Please note: At one point, I had thought about not posting these videos anymore. Mainly because of criticism from a well-known atheist. Well, after praying about it and really reflecting on it; I have decided that I am not going to allow other people tell me how to run this blog. It is mine, and I reserve the right to publish whatever I darned well please here. If fundamentalist atheists don’t not like it; too bad. This is a political blog, and not a Christian one; however, I will not hide my Christian beliefs, just to appease someone, who’s mission in life is to criticize with whom he disagrees with. I don’t work like that, never have, never will….
On June 7, the Senate Banking Committee voted to back Fred Hochberg’s second term as president of the U.S. Export-Import Bank without bothering to ask the Obama administration about the future of that expensive, inefficient New Deal–era agency. The vote, in which 28 Republicans joined 54 Democrats in supporting Hochberg, was not a good sign for anyone hoping that the GOP’s latest promises of fiscal restraint would prove more trustworthy than all the broken promises before.
The bank, also known as “Ex-Im,” provides taxpayer-backed loans, loan guarantees, and insurance to foreign companies, such as Air China, to buy products from some of the richest U.S. exporters, such as Boeing. It is a textbook example of Washington’s bipartisan corporate welfare. Yet only two Republicans, Sens. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) and Pat Toomey (R-Pa.), voted against Hochberg. In an online statement Toomey explained his reasons for withholding support. “I opposed his nomination due to serious concerns that the Ex-Im Bank is using taxpayer-backed loan guarantees to help some companies at the expense of other U.S. companies,” he said. “The way to help U.S. exports is to reduce the tax and regulatory burden on businesses, not to pick winners and losers.”
But Cruz can’t drop the filibuster now because the go along, get along GOP would kill him for dropping it. Now they get to kill him for keeping it. Nice game they’ve got going on.
One thing we shouldn’t kid ourselves about is that if the House passed a clean CR and then included the delay plan in their budget ceiling bill it still wouldn’t have the votes in the Senate and we’d still be in the position of having to find them by having the House play chicken not with a government shutdown but with what would be called “defaulting” on the full faith and credit of the United States.
Given the level disingenuousness in the delay camp’s hits not on Obama or ObamaCare but the Devil known as Ted Cruz I’m seriously doubt they would do what they claimed. Right now it seems like one big shell game to avoid actually fighting against something they all claim to be against.
You know why Cruz is so popular? Because he’s actually fighting. Maybe it’s a losing fight, maybe it’s a fight to raise money (though let’s not pretend he’s the only one doing that) or to raise his popularity (the sight of professional politicians accusing anyone of self-aggrandizement is too precious) but at least he’s fighting.
Something I think we should all remember is that when the GOP had the House and the Senate before we never saw this kind of fight from the GOP. We saw a slightly less robust rush to bigger government than we did under the Democrats but we never saw Denny Hastret, Tom “There’s No Fat Left To Cut In The Federal Budget” Delay, Trent Lott and Bill Frist just muddle along without any energy or drive to bring the federal government under control. The professional Republican class wants to say, “hey we need more votes to do anything”, well a lot of us remember when you had more votes and not only did you not do anything, you made it worse. Remember “Pork Busters”? Yeah, we didn’t love you then and we don’t trust you now to do the right thing.
“Promoting democracy” is nothing more than cover, with the goal being U.S. control. Even when a democratic election takes place in a land that the U.S. has conquered, the elected leader must toe the line. If he doesn’t, he is removed. The most recent example being in Egypt, but there have been many others over the years like Algeria, Gaza, and Iran (where the CIA overthrew the elected Mohammad Mossadegh and installed the Shah in 1953).
The democracy cover is also used at home in the US as well. As long as there is no resistance from the American public to the empire building overseas, neocons are on board. But what happens when resistance appears?
This quote above sums up my issues with Wilsonian foreign policy. Not to mention that America is not a Democracy, but rather is a Constitutional Republic. The sad part is that anytime anyone speaks out against Wilsonian foreign policy, those people find themselves labelled by its promoters as Anti-Semites by the likes of those who write at Commentary Magazine.
Please note: At one point, I had thought about not posting these videos anymore. Mainly because of criticism from a well-known atheist. Well, after praying about it and really reflecting on it; I have decided that I am not going to allow other people tell me how to run this blog. It is mine, and I reserve the right to publish whatever I darned well please here. If fundamentalist atheists don’t not like it; too bad. This is a political blog, and not a Christian one; however, I will not hide my Christian beliefs, just to appease someone, who’s mission in life is to criticize with whom he disagrees with. I don’t work like that, never have, never will….
Kathy Knechtges’ luminous essay Forgotten Victims—American Workers Immiserated By Chinese Immigration In Nineteenth Century California has attracted a great deal of attention. Readers seem refreshed to see the matter discussed as a rational and reasonable response to a serious social problem, rather in the usual “Blame Whitey” tradition of Chinese chauvinism.
So this is a good occasion to recall that a quite possibly nation-killing consequence of the 19th Century Cheap Labor Lobby’s Chinese labor binge was the 1898 Won Kim Ark case. This piece of Supreme Court judicial legislation has saddled America with Birthright Citizenship, Anchor Babies and Birth Tourism.
