Our deepest thanks to those who stood the line, and stand the line, for our freedom and way of life.
U/T: Malkin
Monday, May 30, 2011
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Bi-Directional Oppression
History suggests oppression is only a top-down phenomenon. Maybe not.
Below are two stories of liberty lost. The first is the traditional top-down, the second a rare (?) bottom-up approach we only see here in America.
MarketWatch: Cisco accused of helping China track dissents.
San Jose Mercury News: Cisco accused of helping China track Falun Gong followers
Here is a photo we snapped outside the Democrat's convention in 2008. Her pose is forbidden in China.
Not to be outdone... our comrades here in the states are feeling a bit bloated with too much liberty - both theirs and yours. Seattle coffee houses and their customers agree with the mayor's initiative to ban paper cups. Seattle Times: Drive to drop paper coffee cup brews in Seattle:
UT: Weasel Zippers. Photo from Google Search "Seattle Coffee House".
Questions:
Of the people pictured above, who is likely the most principled?
Who above will fight for not just their rights but for yours too?
Who would you trust in the ballot box?
And a stretch here, but who probably agrees more with the values of America's founding fathers?
Unlike public school, there is a wrong answer.
Below are two stories of liberty lost. The first is the traditional top-down, the second a rare (?) bottom-up approach we only see here in America.
MarketWatch: Cisco accused of helping China track dissents.
Cisco Systems Inc. became the subject of a lawsuit which accuses the tech firm of providing the Chinese government with the means of spying on dissents and aiding human rights violations against its citizens.
A lawsuit filed by a group from the Falun Gong spiritual movement alleged that Cisco CSCO +0.06% provided networking applications and technical assistance which enabled the Chinese government to monitor its citizens online...
A lawsuit filed by a group from the Falun Gong spiritual movement alleged that Cisco CSCO +0.06% provided networking applications and technical assistance which enabled the Chinese government to monitor its citizens online...
San Jose Mercury News: Cisco accused of helping China track Falun Gong followers
"We have actual testimony from insiders, and we've amassed three years of data that goes beyond what was presented to Congress," said Lee Crawford-Boyd, a Los Angeles lawyer who brought the class-action suit with attorneys from the Washington, D.C.-based Human Rights Law Foundation.
Here is a photo we snapped outside the Democrat's convention in 2008. Her pose is forbidden in China.
Not to be outdone... our comrades here in the states are feeling a bit bloated with too much liberty - both theirs and yours. Seattle coffee houses and their customers agree with the mayor's initiative to ban paper cups. Seattle Times: Drive to drop paper coffee cup brews in Seattle:
Seattle City Council President Richard Conlin endorsed the initiative, which urges participants to whip out their own reusable cups for mochas on the go, and opt for ceramic over paper when ordering "for here."
"Let's show that we can do this, and our success will be duplicated in other cities," Conlin said in a statement.
Co-sponsors of the initiative include Sustainable Seattle, Zero Waste Seattle, Caffe Ladro and several other local coffee shops.
"Let's show that we can do this, and our success will be duplicated in other cities," Conlin said in a statement.
Co-sponsors of the initiative include Sustainable Seattle, Zero Waste Seattle, Caffe Ladro and several other local coffee shops.
UT: Weasel Zippers. Photo from Google Search "Seattle Coffee House".
Questions:
Of the people pictured above, who is likely the most principled?
Who above will fight for not just their rights but for yours too?
Who would you trust in the ballot box?
And a stretch here, but who probably agrees more with the values of America's founding fathers?
Unlike public school, there is a wrong answer.
Monday, May 23, 2011
More Border Changes
Mike Adams at Townhall offers a suggestion to Obama - Time for America to Roll Back Its Borders
Dear President Obama:
I am writing today with a somewhat unusual request. Actually, it is a series of requests. First and foremost, I will be asking that you return America to its August 20th, 1959 borders so that Hawaii is no longer a state and you are no longer a citizen. I make this request because I don’t like your policies and I don’t like you.
I am writing today with a somewhat unusual request. Actually, it is a series of requests. First and foremost, I will be asking that you return America to its August 20th, 1959 borders so that Hawaii is no longer a state and you are no longer a citizen. I make this request because I don’t like your policies and I don’t like you.
Sunday, May 22, 2011
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Saturday, May 21, 2011
Karl Marx - Did You Know?
Karl Marx.
We knew he was a fat bum - think Michael Moore.
We knew he lived off of friends - think Daily Kos bloggers.
We knew his scribblings were driven by envy - think Daily Kos again.
What we did not know:
He had 5 children.
Plus one child he fathered with his wife's housekeeper.
Two of his children died due to his poverty.
