Monday, October 21, 2013

Obama -- "Mission Accomplished"

Obamacare comes in a dead last while destroying the well-worn race track along the way. Obama's response from his delusional grand stand? "Mission Accomplished"

  • Project destroying cost over-runs
  • Failed web site interface
  • No government employee support
  • Illegal bait and switch product to sales profile
  • Claims of lower cost premiums in reality are price doubling increases
  • Staggering drain on an already failing economy
  • Self-destructing, non-sustainable internal program structure
  • American Family disenfranchising medical plans
  • Death panels
  • Opt-out Obama-friends cronyism

Obama, “Mission accomplished”

Wednesday, October 16, 2013

We Don’t need Barak Hussein Obama in Order for Democracy to Work | Editorial 2013

“Barrack Hussein Obama can’t make democracy work.”

There are many distracting arguments coming from the left that easily obscure a simple truth that voting Americans need to realize.

Barrack Hussein Obama can’t make democracy work.

He is not fit for the job of leading a democratic republic mostly because he has chosen not to follow this country’s foundation and duly chosen form of government. Whether his actions are deliberate or merely show him to be incompetent is irrelevant in the voting booth. But, it is an issue at large for every citizen that treasures freedom and liberty. And, if we freedom lovers are to take back what is rightfully ours, we'll need to do it without The Press, without some elected officials, and in some extreme cases, without some lawfully elected and appointed judges of The Law.

--The Press and Advertising Dollars


What should be a major news story every night on the evening news is merely BAU, Business As Usual. One would think that the sitting POTUS circumnavigating the rule of law in order to land his agenda squarely in history’s lap might be something to talk about over the anchor desk of ABC, CBS or NBC, but apparently not.

Our resident press corps has chosen to deliberately obfuscate Mr. Obama’s obvious anti American courses of action for whatever reason. But again, the presses’ motivation is less important as what to do about it.
For Mr. Obama’s case, it is obvious that he needs to be removed from office one way or another.
In the case of our non-journalistic journalists, we simply turn them off and put down their writings; which apparently is exactly what America has been doing for almost a decade now.
If you listen to news broadcasts and editorializers who favor the status quo; editorializing masquerading as news journals, one would think that everything is fine; they’re all good, and rich and fat and happy. “Nothing to see here; move along, move along. Ooh, look at that over there…” But the dollars, layoffs and bankruptcies in the News Entertaining Industry say otherwise.

In case you have forgotten, or just didn’t know, all of Newsdome (think “kingdom”) and the TV entertainment empire is funded by advertising. Or, that’s the conventional and sustainable method from days of old—before the super rich Rupert Murdoch and Ted Turner started funding a now failing *oligarchy.

Advertising 101

Remember Soap Operas? They were called that since the 1950s and 1960s origin of the genre’ when  Dial Corporation, Procter & Gamble, Colgate-Palmolive and Lever Brothers, all soap manufacturers, were the major advertisers of daytime “soaps”. Advertising to the millions of stay at home moms who were the main laundry engineers at home was a major boon for soap sellers, advertising execs and TV producing studios all at once.

The marriage of TV dramas, moms and laundry soap was so advantageous because everyone was well served.
  • The laundry soap really did make things whiter; mom was happy.
  • Moms bought a lot of soap. Advertisers were happy.
  • Advertisers proved that they could deliver a gigantuous buying audience to their clients. The soap manufacturers were happy.
  • TV studios could crank out easy-to-make dramas based on stories that dragged on into eternity with never a close or The End to worry about; the easiest story to write is the one with no end. One just keeps writing. The plot is no longer important to support a killer ending. The producers were happy.


This happy closed loop of partakers in American enterprise on steroids is a perfect example of synergy; elements together are greater than the sum of their separate parts.

Additionally, the industry added greatly to the new royalty called TV stars whom TV watchers idolized and adhering loyalties were born almost overnight; an unlooked for boon to the creators of day time soaps which drew even larger advertising dollars from the added leverage of viewer and customer loyalty; thus the really big bucks that drove advertising rates into the stratosphere where only the really well funded industries could reach.

Question: So, what happened? Why are ad rates in such severe decline? First of all, it needs to be pointed out that the Entertainment world and the Newsies are inherently related. They are in a marriage from which there is no divorce. They share the same pocketbook of funding and therefore are in it together for better or for worse. Fox’s entertainment programs are concretely tied to their news programs. IT IS ALL ENTERTAINMENT.

This does not mean that one network’s news dept. is just as unreliable as the rest. Each program’s content rests upon its own efficacy. If it’s spouting lies, the viewing public will know; especially if there is a running standard of truth tellers by which the liars can be compared.

The answer: no longer is there a happy circle of well served elements in the closed synergestic loop. The soap still works, but advertising is now well known for embellishing to the point of misrepresentation at the same time that the attached network news journalists are even better known for embellishing to the point of editorializing the daily news. If you look up editorializing in journalism 101 courses, it is the same as a curse word for purists of the truth. One can either journalize the news (report it) or editorialize a story. But never the twain shall meet, nor shall the line be made unclear.

During the heyday of the soaps, CBS’s anchor man, Walter Cronkite was hailed as America’s most trusted voice. Today, these anchor men and women seek not after trust, but back slaps at the Leftist White House cocktail pressers (Press Release, Press Parties, etc).

And also, there is … (wait for it) … the Rush factor. Since the 1988 national syndication of his radio program, Rush Limbaugh’s unabashedly conservative and therefore honest presentation of all things American politic have turned America’s attention from limiting their entertainment digest from purely entertuinamnt programs to news programs while at the same time opening up opportunities for non-broadcast based news programs and entertainment programs to catch the attention of the public via The Internet.

