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The Real Inconvenient Truth
Nov 24, 2009 - Long story short, hackers have liberated some quite revealing information from the computers at the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit. Some are calling it "the final nail in the coffin of Anthropenic Global Warming". » Click here for all the Climate Research Unit Email & Documents in search friendly online format[read more] Posted by Joe_the_Plumbers_Plunger Biden mocks Obama by bowing to John Stewart Nov 18, 2009 - Joe Biden, the gift that keeps on giving, once again proves that President Obama would be better off locking him in a closet and leaving him there until 2012. On his latest appearance on The Daily Show, Mr. Vice President greets John Stewart with a deep bow, akin to the one given by Mr. Obama to the Emperor of Japan. [read more] Posted by Rizzuto Chief of Protocol failed to follow Tax Protocol Nov 16, 2009 - President Obama has had diplomatic Faux Pas after diplomatic Faux Pas over his first year in office. First were his gifts to British leaders; a stack of unwatchable DVD’s to Prime Minister Gordon Brown and an IPod filled with his speeches to the Queen of England (not to mention a pat on the back from First Lady Michelle). Next, his over the top bow to King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia. Of course, this one was spun away as a misstep or picking something off the ground or…something. Finally, we come to this weekend, when he gave the emperor of Japan the full Karate Kid treatment. Fantastic job Obama-san! You might be surprised to learn that the president has an entire office dedicated to diplomatic protocol. The office, which is within the State Department, deals with everything from cultural sensitivity to gift giving. The office is headed by the chief of protocol whose name is Capricia Penavic Marshall. She’s obviously performed miserably this year, but there’s something that should have tipped off the administration that she wouldn’t be a great choice; she failed to follow tax protocol for two years, as didn't file her taxes in 2006 and 2007. She’d fit comfortably under the bus Mr. President, care to give her a nudge? [read more] Posted by Rizzuto KSM in New York City: The Show Trial of the Century Nov 16, 2009 - I’m tired of hearing leftists, including the latest from Rep. Jim Moran , claim that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s civilian trial is in line with America’s traditions. If KSM’s civilian trial is the tradition of America, then I would have no hesitation in saying that America is not a nation worth defending. Fortunately, as anyone with even the slightest understanding of the law knows, this trial has nothing to do with tradition, or the American justice system as a whole. What will occur in New York City will be the antithesis of the American tradition as it will be, by political necessity, a show trial. Our government has more or less assured the American people a guilty verdict. Anything short of that would be a political disaster for the current administration, as they must have known when making their decision. If this was going to be a truly honest civilian trial, it would be tossed out of court for dozens upon dozens of reasons, not the least of which is the fact that KSM received absolutely no due process and can’t possibly hope to have an unbiased jury in New York City. Those who are pretending that this will be anything but theater are being dishonest, as Criminal Law 101 tells them otherwise. What Eric Holder and Barack Obama, two lawyers I might add, are doing is an absolute miscarriage of justice and an abuse of the American justice system, not a tribute to it. This is by no means a defense of KSM. To the contrary, it is a defense of the American Justice system to acknowledge that what is going to occur in New York City in no way resembles justice. Trials like this are more at home in Myanmar and are so clearly un-American that their defenders should be ashamed of themselves. [read more] Posted by Rizzuto The “Saved or Created” Farce Illustrated Oct 30, 2009 - Here’s a story to illustrate the rediculousness of the White House stimulus spin on the unemployment numbers: A 300 pound man walks into his doctors office for his yearly checkup. After a thorough goings-over, the doctor says to the man, “Sir, you need to lose weight if you wish to remain healthy.” Of course, the man agrees and promises the doctor he will immediately start a diet. Exactly one year passes and the man finds himself back in the doctors office again. When he gets on the scale he tips it at 320lbs. The doctor says. “Sir, you’ve gained 20 pounds, I thought you were going to go on a diet.” To which the man responds, “I did lose weight doctor, if I hadn’t gone on that diet, I would have weighed 340 pounds.” Thanks to Ryan Ellis at Americans for Tax Reform for inspiring this. [read more] Posted by Rizzuto Why Congressman Alan Grayson doesn't understand the US Constitution Oct 28, 2009 - [read more] Posted by Rizzuto Message to DC Republicans: Your pragmatism is not too pragmatic Oct 27, 2009 - For months now the message from the GOP has been simple; err on the side of pragmatism or get used to a permanent minority status in Washington. Every step of the way, we’ve been told that establishment backed candidates who represent the “moderate” wing of the GOP were the only chance of regaining a majority in the House and Senate, and every step of the way it seems that the GOP has been mistaken. First, we have the case of Pat Toomey in the