(2009-03-07) — As he signs an executive order Monday lifting limits on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research, President Barack Obama said he intends to make the wealthiest Americans “bear their fair share of the burden.”
Following through on his inaugural promise “to restore science to its rightful place, and wield technology’s wonders to raise health care’s quality and lower its cost“, the president will order the National Institutes of Health to extract stem cells from embryos whose parents earn more than $250,000 per year, and to inject them into “the sick and crippled middle class.”
“Let me be perfectly clear,” Mr. Obama said, “if your family earns less than $250,000 per year, the federal government will not harvest one single stem cell from your embryos…not one single cell. In fact, for 95 percent of working families, my stem cell plan contains nothing but miraculous healing. That’s right, the cures are on the way.”
President George Bush, widely credited for blocking embryonic stem cell research, actually presided over the first federally-funded work in this area, only limiting the study to several dozen existing stem cell lines to avoid creating a market for what he called “spare parts” derived from humans.
“My predecessor kept us in the Dark Ages, allowing his morality to hinder our quest for immortality,” said President Obama. “And today, some say we should focus on adult stem cells, or other technologies with better track records that harm no one. But those voices fail to recognize that great achievement never comes without great sacrifice. We must not shrink from the certain surrender of what seems precious, because we fail to believe in that one-in-a-million chance at the miraculous. History will judge us.”
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1 gafisher // Mar 7, 2009 at 7:07 am
“History will judge us.”
Not just history. But let’s be clear — this is just a matter of scale; the practice itself was already in place.
2 JamesonLewis3rd // Mar 7, 2009 at 7:07 am
Yes, History will judge; that is, if there is any.
3 gafisher // Mar 7, 2009 at 7:13 am
Portions of Obama’s speech announcing the new wholesale macerated baby market have been leaked. It includes something about an “… increased devotion to that cause for which they here gave the last full measure of devotion - that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain …”
4 Ms RightWing, Ink // Mar 7, 2009 at 7:31 am
I just calmed my stem cells this morning. They were keeping me awake all night.
“Be still, the government man (bogey man )won’t git ya. We’s po folk.”
5 flacracker // Mar 7, 2009 at 7:51 am
Those aren’t stem cells he’s trying to cut off…
We will all REALLY MISS *BOTH* the “STEM CELLS” Obama plans to CUT OFF
6 R.A.M. // Mar 7, 2009 at 8:29 am
The only difference, (as you probably already know), between Obama and Bush on this issue, is that Obama will make us all pay for the research.
So this really isn’t news, as Obama will make us pay for EVERYTHING he decides is good for his “ObamaNation”.
Are 61% of Americans really that brain dead or are they just using drugs?
OR, are they taking these Obama approval polls in Dem only households?
7 R.A.M. // Mar 7, 2009 at 8:41 am
If we get enough of these stems cells maybe we can put those “Gitmo” terrorists in them?
“I’m just sayin’”!
O.T.: I saw where Senator Jon Kyle, (a supposed Republican), answered a constituents email, (who asked him about “Barry” not producing his birth certificate), by saying something to the effect that “Snopes” has debunked this as a myth!
So much for the Republicans ever getting to the truth about Barry.
Kind of odd to hear a supposed Republican giving “Snopes” more power and authority than the U.S. Constitution.
Like MLK, I too have a “dream”. Mine involves an angry citizenry marching up to Capitol Hill and removing the bums, (YES, BOTH party’s), and gently applying “liberal” amounts of tar and feathers to them!
8 onlineanalyst // Mar 7, 2009 at 8:43 am
The Peter Pan Present-dent meets Dr. Mengele in order to create the Utopian Race of Immortality. Hasn’t the human race learned anything about the value of human life yet?
Sure, Ackbar, why not use federal funds to cultivate human embryonic stem cells, only to throw away the what doesn’t suit your purposes?
If your knowledge about the proven efficacy of adult stem cell research, the bogusness of human-induced climate change, and the sorry results of economic spending is a clue to your bottomless stupidity, Your hubris is unparalled. I believe that the grapes of wrath is about all that your vintage will produce, Professor Wizard.
BTW You give effective dramatic readings of the horsefeathers that your handlers have prepared for you, Obama.
9 R.A.M. // Mar 7, 2009 at 9:00 am
http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=90945
You HAVE to read this story about the, “almost every night” parties the Obama’s are having in the White House.
In the story, at least two of the people confirming are Dee Dee Myers and another Democrat CongressWoman who also frown on this at a time when the economy is in shambles!
Obama is quoted as saying, “This is a big house, and we get lonely.” Really? He is NEVER there. He has been on the road more than he has been there, and it has only been about 6 weeks. My goodness, what is he going to do after 6 months?
Amazingly they had a Stevie Wonder concert at one of the parties. I wonder if he sang them that “song” that was on YouTube, “Barack Obama” sung like it was the “scales”?
Tell me this would NOT be the top story on EVERY news outlet, amid calls for Impeachment, if it was Bush having parties.
10 Maggie // Mar 7, 2009 at 9:22 am
Well…..that wipes me out.
11 Fred Sinclair // Mar 7, 2009 at 10:38 am
I got this from Red Pepper about a year ago - printed it out and it’s still on my desk. Thanks Red - Waxless Fred
“If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without bloodshed ; if you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly ; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.”
