Morning Must Reads: Salesmanship

– that the Recovery Act “saved or created” 3 million jobs and spurred some $280 billion in private sector and local government investment — before the Joint Economic Committee on the Hill.
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Recovery Act. You mean the big bailout of 2009 put together by King Rufus and the Keystone Cops?
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The only thing this Administration has “saved or created” are political sound bites and Wednesday Hollywood Nights at the White House. But, what can you expect when in 85 days with oil gushing in the Gulf of Mexico, this President has taken not one, not two, but now THREE extended vacations. Oh, and this was also peppered with weekend outings to the golf course or games of basketball.
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Does anyone really wonder why the country is not only in Obama’s ditch, but he is spinning the wheels so fast he makes Wiley Coyote look like Albert Einstein with fur and big ears.

Hey Adam:
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Any news on the new Fatwah issued by the NAACP against the TEA Party? Has Louis Farrakhan signed on with the NAACP yet? Jeremiah Wright?

Those who speak without knowledge through their mouth speak through their butt. You come across as an ignorant racists and bigot.

What did I miss?

Berm, Baby, Berm.
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“Two months ago, against the advice of many coastal scientists, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal began furiously campaigning for the construction of six artificial islands to hold back the advancing oil. The federal government quickly granted Jindal his wish, and construction on the islands has been continuing apace.

But images taken of one construction site near the northern edge of the Chandeleur islands appear to show the sea washing away a giant sand berm over the course of about two weeks.”

(time-lapse pictures at the link)

Justice delayed, but not denied.
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Cops could face death in post-Katrina shootings
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http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5itacuo027SPFvsLcEPy7vA55Io-gD9GUOS4G0

“Has Louis Farrakhan signed on with the NAACP yet? Jeremiah Wright?”
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Miss Prissy? Hey Rusty, why must she tweet [read: hide behind] her opinions instead of fleshing them out in front of BLACK PEOPLE? Surely she has enough jack to catch a Southwest flight to Kansas City?!

The NBPP will get those guys, won’t they Rust-eze?

Three words: My Pet Goat.

“Fatwah issued by the NAACP”
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Racist Rusty now can’t tell the difference between the NAACP and radical Muslim terrorists.
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What, do they all look alike, Racist Rusty?

There’s prolly not a lot of black people in Wasilla, though.
RELATED: Levi and Bristol are engaged???

And gee, isn’t that what the scientists were saying all along would happen? Of course that didn’t stop the press from giving Jindal all the publicity and almost none to the fact based info.

Rustyblog is Megyn Kelly?

In the real world, it would be surprising to hear that an avowed racist like Rusty would defend the Teabaggers from charges of racism by the NAACP.
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But what would be even more surprising would be that he would do it by trotting out yet another “Willie Horton-ism”:
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1. Link the NAACP to terrorists by the use of the word “Fatwah”
2. Link the Muslim Brotherhood to the NAACP via Louis Farrakhan
3. Link Obama to terrorism via the first, second, and the now truly ancient guilt by association with Jeremiah Wright.
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It’s interesting to dissect these things and place on display the means by which Rusty fans old racial hatreds and fears by implying something worse than just condemnation (a “Fatwah”) by the NAACP was being considered.
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Rusty, an avowed racist, uses racist arguments to defend teabaggers against the charge of racism.
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Ahyuh!
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It flies alright. Upside down…

The NBPP will get those guys, won’t they Rust-eze?

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I doubt the NBPP will do much about that foghorn. 2 out of the 4 cops were black themselves.

Everyday your senseless hatred for all things Obama and democratic become more and more evident. So the guy is barred from taking a few summer vacations on weekends? Seriously?
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Bush took 69 days of Vacation his first year in office, and 77 additional days at Camp David in 2001. Obama took 26 days of Vacation his first year, and 27 additional days at Camp David.
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http://www.factcheck.org/2010/01/president-obamas-vacation-days/

One of these days, the DOJ will take up the Katrina debacle in it’s entirety, I hope.
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The Gretna police got clean away. Had the Gretna police not blocked that evacuation route, the superdome would have been emptied.
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Maybe this one will end properly.

