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HAPPY 16TH BIRTHDAY TO MY AMAZING MINI -PUMAS !

Obama’s Brown Shirts in action .

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/02/acorn_breaks_into_foreclosed_h.html

“The answer is that ACORN is seeking to destroy property rights as any good little marxist organization would. Once property rights are history, no one will be safe and people will scurry to the protection that Big Brother offers in order to save what little they have. Property rights guarantee our independence. And that just won’t do for ACORN and their allies.”

EXECUTIVE ORDER
ESTABLISHMENT OF THE WHITE HOUSE OFFICE OF URBAN AFFAIRS

AND

EXECUTIVE ACCOUNTABILITY ACT OF 2009 (HR 743)

AND

Constitutional Amendment Barring Appointment of Senators Sought

More info at 411 on the 111 pumapac forum
http://pumapac.org/forums/411-on-the-111/comment-page-2/#comment-291743

The Senate and House are in recess until Monday, February 23, 2009

It appears to me that they want to recall this man based solely on the fact that he is not black and did not support ologo’s stimulus plan. Now that sounds pretty racist to me.
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“But his two votes against President Barack Obama’s stimulus package prompted the recall effort, said Rev. Aubry Wallace, chairman of the petition drive, and Rev. Toris Young, president of the Louisiana Ministerial Alliance of Churches for All People.”

http://ap.augustachronicle.com/pstories/us/20090220/396204388.shtml

Should we start a contest to see who can predict the day that the Rasmussen Approval Index goes to 0 for the O? I’ll take May 1st

Murphy,

All this trouble with the blog – Any chance it is sabotage?

DancesWithPumas 02.20.09 at 6:34 pm

hp
try sending to southwest@pumapac.org and they’ll forward to my secret email address

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I did not see this till just now Dances….so I resent under action.
Wow low low calorie donuts!

Rather long, but very good…
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/02/politics_in_jeopardy.html
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February 21, 2009
Politics in Jeopardy
By Big Fur Hat

It was almost twenty years ago when my phone rang and fellow illustrator, Irony Curtain, was on the other end of the line asking incredulously, “did you just hear what I heard on the radio?”

I hadn’t, but the term “the radio” only meant one thing. AM Talk Radio. (I believe that when talk radio historians document the era, Irony Curtain will be identified as Listener Zero.) He said, “put it on and wait for the next news cycle.”

The on-air talent was more than likely a conservative, but the news segments, as they are today, had a pronounced slant towards the left.

It took about twenty minutes, but I finally heard it. This was during perestroika and the Ted Baxterish newscaster was talking about the latest reforms Gorbachev was implementing that were slowly freeing the Soviet Union from the cold grip of communism. Baxter quickly summarized one reform, then another, and then came the money shot…

“and with these reforms the once hardline Soviets are moving a little more to the left.”

I sat confused for a moment. I glanced at my outstretched hands questioning if I ever really knew my left from my right. I was about to doodle a crude diagram when the phone rang again.

“Do you believe what you just heard? I’ve been calling and complaining. You do the same!” Click.

It was amazingly easy to get right through to radio shows back in the day. The guy who answered the phone sounded like I had interrupted an epic bite of an egg salad sandwich. He listened to my rant: “The Soviet Union is communist. Communism is full blown socialism, which is the o’s and x’s of liberalism tried out on the playing field. Get it? If the communists retreat from their hardline stance they move (I looked at my hands) … right! Not left!”

Egg salad said, “Tin ya duff tall.” Which I deciphered as, “Didn’t you just call?” Then he hung up.

I was frustrated that the news could get such a simple thing so wrong, and that people like egg salad-boy were running the show.

But I could be heartened by the world political climate. America was winning the war of ideology with the Soviet Union, despite the best efforts of many of America’s own citizens… or so I thought.

The February 17th, 2009, episode of Jeopardy served up a heapin’ helpin’ dose of reality. I was working with my back to the television, half paying attention, when I heard Alex Trebek say, “bla bla Marxist stage bla blahh bla before communism bla bla control over the economy…. bla bla.”