– Winston Churchill
12 Fred Sinclair // Mar 7, 2009 at 10:45 am
A timely reminder:
Remember to set your clocks ahead one hour tonight.
13 RedPepper // Mar 7, 2009 at 11:42 am
Fred S. #11: Glad you liked it, Fred. I’m fond of quotes, & Churchill is a favorite.
Here is another of his exhortations :
“Never give in - never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.” ~ Winston Churchill, speech at Harrow (10-29-1941)
14 gafisher // Mar 7, 2009 at 12:07 pm
[HERE] is a “must read” if you want to be both ¹educated and ²entertained regarding Obamunism.
Fun and informative.
15 Limey Mike // Mar 7, 2009 at 1:09 pm
Long time reader - irregular (literally!) contributor here!
Just had to say “thanks” to gafisher for the link to
Mr. Makepeace’ brilliant piece…and to Mr Ott for his MANY brilliant articles…
Thanks
16 Left Coast-Right Mind // Mar 7, 2009 at 1:16 pm
Man-madeAnthropomorphicGlobal WarmingClimate Change: “The debate is over”Economic
StimulusRecoveryPackageBill: “The debate is over”HillarycareSocializedNationalizedSingle-Payer Health Care System: “The debate is over”Embryonic Stem Cell Research: “The debate is over”
Maybe Obama needs to find a cure for his allergic reaction to debating?
After all, history tells us (the same history that will judge Obama, no doubt) that the Founders all knew what needed to be done, and there was no debating whatsoever. It was as smooth a transition from the Crown to the United States of America as ever there has been in world affairs. War-mongering revolutionaries, such as George Washington, along with radicals with incendiary rhetoric, like Thomas Jefferson were just “unhelpful” to this process.
17 gafisher // Mar 7, 2009 at 1:18 pm
Clayton Makepeace is at the top of his game just as Scott Ott is at the top of his, Limey Mike. I’m glad you appreciated the article.
18 Darthmeister // Mar 7, 2009 at 3:20 pm
I hope Obama doesn’t have any plans to clone himself … the nation wouldn’t survive it!
Obama: Economic Crisis is “Great Opportunity”.
More Orwellian double-talk from the Donks messiah. Yeah, it’s a great opportunity for deeper poverty for minorities and further stripping senior citizen’s of their retirement accounts. Oh, I forgot, it’s all Bush’s fault.
Kerry: ‘Animal House’ Party Days Are Over for Banks…
I think this twit needs to look at the animal house occurring in the Senate with all the Donks spending like drunken
sailorsfrat boys.Heated Exchange: Gore Confronts His Critics… Its ‘kind of silly’ to keep debating the science…
Mr. Gore, you wouldn’t know science if it bit you on the butt. The only thing “silly” are pompous, bloviating pseudo-scientists such as yourself.
NYT SUNDAY: Obama can not assure economy will grow again by end of year; Urges Americans not to ’stuff money in mattresses’
I doubt we’ll be able to stuff any money in our mattresses, sir, when your socialist cohorts in Congress get finished taxing what we have left after your ignorant economic policies have finished devastating this nation’s wealth.
19 JamesonLewis3rd // Mar 7, 2009 at 4:21 pm
Now, BHO wants us all to stop “overreacting.”
What that man does not understand is that we (that is, conservatives) have yet to react at all. We’re simply doing what responsible adults do.
Party-Animal BHO doesn’t want True Americans to react, let alone overreact.
I hope I live long enough to see how this all turns out if only for the sake of my late mother, who fled Stalin’s Russia with her mother and lived nearly a decade in the Russian ghetto of Shanghai before meeting, in 1948, an American Staff Sergeant from Toledo OH. And for the sake of my Grandfather, Nicholas (???????), who stayed behind.
Thank you
20 JamesonLewis3rd // Mar 7, 2009 at 4:35 pm
I forgot to leave a link to go with my quote above, so I’ll quote below:
21 Fred Sinclair // Mar 7, 2009 at 5:01 pm
At Thermopyle 1,000,000 Persians lost 20,000 yet
failed to disarm just 300 Spartans. Today, 80,000,000 lawful Americans will resist even harder. That we promise!
You can shoot us, you can kill us, you can stomp us
in the ground, you can confiscate our empty guns but
you cannot break our spirit, for we are Americans and refuse to become Government welfare slaves.
22 onlineanalyst // Mar 7, 2009 at 5:07 pm
Is anyone surprised?
Is it possible to have a recall on the basis of the incompetence of this nitwit?
23 onlineanalyst // Mar 7, 2009 at 5:10 pm
NYT SUNDAY: Obama can not assure economy will grow again by end of year; Urges Americans not to ’stuff money in mattresses’
I doubt we’ll be able to stuff any money in our mattresses, sir, when your socialist cohorts in Congress get finished taxing what we have left after your ignorant economic policies have finished devastating this nation’s wealth.
My mattress is getting rather lumpy when all that I have to stuff it with is change.
I’d feel more optimistic if the Obamas would throw more parties in the White House so that he isn’t so lonely. /s
24 RedPepper // Mar 7, 2009 at 7:04 pm
onlineanalyst: No, no! You can’t just stuff your mattress with change! You have to stuff it with hope, too! Lots and lots and lots of hope!
Hope is kinda airy … and billowy like a great big ole fluffy, cottony cloud … just the thing to keep you from getting bruised by all that change !
