“You need someone like me in Washington,”: Romney’s curious timing in his support for abortion

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Collins Report  "During a September 2002 meeting with NARAL Pro-Choice Massachusetts Willard Romney made this implied promise, “You need someone like me in Washington.” "Both Willard and the baby killing ghouls of NARAL knew what was being discussed. He was running for Governor of Massachusetts and clearly looking past his anticipated victory to a day when he could stop pretending he cared about pro-life issues and show his true devotion to their “cause” from the White House."

And the article has this to say about Romneycare: 

"True to his promises to the abortionists in 2006 Romney passed his universal health care plan now known as Romneycare because it became the model for Obamacare. The language of the bill included increased state funds for abortions and Planned Parenthood was named as an overseer of the plan."

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Those who produce and those who don't

http://townhall.com/political-cartoons/2011/11/08/93412

Herman Cain discussed

Politico's story  Quite specific with disturbing detail. Lucky for her she didn't try this with a Democrat. Via Lucianne

Conservative Daily News  "Bialek seemed confident, well-spoken and quite put-together.  She did not carry an air of fake desperation or duplicity, but she was also rather emotionless considering she was speaking of such a disturbing event.  The press conference seems to raise more questions than answers."

The Cain Mutiny: Good Questions, Dumb Questions  "As Andrew Klavan wrote earlier today, the world is as unfair as you think it is. Clinton, Kennedy(s), John Edwards…they all get away with their activities for a time because the press covers for them. We all know this. It’s baked into today’s political reality. The press that has run thinly sourced stories against John McCain ...Ricky Perry ...and Herman Cain while covering for Democrat after Democrat is not to be assumed to be a neutral player. It isn’t fair, but that doesn’t mean conservative blogs should try to out-do the MSM at its own game. It’s immoral, and we can’t.

"A presidential candidate who is worth your time and support not only knows all this, but understands it and factors it into their campaign."

Andrew Klavan:  Why We Should Be Unfair to Herman Cain

"We're from the mainstream media and we're here to help."

"And what if a drunken Republican senator had accidentally dropped a car containing his adultery mate into the water? What if he had sauntered back to his hotel to clean up while the poor woman desperately pounded on the car window until she drowned horribly? Would conservatives have re-elected that man? Would they have declared that man “The Lion of the Senate?” The very idea makes one ill. Conservatives would have demanded his arrest and trial with a single voice."....
"And yes, it’s unfair. But there’s a reason it’s unfair—a reason it should be unfair. There’s a reason we right wingers vet our candidates while the left adulates theirs, a reason we condemn our miscreants while the left elevates theirs, a reason our news outlets cover stories that the left covers up."
"The reason is:  we’re the good guys. We have to do what’s right. The left doesn’t. Sorry, but that’s the way it works."  More... 

Is Jon Corzine “Too Big To Be Indicted”?

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Is Jon Corzine “Too Big To Be Indicted”?  "Customer funds are supposed to be sacrosanct. If Corzine and team violated the integrity of these funds which it appears they did, then I believe the fullest extent of the law should be applied. Will it?
"Let’s forget about Corzine and redirect our focus to those who made their living at the firm. How many thousands of innocent individuals and families will now suffer because of the blindness and egos of Corzine and his team?"  Larry Doyle

Corzine’s latest fall

SEALs Killed Osama Bin Laden Within Minutes, New Book Reveals

Yeshiva World News  "Pfarrer’s book reveals that the Seals’ nickname for bin Laden and his deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, were Bert and Ernie, the Courier Mail reports.
"When they were first told they were going to Pakistan to pick up a high-value person who was holed up in a high-walled compound, they asked, “So is this Bert or Ernie?” "....
"Pfarrer’s book, according to the Post, also reveals that the SEALs were angry with President Obama for announcing bin Laden’s death on TV just hours after they completed the mission on May 1."  (Emphasis sarcastically added.)

