Glenn Reynolds notes this post on PointOfLaw.com where the author speculates that the Obama Justice Department might be targeting the gun industry. I can't say that would be very much of a surprise.
President Obama lied about the number of American weapons flowing into Mexico, but the facts undermined his case before he could use his doctored numbers to push for gun laws. He appointed a "wise latina" who believes cities and states can overrule the Second Amendment to the Supreme Court. And long before he had name recognition outside of Illinois, Obama was a director of the anti-gun Joyce Foundation as the funneled millions to anti-gun groups and attempted to subvert academic scholarship in hope of destroying the Second Amendment.
Time and again, Barack Obama has proven to be a radical ideologue with no problem using unethical means to further his agenda. That he would use his political power to aim his Justice Department at executives in the firearms industry and attempt to decapitate it from the top-down should hardly be surprising.
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Already mortally wounded, the Democrats slit their own throats.
Posted by: democratsarefascists at January 21, 2010 03:12 PM (GdalM)
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Keep it up Barry! You're doing a great job. There's prob'ly 10% of the U.S. population that you haven't pissed off yet!! It may not be long before his own party starts calling for his resignation.
Posted by: diogenes online at January 21, 2010 06:32 PM (Uapqz)
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According to the DOJ release, very few of the people who were arrested were involved with 'guns.'
Most were (apparently) into body-armor, accessories, and/or larger small-arms (like grenade launchers, machine guns, etc.)
Posted by: dad29 at January 22, 2010 09:11 AM (FpqNl)
...but isn't it hard to shoot a jump shot when your hood keeps slipping down over your eyes?
I can see it now:
"What are you going to do tonight, Timmy?"
"I don't know, Billy. Maybe watch some basketball at the Civic Center. I hear the Grand Wizards are playing the Cross Blazers."
Jeez...
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Don't you feel this represents the backlash at Obama and his racism?
Posted by: David at January 20, 2010 02:23 PM (dccG2)
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Wow, after following the link and reading the article, unless I am missing something, this post stinks! Sorry but way beneath you! Just because people want to start their own anything, as long as they are not hurting anyone else they have a constitutional right to. Every other group can but no whites allowed! Not Whites because then they are haters and clansmen... I will be glad when this period of our history is over!
Posted by: ken at January 20, 2010 04:21 PM (u0FmQ)
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ken, I never suggested they didn't have a constitutional right to form this league, but just as they have a right to form it, I have a constitutional right to mock it.
The founders of this monstrosity obviously consider their own "whiteness" as a handicap to playing the game in an open league, and I would find any such racially-oriented sports league ripe for mockery, whether it is a whites-only basketball league, a blacks-only hockey league, or something else equally absurd.
David, I think you're really reaching here, and fail to see any correlation.
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I think I am with Ken, easily, on this one. I have quit sports because of the bad image that has come to it, and as it has implemented reverse racial preferences, there might be a connection between to two. It prefers blacks, and I don't believe that is based on skill, but has resulted from a backdoor created by academics to get more blacks into college. I might actually go watch sports again if they cleaned up a lot, and going white might actually do that.
Your remarks are as offensive as anything I have heard from the left about whites, or anyone it doesn't like, in a long time. But, hey, it's your blog. You can shoot off to the left whenever you want.
Posted by: Doom at January 21, 2010 01:52 AM (mvCvZ)
Posted by: Jay Tea at January 21, 2010 11:47 AM (mwYjr)
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We already have ethnic basketball. It's in the Summer Olympics. Some teams are all white, others all yellow or all brown, with a bunch of showboating multi-millionaires from America for bad examples.
The turnoffs for me in sports are the glorified thug culture that is now brought on court and on the field, the lack of sportsmanship, the massive egos allowed to strut and preen before the cameras, the obscene cash paid for entertainers, and the broken bodies and lives of the thousands who never made it to payday but who made it their life plan.
Teh funny here is trying to start a white basketball league in Augusta, GA. To borrow what Dr. Cornel West, keynote speaker on MLK Day at Ebenezer Baptist Church said: "you're in 'Chocolate A-town', not Atlanta (Augusta).".
Posted by: twolaneflash at January 21, 2010 11:56 AM (svkhS)
You do, of course. But calling them the KKK does not really constitute mockery. If they start lynching blacks I'll be there with you. So far, this seems like much ado about nothing.
Posted by: Jon at January 21, 2010 12:22 PM (Jd2qs)
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Two Lane Flash said
The turnoffs for me in sports are the glorified thug culture that is now brought on court and on the field, the lack of sportsmanship, the massive egos allowed to strut and preen before the cameras, the obscene cash paid for entertainers, and the broken bodies and lives of the thousands who never made it to payday but who made it their life plan.
Sort of like Boo Weekly doing the "Bull Dance" at the Ryder Cup?
Posted by: pat of wheaton at January 21, 2010 01:48 PM (gkX/Q)
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I laugh just thinking about people who would go watch this. "I love basketball, I just hate it when they showboat and act rude to each other." Because there's no fighting in hockey.
We already have a basketball league with lots of passing and layups and no dunking: the WNBA. How are they doing lately?
Also, am I the only one who immediately thought of the SNL sketch with Michael Jordan as the first black Harlem Globetrotter?
Posted by: Evan at January 21, 2010 02:47 PM (U0pUw)
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Do you make the same kind of statements about other events, such as the Miss Black America pageant? IF not, then you remind me a hypocrite, sir.
Posted by: REB in Raleigh at January 21, 2010 08:17 PM (K78C6)
Or, and even funnier that the pageant, all black schools! Why aren't you attacking these bastions of idiocy. If white men can't jump, what can't black men do? Hint: it regards academics... What a gas. Oh, and are you really saying Larry Bird couldn't slam dunk a ball? I think my illustration is far superior.
Posted by: Doom at January 21, 2010 09:31 PM (mvCvZ)
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So is the NFL racist for requiring that teams interview minorities for coaching positions?
Posted by: Veeshir at January 22, 2010 09:33 AM (xmnp0)
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Congressional Black Caucus: No non-blacks allowed. Any snarky post on that in your archives?
Ken is quite right. Comparing this to the KKK is outrageous.
Posted by: feeblemind at January 23, 2010 09:40 AM (yNNv2)
The more I think about the manufactured outrage I see in the press over this, the more upset I get.
Trijicon has been putting references to Bible verses on their products for at least two decades, well prior to elements of the U.S. military falling in love with the ACOG and Reflex optics as COTS (Commercial Off the Shelf) optics that excel at giving our soldier the ability to find, identify, and differentiate potential targets from innocent civilians, quickly and at range.
Trijicon did not, as some ignorant or malicious journalists implied, slip some sort of crusading reference into their products once they had military contracts. No they continued to sell the exact same product they sold when American soldiers took ACOGs to war for the first time in Panama, and in conflicts around the world since then. And because these optics were COTS, we, as taxpayers, didn't pay millions or billions of development costs, either.
The references to the verses only became a "problem" when angry atheists blatantly lied and said that the standard references to scripture passages on Trijicon's products—all of which play off of the word "light," appropriately enough for optics products—somehow broke the military ban on proselytizing in the military.
