(2009-05-06) — Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter, who last week became a Democrat to boost his odds of winning re-election, again shocked the political world when he announced today that he had switched from Judaism to Christianity in hopes of regaining the seniority which the senate stripped from him Tuesday.
The latest switch comes just a day after the senator expressed hope that Republican Norm Coleman of Minnesota would win his lingering recount battle against Democrat Al Franken to ensure that the senate would still include a Jewish Republican.
Sen. Specter later retracted the remark, saying he would “never want to be perceived as a traitor to my own party like that.”
Despite previous promises from Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid that he would retain his seniority on key committees, yesterday the senate voted to bump Sen. Specter to junior status on four out of five committees.
“Now that I’m last in line,” Sen. Specter said, “I find the words of Jesus the Messiah very encouraging when he says ’some are last who will be first’. When I read that in the gospel of Luke this morning, I felt like the Lord was speaking directly to me. So when Jesus said, ‘come unto me, Arlen‘, I said, ‘Here I am, Lord’.”
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1 Specter Stripped of Seniority // May 6, 2009 at 7:26 am
[...] Scott Ott reports that, “Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter, who last week became a Democrat to boost [...]
2 camojack // May 6, 2009 at 7:37 am
Oy vey…
3 upnorthlurkin // May 6, 2009 at 7:54 am
Uh, I’d say, Welcome to the fold, Arlen, but for some odd reason, I’m doubting his sincerity…
Maybe if this conversion doesn’t work, next he’ll try a gender switch?!
Brilliant as usual, Maestro Ott.
4 gafisher // May 6, 2009 at 8:00 am
Less reported is Specter’s new dietary lifestyle choice, not only abandoning red meat but bypassing vegetarianism to become a strict fructarian, a decision which briefly cheered fellow-Democrat Barney Frank.
Though the newly-junior Senator predicts this decision will particularly endear him to the “voter base” of his new Party, he also notes a remarkable improvement in his sense of well-being since adopting a daily regimen which includes five servings of prunes.
5 Laughing@You // May 6, 2009 at 8:17 am
What must I do to be a Republican?
Everthink?
6 boberinyetagain // May 6, 2009 at 9:07 am
upnorth…#3, “gender switch”…very funny
As are you Scott…and the “fructarian” comment too. We’re gonna need our sense of humor folks…hold on tight…the markets will “wake up” again tomorrow…and it likely won’t be pretty
7 boberinyetagain // May 6, 2009 at 9:08 am
twice already?… too early for this issue…
upnorth…#3, “gender switch”…very funny
As are you Scott…and the “fructarian” comment too. We’re gonna need our sense of humor folks…hold on tight…the markets will “wake up” again tomorrow…and it likely won’t be pretty
8 mig // May 6, 2009 at 9:39 am
What seemed so easy, to come out of the closet and be a demorat, is apparently costing more than Spector thunk. His 15 minutes of being special are over now that he has been ‘outted’. His glorious 29 years being on the government dole, his shining moment of ephinany… well…I’ll just say : he won’t ever be fully sworn in as a a crat, and he always was repugnant.
9 boberinyetagain // May 6, 2009 at 9:54 am
We like him no matter his “label”, seems to think about things…quite unusual these days
10 Best Thought of the Day // May 6, 2009 at 12:23 pm
[...] “Specter Switches Religions to Boost Seniority“ [...]
11 Tinman // May 6, 2009 at 1:40 pm
“As the expression goes, when a Republican becomes a Democrat, the average IQ increases on both sides of the isle”
Quote from Ann Coulter from “Guilty”
12 Tinman // May 6, 2009 at 1:47 pm
#11 should read aisle.
Now if laughing at you should become a Republican you can be sure it would lower the average IQ on the Republican side. I don’t know what it would do for the Democrat side.
13 upnorthlurkin // May 6, 2009 at 2:27 pm
Not to worry, Tinman….he needs that paycheck he’s getting from DU/Kos/whatever to come here and try and sabbotage this site. Shhhhh, he doesn’t know we’re all rolling our eyes and making fun of him.
14 Laughing@You // May 6, 2009 at 2:30 pm
Aw, Tinman, you have no heart!
You know, I was a Goldwater Republican?
But, of course, that was before all the intellectual inbreeding.
Everthink?
15 Laughing@You // May 6, 2009 at 2:36 pm
Before you say it, I was referring to REPUBLICAN intellectual inbreeding. You can never be too careful with this braintrust!
Everthink?
16 Libby Gone // May 6, 2009 at 3:53 pm
Doesn’t the term Specter refer to a ghost? I wish he would disappear.
17 boberinyetagain // May 6, 2009 at 3:57 pm
But he’s the freindly kind…like Casper (not Weinberger either…)
How ya been Libby? Missed you for a bit!
18 baragirl // May 6, 2009 at 4:00 pm
Mig ,I hate to correct you Dear,and I make plenty of typos myself ,but it is not Ephinany , for Specter ,it’s Ephiwhiny.
Do any of the Dims want to make Arlan an offer on his Mother ,or his First Born Child?
19 baragirl // May 6, 2009 at 4:05 pm
Whoa ,Up Nort’,my conspiracy radar just came on.”Du/Kos” =“So/Ros”?
Hum?
20 R.A.M. // May 6, 2009 at 4:11 pm
This will also help him look more Christian when he feasts on his all time favorite dish, (and that of the libs he nows “sups” with), “PORK”!
No more kosher foods either. But he will miss that little hat that helped cover his “bald spot”!
That hat would fall off anyway when praying to the east and all those “bowing” motions of his new Obama religion of “Christiantity” learned at a Madrossa.
21 Laughing@You // May 6, 2009 at 4:12 pm
I just saw Senator Chuck Graassley on the Television set. He was on the MSNBC being interviewed by that Nora O’Donnell.
She wanted to talked about the health care discussions with the president, but Senator Grassley wanted to tell her he had just Tweeted.
