Why?

 

Boo Hoo; We have opposition..... Boo Hoo.

Bill Clinton speaks of vast, right-wing conspiracy

(AP)

WASHINGTON — Bill Clinton says a vast, right-wing conspiracy that once targeted him is now focusing on President Barack Obama.

The ex-president made the comment in a television interview when he was asked about one of the signature moments of the Monica Lewinsky affair over a decade ago. Back then, first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton used the term "vast, right-wing conspiracy" to describe how her husband's political enemies were out to destroy his presidency.

Bill Clinton was asked on NBC's "Meet the Press" whether the conspiracy is still there. He replied: "You bet. Sure it is. It's not as strong as it was because America has changed demographically. But it's as virulent as it was."

Clinton said that this time around, the focus is on Obama and "their agenda seems to be wanting him to fail."

No shit... did he just now figure out that opposing parties always want the other guy to fail?  Or is this the "epiphany of insight" only available to former Presidents?  And by "conspiracy", does he mean "hidden agenda serving the selfish desires of the few" (like a blowjob or the ruination of a good cigar) or does he mean an "organized and loud opposition to your own conspiracy"?

Cut my taxes... I promise to buy American made.

Holy Crap, I'm Psychic....

This is actually a follow up to the post from this morning....  Turns out Crazy Woman was doing excatly what I thought she could be doing... barricades, gas lines etc...  Weird.

 

 

 

PHOENIX -- Officials have identified a 32-year-old woman who was shot and killed by police Saturday after she allegedly stabbed an officer several times.

Police identified the woman as Katherine Hysaw.

Officials say police responded to a call of a subject threatening with a knife around noon at an apartment complex on 19th Avenue, just south of Glendale Avenue.

Police say neighbors reported the woman was threatening other residents with a butcher knife.

Neighbor Mike Rocha said the woman thought he was being loud and started pounding on his door.

"She was banging a toilet seat on my door," Rocha said.

Rocha and his girlfriend stayed inside their apartment, but when Celestina Berumen looked out the peek hole she noticed the suspect stabbing her front door.

Rocha said the couple got scared and called police.

"We have a 3-month-old," he said.

Phoenix police Sgt. Andy Hill said when officers arrived the suspect had barricaded herself in her apartment. He said they tried to talk the woman out, but she had barricaded the door with a sofa.

Hill said when officers smelled natural gas, they broke through the door and Hysaw began throwing glass beer bottles at them, striking two officers.

Hill said officers tried using a Taser but it missed Hysaw.

As two other officers entered the apartment, Hysaw advanced on one of them and began striking him repeatedly in the upper chest with a large butcher knife, Hill said.

Hill said the blade was deflected by the officer's ballistic vest and neck protector. The officer fired two sage (rubber) rounds without effect.

Another officer, described as a 27-year veteran, fired his rifle twice and Hysaw fell back into the bathroom, dropping the knife, Hill said. She was pronounced dead at the scene by paramedics.

None of the officers was injured.

Neighbors said she only lived in the apartment for a short time and seemed agitated the night before.

When Rocha heard the woman had stabbed the officer he believed the shooting was justified.

"They did what they had to do," Rocha said.

The investigation is ongoing.

If I commented on the headline the way I want to, my wife would whup my ass.....

Police Shoot Bizarre-Acting Woman

POSTED: 5:34 pm MST September 19, 2009

UPDATED: 6:13 am MST September 20, 2009

 

PHOENIX -- Phoenix police shot and killed a woman on Saturday after she tried to stab an officer in a barricade situation near 19th Avenue and Bethany Home Road, investigators said.

The woman's neighbors, Mike Rocha and Celestina Berumen, said the woman was carrying a toilet seat lid when she showed up and complained there was too much noise coming from their apartment.

Berumen said the woman threw a porcelain toilet lid at their door, and then a couple of minutes later, came armed with a knife and bottle and started stabbing the door.

"I'm scared," Rocha said. "I've got a newborn. What's going through my head is, 'Keep that door shut. Do everything you can to keep this crazy lady out.'

 

Rocha said he called 911. The SWAT team responded.

"The woman that lived there stabbed one of the officers with a knife," said Sgt. Andy Hill. "His vest protected him."

Police said another officer shot and killed the woman. Rocha said it's hard to believe all this happened over a noise complaint.

"Somebody's life was taken today for nothing," Rocha said.

The officer who shot the woman has more than 20 years on the force, Hill said.

