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Flopping Aces has extensively documented the pain Barack Obama has chosen to inflict on this country because his highness is displeased that his servants in the GOP refuse to kneel.
It seems that Obama still has the pedal to the metal screaming down Agony Avenue in the Hurt Limo.
Priests in the military apparently have been banned from serving mass. I they do try to perform a mass, they will be subject to arrest.
Warnings have been issued about the potential abuse of personal information by Obamacare navigators.
Private information you post while signing up for Obamacare may be used against you in a court of law.
Obama has converted the Park Police into his own Gestapo:
Vaillancourt was one of thousands of people who found themselves in a national park as the federal government shutdown went into effect on Oct. 1. For many hours her tour group, which included senior citizen visitors from Japan, Australia, Canada and the United States, were locked in a Yellowstone National Park hotel under armed guard. The tourists were treated harshly by armed park employees, she said, so much so that some of the foreign tourists with limited English skills thought they were under arrest. When finally allowed to leave, the bus was not allowed to halt at all along the 2.5-hour trip out of the park, not even to stop at private bathrooms that were open along the route. “We’ve become a country of fear, guns and control,” said Vaillancourt, who grew up in Lawrence. “It was like they brought out the armed forces. Nobody was saying, ‘we’re sorry,’ it was all like — ” as she clenched her fist and banged it against her forearm.
Obama is spending far more money keeping people out of Parks than he ever would leaving them as they were.
Obama has put an end to therapy dogs visiting sick children:
Volunteers run the dog therapy program, but the veterinarians are on NIH staff and are paid as federal employees. In an Oct. 3 interview on National Public Radio’s Morning Edition, Abbey Whetzel talked about her son, Sam, who is dying of leukemia and enjoyed it when he was visited by the dogs. “They can only come once a week, but it’s the highlight of Sam’s week,” Whetzel said, adding that she was informed that the dogs would not be visiting because of the government shutdown. “He was disappointed,” Whetzel said. “He really looks forward to the dogs coming.
Cancer treatments have been defunded but NPR got a half a billion dollars:
LOS ANGELES – Funding for clinical cancer trials and other life-saving research under the National Institutes of Health was cut off in response to the government slimdown, but it looks like the cookie monster will still be knee-deep in chocolate chips (or is it carrots now?)
According to the Daily Treasury Statement and first reported by CNS News, the administration dished out $445 million to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) on the first day of the slimdown, which means funds for the likes of PBS Newshour, NPR and “Sesame Street” are being spent before cancer research.
“It’s more than irresponsible, it is reprehensible. It’s an ‘in-your-face’ move by the administration, blatantly picking winners and losers in this shutdown,” C. Edmund Wright, a columnist for Breitbart.com and American Thinker, told FOX411. “Public broadcasting is a staple of liberal propaganda.”
And as Media Research Center’s Director of Media Analysis, Tim Graham, pointed out, PBS has hosted two “very friendly” interviews with President Obama in recent weeks.
The CPB argued that it was indispensable, as opposed to cancer treatment:
But the CPB defended their big payday, telling FOX411 in a statement that their funding was “indispensable”and provide jobs for thousands of people.
It was noted that PBS has held two obsequious interviews with Obama over the last two weeks.
These are all Obama choices. They are meant to exert the maximal amount of pain on Americans- the Americans Obama took an oath to protect. This is not just bad judgment- it is evil.
When does the left stop swallowing the Koolaid?
Obamacare was premised on a set of lies- that you could keep your plan, keep your doctor and it was going to cost you less in premiums.
None of that is true.
It was supposed to reduce health care spending.
Obamacare was passed via legislative chicanery and legerdemain. We had to pass to find out what’s in it.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoE1R-xH5To[/youtube]
Obama unilaterally rewrites existing law from the Oval Office as he pleases, in violation of the Constitution:
Explaining his decision to unilaterally rewrite the Affordable Care Act, he said: “I didn’t simply choose to” ignore the statutory requirement for beginning in 2014 the employer mandate to provide employees with healthcare. No, “this was in consultation with businesses.”
