I have published this as every American should keep themselves informed of Obama's blunders...
Sgt. Crowley, a Cop in Full
by Patrick J. Buchanan
Sunday, professor Louis Henry Gates retreated from his threat to sue Sgt. James Crowley. Friday, President Obama retreated from his charge that the Cambridge cops "acted stupidly."
As Crowley has not budged an inch -- his arrest of Gates was correct, and there will be no apology -- there is no doubt who won this face-off. Game, set, match, Crowley and the Cambridge cops. It is, indeed, as Obama said Friday, a "teachable moment."
And those most in need of teaching are the professor, the governor of Massachusetts and President Obama. By charging or suggesting Gates was a victim of racial profiling, all three were guilty of having reflexively reverted to racial stereotypes about white cops.
Here is the chronology. Answering a 911 call about a break-in in progress, Crowley encountered the professor inside the house. According to Crowley's report, his request for Gates' I.D. was initially rebuffed, and he was accused of hassling Gates because he was black.
The professor made a slurring reference to Crowley's "mama." The professor then raised such a ruckus Crowley arrested and cuffed him. Once in the street, Gates bellowed, "This is what happens to a black man in America." Gates then called Crowley a "rogue cop." Gov. Deval Patrick declared Gates' arrest "every black man's nightmare."
Obama said the Cambridge cops had "acted stupidly" and went on to elaborate, on nationwide TV, on the sad history of racial profiling of blacks and Hispanics by police. Thus the two most powerful black elected officials in the U.S., with no hard knowledge of what happened, came down on the side of a black professor, their buddy, against a white cop and his department, implying racial motivation in the arrest of Gates.
Yet there is still not a shred of evidence for their rush to judgment. Crowley's partner in the arrest was a black officer who said he stands "100 percent" behind Crowley and that Gates acted "strange." Sixteen years ago, Crowley gave CPR to an unconscious Boston Celtics star, Reggie Lewis, in an attempt to save his life. The memory of his failure caused Crowley to break down in tears and haunts him to this day. Crowley was selected by a black police lieutenant to teach fellow officers about racial profiling. He has been doing this for five years.
And watching TV coverage for a week, this writer has yet to hear one cop anywhere condemn Crowley's handling of the incident. Outside the fevered imagination of Louis Henry Gates, then, where is the evidence Crowley engaged in racial profiling? The victim here is Sgt. Crowley, not professor Gates.
Crowley is the one defamed as a "racist" and "rogue cop." He is the officer whom Gov. Patrick implied perpetrated "every black man's nightmare." He is the cop on the Cambridge force who, Obama told the nation, "acted stupidly." If anyone has grounds for legal action, it is Crowley.
Indeed, upon what grounds would Gates sue? That he was wrongly arrested, when Crowley, his black partner, the Cambridge P.D., the police union and 1,000 cops would gladly come to Cambridge to testify that Crowley went by the book?
Moreover, no one says Crowley abused Gates in any way. And there were witnesses in the street to the arrest. And Crowley apparently had his mike open, and a recording of the incident exists.
But if Obama's racial reflexes served him badly Wednesday night, his political instincts served him well him on Friday. For he must have sensed that this confrontation was shaping up as three powerful black men coming down hard on a white cop with a stellar record who had only done his conscientious duty.
Obama picked up the phone, called Crowley, regretted his choice of words about him and the Cambridge P.D., walked into the press room and told the nation Crowley was a "good guy," he himself had misspoken, that he and the sergeant had talked about getting together for a beer.
It was a goodly slice of humble pie the president ate there, but it was a class act. To ask more would be churlish. As for Patrick and Gates, they, too, should eat a little crow.
The president's decision to go before the White House press corps also suggests Obama is acutely aware of the political peril here. For while his black support is rock solid, his white support is soft.
And Americans will usually side with an Irish cop over a Harvard don, especially when the professor is pulling rank and the cop is right. "This isn't about me," says Gates.
Sorry, professor, it is about you. You have shown the country why William F. Buckley won laughter all over America when he wittily observed that, rather than be governed by the Harvard faculty, he would prefer to be governed by the first 300 names in the Cambridge telephone directory.
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Sunday, August 2, 2009
Saturday, August 1, 2009
Ordering Pizza in 2010
To my readers:
This is a video that every American should watch. It is on youtube.com, and shows what our country will be like if the Obamacrats get their way with Obamacare etc.
This is a video that every American should watch. It is on youtube.com, and shows what our country will be like if the Obamacrats get their way with Obamacare etc.
