Saturday, July 31, 2010
staring at big boobs good for health
http://www.themedguru.com/20091206/newsfeature/stare-boobs-longer-life-study-86131320.html
Friday, July 30, 2010
obama gutting economy, keyneian stimulus is just printing money=inflation, no stim
http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?topic=343425.0
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Ariz. Sheriff: I'll Jail Immigration Protesters
Ariz. Sheriff: I'll Jail Immigration Protesters
Wednesday, 28 Jul 2010 07:28 AM
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The sheriff of the most populous county in Arizona says he's "not going to put up with any civil disobedience" when the state's new immigration law takes effect.
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio says that if protesters want to block his jail, he'll put them in it.
The Arizona law, which takes effect Thursday, requires officers enforcing other laws to check a person's immigration status if they suspect the person is in the country illegally.
Arpaio told ABC's "Good Morning America" he doesn't know "what the big hype is."
He says it's "a crime to be here illegally and everyone should enforce" the law.
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Wednesday, 28 Jul 2010 07:28 AM
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The sheriff of the most populous county in Arizona says he's "not going to put up with any civil disobedience" when the state's new immigration law takes effect.
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio says that if protesters want to block his jail, he'll put them in it.
The Arizona law, which takes effect Thursday, requires officers enforcing other laws to check a person's immigration status if they suspect the person is in the country illegally.
Arpaio told ABC's "Good Morning America" he doesn't know "what the big hype is."
He says it's "a crime to be here illegally and everyone should enforce" the law.
© Copyright 2010 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
US Faces 'Disaster' from Financial Reform Bill, Bachmann Warns
US Faces 'Disaster' from Financial Reform Bill, Bachmann Warns
Tuesday, 27 Jul 2010 06:38 PM
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By: Jim Meyers
Rep. Michele Bachmann tells Newsmax that the financial reform bill recently signed into law is a “disaster” that will immediately have a negative impact on average Americans, and should be repealed if Republicans regain control of Congress.
The Minnesota Republican also charges that bailout money has been used for “political payoffs,” and says Congress would have to determine whether President Barack Obama’s comments about immigration reform constitute an impeachable offense.
Bachmann was first elected in 2006, and is the driving force behind the creation of the new Tea Party Caucus in the House.
In an exclusive Newsmax interview, she said: “The purpose of the Tea Party Caucus is to listen to the concerns of the mainstream people who are very concerned about the overwhelming growth of government and the growth of government spending.
Story continues below video.
“We don’t want to be the mouthpiece for the tea party, we want to be the earpiece for the tea party. We don’t want to control it or run it out of Washington. We don’t want to vouch for the tea party. We believe they’ve been viciously smeared and called names no one should be called, without any proof. So we’re providing an open door where real people can come speak to us, members of Congress, about issues that are of concern to them.”
Bachmann said 44 Republicans in the House have already signed up for the Caucus. Asked who is the head of the group, Bachmann responds: “I think it’s the American people. It’s the largest organic organization that’s sprung up in the last several years, and they’re worth listening to because it’s real people across the country who recognize that the government should not be running our lives.
“What we want to do is get back to a private, job creation-centered economy. We can’t do that under the current administration.”
Bachmann, a member of the Financial Services Committee, was asked if she agrees with Indiana Republican Rep. Mike Pence, chairman of the House Republican Conference, who says the new financial reform bill should be repealed if the GOP regains a majority in Congress.
“The financial reform bill should be repealed,” she declares.
“It’s a disaster because the very first thing it will do is end free checking accounts across America. Secondly, it will mean a dramatic increase in ATM fees. And third, credit will be very difficult to obtain.
“We know how this financial meltdown occurred. It was because of the federal government passing the Community Reinvestment Act that lowered our lending standards, and also Freddie [Mac] and Fannie [Mae], which made very risky loans.
“None of those entities that got us into this mess were even touched. Instead, dramatic new powers were given to the president of the United States, and that effectively institutionalizes what got us into this mess in the first place. It’s a very bad bill and deserves to be repealed.”
Democrats are saying that the Bush tax cuts should expire at the end of the year because the federal government needs the revenue to deal with record deficits.
But Bachmann points out: “President Obama increased the size of spending by the federal government by 25 percent. We can easily scale back all of the new increased spending. That would pay for the cuts.
“After all, these cuts will be tax increases on job creators. So if you don’t want these jobs coming in the future, put these tax increases into place, because the increases will be on the small business owners who are creating and providing the jobs.
“The economy grows because the private sector grows, and President Obama has failed miserably in growing the private economy.”
Bachmann was asked about the Goldman Sachs investment firm, which received $13 billion in federal bailout funds and gave $4.3 billion of the taxpayers’ money to 32 entities including overseas banks, hedge funds and pensions.
“It’s highly offensive how this money has been used for political payoffs,” she says.
“Remember that President Obama received almost $1 million in campaign donations from Goldman Sachs. I think we need to look into the connection between President Obama, his campaign contributions, and the fact that Goldman Sachs was one of the first recipients of taxpayers’ money.
“We had to borrow money from China in order to pay this money to Goldman, which in turn gave the money to foreign banks. It’s the American taxpayer that is hurt, and it’s hurting private job creation more than anything.
“We know what we need to do, and that is to repeal these very bad bills the president has put through in the last 18 months.”
Former Colorado Republican Rep. Tom Tancredo said Obama has committed an impeachable offense, admitting to Arizona Sen. Jon Kyl that if he moved to secure the border, that would remove the incentive for Republicans to negotiate a comprehensive immigration reform bill. Asked if she agrees, Bachmann tells Newsmax: “I think the president’s statements were absolutely shocking.
“It’s clear evidence that decisions are being made for political reasons, not for the good of the country. I think that’s what people have been seeing all along. The president’s economic policies are based in a far-left, radical ideology based on redistribution of wealth.
“When it comes to the issue of securing our borders, again it seems to have a political basis rather than a basis that is grounded in what is good for America, our economy, and the safety and health of the American people.
“Whether or not this is an impeachable offense is one that the Congress would have to make a determination on. But I think clearly the president isn’t acting out of the best interests of what would be good for people’s safety and good for our economy.
“Instead it seems to be grounded in politically based decisions about what is good for him politically. That doesn’t serve anyone very well.”
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Tuesday, 27 Jul 2010 06:38 PM
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By: Jim Meyers
Rep. Michele Bachmann tells Newsmax that the financial reform bill recently signed into law is a “disaster” that will immediately have a negative impact on average Americans, and should be repealed if Republicans regain control of Congress.
The Minnesota Republican also charges that bailout money has been used for “political payoffs,” and says Congress would have to determine whether President Barack Obama’s comments about immigration reform constitute an impeachable offense.
Bachmann was first elected in 2006, and is the driving force behind the creation of the new Tea Party Caucus in the House.
In an exclusive Newsmax interview, she said: “The purpose of the Tea Party Caucus is to listen to the concerns of the mainstream people who are very concerned about the overwhelming growth of government and the growth of government spending.
Story continues below video.
“We don’t want to be the mouthpiece for the tea party, we want to be the earpiece for the tea party. We don’t want to control it or run it out of Washington. We don’t want to vouch for the tea party. We believe they’ve been viciously smeared and called names no one should be called, without any proof. So we’re providing an open door where real people can come speak to us, members of Congress, about issues that are of concern to them.”
Bachmann said 44 Republicans in the House have already signed up for the Caucus. Asked who is the head of the group, Bachmann responds: “I think it’s the American people. It’s the largest organic organization that’s sprung up in the last several years, and they’re worth listening to because it’s real people across the country who recognize that the government should not be running our lives.
“What we want to do is get back to a private, job creation-centered economy. We can’t do that under the current administration.”
Bachmann, a member of the Financial Services Committee, was asked if she agrees with Indiana Republican Rep. Mike Pence, chairman of the House Republican Conference, who says the new financial reform bill should be repealed if the GOP regains a majority in Congress.
“The financial reform bill should be repealed,” she declares.
“It’s a disaster because the very first thing it will do is end free checking accounts across America. Secondly, it will mean a dramatic increase in ATM fees. And third, credit will be very difficult to obtain.
“We know how this financial meltdown occurred. It was because of the federal government passing the Community Reinvestment Act that lowered our lending standards, and also Freddie [Mac] and Fannie [Mae], which made very risky loans.
“None of those entities that got us into this mess were even touched. Instead, dramatic new powers were given to the president of the United States, and that effectively institutionalizes what got us into this mess in the first place. It’s a very bad bill and deserves to be repealed.”
Democrats are saying that the Bush tax cuts should expire at the end of the year because the federal government needs the revenue to deal with record deficits.
But Bachmann points out: “President Obama increased the size of spending by the federal government by 25 percent. We can easily scale back all of the new increased spending. That would pay for the cuts.
“After all, these cuts will be tax increases on job creators. So if you don’t want these jobs coming in the future, put these tax increases into place, because the increases will be on the small business owners who are creating and providing the jobs.
“The economy grows because the private sector grows, and President Obama has failed miserably in growing the private economy.”
Bachmann was asked about the Goldman Sachs investment firm, which received $13 billion in federal bailout funds and gave $4.3 billion of the taxpayers’ money to 32 entities including overseas banks, hedge funds and pensions.
“It’s highly offensive how this money has been used for political payoffs,” she says.
“Remember that President Obama received almost $1 million in campaign donations from Goldman Sachs. I think we need to look into the connection between President Obama, his campaign contributions, and the fact that Goldman Sachs was one of the first recipients of taxpayers’ money.
“We had to borrow money from China in order to pay this money to Goldman, which in turn gave the money to foreign banks. It’s the American taxpayer that is hurt, and it’s hurting private job creation more than anything.
“We know what we need to do, and that is to repeal these very bad bills the president has put through in the last 18 months.”
Former Colorado Republican Rep. Tom Tancredo said Obama has committed an impeachable offense, admitting to Arizona Sen. Jon Kyl that if he moved to secure the border, that would remove the incentive for Republicans to negotiate a comprehensive immigration reform bill. Asked if she agrees, Bachmann tells Newsmax: “I think the president’s statements were absolutely shocking.
“It’s clear evidence that decisions are being made for political reasons, not for the good of the country. I think that’s what people have been seeing all along. The president’s economic policies are based in a far-left, radical ideology based on redistribution of wealth.
“When it comes to the issue of securing our borders, again it seems to have a political basis rather than a basis that is grounded in what is good for America, our economy, and the safety and health of the American people.
“Whether or not this is an impeachable offense is one that the Congress would have to make a determination on. But I think clearly the president isn’t acting out of the best interests of what would be good for people’s safety and good for our economy.
“Instead it seems to be grounded in politically based decisions about what is good for him politically. That doesn’t serve anyone very well.”
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CNN Poll: 55% Support Arizona Law
CNN Poll: 55% Support Arizona Law
Wednesday, 28 Jul 2010 02:06 PM
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By: Dan Weil
A new CNN/Opinion Research poll shows that 55 percent of Americans support Arizona’s controversial immigration law.
Opposition to the law totals 71 percent among Hispanics, but only 34 percent among whites.
The new rules, set to begin Thursday, stipulate that if police stop someone for another reason and suspect the person of being in the U.S. illegally, they must ask the person about his/her immigration status.
People are divided over various ramifications of the law, with 48 percent of poll respondents believing it will help curb illegal immigration and 50 percent believing it won’t.
Among Hispanics, 35 percent say the law will be effective, compared to 50 percent for whites.
While a majority of Americans support the law, a majority – 54 percent -- also says it will lead to discrimination against Hispanics.
Among whites, 49 percent expect that discrimination, and among Hispanics, 74 percent.
"Support for the Arizona law also varies by gender and age," says Keating Holland, CNN's polling director. "Nearly six in 10 older Americans and six in 10 men favor the measure. But only a bare majority of women and Americans under 50 years old think the law is a good idea."
The law has apparently added to the national clout of Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer in the Republican Party.
Last weekend, she endorsed former Lt. Gov. Jane Norton, a U.S. Senate candidate in Colorado. Norton is locked in a tight GOP primary battle with Ken Buck, district attorney for Weld County.
Wednesday, 28 Jul 2010 02:06 PM
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By: Dan Weil
A new CNN/Opinion Research poll shows that 55 percent of Americans support Arizona’s controversial immigration law.
Opposition to the law totals 71 percent among Hispanics, but only 34 percent among whites.
The new rules, set to begin Thursday, stipulate that if police stop someone for another reason and suspect the person of being in the U.S. illegally, they must ask the person about his/her immigration status.
People are divided over various ramifications of the law, with 48 percent of poll respondents believing it will help curb illegal immigration and 50 percent believing it won’t.
Among Hispanics, 35 percent say the law will be effective, compared to 50 percent for whites.
While a majority of Americans support the law, a majority – 54 percent -- also says it will lead to discrimination against Hispanics.
Among whites, 49 percent expect that discrimination, and among Hispanics, 74 percent.
"Support for the Arizona law also varies by gender and age," says Keating Holland, CNN's polling director. "Nearly six in 10 older Americans and six in 10 men favor the measure. But only a bare majority of women and Americans under 50 years old think the law is a good idea."
The law has apparently added to the national clout of Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer in the Republican Party.
Last weekend, she endorsed former Lt. Gov. Jane Norton, a U.S. Senate candidate in Colorado. Norton is locked in a tight GOP primary battle with Ken Buck, district attorney for Weld County.
Finance Law Exempts SEC from Disclosure
Finance Law Exempts SEC from Disclosure
Wednesday, 28 Jul 2010 02:17 PM
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By: Dan Weil
The new financial regulation law was supposed to make the financial system more transparent, thus preventing skullduggery and lessening the chance for another meltdown.
But the legislation pushes the public further back from the Securities and Exchange Commission, a key regulatory watchdog for the system.
The law allows the SEC to deny almost all public requests for information, including those filed under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), FoxBusiness.com reports.
The SEC doesn’t have to release information that comes from "surveillance, risk assessments, or other regulatory and oversight activities." To be sure, the agency does have to provide that information to Congress and other government agencies.
But the provision keeping the public at bay extends to almost every SEC action, lawyers told Fox.
Many of them are blasting the rule.
“It allows the SEC to block the public’s access to virtually all SEC records,” Gary Aguirre, a former SEC staff attorney who ran afoul of the agency for being a whistle blower, told Fox.
“It permits the SEC to promulgate its own rules and regulations regarding the disclosure of records without getting the approval of the Office of Management and Budget, which typically applies to all federal agencies.”
Aguirre used FOIA requests in his own lawsuit against the SEC, which the agency recently settled by paying him $755,000. Those requests could be denied now, he says.
“It is hard to imagine how the bill could be more counterproductive.”
Fox Business Network sued the SEC in March 2009 for refusing to hand over documents involving its failed examinations of alleged investment frauds engineered by Bernie Madoff and R. Allen Stanford.
Some experts say the financial regulation law’s flaws go far wider than the SEC provision.
Diana Furchtgott-Roth, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, says the law is bad for banks, bad for companies, bad for individuals and bad for the economy.
The law purportedly protects consumers and business, she told Newsmax.TV. “What it actually does is constrain credit. It makes it a lot harder for banks to lend money to small businesses and consumers”
Wednesday, 28 Jul 2010 02:17 PM
Article Font Size
By: Dan Weil
The new financial regulation law was supposed to make the financial system more transparent, thus preventing skullduggery and lessening the chance for another meltdown.
But the legislation pushes the public further back from the Securities and Exchange Commission, a key regulatory watchdog for the system.
The law allows the SEC to deny almost all public requests for information, including those filed under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), FoxBusiness.com reports.
The SEC doesn’t have to release information that comes from "surveillance, risk assessments, or other regulatory and oversight activities." To be sure, the agency does have to provide that information to Congress and other government agencies.
But the provision keeping the public at bay extends to almost every SEC action, lawyers told Fox.
Many of them are blasting the rule.
“It allows the SEC to block the public’s access to virtually all SEC records,” Gary Aguirre, a former SEC staff attorney who ran afoul of the agency for being a whistle blower, told Fox.
“It permits the SEC to promulgate its own rules and regulations regarding the disclosure of records without getting the approval of the Office of Management and Budget, which typically applies to all federal agencies.”
Aguirre used FOIA requests in his own lawsuit against the SEC, which the agency recently settled by paying him $755,000. Those requests could be denied now, he says.
“It is hard to imagine how the bill could be more counterproductive.”
Fox Business Network sued the SEC in March 2009 for refusing to hand over documents involving its failed examinations of alleged investment frauds engineered by Bernie Madoff and R. Allen Stanford.
Some experts say the financial regulation law’s flaws go far wider than the SEC provision.
Diana Furchtgott-Roth, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, says the law is bad for banks, bad for companies, bad for individuals and bad for the economy.
