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So do you think they will apologize for getting it wrong about Sarah Palin? No I haven’t lost my mind with that stupid question, just a small “brain fart”…..Papa Mike

 MSNBC, CNBC and Headline News — combined?

Nearly 200,000 Americans showed up to protest high taxes in hundreds of cities around the country today.

The New York Times and The Boston Globe ignored “Tea Parties” altogether. ABC and CBS reporters were nowhere to be found. NBC, on the other hand, simply made obscene references — using a tea-related colloquialism — to express its corporate disgust with America’s founding principles.

And a CNN journalist, rather than reporting on one event, decided to debate the crowd! Here’s the transcript:

CNN: “Let’s see… drop taxes… drop socialism. Okay, let’s see. You’re here with your two-year old daughter and you’re already in debt. Why are you here today, sir?”

Man with child: “Because I hear a President say that he believed in what Lincoln stood for. Lincoln’s primary thing was, he believed that people had the right to liberty and the r –”

CNN: “What does this have to do with taxes?”

Man: “Are you going to let me speak?”

CNN: “What does this have to do with taxes? Do you realize that you’re elibible for a $400…”

Man: “Let me finish my point! Lincoln believed that people had the right to share in the fruits of their own labor and that government should not take it. And we have clearly gotten to that p–”

CNN: “Right, right, right — did you know that the state of Lincoln gets fifty billion dollars out of these stimulus — that’s fifty billion dollars for this state, sir!”

Man: “Ma’am, ma’am, ma’am, I’m… can you stop this, sir?”

CNN: “Alright, we’ll move on… (to audience) I think you get the general tenor of this, uh, it’s anti-government, anti-CNN, since this is highly promoted by the rightwing conservative network Fox and… since I can’t really hear much more, I think this… is not really family viewing, toss it back to you, Kera.”

CNN says Fox is a “rightwing conservative network?”

How “rightwing” could Fox be if it gets more viewers than CNN, MSNBC, CNBC and Headline News — combined?

Based on those numbers, who are the centrists and who are the extremists?

Compare and contrast that mainstream media coverage with that afforded Cindy Sheehan and her cohorts at the radical antiwar group Code Pink. Cindy Sheehan’s protests near President Bush’s Crawford, Texas ranch drew

but a few dozen protesters.

These tiny gatherings garnered more than a hundred mentions in The New York Times and “reporting” that could have been mistaken for a Code Pink infomercial.

How one 48-year-old woman from Vacaville, Calif., invigorated the antiwar movement, altered the landscape of the president’s vacation town and drew a Hollywood celebrity out into the Texas heat may be as much the result of external factors as Ms. Sheehan’s compelling tale.

More compelling than spontaneous anti-tax protests that marshaled hundreds of thousands? Apparently.

The media sickness is epidemic. Fortunately, it also appears to be terminal.

Cross-posted at: Doug Ross @ Journal.

Funny man!

I might be old fashioned and a bit outta date but … is this proper for seven year olds?

While leading this country Obama is doing all he can to destroy our economy and trash our private enterprise.

Meanwhile, he meets with ragheaded goat fornicators and touts entrepreneurship:

These really look like fun and are supposed to be very affordable, BUT do we want these flying every which way over our heads? It’s bad enough boaters have to navigate around and dodge PWC’s ( wave-runners to some ) now we have to watch out for weekend, sometimes DRUNK hovercraft pilot wannabes….Don’t get me wrong I’m NOT starting a war against Personal Water Crafts or anything smaller than a boat because my two sons own PWC’s and they love them and so do I….I’m just saying it’s getting really congestive on our waterways and if it was up to me I would start making it illegal for all those “HUGE ( anything over 30′ in length ) go-fast boats on any body of water unless it was the OCEAN!!

It seemed so cool at the time. But now, the cool is gone and all that remains is a silly permanent mark.

Today, one can travel down any busy American street or highway and usually spot the new political equivalent of the tramp stamp. Namely, the ubiquitous 2008 campaign decal with the cartoonish stenciled portrait of Barack Obama gazing wistfully into the distance above the nebulous term “HOPE.”

Created by “street artist” and George W. Bush antagonist Shepard Fairey based upon the 2006 photograph of Obama by Associated Press (AP) photographer Mannie Garcia, the image became synonymous with the Obama hysteria.

Here’s an actual tramp stamp of the tramp stamp - to be technical, it should have been a few feet lower, but at least she’s got a more prominent reminder of past indiscretions.