See 2.5 Rusty.
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You have no credibility on race…

IF one is telling the TRUTH and IF one is doing what the PEOPLE want there should be NO NEED to SELL anything to the people.. the PROOF would be in the results.. They are not there, FACT is quite the opposite, and regardless of WHAT the POLITICIANS would rather beleive the PEOPLE are on to them..the PEOPLE do know what is best for them and they know it’s NOT this run away GOVERNMENT.. this accounts for BOTH sides the isle.. People are DONE with being told THEY JUST DON’T UNDERSTAND.. and the BEST ONE.. We have to PASS the bill to see what’s in it.. They are passing bills to effect each and every one of us our children and grandchild and the POLITICIANS have the ARROGANCE to tell the PEOPLE .. THEY KNOW WHATS BEST FOR US even though they won’t know what’s in the bill until they pass it.. Let’s look at the credit they did a swell job everyone had their interest rates go up even if they NEVER missed a payment and have a good credit score as well as having any available credit on their cards taken away.. or the new bill they are trying to pass that will make our charges on our bank accounts go up.. or IF they get cap and trade and as Obama said ” Electric bill WILL necessarily SKYROCKET” what’s to sell??? the people KNOW what is coming and they DON’T LIKE IT..

On the Dickerson story – maybe the problem is the endless discussion of Republican talking points as though they were serious news.

Finally Kyl and McConnell went too far and are being called out on the idea that deficits don’t matter if they are for tax cuts as opposed to helping the unemployed where they do. However, there has been such a drumbeat about the deficit being the most critical thing evah that even the man who pumps my gas remarked how terrible the deficit was and what trouble it was for the country. There hasn’t been any suggestion that, as many economists said at the time, that the stimulus was too small and there should be more spending to get the economy moving more quickly.

John Cornyn asks a question on his Facebook page.

“If it involved deficit spending, what, if any, bills you would ask our member of Congress vote for?”

(check out the responses)

Throw a rock, and you’ll hit someone you can blame.

“And in a sign of how money had influenced and distorted the debate, throughout the last decade the Louisiana Congressional delegation, for a time including the state’s current governor, Bobby Jindal, backed expanded offshore drilling so that Congress could use proceeds to pay for coastal damage caused by oil-and-gas operations. In 2006 the delegation supported legislation giving a share of federal royalties to states that allowed drilling in federal waters off their coasts, essentially using national revenue to encourage more exploration.

At the same time that Congress called for new drilling incentives, it also gutted oversight. From 2002 to 2008, legislators approved budgets reducing regulatory staffing levels by more than 15 percent — despite more complex deep-water operations and Interior Department concerns, voiced in 2000, that industry’s extensive use of contractors and inexperienced offshore workers posed new risks in deep water. “

IF…TRUTH…IF…PEOPLE…NO NEED…SELL…PROOF …FACT…WHAT…POLITICIANS…PEOPLE…PEOPLE …NOT…GOVERNMENT…BOTH…DONE…THEY JUST DON’T UNDERSTAND…BEST…ONE…PASS…POLITICIANS…ARROGANCE…PEOPLE .. THEY KNOW WHATS BEST FOR US…NEVER…WILL …SKYROCKET…KNOW…DON’T LIKE IT..
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Icky:
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You need a rubber keyboard, too…

So, zero taxes = infinite revenue, right?

“‘That’s been the majority Republican view for some time,’ Minority Leader Mitch McConnell told TPMDC this afternoon after the weekly GOP press conference. ‘That there’s no evidence whatsoever that the Bush tax cuts actually diminished revenue. They increased revenue, because of the vibrancy of these tax cuts in the economy. So I think what Senator Kyl was expressing was the view of virtually every Republican on that subject.’

The CBO and other budget experts strongly disagree.”

“You’re dealing with people who are professional race baiters, who make a very good living off this kind of thing. They make more money off of race than any slave trader ever. It’s time groups like the NAACP went to the trash heap of history where they belong with all the other vile racist groups that emerged in our history,” Williams said. Mark Williams, a national spokesman for the Tea Party Express.

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Response by the NAACP President, Benjamin Jealous, who issued a challenge to the Tea Party:
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“The NAACP along with it allies and partners (the Black Panthers and the Nation of Islam) will show America that a solid majority of this nation is ready, willing and able to fight back to ensure that all the change we voted for is made a reality for all of our children,” Jealous said.

