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I reckon this was by Barack Obama. We saw how the last person who questioned him was treated.

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posted by Chris Arndt at 10/31/2008 08:09:00 PM | |

Argument Against Idiots MySpace Bulletin

From:	Operation Rooster
Date:	Oct 29, 2008 4:04 PM
Subject:	The Argument Against Idiots: Separation of Church and State
Body:	"Arguments Against Idiots" is a feature of Glenn Beck's free email newsletter. This is where Glenn gives you the arguments that your idiot friends will throw at you concerning various topics, and he gives you the facts to combat the idiotic arguments. You can sign up for Glenn's free email newsletter by going to glennbeck. com. The Issue: 'Separation of Church and State' What The Liberal Whiners Say: ‘Thank GOODNESS for the Reverend Barry Lynn and Americans United for Separation of Church and State calling for the IRS to investigate that Catholic Bishop Arthur Serratelli, for jumping into this Presidential race...there is NO place for that in American politics...he needs to have his 501c status revoked!' 'Just as the Rev. Barry Lynn said: 'it's a HIDDEN AGENDA to sway votes!' 'Why do you hate CIVIL LIBERTIES...which is what the "C" and "L" in ACLU stand for...and why do you hate the U.S. Constitution? Like it or not religious zealots, there is a Constitutional separation of church and state in this country!' Your Winning, Logical, Reasoned, Argument: 1. You're talking about the statement Bishop Serratelli made that the democratic candidate promised, as his FIRST act as president, to sign the pro-abortion, Freedom of Choice Act? He didn't even name the candidate, and he didn't endorse anyone...he was talking about a MORAL issue...that's what Bishops DO! 2. Oh, I guess you prefer the much more OPEN agenda of Jeremiah Wright and Michael Phlegar...both of whomunabashadly called for Barack Obama to be elected...from their PULPITS! And by the way, please stop calling Barry Lynn a REVEREND. He's a phony, former ACLU attorney, who only goes after conservative, white Christians. I didn't see him sick the IRS on Jeremiah Wright and Father Phlegar, did you? 3. No there isn't. There IS a Constitutional PROTECTION of religion in this country, that gives that Bishop the right to say what he did. But let me share the "establishment clause" of the 1st Amendment with you, since you've obviously never read it: Oh what the heck, I'll share the whole thing so you won't be able to say that I took it out of context. Here it is: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. No mention of a "separation of church and state". That came in an 1803 letter from Thomas Jefferson to a Baptist minister to assure him that the United States would never declare a state religion. For more news and info you need to know from America and around the world go to operationrooster. com. You can catch my updates on "Texas Fellowship" Saturday night through Thursday night (12:00 am eastern/9:00 pm pacific) by going to www. blogtalkradio. com/txfellowship. You can also listen to past shows. Please check out my other sites: Tim’s Troop Tribute and Tim’s 9/11 Tribute. Feel free to (and please) pass along to others anything in this bulletin or on the site.

Labels: abortion, Christianity, MySpace, politics, reprints

posted by Chris Arndt at 10/30/2008 04:29:00 AM | |

the interesting little self-deceptions involving Barack Obama

I've never quite made myself think that I could possibly change anything with my weblog. At the very least whatever it is I change I never thought make a mind feel better and inform them of a candidate to the point where it would turn them away from a vile candidate.

Back in 2007 when it was down to Token Black and Hillary the Deserved President Imminent I always assumed that Senator Barack Obama was a benign creature, merely incompetent, inexperienced, and undeserving of a role of true leadership.

I was wrong.

Back then I thought that he was merely dragged through a rigmarole of the ideologies of the far Left. He was taken on the backs and under the drubbing of folk like William Ayers, Jeremiah Wright, and Ted Kennedy. I assumed that Saul Alinsky was truly a mild tactical approach to leftism, activism. I thought the socialist training and upbringing was an unfortunate side effect and Barack Obama was a merely a leftist of the normal variety.

What a fool I was.

William Ayers is an unreprentent domestic terrorist. Everything Timothy McVeigh was, so was Willaim Ayers. The difference is that we caught that wretched filth McVeigh and dealt him the cold hand of justice. William Ayers never met justice. He remains unrepentent. In a true civilization this man would have been publically hanged, or drawn and quartered. I remain surprised that a vigilante has not beheaded this human beast.

Like many a fallen angel William Ayers has a his disguise and poses as one of the normal folk. Normal folk normally do not question a demon for his own contents. The contents of William Ayers is in fact such of anti-Life. His spouse called on their follower-children to murder the children's parents. The Weather Underground literally declared war on the United State of America. They set bombs. They plotted to murder servicemen and their loved ones. These evil men and women plotted death and harm as grievous as any of what I call "Evil Muslims", what the press call "Islamic Radicals". William Ayers went on to write books. Barack Obama endorsed one of these books. His living goal was to indoctrinate students into his own deadly ideology. He became a teacher and a Chicago bureacrat set to write the books and curricula of students. Barack Obama was a willing partner in this endeavor. When Barack Obama was eight years old William Ayers was a violent terrorist in action. Soon after William Ayers stopped setting bombs yet remained the same man deep at heart. His tactics changed; he never repentented. When they were both older men they befriended one another. Barack Obama sought out William Ayers to aid his political ascension through Chicago politics.