"Navy Seals speak out: How we killed 'Bert' Laden (sic - despise Dumb0 for leaking...)"  "He said the men were angry with President Barack Obama for announcing Bin Laden’s death on TV just hours after they completed the mission on May 1.
" "There isn't a politician in the world who could resist trying to take credit for getting Bin Laden but it devalued the 'intel' and gave time for every other Al-Qaeda leader to scurry to another bolthole," he said.
" "The men who did this and their valorous act deserve better. It's a pretty shabby way to treat these guys." "


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SEAL Team 6 Unhappy With Obama Taking Bows   "Bin Laden Raid Yields Intel on Ayman al-Zawahiri.  "Wouldn't it have been nice if the intelligence community had been given a week to work with this "mother lode" of information before Obama started taking bows? He just. couldn't. wait. Of course, the cockroaches scattered immediately. Amateur hour."



LA Times: Jonah Goldberg: Why the hurry to gloat about Bin Laden?  "I'm no expert on such matters — though I've talked to several about this — but even a casual World War II buff can understand that the shelf life of actionable intelligence would be extended if we hadn't told the whole world, and Al Qaeda in particular, that we had it."....

"In other words, it seems that from the get-go the White House planned to announce the news as quickly as possible. Why? Nobody I've talked to can think of a reason that doesn't have to do with politics."

Like a kid with a new toy.

Alan Caruba: Time to Rid the Streets of the "Occupy" Movement

Warning Signs  "Is there any doubt left in the minds of observers of the Occupy Wall Street movement tends toward violence and is in need of control? The mayors of the cities—some seventy at last count—that are being occupied need to crack down on it.
"Not all agree, of course. Among the list of the Occupy movement are the following organizations and individuals that have expressed support or sympathy:"
Communist Party, USA
American Nazi Party
Revolutionary Communist Party
Industrial Workers of the World
International Bolshevik Tendency
International Socialist Organization
Marxist Student Union
Freedom Road Socialist Organization
Party for Socialism and Liberation
President Barack Obama*
Vice President Joe Biden*
Former House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi*
The Revolutionary Guards of Iran
Communist Party of China
Louis Farrakhan, National of Islam
Black Panthers
(*Why is there no shame and revulsion among most Democrats at what that party has become? TD)

"Further back in history, one recalls the mobs that brought down the Weimar Republic in Germany and opened the doors to the Nazi movement. Earlier, mobs led by Bolsheviks deposed the Russian czar and imposed some seventy years of Communist control there. It is not surprising, therefore, that so many communist organizations and nations support the Occupy movement or that Wall Street is its target."

 I fully agree with Mr. Caruba and we must commit now to back our law enforcement people because every effort will be made by the left to publish videos of "police brutality" and the press will be more than accommodating. Check out this internet result for Cop Watch. Even more disturbing is this.
The Tunnel Dweller

The new radicals have a stranglehold on the message, and none more so than George Soros, who, despite his billions, fits the model of the 1930’s communist infiltrators who tried to exploit America’s racial failings, not to achieve justice, but to destabilize the government and foment revolutionary change.

Victor Davis Hanson: Occupy What?

http://conservativedailynews.com/2011/11/99-sign-of-the-times/

Victor Davis Hanson  "Occupy Wall Street follows three years of sloppy presidential name-calling — “millionaires and billionaires,” slurs about Las Vegas and the Super Bowl, profit-mad, limb-lopping doctors, introspection that now is not the time for profits and at some point we should cease making money, spread the wealth, punish our enemies, and all the old Obama boilerplate. Someone finally got the message about the evil 1%.
"When Ms. Pelosi and President Obama voice support for the protestors, we enter 1984. Does that mean that the Pelosis now pull their millions out of Wall Street, that the First Family eschews the 1% at Martha’s Vineyard and Vail? That Obama turns his back on Wall Street cash, and, for once, accepts public funding for his 2012 campaign? Postmodern class warfare is an insidious business, and hinges on its advocates not looking in the mirror."
....

"These are upside down times. The EU that was to be our model is in shambles. The supposedly white right-wing champions a Herman Cain, with deep South baritones and youthful experience with Jim Crow. Yet both are considered suspect, while a Hawaiian prep school, Ivy League graduate, with contrived black cadences, is the better representative of the African-American experience. Never have Americans’ prospects seemed brighter—vast new energy reserves, an unmatched military, disarray in Russia, the Middle East and Europe—and never have been Americans been more conditioned and readied for decline." Emphasis added.