Hopefully, the kiss-republican-butt democrats in congress will listen carefully to the stimulus report and a plan for further stimulus will come out of it. deficit reduction don’t put people to work. Neither do lower taxes. Case in point: the 1950′s saw some of the highest taxes in history, yet the unemployment was at it’s lowest while the 2000′s saw some of the lowest taxes in recent history and the economy collapsed sending us into a near-depression.

We don’t need no stinkin’ geologists!

Oops: Here is the link to the above quotes.
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http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128505089

I thought they were able to childproof computers. I guess I was wrong.

Daniel Gross on why news of a $1 trillion dollar deficit might be a good thing.

“Federal tax revenues are highly leveraged to economic growth and to the performance of markets, corporations, and rich people. This means they can be volatile. When markets and profits boom, capital gains taxes, payroll and income taxes, and corporate income taxes flow like a mighty stream. As a result, it’s not uncommon for tax receipts to rise 6 percent or 7 percent in a year when the economy grows by 3 percent.”

Killings shock troops on joint patrols vital to Afghanistan exit strategy
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The renegade member of the Afghan army not only killed (3 British troops in) his own joint patrol, but also inflicted collateral damage on one of the central tenets of Nato’s involvement in Afghanistan.
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Bob Shepherd, a former SAS soldier who spent a year training Afghan… police, said: “There will always be incidents like this… A lot of them are not there because of loyalty to the government in Kabul, but because they need to make some money to feed their family…”
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A serving senior NCO… said, “…A lot of soldiers don’t feel comfortable working with the Afghan national army as it is. It’s not the first time it’s happened, only the last time it was an Afghan policeman that killed five British soldiers.”
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“There was one lot who decided to go and join the Taliban in the middle of the night. They nicked all the equipment and weapons and drove off in a white pickup truck belonging to the Afghan army.”
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“…You can’t trust them. It’s a huge problem.”
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(h/t Juan Cole)

Is it me? / Is it fear? / I’m madly in anger with you

“What we get from widening inequality is not only a more fragile economy but also an angrier politics. When virtually all the gains from growth go to a small minority at the top — and the broad middle class can no longer pretend it’s richer than it is by using homes as collateral for deepening indebtedness — the result is deep-seated anxiety and frustration. This is an open invitation to demagogues who misconnect the dots and direct the anger toward immigrants, the poor, foreign nations, big government, “socialists,” “intellectual elites,” or even big business and Wall Street. The major fault line in American politics is no longer between Democrats and Republicans, liberals and conservatives, but between the “establishment” and an increasingly mad-as-hell populace determined to “take back America” from it.

When they understand where this is heading, powerful interests that have so far resisted fundamental reform may come to see that the alternative is far worse.”

Here is what Jealous actually said:
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“he NAACP along with it allies and partners will show America that a solid majority of this nation is ready, willing and able to fight back to ensure that all the change we voted for is made a reality for all of our children,” Jealous said.
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http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128505089
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Rusty inserted the words “(the Black Panthers and the Nation of Islam)” into the test of Jealous’s speech, knowing that it was a not part of his speech.
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Rusty must take responsibility for lying, falsification, and fomenting racial hatred

IQ 53:
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You are a race baiter. Plain, simple and purely the evil that is the progressive movement in America.
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Just like Cone, Rev Jeremiah Wright’s mentor, the same Jeremiah Wright who mentored our current President, nothing but race baiters. People who want to see the total destruction of the United States of America because of their vile obsession to make any decent white person guilty. To make the founding Fathers of America into some perverted bunch of old white guys who enslaved blacks.
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You should really read the words of a great Black American, IQ53, Rev Martin Luther King, Jr. Put down your Cone books, and grasp onto the teachings of King. Cone and his “theology” set you on a path of violence. King puts you on the path of justice and peace. Did you lose the “dream” of Rev King, IQ53? In your hatred of all things white, have you lost the hope and dreams of Martin Luther King, Jr?

Rusty:
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You have just gotten your arse beaten yet again on this subject.
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I strongly advise you to stop, apologize, and desist from this type of conduct in the future!

“In your hatred of all things white, have you lost the hope and dreams of Martin Luther King, Jr?”
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Rusty:
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I CHALLANGE YOU TO POST ANY ANTI WHITE POSTS I HAVE MADE!

So the next question is, “Why?”

“Bachmann’s chief of staff, Ron Carey, has left her congressional office and her finance director is leaving her campaign just days after the Republican announced a blockbuster second-quarter haul of $1.7 million.”

