There was a day when reporting stories embarrassing to the Democratic Party was so commonplace the media didn’t really have a name for it. They just called it “reporting.”
Ace.
Once upon a time in media land we had what were called reporters. No we have paid democrat partisans
I say that best way to get of silly laws is to strictly enforce them. Rochester, New York, as else where, use red light cameras not to promote traffic safety, bur rather to fill the city coffers, via, Drudge Report, from the Rochester, New York, Democrat and Chronicle [*](no link):
Over the past 18 months, city of Rochester employees have committed at least 119 red light violations while driving city vehicles, records show.
But while employees can be disciplined for the violation, “payment of the related fine will not be required,” according to a newly adopted city procedure for handling the violations.
One-third of the infractions were by police department vehicles, including one driven by Police Chief James Sheppard. These are not instances where squad cars are going through intersections with lights and sirens blaring. But Sheppard said most do involve emergency responses, and typically are rolling stops on right turns
I believe that red light cameras are unconstitutional. That it the City of Rochester, want to deprive you of your money and your right to travel without any due process.
If red light cameras are said to prevent T-boning, there is no reason to exempt city vehicles. If the only purpose o fill the city coffers, their no point for the city to fine herself.
* I do not link to subscription web sites. More over, attempts to load D&C pages amounts to cyber torture.
When the automobile came into vogue, the job prospects for horse-shoers and saddle-makers dwindled. Hardly anyone today would argue that that was to the detriment of the economy as a whole. If the government ran the transportation industry, though, horse-shoers and saddle-makers might not have lost their jobs. Neither, though, would the economy have gained as many jobs as it did through the automobile industry
Tina Korbe, Hot Air.
Now personally, I am fond of using buggy whips and ice cutting, but I am older than Tina.
Then to the Obama administration, does a position which produces widgets but pays no union dues to the democrat party, really qualify as a job?
Animals are controlled by their desires. Civilized men and women are judged by the outcomes of their behavior That is why animals are deemed to trained, or not. Whereas mankind has become civilized.
So what behavior4 is worse, a sexual predator like B.J. Clinton who has molested a raped what a half a dozen woman, or an enabler like Mrs Clinton who protects her predator husband for her own personal political power?
Who is worse a serial child molester like Jerry Sandusky, Pervert State University, or purported man of the cloth, like the Reverend ev. Benedict Groeschel,?
Is an act any less evil if the actor can proffer an excuse? Shall we judge an act as evil by the harm it does to its victim or by the creativity, or lack thereof same, of the actor’s excuse?
From a hopelessly confused Cord Jefferson, Gawker:
It’s not easy to listen to Terry talk about the time he had sex with a seven-year-old girl. But after his psychotherapist put us in touch, he agreed to lay it all out for me during a phone call and email, and I was enthralled the way one might stare at a man falling from a bridge. Terry is 38, a small-business owner, and deeply religious—he ends all our correspondence by saying, “Blessings to you, Cord”—but back then when it happened Terry was 20 and a meth head. He was living with his then-wife, his marriage to whom had made him the co-guardian of her two nieces and a nephew. The one niece was a baby, but the other was seven, and it wasn’t long before Terry, addicted and in a marriage he calls “abusive,” fell for his niece and began a sexual relationship with her.
Terry seven year old victim could not be reached for comment. I heard two statutory rape cases, and in neither case did anybody deem it important to ponder why the accused raped a child. It was not important then, and is not important now.
Hat tip and reax, Clayton Cramer:
The article itself starts off with a bit too graphic of an account by one of these unfortunate ones–no, not the victim, but the poor misunderstood child molester. Unsurprisingly, academics in Canada are working hard to make us sympathize with pedophiles, and the “born this way” and “can’t really change” themes appear. Of course, there is no discussion of whether this is a learned behavior, which much of the existing literature on child abuse recognizes.
In the voice of Mrs. Clinton, is it not the role of the Village, society, to understand perverts, whether born or made, but rather to protect their children, future, from them. If the Village will not protect society from the Jerry Sandusky’s of the world, it left to the villager himself.
If you find Terry crawling thru your seven year old daughter’s bedroom window at three in the morning, do yo0u want to find out Terry’s excuse or your Browning shotgun?
