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Pink Slip ‘Em All!
Tea Party rally set for today in Nashville
The conservative group Tea Party Nation plans to hold a rally in Nashville today from 11 a.m. until about 1:30 p.m. at the east side of the Capitol building, voicing opposition to the scheduled health-care vote in Washington this weekend.
Speakers will include conservative talk show hosts and activists, said organizer Judson Phillips.
No elected officials or candidates are scheduled to speak, Phillips said.
The event is expected to draw participants from across the state, with several groups chartering buses to make the trip.
I wonder just how much of the story they cut? Since it’s a “Pink Slip Rally“, you’d think they would have mentioned that little tidbit. I’m fairly sure Judson wouldn’t have left that important info out.
It’s actually been moved across the street to the Capital steps.
The Mr and I were planning on going, but family issues came up and weren’t able. If you are in the vicinity, you’ve still got time to go and make your voice heard!
Where To Put The ONE
George Washington, our nation’s first president and leader of the American Revolution!
Abe Lincoln, honorable leader pulled our nation through its darkest time!
Alexander Hamilton, founding father, first secretary of the treasure and leader of the constitutional convention!
Andrew Jackson, “Old Hickory” fought the British in New Orleans!
Podunk Politics
It’s not just the federal government that likes to keep taxes at a certain rate, and will raise them for purposes that sound good at the time, but end up being spend in ways the citizens never approved.
I don’t much care for that phrase “progressive city”. 
Since Savannah is the county seat, and what happens there, affects the entire county, I’m more than a little annoyed that the commissioners put out this resolution. I happened to hear the Hardin County mayor, Kevin Davis, (named in the lawsuit that no longer seems to be online) speak yesterday. Naturally, as a politician, he opposes the reduction of the sales tax from 2.5 to 1.5. When they put that tax in place, it was with the understanding that the extra money would be used for the upkeep of the county schools. Instead, they have decided to build two mega schools, and will busing the kids from all over the county to Savannah.
Oddly enough, I’d rather pay a little more in property tax and pay less at the stores. In the long run, it would even out in the end. The property taxes are amazingly low here, compared to other places in the country. But paying over 9% in sales taxes is a whopper. There’s a possibility that people would spend more in stores if the sales tax was lower, and increase the county’s coffers.
Just a thought.
“It’s ALL About ME!”
Obama’s Frightening Insensitivity Following Shooting
After news broke out of the shooting at the Fort Hood Army post in Texas, the nation watched in horror as the toll of dead and injured climbed. The White House was notified immediately and by late afternoon, word went out that the president would speak about the incident prior to a previously scheduled appearance. At about 5 p.m., cable stations went to the president. The situation called for not only his trademark eloquence, but also grace and perspective.
But instead of a somber chief executive offering reassuring words and expressions of sympathy and compassion, viewers saw a wildly disconnected and inappropriately light president making introductory remarks. At the event, a Tribal Nations Conference hosted by the Department of Interior’s Bureau of Indian affairs, the president thanked various staffers and offered a “shout-out” to “Dr. Joe Medicine Crow — that Congressional Medal of Honor winner.” Three minutes in, the president spoke about the shooting, in measured and appropriate terms. Who is advising him?
In case you missed Obama’s insensitivity:
I find it absolutely reprehensible that any President of the United States would behave in such manner during a national crisis. If you are unaware, this man is NOT a Commander in Chief. I’ve no doubt our troops will remember this the next time he makes a speech.
Are We At The End Of Our “Rope”?
Obama’s Contempt for America! The Obama Regime’s “Stalinist” Approach to Governing
by J. D. Longstreet
I still get chills up my spine when I hear stories of the way Obama’s henchmen are going about governing this nation. Why? It frightens me because I have seen it before. Actually I have seen it thrice before. I saw it in Germany and Italy, in the 1930’s and 1940’s, and in Russia from the Bolshevik Revolution in the early 1900’s until the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Just the other day Thomas Sowell, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, asked this question: “Just one year ago, would you have believed that an unelected government official, not even a Cabinet member confirmed by the Senate but simply one of the many “czars” appointed by the president, could arbitrarily cut the pay of executives in private businesses by 50 percent or 90 percent?
Did you think that another “czar” would be talking about restricting talk radio? That there would be plans afloat to subsidize newspapers — that is, to create a situation where some newspapers’ survival would depend on the government liking what they publish?
