Told You "Occupy" Was A SCAM

The Self Proclaimed Founder Of Occupy LOVES Wall Street.

Hey folks,

Don't tell me that the "Occupy" Movement is Grassroots. You look like a Fool. Do not tell me they represent most Americans. Hell, MOST of them have no Idea why they are even Participating themselves. Do not tell me that there is no one behind this. WE KNOW there is. However, back on 10/25/2011, one Card Carrying Member of the LWL {Left Wing Loons}actually stood up and took Credit for it. She said this...

“I created much of the intellectual foundation for what they do,” the Harvard Law School professor and former Obama administration consumer advocate told Samuel P. Jacobs of The Daily Beast. “I support what they do.”

Yup, her name is Elizabeth Warren. The Self Proclaimed Founder Of "Occupy," or at least the "Intellectual Foundation," for the "Movement," SUPPORTS Steeling, Rape, Drugs, taking dumps on Police Cars, Exposing themselves to Passers By. Good to know. She is currently running against Scott Brown for the U.S. Senate in Massachusetts.

So this GENIUS, the "Intellectual Foundation" of the "Occupy Movement" is calling Senator Brown “Wall Street’s favorite Senator.” She has also denounced “Wall Street cash in politics.” Sounds like a Good Little Occupier. Does she not? Well?? According to the The Boston Herald - Wall Street money for Warren

I thought Elizabeth Warren was all about transparency. We are all still waiting for her to file the required financial disclosure form.

The Oklahoma Professor has been criticizing Scott Brown for being “Wall Street’s favorite Senator.” She has also denounced “Wall Street cash in politics.”

But it turns out she may be indirectly accepting Wall Street money. The Democrat Senatorial Campaign Committee, which is helping the Harvard Professor, has taken over $40 million from Wall Street during the last 7 years according to records from OpenSecrets.org. In fact, Wall Street is the biggest contributors to them. They beat lawyers and labor union. Just during this election season the DSCC has already received $1.5 million from Wall Street.

If Lizzy Warden is truly opposed to Wall Street money, then shouldn't she reject the DSCC’s money? Otherwise she is just using the DSCC to funnel in Wall Street money.

OF COURSE she is funneling Wall Street Money through the Democrat Party. Just like the Occupiers demanded FREE Stuff from those they were Protesting. Tents, Sleeping Bags, Food, ETC. Typical Liberals. They LOVE to "Feel" but lack the ability to Think, Reason, or ACT in a Reasonable Adult Manner.

Again, look at the two. The Tea Party? Tens of Thousands of People. Music and fun. They go home to REAL Jobs. Ask ANYONE there, they can tell you WHY they are there. They can give you a CLEAR Concise explanation for the Movement itself. Unless you saw it on the News, or you were there, you would not even KNOW that they were there. No one is Paid to be there. No one is Bused it to inflate numbers. The Media HATES them because they are REAL.

Occupy,,Whatever. Hundreds {Maybe} of People. PAID BUSED IN Protesters. Theft, Rape, Personal Property Damage, No one goes home, well except the "Leaders." After they go to the Bank. They turn the place they are in into Pig Styes that someone ELSE has to come in and Clean. The Majority of them have no idea why they are they, but HEY, they have nothing better to do away. The Media LOVES them, because they are TOLD to Love them.

So do not be mislead folks, those behind Occupy Whatever, have no problems with Wall Street, as long as Wall Street keeps giving them money. Oh, and Wells Fargo holds the money they get for the Occupy "Movement." The real difference in the two Movements. One is REAL. The other is Contrived.
Peter

Sources:
The Boston Herald - Wall Street money for Warren
Professor Bainbridge.com Stephen Bainbridge's Journal of Law, Politics, and Culture 10/25/2011

The REAL Reason That The OWS Is Being Broken Up

The reason that the Obama Run State Run MMD Won't tell you.

