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Mona Lisa Simplified - a repast
 I've been banging on all cylinders political lately - it won't last ... I keep my closet political junkie under wraps for most of the time ... here's a repast for the eyes - click the pic above to see more images from this creative ... I loved this one the first time I saw it!
Hey, that's it ... just a picture and link share ... not quite a dog and pony show ... but it's plenty good IMHO.
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mona
More Weathermen More Ayers
 He's ... He's just a guy who lives in my neighborhood ... in my neighborhood ... in my neighborhood, oh who are the people in your neighborhood...
I don't ride nor drive no conspiracy theory bus ... but there is more to Obama and Ayers than "guilty by association" or some loose form of "the genetic fallacy." It's late in the political game - and McCain made the choice to push this aside after Hillary began the matter long long ago. But, people who have been looking into this for a long time just find the proverbial "peeling an onion" experience - just layer after layer of more.
Not a long post - just a couple of quick quotes and links - you may follow and surf to find more or ignore. I'd suggest we all dig a little - it is important to know the best barometer of a person's future actions - and that is to look honestly at their past behavior. Barack Obama's past friendships may merely have been for expediency and political gain in the world of Chicago politics. That in itself should say something. The cry from those who are troubled by these skeletons in Obama's closet - are alarmed that this has gotten this far without any real hearing in the MSM and instead there's been nothing more than cover up and spin from those who are supposed to be the press.
More Weathermen
Clearly Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn are not the only former Weathermen backing the Senator from Illinois.
Add their old comrades Jeff Jones, Howie Machtinger, Mark Rudd and even Steve Tappis to the mix and you are starting to get beyond coincidence.
That former terrorists are working with Marxist groups to elect Barack Obama is beyond doubt.
Should US voters know this? (read on to discover more about these characters)
More Ayers
All told, John at Verum Serum, concludes:
… boards on which Barack Obama sat delivered $1,087,556 to Bill Ayers’ Small Schools Workshop. These same boards granted another $582,100 to John Ayers’ Leadership for Quality Education group, which as I’ve noted already funded the Small Schools umbrella group he ran with Bill Ayers.
Additionally, there’s the $1.5 million to redesign five Chicago high schools along the lines Bill Ayers was promoting (He’s highlighted prominently in the grant writing appendices). All in all that’s a not insignificant contribution to the Ayers family and their causes, certainly enough to rebut claims by the NY Times that the two men merely “crossed paths.” Barack Obama, more than any other individual one could name, funded Bill Ayers’ goals in Chicago. (read more a very detailed report - with much more than this)
There simply is more to the whole, "He's just a guy in my neighborhood" and "when I was 8 years old" going on with the Obama Ayers and Weathermen connection.
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obama's problems
Commonly Misused Terms: Carrot and Stick
 Follow the Carrot or I'll Beat You with this Stick
Time and again I have read the expression, "Carrot and Stick" when being used in foreign policy discussion or other discussions describing the use of diplomacy, reward, vs. consequential action, punishment. I frankly, never spent much time thinking about the expression - because in the majority of cases it was being used in the context of "punishment and reward" for motivating change of some sort. We translate terms, words, expression based on context as a general rule.
However, at some point I paused and thought - this is wrong, it has to be - because the carrot and stick analogy isn't about - "Hey donkey, eat the carrot or I'll beat you with this stick." I think it fully caught my eye when I read, in the course of one week, the expression words like this, "carrots and sticks," in the plural as it were.
The image obviously, has more to do with a person leading a mule, donkey, horse, by dangling a carrot on a stick just in front of the beast of burden. The "more stick" or "less stick" in this case would be the distance needed at a given moment to illicit motion in the beast - to move the wagon (or process) along.
I was kinda surprised to find that wikipedia had a good entry on this:
The original metaphor referred to a boy sitting on a cart being pulled by a donkey. The boy held a long stick to which a carrot had been tied, and he dangled the carrot in front of the donkey but just out of its reach. As the donkey moved forward to get the carrot, it pulled the cart—and the boy—so that the carrot always remained just out of reach as the cart moved forward. (wikipedia) Well, I feel my work here is done. Saving the language 1 - 10 people at a time!
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McCain Mobs II - How We Fight Terrorism
 Continental Congress My Eye ... How Are We Ever Going to Get Anything Done with those stupid Georgians* here??!!!
How we fight Terrorism - a follow up to McCain Mobs?
After 911 George W. Bush told Americans to get out there and work, live, and shop. It's how we fight terrorism - we cannot let it stop our way of life.
Can Terror Rule our Political Process?
Concerning the idea that vigorous campaign speech on the part of McCain / Palin about Ayers the unrepentant American Terrorist; or Obama's problems with his past associations - Rezko, Ayers, Wright, etc.,; or Obama's current connections to receiving money from Freddie and Fannie, support from Acorn, chilling voters and campaign ads through thuggery, and such - cannot and should not be pulled off the table simply to keep at bay the radical fringes.
To give in to k00k's and dangerous people simply because legitimate topics might move them to do violence is akin to allowing terrorists to rule our political process and actions. They might do harm, or say bad things, or hurt people, or do this or that evil thing if we, in a responsible way, discuss and bring out uncomfortable topics.
The false wisdom of appeasement is to say something akin to:
John McCain and Sarah Palin, you are playing with fire, and you know it. You are unleashing the monster of American hatred and prejudice, to the peril of all of us. You are doing this in wartime. You are doing this as our economy collapses. You are doing this in a country with a history of assassinations.