Based on all the buzz words I reflexively shouted, “socialism!”

There was a slight pause, no one rang in, so I shouted the answer again.

The third time I yelled the answer I turned around to see if the cable went out. There, staring at me, like chronic mouth breathers, were three contestants who could probably run the category on Late Renaissance Flautists, their buzzer fingers pathetically poised in space, filled with ignorant inertia.

“Are you kidding me!!!????!!!”

I called Irony Curtain.

“Are you watching Jeopardy?”

“No, I’m eating egg salad.”

I called my mother in Florida because I remembered she got Jeopardy a half hour later than the New York broadcast. I wanted to confirm if I heard the question correctly.

As she held out the phone I heard Trebek say, “A Marxist stage before communism which is characterized by government control over the economy…. I thought it meant friendliness.”

I hadn’t heard that last part. They were teeing it up for the contestants.

And no one even attempted to answer.

In the background I hear my mother mutter, “what is socialism?” (She struggles with “Are You Smarter than a Fifth Grader?”). Then Alex says, “Ooohhh, what is socialism? We were going for socialism. Pointdexter, you still have control of the board, pick a category.”

I hung up.

Bravo, liberals. Well played. The subtle disinformation that you’ve quickly inserted into newscasts, your control over classroom curricula, and your domination of the pop culture — all have been a master strokes. I can fully understand why these, otherwise brilliant, contestants stood motionless. The Jeopardy question threw them a curve ball. Had they not included the part that was supposed to make the question a slam dunk — “I thought it meant friendliness” — they probably would have rung in and replied, “What is Bushism?” Hell, it would be worth the shot that early in the game with nothing on the line. The staff writer had no idea his $200 question would have made a formidable Final Jeopardy puzzler.

The left have successfully branded the right as evil, corrupt, callous and self-serving and themselves as good, kind, caring, compassionate and fair. The dots are easily connected now. Sound reasoning tells us that if our evil enemies are moving away from their hardline ideology they must be moving left, towards goodness, just like the newscaster said twenty years ago. My God, it’s simple logic, tainted by decades of subtle indoctrination. The über-smart contestants on Jeopardy are absolutely stumped by this throwaway question when they are told that they should be supplying a political term that is equated with communism, our ideological foe. “Are you sure it’s not Bushism?”

Yes. We are sure. The answer you are struggling to find is the same ideology currently being foisted upon us by the good, kind, caring, compassionate and fair Barack Obama. So it can’t be all that bad. I know it’s the ideology that is universally recognized as “Communism Lite.” Yes, I realize that I am teetering on hyperbole, and that nothing of the kind could ever happen here in the sophisticated, educated and level-headed U.S. of A., especially if it’s being ushered in by the “nice” party.

I’ll take “Ignorant, Brain-Washed Lemmings” for $200, Alex.

ANOTHER really good one!
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/02/the_wagon_analogy.html
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February 21, 2009
The Wagon Analogy
By Mike Williams
The westward-bound Conestoga wagons of the 19th century are an emblem of America’s expansion. They also offer a useful analogy for our current situation.

Several years ago, I was stationed at Fort Leavenworth Kansas. Fort Leavenworth was a major crossing point on the Missouri River for settlers and their wagons as they headed west. There are still massive ruts cut into the river bank where the wagons wore down the hill side as they struggled to climb out of the river bottom to higher ground on the western side of the river bank. I often stood in those ruts and imagined the determination, excitement and fear of the pioneers who passed through that site.

If you have made the drive across Kansas you know how barren and desolate it is. If you have walked or ridden a horse on the prairies of Kansas, you know that Kansas is not flat. The terrain is very challenging. It is inconceivable that families with small children made that journey which lasted months. I am in awe of the mental and physical toughness of those Americans from our very recent past. I am also in awe of the material sacrifices they made. The Fort Leavenworth area is laden with antiques and antique shops. Some towns on the east side of the river are dominated by antique shops.

