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July 15, 2010
Another Think Progress "Tea Pary Racist" Debunked
The selective editing and inherent dishonesty from Think Progress just keep getting worse.
At the beginning of the Think Progress video claiming that Tea Party protesters are racists is a man with his bi-racial son and black wife who claims that Barack Obama is "too black to be President."
Kind of an odd statement from the patriarch of a mixed race family, isn't it? I daresay it seems like
something must have been taken out of context.
And it was!
Let Coast Rebel has the entire video clip... in context.
Barack Obama's just a bad guy. That's all I can say. He's... He's too black to be President.
And you look at the color of my wife, it's not the color of his skin that troubles me, it's not the blackness of his skin that troubles me.
It's the blackness inside... his heart.
He's a bad guy.
But not bad enough to take the proud father of a handsome bi-racial son and label him to all the world as a racist. For that you need a lower life form.
You need a Think Progress intern.
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What else do you expect from a bunch of bought and paid for political hacks? They toe the Podesta line or they get fired, plain and simple.
Nothing Think Progress says can be trusted, nor could it ever, and pretending otherwise is just counter-productive.
Posted by: Randy Rager at July 15, 2010 12:02 PM (HyWzM)
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We just have to accept that anyone who does not totally and unequivocably heart Obama is ipso facto a racist. It matters not a whit that we objected to Clinton or Carter for the same reasons, or that we have always opposed the statist leftward creep of our bureaucracy, unions and media.
As for myself, when the race card is triumphantly flung onto the table, and is supposed to immediately end the debate and force us to slink from the field, I simply ask "That all you got? That your A game, you wienie?"
Posted by: Steve Skubinna at July 16, 2010 06:20 AM (QQ9sc)
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Busted for Fraud, Think Progress Decides to Play Cover Up... Poorly
Oh, Think Progress... aren't you clever?
You apparently didn't like us
promoting your video, and so you marked the version linked in that previous entry as "private", blocking access to most users.
Uh, guys?
Merely blocking that video and replicating it elsewere doesn't do you any favors, or save you any embarrassment. Amusingly, it it indicates that you know you have a problem, but that you simply don't care to correct your lies.
I'd feel sorry for you, if you had souls.
But your offending article is
still online. Your video may change locations, but is easily relinked. The more often you do it, the more obvious your panic becomes.
About the only thing you can do at this point to save face is to issue a retraction, but we know that isn't likely to happen either, is it?
That wold require humility and integrity, two character traits that have rarely burdened you.
Keep playing games, my friends.
We'll keep busting you.
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Posted by: Dolly at July 15, 2010 11:05 AM (/3dGX)
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No wonder their comment section now requires registration.
Posted by: Randy Rager at July 15, 2010 11:06 AM (HyWzM)
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Excellent work. Linked previous and this one too. Keep rattin' these fookers out.
-Pat
Posted by: Patrick in Detroit at July 15, 2010 11:13 AM (JxKrx)
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Great work...I remember seeing the guy with the lisp at a TH meeting in another video...I should have time-machined it!!
Posted by: DefendUSA at July 15, 2010 11:43 AM (yIwYC)
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Wow. . .for a bunch of people that have been exposed as complete and total frauds, you'd think they'd be a little more humble.
Amazing that there's something with the handle "just the bleepn facts" that may be the single dumbest, most ignorant, complete and utter mouth-breathing piece of filth that I've come across on a political site on the internet. And, boy howdy, that covers some ground.
Think Progress is the Mos Eisley Cantina of the internet political landscape. A wretched hive of scum and villany.
Posted by: TheGonz at July 15, 2010 11:57 AM (8eoVW)
Posted by: dissident at July 15, 2010 12:26 PM (BGjPa)
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They added an update apologizing for the bad clip. It seems they do have "souls" after all. No need for the hysterics, mate.
Posted by: Deebaser at July 16, 2010 12:43 PM (ihipb)
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Think Progress Caught Using Liberal-Manufactured Signs From "Crash the Tea Party" as Evidence of Tea Party Racism
Do you remember the abortive "Crash the Tea Party" movement? It was the brainchild of a liberal that explicitly called for progressives to commit fraud in order to attempt to discredit the Tea Party protests.
At Pajamas Media
we covered the
abortive effort extensively, and made note of the
very real bigotry the Crashers unwittingly revealed... in themselves.
This morning, I came across this video from Think Progress:
Typical of the kind of dishonest effort Think Progress produces, the video heavily edits clips so that you have no idea what the context of a statement is or precisely what someone they've edited is trying to say.
Worse, the video "liberally" makes use of counter Tea Party protesters and infiltrators, including "Crash the Tea Party" drones, in order to fabricate their view.
The guy who claims "I'm a proud racist, I white" was actually
driven out of the Tea Party protest he attempted to infiltrate.
Nice work, Think Progress!
Seconds later, Think Progress stitches together a series of posters they claim belong to Tea Party protesters.
Really, Think Progress?
Did you not think we'd remember the
amusing signs your fellow liberals created for their little abortive "Crash the Tea Party" stunt in Boston? Let's just say that some were
more amusing than
others, and some just showed pathetic and
angry progressives often are.
There is an old saying that you're entitled to your own opinions, but not your own facts.
At Think Progress, they're ready to make up the "facts," yet again.
Update: Oh, Think Progress...
did you really think you'd get away with it?
Also, RightKlik discovers that
another of the men featured in the video made his comments in 2006... well before the Tea Party was even a dream.
Update: Think Progress even tried to portray the father of a bi-racial boy as a racist as he
speaks in front of his own son.
Seriously... is there anyone in this video who is what Think Progress says they are?
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Facts are not important to leftists, only perception is.
Repeat a lie often enough and the proletariat will believe it, or so their mantra goes (and for good reason).
Posted by: J.T. Wenting at July 15, 2010 07:28 AM (jMRqb)
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The end justifies the means.
_BH Obama y Saul Alinsky y William Ayers (Tres Amigos)
Posted by: Ina Ray Cyst at July 15, 2010 07:49 AM (FgEB2)
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The drones, like CA Rep. Brad Sherman, won't know the truth of all this because their state-run media keeps them ignorant. All the left cares about is that the drones believe them, but we have to keep exposing the truth and force the left to play defense.
Posted by: Peg C. at July 15, 2010 07:53 AM (x3mf6)
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Following Peg C, it is mportant to remember that these people could hear another POV if they chose. They know there are other internet sites that disagree with them. They know they are accused of bias. They have not the honesty to check.
Posted by: Assistant Village Idiot at July 15, 2010 08:20 AM (FZP+j)
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Get ready for more of the same. Plants, shills and provocateurs will abound for the next few years, quietly and carefully orchestrated to de-legitimize anyone who stands in the way of the Democrats' agenda.
Posted by: Cris at July 15, 2010 08:22 AM (dvluE)
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Once again, Think Progress demonstrates their unofficial motto - "two lies for the price of one!"
Posted by: alanstorm at July 15, 2010 08:29 AM (1KVW3)
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I figured out think progress was just a group of brazen liars years ago. paid no attention to them since.
Posted by: Aaron Worthing at July 15, 2010 08:41 AM (343LO)
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Libs/lefties(but I repeat myself) - if they ain't lying it's because they ain't talkin'.
Posted by: emdfl at July 15, 2010 09:10 AM (BBctn)
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Video now will not show as it has been marked private. Curious thing that.
Posted by: Duffy at July 15, 2010 09:46 AM (Qqq5E)
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Can't watch it because it's private?
Duh.
Posted by: Raging Patriot at July 15, 2010 10:07 AM (Lm0oX)
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The "Wetback" comment in that disgusting video was made by protester on a video clip that was uploaded to YouTube in 2006, long before the Tea Party was conceived:
http://www.rightklik.net/2010/07/think-progress-lies-and-deception.html
Never had much confidence in anything put out by ThinkProgress, but this pretty much destroys their credibility.
BTW, thanks for this post. Linked back at RK.
Posted by: RightKlik at July 15, 2010 10:15 AM (fngG3)
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Sooo, how does all this shit just simply happen? At the same time...on tv, radio, internet...whit ehouse, NAACCCP...
Just a coincidence? Sure.
Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz Miller at July 15, 2010 10:33 AM (tcSZb)
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CNN has been using some of the video this morning in their Tea Party vs NAACP segments. Granted, it is parts that are genuine signs - I've seen the medicine man one at my local Tea Party - I get their point of Obamacare bringing us back to the days of medicine men, but the instant I saw it I knew it would be tagged as racist.
But the fact that CNN is using the same images seems to suggest a coordinated effort to attack.
Posted by: Mermaz at July 15, 2010 10:58 AM (V40cZ)
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Thank you for the linkage!