If anyone honestly thinks that tiny print passively notated on the side of a military weapon's sight is equivalent to exhorting people to convert, then they need their tiny minds examined.
The entire issue seems to stem from a group that seems to be under the mistaken impression that freedom of religion should be rewritten to be freedom from religion, and all aspects of religion at that.
I agree with the theory that the military is not in the business of evangelism by force, and do not think that the military should actively promote any particular religion beyond making it possible for practitioners of various religious faiths toexercise their right to worship as they please.
But a soldier's right to practice religion—or right to practice no religion at all—does not mean he should expect others to force their faith underground. That in and of itself is anti-religious bigotry, and the military should not be forced into recognizing anti-religious soldiers as more equal than religious ones.
There is nothing wrong with faith on the battlefield as long as the practice of that faith doesn't extend to proselytizing.
A Muslim soldier that complained about the ACOG's in his unit seemed to be using the ACOG as a scapegoat for the alleged proselytizing behavior of a non-commissioned officer in his unit, and if his complaint was focused on the noncom's behavior alone, he would have what appears to be a decent case of exactly the kind of behavior the military does not want to allow.
But to claim a static piece of military equipment is capable of evangelizing is asinine by any logical measure.
ACOGs in particular give American soldiers and Marines the ability to magnify their view and quickly and accurately discern possible friend from foe, using the Bindon Aiming Concept.
Small-minded "me too" detractors think themselves quite witty as they mockingly assert claims of "Who would Jesus shoot?" but they miss the reality of the situation entirely.
The undeniable fact is that Trijicon optics that the fashionably anti-religious like to mock happens to be a technology that enables our soldiers a better view of the chaotic urban battlefield. It provides them with better target discrimination, and enables them to more easily tell the innocent from the enemy. These sights also serve (quite obviously, one would think) to help our soldiers put more accurate shots downrange, meaning a lower volume of overall rounds expended. Both of these factors mean that these optics help save the lives of innocents downrange.
Somehow, I think Jesus would approve of that.
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One could only hope that, should this lone jerk prevail and the military stops buying and using this product, the turkey would be forced into a situation where whatever inferior product used to replace it caused significant harm to him.
Not to wish ill upon someone, but some people just don't seem to understand when they should keep their traps shut, and have to learn the hard way.
Unfortunately, he will probably not be the one to pay the price.
Posted by: Carlos at January 20, 2010 01:33 PM (E+dz4)
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When I was in basic training, everyone looked forward to Sundays when you could attend religious services, if for nothing more than a change of pace from the routine and to get out of cleaning the bay.
A lot of guys tried out all of the different services available even if just to see what services were like in different religions and denominations.
The ONLY service where the chaplain attempted to proselytize was the Islamic service. The entire service consisted of the imam reading passages from the Koran, claiming that it was proof that Islam was true, and then would ask who was ready to become a Muslim. Read some more, claim truth, ask for converts. Again. Again.
Posted by: SPC Jack Klompus at January 20, 2010 04:44 PM (3RiKk)
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As was once said "...there are no atheists in foxholes...".
I don't think that any of our warriors care a lick what is printed on a tool that quite possibly will save many lives.
God Bless and keep up the good work.
Posted by: Rubber Ducky at January 20, 2010 09:14 PM (INiC5)
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The Muslim whiner should simply remove the scope from his rifle and use the iron sights.
Posted by: Purple Avenger at January 20, 2010 10:21 PM (ZURno)
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Wow. I always wondered what a whacko website was like. Now I know.
Posted by: billyjeff2 at January 21, 2010 03:17 PM (oSed/)
Posted by: brando at January 24, 2010 10:02 AM (IPGju)
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Well, now we are sure. There is one religion that is above all others. It is Islam, in case you are an idiot and can't count to two. Everything that offense a muslim is bad. Everything that offense a Christian is good. Must not offend. That jerk at fort hood was prosceletizing, and nobody said a word. Double standard anybody????
Posted by: TimothyJ at January 24, 2010 09:11 PM (IKKIf)
ABC Raids Message Boards to ‘Break’ a Decades-Old Story
Calling the staff of the ABC News blog The Blotter "journalists" is to insult those that actually do journalism.
Let us call them what they are: message board trolling stenographers of liberal orthodoxy and manufactured outrage.
That it appears they additionally stole content from these same message boards and claimed it as their own merely means that in addition to being intellectually lazy, they are likely guilty of content theft as well.
I spoke with a highly-placed media executive yesterday via email, who says that the international news organization he works for would have taken ABC's content theft very seriously.
One can hope that ABC will treat this suspected content theft with seriousness even if they avoid commenting on the shoddy work of Brian Ross and his team.
Or do they even pretend to have standards any more?
The U.S. Geological Survey says the preliminary 6.1 magnitude quake hit at 6:03 a.m. (1103 GMT) Wednesday about 35 miles northwest of the capital of Port-au-Prince.
It says the quake struck at a depth of 13.7 miles.
AP reporters in the Haitian capital say the temblor sent scores of people fleeing into the streets.
The only possible upsides to this is that rescue teams and relief supplies are already on-hand, and that so many buildings were destroyed in last weeks quake that there simply aren't very many more occupied structures left to collapse.
For all intents and purposes, Haiti is no more.
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The USGS's live earthquake tracker has detailed data including an exact lat-long position. It's 20-odd miles almost due west of the Jan 12th quake's epicenter.
I don't want to think about what's going to happen there now.
Posted by: wolfwalker at January 20, 2010 07:30 AM (hypy8)
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You are correct, Haiti is not going to be anything like the rescue, recovery and aide missions of the recent past.
This is far worse than the Boxing Day Tsunami. In that event those areas destroyed were prosperous parts of otherwise functional states, and their residents had vested interests in seeing their lands and their society restored. In Haiti there is little to nothing worth rebuilding, it literally will require building anew. Hundreds of thousands, if not millions are going to be displaced for an extended period of time, and whatever comes, it will not remotely resemble what was.
So at some point in the near future it does make sense that someone needs to decide what the goals and endpoints of the reconstruction will be. It seems we, and everyone else, are merely rushing in, following the same old template. Which is a path that will lead to an even greater disaster in the near future should we 'succeed' in re-creating the failed state that was Haiti all anew.
Posted by: ThomasD at January 20, 2010 10:38 AM (21H5U)
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It's not PC, but I say let the French have it back.
Posted by: ECM at January 20, 2010 04:29 PM (nYKDd)
Posted by: twolaneflash at January 19, 2010 10:06 PM (svkhS)
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"Did the Democrats lose because they were too liberal or not liberal enough?"
HOLY CRAP. Just when I think Olberpuss can't be more out of touch ...
Posted by: Mass4Brown at January 19, 2010 10:13 PM (Fwfj9)
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"How do those teabags taste?" Used Teabags,twice used teabags for olberdouche. Maybe some used while out in the woods for purposes other than making tea.
Posted by: Scrapiron at January 19, 2010 10:24 PM (eXdIs)
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Va, NJ, and my god, Mass. Now for chuckles Chuckie and Bwaney Frank.
Posted by: Scrapiron at January 19, 2010 10:26 PM (eXdIs)
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The takehome lesson here is that it's far better to be a teabagger than a teabagee.