Apparently unconcerned with the sinister association, Laura Barton of the left-wing Guardian newspaper gushed that “Hope” had “acquired the kind of instant recognition of Jim Fitzpatrick’s Che Guevara poster, and is surely set to grace t-shirts, coffee mugs and the walls of student bedrooms in years to come.”

Ya think? (I defer to my esteemed colleague GoY for commentary on the Che icon.) Indeed, the emblem was hijacked almost immediately during Campaign 2008 by conservatives for their political ends, and it seems that the mock images are growing in popularity.

Whenever I see the original image, invariably I replace the “H” with a “D” in my mind’s eye, to sort things out in my fragile soul. (Pre-election, it used to be a “N”. Some help that was.) Comic renditions of this dubious icon have flourished and will clearly outlast the original, as the Cult of Hopeychange gives more and more ground to the Morning After Blues.

Who caused the our current economic troubles? The same folks now bidding to seize control of the healthcare system:

SOURCE

SOURCE   Grouchy Old Cripple

Make Your Voice Heard—
President Obama is coming to St. Louis on Wednesday to push his “angry mob unpopular” nationalized health care bill. But, you won’t get to see him.

HE’S LOCKING THE DOORS ON THE ST. LOUIS PUBLIC.

President Obama and Missouri Democrats including Senator Claire McCaskill, Governor Jay Nixon and Russ and Robin Carnahan want to ram their toxic health care bill down your throat but THEY DON’T HAVE THE GUTS TO FACE THE PUBLIC!

This Is Your Last Best Chance to Show the President You Don’t Want Obamacare—
2 Protests Are Planned……….
–The first protest is at 9:45 AM at the St. Charles Convention Center
–The second protest is at 5:30 at the at the Renaissance Grand hotel in downtown St. Louis.

HELP WELCOME OBAMA TO MISSOURI ON WEDNESDAY—–

** Health Care Rally at St. Charles Convention Center (map, directions, parking) at 9:45 AM on Wednesday March 10, 2010.

The Wednesday Rally called by Rep. Todd Akin & GOP House Leader John Boehner is the federal-healthcare equivalent of “The Gunfight at the OK Corral” for Missouri!

We need ALL HANDS ON DECK, and ALL BOOTS on the Ground!! If you can take time off work, if you can leave your children or elderly parent with a sitter (or bring them)…if you can at all make this rally – DO IT!

This may be it! Pelosi is trying to bring this to the floor for a vote in the coming days…and is strong-arming all the moderate dems into voting for Obamacare Socialized Medicine – and Federally Funded Abortion. In a “nuclear option” procedure that was never intended for major social mandates, Nancy & Harry…and Leader Obama – clearly intend to disenfranchise well over half of the American People!

This is despite the fact they themselves condemned this same procedure a mere few years ago!
Thanks to Brenda Webb

The Second Protest planned by the St. Louis Tea Party Coalition is planned for 5:30 on Wednesday night downtown in St. Louis across from the Renaissance Grand hotel.

Check back here or at the St. Louis Tea Party Coalition website for more details. We are tentatively planning on meeting at 5:00 PM and are asking protesters to wear black.

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On early Sunday morning “Religion Of The Peace” Muslim herders attacked Christian villagers in Nigeria with machetes.
500 Christians were slaughtered.

Villagers in central Nigeria buried dozens of bodies, including those of women and children, in a mass grave on Monday after attacks in which several hundred people were feared to have been killed. (Reuters)

ITN has video from the Jos, Nigeria.
(Warning: graphic)

Some of the bodies had been charred. Some had slash marks across their faces.

The Muslim hackers shouted “Allah Akhbar” (God is Great) before breaking into homes and hacking the Christians to death.
The AFP reported:

I hope your able to view this before Obama’s henchmen have it PULLED!!….Papa Mike

Thanks Jim O.

This is what I have been talking about for YEARS…ALL these people want to do is KILL Christians!! I don’t care WHY they did it as thought there could be a justifiable reason to behead and slaughter people?….Something drastic needs to be done and done NOW before these murdering Radical Muslims, in the name of religion, take over the world. That may sound a bit over the top when I say the WORLD, but look at what’s happening not only in the Mid-East, but in Europe and here on our own soil. If we continue to turn our backs on this religious persecution we have only ourselves to blame when another 9/11 happens…..Papa Mike