William Ayers gave Barack Obama his start in Chicago politics. Barack Obama has lied about the nature of this relationship.

Conservatives and critics of Barack Obama have claimed rightfully that he is a friend of a domestic terrorist.

That reminds me of a joke: what do Barack Obama and Osama bin Liden have in common? They both have friends who tried to blow up the Pentagon!!!

William Ayers committed violent acts and planned those acts when Barack Obama was eight years old. The fact of Mr. Ayers' history is a matter of his character, not whether or not Senator Obama was involved with Mr. Ayers' terrorism. However, every time someone mentions that Barack Obama's judgment is lacking in that he was/is political allies of a man of horrific/murderous character he deflects the accusation by claiming that his detractors are accusing him of being with the terrorist as a co-terrorist and then asserts he was too young to be a peer with the mad bomber.

Sometimes a history of violence does not have a statute of limitations.

Barack Obama has been deliberately and particularly deceptive about his relationship with William Ayers. He is not an incompetent as opposed to Hillary the Lying Fiend. He is a fiend.

Jeremiah Wright is a pastor at a church in Chicago. When crafting an identity, the sort of political and racial identity a man with white (socialist) nurture and brown skin (from the African descent of his Kenyan father) needs in order to be elected within the ranks of Chicago Democrats is very particular. There are areas and walks of life where one must fulfill expectations of others and live an indentity. That sort of identity, in certain walks of life, includes the racial identity. Ideally in America we are free to live as we want to live as individuals, to be a who. In certain kinds of politics or even commercial arts, and I will be vague as to which kinds, the what is more important than the who. So despite being raised as Barry Obama and living a life as the child/offspring of his mother, his absent father-figures, and his doting grandparents, when Barack Obama sought to be a man of his own design, he sought to be a what, not a who.

It is funny. John Forbes Kerry sought to be John Fitzergerald Kennedy, Jr and modeled his life after our man of Camelot. That is why he became a Swiftboat commander, and why he ran for President. It is hard to say if he was trying to be a what or a different who, but he certainly aspired more than he lived. But he was a self-designed man rather than a self-made man. He lost in 2004. The parallel can be made to Barack Obama in that rather than become a man he became a type of man - a thing, reflection of vision. The question can be asked whose vision is he a reflection of. What sort of man did John McCain try to be between 2001 and 2008? Let us leave that aside; John Kerry shaped his life artificially and in the end failed to live up to his template. But his lifestyle choices were deliberate.

Barack Obama chose his friends deliberately.He did not happen to grow up in a certain environment, naturally evolving into those with whom he coexisted.

I am not a fan of the man who shapes his own destiny and his own character so deliberately. That sort of self-creation seems to me to be godless, and more urgently faithless!

So as it is those who would give Barack Hussein Obama his education were those he sought out, and he sought out those of the Far Left. His ideology was shaped from his early youth as his adopted father (or was it his biological one?) was a socialist, and the friends of his grandfather were radical leftists.

I think the important point of Barack Obama's guiding ideological lights is that he sought to associate himself with these people, learn from them, pattern himself after their beliefs in a fashion. He would fashion himself from their ideas, notions, and superficial effects. He did this because these sorts of beliefs and ideological trappings prove themselves to be the fashionable ones in the right places.

Every person who suspects Barack Hussein Obama to be a Muslim, let alone a "Radical Muslim" or a bomb-blasting Evil Muslim is a fool. These sorts of socialism, Marxists, and sociopolitical activists that the individual in question patterned himself after were all in a sort of American vein, or at least a Western Countercultural mold. They could be called European. None of these ideologies matches the ideas of the dark sect of Islam that calls forth the followers and believers to kill people for jihad. In fact his western cultural education belies the trappings of any peaceful Islam. If anything his education demands a Leftwing almost-communist line of Christianity, and in the external situation Barack Obama has clearly embraced a cultural Christianity.

The sort of church that Barack Obama chose reflected the kind of man he sought to be seen as (as opposed to the sort of man he is). The Trinity United Church of Christ was/is(?) the sort of place where the sort of man that Barack Obama wanted to be seen as... went.

That's interesting, isn't it? I am assuming the contents of a man's heart. I do not believe I am judging him yet somehow I am certain that I am crossing a line by guessing a man's spiritual commitment to God's word. I judge no one as a sinner or a saint. No man is sufficient for Heaven by his works or character. Given that high standard I cannot judge a man good enough for heaven, certainly I can accede that any man without Christ is destined for hell.