Sunday, July 19, 2009
Sarah Palin's Cap and Trade tax op-ed
I am a big fan of Sarah Palin, and she wrote an execellent and informative op-ed, so I am publishing it in my blog as the Liberal News Media won't. They don't want the public to see how intelligent she is:
Americans are going to pay, literally, for who they made president...
The 'Cap And Tax' Dead End
By Sarah Palin
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
There is no shortage of threats to our economy. America's unemployment rate recently hit its highest mark in more than 25 years and is expected to continue climbing. Worries are widespread that even when the economy finally rebounds, the recovery won't bring jobs. Our nation's debt is unsustainable, and the federal government's reach into the private sector is unprecedented.
Unfortunately, many in the national media would rather focus on the personality-driven political gossip of the day than on the gravity of these challenges. So, at risk of disappointing the chattering class, let me make clear what is foremost on my mind and where my focus will be:
I am deeply concerned about President Obama's cap-and-trade energy plan, and I believe it is an enormous threat to our economy. It would undermine our recovery over the short term and would inflict permanent damage.
American prosperity has always been driven by the steady supply of abundant, affordable energy. Particularly in Alaska, we understand the inherent link between energy and prosperity, energy and opportunity, and energy and security. Consequently, many of us in this huge, energy-rich state recognize that the president's cap-and-trade energy tax would adversely affect every aspect of the U.S. economy.
There is no denying that as the world becomes more industrialized, we need to reform our energy policy and become less dependent on foreign energy sources. But the answer doesn't lie in making energy scarcer and more expensive! Those who understand the issue know we can meet our energy needs and environmental challenges without destroying America's economy.
Job losses are so certain under this new cap-and-tax plan that it includes a provision accommodating newly unemployed workers from the resulting dried-up energy sector, to the tune of $4.2 billion over eight years. So much for creating jobs.
In addition to immediately increasing unemployment in the energy sector, even more American jobs will be threatened by the rising cost of doing business under the cap-and-tax plan. For example, the cost of farming will certainly increase, driving down farm incomes while driving up grocery prices. The costs of manufacturing, warehousing and transportation will also increase.
The ironic beauty in this plan? Soon, even the most ardent liberal will understand supply-side economics.
The Americans hit hardest will be those already struggling to make ends meet. As the president eloquently puts it, their electricity bills will "necessarily skyrocket." So much for not raising taxes on anyone making less than $250,000 a year.
Even Warren Buffett, an ardent Obama supporter, admitted that under the cap-and-tax scheme, "poor people are going to pay a lot more for electricity."
We must move in a new direction. We are ripe for economic growth and energy independence if we responsibly tap the resources that God created right underfoot on American soil. Just as important, we have more desire and ability to protect the environment than any foreign nation from which we purchase energy today.
In Alaska, we are progressing on the largest private-sector energy project in history. Our 3,000-mile natural gas pipeline will transport hundreds of trillions of cubic feet of our clean natural gas to hungry markets across America. We can safely drill for U.S. oil offshore and in a tiny, 2,000-acre corner of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge if ever given the go-ahead by Washington bureaucrats.
Of course, Alaska is not the sole source of American energy. Many states have abundant coal, whose technology is continuously making it into a cleaner energy source. Westerners literally sit on mountains of oil and gas, and every state can consider the possibility of nuclear energy.
We have an important choice to make. Do we want to control our energy supply and its environmental impact? Or, do we want to outsource it to China, Russia and Saudi Arabia? Make no mistake: President Obama's plan will result in the latter.
For so many reasons, we can't afford to kill responsible domestic energy production or clobber every American consumer with higher prices.
Can America produce more of its own energy through strategic investments that protect the environment, revive our economy and secure our nation?
Yes, we can. Just not with Barack Obama's energy cap-and-tax plan.
The writer, a Republican, is governor of Alaska.
Americans are going to pay, literally, for who they made president...
The 'Cap And Tax' Dead End
By Sarah Palin
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
There is no shortage of threats to our economy. America's unemployment rate recently hit its highest mark in more than 25 years and is expected to continue climbing. Worries are widespread that even when the economy finally rebounds, the recovery won't bring jobs. Our nation's debt is unsustainable, and the federal government's reach into the private sector is unprecedented.
Unfortunately, many in the national media would rather focus on the personality-driven political gossip of the day than on the gravity of these challenges. So, at risk of disappointing the chattering class, let me make clear what is foremost on my mind and where my focus will be:
I am deeply concerned about President Obama's cap-and-trade energy plan, and I believe it is an enormous threat to our economy. It would undermine our recovery over the short term and would inflict permanent damage.
