tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post6355039004623349267..comments2024-03-28T01:33:22.764-04:00Comments on The DiploMad 2.0: Lying in StateDiploMadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02316439950882822419noreply@blogger.comBlogger45125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-29467140427878847142013-11-06T12:35:09.318-05:002013-11-06T12:35:09.318-05:00Dip,
I am sorry to be off topic here, but have y...Dip, <br /><br />I am sorry to be off topic here, but have you seen this?<br /><br />http://pjmedia.com/michaelledeen/2013/11/05/did-you-hear-the-one-about-the-4-iranians-and-1-afghan-on-the-canadian-plane/<br /><br />I am curious to hear your take on it. <br /><br />Thanks,<br />MattMatt, the Seventh Readernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-49691961721684772862013-11-05T18:56:46.080-05:002013-11-05T18:56:46.080-05:00Hillary Rodham Clinton said it best earlier this y...Hillary Rodham Clinton said it best earlier this year about a different issue: WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE?" <br /><br />In this strange new world, what matters is what the right-minded intelligentsia think, not what is out in the real world. Global mean temperatures haven't increased since 1998 or 1999? WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE? Denying the scientific consensus is for the deranged commoners.<br /><br />Hundreds of millions of dollars of stimulus funds pissed away on uneconomical "green energy" projects run by capitalist cronies - WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE - the intentions were pure and it might have worked . . . . . . . Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-20487959916021078192013-11-05T13:42:41.319-05:002013-11-05T13:42:41.319-05:00A historical pattern does seem to be forming with ...A historical pattern does seem to be forming with this man, his ideology and his pathology. The traditional Leftist- by any means necessary- is at play. I believe at long last, with his brazenness, the totalitarian head of "The Progressive Snake" is fully out of the hole. They have no direction left to them but farther Left. More snake comes into view. No need to be kind.whitewallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03469746790747742992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-12500640429463762892013-11-05T13:19:17.214-05:002013-11-05T13:19:17.214-05:00Noted and appreciated -- BeckyC and Sowell. I was...Noted and appreciated -- BeckyC and Sowell. I was thinking more in line with the fact that this President's lying is indeed different than the long line of Presidential "lies". And when I couple the deliberate withholding of information and the outright lies and the revelation of such things as the IRS harrassment of conservative groups and the probable effect on elections, as with Obamacare directly on citizen's lives, Obama's lies seem to leap to the head of the class. And are truly most concerning. As kind as I can be at the moment and in public about Obama's lies.<br /><br /><br />pmcAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-63952314681825879572013-11-05T13:15:53.249-05:002013-11-05T13:15:53.249-05:00A good name to start withA good name to start withwhitewallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03469746790747742992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-36398137345758411662013-11-05T12:46:48.623-05:002013-11-05T12:46:48.623-05:00Don't know yet. But might start with Scott Wa...Don't know yet. But might start with Scott Walker.<br /><br /><br />pmcAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-46063167264573850322013-11-05T12:03:06.344-05:002013-11-05T12:03:06.344-05:00And now obama is saying he didn't really say t...And now obama is saying he didn't really say that. We must not have listened.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-25695653732601592562013-11-05T11:54:44.144-05:002013-11-05T11:54:44.144-05:00Yeah, but a Veep hardly can make a peep
Unless it...Yeah, but a Veep hardly can make a peep<br /><br />Unless it's a Joe who can er, rhyme or something.<br /><br />Alternatives? <br /><br />ArkAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-57371385052338784932013-11-05T11:19:37.884-05:002013-11-05T11:19:37.884-05:00Kelly Ayotte, frequently seen in the middle proppi...Kelly Ayotte, frequently seen in the middle propping up McCain and Graham, was one of seven Republicans to vote for ENDA.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />pmcAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-4513913869937155162013-11-05T10:25:06.713-05:002013-11-05T10:25:06.713-05:00It truly is the end result of the Gramsian march b...It truly is the end result of the Gramsian march but like western Europe, those institutions are now rotting are being seen for their corruption. On American college campuses, sky high tuition is being rejected as a bad deal. Lack of use is one way to defund Gramsian inflicted abuse. Same with our media who have been shown for groveling heel hounds of this president and his party. This blame casting stuff is reaching its limit as the blamers can't undo the financial and now health damage they have done. The Left always has a head start and they always seize those institutions but gradually they reveal themselves. Gollum may get his ring but he won't keep it.whitewallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03469746790747742992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-10914603088091606292013-11-05T10:02:13.040-05:002013-11-05T10:02:13.040-05:00See BeckyC, supra, quoting Sowell.