If one were to plum blow a child rapist’s head clean off, would Doctors Vernon Quinsey and Hubert Van Gijseghem testify that you were born that way, with an innate desire to protect your children?
In watching both the buildup to last night’s acceptance speech by the President, and the speech itself, I’m reminded of the 1972 classic bit from National Lampoon’s Radio Dinner… “Catch it and You Keep It”. I’ll let you listen, and then explain.
The situation the Democrats now find themselves in is strikingly similar to the contestants in that skit. Consider their lack of response to the question: “Are you better off now than four years ago? “. They could see the question coming, but like the contestants, get totally crushed when trying to field it.
Democrats know there’s no way to dodge the fact that exactly NONE of the promises made in the ’08 election cycle ended up being true. On employment for example, they know that despite tinkering with the employment numbers, Obamanomics has been an unmitigated disaster. The U6 right now is upwards of 20%… and the U3 would be at around 11%, if the workforce hadn’t been shrinking for three years… people having given up looking for work in the mess that is the Obama economy. They know Americans are hurting and they know that Americans know it’s because of the Democrat party and it’s policies. They know very well that when you make enemies of the rich and successful, that nobody should be shocked when the economy tanks.
They know they’re not popular with the American voters, or even with their own party, as we discussed yesterday and so, last night, Obama was forced to essentially phone in his speech. No promises, no specifics, just knee deep rhetoric. Last night’s speech seemed to me to be about reinforcement of the base, because of the points discussed yesterday, and giving all else up as a lost cause.
You can understand why. John Kerry, of all people, talking about what makes a good leader. The fact that Kerry is not wrapping up his second presidential term right now, is proof enough he hasn’t a clue about leadership. And, any party wishing to keep up a “War on Women” meme, offering up Bubba Clinton as a keynote speaker, had best keep a fair amount of ice handy.
And so it goes. The lamesttream media keeps trying to portray this as a close election. The only question left is when they’re going to start adjusting themselves back to reality, as they’ve done so often before.
I know I’m going to catch hell for quoting Limbaugh, but here goes:
Now, this has been a treat.
Stolen shamelessly from rushlimbaugh.com
It has been a treat to listen to all the reasons why they had to move Obama’s outdoor extravaganza indoors. It’s the weather. Yes, it’s the possibility of lightning, possibility of thunderstorms. They just don’t have the people, folks. They just can’t get the people there. I’ve heard some of the flimsiest excuses from people trying to defend this decision. It’s comical. They just can’t get the people. It’s not that they don’t have buses. They don’t have people to put on the buses. They don’t have people who want to go. It’s no more complicated than that. They can’t find 64,000 people that want to go to this thing. Well, maybe they can find 18 or 20 for the indoor arena, but they can’t find the additional bodies.
The reason I quote him? He’s correct. The local forecasters in the Charlotte area have been saying all along that the weather Thursday night will be the best of the whole week. They’re mystified, they say. So, the weather, as an excuse is bogus.
The excuses I’ve been hearing from the usual suspects are that the Charlotte area isn’t all that large and cannot support the kind of crowd to fill the place. Well, consider that the stadium in question is where the Carolina Panthers play football. They sell the place out 10 times a year. They hold concerts there several times a year, drawing well over 60,000.
Obama’s people, as demonstrated by the first election, understand the need for spectacle. And they know empty seats in this situation is a killer of image. It’ll kill the bandwagon argument before it gets started. And after all, what was Obama’s first election but a bandwagon argument for the weak-minded, writ large? They know the illusion that Obama and his policies are popular is a stone cold requirement. So… Does anyone think the Obama people won’t have researched the matter of how many people get drawn to the place? That’s why the place got chosen in the first place, one would assume. So, this is the best the Obama folks could manage.
Add to that, those folks getting bussed in… or more correctly NOT getting bussed in. Word from several sources…. and I happen to know a bus driver in the area… is that they’re trying to arrange to fill buses from several states away… and can’t do it. So, the market size excuse is bogus, too.
Something additional to consider; the people they tried to bus in to fill the place? These are Democrats we’re talking about. He can’t even get 60,000 people… members of his own party…. across several southern states… to help him in a re-election effort.
