Maggie's Farm

OBAMA'S MINISTER OF HATE


March 14, 2008 -- Which of these outrageous positions of his pastor and longtime spiritual advisor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, does Barack Obama endorse?
That African-Americans should not say "God Bless America," but rather "God damn America" for "killing innocent people"?

That 9/11 was a case of "America's chickens coming home to roost"?

That Zionism has an element of "white racism"?

The one implied by his decision to make a pilgrimage to Libyan dictator Moammar Khadafy with Louis Farrakhan - a man Wright's church has hailed for having "truly epitomized greatness"?

These are not idle questions. And certainly not unfair ones

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Obama Describes Developer Deal as a Mistake
By JEFF ZELENY
WASHINGTON — Senator Barack Obama said Friday that he had made repeated lapses of judgment in dealing with an indicted Chicago real estate developer, Antoin Rezko, and acknowledged that Mr. Rezko had raised more money for his political campaigns than he had previously disclosed.

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The First Rule of Obama

"If it offends you, I condemn it
"All of the statements that have been the subject of controversy are ones that I vehemently condemn." --Barack Obama

This seems to be the General Rule of Obama --if it's going to damage him, he condemns it! And rejects and denounces. Vehemently! The Rule would seem to apply to all past and future controversial statements-- his campaign could get that sentence printed up on little laminated cards and hand them out to reporters, or include them after the statements of all Obama surrogates, like those fine-print 'void where prohibited waivers . "Condemned if controversial."

http://www.slate.com/id/2186324/

And they would have been had the sequencing of today not begun with a poem but with an area to discuss the events of the nation and world.
With no indication as to when that venue might appear, one is left with doing nothing or contribute. Given that I chose to contribute and it it was the only place to do so.

I assure you had the sequence been reversed I would have not commented under the TS.

One goes to battle with the army they have. One contributes in the available area. I did comment each time on the poem, doesn't that count?

Habu

yeah?

man, you really scorched her

yeah, cherchez la femme

huh?

later....

Patina,
One must learn certain things the hard way. I have been a wee bit slow on the Maggies Farm uptake. I have ventured into a venue that was more than likely a tranquil setting where light comments were exchanged and the MF staff could do their wonderful jobs of eclectic posts.
Then something ominous happened. A Habu showed up, roiling the tranquility, despoiling the harmony and in general creating a heretofore alien atmosphere. I should have been a bit keener on picking up on that. Sometimes we're all a bit slow.
Maggies Farm is a unique place, but I've noticed a marked muting of the crowd. I need to evaluate my input time, because I am getting the distinct feeling that I am not adding any oxygen to the atmosphere but rather sucking it all up. Truly not my intention. Not to mention peeing on the floor.

Luther, good to see you using on of Teddy Roosevelt's favorite sayings...bully.

And by gosh bully good I say and I thank you for your endorsement.

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Race and the Democrats ....Victor Davis Hanson


Betrayed?

The problems with Rev. Wright and Sen. Obama are fivefold. They won’t go away, but they will raise dilemmas for him that have no analogy, no parallel with other religious leaders of dubious past declamations who have supported the other candidates:

1) The Obamas were not merely endorsed by, or attended the church of, Rev. Wright, but subsidized his hatred with generous donations, were married by him, and had their children baptized by this venomous preacher; there is nothing quite comparable in the case of Sens. Clinton and McCain.

2) Rev. Wright’s invective is not insensitive or hyperbolic alone, but in the end disgusting. And when listened to rather than read, the level of emotion and fury only compound the racism and hatred, whether in its attack on the Clintons, or profanity-laced slander of the United States and its history, or in gratuitous references to other races. Its reactionary Afrocentrism, conspiracy-theory, and illiberal racial separatism take us back to the 1970s, and compare with the worst of the fossilized Farrakhan—and have no remote parallel in the present campaign.

3) Sen. Obama has proclaimed a new politics of hope and change that were supposedly to transcend such venom and character assassination of the past. Thus besides being politically dense, he suffers—unless he preempts and explains in detail his Byzantine relationship with the Reverend—the additional charge of hypocrisy in courting such a merchant of hate. And then he compounds the disaster by the old-fashion politics of contortion and excuse by suggesting the Rev. Wright is not that controversial, or is analogous to the occasional embarrassing outburst of an uncle—some uncle.

