tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10333201564112320232024-03-21T20:39:29.870-07:00Expedio5x5Expediohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10549383482552877305noreply@blogger.comBlogger24125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1033320156411232023.post-5832115848711857262012-08-03T13:30:00.001-07:002012-08-07T16:48:07.044-07:00"Barack, you're fired!"<div face="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"></div><div face="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Ultimately, the prospect of re-electing an incumbent politician is like a periodic job review. Assuming the game isn't rigged, the voters evaluate the pol's performance and character, and decide whether or not he or she should remain in office.<br /><br />This animated video depicts Barack Obama in his four-year review with his boss: the American voter. The video contains a long list of specific allegations against him. For validation, beneath the video window is listed each allegation, followed by one or more links to the evidence upon which it is based.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style=" text-align: center;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:large;"><i><b>"Barack, you're fired!"</b></i></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" align="center"><iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/jZNQynX_1EU" frameborder="0" height="315" width="560"></iframe></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><b>"The percentage of our workforce that is actually employed is now two percent lower than when you took office."</b></i></div><ul style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><li><a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/americans-joining-disability-outpaces-americans-finding-jobs_648660.html">http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/americans-joining-disability-outpaces-americans-finding-jobs_648660.html</a></li></ul><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><b><i>"Eight hundred thousand fewer women are employed." </i></b></div><ul style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><li><a href="http://cnsnews.com/news/article/780000-more-women-unemployed-today-when-obama-took-office">http://cnsnews.com/news/article/780000-more-women-unemployed-today-when-obama-took-office</a></li></ul><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><i><b>"Gas prices have doubled, and grew at a faster rate than even under Jimmy Carter."</b></i></div><ul style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><li><a href="http://www.nrcc.org/blog/main.asp?Tid=1944">http://www.nrcc.org/blog/main.asp?Tid=1944</a></li></ul><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><i><b>"In 2008 you called George Bush 'unpatriotic' for running up three trillion in debt over eight years, yet you ran up five trillion in debt over three and a half years."</b></i></div><ul style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><li><a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2012/07/03/video-unpatriotic-debt/">http://hotair.com/archives/2012/07/03/video-unpatriotic-debt/</a></li></ul><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><b><i>"You have been dishing out billions of our tax dollars to your cronies, donors and foot soldiers."</i></b></div><ul style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><li><a href="http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2012/06/former-acorn-director-gets-445-mil-from-u-s-treasury/">http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2012/06/former-acorn-director-gets-445-mil-from-u-s-treasury/</a></li><li><a href="http://dailycaller.com/2010/02/16/obamas-bundlers-occupy-dozens-of-key-positions/">http://dailycaller.com/2010/02/16/obamas-bundlers-occupy-dozens-of-key-positions/</a></li><li><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090819/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_health_care_consultants">http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090819/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_health_care_consultants</a></li></ul><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><b><i>"Under your watch, the Middle East to become radicalized from border to border."</i></b></div><ul style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><li><a href="http://legalinsurrection.com/2012/04/obama-got-osama-but-lost-the-middle-east/">http://legalinsurrection.com/2012/04/obama-got-osama-but-lost-the-middle-east/</a></li></ul><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><b><i>"You actually invited members of the Muslim Brotherhood, parent organization of every major Islamist terror group in the world, into our White House." </i></b></div><ul style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><li><a href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/685/muslim-brotherhood-friend-or-foe-new-ipt-profile">http://www.investigativeproject.org/685/muslim-brotherhood-friend-or-foe-new-ipt-profile</a></li><li><a href="http://www.radicalislam.org/videos/muslim-brotherhood-white-house">http://www.radicalislam.org/videos/muslim-brotherhood-white-house</a></li><li><a href="http://www.politico.com/politico44/2012/04/muslim-brotherhood-delegation-meets-with-white-house-119647.html">http://www.politico.com/politico44/2012/04/muslim-brotherhood-delegation-meets-with-white-house-119647.html</a></li></ul><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><b><i>"You even allowed your Director of National Intelligence to remain in his post after he claimed that the Brotherhood is a largely secular, peaceful organization."</i></b></div><ul style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><li><a href="http://dailycaller.com/2011/02/10/muslim-brotherhood-a-secular-organization-says-clapper/">http://dailycaller.com/2011/02/10/muslim-brotherhood-a-secular-organization-says-clapper/</a></li><li><a href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/2581/fbi-chief-muslim-brotherhood-supports-terrorism">http://www.investigativeproject.org/2581/fbi-chief-muslim-brotherhood-supports-terrorism</a></li></ul><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><b><i>"You have assaulted our Constitution in a hundred ways."</i></b></div><ul style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><li><a href="http://blog.heritage.org/2012/02/14/morning-bell-obamas-continuing-assault-on-the-constitution/">http://blog.heritage.org/2012/02/14/morning-bell-obamas-continuing-assault-on-the-constitution/</a></li><li><a href="http://www.ruthfullyyours.com/2012/06/18/andrew-mccarthy-a-nation-of-paper-not-of-men-obamas-assault-on-the-constitution/">http://www.ruthfullyyours.com/2012/06/18/andrew-mccarthy-a-nation-of-paper-not-of-men-obamas-assault-on-the-</a><a href="http://www.ruthfullyyours.com/2012/06/18/andrew-mccarthy-a-nation-of-paper-not-of-men-obamas-assault-on-the-constitution/">constitution/</a></li><li><a href="http://aclj.org/us-constitution/jay-sekulow-obama-assault-on-values">http://aclj.org/us-constitution/jay-sekulow-obama-assault-on-values</a></li><li><a href="http://cnsnews.com/news/article/conservatives-unite-opposing-obama-s-assault-religious-liberty">http://cnsnews.com/news/article/conservatives-unite-opposing-obama-s-assault-religious-liberty</a></li></ul><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><b><i>"You recently filed suit to help prevent our soldiers from voting early..."</i></b></div><ul style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><li><a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2012/08/03/obama-democrats-suing-to-block-military-voting-in-ohio/">http://hotair.com/archives/2012/08/03/obama-democrats-suing-to-block-military-voting-in-ohio/</a></li></ul><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><b><i>"...which is one more reason why military veterans are so overwhelmingly against you keeping your job."</i></b></div><ul style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><li><a href="http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/elections/election_2012/election_2012_presidential_election/july_2012/among_military_veterans_romney_59_obama_35">http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/elections/election_2012/election_2012_presidential_election/july_2012/among_military_veterans_romney_59_obama_35</a></li></ul><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><b><i>"You are an embarrassment on the world stage, in large part because of your constant apologizing for America while standing on foreign soil."</i></b></div><ul style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><li><a href="http://s3.amazonaws.com/thf_media/2009/pdf/wm_2466.pdf">http://s3.amazonaws.com/thf_media/2009/pdf/wm_2466.pdf</a></li></ul><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><b><i>"Under your leadership, the Pentagon claimed in its year-long report into the Fort Hood massacre that Islam had nothing to do with it, even though Major Hassan was yelling 'jihad! jihad, jihad!!!' as he murdered his fellow soldiers."</i></b></div><ul style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><li><a href="http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1954960,00.html">http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1954960,00.html</a></li><li><a href="http://dailycaller.com/2012/07/20/report-downplays-islamic-role-in-fort-hood-jihadi-attack/">http://dailycaller.com/2012/07/20/report-downplays-islamic-role-in-fort-hood-jihadi-attack/</a></li></ul><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><b><i>"You have pitted Americans against one another over your class warfare rhetoric, and your tax and immigration policies."</i></b></div><ul style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><li><a href="http://nicedeb.wordpress.com/2009/08/08/how-obama-is-pitting-americans-against-each-other/">http://nicedeb.wordpress.com/2009/08/08/how-obama-is-pitting-americans-against-each-other/</a></li><li><a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2012/04/01/Obamas-Alinsky-Strategy-Whos-Next">http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2012/04/01/Obamas-Alinsky-Strategy-Whos-Next</a></li><li><a href="http://nicedeb.wordpress.com/2011/09/13/attackwatch-is-a-hit-on-twitter/">http://nicedeb.wordpress.com/2011/09/13/attackwatch-is-a-hit-on-twitter/</a></li></ul><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><b><i>"And you stood by, silent, when your fellow Democrats made what you knew were false statements about the Tea Party being racist, and false allegations about them hurling racial epithets against black members of Congress."</i></b></div><ul style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><li><a href="http://cdn.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2011/09/06/Andre-Carsons-True-Colors">http://cdn.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2011/09/06/Andre-Carsons-True-Colors</a></li><li><a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2009/04/house_democrat_leaders_tea_par.asp">http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2009/04/house_democrat_leaders_tea_par.asp</a></li><li><a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/democratic-strategist-calls-herman-cain-racist-bigoted-for-saying-blacks-have-been-brainwashed/">http://www.theblaze.com/stories/democratic-strategist-calls-herman-cain-racist-bigoted-for-saying-blacks-have-been-brainwashed/</a></li><li><a href="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/lachlan-markay/2010/07/30/left-wing-black-activist-acknowledges-race-attacks-tea-party-are-bog">http://newsbusters.org/blogs/lachlan-markay/2010/07/30/left-wing-black-activist-acknowledges-race-attacks-tea-party-are-bog</a></li></ul><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:white;">.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:white;">.</span> </div>Expediohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10549383482552877305noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1033320156411232023.post-30734347587168452612012-08-03T13:02:00.005-07:002012-08-03T13:02:39.097-07:00Source data for "Barack, you're fired!!!"<i><b><span style="color: white;">.</span> </b></i><br />
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<i><b>"The percentage of our workforce that is actually employed is now two percent lower than when you took office."</b></i><br />
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/americans-joining-disability-outpaces-americans-finding-jobs_648660.html">http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/americans-joining-disability-outpaces-americans-finding-jobs_648660.html</a></li>
</ul>
<br /><b><i>"Eight hundred thousand fewer women are employed." </i></b><br />
<ul>
<li><a href="http://cnsnews.com/news/article/780000-more-women-unemployed-today-when-obama-took-office">http://cnsnews.com/news/article/780000-more-women-unemployed-today-when-obama-took-office</a></li>
</ul>
<br /><i><b>"Gas prices have doubled, and grew at a faster rate than even under Jimmy Carter."</b></i><br />
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.nrcc.org/blog/main.asp?Tid=1944">http://www.nrcc.org/blog/main.asp?Tid=1944</a></li>
</ul>
<br /><i><b>"In 2008 you called George Bush 'unpatriotic' for running up three trillion in debt over eight years, yet you ran up five trillion in debt over three and a half years."</b></i><br />
<ul>
<li><a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2012/07/03/video-unpatriotic-debt/">http://hotair.com/archives/2012/07/03/video-unpatriotic-debt/</a></li>
</ul>
<br /><b><i>"You have been dishing out billions of our tax dollars to your cronies, donors and foot soldiers."</i></b><br />
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2012/06/former-acorn-director-gets-445-mil-from-u-s-treasury/">http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2012/06/former-acorn-director-gets-445-mil-from-u-s-treasury/</a></li>
<li><a href="http://dailycaller.com/2010/02/16/obamas-bundlers-occupy-dozens-of-key-positions/">http://dailycaller.com/2010/02/16/obamas-bundlers-occupy-dozens-of-key-positions/</a></li>
<li><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090819/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_health_care_consultants">http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090819/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_health_care_consultants</a></li>
</ul>
<b><i><br />"Under your watch, the Middle East to become radicalized from border to border."</i></b><br />
<ul>
<li><a href="http://legalinsurrection.com/2012/04/obama-got-osama-but-lost-the-middle-east/">http://legalinsurrection.com/2012/04/obama-got-osama-but-lost-the-middle-east/</a></li>
</ul>
<br /><b><i>"You actually invited members of the Muslim Brotherhood, parent organization of every major Islamist terror group in the world, into our White House." </i></b><br />
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/685/muslim-brotherhood-friend-or-foe-new-ipt-profile">http://www.investigativeproject.org/685/muslim-brotherhood-friend-or-foe-new-ipt-profile</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.radicalislam.org/videos/muslim-brotherhood-white-house">http://www.radicalislam.org/videos/muslim-brotherhood-white-house</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.politico.com/politico44/2012/04/muslim-brotherhood-delegation-meets-with-white-house-119647.html">http://www.politico.com/politico44/2012/04/muslim-brotherhood-delegation-meets-with-white-house-119647.html</a></li>
</ul>
<br /><b><i>"You even allowed your Director of National Intelligence to remain in his post after he claimed that the Brotherhood is a largely secular, peaceful organization."</i></b><br />
<ul>
<li><a href="http://dailycaller.com/2011/02/10/muslim-brotherhood-a-secular-organization-says-clapper/">http://dailycaller.com/2011/02/10/muslim-brotherhood-a-secular-organization-says-clapper/</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/2581/fbi-chief-muslim-brotherhood-supports-terrorism">http://www.investigativeproject.org/2581/fbi-chief-muslim-brotherhood-supports-terrorism</a></li>
</ul>
<br /><b><i>"You have assaulted our Constitution in a hundred ways."</i></b><br />
<ul>
<li><a href="http://blog.heritage.org/2012/02/14/morning-bell-obamas-continuing-assault-on-the-constitution/">http://blog.heritage.org/2012/02/14/morning-bell-obamas-continuing-assault-on-the-constitution/</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_973731029">http://www.ruthfullyyours.com/2012/06/18/andrew-mccarthy-a-nation-of-paper-not-of-men-obamas-assault-on-the-</a><a href="http://www.ruthfullyyours.com/2012/06/18/andrew-mccarthy-a-nation-of-paper-not-of-men-obamas-assault-on-the-constitution/">constitution/</a></li>
<li><a href="http://aclj.org/us-constitution/jay-sekulow-obama-assault-on-values">http://aclj.org/us-constitution/jay-sekulow-obama-assault-on-values</a></li>
<li><a href="http://cnsnews.com/news/article/conservatives-unite-opposing-obama-s-assault-religious-liberty">http://cnsnews.com/news/article/conservatives-unite-opposing-obama-s-assault-religious-liberty</a></li>
</ul>
<br /><b><i>"You recently filed suit to help prevent our soldiers from voting early..."</i></b><br />
<ul>
<li><a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2012/08/03/obama-democrats-suing-to-block-military-voting-in-ohio/">http://hotair.com/archives/2012/08/03/obama-democrats-suing-to-block-military-voting-in-ohio/</a></li>
</ul>
<br /><b><i>"...which is one more reason why military veterans are so overwhelmingly against you keeping your job."</i></b><br />
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/elections/election_2012/election_2012_presidential_election/july_2012/among_military_veterans_romney_59_obama_35">http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/elections/election_2012/election_2012_presidential_election/july_2012/among_military_veterans_romney_59_obama_35</a></li>
</ul>
<br /><b><i>"You are an embarrassment on the world stage, in large part because of your constant apologizing for America while standing on foreign soil."</i></b><br />
<ul>
<li><a href="http://s3.amazonaws.com/thf_media/2009/pdf/wm_2466.pdf">http://s3.amazonaws.com/thf_media/2009/pdf/wm_2466.pdf</a></li>
</ul>
<br /><b><i>"Under your leadership, the Pentagon claimed in its year-long report into the Fort Hood massacre that Islam had nothing to do with it, even though Major Hassan was yelling 'jihad! jihad, jihad!!!' as he murdered his fellow soldiers."</i></b><br />
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1954960,00.html">http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1954960,00.html</a></li>
<li><a href="http://dailycaller.com/2012/07/20/report-downplays-islamic-role-in-fort-hood-jihadi-attack/">http://dailycaller.com/2012/07/20/report-downplays-islamic-role-in-fort-hood-jihadi-attack/</a></li>
</ul>
<br /><b><i>"You have pitted Americans against one another over your class warfare rhetoric, and your tax and immigration policies."</i></b><br />
<ul>
<li><a href="http://nicedeb.wordpress.com/2009/08/08/how-obama-is-pitting-americans-against-each-other/">http://nicedeb.wordpress.com/2009/08/08/how-obama-is-pitting-americans-against-each-other/</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2012/04/01/Obamas-Alinsky-Strategy-Whos-Next">http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2012/04/01/Obamas-Alinsky-Strategy-Whos-Next</a></li>
<li><a href="http://nicedeb.wordpress.com/2011/09/13/attackwatch-is-a-hit-on-twitter/">http://nicedeb.wordpress.com/2011/09/13/attackwatch-is-a-hit-on-twitter/</a></li>
</ul>
<br /><b><i>"And you stood by, silent, when your fellow Democrats made what you knew were false statements about the Tea Party being racist, and false allegations about them hurling racial epithets against black members of Congress."</i></b><br />
<ul>
<li><a href="http://cdn.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2011/09/06/Andre-Carsons-True-Colors">http://cdn.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2011/09/06/Andre-Carsons-True-Colors</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2009/04/house_democrat_leaders_tea_par.asp">http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2009/04/house_democrat_leaders_tea_par.asp</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/democratic-strategist-calls-herman-cain-racist-bigoted-for-saying-blacks-have-been-brainwashed/">http://www.theblaze.com/stories/democratic-strategist-calls-herman-cain-racist-bigoted-for-saying-blacks-have-been-brainwashed/</a></li>
<li><a href="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/lachlan-markay/2010/07/30/left-wing-black-activist-acknowledges-race-attacks-tea-party-are-bog">http://newsbusters.org/blogs/lachlan-markay/2010/07/30/left-wing-black-activist-acknowledges-race-attacks-tea-party-are-bog</a></li>
</ul>
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<span style="color: white;">.</span> <br />Expediohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10549383482552877305noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1033320156411232023.post-11602253218738795352009-04-20T18:40:00.000-07:002009-04-22T20:07:39.975-07:00Hello, Ahmed? (Part 1)<span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);font-family:arial;" ></span><br /><div style="text-align: center; font-family: georgia;"><b>If you know your enemies and know yourself, you will not be imperiled in a hundred battles.<br /><br />If you do not know your enemies but do know yourself, you will win one and lose one.<br /><br />If you do not know your enemies nor yourself, you will be imperiled in every single battle.</b><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"><br />- Sun Tzu</span><br /></div><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >===================</span><br /><br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJv1mxFLLTf_TuLteviS9XAVpLViBfvkiQI3jCFrqG27AVPduMy-2ZS8SWoX5BIFVB-jika153TjIMJmcd4bgjq9CVBtNifWNTYlRDhib2D533-_wb8vqtLlKdvZIJjVfaUKrIuEnrSvIK/s1600-h/610x.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 231px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJv1mxFLLTf_TuLteviS9XAVpLViBfvkiQI3jCFrqG27AVPduMy-2ZS8SWoX5BIFVB-jika153TjIMJmcd4bgjq9CVBtNifWNTYlRDhib2D533-_wb8vqtLlKdvZIJjVfaUKrIuEnrSvIK/s320/610x.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5327695842859292162" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">[CRACKLE]</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">AHMED: Hello?</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">HABIB:</span><span style="font-family:arial;"> Ahmed, my brother, have you heard?</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">AHMED:</span><span style="font-family:arial;"> Heard what?</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">HABIB:</span><span style="font-family:arial;"> About the CIA memos!!!</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">AHMED:</span><span style="font-family:arial;"> No. What memos???</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">HABIB:</span><span style="font-family:arial;"> Oh, my brother, Allah be praised… <span style="font-weight: bold;">Obama has turned out to be the blessing that keeps on giving. He ordered the CIA to declassify and release </span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/04/17/us/politics/20090417-interrogation-techniques.html">memos</a><span style="font-weight: bold;"> outlining the types of interrogation methods they will and won’t use, and under what circumstances they have to legally stop them.</span><br /><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/photos/2009/apr/21/42622/"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 232px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhY2IVmTloqDvUzBBCwtGO_SR3rlNXBSOT1aCsXrSwz47Z-u-VwsqNv35pYFfXarbbW3f7Tb1FjYp_bo4DSx2X7w4uyeDrddWqCVaE6dqScyyjf4ZzvkzrJgwbJBKnAeDuddERT0HI7SNdy/s400/Editorial_cartoon_April_22_t756.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5327683065912847458" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:arial;"> </span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">AHMED:</span><span style="font-family:arial;"> Wait, didn’t Ayman and the boys already put quite a bit of this into the training manuals? I think it was right after the parts where our martyrs are instructed to <a href="http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=16270">falsely claim they were tortured</a> --- <a href="http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/084871.php">even though they weren't</a>, to gain sympathy of the infidels' news media and "human rights" organizations? </span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span><span style="font-family:arial;">HABIB:</span><span style="font-family:arial;"> Well, yes and no. We knew from some of our brothers who were released from Guantanamo what types of interrogation the infidels employ. <span style="font-weight: bold;">But we didn't know the full scope of what they’re authorized to use, and most importantly, when they have to </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">stop</span><span style="font-weight: bold;">. For example, thanks to Obama, we learned that if a captured brother claims that he’s hallucinating, </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">they have to shut down the interrogation</span><span style="font-weight: bold;">.</span> It’s all there, my brother, and it's glorious – I’m emailing you the links now.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">AHMED:</span><span style="font-family:arial;"> <span style="font-style: italic;">And what is the reaction among the American people, and their news media???</span></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span><span style="font-family:arial;">HABIB:</span><span style="font-family:arial;"> [LAUGHS] Oh, my brother, it’s very funny, and consistent with their idiocy to date!!!<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">The American news media has circled the wagons around Obama, and is protecting him at every turn.</span> They claim that it’s all part of America's “new approach” to foreign policy that he promised in his campaign. <span style="font-style: italic;">Releasing their own top-secret intelligence memos and their interrogation procedures and limitations!!!</span> My brother, there isn’t enough money in all the oil fields of Saudi Arabia to buy that information – and yet, Obama just gave it to us for free.<br /><br />As far as the American public goes, they’re distracted, as always. <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Music/04/20/uk.talent.jafargholi/index.html">American Idol</a>, <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,517228,00.html">Perez Hilton</a> and all that nonsense. There are only pockets of resistance, trying to get the word out, but as their news media pays no attention to them, we have nothing to worry about. And their blogs... <span style="font-style: italic;">oh</span>, their wonderful blogs. I'll send you the links to the commentaries on their deranged leftist blogs, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/16/bush-torture-memos-releas_n_187867.html">The Huffington Post</a> and <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/4/17/721381/-Now-that-we-officially-know,-what-do-we-do">Daily Kos</a>... you'll be warmed by how outraged they are at the grade-school "torture" they employed on our martyrs... [LAUGHS].<br /><br />Even those useful idiots at MoveOn.org has gotten into the game, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBWola7JniM&feature=player_embedded">producing commercials</a> pushing for criminal penalties for monkey-faced Bush officials who ok'd these non-torture methods. But of course, they ignore <a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2007/0524072torture1.html">what <span style="font-style: italic;">we</span> do to infidel crusaders when <span style="font-style: italic;">we</span> get a hold of <span style="font-style: italic;">them</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;">.</span></span><span style="font-family:arial;"> They don't know or care what torture <span style="font-style: italic;">really</span> is. My brother, they actually think that if they don't get rough with our martyrs, we'll go easier on theirs!!! <span style="font-style: italic;">Oh, praise Allah for the stupidity of our enemies.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">AHMED:</span><span style="font-family:arial;"> <span style="font-style: italic;">Amazing!!!</span> Praise Allah, all those little things we did to help Obama get elected sure have paid off!!! Remember the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21YF7ggCG6g">campaign phone banks we set up with our brothers in Hamas</a>, making calls to American infidels on his behalf – and the American news media wouldn’t even cover it? All the <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/08/obamas_donor_contributions_sil.html">illegal donations we helped direct to his campaign</a>, including from Gaza, that their infidel journalists refused to expose? Oh, my brother, this has worked out better than we hoped.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">HABIB:</span><span style="font-family:arial;"> Indeed – and it gets even better!!!</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">AHMED:</span><span style="font-family:arial;"> What?<span style="font-style: italic;"> How?</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">HABIB:</span><span style="font-family:arial;"> Oh, where do I begin. </span><span style="font-family:arial;">You know how Obama recently <a href="http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/03/president-ob-14.html">likened America's infidel bankers to suicide bombers</a> with their fingers on their bomb vests... then ordered his Department of Infidel-Land Security to stop referring to what we do as <span style="font-style: italic;">"terrorism"</span>... and [laughs] to instead refer to it as <a style="font-family: arial; font-style: italic;" href="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-graham/2009/03/19/obama-speak-homeland-security-secretary-replaces-terrorism-term-man-caus">"man-caused disasters."</a><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-style: italic;"> </span> </span>He can't even call us terrorists!!! And now, he's ordered them to stop referring to their military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan as "wars" - instead, now they're to call them <a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/24/AR2009032402818.html">"overseas contingency operations"</a><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-style: italic;">!!!</span></span> The stupid infidels can't even <span style="font-style: italic;">name</span> what they're doing, or fighting against. I mean, who saw those jewels coming???</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />Then last week, Obama sat in that conference with a motley crew of America-hating Hispanic tyrants, Chavez, Ortega and Castro. Ortega ranted for nearly an hour about America, and <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/04/18/obama-endures-ortega-diatribe/">Obama sat there like a beaten puppy and took it, and <span style="font-style: italic;">didn't say a word </span>in defense of America</a>. All he did was ensure that they don't blame him for what they allege are the sins of America --- which, by his silence, he gave credence to.<br /><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimlPsuXbkC-o0meYMnmx60t9QhHgNrnQqpNcX05hwbuccOp8NI-7jOPkj-xQpG8wBTf4_dJM8HRJyEN8W_azS_i3DxqQTF202rk5lvw3Ee5mzwuV1XEF5lW90DNBInsE83akwzyYhrvBm2/s1600-h/obamachavezlarge.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 399px; height: 299px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimlPsuXbkC-o0meYMnmx60t9QhHgNrnQqpNcX05hwbuccOp8NI-7jOPkj-xQpG8wBTf4_dJM8HRJyEN8W_azS_i3DxqQTF202rk5lvw3Ee5mzwuV1XEF5lW90DNBInsE83akwzyYhrvBm2/s400/obamachavezlarge.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5327690213714734050" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1V44mH75l1iWosIjC2imI3oCGySI_HGPXwh4395xP3ogSzJVM4w8brIl8VHibJpY_DXPHg07WsC9I8dViUOHaGxRqA4WMvl9_OqaCEEzNQdsAZ4BnUT7LdvYmqSAa_kcQUEvslG_SmtoZ/s1600-h/hezbollah-venezuela.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 182px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1V44mH75l1iWosIjC2imI3oCGySI_HGPXwh4395xP3ogSzJVM4w8brIl8VHibJpY_DXPHg07WsC9I8dViUOHaGxRqA4WMvl9_OqaCEEzNQdsAZ4BnUT7LdvYmqSAa_kcQUEvslG_SmtoZ/s200/hezbollah-venezuela.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5327691653282885250" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Obama's worshippers claim he is so smart, yet he <span style="font-style: italic;">never once</span> pointed</span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" > </span><span style="font-family:arial;">out that for years, <span style="font-weight: bold;">C</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >havez has been </span><span style="font-family:arial;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://blogs.abcnews.com/worldview/2008/09/hizbollah-makes.html">allowing</a><span style="font-weight: bold;"> Hezbollah to set up </span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2006/09/hezbollah-is-working-openly-in.html">bases</a> <span style="font-weight: bold;">throughout Venezuela, and is now buddies with Ahmadinejad. Or that Hezbollah operatives, with funding from Iran, are immersing themselves in Hispanic culture, to avoid detection if they're caught at the U.S. border.<br /><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ_8Cw_3BL_TYzDqu5lBXWLpziQ1DQDF4wEfDAWwrV2Oq5Fj3AVsNy6cOlCdnG6r5spbtdErdCKyE7vGe3CYO2-pX4M8l_htZCV5v3mYBlw74MMylqAxGuYYvJIyko1ryGqqipn_rVx4yE/s1600-h/hezbollah_in_venezuela.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 145px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ_8Cw_3BL_TYzDqu5lBXWLpziQ1DQDF4wEfDAWwrV2Oq5Fj3AVsNy6cOlCdnG6r5spbtdErdCKyE7vGe3CYO2-pX4M8l_htZCV5v3mYBlw74MMylqAxGuYYvJIyko1ryGqqipn_rVx4yE/s200/hezbollah_in_venezuela.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5327694566152159714" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Obama never once pointed out that Ahmadinejad has </span></span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2006/feb/05/20060205-100341-6320r/">threatened to deploy thousands of suicide bombers</a><span style="font-weight: bold;"> to create </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">"man-caused disasters"</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> [LAUGHS] at <span style="font-style: italic;">"precise locations in America"</span> if it interferes in any way with Iran's nuclear weapons program. </span> </span><span style="font-family:arial;"> I mean, where do they think these thousands of martyrs will come from... San Francisco? </span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">And neither Obama nor the stupid infidel American news media will connect these dots. </span> They just sat there like lemmings, taking all the abuse that Chavez and Ortega dished out.<span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span> But who are we to complain --- he is doing a marvelous job of keeping his stupid citizens unaware of the threat they're facing, <span style="font-weight: bold;">right at their southern border</span>.<br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:arial;">AHMED:</span><span style="font-family:arial;"> Oh, that is classic. And don't forget --- <span style="font-weight: bold;">even though America is bankrupt, Obama will soon be </span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/24/washington/24gaza.html?_r=1">giving nearly a billion U.S. taxpayer dollars to our brothers in Hamas</a><span style="font-weight: bold;">.</span> He tells his stupid citizens that it'll only go to "rebuild" Gaza [LAUGHS]. Every sane person in the world knows that the only thing America's money will be going to "rebuild" is Hamas's ability to fund more <span style="font-style: italic;">"man-caused disasters"</span> against Israel and other infidels. But leave it to the American government and news media to pretend otherwise. <span style="font-style: italic;">Thanks, President Obama!!!<br /><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglnw6jOtdO4eeICVM4HzOFu1hO5ydGNJv9RzwmKj8NQCgwdgKjNbysT-FfF5rJokEVo5IW4Xj9oPohol0ApuEiFcmLKW6xh23ZgZFGh-Nj_FaROW4yeTnv1ZcL2VGh2mx3teZh8MZ4RpjK/s1600-h/hamas_war0402.img_assist_custom.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 220px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglnw6jOtdO4eeICVM4HzOFu1hO5ydGNJv9RzwmKj8NQCgwdgKjNbysT-FfF5rJokEVo5IW4Xj9oPohol0ApuEiFcmLKW6xh23ZgZFGh-Nj_FaROW4yeTnv1ZcL2VGh2mx3teZh8MZ4RpjK/s320/hamas_war0402.img_assist_custom.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5327700672768975794" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">HABIB:</span><span style="font-family:arial;"> [LAUGHS]<br /><br />AHMED: Oh, and one last item of wonderful news... I'm forwarding you a link to an <a href="http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.2999/pub_detail.asp">article</a> outlining how Obama has been quietly giving preference to, and filling the ranks of his administration with our Islamist brothers... and how, of course, the stupid American news media is too afraid of our cries of <span style="font-style: italic;">"racism!"</span> and <span style="font-style: italic;">"Islamophobia!"</span> to cover it. Praise Allah, could we have even hoped for a stupider, more simpering enemy???<br /><br />HABIB: Thank you, my brother... I shall look forward to reading this wonderful news.<br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:arial;">AHMED:</span><span style="font-family:arial;"> </span><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Oh by the way, hello people at NSA – we don’t even care if you’re recording this call…</span> thanks to your stupid infidel electorate, your stupid apostate president won’t do anything! All we have to do is cry, <span style="font-style: italic;">"You’re invading our privacy rights!</span></span><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-style: italic;">"</span> and you will back down!!! </span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlfEkOYgg07sjVq3a4DR7HL7ITLbZwDYypm7PFKR2qZycwIFHeBinaDfrW8Y9OFqdJheCucfqG4IFKiuAhlnGCm9OrXtOQyuMuAM5X5LILJP5DRV1JRuliuWq7zKEy6nA879GloR2zXZmE/s1600-h/hamas.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 256px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlfEkOYgg07sjVq3a4DR7HL7ITLbZwDYypm7PFKR2qZycwIFHeBinaDfrW8Y9OFqdJheCucfqG4IFKiuAhlnGCm9OrXtOQyuMuAM5X5LILJP5DRV1JRuliuWq7zKEy6nA879GloR2zXZmE/s320/hamas.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5327698960961371298" border="0" /></a><br /></div><span style="font-family:arial;">HABIB:</span><span style="font-family:arial;"> [LAUGHS] Oh Ahmed, my brother, you are too much… Allah be praised, you have a good night.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">AHMED:</span><span style="font-family:arial;"> And you too, my brother. Allahu Akbar!!!</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">HABIB: Allahu Akbar, my brother!!!</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">[CLICK]<br /><br />[CRACKLE]</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-size:85%;">Original materials are © Copyright 2009 by Expedio, and Expedio5x5.blogspot.com.</span></span><br /><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-size:85%;"></span> <span style="font-size:85%;">Publications and syndicators – contact <a href="mailto:expedio5x5@gmail.com">expedio5x5@gmail.com</a>.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><br /></div>Expediohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10549383482552877305noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1033320156411232023.post-839883590614211112009-04-11T18:00:00.000-07:002009-04-11T18:22:09.176-07:00Some Things To Think About The Next Time VP Biden Spouts Off On "Patriotism"<span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);font-family:arial;" >.</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">From </span><a style="font-family: arial; font-style: italic;" href="http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=OTZiY2EyNjllZmI3MjBiODdiM2ViNjc5ZmYxNjI1Zjg=">National Review Online</a><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" >:</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">The history of Biden's earnings, and charitable contributions:</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">1998 Adjusted Gross Income $215,432 Charity donation $195</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">1999 Adjusted Gross Income $210,797 Charity donation $120</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">2000 Adjusted Gross Income $219,953 Charity donation $360</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">2001 Adjusted Gross Income $220,712 Charity donation $360</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">2002 Adjusted Gross Income $227,811 Charity donation $260</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">2003 Adjusted Gross Income $231,375 Charity donation $260</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">2004 Adjusted Gross Income $234,271 Charity donation $380</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">2005 Adjusted Gross Income $321,379 Charity donation $380</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">2006 Adjusted Gross Income $248,459 Charity donation $380</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">2007 Adjusted Gross Income $319,853 Charity donation $995</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" >Total Adjusted Gross Income $2,450,042 Charity donation $3,690</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >Between 1998 and 2007, Biden made over $2.4 million, yet he donated only $3,700 --- <span style="font-style: italic;">or slightly over 1/100 of a single percent</span> --- to charity.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Yet he has the audacity to claim that it's<span style="font-style: italic;"> "patriotic"</span> to pay higher taxes, so the Obama administration can redistribute more tax dollars to benefit their favorite charitable and welfare-state causes:</span><br /><p style="font-family: arial;" align="center"><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/UCqgNWRjmAc&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/UCqgNWRjmAc&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object></p><br /><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >Democrats: They'll give you the shirt off your neighbor's back --- while keeping their own under lock and key.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Not that Biden is unique. In 2008, a detailed study was conducted by economics professor Arthur C. Brooks to determine whether liberals or conservatives gave more of their income to support charities. <br /><br />Despite the fact that on average, liberals earn 6% more than conservatives, the latter gave far more to charities. Read George Will's superb article, </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/03/conservatives_more_liberal_giv.html">here</a><span style="font-family:arial;">.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">..</span>Expediohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10549383482552877305noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1033320156411232023.post-72982734438961250102009-04-09T14:31:00.001-07:002009-04-09T14:49:51.701-07:00Hooray!!! Kim Jong-Il Wins Re-Election Thanks To Card-Check!!!<span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);font-family:arial;" >.</span><a style="font-family: arial;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLfiTfM78JtNneA2BTqdE_ZFVMZ8txRnvYcr0rl3_22hOA1lne0TI2ftqJD7jSjBuX65W7Eiwp-OpbuNBFqmdlpCKsBDWCvy80h5qDIQ5KHQ520-JFkTLQVU-D-611hNrULrmbuZGWuJgy/s1600-h/kim-jong-il_hitler.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 170px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLfiTfM78JtNneA2BTqdE_ZFVMZ8txRnvYcr0rl3_22hOA1lne0TI2ftqJD7jSjBuX65W7Eiwp-OpbuNBFqmdlpCKsBDWCvy80h5qDIQ5KHQ520-JFkTLQVU-D-611hNrULrmbuZGWuJgy/s200/kim-jong-il_hitler.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5322810728615416498" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Oh, the glories of non-secret ballot elections, like those that the hard-left in America is pushing for,</span><span style="font-family:arial;"> via the (Orwellian-named) </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://www.unionfacts.com/articles/cardCheck.cfm">"Employee Free </a><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://www.unionfacts.com/articles/cardCheck.cfm">Choice Act!!!"</a><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Today, Kim Jong-Il was </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6067471.ece">unanimously re-elected</a><span style="font-family:arial;"> by members of the (Orwellian-named) Democratic People's Republic of Korea's parliament.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Not a single dissenting vote!!! </span>What a rousing endorsement of Kim's compassionate, nuclear-tipped policy of mass starvation, murder, indoctrination, and global terror.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">This message was brought to you as a hearty endorsement of "public" balloting, in which everyone gets to see who and what you vote for. Because as we all know, only selfish, running-dog, capitalist, warmongering, imperialist lackeys insist on secret ballots. Where's the glory in <span style="font-style: italic;">that</span>???</span><br /><br /><a style="font-family: arial;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilbF3AkdY-a1bKhwwIV9rATk38G88mEsh2mQ8D-Fxot_5nwQ0IUtcxPty25gJwADc4c3gkqbIuAoPy5DFDid5Xu2GmhXavfuWIb_TkeiQCvYhQPPmsXWRoJogKDQ5LokvtG4QXIL8nQyQE/s1600-h/albright.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 210px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilbF3AkdY-a1bKhwwIV9rATk38G88mEsh2mQ8D-Fxot_5nwQ0IUtcxPty25gJwADc4c3gkqbIuAoPy5DFDid5Xu2GmhXavfuWIb_TkeiQCvYhQPPmsXWRoJogKDQ5LokvtG4QXIL8nQyQE/s320/albright.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5322810801109376146" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Viva le Dear Leader!!! Viva le Psychopathic Revolution!!! Viva le Open Ballots!!!<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><br /></span>Expediohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10549383482552877305noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1033320156411232023.post-24328065760936756692009-04-05T19:12:00.002-07:002012-08-07T20:02:02.266-07:00Obamanomics For The Layman (And The Consequences)<span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);font-family:arial;" >.</span><span style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span><span style="font-family:arial;">For the past five years, I’ve been earning $40,000 a year. But for all<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvv_tDjQiZc_9YTtmqdxe36ig21XWJ-OwchCCK_CBa1ZLRFI6pfGMcxojmnQnkiX-uK9vM4OunogXQjbU-rh21d7wkjU76i5SKtho-kWhWhsbMsDasULOr5fyZ9C1E2XHbHcvPrEMxZV0I/s1600-h/Guido2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 164px; height: 164px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvv_tDjQiZc_9YTtmqdxe36ig21XWJ-OwchCCK_CBa1ZLRFI6pfGMcxojmnQnkiX-uK9vM4OunogXQjbU-rh21d7wkjU76i5SKtho-kWhWhsbMsDasULOr5fyZ9C1E2XHbHcvPrEMxZV0I/s200/Guido2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5321413036840098498" border="0" /></a></span><span style="font-family:arial;"> those years, I’ve been spending $60,000 a year.<br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:arial;">How do I survive, running this $20,000 annual deficit? Well, I’ve been paying close </span><span style="font-family:arial;">attention to <a href="http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/">how the U.S. Congress runs our affairs</a>, and </span><span style="font-family:arial;">I’ve learned some good lessons.<br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:arial;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh975N4uBOWzs7p58Ptlv0fQctoIYSwQ1KFxnXNA0PlIBWi9sYukTsNJKmA2kc7Jnr0bFmvCxgdtawCOGL3DBqaXicDoPDbsi9eVEL6lUpI2s-YGDQAu69SABYEXuQDkIZy35G1V5HGzJms/s1600-h/Vinnie2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 140px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh975N4uBOWzs7p58Ptlv0fQctoIYSwQ1KFxnXNA0PlIBWi9sYukTsNJKmA2kc7Jnr0bFmvCxgdtawCOGL3DBqaXicDoPDbsi9eVEL6lUpI2s-YGDQAu69SABYEXuQDkIZy35G1V5HGzJms/s200/Vinnie2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5321413237863011346" border="0" /></a></span><span style="font-family:arial;">I make up the difference by borrowing $20,000 a year from <span style="font-weight: bold;">Guido</span> (right). </span><span style="font-family:arial;">My wife knows I’ve been borrowing to </span><span style="font-family:arial;">make u</span><span style="font-family:arial;">p for this deficit, but she doesn’t know from whom, and she hasn’t asked too many questions (sort of like the majority of her fellow taxpayers).