Archive for September, 2009



Honduran VISAs

I’m very happy the bigger blogs are starting to cover this outrage concerning Honduras.

Today Gateway Pundit lists the folks who will be coming to NY for the UN meeting and who will not.

Next week the Obama Administration will allow Ahmadinejad, Castro, Chavez, Gaddafi and several other international thugs into New York City to speak in front of the United Nations General Assembly. However, one country’s president will not be allowed into the United States.

President Roberto Micheletti from Honduras will not be allowed to enter into America. The Obama Administration revoked his visa back in July.

Honduras, our ally. GP has video from Fox too.

In the meantime La Gringa pulled up this quote from Obama at the OAS summit this April.

“While the United States has done much to promote peace and prosperity in the hemisphere, we have at times been disengaged, and at times we sought to dictate our terms. But I pledge to you that we seek an equal partnership. (Applause.) There is no senior partner and junior partner in our relations; there is simply engagement based on mutual respect and common interests and shared values.”

Under the bus with you oh Latin America because apparently what Obama meant was:

“While the United States has done much to promote peace and prosperity in the hemisphere, we have at times been disengages, and at times we sound to dictate our terms. But I pledge to you that we will continue to dictate and insist that things are done as we decree. We will be the senior partner and the rest of you little people can engage us with respect. If not, …… you’ll see.”

The ACORN Story and the Media

5 videos of ACORN employees giving advice to two people claiming to be a prostitute and her pimp on how to set up a house of prostitution which will include 13 or so girls (ages 13-15) from El Salvador.

Five videos.

This from the NYTimes today.

Acorn Orders Inquiry in the Wake of a Video

Five.

This is also from the NYTimes today. Same story.

In addition to the hidden-camera video, several voter-registration fraud accusations have led to scrutiny of the organization.

“several”.
Try thousands of accusations in at least 14 states.

In the Washington Post today we get this quote from an ACORN spokesman:

An ACORN spokesman said they were turned away in Miami, Los Angeles and Philadelphia, where workers called police and filed a report.

Previously, ACORN said this:

This recent scam, which was attempted in San Diego, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Philadelphia to name a few places, had failed for months before the results we’ve all recently seen.

Since then we’ve seen new video(s) from San Diego, and New York.
I await the Miami, LA and Philly videos!

Thomas L. Friedman

Economist extraordinaire:

“Because I believe that Global Warming is caused by mankind we should get rid of the free markets.”
[me paraphrasing today's column]

Here’s his previous column in case you missed it.
In this one he notes that if only we could be more like China, then life would be good.

The New Plan

In today’s Washington Post is an article about the new strategy for our intelligence people.

Blair described the strategy, the first to be drawn up under the Obama administration, as “a muscular intelligence response to meet the nation’s responsibilities so that we can provide good advice to the policymakers and in the field.”

Asked about a U.S. military attack on terrorism suspects in Somalia this week, Blair said, “We are as aggressive in the intelligence world as we were before, and, in fact, in the particular area of working against groups of violent extremists . . . we can be more aggressive because we are gaining more and more knowledge.”

I’m curious how this will all work out at the next administration when this all become illegal, retroactively.

Ah yes – Always Follow the Money

I had forgotten rule number 1 when trying to figure out what the hell our state department is doing in regards to Honduras.
(ps – I’ve added a category for all my Honduras posts but it’s taking some time to get through them. You can just search “Honduras” in the search bar if you’re interested. Who knew this story would last?!)

So where is the money situation in Honduras?

Apparently in George Soro’s pocket.

Yes, it’s a big long twisted tale. But once you put a guy like George Soros’ in the middle of the decisions this state department has made in regards to Honduras, at least things start to make sense.

Why else would this government of ours choose to meddle in the constitutional affairs of Honduras? Unless it was just looking for somewhere to show it’s “strong yet lefty credentials” during the time of real Iranian upheaval?

Read the link. There isn’t a small part to clip and copy that would make the whole story make sense, but here’s the conclusion.

Honduras’s interim President Micheletti has denounced both Chavez’s attempt to turn his country into a satellite of Venezuela and has angrily and publicly noted the drugs flowing through his country from Venezuela with Zelaya’s help. The Honduran government has said that Zelaya’s reinstatement in non-negotiable. They will not have him back under any circumstances. By not bending to the will of the leftists in the region, and the Obama State Dept, Honduras has thrown a huge monkey wrench into the plan to continue funneling drugs from Venezuela through Honduras into the US, and that doesn’t further George Soros’s goal of drug legalization.

There appears to be no proof of this, but I’m still in the “trying to understand what we’re thinking when it comes to Honduras” mode.

ht Fausta

The Bigotry of Low Expectations

BigGovernment.com -yes, the biggovernment.com who has been hosting the pimp/prostitute expose of ACORN – has a post today about the bigotry of low expectations concerning the workers at ACORN.

What ELSE could be expected of the poor, the disenfranchised, the needy.
Of course they would sympathize with the poor young prostitute just getting started and already in need of a house of her own due to past beatings. We can help her.

I’m with them – right up until ACORN employees continue to speak with these young journalists after being told about the young (under 16 yo) girls from El Salvador they intend to import illegally and set up to work.

Um – even the poor, the disenfranchised, the needy know THAT’s wrong!!!