Posted by: RightKlik at July 15, 2010 11:03 AM (fngG3)
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Here's a new link.
http://www.youtube(dot)com/watch?v=jRJ2UmyHhxI
Posted by: KevinVegas at July 15, 2010 11:10 AM (7AIVm)
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Morans. What are they trying to prove anyway, by documenting isolated cases? As if there isn't enough institutional racism in the Democratic party.
Posted by: dissident at July 15, 2010 11:32 AM (XzHeq)
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Every time a blogger embeds a private video a kitten dies.
Posted by: Tim C at July 15, 2010 11:36 AM (SjBYv)
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If the video was edited its only the same thing wingnuts did to ACORN with the pimp and hooker video that was all lies and deception like every republican across this country that has brought this country to ruin under the cold heartless leadership of the almight and greedy Bush/Cheney war mongers and the brainless sheep like DeMitt, Boehner and Cantor the rat.
Posted by: James at July 15, 2010 11:50 AM (qCYc3)
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If the video was edited its only the same thing wingnuts did to ACORN with the pimp and hooker video that was all lies and deception like every republican across this country that has brought this country to ruin under the cold heartless leadership of the almight and greedy Bush/Cheney war mongers and the brainless sheep like DeMitt, Boehner and Cantor the rat.
Oh, for the love of everything holy, shut your stupid, ignorant mouth.
The lying, worthless, pathetic filth on your side has been exposed for what they are. Sit back, shut up, and deal with it.
You think your party had a mandate in 2006 or 2008? Well, they're going to have mandates in 2010 and 2012, too. . .that mandate?
GEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEET
OUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUT!!
Posted by: TheGonz at July 15, 2010 12:05 PM (8eoVW)
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The new ThinkProgress video excludes the "Wetback" comment from 2006.
Does anyone have a copy of the original video for comparison?
Screen Caps...
Before:
http://www.twitpic.com/25jae2
After:
http://www.twitpic.com/25jb1f
Posted by: RightKlik at July 15, 2010 12:12 PM (fngG3)
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Yup. There are NO racists in the "Tea Party" whatsoever. While every other similar sized group of diverse people will inevitably have a few cranks, the TP is an exception - it has absolutely NO oddballs or cranks or baggage. Not even 1. Not a single person in those millions has even 1 racist thought. Nope. Not at all.
Posted by: libarbarian at July 15, 2010 02:56 PM (vkZdM)
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Now libs, we don't automatically assume all of you are flat out violent Stalinists and Maoists, although we should, when we see the lefties out and about with their little violent protests.
Or that since you support the hard left fascist Obama, you support reparations and the destruction of the middle class, you might not!
Maybe you aren't even a fascist in the mold of Hugo Chavez, a noted friend of Barry, or Che or Fidel, or even Bill Ayers, a noted Communist.
We won't assume that.
Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz Miller at July 15, 2010 03:05 PM (tcSZb)
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Yup. There are NO racists in the "Tea Party" whatsoever. While every other similar sized group of diverse people will inevitably have a few cranks, the TP is an exception - it has absolutely NO oddballs or cranks or baggage. Not even 1. Not a single person in those millions has even 1 racist thought. Nope. Not at all.
Well, why would any of them be in the Tea Party? They've already found a home in the New Black Panthers, the NAACP, the Democratic Party, the 0bama administration...
Posted by: TardProgress at July 15, 2010 03:24 PM (nfbnI)
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Er, what James MEANT to say was:
If the video was edited its only the same thing Leftards did to Bush with Dan Rather and TANG documents that were all lies and deception like every Democrat across this country that has brought this country to ruin under the cold heartless leadership of the almighty and racist 0bama/Wright hate mongers and the brainless sheep like Dodd, Biden, and Holder the Rat.
Posted by: Fixed at July 15, 2010 03:30 PM (nfbnI)
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In a way these lefties might be doing us a favor. Personally, I dont want any racists at Tea Party rallies, plants or otherwise. By purposely planting phony racists at tea party rallies, and therefore forcing the regular tea partiers to find them and weed them out, the tea party will probably end up purging any real racists from their ranks as well.
Because of this, the Tea Party will end up with a much LOWER proportion of racists than most other organizations. What will become of the leftie racist charges then.
Posted by: richard40 at July 15, 2010 05:35 PM (cQhQZ)
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People don't assume the Democrat Party supports open gay sex in the streets because the Speaker of the House is from San Fran, where the gay community has big parades and which feature oral and anal sex in the open, in front of children.
No one would ever accuse the liberals of supporting that, even though they support something called gay rights and support Barney Frank greatly, a congressman who ran a gay brothel, probably with young boys, out of his apartment...
Of course no one would paint with that broad a brush!!! That would be so mean.
Posted by: Rev. Dr. E. Buzz Miller at July 15, 2010 05:46 PM (9/2L1)
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No one assumed Barry Obama was a racist because he went to a completely insane church filled with insane racists for 20 years.
Posted by: Rev. Dr. E. Buzz Miller at July 15, 2010 05:57 PM (9/2L1)
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Actually Rev, I do presume that, or rather it is no presumption but a simple admission of fact. If that is too tough tactically a more measured and venomous reply is, "What's wrong with being racist? Barack was in a racist cult for twenty years and everyone thought that was just skippy.... "
Posted by: megapotamus at July 15, 2010 06:17 PM (hXCVN)
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Hey, why is this video blocked as "private"? Is that a new thing or was it always blocked?
Posted by: Tea Party at Perrysburg at July 15, 2010 06:26 PM (gu8wR)
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To megapotamus:
Barak Obama can't be a racist. You can only be a racist if you are white. A spokesman for the NAACP said so on O'Reilly yesterday. If you are black and you say "I hate white people and want to kill them, and their children, and their babies" you are not a racist, you are merely a member of a downtrodden oppressed class expressing your frustration at white racism. A racist has to be a member of the oppressive power structure, ie: white.
Of course if you are a black conservative, you are an uncle tom who hates your own people.
Posted by: richard40 at July 15, 2010 06:28 PM (cQhQZ)
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The Gonz - no, no, no. Let James keep talking. Encourage him to keep talking. Let's get him out in front of cameras as much as possible. Look thoughtful, Gonz. Stroke your chin. Tell him what important points he's making and he really needs to quit his day job and go into full-time advocacy for Democratic causes.
Close your eyes and imagine, Gonz.
Posted by: Assistant Village Idiot at July 15, 2010 07:37 PM (6ovy6)
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Well, what if you are half white, then you are half racist!
The white half of Barry was hating on Rev Liberace, the black half liked what he was groovin on.
Posted by: Rev. Dr. E. Buzz Miller at July 16, 2010 05:09 PM (9/2L1)
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Arizona Immigration Law Faces First Legal Hurdle
Arizona governor Jan Brewer and supporters of Arizona's not-as-controversial-as-the-media-would-like-to-make-it immigration law have claimed that it merely mirrors federal law on the subject. If that is true, the judge hearing today's case brought by an Arizona police officer should have a fairly easy time dismissing this first challenge.
A Phoenix police officer's challenge to the new immigration law in Arizona could be settled in a court hearing Thursday.
Phoenix police officer David Salgado has sued Arizona's Gov. Jan Brewer and is asking a federal judge to stall the implementation of the law until it can be proved that it is constitutional.
Brewer has asked the judge to dismiss the lawsuit.
The law is scheduled to go into effect July 29, if it survives this challenge and several others to be heard by the judge on July 22.
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Who Should You Trust?
My latest entry at the Washington Examiner.
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Laugh or Cry: Administration Won't Let BP Test New Spill Cap
Uh, what else should they have been talking about for the past three months?
P's work on capping the Gulf of Mexico gusher was frozen Wednesday after the federal government raised concerns the operation could put damaging pressure on the busted well that could make the leak worse.
An administration official, who asked not to be identified because of the sensitivity of the talks with BP, said the government was acting out of "abundance of caution" and didn't want potentially dangerous pressure tests on a tighter containment cap that has been placed over the well to go ahead until BP answers questions about possible risks.
I'm sorry... did this sneak up on them? Did our brilliant Energy Secretary not know that BP was going to attempt to cap the well? Did they not think about the possible effects that might happen, until this morning?
Why are they just getting around to asking questions now?!?!?
Unless this article is being entirely misreported, the Obama Administration didn't do any research at all to determine whether or not capping the well at the surface would be the best option.
If it wasn't the best option to cap the spill, then why has the Administration had BP wasting their time and money? Merely to give the appearance that "something" was being done as President Putt Putt dealt with more pressing issues the putting green?
