Joseph Stack was a terrorist
I was reading Facebook the other day when I read something one of my Facebook friends wrote concerning a press conference held the day Joseph Stack slammed an airplane into a Austin, Texas building housing IRS employees. My Facebook friend mentioned how the police chief was lecturing reporters for asking questions, something I would have thought everyone would have agreed is the job of a reporter. To ask questions. Someone then replied to this statement with the following:
One of reporters in the news crowd was really trying to manipulate the statement of the public official toward the fact that it could have been a terrorist attack. This tactic by reporters can be extremely irritating and discredits the news media. I do agree about the flow of information as long as it’s factual and not hyperbole.
Huh? The attack in Austin was a terrorist attack. A terrorist by the name of Joseph Stack got into an airplane and committed a terrorist attack by flying it directly into a building full of innocent civilians.
I replied to this comment by pointing out that it was a terrorist attack. Someone else then responded to my reply with the following:
Well, technically you’re correct, but probably not an international terrorist attack like 9-11-01. Technically, any murder could be classified as a terrorist attack; school shootings, truck bombs, etc..
Any murder can be classified as a terrorist attack? That is simply ridiculous. Why is it that after all these years we have been fighting this war on terror, some evidently can’t identify a terrorist attack when they see one?
If I didn’t know any better, I’d think that some people would have you believe that we cannot identify someone as a terrorist unless we can first ascertain their religion, as if it somehow makes a difference. It doesn’t. If a white guy purposely plows an airplane into a building so that he can kill as many people as he can, he is just as much a terrorist as the brown skinned, Allah loving Arabs that flew airplanes into buildings on September 11, 2001.
Just because Joseph Stack shared much of the the same ideology and anti-government sentiment as the Teabaggers and the rest of the “Taxed Enough Already” crowd and didn’t own a prayer mat, doesn’t mean he was not a terrorist.
He most certainly was.
Teabaggers up in arms over their portrayal in a comic book
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Captain America #602 shows a group of
As if Teabaggers aren’t doing enough on their own to give people that impression.
Marvel Comics is reacting to the outrage by Teabaggers and like minded anti-tax, anti-government Republicans by claiming that it was a mistake to include the sign and the sign’s language would be removed from future printings.
Palin tells teabaggers that Obama’s budget is ‘immoral’
Speaking at the 2010 Tea Party convention in Nashville, former Alaska governor Sarah Palin told the nearly 600 teabaggers in attendance that the Obama administration’s 2011 federal budget was “immoral” because it increases the national debt.
Instead of just criticizing the Obama administration’s 2011 budget, maybe she’d like to share with everyone how she would balance the 2011 federal budget. The New York Times has an interactive chart that shows were all the money will go.
What exactly would she like to cut?
How about the $738 billion that we will be spending on defense? The thing is, most of the yearly federal budget isn’t up to the president. Most of the budget is controlled by existing federal law. Other then military spending, not much can be cut by whoever is sitting in the White House. If Sarah Palin would like Obama to make drastic cuts to the military, maybe she ought to tell everyone.
Teabaggers are still confusing
Someone from a local Taxed Enough Already (TEA) party wrote a letter to the editor of my local newspaper, The Herald Mail, and it was published in today’s edition. This person wrote:
TEA partiers consider themselves educated and responsible enough to make their own decisions regarding all aspects of their lives. Leftists who embrace big government, including Obamacare, feel they are neither well-enough educated nor responsible enough to make decisions regarding their lives. There is no argument here. Both sides are absolutely correct.
If this person ever bothered to read up on our nation’s history, he might discover that our system of government is based on a constitutional republic. We elect people to represent us and to make educated, informed decisions on our behalf. It’s not the best system of government, but I guess it’s better than everything else.
Does this person even know any “big government” embracing leftists? And what exactly constitutes big government? Is it spending billions of dollars on a massive professional military? Is it spending billions of dollars on weapon systems that may or may not work against enemies that may or may not even exist?