25 mindknumbed kid // Mar 7, 2009 at 7:20 pm
There’s your problem - hoarding all of the change. You are preventing Obama from delivering the change he promised! He is running out of hope too, all because you are denying him access to the change. If I had any hope I’d use it to wish for change too, a change of administrations. But alas, there is no hope…
26 mindknumbed kid // Mar 7, 2009 at 7:35 pm
“allowing his morality to hinder our quest for immortality”
So is it Obama’s stance to use our mortality to pursue our quest for immorality?
27 gafisher // Mar 7, 2009 at 9:00 pm
Change? Hope? You’ll need an air mattress to hold all the upcoming inflation.
28 gafisher // Mar 7, 2009 at 9:02 pm
Fred Re#12: That’s covered in the budget bill — we have to give up an hour tonight, and in the Fall we might get back fifteen minutes.
29 Newsman // Mar 7, 2009 at 9:23 pm
Madoff is selling his stem cells at a bargain price!
30 Fred Sinclair // Mar 7, 2009 at 9:34 pm
Suicidal Muslims…..
A lot of folks seem to be wondering why Muslim terrorists are so quick to commit suicide.
Let’s see now…
No Jesus
No Christmas
No television
No cheerleaders
No car races
No football
No tailgate parties
No soccer
No pork BBQ
No hot dogs
No burgers
No chocolate chip cookies
No lobster
No nachos
No Beer nuts
No Beer !!!!!!!!
Rags for clothes and towels for hats.
Constant wailing from the guy next-door because he’s sick and there are no doctors.
Constant wailing from the guy in the tower.
More than one wife.
More than one Mother-in-law
You can’t shave.
Your wives can’t shave
You can’t shower to wash off the smell of donkey cooked over burning camel dung.
Your brides are picked by someone else.
They smell just like your donkey.
Then they tell you that when you die it all gets better!
I mean, really, is there a mystery here?
31 JamesonLewis3rd // Mar 8, 2009 at 5:14 am
The Party-Animal President of the United States of America, BHO, has proudly declared to the entire universe that-by virtue of his utter ineptitude-he is totally clueless.
BHO and The Hill & Bill Show are beyond mortifying to The USA. They’re not just pulling the rug out from under us, they’re cutting off our feet.
For the Name of Jehovah I proclaim,
Ascribe ye greatness to our God!
~~Deuteronomy 32:3
32 JamesonLewis3rd // Mar 8, 2009 at 5:29 am
This devotional inspired by Deuteronomy 32:3, National Owning of God, by Arthur W. Pink, seemed appropriate enough to share.
33 Libby Gone // Mar 8, 2009 at 5:54 am
Mary Shelley, my great inspiration….
Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay
To mould me man?
Did I solicit thee
From darkness to promote me?
-Paradise Lost
34 R.A.M. // Mar 8, 2009 at 6:10 am
Day after day, watching Obama “toy around” with being “Prez”, is like watching a spoiled child play with a present on Christmas morning until he tires of it and starts dismantling it to see what makes it work, then when he finds he doesn’t have a clue how to “fix it”, gets mad and destroys it!
It should be now painfully obvious to EVERYONE, (that has ANY grey matter left), that being leader of the free world is, quite simply, “above his pay grade”!
35 Ms RightWing, Ink // Mar 8, 2009 at 1:19 pm
Is it brunch or dinner. I sure love DST, but I hate it when my stomach doesn’t match the clock.
I wonder if OB1 will tax DST
36 Darthmeister // Mar 8, 2009 at 2:15 pm
Ex-Detainee: Guantanamo Worse Under Obama
First it was a civil rights lawyer and now it’s a detainee. Obviously they’re both lying because such a thing could never happen during Obamessiah’s reign. Oh, yeah … it’s Bush’s fault.
Anti-Tax Rally Cry: “Socialism is trickle up poverty.”
Dolts! Obviously our founding fathers would have gladly paid more taxes to King George if he had been establishing a welfare plantation and a national healthcare system instead of building more warships.
Rasmussen Report: Obama’s Approval Drops to 56%, 43% Now Strongly Approve
Obamatons argue that even though Obama’s approval numbers are lower than George W. Bush’s approval numbers at this point in their respective presidencies, the fact remains Obama is messiah and Bush is a chimp.
OBAMA: Don’t Blame Me For Slighting England’s PM, I’m
IncompetentOverwhelmed!37 JamesonLewis3rd // Mar 8, 2009 at 2:50 pm
Fake Rumors: Reid walked into Pelosi’s office a couple of days ago and punched her out but she ended up beating him down with her cherished bronze bust of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin.
Reid and Pelosi slapped each other silly-left, left, right, right, left, left, right, right-and, after 20 minutes of relentless slapping, each called the other “butthead” and then, in unison, they said something about “rubber” and “glue” and stuck out their tongues.
In between dancing, eating and drinking, BHO commented by gyrating like a contortionist, laughing with his roe-filled mouth wide open and throwing his beaker of Mad Dog into the questioners face.
38 old1 // Mar 8, 2009 at 4:05 pm
In 1776 we defeated the worlds greatest power at the time, Great Britain. Then we went on to become the greatest world power that has ever ruled our great planet Earth. I don’t think we will have any problem beating one little Brit, trying to play President of the United States. He was born a Brit, send him home to his birth place. Write your Senators & Congress Men.