The law purportedly protects consumers and business, she told Newsmax.TV. “What it actually does is constrain credit. It makes it a lot harder for banks to lend money to small businesses and consumers”
why no outrage at MA spitting on constitution and ignoring electoral college?
http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2010/07/mass_legislatur.html?p1=News_links
female judge thwarts AZ immigration enforcement law WOW COMMUNISM
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9H86OTG0&show_article=1
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Oliver Stone: 'Jewish-Dominated Media' Prevents Hitler from Being Portrayed 'in Context'
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/alana-goodman/2010/07/25/oliver-stone-jewish-dominated-media-prevents-hitler-being-portrayed-c
Oliver Stone: 'Jewish-Dominated Media' Prevents Hitler from Being Portrayed 'in Context'
By Alana Goodman (Bio | Archive)
Sun, 07/25/2010 - 21:03 ET
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Director Oliver Stone belittled the Holocaust during a shocking interview with the Sunday Times today, claiming that America's focus on the Jewish massacre was a product of the "Jewish domination of the media."
The director also defended Hitler and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and railed against the "powerful lobby" of Jews in America.
Stone said that his upcoming Showtime documentary series "Secret History of America," seeks to put Hitler and Communist dictator Joseph Stalin "in context."
"Hitler was a Frankenstein but there was also a Dr Frankenstein. German industrialists, the Americans and the British. He had a lot of support," Stone told reporter Camilla Long during the interview, which can be found behind the paywall on the Sunday Times' website.
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Stone said that, "Hitler did far more damage to the Russians than the Jewish people, 25 or 30 [million killed]."
The Sunday Times interviewer then asked why there was such a focus on the Holocaust.
"The Jewish domination of the media," responded Stone. "There's a major lobby in the United States. They are hard workers. They stay on top of every comment, the most powerful lobby in Washington. Israel has f***** up United States foreign policy for years."
The director, who recently met with Iranian President Ahmadinejad, also slammed the U.S. policy toward Iran as "horrible."
"Iran isn't necessarily the good guy," said Stone. "[B]ut we don't know the full story!"
The Scarface screenwriter had even more encouraging words for socialist Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez, who Stone called "a brave, blunt, earthy" man. The director has recently been promoting his Chavez-praising documentary called "South of the Border."
When the interviewer pointed out that Chavez has had a less-than-stellar record on human rights, Stone immediately dismissed the criticism.
"The internet's fully free [in Venezuela]," said Stone. "You can say what the hell you like. Compare it with all the other countries: Mexico, Guatemala, above all Colombia, which is a joke."
While Stone has not been as blunt about his views on Jews and the Holocaust in the past, he has been outspoken in his fondness for Chavez and his disagreements with the U.S.'s policy on Iran.
On ABC's Good Morning America on July 28, the director told anchor George Stephanopoulos that he "absolutely" believes Chavez is a good person, and claimed that there was "there's no pattern of censorship in this country [Venezuela]."
Stone also said that if the U.S. pursued sanctions against Iran, "it's going to be like North Vietnam again."
Oliver Stone: 'Jewish-Dominated Media' Prevents Hitler from Being Portrayed 'in Context'
By Alana Goodman (Bio | Archive)
Sun, 07/25/2010 - 21:03 ET
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Director Oliver Stone belittled the Holocaust during a shocking interview with the Sunday Times today, claiming that America's focus on the Jewish massacre was a product of the "Jewish domination of the media."
The director also defended Hitler and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and railed against the "powerful lobby" of Jews in America.
Stone said that his upcoming Showtime documentary series "Secret History of America," seeks to put Hitler and Communist dictator Joseph Stalin "in context."
"Hitler was a Frankenstein but there was also a Dr Frankenstein. German industrialists, the Americans and the British. He had a lot of support," Stone told reporter Camilla Long during the interview, which can be found behind the paywall on the Sunday Times' website.
Story Continues Below Ad ↓
Stone said that, "Hitler did far more damage to the Russians than the Jewish people, 25 or 30 [million killed]."
The Sunday Times interviewer then asked why there was such a focus on the Holocaust.
"The Jewish domination of the media," responded Stone. "There's a major lobby in the United States. They are hard workers. They stay on top of every comment, the most powerful lobby in Washington. Israel has f***** up United States foreign policy for years."
The director, who recently met with Iranian President Ahmadinejad, also slammed the U.S. policy toward Iran as "horrible."
"Iran isn't necessarily the good guy," said Stone. "[B]ut we don't know the full story!"
The Scarface screenwriter had even more encouraging words for socialist Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez, who Stone called "a brave, blunt, earthy" man. The director has recently been promoting his Chavez-praising documentary called "South of the Border."
When the interviewer pointed out that Chavez has had a less-than-stellar record on human rights, Stone immediately dismissed the criticism.
"The internet's fully free [in Venezuela]," said Stone. "You can say what the hell you like. Compare it with all the other countries: Mexico, Guatemala, above all Colombia, which is a joke."
While Stone has not been as blunt about his views on Jews and the Holocaust in the past, he has been outspoken in his fondness for Chavez and his disagreements with the U.S.'s policy on Iran.
On ABC's Good Morning America on July 28, the director told anchor George Stephanopoulos that he "absolutely" believes Chavez is a good person, and claimed that there was "there's no pattern of censorship in this country [Venezuela]."
Stone also said that if the U.S. pursued sanctions against Iran, "it's going to be like North Vietnam again."
Oliver Stone: 'Jewish Domination Of The Media' Propagates Holocaust Myths
Oliver Stone: 'Jewish Domination Of The Media' Propagates Holocaust Myths
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/26/oliver-stone-jewish-domin_n_659795.html
Oliver Stone says that Hitler caused more damage to the Russian people than to Jewish people, but that the American focus on the Holocaust stems from the "Jewish domination of the media."
Update, Stone apology below
The director made the controversial claim in an interview with London's Sunday Times (behind a paywall).
"Hitler was a Frankenstein but there was also a Dr Frankenstein," Stone said (via The Telegraph). "German industrialists, the Americans and the British. He had a lot of support...
"Hitler did far more damage to the Russians than [to] the Jewish people, 25 or 30 [million killed]."
The reason few people know this, according to Stone?
"The Jewish domination of the media," he said. "There's a major lobby in the United States. They are hard workers. They stay on top of every comment, the most powerful lobby in Washington. Israel has f***** up United States foreign policy for years."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/26/oliver-stone-jewish-domin_n_659795.html
Oliver Stone says that Hitler caused more damage to the Russian people than to Jewish people, but that the American focus on the Holocaust stems from the "Jewish domination of the media."
Update, Stone apology below
The director made the controversial claim in an interview with London's Sunday Times (behind a paywall).
"Hitler was a Frankenstein but there was also a Dr Frankenstein," Stone said (via The Telegraph). "German industrialists, the Americans and the British. He had a lot of support...
"Hitler did far more damage to the Russians than [to] the Jewish people, 25 or 30 [million killed]."
The reason few people know this, according to Stone?
"The Jewish domination of the media," he said. "There's a major lobby in the United States. They are hard workers. They stay on top of every comment, the most powerful lobby in Washington. Israel has f***** up United States foreign policy for years."
irony: jews want oliver stone's tv show pulled after he said jew control media
http://www.usatoday.com/communities/entertainment/Index
Oliver Stone's apology is not enough, say some
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Oliver Stone attends the UK Premiere of 'South Of The Border' at The Curzon Mayfair on July 19, 2010 in London, England.
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Oliver Stone's apology for remarks about the Holocaust is not satisfying some folks.
Media mogul Haim Saban is trying to get Showtime to cancel Stone's upcoming 10-part series, A Secret History of America, reports The Wrap. Saban who told The Wrap in an e-mail that Stone's "apology is sooooo transparently fake," has contacted CBS chief Leslie Moonves to urge him to not to air the series. And Saban told The Wrap that superagent Ari Emanuel had also called CBS privately to urge that it be pulled. CBS, Moonves and Emanuel have not commented yet.
Stone said earlier this year at the TV critics' press tour that the 10-part Secret History series would put Hitler and Stalin "in context."
Meanwhile, the Anti-Defamation League has sent out a release saying the group is not satisfied with Stone's apology. Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director, issued the following:
"Oliver Stone's apology stops short and is therefore insufficient.
While he now admits that Jews do not control Hollywood, the media and other industries, he ignores his assertion that Jews are '...the most powerful lobby in Washington' and that 'Israel has (expletive) up United States foreign policy.' This is another conspiratorial anti-Semitic canard that Mr. Stone needs to repudiate."
Oliver Stone's apology is not enough, say some
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Oliver Stone attends the UK Premiere of 'South Of The Border' at The Curzon Mayfair on July 19, 2010 in London, England.
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By Gareth Cattermole, Getty Images
Oliver Stone's apology for remarks about the Holocaust is not satisfying some folks.
Media mogul Haim Saban is trying to get Showtime to cancel Stone's upcoming 10-part series, A Secret History of America, reports The Wrap. Saban who told The Wrap in an e-mail that Stone's "apology is sooooo transparently fake," has contacted CBS chief Leslie Moonves to urge him to not to air the series. And Saban told The Wrap that superagent Ari Emanuel had also called CBS privately to urge that it be pulled. CBS, Moonves and Emanuel have not commented yet.
Stone said earlier this year at the TV critics' press tour that the 10-part Secret History series would put Hitler and Stalin "in context."
Meanwhile, the Anti-Defamation League has sent out a release saying the group is not satisfied with Stone's apology. Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director, issued the following:
"Oliver Stone's apology stops short and is therefore insufficient.
While he now admits that Jews do not control Hollywood, the media and other industries, he ignores his assertion that Jews are '...the most powerful lobby in Washington' and that 'Israel has (expletive) up United States foreign policy.' This is another conspiratorial anti-Semitic canard that Mr. Stone needs to repudiate."
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Demtard Shut-In reposting the same tired crap (Yesterday's observation got flagged!)
Demtard Shut-In reposting the same tired crap (Yesterday's observation got flagged!)
Date: 2010-07-27, 2:49PM PDT
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STILL the same old tired cut 'n' paste from Mr. Originality.
Go, ahead, Dems, read the day's marching orders.
Bah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah
Jews (Warmth) Date: 2010-07-27, 2:21AM PDT Reply To This Post So, tell me - if the Jews were so smart, why weren't they able to prevent the Holocaust
Jews (Warmth)
Date: 2010-07-27, 2:21AM PDT
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So, tell me - if the Jews were so smart, why weren't they able to prevent the Holocaust?
Date: 2010-07-27, 2:21AM PDT
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So, tell me - if the Jews were so smart, why weren't they able to prevent the Holocaust?
Obama has a Marxist background Date: 2010-07-27, 8:44AM PDT Reply To This Post Wakeup America before its too late. This creep has to go in 2012 Watch
Obama has a Marxist background
Date: 2010-07-27, 8:44AM PDT
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Wakeup America before its too late.
This creep has to go in 2012
Watch this. And if you still support him after seeing this
then there's something really wrong with you.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIxILQaZwUI
Date: 2010-07-27, 8:44AM PDT
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Wakeup America before its too late.
This creep has to go in 2012
Watch this. And if you still support him after seeing this
then there's something really wrong with you.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIxILQaZwUI
Liberal are control freaks Date: 2010-07-27, 8:19AM PDT Reply To This Post Liberals are good at one thing. And thats spread their nonsense bullshit.
Liberal are control freaks
Date: 2010-07-27, 8:19AM PDT
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Liberals are good at one thing. And thats spread their nonsense bullshit.
They offer nothing to this country.
They keep posting because they know its about over for Obama.
There's no way American are going to let this marxist president continue
his agenda.
Americans, Democrats and Repubicans are getting enough of his failed
Hope and Change.
We have hope and they change will come in 2012.
Date: 2010-07-27, 8:19AM PDT
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Liberals are good at one thing. And thats spread their nonsense bullshit.
They offer nothing to this country.
They keep posting because they know its about over for Obama.
There's no way American are going to let this marxist president continue
his agenda.
Americans, Democrats and Repubicans are getting enough of his failed
Hope and Change.
We have hope and they change will come in 2012.
Why does $7 million per day go to Israel? (SaMo) Date: 2010-07-27, 8:55AM PDT Reply To This Post I just read an article about anti-Semitism. Israel w
Why does $7 million per day go to Israel? (SaMo)
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I just read an article about anti-Semitism. Israel was mentioned. Then I broke down how much of our money goes to Israel every year. It comes out to $7 million per day. Holy shit! That's A LOT OF MONEY! I mean, couldn't we use that money here? Imagine $7 million per day pumped into California's economy. Things would be good! Just some food for thought.
Date: 2010-07-27, 8:55AM PDT
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I just read an article about anti-Semitism. Israel was mentioned. Then I broke down how much of our money goes to Israel every year. It comes out to $7 million per day. Holy shit! That's A LOT OF MONEY! I mean, couldn't we use that money here? Imagine $7 million per day pumped into California's economy. Things would be good! Just some food for thought.
Obama, Reagan, and the economy www.politico.com By: Frank J. Donatelli July 27, 2010 04:34 AM EDT ________________________ ______________________ I
Obama, Reagan, and the economy
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By: Frank J. Donatelli
July 27, 2010 04:34 AM EDT
________________________ ______________________
It’s easy to understand why President Barack Obama’s friends don’t want to acknowledge that July represents 17 months since Congress passed the $787 billion economic stimulus bill — the president’s signature measure to jump-start the economy and fight unemployment.
Obama says the economy is headed in the right direction; jobs are being created, not lost, and he is doing everything possible to revive the “worst economy since the Great Depression.” Most of the national press has been remarkably accepting of this narrative — even if the president has been vague, at best, about when we might finally see an uptick in economic growth and job creation.
But in another economic time, President Ronald Reagan’s economic recovery program took 17 months to take hold. It took from the time Congress passed his tax cuts, in August 1981, until the recession he inherited finally ended in January 1983.
Unemployment hit a high of 10.8 percent in December 1982. But then economic growth spiked, and the unemployment rate began a long, steady decline throughout the 1980s. It was obvious the program was working when people stopped calling it “Reaganomics.”
Tax cuts were a part of Reagan’s effort to cut the size and scope of government to fight economic stagnation. “Government is not the solution,” Reagan said in his remarkably clear inaugural address. “It is the problem.”
In addition to tax cuts, Reagan reduced domestic discretionary spending and streamlined regulations to make them less of a burden on businesses seeking to create jobs. He believed that government should give individuals and businesses the proper incentives to grow and expand and not inhibit the private sector with high taxes and cumbersome regulations.
Reagan faced obstacles that Obama did not. The House he had to work with was always controlled by Democrats. More ominously, inflation was running at double-digit rates, and it took nearly a year for the Federal Reserve to squeeze those pressures out of the system.
Regardless, in the end, Reagan’s program worked. The turnaround began 17 months later.
Fast-forward to today. The Obama administration says that government-directed investment, via huge spending increases, can revive the economy. It’s now stimulus plus 17. Is there a turnaround in sight?
Apparently not. Obama’s own budget estimates, released just last week, project trillion-dollar deficits, anemic economic growth coming out of a recession and unemployment near 9 percent for 2011 and 8 percent for 2012.
You have to go back to the 1930s to find a period in which unemployment has been so high for so long. This economic record would make former President Jimmy Carter blush.
Yet Obama continues to get a pass on his version of recent economic events. He has said that he inherited the worst recession since the Great Depression. He didn’t. The economies inherited by both President Gerald Ford in 1974 and Reagan in 1981 were far worse.
Obama has said the stimulus has saved 3 million jobs. It hasn’t. We have nearly that many fewer jobs than before the stimulus was passed in February 2009, and the unemployment rate is 1½ percentage points higher than what he claimed would be the high point once his program was enacted.
Obama has said he is doing all he can to revive the economy. Actually, he’s doing too much. The economic uncertainty that his “historic” health care and budget bills have created is doing more to hold back economic growth than anything else. Companies are hoarding cash rather than invest in Obama’s uncertain economic climate.
As a result, the recovery is anemic by historic standards.
So we have two historic presidents. Both inherited bad economies. One cut spending and taxes, and then, 17 months later, the economy boomed. The other increased taxes and spending. It’s now 17 months later.
Mr. President, we’re waiting.
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By: Frank J. Donatelli
July 27, 2010 04:34 AM EDT
________________________ ______________________
It’s easy to understand why President Barack Obama’s friends don’t want to acknowledge that July represents 17 months since Congress passed the $787 billion economic stimulus bill — the president’s signature measure to jump-start the economy and fight unemployment.
Obama says the economy is headed in the right direction; jobs are being created, not lost, and he is doing everything possible to revive the “worst economy since the Great Depression.” Most of the national press has been remarkably accepting of this narrative — even if the president has been vague, at best, about when we might finally see an uptick in economic growth and job creation.
But in another economic time, President Ronald Reagan’s economic recovery program took 17 months to take hold. It took from the time Congress passed his tax cuts, in August 1981, until the recession he inherited finally ended in January 1983.
Unemployment hit a high of 10.8 percent in December 1982. But then economic growth spiked, and the unemployment rate began a long, steady decline throughout the 1980s. It was obvious the program was working when people stopped calling it “Reaganomics.”
Tax cuts were a part of Reagan’s effort to cut the size and scope of government to fight economic stagnation. “Government is not the solution,” Reagan said in his remarkably clear inaugural address. “It is the problem.”
In addition to tax cuts, Reagan reduced domestic discretionary spending and streamlined regulations to make them less of a burden on businesses seeking to create jobs. He believed that government should give individuals and businesses the proper incentives to grow and expand and not inhibit the private sector with high taxes and cumbersome regulations.
