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Somehow I doubt it. The alternative for them is... compassionate conservatives?
No... they will bitch and rend their garments to high heaven, but if the lictors come to remove him they will stand in their way and fight, because they have no choice.
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And Hillary seems tainted a bit too, so look for a third person to rise: Elizabeth Warren has shown she can take a hit on her weakness and stay viable, and she is building a populist following - with just a partial Senate term she'd be perfect.
As a metaphor for big government, it is hard to top the Justice Department's seizing of journalists' phone records from The Associated Press. Without the Rule of Law civilized behavior is indeed more difficult.
Unless, of course, you think the best example is the Internal Revenue Service turning the screws on groups it viewed as conservative and, therefore, unworthy of fair treatment.
Or maybe the winner is the sneaky spreading of ObamaCare's tentacles, with insurance companies now predicting the law will drive up the cost of individual premiums by as much as 400 percent.
There are no losers in this race to the bottom -- except the American people. It is tempting to ask whether they've had enough Hope & Change, but the question is premature. With 44 months to go in the reign of the Great Mistake, the gods are not done punishing us. Great Mistake or great betrayal? You decide.
Meanwhile, back at the White House, the growing cloud of trouble must have the bunker boys longing for the good old days. You know, those idyllic days of yesteryear, a k a early last week, when Benghazi was the only scandal on the horizon. Fort Hood, F&F... both a long time ago.
Everything was much simpler then. All the president had to do was cry "Politics!" and the Pavlovian media mutts declared Benghazi a "partisan witch hunt" and started digging into really important things, such as whether Republicans are evil or just stupid.
Then the dam broke. First, it was the sensational Benghazi hearing, where previously muzzled whistleblowers detailed the administration's bungles before, during and after the terror attack. Throw in reports showing the infamous Susan Rice talking points were rewritten 11 times, going from fact to fiction, and Benghazi suddenly became the important story it should have been all along.
If that were all, it would have been enough. But the near-simultaneous revelations in recent days about the IRS playing political favorites, the massive phone grab at the AP news operation, and ObamaCare's cost impact combined to demonstrate something I believed for a long time.
The Obama administration is both corrupt and incompetent. It is a double whammy that spells trouble for the nation, at home and abroad.
The corruption is not like that in Albany, where officials stuff their pockets with taxpayer cash. The corruption in Obama-Land is the selective use of government power to reward friends and punish opponents. Or, as the president calls them, enemies. Reward friends and doners. Don't forget the campaign doners.
Political allies -- think Solyndra and unions -- get special goodies, while those who oppose the regime's agenda are demonized and singled out for scrutiny. The IRS targeting of groups with "Tea Party" or "patriot" "Jews" or "Fox News" in their names and those that advocate less spending smacks of the tactics of banana republic strongmen. Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro, Jacob Zuma, Robert and Grace Mugabe, Winnie Mandela would be proud.
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Obama and supporters can try and dodge the "socialist" or "fascist" labels with all the semantics they've got.
What they can't dodge is the fact that they are seeking a dictatorship based on all the police-state tactics and politics that have been seen through out history. This crew is evil to the core and beyond redemption.
This was not your grandfather's hearing. The air was thick with partisanship already but when Darrell Issa began by playing audio of Thomas Perez, assistant attorney general for civil rights and President Barack Obama's nominee to become the next Secretary of Labor, in which he confirms that he is arranging for details relating to the St. Paul case not to be disclosed. "Do you think it's appropriate for someone to -- at a federal level -- to try to keep information out in order to disguise what's actually going on?" Issa asked. "There are a whole variety of reasons why people, why we as a government and Justice Department, decide not to become involved in qui tam cases," Holder replied. Holder and Issa went back and forth until Holder lost it... "It is inappropriate and too consistent with the way in which you conduct yourself as a member of Congress," Holder said. "It is unacceptable. It is shameful."
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It's pretty pathetic when the severely overdrawn race card is the only hard you have. You just have to keep throwing it down, picking it up, and throwing it down again. And again, and again, and again....
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Definitions, take your pick.
(I choose the first)
Specious argument, noun an argument that appears good at first view but is really fallacious
Speciesism involves the assignment of different values, rights, or special consideration to individuals solely on the basis of their species membership. The term is mostly used by animal rights advocates, who argue that speciesism is a prejudice similar to racism or sexism, in that the treatment of individuals is predicated on group membership and morally irrelevant physical differences. The argument is that species membership has no moral significance.
The term is used to embrace two ideas: "human speciesism," which is the exclusion of all nonhuman animals from the protections afforded to humans, and the more general idea of assigning value to a being on the basis of their species, so that human beings favouring rights for chimpanzees over rights for dogs because of human-chimpanzee similarities, would be an example of "human-chimpanzee speciesism."
