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Home Front: Politix
VDH: Obama as Chaos

Amid all the charges and countercharges in Washington over the government shutdown, there is at least one common theme: Barack Obama’s various charges always lead to a dead end. They are chaos, and chaos is hard to understand, much less refute.

By that I mean when the president takes up a line of argument against his opponents, it cannot really be taken seriously — not just because it is usually not factual, but also because it always contradicts positions that Obama himself has taken earlier or things he has previously asserted. Whom to believe — Obama 1.0, Obama 2.0, or Obama 3.0?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/08/2013 01:35 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Unfortunately, half the people in Barack's fiefdom can't remember past the last Superbowl game and can't look forward past their next gubbamint check. But they all vote, whether they leave their dwelling or not.
Posted by: Bobby || 10/08/2013 6:38 Comments || Top||

#2  Bobby, they even vote without leaving Holy Sepulchre. Several times.
Posted by: Glenmore || 10/08/2013 7:46 Comments || Top||

#3  Obama keeps shifting positions? Maybe its because his beliefs are based on what horse manure he thinks people will buy and not on sound beliefs based on our Constitution (which he swore to uphold). Our emperor has feet of clay and no clothes.
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/08/2013 7:51 Comments || Top||

#4  The regime can't tell us how many have signed up for Obamacare, but they DID tell us this morning that Social Security checks may be endangered due to the looming fiscal problem. I suppose they are referring to the Social Security dollars we've paid into for 50+ years formerly referred to as..... "insurance".

Posted by: Besoeker || 10/08/2013 12:23 Comments || Top||

#5  VDH stole my line - CHOAS

Movie Name: Get Smart (1995)
Quote: New KAOS leader: Ladies and gentleman, thank you for flying in. We may have lost the cold war, but we will win the next one. The goal
of the new KAOS: total world US economic domination.
Posted by: Au Auric || 10/08/2013 13:34 Comments || Top||

#6  dyslexia - gets you every time -mmmm CHAOS
Posted by: Au Auric || 10/08/2013 13:35 Comments || Top||

#7  #3 his beliefs are based on what horse manure he thinks people will buy and not on sound beliefs based on our Constitution (which he swore to uphold)

Silly rabbit. Swearing (that kind) is so, like, Victorian. People like you shouldn't even vote, just stay home and read Gertrude Himmelfarb or something. I bet you can't even twerk.
Posted by: Harcourt Hitler3148 || 10/08/2013 13:54 Comments || Top||

#8  Part of this is standard Left tactics. You are only for or against something when it benefits you. Consistency is a weakness of the opposition.
Posted by: Iblis || 10/08/2013 14:48 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Moral case for DNA testing
[Dawn] IMAGINE: you've just been mugged on a quiet street on a desolate afternoon in your neighbourhood by four men who stole your money and then stabbed or shot you for good measure.

You're admitted to hospital, where doctors operate on your wounds. But when it comes time to having the robbers placed in durance vile
Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit!
and sent to court, the police refuse to register the crime, while the judge won't believe that anything happened to you because nobody witnessed the crime. Your scars are worth nothing in court, your doctors' evidence that you were grievously maimed counts for nothing either. Because of a lack of witnesses, your robbers, who you have easily been able to identify, go free.
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Posted by: Fred || 10/08/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


The thought police: Internet surveillance
[Dawn] BY its very nature, democracy carries within it a promise of openness, a celebration of diversity. But democratic Pakistain, on the contrary, is becoming more Orwellian by the day. A report on internet surveillance called Freedom on the Net 2013, conducted by the Digital Rights Foundation Pakistain and Freedom House, assessed cyberspace freedom in 60 countries. Scoring 67 out of 100, Pakistain received a status of 'not free', while Iceland topped the table with a score of six.

The violation of the right to information by limiting content has been under way for some time with scores of websites seen as anti-military, anti-state or anti-Islam getting blocked. There has also been, it seems, an expansion in surveillance activities by government authorities, particularly intelligence agencies. However,
there is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened...
the uploading of the anti-Islam movie trailer on YouTube last year and the Fair Trial Act passed earlier this year to aid terrorism investigations seem to have engendered a perfect storm of censorship and moral policing by government authorities. Not only has the ban on YouTube not been lifted, and more sites been blocked on grounds of 'immorality', PTA is in the process of acquiring more advanced surveillance software than it possesses at present that will make it possible, among other things, to track internet traffic on websites of interest, and trawl through personal chats and email accounts more thoroughly. Although this invasive category of software is ostensibly for the purpose of aiding terrorism investigations, the loose phrasing of the Fair Trial Act 2012 could allow a much broader application of this technology to curb views on politics, religion, morality, etc that may be deemed unacceptable. The right to freedom of speech is already much circumscribed in Pakistain through a combination of society's vigilantism and draconian laws such as those dealing with blasphemy. Given the myriad problems that we are beset with, many of which can be traced to intolerance and bigotry, the last thing the government should be doing is playing Big Brother.
Posted by: Fred || 10/08/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan

#1  You sure they're talking about Pakistain?
Sounds exactly like Obama's America?
Or at least, the way we're going.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 10/08/2013 1:18 Comments || Top||

#2  Sounds exactly like Obama's America (?)
Or at least, the way we're going.

Very Perceptive Redneck Jim, the signs have been around us for quite a while now...
Posted by: Au Auric || 10/08/2013 10:44 Comments || Top||

#3  And NOBODY does a single thing.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 10/08/2013 19:26 Comments || Top||



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