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Welcome to Backwoodsman. I have some new posts for y'all to check out: An Interesting Observation and Liberal Propaganda. Some of my less controversial posts include: Making: Bread and Cultural Graffiti. Enjoy the posts gang.For those of you who don’t (and I don’t see how it’s possible) know about Rep. Wilson’s outburst let me bring you up to speed. During the President’s nationally televised speech to Congress, Rep. Wilson, in response to President Obama’s claim that his health care plan ‘Does not allow for illegal immigrants to access taxpayer funded health insurance, shouted “You Lie!”
Personally I don’t see a problem here, if we consider the system Congress is modeled after, Parliament, this was barely an utterance. However, I also understand that ad hominem attacks during a televised speech might be a tad bit inappropriate. I think the problem is, the Republicans are tired of being ignored and abused by the democrats in Congress. This leads me to a small side note, the Republicans have ABSOLUTELY NO POLITICAL POWER. Now then, although I don’t really see this as a punishable offense, the liberals seem to disagree. Congress has passed a resolution of disapproval rebuking Rep. Wilson. According to the Associated Press,
The rare resolution of disapproval was pushed through by Democrats insisting that Wilson, a South Carolina lawmaker, had violated basic rules of decorum and civility in his outburst. Republicans dismissed the vote as a political “witch hunt” and a waste of precious time and taxpayers’ money.
After his personal apology to President Obama, I have to agree, this resolution was a waste of time and my money as a taxpayer. The democrats are claiming that this a serious act of misconduct on Wilson’s part. I will agree that it was inappropriate, after, respect the office not the man, however, I hardly think this something worth taking the time to deliberate and vote on. Majority Leader Steny Hoyer on the other hand disagrees when he says, “The resolution is not about the substance of an issue but about the conduct we expect of one another in the course of doing our business.”
Republicans feel differently, and I have to agree with them when Republican leader John Boehner says, “We’re here on some witch hunt, some partisan stunt that the American people are not going to respect,”. Further, when asked by pelosi to make a formal apology on the House floor, Wilson refused (and rightly so) saying, “”I think it is clear to the American people that there are far more important issues facing this nation than what we’re addressing right now.”
Now, of course the dems have to throw one more lash in trying to demonize non-Obamanites. They are claiming (without pointing finger of course) that harsh criticisms of the President have been, at least partly due to race. Come on you guys, give the race card a rest, just because we don’t like Barry doesn’t mean we are racist. He gives us plenty of reason to despise him without adding in race. On that note I would like to point out the dems are alway talking about racists and how everyone is a racist, perhaps they are harboring some latent anti-white people hate, or at least some twisted sense of white guilt.
I guess my point is, what ought be going on in Congress is the discussion of this bill, not taking two days to pass a resolution saying, “Naughty Naughty Rep. Wilson.”
The internet is no longer a safe media. President Obama’s nominee for the head of the office of information and regulatory affairs is a man by the name of Cass Sunstien. Business Week describes him thusly:
All of this worries Cass Sunstein, author of Republic.com. A First Amendment scholar at the University of Chicago Law School, he fears that the Internet is contributing to a fragmentation of public discourse that is undermining democracy. For democracy to work, Sunstein says, it’s important that citizens be exposed to many alternative viewpoints, occasionally encountering information that is unexpected or even jarring. They were more likely to get that exposure, Sunstein says, when they read the same newspapers and magazines, watched the same TV news, and spent more time in public spaces like parks, where they met people with contrasting viewpoints. On the Net today, he says, “many people are mostly hearing more and louder echoes of their own voices.” He cites studies showing that people become extreme in their leanings when they spend time with people who feel the same way.
Sunstein thinks the danger to the republic is great enough that he favors government intervention, such as subsidies for Web sites that encourage deliberation by diverse citizens, or requirements that Web sites provide links to other sites that promote opposing views. While some Netizens look forward to a day when legislatures won’t be necessary–because citizens will vote instantly on every issue via the Internet–Sunstein says Net plebiscites would short-circuit deliberation, permit tyranny of the majority, and be “a grotesque distortion of founding aspirations.”
