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Politics : How Quickly Can Obama Totally Destroy the US? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: isopatch who wrote (12245)	11/16/2014 12:01:42 PM
From: joseffy	1 Recommendation Recommended By isopatch Respond to of 16547

Did Taxpayers Pay For Michael Brown’s Parents Switzerland Trip? ....................................................................................................... by Mychal Massie mychal-massie.comhttp://mychal-massie.com/premium/did-taxpayers-pay-for-michael-browns-parents-switzerland-trip/ Mychal Massie There are times when all you can do is shake your head at the asphyxiating level of ignorance some people show. Such is the case with the parents of Michael Brown who was shot and killed by a police officer in defense of his person. The Browns spent this past Tuesday in Geneva, Switzerland telling the United Nations Committee Against Torture (CAT) about the police “murder” of their son. They told the Committee of what they perceived to be “excessive use of force” against “peaceful protesters.” “CAT is the body of 10 independent experts that monitors implementation of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment by State parties.” However, the Browns overlooked a couple things. First of all, their son wasn’t murdered, he was shot and killed by the police officer, he was attacking. The people protesting in Ferguson, MO. were only “peaceful” if you define the word as the act of “looting, breaking, pilfering, beating, burning, plundering, and disruption of epic proportions.” Apparently the Browns also overlooked the fact that the United States doesn’t genuflect to the Untied Nations regardless of what Obama and Hillary Clinton would like. But the two most important things the Browns overlooked was the fact that the United Nations is comprised of countries like Nigeria, Venezuela, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, Benin, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Congo, China, North Korea, Ethiopia, Iraq, Kenya, Libya, Liberia, Pakistan, Rwanda, Sudan, Zimbabwe, and a host of other countries whose leaders have turned torture and cruelty into a fine art. Countries where the behavior exhibited by the heathens in Ferguson would under no circumstances be tolerated. Countries where citizens are beaten and imprisoned for perceived infractions and/or the thought that they may commit an infraction. The Browns also conveniently overlooked the singularly most important point and that is their son was a thug. He might have been cherubic in their eyes, but we can be certain that wasn’t the opinion held by the owner of the store where Brown was videoed violently stealing a box of cheap cigars. While requests to have Brown’s juvenile record made public have been denied, I for one am not prepared to accept that means he wasn’t a hoodlum; the actions before he was killed attacking a police officer suggest Brown got away more times than he was caught. I wonder if Brown’s mother told them she was potentially facing being “charged with felony armed robbery for allegedly attacking people in a Ferguson, MO., parking lot because they were selling T-shirts honoring her late son.” (Michael Brown’s Mom May Face Robbery Charges; Marc Weinreich; New York Daily News; 11/7/14) It seems she doesn’t want anyone else cashing in on her son but her family. That said, I would like to know who provided the money for the Browns to attend CAT in Geneva, Switzerland. I want to know if Justice Department monies were provided for them because that would mean the taxpayers unknowingly paid for their trip. The American public deserves to know who arranged the trip. People do not just decide to show up and be given the floor at CAT. So just how did the Browns end up there? Was the Obama Justice Department involved? I’m not unsympathetic with their loss. No parent wants to bury their child. But Michael Brown was a thug wannabe and to pretend he wasn’t is patently disingenuous. That’s the way it is with people like the late Michael Brown. Ten seconds before they pay for their criminal lifestyle, they were looting, killing, robbing, threatening, selling drugs, etc. Ten seconds after they meet their demise, the same people they were terrorizing and abusing claim they were saints. The one thing the Browns cannot change is their son would be alive today if he had comported himself like the person they now want the world to believe he was. Of course, that is also dependent on whether or not some other neighborhood thug didn’t gun him down because he just happened to be in the path of a bullet intended for someone else.

To: isopatch who wrote (12245)	11/16/2014 12:21:21 PM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 16547

Entire video of Michael Brown shoplifting and assaulting store owner

To: isopatch who wrote (12245)	11/16/2014 1:39:33 PM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 16547

Smug Obama administration duped the public ......................................................................................... Carroll County Times ^ \| Nov. 14, 2014 \| Dr. Charles Lipson Assuming Gruber's message is true, it means the Obama administration deliberately evaded our democratic process to pass its signature legislation. Its justification, which Gruber makes explicit, is not only that "we know what's best for you," but also that "you are too dense to know that yourself." This arrogant, condescending approach extends far beyond Obamacare. It is an essential feature of progressive politics for the past century. From the outset, progressive politics yoked expert advice to expansive state action, especially redistributive policies to help the poor. It says, "We are experts who want to help you, the great unwashed. You are too stupid and uneducated to know how to know what's best for you. Since we do know, and since we have your best interests at heart, we will handle those complex choices for you."