Shorter versio...See BeckyC, supra, quoting Sowell.<br /><br />Shorter version: Well, when would you expect him to lie, if not when it does him the most good?<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-44018754748435078342013-11-05T09:58:42.604-05:002013-11-05T09:58:42.604-05:00Math may be the end to the death spiral, but (alas...Math may be the end to the death spiral, but (alas) don't expect it to be an equalizer. A few of us will come out of it fine; most will be impoverished or destitute. Not unlike Germany in 1933. I hope we then choose less unwisely.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-65232651383590541082013-11-05T09:52:04.444-05:002013-11-05T09:52:04.444-05:00I don't know that the Constitution has failed ...I don't know that the Constitution has failed this people. The Supreme Court simply stopped enforcing it, one provision by one.<br /><br />There are still a few provisions left safe--nobody fears that Obama will cancel elections and become President For Life. But neither am I talking about minor infringements.<br /><br />Here's just one. The major point to Article I is that rules and regulations that citizens must obey are hard to make, in a certain specific way: they must command the consent of the governed, through their representatives. Allowing the Congress to delegate its rule-making power to a board or to the president is almost entirely a transparent dodge of Article I--and a successful one. Thank you, Supreme Court.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-6883277646987098982013-11-05T09:01:15.072-05:002013-11-05T09:01:15.072-05:00Arkie...Big AG is some of the worst "corporat...Arkie...Big AG is some of the worst "corporate welfare" going today. My state of NC ranks somewhere on the handout list but since government killed the tobacco industry, we have slipped a bit I'm sure. I have read some hedge fund managers ideas and one often repeated is "buy some farmland and work it if you can or lease it out if not. Put investment $$$ in something that can hold some value is what they mean. Rapidly devaluing paper is not investment. I would have to lease out farmland as I am much too handsome -- and old-- to work it. How about you?whitewallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03469746790747742992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-43696340376581201202013-11-05T08:49:52.295-05:002013-11-05T08:49:52.295-05:00a6z.."There is always available money". ...a6z.."There is always available money". At that point we are no longer dealing with "money". We would be using the more accurate term "currency". Someone mentioned the Weimar period in Germany already where the Bundesbank issued paper so fast that they didn't even bother to print anything on the back side. Long before this though, the Dollar will have ceased being the world's reserve currency. We are already easing into that circumstance now. But like you said, this won't end well and that's true. No debt funded expansion has ever ended well. But it will end. whitewallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03469746790747742992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-31705619746082039632013-11-05T08:37:31.758-05:002013-11-05T08:37:31.758-05:00a6z.....I have subdivided the farm.....a6z.....I have subdivided the farm.....whitewallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03469746790747742992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-90069621592204103172013-11-05T07:20:57.908-05:002013-11-05T07:20:57.908-05:00I agree the US folks should not take being treated...I agree the US folks should not take being treated with contempt but the Dems have been doing it for so long I wonder if the folks notice. The man (and woman) in the street often doesn't know that Obamacare and the ACA are the same thing. <br /><br />The narrative the Democratss are already putting out and that is repeated in the press is that the Republicans and the TEA party are responsible for the 'troubles' because they did not support the implementation. And of course any cancelled insurance policies are because they were inferior policies by bad apple companies. <br /><br />I fear this is the result of the Gramsian march through the institutions, especially education. The general population is getting, if not dumber, at least has been indoctrinated. venghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12869041908624977478noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-46334361476694606362013-11-05T06:26:11.521-05:002013-11-05T06:26:11.521-05:00My own county's USDA stuff - and though we con...My own county's USDA stuff - <i>and though we conservatives are in agreement incentivizing the less fortunate to do more, <br /><br />It might do us as well to see ourselves on the same government teat</i><br /><br />(admitting I don't know how all ya'lls Counties stack up. However, <i>we conservatives MUST get our shit together pretty damn quick or we're about to get ... well, "How does one open a bottle of wine in a dry county?" is what I mean)<br /><br />I do know how AG works - here's my county:</i><br /><br />http://farm.ewg.org/region.php?fips=05049<br /><br /><strong>Hey Arkie! Might you not chickenshit out putting all us "druther not stick my/our head[s] out" and give your own druther?</strong><br /><br />Well as it happens I will. Mainly 'cause somebody's got to start it.<br /><br />Rand Paul head of the ticket and Kelly Ayotte VP.<br /><br />(Yes yes I realize .... "we" are scared of Paul 'cause we're worried he might draw back on foreign policy." ---- Well I say/ask, how could he draw back further?)<br /><br />And really, it wouldn't hurt us much to be smarter about it. Plus given our plainly given demographic shift - since this next time (racist me) we're less likely to have a large African-American turnout and we know we're gonna have to capture the young - and more difficult, we're gonna have to fight not only the RINO's but we're gonna have to come to some accommodation with our Evangelical Wing.<br /><br />Paul is from a "border state" and though some of us have problems with his "outward view" ... given our present situation I can only see a smarter-run policy. Kelly has a strong record (in New Hampshire at that) of fighting Planned Parenthood - and that's enough for a VP candidate.<br /><br />There's a bunch of Independents out there (I'm one myself & though I really hated voting for Romney ... & Paul Ryan couldn't even win his own state ... well - he's married to a long-term Democratic David Boren's daughter <br /><br />and since we are plainly NOT "low information voters" we all understand why Paul Ryan didn't win his state:<br /><br />http://dailybail.com/home/busted-watch-tarp-republican-paul-ryan-begging-congress-to-v.html<br /><br />Yes yes I know you search that vid and the first thing you see is Barney Frank but the very next thing you hear is <strong>Paul Ryan to Nancy Pelosi - <i>Madame Speaker! This so offends my principals that I'm gonna vote for it to --- preserve my principles!</i></strong><br /><br />And so we've second term Barack. <br /><br />Madame Speaker! <br /><br />Diplomad typed <strong><i>Ill-conceived</i></strong> above.<br /><br />I disagree. & Diplomad was wrong.<br /><br />It was very well-conceived.<br /><br />Arkie<br /><br /><br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-80661985909837392102013-11-05T03:23:00.395-05:002013-11-05T03:23:00.395-05:00Whitewall?
