ALGORE'S INVENTION ABOUT TO SUFFER A SET-BACK

I tried to warn you a few weeks ago, but my liberal readers squealed, in their usual shrill and unreasoned voices: “That’s not what’s about to happen!”

(Read what I said and the various disparaging comments about what I said HERE.)

Turns out I was right, as I usually am.

If the Senate passes the so-called “Internet ‘kill-switch’” bill, already approved by committee, President BO will be handed the power to shut down the Internet for four months at a time without Congressional oversight.

The original language of the bill sought to make the President’s power permanent, but public outcry limited it to four months.

Those honest folks we call Senators argue that President BO already has the power to do so when there is a “state or threat of war.” That’s under the Communications Act, by which he may “cause the closing of any facility or station for wire communication.”

What those honorable men and women don’t want you to catch on to is that they are now trying to explicitly grant that power to control the Internet specifically.

They say it’s for national security reasons.

All despots always claim that their suppression of the people’s rights are for the security of the nation.

On Sunday, Joe Lieberman revealed that the plan was to mimic China’s policies of policing the web with censorship and coercion.

CNN’s Candy Crowley was told by Lieberman, “Right now China, the government, can disconnect parts of its Internet in case of war and we need to have that here too,”

So there you have it. The door is being opened to allow the government complete control of the Internet.

Can you say, “Free Speech?”

JUST SAYIN' - SELF EVIDENT

PRESIDENT BO IS A WEASEL; A CHICAGO THUG

WHO THINKS THUGGERY IS BOTH RIGHT AND THE NORM.

Senator JonKyl (R-AZ) met with President BO and tells us:

I met with the president in the Oval Office, just the two of us . . . and we had a discussion about this. . . . Here's what the president said:

"The problem is," he said, "if we secure the border, then you all won't have any reason to support comprehensive immigration reform."

In other words, they're holding it hostage. They don't want to secure the border unless and until it is combined with comprehensive immigration reform.

Now, I explained, "You and I, Mr. President, have an obligation to secure the border. That's an obligation. It also has potentially positive benefits. You don't have to have comprehensive reform to secure the border, but you have to secure the border to get comprehensive reform." I said, "You'd be surprised. Maybe you don't think that there would be any more incentive for comprehensive reform. But I'm not so sure that that's true." In any event, it doesn't matter. We're supposed to secure the border.

But that's why it isn't being done. They frankly don't want to do it. They want to get something in return for doing their duty.

There is absolutely nothing you could say to convince me that President BO is the most rotten, devious, stinking politician who has ever held the oval office.

Here's Jon Kyl's video:



The part about President BO is at about 3:17.

Thanks to Bread Upon the Waters for putting me on to this.

THIS WILL AFFECT YOU!

This is the entire text of an article written on The American Spectator's Washington Prowler page.

It's all about how President BO's administration is planning an effort to censor and alter the use of the Internet, especially blogging.

Whether your are liberal or conservative, you cannot possibly think this infringement on freedom of speech by the government (specifically prohibited by the Constitution) is a good thing.

Engulfing the Internet
By The Prowler on 6.17.10 @ 6:10AM

Despite opposition by a House of Representatives majority and a bipartisan group of Senators, the Federal Communications Commission on Thursday is expected to proceed with plans to impose federal government regulation of the Internet, which would essentially treat broadband networks -- and the companies that invested more than $200 billion in private capital to deploy them -- as utilities.

The commission's chairman, Julius Genachowski, and his staff have insisted that imposing federal regulations originally written in the 1930s for the telephone is the only way the Obama Administration can gain the "kind of oversight and control that we need," says an FCC staffer with ties to another Democrat commissioner. "Look at the Gulf oil spill, that's what happens when we let corporations just do their own thing without any accountability. We can't allow that to happen with the Internet. We won't allow it."

The vote to continue the review and comment process at the FCC is expected to be a party-line vote, with the two Republican commissioners voting against the proposed regulatory scheme.

Under the Obama Administration's plan, the FCC would be able to enforce so-called "net neutrality" rules, allowing the federal government to set how broadband and Internet Service Providers (ISPs) manage the networks. By bringing broadband and the Internet under FCC regulatory oversight, the FCC would also be able to impose policies related to speech or online business models.

"The American public really has no idea how devastating these policies are going to have on free speech and the Internet," says a Republican Senate staffer. "If they are able to impose these regulations, they would be able to impose a host of different regulations that would limit free speech online and essentially give the left the upper hand. First the auto industry, then health care and the financial services industry, now this."

INFANTILISM REVEALED

According to an article in USA Today President Obama says the Gulf oil disaster "echoes 9/11" because it will change the nation's psyche for years to come, according to an interview with POLITICO, a news outlet.

"In the same way that our view of our vulnerabilities and our foreign policy was shaped profoundly by 9/11," the president said Friday in the Oval Office interview. "I think this disaster is going to shape how we think about the environment and energy for many years to come."

While I understand that the oil spill is terrible, and I understand that the thrust of President BO's remarks had to do with some of the emotional reactions of 9/11 compared to that spill, I suggest that the two are so far apart in their meaning that the comparison is infantile, at best.

Let's compare them.

In 9/11 people were killed. In the oil rig explosion people were killed. Same thing, right?

Let's see: 11 people equals almost 3,000 people...do I have that right?

The unnecessary death of 11 people is awful...terrible...gut-wrenchingly sad.

But compared to the unnecessary death of 3,000?

OK, OK, let's look at it another way.