This perfect storm of Rush and The Internet occurring in the same annual hemisphere has put a major dent in advertising. What was once viewed as a vast base of a giant pie referred to as “shares” of a the market, has now caused the creation out of virtually thin air of the massively diluting force of Internet based as well as alternative news programs that have not only reduced advertising rates through dilution, but also pretty much removed the solid meaning of a strong market share scale from which advertising rates used to be figured almost 100%.

Ad rate averages, like real estate, used to never go down. So, to have rates reduced as much as the 13-15% being noticed in print ads alone is definitely market shaking. Advertising rates for news programs dropping through the basement is not being talked about with honesty yet, so that’s one to watch for. But the biggest to watch for in my estimation is the attempt by major news sources like ABC, CBS and NBC to try something new for a change; honesty. At the least they could try separating journalizing from editorializing. It seems to work well for Fox news.

--The Editorial Format


When I was cutting my media teeth at my first gig in TV, I was a floor director and camera operator for the evening news in our home town of Medford, Oregon. I operated on a split shift that required I come in at 7am for the local morning magazine human interests show, produce any commercial spots and public service announcements and additionally, produce the station manager’s editorial for the month, before taking my 3 hour lunch before coming in for the live Evening News with Hank Henry. The General Manager and owner of Channel 10 in Medford was R.J. Johnson. My first exposure to an editorial was from behind Camera One as my boss expounded upon his opinion of important political issues of the day.

The broadcast technicalities that separate the line between an editorial and a news story used to be
glaring in its clarity; today, not so much. Mr. Johnson, General Manager of Channel 10 in Medford Oregon had his editorial teased at the head by a pre-rolled tape announcing the editorial segment, and closed at the tail with a like post-roll. These teaser and closer tapes clearly explained that this segment was an opinion piece, not a news story. So, an editorial used to be a clearly marked section of dialogue that was an opportunity for the chief editor of a newspaper or owner of a TV station or radio station to expose their market to their opinion on matters of weight to the community at large.

Today, apparently all of the editorials are preceded by pre-rolled tape announcing the evening news with Diane Sawyer, Brian Williams or Scott Pelley; and one is left waiting for the evening news to actually follow all of the editorializing. There is little difference between editorializing and journalizing the news these days over at the ABC, CBS and ABC studios. Instead of pointing at the obvious political hey making for the Democratic Party and calling it the shameful acts of dishonest and disreputable editorializing, the press corps count it as a brave and courageous thing to mislead their viewers towards socialism and slavery.

--It's DejaVu all Over Again


So, instead of the Russian/Chinese communism brand of socialism dished out carefully and quietly in the 1950s and 60s, we are being fed Pseudo Sharia Muslim statism openly; our hope and change for the 2000’s.

So, Mr. Clinton couldn’t and Mr. Obama can’t make democracy work in a republic. Fortunately for us, our founding fathers knew that this was a danger; and some even felt it was inevitable. Thus the separated powers profile of our unique three part form of government.

And, if the federal powers are too corrupt, there are the state’s rights powers. And, if even these fail; which also looks inevitable in some states, there is always the posse comitatus of individuals taking back their own piece of turf as they follow The Rule of Law as presented in The U.S. Constitution, against which there is no lawful argument.

At some point, citizens may no longer be defined by how they vote, but by how well they hide their arms and ammunition.

Editor.


RESOURCES:


SQAD | TV Week: TV Ad Prices Falling…
http://www.sqad.com/press/articles/article_18.html

Seeking Alpha | Westwood One: Radio Advertising Falls on Hard Times
http://seekingalpha.com/article/85066-westwood-one-radio-advertising-falls-on-hard-times


*NOTE
Oligarchy; a small group of people who together govern a nation or control an organization, often for their own purposes. The Encarta Dictionary.

Disclaimer; I do not promote vigilantism. I support local law enforcement. In my experience, local sheriffs are generally honest, hard working elected officials who respect The Rule of Law. If a group of individuals begin a vigilante police action without going through their local sheriff, they just might end up getting what they deserve. If you think that your ten friends with their 25 AR 15s and several thousand rounds of ammunition are any match for your state's national guard contingent, then you slept too long on one side last night and all your brains ran out your ear hole. What good is freedom if you get your wife and ten friends killed? One needs to pick one's battles and count the cost.


Saturday, October 12, 2013

Crude Oil, Gasoline and Politics-- and a Moose | Editorial 2013

Parsing the facts; it's not that complicated

At the bottom of this editorial is an article forwarded to me by my dad. He asked the question, "Should the US be exporting crude oil?"
The issue of exporting crude, and/or refining it for resale and domestic consumption is not unlike talking wholesale and retail.
Art.

Let’s compare the wholesale/retail process using metal products. I can talk about this subject at length and with some authority because I deal in metal products from artists and craftsman locally.

My company, Specialized Media Merchandise buys metal art from two different craftsmen in The Northwest in order to resell it at large. They get the metal for free or cheap because lately the supply of raw metal has increased drastically. Raw materiel is a term that metal workers use to describe both new metal and acquired scrap metal. These together make up the category called raw material for artists and craftsmen.

One of these metal artists looks for cast off scrap compressor and fuel tanks as they are made of both lower grade iron and higher grade stainless steel; his two mediums of choice. He can get the stainless steel tanks for extremely cheap; sometimes free. The pieces he cuts out of them and turns into ornamental art, like a particularly interesting three dimensional shark that is displayed in his shop, (I do not have authority to display a picture of his 3D shark for this article, thus the moose) gets him about $150, which we can sell near the $250 price point.