Did you imagine that anyone would even be talking about having a panel of so-called “experts” deciding who could and could not get life-saving medical treatments?
Scary as that is from a medical standpoint, it is also chilling from the standpoint of freedom. If you have a mother who needs a heart operation or a child with some dire medical condition, how free would you feel to speak out against an administration that has the power to make life and death decisions about your loved ones?
Read the whole post here.
As one who was born and bred in the US of A, I’ve been more and more appalled at what I’ve been seeing going on in this country. I know I”m not the only one who is utterly disgusted. Even all during the Bush years, as much as the left complained and whined, they still knew they had freedom to be horse’s rumps if they so chose…..and they chose to frequently.
A year later, we have been turned into a nation under the thumb of an oppressive regime. Perhaps Michelle Obama is finally proud, but the vast majority of us out here in the real world are becoming ashamed. Ashamed that we have a Speaker of the House that is a tyrant, running roughshod of OUR House, against the wishes of We, The People. The Senate Majority Leader is a clueless pissant, who SHOULD have his butt kicked on the playground on a daily basis.
We have been put in a pressure cooker, and one day real soon, the top is going to blow.
Evil
Troubling portrait emerges of shooting suspect
His name appears on radical Internet postings. A fellow officer says he fought his deployment to Iraq and argued with soldiers who supported U.S. wars. He required counseling as a medical student because of problems with patients.
There are many unknowns about Nidal Malik Hasan, the man authorities say is responsible for the worst mass killing on a U.S. military base. Most of all, his motive. But details of his life and mindset, emerging from official sources and personal acquaintances, are troubling.
I’d seriously would like to know why the media is not telling us about this scum’s victims? I know one thing – he murdered 12 people, in cold blood, and wounded 31 more. But read the whole column anyway.
Hasan attended prayers regularly when he lived outside Washington, often in his Army uniform, said Faizul Khan, a former imam at a mosque Hasan attended in Silver Spring, Md. He said Hasan was a lifelong Muslim.
“I got the impression that he was a committed soldier,” Khan said. He spoke often with Hasan about Hasan’s desire for a wife.
On a form filled out by those seeking spouses through a program at the mosque, Hasan listed his birthplace as Arlington, Va., but his nationality as Palestinian, Khan said.
“I don’t know why he listed Palestinian,” Khan said, “He was not born in Palestine.”
Nothing stood out about Hasan as radical or extremist, Khan said.
I don’t know. I’d think not being born in the Middle East but claiming to be a Palestinian to be a bit….radical and extreme. If he was such a committed soldier, why did he feel the need to murder? Perhaps that just what some Muslims think is the right thing to do.
I’m not going to even mention that dog and pony show Obuzzard put on this afternoon.
Ft Hood
Ain’t They Purdy!
I spent most of the day away from the house, and just finally managed to make it home about an hour ago. After changing out of my grown up clothes, trying to persuade Mr Spot to eat, and chatting with my sister on the phone for a while, I actually started paying attention to my surroundings. Ok, I’m a little slow…. HEY! I’m old! Gimme a break!
I turned on the idjit box, and lo and behold, there they were! On top of the entertainment whatchacallit.
Obviously, neither spot is the idjit box! If you had 2 kittens running wild in your house, would you leave purdy flowers in a vase, with WATER, on any table they could reach? Pfft! Get real! Had to move ‘em from the coffee table to the kitchen table to keep the little heathens from destroying ‘em in a matter of seconds.
Nope! Not from the Mr! sigh… Bless her pea pickin’ little heart, that other ol’ broad made my day! 
Seriously, my friend. Thank you!!!
Do You Know This Woman?????
It’s our beloved Ol’ Broad and it’s her birthday today!!!!!!
Happy Birthday Ol’ Broad!!!!!
Worth Watching
This is from back in July, but still relevant.
Courtesy of brother in law Tom.
Weasel Time
Ann on Yesterday’s Elections
Election 2009: Change I Can Believe In!
by Ann Coulter
– MSNBC, Aug. 31, 2009, Keith Olbermann on Robert F. McDonnell, Republican candidate for governor of Virginia:
“In (McDonnell’s master’s thesis), he described women having jobs as detrimental to the family, called legalized use of contraception illogical, pushed to make divorce more difficult, and insisted government should favor married couples over, quote, ‘cohabitators, homosexuals or fornicators.’ Wow. When did he write this? 1875? No, 1989. Wow, 1989.
“Goodbye, Mr. McDonnell.”
