Open Thread Sunday

O'S SILENT MAJORITY
Like Richard Nixon, Barack Obama wants to govern on the strength of a silent majority, although with a twist. Obama wants the majority that opposes or questions his policies to stay silent.
Obama's White House and its allies have unleashed a barrage of criticism and condescension at people daring to show up at town-hall meetings and ask their elected representatives pointed questions. "Fired up and ready to go!" apparently works only one way. If engaged citizens shower Obama with adoration at stage-managed rallies, they are the very stuff of American democracy. If they boo their congressman, they are a scandalous eruption of fake or hateful sentiment.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/08092009/postopinion/...
/when are we gonna stop this criminal ?

About the movie…

For me, the final scene between Michelangelo and Pope Julius II prior to the public unveiling of the Sistine Chapel is an insightful and deeply moving discussion of artistic creativity, spirituality, and man's relationship with the Universe and his God, well played by two cinematic titans, Charleton Heston and Rex Harrison respectively.

I'm waiting for them to kick in some stimulus money as an incentive to fink on my right-wing nutbag neighbors.

I think informants should be paid…

It has since been discovered that Michaelangelo freehanded the frescoes of the Sisteen Chapel. He didn't use stencils as Heston portrayed him as doing. The movie is great nevertheless; there's no video arcade action noise and no anti-Christian or anti-American theme.

Republicans banking on 2012 election
While hundreds of millions of dollars are spent in battles over President Barack Obama’s ambitious legislative agenda in Washington, underneath the radar some of the Republican Party’s next best hopes are laying the groundwork for the bid to replace him — or at least secure their place in the GOP hierarchy.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0809/25923.h...
/my kinda Hope

And you still don't. What does it take to become a member here?

You gotta be Right in your mind
And if you voted for Obama you never will
/sarc

Palin got it right
On July 24, Democratic Sens. Barbara Boxer of California and John Kerry of Massachusetts took to The Washington Post to attack former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's opposition to the Waxman-Markey cap-and-tax legislation and her overall energy philosophy.
Mrs. Palin correctly criticized the scheme presented in the legislation sponsored by Democratic Reps. Henry A. Waxman of California and Edward J. Markey of Massachusetts. By only citing a report from the left-of-liberal Center for American Progress, Mr. Kerry and Mrs. Boxer naively underestimate the effects the legislation will have on the American economy. Other, more mainstream organizations, such as the Brookings Institution and the Black Chamber of Commerce, disagree.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/aug/09/p...
/she has been Right about everything so far

Georgia Democrat yells at local doctor over health care
Tensions are running so high at town hall meetings that Rep. David Scott, a Georgia Democrat, yelled at a local doctor concerned about health care after mistaking him for an "astroturf" political operative looking for a fight.
Mr. Scott became visibly agitated when one of his constituents, a practicing doctor, asked a few questions about health care reform during a town hall meeting. The meeting was held to discuss a road project, but was opened up for questions near the end. That's when Dr. David Hill stood up to speak.
http://www.11alive.com/video/?maven_playerId=imme...
/making excuses for the dems for 40 years the MSM

No clue what this movie is but I miss the days when men were real men and not pansies. (Not that I remember them either LOL)

J.C. WATTS: The Democrats are in disarray
As I consider all the hysteria that's blowing in the political air nowadays, I can't help but think back to 1995, when Republicans controlled Congress and were working with President Bill Clinton in the White House.
You may recall September 1994, when Republican candidates from all across the nation stood on the Capitol steps and made a promise to the American people that, if elected and given a majority, they would address 10 issues that Newt Gingrich and his team had framed as the Contract with America.
http://www.lvrj.com/opinion/52828602.html
/ahhh the good old days

"men were real men and not pansies."
Hey !
I resemble that remark !
LOL
If I could act like a metro sexual Survivor might finally call me
LOL

Poll: What was the Obamateurism of the Week?
We only have three nominees in this poll for the Obamateurism of the Week, which is good, because some people have trouble counting past that, anyway. Some find math taxing, while others can’t remember the taxes they signed into law. I’d say who that person is, except that I don’t want to run afoul of the White House’s new Snitch Central, so let’s just go to the poll:
http://hotair.com/archives/2009/08/09/poll-what-w...

** TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) – Honduras' coup-installed president prohibits visit of crisis negotiators from OAS.
Copyright 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. **

AP is still beating the 'coup' drum about Honduras, despite all the facts to the contrary. Honduras is wise keeping out the OAS 'negotiators'. There's nothing good for Honduras trying to deal with that bunch of socialists.

And the constant stream of misinformation from the MSM is a contributing factor to the short tempers from citizens, senior and not-so-senior, at the town hall meetings. People are past tired of being lied to, and lied to so blatantly that their intelligence is being insulted. But for the MSM to start reporting instead of propagandizing is a 'change' I don't expect in this lifetime.

"Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves." ~~D.H. Lawrence, Classical American Literature, 1922

Honduras is more of a Republic than we are
They saw a President acting illegally and not in the peoples best intrest and fixed it
Why the hell can't the Americans do the same thing ?

DEMOCRACY IS NOT A SPECTATOR SPORT

On the off chance some visitors to OT haven't checked out Vainamoinen's description of 'Stupid' on

http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bprelutsky/2009...

it's a work of art and well worth the read.

Might add they also did this legally and upheld their constitution. Our elected one is on the wrong side of this, just as he is with Iran and their election scam, he is not standing up for democracy and freedom.

