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Dr. Heimlich who has reportedly not practiced medicine in 35 years, appears to have fallen on hard times. A non-credentialed nurse, a defunct non-for profit involving children, a false medical death story, two crooked Illinois politicians, and a long running investigation. What could possibly go wrong ?
Fascinating piece on Noo Yawk's machine politicians. Read the whole thing. [NYPOST] Sunday's New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... magazine features an interview with disgraced former Rep. Anthony Weiner, which Weiner granted in a bid to gauge if the public is ready to accept him back in public life.
The Weiner piece comes in the wake of the arrest of state Sen. Malcolm Smith for trying to buy his way onto the Republican mayoral primary ballot. His indictment left many asking, "Why is New York so corrupt?" The answer may lie in the careers of people like Weiner and Smith.
Both the ex-congressman from Queens and the state senator are part of an expansive and expensive political culture which affords them a lifelong job as a New York politico, with virtually no experience doing anything else.
It's no wonder that many elected officials seem willing to do just about anything, like Smith, to preserve and advance their careers -- while others, like Weiner, grow arrogant, egotistical and out of touch with everyday norms after spending years in the New York political bubble.
It's not like that everywhere else, believe it or not.
Posted by: Fred ||
04/14/2013 00:00 ||
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So New York is Chicago.
What's the common thread, I'll give you one hint, the party symbol is a jackass.
Posted by: Bill Clinton ||
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"the party symbol is a jackass"
As illustrated by each of the party's politicians, and most of the party faithful.
Posted by: Barbara ||
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Front-page WaPo 'news'. Includes photo gallery, with the first one looking vaguely like a Kenyan White House interior.
Five months after his resounding reelection victory by 35% of the eligible voters, President Obama is bumping up against the boundaries of his political power in Washington as the core of his second-term legislative agenda moves into a still-divided Congress.
His ability to secure the three high-profile legislative items now confronting Congress -- gun-control measures, reform of the immigration system and his long-term budget priorities -- is likely to determine his domestic legacy. These items seem to be in reverse priority order, to me. Anybody else?
Obama's plan now is to ensure that as much of his politically challenging agenda as possible is enacted, after months of effort to frame the policies for the American public and, perhaps more important, for the House and Senate.
But senior administration officials acknowledge that only immigration legislation has a chance of resembling Obama's ideal bill once it emerges from the Democratic-run Senate and the Republican-controlled House. On his other major initiatives, they say Obama would settle for less than he claims he wants, a sign that he remains pragmatic in the face of partisan opposition that continues to limit his ambitions. Obama pragmatic? Now that would be news!
"I have the same worry about all of these issues, and it's the Republican House," said Dan Pfeiffer, an Obama senior adviser. The House, elected by the rest of the Country, so somehow -- irrelevant.
Obama outlined a broad progressive agenda in his second inaugural address, and he has spoken frequently about the validation that he believes the public gave his plans by reelecting him last year. But second-term presidents traditionally have less than two years to secure a legislative agenda before lame-duck status sets in, and Obama already has seen his popular support shrink in recent months from its post-election highs.
The election also did not change the basic political dynamic in Washington: a Democratic president in conflict with congressional Republicans, only some of whom don't read the WaPo and NY Slimes and therefore believe last year's election represented a call for compromise.
he strategy has led Obama to alternately court Senate Republicans -- as he did last week in his second such dinner with a dozen of them -- and to scold them before outside-the-Beltway audiences, as he did this month in denouncing GOP threats to block gun-control legislation. Advisers say he does so to keep the political momentum alive in Washington for measures with strong public support outside the capital. Sorry, I'm sure I could keep fisking - there are two more pages - but my eyes are burning and my head hurts. I've got to build up my stamina again!
Posted by: Bobby ||
04/14/2013 08:15 ||
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He has until now until the summer recess.
That's it.
There's just a few more hours, a few more hours, that's all the time he's got.
He's gonna be a lame duck in the Morning!
LOL, the 'burg is gonna shine
Two terms enabled, won't stop the tabling
we got a real twerp this time.
We need a resolution!
So bring out the clowns!
Moochele is grazing walking in the garden,
gawd help me,
I must make this rhym
Put up or shut up,
let's watch 'em fuck up,
but get me to the booth on time.
Our top priority as a nation, and my top priority as President, must be doing everything we can to reignite the engine of Americas growth: a rising, thriving middle class. Thats our North Star. That must drive every decision we make.
So what exactly does gun control have to do with helping the middle class? Isn't immigration reform directly contrary to the interests of the middle class? Likewise for "budget priorities", which is Champ-speak for raising taxes (again)?
So, seriously, what is this guy's agenda? The real one.
Nice job, Ship, except now I've got this image in my head of Nancy Pelosi as Eliza Doolittle.
Posted by: Matt ||
04/14/2013 11:55 Comments ||
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A wish to live forever:
I met a fairy today who said she would grant me one wish.
"I want to live forever," I said.
"Sorry," said the fairy, "I'm not allowed to grant wishes like that!"
"Fine," I said, "then I want to die after Obama gets their heads out of his ass."
