January 30th, 2009 by TNM

This comes to TNM via Taxes-Stupidty-and-Death

I’m surprised CNN hasn’t put Lou Dobs out for this they aren’t well known for supporting anything that goes against the liberal talking points.  In it he highlights one of the latest and greatest Amnesty boondoggle that our elected representatives are putting up.

Is this really a bill that someone actually had the gall to draft? Are you serious?

The video is older, but it highlights just how stupid the people we elected into our government really are, weather they are Democrats, or Republicans, doesn’t matter they are just staggeringly stupid to the point of criminal.

Yes I called the authors of this stupid. If the shoe fits, wear it.

No Back Taxes, Qualification for tax refunds, gang membership not a problem?

Lou Dobbs got it completely  right…..we are all a bunch of “Suckers”

January 26th, 2009 by TNM

It’s no secret that this blog is probably going to be opposed to just about everything Barak Obama and his administration do, that’s just a matter of differing opinions and political outlooks.  But then again, I’m pretty much opposed to any of the current crop of empty suits and skirts running around our nations capital these days.

But one thing that I find rather disturbing is the Media’s attitude that they somehow deserve the right to unfettered access to the President. 24 Hours a day 7 Days a week. That they are somehow entitled to preferential treatment, and that Obama or any President should somehow accept this.

They grilled Bush like a rack of ribs for 8 years for not holding enough press conferences, for not telling them every time he had a case of heartburn. It was insane and they seem to be reacting the same way to Obama all of a sudden.

Case in point is the recent blow up being splashed across the media about Obama visiting the press corps area of the white house.

An informal & unplanned visit, and a reporter was told that after asking a question concerning a lobbyist who was appointed to the administration that it wasn’t a press conference, the reporter persisted, and Obama put him in his place.

As right he should have.

Sometimes the man is just that, he’s a man. He wanted to go meet some people, walk around his new digs and get to know his way around. Give the man a break for once, honestly is it that hard to figure it out?

A less arrogant and self righteous reporter would have probably had the common sense and COURTESTY to say, “Excuse me Sir”, or even a simple “Yes sir, sorry”. Not this guy tho, He’s a REPORTER…he’s gonna grill the president!

Jackel!

At one point the press has to realize they are not privileged, no matter their bias, their support, or their helping Obama make it to the Whitehouse via demonizing Republicans, they do not have any so called “right” of access to the office of the President, or to the man bearing that title for that matter.

They are called “Reporters” for a reason, they report the news, or at least they are supposed to. That’s what the 1st Amendment empowers them to do and that’s what we the people expect them to do.

Besides the flap about his walk about in the press room, less than a week in office and there are already grumblings of “lack of transparency” in the Obama administration? Are you kidding me? Can you let the moving boxes get unpacked first maybe?

Please;  get over yourselves press people, the man has a country to run, I would hope he would maintain his focus on doing that, and doing it well,  rather than being a media darling and stroking those obviously overinflated egos the media seems to have these days.

With republicans howling already, and the press spotlight on his every move, I would wager a bet Obama is probably wanting a cigarette just about now. Old habits die hard dont they?

Too bad the the press can’t see the human side of the President, can’t put aside thier lust for blood and sensationalized reporting long enough to just be neutral and objective like they are supposed to be.

And somewhere right now a CEO is asking why are we having a hard time selling papers? Jackel with no brain!

While I’m not buying wholesale that the liberal bias in the press is killing media outlets like the New York Times, and other sources of news, as seems to be the latest ‘conservative’ claim. I have to think that a some of it has to do with the air of arrogance that is consistently displayed by the members of the press corps themselves.  Simply put, it turns average Americans off, we don’t need the egos , we don’t need the so called ” informed opinions”, and “inside insight”  or haughty  attitudes, we need the news, nothing more.

January 25th, 2009 by TNM

With the recent policy changes in D.C. being brought on my the new administration, especially in regards to the terrorists held in GITMO, it would be remiss to not mention one aspect of our laws and it’s relationship in regards to the sentencing and punishment of terrorists.

There has always been an argument centered on the prosecution of terror suspects and their heinous acts, namely that one side purports that it is a law enforcement matter, while the other sees it more of a military matter.

The Clinton administration saw this as mostly a legal venue, the Bush administration,  in the wake of 9-11, a military one, and I suspect, the Obama administration will lean once again more towards the legal side.

None the less, no matter who’s in the Whitehouse, there are glaring problems with how these cases have been handled in the past, especially if they are treated as purely a criminal / legal matter. With a brand new administration at the helm, there needs to be questions asked about the policies used both in the past, as well as what is going to be used in the future concerning these international terrorists.