Posted by: Jon at January 19, 2010 10:41 PM (U97gx)
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I agree. It is time we embrace the "tea-bag" and point out that, tonight, the left just got tea-bagged. That smell on your nose is the smell of victory - my teabagging victory.
Posted by: JDW at January 19, 2010 11:04 PM (L+u9U)
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Thanks Massachusetts. Let's not forget that complete pack in Washington needs to be replaced. This is no longer Republican or Democrat it is a complete house cleaning come mid term election. We will be cleaning in Georgia. No raise in S/S but they did manage to vote them selves a raise. Boils my blood every time I think about it. Now all we need is term limits and we will be good to go.
Posted by: Hoyt at January 20, 2010 05:52 AM (w48t9)
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It's always satisfying to watch liberals caught in their own web of deceit. America continues to rise up against the Obamanistas!! They can dish it out but they can't take it!!! umm umm umm Time for a complete purging of the Whitehouse, Congress, and Senate!! Massachusetts is only the beginning of our
conservative revolution to get our country back from these thugs.
Posted by: victory for america at January 20, 2010 10:19 AM (5Ezjm)
Did ABC News swipe photos from an internet forum and claim them as their own?
While working on an article about the latest sub-par hit pieceinvestigative report from Brian Ross and his team at ABC News blog The Blotter, I ran across an accompanying slideshow of Trijicon weapons sights, which started out with these two captioned images.
Both photos are clearly credited to ABC News.
Interestingly enough, these two images appeared on the Pennsylvania Firearms Owners Association (POFOA) forum a week ago... and they weren't the original source, either.
How do we know these came from images of the same optics?
The ACOG on the PAFOA sight is clearly the same one claimed by ABC News, with very distinctive scuff marks on the body of the scope tube.
The Reflex sight on the PAFOA sight is also clearly the same one claimed by ABC News, with a small dimple to the left of the NSN number.
So which is it?
Did the PAFOA contributor acquire a copy of ABC's images early,or did ABC claim images that came from another, earlier source?
Does ABC need to next investigate EX20:15?
they took a non story (whats on the site) and managed to make a story out of it through thier own laziness and stupidity if they lifted these photos.
Posted by: rumcrook™ at January 19, 2010 09:54 AM (60WiD)
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As I just pointed out at another forum, read the 1st Amendment; "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."
So the first question, Did Congress or any agent of the federal government order these inscriptions? No.
The second question is, "Is this a legitimate free expression?" Yes.
The proper response then, is to tell ABC to go forth and multiply with themselves.
Can the government order that no scriptural references be inscribed on anything purchased by the government? Perhaps but Trijicon uses scriptural references as part numbers and revision control. Can the government really control that?
Posted by: Jerry in Detroit at January 19, 2010 09:57 AM (jsQBo)
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So what. The manufacturers are a private company and can determine their own serial numbers. As one said earlier, it's a non-story.
Posted by: Dave at January 19, 2010 10:46 AM (vWP0n)
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This ranks up there with the time Disney was accused of drawing erotic pictures in the clouds. The numbers and letters don't make sense to anyone but those doing the writing.
I know a few soldiers with religious tats. Does that mean that don't go over?
Posted by: David at January 19, 2010 11:06 AM (dccG2)
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I had an ACOG for 7 months, and I didn't even notice that. I wrote down all the numbers for my manifest sheet, and moved on.
This makes it about 150% cooler. I think I kept some of my old paperwork. Now I want to see what my particular Bible verse was.
Posted by: brando at January 19, 2010 02:22 PM (IPGju)
Good work on this. Why do they always try to make themselves so much more important, and the stories so much more inflammatory than they truly are? What narcissists! Look at me! Look at me!! I'm so great, aren't I?
The press is the biggest bunch of losers I've ever seen.
Subsunk
Posted by: Subsunk at January 19, 2010 03:20 PM (I/rTP)
A significant number of people refuse to even register for news and opinion that they kind find elsewhere online with no strings attached. News is close to being public domain these days with exclusives becoming widely disseminated blog fodder within minutes, which means charging for the reporting of the Times is a non-starter, as they will simply be bypassed for free content and commentary.
Does the Times honestly think that their stable of Op-ed writers is sufficiently loved and admired enough for people to fork over their hard-earned dollars for them in enough numbers to offset the decrease in advertising eyeballs they will get when non-subscribers go elsewhere for equally competent writing?
I'm sure the Times likes to think that they are special and the cream of the crop, but the simple fact of the matter is that there is no shortage of pundits that write just as well, and many have far more interesting perspectives than the often formulaic missives being offered up by the Old Grey Lady.
The Times apparently thinks of itself as a super-premium product. One can only wonder how long it will be before they realize they are not nearly as special as they think.
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I've heard rumors its linked to the apple tablet announcement next week? That would make sense to me, if they were starting some kind of subscription model that way...
people are already paying for 99c to several dollars to read information on iphones that's already available for free, why not charge more (suckers!) put it on a bigger screen?
Posted by: John at January 18, 2010 12:33 PM (iV3C0)
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How long? Never. Arrogance and narcissism, particularly when combined with a politics that resembles fundamentalist religious extremism, can never admit error, let alone failure. The NYT will slip beneath the waves still screaming in futile rage at the ignorant little people who aren't smart enough to understand their own interests, as expressed by their betters at the Times.
Posted by: mikemcdaniel at January 18, 2010 06:06 PM (qjRSd)
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When a link sends me to the NYT, I generally don't read the article. I see no point to reading anything in the NYT as what they say leaves me knowing less, not more.
Paper of record my ass.
Posted by: Jack at January 18, 2010 07:28 PM (bvDV5)
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Last time around, with Times Select, they shot themselves in the foot... by offering the service gratis to their largest audience - the college/university crowd. Once TS became available at no cost to academia, subscriptions began dropping.
Back in '88 I paid $9/hour to read NYT online, text-only, as it was a better bargain than messing with the dead-tree version - and had more content as well. The good part about Times Select was access to the archives... the Times goes back to the 1860s - it is really useful for a lot of research, but only if fees are reasonable. Right now the paywall for online archival access is prohibitively expensive.
Good content comes at some price. The free Internet model is ending, not that it ever was actually no-cost... somewhere, someone is paying. IMHO the big mistake for NYT, Washington Post, others was to be no-cost from the start - a paid model such as WSJ or ConsumerReports or WeatherTAP has always made more sense.
That said, the last NYT columnist I regularly read was Safire. The others range from ludicrous to idiotic (mostly the latter).
(Note: this blog's comment screening doesn't like a word starting with fr and ending with ee... thus several no-costs above)
Posted by: wpw at January 18, 2010 07:58 PM (9OLSg)
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Well, the Grey Lady will learn before the public ed kids learn (that they really aren't special), if that is any help. The kids will learn too, in time, when they eventually have to, ugh, work for a living and they find out their boss doesn't think they are special nor care if they are, he simply wants more for his money than their paychecks show. It's going to hurt, well them. I enjoy reality moments myself (even my own). Ha!
Ouch... that had to hurt...
Posted by: Doom at January 18, 2010 08:08 PM (mvCvZ)
Posted by: Neo at January 19, 2010 12:55 PM (tE8FB)
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Neo wrote, "Oh .. please put Krugman behind a wall."