39 Left Coast-Right Mind // Mar 8, 2009 at 4:09 pm
If you are a liberal, then this plan of only harvesting stem cells from ‘rich’ embryos makes total sense.
After all, only the poorest of the poor send their children into the military to die in some foreign land, while spoiled rich kids are able to buy their way out. So it’s only fair that the rich get their ’skin in the game’ by sending their prenatal progeny off to die in some laboratory.
It’s as patriotic as paying taxes…or not, depending on who you know, or who knows you.
It’s as patriotic as dissension against a sitting American President…unless it is a sitting Democrat American President of course.
It’s as patriotic as indignantly questioning if someone is challenging your patriotism.
40 Newsman // Mar 8, 2009 at 4:58 pm
Fred ! How could you have left out all those “VIRGINS” ?
I believe a close examination of the original Quoran would reveal that the reward was “RAISINS” and not “VIRGINS” Can you not imagine the shock on their faces when they arrive at Islamic Nirvana ?
41 Fred Sinclair // Mar 8, 2009 at 5:20 pm
No Newsman, it does not say raisins (raise sins) but the actual translation does not say 72 virgins either. Specifically it does say “…..a 72 year old virgin.”
That will certainly be a sight to behold - to see the shock on their faces when they arrive at Islamic Nirvana and are presented with their sole companion for all of eternity!!!
42 Fred Sinclair // Mar 8, 2009 at 5:26 pm
In considering the usurper’s drive to enact his Socialist “Health Care Program” and the net effect it could have on myself and many other disabled elderly, I was reminded of a passage in the book of Lamentations.
Lam. 3:55 I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon.
Lam. 3:56 Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry.
Lam. 3:57 Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee: thou saidst, Fear not.
Lam. 3:58 O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life.
Lam. 3:59 O LORD, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause.
Lam. 3:60 Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations against me.
Lam. 3:61 Thou hast heard their reproach, O LORD, and all their imaginations against me;
Lam. 3:62 The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.
Lam. 3:63 Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their musick.
Lam. 3:64 Render unto them a recompence, O LORD, according to the work of their hands.
Lam. 3:65 Give them sorrow of heart, thy curse unto them.
Lam. 3:66 Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD.
But then I also remembered another small passage; Neh. 8:10″……. neither be ye sorry; for the joy of the LORD is your strength.” so I figure that since the joy of the LORD is my strength, I have nothing to worry about…..so I won’t go beyond making sure that I continue to pray and of course “keep my powder dry”.
43 old1 // Mar 8, 2009 at 6:40 pm
Stem cells only from the Rich??? Well at least BO isn’t going to try to take OUR tax $$$ and pay to have poor, old, stupid, unemployed, worthless, democrats, that don’t pay taxes, healed by all the new procedures that stem cell research will provide to prolong our lives. With this new technology we just might live long enough to see America get back to the great country it was before we started down that evil road that lead to socialism. Just maybe, this is the new way survival of the fittest actually gets to play out.
44 Godfrey // Mar 8, 2009 at 8:10 pm
Hello Scrapplers. I just thought I’d stop by and share an insightful piece by David Frum on the future of the Republican Party… if it is to have one.
45 MajorDomo // Mar 8, 2009 at 8:37 pm
Obummer partying while the nation crumbles?
Say, isn’t that like Nero fiddling while Rome burns? I read somewhere that Nero was a total incompetent jerk.
46 Darthmeister // Mar 8, 2009 at 9:46 pm
The Obama Iraq drawdown scam.
Of course the national socialist media is complicit in this scam by not pointing it out to the general public these deployment machinations.
At least some honest Obamatons are expressing their outrage at Obama’s broken promise to completely withdraw all American forces from Iraq 18 months after becoming CiC … and impossibility when Mr. Obama has already announced he would be leaving 50,000 American troops in Iraq despite the fact the utter defeat of Saddam’s regime occurred in 2003 and international jihadists posing as Iraqi insurgents were eventually decimated during the Bush Administration by early 2008.
47 onlineanalyst // Mar 8, 2009 at 11:24 pm
Hi, Godfrey.
FWIW Frum doesn’t play well with the base of conservatives. The “Ace of Spades” link within is worth a peek.
When the Republican tent is too big or veers too much into Democrat-lite, it loses.
Most people who never tune in to Limbaugh in any sustained way, people like Frum, have accepted the MSM’s caricature.
48 old1 // Mar 8, 2009 at 11:58 pm
We have to be honest one day and soon! The Communist Party is alive and well in America today. They hide under the title Democrat. The real Democrats call themselves Republicans so they do not appear as Communists. As for the old Republicans, well it’s sad to say, but either they’re all dead or are afraid to open their mouths. If there are any True Republicans alive out there, Please start to speak up! We had it better when we served under the British Flag. Now we have a Brit as President. A tax on tea was nothing to what we live under today. Light a lamp and put it in the window, they’re coming by land this time. In fact they are already here!
49 Laughing@You // Mar 9, 2009 at 12:37 am
old1,
“Now we have a Brit as President.”
OK, bean brain, I have to ask: Are you saying President Obama was born a British subject?
“We had it better when we served under the British Flag.”
Have you ever served under the any flag?
How many foreign mercenaries are now quartered in you home?
I doubt you know anything about the American Revolution.
“We have to be honest one day and soon!”
I’ll have to agree with you there. Let’s start with you!