As someone suggested
earlier today, the
Deepwater Horizon isn't Obama's Hurricane Katrina. Obama
is Katrina... presidential disaster of epic proportions.
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Hmmm. Surely the Obama Administration could not have goals other than capping the well as quickly as possible and cleaning up the damage as quickly as possible. Could it?
Posted by: mikemcdaniel at July 14, 2010 01:24 PM (AL1KP)
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It's my considered opinion, after 'studyin' on this, that the ultimate aim of the present Administration is to nationalize the U. S. oil industry [and we all know how badly that has worked out for the countries which have done it.] The longer they can draw out this mishandled solution to the oil spill, the more they expect to make the American people hate underwater oil drilling.
Marianne Matthews
Posted by: Marianne Matthews at July 14, 2010 01:56 PM (Aaj8s)
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Keep in mind that our Energy Secretary has a Nobel Prize. We must not forget that. Ever. Never ever.
Posted by: Chris Jones at July 14, 2010 05:42 PM (jNrjF)
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"Surely the Obama Administration could not have goals other than capping the well as quickly as possible and cleaning up the damage as quickly as possible. Could it?"
Never! Barack Obama is the is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I've ever known in my life....
Posted by: Landru at July 14, 2010 06:26 PM (GHpB7)
Posted by: Marc at July 14, 2010 07:00 PM (20fK0)
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"Keep in mind that our Energy Secretary has a Nobel Prize. We must not forget that. Ever. Never ever. "
And so does the terrorist in chief...
So this must be the most expert cabinet in history, 2 Nobel prizes in such a small group!
The international community loves them, so they must be good!
Posted by: J.T. Wenting at July 15, 2010 02:19 AM (jMRqb)
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You gotta appreciate the arrogance of a bunch who admit that they don't have the expertise/knowledge/equipment to do the job, then have the temerity to "question" the actions of those who do.
What kind of "questions" are our overlords going to ask? If they have the expertise and knowledge to frame reasonable questions, and to understand the answers, that kind of assumes they are better at it, and are acting in kind of an oversight capacity.
If that's the case, then why didn't they do it in the first place?
Makes me a little crazy. I'm going to lie down now.
Posted by: MichigammeDave at July 15, 2010 06:10 AM (+4+X3)
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"Never let a crisis go to waste."
Obama and Co. have not finished with the spill yet. They think there's more mileage to be gained.
Posted by: Steve Skubinna at July 15, 2010 07:02 AM (QQ9sc)
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How dare the administration take extreme caution when it comes to a procedure which in a worst case scenario could:
"...trigger a blowout deep beneath the sea floor that would be difficult, and perhaps impossible, to control..."
And how dare they assemble experts to question BP! It's not like BP has a history of rushing work on the well in a way that could lead to the loss of life and or a huge spill. Oh wait....
As for the Katrina garbage just stop, no one but your true believers are buying it. There is no FEMA that handles oil spills, there was no governmental agency in place to handle the physical and legal issues resulting from this disaster. If you guys want to propose that one gets funded then by all means tell your representatives to write such a bill.
Last and least, .30-06 Marc? What are you trying to say? It's almost as if you're too immature to resist the implication of typing a (meaningless) threat, while being too much of a coward to cpme out and say it outright. CY, are you OK with those sorts of posts on your blog?
Posted by: Jim at July 15, 2010 01:26 PM (YPeWM)
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How dare the administration take extreme caution when it comes to a procedure which in a worst case scenario could:
"...trigger a blowout deep beneath the sea floor that would be difficult, and perhaps impossible, to control..."
And how dare they assemble experts to question BP! It's not like BP has a history of rushing work on the well in a way that could lead to the loss of life and or a huge spill. Oh wait...
Jim, how long ago did the well blowout?
How long has BP been trying to cap the well?
Why did the Obama administration decide now, months after the accident, that they need to take a closer look at the procedure?
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There is no FEMA that handles oil spills, there was no governmental agency in place to handle the physical and legal issues resulting from this disaster.
Yes, but there is a government in place to tell over 20 countries with decades of spill technology that were offering their expertise and equipment, "no thanks".
And there was a government in place that gave the Coast Guard the OK to do safety inspections on oil recovery barges that effectively took them off line for an inconceivable period of time.
And there was a government to play golf, LOTS of golf....
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Congrats Jim, I didn't think there would be any administration sycophants crazy enough to try to justify the pathetic response of Obama.
Posted by: TomB at July 15, 2010 03:44 PM (GnoLL)
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Hi TomB,
Are you honestly trying to tell me the procedure BP applied today (instead of yesterday) had been planned and discussed for months? I was under the impression that this was Plan C or D. I also know from reading the press conference yesterday that there were tests being performed on the components and underlying geology pretty much 24/7 this week. The results of those tests obviously effected the risk/reward aspect of the current cap.
As for those offers from other countries:
Q&A: Did U.S. reject foreign help on gulf oil spill cleanup?
What role does a maritime law play in criticisms that the Obama administration initially refused offers from the Netherlands?
June 25, 2010|By Kathleen Hennessey, Tribune Washington bureau
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Reporting from Washington — A handful of critics, led by Republicans in Congress and conservative commentators, has recently blasted the administration as slow to accept equipment and other assistance from foreign countries offering to help with the gulf oil spill cleanup.
They've focused their critique on an offer from the Netherlands of oil-skimming booms. Some contend that the administration initially refused that offer and others out of a resistance to waive the Jones Act of 1920 — a law that bars foreign vessels from carrying cargo between points in the U.S. — as President George W. Bush did briefly after Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
The White House, Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen and the State Department have pushed back against the criticism, saying the Jones Act has not impeded the cleanup and foreign assistance has been accepted when needed.
Did the Dutch offer assistance immediately after the Deepwater Horizon exploded?
The State Department says the Dutch government and private businesses offered various types of assistance on April 30, 10 days after the explosion. It included proposals to sell equipment as well as offers of technical advice.
Romania, Norway, Spain, Sweden and Britain made similar offers that same day, according to a summary provided by the State Department. The Netherlands' offer consisted of "state-of-the-art skimming arms made by the Dutch company Koseq," said a statement issued by the Dutch Embassy. The Netherlands also offered to help Louisiana build sand berms intended to keep the oil from washing ashore.
Did the U.S. reject the offers?
On May 5, the State Department issued a statement acknowledging that it had received several offers from countries. "While there is no need right now that the U.S. cannot meet, the U.S. Coast Guard is assessing these offers of assistance to see if there will be something which we will need in the near future," the statement said.
The offer of skimmers was accepted on May 23, when BP purchased three Koseq sweeping arms.
As of June 21, the other Dutch offers were considered "under consideration," and the response team had also accepted aid from Mexico, Canada and Norway.
Did the Jones Act prevent the U.S. from immediately accepting the assistance?
The administration and Allen said the Jones Act had not prevented the response team from accepting the offers. In a June 11 news briefing, Allen, the national incident commander, said, "We are more than willing to consider Jones Act waivers," and noted that foreign vessels were being used. A statement issued June 18 said that 15 foreign-flagged vessels were involved in the cleanup, and none required Jones Act waivers.
That's in part because of a specific exemption in the act that can allow for the use of foreign "oil spill response vessels," said H. Clayton Cook, a Washington attorney and expert on the Jones Act.
Cook, a Republican, said there had been longstanding opposition to the act, which many see as protectionist and a bow to unions, but there was no evidence that the Jones Act was standing in the way of the cleanup. "This is being used for political purposes. It's a classic red herring."
Why did it take more than three weeks to buy the Dutch skimmers?
U.S. officials did not directly answer this question. A State Department spokesman suggested that the nature of the offer and bureaucratic requirements might have something to do with it.
The Dutch offer, like most offers of foreign assistance, was to sell supplies, State Department spokesman Philip J. Crowley told reporters. "And in determining whether to accept these offers, we look at the availability of domestic sources and also compare pricing on the open market. So that may be one of the reasons why, in some cases, we've been able to accept these offers and pursued them," he said.
Having to do things legally is a pain, isn't it? That's why agencies like FEMA exist, the details for who and how can be worked out ahead of time. Again, unlike what happened in this case.
Perhaps you can send me a link about the Coast Guard tests that kept ships offline for a long time. I know about the huge skimmer ship they tested (and found didn't work) but other than that I'm not sure what you're referring too.
Posted by: Jim at July 15, 2010 04:18 PM (YPeWM)
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Are you honestly trying to tell me the procedure BP applied today (instead of yesterday) had been planned and discussed for months? I was under the impression that this was Plan C or D.
Uh Jim, ALL the plans were intended to cap the well. And this plan has been in the works for over 2 weeks at least.
Having to do things legally is a pain, isn't it?
