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Over the course of the last few days, Al Sharpton has been appearing on several talk shows, and the common theme appears to be trashing Glenn Beck for the success of Beck’s 8/28 rally. When I see Sharpton, I keep asking myself, why does he appear to be so vengeful ?

Sharpton, like a tick, seems to have traveled his miles in life on the backs of others, both willing and unwilling hosts. Is it conceivable that Sharpton tried to bury his fangs in the Beck event, but his involvement was flatly refused ?

From what I have seen of Sharpton, I can see him trying to capitalize on Beck’s event to feather his own nest. Being turned down by Beck would, in my view, most certainly explain why Sharpton has been so vocal in his recent nonsensical criticisms of Beck.

From yesterday’s column by Catharine Evans:

Virginia has become the newest target for the Chicago corruptocrats. The Commonwealth recently gained national attention when Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli stood his ground by filing a lawsuit against Obamacare and clarifying the state’s policy on illegal immigration.

The Obama administration is not happy. Like the mob, they can’t go after the state officials, that’s too obvious. They’ll just hit them where it hurts–like laying off innocent constituents in droves. Maybe the sight of 5,000 men and women looking for work in a 9.5% unemployment economy will change Cuccinelli’s mind. The Chicago Four, Michelle, Valerie, Rahm, and Barack are out to teach Virginia a lesson: mess with our Leftist agenda and we’ll get even.

The Obamas seem particularly ignorant of what it is exactly that holds a nation together.

A foreign perspective on the Obama aristocracy:

She really is the modern-day Marie Antoinette.

We are evolving into a nation of moochers, a process which has been apace for years but the twist now is we are mooching off of Americans who do not yet pay taxes and in fact have not yet been born. It is happening at the state level – thank goodness, not so much in mine – but it is the federal government we should all be very concerned about right now. The theft taking place under the Democrats, who have controlled Congress since 2007, and President Barack Obama is unprecedented in its scale.

As Smitty notes in one of the best blog posts I’ve seen in weeks:

Remember, this hairball has been a century in the making, and will, at bare minimum, require a decade of your best effort just to get that hydra chopped down to something reasonably un-lethal. Incumbency is the enemy. We The People can either rule, or enjoy slavery.

Go read it all, read it again, and then get your game face on for the campaign season which is about to begin.

Our focus must be 100% on the Democrats in public office who are pushing us further into debt slavery.

Just some recent examples to highlight the absurd level of heedlessness these larcenists are operating at:

- $23 million to promote abortion in Kenya.
- $192 million on signs promoting the utterly failed $797 billion “stimulus” boondoggle.
- $22 million to provide high-tech training … to workers in South Asia.
- And now they are poised to steal billions more to reward reckless borrowers in mortgages they can’t afford. You and your children and grandchildren will be paying the moochers’ bills.

This is all being financed with money our country does not have – debt imposed on future generations.

The federal government is filthy with programs we cannot afford and institutions which never should have existed in the first place. There needs to be a housecleaning of Robespierrian proportions, a slash-and-burn campaign on the federal budget. The federal government is meant to provide national security: Everything else should be on the chopping block. Our rule of thumb going forward should be “take it over and shut it down.”

Those who pay for the government must be in charge of the government. Those people, companies, industries and factions who are financially supported by it will receive only what we decide to give them.

To be sure, it has taken both Democrats and Republicans to get us into this mess. A bipartisan line of personages stretching from decades in the past up to the present day deserve a pox on their houses. We can’t separate all the wheat from the chaff along party lines. So if the Republicans currently holding office and the ones we will be putting in office from 2010 through 2014 do not take immediate action to reverse the criminal direction of the federal government we need to end their political careers with extreme prejudice. But let’s face it, the GOP is our only hope. Republicans certainly contributed to our precarious financial situation but Democrats have taken the theft to an entirely new level and one from which our nation may never be able to recover.

It should be more than evident simply by who brought us Obamacare and who did not which party needs to be chastened and which one needs to be tossed in the dustbin of history.

Anyone with the gall to run for public office under the Democrat party banner must be laughed out of all public forums and if they will not slink from the stage they must be shamed and scorned, because they no longer deserve to show their faces in civil society. This cabal of Democrat office holders is guilty of the attempted murder of American liberty. Their misdeeds must be memorialized in perpetuity so the destructive path of our current federal government is never taken again. Having a “D” after your name should be treated as the equivalent of membership in Cosa Nostra and assigned a similar degree of respect in American public life.

