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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (137331)7/8/2012 8:33:53 PM
From: locogringo2 Recommendations  Respond to of 224757
 
Obama's employment numbers look pretty strange to most people.

How can a president, dumb or not, do absolutely NOTHING for almost 4 years.

Please explain why Obama and the Dem Senate does NOTHING about jobs.



To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (137331)7/8/2012 8:36:01 PM
From: TopCat2 Recommendations  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 224757
 
"Obama does not have any foreign bank accounts. No Presidential candidate in our history has had a foreign bank account. Very strange!"

How do you know this?......and, how many Presidential candidates have you known that have sealed their college transcripts among other things?



To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (137331)7/8/2012 8:39:36 PM
From: TideGlider2 Recommendations  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 224757
 
You don't know that. What a stupid thing to say.

No Presidential candidate in our history has had a foreign bank account. Very strange!



To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (137331)7/8/2012 8:40:47 PM
From: TideGlider2 Recommendations  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 224757
 
It's a well documented fact that Obama is a homsapien!



To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (137331)7/8/2012 8:43:00 PM
From: steve harris4 Recommendations  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 224757
 
george soros doesn't count?

I guess you forgot the Kennedy offshore family fortunes?



To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (137331)7/8/2012 8:44:22 PM
From: d[-_-]b3 Recommendations  Respond to of 224757
 
Obama does not have any foreign bank accounts.
Just foreign donors.

No Presidential candidate in our history has had a foreign bank account.
That's fantastic - a president who has so much faith in other countries he banks with them.



To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (137331)7/8/2012 8:47:16 PM
From: tonto6 Recommendations  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 224757
 
What is strange about having an offshore acct?
Is it strange for politicians to own homes abroad too?
What about going to school abroad?
How about hanging out with people like Ayres? Do you find that very strange?



To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (137331)7/8/2012 8:53:44 PM
From: Jorj X Mckie5 Recommendations  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 224757
 
Obama does not have any foreign bank accounts. No Presidential candidate in our history has had a foreign bank account. Very strange!


No president in our history, save but one, has every hidden his college transcripts. Only Obama has proven that he has something to hide and has gone to great lengths to hide his past.

President Obama is the Manchurian President



To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (137331)7/8/2012 9:29:11 PM
From: Wayners2 Recommendations  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 224757
 
We've been over this Kenneth from the article you provided. He doesn't HAVE offshore accounts, Bain Capital operates out of the Cayman Islands. Those are not bank accounts of Romney. Also I just looked at Obama's Tax Return for 2011. It looks like he invests in idiot companies just like he does with Tax Payer Money. His schedule D shows a Capital Loss Carryforward of $119,000. Just shows Ya that Odumbozo doesn't have a clude when it comes to money and investments and he is definitely incompetent to run this country as evidenced by the last 3.5 years and his investments.



To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (137331)7/9/2012 7:59:45 AM
From: CF Rebel2 Recommendations  Respond to of 224757
 
Obama does not have any foreign bank accounts.

How do you know this? You can't prove that. He could have non-compliant foreign bank accounts you'd never know about. A stupid statement at the least.

CF Rebel



To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (137331)7/9/2012 8:24:02 AM
From: lorne4 Recommendations  Respond to of 224757
 
kenny....So what are all you White commies in commie land doing to cause Black Americans to act in this manner?

Black mobs terrorize 1 of 'whitest big cities'

Victims include pregnant woman, veterans, elderly, homosexuals, Asians
by Colin Flaherty
Monday, July 09, 2012
wnd.com

It has been called one of America’s “whitest big cities” – with 66 percent of residents describing themselves as non-Hispanic white in the 2010 census – but it is not immune to black-mob attacks on a pregnant woman, veterans, the elderly, young people, homosexuals, Asians and others.

Seattle has “fewer problems with racism than other cities,” said the blog So Seattle. “Ethnic tensions … seem less tangible.”

While Seattle may not have the day-in, day-out racial violence of a Chicago, or the peculiar racial lawlessness of small-town Peoria, more and more, people are paying attention to the increasingly visible and brutish mayhem black mobs are visiting on their victims.

In 2010, 17-year-old Jessica Redmon-Beckstead – who was pregnant at the time – was riding the bus with her boyfriend when five black women taunted, attacked, kicked, punched and robbed her.

The assailants were laughing the whole time. One even complained about a broken fingernail.

“My girlfriend’s pregnant!” shouted the boyfriend as they punched her and kicked him in the face.

One woman yelled, “We didn’t hit her in the stomach!”

Her retort got a few laughs – and then the violence resumed.

The attack was caught on video and posted by the Seattle Times.