After an uncomfortable few seconds, she managed to get him to talk about his demand for private “For Profit” Health Insurance.
He went on to tell her what a strong and smart fella he was, before she relented, and let him talk about his Tweet.
Well, turns out he had a hamburger at the White House. He said it was good Iowa Beef; to which she asked how he knew it was Iowa Beef.
Senator Grassley replied, since 20% of all beef comes from Iowa, it had to be in the mix.
With folks like the Senator it’s no wonder we’re in this fix!
Everthink?
22 RedPepper // May 6, 2009 at 5:23 pm
Arlen
SpecterSpectator …23 onlineanalyst // May 6, 2009 at 6:16 pm
Are we sure that Benedict Arlen wasn’t confused when he heard the message to come unto Him? Wasn’t Arlen bowing before Ackbar when Arlen responded, “Here I am, Lord”?
Heh, Arlen got “borked” down to junior-dom in his committee work by Reid, the Sourpuss from Searchlight. Will Arlen have to convert to Mormonism to get along with his new boss?
OT: I don’t think that Chrysler’s senior creditors whose hedge funds protect the interests of lots of retirees plan to roll over to Chicago-style thuggery. Lauria and others affected plan to remind the administration that bankrupty law and contract law and the Constitution have a central role in our nation and our nation’s conduct in business.
24 onlineanalyst // May 6, 2009 at 6:30 pm
Jonah Goldberg has some fun describing (just the tip of the iceberg of) the “trickle-down corruption” of the failed Obama administration.
Does Chairman Obama make up policy as he goes along?
25 baragirl // May 6, 2009 at 6:37 pm
Up Nort’ ,if turning from Arlen to Arlene doesn’t do it ( and he really isn’t very …uh …pretty) maybe he will get his skin dyed.For instance ,Green, then if they didn’t return his seniority, he could claim discrimination as a minority.
26 baragirl // May 6, 2009 at 6:41 pm
Actually ,I’m kinda proud of Reid and the Democrats for doing this to Specter. It was really the moral thing to do, by not rewarding duplicity.
Of course ,I doubt any other RINO’s are going to jump the fence after the see Specter’s humiliation.
27 debass // May 6, 2009 at 7:26 pm
If Specter the defector wants to be loved by the Dhimmis, he needs to convert to Islam. Then he can be one of Barneys’ salami pirates and join the banking queen in the relentless search for booty.
28 This Just In… | // May 6, 2009 at 8:06 pm
[...] news from ScrappleFace.com: (2009-05-06) - Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter, who last week became a Democrat to boost his [...]
29 Left Coast-Right Mind // May 6, 2009 at 8:26 pm
Dear Harry,
Now that there’s a Democrat in the White House, and war is good again, can I come back home?
Love,
Joe
P.S. If the answer is “yes” Arlen better not get my place in line.
30 Libby Gone // May 6, 2009 at 8:37 pm
Hey Boberin,
Thanks for the shoutout. I missed the gang here.
31 gafisher // May 6, 2009 at 9:40 pm
Baragirl Re#25: “(and he really isn’t very …uh …pretty)”
Pelosi’s jealous.
32 baragirl // May 6, 2009 at 10:11 pm
Goody Goody To Specter the Defector To: Goody GoodySpecter sold his soul to Reid ,Who set him back on his heels,Goody Goody,Reid stabbed him in the backAnd now he knows how it feels,Goody Goody.Too many times he let Republicans down,Now Arlen looks like a stupid Clown,Broken into little Porkie pieces,Now he’s retirement bound.So you’re lyin’ awake ,makin’ excuses all the night ,Goody GoodyThis Country will be glad When you are out of sight.Hooray and Hallelujah,Reid really gave it to ya,Goody Goody for Reid,Goody Goody for USI hope you pay the price ,You Traitor ,You!
33 onlineanalyst // May 6, 2009 at 10:43 pm
Baragirl belts it out on “Your Hit Parade.”
Whistles. Stamps. and Cheers. Encore!
34 Left Coast-Right Mind // May 6, 2009 at 11:27 pm
OT
So now that we’re being told the ’swine flu’ wasn’t as bad as first thought (although the news media helped ratchet up panic), I believe it’s time for a musical interlude.
“Kiss a Pig”
Recorded by Ray Stevens (1985)
Well as I was driving down the road one day
I met a pick-up truck comin’ the other way
It hit a big chuckhole and pig fell out on the blacktop
Well that farmer didn’t notice, kept cuttin’ the jig
So I pulled over and I caught that pig
Threw him in my car and did a U-turn right in front of a highway cop.
He flashed his lights and pulled me to the side
By the time he finished readin’ me my rights
That farmer was long gone…didn’t have his license or his name.
So I asked the officer, “What do I do?”
He said, “Why don’t you take that pig to the zoo?”
And I did, and you know, we had so much fun, I’m gonna take him to a ballgame!
Chorus:
Kiss a pig, hug a swine
Some of them are good friends of mine
I’m especially prone to those Poland China porkers
More fun than a dog and smarter that a horse
And you might find them a little coarse
But, shoot, they ain’t near as rude as some New Yorkers.
Now that pig was a sight ridin’ in my car
Wearin’ a baseball cap and eatin’ candy bars
Folks’d ask his name and he’d say “Oink” and they’d say “Howdy”
Yeah, everyone knew that he lived at my home
And I guess that’s how he came to be known
As Oink Stevens, the ugliest man in Davison County
Well here while back, things got real bad
Y’know we almost lost everything we had
Ol’ Oink lost a ham, had to build him a little peg leg
But as good as that pig had been to us
Heck, we didn’t have the heart to eat him all at once
Y’know there’s some things more important in life than sausage.
Chorus:
Kiss a pig, hug a swine
Some of them are good friends of mine
Yorkshires and big ol’ red Duroc’ers
More fun than a dog and smarter than a horse
And you might find them a little coarse
But they ain’t near as strange as some of them punk rockers.