(Reuters) – A Sunday morning fire hit a crude oil unit at Northern Tier Energy’s 81,500 barrel per day (bpd) St. Paul Park, Minnesota, refinery, according to a statement issued by the company.
No injuries were reported due to the fire, the company said.
“Today at approximately 11:30 am CDT (1630 GMT), our St. Paul Park refinery experienced a fire in one of its crude units that originated at a reduced crude pump,” Northern Tier said in a statement issued Sunday evening.
“The fire was in a small part of the refinery,” said St. Paul Park Assistant Fire Chief Mike Kramer. “The fire remains under investigation.”
Firefighters from the refinery, St. Paul Park and two neighboring communities battled the blaze, Kramer said.
The fire was out by 2:16 p.m., Northern Tier said.
“The refinery has begun to investigate the cause of the fire and is assessing the damage,” the company said.
What you have watched is the truth. I have experienced it for myself, more than once. Even when running this blog, I was told by a drive-by commenter, that I was a recipient of white privilege. Here is a news flash for the liberal blacks that might actually read here: Everything I damned own, I worked my ass off to be able to get. I do not own a car, I do not have a job; at least not working for someone else. So much for that white privilege eh? 🙄 The only things in this room, that I did not buy, were things that my parents gave me as gifts and believe you me; there are not to many things in here that were given to me. Everything else, I worked my ass off to buy. Also, Before any idiot trolls drive by here and say, “get a job.” I will answer you now. FIND ME A DAMNED JOB IN THE OBAMA ECONOMY AND I WILL GET A JOB! Otherwise, shut the hell up and keep moving. 😡
I reject the label of white privilege! I have A.D.H.D. and because that affects my math abilities, I didn’t graduate from High School. Because of that, I did not attend college; and because of that, I have had to take any sort of a job that I could get and actually be able to do.So much for white privilege eh? Any job that I have ever had, I had it because the person doing the hiring thought that I would be able to handle and do the job and not because of my white skin.
The reason this stupidity pisses me off to the high heavens is because liberals use this term as a last resort. When they cannot prove racism, when they cannot prove discrimination; they resort to this sort of damned stupidity. Blacks also use this little accusation to get unfair advantage over white people when applying for jobs. It is known as affirmative action, which was, by the way, voted off the books here in Michigan. Thank God!
Way I see it, it was the Republicans who (Remember Abraham Lincoln?) Who freed the slaves and it also was Republicans and northern Democrats who ended segregation in the south —- blacks ought to be glad that they even got that; because there many whites Democrats and Republicans, that were in the south; who really did not want that to happen. For this, they should be thankful. I’m just saying.
* = Please Note: I am quite fully aware of American Renaissance and it’s publisher. I also happen to know some of his associations. Please know that I do not totally agree with his or his magazines positions on race. I simply posted this, because it is totally and factually true.
The story via DailyMail in the UK and I highly recommend that you go over and look at those pictures, they are riveting as hell.
British and American nationals have undoubtedly been caught up in the ‘callous and cowardly and brutal’ terror attack at a shopping centre in Kenya that has left 39 people dead and 150 injured, according to Foreign Secretary William Hague.
Mr Hague said ‘we should be ready for that and aware of that’ as he revealed a rapid deployment team is being sent to Kenya to help in the aftermath of the atrocity at an upmarket shopping centre in the capital.
According to the Sunday Telegraph, a pregnant woman was among several Britons caught up in the attack.
Somali-based militant group al-Shabaab has now claimed responsibility for the atrocity in which men armed with guns and grenades stormed the mall and targeted non-Muslims.
Terrorist gunmen remain at the scene and police officers supported by the army are still fighting to bring the situation to an end.
Mr Hague added the Government’s security committee COBRA had met and was sending a deployment team to ‘re-enforce’ the British Consulate team in Nairobi.
‘Our High Commission staff in Nairobi are working very hard, visiting hospitals, trying to make sure that they are aware of British nationals who might have been in the area or caught up in this,’ he said.
‘We are sending a rapid deployment team to reinforce that work, which will be particularly important if the situation carries on. We have offered the Kenyan authorities any other assistance and of course we will keep in touch with them about that.’
Hannah Chisholm, a Briton visiting Nairobi, said she and 60 others barricaded themselves into a large storeroom.
She told the BBC: ‘We kept running to different places but the shots were getting louder so we barricaded ourselves along with about 60 others into a large storeroom. There were children hiding with us as well as someone who had been shot.’
She added: ‘The gunfire was loud and we were scared but at that point we thought the gunmen were thieves so we assumed they wouldn’t try to reach the storeroom.’
Unreal. So much for that whole thing of, “we have to fight them there, so we don’t have to fight them here” eh? Unbelievable.
One picture that really stands out is this one here:
The look on that man’s face says it all. He is obviously a Muslim and he is watching these people kill in the name of his religion. My heart goes out to him, as you have to know that this is killing him inside. So sad. 🙁
There needs to be reform in Islam and these people need to be called out on a daily basis in the middle east.
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