Taxpayer revolt: Porkulus protest in Seattle, Obama to sign theft act in Denver
There should be one of these in every town in America. What are you doing? Liberty Belle announces a taxpayer protest against the porkulus tomorrow in Seattle:
The protest against the porkulus is on for President’s Day!
Date: Monday, February 16th
Time: 12:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Where: Westlake Park in downtown Seattle, 401 Pine St., in the open area by the big arch.The idea is to use what we’ve learned about dissent over the last eight years. We need loud protests with lots noise and visuals. So, what should you bring?
Bring AS MANY PEOPLE AS YOU CAN! Bring your families, your friends, neighbors, bring everyone!
Bring SIGNS!! Get those craft making juices flowing and make signs and banners and pictures and paintings. Just imagine that you are a left-wing college student with nothing else to do and that should help you get started!
Bring something to sit on and appropriate clothing.
Most importantly, JUST BRING IT!!!
If you can get a real pig roast going, all the better!
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Speaking of Seattle, go read up on Sen. Patty Murray’s worthless stimulus earmark. Tip of the non-stimulating iceberg.
A follow-up from Liberty Belle in comments below, with tips for Denver organizers that apply to anyone and everyone who would like to raise their voices. It matters:
Hey y’all!!
Thank you Michelle for posting the protest notice!!
I wanted to give the Coloradans some advice for gathering folks there, and believe me, you have the time. I got the permit for the park here on Tuesday, and now look, by Sunday, it is ALL OVER THE PLACE.
-I emailed everyone I knew. I emailed friend’s parents who I knew were Conservative, I emailed my parents’ friends, bloggers, etc.
-I called everyone I could think of, policy think tanks, “movers and shakers” in the Seattle Republican Party, Conservative organizations, college professors, etc. (From this I have forged a relationship with the Chairwoman of the National Black Republican Association who is going to write a statement for me to read, as she cannot get to Seattle on Monday.) I called local Conservative talk radio stations and they have been running it all week.
-I lived and breathed this thing for four days, which did cause me to miss a couple of things here and there, but it is totally worth it.
Basically everyone, you just have to do it. Call up your police station or parks department and ask how you can obtain a permit, and then just start advertising. The word will spread. I am only one person, but with a little hard work this protest has become the efforts of A LOT of people.
To the people who think this won’t help I say this: this protest will not stop the bill. I have no illusions that it could. I’m hoping for a few things though. One, that the Conservatives and Libertarians and Republicans in Seattle can finally meet each other and see they are not alone. There are actually quite a lot of us here, but we are very quiet, and that MUST STOP. We need to show that we exist. Second, we need to show support for the Republicans and Democrats that voted against the porkulus. If they think, for one second, that they made a bad choice, we have no chance to fight. Third, it sends a message to Obama and Pelosi that we are awake and we know what’s happening, and we are not going to take it lying down. It is a message saying, expect more opposition because we’re out here.
That’s it! I hope everyone across the country can get something going too!!!
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President Obama will sign the Generational Theft Act of 2009 into law in Denver at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science in City Park on Tuesday at an invitation-only event. The president also will give a speech about the economy. Time to raise your voice and make yourselves heard, Coloradans. Who’s up for a Rocky Mountain pig roast?
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Dont forget to bring your kids so you can sit in the middle of the railroad tracks and block military conveys with them.
It always works
Geeez! I wish I still lived in Seattle. I must admit, I find the idea of a anti Porkulus protest in such a bastion of liberalism astounding. Hope they have a very big turnout. That would speak volumes.
Why do I feel like the only one who is noticing that almost every item of this “stimulus” bill, and even the very premise thereof, is unconstitutional based upon the enumerated powers spelled out in Article 1, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution? Why do I feel like the only one who recognizes that we’ve lost our Constitutional Republic to the calls for Democracy, hence a socialistic oligarchy? I would feel otherwise if “conservatives” would actually look to and argue from the Constitution before looking to whichever pragmatist considerations Democrats dictated to them. This is not about economics. This is not about medical care, environmental protection, home ownership, energy policies… This is about the U.S. Constitution.
If only Republicans would seek to preserve their namesake…
if anyone wants to do this in NYC- I can bring the pig!! I need 2 days notice for the pig.
#3 They don’t care.
We should display signs that thee Obamanator will understand something like: Mohammad Forbids Pork
The most fundamental argument against this Stimulus Bill and all deficit spending is the founding principle of this country:
NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION
Who is representing the unborn who are being saddled with this debt?