Well, here while back I’m sad to say
In the middle of the night, ol’ Oink limped away
Musta overheard us talkin’ ‘bout the comin’ recession
Yeah, but he was buddy, and he was my friend
Why, he was my breakfast every now and then
And he never done me no wrong, or give me indigestion.
Chorus:
Kiss a pig, hug a swine
Some of them are good friends of mine
I’m especially prone to those Hampshire porkers
More fun than a dog and smarter than a horse
And you might find them a little coarse
But, shoot, they ain’t near as rude as some New Yorkers.
35 R.A.M. // May 7, 2009 at 3:26 am
In the “pinch me because I KNOW I am dreaming this” department there is this:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/05/06/hawaii-lawmakers-pass-create-islam-day/
The Hawaii legislature on Wednesday passed a resolution by a 22-3 vote to create a day honoring Islam. It will make Sept. 24th that day.
I guess our “Hawaiian friends” could have really kicked America in the teeth and made it Sept. 11th, so that is ’something’, I suppose.
Wonder if Obama will give his “Islamic peeps” a “shout out” on Sept. 24th?
He didn’t even want to mention that TODAY is The Christian National Day of Prayer.
Even MORE reason to be on our knees today before OUR GOD!!!
36 Darthmeister // May 7, 2009 at 6:12 am
I thought Arlen’s messiah was himself. Silly me. Maybe Islam is a better fit for Mr. Specter since he is always declaring political jihad on his own party over the decades.
Obamarx’s Chilling Constitutional Judicial Ignorance
37 Hawkeye // May 7, 2009 at 9:27 am
Darth #36,
Thanks for the link… excellent article.
38 Maggie // May 7, 2009 at 10:04 am
Online re#23,
Senator Spectacle appears to have “eggs Benedict” on his face.
39 upnorthlurkin // May 7, 2009 at 10:34 am
From across the pond, sweasel’s take on Sen. Sphincter.
40 boberinyetagain // May 7, 2009 at 11:10 am
upnorth…funny photo indeed
41 boberinyetagain // May 7, 2009 at 11:11 am
I have to “double up” just to say…
Funny photo upnorth!
Then so be it
42 Laughing@You // May 7, 2009 at 1:12 pm
Darthmeister,
Re: 36
In your post you have included a link to the American Thinker’s article, “The Pity of Obama’s Judicial Doctrine”,
By Ed Kaitz
Your link, however, is entitled: “Obamarx’s Chilling Constitutional Judicial Ignorance”.
While the article is critical of President Obama’s desire to include people who are in closer contact with the common people of our country, and does refer to what it calls, the President’s ” “get in their faces” style of governing over the last 100 days”.
Nowhere does this article use the word “Ignorant”, nor does it use the phrase “Chilling Constitutional Judicial Ignorance”.
Why not refer to the actual title, “The Pity of Obama’s Judicial Doctrine”?
Since you seem bright enough to understand this, I am left only to conclude you are fundamentally dishonest. You seem to believe everybody here is too dumb not to swallow what you say whole.
There are fewer posting, many of the old names have gone … Maybe you are wrong about that, too!
I wondered how Ed Kaitz might regard your re-titling of his article, so I have written him. If he should reply I will post it here.
When does satire, become a lie?
Everthink?
43 JamesonLewis3rd // May 7, 2009 at 1:34 pm
Click HERE.
44 Laughing@You // May 7, 2009 at 1:40 pm
R.A.M.
“Even MORE reason to be on our knees today before OUR GOD!!!”
I could swear, in the last 90 days, you have implied to confess agnosticism. Perhaps I am wrong, or maybe you have worked it out with your Maker.
“Though President Barack Obama insists that prayer is a private act, he will follow in the footsteps of previous presidents today, signing a proclamation to declare the National Day of Prayer then moving on to other business of the day.”
http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/religion_theseeker/2009/05/obama-national-day-of-prayer-.html
That’s right RAM, the “Hypocrites Parade” will not be held today. Apparently, Mr. Obama believes in showing your faith by your actions, not, as in the last administration, by Godly pretense, while acting like the devil himself.
Sorry, I know you have your crayon, “God hates everybody” sign, and are raring to go. Maybe you could use this National Day of Prayer, to pray.
Everthink?
45 Laughing@You // May 7, 2009 at 1:48 pm
Jameson.
When I was a pup, telephone exchanges (prefixes) had name like TWinbrook 7, or PAlmer 4.
In those days Jeremiah 33:3, was called by some, “God’s Telephone Number”.
Here, have a cookie.
Everthink?
46 Fred Sinclair // May 7, 2009 at 2:37 pm
Reaganomics = Trickle down prosperity vs Obamanomics = Trickle up poverty.
47 MajorDomo // May 7, 2009 at 2:47 pm
A mere spectre of a man, is Arlen? No base, no bottom, no integrity. He’s in the right party! I heard that when he decided to be a Christian he was stripped of his eternal life for saying he hoped Obama would beat Jesus. Now he can’t find a seat by the Pearly Gates; nor will Satan let him have a key to Hell’s water cooler! Poor Specter! Poor Penny Sylvanians who elected this creep….over and over again!
48 JamesonLewis3rd // May 7, 2009 at 3:00 pm
No follow-up lecture on hyperlinks, eh?
Coward.
49 boberinyetagain // May 7, 2009 at 3:04 pm
major, we like a man that can think an issue through, decide what he feels is right and then vote that way. it’s an odd, difficult to grasp concept these days but Arlen demonstrates that it’s still possible.
Wanna bet $1 that he gets elected again? Not because we’re so dumb…because we value good decisions over partisan politics.
Who represents your “bright spot” of the country big fella?
Scott is one of them thar “dumb PA people…
50 Laughing@You // May 7, 2009 at 3:04 pm
“Reaganomics = Trickle down prosperity vs Obamanomics = Trickle up poverty.”
Fred,
I was going to say that’s beneath you! Then, I thought about it.
Everthink?
