Thread: Liberal Circus

Candidate swipes campaign signs: [i]Republican Party says Deb Eddy violated law when she had workers pull out stakes




Patrick Hagerty/Journal

Matthew Lundh looks at the 263 political signs Friday that police returned to the King County Republican Party headquarters in Bellevue. Lundh was in the office when police returned them at midnight Thursday. The police confiscated them earlier in the week from Eddy’s car, garage and campaign office.


House candidate Deb Eddy was unrepentant Friday in the wake of Republican Party charges that she'd violated the law by taking their campaign signs, which accuse her of backing higher taxes. "She just completely lost it and took the law into her own hands," said King County Republican Party Chair Mike Young. "And she's a lawyer, that's a funny part of the whole thing."

What's funny, Eddy said, is how long she had to wait to hear back from Republicans after she e-mailed them Monday, asking if they owned the signs. At roughly the same time her field workers were pulling out the stakes, she was sending King County Republicans an e-mail.

Eddy, seeking a House seat in the 48th District against Bret Olson, a lesser-known and inexperienced opponent, said she was only trying to avoid a confrontation between her supporters and the sign's owners.

She said the signs — which read simply: Deb Eddy's Property Tax .com — are misleading.

On Friday, Bellevue police picked up 263 of them at Eddy's home in Kirkland and returned them to GOP headquarters in Bellevue. The county GOP, which owns the signs, filed a complaint Thursday with the Bellevue Police Department, alleging Eddy stole them. Eddy said didn't hear from them until Thursday afternoon, when she learned they'd reported it to the police.

A Tuesday e-mail to her opponent, Olson, garnered no response, nor did she hear back from state Republican Party Chair Diane Tebelius, she said.

Eddy said she had her workers pull the signs because the Web site it listed, www.debeddyspropertytax.com, had no attribution. She said that when she first visited the Web site, it had no attribution either. She said only research into the Web site's registration listed the Republican Party.

But Young said Eddy was acting like a vigilante. "She cowboy'ed it," he said.

The Republicans contend that state law does not require campaign signs to show attribution — and anyway, the Web site listed on the signs states who's behind them. Her recourse, Young said, was to the Public Disclosure Commission.

Eddy said she filed a complaint with the Public Disclosure Commission Saturday, but she said she couldn't wait for them to act. "This is one of the difficulties with Public Disclosure Act is they seldom get around with resolving the complaints until far after the election."

The Web site accuses Eddy of supporting an increase in the Real Estate Excise Tax, or REET, though its attribution of that claim is simply that Democrats backed it in last year's Legislature — when Eddy did not serve in Olympia.

As for the code, she has a different take. "I went back and reread the RCW and there is a way to read it that yard signs don't have to have attribution. You can read it that way. But historically, all of us in politics have observed a requirement that you put something on there that indicates who's responsible for speech. That's the whole purpose of the Public Disclosure Act."

Eddy said she considered the whole incident over when she turned the signs over to the Bellevue police Friday.

She said she has no regrets because she acted in good faith. "The mistake I made, if any, was expecting (Republicans) would act in good faith."


http://www.kingcountyjournal.com/app...NEWS/610280334

[b]Candidate swipes campaign signs: Republican Party says Deb Eddy violated law when she had workers pull out stakes




Patrick Hagerty/Journal
Matthew Lundh looks at the 263 political signs Friday that police returned to the King County Republican Party headquarters in Bellevue. Lundh was in the office when police returned them at midnight Thursday. The police confiscated them earlier in the week from Eddy’s car, garage and campaign office.


House candidate Deb Eddy was unrepentant Friday in the wake of Republican Party charges that she'd violated the law by taking their campaign signs, which accuse her of backing higher taxes. "She just completely lost it and took the law into her own hands," said King County Republican Party Chair Mike Young. "And she's a lawyer, that's a funny part of the whole thing."

What's funny, Eddy said, is how long she had to wait to hear back from Republicans after she e-mailed them Monday, asking if they owned the signs. At roughly the same time her field workers were pulling out the stakes, she was sending King County Republicans an e-mail.

Eddy, seeking a House seat in the 48th District against Bret Olson, a lesser-known and inexperienced opponent, said she was only trying to avoid a confrontation between her supporters and the sign's owners.

She said the signs — which read simply: Deb Eddy's Property Tax .com — are misleading.