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Conservatives need not apply

http://townhall.com/political-cartoons/2011/11/04/93311

1948 cartoon still relevant today. Maybe more so

This was sent by a fellow Marine stationed with me back in 1958 at Marine Barracks, Hawthorne, NV.
"What can a cartoon produced in 1948, teach us today, that's of any value? You'd be very surprised! Pay close attention! Keep in mind this was done in '1948'. Keep telling yourself that as you view it."

"Make Mine Freedom" From the blog The Edge by Bill Pyatt, Hawthorne, NV



Hat tip to Robert Hope, Sacramento.

Recalling Obama's own words:

Excerpts: Obama's Nomination Victory Speech In St. Paul

• "We owe our country a better future. And for all those who dream of that future tonight, I say - let us begin the work together. Let us unite in common effort to chart a new course for America."....
• "It's not change when [McCain] offers four more years of Bush economic policies that have failed to create well-paying jobs, or insure our workers, or help Americans afford the skyrocketing cost of college - policies that have lowered the real incomes of the average American family, widened the gap between Wall Street and Main Street, and left our children with a mountain of debt."....
• "Change is realizing that meeting today's threats requires not just our firepower, but the power of our diplomacy - tough, direct diplomacy where the President of the United States isn't afraid to let any petty dictator know where America stands and what we stand for. We must once again have the courage and conviction to lead the free world."....
• "Change is building an economy that rewards not just wealth, but the work and workers who created it. It's understanding that the struggles facing working families can't be solved by spending billions of dollars on more tax breaks for big corporations and wealthy CEOs, but by giving a the middle-class a tax break, and investing in our crumbling infrastructure, and transforming how we use energy, and improving our schools, and renewing our commitment to science and innovation."....
• "But what you don't deserve is another election that's governed by fear, and innuendo, and division. What you won't hear from this campaign or this party is the kind of politics that uses religion as a wedge, and patriotism as a bludgeon - that sees our opponents not as competitors to challenge, but enemies to demonize. Because we may call ourselves Democrats and Republicans, but we are Americans first. We are always Americans first. "
• "America, this is our moment. This is our time. Our time to turn the page on the policies of the past. Our time to bring new energy and new ideas to the challenges we face. Our time to offer a new direction for the country we love."....
• "...this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal;"....

The Acceptance Speech at Mile High Stadium

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• "Our government should work for us, not against us. It should help us, not hurt us. It should ensure opportunity not just for those with the most money and influence, but for every American who's willing to work."....
• "And for the sake of our economy, our security, and the future of our planet, I will set a clear goal as President: in ten years, we will finally end our dependence on oil from the Middle East."....
• "As President, I will tap our natural gas reserves, invest in clean coal technology, and find ways to safely harness nuclear power."....
• "And I'll invest 150 billion dollars over the next decade in affordable, renewable sources of energy - wind power and solar power and the next generation of biofuels; an investment that will lead to new industries and five million new jobs that pay well and can't ever be outsourced."....
• "Now is the time to finally keep the promise of affordable, accessible health care for every single American. If you have health care, my plan will lower your premiums."....
•  "But I will also go through the federal budget, line by line, eliminating programs that no longer work and making the ones we do need work better and cost less - because we cannot meet twenty-first century challenges with a twentieth century bureaucracy."....
• "And just as we keep our keep our promise to the next generation here at home, so must we keep America's promise abroad. If John McCain wants to have a debate about who has the temperament, and judgment, to serve as the next Commander-in-Chief, that's a debate I'm ready to have."....
• "I will end this war in Iraq responsibly, and finish the fight against al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan."....
• "Passions fly on immigration, but I don't know anyone who benefits when a mother is separated from her infant child or an employer undercuts American wages by hiring illegal workers."....

Heavy-handed, hubris, chutzpah dept: Obama Invents 'Office of the President-Elect'"Writer Larry Anderson referred to the “made-up little title” on the American Thinker Web site, and declared: “I nearly busted a gut ...

“Once again, [Obama] can’t wait to invest himself with the trappings of office.” "

Photo at right from Fox News: But the props are merely that. Under the Constitution, there is no such thing as the Office of the President-elect.