Hey folks,

Happy Thursday to ya. Hope you are well. I'm not. Again. Tis the Season. Feeling it again in my Chest. I don't get Colds anymore. When I get sick, I get SICK. Bronchitis and Pneumonia is all but expected. So Yesterday was spent pumping up my system with Vit C and Antioxidants, Sleep, and Prayers that it will pass. Today will be much the same. But here I am.

So some of you are wondering what happened. Why is there this movement all across America to break up the OWS Crowd? The Occupy Crowd. Why are the Governors and Police, who once supported them, now moving in to shut them down? The answer is simple folks. One that some of you will not like. The reason that the Obama Run State Run MMD Won't tell you. The reason is they are turning on Obama.

Remember back at the beginning. When Occupy Wall Street first started in NYC, the Media came out of the wood work. "This is the Liberal Tea Party Movement." This is REAL America. The Tea Party? "Nah, they are pointless. They are nothing. They are not a real Movement. But the OWS? They are the real deal." There were like 100 or 200 people at the time. But they were the real deal. This is what we were told.

Then the "Movement" grew. A small group here and there started popping up. Then we learned that MOST of there Idiots were being PAID $300 to $600 bucks a week to be there. Then we learn that some of the Marching orders came from the White House itself. Then we learned that they were being BUSSED in by Unions. Oh, there were real Protesters showing up. There really were. Problem is, they had NO IDEA why they were there. I remember when some News Guy asked one of the Protesters "Why are you here?" The Protester turned to his friend and said "Why are we here?" His friend said, and I kid you not, "Weed and Chicks Man!"

Then, in a vain attempt to appear legit, they come out with a list of demands. ALL of which were Patently Absurd. Forgive all debt, ETC. Tea Party Message? WE are in debt. STOP SPENDING. Get Government OUT of people's private lives. Follow the Constitution. OWS? Forgive all Debt, Obamacare, Outlaw Credit Reporting Agencies, Open Borders, Unions, ETC. EVERYTHING on the Liberal Agenda. Some of this might as well been written by the White House.

So what happened? More and more Americans started to see them as nothing more than a Joke. The Polling started going down like a rock falling in the water. Then the final straw? Some of the REAL Protesters, those not being paid, started to tell the TRUTH. They started to Blame OBAMA!!! Holding up signs and such. They are starting to hold Obama accountable. His policies. His agendas. HIM.

WAIT!!!! What? No! We can't have that. Break it up. Here we go. Want proof? Check this out. According to The New York Times - Occupy Protesters Mobilize for Obama’s Visit By MATT FLEGENHEIMER 10:06 p.m. Updated

More than 100 Occupy Wall Street protesters marched to a Midtown hotel on Wednesday night to protest a fund-raising event for President Obama.

Escorted by police vehicles as they helped snarl traffic across the Times Square area, beginning at Bryant Park, the group settled in front of barricades on the southwest corner of 53rd Street and Seventh Avenue, in view of the Sheraton hotel at which Mr. Obama was expected to appear by 9 p.m.

Demonstrators held signs that leveled some of the Occupy protest’s most pointed criticism to date of the president. “Obama is a corporate puppet,” one said. “War crimes must be stopped, no matter who does them,” read another, beside head shots of President George W. Bush and President Obama.

One man, wearing a mask of the president’s face and holding a cigar, carried a sign that read, “I sold out!”

THAT is why folks. Obama doesn't want this. He wants them to blame the Millionaires and Billionaires. But now some of them, and for a while, some of them, are telling the truth. It REALLY IS Obama a Crew that are destroying America. Oh they attack Businesses that do not support Obama, but they protect those businesses that DO. "But Pete, don't you think that there is at least a possibility that Obama MAY be behind this as well?" Read on.

Ben Campbell, 28, one of the march’s organizers, said he hoped to prove to skeptics of the protests that the demonstrators were political critics of equal opportunity.

“President Obama is coming to town solely to raise money from the richest of the rich,” Mr. Campbell said.

But this is not how Obama and Crew, including the Mainstream Media Drones, they do NOT operate like this. They do not want ANY Criticism directed at Obama whatsoever. Whatever happened to Cindy Sheehan? Did she die? Did she launch into Space? Fall off the Earth? No. She is still out there. We are still at War, Gitmo still open. Wiretaps still going on. Yet? The MMD actually told Cindy in the Beginning of Obama, "Just go away." Remember that?

No folks, we know that there was a conference call by Governors in the States were the Occupy Crowd has gathered, how the best way to break them up is. We learned that there may very well be a connection with the White House. Now the OWS Crowd is under attack. Why? Simple. They went off script. They started telling the Truth. They started ATTACKING Obama. If they know it or not, they ARE attacking Liberalism and all it's Ideas. Therefore, they now must go.
Peter

Sources:
The New York Times - Occupy Protesters Mobilize for Obama’s Visit

So Glad OWS Is Such A Peacful Movement.

Maybe the Tea Party should learn something from these Pigs, uh, Liberal Protesters.

Hey folks,

I HAVE to comment on this. I clinked on Drudge Friday Afternoon. What did I see? Got to love these Headlines:

Dead man in Salt Lake City...
Tuberculosis in Atlanta...
'Zuccotti Lung' on Wall Street...
Suicide in Vermont...
Murder in Oakland...

Seriously folks, check these out.

Dead man in Salt Lake City... :

Man found dead in Pioneer Park, Occupy SLC ordered to leave both camps. It appears as though the death may have been the result of both carbon monoxide poisoning and a drug overdose, police said.

Tuberculosis in Atlanta...:

Tuberculosis Breaks Out At Occupy Atlanta’s Base November 10, 2011 1:55 PM ATLANTA (CBS Atlanta) – The home base for Occupy Atlanta has tested positive for tuberculosis.

The Fulton County Health Department confirmed Wednesday that residents at the homeless shelter where protesters have been occupying have contracted the drug-resistant disease.

'Zuccotti Lung' on Wall Street... :

Protesters Coming Down With the "Zuccotti Lung" Park conditions put demonstrators at risk for variety of sicknesses, officials say.

Suicide in Vermont...:

Future of Occupy Burlington encampment uncertain after police clear City Hall Park to investigate man's death Just a day after the joyful spontaneity of a Gogol Bordello performance Wednesday night at City Hall Park, Thursday’s shooting that police believe may have been self-inflicted spiraled into a tense confrontation between Burlington police and some protesters over access to the park.

Murder in Oakland...:

Occupy Oakland: Man shot to death near camp Matthai Kuruvila,Demian Bulwa, Chronicle Staff Writers Friday, November 11, 2011 A young man was fatally shot Thursday evening just yards from the Occupy Oakland encampment outside City Hall. And before the ambulance had even pulled away, people were debating whether the killing was somehow linked to the month-old gathering.

I just could believe this. They say that the Tea Party Protests were nothing. That the Occupy Wall Street Protests are the Real Deal. Lets compare. Shall we?

The Tea Party gathers. Most on their Days Off. They HAVE Jobs. They Cheer, Applaud, State their Clear and Concise Message. Have Speakers. Clean up. Go home.

OWS? See above. Along with all that. Their message is deluded. Most are being PAID to be there, or have no idea WHY they are there. Ask for Free Stuff from those they are Protesting. Then deposit money in the Evil Wells Fargo Bank. They also defecate on Police Cars, Masturbate in Public. Rape and Steal. They turn the Places they are staying at into a Pig Sty, cause Property Damage, and they refuse to feed the Homeless. You know, those less fortunate than themselves?

Yet the Media PRAISE OSW, while denouncing the Tea Party. I guess maybe they are right? After reading the above Headlines, for just one day? Maybe the Tea Party should learn something from these Pigs, uh, Liberal Protesters. Maybe this is how the Media sees a successful, peaceful, and meaningful, Protest. Maybe this is how the Media sees all Americans. This IS the Liberal Base. This IS who these people are. They are what the Liberals have created. Sad thing is, their numbers are growing. More and more people are being taught Entitlements. More and more People in this country want someone to take care of them Cradle to the Grave. They have become Ignorant, Lawless, Greedy, Pigs.

