JSM'S BEGGING FOR BANNING THREAD #2

[no rose colored glasses]

 

[islandmonkey]

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Amen sista

[Fanny Mae]

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[Fanny Mae]

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=8163051&page=1   

Oh my. 

You know we a glimpse of the real O' the other night.Unscripted answer to a unplanned question.IMO   

Yep! 

[trimmonthelake]

I got knocked out of the cage on that one.   

[Fanny Mae]

I got knocked out of the cage on that one.   

Me too. I was still dancing though.   

[no rose colored glasses]

I got knocked out after I posted a post in Caylee's thread. After I read Blink's article again, and George buying the gun, is it just me, or does it appear that George was going to threaten Casey with the gun or worse 

[Fanny Mae]

I got knocked out after I posted a post in Caylee's thread. After I read Blink's article again, and George buying the gun, is it just me, or does it appear that George was going to threaten Casey with the gun or worse 

Sure seems that way to me. That's why the excuse he bought it to protect themselves from the protestors didn't fly with me. If it was in the car, how was he going to do that? Maybe he was going to start with Spindy. 

[no rose colored glasses]

I got knocked out after I posted a post in Caylee's thread. After I read Blink's article again, and George buying the gun, is it just me, or does it appear that George was going to threaten Casey with the gun or worse 

Sure seems that way to me. That's why the excuse he bought it to protect themselves from the protestors didn't fly with me. If it was in the car, how was he going to do that? Maybe he was going to start with Spindy. 

  I can't believe I'm going to say I'm shocked, but I am. I really thought he was going to use it on himself, never once did I think he would have used it or threaten Casey with it. Sometimes I am so naive, it scares me 

[trimmonthelake]

http://www.foxnews.com/
Cambridge Police Unit Demands Apology From Obama for 'Stupidly' Remark
The Cambridge and area police unions voiced their support Friday for Sgt. James Crowley and demanded an apology from President Obama for saying officers "acted stupidly" for arresting black Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. at his home.

FOXNews.com

Friday, July 24, 2009
The Cambridge and area police unions voiced their support Friday for Sgt. James Crowley and demanded an apology from President Obama for saying officers "acted stupidly" for arresting black Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. at his home.

"His remarks were obviously misdirected but made it worse yet by suggesting somehow this case should remind us of a history of racial abuse by law enforcement," Dennis O'Connor, president of the Cambridge Police Superior Officers Association, said at a news conference.

"Whatever may be the history, we deeply resent the implications and reject any suggestion that in this case or any other case that they've allowed a person's race to direct their activities. However we hope they will reflect upon their past comments and apologize to the men and women of the Cambridge Police Department."

At a news conference Friday, union leaders said Crowley acted appropriately when he arrested the scholar for disorderly conduct. Police say Gates flew into a rage when officers responding to a report of a burglary asked him to show identification.

Obama said the officers "acted stupidly." Patrick, the state's first black governor, said the arrest was "every black man's nightmare."

White House spokesman Roberts Gibbs said Friday that Obama regrets that the media have gotten all worked up over the controversy and been distracted from other more substantive issues such as health care.

Obama's remarks sparked outrage among many police officers who say the criticism could make it harder for police to work with people of color and set back the progress of race relations that helped Obama become the nation's first black president.

Gates was arrested July 16 by Sgt. James Crowley, who was first to respond to the home the renowned black scholar rents from Harvard, after a woman reported seeing two black men trying to force open the front door. Gates said he had to shove the door open because it was jammed.

He was charged with disorderly conduct after police said he yelled at the white officer, accused him of racial bias and refused to calm down after Crowley demanded Gates show him identification to prove he lived in the home. The charge was dropped Tuesday, but Gates has demanded an apology, calling his arrest a case of racial profiling.

Obama was asked about Gates' arrest at the end of a nationally televised news conference on health care Wednesday night and began his response by saying Gates was a friend and he didn't have all the facts.

"But I think it's fair to say, No. 1, any of us would be pretty angry," Obama said. "No. 2, that the Cambridge police acted stupidly in arresting somebody when there was already proof that they were in their own home. And No. 3 -- what I think we know separate and apart from this incident -- is that there is a long history in this country of African-Americans and Latinos being stopped by law enforcement disproportionately, and that's just a fact."

[no rose colored glasses]

     What a mess. Even if Obama apologizes, he won't mean it anyway. Well, at least the health care reform took a back seat to this. 

[trimmonthelake]

I got knocked out after I posted a post in Caylee's thread. After I read Blink's article again, and George buying the gun, is it just me, or does it appear that George was going to threaten Casey with the gun or worse 

Sure seems that way to me. That's why the excuse he bought it to protect themselves from the protestors didn't fly with me. If it was in the car, how was he going to do that? Maybe he was going to start with Spindy. 

  I can't believe I'm going to say I'm shocked, but I am. I really thought he was going to use it on himself, never once did I think he would have used it or threaten Casey with it. Sometimes I am so naive, it scares me 

More to this than what we've heard.   

