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Local Man Claims Responsibility For Own Problems

In an odd exposé that has left the worlds of politics and academia abuzz, a local homeless person revealed yesterday that he only blamed himself for his failures. The incident occurred near the dumpster behind the Shop Rite store in Brooklyn, when Willard Kookish, formerly of 435 Subprime Lane in Nutly, NJ, casually told a reporter that "my problems are my own fault." The veteran New York Times reporter Ken McLiar, who has been searching area dumpsters for a 3,785-part series on people who are homeless due to the evils of American capitalism, admits he was astonished by Mr. Kookish's bizarre confession. When asked to elaborate, Mr. Kookish went on to say, "I went through college drinking and smoking dope and never learned anything. I've had many job opportunities but didn't bother to show up. My family left me a nice house to live in but I took out home equity loans on it and spent the money on hookers and gambling. When the housing boom collapsed I lost everything. I made bad decisions and here I am bearing the consequences." ~ The startling revelation has left many in the community troubled by what it may portend for society at large. "It should be illegal to talk like that", said Marge Stumpko, an angered low-wage waitress from Lower Skunkworks, NY. "Aren't we all our brother's keepers? Is that all you're leaving for my tip, turdface?" Floyd Grabbuck, a community organizer from Chicago, furiously described Mr. Kookish's statement as "un-American and downright traitorous," suggesting that "If that ungrateful rat-bastard doesn't like how we do things in this country, maybe he should move to a place like Russia where the government doesn't care for its subjects and see how he likes it there."  Eddie Fuppish, a mismarked ballot corrector from Franken, Minnesota, sounded more conciliatory: "The poor man needs help. Anybody that takes responsibility for his own actions is certifiably insane. Just look at all the big businesses selling you stuff for money. Don't tell me you are in control of your own spending or anything else for that matter. You're not. That's why I vote Democratic and make sure other people do the same, even if they didn't mark their ballots that way. It's the right thing to do. People need to be protected."  Experts, on whom the incompetent depend to explain the complicated world they fail to understand, are unanimous. "It's Reagan's fault," says Professor Wilton Chumpley, a consulting sociologist from the University of Twerp in Belgium. "Remember how in the 1980s that actor-president mislead people into thinking they could spend their own money and run their own lives without expert help? And then you had that crackpot economist Milton Friedman falsely claiming that the government shouldn't be responsible for directing people's existence. It made less sense than the UFO stories, at least for smart people like myself. But, tragically,some fools took it seriously; it ruined their lives." President Obama has not commented publicly on the controversy but has privately told aides that "former President Bush is not getting off the hook for the economy, the War in Iraq, Hurricane Katrina or Willard Kookish's failures on my watch." Sources speculate that Kookish's mortgage default will be added to the list of indictable offenses against former Bush Administration officials.  Reverend Al Sharpton excoriated Kookish's "arrogant fantasy," calling it "blame the victim" rhetoric from the right and predicting that the incident would set race relations in the US back fifty years, even though Kookish is white. "It don't matter who the victim is, it's who's doing the blaming that makes it wrong," Sharpton said. Regardless of the troubling short-term fallout from the incident, the long term trends are clear. "We need to make people understand they don't matter," stated House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. "Having become cogs in the huge state machine, they can't be allowed to think independently and control their lives; that's what we're here for." Pelosi stressed the inevitability of new taxes and government programs in order to liberate people from such delusions. "People like Willard Kookish better get this through their thick skulls: it's not their fault, it's society's. And that's why they need President Obama and the Democrat-controlled Congress to subdue this country in order to fix it."

Obama's Half-Brother Recasts Story Of Their Father

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120387029
It is a tale of two brothers, but no ordinary brothers. One is president of the United States; the other is his half-brother, who lives in China. As President Obama arrives this weekend in China, his half-brother recently released a semi-autobiographical novel, revealing the abusive nature of their father.

Mark Obama Ndesandjo's face bears an uncanny resemblance to his more famous sibling. His eyes are familiar, yet different.

Ndesandjo and Obama share the same father, but their lives have veered apart. Barack Obama hardly knew their father, who left when Barack was 2. But his younger half-brother Mark grew up in Kenya under the same roof as their violent authoritarian father.