On Friday, Bellevue police picked up 263 of them at Eddy's home in Kirkland and returned them to GOP headquarters in Bellevue. The county GOP, which owns the signs, filed a complaint Thursday with the Bellevue Police Department, alleging Eddy stole them. Eddy said didn't hear from them until Thursday afternoon, when she learned they'd reported it to the police.

A Tuesday e-mail to her opponent, Olson, garnered no response, nor did she hear back from state Republican Party Chair Diane Tebelius, she said.

Eddy said she had her workers pull the signs because the Web site it listed, www.debeddyspropertytax.com, had no attribution. She said that when she first visited the Web site, it had no attribution either. She said only research into the Web site's registration listed the Republican Party.

But Young said Eddy was acting like a vigilante. "She cowboy'ed it," he said.

The Republicans contend that state law does not require campaign signs to show attribution — and anyway, the Web site listed on the signs states who's behind them. Her recourse, Young said, was to the Public Disclosure Commission.

Eddy said she filed a complaint with the Public Disclosure Commission Saturday, but she said she couldn't wait for them to act. "This is one of the difficulties with Public Disclosure Act is they seldom get around with resolving the complaints until far after the election."

The Web site accuses Eddy of supporting an increase in the Real Estate Excise Tax, or REET, though its attribution of that claim is simply that Democrats backed it in last year's Legislature — when Eddy did not serve in Olympia.

As for the code, she has a different take. "I went back and reread the RCW and there is a way to read it that yard signs don't have to have attribution. You can read it that way. But historically, all of us in politics have observed a requirement that you put something on there that indicates who's responsible for speech. That's the whole purpose of the Public Disclosure Act."

Eddy said she considered the whole incident over when she turned the signs over to the Bellevue police Friday.

She said she has no regrets because she acted in good faith. "The mistake I made, if any, was expecting (Republicans) would act in good faith."


http://www.kingcountyjournal.com/app...NEWS/610280334




Democrat House Candidate Deb Eddy Admits Theft of KCGOP Property
http://soundpolitics.com/archives/007238.html

Democrat Deb Eddy, 48th District state House candidate, has admitted to illegally removing lawfully posted campaign signs belonging to the King County GOP. :

(KCGOP) is asking that [Bellevue Police Dept.], in conjunction with Prosecutor Maleng, take the following action with regard to Deb Eddy who has admitted to acts against the property of the KCGOP constituting theft in the first degree (RCW 9A.56.030), possession of stolen property in the first degree (RCW 9A.56.150) and the lesser included offense of removing or defacing political advertising (RCW 29A.84.040). Theft in the first degree and possession of stolen property in the first degree are both class B felonies (RCW 9A.56.030 and 9A.56.150). Removing political advertising is a misdemeanor. A conviction of either felony charge would warrant removal from public office under RCW 42.12.010.

Eddy's (law-abiding) Republican opponent is Bret Olson.

You'll recall that at another Michigan school--Western Michigan University--last year, Pat Buchanan was assaulted by a deranged student who hurled salad dressing at him. Last month, David Horowitz and his bodyguards were attacked by two thugs with a cream pie.

What flavor of liberal intolerance have you tasted today?

Horowitz noted at the annual Restoration Weekend conference:
FrontPage magazine.com :: Restoration Weekend 2006: Storming the Universities by David Horowitz

Leftist ruffians have ensured that if you are a conservative speaker you will never know what might be coming at you. When I spoke recently at Ball State University, it was only a cream pie. I didn’t even see the person who was charging us, but the chief of campus police and Floyd and the policemen present saw her coming and interposed themselves between us, and were drowned by this cream pie. Not a big deal, but three suits had to go to the dry cleaners, and a police officer was cut apprehending the culprits. Refreshingly, they were arrested and had to post bail.

This is the sad state of our campuses.

Indeed, it is. And on and on and on it goes, as Cinammon Stillwell thoroughly documented recently.

When Leftist tries to argue, as they invariably do, that conservatives are as unhinged on campus as they are, ask them to name the last five liberal speakers physically attacked while trying to speak at a college or university.

Do you hear what I hear? Crickets chirping, chirping, chirping.

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Performance artist gives chance to "kick" Bush [i]


NEW YORK (Reuters) - New Yorkers got to kick President George W. Bush's butt on Thursday, sort of.

Performance artist Mark McGowan kicked off his bid to crawl for 72 hours across Manhattan dressed as the president, offering the opportunity to kick his backside.

The controversial artist from London began his odyssey from New York's Lincoln Centre wearing a rubber George Bush mask, a business suit, knee pads, work gloves and a sign stuck to his cushioned posterior reading simply: "Kick My Ass".