But let’s expand this to President Carter’s statement yesterday. The president notes:

“There is an inherent feeling among many in this country that an African-American should not be president.”
The Georgia Democrat said the outburst [Joe Wilson's] was a part of a disturbing trend directed at the president that has included demonstrators equating Obama to Nazi leaders.
“Those kind of things are not just casual outcomes of a sincere debate on whether we should have a national program on health care,” he said. “It’s deeper than that.”

Apparently Jimmy Carter has such low expectations of the American people that his mind immediately goes to racism when confronted with accusations of Nazism. When President Bush was accused of Nazism, was that also racism? No.

The American people apparently have so few opinions that only President Obama’s can be correct and any other opinion would only exist because Obama is black.
The poor apparently have so few values that roping underaged illegal aliens from a very poor country to prostitute themselves in order to fund some future congressional campaign is “normal”.

In what world do these scenarios make sense?

…………
Dear President Carter,
Please read George Will today where he notes:

  • He {Obama] says America’s health-care system is going to wrack and ruin and requires root-and-branch reform—but that if you like your health care (as a large majority of Americans do), nothing will change for you.
  • His slippery new formulation is that nothing in his plan will “require” anyone to change coverage. He used to say, “If you like your health-care plan, you’ll be able to keep your health-care plan, period.” He had to stop saying that because various disinterested analysts agree that his plan will give many employers incentives to stop providing coverage for employees.
  • He deplores “scare tactics” but says that unless he gets his way, people will die.
  • He praises temperate discourse but says many of his opponents are liars.
  • He says Medicare is an exemplary program that validates government’s prowess at running health systems. But he also says Medicare is unsustainable and going broke, and that he will pay for much of his reforms by eliminating the hundreds of billions of dollars of waste and fraud in this paragon of a program, and in Medicaid.
  • He says Congress will cut Medicare (it will not) by $500 billion—without affecting benefits.
  • (reformatted for easy listing)
    Will is just getting started.
    Read the whole thing.

    Monday Morning Funny

    Howard Kurtz is writing about the MSM missing the stories of Glenn Beck and others who they just assume to be whackjobs. (or words to that affect)

    Polls were taken. Who trusts the daily news?

    While most weren’t familiar enough with the New York Times to express an opinion, 39 percent of Democrats and just 16 percent of Republicans view the paper favorably.

    ROFL
    No one reads the dang thing!

    ACORN does it again

    No, Big government.com does it again.

    Wow – first in Baltimore, they uncover the unscrupulousness of the ACORN workers there. They wait for the backlash, then unleash the second video from Washington DC.
    [for those of you living under a mushroom, ACORN workers have been caught giving advice to a fake prostitute and pimp on how to get your taxpayer dollars to buy and setup a house of prostitution with underage girls, sometimes shipped in from El Salvador, and hide the income so that said "pimp's" future fake political career won't be compromised]

    The Census bureau has broken ties with ACORN. The newspapers are starting to maybe sort of mention this.
    The Telegraph mentions Obama’s ties to ACORN.
    ACORN can’t believe they’ve been racially trashed by Fox news and Glenn Beck and zip, zip…..

    O’Keefe and Giles let loose another video. Another location. This time in NYCity.

    Brilliant, just brilliant.

    Health Insurance

    Is there actually assurance in the bills presented that if you lose your insurance you will automatically be enrolled in new insurance?
    Apparently Obama hit the road to “scare” people into agreeing with his health reform plans by talking up the specter of losing your insurance even for a day.

    The Treasury study, based on data collected by the University of Michigan, found that 47.7 percent had lost coverage at some point, for one month or longer, during the 10 years from 1997 to 2006. Mr. Obama, using those figures to project what might happen over the next 10 years, says they amount to a dire forecast for the already insured.

    I refuse to allow that future to happen,” Mr. Obama said. “In the United States of America, no one should have to worry that they’ll go without health insurance — not for one year, not for one month, not for one day. And once I sign my health reform plan into law, they won’t.”

    How is he going to “refuse to allow that future to happen”?
    I haven’t read the whole bill, just excerpts but I understand there is a fine for not getting health insurance if you can afford it. So that means that you might not have it which means there could be a time when you get sick and that “future” has happened.

    How is Obama going to automatically make certain everyone has insurance every instance?

    I can’t keep up.

    Quote(s) of the Day: re Honduras

    This comes from President Micheletti of Honduras. He’s now been asked the direct question about his own VISA to the US and whether it’s been revoked or not. It has been.:

    Dignity does not have a price in our country,” Micheletti told Honduran radio.

    AMEN!!

    In other news, Honduras is insisting that ousted governor of Illinois Rod Blogojevich should be restored
    to his position.

    We, the citizens and residents of Honduras and the world, are profoundly conscious of the actual situation in the State of Illinois in the United States of America, and the instability of its democratic system. We DEPLORE the manner in which democracy has failed in the great State of Illinois. In order to restore democracy in Illinois, we vehemently proclaim the following:

    We DEMAND the immediate and unconditional restitution of the democratically elected governor of Illinois, Rod Blagojevich, to his constitutional duties. Honduran attorneys have reviewed the circumstances, taken a glance at the constitution, and find that all actions taken against Governor Blagojevich were unjust and illegal.

    Good one La Gringa!!

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