<br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:arial;">What she also doesn’t know is that when it’s time to pay Guido, I’ve been borrowing money from <span style="font-weight: bold;">Vinnie</span> (left, a few years ago, when he was in... state care). <span style="font-style: italic;"><br /><br />I also never told her that if I don’t find a way to pay them, I’m going to end up getting my legs broken, or worse.</span></span><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"><b><br /><br />Of course, stuffy old traditional economists would say that I have do do one or more of the following four things to pay off my debts, and get myself out of this mess once and for all:</b></span><span style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span><ul><li><span style="font-family:arial;">Increase my earnings<br /><br /></span></li><li><span style="font-family:arial;">Cut my spending<br /><br /></span></li><li><span style="font-family:arial;">Sell off some of my assets<br /><br /></span></li><li><span style="font-family:arial;">Ask for charity</span></li></ul><span style="font-family:arial;"><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">With the advent of <span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Obamanomics™</span>, however, I realized that I don’t need to do<span style="font-style: italic;"> </span><span style="font-style: italic;">any</span> of those things anymore!!!</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">I explained it all to my wife<span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:130%;">.</span><br /><br /></span></span></span>Her response was...<i> not</i> what I expected. More on that later.<br /><b><br />Basically, I told her that I’m going to increase my spending to $100,000 a year.</b> I’m going to devote this $60,000 deficit to things that will make us feel better about ourselves, and pave the way for higher potential future earnings for our kids and grandkids.<br /><b><br />First, we're going to get aluminum siding for the house. </b>Why should we have to live with unsightly peeling paint each year, and be humiliated in front of our neighbors? It will boost our self-esteem, and provide “stimulus” to local contractors --- especially union folks, who like me, voted for Obama.<br /><br /><b>Second, we’re going to get a new home theater system, and new computers for everyone in the house. </b>After all, when the kids go over to their friends’ houses and see their all-new electronics, and all the new gaming and educational software that are available for them, it hurts their self-esteem, and makes them wonder, why can’t we too have the very best? It’s not fair!<br /><br /><b>Third, we’re going to donate a certain portion of this money to Obama-affiliated community organizations such as ACORN. </b> They’re fighting for the “rights” of exploited citizens like me, but they can’t do it without donations. Remember, it's like <span style="font-weight: bold;">Peggy Joseph</span> said (below), with </span></span><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">the advent of Obamanomics™... </span></span></span><blockquote style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-style: italic;">"<span style="font-weight: bold;">...I won't have to worry about putting gas in my car, I won't have to worry about paying my mortgage... if I help him, he's gonna help me!!!</span>"</span> </span></span></span></blockquote><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;"><p align="center"><object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/381gFG4Crr8&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&feature=player_embedded&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/381gFG4Crr8&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&feature=player_embedded&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" height="344" width="425"></embed></object></p></span></span></span><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">And that's the way it will work with me donating to Obama-affiliated nonprofits, too.<br /><br /></span></span></span><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Fourth, we’re going to get a new minivan, with all the goodies.</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span> Each time I or my wife has to drop off or pick up the kids from school, their friends’ homes and parties, they ask why we’re the only ones who aren’t driving the latest model. It hurts their social standing, and by getting a new minivan, they won’t feel so ostracized. Plus, this will also help to stimulate the economy.<br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:arial;">Now at this point, you may be asking, as my wife did,<span style="font-style: italic;"> “If you aren’t going to find a way to pay down our debt, how in the hell are you going to afford another $40,000 a year deficit, on top of the $20,000 deficit we can't afford now?”</span></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">Here comes the magic of </span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-family:arial;">Obamanomics™,</span></span><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;font-size:130%;" > as I explained to my wife:</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></span></span><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">As the kids will be out of high school soon, and with all the self-esteem boosting efforts we’ll have undertaken, I figure their earning power should be out of this world.</span> So while other kids are working at McDonalds or in low-wage labor, with </span></span></span><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">Obamanomics™, </span></span></span><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">ours should be able to pull down at least fifty or sixty grand a year part-time, a good part of which will go to paying off our debt.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Neither Guido nor Vinnie were confident in my projections.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">So I signed a contract with them, legally obliging our kids and grandkids to pay whatever debt I don't pay off. </span> That pacified them for a few weeks, until they actually <span style="font-style: italic;">met</span> our kids. At that point, Guido predicted that my under-educated XBOX-freaks would never earn more than minimum wage, and that I'd have to do better --- or else.<br /></span></span></span><span style="text-decoration: underline;font-family:arial;" ><br /></span><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">I explained that this is precisely the social compact that our generation, via our </span></span></span><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">Obamanomic™ </span></span></span><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">government, will exact upon future generations, to pay for our excesses today... that our kids and grandkids will be taxed up the ying-yang to pay for what we're consuming now.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Vinnie and Guido said that inter-generational wealth-theft is "reprehensible."</span> I was like, <span style="font-style: italic;">"Huh? You guys are loan-sharking gangsters... and you're telling </span><span style="font-style: italic;">me</span><span style="font-style: italic;"> what's reprehensible? Yeah, right." </span>They didn't find my attempt at humor to be funny.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">So, I explained to my wife, </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">I’m going to tell Guido and Vinnie that all I really have to do is to print up dollar bills on the fancy new computers that I’ll be getting for the kids.</span> They’ll be exact copies of the ones that I’ve been borrowing from one to pay to the other, and as no one will be able to tell the difference, they’ll be as good as the real deals!!!<br /><br />After all, I said, <span style="font-style: italic;">five days after</span> the Chinese government <a href="http://www.usnews.com/articles/news/2009/03/13/china-worries-about-its-holdings-of-1-trillion-in-us-government-debt.html">expressed concern</a> about the $1 trillion in securities that it bought from the U.S. government, <span style="font-style: italic;">Obama ordered the Treasury to </span><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/19/business/economy/19fed.html?_r=2&hp">print up $1 trillion in fresh dollar bills</a><span style="font-style: italic;">.</span> Basically, he just printed money up out of thin air. So, if it's good enough for our government, it has to be good enough for me, right?<br /><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjp9K9N5gS4iSohHAq5HRlFglaObODs8cyMYMsX9AZgJvHLHolhd_2lL3O0Q0eDKBwdyX8yI1N9U811WcmNdPgsbqeRmPU4ilkWd3ldpNUATLJ50QIgmKdiX4VJmp78yW1Bm6986pwExA1/s1600-h/printingmoney.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 227px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjp9K9N5gS4iSohHAq5HRlFglaObODs8cyMYMsX9AZgJvHLHolhd_2lL3O0Q0eDKBwdyX8yI1N9U811WcmNdPgsbqeRmPU4ilkWd3ldpNUATLJ50QIgmKdiX4VJmp78yW1Bm6986pwExA1/s320/printingmoney.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5321426684415853298" border="0" /></a></span><span style="font-family:arial;"><b><br />Next, I told the wife, while old stuffy economists would say that I’m tripling our annual deficit, from $20,000 to $60,000 a year, Obamanomics™ doesn't work that way.</b> See, despite Guido's and Vinnie's pessimism, I still project that our kids’ earnings alone will actually enable me to cut our deficit in half within three years, to “only” $30,000 a year. When she pointed out that our deficit is actually growing by 50%, I reminded her of the fact that even though Obama is planning to <a href="http://blog.heritage.org/2009/03/24/bush-deficit-vs-obama-deficit-in-pictures/">triple</a> America's annual deficit in the next three years, </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" >he</span><span style="font-family:arial;"> <a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0209/19124.html">claims</a></span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" > that he'll be cutting it in half</span><span style="font-family:arial;">.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOws_kauka6fZtQSiyMCsJvLuT3ulHSZPnOD3uXHGZBJU9gqA0ItQ-1ohJONTxjiiLeVYFJIJW6kQoSdJYPMhV0msNfLhKBldFHSZprJK4ZmCttoPxWkcWhk24pOkxqJgCJqeT0EtcE9hs/s1600-h/wapoobamabudget1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 352px; height: 284px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOws_kauka6fZtQSiyMCsJvLuT3ulHSZPnOD3uXHGZBJU9gqA0ItQ-1ohJONTxjiiLeVYFJIJW6kQoSdJYPMhV0msNfLhKBldFHSZprJK4ZmCttoPxWkcWhk24pOkxqJgCJqeT0EtcE9hs/s400/wapoobamabudget1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5321427339869165922" border="0" /></a></span><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />Further, no one we see on the TV news is saying there's anything wrong with his math, and our kids' teachers are saying nothing's wrong with his plan. <span style="font-style: italic;">So I asked her, why's she getting all in my face about this? </span>I told her that according to my </span></span></span><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">Obamanomics™</span></span></span><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">-inspired plan, I’m actually being <span style="font-style: italic;">fiscally responsible</span>, and will be doing good for our family, and the economy in general, in the long run.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Besides, </span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >I told her, it doesn’t really matter anyway – <span style="font-style: italic;">because by the time Guido and Vinnie catch on to any flaws in my grand plan, she and I will be long gone… so screw ‘em!!! Let them go try to collect the money from our kids, or grandkids!!! </span></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />I figured I’d share all this with her before I presented my plan to Guido and Vinnie, thinking that she’d leap into my arms, pepper me with kisses, and thank me for being the wise, inspired provider that she hoped she’d married.<br /></span><span style="font-family:arial;"><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Instead... her reaction was... well, <span style="font-style: italic;">look</span> what she did to me:</span><br /><br /></span></span></span><span style="font-family:arial;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfTyk0sGircOTKQ13gMBTQf3SUk8gNaaTF1AdtE4ESVwLFDYf0VHDhCGX_X1rPwrDhVv58viJ1zmXVAVSHn9v0FtjMrWr0GoatoaxIVwrwUsUtGhbTYSXc794N8m0rnfM3W_LbVyL28zh1/s1600-h/Bodycast2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 414px; height: 271px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfTyk0sGircOTKQ13gMBTQf3SUk8gNaaTF1AdtE4ESVwLFDYf0VHDhCGX_X1rPwrDhVv58viJ1zmXVAVSHn9v0FtjMrWr0GoatoaxIVwrwUsUtGhbTYSXc794N8m0rnfM3W_LbVyL28zh1/s400/Bodycast2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5321409253892495986" border="0" /></a></span><span style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">The doctors tell me that I should be getting out of the hospital within five or six months.<br /><span><br />And this, after all I tried to do to... I mean, <span style="font-style: italic;">for</span> our family...</span></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></span></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Epilogue</span></span></span><span style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />I’m going to be sending my medical bills directly to the White House, and cc’ing them to Congress. </span><span style="font-family:arial;">fter all, </span></span></span><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">Obamanomics™</span></span> </span><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">is what got me, an innocent victim, into this mess, and I fully expect our public servants to get me out of it. </span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />I think there’s a passage in the Constitution about that – something about <span style="font-style: italic;">“the general welfare”</span>? I learned about that in the government-run school I went to. And even if there isn’t such a passage in that old, musty document, there damn well ought to be. <span style="font-style: italic;">Yes we can!!!</span><br /><br /><br /><br /></span></span></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-size:85%;">Original materials are © Copyright 2009 by Expedio, and Expedio5x5.blogspot.com.</span></span><span style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" > <span style="font-size:85%;">Publications and syndicators – contact <a href="mailto:expedio5x5@gmail.com">expedio5x5@gmail.com</a>.</span></span><span style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><br /></span></span>Expediohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10549383482552877305noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1033320156411232023.post-1982980788081155852009-03-25T18:21:00.000-07:002009-03-25T07:06:45.889-07:00American CEOs To Form Labor Union; Leftist Legal Group Vows Public Battle<span style="font-family:arial;"></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The.</span><br /></span></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" >Chalk this essay up to a combination of wishful thinking, satire, and reaction to the sheer anti-freedom hysteria emanating from Washington, DC at the moment. When will America's corporate leaders finally stand up and join together, to fight back against those now forging our public policies, yet who'd be hard-pressed to judge whether al Qaeda or America's CEOs are more evil? Perhaps this might help serve as a catalyst for this outcome. - E.</span></span><br /><br /><br /></div><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />March 25, 2009 – by <span style="font-weight: bold;">Expedio</span></span><br /></span></div><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />WASHINGTON, DC – Most Americans are aware of the prominent American legal organizations – the ABA, the ACLU and others. Some legal organizations, however, have kept a far lower profile – by design, until situations arose that required a significant amount of public exposure. </span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />One example (covered at <a href="http://thepeoplescube.com/">The People’s Cube</a>, <a href="http://thepeoplescube.com/red/viewtopic.php?t=1081">here</a>) was <span style="font-weight: bold;">“Spiritual Lawyers Against Natural Disasters” (“SLAND”)</span>, which filed an intergalactic class-action lawsuit against God. Specifically, the SLANDers alleged that by causing supposedly “natural” disasters such as volcanic eruptions, forest fires, earthquakes and climate change, God did far more harm to Earth's ecology than anything mankind has ever been accused of perpetrating.</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />Now, another legal organization that decided it must “come out” is <span style="font-weight: bold;">“Leftist Lawyers for All That Is Right”</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">(L-LATIR)</span>.<br /><br />According to lead attorney <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Karla Marx</span>, L-LATIR has existed for the past half-century, quietly providing legal advice and strategic counsel to groups intent on subverting America, free enterprise, economic liberty, and especially, our educational system.<span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">She explained L-LATIR's guiding principle as follows:</span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br /></span></span><blockquote style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-style: italic;">“Quite simply, if it doesn’t conform to the doctrines espoused by the world’s most celebrated collectivists and anti-capitalists, then L-LATIR’s going to fight it.” </span></span></blockquote><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />Recently, Marx's contacts in the Obama administration notified her that American CEOs are quietly forming their own union – the <span style="font-weight: bold;">“American Corporate Executives Union” (ACEU)</span>, to defend themselves against what they contend is the unfair demonization of their profession.<br /><br />After a hurried board retreat, L-LATIR determined that the time is right for their secretive organization to come out of the shadows, and vigorously combat these CEOs – publicly. </span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">“Who the hell are America’s CEOs to form their own union?” </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Marx asked, her twitching eyes glinting with rage. An activist for Mao during the 1960s (his pictures adorn the inside walls of her traveling office – a 1966 VW Microbus), Marx continued: </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br /></span></span><blockquote style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-style: italic;">“On whole, American CEOs are the most greedy, incompetent, malevolent, destructive forces on the planet, and have been for a very long time.<br /><br />"Along with their neocon masters, they’ve caused more human suffering, more wars, and more strife than any other group. They entertain and enrich themselves by conspiring to cause prices to spike, decline, and become unstable. They destroy the environment. They fight every advance in social policy that the American people support.<br /><br />"These greedy, malicious, incompetent bastards plan to form their own union? Well, on behalf of all Americans, we at L-LATIR will fight them at every turn.”</span></span></blockquote><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" ><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The ACEU has authorized one of its members, the founder and chairwoman of a fast-growing technology firm in the Washington, DC area, to speak on its behalf. She chose to do so anonymously, as <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);">“Ms. T,”</span> for now.<br /><br />In a yet-to-be-released introductory video, Ms. T, </span></span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" >a slim, modestly-dressed executive who appears to be in her early thirties, read the following statement:</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" ></span><blockquote style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" >“My name isn’t important. What the ACEU has to say, however, is vitally important to the future of freedom and human progress.” </span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" ><br />“For the better part of the last hundred years, almost every type of labor group in America has formed its own union. From poultry-workers to plumbers, from truck drivers to striptease dancers, and from basket-weavers to bread-bakers, Americans who work in specific occupations have organized to act on their members’ behalf, advance their groups’ interests, and be their public voices. Even public schoolteachers, who are government employees, have formed their own unions, which are now among the most powerful in America.<br /><br />"There is only one group of workers that’s never formed its own union: America’s CEOs. More than any other labor group, it is CEOs who are now under incessant attack, particularly by the Obama administration, Democrats in Congress, and in our artistic, journalistic and educational institutions. It’s clear that the time is right for CEOs to finally form our own union, so that we may respond with one voice. </span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" ><br />“So today, I am pleased to announce the organization of The American Corporate Executives’ Union, or ACEU. The purpose of this union will be to set the record straight on what we have accomplished, and how governmental interference in, and corruption of our industries is responsible for most of the inducements that led some chief executives to make incredibly stupid decisions.<br /><br />"We’ve been silent and disorganized for too long. With the emergence of the ACEU, that silence ends today. We invite CEOs across America to join us in this effort. More details on our organization, and how other chief executives can become a part of it, will be announced in the near future. Thank you."<br /></span></blockquote><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" ><br />Through an intermediary, Expedio5x5 arranged an exclusive interview with Ms. T, which took place recently at a café in the metro DC area.</span><br /><br />**********************<br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);">E5x5: Thanks for agreeing to this interview. Let’s start by asking this: Was the creation of the ACEU inspired by Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand’s manifesto on laissez-faire capitalism? </span></span> </span></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />Absolutely. In her masterpiece, Ms. Rand painted a picture of America, and the world, that is quite close to where we are today – at the precipice between freedom and tyranny. The premise of the book, as noted recently by Stephen Moore in the <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123146363567166677.html"><span style="font-style: italic;">Wall Street Journal</span></a>, was: what would happen to the world if those upon whom its survival is most dependent – its most able, productive and efficient business and industrial leaders – simply disappeared, by their own volition? Specifically, if they went on strike? </span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />What would happen is: the world would decay and starve, and would continue to do so, until and unless it learned to appreciate their value, started respecting their rights, and stopped vilifying, enslaving and stealing from them. Although the ACEU doesn’t think we’re at that stage yet, there’s no question that if Obama and his allies, including L-LATIR – and even some on the “right” – keep pressing on with their collectivist programs, an ACEU strike may be the only option we have left.<br /><br />In fact, many don’t know that the original title for <span style="font-style: italic;">Atlas Shrugged</span> was <span style="font-style: italic;">‘The Strike.’</span> We hope it doesn’t get to that point. This is our effort to avert it.</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" ><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">E5x5: How do you respond to those who say that American CEOs are deserving of all the public wrath and government policies that are now directed at them?</span></span></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />I vehemently disagree. Look around you. We are living in the most prosperous culture that the world has ever known. Where did it come from? First and foremost, it is the result of the American system of limited government, of property rights, of economic liberty, and of the rule of law. From this foundation, the world underwent the most radical transformation in all of mankind's history.<br /><br />From iPods to the Internet, from microwave ovens to television, from our cutting-edge healthcare technologies to the autos we drive, and from the computers we work with and the machines that do so much of our labor, every one of these values can be traced back to <span style="font-style: italic;">an idea</span> --- an idea that was developed, perfected and made marketable by innovators in business and industry, all of which were led by corporate executives.<br /><br />Does this mean that it is only American corporate executives that are responsible for all these life-enhancing, life-saving, and life-extending products? Absolutely not. Great ideas have come from all points on the globe. But why is it that these innovators have chosen one place to come to, to develop, commercialize and profit from their ideas --- America --- more than any other? It is because of the culture our Founders created, that protects and nurtures them, and enables them to go as far as their talent and ambition can take them, so long as they don't violate the natural rights of others, in the process.<br /><br />Yet there has been a fundamental contradiction, that's given rise to the rage and wrath that you cite. It is a contradiction that is destroying everything our Founders fought for, and which our predecessors accomplished.<br /><br />For generations, we’ve allowed our schoolchildren to be indoctrinated – at taxpayer expense – in Marxist ideology. They’ve been taught, in nearly hermetically-sealed, taxpayer-provided environments called "public schools," to be suspicious of or hate those who create, who lead, who devise breakthroughs in technology, in manufacturing, and in management. Those who defend their right to innovate, and to enjoy the fruits of their labors, specifically the wealth and property that they earn, are targeted for special scorn.<br /><br />In these Marxist "madrassas," we've allowed our children to be taught to believe that one of government’s moral functions is to shackle and control this ‘bourgeois’ class, both individually and collectively, and make them pay a very steep, ever-increasing price for the supposed ‘privilege’ of pursuing their dreams, and for creating the very jobs that our government says are so desperately needed today. Those children, having heard no alternative view (or at best, diluted, weak-kneed ones), had practically no choice but to accept these liberty- and progress-destroying premises. </span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />Well, those schoolchildren have grown up, and they now occupy the highest seats of power in our government, and in Marxist front groups such as ACORN, Media Matters for America, MoveOn.org and L-LATIR, and hundreds of ‘community organizations.’ And make no mistake – they are deadly serious about implementing all the policies they’ve advertised – and others, which they have only hinted at.</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-family:arial;"><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);">E5x5: Do you believe that given such contrary views, the ACEU might be accused of fomenting conspiracy theories?</span></span></span></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />What I say could hardly be considered a "conspiracy theory." The conspiracy is very real, but it's so widespread, yet so loosely organized, that it’s difficult to comprehend its true scale.<br /><br />Consider this: In 1987, 45% of American adults believed that Marx’s central principle in <span style="font-style: italic;">The Communist Manifesto</span>, <span style="font-style: italic;">“From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs,”</span> is contained within the U.S. Constitution – or didn’t know whether it is or isn’t (Hearst Foundation).<br /><br />By 2002, that number had grown to 69% (Columbia Law School). Think about that. Today, <span style="font-style: italic;">nearly seven in ten U.S. adults, </span><span style="font-style: italic;">a 53% increase in 15 years,</span> now believes (or doesn’t know if) the ideological foundation for communism </span><span style="font-family:arial;">– </span><span style="font-family:arial;"> which is responsible for the deaths of an estimated 100 million people in the 20th century (Black Book of Communism; Freedom House) </span><span style="font-family:arial;">– </span><span style="font-family:arial;"> is contained in <span style="font-style: italic;">our</span> Constitution.<br /><br />Can any reasonable person really believe that this could have happened by accident? This is a fact that should send shivers down the spine of every liberty-loving American. But almost none of them know about it, because of a second conspiracy: the conspiracy of silence among our educators, politicians, journalists and artists. They will neither acknowledge nor discuss the fact that we've allowed our schools to turn into Marxist indoctrination centers.</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />Then, you take into account that nearly a quarter of Americans now believe that the First Amendment gives them the right to drive a car, to raise pets, or for women to vote (McCormick Tribune Freedom Foundation) – </span><span style="font-family:arial;">that 80% of seniors at America's top universities will be able to graduate without having taken a single history class of any kind, and that most cannot pass a basic high school test in U.S. history </span><span style="font-family:arial;">(U.S. Dept. of Education)</span><span style="font-family:arial;"> </span><span style="font-family:arial;">– </span><span style="font-family:arial;"> that a third of them are deemed "clueless" about the separation of powers in our government (American Council of Trustees & Alumni) – </span><span style="font-family:arial;">that by a 22-1 margin, our 8-18 year-olds believe government has done more <span style="font-style: italic;">"to make the world a better place for children"</span> than corporations (Harris) </span><span style="font-family:arial;">– </span><span style="font-family:arial;">and you have the makings for a complete abandonment of every principle of liberty and limited government that our Constitution actually contains.<br /><br />Most recently, more than 3,000 college professors signed a <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/22/profs.support.ayers/">statement of support</a> for former Obama colleague William Ayers, an unrepentant domestic terrorist and <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/10/sol_stern_oped_on_ayers_in_wal.html">unapologetic advocate of Marxist doctrine</a> – and a <span>"distinguished professor of education"</span> at the University of Chicago. Can all this really happen by coincidence? </span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />These are well-documented, indisputable, but little-know facts. As is the fact that the teachers' unions, which enjoy almost unrivaled power today in American politics, were a vital force in foisting Obama into the presidency, and his cronies into positions of leadership in Congress.<br /><br />Why do you think that, despite their abhorrent subversion of freedom in America, and the fact that real education spending in America nearly doubled in the last eight years, the collectivist educrats' allies in the White House and Congress are so hell-bent on providing them with even <span style="font-style: italic;">more</span> funding, and <span style="font-style: italic;">more</span> legal protection from those advocating educational freedom/school choice? It is the ultimate symbiotic co-dependency, whose ultimate aim, or at least logical result, can only be the total collapse of America – starting with the economy, which, along with freedom, they’ve now all but declared war upon. </span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 102);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-family:arial;">E5x5: Are you suggesting that our teachers' unions and government bureaucrats are responsible for America's financial situation?</span></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />I'm not suggesting it, I'm stating as a <span style="font-style: italic;">fact</span>: It could not have happened without them.<br /><br />Let's go back to the basics. If a business makes bad decisions, it ceases to exist. But what could bring an entire nation to its economic knees, except for a government that has injected itself into every aspect of its economy? I'm not even talking about the non-governmental vultures that aided and abetted it in this effort (think ACORN, and certain CEOs), but the ACEU will, soon.<br /><br />Our schools are all but totally dominated by government, at all levels. These schools, therefore, are primarily responsible for the moral values and public policy perceptions that their charges --- the children who are forced to attend them --- carry forth into their adult lives.<br /><br />What other force but our schools could have fomented the idea that a legitimate function of government is to force or intimidate financial institutions to make loans to those who can’t pay them back --- including illegal immigrants (whom they refer to as "undocumented workers")? To create government agencies that use taxpayer money to then buy up these bad loans – then "repackage" and sell them off to pension funds, institutional investors and foreign governments? To manipulate interest rates and use federal and local laws to choke off the supply of developable land, to drive the cost of housing through the roof? And then, to convince the majority of citizens, which they’d intellectually disarmed, that this entire financial house of cards is the responsibility of CEOs, because some got into bed with these bureaucratic fascists, and took advantage of this feeding frenzy? </span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />And when it all came crashing to the ground, as we warned would happen, who did they blame? America's CEOs, en masse. And many innocent Americans, having been indoctrinated to viscerally hate CEOs, bought into it.<br /><br />This doesn't even take into account Hollywood's near-monolithic effort to foment and reinforce CEO-hatred. We'll discuss that later, if you wish.<br /><br />Now, these bureaucrats and their educrat allies are set on more fully controlling our businesses.<br /><br />Setting aside the issue of ownership, does anyone but the most strident Marxist really believe that the bureaucrats who are now thirsting for, and getting increasing control over our companies, could run them better than us? That Barack Obama, who’s never successfully run so much as an ice cream stand, could run a factory, a software firm, or a chain of cafes better than their CEOs? That Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi or Barney Frank could deal with the daily struggles that American CEOs face, more effectively than we do, and generate profits – which is what creates the very jobs that they say our economy needs more of?<br /><br />If so, then let us know, and we’ll turn over the keys to our enterprises to them, and walk away. Then, the American people will get an object lesson in why the fascist economic policies their political leaders have been pursuing always lead to destruction.</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" ><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);">E5x5: You say that President Obama has never successfully run a business enterprise. But wasn’t he the president of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, a $50 million nonprofit?</span></span></span></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />I’m glad you asked that. Do you know how he got that job? The primary factor was William Ayers. The supposed purpose of the CAC was to improve education in Chicago-area schools. The actual purpose, according to Ayers himself, was to transform teachers and students into activists for Marxist ideology. (More <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122212856075765367.html">here</a>, <a href="http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ZWI0MjY3NzMyODgxZGM2ZjUwNTE1MmEzOGRiZmFkNWE=">here</a>, <a href="http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=308271974461547">here</a>, <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/10/sol_stern_oped_on_ayers_in_wal.html">here</a>, <a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=38090">here</a>, <a href="http://www.moonbattery.com/archives/2008/10/ayers_confirms.html">here</a>)<br /><br />So how did it turn out? Obama and Ayers burned through that $50 million, and there was absolutely no improvement in education. In fact, according to some accounts, student achievement actually declined (details <a href="http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MTgwZTVmN2QyNzk2MmUxMzA5OTg0ODZlM2Y2OGI0NDM=">here</a> and elsewhere). Like I said, our new president, no matter how likable a fellow he may be, has never successfully run so much as an ice cream stand.</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />Moving on, do you find it as curious as the ACEU does that while our political leaders decry CEOs for earning good livings, they’re silent when a 19-year-old singer rakes in $20 million a year, churning out vulgar lyrics? Or when an actors are routinely paid $10 million for 8 weeks on a movie set? Or when athletes who can move a ball over a goal line, or dunk a basketball, are paid $30 million or more each year?<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Of course not</span> – because they aren’t derided as evil, greedy, America-destroying CEOs. No, these are individuals – and are supposedly entitled to earn as much as the market will provide them.</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />The basis of discrimination and prejudice is the disparagement of an entire group based on the actions of, or the perception of, some of its constituent members. Whether the victims are all of one race, gender, ethnicity or religion – or occupation – it is <span style="font-style: italic;">always</span> wrong, and <span style="font-style: italic;">always</span> destructive.<br /><br />Yet today, there is one group that has been discriminated against more than any other, which has, thus far, refused to fight back, on moral grounds – <span style="font-style: italic;">American CEOs</span>. If our economy is to recover, it is upon the shoulders of these very CEOs that it will happen – through their ability, ingenuity, integrity, and most of all, their cherishing of American liberty.<br /><br />The vast majority of us have taken this abuse and discrimination in silence, and soldiered on, creating wealth and jobs, all the things that our lives depend upon, and that make our lives better, easier and more productive.</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />Well, that silence ends <span style="font-style: italic;">today</span>. Today, through the ACEU, we will begin to fight back – for ourselves, for America, and for the entire moral concept of liberty, upon which our Constitution is based.</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">**********************</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" >When Expedio5x5 played an audio recording of the above for Ms. Marx, she dismissed it as <span style="font-style: italic;">"more of the same lies, fear-mongering and propaganda that shameless capitalists have been employing for decades."</span> Ms. Marx continued:</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" ><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"></span></span><blockquote style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-style: italic;">“Ms. T, whoever she is, is obviously nothing more than the newest shill for the very forces that have brought America to her knees. Her outdated notions of the purpose of government, of what ‘community organizers’ do, her conspiracy theories about our hard-working teachers’ unions, are all part and parcel of the greedy, self-serving ideology that thankfully, President Obama and our Democratic leaders in Congress, are going to quash, once and for all.<br /><br />"The workers of this nation produce its wealth. </span></span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" >Was it too much to ask that the government help these working Americans, and undocumented immigrants, to own their own homes? To provide their children with free educations? To advance modern values such as sacrifice, submission to government control over one’s life, bank account, health, and all our economic decisions? Look at all the advanced cultures in Europe, the Far East and elsewhere. They are the ones we should be modeling ourselves after. And by electing Barack Obama, we’ve gone a long way towards achieving that end.</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" ><br />“We at L-LATIR have been fighting miscreants such as ‘Ms. T’ and her greedy allies for decades, in and out of the courtroom. We know how to fight – and how to win. And if ‘Ms. T’ and those she represents want a fight in public, I can assure her, that’s exactly what they’re going to get.”</span></blockquote><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" ><br />Asked for a response, Ms. T said the following, which she insisted on being quoted verbatim:</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" ><br /></span><blockquote style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-style: italic;">“Bring it, you Stalinist bitch. But know this: If you plan on pulling any of your ACORN-type stunts, of flash-mobbing protests at the homes of ACEU members to intimidate them into silence, or of barging into our boardrooms to disrupt our work, I will personally throw you out on your skank ass.” </span></span></blockquote><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" ><br />Stay tuned for updates on this fascinating public brawl as it develops.</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-size:85%;">Original materials are © Copyright 2009 by Expedio, and Expedio5x5.blogspot.com.</span></span><br /><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-size:85%;"></span> <span style="font-size:85%;">Publications and syndicators – contact <a href="mailto:expedio5x5@gmail.com">expedio5x5@gmail.com</a>.</span></span><br /><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-size:85%;"></span></span></div><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span></span></span>Expediohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10549383482552877305noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1033320156411232023.post-55625475304224646592009-03-08T15:09:00.000-07:002009-03-25T06:51:48.955-07:00"Butt Tree"<span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><br /><a style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4igyrxbsPxalgJHezV89FCTjgG5Ik04KwBRxkXTQjBCgH4UhTYWhWVmRhTIgvRglD1pfjobZQ1j3p5upI56wD-GsEx6AYUPPc3bJdNMb15_P0q40vm6jUf2BonITPOPE9OPuwMRZ-ju4W/s1600-h/850A0337.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4igyrxbsPxalgJHezV89FCTjgG5Ik04KwBRxkXTQjBCgH4UhTYWhWVmRhTIgvRglD1pfjobZQ1j3p5upI56wD-GsEx6AYUPPc3bJdNMb15_P0q40vm6jUf2BonITPOPE9OPuwMRZ-ju4W/s400/850A0337.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5310943074724828082" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh54qE3qs9rWgAt-j_n76UiYraRg2x4gwbRsTcHvcZM9FY7Z2KswBUSB2WqrzY2AaezbEJjC3jnHV9uW_-fh1xII4QALOq2Bq4nH7m_XcuDLDssJoklR5jO1kO4zrf0igwS1-ON6J2rnNGO/s1600-h/850A0338.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh54qE3qs9rWgAt-j_n76UiYraRg2x4gwbRsTcHvcZM9FY7Z2KswBUSB2WqrzY2AaezbEJjC3jnHV9uW_-fh1xII4QALOq2Bq4nH7m_XcuDLDssJoklR5jO1kO4zrf0igwS1-ON6J2rnNGO/s200/850A0338.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5310943399044065474" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Taken March 7, 2009 with a Sanyo Katana Deluxe 1.2mp cellphone.</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><br />© Copyright 2009 by Expedio, and Expedio5x5.blogspot.com. All rights reserved.</span></span></div><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span>Expediohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10549383482552877305noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1033320156411232023.post-83059970538973986792009-03-08T08:15:00.001-07:002009-03-11T05:41:06.705-07:00Oh, Comrade: John Kerry Spouts Off On Fiscal Responsibility<span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">On March 6, Sen. John Kerry wrote an editorial for Bloomberg News, </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=a.Ia1h9SiQmw">here</a><span style="font-family:arial;">, in which he asserted that he, and those who think like him, are the ones who are looking out for the taxpayer --- whereas many of the financial institutions receiving taxpayer money for "bailouts" are being irresponsible. Specifically, Kerry alleges that they are <span style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial;">"wast(ing) money on lavish parties, expensive dinners and Tiffany trinkets."</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial;font-family:arial;" >More:</span> <blockquote style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial;font-family:arial;">"<span style="font-weight: bold;">I believe </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">we have to insist that tax dollars be spent wisely</span> because, otherwise, Americans will refuse to rescue any business struggling in the most difficult economic times since the Great Depression. And believe me, Americans<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7eeIHZ6esV8WfUx8DSzKyjhQnk2ERlBcLKPiaGkbCMuiN3kPaOaqae2oBRyRF2dhIHyUbxFa2qI2CwCCoV23HeGx-9v4NtJ3iEpdePYvZRrNKRF0W6gdR56xB7Eg7n0R0TK9zBX5vK100/s1600-h/John_Kerry.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 199px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7eeIHZ6esV8WfUx8DSzKyjhQnk2ERlBcLKPiaGkbCMuiN3kPaOaqae2oBRyRF2dhIHyUbxFa2qI2CwCCoV23HeGx-9v4NtJ3iEpdePYvZRrNKRF0W6gdR56xB7Eg7n0R0TK9zBX5vK100/s320/John_Kerry.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5310855022624066482" border="0" /></a> struggling to hold onto their homes and their jobs are already tired of picking up the newspaper and reading about <span style="font-weight: bold;">idiotic abuses of taxpayer money</span>.(...)<br /><br />"We should be focused on turning the economy around. <span style="font-weight: bold;">We have to face the </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">reality</span> that huge swaths of our banking system are <span style="font-weight: bold;">insolvent</span>. We must recapitalize banks, not to help shareholders, but to rescue our economy. We need a clear, concise plan for aiding banks, large and small, that have<span style="font-weight: bold;"> liabilities that exceed their assets</span>." </blockquote><span style="font-family:arial;">Golly. If it weren't so ludicrous for Kerry to be claiming that he (and Democrats) are taxpayers' friends, it would be funny. But the economic situation we now face --- and that which is looming right around the corner --- is anything but funny. And although Republicans have certainly been no friend to the taxpayer in recent years, for any long-serving Democrat to claim the mantle of "responsibility" is truly a joke.