?
Anyone viable there that can run against him? When does his term expire?
2010. There are already radio ads that are running basically saying "just get rid of him". There are too many sound bites that this asshole will have to overcome. Not a real viable candidate yet but there is still time. Reid is toast (Thank God!)
In unrelated news, rates of truly disturbing perversions among affected patients receiving this treatment, though lower than average, are far worse in their intensity.
2010. There are already radio ads that are running basically saying "just get rid of him". There are too many sound bites that this asshole will have to overcome. Not a real viable candidate yet but there is still time. Reid is toast (Thank God!)
Thanks. Keep me posted. I have a $100 donation check all set to whoever it is
If you're serious, let me suggest you stick to something a little less bizarre. A good TCM practitioner would probably recommend Seahorse Bu Shin Dan instead, or Allrodeer or some other formula.
I was laughing at the westsiders yesterday. Had to go to Chelan to pick up a lawnmower my great aunt had bought. On the way back, at the light to get onto Hwy. 2 to go to Stevens Pass or Blewett Pass the traffic was backed up for 2 miles. Mwahahaha! Traffic Jam over here, camp next to someone so close you can hear them fart and then traffic jam back! Bwahaha. I'm sure the city Fathers in Leavenworth and Chelan love it though.
I wonder if it was a gym in their home, and if the door was open. A 4-year old, unattended, can get into trouble so quickly. I worry for her 6 or 7 year old brother, who found her. May she rest in peace. No parent should ever have to bury a child.
My Mum zt"l lost a 16 year old brother from drowning over the July Fourth weekend, as she had just become engaged to my Dad zt"l, and they were at his parents' home in another part of MA for the weekend. My Mum could not swim, yet for the rest of her life she insisted that if she had been there, she could have saved him.
It is called 'magical thinking', and as the oldest sibling, she was very protective.
I was afraid to swim, as were all my cousins, because of it. I am an 'only'.
I cannot even imagine what the family must be going through. A 4-year old?
I agree that parents must do anything they can to make a home safe. I remember when our 4 were growing up, I needed eyes in the back of my head to keep a step ahead of them.
And may G-d comfort the parents. They have a very hard row to walk ahead of them.
Many thanks. I am going to get on this team and work VERY hard to help get him booted. He makes me want to puke.
n/p. My wife calls my donations the Black Hole. I haven't lived in Massachusetts for 11 years now but still donate to whomever runs against Kerry, Kennedy, Frank and a few other state office holders
From the videos they posted on their website I think the Atlanta Tea Party had the record for Fair Tax signs that I've seen in one place. The interviews had a lot of "end the Fed" stuff too.
From the videos they posted on their website I think the Atlanta Tea Party had the record for Fair Tax signs that I've seen in one place. The interviews had a lot of "end the Fed" stuff too.
From the videos they posted on their website I think the Atlanta Tea Party had the record for Fair Tax signs that I've seen in one place. The interviews had a lot of "end the Fed" stuff too.
As I've told you before, the Fair Tax movement was written by a Georgia legislator (John Linder) and heavily promoted by an Atlanta syndicated radio host (Neal Boortz)
As I've told you before, the Fair Tax movement LEGISLATION was written by a Georgia legislator (John Linder) and heavily promoted by an Atlanta syndicated radio host (Neal Boortz)
Hmmm. Still no response to the question about racism on the Freedom Works site.
One hint might be that the questioner refers to the Southern Poverty Law Center as a "well-respected" organization. Which it is, in the real world, but every time I've seen SPLC mentioned on Right blogs, it's considered as Satan: "leftie," "Commie," and "hate group" being a few of the descriptors. I can only assume SPLC irritates many because it points out the unpleasant connections to white nationalism groups.
Driving through Colorado, stopped at a buffet place just outside of Peublo. Took some of what we thought were steak tips. Asked the waitress what they were marinated in as the were DELICIOUS. She stated they didn't serve steak tips. I pointed to my plate and said "these". She said "oh , thats not steak, thats rattlesnake"
I wonder if it was a gym in their home, and if the door was open. A 4-year old, unattended, can get into trouble so quickly. I worry for her 6 or 7 year old brother, who found her. May she rest in peace. No parent should ever have to bury a child.
My Mum zt"l lost a 16 year old brother from drowning over the July Fourth weekend, as she had just become engaged to my Dad zt"l, and they were at his parents' home in another part of MA for the weekend. My Mum could not swim, yet for the rest of her life she insisted that if she had been there, she could have saved him.
It is called 'magical thinking', and as the oldest sibling, she was very protective.
I was afraid to swim, as were all my cousins, because of it. I am an 'only'.
I cannot even imagine what the family must be going through. A 4-year old?
