Chris Christie's Jersey Attitude

Thursday, 13 January 2011 11:12 Alan Caruba

It’s the curse of having sat through too many local town council meetings and too many speeches by politicians; it’s taking notes as they speak because you want to keep what’s said fresh in mind. Regular folks don’t do this, but anyone who has spent any time as a reporter will tell you it is a hard habit to break.

So, on Tuesday, January 11, I found myself taking notes as New Jersey Governor, Chris Christie, gave his first constitutionally required State of the State speech. He will be back in February with a speech about his budget. It was delivered to the members of the New Jersey Senate and Assembly, mostly Democrats; all of whom had learned in the previous year that the Governor was a jolly, fat buzz-saw who just loves a good fight.

Gov. Christie was preceded by two of the worst Governors in current times, Jim McGreevey who discovered he was gay after he put his boyfriend on the payroll and the whispers in the statehouse became a raging storm. He was followed by Jon Corzine, a limousine liberal. Together they increased taxes and fees 115 times in eight years! In a single term in office, Corzine raised taxes $9 billion!  Read More

Obamacare: Stop the Hand-Wringing and Nullify!

LOOK TO THE U.S. CONSTITUTION AND ITS FRAMERS

by Jim Delaney
Thomas Jefferson was an advocate of states' rights and citizen participation in government
(Jan. 14, 2011)

Recently, two federal judges ruled in favor of Obamacare while a federal jurist in Virginia ruled against it. Huh? One must seriously question whether or not these guys are all reading the same Constitution I have before me.

In any event, I honestly cannot fathom nor can I abide all the needless hand-wringing and drama over the constitutionality of Obamacare. Of course it’s not constitutional! Going forward then, exactly what’s the most likely end game of the 20 or so Attorneys General who are suing the Administration over this latest federal intrusion in our lives?

First off, when our political system fails us, we should all remember that in the final analysis “we the people” are the final arbiters with respect to what is and what is not constitutional. Also, under the 9th and 10th Amendments, the States are implicitly within their constitutional authority to simply nullify any unconstitutional federal law, ruling or regulation. I won’t mince words here: anyone who disputes this assertion either is not an objective student of the Constitution or of American history, or is driven by an alien ideological agenda altogether.  Read More

The State of the Union

Brasscheck TV
1/15/2011

From the Desk of Harold Poole ...News with Attitude

Assassination attempt on Saturday…

Pep rally with newly made commemorative t-shirst on Wednesday.

Who says the Bushbama administration can’t get things done?

And what about Ms. Palin?

She QUIT her job as Governor of Alaska and is now the star of a reality TV show…and yet news commentators can’t get enough of her opinion on current events.

Meanwhile, the price of gas and food heads up relentlessly – but there’s no inflation.

Real unemployment is well north of 15% and without any hope of improvement – but it’s not a Depression.

Sounds like the last days of a Banana Republic to me.

While the news media spins endless nonsense, here’s a bulletin from the world of reality that’s eventually going to bring everyone back to earth.

From our friends at Real Econ TV …..

Top ten violence-inducing prescription drugs

Study reveals top ten violence-inducing prescription drugs

Saturday, January 15, 2011 by: Ethan A. Huff, staff writer

NaturalNews) The Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) recently published a study in the journal PLoS One highlighting the worst prescription drug offenders that cause patients to become violent. Among the top-ten most dangerous are the antidepressants Pristiq (desvenlafaxine), Paxil (paroxetine) and Prozac (fluoxetine).

Concerns about the extreme negative side effects of many popular antidepressant and antipsychotic drugs have been on the rise, as these drugs not only cause severe health problems to users, but also pose a significant threat to society. The ISMP report indicates that, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) Adverse Event Reporting System, many popular drugs are linked even to homicides.

Most of the drugs in the top ten most dangerous are antidepressants, but also included are an insomnia medication, an attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) drug, a malaria drug and an anti-smoking medication.   Read More

Beck: I’m begging you to get prepared

Posted by therightscoop on Jan 14, 2011

"Responding to outrageous comments made by top libtalker Thom Hartman, a passionate monologue ensues from Beck who sees a coming crisis that nobody is talking about and he is begging us to get ready.

