Friday, May 28, 2010
No Passion for Doin' the Right Thing
Confidential? Bullshit!
This is disquieting—yet not unexpected. Nothing stands in the way of the creation of a good emergency opportunity: it’s the Noo American Way!
Jefferson Parish Homeland security director Deano Banano
OR *clicky*clicky*
I owe *Someone* a 
—I just misplaced who… Speak Up! and Thank You!
Powah Taken Back By The People
it ain’t gonna be so easy, Progs...
In September, Greenwood High School [Indiana] gave its senior class a ballot, asking them if they wanted to include prayer at graduation. Most students were in favor, but not all.
“I saw that as the school asking the students whether or not we wanted to violate the U.S. Constitution,” said Eric Workman, the school’s valedictorian. “I’m a Christian, but I also believe the law is the law.”
With the backing of the American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana, Workman sued the school and won.
Yes. They’re hi-skool kidz:
"Dealing with my peers, it was difficult, but it showed their true character,” Workman said.
Workman has heard rumors that there will be protests when he addresses his peers at commencement on Friday.
“Someone is going to sneeze, and everyone says, ‘God bless you,’ in order to get back at Eric Workman,” said Nick Rice, a junior at the school. ...
Workman said that he’s a little concerned about his safety and that no matter what happens, he is going to finish his speech, which will address the controversy.
The school’s response?
In the wake of the suit, school officials said they will not screen speeches by four seniors, which leads some to believe a student will read a prayer as part of their speech.
The crux of the case involves the use of school resources to conduct the vote.
[U.S. District Judge Sarah Evans Barker] Barker rejected the notion that the vote signaled a lack of school control over the prayer, saying the school created the ballot, chose the word “prayer” and gave students only a yes-or-no option on the vote. She repeatedly asked [Greenwood district attorney Judy Woods] to demonstrate how administrators weren’t advocating government-sanctioned prayer.
...[ACLU attorney Ken Falk] rejected Greenwood’s claims that the prayer would be part of a limited public forum and not sponsored by the school.
“This isn’t private speech—it’s government speech,” he said.
erm… Regardless of the use of school supplies to create the poll, deeming what students say at a graduation to be “gubbmint speech” seems kinda creepy. ...or creeping.
Just Me™?
Thursday, May 27, 2010
*retching noises*
who falls for this?!?
Teh Personal = Teh Plotitical = Teh Narrative
“When I woke up this morning and I’m shaving, and Malia knocks on my bathroom door and she says — did you plug the hole yet Daddy?”
Be interesting to watch the MSM arc of this ...line.
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$#*! ?
^#@+ +#* #*^#?!?
Another step toward popularization. I’m thinkin’ that there aren’t many kids who don’t hear—or use on a daily basis—the common AngloSaxon expletives the FCC charges so highly for. At least here in CA… [?]
CBS is assuming they do, anyway. And are ready to hear the equivalent on PrimeTimeTV.
“$#*! My Dad Says,” will air Thurdays at 8:30 PM on ...CBS
Yep. They’re using “$#*!”. As they deemed “$#!+” to be too racy… Yes, there are groups objecting.
I may actually give it chance since [A] it’s based on this:
"No. Humans will die out. We’re weak. Dinosaurs survived on rotten flesh. You got diarrhea last week from a Wendy’s."
and [B] it stars William Shatner.
[did CBS not even think of the obvious title?!?]
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Yeah. But Have Ya Read it Yet?
well, at least Teh iW∅n got the transparent part right...
President Barack Obama’s plan to send as many as 1,200 National Guard troops back to the U.S.-Mexico border [that’s one [1] person every 8,593 feet.] [which] doesn’t call for the ability to round up suspected illegal immigrants and smugglers...
Pause.... and
A team of Justice Department attorneys reviewing the new immigration law in Arizona has recommended that the U.S. government challenge the state law in federal court ... challenges the Arizona law as unconstitutional, saying it is illegal because it impedes federal law
...by restating the federal law and bringing state resources to uphold it.