</span><span style="font-family:arial;"> </span><span style="font-family:arial;">Let's look at the record.</span><span style="font-family:arial;"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" ><br /><br />According to the president and CEO of the Dallas Federal Reserve in a March 2008 </span><a style="font-family: arial; font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.dallasfed.org/news/speeches/fisher/2008/fs080528.cfm">address</a><span style="font-family:arial;"> --- <span style="font-style: italic;">long before the TARP spending, the stimulus bills, the bailouts over the last 6 months --- </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">Americans were facing <span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">$99.2 trillion </span>in unfunded liabilities for Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, or <span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">$330,000</span> for every man, woman and child in the USA, today. </span></span> <span style="font-family:arial;"><br /><br />Congress writes all spending legislation. <span style="font-style: italic;">Democrats</span> have been in control of the House of Representatives and the Senate for </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://uspolitics.about.com/od/usgovernment/l/bl_party_division_2.htm">the vast majority of the time</a><span style="font-family:arial;"> that these entitlement programs were enacted, to the present day. <span style="font-style: italic;">Democrats</span> were the ones that ushered in the age of "raiding" the "trust funds" that were set up for these programs. David Kelley wrote a good history of the Social Security </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://www.objectivistcenter.org/cth--1549-The_History_Economics_and_Philosophy_of_Social_Security.aspx">myth</a><span style="font-family:arial;">, here.</span><span style="font-family:arial;"> </span><span style="font-family:arial;"><br /><br />John Kerry has served as a U.S. Senator since 1985 --- so he is intimately familiar with the fact that during his tenure, the U.S. went from a creditor nation to a debtor nation.<br /><br />We are now borrowing many hundreds of billions of dollars a year from China and other nations to stave off complete national bankruptcy, while shifting the bill to pay all this money back, and continue funding these welfare schemes, to generations of Americans yet unborn.</span><span style="font-family:arial;"> </span><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br />Were the U.S. a private corporation, every one of the legislators that voted to put us into this giant, Ponzi-like financial mess would be brought up on criminal charges.</span> But because of the endless spin and propaganda of welfare-state cretins like Kerry, we're spending ourselves into oblivion all under the aegis of "helping" people, and preserving our "safety net."<br /><br />What happens when foreign nations stop loaning us money? What happens when China decides it's had enough, and that it is militarily and economically strong enough to starve us? What then, Sen. Kerry?</span><span style="font-family:arial;"> </span><span style="font-family:arial;"><br /><br />Oh, right, I forgot --- you and Teresa (</span><a style="font-family: arial; font-style: italic;" href="http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/07/26/dems.heinz.remark/">"shove it"</a><span style="font-family:arial;">) Heinz-Kerry can go ride off into the sunset, courtesy of her inherited millions, and leave the entire house of financial cards you helped to create for America to come tumbling down on our heads.</span><span style="font-family:arial;"><br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-style: italic;">"Responsibility," </span>indeed, Sen. Kerry. <span style="font-style: italic;"><br /><br />"Shove it,"</span> yourself, Sen. Kerry --- and that goes the same for all the donkeys that you and your comrades rode in on.<br /><br />* * *<br /><br />NOTE: From the wayback machine.... <a href="http://communistsforkerry.com/">Communists For Kerry</a>.<br /><br /><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-size:85%;">Original materials are © Copyright 2009 by Expedio, and Expedio5x5.blogspot.com. All rights reserved.</span><span style="font-size:85%;"></span></span><br /><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-size:85%;"></span> <span style="font-size:85%;">Publications and syndicators – contact <a href="mailto:expedio5x5@gmail.com">expedio5x5@gmail.com</a>.</span></span> <span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);font-family:arial;" >.</span><br /></div><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span>Expediohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10549383482552877305noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1033320156411232023.post-21392519372033948322009-02-05T20:03:00.000-08:002009-02-05T21:25:03.883-08:00Hey, Mr. Panetta (and the MSM): WHO Started Extraordinary Rendition?<span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);font-family:arial;" >.</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">For the past few weeks, the left and their MSM allies have been in a perpetual orgasm, over what they claim is the Obama(ssiah)'s claim that he'll bring the U.S. back under "the law," and will <span style="font-style: italic;">"stop torturing"</span> terror suspects.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Towards this end, the Obama(ssiah) is nominating <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Panetta">Leon Panetta</a> to head up the CIA --- despite the fact that he has absolutely <span style="font-style: italic;">no</span> experience with intelligence agencies.</span> <span style="font-family:arial;">But the troubling facts concerning his nomination run far, far deeper. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">For example, since 2001, we've been told that President Bush, Vice President Cheney and Defense Secretary Rumsfeld invented and began <span style="font-style: italic;">"extraordinary rendition"</span> --- basically transporting jihadist terror suspects to other nations for interrogation beyond what is permitted under U.S. laws.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">According to </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/first100days/2009/02/05/panetta-says-obama-administration-conduct-extraordinary-renditions/">FoxNews</a><span style="font-family:arial;">, the Obama(ssiah) forbids what Panetta called <span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">"that kind of extraordinary rendition -- when we send someone for the purpose of torture or actions by another country <span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">that violate our human values</span>."</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> Continuing, Panetta said:</span></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" ></span><blockquote style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" >"(I)f we capture a high-value prisoner, I believe we have the right to hold that individual temporarily, to debrief that individual and to make sure that individual is <span style="font-weight: bold;">properly incarcerated </span>so we can maintain control over that individual..."</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">But Panetta said if interrogators went beyond the methods they were told were legal, they should be investigated.<span style="font-style: italic;">"We can protect this country, we can get the information we need, we can provide for the security of the American people and <span style="font-weight: bold;">we can abide by the law.</span> I'm absolutely convinced that we can do that," </span>he said.</span></blockquote><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" ><br />There's something fundamental missing from this story, though --- something so basic that any honest Journalism 101 student would know, or could easily find out:</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" >It was Panetta's former boss, President Clinton, who <span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">started</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">"extraordinary rendition"</span> --- years <span style="font-style: italic;">before</span> 9/11, when Panetta was his Chief of Staff. </span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHOoFS9yYiM1eaGfEd1ldRYCRdvM1YHmQgnBwGuEOPJ7-9X99nNC9iPwu93INu9Ky4pfG34weeBfXUUIP1zoIsZcS4Twi_faHIBz7qqONjlSuaDRPz-1xEkUrxKylycg2fkrXLkrZy0awZ/s1600-h/19_Panetta1_600.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHOoFS9yYiM1eaGfEd1ldRYCRdvM1YHmQgnBwGuEOPJ7-9X99nNC9iPwu93INu9Ky4pfG34weeBfXUUIP1zoIsZcS4Twi_faHIBz7qqONjlSuaDRPz-1xEkUrxKylycg2fkrXLkrZy0awZ/s320/19_Panetta1_600.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299542547568463122" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" >Panetta and the "Extraordinary Renditioner In Chief"</span></span><br /></div><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" >More than <span style="font-style: italic;">three years ago</span>, in October 2005. Agence France-Presse covered this story. Yet how many Americans were ever told of this fact? Hm... zero? From the Australian Broadcasting Company:</span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><br /></span><blockquote><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200512/s1539284.htm">CIA Renditions Began Under Clinton: Agent</a></span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >The US Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA) controversial "rendition" program was launched under US president Bill Clinton, a former US counter-terrorism agent has told a German newspaper.<br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" >Michael Scheuer, a 22-year veteran of the CIA who resigned from the agency in 2004, has told </span><em style="font-family: arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Die Zeit</em><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" > that the US administration had been looking in the mid-1990s for a way to combat the terrorist threat and <span style="font-weight: bold;">circumvent the cumbersome US legal system</span>.</span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" ><br /><br />"President Clinton, his national security adviser Sandy Berger and his terrorism adviser Richard Clark ordered the CIA in the autumn of 1995 to destroy Al Qaeda," </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" >Mr Scheuer said.</span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" ><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">"We asked the president what we should do with the people we capture. Clinton said <span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">'That's up to you'</span>."</span><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" >Mr Scheuer, who headed the CIA unit that tracked Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden from 1996 to 1999, says he developed and led the "renditions" program.</span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" ><br /><br />He says the program includes moving prisoners </span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" >without due legal process</span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" > to countries without strict human rights protections.</span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" ><br /><br />"In Cairo, people are not treated like they are in Milwaukee,"</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" > he said.</span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" ><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">"The Clinton administration asked us if we believed that the prisoners were being treated in accordance with local law.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" >"And we answered, 'yes, we're fairly sure'."</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" >He says at the time the CIA did not arrest or imprison anyone itself.</span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" ><span style="font-style: italic;"><br /><br />"That was done by the local police or secret services,"</span> he said, adding the prisoners were never taken to US soil.</span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" ><br /><br />"President Clinton did not want that,"</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" > he said.</span></blockquote><p class="wallacepara" style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />So here we have Mr. Panetta, the Chief of Staff under President Clinton, <span style="font-style: italic;">now</span> claiming that via his moral philosophy, he is in full concert with President Obama(ssiah), that he would never permit "extraordinary rendition" under his watch at the CIA --- when, in fact, </span><span style="font-family:arial;">he was a senior member of the administration that <span style="font-style: italic;">created</span> that program.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" >When will an enterprising "journalist" ask Panetta about this? How about a member of the loyal opposition, during his confirmation hearings?</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Not to be a cynic, but given the love affair we've witnessed between the press and the Obama(ssiah) over the past two years, it doesn't appear this question will ever be asked.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">And neither, it seems, will Americans ever be made aware of the fact that years before 9/11, it was the "new Camelot" (aka the Clinton administration, of which Panetta was a senior member) that began </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" >the very program that leftists have dishonestly pinned to Bush</span><span style="font-family:arial;">, and for which they decried him as the most evil man in the world.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Hope and change?</span> Let's certainly "hope" there will be "change" within our esteemed "journalistic" establishment, before it allows any more egregious misrepresentations to be sailed right over their collective heads, by any more Clinton administration retreads.</span><br /><br /></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-size:85%;">Original materials are © Copyright 2009 by Expedio, and Expedio5x5.blogspot.com.</span></span><br /><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-size:85%;"></span> <span style="font-size:85%;">Publications and syndicators – contact <a href="mailto:expedio5x5@gmail.com">expedio5x5@gmail.com</a>.</span></span><br /><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-size:85%;"></span></span></div><p class="wallacepara" style="font-family:arial;"><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span></span></span><br /></p>Expediohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10549383482552877305noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1033320156411232023.post-29471024150096504472009-01-31T08:59:00.000-08:002009-02-01T07:18:50.519-08:00Exclusive: New Welfare Programs Being Secretly Developed By Obama-Hollywood Axis<span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">On January 31, 2009, it was <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jan/30/white-house-shows-tilt-to-1-trillion-bad-bank/">announced</a> in the <span style="font-style: italic;">Washington Times</span> that the Obama(ssiah) administration: <blockquote style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">"... is leaning toward setting up a 'bad bank' that would buy <span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">toxic</span><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"> loan assets </span>from large troubled banks</span><span> such as Citigroup in a major new program that would be run by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and is likely to cost at least $1 trillion.</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span>The program could be announced as early as Monday as part of a comprehensive plan to address burgeoning housing foreclosures and credit problems, said banking and federal officials familiar with the administration's deliberations." </blockquote><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Question: How does one turn </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">"toxic loan assets"</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> into entities that are not </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">"toxic?"</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> And why should this be forcibly done at the taxpayers' expense?</span><br /><br />Undeterred by such pedestrian (proletariat) questions, President Obama(ssiah) recently </span><a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jan/31/obama-nation-cant-afford-bickering-over-stimulus/">said</a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> there's </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">"little time for bickering"</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> over the nearly $1 trillion in payback spending he plans to initiate, to enrich ACORN, the unions who supported him, etc.</span></span> <span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br /><br /></span><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Fans of Expedio5x5 will recall that last October, one of our reporters was able to sneak inside a Democratic Party gathering, at which its leaders considered issuing a campaign promise to prosecute American Olympians who receive </span><span style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://expedio5x5.blogspot.com/2008/10/democrats-to-enact-legislation-to-stop.html">"windfall medals."</a> </span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">We at Expedio5x5 are pleased to announce that the same reporter recently interviewed a source close to Obama's advisers, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Via this interview, we've learned that the Obama(ssiah) administration is also quietly working with some of Hollywood's most noted film makers to craft and promote a number of other dramatic, inspired programs </span></span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">"to assist Americans who are left at a 'toxic' disadvantage in our struggling economy."</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The programs would be designed to (a) provide the appearance of </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">"helping those who are most in need of government intervention,"</span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> and (b) enable movie directors to rapidly develop TV commercials and even feature films to promote the programs' noble aims to the general public, similarly to the </span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Writers%27_Project">WPA program</a><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> during the Great Depression.</span></span> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" ><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">First among these initiatives is tentatively titled the </span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">"TROUBLED DIPLOMA RECRAFTING and IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM,"</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> or </span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">T-DRIP</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">. According to Expedio5x5's source, a secret internal memo describes the purpose of the program as follows:</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"></span></span><blockquote style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span>"T-DRIP will be established to offset the 'toxic' stigma and reduced employment opportunities among those who didn't complete high school or college</span>, due to laziness, excessive partying, or a youthful belief in the 'I ain't gonna be exploited by da man, or our imperialist-capitalist system' subculture."</span></span></blockquote><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Applicants would bring their expulsion notices and/or probation reports to a government office and, after an interview, emerge with the diploma or degree of their choice. The memo continues:</span> <blockquote style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold;">"To show the unwashed, exploited masses how easy it is to transform their <span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">'toxically-low' educational status</span> into parchments showing stellar academic achievement, several noted Hollywood stars will be filmed going through the process themselves."</span></blockquote><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br />The first high-profile applicant for the program is slated to be noted </span></span><span><span style="font-family:arial;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjequ4cffJ-WdMpWLJtzL0DChVRhc4hYnY8nH1nSbOm11DEeZE5CTkzZjy5hQDQ5j-ZCDGUt7m95u7K7fSm_mJnmQhnmN2dx45KvcfIzSmevuswpPGHthydy7jzXiKU-ZK4jt2ohw5P0Qn/s1600-h/spicoli.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 124px; height: 122px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjequ4cffJ-WdMpWLJtzL0DChVRhc4hYnY8nH1nSbOm11DEeZE5CTkzZjy5hQDQ5j-ZCDGUt7m95u7K7fSm_mJnmQhnmN2dx45KvcfIzSmevuswpPGHthydy7jzXiKU-ZK4jt2ohw5P0Qn/s200/spicoli.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5297518912037093106" border="0" /></a></span></span><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">foreign policy expert</span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" > and high</span><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> school diploma-holder </span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Sean Penn</span> (recently profiled by <a href="http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/author/apeyser/">Andrea Peyser</a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> at </span><a href="http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/apeyser/2009/01/30/celebutards-the-hollywood-hacks-limousine-liberals-and-pandering-politicians-who-are-destroying-america/">Big Hollywood</a>), who will be given a <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Useful_idiot">Master's Degree in Useful Idiotology</a><span style="font-weight: bold;">.</span><br /><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPsIGjBBdkGByrXod8AbFviP1quBxC585l__BoGjNSwrFCeML2J4iFVFRjeO-D0IXOrJr2QDep23d9blOhG37E9VGieuW3QIQYMMY74Pn8-u5tWe_I5499RS9YqA3-9iBtqiuPY_E0JNac/s1600-h/penn_chavez.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 241px; height: 149px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPsIGjBBdkGByrXod8AbFviP1quBxC585l__BoGjNSwrFCeML2J4iFVFRjeO-D0IXOrJr2QDep23d9blOhG37E9VGieuW3QIQYMMY74Pn8-u5tWe_I5499RS9YqA3-9iBtqiuPY_E0JNac/s200/penn_chavez.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5297516428175840082" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" ><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/blog/2008/nov/26/sean-penn-hugo-chavez">Says</a> Penn: <span style="font-weight: bold;">"It's true, Chávez may not be a good man. But he may well be a great one."<br /><br /></span></span></span></div><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Penn will be followed by acclaimed jihadist-equivoc</span>ator <span style="font-weight: bold;">Rosie O'Donnell</span>, </span><span style="font-size:100%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjl0g_4GyVrnWVzb4tpbjQLLNJNE_ZoOs1lUNk66MlZJXXCalAz88oC26Z-Q4HPogdUxJX-jEAyoP_SQgrQHWIBNfPA3Rw1mHu5I2gwT0dNcn2v8CSZ60ajraZIeTUgU1ZKEYkJEwdCKGL_/s1600-h/2007-11-05Rosie.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 131px; height: 160px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjl0g_4GyVrnWVzb4tpbjQLLNJNE_ZoOs1lUNk66MlZJXXCalAz88oC26Z-Q4HPogdUxJX-jEAyoP_SQgrQHWIBNfPA3Rw1mHu5I2gwT0dNcn2v8CSZ60ajraZIeTUgU1ZKEYkJEwdCKGL_/s200/2007-11-05Rosie.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5297517760259057186" border="0" /></a></span><span style="font-family:arial;">who will trade in her </span><span style="font-family:arial;">high school diploma for a <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.mrc.org/Profiles/odonnell/welcome.asp">Doctorate in Cultural Subversion</a><span style="font-weight: bold;">.</span><br /><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9CA1F1vA582-BXjCTCM4O4RgVczD1yJHTz2Ac23PDNE6BalJzJRPpKam5eVS3ViWzb8eeWJF528bIpFwPH2eQhJjGFvZTsO2CsPuO2SQ2AWwqYn7LpSi9JMIDWPY-5p3nt8mOLk0CRkb9/s1600-h/rosieksm2-tn.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 241px; height: 180px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9CA1F1vA582-BXjCTCM4O4RgVczD1yJHTz2Ac23PDNE6BalJzJRPpKam5eVS3ViWzb8eeWJF528bIpFwPH2eQhJjGFvZTsO2CsPuO2SQ2AWwqYn7LpSi9JMIDWPY-5p3nt8mOLk0CRkb9/s320/rosieksm2-tn.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5297518357213656098" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-family:arial;"><a href="http://newsbusters.org/node/7577">Says</a> O'Donnell: "</span><b style="font-family: arial;">Radical Christianity is just as threatening as radical Islam in a country like America."</b></span></div><span style="font-family:arial;"><br /><br />According to our source, other programs under consideration at the highest levels of the Obama(ssiah) administration include:</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" ><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" >THE "MARXIST LARDASSES-IN-MOVIES PROGRAM" (M-LIMP)</span></span> <span style="font-family:arial;"><br /><br />The federal government would establish a $100 billion fund for distribution exclusively among morbidly obese, Marx-inspired moviemakers, who aspire to be anti-American propaganda producers like <span style="font-weight: bold;">Michael Moore</span>. Our source quoted the Obama(ssiah) as telling his senior advisors: </span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMkYVtF7LxGEc7N-ao7FuKqrwnfUXqiPSlQ5cQD4IKQ-0ZxWAQCoee72T6tVvTs0-fYfObXc6zPtKyM-XyRDAk3jhlCSJiiqxy-NEIylQKFq8nNAoIivCVGJZGw9qbcD5z8T1QcDU5Xp6E/s1600-h/michael-moore-2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 159px; height: 159px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMkYVtF7LxGEc7N-ao7FuKqrwnfUXqiPSlQ5cQD4IKQ-0ZxWAQCoee72T6tVvTs0-fYfObXc6zPtKyM-XyRDAk3jhlCSJiiqxy-NEIylQKFq8nNAoIivCVGJZGw9qbcD5z8T1QcDU5Xp6E/s200/michael-moore-2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5297532971827002450" border="0" /></a><blockquote style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family:arial;">"We all know how vital movies are to fooling Americans into supporting our complete takeover of the economy. Michael Moore has been critical in this effort, but he can't do it all on his own.<br /><br />"From coast to coast, there are fat-ass dropout Marxists with camcorders that we can and will enlist to make the next generation of Moore-like flicks and mini-flicks. Our M-LIMP program (stop that giggling!) will provide them with the massive funding they need to get their collectivist schlock from their sweaty brows to the silver screen. Yes, people, we can!"</span></blockquote><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;font-family:arial;font-size:130%;" >"WHO'S MY BABY'S DADDY?"</span> <span style="font-family:arial;"><br /><br />The federal government plans to fund and co-produce a daytime talk show that would be a hybrid of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maury_%28TV_series%29"><span style="font-weight: bold;">"Maury"</span></a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Match_Game"><span style="font-weight: bold;">"Match Game."<br /></span></a></span><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />Women suffering from <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">the "toxic" stigma</span> of having become convinced that unprotected sex with random <span style="font-style: italic;">"cute guys"</span> at keg parties would be the ticket to an easy, subsidized life --- with housing, food, </span><span style="font-family:arial;">educational benefits, health care </span><span style="font-family:arial;">and more --- would try to match their babies' DNA to that of their various one-night stands.<br /></span><span style="font-family:arial;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Match_Game"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></a></span> <div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhO9hAS-95GJ30YVbBtGG9Qxr69hoCoT4e00irz2WoaDfS1RB8pt0pDmu85bthkGnOn7Ff2fh3jGjw49PGAMLsuxUgKLXaKlgrXQraabA0FUYEp1WcBFW3kdPChuW6qJsnwPb_fgHIvo24n/s1600-h/121.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 137px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhO9hAS-95GJ30YVbBtGG9Qxr69hoCoT4e00irz2WoaDfS1RB8pt0pDmu85bthkGnOn7Ff2fh3jGjw49PGAMLsuxUgKLXaKlgrXQraabA0FUYEp1WcBFW3kdPChuW6qJsnwPb_fgHIvo24n/s200/121.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5297529386856900226" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzeZp71Q2LnhrEYcDIq3Udeh8RjhmHoj87lKbebK2C_RR8un-1EQBFEOXyxcxGioBM8ND5OBIASB5swZRaEm9uH8j6BbYxkP5QGQ0-mzT1jL_9tmunAL1qCYiyHuG11-Yt4zUrZj3Avwp3/s1600-h/dnaff5.jpg"> <img style="cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 147px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzeZp71Q2LnhrEYcDIq3Udeh8RjhmHoj87lKbebK2C_RR8un-1EQBFEOXyxcxGioBM8ND5OBIASB5swZRaEm9uH8j6BbYxkP5QGQ0-mzT1jL_9tmunAL1qCYiyHuG11-Yt4zUrZj3Avwp3/s200/dnaff5.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5297529592199446466" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJ9y4T-ys_6t-mFNKyQPoFpVRBzsWAcabb11h1VUVIt_lJ8CWz9ohlsPNFmxg_SE4-pulZwQXgMmcjAMPpx0p_pHQmjxBG6UEGs7N-t4jTQ05xeFESAr_Z11doT0l0_1UmYb-DEjC2fx5e/s1600-h/Match_Game_Trey.jpg"> <img style="cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 132px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJ9y4T-ys_6t-mFNKyQPoFpVRBzsWAcabb11h1VUVIt_lJ8CWz9ohlsPNFmxg_SE4-pulZwQXgMmcjAMPpx0p_pHQmjxBG6UEGs7N-t4jTQ05xeFESAr_Z11doT0l0_1UmYb-DEjC2fx5e/s200/Match_Game_Trey.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5297529697035826786" border="0" /></a><br /></div> <span style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span><span style="font-family:arial;">According to a secret internal Obama(ssiah) administration memo:<br /></span><blockquote style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family:arial;">"The show would be co-hosted by former Surgeon General <span style="font-weight: bold;">Joycelyn Elders</span> and noted political analyst <span style="font-weight: bold;">Roseanne Barr</span> (a charter T-DRIP participant).<br /><br />"In addition to continued government subsidies for their basic needs, those contestants who can tolerate the other-worldly screeches of the two hosts, and go on to score the most "matches," will get to live in the penthouse apartments or mansions seized from (evil) capitalists who speak out against any Obama(ssiah) administration social initiatives. Contestants who match all their babies' DNA to the sources would also score a bonus prize: having those treasonous capitalists serve as their personal assistants --- for five years --- as an alternative to their serving out their sentences in Gitmo.</span><span style="font-family:arial;">"</span></blockquote><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" ><br />Inside-the-Beltway speculation is that </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" ><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_De_Palma"><span>Brian de Palma</span></a>, </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >director of the spectacular </span><a style="font-weight: bold;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjibPXXi0mSPuqNXG2jDaxm3aycNfVlB_r9_Qz1HQSWpBVYvLwle8drk9bumY_USh5VVUCh8IW6HVeCfQs5sv9MMSoJNZ0DQjyHC-GBXogQbyv8TAEU1rIxZT8aeh_BHrxCNo8_N-4i1An/s1600-h/amd_briandepalma.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 144px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjibPXXi0mSPuqNXG2jDaxm3aycNfVlB_r9_Qz1HQSWpBVYvLwle8drk9bumY_USh5VVUCh8IW6HVeCfQs5sv9MMSoJNZ0DQjyHC-GBXogQbyv8TAEU1rIxZT8aeh_BHrxCNo8_N-4i1An/s200/amd_briandepalma.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5297533137962755874" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >U.S. military-assailing flop, <a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2178070/"><span style="font-style: italic;">"Redacted,"</span></a> will be tapped to head the new office that the Obama(ssiah) </span><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">will create, to oversee these "anti-toxicity" initiatives.</span><br /><br />Tentatively titled the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Office of Cultured Hollywood Uber-Marxist Propagandists & Subversives (O-CHUMPS)</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">, de Palma reportedly has indicated his willingness to serve in this role:</span><br /><blockquote style="font-style: italic;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">"There are many worthy figures in Hollywood that President Obama(ssiah) could choose to head this distinctive and powerful new means of vilifying American before the world --- while </span><a href="http://scottthong.wordpress.com/2007/11/29/brian-de-palmas-redacted-rejected-by-audiences/">emboldening and morally justifying those who are sworn to destroy us.</a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> I'm just honored to be in consideration, and pledge that if selected, I will do my utmost to advance global disdain for America, for freedom --- and, as is my new specialty, for our military."</span></blockquote><br />Stay tuned to Expedio5x5 for updates to this fascinating story, and the Obama(ssiah) administration's attempts to transform America from a quasi-free, quasi-capitalist culture into a near-socialist, fascism-driven welfare state --- in which entities described as <span style="font-style: italic;">"toxic"</span> are magically transformed into value-rich assets, from which all will benefit.</span><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-size:85%;">Original materials are © Copyright 2009 by Expedio, and Expedio5x5.blogspot.com. All rights reserved.</span><span style="font-size:85%;"></span></span><br /><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-size:85%;"></span> <span style="font-size:85%;">Publications and syndicators – contact <a href="mailto:expedio5x5@gmail.com">expedio5x5@gmail.com</a>.</span></span><br /></div><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span>Expediohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10549383482552877305noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1033320156411232023.post-11116624326924101202009-01-26T16:02:00.001-08:002009-01-26T16:12:34.686-08:00A Delicious Update To The Glitterati's Pledges To The Obama(ssiah)<span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">Re </span><a style="font-family: arial; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;" href="http://expedio5x5.blogspot.com/2009/01/glitteratis-unmade-pledge-of-servitude.html">The Glitterati's Unmade Pledge Of Servitude To The Obamassiah</a><span style="font-family: arial;">, here's a delicious update, courtesy of </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://buzzkillcomedy.com/">Buzzkill Comedy</a><span style="font-family: arial;">...</span><br /><p style="font-family: arial;" align="center"><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/frNuEvGwLpA&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/frNuEvGwLpA&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object></p><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">Expedio5x5's response:</span><br /><p style="font-family: arial;" align="center"><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/TylvUGJIi_w&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/TylvUGJIi_w&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object></p><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: arial;">.</span>Expediohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10549383482552877305noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1033320156411232023.post-24492797896281490082009-01-23T15:55:00.000-08:002009-01-24T05:59:18.665-08:00US Airstrikes & Civilian Casualties: Then Vs. Now<span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);font-family:arial;" >.</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Do you remember that Sesame Street game, <span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 102);">"Which One Is Different?" </span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Well, it's time to play a grown-up version of that game --- although the consequences of this one are <span style="font-weight: bold;">deadly serious.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">For seven years, the Bush administration launched air strikes against militant Islamists, yet our mainstream media almost invariably </span><span style="font-family:arial;">wrote headlines similar to this one, from the <span style="font-weight: bold;">BBC</span>, in August 2007--- which were often accompanied by grisly pictures of injured/dead children --- emphasizing the civilians that were killed, over the objective of the strike:</span><span style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6930292.stm"><span style="font-family:arial;"></span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"></span><blockquote><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6930292.stm"><span style="font-family:arial;">Afghans 'Wounded In Air Strike'</span></a><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" >About 50 Afghan <span style="font-weight: bold;">civilians</span> have been wounded in an air strike by US-led forces on a group of Taleban leaders holding a meeting in Helmand </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" >province.</span></blockquote><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" ><br />Or this one, from October 2007, from the <span style="font-style: italic;">NY Times' <span style="font-weight: bold;">International Herald-Tribune</span></span>:</span><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/10/17/asia/17afghan.php"><span style="font-family:arial;"></span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"></span><blockquote><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/10/17/asia/17afghan.php"><span style="font-family:arial;">Afghan Officials Say Allied Airstrike <span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Killed </span><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Civilians</span><br /><br /></span></a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" >A NATO airstrike Thursday on a village near the embattled provincial capital of Lashkar Gah <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">killed between 25 and 30 </span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">civilians</span>, Afghan officials </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" >in the area said. While NATO confirmed that an air strike had taken place in the area, where Taliban fighters have been battling NATO forces, it </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" >said the incident was being investigated and that the command was "unable to confirm any civilian casualties."</span></blockquote><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" ><br />Or this one, from <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">McClatchey</span> (<span style="font-style: italic;">"Truth To Power"</span>), from September 2008:</span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.mcclatchydc.com/162/story/52774.html"><span style="font-family:arial;"><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"></span></span></a><blockquote><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.mcclatchydc.com/162/story/52774.html"><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;">U.S. Strike <span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Kills </span><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Civilians</span>, Iraqis Say</span></span></a><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" >At least eight </span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" >civilians</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" >, all from one family and including women, were killed in a U.S. raid and airstrike Friday near Tikrit, Iraqi police and witnesses said</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" >The attack, which a U.S. military statement said targeted a “terrorist” accused of running a bomb-making ring, was in the town of Dawr, northwest </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" >of Baghdad. </span></blockquote><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />Or this one, from the <span style="font-weight: bold;">AP</span>, in October 2001</span><span style="font-family:arial;">, just weeks after 9/11: </span><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://media.www.dailygamecock.com/media/storage/paper247/news/2001/10/29/News/Airstrikes.Kill.More.Civilians-134258.shtml"><span style="font-family:arial;"></span></a><blockquote><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://media.www.dailygamecock.com/media/storage/paper247/news/2001/10/29/News/Airstrikes.Kill.More.Civilians-134258.shtml"><span style="font-family:arial;">Airstrikes <span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Kill More </span><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Civilians</span></span></a></blockquote><span style="font-family:arial;"></span><span style="font-family:arial;"></span><blockquote style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family:arial;">American airstrikes meant to punish the Taliban spilled over Sunday into residential neighborhoods of the Afghan capital, </span><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">killing 13 </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">civilians</span> — the second time in as many days that missiles have accidentally hit homes and killed residents.</span></blockquote><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />Or this one, from the <span style="font-weight: bold;">front page of the </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">LA Times</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span>in March 2003:</span><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://articles.latimes.com/2003/mar/25/news/war-baghdad25"><span style="font-family:arial;"></span></a><blockquote><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://articles.latimes.com/2003/mar/25/news/war-baghdad25"><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Civilian</span><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"> Deaths</span> From Airstrikes on Baghdad Fuel Rising Anger</span></a><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" >Saman Atef was finishing a late breakfast Monday when he heard a long, whining whoosh. Before he had time to ponder the noise, <span style="font-weight: bold;">three of his </span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">neighbors’ houses exploded</span> in a rain of bricks, glass and dust.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" >In the instant the bomb or missile hit, four people were killed and 23 were injured, Atef said, and the people of his working-class neighborhood </span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" >of northern Baghdad counted one more reason to feel angry with the United States.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" >Just before the midday attack, a robust-looking President Saddam Hussein had appeared on state television in military uniform and exhorted Iraqis </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" >to attack the U.S. and British enemy.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" ><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">“Cut their throats and even their fingers,”</span> Hussein urged. <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">“Strike them and strike evil so that evil will be defeated.”</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" >The U.S. war strategy has counted in part on separating the people of Iraq from the government of Hussein.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" >But <span style="font-weight: bold;">the deaths and injuries from misdirected or errant bombs</span>, or from shrapnel and fragments that spray into nearby homes even when the munitions </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" >find their intended target, <span style="font-weight: bold;">are </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">making more and more people believe that the United States is heedless of the Iraqi public.</span></span></blockquote><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" ><br /><br />Hm.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Are you starting to notice a pattern here? </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">1) All these inflammatory headlines, and the stories that followed them, downplayed or ignored the fact that the U.S. (under Bush) was targeting </span><span style="font-family:arial;">militant Islamists. Instead, they focused primarily on civilian casualties.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">2) The cowardly targets of these airstrikes made the decision to hide out among civilians, thus condemning them to being killed or injured when </span><span style="font-family:arial;">we attacked them.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">3) "The World" condemned the (evil, warmongering, bloodthirsty) Bush administration, and all its appendages (including our soldiers), and alleged </span><span style="font-family:arial;">that all we were accomplishing was igniting hatred of the U.S.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >Even the Obamassiah, as a candidate, said that if he were president, he'd prosecute this war very differently, and would stop <span>the Bush policy of </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">"air-raiding </span></span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" ><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">villages & killing civilians,"</span> </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >which he said is </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >"creating problems" </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >for us</span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >:<br /></span><br /><p align="center"><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/YLlyjGjeZIY&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/YLlyjGjeZIY&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object></p><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"></span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >My, my.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >How things "<span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">change</span>.</span><span style="font-weight: bold;">"</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >Today is January 23, 2009, and on his third day in office, <span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">The Obamassiah launched airstrikes against targets in Pakistan, in which at least 50% of </span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" ><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">the casualties were civilians</span>. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >So, let's see how the headlines read:</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">From the <span style="font-weight: bold;">AP</span> (via <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28811723/">MSNBC.com</a>, <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,482128,00.html">FoxNews.com</a>, and <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/01/23/world/AP-AS-Pakistan.html?_r=1&ref=world"><span style="font-style: italic;">The New York Times</span></a>):</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" ></span><blockquote style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >18 Killed As Suspected U.S. Missiles Hit Pakistan</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> - </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >Alleged U.S. Spy Planes <span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Attack Militant Areas</span> In First Strikes Of Obama Era</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Two suspected U.S. missile attacks killed 18 people Friday on the Pakistan side of the Afghan border, security officials </span><span style="font-family:arial;">said, in the first such strikes since President Barack Obama took office.