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Why Occupy Wall Street Is No Tea Party
Post Date: 2011-11-21 01:48:31 by A K A Stone
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As the Occupy Wall Street movement attempts to establish a firm foothold in American society, veterans of left-wing organizing, including former Obama administration czar Van Jones, are urging this fledgling movement to run candidates for office, following the Tea Party model of transforming a grassroots movement into a powerful electoral force. After all, what good is storming local bank branches and blocking Americans from going to work if you don't send representatives to Congress who share your core values and goals? But the prospect of OWS emerging as a viable political force is a pipe dream, akin to similar aspirations held by OWS's ideological predecessors, the 1960s ...
Why Do Catholics Keep Funding the Radical Left?
Post Date: 2011-11-21 01:46:58 by A K A Stone
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Every November, including this one, American Catholics -- who constitute approximately 25% of the U.S. population -- are asked to contribute to the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD). The Catholic faithful have been told that their donations will go to fight poverty. Little do most of them realize what their money will actually fund. CCHD is the brainchild of Saul Alinsky, the "father of community organizing." Alinsky (1909-1972) had numerous connections in the Catholic community of his native Chicago, some of them nearly as radical as he was. He helped start CCHD in 1969. Unfortunately, the benevolent-sounding term "community organizing" has a very ...
Libya: Media blackout, why?
Post Date: 2011-11-21 01:45:06 by A K A Stone
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Has anyone noticed the virtual silence on Libya among western news agencies? If Libya was today quiet, and without any conflict, we could believe the Lies on Sky and friends incorporated that a dictator had been toppled and his enraptured people freed, living now in peace, preparing for democracy. But this is not the case... What I am about to say comes as no surprise at all for those of us who know Libya, know Colonel Gaddafi and who warned NATO about the monumental mistake being made before the invasion began, as indeed was the case before Iraq in this column back in 2003. NATO, however, in its greed, just does not learn. As the IAEA invents lies about Iran, and includes in its team ...
Epic Failure: The Supercommittee Was A Super Joke
Post Date: 2011-11-21 01:16:52 by A K A Stone
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Does anyone need any additional evidence that our political system is completely broken? The bipartisan congressional supercommittee that was given two months to come up with at least $1.2 trillion in deficit cuts over the next decade has failed to reach an agreement. It is an epic failure and a national embarrassment. The truth is that they never even came close to an agreement. In fact, as you will read below, the two sides on the panel have been barely even talking to each other. In the end, the supercommittee was a super joke. Meanwhile, the U.S. national debt has passed the 15 trillion dollar mark and we are facing trillion dollar deficits as far as the eye can see. We are heading ...
BENTLEY: Don’t feed the lazy
Post Date: 2011-11-21 01:13:20 by A K A Stone
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With the Tea Party, the issues were clear. Government was too big, taxed too much and needed to rein in its out-of-control spending. Its message was a clarion call for limited government coupled with fiscal responsibility. At rallies that had the flavor of church picnics, people gathered to address their concerns, bagged their trash and returned to their jobs and homes to continue to lobby their government through constitutional channels. No such clarity can be found in the encampments that mark the Occupy Wall Street rallies, which occupy little of Wall Street but litter cities across America, creating dangerous environments and showcases of human degradation. The protesters rail ...
You had 65+ years to build a nest egg. [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2011-11-20 19:22:02 by A K A Stone
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You had 65+ years to build a nest egg. Why didn’t you? You spent, and borrowed, and spent, and borrowed, and now you want the rest of us to pay for your generations’ binge. Cry me a river. You want all sorts of “senior discounts” and “senior benefits” and “senior protections”. The way I see it, you’ve got more experience, so you shouldn’t be scammed so easily. You’ve had more time to save and learn to budget, but you didn’t. The working generation is already paying too much for your folly. baseballguy2001 TH3 is right on the money. Who says it’s up to us younger folks to finance the older folks who didn’t save and ...
Republican candidates gather for 'family issues' hatefest forum
Post Date: 2011-11-19 18:38:04 by The Blue Cat
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Oh look. The non-Mormon Republican candidates are having themselves a little "forum" (read: hatefest) on family values: The forum’s goal is to allow Iowans an opportunity to further vet the candidates on matters related to the family. “This is not a debate,” said Bob Vander Plaats, President and CEO of The FAMiLY LEADER. “Our purpose is simply to learn about their worldviews and to listen to their hearts on key family issues. The discussion will allow us to see a more personal side of the candidates.” Interestingly, neither Mitt Romney nor Jon Huntsman will be participating in this discussion. Maybe Mormons aren't welcome? Or maybe they both think ...