 

Hill said the SWAT team did try a Taser first, but it wasn't effective.

As for the officer stabbed, we're told his vest was cut but he was not hurt.

The officer who shot the woman is a veteran officer with more than 20 years on the police force. He is on routine paid leave while officers investigate whether the shooting was justified.

 

 

First question a wiener would ask is:  "Why did they have to shoot an unarmed, mentally unstable woman?"   It's called Escalation of Force, and it's kind of tricky.   She already displayed a tendency for violence by stabbing a door, then a uniformed police officer, and they tried the taser to no avail.  Why couldn't they just get riot shields and pin her to a wall?  Ever chase someone with a riot shield?  And she could still reach around and potentially kill an officer.  Pepper spray?  Good stuff... the story doesn't say why or if it was deployed.   But the fact is this: there isn't time to fuck around in most of these cases.  Crazy woman can bolt into traffic, run off into a store full of people, retreat to her house for a little barricade action with more guns inside or a little disconnected gas line excitement.  The decision to shoot someone is usually made in the time it takes to say "aw fuck!"  And then come the retroactive quarterback of the community and press.

I support the officer until it is proven he acted maliciously and without cause, perhaps criminally.  I feel bad for the woman because it didn't have to end this way, but her mind put her in harms way. 

 

Here's a tip from my weapons instructors past and present:  if you carry a gun, always spend some time every day imagining when you may have to use deadly force.  Then try to avoid those situations.  The result is never good for anyone.

Just me this time.

I am a conservative.  Have been since Reagan took office.  I don't toe the "Party Line", and tend to take issues one at a time.  It's never good to be a sheep.  In support of this, I would produce my voter registration card which shows my Independent status for about 20 years.  I have my beliefs and core values, and while they tend to stay the same, I am open to discussion on many things.  I can't imagine I will ever have all the facts on anything.

 

A core belief of mine is this:  American Republicans and Democrats are overwhelmingly conservative. 

 

There is a center to this country that has Faith in a God.  They think abortion should never happen because you shouldn't get pregnant with all the precautions available, and if you do...... what the hell did you think sex was for?  It is the Law of the Land that abortion is legal, but it is the Law of Biology and God that it is also murdering an innocent (if not yet viable) life form.

 

There is a large part of us who believe gun ownership is a right not to be tampered with.  We like to hunt, plink, look tough, blow things apart and as long as we do so safely, what's the problem?  I also feel that those of us who carry for protection have a realistic view of the craziness of our unpredictable world and police response times.  First there's the crime, then call 911, then the cops arrive.  The crime and violence is usually over with when they arrive.  Not their fault, it's the way the Constitution prevents them from rounding up criminals before the crime has been committed.

 

Most of the country also believes that it's a bad idea to spend money you have not earned yet, from people who may not be old enough to earn it yet.    While deficit spending is useful in mortgages, if you go crazy spending money based on future earnings you will get fucked up.  And spending money to stimulate the economy is the worst idea ever.  All it does is create short term activity, like caffiene.  If there is not ongoing spending (like thru a tax cut) there  will be no good done to the economy.

 

I also believe the far right and far left of both Parties are nothing but self serving, concieted attention whores.  Don't preach values and morals to me and get caught jacking off in a bathroom.  Don't tell me I have to sacrifice for country and health care when you live in a mansion and will not be part of this new utopian folly you want to foist on us.

And stop calling Tea-Party activists Tea Baggers.  It shows nothing more than your juvenile mentality and lack of decency when you keep repeating this on national TV and radio.  Yeah, we got it the first time you said it..... we ignored you because sticks and stones etc.

Carter comes from Georgia/Gerogia was part of the Confederacy/Therefore Carter is a racist too and he should know.

Jimmy Carter: Wilson comments 'based on racism'

By GREG BLUESTEIN

ATLANTA (AP) - Former President Jimmy Carter said Tuesday that U.S. Rep. Joe Wilson's outburst to President Barack Obama during a speech to Congress last week was an act "based on racism" and rooted in fears of a black president.

"I think it's based on racism," Carter said in response to an audience question at a town hall held at his presidential center in Atlanta. "There is an inherent feeling among many in this country that an African-American should not be president."

The Georgia Democrat said the outburst was a part of a disturbing trend directed at the president that has included demonstrators equating Obama to Nazi leaders.

"Those kind of things are not just casual outcomes of a sincere debate on whether we should have a national program on health care," he said. "It's deeper than that."