In 9/11, terrorists from another country deliberately flew two passenger planes into the World Trade Center and one into the Pentagon, with a third unsuccessful in its attempt to hit, presumably, the White House.

Unless someone is holding something back, the BP Gulf oil rig exploded through some malfunction and/or incompetence.

Same thing...right?

Let's see deliberate attack by foreigners equals accidental explosion on foreign oil rig?

No, no, no...that won't work. Let's try again.

In 9/11 two privately owned buildings that cost $900 million dollars to build. The Gulf oil rigs - state-of-the-art that they were - cost about $500 million dollars.

In fifth grade math we learned that $900 million equals $500 million, right?

Must be New Math.

Look, I tried. I really tried.

But try as I might, I cannot come up with a fair comparison of the two terrible events.

Fortunately, we have a beloved leader whose wisdom is far greater than mine.

He has no trouble making the comparison.

See, his massive pre-presidential experience did not prepare him for real world events. He was used to dealing with EVERYTHING on a philosophical and/or theoretical level. It never occured to him that as President he would have to actually know what concrete steps to take in a real emergency.

Don't go all slimy on me, now. I am not saying, implying or suggesting that the BP oil spill is anything less than tragic or that it is somehow not important.

I'm just suggesting that on ANY level...ANY LEVEL AT ALL, it bears absolutely, positively no similarity to the events of 9/11...NONE.

And to make the comparison is, as President BO is about just about everything, infantile.

(Thanks to Debra for the inspiration for this post.)

SURE ARE THEY ALL, ALL HONORABLE MEN

So, what's wrong with this?

Isn't this the way ALL liberal congresspersons are supposed to react to citizens?

It's the Chicago way.

But wait! That's not Chicago!

It's North Carolina!

Hey! This is America!

In America, students have no right to ask questions of congresspersons, project or no project.

It's the proud, liberal American way.

(Thanks to Gregory Dail of The Orange County Conservative Examiner for putting me on to this video.)

THE GREAT PRETENDER

Prophets often prophesied without ever seeing the fruition of their prophecies.

So it was with the Platters.

How could they possibly have known that their once popular song was predicting the rise to power of a man who has absolutely no idea what he is doing?

Now, I want to make it clear that I do not blame President BO for the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. In my opinion, that would be a really big stretch.

It is even more of a stretch to blame it on George Bush.

The spill is not even the result of lack of regulation of the off-shore oil industry (as is being floated by some real dummies).

The spill is the direct result of negligence on the part of British Petroleum (BP), whose job it was to ensure that their equipment was in order.

No amount of regulation would have prevented the spill.

Imagine a rule that said: OK, people, you can't ignore when things aren't quite right.

Guess what. It already exists. But BP ignored it anyway.

See, what so many liberals don't understand is that you don't prevent mishaps by making them illegal.

In some places, certain guns are illegal, but somehow people continue to get killed by those very types of guns.

"Can't be!" you yell, "We've made them illegal!"

Well, can be. And is.

The issue is no longer who is to blame, the issue is how is this mess going to get cleaned up?

Enter stage left: President BO.

"I take full responsibility for the clean-up."

DON'T DO THAT...IT'S NOT YOUR JOB!!

"I'll hold BP responsible and make 'em pay every dime of the clean-up."

WELL GOODIE TWO-SHOES FOR YOU. THAT'S WHO DID IT...THAT'S WHO SHOULD BE RESPONSIBLE.

Why didn't you know that BEFORE you said that YOU would take the responsibility?

Three, soon to be four, trips to the Gulf later, and the spill still isn't cleaned up!

President BO seems to know that he should do SOMETHING, but he just can't figure out what that is.

May I make a suggestion? OK, well, I'm going to anyway.

DECLARE THE GULF OF MEXICO COASTLINE A NATIONAL DISASTER AREA...NOW!

That should have been the very first thing done.

Declaring it "of national significance," as Janet Napolitano did, is an absolutely useless gesture and accomplished nothing.

MOBILIZE EVERY BOAT, EVERY SHIP, EVERY BOOM, EVERY SCIENTIST AND EVERY EXPERIENCED PERSON IN THE US TO GET DOWN THERE AND GET TO WORK!

So far, the Coast Guard is the only effective entity that has been called up. Well they should have been. But they're not equipped for this.

LOOSEN THE REGULATIONS THAT PREVENT US FROM ALLOWING NON-AMERICAN TANKERS INTO THE AREA TO HELP.

What? You didn't know there was such a regulation?

That's because you believe we are an under-regulated nation.

The major stumbling block is a protectionist piece of legislation called the Jones Act which requires that all goods transported by water between U.S. ports be carried in U.S.-flag ships, constructed in the United States, owned by U.S. citizens, and crewed by U.S. citizens. But in an emergency this law can be temporarily waived as DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff did after Katrina.

President BO continues to do what he does best: lecture; posture; threaten; and talk, talk, talk.

And still, NOTHING has gotten done.

Oh...he's also good at pretending.

ADDENDUM: Thanks to Social Sense for reminding me of this example of Presdent BO's shallow meaninglessness:

"I was down there a month ago, before most of these talkin’ heads were even paying attention to the Gulf. A month ago I was meeting with fishermen down there, standin’ in the rain talking about what a potential crisis this could be. And I don’t sit around just talking to experts because this is a college seminar, we talk to these folks because they potentially have the best answers, so I know whose ass to kick.” — Barack Obama

Fact is, he treats EVERYTHING as though it were a college sophomore seminar...EVERYTHING.