The arguments are contested on various grounds, including the position of some religions that human beings were created as superior in status to other animals, and were awarded "dominion" over them, whether as owners or stewards. It is also argued that the physical differences between humans and other species are indeed morally relevant, and that to deny this is to engage in anthropomorphism. Such proponents may explicitly embrace and accept the charge of speciesism, arguing that it recognizes the importance of all human beings, and that species loyalty is justified
Speciest
Anyone who believes that certain species are above others.
Animal rights activists think that most humans are speciest against animals like cows, and while it may be true, most of them are speciest against humans.
Me: I think if I had to kill a snail to save a human being, I would.
PETA Member: How dare you! That speciest! I would kill fifty humans with medieval torture devices just to spare a slug half a second of discomfort!
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"Me: I think if I had to kill a snail to save a human being, I would.
PETA Member: How dare you! That speciest! I would kill fifty humans with medieval torture devices just to spare a slug half a second of discomfort!"
Different me: "I wonder if pouring salt on a PETA member would have the same effect as it does on a slug?" ;-p
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There is nothing to do but ignore it.
Sure there is. Shove back in their faces that the NAACP is ACTUALLY a racist organization, as it is intended to benefit ONLY members of a specific "race".
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"Taliban Wing Of American Politics"
Call me when they start chopping off heads, dipshit.
Until then, STFU, you lying crapweasel.
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NAACP - National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Even the name is so last millennium.
#12
It's like he took a group of people with a common characteristic and made a broad derogatory generalization about them. Seems there is a word for that...
After a tumultuous four years overseeing a city long riddled with blight, corruption, crime, and historic financial issues, mayor David Bing has had enough, telling a stunned audience at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African-American History Tuesday that he'd leave when his term ends in December.
In an interview with this reporter last summer, Bing said that hed inherited a hell hole from Kilpatrick. Over the past few days and again during his speech on Tuesday, he came as close to lashing out as his detractors as he ever has publicly, targeting everyone from the Council to Snyder to residents and the media.
On Monday, Bing went after the media that he said should stop "trashing the city" and ignore some of what he called its "warts." "Every time somebody comes to our city--especially from the outside--they go into the same neighborhoods," said Bing, who has trumpeted that his administration has torn down nearly 10,000 abandoned structures during his tenure. "They look at all the decrepit homes. They don't go to the good neighborhoods."
Those "warts," though, include as many as 80,000 abandoned homes and at least 60 abandoned buildings downtown. Many of the "bad" neighborhoods have been dens for drug use, sexual assaults, murders, and kidnappings. A large number of them surround many of the city's public schools. Even the "good" neighborhoods are pocked with abandoned homes, and the city's midtown and downtown are pocked with abandoned structures, some in the shadows of hotels and stadiums.
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Meanwhile, the current police chief in Cincinnati, James Craig, has accepted the job offer in Detroit. We shall see the results later or not.
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Too bad. Bing seems both honest and sincere about fixing Detroit - something that sets him apart from nearly every Detroit mayor for the past umpteen years with the exception of Dennis Archer. The endemic problems are simply too big to be fixed by conventional methods. Maybe the emergency manager can reboot the whole mess. But I wouldn't hold my breath.
[POLITICO] Steven Miller is breaking his silence about the scandal that's engulfing the Internal Revenue Service.
Miller, the acting IRS commissioner, is quickly emerging as the focus of fury in Washington after an agency official acknowledged last week that conservative groups seeking nonprofit status were targeted for extra screening if their applications included words such as "tea party" or "patriot."
In an op-ed published Tuesday in USA Today, he said the agency was simply trying to manage the explosive growth in applications for 501(c)(4) status that started pouring in to the IRS in 2010.
"The Internal Revenue Service recognizes that we should have done a better job of handling the influx of applications by advocacy groups," Miller wrote.
He denied that politics played a role in the targeting practice.
"Mistakes were made, but they were in no way due to any political or partisan motivation," he wrote. "We are -- and will continue to be -- dedicated to reviewing all applications for tax-exempt status in an impartial manner." The passive voice erupts again. "Mistakes were made" by somebody, somewhere, perhaps, but not the speaker, no, no, certainly not! They're just "made," kinda like earthquakes happen.
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"Mistakes were made, but they were in no way due to any political or partisan motivation,"
No screening or auditing statistics, no internal legal opinions or oversight? Never thought it would develop as an issue? No external [ non-agency] pressure to act.... right? Nobody ever complained? How about you take this here box and empty your desk. Bernice and Fred.... will see you to the door.
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In grammar, said a reporter about another issue, that tense is called "past perfect exonerative".