He continued: “In a normal political environment, it would have been easier for me to simply call up the speaker and say, you know what, this is a tweak that doesn’t go to the essence of the law . . . it looks like there may be some better ways to do this, let’s make a technical change to the law. That would be the normal thing that I would prefer to do. But we’re not in a normal atmosphere around here when it comes to Obamacare. We did have the executive authority to do so, and we did so.”
Serving as props in the scripted charade of White House news conferences, journalists did not ask the pertinent question: “Where does the Constitution confer upon presidents the ‘executive authority’ to ignore the separation of powers by revising laws?” The question could have elicited an Obama rarity: Brevity. Because there is no such authority.
This is a bad law, as most that are hyper-partisan and rammed down the throat of America under dubious circumstances.
Please don’t argue that it’s wrong to try to change or defund established law. Dred Scott and Jim Crow laws were laws of the land. They were also bad law. I support any effort to modify or repeal this law, even to the point of default, and if for no other reason than to forever stain the Presidency of this vile, narcissistic and obstreperous man. The GOP is doing exactly the right thing, and one day this will be self-evident. Obamacare is nothing short of a disaster that is unfolding before our eyes.
Isn’t the job of the President to ensure the safety and welfare of America, as opposed to causing it the greatest amount of pain possible? Isn’t that a violation of the Oath of Office? Does it not violate the responsibility of the position?
So the question for you liberals is, when is enough enough?
UDPATE
The walls may be closing in. Obama is down to 37% approval. I don’t really care that people blame the GOP for the shutdown. These are the same stupid people who believed the lies in the first place and they aren’t going to re-elect Republicans in their own districts.
And in a very odd twist, Obama has summoned conservative journalists to the White House.
Likely to torture them on an off-shore black prison, er, I mean ship.
DrJohn has been a health care professional for more than 30 years. In addition to clinical practice he has done extensive research and has published widely with over 70 original articles and abstracts in the peer-reviewed literature. DrJohn is well known in his field and has lectured on every continent except for Antarctica. He has been married to the same wonderful lady for over 30 years and has three kids- two sons, both of whom are attorneys and one daughter on her way into the field of education.
DrJohn was brought up with the concept that one can do well if one is prepared to work hard but nothing in life is guaranteed.
Except for liberals being foolish.
@Richard Wheeler, #146:
I’m actually far more concerned about the Illuminati, the Freemasons, and the Reptilians infiltrators.
@Richard Wheeler, #146:
I made a couple of wisecracks regarding your astute observation in #146, but I am suddenly experiencing difficulties with the spam filter. *S*
@Greg: you overlooked the part about ‘falsely accused’, all of those you mentioned were verified to have been involved. Certainly Charlie Chaplin.
@Richard Wheeler:
Having said that, then you won’t mind me calling you a liar, Semper Fi
Greg
the wise dumpted it into the crack
@Redteam, #152:
Charlie Chaplin? A menace to America?
I myself will present what surely must be the strongest evidence of his obvious communist leanings:
This would surely hold up in any right-wing kangaroo court.
@Greg:
Greg, you don’t mind if I point out that the Hollywood 10 list originated from hearings of the HUAC and, of course, you know that McCarthy had nothing to do with the HUAC and you do know that the Hollywood 10 were, in fact, communists. Other than that little fact, uh, never mind…..
R.T. C’mon home schooler. Support McCarthy– the tag team of o5 and RT. Believe Muslims in upper echelons of Govt–o5 and RT. Your problem with that observation? Heck you’ve accused Obama of being a Muslim. You actually remind me of McCarthy lol
Greg Thanks for the video
@Greg: Interesting.
@Pete:
This fallacious comparison (government vs. personal finances) illustrates my point perfectly (thank you). If I were to run my finances at a deficit, at a certain point credit would dry up. I couldn’t, for example, get a house mortgage if I was in serious debt. The United States government doesn’t have that problem. At certain times, it’s necessary to run at a deficit. Or maybe you care more about balancing the budget than, say, winning World War II, when our deficit dwarfed today’s (22.2 % of GDP)? So, as I said, not a very astute argument, but Paul Ryan will send you flowers for the attempt.
Of course there is, theoretically, one thing that could hamper the United States ability to secure credit, but it’s so far fetched,… well, it’s just that if we stopped making payments on our debt, if – for example – we didn’t raise the debt ceiling, we would be in trouble. But who would be stupid enough to advocate for that?