Only when it helps your union friends. A simple waiver of the Jones Act, despite the pathetic attempts of the State Dept. to deflect criticism, would have had plenty of help in the Gulf in short order.
Posted by: TomB at July 15, 2010 04:40 PM (GnoLL)
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First of all all the plans were not intended to cap the well, the relief wells -- the only way to actually stop the leak for good -- are still plan A.
Secondly, what about the testing of the well and the geology related to this specific cap attempt that has been performed this week? Obviously the Administration should have had those results in advance. Months ago no doubt.
Still pushing the Jones Act lie? Foreign flagged ships are being used as we speak.
The administration and Allen said the Jones Act had not prevented the response team from accepting the offers. In a June 11 news briefing, Allen, the national incident commander, said, "We are more than willing to consider Jones Act waivers," and noted that foreign vessels were being used. A statement issued June 18 said that 15 foreign-flagged vessels were involved in the cleanup, and none required Jones Act waivers.
That's in part because of a specific exemption in the act that can allow for the use of foreign "oil spill response vessels," said H. Clayton Cook, a Washington attorney and expert on the Jones Act.
Cook, a Republican, said there had been longstanding opposition to the act, which many see as protectionist and a bow to unions, but there was no evidence that the Jones Act was standing in the way of the cleanup. "This is being used for political purposes. It's a classic red herring."
Or if you prefer a different set of sources and a much more detailed account try:
http://www.factcheck.org/2010/06/oil-spill-foreign-help-and-the-jones-act/
Let me know what you think after reading up on it a little more.
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There is a Reason We Only Protect the Right to Arm Bears
Man's best friend? Not this pooch.
Oddly enough, I've heard similar stories before, where people have been shot by pets, children, and inanimate objects when a firearm isn't properly stored and kept on safe.
All guns are always loaded, remember?
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In all my years of gun ownership has a gun ever loaded itself, aimed itself, or shot itself. Blaming a gun for a shooting is like blaming a pencil for misspelled words.
Posted by: Warren at July 14, 2010 11:36 AM (RKUr7)
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No one will call him Fifi again!
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That's The Sound of Me Not Caring
It must be a slower news day than I thought.
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Thank you so much for not trying to palm off Andi Sullivan oe whatzername Johnson as "news" like so many of the blogs I used to read do on slow (or lazy) days.
Posted by: Larry Sheldon at July 14, 2010 11:48 AM (OmeRL)
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Racists! Obama Compared to Two White Guys
Yeah, this is hyperbolic and over the top, but you have to know it is by design. People are talking and writing about it, aren't they?
Of course, Obama is nothing like Hitler or Lenin.
Both of them were demonstrably more competent in promoting their peculiar brands of socialism than the President, and garnered far more support from their countrymen, for a much longer period of time.
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At least Hitler and Lenin had the advantage of trying their brands of socialism in a time when there were few examples of the philosophy in practice and even fewer historical failures. Obama has to compete with those that actually understand history and would rather not be doomed to repeat it.
Posted by: JohnLocke at July 14, 2010 10:01 AM (+GD1J)
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Of course it's by design, and it's doing the job well. The media continues to show how dumb they are. See here.
Posted by: dissident at July 14, 2010 11:25 AM (5oXgP)
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Unfortunately a plurality of us who had a chance to know better voted for the destruction of the golden goose anyway.
Posted by: Larry Sheldon at July 14, 2010 11:50 AM (OmeRL)
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Hitler yes, Stalin, no. Stalin's support came from blackmail and giving sociopaths power just long enough that they could taste and enjoy it, then having a new crop come it. It was terrorist based, and an inheritance, very possibly stolen, from Lenin. Or, something really close to that.
Obama? Quota's can't do what it takes real atheist men to do.
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Doh, you did say Lenin. Scratch that. Though, to a degree, he used terror in the back rooms of politics too, just not so widely in the general public quite as in depth. Still, he did murder 200,000 Catholics almost immediately, so... He was not slouch at terror.
Posted by: Doom at July 14, 2010 08:46 PM (6gT2k)
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...Except for the minor detail that fascism & Nazism weren't socialist ideologies. Communism and Fascism are both Statist, and they're both totalitarian, but they are opposites in as many ways as they are similar.
Cue someone quoting Jonah Goldberg in 3... 2...
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July 13, 2010
NAACP Kicks Out Press, Kills Webcast To Discuss Tea Party Resolution
They're meeting behind closed doors because meeting under sheets has already been done.
You
could have watched this collection of bigoted lickspittles discuss the proposed resolution to call the Tea Party racists, but the cowards have pushed the press out of the room and killed the
convention webcast.
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"They're meeting behind closed doors because meeting under sheets has already been done."
Most excellent line of the day
I don't care for where I see all this going. We have the new panthers calling for cracker babies to be murdered and no one says squat but conservative people standing up for the God given rights guaranteed by our Constitution gets them the title of racist? My ass! The hypocrisy of these buffoons knows no bounds.
Posted by: maxx at July 13, 2010 05:48 PM (bFNvP)
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The Tea Bag Party are just “haters not debaters” or as others have dubbed them “screamers not dreamers”, with their failed attempts at stopping Healthcare reform, they say they respect the Constitution, the Bill of Rights and the Declaration of Independence but they do not mind passing laws, through weak Governors (no one voted for this crazy) who only cares about getting elected Governor, on the backs of undocumented workers, that will not pass Constitution muster.
Brewer signed into law;
1. S.B. 1070,
2. No permit conceal weapons law,
3. The famous Birthers law,
4. Banning Ethnic studies law,
5. Banning human-animal hybrid (aren’t most GOPers crossed with the Reptilian race?)
or are they just giving Laurence Gonzales, some great promotion material for his new book “Lucy”.
6. Could she be behind the Mural in Prescott, Arizona, ordered to be whiten,
7. On deck to pass, no citizenship to babies born to undocumented workers,
8. If she can read she should look up Arizona’s House Bill 2779 from two years ago (which was un-constitution and failed when legally challenged),
9. The boycotted Martin Luther King Day, what idiots don’t want another holiday? Yes, you guessed it Arizona.
Well Arizona, you can boycott new holidays and keep passing crazy laws and the rest of us will continue to challenged them in a court of law and continue to add cities to our Boycott of your state.
I real cannot believe anything that comes out of Brewer’s mouth, in an interview she first said her father had died in Germany fighting the Nazi in World War II (war ended 1945) but of course we find out the truth that father was never in Germany and died in California in 1955. But we are suppose to believe everything else she says, right! No one voted for you for Governor, yet you keep listening to the tiny brains of the crazies and signing into law everything that comes into their feeble minds, it only make you look dumb, stupid or racist, or maybe all three.
As for the Tea Bag Party, their phony patriotism is sickening; they are just racists going by another name. We all know you are just itching to put a sheet on their head? Let’s face it the Republicans had eight years to deal with health care, immigration, energy (remember Cheney’s secret meetings with oil companies where loosening regulation and oversight were sealed), climate change and financial oversight and governance and they failed. It appears that the Republican Party is only good at starting wars (two in eight years, with fat contracts to friends of Cheney/Bush) but not at winning wars as seen by the continuing line of body bags that keep coming home. The Republicans party will continue turned inward to their old fashion obstructionist party (and their Confederacy appreciation roots) because they continue to allow a small portions (but very loud portion) of their party of “birthers, baggers and blowhards” to rule their party. I will admit that this fringe is very good at playing “Follow the Leader” by listening to their dullard leaders, Beck, Hedgecock, Hannity, O’Reilly, Rush, Savage, Sarah Bailin, Orly Taitz, Victoria Jackson, Michele Bachmann and the rest of the Blowhards and acting as ill programmed robots (they have already acted against doctors that perform abortions). Yee Haw!
Posted by: Montana at July 13, 2010 11:07 PM (t9AvQ)
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Excellent cut and paste of the latest email blast, Montana. (Let's hope that no one notices all these talking points are tired, old, discredited, and debunked.)
Your check is in the mail!
Posted by: George Soros at July 13, 2010 11:59 PM (JgsF7)
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Eric Holder said that Americans are cowards to talk about race, and today we saw that in full glory.
Frankly, from what I've seen of the passed resolution, in contrast to what was talked about beforehand, it seems that they must have gotten a few "grown ups" in the room.
But the real problem is that since we have gotten our first (real) black President and a bit before, it has become more and more obvious that there is a real problem in the black community with race relations. They still live in the 60's, and the early 60's at that. They have refused to see any improvement in race relations because it will interfere with their world view of self pity and victimhood. It really must be a miserable life.