I believe that's the whole point. The one lesson they learned from "Times Select" was that non-subscribers would not pay to read their columnists online.
The lesson they've learned since is that they're better off when non-subscribers can't read their columnists. Those peeks into elitist liberal group-think are inspiring too much incredulous laughter in the hoi polloi.
Posted by: Looking Glass at January 19, 2010 07:27 PM (4nPBL)
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The phrase "Something is only worth what someone else wants to pay for it" comes to mind here. I guess we will find out what the New York Times is worth by how much people will pay for it.
The good news is that it is like other products. If it is more than someone wants to pay for it, then they will look around for a similar product at a lower price. They will start looking at other Web news and might stumble on some of the conservative sites. When they start reading what is really going on in our government they might realize they have been reading the wrong stuff.
Posted by: Smorgasbord at January 20, 2010 12:51 AM (m6qLS)
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It is important to note that anything a liberal creates fails. Air America is broke and gone.
New York Times going down in liberal/communist flames. Too many to list yet they are all gone, except of course we still have moveon.org. How long can they hang on? When you are built on lies, deception, etc. it is always a matter of time.
Posted by: Liberals be gone!! at January 20, 2010 10:27 AM (5Ezjm)
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Now if the NYT was willing to PAY me to read their product,I might consider using some of my time to look over what they're offering..but lay out my hard won dollars....??...I don't think so.
Posted by: firefirefire at January 21, 2010 07:28 AM (tbYJ7)
While most of the others (perhaps spurred by Drudge )are focusing on this Hotline article because Rep. Patrick Kennedy apparently thinks that the dismal candidate he was campaigning for is "Marcia" or perhaps "Marsha" Coakley, I was more interested in the fact that Democrats keeping repeating the same excuse for their unpopularity:
As audience members streamed out of Pres. Obama's rally on behalf of AG Martha Coakley (D) here tonight, the consensus was that the fault for Coakley's now-floundering MA SEN bid lies with one person -- George W. Bush.
"People are upset because there's so many problems," Rosemary Kverek, 70, a retired Charleston schoolteacher said as tonight's rally wrapped up. "But the problems came from the previous administration. So we're blaming poor Obama, who's working 36 hours a day ... to solve these problems that he inherited."
Patrick "I don't know who I'm campaigning for" Kennedy echoed the same sentiments.
Do these people, and Democrats in general, really think that people are so angry with a Democrat-controlled federal government because of what the last President did, a year after he left office? If so, they are simply not paying attention.
Americans know that the previous administration made mistakes and they do hold them accountable for those, but we are angry with our President, his cronies, and Congress because of what they have done to forward a radical, financially irresponsible agenda over the past year.
Democrats aren't being held to account for Bush's mistakes. They're being held to account for their own arrogance and ineptitude. If they continue to fail to deal with that inconvenient truth, they'll see every future candidate become a bewildered Coakley, losing elections without ever understanding why.
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Back in 2006, when the Dems took over Congress, the economy was still in pretty good shape. If Obama has inherited problems, then he's inherited a lot of them from his own party.
Posted by: flenser at January 18, 2010 10:48 AM (l5qYS)
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this isnt surprising, democrats in general are conniving victim thieves, in other words they are
PREDATORS WHO HAVE CONVINCINGLY LEARNED TO LOOK LIKE THEY ARE THE PREY
so everything will allways be someone elses fault and they will allways be intitled to steal taxpayers money in the name of fairness, and they will be dangerous election stealing undemocratic thugs but will conveniently PROJECT that onto the "other"
Posted by: rumcrook™ at January 18, 2010 11:54 AM (60WiD)
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Good. I hope they keep blaming W until they lose the house and Senate next Nov.
Posted by: maxx at January 18, 2010 04:56 PM (bFNvP)
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This statement can be turned around by someone who is thinking. If asked, I would say, sure Bush did bad with the economy and housing. Thus putting the blame squarely on the government for the current mess we are in and taking away Obama's talking points that the banks are so bad and need to be socialized. Then I would ask the Dems why they haven't concentrated their efforts on helping us out from under the worst economic crisis the US has ever faced. Instead, they have spent all their efforts on health care that no one wants, cap and trade that no one wants, climate that no one really cares about, and their stimulus that only put money in the pockets of their friends and not in the US. In addition, they have exculated the war and taken on more debt than we will ever be able to pay. So why don't they work more on the "damage" that the evil Bush did?
For the record, I think that Bush was actually a liberal.
Posted by: David at January 18, 2010 05:00 PM (VpBDM)
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Flenser: I agree. The Dems have controlled the purse strings since 2006.
Ii is criminal negligence that the Republicans do not use this at every opportunity.
If McCain had used this he might well have mitigated some of the anger towards Republicans over the economy.
Posted by: davod at January 18, 2010 07:06 PM (GUZAT)
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"Poor Obama" is working 36 hours a day? Is that why he has every third day free for partying? The man is seen everywhere but at his desk. Not that that's a bad thing.
Posted by: Nellie at January 19, 2010 10:16 PM (fBhcn)
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Has an ex-president ever had as much power as George Bush does? He must be some kind of guy!!!
Posted by: Smorgasbord at January 20, 2010 12:59 AM (m6qLS)
Just in case you haven't been paying attention for oh, your entire life, our media operates by creating fears, and then compelling you to tune in/buy a copy/listen to the next segment so that you can find the solution (and they can sell more advertising). That truth applies to the national media you likely despise, and the local newsmen and women you've come to " and trust."
A wonderful example of selling fear is the story of the so-called "Berea Sniper." Someone has been shooting at cars in this Ohio town since this past August. No one has been injured by the shooter, who police said is using a weapon that is "something in between" a BB gun and an assault rifle.
Well they have a suspect in custody now.
Check out what passes for a sniper's weapon in this day and age.
No, that isn't the wrong photo.
The suspect, Paul Hausmann, has been tooling around this Cleveland suburb plinking and his fellow citizens with a .22-caliber replica of an old cowboy six-gun.
But a story a story about what is essentially vandalism—even vandalism with a firearm—doesn't get the local chiropractor and car dealer to buy advertising. Heavily hyped stories that sell fear keep our local Ron Burgundy wannabes paid. We live in an age where any crank with any sort of a firearm (even BB guns) is a "sniper," because hyping fear is what sells advertising.
The truth only matters if it pays.
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Somewhere between an assult rifle and a BB gun, eh? Talk about covering some ground.
I don't belong to some sort of crime lab but I have been around guns all my life. It's not that hard to tell the differnce between the damage done by a BB and that done by a bullet. I mean, I'm just saying.
Posted by: Tom Usher at January 16, 2010 06:48 PM (OiuZg)
Posted by: mockmook at January 16, 2010 07:24 PM (5ssRl)
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And newspapers and the media in general wonders why it is going under? As more people own guns, the worse the media looks. They become laughable and so unworthy of purchase. How many jobs have been lost or destroyed in those industries just because of Obama? How many more because of irresponsible gun coverage? Though those two might be linked. Depends on how far into statistical data one wishes to go I suppose.