Why is that? In order for the pioneer family to successfully cross the Kansas prairie, they had to leave the family heirlooms, trunks, pianos and chest behind. Space had to be opened up for food and supplies for the family but the item that was most essential was grain for the teams that pulled the wagon. Care of the team, whether they were oxen, mules or horses was the most important factor. Without them, the wagon and the family were lost. If the team failed, the family was stranded on the prairie and they faced starvation and death. The pioneer also had to take great care of the wagon, a broken wheel or cracked axle meant disaster. Contrary to the movie depictions, the family walked beside the wagon. The women, children and pets walked. The only people who were allowed to ride were the sick and the injured. As soon as they got better, they had to get off and walk. Why? They couldn’t afford to burden the team with the extra weight. The survival and fitness of the team equaled success and survival.

These pioneers also had to count on themselves for protection. They faced many dangers and had no one to protect them from wild animals, Indians and thieves. As a result, they were heavily armed. Firearms were tools just like the axe and the shovel. They didn’t have the government to defend them, feed them or house them. Most of them survived and prospered. The ones who refused to drop the piano off at the river crossing and insisted on taking the extra baggage with them at the expense of food for the team usually failed. The team died or the wagon broke down and they were left in the middle of the prairie to face the winter with no food or shelter. There were no anti-gun advocates on the wagon trail either. Guns were their best friends.

Now look at the country a mere one hundred and fifty years later. We are in the middle of the prairie. The team pulling the wagon (the tax payer) has been pulling hard for years and they are getting tired. The wagon (the government) is loaded down to the railings. It is full and can’t hold any more. The axles are buckling under the strain and the spokes of the wheels are failing. There are some people riding the wagon that need to be there. They are the old, the sick and the unfortunate (social security, Medicare and temporarily unemployed). Unfortunately for the team, there are far too many who are on the wagon that shouldn’t be there. They have been on the wagon for generations and never plan to get off.

When the team dies, they will sit with the wagon until it rots and someone comes to save them. If a savior never shows up, they will die in place feeling sorry for themselves until their last breath.

So here we are in 2009. The team is faltering under the strain and it looks like they can’t pull the wagon much further. There isn’t much more they can give. The wagon is maxed out. The people on the wagon refuse to get off, in fact they demand more even when their doom is staring them in the face. The snow clouds are gathering and it looks bleak.

At least settlers in wagon trains were sometimes saved by the cavalry. Our so called leaders just arrived on the scene and put a 100 ton mill stone (stimulus package) in the wagon.

We are stuck here for the next two winters.

GOP late to the party in condemning deficit spending

Republicans opposed to the Obama administration’s fiscal stimulus bill fretted noisily about ’spending money we don’t have’ and ‘passing a burden on to our grandchildren.’

Their concern for fiscal prudence is laudable, but not credible, given the past 60 years. While Republicans had a deserved reputation for fiscal probity from Lincoln through Nixon, their contempt for balanced budgets since 1981 is at the root of our national debt problems.

The big increases began with Ronald Reagan who, like Franklin Roosevelt, was elected on a platform of stopping his predecessor’s reckless spending. Nearly 24 percent of our current debt comes from his presidency. George H.W. Bush contributed another 13.6 percent and Bill Clinton added 4.8 percent.

George W. Bush is the champ, however. More than 36 percent of the total came from deficits between his first budget year, fiscal 2002, and February 2009.

Remember that presidents are not dictators. They don’t control taxing and spending. They can only propose legislation and then sign or veto whatever bills Congress passes.

So while the three most recent Republican presidents oversaw deficits equal to nearly 74 percent of our debt, they should not bear all the blame alone.

The larger irony is that many of the congressional Republicans most vocal in recent weeks about the perils of deficit spending were among the most enthusiastic supporters of lower taxes and higher spending since 1981. Their sudden conversion to fiscal rectitude is dramatic, but not very convincing.

http://www.twincities.com/lotterman

Murph: my response #24 was sarcastic. CNN propaganda as usual.