According to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, the suspects were all riding the bus with free passes from Seattle Public Schools. Within a few weeks, all five were arrested, charged and convicted.

The baby was born healthy.

The day after the attack, King County Sheriff Sue Rahr assured citizens of Seattle this hyper-violent episode was an “isolated incident and could have happened anywhere.”

At least part of Rahr’s statement was correct: It could happen anywhere. And often does.

But it is far from isolated, as even the local TV news reporters discovered. Bus rider Gil Costello told the local Fox affiliate, KCPQ, violence on the bus “happens all the time. They just never report it.”

The Fox station reported a few months before that a disabled man was ”terrorized” on a bus then punched in the face and knocked out.

Just months ago, an Iraq war veteran in a suburb of Seattle was riding a bus when he confronted several black passengers who were using foul language – including the “N” word.

They attacked him. The Marine veteran fought back and drove them off the bus. The incident was captured on video. The shaken suspects were last seen quickly leaving the bus. No arrests were made.

Last summer, aspiring rapper Ondrell Harding beat a man to death in the man’s home. At least five people saw it: the victim’s wife and preteen son and a few of Harding’s friends.

The district attorney did not file charges because he was unable to determine who started the altercation.

Four months later, Harding and five of his friends beat up another man at a bus stop. They told police the single victim attacked them. This time, the district attorney filed charges and convicted him. Harding received a three-month sentence.

Kaegan Hamilton, a writer for the Seattle Weekly, knew Harding as the rapper called “Doe Boy.”

Far from repentant, Harding has bragged about his exploits in rap songs posted on his MySpace page.

“When you look me in my eyes you see a coldblooded killer,” he sings in one verse. Another track has the ominous title “I Will Kill a Man.”

Also, there were about 20 black people who participated – or stood by and did nothing – in a beating at the Seattle Metro Bus terminal – all under the gaze of one video camera and three security guards. The recording revealed a lot of kicking and shouting.

In yet another recent incident, at least three black men stood outside a Denny’s restaurant in May 2012. While one worked the video and the other narrated, the third broke into the restaurant after he was denied entrance, causing extensive damage in the process.

In another case just last year, lesbian community activist and artist Kayla Stone was assaulted by a crowd of black and Hispanic people who taunted her with anti-gay slurs. The following night, they beat her up.

Almost as sensational as the black mob beating up a pregnant teenager is the case of the Seattle teenager who last summer was assaulted and tortured for several hours because he was white and his attackers believed the victim’s ancestors were to blame for slavery.

The victim told KOMO news: “They started bringing up the past – like slavery – being like, white people did this,” Shane said.

The attackers stripped off McClellan’s belt and started whipping his back.

“They said, ‘This is for what your people did to our people.’ They were like whipping me with my belt, my studded belt,” Shane recounted.

“They’re like, ‘Aw, white boy, what are you doing? You can’t hang out this late. What are you doing around here?’ They’re like, ‘White boy has no belonging – being out here at 2 a.m.’”

Shane added, “They targeted me for being white, and they made it very clear that’s why they were assaulting me.”

The victim’s father said the attack was nothing short of hours of torture.

“Put a gun to the back of his head and told him if he said anything they were going to blow his head off while they sat there and burned him with cigarettes on the back of the neck,” he said.

Both were arrested, convicted and sentenced – one to seven years, the other to five years and nine months. One was black, and the other was Asian. They said they were sorry.

No report of racial violence and lawlessness in Seattle can be considered complete without a mention of the biggest and nastiest bit of racial business in the history of that town. It’s an event that echoes today: the Seattle Mardi Gras Riot of 2001, where, for three-and-half hours, tens of thousands of people watched helplessly, and police stood by quietly as a race riot broke out.

The horrific riot became the subject of a Wikipedia page:

There were reports of widespread brawling, vandalism, and weapons being brandished. Damage to local businesses exceeded $100,000.

Much of the violence was perpetrated by black men against white revelers, and about 70 people were reported injured. Several women were sexually assaulted. One person, Kris Kime, died of injuries sustained during an attempt to assist a woman being brutalized.

The Seattle News Weekly reported:

For the millions who saw the photos or video, those images burned into the retina: gangs of feral youth beating, kicking, and pummeling male and female victims.

In almost all of the violent images of that night on TV and in the daily news- papers, the attackers were black and the victims were white. Thanks to our local media, this is the idea of the 2001 Mardi Gras riots that most people carry with them. The poster victim of Fat Tuesday, Kris Kime, was also white, and police now say the suspects in his murder are black. The fallout from all this is that many people assume the attacks were racially motivated.

Whatever the “fallout,” the one person convicted of murder that night, Jerell Thomas, served eight years before getting out on a technicality. Within a few months, he was back in prison for assaulting his girlfriend.