Is Israel Bluffing? [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2011-11-18 16:11:13 by A K A Stone
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The world press is assuring us that Israel will strike Iran by Christmas. Hedging their bets, a bit, some proclaim: early in the New Year. Now, while I am all for an Israeli strike on Iran to take out Iran’s nuclear facilities, I am troubled by all the extremely public saber rattling. It isn’t like the Israeli military to make a public show of military preparations for a raid. Having read and consulted Sun Tzu’s “The Art of War” on numerous occasions, I can see the importance of keeping the enemy guessing and off balance by playing the world’s media like a Stradivarius. First class militaries, the world over, know one of the greatest weapons they have at ...
When Manly Virtue Died
Post Date: 2011-11-18 16:04:28 by A K A Stone
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These are difficult and perilous times for boys. A distorted culture has robbed them of virtue to measure themselves against. The good once associated with masculinity in a patriarchal society has been tossed out with the bad. This, alas, is the era of feminist ascendency. Manhood is more easily mocked, satirized and derided, or exposed for its villainy, exploitation and criminality, than held up as an ideal for boys to aspire to. We've always had rogues, rascals and villains, but until now we've also had a baseline, a common denominator, of what it means to be a man. Male-female cultural distinctions, once blurred, now are disappearing. That was a touching moment when Gloria ...
PPP: #Occupy makes voters nostalgic for Tea Party
Post Date: 2011-11-16 18:12:23 by A K A Stone
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Public Policy Polling, a Democratic firm that has been correct with most of its election surveys this year, has a new survey that indicates the Occupy movement is grating on people. Surprisingly, after two months of Occupiers defiling public spaces across America, voters are suddenly more fond of tea partiers than of occupiers. Even better, Tea Party favorables are up ten points from a month ago among independent voters. The Occupy Wall Street movement is not wearing well with voters across the country. Only 33% now say that they are supportive of its goals, compared to 45% who say they oppose them. That represents an 11 point shift in the wrong direction for the movement's support ...
A K A Stones question of the day 11/13/2011
Post Date: 2011-11-13 11:22:12 by A K A Stone
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If you are a leader of a nation. You are not democratically elected. Are you automatically a dictator?
Here's the 100 dollar question.
Post Date: 2011-11-12 19:00:58 by A K A Stone
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When are people going to wake up to the fact that Sandusky, is part of a pedophilic ring, and is part of an elite club that can rape children, and get away with it for decades? Sandusky isn't alone in this. He's not just one guy. He's responsible for pimping out young men to other pedophiles and rapists. He's raped a 10 year old boy in front of a coach, who didn't do his goddamned moral duty by calling the police. You are looking at one of the heads to a child rapist hydra. It's why that prosecutor disappeared some years ago when investigating Sandusky. I would bet money that Sandusky, if tortured, and drugged would give a list of names of other co-conspirators that ...
Most “Occupy” Protesters HAVE Jobs … Unemployment Much Lower Than In Tea Party
Post Date: 2011-11-11 11:32:10 by lucysmom
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Unemployment Much Lower Among Occupy Protesters Than Tea Party One of the mindless attacks on Occupy protesters is that they are lazy and should “go get a job”. In fact, most Occupy protesters have jobs. For example, Scott Olsen – the Marine veteran peacefully protesting in Oakland who was shot in the head with a projectile by riot police – had a very good day job, but was so dedicated that he went to the protests after work: Scott Olsen, 24, joined the protests as he worked his day job as a network engineer and left his apartment each night to sleep alongside protesters in San Francisco and Oakland, Calif., Keith Shannon said. *** Olsen, who is originally from ...
How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the OWS Protests
Post Date: 2011-11-11 11:01:43 by lucysmom
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I have a confession to make. At first, I misunderstood Occupy Wall Street. The first few times I went down to Zuccotti Park, I came away with mixed feelings. I loved the energy and was amazed by the obvious organic appeal of the movement, the way it was growing on its own. But my initial impression was that it would not be taken very seriously by the Citibanks and Goldman Sachs of the world. You could put 50,000 angry protesters on Wall Street, 100,000 even, and Lloyd Blankfein is probably not going to break a sweat. He knows he's not going to wake up tomorrow and see Cornel West or Richard Trumka running the Federal Reserve. He knows modern finance is a giant mechanical parasite that ...
David Axelrod's Pattern of Sexual Misbehavior
Post Date: 2011-11-10 18:34:32 by A K A Stone
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Herman Cain has spent his life living and working all over the country -- Indiana, Georgia, Minnesota, Nebraska, Kansas, Washington, D.C. -- but never in Chicago. So it's curious that all the sexual harassment allegations against Cain emanate from Chicago: home of the Daley machine and Obama consigliere David Axelrod. Suspicions had already fallen on Sheila O'Grady, who is close with David Axelrod and went straight from being former Chicago mayor Richard M. Daley's chief of staff to president of the Illinois Restaurant Association (IRA), as being the person who dug up Herman Cain's personnel records from the National Restaurant Association (NRA). The ...
Monsanto Corporation Gets Owned By 11 Yr Old Boy?
