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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
jman99 - Feb 08, 2013 7:39 PM
ExToDResident - Feb 08, 2013 7:46 PM
You gotta do better..."
To funny this source isn’t good enough for a liberal to make a point in Hemmer’s blog.
I suppose if I would have found a Faux News story that backed what I am saying that would also have been dismissed on some arbitrary grounds.
But if the source I cited had run a story that backed Hemmer’s point of view she wouldn’t have hesitated a second before using it.
Of course it would have been accompanied by a blurb stating that she used a liberal source so that the “liberals could believe it”.
jhayett - Feb 08, 2013 7:47 PM
Answer Mucho's and Amy question with some honesty and balance for a change.
ExToDResident - Feb 08, 2013 8:11 PM
http://consortiumnews.com/2011/11/01/a-decade-of-patriot-act-abuses/
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2007/06/judge_orders_fb/
http://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2009/09/29/doj-admits-abuse-of-patriot-ac/
http://articles.latimes.com/2009/oct/23/opinion/la-oew-mcneill-sanchez22-2009oct23
“If you can find one, it is like a grain of sand in the desert compared to OBamaCare.”
So you have already discounted any results that I might find for what? To reinforce your belief that Obamacare is an infringement on rights?
And I'm deluded?
ExToDResident - Feb 08, 2013 8:18 PM
You crack me up Jim; tell me just what you would know about honesty or for that matter balance.
They certainly weren't present in your blog. Good riddance.
WFB resident - Feb 08, 2013 8:20 PM
the right to have nuclear weapons !@ We have lost our right to use millitary
weapons of mass distruction ! We have lost the right to purchase clod medicine with
out an ID ! lol... Hell gar5ber there were over 50 losses to our gun rights already !
Why do you not know these simple facts ? lol... Just another uninformed PDLS I
guess !! lol...
WFB resident - Feb 08, 2013 8:22 PM
think that way !
ExToDResident - Feb 08, 2013 8:31 PM
You were expecting something different?
ExToDResident - Feb 08, 2013 9:10 PM
For a couple years after it was passed, conservative champions of the Act often would ask rhetorically for one example of innocents being abused by the Act. This was always a silly argument, and I never understood why people repeated it with such certitude. The abuses began as soon as the Act was used. As James Bovard has written:
“The first person convicted under the PATRIOT Act was Mohamed Hussein, a 33-year-old Somali native who ran a money-forwarding service out of Boston. Though Hussein was convicted merely for not having a state license, federal prosecutors sought a harsh sentence. Federal Judge Robert Keeton was outraged: ‘You’re trying to ask me to sentence him as a terrorist. It shocks my conscience that I would even be asked to do that.’”
Most powers unleashed by the Patriot Act appear to have been directed at folks who have nothing to do with terrorism traditionally defined, as is true with those arrested under it, like the hundreds arrested on commercial flights for acts of drunkenness, sexual activity, or, in the case of one woman, spanking her children and then responding angrily to a flight attendant about the incident."
http://consortiumnews.com/2011/11/01/a-decade-of-patriot-act-abuses/
ahemmer - Feb 09, 2013 8:33 AM
Here comes the easy "debunking:"
1) Consortiumnews? Egads. Did you read the write-up on the editor, Rick Parry, how he focuses on providing hit pieces on Republicans/conservatives and loves to defend lefties (one of the stories he mentions concerns the "impeachment assault" on poor 'ole Bill Clinton...
2) wired.com: hit piece with NO names (when referencing federal judge - no name provide). All that IS mentioned is that a lawsuit going after so-called "abuses" of the Patriot Act was brought on by a "civil liberties group."
And even the writing is poor - opening sentence: "Just one day after a news that an internal audit...." ???? Huh?
3) scienceblogs: I had a few LOL moments with this one. A blog written by Ed Brayton. It's a personal opinion piece. Brayton later posted that he is quitting blogging cuz its just not worth it...
4) latimes: Really, ExToDR??? This is an OPINON piece yet again - mentioning the ACLU as a partner for targeting the government for Patriot Act abuse.
As I have asked before, ExToDResident: What rights have YOU personally lost due to the Patriot Act? It is becoming obvious you cannot answer.