Allow us to share what we learned this morning as we were reading Ann Coulter's To Liberals, Every Woman Looks Like a Hotel Maid. Her article is about that French IMF guy who assaulted the maid in his $3000/night hotel in New York. She closes with:
Is it any surprise Ann owns one of our Commie Obama hats?
We knew he was a fat bum - think Michael Moore.
We knew he lived off of friends - think Daily Kos bloggers.
We knew his scribblings were driven by envy - think Daily Kos again.
What we did not know:
He had 5 children.
Plus one child he fathered with his wife's housekeeper.
Two of his children died due to his poverty.
Allow us to share what we learned this morning as we were reading Ann Coulter's To Liberals, Every Woman Looks Like a Hotel Maid. Her article is about that French IMF guy who assaulted the maid in his $3000/night hotel in New York. She closes with:
Like Spitzer, Luster and Polanski, liberal men seem driven by their massive insecurities (often based on physical defects, such as their diminutive size or soap allergies) to choose unconscious, illiterate, servant-class and teenage females as their sex partners. But let's not drag pocket-sized Woody Allen's name into this, as my column appears in many family newspapers.
Karl Marx kept a female slave from the time she was 8 years old, eventually using her not only as a servant but as his mistress, never acknowledging his child with her or paying her at all. She waited on him hand and foot while he explained to the world that profit is the stolen surplus value of the laborer. Like so many liberal icons, Marx seldom bathed and left his wife and children in poverty.
As Schlafly says, no wonder liberal women think men are pigs: Their men are pigs.
Karl Marx kept a female slave from the time she was 8 years old, eventually using her not only as a servant but as his mistress, never acknowledging his child with her or paying her at all. She waited on him hand and foot while he explained to the world that profit is the stolen surplus value of the laborer. Like so many liberal icons, Marx seldom bathed and left his wife and children in poverty.
As Schlafly says, no wonder liberal women think men are pigs: Their men are pigs.
Is it any surprise Ann owns one of our Commie Obama hats?
Israel, part II
Ok, Wall Street Journal. We get it.
Normally the editorial page of the WSJ is where we look first for the explanation of a political event. They are consistently the best at explaining the issues and providing a sound opinion (except on Immigration reform). We then supplement their write-up with the opinions in our favorite blogs - listed at the left.
Twice, in as many days, the page has had a piece praising Obama's Middle East speech. Supposedly, everything except Obama's demand for Israel to revert to its 1967 borders was an "inspiring vision of US policy amid the political upheavals sweeping the region."
We don't know what those other suggestions were, and we can't stomach watching the speech or even reading it for we have fully rejected the speaker and his ideology. But here we are. The WSJ is our guide and it is telling us there were some good ideas.
We post this for two reasons:
1) full disclosure that we won't pile on just to pile on, and that we try to keep an open, albeit conservative, mind, and
2) this is a stunning example of the MSM's decline in steering a story. Even the WSJ can't get traction with one of its loyal readers.
Obama may have the MSM, and they may work overtime to cover for him. But if the Dear Leader has the absurd notion that he can tell an ally to change its borders by giving land to its most evil of enemies, he is mistaken to think the MSM can contain the damage.
WSJ 5.20: Obama's Freedom Agenda
WSJ 5.21: The 1967 Line of Fire
Normally the editorial page of the WSJ is where we look first for the explanation of a political event. They are consistently the best at explaining the issues and providing a sound opinion (except on Immigration reform). We then supplement their write-up with the opinions in our favorite blogs - listed at the left.
Twice, in as many days, the page has had a piece praising Obama's Middle East speech. Supposedly, everything except Obama's demand for Israel to revert to its 1967 borders was an "inspiring vision of US policy amid the political upheavals sweeping the region."
We don't know what those other suggestions were, and we can't stomach watching the speech or even reading it for we have fully rejected the speaker and his ideology. But here we are. The WSJ is our guide and it is telling us there were some good ideas.
We post this for two reasons:
1) full disclosure that we won't pile on just to pile on, and that we try to keep an open, albeit conservative, mind, and
2) this is a stunning example of the MSM's decline in steering a story. Even the WSJ can't get traction with one of its loyal readers.
Obama may have the MSM, and they may work overtime to cover for him. But if the Dear Leader has the absurd notion that he can tell an ally to change its borders by giving land to its most evil of enemies, he is mistaken to think the MSM can contain the damage.
WSJ 5.20: Obama's Freedom Agenda
WSJ 5.21: The 1967 Line of Fire
Israel
Remember when a US President's speech would have zero surprises? When he and his team would work behind the scenes with the affected parties to reach the best possible agreement? When the final agreement would exemplify US values of freedom and peace?
Those were the days, eh?