American prosperity has always been driven by the steady supply of abundant, affordable energy. Particularly in Alaska, we understand the inherent link between energy and prosperity, energy and opportunity, and energy and security. Consequently, many of us in this huge, energy-rich state recognize that the president's cap-and-trade energy tax would adversely affect every aspect of the U.S. economy.
There is no denying that as the world becomes more industrialized, we need to reform our energy policy and become less dependent on foreign energy sources. But the answer doesn't lie in making energy scarcer and more expensive! Those who understand the issue know we can meet our energy needs and environmental challenges without destroying America's economy.
Job losses are so certain under this new cap-and-tax plan that it includes a provision accommodating newly unemployed workers from the resulting dried-up energy sector, to the tune of $4.2 billion over eight years. So much for creating jobs.
In addition to immediately increasing unemployment in the energy sector, even more American jobs will be threatened by the rising cost of doing business under the cap-and-tax plan. For example, the cost of farming will certainly increase, driving down farm incomes while driving up grocery prices. The costs of manufacturing, warehousing and transportation will also increase.
The ironic beauty in this plan? Soon, even the most ardent liberal will understand supply-side economics.
The Americans hit hardest will be those already struggling to make ends meet. As the president eloquently puts it, their electricity bills will "necessarily skyrocket." So much for not raising taxes on anyone making less than $250,000 a year.
Even Warren Buffett, an ardent Obama supporter, admitted that under the cap-and-tax scheme, "poor people are going to pay a lot more for electricity."
We must move in a new direction. We are ripe for economic growth and energy independence if we responsibly tap the resources that God created right underfoot on American soil. Just as important, we have more desire and ability to protect the environment than any foreign nation from which we purchase energy today.
In Alaska, we are progressing on the largest private-sector energy project in history. Our 3,000-mile natural gas pipeline will transport hundreds of trillions of cubic feet of our clean natural gas to hungry markets across America. We can safely drill for U.S. oil offshore and in a tiny, 2,000-acre corner of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge if ever given the go-ahead by Washington bureaucrats.
Of course, Alaska is not the sole source of American energy. Many states have abundant coal, whose technology is continuously making it into a cleaner energy source. Westerners literally sit on mountains of oil and gas, and every state can consider the possibility of nuclear energy.
We have an important choice to make. Do we want to control our energy supply and its environmental impact? Or, do we want to outsource it to China, Russia and Saudi Arabia? Make no mistake: President Obama's plan will result in the latter.
For so many reasons, we can't afford to kill responsible domestic energy production or clobber every American consumer with higher prices.
Can America produce more of its own energy through strategic investments that protect the environment, revive our economy and secure our nation?
Yes, we can. Just not with Barack Obama's energy cap-and-tax plan.
The writer, a Republican, is governor of Alaska.
Sunday, July 5, 2009
Cap And Trade Bill (Utilities Tax Increase)
People, including my Democrat friends, have been asking me why I haven't been writing articles lately. I have been preparing, the best I can, for the Great Obamacrat Depression. One of the things I have done, is plant a garden. Of course with all the "Global Warming", on June 8th my garden froze.
What worries me now, is the Democrat controlled House of Representatives just passed Obama's so-called "Cap and Trade Bill". Socialism at it's core. Of course our Wyoming's Cynthis Lummis voted against it-that goes without saying. Republicans don't like Socialism.
Now, the Democrat-controlled Senate votes on this another Obama/Pelosi bill. I am sure it will pass, the Republicans can't stop it there either. Just remember this is the Democrats baby when you vote next year.
This "Cap and Trade bill, AKA The Carbon Tax, will cost us all money every time you turn on a light switch, or put gas in your car. Even the people who voted for their Messiah-Obama, because they thought they would get more handouts, will pay more. It will affect us all. Even those in a rest home will pay more (or their family and taxpayers will).
Of course the excuse for this tax on coal, natural gas, gasoline, etc. etc. is the Global Warming Hoax. My utility bill stated last year that every month but two, were colder than the year before. The same is going on now.
We had the coldest winter we have seen in over 10 years. It is around 80 below in Antartica right now (of course now the talk is about thawing at the arctic circle where it is spring and it thaws naturally). The propaganda films of thawing ice are years old.;
As for me, I have been taking care of my investments best I can. The year I expected to retire, is the year Social Security goes broke. And, I am nursing my garden back to life. I like to eat.
This carbon tax is estimated to double everyone's utility bill. Good luck. Got a wood stove and coal oil lamps? I do.