51 Laughing@You // May 7, 2009 at 3:07 pm
Major,
I actually Googled “Penny Sylvanians”, before I got it.
Everthink?
52 Laughing@You // May 7, 2009 at 3:12 pm
Jameson,
Well, if you’re going to act like that, no more cookies for you!
And, don’t you dare touch those matches!
Everthink?
53 Laughing@You // May 7, 2009 at 3:20 pm
Major,
As you can see those “liberal pacifists” also know something about “dropping the hammer”, and they didn’t way long to show it!
Everthink?
54 Laughing@You // May 7, 2009 at 3:22 pm
way should be wait.
55 onlineanalyst // May 7, 2009 at 6:21 pm
Mainstream media talking heads partner with left-wing blogs. That’s no surprise to most of us. In fact, the embedded video does not even explore the most blatant examples of non-objective reporting.
Our media are the Pravda wing of the Democrat “progressives.”
56 Fred Sinclair // May 7, 2009 at 9:19 pm
I got this from Letty and I don’t see where or if she has already posted it, but in either case its more than worthy, due to it’s truth being brought out into the bright sunshine of ScrappleFace.
Perhaps when it gets to Michigan I can apply for a new Hummer from the Military Surplus Pork Barrel.
“*%^&#@&!((*&^%$^ And that’s what fit to print !!!!!!!
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57 mindknumbed kid // May 7, 2009 at 9:54 pm
http://tinyurl.com/dzbcre
“Behold, I set before you the way of life, and the way of death.”
In America, we have freedom of religion, we are free to choose our own way. Perhaps there are no consequences to our choices. Who is the “I” that is speaking in that sentence, and what is his authority? Does he have the wherewithal to determine life or death? If so, will he have a change of heart concerning our choices? Is he of the same frame of mind today as he was on the day he said it? And does this statement apply to only one, a few, a sect…everyone? Who?
Are we under his laws today? Or are only certain people under his laws? Only the Christians? Can non-Christians choose any way they wish without there being any repercussion? Or are we all under a new law of grace, and therefore make choices without the possibility of repercussion?
What is the way of life? What is the way of death?
If a group of people sit down and discuss issues that are within the realm of life or death, and choose the way of life, will the authority favor them above another group of people who choose the way of death?
Will the authority figure favor one nation above another? And if so, why?
As God in past times sent prophets to warn his people that they were going the wrong way, it was an attempt on his part to keep them from being harmed. Unless he has changed, he continues to warn us if we are erring from the way of life, which is the way of blessing. He gave us his Word to guide us, to warn us, to instruct us.
His Word is filled with instruction and warnings about his people embracing other gods, false gods. That’s why we don’t need a prophet to come and tell us of our errors today. We have his Word. If we disregard it he has appointed preachers to remind us what he has said. If we do not understand it, he has given us teachers that we may learn what he expects of us. But if we reject it, whether you believe it to be true or not, you are following the way of death.
It doesn’t matter what I say. Not in the least. Unless what I say agrees with what he said. So when I say God does not cotton to abortion, homosexuality, etc. and say he will not bless a nation that thirsts for things of the such, if it isn’t true to his Word, ignore it. Show me in his Word where my error lies, if you are genuinely concerned.
And if grace covers our disobedience to his laws concerning these things, then, good news!, and everything you say Bush did that was “evil” is covered by grace too.
58 mindknumbed kid // May 7, 2009 at 10:04 pm
And if I were the God that the Word represents, I wouldn’t be frolicking across the meadows after hearing what they voted to do in Hawaii. Of course, he didn’t have to hear it, he knew their hearts before they were conceived.
59 onlineanalyst // May 7, 2009 at 10:36 pm
Obama Budget: Baby Terminator
Ackbar will leave us all poverty-stricken and defenseless.
60 Laughing@You // May 7, 2009 at 11:54 pm
“Free cars for poor fuel road rage - BostonHerald.com”
The Boston Herald must be a Republican Tabloid! Didn’t they endorse John McCain?
A more accurate headline would have read: “Covetousness fuels road rage”.
May everybody here awaken tomorrow with their car of their dreams awaiting them in their drive!
And bless all you devout, if covetous, Christians.
My old car runs just fine, if the Lord wants me to have a new one, He’ll see that I have it!
Praise God Almighty, I don’t need to hate my neighbor because his is newer!
Eventhink?
61 Laughing@You // May 8, 2009 at 12:22 am
Sounding brass,
“So when I say God does not cotton to abortion, homosexuality, etc.”, and on, and on, and on.
Can you point out where Holy Scripture says God does, or doesn’t, “cotton” to anything?
Do you think you are like Daniel, and America is like Babylon?
Everthink?
62 Satire: Specter Switches from Jewish to Christian Religion to Boost Seniority | The Kansas Progress // May 8, 2009 at 1:01 am
[...] Scrappleface: (2009-05-06) - Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter, who last week became a Democrat to boost his odds of winning re-election, again shocked the political world when he announced today that he had switched from Judaism to Christianity in hopes of regaining the seniority which the senate stripped from him Tuesday. [...]
63 JamesonLewis3rd // May 8, 2009 at 9:19 am
~~~Charles Spurgeon
64 onlineanalyst // May 8, 2009 at 9:53 am
As a Statist, a thinly disguised Fascist, the power-grabbing, failed Obama is leading this nation into lawlessness, according to Robert Tracinski. His column is rife with examples of how the current administration is attacking the very framework of our Constitution.
Obama’s buddy Bill Ayers is photographed (fittingly in an alley) trampling the American flag, Obama’s “spiritual mentor” promotes videotapes cursing America, and Obama himself questions the limits on government that the Constitution places in order to protect our individual liberties. The current president daily reflects a disdain for the oath of office that he made on January 20.
Obama, his blind followers, and the media may be dazzled by his vision to remake America in his own image, but those who value our nation’s heritage and its opportunities do not care to see us heading down the path to despotism shaped by the cult of personality.