Conclusions:
* Not only does Obama not have bipartisan support, he doesn’t have the support from his own rank and file.
* Obama and his people are scrambling to find a plausible lie to bury the reality of it, and failing miserably.
Update: Fixed dropped blockquote tag, EF
Chicago’s finest, that is her police department’s officers, are in Charlotte, courtesy of the taxpayer. In the mean time Chicago’s citizens continue get gunned down in Mayor Emanuel’s gun-free safety zone, from ABC News:
Only days after Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel asked for federal agents and U.S. Marshals to help combat the city’s wave of violence, about 50 Chicago police officers have arrived in Charlotte to work perimeter security details for a week at the Democratic National Convention.
The Chicago officers, in their distinctive uniforms and checkerboard-brimmed hats, said they had been instructed not to talk with reporters about their out-of-town assignment.
[…]
Last Friday, Mayor Emanuel and Chicago police superintendent Garry McCarthy publicly asked for federal help in targeting neighborhoods that have been hit hardest by the city’s wave of violence.
[…]
Chicago’s homicide rate is about 31 percent higher than last year, with 346 reported killings as of August 19, according to figures provided by the Chicago police.
[…]
She said the officers sent to Charlotte will be paid through a special federal grant of $50 million for convention security. “No funds from the city of Chicago are involved,” Stratton said.
Mayor Emanuel does not care to protect his own citizens, but does see git to protect democrat officials.
President Obama uses federal tax dollars to pay off his political supporters.
It seems Da Mayor finest are fat. The national diet and exercise guru, Mrs Obama should Amtrax back to Chicago to shape up the Chicago PD.
President Obama likes to tell us that the Republicans are offering no new ideas to help solve the problems of the country. I offer two points in response:
First, a look at this campaign of Obama’s and that of the failed presidency and re-election campaign of Jimmy Carter offers a lot of parallels….
Consider for example, Jimmy Carter on Energy:
Tonight I want to have an unpleasant talk with you about a problem unprecedented in our history. With the exception of preventing war, this is the greatest challenge our country will face during our lifetimes. The energy crisis has not yet overwhelmed us, but it will if we do not act quickly.
It is a problem we will not solve in the next few years, and it is likely to get progressively worse through the rest of this century.
We must not be selfish or timid if we hope to have a decent world for our children and grandchildren.
We simply must balance our demand for energy with our rapidly shrinking resources. By acting now, we can control our future instead of letting the future control us.
Two days from now, I will present my energy proposals to the Congress. Its members will be my partners and they have already given me a great deal of valuable advice. Many of these proposals will be unpopular. Some will cause you to put up with inconveniences and to make sacrifices.
The most important thing about these proposals is that the alternative may be a national catastrophe. Further delay can affect our strength and our power as a nation.
Carter went on to say it was a crisis, that we were running out of oil and gas. Of course, it wasn’t true. We’re sitting on more energy here in these United states than the rest of the world combined. Trouble was, and is, that governmental controls prevented us from accessing them.
And of course Carter told us it was a crisis… one that only additionally draconian governmental controls could solve…a clear and infantile attempt to stop us from objecting.
The result of Carter’s energy policy, and of course his redistribution tax policies, was a stalled economy, the likes of which hadn’t been seen since FDR… who also was a redistributionist. You see, Carter doesn’t believe in the free market and individualism any more than FDR or Obama.
Secondly, Ben Franklin used to say that the definition of insanity is trying the same thing over and over and hoping for a diff
erent result. So, with that in mind, consider; one data point, doesn’t make a trend. Two data points ought to get anyone with a brain to sit up and take notice. Three data points, should have had us as a nation howling… and should have left a sour taste in the mouths of the American voter for the likes of Bill Clinton and LBJ, as well. The fact is, every time the left has had it’s way and attempted to inflict it’s nonsense on the American people, it’s resulted in a failing economy. It failed every time. And yet they keep trying.
So, now, we find ourselves in a situation not unlike that of 1980, where we have a failed liberal President, who, like Carter did back in the day, is telling us that the opposition doesn’t have any new ideas. Irony of course is, that the “New Ideas” are taken directly from FDR’s New Deal, which in turn, is from Marx. As with Carter, gas prices are skyrocketing.