Whether or not the image of a church on the South Side of Chicago was something wielded for personal or political gain, it is important to note what Black Liberation Theology is. I refuse to go into great details and at time I will confess my own ignorance. Here is what Pastor Rick Warren says about it

Well, I totally disavow liberation theology and black liberation theology. I think they're both wrong. I think they are radical. I think they're Marxism in Christian terms and I think they're dead wrong.

To that end I think we can assert and assume that it is not merely a different denomination, a different application of what we are supposed to assume is my shared belief(s) with this man, these men.

I regret not taking time months ago to draw out my own beliefs of Christian worldview, complete with Scriptural citations, and its contrast to Marxism or even the New Deal/Great Society/Nanny State visions of the Liberal Democrats. It would help immensely at this point. I wish I could draw a convincing contrast between (my beliefs of) what the mainstream Christian theology is and the theology often floated on television and taught to certain children in certain places. My ultimate view on it is that Christ taught us to act in His name, as he would, personally. We love personally. We show our love through action. We love because He loves. That makes perfect sense! Attempting to eliminate poverty is not an act of love. Helping an impoverished man is an act of love. Eliminating the deficits in his life without his own application of will is a violation of the natural order that God set down. Some violations of the natural order can be seen as good. But removing negative consequences to negative actions can be seen as an act of love if done by an individual man to man. A large corporate effort to eliminate the deficit is akin to removing one's sins, and that is playing God. The aspiration to remove differences between God's creations is an aspiration to play God. Sometimes our differences are manifestations of human will, free will. How can strive to arm ourselves, better prepare ourselves to serve the Lord if these efforts are stifled and stymied by attempts to make helping the poor unnecessary?

I think... I've run out of time to finish this.

The questions are two. Does Barack Obama really have the judgment to perform adequately as President. The argument of the Democrats is that his superb judgment compensates for his lack of experience. That argument of the Republicans supporting Governor Bush to become President Bush set up a Republican Presidency that bent for any Democrat legislative initiative and never issued a single veto until the second term. Barack Obama teamed with nasty, vicious people for political advantage... these sorts of relationships would have prevented any normal non-elected individual from getting security clearance... yet this guy who traded decency for expediency and coalition could be elected to the top civilian clearance and be our Commander-In-Chief.

When it began I thought he was simply young and naive. Now I believe he was deliberately diving into alliances of.... I'll say these folk were evil. We were decieved. We deceived ourselves. I can only spell deception.

So the second question is... will he govern as President from the middle or the Far Left? Will he pursue power or a radical agenda?
Did he gather all of this leftist background to grow through Chicago just to govern as a centrist as President? Will he play it safe to stay President for two terms?

Vote on what you know... because of what you don't know may be friends with villains.

Labels: Barack Obama, Democrats, politics, Presidential race

posted by Chris Arndt at 10/30/2008 02:36:00 AM | |

Eaton County Republicans Election Night meeting

Below is information about local Republican political meetings and events. If you would like to see your event listed, please contact info@eatoncountygop.org.

Next Eaton County Executive Meeting/Watch the Election Returns:

Date and Time:	Tuesday, November 4th. 2008 starting @ 6:00PM
Place:	Tony M's Home-cooked Italian meals and refreshing beverages. 3420 South Creyts Road (map) Lansing, MI 48917
Parking:	Free and plentiful around the building.
Attire:	Casual, most people come directly from work on meeting night.
Eligibility:	Anyone with an open mind. New members are always welcome.
Costs:	The meeting has always been free to attend. Food and beverage is the responsibility of the guest.
Notes:	Will serve as the November Executive Meeting.

Labels: Eaton County, Michigan, Michigan 7th District, politics, Presidential race, reprints, Republicans

posted by Chris Arndt at 10/29/2008 07:12:00 PM | |

shoes



Google search for "shoes" in Lansing, MI

Labels: Michigan, shopping

posted by Chris Arndt at 10/29/2008 06:54:00 PM | |

posted by Chris Arndt at 10/29/2008 05:39:00 PM | |

the MSU district Democrats Candidate Forum

If a Republican wants to make these people answer the tought questions, think 'em up and go visit.

Come hear from local candidates who will be appearing on the ballot next
Tuesday. This is your only chance to hear from the rest of the people you
will be voting for. Guests include:

Bob Alexander - Candidate for Congress, 8th Congressional Dist.
Mark Meadows - Candidate for State Representative
and representatives from the proposals.

8pm - Erickson Hall Kiva

Take pictures! Ask questions

Labels: Democrats, Michigan, Michigan State University, politics

posted by Chris Arndt at 10/28/2008 04:26:00 PM | |

Jewish World Review does a kosher east Asian chicken recipe

Recipe go here




Stuff to know right off:

SHOPPING LIST

To buy: 1 package sesame seeds, olive oil spray, 12 ounces trimmed snow peas, 3/4 pound boneless, skinless chicken thighs, 1 package microwaveable brown rice, 1 bottle sesame oil.