65 boberinyetagain // May 8, 2009 at 10:01 am
OLA, you truly have veered “off track” just a bit (well…a whole bunch really). You were, for years, the voice of reason here but of late you’ve lost that entirely. Now Obiwan is a “despot”???
Too bad…for all of us…! We were able to learn…now we can just shake our heads in disbelief…did you hijack the name? What did you do with the real OLA?
66 boberinyetagain // May 8, 2009 at 10:12 am
For example, you gave Ob approx 2 days before labeling him a “failed president” and you’ve referred to him about 90 times since the same way. That would have been more appropriate after the first 100 days fi by then you truly felt that way and could articulate the reasons for that conclusion…but that was the “old” OLA…the one I respected (even learned from)…but that person has dissappeared…and I miss her
67 JamesonLewis3rd // May 8, 2009 at 10:41 am
Leftist mantra: Ignore the FACTS and lie about it.
BHO was a failure on every level long before his ascension to god/goddess.
68 upnorthlurkin // May 8, 2009 at 10:50 am
OLA, fear not(!) I still recognize you!! I just finished slogging through good old Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals. Uff da. We are in big trouble! The Wøn is Saul’s poster child.
69 onlineanalyst // May 8, 2009 at 11:00 am
Let’s put it this way, boberin. I have been following information on Obama — his history, his political influences, his voting patterns, his philosophy, etc.-since he declared his candidacy in Springfield, IL.
He embraces and promotes political ideas that have failed and have led to human misery in the old USSR, Cuba, North Korea, Zimbabwe, and Venezuela to name just a few places.
I personally know people who had departed their homelands behind the Iron Curtain and Cuba in order to remake their lives in the US, They have nothing good to say about Obama. They have seen and lived the failure of those plans and the destruction that they cause. They recognize demagogery and the connection between an all-powerful state and a press that is merely a PR arm for that state.
I have traveled enough in Europe both in the western countries and those formerly behind the Soviet bloc to learn how demoralizing and damaging both socialism and communism are to a person, a family, and a community. The systems promote dependence and ultimate slavery to faceless bureaucrats. They limit freedoms. They lead to shortages and expensive commodities.
No thanks.
70 onlineanalyst // May 8, 2009 at 11:25 am
Also, boberin, within two days of his swearing-in, Obama demonstrated his political bent through the Executive Orders that he rescinded and those that he instated.
Much of his handiwork is being established through agencies unanswerable to the electorate and not through legislation. As a nation, we were established as a representative republic. The governance that we are seeing in under 100 days is one of an elite oligarchy of unelected “czars,” who are trampling the law and who are taking over whole sectors of the economy.
71 boberinyetagain // May 8, 2009 at 11:35 am
That’s more like it…but I’ll need some examples of impending “socialism/communism” that you seem certain are upon us.
Please refrain from citing the dreaded 3% tax hike…that is NOT socialism. Please don’t cite healthcare as that already is socialist but selectively so…employed people all share the cost of care for the entire group…well, we went that far and lot of people got umeployed through no fault of their own but they are no longer in “the net” and need to be…splitting that care between everyone should lower the cost to any one person. My “contribution” per week is not “insurance” so much as it is “pre-paid” healthcare.
Do you think anyone in the world that had been planning to escape the repressive regime they currently live under has now cancelled those plans because they “fear” living under the “rule” of Obiwan? Are any that were already here making arrangements to leave? If not then that point is invalid as well…if they are…cite examples and I’ll stand corrected.
Auto industry? Failed long before Ob came into power. The creditors whining now would get a far worse deal if they got their way and they danged well know it but whining seems better, likley to lead to a bailout for them too (can be the ONLY thing they are hoping/gunning for…traditional bankruptcy would leave them far worse off)
Bailouts in general…I don’t like em, not even a little. Did not like that George started it (without the table being set another path may or may not have been available…we’ll never know now)…don’t like that Ob kept it going but…we’re all being told that we have no choice…perhaps things would have been worse…too late now anyway…
Don’t like the broken promises regarding lobbyists…that was sleazy…don’t like that Dems can’t seem to pay their taxes but then I’m reminded that most folks don’t (yes, i do, most peons do…I’m sure you do…but most with “means” don’t…) and at least OB wants to find them/make them pay…he says…
“failed presidency”…on day 2? Hardly…will it/could it fail? You betcha but…I abhored the way things were being done for 8 years (and resisted and reference to “failed” whilst doing it, still don’t think George “failed” he just didn’t do very well) and thus I (like apparently 65% of us) want to give something else a shot…and support the man trying…UNTIL it becomes evident that he’s wrong…but it ain’t there yet…
72 Laughing@You // May 8, 2009 at 11:53 am
OLA,
That’s boberin’s only weakness, he keeps looking for the good in people, even neoconservative nutballs.
I, on the other hand, always expect the worst from you. That way anything short of that, is cautiously appreciated.
But, I have seen what you get when you expect the pachyderm to lay eggs!
I called the last one “Dumbyah”.
Everthink?
73 boberinyetagain // May 8, 2009 at 12:07 pm
ET, as I say, for years OLA made well thought out, reasoned points backed by facts…right up until OB took over…then she went straight to heck/kinda lost it…just trying to bring her back…
74 JamesonLewis3rd // May 8, 2009 at 12:11 pm
Yet another comment filled with LIES and HATRED form a cowardly and perverted traitor.
75 JamesonLewis3rd // May 8, 2009 at 12:13 pm
from
76 boberinyetagain // May 8, 2009 at 12:19 pm
JL3, you’ll never be accused of making a well thought out, reasoned argument. You can rest easy on that score. It’d be interesting (but time consuming) to count the number of adjectives (none the least bit flattering) that you’ve used to describe me. Some border on slander, some just plain are…
I’ll bet your parents are very proud of you. I know I am…and God is…
77 boberinyetagain // May 8, 2009 at 12:23 pm
Apparently OB has even gotten to the Pope…good grief!