Wilson, a South Carolina Republican, was formally rebuked Tuesday in a House vote for shouting "You lie!" during Obama's speech to Congress last Wednesday.

The shout came after the president commented that illegal aliens would be ineligible for federal subsidies to buy health insurance. Republicans expressed their disbelief with sounds of disapproval, punctuated by Wilson's outburst.

Tuesday's rebuke was a rare resolution of disapproval pushed through by Democrats who insisted that Wilson had violated basic rules of decorum and civility. Republicans characterized the measure as a witch hunt and Wilson, who had already apologized to Obama, insisted he owed the House no apology.

Wilson's spokesman was not immediately available for comment, but his eldest son defended his father.

"There is not a racist bone in my dad's body," said Alan Wilson, an Iraq veteran who is running for state attorney general. "He doesn't even laugh at distasteful jokes. I won't comment on former President Carter, because I don't know President Carter. But I know my dad, and it's just not in him."

"It's unfortunate people make that jump. People can disagree - and appropriately disagree - on issues of substance, but when they make the jump to race it's absolutely ludicrous. My brothers and I were raised by our parents to respect everyone regardless of background or race."

South Carolina's former Democratic Party chairman said that he doesn't believe Wilson was motivated by racism, but said the outburst encouraged racist views.

"I think Joe's conduct was asinine, but I think it would be asinine no matter what the color of the president," said Dick Harpootlian, who has known Wilson for decades. "I don't think Joe's outburst was caused by President Obama being African-American. I think it was caused by no filter being between his brain and his mouth."

Harpootlian said he received scores of racial e-mails from outside South Carolina after he talked about the vote on Fox News.

"You have a bunch of folks out there looking for some comfort in their racial issues. They have a problem with an African-American president," he said. "But was he motivated by that? I don't think so. I respectfully disagree with President Carter, though it gives validity to racism."

Carter called Wilson's comment "dastardly" and an aftershock of racist views that have permeated American politics for decades.

"The president is not only the head of government, he is the head of state," he said. "And no matter who he is or how much we disagree with his policies, the president should be treated with respect."

 

Thank you, Mr. Worst President Ever.  Please return to your penance of building shanties for the poor and be quiet.  Since when does being non-white mean you are immune from criticism, anger or unruly outbursts?  I dislike Obama and his policies severely, yet I think JC Watts is a great politician... and he's darker than Obama!  If we judge people based on content of character rather than color of skin, we still may really dislike their character.

Barack Obama accused of making 'Depression' mistakes

By Edmund Conway
Published: 9:55PM BST 06 Sep 2009

 

Barack Obama is committing the same mistakes made by policymakers during the Great Depression, according to a new study endorsed by Nobel laureate James Buchanan.

 His policies even have the potential to consign the US to a similar fate as Argentina, which suffered a painful and humiliating slide from first to Third World status last century, the paper says.

There are "troubling similarities" between the US President's actions since taking office and those which in the 1930s sent the US and much of the world spiralling into the worst economic collapse in recorded history, says the new pamphlet, published by the Institute of Economic Affairs.

In particular, the authors, economists Charles Rowley of George Mason University and Nathanael Smith of the Locke Institute, claim that the White House's plans to pour hundreds of billions of dollars of cash into the economy will undermine it in the long run. They say that by employing deficit spending and increased state intervention President Obama will ultimately hamper the long-term growth potential of the US economy and may risk delaying full economic recovery by several years.

The study represents a challenge to the widely held view that Keynesian fiscal policies helped the US recover from the Depression which started in the early 1930s. The authors say: "[Franklin D Roosevelt's] interventionist policies and draconian tax increases delayed full economic recovery by several years by exacerbating a climate of pessimistic expectations that drove down private capital formation and household consumption to unprecedented lows."

Although the authors support the Federal Reserve's moves to slash interest rates to just above zero and embark on quantitative easing, pumping cash directly into the system, they warn that greater intervention could set the US back further. Rowley says: "It is also not impossible that the US will experience the kind of economic collapse from first to Third World status experienced by Argentina under the national-socialist governance of Juan Peron."

The paper, which recommends that the US return to a more laissez-faire economic system rather than intervening further in activity, has been endorsed by Nobel laureate James Buchanan, who said: "We have learned some things from comparable experiences of the 1930s' Great Depression, perhaps enough to reduce the severity of the current contraction. But we have made no progress toward putting limits on political leaders, who act out their natural proclivities without any basic understanding of what makes capitalism work."