Though few ordinary New Yorkers, other than fellow artists, cameramen and photographers, were present for the launch on a wet workday afternoon, some people gave him a kick. "It felt real good to kick Bush," said Casmirr Sharp, 52, of New York's Queens borough. "He really deserves more than a kick."

McGowan told Reuters he hopes his performance proves therapeutic to the city's denizens. But he insisted his work was no publicity stunt but art: "It's definitely an art form. A lot of the things I do are a bit silly but they always have a political edge to them."

McGowan said he does not have any particular political stance on the Republican president, who has seen his approval ratings plunge in the face of an unpopular war in Iraq.

McGowan made his name in Britain with a series of controversial acts including a performance called "Dead Soldier" where he dressed up in army fatigues and lay in the streets for a week. He also crawled 60 miles from London to the town of Canterbury.

McGowan's latest act is part of the Scope International Art Fair at the Lincoln Centre performing arts complex.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070223/...9Ih.HD.7vMWM0F


This is considered "art" ?

Tuesday, November 20, 2007
Alberto Gonzales Harassed, Abused at University of Florida
The intolerant Left is at it again[/b]

http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/20...nzales-at.html

In what is to be expected anymore on US university campuses...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApfY1s0XUio

Alberto Gonzales was the latest conservative to be abused during a speaking engagement.

The young storm troopers were out in force on Monday night.



Former US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales was harassed at Florida U on Monday night. The media reports don't begin to tell the abuse this conservative received on the University of Florida campus.


The Florida Alligator reported: http://www.alligator.org/articles/20...s/gonzales.txt

Protesters arrested at Gonzales speech
By DEVIN CULCLASURE, Alligator Writer

In his first appearance at a university since resigning in August, former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales was met at UF on Monday with a mixture of cheers, boos and scattered interruptions by protesters, two of whom were arrested.

Gonzales, who resigned from his position after a controversial tenure, spoke to more than 800 people at the Phillips Center for the Performing Arts.

During his prepared speech, Gonzales largely avoided discussing the controversies he faced in office, including his dismissal of nine U.S. attorneys.

Instead, he focused on encouraging students to consider a career in public service while describing his own experiences in that field.

About 15 minutes into his speech, two UF students, Richard Gutierrez and Kevin Hachey, climbed onto the stage wearing orange jumpsuits and black hoods on their heads.

University Police Department officers scrambled onto the stage to remove them. Matthew Cox, an employee of the Phillips Center, wrestled with one protester on the far side of stage, grabbing his legs and pulling him down.

The other stood directly next to Gonzales, who calmly avoided looking in his direction. As police took the protester away, Gonzales glanced in his direction before attempting to continue his speech while he waited for the raucous crowd to settle down after a few minutes.

A few more protesters climbed onto the stage.

Meanwhile, even more protesters stood up, removed shirts or jackets revealing yellow T-shirts that read "SHAME," and stood with their backs toward Gonzales. They remained standing in their positions for the rest of the event.

Eventually, Gonzales continued his speech and then sat across from Henry Wihnyk, a UF law professor, for a question-and-answer session.

Wihnyk read students' questions, which had been written on index cards before and during Gonzales' speech.

During Gonzales' address, the self-described "son of a Mexican immigrant and cotton picker" said his life was evidence of the American dream. "I love America for all that she has done for me," he said. "We are not perfect. Sometimes we stumble, but we always get up."

Gonzales said he was proud of his record and defended his work with President Bush, though there were missteps, he said.

Later, he ignored scattered jeers from the crowd to answer questions about his dismissal of the attorneys, the Geneva Convention and torture.

Afterward, UPD Lt. Stacey Ettel said Gutierrez and Hachey were arrested for disrupting a public event. Ettel said UPD expected most of the protester's actions because they received information about some of the plans prior to the event. However, UPD did not anticipate what Gutierrez and Hachey did, he said.

Still, Ettel said he believed most of the protesters' behavior was acceptable. "I felt like they were able to express their feelings and voice their concerns from a visual viewpoint," he said.

Steve Orlando, UF spokesman, said the usual number of four security officers was present. He added that he also thought most of the protesters expressed their views reasonably. "A few crossed the line, but I think it went pretty well," Orlando said.

"I think Mr. Gonzales saw a whole lot of First Amendment tonight," he added with a laugh. "As he said, that's what this place is about."

Of course... Left leading blog Think Progress clearly condones the abusive behavior. http://thinkprogress.org/2007/11/20/alberto-uf/


Gonzales will be in St. Louis at Washington University in February.