Laughing@You
50 R.A.M. // Mar 9, 2009 at 12:47 am
Godfrey, I was watching my third movie in the “Left Behind” series about the people “left” after the Rapture, (sorry, I know you are not a big “God person”,—and actually, I am NOT really sorry either), when it dawned on me, the ones “left” behind, will probably be mostly “lefties”! So much for the future of your party, (not to be confused with Obama’s “parties”).
Maybe the title, “Left Behind”, was meant to have the dual meaning? I hope they were not talking about Hillary’s suddenly expanding posterior!
51 mig // Mar 9, 2009 at 5:36 am
Newsweek is not a source I would count on for solid information on Republicans. It’s just more rhetoric to make republicans feel like there is no hope unless you become an Obama lover.
Obama is talking down the economy so when it rights itself he can say see how good I am, have faith in me. Don’t doubt me. And everyone will fall all over themselves in adulation all over again. Orgyfest.
The real winner in this is Soros. He is gobbling up wallstreet.
I would rather listen to Rush then rush to listen to Obama. Obama makes my ears bleed.
cc $10-million unite = obama lottery?
52 JamesonLewis3rd // Mar 9, 2009 at 8:48 am
~~George Bowling, protagonist of Coming Up for Air (1939) by George Orwell
53 Laughing@You // Mar 9, 2009 at 8:57 am
“Newsweek is not a source I would count on for solid information on Republicans.”
Of course not! Real Repugs have much better sources, like Drudge, and Rush!
“The real winner in this is Soros. He is gobbling up wallstreet.”
Say mig, since you seem to have the inside scoop on what Soros is doing, it would be great if you could let all your friends in on exactly which stocks he’s buying. Or, is it Wall Street Real Estate? I’d like to follow his lead before the market recovers.
Where do you get your inside info? If it turns out to be correct, your Ring-Wing Fish Wrappers, or electronic pulses, may be worth something more after all.
Or, is this just your “pastime”, as in Berne’s GAMES PEOPLE PLAY?
“Ain’t it awful?”
Laughing@You
54 Laughing@You // Mar 9, 2009 at 9:11 am
“Maybe the title, “Left Behind”, was meant to have the dual meaning? I hope they were not talking about Hillary’s suddenly expanding posterior!”
Yeah, or your ever decreasing mental capacity!
You do know the “Left Behind” series is fiction, don’t you?
Nicholi Carpathia certainly has made Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins a whole lot of money, hasn’t he?
Laughing@You
55 Newsman // Mar 9, 2009 at 9:11 am
Hey darthboy !
“international jihadists posing as Iraqi insurgents were eventually decimated during the Bush Administration by early 2008.”
These people you refer to as ‘decimated by Bush’ still seem to be racking up the large numbers in Iraq.
56 Darthmeister // Mar 9, 2009 at 10:05 am
Newsman, during the Bush administration jihadists have indeed been beaten to a bloody pulp, but like a dying venomous snake the overall radical Islamic organizations are still dangerous. The fact remains, the only good jihadist is a dead jihadist and a dead jihadist can never commit another act of terrorism.
Bush and General Petraeus had each made it abundantly clear that even though the capabilities of jihadists have been severely degraded and tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands have been killed, given their death-dealing mission in life they are still dangerous nutbags that must be firmly dealt with on the urban battlefield.
However, thank you very much for finally admitting that it is radical Muslims who are “racking up large numbers (of civilians) in Iraq” and not Bush or American soldiers who are indiscriminately killing civilians … the evil imperialists that you people have made us out to be.
Remember, deara troll, it has been your side of the aisle that has unfairly accused Bush the last five or six years of being responsible for the civilian deaths “racked up” by Muslim terrorists of every stripe in Iraq and Afghanistan. It’s also worth noting the double-standard your side of the aisle constantly engages in since you and others of your ilk have remained mute about the Iraqi civilian deaths and the deaths of American soldiers during the Obama Administration. Hmmmmmm.
Obama: The Great Pretender
But don’t expect Obamatons to hold Mr. Obama accountable for either his promises, his increasingly socialist remedies or his failures … IT’S ALL BUSH’S FAULT!
Yeah, right.
57 boberinyetagain // Mar 9, 2009 at 10:34 am
Now Hank, even you realize that the oh so sucessful “surge” was in reality a surge of cash. The troops were needed to haul that cash around and distribute it. It was when we finally discovered that it was easier to pay the “enemy” than it was to fight them. Were we to cease paying we’d be attacked with renewed vigor. But, if the cash can last until most of the troops leave it’ll be mostly good…
58 boberinyetagain // Mar 9, 2009 at 10:41 am
And, once we leave the payments can be turned over to Exxon…
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE52812L20090309
and they can just add it to the price of our fuel. Perfect!
59 boberinyetagain // Mar 9, 2009 at 10:49 am
A fresh round of rebuilding spurred by the U.S. military’s recent alliance with some Anbar tribes — 200 new projects are scheduled — provides another opportunity for militant groups such as al Qaeda in Iraq to siphon off more U.S. money, contractors and politicians warn.
“Now we’re back to the same old story in Anbar. The Americans are handing out contracts and jobs to terrorists, bandits and gangsters,” said Sheik Ali Hatem Ali Suleiman, the deputy leader of the Dulaim, the largest and most powerful tribe in Anbar. He was involved in several U.S. rebuilding contracts in the early days of the war, but is now a harsh critic of the U.S. presence.