@Richard Wheeler:
So in addition to being a liar, you’re also ignorant? Interesting…. Semper Fi
@Richard Wheeler:
Your point? Are you saying he’s not?
@Tom:
Dimocrats anyone?
Tom
thank’s for the new word,
I also watch the NATURE PROGRAMS ON TV,
NEVER HEARD OF LEPIDOPTERIST, IT SOUND LIKE A WORM,
OR SOME SCIENTIST RESEARCHING THOSE INTELLIGENT ALLIENS WORM LOOK ALIKE,
THEY ARRIVE FROM THE open borders, not so long ago,
but then I THOUGHT OF LIBIDOPTERIST,
WHICH IS TO BE EXPLAIN
LATER ON THE NEXT CHAPTER,
OH GOOD, I LOOK IN THE DICTIONARY, I THOUGHT YOU WHERE SUFFERING FROM THAT LEPIDOPTEROUS
Recall how Obama tried to create an illusion on paper of an employment recovery back when the US was doing the census?
What they did was hire/fire/re-hire/re-fire/……the same persons over and over again.
It made the unemployment curve go up so substantially that there is a dotted line showing the REAL unemployment numbers on graphs of our recession.
See one of those graphs here:
http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2013/09/august-employment-report-169000-jobs-73.html
Well, Obama is at it again with ObamaCare!
Same technique!
Here’s how Bob Laszewski, a health-care consultant, describes the situation with the so-called 50,000 people who have signed up for ObamaCare through the exchanges:
(Oh, media says it is a bit over 50,000!)
http://http//healthpolicyandmarket.blogspot.com/2013/10/how-many-people-have-signed-up-for.html?m=1
That last remark recalls to mind the fact that most of Obama’s Twitter followers are FAKE.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2430875/Barack-Obama-19-5m-fake-Twitter-followers.html
Nan G
HE IS FAKING THE SYSTEM SINCE HE ARRIVE, WITH HIS MERRY PURPLE SHIRT UNIONS,
IT WILL CATCH UP WITH HIM,
THANK GOD WE HAVE YOU , NAN
YOU CATCH HIM ALL THE TIMES
@Redteam: All you’ve got left is insults? You’ve been shown up and badly embarrassed RT.
Listen, home schooler, if you don’t understand my #157 just say so. Greg had no problem with it.
Thanks for the Semper Fi
@Nan G:
What, I thought that was the ones that had signed up. oh well…….
@Richard Wheeler:
Not possible. You can’t be insulted, anything applies.
Greg is a Dimocrat, he would. But I couldn’t find where you actually said anything in 157.
You’re welcome.
I can’t find where I called Obama a Muslim, maybe you can re-direct.
I notice you never did name the innocent person accused by McCarthy. Still looking, eh?
RW, home schooler? The only person I’m schooling is you, but you’re not at my home and I don’t know if you’re at yours. So it might not apply.
Somebody has been reading Ailinsky’s Rules For Radicals.
Heh!
http://3-ps.googleusercontent.com/h/www.powerlineblog.com/admin/ed-assets/2013/10/426x243xBWFDUPjCYAA06a9.jpg-large.jpeg.pagespeed.ic.hSqzQZvFWt.jpg
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2013/10/yes-we-cone.php
Nan G
THAT WILL RUN LIKE A RABIT RUNNING FOR HIS LIFE,
THANK YOU,
@Redteam: You called Obama a Muslim in response to an 05 post.Confirm or change if you like.
Charlie Chaplin is one of many who were falsely accused. Hell, McCarthy accused hundreds indiscriminately–often in his own personal haze. That’s why he was censured by Dems. and Repubs. Hence McCarthyisn—to falsely accuse.
BTW Were you home schooled? You certainly display a disdain for higher education.
I accept that you didn’t understand #157. KISS for you henceforth.
Semper Fi
@Richard Wheeler:
My only disdain for higher education is when it produces a product that didn’t learn very much, such as you. But no, I’m not home schooled, I have two degrees for an excellent very highly rated engineering university.
I notice you didn’t state which comment # it was. Do you deny Obama is a Muslim? Just curious?