AMMAN (Reuters) - Pope Benedict began a delicate trip to the Middle East on Friday by expressing “deep respect” for Islam and calling for a three-way dialogue of Christians, Muslims and Jews to help peace.
78 Laughing@You // May 8, 2009 at 12:34 pm
boberin,
You’re a good man.
I respect your judgment. Go ahead, give it a try. But, I sure hope you don’t get bit!
If you don’t mind, I’m still going to go stand by the door.
I got your back!
Everthink?
79 upnorthlurkin // May 8, 2009 at 12:35 pm
Have to laugh at Kyle-Anne’s article here. I guess we’re not the only ones believing what we believe, eh?!
So far I’m loving being a domestic terrorist…..
80 boberinyetagain // May 8, 2009 at 12:40 pm
oh I’ll get bit all right but I’ve been bitten hard by better men the JL3 and I’ve lived to tell the tale…he can’t do nothing more than nibble
81 Laughing@You // May 8, 2009 at 12:43 pm
boberin,
Did you read JL3’s C. H. Spurgeon quote?
I was just writing something nice to post about Jameson, when the snake within got the better of the boy.
Such a sad case …
Everthink?
82 boberinyetagain // May 8, 2009 at 12:50 pm
Sorry I missed the call, I’ll call back
83 boberinyetagain // May 8, 2009 at 12:56 pm
JL3…#63
Once and for all…if Nancy did or didn’t know…if Nancy did or didn’t approve…waterboarding is unamerican, we’ve prosecuted enemys for using it on our own people…don’t want it used on our own people…if that’s the case it’s wrong (and that’s the case…and it’s wrong)
Believe it or not…Nancy is not someone we look up to/attempt to emulate…even if she didn’t know of or approve of waterboarding…she is not the boss of me…and I don’t care what she did or didn’t know…about anything.
84 Laughing@You // May 8, 2009 at 2:53 pm
Lurch,
When you say “we”, are you speaking your demons, or do you refer to the American Thinker, which is neither?
“So far I’m loving being a domestic terrorist…. ”
I’m right there with you, watching you demonstrate Shakespeare,
“… it is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.”
The more you post, the more you lose.
Everthink?
85 boberinyetagain // May 8, 2009 at 3:08 pm
I believe that upnorth could be arrested simply for making that statement…but it wasn’t me that turned you in.
86 Laughing@You // May 8, 2009 at 4:11 pm
Fred,
Mujibar was trying to get a job in India.
The Personnel Manager said, “Mujibar, you have passed all the tests, except one.
Unless you pass it you cannot qualify for this job.”
Mujibar said, “I am ready”
The manager said, “Make a sentence using the words Yellow, Pink and Green.”
Mujibar thought for a few minutes and said, “Mister Manager, I am ready”
The manager said, “Go ahead.”
Mujibar said, “The telephone goes green, green, and I pink it up, and say, Yellow, this is Mujibar.”
Mujibar now works as a technician at a call center for computer problems. No doubt you have spoken to him.
87 Laughing@You // May 8, 2009 at 5:02 pm
boberin,
Re: 83
Of course I agree with you; but if Nancy knew, I want to see her have to defend her actions just like everybody else.
No excuses, no deals, whatsoever!
Everthink?
88 mindknumbed kid // May 8, 2009 at 6:54 pm
re#61 -
1.) YES
2.) NO
89 onlineanalyst // May 8, 2009 at 9:31 pm
boberin: Sorry to be so late in responding. Lots of personal chores and responsibilities today.
Here is the ongoing outrage. When moderate Michael Barone blows the whistle on downright extortion and theft and disregard of contract law in order to take the rightful property of investors and to pay off union goons, we are on our way to Venezuela.
I could list for you several of the rescinded EOs and newly proclaimed ones that go back to January 21, but that is water over the dam.
Stop pretending that your taxes will go up a mere 3% with the end of the Bush tax cuts. Our taxes will escalate so disproportionately that heating fuel, transportation fuel, and food prices will skyrocket. With the government printing so much phony money and no sane government ready to buy our debt, your salary will have a hard time meeting life’s necessities.
Truly, boberin, I fear that you will not have your job before the year is out. Keep your optimism if that makes you feel better, But find ways to protect your resources.
90 onlineanalyst // May 8, 2009 at 10:18 pm
And here is another reason why I consider Obama a failure, boberin. He has betrayed the obligation to the families of the USS Cole and the 9/11 victims. Deb Burlingame, the sister of one who lost his life that day, describes that betrayal at several levels in the WSJ on Friday:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124174154190098941.html#mod=rss_opinion_main
BTW If you are relying on Jon Stewart (or heaven forfend, Andrew Sullivan) about waterboarding by the Japanese in WWII, then your information is not historically complete. The Japanese were executed for hideous, inhumane torture, and their version of “waterboarding” involved among other things force-feeding dry rice into prisoners and then glutting them with water until their guts burst.
91 Laughing@You // May 8, 2009 at 11:43 pm
So, it isn’t necessary to stand up for what is right and good, it is only required that you are better than the worst person you can find.
That’s a pretty heavy standard there, OLA.
Being a real American is too heavy a lift for many, so maybe we will have to help those who are too weak to be at home, “In the land of the free and the home of the brave”.
Or, perhaps it would be easier to rewrite the words of that old song.
OLA, can you provide new lyrics, which will still allow us to be proud of our country?
Everthink?
92 onlineanalyst // May 9, 2009 at 6:40 am
It is right and good for the leadership of a nation to protect its people.
If all other means of interrogation have been exhausted on the very limited number of key (high value) perpetrators (and this fact has been documented) and the CIA intelligance personnel had clearance via approval and knowledge of the defined and accepted legal limitations (including the Intelligence Committee being always fully informed in the loop), then the fainting couch arguments of playing politics with security is not convincing.
I fail to understand the pass that Obama supporters are giving to continuing rendition, a practice begun by Clinton. The interrogation techniques in the countries of extradition are far less humane than anything our intel services practice.