To: isopatch who wrote (12245)	11/16/2014 3:12:45 PM
From: joseffy	1 Recommendation Recommended By Shoot1st Respond to of 16547

To: isopatch who wrote (12245)	11/17/2014 5:18:59 PM
From: joseffy	1 Recommendation Recommended By isopatch Respond to of 16547

Thank You, Jonathan Gruber ............................................................................................... National Review Online ^ \| November 14, 2014 12:00 AM \| Rich Lowry The epic search of the Greek philosopher Diogenes for an honest man is finally over. His name is Jonathan Gruber, and he is an MIT economist once known as an intellectual architect of Obamacare, although his status is being rapidly downgraded by the law’s supporters with every one of his uncomfortably frank utterances about President Barack Obama’s signature initiative. Video surfaced of Gruber saying at a panel discussion at the University of Pennsylvania last year that the law was written in a deceptive, nontransparent way to exploit “the stupidity of the American voter.” Gruber swiftly went on MSNBC to explain that his comments should be discounted because he was speaking “off the cuff.” Then two other videos surfaced of him saying much the same thing at different venues. Calling the American public stupid appears to have been one of Gruber’s favorite rhetorical tropes. At one of his appearances, his audience can be heard laughing appreciatively. H. L. Mencken famously wrote that no one has “ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.” Or, Gruber might add, ever failed to pass major social legislation by doing the same. His impolitic remarks now have some Obama supporters suggesting that Gruber — one of the most influential health-care wonks in the country, who was integral to crafting the Massachusetts precursor to Obamacare and then Obamacare itself — is just some random, poorly spoken guy. This denies Gruber his due. He has done us all a favor by affording us an unvarnished look into the progressive mind, which values complexity over simplicity, favors indirect taxes and impositions on the American public so their costs can be hidden, and has a dim view of the average American. Complexity is a staple of liberal policymaking. It is a product of its scale and reach, but also of the imperative to hide the ball. Taxing and spending and redistributive schemes tend to be unpopular, so clever ways have to be found to deny that they are happening. This is what Gruber was getting at. One reason Obamacare was so convoluted is that its supporters didn’t want to straightforwardly admit how much the law was raising taxes and using the young and healthy to subsidize everyone else. Gruber crowed about the exertions undertaken to make an unpopular tax on expensive health-insurance plans, the so-called Cadillac tax, more palatable. It was levied on employers instead of employees. No one realized, Gruber explained, that the tax would be functionally the same even if not directly imposed on workers. This wasn’t a one-off deception. This kind of sleight of hand is crucial to the progressive project, which always involves imposing taxes, regulations, and mandates at one remove from the average person so he or she won’t realize that the costs are passed down regardless. Most liberals would never come out and call Americans stupid in a public forum, as Gruber did. But the debate between conservatives and liberals on health-care policy and much else comes down to how much average Americans can be trusted to make decisions on their own without the guiding, correcting hand of government. An assumption that Americans are incompetent is woven into the Left’s worldview. It is reluctant to entrust individuals with free choice for fear they will exercise it poorly and irresponsibly. So Gruber deserves to be listened to, even if he ultimately got it wrong. The public is smarter than he and other Obamacare supporters give it credit for. It has never believed the magical, deliberately deceptive promises about Obamacare, or supported the law that continues to be a drag on the Democratic party. Rather than congratulating themselves on their cleverness, the law’s architects might better reflect on how, even with crushing majorities in the House and the Senate, they had to lie and obfuscate to get Obamacare passed. That is damning commentary, not on the American public, but on their misbegotten handiwork.

To: isopatch who wrote (12245)	11/18/2014 9:34:12 AM
From: joseffy	1 Recommendation Recommended By isopatch Respond to of 16547

Notice how media treats BILL Cosby vs, BILL Clinton ....................................................................................... Cosby accused of rape---media takes it and runs with it. Lifetime sexual predator Bill Clinton accused of rape---media: "Say what?"

To: isopatch who wrote (12245)	11/19/2014 9:29:39 AM
From: joseffy	1 Recommendation Recommended By isopatch Respond to of 16547

NBC’s Chuck Todd: I Understand Why Network News Isn’t Covering Gruber [VIDEO] ................................................................................................................................................. Has network news been neglecting the recent comments by MIT economist Jonathan Gruber? NBC, CBS and ABC haven’t covered the story, leading to questions of media bias, but “Meet The Press” host Chuck Todd offers an understanding of why this is the case. “It’s a political story,” said Todd on Gruber’s comments. “Network news, in general, hasn’t be covering the political back and forth of Washington a lot lately."