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Your dose of liberal fascism for the afternoon,

One of my clients was directly threatened by the White House and in essence compelled to withdraw its opposition to the deal under the threat that the full force of the White House Press Corps would destroy its reputation if it continued to fight.

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Behold The Glory That Is Free Speech On A College Campus

The Bucknell University Conservatives Club tried to hold a version of the now famous "Affirmative Action Bake Sale". Predictably, the University bigshots went out of their way to shut it down.

 

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Lawyers? We don't need no steenkin lawyers.

Not if Obama has anything to say about it, anyway.

The Michigan vs Jackson ruling in 1986 established that, if a defendants have a lawyer or have asked for one to be present, police may not interview them until the lawyer is present.

Any such questioning cannot be used in court even if the suspect agrees to waive his right to a lawyer because he would have made that decision without legal counsel, said the Supreme Court.

However, in a current case that seeks to change the law, the US Justice Department argues that the existing rule is unnecessary and outdated.

The sixth amendment of the US constitution protects the right of criminal suspects to be "represented by counsel", but the Obama regime argues that this merely means to "protect the adversary process" in a criminal trial.

Updated to add link. Sorry for the loose shit.

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Noted failure and anti-Semite Jimmy Carter advocates disarming the American public

Anti-Semitism and disarmament...where have I seen that combination before?

Just a reminder of Jimmy Carter's history of firearm safety,

5/13/90

To Sybil,

Lamentably, I killed your cat while trying just to sting it. It was crouched, as usual, under one of our bird feeders & I fired from some distance with bird shot. It may ease your grief somewhat to know that the cat was buried properly with a prayer & that I’ll be glad to get you another of your choice.

I called & came by your house several times. We will be in the Dominican Republic until Thursday. I’ll see you then.

Love, Jimmy

Jimmy Carter is the last person on earth that should be preaching to us about firearms or firearms safety, given his own irresponsible behavior with them, what a stupid asshole.

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Not-so-random thought

Does anyone else thing that, in the spirit of "never letting a good crisis go to waste," we'll suddenly be hearing TOTUS say that we need universal health care now, without any debate, lest the Swine Flu overtake the less fortunate members of our society?

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Speaking of Queen Perez....

If you have a Twitter, please link this video, following Jim Treacher's example.

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Oh, how convenient!

They're refusing to let banks repay the government for the TARP funds they've received.  This ain't good.

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Nina Totenberg Must Hate The Poor

NPR hag Nina Totenberg is one of the more reliably liberal members of the Beltway Groupthink and a big time player in the Smart Set. She also is a panelist on one of the local shows, Inside Washington, that is nothing more than a left wing circle jerk for media members.

Needless to say, she is unimpressed with the Tea Party movement, going so far as to call it "cockamamie" (funny, since that is probably the only time in the last 24 months the word "cock" even came near her. But I digress.). Anyway, beyond the usual discussion about taxes, this snippet caught my attention:

GORDON PETERSON, MODERATOR/WJLA-TV ANCHOR: Nobody does, but we pay, actually in comparison to other countries-

TOTENBERG: We pay relatively small taxes. And what you get for it, let us say, what you get for it, even though you don't like this program are this program for this war or that were, what you ostensibly get for it is a civilized kind of social compact where you don't have massive civil eruptions. That is what taxes are for.

Wait! What the fuck are you talking about, you dry hag? Taxes are mainly to prevent civil eruptions (read: race/poverty fueled riots)? What about fucking defense, roads, basic medical care, postal services, telephones, and the like? What the fuck did you inhale before you went on the air?

So you basically admit you view taxes as nothing more than paying off poor people to keep them from disrupting your life? Jeebus titty fucking Christ, lady! What does that reveal about how you view the poor in this country? Are you so fucking afraid of them and distrust them so much so, you would rather pay them off to stay down and leave you alone instead of helping them get ahead? How fucking arrogant is that?

Growing up, there was a mean angry dog down the street that scared me shitless. I thought throwing an extra dog treat his way would keep him away from me. Instead, it came to me, begging for more, and would start growling at me if I didn't cough up an extra snausage. This seems to be how Totenberg views handling the poor: just throw them a snausage, and hope they don't latch onto you for more.

Here's an idea: why not help the poor get out of their cycle of poverty and dependance? How fucking difficult is that? But, I guess you don't want that, since it means that you might someday have a *gasp* person who was once poor in your midst and not just another trust fund cocktail party circuit legacy.

Fucking elitist hypocrite. You say you want to help the poor, but all you really want is to keep them away from you.

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What A Difference Six Years Makes

Case in point: Janeane Garofalo and her flexible views on protests.

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Mote, Eye, Plank, Whatever, Vol. 2

Recall all the pissing and moaning from MSNBC over the "coordination" between Fox News and the TeaParty people. Well, Jonah Goldberg nails the NBC family for their activism for a political agenda.