“Every contractor in Anbar who works for the U.S. military and survives for more than a month is paying the insurgency,” the politician said, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter. “The contracts are inflated, all of them. The insurgents get half.”
As of July, the U.S. government had completed 3,300 projects in Anbar with a total value of $363 million, the U.S. embassy said. Another 250 projects with a total price tag of $353 million are under way.
Saleh, the deputy prime minister, said dealing with such huge amounts of money in such a volatile place means corruption is inevitable and that some projects cost far more than they should. But despite qualms, he believes the effort is worth it.
60 boberinyetagain // Mar 9, 2009 at 10:52 am
“If I do it in the Green Zone, it’s just putting gravel in Hesco bags and it would be about $16,000,” the contractor said. “But they needed it for Ramadi and Fallujah. I submitted an invoice for $120,000 and I’d say about $100,000 of that went to the mujahideen,” as Iraqis sometimes call Sunni insurgents.
61 Laughing@You // Mar 9, 2009 at 10:55 am
“Remember, deara troll, it has been your side of the aisle that has unfairly accused Bush the last five or six years of being responsible for the civilian deaths “racked up” by Muslim terrorists of every stripe in Iraq and Afghanistan. It’s also worth noting the double-standard your side of the aisle constantly engages in since you and others of your ilk have remained mute about the Iraqi civilian deaths and the deaths of American soldiers during the Obama Administration. Hmmmmmm.”
Assuming, FOR THE MOMENT, what you say is true. There remains a fundamental difference between Bush and Obama.
Obama is now dealing with a situation much different than it was before DUMBYAH STUPIDLY DECIDED to invade Iraq, and immeasurably enrich the military industrial complex, and big oil interests!
It IS all Bush’s fault, and YOURS!!!!
But, crazy as you are, I think even you are much smarter the Dumbyah!
If Obama had done the same things Bush has done, I would think of him as I know think of Dumbyah.
You don’t defend Bush as he is, you defend what is your lying representation of his evil.
Why don’t you just leave “The Troops” out of it until you get “some skin in the game”?
Laughing@You
62 Newsman // Mar 9, 2009 at 11:03 am
Aside from Iraq never being a credible threat to the Continental United States, below is the major reason we should never have invaded Iraq in the first place ….
“Afghanistan, where an already-raging jihadist insurgency — consisting of Afghan and Pakistani Taliban, al Qaeda and various other radical Islamist groups — is intensifying. These jihadist fighters have used the time that the United States has spent absorbed in the war in Iraq to hone their skills on the battlefield and develop a more centralized command structure that has enabled them to hold large swaths of territory and launch complex and coordinated attacks against primarily Afghan and coalition targets.”
It might be noted that we have Nuclear subs armed with atomic weapons stationed at various places in the world’s oceans that can instantly easily wipe out any threat to the US from any location on our planet with the press of a button.
63 RedPepper // Mar 9, 2009 at 4:44 pm
Newsman #62: “It might be noted that we have Nuclear subs armed with atomic weapons stationed at various places in the world’s oceans that can instantly easily wipe out any threat to the US from any location on our planet with the press of a button.”
Sounds like a plan, Newsman. Does that mean we should have nuked Afghanistan after 9/11? Or that perhaps we should do Waziristan (if you think that is Osama’s current hiding place) now? Who should we plan on incinerating after the first successful terrorist nuclear attack on one of our cities? Just askin’ …
64 gafisher // Mar 9, 2009 at 5:29 pm
Re#62: Atomic weapons were developed and deployed by a far different breed of Democrats than we have today. No Republican has ever ordered nukes to be fired in anger, of course.
65 mindknumbed kid // Mar 9, 2009 at 5:29 pm
So many new words posted today, so little to read…
66 mindknumbed kid // Mar 9, 2009 at 6:20 pm
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67 Newsman // Mar 9, 2009 at 8:32 pm
Read the entire message RedPepper ! Don’t evade the issue of invading Iraq for no valid military reason, i.e., it was not a valid threat to the US.
68 Newsman // Mar 9, 2009 at 8:39 pm
Hey laughin up .. “Remember, deara troll, it has been your side of the aisle that has unfairly accused Bush the last five or six years of being responsible for the civilian deaths ?racked up? by Muslim terrorists of every stripe in Iraq and Afghanistan.”
What Bush did was to create a first class live training site for jihadists to practice their killing skills in Iraq. Imagine that, we paid for a jihadist live training facility to hone their skills at killing American Soldiers and others.
69 Laughing@You // Mar 9, 2009 at 9:30 pm
Newsman,
Is it just me, or do some here make the Taliban seem open minded?
Poor Hank wants to be a Mullah so bad, but he has issued so many fatw?s nobody pays attention anymore.
Hang in there,
L@Y
70 old1 // Mar 9, 2009 at 11:33 pm
Newsman??? you 12? Anytime a group of people have a religious sect that wants you dead, your country dead, your family dead. They are a threat! You know - there nothing wrong with being paranoid if there really is someone or something trying to get you. They call that COMMON SENSE!
71 old1 // Mar 9, 2009 at 11:50 pm
L@U — Yep, BO is a Brit! His daddy was a Brit, his mother was a baby herself and to young to give little bo citizenship. So what do you think a Kenyan Brit’s son would be, but a Brit also.