"He managed to work his way up through ... sheer intellect, will and also, at the same time, persistence to go to Harvard and some very high levels in American society," Ndesandjo says of their father. "Then something happened. It was an explosive mixture of drink, maybe disappointment and an inability to understand his own demons that caused the domestic violence we had in our home."

Ndesandjo (pronounced de-SANZ-jo) wrestles with that legacy in his semi-autobiographical book Nairobi to Shenzhen. Like Obama, his mother was a white American, so the book describes his struggle with his multiracial identity. Like Obama, he went to university in the U.S., studying physics and math at Brown, then earning further degrees at Stanford and Emory.

He now lives in China.

But Ndesandjo's academic success was overshadowed by those formative years in Kenya. He says the violence at home hardened him, making it difficult for him to forge relationships or even to look closely at himself.

Gay Leaders Blame Obama, TV Ads For Loss In Maine

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/04/gay-leaders-blame-obama-t_n_346354.html
This makes about as much sense as Sarah Palin.

Gay activists have also lost in other states, including "liberal" California. Was that Obama's fault too?

Why Israel Hates Obama

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-10-01/a-white-house-of-self-hating-jews/?cid=hp:blogunit1
The president's approval rating has fallen to an astonishingly low 4 percent in the Holy Land. As his envoy jumpstarts peace talks, Richard Wolffe reports on Obama's plans to win the ally back.

Democratic Party On Brink of Civil War

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-10-01/the-democrats-civil-war/?cid=hp:mainpromo5
With the defeat on Tuesday of the public-option amendments in the Senate Finance Committee, liberal Democrats are threatening an open revolt against the Obama administration. “If Obama takes the public option off the table, we’re looking at a civil war within the Democratic Party,” says Charles Chamberlain, the political director of the million-member Democracy for America (DFA), founded by Howard Dean, which has helped raise over $200,000 for TV attack ads against wavering Democrats and moderate Senate Republican Olympia Snowe.

Should Taxpayers Bailout Newspapers?

Without newspapers I would have no memories of sitting on my grandmother’s lap learning how to read. I wouldn’t have had one of the most interesting careers on the planet nor a way of finding out what’s really going on in the world.

I have spent all of my adult life in the business, so it would be dishonest of me to say that I wasn’t heartened to read President Obama’s words about journalism and that he would consider bailing out newspapers.

But the side of me with “bailout fatigue” has to wonder if saving newspapers is the best use of taxpayers’ money.

Declining readership, dwindling advertising dollars and the growing popularity of Web sites and cable news shows have all put enormous financial pressures on newspapers, which threatens the industry’s survival — and some newspapers have already gone under .

With more and more Americans turning to YouTube or “The Daily Show” for news these days, bailing out newspapers probably isn’t one of the soundest investments to make right now.

In praising newspaper journalism, Obama added: “I am concerned that if the direction of the news is all blogosphere, all opinions, with no serious fact-checking, no serious attempts to put stories in context, that what you will end up getting is people shouting at each other across the void but not a lot of mutual understanding.”

The president’s worries underscore the findings in a Pew Research Center survey released this month that shows public assessment about the accuracy and independence of news stories is now at its lowest level in more than two decades.

Just days after Obama made his comments about a bailout, Congress held a hearing on the future of newspapers.

The hearing, coincidentally, came on the very same day the parent company of the publication you’re reading right now laid off 44 workers.

“ . . .  the government can help foster solutions for this industry in ways which protect the independence of newspapers and enables their objective reporting to thrive in a new economic and media climate,” said Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney , D-N.Y., who chaired the Sept. 24 hearing. Maloney has also introduced legislation she says will enable local newspapers to take advantage of nonprofit status as a way to preserve their place in communities nationwide.

If attendance at the hearing is an indication for how much appetite members of Congress have for saving newspapers, then the industry just might be doomed. Only three of the 20 House and Senate members showed up for it, and the Democratic chairman left early to vote on a House bill, putting the ranking Republican in charge, The Washington Times reported.

Since the days of Alexander Hamilton, the Founding Fathers insisted on a free press.

“[It] would be quite as significant to declare that government ought to be free, that taxes ought not to be excessive, etc., as that the liberty of the press ought not to be restrained,” Hamilton wrote in The Federalist Papers, No. 84.

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Obama Wants Shorter Summer Vacation

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2009/09/27/more_school_obama_would_curtail_summer_vacation/?page=1
Students beware: The summer vacation you just enjoyed could be sharply curtailed if President Barack Obama gets his way.