Reagan faced obstacles that Obama did not. The House he had to work with was always controlled by Democrats. More ominously, inflation was running at double-digit rates, and it took nearly a year for the Federal Reserve to squeeze those pressures out of the system.
Regardless, in the end, Reagan’s program worked. The turnaround began 17 months later.
Fast-forward to today. The Obama administration says that government-directed investment, via huge spending increases, can revive the economy. It’s now stimulus plus 17. Is there a turnaround in sight?
Apparently not. Obama’s own budget estimates, released just last week, project trillion-dollar deficits, anemic economic growth coming out of a recession and unemployment near 9 percent for 2011 and 8 percent for 2012.
You have to go back to the 1930s to find a period in which unemployment has been so high for so long. This economic record would make former President Jimmy Carter blush.
Yet Obama continues to get a pass on his version of recent economic events. He has said that he inherited the worst recession since the Great Depression. He didn’t. The economies inherited by both President Gerald Ford in 1974 and Reagan in 1981 were far worse.
Obama has said the stimulus has saved 3 million jobs. It hasn’t. We have nearly that many fewer jobs than before the stimulus was passed in February 2009, and the unemployment rate is 1½ percentage points higher than what he claimed would be the high point once his program was enacted.
Obama has said he is doing all he can to revive the economy. Actually, he’s doing too much. The economic uncertainty that his “historic” health care and budget bills have created is doing more to hold back economic growth than anything else. Companies are hoarding cash rather than invest in Obama’s uncertain economic climate.
As a result, the recovery is anemic by historic standards.
So we have two historic presidents. Both inherited bad economies. One cut spending and taxes, and then, 17 months later, the economy boomed. The other increased taxes and spending. It’s now 17 months later.
Mr. President, we’re waiting.
Monday, July 26, 2010
Inception (2010) [ All User Reviews ] Previous | 3 of 1247 | Next Overall Grade: B- Story: C- Acting: A- Direction: A- Visuals:
Inception (2010)
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Overall Grade: B-
Story: C-
Acting: A-
Direction: A-
Visuals: A
When crap is the norm, mediocrity will be king
by Bob J (movies profile) Jul 19, 2010
80 of 142 people found this review helpful
We've gotten to the point where a film that wanders remotely off the reservation stuns and wows us and leads us to believe it is great. "Inception" isn't a terrible movie. It is certainly better than anything else Hollywood has to offer this year. Neither, however, is it great.
Chris Nolan has shown us the future of big budget movies for adults-- A slightly intellectual idea is stretched and padded with explosions and intense chase scenes, put together at a pace so quick we don't notice that there is just barely more substance than the average movie carries. I don't mean to bash "Inception" too much. It is an enjoyable movie that will sweep anyone with half a brain into its narrative. Once the viewer has given in to "the ride," he or she will be transfixed for the duration of the film. "Dark Knight" demonstrated this a couple of years ago. Nolan takes that nearly impossible-to-beat formula and pushes it to the maximum in this film.
Don't be fooled, however, into thinking there are original ideas at work here. Just as "The Matrix" was a clever mish-mash of a dozen great, but old, ideas, so too is "Inception." The ideas present here have been a part of science fiction for sixty years. The kind you read, not watch.
All that said, it is indeed refreshing to watch a movie not based on a comic book, not based on an old television show, and not a remake that never needed to be made in the first place. This is it, folks, the one blockbuster this summer that will be worth the money you set down for it.
Enjoy every minute of it. Who knows how long the next desert of garbage from hollywood will be before they offer us something mediocre once more that we can gaze at, like the zombies in Romero's "Day of the Dead" and say, "Wow! It's not a total piece of crap! Congratulations hollywood!"
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Overall Grade: B-
Story: C-
Acting: A-
Direction: A-
Visuals: A
When crap is the norm, mediocrity will be king
by Bob J (movies profile) Jul 19, 2010
80 of 142 people found this review helpful
We've gotten to the point where a film that wanders remotely off the reservation stuns and wows us and leads us to believe it is great. "Inception" isn't a terrible movie. It is certainly better than anything else Hollywood has to offer this year. Neither, however, is it great.
Chris Nolan has shown us the future of big budget movies for adults-- A slightly intellectual idea is stretched and padded with explosions and intense chase scenes, put together at a pace so quick we don't notice that there is just barely more substance than the average movie carries. I don't mean to bash "Inception" too much. It is an enjoyable movie that will sweep anyone with half a brain into its narrative. Once the viewer has given in to "the ride," he or she will be transfixed for the duration of the film. "Dark Knight" demonstrated this a couple of years ago. Nolan takes that nearly impossible-to-beat formula and pushes it to the maximum in this film.
Don't be fooled, however, into thinking there are original ideas at work here. Just as "The Matrix" was a clever mish-mash of a dozen great, but old, ideas, so too is "Inception." The ideas present here have been a part of science fiction for sixty years. The kind you read, not watch.
All that said, it is indeed refreshing to watch a movie not based on a comic book, not based on an old television show, and not a remake that never needed to be made in the first place. This is it, folks, the one blockbuster this summer that will be worth the money you set down for it.
Enjoy every minute of it. Who knows how long the next desert of garbage from hollywood will be before they offer us something mediocre once more that we can gaze at, like the zombies in Romero's "Day of the Dead" and say, "Wow! It's not a total piece of crap! Congratulations hollywood!"
obama a scumbag ownership stealing deficit amster
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Sunday, July 25, 2010
BELL, Calif. – Three administrators whose huge salaries sparked outrage in this small blue-collar suburb of Los Angeles have agreed to resign, the Cit
BELL, Calif. – Three administrators whose huge salaries sparked outrage in this small blue-collar suburb of Los Angeles have agreed to resign, the City Council said Friday.
Council members emerged from an hours-long closed session at midnight Friday and announced that they'd accepted the resignations of Chief Administrative Officer Robert Rizzo, Assistant City Manager Angela Spaccia and Police Chief Randy Adams.
Rizzo was the highest paid at $787,637 a year — nearly twice the pay of President Barack Obama — for overseeing one of the poorest towns in Los Angeles County.
Spaccia makes $376,288 a year and Adams earns $457,000, 50 percent more than Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck.
The three will not receive severance packages, the Los Angeles Times reported Friday. Rizzo will step down at the end of August and Spaccia will leave at the end of September. Adams will also leave at the end of August, after completing an evaluation of the police department, the Times said.
"I'm happy that they resigned but I'm disappointed at the pension that they're going to receive," said Ali Saleh, a member of the Bell Association to Stop the Abuse or BASTA.
Rizzo would be entitled to a state pension of more than $650,000 a year for life, according to calculations made by the Times. That would make Rizzo, 56, the highest-paid retiree in the state pension system.
Adams could get more than $411,000 a year.
Spaccia, 51, could be eligible for as much as $250,000 a year when she reaches 55, though the figure is less precise than for the other two officials, the Times said.
Saleh said the crowd applauded after the announcement but immediately yelled out questions about what would happen to the council members. Four of the five of them are paid close to $100,000 annually for part-time work. When the crowd's questions were not answered, they shouted, "Recall!, Recall!"
Revelations about the pay in Bell has sparked anger in the city of fewer than 40,000 residents. Census figures from 2008 show 17 percent of the population lives in poverty.
Enraged residents have staged protests demanding the firings and started a recall campaign against some council members.
"Woo-hoo, the salaries. Wow. What can I say? I think that's unbelievable," Christina Caldera, a 20-year resident of the city, said as she stood in line at a food bank.
Caldera, who is struggling after recently losing her job as a drug and alcohol counselor, said she generally was satisfied with the way the city was being run but felt high-paid officials should take a pay cut.
"What are they doing with all that money?" she asked. "Maybe they could put it into more jobs for other people."
Attempts to leave messages seeking comment from Rizzo and Spaccia failed because their voicemails were full. A message left for Adams was not immediately returned.
The county district attorney's office is investigating to determine if the high salaries for the council members violate any state laws. The City Council also intends to review city salaries, including those of its own members, according to Councilman Luis Artiga and Mayor Oscar Hernandez.
"We are going to analyze all the city payrolls and possibly will revise all the salaries of the city," Artiga said.
However, both men said they considered the City Council pay to be justified.
"We work a lot. I work with my community every day," the mayor said, as he shook hands with and embraced people leaving the food bank Thursday.
Council members are on call around the clock, and it is not uncommon for them to take calls in the middle of the night from people reporting problems with city services, Artiga said.
Though many residents are poor, Hernandez said they live in a city they can be proud of, one with a $22.7 million budget surplus, clean streets, refurbished parks and numerous programs for people of all ages. He pointed proudly down a street to a park filled with new exercise equipment.
When Rizzo arrived 17 years ago, Hernandez said, the city was $13 million in debt and on the verge of bankruptcy. Rizzo obtained government grants to aid the city, the mayor said.
Rizzo was arrested near his home in Huntington Beach in March and charged with misdemeanor drunken driving. He pleaded not guilty and is due back in court for an Aug. 5 hearing, said Farrah Emami, a spokeswoman for the Orange County district attorney's office.
The Los Angeles Times reported the salaries last week, prompting a large protest Monday at City Hall in which residents shouted and demanded that Rizzo be fired.
California Attorney General Jerry Brown said his office has launched an investigation in conjunction with the state's public employee retirement agency into pension and related benefits for Bell's civic leaders.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100723/ap_on_re_us/us_bell_salaries
Council members emerged from an hours-long closed session at midnight Friday and announced that they'd accepted the resignations of Chief Administrative Officer Robert Rizzo, Assistant City Manager Angela Spaccia and Police Chief Randy Adams.
Rizzo was the highest paid at $787,637 a year — nearly twice the pay of President Barack Obama — for overseeing one of the poorest towns in Los Angeles County.
Spaccia makes $376,288 a year and Adams earns $457,000, 50 percent more than Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck.
The three will not receive severance packages, the Los Angeles Times reported Friday. Rizzo will step down at the end of August and Spaccia will leave at the end of September. Adams will also leave at the end of August, after completing an evaluation of the police department, the Times said.
"I'm happy that they resigned but I'm disappointed at the pension that they're going to receive," said Ali Saleh, a member of the Bell Association to Stop the Abuse or BASTA.
Rizzo would be entitled to a state pension of more than $650,000 a year for life, according to calculations made by the Times. That would make Rizzo, 56, the highest-paid retiree in the state pension system.
Adams could get more than $411,000 a year.
Spaccia, 51, could be eligible for as much as $250,000 a year when she reaches 55, though the figure is less precise than for the other two officials, the Times said.
Saleh said the crowd applauded after the announcement but immediately yelled out questions about what would happen to the council members. Four of the five of them are paid close to $100,000 annually for part-time work. When the crowd's questions were not answered, they shouted, "Recall!, Recall!"
Revelations about the pay in Bell has sparked anger in the city of fewer than 40,000 residents. Census figures from 2008 show 17 percent of the population lives in poverty.
Enraged residents have staged protests demanding the firings and started a recall campaign against some council members.
"Woo-hoo, the salaries. Wow. What can I say? I think that's unbelievable," Christina Caldera, a 20-year resident of the city, said as she stood in line at a food bank.
Caldera, who is struggling after recently losing her job as a drug and alcohol counselor, said she generally was satisfied with the way the city was being run but felt high-paid officials should take a pay cut.
"What are they doing with all that money?" she asked. "Maybe they could put it into more jobs for other people."
Attempts to leave messages seeking comment from Rizzo and Spaccia failed because their voicemails were full. A message left for Adams was not immediately returned.
The county district attorney's office is investigating to determine if the high salaries for the council members violate any state laws. The City Council also intends to review city salaries, including those of its own members, according to Councilman Luis Artiga and Mayor Oscar Hernandez.
"We are going to analyze all the city payrolls and possibly will revise all the salaries of the city," Artiga said.
However, both men said they considered the City Council pay to be justified.
"We work a lot. I work with my community every day," the mayor said, as he shook hands with and embraced people leaving the food bank Thursday.
Council members are on call around the clock, and it is not uncommon for them to take calls in the middle of the night from people reporting problems with city services, Artiga said.
Though many residents are poor, Hernandez said they live in a city they can be proud of, one with a $22.7 million budget surplus, clean streets, refurbished parks and numerous programs for people of all ages. He pointed proudly down a street to a park filled with new exercise equipment.
When Rizzo arrived 17 years ago, Hernandez said, the city was $13 million in debt and on the verge of bankruptcy. Rizzo obtained government grants to aid the city, the mayor said.
Rizzo was arrested near his home in Huntington Beach in March and charged with misdemeanor drunken driving. He pleaded not guilty and is due back in court for an Aug. 5 hearing, said Farrah Emami, a spokeswoman for the Orange County district attorney's office.
The Los Angeles Times reported the salaries last week, prompting a large protest Monday at City Hall in which residents shouted and demanded that Rizzo be fired.
California Attorney General Jerry Brown said his office has launched an investigation in conjunction with the state's public employee retirement agency into pension and related benefits for Bell's civic leaders.
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By ERICA WERNER, Associated Press Writer Erica Werner, Associated Press Writer – Wed Jul 7, 7:04 pm ET
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama bypassed the Senate Wednesday and appointed Dr. Donald Berwick, a Harvard professor and patient care specialist, to run Medicare and Medicaid.
The decision to use a so-called recess appointment to install Berwick as administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services drew immediate fire from the GOP. Republicans have raised concerns about Berwick's views on rationing of care and other matters and said it was wrong for Obama to go around the normal Senate confirmation process. That view was echoed by a key Democratic committee chairman, although the recess appointment is a tool used by presidents of both parties.
Berwick has wide support in the medical community but some Democrats feared the GOP would use his confirmation hearings as an opportunity to reopen last year's divisive health care debate. Obama defended the decision to appoint Berwick and two other officials, one to a pension board and the other to a White House science post.
"It's unfortunate that at a time when our nation is facing enormous challenges, many in Congress have decided to delay critical nominations for political purposes," Obama said in a statement Wednesday. "These recess appointments will allow three extremely qualified candidates to get to work on behalf of the American people right away."
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell accused Obama of trying to "arrogantly circumvent the American people" with Congress out of town for its annual July Fourth break. Berwick could serve through next year without Senate confirmation.
"Democrats haven't scheduled so much as a committee hearing for Donald Berwick but the mere possibility of allowing the American people the opportunity to hear what he intends to do with their health care is evidently reason enough for this administration to sneak him through without public scrutiny," said McConnell, R-Ky.
Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., whose committee would have held Berwick's confirmation hearing, also said he was troubled by the recess appointment. "Senate confirmation of presidential appointees is an essential process prescribed by the Constitution that serves as a check on executive power," said Baucus. Berwick was nominated in April, and Finance Committee staff was still at work on the vetting process it undertakes prior to scheduling a confirmation hearing.
Berwick, 63, is a pediatrician, Harvard University professor and leader of a health care think tank, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, that works to develop and implement concepts for improving patient care. The programs he will oversee — Medicare and Medicaid for the elderly, poor and disabled, along with the Children's Health Insurance Program — provide care to about 100 million people, or around 1 in 3 Americans.
The American Hospital Association and AARP were among the groups that weighed in to support Berwick Wednesday.
"Don has dedicated his career to engaging hospitals, doctors, nurses and other health care providers to improve patient care," said Rich Umbendstock, head of the hospital association. "A physician and innovator in health care quality, his knowledge of the health care system makes him the right choice."
Republicans have seized on comments like one Berwick made to an interviewer last year: "The decision is not whether or not we will ration care — the decision is whether we will ration with our eyes open. And right now, we are doing it blindly."
Republicans say that shows Berwick would deny needed care based on cost. Supporters contend rationing already is done by insurance companies and Berwick simply wants transparency and accountability in medical decisions.
It's just those echoes of the health care debate that Democrats would prefer not to replay on the Senate floor.
Medicare has been without an administrator since 2006, and the White House says the need to fill the post is critical because of its role in implementing the new health care law. Medicare is to be a key testing ground for numerous aspects of the new law, from developing new medical techniques to trying out new payment systems, and the White House says a permanent leader is key with deadlines approaching.
Obama last made a batch of recess appointments in March. Also appointed Wednesday were:
_Philip E. Coyle III as associate director for national security and international affairs at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.
_Joshua Gotbaum as director of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation.
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By ERICA WERNER, Associated Press Writer Erica Werner, Associated Press Writer – Wed Jul 7, 7:04 pm ET
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama bypassed the Senate Wednesday and appointed Dr. Donald Berwick, a Harvard professor and patient care specialist, to run Medicare and Medicaid.
The decision to use a so-called recess appointment to install Berwick as administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services drew immediate fire from the GOP. Republicans have raised concerns about Berwick's views on rationing of care and other matters and said it was wrong for Obama to go around the normal Senate confirmation process. That view was echoed by a key Democratic committee chairman, although the recess appointment is a tool used by presidents of both parties.
Berwick has wide support in the medical community but some Democrats feared the GOP would use his confirmation hearings as an opportunity to reopen last year's divisive health care debate. Obama defended the decision to appoint Berwick and two other officials, one to a pension board and the other to a White House science post.