Sunshinelvr

Last night you mentioned The Muslim Brotherhood in comments.

They are the most evil of all evil.
Their creed is
Allah is our objective. The prophet is our leader. The Qur’an is our law. Jihad is our way. Dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope.
Sharia Law is their objective worldwide.
They are the masters of female genital mutilation and the submission of women that warrant Honor killings such as stoning to death and beheading.
But what is really scary is that they thrive on governments that are in turmoil. Their ability to fly under the radar is attributed to their ability to operate secretly with ever changing names.
They have an active charitable and welfare wing that attracts members of the failing middle class and students around the world. Believe to be funded by Mid East oil.

They have been in the US since the late 60s where the strategy has been inmates in prisons and the AA community churches were they spread their anti American views and support violence against Israel and the submission of women. They have recently been noticed on college campus recruiting community service volunteers or Dawah which means “To do special work”
I met many Brotherhood on the campaign trail registering voters. Acorn?

This is evil, violent evil as Osama Bin Laden was a member.
I Hope you find this of interest.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim_Brotherhood

Headclunker: ? I ignore all approval ratings, personally. I was simply remarking that CNN purports his approval rating as being high. And of course we know CNN is Obi’s megaphone.

Admin: guess I’m still getting to know you (in Norwegian!):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBHUf7Uet4g

FBI Contacts
http://www.fbi.gov/contactus.htm

FBI Internet Crimes
http://www.ic3.gov/default.aspx

I just received this, this morning. I don’t know if someone has already posted.

Maybe put your “tin foil” hat on before reading!, but I found it a bit though provoking.

http://www.infowars.com/rep-kanjorski-550-billion-disappeared-in-electronic-run-on-the-banks/

just checking in . . . bbl (family needs)

Dances start your morning with this (lots of SOS Hillary vids):

http://www.state.gov/video/

DWP, that article is talking about socialism… and how O is bringing it here. That is something that we MUST NOT ignore. Oblahblah is bringing socialism to our country, and this shows just how few of our citizens even understand what it is, much less how dangerous it is for us.

Strangely enough, I am not doing personal attacks against you- why must you continue to do them against me almost every time I post anything? I thought bringing personal attacks was against the rules in here. I don’t remember reading that personal attacks are wrong “unless they are against KarenWI”.

Murphy – I am soooooooooo excited!

I declared he would be in the 40’s approval rating by the end of February!

7 days, 8 points – And, I am willing to bet if the poll were not skewed, he would already be there! WoooHooo!

CAROL HAKA

Karen, Obama is not a socialist, and he’s not bringing socialism to the United States. He’s a neo-con, as his admiration of Ronald Reagan and his adoption of Bush/Cheney policies makes clear.

Detest him all you want. But detest him for what he is, not for a myth created by right-wing squawkers at sites with no more intellectual depth than Free Republic or Democratic Underbelly.

waterpanther, what IS socialism? How do you define it that you aren’t seeing what O is bringing us as socialism? Isn’t it when the government rules? Why are there some states right now that are in the process of trying to pass amendments to their state constitutions indicating that the federal government is for the states and not the states for the federal government? Why would they be doing that if they weren’t seeing socialism right around the corner? That isn’t “right wing”…. it’s the truth. Please help me see what you are seeing… tell me how you define socialism and how what O is doing is different.

Socialism provides basic services through the government. Health care, for instance. Guaranteed higher education for young people who make the grade. Programs like Venezuela’s that make sure everyone has enough to eat and like Sarah Palin’s return of oil royalties to the people of her state. Resources belong to everyone, not just to a few. Socialism keeps down the disparity between management and labor. Democratic Socialism spreads the decision-making process across a wider base and extends equal civil rights to diverse populations. Look at the Scandinavian countries. It’s no accident that Iceland is the first modern country to have an openly lesbian head of state. Nor is it any accident that Latin American socialism is bringing once-despised indigenous persons into political power.