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">At least five foreign militants were among those killed</span> in the strikes by unmanned aircraft in two parts of the frontier region, an intelligence </span><span style="font-family:arial;">official said without naming them. There was no information on the identities of the others.<br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><blockquote>[Ed.: (Q) If 18 were killed, and "at least five were 'militants'," what are the other 13 classified as? (A) In the Age of The Obamassiah, "unmentionables."]</blockquote></span></span></blockquote><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" ><br />And from <span style="font-weight: bold;">CNN.com</span></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"></span><blockquote><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/01/23/pakistan.missile/index.html"><span style="font-family:arial;">Two U.S. Missile Strikes Kill 17 In Pakistan, Sources Say </span></a><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" >Seventeen <span style="font-weight: bold;">people</span> were killed Friday evening in two U.S. missile strikes in Pakistan's tribal region, said one </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" >government and two military officials.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" >They are the first such strikes since President Obama took office Tuesday.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" >Both hits were near the Afghan border, said local political official Nasim Dawar. The Pakistani military sources asked not to be named because </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" >they are not authorized to release such information.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" >The first strike, which killed 10 <span style="font-weight: bold;">people</span>, occurred about 5:15 p.m. (7:15 a.m. ET) in a village near Mir Ali in North Waziristan, the officials </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" >said. Seven <span style="font-weight: bold;">people</span> died in the second hit at 7:30 p.m. (9:30 a.m. ET) near Wana, the major town in South Waziristan, 17 miles (27 kilometers) </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" >from Afghanistan, they said.</span></blockquote><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />And from the <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">LA Times</span><span style="font-weight: bold;">:</span></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"></span><blockquote><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-pakistan-missiles24-2009jan24,0,4120819.story"><span style="font-family:arial;">Suspected U.S. Missile Attacks Kill 18 In Pakistan</span></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The raids suggest that </span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">President Obama's administration will continue </span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">the campaign against Al Qaeda and Taliban</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> targets in Pakistan.</span></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" ></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" ><br />Reporting from Islamabad -- In the first such strikes since the inauguration of President Barack Obama, suspected U.S. missile barrages today </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" >killed at least 18 people in the lawless tribal region near the Afghan border, Pakistani officials said.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" >The two raids suggested that the new U.S. administration intends to press ahead with attacks against <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Islamic militants</span> in the rural areas, even </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" >though the campaign has been politically costly to Pakistan's Western-leaning civilian government. <span style="font-weight: bold;">President Obama indicated during the campaign </span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">for the White House that he would continue to carry out strikes against </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">"high-value" Al Qaeda and Taliban targets</span> on Pakistani soil, particularly </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" >if the Pakistani military were unable or unwilling to act. </span><br /></blockquote><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">And from the <span style="font-weight: bold;">BBC</span> (which, like our MSM, routinely decried "civilian casualties" in headlines and initial copy until, hm... January 20, 2009)...</span><br /><blockquote><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7847423.stm"><span style="font-family:arial;">Deadly Missiles Strike Pakistan</span></a><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" >Two missile attacks from suspected US drones have killed 14 people in north-western Pakistan, officials say.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">At least one missile hit a house</span> in a village near the town of Mirali in North Waziristan, <span style="font-weight: bold;">a stronghold of al-Qaeda and Taleban militants.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" >A second suspected drone attack has been reported in South Waziristan, killing five people. </span></blockquote><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">And the venerable </span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">HuffingtonPost</span>, that temple of journalistic integrity and rigorously-enforced editorial standards, somehow <span style="font-weight: bold;">forgot to mention that there were any civilian casualties at all</span> (</span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/23/first-missile-strikes-on_n_160458.html">here</a><span style="font-family:arial;">)<span style="font-weight: bold;">. </span><span style="font-style: italic;"><br />(Ed.: Of course, Expedio5x5 has full confidence Arianna will quickly instruct her impartial team of headline writers and editors to get right on it, and highlight all those civilian casualties, with the same vigor and prominence that they did whenever the Bush administration attacked militant Islamists.)</span><br /></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >==============================</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">So let's review what we've learned today:</span></span><br /><ul><li><span style="font-family:arial;">When the (evil, warmongering, bloodthirsty) Bush administration launched airtrikes against militant Islamists, our loyal, patriotic, truth-seeking and -dispensing mainstream news media rightfully framed them in the context of how many civilians were killed, and how Bush was causing "the world" to hate us.<br /><br /></span></li><li><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-style: italic;">However</span>, when the noble, moral, holy, peace-loving, beyond-reproach Obamassiah administration launches airstrikes against militant Islamists, our MSM is correct in writing headlines and stories that reflect this (alleged) fact. And if civilians happen to be killed in the process, well... let's just bury that <span style="font-style: italic;">waaaayyyyyy</span> down in the article, or better yet, let's not even discuss such unpleasantries. After all, with The Obamassiah's <a href="http://expedio5x5.blogspot.com/2009/01/tale-of-two-captains.html">extensive knowledge of, and experience in military and national security matters</a>, He knows what's best for America, and we are in no position to question, let alone subvert His efforts on our behalf.<br /></span></li></ul><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />But wait a minute --- isn't Pakistan is a sovereign nation?</span> Didn't The Obamassiah's constituency claim that the (evil, warmongering, bloodthirsty) </span><span style="font-family:arial;">Bush administration was wrong to attack and kill civilians in nations that hadn't attacked us (Iraq, Afghanistan)?</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >Will this fact not cause The Obamassiah's most fervent supporters (even those outside the MSM) to view him as an evil, bloodthirsty warmonger, too?</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Of course not. To the MSM, and the rabid anti-war, jihadist-appeasing, blame-America-first, Bush-Derangement-Syndrome left, if there were civilian casualties in an Obamassiah missile strike, well, they must have just been victims of militant Islamists having set up shop too close to them. And <span style="font-style: italic;">wowza!</span>, did The Obamassiah ever show them we're serious about waging the war on... the war on... the war on... <a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://washingtontimes.com/weblogs/potus-notes/2009/Jan/23/obama-is-using-war-on-terror/">what</a>, again?<br /><br />Besides, our loyal, America-loving MSM would never, <span style="font-style: italic;">ever</span> do anything that would unfairly depict a U.S. president's actions, least of all in a way that would potentially incite domestic and international hatred of our nation, would it? Or to affect the outcome of an election? <br /><br />'Course not. The American MSM is, after all, the "fourth estate," the citizens' watchdog on government... the fair, impartial, patriotic institution, whose only obligation is to the truth. Right?</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Right.</span></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span></span></span>Expediohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10549383482552877305noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1033320156411232023.post-21201272437430727042009-01-23T10:53:00.000-08:002009-01-23T13:02:06.018-08:00Is It Possible To Be Simultaneously Impressed... And Nauseated?<span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" >YES.</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br />(Video hat tip: <a href="http://www.breitbart.tv/">Breitbart.tv</a>)</span></span><br /><p style="font-family: arial;" align="center"><script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.thenewsroom.com/mash/swf/voxant_player.js?a=V3568188&m=761636&w=420&h=375&v=2"></script></p><br /><p><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><br />Hm.</span> </span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">What other cultures have utilized, and obsessed over iconic imagery of their "dear leader" (by choice --- or via compulsion)?<br /><br />Oh, right:<br /><br /><br /></span></span></p><p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7df2pphIAk_h6iVyd1ViysV4nOI2syGYfUYRZD5-cxHdUAk8o_qqhPSdy4LgG1YmPHM1HRQFqnB7ZzcE3z6IyYLk8Ub6AeGibDiql30ObZ-0pwIlIvei0JvKUMBqhVX6zS0DbLq5UwgAM/s1600-h/poster_detail.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; 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display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 211px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFPotZsZLNcmjAK5euQIvWAjLupjsvSw8nb0Q4EH8nh6CX6EfzW33Kazv4O70vcwN5Qb_wj_HRvq5J9dBjeuKoTjxmCUwv-AtEz8LuxSkyuJv_GQjfSzR2k7m3szAgb-xPEzQQwQY_fTMv/s320/478329872_027ec0435f.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5294577863599737922" border="0" /></a></p><p style="font-weight: bold; font-family: arial;font-family:arial;"><br /><br />But of course, there are absolutely no parallels to be drawn here... nope, none at all.<br /><br />Because if there were, America's journalistic, educational and artistic institutions, in the name of patriotism, surely would have pointed them out... <span style="font-style: italic;">wouldn't they</span>?<br /><br /><br /></p><p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglstVBQImYVAAmVc7iG4awW5k9IzGmHxdoEX9F91x5Vs06RvxSOgepSYAGqqzCxXkXamgECxjJWbEcly_kTOYOz3ubrbaH9Xvr2ePXnpTL36GR71I44DGygMhyphenhyphen7H_Ev44K7GGC_5-Waezx/s1600-h/2008-10-11-BarackisHope.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; 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display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 160px; height: 220px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBGSkBuWrQT4mcuAG85NIZ-51Zi2vZCLZ86lnHGoCKJFt_Zf3URATrgw5Ub0IuhzsPc3KIvO4GAgC2u_k2yI6bRtcxb4-1IwImovgN4uwwem9Y8U2ul0GD_eXxntBJ9xqpPAeSNjWhrsNV/s320/presidential-campaign-shirts-barack-obama-portrait-in-sepia-tones-hope-for-america-american-apparel-shirt.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5294578520354556258" border="0" /></a></p><p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXHB9BrrJIn7aBprKgRUKFAqALtlU5fHZAwD4CLCw2r2mHQPZ_4TPiOP3BgBd9WFB4-q8k1IikPuxhwDVN0oVu4fsHChvrekuIGwWJLuXGRiWTaO2YiB21oMvTPfavKoQPd7obS7n_Zb6l/s1600-h/NintenObama-DS-Lite.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 311px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXHB9BrrJIn7aBprKgRUKFAqALtlU5fHZAwD4CLCw2r2mHQPZ_4TPiOP3BgBd9WFB4-q8k1IikPuxhwDVN0oVu4fsHChvrekuIGwWJLuXGRiWTaO2YiB21oMvTPfavKoQPd7obS7n_Zb6l/s320/NintenObama-DS-Lite.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5294578388373519314" border="0" /></a></p><p><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><br /></p>Expediohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10549383482552877305noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1033320156411232023.post-25726115373829945892009-01-22T00:18:00.000-08:002009-01-22T01:43:53.943-08:00Hallalujah!!! Castro (Again) Cheers On The Obamassiah<span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);font-family:arial;" >.</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">We can call this one, <span style="font-style: italic;">"Change that Castro can believe in!!!"</span><br /><br />Apparently, The Obamassiah's inaugural speech captivated more than just those in attendance.<br /><br />Communist Cuban dictator <span style="font-weight: bold;">Fidel Castro</span> was watching too --- and according to the AP, <a href="http://apnews.myway.com/article/20090121/D95RQGSO0.html">he definitely caught "hope-change" fever</a>: </span><br /><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><span id="article"><span style="color:black;"><span id="article"><span id="intelliTXT"></span></span></span></span></span><blockquote style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><span id="article"><span id="article"><span id="intelliTXT">(Fidel) Castro...</span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span id="article" style="font-family:arial;"><span id="article"><span id="intelliTXT">followed the inauguration of Barack Obama very closely... (he) watched the inauguration on television all day... (he)</span></span></span></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><span id="article"><span id="article"><span id="intelliTXT"> called Obama <span style="font-style: italic;">"a man who seems absolutely sincere,"</span> who believes strongly in his ideas <span style="font-style: italic;">"and who <span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">hope</span>fully can carry them out."</span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br /><span id="article" style="font-family:arial;"><span style="color:black;"><span id="article"><span id="intelliTXT"><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">"Fidel believes in Obama,"</span> Cristina Fernandez said.</span></span></span></span></span><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><span id="article" style="font-family:arial;"><span id="article"><span id="intelliTXT">Earlier Wednesday, Raul Castro said Obama <span style="font-style: italic;">"seemed like a good man"</span> and wished him luck.</span></span></span></span></blockquote><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" >(Note: Actually, this isn't this first, or even second time that Catsro has "endorsed" The Obamassiah --- it's the third. </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" >The first time was mid-way through the campaign, <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/2039018/Barack-Obama-gets-Fidel-Castro%27s-support.html">here</a>; the second was after the final presidential debate on Oct. 15, <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/10/fidel_castro_endorses_obama_ag.html">here</a></span><span style="font-style: italic;">)</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Why would Castro find His Obamaness to be so enthralling? </span><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Oh, right --- the quasi-Marxist, quasi-fascist, quasi-dictatorial thing.</span> </span><br /><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >Which may be why so many of the world's other dictators, tyrants and terror-supporters endorsed Him, prior to the election, including: </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" ><br /></span><ul><li><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" ><a href="http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives2/2008/09/021600.php">Mahmoud Ahmadinejad<br /><br /></a></span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></span></li><li><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" ><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.thememriblog.org/blog_personal/en/7902.htm">Saudi Arabia</a></span><span style="font-family:arial;"> (via one of its official newspapers)</span><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></span></li><li><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://archive.redstate.com/blogs/soren_dayton/2008/apr/16/senior_hamas_official_offers_his_support_to_obama">Hamas</a><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br /></span></span></li><li><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://freekorea.us/2008/06/22/obama-gets-another-unwanted-endorsement/">Kim Jong-Il</a><span style="font-weight: bold;"> (more </span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/WTARC/2008/ea_nkorea0256_06_19.asp">here</a><span style="font-weight: bold;">)<br /><br /></span></span></li><li><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" ><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://hotair.com/archives/2008/04/28/video-richardson-gets-another-foreign-endorsement-for-obama/">Hugo Chavez</a><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br /></span></span></li></ul><span style="font-family:arial;">Why didn't the American people hear about all these endorsements (and Castro's first two) <span style="font-style: italic;">before</span> the election? Say, with the trumpets and fanfare that were employed to try to derail a presidential candidate's prospects, when a <a href="http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/12615">forged military memo</a> was released, weeks before the election, by a major news network?<br /><br />Because our esteemed journalistic institutions apparently thought that reporting on such things about the Obamassiah would be.... uncouth. </span><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-style: italic;">(Prior to the election, the only places one could discover these and other shocking facts about Him were on those dastardly right-wing blogs --- like this one, <a href="http://expedio5x5.blogspot.com/2008/10/mainstream-media-versus-race-relations.html">here</a> and elsewhere.)</span> </span><span style="font-family:arial;"><br /><br />Instead, our "professional" news organizations devoted their resources to hard-hitting investigative pieces on Michelle Obama's unrivaled fashion sense, Britney Spears's latest rehab trip, how those mean Republicans were wrongfully preventing ACORN-registered illegal aliens from voting 32 times, and why all non-leftists are evil warmongers.<br /><br />The difference <span style="font-style: italic;">now</span></span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" > </span><span style="font-family:arial;"> is that the election is over, so the MSM feels a <span style="font-style: italic;">little</span> more comfortable reporting the fact that Castro openly supports The Obamassiah.<br /><br />The only remaining question is: <span style="font-style: italic;">Will The Obamassiah go sit on Castro's ailing knee, and be tutored in the most efficient means of transforming a capitalist economy into a socialist one, crushing dissent, and using schools for political indoctrination?</span><br /><br />Probably not. He's appointed a brand-new Chief Technology Officer, so He could probably just set up a teleconference from the Oval Office.</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span>Expediohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10549383482552877305noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1033320156411232023.post-17767255345016977572009-01-20T12:47:00.000-08:002009-01-21T19:13:12.593-08:00The Glitterati's Unmade Pledge Of Servitude To The Obamassiah<span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);font-family:arial;" >.</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" >As <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breitbart.com">Andrew Breitbart</a> featured yesterday on his kicker new site, <a href="http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/breitbart/2009/01/19/where-were-you-celebrities-after-911/">Big Hollywood</a>, a veritable cornucopia of Tinseltown's most notable moonbats made numerous patriotic "pledges" to President Obamassiah in a heart-tugging new video:</span><br /><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" align="center"><object width="425" height="360"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="movie" value="http://mediaservices.myspace.com/services/media/embed.aspx/m=50632298,t=1,mt=video"><embed src="http://mediaservices.myspace.com/services/media/embed.aspx/m=50632298,t=1,mt=video" allowfullscreen="true" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="360"></embed></object></p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" >Breitbart astutely <a href="http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/breitbart/2009/01/19/where-were-you-celebrities-after-911/">pointed out</a> that this very same moonbat brigade spent the last eight years bashing America, our armed forces and their leadership, apologizing to "the world" for our actions, and spouting unremitting hatred of the other half of the electorate that supported President Bush (whether enthusiastically, or by default).<br /><br />He concluded by stating what many of us feel at this moment: No, we aren't going to forget what they've done, despite their "kumbaya" moment - specifically:</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" ></span><blockquote style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family:arial;">"Remember this video: It is a instructive relic of the era of celebrity decadence and boutique anti-Republican activism under President Bush. It is a sickening display that they want fast and easy absolution for having comported themselves like ill-behaved children for eight difficult and war-torn years.</span> <p><span style="font-family:arial;">"Good luck, President Obama. The rest of you can go to hell."</span></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" >Yet amidst the Glitterati's newfound patriotism, one pledge to President Obamassiah was missing --- their willingness to do their part to combat that which they claim is one of America's great sins: "greed."</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" ><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">If they were <span style="font-style: italic;">serious</span> about making America a better place, noted patriots and intellectual giants such as Cameron Diaz, Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher would have made the following pledge:</span></span><span style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></p><blockquote style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><p><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 102);font-family:arial;" ><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">"I pledge to stop being unfair to those who make so much less than me.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">"Given the grave economic distress that has gripped America, I pledge to You, President Obama(ssiah), that from this point on, </span><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">I will not charge more than 50 times what the lowest-paid entertainment industry worker is paid.<br /><br /></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >"I've learned that the janitors at the studios I work with make an average of $12 per hour. <span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">So from this point forward, I pledge to not charge more than $600 per hour. </span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" ><br /><br />"For instance, if I'm hired to act in a movie that lasts ten weeks, and I work an average of 10 hours a day, six days a week, for ten weeks (600 hours total), I would earn a total of $360,000.</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" ><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">"There isn't a person alive who can't live very, very well on 360 g's a year* --- myself included </span><span>(*and that's only doing one picture a year - with the other 42 weeks off!!!)</span><span style="font-weight: bold;">.</span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" ><br /><br />"From this point forward, I pledge that the days of me charging $5 million, $10 million or more for ten weeks' work are over (as are any "points" I used to negotiate on the back end), so I can do my part to make America a fairer, more equitable place in which to live. </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" >But if the studios insist on paying me more, I hereby pledge to donate every excess penny to the IRS, to help pay down our national debt --- or to redistribute to the toiling, exploited masses, as You, in all Your wisdom, see fit.</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" ><br /><br />"I also pledge to fire my accountants and tax attorneys, and to no longer seek to maximize my deductions, or park my millions in low-tax offshore havens. I further pledge to sell off my mansions and vacation homes, my exotic sports cars and private jet, and to begin living a more modest, non-greedy lifestyle.<br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" >"This is my pledge to You, President Obama(ssiah). Your humble and obedient servant, and fellow patriot, (insert name here)."</span></p></blockquote><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >Imagine what a different America we'd be living in if Tinseltown's most notable moonbats actually made and honored <span style="font-style: italic;">that </span>pledge. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" >They won't, however --- because as Breitbart also noted, while President Bush and our armed forces were fighting a two-front war over the last seven years, which liberated 50 million souls, took down two of the most vicious terror-supporting and -perpetrating regimes, and protected us from every planned jihadist terror attack during that period:</span><br /><blockquote style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family:arial;">"...only a precious few (Thank you, dearly!!!) stepped up to support the American troops who have been valiantly fighting for Hollywood’s right to do lines off of each others’ buttocks at $10 million Hollywood Hills mansions."</span></blockquote><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" >The next time you blow $80 bringing your family to see the latest formulaic schlock by</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" > Hollywood's most esteemed, newly-minted "patriots," </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" >think of all the millions (billions?) of dollars that they're "unfairly" depriving America of, due to their "greed" (and hypocrisy).<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">UPDATE:</span><br /><br />From CNSNews: <a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=42227">Obama reminds celebrities of key biblical figures</a> (hat tip: <a href="http://hotair.com">HotAir</a>)<br /><br /><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-size:85%;">Original materials are © Copyright 2009 by Expedio, and Expedio5x5.blogspot.com. All rights reserved.</span><span style="font-size:85%;"></span></span><br /><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-size:85%;"></span> <span style="font-size:85%;">Publications and syndicators – contact <a href="mailto:expedio5x5@gmail.com">expedio5x5@gmail.com</a>.</span></span><br /></div><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span>Expediohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10549383482552877305noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1033320156411232023.post-31765895088833293382009-01-18T16:40:00.000-08:002009-01-19T10:49:24.887-08:00A Tale Of Two Captains<span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);font-family:arial;" >.</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">The seven-day span ending on Wednesday, January 21, 2009 will have given thoughtful Americans a view of two dramatically different types of individuals, who are in positions of great authority.<br /><br />Both of these "captains" have been (or by that date, will be) responsible for life-and-death decisions that affect Americans from every neighborhood.</span> <span style="font-family:arial;">The differences between them, however, are profound --- as are the qualifications (or lack thereof) that each claims as justification for his position of leadership.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >The "captains" this essay focuses on have been in the news quite a bit lately: Captain <span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Chelsey Sullenberger</span>, and "Captain" <span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Barack Obama</span>.</span></span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;"> Yet we've only received truthful, accurate information on one of them, from the institutions that most Americans rely upon for news and perspectives on vital affairs.</span><br /></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">This essay will summarize "the rest of the story," in context.</span></span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >===================================================</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" ><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">"CAPTAIN" CASE STUDY 1: <span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"><br />CHELSEY SULLENBERGER</span></span></span><a style="font-family: arial; font-weight: bold;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWtV-_Uo4QP6EQshJDgMR0UbjZ0HaUlxb9L6tBAroP3yW-mUXXdj02HUHyP3K9afi0ydGTClmUMJbcjlKc9_92Yo_8E-ulb8KDeNqMewI8c-_9YKDJFEDv1rGSmxdnGFH4ZWnWNzpKOOWV/s1600-h/_45381609_006729790-1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 160px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWtV-_Uo4QP6EQshJDgMR0UbjZ0HaUlxb9L6tBAroP3yW-mUXXdj02HUHyP3K9afi0ydGTClmUMJbcjlKc9_92Yo_8E-ulb8KDeNqMewI8c-_9YKDJFEDv1rGSmxdnGFH4ZWnWNzpKOOWV/s200/_45381609_006729790-1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5292807011215293074" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" >Occupation:</span> <ul><li><span style="font-family:arial;">Airline pilot</span></li><li><span style="font-family:arial;">Commercial aviation safety & technology consultant</span></li></ul> <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >Number of American Lives Responsible For:<br /></span><ul style="font-weight: bold;"><li><span style="font-family:arial;">150-300</span></li></ul><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" >Employment History:</span> <ul><li><span style="font-family:arial;">Senior Pilot, U.S. Airways (1980-present)</span></li><li><span style="font-family:arial;">Owner, <a href="http://safetyreliability.com/home">Safety Reliability Methods, Inc.</a> (2007-present; an airline safety consulting service)</span></li><li><span style="font-family:arial;">Combat Pilot, US Air Force (1973-1980)</span></li></ul> <span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" >Other Experience, Training & Qualifications For Current Occupation:</span> <ul><li><span style="font-family:arial;">19,000 flight hours over 30 years; numerous commendations for his military and commercial flying abilities<br /></span></li><li><span style="font-family:arial;">Instructor, investigator an author of numerous studies for/in conjunction with the NTSB, NASA and other aviation accrediting and scientific institutions</span></li><li><span style="font-family:arial;">Graduate, US Air Force Academy (1973)</span></li></ul> <span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" >Notable Achievement:</span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQdj72kQkQ4qSt32lV7DaFWOxDTGzdA4Abe9nzkXyZQA4ku5bqR-a47hQf6b-5AhZOOKJGreiUkHdaRBX3VPigjNYSDm7Oy3Ltsr7ZKItTNffGoCuZULXaJE1hNm2vaq5GG4ODQJnYHUiE/s1600-h/_45384654_-18.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 112px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQdj72kQkQ4qSt32lV7DaFWOxDTGzdA4Abe9nzkXyZQA4ku5bqR-a47hQf6b-5AhZOOKJGreiUkHdaRBX3VPigjNYSDm7Oy3Ltsr7ZKItTNffGoCuZULXaJE1hNm2vaq5GG4ODQJnYHUiE/s200/_45384654_-18.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5292826276210430050" border="0" /></a> <ul><li><span style="font-family:arial;">1/15/09: Soon after takeoff, the Airbus 320 he was piloting, with 150 passengers and 4 additional crew members, became disabled due to bird ingestion in both engines. Captain Sullenberger made a series of rapid decisions that, based on his experience, he believed would stand the greatest chance of</span><span style="font-family:arial;"> saving the most lives, both in his plane and on the ground.</span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEie1ffZKSKUda4uGcr9i384IZ-C7EE5D-79NpBR_ZSwZvT3cWMAXwLNm1qbNrJPOJrO1YAYkwdNYluDpakSGXTiUNhi99bK0C6rmHG7b_wIZw88ZIeH867VPAEc2kEvQ7GoZSAeaSPQou/s1600-h/wingonaprayer.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 106px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEie1ffZKSKUda4uGcr9i384IZ-C7EE5D-79NpBR_ZSwZvT3cWMAXwLNm1qbNrJPOJrO1YAYkwdNYluDpakSGXTiUNhi99bK0C6rmHG7b_wIZw88ZIeH867VPAEc2kEvQ7GoZSAeaSPQou/s200/wingonaprayer.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5292834238007094786" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></li></ul><ul><li><span style="font-family:arial;">As a result of his training and experience, </span><span style="font-family:arial;">Captain Sullenberger landed his plane on the Hudson River, with only minor injuries to several passengers.</span></li></ul><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Sources and Additional Information:</span> </span><ul><li><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chesley_Sullenberger">Wikipedia</a><span style="font-family:arial;"> and other sources linked therein.</span></li></ul><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >===================================================</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" ><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">"CAPTAIN" CASE STUDY 2: <span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"><br />BARACK OBAMA</span></span></span><br /><a style="font-family: arial; font-weight: bold;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMs70rk_Umuh6w_cQVpUNj6NDgLr3EwtvOruyO46JcW4dBHuqJICtCKioio6PfJawrbU7l9rYrVuFqmG3h9fsZY-5lFcAeixKLKgYRQI2-J4e6jipS9t315IJLYcr8tcQegLl-lt4WlgqQ/s1600-h/Barack_Obama.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 138px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMs70rk_Umuh6w_cQVpUNj6NDgLr3EwtvOruyO46JcW4dBHuqJICtCKioio6PfJawrbU7l9rYrVuFqmG3h9fsZY-5lFcAeixKLKgYRQI2-J4e6jipS9t315IJLYcr8tcQegLl-lt4WlgqQ/s200/Barack_Obama.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5292808115131529106" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" >Occupation:</span> <ul><li><span style="font-family:arial;">President Of The United States of America</span></li></ul><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >Number of American Lives Responsible For:</span> <ul style="font-weight: bold;"><li><span style="font-family:arial;">305 million</span></li></ul><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Employment History:</span></span><ul style="font-family: arial;"><li>United States Senator (2005-2007* [*when he began his full-time campaign for the presidency])</li><li>Illinios State Senator (1997-2004)</li><li>Attorney - Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland (1993-1996; primarily represented slumlords like Tony Rezko against tenants who complained about heat, sanitation, etc.)</li><li>Lecturer, University of Chicago School of Law (1992-2004)<br /></li><li>"Community Organizer" (1985-2004)</li></ul><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" >Other Experience, Training & Qualifications For Current Occupation:</span> <ul><li><span style="font-family:arial;">B.A., Columbia University (1983)</span></li><li><span style="font-family:arial;">J.D., Harvard University (1991)</span></li><li><span style="font-family:arial;">Service on numerous non-profit boards<br /></span></li></ul><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" >Notable Achievement(s):</span><ul><li><span style="font-family:arial;">Since announcing his run for the presidency in late 2006, Obama and </span><span style="font-family:arial;">his consultants were able to convince practically every U.S. provider of news, education, entertainment and information to: (a) view him as a near-deity, (b) conceal/obfuscate his liberty-subverting ideologies and affiliations, and lies about same, and (c) viciously denounce anyone who attempted to expose the reality of Obama, often as either a racist or a fascist.</span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNpx3a5zRDdSijFtssO7xfYUptG36eBf3F639Bc1c0LvAJxxIPbUe2rOyQZBr0K3guB-VG4jLfP8uj-MngulYctnafTS9GAQ_tJFhP9o_QYZ0_kjO2jtNlb1wjyXceS8Hm2LueA4NMllLF/s1600-h/obama_hope.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 134px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNpx3a5zRDdSijFtssO7xfYUptG36eBf3F639Bc1c0LvAJxxIPbUe2rOyQZBr0K3guB-VG4jLfP8uj-MngulYctnafTS9GAQ_tJFhP9o_QYZ0_kjO2jtNlb1wjyXceS8Hm2LueA4NMllLF/s200/obama_hope.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5292834768864941442" border="0" /></a><br /><br /></li><li><span style="font-family:arial;">Obama's campaign was centered around its masterful use of </span><span style="font-family:arial;">graphical political propaganda, which created a classic <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult_of_personality">cult-of-personality</a>. It closely parallels <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.blockbarack.com/interestinglook.html">similar campaigns</a> run by notable facsists, communists, tyrants and dictators throughout the 20th century, including Lenin, Stalin, Hitler and Castro --- who collectively were responsible for the deaths of an estimated 120 million people.<br /></span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMG5hAPxhI3Cb6WeFQxYUyN0iHeFHDzE94fJYUQUj5ZRUlqZDUWDrb7JYkv1JFfyY8MS6f-SKvYldUNpTD63mbi2HevVb0nzreOGGjCl1asbPqCdHbhlebfgfW9-0EYpf-oFkKN5lNfqr-/s1600-h/Obama+Berlin.png"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 142px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMG5hAPxhI3Cb6WeFQxYUyN0iHeFHDzE94fJYUQUj5ZRUlqZDUWDrb7JYkv1JFfyY8MS6f-SKvYldUNpTD63mbi2HevVb0nzreOGGjCl1asbPqCdHbhlebfgfW9-0EYpf-oFkKN5lNfqr-/s200/Obama+Berlin.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5292835192465706066" border="0" /></a></li><li><span style="font-family:arial;">Between his paid propagandists, and his surrogates in the news, educational and artistic establishments, Obama was able to silence, blunt or defuse a vast array of character </span><span style="font-family:arial;">deficiencies that would have rapidly capsized any other politician's run for the presidency, including:<br /><br />(a) The fact that he had a 20-year affiliation </span><span style="font-family:arial;">with a racist, America-hating preacher, and another who claimed that America is <span style="font-style: italic;">"the greatest sin against God"</span> --- which he then repeatedly lied about (that he'd never heard such statements by either).<br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzKc1XO5GRfYib26dO62RxP27V1wJf75IaR_JRktuGoct_R6HnMJ8w3EkVfLrTjLwQWmFCPtL-IJJXjbV7FLGQMORkB1hUBxZ3jExUeO26QG5_FhsNnTdywRTiB9CRlcoQnnoWbxcQu7ST/s1600-h/Lenin+Berlin.png"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 167px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzKc1XO5GRfYib26dO62RxP27V1wJf75IaR_JRktuGoct_R6HnMJ8w3EkVfLrTjLwQWmFCPtL-IJJXjbV7FLGQMORkB1hUBxZ3jExUeO26QG5_FhsNnTdywRTiB9CRlcoQnnoWbxcQu7ST/s200/Lenin+Berlin.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5292835425334196162" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">(b) The fact that he knowingly had long-term </span><span style="font-family:arial;">affiliations with self-professed, </span><span style="font-family:arial;">unrepentant domestic </span><span style="font-family:arial;">terrorists (William Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn), then repeatedly lied about it. <span style="font-style: italic;">These facts alone would disqualify him from employment as even an assistant file clerk for the FBI --- or the lowest-level enlistee in the U.S. armed forces --- both of which he will now be in command of.</span><br /><br />(c) The fact that his </span><span style="font-family:arial;">campaign </span><span style="font-family:arial;">accepted </span><span style="font-family:arial;">millions of dollars in illegal donations from terrorist-controlled foreign regions (Hamas-controlled Gaza) --- and engaged in massive campaign finance and voter registration fraud --- all of which he repeatedly lied about and/or obfuscated.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">(d) The fact that his <span style="font-style: italic;">only </span>"executive experience" was his failed leadership of the "Chicago Annenberg Challenge." The CAC claimed its mission </span><span style="font-family:arial;">was to improve education --- yet in reality, it s</span><span style="font-family:arial;">ought to subversively indoctrinate teachers and students to accept and propagate Marxist ideology. </span><span style="font-family:arial;">He and fellow board member (terrorist) William Ayers, who helped get Obama this position, blew through the CAC's <span style="font-style: italic;">$100 million funding</span>, yet achieved none of its (stated) goals.</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />(e) The fact that he stated in unequivocal terms, in 2005, that he did not, and would not have the experience or qualifications to be president in 2008, and promised he would not run. Yet after only <span style="font-style: italic;">143 working days</span> in the Senate, he reversed himself and launched his campaign. This stunt was met with only glazy-eyed cheers (and tingles up the leg?) by the news media that would have crucified any other candidate who'd so recently disqualified himself from the office.<br /><br />(f) The fact that his campaign platform contains statist-collectivist elements that are nearly straight out of Marxist doctrine, while others are derived from Hitler-esque principles --- all of which can only accelerate America's descent into socialism.</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />(g) The fact that while serving in the Illinois Senate, he refused to support a prohibition on an abortion procedure so gruesome and barbaric* that the U.S. Senate voted <span style="font-style: italic;">unanimously</span> to enact it; he then repeatedly lied about his position, and why he took it. (*the Born Alive Infant Protection Act)<br /><br />(h) The fact that he has repeatedly made slanderous statements about the U.S. armed forces and its work throughout the world --- which America's enemies picked up on and echoed --- then repeatedly lied about it.<br /><br />(i) The fact that when cornered on his lies and liberty-subversive ideology, Obama and/or his surrogates shamelessly played "the race card," falsely insinuating that such criticism is based only on his skin color.<br /></span></li></ul><br /><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-style: italic;">Sources and Additional Information:</span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><ul><li><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">Three essays on this website:<br /></span><a style="font-family: arial; font-style: italic;" href="http://expedio5x5.blogspot.com/2008/10/mainstream-media-versus-race-relations.html">The Mainstream Media vs. Race Relations and Electoral Integrity in America</a><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" ><br /></span><a style="font-family: arial; font-style: italic;" href="http://expedio5x5.blogspot.com/2008/11/congratulations-to-mainstream-media.html">Congratulations To The Mainstream Media; A Call To Patriots</a><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" ><br /></span><a style="font-family: arial; font-style: italic;" href="http://expedio5x5.blogspot.com/2008/11/twelve-key-questions-that-msm-should.html">Twelve Key Questions That The MSM Should Have Asked --- But Refused To<br /><br /></a></span></li><li><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://blockbarack.com/home.htm">BlockBarack.com<br /><br /></a></li><li><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://obamawtf.blogspot.com/2008/05/documented-lie-50-obama-claimed-he-had.html">Obama - What's The Facts (ObamaLies)</a></li></ul><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">===================================================</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">CONCLUSION:</span></span><br /><br />Even before January 15, 2009, when one stepped on board a plane under Captain Sullenberger's command, they had good reason to feel confident in his ability to get them to their destination safely and on-time. On that fateful day, however, his training and experience gave him the ability to save hundreds of lives that, in lesser hands, may well have been lost.<br /><br />Captain Sullenberger's abilities and judgment --- which were tested in split seconds --- were the result of many years of focused training and dedication to one thing: how to fly a plane with maximum assurance of safety for all concerned. Beyond this, his character is what made him who he is: his adherence to the truth and to live by it, to seek it out, and to abide by its dictates.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">The contrast between Captain Sullenberger, who has been responsible for mere hundreds of Americans' lives --- and "Captain" Barack Obama, who is about to become responsible for more than 300 million of our lives, and the future of our nation, could not be more stark. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Simply put, Barack Obama is the </span></span><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">single most unqualified person to assume the presidency in American history.</span> He has not successfully managed so much as a hot-dog stand, but due to the above factors, he is now the most powerful man in the world.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Yet Obama's lack of qualifications and (successful) executive experience are actually the</span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"> <span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">least</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> of what should concern knowledgeable, patriotic Americans. </span></span><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">The following should be of </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">far</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;"> greater concern to us</span>:</span><br />(a) By all indications, America's journalistic, educational and artistic establishments will continue to act as his propagandists, protectors and worshippers<br /></span><span style="font-family:arial;">(b) The ease with which he lies about matters fundamental to America's security and prosperity<br />(c) The statist-collectivist-fascist ideas he harbors and obfuscates, which, if implemented, will drive America to its knees, economically and culturally</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><br /><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">If we are to avert the disaster that all the above factors are leading us to, it will be up to each of us to make our voices known, consistently and energetically --- on the Web, on the radio, in letters to the editor, in the arts, and every other area of consequence. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Good luck, America. We are most certainly going to need it.</span><br /><br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">===================================================</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">ADDENDUM:</span> THE "NEW LINCOLN" COMPARISON</span></span><br /></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">In the past few weeks, Obama's sycophants in the news media have been </span></span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><a style="font-family: arial;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1hATFdau9FVqiSrCd2fLhWD8mOQ4DuB0hJ8gEtipvhvcKhb6pcEGCcuMVV8MOpoXANqAu8CsoGqo0fgI7Op_SeeOoClF_skfrU7c3wO9I5dHl-HMt-k0KN8hRPpLgsLWlZAhiCe2AyJBh/s1600-h/lincoln_abraham_photograph.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 151px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1hATFdau9FVqiSrCd2fLhWD8mOQ4DuB0hJ8gEtipvhvcKhb6pcEGCcuMVV8MOpoXANqAu8CsoGqo0fgI7Op_SeeOoClF_skfrU7c3wO9I5dHl-HMt-k0KN8hRPpLgsLWlZAhiCe2AyJBh/s200/lincoln_abraham_photograph.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5292843467720811186" border="0" /></a></span><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">echoing his campaign's subversively-advanced theme</span></span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">, that he is something of a modern-day Abraham Lincoln.</span><br /></span><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">This is perhaps the single most offensive and outrageous aspect of Obama's entire campaign. Although Lincoln was a failure at almost everything he applied himself to, prior to becoming president, his character was unimpeachable, and he firmly understood the foundation of liberty upon which the American experiment was built, and relies.<br /><br />Two statements by Lincoln, made barely a month apart in 1864, exemplify this fact (emphasis mine):</span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><blockquote><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold;">"We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.</span> With some the word liberty may mean for each man to do as he pleases with himself, and the product of his labor; while with others, the same word may mean for some men to do as they please with other men, and the product of other men's labor. Here are two, not only different, but incompatible things, called by the same name - liberty. And it follows that each of the things is, by the respective parties, called by two different and incompatible names - <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">liberty</span> and<span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">tyranny</span></span>." </span></span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" ><i><span style="color: rgb(153, 102, 102);"><br /></span></i><span style="color: rgb(153, 102, 102);"> <span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">- <span style="font-style: italic;">"Address at Sanitary Fair, Baltimore, Maryland,"</span> April 18, 1864</span></span></span></span></blockquote><span style="font-family:arial;"></span><blockquote><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" >"Property is the fruit of labor...property is desirable...is a positive good in the world. That some should be rich shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise. Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another; but let him labor diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built."</span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:85%;" ><br />- <span style="font-style: italic;">"Reply to New York Workingmen's Democratic Republican Association,"</span> March 21, 1864</span></span><br /></blockquote><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">As has been shown via his statements and campaign, Barack Obama vehemently disagrees with these principled, uniquely-American statements of individualism, self-motivation, liberty and property rights. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">It is nauseatingly ironic that at a time in America's history when we desperately need another Lincoln, the one who on November 4, 2008 ascended to the presidency based on liberty-subverting lies and propaganda so cavalierly implies (himself, or via his surrogates) that he is a modern version of this great man.</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);font-family:arial;" >.</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-size:85%;">Original materials are © Copyright 2009 by Expedio, and Expedio5x5.blogspot.com. All rights reserved.</span><span style="font-size:85%;"></span></span><br /><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-size:85%;"></span> <span style="font-size:85%;">Publications and syndicators – contact <a href="mailto:expedio5x5@gmail.com">expedio5x5@gmail.com</a>.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><br /></div>Expediohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10549383482552877305noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1033320156411232023.post-55542872436926539892009-01-07T01:48:00.000-08:002009-01-07T20:34:22.777-08:00Now That NBC Is Making Promises... A Few Suggestions<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhusv7j1DbkrDBS7jHRlmS5pgdhCNvQWLCYWlytl1gfhmQfyceEiLagW-9ZOENPYiuIfTaKQHNAwE5Sx7xIe9m6mSPA92hDx6-3AkeXW_I-vWhyBv-jzzK53S1syukA01iVGnhCaLNm4s-L/s1600-h/brian_williams.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 131px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhusv7j1DbkrDBS7jHRlmS5pgdhCNvQWLCYWlytl1gfhmQfyceEiLagW-9ZOENPYiuIfTaKQHNAwE5Sx7xIe9m6mSPA92hDx6-3AkeXW_I-vWhyBv-jzzK53S1syukA01iVGnhCaLNm4s-L/s200/brian_williams.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5288487362776185970" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><br />On Monday, January 5, Brian William announced at the top of <span style="font-style: italic;">The NBC Nightly News</span> intro that the network will be <span style="font-style: italic;">“making a promise”</span> to Barack Obama’s children in that evening’s broadcast. </span> <span style="font-family:arial;"><br /><br />Turns out the “promise” was that unless something concerning them becomes newsworthy, NBC won’t feature the president-elect’s children on its broadcasts.</span> <span style="font-family:arial;"><br /><br />Now that NBC News is in the business of "making promises," here are some few suggestions for others it should consider making, that might be just a <span style="font-style: italic;">bit </span>more meaningful and consequential:</span> <span style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span><ul><li><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">A promise to never again act as a willing, global transmitter of jihadist propaganda and blood libel, by hiring (or unquestioningly accepting reports from) terrorist-approved “stringers,” as sources for stories and video.</span><br />Recent examples - <a href="http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/32373_Norwegian_Doctor_in_Gaza_Supported_9-11_Attacks">here</a>, <a href="http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/32360_Staged_Photos_Pouring_Out_of_Gaza">here</a> and <a href="http://sweetness-light.com/archive/idf-hits-a-un-school-used-by-hamas">here</a>.<br /><br /></span></li><li><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">A promise to learn to distinguish between murderers and the murdered --- and terrorists and the terrorized. </span><br />This will enable NBC to never again attempt to equivocate between Israel’s persistent desire to survive and protect its citizens – and militant jihadists’ persistent desire to terrorize and exterminate Israelis (and Jews in general).<br />It will also enable the network to confidently prevent any jihadist-apologist from appearing anywhere on the network, if he/she calls Israel's long-overdue retaliation against Hamas <span style="font-style: italic;">"genocide,"</span> akin to what the Nazis did to the Jews --- or calls the Gaza Strip <span style="font-style: italic;">"a concentration camp,"</span> akin to Auschwitz or Bergen-Belsen.<br /><br /></span></li><li><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">A promise to send every one of its producers and on-air personalities through a course in </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Economics 101 for Non-Leftists</span><span style="font-weight: bold;">.</span><br />This will enable them to grasp the fact that contrary to what they’ve been taught, capitalism – voluntary relationships, vigorously-enforced private property rights, and limited, constitutional government – is the root cause of the greatest advances in freedom and prosperity. Here are a few good resources for course previews: <a href="http://www.gmu.edu/departments/economics/wew/articles.html">Walter Williams</a>, <a href="http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/sowell1.asp">Thomas Sowell</a>.<br /><br /></span></li><li><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">A promise to send every one of its producers and on-air personalities through a course in </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">The U.S. Constitution for Non-Leftists</span><span style="font-weight: bold;">.</span> </span><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />This will enable them to</span><span style="font-family:arial;"> grasp the fact that contrary to what they’ve been taught, this document is not a blank check on ever-increasing government power over every aspect of citizens’ lives and the economy. To the contrary, certain contradictions notwithstanding, it is primarily an articulation of the rights of the individual, and an iron leash on the defined power of government.</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-style: italic;">(Bonus: When added to a course in Political Ethics for Non-Leftists, they will learn that to confer a "right" to any material value or service upon an individual, means conferring upon that person the "right" to enslave the source of that service or value, and confiscate the values that he/she produces - under force of law.) </span><br />Here are some good resources for a course preview: <a href="http://www.aynrand.org/site/PageServer?pagename=arc_ayn_rand_the_nature_of_government"><span style="font-style: italic;">"The Nature Of Government,"</span></a> and <a href="http://www.aynrand.org/site/PageServer?pagename=arc_ayn_rand_man_rights"><span style="font-style: italic;">"Man's Rights,"</span></a> by Ayn Rand.<br /><br /></span></li><li><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >A promise to send every one of its producers and on-air personalities through a course in <span style="font-style: italic;">American History for Non-Leftists</span>. </span><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />This will enable them to </span><span style="font-family:arial;">grasp the fact that contrary to what they’ve been taught, despite its comparatively short history (and EuroSocialists', jihadists' and American academia's hysterical propaganda), America – and its capitalist system – has been responsible for enhancing, extending and saving the lives of more people than all the nations of the world, combined.<br /><br /></span></li><li><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">A promise to send every one of its producers and on-air personalities through a course in </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Basic Journalistic Ethics for Non-Leftists</span><span style="font-weight: bold;">.</span> </span><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />This will enable them to </span><span style="font-family:arial;">grasp the fact that contrary to what they’ve been taught, the purpose of a news organization is to report news – not to make the news, or be seduced by the power to shape events. They will also be enabled to dispel the notion that their mission is <span style="font-style: italic;">“to afflict the comforted, and comfort the afflicted,”</span> as has been their modus operandi for the last half-century.<br /><br /></span></li><li><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">A promise to institute a recruitment program for aspiring and professional journalists and producers who have already taken the above courses </span><span>(whether formally or informally)</span><span style="font-weight: bold;">, so that they may at least have a token presence in NBC’s offices.</span><br /><br /></span></li><li><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">A promise to stop protecting Barack Obama at every turn – concealing his unsavory relationships and subversive beliefs – while breathlessly cheerleading his every word and utterance (whether shirtless or otherwise).<br /></span>Here are a few good introductory resources, courtesy of Expedio: <span style="font-style: italic;">"</span></span><a style="font-family: arial; font-style: italic;" href="http://expedio5x5.blogspot.com/2008/11/twelve-key-questions-that-msm-should.html">Twelve Key Questions That The MSM Should Have Asked --- But Refused To</a><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-style: italic;">,"</span> and <span style="font-style: italic;">"</span></span><a style="font-family: arial; font-style: italic;" href="http://expedio5x5.blogspot.com/2008/10/mainstream-media-versus-race-relations.html">The Mainstream Media vs. Race Relations and Electoral Integrity in America</a><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" >."</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></li><li style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family:arial;">A promise to stop disguising shameless propagandists for collectivist-statist doctrines, such as Keith Olbermann, Chris Matthews, Rachel Maddow and many other on-air personalities, as <span style="font-style: italic;">“journalists.”<br /><br /></span></span></li><li style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family:arial;"><span>A promise to visit, and explore the stories covered by, and invite representatives of conservative- and libertarian- oriented websites --- as frequently as they do for those from electronic cesspools of leftist propaganda (HuffPost, DailyKos).<br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">Some of these heretofore unknown-to-NBC sites include</span></span><span style="font-style: italic;"> </span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/">American Thinker</a>, <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/">JihadWatch</a>, <a href="http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/">Little Green Footballs</a>, <a href="http://hotair.com/">HotAir</a>, <a href="http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/">Big Hollywood</a>, <a href="http://sweetness-light.com/">Sweetness & Light</a>, <a href="http://www.atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/">Atlas Shrugs</a>, <a href="http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/">Gateway Pundit</a>, <a href="http://the-gathering-storm.blogspot.com/">The Gathering Storm</a>, <a href="http://www.thepeoplescube.com/">The People's Cube</a>, <a href="http://www.redstate.com/">RedState</a>, and <a href="http://www.moonbattery.com/">Moonbattery</a>. </span><span style="font-style: italic;"><br /></span></span></li></ul><br /> <span style="font-family:arial;"><span>Think of what a different world we would live within if NBC, and its rivals, would make - and honor - the above promises.</span><br /><br /><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-size:85%;">Original materials are © Copyright 2009 by Expedio, and Expedio5x5.blogspot.com. All rights reserved.</span><span style="font-size:85%;"></span></span><br /><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-size:85%;"></span> <span style="font-size:85%;">Publications and syndicators – contact <a href="mailto:expedio5x5@gmail.com">expedio5x5@gmail.com</a>.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span></span></span><br /></div>Expediohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10549383482552877305noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1033320156411232023.post-47906888393571394822008-11-05T10:53:00.001-08:002008-11-07T13:38:05.426-08:00Twelve Key Questions That The MSM Should Have Asked --- But Refused To<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">-</span><br /><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" >This is a supplement to </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">these essays:<br /></span></span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://expedio5x5.blogspot.com/2008/11/congratulations-to-mainstream-media.html"></a><blockquote><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://expedio5x5.blogspot.com/2008/11/congratulations-to-mainstream-media.html">Congratulations To The Mainstream Media; A Call To Patriots</a><br /><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://expedio5x5.blogspot.com/2008/10/mainstream-media-versus-race-relations.html"><br />The Mainstream Media vs. Race Relations and Electoral Integrity in America</a></blockquote><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" ><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">However much legitimate criticism can be leveled at Sen. McCain's campaign, honest political observers need to ask themselves this question:</span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br /><blockquote style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);">How much would the outcome of this election have been impacted, had the mainstream news media (MSM) asked Sen. Obama the following questions, relentlessly, until they got solid answers --- instead of applying a racist double-standard, in which they insulated him from exposure to such legitimate inquiries?</span><br /></blockquote></span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">As you consider these questions, keep in mind the scowling, condescending, elitist, over-the-glasses interrogation that the MSM put Gov. Palin through, as part of their relentless effort to demonstrate what they alleged was her unfitness for office. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Lastly, keep in mind that all of these questions are based in <span style="font-style: italic;">facts that were known, or could have been uncovered with a minimal amount of research</span>, starting when Sen. Obama announced his candidacy in early 2006, and to the present day.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" >Note: The links that support each of these questions are contained in <a href="http://expedio5x5.blogspot.com/2008/10/mainstream-media-versus-race-relations.html">this essay</a>.</span><br /><br />===================================<br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">(1) "Sen. Obama, a lawsuit has been filed in Pennsylvania and other states, alleging that you are not a naturally-born U.S. citizen, and therefore, under the Constitution, are ineligible to run for president. Your campaign has provided only a 'Certificate of Live Birth,' which as you must know, is not a substitute for a birth certificate. Your campaign has repeatedly filed for dismissal of this lawsuit. If you are, in fact, a naturally-born citizen, why can you not provide a legitimate birth certificate?"<br /></span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" >(Follow-up: "Sen. Obama, that's not an answer. Why is it so difficult for you to answer this question?")</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);font-family:arial;" >-</span><span style="font-family:arial;"><br /><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"></span></span><span style="font-family:arial;"> (2) "Sen. Obama, since practically the start of your professional career and to the present day, you have immersed yourself in the writings of communists and anti-American subversives, and surrounded yourself with those who share their principles. Is there any aspect of the writings of, say, Karl Marx, that you disagree with, in principle?"<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">(Follow-up: "Sen. Obama, that's not an answer. For example, one of the foundational principles of communism according to Marx, is 'From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.' Do you agree or disagree with this principle, and why?")</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">(3) "Sen. Obama, you have repeatedly said that <span style="font-style: italic;">'We are our brothers' keepers.'</span> Yet you have a half-brother in Kenya, who lives in a ramshackle hut, on $1 per month. You have never sent him a cent, yet you are worth an estimated $4.5 million, and live in a mansion that you acquired under questionable circumstances from felon Tony Rezko. How do you reconcile your statements with your actions? And how do you expect Americans to <span style="font-style: italic;">'sacrifice'</span> on behalf of each other, when they cannot look to you as one who lives by, and practices, the moral principle you espouse?"</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" >(Follow-up: "Sen. Obama, that's not an answer. Why is it so difficult for you to answer this question?")</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">(4) "Sen. Obama, the leaders of Iran, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Libya, Cuba and Venezuela have all endorsed you, as has the terrorist group Hamas. In fact, in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, where nothing goes on without Hamas's approval, there is at least one group of 'activists' who are making phone calls to America to support you, and engaging in Internet advocacy on your behalf. What is it about you, and/or your policies, that has earned the praise and support of this rogue's gallery of America's adversaries?"</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" >(Follow-up: "Sen. Obama, that's not an answer. Why is it so difficult for you to answer this question?")</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">(5) "Sen. Obama, you have repeatedly said that you will cut or eliminate vital aspects of the U.S. military and national security arsenal, including our Future Warfare Systems, our missile defense technologies, and upgrades to our nuclear weapons. In an age when terrorists are fervently seeking, if not developing nuclear weapons capabilities, and we are obviously going to be facing both conventional and unconventional threats for decades to come, how can you justify your stances? And as a follow-up, do you believe that your stated policies may have induced the aforementioned rogue's gallery of American adversaries to come out in strong support of you?"</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-style: italic;">(Follow-up: "Sen. Obama, that's not an answer. Why is it so difficult for you to answer this question?")</span><br /><br />(6) "Sen. Obama, you recently made a series of contradictory statements on vital national security and foreign policy matters. For example, you said that Jerusalem must remain the undivided capitol of Israel; yet within hours, you said that it is subject to 'negotiation.' You said that Iran, North Korea and Venezuela are <span style="font-style: italic;">'tiny countries,'</span> and don't pose a significant threat to America. <span style="font-style: italic;">Yet within hours, you backpedaled, and claimed that Iran poses a 'grave threat' to America.</span> There are many more of these contradictory statements that I could recite, on matters that are critical to America's national security. How can you claim that you are best qualified to lead America, when these statements indicate a very deep misunderstanding of the nature of the threats we face, and inconsistencies in your foreign policy stances?</span>"<br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-style: italic;">(Follow-up: "Sen. Obama, that's not an answer. Why is it so difficult for you to answer this question?")</span><br /><br />(7) "Sen. Obama, in a July 2007 interview with Matt Lauer, you said that if Congress disagrees with an order that the President, acting in his role as Commander-In-Chief, issued to our military, then it has the moral and legal authority to countermand that order. [Show video of interview.] Sir, you promote yourself as a professor of Constitutional law. How can one consider you to be a credible candidate for President, when you exhibit such a profoundly incorrect understanding of our Constitution?"</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-style: italic;">(Follow-up: "Sen. Obama, that's not an answer. Why is it so difficult for you to answer this question?")</span><br /><br /></span><span style="font-family:arial;">(8) "Sen. Obama, for twenty years, you attended the sermons of a demonstrably racist, anti-American, terrorist-endorsing religious figure, Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Yet you claim you never heard any of his incendiary statements. For over ten years, you have willfully associated yourself with an unrepentant domestic terrorist, William Ayers. Yet you claim you weren't aware of the fact that he is still rallying support for a communist takeover of America, and at one time urged his fellow activists to murder 25 million Americans who would not submit to this ideology. For many years, you've had extensive relationships with Khalid al-Mansour and Rashid Khalidi, two notorious Jew-hating, jihad-endorsing Islamists. Yet you claim you didn't know of their incendiary statements, and their affiliations with known terrorist organizations. Finally, in 2006, while on a taxpayer-funded trip to Kenya, you enthusiastically supported Raila Odinga, a militant Islamist who engaged in barbaric violence when he lost the election for the presidency, and vowed to instill sharia law in that nation. Yet you deny knowledge of any of this. What do you say to ordinary Americans who feel that by your willingness to engage in these relationships, including with terrorists, you are unfit to be a U.S. Senator, let alone President?"<br /></span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" >(Follow-up: "Sen. Obama, that's not an answer. Why is it so difficult for you to answer this question?")</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">(9) "Sen. Obama, we've learned through the Department of Defense that should a person with your personal and business relationships with unrepentant domestic terrorists (whom you call your 'friends') attempt to enlist in our armed forces, even at the lowest level, as an E-1, you would be rejected. Furthermore, we've learned from a retired top official at the FBI that if you applied to work there, even as an entry-level clerk, you would be rejected, and would not be able to get even a low-level security clearance. How, sir, can you legitimately claim that you are best qualified to lead our military and law enforcement communities, when, due to your choice of 'friends,' you would be rejected (as a security risk) for entry in the lowest levels of the employees that you'd be commanding? How could you look a young soldier in the eye, whom you may be sending into mortal combat, and claim that you are qualified to be his top officer, when you would be ineligible to wear his or her uniform, due to your affiliations with terrorists, etc.?" </span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" >(Follow-up: "Sen. Obama, that's not an answer. Why is it so difficult for you to answer this question?")</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">(10) Sen. Obama, while you were an Illinois state senator, you lobbied and voted against a measure that would protect the lives of children who somehow survive botched abortion procedures (</span><span style="font-family:arial;">the Born Alive Infant Protection Act)</span><span style="font-family:arial;">. Even the most ardent pro-abortion activists in the U.S. Senate and beyond were united in supporting this measure, yet you were against it. Then, you and your campaign have engaged repeatedly in obfuscating and misrepresenting the reasons behind your opposition to it. What is the truth, Sen. Obama? What is the real reason behind your opposition to this measure?</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-style: italic;">(Follow-up: "Sen. Obama, that's not an answer. Why is it so difficult for you to answer this question?")</span><br /><br />(11) "Sen. Obama, you promised to accept public financing for your campaign, then broke that promise. Most recently, it was determined that your campaign deliberately removed safeguards that would prevent illegitimate donations from being accepted on your website --- and documentation has been uncovered that you've been accepting millions of dollars in illegal contributions, from places such as the Gaza Strip. Furthermore, according to credit-monitoring service LifeLock, they are getting thousands of calls per day concerning fraudulent donations to your campaign that are being charged to unsuspecting donors, including McCain supporters. How do you explain all this?"</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" >(Follow-up: "Sen. Obama, that's not an answer. Why is it so difficult for you to answer this question?")</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">(12) "Sen. Obama, you have repeatedly misrepresented your affiliations with Rev. Wright, William Ayers, Tony Rezko, Railia Odingo, Khalid al-Mansour, Rashid Khalidi, ACORN and others, as well as your position on, and actions concerning the Born Alive Infant Protection Act. When there is so much irrefutably documentation that contradicts your misrepresentations, why do you continue to obfuscate and essentially lie to the American people? How can they trust you to tell them the truth about anything now or in the future, when you have lied to them about so many things in your past, today?"</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" >(Follow-up: "Sen. Obama, that's not an answer. Why is it so difficult for you to answer this question?")</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"> <span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-size:85%;">© Copyright 2008 by Expedio, and Expedio5x5.blogspot.com. All rights reserved.</span><span style="font-size:85%;"></span></span><br /><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-size:85%;"></span> <span style="font-size:85%;">Publications and syndicators – contact <a href="mailto:expedio5x5@gmail.com">expedio5x5@gmail.com</a> </span></span><br /></div>Expediohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10549383482552877305noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1033320156411232023.post-77821055333531149082008-11-04T21:31:00.001-08:002008-11-05T21:58:10.149-08:00Congratulations To The Mainstream Media; A Call To Patriots<span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);font-family:arial;" >-</span><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />Two years ago, those who have assumed the awesome responsibility of enlightening the American people to the vital facts we need to be aware of, to make informed, rational political decisions --- the mainstream news media (MSM) --- had a choice to make:</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">(1) To apply the exact same standards and practices to all those in the campaign for the presidency</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">(2) To apply different standards to different candidates, based on their political affiliation, gender or race --- to crucify some, while shielding others, and preventing us from discovering the facts that would capsize their campaigns</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">The stakes in this election were stark and profound.<br /><br />America, and freedom in general, are under assault, on two primary fronts. The first threat is from Islamist totalitarians who are on the march throughout the world, and right here on our own soil, via their "soft jihad," to corrupt our culture and its defenses from within. The second threat is the statist-collectivist beliefs that produced our recent economic meltdown, and which are bankrupting America --- beliefs which we allow to be perpetuated every day throughout our "educational" infrastructure.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">A freedom-loving, honest, patriotic MSM would have seen to it that all candidates were presented with the hard questions concerning both threats. And given that for the first time, a minority candidate was nominated by one of our major political parties, the highest honor that the MSM could pay to our race relations would have been to subject him to the exact same rigors and inquiry that it has applied to other candidates.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >As noted in the very-detailed essay, below, </span><a style="font-family: arial; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;" href="http://expedio5x5.blogspot.com/2008/10/mainstream-media-versus-race-relations.html">The Mainstream Media vs. Race Relations and Electoral Integrity in America</a><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >, the MSM made the choice, starting in late 2005, to collectively hoist Barack Obama upon its shoulders, and carry him, Caesar-like, into the presidential candidacy ring. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">The MSM protected him at every turn from the discoveries that would have caused the vast majority of Americans and his fellow Senators to force him out of the running. Discoveries concerning the choices he made in his affiliations (America-hating terrorists, preachers, etc.), and his innumerable lies about them. Discoveries about his political beliefs (slightly diluted Marxism), and his qualifications to become President (none).<br /><br />Discoveries about the myriad ways in which his policies would subvert America's national security and educational system, embolden our enemies, weaken us economically, and create more conflict between races and classes. The discovery that due to his affiliations and activities, he would be rejected for service at the lowest level of the military he claims he is best qualified to lead. The discovery that he supported an abortion procedure so barbaric that even his most pro-abortion, leftist allies in the U.S. Senate were united in opposing it.<br /><br />Discoveries about the terror regimes that have endorsed him. Discoveries about his massive campaign finance fraud. </span><span style="font-family:arial;">Discoveries about his legacy of working with a militantly leftist, election-subverting organization (ACORN), and his innumerable lies about his relationship with them. </span><span style="font-family:arial;">On and on. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">The simple fact is that Barack Obama did <span style="font-style: italic;">not</span> win the Presidency tonight --- the MSM did. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">For the first time in modern history, the MSM, acting as a subversive collective, succeeded in installing an individual in the White House whose candidacy would have been over within hours, had it not actively prevented the American people from discovering the truth about the essential threats we face, about him, about what he plans to do to America, and to the cause of freedom in general.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Instead, the MSM willfully decided to act as his shill, as his protector (can you imagine what the MSM would do if McCain or Clinton supporters were engaged in <a href="http://holycoast.blogspot.com/2008/08/ad-agency-tries-to-create-official.html">this</a>?), as his propagandists, elevating him to a god-like status, while implicitly or explicitly scorning anyone who questioned him on the substance of his platform as being a "racist."</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">The MSM alone bears the responsibility for the damage that Obama is destined to cause America, if it continues to deflect and suppress Americans' exposure to the realities behind the most dangerous of the policies he intends to pursue. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">If there is one thing we can be proud of in this maelstrom of deception, it is that America has demonstrated to the world, once again, that a (semi) free society can enact a peaceful transition of power, from one political party to another. And in a way, this was the best possible outcome - because if, as the aforementioned essay had feared, had Obama lost, as a result of a last-minute rush of vital facts being disclosed to the American people via alternative means, according to his most virulent supporters our cities would have burned. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" >But in the long run, if we do not find a way to hold our MSM to account for its unforgivable actions* in the last two years, we will have only ourselves to blame for the deconstruction of freedom that we will have allowed to be perpetuated, on our watch.</span><span style="font-family: arial; font-style: italic;"><br />(*And inactions; see </span><a style="font-family: arial; font-style: italic;" href="http://expedio5x5.blogspot.com/2008/11/twelve-key-questions-that-msm-should.html">Twelve Key Questions That The MSM Should Have Asked --- But Refused To</a><span style="font-family: arial; font-style: italic;">)</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">All patriotic, freedom-loving Americans must now take on two roles: as Paul Reveres, willing to ride through the nights of the next four years to make others aware of the threats we are facing, and as Patrick Henries and Thomas Paines, articulating a vision for an America that is free, prosperous and safe, based on common sense that, today, is all <span style="font-style: italic;">but </span>common.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" ><span style="font-style: italic;">Let us begin again, now,</span> with confidence in the knowledge that our cause is just, vital, and timely. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" ><span style="font-style: italic;">Let us begin again, now,</span> by realizing that of all the adversaries facing the cause of freedom today, the current American MSM is the largest, most potent, and most wily. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Let us begin again, now,</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> with creativity --- one of the primary skills that has been sorely lacking in the freedom-advocating community. </span> Not just creativity to do the same things differently, but creativity in terms of generating new and <span style="font-style: italic;">better</span> ways of advancing freedom; and especially, creativity that will serve to get our message out, over the tops of the MSM's collective heads, directly to the American people. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Let us begin again, now,</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> by affirming the basic principles that we can all agree on, and agree to set aside principled differences to discuss, and resolve, in a separate venue.</span> We can all agree on opposing the Obama-leftist-MSM advocacy of things such as surrendering in the war that Islamist totalitarians have declared on us (via both the "hard" and "soft" jihad); of renewing the "Fairness Doctrine;" of creating a slew of new welfare-state entitlement programs; of forcing America to be even more reliant on energy from nations that hate us; of forcing workers into unions; of gutting of our military; of massive new taxation. We can and must unite to fight these things, relentlessly. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Let us begin again, now,</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> by carefully identifying the weaknesses in our arguments, and how they are received by the ordinary American. </span>This doesn't mean in any way diluting what we stand for --- it means ensuring that our communications tools are truly <span style="font-style: italic;">world-class</span>, and convey the knowledge we intend them to, which means <span style="font-style: italic;">meeting Americans where they currently are</span>, in regards to their literacy, attention spans, media usage patterns, preferences, etc.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" ><span style="font-style: italic;">Finally, let us begin again, now,</span> by accepting, honestly, what has happened, why, regrouping, and recommitting ourselves to doing better, starting tomorrow.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">We deserve no less. America deserves no less. And the future of freedom demands it.<br /><br />Let us begin again, <span style="font-weight: bold;">now</span>.</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;font-family:arial;"><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-size:85%;">© Copyright 2008 by Expedio, and Expedio5x5.blogspot.com. All rights reserved.</span><span style="font-size:85%;"></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"></span> <span style="font-size:85%;">Publications and syndicators – contact <a href="mailto:expedio5x5@gmail.com">expedio5x5@gmail.com</a> </span></span><br /></div><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);font-family:arial;" >-</span>Expediohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10549383482552877305noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1033320156411232023.post-41106792234334764862008-10-30T16:54:00.000-07:002008-10-30T17:11:28.771-07:00A Vital Lesson From 60 Years Ago<span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);font-family:arial;" >-</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">In this 9:30 video, produced in 1948, you will be transported back to a time when freedom, free enterprise and limited constitutional government were proudly espoused. <br /><br />Only three years after the Allies' defeat of socialist and fascist totalitarians, Harding College saw the need to articulate the essentials of what we fought against --- and just as importantly, what we fought<span style="font-style: italic;"> for</span>.</span><br /><p style="font-family: arial;" align="center"><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/2adXMHxASpg&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/2adXMHxASpg&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object></p><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">How tragic that in this supposedly "educated" culture of ours, tens of millions of our fellow citizens are falling for exactly the bromide that is being peddled by the antagonist in this film, having never been enlightened to the fact that what they are consuming is poison, slickly packaged and promoted as "change."<br /><br />Still more tragic is that year after year, more and more of our kids graduate from "schools" in which they were taught that there has never been, nor should there ever be, any "civilized" culture in which the government does not have control over nearly every aspect of the individual's life.<br /><br />Things certainly have "changed" since this film was produced.<br /><br />Let us "hope" that next Tuesday, the "change" we get will generate a reawakening, and a reaffirmation of the values expressed in this film.<br /><br />(Hat tip: <a href="http://www.thepeoplescube.com/">The Peoples Cube</a></span>)<br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;" >Original material is © Copyright 2008 by Expedio, and Expedio5x5.blogspot.com.</span><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;" >All rights reserved.</span><span style="font-size:85%;"></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"></span></div><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">-</span>Expediohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10549383482552877305noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1033320156411232023.post-77118128208545376392008-10-18T11:28:00.000-07:002008-10-27T07:07:44.081-07:00The Mainstream Media vs. Race Relations and Electoral Integrity in America<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-size: 85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">-</span><br />Summary:</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">The purpose of this essay is to expose, in significant detail:<br /></span><span>(1) The racist double-standard that virtually the entire U.S. mainstream media (MSM) has applied to Sen. Obama and his campaign</span><span><br />(2) The terrible consequences that it may lead to if --- as a result of Americans being exposed to the vital facts concerning him, which the MSM has thus far withheld or obfuscated --- he loses the election.</span><br /><br />You may already be familiar with some of this essay's content. Some, however, may be new --- such as<span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><span>the fact that <span style="font-weight: bold;">via his own statements and actions, </span></span><span><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sen. Obama:</span><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;">(1) <span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Would be rejected if he attempted to enlist at even the lowest level of the U.S. military, which he claims to be best qualified to lead</span></span><span> (see Item 2)</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">(2) Profoundly misunderstands --- or deliberately misrepresents --- the laws that govern our military </span>(see Item 6)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">(3) <span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Has been endorsed by the world's most vicious terrorist groups and barbarians </span></span>(see Item 5)<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Also, see the long list of update items at the end of this essay for more information. </span>If you have items you'd like to submit for consideration in these updates, please email them to </span></span></span><span style="font-style: italic; font-family: Arial; font-size: 85%;"><a href="mailto:expedio5x5@gmail.com">expedio5x5@gmail.com</a>. </span><i><br /></i><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 85%;">If you believe this essay has merit, please forward the link to it along to anyone whom you believe is still open to confronting the facts concerning Sen. Obama, the MSM, and the 2008 presidential campaign in general.</span></span><br /><br /><br />=========================================================</span><br /><br /></span></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;"><span><br />By <span style="font-weight: bold;">Expedio</span></span></span><br /></div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;"><br />Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. famously said that one of his dreams for America was a day when we judge others <i><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4AItMg70kg&feature=related">“by the content of their character, not the color of their skin.”</a></i><span style=""> </span>This noble principle is one that rational, freedom-loving people everywhere – not just in America – should advocate, defend and practice on a daily basis.<span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;">Since Sen. Barack Obama first announced his campaign for the presidency*, however, there has been one profoundly influential American institution that has consistently betrayed this principle, and continues to do so to this very day.<span style=""> </span>And in doing so, this institution may well have set back Dr. King’s dream, and race relations in America, for at least another generation. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;"><br /><span style="font-size: 85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">(*after saying, merely <a href="http://www.gopusa.com/theloft/?p=707">143 working-days in the Senate earlier</a>, that </span><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2008/09/13/2004-flashback-obama-felt-he-lacked-experience-be-president">he was not and will not be quaified to run for president in 2008</a><span style="font-style: italic;">)</span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">The institution to which I refer is America’s mainstream news media (MSM).