"It's unfortunate that at a time when our nation is facing enormous challenges, many in Congress have decided to delay critical nominations for political purposes," Obama said in a statement Wednesday. "These recess appointments will allow three extremely qualified candidates to get to work on behalf of the American people right away."
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell accused Obama of trying to "arrogantly circumvent the American people" with Congress out of town for its annual July Fourth break. Berwick could serve through next year without Senate confirmation.
"Democrats haven't scheduled so much as a committee hearing for Donald Berwick but the mere possibility of allowing the American people the opportunity to hear what he intends to do with their health care is evidently reason enough for this administration to sneak him through without public scrutiny," said McConnell, R-Ky.
Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., whose committee would have held Berwick's confirmation hearing, also said he was troubled by the recess appointment. "Senate confirmation of presidential appointees is an essential process prescribed by the Constitution that serves as a check on executive power," said Baucus. Berwick was nominated in April, and Finance Committee staff was still at work on the vetting process it undertakes prior to scheduling a confirmation hearing.
Berwick, 63, is a pediatrician, Harvard University professor and leader of a health care think tank, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, that works to develop and implement concepts for improving patient care. The programs he will oversee — Medicare and Medicaid for the elderly, poor and disabled, along with the Children's Health Insurance Program — provide care to about 100 million people, or around 1 in 3 Americans.
The American Hospital Association and AARP were among the groups that weighed in to support Berwick Wednesday.
"Don has dedicated his career to engaging hospitals, doctors, nurses and other health care providers to improve patient care," said Rich Umbendstock, head of the hospital association. "A physician and innovator in health care quality, his knowledge of the health care system makes him the right choice."
Republicans have seized on comments like one Berwick made to an interviewer last year: "The decision is not whether or not we will ration care — the decision is whether we will ration with our eyes open. And right now, we are doing it blindly."
Republicans say that shows Berwick would deny needed care based on cost. Supporters contend rationing already is done by insurance companies and Berwick simply wants transparency and accountability in medical decisions.
It's just those echoes of the health care debate that Democrats would prefer not to replay on the Senate floor.
Medicare has been without an administrator since 2006, and the White House says the need to fill the post is critical because of its role in implementing the new health care law. Medicare is to be a key testing ground for numerous aspects of the new law, from developing new medical techniques to trying out new payment systems, and the White House says a permanent leader is key with deadlines approaching.
Obama last made a batch of recess appointments in March. Also appointed Wednesday were:
_Philip E. Coyle III as associate director for national security and international affairs at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.
_Joshua Gotbaum as director of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation.
obama kips senate and hired berwich as med master
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Netanyahu: I deceived US to destroy Oslo accords
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Jonathan Cook considers the significance of a video that has surfaced showing Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu boasting about his ability to manipulate the United States and his success in destroying the Oslo accords with the Palestinians.
There is one video Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, must be praying never gets posted on YouTube with English subtitles. To date, the 10-minute segment has been broadcast only in Hebrew on Israel’s Channel 10. [Editor’s note: A version of the Natanyahu video with English subtitles is now available and can be viewed, together with the translated English transcripy, here.]
Its contents, however, threaten to gravely embarrass not only Mr Netanyahu but also the US administration of Barack Obama.
The film was shot, apparently without Mr Netanyahu’s knowledge, nine years ago, when the government of Ariel Sharon had started reinvading the main cities of the West Bank to crush Palestinian resistance in the early stages of the second intifada.
Binyamin Natanyahu “dismisses the US as ‘easily moved to the right direction’ and calls high levels of popular American support for Israel ‘absurd’.
At the time Mr Netanyahu had taken a short break from politics but was soon to join Mr Sharon’s government as finance minister.
On a visit to a home in the settlement of Ofra in the West Bank to pay condolences to the family of a man killed in a Palestinian shooting attack, he makes a series of unguarded admissions about his first period as prime minister, from 1996 to 1999.
Seated on a sofa in the house, he tells the family that he deceived the US president of the time, Bill Clinton, into believing he was helping implement the Oslo accords, the US-sponsored peace process between Israel and the Palestinians, by making minor withdrawals from the West Bank while actually entrenching the occupation. He boasts that he thereby destroyed the Oslo process.
He dismisses the US as “easily moved to the right direction” and calls high levels of popular American support for Israel “absurd”.
He also suggests that, far from being defensive, Israel’s harsh military repression of the Palestinian uprising was designed chiefly to crush the Palestinian Authority led by Yasser Arafat so that it could be made more pliable for Israeli diktats.
All of these claims have obvious parallels with the current situation, when Mr Netanyahu is again Israel’s prime minister facing off with a White House trying to draw him into a peace process that runs counter to his political agenda.
“The contemptuous view of Washington Mr Netanyahu demonstrates in the film will confirm the suspicions of many observers ... that his current professions of good faith should not be taken seriously.”
As before, he has ostensibly made public concessions to the US administration – chiefly by agreeing in principle to the creation of a Palestinian state, consenting to indirect talks with the Palestinian leadership in Ramallah, and implementing a temporary freeze on settlement building.
But he has also enlisted the powerful pro-Israel lobby to exert pressure on the White House, which appears to have relented on its most important stipulations. tbody>
The contemptuous view of Washington Mr Netanyahu demonstrates in the film will confirm the suspicions of many observers – including Palestinian leaders – that his current professions of good faith should not be taken seriously.
Critics have already pointed out that his gestures have been extracted only after heavy arm-twisting from the US administration.
More significantly, he has so far avoided engaging meaningfully in the limited talks the White House is promoting with the Palestinians while the pace of settlement building in the West Bank has been barely affected by the 10-month freeze, due to end in September.
In the meantime, planning officials have repeatedly approved large new housing projects in East Jerusalem and the West Bank that have undercut the negotiations and will make the establishment of a Palestinian state – viable or otherwise – far less likely.
The video proved that Netanyahu was a “con artist … who thinks that Washington is in his pocket and that he can pull the wool over its eyes... Such a crooked way of thinking does not change over the years.”
Gideo Levy, columnist, Ha’aretz
Writing in the liberal Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz, the columnist Gideon Levy called the video “outrageous”. He said it proved that Mr Netanyahu was a “con artist … who thinks that Washington is in his pocket and that he can pull the wool over its eyes”. He added that the prime minister had not reformed in the intervening period: “Such a crooked way of thinking does not change over the years.”
In the film, Mr Netanyahu says Israel must inflict “blows [on the Palestinians] that are so painful the price will be too heavy to be borne … A broad attack on the Palestinian Authority, to bring them to the point of being afraid that everything is collapsing”.
When asked if the US will object, he responds: “America is something that can be easily moved. Moved to the right direction… They won’t get in our way … Eighty per cent of the Americans support us. It’s absurd.”
He then recounts how he dealt with President Clinton, whom he refers to as “extremely pro-Palestinian”. “I wasn’t afraid to manoeuvre there. I was not afraid to clash with Clinton.”
His approach to White House demands to withdraw from Palestinian territory under the Oslo accords, he says, drew on his grandfather’s philosophy: “It would be better to give two per cent than to give 100 per cent.”
He therefore signed the 1997 agreement to pull the Israeli army back from much of Hebron, the last Palestinian city under direct occupation, as a way to avoid conceding more territory.
“There must be at least a very strong suspicion that Mr Netanyahu is as firmly committed today as he was then to destroying any chance of peace with the Palestinians.”
“The trick,” he says, “is not to be there [in the occupied territories] and be broken; the trick is to be there and pay a minimal price.”
The “trick” that stopped further withdrawals, Mr Netanyahu adds, was to redefine what parts of the occupied territories counted as a “specified military site” under the Oslo accords. He wanted the White House to approve in writing the classification of the Jordan Valley, a large area of the West Bank, as such a military site.
“Now, they did not want to give me that letter, so I did not give [them] the Hebron agreement. I stopped the government meeting, I said: ‘I’m not signing.’ Only when the letter came … did I sign the Hebron agreement. Why does this matter? Because at that moment I actually stopped the Oslo accords.”
Last week, after meeting Mr Obama in Washington, the Israeli prime minister gave an interview to Fox News in which he appeared to be in no hurry to make concessions: “Can we have a negotiated peace? Yes. Can it be implemented by 2012? I think it’s going to take longer than that,” he said.
There must be at least a very strong suspicion that Mr Netanyahu is as firmly committed today as he was then to destroying any chance of peace with the Palestinians.
Leaked video exposes Israeli Premier Netanyahu’s contempt for USA and intention to deceive Palestinians
In this video, leaked and aired on Israeli Channel 10 TV, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is seen speaking candidly back in 2001 at a constituent's home about the Oslo accords, the peace process, Bill Clinton and the United States. He brags about having "stopped" Oslo accords and refers to America as something to be "moved in the right direction", citing polls showing Americans' support for Israel.
Transcript of video – courtesy of Institute for Middle East Understanding
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeT_KLuCdug" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeT_KLuCdug</a>
[Binyamin Netanyahu] Turn off the camera so that we can elaborate on this.
[Narrator]: A few minutes later... the camera is turned on again and Netanyahu begins to speak without quotation marks and without masks.
[Netanyahu] Now we're beginning to understand the meaning of the slogan “Yesha Zeikan Judea, Samaria and Azza are here”. Yesha is everywhere, what is the difference?
What does Arafat want? He wants one big settlement [implies Palestinians see all of Israel as a settlement].
[Woman] Yes that's what my daughter-in-law who came from England says [i.e. they, the Palestinians, see Tel Aviv as a settlement also].
[Natanyahu] Tel Aviv is also a settlement. From their [Palestinians] point of view, our territorial waters are also theirs. The fact is that they want us in the sea. Over there... [gestures] in the distant water.
The Arabs now are preparing for a campaign [or war] of terror, and they think that this will break us.
The main thing is, first and foremost, to hit them hard. Not just one hit... but many painful [hits], so that the price will be unbearable. The price is not unbearable, now. A total assault on the Palestinian Authority. To bring them to a state of panic that everything is collapsing ... fear that everything will collapse... this is what we'll bring them to...
[Woman interrupts] But wait a minute, at that point the whole world will say “What are you occupiers”...
[Natanyahu interrupts] The world will say nothing. The world will say that we are defending ourselves.
“I know what America is. America is a thing that can be easily moved, moved in the right direction... Let's suppose that they [the Americans] will say something [i.e. to us Israelis] ... so they say it...” [i.e. so what?]
[Woman] Aren't you afraid of the world Bibi?
[Natanyahu] No. Especially now, with America, I know what America is. America is a thing that can be easily moved, moved in the right direction. They [the Americans] will not bother us. Let's suppose that they [the Americans] will say something [i.e. to us Israelis]... so they say it... [so what?] Eighty per cent of the Americans support us. It's absurd! We have such [great] support there! And we say... what shall we do with this [support]?
Look, the other administration [that of Bill Clinton] was pro-Palestinian in an extreme way. I was not afraid to manoeuvre there. I did not fear confrontation with Clinton. I was not afraid to clash with the UN. As it is, I am paying the price in the international arena... So I might as well receive something of equal value in exchange.
[Child] But never mind that. We gave them things, and we can't take them back. Because they won't give them back to us.
[Natanyahu, gestures to let child speak] First of all, Oslo is a system [or package of things]. You're right... I do not know what can and cannot be taken back [from the Palestinians]
[Woman] He [the child] has political opinions, believe me.
[Natanyahu] He's right.
[Woman] He said such things to Arik Sharon that I told him: that's not – that's not a child's opinion. The Oslo accords are a disaster.
[Natanyahu] Yes, I know that and you know that... but the people need to know
[Woman] Right. But I thought that the prime minister did know, and that he'd do everything so that, somehow, not to do critical things, like handing over Hebron, that...
“I interpret the [Oslo] accords in such a way that will enable me to stop this rush towards the 1967 borders.”
What were the Oslo accords? The Oslo accords, which the Knesset signed, I was asked, before the elections: "Will you act according to them?" and I answered: "Yes, subject to reciprocity and limiting the withdrawals." But how do you limit the withdrawals? I interpret the accords in such a way that will enable me to stop this rush towards the 1967 borders. [So] how do we do it?
[Narrator] The Oslo accords stated at the time that Israel would gradually hand over territories to the Palestinians in three different stages, unless the territories in question had settlements or military sites. This is where Netanyahu found a loophole.
[Natanyahu] No one said what defined military sites. Defined military sites, I said, were security zones. As far as I'm concerned, the Jordan Valley is a defined military site.
[Woman] Right [laughs]. The Beit She'an settlements. The Beit She'an Valley.
[Natanyahu] How can you tell. How can you tell? But then the question came up of just who would define what defined military sites were. I received a letter – to me and to Arafat, at the same time ... which said that Israel, and only Israel, would be the one to define what those are, the location of those military sites and their size. Now, they did not want to give me that letter, so I did not give the Hebron agreement. I stopped the government meeting, I said: "I'm not signing." Only when the letter came, in the course of the meeting, to me and to Arafat, only then did I sign the Hebron agreement, or rather, ratify it. It had already been signed. Why does this matter? Because at that moment I actually stopped the Oslo accord.
[Woman interrupts] And despite that, one of our own people, excuse me, who knew it was a swindle, and that we were going to commit suicide with the Oslo accord, gives them, for example, Hebron. I never understood that.
[Natanyahu] Indeed, Hebron hurts. It hurts. It's the thing that hurts. One of the famous rabbis, whom I very much respect, a rabbi of Eretz Yisrael, he said to me: "What would your father say?" I went to my father. Do you know a little about my father's position?... He's not exactly a lily-white dove, as they say. So my father heard the question and said: “Tell the rabbi that your grandfather, Rabbi Natan Milikowski, was a smart Jew. Tell him it would be better to give two per cent than to give a 100 per cent. And that's the choice here. You gave two per cent and in that way you stopped the withdrawal, instead of 100 per cent.”
The trick is not to be there and break down. The trick is to be there and pay a minimal price.
[Woman] May you say that as prime minister.
[Natanyahu] In my estimation that will happen.
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Everyone knows the settlements will not stop until they have all the land, anyways.
What's the big deal?
In all fairness, though. It should probably be renamed the "piece process" considering Palestinians lose land in every negotiation, LOL!
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Lose land in every negotiation?
First of all, there are no real negotiations
Second of all ,Israel gives up tons of concessions in exchange for rocket attacks and suicide bombings.
Since the peace process began Israel has given back a shitload of land to the PLO terrorists in exchange for less than nothing.
The piss process is a joke and I have no problem with what Netanyahu did.
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Lose land in every negotiation?
First of all, there are no real negotiations
Second of all ,Israel gives up tons of concessions in exchange for rocket attacks and suicide bombings.
Since the peace process began Israel has given back a shitload of land to the PLO terrorists in exchange for less than nothing.
The piss process is a joke and I have no problem with what Netanyahu did.
No one ever has a problem until there's a bombing. That's the problem, LOL!!
Even something simple on its face like "We won't build any new settlements" can't be said.
IMO, the Palestinians are screwed but there really isn't another place they can screw up. And you really can't create another Kurd population. It might be more humane for the Israelis to kill them all.
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Agreed.
I feel bad for the Palestinians in this respect- The arab world couldn't care less about them and they have unbelieveably corrupt and incompetent leadership.
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Agreed.
I feel bad for the Palestinians in this respect- The arab world couldn't care less about them and they have unbelieveably corrupt and incompetent leadership.
No one in the US, has or ever, will hold them accountable. The only advantage to their eliminating the Palestinians would be some of the funds they get from the US may be cut.
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24 July 2010
http://www.redress.cc/palestine/jcook20100724
Jonathan Cook considers the significance of a video that has surfaced showing Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu boasting about his ability to manipulate the United States and his success in destroying the Oslo accords with the Palestinians.
There is one video Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, must be praying never gets posted on YouTube with English subtitles. To date, the 10-minute segment has been broadcast only in Hebrew on Israel’s Channel 10. [Editor’s note: A version of the Natanyahu video with English subtitles is now available and can be viewed, together with the translated English transcripy, here.]
Its contents, however, threaten to gravely embarrass not only Mr Netanyahu but also the US administration of Barack Obama.
The film was shot, apparently without Mr Netanyahu’s knowledge, nine years ago, when the government of Ariel Sharon had started reinvading the main cities of the West Bank to crush Palestinian resistance in the early stages of the second intifada.
Binyamin Natanyahu “dismisses the US as ‘easily moved to the right direction’ and calls high levels of popular American support for Israel ‘absurd’.
At the time Mr Netanyahu had taken a short break from politics but was soon to join Mr Sharon’s government as finance minister.
On a visit to a home in the settlement of Ofra in the West Bank to pay condolences to the family of a man killed in a Palestinian shooting attack, he makes a series of unguarded admissions about his first period as prime minister, from 1996 to 1999.
Seated on a sofa in the house, he tells the family that he deceived the US president of the time, Bill Clinton, into believing he was helping implement the Oslo accords, the US-sponsored peace process between Israel and the Palestinians, by making minor withdrawals from the West Bank while actually entrenching the occupation. He boasts that he thereby destroyed the Oslo process.
He dismisses the US as “easily moved to the right direction” and calls high levels of popular American support for Israel “absurd”.
