Educational Crash Course #201

Another Installment of Diogenes'
  Public Service Educational Series:

"Saving Endangered Species 101"

 

Next in Series:
The Evils of a Privileged Society:
with First Lady Michelle Antoinette Obama 

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Obama's Next Political Ploy

Gay Marriage, Immunity for Illegals.....

Next Up: Mortgage Debt Ploy.

Diogenes - Friday 6/22

If Obama can declare immunity for hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens he can also unilaterally order the broad refinancing of mortgages on millions of “underwater” homeowners, including those people given taxpayer backed loans they could not afford in the first place.

The New York Times’ Paul Krugman told the liberal “Take Back the American Dream” conference on Tuesday:

"One of the benefits of such a move, would be some additional economic activity at a time when the economy is sluggish. But another benefit is clearly political and could provide the votes Obama needs to be re-elected."

This from the World Tribune:

"A big theme of the conference was that Obama’s recent grant of amnesty to an estimated one million illegal aliens was because of pressure from progressive activists and that Obama will use his presidential power to act on mortgage debt relief or forgiveness if liberals take to the streets."

"New liberal groups are emerging on a regular basis to provide Obama with the political cover for taking this unprecedented and extraordinary action. The Home Defenders League has been formed to fight foreclosures and evictions and publicize the campaign. Another, the New Bottom Line, is run by veteran Soros operative Tracy Van Slyke."

"But concern about the taxpayers or the homeowners who are paying their mortgages was not in evidence at the progressive conference, which is searching for a new class of victims/voters to function as a constituency for Obama’s re-election effort. These activists also want a scapegoat, in addition to Wall Street and the banks......" 

Read More Here 

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Fishnet Friday

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2012 DNC Convention Schedule

Reaganite Republican

Dems to Meet in Charlotte Sept. 3, 2012

2012 Democratic National Convention
(Sept. 3, 2012) @ Charlotte, North Carolina:

4:00 PM  Opening Flag Burning Ceremony

4:05 PM  Singing of "G-D America" Led by Rev. Jeremiah Wright

4:10  PM Pledge of Allegiance (to Obama) 

4:15 PM  Ceremonial 'I Hate America' by Michelle Obama

4:30 PM  Tips on Dodging Sniper Fire - Hillary Clinton

4:45PM  Al Sharpton Leads Castrati Choir in 
Performing 'Great Balls of Fire'

5:00PM  UFO Abduction Survival - Joe Biden

5:30 PM  Eliot Spitzer on 'Family Values' (via satellite)

5:45 PM  Special Tribute to Delegates (all 57 states) 

6:00 PM  [Presidential Smoke Break] 
6:30 PM  Vegan hors d'oeuvres, foreign mineral water served

7:30 PM  Airing of Grievances by the Clintons

9:00 PM  Innovation Online by Anthony Weiner

9:15 PM  Tribute Film to Freedom Fighters at Gitmo - Michael Moore

9:45 PM  Personal Finance Seminar - Charlie Rangel

10:00 PM  Denunciation of Recalcitrant Gun-Clingers followed by festive Charlton Heston piñata - Rosie O'Donnell

10:45 PM  Ceremonial Waving of White Flag for Iraq and Afghanistan 

11:00 PM  Obama Energy Plan Symposium/Tire Gauge Demo

11:15 PM  Free Governor Blagojevich Rally

11:30 PM  Obama Tongue-Bath, performed by Chris Matthews

11:45 PM Feeding of the Delegates with 5 Loaves and 2 Fish - Obamessiah Presidin'

12:00 AM Official Nomination of Obama by Bill Maher

12:01 AM Obama Accepts Nomination as Lord and Savior
12:05 AM Celestial Choirs Sing

2:00 AM  Goose-Stepping New Black Panthers March Past/Salute Presidential Review Stand in Honor of Now-Eternal Regime

 3:00 AM  Biden Delivers Acceptance Speech  

Note: One omission: Memorial recognition of Obama's surrogate son, Trayvon, will be in conjunction with the 12:05 AM event.

reaganiterepublicanresistance.blogspot.com

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"Behind Every Successful Man..........."

Diogenes - Thursday 6/21

None of us know her fundamental beliefs except that almost everything in Michelle’s Obama's life prior to her taking up residence at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. was critical of just about everything American.

I have no hatred for Michelle Obama, only contempt and disgust. She and her husband are a unintended consequence of political correctness and a perfect example of what happens when the race card is allowed to trump common sense, tradition, and patriotism. She's far more interested in self-gratification, shopping trips, extravagant vacations, a fawning press, and has cost the taxpayer untold millions.

The Obama presidency is a fluke, a hiccup caused by white guilt and black ignorance, an experiment that's gone awry and needs to be shut down in November while there's still enough time to give ourselves the antidote to their misguided pestilence.