I'm in regular touch with my "...Whitewall?<br /><br />I'm in regular touch with my "regular" Congressman - he's "in touch" with oh ... [mind, I've been in touch with my "regular Congressman I'm not minding he take out the "moochers" ] ... but, at least in my state ... and Dip's hit taking out the USDA too<br /><br />Sure. Take out the food stamp folk but where the BIG MONEY is - is BIG AG. I don't know where your state Whitewall stands but where I'm from, that'd be the Arkansas Delta.<br /><br />Riceland Rice for instance receives annually $12.15M whereas the EBT folk get $1.95M - that's Arkansas <i>EBT Statewide</i><br /><br />Whereas <strong>Chickenopolis ie Tyson's hires a bunch of illegals gets from USDA $635M/year and the locals who used to have jobs there are now on EBT. Or worse.</strong> Of course those folk are white so whether they count much as not ... <br /><br />And, if ya'll remember Dip called for abolishing out of hand [among others] USDA - which I agree with, .... in my state of Arkansas, the largest expenditures USDA makes has nothing whatsoever to do with Agriculture<br /><br /><strong>Fulton County Arkansas 2012 received $2.42M from USDA - $2.3M went to constructing a jail. EBT expenditure was $83.2K and the rest went to "various" farm programs - we, other than Dairy ... well, suffice to say except for "MAYBE" $10K growing marijuana (which I doubt USDA granted anything) </strong><br /><br />Well: Here's the appropriate link, ya'll look to see (if your USDA Recipients) where the money is actually going. <br /><br />(There's a guy in my own County received over $2M last year - I hope he didn't vote though since he died in 1998!)<br /><br />http://farm.ewg.org/<br /><br />ArkieAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-39465590347939556812013-11-05T03:10:15.814-05:002013-11-05T03:10:15.814-05:00We experienced a very similar circumstance in Aust...We experienced a very similar circumstance in Australia. Prior to the 2010 Federal election, the then Labor Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, expressly promised that if re-elected a tax on carbon emissions would not be introduced. Labor scraped back by forming a minority government in an alliance with the Greens, and promptly did the opposite. Fast forward to 2013 and we have new conservative Federal government; Labor were literally slaughtered at the ballot box. You won't hear on the publicly funded ABC, or read it in the Fairfax press, but the simple truth is that the outright lie over the carbon tax and subsequent breach of faith with the electorate was a significant cause of the the election result. Of course there were others, including the pervasive dishonesty of the Labor politicians on so many issues, and a breathtaking incompetence that could no longer be concealed; but if you talk to people in the street, many will tell you just how much they hated the lie concerning the carbon tax. It really was just too much for most people; the lie was too blatant, and it directly and adversely affected just about everyone.<br /><br />So take heart my American friends. Labor in Australia really thought that they could treat the electorate with utter contempt, and that we would take it. We didn't, and neither should you.Brettnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-66296904260205844852013-11-05T00:42:38.954-05:002013-11-05T00:42:38.954-05:00There is always available money. They can print it...There is always available money. They can print it. They are printing it. They will print more of it. This won't end well.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-59110600008662687592013-11-05T00:16:32.189-05:002013-11-05T00:16:32.189-05:00Don't bet the farm.Don't bet the farm.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-33385936390012487452013-11-05T00:16:06.426-05:002013-11-05T00:16:06.426-05:00Excuse me while I take just a small measure of she...Excuse me while I take just a small measure of sheer pleasure in watching The Won twist and turn, trying to re-phrase his previous words, as his minions hit the TV talk shows saying he didn't say what he said, he said what he meant to say had he said it correctly (yes, that is as equally confusing as their excuses for Obama's failures).<br /><br />Yes, there is pleasure in having my belief that Obama was, from the beginning, a rudderless ship in a sea of diversion and deceit, confirmed while my liberal acquaintances call and complain because their health insurance costs have doubled and tripled, at least those who haven't been cancelled, I have to smile and say "Ah, yes, well that is unfortunate, but some of us knew from the beginning that he was an inept fraud."<br /><br />Ah, the absolute pleasure I am realizing watching the leftist, in-the-tank-for-Obama media have to report on the disaster that is Obamascare. How they must grind their teeth to have to be part of the disaster reports. Odd how they do not laugh when their credibility has been laid on the line over leg tingles, only to be destroyed. <br /><br />The Tower of Babel is crumbling. <br /><br />Zane<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-45979865031482273142013-11-05T00:13:30.268-05:002013-11-05T00:13:30.268-05:00Anti-Semitism at the level of indulging old mass-J...Anti-Semitism at the level of indulging old mass-Jew-killers and new wannabe mass-Jew-killers is not a "minor flaw." It isn't a "flaw." It's an indictment.<br /><br />This is not a slippery-slope argument. This is stark evil. There are those who are prepared to recognize evil, and those who make excuses for it. Pick a side. I have picked mine.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1400985529434569506.post-42105669666480839332013-11-04T23:31:05.441-05:002013-11-04T23:31:05.441-05:00As disturbing as the lies are the timing of the li...As disturbing as the lies are the timing of the lies -- pre election. The unraveling -- post election.<br /><br /><br /><br />pmcAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com