More….I want more….and the hits just keep coming…..
This one is from one time KKK Grand Wizard, state legislature, inmate and whatever else he did, my fav bigot, David Duke. When speaking on the new RNC leader Steele, who is an African-American.
Former Klansman David Duke, who ran for governor of Louisiana, is blasting the newly appointed chairman of the Republican Party as a “black racist.”
To my readers–looks like a great year for stupid statements by the usual idiots.
Apparently CNN came to their senses that is why Glenn Beck is now regurgitating his made up news for the home of made up news–FOX.
But stupidity can only go so far and in this case he may well be on his way to an “Assie” award.
During the January 30 broadcast of his Fox News program, Glenn Beck falsely suggested that the Obama administration has named a program it is reportedly planning to establish to purchase toxic assets from private banks the “Bad Asset Repository Fund — BARF.” Beck later stated: “When you got a group of people that can’t figure out the acronym bill would be BARF, I think maybe we should change the name. Don’t you think that, really, we should stop listening to these people?” Beck offered no source for his statement, but on-screen text accompanying that segment read: “FORBES: ‘BAD BANK’ = BARF; BAD ASSET REPOSITORY FUND.” But the January 29 Forbes.com article that referenced the acronym BARF did not attribute it to the Obama administration, as Beck suggested. In fact, in the article — titled “Here Comes the BARF” — reporter Liz Moyer specifically noted that “[t]hey haven’t named it yet” before going on to write that it “would be truth in advertising” to call “a federal ‘bad bank’ to soak up toxic assets the Bad Asset Repository Fund.”
But Beck went on and on about how the guys in the Obama Admin should “get it”.
Maybe these guys should try to remember that this is the decade of “gotcha” media, that whatever they say can and will come back and bite a big chunk out of their collective asses.
Dammit! Dammit! Here is a guy with the IQ of a garden slug and he is being used to generate interest in the GOP? Basically, as a GOP strategist. And you still think the GOP has a chance to return to its former glory?
As reported in the Politico.com
Fresh off his stint as a war correspondent in Gaza, Joe the Plumber is now doing political strategy with Republicans.
When GOP congressional aides gather Tuesday morning for a meeting of the Conservative Working Group, Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher – more commonly known as Joe the Plumber — will be their featured guest. This group is an organization of conservative Capitol Hill staffers who meet regularly to chart GOP strategy for the week.
Wurzelbacher, who became a household name during the presidential election, will be focusing his talk on the proposed stimulus package. He’s apparently not a fan of the economic rescue package, according to members of the group.
If nothing else, GOP aides are using the appearance to get staffers to attend the 9 a.m meeting.
“In case you weren’t planning to attend CWG tomorrow morning, you might want to reconsider because Joe the Plumber will be joining us!” Kimberly Wallner, an aide to South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint, wrote in a message to her e-mail list this afternoon.
Hey conservatives! Why would you want to use a fraud to generate interst in your party? Is this what you want for the GOP? If so, then you may be dooming the GOP to a place in history along side the Whig Party.
To answer the question first…..yep…looks like the banks will get their cash cow…..
U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said the department is considering a “range of options” for its financial rescue plan, with the goal of preserving the private banking system.
“We have a financial system that is run by private shareholders, managed by private institutions, and we’d like to do our best to preserve that system,” he told reporters today in Washington.
“We are putting together what we hope will be a comprehensive plan for helping repair the financial system and bring recovery as a critical component to the president’s commitment to get growth going again and bring the economy back on track,” Geithner said.
Under the plan, which Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is expected to announce within the next two weeks, the government will buy up virtually worthless mortgage-backed securities and other “toxic” assets held by the banks and provide guarantees against future losses for much of their remaining assets. It will also continue to inject cash directly into the banks.
Well aware of popular opposition to the Wall Street bailout, the White House and the media are engaged in a calculated campaign to soften up public opinion and pave the way for a taxpayer handout to the financial elite even bigger than the $700 billion already doled out in the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), which was rushed through Congress last autumn with the support of then-presidential candidate Obama. The total cost of government cash infusions, loans and guarantees to the major banks and financial firms, already estimated at $8 trillion, will soar even higher, by far eclipsing the money allocated in the so-called stimulus and recovery program.
