CBS News Coverage of the Republican Convention

I had to laugh - here was Brian Ross, CBS Reporter, telling Diane Sawyer about all the limos and private aircraft bringing Republicans into Tampa for the National Republican Convention. Translated? Ah yes, those bad guys, "The Rich!"

The spin is obviously meant to reflect POTUS' chant about "the rich." I guess the only difference is mebbe supposed to be that Democrats don't fly to their convention in private aircraft and don't ride in limos.

I trust Americans will 'read between the lines' and take this obvious slanted coverage for what it is. Now I can't wait to see how they spin the Democrat's Convention in POTUS favor.

Viva prosperity!

HBO's Weekly show - The Newsroom

I've just watched the season finale of HBO's original series The Newsroom. Throughout its run it has been a mixture of handsome men and beautiful women, office romances and an anti-Republican/Tea Party chant throughout.

Jane Fonda, an actress with demonstrated Leftist leanings, portrayed Leona Lansing, CEO of the imaginary Atlantis World Media (AWM), and the parent company of Atlantis Cable News (ACN). Although she was not seen each week, Aaron Sorkin, the show's primary writer, managed to skillfully weave their obvious politial viewss throughout each week's show.   

Jeff Daniels, who I admired with his portrayal of Colonel Joshua Chamberlin in the movie Gettysburg, is the on-air prime-time anchor of the ACN's evening news. His character, Will McAvoy, acting as a mouthpiece of the Left, spewed Sorkin's (and Fonda's) vitriolic dialogue as if it was fact. 

The slick series was fast-moving and the dialogue snappy. The show's platform reflected the Leftist spin of American major media networks today, giving viewers a skewed picture of those who support Tea Party ideals and the conservative agenda of the Republican Party.

I trust viewers, however, sawthrough the charade of what was definitely entertaining yet terribly biased. 

The Phony and the Real

One of my financial advisers advised me to invest in municipal bonds as the interest earned is not taxable. When I asked what happens if the municipality goes belly up he said, "They'll just raise taxes." Unfortunately, he's probably right. But as a matter of principle I have not purchased any.

My question is proving to be prophetic as we watch cities in California and elsewhere declaring bankruptcy - just like the Socialist countries of Spain, Greece et al. Communities throughout the U.S. will be following no doubt.

The Great Depression lead to the election of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Perhaps this Great Depression we are living through will lead to the election of an American who cares first about Americans, not the "world community."

Do you remember one of the first things POTUS did when he was elected? He went to Berlin to declare "We" had won." We are finding out who he was referring to. And it wasn't the U.S.

I am proud of my Irish ethnicity and aware of the tribulations and sufferings of my ancestors. But I remain an American first! And my concerns are for this nation first. In November I trust our electorate will see through the phony and embrace the real. 

Time to bail out of the UN aka how stupid are we?

UNBELIEVEABLE              How they vote in the United Nations: Below  are the actual voting records of various Arabic/Islamic States    Which are recorded in both the US State  Department and United Nations records: Kuwait votes                            against         the United States  67% of the time Qatar  votes                            against          the United States   67% of the  time Morocco votes                       against         the United States   70% of the time United Arab  Emirates votes against         the United States   70% of the time. Jordan votes                         against         the United States     71% of the time. Tunisia votes                        against         the  United States    71% of the time. Saudi Arabia votes               against         the United States     73% of the time. Yemen votes                       against        the  United States     74% of the time. Algeria votes                       against        the United States      74% of the time. Oman   votes                       against          the United States      74% of the time. Sudan votes                       against         the United States      75% of the time. Pakistan votes                    against         the United States      75% of the time. Libya votes                         against        the United States      76% of the time. Egypt votes                        against         the  United States     79% of the time. Lebanon votes                  against        the  United States     80% of the time. India votes                         against         the  United States     81% of the time. Syria votes                        against         the United States      84% of the time. Mauritania votes                against          the United States     87% of the time.   U S Foreign Aid to those  that hate us: Egypt ,  for example, after voting 79%  of the time against the United States,      Still receives$2,000,000,000  annually  in US Foreign  Aid. Jordan   votes 71% against  the   United States And receives  $192,814,000  annually   in US Foreign  Aid.   Pakistan  votes 75% against  the   United States Receives $6,721,000,000 annually in US Foreign  Aid.  India  votes 81% against  the   United States  Receives  $143,699,000 annually.      WHY? WHO IN THE HELL STARTED   THIS AND WHY? THEY ACTUALLY  BITE THE HAND THAT FEEDS THEM. Perhaps it  is time to get out of the UN and give the tax savings back to the  American workers who are having to skimp and sacrifice to pay the  taxes.  Pass this  along to every taxpaying citizen you know, party lines  irrelevant!      GO  GREEN- RECYCLE  CONGRESS AND THE PRESIDENT    IN 2012 ! ! !  (If you don't  know any taxpayers just delete  it!)