HELPFUL HINTS:

• Boneless, skinless chicken breasts can be used instead of thighs; cook to 170 degrees
• Look for trimmed snow peas in the market's produce section
• Green beans or broccoli florets can be used in the rice

SESAME-SEARED CHICKEN

• 1 tablespoon honey
• 1/4 teaspoon ground ginger
• 2 teaspoons low-sodium soy sauce
• Olive oil spray
• 3/4 pound boneless, skinless chicken thighs, opened flat
• 2 tablespoons sesame seeds

SNOW PEAS AND RICE

• 3 cups trimmed snow peas (about 12 ounces)
• 1 package microwaveable brown rice (for 1.5 cups cooked)
• 2 teaspoons sesame oil
• Salt and freshly ground pepper

• 
  

Please God, help me to have the time to make this!

Labels: food

posted by Chris Arndt at 10/27/2008 05:20:00 PM | |

Obama citizenship MySpace Bulletin

From:	Jason
Date:	Oct 25, 2008 10:24 PM
Subject:	Judge tosses lawsuit challenging Obama citizenship
Body:	Judge tosses lawsuit challenging Obama citizenship Oct 25, 3:37 PM (ET) http://apnews. myway. com/article/20081025/D941NCJG0. html PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit challenging Barack Obama's qualifications to be president. U.S. District Judge R. Barclay Surrick on Friday night rejected the suit by attorney Philip J. Berg, who alleged that Obama was not a U.S. citizen and therefore ineligible for the presidency. Berg claimed that Obama is either a citizen of his father's native Kenya or became a citizen of Indonesia after he moved there as a boy. Obama was born in Hawaii to an American mother and a Kenyan father. His parents divorced and his mother married an Indonesian man. Internet-fueled conspiracy theories question whether Obama is a "natural-born citizen" as required by the Constitution for a presidential candidate and whether he lost his citizenship while living abroad. Surrick ruled that Berg lacked standing to bring the case, saying any harm from an allegedly ineligible candidate was "too vague and its effects too attenuated to confer standing on any and all voters. " ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WOW, Obama has the judicial branch in his pocket now and the law means nothing.

Labels: Barack Obama, Democrats, MySpace, politics, PresidPresidential race, reprints

posted by Chris Arndt at 10/27/2008 05:18:00 PM | |

Who is violating American soldiers' right to vote?

Anyone care to make a big deal about this?

I see no reason not to, but I have no avenues to pursue to do anything about it.

You need to know about Fairfax County, Virginia Registrar Rokey Suleman. He has decided to reject absentee ballots from American soldiers stationed overseas. In fact, some of the ballots he's not counting are those from military personnel serving in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Mr. Suleman is using a technicality to throw out hundreds of our brave soldier’s votes. Except that Marc Ambinder reports that Rokey Suleman is getting the technicalities wrong. Mr. Suleman claims that our soldiers are "overseas citizens" and therefore have to comply with legal provisions applicable to American expatriots.

Voter disenfranchisement in any form is wrong, but the fact that some are actively seeking to take away the right to vote from the very people that are fighting to defend this fundamental American principal is deplorable.

Furthermore, Suleman is a partisan. He was the founder of the Trumbull, OH Young Democrats. Earlier this year, he ran, and lost, for the Ohio Democratic State Central Committee.

When questioned about denying our men and women in Iraq and Afghanistan their right to vote, he responded, “It stinks, but it's the law.” A more accurate response is- “It is voter disenfranchisement, and that stinks”

Tell Rokey Suleman to honor our American soldiers and count their votes.

Rokey Suleman
Fairfax County General Registrar
703-222-0776
Rokey.Suleman@fairfaxcounty.gov

And if you are so inclined, join this Facebook group to send him a message.

Sincerely yours,

Erick Erickson
Editor, RedState.com

If it is true, and I am afraid to click the links, this Ohio Democrat varmint (in Virginia) is a true villain.

Labels: Democrats, Ohio, politics, Presidential race, Virginia, Vote Fraud Squad

posted by Chris Arndt at 10/27/2008 04:05:00 PM | |

Family Guy - Peanut Butter Jelly Time

Labels: embedded media, music, television

posted by Chris Arndt at 10/27/2008 12:27:00 PM | |

So Bloomberg will run for a third term as New York City mayor

Never mind that Michael Bloomberg has only enhanced (in the midst of following) Rudy Giuliani's tradition of New York City's violation of the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. Along with that I have accepted that City's status as a sanctuary city, a place where illegal aliens can safely take refuge from American laws regarding citizenship and residence. That in New York the Republican Party's membership and status is one more of a club membership arrangement and a monetary-campaign support pact than a reflection of beliefs, philosophy, instincts, lifestyle choice, casual efforts is definitely a given! None of that is wrong on any technical or moral level. I would not expect the same from New York Republicans or California Republicans that I would attempt to demand from the membership of the Michigan Republican Party. Even in Michigan there are folk, former elected officials, like the vile Joe Schwarz and the despicable Paul DeWeese, that would have the Party move in that Cali/York direction of intra-Party politics and ideological make-up.

