Free swim Sunday

“The Board of the AJC will no longer endorse candidates”. Says a lot for the status of the paper. Does that mean that all of the Cynthia bias will go away and we will get a moderate or middle of the road stance from it’s editors? Nah.

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OPEN LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT.

Dear Mr. President,
I voted for you on two issues that you made believe you would take care of immediately after you were in office. Neither has happened.

In your speech last night, I heard only more of the same. Promises, but no timeline.

With the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, you promised troop removal, but what we have gotten so far is moving troops from one place to the other. Not acceptable. They need to come home, you, I, and everyone else knows that. Please do it.

Now you are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, and while I was surprised at your selection, I thought it a good joke on the past Administration…at first. Then I realized that
even to be considering to accept it, you were not the man of honor and morality you have claimed to be. You are just another political suit, as far as I can see now.

The amazing thing is though, is that you have the power to rectify that. Today, this very minute, if you wished, could tell your people to stop DADT and give all American people, including the Gay Community, equal rights in all things. That is what America stands for, isn’t it.

You can also, today or this very minute, tell your Military to bring our troops home. To rest, heal, and prepare to fight another day when things haven’t been made so hopeless by ineptitude.

But mostly, today, this very minute, you must not accept the Nobel Peace Prize and allow the President of the United States of America to become a pawn in world politics and political slap down. It is humiliating to Americans everywhere that you would even consider it.

Mr. President, do the right thing, the moral thing. Prove to your people that you walk the walk on the high moral ground. Please, do not accept the award. You will be a laughing stock and lose all of the credibility you have gained.

Bring our troops home. You know that they have been used up and wasted for no gain.

Stop DADT and give every American their equal rights in all things.

That Sir, will go a long way in proving you have what it takes to do the right thing and not care a whit about political gain or loss.

Thank you,

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We must stop spending our tax dollars to kill others. Disband the military and return those wasted tax dollars to the people of the United States of America. Let we the people choose how to spend our money.

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It’s great to bee a fuzzy bee! 49-44 Oh He!! yes! THWG!

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Nope, Jack, I have no regrets. The alternative – Palin a heartbeat away from the Presidency – would have been disastrous.

But that doesn’t mean that I don’t wish, like Normal, that he would move faster on things like ending the war and DADT.

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Only those with a semi-functional brain realize that, Jack. The Obowo cracker chasers, the 94%ers, Hollywood elitists and a wide selection of morons (Dimwittocrats pride themselves on such diversity) still love him; and don’t forget the entitlement crowd, all those who want something for nothing, socialists and other mentally deficient maniacs still support the Liar in Chief.

Journalists, and I use the term loosely – particularly the AJC types – , have no scruples, apparently no morals, ethics, or backbone. They rarely acknowledge wrongdoing, usually buried in a retraction on page c-27, in very small print. Most have no backbone, and are incapable of standing erect, as well as having lost any ability they once may have had for reporting the truth, investigating BOTH sides of an issue and reporting to let the reader decide. They now feel it their duty to slant news, or not cover it at all, to lead one toward a particular political agenda.

In other words, “journalism” is now being run primarily by political hacks with no self initiative or respect, skills, reporting ability or drive, and it is showing in the financial reports of the big newspapers that are dying a slow, self inflicted death. What is really funny is that they are doing it to themselves, but they don’t know why they are dying.

You gotta love “journalists” today, they suck. I always thought when I come back in another life I wanted to be a TV weatherman: you never have to be right, but you still get paid. Throw today’s version of journalist into that group, they wouldn’t be able to find or discuss a legitimate news topic, especially in their own newspapers.

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I prefer anonymity.

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Billions of Asians have realized (albiet a little late) how a strong central authority is inherently corrupt. These Asians are sitting down to OUR lunch table as Americans only whine for more nanny-state involvement. The birth-control pill has something to do with it.

If Mr. Moore and his gallery of weeping victims took a closer look, they’d see their problem is not capitalism but politics. Once elected, virtually all politicians in the U.S. or Western Europe join the Not Much of Anything Party, and that includes Barack Obama, or soon will.

