Stalin's Crimes of the Family is alive in NJ - N.J. Senate committee rejects Gov. Christie's Supreme Court nominee Phillip Kwon

Oh the horrors of it all. A Republican Governor nominating a Republican Judge for the State Supreme Court... How dare he?! Shame!

N.J. Senate committee rejects Gov. Christie's Supreme Court nominee Phillip Kwon | NJ.com

March 22, 2012

TRENTON — On a day marked by angry outbursts and raw nerves, the Democratic-led Senate Judiciary Committee today rejected Chris Christie’s nomination of Phillip Kwon to the state Supreme Court, handing the governor his biggest setback since coming to Trenton.

It was the first time in modern history lawmakers have turned down a governor’s choice for the state’s highest court.

The committee’s 7-6 vote against Kwon capped more than seven hours of intense questioning and furious verbal sparing that left some Republicans charging Democrats with staging a "witch hunt" and a "lynching."

Shortly after the vote Christie lashed out at Democrats.

"They conducted a shameful mockery of a hearing that dragged Phil and his family through the mud," Christie said. "Today was political payback for pension and benefit reform. … Phil Kwon was sacrificed at the altar as payback."

The governor added, "They all followed the political line like lemmings."

The vote came after Democrats grilled Kwon about the legal problems of his family’s business and accused Christie of trying to stack the court with Republicans.

Chris Christie on Kwon: This was a circus

March 23, 2012

Without his help, it could be a profit center by now - Obama touts S.C. Boeing plant that NLRB sued

Mr. Shake-down.

He tries to take credit as a big capitalist, while singing the "Internationale."

Phony commie extortionist!

Obama touts S.C. Boeing plant that NLRB sued | Campaign 2012 | Washington Examiner

byJoel Gehrke Commentary Staff Writer 2-17-12

[full, short aricle]

President Obama rallied with union workers at a Boeing plant in Washington, but he praised the manufacturing conducted by Boeing in South Carolina, even though his National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) tried to close the South Carolina plant at the behest of the Washington union workers.

"So this company is a great example of what American manufacturing can do in a way that nobody else in the world can do it," Obama told the assembled workers this afternoon at the Everett, Wash., Boeing plant. "And the impact of your success, as I said, goes beyond the walls of this plant. Every Dreamliner that rolls off the assembly line here in Everett supports thousands of jobs in different industries all across the country. Parts of the fuselage are manufactured in South Carolina and Kansas," Obama also noted before mentioning factories in other states.

The NLRB tried to close that South Carolina plant, though, after union workers in Washington argued that Boeing had built the new factory in South Carolina -- which is a right to work state -- in retaliation against the Machinist Union strikes that had slowed production in Washington state. The NLRB dropped the complaint in December after Boeing signed a new contract with the machinists

The Washington Examiner's Philip Klein argued that the NLRB "helped unions shake down Boeing" by pushing the complaint, which would have cost over 1,000 non-union jobs in South Carolina, until the union received the new contract.

"What's happening here in Everett can happen in other industries," Obama added today during his discussion of American manufacturing.

Did you know that the Obama administration requires government contractors to disclose their political contributions?

Obamunism = Stalinism

Liberals would say "McCarthyism" if it were a Republican Prsesident.

12-15-11

The GOP tried but failed to attach restrictions on the Obama administration’s nuclear waste policy, its international family planning policy and major restrictions on the president’s environmental agenda. Mr. Obama and Democrats also forced Republicans to remove provisions that would have prevented him from requiring government contractors to disclose their political contributions — though they cannot be required to disclose them as part of an application for a loan or grant.

Holder thinks we are Gun-Runners and Obama thinks we are lazy

Holder and Obama have a very different view of America.

Eric Holder | Gun-Running | Gang Activity | The Daily Caller

Holder blames Americans for gun-running

Neil Munro- 11-30-11

Attorney General Eric Holder scolded The Daily Caller’s reporting on the Fast and Furious gun-running scandal shortly after government officials and reporters heard him admonish Americans for funding gun-runners.

Holder appeared Tuesday at a White House event to showcase a new media campaign that is intended to stigmatize the selling and buying of knock-off videos and counterfeit fashion products.