"I think that there's a perfectly legitimate criticism against Fox for not so much the coverage, but the commercials, you know - promoting the coverage, which was in effect advertisements for these things," Goldberg explained. "But, this was all transparent, people knew that's Fox was doing. But let's flashback to what GE, to pick up a point that Jim [Pinkerton] made - that GE basically issued a fatwa to NBC for Green Week, where they did hundreds of hours of environmental messaging in all of their dramas, news coverage, "Today" show - throughout the network and it was all hailed as a wonderful progressive thing. That is a much more pernicious promotion than anything Fox did."

Not only that, but Jim Pinkerton reminds us that the parent company of (MS)(C)NBC is General Electric, who received TARP Bailout money. Needless to say, GE figured they better go hog wild after critics of the people giving them money.

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Here's how they're going to do it

Here's how the Democrats are going to try and sneak gun control legislation through.  This looks like the big one we're going to have to oppose.  If you do any handloading or work on your own firearms, you need to pay attention to this one. 

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As much as I like not being stabbed at night...

Good news!  DC Mayor Adrian Fenty has found a new way to tax me:

Washington’s mayor, Adrian M. Fenty, has proposed a “streetlight user fee” of $4.25 a month, to be added to electric bills, that would cover the cost of operating and maintaining the city’s streetlights.

Sweet.  I would say something like "at least this mayor isn't a crack addict," but the crack addict is still on the DC City Council, so it doesn't give me much solace. 

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Is It Just Me, Or Is The Climate Bill A Piece Of Shit?

Especially if this is part of the provision.

The Times reported that Democratic Reps. Henry Waxman of California and Edward Markey of Massachusetts added it into a bill they authored.

The provision, which was just released, reportedly would set grounds for plaintiffs who has "suffered" or expect to suffer "harm" attributable at least in part to government inaction. The provision defines "harm" as "any effect of air pollution (including climate change)," according to the Times. Plaintiffs could seek up to $75,000 in damages a year from the government, with $1.5 million being the maximum total payout.

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Mote, beam, etc.

It looks like somebody was asleep or in a cave for the past eight years or so and dislikes the "Chicago Tea Party" protest thing:

The Tea Party Movement is basically a flag for Republicans disenfranchised by last year’s election results to rally behind. Give it up, guys. You lost fair and square. Obama and his policies have the mandate of the people- unlike a certain Bush I could mention.

If the country continues down this dark path, a second Civil War might not just be a cool idea for a sci-fi novel anymore.

This apparent foe of our First Amendment rights (which is rich, seeing as how he's a apparently a writer) talks about how "The Tea Party movement is an incredibly dangerous concept" and envisions "the potential for chaos if some of these ‘protesters’ decide to exercise the Second Amendment and bring their weapons to these rallies." Um, can you point out any instances where these protests have turned violent, you fucking cockholster?

And in spite of the supposed fascism of the last eight years, I don't remember anybody on the other side calling for the suppression of this...

Eight years (plus, I'm guessing) of anti-Bush vitriol were fine and dandy.  Now, though, protests are a threat to the stability of the Republic...

On April 15th, hundreds of thousands of PO’d red meat eatin’ Americans will converge on the streets to protest the Obama administration’s policies and platforms.

Aaaaaaannnd, this is suddenly a problem. Perhaps the lack of paper mache heads makes it so.

I hope April 15th comes and goes without major incident. And I hope the protesters fail in their mission to bring their message to a national audience. It’s a message of fear, prejudice and, quite frankly, hate.

President Obama was elected democratically, according to the doctrines set forth by the Founding Fathers. The Tea Party movement represents a real danger to the tenets of democracy Americans have embraced for centuries.

I refer the author of the piece, again, to the last eight years. But, oops, silly me! Everything has Hopeychanged.

And dissent is no longer the highest form of patriotism. What a fucking shock, huh?

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The Bailout Is Starting To Resemble Riding On The Back Of A Crocodile To Help You Get Across A Stream

because while you may get halfway across the stream, the crocodile will eventually stop and eat you. It's in its nature.

Kinda like asking The Man for help. Eventually, The Man will eat you too. And this looks like Phase I.

The purpose of the legislation is to "prohibit unreasonable and excessive compensation and compensation not based on performance standards," according to the bill's language. That includes regular pay, bonuses -- everything -- paid to employees of companies in whom the government has a capital stake, including those that have received funds through the Troubled Assets Relief Program, or TARP, as well as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

The measure is not limited just to those firms that received the largest sums of money, or just to the top 25 or 50 executives of those companies. It applies to all employees of all companies involved, for as long as the government is invested. And it would not only apply going forward, but also retroactively to existing contracts and pay arrangements of institutions that have already received funds.

In addition, the bill gives Geithner the authority to decide what pay is "unreasonable" or "excessive." And it directs the Treasury Department to come up with a method to evaluate "the performance of the individual executive or employee to whom the payment relates."