That picture captures it perfectly: lefties blocking Gonzales' freedom of speech while wearing "Civil Liberties" on their shirts.

"I think Mr. Gonzales saw a whole lot of First Amendment tonight," he added with a laugh. "As he said, that's what this place is about."

I wonder how well this would have gone over had Hillary been speaking ??

Conservative campus speakers have long endured the threat of pie-throwing, shoe-wielding, salad dressing-tossing nutballs. MSM types have barely batted an eye.

Now, enviro-nitwits have been caught throwing pies at NYTimes columnist and author Thomas Friedman because they disagreed with his approach to global warming.

I predict we’ll see a blossoming of liberal media pieces decrying the mob atmosphere at American colleges and universities and calling for civility in academic exchanges. Better late than never.

I guess ....

http://www.projo.com/news/content/pr....91a247f0.html

A Brown University student was apprehended by Brown University police last night after allegedly throwing a green pie container filled with what appeared to be green whipped cream at a New York Times columnist who had been invited to speak to students about energy.

Thomas Friedman ducked the pies, which were thrown by two people who rushed the stage just after he stepped to the microphone. He avoided the brunt of the contents, stepped off stage for a few minutes, and returned to deliver his speech.

“We are grateful that Mr. Friedman went on to deliver his lecture to a full audience, who gave him a standing ovation,” reads a statement from Vice President of Public Affairs Michael Chapman.

The two rushed the stage with the pies, and then threw fliers into the crowd which aired their criticisms of Friedman’s views on the free market and climate change.

“Freedom of speech is prized on a university campus,” Chapman said in his statement, “While Brown students are encouraged to express their opinions on any subject and in a variety of forums, the University does not tolerate such assaults against a speaker or disrupting the right of others to hear a speaker’s perspectives.”

The student was placed in the custody of the Department of Public Safety. The school in a statement said it will review the incident through a “non-academic disciplinary system,” and determine what to do from there.

The Brown Daily Herald has more details and a photo of the apprehended pie thrower. The assailants called themselves the “Greenwash Guerillas.”

A female audience member ran on stage last night and threw a green pie at New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, who had just begun a lecture on environmentalism in Salomon 101. The woman had been sitting in the south side of the auditorium’s front row when she pulled the pie out of a Brown Bookstore plastic bag that had been tucked in a red backpack and leapt out of her seat.

At the same time the woman threw the pie, a male accomplice seated a few rows back ran down the aisle and onto the stage, throwing small pamphlets explaining the actions into the crowd.

After the pie hit Friedman and splattered on his face and torso, the two jumped offstage and ran out of the southeast exit of the building, followed closely by a man trying to catch them. A police officer also ran toward the exit but stayed inside…

…The pamphlets thrown by the male accomplice identified the pair as the “Greenwash Guerillas,” who wrote that they were acting “on behalf of the earth (sic) and all true environmentalists.”

One side of the pamphlet contains an excerpt from a September 2006 review of Friedman’s book, “The World is Flat,” written by Raymond Lotta for the journal “Revolution,” which styles itself as the “Voice of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA.” The review is highly critical of Friedman, who the review claims cannot see his own errors while “seated in the business class of his analytical jetliner.”

The other side contains five bullet-points explaining why “Thomas Friedman deserves a pie in the face,” which include reasons like “his sickeningly cheery applaud for free market capitalism’s conquest of the planet,” and “for helping turn environmentalism into a fake plastic consumer product for the privileged.”

The pamphlet declares “Thomas Friedman’s ‘Green’ as fake and toxic to human and planetary health as the cool-whip (sic) covering his face.”

***


So predictable it’s cliche. But here you go, fresh from HuffPo:

You’re right, Bulbul. As one of the main cheerleaders for the Iraq War,he got his just “desserts.”
Posted 04:43 PM on 04/23/2008

Was it humble pie, this neocon-artist needs a big slice of it.
Posted 04:25 PM on 04/23/2008

Only if the “innards” of the pie came from the horse stall…….
Posted 05:02 PM on 04/23/2008

It could be argued that a cream pie IS free speech (though a concrete pie is not). Certainly it’s one of the better means of deflating the pompous and self-important. I’ve always thought that to deliver a cream pie in a truly classy manner, one should include a cheque to cover the cost of the dry cleaner.
Posted 04:59 PM on 04/23/2008

