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Obama Killed Michael Jackson!

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 01:23:54 GMT

clipped by: Jorjor
clipper's remarks: The first paragraph is from the cigar-sucker's own web page. The rest, and below, is from politicsusa.com.

Rush’s comparison does not work. It doesn’t make sense. Partisan politics can’t be applied to something as random as a celebrity death. Ronald Reagan had as little to do with Jackson’s success, as Obama did with his death. Jackson’s talent made him the world’s biggest star in the 80s, not Ronald Reagan, and Obama did not cause Jackson’s heart trouble.

The wingnut pundits are doing everything they can to cast Obama in a bad light. He's a tyrant and a dictator, but they descend to trivialities like his choice of mustard or his reaction to a reporter's intrusive ringtone. The cognitive dissonance it takes to agree with these people is becoming more conflicted every day. What's next - blame Obama for the Teapot Dome Scandal?

Clip Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

Jackson's success paralleled the rebound of the United States under Ronaldus Magnus. Michael Jackson's biggest successes, and as it turns out his final successes, real successes took place in the eighties. That was Billie Jean, Thriller and all this. I mean he was as weird as he could be but he was profoundly, because of his weirdness, an individual. He wasn't a group member. He reached a level of success that may never be equaled. He flourished under Reagan; he languished under Clinton-Bush; and died under Obama. Let's hope the parallel does not continue.

Clip Source: www.politicususa.com

Limbaugh later asked what about his statements were not true. Well, we can start with the idea that Michael Jackson was not a group member. It can be argued that the foundation for his entire successful solo career was his membership in the Jackson 5. Secondly, Jackson’s success or failure after the 1980s had nothing to do with the party of the president, and everything to do with a bizarre, scandal riddled, personal life

Tags: michael jackson, rush limbaugh, obama, politics, wingnut, conspiracy theories, unbelievable

Politburo Mulls Airbrushing Reagan

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 21:17:17 GMT

clipped by: merrie
clipper's remarks: The White House blog exults about the triumphs of social engineering through energy policy. It’s got a quaint Soviet Realist, five-year planny kind of feel to it.

Meanwhile, Jammie Wearing Fool suggests the Dems quit pussyfooting around and just name it after Obama. Red State: “But citizen, it has always been known as Obama National Airport.”

G’day Instapundit, etal, always good to see you. You know about Obama’s Whiskey Tango Foxtrot strategy, right? That’s the one where commanders in the field say, “We need more troops,” and POTUS says “WTF?” … We’re also mulling whether the time is right to Whack Now, plus Rule Of Law By Military Coup. And please feel free to browse around Crittenden’s Right-Wing Warmonger Bookshop and General Store.

Clip Source: www.julescrittenden.com

Barbara Hollingsworth, Washington Examiner:

At Wednesday’s Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority Board meeting, chairman H.R. Crawford – a former District Council member and Marion Barry confidante – told fellow Board members that he has heard talk on Capitol Hill about yanking former President Ronald Reagan’s name off the local airport and returning it to its previous generic moniker: National Airport.

“It was just a discussion. We’re not aware of anything specific,” MWAA spokeswoman Tara Hamilton later told The Examiner.

The right-wing nutcases keep saying we’ve been saddled with a socialist government. But I dunno, that’s more Soviet.

The Memeorandum aggregator seems worried

Sovietism is meme’d along with the following about socialists and socialism:

Apt-monikered lefty blogger Crooks and Liars approvingly channels a Senate socialist who thinks, with Franken on board, the time is right to brush aside the kulaks and other reactionary elements, and advance the socialist agenda.

Tags: commies, moronocy, pols

One day in 1984

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:03:30 GMT

clipped by: clip-on-tie
clipper's remarks: Unguarded Moments explains the first photo: http://www.musarium.com/stories/reagan/smallpages/09.html

Clip Source: washingtontimes.com

One day in 1984, at the height of his fame, Michael Jackson made a visit to the White House.

Clip Source: www.copytaste.com

Clip Source: washingtontimes.com

President and Nancy Reagan may not have dug his music, but they understood the power Mr. Jackson commanded as a common pop-cultural touchstone for just about everyone else. Mr. Jackson had given the White House permission to use his smash hit "Beat It" in a campaign to halt teen drinking and driving, and the Reagans wanted to bestow on him a public-safety award and their personal thanks.

Clip Source: www.nypost.com

Clip Source: washingtontimes.com

The now-iconic photograph of their visit reveals much about the towering personalities and even more about America. Mr. Jackson stands between the Reagans, wearing a tamer version of his famous sequined faux-military costume.

he waits silently as the president finishes making a point to Mrs. Reagan. He gazes up at the president, his eyes as wide as saucers. His awe is palpable.