Posted by: Neo at July 14, 2010 12:04 AM (tE8FB)
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They went behind the doors just like Dick Cheney and his energy policy which allowed bp to drill with no idea how to shut it down. That is what happens when you let industry set the standards. This is what happens after years of allowing industry and banking to their own devices. It took us eight plus years to get into this mess and it is going to take at least as long to get us out.
Posted by: ike at July 14, 2010 12:45 AM (9ZJAZ)
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Good post Neo, the black folk I work with still complain about slavery.
Posted by: duncan at July 14, 2010 12:51 AM (lGcPs)
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"It took us eight plus years to get into this mess"
Try eight plus,plus years. They started digging the hole in the 60's with the "War On Poverty" and continued digging with CRA and numerous other giveaways and entitlements. Why are our cities populated with kids and no daddies to teach 'em manners? You know why.
Posted by: maxx at July 14, 2010 06:53 AM (bFNvP)
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Ike, Ike, Ike,
Far be it from me to complain about a functioning energy market (particularly with the clueless Pres'ent we have now), but the tar-babies on the Gulf coast beaches are the off-spring of the Jug-Eared Jesus, not the terrifying Dick Cheney:
http://www.prosperityagenda.us/node/4247
http://www.openmarket.org/2010/06/04/obama-uses-bp-oil-spill-to-push-corporate-welfare-filled-global-warming-bill-that-bp-once-lobbied-for/
Cordially...
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A Simple Challenge to the NAACP
If you are going to issue a resolution smearing Tea Party protesters as a group as racists for the acts of a distinct minority shunned by the group at large, don't you also have an obligation to pass a resolution against your own organization for far more pervasive racist behavior?
NAACP officers and members alike have proven themselves guilty of racist rants against Jews, and as an organization, you seem to tolerate and (
even promote) a pervasive hatred of minority conservatives, from Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, to Condoleeza Rice, to Kenneth Gladney, and beyond.
Do the honorable thing, and submit yourself to the Southern Poverty Law Center as a hate group, if one hoping to change.
You don't just deserve that classification every as the Tea Party... With a longer, and more documented history of this kind of behavior, you deserve it far more.
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Posted by: MIke M at July 13, 2010 10:32 AM (fqvpi)
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I try to ignore them, hatefilled racist. and the Obamas support this mob????
Posted by: duncan at July 13, 2010 02:04 PM (lGcPs)
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Tim Scott speaks out ...
as does
Allen West (on the DOJ decision) ...
Posted by: Adriane at July 13, 2010 04:40 PM (+NfQM)
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But don't you realize, blacks can't be racist. So there's nothing for the NAACP to condemn. /spit
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July 12, 2010
NAACP Considers Resolution Decrying Racist Elements in NAACP Movement
I'm kidding.
They'd never been honest enough to admit that their organization is
run through with racists that automatically dismiss blacks with traditional conservative values as race traitors.
Instead, they're attacking the tea party again, for threatening to
end their enslavement not to government handouts, but to a perpetual victim mentality. The NAACP long ago devolved from a champion of civil rights into just another mouthpiece constituency angling for whatever scraps of power and relevance that the Democratic Party will toss its way.
Until they take a sober look at their own house and put it in order, they are due the mocking and scorn that this hypocritical announcement so richly deserves.
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... and those "code words" are flying ...So let's say Obama's people have correctly deduced that there's no chance in hell of getting anything through Congress."Obama's people" ??
... and which "people" are "Obama's people" ?
Posted by: Neo at July 12, 2010 12:25 PM (tE8FB)
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Nothing like a bunch of real Uncle Toms (who support, among other things, abortion, which hits their own like few others, for "table scraps"), who are only in power because of nihilist pop culture and obvious self doubts. Maybe they really believe (or understand) that they are not competitive. Maybe they, like Democrats, understand the truth?
Both groups ("liberals"/"progressives" and black groups) seem to run quotas and handouts as the only means for "equality" for that segment of the population. Furthermore, I haven't actually seen that subgroup do well as a significant chunk of the population, in America, Europe, Middle East, or even in nations where they control politics. Not even in the African nation America helped expats take, then subsidized. If that is indeed the case mlkj would have had no choice but to do precisely what they are doing.
The question is, where to go if equality cannot be obtained? Most side with status quo, I do not. I think that is where many even erstwhile conservatives through up their hands and start passing out social candy on this issue, when they get deeper into politics. It never seems to merely be a negotiation, but a true surrender of the notion of real equality. Do they learn something we do not? I do wonder.
Just saying.
Posted by: Doom at July 12, 2010 12:28 PM (6gT2k)
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NEO - Obama's people: Rahm Emanuel, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reed, David Axelrod, Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, Kathleen Sebelius, Tom Vilsack, Ray LaHood, Tim Geithner, Christina Romer, and for the economy: Larry Summers.
Neo, maby you have the "code word" problem and see things that are not there.
Look up the names and get back to us with a racial profile of the list above.
Betcha won't!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: mixitup at July 12, 2010 07:20 PM (Z21cb)
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mixitup -
George Soros. Jeremiah Wright, William Ayers, Bernadine Dohrn, Daniel Cantor, Joel Rogers, Michael Pfleger, Khalid Al-Mansour, Lincoln Bergman, Bertha Lewis, Dale Rathke, Van Jones.
Look up the names and get back with a political profile.
Betcha won't!!!!!!
Posted by: Adriane at July 12, 2010 10:19 PM (+NfQM)
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Until the NAACP, New Black Panthers, SCLC and other race-based organizations are outlawed as hate-groups, there will be no justice, there will be no peace.
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ADRIANE - I really don't get your point. You are making my point that Obama has a lot of white people as "his people" that NEO is ignorant about.
But, if you must - here are the answers to YOUR list:
1. Billionaire socialist
2. Insane black nationalist pastor who likes chickens to roost
3. A crazy bomber
4. A crazy bombers wife
5. Don't know Daniel well
6. Weather underground nut case leader(with Bill)
7. A real crazy catholic priest
8. Black muslim/black nationalist
9. Don't know lincoln
10. Acorn honcho/supports underage prostitution
11. SEIU/Acorn honcho
12. A very sick communist
I hope that answers your question adriane; Adriane; ADRIANE!!!
Regards,
ROCKY
Posted by: mixitup at July 13, 2010 07:43 PM (Z21cb)
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Duke Rape Case Accuser Heads to Court on Attempted Murder Charges
Among others:
A Durham woman who falsely accused three Duke University athletes of rape four years ago will be in court Monday on a separate case in which she faces multiple charges, including attempted first-degree murder.
Crystal Mangum will be in court at 2:30 p.m. Monday to tell the judge that she doesn't want to be on house arrest at her friend's house anymore. She will also try to regain custody of her three children, ages 10, 9 and 3.
Mangum was arrested in February and charged with attempted first-degree murder, five counts of arson, assault and battery, communicating threats, three counts of misdemeanor child abuse, injury to personal property, identity theft and resisting a public officer.
Police said she assaulted her boyfriend, Milton Walker, set his clothes on fire in a bathtub and threatened to stab him.
"I am being unfairly treated due to preconceived notions that people had about me concerning another case," Mangum said in a news conference last month on the porch of a friend's house, where she is staying while under house arrest while awaiting trial.
Which other case is the obvious question. After all, the Duke case was hardly her first brush with the law.
In related news, the home in Durham where the non-rape occurred is
being demolished.
It had to be.
It was white.
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Hmmm. She set his clothes on fire and threatened to stab him? And this, in North Carolina, constitutes attempted first degree murder? What would constitute manslaughter? Tearing a page out of a book and a threat of slapping? I suspect that something has been left out of this news account, perhaps in the service of a politically correct agenda. The folks in that neck of the woods apparently have not learned much since the Lacrosse case days, have they?
But at least they've acted on a bit of magical thinking and acted on a symbol, not of rape and abuse, but of the egregiously stupid institutional thinking and actions of the university and its supporters. Such passes for wisdom and action on the part of the left.
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Was the boyfriend wearing the clothes?
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July 11, 2010
Video: BP Spills Coffee
This isn't realistic at all.
Retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen isn't blocking people entering the room who have paper towels, and Barack Obama didn't shank the golf ball Kevin Costner told them to chuck at the spill.
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Very funny, and you are right about adding the US Coast Guard as they have hindered the clean up and seem to be working for BP rather than America.
Posted by: duncan at July 12, 2010 01:09 PM (lGcPs)
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It's funny, and at the same time, I want to cry.
Posted by: RebeccaH at July 13, 2010 10:23 AM (JAQT9)
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President Putt-Putt Goes on Vacation... Again
Maine, this time. Jim Hoft notes this is Obama's third vacation since the Deepwater Horizon disaster began.