Pie throwing is not bullying. Pie throwing tells these self-appointed MSM pundits that their clever triangulating columns and positions are simply wrong, and not at all wise. The bullies are on the other side of the equation. They squelch scientists reports for political favor. They disbelieve in evolution, photosynthesis, geological time, and whatever else their hillbilly Christians want them to disbelieve. They are criminal, and the least we can do (absent tar and feathering) is pie them.
Posted 04:28 PM on 04/23/2008

Couldn’t have happened to a nicer Zionist NeoCon. Next time hopefully it’ll be a plate of whipped fecal matter.
Posted 04:10 PM on 04/23/2008

Originally Posted by Bahet

Darn, when I saw this post was about a liberal circus I thought perhaps Al Gore was doing a high wire act and Alec Baldwin had some dancing dogs. Boy am I disappointed.

LOL ! No that thread is over in "Entertainment" - one of the "Brady" kids and one of the "Partridge Family" kids are doing a "Big Top" show ...

OBAMA: HOPE, CHANGE, AND THE OCCASIONAL SEX DREAM
Thu Jun 9, 11:33 am ET

In Part One of my new book I demonstrate that liberals have all the earmarks of mob psychology. Their myths, slogans, demands for immediate action, messianic goals, demonization of opponents, creation of political idols and occasional resorts to violence -- all this is classic herd behavior.

Because mobs are irrational, immature, subject to wild passions and infatuations, they cannot be reasoned with. And they are always dangerous.

The mob attributes of liberals we will review this week are a crowd's inability to perceive contradictions and its tendency to form an infatuation for an individual.

Consider just one blinding contradiction recently embraced by liberals.

Immediately after Jared Loughner's shooting spree in Tucson, Americans were lectured on civility by the likes of Keith "the leading terrorist group in this country right now is the Republican Party" Olbermann.

Two days after the shooting, The New York Times ran an op-ed by former Democratic congressman Paul Kanjorski (Pa.) calling for "an atmosphere of civility" to eliminate a "fear of violent confrontation." Only months earlier, Kanjorski had said of the Republican candidate for governor in Florida (now governor), Rick Scott: "They ought to have him and shoot him. Put him against the wall and shoot him."

But the media turned to one man more than any other to discuss how rhetoric can lead to violence: Al Sharpton -- someone whose rhetoric actually had inspired violent mobs.

In addition to libeling innocent men in the Tawana Brawley hoax, ginning up angry mobs outside the Central Park jogger's rapists' trial, whipping up mobs after a car accident in Brooklyn's Crown Heights neighborhood killed a black child and a rabbinical student was stabbed to death, Sharpton famously incited an anti-Semitic pogrom against a Jewish-owned clothing store in Harlem, saying, "We will not stand by and allow them to move this brother so that some white interloper can expand his business."

Someone who was listening to Sharpton later decided to storm the store and start shooting, wounding several employees, and setting a fire that killed seven people.

Of course, after all this, Sharpton became a pariah -- oh wait! In the opposite of being exiled, he became famous, ran for president as a Democrat and Al Gore kissed his ring, after these events.

In January of this year, Sharpton was repeatedly rolled out as the expert commentator on civil discourse -- on NBC's "Meet the Press," NPR, CNN and MSNBC. As MSNBC's Ed Schultz said in introducing him, "Al Sharpton is on a crusade against hate speech on talk radio."

In light of Sharpton's history, you'd think that, in the middle of the Arizona shooting being blamed on "rhetoric," someone in his organization might have said: "Boss, I'd keep a low profile for the next couple of weeks. We just don't want you to be on TV right now because someone is going to say -- 'Hey, how about Freddy's? What about Gavin Cato's funeral? Weren't you the guy stirring up the violent rabble at the trial for the Central Park jogger's rape?'"

They needn't have worried. No one brought up any of the mayhem that had followed Sharpton's speeches.

As Gustave Le Bon, the father of groupthink, explains: A crowd's "complete lack of critical spirit does not allow of its perceiving these contradictions."

Second and most obviously, liberals fanatically worship their leaders. FDR, JFK, Clinton, Obama -- they're all "rock stars" to Democrats. They're the Beatles, Elvis, Abraham Lincoln or Jesus, depending on which cliche liberals are searching for.

Nearly seven decades after FDR was president and five decades after JFK was, we still have to listen to liberals drone on about their stupendousness. It's as if Republicans demanded constant praise for Calvin Coolidge.

Even Republicans are forced to pretend to admire these profligate Democrats in order to court Democratic voters. Republicans don't mention Reagan as much, and he was a better president.