The world's greatest performer has discovered himself on a stage even bigger and more profound than the ones he is used to occupying.

Clip Source: www.copytaste.com

Tags: michael jackson, the reagans, white house

Why do they hate Sarah Palin?

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 05:58:58 GMT

clipped by: Antara
clipper's remarks: Very good piece--see source for full article plus lotsa links

Clip Source: www.firstthings.com

“Why do they hate Sarah Palin?”

Jim Geraghty is trying to get to the bottom of the over-the-top hate the left feels for Sarah Palin, a hate that seems to intensified, rather than ebbed-away since the election.

It’s a thoughtful piece, and well-worth reading. I think Geraghty gets quite a lot right, particularly as to the left’s rather ignorant perceptions of who and what conservatives are, and he suggests that there is a great deal of complexity to the hate.

The truth is, if Sarah Palin had a “D” after her name, instead of an “R”, they’d adore her,

Put a D after her name, and the story would be completely different

Although, even in that best-of circumstance, there may be something to the idea I wrote a while back, that they hate Sarah Palin because she is not a victim:

And no matter what, she’ll have to deal with a press fully intent on destroying her with a savagery we haven’t seen them use even against Reagan or Bush.

Tags: sarah palin, love, hate

Obama in Cairo: Ich Bin Ein Muslimer

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 23:19:59 GMT

clipped by: Johanna_G

Clip Source: www.firstthings.com

Our empathy President is now our theologian-in-chief. He has gone to Cairo like President Kennedy went to Berlin, to make a political point about human solidarity. Kennedy, of course, was expressing solidarity with West Germany shortly after the Soviet backed communist regime in East Germany erected the Berlin Wall. Years later President Reagan went to Berlin to tell the Soviets, “Tear down this wall!” Obama has gone to Cairo with something more like a civis Romanus sum in mind rather than a challenge to a repressive regime. The new Roman order, however, is not led by any one country. It is founded in tolerance and understanding, beginning with tolerance for Muslims and understanding for their way of life. Obama went to Cairo to console, not challenge. Under Obama, the son of a Muslim, we are all Muslims now.

The first step in this remarkable analysis is to blame tensions between the United States and Muslims on colonialism and the Cold War.

Tags: obama, muslims

Californians are sinking themselves

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:47:19 GMT

clipped by: ratilfar
clipper's remarks: The immediate source of California's financial problems is a lethal combination of ideology and rules. It is deeply politically divided, and its governmental mechanisms are completely broken. Bay Area leftists stare at Orange County conservatives across an unbridgeable abyss; a large and potent group of anti-government libertarians faces off against an equally powerful group of pro-tax, proactive government liberals. If California, like most states, required only a simple majority to pass its budget, the disagreements between these camps could be worked out; after all, the Democrats control the Legislature. But California requires a two-thirds majority, which gives the GOP, now dominated by anti-government, anti-tax ideologues, veto power over the process. The result is deadlock.

Clip Source: www.salon.com

Left to right: Calif. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Mario Savio, president pro tem of the state Senate Darrell Steinberg and former President Ronald Reagan.

July 2, 2009 | The world's eighth-largest economy has just gone belly-up. When midnight tolled on Tuesday night with legislators and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger still deadlocked over how to resolve the state's staggering $24 billion budget shortfall, California became unable to pay its bills. The state will have to begin issuing IOUs to its creditors as early as Thursday. It is the worst budget crisis in the state's modern history.

There is an unreal, almost dreamlike quality about this moment. Dreadful things are about to happen: Hundreds of thousands of children will lose their healthcare. Five thousand state workers will be laid off. Massive cuts will decimate education at every level.

Tags: california, ideology, vs, .economy, sinking, ship, of, state

Obama "Shuts His Eyes" to BushCo Confessions of War Crimes

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 02:32:29 GMT

clipped by: BartendingBear
clipper's remarks: This isn't news, but I'm glad it's not a dead issue.

Clip Source: rawstory.com

Speaking at the National Press Club on Monday, former Reagan administration Associated Attorney General Bruce Fein lamented President Barack Obama's decision to shut his eyes to open confessions of war crimes by members of the prior administration.

"It's at the highest levels that the rule of law finds its greatest majesty," he told reporters. "That's why the United States was so idolized after Nixon left. We said that the most powerful man in the world is subject to the law. He cannot defy it."

"[Today] we have an instance where the President of the United States -- Harvard Law Review, a Constitutional Law professor who knows what the law is -- shuts his eyes to open confessions," he said. "We authorized torture, for which there is no exception."

Fein was speaking on behalf of Velvet Revolution, a coalition of over 150 peace and religious groups

leading the charge to get attorneys involved in the Bush administration's torture program thrown out of office and the legal profession.