AGain, IMO US Politicos recognize or intend for America = Amerika to give up Sovereign Power-n-Influence to the OWG + NAU 2015, to includ Trans-Pacific + TRans-Atlantic Union, etc. related - THEY DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH, BUT THEY STILL INTEND TO COMMIT THE US + AMERICANS TO SAME ANYWAY DESPITE KNOWING THAT THE AMER WAY OF LIFE WILL LIKELY CHANGE FUNDAMENTALLY + PERMANENTLY.
OWG = akin to SPACE/"STAR" GOVT-ORDER = WORLD RESOURCES MUST BE COLLECTIVELY CONTROLLED.
Moreso given the "Sirius Event", GWCC, + the "Consensus among World Govts-Perts is that there is no Consensus".
AMERICA = AMERIKA = "IN TRANSITION". National, Global Socialism is the "New Sovereignty/
Economy".
Perhaps moreso than the 2014 Midterm Elexs or even 2016 POTUS Elex, IMO THE DEMOLEFT IN 2013 IS TRULY FRIGHTENED ABOUT THE PROSPECT OF A SINO-US NUCLEAR CONFRONTATION IN EAST ASIA + HOW ALLEGED ANTI-US MARXIST-ANARCHIST-GLOBALIST POTUS BAMMER WILL RESPOND TO CHINA [ = "DRPK", + also Iran = Nuclear Radical Islam/MilTerrs = Nuclear Global Jihad].
GOP-DEMS avoiding or downplaying the above for the sake of 2014 or 2016 Electioneering = CHINA + RADICAL ISLAM WIN.
OWG-NWO + "GLOBALISM" + Jan 2017 + beyond = what POTUS Bammer doesn't do or fails to complete, ANY POST-OBAMA, PRO-"GLOBALISM" POTUS SUCCESSOR(S) WILL BE CHARGED OR DESIRED TO DO SO.
* FYI DEMOCRATIC UNDERGOUND > [The Black Agenda Report] IS THIS BARACK OBAMA'S SECOND TERM, IS IT BILL CLINTON'S THIRD TERM [4th?],OR IS IT RONALD REAGAN'S NINTH TERM???
Lest we fergit,, 1990'S CLINTONISM = Rightism is the New Leftism, Fascism the New Communism, Conservatism the new Liberalism, Capitalism the new Communism/Socialism... ... Republicans/
Republicanism/GOP-Right the new Democrats/DemoLeft???
IIUC Artic = THE BEST DEMOCRATIC POTUSES HAVE BEEN REPUBLICANS = RIGHT-WING [Right or Center-Right]???
* SAME > [Talking Points Memo] JAMES CARVILLE: i THINK OBAMA LOVES ANNOYING/UPSETTING LIBERALS.
Uh, uh, D *** NGED REPUBLICANS = RIGHT-WINGERS???
* SAME > DEMOCRATS FEAR OBAMA SOCIAL SECURITY CUTS WILL HURT THEM IN 2014 RACES.
* IIRC SAME > LBJ-KENNEDY-CLINTON-OBAMA, WID HILLARY WAITING IN 2016: WHOM IS THE BEST AMERICAN PRESIDENT SINCE FDR?
* for our foreign visitors here is the origin of Squirrel! - i.e. a distraction.
Might have to go after parents if you really have a connection (which they dont).
No more than after parents of kids doing the shooting in Chicago, or elsewhere. They accept the Sergeant Schultz defense, cause you know, they're voters.
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I consider liberalism as a severe mental disorder that promotes human sacrifice, hedonism, irresponsibility since they're not to blame for anything, sacrifice of the innocent as they don't want to punish actual criminals and accept that actions have consequences.
There seems to be no real cure, leaving only more unpleasent options for dealing with them. Isolation is a possiblity, ie dumping them all in Hawaii and maintaining a permanent blockade of the place.
She's only mouthing what every child psychologist this side of Vienna has been saying for years.
The common thread in all of these recent mass shootings have been loners with emotional problems and mental illness (there is a difference) spending lots of time playing (addicted to) violent video games.
There is an enormous body of knowledge about how repeated viewing of violence desensitizes people to violence.
I think we should ban video games before we ban anything else. We are developing a generation of kids with no social skills, no sense of teamwork and obese. I shudder to think of what it will be like to have to supervise some of these emotionally and socially maladjusted.
Posted by: Bill Clinton ||
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Banning the games does nothing. What we need are people to accept the fact that if they want to raise kids that aren't monsters, they need to actually PARENT. If the kid has serious mental problems, then do the right thing and have them put into a mental health facility so that they aren't putting society and the rest of their family at risk.
Personal responsibility is at the heart of this and the more people shift this off to others, the worse these sorts of things will be.
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There is a huge difference between conditioning by the military to obey orders which results in the death of the enemy and walking away from a video game wanting to do those things in real life.
In the latter case you conditioned yourself to no good end other than that of a narcissist, and in the former you were conditioned.
If you are deeply disturbed by the images of violence and you want to reenact what you are seeing and you are over 13 years old, then you are disturbed and banning violent video games will do nothing to stop you from committing acts of stupidity.
