and you think that isn't part of the plan?

have you read the Cloward-Piven Strategy?

in order for the one-world currency to become a reality, all you have described (and more) as road blocks are in fact just check points..

when did we get to a place in America that it became acceptable to censor literature and trample on free speech to avoid offending someone or a particular class of people?

That sounds like appeasement to me..

should we not concentrate on why and what drives someone to violence? Should we not educate potential muslim extremists that here in the US we enjoy freedom of press, speech and religion.. and with that freedom comes the potential for offensive speech and the obligation to tolerate its existence??

If I'm the author, I pull the manuscript and find another publisher.

care to elaborate?

So it's just a coincidence that Obama has been appointed/elected to head the UN Security Council??

and now this story is now getting legs?

quiet, I'm sure that's true. $80K per year seems like a lot of money and I'm sure they earn it..

but from what I'm reading and hearing from lots of different sources is that those that are able to pay are being charged way more than they should be to take up for the deadbeats that are flooding the system.

If you and I both go in and I can't/won't/have no way to pay my bill, guess what? you're going to get charged double so that we both get treatment..

so untill there is solvency for freeloading deadbeats, prices and costs will continue to rise.. and I suspect any "government plan" will only exaccerbate that issue rather than solve for it..

"free emergency room"???

Those bills get paid by someone.. in most cases, I think its county tax payers that foot the bill and it's not free in "most industrialized countries"..

When will people learn that there's no such thing as "free"???

This was a really interesting article that I came across which I thought I'd share. Interesting takes on race, radicalism and domestic politics...

Revolution Anyone?

by Joseph C. Phillips

Barack Obama hired Anthony “Van” Jones as a special adviser for green jobs, enterprise and innovation at the White House Council on Environmental Quality. Jones is an admitted “rowdy Black nationalist” and “communist” who was also a co-founder of the communist revolutionary organization STORM: Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement.

Quick question: how many Marxists, Communists, Domestic Terrorists and raving racialists does the President get to associate with before reasonable people can assume that the president on some level shares their particular vision of America?

While perusing the manifesto of this now defunct STORM, several things struck me as particularly interesting. There was of course the passionate commitment to Marxist ideals, radical feminism, gay lesbian and transgender liberation and the ardent support of the unrepentant murderer Mumia Abu Jamal. And there was this rather innocuous looking paragraph, which I found especially fascinating.

“Storm had a closed membership. People could not just decide to join whenever they wanted to. Instead the group invited small classes of activists to become new members. This insured more consistency and accountability within the membership. It also allowed the group to maintain its strict demographic quota requirements; each class was required to be 75% people of color and 60% women.”

Given their expressed passionate commitment to revolution I was surprised to discover that they would sacrifice principle on the alter of race and gender. If revolution is what one truly desires – a revolution that will deliver “true freedom for our people” shouldn’t that include liberty from being categorized by race and/or gender? Isn’t a shared ideology – shared principles – more important than quotas? These of course are people living in the United States bemoaning the collapse of the Soviet Bloc so rationality may be too much to ask. It may also be one reason this group or Marxist revolutionaries never saw their membership increase beyond perhaps a dozen or so members.

My Friend John Rosenberg asks, “How will we know when racial equality arrives?” Certainly one sign will be when race is not a part of every organizational decision we make, which means for the new left that moment will never arrive. Cynical? Perhaps, but how optimistic can one be when even Marxist revolutionaries are focused on race?

Or our own Justice Department under our “post racial” president?

The Obama Administration has directed the civil rights division of the Justice department to begin aggressively pursuing cases of disparate impact.

Disparate impact theory argues that, in the words of Rosenberg, “statistical racial disparities alone are strong evidence or even proof of racial discrimination” even if there is no evidence of an intent to discriminate or discrimination in the application of the policy, practice or program. Any test or employment practice — no matter that it has been vetted by experts – is deemed discriminatory and illegal if the results do not reflect perfect statistical proportionality. The question of who studied hard and who perhaps could have studied harder is unimportant. The goal is not equal opportunity – that is the removal of barriers to opportunity put there based on race, but the equality of results as determined by “strict demographic quota requirements.” It has the ring of new liberal nirvana, but Black folk are all too aware that quotas are ceilings not floors.

The philosophical foundation of disparate impact theory is structural inequality: The barriers to opportunity are built into the system; any statistical disparity is a result of a system teeming with racism. The system can’t be fixed; it must be torn down and rebuilt along more equitable lines. Race thus becomes the reason to disavow the founding principles of natural rights and the source of redistributionist policies. Odd as it may sound race is the hammer with which they will rebuild the post racial world.

The reason the president surrounds himself with radical leftists like Van Jones is because on this point he is in fundamental agreement.

Revolution anyone?


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I have the citation on this article but I want to see how the crowd responds before I give it..