Charlie Chaplin never even claimed that he was falsely accused. It was proven that the charge was accurate. (see, that’s where your education has totally failed you. Why do you have to be told such well known facts?)Just for the record, Chaplin was accused prior to McCarthy being elected Senator. (another example of your education letting you down) I’m gonna go out on a limb and guess that had you never gone into the Marine Corps, you never would have learned a damn thing).
RW, oh yeah, Semper Fi
@Nan G: #164
Fake people following a fake president.
@Smorgasbord:
It is amazing to me that so many things get commented on without someone even wondering what it is they are saying. How many kool-aid drinkers have said in the last two days that Joe McCarthy accused Charlie Chaplin. McCarthy wasn’t elected to the Senate until the election in ’46 and he assumed office in 47. Chaplin was accused of being a communist prior to 1940. How in the hell could this be a case of McCarthyism? Chaplin’s accusations were even prior to the HUAC meetings which occurred prior to McCarthy getting into the fray. All they know is some lib said it so it must be true. True Kool-Aid drinkers.
@Redteam: #176
Things I don’t know much about, I try not to comment on, and I don’t know much about the Charlie Chaplin/Joe McCarthy thing. It did remind me that I read something that I don’t know if it is true or not. The story said that there was a Charlie Chaplin lookalike contest. Unknown to the judges, Chaplin entered the contest. According to the story, he came in third. As I mentioned, I don’t know if it is true, but it makes an interesting story.
@Redteam: At least Smorg is honest about his knowledge of McCarthy. Like Joe, you make things up as needed.
McCarthyism—-“The practice of making unfair accusations or using unfair investigative techniques,especially in order to restrict dissent or political discussion.” That was Joe He accused hundreds of Communist ties including Linus Pauling, George C. Marshall and Albert Einstein.
Seriously RT, like me,you’re old enough to remember seeing this guy ranting and raving on T.V. One day “There are exactly 147 card carrying Communists in the U.S. Govt.” Couple of days later he’d yell out a different number of “confirmed Communists” Following week he’d yell out a new confirmed number.
Smorg It got so RIDICULOUS his fellow Senators got fed up and censured him 67-22. Died a drunk 4 years later at 49.This Joe made Joe Biden look like a quiet genius.
Greg #179 Thanks for setting the record straight on Chaplin. Little wonder why RT thinks so highly of JM. They have many similar qualities.
@Redteam, #176:
As follows:
From the BBC News, September 19, 1952: US Immigration slams door on Chaplin:
Speaking of communists….
Wasn’t Frank Marshall Davis, Obama’s mentor, publicly identified as a member of the Communist Party USA?
Oh, and it turns out the parent company of the primary ObamaCare website contractor used to do similar work for the Canadian government… until they got fired in 2012, having “missed three years of deadlines and failed to deliver the province’s flagship online medical registry,” according to the Washington Examiner. But the geniuses of the Obama Administration figured they’d be a swell choice to handle the most expensive website launch in human history!
Nan G
That smell the rat, why yes would a CANADIAN COMPANY would even lay eyes on it
and all the 2000 PAGES OF IT,and probably more now,
when there are so many AMERICAN companies who could do the job,
something very important to be checked, it’s not a small thing to look away from,
dig in that fact, there is more rats than the eyes can see,
bye
Greg
Redteam tell what he know, he doesn.t add to it,
you think you are the only one who can tell and know in here?
are you sore to hear someone who know more on a subject than you?
@Tom:
Neither do I, I’d prefer it. But that would be asking the right to fight under the Marquess of Queensberry rules, while the left uses street fighting tactics. The MSM has provided facts, or at least informed opinions about how much republicans hate children, the poor, and seniors to the point that everyone believes it. Yet studies have proven time and again that conservatives give more time, money, and even blood than liberals.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/03/conservatives_more_liberal_giv.html
That’s just a few. You can do your own research if you want. Liberals will tell everyone that will listen that conservatives hate the poor and needy. You did it in your post about Ryan’s budget. The fact is, we believe we have more power to handle the poor locally than the fraud infested federal government can do nationally.
We could start with the same thing that happened to Bush, but in the MSM instead of blogs. Dan Rather ended up losing his job because of it. Wanna start there?