There is no word yet on how many rounds of golf he will be playing on this vacation.
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If I were him I would go ahead and enjoy everything I could. You know the gig is up in 2012 so enjoy. The libs can bash GW all they want but this clown has even passed Carter as worthless. The BP situation is without a doubt his crowning glory. Of course the leftwing totally worthless media is giving him a buy on that. Except for FOX. He may as well go on vacation. At least when he's on vacation he's not screwing anything up.
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What's going to suck is he won't be taking many vacations during the upcoming, lame duck, session, where he'll be working hand-in-hand w/ Congress to do his best (read: worst) for the country.
Posted by: ECM at July 11, 2010 10:41 AM (nYKDd)
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It's weird how you never talked about Bush's vacations.
And the POTUS isn't allowed days off? Is that in the constitution or something?
Posted by: salvage at July 11, 2010 12:22 PM (NPk3P)
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Salvage - Go back in that cave, or go back to "sucking your thumb." The current POTUS has played more golf in 18 months than the previous POTUS played in 8 years!!!!! There is more info, but I have never seen a lib let the FACTS get in the way of an uninformed opinion.
Posted by: mixitup at July 11, 2010 02:24 PM (Z21cb)
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No, that is a lie:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/03/11/politics/uwire/main3927378.shtml
Posted by: salvage at July 11, 2010 05:10 PM (NPk3P)
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Great. As if traffic on Mt. Desert isn't bad enough this time of year. He's going to inconvenience a lot of tourists.
Posted by: Slublog at July 11, 2010 08:35 PM (XEvMg)
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salvage, here's the correct link to counter that student "journalist" report you listed: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1223229/Obama-swings-play-golf-Bush.html
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>>>It's weird how you never talked about Bush's vacations.
Almost as weird as that being all the left ever wanted to talk about, unlike now.
Posted by: wiserbud at July 12, 2010 09:54 AM (EW49d)
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paulr
Um... yeah, Obama plays golf more than Bush but Bush did far more VACATION than any POTUS.
You do understand the difference between playing an afternoon of golf on a Sunday versus talking off to Crawford for a few weeks?
Probably not.
hey speaking of Crawford, you know manly man Cowboy Bush sold it right after the election and moved to a slick gated community? Guess he cleared all the brush out something.
>wiserbud
Uh, no, not really, what Bush's critics talked about was stuff like illegal wars (hey they find the WMD yet? Iraq a beacon of Democracy for the Middle East?), losing a whole city, squandering a surplus, etc.
His lack of work ethic was small potatoes compared to that stuff.
It's hysterical, you chimps and chumps called Obama stupid for using teleprompters (something everyone who makes countless speeches uses, including your Dear Leader Bush) and that didn't get any traction and now Obama is lazy because he plays golf.
What's next? OMG! OBAMA SLEEPS! AT NIGHT! or perhaps Obama exhales CO2, he's says he cares about the environment! Hypocrite!
Posted by: salvage at July 12, 2010 04:44 PM (NPk3P)
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Salvage - Hey, psssst - keep this a secret will ya, don't tell anyone:
BUSH AIN'T PRESIDENT NO MORE!!!!!!!
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Last week I asked you for advice on M4 carbines. Specifically, I was trying to decide between a pair of exellent rifles, the Noveske Rifleworks 16" Light Recce, BASIC, and the Daniel Defense DDXVM and was wondering which I should go with.
As it turns out, the answer, according to you, was neither.
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Looks like a bargain. Myself, I have four rifles in 5.56, none of them an AR. Most recently I got a Robinson XCR with the 16" heavy barrel. Very nice piece, and it's piston actuated. Costs about the same as what you ordered.
In fact, all the reading I have been doing lately on the Bushmaster ACR/Masada makes me wonder why anyone would pay twice as much for what is functionally the same rifle as the XCR.
Posted by: Steve Skubinna at July 11, 2010 01:26 PM (nxSN3)
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May I make a reccomendation:
A reticule or a red dot sight. Makes life and aiming easier. Mostly the aiming part though.
They're kinda pricey though, and I still recommend learning to aim that thing on iron sights first.
Posted by: chaz at July 11, 2010 09:58 PM (sSNkG)
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Bob: Also a minor suggestion: While some of the 'bling' for an M-4 variant is nice, keep weight considerations in mind! Each peice of "pimp my carbine" adds to the overall weight, and thereby causes changes in it's handling characteristics whilst putting lead downrange. Remember: Learn to shoot with it both ways, encumbered and unencumbered, so that you know how it handles under ANY circumstances. I mean hell, check my FB pics to see what a $200 DD Tax stamp will get you, if you want to go "whole hog" LOL! (Then again, here in Iraq, I NEED extras like that in my current line of work... thats why the ATF and Sheriff were so kind enuff to sign off on my paperwork)
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July 10, 2010
Wife of Oil Exec Wounded By Shoe Box Bomb
Well, the President did ask his tolerant, peace-loving followers—no doubt the same kind souls that sit at home sharpening their Obama Youth knives preparing for their One Nation meetings—to get in their neighbor's faces.
Perhaps someone just took that advice
too literally.
The woman was opening a package left at her doorstep in the 2100 block of Seamist Court Friday evening. She had found the shoe-sized box in front of her home about a day ago but didn't decide to open it until around 6:30pm Friday.
The woman, who officials said is in her 60s, took the box to the backyard and opened it on the patio. That's when it exploded.
"Don't know where it came from -- postal service or whether it was dropped off. I don't have that information yet," said HPD Lt. Colin Weatherly."The person went outside, basically opened the packaged; it detonated."
Residents told Eyewitness News that when the bomb went off, it sounded like a transformer blew.
The woman survived the blast, and is being treated for facial injuries.
Get in their face, blow it off... hey, you voted for change, didn't you?
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Lay this at the feet of "The Won"
When you whip people up, it isn't "unexpected" when they start acting like "brownshirts"
Posted by: Neo at July 10, 2010 12:42 PM (tE8FB)
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Call it what it is.
Domestic Terrorism.
But the FBI is probably too busy trying to investigate the Tea Parties to have time to go after this.
Posted by: Jhn1 at July 10, 2010 01:19 PM (AJU5L)
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Ah, the tolerant left.
How do I know it's the left? I don't know of course but speculation in a blog comment isn't the same as judgment in a court of law.
Can't imagine this will get the same nationwide round-the-clock coverage as, say, the dead pre-census worker with FED written on his body. That one spurred enough coverage to enter the cumulative US memory, and for plenty of people, they will only remember the initial suspicious and never recall the truth.
Posted by: Silrette at July 10, 2010 01:24 PM (1fju6)
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Those fanatic Young Republicans and League of Women Voters did this, I'll bet. Time to put'em all in the camps.
Posted by: MarkJ at July 10, 2010 02:06 PM (ZFVlP)
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Sounds like a Bill Ayers style attack.
Posted by: DADvocate at July 10, 2010 02:16 PM (BSe8u)
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So we're at the intersection of 1932 and 1968.
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Can't imagine this will get the same nationwide round-the-clock coverage as, say, the dead pre-census worker with FED written on his body.
I knew this one was "wrong" the moment it hit the news. The Mexican gangs will make examples of people finding their drugs, but we don't have them here in Kentucky like California et al are getting them. The good old boys might make you disappear, but they certainly don't put you out on display like this.
I doubt a single one of the intellegencia noticed (or believed) the final report on suicide for it.
Posted by: Kentucky Packrat at July 10, 2010 03:28 PM (Cg70E)
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Mr. Shoemaker,
Your comment is brilliant.
Posted by: julia at July 10, 2010 03:39 PM (OwXvx)
Posted by: SDN at July 10, 2010 04:56 PM (MPt/I)
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David Niewert has got to be all over this. Has he pinned down which right wing militia group is responsible yet?
Posted by: daleyrocks at July 10, 2010 05:39 PM (oAbFj)
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If the SPLC hasn't issued yet another breathless donation solicitation disguised as a press release yet, then no, nobody knows which right wing militia group did this.
Posted by: Mark at July 10, 2010 06:13 PM (0nwFA)
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As the wife of an oil company executive, I and other wives were warned at various points in our husbands' working lives not to open packages that might contain explosives which might be delivered with our mail. If such packages appeared, my husband's employer asked that we notify the company office and the company would send out trained personnel to open them for us.
As you can see, this kind of terrorist threat has been going on for awhile, since my husband is 85 years old and has been retired since he was 63.
Marianne Matthews
Posted by: Marianne Matthews at July 10, 2010 06:34 PM (Aaj8s)
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I suspect the NY Times and Washington Post are going to have searing editorials condemning this (yes, I am being sarcastic in case anyone is wondering.)