Obama administration will not add D-Day prayer to WW II memorial

American Thinker  "It's something akin to leaving the Gettysburg Address off the Lincoln Memorial.
"FDR's prayer, read over the radio and published in every newspaper in the country on June 6, 1944, united this country in a way it had never before and never since been brought together. Churches and synagogues were jammed as our men waded ashore in Normandy and the president asked the country to come together in prayer. It was one of the most important moments of the war, uniting the home front with the front lines in Europe in a uniquely American way.
"But the Bureau of Land Management doesn't quite see it that way."...Rick Moran

President Roosevelt's D-Day prayer:

My fellow Americans: Last night, when I spoke with you about the fall of Rome, I knew at that moment that troops of the United States and our allies were crossing the Channel in another and greater operation. It has come to pass with success thus far.
And so, in this poignant hour, I ask you to join with me in prayer:
Almighty God: Our sons, pride of our Nation, this day have set upon a mighty endeavor, a struggle to preserve our Republic, our religion, and our civilization, and to set free a suffering humanity.
Lead them straight and true; give strength to their arms, stoutness to their hearts, steadfastness in their faith.
They will need Thy blessings. Their road will be long and hard. For the enemy is strong. He may hurl back our forces. Success may not come with rushing speed, but we shall return again and again; and we know that by Thy grace, and by the righteousness of our cause, our sons will triumph.
They will be sore tried, by night and by day, without rest-until the victory is won. The darkness will be rent by noise and flame. Men's souls will be shaken with the violences of war.
For these men are lately drawn from the ways of peace. They fight not for the lust of conquest. They fight to end conquest. They fight to liberate. They fight to let justice arise, and tolerance and good will among all Thy people. They yearn but for the end of battle, for their return to the haven of home.
Some will never return. Embrace these, Father, and receive them, Thy heroic servants, into Thy kingdom.
And for us at home -- fathers, mothers, children, wives, sisters, and brothers of brave men overseas -- whose thoughts and prayers are ever with them--help us, Almighty God, to rededicate ourselves in renewed faith in Thee in this hour of great sacrifice.
Many people have urged that I call the Nation into a single day of special prayer. But because the road is long and the desire is great, I ask that our people devote themselves in a continuance of prayer. As we rise to each new day, and again when each day is spent, let words of prayer be on our lips, invoking Thy help to our efforts.
Give us strength, too -- strength in our daily tasks, to redouble the contributions we make in the physical and the material support of our armed forces.
And let our hearts be stout, to wait out the long travail, to bear sorrows that may come, to impart our courage unto our sons wheresoever they may be. And, O Lord, give us Faith. Give us Faith in Thee; Faith in our sons; Faith in each other; Faith in our united crusade. Let not the keenness of our spirit ever be dulled. Let not the impacts of temporary events, of temporal matters of but fleeting moment let not these deter us in our unconquerable purpose.

With Thy blessing, we shall prevail over the unholy forces of our enemy. Help us to conquer the apostles of greed and racial arrogancies. Lead us to the saving of our country, and with our sister Nations into a world unity that will spell a sure peace a peace invulnerable to the schemings of unworthy men. And a peace that will let all of men live in freedom, reaping the just rewards of their honest toil.

Thy will be done, Almighty God.

Amen.

Today, this would have sent Mr. Roosevelt to sensitivity training.

Jesse Jackson denies gay worker’s harassment, discrimination claims

Chicago Sun-Times:  Jesse Jackson denies gay worker’s harassment, discrimination claims

"Bennett claims he worked for PUSH starting in July 2007, and was both an organizer and Jackson’s travel assistant. In his complaint, Bennett — who also goes by the name “Aruba Tommy” — said he experienced discrimination almost immediately, including from a woman at PUSH who refused to work for him because of his sexual orientation, according to the complaint.

"Aruba" Tommy Bennett

"Bennett also claims he was forced to escort women for Jackson into hotel rooms — and later clean up the rooms.

"Bennett claims he received a letter in December 2009, in which he was told he was being laid off due to a “lack of funding.” But Bennett alleges someone else was then hired to replace him."

My Fox Chicago has this.

The Edge : Jesse Jackson Hit with Gay Harassment Complaint