Today, people make videos of the site, which includes a memorial plaque.

For all the visible violence in Seattle, city officials are adamant that their town is safe.

Just look at the statistics, they argue.

That didn’t make sense to Nihan Thai, who was recently robbed and assaulted.

He soon discovered that nearly everyone else in his neighborhood had been attacked as well.

Earlier this year, he talked to KING-TV about the crime. He was walking home from the light rail station, he recalled: “I was literally ten steps away from the house. And I felt a hit on my right face and another hit on the back of my neck and on my lower back, and so as I was falling forward I felt hands grabbing my jacket and my bag.”

Two months later, not far from where Thai was attacked, another man was grabbed from behind, robbed and beaten. His name was Danny Vega, and he died.

Thai, like Vega, is Asian and openly gay. Before he died, Vega told police “he’d been attacked by three African-American males, all around 18 years of age,” according to the Post-Intelligencer. It was the 10th such attack in that area in two months, all near the corner of Martin Luther King Way and Othello Street.

All of the suspects in all of the crimes are black.

Police released a video of three black men who are “persons of interest.”

KING-TV reported:

“Thai started visiting his neighbors, they had a lot to say, and soon he realized he was doing his own crime survey. Thai knocked on 49 doors. Thirty-two people were home. How many of them had been victims of a crime since moving to the neighborhood? All but three.

Many victims told Thai they’d never reported the crimes to police.

“It happens to them so often that after two or three times they stopped reporting because they didn’t see any progress,” said Thai.

Thai’s survey was unscientific, but it did cause residents to raise the question of whether crime is going unreported in the south end.

Vega’s neighbors had a meeting soon after his death to discuss “this violence and how do we actually get to the root of it,” said Connie Burk of the Northwest Network of Bisexual, Trans, Lesbian, and Gay Survivors of Abuse to KCPQ-TV. “And how do we actually change the conditions that allow this happen.”



To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (137331)7/9/2012 8:26:07 AM
From: lorne4 Recommendations  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 224757
 
Black mob ... in the Hamptons?

Newspapers ignore race of 750 rowdies, but neighbors know
by Colin Flaherty
wnd.com


Maybe the 750 black people fighting early this morning in the Hamptons village of Riverhead, N. were upset at the light sentence handed out to the man who broke into rap mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs’ nearby home.

Or maybe they were exercising their right “peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

Or maybe that is just how they roll in Riverhead.

We may never know, because, except for the bare bones, the newspapers are not reporting it and the police are not saying.

We know this for sure: Local police had to call for “code 3? emergency assistance from five neighboring police agencies, who took two hours to quell the “disturbance.”

The Riverhead News-Review reported it was a “graduation party” that got out of hand.

Yet hundreds of people on the street after midnight refused to leave when told to do so. Fights were happening before, during and after the police arrived. Party-goers blocked traffic and acted disorderly.

According to the news reports, no one got hurt, no one got arrested and none of the “teens” involved in the incident were quoted.

Detailed accounts of the hubbub seem nonexistent … except for on Twitter, where in the hours following the riot, the tweets and retweets completed the picture: “didn’t know riverhead was poppin like thtt ; last nite qot real lol,” said Kwana, who goes by a Twitter handle too profane for print.

“Riverhead is deada– GHETTO ..im ashamed too say i actually live here,” said @musicnmarijuana.

“was in riverhead actin h– of nice last night lol,” said @SelfMadeRozayy

“Puddin party all on the news & in riverhead local … s— was live,” said @bluewavesboy.

The urban dictionary says a “pudding party” is a boring gathering of old people talking about their homes and children.

Of roughly 20 people boasting to have been involved in the incident on Twitter, photos reveal them all to be black. Claimed eyewitnesses commenting on local news websites also note the race of the rioters.

Some residents of Riverhead, however, were unhappy that the culprits were identified by race in the newspapers’ comment sections.

“Why does race always have to play a part in any discussion in this newspaper?” Missi Brit asked the Riverhead News-Review. “If you had your info correct, the article said ‘youths.’ Meaning black, white and Latino youths.”

That response drew scorn from people who claim to have been there – as neighbors, not partiers: “I saw what happened last night,” said Resident User. “It was not the ‘diverse’ crowd you suggest.”

This gathering is just one of hundreds of examples of black mob violence and lawless in more than 60 cities throughout the country over the last three years, many of them caught on video.

Riverhead Local reported a similar brawl in the same neighborhood last year. It happened after the Fourth of July fireworks, with hundreds of people fighting and disturbing the peace. Two women were stabbed, two women were arrested, and all were black.