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"in no way due to any political or partisan motivation" -- except that we have Obama making noises about using IRS audits against his opponents, we have Senators writing letters to the IRS demanding the IRS act against the Tea Parties by name, IRS documents saying they focused on groups with names involving "Tea Party", "patriots", and "9/12", AND we have contemporaneous leftist groups sailing through the same process without hinderance.
And the cherry on top is the unequal application of FOIA fees by the EPA, the Labor Department descending on Romney supporter VanderSloot, and the apparent full-federal-press on the founder of True the Vote.
In short, we have no reason to believe this lying sack of excrement.
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Mistakes? Mistake is putting the new fireman's ballcap in with the socks. I'm wondering how the RICO laws would apply; unreasonable search and seizure PMITA Federal Prison size shit.
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Go after the head of the business, not the workers who actually omitted the crimes, we need the workers for later when the head has been thoroughly blamed, and quit.
THEN, the workers have a free rein.
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'Mistakes were made'
"Mistakes" are always made. That's why you keep government as small as possible, so that the damage remains minimal. It doesn't matter who's given the power, Big Government yields Big Mistakes.
[WEEKLYSTANDARD] "If I could then go back to the IRS issue," said a news hound from the AP. "The president did use the word 'if these activities had taken place,' but there has been an acknowledgement on the part of the IRS leadership that these things did indeed occur. I wondered why the president used that phrasing in claiming that it was outrageous?"
"Those from the IRS that have spoken about this obviously have much greater insight into what took place than we do. We have not seen the report. We have not independently collected information about what transpired. We need the independent inspector general's report to be released before we can make judgments. One person's view of what actions were taken or what that individual did is not enough for us to say something concretely happened that was innapropriate," said Carney.
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It's a wonder that boy's lips ain't fallen off.
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Yet Bush and Rumsfield were supposed to know and not only know about in minute detail but direct the details of each and everything that happened in some unknown prison in Iraq during a war.
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yeah,Crazyfool. My favorite Rummy statement was "because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns -- the ones we don't know we don't know." I remember vividly his comment on tv that day. I laughed my ass off!
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And Texahooey, Rummy's statement is exactly correct. I was amazed at how it all just flowed off his tongue, but I had to stop and analyze each phrase to make sure I understood it.
The IRS came after Billy Graham, too, his son charged Tuesday in a letter to President Barack Obama.
Franklin Graham, avid sportsman and firearms owner the president of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and the family's international humanitarian organization Samaritan's Purse, said that the IRS notified the organizations in September that it was conducting a "review" of their activities for tax year 2010. Samaritan's Purse? We don't need no Samaritan's Purse, we got the gummit !
With the IRS admitting it gave extra scrutiny to conservative political organizations, Graham says he now believes that the review was part of an Obama administration effort of "targeting and attempting to intimidate us." If you have been targeted or intimidated by the IRS, raise your hand. Hundreds possibly thousands across this auditorium are raising their hands.
The Billy Graham Evangelistic Association urging of voters to back "candidates who base their decisions on biblical principles and support the nation of Israel" during last year's presidential race was the reason why IRS agents visited the North Carolina offices of both Graham groups, the letter accuses. Note IRS key search words: Israel, biblical, Evangelistic, North Carolina.
The IRS seems to think Israel is a terrorist nation, like Hamas and Hizb'allah, which is why those Jewish groups got extra scrutiny.
No, the IRS does not think Israel is like Hamas and Hizb'allah: the latter two are favored at the top, and the IRS knows that...
"While these audits not only wasted taxpayer money, they wasted money contributed by donors for ministry purposes as we had to spend precious resources servicing the IRS agents in our offices," Graham wrote in the letter, which was shared with POLITICO. "I believe that someone in the administration was targeting and attempting to intimidate us. This is morally wrong and unethical -- indeed some would call it 'un-American."
Graham said that "in light" of the IRS admission that it targeted tea party groups for added scrutiny, "I do not believe that the IRS audit of our two organizations last year is a coincidence -- or justifiable." That would be our guess as well, preacher.
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Just do away with all 'tax exempt' statuses. I know, 'women and children' fund directors taking in 6 figure salaries and their bribes/political contributions hit hardest.
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An armory full of hollow points which the leftists in the government hopes will increase the intimidation factor used against a list of people to harrass.
I promise you, this is the thinking of Hussien's many Czars on down.
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After a tumultuous four years overseeing a city long riddled with blight, corruption, crime, and historic financial issues, mayor David Bing has had enough, telling a stunned audience at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African-American History Tuesday that he'd leave when his term ends in December. 
[WEEKLYSTANDARD] "If I could then go back to the IRS issue," said a 