Retail is all about buying low and selling high. This concept is universal, obviously.
Out of one small scrap tank, he can get two or three of these 3D sharks that hang from people’s decks and back porch eaves. So, the motivation for him is great to acquire and horde raw materials in order to turn them into metal art at hundreds and thousands of percent markup.

Then, one looks at market demand in order to figure market strategy. This artist can sell every single piece that he produces in a matter of days, with people standing in line asking for more. So, market demand is high with no end in site. Therefore, market strategy is simple; produce and sell locally. Do not sell wholesale; sell retail.

Oil.

One barrel of crude oil costs American companies $33.76 to lift out of the ground and put in a barrel ready for shipping and refining. This is figured from 2009 dollars because currently it is very involved to get that figure for today. Many factors that are used to determine cost per barrel change many times a year, so the only stable figures are a few years old, but those proportions don’t change as much as the other end of the money chain; the selling price; so the math is still pretty solid.

The selling price for a barrel of crude yesterday, 10/12/2013 was $102.02 for WTI crude, and $111.28 for Brent crude; an average of $106.65 per barrel.

Cost $33.76
Sell $106.65

That's only the crude, crude figures, (pun intended); we have yet to delve into retail breakdowns that include the multiple pieces of the retail pie that a 42 gallon barrel of crude oil fall into: gasoline, kerosene, diesel, asphalt and chemical reagents used to make plastics and pharmaceuticals (Wiki). That's a $72.89 profit per barrel before it's even broken down into it's various wholesale elements for refining into retail products, which is the real frosting on the cake.

In May of 2013, the volume of oil produced by American companies topped 7 million barrels (wait for it) per day. And, remember that this is not all out production mode. America's "free trade" is severely hampered by politics. But 7,000,000 x $72.89 = $510,230,000 per day, before cracking into usable product.

So, the next step in figuring market strategy is looking at the need factor. The US had over 240 million cars in 2012. That’s more than registered drivers. This figure is fantastic and quite phenomenal. All of those gas tanks need fuel, and we fill them up or drop $20 worth in every week whether we use all of that up or not. And this does not even account for municipal buses and trucks, and commercial trucks and equipment, and trains which more than doubles the number of gas tanks, and the size of those tanks is always much larger than a passenger car or truck.

The National Automobile Dealers Association and the US Dept of statistics has determined that the number of just passenger vehicles alone increases at a rate of up to 5.88% annually; this larger figure was recorded back in 1999, but never falls below 3.69% every year.

"Market strategy is simple; make as much refined fuel for resale at home."

Market strategy is simple; make as much refined fuel for resale at home. Doing this nets the oil refineries the highest profit in the shortest amount of time and is virtually guaranteed into the foreseeable future and most likely beyond. As a matter of fact, realistic published reports that try to predict when the US will run out of oil resources in the ground are all bogus because new giant caches are discovered every year. There is more oil in the ground ready for refining now, than all of the oil ever used to date.

So, why sell wholesale at all? For the answer, one must look outside of the standard wholesale/retail market plan and ask our government that question. The US Government has controlled the acquisition and resale of crude oil from day one. And their control gains purchase every decade. And, every day that the free market is blocked from selling their product costs American citizens millions in lost revenue in the form of jobs and lost US taxes.

Obviously, there is a minute amount (comparatively) of product that must be reserved for the Federal government for tactical and emergency application, but that can be acquired at retail prices. There is no reason for the US government to get a discount on fuel.

It’s political. It’s not complicated like the main stream journalists and leftist politicians would have us believe, but it is definitely political.

Editor

references;
Wikipedia
OPEC
US Dept of Statistics
National Automobile Dealers Association
Robert S.

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A fact about the U.S. "shale oil boom" that would shock most Americans

Thursday, October 10, 2013
From Matt Badiali, editor, S&A Resource Report:
Today, I went on Fox Business News to discuss exporting crude oil...

And while I didn't have a chance to fully flesh out my ideas on TV, I would like to make my points with you. Because I do think there is a benefit to not exporting oil and gas today.

The background is simple, in the 1970s, the Arab Oil Embargo scared the U.S. into blocking oil exports. We were running out and the supply was in the hands of our enemies.

Fast forward to today. Oil production is back up to 1992 levels and rising. For some reason, folks are fired up about exporting oil.

This is one of my favorite subjects right now. When there was a big price gap between Brent and WTI crude oil this summer, refiners pulled an end run around oil export rules. They refined the crude just enough to call it "refined product" then put it on ships out of here.

In other words, the law is toothless. I'm all for an open market, so scrap the law. However, I'm not sure exporting crude oil is a good idea. Here's what I mean:

According to the Energy Information Administration (EIA) we export about 3.4 million barrels of refined product per day. That's right… we already export 3.4 million barrels of oil products every day already.

That's up from less than about 1 million barrels per day in 2006. To put that in perspective, our production boom added about 2.4 million barrels per day over that same period. So we are effectively exporting all the new production anyway.

That leads me to three points against exporting crude oil.

1. There is no reason to export crude oil. We already export "refined products" around the world. That's good for our economy. We keep good, high paying refining jobs here in the U.S. We keep the best petroleum engineers here and develop the best engineering programs at U.S. universities.

2. We don't produce all the oil we need yet. Why would we export oil if we are still importing oil from OPEC (3.8 million barrels per day)? We need to ramp our own production up and keep it home. There is no need to export crude oil abroad.

3. If we keep the oil here and export the refined products, there is a value chain created in the U.S. before we export the refined product. That means some of that profit stays here (in the form of wages, taxes, investment in infrastructure, etc...). The value of the export isn't in the raw product, it is in the finished goods. That's why the law is fine with me.

