Did You Know....

[Warph]

...that it's time to vet Obuma's biggest hypocritial backers in Hollywood.  Take rapper Cee Lo Green flipping off a crowd and dropping F-bombs at an Obuma fundraiser wasn't about, well, a famous American songwriter carpet bombing an audience with R-rated material at a presidential rally recently.

Neither was the story of Hollywood legend Robert De Niro blathering about America not ready to go back to the days of a "white" first lady really about the sheer stupidity and insensitivity of such a remark.

And nor was Elle Macpherson's proud proclamation that she's an Obuma supporter and socialist about the obliviousness of a super model worth an estimated $60 million trashing the very type of economic system that bolstered her into fortune and fame.

The real story is that Hollywood is once again looking to market Obuma to us like an iPad 2, just like they successfully did in 2008 when they launched a little-known senator from Chicago into stardom'

"It's not going to be as sexy" as 2008, Obuma warned the glitterati recently. "If things are just smooth the whole way through, not only is it a pretty dull movie, but it doesn't reflect our experience," the Clown added as he motivated his Tinseltown army to get excited about him one last time.

And they will.  The same Hollywood loons who got Obuma elected will do so again.

That is, unless we muzzle them.

How?  Not the way the Left tries to do, by silencing dissent.  But by putting their political stances and public statements under the microscope of scrutiny to analyze whether they live by the same policy prescriptions they seek to inflict on America.

They don't.

Here's a sampling of some of Hollywood's HYPOCRITES:

Harrison Ford cut a commercial on YouTube where he got his chest waxed to bring awareness to global warming.  Forget for a moment that nobody wants to see an aging Indiana Jones get his hair follicles ripped out by a beauty parlor babe, it turns out that Ford owns seven aircraft and has stated on the record that he "often flies up the coast for a cheeseburger."
http://www.aceshowbiz.com/news/view/w0001347.html


Barbra Streisand insists that we all have the power to curb global warming by "making simple, conscious decisions in [our] everyday lives."  This talk stands in sharp contrast to Streisand's own behavior when she's out on tour.  In her contract, for example, she demands that she be supplied with "120 bath-sized towels immediately upon arrival" at production offices.  Perhaps she needs all these towels to handwash the army of vehicles she requires for her tour.  Among the fleet are thirteen fifty-three-foot semi-trailers, four rental vans, fourteen crew and band buses, and, of course, the requisite limo befitting any limousine liberal.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-467594/Revealed-Barbra-Streisands-diva-demands.html


Matt Damon says he remains committed to the code of nonviolence and peace-loving progressivism his college professor mother indoctrinated him with.  "Now I always look at the violence [in a script].  I don't want it to be gratuitous.  Because I do believe that that has an effect on people's behavior.  I really do believe that.  And I have turned down movies because of that."   But apparently Damon's disdain for violence ends where his lust for dirty lucre begins.  The Bourne Trilogy, for instance, are orgies of violence.  According to Forbes, Damon hauled in $26 million for The Bourne Supremacy alone.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/matt-damon-i-have-turned-down-scripts-if-the-violence-is-gratuitous-i-do-believe-it-has-an-effect-on-peoples-behaviour-1803189.html


Bruce Springsteen lashes out against tax cuts for the wealthy, arguing that such cuts "will eat away at the country's heart and soul and spirit."  There's one small problem with Springsteen's anti-tax-cut posturing: the man is a first-rate tax evader.  Because he has a part-time farmer come and grow a few tomatoes (organic, of course) and has horses, he's able to write off 98 percent of his property taxes in the state of New Jersey.  Do the math, by being a fake farmer, the working-class zero Springsteen is making a mint by robbing New Jersey of the antipoverty program funds he says they desperately need.
http://open-all-night.xooit.fr/t1554-I-m-just-a-regular-multi-millionaire.htm

http://www.myfoxny.com/dpp/news/investigative/farm-tax-breaks-for-nj-celebrities-20110209


