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NeverFindOut.org -- Awesome!

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 02:44:08 GMT

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clipper's remarks: . . . . . THINK BEYOND RHETORIC. . . . . . . . . . .
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Clip Source: directorblue.blogspot.com

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The site contains an awesome set of videos that explain the economic meltdown in terms simple enough for even MorOn.org to understand.

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Hat tip: The famous JustADude

Tags: democrats, obama

Illinois, The State That Lags Economically

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 02:12:19 GMT

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clipper's remarks: As a resident of Illinois, I have seen first hand what the effects of Obama's "change" have been.

In 2003, Obama voted to raise the state corporate income tax by $59 million for industries that use heavy machinery. The tax hit consumers of oil, coal, other natural resources

Voted for a property tax hike to increase patronage employees' pay. The bill, costing taxpayers $31 million per year, was vetoed only to be overridden by the senate and house.

In 2004, Obama voted for yet another state income-tax increase that hit Illinois businesses for an additional $29 million per year. In addition, Obama also voted for increased real estate sales taxes and a computer software sales tax hike that cost Illinois consumers and home buyers a combined $95 Million. Obama also supported a 33% increase in licensing fees on Illinois Residents.

In a single massive bill in 2004, Obama voted to increase over 300 TAXES AND FEES Assessed on professionals and businesses operating under state license

Clip Source: politicallydrunk.blogspot.com

Illinois Senate, Barack Obama never saw a tax increase that he didn't like. CBS News Jan 17, 2007 - 'Obama occasionally supported higher taxes, joining other Democrats in pushing to raise more than 300 taxes and fees on businesses in 2004 to help solve a budget deficit.

Yet, these reports do not even begin to demonstrate the fiscal irresponsibility practiced by Obama. Facing a budget deficit in 2003, the newly anointed Illinois Governor, with the full support of Senator Obama who voted for his budget, increased the annual budget by more than $2 billion, as opposed to seeking spending limits or cuts. On April 9th, 2003, Blagojevich introduced his budget by stating, "WE WILL NOT BALANCE THE BUDGET BY SACRIFICING OUR VALUES. INSTEAD, WE WILL BALANCE THE BUDGET BY ENDING BUSINESS AS USUAL." Sound Familiar?

Over the course of the next two years Senator Obama would vote after tax increase after tax increase.

Obama voted for an income-tax hike on natural gas. SB1733 was a $42 million income-tax

Tags: il sen obama, tax increases, unfavorable business environment

Exclusive: President Barack Obama's Cabinet

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 10:56:03 GMT

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clipper's remarks: And, of course, his personal Financial Advisor will
be the world renowned George Soros. (as for any of those greedy wall street types, watch your step, OR ELSE Georgie will mess you up!)

Clip Source: directorblue.blogspot.com

Junior Cub Reporter Biff Spackle just landed a doozy of a scoop. He was rifling through a dumpster at ~~ACORN~~ Obama campaign headquarters when he spotted the candidate's picks should he win the election.

Oh boy, this is gonna be great!

Tags: democrats, obama, satire, humor

Thousands Of Convicted Felons Remain On Voter Rolls

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 10:25:26 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The Division of Elections has a backlog of more than 108,000 possible felons who have registered to vote since January 2006 that it hasn't had the time or staff to verify. Browning estimated that about 10 percent, once checked, would be ineligible.

Clip Source: www.sun-sentinel.com

Thousands who should be ineligible are registered to vote

More than 30,000 Florida felons who by law should have been stripped of their right to vote remain registered to cast ballots in this presidential battleground state, a Sun Sentinel investigation has found.

Of the felons who registered with a party, Democrats outnumber Republicans more than two to one.

Florida's elections chief, Secretary of State Kurt Browning, acknowledged his staff has failed to remove thousands of ineligible felons because of a shortage of workers and a crush of new registrations in this critical swing state.

Browning said he was not surprised by the newspaper's findings. "I'm kind of shocked that the number is as low as it is," he said.

Asked how many ineligible felons may be on Florida's rolls, Browning said, "We don't know."

It's almost certain there will be challenges if the election is close enough that things hinge on this. Both parties are armed to the teeth with legal talent in all the battleground states

Tags: registered voters, ineligible felons, florida's election chief, sec of state kurt browning, possible legal challenges

The "Great Wall Street Heist" of 2008

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 07:21:55 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Reagan added: “I hope John McCain will not shrink from pointing the finger of blame where it belongs – at Barack Obama, who fed greedily at the trough of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac while their top people, including two of his own campaign associates, were flim-flamming the American people. It’s a Democratic scandal from beginning to end, and the American people deserve to know it.”

Clip Source: www.newsmax.com

The runaway government bailout of Wall Street at taxpayer expense is nothing less than "robbery,” according to Michael Reagan.