A 17 year old animal named DeMarquis Elkins shot and killed an innocent 13 month old baby in a stroller and injured the mother in Brunswick, GA around the end of March 2013, just because the mother wouldn't give him money! He shot the baby just to show her he meant business.
DeMarquis Elkins is not a member of the NRA
He did not use an assault rifle
He did not get his stolen pistol from a gun show
His favorite music is rap
He did not attend Christian school, nor was he home schooled
He did attend multicultural public education, and was not instructed in the Ten Commandments
His Momma was on welfare, got food stamps, and lived in public housing
His daddy was not around, and his two brothers have a different daddy
He already has a record for violent crimes
He is gang member
His mom, grandma, and Aunty all voted for Obama.
He never earned his hunter safety card, nor did he shoot CMP, Junior NRA, or 4H Air Rifle Competitions
He was never instructed in gun safety from his father or grandfather
His public education and family taught him that the white man owes him something. He went to collect it
He has no plans on getting married, but does have a Baby Momma, and no, he is not supporting her baby
He smokes weed
He does respect Kayne West
While he has no job, nor was he looking for one, he is well fed, and does not need a job. He has no skills outside of crime
He speaks Ebonics, and is not capable of doing a professional interview, even though he spent 11 years in public education.
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Re: person described in #15. There was no nurturing from a very young age, just like the jihadi-bots from the madarassas. They have no sense of empathy. Basically they are broken people and cannot be fixed. Tragic but true.
Posted by: Alaska Paul ||
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Read "On Killing" by Dave Grossman
I'm sure the Romans, Mongols, et al were well conditioned by their 'video games' to remove any remorse or restraint from killing. How about the Crusaders at Jerusalem, the Imperial forces at Magdeburg, the Aztecs to their neighbors, etc, etc, etc. The uncomfortable truth is that mankind has shown a propensity to butchering his fellow traveler for millenniums. In fact for most of the recorded history the butchering had been literal and done up front and personal with swords, spears and variations thereof. The squeamish usually weren't around to tell their story afterward. It's not that difficult to comprehend when death was considered 'natural' in a primitive environment were supplication to gods were just as effective any anything that passed for sanitation, medical care, reliable food supplies, or numerous other aspects of modern civilization we take for granted. Life was indeed cheap. It is us in the fraction of recorded history who adjudge that what passed for thousands of years to be abnormal rather than our the environment we inhabit.
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How do you know if its violent, you'll know it when you see it?
Fact is there are Jack the Rippers who walk among us.
What Rjschwarz and Silentbrick said. Its a deflection of the issue; the more widespread dissimination of the culture of entertainment would be television, then music, then movies. I can count on one hand macrocultural video game moments, I run out of toes for simply Stalllone violent movies nevermind individual moments. Heck, he had a movie which was so bad it basically starred his cobra imprint pearl handled pistols. But that was my parents' fault for taking me to that movie.
I think we should ban video games before we ban anything else.
You want to see violence? Try that path to tyranny.
We are developing a generation of kids with no social skills, no sense of teamwork and obese.
Says a person using the name of a fat narcissist rapist.
There is an enormous body of knowledge about how repeated viewing of violence desensitizes people to violence.
And an as-large or larger body of research showing that effect is miniscule and transitory.
Read "On Killing" by Dave Grossman
I hear that thing endlessly cited, but only by the anti-videogame crowd. Outside those circles, it's apparently a joke. The claims are poorly supported and the numbers are old and apparently in question. He's like Ehrlich -- the only people who believe him desperately WANT to.
Here's a clue: the physical acts of shooting a gun in real life and shooting a gun in a video game are completely different, and the only people who are going to think of the pixels on a monitor as interchangable with people in real life are already mentally deficient. That simple fact makes me wonder about the mental condition of the people who keep citing Grossman.
I can count on one hand macrocultural video game moments...
How old are you?
At 42, I'm right on the edge of the video game generations -- partly from being an "early adopter". Video games make more money than Hollywood movies; if you're not aware of their impact, it's more likely that you're simply not culturally aware of it. It's like not being a fan of NASCAR -- you may be aware there's a race some weekend, but can't name who's in it or the sponsor.
If video games made monsters, we'd be hip-deep in them. Instead, they seem to be around at just about the same frequency as ever.
The problem isn't video games, or anti-anxiety medications, or anti-psychotics. The problem is some people are just plain broke.
By searching for the Magic Cure, you folks are falling into the same trap the left always does -- the belief that humanity is perfectable. It's not; nothing is. Rather than trying to come up with the magic combination of tyrannies that perfects humanity, we need to accept that it'll never happen and deal with what that tells us about reality.
That means we need to accept that on occasion, it will be necessary for good people to commit violence in order to protect others or themselves.
Posted by: Rob Crawford ||
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Rob, that was brilliant, though you were a bit hard on Bill Clinton.
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Well said, Rob. The only thing I would add is if you buy into the idea that exposure to violent games cause violence, you are going to have a hard time arguing that exposure to violent movies does NOT cause violence.
The astute will note that Hollywood (purveyor of violent movies) is a major contributor to the Democratic party and draw their own conclusions.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[NYPOST] Sunday's 