He also suggests that, far from being defensive, Israel’s harsh military repression of the Palestinian uprising was designed chiefly to crush the Palestinian Authority led by Yasser Arafat so that it could be made more pliable for Israeli diktats.
All of these claims have obvious parallels with the current situation, when Mr Netanyahu is again Israel’s prime minister facing off with a White House trying to draw him into a peace process that runs counter to his political agenda.
“The contemptuous view of Washington Mr Netanyahu demonstrates in the film will confirm the suspicions of many observers ... that his current professions of good faith should not be taken seriously.”
As before, he has ostensibly made public concessions to the US administration – chiefly by agreeing in principle to the creation of a Palestinian state, consenting to indirect talks with the Palestinian leadership in Ramallah, and implementing a temporary freeze on settlement building.
But he has also enlisted the powerful pro-Israel lobby to exert pressure on the White House, which appears to have relented on its most important stipulations. tbody>
The contemptuous view of Washington Mr Netanyahu demonstrates in the film will confirm the suspicions of many observers – including Palestinian leaders – that his current professions of good faith should not be taken seriously.
Critics have already pointed out that his gestures have been extracted only after heavy arm-twisting from the US administration.
More significantly, he has so far avoided engaging meaningfully in the limited talks the White House is promoting with the Palestinians while the pace of settlement building in the West Bank has been barely affected by the 10-month freeze, due to end in September.
In the meantime, planning officials have repeatedly approved large new housing projects in East Jerusalem and the West Bank that have undercut the negotiations and will make the establishment of a Palestinian state – viable or otherwise – far less likely.
The video proved that Netanyahu was a “con artist … who thinks that Washington is in his pocket and that he can pull the wool over its eyes... Such a crooked way of thinking does not change over the years.”
Gideo Levy, columnist, Ha’aretz
Writing in the liberal Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz, the columnist Gideon Levy called the video “outrageous”. He said it proved that Mr Netanyahu was a “con artist … who thinks that Washington is in his pocket and that he can pull the wool over its eyes”. He added that the prime minister had not reformed in the intervening period: “Such a crooked way of thinking does not change over the years.”
In the film, Mr Netanyahu says Israel must inflict “blows [on the Palestinians] that are so painful the price will be too heavy to be borne … A broad attack on the Palestinian Authority, to bring them to the point of being afraid that everything is collapsing”.
When asked if the US will object, he responds: “America is something that can be easily moved. Moved to the right direction… They won’t get in our way … Eighty per cent of the Americans support us. It’s absurd.”
He then recounts how he dealt with President Clinton, whom he refers to as “extremely pro-Palestinian”. “I wasn’t afraid to manoeuvre there. I was not afraid to clash with Clinton.”
His approach to White House demands to withdraw from Palestinian territory under the Oslo accords, he says, drew on his grandfather’s philosophy: “It would be better to give two per cent than to give 100 per cent.”
He therefore signed the 1997 agreement to pull the Israeli army back from much of Hebron, the last Palestinian city under direct occupation, as a way to avoid conceding more territory.
“There must be at least a very strong suspicion that Mr Netanyahu is as firmly committed today as he was then to destroying any chance of peace with the Palestinians.”
“The trick,” he says, “is not to be there [in the occupied territories] and be broken; the trick is to be there and pay a minimal price.”
The “trick” that stopped further withdrawals, Mr Netanyahu adds, was to redefine what parts of the occupied territories counted as a “specified military site” under the Oslo accords. He wanted the White House to approve in writing the classification of the Jordan Valley, a large area of the West Bank, as such a military site.
“Now, they did not want to give me that letter, so I did not give [them] the Hebron agreement. I stopped the government meeting, I said: ‘I’m not signing.’ Only when the letter came … did I sign the Hebron agreement. Why does this matter? Because at that moment I actually stopped the Oslo accords.”
Last week, after meeting Mr Obama in Washington, the Israeli prime minister gave an interview to Fox News in which he appeared to be in no hurry to make concessions: “Can we have a negotiated peace? Yes. Can it be implemented by 2012? I think it’s going to take longer than that,” he said.
There must be at least a very strong suspicion that Mr Netanyahu is as firmly committed today as he was then to destroying any chance of peace with the Palestinians.
Leaked video exposes Israeli Premier Netanyahu’s contempt for USA and intention to deceive Palestinians
In this video, leaked and aired on Israeli Channel 10 TV, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is seen speaking candidly back in 2001 at a constituent's home about the Oslo accords, the peace process, Bill Clinton and the United States. He brags about having "stopped" Oslo accords and refers to America as something to be "moved in the right direction", citing polls showing Americans' support for Israel.
Transcript of video – courtesy of Institute for Middle East Understanding
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeT_KLuCdug" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeT_KLuCdug</a>
[Binyamin Netanyahu] Turn off the camera so that we can elaborate on this.
[Narrator]: A few minutes later... the camera is turned on again and Netanyahu begins to speak without quotation marks and without masks.
[Netanyahu] Now we're beginning to understand the meaning of the slogan “Yesha Zeikan Judea, Samaria and Azza are here”. Yesha is everywhere, what is the difference?
What does Arafat want? He wants one big settlement [implies Palestinians see all of Israel as a settlement].
[Woman] Yes that's what my daughter-in-law who came from England says [i.e. they, the Palestinians, see Tel Aviv as a settlement also].
[Natanyahu] Tel Aviv is also a settlement. From their [Palestinians] point of view, our territorial waters are also theirs. The fact is that they want us in the sea. Over there... [gestures] in the distant water.
The Arabs now are preparing for a campaign [or war] of terror, and they think that this will break us.
The main thing is, first and foremost, to hit them hard. Not just one hit... but many painful [hits], so that the price will be unbearable. The price is not unbearable, now. A total assault on the Palestinian Authority. To bring them to a state of panic that everything is collapsing ... fear that everything will collapse... this is what we'll bring them to...
[Woman interrupts] But wait a minute, at that point the whole world will say “What are you occupiers”...
[Natanyahu interrupts] The world will say nothing. The world will say that we are defending ourselves.
“I know what America is. America is a thing that can be easily moved, moved in the right direction... Let's suppose that they [the Americans] will say something [i.e. to us Israelis] ... so they say it...” [i.e. so what?]
[Woman] Aren't you afraid of the world Bibi?
[Natanyahu] No. Especially now, with America, I know what America is. America is a thing that can be easily moved, moved in the right direction. They [the Americans] will not bother us. Let's suppose that they [the Americans] will say something [i.e. to us Israelis]... so they say it... [so what?] Eighty per cent of the Americans support us. It's absurd! We have such [great] support there! And we say... what shall we do with this [support]?
Look, the other administration [that of Bill Clinton] was pro-Palestinian in an extreme way. I was not afraid to manoeuvre there. I did not fear confrontation with Clinton. I was not afraid to clash with the UN. As it is, I am paying the price in the international arena... So I might as well receive something of equal value in exchange.
[Child] But never mind that. We gave them things, and we can't take them back. Because they won't give them back to us.
[Natanyahu, gestures to let child speak] First of all, Oslo is a system [or package of things]. You're right... I do not know what can and cannot be taken back [from the Palestinians]
[Woman] He [the child] has political opinions, believe me.
[Natanyahu] He's right.
[Woman] He said such things to Arik Sharon that I told him: that's not – that's not a child's opinion. The Oslo accords are a disaster.
[Natanyahu] Yes, I know that and you know that... but the people need to know
[Woman] Right. But I thought that the prime minister did know, and that he'd do everything so that, somehow, not to do critical things, like handing over Hebron, that...
“I interpret the [Oslo] accords in such a way that will enable me to stop this rush towards the 1967 borders.”
What were the Oslo accords? The Oslo accords, which the Knesset signed, I was asked, before the elections: "Will you act according to them?" and I answered: "Yes, subject to reciprocity and limiting the withdrawals." But how do you limit the withdrawals? I interpret the accords in such a way that will enable me to stop this rush towards the 1967 borders. [So] how do we do it?
[Narrator] The Oslo accords stated at the time that Israel would gradually hand over territories to the Palestinians in three different stages, unless the territories in question had settlements or military sites. This is where Netanyahu found a loophole.
[Natanyahu] No one said what defined military sites. Defined military sites, I said, were security zones. As far as I'm concerned, the Jordan Valley is a defined military site.
[Woman] Right [laughs]. The Beit She'an settlements. The Beit She'an Valley.
[Natanyahu] How can you tell. How can you tell? But then the question came up of just who would define what defined military sites were. I received a letter – to me and to Arafat, at the same time ... which said that Israel, and only Israel, would be the one to define what those are, the location of those military sites and their size. Now, they did not want to give me that letter, so I did not give the Hebron agreement. I stopped the government meeting, I said: "I'm not signing." Only when the letter came, in the course of the meeting, to me and to Arafat, only then did I sign the Hebron agreement, or rather, ratify it. It had already been signed. Why does this matter? Because at that moment I actually stopped the Oslo accord.
[Woman interrupts] And despite that, one of our own people, excuse me, who knew it was a swindle, and that we were going to commit suicide with the Oslo accord, gives them, for example, Hebron. I never understood that.
[Natanyahu] Indeed, Hebron hurts. It hurts. It's the thing that hurts. One of the famous rabbis, whom I very much respect, a rabbi of Eretz Yisrael, he said to me: "What would your father say?" I went to my father. Do you know a little about my father's position?... He's not exactly a lily-white dove, as they say. So my father heard the question and said: “Tell the rabbi that your grandfather, Rabbi Natan Milikowski, was a smart Jew. Tell him it would be better to give two per cent than to give a 100 per cent. And that's the choice here. You gave two per cent and in that way you stopped the withdrawal, instead of 100 per cent.”
The trick is not to be there and break down. The trick is to be there and pay a minimal price.
[Woman] May you say that as prime minister.
[Natanyahu] In my estimation that will happen.
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Everyone knows the settlements will not stop until they have all the land, anyways.
What's the big deal?
In all fairness, though. It should probably be renamed the "piece process" considering Palestinians lose land in every negotiation, LOL!
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Lose land in every negotiation?
First of all, there are no real negotiations
Second of all ,Israel gives up tons of concessions in exchange for rocket attacks and suicide bombings.
Since the peace process began Israel has given back a shitload of land to the PLO terrorists in exchange for less than nothing.
The piss process is a joke and I have no problem with what Netanyahu did.
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Lose land in every negotiation?
First of all, there are no real negotiations
Second of all ,Israel gives up tons of concessions in exchange for rocket attacks and suicide bombings.
Since the peace process began Israel has given back a shitload of land to the PLO terrorists in exchange for less than nothing.
The piss process is a joke and I have no problem with what Netanyahu did.
No one ever has a problem until there's a bombing. That's the problem, LOL!!
Even something simple on its face like "We won't build any new settlements" can't be said.
IMO, the Palestinians are screwed but there really isn't another place they can screw up. And you really can't create another Kurd population. It might be more humane for the Israelis to kill them all.
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Barack Obama’s recess appointment of Dr. Donald Berwick as head of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) marks a new low in his destructive presidency, and that is saying something!
After forcing the Orwellian Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) onto an unwilling populace and through a reluctant Congress, he installs an elitist who admits to being ’in love’ with Britain’s National Health Service into a position of incredible power without so much as a hearing.
This is an affront to the American people, and to Constitutional government. It also completely confirms our predictions regarding the true nature of ObamaCare. It will be modeled after the NHS with rigid budgets, income redistribution, command-and-control structure, ’death panels’ (The National Institute for Clinical Excellence, or NICE), and a weighty bureaucracy. Ironically, this comes at a time when the British are struggling with the bureaucratic morass of the NHS authority.
How does Dr. Berwick hope to control the billions of decisions made by practicing physicians every day? Daniel Henniger, in his Wonder Land column, has some revealing, and frightening, quotations:
“The unaided human mind, and the acts of the individual, cannot assure excellence. Health care is a system, and its performance is a systemic property.”
“I would place a commitment to excellence’standardization to the best-known method’above clinician autonomy as a rule for care.”
“Young doctors and nurses should emerge from training understanding the values of standardization and the risks of too great an emphasis on individual autonomy.”
The mechanisms for this are already in place. A central board, our version of the NICE, was already legislated into existence by the stimulus bill. Payment-for-performance (P4P) is already being used in certain areas to enforce compliance with clinical practice guidelines. Language in PPACA gives the secretary of Health and Human Services (which oversees CMS) authority to bar from participation doctors who do not comply with certain quality standards, i.e. conform to guidelines. Physicians are currently being bribed by CMS to purchase electronic health records, which will be used to insert algorithms to ’guide’ the physician to the ’correct’ plan of care. Where do practice guidelines come from?
Practice guidelines are a recent fad and have proliferated to cover virtually all areas of medicine. They are funded either by government, insurance and pharmaceutical cartels, or medical organizations such as the American Medical Association. While billed as ’evidence-based,’ for the most part they are consensus opinions of a panel of ’experts.’ These experts invariably have extensive financial ties to industry. This may explain why practice guidelines are almost always biased towards greater levels of drug treatment targeting ever-wider patient populations.
Guidelines are sluggishly produced and often superseded by new information when finally published. As an example, tight control of blood sugar has been pushed by guidelines for Type II diabetes for years. Four studies published in 2008 showed either no benefit or increased death rates with this approach. Guidelines discourage innovative thinking and encourage the ’one-size-fits-all’ approach so loved by Dr. Berwick. If practice guidelines were in existence in the 18th century, bloodletting might still be the standard of care!
The problem with trying to implement guidelines as public policy is that we are all unique individuals and individual differences really do matter. Only a personal physician has the local knowledge of the patient that permits tailoring of treatment for maximum benefit at lowest risk.
Central control of medical care, which is the predictable endpoint of centralized payment for care, will wreak havoc on the medical profession and harm thousands, if not millions, of patients. Since PPACA effectively nationalizes the private health insurance industry, the Berwick appointment affects everyone.
Patients need to seize control of their medical destinies by setting up Health Savings Accounts and paying for their medical care themselves. Seniors should strongly consider opting out of Medicare Part B. For doctors, it has never been more urgent to sign the Physicians’ Declaration of Independence and sever third party relationships. The future of an independent medical profession is at stake.
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It depends on what he's actually saying.
True, Deviation from the standard of care results in lawsuits and fewer people served. That being said, every patient isn't the same so a cookie cutter approach, though obviously cheaper, can't properly treat all cases.
Their who plan has "fail" written all over it. My best guess is they figure people will just eat the tax increases and crappy care.
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If the general public knew anything about how difficult and expensive getting paid via Medicare/Medicaid is they'd pee themselves laughing at the idea of healthcare payments being centralized through them. The general public won't even care when hospitals and offices start failing because govt will begin bailing not for profits out first.
The bill's next version would literally have to include billions in capitated fees paid directly to hospitals and physicians just to maintain viability while claims are being processed.
Initially, upon seeing this bill, I figured 'No one thought this out'. Now I'm convinced it's willful and we'll be poring money into another black hole as everyone says "healthcare is too big to fail".
It's essentially the first salvo in our next class warfare battle. You racist, poor people hating, republican bastards read it here first. Smiley
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Barack Obama’s recess appointment of Dr. Donald Berwick as head of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) marks a new low in his destructive presidency, and that is saying something!
After forcing the Orwellian Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) onto an unwilling populace and through a reluctant Congress, he installs an elitist who admits to being ’in love’ with Britain’s National Health Service into a position of incredible power without so much as a hearing.
This is an affront to the American people, and to Constitutional government. It also completely confirms our predictions regarding the true nature of ObamaCare. It will be modeled after the NHS with rigid budgets, income redistribution, command-and-control structure, ’death panels’ (The National Institute for Clinical Excellence, or NICE), and a weighty bureaucracy. Ironically, this comes at a time when the British are struggling with the bureaucratic morass of the NHS authority.
How does Dr. Berwick hope to control the billions of decisions made by practicing physicians every day? Daniel Henniger, in his Wonder Land column, has some revealing, and frightening, quotations:
“The unaided human mind, and the acts of the individual, cannot assure excellence. Health care is a system, and its performance is a systemic property.”
“I would place a commitment to excellence’standardization to the best-known method’above clinician autonomy as a rule for care.”
“Young doctors and nurses should emerge from training understanding the values of standardization and the risks of too great an emphasis on individual autonomy.”
The mechanisms for this are already in place. A central board, our version of the NICE, was already legislated into existence by the stimulus bill. Payment-for-performance (P4P) is already being used in certain areas to enforce compliance with clinical practice guidelines. Language in PPACA gives the secretary of Health and Human Services (which oversees CMS) authority to bar from participation doctors who do not comply with certain quality standards, i.e. conform to guidelines. Physicians are currently being bribed by CMS to purchase electronic health records, which will be used to insert algorithms to ’guide’ the physician to the ’correct’ plan of care. Where do practice guidelines come from?
Practice guidelines are a recent fad and have proliferated to cover virtually all areas of medicine. They are funded either by government, insurance and pharmaceutical cartels, or medical organizations such as the American Medical Association. While billed as ’evidence-based,’ for the most part they are consensus opinions of a panel of ’experts.’ These experts invariably have extensive financial ties to industry. This may explain why practice guidelines are almost always biased towards greater levels of drug treatment targeting ever-wider patient populations.
