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Isn't it ironic...
Isn't it ironic that:
1) Super Bowl Champion Baltimore Raven's Ray Lewis - suspect in a murder trial in 2000 - and father of six children with four different women - declares himself to be a "Christian? thanks the Lord for the opportunity to play in the Super Bowl victory.? Yet, was Lewis ever put under the scrutiny that Tim Tebow - also a Christian, (lacking the notorious background of Lewis) suffered at the hands of the media and the usual anti-religious crowd? Was Lewis made fun of the way Tebow was? No. Why not? Could there be a racist element at play here?
2) Obama and his Administration, famous for going after "waterboarding" as some sort of horrific torture device which needed to be done away with to protect the "rights" of terrorists, now want to institute a plan in which Americans who may or may not be terrorists can be killed by drones. OK. I get it. It's NOT OK to use "enhanced interrogation techniques" against known terrorists, but it IS OK just to kill people - including Americans - who may or may not be terrorists?
3) No one can criticize First Queen Michelle Obama's large derrière, but it is OK for Ms. Obama to dictate to school cafeterias across the country what they can and cannot serve to students in order for the students to "be healthy."
4) So Beyonce (BFF of Obama) has to lip-synch the national anthem at her buddies recent coronation, yet she can belt out her own tunes at the Super Bowl halftime show??? What's up with that? Oh, I do suppose that like Obama, she probably could have cared less about The Star-Spangled Banner and what it means, when her own hits are much more important to the uninformed masses...
5) The Obama administration that is so busy right now clamping down on the 2nd Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens had no problem giving guns to members of Mexican drug cartels with reckless abandon. The guns passed along to criminals during Obama's "Fast and Furious" operation have been used to kill innocent people who got in the way of the Mexican drug wars AND an American ATF agent. Strange how little is reported anymore about the "Fast and Furious" operation, yet we heard on a daily basis how the rights of the law-abiding American citizens must be curtailed when it comes to guns...
6) The Democrats are famous for trying to legislate and create laws pertaining to every little aspect of people's daily lives, yet when it comes to enforcing such laws and punishing criminals in the process, what happens? Well, Dems are pretty soft on crime to begin with, and do tend to side with the criminals in many cases rather than the victims. So what good are all the laws on this and that anyhow if they are not enforced?
And last but not least - isn't it ironic:
How "affordable" health care for all (aka: Obamacare) is going to be so darn unaffordable?!?!?!
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118 Comments
ExToDResident - Feb 08, 2013 12:58 PM
“Wow! Extodres is delusional. Vote on the Patriot Act was almost unanimous:
Senate: 98 For, 1 Against...House: 357 For, 66 Against”
Delusional? Just because it passed with an almost unanimous vote?
Do you even understand the meaning of the word?
You see you have the word usage wrong I was not deluded like you and Hemmer into supporting a program which is the greatest infringement on civil liberties.
I revise what I said to say; Mucho and Hemmer have shown themselves to be completely comfortable with surrendering liberties for security so they deserve neither.
ExToDResident - Feb 08, 2013 1:13 PM
Removing the vitriol we get; “…out for being in favor of a law that passed with such an overwhelming majority of both Houses puts her in the mainstream”
So you are saying that since the “law” passed with an “overwhelming majority” it should just be accepted and not questioned?
And that those that support a bill that passed with an “overwhelming majority” represent the “mainstream”?
MGarber - Feb 08, 2013 1:15 PM
If you dont think too good, please dont think too much.
"Obama can do no wrong by you."
???????????????????
"When a Governor you hate ....."
I have no problem with Walker. You have me confused with another of your boogeymen.
".... impacts 280,000 workers with a fiscally necessary policy, it is time to protest. When your beloved President promotes worse to 316,000 workers, you look the other way."
Listen up, Einstein, the Postal Service cuts were the idea of the Postal Service, and they're LONG overdue due to actual fiscal necessity. Besides, its just a meager 17%.
Which Post Office branch do you work at??
ExToDResident - Feb 08, 2013 1:27 PM
“”These enhanced surveillance powers license law enforcement officials to peer into Americans' most private reading, research, and communications. Several of the Act's hastily passed provisions not only violate the privacy and confidentiality rights of those using public libraries and bookstores, but sweep aside constitutional checks and balances by authorizing intelligence agencies (which are within the executive branch of government) to gather information in situations that may be completely unconnected to a potential criminal proceeding (which is part of the judicial branch of government). The constitutional requirement of search warrants, to be issued by judges, is one such check on unbridled executive power. In addition to the dangers to democracy from such unbridled executive power, it is not clear that these enhanced investigative capabilities will make us safer, for under the new provisions, far more information is going to the same intelligence agencies that were failing to manage the ocean of information they collected prior to September 11.