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
uhm... yeah...
whadda naccomplishment
White House spokesman Bill Burton, who attended the [a private lunch with Republican senators] in the Capitol, said the exchange “was actually pretty civil."
rly? The Ruling Elite managed to achieve “pretty civil”? We, the ruled, stand kneel in awe.
"He needs to take a Valium before he comes in and talks to Republicans,” Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., told reporters. “He’s pretty thin-skinned."
yeah. keep pushing. we ain’t seen nuthin’ yet.
McCain said he told Obama “we need to secure the border first” before taking other steps. “The president didn’t agree,” he said.
...McCain said, “I pointed out that members of his administration who have not read the law have mischaracterized the law—a very egregious act on their part.”
Burton said Obama told McCain that he has read the Arizona law himself, and his concerns remain.
So he’s concerned that the way a law is carried out could lead to undesirable consequences, eh? And that’s unlike any other law on the books how?
[and has he read his HellCare/Financial bills—at all?]
As the Senate wrapped up its business Tuesday, Obama was flying to California to headline a fundraiser for Sen. Barbara Boxer...
ooo—here comes the traditional Kiss Of Death.
this time, on Death!
[what… wha?
that’s only botox—not actually Death?
oh.]
nevermiiiind.
Lest we forget:
Now They've Passed It...
we’re allowed to know what’s in it...
If a company offers coverage but requires any full-time employees to pay premiums that amount to more than 9.5 percent of their household income, the coverage is deemed unaffordable, and the employer may have to pay a penalty.
Which means to make rational business choices, your employer will have to know your household income; not just the amount they pay you, their employee. And, of course, the gubbment already knows. everything.
[Donald Berwick, Federal Coordinating Coucil for Comparative Effectivieness [sic]: “We can make a sensible social decision [gonna hear that phrase a lot. a LOT.] and say, ‘Well, at this point, to have access to a particular additional benefit [new drug or medical intervention] is so expensive that our taxpayers have better use for those funds.’ ["our taxpayers”?!? The ones who don’t get to make any of the decisions: just pay for them? (from both ends) Those “OUR taxpayers”??] We make those decisio all the tim. [aprntly, he’s also into ratong ltrs] The decision is not whether or not we will ration care--the decision is whether we will ration with our eyes open.”
In the same interview, he also said, “The social budget is limited—we have a limited resource pool. It makes terribly good sense to at least know the price of an added benefit, and at some point we might say nationally, regionally, or locally that we wish we could afford it, but we can’t.”
"social budget"—*gah*
"limited resource pool"—isn’t that what Big Insurance said?
"terribly good sense"—in the original meaning of “terrible”
"we wish we could, BUT"—I wonder how they’ll respond to the argument I wish I could continue to pay taxes, BUT you’ve destroyed the economy and the ‘limited resource pool’ is dry.”...
Demented. These people are demented.
Oh, look: Gestural Politics
believe it?
President Barack Obama [raaaaacist teabagger] will send 1,200 National Guard troops to boost security along the U.S.-Mexico border, officials said Tuesday, pre-empting Republican plans to try to force votes on such a deployment.
Obama will also request $500 million for border protection and law enforcement activities, according to lawmakers and administration officials. The moves come as chances for action on comprehensive immigration reform, Obama’s long-stated goal, look increasingly small in this election year.
or…
...some Hispanic lawmakers in his own party are blaming combative White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel for the slow pace of progress.
“I don’t think Rahm Emanuel is a positive influence on the immigration debate,” Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill, told the Chicago Fox affiliate. Gutierrez hails from the same state as Emanuel, a former congressional leader. “I don’t think he sees it as a core value of the Democratic Party, or a necessity that the American people need to be acted upon.”
Rep. Raul Grijalva, D-Ariz., told the Los Angeles Times that he wants immigration to be stripped from Emanuel’s portfolio.
...Frank Sharry, founder and executive director of America’s Voice, a pro-immigration group, told FoxNews.com that Emanuel was a “real problem” during the Bush years when “he was encouraging Democrats to run away from immigration.”
..."When I talk to people in the White House, I don’t get the sense he’s the guy laying down in front of the bulldozer saying don’t move immigration,” he said. “I think they’ve set other issues at higher priority. It’s all health care all the time. All financial reform all the time."
nice metaphor…
"The politics of this is clear,” he said. “If you want to show independents you’re about solving tough problems and not playing politics as usual, immigration is a winner."