</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">And although </span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.mediaresearch.org/biasbasics/biasbasics1.asp">the MSM’s leftist biases, prejudices and underhanded activities</a><span style="font-weight: bold;"> regarding volatile public affairs is certainly not new, its betrayal of objectivity regarding Sen. Obama’s candidacy may well lead to tragic results, if he doesn’t win.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;">Were the MSM responsible in its coverage of our presidential candidates, it would establish, articulate and rigorously enforce one, consistent, inviolable standard: to present relevant facts concerning each candidate, in context, with similar prominence, and without even a hint of favoritism – regardless of the candidate’s skin color (or gender, or race).<span style=""> </span>It would prohibit any kind of “cheerleading” for any candidate – as well as any underhanded effort to smear his or her reputation.<span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">As one of America’s first minority presidential candidates, the MSM owed all of our citizens – and Sen. Obama himself – one thing: to treat him according to the same standard it applied to his rivals.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoBodyTextIndent" style="text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;">Of course, editorials and commentaries are an entirely different issue.<span style=""> </span>It is certainly valuable to our civic process to have a variety of opinions presented, by people who actually know something about candidates, and the issues at hand.<span style=""> </span>For especially controversial issues, a responsible MSM would ensure that they are covered fairly, in context, and with plenty of verifiable background data.<span style=""> </span>To this end, the MSM would also ensure that its newsrooms and commentators represent a diverse range of viewpoints and cultural backgrounds.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;">Given this idealized standard, to which every MSM organization claims it aspires, consider the following – all of which was known early in Sen. Obama’s candidacy, or could have been easily determined, with a minimal amount of research:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="Bullet" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;"><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-size: 130%;">ITEM (1)</span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: ";font-size:130%;";"><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">:</span> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 130%;">Imagine if it were discovered that a nondescript freshman Senator, running for President, was on record as saying he/she is “friends” with a domestic terrorist – say, an <span style="font-style: italic;">abortion clinic bomber</span>. </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 130%;"><br /><br />Further, let’s say the terrorist was <span style="font-style: italic;">totally unrepentant</span>, having repeatedly said in public that:<br />(a) He is not sorry for the bombings he perpetrated.<br />(b) He wishes he could have perpetrated more bombings.<br />(c) He can’t guarantee he won’t bomb anything in the future.<br /></span></span></p><p class="Bullet" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 130%;">Imagine if --- especially in a post-9/11 America --- knowing all this, the candidate made the decision to work with this unrepentant terrorist on numerous America-subverting "educational" efforts, and appeared with him at private and public events.</span><span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="Bullet" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Any honest political observer knows that this candidate’s presidential run would be over within hours, due to pressure from his fellow Senators, round-the-clock coverage and investigations by the MSM, and the resulting outrage from millions of concerned citizens.</span><o:p></o:p></span></i></span></p> <p class="Bullet" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;">Yet in Sen. Obama’s case, the MSM steadfastly refused to cover, in any detail, his shocking affiliation (in his terms, <a href="http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0208/Ax_on_Ayers.html">“friendly” relations</a>) with <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2169">William Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn</a> – who, as part of the domestic terror group “The Weathermen,” took part in a dozen bombings of U.S. targets, including the Pentagon, the U.S. State Department, and the headquarters of the New York City Police Department. Their relationship, according to Sen. Obama's own account, began in 1995 --- long after Ayers admitted to having perpetrated these bombings, and being a communist.<span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="Bullet" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;">In fact, in a 9/11/01 <a href="http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F02E1DE1438F932A2575AC0A9679C8B63">story</a> in the <i>New York Times</i> (which <a href="http://michellemalkin.com/2008/05/05/flag-desecration-of-the-day-bill-ayers-stomps-on-old-glory">pictured him standing atop an American flag</a>), Ayers said, <i style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">“I don't regret setting bombs; I feel we didn't do enough.”</i><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"> </span>Ayers continued: <i style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">“America is not a just and fair and decent place."</i><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">To those who claim that America is a great country, Ayers said, </span><i><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">"</span><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">it makes me want to puke</span><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">."</span><span style=""><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span> </span></i><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">As to whether or not he'd bomb anything in the future, </span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Ayers replied that he doesn't want to <span style="font-style: italic;">"discount the possibility."</span></span> Five days later, in another <i>Times</i> <a href="http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=990DEED61238F935A2575AC0A9679C8B63">interview</a> with him, Ayers admits that he said, <i style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">“Kill all the rich people. ... Bring the revolution home. Kill your parents.”</i><span style=""> </span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Keep in mind that </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">this all occurred years before</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> Obama publicly acknowledged that he and Ayers are </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">“friends,”</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> and long prior to the announcement of his candidacy.</span><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="Bullet" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;">It was only when pressure from conservative talk shows and blogs became so overwhelming that the MSM was finally shamed into asking Sen. Obama about his affiliation with Ayers and Dohrn.<span style=""> </span>Then, as if it was as irrelevant as accidentally stepping into a mud puddle, the MSM let it drop entirely – and, along with Sen. Obama’s surrogates, decried anyone who insisted that this fact alone should disqualify him from the presidency as either a racist, or part of a <i>“vast right-wing conspiracy.”</i><span style=""> </span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">You can learn much more about Ayers, Dohrn, the Weathermen, and Obama's relationship with them </span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives2/2008/04/020358.php">here</a><span style="font-weight: bold;">, </span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.ashbrook.org/publicat/oped/owens/01/chomsky.html">here</a><span style="font-weight: bold;">, </span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/08/26/newly-released-documents-highlight-obamas-relationship-with-ayers/comment-page-11">here</a><span style="font-weight: bold;">, </span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://justoneminute.typepad.com/main/2008/08/annenberg-obama.html">here</a><span style="font-weight: bold;">, </span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.mrc.org/SpecialReports/2008/obama/obamaExecSum.asp">here</a><span style="font-weight: bold;"> and elsewhere on the Web.<br /><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">MUST-SEE:</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">The hour-long documentary </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">"Obama's Friends,"</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> a Hannity's America special, </span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=9F8A48061A962CDD">here</a><span style="font-weight: bold;">.</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><br /><br />Soon thereafter, it was discovered that <span style="font-weight: bold;">the group that Ayers hired Obama to run --- the Chicago Annenberg Challenge --- is geared towards </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">indoctrinating children in revolutionary socialist ideology</span><span style="font-weight: bold;">, disguised as </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">"education reform."</span> In fact, Ayers expressed his great admiration for the efforts of socialist dictator<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Hugo Chavez</span> (who <span style="font-style: italic;">endorsed</span> Obama; see Item 5) to do the same --- again, under the auspices of <span style="font-style: italic;">"education reform."</span> Read it all <a href="http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=308271974461547">here</a>.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Yet the MSM just picked up on the Obama campaign's talking points, and has continuously dismissed Ayers as merely a </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">"radical"</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> from the 1960s, who is now an </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">"education reformer."</span><br /><br />Finally, before we depart this topic, though, let's get clear definitions for the terms the MSM and the Obama campaign have been using, to obfuscate this relationship --- and thsoe it has have refused to use. From <span style="font-style: italic;">Merriam-Webster</span>:<a href="http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/radical"><br /></a><blockquote><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/radical">"Radical"</a></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial;">--- </span><span class="sense_break"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial; font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="sense_label start">1</span><span class="sense_content"><strong>:</strong> of, relating to, or proceeding from a root: as</span> <span class="sense_label"><span style="font-weight: bold;">a</span> </span><span><span class="sense_label subsense"> (1)</span></span><span class="sense_content"><strong>:</strong> of or growing from the root of a plant <span class="vi"><<em>radical</em> tubers></span></span> <span><span class="sense_label subsense"> (2)</span></span><span class="sense_content"><strong>:</strong> growing from the base of a stem, from a rootlike stem, or from a stem that does not rise above the ground <span class="vi"><<em>radical</em> leaves></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="sense_label">b</span><span class="sense_content"><strong>:</strong> of, relating to, or constituting a linguistic root</span> <span class="sense_label">c</span><span class="sense_content"><strong>:</strong> of or relating to a mathematical root</span> <span class="sense_label">d</span><span class="sense_content"><strong>:</strong> designed to remove the root of a disease or all diseased and potentially diseased tissue <span class="vi"><<em>radical</em> surgery></span> <span class="vi"><<em>radical</em> mastectomy></span> </span></span><span class="sense_break"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="sense_label start">2</span><span class="sense_content"><strong style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">:</strong><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> of or relating to the origin </span><strong style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">:</strong> <a href="http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fundamental" class="lookup">fundamental</a></span></span><span class="sense_break"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 100%;"><span class="sense_label start"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> 3</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">a</span></span><span class="sense_content"><strong style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">:</strong><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> marked by a considerable departure from the usual or traditional </span><strong style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">:</strong> <a href="http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/extreme" class="lookup">extreme</a></span> <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="sense_label">b</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="sense_content"><strong>:</strong> <span style="font-weight: bold;">tending or disposed to make extreme changes in existing views, habits, conditions, or institutions</span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="sense_label">c</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="sense_content"><strong>:</strong> <span style="font-weight: bold;">of, relating to, or constituting a political group associated with views, practices, and policies of extreme change</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="sense_label">d</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="sense_content"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 100%;"><strong>:</strong> advocating extreme measures to retain or restore a political state of affairs.</span></span></span></span></span><span class="sense_break"><span class="sense_break"><span class="sense_content"><span class="vi"><br /><br /><a href="http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/reformer"><span style="font-weight: bold;">"Reformer"</span></a> ---</span></span></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="sense_label start">1</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="sense_content"><strong>:</strong> <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">One that works for or urges </span><span class="formulaic"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">reform</span> </span></span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="sense_label start">2</span><em style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> capitalized</em><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="sense_content"><strong>:</strong> a leader of the Protestant Reformation</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="sense_label start"> <span style="font-weight: bold;">3</span></span><strong style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">:</strong><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> an apparatus for cracking oils or gases to form specialized products</span><span class="sense_break" style="font-family: arial;"><span class="sense_break"><span class="sense_break"><span class="sense_content"><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/terrorist">"Terrorist"</a><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span>--- </span></span></span></span><span class="sense_content" style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The systematic use of </span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/terror" class="formulaic">terror</a><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> especially as a means of coercion </span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">(</span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/terror">"Terror"</a><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> --- </span></span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial;">violent or destructive acts [as bombing] committed by groups in order to intimidate a population or government into granting their demands</span><em style="font-family: arial; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"></em><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial;">)</span><br /></blockquote></span></p><p class="Bullet" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span class="sense_break"><span class="sense_break"><span class="sense_break"><span class="sense_break"><span class="sense_content"><span class="vi"><span style="font-family: arial;"><insurrection><span style="font-family: arial;">To a functional 12-year-old, the above completely lays waste to the linguistic contortions that the MSM --- in conjunction with the Obama campaign --- has been perpetrating on the American people, since the day he announced his run for the presidency.<br /><br />To the MSM, however, it is all just "business as usual," as applied to its "coverage" of Obama's campaign.</span></insurrection></span></span></span></span></span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-family: arial;">UPDATES:<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> Some recent examples of how the MSM has been papering over, deflecting or denying the relevance of the Obama-Ayers connection, and their shared, subversive beliefs:</span></span><br /></span></p><ul><li><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;"><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ZWI0MjY3NzMyODgxZGM2ZjUwNTE1MmEzOGRiZmFkNWE=">National Review:</a> Stanley Kurtz's blockbuster expose' on <span style="font-weight: bold;">the </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">NY Times'</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> whitewashing of Obama's relationship with Ayers.</span> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;">(MSM: <span style="font-style: italic;">"Yawn..."</span>)</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;"></span></li><li><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;"><a href="http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2008/10/obama-admits-his-work-with-terrorist.html">GatewayPundit:</a> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Obama claims his "work" with William Ayers qualified him to run for U.S. Senate.</span> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;">(MSM: <span style="font-style: italic;">"Yawn..."</span>)<br /><br /></span></li><li><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;"><a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/10/weathermen_for_obama.html">American Thinker:</a> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Four members of Weathermen terrorist group now doing "grassroots support" for Obama;</span> the organization's claimed intent is to institute a <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">"people's war"</span> within America to overturn freedom, institute <span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">"world communism."</span> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;">(MSM: <span style="font-style: italic;">"Yawn..."</span>)<br /><br /></span></li><li><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;"><a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2008/10/05/ap-palins-a-racist-for-bringing-up-ayers-or-something/">HotAir:</a> <span style="font-weight: bold;">AP continues to deflect criticism of Obama's affiliations with Ayers</span> (and Tony Rezko, and Revs. Wright and Pfleger etc.; see Item 3); <span style="font-weight: bold;">it claims that exposing such relationships is </span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">"racist."</span> <a href="http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/31480_Fluffy_Bunnies-_Harmless">LGF</a>: AP modifies story to downplay "racist" allegation. <a href="http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/31481_Associated_Press-_A_Full_Court_Press_Against_Sarah_Palin">LGF:</a> AP then makes its shilling for Obama far worse, claiming that Obama is innocent because he was only 8 years old when Ayers was bombing U.S. targets.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;"><br /></span></li><li><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;"><a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2008/10/06/videos-the-ayers-connection/">HotAir:</a> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Deep analysis (including video) of the lies and obfuscations of Obama and his chief strategist, David Axelrod, over allegations that Obama knew William Ayers far better, and for far longer, than he has admitted. </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;">(MSM: <span style="font-style: italic;">"Yawn..."</span>)<br /><br /></span></li><li><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;"><a href="http://www.gop.com/News/NewsRead.aspx?Guid=768aa784-72f3-4b43-acb6-c5fe81d901cd">RNC:</a> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Deep chronology of the Obama-Ayers relationship.</span> (Hint to RNC: Provide links!)<br /><br /></span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="http://sweetness-light.com/">Sweetness & Light:</a> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Videos of </span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://sweetness-light.com/archive/bill-ayers-speaks-at-2007-sds-reunion">Bill Ayers</a><span style="font-weight: bold;"> and </span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://sweetness-light.com/archive/mrs-ayers-opines-on-destroying-capitalism">Bernadine Dohrn</a> speaking at 2007 reunion of Students for Demcratic Society (SDS), a Marxist front group; special emphasis on their claim of what is needed for Amercia: to <span style="font-weight: bold;">destroy economic freedom (capitalism), free enterprise, etc.</span></span> <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;">(MSM: <span style="font-style: italic;">"Yawn..."</span>)<br /><br /></span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/2008-10-06-campaign_N.htm"><span style="font-style: italic;">USAToday</span></a><span style="font-weight: bold;"> continues to echo, verbatim, the Obama campaign's dismissive spin of his long-term relationship with William Ayers; the entire discussion is limited to the following:</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">"</span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-style: italic;">McCain's running mate, Sarah Palin, again sought to link Obama to 1960s radical William Ayers, a founder of the Weather Underground group accused of several bombings. Ayers once hosted a 1995 reception for Obama and served with him on two boards. Obama, who was a child at the time of the bombings, has denounced the group's violence and radical views. He has described Ayers as a <span style="font-weight: bold;">'guy who lives in my neighborhood'</span> in Chicago."<br /><br /></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2008/10/07/cnn-obamas-lying-about-william-ayers/">HotAir:</a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">>>>> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">A </span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">"pigs flying moment"</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> --- </span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">CNN </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">admits</span><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"> that Obama has been lying about his relationship with Ayers</span>.</span> (Two years late, but still... credit where credit's due) <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"><<<<<</span><br /><br /></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="http://www.moonbattery.com/archives/2008/10/weather_undergr.html">Moonbattery:</a> More on <span style="font-weight: bold;">the real, incredibly sordid story of Ayers, Dohrn and Obama</span>, that the MSM absolutely refuses to cover --- yet which it would be relentlessly all over, were Obama any other candidate.<br /><br /></span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/10/why_obamas_communist_connectio.html">AmericanThinker:</a> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Deep analysis on why Obama's Marxist beliefs cause the MSM to go </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">"yawn..."<br /><br /></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=307665441951152"><span style="font-style: italic;">Investor's Business Daily:</span></a> <span style="font-weight: bold;">The real, subversive, communist-driven agenda of the Obama campaign, and Ayers's influence on it</span> --- which the MSM refuses to relay to the American people.<br /><br /></span></li><li><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;"><a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/10/sol_stern_oped_on_ayers_in_wal.html">American Thinker:</a> <span style="font-weight: bold;">More accounting of Ayers' communist beliefs, his efforts to indoctrinate schoolchildren in them,</span> and more --- which makes <span style="font-weight: bold;">Obama's decision to work with him</span> at the Annenberg Challenge even more of a ripe target for inquiry. (MSM, Bob Schieffer at final debate: <span style="font-style: italic;">"Yawn..."</span>)<br /><br /></span></li><li><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;"><a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2008/10/16/big-lies-obama-on-ayers-born-alive-bill/">HotAir:</a> <span style="font-weight: bold;">The blatant lies that Obama told in the final debate, regarding his relationship with Ayers.</span> (MSM: <span style="font-style: italic;">"Yawn..."</span>)<br /><br /></span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span><a href="http://www.verumserum.com/?p=2907">VerumSerum/LGF:</a> What a shocker --- turns out <span style="font-weight: bold;">Obama and Ayers </span>(</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2008/09/william-ayers-guy-who-lives-in-my.html">"just a guy who lives in my neighborhood"</a></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span>) <span style="font-weight: bold;">shared an office for 3 YEARS</span>.... (MSM:<span style="font-style: italic;"> "Yawn..."</span>)...<br />...yet what's the critical story that the <span style="font-style: italic;">NY Times</span> is focused on today (Oct. 18)? <a href="http://sweetness-light.com/archive/the-latest-nyt-smear-of-cindy-mccain">Rehashed allegations</a> against Cindy McCain regarding prescription drugs (oops --- guess they forgot about Obama's <a href="http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/09/obama_family_off_limits.php">proclamation</a>, that <span style="font-style: italic;">"families are off-limits"</span>).<br /><br /></span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="http://www.moonbattery.com/archives/2008/10/if_obama_wins_d.html"><span style="font-style: italic;">Wall St. Journal</span>/Moonbattery:</a> <span style="font-weight: bold;">The real, freedom-subverting, socialist consequences we can look forward to with Obama in the White House and a Democratic majority/supermajority in Congress</span>; note how the MSM hasn't asked either Obama or Congressional leaders about any of this, most notably not in the debates.</span></li></ul><p class="Bullet" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span class="sense_break"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;"><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">=================</span><br /><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="JSNumberedList" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial; font-size: 130%;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">ITEM (2):</span><span style="font-family: ";";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 130%;">Imagine if it were discovered that, based on his willful affiliation with this domestic terrorist, </span><span style="font-size: 130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">our nondescript candidate </span><i style="font-weight: bold;">would be ineligible to enlist at even the lowest level of America’s armed forces</i></span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 130%;"> – the very military that he claims he is best qualified to lead, as Commander-In-Chief.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="JSNumberedList" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;">Section 7(D) of Department of Defense’s <a href="http://209.85.215.104/search?q=cache:Pp2vjvnqgmwJ:www.us-army-info.com/pages/pdfs/enlistment_standards.pdf+us+military+entrance+rejection&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=3&gl=us">enlistment form</a> states: <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="JSNumberedList" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial;"><blockquote><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">“Moral standards of acceptability for service are designed to disqualify the following kinds of persons:..</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span><i style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">(T)hose who have exhibited antisocial behavior or other traits of character that would render them unfit to associate with </span><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">military</span><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"> personnel</span>.”</i></span></blockquote><i></i><span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></i></span></p><i></i> <p class="JSNumberedList" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;">If being “friends” with an unrepentant domestic terrorist does not meet this standard of disqualification for service – even as an E-1 (the lowest level of enlistee) – what would? Melanie Phillips exposes many more of Sen. Obama's willful relationships with America-subverting individuals and entities throughout his career, <a href="http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/2178136/subversives-for-obama.thtml">here</a>.<br /><br />With hundreds of millions of dollars in resources and research staffs, why did not even one MSM organization disclose this obvious fact – or at a minimum, interview senior officials of our armed forces, to determine whether the Department of Defense would accept any other individual with such self-admitted associations?<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">MUST-SEE:</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">The hour-long documentary </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">"Obama's Friends,"</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> a Hannity's America special, </span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=9F8A48061A962CDD">here</a><span style="font-weight: bold;">.</span><br /><br /><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;">=================</span><br /></p> <p class="JSNumberedList" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial; font-size: 130%;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">ITEM (3):</span><span style="font-family: ";";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 130%;">Imagine if it were discovered that a nondescript freshman Senator, running for President, had for twenty years attended sermons by a pastor who espouses a racially-divisive, hate-filled, America-bashing, conspiracy-laden, terrorist-endorsing theology.</span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 130%;"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 130%;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="JSNumberedList" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 130%;">Imagine if, in </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 130%;">his first sermon given after the 9/11 attacks</span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 130%;">, this pastor hysterically assigned the blame squarely </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 130%;">on America</span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 130%;"> --- and </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 130%;">not</span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 130%;"> on the Islamist barbarians who <span style="font-style: italic;">admitted</span> perpetrating them.<br /></span></span></p><p class="JSNumberedList" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 130%;">And imagine if this candidate denied --- <span style="font-style: italic;">with a straight face</span> --- ever having heard this pastor make any of these statements.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="Bullet" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">As in the earlier cases cited herein, this Senator’s candidacy would have been over in a matter of hours</span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">(*)</span></span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">.</span><span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="Bullet" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;">Yet for the entire first year of Sen. Obama’s candidacy, <span style="font-weight: bold;">the </span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.mrc.org/SpecialReports/2008/RevWright/RevWrightExecSum.asp">MSM wouldn’t come near</a><span style="font-weight: bold;"> the story of Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s </span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jc2FCJ7zWEQ&feature=related">incendiary, otherworldly, hate-filled rants</a><span style="font-weight: bold;">,</span> or of Obama’s 20-year record of attending his sermons.<span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="Bullet" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;">Instead of giving the Obama-Wright story the persistent front-line coverage it would have in the case of any other presidential candidate, the MSM – acting as a shill for the Obama campaign – pooh-poohed it, and disregarded this example of colossally poor judgment as a story that is only of interest to the “right-wing” blogosphere (and of course, “racists”).<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="Bullet" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">It wasn’t until early in 2008 – </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">a full year into Sen. Obama’s campaign</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> – that the MSM finally began to cover this story, due to the percolating pressure from conservative talk shows </span><span>(primarily Sean Hannity’s) </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">and blogs.</span><span style=""> </span>Once Americans were introduced to Rev. Wright and his insane statements (which live in infamy on <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=youtube+rev+wright&rls=com.microsoft:en-us:IE-SearchBox&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=ie7&rlz=1I7HPID">YouTube</a>), however, many were rightfully shocked, and appalled – and did not believe Obama’s <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/barack-obama/on-my-faith-and-my-church_b_91623.html">repeated claims that he hadn’t heard any such sermons</a> in his 20 years of attending Wright’s church.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"></span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="Bullet" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-size: 85%;">(*This is not to say that white religious figures in America haven’t given incendiary, fire-and-brimstone sermons; they have.</span><span style="font-style: italic; font-size: 85%;"> </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-size: 85%;">Some of them, as in </span><span style="font-size: 85%;"><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://www.snopes.com/rumors/falwell.asp">the case of Reverends Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson</a></span><span style="font-style: italic; font-size: 85%;">, assigned at least part of the blame for the 9/11 attacks on America’s tolerance of homosexuality, etc.</span><span style="font-style: italic; font-size: 85%;"> </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-size: 85%;">Most Americans are equally outraged at these incalculably stupid, incendiary statements.</span><span style="font-style: italic; font-size: 85%;"> </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-size: 85%;">But in those cases, none of the other candidates for President, on either side of the political aisle, are members of those churches, and several vehemently condemned such statements.)</span><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;">Here are some more of the troubling facts concerning Obama's relationships with Rev. Wright, Rev. Pfleger and other America-hating religious figures:</span><br /></p><ul><li><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sen. Obama played a key role in directing </span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YTc1Y2NmNWMyNDEyNWNiY2NhMTk0Mzc4YzIyN2I4MzU=">hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars to support Rev. Pfleger</a><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">(</span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://hotair.com/archives/2008/06/02/shocker-pfleger-hates-america-too/"><span style="font-style: italic;">"America is the greatest sin against God"</span></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">)</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">, and </span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/06/02/obamas-ex-church-has-won-15m-in-federal-grant-money/">an estimated $15 million in taxpayer dollars to support Rev. Wright</a><span style="font-weight: bold;">, </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;">and their seething anti-American "educational" programs.</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;">And yet, we haven't heard a peep from the MSM about any of this --- and won't, at least until after the election.<br /><br /></span></li><li><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">While Sen. Obama was a member in good standing, </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">Rev. Wright's Trinity United Church </span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=59456">published the Hamas* manifesto in its newsletter</a><span style="font-weight: bold;">,</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">which compares its calls to kill Jews to America's Declaration of Independence.</span><span> (*one of the world's most notorious terrorist groups, a not-distant sibling of al Qaeda) But of course, Obama claims he knows absolutely nothing of this --- and the MSM never asked him about it.</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span></li></ul><p class="Bullet" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><br /><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;">=================</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="JSNumberedList" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial; font-size: 130%;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">ITEM (4):</span><span style="font-family: ";";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Imagine if it were discovered that a nondescript freshman Senator, running for President,</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> had supported a policy on abortion that is so </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">stomach-churningly reprehensible, </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 130%;">even the most ardent pro-life and pro-choice legislators were <span style="font-style: italic;">aligned in opposing it.</span> And imagine if, after having been discovered, the candidate and his campaign repeatedly lied about his position on it, and his rationale.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="Bullet" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">As in the earlier cases cited herein, this Senator’s candidacy would have been over in a matter of hours</span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">(*)</span></span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">.</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;"><br />In 2001, while acting an Illinois state legislator, Sen. Obama refused to help pass a bill that would have outlawed hospitals’ practice of refusing to provide any care for newborns who somehow survive abortion procedures, and were born alive – thus letting them die a slow, painful death.<span style=""> </span><br /><br />This practice is considered so barbaric that even most pro-choice advocates are against it, as was evidenced soon thereafter, when the U.S. Senate, including its most ardent left-wing abortion supporters, voted <span style="font-style: italic;">unanimously</span> to support an identical prohibition. (See Jill Stanek's terrific site, which covers all this in detail, <a href="http://www.jillstanek.com/">here</a>; more <a href="http://www.bornalivetruth.org/">here</a>)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="Bullet" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;">The facts concerning the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Born-Alive_Infants_Protection_Act"><span style="font-weight: bold;">“Born Alive Infant Protection Act”</span></a> were well-known in the Illinois media for years.<span style=""> </span>Yet it took until the summer of 2008 before the MSM finally began to reluctantly address Sen. Obama’s steadfast refusal to support this legislation.<span style=""> </span>Once again, the MSM’s hand was all but forced, due to the facts uncovered and disseminated by conservative talk shows and blogs.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="Bullet" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;">Then, when Sen. Obama and his campaign issued <a href="http://townhall.com/Columnists/AmandaCarpenter/2008/09/19/obama_keeps_distorting_born_alive_vote">a series of vehement obfuscations and denials of the facts</a> concerning this legislation and his stance on it, the MSM once again pooh-poohed it, refusing to do any substantive, sustained digging to get to the verifiable truth, let alone present it to the American people.<span style=""> </span>And thus, like his Ayers and Wright associations, the MSM let it fade away – whereas any honest political observer knows that had this been any other candidate, it would have hounded him (or her) 24/7 until he (or she) withdrew from the race.<br /><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;">More evidence of Obama's continued lies regarding the BAIPA, at the final presidential debate, </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;"><a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2008/10/16/big-lies-obama-on-ayers-born-alive-bill/">here</a></span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;"> and </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;"><a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/10/obamas_other_big_lie_in_the_de.html">here</a></span><span style="font-weight: bold;">.</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;"><br /><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;">=================</span></p> <p class="JSNumberedList" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial; font-size: 130%;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">ITEM (5):</span><span style="font-family: ";";"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial; font-size: 130%;"><span>Imagine if it were discovered that a nondescript freshman Senator, running for President,</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial; font-size: 130%;"><span> had </span></span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial; font-size: 130%;">received enthusiastic endorsements from some of the world’s most fervent and potent terrorists, terrorist groups, and supporters of terrorism, aggression and barbarity.</span></p><p class="JSNumberedList" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">What would be the MSM's reaction?</span> <span>It would hound this nondescript Senator 24/7 to ask what it is about him, his beliefs and policy proposals that would cause such an outpouring of support from those who are demonstrably hostile to America.</span><span style="font-style: italic;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"><br />What would be the reaction of ordinary Americans? </span><span style="font-style: italic;"></span><span></span><span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;"><span>They would rightfully demand that the candidate answer these same questions - and if he doesn't, that the "news media" do its job and </span><span>get this information from him.</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;"><span></span><br /><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;">The fact is that Sen. Obama --- who says he is the best candidate to protect America, be Commander-In-Chief of our military, and lead the global war on terror --- has received enthusiastic endorsements from:</span></p><ul><li><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;"><a href="http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives2/2008/09/021600.php">Mahmoud Ahmadinejad<br /><br /></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.thememriblog.org/blog_personal/en/7902.htm">Saudi Arabia</a></span><span style="font-family: arial;"> (via one of its official newspapers)</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://archive.redstate.com/blogs/soren_dayton/2008/apr/16/senior_hamas_official_offers_his_support_to_obama">Hamas</a><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br /></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://freekorea.us/2008/06/22/obama-gets-another-unwanted-endorsement/">Kim Jong-Il</a><span style="font-weight: bold;"> (more </span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/WTARC/2008/ea_nkorea0256_06_19.asp">here</a><span style="font-weight: bold;">)<br /><br /></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://hotair.com/archives/2008/04/28/video-richardson-gets-another-foreign-endorsement-for-obama/">Hugo Chavez</a><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br /></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/2039018/Barack-Obama-gets-Fidel-Castro%27s-support.html">Fidel Castro</a><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><span>(</span>After the final presidential debate on Oct. 15, Castro endorsed Obama --- for a <span style="font-style: italic;">second</span> time --- <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/10/fidel_castro_endorses_obama_ag.html">here</a>)</span></li></ul><p class="JSNumberedList" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Yet instead of asking Obama <span style="font-style: italic;">any</span> questions about all this, the MSM has let out one, giant, collective </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">"Yawn..."</span><span style="font-weight: bold;">, and acted as if none of this matters, or should matter, mirroring the dismissive stance of his campaign. </span> And as a result, most Americans are <span style="font-style: italic;">absolutely clueless</span> about these endorsements, because the MSM has uniformly and collectively failed to disclose these facts.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;"><br />Further, given that communism is responsible for the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Black-Book-Communism-Crimes-Repression/dp/customer-reviews/0674076087">deaths of at least 100 million people</a> in the 20th century, it is also troubling that </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">the </span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.moonbattery.com/archives/2008/08/communist_party.html">Communist Party USA</a><span style="font-weight: bold;">, the </span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://newzeal.blogspot.com/2008/01/obama-file-4-obama-was-endorsed-by-far.html">Democratic Socialists Of America</a><span style="font-weight: bold;">, and other groups that are dedicated to undermining, and ultimately overturning the U.S. Constitution, are openly supporting Obama</span> (including <a href="http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/30448">on his own website</a>; more <a href="http://littlegreenfootballs.com/tag/barack+obama,+hate+speech/and/1/25/">here</a>)</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;">. In fact, the NY regional director of CPUSA now claims that it feels <a href="http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/31573_Shiny_Happy_Communists">more confidence in the prospect of transforming a free America into one enslaved by Marxism-Leninism</a> than at any time since Ronald Reagan's presidency.