Truth is though, the REAL America? The American not in the Spotlight of the Media? They ARE the Tea Party. They ARE Christian. They ARE Conservative. Thankfully, they are also DONE. We tried Liberalism. Full on, unadulterated, Liberalism. We are far worse off than we have ever been. That Bubble I told you about? It's bursting all over the place. People are waking up and realizing that Liberalism is not something to compromise with. It is something that needs to be defeated. Done away with. This Country needs to be reversed. It needs to be taken back from the likes of Obama and Crew.

2012 is right around the Corner. I guess we will see who shows up to Vote. I am confident that there are not enough of these OWS Kooks out there to pull it off. I would like to think that there are not enough Brain Dead Sheeple out there to help them pull it out. If REAL Americans show up. We will easily throw all these Bums out. We will be on the right track to reverse some of the Damage they have caused. I NEW Dawn of Hope and Change will be birthed. We can not afford another 4 years. We just can't.
Peter

IWA For Sunday 022011

This is Pathetically Hilarious

Hey folks,

Time to wrap things up with the Idiot of the Week. This week was pretty easy. I mean, I know that this guy is doing his Job. He is TRYING REALLY HARD to do his Job. He is persistent. He is frustrated. He just ends up making up the outcome he was TRYING to do. However, it is a CLEAR message. One that his Boss already knows. The magic is gone.

Do you remember when Obama was running? Right after he won? He would travel, not only around the Country, but all over the World. Wherever Obama went, he was treated like a Rock Star. A Superhero. A god. He was the Magic Man. The One. People cheering, and fainting. Etc.

Now? He is no longer the Magic Man. He is no longer a god. He is no longer a Superhero, nor a Rock Star. The majority of Americans want him to leave Office after one term. No matter how hard the Obama State Run Media tries, the American People are having none of it.

However, SURELY the World loves us now. They still love Obama, So they go over to Egypt to find some people to put on Camera. They send our Idiot over there. Senior International Correspondent for CNN Nic Robertson.

Now Nic looks hard and far. Someone, ANYONE that will give Obama Credit for their, uh, "New found Freedom." He comes across Achmed. Here is the Exchange. Thank You Rush.

ROBERTSON: Achmed, you've been here down here on the Square for many days. The United States and the international community. You've just listened to President Obama saying that America will support Egypt if it wants help and assistance, and hopes that there will be a good transition for jobs for the young people. What would be your message for President Obama?

ACHMED: We don't know, actually, who he supports. He serves for his own purposes, and the Egyptian people serve for our freedom and democracy. Any democratic country should see for the people, not for its own purposes.

Translation? Obama WHO? {Laughing}So he continues to look for someone, anyone, to give Credit to Obama. He finds Mustapha

ROBERTSON: Mustapha is joining me now. We just heard President Obama say that he wants to extend, eh, support and assistance to Egypt and Egyptians if they want any, and he hopes that there are more jobs for the young people in the future. What's your message for President Obama?

MUSTAPHA: Well, my message to President Obama is just, "We started this revolution without any outside help, and we are going to finish it also without any outside help."

Translation? Obama WHO? But it's our Idiots Job to get someone to praise Obama. He persists with Mustapha

ROBERTSON: Are you pleased that President Obama has come out, however, now and said he supports this change and supports the people and supports the young people and -- and what they've done?

MUSTAPHA: Well, actually President Obama's views were kind of conflicting during the last week but now he's saying that he's supporting the change.

{Laughing} So try as hard as he could, he could NOT find someone to Praise Obama. He could not find someone that was even HAPPY with Obama. So how does he report this?

ROBERTSON: The view from here is one of very happy to now hear that President Obama has swung behind the people.

{Laughing, banging hand on Desk} "The view from here is one of very happy to now hear that President Obama has swung behind the people." Really? "Well, my message to President Obama is just, "We started this revolution without any outside help, and we are going to finish it also without any outside help."And "We don't know, actually, who he supports. He serves for his own purposes, and the Egyptian people serve for our freedom and democracy. Any democratic country should see for the people, not for its own purposes." Yeah they sound really happy about Obama. Right?