I’ll be the first to admit that when it comes to spending our money, I’d rather spend it on health care then on the industrial military complex. Mostly that’s because sickness and disease is a far greater risk to America’s well being than any foreign army is. Since April of this year, 10,000 Americans have died due to the H1N1 virus. Thousands of others have died from other medical problems. How many of those deaths could have been avoided if we had universal health care?
I’ll be the first to admit that I don’t understand people in the Taxed Enough Already (TEA) party. They sat by and just watched President Bush spend billions of their children’s money invading two countries while cutting taxes to the rich.
They didn’t say a word.
President Obama then came into office and actually cut taxes to people making less than $250,000 a year and the teabaggers protest against him by holding up signs comparing him to Hitler.
I don’t get that.
Teabaggers lose again
Every year, lexicographers at Oxford University Press track words that pop up in the English language and bestow the honor of Word of the Year on one of these new words. For 2009, the word “unfriend” wins that honor:
unfriend – verb – To remove someone as a ‘friend’ on a social networking site such as Facebook.
Also making the list of finalists is the word “teabagger”:
teabagger – a person who protests President Obama’s tax policies and stimulus package, often through local demonstrations known as “Tea Party” protests (in allusion to the Boston Tea Party of 1773.
Once again, the teabaggers are on the losing side. Usually they lose to Democrats. This is the first time they’ve lost to a word. For what it’s worth, I think they were robbed. Though I’ve heard the word “teabagger” used numerous times (I live in western Maryland), I’ve never heard the word “unfriend” used before.
Will someone please tell Obama to stop bowing?
What is it about President Obama that prompts him to bow to foreign dignitaries? First he bowed to the king of Saudi Arabia, now he has bowed to the Japanese Emperor Akihito. Does he just go around bowing to everyone he meets and we don’t see it because there isn’t a photographer around?
I don’t get it.
I bow to no one. I never have and I never will. Is it too much to ask that the guy living in the White House do the same?
He needs to knock it off and start practicing better posture. It’s embarrassing enough that he’s a Chicago White Sox fan. Is he trying to give TEA Baggers a photo to put on their protest signs?
Republican congressman predicts the Democratic party will be history within a year
Mike Pence, Republican representative from Indiana and the chairman of the House Republican Conference was on Fox News Sunday this morning and made the claim that last night’s vote for health care reform will bring about the end of the Democratic party.
In about a year.
From Fox News:
“I think the American people are deeply frustrated with a liberal establishment in Washington, D.C. that is ignoring their will,” Pence said. “If Democrats keep ignoring the American people, their party’s going to be history in about a year.”
Personally, I get somewhat frustrated with the liberal establishment in Washington D.C., but that’s because it’s not liberal enough. Something tells me that’s not what Rep. Pence was talking about. I think Pence is confused and believes that the uninformed, poorly educated people that scream and shout at town hall meetings demanding that the government keep it’s hands of Medicare, represent the entire country.
Thankfully, they don’t. Not all of us spend our afternoons throwing teabags into plastic wading pools.
I hope this man has good health insurance
Republican Teabaggers held a protest yesterday on the steps of the Capitol in Washington D.C. to protest against government run health care and/or health care reform. Unfortunately, one of the people at the protest collapsed. Luckily for him, paramedics from the Office of the Attending Physician, the organization responsible for the medical welfare of the members of the House, members of the Senate, and members of the Supreme Court, were on the scene and were able to quickly provide assistance to this man.
As this photo shows, they gave him oxygen and started an I.V. They later removed him from the scene via a stretcher, presumably to take him to a hospital.
For this man’s sake, I hope the Office of the Attending Physician is in his health insurance plan. Otherwise, his out-of-pocket expenses are going to be ginormous. I don’t even want to think about the added surcharge someone has to pay for paramedics wearing a jacket and tie.
Also, I hope that he had the foresight to call his health insurance company before he collapsed to get pre-authorization for the collapse. As we all know, failure to do so can be grounds for your insurance company to deny the claim.