Guidelines are sluggishly produced and often superseded by new information when finally published. As an example, tight control of blood sugar has been pushed by guidelines for Type II diabetes for years. Four studies published in 2008 showed either no benefit or increased death rates with this approach. Guidelines discourage innovative thinking and encourage the ’one-size-fits-all’ approach so loved by Dr. Berwick. If practice guidelines were in existence in the 18th century, bloodletting might still be the standard of care!
The problem with trying to implement guidelines as public policy is that we are all unique individuals and individual differences really do matter. Only a personal physician has the local knowledge of the patient that permits tailoring of treatment for maximum benefit at lowest risk.
Central control of medical care, which is the predictable endpoint of centralized payment for care, will wreak havoc on the medical profession and harm thousands, if not millions, of patients. Since PPACA effectively nationalizes the private health insurance industry, the Berwick appointment affects everyone.
Patients need to seize control of their medical destinies by setting up Health Savings Accounts and paying for their medical care themselves. Seniors should strongly consider opting out of Medicare Part B. For doctors, it has never been more urgent to sign the Physicians’ Declaration of Independence and sever third party relationships. The future of an independent medical profession is at stake.
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True, Deviation from the standard of care results in lawsuits and fewer people served. That being said, every patient isn't the same so a cookie cutter approach, though obviously cheaper, can't properly treat all cases.
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The bill's next version would literally have to include billions in capitated fees paid directly to hospitals and physicians just to maintain viability while claims are being processed.
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The media and progressive-left Democrats now appear in a rush to convict Andrew Breitbart of shoddy journalism, while exonerating Shirley Sherrod and the NAACP from charges of abiding racism within their ranks. Both Sherrod and the NAACP have charged the Tea Party movement and the Republican Party with racism, while offering less proof than Breitbart did of the racism he correctly alleged. In many cases, the Left has outright manufactured evidence of racism regarding Tea Party events, yet no one has raised a voice about that slander at all. If one didn't know better, this wouldn't be today's news, but an Orwellian script circa 1984.
At approximately 17 minutes into the now-released full video of the event, Sherrod can be heard relaying a tale from her past in which she initially failed to help a white farmer with the full effort she would reserve for a black farmer.
The assembled crowd of card-carrying members of the NAACP took great pleasure in that, their laughter was not nervous at all. That is a contemporaneous expression of racism by today's politically correct standards, not racism from some 40 years ago.
Sherrod later says, "It's not so much about white…" then catches herself and says, "It IS about white and black." Perhaps Sherrod should explain why, even today, color is so centrally important in her work, be it at the Agriculture Department or elsewhere.
Breitbart’s web-posting of the speech showed more racism at one NAACP event than those charging Republicans and Tea Parties with racism have yet to produce after making accusations for months on end. The people making that charge include both Sherrod and the NAACP, neither of which has produced any proof. But it is Breitbart who should be convicted for false charges in the court of public opinion? That is totally absurd given the actual facts.
Sherrod twice decried present-day racism, as if it was 400 years ago. That suggests a person whose views on race have not truly changed at all. But she doesn't stop there. Sherrod says, "I haven't seen such mean-spirited people as I have seen lately over this issue, healthcare. Some of the racism we thought was buried, didn't it surface."
In Sherrod's world, no one is allowed to object to a significant Obama-supported policy change impacting the healthcare of all Americans without being labeled a racist. Clearly Sherrod sees everything through the lens of color or race. If her view is not racist, it is supremely ignorant and unfit for a public official. It is meant to marginalize any and all legitimate opposition to a political act. Sherrod is merely projecting her own racism into a perfectly rational, legitimate political debate so as to avoid it. That is not democracy; it is race-based demagogy commonly employed by racists everywhere. And still she was not done.
During the Bush years, says Sherrod, "We didn't do the stuff these Republicans are doing because you have a black President." Gone is any valid argument over actual policy, fiscal restraint, government growth, or control of healthcare—supported or opposed by entire national political parties. In Sherrod's world, everything is all and only about race. If that isn't a tenet of racism, then what is? Without ignorant race-based presumptions, otherwise known as racism, Sherrod's entire scope of political argument falls apart.
Atty. Gen. Eric Holder said America is a nation of cowards on matters of race. He was correct, but in a manner he likely didn't predict. The racism Breitbart revealed is the racism of the Shirley Sherrods of the progressive-leftist Democratic Party and the NAACP. Afraid to honestly look at and address that, the usual leftist suspects are simply turning the tables as a distraction in a weak effort to instead attack Breitbart.
Breitbart did exactly what he set out and claimed to do, put the inherent racism of the NAACP and the American left on full display.
Additionally troubling are Sherrod's race-based political views that amount to Marxism. She sees an America in thirds. Evil capitalists are at the top, exploiting racist divisions to maintain control. She argues that whites were deliberately propped up to make them feel superior to blacks, which they apparently still do in Sherrod's view. Blacks then bring up the rear, seemingly oppressed by all. The racism in that view is inherent and severe, no matter how much she would try and dismiss it with an anecdote or two. Clearly in Sherrod's view, what is needed is the type of government-dictated economy more like a Marxist state, than the America we know and live in today.
Sadly, Sherrod wants to pass on that view to young black Americans. How tragic that she would saddle a next generation of black Americans with such an ill considered, ignorant, utterly divisive and ridiculous view.
If there's anyone who needs to apologize, it is a Shirley Sherrod unfit for public service and the NAACP—not Andrew Breitbart, who did precisely what he claimed he set out to do.
Dan Riehl works as a political consultant in Washington, DC and also maintains a popular Internet blog, www.Riehlworldview.com.
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In Defense of Andrew Breitbart
by Dan Riehl
07/22/2010
The media and progressive-left Democrats now appear in a rush to convict Andrew Breitbart of shoddy journalism, while exonerating Shirley Sherrod and the NAACP from charges of abiding racism within their ranks. Both Sherrod and the NAACP have charged the Tea Party movement and the Republican Party with racism, while offering less proof than Breitbart did of the racism he correctly alleged. In many cases, the Left has outright manufactured evidence of racism regarding Tea Party events, yet no one has raised a voice about that slander at all. If one didn't know better, this wouldn't be today's news, but an Orwellian script circa 1984.
At approximately 17 minutes into the now-released full video of the event, Sherrod can be heard relaying a tale from her past in which she initially failed to help a white farmer with the full effort she would reserve for a black farmer.
The assembled crowd of card-carrying members of the NAACP took great pleasure in that, their laughter was not nervous at all. That is a contemporaneous expression of racism by today's politically correct standards, not racism from some 40 years ago.
Sherrod later says, "It's not so much about white…" then catches herself and says, "It IS about white and black." Perhaps Sherrod should explain why, even today, color is so centrally important in her work, be it at the Agriculture Department or elsewhere.
Breitbart’s web-posting of the speech showed more racism at one NAACP event than those charging Republicans and Tea Parties with racism have yet to produce after making accusations for months on end. The people making that charge include both Sherrod and the NAACP, neither of which has produced any proof. But it is Breitbart who should be convicted for false charges in the court of public opinion? That is totally absurd given the actual facts.
Sherrod twice decried present-day racism, as if it was 400 years ago. That suggests a person whose views on race have not truly changed at all. But she doesn't stop there. Sherrod says, "I haven't seen such mean-spirited people as I have seen lately over this issue, healthcare. Some of the racism we thought was buried, didn't it surface."
In Sherrod's world, no one is allowed to object to a significant Obama-supported policy change impacting the healthcare of all Americans without being labeled a racist. Clearly Sherrod sees everything through the lens of color or race. If her view is not racist, it is supremely ignorant and unfit for a public official. It is meant to marginalize any and all legitimate opposition to a political act. Sherrod is merely projecting her own racism into a perfectly rational, legitimate political debate so as to avoid it. That is not democracy; it is race-based demagogy commonly employed by racists everywhere. And still she was not done.
During the Bush years, says Sherrod, "We didn't do the stuff these Republicans are doing because you have a black President." Gone is any valid argument over actual policy, fiscal restraint, government growth, or control of healthcare—supported or opposed by entire national political parties. In Sherrod's world, everything is all and only about race. If that isn't a tenet of racism, then what is? Without ignorant race-based presumptions, otherwise known as racism, Sherrod's entire scope of political argument falls apart.
Atty. Gen. Eric Holder said America is a nation of cowards on matters of race. He was correct, but in a manner he likely didn't predict. The racism Breitbart revealed is the racism of the Shirley Sherrods of the progressive-leftist Democratic Party and the NAACP. Afraid to honestly look at and address that, the usual leftist suspects are simply turning the tables as a distraction in a weak effort to instead attack Breitbart.
Breitbart did exactly what he set out and claimed to do, put the inherent racism of the NAACP and the American left on full display.
Additionally troubling are Sherrod's race-based political views that amount to Marxism. She sees an America in thirds. Evil capitalists are at the top, exploiting racist divisions to maintain control. She argues that whites were deliberately propped up to make them feel superior to blacks, which they apparently still do in Sherrod's view. Blacks then bring up the rear, seemingly oppressed by all. The racism in that view is inherent and severe, no matter how much she would try and dismiss it with an anecdote or two. Clearly in Sherrod's view, what is needed is the type of government-dictated economy more like a Marxist state, than the America we know and live in today.
Sadly, Sherrod wants to pass on that view to young black Americans. How tragic that she would saddle a next generation of black Americans with such an ill considered, ignorant, utterly divisive and ridiculous view.
If there's anyone who needs to apologize, it is a Shirley Sherrod unfit for public service and the NAACP—not Andrew Breitbart, who did precisely what he claimed he set out to do.
Dan Riehl works as a political consultant in Washington, DC and also maintains a popular Internet blog, www.Riehlworldview.com.
john keey is an idiot and his daughter alexis kerry a woofer bigtime
I went to grammar school with alexis kerry what a dog woof
left hates cutting spending and taxes
http://biggovernment.com/oftheeising/2010/07/23/lessons-from-the-stimulus-plan-theres-a-better-way/
Why not try another approach? The left is ever scornful of, and resolutely opposed to, Republican tax-cutting proposals, notwithstanding compelling evidence that such tax policy invariably results in explosive economic growth (think the Reagan tax cuts of 1981 and the Bush tax reductions in 2001). The “rich” must “pay their fair share” they cry even though the upper five percent of taxpayers pay approximately sixty-one percent of the federal income taxes collected, and the bottom 50% contribute only three percent of all income tax collected, and 43% pay no income tax at all. The answer lies in what Mr. Obama really means about fundamentally changing America. His vision is nearer to the socialist dream of transferring wealth from the most productive members of society to those less fortunate on the wealth scale … and the tax system is the left’s best weapon to achieve that result.
Why not try another approach? The left is ever scornful of, and resolutely opposed to, Republican tax-cutting proposals, notwithstanding compelling evidence that such tax policy invariably results in explosive economic growth (think the Reagan tax cuts of 1981 and the Bush tax reductions in 2001). The “rich” must “pay their fair share” they cry even though the upper five percent of taxpayers pay approximately sixty-one percent of the federal income taxes collected, and the bottom 50% contribute only three percent of all income tax collected, and 43% pay no income tax at all. The answer lies in what Mr. Obama really means about fundamentally changing America. His vision is nearer to the socialist dream of transferring wealth from the most productive members of society to those less fortunate on the wealth scale … and the tax system is the left’s best weapon to achieve that result.
Lessons from the Stimulus Plan: There Is A Better Way by Of Thee I Sing 1776 The near collapse of our financial institutions and the overall economy
http://biggovernment.com/oftheeising/2010/07/23/lessons-from-the-stimulus-plan-theres-a-better-way/
Lessons from the Stimulus Plan: There Is A Better Way
by Of Thee I Sing 1776
The near collapse of our financial institutions and the overall economy and the misguided notion that a few trillion dollars of additional federal spending would return us to prosperity moved us in early 2009 to suggest an alternate approach. We proposed in an essay published in The American, the on-line journal of the American Enterprise Institute, a fifty percent tax credit up to a fixed limit for every taxpayer who purchased any consumer goods anywhere in the United States.
265-1109140020-MoneyPrintingPress-thumb-468x280-1
Our theory was that a robust economic recovery would be fueled by increased retail purchases, and that every dollar of cost to the treasury represented a prior retail purchase within the American economy. This, by definition, would have produced an immediate increase in revenues to our struggling business and manufacturing sectors. That essay and the positive feedback it engendered provided the impetus for the establishment of the Of Thee I Sing 1776 website, the goal of which has been to produce weekly, timely, and hopefully, thought provoking essays.
This week we return to the subject of economic stimulus as more and more politicians from both sides of the aisle and columnists from left to right have pronounced the stimulus a disappointment, at best, and a disaster at worst. More likely, given the nation’s accumulated debt, the latter may be the more apt description.
So is there a Plan B, so to speak, in the works? The answer so far, based on bills recently considered and rejected by members of both parties in Congress, is that Mr. Obama would prefer to double down on the discredited Keynesian approach which didn’t work during the great depression and which failed miserably through the recently “ended” (at least by common definition) great recession. Tell the 9.5% of the workforce who are still unemployed that the recession is over. Tell that to those who have watched the average time the unemployed are out-of-work grow from six weeks to 12 weeks, to 25 weeks to 35 weeks.
The number of unemployed is essentially the same percentage of people who were unemployed before the Administration and the huge Democratic majority in Congress, in the name of “job creation”, started shoveling our tax money out the door (or as some might say burning it in a bonfire). And just why won’t President Obama, Majority Leader Reid and Speaker Pelosi wake up and smell the fire that continues to burn? The answer can be found in two very telling and, now, very familiar utterances of the president and his senior staff in the early days of the new Administration. The president said he wanted to “fundamentally change America” and his chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, when economic disaster was around the corner, famously said, “Never waste a crisis.”
Lessons from the Stimulus Plan: There Is A Better Way
by Of Thee I Sing 1776
The near collapse of our financial institutions and the overall economy and the misguided notion that a few trillion dollars of additional federal spending would return us to prosperity moved us in early 2009 to suggest an alternate approach. We proposed in an essay published in The American, the on-line journal of the American Enterprise Institute, a fifty percent tax credit up to a fixed limit for every taxpayer who purchased any consumer goods anywhere in the United States.
265-1109140020-MoneyPrintingPress-thumb-468x280-1
Our theory was that a robust economic recovery would be fueled by increased retail purchases, and that every dollar of cost to the treasury represented a prior retail purchase within the American economy. This, by definition, would have produced an immediate increase in revenues to our struggling business and manufacturing sectors. That essay and the positive feedback it engendered provided the impetus for the establishment of the Of Thee I Sing 1776 website, the goal of which has been to produce weekly, timely, and hopefully, thought provoking essays.
This week we return to the subject of economic stimulus as more and more politicians from both sides of the aisle and columnists from left to right have pronounced the stimulus a disappointment, at best, and a disaster at worst. More likely, given the nation’s accumulated debt, the latter may be the more apt description.
So is there a Plan B, so to speak, in the works? The answer so far, based on bills recently considered and rejected by members of both parties in Congress, is that Mr. Obama would prefer to double down on the discredited Keynesian approach which didn’t work during the great depression and which failed miserably through the recently “ended” (at least by common definition) great recession. Tell the 9.5% of the workforce who are still unemployed that the recession is over. Tell that to those who have watched the average time the unemployed are out-of-work grow from six weeks to 12 weeks, to 25 weeks to 35 weeks.
The number of unemployed is essentially the same percentage of people who were unemployed before the Administration and the huge Democratic majority in Congress, in the name of “job creation”, started shoveling our tax money out the door (or as some might say burning it in a bonfire). And just why won’t President Obama, Majority Leader Reid and Speaker Pelosi wake up and smell the fire that continues to burn? The answer can be found in two very telling and, now, very familiar utterances of the president and his senior staff in the early days of the new Administration. The president said he wanted to “fundamentally change America” and his chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, when economic disaster was around the corner, famously said, “Never waste a crisis.”
http://biggovernment.com/category/big-labor/
To Attack Energy Companies
by Capitol Confidential
Earlier this month, The New York Times ran a front page article that claimed, “an examination of the American tax code indicates that oil production is among the most heavily subsidized businesses, with tax breaks available at virtually every stage of the exploration and extraction process.” The thesis of the article was that oil companies are the benefactors of enormous subsides, primarily through complicated maneuvering of offshore assets, “tax breaks,” and “loopholes.”
acorn
Unfortunately, the copy of the American tax code that The Times used to conduct their careful analysis appears to have been heavily edited by a cadre of left leaning groups, including ACORN President Maude Hurd, Citizens for Tax Justice, Center for American Progress and the Clean Energy Works campaign.
The smoking gun comes in the form of a leaked memo from CEW communications advisor and former Democratic congressional staffer David Di Martino just days after The New York Times ran it’s wildly misguided assessment of U.S. tax policy.