And I'm sure the clowns will be glad to get their clothes back........

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El Bandido Loco

iMaksim.com

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Alec Baldwin Focus of a Criminal Investigation.

 Mr. Congeniality Strikes Again

“He was like crazy, you know?” said witness Goren Veljic, a photographer who snaps wedding pictures outside the building. “There was an eruption of mad. I think something’s wrong with him.”

Baldwin later compared the incident to the fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin:

“I suppose if the offending paparazzi was wearing a hoodie and I shot him, it would all blow over.” The actor added that people like the photographer “need to be deported to some island.”  

What a Liberal Class Act! 

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Media Snark.....

A Harley Biker is riding by the zoo in Washington, DC when he sees a little girl leaning into the lion’s cage. Suddenly, the lion grabs her by the collar of her jacket and tries to pull her inside to slaughter her, under the eyes of her screaming parents. The biker jumps off his Harley, runs to the cage and hits the lion square on the nose with a powerful punch.

Whimpering from the pain, the lion jumps back, letting go of the girl, and the biker brings her to her terrified parents, who thank him endlessly. A report has watched the whole event. 

The reporter addressing the Harley rider says, ‘Sir, this was the most gallant and brave thing I’ve seen a man do in my whole life.’ 

The Harley rider replies, ‘Why, it was nothing, really, the lion was behind bars. I just saw this little kid in danger and acted as I felt right.’ 

The reporter says, ‘Well, I’ll make sure this won’t go unnoticed. I’m a journalist, you know, and tomorrow’s paper will have this story on the front page… So, what do you do for a living and what political affiliation do you have?’ 

The biker replies, “ I’m a U.S. Marine and a Republican .”

The following morning the biker buys the paper to see if it indeed brings news of his actions, and reads, on the front page: 

“U.S. MARINE ASSAULTS AFRICAN IMMIGRANT 

AND STEALS HIS LUNCH”

… and THAT pretty much sums up the media’s approach to the news these days ..

via Stealth Magnolia 

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Hey Vintage Media: Investigate This..........

Diogenes - Tuesday 6/19

Last week was the 40th anniversary of Watergate and the media have taken a look back at the state of investigative journalism; they're not happy with what they've found. They're shocked, shocked that investigative journalism has gone the way of the 8 track player! Sure, there are a handful of little-known sources they've found, but they're the exception, not the rule. "We need investigative journalism!" they cry from their Ivory Towers!

Let me ask you big-time mainstream vintage media advocates of investigative journalism a simple question. Have you looked in the mirror lately? As much as you whine about the lack of investigative journalism, you fail to see the reason for its alleged decline is, well, you.

The journalism profession has become little more than a public relations firm working for the Left and any cause it deems vital, no matter how apathetic the public is about it. While media sources spent precious minutes on Mitt Romney's stupid behavior in high school, barely a passing mention or time spent doing a serious story about the national security leaks coming out of the Obama White House. Remember the story about Obama bullying a student in school? No? Not surprising because you guys didn't think it was important enough to address. But Mitt Romney, he's fair game!

Fortunately (or unfortunately, depending on your point of view), bloggers are doing what Woodward and Bernstein were doing during Watergate. I know you media types don't consider blogging to be legitimate journalism because of the lack of accountability when a story is factually wrong (by the way, has the New York Times recovered from the Jayson Blair fiasco?). However, the blogosphere is proving you don't need to go to Columbia to point out corruption in the world around us. And given the state of what passes for mainstream journalism these days, the blogger sitting at home in his PJs is out-hustling the big name reporters you rub shoulders with at dinner parties where the topic of the so-called death of investigative journalism is discussed over Brie and Chardonnay.

Maybe the reason the media are lamenting the "death" of investigative journalism is because you're afraid to dig into their own side's misdeeds. After all, it's always much more fun to try to take down the high and mighty when you have a personal vendetta, right? Ah, but when you realize your side, the one you've put so much personal stake into, is no better than the side you hate, it's not so fun, is it? There was a time when investigative journalists would put their feelings aside and go after the crooks, letting the chips fall where they may. But when you can't separate the personal from the professional, you're going to play favorites and, in doing so, help to kill investigative journalism through politically blind neglect.

If you really give a damn about investigative journalism, stop playing favorites and start sending out reporters to shine a flashlight into the dark corners of the Left. Sure, you may not get invited to as many dinner parties with those Leftists, but at least you won't get scooped like the National Inquirer did on the John Edwards story. Or are you just in it for the big bucks and the shrimp cocktails?

Maybe you in the media could take a short lesson on how to go about it here. 