Pennsylvania senate race. After polling very well in the primary, largely due to the efforts of grassroots activists who were fed up with him, Arlen Specter decided that his Senate career would not be ended by an insurgent conservative movement and jumped ship like a drowning rat. GOP stalwarts heralded this is a blow to their chances of reclaiming the Senate as they insisted that a conservative like Toomey had little chance of victory in purple Pennsylvania. When news of Specter’s defection came out, Lindsey Graham went on Fox News and announced his intentions to recruit Tom Ridge to throw his hat into the ring and challenge Toomey in the primary. He assured us that Ridge represented pragmatism. Today, Rasmussen has Specter trailing Toomey by 5 points in a 2010 matchup. It seems that the conservative Pat Toomey was and always has been the most pragmatic candidate. Next, we have the case of Marco Rubio in the Florida senate race. Jumping the gun, the Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee threw its support behind Governor Charlie Crist’s bid for the senate. We were assured, or course, that the young conservative Rubio would have little chance of taking Florida’s senate seat and that Crist’s “moderate” politics represented the only pragmatic choice. Today Marco Rubio, who is slowly gaining in his primary battle against Crist, wins by a greater margin against the expected Democrat contender in the general election than Crist does. It seems that the conservative Rubio was and always has been the most pragmatic candidate. Finally, and recently most notably, we have the case of Dede Scozzafava in NY’s 23rd district. The local GOP nominated the NY Assemblywoman, who is no less than an orthodox Liberal, and she was quickly supported by the national party. Her most notable supporter, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, assures the electorate that support of Scozzafava represents the pragmatic approach to the election. Today, Conservative candidate Doug Hoffman has turned the race into a two man show, one that does not include Dede Scozzafava. It seems that the conservative Doug Hoffman was, and always has been the most pragmatic candidate. The message to conservatives from the GOP is clear, we don’t trust you. But this approach seems to be completely backwards, as it’s not the base that needs to earn the trust of the party, it’s the party that cannot afford to lose the trust of the base. How many times will this party need to be proven wrong about its chosen candidates before it decides to allow its base, those people who fill its campaign coffers and provides the manpower necessary to achieve electoral victories, choose its own candidates? It seems to me that had the party thrown its support behind conservative candidates in the first place, these races would not be nearly as tight as they appear to be now, and the Republicans would be sailing to smooth victories in 2009 and 2010. Without the motivation of candidates that the base finds attractive, party member’s loyalty will wane and malaise will infect the GOP. As long as the establishment continues to stand in the way of these candidates, they will continue to be seen as out of touch elitists; and out of touch elitists do not inspire people to action. Of all of these races, NY’s 23rd congressional district proves that if ignored, true conservatives are willing to abandon the party in search of a candidate they feel reflects their values. The party would be smart to hear this warning loud and clear; that the conservative bases loyalty lies not with those who simply have an R next to their name, but with those with whom they agree. That between pragmatism and principle, principle is unmatched as a motivator. In the end, it is motivating the electorate and their most ardent supporters that is the most pragmatic thing the party can do. Choosing a candidate you simply predict can win is not pragmatic in the least. Choosing a conservative candidate is. Principle, as it turns out, is becoming more and more of an asset on the campaign trail. It’s not surprising then that the establishment in Washington DC, a city that has a deficit of principle, is having a hard time recognizing that. [read more] Posted by Rizzuto Obama Decimating the Caddy Industry ![]() Oct 26, 2009 - The news that President Barack Obama has has gone golfing more times in 9 months than Bush did in 2 years is interesting in several respects, including one which has been overlooked by the mainstream media and even the conservative media, as far as I can tell. Why is it that in every picture of the president’s golf outings he’s driving a golf cart? Does he not realize that by using golf carts instead of hiring a caddy he’s depriving an individual of a job? Guess the caddy lobby isn’t donating as much to him as the trial lawyers are. h/t Hot Air [read more] Posted by Rizzuto How Newt Gingrich Lost Everything Oct 22, 2009 - In a move to reassert himself as a player on the national stage, former Speaker of the House Gingrich attached himself to the National Tea Party movement. His organization, American Solutions, put their stamp on the movement, and his presence as one of its leading voices was highlighted on April 15th 2009 when he conducted a national televised interview with Sean Hannity at the well attended New York City Tax Day Tea Party. Thereafter, Gingrich’s credibility with the grassroots was established, and his visibility skyrocketed. Newt’s recent endorsement of NY-23’s Republican candidate has reversed everything he had worked to build for himself. When the background of Republican nominee Dede Scozzafava became a national issue, specifically her history of nearly orthodox Liberalism, Gingrich found himself in a position where he was forced to defend and justify his support of a candidate whose beliefs clearly ran contrary to those he had positioned himself as a champion of. Unfortunately for him, Gingrich stuck out when his justification turned out to be nothing more than a plea to pragmatism rather than a choice that was based on principle. This plea falls on deaf ears with a conservative insurgency that believes that it has been pragmatism that has led to the sorry state of affairs within not only the Republican Party, but indeed in the American Government in general. Republicans and conservatives bent on pulling the lever for New York Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman don’t see their choices in terms of Republican Party vs Conservative Party, they see their choice in terms of Pragmatism vs. Principle. This newly empowered grassroots movement has been claiming since day one that it was not a partisan movement and its rejection of the establishment’s choice for Congress in the hotly contested district speaks volumes about the truth of that claim. It seems that Gingrich however has allowed his eyes to become blurred by partisan politics. His message is no different than the establishment Republicans who have rejected grassroots candidates, from Marco Rubio in Florida to Pat Toomey in Pennsylvania, and it is this; line up behind our chosen candidates because conservatives don't have a prayer. Newt has lost all credibility with those who helped catapult him back into the national spotlight. He is left with two choices; mea culpa or a return to irrelevance. The clock is ticking. [read more] Posted by Rizzuto Why Relaxing Marijuana Laws is More Dangerous than Legalization Oct 21, 2009 - It’s a little known fact that there have been many Conservative champions of the decriminalization of Marijuana. From Milton Freidman to William F. Buckley, and now Kathleen Parker on the pages of The Washington Post, the simple application of free market principals demands that we end the prohibition of marijuana. It’s obvious that the societal benefits of keeping it prohibited are no longer, and arguably never were, worth the costs. However, Parkers cheering at the relaxing of existing laws are misplaced in my opinion. In fact, relaxing existing laws is not only a poor answer to the problems of prohibition, in some ways it’s even more dangerous. Having a doctor’s clearance for the use of medical marijuana gives a pass for the consumer, but leaves vague the rules for those who supply marijuana in any quantity. The relaxing of laws might encourage consumption, but it will do little for the supply side. The increase in consumption will undoubtedly lead to an increase in demand that has little chance of being adequately satisfied through domestic production. Domestic production can only be increased on any significant level by a considerable investment in the growth of marijuana. With a government that seems fickle in its enforcement of currently existing laws, who’s going to invest thousands, or even millions of dollars on a crop that is still on the margins of legality? Who’s going to invest in a crop that can end up being confiscated and burned depending on political conditions? People with very poor money management skills I suppose, or pot smokers (two segments of the population that share curiously broad intersection.) The truth is that the domestic supply shortfall is going to have to be met by importation. As of right now, there is one category of importer that has a virtual monopoly on the importation of drugs, and that’s South American narco-gangs. These violent cartels can be expected to use the profits that will result from the increased demand for their product and a reduction in costs associated with eluding Federal authorities, to further bankroll corrupt political factions in their native countries that are sympathetic to their cause. The only thing worse than a bad law is a bad law that is selectively enforced. Allow the states to decide the rules regarding the growth and consumption of marijuana. Legalization is the only sustainable solution; not to mention common sense. [read more] Posted by Rizzuto |
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But for their effort, the people were rewarded with what was a document that was as apparent in its clarity to the farmer pushing a plow in the field as it was to the professor pushing his quill in the university. I don’t mean to over-romanticize our founding fathers, as I’m sure their deliberation had its fair share of turmoil, but the contents of the 4 page document they crafted was nothing less than miraculous, establishing a constitutional republic that has lasted 222 years thus far. Today, we have a deliberative body of 535 people, debating one of the most superficial issues of our time; how to extend medical insurance coverage to a small minority of Americans. We’ve sat for almost a year as our representatives have engaged in back door dealings with special interests, less than truthful media campaigns, personal attacks on one another, and political back scratching. What we’ve gotten as a result of this deliberation is 1,500 pages of legal tedium that’s impenetrable to nearly everyone, including, in all likelihood, those who will be voting on it. I ask you, what are the chances that the answers to our problems are to be found anywhere in the monstrosity that our government has hoisted upon us? Do you trust a legislature that that won’t read the document to make the correct decision when voting on it? Do you trust an executive branch to fairly enforce what is clearly an intrusive and convoluted plan? Do you? [read more] Posted by Rizzuto Robert Reich: Positively Fascist Oct 15, 2009 - From time to time a video, having once been lost in the shuffle of the millions of hours of content on the internet, reemerges at a time in which it becomes more relevant. Luckily for us, this phenomenon occurred recently with the re-discovery of a 2007 speech given by former Secretary of Labor under President Bill Clinton and advisor to Barack Obama, Robert Reich. In an address to students at the University of California Berkeley, Reich reveals just how draconian the lefts ideal solutions to containing healthcare costs are. At the risk of sounding hyperbolic I believe that these solutions can only be described one way; positively fascist. In his address (embedded below), Reich delivers a hypothetical speech given by a presidential candidate who exists in a nation “where citizens were honored in terms of their practice of citizenship and they were educated in terms of what the issues were.” Reich is not subtle in his insistence that his words represent what “the truth is.” Reich states that his intent is to reorganize the healthcare system so it will be more “amenable to treating sick people.” To this end, Reich says that: If you’re very old, we’re not going to give you all that technology and all those drugs for the last couple years of your life to keep you maybe going for another couple of months, it’s too expensive so we’re going to let you die.What might be scarier than his words is that he said this to the delight of the college age crowd who greeted his declaration with claps and cheers. The statement might have been heard by this crowd, but it’s questionable whether or not it was truly understood. Allow me to clarify. In free market terms, Reich is proposing that once the value of an individual’s labor drops below a level that the state deems appropriate--in this case that level will be objectively determined by an individual’s age--they will be denied life saving treatments. He insists that this is necessary due to the fact that the return the system might receive from the individual does not warrant the spending. In other words, the existence of the elderly, considered no longer essential to the function of the state, is deemed superfluous and therefore expendable. Are you awake yet? But Reich goes further in his admission when he says: Also I’m going to use the bargaining leverage of the federal government…to force drug companies and insurance companies and medical suppliers to reduce their costs but that means less innovation which means you are probably not going to live much longer than your parents.Without any sense of shame, Reich is admitting that medical progress is actually in conflict with the state planning. This is an amazing admission considering that the very thing which drives down prices, namely efficiency created by innovation, is seen as at odds with the left’s preferred central planning scheme. This is tantamount to an admission that it is their intention to establish and maintain a system that keeps prices high. While they will extract the necessary amount taxes from the population to pay for this system, it is unlikely --logically speaking--that this burden would ever be relieved in any way other than cost cutting measures like rationing. Make no doubt about it; although its proponents might not recognize it in the terms that I have laid out here, this is the system that the left intends to set up. We’ve literally come to a point where the lefts “solutions” have become so utterly draconian and convoluted that they bear a similarity to the aims of antagonists in numerous science fiction movies (Logan’s Run anyone?). The reaction of the college age audience also brings to mind a sci-fi movie where it is declared that “This is how Democracy dies, to thunderous applause” h/t Verum Serum [read more] Posted by Rizzuto Great news! Obama Administration doubles down on poor housing policy! Sep 28, 2009 - Instead of allowing the market to function as it should, the Obama administration is committed to doubling down on the same path that got us into this in the first place by artificially inflating the housing market. This from Reuters : The Obama administration is expected to announce a program this week to aid low- and moderate-income U.S. housing markets by funding state housing agencies, officials said.Can someone please grab these geniuses in Obama’s cabinet by the scruff and shake them till they understand that the housing market needs to bottom out in order for prices to return to market value? The irony is that while these policies are meant to help low and middle income families, they’re the ones who are going to suffer the most as housing prices remain high and out of reach for those on the lower rungs of the ladder. [read more] Posted by Rizzuto A fine for not having healthcare is not only wrong…it’s unconstitutional Sep 21, 2009 - On This Week with George Stephanopoulos, President Barack Obama claimed that the government's plan to punish people who don't have healthcare with a fee is not a "tax", but rather a "mandate" which if not met would be punishable by a fine. Unfortunately for the president if the legislature is handing down a "fine", these actions are 100% unconstitutional. Article 1, section 9, clause 3 of the Constitution reads that, "No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed." A