In September in nearby Southampton, police had to use pepper spray to break up a similar riot involving 300 black people – the largest such disturbance in the history of this village of 400 people.

As for the man who broken in Diddy’s home, he was sentenced to time served and is required to stay away from Riverhead for five years.



To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (137331)7/9/2012 9:11:00 AM
From: JakeStraw5 Recommendations  Respond to of 224757
 
Obama’s Goose Is Cooked
nationalreview.com

Obama needed a filet mignon in the June employment report. Instead he got a rubber chicken.

Only 80,000 new jobs were created last month, way below Wall Street expectations. It’s the fourth consecutive monthly disappointment. For a few months last winter, jobs were rising at an average of 225,000 a month. But that has sloped way down to only 75,000. The unemployment rate continues at 8.2 percent, which is the forty-first straight month above 8 percent. The U6 unemployment rate, which includes discouraged workers, is just under 15 percent.

As voters finalize their election impressions this summer, all of this is bad news for the Chicago incumbent.

At a campaign stop in Ohio on Friday, Obama actually said we’re still “heading in the right direction.” Is he kidding? As a stagnant GDP drops below 2 percent, employment falters, retail sales decline, and the ISM index for manufacturing drops below 50 (signaling contraction)? No objective observer can deny that the economy is headed in the wrong direction.

I don’t like playing the pessimist, but the numbers are the numbers. This is exactly what former Clinton advisers James Carville, Doug Schoen, and Stanley Greenberg have been warning Obama about. People just don’t believe the economy is getting better. So he’s gotta change his message.

But what change? Taxing rich people won’t create jobs. Neither will bashing Bain Capital. Obama is surrounded by leftist campaign advisers. And it’s hard to see them shifting gears to something constructive like making a summer deal to extend the Bush tax cuts for a year, or heaven forbid backing off the 20-some-odd tax hikes embodied in Obamacare.

In other words, Obama’s goose may already be cooked.

The Joint Economic Committee (JEC), spearheaded by Texas congressman Kevin Brady, put out a report saying that the Obama recovery now ranks dead last in modern times. That’s a real milestone in the post-WWII era. It’s ten out of ten for both jobs and economic growth. According to the Bureau of Economic Analysis, real GDP has expanded only 6.7 percent over the eleven-quarter recovery since the recession ended. The Reagan recovery at the same stage had increased by 17.6 percent. The Clinton recovery by 8.7 percent.

As for jobs, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that the number of private-sector jobs has grown by only 4.1 percent since the cyclical low point. Reagan’s record was 10.7 percent.

So much for Obamanomics. Didn’t work. Still isn’t working. As the JEC put it, spending stimulus, housing bailouts, auto bailouts, financial bailouts, cash for clunkers, cash for caulkers, and $5 trillion in deficit spending left the Obama recovery dead last in modern times.

Whatever happened to the great boom of the ’80s and ’90s, when the animal spirits were strong and the American economy wasn’t held hostage by Europe or China? In an odd twist, both Obama and his top economist Alan Krueger blame “problems built up over decades.” Does that mean they blame Clinton? Reagan?

For nearly 25 years — during those bad old decades — the economy increased 3.3 percent annually. Unemployment dropped from 11 percent to 6 percent to 5 percent to below 4 percent. Obama would swoon for numbers like that. But those statistics come from the era when big government was over, when pro-market forces stopped the expansion of Leviathan, and when marginal tax rates were slashed to grow the economy.

Now the question is, with Obama’s economic goose cooked, does Mitt Romney have what it takes to win the election and provide a pro-growth economic model that will restore prosperity at home and America’s number-one position around the world?

Some powerful figures — including Rupert Murdoch, Jack Welch, and even my brothers and sisters at the Wall Street Journal editorial page — have taken shots at Romney in recent days. But I am more optimistic. In response to his critics on the day of the bad June jobs report, Romney talked about expanding energy resources, approving the Keystone pipeline, cutting taxes, and increasing trade with Latin America. He reaffirmed his intention to cut federal spending and eliminate programs.

Basically, Romney is promising a return to free-market, supply-side policies on taxes, trade, regulation, and spending. Hopefully he will embrace a sound and stable dollar as well. I still believe Romney is the most underrated politician in America today, and that he’s the most conservative Republican standard-bearer since Ronald Reagan.

In other words, he’s some real filet mignon.



To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (137331)7/9/2012 9:13:59 AM
From: JakeStraw5 Recommendations  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 224757
 
>>Obama does not have any foreign bank accounts.

Who cares? It's a non-issue brought about by you dopey partisans. Maybe if the US tax code encouraged investment here in this country, rather than trying to tax & grab all the gov't can it would be different.