I know that the internet creates some gray areas when it comes to legislation, but this seems pretty clearly a first amendment issue. It seems to me this guy is looking for a back door to reinstate habeas corpus. Also, he is tellings what we can and cannot read so as to be better informed. This is big brother of epic proportions. Utterly disgusting.
Well, before I get too far I just want to say it’s good to be back. I have missed my beloved blog and it feels good to be back at it. Now then…
According to the article, Dealers Still Waiting For Clunker Cash, the feds have paid less than half of the money they promised dealers for the “clunkers” (Go figure, the feds not living up to thier promises).
During the month long program, Billion Automotive sold close to a thousand vehicles but has only been reimbursed for 272 of them. Vern Eide sold over 200 cars and has only been paid for 27 of them, and that’s fueling lots of concerns in the auto industry.
Further, apparently the program is not run according to systematic plan.
When Cash for Clunkers was first announced, dealers were supposed to be reimbursed within 10 days of a sale. Billion says that hasn’t happened.
“The program started in July and we haven’t gotten paid for cars we sold back then, but then on the other hand we got paid for a car we sold last week. They don’t have an accurate format. It’s not like they’re taking the first deals that were submitted and working those. I don’t know how they’re doing it, no idea. I know it’s very random” Billion said.
So the Federal Government has failed to get this one month program operating smoothly and people still want the feds to be in charge of thier health insurance?
I have been living in the stone age with no computer and no internet lately, so I am trying to play news catch-up (as I have no televesion either). I have been surfing the left and right wing blogs and I have noticed a trend on both.
There are these bloggers who put at the begining of a post, “Blah blah, this is so stupid it doesn’t even need a comment.” and then go on for ever commenting on it. Look, if it doesn’t require comment, then don’t. What I suspect is, you really do want to comment on it but have to make a dig at it on it’s face before starting your futile analysis. Let’s face it, anytime someone starts a post like that (or a comment for that matter) does so becuse they only want either the Duh uh huh readers who will blindly nod thier head and exhalt the writer or the anti-reader, the readers who will argue with anyone not of thier particular extreme position as dogmatically and beligerantly as the writer attacks the position in his or her post.
It’s just kinda funny how you can tell what blogs to read (meaning the ones that are stupid and the ones that are reasonable) by the first paragraph and by the comment section.
Alright gang, I am up and running again. I still don’t have internet so I will post as much as I can weather permitting (I have to sit outside the library to get a wireless connection). Thanks for your patience and those of you still with me, for sticking around.
Wolfman87
Hey gang, sorry I haven’t posted in such a long time, my computer is currently out of action and I can’t really do much posting. I should have it up and runing here shortly, sorry about the neglect.
Apparently it is an international crime to give a US Official bad advice, according to one Spaniard. I found this article on the Wall Street Journal website. According to Mr. Douglas J. Feith, he and several other former US officials (including former US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales) under President Bush are facing allegations in Spain (and run the risk of being arrested upon entering Europe) for allegedly advising President Bush to break Article 3 of the Geneva Convention and to engage in torturous acts against Guantanamo Bay detainees.
The allegation is not that any of us tortured anyone. And it is not that any of us even directed anyone to commit torture. The allegation is that, when we advised President George W. Bush on the Geneva Conventions and detainee interrogations, our interpretations were wrong — in the view of the disapproving Spaniards. According to the complaint, these wrong interpretations encouraged the president to make decisions that led to torture.
So now there are some yahoos in Spain that want to prosecute them under Spain’s “Universal Jurisdiction.”
A lawyer in Spain — who did his legal studies while serving over seven years in prison for kidnapping and terrorism — has engineered a complaint accusing the U.S. government of systematically torturing war-on-terrorism detainees. He filed this complaint with Baltasar Garzon, an activist magistrate famous for championing the “universal jurisdiction” of Spanish courts.