Anywho, let them keep telling us about the big bad gun as millions get into shooting and pass it on (and defend against this type of smearing). I suppose we can bankrupt them down to single men prints. That's not all bad either, think of the trees created or saved by a vast reduction in print! Grrhahahaha
Posted by: Doom at January 16, 2010 11:33 PM (7zf2G)
and so can a thrown rock. Which has absolutely nothing to do with the hysterical and uninformed coverage of the media by this incident. Your poorly disguised attempt to excuse their incompetence just shows you up as equally ridiculous.
Posted by: iconoclast at January 17, 2010 04:43 PM (J6H9A)
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Iconoclast, I don't believe Mockmook was trying to excuse the incompetence of the media, rather it seemed He was pointing out that the behavior of the Suspect was closer to Reckless Endangerment/Attempted Murder than vandalism. At least that is how I read his comment.
Posted by: Jeremy at January 17, 2010 07:35 PM (zWK3g)
While it is fashionable (and correct) to slam Pat Robertson for his idiotic comment that the Haitian earthquake was because of a rumored pact made with the Devil hundreds of years ago, why aren't more people mocking this moronic actor for claiming that global warming was responsible?
What's next, Sheryl Crow insisting that it would have been a less powerful quake if Haitians had used less toilet paper?
Posted by: Dan Irving at January 15, 2010 11:46 AM (zw8QA)
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I'll tell you the God's honest truth. If you say a negative word about Danny Glover you'll be instantly labeled a "Raaaaacist" by a few million Libtards and nobody wants to even deal with that stupidity any more.
Posted by: Dell at January 15, 2010 11:54 AM (zlXS5)
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Frankly, Dell, I couldn't care less what the ill-educated Busybody Brigade accuses me of. I gave up on political correctness, and its nasty cousin, multiculturalism, back when I passed 75. Danny Glover is, was, and always has been an idiot, politically speaking. He lives in an alternate universe [Hollywood] which, regrettably, hasn't made one good movie in far too long a time. The writers and the producers do not believe in America as it actually is -- a truly exceptional country filled with creative, mostly kindly folks who reach out to those afflicted by natural disasters, like Haiti and its recent earthquake, every time.
As for Danny, he should give it a rest. He's becoming a boring, ill-educated and ill-intentioned old fart.
Marianne Matthews
Posted by: Marianne Matthews at January 15, 2010 12:33 PM (Aaj8s)
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This is just like how for a while the Liberal community believed that Bush created Katrina because he didn't sign Kyoto.
Then they upgraded their stupid by claiming that Dick Cheney snuck down to the levy and planted explosives to kill black people.
What a bunch of weirdos.
Whenever someone starts in on that, I try my best to calmly explain to them how wrong they are, and how they need to think a little harder. Oh well.
It's sort of funny to think that out of the cast of Lethal Weapon, Gary Busey turned out to be the most sane one.
Posted by: brando at January 15, 2010 01:08 PM (IPGju)
Posted by: Capitalist Infidel at January 15, 2010 03:24 PM (MxQFN)
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Anyone who actually READS the Bible and believes it knows that curses come on individuals, societies, and nations that worship the devil. It's cause and effect. It's frankly common sense spiritually.
If people don't believe the Bible - that's their problem. The Bible is very clear. The Haitian #1 religion is voodoo. From the biblical view, that's worship of Satan.
Therefore, Pat Robertson, as a Christian who read the Bible and knows what it says spoke the Bible telling people that the curses the Bible warns about are happening in Haiti.
Read the Bible a little more, and you'll see that in teh end times people will worship the devil by worshipping a one world government and world ruler. Then all hell will break loose making what happened in Haiti look weak.
Nonetheless, it's the same principle. The Bible CLEARLY STATES that those who worship the devil open the door to Satan and bring incredible curses upon themselves including STUPIDITY, poverty, tyranny, oppression, earthquakes, famine, wars, foreign occupation - and every calamity that one can consider until they are all killed.
That's what's going to happen at the very end of times.
Fine, if people don't believe the Bible.
However, Pat Robertson was speaking what the Bible says - and if anyone doesn't like it - that's their problem.
YOu better believe Haiti is under CURSES - the effect of those curses is clearly evident in manifestation - and now we've seen a major earthquake there. Pat Robertson told the truth. But people prefer to deny that the Bible is true. That's their problem.
Posted by: laura at January 15, 2010 05:33 PM (BrNTT)
Look, Amsterdam is overrun with whores and sodomites. They should have weekly natural disasters. You really, really, really have to work hard to ignore all the places that are both non-Christian and not struck with a natural disaster like that quake. How about Katrina? Red state, plenty of Christians in New Orleans. Why then?
Hell why hasn't the Earth swallowed Las Vegas?
I may be fuzzy, but doesn't God usually give a big warning before smiting cities? Flaming portents or what have you?
You can't have it both ways. Either God is smiting cities that don't adhere to his will, or he's not. If he's not smiting all of them, why not? Why isn't a city like Vegas, built on sin and for the purposes of sin, a smoking crater in the ground?
Or is God being capricious and snooty? Does he throw darts at a board? Is that it?
Posted by: Britt at January 15, 2010 07:32 PM (DcWbe)
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Pat Robertson's "Haitian Curse" comments were discussed yesterday on an AM radio talkshow. My understanding is that while under French rule, Haitians sacrificed pigs on church altars in an appeal to Satan to free them from the French. They were freed of the French, but Haitians came to believe that the hardships of life there were God's curse for their heresy and sacrilege. The curse is what the Haitians believe they have brought upon themselves, not what Pat Robertson wished upon them.
Posted by: twolaneflash at January 15, 2010 07:33 PM (svkhS)
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Would someone please explain to me why I should give a s__t about what anyone from hollywood or sports or the music industry thinks?
Posted by: John at January 15, 2010 08:15 PM (i2FPx)
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Couldn't have said it better myself. Even though a real idiot may not like the comparison. There are some decent hard working idiots out there........yeah, sure, OK?
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@ Laura, Your Jesus performs tricks with lepers and herds of swine, manages to get himself killed, magically rises from the dead and flies up to heaven to live with his dad(who is actually him, it all gets a bit confusing). Oh, by the way, his mom was a teenage virgin who got pregnant by a ghost(which is actually part of Jesus as well, see what I mean about getting confusing)?
You might want to step back and think about the silly load of crap you believe before you make fun of other people's religions. Just sayin'...
Posted by: Will Butler at January 16, 2010 11:27 AM (LgpMF)
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I thought that earth quakes had something to do with plates moving. When did it have anything to do with the climate?
Will, thanks, I am going to send your comment to my wife's brother who is a way out there preacher. Of course, I will get another beating, but it will be worth it.
Posted by: David at January 16, 2010 12:29 PM (VpBDM)
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@twolaneflash Robertson did not wish tragedy on Haiti. This is what he said (the first couple sentences in which he posits the theological explanation for the continuing and long term problems Haiti experiences would not post on this site, but there is nothing in it about wishing a curse or tragedy - just an explanation as to what might be the problem).
Robertson said that "ever since, they have been cursed by one thing after the other" and he contrasted Haiti with its neighbor, the Dominican Republic.