Bonus point; Does anybody remember the 2008 campaign were Obama was constantly hammering on bush to the gas prices? The claim that the time was that bush and Cheney were profiting from overly large prices. funny how that claim is disappeared.
These price spikes of course are independent of the fact that whereas the oil companies are making on the order of the nickel a gallon, the government is making on the order of a $1.75/gal. The prices are a direct result of governmental intervention into the free market, and are a major sticking point to our economic recovery. But Obama won’t deal with that. Like Carter and FDR before him, he doesn’t believe in freedom, 
Doesn’t believe in the free market, and certainly will never cut taxes. Nor will he releases stranglehold on the energy companies. He’s declared war on coal nd oil and natural gas, and has dumed billions into companies like Solyndra under the guise of “Green Energy”, when in fact these expenditures are no more than thinly disguised political payoffs.
If there’s anything that surprises and angers me about all of this it’s that anyone considers he has a serious chance of being reelected after this degree of failure. Then again, I suppose they considered that Carter had a reasonable chance of being reelected, as well. I suspect the anger of the American people over all of this, and their observation of this trend I’ve spoken of will provide Obama with a rather Carteresque exit from the political scene… a totally discredited figure, with totally discredited ideas.
It’s at the very least going to be a hard sell for Obama to tell us that we as individuals are better off than we were four years ago. It’s certainly a question that they’re trying to avoid lately.
The trouble is, these leftist ideas keep popping up even after having been so completely exposed as the fraud they are. You’d think after Carter, we’d have figured that out, but I suppose that’s why Thomas Jefferson told us to be forever vigilant. (It’s a constant wonder to me that the Democrats hold Jefferson an icon of the party to this day, when their positions on issues run so very much afoul of everything Jefferson stood for.)
All that said, I suppose us to be heading for a landslide of Reaganesque proportion, come November. I’d have been happier about it had we had an acual Regan conservative in the top spot… and I would include Ryan in this. But if I judge the mood of the majority of the country correctly I suspect that the big mouse down in Florida with the high voice is perceived by most as having better capabilities of running this country that our current president.
You see, the American people know we’re not better off than we were when Obama assumed office. Not at home, and not in the world. They see clearly, given the polling we’re seeing, that we’re teetering on the edge. Further, it’s quite clear that without a change in policies, our situation is only going to get worse.
See, that’s the real issue… what happens now. Certainly, the question of where we are now, in relationship to where we were is a huge question… and one the Obama people don’t want asked. But the larger question is what of the future, if the current trends are not reversed?
The Democrat’s big problem is that the American people already know the answer to that question.that an exciting and among the left is palpable.
There seems little doubt with way this one’s going to go to come November.
Barack Obama, same candidate, different campaign exact same jingo. video:
Hat tip: Jamie Wearing Fool.
I didn’t believe Obama line four years ago. Is anybody gullible enough to believe the same years four years later?
Any politician who too stupid to have hia campaign staff come up with new material is too stupid to find new ideas for his failed economic policies. Unemployment to parked north of eight percent and Obama thinks the problem is that is not giving enough speeches.
I will not celebrate “Labor Day”. I do not see Unions as a benefit to anything but socialism, and the killing off of industry. (I offer as example, Detroit, of the cumulative effect of both socialism and Unions.)
I will however, point to something mankind in general and particularly this country can benefit from: “Empty Chair Day”.
Paul Ryan destroys Obamacare in about 6 minutes:
You are looking at the face of evil. If you one to believe in the Devil, this may be his face, from Andrew Vitelli , Victoria Cavaliere and Larry Mcshane, New York Daily News:
In an interview with the National Catholic Register, the Rev. Benedict Groeschel, former head of the Office of Spiritual Development for the Archdiocese of New York, appalled victims rights advocates when he offered sympathy for disgraced ex-Penn State coach Sandusky and suggested that first-time sexual predators deserved no jail time
All evil needs to succeed is for good men to do nothing. Jerry Sandusky did not get seduced by ten different boys. Sandusky is an evil sexual predator and the Reverend Groeschel is all to willing to turn a blind eye to Sandusky.