There are many problems facing our country and voters are motivated by different concerns, but the threat which should have our laser focus is the one that is in the process of turning us into a third-world nation over the next 20 years. Debt slavery should have every American’s attention. Those who will do the hard work of liberating us should have our undying support. The primary racketeers – elected Democrats, public employee unions, ACORN spin-offs and all the other leftist organizations – are threats to our nation’s future and should be viewed with all appropriate seriousness.

Financial Reform just passed with 3 GOP votes to take it over the top.  What does more departments with more minorities and women have to do with Financial Reform?  That isn’t even a taste of what is in this new bill that NO ONE has read.  We just found out that Obama waved his magic wand and now Healthcare Reform will include FREE screenings and consultations-without even a co-pay BUT only if you are on the government plan.  What’s next but cap & tax AND immigration reform.  So you say to me “ACT, just be patient.  The elections are coming and we will change all this”.  My ass!  By my recollection, there are still about 6 months before elected officials take office in the new Congress and during that time the Chinese might have already started setting up labor camps because we passed the “Asia Cancel Our Debt For Our Country In Trade Act”.  I find it very difficult to laugh this predicament off.  How will we go about re-establishing sanity, growth, wealth and our Constitutional rights after these massive, invasive bills are passed.  How do we stop Obama from creating more government offices with insane salaries?  I would like someone to tell me I can retire without the government taking everything I own anytime they want to.

These kind of actions started the War for Southern Independence.  Why have the states with balls (are there many?) not recalled their congressional representatives back home as a sign of boycott?  Why hasn’t Va. sued Dodd, Frank, Reed, Pelosi and others (including Obama) for not upholding the Constitution, curcumventing states’ rights and criminal activities which have resulted in the taking of liberty, monies, earned wealth and happiness (and the pursuit thereof) from its citizens?  I don’t owe bank bailouts-that was a lie.  I don’t want someone to not play by the same mortgage rules I do and not be penalized.  I don’t owe ANYONE a free ride and feel that I shouldn’t have to buy someone a ticket.  This is not going to change after the election and it is time to stop this free liberal ride.

You guys hate that issue of secesion.  You want to wait things out and go by the “process”.  Guess what?  That “process” is on the upper shelf in the closet of the White House-not to see the light of day.  If we do it correctly and Obama and Congress do it incorrectly, what is the score so far?  How much money, time  and quality of life will be lost forever while we are trying to stop the hemmorage much less reverse the flow before we get to just break even?  When is it time to keep all your paycheck until tax day; give what you have to your kids now before the gov’t gets it when you die; turn off all news media completely; make a class action suit by STATES to sue personal individuals in the U.S. Government; secede.  Just check other countries around the world and tell me which ones you think we are becoming.  Then understand how they got that way and how long it took.  The government is not corrupting the Constitution-only itself.  The Constitution can be saved but only if these new ideas/laws/mindset are rejected.  How do you go about doing that?  Hope and change in the upcoming elections aren’t going to do it!  Mark my words.

Two images from June 2, 2010

While U.S President Barack Obama, the biggest recipient of BP Oil cash, has been partying into the night, the residents of our Gulf Coast have been pleading for help.

Attention American schoolchildren – this is Business 101: Here is what happens when you put a “community organizer” in an executive position:

First, the bad news is hidden from public view.

Why? Well, because stupid is as stupid does.

For example: While thousands are willing to help solve the problem, the Obama administration takes the weekend off and insists everyone else do likewise.

This is how non-managers deal with a managerial problem: They dither, they delay, they do not make decisions. In the meantime, the disaster continues apace.

The state of Arizona has tried to solve a problem on its own, and the Obama administration is going to sue them for it. Bad managers do not solve a problem but only make it worse.

In the Gulf region, local firefighters are eager to help keep oil from reaching their shores. While the federal government is taking a long weekend, and considering lawsuits against the states, these volunteers are being told to stand down.

Hixon said fire chiefs offered BP equipment and knowledge and, in return, asked for the chemical make-up of leaking materials “so we could train our people to safely handle it, but we got no response whatsoever.” County chiefs became frustrated at the lack of unified command and the disregard for local resources, including boats and crews who have knowledge of the area’s waterways.

“You can’t plan on how to boom off an area from an office 50 miles away looking at a map,” he said. “It just won’t work.”

By the way: While these concerned citizens were being held back from attacking the oil spill, President Barack Obama was playing golf … again.

We can only wonder how long it will be before the Obama administration decides to sue them.

UPDATE: Captain Kickass rates low confidence in Democrat-skewed poll. I think if most people had any awareness of how long the Democrats have controlled Congress the ratings would be even lower.