Treating a person convicted of terrorism the same as any other garden variety felon endangers the American people, for that matter, it most likely will endanger innocents the world over, as once released, there is strong evidence that a terrorist will go right back to his jihad.

Highlighting this dilemma , is this recent article from the “AP Impact” whose writer’s expose an issue concerning a convicted terrorist who is now looking at being released on the 19th of next month.

The article can be read in it’s entirety here:

AP IMPACT: Freedom looms for terrorist

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January 24th, 2009 by TNM

This excellent essay comes to TNMilitant via the blog TNConserVOLiance

Courage needs a name

Damn the torpedoes and full speed ahead! Oh, that indomitable American spirit. Where has it gone?

In that august, exclusive club called the US senate, is there not one Republican willing to stand up and be counted? One who still holds fast to his basic principles. One who still understands the meaning of truth. Is there not one?….

Sorry, now, you must go read the rest.

Trust me,  it’s worth your time.

From around the ’sphere:

Bear Creek Ledger

January 24th, 2009 by TNM

Well if that didn’t get your attention I suppose nothing will.

Barack Obama reversed former President Bush’s policy forbiding funding for services that either counciled for abortion or performed the procedure itself in other countries.

Baraks orders will now allow the U.S. Government to send taxpayers dollars to foreign countries and fund clinics that may do this. Those tax dollars now can and most probably will  go to fund abortion in places like Mexico and other South American countries, maybe across the globe.

I have a hard time coming to any reasonable conclusion for this reversal by the Obama administration. It is to me telling that he moved so quickly, and it basically tells me one thing, this is nothing more than pandering and  appeasement to the many pro-choice groups that helped to get him elected. NOW, Planned Parenthood, and others.

This flies in the face of such claims by Obama himself, and  the “liberals” of “keeping abortion rare”, and underlines the true underlying philosophy of his administration and Democratic party now in control of the country.

For 8 years, we have heard nothing but outlandish claims directed at Bush, his foreign polices, of “Empire!! U.S. Exporting Death!! Fascism!!”, and a litany of other screeds by so called liberals. Fact here, these so called “liberals” are anything but, they are wouldn’t know “liberal” if it jumped up and bit them, but that’s another argument.

Reversing this policy, allowing American dollars to flow to other countries to provide for abortion, is no different than sending a cruise missile streaking into the heart of Baghdad. While one is certainly more spectacular in it’s delivery method, the end result is exactly the same, someone dies.

I guess with a badly diminished and faltering industrial base, Democrats have to find something to export, so they export death just like that “villainous Bush”…

Abortion is a lighting rod, ask anyone in the US their opinion on the subject and invariably you will get a passionate, (sometimes overwhelmingly so) response.That’s simply the nature of the debate surrounding this issue.

But it is an American issue and like any family, touchy subjects such as these probably are best left inside our own borders, Barak Obama and the so called liberal Democrats have no business exporting hard earn tax payer dollars from American people on such a divisive issue.

Another point here. Pro-Choice supporters oft time debate that if Roe- V. Wade is overturned, abortion will go under ground, putting millions of women at risk,  and that at least in the U.S. There are safeguards in place to protect women whom seek an abortion. Things like top notch medical care, clean facilities, strict regulations, and oversight  to ensure there is some sort of system in place to make it safe “rare” and as private as can be.

Do you think you will find this same infrastructure and oversight in place in a place like Bolivia? Mexico?  The interior countries of Africa?

I doubt it, and after saying so, one must ask the question; How many women around the world will now die from mishandled procedures, the onset of infection, lack of follow up care, in countries where the same safe guards in place inside the U.S. don’t exist, or if they do, simply are not enforced?

Do “pro-choice” supporters think that in a corrupt economy such as Mexico’s or some other third world country, that money will be used to protect women from unqualified Doctors and substandard facilities? Newsflash: It won’t, that money will go to the same unqualified and substandard facilities all right but who ever owns them will profit, not the women that seek the procedures.

At best we as a country are evenly divided on this issue half for, and half oppose, but I would hazard a guess, that if presented to the American people as a ballot question, Roe v. Wade, very well might fail. No matter your thoughts on the matter, common dignity, says that it is the height of double standard to scream about: “Exporting Death” via war against our enemies, yet turning around throwing millions of dollars around to fund abortion in other countries.

The only difference in the end is how death arrives, at mach 2 or the slower procedure of Abortion.

From around the ’sphere

Taxes-Stupidity-and Death

January 22nd, 2009 by TNM

President Obama’s opening days as POTUS certainly is shaking some things up, there’s no doubt about that.

First on the list; An executive order to close the camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba within one year.

There is a lot of what looks like to me misdirection starting here concerning this, and from the AP article on Foxnews the following was what caught my eye:

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January 22nd, 2009 by TNM

From the blog titled taxes-stupidity-and-death We find a post titled, Love in a time of blindness and it says it all; in ways I probably could never.