I'm sure that there are excellent reasons to open up crude oil exports. I’m really on the fence. But I hope that my points give you something to think about.


So, What do you think?

Wednesday, October 9, 2013

America- Changing Before Our Very Eyes. But, Fear Not

Editorial; October 2013; I sleep just fine at night.

This World is not Our Home, We're Just-a-passin' Through

When I hear liberals who voted for Obama (hard to find anyone who will actually admit it anymore) whine and excuse themselves by saying, "Well, I didn't know he was going to _____...", I have absolutely no sympathy for them.

Everyone had a chance to predict what a socialist would do, but only half the country took the opportunity to properly predict Obama's actions by voting no. The other half? Not so much.

Socialists, communists and statists will always seek more power, while a saboteur like Obama goes even further by seeking actions of the most destruction, reserving the most damage for the final months of his control. With the media's willing collusion, Obama is systematically destroying America, while judges, military leaders, police commanders and all others who might actually be instructed to fire on and imprison their neighbors watch it happen; hoping that they can retire or otherwise vacate their office before it happens.

There are Three Stooges scenes that remind me of Obama's actions. One stands out among the others as a perfect alegory to Obama's playbook. Moe open-slaps Curly real hard on the right cheek. When Curly's eyes clear up and his ears stop ringing, he looks back at Moe and cries, "Why did you do that!?" Moe looks him right in the face and says, "Do what?"

Moe is Obama. Mobama.

Mobama keeps slapping us and slapping us. He never has to say why he's doing it. He can deny, change the subject, even use the most confusing and illogical explanations, like, "You slapped yourself." He gets away with it because nobody with the microphone is asking why. Mobama's bosses just sit and watch it all happen.

This will continue until an adult in the room stands up and says, "Enough!"

We need some more Scott Walkers and Sarah Palins who have vowed to stand in the gap; Rand Paul and others already in office who have proven that they have what it takes to put others' before their career.

We may never again see pre Obama and Clinton America. But, the least we can do is not give up.

If a complete reset is in order, then one has to reach further back for an American template to follow than the Bill Clinton era of debacles. One needs to reach all the way back prior to The New Deal of FDR. Because America needs to know what it is like to live under a governmental rule that respects and supports the Rule of law. Every American alive today knows only the treason of a lawless government.

My generation and the rest of the overlapping generations of "Baby-Boomers" have always took for granted American patriotism. We remember family members and national heroes who did hard things during war time and The Great Depression. We can only look back to those heroes because there are no heroes now, according to our press corps.

Black is called white and white is called black. Liars are hailed for their forward thinking while those who defend the Rule of law and our U.S. Constitution are called anarchists and saboteurs. When one calls out Obama for his lies, deceit and America-hating reforms that harm American families including military patriots and families who are paying and have paid the ultimate sacrifice, they are called racists.

Without people who can and will stand in the gap against these domestic enemies, America has no hope. Everything rises and falls on leadership. The citizen can not save this country without leaders.

Who will stand up for America in this crises? Who is hiding? Who is it that will be pointed to and acclaimed as the one who is here for such a time as this?

Meanwhile, Jesus is having the trumpet shined and placed in position by the warrior angel who gets to sound His return.

Know this; you who hate America enough to support Obama and his minions, are helping him prepare this country for the end times. And then, you can proudly look around you and say, "I built this."

Editor.

Governor Scott Walker stands up to National Park Service

The National Park Service, in direct violation of the Constitution, tried to tell Wisconsin to close state parks in Kettle Moraine State ForestDevil’s Lake State Park and Wisconsin’s oldest park, Interstate Park. There are a few other locations, but none of the state areas will be closed.
their drive to punish Americans for the Washington politics meltdown. When the order came down, unlike other state governments, Scott Walker put his foot down. The parks the NPS wanted shut down was
Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Cathy Step has spoken on the issue. “After close review and legal consult, DNR has clarified areas where the federal procedures are over-reaching by ordering the closure of properties where the state has management authority through existing agreements.”
In a press release, the DNR official stance is while the federal government shutdown has closed federal properties in Wisconsin, such as the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore and some national wildlife refuges, and improved campgrounds and other buildings in the Chequamegon and Nicolet National Forests, all state, county and local recreational areas remain open in Wisconsin.
The DNR has also been removing barricades wherever the NPS has illegally put them up.

Monday, October 7, 2013

"Unbiased Media" Openly Slamming Tea Party

MRC Study: Even Before Shutdown, Networks Dumped Most Blame on Conservatives

On Monday morning, Time/MSNBC political analyst Mark Halperin explained an obvious political reality to his fellow Morning Joe panelists: “The White House does not have much incentive” to negotiate on the government shutdown, because Democrats expect the liberal news media to hand them a public relations victory. As Halperin put it: “The press is largely sympathetic to their arguments that it’s the House Republicans’ fault.” 

In fact, as a new Media Research Center analysis of broadcast network evening news coverage shows, ABC, CBS and NBC spent the two weeks prior to the shutdown almost universally pinning the blame on congressional Republicans, especially conservative/Tea Party House Republicans. By the time the shutdown actually took place on October 1, news audiences had been repeatedly instructed to think about it as a GOP-generated crisis.



From September 17 through September 30, the Big Three evening newscasts ran a total of 39 stories about the possibility of a government shutdown. Our MRC analysts found that a majority of those stories (21) were framed around the idea of Republicans triggering the crisis, compared to four that blamed both sides and absolutely none that put the onus on Democrats’ failure to negotiate. (The remaining 14 stories did not include discussion of blame.)