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Obama's Law Mentor Speaks

Diogenes - Monday 6/18

 "President Obama must be defeated in November"

But not for the reasons you might think.....

Over the weekend, you may have noticed an article at the Huffington Post about how one of Barack Obama’s former professors at Harvard Law, Roberto Mangabeira Unger, proclaimed that the president “must be defeated” in a YouTube video titled “Beyond Obama,” but did you actually watch the video and listen to what he had to say?

Barack Obama took courses in “Jurisprudence” and “Reinventing Democracy” with Professor Unger at Harvard Law School, and you just know that he’s had to have seen this video by now which was made in May before the bold pivot to the left with last week’s unexpected Presidential Order on the children of illegal immigrants.

He might come off as a bit of a humorless, pompous ass, sure, but don’t hold that against a Harvard professor!

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A Good Monday Morning

Beware! Are Lefties in Hollywood Messing with the Classic Movies?

Diogenes - Sunday 6/16

One of my favorite things is curling up late at night and watching old classic movies. First, they just had to colorize some classics, but recently, I noticed something I'd never seen before.

Things started appearing in the background of some old movies that weren't there before........

LOOK FOR YOURSELVES

AND SEE WHAT I MEAN.

Here's a shot from David Butler's 1930's 
futurist classic 'Just Imagine'  

...and a scene from a classic silent horror movie 
from the 1930s

....a shot from Charlie Chaplain's
'Little Dictator '

....this from 'Picture of Dorian Grey'

Not even the foreign movies are safe from these guys
....this from an old Ingrid Bergman flick.

a scene from Fritz Lang's
silent epic 'Metropolis'

a scene from  
'Bride of John Kerry Frankenstein'

.....and they're even messing with the
freakin' 'Phantom of the Opera'!

Have these people no shame!!!!!

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His friends stomp on the Flag, any wonder he stomps on the Constitution.

Article I  
Section 1 - The Legislature 
"All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives."

Article I
Section 8 - Powers of Congress
"To establish a uniform Rule of Naturalization........"

“In many ways, President Obama has fulfilled the dream of an imperial presidency that Richard Nixon strived for. On everything from (the Defense of Marriage Act) to the gaming laws, this is a president who is now functioning as a super legislator. He is effectively negating parts of the criminal code because he disagrees with them. That does go beyond the pale.”. . .

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Brought To You By Lemmings for Obama

About Richard Nixon...

Matthew - 6/16

"Woodward and Bernstein, themselves, have created a cottage industry of their own -- the political scandal “insider” book, the myth that because they once had fortune dump the half-story of a lifetime into their laps that they're some kind of exalted defender of the universe -- that has made them filthy rich men. Don’t buy this “fighting to tell the truth” crap either has spouted since the ‘70’s:  they’re in it for the money and the accolades they get from their even-lazier compatriots. They always were. And they got lucky...."

Matthew's Week End Commentary

The Lunatic's Asylum 

I read this today, a defense of Richard Milhous Nixon, a.k.a. Tricky Dick of Watergate Fame.

It was written by Conrad Black, who himself knows a thing or two about being railroaded by his enemies, especially the political kind.

I found this article interesting because Black uses the phrase "criminalization of policy and partisan differences", and means that to say that both ends of the political spectrum routinely accuse the other of being the absolute worst people born since Hitler and Genghis Khan had identical triplets. According to this sort of mindset, anything the other side has to say on any subject is reflexively responded to by it's counterpart as the grossest crime, or the most egregious abuse of human rights, and probably an indication that one side or the other would like to run a conveyor belt full of kittens through industrial wood chippers and sell the resulting mess as luncheon meat in your kid's school cafeteria.

No one gets the benefit of the doubt, anymore, no serious question ever gets the fair hearing it deserves.

 Undoubtedly Black is correct in his assertion that most political exchange since the days of Watergate has been tinged with this hyper-partisanship, and one side does, indeed, engage in this sort of constipated thinking more often than the other, but then again, they're at the vanguard of a political philosophy which, on the one hand, believes there is no such thing as human nature, and then on the other, regulates the hell out of human nature just as soon as it rears it's ugly head, but then never admits it made an incorrect assumption in the first place.

 But, let's put the truism that most Leftists are petty little dictators with really poor potty training in their backgrounds, who could never be elected to anything if they ever told the truth aside for a second because there's another issue that Black brings up in his column, which intrigues me more, and that is the supposed heroes of Watergate, the so-called intrepid reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, the reporters who broke the story and began the process of destroying a president.

Now, I'm too young to remember Watergate as little more than a word heard coming out of the television, so don't expect me to wax poetic with fond memories of the Nixon Administration, I was all of five or six years old at the time. However, I have studied the scandal in my adult years, and have come to a conclusion that didn't really require a shitload of historical research: