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		<title>Obama Holds Off Valiant Primary Challenger In WV By 20 Points</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the West Virginia Democrat primary, Obama was challenged by a <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2141657/Texas-INMATE-gets-40-cent-votes-Obama-West-Virginia-primary.html#ixzz1uNNeBVKc">prisoner</a> from Texas and managed a significant victory of 20 points.  Democratic strategists see these results as proof that Obama is regaining the momentum of 2008.  Like the reports on the economy and jobs, news that can be spun with a positive view is vital to the Obama campaign.
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<p>In the West Virginia Democrat primary, Obama was challenged by a <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2141657/Texas-INMATE-gets-40-cent-votes-Obama-West-Virginia-primary.html#ixzz1uNNeBVKc">prisoner</a> from Texas and managed a significant victory of 20 points.  Democratic strategists see these results as proof that Obama is regaining the momentum of 2008.  Like the reports on the economy and jobs, news that can be spun with a positive view is vital to the Obama campaign.</p>
<p>Obama&#8217;s latest challenger, inmate Keith Judd, put up a valiant effort from the Federal Correctional Institution in Texas for the Democrat Presidential bid.  Unfortunately, Judd has been serving time since 1999 for making threats at the University of New Mexico, but despite his apparent disadvantage, he managed to control 40% of votes cast and Obama tallied less than 60% for his first major victory of the 2012 campaign.</p>
<p>Judd ran with a skeleton campaign group, actually it is questionable whether he had any support; he managed to get on the ballot with a $2500 filing fee, a form known as a notarized certification of announcement.  State Democratic Party Executive Director Derek Scarboro said no one has filed to be a delegate for Judd, but he only needed 15% of the vote to qualify for a delegate at the national convention.  Sadly, this political miscarriage only serves to prove the Elitist nature of federal politics, without funding, the little man doesn&#8217;t stand a chance against those with backers like George Soros.</p>
<p>Even though some West Virginians were reluctant to vote for a federal inmate incarcerated in Texas, it is obvious that Obama controls a percentage of loyalists within the Democrat Party.</p>
<p>Hopefully, Judd will command a greater percentage of the Democrat Party upon his release.</p>
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		<title>FORWARD! [Reader Post]</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Barack Obama’s re-election has adopted a new slogan: “Forward”

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- google_ad_section_start --><p>Barack Obama&#8217;s re-election has adopted a new slogan:  <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/30/obama-forward-video-reelection-campaign_n_1464150.html">&#8220;Forward&#8221; </a></p>
<p>It has some really interesting historical predecessors:</p>
<p><a href="http://floppingaces.net/2012/05/03/forward-reader-post/"><em>Click here to view the embedded video.</em></a></p>
<p>via <a href="http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2012/04/obamas-new-campaign-slogan-forward-is-a-nazi-marching-tune-video/">GP</a></p>
<p>And then there are these:</p>
<p><a href="http://floppingaces.net/2012/05/03/forward-reader-post/forward-stalin-1/" rel="attachment wp-att-80036"><img src="http://floppingaces.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Forward-stalin-1.jpg" alt="" width="550" height="357" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-80036" /></a></p>
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Under the Leadership of the Great Stalin — Forward to Communism!</p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://floppingaces.net/2012/05/03/forward-reader-post/forward-stalin-2/" rel="attachment wp-att-80037"><img src="http://floppingaces.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/forward-stalin-2.jpg" alt="" width="548" height="369" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-80037" /></a></p>
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Under Lenin’s Banners, Under Stalin’s Leadership, Forward to a New Prosperity of the Soviet Motherland, to the Complete Victory of Communism in Our Country!</p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://floppingaces.net/2012/05/03/forward-reader-post/forward-victory/" rel="attachment wp-att-80038"><img src="http://floppingaces.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Forward-Victory.jpg" alt="" width="548" height="370" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-80038" /></a></p>
<blockquote><p>Forward to the Victory of Communism!</p></blockquote>
<p>Via <a href="http://weaselzippers.us/2012/05/01/forward-to-communism/#more-112540">WZ</a></p>
<p>And over at <a href="http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2878370/posts">Free Republic</a> was the reminder of these images:</p>
<p><a href="http://floppingaces.net/2012/05/03/forward-reader-post/obama-greek-temple/" rel="attachment wp-att-80039"><img src="http://floppingaces.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/obama-greek-temple.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="333" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-80039" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://floppingaces.net/2012/05/03/forward-reader-post/hitler-stage/" rel="attachment wp-att-80040"><img src="http://floppingaces.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/hitler-stage.gif" alt="" width="264" height="336" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-80040" /></a></p>
<p>And who could forget this?</p>
<p><a href="http://floppingaces.net/2012/05/03/forward-reader-post/"><em>Click here to view the embedded video.</em></a></p>
<p>All we need now is that <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/07/obamas_civilian_national_secur.html">&#8220;Civilian Defense Force&#8221;</a> as powerful as the military. </p>
<p>Then we&#8217;ll <a href="http://congressmantomtancredo.com/bill-gives-the-irs-power-to-authorize-the-removal-of-the-right-to-own-a-firearm/">take your guns</a></p>
<blockquote><p>The collection agency for the Federal Reserve known as the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is working with legislators to gain control over the rights of Americans. Without the right to due process, the IRS can simply claim a citizen owes $50,000 dollars or more to their illegal operation. This accusation alone will give their agency the right to revoke American’s travel rights and even remove the right to own a firearm.</p>
<p>With the help of Representatives like Barbara Boxer of California, a bill rapidly working through Capitol Hill (passed through the Senate and is currently up for review in the House) will give the IRS power to:</p>
<p>    Accuse Americans of delinquency of tax payment without due process<br />
    Revoke their passports and travel rights<br />
    Place the accused in a centralize database<br />
    Authorize the removal of their right to own a firearm</p>
<p>No formal charges are required. Simply the accusation from the IRS is sufficed to strip American citizens of their Constitutional rights.</p></blockquote>
<p>All you need is the accusation that you are a subversive.</p>
<p>Obama employs the words favored by the Nazis and Stalin and the Communists. Coincidence?</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t think so. </p>
<p>Is someone trying to fundamentally change this country? </p>
<p><a href="http://floppingaces.net/2012/05/03/forward-reader-post/"><em>Click here to view the embedded video.</em></a></p>
<p>I think so.</p>
<p><strong>FORWARD!</strong></p>
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		<title>Why aren&#8217;t we using Predators to kill the drug cartels in Mexico? [Reader Post]</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In March Janet Napolitano assured us that the US-Mexican border was safer than ever. This in spite of Barack Obama and Eric Holder willingly sending 2000 automatic weapons into the hands of the drug cartels south of the border.