What worries me now, is the Democrat controlled House of Representatives just passed Obama's so-called "Cap and Trade Bill". Socialism at it's core. Of course our Wyoming's Cynthis Lummis voted against it-that goes without saying. Republicans don't like Socialism.
Now, the Democrat-controlled Senate votes on this another Obama/Pelosi bill. I am sure it will pass, the Republicans can't stop it there either. Just remember this is the Democrats baby when you vote next year.
This "Cap and Trade bill, AKA The Carbon Tax, will cost us all money every time you turn on a light switch, or put gas in your car. Even the people who voted for their Messiah-Obama, because they thought they would get more handouts, will pay more. It will affect us all. Even those in a rest home will pay more (or their family and taxpayers will).
Of course the excuse for this tax on coal, natural gas, gasoline, etc. etc. is the Global Warming Hoax. My utility bill stated last year that every month but two, were colder than the year before. The same is going on now.
We had the coldest winter we have seen in over 10 years. It is around 80 below in Antartica right now (of course now the talk is about thawing at the arctic circle where it is spring and it thaws naturally). The propaganda films of thawing ice are years old.;
As for me, I have been taking care of my investments best I can. The year I expected to retire, is the year Social Security goes broke. And, I am nursing my garden back to life. I like to eat.
This carbon tax is estimated to double everyone's utility bill. Good luck. Got a wood stove and coal oil lamps? I do.
Friday, June 26, 2009
J. C. Ryle Quote
Dear Readers,
Here is an interesting quote from history, that I completely agree with:
Just A Reminder......
J.C. Ryle (1816-1900) wrote the following in Fire, Fire!:
Beware of manufacturing a god of your own: a god who is all mercy but not just, a god who is all love but not holy, a god who has a heaven for everybody but a hell for none, a god who can allow good and bad to be side by side in time, but will make no distinction between good and broad in eternity. Such a god is an idol of your own, as truly an idol as any snake or crocodile in an Egyptian temple. The hands of your own fancy and sentimentality have made him. He is not the God of the Bible, and beside the God of the Bible, there is no God at all.
Beware of making selections from your Bible to suit your taste. Dare not to say, ‘I believe this verse, for I like it. I refuse that, for I cannot reconcile it with my views’. Nay! But O man, who art thou that repliest against God? By what right do you talk in this way? Surely it were better to say over EVERY chapter in the word, “Speak Lord, for thy servant heareth”. Ah! If men would do this, they would never deny the unquenchable fire.
Here is an interesting quote from history, that I completely agree with:
Just A Reminder......
J.C. Ryle (1816-1900) wrote the following in Fire, Fire!:
Beware of manufacturing a god of your own: a god who is all mercy but not just, a god who is all love but not holy, a god who has a heaven for everybody but a hell for none, a god who can allow good and bad to be side by side in time, but will make no distinction between good and broad in eternity. Such a god is an idol of your own, as truly an idol as any snake or crocodile in an Egyptian temple. The hands of your own fancy and sentimentality have made him. He is not the God of the Bible, and beside the God of the Bible, there is no God at all.
Beware of making selections from your Bible to suit your taste. Dare not to say, ‘I believe this verse, for I like it. I refuse that, for I cannot reconcile it with my views’. Nay! But O man, who art thou that repliest against God? By what right do you talk in this way? Surely it were better to say over EVERY chapter in the word, “Speak Lord, for thy servant heareth”. Ah! If men would do this, they would never deny the unquenchable fire.
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Our Town newspaper
To my readers:
I have a column in the Our Town newspaper. I have collected quotes from famous and non-famous people for over 20 years. I am going to have many of them published in this paper now. Although all the pages are not on the net, the paper can be seen at ourtownpress.net. This paper is free and it's display locations are shown on the website. Advertising is very reasonable, and is seen by many people. Check it out.
I have a column in the Our Town newspaper. I have collected quotes from famous and non-famous people for over 20 years. I am going to have many of them published in this paper now. Although all the pages are not on the net, the paper can be seen at ourtownpress.net. This paper is free and it's display locations are shown on the website. Advertising is very reasonable, and is seen by many people. Check it out.
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Conservative Black Woman
To my readers:
I haven't had enough time to write new op-eds lately, and I know people are checking for something new to read.
So, I highly reccomend going to: conservativeblkwoman.blogspot.com. That lady uses her head for more than a hat rack. She is not the typical Liberal-Democrat "poor me" black person. It is refreshing to know there is a few like her.
I printed, and saved, one of her newest blogs called: Why I Voted Democrat. It is really a thoughtful article.