Indeed, one of the purposes of the stimulus package is to provide political cover, in the form of aid to “Main Street,” for the offloading of Wall Street’s losses onto the American people. Meanwhile, the stimulus plan, which does nothing to halt the destruction of jobs or the wave of home foreclosures, but includes lucrative tax write-offs for business and funnels government projects to private companies, is being weakened further at the behest of Wall Street and congressional Republicans. It is now reported that Obama has dropped a provision that would allow bankruptcy judges to lower the principal and ease mortgage terms for distressed homeowners.
The new bank bailout, like every measure that has been devised in response to the financial meltdown, will be tailored entirely to the interests of the financial aristocracy. Under the terms of the plan, as outlined in various press reports, the bad assets accumulated through speculation and fraud will be transferred to a “bad bank” owned by the government. The government will buy these assets not at their actual market value, which is pennies on the dollar, but, according to the Financial Times, on the basis of a “valuation model,” guaranteeing premium prices for bank executives and big shareholders.
It is all too easy……that is, to get the American people confused enough to allow Wall Street a free hand. They, the Obama group, keep saying that all will be transparent with the website revcovery.gov. How wonderful…the only problem is that it is not up and running yet….so transparency will have to just wait a little longer.
The RNC has picked a new leader and the GOP is looking for a direction they should travel to win elections again…..but what will that direction be? The moderate approach did not work in 2008. Will they return to their old ways or invent themselves anew?
Maybe I can help them out…….these are a few of the random thoughts I had for the GOP.
sanctity of life–The pre-born child, whose life begins at fertilization, is a human being created in God’s image. The first duty of the law is to prevent the shedding of innocent blood. It is, therefore, the duty of all civil governments to secure and to safeguard the lives of the pre-born.
To that end, the Constitution of these United States was ordained and established for “ourselves and our posterity.” Under no circumstances may the federal government fund or otherwise support any state or local government or any organization or entity, foreign or domestic, which advocates, encourages or participates in the practice of abortion. We also oppose the distribution and use of all abortifacients.
Defense–It is a primary obligation of the federal government to provide for the common defense, and to be vigilant regarding potential threats, prospective capabilities, and perceived intentions of potential enemies.
We oppose unilateral disarmament and dismemberment of America’s defense infrastructure. That which is hastily torn down will not be easily rebuilt.
right to bear arms–The right to bear arms is inherent in the right of self defense, defense of the family, and defense against tyranny, conferred on the individual and the community by our Creator to safeguard life, liberty, and property, as well as to help preserve the independence of the nation.
The right to keep and bear arms is guaranteed by the Second Amendment to the Constitution; it may not properly be infringed upon or denied.
welfare–God, who endows us with life, liberty, property, and the right to pursue happiness, also exhorts individuals to care for the needy, the sick, the homeless, the aged, and those who are otherwise unable to care for themselves.
America’s welfare crisis is a government-induced crisis. Government social and cultural policies have undermined the work ethic, even as the government’s economic and regulatory policies have undermined the ability of our citizens to obtain work.
As I have said these are just some random issues that I think would help the GOP out…..a good list…WAIT!
My bad… that is from the platform of the Constitution Party….oops….sorry!
In these trying economic times this could be the answer. Looking for a way to head the approaching economic hurricane?
Resource-poor Japan just discovered a new source of mineral wealth — sewage.
A sewage treatment facility in central Japan has recorded a higher gold yield from sludge than can be found at some of the world’s best mines.
An official in Nagano prefecture, northwest of Tokyo, said the high percentage of gold found at the Suwa facility was probably due to the large number of precision equipment manufacturers in the vicinity that use the yellow metal.
The facility recently recorded finding 1,890 grams of gold per tonne of ash from incinerated sludge.
That is a far higher gold content than Japan’s Hishikari Mine, one of the world’s top gold mines, owned by Sumitomo Metal Mining, which contains 20-40 grams of the precious metal per tonne of ore.
The prefecture is so far due to receive 5 million yen (39,075 pounds) for the gold, minus expenses.
It expects to earn about 15 million yen for the fiscal year to the end of March from the gold it has retrieved from the ashes of incinerated sludge.
Some gold industry officials expect prices this year to top the all-time high above $1,030 per ounce set in 2008, on buying by investors worried about the deepening economic downturn.
And here you thought that sh!t was just so much sh!t………..