They think they’ve found a loophole in that. What we have now is taxation with misrepresetation.
Just lie about what it’s for and when people get upset, lie about why they’re upset. The MSM repeats the lies and all is well.
For somebody.
In the immortal words of Yahshuah:
“It is finished”.
Pig roast will do nothing. Protest will do nothing. BHo has his wish and we are screwed thanks to 63 million stupid voters.
The only thing we can hope for is the total rebuilding of the Republican Party. We should be having backbone parties and Rino roasts (after Palin blasts them with her elephant gun).
I think you are going to see this administration absolutely shred the Constitution. The people no longer care about it. They are more concerned about who is on Dancing and why. Sad really.
Next to go, the 2nd amendment. BHo killed the states right to legislate abortion which had nothing to do with abortion but with setting precedence.
Stay tuned.
resistnet.com is also organizing marches on DC and state capitals in May tentatively…
Just passing it along, I don’t make money from it…
Hi Michelle!
I’m in the Denver area…whats the plan?
Who’s in for something?
Exactly!
This spending bill is the backdoor to achieving the host of social spending programs Democrats have always wanted but could never get by the public, such as state-run healthcare; it’s their dream-come-true chance to create a dependent class among Americans that will guarantee Democrats a lock on power into perpetuity.
And it’s a safe bet that the spending programs this bill creates will never be phased out; they will be refunded yearly, until there is nothing left. Already Democrats and their enablers in the media are saying this bill is too small and that there will need to be another spending bill later this year.
It’s a sad time for our country: She seems heck-bent to allow the Democrats to spend her into oblivion -
The problem with people like us protesting is we are contientious types who would not take a day away from work, unless we were doing something directly for our families.
It would be nice to embarass these people.
I hope some reporter with some stones has the audacity to ask The One why did he rail for days that this bill needed to be implemented IMMEDIATELY, so as soon as it was passed Obama delays its signing three days to take a three day vacation in Chicago?
That reporter would certainly get Obama’s stoney, “I can, becasue I won” glare.
Just finished watching the Sunday morning news programs and for the second Sunday in a row, the unease among the “news” cheerleaders is already evident. Maybe they are finally making the connection between their refusal to report the widespread dismay among voters and their own plummeting viewership? It is not just the GOP that has chased away their members with their arrogance but the entire entrenched criminal class of windbags.
There is definitely “change” in the wind but it may not work out the way the globalists were betting on. These are pyrrhic victories at best.
It will be a national holiday here. We might actually be able to get something done in the real world while the libs all dance naked around the glow of the Burning Man (of the Rockies) effigy.
I have been sitting here pondering all this stimulus bill means and I think I have come to realize that we all should celebrate that the Democrats are the Party of Choice when it comes to the unborn.
The unborn have the choice of either being killed in the womb or born into a world where they are instantly indebted to pay the government for what has already been spent in their name, before they even have a chance to learn the ABC’s.
Truly the Democrats are the Party of Hope for the unborn.
/sarc
Since I have fully recovered from the food poisoning episode, I have to get some real work done for myself today. Everyone talk amongst yourselves.
l8r
How much does the “invitation” cost?
I guess I head over there tomorrow and take a long lunch break. Down with Porkulus!
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Seattle is a super liberal place–lots of Californians bailed out of Kali and moved there–bringing their liberal / socialist / communist views with them.
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Isn’t Seattle the place where a lot of money was wasted building a light rail system–without any trains running on them? It sounds like one of the PORK PENS to me.
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Don’t expect a lot of conservative support there–Seattle is the darkest blue part of Washington State.
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John Bibb
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Watched the Sunday morning shows…why does anyone listen to anything Maxine Waters has to say??? She is absolutely giddy that socialism is coming her way. I’m quite sure she is no student of history. It doesn’t get better from here on out.
Thanks so much for posting this, Michelle.
How does Maxine Waters keep getting elected?? Is there not one person in her district 10 points higher than her in IQ?? Especially after she told the oil execs that she wants the government to take over the oil co’s???
Like I should talk—-McCain is my senator!!!
Send_Me said: (#3)
I said in my e-mails to each of my senators and my congressman (mine by district, I didn’t vote for any of them) that I felt the bill was un-Constitutional. Didn’t do any good. Next step is to send copies of the Constitution to them, the Vice Pres, and Pres to remind them what they have sworn to uphold and defend.