[trimmonthelake]

     What a mess. Even if Obama apologizes, he won't mean it anyway. Well, at least the health care reform took a back seat to this. 

Let's see what else they can come up with.   

[no rose colored glasses]

I got knocked out after I posted a post in Caylee's thread. After I read Blink's article again, and George buying the gun, is it just me, or does it appear that George was going to threaten Casey with the gun or worse 

Sure seems that way to me. That's why the excuse he bought it to protect themselves from the protestors didn't fly with me. If it was in the car, how was he going to do that? Maybe he was going to start with Spindy. 

  I can't believe I'm going to say I'm shocked, but I am. I really thought he was going to use it on himself, never once did I think he would have used it or threaten Casey with it. Sometimes I am so naive, it scares me 

More to this than what we've heard.   

WTH, I'm afraid to know in a way, now I'm wondering if George was going to go crazy in the house with the gun? Boy, I sure hope we get to read the bounty hunter info 

[trimmonthelake]

University of South Florida in Tampa ...
Gunman on campus..............

[islandmonkey]

     What a mess. Even if Obama apologizes, he won't mean it anyway. Well, at least the health care reform took a back seat to this. 

And, he just added one more thing he's done that pizzes me off

[trimmonthelake]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090724/ap_on_go_co/us_health_care_overhaul
House Dems threaten floor vote to break impasse
18 mins ago
WASHINGTON – A powerful House committee chairman threatened on Friday to force a floor vote to break the impasse within Democratic ranks over President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, a drastic step that could roil the House.

[joesamas mama]

Good Afternoon Monkeys. I have been away from the cage. Good thing, Obama will make me really rant this afternoon.

I need to go home, get a beer and go to the pool. 

[trimmonthelake]

http://www.usf.edu/index.asp

Emergency:
USF Tampa—Reports of a gunman on campus in lot 2 near Bioscience building. Police enroute. Stay inside and lock doors. Avoid area.

[trimmonthelake]

http://www.bloggernews.net/121690

Obama in the UK

When President Obama visited the UK he was quite a hit as evidenced by the ‘wall-to-wall’ news coverage but they, as well as us, have had a better chance to digest his policies and it seems to be common knowledge that Obama’s once brilliant aura is beginning to dim.

A scathing article in the London Telegraph (linked below) by the noted British author and commentator, Gerald Warner, looks at the Obama Presidency and hits hard on the major milestones (if that’s what you want to call them):

His Popularity:

    “Are the people rejecting their saviour? Barack Obama’s approval rating has slipped to below that of George “Dubya” Bush at the same stage in his presidency and this is causing some concern among right-thinking (by which, of course, I mean left-thinking) people.”

His Economic Package:

    “How is it with the economic rescue package? Terrific – if you are a Wall Street banker. But if you happen to belong to that uncovenanted majority of the population, the lumpen salariat, you may be coming to the conclusion that crossing FDR’s depression-prolonging New Deal with LBJ’s Great Society is not the answer to your problems.”

(”lumpen salariat” those who are struggling to ‘move up’ in their careers).

His Healthcare Plan:

    “It is no longer Republicans who are the problem about getting this package through Congress: it is Democrats. Even the American left balks at a socialist scheme for health care that would have had Nye Bevan shouting “Hold on a moment!” Your brainchild, Barack — enjoy.

(Nye Bevan: The primary architect of Britan’s National Health Service.)

His Foreign Policy:

    “American foreign policy is beginning very satisfactorily to fill the vacuum left by the Soviet Union. The Obama administration has set itself the objective of establishing Marxist regimes in the remaining democratic states of Latin America.They tell me Barack Obama was a lawyer. They also told us he was a democrat. Yet the Honduran crisis is a direct confrontation between Jeffersonian and Bolivarian principles, in which the President of the United States has chosen the Bolivarian (more bluntly, the Marxist) option.”

(Bolivarian refers to Simón Bolívar, an early 19th century Venezuelan and Latin American revolutionary leader, prominent in the South American Wars of Independence. His philosophy is espoused by the current flock of Latin American dictators.)

Mr. Warner ends with a grim reminder:

    “Three and a half more years to go — this could get very interesting.”

I found this criticism from the other side of the ‘pond’ particularly interesting in light of the several articles in the last few days like this one that proclaims “U.S. image abroad surges under Obama”.

These articles point out that we are still a long way from being “popular” in the Muslim world but most of the rest of the world likes the US better under Obama than they did under George W. Bush. Well of course they do! Obama has been round the world telling everyone about, and apologizing for, all the “mistakes” we have made in the past and how we are now the friendlier, gentler nation. That must make those who think that Democracy is ‘obscene’, much happier. That must make those who have ambitions to destroy our Democratic system much more relaxed.

I wonder, Mr. Warner, if we can survive another three and a half years!