The New York City mayor has a legal limit of two terms in office, "term limits were enacted through public referendums in 1993 and 1996." Mayor Bloomberg was granted the right to win a third term by the City Council. That same vote also extended the limits for City Council members, to the benefit of City Council officeholders in their second term. Mayor Bloomberg is purportedly popular enough to slide in to years nine through twelve quite easily. The fact is though that the City Council extended terms in government contrary to city law set more or less directly by the citizens of the city.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s bid to run for a third term got the all-clear Thursday when the City Council voted to allow term limits to be extended from 8 to 12 years.

Emotional and often outspoken council members voted 29-22 in favor of the extension that now allows officeholders three consecutive four-year terms. About two-thirds of the City Council is currently in their second term.

In a statement released by Bloomberg shortly after the decision was announced, he said he was pleased with the council’s vote.

“Today, the majority of the City Council decided to give the people of New York a fuller choice in the November, 2009 election. I believe that was the right choice, and I want to thank Speaker Quinn for her leadership.

“Those of us who work on both sides of City Hall must now move forward with the important decisions that face us, particularly finding ways to soften the fallout from the economic downturn and balancing our budget as revenues decline. We have a lot of work to do together to get New York through these tough times.”

The council debate began around 2:30 with passionate views on both sides. Council Speaker Christine Quinn got the debate rolling, echoing Bloomberg’s argument that the Wall Street meltdown needed experienced hands like himself and the other elected officials.

“In challenging times like this, the voters should have the choice of keeping the current leadership, the current mayor, the current City Council,” she said.

But opponents argued the decision should be up to the people, not the officials who would also be affected by a term limit extension.
“If you do this, you are undermining the very people who voted for you,” Councilman Charles Barron argued.

Others argued that those who voted in favor did so to enable themselves the ability to stay on the council again too.

“This had nothing to do with Bloomberg, this had nothing to do with individual council members, this had to do with what’s good for the city,” former Council Speaker Peter Vallone Sr. told CBS 2.

This can be argued whether this is in the best interests of the City and whether the people should be outraged by what is essentially the government itself undermining, overcoming, and defying a directive of the people. My only question regards whether or not the term limits set by the public referenda and a NYC public referendum itself, are at all sacrosanct.

In the end it does not matter what philosophy or Party Michael Bloomberg serves but what weight particular methods and avenues of governance have in certain municipalities, communities, or citizen bodies.

I suppose that struggle is best made most relevant in referencing an activist judiciary (against the common ideas of legislators elected by the people) or even the role that ballot initiatives play in individual states, sometimes contrary to the will of the judiciary or the state legislature. We wonder about whether the Michigan State Supreme Court will act on its own sense of what the world should look like because the Massachusets Supreme Court has acted on its own modern devolution of morality rather than a judicial responsibility to a state Constitution and proper law. In a similar vein all the work and millions of dollars put forth to enact our various Proposal 2s in Michigan in 2004 and 2006, to protect a traditional marriage custom and enact color-blind civil rights respectively, could be undone if the leftists (and the vain Republicans) succeed in acheiving a Constituional Convention for the state of Michigan. The will of the people would be effectively defied if the those amendments and changes were erased to clean slate.

Labels: California, Michigan, New York, politics, Republicans

posted by Chris Arndt at 10/26/2008 11:32:00 AM | |

we desire symmetry

The American love for the palindrome stems from a misguided yearning for balance. I suppose the words "everything in moderation" means something concrete and useful. Balance logically means that one extreme, being too quiet and lackadaisical, and the other: being loud and screaming and awake, alert to the edge with the senses ever-searching.

Perhaps it lies in that overanalysis or perhaps it is simple a desire of the eyes, something artistic yet linked to the illusion that the human body is symmetrical. (The outside seems symmetrical).

This is why people insist that there is Fascism on the "Far Right" and Socialism/Communism on the "Far Left".

There is no other reason.

Labels: politics

posted by Chris Arndt at 10/24/2008 02:13:00 AM | |

Joe the Plumber sentiments


Joe the plumber stamp by ~Xaldensmutanthamster on deviantART

Labels: politics, Presidential race

posted by Chris Arndt at 10/20/2008 01:50:00 AM | |

Barack Obama Storm of Arrow attack


Barack Obama will slice you to tiny bits!!!