As explained by network news correspondents, the responsibility for the deadlock lies with Republicans for failing to put aside their opposition to ObamaCare. Talking about the initial House Republican decision to seek defunding of the health care law, CBS Evening News correspondent Nancy Cordes on September 18 said “Speaker Boehner was forced into the risky strategy by his right flank...[a strategy] one Senate Republican described to us today as suicide.”


Two days later, NBC’s Brian Williams argued that “the wheels were set in motion” toward a potential shutdown after “Republicans in the House passed a bill that would keep the government going while killing ObamaCare.” A week later, on the September 27Nightly News, NBC’s David Gregory zeroed in on “a relatively small group of legislators, you have Tea Party conservatives in the House who don’t want to give up on this ObamaCare defunding fight.”

By Sunday, September 29, after Harry Reid’s Senate had killed the proposal to cut off ObamaCare funding, the networks characterized the much-milder demand for a one-year delay as too radical to consider. According to NBC’s Kelly O’Donnell that night, “Tea Party conservatives held to their risky demand,” while on CBS, Nancy Cordes argued that “House Speaker John Boehner had hoped to dial back this fight, but was urged to press on by conservative Tea Party members.”

The next night, after Republicans had retreated to an even-milder proposal to delay just the individual mandate (the President himself, in July, had ordered such a delay for the mandate on businesses), ABC’s Diane Sawyer presented Obama’s characterization of the situation as reality: “The President expressed outrage that one faction in one House of Congress is ready to bring the entire federal government to a halt.”

But Sawyer’s hyperbole about “the entire federal government” coming to a halt was contradicted by her own correspondent, Jonathan Karl, a few minutes later: “Not everything gets shut down. Troops will continue to get paid, Social Security checks will continue to go out.”

Meanwhile, on that night’s CBS Evening NewsFace the Nation host Bob Schieffer framed it as a crisis caused by “ultra-conservatives.” According to Schieffer, the question was “will the moderate and more establishment Republicans continue to go along with the ultra-conservatives?...We’re headed to a shutdown unless the moderates in the House revolt.”

As for the rare story that blamed both sides, ABC’s Karl on the September 26 World Newsjuxtaposed Republicans’ “laundry list of demands” with a White House that “has decided not to try” to strike a deal. “Instead of negotiating, they are name calling,” Karl reported. “Today, one of the President’s top aides said of Republicans, quote, ‘What we’re not for is negotiating with people with a bomb strapped to their chest.’”

In a White House briefing on Monday, CNN’s Jim Acosta actually confronted spokesman Jay Carney about the tactic of seeming to “taunt Republicans” rather than exploring the potential for a constructive dialogue.

Acosta told Carney: “In the last couple of weeks, Democrats, including the President, have
— and he has not used all of these words, but I’ll throw out some of them that have been used — have referred to Republicans as ‘arsonists,’ ‘anarchists,’ ‘extortionists,’ ‘blackmailers,’ ‘hostage-takers.’...It almost sounds as if this White House is trying to taunt Republicans into shutting the government down.”

If Democratic congressmen, or a Democratic Speaker of the House, pursuing a liberal policy objective, was subjected to similar ridicule or insults from a Republican President or a Republican Senate Majority Leader, you can bet that the networks would have made such language the centerpiece of their coverage.

Instead, the media have chosen to foist all of the blame on conservatives for sticking to their promise to oppose ObamaCare.
— Rich Noyes is Research Director at the Media Research Center. Follow Rich Noyes on Twitter.

Smoky Mountain Area Residents Are IN YOUR FACE OBAMA

These Smoky Mountain National Park area residents and business owners are not sitting quiet while the Obama Democrats try to destroy our local economies for political expedience.



We have visited this beautiful area many times and fully endorse a vacation spent there.
Editor



Wednesday, October 2, 2013

Children and American War Heroes; Obama's Chosen Enemies

Everything Rises and Falls on Leadership

One can tell everything about a man by his actions, his friends and who he chooses as enemies.

In the case of Barrack Hussein Obama, his chosen enemies are WWII Veterans and children. In the last government shut down, it was scheduled White House tours for school kids that Obama specifically chose to cancel, and then denied it.

In the current shut down, it was World War II veterans he chose to alienate when he purposefully and  physically blockaded them from their war memorial.


Just waiting for the denial to make everything complete.

Tuesday, October 1, 2013

Who is to Blame for the Gov't Shut Down?

The TruthlessMedia and the rest of the leftists are accusing the Tea Party Republicans of the government shutdown; a tactic that they were hoping to use this week. But, the facts and recent congressional history say otherwise. The Right Compromised 4 times. The Left, 0.

COMPROMISES
Republicans 4     --     Democrats 0

Time Line of Continuing Resolution Debate:
Friday, 9/20/13 - The House of Representatives passed a Continuing Resolution that would fully fund the government (including things that Republicans don't like) while at the same time defunding Obamacare.
Result: House Republicans compromised on spending that we'd like to see cut in exchange for defunding Obamacare.

Friday, 9/27/13 - The Senate stripped the defunding language out of the House passed Continuing Resolution and sent it back to the House.
Result: Harry Reid and Senate Democrats refused to compromise.

Saturday, 9/28/13 - The House of Representatives added two amendments to the Senate revised Continuing Resolution to delay Obamacare for one year (far from what we were originally willing to agree to) and repeal the medical device tax.
Result: House Republicans compromised away from defunding to delaying Obamacare for one year.

Monday, 9/30/13 - The Senate stripped the two amendments from the House passed Continuing Resolution and sent it back to the House.
Result: Harry Reid and Senate Democrats refuse to compromise one inch on Obamacare.