I’ve got his goat.
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“People who want to see the total destruction of the United States of America because of their vile obsession to make any decent white person guilty.
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See your comments at 2 and 2.6.
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To make the founding Fathers of America into some perverted bunch of old white guys who enslaved blacks.
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Next time, Rusty, you should look to someone other than Glenn Beck to endorse your “history” books…

IQ53: see 4.5
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You and your “beatings”, is that why you lack any self esteem what-so-ever? Did your Daddy beat you as a child? Is that why you have such hatred for the “white Man” IQ53?
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IQ53 is nothing but a race baiter. Disagree with IQ53 and he will just rant and rave you are a “racist”. He can’t prove it. Can’t show anywhere or anyplace his proof. Nothing, Nada, Zilch.

Sorry all!
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I broke my promise, but Rusty is just asking for a good ol’ fashioned arsewhuppng…

It’s ok Rusty.
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It really is.
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You see, I not only can take your commentary apart to demonstrate just who you are, using your own words.
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Fair is fair I always say. You can do the same to me if you think I’m racist against whites. And in fairness for all, I invite you to do just that!
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I truth though, you’ve just managed to stick your foot, yet again, in your own mouth, as my support for the Black community does not reflect on how I feel about white Americans. The idea that my support for the Black community constitutes racism against whites is itself a racist “race traitor’ type of arguement!

From the Beating-Our-Heads-Against-the-Wall Department: You didn’t get what I was trying to say yesterday. You don’t have to say “I’m a racist!” to be considered one. It’s your actions that speak for themselves.

Rust-eze @ 2.0: When Miss Prissy tweets her opinions, aren’t they supported by her followers? Why don’t you consider those posts “fatwahs” as well? Is it only the NAACP or similar organization that declares “holy war”?
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(Not to mention that your implication–IMPLICATION, get it??–that the NAACP is somehow tied into Islam or Islamic origins is wrong and prima facie racist.)

IQ53:
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You are as equally violent in your rants as the NBPP members. Your continued obsession of “beating” someone or “whipping their arse” statements only prove what a twisted and perverted individual you truly are, but like you said.
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It’s ok
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As John writes in the Bible:
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“”And you shall
know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” (Jn 8:32)

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Happy “Don’t Feed the Trolls Thursday”, everyone.

Wow. A personal “Willie Horton-ism” just for me?!?!
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I’ll leave it right there. Except to say that you are coming up with a very diverse set of ways of getting out of a losing argument…

Bobby! Next time go for the fighter jet.
We couldn’t drop a bunker buster on that leaky pipe? Travels a mile down the pond and boom! Guaranteed to plug whatever hole they got.

“And you shall
know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”
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Racist Rusty, you’re going to use a Biblical quote about truth to defend the fact that you made up a quote from an NAACP leader?
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Did “Thou shalt no bear false witness” go over your head?
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You’re a racist, a liar, and now a hypocrite.

ACK!!
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Momento called me a racist!! Imagine that!!
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I got an idea for you mo’. Why don’t you and your boyfriend, IQ53 skip down the yellow brick road and sing show tunes for awhile. That might get you in a better mood.
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LOL!

Kill them with kindness.

http://michaelfury.wordpress.com/2010/05/06/killin/

Ignore Racisty. He has nothing to contribute, and isn’t interested in discussion.
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He just craves attention and wants to hijack the discussion to his personal issues with post after post on the same tired topics.
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Ignore him. Maybe if we stop paying attention, he and his multiple personalities will go away.

The Tea Party isn’t racist, they just have racist attitudes.
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http://www.newsweek.com/blogs/the-gaggle/2010/04/09/new-poll-finds-tea-partiers-have-more-racist-attitudes.html

Grapey:
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How are the Demonuts doing with their campaign donations? Anything like 2008? Has Obama also shut down the massive “grassroots” donation machine with his poor policy management?

As that has nothing to do with what I’ve posted, I’m more than happy to ignore your question (and subsequent comments), Rustyblog.