Michael Moore in 2008 decried Hollywood welfare in the form of so called state tax credit programs.  "These are large multinational corporations—Viacom, GE, Rupert Murdoch—that own these studios," said Moore.  "Why do they need our money from Michigan, from our taxpayers? We're already broke here?"  Agreed. Flash forward to 2010. Following the release of Moore's pro-socialism, anti-capitalism "documentary" film, "Capitalism: A Love Story," a film that has grossed $17,436,509 in worldwide sales, Moore asked his cash-strapped home state of Michigan to fork over $1 million from the State of Michigan Film Office so he could get himself some of that same taxpayer "free cash."
http://cnsnews.com/node/60743

And on it on it goes.  But what makes these hypocrisies particularly egregious is not what they say about human failings, but rather what they say about the illogic of Obuma's radical agenda against America.  Not even his staunchest allies in Hollywood live by the same standard they want us all to abide by.

[Diane Amberg]

 Interesting. So what needs to be fixed? The tax loop holes that these states seem to have created?   Smack the hands of the people who are able to take advantage of them or what? Only poor ''real farmers" can take advantage of them? How small can a farm be and be a "farm?" Mushroom growing is a big deal but takes hardly any land to do it. Same with greenhouses and chicken and egg farms. If I raise and sell guppies or parakeets am I farming? How about catfish? It can get complicated and some depends on the profit made. It sure keeps the tax folks in business.
 As far as the Hollywood types go...I don't know why anybody would think their opinions are any more or less important than anybody else's. At least they are employed and create paid employment for many other people. Same as election campaigning. The money spent and the ripple effect is huge.

[larryJ]

It's the money, Diane. Big name stars have lots of it and can support candidates with it.  If a big name star says I like so-and-so's political policies, their fans are going to follow along, just because the favorite idol says it is so.  The politicos butter up the stars with lavish galas and maybe a few tax breaks, probably under the table, and collect some generous campaign donations, as well as the votes of the stars fans.  I used to love Linda Ronstadt and would go to her concerts whenever I could.  Then she got political and started espousing Michael Moore as the next best thing.  She was asked to leave a casino in Vegas where she was performing because she spent some concert time talking politics.  Not long after that, she came to L.A. and I went to the concert where she did the same thing.  Lots of people, including us, got up and left the building.  We were there to hear her sing, not to hear her political opinions. 

Larryj

[Diane Amberg]

It's shame that fans are that susceptible to political propaganda. They should think for themselves. But I guess that's just the way it is, isn't it? At least the politicians do spend the money, which gives income to somebody....hopefully locally.

[Warph]

...that the Social Security website offers an explanation of how your benefits are calculated, but it's a little hard to follow. You can find a simpler explanation at myretirementpaycheck.org, a website sponsored by the National Endowment for Financial Education.

Your Social Security payment is figured using a complex calculation based on a 35-year average of your covered wages. Each year's wages are adjusted for inflation before being averaged. If you worked longer than 35 years, the government will use the highest 35 years. If you worked for less than 35 years, they'll average in zeros for the years you are lacking. You don't have to be a math genius to figure out the impact of that -- it drags down your average. If you can avoid zeros by working a couple of years longer, you'll increase your Social Security payment.

Read more: 7 Little-Known Social Security Benefits | Bankrate.com http://www.bankrate.com/finance/retirement/7-social-security-benefits.aspx#ixzz1qihUbetT

[Warph]

A look at his hundreds of patents shows a glimpse of the scope he intended to offer.

[W. Gray]

One of Tesla's accomplishments mentioned above is the "wireless transmission of electrical energy."

Back in 1900 and about 80 miles from my place here in Centennial, Tesla conducted experiments to send electricity via radio waves to power electrical devices. He was successful in powering a series of light bulbs and some other small devices without having to wire them. But the effort took a huge amount of generating power and was not efficient.

Some folks have "wireless" printer connectivity to their computer but they still have to plug that printer in to the wall for power.

Had he been successful in finding a less costly electrical transmission method, today we might not have all the wires associated with computer hookups.

[Warph]

After 2000 years in heaven, Jesus returns to Earth and encounters an electronics engineer. 

"Hey" Jesus said, "How's it going?"