This is easily one of his best monologues lately. Enjoy!"  Read More and Listen

Frances Fox Piven: The Tea Party Is All About Sex

AZ Memorial T-Shirt Slogan Came From DNC

Rush: AZ Memorial T-Shirt Slogan Came From DNC’s Organizing for America

The presence of tee-shirts branded with the tragedy of last weekend’s Arizona shootings raised the eyebrows of many onlookers who worried the shooting was being subjected to politicization. A group of Arizona students has taken credit for the tee-shirt design and motto, but many are suggesting the “Together We Thrive” motto actually came from Organizing for America, the campaign arm of the Democratic National Committee.   Read More

Choked by Human BS

If you feel like you are being choked by Human BS

How Americans Have Lost the Sense of Evil

January 14, 2011
See No Evil
By Robin of Berkeley

One of the first books that made me thirst for God was, ironically, about His polar opposite. The book is Andrew Delbanco's The Death of Satan: How Americans Have Lost the Sense of Evil.

The author describes the disastrous results of Americans rejecting the concept of evil. When Satan was alive and well, citizens practiced the Ten Commandments, atoned for their sins, and worried about eternal damnation. But today, inhabitants eschew the devil as an anachronism of days gone by.

And what has been the result of the death of Satan? More bloodshed than ever before in the history of humankind. In the 20th century alone, hundreds of millions of people were murdered by genocidal regimes.

And yet, why would banishing Satan result in a less civilized society? Because without an understanding about how good and evil work, people are stripped of Divine intelligence.   Read More

Total Control Over The People

'TOGETHER WE THRIVE' SHOULD BE 'TOGETHER WE DIE'

By Dr. Laurie Roth
January 14, 2011
NewsWithViews.com

It just continues to get worse in Obama’s ‘syrupy’ manipulative way. His talk with folks in Arizona was nothing but a continued political campaign and war against conservatives. It was also an Obama worship shrine with bold emphasis on ‘togetherness’ and ‘consensus’ which is the new code speak for nothing but censorship!

In a time of tragedy where folks under normal conditions would benefit and desire inspirational and supportive words from their President, what did they get? T shirts placed on every seat saying “Together we Thrive.” That is nothing but a back handed insult and attack against the Tea Party folks and most of Americans these days that don’t want ‘together with him’ and what’s left of this radical administration’ anymore. The families of the victims and guests wanted to morn and honor the victims, not to be manipulated into another political rally for Obama and progressive leftists.

I heard a caller on talk radio call it perfectly when she said the push for consensus is really censorship. I couldn’t agree more. Now, the cuddly push for togetherness and unity is the classic, manipulative smoothness of most communist dictators, especially towards the beginning of total take overs. The idea is to get everyone on board to help the needy, the poor, the disenfranchised, the women, children and the elderly.

It is much easier to move the masses where you want, steal money and freedoms if people think in their hearts they are helping and doing the right thing for their country or ‘rock star’ leader. Once the manipulated folks start to get used to the smooth rhetoric, less money and freedom, like cattle they get used to being told what they will believe, what they will do and how they will spend what is left of their money. Is that what you want?  Read More

Memorial Service a campaign rally or a rock concert

"From the start, the atmosphere resembled a collective exhibition of bizarrely inappropriate responses and paraphernalia."

January 13, 2011
Was that a memorial service a or a pep rally?
Doug Lucas

Well, the cult members were out in full force tonight in Arizona. I was ashamed and disgusted by the spectacle that was called a memorial service.

President Obama's speech was fine, as always. He read the teleprompter with eloquence and did a fine chin in the air impersonation of Che Guevara, as usual. His words were appropriate for the most part and he rose above the political fray by making a point of chiding people that were playing the blame game.

My beef is not with Obama this time. It is his mindless minions in the crowd that draws my ire. Apparently the crowd was mainly composed of university students and from what I could gather they had already started tapping kegs for the wake.

