I'm not a fan of Alex Jones, so...of course...I found this video endlessly entertaining:
Once again, the people are left in the position of standing up to the charlatans in media.
Showing posts with label Massachusetts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Massachusetts. Show all posts
Wednesday, May 1, 2013
Saturday, April 20, 2013
From Boston's darkest day, to their finest hour...
Looking at the tape, in the aftermath of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s capture, it reminds me of the night Osama Bin Laden was captured, with joyous College Students yelling out: USA, USA, USA!
Still, in the tape from the makeshift memorial taken tonight, you also can tell Boston has finally given itself permission to grieve. Thus, we can finally take a moment to really feel the loss of Krystle, of Lu...and Martin.
Only now, Sean joins them.
This was unquestionably Boston’s finest hour. This was bigger than the Red Sox in 2004. Bigger than the actual Boston Tea Party. In a time when, in response to the worst of humanity, the people of Boston had every right to do the same to the people who did this crime.
Somehow Boston didn’t fall into that trap.
Even though I was watching the whole time, I’m still not certain how they did it. They probably don’t know how they did it either.
We just watched in Los Angeles, during the Christopher Dorner fiasco, a city totally lose it’s @#$%. Cops fanning out in a panic, chasing pink rabbits down invisible holes, chasing bad clues, shooting unarmed innocent civilians who looked nothing like Dorner.
Boston when through something a hundred times worse...and they didn’t lose it. They kept their cool, because for five straight days...all they wanted, all they thought about was finding these guys.
Not finding them, and then they gonna--...like the LAPD would do.
No. Just...find them.
Find those bastards.
Then the moment came. The moment came because it was earned through leg work, shoe leather, sweat equity, not might, brawn or overwhelming firepower. The Police closed down what they needed to close down. They sifted through what they needed to sift through. They talked to who they needed to talk to, and when the moment came, they even asked for help.
Granted, not everything was perfect. The cordon they set up to catch Dzhokhar was a block too short, allowing him to stay hidden most of the day. But when the moment came, when they were needed most, the people of Massachusetts got their man. They got him alive, and got him on his way to jail.
The Boston PD, the Watertown PD, the Massachusetts Staties, the FBI, didn’t hurt any innocent people along the way. They only people they hurt were the people who committed a massive crime. The people they arrested, they talked to, and when found they had nothing to do with the crime, were let go.
As an African-American, I so want to love the Police. I try. I always look out for them. I always want them to be well paid, and their families taken care of. But what inevitably happens, they do something stupid, like a Diallo, or shoot up innocent people chasing Christopher Dorner, or shoot nine people in New York City trying to get one guy...and I lose faith in them all over again.
But Boston restored it.
Monday there was a crime.
Wednesday they solved it.
Friday they arrested the people responsible.
God love you glorious Irish Bastards.
See you next Patriots Day, when I have the distinct feeling it’s going to be a National Holiday, for at least one year.
Friday, February 15, 2013
Senator Elizabeth Warren's First Banking Committee Hearing (VIDEO)
Since you people seem to enjoy the sight of elected Senators actually doing...you know...their jobs:
Wouldn't it have been easier just to let her be the head of the Consumer Protection Bureau?
Wouldn't it have been easier just to let her be the head of the Consumer Protection Bureau?
Thursday, October 4, 2012
If the Romney camp's so secure in their "victory", why go to the race card? (VIDEO)
Pretty much every Black person in America, upon hearing this, will draw the same conclusion I just did. (Also, every white racist is going to hear the same dog whistle as well...only they'll applaud with approval.)
We know the code, guys.
We've been listening to you for 300 years. Our very survival has depended on it.
The first Obama Ad after the debate... (VIDEO)
Not the greatest, not the worst...but here's your problem if you're Mitt Romney: you lied so much last night, there's a lot more to come.
Mitt Romney lied to America's face last night. Liberals fail to notice.
If there’s one thing I can’t stand about being a Liberal myself, is that it puts me in the company of other Liberals.
Mainly, it puts me in the company of the kind of chicken@#$% Liberals, who think they know it all...yet somehow magically manage to keep losing us elections.
Yet somehow, those seem to be the only kind of Liberals that are allowed to speak on matters, or allowed to be pundits on Television.
Basically, the headline I've gotten from Liberals and Obama Supporters is "Yeah, Romney lied to our collective faces, but he did it so well. Therefore, I gotta give him debate."
Seriously?
I may be the only Liberal in America who thinks Barack Obama won last night (okay, that's not fair...one of the few).
Why?
