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October 7, 2011
Occupy Wall Street: Karl Marx flow chart
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Who Is Herman Cain?
Oct 7, 2011 8:18am
Who Is Herman Cain?
Once considered a bottom-tier candidate, with no chance at the White House, Herman Cain is surging.
He came in second in the ABC News-Washington Post poll Tuesday, tying
Texas Gov. Rick Perry with 16 percent of support from "leaned"
Republicans, behind Mitt Romney with 25 percent. Cain quadrupled his
support from a month ago when he was at 4 percent, while Romney didn't
budge.His win last month at the Florida GOP P5 straw poll -
in which Perry heavily invested - was also a big victory for his
campaign, which has none of the financial backing or staffing of the
other candidates' campaigns.He still has low name recognition, especially compared to rivals
Romney and Perry, but his rapidly rising stock has many people asking a
simple question: Who is Herman Cain?He's best known as the former CEO of Godfather's Pizza and often
boasts on the campaign trail that he saved the Omaha, Neb.-based from
bankruptcy. Cain, 65, also worked at Burger King, turning around failing
stores in the Philadelphia region, was the CEO of the National
Restaurant Association, and the chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of
Kansas City, Mo. He earned a master's degree in computer science (1971)
from Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind., after majoring in math
at Morehouse College, the all-male historically black school in Atlanta.
He also has ordained Baptist minister and conservative radio host on
his resume.He has never held elective office but sees that as a bonus, telling
voters at every opportunity, "the American people are ready for someone
who is a "businessman, problem solver, first" rather than a politician.Cain is also a survivor of stage-four colon and liver cancer. He
lives in Atlanta with wife Gloria. They have two children and three
grandchildren. Unlike almost all campaign spouses, Cain's wife of 43 years does not join him on the stump.Read more at ABC
I really like this man! And the more the Lawrence O'Donnells of the world continue their propaganda tactics, the more support Cain will garner.
Occupy Hollywood next
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Occupy Hollywood
Take a long look at the robber barons you are NEVER instructed to hate.
by
10/07/2011
Liberals are strangely incurious about why
their betters never instruct them to hate Hollywood during their
class-warfare lectures. I mean never. Movie stars, singers, producers, directors, and star athletes are the millionaires you're never told to envy. Their "fair share," and the methods they use to avoid paying it, are not topics for discussion.Liberals are even willing to extend this consideration to a grotesque caricature like Michael Moore?, the greedy millionaire who made a fortune by making his fans look stupid, and refused to employ union labor while doing it. He walked right past union operatives to receive a warm welcome from the Wall Street protesters. He moved out of a luxurious New York City penthouse to avoid paying his "fair share" of New York taxes on his immense movie profits, celebrated the release of a movie lambasting capitalism with a posh party at another swanky penthouse, and filled in a wetland to put the finishing touches on his million-dollar Michigan estate.
There are some obvious tactical reasons why the
leadership of the Left meticulously avoids pointing fingers of blame at
Hollywood millionaires. The Left gets a huge amount of funding and ideological support from entertainers, of course. Those
entertainers are very good at generating emotional reactions, and
drawing attention to themselves while they support various charitable
and humanitarian endeavors - which is great for the worthy causes they
support, but also creates an armor of selfless morality for celebrities
that is unavailable to largely unseen businessmen who donate big money
to charity.Also, there's a sense among the liberal rank-and-file that entertainers earn their millions, in a way that businessmen do not. Average
liberals don't know what goes on in a corporate boardroom, but they're
pretty sure it doesn't involve the kind of work that goes into producing
the glittering value splashed across movie and TV screens. Of course someone who starred in a movie that made $200 million deserves to be rich!Paradoxically, Hollywood wealth has a dreamy
quality that sets it apart from the grubby, purportedly unethical
dealings of the hated "one percenters." It's common to fantasize about becoming a star, and this fantasy burns eternally in many hearts. You could be one day away from the discovery of your long-hidden talents by a big Hollywood agent! It's
like winning the lottery - a clean and pure blast of refreshing good
fortune, quite unlike the dirty money bankers get by tricking people
into signing mortgage papers.
Nevertheless, the Occupy Wall Street crowd really should think about dispatching some angry protesters to Occupy Hollywood. For one thing, Hollywood accounting is crooked on a scale that would make any Wall Street firm blush.
Read more at Human Events
Occupy Wall Street humor
Lawrence O'Donnell racist interview of Herman Cain
This is shameful. Lawrence O'Donnell browbeats Herman Cain for not participating in the Civil Rights struggle - while he was in high school. You can skip the beginning if you want - although that has Obama's statement aligning himself with the Occupy Wall Street crowd - and go to 7:20 to see the interrogation:
Lawrence O'Donnell Vs. Herman Cain! - Pt. One
We never see liberal blacks treated with this scorn and disrespect, do we? You can be a corrupt black politician, a black leftist buffoon, a crazy black anti-American.