Well, it turns out that the border is not so safe. The Mexican state of Chihuahua, which borders Texas and New Mexico, is in anarchy. The US-Mexican border is less safe than Afghanistan. <a href="http://floppingaces.net/2012/01/21/why-arent-we-using-predators-to-kill-the-drug-cartels-in-mexico-reader-post/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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<p>In March Janet Napolitano assured us that the US-Mexican border was <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20047102-503544.html">safer than ever</a>. This in spite of Barack Obama and Eric Holder willingly <a href="http://floppingaces.net/2011/03/27/what-did-the-president-know-and-when-did-he-know-it-reader-post/">sending 2000 automatic weapons</a> into the hands of the drug cartels south of the border.</p>
<p>Well, it turns out that the border is not so safe. The Mexican state of Chihuahua, which borders Texas and New Mexico, is in anarchy. The US-Mexican border is less safe than Afghanistan. </p>
<blockquote><p>Organized crime-related deaths in one Mexican border state during the first nine months of 2011 exceed the number of Afghan civilians killed in roughly the same period in all of war-torn Afghanistan.</p>
<p>According to the Mexican government, from January through September 2011 2,276 deaths were recorded in the Mexican state of Chihuahua, which borders Texas and New Mexico.</p>
<p>A Nov. 2011 Congressional Research Service (CRS) report states that over nearly the same period – January through October 2011 – 2,177 civilians were killed in Afghanistan, where a U.S.-led war against the Taliban is underway. It did not provide a breakdown of responsibility for that period, but said that in 2010, 75 percent of civilian deaths were attributed to the Taliban and other “anti-government elements.”</p>
<p>Per capita, a person was at least nine times more likely to be murdered in Chihuahua last year than in Afghanistan. (Chihuahua has 3,406,465 inhabitants, according to Mexico’s 2010 census; the CIA World Factbook reports that in July 2011 the estimated population of Afghanistan was 29,835,392.)<br />
According to the reported numbers, the drug-related murder rate was about 67 for every 100,000 inhabitants in Chihuahua last year, while in Afghanistan the civilian killing rate was an estimated seven for every 100,000 people living there.</p>
<p>There were more drug-related killings in Chihuahua than in any other Mexican state, according to the government figures.  Chihuahua, the largest state in Mexico, includes Ciudad Juarez, a border city located across from El Paso, Texas. It is the deadliest city in Mexico and is considered one of the most dangerous places in the world.</p>
<p>According to the government tally, Juarez accounted for 1,206 (about 53 percent) of the 2,276 drug cartel-related murders in Chihuahua during the fist nine months of 2011.</p>
<p>The state capital, the city of Chihuahua, was also among the five deadliest cities in Mexico over that period, with 402 homicides reported.</p>
<p>The organized crime-related deaths in Mexico – officially referred to as homicides due to rivalry between delinquent organizations – include executions, deaths from encounters with authorities, direct aggression attacks, and killings stemming from violence between organized trafficking groups, according to the country’s government.</p>
<p>Its figures show that a total of 12,903 drug-related homicides took place across the country during the first nine months of 2011, taking Mexico’s drug-war death toll to 47,515 since President Felipe Calderon began a militarized crackdown on organized crime in December 2006.</p>
<p>Again comparing the Mexican and Afghanistan figures, the CRS report shows that 11,007 Afghan civilians were killed from 2007 through October 2011. That is about 80 percent fewer deaths than the 47,515 drug-related murders in Mexico over roughly the same period (December 2006 through September 2011).</p></blockquote>
<p>Bungling by Obama and Holder has gotten two American agents killed so far. </p>
<p>Why aren&#8217;t we using drones to kill drug cartel members? The violence in Mexico is literally on our doorstep. It is <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/23/us/23border.html?pagewanted=all">spilling over into the United States</a>, and it&#8217;s not new:</p>
<blockquote><p>TUCSON — Sgt. David Azuelo stepped gingerly over the specks of blood on the floor, took note of the bullet hole through the bedroom skylight, raised an eyebrow at the lack of furniture in the ranch-style house and turned to his squad of detectives investigating one of the latest home invasions in this southern Arizona city. </p>
<p>A 21-year-old man had been pistol-whipped throughout the house, the gun discharging at one point, as the attackers demanded money, the victim reported. His wife had been bathing their 3-month-old son when the intruders arrived.</p>
<p>“At least they didn’t put the gun in the baby’s mouth like we’ve seen before,” Sergeant Azuelo said. That same afternoon this month, his squad was called to the scene of another home invasion, one involving the abduction of a 14-year-old boy.</p>
<p>This city, an hour’s drive north of the Mexican border, is coping with a wave of drug crime the police suspect is tied to the bloody battles between Mexico’s drug cartels and the efforts to stamp them out. </p></blockquote>
<p>The violence <a href="http://www.chron.com/news/article/Texas-sheriff-Drug-war-violence-spilling-over-2244504.php">continues </a></p>
<blockquote><p>MCALLEN, Texas (AP) — A shooting that injured a sheriff&#8217;s deputy was the first indisputable case of spillover violence from the Mexican drug wars in Hidalgo County, the local sheriff said Monday.</p>
<p>Sheriff Lupe Trevino, who previously said there was no direct spillover violence in the Lower Rio Grande Valley, said the Sunday shootout erupted while one of his deputies investigated a reported kidnapping and drug deal.</p>
<p>&#8220;I have to say that with this particular incident, the way the witnesses and the information that we have gotten particularly in the federal system, this is the first recorded spillover violence event that we have experienced — and unfortunately got one of our deputies shot,&#8221; Trevino said.</p>
<p>One suspect was killed and two were wounded. In all, six people were taken into custody, including the alleged kidnapping victim, and are awaiting charges, the sheriff said.</p>
<p>The sheriff said a protective vest probably saved the life of Deputy Hugo Rodriguez, who was shot in the chest, abdomen and leg. He is recovering at a hospital.</p>
<p>Trevino said the reported kidnapping was a bid to recover marijuana stolen when the Gulf cartel&#8217;s reputed second-in-command, Samuel Flores Borrego, was killed in September.</p>
<p>&#8220;It started in Mexico, it had a violent confrontation in Mexico, that violent confrontation was spilled over here. This is the very first one that we can actually say, &#8216;Yes, here it is. It has happened,&#8217;&#8221; Trevino said.</p></blockquote>
<p>The moron who occupies the post of Attorney General of the United States claims the violence in Mexico stems from the <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/nov/08/us-losing-battle-guns-mexico">flow of illegal weapons into Mexico</a>. His solution was to send 2000 more.</p>