Well, first off I didn’t watch the Debate on CNN, or MSNBC...and Lord knows I didn’t watch it on Fox. I watched it on C-SPAN, a technique I picked up from beloved radio goddess, Randi Rhodes.
You watch C-SPAN only one thing happens, you see the event. You don't get spin, telling you what to think about what you just saw. You don't get pre-spin, telling you what to think about what haven't seen yet. You just get the event.
To me Debate Strategy is all about missions. The Candidates come in with a mission, something they want the tape to show the next day. Here's what the Press won't tell you, because they want you watching the debates. Candidates always succeed at accomplishing their mission. Almost always. Very rarely do they fail.
The only question is whose mission is the better campaign strategy over the long haul.
Romney’s mission was to go on the attack, be more aggressive and get in the face of the President. Well, mission accomplished. Then again, he had to do that. Everyone knew he was going to do that.
The President’s mission was to look...well...Presidential. Mission accomplished as well.
But the President had a second mission as well. He wanted to get Mitt Romney on tape shape-shifting. He wanted him flip-flopping one of his “severely conservative” positions. I think the President thought it was going to take all night to get him to do that.
Instead it happened in the first answer of the night, when Mitt Romney ditched his Tax Plan, right there on Live Television.
The Pundits saw a President who “didn’t want to be there” last night. I saw a President, with his jaw-dropping after Mitt gave his first answer, and all but looking at the camera and saying: “Uhhh, did you get that? Is that on tape? Are we good?”
Josh Marshall over at TPM put it another way:
My fellow Liberals can twist themselves into all the knots they want. Romney @#$%ed up tonight, severely.
He has promised across the board Tax Cuts of 20%. These will cost us $5 Trillion dollars. He can deny it all he wants, but those are just facts.
He’s promised to reduce the deficit with spending cuts, spending cuts he won’t specify.
And he went back on ALL of that last night, onstage. He said his tax cuts won’t hurt the deficit, and later promised he won’t enact them if they do. He said he won’t touch Defense Spending, as well as calling any notion of a $2 Trillion defense spending hike a lie. He also said he won’t touch Education spending, saying that the states should do more...and promising that the Federal Government will help if needed.
He was saying these things sometimes within the same answer.
Oh, and he out and out lied about his Health Care Plan covering pre-exisiting conditions. His own surrogate, the legendary Eric Fehrnstrom said Governor Romney's plan wouldn't do that.
As my Father, who was watching the same C-SPAN feed I was, texted me: if we keep having debates, Romney won’t be left with anything to cut.
The President did not lose last night. It’s hard to lose a debate when the other guy is lying to America’s face, and doing so...so blatantly that its hard to believe.
The only way the President loses this debate is if we don’t see ads in the next 48 hours showing Mitt Romney from the debate contradicting the Mitt Romney from the campaign trail. The only way the President loses this debate is if he doesn’t remind America, with both Ads and on the stump just how badly Mitt Romney lied to their face.
Just watch, because it's coming.
The only way the President loses this election is if Liberals keep whining, and talk themselves out of a victory. Unfortunately, that can still happen.
UPDATE: 10:29am Pacific Time: Guess what? Obama has his first ad out. That only took what? Twelve hours?
Mainly, it puts me in the company of the kind of chicken@#$% Liberals, who think they know it all...yet somehow magically manage to keep losing us elections.
Yet somehow, those seem to be the only kind of Liberals that are allowed to speak on matters, or allowed to be pundits on Television.
Basically, the headline I've gotten from Liberals and Obama Supporters is "Yeah, Romney lied to our collective faces, but he did it so well. Therefore, I gotta give him debate."
Seriously?
I may be the only Liberal in America who thinks Barack Obama won last night (okay, that's not fair...one of the few).
Why?
Well, first off I didn’t watch the Debate on CNN, or MSNBC...and Lord knows I didn’t watch it on Fox. I watched it on C-SPAN, a technique I picked up from beloved radio goddess, Randi Rhodes.
You watch C-SPAN only one thing happens, you see the event. You don't get spin, telling you what to think about what you just saw. You don't get pre-spin, telling you what to think about what haven't seen yet. You just get the event.
To me Debate Strategy is all about missions. The Candidates come in with a mission, something they want the tape to show the next day. Here's what the Press won't tell you, because they want you watching the debates. Candidates always succeed at accomplishing their mission. Almost always. Very rarely do they fail.
The only question is whose mission is the better campaign strategy over the long haul.
Romney’s mission was to go on the attack, be more aggressive and get in the face of the President. Well, mission accomplished. Then again, he had to do that. Everyone knew he was going to do that.
The President’s mission was to look...well...Presidential. Mission accomplished as well.