And the racial attacks continue today.
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President Obama, White House: Al Qaeda Is Racist
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http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2010/07/president-obama-white-house-al-qaeda-is-racist.html
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You see Ladies and Genlemen. If you disagree with the liberals and this President, you are simply a racist.
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Will that be the new reponse from the DNCC? The new logo? “Just Call Them Racists”

I think he actually likes the asswhuppings. He’s like one of those conservatives who likes getting beaten up and humiliated by a dominatrix.
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It’s the only reason he’s here. He hates the posts, he hates most of the commenters, and he never wants to engage with the subjects at hand. He just wants to get beat down over and over again.
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Let’s just refuse to feed his sick S&M needs.

“Two hundred and twenty one years ago, in a hall that still stands across the street, a group of men gathered and, with these simple words, launched America’s improbable experiment in democracy. Farmers and scholars; statesmen and patriots who had traveled across an ocean to escape tyranny and persecution finally made real their declaration of independence at a Philadelphia convention that lasted through the spring of 1787.
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On one end of the spectrum, we’ve heard the implication that my candidacy is somehow an exercise in affirmative action; that it’s based solely on the desire of wide-eyed liberals to purchase racial reconciliation on the cheap. On the other end, we’ve heard my former pastor, Reverend Jeremiah Wright, use incendiary language to express views that have the potential not only to widen the racial divide, but views that denigrate both the greatness and the goodness of our nation; that rightly offend white and black alike.
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I have already condemned, in unequivocal terms, the statements of Reverend Wright that have caused such controversy. For some, nagging questions remain. Did I know him to be an occasionally fierce critic of American domestic and foreign policy? Of course. Did I ever hear him make remarks that could be considered controversial while I sat in church? Yes. Did I strongly disagree with many of his political views? Absolutely – just as I’m sure many of you have heard remarks from your pastors, priests, or rabbis with which you strongly disagreed.
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But the remarks that have caused this recent firestorm weren’t simply controversial. They weren’t simply a religious leader’s effort to speak out against perceived injustice. Instead, they expressed a profoundly distorted view of this country – a view that sees white racism as endemic, and that elevates what is wrong with America above all that we know is right with America; a view that sees the conflicts in the Middle East as rooted primarily in the actions of stalwart allies like Israel, instead of emanating from the perverse and hateful ideologies of radical Islam….
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Some will see this as an attempt to justify or excuse comments that are simply inexcusable. I can assure you it is not. I suppose the politically safe thing would be to move on from this episode and just hope that it fades into the woodwork. We can dismiss Reverend Wright as a crank or a demagogue, just as some have dismissed Geraldine Ferraro, in the aftermath of her recent statements, as harboring some deep-seated racial bias.
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But race is an issue that I believe this nation cannot afford to ignore right now. We would be making the same mistake that Reverend Wright made in his offending sermons about America – to simplify and stereotype and amplify the negative to the point that it distorts reality”. Candidate Barack Obama, 3/18/08

I mean, seriously, at the 20 post below, he’s upset that Obama is being mean to … al Qaeda.
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If that’s not a masochist begging for a beatdown, I don’t know what is. No one is that stupid, not even Racisty.
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Ignore him.

He’s not interested in facts, he’s interested in making you angry.
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Ignore him.

More on race baiting by the Democrats and their internet allies at the Huff-n-Puff Post.
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“The American Thinker did an outstanding job describing the events on March 20th, when democratic members of Congress in Washington DC were reportedly taunted by tea party activists with racial and sexual slurs. It appears from the timeline of the events that this race-baiting story was in the works before the Black Caucus members paraded through the tea party crowd on Capitol Hill.

Now Doug Ross found this—–

McClatchy released their story on the reported attacks on the Black Caucus members at 4:51 PM EST. The McClatchy reporter William Douglas refers to Huffington Post contributor Sam Snead as a source in his article.

But… The Huffington Post did not post their article until 4:56 PM EST:

Amazing.

If this timeline is accurate, it looks like the democratic-media complex was working on this story before it even occurred.

…If it even occurred.

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http://biggovernment.com/jhoft/2010/04/02/it-was-a-setup-state-run-media-conspired-on-racist-tea-party-attack/

I’ll bite: Are her ex-staffers afraid she’ll lose? It’ll look bad on their resumes?

Summer rant reruns, huh?