Obama's failure to turn the US into a nationalized socialist disaster will be a victory for America!

And in this victory, we will demonstrate to ourselves and to the world that we stand by our founding principles, that no manchurian candidate will be able to overthrow our way of life with a few strokes of a pen, that the People of the Nation still have a voice that will not be drowned out by all the Madow's and Olberman's, that we have forever kicked out the fiefdoms fuedalism of Europe, that our freedom of expression still has teeth and finally that this is still and shall ever be OUR country.

get your salt shaker ready.. cuz in a few short months those words will be ready for you to eat..

Obama's the greatest thing to happen to conservatism since Jimmy Carter!

very insightful analysis, boo.. it must have taken a looooong time to formulate such a scathing response..

ps, I love Michele Malkin! she's soooooo f'n hotttttt!!!

So it's ok to accuse someone falsely of rape and murder and run it up the flagpole, present it as truth as long as you have a tiny disclaimer that calls it "satire"?

You call it satire.

Some might call it slander and libel.

Warning: On Topic Post contained in this reply..

**a potential attempt to un-derail this thread**

I don't have kids in grade school (that I know of, haha) but I can relate to the opposition to having this president wanting to spend an hour talking to the school children of America.

Let's all take a look at the context under which this is occuring. We have a president that has a decidely different outlook on American life. It appears that the underlying principle to his economic policy is a mandate to "spread the wealth". This has raised the ire of many people in America and not just the well-to-do but those with aspiration of becoming well-to-do.. After all, the boot strap mentality has long been the dominant mindframe in the middle class. Upward mobility.. The phenomenon where "daddy owned half of main street and he ain't got a thing" comes with the reality that a person can become something from nothing and that just because someone is born with a silver spoon in their mouth doesn't mean he'll die with it.. The opportunity to make something of oneself is diametrically opposed to the idea that all should be forced to being equal.. If equality is the goal, why offer education? why give someone the opportuity to fail if you want all to be equal.. The opportunity of become successful and for achievement become meaningless if you take away the prospect of becoming a failure.


Next, let's look at the steps Obama has taken to move the Census taking under the direction of the White House and couple that with the move to get school aged children to "help" with the census.

The white house does not have the authority to direct the collection of census data, much less to use child labor to aide in that collection..

Now, he comes out and declares he wants an entire hour of face time with every school-age child K-12 and gives them an assignment where they're asked to write an essay on "How I can help the President" ?? I understand that this "assignment" has been altered to take out the "help president Obama" part, but the fact remains that a bell cannot be un-rung. The original intent was to have school kids write an essay in adoration of the President and were it not for the outcry from American parents, this "assignment" would have been carried out..

Many, I feel, see this as not just a bridge too far and a trip down the wrong road.. but an undavised, and some may argue unconstitutional, venture to begin with..

discuss..

maybe you should pass that little talking point up the DNC command chain because "liberal" and "scocialising" seem to be fairly comfortable words around Democrat campfires...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW_FXjbt6wY&feature=player_embedded

it says you're a coward who hides behind smearing other people and who refuses to stand up to questioning. You employ neither thought nor reason when you wield your scarlet letter. You just go around painting a red 'R' on anyone who stands up in principled opposition to your messiah..

but I'm wasting my bandwidth trying to talk to you..

everytime you post something it's about how racist everyone is but you.. how every criticism of Obama is about nothing but racism..

yes.. the pseudomath.. the monkey who declares himself clean-shaven and the rest of the world hairy..

have you ever heard the expression, "when the only tool you possess is a hammer, you see every problem as a nail"??

there most certainly is a racial issue going on here. but it's not the one you think it is..

everyone from jesse jackson to Al Sharpton, both Reverends without congregations but that's another story, has played the race card when faced with opposition to any of Obama's pie-in-the-sky policy agenda items..

playing this race carsdis supposed to insulate Obama from criticism but it is only serving to isolate him from the nation..

so I'll ask you.. is there any issue upon which someone may disagree with Obama or his Administration without you yelling 'racism'??

there she goes again, with her bucket of scarlet paint..

ignorancy?? is that a word?

identifying someone with their own political ideology isn't the same as accusing someone of rape and murder.

It ain't the same ballpark. Hell, it ain't even the same bleeping sport, Vincent..

Van Jones is a communist. Just ask him.

Obama is a marxist. just listen to him.

Glenn Beck calls them both out for who and what they are and now, suddenly, rumor start floating around that he raped and killed someone..

c'mon.. either you feel you have something to gain by bringing down an outspoken critic of the Administration or you need another cup of kool-aid..

laser mouse

I'm on XP sp3 with offic 03.

the windows keep switching when I run the cursor over the auslogics boostspeed icon, I think, or maybe its the volume icon or the connetivity icon.

I just noticed that it didn't do it until i logged on to this site..

hope that's just a coincidence..