ExToDResident - Feb 09, 2013 10:54 AM
I have no doubt that even if I found and posted a article from Faux news you would have still found a way to “debunk” it as well.
I didn’t believe for a second that you would accept any of the articles I cited.
“As I have asked before, ExToDResident: What rights have YOU personally lost due to the Patriot Act? It is becoming obvious you cannot answer.”
When did I become the blog topic?
Besides it is very a personal question? Why should I tell you about any legal battles I might be engaged in? Funny how you will jump all over a “liberal” when they ask such a personal question but when you ask personal questions of “liberal” they are taunted and badgered for not answering it. How hypocritical of you.
My point is that; it is Conservatives like you in the Republican Party that could care less about civil liberties. But then you make the claim that Democrats are famous for trying to legislate and create laws pertaining to every little aspect of people's daily lives.
Conservatives like you advocate for voter ID which is an infringement of civil liberties which you have shown you are ok with.
The patriot act legislation written by republicans is an infringement on civil liberties. Regardless if it passed with a majority it is still an infringement on civil liberties. That all to many people are comfortable with.
Carl Hicks - Feb 09, 2013 11:08 AM
ExToDResident - Feb 09, 2013 11:33 AM
“The comments from these typical leftist morons leave me with so much joy.”
Carl Hicks - Feb 09, 2013 12:47 PM
Here is what your buddy Alex Jones has to say about the patriot act...lol
http://www.infowars.com/articles/ps/patriot2_hitler_powers_bush.htm
Secret Patriot Act II to give Hitler's Powers to Bush
ahemmer - Feb 09, 2013 3:53 PM
Oh my goodness. Providing ID to prove who you are before you vote is an "infringement?"
Voter ID may be an "infringement" on those who wish to steal your vote, by prohibiting people from cheating, otherwise such an argument (if it can be called that) is simply idiotic.
By the way, ExToDResident: are you upset that people are now having their "civil rights" trampled when they are sick cuz they have to provide an ID to purchase many kinds of cold medicines???
Face it. In today's world, most people who function at any level in society DO have some sort of ID that WILL suffice come elections. And those who do not can GET AN ID FOR FREE for goodness sakes. There is NO "infringement" upon anyone's "rights" when it comes to Voter ID. The only real "civil liberty" abuse at play come elections is voter fraud - honest voting citizens are not ensured of the integrity of their vote once cast, cuz there are those out there who ARE committing voter fraud.
WFB resident - Feb 09, 2013 4:44 PM
lol...But yes it is easy to debunk faux news ie(New Joke Times) ! As for ID's please
PDLS's show us one person who does not have a proper ID who wants to vote ? Any
one ? lol...
WFB resident - Feb 10, 2013 12:34 AM
WFB resident - Feb 10, 2013 12:35 AM
be a lyer and they say nothing ? lol... Yep they see nutting !
ahemmer - Feb 10, 2013 6:35 PM
Disgusting.
In this day and age, what we (conservatives/Republicans) are up against may seem insurmountable. When the mainstream media is so beholden to do the bidding of Obama, the low information voter is being dumbed down more than ever before. What's good is bad, what is bad is good, and real "news" is reported with such a leftie slant as to be a joke. The bias has gotten even worse.
I don't know what it will take in days to come for people to wake up out of their "entitlement/bigger government" stupor, but maybe that is what the clueless desire? Sad but it may be true.
If so, the rest of us, who haven't been hypnotized by The One, will need to step it up a notch to wake people up. Marco Rubio and Paul Ryan seem to be leading the way. Keep the faith. Even though the media seems to be saying that Republicans are a dying breed, I do not believe that to be true. I do not believe that most people in the country want to be dependent upon the government. I do not believe that most people really want Obamacare - with its unbelievably costly price tag - to replace the health care industry.
I don't think most wish to see the United States become a socialist nation.
Keep the faith. We can accomplish much before the next election cycle. Even with the "cheat factor" due to a lack of Voter ID requirements in play.
WFB resident - Feb 10, 2013 7:18 PM
comment Hemmerpoints out the slant . Yet you are not fast enough to figure out that
you are incorrect again ! lol... Well like hemmer said above maybe some day slo will
not be living up to his name ! lol...