"Demographic time bomb"
A Fifth Of European Union Will Be Muslim By 2050
Britain, Spain and Holland will have an even higher proportion of Muslims in a shorter amount of time, an investigation by The Telegraph shows.
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=M2JmOTY4...
/sharia creep

To be honest, despite the personal failings of Bill Clinton – we all know about those – the 1990s were objectively the best decade of the century. The Cold War was over (no rose-colored glasses please), the economy did very well with a Republican majority in Congress, we had no idea what was coming. As much as I am nostalgic for the 80s, the 90s were a good time. Clinton doesn´t deserve much credit for it, but he deserves some. As for Bush, I maintain that he is much underrated. I will never, ever, apologize for supporting Bush.

TR, be nice! I seem to remember when I was trying to register, it was a little goofy, and I had to hunt for the right thread. Unfortunately, I can't remember now how I found it. Do you remember? Come on, help out our new friend.

"forever and ever and ever…"

Hey, you´re quoting from The Shining! You´re alright! I would vouch for you if it helps to free you of this ghostly existence.

Pope Obama: When will you make an end to this?
The American People: When we're finished!

I think I went to the home page and found the register link
If I remember I had to be approved
Try a real email ,no hot mail or other secondary

Thank you to some great people on OPEN THREAD:

We rented A Simple Plan and One False Move (both with Paxton and Thornton) and they were the first fun movies we've rented in ages! Everybody, keep those recommendations coming!

GI's heart saves family friend
Killed in Afghanistan, Cpl. Benjamin Kopp was an organ donor
WASHINGTON — Cpl. Benjamin Kopp gave his life. And then he saved one.
An Army Ranger who had been on his third tour of duty, Kopp was buried Friday at Arlington National Cemetery. Sadly, it's a familiar story: a young man dead before his time, shot by enemies on the other side of the world.
But this time, there was a renewed life too. Kopp wanted to be an organ donor.
And after he died, his heart was transplanted into a family member's friend who had a rare form of congenital heart disease.
http://www.denverpost.com/headlines/ci_13023400
/A real Hero

Being able to deliver fantastic lines with passion and conviction is critical to all science fiction and fantasy movies, which is why it's better to have excellent actors rather than either big names or beautiful young things in a science fiction or fantasy movie.

All these stupid white people who voted for this Obama idiot now after realizing Obamo was going to destroy their health care system to provide free care for the millions of welfare recipients and freeloaders now showing up at town hall meeting outraged at hope and change.
So many Stupid White People.

Now they are getting private jets
Next they are going to want Secret Service protection
Is the next bill going to include lifetime appointments ?
/spit

Let's hope Nevada has reached the tipping point with that disgusting Harry Reid.

Senators and Representatives that refuse to hold face-to-face townhall meetings must be voted out of office at the next election and given the opportunity of making their living in the private sector .

"Are You Paying Attention Now?" New video from town hall beating:

http://hotair.com/archives/2009/08/08/new-video-f...

Death panels? What death panels? Oh, those death panels
Sarah Palin’s warning about the effects of Obamacare on the elderly and infirm have been met with derision and ridicule. William Jacobson has a good round-up.
Meanwhile, the effects of socialized medicine in Britain — engineered by government-run cost-cutting panels on which Obamacare would be modeled — continue to wreak havoc on the elderly and infirm:
*Elderly left at risk by NHS bidding wars to find cheapest care with reverse auctions
http://michellemalkin.com/2009/08/09/death-panels...

Roscoe, I'm not sure what you've tried. But click on my avatar name, so that you go to my Intense Debate page. In the upper left hand corner you should see the words "log in" or "create account". Click "create account" and then just fill in the information. That should give you an account. Then come back here and sign in.

Hope that helps.

1. Government-run healthcare would be wrong even if they did not give money to freeloaders.

2. Not every poor person is undeserving. A transparent, market-based system of health insurance in which poor people get subsidies or tax breaks to buy health care would be perfectly fine by me. Charity is not the problem here.

I'm a news editor at a mid-sized paper, and I take the word "coup" out of every story with a Honduras dateline.

I don't know how stupid or Marxist (most of the time, that's the same) the AP can be.

But I still can't decide what's worse: the stupidity, or our government's decision to side with the Marxist.

As I've 'always' said – this site is browser sensitive'.

Maybe, just maybe Europe will wake up…I saw rumblings of dissatisfaction about the flood of immigrants from Pakistan and India by the Brits while I was there this summer.

The West is doomed with our current immigration policies. These immigrants don't assimilate into the host nation's culture……they want the host nation to recognize and support their culture…….Kinda like leaving their $hithole country to have a better life in the West….then wanting to turn the West into a duplicate of their $hithole country.

A president grossly overplaying his hand
What we’re seeing in Washington these days is beginning to look like Jimmy Carter II.
Carter, like Barack Obama, started out with the idea of stimulating the economy.
His plan was to give every taxpayer $50, then throw in a few billion for tax cuts and public works programs. Simple, right? Wrong: In Washington, this soon became very complicated. Within a month, the package grew from $20 billion to more than $31 billion — a significant amount in the 1970s.
http://www.kansascity.com/275/story/1371991.html
/Am I dreaming or is the rest of the country starting to wake up ?

Read Some of HR 3200 Health Care
Saw lots of close working with Secretary of Health and IRS/Treasury working together.
Executive Branch will have about 20 different appointments on "commissions"
Marketing will be approved by commissions for private and public
New Health Commissioner will define plan after it is passed with help of Health Sec.
Private companies will be benefit if they work with "community organizers"
New "Special" Inspector General post

You could give them a voucher instead of cash. They can get basic insurance or wipe their a** with it. Of course, the bureaucracy might screw it up and the liberals will extend it to one group after the other. But that is a separate problem. One is always tempted to think of the worst cases. The working poor – they do exist – will use it right.

Never saw the movie, but I read the book before I went backpacking thru Europe at 20. Saw as many works of Michelangelo as I could.

Irving Stone's Lust for Life was also turned into a movie.

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