"Not good. I'm trying to figure out how to make wireless electricity work"

"No problem" says Jesus.  "Here, let me show you" 

After a few hours, the electronics engineer looks at Jesus and goes "I've been working on this for years!  How did you figure this out"

"Oh, that's easy.  I am your Lord and Savior returned to Earth to right the wrongs of the past. "

The engineer's eyes widen, he falls to the floor and starts kissing Jesus' feet.  Jesus, a little embarrassed, picks him up and goes "Easy, big fella.  You weren't supposed to know." 

The engineer, tears in his eyes, sniffles and says "Thank you, Lord Tesla.  Truly, you are the greatest among kings".

[Warph]

Kansas Statute 21-3211: Use of force in defense of a person; no duty to retreat. (a) A person is justified in the use of force against another when and to the extent it appears to such person and such person reasonably believes that such force is necessary to defend such person or a third person against such other's imminent use of unlawful force.
      (b)   A person is justified in the use of deadly force under circumstances described in subsection (a) if such person reasonably believes deadly force is necessary to prevent imminent death or great bodily harm to such person or a third person.

      (c)   Nothing in this section shall require a person to retreat if such person is using force to protect such person or a third person.

      History:   L. 1969, ch. 180, § 21-3211; L. 2006, ch. 194, § 3; May 25.
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...that 24 US States have Sweeping Self-Defense Laws just like Florida's.

"Stand Your Ground," "Shoot First," "Make My Day" – state laws asserting an expansive right to self-defense – have come into focus after the February 2012 killing of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin.

In 2005, Florida became the first state to explicitly expand a person's right to use deadly force for self-defense. Deadly force is justified if a person is gravely threatened, in the home or "any other place where he or she has a right to be."
Most states have long allowed the use of reasonable force, sometimes including deadly force, to protect oneself inside one's home — the so-called Castle Doctrine. Outside the home, people generally still have a "duty to retreat" from an attacker, if possible, to avoid confrontation. In other words, if you can get away and you shoot anyway, you can be prosecuted. In Florida, there is no duty to retreat. You can "stand your ground" outside your home, too.

If self-defense is invoked in Florida, the person is immune from criminal or civil prosecution.

In the Martin case, the local police chief has said that they did not arrest the shooter, George Zimmerman, because their initial investigation supported his self-defense claim, and that they were therefore prohibited from making an arrest or prosecution. (The police report on the shooting refers to it as an "unnecessary killing to prevent unlawful act.")

The police chief has since temporarily stepped down, after a vote of no-confidence from the city. The case is being investigated by the Department of Justice and a Florida state attorney. A grand jury will convene on April 10 to decide whether charges can be brought against Zimmerman.

Zimmerman's lawyer said in an interview with ABC News that Zimmerman will be protected under Florida's self-defense law.

In Florida, a homicide case can be thrown out by a judge before trial because the defendant successfully invokes self-defense. The burden is on the prosecution to disprove the claim in order to bring charges, rather than do so in the trial. The Florida state attorney leading the prosecution told ABC news that the self-defense law means it is "more difficult than a normal criminal case" to bring charges.

Florida is not alone in its expansive definition of self-defense. Twenty-four other states now allow people to stand their ground. Most of these laws were passed after Florida's. (Some states never had a duty to retreat to begin with.)

Here's a rundown of the states with laws mirroring the one in Florida, where there's no duty to retreat in public places and where, in most cases, self-defense claims have some degree of immunity in court. (The specifics of what kind of immunity, and when the burden of proof lies on the prosecution, vary from state to state.)

Many of the laws were originally advocated as a way to address domestic abuse cases 2014 how could a battered wife retreat if she was attacked in her own home? Such legislation also has been recently pushed by the National Rifle Association and other gun-rights groups.

[Warph]

....that it is damn hard being a conservative.  I realize that every conservative has plenty to complain about.  Everything from media bias to popular culture to the Marxist in the White House springs to mind.  But I, personally, have my own particular complaints.  I refer to the fact that even though those on the Left have taken to heart the Saul Alinsky dictum that in the unending war between liberals and conservatives no weapon is quite as effective as ridicule, we conservatives ignore the pronouncement at our peril.