This was more like an Arsenio Hall show than a memorial service. Catcalls, standing ovations, whistling and the whoop, whoop, whoop of the crowd dominated the night. What should have been a somber occasion for reflection turned into another Obama pep rally. It was as if these students had their guy up on stage and by God they weren't about to let a national tragedy get in the way of them having a good time and cheering on their messiah.

If these kids are our future then we are well and truly screwed.

Contributor Patricia McCarthy adds:

I've just watched the "memorial" service for those killed and wounded in Tucson. How are we to explain the lack of decorum and reverence displayed by that audience? Did those students forget that the families of the dead and wounded were in the room? Do they not understand the meaning of the word "murdered"? Is not everyone who watched horrified by the whistling, hooting cheerfulness of that crowd?

The audience turned what was to be a memorial into something between a campaign rally and a rock concert. They should all be ashamed of themselves. The event called for honor and quiet respect, not hooting and hollering for a celebrity. Perhaps it was the free t-shirts that set the tone.  Read More

Poll: 71% of Americans oppose raising the debt ceiling

posted at 12:55 pm on January 13, 2011 by Ed Morrissey

Has the mainstream gone Tea Party, or the Tea Party gone mainstream?  Despite warnings from the White House of the “deeply irresponsible” nature of “play[ing] chicken” with the national debt-limit ceiling, a Reuters poll of adults shows almost three-quarters of Americans opposed to further increases in the statutory borrowing cap.  Read More

America: Death by 'Intelligence,' Rebirth by 'Ignorance'

"Because in Obama's America, membership in an official elite trumps commonsense solutions, fact-based knowledge, and Judeo-Christian respect for individuals"

January 13, 2011
America: Death by 'Intelligence,' Rebirth by 'Ignorance'
By Stuart Schwartz

Ignorance. You gotta love it, because "ignorance" -- as seen by elitists -- is what will save the United States. Washington needs citizens of average intelligence who can take back government, a horde of drooling dimwits -- the kind that needs to be "nudged" into officially certified behavior by government dictate, says Obama's regulation czar and Harvard law professor Cass Sunstein -- to save it from the "smart" people. We're talking here of outside-the-Beltway dimwits that Time magazine columnist Joe Klein calls "too dumb to thrive" without the guidance of government-sanctioned behavior and policies such as carbon taxes, internet content restricted by regulation, and laws governing what and how much to eat.

Are you out of your mind, you ask? You want to turn Washington over to ordinary people, the stupid people "with short attention spans," as the sage of Yale -- also known as Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts -- sees them? Short answer: Yes. Long answer: Yes, because those considered dimwitted by our elites -- ordinary people with ordinary lives and ordinary education -- are savvy enough to defy what passes for wisdom in the New York-Washington corridor and recover both the soul and sense of a nation.
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The answer is: Those without shame

January 13, 2011
American Thinker
Lee Cary

I'm retired now, but once upon a time, as a church pastor, I was called on to conduct funerals and memorial services. All too often.

I never saw them as opportunities to convert any possible unbelievers in attendance, exaggerate the virtues of the deceased, or advance some localized ecclesiastical agenda. That's not what they're about.

Funerals and memorial services are about looking beyond the moment where the cold immediacy of death has taken hold, and toward whatever divine, otherworldly, or transcendent beliefs are held by, most importantly, the family, but also their friends.

When the October 2002 memorial service for the late Senator Paul Wellstone (D. MN) turned into a political pep rally, many were offended. But who realistically expected it to be anything other than that? In that extravaganza, dignity was only moderately conspicuous by its absence. To paraphrase Rahm Emanuel: The goal is to never pass up an opportunity to take partisan advantage of a prominent politician's death.

It's happened again, this hijacking of mourning for political purposes, but this time the assault on dignity is more egregious. This time the props are innocent murdered civilians. And, this time they include a little girl.

Never mind what the President said last night. It was flat, harmless, boilerplate stuff, with no timeless, memorable quotes. It was the overall branding of the event, including special-event T-shirts (who bought them?), accompanied by applause as the various dignitaries entered the arena for the political theater, and the hob-knobbing that accompanies the gather of pols that collectively represented yet another amazing exercise of uncommonly bad taste by our political elite.  Read More

The Power & Danger of Iconography