'2016' Oscar Snub Has Filmmakers Claiming Political Bias - The Hollywood Reporter

I'm so SHOCKED....Shocked I say...that the Academy ignored this film.....as if the Academy was any kind of serious cousin to it's original self - yeah right..... 

Self important sanctimonious actors telling us how to live.....HA! 

I'd take a snub as a compliment! 

It is a good film...gives you the creeps!

Gerald Molen, who produced the Academy Award-winning 'Schindler's List,' said the box-office success of the anti-Obama documentary proves the film was a hit: "The action confirms my opinion that the bias against anything from a conservative point of view is dead on arrival in Hollywood."

Cops to Congress: We need logs of Americans' text messages......

Once again, against the Constitution...Amendment 4...but what does this Administration care???? Imagine, if you will...this was GWB...........

 AT&T, Verizon Wireless, Sprint, and other wireless providers would be required to record and store information about Americans' private text messages for at least two years, according to a proposal that police have submitted to the U.S. Congress.

CNET has learned a constellation of law enforcement groups has asked the U.S. Senate to require that wireless companies retain that information, warning that the lack of a current federal requirement "can hinder law enforcement investigations."

Change on veterans’ gun rights lights fire.....

It's called the "Arena of Ideas" you IDIOTS!

“We’re not asking for anything big,” Mr. Coburn said Thursday evening on the Senate floor. “We’re just saying that if you’re going to take away the Second Amendment rights … they ought to have it adjudicated, rather than mandated by someone who’s unqualified to state that they should lose their rights.”

The late-night tussle served to pick at the scab of the ongoing debate over Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s bid to reform the chamber’s filibuster rules to place limits on the minority party’s ability to hold up debate on legislation, however.

Disabilities Treaty Will Not Help Americans with Disabilities.....

"Committee of Experts"....now THAT'S rich!!!!!!!!! Please forward this on!!!!!!

The Geneva-based Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities would inevitably interfere with U.S. policymaking, thereby infringing on American sovereignty and intruding into matters wholly unrelated to disability rights.

To monitor implementation, human rights treaties usually establish a “committee of experts” to review reports from states parties on their compliance. States parties are required to submit periodic reports (usually every four years) to the committee detailing their compliance with the particular treaty.

Liz emerges to squash all things GOP......

Can't wait til she too "reads the Bills"....excuse me while I hack up a furball....and gives everything her Bi-Partisan consideration....Hack....hack...cough....yack!  

Hey, Massachusetts & America...you GET what you deserve!

Saturday, Warren finally publicly emerged to kick off her victory tour in Worcester. She announced her first agenda item is to end gridlock by limiting the rights of the minority party. Obviously, Lizzy got her marching orders from Reid at the freshman orientation.

When Republicans are the minority group it is perfectly acceptable to go after their rights. Any other group it wouldn’t be intolerable.

Senate to vote on U.N. Treaty: Rights of Persons with Disabilities ......

This is truly disturbing.....PLEASE call your Senator!

 “I urge you to call the Senate and beg them to vote against this,” Glenn emphasized. Later adding, “This will impact every parent and every — every parent of a disabled child and every disabled person in America. Let alone the world. It is already passed the Senate committee. It is about to go to the floor of the Senate and it must be stopped.”

Only 34 senators are needed to block the treaty that in Article 18, Section 2 states that all “children with disabilities shall be registered immediately after birth.”

“Why are we registering children with disabilities?” Glenn questioned.

One complaint prompts removal of RMV's Christmas decorations ........

ENOUGH! When are WE going to start pushing back????? WHEN???

The Registry of Motor Vehicles in Braintree took down their Christmas decorations after one customer complained.

A customer at the RMV felt it was insensitive or offensive to single out one holiday by displaying a few Christmas decorations in the lobby.

The decorations hadn't been up for long when the complaint came in this week.

A spokesperson for the RMV tells FOX 25 there wasn't much on display. The small tree, some wall decorations and a Santa Clause were enough to make one person upset and that is apparently all it took to get the decor taken down.

Before Raising Rates, Obama Aides Should Pay Their Taxes......

This is what happens when you begin to establish a "Ruling Class".....Road to Serfdom folks!

The debt among Hill employees has risen at a faster rate than the overall tax debt on the government's books, according to Internal Revenue Service data. It comes at a time when some Republican members are pushing for the firings of government workers who owe the IRS and President Obama has urged a crackdown on delinquent government contractors.

As Americans face a fiscal cliff, the Obamas make do with 54 Christmas trees.......

 "We have 54 trees in the White House," an excited Michelle Obama proudly told visitors the other day. "54! That’s a lot of trees."

In fact, the Obamas' 54 trees this year are almost 50% more Christmas trees than last year. That was during the campaign before Obama whispered a reminder to the Russians that he had to be careful until Nov. 6, when a victory would give him more "flexibility."

Now, how much carbon do you suppose those 54 trees could be sequestering had they not been chopped by this green president?

President to bypass Congress on semiautomatic weapons ban?

President to bypass Congress on semiautomatic weapons ban?

Whitlock: After Belcher tragic murder-suicide, why are Chiefs playing? ......

Though I respect his emotion, he does not know a thing about the 2nd Amendment.........

I would argue that your rationalizations speak to how numb we are in this society to gun violence and murder. We’ve come to accept our insanity. We’d prefer to avoid seriously reflecting upon the absurdity of the prevailing notion that the second amendment somehow enhances our liberty rather than threatens it.

How many young people have to die senselessly? How many lives have to be ruined before we realize the right to bear arms doesn’t protect us from a government equipped with stealth bombers, predator drones, tanks and nuclear weapons?

American Patriots and Guns .....

With that as a backdrop, I was asked this week if Patriots have an obligation to arm themselves -- to be gun owners, and be proficient at the use of arms. I thought at first the question was rhetorical, but after some consideration, I realize that there are millions of grassroots Patriots who are NOT among the 60 million plus Patriots who are already law-abiding gun owners.

Apparently, the question needs to be addressed, as the answer may not be as obvious to some folks as it should be. By way of responding to this question, let me first briefly reiterate the historical and enduring case for gun ownership, which is as relevant today and tomorrow as it was at the dawn of our national founding.

Residents Alerted to Obamas’ Hawaiian Holiday Plans .....

I do not begrudge any President and his family a vacation...but these people put a whole new spin on it. I'm still trying to pay off the last vacation we took 3 years ago.....so easy to do in this wonderful (!?) economy....

Adding to the controversy surrounding the President's visit is the cost of the trip.

With the staff, special forces, local police presence and equipment, the President's visit adds up annually to at least a $4 million vacation courtesy of the Hawaii and federal taxpayers.

Will Scott Brown's Senate Departure Prove Brief?.....

Brown has not publicly said whether he would seek a return to the upper chamber, but close observers of Massachusetts politics have few doubts that the politically gifted, charismatic, and generally popular Republican would strongly consider a bid to duplicate his special election victory in 2010, when he claimed the seat long held by Ted Kennedy.

“From what I hear from people who’ve talked to Brown and are close to him, he definitely has interest in the special, if it happens,” said a Massachusetts Republican strategist. “But he hasn’t made up his mind that if it happens, he’s definitely going to run. He’s waiting to see where the appointment process goes, and then he’ll decide.”

Obama's Tax Increases Fund Government for Eight Days.....

It's nothing more than a Class Warfare power grab....it's all about "Fairness"...who's?

The problem is that the rich don't have enough money to put so much as a dent in America's $16 trillion national debt. "If the IRS grabbed 100 percent of income over $1 million, the take would be just $616 billion," writes John Stossel. "That’s only a third of this year’s deficit. Our national debt would continue to explode."

Why Ingraham is Right and Perry is Wrong on Illegal Immigration and the Vote.......

This all precisely underscores Laura Ingraham's unapologetic post-election point, one that she has been making since November 7 -- albeit mostly in an isolated effort on the part of the vast majority of conservative radio talk show hosts. To add to her argument, one might follow with another logical question. If we are to become -- as President John Adams so ardently warned against -- a nation of men rather than a nation of laws, why even bother with elections? Obviously, once you concede your will to that which is antithetical to all you believe in, you now stand for everything -- which means, in fact, that you believe in nothing. And standing for everything and believing in nothing make for no way to win elections, much less maintain a great nation.

Glenn Beck Clashes With Mike D’Antuono Over First Amendment Hypocrisy | Video | TheBlaze.com

THIS is what honest "Debate" and the Arena of Ideas looks like for those of you who do not know.....

 “If he says the sky is blue, they are going to say it’s red. And blue is a communist color anyway. If he says he likes puppies they are going to say, well, he hates kittens,” he said. “So he was being crucified no matter what he did.”

Then Beck applied the hypocrisy test: “Would you think that you would ever paint something of me, that I am crucified by the Left?”

“Well, uh, I haven’t given that any consideration,” D’Antuono replied.

Republicans Control Best-Run States in America, 24/7 Wall St. Survey Shows.....

...And we're surprised why???

The list is based on a review of data for financial health, standard of living and government services. While noting that current situations may stem from decisions made years ago and that external factors like weather can be as much to blame as poor governance, 24/7 Wall St. also points out that all of the high-ranking states have “well-managed budgets” and the worst states have “high debt relative to both income and expenditure.”

Liberals Respond to Beck’s ‘Obama in Pee Pee’ Artwork.......

Funny when shoe is on the LEFT foot!

Of course, the Twitter rants didn’t end there. Someone else told Beck, “I hope you enjoy hell as*hole.” Another more sinister message read, “I’d like to put ‘Beck’ in his jar urine with his GOP buddies. Then put an air tight lid on it.” Discussion wasn’t limited only to Twitter.

Legislature grants raises to staff, despite fiscal crunch.....

DO you know who they are?????!!!

Legislative leaders quietly handed out pay raises to their staff last week, despite a looming budget crunch that has prompted Governor Deval Patrick to freeze pay raises for low-wage human services workers and weigh a new round of spending cuts.

Did massive gun sales crash the FBI’s background checking system? .....

 That decline was not seen in one very specific area of the retail business, gun sales. According to the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF), gun sales — based on Black Friday background checks — set a new record, jumping by 20%. The surge in gun sales was so great that many retailers reported extended wait times in order to get applications processed by the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS).

A new single-day record for point-of-sale background checks was established on Black Friday, November 23, when 154,873 were conducted by the FBI.

The Truth About Pledges .....

"An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy; because there is a limit beyond which no institution and no property can bear taxation." --John Marshall

The Fiscal Cliff: Absolutely everything you could possibly need to know.......

Analysts disagree on exactly how quickly the recession would begin. That’s why the “cliff” metaphor is inapt. If financial markets freak out, it might happen very quickly, proving the “cliff” imagery correct. But it might happen gradually, affirming those who’ve argued it’s a “slope.”

Claptrap About Compromise.....

Today's redistributionists in America don't have bank robbery in their pasts but they do accept organized theft as the norm of politics. They see all wealth belonging to the state automatically, which is why they count all tax cuts as "government spending" and why they feel entitled to hike up taxes whenever a self-inflicted "crisis" appears.

Taxpayers didn't cause the "fiscal cliff" emergency; derelict pols did. But the taxpayers, not the pols, will pay for it. To pay off their debts, pols will first rob the rich and then move on to the middle class, where much greater potential tax revenue resides.

Ann Coulter: Romney was not the problem......

 The idea that Romney failed to present a clear contrast with Obama or was too “nice” is also nonsense. If Republicans continue to tell themselves comforting myths about our candidate being the problem, they better get used to losing a lot more elections.

The only Republican to defeat a sitting president in the last century was Ronald Reagan in 1980, when he beat Jimmy Carter, the second-worst president in U.S. history (pending the final results of Obama’s second term). Because of that, and also because he is in the top two best American presidents, Reagan’s example is worth studying.

Mitt Romney: A good man. The right fight........

When much of what passes for a political intelligentsia these days predicted that the selection of Rep. Paul Ryan meant certain death on the third rail of Medicare and Social Security, Mitt Romney brought the fight to the Democrats and made the rational, persuasive case for entitlement reform that conservatives have so desperately needed. The nation listened, thought about it — and on Election Day, Mitt Romney carried seniors by a wide margin. And it’s safe to say that the entitlement discussion will never be the same.

The Left's Scrooge McDuck Mythology of the Wealthy.....

The money is just sitting there. Never mind Scrooge McDuck earned the money; he isn't using it, so McDuck doesn't need it. In fact, McDuck would still be rich if he gave over half of it away to those who really need it -- like kids in Mexico, the Philippines, and Afghanistan. Obviously, the rich foreigners, like McDuck, are selfish jerks for not sharing their 'luck.'

Student-Loan Delinquencies Now Surpass Credit Cards......

Moreover, the actual rate of student loan delinquency is far higher than the official tally suggests. According to the New York Fed, “these delinquency rates for student loans are likely to understate actual delinquency rates because almost half of these loans are currently in deferment, in grace periods or in forbearance and therefore temporarily not in the repayment cycle.”

D.C. Suburb Spending $100K on ‘Application Assistance’ for Illegals Seeking Obama's 'Deferred Action'......

Run for the hills...all hope is lost.......JEEZ!

Officials in Montgomery County, Maryland, an affluent suburb of Washington, D.C., voted to approve $100,000 of public money to help illegal aliens sign up for President Barack Obama’s administrative amnesty program for certain young illegal immigrants.

An Overdue Book....

Since Who's The Fairest of Them All? was published in October, there was little chance that it would affect this year's election. But this little gem of a book exposes, in plain language and with easily understood facts, the whole house of cards of assumptions, fallacies, and falsehoods which constitute the liberal vision of the economy.

Two-thirds of millionaires left Britain to avoid 50p tax rate......same will happen here.....

THIS is what cracks me up....the successful and wealthy didn't become that way by being foolish. 

And assuming the Government can handle your money better than you can is FOOLISH. Nothing is static. 

For Warren Buffett to say we need higher taxes because he doesn't pay enough ( which is a TOTAL falsehood considering he already paid full taxes on his money PRIOR to paying his investment tax....oh, why bother...)...he KNOWS it's a fallacy. He knows it's a lie. 

Nobody is just going to "roll over" and take it....they make decisions to protect what is theirs....as THEY SHOULD. 

Almost two-thirds of the country’s million-pound earners disappeared from Britain after the introduction of the 50p top rate of tax, figures have disclosed.

Blog: Civility lessons from the left

Beside the fact these people are Morons....I've been thinking about the Tea Party alot for the last six months....

How did we allow a "group" of people with Constitutional Ideals as their tenant be so demonized and lied about by the Left?

How did WE allow that to happen? It isn't even a "real" Party....all though the way the GOP Leadership is behaving of late...the Tea Party looks better by the day.....

We have only ourselves to blame.

I've been to numerous Tea Party gatherings...and all I see are families, kids, people worried about our country and paid Union Thugs trying to stop our speakers.....

HOW did we allow this to happen? I think they fear us...

 ... these teabag bastards, who by the way, I just wish they would all go away, or like in Passover, I just wish there was an angel of the Lord that would pass over, instead of killing the first born in all the households of Egypt, just wipe out all the teabaggers. Just, you know, the terrible swift sword, just (Malloy emulates sound of sword cutting repeatedly through the air) lop their heads off.

Alabama Takes a Stand Against Soros-Backed ‘Agenda 21′ .....

Educate yourselves about this....don't let "Spooky Dude" destroy us from within......

Although the U.N.’s George Soros-backed plan for “Sustainable Development” (also known as “Agenda 21”) seems to have gone largely unnoticed by many Americans, the shadowy, backdoor attack on personal property rights didn’t slip past the people of Alabama.

Empty Embrace… Hurricane Sandy Victim Upset After Being Played By Obama .......

"Played" by our President....NO!....Really!?..... I'd dare say his entire Presidency is an "Empty Embrace"....

 I was very excited and felt warm by the embrace thinking this is really going to happen. I’m going to get the help I need because he promised that. I’ve gotten no help. I’ve gotten nothing but ‘No, you’re not covered for this. No, you’re not covered for that.”

Black Friday: Treasury Borrowed $211.69 Per U.S. Household on Day After Thanksgiving.....

Only on Friday - when you want to dump bad news....REALLY bad news...dump on Black Friday - when NOBODY is watching.....

The U.S. Treasury increased the net debt of the United States $24,327,048,384.38 on the day after Thanksgiving, which equals approximately $211.69 for each of the nation’s 114,916,000 households.

Protests rock Egypt after Morsi seizes more power...

...And we are surprised a dictator would seize more power....? REALLY?!

Morsi called "pharaoh" for seizing new powers

Morsi's decree exempting all his decisions from legal challenge until a new parliament was elected caused fury amongst his opponents on Friday who accused him of being the new Hosni Mubarak and hijacking the revolution.

Magical thinking about Amnesty......

Interesting case against Amnesty...

Instead, California is living proof of the harmful economic impact caused by mass immigration. Over the last two decades, California grew by 10 million new people, but gained only 150,000 new taxpayers. As a study by a team of economic and public policy professors found, "From the mid-1980s to 2005, California's population grew by 10 million, while Medicaid recipients soared by seven million; tax filers paying income taxes rose by just 150,000; and the prison population swelled by 115,000." This is the make-up of a demographic and economic catastrophe, and it is the open borders Republican model for the rest of the nation.

Few crimes committed by concealed-carry permit holders in Kansas ....

Of the 51,078 permits that have been issued by the state since the law took effect in 2007, 44 permit holders have been charged with a crime while using a firearm through late October, according to records provided by the Kansas Attorney General’s Office.

That works out to one charge for every 1,161 permit holders, or 0.09 percent.

Social Security and the Politics of Deceit....

Joe Biden's simplistic remark belies a horrific lack of understanding regarding the reality of investing versus the broken promises of Social Security. The erroneous comment by Biden about the market and his disingenuous explanation of what life would have been like had you been able to make your own decisions with Social Security funds underscores the problems our nation faces in understanding the results of the 2012 presidential election.

We Don't Know Why We Lost Because We Don't Know Who We Are.....

Interesting Read....

 Theories abound regarding the Republican implosion on November 6th. If you are an avid reader, you no doubt have read the gamut of postulation. We've seen the far right conclude we need to move further right. The Rockefeller wing (yes, it is much smaller, but it's still there) says we need to slide to the left! The mainstream media and the left (if you can separate the two) have pretty much just written us off as irrelevant. To date, I don't think anyone has it quite right, so I now attempt to crack the code. Some of you may not like it.

DEMOCRAT BILL LETS FEDS READ YOUR EMAIL.......

Now imagine the SCREAMS about privacy if it were a Republican doing this?! It must be stopped regardless.....

A Senate proposal touted as protecting Americans' e-mail privacy has been quietly rewritten, giving government agencies more surveillance power than they possess under current law.

CNET has learned that Patrick Leahy, the influential Democratic chairman of the Senate Judiciary committee, has dramatically reshaped his legislation in response to law enforcement concerns. A vote on his bill, which now authorizes warrantless access to Americans' e-mail, is scheduled for next week.

Alsip, Illinois Cancels Water Tower Christmas Cross.....

If they eliminate the presence of god, religion...the tenants of our Founding...they begin to successfully remove the linch pins that hold it all together.

However, this year, facing threats of a costly legal battle, Mayor Patrick Kitching is discontinuing the festive display. Using a tactic that it frequently relies upon, the FFRF threatens lawsuits as a means of intimidating communities into removing religious displays from public property — a plan that has, in instances like this one, proven effective.

Not wanting to waste public dollars on a costly lawsuit that Alsip would potentially lose, the mayor made the tough choice to nix the tradition.

Marco Rubio and the age of the Earth....

Marco captures what is wrong with us right now...as a country. " It’s ok for one side to express their view and the other side needs to be quiet.". I see this so often. 

A discussion either turns into a shouting match or one side walks off if the other doesn't ENTIRELY embrace what they have to say.