Labels: Barack Obama, Democrats, embedded media, politics, Presidential race

posted by Chris Arndt at 10/18/2008 11:45:00 AM | |

Michigan Republicans Victory Centers, Call Centers as of today

Michigan Victory and Phone Center Staff County City Contact Phone # Email Address Alpena Alpena Richard Fortier 517-993-7112 rfortier@migopvictory.org 1001 Washington St Benzie Beulah Rex Oconnor 231-383-4099 roconnor@greatwolf.com Escanaba Escanaba Marylyn Vandrese mvandrese@migopvictory.org Eaton Lansing - Delta Twp. John Witt 517-862-7584 jwitt@migopvictory.org 5601 West Saginaw Hwy Clinton St. Johns Scott Humell hummelsc@comcast.net 2179 N. US Hwy 27 Genesee Grand Blanc Jason Geer (517) 862-7159 jgeer@migop.org 12741 S. Saginaw St Suite D2 Grand Traverse Traverse City Eric Reed (517) 610-9877 ereed@migopvictory.org 121 Front St. Suite 100 Hillsdale Hillsdale Heather Helman (517) 610-9376 hhelman@migopvictory.org 79 North Broad Ingham Lansing Norm Shinkle (517) 655-5992 shinkle@cablespeed.com 2121 East Grand River Isabella Mt. Pleasant Matt Golden (989) 400-4624 mgolden@migopvictory.org 113 W. Broadway, Ste. 100 Jackson Jackson Chad Fauske (517) 993-7313 cfauske@migopvictory.org 1931 Horton Rd, Suite 3 Kalamazoo Portage Cassandra Basore (517) 993-7128 cbasore@migopvictory.org 1210 Milham Ave Suite 103 Kent Grand Rapids Sam Moore (616) 459-0141 smoore@kentgop.org 264 Leonard St. NW Lapeer Lapeer Bristen Brickles 517-862-1522 bbrickles@migopvictory.org 286 Nepessing St Livingston Brighton Phil Kraft (517) 993-7334 pkraft@migopvictory.org 455 E. Grand River, Suite 101 Macomb Frasier Janice Nearon (517) 610-9046 jnearon@migopvictory.org 34620 Utica Rd. Marquette Marquette Jennifer Grinder 517-610-1260 jgrinder@migopvictory.org 925 Washington St, Midland Midland Will Tomlinson (517) 993-7458 wtomlinson@migopvictory.org 109 E. Ashman Street Monroe Monroe Megan Noland mnoland@migopvictory.org 8 Cass St. Montcalm Stanton Chuck Champlin (989) 831-5817 montcalmrepublicans@hotmail.com 212 W. Main St. Montcalm Greenville Dale Rayburn (517) 225-3677 montcalmrepublicans@hotmail.com 116 W. Cass (across from PO) Newaygo Fremont Norm & Joan Knorr nknorr@migopvictory.org 10 East Main Street Oakland Farmington Hills Chuck Wright (517) 993-7219 cwright@migopvictory.org 31440 Northwestern Hwy; Suite 100 Oakland White Lake Dennis Pittman 8330 Highland Road Oakland Troy Barbara Harrell (517) 862-1766 bharrell@migopvictory.org 700 East Big Beaver Rd Ottawa Grand Haven Collette Jolie 616-402-9076 jolieacec@charter.net 20 S. Beacon St. Ottawa Holland Faith Steketee 616-396-3791 volunteerforottawa@gmail.com 511 E, 8th st Saginaw Saginaw Brian Frye (517) 442-2223 bfrye@migopvictory.org 3071 Bay Rd. St. Clair Port Huron Christine McCoy (517) 862-1038 cmccoy@migopvictory.org 908 Military St. Washtenaw Ann Arbor Mike Telliga (517) 610-1507 mtelliga@migop.org 2245 State Street Wayne Livonia Gailute Dedinas (517) 610-1446 gdedinas@migopvictory.org 34020 W. Seven Mile Rd Wayne Wyandotte Pricsilla Parness (517) 993-7288 pparness@migopvictory.org 3138 Biddle Ave. Unit 2 Phone Bank Coordinators Allegan Allegan Jonathan Zita (517) 243-6887 jzita@migop.org 882 Marshall St Berrien St. Joseph Amanda Zaluckyj (517) 243-5962 azaluckyj@migop.org 413 State St Benzie Beulah Rex Oconnor (231) 383-4099 Calhoun Battle Creek Carol Grahams (517) 243-8941 cgrahams@migop.org 5424F Beckley Rd. Macomb Chesterfield Twp. Scott Czasak (517) 243-2683 sczasak@migop.org 27795 23 Mile Rd MRP HQ Lansing Matas Anuzis (517) 487-5413 520 Seymour Ave Muskegon Norton Shores Chad Coots (517) 575-5670 ccoots@migop.org 765 W. Norton Ave Ottawa Jenison Juli DeLeeuw (517) 775-4646 jdeleeuw@migop.org 664 Baldwin

Labels: Michigan, politics, Republicans

posted by Chris Arndt at 10/16/2008 05:59:00 PM | |

CoH Captain Ion

A character from City of Heroes invented by Gabriel Mobius



The topic came up because Shamus Young entered a CoH costume contest.

Labels: link dump, video games

posted by Chris Arndt at 10/16/2008 05:35:00 PM | |

Warren Buffett and the estate (death) tax on NRO

In last night's Presidential debate Barack Obama mentioned his buddy Warren Buffett, commonly referred to as "the Oracle of Omaha" also largely known as a major philanthropist and one of the world's three wealthiest people, when it came to selecting an adviser of sorts for economic policy. Many take this in a political neutral way. It is no surprise that John McCain will not attack Mr. Buffett. However I do not care for Warren Buffett. Over time a number of articles on National Review Online can swiftly aggregate regarding his advocacy of the death tax, an unnecessary penalty for your loved ones having collected stuff the government finds valuable. This makes him a villain of sorts.