Every time you turn around, professional clowns like Bill Maher, David Letterman, Jon Stewart, Chris Matthews, Ed Schultz, Maureen Dowd, Rachel Maddow, Joy Behar, Oprah, Whoopi Goldberg, Billy Crystal, Lawrence O'Donnell, Joe Biden, Henry Waxman, Michael Moore and Debbie Wasserman-Schultzy Babe, are happily mocking those of us on the Right.  In rebuttal, we roll out Ann Coulter, Dennis Miller and Greg Gutfeld, and while it's true that one conservative wit is easily the equal of a dozen liberal nitwits, these three shouldn't be forced to do all the heavy lifting on our behalf.

Although I readily acknowledge that every time a liberal opens his mouth, he or she pretty much makes our case, and while I'd never want to discount the role that such serious-minded individuals as Charles Krauthammer, Dennis Prager, Bernie Goldberg, Mark Steyn, Steve Hayes, Laura Ingraham, Hugh Hewitt, Bret Baier, David Limbaugh, Mike Gallagher, Lou Dobbs, Neil Cavuto, Mark Levin, Michael Medved, Andrew Napolitano, Glenn Beck, Bill Kristol, Brit Hume and Sean Hannity play, when it comes to ridicule, it couldn't hurt to go on the offensive a little more often.

Moving on to lesser matters, I keep hearing Obuma describing his energy policy as "all of the above," while neglecting to mention that by "all," he means everything but coal, oil and nuclear power.  However, I can see where he gets the idea that an industrial nation can get by with those alternative sources of energy he keeps subsidizing with our tax dollars.  After all, in search of campaign donations, he gets to fly all over the country on Air Force One, and so far as he can tell, it's entirely fueled by his own considerable wind power.

Both Obuma and Secretary of Energy Steven Choo-Choo agree that Americans are addicted to oil, apparently seeing it as akin to heroin or crack cocaine.  It is the reason that both of them have done everything in their power to make gas prices rise, at least until they risked having those soaring prices jeopardize Obuma's re-election.  But it occurs to me that when fuel costs skyrocket, it raises the price of everything we buy because retailers have to adjust their prices upward to cover their own overhead.  That leads me to wonder if along the way, Obuma will take us to task for our shameful addiction to food and clothing.

Something else we keep hearing from the soon-to-be ex-president is that we must be respectful of Islam, even when allegedly trusted Muslim allies shoot our soldiers in the back of the head; when people we've squandered blood and treasure protecting have the gall to insult us; and when in 2011, in Pakistan alone, 943 women and girls were murdered for offending their family honor.  Odd, isn't it, that it's never Muslim males who are guilty of these alleged transgressions?  Pakistan, by the way, is a nation in which there is no law against domestic violence, and so-called honor killings are casually dismissed by the police as family matters.  One is tempted to wish that these people would be bombed back into the Dark Ages, but it would be a meaningless threat because, for all intents and purposes, they've never left.

Finally, Joe "the Mouth" Biden, the Clown who took the vice-presidency, which has traditionally been a non-speaking part, and turned it into a feature role as the Court Jester, once famously described ObumaCare as "one *%$#@% big deal."  But that was two years ago and people have short memories, so Biden recently reminded us of his well-deserved reputation by describing Obuma's role in signing off on the Osama bin Laden raid as the most audacious plan in the past 500 years.  While some of the more historically-minded among us have suggested that Napoleon's invasion of Russia, the Boston Tea Party and the D-Day invasion, have all dwarfed Obuma's providing the thumbs-up to our Navy Seals... I wouldn't want anyone to think I was being dismissive of Obuma's audacity for strictly partisan reasons.  Instead, having actually looked up "audacious" in the dictionary and discovering that among its various definitions are "unrestrained," "in defiance of convention and propriety," "impudent," and "reckless," I would say that one of the most audacious things Barack Hussein Obuma has ever done was to select a clucking clown like Joe Biden to be a mere heartbeat away from the presidency.

In a related matter, it has been determined by a panel of experts that the single most audacious thing the American people have ever done was to elect Barack Hussein Obuma the 44th president of the United States.