Change the atmosphere of your campaign. Talk about the issues at hand. Make your case. But stop stirring up the lunatic fringe of haters, or risk suffering the judgment of history and the loathing of the American people - forever.
We will hold you responsible. (source) Wisdom would be to proceed as McCain and Palin are doing ... not letting the "Mob" rule with irrational conclusions or unwarranted extrapolations. But, at the same time - not to keep quiet about things which might "upset the k00ks and cause them to do bad things."
That's emotional terrorism and it is a kind of reverse racism. It implies that ignorant white people, or emotional black people cannot be trusted to discourse or navigate through rough political waters. Politics, gut level - street level politics is emotional and fiery - and there are bad actors out there in our populace. However, we must surely be able to rise above allowing the "threat of terror based upon what 'they' might or will do" to cause ourselves to become mutes on issues of importance.
When the Mob Rules We All Lose
When Mobs rule either side of our political process ... we all lose. Adults must lead - and count the political and party costs that both sides and our country would pay - if the mobs were to be followed. We do not employ the dictatorship of 51% in this country - even down to the Presidential Election - thus we have the electoral college (as part of that safe guard).
May the republic prosper and be a blessing to all within and without her borders for years to come!
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* stupid Georgians - I happen to be one (though I live in Ky) born and raised (reared) and I'll admit my country (er state) was a constant source of bully tactics and trouble from the beginning - maybe all the way through the civil war. I am proud to be from Georgia - love our rough and tumble history - but my state was a thorn in the early politics of the U.S. and used emotional and walkout and "drag down the whole lot of you" terror to get their way. We all suffered for that - all of us - being that slavery was one, if not the major, sticking point for the people of Georgia - and compromise with us they did. Wise, maybe ... ultimately costly to the U.S. 100% or more.
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stupid Georgians
McCain's Mobs??? (with a few videos)
 Fears, Anger, Emotions Expressed at McCain Rallies ... Blame Game?
You got Frank Schaeffer (son of one of my favorites - the late Francis Schaeffer) coming out with this warning to McCain:
John McCain, you are no fool, and you understand the depths of hatred that surround the issue of race in this country. You also know that, post-9/11, to call someone a friend of a terrorist is a very serious matter. You also know we are a bitterly divided country on many other issues. You know that, sadly, in America, violence is always just a moment away. You know that there are plenty of crazy people out there.
Stop! Think! Your rallies are beginning to look, sound, feel and smell like lynch mobs.
John McCain, you're walking a perilous line. If you do not stand up for all that is good in America and declare that Senator Obama is a patriot, fit for office, and denounce your hate-filled supporters when they scream out "Terrorist" or "Kill him," history will hold you responsible for all that follows. (source)
Now, the son, Frank (Franky, Franky V,) is not one of my favorites - always a bit of a hot head with a shot gun mouth and pen in my book - gets in his pot shots at McCain as he writes this "appeal" for being careful with pointing out the issues (which are real issues and real problems for Obama) of Obama's track record with Radicals. It's the judgment and "who is this man" and "is he fit to lead" which is being questioned. However, as has been witnessed during these trying times - some people are angry, scared of Obama, and the fringe of those people are making themselves heard - and in video cuts they sound as scary as the left wing crazies - an equal weird world - so it appears.
Of course, it seems Schaeffer hasn't been listening to McCain's interaction with these people - he's been on message and corrective. McCain has become even more so as "he is no fool" (which I consider Schaeffer's remark to be a backwards way of saying "you're acting like a fool).
The very next questioner tried to push back on this request, noting that he needed to "tell the American the TRUTH about Barack Obama" -- a not very subtle way, I think, to ask John McCain to NOT tell the truth about Barack Obama. McCain told her there's a "difference between record and rhetoric, and I plan to talk about his record, respectfully... I don't mean that has to reduce your ferocity, I just mean it has to be respectful."
And then later, again, someone dangled a great big piece of low-hanging fruit in front of McCain: "I'm scared to bring up my child in a world where Barack Obama is president." McCain replies, "Well, I don't want him to be president, either. I wouldn't be running if I did. But," and he pauses for emphasis, "you don't have to be scared to have him be President of the United States." A round of boos. And he snaps back: "Well, obviously I think I'd be better. " Of course, this is kind of the best of both world: Crazy base-world gets to bring up Ayers and whatever else, really, and he gets to say, "Be respectful." But I think he means it. UPDATE: Indeed, he just snatched the microphone out the hands of a woman who began her question with, "I'm scared of Barack Obama... he's an Arab terrorist..." "No, no ma'am," he interrupted. "He's a decent family man with whom I happen to have some disagreements." (source)
Political discourse, cannot be stifled by the cover of "desperate times" nor the cover of "racism." Ayers is a legit issue, so is ACORN, so is Rev Wright and Obama's 20 year association with a suspect spiritual leader who calls his congregation to renounce "middle class" and inflames racial tension and hate.
Schaeffer closes:
John McCain and Sarah Palin, you are playing with fire, and you know it. You are unleashing the monster of American hatred and prejudice, to the peril of all of us. You are doing this in wartime. You are doing this as our economy collapses. You are doing this in a country with a history of assassinations.
Change the atmosphere of your campaign. Talk about the issues at hand. Make your case. But stop stirring up the lunatic fringe of haters, or risk suffering the judgment of history and the loathing of the American people - forever.
We will hold you responsible. (
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