But black conservatives sit in the back of the media bus and drink from black-only water fountains of "journalists" like Lawrence O'Donnell.
But then, Lawrence O'Donnell has an agenda. Shortly after coming out on national TV as a Socialist, he was given his own TV show. Great.
MSNBC Anchor O'Donnell: "I Am A Socialist. I Live To The Extreme Left Of You Mere Liberals!"
Occupy Wall Street: SEIU/ACORN roots
Occupy Wall Street Was Organized From Day One by SEIU / ACORN Front - The Working Family Party
The government should fix our society so people don't live paycheck to paycheck? Is this an inalienable right?
Can you believe the respect and curiosity on the part of the media, which lied about the Tea Party and did their best not to find out what our vision was.
Saul Alinsky Roles for Radicals book study
Two years ago, when it became clear that Obama's Alinsky roots were taking hold in his regime, I wrote a series for Pajamas Media on Saul Alinsky's Here is my review of Chapter One:
Alinsky attempts to define a meaningful life. (Read part one of this series here, and part two here.)
November 4, 2009 - by Barbara Curtis
(All page references: Rules for Radicals, Vintage Books, 1989)
Reading Alinsky in the age of Obama, we need to remember that in
1971 LBJ's War on Poverty was only five years into its deconstruction
of the urban family and transfer of millions of citizens from
self-determination to government dependence.So while Alinsky's narrative has some glimmers of truth, after
nearly 40 years of his ideas being stirred into the political melting
pot -- and now on parade in the White House -- we can see the underlying
flaw: that those claiming most passionately to be "for the people" use
them as pawns for their own angst-driven ideology. And worse, that
those driven to redistribute wealth to the "have-nots" end up as blind
and selfish "haves" themselves, worse than the ones who came before (as
Animal Farm describes in parable form.)In chapter one, Alinsky says he has written Rules for Radicals
to show how the have-nots can take from the haves. The book will show
how to create mass organizations to seize power and give it to the
people. For nearly forty years, Alinsky's radicals have been building
those organizations, which today loom large as ACORN, SEIU, and Organizing for America.I wonder what Alinsky would make of the fact that rather than giving
power to the people, these organizations have become political
juggernauts exploiting people to build political power for one
political party. The Democrat Party has for decades built a solid
voting block of citizens dependent on government, even as they
continued to foment a "never enough" mentality and racial hostility to
keep that block at their disposal.Alinsky describes this strategy as "charitable handouts dressed up
in ribbons of moral principle and 'freedom,' but with the price tag of
unqualified political loyalty to us." (p. 9)The way the Democrat Party has treated blacks is shameful, denying
their individual personhood by laying waste to black conservatives.
They've replaced segregated water fountains with an even more sinister
form of segregation: robbing blacks of individuality and intellectual
freedom.Alinsky's goals churn with noble abstractions:
To realize the democratic dream of equality, justice,
peace, cooperation, equal and full opportunities for education, full
and useful employment [?], health and the creation of those
circumstances in which man can have the chance to live by values that
give meaning to life.But the underlying premise is far from noble: a man or group
presuming to create "those circumstances in which man can have the
chance to live by values that give meaning to life"? How to determine
the circumstances? Who decides? And is our freedom to live meaningful
lives a gift of the state or a gift of God?America's founders stated clearly that our rights were inalienable,
endowed by our Creator. But Alinsky and his heirs have examined those
rights and found them wanting. Only they have the requisite knowledge
to lead the have-nots through a revolution -- which Alinsky describes as
never-ending -- which will bring them to a state of meaningfulness that
presumably he and those like him will approve.In the politics of dialectical materialism, there is no room for
individuals to judge for themselves whether their lives have meaning or
value. It's about dehumanizing people so they can be exploited as a
group -- Alinsky's have-nots -- to crusade for against the evil status
quo.So after decades of crusading, we now have a White House full of
Alinskyites who represent, as Alinsky predicted -- that's right, the
status quo. And Alinsky's descriptions apply more to O and Co. now than
those who are out of power:In this world laws are written for the lofty aim of "the
common good" and then acted out in life on the basis of the common
greed. In this world irrationality clings to man like his shadow so
that the right things are done for the wrong reason [Obama's flight to
Dover AFB? -- BC] -- afterwards we dredge up the right reasons for
justification. It is a world not of angels but of angles, where men
speak of moral principles but act on power principles; a world where we
are always moral and our enemies immoral [Town Hall protesters, FOX
News, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck -- BC]; a world where "reconciliation"
means that one side gets the power and the other side gets reconciled
to it, then we have reconciliation. (p. 13) [Boy, that sounds familiar,
doesn't it? -- BC]Read more at Pajamas Media and comment here, there or both.
Read the beginning of the series by scrolling to the bottom of Rules for Radicals.
Occupy Wall Street: Marxism, Alinsky, Unions, Obama
Wow. Who would think we would one day have a President whose name fit comfortably in the string of words above?
