Tuesday 30SEP08

34 days to go..... so anyway, yesterday I mentioned searching on "truth squad"+Missouri+Obama. In case you're behind in your reading (which is understandable, with the current financial siht-storm), Senator Obama's campaign is having law enforcement officials harass anyone who would say unpleasant things about the (very) junior Senator from Illinois. Last Tuesday, CBS affiliate Channel 4 TV News in St. Louis reported that some Missouri sheriffs and prosecutors have formed a truth squad to target anyone who engages in misleading ad or statements about Senator Obama.... The implied threat in the Channel 4 report is that prosecutors and sheriffs across Missouri will enforce "Missouri ethics laws" and conduct criminal investigations of "anyone who lies or runs a misleading television ad" against Barack Obama. Although the report did not directly state that intent, that implied message was clearly conveyed. Cold Fury (actual) fame chimes in: Yep - but there's nothing new about it, really. It's the same despotic, authoritarian politics we've seen throughout history — and fought more than one war to overcome. And now Barrack and his revanchist thugs are trying once again to bring it back. It's Change! you can be prepared to either fight back against or be run over by — and if it's a fight Obama's Brownshirts really want, I suspect it's a fight they'll be a-getting. James Simpson over at American Thinker does a good job of linking the current mess and just exactly who Barack Obama is. Do go read all of "Barack Obama and the Strategy of Manufactured Crisis": Despite the mass media news blackout, a series of books, talk radio and the blogosphere have managed to expose Barack Obama's connections to his radical mentors -- Weather Underground bombers William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, Communist Party member Frank Marshall Davis and others. David Horowitz and his Discover the Networks.org have also contributed a wealth of information and have noted Obama's radical connections since the beginning. Yet, no one to my knowledge has yet connected all the dots between Barack Obama and the Radical Left. When seen together, the influences on Obama's life comprise a who's who of the radical leftist movement, and it becomes painfully apparent that not only is Obama a willing participant in that movement, he has spent most of his adult life deeply immersed in it. Ace quotes Tom Coburn on the bailout: This bill does not represent a new and sudden departure from free market principles as much as it represents an emergency response to congressional actions that have ignored free market principles, and our Constitution, for decades. If anyone in Washington should offer their resignation it should be the members of Congress who peddled the fantasy of free home ownership without risk. No institution in our country is more responsible for the myth or borrowing without consequences than the United States Congress. John Fund in the Wall Street Journal: We will look back on the failure of Congress to reform the government-sponsored enterprises at the heart of the mortgage meltdown as one of the most expensive derelictions of its duty ever. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac used their lobbying clout, political contributions and even charitable largesse to charm or bully anyone demanding reform in their lending practices. MoronPundit, posting ranting over at DoublePlusUnDead reminds us that everything we learned in kindergarten is just f'n wrong: This brings me to the real reason I'm pissed off. Obama is going to get away with it. Obama and his ultra-liberal allies (who fcuking caused this) are going to be allowed to lie to your faces about what happened here because 40 years of hippie bullsiht has finally corrupted the smart part of your brains. The part of you that accepts responsibility for your own stupidity has been overwhelmed by decades of mottos and sayings and beliefs so fcuking stupid that only intellectuals and people with bong resin for blood could believe them. Well, until they were repeated so many times that even the average American believes them without thinking about it. He goes on to de-construct various aspects of "hippie logic" (oxymoron alert: "hippie logic" makes as much sense as "jumbo shrimp" or "40 ounce quart"). It's all good. more soon