CapTrade shows ObamaDems have turned their backs on the poor

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:01:20 GMT

clipped by: clip-on-tie
clipper's remarks: ObamaDems' differing goals and definitions for helping little guys and working people?

"President Obama and the Democrats claim to favor the poor as they decry the suffering of the poor. As a Democrat of 18 years, so did I. In fact, I cared so much that I left the Dem Party in 2000 convinced by two decades of evidence before my eyes that the policies democrats pursue are proven failures at alleviating the suffering of the poor."

"I assumed that the suffering we all alluded to was peoples' inability to afford necessities via the fruits of the labor and have an opportunity for moving up the economic ladder or for the middle class to increase their wealth and prosperity over time."

"Over time it became increasingly difficult to maintain the notion that Democratic Party leaders shared the same definition. After the Cap and Trade vote it is impossible. "

Clip Source: www.examiner.com

The Democratic Party has held itself out as the party of the "little guy" and the "working man" since the 1930s. We concede that the portions of FDR's first New Deal providing temporary welfare relief and the Social Security Act, including its provisions for Unemployment Compensation, have proven to be comforts for those constituencies that both parties have long embraced as part of what Reagan dubbed the federal "safety net for the truly needy".

But, ObamaDems are more accurately defined as having turned their backs on the poor (pictured).

Policies that produce less poor people and elevate more peoples' prosperity eschewed by Democrats

But I am hard pressed to identify any policies of the Democratic Party since JFKs tax rate cuts in the early 1960s that have done anything but make the little guy smaller and working men more poorly compensated.

President Barack Obama was elected in large part due to the Hope that he would bring the Change needed to end the recession

Tags: democrats, party of ben affleck, not joe sixpack

Creeping Socialism Awakens Conservative Beliefs

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:41:49 GMT

clipped by: clip-on-tie
clipper's remarks: Core beliefs matter, real experience matters, fiscal responsibility matters, and that the wisdom of our Founding Fathers matters.

For those Democrats who believe these to still matter, perhaps you haven't left the party, but the party has left you.

Clip Source: townhall.com

With each passing day, various Democrats, members of the media, and even certain Republicans, declare the conservative movement or the heyday of the Reagan era a relic of the past. Really? Well, in the age of Obama, a recent Gallup poll shows exactly the opposite. The survey says that 40 percent of Americans now describe their political views as “conservative,” with 35 percent saying “moderate” and 21 percent saying “liberal.”

As our debt rises to unimagined numbers, unemployment grows beyond the most pessimistic predictions, companies are nationalized, CEOs are fired by the White House, and wages are dictated by administration officials, there is a palpable fear spreading across the United States.

For a left-leaning media, they want to squash conservative principles in service to a President who more readily embraces the teachings of Venezuelan Strongman Hugo Chavez than John F. Kennedy.

as this poll demonstrates, along with that fear, is a growing realization that convictions matter

Tags: politics

Ronald Reagan & Bill Casey Crack Dealers for Contras.!

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 18:35:17 GMT

clipped by: TJColatrella

Clip Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

WaPo Covered For CIA In Iran-Contra Crack Scandal

Over at The Root, you can read an excerpt of my colleague, Ryan Grim's book This Is Your Country On Drugs: The Secret History Of Getting High In America. A particularly juicy one, at that: the incredible true story of two newspapers, sparring over the story of Nicaraguan Contras, inner-city drug dealers, and the way the whole thing eventually evolved into a tidy little tale of a "victimized" black community, under the thrall of paranoia.

Tags: contras, iran contra, reagan, bill casey, cia, racism, murder, inner cities

Victorious President Ahmadinejad Showers Obama with Insults

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 07:46:25 GMT

clipped by: merrie
clipper's remarks: Though going forward the Iranians undoubtedly can expect to find themselves on the receiving end of some stern, carefully parsed lip pro-democracy service.

Indeed, the trick will be maintaining clear moral support for Iran’s democrats " plus any other aid that’s useful, including keeping Iranians’ lines of communication open, from Western broadcasts to cellphones to Twitter " in the face of Iranian negotiators’ inevitable complaints.

But in skillful hands, negotiations need not strengthen a dying regime. Instead, if the mullahs can be talked into abandoning some of the ideological pillars that have sustained their revolution for three decades, negotiations could undermine their rule in the long run.

And that’s not a new challenge for American diplomacy. Twenty years ago, Ronald Reagan sought nuclear arms deals with Moscow even as he denounced the Soviet Union as “an evil empire.” Reagan aimed to undermine Soviet communism, but he also negotiated with its leaders " ----- and he

Clip Source: www.julescrittenden.com

Good News For Obama!

And his anti-nuke foreign policy plans!

NYT reports despair in Tehran as the anti-regime protests that threatened Obama’s peace plans sputter out, thanks to violence, arrests, tortured confessions and the threat of executions.