– MSNBC, Sept. 22, 2009, Rachel Maddow also on McDonnell:
“And here’s where the conservative movement and the Republican establishment smash into each other like bumper cars without bumpers. Here’s where Republican electoral chances stop being separate from the wild-eyed excesses of the conservative movement.
“Part of watching Republicans try to return to power is watching … the conservative movement eat the Republican Party, eat their electoral chances over and over and over again.”
On election night, conservatives-eating-Republicans resulted in an 18-point landslide for McDonnell, who beat his Democratic opponent 59 percent to 41 percent — winning two-thirds of all independent voters and ending the Democrats’ eight-year reign in the Virginia governor’s office.
Wow!
If there is anyone who is still of the mind that schools are not indoctrinating, click the link above, and watch the videos! If schools had done this about Bush 2, you can bet your bottom dollar the left would be screaming bloody hell!
There is NOTHING about this clown worthy of praise. NOT A DAMN THING!
We’uns 2 Stoopid
The House health-care reform plan unveiled last week by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) would do more than regulate insurance companies – it would even regulate vending machines.
The bill, which is posted online, would require that vending machine operators either create new machines that allow the customer to view nutrition facts or post nutritional information for each product near “each article of food or the selection button.”
Y’see, you are too stupid to know that the large chocolaty goodness in that over sized Snickers bar isn’t healthy, so you must be told by the government and charged for the privilege.
Section 2572 of the bill (H.R. 3962) says, “In the case of an article of food sold from a vending machine that – (I) does not permit a prospective purchaser to examine the Nutritional Facts Panel before purchasing the article or does not otherwise provide visible nutrition information at the point of purchase; and (II) is operated by a person who is engaged in the business of owning or operating 20 or more vending machines, “the vending machine operator shall provide a sign in close proximity to each article of food or the selection button that includes a clear and conspicuous statement disclosing the number of calories contained in the article.” (See page 1,515 of H.R. 3962 Section 2572 (H) (viii).
Yup. Dumb as a box of rocks. Can’t figure out those tater chips, fried in grease, are fattening. So, naturally, the gubmint must charge you for this information you are too ignorant to figure out on your own.
2 Out Of 3 Ain’t Bad
Voters spoke fairly loud and clear yesterday when Republican candidates for governor in Virginia and New Jersey won, in VA, by a landslide. New Jersey is fairly ‘blue’, so the fact that Corzine got sent his walking papers was pretty impressive. Unfortunately, Doug Hoffman (C-NY23) didn’t quite pull it off. There’s been some speculation if the RNC had actually backed the conservative choice over the RINO, and if Scozzafava had done the right thing when she dropped out of the race, and endorsed Hoffman instead of the Dem, perhaps he could have been put in the ‘win’ column. Also, if the silly voters in the district had not wasted their vote on Dede, there was a real good chance Hoffman could have gone to Congress.
What has been the reaction of the media? Well, it’s been fairly predictable.
NBC’s David Gregory, on Wednesday’s Today show, downplayed the huge GOP wins in New Jersey and Virginia as merely reflecting the “anti-incumbency mood,” and “the change message that Obama” started last year. (source)
The gubernatorial elections in Virginia and New Jersey looked less like a referendum on Barack Obama than a reflection of their own candidates and issues. Still, the two Republican victories, in predominantly Democratic New Jersey and in purple Virginia, had to smart. (source)
But a Democratic victory in an upstate New York Congressional district — after an ideologically pitched battle between moderates and conservatives over how best to lead Republicans back to power — signaled that the Republican Party faces continued upheaval. (source)
Conservatives overreached, and Tip O’Neill’s dictum reins supreme. That special election in New York’s 23rd congressional district turned out not to be worth all of the sound and fury. (source)
The White House suggested those developments show that hard-liners are taking over the Republican Party, and the trend will affect the 2010 elections. On Monday, presidential spokesman Robert Gibbs predicted, “This is a model for what you’ll see throughout the country.” (source)
There’s this little tidbit as well:
Avoiding the election outcome in the same fashion it has avoided the Tea Party and Town Hall protesters, the White House issued a statement after the GOP victory in Virginia, saying the president was not watching election returns and would not be making any remarks on the results. (source)
That’s just the few I came across this morning. No doubt, if you do some more digging, there are more examples.
What does this all tell us? Well, I’d say that not only does it say something about the media, it also tells us exactly what the Obama White House thinks about We, The People.