Monday, 9/30/13 - The House of Representatives responded by adding language to the Continuing Resolution to delay the individual mandate for a year and to take away the health care subsidies Members of Congress and their staffs received from the Office of Personnel Management ruling earlier this year.
Result: House Republicans compromised away from delaying Obamacare for one year to delaying the individual mandate for a year and requiring that Congress live under Obamacare just like the rest of the American people.

Monday, 9/30/13 - The Senate voted to table the House passed continuing resolution.
Result: Harry Reid and Senate Democrats refused to compromise.

Monday, 9/30/13 - The House appointed conferees and sent a message to the Senate requesting a conference meeting to resolve their differences.
Result: House Republicans were still willing to compromise and reach a solution.

Tuesday, 10/1/13 - Midnight - No Deal is reach and a temporary shut down begins.

Tuesday, 10/1/13 - The Senate votes to table the House's request for a conference to resolve differences.
Result: Harry Reid and the Senate Democrats refused to compromise.

MoveOn.Org Lies Again. You Can Always Count on Them.


Monday, September 30, 2013

The Second Amendment Does Not Apply at Starbuck's

Read editor's comment below the article. Please add to the discussion.

Posted 09.30.13 by Jennifer Kruse, TPNN Contributor

Growing up my mom would say, “Get a Kleenex and blow your nose” when she noticed my constant sniffing. On special occasions, my brothers and I were offered a “Coke” at dinner. It wasn't until I was out of the house that I realized that my family (and probably yours) referred to some everyday products by their brand name. We weren't told to grab a tissue or offered a soda no, Kleenex and Coke had gotten us to buy into their marketing.


Today, I see it going one step further with Starbucks. They aren't just “coffee”, they are an experience, a lifestyle. Who knew that paper cup and cardboard protector sleeve could be a status symbol. “Grabbing a Starbucks” means something different to each of us who experience it.
For grandma’s and their granddaughters, it’s about slowing down to catch up. For business people, it’s about doing a deal. For first dates it’s finding out how their date orders their drink. For birthdays and anniversaries, it kicks off (or ends) a special day in our lives.
When we “grab a Starbucks” we are doing it for our own reason. But have we bought into their marketing? Will we be persuaded by their progressive stand on different issues? Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz recently said, “Starbucks has become a part of the culture of the country. There’s an emotional attachment to Starbucks, so we’re treated differently.”
He recently wrote a letter to his fellow Americans about his stance on guns in Starbucks. He let us know his preference would be we disarm before coming into a Starbucks. Those who still carry a gun will be served, but he would prefer we show up without guns. Schultz said, “For those who champion ‘open carry,’ please respect that Starbucks stores are places where everyone should feel relaxed and comfortable. The presence of a weapon in our stores is unsettling and upsetting for many of our customers.”
Those customers need to be reminded they can walk out of an establishment when the Second Amendment is offending them. Mr. Schultz, I believe my emotional attachment to Starbucks is fading. I think I just might treat you differently. As a matter of fact, I think I am going to “grab a soda”.http://www.tpnn.com/from-a-tea-party-mom-starbucks-im-done/

Editor's Comment
Those who are engaged in fighting the leftist takeover of American culture have been making tough decisions for a few years. Give up this and that, but for how long, and when are we forced to buy something just because there is no other way to exist?

These tough decisions might be true for gasoline, clothing, food, education, etc. But it will never be true for coffee and coffee like beverages which include latte’s, chai’s and espressos; the products in which Starbuck’s specializes.

Up until recently, I was buying Starbuck’s Americano with some cream and sweetener. I became accustomed to the flavors rolling around in my mouth on a cold day. But the owners of Starbucks being who they are, unadmitted socialists joining the small but loud percentage of other leftists who are trying to do away with the Second Amendment, and while they’re at it, put my family in even more danger by promoting more dangerous places for armed thugs to perpetrate their attacks; I have decided that I no longer need that Vente Americano with crème and sweetener for almost $3.00.

And in our neck of the woods, the great northwest, there is an “Espresso” drive-through on virtually every other corner and even on some backroads in amongst the trees and near the beaches. And, they are mostly owned and operated by locals. Locals who have yet to gain a national or global stage and try their hand at changing our culture and spitting on The Rule of Law; our U.S. Constitution. Why? Because they're just trying to sell coffee.

Mr. Schultz, I suggest that you make yet another announcement. I suggest that you apologize for stamping on the heritage of this great country, and forgetting your place in society. After all, since your grand announcement to make those of us who support The U.S. Constitution into second class citizens, America is still the greatest place to live on this planet in spite of your efforts to the contrary. And, when all is said and done, you are no politician, you are not an elected official at all, you're not even a Hollywood star or a community organizer. You're nothing more than a bean salesmen. And, by the way, they're burnt.

So, the attachment that I once had for a once great American icon, Starbucks, has now been replaced with a mild loathing whenever I see the logo, or hear of someone spending money there. And, whenever I have an opportunity, I share my plan of boycott with others. And, every time I see a Starbucks, I immediately think of the three nearest Espresso drive-throughs within eye site, and often head that way. So, in a way, Mr. Schultz has begun adding to the riches of some small business owners in south west Washington.

Yes, I am only one individual with a readership of a few hundred on this blog and a few dozen on another blog; and one who attends a small church with a regular attendance of just over a hundred, where I infrequently get to preach. I wonder how many others like me there are out there?

I also wonder if any business owner in these tough economic times can afford to leave behind the business of being in business and take on the political arena instead.

