TR:  Watch this Haloween for costumes consisting of a snappy suit, tie, day-glo afro, and rubber nose enhancement – coming soon to fine clown stores near you.

Honk for Peace!

ThoughtRogue:  Can we consider it outright TYRANNY, when federal legislators create legal Worm-Holes such as “[Section Reserved].” placeholders in bills, so that persons unknown can later insert unknown language into the bill AFTER IT HAS BEEN PASSED?   Fellow Americans, How bad are we going to allow this Federal Tyranny to get!?

Hat-tip Michelle Malkin

The excerpt below was contained in the ~300 new pages to be inserted into the bill, which were submitted by Demonrats at approximately 3:00am the night before the Friday vote (and which were never incorporated into a final bill before they actually voted on it).  Ask your friendly Congress-person exactly what is going to be inserted into Section 788, now that they have voted to pass this monstrous ‘Cap and Trade’ climate control bill.  Go ahead, ask them.

Section Reserved (to be written later, after passage)

Legislative Worm-Holes - aka TYRANNY.

ThoughtRogue:  Note:  Paul Krugman is a Leftist ass-clown of the first order.  Yes – he has a Nobel Prize!  So do mega-ass-clowns Albert Gore, Jr., Jimmy Carter, and Yasser Arafat!  (that should tell you a lot about the value of a Nobel “Peace” prize today)  Krugman, a hardcore leftist “economist” continues to spew the lamest economic nonsense requiring Alice-in-Wonderland economic axioms to make any ’sense’. (you know, like, (1) money must grow on trees, (2) pursuit of profit is evil (except by leftists), (3) there IS such thing as a Free Lunch, (4) the path to prosperity is through massive taxing, indebtedness, and spending, (5) not sure how WEALTH creation is actually accomplished.)

Plus, smear artist Paul Krugman, darling of the Left and myriad echo-chambers like the imploding NY Times, is a prolific, easily-provable outright LIAR.  See some of Bill O’Reilly’s eviscerations of him on that front.

NC Claps:  Wow! Thank you, ThoughtRogue,  for putting this video on the site. It truly is a great Flag moment in American History!  

TR:  Flashback to 1976, no one yet knew the extent of the 4-year nightmare of one Jimmy Carter we would endure, before we were blessed with one Ronny Reagan…

TR:  Is America ‘too big to fail’?  Stay tuned as the most dangerous, phony president of all time moves us ever closer to the brink..

‘The Muslim World’ – One-way multiculturalism.

By Mark Steyn, National Review Online

Heavy Element: Steynium

As recently as last summer, General Motors filing for bankruptcy would have been the biggest news story of the week. But it’s not such a very great step from the unthinkable to the inevitable, and by the time it actually happened the market barely noticed and the media were focused on the president’s “address to the Muslim world.” As it happens, these two stories are the same story: snapshots, at home and abroad, of the hyperpower in eclipse. It’s a long time since anyone touted GM as the emblematic brand of America – What’s good for GM is good for America, etc. In fact, it’s more emblematic than ever: Like General Motors, the U.S. government spends more than it makes, and has airily committed itself to ever more unsustainable levels of benefits. GM has about 95,000 workers but provides health benefits to a million people: It’s not a business enterprise, but a vast welfare plan with a tiny loss-making commercial sector. As GM goes, so goes America?

But who cares? Overseas, the coolest president in history was giving a speech. Or, as the official press release headlined it on the State Department website, “President Obama Speaks to the Muslim World from Cairo.”

Let’s pause right there: It’s interesting how easily the words “the Muslim world” roll off the tongues of liberal secular progressives who’d choke on any equivalent reference to “the Christian world.” When such hyper-alert policemen of the perimeter between church and state endorse the former but not the latter, they’re implicitly acknowledging that Islam is not merely a faith but a political project, too. There is an “Organization of the Islamic Conference,” which is already the largest single voting bloc at the U.N. and is still adding new members. Imagine if someone proposed an “Organization of the Christian Conference” that would hold summits attended by prime ministers and presidents, and vote as a bloc in transnational bodies. But, of course, there is no “Christian world”: Europe is largely post-Christian and, as President Obama bizarrely asserted to a European interviewer last week, America is “one of the largest Muslim countries in the world.” Perhaps we’re eligible for membership in the OIC.

