Interesting Items Alex Gimarc <[email protected]> Monday, 14 September 2009 Howdy all, a few Interesting Items for your information. Enjoy - In this issue: 1. 9-11 2. You Lie 3. ACORN 4. Termites 5. Word Count
1. 9-11. We sat thru the rebroadcast of the 9-11 attacks Friday evening. The longest was on MSNBC. FNC put it all together in an hour long program later on in the evening. Neither program captured the sense of growing panic from the media as the fourth hijacked aircraft turned toward Washington DC . Most of the online commentary was personal in nature, describing feelings about this and that. There were a number of warnings that the threat is still out there – which it is. And that we can expect another attack because of the things that Our Political Masters in DC have chosen not to do. What did the 9-11 attacks do to me? I suppose the best description would be cold, focused fury at the vermin that attacked us in such a cowardly manner, and that fury extends to all who believe as they do and celebrate their successes. They, their supporters and cheerleaders have opted out of the gene pool forever. I rather like the Schwartzkopf quotation: "I believe that forgiving them [the terrorists of 9/11] is God's function. Our job is to arrange the meeting." If we have to kill them all, I am good with that and will do my part. Radical Islam (perhaps even conventional Islam, according to some) is a perversion that rewards hatred, anger, death, lying, slavery and brutality. As such, it will be removed as an acceptable way for people to behave. Afterwards, nobody will remember them, mourn their loss, or remember anything about them other than the evil of their actions and rationalizations. And we will proceed on to the next event, whatever it may be. This war is not yet over. It will be. 2. You Lie. President Obama gave a health care speech to a joint session of congress Wednesday night. The speech was precisely the sort of in your face, unapologetic pack of lies that you would expect from this president. Rep. Shimkus (R, IL) walked out near the end of the speech. A few minutes later, when Obama denied the legislation would cover illegals, Rep. Joe Wilson (R, SC) couldn’t stand it any more and yelled out “You lie!” He was immediately castigated by the State Run Media, leftists everywhere for committing truth in public. They all moved smartly into their “decorum” argument, accusing Wilson of acting boorishly and defiling the ambiance of the joint session. What a hoot. Defiling this congress? You would have to unload the contents of a thousand weeks-full stinking outhouses into the capital just to clean it up enough so its ambiance could possibly be defiled. The problem with Wilson is that he committed Truth in public, not unlike what Palin did with her “death panel” description. For his part, Wilson called the WH afterwards and apologized for breaking the decorum of congress. He pointedly did not apologize for calling Obama a liar in public. The Sorosphere responded by opening their checkbooks and Wilson ’s democrat opponent in 2010 raised an instant $750,000 in campaign donations. When word of that got out to the talk shows and online community, WIson’s campaign donations picked up nicely also, with over a million dollars reported raised by the weekend. I have not verified either dollar amount. Foolish House Republican leadership (redundant?) also started making noises about forcing Wilson to apologize to the House on the floor of the House Chamber sometime this week. They were castigated as the gutless, spineless, Beltway insiders they have become. When you tell the truth, there is no reason to apologize. Should the democrat majority in the House of Representatives want to have this discussion in public, bring it on. The final piece of this story took place at week’s end, as the senate removed portions of the health care legislation that prohibited enforcement of citizenship requirements. The legislation never specifically covered illegals. It simply did not allow any health care provider to check whether any patient was a citizen. Until late last week, democrats in both houses of congress consistently rejected every single Republican attempt to create an enforcement mechanism. Perhaps this is why the number of uninsured in Obama’s Wednesday speech changed from the mythical 47 million uninsured to a mere 30 million uninsured. 3. ACORN. ACORN is a government funded, government sponsored criminal enterprise. In yet another demonstration of independent reporters doing the job the State Sponsored Media today refuses to do, an independent filmmaker did the old 60 Minutes hidden camera routine with not one, not two but three different ACORN offices in Baltimore, Washington DC and NY. The filmmaker and a 20 year old assistant posed as a prostitute and her pimp. They were seeking and getting legal advice how to adopt underage young girls from South America , essentially getting legal advice on tax evasion in setting up a prostitution ring involving young girls. They got their legal advice from the ACORN employees – your (and my) – tax dollars at work. Andrew Breitbart broke the story by posting the videos on his web site. He rolled them out over a series of days. After the Baltimore video hit, the media reaction was that it wasn’t an aberration. So he rolled out the DC video. Once the excuses started for the DC video, he then rolled out the NY video over the weekend. FNC picked up the story late in the week. ACORN fired a pair of employees from their Baltimore office in response. And the Census announced they were not going to be using ACORN to take census data by week’s end. All in all, not a great week for the organization that the President used to work for. ACORN still stands to receive over $8 billion in stimulus and other federal monies. It is not too late to turn their money off and go after them all with a RICO investigation. 4. Termites. Joseph Smith writing in The American Thinker Thursday wrote an article entitled “Green Termites” about the WildEarth Guardians, filing a pair of petitions over the space of a month that would force listing of 681 species as endangered under the Endangered Species Act. The petitions were filed in the summer of 2007 and could lead to a judicially ordered shutdown of all development in the western US. Note what has happened in central California over the last few years with the listing of a single species – the delta smelt – as endangered. Judicially ordered protection has shut down agriculture in one of the most productive regions of the nation, as water normally used for irrigation is now impounded for the fish. Unemployment in parts of that area is over 40%. This is a single species. Imagine the damage that can be done with the listing of nearly 700 new endangered species by a very green-friendly democrat administration, congress and their judicial appointees. Clearly, this is yet another example of the Cloward – Piven strategy; which overwhelms government bureaucracy with entitlement demands. Essentially Cloward – Piven files requests, demands, legal paperwork, in such a large volume that the entire system collapses under its own weight. The greens ought to be careful with this game, as the more outrageous they get with their bureaucratic games, the closer we come to a day when the Endangered Species Act will be repealed, revised or rewritten so that those that physically increase the individual numbers of each endangered species are paid for their trouble – which will put Big Green and their lawyers out of business. 5. Word Count. Ed Morrissey in Hot Air ran Obama’s speech to the kiddies Monday through a word count analysis and came up with the following results: 56 iterations of “I” 19 iterations of “school” 10 iterations of “education” 8 iterations of “responsibility” 7 iterations of “country” 5 iterations each of “parents”, “teachers” 3 iterations of “nation” Essentially, Obama used the word “I” one less time in the speech to the kiddies than all the times he used the words “school, education, responsibility, country, parents, teachers and nation.” Commander in Chief? Perhaps. Narcissist in Chief? Very likely, and he demonstrates it every single time he opens his mouth. More later - - AG "If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen." - Samuel Adams, speech at the Philadelphia State House, August 1, 1776. 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