Won’t have any influence, but I’ll feel better.
Here’s a little ditty to ruminate on:
If you had gone into business the day Jesus was born and your business lost $1,mill a day, 365 days a year, it would take you until 2737 to lose $ONE TRILLION.
With the US population at 305,556,415 each citizens share of the national debit is $34,769.40–how much do you make a year??
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=88903
Sign idea
$900 Billion removed from our children and not even a penny spent for tire gauges!
I wouldn’t mind taking part in a little bit of insurrection like our tolerant enemies on the left, however except for the military and simple servants like myself most people in our community will be too busy trying to eek out a living. Plus I bathe regularly and have too much respect for personal property and the rule of law to act like a spoiled destructive petulant child. Any protest in our community would be preaching to the choir in this very conservative self reliant state.
ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒE (mo-lone lah-veh) Translation: Come and take them!
OT
Franky’s Furniture on Veterans Memorial Drive near Beltway 8…
Credito sin Seguro Social
Translation- we sell furniture on credit to illegal aliens.
I wonder how this works, especially now that the economy is rocky. Assuming they deliver, they know the buyer’s address, but the buyers can move, and take the furniture with them. Or, when times get tough, the buyers can move, and leave the furniture behind, but do they really recoup the investment on used furniture, especially if the original owners suspected they may not own the furniture long enough to get the normal expected life?
I assume, therefore, that a huge cost markup is built in, compared to what would be the normal retail, enough to cover people not making payments on furniture purchased on credit.
When I briefly worked at the now defunct Landmark Chevrolet on I-45, I knew a guy that worked at a bad credit car store in the scarier wards of Houston, and they actually hid transponders in the cars to help locate and repo skips. The places that specialize in sales to illegals, the biggest being Fred Fincher Motors, sell vehicles at a huge markup to more legitimate car stores. I don’t know if Fincher ‘tags’ their vehicles, perhaps they also just work on having such a huge markup they can afford some deadbeats. I assume it would be hard, and maybe not cost effective, to tag furniture.
BTW, I am so glad I am working in the oil patch again. I don’t know about all car stores, but Landmark Chevrolet’s core attitude was the customers were idiots and it was our duty to screw them as hard as we possibly could. Doesn’t hurt my feelings seeing the Houston area Bill Heard Chevy stores going out of business. I guess I should feel bad for the employees. But not the sales people.
Hot Air coverage of that would make a great Live Vent material…
If this spending orgy doesnt work to better this economy (and in fact makes it worse which of course it will) I look for the mid-term elections to be a chance for real conservatives to regain some of the seats they lost in the House and Senate.
By 2012, in the midst of the second Great Depression, Repubs will gain a majority in at least the House or Senate.
Hopefully there will still be time to save this Country from socialism, and disgusting treasonous democrat pigs. But the RINO’s have to go; the faux conservatives. In with the new guard.
Many of the voters who went for Obama had no idea of his ties to Marxists and terrorists, foreign and domestic.
But even the least aware voter knows the Democrats are the party of abortion on demand, the abomination of the modern age.
So, perhaps, as people given free will by our Creator, the majority having chosen a leader who favors the killing of unborn, and even newly born babies, we, as a people have made our bed and now we must lay in it.
See the Fernandez piece at PJ Media about Obama taking the census from Commerce and giving it to Rahm Emmanuel. Porkulus will destroy the economy, and is designed to kill capitalism, but the bigger prize for Obama is killing representative democracy.
Sweet. My contribution:
Optimism about 2010 may be a bit premature. I suspect we cut down on the House majority of the Demonrats, but only an actual majority makes a difference there, as almost all of the supposedly moderate ‘Blue Dog Democrats’ are just frauds, and Pelosi will remain speaker anyway and set the agenda with a single vote majority.
Republicans will be lucky to hold the Democrats to their current 62 vote majority (soon to be 59 with Franken, and the Treason Trio, Dems in all but caucus), as more Republican seats are up in 2010, and more Republicans are retiring as well, meaning more now open formerly Republican seats.
As far as 2012, that depends on whether Obama’s fraudulent 2010 census results are used for the districts. I should know that, I guess, but I don’t know when the seats are reassigned (and thus electoral college electors) after the 2010 census.
As it is, expect national same day registration and voting as law by then, meaning a built in 5% or more advantage to Democrats by virtue of fraud.
I agree with everything you said.