<p>Which cartel controls which areas of Mexico appears to be <a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Americas/2011/0113/Mexico-drug-war-death-toll-up-60-percent-in-2010.-Why">known</a>.</p>
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<p>If we can find obscure terrorists in Pakistan and Afghanistan and blow them to kingdom come, why can&#8217;t we do the same to the very real danger right at our own door? Mexico is losing the battle. It&#8217;s time to do what they cannot. We have the technology and the ability. Obama is big on knocking off leaders of sovereign nations in the Middle East and Africa but is impotent when it comes to the threat next door. He&#8217;d rather disarm US citizens.</p>
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		<title>No you don&#8217;t, sparky [Reader Post]</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Keith Koffler has let us know that Barack Obama is <a href="http://www.whitehousedossier.com/2012/01/03/obama-officially-abandons-governing/">taking 2012 off from Congress</a>:

<blockquote>“In terms of the president’s relationship with Congress in 2012,” Mr. Earnest said at a briefing, “the president is no longer tied to Washington, DC”</blockquote> <a href="http://floppingaces.net/2012/01/09/no-you-dont-sparky-reader-post/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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<p>Keith Koffler has let us know that Barack Obama is <a href="http://www.whitehousedossier.com/2012/01/03/obama-officially-abandons-governing/">taking 2012 off from Congress</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>“In terms of the president’s relationship with Congress in 2012,” Mr. Earnest said at a briefing, “the president is no longer tied to Washington, DC”</p></blockquote>
<p>Obama has decided that being President is simply not good enough and <a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/01/05/obama_i_have_an_obligation_as_president_to_do_what_i_can_without_congress.html">has appointed himself King</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>But when Congress refuses to act, and as a result, hurts our economy and puts our people at risk, <strong>then I have an obligation as President to do what I can without them.</strong> I’ve got an obligation to act on behalf of the American people. And I’m not going to stand by while a minority in the Senate puts party ideology ahead of the people that we were elected to serve. Not with so much at stake, not at this make-or-break moment for middle-class Americans. We’re not going to let that happen.</p></blockquote>
<p>No you don&#8217;t, sparky. James Madison, <a href="http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp?document=11">Federalist 47</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person or body,&#8221; says he, &#8220;there can be no liberty, because apprehensions may arise lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Some of my fellow authors here tend to dismiss my concerns of the abuse of power by Obama, but I am undeterred. Not long ago Obama said <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2011/07/obama-tempted-to-go-it-alone-if-only-he-could/">this</a></p>
<blockquote><p>“Believe me, the idea of doing things on my own is very tempting.  I promise you not just on immigration reform. But that&#8217;s not how our system works,”</p></blockquote>
<p>Paging <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/campaign-spot/8376/all-barack-obama-statements-come-expiration-date-all-them">Jim Geraghty</a>!</p>
<p>Nothing Barack Obama says at any time has any meaningfulness or durability. Nothing. </p>
<p>As my son points out to me- if Obama is this brash in his first term, what would a second term bring???</p>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s plan to steal the election of 2012 [Reader Post]</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Or, why Eric Holder will remain in office until 2013 at least.

A pair of articles from the Washington Times make clear that the White House has a plan for the 2012 election, and that is to guarantee victory for Obama regardless of the outcome of the vote. A large part of it depends on Eric Holder and his continual bastardization of the law.
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<p>Or, why Eric Holder will remain in office until 2013 at least.</p>
<p>A pair of articles from the Washington Times make clear that the White House has a plan for the 2012 election, and that is to guarantee victory for Obama regardless of the outcome of the vote. A large part of it depends on Eric Holder and his continual bastardization of the law.</p>
<p>The first comes from <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/dec/30/voter-id-terrifies-democrats/?page=all#pagebreak">Robert Knight</a> and his account of why democrats despise voter id laws:</p>
<p>Assistant AG Thomas Perez, the same official who terminated the Black Panther voter intimidation case, ordered South Carolina to stop enforcing its voter photo ID law. South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson explained precisely why the law is necessary:</p>
<blockquote><p>The state Department of Motor Vehicles audited a state Election Commission report that said 239,333 people were registered to vote but had no photo ID. The DMV found that 37,000 were deceased, more than 90,000 had moved to other states, and others had names not matched to IDs. That left only 27,000 people registered without a photo ID but who could vote by signing an affidavit as to their identity.</p></blockquote>
<p>Contrary to left wing claims, requiring photo ID has not been shown to suppress voter ID:</p>
<blockquote><p>A bipartisan Commission on Federal Election Reform in 2005 chaired by former President Jimmy Carter and former U.S. Secretary of State James A. Baker III found no evidence that requiring photo IDs would suppress the minority vote. The panel recommended a national photo ID system and a campaign to register voters.</p></blockquote>
<p>The second article comes from <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/dec/30/voter-id-terrifies-democrats-will-obama-steal-the-/">Jeffrey Kuhner</a>. Against the backdrop of the Carter/Baker report (of which Holder appears to be completely ignorant) Eric Holder plays the race card for South Carolina:</p>
<blockquote><p>Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. claims Jim Crow is returning. In a recent speech, Mr. Holder said that attempts by states to pass voter identification laws will disenfranchise minorities, rolling back the clock to the evil days of segregation. He said that a growing number of minorities fear that “the same disparities, divisions and problems” now afflict America as they did in 1965 prior to the Voting Rights Act. According to the Obama administration, our democracy is being threatened by racist Republicans. Hence, the Justice Department must prevent laws requiring a photo ID to vote from being enacted.</p></blockquote>
<p>Holder&#8217;s argument has no foothold in reality.</p>
<p>Kuhner points out that Holder&#8217;s real problem is that photo ID laws will impair ACORN&#8217;s ability to conduct fraud:</p>