Our Dear Leader chose to include a completely obnoxious and unacceptable demand of Israel at the benefit of murdering marxist Palestinian filth in is Middle East policy speech week. He insists Israel return to its 1967 borders, THEN start peace negotiations with the people who refuse to accept Israel's existence and make every effort to kill its citizens.
We're on record sayingliberals progressives communists lie, cheat, steal and agitate, and tolerate others who do as well. Here is Obama lie #45,711:
While dollars are flowing out of the US Treasury at a record rate, they are flowing into our Obama Cuss Jar at record rates too!
On the positive side, there cannot be any honest, clear-thinking person alive who thinks the Democrats are pro-Israel. Like Gore says of global warming, "The debate is over."
And if this guy is such a 'big thinker', why is he only asking one of the smallest countries on the planet to change its borders? What about India and Pakistan's Kashmir region, for example? We're sure Russia or China would like an opportunity to adjust their borders.
Some comments from two Commie Obama hat owners:
Ann Barnhardt:
Congressman Allen West:
Images from: Moonbattery and IOTW - 1 and 2.
Those were the days, eh?
Our Dear Leader chose to include a completely obnoxious and unacceptable demand of Israel at the benefit of murdering marxist Palestinian filth in is Middle East policy speech week. He insists Israel return to its 1967 borders, THEN start peace negotiations with the people who refuse to accept Israel's existence and make every effort to kill its citizens.
We're on record saying
While dollars are flowing out of the US Treasury at a record rate, they are flowing into our Obama Cuss Jar at record rates too!
On the positive side, there cannot be any honest, clear-thinking person alive who thinks the Democrats are pro-Israel. Like Gore says of global warming, "The debate is over."
And if this guy is such a 'big thinker', why is he only asking one of the smallest countries on the planet to change its borders? What about India and Pakistan's Kashmir region, for example? We're sure Russia or China would like an opportunity to adjust their borders.
Some comments from two Commie Obama hat owners:
Ann Barnhardt:
Here is what they are trying to do. If Israel does not now FULLY surrender to the pre-1967 borders, the muslims will use this as an excuse to riot and eventually attack because they now have the EXPLICIT BLESSING of the POTUS to do so. Obama/Soros has given the Caliphate a central rallying point. In the name of "human rights", Obama/Soros is setting up a chessboard whereby a U.S./U.N. occupation of Israel will be "needed" to "enforce" the 1967 borders. If Israel tries to defend itself against muslim aggression - which remember has been agitated by Obama himself - or defend its sovereign territory, Obama/Soros will cast these actions of Israeli self-defense and self-preservation as "human rights violations" and move in. DO WE NOW FULLY UNDERSTAND WHAT THE PURPOSE OF THE LIBYAN ACTION WAS? It was simply to establish a precedent. Bishop to e6.
If I may be so bold, Netanyahu needs to take a page out of my playbook. He needs to give Obama the @$$kicking of a lifetime in his address to Congress. These Obama/Soros people are common gutter-scum street thugs, and need to be treated accordingly. TAKE OFF THE GLOVES AND BRING THE BEAT-DOWN. Because it is either that, or World War 3.
If I may be so bold, Netanyahu needs to take a page out of my playbook. He needs to give Obama the @$$kicking of a lifetime in his address to Congress. These Obama/Soros people are common gutter-scum street thugs, and need to be treated accordingly. TAKE OFF THE GLOVES AND BRING THE BEAT-DOWN. Because it is either that, or World War 3.
Congressman Allen West:
Today's endorsement by President Barack Obama of the creation of a Hamas-led Palestinian state based on the pre-1967 borders, signals the most egregious foreign policy decision his administration has made to date, and could be the beginning of the end as we know it for the Jewish state.
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It's time for the American people to stand by our strongest ally, the Jewish State of Israel, and reject this foreign policy blunder of epic proportions.
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It's time for the American people to stand by our strongest ally, the Jewish State of Israel, and reject this foreign policy blunder of epic proportions.
Images from: Moonbattery and IOTW - 1 and 2.
Thursday, May 19, 2011
Thursday Afternoon Cigar
Smoking another Romeo Y Julieta Habana Reserve. Today we are celebrating something new. It is still a secret, but maybe this rare color photo offers a hint....
Get In Their Face
Obama once told his supporters how to behave with their political opponents: "Get in their face".
Jason, from Human Events, did just that. 90 seconds of video, with no rudeness or yelling or immature antics, was all that was needed to expose the Left's hypocrisy. Actually, the first 3 seconds was enough.
U/Ts to Jason and Weasel Zippers.
Jason, from Human Events, did just that. 90 seconds of video, with no rudeness or yelling or immature antics, was all that was needed to expose the Left's hypocrisy. Actually, the first 3 seconds was enough.
U/Ts to Jason and Weasel Zippers.