In the U.S., both Republican and Democratic pols define capitalism as a system with economic activity sufficient to produce campaign contributions. But that ensures income stagnation for Mr. Moore’s masses.

The most immediate problem facing the U.S. is not that we have too much capitalism, but that we don’t have enough of it.

In a recent visit to the Journal’s offices, New Zealand Prime Minister John Key suggested Americans and Europeans don’t quite comprehend the enormous “wealth” rising in Asia. Add to that Brazil. This isn’t just fat cats but the wealth of billions rising on commerce—on crude, potent capitalism.

The Olympic Committee’s rejection of Chicago played here as yet another Obama story. The real, less entertaining message is that from where the well-traveled committee members sit, Chicago is a has-been. Rio is the future.

The important difference between the “socialist” Barack Obama and the Republicans is he’d settle for 2% annual growth (gotta pay for the green dreams) and they might get 3%. In a world of China, India and Brazil, growing at rates between 5% and 9%, we need more. A future president who puts the U.S. back in the race with these fast runners could call himself a communist for all I care.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703298004574458943044664778.html

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It is far much easier to whine.

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Fireside chats anyday now.

It’s beginning to look more and more like the Roosevelt years. By the end of this year, all the jobs created during the bubble era – 2002-2007 – will have been eliminated, making it the first decade with no job growth since the ’30s. We’re expecting a fireside chat any day.

Typically big businesses cut workers in a recession. Then, when the economy recovers, small businesses are quick to take them back. But this is unlike the typical post-war recession. This time, deprived of capital as well as customers, small businesses don’t have a chance. Neither does a genuine recovery.

The authorities still do not understand what is going on. They are used to fooling most of the people most of the time. They think they can dupe them again – with bailouts and boondoggles. But real demand has vanished as households try to pay down their debt. That is not going to change anytime soon. Not while the federal government is sabotaging a genuine recovery. It’s savings – capital – the US economy needs. A capitalist economy in which the capitalist have no capital won’t work. Why is there no capital? Because the feds take it.

Supplying cash-for-this and cash-for-that is an expensive proposition, especially when tax receipts are falling. The money has to come from somewhere. As it turns out, the feds borrow it from the very people who are trying to rebuild their personal balance sheets. Of the $1.6 trillion the US government will borrow this year, the biggest single lender is the private sector, chipping in $700 billion. But instead of being put to use in a way that might stimulate a real recovery – providing credit for small business and consumers – it is taken up by the US government and then frittered away.

The banks are happy to play the government’s game too. They can borrow overnight money from the Fed at only one quarter of 1%, annualized. But lending to small business is hard work. And it is risky. Why bother? The US Treasury will pay them 4 % for lending back to the government, long term. This is practically free money to the banks. Both the bankers and politicians end up ahead – with a bigger piece of the economy under their control.

http://dailyreckoning.com/chronic-depression/

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Mrs G,

I know it makes a good story to claim there was vein popping outrage on the right over the Nobel selection, but in reality there was far more of a “we told you this award was crap” satisfaction since the committee vindicated everything we had ever said about the prize.

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Mrs. Godzilla

October 11th, 2009
9:44 am
Any body seen Dick?

He lost his deferment and is training in Pakistan

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Ah, yes! Nobel Laureates.

My roots are in the southern reaches of Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha. He used to come and hang out on the ginyards listening to the local tales which he incorporated in his writing. When my grandmother found out that Granddaddy was letting me sit with the master, she ordered, “Mr. Gene, you keep that boy away from that lying old drunk.” Granddaddy says, “Miz Georgia, he won the Nobel Prize.” “So? He’s a Nobel Prize winning old drunk.” She disliked his presentation of his grandfather under whom her father had served in the Wah-uh.

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Mrs G,

It wasn’t an opinion, it was fact.

And a great day to you as well!

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Mrs. G–

Good cartoon!

BTW–how many body bags have come home under Ima Gonna’s watch? How many more are projected? Where’s the timeline to stop it?

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Normal

October 11th, 2009
8:16 am

He never promised troop removal in Afghanistan; just the opposite. Everyone is an awful lot of people. I thought he gave a good reason for accepting the award. DADT will be resolved, eventually. But by all means forward your letter to:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/

…or mail it, if you haven’t already.