Bill of Attainder is punishment handed down by the legislature to a person or group of people, essentially meaning that the legislature is adopting powers that are meant for the judiciary. A few days ago I covered Bill of Attainder, as Congressman Jerrold Nadler of New York had misused and abused the term in his defense of ACORN, so the concept was fresh in my mind. As a “constitutional scholar”, we can only assume that Barack Obama knew this…and lied right to our faces. As it turns out, the bill does indeed say "tax", making it clearly constitutional and making Mr. Obama clearly a liar. [read more] Posted by Rizzuto Hypocrite Jerry Nadler: ACORN defunding unconstitutional Sep 18, 2009 - Today, Jerrold Nadler released a press release in which he charges that the amendment which defunds ACORN is unconstitutional. Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Chair of the Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, denounced a Republican Amendment adopted by the House of Representatives to deny all federal funds to ACORN as blatantly unconstitutional and a threat to unpopular organizations everywhere. The Republican initiative, entitled the Defund ACORN Act, singles out a specific organization by name for exclusion from participating in any federal program, in direct violation of the Constitution’s prohibition against Bills of Attainder.A Bill of Attainder is an act of the legislature which punishes an individual or group of individuals without trial. American citizens are indeed constitutionally protected from Bills of Attainder, which is meant to restrict the legislative branch from carrying out the duties of the judiciary. Nadler now decides to expand the definition of a Bill of Attainder by including the refusal of government subsidies and funding to organizations whose dealings are at best shady, and at worst, systematically criminal. This would assume that a group like ACORN somehow has a right to this funding in the first place as Bills of Attainder generally refer to the violations of life, confiscation of property, or as James Madison wrote in Federalist 44, the “impairing [of] the obligations of contracts.” Legally speaking, Nadler is full of it. I might also remind you that this is the same Jerrold Nadler who voted for HR 1586, which imposed up to 90% taxes on the bonuses of AIG employees who were contractually entitled to them. The government literally confiscated the private property of citizens as punishment for AIG’s collapse and subsequent government bailout, and it did so without a trial. So not only is Jerry simply wrong about his definition of a Bill of Attainder, he’s also a hypocrite who has, in the recent past, thrown his considerable weight behind a bill which is essentially a Bill of Attainder itself. [read more] Posted by Rizzuto Just a reminder: Obama told ACORN they would help "shape his agenda" Sep 16, 2009 - [read more] Posted by Rizzuto New Michael Moore movie shut out at the Venice Film Festival Sep 13, 2009 - So Michael Moore's new movie Capitalism: A love story has been shut out at the Venice Film Festival. Seeing as the movie is apparently not that noteworthy, I wouldn't want you to waste your money at the theater for it so I'll go ahead and ruin the ending for you: it turns out at the end that Moore is a lying socialist pig. [read more] Posted by Rizzuto Dowd: Joe Wilson is racist Sep 13, 2009 - So Maureen Dowd is the latest voice to accuse a Conservative critics of President Obama of racism, claiming that Joe Wilson’s outburst at his address to congress convinced her that racial angst is the underlying motive among Obama critics. Yeah right, like she really needed to be convinced of that. Let’s face it, if we had pictures of Barack Obama snorting cocaine off a hooker’s ass while simultaneously murdering a newborn and kicking a puppy, the left would accuse us of being racist for merely pointing it out. If they’re not given outright racism, they’ll simply manufacture it. If they can’t manufacture it, they’ll infer that we’re engaging in it on an “unconscious level”. Disagree with the president’s healthcare reform? Racist! Call the president out on his lies? Racist! March on Washington DC against out of control spending? One and a half million racists! We to accept the fact that as critics of the president we will inevitably be accused of racism by the left. The 2012 GOP presidential nominee will be accused of racism. The VP nominee will be accused of racism. Media critics (the few that there are) will be accused of racism. The only thing that critics of the president should be ashamed of themselves for is if they have any reaction other than deep belly laughs when his water carriers level that charge anymore. Mr. Obama’s defenders have reached such a humorous stage of self parody at this point that if we take them seriously, it’s our own fault. [read more] Posted by Rizzuto A very special dedication to President Obama Sep 10, 2009 - As a tribute to Joe Wilson's testicular fortitude, a little Henry Rollins. Oh, and don't forget to donate a few bucks to Wilson's reelection. [read more] Posted by Rizzuto Joe Wilson calls Obama a liar in the middle of his address! Sep 09, 2009 - I can hardly believe it. Is the US congress turning into the English Parliament? It's good to see that some of these congressmen still have some vinegar running through their veins. Update: Hot Air is on it. When Wilson shouted Obama was, in fact, in the middle of a lie. [read more] Posted by Rizzuto |
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