Alan Caruba: Why Vote?

Warning Signs

 

"Every election is “the most important” for the simple reason that it has the potential of making our lives better or worse.

"What makes elections scary is that votes are cast by people who often have paid little attention to the events, issues, policies or the candidates involved. Casting a vote requires knowing something about the times in which one lives and the persons promising to make them better." ...Full Article

 

SNL Sketch Skewers Unwavering Black Support for Obama

The American Culture   "The most recent episode of NBC’s Saturday Night Live included an extraordinarily pithy and somewhat bold sketch about support for President Obama among black Americans. The sketch depicts a talk show called “How’s He Doing?” The “he” in the imaginary show’s title is President Obama, and the premise of the sketch is how he’s doing is very, very badly as president but still enjoying unwavering approval among blacks. Host Kenan Thompson opens the putative PBS show by describing it as “the show where the black voter takes a frank, honest look at President Obama and ask, ‘How’s he doing?’” In …continue reading"
 

One World Trade Center Opens in Lower Manhattan

Bloomberg News

World Trade Center Reborn: Infographic

5 Coolest Features of One World Trade Center    ... "Take a tour of One WTC with us and check out some of the coolest features from one of the most-watched construction projects in history."
5. The Bomb-proof Base  ... "The solution was elegantly simple: create a bunkerlike base that could withstand the force of a 1,500-pound (680-kilogram) truck bomb and cover it in prismatic glass that would please the eye and disguise the superstrong blast walls." ...
4. Strong, Speedy and Selective Elevators ... " iCrete also will reinforce the elevator shafts running through the center of the building like spinal columns. The concrete surrounding the shafts is 3 feet (1 meter) thick in some areas and so dense that jackhammers simply bounce off it." ...
3. The Safety Specs  ... "And what if disaster occurs? The building's state-of-the-art communications cables will alert the authorities, and occupants will move to tenant collection points on each floor and await firefighters, who will be able to reach them via a dedicated emergency-services stairwell." ....
2. The Glass Gown Outside ..." The special glass will be highly blast resistant, which only adds to the tower's strength."...
1. The Antenna ...More at the link...

 

Barack Obama Brings Out A Tiny Crowd In Philly

Independent Sentinel

 

"Philly is the city where President Obama received 100% of the vote in 59 districts in 2012. How things have changed! The Greek columns are gone and the black curtain has fallen.

"Mr. Obama campaigned in Philadelphia on Sunday but couldn’t fill a college basketball arena of rather modest size. It was half empty so they covered the empty seats with a black curtain.

"Check out the black curtain:"
 

Video: Texas Tech Students Don’t Know Who Won the American Civil War

And these people vote! Or, shall we say, the Democrats court them to vote Democrat?

College Insurrection  "This will make you want to tear your hair out.

"Not only do almost all of these students know nothing about the American Civil War, they also have no idea who is currently the Vice President of the United States.

"How can you even get into college without knowing these things?"
 

Wasserman-Schultz, DNC hire army of lawyers to challenge election results

Examiner.com

 

"The Democratic National Committee (DNC), led by its hard hitting and verbose chairwoman, Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, has hundreds of attorneys on retainer in order to fight the results of Tuesday's elections if things don't go their way, according a number of news stories on Sunday.

"Voter identification laws appear to be the primary point of contention, with Republicans supporting the law and the Democrats opposing them. The DNC continues to use its "get out the vote" tactics while making allegations that the GOP is trying to "disenfranchise" minority voters, some of whom were proven to have been bused in from other districts or even states.

" 'These verbal tactics are beginning to become shopworn and bring to mind the words attributed to the father of Communism, Karl Marx: 'Accuse other of what you do.'   If anything, it's the Republican National Committee officials who should hire a million lawyers and private detectives to launch investigations into alleged voting irregularities," said former police detective and corporate fraud investigator. " ...

HopeN'Change

Quiz for Democrats: who is this man?

Hat tip to Edward Wagner

Why Democrats must be opposed everywhere. EVERYWHERE!

Barack Bulworth Obama  ... "After all, he personalizes politics as no other politician ever has: a toxic combination of his ego and his narcissism.  He was the person who said that while he may not be on the ballot, his policies were.  Earlier in his presidency he had reassured a wavering Democratic Congressman that merely by having Obama in his corner will shield him from repercussions for voting for Obamacare (“this time you’ve got me”)

... "He will flex his power as never before, to impose his agenda on America and fulfill his promise to “fundamentally transform America.”

"What can we expect to see in the 26 more months to come in his second term?  The mind boggles.

Race and Reaction  "The Democrats have committed themselves to flushing generations of progress on race down the toilet. That is, flushing the progress whites willingly made toward perceiving and treating all persons as equals. It’s not so clear that any other groups even got the memo that equality and peaceful coexistence were the supposed goals of racial “justice”. Indeed, one now wonders if we got different memos entirely. "

The media go to extreme lengths to bury all stories that reflect poorly on Obama and his party.

 Top 10 Reasons to Vote Democrat

• #10. I vote Democrat because I love the fact that I can now marry 
whatever I want. I’ve decided to marry my German Shepherd.
• #9. I vote Democrat because I believe oil companies’ profits of 4% on a gallon of gas are obscene, but the government taxing the same gallon at 15% isn’t.
• #8. I vote Democrat because I believe the government will do a better job of spending the money I earn than I would.
• #7. I vote Democrat because Freedom of Speech is fine as long as nobody is offended by it.
• #6. I vote Democrat because I’m way too irresponsible to own a gun, and I know that my local police are all I need to protect me from murderers and thieves. I am also thankful that we have a 911 service that gets police to your home in order to identify your body after a home invasion.
• #5. I vote Democrat because I’m not concerned about millions of babies being aborted so long as we keep all death row inmates alive and comfy.
• #4. I vote Democrat because I think illegal aliens have a right to free health care, education, and Social Security benefits, and we should take away Social Security from those who paid into it.
• #3. I vote Democrat because I believe that businesses should not be allowed to make profits for themselves. They need to break even and give the rest away to the government for redistribution as the Democrat Party sees fit.
• #2. I vote Democrat because I believe liberal judges need to rewrite the Constitution every few days to suit fringe kooks who would never get their agendas past the voters.
• And, the #1 reason I vote Democrat is…….. because I think it’s better to pay $billions$ for oil to people who hate us, but not drill our own because it might upset some endangered beetle, gopher, or fish here in America. We don’t care about the beetles, gophers, or fish in those other countries.
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If you don't like Republicans, at least vote for them to cancel a Democrat vote. This will tell you why:

Obama always pointing the finger of blame at someone else  "We are witnessing the total collapse of a bad idea. Obamaism, a quasi-socialist commitment to a more powerful government at home and an abdication of American leadership around the world, is being exposed as a historic calamity. It is fueling domestic fear and global disorder and may well lead to a world war.

"If there is a smidgen of a silver lining, it is that the unraveling, complete with Obama’s shameless attempts to duck responsibility, is playing out on the eve of the midterm elections. Fortunately, voters seem ready to respond by giving Republicans control of both houses of Congress.

"I second that emotion, and not just because Obama is a failure. For all his narcissism, he didn’t make this mess alone.

"He was aided and abetted by every Democrat in Congress. They marched in lockstep with his cockamamie policies, from ObamaCare to open borders. They protected corrupt leaders in numerous federal agencies, from the IRS to the General Services Administration. They stymied efforts to find the truth about Benghazi and the Fast and Furious gunrunning debacle.

"They ceded their constitutional obligations and allowed Obama to crash the system of checks and balances. The vast majority stood silent while he gutted the military and abandoned our allies, including Israel, Egypt and Saudi Arabia, and courted Iran, the most menacing nation on Earth.

"With painfully few exceptions, Democrats put their loyalty to him above their duty to America.

"And now they must be punished. All of them." ...   (emphasis added, TD)

[Six] Years Later, Obama Again Blames Bush   ... "Now, well into his second term, Obama has become a caricature of himself. In fact, if Saturday Night Live were to do a spoof on the Blame Bush phenomenon, it would look a lot like Obama’s actual statements." ...

 

March 29, 2011: “I inherited a big debt.”
August 8, 2011: “Look, we do have a serious problem in terms of debt and deficit, and much of it I inherited when I showed up.”
February 23, 2012: “We’ve made sure to do everything we can to dig ourselves out of this incredible hole I inherited.”
March 4, 2012: “When I took office, the efforts to apply pressure on Iran were in tatters.”
March 14, 2012: “When I came into office, there had been drift in the Afghanistan strategy, in part because we had spent a lot of time focusing on Iraq instead.” And so on, and so on...