"That island of Hispaniola is one island. It is cut down the middle; on the one side is Haiti on the other is the Dominican Republic," he said. "Dominican Republic is prosperous, healthy, full of resorts, etc. Haiti is in desperate poverty. Same island. They need to have and we need to pray for them a great turning to god and out of this tragedy I'm optimistic something good may come. But right now we are helping the suffering people and the suffering is unimaginable."
Posted by: Jayne at January 16, 2010 12:33 PM (dwIL0)
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Danny Glover is an IDIOT, This administration has already defined itself- too late
But to blame global warming for this? Glover is a MORON- earthquakes and global warming have ZERO to do with each other- blame Y2K... blame El Neno, blame crop circles... aliens... L Ron Hubbard... (OK that was redundant)....
Posted by: Regular guy at January 16, 2010 12:51 PM (mTz/s)
What Jesus did was bring about the restructuring of man's relationship to man because of man's relationship to G-d, the idea that all human life is valuable - a slave was equal to a Caesar in G-d's eyes, and his true worth and salvation came from his relationship to G-d. He walked and preached among the lowly not the rulers, He taught that a tax collector could be more righteous than a religious leader depending on what was truly in each one's heart. He taught to render unto Caesar the transient things Caesar claims ownership of, but to render unto G-d a man's mind and soul. He brought Light to the world in this manner. He was tortured and killed for that, by those whose power He threatened. And He in turn is the basis of this nation's founding on the firm idea that we have inalienable rights which come from our Creator.
You might want to step back and think...before you...
Posted by: Jayne at January 16, 2010 03:07 PM (dwIL0)
The CIA World Fact book says the country is 96% Christian.
BTW, Voodoo is not a religion per se.
Posted by: Purple Avenger at January 16, 2010 04:48 PM (n4A8Z)
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@purpleavenger, it is what the people say they believe that matters. 2003 BBC report:
Last Updated: Wednesday, 30 April, 2003, 14:35
Haiti makes voodoo official
Summoning of spirits in a voodoo ceremony in Haiti
Over 90% of Haitians are said to practice voodoo
Voodoo has been practised in Haiti since the late 18th Century, but only now has it been recognised as a religion on a par with others worshipped in the country.
Haiti's Catholic President, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, took the decision earlier in April which means that voodoo ceremonies such as marriages now have equal standing with Catholic ones.
"The mixture of gods and goddesses and Catholic saints is an integral part of Haitian life - one common saying is that Haitians are 70% Catholic, 30% Protestant, and 100% voodoo.
"We've always been the majority religion in Haiti - it's never been illegal to be a voodooisant," said Mambu Racine Sumbu, an American voodoo priestess who has been practising in Haiti for 15 years"
Posted by: Jayne at January 17, 2010 12:27 AM (dwIL0)
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The BBC is a rather dubious source of credible information these days.
Posted by: Purple Avenger at January 17, 2010 12:29 PM (Knp2S)
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Jayne,
Their were several Jesus' at the time of Jesus. They all did the same thing. But look at the aftermath of Jesus' teachings. In the last two thousand years the church of someone representing the church or someone using the definitions set up by the church have killed, tortured, maimed milions of people. As cruel as the Romans were, they were definitely out classed by the Christians. I feel their may be a God, but I feel that you will never find him in religion.
Posted by: David at January 17, 2010 01:52 PM (VpBDM)
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purpleavenger: of course they are since their report doesn't jive with the source you offered. There are other media with similar stories.
David: There is only one Jesus responsible for the things I listed. Some people doing wrong while stating they are Christians proves humans are fallible, not the tenets of Christianity. And if you want to use that as a basis for refuting the religion, then you will have to offset the bad with the good that is done by people claiming to be Christian. You are just wrong about the Romans as you are about the numbers. Lastly, atheist regimes are far and away the most murderous. Stalin, Pol Pot, Hitler, Mao, etc. Thinking is better than feeling.
Posted by: Jayne at January 18, 2010 12:35 AM (dwIL0)
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jayne,
Read. Read some history of the church and religion. I note that you do not spell out the word God. Please be aware that God is not God's name so you can use it. The name that the Bible refers to that you can not say or write is not God.
Posted by: David at January 18, 2010 01:14 PM (VpBDM)
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Good point David. Pay attention now, Jayne. The name of God [our Judeo-Christian God] Cannot, of course be directly transliterated into our alphabet, but it is approximated by the name Jehovah, or Yahweh, IIRC.
Marianne Matthews
Posted by: Marianne Matthews at January 18, 2010 03:49 PM (Aaj8s)
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Danny Glover is a prime example of taking all he can from our Capitalist system, and then trashing it. Then there is Jane Fonda aka " Hanoi Jane", Harry Belafonte, The Dixie Chicks, just to name a few.
I speak on behalf of all Americans please leave our country now. We do not want you here. Freedom was never to be abused by these idiots.
PS Idiots are also handling the 100 most interesting people in America. Jane Fonda has
been put in the top 100!!! Way to go Barbara Walters!!
Posted by: Idiots Leave America Alone at January 20, 2010 10:39 AM (5Ezjm)
Unbelievable. Haitians aren't getting the help they need because the nation's already meager infrastructure was destroyed by the earthquake, and their brilliant response is to create more roadblocks? And out of the corpses of their countrymen, at that?
As Bill Whittle noted so perfectly in the essay Tribes after Hurricane Katrina, this is an issue of a mental mindset. The same mindset that has made Haiti one of the poorest and most corrupt nations in the hemisphere is the same childish, short-term gratification-focused mindset that leads people to build roadblocks when roads need to be cleared.
Their "logic"—such as it is—seems to be that if they build roadblocks, aide convoys cannot pass them by, and must stop and service them. That building such gruesome edifices only ensures that the flow of aide will slow even further, making their survival even less likely, seems to have completely escaped them.
It is heart-wrenching to watch an already pathetic nation experience such a disaster, but even more pathetic to watch them committing suicide through stupidity.
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More likely they are putting up road blocks so they can steal the aid that is in the trucks.
What I see is a lot of people sitting around doing nothing to help themselves or others.
Posted by: Jack at January 15, 2010 10:06 AM (bvDV5)
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Pathetic and disgusting, I protest the sending of our troops into this mess before law and order is established and I think we have pledged too much money to a corrupt government, I would prefer to see private charities lead the way in helping Haitians recover as they are careful in what they do and very careful in how they spend money.
I do not want one tax dollar spent on rebuilding the presidential palace, I do not want one Hatian refugee sent to Gitmo.
Posted by: duncan at January 15, 2010 11:23 AM (yYtuK)
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It's the same selfish impulse that makes Democrats Democrats.
It really is VITAL that they clear those airports faster.
It's not about money and hasn't been for a while. It's about getting aid where it's needed.
Posted by: democratsarefascists at January 15, 2010 12:07 PM (GdalM)
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Duncan ... You say you protest our sending in our troops and our aid to Haiti before "law and order" are established. Evidently, you are not in possession of the facts. Do a little research, for gosh sakes. The earthquake demolished the presidential palace there, the UN headquarters, most of any other governmental buildings. The airport is in chaos, there are no functional police forces or fire protection. Who the heck do you think is going to establish "law and order" when these vital services are missing or fatally damaged? The tooth Fairy?