“NEVER AGAIN!” was the cry after the National Socialist Workers Party was done with its attempt at a final solution to the “Jewish Question” in WWII. The West as a whole vowed to never stand by and allow a new pogrom to reignite. Today the liberals are not standing by. They are actively taking part and assisting the likes of Hezbollah and mad Mullahs of Iran.

Obama and his cabal have treated Israel with contempt, and grovelled before the dictators of the world. A nation has the right to guard its borders. A nation has the right to protect its people. Obama condemned Israel for doing this. Last year over 100 rocket attacks were inflicted upon Israel. These attacks emanated from Gaza and the West bank. These attacks were conducted by Hamas. The Turkish ambassador to the US has said that, “Hamas must be part of the final solution to the Israeli conflict.” This thug is still on our soil?

Imagine if India were to attack Chinese cities on 100 separate occasions. What do you imagine the response would be? Imagine if Buffalo NY, Flint MI, Boston MA, and Seattle WA were subject to weekly rocket fire from Canada. Would our media advocate not only restraint but concession in light of such bombardment? I instead would imagine that such action would be viewed as a casus belli.

Many in the West are echoing the propaganda of the Junta’s of the Middle East. The dictators that rule from Morrocco to Pakistan echo the puerile antisemitism that is common fare of Wahhabi dominated mosques. On college campuses today it is cool to be an anti-Semite. MSM today is slanted towards this warped view. If a second holocaust is to be avoided, good people must stand up in the public square and cry NEVER AGAIN.

UPDATE: Former Clinton spokesman, Joe Lockhart, said: “I hope we are strong enough as a country to sustain voices that are wrong, voices that offend, even voices that incite.” Cry me a river. This yahoo support’s shutting down the voices of descent with the ‘fairness doctrine.’ Great 1984-ism that bill.

Back to Germany and Poland?

Helen Thomas gives voice to what the media is thinking, the crazy aunt in the attic speaks what is on her ‘mind’

UPDATE:
One of our resident philosophers Wolverine has posed a most excellent question: Where is the ADL? If Thomas where a conservative pr a Republican the ADL, and other watchdogs, would be out in full force decrying this comment. If the president were Republican they would be demanding a statement of him as to whether he supports Helen’s comment. The ADL has become more of a liberal lapdog than a guard dog of Judaism. The Jewish community should take note of this.

Someone needs to explain that the German’s killed 6 Million Jews just 65 years back ‘home’ to Helen. Europe is no home to Israel, it is the land of their diaspora. The Kingdom of Israel covered the region from the Mediterranean to the Jordan River and beyond. Someone needs to explain this to Helen and the other anti-Semites in the liberal Media. The left has returned to its anti-Semitic roots. The world should take note of this.

UPDATE II: Helen Thomas Retires!!
Good riddance to bad rubbish I say.

I think we should all be able to agree on one point of fact: Barack Obama is presiding over the most secretive, corrupt and incompetent presidency in American history. In addition, by virtue of his complete lack of managerial experience, he is the least qualified individual to ever hold the office.

These propositions seem so obvious at this point I believe discussion is unnecessary. However, since we have been in a state of semi-hiatus here at NVTH, with just a few of us posting periodically, I would like to propose that the title of this post become a theme for future work – especially as we approach the 2010 elections.

Understanding and explaining history usually requires some sort of “model” or prism through which analysis is conducted. I think this should be ours. Thank you; please enjoy the remainder of this Memorial Day weekend.

This is a funny combination. Democrats pontificating on a Law they never read. How pathetic is that?

This almost as dumb as thinking there are 57 states.

As oil begins to wash up on the shores of Key West, it seems reasonable to ask whether the huge amounts of cash our president has received from BP have had any influence on the U.S. government’s hands-off approach to the environmental catastrophe during its initial days.

For instance, why did the White House acquiesce in allowing BP to refuse to release video of the oil spewing from the well for three weeks? We all know by now everything Obama promised in terms of government transparency was a big fat lie, but it could be assumed this was due to the sheer incompetence of the man. He did not know what he was talking about on the campaign trail. However this episode pushes to the outer limits of malfeasance. The White House had the video of the unfolding epic disaster but helped cover it up.

The People’s Republic of Kalifornia is collapsing. The State has a budget gap of $20B. To help close it, the State is asking the federal government for $6.9B.

Say what?!