<blockquote><p>Mr. Holder evidently wants to scuttle ID laws because he knows which organization will be hurt most: ACORN. For years, community activist groups, such as the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, have engaged in massive electoral fraud &#8211; registering illegal aliens, offering bribes to numerous politically disinterested people in the inner cities as inducements to vote and pushing underage and multiple voting. Election reform, therefore, is a stake aimed at the heart of Democratic corruption and ACORN’s power. Clean up the voter rolls and Mr. Obama’s re-election is in serious jeopardy.</p></blockquote>
<p>Free photo ID cards are made available to anyone who needs one in South Carolina as are absentee votes for those who would trouble getting to the polls. Additionally, in blocking the South Carolina law Holder runs afoul of <em>stare decisis</em>:</p>
<blockquote><p>Moreover, the Supreme Court already has ruled on the issue &#8211; upholding state voter ID laws. In the 2008 Crawford v. Marion County Election Board decision, the high court held that an Indiana law mandating photo identification at the voting booth was indeed constitutional. If it is good enough for the Supreme Court and the overwhelming majority of the states, then it should be for Mr. Holder as well.</p></blockquote>
<p>Holder claims that requiring a photo ID is tatamount to a poll tax but that is <a href="http://electionlawcenter.com/2012/01/02/philadelphia-daily-news-eric-holder-is-camera-shyand-he-also-has-a-problem-with-the-truth.aspx">laughable</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;He has a particularly hard time explaining how the South Carolina requirement of government-issued photo identification amounts to a &#8216;poll tax&#8217; when the state has also made provisions to provide that identification, free of charge. Hear that, Mr. Attorney General? The only thing the voter has to do is show up and get his or her photo taken. And if that&#8217;s too much darn trouble well, then, that person can do something else on election day.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Why is too burdensome to show up and obtain a photo ID but not too burdensome to show up to vote?</p>
<p>The ducks are aligning in a row. Blocking the South Carolina law will allow ACORN and other left wing operations to run amuck with voter fraud. The problem is that election fraud is a <a href="http://soundpolitics.com/The%20Federal%20Crime%20of%20Election%20Fraud.pdf">Federal offense</a>, and that&#8217;s where Holder becomes critical. I fully expect no end to election chicanery on the part of the ACORN and the left, whether it involves <a href="http://www.redstate.com/martin_a_knight/2010/11/02/democrats-and-union-officials-miraculously-finding-lost-ballot-boxes-in-their-car-trunks/">&#8220;finding&#8221; lost votes</a> as in Minnesota, <a href="http://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/politics/Polls-Running-Low-on-Ballots-106559278.html">printing out enough democrat ballots</a> to guarantee a victory, <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/12/21/officials-plead-guilty-in-new-york-voter-fraud-case/">forging signatures</a>, or <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/12/12/indiana-democratic-party-head-resigns-as-fraud-probe-heats-up/">forging more signatures</a>. I also expect that Holder would dismiss out of hand all claims beneficial to Obama and democrats and pursue only those in which the outcomes favored Republicans. </p>
<p>Ultimately the job of the Attorney General of the United States is protect the law from abuse but it is painfully clear that Eric Holder was appointed to protect abuse from the law.</p>
<p>Justice John Paul Stevens <a href="http://www.texasgopvote.com/2012-elections/voter-fraud-003693">wrote</a>: </p>
<blockquote><p>”There is no question about legitimacy or importance of a state ‘s interest in counting only eligible voters.”</p></blockquote>
<p>The integrity of the vote means nothing to Holder. Eric Holder would not know integrity if it bit him in the ass.</p>
<p>And that&#8217;s exactly why he was appointed.</p>
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		<title>&#8220;Let them eat surimi!&#8221; [Reader Post]</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[It's all so weird. It's all so unseemly. Multi-millionaires begging for $3 and selling themselves off in raffles.

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<p>It&#8217;s all so weird. It&#8217;s all so unseemly. Multi-millionaires begging for $3 and selling themselves off in raffles.</p>
<p>The email Michelle Obama sent to me:</p>
<blockquote><p>This holiday has felt a bit like one last long, deep breath before we plunge into 2012.</p>
<p>This time next year, I don&#8217;t want us to have any regrets. I want to be able to say we rose to the task, and got it done. We&#8217;ve all got some work to do right now.</p>
<p>Over the next 11 months we&#8217;ve got an organization to grow, voters to register, and people to get fired up.</p>
<p>I hope you&#8217;ll close out this year by donating $3 or more now to help make sure we&#8217;re ready for the next one:</p>
<p>https://donate.barackobama.com/No-Regrets</p>
<p>Thank you so much, and happy new year,</p>
<p>Michelle</p>
<p>P.S. &#8212; Also, when you donate today, you are automatically entered for a chance to be one of three supporters to have dinner with Barack and me.</p></blockquote>
<p>She vacations in Hawaii each year at a cost of $4 million, takes her <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2027541/Obama-golfs-Marthas-Vineyard-increasing-personal-debt-ceiling.html">own</a> <a href="http://www.hawaiireporter.com/with-more-vacation-days-and-separate-travel-price-of-obama%E2%80%99s-annual-hawaiian-holiday-rises">jets</a> to vacation destinations all at taxpayer expense, wears <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,518652,00.html">$500 Lanvin sneakers</a> to help the poor, <a href="http://floppingaces.net/2011/12/28/obama-re-election-theme-champion-of-the-middle-class-reader-post/#comment-353453">$2000 Mexican tablecloths</a> on vacation, and she wants us to to rise to the task and send her $3 so she won&#8217;t have any regrets.</p>
<p>Barack sent me this email:</p>
<blockquote><p>It&#8217;s not all that often that Michelle and I get to host a casual meal with friends.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s one of the reasons we&#8217;re both excited about the upcoming dinner with three supporters and your guests.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s the first one we&#8217;ve ever done like this together, and we&#8217;d love to have you and whoever you choose to join us.</p>
<p>Chip in $3 or whatever you can today &#8212; and you&#8217;ll automatically be entered to be one of our dinner guests.</p>
<p>I enjoy these dinners not just because they&#8217;re a way to connect with supporters across the country.</p>
<p>They also say a lot about what kind of campaign we&#8217;re running.</p>
<p>We don&#8217;t take a dime from D.C. lobbyists or special-interest PACs &#8212; never have and never will. Instead, we believe in the kind of politics that gives everyone a seat at the table &#8212; so we&#8217;re literally offering these seats at dinner to folks who are willing to step forward and be a part of it.</p>