Possibly. I tend to fact check everything I read. If I read something I find to be incredible, I’ll look for the other side of the issue. I actually like the New Yorker, but I treat them the same way I treat every other information source…with skepticism.
There’s plenty of data to support it, just not from the Center on Budget and Policy Priories. There are conservative answers to Keynes. I read Café Hayek and Mises.org; I find Austrian economists to be pretty straight forward. The biggest Keynesian I know is Paul Krugman, and he is wrong 95% of the time. Check Café Hayek out and Mises.org, it won’t turn you into a conservative, but I think you might find it interesting.
Good question. Don’t get me wrong on what is to follow, republicans are just as guilty, but why did the ACA have to be all or nothing? Why did it have to be 2000+ pages that nobody read and shoved down our throats through parliamentary tricks? You asked, so I’m asking right back. Why couldn’t the parties come together and find a way to make sure people with pre-existing conditions were covered? Why couldn’t we look at our budget, find the most inane stuff in there, cut it and bring 30 million uninsured Americans under medicare or medicade? Why is sending money to people studying the effects of cocaine on monkeys more important than that? I hear liberals talk about the money sent to do things like this as a drop in the bucket. How many of the 30 million uninsured could a $3 million turtle crossing insure? How about the $10 million renovation of an abandoned train station (that is still abandoned)? That could have helped a bit. I could go on…literally for pages of wasted money. You can’t blame republicans for trying to undo an all or nothing law through and all or nothing strategy; that would be hypocritical. And you can’t ask us to fix a law that we didn’t want and fought all out to prevent. The same things in the law the democrats like are the same thing the republicans like; it’s how to make it work that we disagree on.
I will agree with you on principle here, although I don’t think Ryan is trying to hurt the powerless. I pointed that out in a previous post. I do think you are dead on with the other part though. We live in a crony capitalist system right now….both sides are guilty. Our tax code is messed up and contributes to this in a major way. Once you allow deductions, you set up a system where members of congress can gift their buddies by allowing deductions. Have a company that republican likes? Tax deduction for hiring left-handed people. Have an organization a democrat likes? Tax exempt for 10 years because they save Pandas. Get rid of all deductions, lower the rates. I’d sign up for that in a heartbeat, even though I love my mortgage deduction. If they lower my rates, I don’t need it.
@Aqua: Very well written. Tom and you are an example of the right kind of debate. IMO we can all learn from intelligent, and civil discussions like this.
Noles are looking VERY strong.
@Greg: You didn’t address the fact that Chaplin was originally accused prior to 1940, long before Mc appeared on the scene.
@Smorgasbord: That’s one of those Facebook stories, I’ve seen it about several celebrities. It is relatively easy to find out that Chaplin was accused prior to 1940 of being a communist and raising money for them. I don’t think McCarthy was around Washington or LA at that time.
@Richard Wheeler:
Yes, I do remember and I had some doubts myself at the time, but since all of those he accused were later confirmed to have been communists, he was at long last vindicated. The numbers he was using were supplied to him by Hoover.
When and where did I say I admire McCarthy? I think you likely had more in common than I, he was a Marine. Semper Fi.
Interesting that you’ve still not supplied the name of one person he accused that later turned out not to be true.
@Nan G:
Yes he was.
@Richard Wheeler:
Yes, you should follow your advice, RW.
@Redteam: He accused hundreds of being Communists. You REALLY think he got em ALL right—Einstein,Pauling, the list goes on and on. C’mon. Suspend disbelief. You saw the guy. Did he look like he was sane and sober?
@Richard Wheeler: So, who was he wrong about?
@Redteam: Did you see Greg’s posted list. 93 of the many hundreds accused were convicted. Don’t know about you but I believe “innocent until proven guilty.” We can start with Einstein and Pauling as accused but not convicted. There are hundeds more, but you look em up if you like.
When time permits read again the DEFINITION OF McCARTHYISM.
@Richard Wheeler:
When did ‘guilty’ or ‘innocent’ enter into the conversation? We’re talking about how many were communists. I don’t think being a ‘communist’ in the 1930’s was a guilty or innocent thing, they just were or were not. We were only talking about who was accused of being a communist by McCarthy that was not a communist. So far, you have named none. You’ve thrown out a couple of names, but we already both know they were communists. Well, your education might be letting you down again on this, never know. Why don’t you defend your fellow Marine? Being a drunk is not a crime, certainly not like being a communist.