What Obama is giving us is more of the runaway capitalism and economic imperiaism we saw under Bush-Cheney. Why do you think Bush Pioneers contributed to him heavily? Why do you think the banks supported him? Why do you think the neo-cons stood back from John McCain and let him lose? Simple answer: Because Obama is one of them.

I’m a socialist by the way, which means I know when I don’t see one.

Hi, Murphy.

Surfacing after three weeks getting my bearings on a new job.

what? oh, yeah, forgot. obama is a republican. roflmfao.

Karen WI
Agree with lots of what you say and mostly lurk here, but I do feel you are attacked very hostily for no apparent reason. Many say the same thing but when you say it, seems you get nasty stuff coming your way. Murphy should mediate even though some are her friends.

Obama is a socialist in the worst way and studied Alinsky and was in the New Socialist Party in Chicago. There are even pics of it with his name listed as a member. It is not conjecture. Some just do not want to believe we are on the way there. He is in NO way a capitalist. He is trying hard to squash capitalism by rewarding failure (like his handouts to those who didn’t read the fine print in their mortgages. Ever hear of RENTING?) and taxing those who get somewhere.

You have my sympathy for the way you are constantly attacked and I wonder often why you bother when people on this site seem to think only THEIR opinion is valid.

ruffo #57

yup. and here you have it:

“Documentary Evidence Obama was New Party member”
http://therealbarackobama.wordpress.com/2008/10/23/loudon-documentary-evidence-obama-was-new-party-member/

ruffo 02.21.09 at 1:35 pm Karen WI
Agree with lots of what you say and mostly lurk here, but I do feel you are attacked very hostily for no apparent reason.
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Hello ruffo. ltns
As far as “for no apparent reason”, you probably missed one, or many, of the long list of “I’m leaving and never coming back” comments, where this person uses those opportunities to insult at least half, if not all, of the Pumas on this blog. You’ve probably missed many of her smack-downs of then Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, now Secretary of State, Madam Hillary Rodham Clinton, who, by the way, is a Puma, along with the smack-downs of President William J. Clinton. You’ve probably missed the snarky snide remarks directed at Democrats, and those of us on the left. You’ve, no doubt, missed the derailing of conversation by inserting tracts of christian religious arguements, as well as the threats to other commenters of the punishments her god has in store for the rest of us. No doubt you’ve also missed the pasting of entire articles, despite the violations of copyright and fair use laws; but pasted in spite of that as a way to force feed those articles on those of us who might not take interest if an introductory paragraph with link was posted. You may not have noticed that said commenter seems to think little of insulting others on this blog, but doesn’t hesitate to cry “foul”, “victim”, when Pumas respond in like kind.

Note: This blog was created by and for disenfranchised voters of the Democratic Party, as such, it stands to reason that many of us are Democrats… from centrist to far left. Expect blow-back when we are insulted.

“… You see, although the Republican Party claims to be the party of “small government”, and many fiscal conservatives vote Republican for that reason, the record shows that the last Republican fiscal conservative president was Richard Nixon. What? Not even Reagan? No. Reagan was no more fiscally conservative than the so much maligned Jimmy Carter.

The following set of charts shows Government expenditures as a percentage of GDP, quarter by quarter since 1947. This method allows us to really know how much money our government is spending, not in dollar terms, which are meaningless, but in relationship to the wealth of the nation.

There are three presidencies during which government expenditures declined significantly: Dwight D. Eisenhower’s, Richard Nixon’s and Bill Clinton’s. Maybe it is just a coincidence that the two presidents that did more to reduce government expenditures were attacked from Congress.”
continued at:
http://thepoliticsofdebt.com/?p=177

DancesWithPumas 02.21.09 at 2:15 pm

Nice link, thank you. But be careful posting such things, let’s not confuse anyone with facts