There is no doubt what-so-ever the Liberals fiends are using race as a means to try and stop the Conservative flood of victories across America. The landslide of 2010 when more Conservatives will be elected into office than ever before in Congress.
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Their desperation is unfolding right before our eyes as we witness how the liberals have moved from what Gandhi once said:
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“First they ignore you, then they will laugh at you. Then they will FIGHT you, then you win”

Bachmann isn’t going to lose.
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At least not with the campaign Clark is running. Commercials highlighting Michelle’s idiotic defense of BP aren’t telling voters anything they don’t already know.
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Two years ago in a VERY good Democratic year in Minnesota and with her comments about anti-Americans in Congress and BHO’s suspect patriotism fresh on peoples minds she still won.
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I could be wrong but I doubt it.

We’ll check back on your dream in about 3 1/2 months.

“First they ignore you, then they will laugh at you. Then they will FIGHT you, then you win”

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Did you say that kevie???

Did someone say something? No? OK.

“Rustyblog is Megyn Kelly?”
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Oh, come on! Rusty Blog is ten times worse than that!

Hold up,
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“You see Ladies and Genlemen. If you disagree with the liberals and this President, you are simply a racist.”
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Are you saying BO just called Al Qaeda racist, because they disagree with liberals? I thought liberals were supposed to be on the terrorists’ side?
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Feel free to insult/slander me in your reply.

Icky,
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This is not the majority of Americans being told that we do not understand.
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It is the majority of Americans along with the winners of recent elections telling the far right that they do not understand since debating the far right who resist facts and jump up and down and cheer for throwing out insulting instead of exchanging facts and gaining a better understanding is excruciating for some people actually want to run the government rather than spend all day explaining that there are no mysterious death panels in the public option and right under our noses private insurance companies have always had death panels among many other bizarre right wing delusions.
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So, to make it short when confronted by misinformation over and over and over like the belief that Obama wanted to own a car company but got into politics by accident and bought a car company for fun or that any HCR without universal coverage is far less efficient and that is the only reason HCR seeks universal coverage, not just done for fun.
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You, not the majority of the American people, do not understand.
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At the end of the day, it seems like a huge share of these discontent people are to Obama’s and congressional Democrats left, not to their right wanting more comprehensive government action to stimulate the economy.

The Republican thinking comes from a thought experiment known as the Laffer Curve.
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If taxes are 0%, then revenue is $0.
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If taxes are 100%, then with no incentive to do anything, revenue is $0.
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Therefore, there might be – might be, never determined where – a space between 0% and 100% which is the perfect place for taxation to get the most revenue.
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Here is the problem: not one economist has ever found that optimal taxation rate only knowing that 100% tax is too much and 0% is too little.
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Republicans have claimed that there is an optimal taxation rate and that if we keep on lowering taxes, we will find that spot somehow despite evidence that tax rates beneath what we have now have not stimulated the economy enough to make up for lost revenues of the cuts.
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Since lowering taxes gets campaign coffers stuffed to the brim by those who get their own or their business’s taxes cut, denial has been a quick ticket to Republican victories again and again and again since Ronald Reagan.

No fractal, I would never just make fun of you, insult you or call you any names.
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You see fractal I have been on this site well over 2 years now posting comments. For the most part, the name calling and insults have by far been thrown out by my liberal friends here. I used to simply say to them they were acting like a bunch of 3rd graders out on the playground. I know they just wanted me to simply go away, but I haven’t, and I won’t.
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This is the part of the speech Mr Obama gave in 2008, maybe you remember?
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“to simplify and stereotype and amplify the negative to the point that it distorts reality”

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Yes, I agree with Mr Obama, by utilizing the tactics of the democrat party of throwing out such a serious allegation or slanderous word like “racist” so easily, they not only demean those folks who in years past were subject to racism, but future situations of real racist actions by some people will go completely unnoticed and that individual will suffer. In my mind that is just as big of a crime as someone who shouts out racial epiteths at someone else. That is why when the New Black Panthers made their racist statements I came down so hard on it. If you do not confront it, it will get worse.
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Cry wolf too many times, and the wolf will be at your side. No one will be there to help you.

Good catch. Excellent point. The Tea Party is not the KKK, but, have far more members who have far more negative perceptions of immigrants and people of color.
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That was exactly what I expected.

Rusty,

You do know that a large majority of people who disagree with you here are white men?

Also, disagreeing with HCR is not racist, but, when one considers the numbers it is a willingness for individuals to pay larger sums for health insurance to be sure that others do not benefit from the money they put into it.