Newsmax columnist told the 5 million listeners of "The Michael Reagan Show" on Friday that their pockets and those of their fellow Americans were being picked clean by the panic-driven bailout.

"Democrats Franklin Raines, Jim Johnson, Jamie Gorelick, Penny Pritzker, Chris Dodd and Barney Frank are robbing the American taxpayer, and Republicans in the House and Senate had been tapped to drive the getaway car," said Reagan.

“In a political system where well-paid Democrat operatives can enrich themselves at the expense of the American people with zero downside, there is no incentive to behave properly, when the taxpayer will bail you out. Enough is enough, bad decisions have consequences and those consequences ought to include indictments and jail time for those who cashed in."

Tags: democrats franklin raines, jim johnson, jamie gorelick, penny pritzker, chris dodd and barney frank, barack obama

When The Messiah Speaks, The Youth Will Hear

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 02:51:43 GMT

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clipper's remarks: “Not sure the Obama team will be thrilled about yet another crazy association,” added another commenter on the NewsBusters forums page. Previous reports have documented Obama’s links to Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga, onetime Weatherman bombing suspect Bill Ayers and Rev. Jeremiah Wright, who proclaimed a black liberation theology for 20 years while Obama was a member of his church, demanding that God “d***” America.

“How much more have to come out on Obama before the O-Bots put down the kool-aid and say ENOUGH!” added a third.

“Barack Obama was a community organizer like Jesus,” Cohen said during a one-minute speech on the floor of the U.S. House yesterday. “Pontius Pilate was a governor.”

Democrats, including party strategist Donna Brazile and Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tenn., made nearly identical biblical comparisons of the characters in this presidential election

Is Barack Obama the Messiah?

http://obamamessiah.blogspot.com/

Clip Source: www.worldnetdaily.com

"You are the instruments that God is going to use to bring about universal change, and that is why Barack has captured the youth. And he has involved young people in a political process that they didn't care anything about. That's a sign. When the Messiah speaks, the youth will hear, and the Messiah is absolutely speaking."

[Video]

Clip Source: blackchristiannews.wordpress.com

Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, another powerful Chicago-based political figure associated with the Rev. Jeremiah Wright and other long-time associates of Democratic Party presidential candidate Barack Obama, is leaving no doubt about what he thinks of the leader in the campaign for the White House.

On the YouTube website, several people participating in a dialogue dismissed any spiritual hype and pinpointed their concerns.

… I think he should at least clear up that lawsuit about where he was actually born before election day,” wrote one, citing persistent Internet suspicions that his reported Hawaii birthplace isn’t accurate.

I am not one of his sheep

Tags: farrakhan, "universal change", "captured the youth, "

We Are Sick of "reach across the aisle" to Socialist Democrats

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 01:42:20 GMT

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clipper's remarks: "We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times ... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK. That's not leadership. That's not going to happen."
-- Barack Obama

Clip Source: www.gopusa.com

At a townhall meeting in Wisconsin on Thursday, Sen. John McCain came face to face with everything that is troubling grassroots conservatives. We are tired and frustrated with big-spending, big-government programs. We are tired of the corruption in Washington by both parties. We are sick of efforts to "reach across the aisle" to work with socialist Democrats.

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This man summed up our concerns perfectly... the socialists are taking over, and we need Sen. McCain to fight! Just look at what we are facing:

After the man in Wisconsin spoke, Sen. McCain said, "Well, I think I got the message." Did he? McCain went on to say how we need to all work together, blah, blah, blah. Working together with Democrats -- acting like Democrats -- is how we got into this mess! Wake up! Fight for conservative values! It's what the country wants and needs.

If I sound like I'm begging, I'm not the only one:

[Video]

It's time to fight! American values are at stake!

Tags: mccain, townhall meeting, socialist democrats, obama, pelosi, acorn, corruption

Young Black Man Against Obama Spreading Across Internet

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 06:59:23 GMT

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clipper's remarks: . . . . . . .and those who follow him. . . . . . . . . .

The "O" TEAM
From: machosauceproduction

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imQSuJVFUSU

Clip Source: protectamericans.blogspot.com

A young black man speaks against Obama, and those that follow him. We should applaud this solid man, giving our utmost respect for him. Anytime a man connected with Hollywood goes against the tide; that IS commendable.

[Video]

Tags: mccain, palin, democrats, obama

Obama Joined Democratic Socialist Party In 1995

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 10:37:09 GMT

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clipper's remarks: ...the NP's '96 Political Program has been enormously successful with 3 of 4 endorsed candidates winning electoral primaries. All four candidates attended the NP membership meeting on April 11th to express their gratitude... Barack Obama, victor in the 13th State Senate District, encouraged NPers to join in his task forces on Voter Education and Voter Registration.

Obama is not simply an ultra-liberal. He is a Marxist. He campaigned on the Socialist ticket, signed the Socialist contract, and attended Socialist meetings.