4) There is a growing sense of betrayal among some of his supporters. Sen. Obama promised to transcend race; millions of sincere people of both parties took him at his word and invested psychologically and materially in his candidacy. Part of his message was that collectively America had made great progress, and their Ivy League and subsequent careers, in addition to his rhetoric of inclusiveness and tolerance, bore witness to that progress in racial equality. Now we learn, that for much of his career, he was not only attending hate-filled sermons against “rich white people” and the “g-d d——d America” (in hopes of solidifying his racial fides in regional Chicago politics?), but subsidized that ministry of intolerance. So while he promised an evolution beyond the race-identity politics of Jesse Jackson or the Rev. Sharpton, his own minister trumped anything that either one of those preachers might have sermonized. All in all—a betrayal.

5) The timing is especially troubling. In delegate mathematics, Obama seems to have the nomination; but this scandal—and it is a scandal despite the best efforts of sympathetic journalists to downplay it—will only cause worry for the super delegates, who now must either nominate a candidate (no doubt the vast right-wing conspiracy is examining the multivolume DVDs of Rev. Wright’s collective corpus of hatred) who will bleed all spring and summer, or “steal” the nomination from the “people” and “hand it over” to Hillary.

So now in place of a critical discussion of issues from taxes to the war, welcome to the Politics of Change.

There is one phrase that's beginning to play very thin with me.
It usually follows some wayward comment that Obamas side immediately picks up on and runs around the pool yelling, "They're injecting racism into the campaign".

Lets get something abundantly clear. Obama sought out his blackness from the mulatto he is. He turned his back on the white family that gave him every break in favor of becoming more "Black" This is all by his own admission.

So the truth of the matter is, is that when he put his black ass into the running for president he immediately injected race into the contest. Then he tried to play the innocent politician , above the slime pit of politics only to be uncovered by the Rezko connection and far worse the "Affirmation of a Dope" in the person of the totally racist Jeremiah Wright, his spiritual leader, his joiner of souls, his hater of America.

This association is an affirmation of what Wright spews forth from his political pulpit ... hate WHITE AMERICA, hate WHITE AMERICA....

Well I'm more than a bit tired of the past fifty years of giving the niggers of the world every right of way from hiring preferences , to educational deferrals, to the constant money pit of welfare without an ounce of productivity in return.

Thomas Sowell points out in his book, "Black Rednecks and White Liberals" that slavery has been a fixture in world history since the beginning of time. It is not even arguable that every race at one time or another has been enslaved by another. It was, after all, African tribesmen who sold their brothers and sister blacks into slavery. There's not a N-person in this country today who is the property of another person, black or white. Like I said it's getting thin.

So now we're learning about the unctuous Obama, slicker than Slick Willie. We're learning from his wife the hatred she harbors, THE HATRED, for this country, and ..unless they have a less dysfunctional a marriage than the Clintons then she and Jeremiah Wright MUST have some influence over boy Barack.

Barack, just get out of town. Go to Liberian and help them out cause the WHITE in me is not tolerant enough to be lectured by the likes of you or your coterie of sycophants. From what I have seen from the beginning you can teach me nothing of coming together, and now my doubts are being confirmed. Just go away.

Why your food is costing more money
Wheat, corn, and soybean prices are surging; is ethanol to blame ?

At the Annual Meat Conference this week, a gathering of retail meat industry, economist Tom Elam reported his estimate that the ethanol mandate would result this year in each chicken raised by an American farmer costing 53 cents more to raise than it would have cost without the mandate. As for turkeys, well, it'll cost the farmer $3.40 more to raise each one.

As Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke explained to the Senate Banking Committee last month, “a significant portion of the corn crop is being diverted to ethanol, which raises corn prices.”
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I must admit to my surprise that Rufus didn't jump on the Meat Industries obvious collusion with big oil to spoil his ethanol crusade. It must have slipped by him.