Thanks, Conservative Bill
conservativebill.blogspot.com
I haven't had enough time to write new op-eds lately, and I know people are checking for something new to read.
So, I highly reccomend going to: conservativeblkwoman.blogspot.com. That lady uses her head for more than a hat rack. She is not the typical Liberal-Democrat "poor me" black person. It is refreshing to know there is a few like her.
I printed, and saved, one of her newest blogs called: Why I Voted Democrat. It is really a thoughtful article.
Thanks, Conservative Bill
conservativebill.blogspot.com
Saturday, April 18, 2009
Conservative Bill Sez: TEA Party Mania
I have never been more proud of my country, and of my native state of Wyoming, as I was yesterday (tax day). I attended the TEA (Taxed Enough Already) Party in Sheridan, WY. I only expected a few people, but there were so many crowded together they couldn't be counted. They were in the hundreds.
I have been disgusted with our federal government for various reasons, but I have renewed confidence in the people of this greatest nation on earth.
In some cities there were crowds in the thousands. As many as 15,000 people in bigger cities. A possible 7 million nationwide. All this with no support, or airplay from the leftist media. I had to learn about it on the Web. And, even after this historic event, there was hardly any coverage, at all, by the Obama-biased news shows (ABC, CBS, NBC).
There were people of all political parties in attendance. Even Democrats. Many of them are worred about our future too.
These TEA Parties were a protest against all the wild spending of borrowed, or just printed, money by our out of control Obama government. The government doesn't have any money, if fact, it is 11 Trillion dollars in debt. In 5 years it will double that, and triple it in 10 years-with Obama's plans. Can we survive that?
Obama's Secretary of Homeland Security, called us "Right Wing Extremists". I guess being patriotic is "extreme" to Obama's gang, many of whom don't pay their taxes like we Peons do. I am sure these leftists were in the destructive demonstrations in the 60's and 70's, which supported the communists of North Vietnam. They didn't call themselves "extremists" though.
There is going to be another TEA party on Independence Day, and one in December on the date of the original tea party of 1773. Let's make them even bigger.
Here in Sheridan, the day before, the Cut and Run Club "Peacemakers", had 4 people attend their protest. I am glad most people know what to take serious.
I have been disgusted with our federal government for various reasons, but I have renewed confidence in the people of this greatest nation on earth.
In some cities there were crowds in the thousands. As many as 15,000 people in bigger cities. A possible 7 million nationwide. All this with no support, or airplay from the leftist media. I had to learn about it on the Web. And, even after this historic event, there was hardly any coverage, at all, by the Obama-biased news shows (ABC, CBS, NBC).
There were people of all political parties in attendance. Even Democrats. Many of them are worred about our future too.
These TEA Parties were a protest against all the wild spending of borrowed, or just printed, money by our out of control Obama government. The government doesn't have any money, if fact, it is 11 Trillion dollars in debt. In 5 years it will double that, and triple it in 10 years-with Obama's plans. Can we survive that?
Obama's Secretary of Homeland Security, called us "Right Wing Extremists". I guess being patriotic is "extreme" to Obama's gang, many of whom don't pay their taxes like we Peons do. I am sure these leftists were in the destructive demonstrations in the 60's and 70's, which supported the communists of North Vietnam. They didn't call themselves "extremists" though.
There is going to be another TEA party on Independence Day, and one in December on the date of the original tea party of 1773. Let's make them even bigger.
Here in Sheridan, the day before, the Cut and Run Club "Peacemakers", had 4 people attend their protest. I am glad most people know what to take serious.
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Tea Party-April 15th
To my readers:
Please help on April 15th, tax day, and join in one of the many TEA party demonstations. They are protests against the sky high taxes, bailouts, and other schemes that are going to cost future generations. Or, that may cause this country to go bust. Government handouts may be a thing of the past, when the government is bankrupt.
So, find out the location on the Web, in newspapers, or whatever it takes to help the cause. Now is not the time to turn on the TV and forget our nations problems.
The one in Sheridan, Wy is at City Hall at 5 pm. I will be there, so say hi if you get a chance. Thanks....
Please help on April 15th, tax day, and join in one of the many TEA party demonstations. They are protests against the sky high taxes, bailouts, and other schemes that are going to cost future generations. Or, that may cause this country to go bust. Government handouts may be a thing of the past, when the government is bankrupt.
So, find out the location on the Web, in newspapers, or whatever it takes to help the cause. Now is not the time to turn on the TV and forget our nations problems.
The one in Sheridan, Wy is at City Hall at 5 pm. I will be there, so say hi if you get a chance. Thanks....
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