72 Laughing@You // Mar 10, 2009 at 12:14 am
“You know - there nothing wrong with being paranoid if there really is someone or something trying to get you.”
There’s always something wrong with being paranoid! You can protect yourself without loosing your mind trying!
If you can’t, maybe you should surrender your CCW license. Tell your friends, won’t you?
What do you think we should we do about “The Brit”?
If I were you, I’d call Rush and wait for his fatwa! If you finally loose it all to your paranoia, we Democrats, will be there with a straight jacket for you.
L@Y
73 old1 // Mar 10, 2009 at 1:34 am
L@Y - Deport him! He’s an Illegal Alien. Get the other 20 million while we’re at it. Then the real Americans can win an election.
74 mig // Mar 10, 2009 at 8:00 am
Scrolling again… alot of troll droppings, stepping gingerly.
Axelrod is quoted in the NYTimes saying “I get to see him when I need to see him,”. Who’s running things? Obama is the puppet to Axelrods’ strings. HAH. Guess the comparison of Obama to a chimp isn’t very far off. Also heard that Zoo Chimps will store rocks to chuck at visitors that ‘crossover’ to the wrong side of the moat. Heh Heh. Better warn those Democrats that don’t agree with Pelosi/Reid/Obama and in that order that they are gathering rocks…
75 mig // Mar 10, 2009 at 8:21 am
Opening the unusual presidential call to reporters by saying that there was “just one thing I was thinking about as I was getting on the copter,” he said it wasn’t he who started the federal government’s intervention into the nation’s financial system.
Absolutely correct. It wasn’t Obama - it was the Democrats in Congress, whose three-decade long manipulation of the housing sector resulted in the collapse of the mortgage market last autumn, creating an opportunity for the federal government to take over the nation’s banking system. Manly Rash
RUS ( typed on Obama’s balckberry, translation: Are You A Socialist)
Loving it OLA! Getting it Right ;~)
76 Newsman // Mar 10, 2009 at 9:06 am
Old1 - before Bush invaded Iraq, the crazy muslim jihadists were in Afghanistan not Iraq.
77 old1 // Mar 10, 2009 at 9:59 am
Newsman, Before Iraq over 1/2 of our “GREEN- untested” military was fag or lesbian. Iraq was “on job training” Weeded out the forces. Something we can’t do in our current political climate at home. Now we have one of the best trained & equipped fighting forces on the planet. Ready to go kick Iran ASS! Maybe N.Korea too. Only way we survive is to conquer Evil, kill those that would harm us, plant our Flag, and Nationalize the oil. We now have the MEN to do it! Now if we can just get an American President, we are good to go.
78 Laughing@You // Mar 10, 2009 at 10:42 am
“L@Y - Deport him! He?s an Illegal Alien.”
That has already been adjudicated! I guess either Drudge hasn’t gotten around to reporting it yet, or you are in denial.
He is a native born son of the United States!
“Then the real Americans can win an election.”
Naw, the creeps you call “real Americans” don’t win elections, they steal them!
L@Y
79 Laughing@You // Mar 10, 2009 at 10:47 am
“Ready to go kick Iran ASS!”
And you are all for having somebody else do it!
Did you serve in the military?
L@Y
80 Fred Sinclair // Mar 10, 2009 at 1:21 pm
Human Events”: Excerpt from Pat Buchanan
Why did LBJ fail? He overloaded the circuits. He tried to do it all. He misread a national desire for continuity after Kennedy’s death as a mandate for a lunge to the left and a great leap forward with the largest expansion of government since the New Deal.
By the winter of 1968, Lyndon Johnson was a broken president.
History never repeats itself exactly. But Barack Obama is making the same mistakes today that LBJ made in 1965.
***Paraphrase from someone who sounds a lot like a troll wannabe. Aside from the home invaders currently in my next door neighbors house never being a credible threat to me and my home, below is the major reason I should never have gone to my neighbors aid in the first place …… by the time the home invaders finish with his wife and daughter and murdering everyone over there, they’ll be sure and not bother my home since they will be grateful that I didn’t interfere.
or….or of course I could use my brains and realize that when they’re finished over there…..I’m next!
As a survivalist it’s in my best interest to take steps to bring the home invaders program to as an abrupt a halt as possible, using whatever means as may be necessary. (I think the County has a burial fund to cover this)
81 Fred Sinclair // Mar 10, 2009 at 2:09 pm
The usurper (aka “He who lives rent free in Government Housing”) says he wants to reach out to the “moderate” element of the Taliban.
Rush says that a “moderate” member of the Taliban is someone who promises that he will only saw your head off - “halfway”.
I think a moderate Taliban member is an oxymoron….sort of like a “Christian Democrat” (the ultimate oxymoron).
Taliban |?tali?ban|
ORIGIN from Pashto or Dari, from Persian, literally ‘students, seekers of knowledge.’
82 Laughing@You // Mar 10, 2009 at 2:18 pm
“Americans didn’t vote for a Rush to failure”
“Hope and change cannot be Rush’d”
“We can fix America, just don’t Rush it”
“Rush: Say yes to America”
“Failure is not an option for America’s future”
L@Y
83 Fred Sinclair // Mar 10, 2009 at 3:48 pm
I just contacted the DNC regarding their proposed billboard in Rush Limbaugh’s arena. The photos of the possible billboards are all printed in CAPS so instead of Rush it will read RUSH.