 

 

Why did you elect this jerk?

President Obama says 'sin tax' on sodas is food for thought, despite Gov. Paterson's failed proposal

The President, in an interview with Men's Health magazine released yesterday, said he thought taxing soda and other sugary drinks is worth putting on the table as Congress debates health care reform.

"It's an idea that we should be exploring," the president said. "There's no doubt that our kids drink way too much soda. And every study that's been done about obesity shows that there is as high a correlation between increased soda consumption and obesity as just about anything else."

Obama is floating the idea seven months after a storm of protest forced poll-challenged Gov. Paterson to drop his plans for an 18% tax on soda and other sugary drinks.

Despite that debacle, congressional lawmakers have considered soda taxes as one way to cover the cost of revamping the nation's health care system, estimated to eat up much as $1 trillion over the next decade.

But Obama - who works out six days a week and keeps a bowl of apples in the Oval Office - has been largely mum on the controversial topic, at least until now.

As in Paterson's case, Obama's comments drew the immediate wrath of industry and consumer-choice groups yesterday.

"The tax code should not be used as a method for social engineering, and that's what this is," said J. Justin Wilson, the senior research analyst for the Center for Consumer Freedom, a group funded in part by the food and beverage industry. "It smacks of the regulation that government imposed on tobacco, but soda is not tobacco."

Obama acknowledged that the idea could lead to charges that Uncle Sam is trying to dictate personal diets, but he hinted the trade-off may be worth it.

"Look, people's attitude is that they don't necessarily want Big Brother telling them what to eat or drink, and I understand that," Obama said.  But I will do it anyway, for I am the chosen one........

"It is true, though, that if you wanted to make a big impact on people's health in this country, reducing things like soda consumption would be helpful."

Let's raise taxes on soda to punish people and make money to pay for my Utopian plans.  When people start to drink less soda, we'll collect less money and have to tax something else.....bacon?

I could start a blog called "Why We Never Go Out Anymore"

2 killed, 7 hurt when SUV runs red light in Phoenix

 

PHOENIX -- Officials say two men are dead after an SUV ran a red light, striking their vehicle in a West Phoenix intersection early Saturday morning.

Seven other people were injured.

Phoenix police spokesman James Holmes said the accident happened about 2:30 a.m. at the intersection of Grand and 35th avenues and Indian School Road.

Investigators said that 27-year-old Jesus Manuel Briseno was driving a Cadillac Escalade northwest on Grand Avenue when he failed to stop for a red left turn signal onto Indian School Road.

The SUV struck a Chevrolet Impala which was traveling southeast on Grand Avenue.

Holmes said the driver of the Impala was killed in the crash, along with one of the passengers. The victims have only been identified as two Hispanic males, ages 18 and 20.

Seven other people from both vehicles suffered non-life-threatening injuries, according to police.

Alcohol was determined to be a factor in the crash and Briseno was booked into jail on two counts of manslaughter and several counts of aggravated assault, Holmes said.

 

Awwww, don't arrest him... he didn't mean to do it... he was drunk....  drunks are silly... like Otis from Mayberry.

 

Now it makes sense....

Oh so close to home

 

4-5 armed men bust into Phoenix home, claim to be with sheriff's office

PHOENIX -- Several men busted into a Phoenix home early Wednesday morning and tied up four people in a home-invasion style robbery.

It happened at about 5 a.m. in the area of 19th Avenue and Beardsley.

Officer Luis Samudio of the Phoenix Police Department said the four to five suspects who stormed the home were wearing tactical gear and black clothing and were armed with high-powered rifles. The men said several times that they were with the sheriff's office before they zip-tied four people -- two men and two women -- and began ransacking the home.

One of the victims was able to escape through a window while the suspects were busy. That man went to a neighbor's house and called 911.

"That's how we were to respond very quickly and get our Special Assignments Unit here," Samudio said.

By the time the SAU arrived on the scene, the suspects were gone. Police don't know anything about the suspects' vehicle.

It's not yet clear what the men were looking for or why that particular home was targeted.

Investigators are talking to the four victims, none of whom was hurt.

Samudio said this morning's incident bears some resemblance to previous crimes, but investigators are not yet sure if it's the same crew at work.

"We're asking the community ... if they see anything or of they know of anything to please give us a call so we can put a stop to this," he said.