Groeschel represents what was, or is, wrong with the Catholic Church and Sandusky was the face of a corrupt Penn State.
The various speeches, (Particularly that of Marco Rubio, and Paul Ryan) and the appearance by Clint Eastwood, where right on target.the success of the speakers can be measured directly by the amount of screaming coming from the far left. I thought Eastwood, particularly good.
Here’s the Eastwood bit;
Not only do I think it was brilliantly done, there’s a deeper reason I approve of Eastwood’s appearance: For many generations now, the democrats have been using the Stalinist tactic of derision against it’s enemies… the Free Marketers, the Republicans, the Tea Party, Reagan… in fact anyone to the right of Fidel Castro.. What we saw in Eastwood’s performance is that same tactic turned against them. Which is precisely why they’re screaming so loudly about it today.
The rest were close enough to target to not quibble with them overmuch at least insofar as what they actually said. The Republicans for the most part, did what they needed to do.
My complaint with the Republican Convention is what was not said: They didn’t correctly identify the problem we as a nation and a culture face with the current occupant of the White House. It’s something apparently, the GOP establishment has decided not to talk about. Their reasons are at best unclear but apparently they think the truth this reveals to be to dark for most Americans to comprehend.
If you’ve been successful, you didn’t get there on your own. … I’m always struck by people who think, “Wow, it must be because I was just so smart” — there are a lot of smart people out there. “It must be because I worked harder than everybody else” — let me tell you something, there are a whole bunch of hardworking people out there.
If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life…. Somebody invested in roads and bridges — if you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen. The internet didn’t get invented on its own. Government research created the internet so that all the companies could make money off the internet.
As for the first paragraph, Obama’s point is clear, and the hateful straw-man mockery of his tone drives it home: any practically successful person who is proud of his achievement is a fool, for in truth, something other than his own intelligence and effort is responsible for his success. The identity of that “something,” as if we couldn’t guess, is spelled out in the subsequent paragraph. Government is the provider, the facilitator, the ultimate source of all individual success. Thus, government has a legitimate (and seemingly unlimited) claim on the results of individual success.
The upshot of all this for the question of property is undeniable: private property is an illusion, the selfish fantasy of those who ignorantly believe that their possessions are the earned fruit of their labor. Your prosperity is the product not of your effort and skill, but rather of the general social conditions in which it was achieved. The public roads, the public education system, and other government projects which form the common background of practical existence obviate any inviolable claim you might make on anything you have acquired against that background. You owe your wealth to society, because “somebody else” (i.e., government) made it happen.
Underneath this statement by Obama is the underlying belief that if you didn’t tell that you don’t have a claim to it… that government is the one with the rightful claim to your property. This is nothing more and nothing less than a socialistic Marxist attack on private property, and individualism. Obama believes in the collective, not in the individual.
Note again, his quote that the free Market doesn’t work and never has.
Clint Eastwood hinted at it last night, I have been saying it for years. President Barack Obama, a/k/a President Fifty Seven States, a/k/a Dim Won, is just not very smart. from CBS Tampa:
The president says he also wants to do a better job of explaining to the public how his policies will help the economy grow. Obama claims he didn’t do a good enough job selling Americans on the stimulus plan and the auto company bailout because he was so focused on acting to fix the economy.
The biggest, most powerful, pump in the world can not pump water from a dry well. It stands to reason, that you can not explain what you do not understand Dim Won explained and explained again, that if his Stimulus bill was passed unemployment would not go about eight percent. Employment has not been below eight percent since the so-called stimulus was passed.
You’ll never find a more incestuous group than journalists. That they socialize extensively, if not exclusively, with each other in Washington and events like conventions is not a surprise, but the extent to which they insulate themselves from their fellow non-journalist humans would shock even the most ardent observer. They may interview real humans from time to time, but those are people picked by their producers and they safely return to the bubble once the recording devices are off.
That’s why you get today’s media meme – Clint Eastwood was a huge flop last night.
In the convention hall, Eastwood talking to an empty chair was huge hit. In homes across the country, the reaction was the same. Inside the bubble is the only place it wasn’t well received.
Derek Hunter, New York Daily News.