My comment per their request…..
Since my entry for the Rush Limbaugh billboard was not chosen I can’t WIN one of the Tee Shirts…but of the five picked I like the “Americans didn’t vote for a Rush to failure”. Is there any way I can BUY a Tee with that slogan. I’ll pay up to $20 but not over $25. Thanking you in advance for your consideration. - Fred
Reading on the picture of the billboard on the Tee will be - “AMERICANS DIDN’T VOTE FOR A RUSH TO FAILURE” I figure that with a broad felt-tip marker some truth can update the slogan so it will read……..
AMERICANS DIDN’T VOTE FOR A RUSH TO FAILURE BUT DADGUMMIT THAT’S EXACTLY WHAT WE GOT!! (STARTING WITH THE INSANE RUSH ON THE USURPER’S “PORKULUS” BILL - the maggots are gagging)
Now that’s a Tee I’ll be happy to wear. btw has anybody ever seen a happy liberal? Gone the way of the dodo bird I suspect. Today they’re mainly sourpuss dotterels whining about, lost in their dotage, some even cluttering up ScrappleFace with their mean, empty rhetoric.
For the benefit of those from Rio Linda: rhetoric |?ret?rik|
noun
the art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing, esp. the use of figures of speech and other compositional techniques.
• language designed to have a persuasive or impressive effect on its audience, but is often regarded as lacking in sincerity or meaningful content.
I have a good friend (retired police officer) who loves sports - sports of all kinds; whether its playing ‘catch’ in the backyard with his son to the seemingly endless “tailgate parties” (his 2nd favorite) but his #1 over and above all others is what he calls “muddin” - he lives in St. Pete, FL so he does this muddin thing all year long. After every good rainfall he takes his old Ford Bronco and heads for the back country dirt roads. Later,he complains, “No matter what, I always end up getting stuck.” To which I replied, “Duh”
So, since it’s obviously much fun, I think I’m going back to “muddin” through the troll droppings here on ScrappleFace. The downside of course is that even repeated long showers won’t completely wash away the maggot infested garbage they smear as they mindlessly tromp amid the sacred pages of Scott’s masterwork. btwa I think it was yesterday that Rush had a lot of raves about Scott and ScrappleFace. He reads it and perhaps one day we’ll have a comment posted by El Rushbo? Maybe he’ll use “Last man standing” as his moniker? I look forward to it.
84 Fred Sinclair // Mar 10, 2009 at 8:41 pm
GOT TEA? ~ A quietly loud statement by Americans for just a few pennies.
Put a tea bag in an envelope.
Send it to:1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Washington , D.C. 20500 ..
mail it out on April 1. 2009
forward this info along
A NEW AMERICAN TEA PARTY is BREWING…. “GOT TEA?”
On April Fool’s Day - April 1. 2009 My tea bag will be in the mail. I’m preparing mine now and in the event I’m no longer here, a friend will post it for me. I will write “POSTMASTER: PLEASE HAND CANCEL - THANK YOU” (so the tea bag won’t jam their automated canceling and sorting machines.)
Since no one can guarantee they will still be here, I think it’s a good idea for everybody. James 4:14 Yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow. You are just a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes away.
James 4:15 Instead, you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and also do this or that.”
85 Fred Sinclair // Mar 10, 2009 at 9:30 pm
This is funny (at least I laughed) her last comment is priceless.
Excerpt from Itzkoff/Ann Coulter interview.
Itzkoff: Many thanks, in advance, for taking these questions — let alone opening an email from the New York Times.
Coulter: I’ll have you know, I am the Treason Times most loyal reader. I was hoping your email was a discount subscription offer.
After a few more knocks on Bill Maher’s new talk show and the readers of the leftist blog DailyKos, the interview concluded:
Itzkoff: Do you consider yourself as speaking for the conservative movement, or just someone who has attracted many conservative fans? Something else?
Coulter: I think I speak for all Americans who think newspaper editors who print the details of top-secret anti-terrorist intelligence gathering programs on page one in wartime should be executed for treason.
86 old1 // Mar 10, 2009 at 11:38 pm
L@Y , you don’t give up! Why do you want to destroy America?! I can see some intelligence in your thoughts - BUT, you confuse me with your switching of sides. WE ARE AT WAR! with the Commie Media, with the American Communist Party, BO’s socialist (Marxist) policies. a media that is so biased that one of the most effective Presidents of the 21 century is ridiculed for fighting a evil group of people who should be hung and quartered by the worlds population. What is it that “you” think will save “our” America?
87 Fred Sinclair // Mar 11, 2009 at 9:39 am
Interesting post in “comments” with article on the Alabama psycho and his shooting spree - 12 dead including shooter.
“Pardon me, Bub…. But crimes involving guns are impossible in Chicago and DC. The gun control ban was designed to end gun related violence. Guns are not allowed to be possessed by law abiding citizens. Problem solved. No arguments or presentation of fact is allowed. We’re in the age of Obama. Failure of bone-headed policy is not possible because scrutiny is banned as well. It’s sorta like that new math. Logic and reason are considered traditional or conservative which soon will be banned also.
So watch that sarcasm Bub…. Big brother you know.:
88 mig // Mar 11, 2009 at 2:04 pm
Obama gets an F from MSNBC Viewers despite Chris Matthews adulation. Huh. Who knew?
Thanks K for sharing…
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