An Ol' Broad's Ramblings
Archive for July 2010
Never Noticed….
….but there is quite a resemblance! Although, in my opinion, Walter is a WHOLE lot brighter! 
Damaging The Economy, Billions At A Time
Why the Obama Stimulus Failed
The Foundry
Today, President Barack Obama will attend a groundbreaking ceremony in Holland, Mich., for a South Korean-owned factory that will make batteries for electric cars. The purpose of the trip is to highlight the “success” of the President’s $862 billion economic stimulus package which the White House claimed yesterday has already “saved or created” 3 million jobs. Specifically, this factory is being subsidized by $151 million of stimulus funds from an even larger $2 billion honey pot of stimulus money set aside for electric car battery investments. This one plant is expected to employ 300 workers. That works out to more than $500,000 per job created. $500,000 per job. This plant, in a nutshell, explains why the President’s stimulus plan has been an objective failure.
Glenn Beck 07/14/10
Ann On The DoJ Weasels
New Black Panthers, You’re Free To Go — Not So Fast, Arizona
by Ann Coulter
So I guess all that hysteria about the Arizona immigration law was much ado about nothing. After months of telling us that the Nazis had seized Arizona, when the Obama administration finally got around to suing, its only objection was that the law was “pre-empted” by federal immigration law.
With the vast majority of Americans supporting Arizona’s inoffensive little law, the fact that Obama is suing at all suggests that he consulted exclusively with the craziest people in America before filing this complaint. (Which is to say, Eric Holder’s Justice Department.)
But apparently even they could find nothing discriminatory about Arizona’s law. It’s reassuring to know that, contrary to earlier indications, government lawyers can at least read English.
PAY ATTENTION!
Blog Net News
I found out, quite by accident, that Blog Net News is no more. At least for the time being. I did not receive any notification from the administrators, no email, nothing. It just wasn’t there. Hunting down the head honcho on Facebook, I noticed he had a status update:
I think blognetnews is gone for good, or at least until the economy picks back up again.
Gee, thanks, David. I appreciate y’all taking the time to notify the editors of your state sites of this development. 
Free Speech or Classless Vulgarity
FCC’s policy discarded, broadcasters unrestricted
A federal appeals court has thrown out a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) policy that can lead to broadcasters being fined for filthy language on live television.
The Second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan determined the policy violates the First Amendment and that it “chills speech, because broadcasters have no way of knowing what the FCC will find offensive.”
How about what viewers find offensive? What about parents? I realize there a way too many who use many four lettered words in a regular conversation, but does that mean it’s ok? IMHO, no, it doesn’t. I am offended by much of what I hear just standing in line at a grocery store. I don’t need to hear it on television or radio as well.
Henson notes that the PTC will encourage the FCC to appeal “because if this ruling is allowed to stand, it will basically open the floodgate for non-stop ‘f-words’ and ‘s-words,’ nudity, profanity [and] graphic violence throughout the day — regardless of venue, regardless of whether or not there are children in the viewing audience.”
I really do hope they appeal. Isn’t it bad enough for late evening shows on cable to use a lot of foul language, without having it rampant though out the day as well? I will admit, I enjoyed Saving Grace, but found myself wincing every time the word ‘sh*t’ came out of someone’s mouth, or looking away during obvious sex scenes, nudity and all. It added nothing to the show, or dialog, or story line, and actually took away from the message.
I am, by no stretch of the imagination, a prude, but I find some things completely unnecessary, and vulgarity through any media is one of them. While we’re at it, I find all the ads for E.D., pads and tampons, PrepH, etc., a bit unnecessary as well. Some things are between you and your doctor, and I don’t need to know about them, nor how you choose to deal with them. And any female who isn’t aware of tampons? Well, they have serious issues! That for a discussion between mom and the young lady, and I don’t need to know about all the varieties. If I was in need of such a product, I would do what I did when I was in need…..read the box, talk to siblings, friends, doctors.
We’ve been spiraling down into the cesspool for quite a while. What this court did was slap a big “It’s OK to be trashy!” on the so called entertainment media.
Glass Houses
N.A.A.C.P. Challenges Tea Party on Racism
One of the nation’s largest and oldest civil rights groups passed a resolution Tuesday calling for Tea Party groups to weed “racist elements” out of their ranks.
I’d like to challenge the NAACP to weed out it’s OWN racists! If they did, however, there would no longer be an NAACP.
Benjamin Todd Jealous, the president of the N.A.A.C.P., said the resolution was not an attempt to label the entire Tea Party movement as racist. But he said the groups needed to do more to distance themselves from known hate groups that actively encourage their members to join the Tea Party.
As many Tea Parties as I have attended, I have NEVER seen, or heard, ANYTHING that would, or could, be construed as ‘racist’! EVER! I don’t know what event THEY have been attending, but it sure wasn’t a Tea Party. Perhaps they confused some of their OWN events with us?
“To this point, we have avoided calling them out and demanding them to be responsible,” Mr. Jealous said. “Now we’re saying that with increased public attention, increased power, comes the responsibility to act responsibly.”