Post Date: 2011-11-10 08:02:38 by A K A Stone
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If Cain wins, the tea party loses
Post Date: 2011-11-09 18:57:56 by We The People
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I’ve been a conservative my entire adult life. During that time, I’ve watched the conservative movement fail. Sure, I’ve seen supposedly limited-government candidates win elections and promise to shrink government. What I haven’t seen is government shrink. Ever. It was the public’s frustration with such never-ending government growth that gave birth to the tea party movement. If you will recall, many liberals initially dismissed the tea party as simply a partisan reaction to President Obama’s election, but it was actually President Bush’s “Troubled Asset Relief Program” that first sparked the movement’s fire. In May 2010, Utah tea party ...
Our Health Care System, Compared
Post Date: 2011-11-08 11:04:42 by lucysmom
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I was looking at OECD health care data for something else I’ve been working on and wanted to share some of it. It’s well known that the United States spends a lot more per person on health care than comparable countries and that our actual health outcomes are anywhere from average to bad. See, for example, this chart from a 2008 paper by Gerard Anderson and Bianca Frogner. That chart shows how each country’s spending and life expectancy differ from what you would expect based solely on how rich they are (per capita GDP). As you can see, we spend a lot more and live a lot less. (That paper also considers a number of other outcome measures; we do well on some, poorly on ...
Top 10 Reasons Freedom4ummers hate Jews
Post Date: 2011-11-08 09:37:33 by A K A Stone
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10. They got beat up by Jews in grade school. 9. Their fathers were nazis and they want to relive their fathers life. 8. Christine will ban them if they stick up for Jews. 7. They are jealous because Jews make more money then they do. 6. They are pro muslim Jihadists. 5. They don't know any better they are just dumb. 4. They want all the Jews dead. 3. They are atheists who hate the Bible. The Bible is the Jew book to them. 2. Because they want to finish what Hitler started. 1. Because they were Gods chosen people to bring his message to the world.
Why Obama’s 2008 Coalition Won’t Save Him This Time
Post Date: 2011-11-08 09:13:41 by A K A Stone
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The latest Gallup report, based on a massive sample of more than 39,000 adults, contains troubling news for Democrats. Individuals identifying with the Democratic Party are a smaller share of the American people than they were early in 2008, and their views are less representative of the people as a whole. This means that the Obama team, which faces the crucial choice of either doubling down on its 2008 winning mix of professionals, young people, and minorities or rebuilding support among Independents in the heartland, should emphasize the latter option. Any general election strategy that relies solely on mobilizing the party’s diminished base will have a hard time forging a majority ...
Column: Occupy Wall Street is anti-Semitic? Oy Vey...
Post Date: 2011-11-06 10:43:18 by lucysmom
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Like most American Jews, my father tends to vote Democratic. Jews have chosen Democrats over Republicans in every presidential race since Woodrow Wilson. But when my dad votes for a Republican, he explains his decision in simple terms: "He's a friend of Israel." Republicans desperately want to win the Jewish vote and the clout it brings with it. So I was not surprised to see Bill Kristol, Fox News commentator and cheerleader for the War in Iraq, had started a right-wing organization called "Emergency Committee for Israel" (as opposed to the "C'est la Vie Committee for Israel"). What did surprise me was the video the group released to uncover the ...
"Obamanites" Attack When They Feel Threatened
Post Date: 2011-11-06 08:46:27 by A K A Stone
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WHAT ISRAEL DOES FOR THE UNITED STATES and MUCH MORE
Post Date: 2011-11-05 23:59:52 by Murron
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WHAT ISRAEL DOES FOR THE UNITED STATES and MUCH MORE Throughout the six decades since the re-establishment of Israel, an often repeated claim in made that “Israel is a draining liability on the United States.” This claim is bogus and an examination of the facts hopefully will consign this charge to the trash-heap where it belongs. Further adding to the problem are statements made by and the conduct of Israel's leftist leaders since 1993 create the false impression that Israeli-American ties constitute a one-way relationship. The impression is given that the U.S. gives and Israel merely receives and thus must constantly bow to “American pressure” as personified by ...
Alfred Adask: We're Not Property of The Government 1/5
Post Date: 2011-11-05 10:12:09 by A K A Stone
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Buchanan: 'Arrivederci, Roma'
Post Date: 2011-11-04 12:36:11 by Brian S
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Will popular democracy bring down the New World Order? A fair question. For Western peoples are growing increasingly reluctant to accept the sacrifices that the elites are imposing upon them to preserve that New World Order. Political support for TARP, to rescue the financial system after the Lehman Brothers collapse, is being held against any Republican candidate who backed it. Germans and Northern Europeans are balking at any more bailouts of Club Med deadbeats. Eighty-one members of David Cameron's party voted against him to demand a referendum on whether Britain should leave the European Union altogether, the worst Tory revolt ever against the EU. Greek Prime Minister George ...
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