Congratulations Nic Robertson, you ARE the Idiot of the Week. Now nobody can deny that you were not at least TRYING to do your Job. But CLEARLY, you did not get the outcome you were looking for. Making it up AFTER the two you RECORDED, is fooling no one. {Laughing} But hey, thanks for the Laugh. I needed that. {Smile}
Peter

Sources:
Rush Limbaugh Radio Show - State-Run Media Beg Egyptian Citizens to Praise Pharaoh Obama

Pelsoi Called It AstroTurf, Is THAT Wisconsin?

Keep up the good work Gov. Walker..

Hey folks,

Happy Friday to you. Time to check in with the Emails. Have you been following what is going on in Wisconsin? Just like New Jersey, the PEOPLE Voted a guy in, they want him to bring about REAL change. He is DOING it. The Liberals are TICKED OFF! But the PEOPLE are happy.

"How can you say the people are happy Pete? Have you not seen the protests?" Yes. Yes, I have. But this is NOT a Tea Party type movement. This is TOTALLY Orchestrated by the Unions. Now, Obama may even get involved. I'm not kidding.

According to Red State.com - As Wisconsin Implodes, White House Plans Meeting With AFL-CIO War CouncilPosted by LaborUnionReport Thursday, February 17th at 6:00PM EST

Today is the third straight day of protests in Madison, Wisconsin as Barack Obama’s shock troops storm the state capitol to fight Governor Walker’s plan to reform the public-sector scam that has ravaged that state for decades.

As Democrats fled the statehouse (to an apparently non-union hotel in Illinois) to avoid doing the duties they were elected for and capitol staffers were told to lock their doors, the impression that the rest of America may have is that this is a “spontaneous” uprising (sort of like Tunisia and Egypt were supposed to be spontaneous). However, if that’s what you’re thinking, you couldn’t be more mistaken.

Despite his feigning ignorance on the situation in Wisconsin, the President’s background is as a “community organizer,” working with groups like ACORN and the SEIU. As a community organizer, their modus operandi is to make it seem as though marches and protests are “popular uprisings” [yeah, Mubarek got pwned].

Because of this background, this should come as no surprise to you…

According to the DNC’s activist arm OFA, “Organizing for America is mobilizing on the ground in Wisconsin…”

That’s right. The Democrat National Committee’s Organizing for America (along with their union boss buddies) are helping to orchestrate the “uprising” in Madison.

[Perhaps that's what Nancy Pelosi means by "astroturf."]

You can follow the OFA tweets from Wisconsin here.

However, it gets even better.

On March 4th, [via Politico] a closed-door meeting is being held at the AFL-CIO headquarters to ostensibly discuss the 2010 elections. The presenters include operatives from the AFL-CIO, DSCC, DGA and operatives from other “shadowy outside groups.”
Here’s the schedule (and list of speakers):

National Briefing (9:00am)

•Joel Benenson, Benenson Strategy Group
•Nathan Daschle, Former DGA Executive Director
•JB Poersch, Former DSCC Executive Director
•Jon Vogel, Former DCCC Executive Director
•Mike Podhorzer, AFL-CIO

Nevada Panel (10:30am)

•Travis Brock, Former Nevada Democratic Party ED
•Lorena Chambers, Chambers Lopez & Gaitán
•Brandon Hall, Former Reid Manager
•Jill Hanauer, Project New West
•Craig Varoga & George Rakis, Patriot Majority
Wisconsin Panel (10:30am)

•Heather Colburn, Political Consultant
•Paul Maslin, FM3
•Mike Tate, Democratic Party of Wisconsin

Ohio Panel (1:00pm)

•Doug Kelly & Lauren Groh-Wargo, Ohio Democratic Party
•Aaron Pickrell, Former Strickland Manager
•Will Robinson, The New Media Project

Colorado Panel (1:00pm)

•Guy Cecil, DSCC Executive Director
•Paul Harstad, Harstad Research
•Steve Stenberg, The Strategy Group

New Hampshire Panel (1:00pm)

•Nick Baldick, Hilltop Public Solutions
•Matt Hogan, Anzalone Research
•Valerie Martin, Former Hodes manager
•Ed Peavy, Mission Control

Florida Panel (2:30pm)

•Dave Beattie, Hamilton Campaigns
•New Mexico Panel (2:30pm)
•Dawn Laguens, LKK Partners
•Mike Bocian, Greenberg Quinlan Rosner

Iowa Panel (2:30pm)

•Pete Giangreco, The Strategy Group
•Jeff Link, Link Strategies
•John Lapp, Ralston Lapp Media
•Jef Pollock, Global Strategy Group

Minnesota Panel (4:00pm)

•Jeff Blodgett, Wellstone Action
•Andy O’Leary, Minnesota DFL
•Robert Richman, Grassroots Solutions

Pennsylvania Panel (4:00pm)

•JJ Balaban, The Campaign Group
•Kevin Mack, Mack Crounse Group
•David Petts, Bennett, Petts & Normington

Michigan Panel (4:00pm)

•Amy Chapman, Grassroots Democrats
•Mark Brewer, Michigan Democratic Party
•Wendy Fields Jacobs, UAW
•Walt Herzig, Former Bernero Manager

As stated on another post, the battle is in front of you.

This is just the beginning.

Did you see where yesterday, all the Senate Democrats got on one bus and left the State. {Laughing}To avoid the Vote, instead of DOING THEIR JOB, they got up and left. Which really tells you who these people are. They took their ball and went home. They wanted nothing to do with a Vote they KNOW they will lose. How many of you out there think you would still have a Job if YOU got up and walked out. Cowards and Idiots all. They should just Vote No. When the Unions are protesting, they can PROVE that they Voted no and just failed to win the Vote. But to get up and LEAVE? They had better have left the State, because last I heard, the Police where looking for them. Great Leadership. Right?

I have no Idea if this is true or not, but think about this. Gov Chris Christie got the Ball Rolling in New Jersey. Maybe Gov. Walker was watching and paying attention? Maybe more are getting ready to follow. Now we need the Members in the House to follow their lead. Then in 2012, we need one in the White House. We need BOLD and FEARLESS Leadership. People that can make tough decisions. And STICK to them. There IS a Conservative Ascendancy happening in this Country. Our new and soon to be, Leaders can either learn, and jump on board, or they can be wiped out in the wave of TRUE Change that is starting to take hold.
Peter

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People Are Mad At The Republicans?

Sorry folks, this really pisses me off.

Hey folks,

Normally I would start off and say something like "Welcome to the big Sunday Edition of the OPNTalk Blog. Glad you could make it. Here is what is coming up today." I would talk a bit about the top news and then post the links to the days content.

But this article I saw from Fox News really just pisses me off. There is no other way to say it. According to Fox News- Some Complaints That Opposition Politicians Scarce at Notre Dame Protests

With the nation's top Democrat less than 12 hours away from delivering a controversial address to Notre Dame's graduates, some protesters outside the Catholic university were wondering Saturday why President Obama's Republican opposition hadn't shown up from Washington.

Anti-abortion demonstrators are making their way to South Bend, Ind., by the busload this weekend to protest Obama's support for abortion rights and embryonic stem cell research. They argue Notre Dame shouldn't have invited Obama to speak or offered him an honorary degree.

Judy Zabick said she was "very upset because there's not one politician here."

"And what an opportunity missed for the Republicans to take advantage of the passion and the devotion that these people have," Zabick said. "Where are our leaders, not only in our church, but in our nation?"

YOUR SCHOOL is throwing in the towel and allowing Obama to speak there. The biggest Anti-Life President in history. YOUR SCHOOL is allowing this. There would be not need of Protest if your SCHOOL did not allow it to happen.

Now I get the point though. Please do not misunderstand. It WOULD indeed be an opportunity for the Republicans to make a CLEAR statement against this unprecedented Anti-Life movement. But they won't. They still do not get it.

I also know that the school wants the sitting President, as all others, to speak there. But the problem comes in when YOUR SCHOOL decided to give him and honorary degree. In essence, rewarding him for his deeds against Life and FOR Murder.

Then you have those that DID stand up, being arrested. Yup. Arrested. Then you have this Moron.

Meanwhile, Ashley Baldridge, a graduate student of biology at Notre Dame, said she was appalled by the "gory images" held by protesters like Larson.

"The attention here should be on the graduates and I don't really like the spectacle created here," she said. "All of the protesters are not from the Notre Dame community and I don't like that people are putting gory images all over town and right at the gateway of our campus. It makes me sick."

The murder on innocent lives make ME sick Ms. Baldridge. YOUR President not only condones this, but has a long history of attempting to increase these images. Or the reality of these images. These images ARE reality.

But again Ms. Baldridge, this is all your school's fault. I even heard a Bishop DEFENDING Obama. Just goes to show you that even the elect can be fooled.

Going to be a short Sunday edition this Week. I have some family stuff to attend to today.


Anyway, Coming right up today?


Big Brother and Your Auto
Blame The Parents
IWA for Sunday 051709

Here is your CDC Update for Sunday 051609, well, there is no new update. Check back tomorrow. I do love this one though. I think they left something out though. According to Yahoo News - Hot in recession: Cheaper wine, chocolate, Spam

WASHINGTON – It's not all doom and gloom in the U.S. economy. Some products are bucking the recession and flying off store shelves. Sales of chocolate and running shoes are up. Wine drinkers haven't stopped sipping; they just seem to be choosing cheaper vintages.

Gold coins are selling like hot cakes. So are gardening seeds. Tanning products are piling up in shopping carts; maybe more people are finding color in a bottle than from sun-worshipping on a faraway beach.

Strong sales of Spam, Dinty Moore stew and chili helped Hormel Foods Corp. post a 6 percent increase in first quarter sales in its grocery products unit.

{Laughing} Chocolate and Spam? You can keep the cheep Wine. I want my Coffee. Today's is reasonably priced. It's Eight O'Clock {Whole Bean} Coffee "Hazelnut" You can find it at your local grocers, and at their website www.eightoclock.com Going to fill my cup. Be right back.
Peter

Much To Do, Nothing Getting Done.

Hey folks,

AM I missing something here? Am I the only one scratching my head? I stopped in the OPN office last night after seeing a article in the Washington Post. I scanned the news of the day and kept running into the same thing. But here’s what has stupefied. It’s all about NOTHING.

The article I’m talking about is this,

Tens of thousands of peace advocates from across the country are expected in Washington on Saturday for an anti-war rally that could be among the biggest since the war in Iraq began, organizers said yesterday.

They said the rally on the Mall, followed by a march near the Capitol, will target President Bush's intention to send more troops to the Iraq war.

The president's policy is "fight, war, occupation, death, destruction, spend our tax dollars," Leslie Cagan, national coordinator of United for Peace and Justice, the umbrella group that is one of the main organizers of Saturday's events, said at a media briefing.

Citing what she called "this devastating debacle of lies and horror," Cagan said: "The people of this country have had it. This Saturday, January 27, on the heels of the Bush administration's decision to send another 21,000 U.S. troops into Iraq, hundreds of thousands of people from all across this country will come to this capital city to make it clear."

{Sigh} Tens of thousands? I guess we’ll see. I guarantee you that the MMD will be there. Apparently so will the "stars,"

Among the featured speakers will be Vietnam War-era protester Jane Fonda, according to the organizers. Others include actors Danny Glover, Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon, civil rights activist Jesse Jackson, and Carlos Arredondo, who in 2004 set himself on fire after learning of the death in Iraq of his Marine Corps son, Alexander.

The rally is scheduled to begin at 11 a.m. at the east end of the Mall, at Third Street and Madison Drive NW, the organizers said. The march is to kick off at 1 p.m.