In 1992, Time magazine quoted The Boomer Report editor Cheryl Russell, saying, "Every woman I know is having sex dreams about Bill Clinton." (If you call nightmares about Bill Clinton dropping his pants "sex dreams," I guess I was, too.)

When Obama came along, guess who liberals started having sex dreams about? Yes, the big-eared beanpole. The New York Times' Judith Warner reported: "Many women -- not too surprisingly -- were dreaming about sex with the president."

Meanwhile, during Reagan's first year in office, conservatives didn't even rank him as their favorite conservative. He was assailed from the right throughout his presidency.

Republicans certainly never had sex dreams about Reagan -- nor Coolidge, Nixon or Bush. Most of the time, conservatives can barely stand their leaders. They aren't a mob.

As Gustave Le Bon explains, the "convictions of crowds assume those characteristics of blind submission, fierce intolerance, and the need of violent propaganda which are inherent in the religious sentiment."

Perhaps if they believed in a real God, liberals wouldn't have to keep creating an endless stream of human gods.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ucac/2011060...sionalsexdream

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Before any of the apologists start writing off Ann, the below are just two of the more egregious offenses Sharpton has been guilty of. The last time I posted information about Fat Al, it was deleted, i.e. not marked as not shown because of negative low rating, it was on my profile with over a 1,000 thmbs up and then suddenly completely disappeared, another example of how the media toadies to that buffoon.

"The three were successfully sued for slander and ordered to pay $345,000 in damages, the jury finding Sharpton liable for making seven defamatory statements about Pagones, Maddox for two, and Mason for one.[81] Sharpton refused to pay his share of the damages; it was later paid by a number of black business leaders"

"On May 9, 2008, the Associated Press reported that Sharpton and his businesses owed almost $1.5 million in unpaid taxes and penalties. Sharpton owed $931,000 in federal income tax and $366,000 to New York, and his for-profit company, Rev. Al Communications, owed another $176,000 to the state."

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Here is an Obama "success" story:
2-27-2011; CBO: "Stimulus Jobs Cost at Least $228,055 Each"
"The jobs that were created and saved by the economic stimulus legislation that President Barack Obama signed in February 2009 cost at least $228,055 each, according to new data from the Congressional Budget Office.
In a report released on Wednesday, the CBO said it now estimates the stimulus bill cost $821 billion, up from its original estimate of $787 billion.
The CBO also estimated that in the fourth quarter of 2010, between 1.3 and 3.5 million people were employed who would not have a job if the stimulus had not been enacted.
The CBO also estimated that between 1.4 and 3.6 million were employed as a result of the stimulus bill during the third quarter of 2010.
The figures take into account not only the new jobs believed to have been created, but also the existing jobs that were saved that would otherwise have been lost.
So the $821 billion cost of the stimulus, divided by the maximum of 3.6 million jobs the CBO believes were saved or created, equals $228,055 for each job, according to CNS News.
Taking the 1.4 million figure for jobs created or saved means each job cost $586,428.
Footnote: When President Obama signed the stimulus bill, the national unemployment rate was 8.2 percent. In January 2011, it was 9 percent."

(Well, do you feel stimulated yet?)

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"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.” "Joseph Goebbels'.

This quote wasn't origional to Goebbels or even the often mis quoted Adolf Hitler .
Several other famous indiviuals have quoted similar statements long before HItler and Goebbels.

"A lie told often enough becomes truth" - Vladimir Lenin.

There's nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it." - William James (1842-1910) The father of modern Psychology

So if you are insistant on spamming famous quotes to make your political point, at least try to give credit where credit is do. Lenin, James, Goebbels and Hitler would appreciate that.

Originally Posted by Jolie Rouge

Performance artist gives chance to "kick" Bush [i]


NEW YORK (Reuters) - New Yorkers got to kick President George W. Bush's butt on Thursday, sort of.

Performance artist Mark McGowan kicked off his bid to crawl for 72 hours across Manhattan dressed as the president, offering the opportunity to kick his backside. The controversial artist from London began his odyssey from New York's Lincoln Centre wearing a rubber George Bush mask, a business suit, knee pads, work gloves and a sign stuck to his cushioned posterior reading simply: "Kick My Ass".

>snip<
McGowan told Reuters he hopes his performance proves therapeutic to the city's denizens. But he insisted his work was no publicity stunt but art: "It's definitely an art form. "

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070223/...9Ih.HD.7vMWM0F


This is considered "art" ?

Imagine the outrage if this was even considered with the current resident of the Oval Office ??