<p>There are just a few days left to add your name for a chance to be one of our guests at the next dinner, and help build this campaign before 2012 finally arrives.</p>
<p>Make a donation of $3 or whatever you can today &#8212; and automatically enter to be there:</p>
<p>https://donate.barackobama.com/Me-and-Michelle</p>
<p>Thanks,</p>
<p>Barack</p></blockquote>
<p>As soon as he was done saddling us with a trillion dollar failed stimulus, Barack Obama sucked down a meal of <a href="http://michellemalkin.com/2009/01/29/obama-celebrates-spending-binge-with-cocktails-and-wagyu-steak/">$100 per serving</a> Wagyu beef. </p>
<p>When he got to Hawaii, Obama headed right for <a href="http://www.whitehousedossier.com/2011/12/24/champion-middle-class-heads-sushi/">Morimoto&#8217;s</a>. There are countless sushi restaurants in Hawaii but few as tony as Morimoto&#8217;s, where the Oyster Foie Gras runs $22 per piece.</p>
<p>Then he ate at Alan Wong&#8217;s, another exclusive locale, and it&#8217;s estimated that he spent at least <a href="http://www.whitehousedossier.com/2011/12/29/middle-class-warriors-dine-260/">$260</a>, or 13 weeks&#8217; worth of middle class tax cuts.</p>
<p>The Obama&#8217;s, who deny themselves nothing in the face of a poor economy (&#8220;Middle Class Warriors&#8221; as Keith Koffler describes them), the Obama&#8217;s, who eat the best food at the best at the best restaurants at our expense, invite YOU to send $3 so you can share a &#8220;casual meal&#8221; with them.</p>
<p>Waygu beef and martinis for them, beer and pizza for their supporters.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s as good a metaphor for this Presidency as it gets.</p>
<p>A couple of days ago Mitt Romney compared Barack Obama to <a href="http://content.usatoday.com/communities/onpolitics/post/2011/12/mitt-romney-marie-antoinette-barack-obama-/1">Marie Antoinette</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;When the president&#8217;s characterization of our economy was, &#8216;It could be worse,&#8217; it reminded me of Marie Antoinette: &#8216;Let them eat cake,&#8217; &#8221; Romney told The Huffington Post in an interview Thursday.</p></blockquote>
<p>With the Obamas dining on the finest food, enjoying the best vacations, not letting Presidentin&#8217; get in the way of his <a href="http://weaselzippers.us/2011/12/30/obama-plays-his-91st-round-of-golf/">91 rounds of golf</a>, Romney&#8217;s got a point.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s good to be Queen.</p>
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<blockquote>WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former MF Global chief Jon Corzine apologized to customers, employees and investors who have suffered because of the brokerage firm's collapse, but said he does not know where missing customer money is.</blockquote> <a href="http://floppingaces.net/2011/12/12/corzine-i-see-nutting-reader-post/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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<blockquote><p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) &#8211; Former MF Global chief Jon Corzine apologized to customers, employees and investors who have suffered because of the brokerage firm&#8217;s collapse, but said he does not know where missing customer money is.</p>
<p>&#8220;Their plight weighs on my mind every day &#8212; every hour,&#8221; Corzine, a former U.S. senator, said in lengthy remarks prepared for delivery on Thursday before a hearing of the U.S. House of Representatives Agriculture Committee.</p>
<p>&#8220;I simply do not know where the money is, or why the accounts have not been reconciled to date,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>Corzine&#8217;s contrite but defensive remarks are his first since MF Global&#8217;s October 31 bankruptcy and his resignation days later. Revelations of massive bets on European sovereign debt caused markets to lose confidence in the firm.</p>
<p>The search for hundreds of millions of dollars in missing customer funds has sent reverberations through the farm belt and trading floors, and has attracted the attention of the FBI and federal prosecutors. Thousands of customers have had their money frozen.</p>
<p>In separate testimony, a top executive of futures exchange operator CME Group Inc said MF Global misused hundreds of millions of dollars of customer funds by moving the money to its own accounts, the strongest accusation yet against the bankrupt futures brokerage.</p>
<p>&#8220;Transfers of customer funds for the benefit of the firm constitute serious violations of our rules and of the Commodity Exchange Act,&#8221; CME Executive Chairman Terrence Duffy said in prepared remarks.</p>
<p>CME, the biggest U.S. futures exchange operator, was a hands-on regulator of MF Global. Duffy said the brokerage admitted during a call with regulators that customer money was transferred out of segregation to the firm&#8217;s own accounts.</p>
<p>The court-appointed trustee has estimated the shortfall of customer money at $1.2 billion, but CME has disputed that figure as being too high. In his prepared testimony, Duffy indicated the shortfall was roughly half that amount.</p>
<p>Neither MF Global nor any of its executives has been charged with wrongdoing.</p>
<p>&#8220;STUNNED&#8221; BY MISSING CUSTOMER MONEY</p>
<p>Nine witnesses are scheduled at the hearing, but Corzine, a senator from 2001-2006 and a former governor of New Jersey, is the star.</p>
<p>He said that while it is difficult for him to reconstruct the chaotic events leading up to the bankruptcy because he no longer has access to relevant documents, he feels compelled to answer lawmakers&#8217; questions.</p>
<p>&#8220;As a former United States Senator who recognizes the importance of congressional oversight, and recognizing my position as former chief executive officer in these terrible circumstances, I believe it is appropriate that I attempt to respond to your inquiries,&#8221; Corzine said.</p>
<p>In his testimony, Corzine distanced himself from some hands-on aspects of the firm&#8217;s business practices.</p>
<p>&#8220;Even when I was at MF Global, my involvement in the firm&#8217;s clearing, settlement and payment mechanisms and accounting was limited,&#8221; Corzine said.</p>
<p>&#8220;I was stunned when I was told on Sunday, October 30, 2011, that MF Global could not account for many hundreds of millions of dollars of client money.&#8221;</p>
<p>He said he accepts responsibility for the repo-to-maturity trades that related to the firm&#8217;s $6.3 billion bet on European sovereign debt.</p>
<p>&#8220;At the time that MF Global entered into the transactions, I believed that its investments in short-term European debt securities were prudent,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>However, he said MF Global reduced leverage during his tenure, and that he does &#8220;not claim to be an accountant&#8221; regarding the treatment of that exposure.</p>
<p>Mary Schapiro, the chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, has said her agency is probing the accounting treatment that helped mask MF Global&#8217;s exposure to risky foreign sovereign debt. The SEC is also probing the disclosure of that exposure.</p>