I'll ask it again: just who in the hell is Barack Obama? And who sent him?

Update: American Thinker, Gateway Pundit, Newsbusters and Jammie Wearing Fool have more.

Original DSA newsletters: #47 and #42. Linked by: Ace o' Spades. Thanks!

Clip Source: directorblue.blogspot.com

Obama signed a contract with the DSA "promising a more open relationship with the Marxist New Party"

mission statement of the Chicago Democratic Socialists of America

Our mission is to establish democratic socialism as a political force in the United States and around the world by training and mobilizing socialist activists to participate in a vibrant and diverse socialist organization at both the local and the national level.

In the long term, democratic socialists fight for a world in which all people share equally in the governing of the economic, political and cultural institutions and relationships that shape their lives.

The Jawa Report notes that the DSA founded the New Party

The 'New Party' was a political party established by the Democratic Socialists of America (the DSA) to push forth the socialist principles of the DSA by focusing on winnable elections at a local level and spreading the Socialist movement upwards...

In 1996 the Socialists celebrated Obama's primary victory:

Tags: democrats, extremism, obama, urgent

Top 10 Extra "Thingies" Put Into The Bailout Package

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 01:13:04 GMT

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clipper's remarks: If you aren't mad already, this will make your blood boil! $77 billion to the Fund For Friends of Democrats Who Helped Cause This Whole Mess

Clip Source: pantheonjournal.blogspot.com

10. $40 million emergency congressional pay package for overtime incurred during long, deliberating sessions

9. $300 million tax on the middle class to be immediately distributed back to the middle class

8. $156 million to establish insurance fund for lobbyists who bought ineffective influence in Washington

7. $22 billion in corn subsidies for ethanol

6. $472 million in subsidies for farmers to not grow too much corn

5. $127 million for Corn Huskers uniforms

4. $2 billion to communities built near active volcanoes

3. $33 billion in carbon offsets, non-hybrid auto carbon taxes, a ban on oil, and solar panels for endangered California condors

2. $77 billion to the Fund For Friends of Democrats Who Helped Cause This Whole Mess

1. $25,000 to cover the price of the paper the bill will be printed on

Tags: satire, humor, emergency congressional pay package, lobbyists, ethanol subsidies, farmers

L.A. Times Cuts Out McCain’s Remarks About Economy

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 09:24:04 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Then Quotes Barack Obama Saying McCain is Scared to Talk About the Economy

"Our current economic crisis is a good case in point. What was his actual record in the years before the great economic crisis of our lifetimes?"

At which point McCain launched into the amazing speech quoted by Ed Morrissey at Hot Air, during which he laid out the case, at great length, for the Democrats’ responsibility for the mortgage crisis.

Does the L.A. Times report one word of that? No. Instead, they cut the quote of McCain’s speech short there, right before he talks about the economy, and proceed to quote Obama as claiming that McCain is scared to talk about the economy:

Speaking with reporters in Asheville, N.C., where he is studying for Tuesday’s debate, which is to focus on the economy and domestic issues, Obama pointed to recent reports that the McCain camp wanted to get away from economic issues, a topic that polls show benefits the Democrats.

Clip Source: www.patterico.com

Today John McCain finally began to tell the country about his own efforts to regulate Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and the Democrats’ incredible inaction. Yes, as many of us had urged, McCain finally talked about the economy, and the conservative blogs went nuts. Republican bloggers know that McCain has to talk about this, because the economy is the top issue concerning Americans, and McCain has a good story to tell — even if it’s one that the media has been ignoring.

How did the L.A. Times cover McCain’s stunning speech taking on this core economic concern?

By pretending McCain never said it, and by quoting Barack Obama talking about how McCain is scared to talk about the economy.

I’m not joking:

At a rally here, McCain also lumped Obama in with Chicago politics’ history of corruption, while Obama responded that the Republicans were fostering political shenanigans and scare tactics.

McCain’s very next words, which never appear in the L.A. Times, were these words:

Tags: john mccain, fannie mae, democrats' inaction, l.a.times

New Details On RNC's FEC Complaint Over Obama's Misbegotten Millions

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 07:35:14 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I'm delighted to see that McCain's new "gloves off" strategy involves informing people about Congressional Democrats' (including Barack Obama's) responsibility for the bad decision making at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac that helped lead us into the current financial crisis (despite years of warnings by McCain and other Congressional Republicans about the government-sponsored firms' irresponsible lending practices).

Now what I'd like to see is John McCain challenging Barack Obama from tomorrow night's debate podium to finally release the contributor details of his more than $200 million in small-dollar donations, given the gross irregularities involving fictitious donors that have already been substantiated among these transactions.

Clip Source: www.suitablyflip.com

Amanda Carpenter's got 'em.