Buffetted (August 18, 2004, 8:38 a.m.)
The Sage of Omaha loves the estate tax — as well he might.
(This article can only be viewed if one has a NRODT subscription; I do not) John Berlau analyzes whether Warren Buffett and specific other super-rich would benefit under Senator John Kerry's Presidential economic plan, despite the image that Mr. Buffett was gathering as the "'good' CEO" and unselfish.

Warren's World (May 21, 2003 9:00 AM)
It’s as whacky as Krugman’s.
This Krugman Truth Squad entry by Donald Ruskin questions whether Warren Buffett is truthfully recounting and accounting what he pays in taxes and just what dividend taxes favor the rich. It goes a bit over my head frankly. It claims he uses tricks to avoid paying taxes that he not only claims that he avoids, but accuses others of using.

Looking for Taxes in All the Wrong Places (August 10, 2007 9:04 AM)
Instead of going after the little guy, Congress should take aim at foundations and endowments.
Thomas E. Nugent tracks how Bill Gates and Warren Buffett use charity and such to grow and maintain wealth and hide their own assets from the tax man while they simultaneously endorse tax plans that assault the holdings and property of the less-wealthy.

The recent congressional frenzy to increase taxes on the wealthy will backfire if such changes reduce economic output. If the Laffer curve works, as it always does, politicians will discover that tax revenues will fall — not rise — when an economy slowed by tax hikes produces lower tax revenues. In all of this, the little guy — not the rich guy — is the one who’s going to get hurt... Beltway politicians parade their latest tax schemes to “bail out” the middle class. Windfall profits taxes, higher capital gains taxes, higher maximum personal-income-tax rates, a national sales tax — each and every one of these tax increases will ultimately hurt the little guy whose lifestyle and livelihood are inextricably attached to the economy. Meanwhile, wealthy individuals like Bill Gates and Warren Buffet will use the best lawyers to keep their fortunes from the tax man, while giving billions to charity as a way of lowering their potential tax bills... the multimillionaire Warren Buffet gave part of his fortune (just $30 billion) to the Gates Foundation, which could make this money grow faster than the legally required distributions from his portfolio. So Buffet gets a big-time tax deduction while the Gates Foundation only has to commit to distributing 5 percent of the $30 billion to charitable entities every year. Why don’t billionaires like Buffet just give their money to the needy now, or step up to the plate and pay their estate taxes today if they are so charity-minded? Apparently they speak out of both sides of their mouths: They avoid tax payments by donating to tax-exempt foundations, and then endorse higher tax rates on the little guy. (Buffet and Gates, if you haven’t heard, are both pro-estate tax.)

Naturally this whole charity thing looks more like a major part of a scheme to me and less like a mechanism to help the less fortunate. If the less fortunate are helped by effective means I am pleased by I find it sick that they would be used as an excuse.

The Oracle of the Death Tax (November 14, 2007 6:51 AM)
Why is Warren Buffett such a big proponent of the death tax? Naked self-interest.
Grover G. Norquist explains just what Warren Buffett really sees in a Death Tax, in the so-called estate tax, and how it is actually a direct conflict of interest. This article is what led me to believe that Warren Buffett is a death parasite.


He prays on the needs and interests of others and advocates a government program that directly benefits him while actively harming those who have lost loved ones.

Labels: Death Tax, link dump, National Review Online, politics

posted by Chris Arndt at 10/16/2008 02:53:00 PM | |

Halloween should be fun, safe and legal

I don't have enough readers for someone to get angry about my parallel to "Abortion should be safe, rare, legal"

Labels: abortion, holidays, politics

posted by Chris Arndt at 10/16/2008 12:49:00 PM | |

simple message about abortion and death



added by 'machosauceproduction' on September 05, 2008

the description:

What is the ultimate stamp of a woman's power, bringing forth life, or canceling it?

Labels: abortion, Barack Obama, embedded media, infanticide, politics, science

posted by Chris Arndt at 10/08/2008 06:36:00 PM | |

Terminator TV - The Mousetrap



The Terminator Cromartie kidnaps the current wife of Sarah Connor's ex-, in a convoluted plan to pursue his ultimate program mandate: kill John Connor.

I ask the question of whether it is proper writing for a killer robot drone to take on so many of the habits of a super-villain even as I find it not out-of-character for him to perform elaborate tasks for the sake of reaching a larger goal.

Assuming that a Terminator will go to great lengths to directly achieve something that indirectly leads to benefit in terms of a larger success, why does the machine seem to feel satisfaction at various points? Why did he appear to gloat in the Season 1 finale?

Did the FBI Agent's association and subsequent encounters with Charley lead directly to the Terminator abducting the wife... or would that have occurred regardless?