<p>Steve Luparello, vice chairman of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, said in his testimony on Thursday that MF Global was not fully candid with FINRA in 2010 when the firm was asked about its exposure to European debt.</p>
<p>Luparello said the firm indicated in late September 2010 that it &#8220;did not have any such positions&#8221; in European sovereign debt.</p>
<p>&#8220;We later learned that the firm began entering into transactions that carried European debt exposure in mid-September 2010,&#8221; he said.</p></blockquote>
<p>The Chairman and CEO knows nutting. Well, why not? It worked for <a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/554/000026476/">Terry McAuliffe</a>.</p>
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<p><font SIZE="1">&#8220;I see nutting!&#8221;</font></p>
<p>Corzine has a history of <a href="http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2002/7/19/181027.shtml">not knowing anything happening in companies he runs</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>The SEC spokesman gave the same response to our inquiry about a Goldman-Sachs case when that investment firm was headed by Sen. Jon Corzine, D-N.J. Here’s the question:</p>
<p>&#8220;A class-action suit and a former broker have accused Goldman-Sachs of forcing underwriting investors to pay artificially high prices for certain stocks. Published reports [in the Washington Times] indicate the matter has been brought to the attention of the SEC. What is the status of that investigation?”</p>
<p>Again, no comment beyond the above stock answer. However, the Times&#8217; story says the whistle-blowing broker, Nicholas Maier, had discussed the matter with SEC investigators.</p>
<p>Corzine claims he knew nothing about such schemes when he ran the firm from 1994 to 1999. He left a multimillionaire to run for the Senate, an office he obtained by burying New Jersey voters with an avalanche of ads paid for by his deep pockets.</p></blockquote>
<p>And Corzine was getting paid <a href="http://articles.businessinsider.com/2010-03-25/wall_street/29959040_1_letter-agreement-jon-corzine-parachute">$1.5 million a year</a> for not knowing anything.</p>
<p>This is they guy who was considered a <a href="http://articles.businessinsider.com/2011-08-03/wall_street/30100939_1_bond-offering-mf-global-jon-corzine">replacement for Timmy Geithner.</a></p>
<p>This is who Obama described as <a href="http://articles.businessinsider.com/2011-07-05/wall_street/29959578_1_president-obama-tim-geithner-corzine">&#8220;Our Wall St. guy.&#8221;</a></p>
<p>Goldman Sachs is the bane of our nation. It should not be dissolved. It should be blown up.</p>
<p>So did you notice what was missing?</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is no excuse: child molestation is the murder of an innocent soul, for that soul will never be able to grow and mature into the adult that it was meant to be.  We all know victims of childhood sexual molestation, whether they have told you or not, you know them.  Some of them have a strong survival instinct and persevere through the shame and confusion to become productive adults: others are destroyed, they are the ones for whom the pain and humiliation were too much.  They are often consumed by drugs and alcohol or they become prostitutes to complete their pain and be ground down into the gutters of life.
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<p>There is no excuse: child molestation is the murder of an innocent soul, for that soul will never be able to grow and mature into the adult that it was meant to be.  We all know victims of childhood sexual molestation, whether they have told you or not, you know them.  Some of them have a strong survival instinct and persevere through the shame and confusion to become productive adults: others are destroyed, they are the ones for whom the pain and humiliation were too much.  They are often consumed by drugs and alcohol or they become prostitutes to complete their pain and be ground down into the gutters of life.</p>
<p>These broken birds were damaged and preyed upon so that some sick twisted bastard could have a few minutes of pleasure by compromising the life of a child.  If there is a hierarchy of sick perverted bastards, this type of scum is among the lowest sickest human beings on the face of the earth.</p>
<p>Jerry Sandusky, the alleged serial rapist of boys, claims that he didn&#8217;t have sex with these boys; no, not at all, he just showered with them, touched their legs, and rough housed with them.  There is something wrong with a man who defends his actions with such antics.  He assumes it is perfectly natural for a middle aged man to shower with adolescent boys and to touch their legs in a non-sexual way.  He said this in an interview to try and gain sympathy.  The problem is, this constitutes sexual perversion to most of us and only a pervert would see it as normal behavior.</p>
<p>Sandusky claims that he likes children; perhaps, he is just a little too affectionate when he hugs them in the shower and touches their legs.  Its all been a horrible mistake; he is just a soft pervert, not an utterly despicable sexual deviant.</p>
<p>It is time for all of us to realize these perverts are out there and they are always ready to attack.  We must be ready to offer a helping and appropriate hand or to call the police.  Be ready to offer assistance or a listening ear if necessary.</p>
<p>Once upon a time, I was able to provide assistance.  It wasn&#8217;t dramatic and I should have done more.  A young teenage girl rode up while I was working at a horse show and literally holding on to a horse.  She said some men were following her and making inappropriate comments.  I told her to stand next to me and they would not bother her.  They suddenly lost interest and found other things to occupy their weak minds.  I asked her where her parents were, it turned out her dad was the manager of the show.  I told her we will go talk to him.  We walked over the office and related the story to her father.  The workers were promptly told to straighten up or ship out.  </p>
<p>Perhaps, I should have called the cops immediately.  I&#8217;m not sure.  I was hopelessly outnumbered if the situate would haven turned ugly, but thankfully, my presence was enough to defuse the incident, sometimes just a little help can make a difference.  Most perverts are cowards and facing an adult is more than they can handle.  </p>
<p>I will promise to always be there to help a child.  If everyone would make that commitment, our children would be much safer.     </p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Using the murky reasoning of Obama Logic, best described as an enigma, An Islamist Spring has been imposed upon the world with the aid and encouragement of Obama.  In his latest attempt to impose freedom and mayhem on the people of Libya, Obama has used the <a href="http://http://motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2011/06/libya-and-its-sweet-sweet-crude">American military </a>to insure that the people of Libya could depose their despot and pave the way for a wave of <a href="http://http://www.blackstarnews.com/news/135/ARTICLE/7208/2011-03-21.html">terror and bloodshed</a>, while they determine their own Islamic Fundamentalist destiny.