Thanks for sharing it with us.

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josef nix

October 11th, 2009
9:38 am

In you lifetime.

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RW @ 10:03

Wonder if they’ll be one of the ones Ima and Michelle have over to the White House? Should we invite them to our trailer park bash?

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TnGelding–
In my lifetime? Not so sure about that, I’m already on up in years and have a heart condition! We’ll see. I need to go and check with my daughter in law and see what the Gypsy fortune tellers have to say…I’ll take their word over Ima’s…

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josef,

By all means we should invite them, they sound like a hoot, but let’s supply our own curry.

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No kidding. But I doubt Obama’s silly little cult will see it this way. They also think Obama deserves the Nobel Peace Prize, and for the same reason, because he is ‘The One.’ I am sure the next verse in the Schoolchildren’s hymn to Obama is being written as we speak. They should give him an Oscar, too, for that matter. Because he has made just as many contributions to film as he has to World Peace.

As a bonus, let’s consider who the Nobel Committee considered less worthy than Barack Hussein Obama to receive to Nobel Peace Prize:

# Chinese Human Rights Activist Hu Jia – imprisoned for campaigning for human rights in the PRC, not as worthy as Barack Hussein Obama.

# Wei Jingsheng, who spent 17 years in Chinese prisons for urging reforms of China’s communist system. — not as worthy as Barack Hussein Obama. (Not to mention the symbolic value of awarding a Chinese dissident on the 20th Anniversary of the Tianenmen Square Massacre.)

# Greg Mortenson, founder of the Central Asia Institute has built nearly 80 schools, especially for girls, in remote areas of northern Pakistan and Afghanistan over the past 15 years – not as worthy as Barack Hussein Obama.

# Prince Ghazi bin Muhammad, a philosophy professor in Jordan who risks his life by advocating interfaith dialogue between Jews and Muslims, also not as worthy as Barack Hussein Obama.

# Afghan human rights activist Sima Samar. She currently leads the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission and serves as the U.N. special envoy to Darfur and is apparently also not as worthy as Barack Hussein Obama

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Obama To Gay Rights Activists: ‘I Will End Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’

You can stop playing the gay card josef

Great game yesterday but the Florida defense won that game

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October 11th, 2009
8:27 am

“Unlike the other Nobel Prizes, which are awarded by Swedish institutions, the peace prize is given out by the five-member committee elected by the Norwegian Parliament. Like the Parliament, the panel has a leftist slant, with three members elected by left-of-center parties and two right-of-center members. Jagland said the decision to honor Obama was unanimous.”

“The secretive committee declined to say who nominated Obama. In Nobel tradition, nominations are kept secret for 50 years, unless those making the submissions go public about their picks. This year’s nominations included Colombian activist Piedad Cordoba, Afghan woman’s rights activist Simi Samar and Denis Mukwege, a physician in war-torn Congo who opened a clinic to help rape victims.”

“Nominators for the prize are broad and include former laureates; current and former members of the committee and their staff; members of national governments and legislatures; university professors of law, theology, social sciences, history and philosophy; leaders of peace research and foreign affairs institutes; and members of international courts of law.”

http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-obama-nobel,0,7396462.story?track=rss

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If the community organizers did military contracting…

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TnGelding

October 11th, 2009
10:05 am

I sent it to the White House and the Democratic Party Headquarters.

And I know he had called Afghanistan the “Good War”, but I figured that when he saw it for what it was and the reason (OBL) was long gone, he would use common sense. I keep forgetting lifer politicians don’t have much of that…my bay.

But if the Republicans put up anybody who even looks like a moderate next election(s). I’ll be hard pressed not to bite. As a concerned Independent it looks like to me, at least, the Democratic party is screwing the pooch…just sayin’

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RW, you are right. This Peace” Prize was just a jab at President Bush’s administration. I truly thought it was funny at first…until I started thinking about it. Then I couldn’t believe that President Obama is actually going to accept it. It knocks him down a couple of pegs in my eyes, and after the hope I put in his “Hope and Change”, well, let’s just say it disappoints me…greatly.

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