IF “solving” = “surrendering”, sure.
Monday, May 24, 2010
Teh Narrative Thickens
bullshit within bullshit
Bemember 500 screaming, placard-waving, police-escorted strangers on a lawn?
‘We spent a fortune to elect Barack Obama,” declared Andy Stern
...Bloomberg News reports that [Tom Buffenbarger, president of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, who sits on the AFL-CIO’s finance committee] is circulating a report claiming the AFL-CIO engaged in “creative accounting” to conceal financial difficulties heading into last year’s Presidential election. As recently as 2000, the union consortium of 8.5 million members had a $45 million surplus. By June of last year it had $90.6 million in liabilities, or $2.3 million more than its $88.3 million in assets. “If we are not careful, insolvency may be right around the corner,”
...According to its 2008 disclosure form, the union owed more than $156 million
In 2007, the SEIU owed Bank of America nearly $95 Million.
Look! Shiiiny....
while we’re looking at the AZ Law, etc....
Meanwhile, back at the raunch:
The Senate financial overhaul package, which passed the Senate in a 59-39 vote on Thursday evening, would constitute the biggest overhaul of U.S. financial regulations since the 1930s. The legislation, broadly, is designed to close the regulatory gaps and end the speculative trading practices that contributed to the 2008 financial market crisis. Major components of the bill would: ...
FINANCIAL STABILITY COUNCIL: Would establish a new, nine-member Financial Stability Oversight Council, comprising existing regulators charged with monitoring and addressing system-wide risks to the nation’s financial stability. Among its duties, the council would recommend to the Fed stricter capital, leverage and other rules for large, complex financial firms that are judged to threaten the financial system. In extreme cases, would have the power to break up financial firms.
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NEW REGULATORY AUTHORITY: Gives federal regulators new authority to seize and break up large troubled financial firms without taxpayers bailouts in cases where the firm’s collapse could destabilize the financial system ...
ktksbai.
words.... ain’t got ‘em
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Sunday, May 23, 2010
ToDaZeD Gratuitous Pissyaoff
focuses the mind
OR *clicky*clicky*
Count those who claim to have not even read the thing.
WTF?! Those are “professionals”?!?!?
hm...
MSM = MIA
Does this thundering national media silence tell you anything about who controls the flow of information in this world?
Gov. Bill Richardson has directed the New Mexico Children, Youth and Families Department to start reporting violent juvenile criminals who are foreign nationals to federal immigration authorities.
But will the Fedz do anything about it?
OON: It is Bill Richardson :: OTOH it’s rraaaacist ... or something.
Humor:
it’s what Free Adults with a solid grounding in Values, a solid sense of Perspective and an Enjoyment of Life use
It doesn’t have to be small, petty and mean; but a Cluebat isn’t supposta feel good.
OR *clicky*clicky*
Sec. 3. C. [page 3]
A LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL OR AGENCY OF THIS STATE OR A COUNTY, CITY, TOWN OR OTHER POLITICAL SUBDIVISION OF THIS STATE MAY NOT CONSIDER RACE, COLOR OR NATIONAL ORIGIN IN THE ENFORCEMENT OF THIS SECTION EXCEPT TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY THE UNITED STATES OR ARIZONA CONSTITUTION.
Saturday, May 22, 2010
Arrrgh!
bite the parrot zeta
“It is unsafe in Mexico. Don’t go to Mexico," warned Game Warden Capt. Fernando Cervantes. ...
With machine guns in hand, Mexico’s deadliest cartel is patrolling the waters of a Texas border lake.
These pirates already have hit several boats on Falcon Lake near Zapata, which is about an hour south of Laredo.
Zeta cartel pirates ambushing boats on the Mexican side, operating with virtual impunity as they steal cash and electronics at machine gun-point.
...U.S. authorities say there just isn’t a Mexican law presence on the other side of the lake,
¿ “Mexican law presence” ≠ Zetas ?
Interfering with Texans bass fishing; this will not end well.
Melissa in Texas
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