This is utterly ridiculous on two levels. First, that one could be tried because he or she (as an advisor) gave advice to an elected official (which is their job), simply because some knothead in another country disagrees. Second, that a foreign country thinks they have jurisdiction over US officials. This is not only an insult to the US Judiciary system and its ability to try its own (alleged, because we have found no charges to bring forth on these men) criminals, but to our sovereignty as well. For one government to bring charges against another, whose judicial system is designed to include the area in question in its jurisdiction, is to say that the first government controls the monopoly of coercion granted to the second government by its people (which is clearly not the case).
What’s really sad about this whole thing (so far) is that the “evidence” the Spanish are using to hold such allegations, is from a British lawyer who was discredited (by him self).
The allegation that I argued against Article 3 protection was invented by a British lawyer named Philippe Sands and published in an angry, wildly inaccurate book called “Torture Team.” Mr. Sands asserts that, in our interview, I admitted making the case against Article 3. He was eventually compelled to publish the interview transcript, however, and it shows that nothing I said supports his allegation, that he grossly misquoted me on a number of points, and that he never asked me a single question about Article 3. Mr. Sands has to this day never accounted for how he could charge me with opposing Article 3 based on an interview in which the term “Article 3″ was never even mentioned by me or him. I dissected Mr. Sands’s misrepresentations in detail in testimony I gave to the House Judiciary Committee last summer.
Read the entire article. It is a great example of how the UN has only hurt every country it has ever, and will ever encounter. I guess if a nation doesn’t value its sovereignty then there is no reason to worry, but for a nation that is by the people, for the people, and of the people, this is a major infringement.
megan mccain. The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree, I’ll tell you that much. “We need to reach across the aisle to our liberal brethren.” She and her father both want the Republican party to turn into democrat-lite. Those are reason enough for the Republicans to cast all of the mccain clan out, but megan has now made one of the worst enemies a woman could make, especially a woman (girl is really more accurate) trying to gain acceptance by the Repulican party. Ann Coulter is scary ok, I am a Conservative man, and I am a little afraid of the wrath of Ann Coulter. I think the only other person who would be worse to attack is Rush (I cannot put his full name in a mere blog, my blog is not worthy). In a recent interview on The Rachel Maddow Show, megan talked about her feud with Coulter saying, “If she couldn’t stand the heat, she would have gotten out of the kitchen.” Well my dear, I don’t think you realize who it is whith which you mess. Ann Coulter has not yet begun to fight:
she will fight on until the end, she will fight on the seas and the oceans, she will fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, she shall defend the Republican Party from wolvesl like megan, what ever the cost might be, she will fight on the beaches, she will fight on the landing grounds, she will fight in the fields and in the streets, she will fight in the hills; and she will NEVER surrender, and even if, which I do not for a moment believe, this Republican Party or a large part of it were bipartisan and moderate, then our Conservative heroes in the rurals, armed and guarded by the Second Amendment, would carry on the struggle, until in God’s good time, the Old Party with all it’s power and might, would step forth and rescue the New Party from it’s own foolishness.
I hope megan is prepared for the tides of war, and the rest of the moderate republicans as well, because we bed rock Conservatives, we are coming, and we will take back our party.
So I’m sure you have all heard of the California Earth Hour.
This is an event (I guess that’s what you would call it?) where everyone turns out all their lights and shuts off all power where ever they are. I saw a commercial for esuarance that was advocating for this “event” and I think they said what every Liberal in the country, no, around the world wants to say:
At about the twenty second mark, she uses her magic button and shuts off some home owner’s lights, because they didn’t do themselves. It’s right there in the commercial, if you don’t join us voluntarily, we will force you. Pretty scary thing to show our children huh.
If the video doesn’t work, you can see the video Here