In case you don't have a background in Marxism, Occupy Wall Street may be unfamiliar territory. But we are in dangerous times when community organizers like our now Community-Organizer-in-Chief are deluding impressionable young students into thinking that raising a ruckus on Wall Street and elsewhere will somehow translate into a compassionate outcome. I've heard these young people interviewed and they are completely illogical and inarticulate, driven by the same sort of angst radical leftists were driven by in the '60's. If only they would realize they would make more of a contribution by helping a child or a family in need, reading to a cancer-stricken kid in the hospital.
As it is, they are being used as pawns by our own American Alinskyites who may see these days of Obama's waning as time for their last ditch effort to bring revolution to America. Van Jones, who was one of Obama's czars is urging an American Fall, the equivalent of the Arab Spring.
What's shocking is that OUR PRESIDENT at a press conference yesterday has given them his sympathy and approval! In other words, he has allied himself with the radical fringe of our society who want to tear down capitalism/free enterprise and replace it with a Marxist system - with rulers like Obama at the top, of course.
They would like to keep this up for 13 months, maybe creating a crisis in order to cancel elections. I kid you not, it's been proposed.
And double shock: that the unions have now sent in their thugs to swell the numbers and possibly incite violence. I remember when unions were a noble institution, but no longer.
I picked up both the cartoon above and the piece below from Thoughts from a Conservative Mom. Go there for full coverage. Don't believe any of the soppy, sentimental romanticization of this embarrassing "movement" from the likes of Brian Williams. I
Obama's October revolution
Protesters aren't interested in solutions, just demonizing enemies of the people
by Jeffrey T. Kuhner
October 6, 2011President Obama's shock troops are marching in the streets. Occupy Wall Street - a movement composed of communists, anarchists, socialists and anti-globalization student radicals - is spreading. Protests have swelled in cities including New York, Washington, Los Angeles, Chicago, Denver and Philadelphia. The protesters are gaining influence and numbers. A ragtag group of hippie students has turned into a potent political force.
Occupy Wall Street seeks to demonize big banks, large corporations and capitalism. Its goal is to overturn America's economic structure. The protesters are calling for wealth redistribution, fees on bank profits and massive tax increases on the rich. Many are demanding a socialist revolution - the confiscation of private property and nationalization of the economy. They are the heirs of Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels and Vladimir Lenin. Their aim is to impose the hammer and sickle upon America.
Leftist radicals, such as Michael Moore and Noam Chomsky, have endorsed the anti-capitalist movement. Both men have glorified authoritarian communist regimes - Fidel Castro's Cuba, Hugo Chavez's Venezuela and the old Soviet Union. Their hatred for America has found expression in the rabble on the streets of New York and Washington. Actress Roseanne Barr even has called for the return of the "guillotine." She wants bankers to be sent to "re-education camps," and if they still refuse to hand over their profits, they should be beheaded, she says. This is the language of revolutionary terror and Marxist violence.
Mr. Obama has said he "sympathizes" with the protesters - especially their anger at Wall Street and "fat-cat" bankers. For years, he has demonized billionaires and millionaires, jet owners and corporate America. His divisive, irresponsible rhetoric has laid the groundwork for Occupy Wall Street.
The White House connection is even deeper. The protest's main players all have ties to the Obama administration. Its primary organizer is former Obama "green-jobs czar" Van Jones. Mr. Jones is a self-avowed communist and follower of Saul Alinsky, the radical community organizer who also was Mr. Obama's intellectual mentor. Mr. Jones said October is the month of the long-awaited "progressive offensive" - the watershed moment when students, labor unions, socialists and civil rights activists coalesce into an anti-Tea Party to blunt Middle America's growing opposition to Mr. Obama.
Occupy Wall Street also is being supported by MoveOn.org. The group was one of the first to back Mr. Obama's presidential candidacy when he was still an obscure senator from Illinois. The protests are being funded by socialist billionaire George Soros - a key Obama ally. And the protesters are being joined by big labor, the administration's most powerful constituency.
Hence, Occupy Wall Street is not a spontaneous uprising of disenchanted citizens frustrated with corporate plutocracy and capitalist excess. Rather, it is a planned, manufactured attempt to prop up Mr. Obama's failed presidency. It is a page taken straight from the Alinsky playbook: Demonize bankers and businessmen in order to divert attention from the real source of our economic woes, Mr. Obama's policies.
The president inherited a recession, and he has deepened it. His out-of-control spending and trillion-dollar deficits have brought us to the brink of bankruptcy. America's debt credit rating has been downgraded. Growth has slowed to less than 1 percent. Unemployment has risen above 9 percent. Inflation is rising as consumer confidence declines. Obamacare is strangling job creation and business investment. Mr. Obama has waged war upon the private sector. If those students are truly angry about joblessness and a bleak future, they should direct their fury at the president.
Read more at the Washington Times
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