But the President had a second mission as well. He wanted to get Mitt Romney on tape shape-shifting. He wanted him flip-flopping one of his “severely conservative” positions. I think the President thought it was going to take all night to get him to do that.
Instead it happened in the first answer of the night, when Mitt Romney ditched his Tax Plan, right there on Live Television.
The Pundits saw a President who “didn’t want to be there” last night. I saw a President, with his jaw-dropping after Mitt gave his first answer, and all but looking at the camera and saying: “Uhhh, did you get that? Is that on tape? Are we good?”
Josh Marshall over at TPM put it another way:
Romney’s focus though came at the cost of a few key things.
He basically tossed aside his own tax plan or said he would if his numbers didn’t add up. But then he insisted that he could find enough loopholes to close to afford a $5 trillion tax cut for upper income earners. These are more numbers on the table. That’s really what most of the debate was about — budget numbers. Romney insisted with a straight face that up was down.
The Obama team isn’t going to try to get into a fight about whether their guy was on his game. There’s no point. (This is what I meant a couple days ago when I said Obama is not a great debater. Not a great night. But I’ve never seen him great at debating.) What I fully expect, what they’ll do if they’re smart is go full court press on Romney’s numbers and press for details about his budget plan.
The numbers simply don’t add up. Over a few news cycles that can build up really fast. He says he’ll push massive upper income tax cuts and those have to come at the cost of much higher deficits or big tax hikes for middle income people. His campaign agenda is based on a massive deception.
That’s the vulnerability Romney brings out of this debate. And it may be bigger than people realize.
My fellow Liberals can twist themselves into all the knots they want. Romney @#$%ed up tonight, severely.
He has promised across the board Tax Cuts of 20%. These will cost us $5 Trillion dollars. He can deny it all he wants, but those are just facts.
He’s promised to reduce the deficit with spending cuts, spending cuts he won’t specify.
And he went back on ALL of that last night, onstage. He said his tax cuts won’t hurt the deficit, and later promised he won’t enact them if they do. He said he won’t touch Defense Spending, as well as calling any notion of a $2 Trillion defense spending hike a lie. He also said he won’t touch Education spending, saying that the states should do more...and promising that the Federal Government will help if needed.
He was saying these things sometimes within the same answer.
Oh, and he out and out lied about his Health Care Plan covering pre-exisiting conditions. His own surrogate, the legendary Eric Fehrnstrom said Governor Romney's plan wouldn't do that.
As my Father, who was watching the same C-SPAN feed I was, texted me: if we keep having debates, Romney won’t be left with anything to cut.
The President did not lose last night. It’s hard to lose a debate when the other guy is lying to America’s face, and doing so...so blatantly that its hard to believe.
The only way the President loses this debate is if we don’t see ads in the next 48 hours showing Mitt Romney from the debate contradicting the Mitt Romney from the campaign trail. The only way the President loses this debate is if he doesn’t remind America, with both Ads and on the stump just how badly Mitt Romney lied to their face.
Just watch, because it's coming.
The only way the President loses this election is if Liberals keep whining, and talk themselves out of a victory. Unfortunately, that can still happen.
UPDATE: 10:29am Pacific Time: Guess what? Obama has his first ad out. That only took what? Twelve hours?
Thursday, September 27, 2012
Monday, September 24, 2012
"I didn't ask you a question..." (VIDEO)
Cheryl, a teacher from Colorado, describes a roundtable she participated in with Mitt Romney.
Needless to say, it did not go well.
Needless to say, it did not go well.
Thursday, September 20, 2012
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
Friday, September 14, 2012
The continuing saga of Mitt Romney's (lack of) Tax Returns (VIDEO)
Why should we be entitled to less information about Mitt Romney than Mitt Romney requires of Paul Ryan?
Probably because we don't count for very much in his eyes.
Thursday, September 13, 2012
Thursday, September 6, 2012
Elizabeth Warren's complete Speech before the DNC 2012. (VIDEO)
"I’m here tonight to talk about hard-working people: people who get up early, stay up late, cook dinner and help out with homework; people who can be counted on to help their kids, their parents, their neighbors, and the lady down the street whose car broke down; people who work their hearts out but are up against a hard truth--the game is rigged against them."
Wednesday, September 5, 2012
Deval Patrick's Speech before the Democratic National Convention (VIDEO)
"It’s time for Democrats to stiffen our backbone and stand up for what we believe. Quit waiting for pundits or polls or super PACs to tell us who the next president or senator or congressman is going to be. We’re Americans.
We shape our own future. Let’s start by standing up for President Barack Obama."
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