</span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;">More on the communist roots of Obama's views and strategies, <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/10/obamas_radical_revolutionits_a.html">here</a>.</span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;"><br /><br />Here are some more of the troubling facts concerning Obama's statements regarding, and support from terrorist groups, barbarians and those who are hellbent on subverting America, and liberty in general:</span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><br /></span></p><ul><li><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sen. Obama stated that Iran, despite being recognized as the #1 global supporter of terror, and for having murdered U.S. soldiers and civilians, </span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2008/05/obama_ignorance_watch.asp"><span style="font-style: italic;">“doesn’t pose a serious threat”</span></a><span style="font-weight: bold;"> to the U.S.</span> --- yet then claimed, a few hours later, that <a href="http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2008/05/obama_counters_mccain_on_appea.html"><span style="font-style: italic;">"Iran poses a grave threat"</span></a> to the U.S.<br /><br /></span></li><li><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sen. Obama said that he would meet with Iranian madman Mahmoud Ahmadinejad </span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://hotair.com/archives/2008/05/21/richardson-you-dont-talk-to-ahmadinejad/">without preconditions</a><span style="font-weight: bold;"> --- then lied about his having said it</span>, as did his <a href="http://wizbangblog.com/content/2008/10/02/biden-misrepresents-obamas-pledge-to-meet-iran.php">running mate, Sen. Biden</a>. <span style="font-weight: bold;">UPDATE 1:</span> Iran has said it will <span style="font-style: italic;">not</span> meet with an American president <span style="font-style: italic;">without</span> <a href="http://www.moonbattery.com/archives/2008/10/tables_turning.html">strict preconditions</a>. <span style="font-weight: bold;">UPDATE 2:</span> Obama campaign says he <a href="http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2008/10/obama-cannot-fa.html">will not meet with non-leftist Jewish groups</a>, even <span style="font-style: italic;">with</span> preconditions.<br /><br /></span></li><li><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sen. Obama has said that Hamas and Hezbollah</span><span>, two of the world's most notorious terrorist groups, which have murdered U.S. soldiers and civilians, and have been supported by Iran for decades, </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">have </span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://infidelsarecool.com/2008/05/16/obama-hamas-and-hezbollah-have-legitimate-claims/"><span style="font-style: italic;">“legitimate claims"</span></a><span style="font-weight: bold;"> and grievances</span>.<br /><br /></span></li><li><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sen. Obama’s campaign has received tens of thousands of dollars in illegal donations from individuals in the </span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/obamas_foreign_contributions/">Hamas-ruled Palestinian territories</a> (who are also engaged in <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21YF7ggCG6g">Internet and phone-bank advocacy for him</a>).</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;"><br /></span></li><li><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sen. Obama has had deep ties to, and support from Khalid al-Mansour, a Saudi billionaire, racist, and anti-Jew, anti-Christian zealot.</span> (<a href="http://www.pr-inside.com/barack-obama-s-muslim-connection-a-r793883.htm">Here</a>, <a href="http://townhall.com/blog/g/c2df500d-0189-47d8-a454-54de9f6584c3">here</a>, <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/022571.php">here</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=9F8A48061A962CDD">here</a>) <span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">UPDATE:</span> Big expose' on this unreported relationship, </span><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.1483/pub_detail.asp">here</a><span style="font-style: italic;">.<br /><br /></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;">In 2006, while on a taxpayer-funded trip, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Sen. Obama </span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2008/01/barack-obama-backs-taliban-supporter-in.html">spoke out in Kenya on behalf of an Islamist theocrat</a><span style="font-weight: bold;"> who used barbaric violence to forcibly replace that nation’s freedom of religion with an oppressive, sharia-based body of laws</span> (8 minute video documentary <a href="http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=S8QcpdUtxNQ&feature=related">here</a>).</span><br /></li></ul><p class="JSNumberedList" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial; font-size: 130%;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;">=================</span><br /></p><p class="JSNumberedList" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">ITEM 6:</span> Imagine if it were discovered that a nondescript freshman Senator, running for President,</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 130%;"> with a background in Constitutional law, espoused in a national forum a profoundly incorrect understanding of the powers of the President, versus Congress, to issue orders to the U.S. military.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="Bullet" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;">During a July 18, 2007 interview with Matt Lauer on NBC’s<span style="font-style: italic;"> “Today Show,”</span> Sen. Obama – a Constitutional law professor and lecturer – claimed that if Congress disagrees with orders that the President, acting in his role as Commander-In-Chief, gives to the U.S. military, it is Congress’s lawful duty and obligation to countermand those orders.<span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="Bullet" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;">Were this a question on the hit TV show, <span style="font-style: italic;">“Are You Smarter Than A Fifth-Grader?,” </span>Sen. Obama would be proven wrong by any pre-pubescent able to pass a test of basic Constitutional law. (See <a href="http://www.usconstitution.net/xconst_A2Sec2.html">Article II, Section 2</a>, and <a href="http://www.usconstitution.net/xconst_A1Sec8.html">Article I, Section 8</a> of the U.S. Constitution.)<br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: arial;">The fact is that there is only ONE entity that is empowered by the <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1225115076_20">Constitution</span> to issue orders to the U.S. military - and that is the President, acting in his role as Commander-In-Chief.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: arial;">The U.S. Congress has NO power whatsoever to issue ANY orders to even an E-1, the lowest level enlistee.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Congress has NO power to countermand ANY order that the President issues.</span> The ONLY powers that Congress has regarding the military are: (1) To declare war, (2) To fund, and to cut off funding for military ventures, and (3) To ratify treaties. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;">Yet Matt Lauer – with all his “education,” and all of NBC’s executives, producers and research resources behind him – <span style="font-style: italic;">didn’t utter a peep to correct Sen. Obama</span>, or ask how he could possibly be a Constitutional law professor, while getting something so basic about that document so profoundly wrong.<br /><br />Compare this to the MSM's incessant "gotcha!" treatment of Sarah Palin, and its investigations into every nuance of her gubernatorial and mayoral history, political views and knowledge of our laws.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">UPDATE:</span> Further indication of Obama's unawareness (or betrayal) of the Constitutional provisions regarding the U.S. military:</span><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;"></span></p><ul><li><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Obama </span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/07/obamas_civilian_national_secur.html">said</a><span style="font-weight: bold;"> that as president, he would create</span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">"a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded (as the U.S. military),"</span> and that <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">"people of all ages, stations, and skills will be asked to serve."</span> (Video <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tt2yGzHfy7s">here</a>.) MSM: <span style="font-style: italic;">"Yawn...." </span></span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;"><br /><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;">=================</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;"><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">These are but six examples of the lengths to which the MSM has betrayed not only its obligation to present Americans with the vital facts we need to make informed decisions on the candidates – but to treat minorities with fairness, according to the same standard that it applies to all other candidates.</span><span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoBodyTextIndent" style="text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;">And in each of these examples, the MSM – rather than admitting that it had dropped the ball, and promising it would not do so again – sat silent while throngs of leftist activists, and even Sen. Obama himself, attributed the outrage expressed by citizens at their latent discovery of his actual background and affiliations, to his critics’ supposed <span style="font-style: italic;">"racism"</span> and <span style="font-style: italic;">"intolerance."</span> It is now <span style="font-style: italic;">"racist"</span> to point out that a candidate who professes to be most qualified to be president, and fight and win the war against Islamist terror, is himself affiliated with an unrepentant terrorist, whom he calls a <span style="font-style: italic;">"friend"</span>?<br /><br /><span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">How many more troubling aspects of Sen. Obama’s statements, affiliations and beliefs are going to come out in the waning days of this campaign season, because, as in earlier cases, the MSM won’t be able to hold back the discoveries of citizen-journalists anymore?</span><span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 130%;">Who knows – but here are a few, which have already been confirmed, or for which a significant amount of substantive indications already exist:</span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <ul><li><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;">The fact that <span style="font-weight: bold;">Sen. Obama has advocated for </span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=5152">a huge, new, permanent tax</a><span style="font-weight: bold;"> on all the American people, to fund a program supposedly aimed at reducing global poverty, </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">to be administered by the notoriously-corrupt United Nations</span> (thus usurping our sovereignty, and placing the U.N. in the role of tax collector); more <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/02/the_global_candidate_proposes.html">here</a>.</span><br /><br /></li><li><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;">The fact that with increasing frequency, <span style="font-weight: bold;">children are being indoctrinated to pledge allegiance to Sen. Obama</span>, eerily reminiscent of practices conducted in fascist and communist regimes. (<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUEQz5dltmI">Here</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08BAfKCfu74&feature=related">here</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4myPbEAwxJw&feature=related">here</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iA_oPtsX2ew&feature=related">here</a>, <a href="http://www.moonbattery.com/archives/2008/10/obamunists_brai.html">here</a>).<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">MORE:</span> Public school <a href="http://www.myfoxorlando.com/myfox/pages/Home/Detail;jsessionid=B6EDAA820DE8C928C5AA6C25BBC3FC81?contentId=7493673&version=1&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=1.1.1&sflg=1">suspends</a> a student for wearing an anti-Obama T-shirt --- but another public school <a href="http://www.myfoxorlando.com/myfox/pages/News/Politics/Detail;jsessionid=C6134BA18D6AE7C2C61F5D77F8AD665B?contentId=7664724&version=6&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=3.14.1&sflg=1">refuses to intervene</a> when a student wearing a pro-McCain T-shirt is called a "fascist" and a "racist" by her classmates.<br /><br /></span></li><li><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;">The fact that during the Democratic primaries, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Obama won the nomination largely via his buying of "superdelegates" for cash</span> --- or via implicit threats against them from (unregulated) leftist 527 activist groups, <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/05/barack_obamas_goldmine_1.html">here</a>.<br /><br /></span></li><li><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;">The fact that Michelle Obama made a blatantly fascist statement about an Obama presidency; she <a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2008/02/20/messiahs-wife-barack-will-never-allow-you-to-go-back-to-your-lives-as-usual-uninvolved-uninformed/">said</a> that as president, <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">"(He) will require you to work.</span> He is going to demand that you shed your cynicism... that you put down your divisions... that you push yourselves to be better... <span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">(he) will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual, uninvolved, uninformed</span>." </span><br /><br /></span></li><li><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;">The fact that <span style="font-weight: bold;">the Obama campaign attempted to institute a program in Missouri in which law enforcement officials would be empowered to </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">criminally prosecute</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> anyone who uttered "lies" about him or his campaign.</span> (<a href="http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2008/09/missouri-sheriffs-prosecuters-form.html">Here</a>; Imagine if the Bush or McCain campaign had attempted this; the MSM, Democrats and leftists would be climbing the walls, tearing their hair out, screaming <span style="font-style: italic;">"fascism!"</span>)<br /><br /></span></li><li><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;">The fact that numerous <span style="font-weight: bold;">lawsuits have been filed regarding allegations that Obama is not qualified to be president, because he does not meet the Constitutional requirement for a candidate's citizenship</span>, <a href="http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2008/10/another-obama-b.html">here</a>.<br /><br /></span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">What will happen if (or more likely, when) the MSM’s Herculean efforts to hold back from the public awareness an accurate depiction of these issues, is finally overwhelmed by the pressure from conservative talk radio and bloggers?</span> (Detailed report on the MSM's bias, specifically concerning Obama, <a href="http://www.mrc.org/SpecialReports/2008/obama/obamaExecSum.asp">here</a>) <span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br />What happens when the MSM's polls --- which supposedly show Obama enjoying a "huge lead" --- are revealed as having been <span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">deliberately skewed</span> to produce this result?</span> (Research <a href="http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/rich-noyes/2008/09/26/media-jumped-pro-obama-poll-was-sample-screwy">here</a>, <a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2008/06/05/cbs-poll-still-skewed-still-unreliable/">here</a>, <a href="http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/06/21/why-the-polls-are-skewed-towards-obama/">here</a>, <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/10/ap_report_completely_skews_ap.html">here</a>)<br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; font-size: 130%;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">What will happen if a last-minute, citizen-driven explosion of relevant facts concerning Sen. Obama results in his losing the election?</span> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;">Any honest political observer knows full well that America’s notorious race-baiters (Revs. Wright, Jackson, Sharpton, et al), and members of the MSM will hysterically claim that the only reason Sen. Obama lost is because of racism.<span style=""> </span><span style="font-style: italic;">And the MSM – having played right into their hands – will be able to do nothing to stop the civil unrest that will have been fomented by these demagogues.</span><span style=""> </span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">How many people will be injured or murdered, how much property will be destroyed, how much racial tension will result from the race-baiters’ rants, whcih the MSM refuses to call them on?</span> And how much racial divisiveness will be fomented, thanks in large part to the MSM’s willingness to refer only to these race-baiters for commentary --- while refusing to include prominent conservative/libertarian African-American figures, such as <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Sowell">Thomas Sowell</a><span style="font-weight: bold;">, </span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_E._Williams">Walter Williams</a><span style="font-weight: bold;">, </span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Parker">Star Parker</a><span style="font-weight: bold;">, </span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Cain">Herman Cain</a><span style="font-weight: bold;">, </span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deroy_Murdock">Deroy Murdock</a><span style="font-weight: bold;">, </span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._C._Watts">J.C. Watts</a><span style="font-weight: bold;">, </span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_S._Steele">Michael Steele</a><span style="font-weight: bold;">,</span> or<span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Blackwell">Ken Blackwell</a> in widely-viewed public discussions?<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">We won't be able to say that we haven't been warned.</span> The following is but a brief listing of the threats and predictions of racial violence if Obama loses the election:</span><br /></span></p><ul><li><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">"If McCain wins, look for a full-fledged race and class war,</span><span style="font-style: italic;"> fueled by a deflated and depressed country, soaring crime, homelessness - and hopelessness!"</span> - Fatimah Ali, <span style="font-style: italic;">Philadelphia Daily Star </span>(</span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://www.philly.com/dailynews/opinion/20080902_Fatimah_Ali__We_need_Obama__not_4_more_years_of_George_Bush.html">here</a><span style="font-family: arial;">)<br /><br /></span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">"If Obama goes in this race with a 5-point lead and losing this election, the consequences are -- bull, man.</span><span style="font-style: italic;"> I mean I don't think that's going to happen, but I think David it's a point to bring up. But you stop and contemplate this country </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">if Obama goes in and he has a consistent five point lead and loses the election, it would be very, very, very dramatic out there."</span> (James Carville, CNN <span style="font-style: italic;">"360,"</span> </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/p-j-gladnick/2008/10/08/james-carville-hints-riots-if-obama-loses">here</a><span style="font-family: arial;">)<br /><br /></span></li><li><span style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial;">"Yes, race </span><em style="font-family: arial; font-style: italic;"></em><span style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial;">will still be a factor, but if race </span><em style="font-family: arial; font-style: italic;"></em><span style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial;">was removed</span><span style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial;">....</span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; font-family: arial;"> OK, seriously, what do we want now, </span><em style="font-family: arial; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">riots if Obama loses</em><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">?</span><span style="font-style: italic;">"</span> (Jack Cafferty, CNN, </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://hotair.com/archives/2008/09/17/jack-cafferty-if-obama-loses-its-because-of-racism/">here</a><span style="font-family: arial;">)<br /><br /></span></li><li style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: arial;">A collection of leftist allegations of racism, from an article by Dennis Prager, </span><a style="font-family: arial; font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/09/liberals_warnings_about_obama.html">here</a><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">:</span><br />- Andrew Sullivan of </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial;">The Atlantic</span><span style="font-family: arial;">: </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; font-family: arial;">"White racism means that Obama needs more than a small but clear lead to win."</span><span style="font-family: arial;"><br />- Jack Cafferty of CNN: </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; font-family: arial;">"The polls remain close. Doesn't make sense ... unless it's race."</span><span style="font-family: arial;"><br />- Jacob Weisberg of </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial;">Newsweek </span><span style="font-family: arial;">and Slate: </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; font-family: arial;">"The reason Obama isn't ahead right now is ... the color of his skin. ... If Obama loses, our children will grow up thinking of equal opportunity as a myth."</span><span style="font-family: arial;"><br />- Nicholas D. Kristof of </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial;">New York Times</span><span style="font-family: arial;">: </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; font-family: arial;">"Religious prejudice (against Obama) is becoming a proxy for racial prejudice."</span><span style="font-family: arial;"><br />- Gerald W. McEntee, president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, in a speech to union workers: </span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial;">"Are you going to give up your house and your job and your children's futures because he's black?"</span><br /><br /></span></li><li style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: arial;">Deep analysis </span><a style="font-weight: bold; font-family: arial;" href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/10/how_obama_learned_to_stop_worr_1.html">here</a><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: arial;"> of Obama's --- and the MSM's --- use of racial politics, appeals to white guilt, and obfuscation</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> in order to deflect legitimate criticism, and opposition to him, his beliefs and policy proposals.</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></li></ul> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;">The bottom line is this:</span> All freedom-loving Americans should celebrate the fact that for the first time, a non-white citizen has risen to be the nominee for President from one of our two major political parties.<span style=""> </span>The 2008 Presidential election will be looked back upon as yet another milestone in America’s Herculean efforts to overcome the racism it inherited from the Old World.<span style=""> </span>The Obama candidacy has shattered the last limit on minorities to rise to the top of our civic structure.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Instead of a celebration, however, the MSM has turned the 2008 election into what may well be looked back upon as a re-stoking of false charges of racism in America, which will play right into the hands of those who profit from it, either financially or politically.</span><br /><br /></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Is the MSM racist? <span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Yes</span> --- and its own actions (and inactions) prove it.</span></span><br /></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;">In the ultimate irony, it will have been the MSM’s racism – <span style="font-style: italic;">yes, racism</span> – that will have been the biggest (external) factor that will lead to Sen. Obama’s defeat.<span style=""> </span>Before going any further into this seemingly shocking allegation, let’s look at how the word “racism” is defined.<span style=""> </span>According to <a href="http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/racism">Merriam-Webster</a>, "racism" is:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoBodyTextIndent2" style="margin-left: 0in;"><span class="sensecontent1" style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><blockquote style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">“A belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race; <span style="font-weight: bold;">racial prejudice or discrimination</span>.”</blockquote><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;">MSM representatives may say that their profession is not racist; that if certain (many) members among their ranks were going easier on Sen. Obama than they were on others, it was a sort of “affirmative action” program – to give an African-American candidate a bit of an easier time to get ahead, given the disadvantages that blacks and other minorities have been suffering, as a result of institutional racism in America.<span style=""> </span>On the surface, and in a private-enterprise context, this would seem to be a noble endeavor.<span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">But return once again to the definition of racism.</span><span style=""> </span>It is, in summary, treating people differently because of the color of their skin.<span style=""> </span>And in the context of the Obama candidacy, it meant, to the MSM, protecting him from the critical analysis and exposure that would have ended his candidacy early on – just as it would have for any other candidate with his associations, beliefs, judgments and character deficiencies.<span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;">Instead of paying the ultimate tribute to him – that of applying the exact same standard of inquiry and examination that it does to all other candidates – the MSM created an entirely new, far lower standard, just for Sen. Obama.<span style=""> </span>And that, in a nutshell – along with the fact that the truth about his background, etc. gradually became known, via the “alternative media” – is what created the vacuum that gave conservative talk radio and blogs their relevance to this issue; they were doing the job that the MSM refused to do, in terms of “vetting” Sen. Obama.<span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Thanks to the blogosphere and alternative media, this reality of who Sen. Obama is, what he believes, the positions he’s taken, and indicates he’ll take for the future, will most likely get out, probably right before the election.</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">And when it does, if it turns the election to Sen. McCain, the dynamic that the MSM will have created is going to cause a civic explosion.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;">The character of each individual American --- and the principled, patriotic voices and influence of our civic, cultural and faith-based institutions --- are the only things that will keep this explosion from igniting domestic violence.<span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;">It is up to each of us to accept what’s been done to our civic process by the MSM – and, in advance of future election cycles, demand that it begin acting with the fairness, responsibility and integrity that Dr. King so eloquently articulated more than 40 years ago.<span style=""> </span><br /><br />To do anything less will condemn America to an even more prolonged resurgence of racial divisions than what the MSM will have caused, in the aftermath of this election.<br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 85%;">© Copyright 2008 by Expedio, and Expedio5x5.blogspot.com. All rights reserved.</span><span style="font-size: 85%;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: ";font-size:85%;";"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 85%;">Publications and syndicators – contact <a href="mailto:expedio5x5@gmail.com">expedio5x5@gmail.com</a> </span><i><br /></i></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 130%;">=========================================</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">UPDATES</span> --- Examples of the MSM's spin to protect Obama, or its ignoring of facts and stories that it would relentlessly pursue, if he were any other candidate: </span></span><br /><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">October 4</span></span></span><br /></div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;"><a href="http://sweetness-light.com/">Sweetness & Light:</a> <a href="http://sweetness-light.com/archive/obama-claims-he-never-worked-for-acorn">(1)</a> Obama claims he never worked with ACORN, the <a href="http://www.rottenacorn.com/">endemically-corrupt*</a> "community activist" organization; <a href="http://sweetness-light.com/archive/obama-ran-acorns-training-sessions-on-power">(2)</a> Obama is revealed to have <span style="font-weight: bold;">deep working ties with ACORN</span>, which was instrumental in his elections. (*More <a href="http://sweetness-light.com/archive/acorn-caught-faking-more-voter-registrations">here</a>)<span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br /></span></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">October 5</span></span></span><br /></div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;"><br /><a href="http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/31483_William_Ayers_Role_In_Obamas_Appointment_As_Annenberg_Challenge_Chairman">LGF (Globallor):</a> Surprise - <span style="font-weight: bold;">William Ayers appointed Obama to head his (Ayers's) $50 million "educational" (anti-American indoctrination) project in Chicago,</span> despite the fact that he (Obama) has no experience whatsoever in running... anything.<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">(Ed.: Obama - Ayers is <a href="http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2008/09/william-ayers-guy-who-lives-in-my.html">"just a guy who lives in my neighborhood."</a> Right. MSM: "Yawn...")</span><br /><br /><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://www.nypost.com/seven/10052008/postopinion/opedcolumnists/voter_fraud_expected_to_be_rampant_132170.htm">NYPost:</a><span style="font-style: italic;"> </span>John Fund exposes the latest round of radical leftist efforts at voter and election fraud. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;">(MSM: <span style="font-style: italic;">"Yawn..."</span>)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;"><br /><a href="http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2008/10/obama-admits-his-work-with-terrorist.html"></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;"><a href="http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2008/10/obama-contribut.html">AtlasShrugs2000:</a> CNN reports that RNC has filed charges with FEC against Obama campaign for illegal contributions, but downplays its significance, and refuses (thus far) to credit AtlasShrugs blog for its relentless sleuthing on this matter, or its uncovering of the fact that contributions have come from the Gaza Strip.<br /><a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/10/weathermen_for_obama.html"></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Oct. 6</span></span><br /></div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;"><br /><a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2008/10/06/videos-the-ayers-connection/"></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;"><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/06/drilling-down-on-the-facts-in-mccains-speech/">NY Times:</a> <span>Deep analysis</span> of McCain's supposed "lies" and "misrepresentations" in NM speech; <span style="font-weight: bold;">no analysis whatsoever of the innumerable lies that </span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.audacityofhypocrisy.com/fashion-shows/">Obama</a><span style="font-weight: bold;"> and </span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.stoptheaclu.com/archives/2008/10/03/biden-lies-on-obama-meeting-ahmedinijad-without-conditions-and-13-other-lies/">Biden</a><span style="font-weight: bold;"> have told during this campaign season and to the present day; more </span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZTI3MmI1NWM2YThmZmE1Mjc0ZTk0YmRhYzE0MWUzNjA=">here</a><span style="font-weight: bold;">, </span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/john-stephenson/2008/03/30/more-obama-lies-media-will-ignore">here</a><span style="font-weight: bold;">, </span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=13526">here</a><span style="font-weight: bold;">, </span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://wizbangblog.com/content/2008/10/04/more-lies.php">here</a><span style="font-weight: bold;">, </span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/31461_Bidens_Lies_Ignored_by_Media">here</a><span style="font-weight: bold;">.</span><br /><br /><a href="http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/31485_The_Weathermen_Tried_to_Kill_My_Family">LGF (CityJournal):</a> Expose' - (Bill Ayers and) <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">"The Weathermen Tried To Kill My Family."</span> (MSM: <span style="font-style: italic;">"Yawn..."</span>)<br /><br /><a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2008/10/06/frank-criticism-of-congress-is-now-racist-too/">HotAir:</a> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Rep. Barney Frank now alleges that criticism of the Community Reinvestment Act </span>(which is at the heart of the Freddie Mac - Fannie Mae meltdown) <span style="font-weight: bold;">is inherently</span> <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">racist</span><span style="font-weight: bold;">.</span> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;">(MSM: <span style="font-style: italic;">"Yawn..."</span>)</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="http://sweetness-light.com/"></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;"><a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/10/gwen_ifills_vp_debate_bias.html">American Thinker:</a> An analysis of Gwen Ifill's bias in questions at the VP debate, to advance the Obama-Biden ticket. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;">(MSM: <span style="font-style: italic;">"Yawn..."</span>)</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: arial;">Oct 7:</span><br /></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/2008-10-06-campaign_N.htm"><span style="font-style: italic;"></span></a></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="http://sweetness-light.com/">Sweetness & Light:</a> Deep expose' on how <span style="font-weight: bold;">the AP continues to get its talking points from the most radical leftist blogsites</span>, and tailors the spin of its stories to protect Obama; read it all <a href="http://sweetness-light.com/archive/where-the-ap-gets-its-talking-points">here</a>.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="http://www.moonbattery.com/archives/2008/10/weather_undergr.html"></a></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">SPECIAL:</span> Thanks to tipster "TK," this: <span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">"Samantha Powers is one of Barack Obama's closest advisers.</span> She worked in his US Senate office (only 14 people shared this role). She tells people she communicates with Obama a few times a day. She was forced to resign from the campaign advisory team after she called Hillary Clinton a "horror." <span style="font-weight: bold;">But here she is on tape calling Israel a state like others which commit genocide (e.g Rwanda), and and recommending the use of international forces to take over the West Bank.</span> Oh, <span style="font-weight: bold;">she also wants all foreign aid to Israel ended, and instead sent to the Palestinians.</span> Powers is telling people she will have an important role in an Obama administration (UN Ambassador?), which the Obama campaign team has not denied. <span style="font-weight: bold;">All of you who received the video email with all the nice prominent Jewish people saying how much Obama loves the Jews and Israel, should view this. Ms Powers is not just some distant associate or advisor to Obama , but close to the real power.</span> She will have Obama's ear if he wins, as seems more likely at this point."</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">See the video </span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oFkmcZt4OQ">here</a><span style="font-weight: bold;">. </span></span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-family: arial;">Oct 8-13:</span><br /></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/10/this_could_be_the_game_changer.html">AmericanThinker:</a> 10:30 video profiles the case of <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Berg v. Obama</span><span style="font-weight: bold;">; is Obama a natural-born U.S. citizen</span> (a requirement to be president) --- and if so, why won't he provide the proof? </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;">(MSM: <span style="font-style: italic;">"Yawn..."</span>)</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /><a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2008/10/13/cnn-to-black-mccain-s">HotAir:</a> Black CNN reporter to black McCain supporter:<span style="font-style: italic;"> "How come you're not supporting Obama?"</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/10/why_obamas_communist_connectio.html"></a></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="http://www.nypost.com/seven/10132008/postopinion/opedcolumnists/spreading_the_virus_133375.htm"><span style="font-style: italic;">NY Post</span>/Stanley Kurtz:</a> Huge expose' on <span style="font-weight: bold;">Obama-linked ACORN's activities leading to mortgage meltdown, its pattern of corruption, and its history of subverting elections.</span> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;">(MSM: <span style="font-style: italic;">"Yawn..."</span>)<br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2008/10/13/video-obamas-redistributionism/">FoxNews/HotAir:</a> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Obama finally admits his socialist redistributionist scheme</span> (cultivated through his decades of study at the feet of, and alliances with socialists, communists and anarchists --- which the MSM has either ignored or pooh-poohed): <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; font-family: arial;">"</span></span></span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; font-family: arial;">I think that when you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody.”</span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span>The logical questions that a rational, freedom-loving media would ask --- but which will not be asked by the current cardre of Obama-protectors posing as "journalists": <span style="font-style: italic;">"To whose 'wealth' are you referring? To whom will you 'spread it'? And what specific passage(s) in the U.S. Constitution authorize(s) you to take wealth from any individual or group, and give it to any other individual or group?"</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/31547_Obama_Campaign_Covering_Up_Involvement_with_ACORN">Cleveland Leader/LGF:</a> Expose' on <span style="font-weight: bold;">Obama's lies concerning his relationship with ACORN.</span> (MSM: <span style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial;">"Yawn..."</span><span style="font-family: arial;">)</span></span><br /><br /><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/10/obamas_religious_ruse_ive_alwa.html">American Thinker:</a><span style="font-family: arial;"> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Obama's lies about his religious background</span> are chronicled in detail. <span style="font-family: arial;">(MSM: </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial;">"Yawn..."</span><span style="font-family: arial;">)</span></span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: arial;">Oct. 14:<br /><br /></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial;"><a href="http://campaignspot.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MGQyMmIzODliNmY1MTllNDc1ZTU0MDY5NGY3ODhkYWI=">NRO:</a> <span style="font-weight: bold;">The one poll that the MSM is <span style="font-style: italic;">refusing</span> to refer to, or confront Obama or Biden with --- showing that <span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">45% of American view Obama as being unqualified to be president</span>.</span> Instead, the MSM runs wall-to-wall reports on polls that (falsely) show Obama with an insurmountable lead... and focus on digging up dirt on Sarah Palin, etc. </span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: arial;"></span></div><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: arial;"><br />Oct. 15:</span><br /></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=307665441951152"><span style="font-style: italic;"></span></a></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/scott-whitlock/2008/10/15/all-three-morning-shows-skip-story-campaign-cash-bidens-family">NewsBusters:</a> All 3 news networks refused to cover breaking story about millions of dollars from Sen. Biden's campaign being funneled to members of his family. <span style="font-weight: bold;">MORE:</span> Taxpayer-funded PBS continues to assemble panels of "analysts" that are anything but "balanced;" not a single genuine conservative/libertarian among them; <a href="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-graham/2008/10/15/pbs-post-debate-murderers-row-against-mccain">here</a>.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;">Oct. 16:</span><br /></div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;"><br /><a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2008/10/16/secret-service-finds-no-basis-for-kill-him-smear/">HotAir:</a> <span style="font-weight: bold;">The U.S. Secret Service lays waste to the MSM's endlessly-repeated claim, fed to them by the Obama campaign, regarding shouts of </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">"kill him!"</span> being yelled in reference to Sen. Obama at McCain/Palin rallies. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;">(MSM: <span style="font-style: italic;">"Yawn..."</span>)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;"><br /><a href="http://savagepolitics.com/?page_id=326">SavagePolitics:</a> <span style="font-weight: bold;">ShallowHal documents </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">67 Obama lies</span>, with extensive sources.<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.theobamafile.com/">TheObamaFile:</a> LOTS of great research that tells <span style="font-weight: bold;">the real story about Obama, what he believes, who he's associated himself with, his voting history,</span> etc.<br /><br /><a href="http://sweetness-light.com/archive/acorn-peoples-platform-socialism-in-a-nutshell">Sweetness & Light:</a> The <span style="font-style: italic;">real </span>story behind <span style="font-weight: bold;">ACORN and its communist beliefs</span> --- yes, that same organization that Obama has repeatedly denied (falsely) that he's deeply affiliated with. (MSM: <span style="font-style: italic;">"Yawn..."</span>)<br /><a href="http://www.moonbattery.com/archives/2008/10/an_illinois_tak.html"><br />Moonbattery/MarketWatch:</a> Gun rights lobbyist reveals <span style="font-weight: bold;">Obama's deep opposition to Americans' Second Amendment rights;</span> MSM: <span style="font-style: italic;">"Yawn..."</span>, won't ask him about this --- but is devoting endless resources to investigating menstrual cycle of Sarah Palin's daughter, and now, "Joe The Plumber."<br /><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;">Oct. 17:</span><br /></div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;"><br /><a href="http://www.patterico.com/2008/10/16/la-times-joe-the-plumber-has-liens1/">Patterico:</a> MSM breathlessly reports (and re-reports, and re-re-reports) "Joe The Plumber's" tax liens --- but has <span style="font-style: italic;">zero interest</span> in reporting the fact that <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Obama's campaign treasurer also faces tax liens</span>; reported excuse for this omission? <span style="font-style: italic;">"Yawn..."<br /><br /></span><a href="http://sistertoldjah.com/archives/2008/10/16/joe-biden-j-o-b-s-is-a-three-letter-word/">SisterToldjah:</a><span style="font-style: italic;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;">MSM breathlessly reports (and re-reports, and re-re-reports) every allegation of a McCain or Palin gaffe; refuses to report on Joe Biden's claim that "JOBS" is a three-letter word.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="http://www.moonbattery.com/archives/2008/10/obamunists_lowe.html">Moonbattery:</a> <span style="font-weight: bold;">MSM refuses to report on Obama supporters' thuggery regarding their efforts to harm "Joe The Plumber,"</span> for his courage to call their Messiah what he is: a socialist.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="http://www.moonbattery.com/archives/2008/10/if_obama_wins_d.html"><span style="font-style: italic;"></span></a><a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/10/taking_acorn_at_its_word.html">American Thinker:</a> Once again, <span style="font-weight: bold;">the </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">NY Times</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> shills for Obama, this time by taking ACORN's word that it's not doing anything wrong</span>. Funny how the <span style="font-style: italic;">NYT </span>wouldn't accept this standard when it insinuated that McCain was having an affair with a lobbyist, when there was no evidence whatsoever to suggest it... but here, with a mountain of evidence against ACORN, growing every hour, the <span style="font-style: italic;">NYT</span> sees none of it.<br /><br /><a href="http://ace.mu.nu/archives/275897.php">AceOfSpades/Oleg Atbashian:</a> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Male Obama supporter </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">rips McCain sign out of woman's hands, beats her face with stick</span> --- MSM: <span style="font-style: italic;">"Yawn..."