Former Spanish PM Aznar at WSJ: silence, inaction have consequences. You remember Aznar. He believed in facing down evil

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. via Gateway: Iran detains embassy personnel.

Here’s some O admin logic, via Doyle McManus at the LA Times:

… a top Obama foreign policy advisor told me the president still wants negotiations as soon as possible. “We do not believe that talking is a reward for good behavior, or that not talking is a good punishment for bad behavior,” he said

McManus adds:

Of course, Obama should never mute U.S. condemnation of internal repression in Iran or U.S. support for human rights as a price for nuclear talks — and he will not, aides say.

Too late, he already did!

Tags: ahmadinejad and obama, president reagan, american values and ideals, iranian revolution, nuclear negotiations, obama's anti-nuke policy plans

michael jackson and nancy reagan

Sat, 27 Jun 2009 06:18:23 GMT

clipped by: Little Italy

Clip Source: www.bestweekever.tv

How rich bastards like me rip off taxpayers for millions of dollars

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 21:05:48 GMT

clipped by: foxyarse
clipper's remarks: No one should build so close to an ocean."

But I built anyway.

Why? As my eager-for-the-business architect said, "Why not? If the ocean destroys your house, the government will pay for a new one."

What? Why would the government do that? Why would it encourage people to build in such risky places? That would be insane.

But the architect was right. If the ocean took my house, Uncle Sam would pay to replace it under the National Flood Insurance Program. Since private insurers weren’t dumb enough to sell cheap insurance to people who built on the edges of oceans or rivers, Congress decided the government should step in and do it. So if the ocean ate what I built, I could rebuild and rebuild again and again -- there was no limit to the number of claims on the same property in the same location -- up to a maximum of $250,000 per house per flood. And you taxpayers would pay for it.

Clip Source: www.reason.com

Confessions of a Welfare Queen

How rich bastards like me rip off taxpayers for millions of dollars

Ronald Reagan memorably complained about "welfare queens," but he never told us that the biggest welfare queens are the already wealthy. Their lobbyists fawn over politicians, giving them little bits of money -- campaign contributions, plane trips, dinners, golf outings -- in exchange for huge chunks of taxpayers’ money. Millionaires who own your favorite sports teams get subsidies, as do millionaire farmers, corporations, and well-connected plutocrats of every variety. Even successful, wealthy TV journalists.

That’s right, I got some of your money too.

My Life as a Welfare Queen

In 1980 I built a wonderful beach house. Four bedrooms -- every room with a view of the Atlantic Ocean.

It was an absurd place to build, right on the edge of the ocean. All that stood between my house and ruin was a hundred feet of sand. My father told me: "Don’t do it; it’s too risky.

Michael Jackson's Body at Coroner's Office, Awaiting Autopsy

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 14:01:29 GMT

clipped by: VaBabyPhat

Clip Source: www.eonline.com

Michael Jackson's Body at Coroner's Office, Awaiting Autopsy

Thu., Jun. 25, 2009 8:01 PM PDT by Natalie Finn

[Video]

The speculation will continue, but this is what we know so far.

No official cause of death will be announced until after an autopsy is performed, but doctors have indicated that Michael Jackson indeed died after suffering cardiac arrest this afternoon.

"My brother, the legendary King of Pop, Michael Jackson, passed away on Thursday, June 25, at 2:26 p.m." brother Jermaine Jackson told the media gathered outside Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center shortly before 6:30 p.m.

"It is believed he suffered cardiac arrest in his home. However, the cause of his death is unknown until the results of the autopsy are known."

Jackson had been renting a home in Los Angeles' upscale Holmby Hills neighborhood.

L.A. County Department of Coroner spokesman Craig Harvey said that the full extent of the coroner's findings will not be available for several weeks, when the results of toxicology tests come back.

Conservatives and Blood on Their Hands

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 01:09:02 GMT

clipped by: baydawg
clipper's remarks: funny

Clip Source: www.amconmag.com

metaphorical blood is non-transferable. Nixon did not pick it up from Brezhnev or Mao, Reagan did not somehow acquire the blood of Afghans by engaging with Gorbachev throughout his two terms while Afghanistan was under Soviet occupation, nor Kennedy did leave Vienna screaming, “Out, damn spot!” If negotiating with thuggish regimes means that our leaders partake of the crimes of that regime, I assume Goldberg must be in high dudgeon about the bloody taint afflicting…well, pretty much every President since FDR.

There was a time when people on the right were more resistant to the temptation to reduce foreign policy to a morality play or some sort of childish game in which negotiating with “bad guys” gave you cooties. For almost the last ten years, they have been far less so, and it’s pretty embarrassing.

Tags: humor, conservatives, foreign policy