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<p>Using the murky reasoning of Obama Logic, best described as an enigma, An Islamist Spring has been imposed upon the world with the aid and encouragement of Obama.  In his latest attempt to impose freedom and mayhem on the people of Libya, Obama has used the <a href="http://http://motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2011/06/libya-and-its-sweet-sweet-crude">American military </a>to insure that the people of Libya could depose their despot and pave the way for a wave of <a href="http://http://www.blackstarnews.com/news/135/ARTICLE/7208/2011-03-21.html">terror and bloodshed</a>, while they determine their own Islamic Fundamentalist destiny.</p>
<p>While Socialist revolutionaries praise the vision of Obama, there are others who are willing to realistically appraise what the Narcissist in Chief and his personal direction of the American military has accomplished with this latest foreign policy disaster.</p>
<p>Libya has some of the richest <a href="http://http://news.yahoo.com/video/business-15749628/libya-s-sweet-crude-26670550.html">sweet crude</a> reserves in the world.  The crude is called sweet crude because it costs far less to refine than other crude oil.  In the world of oil, on which the true economy of the world is based, an economy in which Obama wants <a href="http://http://www.niagarafallsreview.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3045833&amp;sms_ss=facebook&amp;at_xt=4d8eb55e18fdb5e1,0">America</a> to be only a consumer of wealth and not a producer of wealth, this sweet crude is among the most valuable.  Thus it will be a great generator of wealth for whatever Islamic Fundamentalist Strongman that forces his way into power.  </p>
<p>It is the nature of Obama Logic that nothing he does is ever explained or needs to be explained: whether it is because he is incapable of explaining his actions or he refuses to explain because of wishing to maintain a self-imposed image of omnipotency or perhaps, he knows if the country knew his true intentions, he would need to deal with his own American uprising, we will never know.   </p>
<p>If Islamic Fundamentalists kept their insanity and thirst for blood and mayhem within their own borders, the free world would be content to watch them commit atrocities and sodomize each other, under the name of Allah; unfortunately, the nature of the Islamic Fundamentalist requires them to export their madness and sexual perversities beyond their own borders to the free world.  Consequently, Obama has decided, he needs to help these Islamic Fundamentalists spread their gospel throughout the world by indirectly providing them with the wealth of one of the most oil rich countries in the world.  Now, they will be truly free to define their own brand of Islamic Fundamentalism throughout the world.</p>
<p>Thus when the blood stops flowing in Libya, they will be free to finance Jihad and liberate the free world of this demonic possession of personal and religious freedoms.  This may well be the most enduring aspect of the Obama legacy.  We will have Obama to thank for the new mindless wave of terror that will be unleashed upon the free world with the almost limitless funds to be provided to the new masters of terror, by Libya&#8217;s sweet crude and the helpful hand of Obama guiding the US military.</p>
<p>To show our gratitude towards Obama and his bizarre willingness to provide nearly limitless funding to Islamic nut sacks devoted to terror, this new wave of terror should be known as the Obama&#8217;s Terror and when the American military once again has to storm the shores of Tripoli to stop the mindless and bloody insanity, we should toast their sacrifice and praise the unfathomable lunacy of Obama Logic. </p>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a cartoonish caricature of himself, columnist Paul Krugman, of the NYT, has written a rambling and unfocused apology for the incoherence of the Occupy Wall Street comedy, in a lame attempt to steal the energy of the mindless mob.  Borrowing the first two lines from a popular 1967 song, by Stills of Buffalo Springfield, <a href="http://http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/07/opinion/krugman-confronting-the-malefactors.html?nl=todaysheadlines&#38;emc=tha212">Krugman</a> begins his clownish attempt of a unifying message for the mob by clumsily injecting his personal prejudices in a vague but obvious method, thereby parroting a nonexistent voice of leadership to the rebellion without direction, by offering some helpful if flaccid finger prointing.
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<p>In a cartoonish caricature of himself, columnist Paul Krugman, of the NYT, has written a rambling and unfocused apology for the incoherence of the Occupy Wall Street comedy, in a lame attempt to steal the energy of the mindless mob.  Borrowing the first two lines from a popular 1967 song, by Stills of Buffalo Springfield, <a href="http://http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/07/opinion/krugman-confronting-the-malefactors.html?nl=todaysheadlines&amp;emc=tha212">Krugman</a> begins his clownish attempt of a unifying message for the mob by clumsily injecting his personal prejudices in a vague but obvious method, thereby parroting a nonexistent voice of leadership to the rebellion without direction, by offering some helpful if flaccid finger pointing.</p>
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There’s something happening here. What it is ain’t exactly clear, but we may, at long last, be seeing the rise of a popular movement that, unlike the Tea Party, is angry at the right people.</p></blockquote>
<p>By employing the first line of the first verse, as his opening sentence, Krugman accomplished considerably more than in the entirety of his uninspiring article.  The first sentence reads, &#8220;There&#8217;s something happening here&#8221;; indeed, there is the potential for a mob, a mob without direction or intellect to guide it in a particular direction.  A point illustrated by the second line of the song and this phrase of the second sentence, &#8220;What it is ain&#8217;t exactly clear,&#8221; this was the high watermark of Krugman&#8217;s article and with a nice closing sentence, it could have been considered a great article.  For the true purpose of the OWS movement and of Krugman &#8220;ain&#8217;t exactly clear&#8221; isn&#8217;t exactly clear, except for the efforts of the Left to co-opt a movement without a message as a populist movement of their own to counter the concise and effective message of the TEA Party. </p>
<p>Paranoia strikes deep and it is hard to counter a message that resonates clearly with the public and cuts dangerously close to the corrupt and incompetent heart of the Democrat movement like a razor sharp blade between the ribs working ever closer to that same heart.</p>
<p>If we analyze that first verse further, we see why Krugman pulled up early with his metaphor: &#8220;I think it&#8217;s time we stop, children, what&#8217;s that sound?  Everybody look what&#8217;s going down.&#8221;  While the first two lines were an alliteration of Krugman&#8217;s covert premise, the last two lines illustrate the pathetic and impotent nature of a movement without direction.   </p>
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There’s something happening here.<br />
What it is ain’t exactly clear.<br />
There’s a man with a gun over there,<br />
Telling me I got to beware.<br />
I think it’s time we stop, children, what’s that sound?<br />
Everybody look what’s going down.