Yes, the State that in 2007 had the 7th highest per capita income is asking the rest of us to bail them out of their self-dug socialist hole. Lavish government union contracts — with generous retirement packages and medical coverage, social programs galore, and crippling business regulations, have sent the State into a tailspin. They may cut their programs some, but they’re not going to raise taxes — it takes a two-thirds supermajority to pass a budget, and it is not likely that the California Republicans would go along with a tax increase. Instead, they will make the rest of us pay more in taxes to pay for the shortfall or, more likely, to make payments on the increased debt we will be taking on.

Thanks, Arnie. The Austrian Oak is now the Austrian Oaf.

Well, of course we all know of the 0bamacare disaster that will force the young to pay more for insurance than they should be, and we all know that the tripling of the deficit is stealing from those who will have to pay it back (the young).  But few know that the Social Security taxes the young now pay will not be credited to them.  Why?  Because only the highest 35 years are counted.  So for someone who starts working at 18, and retires at 67 has worked for 49 years, but only 35 count.  So for 14 years, the government will take their 15% FICA tax without giving them credit for it.

Let’s get our youth informed about what the government is doing to them.

If there is sufficient room in said dustbin I hope someone will contact me because I have lots of suggestions.

Personal feelings on the United States Postal Service aside – and for those who are wondering, my adventure played out with a bunch of letters neither being delivered nor returned to us, and a number of our accounts going overdue or simply being closed – there must be a general consensus by now that this is an organization that really is not very good.

The Washington Times suggests maybe it is time to call in the dogs:

The post office is projected to bleed $7 billion in red ink this year on top of an existing debt of $13.2 billion, according to the Government Accountability Office. By 2020, the postal system will lose $35 billion every year, and the accumulated debt will reach a staggering $230 billion – all of which will be saddled on taxpayers. In short, the modern successor to the pony express is stampeding toward insolvency.

Like the rest of the federal government, the post office’s fiscal troubles can be directly traced to its unionized bureaucracy. More than 80 percent of the postal budget is devoted to the agency’s 581,070 career employees. Because a mandatory collective bargaining process determines wages, hours worked and workplace conditions, postal employees enjoy benefits even more exorbitant than what other federal employees receive.

If there is a better three-word prescription for failure than “unionized federal employees” someone please let me know.

Steny, just recently you have demanded that the Republican party come out with a statement publicly denouncing any violence towards you and other members of Congress.  I am assuming that you mean the Dem radical members of Congress since you never have condemned acts perpetrated on GOP members of Congress.  I want to tell you a story that carries its own warning.

There was this very friendly dog that the owner had leash-stacked in his yard for the owner had no fence.  The dog enjoyed his day in the yard not bothering anyone and just wanting to be left alone.  One day a bunch of kids came up to that dog and the dog came to greet them.  When the dog had reached tethered length, those kids starting yelling all sorts of derogatory explatives at the dog which shied away timidly from the abuse.  Days on end this happened with the same result.

The kids decided to ramp it up and started poking a stick at the dog and the dog became very fearful.  The owner of the dog noticed what was going on and came outside to talk to the kids.  He asked them nicely not to taunt the dog.  The kids went away but soon came back and decided to ramp it up another notch by throwing rocks at the dog.  The owner came out again and scolded the kids and told them that he couldn’t be held resposible for what the dog may do in the future.  The kids spewed verbal slanders at the homeowner and he went inside.

The boys returned another day and started their abuse of the dog with stones.  The dog, having nowhere to get away from the kids finally had enough.  He growled and then charged at the kids all the while barking, snapping and frothing at the mouth.  The kids became scared and ran home to tell their parents about the mean dog trying to get them.  One parent went to the door of the dog owner to demand the owner lock that vicious dog up in the house where it wouldn’t be a nuisance.  The owner just refused to answer the door.

Now I am sure that you probably are too ignorant to understand this story.  And you would probably blame the tempermant of the dog on George Bush or some other right winger.  When you and your buddies lie, snub, scoff, ignore, go secretive, abuse, and inhibit the freedoms and livelyhood of the citizens, this is the end result.  Some people are more stronger willed, some abhor violence and others just wait and hope for the best.  There are people out there commiting suicide before losing their homes; commiting crimes because they are desperate; killing co-workers because they got let go from their jobs.  This is all taking place because of what YOU and your ilk are doing to us citizens.  So before you come whinning like a little bitch for momma because of some perceived threats, reflect on what you may have done to summon such action.  Everyone has a breaking point and if you choose to poke that dog with a stick-which would be to snub the American people and enslave them to government-either confront it like a man or hide under a rock.  You reap what you sow, pal