I will no longer carry my weapon into Starbucks to get coffee, seeing as how I may offend 

So, at least in south west Washington State, there are some of us who are taking Starbucks’ CEO Howard Schultz’s words to heart. I and my side arm are getting our coffee elsewhere. And, I don't even carry it in the open. I carry it just like the criminals do, concealed.
Editor

Tuesday, September 24, 2013

UN Resolutions Hold no Authority Over American Citizens

Only duly elected American officials who represent their constituents can be in the law making business for Americans. We did not elect ANYBODY in the U.N. to make decisions that affect U.S. laws.
Therefore, any elected U.S. government representatives, including the President of these united states, do not have the authority to take part in the un Constitutional actions at the U.N.

Go ahead and sign gun treaties Mr. Obama. I am importing those vintage rifles anyway and I am carrying my concealed or unconcealed side arm regardless.

One fights battles that need fighting regardless of the inevitable outcome.

I was told from a trusted pulpit in the Midwest that we should not try to fight our government if they try to come for our guns, because one cannot fight the police and the army with all of their armed might and artillery. He forgets that one does not fight important battles because he can win them. One fights battles that need fighting regardless of the inevitable outcome. It was with the courage of this spirit that America was founded.

If we surrender our guns, we are already dead or enslaved anyway. Let me die the death of the righteous and those to blame can face their own consequences.

Monday, September 23, 2013

Another Soldier Returning Home Surprise Video, with a Big Twist

Watch this great video
http://youtu.be/os_jLXs9PGc

Parent faces 10 years in jail for asking questions about Common Core

Freedom of Speech Dead in Obama's New America

Robert Small, a father of two, went to a panel in Towson, Maryland hoping to relay his concerns about Common Core, national curriculum standards pushed by the Obama Administration. Rather than answer his questions, state school officials intimidated him and subsequently had him arrested (emphasis added):
Small stood and interrupted Baltimore County School Superintendent Dallas Dance during a question-and-answer session and began to tell the audience that he believed the new curriculum was lowering the standards of education and was intended to prepare students for community colleges. “You are not preparing them for Harvard,” he said.
[…]
Watch the video on the following site;
http://www.unitedliberty.org/articles/15035-parent-faces-10-years-in-jail-for-asking-questions-about-common-core

Friday, September 20, 2013

Who Are The Syrian Rebels?

Who Are The Syrian Rebels?

We need to think twice before we start supporting the rebels in Syria. They are starting to show their true
colors. They are establishing brutal Sharia Courts in captured areas.
A French film crew is allowed inside Sharia courts establish by Syria’s newly ruling Islamists in Aleppo where they encounter torture, intimidation and lies.
Watch video here. http://www.clarionproject.org/videos/syrian-rebels-establish-brutal-sharia-courts-captured-areas

Al Qaeda Leader Calls For Muslims to Bleed America Through New Attacks

Al Qaeda Leader Calls For Muslims to Bleed America Through New Attacks

In an audio speech released online a day after the 12th anniversary of the 9/11 strikes, Zawahri said attacks
“by one brother or a few of the brothers” would weaken the U.S. economy by triggering big spending on security.
“We should bleed America economically by provoking it to continue in its massive expenditure on its security, for the weak point of America is its economy, which has already begun to stagger due to the military and security expenditure,”
Read more here. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2419911/Ayman-Al-Zawahiri-Al-Qaeda-leader-calls-terror-attacks-America-boycott-U-S-goods-bleed-America-economically.html

From Fortress of Faith.

New Pop Culture Name for Obama is Spreading

President Mulligan
http://spectator.org/archives/2013/09/20/island-wisdom

It's Official -- House Votes to Stop Funding for Obamacare

This just in from Tea Party Patriots National Support Team


Patriots,


Your hard work is paying off and for now it seems the House Leadership is listening to the will of the American people. The House just voted 230 to 189 to keep the government funded while stopping funding for Obamacare.

Now the ball is in Harry Reid's court. What will he do? Will he continue to ignore the will of the American people or will he finally listen to the people he represents and stop Obamacare from further destroying our economy?

This is a critical moment and we need everyone making phone calls to Harry Reid to tell him to listen to the voice of the American people.

Call Harry Reid now and tell him that we will not rest until we stop Obamacare!

Harry Reid: 202-224-3542

In Liberty,
Tea Party Patriots National Support Team

Thursday, September 12, 2013

Obamacare Continues to Rattle Apart -- The Low-Info-Left Dubs it a Success

Trader Joe's Dropping Insurance For Employees; ThinkProgress Says This Means Obamacare Works!

The wheels have been coming off the Obamacare bus for quite a while now, and always there is the mainstream media performing pit crew duty to cobble it back together and send it on it’s way.
But even they have their limit.
More and more companies are announcing that the onerous regulations of ObominableCare are forcing them to shut down health care plans they can no longer afford for their employees. You might think this would be a problem, but have no fear! The worst of lapdog media mendacity fromThinkProgress assures all Americans that this is a sign that Obamacare is actually working!

Wednesday, September 11, 2013

Google True to Form for Honoring 911 Heroes -- NOT

Google's Dishonorable 911 Tribute


In case you missed it today, that minuscule smudge of illustrator's ink on your Google Search page was not a tiny particle of food that you flicked on your screen by accident last night. It was Google's idea of honoring our Fire and Police Department heroes and others like Todd Beamer who fought in the battle against the Muslim attackers on 911.

As a public service, RightPaparazzi enlarged the image so we could all attempt viewing it at a more conventional image size and possibly read the words on the temporary mouse roll-over pop-up. See image below.


Gun Control Recalled ! Victory for Rule of Law

By  on 9.11.13 @ 6:08AM

Yesterday’s Colorado defeats don’t bode well for Democrats in 2014.