The One Holy Orator

I suppose the benign interpretation is that, as head of state of the last superpower, Obama is indulging in a little harmless condescension. In his Cairo speech, he congratulated Muslims on inventing algebra and quoted approvingly one of the less bloodcurdling sections of the Koran. As socio-historical scholarship goes, I found myself recalling that moment in the long twilight of the Habsburg Empire when Crown Prince Rudolph and his mistress were found dead at the royal hunting lodge at Mayerling – either a double suicide, or something even more sinister. Happily, in the Broadway musical version, instead of being found dead, the star-crossed lovers emigrate to America and settle down on a farm in Pennsylvania. Recently, my old comrade Stephen Fry gave an amusing lecture at the Royal Geographical Society in London on the popular Americanism “When life hands you lemons, make lemonade” – or, if something’s bitter and hard to swallow, add sugar and sell it. That’s what the president did with Islam: He added sugar and sold it.

The speech nevertheless impressed many conservatives, including Rich Lowry, my esteemed editor at National Review, “esteemed editor” being the sort of thing one says before booting the boss in the crotch. Rich thought that the president succeeded in his principal task: “Fundamentally, Obama’s goal was to tell the Muslim world, ‘We respect and value you, your religion and your civilization, and only ask that you don’t hate us and murder us in return.’” But those terms are too narrow. You don’t have to murder a guy if he preemptively surrenders. And you don’t even have to hate him if you’re too busy despising him. The savvier Muslim potentates have no desire to be sitting in a smelly cave in the Hindu Kush sharing a latrine with a dozen halfwitted goatherds while plotting how to blow up the Empire State Building. Nevertheless, they share key goals with the cave dwellers – including the wish to expand the boundaries of “the Muslim world” and (as in the anti-blasphemy push at the U.N.) to place Islam, globally, beyond criticism. The non-terrorist advance of Islam is a significant challenge to western notions of liberty and pluralism.

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TR:  You knew this was coming, folks.  Hopenchange! – Identity politics at its worst.  No actual change except for its depth of contempt.  Since Faux-bama is a bona-fide Usurper of POTUS, is his Latina pick for SCOTUS not illegitimate?  And mustn’t she recuse herself from adjudicating The One’s own illegal status, as not being a Natural Born Citizen??

Sotomayor – Obama’s Latino Strategy Revealed

By Christopher Ruddy, Newsmax.com

Aztlan Returns!

President Barack Obama’s selection of Federal Appeals Court Judge Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court underscores his full-court-press “Latino strategy.”

Fox Newshost Geraldo Rivera said Monday morning that Sotomayor’s choice will make the Hispanic community “elated.” Of course, he’s right.

Obama’s political strategists also are elated.

The Sotomayor choice should be viewed through the prism of Obama’s presidential quest in 2008, as well as in view of his plans for re-election in 2012.

Obama’s Achilles’ heel – and Republicans need to reflect on this – is the Hispanic vote.

During the heated Democratic primary with Hillary Clinton, Obama lost every state with a large Latino population. Hillary carried the Hispanic Democratic vote overwhelmingly.

By getting supermajorities of Hispanics, Hillary won every large state primary – with the exception of Obama’s home state of Illinois.

What happened in Illinois is also instructive for background on the Sotomayor choice.

Exit polls taken during the Democratic primary there showed that Hispanics in Illinois went for Obama by 52 percent. Considering that Hillary had conceded the state to Obama – and she had put no resources there – Obama’s paltry victory was even more astounding considering he had been the state’s popular Democratic senator and well known to Hispanic voters there.

Clearly, Hispanic voters preferred the conservative Democratic choice, Hillary. Even after he was “anointed” the winner by the major media, Hispanics continued to vote in droves for Hillary who took the Democratic contest all the way to the end of the primary season.

While Obama went on to win Hispanic voters nationwide in his general election contest with John McCain – Obama won the Latino vote by 67 percent to McCain’s 31 percent – he has to recognize that the Latino vote remains a major vulnerability for him.

A large crossover of Hispanic voters to the GOP in the 2004 election cost John Kerry the presidency and gave George W. Bush a second term. While McCain received just 31 percent in 2008, Bush snagged an amazing 44 percent of the Hispanic vote in 2004.

Obama can’t let that happen again if he wants to remain in the White House.

This is why he is not only selecting Sotomayor, but also moving aggressively on issues such as giving amnesty to illegal aliens. Estimates place the number of illegal aliens in the nation at over 12 million.

Obama has stated he wants to put them on the “path to citizenship” as soon as he can – and he has promised legislation this year that will make that happen.

He wants to not only win over Latino voters with such a move, but also create a new supermajority for the Democratic voters.

Even if his plans to help illegals get citizenship yields 500,000 new voters by 2012, he and his party will likely have a lock on the White House for another term. But in all likelihood, he can add millions of new Hispanic voters to the election rolls over the next few years.

For the moment Senate Republicans need to tread carefully in attacking Sotomayor, the first Latino Supreme Court nominee. Attacks on her will redound in Obama’s favor, increasing his chances to win in 2012.