Same old same old. Stars, {has beens} trying to get some attention. Jesse? WAIT!!! Hold it a second.

Cagan declined yesterday to predict a Saturday turnout. "We learned a long time ago not to put out numbers," she said. "There are many variables, especially in the winter."

If she did not put out the "Tens of thousands of peace advocates from across the country are expected" then WHO did? The Post? The MMD? Notice this also, she is already making excuses just incase in turns out to be a joke of a turnout.

The rest talks about how Fonda has avoided previous protests because she is so important, it would be a distraction. OK. So what did I see while scanning the news? The so called resolution. You know, the non-binding, powerless, pointless, and all around bad resolution?

From the AP,

Sen. John Warner R-Va., former chairman of the Armed Services Committee, said he won't negotiate with Democrats to develop a single proposal on Iraq. His comments _ along with the emergence of other resolutions the Senate might consider _ underscored how a Congress largely against Bush's proposal to send more troops to Iraq remained divided over what to do about it.

Warner's decision bolsters chances that his resolution will be the one to win final Senate approval. Democrats are expected to vote for his proposal if their measure fails, and several Republicans said they prefer Warner's approach because it is less divisive.

Seems that he even wrote a letter to Sen. Joseph Biden that said,

Any agreement on the two resolutions "should occur as a consequence of the will of the Senate, working in 'open' session," Warner wrote in a letter to Biden and other co-sponsors of the Democratic-driven resolution.

So what does this all mean. Why does it matter the there are TWO different resolutions?

His decision to avoid bargaining also decreases the odds that a single resolution would emerge that would garner a strong, bipartisan vote reproaching Bush's plan, which the White House hopes to avoid.

NOTHING IS GOING TO HAPPEN! The LWL cannot get along with each other. They cannot agree because they ALL want to have the power. I’ve been telling you this. Now you are seeing it come to pass. Not to mention NON-BINDING.

I told you back on August 9, 2006

"Trust me folks, when you have unlimited funds to get your message out, no matter how looney that message is, you will get some believing it. But is this a sign to come? I do not think so. But if the LWL take over in November, I guarantee that nothing will get done, except making the President’s life miserable for two years, cut, surrender and run, and more taxes. They STILL have no agenda."

Remember how happy they {The House} were about passing the increase in the minium wage? Just recently Reed said he would not have anything to do with it unless it included tax cuts for small business. The House will not go for that, so again, NOTHING.

Back to this resolution. CNN says

"There is a legitimate concern about the lack of congressional oversight, about sending Gen. [David] Petraeus there saying we don't approve of his mission," he said. Bush has nominated Petraeus to be the new commander of U.S. and coalition forces in Iraq.

"One of the areas we really want to work on is setting some benchmarks, so the American people and Congress will know if we're making progress or not," McCain said.

Yes. General Petraeus testified it will give hope to the enemy and demoralize the troops if this resolution is passed.

Two groups of senators have proposed nonbinding resolutions of opposition to President Bush's plan to send another 21,500 troops to Iraq. Three other Democratic senators have proposed bills that would cap the number of U.S. troops there. {Watch senators clash over competing proposals}

This is just simply a lot to do about nothing. Nothing is getting done. The President does not have to listen to these idiots. He is, I know they hate this but, HE is the Commander and Chief. The only thing that they could actually do, is de-fund the war. But that would be political suicide. They would not longer be able to attempt to deceive you about "supporting the troops." They will NOT do anything like this. They will just continue to give the President a hard time in the hope that we cut and run, translation, lose.

With this, and all these investigations they are doing, and are planning on, NOTHING is going to get done in this country for the next two years. I warned you about that. The President said that the White House will cooperate fully with all these investigations. Of course. He will allow them to play for the next two years, while he continues to do what he feels is necessary to protect this country and win the war.
Peter

Sources:
Washington Post-Large Rally Planned Saturday on Mall
AP-No compromise seen on Iraq resolutions
CNN-McCain says he'll propose benchmarks for Iraq
Reuters- White House will cooperate with investigations
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