Posts Tagged “gun rights”

Once again MSNBC has show it’s true colors. Or maybe I should say they’re color blind. In this segment take note they never show the face of the person with the assault rifle. The do however show the “cracker’s” face that has a piece on his hip.

Later, the MSNBC news-twit Contessa Brewer says, “Here you have a man of color, in the presidency, and white people showing up with guns.”

They even have a token black guy in on this sham, as you’ll soon see.

Watch the video first (then click link below).

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The tragic shooting at the Holocaust Museum on Wednesday by 88 year-old white supremacist James Von Brunn, has captured media attention all over the globe. As always, you can count on both the leftwing kooks at MSNBC as well as the leftard bloggers to tie this person to the Republican party.

The always rabid folks over at Huffington Post blogged this entry at yesterday at 6:00 PM.

Among the myriad of disturbing qualities of James Von Brunn, the 88-year-old man who shot and killed a security officer inside the Holocaust Museum on Wednesday, is his apparent belief that Barack Obama is not a citizen of the United States and therefore has no right to the presidency.

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Indeed a “birther” mindset is more a symptom of extremism than a cause.

That said, the extent to which the birther ethos has been driven into the political narrative by legitimate figures, and subsequently picked up by extremist elements, is noteworthy. In an obvious reference to questions about Obama’s birthplace, Rep. Bill Posey, R-FL, has introduced a bill in the House requiring presidential candidates to file a copy of their birth certificates. Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-V.A, has joined him as a co-sponsor of that measure.

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While I doubt any efforts will be rewarded with steamrolling her nomination, I don’t think the republicans are going to have a hard time pouncing on Sotomayor.

And this:

“I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion [as a judge] than a white male who hasn’t lived that life.” — Judge Sonia Sotomayor, in her Judge Mario G. Olmos Law and Cultural Diversity Lecture at the University of California (Berkeley) School of Law in 2001

Stuart Taylor at the National Journal sums it up nicely.

So accustomed have we become to identity politics that it barely causes a ripple when a highly touted Supreme Court candidate, who sits on the federal Appeals Court in New York, has seriously suggested that Latina women like her make better judges than white males.

Indeed, unless Sotomayor believes that Latina women also make better judges than Latino men, and also better than African-American men and women, her basic proposition seems to be that white males (with some exceptions, she noted) are inferior to all other groups in the qualities that make for a good jurist.

Any prominent white male would be instantly and properly banished from polite society as a racist and a sexist for making an analogous claim of ethnic and gender superiority or inferiority.

Imagine the reaction if someone had unearthed in 2005 a speech in which then-Judge Samuel Alito had asserted, for example: “I would hope that a white male with the richness of his traditional American values would reach a better conclusion than a Latina woman who hasn’t lived that life” — and had proceeded to speak of “inherent physiological or cultural differences.”

Now just watch. If GOP attacks her in any significant manner, they’ll be labeled as sexist and racist bigots.

Obama is slowly rewriting America’s dialogue with other countries, while at the same time calling those that are pro-life, against illegal immigration, military veterans or gun owners rightwing extremists.

But you have to applaud Obama for transparency. He’s even extending transparency to the terrorist by releasing Bush-era memos about CIA interrogation techniques.

A former top official in the administration of President George W. Bush called the publication of the memos “unbelievable.”

“It’s damaging because these are techniques that work, and by Obama’s action today, we are telling the terrorists what they are,” the official said. “We have laid it all out for our enemies. This is totally unnecessary. … Publicizing the techniques does grave damage to our national security by ensuring they can never be used again — even in a ticking-time- bomb scenario where thousands or even millions of American lives are at stake.”

And they’re no longer terrorists and it’s no longer the “war on terror.”. According to the new Director of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano, they’re now known as “man-made disaster makers” and the war on terror is an “overseas contingency operation.”

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…get up off your ass and go to work!

Obama last night: “It can’t happen without you, without a new spirit of service, a new spirit of sacrifice.”

Mmmm..

And here’s a partial list of his promises from a speech he gave last week.

“eliminate income taxes on Social Security for seniors making under $50,000″;

“give homeowners and working parents additional tax breaks”;
not increase taxes on anyone if they “make under $250,000; you will not see your taxes increase by a single dime –- not your income taxes, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains tax”;

“end those breaks to companies that ship jobs overseas”;

“give tax breaks to companies that invest right here in the United States”;

“eliminate capital gains taxes for small businesses and start-up companies that are the engine of job creation in this country”;

“create two million new jobs by rebuilding our crumbling roads, and bridges, and schools — by laying broadband lines to reach every corner of the country”;

“invest $15 billion a year in renewable sources of energy to create five million new energy jobs over the next decade”;

“give a tax break to 95 percent of Americans who work every day and get taxes taken out of their paycheck every week”;

“reopen old factories, old plants, to build solar panels, and wind turbines”;
build “a new electricity grid”;

“build the fuel efficient cars of tomorrow”;

“eliminate the oil we import from the Middle East in 10 years”;

“lower premiums” for those who already have health insurance;

“if you don’t have health insurance, you’ll be able to get the same kind of health insurance that members of Congress give themselves”;

“end discrimination by insurance companies to the sick and those who need care the most”;

“invest in early childhood education”;

“recruit an army of new teachers”;

“pay our teachers higher salaries, give them more support. But … also demand higher standards and more accountability”;

“make a deal with every young person who’s here and every young person in America: If you are willing to commit yourself to national service, whether it’s serving in our military or in the Peace Corps, working in a veterans home or a homeless shelter, then we will guarantee that you can afford to go to college no ifs ands or buts”;

“stop spending $10 billion a month in Iraq whole the Iraqis have a huge surplus”;

“end this war in Iraq”;

“finish the fight and snuff out al Qaeda and bin Laden”;

“increase our ground troops and our investments in the finest fighting force in the world”;

“invest in 21st century technologies so that our men and women have the best training and equipment when they deploy into combat and the care and benefits they have earned when they come home”;

“No more homeless veterans”; and

“no more fighting for disability payments.”

We’ll be watching with baited bated breath.

AWB

From the Onion:

Black Man Given Nation’s Worst Job

WASHINGTON—African-American man Barack Obama, 47, was given the least-desirable job in the entire country Tuesday when he was elected president of the United States of America. In his new high-stress, low-reward position, Obama will be charged with such tasks as completely overhauling the nation’s broken-down economy, repairing the crumbling infrastructure, and generally having to please more than 300 million Americans and cater to their every whim on a daily basis. As part of his duties, the black man will have to spend four to eight years cleaning up the messes other people left behind. The job comes with such intense scrutiny and so certain a guarantee of failure that only one other person even bothered applying for it. Said scholar and activist Mark L. Denton, “It just goes to show you that, in this country, a black man still can’t catch a break.”

– AWB

Well, most of it

Priceless – AWB

Bang-bang! – AWB

LMAO -AWB