Update: More bogus donors surface. (HT: HA Headlines)

CBS News has learned that two donors to the Obama campaign that gave a total of $7,722 appear to have made their contributions under fake names that look like they were written by a mouse running across a keyboard: Dahsudhu Hdusahfd of Df, Hawaii with the following employer CZXVC/ZXVZXV and Uadhshgu Hduadh listed as living in Dhff, Florida listed their employer as DASADA/SAFASF.

The campaign can't chalk this up to ignorance, because they clearly noticed the irregularity. They just failed to rectify it.

Despite numerous refunds from the Obama campaign, Hdusahfd still has a record of giving a total of $7500 to Obama which is well over the legal limit for the primary and general election of $4600. Hduadh gave $14,200 but the Obama campaign returned all but $222.00.

Previously: RNC Filing FEC Complaint Over Obama's Excessive, Secret, and Foreign Campaign Cash [Update: $34 Million In Particularly Filthy Lucre]

Tags: illicit campaign funds, fictitious donors

Monster Rally Greets Palin After Debate!

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 04:33:25 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Joe Biden says Obama is being misrepresented with his comments on Ahmadinejad. Lie.
Biden says Ahmadinejad is not the leader of Iran.
He's right.

Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger said today that he does not agree with Barack Obama that the President of the United States should meet with Iranian leaders without preconditions.

Dr. Kissinger's video: "No, I do not agree with
Barack Obama's position"

http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2008/09/henry-kissinger-responds-i-do-not-agree.html

Clip Source: gatewaypundit.blogspot.com

I was sitting in the grouchy press section for the rally (see photo below) which wasn't so fun so I went over to where my brother and his family and friends were standing down by the stage. I hadn't been over there for more than 5 minutes when Sarah Palin came over and shook hands and said hello:

First Dude.

The Governor.

(Vanessa Photo)

The crowd was loving it.

Piper Palin also has a growing fan base. (Vanessa Photo)

This is a view from the Palin rally.

Clearly there was a BIG winner in this debate.

The crowd at the Chaifetz Arena ROARED when the Palin Family came riding in through the door on the "Straight Talk Express"

The media looked like they wanted to cry. Stunned silence. Disappointed.

The Obama Campaign headquarters near campus was dead.

There was no celebrating going on there. Not tonight.

The Democrats held their own rally at The Pageant. It holds a few hundred people.

The Students For Life at St. Louis University

Khamenei with his Kalashnikov

Sit with him, Obama.

Tags: vp debate, washington university, after debate rally

Saturday Night Live Satire On Bailout: Video @ Link

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 02:58:53 GMT

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clipper's remarks: http://www.nbc.com/Saturday_Night_Live/video/clips/c-span-bailout/727521/?dst=nbc|widget|NBC%20Video

Clip Source: irishspy.typepad.com

Saturday Night Live on the financial bailout.(h/t Hot Air) If even they aren't buying the Democrats' spin, you know it's bad.

Tags: bailout, barney frank, george soros, george w. bush, nancy pelosi, satire, saturday night live

Thomas Sowell Opines --- Do Facts Matter?

Sun, 05 Oct 2008 04:41:25 GMT

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clipper's remarks: So did Bush's Secretary of the Treasury, five years ago.

Yet, today, what are we hearing? That it was the Bush administration "right-wing ideology" of "de-regulation" that set the stage for the financial crisis. Do facts matter?

We also hear that it is the free market that is to blame. But the facts show that it was the government that pressured financial institutions in general to lend to subprime borrowers, with such things as the Community Reinvestment Act and, later, threats of legal action by then Attorney General Janet Reno if the feds did not like the statistics on who was getting loans and who wasn't.

Is that the free market? Or do facts not matter?

Then there is the question of being against the "greed" of CEOs and for "the people." Franklin Raines made $90 million while he was head of Fannie Mae and mismanaging that institution into crisis.

Who in Congress defended Franklin Raines?

Clip Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

The current financial bailout crisis has propelled Barack Obama back into a substantial lead over John McCain--

It raises the question: Do facts matter? Or is Obama's rhetoric and the media's spin enough to make facts irrelevant?

Fact Number One: It was liberal Democrats, led by Senator Christopher Dodd and Congressman Barney Frank, who for years-- including the present year-- denied that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were taking big risks that could lead to a financial crisis.

It was Senator Dodd, Congressman Frank and other liberal Democrats who for years refused requests from the Bush administration to set up an agency to regulate Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

It was liberal Democrats, again led by Dodd and Frank, who for years pushed for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to go even further in promoting subprime mortgage loans, which are at the heart of today's financial crisis.

Alan Greenspan warned them four years ago. So did the Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers to the President.

Tags: sub-prime mortgage, market collapse, barney frank, chris dodd, barack obama, head of fannie mae, deposed franklin raines, freddie mac