Colorado voters yesterday successfully recalled two Democrat Colorado state Senators who led passage of a package of state gun control laws reflecting President Obama’s overcooked national rhetoric in the wake of the tragic Sandy Hook elementary school shooting in Connecticut last December.
With 100% of the vote counted, Senate President John Morse conceded defeat after trailing all night. Senator Angela Giron lost by a wider 56% to 44% margin with all of the vote counted in her Pueblo, Colorado district. Both were replaced by Republicans, reducing the Democrat majority in the state Senate to just one vote. The successful recall elections, raised questions about the future of Democratic Party candidates as President Obama’s protective national star fades and passes.

Read the entire article here
http://spectator.org/archives/2013/09/11/gun-control-recalled

No Global Economy

I find it ironic that globalists, socialists, communists, statists and other America haters like Obama want to destroy America's economy.

There would be no global economics without a strong US presence. If you want a strong global economy, then you should want a strong American economy first. This means a change in tactics from the Left.

The Left needs to support Americans buying local whenever possible, voting Right all the time, and by all means GETTING RID OF OBAMA and his wrecking crew.

Do this, and you will ultimately have a stronger global economy, and more peace in the Middle East.

Boosting America is a win-win for everyone. Thus the irony of even the existence of the far Left.

One last word; BENGHAZIIIIIIIIIIIIIII !

Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Right Paparazzi Seeks Managing Editor -- Want to Write About Obama? Here's Your Chance

Yes. It is obvious that blog sites such as RightPaparazzi have made a difference.


Stats show that as new conservative sites and theire readerships have increased exponentially, more informed voting is beginning to take hold not only in key states, but everywhere; even Eastern Block states are beginning to lose their Leftist momentum and some are even gaining honest ground towards Constitutionalism, like North Carolina. Even California has been having trouble passing their totalitarian illegal laws in the past five years. Some times, the only way that states such as these can "pass" un Constitutional "laws" is by unrepresentative mandate; where either an elected official makes something law by executive mandate, or an un Constitutional judge strikes down an official election by the people.

We are making a difference!

RightPaparazzi was started as a grass roots reporting and research blog to help larger conservative sites get their message out to smaller communities of conservatives who do not currently feel engaged in The Fight. It is this editor's opinion that every concerned American should be engaged in The Fight For Liberty through exposing those who have proven that they hate the Rule of Law, i.e.; our U.S. Constitution.

"...every concerned American should be engaged in The Fight For Liberty..."

Unfortunately for this individual, my income is not sufficient to maintain the growth of this site, and I must pass this on to the next higher level. This site costs me $0 to actually operate, but my business is beginning to suffer as I devote more and more time to keeping this site populated and engaged. Wouldn't it be sad if the hundreds of watchers who are now reading this blog regularly went all the way back down to zero, which is what will happen if no one picks up this ball and runs with it.

I must put my family and my business first and therefore I am stepping down from operating RightPaparazzi as any one of you steps up to the plate.

If you are interested in running with this small juggernaut, please contact me at this email,
stumarksez@gmail.com

Thank you.
Stu Marks
Editor for RightPaparazzi


Monday, August 5, 2013

Washington Congresswoman Gives Birth to ‘Miracle Baby’ After Refusing Abortion

http://christiannews.net/2013/07/29/washington-congresswoman-gives-birth-to-miracle-baby-after-refusing-abortion/

PORTLAND – A Republican congresswoman from Washington has given birth to a ‘miracle baby’ after refusing abortion as an option when told that the chances of the child’s survival were small.
Representative Jamie Herrera Beutler and her husband Daniel announced the birth of the child, a girl, on her Facebook page on Monday.
“With great joy, gratitude and hope, we are pleased to share with you the news of the birth of our daughter, Abigail Rose Beutler, on Monday, July 15 at 3:13 AM at Emanuel Legacy hospital in Portland. She weighed two pounds, twelve ounces and was only 28 weeks along,” the announcement read. “She is every bit a miracle.”
Earlier this year, Beutler, 34, was informed that Abigail had a fatal condition known as Potter’s Syndrome. The baby’s lungs were not developing properly due to a lack of amniotic fluid and would likely die, the doctors said. Therefore, Beutler was given the option of either aborting Abigail or letting the baby die on her own. But being pro-life and a Christian, Beutler knew that there was really only one choice: to trust God.
“Multiple doctors explained that based on medical evidence her condition was incompatible with life and that, if she survived to term, she would be unable to breathe and live only moments after birth,” the family explained. “The options we were offered were termination or ‘expectant management,’ that is, waiting for her to die. Instead, we chose to pray earnestly for a miracle.”
However, a group of doctors at Johns Hopkins Hospital was willing to try a test procedure to see if it might help encourage the child’s lungs to grow. Beutler received regular injections of saline and prayed for a miracle.
“There was no way to know if this treatment would be effective or to track lung development, but with hearts full of hope, we put our trust in the Lord and continued to pray for a miracle,” Beutler’s husband stated.
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The congresswoman went into labor early, but little Abigail survived. She made her entrance into the world with a healthy cry. However, as her kidneys were not functioning, she was transported to Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital in California where she underwent surgery, and received dialysis treatment.
“As far as every doctor we’ve spoken with knows, Abigail is the first baby with bilateral renal agenesis to breathe sustainably on her own,” Beutler’s husband marveled. “We are grateful to the thousands who joined us in praying for a miracle. But most of all, we are grateful to God for answering those prayers.”
The family says that they will be sharing more of Beutler’s miracle story in the future. Abigail is now two weeks old and the congresswoman is doing well.
Beutler has been serving in office in 2007, when she was appointed to the Washington House of Representatives to replace Richard Curtis, who resigned following sex scandal allegations. She retained her seat in an election the following year, and again won by a landslide in 2012.