99% of the time I believe we are done as a Country; at least the one I remember 20 short years ago. The other 1% hopes that the elective process can work to undo this damage, this socialist ideology. The problem in the future is that once the people with their hands out, outnumber the people who believe in individual responsibilty, the voting will be skewered, we will have a one-party system, and the only thing left is civil war.
Don’t forget the bump that Dems get from their official propaganda arm, a/k/a the mainstream media. I think that is worth about 5%.
But I still think the last election was a referendum on a failed Bush administration (fiscally speaking) and a collapse on Wall Street, more than love for the new socialist dem party. There are enough independents and moderate (Joe Lieberman) democrats out there to help regain a lot of lost seats for Repubs. At least I pray there are.
Who knew that “spreading the wealth around” meant robbing it from future generations. The present congress doesn’t care since many will be dead before all the consequences are known. Our entire economy has become a giant ponzi scheme.
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if Scott Ott’s “REPORT” in
Heh! We would have had good reason to celebrate President’s Day!
Ah….. you assume everyone votes. In a country where 53% of the elctorate votes the ball is alwayS in play.
As reality sets in The One’s followers will lose their enthusiasm. Nature abhors a vacumn. We need to be ready to fill it with solid, understandable, positive alternatives when it appears!
It can but it will be a slow and terribly painful process. We need to start demanding our candidates tell us what they will REPEAL when they are in office. If they hear it every day for an entire campaign, they might start to get the message.
But they won’t like it and it goes against their natural inclination. So we have to keep hammering them with it, day after day, year after year, campaign after campaign.
Probably for the rest of our lives.
Excellent comparison. You are right on the money.
The Media in this case ABC is astroturfing for the Obama administration it looks like this Diane Sawyer special was intentional to drum up support for the so called Stimulus Bill, listen to her on the View last Monday, then listen to Mitch McConnell’s Minority Leader of the Senate from KENTUCKY’s opposition to the Bill on CSPAN. Since when are journalist supposed to be promoting legislation in Congress? This is an update.
http://youhavetobethistalltogoonthisride.blogspot.com/2009/02/diane-sawyer-2020-hidden-america_15.html
Gawd – and I moved to Denver to avoid moronic Democrat demagoguery.
MSM = Marxist Socialist Media
O/T:
NAACP:
President’s Day is for Washington, Lincoln, AND Obama
Was President’s Day for George Bush last year?
BTW, I think George Washington and Abe Lincoln are important enough to each have their own holiday.
*I believe any street protests against the porkulus will be counterproductive, like an echo that falls silent; A better alternative is still direct communication with Congressmen, Senators, Blue Dog Democrats, and the RNC, and the message is simply that P-BO, Nazi Pelosi, and Harry Reid are leading us into full blown marxism and away from our Constitutional Republic.
*For the Republicans to have any credibility as the force against the oncoming marxism, they must stop with suggesting the sugary version of it with such schemes as forced lower mortgage rates and other tired and failed interventions from FDR to Bush 43; For starters, Republicans should read “Meltdown”, by Thomas Woods.
*If Michael Steele, the RNC, and Republicans in general want to see an uptick in their numbers in 2010 and 2012 that will lead to a return of our beloved Constitutional Republic, I suggest the following:
***Keep P-BO, Pelosi, and Reid, et al, in your target sights as marxists as they will daily paint themselves as such and you need only point out the obvious.
***Grab hold of the Fair Tax and let the people know it will be them front and center, and with your help(or “getting on the side of the people” as Sarah Palin would say)the lawmakers, lawyers, and lobbyists will feel the crackling end of the whip for a change.
***Abolish the Federal Reserve; This is a must.
***Impose term limits;12 & 12; The people deserve true representative government, not professional politicians;Call it the Rangel Rule, or you name it; The list is endless on both sides and has has been destructive to us all.
We all know that this stimulus bill is not going to work on its own without some help from some “body” or “bodies”. I hope someone is watching the Federal Reserve for an influx of large amounts of money of a period of time. Whoever or whatever affected our economy on September 11, 2009, will most certainly do it again now that the stimulus bill has passed.
OMG! I am going to be in Denver Tuesday for a training session for work. Rats!! Hope they don’t change my schedule because of The One!
I said goodbye to my future today.
By Choice – Keep in mind the National Debt figure does not take into account the plundered Social Security Funds.
Those should be included in the debt figures, but aren’t.