In the memo, Di Martino outlines a strategy to change America’s perception of increased taxes on energy producers as a tax on consumers by arguing “the American people already have a national energy tax — The Big Oil Welfare Tax — in the form of billions of dollars in subsidies to the wildly profitable big oil companies.” The same day that Di Martino released his memo, Citizens for Tax Justice (CTJ) released their own defective and dishonest hit piece, titled “What Oil and Gas Companies Extract from the American Public.” The tax breaks referred to by Di Martino and the CTJ memo, in reality, are the same credits that every American company receives for taxes paid overseas to foreign governments on income earned abroad.
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by Capitol Confidential
Earlier this month, The New York Times ran a front page article that claimed, “an examination of the American tax code indicates that oil production is among the most heavily subsidized businesses, with tax breaks available at virtually every stage of the exploration and extraction process.” The thesis of the article was that oil companies are the benefactors of enormous subsides, primarily through complicated maneuvering of offshore assets, “tax breaks,” and “loopholes.”
acorn
Unfortunately, the copy of the American tax code that The Times used to conduct their careful analysis appears to have been heavily edited by a cadre of left leaning groups, including ACORN President Maude Hurd, Citizens for Tax Justice, Center for American Progress and the Clean Energy Works campaign.
The smoking gun comes in the form of a leaked memo from CEW communications advisor and former Democratic congressional staffer David Di Martino just days after The New York Times ran it’s wildly misguided assessment of U.S. tax policy.
In the memo, Di Martino outlines a strategy to change America’s perception of increased taxes on energy producers as a tax on consumers by arguing “the American people already have a national energy tax — The Big Oil Welfare Tax — in the form of billions of dollars in subsidies to the wildly profitable big oil companies.” The same day that Di Martino released his memo, Citizens for Tax Justice (CTJ) released their own defective and dishonest hit piece, titled “What Oil and Gas Companies Extract from the American Public.” The tax breaks referred to by Di Martino and the CTJ memo, in reality, are the same credits that every American company receives for taxes paid overseas to foreign governments on income earned abroad.
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obama really is an evil motherfucker
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2010/0331/Robert-Krentz-killing-stokes-fears-of-rampant-illegal-immigration
enforcing illegal immigration bad apparently to some lol go AZ!
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9H4D6800&show_article=1
Senate Democrats on Thursday gave up plans to attempt to pass an energy bill that caps greenhouse gases blamed for global warming, abandoning a prior
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9H4DP0O0&show_article=1
If you are a network administrator, and you are setting up routing protocols, if you are using your OpenBSD box as a router, if you need to go in dept
http://www.3com.com/other/pdfs/infra/corpinfo/en_US/501302.pdf
http://openbsd.org/faq/faq6.html#Intro
If you are working with applications such as web servers, ftp servers, and mail servers, you may benefit greatly by reading the RFCs.
6.1 - Before we go any further
For the bulk of this document, it helps if you have read and at least partially understood the Kernel Configuration and Setup section of the FAQ, and the ifconfig(8) and netstat(1) man pages.
If you are a network administrator, and you are setting up routing protocols, if you are using your OpenBSD box as a router, if you need to go in depth into IP networking, you really need to read Understanding IP Addressing. This is an excellent document. "Understanding IP Addressing" contains fundamental knowledge to build upon when working with IP networks, especially when you deal with or are responsible for more than one network.
If you are working with applications such as web servers, ftp servers, and mail servers, you may benefit greatly by reading the RFCs. Most likely, you can't read all of them. Pick some topics that you are interested in, or that you use in your network environment. Look them up, find out how they are intended to work. The RFCs define many (thousands of) standards for protocols on the Internet and how they are supposed to work.
http://openbsd.org/faq/faq6.html#Intro
If you are working with applications such as web servers, ftp servers, and mail servers, you may benefit greatly by reading the RFCs.
6.1 - Before we go any further
For the bulk of this document, it helps if you have read and at least partially understood the Kernel Configuration and Setup section of the FAQ, and the ifconfig(8) and netstat(1) man pages.
If you are a network administrator, and you are setting up routing protocols, if you are using your OpenBSD box as a router, if you need to go in depth into IP networking, you really need to read Understanding IP Addressing. This is an excellent document. "Understanding IP Addressing" contains fundamental knowledge to build upon when working with IP networks, especially when you deal with or are responsible for more than one network.
If you are working with applications such as web servers, ftp servers, and mail servers, you may benefit greatly by reading the RFCs. Most likely, you can't read all of them. Pick some topics that you are interested in, or that you use in your network environment. Look them up, find out how they are intended to work. The RFCs define many (thousands of) standards for protocols on the Internet and how they are supposed to work.
rush : briebart was exactly right
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Rush: ‘Breitbart was exactly right’
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In case you missed it yesterday, America’s Anchorman weighed in extensively on the NAACP/Obama Admin./Sherrod scandal. A highlight:
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Here’s really all you need to know. It turns out that Andrew Breitbart was exactly right. This woman did not have an epiphany when she was at the USDA. When she was speaking to the NAACP she did not have an epiphany about, “You know what? It isn’t about race, it’s about rich versus poor.” If you listen to the whole speech as people have, 43 minutes, she’s racist. The NAACP is racist. And this whole story has been manipulated, wined and dined, formed and flaked in order present the usual template that it’s us, that it’s conservatives who are racist.
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So Much for That Postracial Presidency We Were Promised
Shirley Sherrod and the NAACP are the Racists Who Seek to Divide
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Jamesb 134p · 1 hour ago
Absolutely. Breitbart had this woman PEGGED from the start. Any reasonable person, without a liberal agenda - can HEAR her SUBTLE yet corrosive racism. Her contempt for white people is palpable. Meet her in court, call her bluff A.B.!
Shirley Sherrod's "New Communities" scheme is very shady. It's a shake down scheme, you can feel it. How many trully aggreived black farmers are there? How many have been paid?
What is her cut? Send in the FBI accountants, lets open up those books and take a 'look see'.
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TheLineIsDrawn 77p · 1 hour ago
Racial divisiveness is ginned up to slander the Tea Party, rile up the Democratic base and attempt to discredit Fox as a pivotal election approaches. Meanwhile, the Financial "Reform" monstrosity is signed with little notice.
The Great Uniter and his machine continue their work.
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Sgt_Relic 76p · 45 minutes ago
I read the entire transcript. I suppose that in some convoluted way, think "Archie Bunker", Sherrod had a moment when she realized that she had harmed the farmer by her discriminatory action but seemed very quick to blame it on the "white" lawyer. It was very clear that she sees everything through a black and white prism, and probably still does.
If we follow the NAACP meme, this is the point when we are supposed to say; "She has become better at hiding her racism."
Hang tough A.B.!
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xhristopherus 51p · 41 minutes ago
I have attended over 100 Tea Party events.
There have been three incidents that I am aware of where racists showed up and thought they had a home. They were shouted down, booed and/or asked politely to leave ( by tea partiers).
The point that seems to be lost on most everyone about the entire video is that Ms Sherrod may well have told a story of a pivotal moment in he life where she realized that she would make more money pitting poor against the rich, than she would denying white people services that she would prefer to give to black people.
BUt the crowd at the NAACP sponsored event did not know that she would be telling them "Its not about Black versus White" when they were chearing her recounting of the story of her discriminatory acts towards the white farmer, (They were nodding in agreement, and laughing etc.. this was a racist crowd she was speaking to. This is the salient point of the videos
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cardon 97p · 39 minutes ago
Crap like this will continue as long as freedom loving peoples keep getting
intimidated by the race card.....White, black, brown, and all should stand up
against any and all race baiting!!...This has got to end, it's ruining all trust in
one another, and setting us back generations.....
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rckmom 108p · 34 minutes ago
Didn't the NAACP have possession of the entire tape?? How do we know it wasn't THEM that sent the edited version to Andrew, just so they could call him a racists?? I have had enough of this black president continually throwing out the race card to distract form what he is really doing....destroying our country!!!!
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txphotographguy 64p · 24 minutes ago
No matter what you think of Rush, he is usually right, no pun intended. And he is in this case too.
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gwar5 73p · 23 minutes ago
Rush is absolutely right. The race bullies are Nifonging America.
Obama, Nobel Peace Prize winner and community organizer, is doing what comes natural. He's weaponized the word racist and is using it like a flamethrower against opposition, while simultaneously using blacks as a human shields against criticism of his policies, which are manifest.
NIFONG. ....remember Nifong? Nifong is the disgraced and disbarred prosecutor who fraudulently prosecuted the Duke Lacrosse players for rape after he already knew they didn't do it. Yeah, that guy.
Let's bring the word back -- NIFONG. Time to make NIFONG famous again to push back against the race bullies.
The race bullies are Nifonging America because Obama is a failed president and he is turning America into a failed state.
There are few blacks in the T-Party because 95% of blacks voted for Obama -- simply because of his skin color. With 25% unemployment among blacks under Obama, they should be lining up to join the Tea party. They are most welcome.
The Obama race bullies Nifonged the Clintons, Nifonged Ferraro, and even Nifonged Scott Brown's pick up truck --- so it was only a matter of time before they Nifonged conservatives and the Tea party for opposing the Obama agenda. It worked before, against "their own kind"
We will not back down to these cowards. If we back down there will never be an end to it. That's what bullies do.
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Johannes_koenig 15p · 13 minutes ago
yes! and every black man that goes against these things is called "Uncle Tom"... thrown under the bus! Time to decide whether your black American or American!
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Darren300 40p · 22 minutes ago
Rush was on fire yesterday. He pointed out how slavery has ended in the United States. It ended after the Civil War with the shedding of hundreds of thousands off American soldier's blood. He pointed out how this country has addressed every single issue and grievance of racist civil rights violations. He pointed out how despite slavery ending and civil right's issues addressed, there are those who still demand what I'll call a redemption of sorts over racism and how the race card is still being used.
What really riled me up is Rush mentioning how racism has been used to attack the Tea Party movement. That this is a movement whose force and political philosophy needs to be unleashed. That this whole "tea partiers are racists" rhetoric is nothing but a distraction and he (Rush) will move on from it.
While I absolutely agree that Rush's show and talk radio in general need to move on to the real issue of the economy needing to be vitalized, I do think there is still a public need to redress the race card being liberally played against the Tea Party movement.
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Darren300 40p · 20 minutes ago
Comment 1:
So my simple contribution in defense of the Tea Party movement is that I have attended three Tea Party gatherings in the Houston, TX area. If there were any racial-based signs against Obama, they must have been so insignificant as I recall not a single one. Yes, there may be racists attending a Tea party ralley. Last I checked all are welcome to attend. I personally met one of the local Tea Party leaders in Houston and I will attest to the fact that she would NEVER associate with racism. Especially not the likes of that low life money-coveting wretch, Dale Robertson ( http://houstontps.org/?p=318 )
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Darren300 40p · 19 minutes ago
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For those who actually attend a ralley will come out with a one hundred percent certainty that this powerful grassroot movement is about government growth, which is insane. I witnessed an electrifying speech by Apostle Claver of Raging Elephants ( http://www.ragingelephants.org ) who mentioned their sign which seems to have appeared again recently ( http://rackjite.com/archives/3657-Raging-Elephant... ). Claver's delivery on individual freedom eroding under the weight of the current federal governent was stellar. You'd even say electrifying. The man knows how to preach a sermon, I tell ya'.
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Darren300 40p · 19 minutes ago
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I was also moved once from a heart warming speech by a Cuban immigrant who grew up under universal healthcare in his native Cuba and feared the upcoming healthcare takeover (this was still in 2009, i think mid year) sounded way too similar to the Cuban system of healthcare which only Michael Moore is too blind to promote as something positive. As a trained and well practiced doctor (I think as a surgeon) in the USA, this speaker explained how most of our healthcare resources are used up during the last few years of our lives. That were we to allow government to foot the bill of our medical health, it would be in government's best interest to allow someone to die rather than pay for his or her cost of care.
Anyone who has actually attended a Tea Party ralley would leave that place knowing full well that the purpose and scope of the Tea Party is NOT about race but about government growth and overreach; which is insane.
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CrisD 83p · 13 minutes ago
I said so all day yesterday, Thanks Rush. Rush is right.
AB, when will you get calls from the President to staighten out your problems like Sherrod and Prof. Harvard? Mmmmm? Yup, that'll be a cold day in he!!.
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Glen Beck was about as pissed off as I have ever seen him, yesterday! He sees his (OUR) country, going down the toilet and no one doing anything to stop it!
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Jamesb - July 23rd, 2010 at 2:22 am
Absolutely. Breitbart had this woman PEGGED from the start. Any reasonable person, without a liberal agenda – can HEAR her SUBTLE yet corrosive racism. Her contempt for white people is palpable. Meet her in court, call her bluff A.B.!
Shirley Sherrod's "New Communities" scheme is very shady. It's a shake down scheme, you can feel it. How many trully aggreived black farmers are there? How many have been paid?
What is her cut? Send in the FBI accountants, lets open up those books and take a 'look see'.
TheLineIsDrawn - July 23rd, 2010 at 2:22 am
Racial divisiveness is ginned up to slander the Tea Party, rile up the Democratic base and attempt to discredit Fox as a pivotal election approaches. Meanwhile, the Financial "Reform" monstrosity is signed with little notice.
The Great Uniter and his machine continue their work.
Sgt_Relic - July 23rd, 2010 at 9:37 am
I read the entire transcript. I suppose that in some convoluted way, think "Archie Bunker", Sherrod had a moment when she realized that she had harmed the farmer by her discriminatory action but seemed very quick to blame it on the "white" lawyer. It was very clear that she sees everything through a black and white prism, and probably still does.
If we follow the NAACP meme, this is the point when we are supposed to say; "She has become better at hiding her racism."
Hang tough A.B.!
xhristopherus - July 23rd, 2010 at 2:40 am
I have attended over 100 Tea Party events.
There have been three incidents that I am aware of where racists showed up and thought they had a home. They were shouted down, booed and/or asked politely to leave ( by tea partiers).
The point that seems to be lost on most everyone about the entire video is that Ms Sherrod may well have told a story of a pivotal moment in he life where she realized that she would make more money pitting poor against the rich, than she would denying white people services that she would prefer to give to black people.
BUt the crowd at the NAACP sponsored event did not know that she would be telling them "Its not about Black versus White" when they were chearing her recounting of the story of her discriminatory acts towards the white farmer, (They were nodding in agreement, and laughing etc.. this was a racist crowd she was speaking to. This is the salient point of the videos
cardon - July 23rd, 2010 at 9:43 am
Crap like this will continue as long as freedom loving peoples keep getting
intimidated by the race card…..White, black, brown, and all should stand up
against any and all race baiting!!…This has got to end, it's ruining all trust in
one another, and setting us back generations…..
rckmom - July 23rd, 2010 at 9:48 am
Didn't the NAACP have possession of the entire tape?? How do we know it wasn't THEM that sent the edited version to Andrew, just so they could call him a racists?? I have had enough of this black president continually throwing out the race card to distract form what he is really doing….destroying our country!!!!
txphotographguy - July 23rd, 2010 at 9:57 am
No matter what you think of Rush, he is usually right, no pun intended. And he is in this case too.
gwar5 - July 23rd, 2010 at 9:59 am
Rush is absolutely right. The race bullies are Nifonging America.
Obama, Nobel Peace Prize winner and community organizer, is doing what comes natural. He's weaponized the word racist and is using it like a flamethrower against opposition, while simultaneously using blacks as a human shields against criticism of his policies, which are manifest.
NIFONG. ….remember Nifong? Nifong is the disgraced and disbarred prosecutor who fraudulently prosecuted the Duke Lacrosse players for rape after he already knew they didn't do it. Yeah, that guy.
Let's bring the word back — NIFONG. Time to make NIFONG famous again to push back against the race bullies.
The race bullies are Nifonging America because Obama is a failed president and he is turning America into a failed state.
There are few blacks in the T-Party because 95% of blacks voted for Obama — simply because of his skin color. With 25% unemployment among blacks under Obama, they should be lining up to join the Tea party. They are most welcome.
The Obama race bullies Nifonged the Clintons, Nifonged Ferraro, and even Nifonged Scott Brown's pick up truck — so it was only a matter of time before they Nifonged conservatives and the Tea party for opposing the Obama agenda. It worked before, against "their own kind"
We will not back down to these cowards. If we back down there will never be an end to it. That's what bullies do.
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Darren300 - July 23rd, 2010 at 10:00 am
Rush was on fire yesterday. He pointed out how slavery has ended in the United States. It ended after the Civil War with the shedding of hundreds of thousands off American soldier's blood. He pointed out how this country has addressed every single issue and grievance of racist civil rights violations. He pointed out how despite slavery ending and civil right's issues addressed, there are those who still demand what I'll call a redemption of sorts over racism and how the race card is still being used.
What really riled me up is Rush mentioning how racism has been used to attack the Tea Party movement. That this is a movement whose force and political philosophy needs to be unleashed. That this whole "tea partiers are racists" rhetoric is nothing but a distraction and he (Rush) will move on from it.
While I absolutely agree that Rush's show and talk radio in general need to move on to the real issue of the economy needing to be vitalized, I do think there is still a public need to redress the race card being liberally played against the Tea Party movement.