I agree that parents must do anything they can to make a home safe. I remember when our 4 were growing up, I needed eyes in the back of my head to keep a step ahead of them.
And may G-d comfort the parents. They have a very hard row to walk ahead of them.
And the worst part of it is that no matter what a parent does these tragedies can and do sometimes happen for no reason and just because of some bad luck.
Life can be a real bitch.
From the videos they posted on their website I think the Atlanta Tea Party had the record for Fair Tax signs that I've seen in one place. The interviews had a lot of "end the Fed" stuff too.
yes, that's what I saw here, in a small way at the 4/15 event.
I suspect those things will become more and more prominent.
Entryism (or entrism or enterism) is a political tactic by which an organisation encourages members to infiltrate another organisation in an attempt to gain recruits, or take over entirely.
In situations where the organisation being "entered" is hostile to entryism, the entryists may engage in a degree of subterfuge to hide the fact that they are, in fact, an organisation in their own right. In the case of the Militant tendency, this was done by claiming that the tendency was in fact simply a newspaper, Militant, its editorial board and readers. Militant was open about its support for Trotskyism and revolutionary socialism. Other entryist groups have gone to the extent of hiding both their political views and their organisational existence.
Entryism does not involve dissolving the small organisation into the larger one. Entryism is often (but not always) done secretly and often in organisations run on democratic centralist lines. Entryism is seen by some as a logical conclusion from Leninist political theory which postulates that a "revolutionary vanguard" can successfully foment a revolution within a larger capitalist society, but according to some, the strategy of entryism is as old as politics itself.
The guy has been learned and believes in a failed doctrine, socialism, he's now applying that doctrine expecting it to turn our right this time.
Is intent is Hope and Change, of the socialist variety. He believes it's a "better" way, never mind everything he is trying has been tried before and failed, it's just never been done "right" and he is The One to do it right.
Everything that Obama has done to this point mirrors Wilson's "War Socialism." Many of Wilson's henchmen were in the next Dem administration, FDR's. Most New Deal programs, especially the National Recovery Act, were spawned by former Wilson acolytes.
They were great admirers of Benito Mussolini, at least until he invaded Ethiopia. Mussolini enjoyed the same cult following that The One gets now, from the exact same sectors of the public.
And the worst part of it is that no matter what a parent does these tragedies can and do sometimes happen for no reason and just because of some bad luck.
Life can be a real bitch.
After what I saw on my maternal side? You are absolutely right. And our second son and daughter in law? My DIL was pregnant with fraternal twins, and a few weeks after going with her for a routine sonogram, where the girls were hugging each other in utero? The next one after that showed that one fetus was lacking an essential blood vessel in her umbilical cord that went to the heart. We knew that she could not survive...and just before week 25, my poor DIL went into labor. My now-9 year old granddaughter weighed 1 lb. 8 oz. Her twin died the next day. All babies are miracles, but my granddaughter? She has a number of medical problems, but is a bright, sweet little girl.
She was told at a certain age about her twin, after the kids went for counceling. About a year ago, she was staying with us for the weekend, and as I am disabled, and my granddaughter has very mild CP, she decided to stay in the car with me...all of a sudden she mentioned her twin, and was hysterical, blaming herself, and asking me what she did to cause her sister to die, and why the MD's couldn't save her. I am a retired RN, and had handled so many things, but this was just unbearable. I tried to tell her that we knew she could not survive, because of the defect, but she was inconsolable.
I honestly cannot remember what I said to her as I was cuddling her in the back seat...but she did calm down. I can only pray that she accepts the fact that she was not responsible in any way...and that she was given only a 35% chance of survival, I will never tell her. The kids do not know...I was told this by the RN on the day she was transferred to another medical center in NYC to have a problem she was born with, which is congenital, treated. My DIL also has it.
My granddaughter has not mentioned it again, but she and the kids will live with this grief for the rest of their lives. I only pray that this precious, brave child will realize that she was not responsible in any way.
That is why the big brother is in my thoughts so much. He will need therapy...he was sitting in another room, IIRC, watching TV, and went to see where his sister was. A very heavy burden to bear for all his life, when it was not one bit his fault, poor little boy.
Yes, life can be a bitch for those who have something this tragic happen...and they still have her funeral ahead of them. I just hope they will get the privacy they need so badly.
I can see it now here's a virtual Want Ad posted by TNYT:
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Snag It software would be good.
All contact will be via computer.
TNYT will provide you daily with the photos-of-interest along with the proposed byline.
Your job entails doing a little to a lot of tweeking or virtually recreating the photos to reflect the papers liberal positions within the byline. Sounds complicated, but not really.
You'll catch-on in a hurry.
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Must be a citizen of the world. Conservatives and/or Republicans need not apply since we already have a couple in our employ.
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