Holder recorded one critical radio ad, which is titled “You can help.” The clip was played to the audience in the White House auditorium.

“This is Attorney General Eric Holder. We are working hard to protect our communities by reducing gang violence and organized crime and there is an important and simple way that you can help. Some street gangs and organized crime groups are selling counterfeit products, such as fake watches, DVDs and purses, as an easy way to make money. And they use that money to fund other crimes, like trafficking in drugs and guns.”

“When you buy knock-offs on the street or online, although it may not be obvious, you could be supporting gangs, putting money in their pockets and helping them to engage in other illegal activities that put our communities at risk,” said Holder in the radio ad.

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2011/11/30/holder-blames-americans-for-gun-running/#ixzz1fDGV6DJH

Portrait of Occupy Protester - Man found dead carbon monoxide poisoning due to a space heater inside his tent and a drug overdose

"Someone lost their life and as a police chief and as a city, we cannot tolerate that because we have other options."

Man found dead in Pioneer Park, Occupy SLC ordered to leave both camps | ksl.com

Pat Reavy 11-11-11

SALT LAKE CITY — Hours after a man was found dead inside a tent at Pioneer Park, Salt Lake Police Chief Chris Burbank announced Friday he could no longer allow camping in the park or anywhere in the city.

"We can no longer have individuals camping on our streets," Burbank said. "We as a city just cannot tolerate this going on."

Burbank asked members of the Occupy Salt Lake protest group to start packing immediately and to be out of the park by sunset Saturday. The ban on camping overnight also includes the Gallivan Center, where a group was recently moved after setting up camp near the Federal Building.

Burbank made the announcement Friday at Pioneer Park at the Occupy Salt Lake base camp. He said the group was welcome to continue protesting during the day, but they will no longer be allowed there at night.

The decision followed the death of a man who had been sleeping at the park in a tent. Investigators believe the man died from a combination of carbon monoxide poisoning due to a space heater inside his tent and a drug overdose. The man, whose body was discovered just after 10 a.m. Friday, was not immediately identified.

-read on at link-

Lordy, the Marxists are poping out of the woodwork! Elizabeth Warren: there is nobody in this country who got rich on his own.

Just give us your feelings on 'The Labor Theory of Value.'

http://realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/09/21/elizabeth_warren_there_is_nobody_in_this_country_who_got_rich_on_his_own.html

“I hear all this, you know, ‘Well, this is class warfare, this is whatever. No. There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own — nobody," Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts) said. Warren is running for the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate in Massachusetts. Warren hopes to face off with Sen. Scott Brown (R-MA) in the general election.

(via Weasel Zippers)

We'll see your 40% and raise you - Nearly 40 percent of Europeans suffer mental illness

Most of them are called Socialists and Communists, here we just call them Democrats.

Nearly 40 percent of Europeans suffer mental illness | Reuters

The results, published by the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ENCP) on Monday, show an "exceedingly high burden" of mental health disorders and brain illnesses, he told reporters at a briefing in London.

Mental illnesses are a major cause of death, disability, and economic burden worldwide and the World Health Organization predicts that by 2020, depression will be the second leading contributor to the global burden of disease across all ages.

Wittchen said that in Europe, that grim future had arrived early, with diseases of the brain already the single largest contributor to the EU's burden of ill health.

The four most disabling conditions -- measured in terms of disability-adjusted life years or DALYs, a standard measure used to compare the impact of various diseases -- are depression, dementias such as Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia, alcohol dependence and stroke.

The last major European study of brain disorders, which was published in 2005 and covered a smaller population of about 301 million people, found 27 percent of the EU adult population was suffering from mental illnesses.

Parasite John Kerry: Silence Those Annoying Peasants! Kerry can't help being the tallest liar in the Senate!

It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.

WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH

John Kerry: Silence Those Annoying Peasants! - HUMAN EVENTS

The Ministry of Truth strikes back.

08/05/2011 by John Hayward

In an astonishing appearance on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” today, Senator John Kerry (D-MA) declared freedom of speech and unbiased news coverage to be among the great enemies of the glorious State. Video courtesy of The Blaze:

If you can’t stomach the whole thing, I sympathize. Making sense of two solid minutes of Kerry babble is agonizing. Here’s the part everyone is quoting today:

And I have to tell you, I say this to you politely. The media in America has a bigger responsibility than it’s exercising today. The media has got to begin to not give equal time or equal balance to an absolutely absurd notion just because somebody asserts it or simply because somebody says something which everybody knows is not factual.