Posted by: Buck O'Fama at July 10, 2010 06:57 PM (0hVRU)
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Don't tell me - the return address was the SEIU local?
Posted by: Steve Skubinna at July 10, 2010 07:47 PM (4zh/q)
Posted by: dissident at July 10, 2010 10:40 PM (kjtNX)
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I know that neighborhood. It’s 1965 tract houses, not the stomping grounds of the expropriators. The tax listing for the block (via http://www.hcad.org) backs me up on this. The location is good, the houses are what would be considered tear-downs in the recent market - bought by new by good engineers and accountants with families to raise. I know lots of them. I used to live right around the corner.
We don’t do that political thing here in Houston. I suspect that a disaffected worker or even a case of frustrated teen lust is involved.
Posted by: JC at July 10, 2010 11:23 PM (zB8FA)
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Why hasn't Obama developed a cure for cnacer? He went to Harvard ...
Posted by: Adriane at July 11, 2010 03:12 AM (+NfQM)
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Blowing up people our Great Leader doesn't like, now there's Change we can Believe in!
Posted by: J.T. Wenting at July 11, 2010 04:16 AM (hrLyN)
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Absolutely despicable, but so typical.
I linked this in the Deepwater Horizon Incident Timeline.
Posted by: David L., Lower Alabama at July 11, 2010 04:29 PM (XXeVH)
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More Counter-Tea Party Astroturf
First, there was the Coffee Party.
The there was the
Other 95%.
Don't feel bad if you don't remember these groups. Despite media cheerleading, they were stillborn at the start. There is simply no vocal grassroots support for a government that consists of a series of cascading failures.
But leftists are intent on creating yet a third astroturfed counter to the grass roots Tea Party, progressives from some of the most thuggish leftist groups are coming together to form something called
One Nation:
In dem Bemühen, die Tee-Party für den Erfolg, 170 liberalen und bürgerlichen Rechte Gruppen replizieren bilden eine Koalition, dass sie hoffen, die Bewegung der politischen Energie und Einfluss übereinstimmen. Sie versprechen "counter The Tea Party narrative" und helfen, die fortschreitende Bewegung zu finden, ihre Stimme wieder nach 18 Monaten der Bahn werfen.
Die groß angelegte Versuch, liberale Einheit, genannt "One Nation", werden versuchen, die Themen, die Spannung der progressiven Breitensport vor zwei Jahren neu zu beleben. In einer Wiederverwendung der alten Kampagne Barack Obamas Slogan, sind die Organisatoren fordern "alle ändern" für sie gestimmt haben - Sack im Weißen Haus ...
... "Nachdem mit dem Gespenst der Teeparty konfrontiert... Wir hielten es für dringend geboten, die Mehrheit in diesem Land, das im Jahr 2008 gewählt hat und zurück auf die Couch gegangen zu organisieren", sagte Benjamin Jealous, Präsident der NAACP . "Wir haben in verschiedene Richtungen gespalten."
Die beteiligten Gruppen repräsentieren den Kern der Erstwähler, die Präsident Obama - einschließlich des Nationalen Rates der La Raza, NAACP, AFL-CIO, SEIU und den Vereinigten Staaten Student Association unterstützt. (Der Aufwand ist unabhängig von der Demokratischen Partei den Plan 50.000.000 $ auszugeben versucht, dieselben Wähler zu erreichen.)
Oops. I forgot to translate that out of the original
Deutsch.
In an effort to replicate the tea party's success, 170 liberal and civil rights groups are forming a coalition that they hope will match the movement's political energy and influence. They promise to "counter the tea party narrative" and help the progressive movement find its voice again after 18 months of floundering.
The large-scale attempt at liberal unity, dubbed "One Nation," will try to revive themes that energized the progressive grassroots two years ago. In a repurposing of Barack Obama's old campaign slogan, organizers are demanding "all the change" they voted for -- a poke at the White House...
..."Having been confronted with the specter of the tea party . . . we felt it urgent to organize the majority of this country, which voted in 2008 and has gone back to the couch," said Benjamin Jealous, president of the NAACP. "We've been split off in different directions."
The groups involved represent the core of the first-time voters who backed President Obama -- including the National Council of La Raza, NAACP, AFL-CIO, SEIU and the United States Student Association. (The effort is separate from the Democratic Party's plan to spend $50 million trying to reach those same voters.)
Nothing bad ever happens when you combine racial nationalists and savage union muscle, does it?
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tea party's success?
Um, when'd that happen?
Posted by: salvage at July 10, 2010 09:06 AM (NPk3P)
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Well they have the Ein Volk now
When comes the
Ein Reich
Ein Furher?
Posted by: Dan Kauffman at July 10, 2010 10:22 AM (MWGT4)
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"One Nation"? That's hilarious coming from the people who advocate multiculturalism, racial preferences, and division politics.
Posted by: MikeM_inMd at July 10, 2010 10:47 AM (6hI0A)
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I loved this definition from WikiPedia ...
One Nation is a far-right and nationalist political party in Australia. It gained 22 percent of the vote translating to 11 of 89 seats in Queensland's unicameral legislative assembly at the 1998 state election and made major inroads into the vote of the existing parties. Federally, the party peaked at the 1998 election on 9 percent but progressively lost ground at the 2001 and 2004 elections.
Posted by: Neo at July 10, 2010 10:48 AM (tE8FB)
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I thought the the left had already demonstrated in Oakland.
Posted by: David at July 10, 2010 11:14 AM (kAs1H)
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Salvage - you LIBS are absolutely hysterical. Either you all live in caves, or are DSB(dumb, stupid & blind). Lets see, you have: Gov. in N.J., Gov. in VA., Ted Kennedy's old senate seat for decades, Carley Fiorina putting Boxer under in the polls, Meg Whitman looking strong in Kalifornia, old guard repub ousted in Utah, Carville(ragin cajin)predicting a monumental disaster, Pelosi blubbering at every speach, and Mr. Obamanation resorting to his petulant childish behavior - and you ask the "enlightened" question:
"Um when'd that happen?" I guess that happenrd while you were obviously occupied by sucking your thumb!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: mixitup at July 10, 2010 11:26 AM (Z21cb)
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The left constantly misreads the Tea Party movement. For all their lip service to "the grassroots" they can't accept that a movement can spontaneously arise without central, top down planning and organization. That's why their responses have always fallen flat - they can't imagine a popular uprising without people like themselves directing it.
I don't think they ever will understand it. Their reflexive contempt for the masses blinds them to individual initiative. If they are swept from power this year, it will not be because they pissed off a vast swath of citizens with their thuggish arrogance, it will be because of Republican fear mongering.
Believe me, the RNC is not behind the Tea Party. They wish they were, but they have to ruefully acknowledge that they are not driving it - however much the blinkered media "exposes" their hidden hand.
Posted by: Steve Skubinna at July 10, 2010 12:23 PM (byU/A)
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In an effort to replicate the tea party's success, 170 liberal and civil rights groups are forming a coalition that they hope will match the movement's political energy and influence. They promise to "counter the tea party narrative" and help the progressive movement find its voice again after 18 months of floundering.
Actually, the "progressive" movement has a "voice." They frigging run the government right now, with the fawning media Renfields trotting along behind, brainlessly echoing everything they say.
What seems to have utterly eluded the One Nation people is that the Tea Party movement is actually the response to that same screeching "voice."
Saying the same stupid things on a broader scale isn't going to change that.
This week at their national conventions both NAACP and NCLR leaders will begin talking to their members about "One Nation," and they are seeking money from foundations for the effort.
For "seeking money from foundations" read "socialist parasites feeding off the long-dead corpses of robber barons and filthy rich capitalists."
"They are calling the Democratic party back to what has been the pattern of successful liberalism in the 20th century," McGerr said.
A pattern currently written large in failing European nations, Venezuela, and everyplace else leftist ideas have been consistently applied.
Posted by: TB at July 10, 2010 05:02 PM (PaBEr)
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Spot on TB. Great post. You made me think of something when you pointed out about the "fawning media." Sometimes, when I go to bed at night to get some rest so I can work hard to support a bunch of liberals with my tax dollars, you know - that moment just before you knock out - I let my mind wander and ponder what it would be like if the media really did it's job, cover the news, and ask the hard questions. Wow - you got to wonder what our country would look like, how strong our economy would be, and... OH NEVERMIND.............................
Posted by: mixitup at July 10, 2010 06:09 PM (Z21cb)
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They changed tea party to something else, so,
Do not call them One Nation, call them one Nuthouse.