I’m not a big fan of protest rallies. Usually, I associate it with the democrat “complain loudly and rudly” form of getting things done. But hey, I’m up for this one. Just tell me where they’ll be selling the porkchop sandwhiches and I’ll be there to let my voice be heard in Denver.
The turn out is always low for these kinds of protests…we are working and taking care of our families. There was a small gathering in Fort Myers the day that Obama was here (to protest the Porkulus). It got some press, but the turn out was low.
I don’t want to sound cynical or jaded, but if this is what passes for a “taxpayer revolt” these days, it is too little and way too late. I can’t imagine any democrat anywhere losing sleep over this. After the bill has passed? Come on. Maybe it is better than nothing, but we have to get a lot more organized than this if we want to stop what is happening. Steyn recently characterized Obama as “Carter at warp-speed.” I agree about the warp-speed part, but Obama is far more dangerous than Carter, and with no super-Reagan anywhere in sight, the democrats national socialism will not be stopped with anything less than a nation-wide upheaval.
All of which is to say that, yes, I am a strong supporter of protest rallies — the louder and noisier the better. There was a big one in Seattle in ‘93 against the Clinton Socialized Health Care Plan (perhaps Michelle recalls it). It was quite a shock to the liberal establishment when Ms. Clinton came to town and was greeted with such disdain.
In other words, do them. They work.
I will sit at the side of the road on Monday, with a sign that says, “PORKULUS: Taxation through Misrepresentation!”
OK, I’m completely against Porkulus and I know that it’s not a “stimulus” package. It’s the biggest socialist grab in our government in over a lifetime, and the interest plus the plan itself will cost nearly $3.5 trillion…BUT…
What good does it do to protest it NOW? Wasn’t the time for that last week, BEFORE it passed the House and Senate? We all know The One™ will sign the bill into law.
*Shrugs*.
By the way, it’s not about turnout size or whether the MSM allows us to get the message out.
This is about expressing the message, period. We may never know if our efforts impact others.
But I know that we will never impact anyone if we don’t do a thing.
Hey y’all!!
Thank you Michelle for posting the protest notice!!
I wanted to give the Coloradans some advice for gathering folks there, and believe me, you have the time. I got the permit for the park here on Tuesday, and now look, by Sunday, it is ALL OVER THE PLACE.
-I emailed everyone I knew. I emailed friend’s parents who I knew were Conservative, I emailed my parents’ friends, bloggers, etc.
-I called everyone I could think of, policy think tanks, “movers and shakers” in the Seattle Republican Party, Conservative organizations, college professors, etc. (From this I have forged a relationship with the Chairwoman of the National Black Republican Association who is going to write a statement for me to read, as she cannot get to Seattle on Monday.) I called local Conservative talk radio stations and they have been running it all week.
-I lived and breathed this thing for four days, which did cause me to miss a couple of things here and there, but it is totally worth it.
Basically everyone, you just have to do it. Call up your police station or parks department and ask how you can obtain a permit, and then just start advertising. The word will spread. I am only one person, but with a little hard work this protest has become the efforts of A LOT of people.
To the people who think this won’t help I say this: this protest will not stop the bill. I have no illusions that it could. I’m hoping for a few things though. One, that the Conservatives and Libertarians and Republicans in Seattle can finally meet each other and see they are not alone. There are actually quite a lot of us here, but we are very quiet, and that MUST STOP. We need to show that we exist. Second, we need to show support for the Republicans and Democrats that voted against the porkulus. If they think, for one second, that they made a bad choice, we have no chance to fight. Third, it sends a message to Obama and Pelosi that we are awake and we know what’s happening, and we are not going to take it lying down. It is a message saying, expect more opposition because we’re out here.
That’s it! I hope everyone across the country can get something going too!!!
That is the goal, “stimulus” is only a word like “fairness” or “bipartisn”.
Liberty belle-
I picked my screen name for this site purposely to show people that there are conservatives everywhere even in Seattle!
Having a conservative rally in the heart of enemy territory should be inspirational to conservatives everywhere!
Expect the MSM to ignore you.
This stimulus bill was only Chapter 1 in the liberal plan book! It is like a direct transfusion of cholesterol into the economic blood stream!
I hope liberals realize that it is bad for them as well in the long term but I won’t hold my breath.
Good work Liberty Belle!
Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell….what a pair….ding and dong
Note to Kiro, Komo, King 5, & Q13 Fox
in Seattle
America is watching for how you report this-
Seattle Times-not so much
“Our entire economy has become a giant ponzi scheme”
Yes but again this is one of those things that is not new. We have been a ponzi scheme based ecomomy for some time. Because it hasn’t been so clearly spelled out, or not as easy to see, does not mean what we are seeing now is new. This has been part of the problem and honestly why I sorta get how the left won and why they are doing what they are doing now.
If small ponzi schemes sorta worked, well let’s get a GREAT BIG ponzi scheme. Hopefully we can learn as a county ponzi schemes do not work. It may take hitting the bottom like in recovery to do so. But it may happen given the size of this thing and the bottom we are going to hit.
The Republicans have been patting themselves on the back for some time because they convinced themselves and us that keeping the ponzi schemes minimal is conservativism. They in doing so have voted for, designed, created, supported all sorts of ponzi scheme ecomonics for years.
I just love these folks who say “conservativism didn’t work…” Sorry, but we haven’t followed conservative ecomonic principles for a long time.
Maybe with the failure of this giant ponzi scheme we will finally get back to real conservative ecomonic principles and regain the lead on individual prosperity that made us a great country.
I have a suggestion for ANYONE planning to protest Monday…
Do NOT bring a sign! Bring a Pitchfork and Rope!!!!
See if that resonates with the WORTHLESS Politicians. You know, we need More Joe The Plumbers and LESS ATTORNEYS in DC…
How in the world did we end up with this gaggle of gutter tripe we loosely refer to as U.S. senators? Considering the source from which this financial disaster emanated, how could we expect anything less than this hopeless mess?
Even Vlad “The Impaler” Putin thinks Obama’s push for communism is a bad move…
Certainly agree.
As far as I remember, that’s the way it was when I was a kid in the 60s.
PK, the Dem’s are coming out of the woodwork.. I live in Parker/Douglas Cty and it’s usually a big Repub. area. Saw alot more OBama stickers than McCain.
I want to go to that signing and Boo Obama, but I’m afraid his hit men will get me.
rplatt – We voted for them, one LOTE at a time…
That’s how the Dems turned into Marxists and the Republicans turned into Socialists. One LOTE at a time.
And due to the Marxist “sensuality cartel” (e.g. the media and cinema) and the illiteracy cartel” (public schools), they will succeed. Most people will ask for socialism in the end, just watch.
Mr. President, the taxpayers are revolting!
You can say that again.
Most folks would agree. But our schools and elites teach that those two men are only Dead White European Males and thus symbolic of the White Racist Male Patrimony.
You are right. It is a 3 course meal. First porkulus, then a second helping of crap sandwich, then the foreclosure festivus begins.
This protest is important, we are nearing a point of no return as these leaders meld into state tyrants and lead us off into an abyss.
O great hit strike instead of quote.
“By psychopolitics our chief goals are effectively carried forward. To produce a maximum of chaos in the culture of the enemy is our first most important step. Our fruits are grown in chaos, distrust, economic depression and scientific turmoil. … With it you can erase our enemies as insects… Use the courts, use the judges, use the Constitution of the country, use its medical societies and its laws to further our ends. … And bring to Earth, through Communism, the greatest peace Man has ever known.” ~ Lavrenti Beria, Lenin University, in a 1933 address to a group of American/Marxist Psychology Students
“A quiet revolution can be dispersed throughout a culture over a period of time to destroy it from within. Mass psychology and media can break the traditions, beliefs and morals and the will of a nation so there is no possibility of resistance.” ~ Antonio Gramsci
Thought this appropriate to the debate of the stimulus and who are the benefactors-
It has been so long since I’ve been to a pig roast. So good, so good.
“Invitation only”? Something tells me that Jugears will sell tickets. Gotta get that ole economy going, right?
A little off topic but over on huffpo, they are very happy that the dictator hugo chavez is going to be able to be “elected” forever.
Obama is stimulating the economy with his constant use of Air Force One.
Let’s see, he flew it 155 miles to meet with the Democrats a their retreat in Williamsburg, VA. He flew to Forida for a revival meeting. He flew to Indiania for another revival meeting. He flew to Chicago for Valentine’s Day dinner with his wife. Now he’s flying to Denver for another “invitation only” meeting to promote his stimulus.
So he’s leaving DC about twice a week. How much does it cost to operate Air Force One per hour?
Interesting, too, how he wants to cap salaries for bankers, yet never said a word about capping salaries for lobbyests, Fannie Mae fat cats or … Congress…