I'm Conservative....will be til the day I die. However, I have alot of democratic friends...and Moonbat friends. However...98% of them will TALK...yes, talk about what they believe and WHY! 

I learn...they learn.....we do "battle" in the Arena of ideas....where this country came from! 

That’s exactly what all of this is about. Rubio has named the game, and correctly defined the core rules. It’s all about finding wedge issues where people have been instructed that it’s not okay to “agree to disagree.” The same-sex marriage movement doesn’t convey any sense that it finds itself engaged in heartfelt discourse over a difficult subject with honorable opponents. If you disagree with them, you shouldn’t even be allowed to sell chicken sandwiches.

The Norwegian Left’s KGB Romance.....

Yes, he used the same term (overmenneske in Norwegian, bermensch in the original German) as was employed by the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche about exceptional human beings above normal morality, which was also used or misused by the Nazis for their own purposes. This is an embarrassing reminder of the tradition for personality cults surrounding various left-wing leaders throughout history, most of them deeply flawed.

Hollywood Reporter Apologies for Blacklist, Ignores 2012 Conservative Edition......

Left unsaid, once more, is the lack of concern about a less official but still pernicious blacklist going on in 2012. Conservatives in Hollywood face varying degrees of punishment for their beliefs, from angry whispers to outright job discrimination.

CBS Praises Obama for Post-Sandy Visit, Attacked Bush for Same with Katrina......

Drive-by Media double standard...nooooo.....REALLY?!

 CBS News aired a segment full of praise for President Obama's visit to Staten Island in the wake of Hurricane Sandy Friday. But this positive spin is in stark contrast to the scolding the network gave President Bush when he visited the Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005.

West Seeks Emergency Hearing....

Amazing....If people outside your control drag their feet during a re-count- they can put anyone into Office....

Rep. Allen West (R-FL) is seeking an emergency hearing after his challenger, Democrat Patrick Murphy, declared victory in Florida's 18th congressional district race on Sunday. Murphy declared victory after the St. Lucie County canvassing board missed a noon deadline to file its election results.

Treasury Secretary Geithner: Lift Debt Limit to Infinity .....

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said Friday that Congress should stop placing legal limits on the amount of money the government can borrow and effectively lift the debt limit to infinity.

On Bloomberg TV, “Political Capital” host Al Hunt asked Geithner if he believes “we ought to just eliminate the debt ceiling.”

“Oh, absolutely,” Geithner said.

“You do? Will you propose that?” Hunt asked.

White House Deleted Al Qaeda From CIA Talking Points - 'Benghazi-gate'.....

Senior Republican members of Congress confirmed Sunday that the Obama administration changed CIA guidance to senior officials that had identified the Sept. 11 attack in Benghazi as an al Qaeda attack.

“The intelligence community had it right, and they had it right early,” said chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Rep. Mike Rogers (R., Mich.).

The CIA “talking points” on Benghazi initially identified the attackers as al Qaeda or al Qaeda-linked terrorists but senior administration officials removed the reference, Rogers said on NBC’s Meet the Press.

Santa Monica Nativity Scenes Sues Over Nativity Display ......

“It’s a sad, sad commentary on the attitudes of the day that a nearly 60-year-old Christmas tradition is now having to hunt for a home, something like our savior had to hunt for a place to be born because the world was not interested,” said Hunter Jameson, head of the nonprofit Santa Monica Nativity Scene Committee that is suing.

Missing from the courtroom drama will be Vix and his fellow atheists, who are not parties to the case. Their role outside court highlights a tactical shift as atheists evolve into a vocal minority eager to get their non-beliefs into the public square as never before.

Twitter users creeped out by Obama mural in Burma.....

This Obama mural in Burma is way creepy.

Paul Ryan Emerges as Power Broker in Fiscal Talks ......

Speaker John A. Boehner has tapped Mr. Ryan, who has returned to his post as the House Budget Committee chairman after an unsuccessful run for vice president, to help strike a deal to avoid big tax increases and spending cuts by the end of the year, and to bring along fellow Republicans.

“He helps us toward creating a product,” said Senator Rob Portman, Republican of Ohio, “and he helps sell the product.”