American military forces, like the 82nd Airborne and the Marines, are deploying there as fast as possible. The Carl Vinson, a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier, should get there today, with 4,000/5000 trained military aboard, along with an on-board hospital and medical personnel, cooking facilities and food supplies, water desalinization equipment and, best of all, a big landing/take-off carrier deck and trained personnel, to allow entry of relief supplies, search and rescue teams and other essentials for restoration of order. We've done this before, many times, all over the world, and done a damn good job of it. Pull your socks up and get the facts before you complain.
Marianne Matthews {yes, that's my real name. What's yours?}
Posted by: Marianne Matthews at January 15, 2010 12:58 PM (Aaj8s)
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Just because it's been reported doesn't mean it's true.
Posted by: Molon Labe at January 15, 2010 01:02 PM (kYpqT)
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I guess, on some issues, we must simply agree to disagree. Though I pretty much think Darwin was an idiot, and his "science" is bunk, I do believe, fully and absolutely, in the Darwin Awards. Much like the Avatards who are on the edge of suicide, those who act in such ways or are of such fragile psyches as to be so vulnerable to lead themselves to the edge of extinction, all I can do is lend my hand in the only way I know how... *gentle push*
A fond farewell will be held by all.
Posted by: Doom at January 15, 2010 04:01 PM (7zf2G)
Posted by: gDavid at January 15, 2010 04:55 PM (JYU2R)
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Are they their own worst enemies in their selfishness and greed? To use the remains of people to seek selfishness - no respect for the dead. Using corpses as road blockades. Contemptible. These people are SICK!!! Voodoo is the #1 religion in Haiti. They are sick people without respect for the dead - if they are using corpses to block roads in order to try to force aid to their areas - with no regard (obviously) for others.
SElfishness IS short-sighted - and DOES lead to poverty.
We have that kind of evil selfishness being taught by our govt here - raising it's ugly head.
Look at Haiti. Short-sighted selfishness by a bunch of people who worship demons in an effort to gain power and wealth. Then, they can't quite see it isn't "working for them" - and they are the poorest, most oppressed and tyrannized, the most uncivilized and unintelligent people and nation in the Western Hemisphere.
Using corpses. These people are sick. They boil children in boiling water to worship demons and to try to get power for themselves. That's how "loving" of people they are. A co-worker just told me a story today of Haitians who went into Mexico, then came from Mexico to the USA smuggling heroin. They took a baby, killed the baby, gutted the baby, then packed heroin in the baby's stomache cavity, sewed up the baby - and used the corpse as a mule for heroin trying to pass the baby off as alive but sleeping.
Using corpses as road blocks?? Doesn't surprise me. These people are demented, sick, twisted as a general society. Maybe not all individuals are = but this is institutionalized sickness in this Haitian society.
Don't ask me to pity this nation like they were civilized as a society and nation. They're not.
Posted by: laura at January 15, 2010 05:25 PM (BrNTT)
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Can't wait for the arrival of the 50,000 or so Haitian "refugees" that governor Crist wants to bring to Florida.
Posted by: emdfl at January 15, 2010 05:37 PM (D0QYS)
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In 1968 the 3rd. brigade 82nd. Airborne moved to Phu Bai Vietnam with the first troopers arriving 4 days after the call up.
My question is what will be the ROE for these mostly combat vets?
Posted by: bman at January 15, 2010 05:49 PM (Bnzgl)
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I don't know, If I had gone 3 days with no food, water or sleep I would do pretty much whatever it took to procure those things for myself and my family. Would I feel guilty about it later? Maybe, but I'd be alive. These people are behaving very reasonably given the circumstances, judging them from the comfort of a warm house and sofa is just wrong.
Posted by: Will Butler at January 15, 2010 07:29 PM (LgpMF)
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Duncan,
It is what the Fleet does.............when we aren't killing the enemies of our Republic who really need it. In addition to the features listed above about Nimitz class carriers, they have the ability to turn other spaces into extra medical wards. The forward mess decks are one and in extremis, the hangar bay can be used. It is a cavernous place and with just two Seahawk helo squadrons embarked, space for such things is not an issue.
Yes Duncan, our Navy, aid to whom ever may need it.
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Glenn, I do want to help and we must send water, food, medical aid and shelter, the basic aid, I protest using our troops to bring law and order to Haiti and sending hundreds of millions of tax dollars to a small nation that has already recieved hundreds of millions of dollars with no evidence of improvement in anything, allow the private charities to help as they will not waste money or effort, as for law and order I think the Haitian civilian police force must do that, not American troops.
Posted by: duncan at January 16, 2010 01:29 PM (yYtuK)
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I protest using our troops to bring law and order to Haiti
That would make you pro-death and chaos. If we don't do it, then who will? The freaking Keebler Elves?
Posted by: Purple Avenger at January 16, 2010 04:51 PM (n4A8Z)
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I oppose death and chaos, I am not heartless I am just weary of seeing time effort and money wasted, the keebler elves are American, I want the Haitians to provide law and order and protection to all who are bringing free to them aid, is this toooooooo much to ask??? How often must we rebuild Haiti??? Why must we rebuild the presidential palace of a president who will not help his own nation??? What will happen to the American soldier who kills a haitian in self defense??? when that happens and the photo is released to the world will the haitians curse America by satan and will Obama apologize to the world??? And who gets all those millions of tax payer dollars???? I want to help but we must be so careful, I still say private charities do a better job of helping and our troops must not be used as cops, if Haiti wants our aid then Haiti must provide security.
Posted by: duncan at January 16, 2010 08:46 PM (yYtuK)
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I want the Haitians to provide law and order and protection to all who are bringing free to them aid, is this toooooooo much to ask???
The gangs are armed, the general populace, not. Your plan for them to reverse this situation in a manner acceptable to you would be precisely what?
Posted by: Purple Avenger at January 17, 2010 12:33 PM (Knp2S)
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This is what happens when a welfare state collapses. There is no one left who knows how to do anything, or has any will to work. They all just expect the handout.
Posted by: wpw at January 17, 2010 05:32 PM (9OLSg)
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Exactly wpw and that is what Obama has in mind for the USA.
Posted by: sdav at January 17, 2010 06:41 PM (y5IWb)
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"Who the heck do you think is going to establish 'law and order' when these vital services are missing or fatally damaged? The tooth Fairy?"
If Haitian society were healthy and functional, then the ordinary citizens would step up to help the police maintain order.
Consider that this sort of breakdown would not occur in Texas, where civil ties are strong and where many honest citizens are armed.
Posted by: pst314 at January 18, 2010 02:29 PM (OA547)
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"What I see is a lot of people sitting around doing nothing to help themselves or others."
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Sounds a lot like New Orleans after hurricane Katrina...
Posted by: REB at January 18, 2010 10:12 PM (K78C6)
The way she keepsplummeting in the polls, and keeps finding new ways to alienatevoters, Democratic Senate candidate/Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley needs some sort of a scandal to draw attention away from her incompetence, willingness to keep innocent people in prison (and the guilty out), and her willingness to allow people to die for a temporary legal advantage.