The bill passed the Financial Services Committee last week, 38 to 22, on a nearly party-line vote. (All Democrats voted for it, and all Republicans, with the exception of Reps. Ed Royce of California and Walter Jones of North Carolina, voted against it.)

The legislation is expected to come before the full House for a vote this week, and, just like the AIG bill, its scope and retroactivity trouble a number of Republicans. "It's just a bad reaction to what has been going on with AIG," Rep. Scott Garrett of New Jersey, a committee member, told me. Garrett is particularly concerned with the new powers that would be given to the Treasury Secretary, who just last week proposed giving the government extensive new regulatory authority. "This is a growing concern, that the powers of the Treasury in this area, along with what Geithner was looking for last week, are mind boggling," Garrett said.

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Quick! Someone get Obama a waffle!

Maybe if he's eating he won't distract himself with calling for (and getting) the resignations of CEOs he doesn't like.

This gives me back mindthoughts and disturbs my soulpatterns.

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I Have No Words For This One

A Tea Party being canceled? For this reason?

Why? They feel too many people could show-up.

Lynn Rosko planned to hold a tax payer tea party at Jaycee Park in Cape Coral on April 1st. The idea was announced at a Cape Coral City Council meeting, then an e-mail blast by the Republican Party and it was mentioned in the local media.

With all of that attention, the City of Cape Coral felt there could be more than 500 people attending the tea party.

Therefore Rosko needed to get a permit and insurance for the event. Rosko says she's not willing to get insurance and accept liability for something that a stranger could do. Rosko told WINK News, "I have rescinded any organizing or supervision or what ever you want to call it over this tea party on April 1st."

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Looking at the Obamajugend program

The bill was sponsored by fascist NY Rep Carolyn McCarthy.  Just a reminder of how criminally stupid McCarthy is,

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Congress: You Know, About Those 90% Taxes On AIG Bonuses....

I get the feeling that after all of the posturing that has transpired over the AIG bonuses, most of the threats of taxes was just for the cameras.

Instead, they are proposing a "gentler" system*.

Just what is unreasonable or excessive would be determined by financial regulators and the Treasury Department, where Secretary Timothy Geithner set off a public furor by not blocking $165 million in AIG payments to its financial products executives and traders on March 15.

The Senate, meanwhile, has put on hold a bill that Democrats unsuccessfully tried to advance last week. It would tax away about 70 percent of the employee bonuses at AIG and other companies getting more than $100 million in bailout money.

Since last fall, AIG has received or been promised more than $182 billion of government money, much of it funneled to investors and foreign banks who held high-odds bets with the company on the U.S. housing market collapsing.

The about-face came as it become clear that financial institutions would not partner with the government on new efforts to restore vital credit flows to businesses and consumers if it meant later being demonized for its use of taxpayer dollars.

Geithner proposed on Monday a new government program that would rely on the help of private investors to buy up to a $1 trillion of bad debt, or "toxic assets," sitting on the books of major banks, giving them more ability and incentive to lend.

"I don't want people to think that businesses and people who have worked hard, performed well and received bonuses are going to be painted with the AIG brush," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., told reporters Thursday.

The gentler approach is in stark contrast to the anti-Wall Street rhetoric that consumed Congress and the White House last week after the bonus payments by AIG, the prime example of a company deemed "too big to fail" because its collapse could create a worldwide run on banks and other financial institutions.

The bonus payouts ignited populist anger that four days later prompted the House to vote 328-93 to tax them away and Obama to declare on Jay Leno's late-night talk show the same day that he was "stunned" and would "do everything we can to get those bonuses back"

By the next day, the Senate's bonus tax plan had stalled.

*Insert your own crude and sexual reference about the Government being "gentler".

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You Know Who Is Enjoying The Carnage?

George Soros, who is making a ton of money off of this mess.

George Soros, who predicted the global financial crisis twice before, was one of the few people to anticipate and prepare for the current economic collapse.

Mr Soros said his prediction meant he was better able to brace his Quantum investment fund against the gloabal storm.

But other investors failed to take notice of his prediction and his decision to come out of retirement in 2007 to manage the fund made him $US2.9 billion. And while the financial crisis continued to deepen across the globe, the 78-year-old still managed to make $1.1 billion last year.

'It is, in a way, the culminating point of my life’s work,' he told national newspaper The Australian.

Soros is one of 25, top hedge fund managers from across Wall Street who have defied the credit crunch crisis to reap a total of $11.6billion (£7.9bn) last year.

The managers made their profit by trading above the pain in the markets, according to Institutional Investor’s Alpha Magazine.

Former maths professor James H. Simons, who has made billions in  hedge fund Renaissance Technologies, earned $2.5 billion running computer-driven trading strategies. [/blocqkuote]  

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