</span>; <a href="http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/31593_Video-_Obama_Bashes_McCain_with_a_Bogus_Story">Made-up stories</a>, echoed by Obama, about shouts of <span style="font-style: italic;">"Kill him!"</span> at McCain rallies (which the <a href="http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/31592_Secret_Service-_No_One_Shouted_Kill_Him_at_McCain_Rally">Secret Service denies</a> having happened) --- MSM breathlessly repeats the allegation, without acknowledging it is <span style="font-weight: bold;">false</span>. <span style="font-style: italic;">And the band played on...<br /><br /></span><span><a href="http://sweetness-light.com/archive/networks-worry-about-election-blowout">Sweetness & Light:</a> <span style="font-weight: bold;">News networks now warning about short election night</span>, due to likely Obama landslide ---- more than <span style="font-style: italic;">two weeks before</span> election.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.unionleader.com/article.aspx?headline=Obama%3a+%27You+cannot+let+up%27&articleId=1a7835c3-2468-4e6c-8d56-7253c033232a">NH <span style="font-style: italic;">Union-Leader</span>/Drudge:</a> Obama campaign cancels its scheduled singing of national anthem, recitation of Pledge of Allegiance at rally; MSM: <span style="font-style: italic;">"Yawn..."<br /><br /></span></span></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-family: arial;"><span><span>Oct. 18:</span></span></span><br /></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span><br /><a href="http://www.verumserum.com/?p=2907"></a></span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span><a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/10/post_20.html">American Thinker:</a> Another shocker --- <span style="font-weight: bold;">Obama blatantly lied in the final presidential debate about the extent of his relationship with the endemically-corrupt ACORN</span>; MSM: <span style="font-style: italic;">"Yawn..."<br /></span><br /><a href="http://www.zombietime.com/zomblog/?p=64">Zombie/HotAir:</a> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Photos of Obama's endorsement of Ayers' book</span> (wait, we thought Ayers was </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2008/09/william-ayers-guy-who-lives-in-my.html">"just a guy who lives in my neighborhood"</a></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span>? After all, the MSM's only had two years to drag its feet on vetting Obama...).</span></span> MSM: <span style="font-style: italic;">"Yawn..."</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/10/thugocracy_attacks_joe_the_plu.html">American Thinker:</a> Analysis of the thugocracy attacking "Joe The Plumber;" <span style="font-weight: bold;">in less than a week, the MSM</span> (in conjunction with the Obama campaign) <span style="font-weight: bold;">has dug up more information (dirt) on "Joe" than it has regarding Obama, over the two years of his campaign.</span></span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: arial;">Oct 19:</span><br /></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="http://www.pajamasmedia.com/instapundit/archives2/025970.php">InstaPundit:</a> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Mark Halperin </span>(ABC News, Time) <span style="font-weight: bold;">admits the blatant double-standard the MSM is applying re Obama's huge fundraising</span>, vs. what it would do if Obama were being outspent 3- or 4-to-1, as McCain currently is.</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: arial;">Oct. 20:</span><br /></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">While the MSM is knee-deep in <a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2008/10/18/gray-lady-trolls-facebook-for-trash-on-cindy-mccain/">trolling FaceBook for dirt on Cindy McCain</a>... and <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/20/us/politics/20health.html?_r=1&hp=&pagewanted=all&oref=slogin">the prospect of John McCain's melanoma returning</a>... <span style="font-weight: bold;">vital facts concerning Obama's and the Democrats' lies, and the actual, anti-Constitutional policies they'll pursue if they regain their power, go almost entirely unreported:</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: arial;">From </span><a style="font-family: arial; font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/">AtlasShrugs:</a><span style="font-family: arial;"><br />- Obama's <a href="http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2008/10/obama-will-ban.html">actual, anti-Constitutional stance on the Second Amendment</a> (vs. what he and the MSM have told us about his views on the matter)<br />- 4.2% of all new mortgages will be <a href="http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2008/10/obamas-acorn-la.html">legally forced to go to anti-American groups ACORN and La Raza</a><br />- The hypocrisy of Michelle Obama, after claiming we'll all have to give up something so our neighbors will be better off --- while <a href="http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2008/10/the-audacity-of.html">she orders a "snack" fit for a king, for nearly $500</a> (Imagine if this were Cindy McCain... the MSM would be tearing their hair out, hounding both McCains on his inability to relate to the plight of "regular Joes" in this economy).</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">MSM: <span style="font-style: italic;">"Yawn..."</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: arial;">From <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/">American Thinker</a>:</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">- <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/10/the_buying_of_the_presidency_2.html"><span style="font-style: italic;">"The Buying Of The Presidency"</span></a></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">- <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/10/stealing_the_presidency_an_oba.html"><span style="font-style: italic;">"Stealing The Presidency: An Obama/ACORN Primer"</span></a></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">- The Democrats' thirst <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/10/whats_so_fair_about_the_fairne.html">to reinstate speech controls</a> via the "Fairness Doctrine," if they retain/grow their legal power</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">- Update on <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/10/panic_in_obama_camp_over_jewis.html">Obama's refusal to meet with non-leftist Jewish groups</a>, to discuss his dangerous doublespeak re Israel (again, imagine if this were the McCain campaign... the MSM would be having conniptions) </span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">MSM: <span style="font-style: italic;">"Yawn..."</span></span><br /><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/31632_Kurtz_on_Obama_and_the_New_Party">NRO's Stanley Kurtz/LGF:</a><span style="font-family: arial;"> More analysis of <span style="font-weight: bold;">Obama's real history with socialists</span>, the New Party, and ACORN; MSM totally ignoring.</span> <a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/31631_Card-_Would_the_Last_Honest_Reporter_Please_Turn_On_the_Lights">Orson Scott Card/LGF:</a><span style="font-family: arial;"> <span style="font-weight: bold;">A</span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> Democrat blasts the MSM for its colossal irresponsibility</span> in regards to covering the core issues of this election, protecting Democrats, villifying McCain and Republicans without merit.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; font-family: arial;">BLOCKBUSTER EXAMPLE OF THE MSM'S SHILLING FOR OBAMA CAMPAIGN:</span> <span style="font-family: arial;"><br /><br />Biden said today that </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://hotair.com/archives/2008/10/20/biden-obamas-inexperience-will-prompt-nations-to-test-us/">within first six months of Obama's presidency, he will face an international crisis... <span style="font-weight: bold;">that some rogue nation will try to test this inexperienced president</span></a><span style="font-family: arial;">... yada, yada, yada... essentially an inadvertent endorsement of John McCain (and echoing Biden's criticism of Obama <span style="font-style: italic;">8 weeks ago</span>, in the DNC primaries... that <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lknTPvH1wSg">Obama doesn't have the experience to be president</a>). Yet what comprises the CNN web page tonight? See for yourself (click to enlarge):</span> <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;"><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-AT7lEXZWUvio_-pu1xjISWwalx_EEiTzLoZsOv1bFNFzbf-I7AKuTnD8jq-YQRI5TvaKGJ_HNUtlfoz3sVnJTAHXdSviStlMP3hFdbHEGJ0ljqGoGgO9rM9CNWXt_QhCekGlvqMau-OV/s1600-h/20Oct08-CNN-page.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-AT7lEXZWUvio_-pu1xjISWwalx_EEiTzLoZsOv1bFNFzbf-I7AKuTnD8jq-YQRI5TvaKGJ_HNUtlfoz3sVnJTAHXdSviStlMP3hFdbHEGJ0ljqGoGgO9rM9CNWXt_QhCekGlvqMau-OV/s320/20Oct08-CNN-page.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5259483733862674418" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family: arial;">Aside from the "love-in" for Obama, there is absolutely <span style="font-style: italic;">nothing</span> about Biden's blockbuster statement anywhere on the page... zero. So if this wasn't "newsworthy," what did CNN decide merited top-line coverage? Take a look at the top-line links they chose to feature --- and ask yourself, which of these stories </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial;">in any way</span> <span style="font-family: arial;">relates to America's future, national security, and the core issues of this election?</span><br /><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/10/20/yatch.killings.ap/index.html">Former child actor found guilty in yacht killings</a><br /><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/10/20/nevada.boy.grandfather/index.html">Nevada boy's abduction brings 2nd arrest</a><br /><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://www.cnn.com/linkto/ticker.html">Ticker: Obama, Clinton meet on the trail</a><br /><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/10/20/scotus.hollywood.prosecutor/index.html">Justices turn down appeal in 'Alpha Dog' case</a><br /><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/worklife/10/20/mf.rejected.movies/index.html">Five million-dollar mistakes by movie stars</a><br /><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2008/10/20/dnt.wa.climber.rescue.king">Hurt climber drank urine, ate bugs to live</a><br /><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2008/10/20/dnt.mo.fire.truck.collision.cnn">Fire trucks collide on tape, one rolls</a><br /><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/tech/2008/10/20/neisloss.india.brain.mapping.cnn">Ex-girlfriend's brain links her to murder</a><br /><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://heroes.cnn.com/default.asp" target="new">CNN Hero of the Year: Vote now</a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">Also --- note that CNN makes <span style="font-style: italic;">no mention</span> of the fact that contrary to the myth being pushed of an insurmountable Obama lead in the polls, <a href="http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/10/20/fox-newsrasmussen-reports-poll-mccain-gains-slight-lead-florida-ohio/">he has been steadily losing ground in the last week, and has now lost the lead in two crucial swing states, FL and OH</a>. <span style="font-style: italic;">"The most trusted news organization..."</span> indeed. </span><br /><div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: arial;">Oct. 21:</span><br /></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/justin-mccarthy/2008/10/20/cmpas-lichter-finds-obvious-media-overwhelmingly-positive-obama">Center for Media and Public Affairs/NewsBusters:</a> Surprise --- nonpartisan study reveals that <span style="font-weight: bold;">by almost 2-1 margin, MSM has been providing more favorable coverage of Obama's campaign than McCain's</span>.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="http://www.moonbattery.com/archives/2008/10/the_wrong_kind.html">Sweetness & Light:</a> <span style="font-style: italic;">USA Today</span> whipping up <span style="font-weight: bold;">false accounts of dramatic rise in traffic to white supremacist websites; implied accusation: if Obama loses, it will be due to </span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">racism</span>.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2008/10/21/video-cnn-egregiously-distorts-national-review-quote-to-humiliate-palin/">Hot Air:</a> More MSM manipulation to subvert Sarah Palin. <span style="font-weight: bold;">MORE:</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Even <span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Dan Rather</span> now <a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2008/10/21/video-if-palin-said-what-biden-said-itd-be-front-page-news-admits-dan-rather/">agrees that the MSM is protecting Obama</a></span> <span style="font-style: italic;">(Ed.: Keep a close eye for four horsemen riding across the sky...)</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="http://voices.kansascity.com/node/2493"><span style="font-style: italic;">Kansas City Star</span>/Drudge:</a> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Now, referring to Obama's socialist ideas as "socialist" is... <span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">racist</span>.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MWQ0NTEyMjVjZDY2MjY1NGE1MGNmNjIzOWNhOWIzM2Y="><span style="font-style: italic;">National Review:</span></a> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Pete Hegseth exposes the reality of rogue nations' intent to "test" what they see as a spineless Obama</span>, should he win (and which the MSM has continued to refuse to discuss). <span style="font-weight: bold;">MORE: </span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MDMzMzRlOTJhNjdmYWI1YWY3OTg3MTVjNjZiNjI5MjU=">Peter Ferrara exposes the reality of Obama's tax proposals</a><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span>--- and why they will stunt growth, prolong the recession, and provide welfare for more than a third of US workers who don't pay income taxes. (MSM: <span style="font-style: italic;">"Yawn..."</span>)</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: arial;">Oct. 23-24:</span><br /></div><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; font-family: arial;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">***BLOCKBUSTER***</span> <span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">revelations regarding the MSM's manipulation of poll numbers</span> --- and its motivation for doing so (to simulatenously give the false impression that Obama has an insurmountable lead, and depress McCain voter turnout):</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">1) </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://www.ibdeditorials.com/Polls.aspx?id=309635713550536">IBD:</a><span style="font-family: arial;"> <span style="font-weight: bold;">The most accurate polling firm from 2004 </span>(TIPP) <span style="font-weight: bold;">shows that Obama's lead over McCain is <span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">1.1%</span></span> - <span style="font-style: italic;">not </span>the 10-15% that the MSM is reporting (generating)</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">2) </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://www.newsmax.com/kessler/polls_media_biased/2008/10/23/143496.html">NewsMax:</a><span style="font-family: arial;"> Kellyanne Conway, one of the few pollsters who accurately predicted the outcome of the 2004 election, explains what the MSM is doing, and why --- and the consequences it may lead to.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">3) <a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2008/10/24/video-rush-on-polling/">HotAir:</a> Rush Limbaugh and Ed Morrisey further explain this subversive MSM phenomenon.</span><br /><br />------------<br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/10/eliminating_25_million_america.html">American Thinker:</a> <span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">William Ayers</span>, Obama's "friend," colleague, political supporter and recipient of Obama-directed funds <span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">planned to murder 25 million <span style="font-style: italic;">"die-hard capitalists"</span> in America</span> whom he anticipated would reject his "re-education" doctrine, to accept a communist revolution in the U.S. --- </span>according to testimony by FBI agent who infiltrated The Weathermen. <span style="font-style: italic;">(Ed.: The countdown starts now until Obama says, </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial;"></span><span style="font-style: italic;">"Gee, that's not the Ayers I thought I knew" [and worked with, and funneled money to, and received money from, and started my political career in his living room, and blurbed his book, and...])</span><span style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial;"></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-style: italic;">.</span> MSM: </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial;">"Yawn..."<br /><br /></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">MORE:</span> 3,000+ American "educators" sign petition in opposition of the "unfair villification" of their fellow "educator," William Ayers, <a href="http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/10/22/academics-sign-pro-ayers-petition/">here</a>.</span> What a wonder it is that so many of our children grow up to unknowingly accept communist doctrine, and blindly support Obama and his like-minded cronies.</span><br /></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /><a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2008/10/24/final-bill-on-the-barackopolis-53-million/">HotAir:</a> <span style="font-weight: bold;">While the MSM obsesses over the RNC spending $150,000 on clothes, etc., to whisk Sarah Palin out of Alaska to begin a nonstop speaking tour of the U.S. when she was named VP candidate, it is <span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">ignoring the $5.5 million that Obama spent on the "Barackopolis,"</span></span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">to make his acceptance speech, when the DNC convention hall was already paid for.</span> How many poor children could have been fed with that money? How much would life have changed for <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/barackobama/2590614/Barack-Obamas-lost-brother-found-in-Kenya.html">Obama's half-brother in Kenya</a>, if he'd have given even 1/10 of 1% of that money to him? More <a href="http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/31687_More_Than_5_Million_Dollars_for_Obamas_Greek_Temple">here</a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=38090">CNSNews:</a> <span style="font-weight: bold;">While heading the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, <span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Obama directed at least $800,000 between 1998-2002 to the former chairman of U.S. Communist Party</span>, and partner of Ayers --- for their "educational" project.</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;"> More <a href="http://www.moonbattery.com/archives/2008/10/academic_termit.html">here</a>, on the true intent of Ayers's "educational" project --- a communist revolution in the U.S. MSM: <span style="font-style: italic;">"Yawn..."</span> </span><span style="font-style: italic;">(Ed.:</span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"> </span><span style="font-style: italic;">And yet, if it were discovered that John McCain or Sarah Palin had directed funds to, say, an "educational" project run by a current or former abortion clinic bomber, or a group of self-admitted fascists, who were pushing for a "revolution" in the U.S., it would be front-page, above-the-fold news, day in and day out...) </span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">MORE:</span> Ayers confirms, on video, that Obama knew exactly who he was, and what he was after, <a href="http://www.moonbattery.com/archives/2008/10/ayers_confirms.html">here</a>.</span><br /></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="http://www.moonbattery.com/archives/2008/10/barack_obama_ma.html">Moonbattery:</a> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Obama, on video, explains why salvation on Earth requires taking money from white people and giving it to black people.</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">(Ed.: Yet the MSM has, for two years, promoted Obama as our "post-racial" candidate/messiah.)</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="http://sweetness-light.com/archive/cnns-truth-squad-lies-about-palin">Sweetness & Light:</a> <span style="font-weight: bold;">CNN deliberately misrepresents Sarah Palin's statements in order to obfuscate the irrefutable truthfulness of her actual words</span>, re her having more executive experience than Obama.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="http://townhall.com/Columnists/AmandaCarpenter/2008/10/22/msnbc_teams_up_with_acorn,_la_raza">TownHall/Amanda Carpenter:</a> <span style="font-weight: bold;">MSNBC "partners" with endemically-corrupt, communism-driven, Obama-linked ACORN, and radical leftist-racist Hispanic group La Raza</span> ("The Race"), <span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: arial;">for its election night "coverage"</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> --- yet the network continues to proclaim that it is "not biased" in any way.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/31661_Reuters-_Racism_Everywhere_Yet_Sporadic_and_Isolated">LGF:</a> <span style="font-weight: bold;">More on the rampant, false push by the MSM to depict racism in America.</span></span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-family: arial;">Oct. 25:</span><br /></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-style: italic;">UK Spectator:</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Melanie Phillips asks, </span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/2545716/is-america-really-going-to-do-this.thtml"><span style="font-style: italic;">"Is America Really Going To Do This?"</span></a><span style="font-weight: bold;"> --- elect the most dangerously unqualified, jihadist-appeasing (and -endorsed), liberty-subverting candidate as President?</span></span> <span style="font-family: arial;">(MSM: <span style="font-style: italic;">"Yawn..."</span> over the deadly-serious allegations she makes - and backs up)</span><br /><br /><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/31673_ABC_News_Malone-_Ashamed_To_Be_Known_As_a_Journalist">LGF:</a><span style="font-family: arial;"> <span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">***BREAKTHROUGH***</span> ABC reporter Michael Malone finally blows his gasket over the obscenely biased MSM "coverage" of Obama, its protection/deification of him, willingness to act as his attack dogs against McCain-Palin</span> (Ed.: Scanning the skies now for four horsemen... and urging Mr. Malone to ensure he has adequate protection, for really speaking truth to power...)</span><br /><br /><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/election_20082/2008_presidential_election/50_of_voters_believe_ayers_issue_has_hurt_mccain_campaign">Rasmussen (HotAir):</a><span style="font-family: arial;"> <span style="font-weight: bold;">25% of liberals surveyed have favorable view of unrepentant domestic terrorist and self-admitted communist William Ayers</span> (MSM: <span style="font-style: italic;">"Yawn..."</span>)</span><br /><br /><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://hotair.com/archives/2008/10/25/how-did-people-get-dirt-on-joe-the-plumber/">HotAir:</a><span style="font-family: arial;"> <span style="font-weight: bold;">How did Obama campaign, its MSM surrogates and various leftist nutjobs get a hold of information on "Joe The Plumber" that is held only in government computer systems?</span> (MSM: <span style="font-style: italic;">"Yawn... but ooohhhhh, what's the latest dirt on Bristol Palin's menstrual cycles?"</span>)</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: arial;">Oct. 26:</span><br /></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/31688_LA_Times_Hiding_Incriminating_Video_of_Obama_with_Radical_Palestinian_Update-_Ayers_and_Dohrn_Attended_Khalidi_Party_with_Obama">GatewayPundit/LGF:</a> <span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">***BLOCKBUSTER***</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">LA Times</span> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">refuses</span> to release video in its possession of Obama, Ayers and Dohrn at a party for radical Islamist, former member of PLO terrorist organization, Rashid Khalidi, that it <span style="font-style: italic;">reported on</span> earlier this year. </span> MSM: <span style="font-style: italic;">"Yawn... say, how much did the RNC pay for Sarah Palin's hairstyling in the last 36 hours? That's what is really important for the American people to know, to cast an informed vote..."</span></span><br /><br /><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2008/10/obama-to-cut-mi.html">AtlasShrugs:</a><span style="font-family: arial;"> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Barney Frank echoes Obama's call to gut military spending; <span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">"We don't need these fancy new weapons."</span> <span style="font-style: italic;"> </span></span>(MSM: <span style="font-style: italic;">"Yawn..."</span>) (Ed.: Gee, might this have anything to do with the endorsements Obama has received from Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Fidel Castro, Hugo Chavez, Kim Jong-Il, Hamas and others? <span style="font-style: italic;">Is that why they are laughing their asses off that we're on the cusp of electing this guy?</span>)</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment_tv_tvblog/2008/10/obama-campaign.html"><span style="font-style: italic;">Orlando Sentinel</span>/Drudge:</a> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Obama cuts off TV station that gave tough Biden interview from any further access to campaign.</span> See the video <a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2008/10/25/comedy-gold-wftv-interviews-biden/">here</a>. (MSM: <span style="font-style: italic;">"Yawn... hey, what's that new spot on McCain's right pinky? We need to deploy our resources to get to the bottom of that... oh, wait; it's only ketchup..."</span><span style="font-family: arial;">)</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2008/10/contribution-fr.html">AtlasShrugs:</a> <span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">***BLOCKBUSTER***</span> Obama campaign <span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">continues to knowingly accept fraudulent donations</span>. More </span></span><a style="font-family: arial; font-weight: bold;" href="http://hotair.com/archives/2008/10/25/reporters-donation-using-pre-paid-gift-card-accepted-by-obama-rejected-by-mccain/">here</a><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">. </span> (MSM: <span style="font-style: italic;">"Yawn... hey, what's the latest on Bristol Palin's pregnancy? Any truth to the rumor that she actually ate a McChicken sandwich on Thursday at 2:14pm?"</span>)</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 85%;">© Copyright 2008 by Expedio, and Expedio5x5.blogspot.com. All rights reserved.</span><span style="font-size: 85%;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: ";font-size:85%;";"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 85%;">Publications and syndicators – contact <a href="mailto:expedio5x5@gmail.com">expedio5x5@gmail.com</a> </span><i><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">-</span><br /></i></div>Expediohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10549383482552877305noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1033320156411232023.post-79926648778213983482008-10-08T14:42:00.000-07:002009-02-05T11:49:06.956-08:00Democrats To Enact Legislation To Stop U.S. "Windfall Athletic Awards"<span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">-</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" >An Expedio5x5 reporter clandestinely attended a recent Obama fundraiser in San Francisco, and files the following exclusive report, concerning comments made by </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-style: italic;">Sen. Obama (aka The Messiah™), Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Majority Leader Harry Reid, which they incorrectly believed were off-the-record.</span><br /><br /><span>=============<br /><br />The first part of their comments dealt with their commitment to transform America from a free society into a socialist one, and to force all of our citizens to atone for what they contend are America's innumerable, global sins.<br /><br /></span></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >Obama, Pelosi and Reid discussed the agenda they would pursue, should the Democrats achieve control of all three branches of government in the November elections. First, they agreed, they would immediately begin investigations and pursuing legislation </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >to s</span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >top American athletes from ever again winning too many awards for their performances.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">The first target for the</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >ir investigations will be swimmer <span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Michael Phelps</span>, whom they allege unfairly received<span> </span><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">a “windfall” of gold medals</span> at the Beijing Olympics.</span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><i><br /></i></span><br /><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >According to Speaker Pelosi: </span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIG4FqkTdQYWeWN7i2hdto5Gzu2nwHCQkHrl8i8mJDKeVVFUaAYaZsZwvuLo666FaweCDctYJiDBIJCoaSjJ-AX6dWtV2baU0DLxPmUK61l-9UmdnpW9oXq-ZugfNqqeSngs7m21Q3Qnij/s1600-h/mn_wasw203_usa_democ.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 123px; height: 169px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIG4FqkTdQYWeWN7i2hdto5Gzu2nwHCQkHrl8i8mJDKeVVFUaAYaZsZwvuLo666FaweCDctYJiDBIJCoaSjJ-AX6dWtV2baU0DLxPmUK61l-9UmdnpW9oXq-ZugfNqqeSngs7m21Q3Qnij/s200/mn_wasw203_usa_democ.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5259383016173680802" border="0" /></a><blockquote style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><i>“It is our obligation, as public servants, to determine the truth. </i><i>Is it fair that Mr. Phelps received gold medals in each event in which he competed?<span style=""> </span>Does he not have a social obligation to share his good fortune with those who are less-able, or who have been rendered mentally, physically, pharmacologically, occupationally, spiritually or psychologically </i></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><i>disabled?”</i></span></blockquote><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >Sen. Reid continued this accusatory theme:</span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzJOqt3OYPKH3XFe2krcIEPMp-SRtt7U4x53jFpysHxEqblVUhYcrVtPeSWr_eGYDVS5WxqoBrZ1moN-n0lXBtrzOOO9_DkrpJVwmZ-6PxxQ8fsnIOtiePVGK8o1kx3qNvk1FxZ_9tYs6z/s1600-h/Harry-Reid2-731096.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 123px; height: 176px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzJOqt3OYPKH3XFe2krcIEPMp-SRtt7U4x53jFpysHxEqblVUhYcrVtPeSWr_eGYDVS5WxqoBrZ1moN-n0lXBtrzOOO9_DkrpJVwmZ-6PxxQ8fsnIOtiePVGK8o1kx3qNvk1FxZ_9tYs6z/s200/Harry-Reid2-731096.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5259382559446027138" border="0" /></a><blockquote><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><i>“How was he (Phelps) able to win every gold medal he sought, </i></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><i>while others won so few – or none?<span style=""> </span>And what does his selfish, greedy pursuit of such an excessive amount of materialistic recognition do to other nations’ view of America?”</i></span><br /></blockquote><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><span>Sen. Obama (aka The Messiah™) then added:</span><br /></span><blockquote style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><i>“Can Mr. Phelps not see that, in order to foster a more equitable playing field among nations, he has a moral obligation to ‘give back’ </i></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><i>some of his medals to his less-competitive, less-driven, less-motivated riv</i></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><i>als, </i></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><i>so that their self-esteem will not suffer such a devastating blow?<span style=""> </span>How can Mr. Phelps possibly believe that he</i></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><i> is doing America a service by hoarding gold medals that, in reality, belong to the entire 'family of nations'?”</i></span></blockquote><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >After receiving thunderous applause from the wealthy contributors, Hollywood icons, social activists and journalists in the audience, Obama, Reid and Pelosi agreed that the time has come to enact laws that will prevent any American Olympian from winning such “windfall medals” in the future.<br /><br /></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >In his closing remarks, Obama said:</span><blockquote><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><i>“Earlier in my campaign, when I said I want to crea</i></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><i><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">te </span><a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2007/10/08/obama-lets-create-a-kingdom-right-here-on-earth/"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">'</span>a king</a></i></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><i><a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2007/10/08/obama-lets-create-a-kingdom-right-here-on-earth/">dom here on Earth'</a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">, I meant it.</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Of course, I also meant that I will be the king --- and as such, it will be my </span></i></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><i><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">responsibility to enact a new, collectivist moral code, here on Earth.</span></i></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQfFoS_NP8ugnWkbhxkQvQdyYW_8dgpcvVVw8RCMezEbmpk5224a9dvvwViQM7Twbkv4uf5It-5CuhBQdSPp22zVaLimxcddLS5mWrgg9yOkAFx5JI-qOTR6ezzgTMKwuCOM_9KEYgYaFN/s1600-h/ObamaTheMessiah.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQfFoS_NP8ugnWkbhxkQvQdyYW_8dgpcvVVw8RCMezEbmpk5224a9dvvwViQM7Twbkv4uf5It-5CuhBQdSPp22zVaLimxcddLS5mWrgg9yOkAFx5JI-qOTR6ezzgTMKwuCOM_9KEYgYaFN/s200/ObamaTheMessiah.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5259383399326074210" border="0" /></a><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><i><br /></i></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><i>"While we all admire Mr. Phelps for his superior </i></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><i>abilities</i></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><i>, an</i></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><i>d for his many years of dedicated effort to pursuing his goal of Olympic excellence, the days of Americans winning anything in free, fair and open competition must come to a</i></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><i>n end.</i></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><i><br /></i></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><i>"If we are to get along in this world, and rebuild America’s image, we must el</i></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><i>iminate even the possibility that any individual can receive such excessive accolades and recognition --- especially when so many among us are suffering from what the Bush-Cheney-Halliburton-ExxonMobil administration has done to them.<span style=""> </span>We must act, decisively, starting now. And initiating a comprehensive investigation into allegations that Mr. Phelps’ unfairly received a ‘windfall’ of Olympic medals will be as good as any place to start. </i></span><a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxPGnWmuXuzdedQWWCwNey0iEd-daVu1V3sg0ZgaD2-41gH7eS735kVi1Pxn05SdsBEbcuZSpjQOPmx5Kh4a3WSssyYrgZYnbf7UPBAWel1ILhByqioqtbCLPk_mGjFYPKjes_GKQo3A9V/s1600-h/obama-communist1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxPGnWmuXuzdedQWWCwNey0iEd-daVu1V3sg0ZgaD2-41gH7eS735kVi1Pxn05SdsBEbcuZSpjQOPmx5Kh4a3WSssyYrgZYnbf7UPBAWel1ILhByqioqtbCLPk_mGjFYPKjes_GKQo3A9V/s200/obama-communist1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5259385971210122130" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><i><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">"Therefore, after I am elected, I will appoint a blue-ribbon... er, I mean, </span><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">red</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">-ribbon task force to craft the legislative initiatives that will prevent such outrages from occurring in the future. And on a bipartisan basis, I will also seek to enact strict punishments for any athlete who thinks that ability alone shall determine who's a 'winner' in our new society.”</span><br /></i></span></blockquote><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><span><br />More to follow in this developing story, comrades (and comradettes).</span><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;" >Original material is © Copyright 2008 by Expedio, and Expedio5x5.blogspot.com.<br />All rights reserved.</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><span style=";font-family:";font-size:85%;" > </span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;" >Publications and syndicators – contact <a href="mailto:expedio5x5@gmail.com">expedio5x5@gmail.com</a> </span><i><br /></i></div><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">-</span><i><br /></i></span>Expediohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10549383482552877305noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1033320156411232023.post-27190557697593035652008-10-05T06:00:00.000-07:002008-10-06T21:22:08.013-07:00Are Animals Smarter Than Politicians? In Some Cases, Yes<p style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family: arial;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-style: italic;">In this 1,000 word essay, we learn about a skill that one animal possesses that has escaped about 99% of our our public servants - yet which, if they could acquire it, would solve a similar proportion of our economic problems, before they could manifest themselves into government-created crises.</span></span><br /><br /></span></p><div style="text-align: center; font-family: arial;"><span style=";font-size:100%;" >By <span style="font-weight: bold;">Expedio</span></span><br /></div><p style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">An article in a recent issue of <i>National Geographic</i> magazine has convinced me that some animals possess intelligence exceeding that of their human counterparts – including the vast majority of America’s politicians, from those serving in city councils, all the way up to the United States Congress.<br /><br />The article, <i><a href="http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/03/animal-minds/virginia-morell-text"><span style="text-decoration: none;">“Inside Animal Minds,”</span></a></i> profiles a variety of animals that possess remarkable physical and mental abilities.<span style=""> </span>One passage in particular jumped out at me: it described the <a href="http://www.thewebsiteofeverything.com/weblog/images/black-tufted-marmoset.jpg"><span style="text-decoration: none;">marmoset</span></a>, a small monkey that possesses the sense of <span style="font-weight: bold;">“object permanence,” </span>which is defined in the article as <i>“knowing that something out of sight still exists.”</i><span style=""> </span>In summary, if you show a marmoset an apple, then move it behind a wall, it knows the apple still exists, and where it is located.<br /><br />If only our politicians would acquire the skill of object permanence.<br /><br />Nowhere is this skill more desperately needed, and lacking, than in relation to the basic laws of economics:</span></p> <ul style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;" ><li> <!--[if !supportLineBreakNewLine]--> <!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:100%;"><i>The law of supply and demand: </i>If the demand for a product or service increases, but the supply doesn’t – or is restrained by government – its price will rise.<span style=""><br /></span><i><br /></i></span></li><li> <!--[if !supportLineBreakNewLine]--> <!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:100%;"><i>The law of monopoly:</i> When only one firm is allowed – under force of law – to make and/or market a product or service, there’s no limit to how high the price will go, especially if part or all of it is subsidized by government (taxpayers).<span style=""> </span>And because competition is forbidden, its quality tends to steadily decrease.<br /><i><br /></i></span></li><li> <!--[if !supportLineBreakNewLine]--> <!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:100%;"><i>The law of fiat money:</i> When a culture’s units of monetary exchange are unrelated to a scarce value, and can be created at will, each will possess progressively less value, and be able to buy less and less products and services.</span></li></ul> <p style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br />These laws exist regardless of where and when they are applied – and whether or not a majority of politicians (and those entrusted with educating our citizens) deny or downplay their existence.<span style=""> </span>They<i> exist</i> – and they profoundly affect the availability, cost, quality and variety of every vital value we seek, from food to clothing, and from healthcare to homes.<br /><br />Yet since the early 20<sup>th</sup> century, many if not most American politicians – at all levels, and of both parties (but particularly Democrats) – have been advocating, enacting and defending legislation that demonstrates one thing: their refusal to acknowledge these basic laws of economics, and their willingness to pretend that <i>if they just refuse to acknowledge</i> them, they won’t exist.<span style=""> </span>In essence, that they can create their <i>own</i> laws of economics, by a simple majority vote.<br /><br />One prime example is the now-routine spectacle of Congress’s virtual jihad against energy companies and their leadership.<br /><br />Whenever these legislators decide that fuel prices or energy industry profits are “too high,” they force energy industry executives to testify in grand public inquisitions.<span style=""> </span>Top mainstream media figures, almost entirely ignorant of the basic laws of economics themselves, breathlessly echo allegations that somehow, these executives are manipulating fuel prices.<br /><br />And without exception, the finding is always the same: the government’s own sources confirm that fuel prices are a function of supply and demand – and not “price collusion” or any other trumped-up allegation.<br /><br />Were a <i>real</i> investigation were to be initiated – into the <i>real </i>culprits behind spiking fuel costs (in addition to increasing oil demand from China and India) – the primary responsibility would fall squarely on the shoulders of legislators and regulators at the state and federal level, whose policies and votes defy the basic laws of economics.<br /><br />By employing the force of law to choke us off from our supply of our own oil (and natural gas), these “public servants” have done far more than drive prices through the roof.<span style=""> </span>They have forced us to become increasingly reliant upon foreign sources of oil, often placing America at the mercy of every petroleum-rich nation we import from, including those who have long-festering desires to hurt us.<br /><br />In fact, as <a href="http://www.defenddemocracy.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=23716&Itemid=283">Daveed Gartenstein-Ross</a> of the <a href="http://www.defenddemocracy.org/">Foundation for Defense of Democracies</a> pointed out in a recent <a href="http://www.defenddemocracy.org/publications/publications_show.htm?doc_id=686169"><span style="text-decoration: none;">article</span></a>, al Qaeda issued a 2004 directive to cripple, and ultimately destroy America, by denying our ability to access the oil that our economy currently runs on.<br /><br />Knowing this, how does one excuse the fact that our own “public servants,” using the powers that we have granted to them, have essentially done al Qaeda’s bidding?<span style=""> </span>How are we to react when one influential Congresswoman, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), brazenly <a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2008/05/22/video-maxine-waters-threatens-to-nationalize-americas-oil-industry"><span style="text-decoration: none;">threatens</span></a> energy company executives that if fuel prices don’t (somehow) come down, the federal government may take over (socialize) the entire U.S. oil industry?<span style=""> </span>Or when legislators at the federal, state and local level require energy companies to create countless varieties of “boutique” gasoline blends for hundreds of markets, at different times of the year – then tax the final product at a rate <span style="font-style: italic;">multiples higher</span> than their profits? Or when presidential candidates claim that oil companies are "ripping off" the American citizen, by daring to charge an 8% profit margin on their products & services?<br /><br />To a rational 10-year-old with a grounding in basic economics, all this is the equivalent of a doctor who obstructs an ICU patient’s air supply – then complains because he valiantly fights to release the doctor’s hand from his oxygen mask – all in the name of “conservation.”<span style=""> </span>In this case, the “doctor’s” name is not bin Laden – it is “Congress.”<br /><br />Similarly, both major presidential candidates are now promising to lower our spiraling healthcare costs through increased government intervention and regulation of the industry, and our lives, while ignoring or denying the fact that <span style="font-style: italic;">it was primarily prior government interventions that caused costs to spiral to their current levels.</span><span style=""> </span>And from housing to other vital values, there is one source that is responsible, more than any other, for spiking prices, and for the resulting "crises" --- government.<span style=""> </span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Oh, if our politicians would acquire the sense of “object permanence.”</span><span style=""> </span><br /><br />They would know, and accept, that the laws of economics cannot be denied, cheated, or avoided any longer, if America is to survive and prosper.<span style=""> </span>It makes one wonder:<span style="font-style: italic;"> Is our survival and prosperity even their mission?</span><span style=""> </span><br /><br />According to the U.S. Constitution, it is.<span style=""> </span>And it is long past time that legislators throughout America, and particularly in Congress, begin to act accordingly.<br /><br /></span></p><div style="text-align: center; font-family: arial;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;">© Copyright 2008 by Expedio, and Expedio5x5.blogspot.com. All rights reserved.</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size:85%;"> </span><span style="font-size:85%;">Publications and syndicators – contact <a href="mailto:expedio5x5@gmail.com">expedio5x5@gmail.com</a> </span><i><br /></i></div>Expediohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10549383482552877305noreply@blogger.com0