For years, all we've heard from the left is how George W. Bush was to blame for the failures that occurred during the hurricane relief efforts in Louisiana and Mississippi. Throughout the 2008 campaign season, we heard how George W. Bush was the cause of so many of this nation's problems real or imagined, and to this very day, Barack Obama and his administration try to blame every conceivable problem, malady, short-coming and gaffe on the 43rd President.
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My guess is he thinks Haiti is such a "cluster" that no matter how well W. does, he (Obama) will get a whole new list of things to blame him for.
Posted by: BD57 at January 14, 2010 10:02 PM (uuZf0)
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That is my take as well. Any failures of aid in Haiti can now be blamed on Bush. Obama is a jerk.
Posted by: Jack at January 15, 2010 08:00 AM (bvDV5)
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Don't you people pay attention to the news? Hes asked Bush 1 to join again with Clinton for aid. Just like they did for the Tsunami in SE Asia. I am no fan of Obama but at least bitch about stuff he has actually done. There is plenty of it.
Posted by: Tim in Phill at January 15, 2010 09:24 AM (PnG/3)
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Sorry, Tim, "President Obama has tapped George W. Bush, a prime target of Democratic criticism during the presidential campaign for his response to Hurricane Katrina,"
And of course, President Bush is going to work. Bill Clinton finds it more important to campaign for Coakley.
Copperheads: Party before country, always.
Posted by: SDN at January 15, 2010 12:24 PM (S78cq)
The cleanup of a spill of explosive materials at the state port in Morehead City stretched into a third day Thursday, with no word on when the port might reopen.
Nine 50-kilogram drums filled with the explosive PETN were punctured by a forklift early Tuesday as they were being unloaded at the port. Officials said Wednesday that they had found PETN leaking from drums in shipping containers not involved in Tuesday's accident.
100 grams of this can blow up a car/half that could rip open an airliner. There were 450,000 grams in the drums in the main spill, and an unknown amount of leakage in the secondary spills.
We're in the best of hands...
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Having worked in explosives safety, noone who knows anything about explosive safety would ship 450 pounds of PETN on the same ship. This is the sort of stuff used a few grains at a time. (7,000 grains per pound for the unitiated)(all pun intended) I certainly don't know for a fact but this could be another terror attack that didn't work and the administration is trying to hide it.
Posted by: Jerry in Detroit at January 14, 2010 09:33 PM (th+bN)
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Actually, Jerry, it's 50 x 2.2 lbs per kg x 9 = 990 lbs of PETN.
Posted by: SDN at January 15, 2010 12:28 PM (S78cq)
Witch: Coakley Kept Innocent Man in Prison to Enhance her Career
I was in my teens when the waves of daycare sex abuse hysteria swept the nation. The case that was closest to us was the Little Rascals case. It was full of absurd accusations, including satanic ritual abuse, murder, and the immolation of children. It was all quite preposterous an an obvious with hunt, but it destroyed lives and people all the same.
Martha Coakley, the woman who would be the next Senator from Massachusetts, played her own role in this dark wave of inquisitions, keeping an innocent man in prison to further her political career.
Danile Weaver reveals Coakley's detestable role in keeping an obviously innocent Gerald Amirault in prison. Coached children with fantastic imaginations accused Amirault of things that simply could not be:
The charges were some of the most heinous ever made. However, they were also ludicrous. Supposedly Gerald dressed up as a clown and assaulted the children in a secret or magic room. Some children claimed to be sodomized with two foot knives and lobsters. Some of the acts allegedly took place on the front lawn in full view of the highway.
And yet, when the Parole Board voted unanimously to pardon Amirault, Coakley did "everything in her power" to keep the innocent man in prison, including sending an assistant DA to oppose his release at the hearing.
Make sure you read the whole article, including the citation from Whores of the Court.
Martha Coakley didn't put Gerald Amirault in prison, but she did everything in her power to keep him there, for what appears to be purely political reasons. That isn't just wrong. That isn't just poor judgment.
That is evil.
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I followed these trials in the news. It was evident that there was no crime. These people were accused of having sex with children that were 4 and 5 years of age yet there was no physical evidence of the child having sex. That is impossible. The people prosecuting the case knew that, along with other facts that did not make sense. The whole thing was held to gather with the statememt that children do not lie. On the contray, as has been well established, they lie like dogs and well tell you anything you desire. Everyone associated with this prosecution should be put in jail.
Posted by: David at January 14, 2010 01:22 PM (VpBDM)
In October 2005, a Somerville police officer living in Melrose raped his 23-month-old niece with a hot object, most likely a curling iron.
Keith Winfield, then 31, told police he was alone with the toddler that day and made additional statements that would ultimately be used to convict him.
But in the aftermath of the crime, a Middlesex County grand jury overseen by Martha Coakley, then the district attorney, investigated without taking action.
It was only after the toddler’s mother filed applications for criminal complaints that Coakley won grand jury indictments charging rape and assault and battery.
Even then, nearly 10 months after the crime, Coakley’s office recommended that Winfield be released on personal recognizance, with no cash bail. He remained free until December 2007, when Coakley’s successor as district attorney won a conviction and two life terms.
Posted by: Capitalist Infidel at January 14, 2010 02:54 PM (MxQFN)
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WEEI radio filled a half hour segment today with an interview of Gerald Amirault. He spent most of his years in prison in solitary confinement because prison officials worried that as a child molester he wouldn't be safe in the general population. Of course, when they let him mix with other inmates there were no problems. Unlike Coakley, the cons all knew he was an innocent man.
It was heartbreaking.
Posted by: NC Mountain Girl at January 14, 2010 05:25 PM (Z9f/a)
Dan Rather has lost his final appeal in his breach-of-contract suit against CBS that stemmed from the faked Bush Air National Guard records story:
His request for an appeal was declined today, putting the entire legal matter to bed, finally. "Naturally I am disappointed in today’s ruling because we know it is a grave miscarriage of justice, " he said in a statement to the Times. "Most of all I am disappointed that no court or jury studied the evidence and heard the actual facts of the case. The case was dismissed on purely technical grounds. My mission continues to be working to ensure that the media can gather and report news unfettered by the influence of government and major corporate interests."
To this day, Rather still believes in the story he reported.
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Rather is a pox on the entire media community. His guess-work reporting, filled with HIS opinion was passed off as news for many years. It started with his "live" reporting from Vietnam, continued with the '68 Chicago convention and finally came totally unglued with his personal assault on George W. Bush.
It finally caught up with him and now - as we all knew from the beginning - he's firmly aligned with the liberal wing of the Democrat Party. He really needs to go back to Texas and hide in the tumbleweeds until his day of reckoning comes. Very few are as little trusted as Dan Rather.
Posted by: Dell at January 14, 2010 09:55 AM (zlXS5)
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I doubt very much that Rather actually believes the story, but then he has to say that or lose what little credibility he has left.
This is the same position that many pro global warming politicians find themselves in. These pols have bought into the AGW scam and now find themselves being exposed as idiots. They HAVE To continue to believe, rather than admit the whole thing a hoax, in order to maintain their own credibility.
They are between a rock and a hard place.
Posted by: Jack at January 14, 2010 10:19 AM (bvDV5)
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General Westmoreland, you can roll over and sleep again.
Posted by: tjbbpgobIII at January 15, 2010 03:24 PM (eXdIs)