@Redteam: Are you saying Nobel Prize winners Albert Einstein and Linus Pauling were Communists.? Certainly neither ever claimed to be so.
If I called you a Tea Bagger would you be offended? If you denied it and I continued and then accused your male relatives of being Tea Baggers through association with you.?Went to the press? No proof.Simply because I didn’t like your politics or your causes.This is what McCarthy did.
McCarthy was on a witch hunt for people who didn’t agree with his politics. Fear mongering at it’s worst. We see it in today’s politics from Michelle Bachmann.
Fortunately people like Drew Pearson fought back by thoroughly investigating McCarthy. As a direct result of his inquiries McCarthy was discredited, censured and the witch hunt was over.
Let’s take a look at what Greggie posted, shall we?
To begin with, Chaplin was known to hob-nob with known Communists such as Hanns Eisler and Bertolt Brecht. Also, although Chaplin actively campaigned against the trials of Communist Party members, and was subpoenaed to testify in front of the HUAC, he never testified.
As to the claim that “Mr Chaplin was unable to work after he refused to cooperate when he appeared before the Committee” nothing was farther from the truth. In 1946 he started filing Monsieur Verdoux, a movie he wrote which was considered to be anti-capitalism and claiming that the world encouraged mass killings through wars. It was not the government that rejected the movie, but the public in general. United Artists, who distributed the movie, considered it a flop, pulled it, re-released it and pulled it again. It was with Monsieur Verdoux that Chaplin’s public popularity was really starting to wan.
Yet, Chaplin continued to work in the U.S. His last film, Limelight, was to be Chaplin’s last movie. It was filmed in 1951-52, and Chaplin had always intended to premier it in London (according to his son), as London was the location of the film. It was then, in 1952, when Chaplin left for the UK that the AG decided that he would not be allowed to reenter the U.S. Chaplin was never out of work the entire time he remained in the U.S., contrary to Greggies BBC article.
And what was Chaplin’s reaction to the country that had allowed him to work, and become a very wealth man?
“Whether I re-entered that unhappy country or not was of little consequence to me. I would like to have told them that the sooner I was rid of that hate-beleaguered atmosphere the better, that I was fed up of America’s insults and moral pomposity.”
Chaplin, like many others in the entertainment industry, never seen to object to the wealth they earn off the American people, but have no problem dumping on the very country that made them so very, very wealthy. Case in point, Tina Turner, who has not only earned more money than she will ever be able to spend from audiences of all races, creed and ethnicity, left the nation of her birth when she retired, relinquishing her American citizenship, as she felt the U.S. was such a “racist” country.
Was Charlie Chaplin a “card-carrying” Communist? I don’t know. But he certainly had Communist leanings.
@Redteam:
RW wants to blather on about Drew Pearson and Albert Einstein. But you will notice he never mentioned Robert La Follett, Jr. , who committed suicide with most in D.C. believing it was because McCarthy was about to go public with La Follett’s Communist ties including having Communists like John Abt on his committees.
@retire05, #195:
Yep. And self-righteous, philistine nitwits such as yourself are doing their best to turn America into that sort of place again.
Richard Wheeler
fear mongering is only on OBAMA AND NOT ON MECHELLE BACKMAN,
I KNOW YOU GUYS TRY TO SNEAK HATE WORD TO DEMONIZE THE GOP,
WE HAVE TO BE DILIGENT TO CATCH YOU AS FAST AS YOU SAY IT,,
BECAUSE YOU ARE SO CHEATER HIPOCRYTE,
NICE TRY,
Michelle Backman is an addition to AMERICA PROTECTORS, WE HAVE TO PROTECT THE PROTECTORS, FROM PEOPLE WHO ARE SO INDOCTRINATED BY OBAMA THEY CANNOT THINK ON THEIR OWN ANYMORE,
@Greg:
All you have is ad hominem attacks. Unfortunately, you can’t dispute fact, no matter what source you may use.
You most certainly are not earning your OFA pay. But I guess you are what we can expect for ten bucks an hour.