We do not know how the USA PATRIOT Act and related measures have been applied in libraries, bookstores, and other venues because the gag order bars individuals from making that information public. The executive branch has refused to answer inquiries from members of the House and Senate Judiciary Committees, and from civil liberties groups under the Freedom of Information Act, regarding the incidence of surveillance activities, except an admission of snooping in libraries by FBI agents.””
http://www.fepproject.org/commentaries/patriotact.html
ahemmer - Feb 08, 2013 1:32 PM
ExToDResident - Feb 08, 2013 1:41 PM
“Although the law has been enjoined from taking effect for November's election, this editorial board is against the law for three reasons. First, this law is an infringement on the fundamental right to vote because it is putting additional unnecessary barriers before an individual can exercise his or her right to vote. Second, the timing of the law is likely to cause voter disenfranchisement. And, third, this law is likely to disenfranchise traditionally marginalized members in our society”
http://www.law.com/jsp/pa/PubArticlePA.jsp?id=1202576240873&slreturn=20130108143441
MGarber - Feb 08, 2013 1:45 PM
Amy, what RIGHTS under Obama have you -personally - lost?
What firearms have you -personally - had taken away?
What marriage privaledges have you -personally - had taken away?
What foolish questions have you -personally - been denied to ask?
ahemmer - Feb 08, 2013 2:19 PM
You'll have to do better than that...
Again I ask you - what RIGHTS have you - personally - lost because of the Patriot Act?
Carl Hicks - Feb 08, 2013 2:30 PM
Besides Russ ( the lone vote against in the senate) who actually read it? I guess they had to pass it to find out what was in it.
Oh that's right it was called the patriot "act", they had to vote for it so they could act patriotic.
ExToDResident - Feb 08, 2013 2:31 PM
http://www.law.com/jsp/pa/PubArticlePA.jsp?id=1202576240873&slreturn=20130108143441
“Again, ExToDResident: What RIGHTS under the Patriot Act have you -personally - lost?”
I’m sorry did I say I lost rights under the patriot act?
I don’t believe I said that. Please show me where I said that I lost “rights” with the passing of the patriot act.
What I said was that the (so-called) Patriot Act infringes on civil liberties.
The possibility for the violations of rights is made possible by the passing of the patriot act.
"The link you cite, stating that Voter ID is a "civil rights violation" comes from an editorial board at a newspaper expressing their opinion.
You'll have to do better than that..."
As if I could produce any evidence which might persuade you to change your opinion on voter ID.
You make me laugh...
ExToDResident - Feb 08, 2013 2:42 PM
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Do better than that Huh?
Mucho - Feb 08, 2013 3:49 PM
"program which is the greatest infringement on civil liberties." -ExtodR
Really? Please explain one instance of who's civil liberties have been unjustly violated by the Patriot Act to date. If you can find one, it is like a grain of sand in the desert compared to OBamaCare. Deluded again.
Mucho - Feb 08, 2013 4:04 PM
"When a Governor hated by the majority of the Left impacts 280,000 workers with a fiscally necessary policy, it is time to protest. When the Left's beloved President promotes worse to 316,000 workers, they look the other way."
Like Scott Walker was a supporter of Act 10, Obama is a supporter of the 17% work cut to letter carriers via his statements since 2011 and the plan he released this week. The two are just being treated differently by the media and the Left. Apparently when Obama cuts Union pay to make ends meet, it's understandable when Walker does it, it's an evil attack.
Mucho - Feb 08, 2013 4:08 PM
“About Us…America's oldest daily law journal is the most trusted source of ... in-depth editorial coverage."
ahemmer - Feb 08, 2013 4:52 PM
"The Legal Intelligencer; The Oldest Law Journal in the United States.
“About Us…America's oldest daily law journal is the most trusted source of Pennsylvania legal news, information and analysis." PENNSYLVANIA? Your source applies to one state and IS an opinion piece.
You gotta do better...
And MGarber: Here's a few biggies of "rights" being lost due to Obama:
1) The right to NOT have to buy a product. Health care insurance is no longer a choice. Rather, if one decides they do not want health care insurance, too bad. You will be fined and/or sent to jail.
2) An assault on our religious rights. Obamacare goes after the core values of many people's religious beliefs, by forcing religious institutions to pay for abortion-inducing medicines, birth control, etc. Obama is attacking the religious freedom by mandating such.
3) My rights to honest and open elections. Obama and his Democratic minions routinely cheat during elections. Just look at the past presidential elections in which more people voted in Ohio and Pennsylvania precints than actually reside in such. And in many, Obama received 100% of the vote - unheard of in any real election. We are turning into a banana republic - with Obama and groups like moveon.org and ACORN doing the dirty work. MY vote and many others are being routinely stolen each time an election comes up.
ExToDResident - Feb 08, 2013 7:32 PM
So you are saying that a law which is essentially the same from state to state would somehow not be an infringement on civil liberties just because it was reviewed in another state.
The argument of civil rights infringement of the voter ID law is the same from state to state.
jhayett - Feb 08, 2013 7:38 PM
The comments from these typical leftist morons leave me with so much joy. It’s beyond me, or anyone for that matter, to try and rationalize why liberals have become so insanely stupid!