That would be income, not race per se, that this is about. However, there is an exaggerated perception of blacks. Many do not know that the huge majority are not receiving benefits. Many do not know that the majority of welfare recipients are white.

However, opposition to HCR, as one example, is either based upon totally false information about the numbers or, for those who know the numbers and still opposed single payer, a desire to pay more rather than be helpful to people unlike one’s self and, most likely – due to class/income segregation – people one does not know personally.

It is true that not all unreasonably angry and/or ignorant people are racist, but, racists are always unreasonably angry, unreasonably scared and insecure and ignorant.

Are you the author of Millard Filmore?

You and that cartoonist have similar views – highly distorted ones.

“Are you the author of Millard Filmore?”

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Are you Homer Simpson?
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“DOH!!

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Mr Sartor,

As I have said on many, many occassions to you and your little friend IQ53, I have absolutely no desire to communicate with you or him.
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You are nothing more than a condesending liberal who only has the desire to make fun of or demean people due to your obviously shallow ego. Go get your jollies off on someone else, Bubba. I’m not interested in debating you at all.

Wow.
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I musta got Rusty’s goat…

He hates us. He really hates us!

In summary, after returning after a couple hours, I can certainly say that Rusty has stooped to innuendo and name calling because he is completely unable to respond to questions presented to him at 22, 20.3, 4.6 and observations of his behavior at numerous other places on this blog.

Rusty:
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Slander is civil action, and thus falls under the aegis of what is termed “preponderance of evidence”.
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Being a racist is not a criminal matter. That is what the First Amendment is for. Therefore, the aegis of “beyond reasonable doubt” does not apply.
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Thus:
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By your own statements, the preponderance of evidence shows that you are indeed a racist!

Ok Homer, whatever makes you feel all happy inside!!
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Enjoy!!

Kevin: I am doing my best to ignore NewRusty. It is difficult not to respond but I agree it is a waste of energy. Let’s see if silence will drive him away.

Kevin: Why does what’s his name turn every discussion into a forum to give his racist views? That is another reason I think we need to ignore what’s his name. He hijacks every thread.

It’s the old Reagan-era myth again. Reagan signed into law the 1981 tax cuts, revenue went up during the 1980s, the story goes. That is, as long as you forget, or outright ignore, that Reagan also signed into law a number of tax increases between 1982 and 1987.
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And what does McConnell think were the vibrant parts of the Bush years? And where did that vibrancy go?

Well, Blanche Lincoln and Jon Kyle want to drag out the estate tax give-away for all of those “small family farms” that exist only in their imagination. The problem is that that real small family farms don’t get subsidities or any other help except from Cooperative Extension and end up being liquidated and bought by the big agri-businesses that own the Senate Agriculture Committee and do get the subsidities. If they re-new the estate tax give-away, how do they plan on balancing it since they already turned down help for the unemployed? Certainly, they wouldn’t look at Defense since that is everyone’s sacred cow-the new 3rd rail of politics.

(follow-up on my #13)
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We’re uniting Afghanis after-all.
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“(A) day after three British soldiers were killed (by) one of their Afghan army allies… A senior Afghan army officer identified the man as a Shiite Hazara – an ethnic minority usually opposed to the (Pashtun Sunni) Taliban.
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I saw those pictures. Any bozo who lived near water knew this would happen. Yet, the press either ran around with their hair on fire exclaiming the administration wasn’t listening to Jindahl. Of course, the contract to build the berms went to a company that soon contributed to Jindahls future campaign.
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When I lived at the ocean erosion was a huge problem. The Army Corps of Engineers would throw in cars and other items to stop the erosion. Locals would gather and laugh as the ocean ate the cars, boulders and eventually homes when the tide came in.

Looks like a local Tea Party in Iowa caught enough heat from everybody (even other Tea Party groups) to remove an offensive billboard comparing President Obama with Lenin, and… wait for it… Hitler.

Ok, so how do you make links red in this thing-a-majig? My previous post has a link (offensive billboard) but it only shows when you hover your mouse over it.

Here’s the URL anyway:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_iowa_obama_billboard

apr, if what-his-name(s) and TP “friends” are trying to take back their country (as opposed to ours? And if they do take it back what will they do with it? But I digress), maybe we can just settle for taking backing our swamp threads. I’ll try…
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“500 words” –
Obama addresses the Senate.

Sounds like Willapa Bay…