Want to know why MORE American jobs will disappear?

A Midleton Irish Whiskey story

We were meeting a Cleveland Plain Dealer reporter at Cleveland’s The Harp Irish Pub and Restaurant. Janet Cho was going to do a story on our search for the family of Irish-born Michael Corcoran. He was an Indians Wars infantryman and Medal of Honor recipient. I and my buddy Blaine, a Vietnam medic and full-blown alcoholic, had already located Corcoran’s grave in Calvary Cemetery. We had already begun the process to secure a MOH stone for his resting place and were hoping a story in the Plain Dealer would locate any of Corcoran’s descendants that might still be in the Cleveland area.

Upon entering the The Harp, Blaine bellied up to the bar. “What’s the best Irish whiskey you have?” he blurted.  I saw it coming what was coming next as there behind the bar, nestled upside down in its own special wooden cradle, was a bottle of Midleton Irish Whiskey. The young barmaid replied, “Why, that would be our Midleton sir.”

“How much does a shot cost?”

“It’s $25.00 a shot sir.”

Blaine took a hard gulp. “What’s a shot of your next-best Irish whiskey cost?”

November election - Andrew McCarthy

 

This is about the 2nd or 3rd most important issue about the Nov. 6th election.

Columnist Andrew McCarthy gives us what probably is the most important question regarding the upcoming presidential election.  If Mitt wins the nomination, I will enthusiastically support his candidacy. For my friends who have hesitation on that score, I'd just ask you to keep four things in mind:

1.. Justice Scalia just turned 78

2.. Justice Kennedy will turn 78 later this year

3.. Justice Breyer will be 76 in August

4.. Justice Ginsburg turned 81 about a week ago.

In addition, Justice Ginsburg has Pancreatic Cancer and Justice Stephens has already said he would retire and is just waiting for Obama to be reelected.

The next president could appoint as many as 4 new Justices over next 8 years. This election is about more than ObamaCare Tax.

                         

We wish them all well, of course, but the brute fact is that whoever we elect as president in November is almost certainly going to choose at least one new member of the Supreme Court, in addition to hundreds of other life-tenured federal judges, all of whom will be making momentous decisions about our lives for decades to come.

                         

If you don't think it matters whether the guy making those calls is Mitt Romney or Barack Obama, I think you're smokin' something funky.

So for anybody who is thinking of not voting because your favorite didn't get nominated, or writing in a candidate who can't win, imagine this: SUPREME COURT JUSTICE ERIC HOLDER?

                         

After you have stopped gasping, kindly forward this  to your list of concerned citizens! 

Those who trade liberty for security have neither.

"It can't happen again"

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It's OUR money!

                                              It’s OUR money

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                                                 JC Sullivan

Northfield, Ohio. “Distinguished Professor of  Politics” Peter Dreier, an Occidental College leftist teacher, has authored  The 100 Greatest Americans of the 20^th Century. It is a self-proclaimed social justice Hall of Fame. As you can imagine, the list contains the names of the far left in America.