Obama says American kids spend too little time in school, putting them at a disadvantage with other students around the globe.

"Now, I know longer school days and school years are not wildly popular ideas," the president said earlier this year. "Not with Malia and Sasha, not in my family, and probably not in yours. But the challenges of a new century demand more time in the classroom."

The president, who has a sixth-grader and a third-grader, wants schools to add time to classes, to stay open late and to let kids in on weekends so they have a safe place to go.

"Our school calendar is based upon the agrarian economy and not too many of our kids are working the fields today," Education Secretary Arne Duncan said in a recent interview with The Associated Press.

For Congressional Black Caucus, joy is tempered by worry

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0909/27465.html
For the Congressional Black Caucus and its 42 members, these should be the best of times.

The nation’s first black president, Barack Obama, now resides in the White House.

“This is a triumphant moment,” said Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.), the CBC’s chairwoman. “After all, a member of the CBC was elected president.”

Yet for many CBC members, there’s also an underlying sense of nervousness and concern about the shifting political landscape in the eight months since Obama was sworn in. The sudden explosion of tea party groups, with right-wing protesters carrying signs depicting Obama as an African witch doctor or in a Nazi uniform, has infuriated some black lawmakers, who say such behavior wouldn’t be tolerated for a white president.

Obama in Strong Position on Health Care

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2009/09/24/obama_in_strong_position_on_health_care.html
Who would have thunk it?!?!?

Conservatives Cast Obama as ‘Reluctant, Timid’

http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?docid=news-000003207575
In a preview of campaign refrains to come, prominent conservatives are saying President Obama’s foreign policy is hurting our allies and helping our enemies.

The “Obama as Carter” motif dominated the conservative Foreign Policy Institute’s annual conference, held in Washington Monday and Tuesday, with GOP headliners making unflattering comparisons to the 39th president to warn of a decline in U.S. international standing.

Obama’s stance on the presidential crisis in Honduras, willingness to engage Iran in nuclear talks and decision to scrap the Bush administration’s missile defense plans in Eastern Europe were popular targets.

“I think the president is communicating he is a reluctant and timid defender of freedom . . . time and time again,” said former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, a 2008 Republican presidential contender and a leading potential candidate in 2012.

“Neutrality has an inevitable corollary . . . you draw more close to your foes and create distances from your friends,” Romney said.

Obama's Quiet Success on Schools

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/22/AR2009092203009.html?sid=ST2009092203116
President Obama's health-care proposals are under attack from the left and right. His bid to overhaul the financial regulatory system is foundering. His effort to institute a cap-and-trade regime to combat global warming is all but dead for the year.

Beneath all this headline turmoil, Obama is overseeing a quiet upheaval in the nation's approach to education from preschool through college. I've been somewhat skeptical of the president's ability to pull this off, questioning his determination to stand up to two political giants: the student-lending lobby and teachers unions.

Top 10 Reasons Pres. Obama Agreed to Go On the Letterman Show

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Sorry, Governor, New Yorkers Say They're Ready For Change

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/polltracker/2009/09/ny-gov.html
They want what Obama wants... Paterson GONE!

Buchanan on RACE: "We hear the grievances. Where is the gratitude?"

Does Buchanan have any valid points?

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None - He's a racist teabagger and I have HAD it!!!

 

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"Barack says we need to have a conversation about race in America . Fair enough. But this time, it has to be a two-way conversation. White America needs to be heard from, not just lectured to. This time, the Silent Majority needs to have its convictions, grievances and demands heard. And among them are these:

First, America has been the best country on earth for black folks It was here that 600,000 black people, brought from Africa in slave ships, grew into a community of 40 million, were introduced to Christian salvation, and reached the greatest levels of freedom and prosperity blacks have ever known. Wright ought to go down on his knees and thank God he is an American.

Second, no people anywhere has done more to lift up blacks than white Americans. Untold trillions have been spent since the ' 60s on welfare, food stamps, rent supplements, Section 8 housing, Pell grants, student loans, legal services, Medicaid, Earned Income Tax Credits and poverty programs designed to bring the African-American community into the mainstream. Governments, businesses and colleges have engaged in discrimination against white folks -- with affirmative action, contract set-asides and quotas -- to advance black applicants over white applicants. Churches, foundations, civic groups, schools and individ uals all over America have donated their time and money to support soup kitchens, adult education, day care, retirement and nursing homes for blacks.