It doesn’t deserve the same credit as a legitimate idea about what you do. And the problem is everything is put into this tit-for-tat equal battle and America is losing any sense of what’s real, of who’s accountable, of who is not accountable, of who’s real, who isn’t, who’s serious, who isn’t?

In other words, he thinks its time for the media to start ignoring the Tea Party. Savor the pure, incomprehensible lunacy of his opening, too:

And I have to tell you, I say this to you politely. The media in America has a bigger responsibility than it’s exercising today. The media has got to begin to not give equal time or equal balance to an absolutely absurd notion just because somebody asserts it or simply because somebody says something which everybody knows is not factual.

It doesn’t deserve the same credit as a legitimate idea about what you do. And the problem is everything is put into this tit-for-tat equal battle and America is losing any sense of what’s real, of who’s accountable, of who is not accountable, of who’s real, who isn’t, who’s serious, who isn’t?

In other words, he thinks its time for the media to start ignoring the Tea Party.

[Read on at the above link.]

Just remember what a cheap, lying hypocritical SOB John Kerry is:

Sen. John Kerry skips town on sails tax

By Gayle Fee and Laura Raposa | Friday, July 23, 2010 | http://www.bostonherald.com | The Inside Track

Sen. John Kerry, who has repeatedly voted to raise taxes while in Congress, dodged a whopping six-figure state tax bill on his new multimillion-dollar yacht by mooring her in Newport, R.I.

Isabel - Kerry’s luxe, 76-foot New Zealand-built Friendship sloop with an Edwardian-style, glossy varnished teak interior, two VIP main cabins and a pilothouse fitted with a wet bar and cold wine storage - was designed by Rhode Island boat designer Ted Fontaine.

But instead of berthing the vessel in Nantucket, where the senator summers with the missus, Teresa Heinz, Isabel’s hailing port is listed as “Newport” on her stern.

Could the reason be that the Ocean State repealed its Boat Sales and Use Tax back in 1993, making the tiny state to the south a haven - like the Cayman Islands, Bermuda and Nassau - for tax-skirting luxury yacht owners?

Cash-strapped Massachusetts still collects a 6.25 percent sales tax and an annual excise tax on yachts. Sources say Isabel sold for something in the neighborhood of $7 million, meaning Kerry saved approximately $437,500 in sales tax and an annual excise tax of about $70,000.

Here is a big irony, Tax Waste NPR is exposing Alabama Still Collecting Tax For Confederate Vets

A second IRONY is that the Confederacy was DEMOCRATS, JUST LIKE NPR!

Alabama Still Collecting Tax For Confederate Vets : NPR

The last of the more than 60,000 Confederate veterans who came home to Alabama after the Civil War died generations ago, yet residents are still paying a tax that supported the neediest among them.

Despite fire-and-brimstone opposition to taxes among many in a state that still has "Heart of Dixie" on its license plates, officials never stopped collecting a property tax that once funded the Alabama Confederate Soldiers' Home, which closed 72 years ago. The tax now pays for Confederate Memorial Park, which sits on the same 102-acre tract where elderly veterans used to stroll.

The tax once brought in millions for Confederate pensions, but lawmakers sliced up the levy and sent money elsewhere as the men and their wives died. No one has seriously challenged the continued use of the money for a memorial to the "Lost Cause," in part because few realize it exists; one long-serving black legislator who thought the tax had been done away with said he wants to eliminate state funding for the park.

These days, 150 years after the Civil War started, officials say the old tax typically brings in more than $400,000 annually for the park, where Confederate flags flapped on a recent steamy afternoon. That's not much compared to Alabama's total operating budget of $1.8 billion, but it's sufficient to give the park plenty of money to operate and even enough for investments, all at a time when other historic sites are struggling just to keep the grass cut for lack of state funding.

"It's a beautifully maintained park. It's one of the best because of the funding source," said Clara Nobles of the Alabama Historical Commission, which oversees Confederate Memorial Park.

[more at link]