Right now, Holder is planning to release the Uighars, the Chinese separatist group caught in Al Qaeda training camps, into our country. They will be supported with American tax dollars. Holder does not seem to be aware that there is a LAW on the books that does not permit the patriation of known terrorists into our United States.
93 onlineanalyst // May 9, 2009 at 6:53 am
L2Y: Axelrod doesn’t pay you enough to do your astroturfing on this site. Rather than attack any poster on an issue or the points made, you resort to snarky ad hominems. I tend to disregard you unless I reach the point where I have to “school” you.
Look at the walkbacks that Obama has already done even though he feigns an arrogant moral superiority. Pay special attention to the point made about electronic surveillance.
94 mindknumbed kid // May 9, 2009 at 1:07 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqCFq5sPxNo
95 Laughing@You // May 9, 2009 at 2:55 pm
OLA:
“I tend to disregard you unless I reach the point where I have to “school” you.”
What credentials allow you to think you can school me?
Have you ever worn any kind of uniform? I have.
Have you personally, ever interrogated anyone? I have.
Have you ever been accused of using “unreasonable and excessive force”? I have.
Sorry, the first paragraph is one long confusing, and misleading sentence, but let me pick a couple of pieces.
“… Limited number of key (high value) perpetrators …”
Define limited. Define high value perpetrators? How is this determined?
“… Playing politics …”
That’s your cover for everything, but see post 87.
“Holder does not seem to be aware that there is a LAW on the books that does not permit the patriation of known terrorists into our United States.”
Do you mean repatriation?
You endorse the corrupt and criminal Bush Justice Department, yet question Holder’s knowledge of the law or worse?
Interrogation of the type described will certainly break any subject, but if the subject will say, “uncle” or “aunt”, or anything else you want him to say to make it stop, how much confidence can you have in what he says? Even then, if you get a truthful answer, you will continue until you get a lie.
Are you familiar with the subject code named “Screwball”?
Screwball was interrogated, using similar methods, by us and others. We are in Iraq today because Screwball told us what we wanted to hear.
Look at the cost in American lives and fortune! That’s what you get with the methods you endorse.
Some while ago, I said here that I could conceive of a situation in which I might use torture, but if I did, I would want it to be on me, not my country.
OLA, you attempt to compensate for your lack of knowledge, by doubling down on attitude!
So, disregard me, or school me if you think you can, blowhard!
Everthink?
96 mindknumbed kid // May 9, 2009 at 3:12 pm
Ain’t nobody can teach him nothin’, and that’s the truth!
Problem is all of jis screws come loose and nobody will tighten them.
97 upnorthlurkin // May 9, 2009 at 3:34 pm
Oooo, OLA! Methinks you are getting under Chuckles’ thin skin. He’s the onliest one allowed to spew, er, ahh, uhhh, express opinions here….the onliest expert in the universe….. How dare you try and enlighten Mr. Arrogant/Pompous one! I guess he told you, huh?!
Tee hee….Chuckles - Ø; OLA - 100
98 Laughing@You // May 9, 2009 at 4:10 pm
Lurch,
“the onliest expert in the universe…”
I can see where you and ole nummo might think so, but in truth, there are lottsa smart folks around, it’s just that you are addicted to listening to the dumb ones.
Everthink?
99 mindknumbed kid // May 9, 2009 at 5:58 pm
We know that we all have knowledge.
Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth.
And if any man think that he knoweth any thing, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.
But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things,and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things. Howbeit there is not in every man that knowledge…
There are a lot of smart folks around, but so many are ignorant when it comes to the knowledge that counts.
100 upnorthlurkin // May 9, 2009 at 6:03 pm
Luckily for us lowly common folk, you continue to grace us with your superior, supreme, super duper intellect….
Too bad for you there’s still freedom of speech,thought, and opinion here, even for us…plus we’re free to call you a liar and not believe a word you spew.
I am amazed someone who thinks he’s so superior continues to keep company with the likes of us….
101 mindknumbed kid // May 9, 2009 at 6:33 pm
Knowledge puffeth up, therefore he comes here to huff and puff away. But alas, it is to no avail. Just a bunch of hayseeds here, bitter clingers to the ideals of conservatism and the words of an Ott that is Scott. He comes here daily to help us come to the truths of his messiah, but cannot boast of one convert. His utter failure to do so is the reason he hasn’t been promoted to a higher position in their church of liberalism. He is too dedicated to their cause to quit and accept failure, it is all futility and frustration for the remainder of his days. We are stuck with him, and he here with us. The hierarchy of moveon must loathe his efforts too, no wonder he isn’t invited to the important functions anymore.
102 Laughing@You // May 10, 2009 at 2:01 am
Error: Post 95
The correct code name was not “Screwball” , it was “Curveball”.
Everthink?
103 R.A.M. // May 10, 2009 at 8:56 pm
re#95:
Neverthink, e.t., laughing gasbag, “Chuckles”, true idenity exposed in this post!
Here is who “It” really is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_Life_of_Walter_Mitty
And I had thought from “It’s” past fabricated “history” of “It’s” (family of soldiers) yarns, that “It” was the ghost of General George Patton, it now turns out “It” is simply a mental patient who thinks “It” is the “character”, Walter Mitty!
Believe me, reading just a few or your’s, bobblehead’s, or any of your “other” personalities here is more torture than waterboarding could EVER be!!!
About that, I am leaning more toward serious than satire!
PS: I bet you are the only person in the Country with a lower approval rating than Nancy Pelosi. I would rather have one of these terrorists living near me than have to live near you. At least with them, they don’t try to hide the fact they hate the United States and want us hurt!
With you around I think I would need eyes in the back of my head.
104 Laughing@You // May 11, 2009 at 1:18 am
Dear Mr. Fudd,
Thank you, for your recent letter. I want you to know that I will give serious consideration to what you have said.
Concerning your conclusion:
“With you around I think I would need eyes in the back of my head”.
I offer you this observation:
Being as backward as you always seem, that might benefit you greatly in any case.