Matthew 7 3 And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? 4 Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye? 5 Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye.
“People who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.”
“To this point, we have avoided calling them out and demanding them to be responsible,” Mr. Jealous said. “Now we’re saying that with increased public attention, increased power, comes the responsibility to act responsibly.”
I’m real bloomin’ tired of the ‘victim mentality’. People want to be treated with respect, they have to earn it. This bunch lost all credibility a LONG time ago.
The St. Louis Tea Party Coalition issued its own resolution against the N.A.A.C.P., accusing the civil rights body of acting as a “partisan political attack dog” and calling on the Internal Revenue Service to review the group’s tax-exempt status.
For a group to claim non partisanship, and to be a civil rights organization, I would think those same folks would advocate for the ‘civil rights’ of ALL people, not just a certain group, or individual. The NAACP is NOT that group.
St. Louis Tea Party Resolution:
The Tea Party movement has been beset with allegations of racism since black members of Congress preparing to vote on health care legislation accused protesters of hurling racial epithets, and in one instance, spitting on a congressman.
This has been disproven time and time again, yet the NY Slimes continues to spew the lies. Big shocker, eh?
The Tea Party’s principles are simple and clear:
- Smaller federal government
- Lower taxes
- Fiscal responsibility
- National security
- Federalism
Those are precisely the tools to lift all Americans out of poverty. They’ve worked every time they’ve been tried. In America, we just haven’t tried them in awhile, due in large part to the NAACP’s advancement of socialism. (source)
Where’s the racism in these principles? Oh, because Tea Partiers expect people to actually earn what they get, instead of sucking the life out of someone else’s achievements, is THAT the racism that the NAACP sees? If so, they better change their name, remove any reference to ‘advancement’.
Obama Agenda: Kill The Economy
Cap and Ban
The Foundry
The front page of USA Today claims: “President Obama’s attempt to use the Gulf of Mexico oil spill to help propel comprehensive energy legislation has failed.” Don’t believe it for a second. On Monday the Obama administration reissued a ban on offshore oil drilling in the gulf after federal courts twice invalidated the first ban, calling it “arbitrary and capricious.” The new ban is, if anything, more restrictive than the first, thus guaranteeing even more job losses for the already devastated Gulf region. Meanwhile, Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) is set to introduce a bill that will cap greenhouse gas emissions from power plants. Taken together, the President’s Cap and Ban approach to energy policy will accomplish exactly what he set out to do from the very first day he was sworn into office: decrease the amount of carbon the U.S. economy emits by drastically increasing the cost of energy.
Glenn Beck 07/13/10
I’m Gonna Sue You
Lyrics (below the fold):
Now THIS Is Funny!
NAACP to Vote on Resolution Condemning “Racist Elements” of the Tea Party
The NAACP today is set to vote on a resolution to condemn the Tea Party movement for “explicitly racist behavior.”
The group’s more than 2,000 voting delegates are expected to pass the resolution today at the annual NAACP convention in Kansas City, Missouri.
The resolution, which was submitted by the NAACP’s Kansas City branch, reportedly says the Tea Party movement has “displayed signs and posters intended to degrade people of color generally and President Barack Obama specifically” and condemns “the racist elements” of the Tea Party as “a threat to progress.” It references instances in which black congressmen said they were verbally and physically abused by Tea Party activists.
The racists of the NAACP calling people of ALL colors racists? ROFLMAO Not to mention repeating LIES that have been disproven. The only ‘threat to progress’ I’ve seen at any Tea Party event, is a threat to the anti-Constitutional racist in the White House, its minions in Congress and the DoJ! What a load of crap!
Yet, the REAL racists, the ones who want to kill cracker’s like me, are ok, right? Wonder if it was the NAACP that pushed to have charges dropped against the New Black Panthers and their DOCUMENTED voter intimidation?
Interesting
Data released by the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) reported 1,005,876 checks in June. This figure is a 3.9 percent increase from the 968,145 checks conducted in June 2009 and a 22.7 percent increase over checks in June 2008. The total number of background checks reported since the beginning of NICS is 116,936,885. (source)
Taxed To Death, Then Taxed Some More
The Obama Tax and Spend Threat to Economic Recovery
The Foundry
Remember President Barack Obama’s promise to the American people not to raise taxes? Forget about it. While the President has already raised taxes on cigarettes and tanning beds, none of that compares to what could happen in January. If you earn income, your taxes are about to go up. If Congress does not act to preserve current law, even the lowest 10 percent bracket will rise to 15 percent. Throw in tax hikes on capital gains, dividends and other tax code fixes, and the American economy is staring straight down the barrel of $3.2 trillion tax hike over the next ten years.
It doesn’t take a genius to realize that raising taxes by $3.2 trillion dollars would be an economic recovery killer. Even Sen. Evan Bayh (D-IN) admitted to CNBC yesterday: “We don’t need to raise taxes now.”
Glenn Beck 07/12/10