We hear the grievances. Where is the gratitude??

Barack talks about new 'ladders of opportunity' for blacks. Let him go to Altoona ? And Johnstown , and ask the white kids in Catholic schools how many were visited lately by Ivy League recruiters handing out scholarships for 'deserving ' white kids.? Is white America really responsible for the fact that the crime and incarceration rates for African-Americans are seven times those of white America ? Is it really white America 's fault that illegitimacy in the African-American community has hit 70 percent and the black dropout rate from high schools in some cities has reached 50 percent?

Is that the fault of white America or, first and foremost, a failure of the black community itself?

As for racism, its ugliest manifestation is in interracial crime, and especially interracial crimes of violence. Is Barack Obama aware that while white criminals choose black victims 3 percent of the time, black criminals choose white victims 45 percent of the time?

Is Barack aware that black-on-white rapes are 100 times more common than the reverse, that black-on-white robberies were 139 times as common in the first three years of this decade as the reverse?

We have all heard ad nauseam from the Rev. Al about Tawana Brawley, the Duke rape case and Jena . And all turned out to be hoaxes. But about the epidemic of black assaults on whites that are real, we hear nothing.

Sorry, Barack, some of us have heard it all before, about 40 years and 40 trillion tax dollars ago.

http://www.redcounty.com/sarasota/2009/02/buchanan-to-obama

Why we're talking about race - again

http://www.onenewsnow.com/Perspectives/Default.aspx?id=690926
The Democrats have lost the healthcare debate.

For months now, polls have been showing that Americans don't want the massive new government controls, regulations, taxes, and spending that Democrats are pushing.

Latest Gallup polling shows 60 percent saying that President Barack Obama's proposal will not expand health coverage without raising taxes on middle-class Americans and without affecting the current quality of healthcare.



Forty-three percent approve of how Obama is handling healthcare and 52 percent disapprove.

You would be hard pressed to find a Democrat or Republican who does not agree that we can improve how we deliver healthcare.

So the logical conclusion we'd expect now from well-intentioned people would be that we go back to square one. We do what Obama promised but never did -- have a truly open, bi-partisan discussion, with all ideas are on the table, to generate the best possible product for the American people.

Why is this not happening? Because it's not about healthcare. It's about ideology.

Despite claims from our Democrat administration that it wants civility, it does not. It wants control.

This nation is already torn apart ideologically. In the last four months, we've witnessed two cold-blooded, ideologically motivated murders. An abortion doctor shot in a church, and a pro-life demonstrator murdered in a drive-by shooting in front of a school.

There are fewer and fewer "self evident truths" about which we all agree.

The current charade to paint ideological differences with our president as racially motivated dangerously pours gasoline on the burning embers of our differences.

But this is what Democrats want. They have lost the healthcare debate on substance, so they want to make it emotional. They want to intimidate. And nothing intimidates and polarizes like race.

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http://www.onenewsnow.com/Perspectives/Default.aspx?id=690926

Acne and Pregnancy Among "Pre-existing Conditions"

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/18/AR2009091803501.html
A proposal to make preexisting health conditions irrelevant in the sale of insurance policies could help not just the seriously ill but also people who might consider themselves healthy, documents released Friday by a California-based advocacy group illustrate.

Health insurers have issued guidelines saying they could deny coverage to people suffering from such conditions as acne, hemorrhoids and bunions.

One big insurer refused to issue individual policies to police officers and firefighters, along with people in other hazardous occupations.

Some treated pregnancy or the intention to adopt as a reason for rejection.

Report: Obama Asks Paterson to Quit New York Governor’s Race

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/20/nyregion/20paterson.html?_r=1&hp
Well dayum!

Why can't he get tough like this with health care?

Snubbed By Obama, Fox News's Chris Wallace Calls White House "Biggest Bunch Of Crybabies I've Ever Seen"

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/19/snubbed-by-obama-fox-news_n_292254.html
Why is Fox News hatin' over this? Better yet, why is Fox acting surprised?

Ronald Reagan Tells A Heckler To Shutup

A lesson Obama can learn from The Gipper?

Is Obama the New Nixon?

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-09-15/is-obama-the-new-nixon/?cid=hp:mainpromo6
Both presidents were vilified by those out of power, fueling the rise of manic countercultures.