As liberal as she is, save a major scandal, Republicans will likely need to hold their noses and avoid a street brawl over her nomination.

Instead, Republicans need a strategy to counter Obama’s, which is viewed positively by the Hispanic vote. Hispanics are key for Obama and the Democrats, but they are also key for the Republicans – if they want to avoid being a minority party for a generation.

TR:  This story gives me a small glimmer of hope..

Letter of Amends from a Recovering Liberal in Berkeley

By Robin, American Thinker

Kumbayah.

Dear friends, family, loved ones, conservatives, Republicans, libertarians, my brother in law, Sam, and my cousin Joe: I am sorry and you were right.

These are not easy words for anyone to utter, much less a leftist from Berkeley, or a recovering leftist, that is. Even though I’ve been in recovery for 14 months, 2 weeks, and 3 days, leftists are always right in your face, in an I-hate-you-if-you-disagree sort of way. Hence, this letter of amends to all the people I’ve lectured, scolded, ranted and raved at, and otherwise annoyed during my 30 plus years of “progressive” politics.

My recovery program urges a fierce moral inventory, a cleansing of heart and mind (kind of like a “forgiveness tour” but without the scary dictators), so here goes:

To my brother in law, Sam, for blasting you in that Chinese restaurant for voting for Reagan, mea culpa.

To my cousin Joe for calling you a traitor when you became an MBA, started holding a real job (as opposed to most of us Berkeley types who are psychotherapists, massage therapists and aromatherapists), and became a conservative, my bad.

To my goddaughter whom I told when she was l0 years old that Republicans were bad, Democrats were good (yes I really did say this), and who got confused and tearful because she lives in a suburb where most people are Republicans, kid, what in the world was I thinking?

To my leftist friends, with whom I agreed that 9/ll was the US’s fault, you and I were all such jerks.

To those potential friends whom I dumped when I found out you were conservative, your gain is my loss.

To all those columnists and editors whom I harangued with angry letters and e mails, sorry, sorry, sorry.

And finally to me, Robin, for installing you for the last 27 years in the far left cult of the People’s Republic of Berkeley, where Patty Hearst was kidnapped by the SLA, where the Black Panthers had their violent beginnings and the heads of the Black Muslims are jailed for murder and rape, my apologies, girl.

I didn’t know any better. I thought the whole world lived in areas where the streets are filthy, aggressive street behavior is allowed because the perps are victims of capitalism, and where you can easily get mugged walking down a street or eating in a restaurant at noon. (By the way, with the Left in charge, expect gangs, crime, indoctrination of 5 year olds and general anarchy to be coming soon to a neighborhood near you.)

Given that the media is pretty much censored (good luck finding a conservative book in your local “independent” book store or hearing a Republican speak anywhere), you didn’t know that a party of grown ups even existed that didn’t advocate screaming at others as the preferred mode of communication. So to my dear Robin, apologies for what I put you through, what I deprived you of, and my pledge to do better.

Cousin Joe, Sam, et al, you may be wondering how I did a l80 in 1 1/2 years. How did I go from a rabid, sanctimonious liberal whom you steadfastly avoided at family gatherings to a fan of Limbaugh, Hannity, and Savage? Recovery encourages us to share our story, so here’s mine:

In February of 2008, I saw a new client, a bright and sensitive young woman who came in looking like she just escaped a war zone. In some ways she had; she had innocently shared with others at her job that she voted for Hillary rather than Obama. Immediately she was being targeted for abuse that put her in fear for not only her job, but her life.

We both suddenly became aware that something had grown really dark in the Democratic Party. I started hearing about many other incidents where loyal Democrats were being physically and emotionally threatened for supporting Hillary. A woman in Berkeley had her front window broken because it displayed a poster of Hillary. Randi Rhodes, an Air America talk show leftist, called Hillary a f______ witch. (Rhodes was recently promoted to a national talk radio show, illustrating another disturbing trend: the deafening silence about what Rush Limbaugh has dubbed the new “thug-ocracy.)

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ThoughtRogue:  Here’s a quick visual summary of the wonders of Obanomics!  Any Questions?

Slavery IS Freedom! Obanomics.

TR:  Now, GWB was not the most eloquent speaker ever, but he could always speak from the heart using plain, Texas language which was easily accessible to everyone.  Contrast this to our current Usurper-in-Chief, our POTUS, nay our UOTUS, now our TROTUS who is fatally addicted to being fed someone else’s words via the TOTUS.  Watch as he and his speech literally grind to a halt as he gets ahead of the words fed to him on his Teleprompter.  Note the nervous laughter of the audience, as they cannot comprehend that he’s lost his way and must prompt his Teleprompter operator to leap ahead with him…

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