This blog has been a favorite of mine for eons, and I am pleased to bring it over to TNM

Go read the whole thing and many, many thanks to BiW.

The final legitimacy of government is wholly reliant upon the consent of the governed. When you are openly corrupt, when there is a clear double standard, one for those in power and one for the rest of us, when you hold forth as intelligent, and waste beautiful words to say nothing, when you show contempt for those you would presume to lead, when you forget who pays the freight, when you believe government should enter every aspect of our lives, to such a degree that in time we will have to serve it and not the other way around, you set a dangerous standard. Few things are as unhealthy to the continuation of such a government as a complete disrespecting of the body politic and the trust that is a vital component of the social contract underlying the Republic. Such abuse is reprehensible, and the willful indenturing of the individual to the state can only have one ultimate end.
If this President is really as intelligent as he and his supporters would have us believe, then I can only conclude that these provocations are willful; he intends to transform the conflict of beliefs, ideals, and philosophies in to a sad and divisive clash that will separate Americans from each other like they have been no other time since the 1860s. At the same time, I am patient. I will wait. The conflict, if it comes, will be terrible, and the damage it will cause will be like nothing the average person can begin to fathom. Because no God-fearing American relishes the thought of such a butcher’s bill, we will wait. We will wait for the final provocation, all the while praying that it will never come.

January 22nd, 2009 by TNM

Did Obama and his administration make a mis-step his first day in office? According to this article he may have.

” Obama placed phone calls to four Middle Eastern leaders: President Mubarak of Egypt, Prime Minister Olmert of Israel, King Abdullah of Jordan, and President Abbas of the Palestinian Authority, the White House said.”

Obvioulsy I can’t know all what went on yesterday at the Oval Office, and I am not going to assign blame, this isn’t left loon land, this is a question, and a valid one. This is straight from the press, and I have no faith in their reporting, yet I am at the mercy of it here, and I have to rely on it for my information up to a certain extent.

While the Palestine and Israeli problem continues to occupy most of the worlds media attention, as well as, again, according to the article from the AP, apparently the new administration, this article caused immediate  alarm bells for me.

Why? Because there should have been a 5th call made, and that call should have been straight to the Emir in Kuwait provided it was able to be done. No doubt both the Kuwaiti leader as well as Obama are probably busy people.

I say this because it is historical fact that the Kuwaiti government and her people have been a steadfast supporter of the United States and it’s policy for well over 15 years.  Ever since GW I and on through GW II and the GWOT.

This could be conceived as a slight against the Kuwaiti’s and I think that Obama, has he not already done so, needs to reach out to this vastly important ally in the region.

Again I will state fully I do not know that this did not already happen, I just find it curious that the new administration, and the press could have what looks like blundered so badly on the diplomatic front.  Isn’t one of the platforms of this administration supposedly centered on diplomacy and a so called “rebuilding of Americas Image” ?

How does one go about that when they slight one of the true freinds in the region?

Tnmilitant.

January 21st, 2009 by TNM

America might have a new president today, but sadly,  she showed all the same ugliness and depravity that her citizens had to offer for the past decade yesterday.

There’s a reason that many countries view Americans as “Ugly, rude, and ill mannered”.  Yesterday proved it as She put on an especially viscous and ugly face and millions of people world wide were witness to it.

Simply stated, I’m utterly disgusted with the display of utter gutter bred ignorance that went on yesterday in our nations capital.

What should have been, no matter ones political leanings, a historic event, the 1st Black American to attain the office of the President a pageantry of pride, was marred. It was marred with childish antics, disgusting rhetoric, and gross disrespect of the out going President. Conviently the Press, and everyone else looks the other way.

Typical of Mr. Bush he held his head high, he wasn’t cowed and he stood tall. Fair Winds and Following Seas Mr. Bush.

Farewell to President Bush

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January 20th, 2009 by TNM

Below is the text from Barak Hussein Obama’s Inaugural Speech, make of it what you will.

For me, actions speak ever so louder than words,  and I’ll remain vigilant.

My fellow citizens:

I stand here today humbled by the task before us, grateful for the trust you have bestowed, mindful of the sacrifices borne by our ancestors. I thank President Bush for his service to our nation, as well as the generosity and cooperation he has shown throughout this transition.

Forty-four Americans have now taken the presidential oath. The words have been spoken during rising tides of prosperity and the still waters of peace. Yet, every so often the oath is taken amidst gathering clouds and raging storms. At these moments, America has carried on not simply because of the skill or vision of those in high office, but because We the People have remained faithful to the ideals of our forbearers, and true to our founding documents.

So it has been. So it must be with this generation of Americans.

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