Darren300 - July 23rd, 2010 at 10:02 am
Comment 1:
So my simple contribution in defense of the Tea Party movement is that I have attended three Tea Party gatherings in the Houston, TX area. If there were any racial-based signs against Obama, they must have been so insignificant as I recall not a single one. Yes, there may be racists attending a Tea party ralley. Last I checked all are welcome to attend. I personally met one of the local Tea Party leaders in Houston and I will attest to the fact that she would NEVER associate with racism. Especially not the likes of that low life money-coveting wretch, Dale Robertson ( http://houstontps.org/?p=318 )
Darren300 - July 23rd, 2010 at 10:02 am
Comment 2:
For those who actually attend a ralley will come out with a one hundred percent certainty that this powerful grassroot movement is about government growth, which is insane. I witnessed an electrifying speech by Apostle Claver of Raging Elephants ( http://www.ragingelephants.org ) who mentioned their sign which seems to have appeared again recently ( http://rackjite.com/archives/3657-Raging-Elephant... ). Claver's delivery on individual freedom eroding under the weight of the current federal governent was stellar. You'd even say electrifying. The man knows how to preach a sermon, I tell ya'.
Darren300 - July 23rd, 2010 at 10:02 am
Comment 3:
I was also moved once from a heart warming speech by a Cuban immigrant who grew up under universal healthcare in his native Cuba and feared the upcoming healthcare takeover (this was still in 2009, i think mid year) sounded way too similar to the Cuban system of healthcare which only Michael Moore is too blind to promote as something positive. As a trained and well practiced doctor (I think as a surgeon) in the USA, this speaker explained how most of our healthcare resources are used up during the last few years of our lives. That were we to allow government to foot the bill of our medical health, it would be in government's best interest to allow someone to die rather than pay for his or her cost of care.
Anyone who has actually attended a Tea Party ralley would leave that place knowing full well that the purpose and scope of the Tea Party is NOT about race but about government growth and overreach; which is insane.
CrisD - July 23rd, 2010 at 10:08 am
I said so all day yesterday, Thanks Rush. Rush is right.
AB, when will you get calls from the President to staighten out your problems like Sherrod and Prof. Harvard? Mmmmm? Yup, that'll be a cold day in he!!.
Johannes_koenig - July 23rd, 2010 at 10:09 am
yes! and every black man that goes against these things is called "Uncle Tom"… thrown under the bus! Time to decide whether your black American or American!
rckmom - July 23rd, 2010 at 10:14 am
Glen Beck was about as pissed off as I have ever seen him, yesterday! He sees his (OUR) country, going down the toilet and no one doing anything to stop it!
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Here’s really all you need to know. It turns out that Andrew Breitbart was exactly right. This woman did not have an epiphany when she was at the USDA. When she was speaking to the NAACP she did not have an epiphany about, “You know what? It isn’t about race, it’s about rich versus poor.” If you listen to the whole speech as people have, 43 minutes, she’s racist. The NAACP is racist. And this whole story has been manipulated, wined and dined, formed and flaked in order present the usual template that it’s us, that it’s conservatives who are racist.
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Jamesb 134p · 1 hour ago
Absolutely. Breitbart had this woman PEGGED from the start. Any reasonable person, without a liberal agenda - can HEAR her SUBTLE yet corrosive racism. Her contempt for white people is palpable. Meet her in court, call her bluff A.B.!
Shirley Sherrod's "New Communities" scheme is very shady. It's a shake down scheme, you can feel it. How many trully aggreived black farmers are there? How many have been paid?
What is her cut? Send in the FBI accountants, lets open up those books and take a 'look see'.
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TheLineIsDrawn 77p · 1 hour ago
Racial divisiveness is ginned up to slander the Tea Party, rile up the Democratic base and attempt to discredit Fox as a pivotal election approaches. Meanwhile, the Financial "Reform" monstrosity is signed with little notice.
The Great Uniter and his machine continue their work.
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Sgt_Relic 76p · 45 minutes ago
I read the entire transcript. I suppose that in some convoluted way, think "Archie Bunker", Sherrod had a moment when she realized that she had harmed the farmer by her discriminatory action but seemed very quick to blame it on the "white" lawyer. It was very clear that she sees everything through a black and white prism, and probably still does.
If we follow the NAACP meme, this is the point when we are supposed to say; "She has become better at hiding her racism."
Hang tough A.B.!
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xhristopherus 51p · 41 minutes ago
I have attended over 100 Tea Party events.
There have been three incidents that I am aware of where racists showed up and thought they had a home. They were shouted down, booed and/or asked politely to leave ( by tea partiers).
The point that seems to be lost on most everyone about the entire video is that Ms Sherrod may well have told a story of a pivotal moment in he life where she realized that she would make more money pitting poor against the rich, than she would denying white people services that she would prefer to give to black people.
BUt the crowd at the NAACP sponsored event did not know that she would be telling them "Its not about Black versus White" when they were chearing her recounting of the story of her discriminatory acts towards the white farmer, (They were nodding in agreement, and laughing etc.. this was a racist crowd she was speaking to. This is the salient point of the videos
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cardon 97p · 39 minutes ago
Crap like this will continue as long as freedom loving peoples keep getting
intimidated by the race card.....White, black, brown, and all should stand up
against any and all race baiting!!...This has got to end, it's ruining all trust in
one another, and setting us back generations.....
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rckmom 108p · 34 minutes ago
Didn't the NAACP have possession of the entire tape?? How do we know it wasn't THEM that sent the edited version to Andrew, just so they could call him a racists?? I have had enough of this black president continually throwing out the race card to distract form what he is really doing....destroying our country!!!!
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txphotographguy 64p · 24 minutes ago
No matter what you think of Rush, he is usually right, no pun intended. And he is in this case too.
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gwar5 73p · 23 minutes ago
Rush is absolutely right. The race bullies are Nifonging America.
Obama, Nobel Peace Prize winner and community organizer, is doing what comes natural. He's weaponized the word racist and is using it like a flamethrower against opposition, while simultaneously using blacks as a human shields against criticism of his policies, which are manifest.
NIFONG. ....remember Nifong? Nifong is the disgraced and disbarred prosecutor who fraudulently prosecuted the Duke Lacrosse players for rape after he already knew they didn't do it. Yeah, that guy.
Let's bring the word back -- NIFONG. Time to make NIFONG famous again to push back against the race bullies.
The race bullies are Nifonging America because Obama is a failed president and he is turning America into a failed state.
There are few blacks in the T-Party because 95% of blacks voted for Obama -- simply because of his skin color. With 25% unemployment among blacks under Obama, they should be lining up to join the Tea party. They are most welcome.
The Obama race bullies Nifonged the Clintons, Nifonged Ferraro, and even Nifonged Scott Brown's pick up truck --- so it was only a matter of time before they Nifonged conservatives and the Tea party for opposing the Obama agenda. It worked before, against "their own kind"
We will not back down to these cowards. If we back down there will never be an end to it. That's what bullies do.
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Johannes_koenig 15p · 13 minutes ago
yes! and every black man that goes against these things is called "Uncle Tom"... thrown under the bus! Time to decide whether your black American or American!
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Darren300 40p · 22 minutes ago
Rush was on fire yesterday. He pointed out how slavery has ended in the United States. It ended after the Civil War with the shedding of hundreds of thousands off American soldier's blood. He pointed out how this country has addressed every single issue and grievance of racist civil rights violations. He pointed out how despite slavery ending and civil right's issues addressed, there are those who still demand what I'll call a redemption of sorts over racism and how the race card is still being used.
What really riled me up is Rush mentioning how racism has been used to attack the Tea Party movement. That this is a movement whose force and political philosophy needs to be unleashed. That this whole "tea partiers are racists" rhetoric is nothing but a distraction and he (Rush) will move on from it.
While I absolutely agree that Rush's show and talk radio in general need to move on to the real issue of the economy needing to be vitalized, I do think there is still a public need to redress the race card being liberally played against the Tea Party movement.
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Darren300 40p · 20 minutes ago
Comment 1:
So my simple contribution in defense of the Tea Party movement is that I have attended three Tea Party gatherings in the Houston, TX area. If there were any racial-based signs against Obama, they must have been so insignificant as I recall not a single one. Yes, there may be racists attending a Tea party ralley. Last I checked all are welcome to attend. I personally met one of the local Tea Party leaders in Houston and I will attest to the fact that she would NEVER associate with racism. Especially not the likes of that low life money-coveting wretch, Dale Robertson ( http://houstontps.org/?p=318 )
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Darren300 40p · 19 minutes ago
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For those who actually attend a ralley will come out with a one hundred percent certainty that this powerful grassroot movement is about government growth, which is insane. I witnessed an electrifying speech by Apostle Claver of Raging Elephants ( http://www.ragingelephants.org ) who mentioned their sign which seems to have appeared again recently ( http://rackjite.com/archives/3657-Raging-Elephant... ). Claver's delivery on individual freedom eroding under the weight of the current federal governent was stellar. You'd even say electrifying. The man knows how to preach a sermon, I tell ya'.
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Darren300 40p · 19 minutes ago
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I was also moved once from a heart warming speech by a Cuban immigrant who grew up under universal healthcare in his native Cuba and feared the upcoming healthcare takeover (this was still in 2009, i think mid year) sounded way too similar to the Cuban system of healthcare which only Michael Moore is too blind to promote as something positive. As a trained and well practiced doctor (I think as a surgeon) in the USA, this speaker explained how most of our healthcare resources are used up during the last few years of our lives. That were we to allow government to foot the bill of our medical health, it would be in government's best interest to allow someone to die rather than pay for his or her cost of care.
Anyone who has actually attended a Tea Party ralley would leave that place knowing full well that the purpose and scope of the Tea Party is NOT about race but about government growth and overreach; which is insane.
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CrisD 83p · 13 minutes ago
I said so all day yesterday, Thanks Rush. Rush is right.
AB, when will you get calls from the President to staighten out your problems like Sherrod and Prof. Harvard? Mmmmm? Yup, that'll be a cold day in he!!.
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Jamesb - July 23rd, 2010 at 2:22 am
Absolutely. Breitbart had this woman PEGGED from the start. Any reasonable person, without a liberal agenda – can HEAR her SUBTLE yet corrosive racism. Her contempt for white people is palpable. Meet her in court, call her bluff A.B.!
Shirley Sherrod's "New Communities" scheme is very shady. It's a shake down scheme, you can feel it. How many trully aggreived black farmers are there? How many have been paid?
What is her cut? Send in the FBI accountants, lets open up those books and take a 'look see'.
TheLineIsDrawn - July 23rd, 2010 at 2:22 am
Racial divisiveness is ginned up to slander the Tea Party, rile up the Democratic base and attempt to discredit Fox as a pivotal election approaches. Meanwhile, the Financial "Reform" monstrosity is signed with little notice.
The Great Uniter and his machine continue their work.
Sgt_Relic - July 23rd, 2010 at 9:37 am
I read the entire transcript. I suppose that in some convoluted way, think "Archie Bunker", Sherrod had a moment when she realized that she had harmed the farmer by her discriminatory action but seemed very quick to blame it on the "white" lawyer. It was very clear that she sees everything through a black and white prism, and probably still does.
If we follow the NAACP meme, this is the point when we are supposed to say; "She has become better at hiding her racism."
Hang tough A.B.!
xhristopherus - July 23rd, 2010 at 2:40 am
I have attended over 100 Tea Party events.
There have been three incidents that I am aware of where racists showed up and thought they had a home. They were shouted down, booed and/or asked politely to leave ( by tea partiers).
The point that seems to be lost on most everyone about the entire video is that Ms Sherrod may well have told a story of a pivotal moment in he life where she realized that she would make more money pitting poor against the rich, than she would denying white people services that she would prefer to give to black people.
BUt the crowd at the NAACP sponsored event did not know that she would be telling them "Its not about Black versus White" when they were chearing her recounting of the story of her discriminatory acts towards the white farmer, (They were nodding in agreement, and laughing etc.. this was a racist crowd she was speaking to. This is the salient point of the videos
cardon - July 23rd, 2010 at 9:43 am
Crap like this will continue as long as freedom loving peoples keep getting
intimidated by the race card…..White, black, brown, and all should stand up
against any and all race baiting!!…This has got to end, it's ruining all trust in
one another, and setting us back generations…..
rckmom - July 23rd, 2010 at 9:48 am
Didn't the NAACP have possession of the entire tape?? How do we know it wasn't THEM that sent the edited version to Andrew, just so they could call him a racists?? I have had enough of this black president continually throwing out the race card to distract form what he is really doing….destroying our country!!!!
txphotographguy - July 23rd, 2010 at 9:57 am
No matter what you think of Rush, he is usually right, no pun intended. And he is in this case too.
gwar5 - July 23rd, 2010 at 9:59 am
Rush is absolutely right. The race bullies are Nifonging America.
Obama, Nobel Peace Prize winner and community organizer, is doing what comes natural. He's weaponized the word racist and is using it like a flamethrower against opposition, while simultaneously using blacks as a human shields against criticism of his policies, which are manifest.
NIFONG. ….remember Nifong? Nifong is the disgraced and disbarred prosecutor who fraudulently prosecuted the Duke Lacrosse players for rape after he already knew they didn't do it. Yeah, that guy.
Let's bring the word back — NIFONG. Time to make NIFONG famous again to push back against the race bullies.
The race bullies are Nifonging America because Obama is a failed president and he is turning America into a failed state.
There are few blacks in the T-Party because 95% of blacks voted for Obama — simply because of his skin color. With 25% unemployment among blacks under Obama, they should be lining up to join the Tea party. They are most welcome.
The Obama race bullies Nifonged the Clintons, Nifonged Ferraro, and even Nifonged Scott Brown's pick up truck — so it was only a matter of time before they Nifonged conservatives and the Tea party for opposing the Obama agenda. It worked before, against "their own kind"
We will not back down to these cowards. If we back down there will never be an end to it. That's what bullies do.
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Darren300 - July 23rd, 2010 at 10:00 am
Rush was on fire yesterday. He pointed out how slavery has ended in the United States. It ended after the Civil War with the shedding of hundreds of thousands off American soldier's blood. He pointed out how this country has addressed every single issue and grievance of racist civil rights violations. He pointed out how despite slavery ending and civil right's issues addressed, there are those who still demand what I'll call a redemption of sorts over racism and how the race card is still being used.
What really riled me up is Rush mentioning how racism has been used to attack the Tea Party movement. That this is a movement whose force and political philosophy needs to be unleashed. That this whole "tea partiers are racists" rhetoric is nothing but a distraction and he (Rush) will move on from it.
While I absolutely agree that Rush's show and talk radio in general need to move on to the real issue of the economy needing to be vitalized, I do think there is still a public need to redress the race card being liberally played against the Tea Party movement.
Darren300 - July 23rd, 2010 at 10:02 am
Comment 1:
So my simple contribution in defense of the Tea Party movement is that I have attended three Tea Party gatherings in the Houston, TX area. If there were any racial-based signs against Obama, they must have been so insignificant as I recall not a single one. Yes, there may be racists attending a Tea party ralley. Last I checked all are welcome to attend. I personally met one of the local Tea Party leaders in Houston and I will attest to the fact that she would NEVER associate with racism. Especially not the likes of that low life money-coveting wretch, Dale Robertson ( http://houstontps.org/?p=318 )
Darren300 - July 23rd, 2010 at 10:02 am
Comment 2:
For those who actually attend a ralley will come out with a one hundred percent certainty that this powerful grassroot movement is about government growth, which is insane. I witnessed an electrifying speech by Apostle Claver of Raging Elephants ( http://www.ragingelephants.org ) who mentioned their sign which seems to have appeared again recently ( http://rackjite.com/archives/3657-Raging-Elephant... ). Claver's delivery on individual freedom eroding under the weight of the current federal governent was stellar. You'd even say electrifying. The man knows how to preach a sermon, I tell ya'.
Darren300 - July 23rd, 2010 at 10:02 am
Comment 3:
I was also moved once from a heart warming speech by a Cuban immigrant who grew up under universal healthcare in his native Cuba and feared the upcoming healthcare takeover (this was still in 2009, i think mid year) sounded way too similar to the Cuban system of healthcare which only Michael Moore is too blind to promote as something positive. As a trained and well practiced doctor (I think as a surgeon) in the USA, this speaker explained how most of our healthcare resources are used up during the last few years of our lives. That were we to allow government to foot the bill of our medical health, it would be in government's best interest to allow someone to die rather than pay for his or her cost of care.
Anyone who has actually attended a Tea Party ralley would leave that place knowing full well that the purpose and scope of the Tea Party is NOT about race but about government growth and overreach; which is insane.
CrisD - July 23rd, 2010 at 10:08 am
I said so all day yesterday, Thanks Rush. Rush is right.
AB, when will you get calls from the President to staighten out your problems like Sherrod and Prof. Harvard? Mmmmm? Yup, that'll be a cold day in he!!.
Johannes_koenig - July 23rd, 2010 at 10:09 am
yes! and every black man that goes against these things is called "Uncle Tom"… thrown under the bus! Time to decide whether your black American or American!
rckmom - July 23rd, 2010 at 10:14 am
Glen Beck was about as pissed off as I have ever seen him, yesterday! He sees his (OUR) country, going down the toilet and no one doing anything to stop it!
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