In a recent television interview Dreier portrayed  Social Security as once considered Socialism but  today “most Tea Party Supporters, for example, support Social Security.”

Well, yeah, we’ve HAD to pay into it our entire working lives. It’s OUR MONEY! Do I need to remind him and those who would purchase his book that many who have not worked and have NOT paid into it are receiving Social Security payments?

The man is absurd. And our government continues to deceive and betray the American people.

The First President to...

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Obama's accomplishments. He has done more than any other President before him. He has an impressive list of accomplishments:

First President to apply for college aid as a foreign student, then deny he was a foreigner.

First President to have a social security number from a state he has never lived in.

First President to preside over a cut to the credit-rating of the United States

First President to violate the War Powers Act. .

First President to be held in contempt of court for illegally obstructing oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico .

First President to require all Americans to purchase a product from a third party.

First President to spend a trillion dollars on 'shovel-ready' jobs when there was no such thing as 'shovel-ready' jobs.

First President to abrogate bankruptcy law to turn over control of companies to his union supporters.

First President to by-pass Congress and implement the Dream Act through executive fiat.

First President to order a secret amnesty program that stopped the deportation of illegal immigrants across the U.S. , including those with criminal convictions.

First President to demand a company hand-over $20 billion to one of his political appointees.

First President to tell a CEO of a major corporation (Chrysler) to resign.

First President to terminate America 's ability to put a man in space.

First President to cancel the National Day of Prayer and to say that America is no longer a Christian nation.

First President to have a law signed by an auto-pen without being present.

First President to arbitrarily declare an existing law unconstitutional and refuse to enforce it.

First President to threaten insurance companies if they publicly spoke-out on the reasons for their rate increases.

First President to tell a major manufacturing company in which state it is allowed to locate a factory.

First President to file lawsuits against the states he swore an oath to protect (AZ, WI, OH, IN).

First President to withdraw an existing coal permit that had been properly issued years ago.

First President to actively try to bankrupt an American industry (coal).

First President to fire an inspector general of Ameri-Corps for catching one of his friends in a corruption case.

First President to appoint 45 czars to replace elected officials in his office.

First President to surround himself with radical left wing anarchists.

First President to golf 73 separate times in his first two and a half years in office, 102 to date.

First President to hide his medical, educational and travel records.

First President to win a Nobel Peace Prize for doing NOTHING to earn it.

First President to go on multiple global “apology tours” and concurrent “insult our friends” tours.

First President to go on 17 lavish vacations, including date nights and Wednesday evening White House parties for his friends paid for by the taxpayer.

First President to have 22 personal servants (taxpayer funded) for his wife.

First President to keep a dog trainer on retainer for $102,000 a year at taxpayer expense.

First President to repeat the Holy Quran & tell us the early morning call of the Azan (Islamic call to worship) is the most beautiful sound on earth.

First President to tell the military men and women that they should pay for their own private insurance because they “volunteered to go to war and knew the consequences”.

Then he was the First President to tell the members of the military that THEY were UNPATRIOTIC for balking at the last suggestion.

First President to side with a foreign nation over one of the American 50 states (Mexico vs. Arizona).

How is this hope and change working out for you? THERE'S AN ELECTION COMING UP...I HOPE YOU REMEMBER THIS LIST WHEN YOU VOTE! 

Our Citizens Need Better Health Care Options

Following another story of another wacko toting a gun, I heard news stories that he was a “far right wing” extremist. Perhaps that will be true but major news media outlets have previously referred to the Tea Party as “right wing extremists.”

First and foremost the guy is obviously a nut. The gun control crowd will shout “See, we told you,” when they should be addressing the issue of mental health.

I’m not a socialist but this nation beggars better mental  health attention be made available to those who need it, be they seeking it themselves or directed to receive it from psychiatrists et al.