The man doesn’t appear to be old enough to qualify for Medicare, the popular and very successful government run health insurance plan for our nation’s seniors and disabled. That’s too bad because if he was on Medicare, he wouldn’t have to worry about his claim being denied because of a preexisting condition or because he was treated by health care professionals outside his insurance plan’s network.
If he was on Medicare, he’d only have to worry about getting well.
Photo: Chip Somodevilla of Getty Images
Teabaggers are confusing
People associated with the Taxed Enough Already (TEA) crowd held a rally yesterday morning in Washington D.C. to protest against health care reform and people were seen passing out these printed signs that referred to the recent passing of Senator Ted Kennedy.
Why do these people hate President Barack Obama so much? I just don’t get it. Is it because he raised their taxes? Unless they earn more than $250,000 a year, Obama actually lowered their taxes. In fact, nobody, even the richest of the rich, have not had their taxes raised under President Obama.
I just don’t understand these people. One minute they whine and cry about the Federal government being incapable of doing anything well, the next they are waiving the flag and demanding that everyone join them in singing God Bless America.
It gets confusing.
Only 83 year old Roscoe Bartlett would think the telephone was modern technology
U.S. Representative Roscoe Bartlett is getting out of having public town hall meetings on health care reform and is instead holding private invite-only “tele-town halls” with registered voters in the Maryland 6th District.
From WJZ TV:
Maryland congressman Roscoe Bartlett is using modern technology to open up his town hall meetings on health care reform to virtually every 6th District household.
Supposedly his office is calling every registered voter in district who has a telephone to invite them to one of these stupid things.
I’m not at all surprised that Roscoe Bartlett would do something like this. Not that he has anything to worry about when it comes to the typical person who attends these health care town hall meetings to yell at their elected officials.
The birther and the TEA bagger is what you would call his base. He is their kind of people.
Though I’m a registered voter, I’m registered as a Democrat and Bartlett does not like Democrats. In fact he once referred to Democrats as “the enemy.” I also don’t have an old style land-line phone. We went cellular years ago and never looked back.
I’m not even sure if Bartlett knows about cellular phones.
One of the biggest problems with Bartlett holding these stupid “tele-town halls” is that he doesn’t just represent registered voters. He represents all Americans living in the Maryland 6th District whether they are registered to vote or not.
Stay classy TEA baggers
TEA (Taxed Enough Already) Baggers in Connecticut held a rally to outside a healthcare town hall meeting held by Senator Chris Dodd in Hartford. The soft spoken gentleman in the white t-shirt and the red ball cap seems to be suggesting that Dodd, who was recently diagnosed with early prostate cancer, ought to forgo medical treatment and instead just kill himself.
What gets me the most about this video is not the knuckle head making the stupid comments about Dodd taking a lethal does of booze and pills, but how nobody around him is telling him to shut up. Nobody even steps away from him.
I think that says a lot about them.
West Virginia Teabaggers protest against healthcare
The Blue Ridge Patriots of Berkeley County and the Jefferson County TEA (Taxed Enough Already) Party held a protest in front of the federal building in downtown Martinsburg, West Virginia on Friday. Evidently they were protesting not against the tax increases to those making more than $250,000 a year, but against the idea of national healthcare.
I just don’t understand Teabaggers. By the looks of the people in this photo, none of them look like they make over $250,000 a year. Do they still not realize that their income taxes were lowered under President Obama? Haven’t they noticed that the amount being withheld in the paychecks for federal taxes is lower then it was before President Obama took office?
They seem to have time during the workday to protest, so maybe none of them work. Maybe they don’t know that their income tax has been lowered because they don’t draw a paycheck.
I often wonder if the people who are against national healthcare have ever been seriously ill and needed medical care. I often have to wait months to see a dermatologist for my psoriasis. Every time I’m prescribed a new medication or a new treatment, I have to get authorization from my insurance company. That often times takes weeks, or even months to get approved. It’s not even a medical doctor who approves the medication or the treatment, but just a person working for the insurance company.
How is that not rationing?
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