Labels: embedded media, science fiction, television

posted by Chris Arndt at 10/08/2008 05:59:00 PM | |

Saturday Night Live tells the truth for once



How odd is it the Saturday Night Live takes shots at leftists for a change, instead of obfuscating for their benefit?

Anne Hathaway looks especially hot in this skit.

Labels: Barney Frank, embedded media, George W. Bush, Nancy Pelosi, politics

posted by Chris Arndt at 10/08/2008 03:34:00 AM | |

the impartial moderator for the 2008 Vice-Presidential Debate




The cartoon is from William Warren of ALG, regarding the bias of an individual who profits from a President Obama and profits less from a Vice-President Sarah Palin.

Honestly, if Mitt Romney was the Republican Presidential candidate, all of the media would have their tights in a twist if Hugh Hewitt were moderating the Presidential debate. It would indeed be unfair for Hugh Hewitt to moderate a debate that Mitt Romney is participating in. Yet because the conflict of interest lies on the other side of the political face-off, or because Gwen Ifill is a PBS employee, she is trusted to an extent that tests the limits of incredulity.

Even Senator John McCain thinks she will do "a professional job".

I still don't trust her. Personal self-interest involving a lot of money is one very powerful lever. This may very well indicate that John McCain has questionable judgment regarding campaigning. It would not be the only indication, considering how he publicly announced that he is (ironically) instituting a cut-and-run approach to the Michigan front of the campaign, "suspending" the campaign in-state and re-allocating assets to other battleground states while apparently ceding all 17 electoral college votes to his opponent, freely. The other indications are canceling a night of the Republican National Convention, disrespecting the sitting American President at the Convention just for the sake of (wisely) distancing himself from the poorly-rated incumbent of his own Party, and "suspending" the campaign just because financial and economic aspects in the non-campaign political/business/commercial world have gone to pot and people were/are afraid!

Well that is all in the past now, but the ramifications have yet to be felt.

Labels: Barack Obama, debates, embedded media, Hugh Hewitt, John McCain, Mitt Romney, politics, Presidential race, Sarah Palin

posted by Chris Arndt at 10/06/2008 07:14:00 PM | |

the BHG Pumpkin vote!



Pretty scary, huh?

Although I reckon some folk may vote for the Obama pumpkin as a statement for how frightened they would be for a nation with Barack Obama in charge *, many would simply vote for a Sarah Palin pumpkin because it is a fruit with their favorite political candidate on it, representing their partisan choice for Vice Presidential office.



Only spite drives me to say that is unlikely someone will make a Barack o'Lantern to show support for his Presidential campaign, although polls say that is a false statement.

One can vote for any one (and I presume only one) of any of the four choice candidates for President and Vice-President, although I am forced to believe that all of this voting stuff is merely a lure to get people to register with the official Better Homes & Gardens website.

There are both non-political and top-spot political celebrity carvings available to vote on. I'm not going to tell you for whom I voted, or if I even voted. That is my right.

It is more useful, however, to refer to the free stencils so you could actually replicate the project for your own front porch.







* (I know that Constitutionally the President is not in charge of the United States of America and that the POTUS being Leader of the Free World is merely a euphemism but if a properly elected President has just the right, by which I mean Left, laws in place, he is in charge).

Labels: Barack Obama, holidays, Joe Biden, John McCain, politics, Presidential race, Sarah Palin

posted by Chris Arndt at 10/06/2008 06:30:00 PM | |

current Hoogendyk for Senate office number I could call?

his office number is 517-373-1774. they can tell you the campaign phone number. they should be in the office tomorrow.

posted by Chris Arndt at 10/05/2008 06:50:00 PM | |

o'reilly@foxnews.com

posted by Chris Arndt at 10/05/2008 05:56:00 PM | |

Apply for a Free Flip Video Camera

All you need to do is find some federal pork projects in your state.

They want you to be properly equipped to scope them out and report it for Eyeblast.

I need some for Michigan.

Got any ideas?

Labels: meta, Michigan, politics

posted by Chris Arndt at 10/04/2008 09:31:00 PM | |

you do not have to vote this year

On his October second PvP strip Scott Kurtz tells people the following

Anybody else feeling this kind of pressure about your choice this election? It’s getting brutal out there. More than ever, no matter who you choose, you gotta vote, kids!

The fact is you should vote if you want to vote, and if you believe you know who to vote for, or if you know who you want to vote for. If you cannot meet those criteria you should not vote for the sake of merely voting.

Republicans, Democrats, independents, and third party supporters all want you to vote for their own respective reasons but voting is a personal interaction with government, as a social and civic obligation. If one does not choose to honor the obligation, they owe no person or organization nothing. But assuming one should act to his own best interests, those interests are not honored by voting blindly, which is what the 'you must vote' mentality calls for.

You do not have to vote any year. That is your right.

Labels: politics, Presidential race

posted by Chris Arndt at 10/03/2008 11:40:00 AM | |