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<p>The most glaring inconsistency of the OWS mob is not that they fail to note the corruption and greed of Wall Street, no they are obviously upset with the corruption of Wall Street, but they fail to note the symbiotic relationship of that same greed and corruption of Wall Street with Obama, the messiah of Socialism.  Of course Obama campaigned on a platform of ending this corruption and of correcting the injustices inflicted upon the common man, but remember, he sends young people text messages when the elections are on the horizon, a real reason to vote for the man.</p>
<p>The second verse could have been used more effectively by Krugman, but we are here to bury him not to help him.  For &#8220;There&#8217;s battle lines being drawn;&#8221; unfortunately, when we look at the overwhelming whining of the young protesters, the common complaint of oppressive student loans comes through quite clearly.</p>
<p>Now why are there problems with student loans?  Sympathy from a man who worked as a welder at night and a horse shoer on weekends to go to college during the week won&#8217;t be forthcoming, for he who has seen the carefree attitude of the non-disciplined college student who wasted time and money on degrees that benefited no one in particular and can be contemptuous of those who have time and resources to attend protests during college as if they were rock concerts.</p>
<p>Yet, people stand in line to attend college, partially to avoid responsibility, adulthood, and that ever looming dark cloud called work; all justified by the Peter Pan syndrome of avoidance of work and a mature life.  To what purpose do they attend these colleges, the observer is bound to ask, oh, but to prepare them for some non-dirtying of the hands type job that will allow them to repay their student loans quickly and join that same society they are now condemning.  To acquire a home, a mate, two SUVs or tin cans on wheels according to their moral compass, these are the goals, but because of this damned economy and the fact that Obama can&#8217;t manage to transform us into a Socialist Utopia, their dreams seem unobtainable.</p>
<p>Yes, &#8220;Young people speaking their minds,&#8221; right after having the last parental diapers of protection pulled is at the heart of the matter, they are quick to bemoan their woes while reaching out to commiserate their misery in a mournful dirge of despair, &#8220;Nobody&#8217;s right if everybody&#8217;s wrong.&#8221;  The collective grief and anguish pleas find little sympathy among those with forty years of work behind them, who now face the loss of everything.  Many of whom have never had the opportunity to gambol about on one of the country clubs of senseless and impractical learning, in a magical time warp of leisure and social excess; being faced with that ever nagging force of increasing principles on student loans and the inevitable hopelessness of a job search during an Obama Economy and the very real possibility that potential employers might not regard them with the same esteem they feel they deserve for working so hard at a degree that is considered by many employers to be of dubious value in the mean world of reality.  Therefore, the whole country should, &#8220;look what&#8217;s going down,&#8221; the world is being mean to them; mommy and daddy didn&#8217;t prepare them for this life, not the cold hard realities of this life.  The realities of actually holding down a job instead of the hedonism of a continual search for improvement and self-awareness are not exactly why they attended these expensive universities.</p>
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There’s battle lines being drawn.<br />
Nobody’s right if everybody’s wrong.<br />
Young people speaking their minds,<br />
Getting so much resistance from behind.<br />
It’s time we stop, hey, what’s that sound?<br />
Everybody look what’s going down.</p></blockquote>
<p>Krugman&#8217;s liberalism needs virtuous zealots to carry forth the banners of Socialism, so what if they are nonsensical and witless poets in rags; they are taking a stand and God knows there are precious few willing to stand with Obama these days.  </p>
<p>From Krugman&#8217;s feeble attempt at subversion, he uses the classic three part play to illustrate his anemic and pathetic plea:</p>
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In the first act, bankers took advantage of deregulation to run wild (and pay themselves princely sums), inflating huge bubbles through reckless lending. In the second act, the bubbles burst — but bankers were bailed out by taxpayers, with remarkably few strings attached, even as ordinary workers continued to suffer the consequences of the bankers’ sins. And, in the third act, bankers showed their gratitude by turning on the people who had saved them, throwing their support — and the wealth they still possessed thanks to the bailouts — behind politicians who promised to keep their taxes low and dismantle the mild regulations erected in the aftermath of the crisis.</p></blockquote>
<p>I seem to remember Obama bailing out the bankers with obscene amounts of taxpayer dollars, Krugman must have run short of ink or he would have mentioned that inconvenient fact.  Is it convenient to leave out how Rubin rewrote the bank rules and of Obama&#8217;s declaration that the banks were too big to fail?  Let&#8217;s not mention that Cuomo made predatory lending legal.  It is awkward to mention that Clinton opted not to regulate derivatives.  The Occupy Wall Street group will become confused if they know that Democrats securitized the bogus loans at Fannie and Freddy.  That Goldman and Sachs, Obama&#8217;s main corporate supported and one of the beneficiaries of obscene amounts of Obama&#8217;s stimulus, packaged and sold worthless debt as high value securities.  All made possible, because they own Obama.  No these are inconvenient facts, it is far better not let the crowd suffer from Aristotle&#8217;s anagnorisis described so well in &#8220;Poetic&#8217;s&#8221; as the instant when ignorance gives way to truth.  No Krugman is perfectly willing to pimp for the Democrat Party and lie to the mob, telling them what he thinks they want to hear while the potential for rage over perceived social<a href="http://floppingaces.net/2011/10/07/lost-in-the-pointless-forest-without-a-point-of-view/aristotle1-3/" rel="attachment wp-att-70609"><img src="http://floppingaces.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/aristotle11.jpg" alt="" width="204" height="285" class="alignright size-full wp-image-70609" /></a> injustice increases.  Little do these people of little cerebral capacity or experience realize that all of middle class America is suffering under the imposition of the Socialist Regime of Obama; they may rightly feel they have no future, the overwhelming majority is watching their lifetime investments of work and money eroding away into oblivion.  Krugman implores them to jump on board and complete the transformation of America into a Socialist Dystopia and guarantee they will never have a chance of success, but an opportunity of collective mediocrity.</p>
<p>Krugman tries to soothe the savage beast that resides within the heart of every mob and expresses the oft-repeated premise of the Elite that guides every Useful Idiot and mindless lemming hiding within the collective of the faithful.</p>
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A better critique of the protests is the absence of specific policy demands. It would probably be helpful if protesters could agree on at least a few main policy changes they would like to see enacted. But we shouldn’t make too much of the lack of specifics. It’s clear what kinds of things the Occupy Wall Street demonstrators want, and it’s really the job of policy intellectuals and politicians to fill in the details.
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<p>How reassuring to those who sleep on the side walks, intellectuals and politicians will show the way just trust in us: &#8220;It’s clear what kinds of things the Occupy Wall Street demonstrators want, and it’s really the job of policy intellectuals and politicians to fill in the details.&#8221;</p>
<p>For the witless Useful Idiots who were laughed at by Stalin, theirs is not to think, but to follow the whims of intellectuals and politicians, forget those ridiculous attempts at eduction and knowledge, lest you suffer a crippling attack of anagnorisis and be of little or no use to the movement, for if ignorance gives way to truth the movement will be doomed.  Remember the words to the song:</p>
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What a field day for the heat.<br />
A thousand people in the street,<br />
Singing songs and carrying signs,<br />
Mostly say, “Hooray for our side.”<br />
It’s time we stop, hey, what’s that sound?<br />
Everybody look what’s going down.</p></blockquote>
<p>&#8220;A thousand people in the street, Singing songs and carrying signs,  Mostly say &#8216;Hooray for our side&#8217;.&#8221;  This is all you need to do, trust in the Elites and we will grant you a life and guide you through the dark scary forest of life.</p>
<p>Fortunately, the Left and the New York Times has intellectual lightweights like Krugman for guidance; otherwise, the country could be in far worse shape with the mounting anger of our worsening economic situation being directed at the party that has controlled approximately one fourth of the legislative government, for nine months, rather the party that controls the Executive and the Senate and controlled it all for two years of this debacle.  Yes rather than ridicule our opposition we should be thankful they are so clueless in the arena of ideas.</p>
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