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North Carolina Democrats Boot Pastor For Using 'Jesus' in Prayer
So let me get this straight:
Ron Baity of Berean Baptist Church in Winston-Salem was asked to be honorary chaplain of the state house of representatives in Raleigh, but his tenure was cut short because his
prayer invoked Jesus?
Baity's troubles began during the week of May 31. He said a House clerk asked to see his prayer. The invocation including prayers for our military, state lawmakers and a petition to God asking him to bless North Carolina."
"When I handed it to the lady, I watched her eyes and they immediately went right to the bottom of the page and the word Jesus," he told FOX News Radio. "She said 'We would prefer that you not use the name Jesus. We have some people here that can be offended.'"
When Baity protested, she brought the matter to the attention of House Speaker Joe Hackney.
"I told her I was highly offended when she asked me not to pray in the name of Jesus because that does constitute my faith," Baity said. "My faith requires that I pray in His name. The Bible is very clear."
When the clerk returned, Baity said he was told that he would be allowed to deliver the day’s prayer – but after that – his services would no longer be needed.
I would be very, very interested to know if a Muslim Imam has ever been asked to deliver a prayer in front of the NC state House, and if he was, whether or not Democrats dared throw him out for invoking the name of Mohammed in his prayers.
I suspect that like easily offended Democrats everywhere, Hackney and his fellow Tarheel liberals are being very selective in how they enforce rules regarding prayer. It would also be very interesting to know if Democrat demands for the pastor to alter his prayer are grounds for a First Amendment inquiry.
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Luv your tagline "Because liberalism is a persistent vegatative state." Also, luv your blog title "Confederate Yankee" because it brings me back to so many moons ago to when I was a kid from New York trying to get by as a Citadel cadet.
May you live long and prosper.
http://libertyatstake.blogspot.com/
[For a light hearted take on our present peril]
Posted by: LibertyAtStake at July 09, 2010 07:42 PM (PmNi0)
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Lets hope and "PRAY" that democrats keep making complete asses out of themselves. Every time they do they insult that 70% of americans that just don't like what is going on in our country.
Posted by: mixitup at July 09, 2010 08:34 PM (Z21cb)
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Curious how odd old and irrelevant artifacts can provide immense amusement in times like this. Like this:
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
Free exercise thereof. Wonder what the hell that means?
Anyway, I'm glad the lawmakers stopped this nazi from imposing his views upon the helpless representatives of state hierarchy. One must keep in mind our Constitutional Freedom from Religion, as expressed in the First Amendment: "Congress shall prohibit the expression of any religion, speech act, or artifact of faith and belief, unless the said faith is an officially designated and privileged minoritarian entity as determined by the progressive institution."
Posted by: Multitude at July 09, 2010 11:46 PM (7r7wy)
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Sounds about right for the current regime:
Ask a Christian Pastor -- a Baptist, no less -- to give a prayer, then castigate him for being true to his roots.
Will wonders never cease? No, they won't.
Goatroper
Posted by: OldFastDave at July 09, 2010 11:49 PM (l0xOh)
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Crazy! It's almost like there's some sort of law against government supporting specific religions!
Posted by: salvage at July 10, 2010 09:08 AM (NPk3P)
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"It's almost like there's some sort of law against government supporting specific religions!"
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Yeah, only there isn't. There is the 1st Amendment which states that "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; ..." Nothing in there about government supporting (or not supporting) specific religions. Government is free to support any religion it wants, just so long as it does not "establish" a specific religion to be the national religion.
A pastor talking about Jesus has nothing to do with Congress "[making] law respecting an establishment of religion", no matter what liberals try to say to the contrary.
Posted by: Michael in MI at July 10, 2010 12:45 PM (ObTcs)
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I have no problem with this happening. As a resident of the Raleigh area who is conservative and whose family are members of Temple Beth Shalom in Cary, I have no issue with him being asked not to pray in Jesus name. It happens all the time in Boy Scouts for instance, as the boys in our troop are of many different faiths and by simply praying to God, everyone is included and no one is offended. We have never had an issue with a member of the clergy being offended or refusing. They are quite happy to minister to the spiritual needs of the entire troop. Reverend Baity should have done the same.
Posted by: jhp2 at July 10, 2010 08:50 PM (DCqCM)
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Wow Michael in MI, that was an amazing example of looking at black and declaring it white. I'm not sure where you picked up this talent for being exactly wrong but it's quite amazing.
I'm afraid the law is clear, the government cannot pick one sky god over another and praying to Jesus on government time in a government building would be doing just that, even if they're not making a law.
Keep your silly god in your silly hearts and minds and out of government where reality needs to be dealt with.
Posted by: salvage at July 11, 2010 12:26 PM (NPk3P)
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Any Christian who does not pray in Jesus name should check their standing with the Lord. Pastor Baity did the right thing, and I am grateful their are still men willing to put Jesus before self or mob mentality, even if it means losing something here on earth.
"God" does not mean the same thing to everyone.
Posted by: Amazed at July 11, 2010 12:28 PM (9BRW9)
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"...grateful there are still men willing to put Jesus before self or mob mentality...", should have checked my spelling when I was given the chance to. . .
Posted by: Amazed at July 11, 2010 12:38 PM (9BRW9)
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"I'm afraid the law is clear,..."
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Yes, the law is so clear that our money has "In God We Trust" on it, our oaths have "so help me God" in them and all elected officials take their oaths with their hands placed on the Bible.
But, of course "the law is clear" when it comes to a pastor invoking Jesus name. Riiiiight.
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Hayes Rips AG Holder, Calls For His Resignation
I don't recall how I got on Illinois Second District Isaac Hayes (R) mailing list, but man, he isn't pull any punches in this release, calling for U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to resign:
CHICAGO: Republican nominee for Illinois 2nd Congressional District Isaac Hayes released the following statement calling for Attorney General Eric Holder to resign after failure to prosecute the New Black Panther Party for voter intimidation during the 2008 election.
"The Justice Department's refusal to prosecute the terrorist actions of the New Black Panther Party for its 2008 intimidation and threatening vitriol outside a Philadelphia polling place is criminal affirmative action. This selective justice paradigm was exposed during the testimony of J. Christian Adams – a former U.S. Prosecutor assigned to the Civil Rights Division, Voting Section, before the U.S. Civil Rights Commission – who testified he was told 'cases are not going to be brought against Black defendants for the benefit of White victims.'
"Attorney General Eric Holder has historically taken a partial approach to justice. It was in 2001 that he spearheaded the pardon of Marc Rich, a billionaire financier who had fled the country rather than face federal tax evasion charges.
"Mr. Holder was in full support of reading the Christmas Day bomber, Umar Farouk Abdumutullab, Miranda rights reserved for U.S. Citizens. He also supported the trying of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, 9-11 mastermind, as he would a shoplifter in an American courtroom instead of a military tribunal.
"In addition, Mr. Holder played the race card against Arizonans who are living under the constant threat of violence and kidnapping from illegal aliens who openly cross the U.S.-Mexico border. His charges of racism were not based on fact or substantive evidence because he admitted to not having read the bill. Sadly, his accusations were based on a philosophy that desires to 'create fairness and balance' by selectively picking winners and losers. From Mr. Adam's testimony the losers are White Americans.
"As a Black American I have experienced racism and prejudice. Hatred and violence directed toward any group is unacceptable and un-American. Racism should never be tolerated indiscriminate of who initiates it. Regrettably, the Department of Justice has engaged in an act of injustice by initiating racism of its own.
"I call on Attorney General Holder to step down because I no longer have confidence in his ability to be fair and impartial. Furthermore, his worldview that protects terrorists and criminals at the expense of U.S. citizens is in direct violation of his Constitutional oath to 'support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.'"
Eric Holder, Attorney General for Barack Obama, is racist, unfair, and breaching his oath of office?
Surely, you cant' be serious, Mr. Hayes.
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Shaft!
Right on.
A-hem.
The AT has a good bio of Reverend Hayes.
Of course, the blithering race-pimp buffoons which infest the Left have labeled the good reverend an 'uncle tom' and a 'sellout' for his refusal to toil upon the liberal plantation.
Good luck to Rev. Hayes, and his bid for office, but we all know that Holder is sticking with the Obama 'payback' game plan of intolerance, plunder, and deception.
Apparently, that is a job requirement for this administration.
Posted by: locomotivebreath1901 at July 09, 2010 04:18 PM (RWpbr)
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God bless you Mr. Hayes. I hope that the silent majority of black voters raise their voices as you have to rid our nation of this political hack. He does not know the meaning of the word justice. He has been on the wrong side of almost every important issue to the American people. Try for just one minute to reverse the color of this DOJ and the new black panther thugs in Pa wearing hoods instead of black leather and see what would happen.
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