As ever, your faithful servant,
Everthink?
105 Laughing@You // May 11, 2009 at 2:41 am
OLA,
“Holder does not seem to be aware that there is a LAW on the books that does not permit the patriation of known terrorists into our United States.”
I guess you refer to bringing “known terrorists” into the United States. Even so, there is no LAW!
Republicans do have a BILL!
It is called: The Keep Terrorists Out Of America Act
This Bill has not yet been enacted!
Democrats control its fate, I believe they will inform Mr. Holder if they pass it; if not President Obama might send him a memo, or something when he signs it!
Everthink?
106 mzk1 // May 11, 2009 at 6:16 am
Technically, Judaism has seniority over Christianity.
(second try)
107 onlineanalyst // May 11, 2009 at 6:15 pm
L@Y: I am aware of the King bill being debated in Congress, whose purpose is to fortify an existing law already enacted in 2005 to keep terrorists out of our country.
The following is an excert from Andy McCarthy’s letter to Eric Holder that clarifies McCarthy’s decision not to take part in Holder’s charade regarding the treatment and/or release of the terrorists encarcerated at Gitmo:
“Obviously, I am powerless to stop the administration from releasing top al Qaeda operatives who planned mass-murder attacks against American cities—like Binyam Mohammed (the accomplice of “Dirty Bomber” Jose Padilla) whom the administration recently transferred to Britain, where he is now at liberty and living on public assistance. I am similarly powerless to stop the administration from admitting into the United States such alien jihadists as the 17 remaining Uighur detainees. According to National Intelligence Director Dennis Blair, the Uighurs will apparently live freely, on American taxpayer assistance, despite the facts that they are affiliated with a terrorist organization and have received terrorist paramilitary training. Under federal immigration law (the 2005 REAL ID Act), those facts render them excludable from the United States. The Uighurs’ impending release is thus a remarkable development given the Obama administration’s propensity to deride its predecessor’s purported insensitivity to the rule of law. “
I believe that I posted the link to the whole of McCarthy’s letter elsewhere at this blog if you need to verify the validity of this paragraph.
BTW Given McCarthy’s deep and vast experience in prosecuting terrorists, I tend to view his understanding of the law with more respect than I do Eric Holder’s. Wasn’t Holder the man behind the curtain responsible for releasing the FALN terrorists?
108 Newsman // May 11, 2009 at 9:08 pm
Laughing@you…Have noted some of your recent comments. Some of your perceptions nail the real phonies here to the wall !
Scott is a satirical writer par execellence - most of this list though is incapable of satirical comments.
They are righteous ‘Christians’ who spend an inordinate amount of energy and time trying to nail those whom they despise, i.e., anyone who dares to question their view of the world and what is going on it.
They are like the extremist Palestinians and Jews who can’t wait to push the opposition into the Mediterranean to drown while they sit on the beach with the stink in their gut putrefying.
I bet darthmeister has a rack down in his cellar and is constantly practicing for his big day on the world stage !
109 Newsman // May 11, 2009 at 9:39 pm
Anyone know where Darth lives ? I want to sneak down into his cellar and let him practice on me.
He would probably get so excited he would have the big one on the spot !
Wouldn’t really want to do that to the poor fellow.
110 onlineanalyst // May 11, 2009 at 10:51 pm
David Axelrod speaks. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
111 Laughing@You // May 12, 2009 at 2:10 am
OLA,
I confess, I knew nothing of Andrew C. McCarthy, because I do not read the National Review, or Commentary. So, I had to look him up at Wikipedia.
There I discovered he is a former Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, having led the 1995 terrorism prosecution against Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman and eleven others.
He is now a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) is a policy institute, (a think tank). He is also a conservative opinion writer for the “National Review” and “Commentary”.
“He has defended the practice of waterboarding as not necessarily being torture in some situations to prosecute the War on Terror whilst admitting that “waterboarding is close enough to torture that reasonable minds can differ on whether it is torture”.
“In an opinion posted on the blog ‘the Corner’ on October 22, 2008, Mr. McCarthy wrote “I believe that the issue of Obama’s personal radicalism, including his collaboration with radical, America-hating Leftists, should have been disqualifying.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_C._McCarthy
That is the extent of my knowledge of Andrew C. McCarthy. From this I see that he is an attorney, and a conservative.
Seeing the intensity of his views, I can’t help but wonder why he was not a member of the Bush Administration’s Justice Department in place of one of those young Regents University law graduates.
In fact, when I look at poor Alberto Gonzales, I have to wonder why Dumbyah didn’t make McCarthy Attorney General instead of Gonzo.
As I consider this, I wonder, if not AG, why he was not nominated to be a Justice on the Supreme Court, instead of Harriet Meyers.
Somehow, I must concluded President Bush, either didn’t regard him as highly as you regard him, he chose personal ambition ahead of his country in a time of national emergency.
To the issue of waterboarding. I tried unsuccessfully to find his biography, do he have any military service in his background? I would guess not, since he is, after all, a neoconservative.
Clearly, he was an adequate prosecutor, but how does that relate to waterboarding?
“Under federal immigration law (the 2005 REAL ID Act), those facts render them excludable from the United States.”
I note the use of the word “immigration” above is that the issue at hand?
Why did Mr. McCarthy decline an invitation from Attorney General Eric Holder for a round-table meeting with President Barack Obama concerning the status of people detained in the War on Terror this month?
He should have addressed his concerns directly to the president, instead of in the National Review.
If such a law already exists, why are Republicans offering “The Keep Terrorists Out Of America Act”?
OLA, your side should be able to have this issue heard by the Supremes.
I will accept their decision as I did in the 2000 Election.
Your side seems to have little respect for our laws, always claiming some outrage, and exhorting their followers to violate them, while still proclaiming, both their superior moral values, and their love for our country.
Everthink?
112 Laughing@You // May 12, 2009 at 2:28 am
Newsman,
Thank you, for your comments.
Everthink?
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