Rufus if you're not careful you'll lose in the first round of the Baghdad Bob competition for propagandist nonpareil.

March 8, 2008
Meltdown Looms Larger as Credit Markets Freeze
By MIKE WHITNEY

"It's another round of the credit crisis. Some markets are getting worse than January this time. There is fear that something dramatic will happen and that fear is feeding itself," Jesper Fischer-Nielsen, interest rate strategist at Danske Bank, Copenhagen; Reuters

Yesterday's action by the Federal Reserve proves that the banking system is insolvent (March 8, 2008, it's only gotten worse since). It also shows that the Fed is willing to intervene directly in the stock market if it keeps equities propped up. This is clearly a violation of its mandate and runs contrary to the basic tenets of a free market. Investors who shorted the market yesterday, got clobbered by the not so invisible hand of the Fed chief.
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Ron,

It is inconceivable to me and many many other that Obama was unaware of the vitriolic speeches being spewed forth by his personal mentor. It is, as you know, not necessary to attend an even t to learn of it's essential nature. A man as smart as Obama knew what was going on. His sub rosa campaign is now over and he'll be in the spotlight from now on. Every day of his life will be examined, and with cause.

What we have uncovered recently is just the beginning. He's not the "healer" he's a heel.

Ron,
I wish I had an answer for how Obama got this far without anyone vetting him more closely.

I do believe this exposure will take the smirk off his face and jolt enough of the eyes glazed over population to see him for what he is..If that happens he's a cooked goose, Hillary will win the nomination and MCCain the general election. If it turns out differently we're in for an interesting ride.

Additionally we got a powerful indication that my prediction of the US bombing Iranian's nuclear facilities after the elections going to fruition. Adm Fallon was in essence fired for undermining the Presidents stated policy of having all options on the table. But W will not rely on another President to destroy the centrifuges that are working toward producing nuclear weapons grade material right now. He'll bomb.

So it looks like we have a pretty full plate for the next year or at least until January 20th 2009.

Believe me I'm not looking forward to hard times but they do show up and there's little we can do but prepare as best we can for them.
Best of luck.
Habu

Financial Times of London
IMF tells states to plan for the worst
By Krishna Guha in Washington

Published: March 13 2008 02:00

Governments might have to intervene with taxpayers' money to shore up the financial system and prevent a "downward credit spiral" from taking hold, the International Monetary Fund said yesterday.

John Lipsky, the IMF's first deputy managing director, said: "We must keep all options on the table, including the potential use of public funds to safeguard the financial system."

The statement by the senior IMF official marks the second radical policy intervention from the IMF this year. It had previously called on governments to consider using fiscal policy to offset the impact of the credit crisis on growth.

Mr Lipsky said: "I fully recognise an appropriate role for public sector intervention after market solutions have been exhausted."

He urged policymakers to "think the unthinkable" and prepare now for what they would do if the worst case scenarios materialised and "low probability but high impact events" threatened to jeopardise global financial stability

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As you can see from this mornings output I have a keen interest in what may occur worldwide financially in the very near future.

Right now the "brightest minds" are meeting in various independent , uncoordinated groups, and coordinated groups in an attempt to come up with an answer for the very large avalanche about to engulf the village below. But having followed the derivatives situation for years, now compounded by a mortgage debacle of never before seen proportions I do not see a solution coming.

Someone , somewhere will say "let's try this" and so they will. It might fix that wee hole in the dike but the foundation also has large cracks in it. What to do?

The best advice I can give you is two fold+ an (a)

1. drop and roll
2. get under your desk until the "all clear" siren sounds
2(a) don't look directly into the eyes of any politicians or bankers

Now these aren't what you might call optimum solutions but let me see what the big brains who got us into this come up with that's better.

Does anyone know where I can get a t-shirt that reads

"DEFENESTRATE YOUR BROKER"

will trade lawn clippings for info.

thx

Peering out to the turtle pond a few minutes ago the wife lat out an uncharacteristic OMG !!

"we've now got five turtles"

Sure enough there on the in water sunny deck I built for them were five cooter turtles. Now Wiki tells me that cooter is an Africa derivative of kunta. So much for Kunta Kintay in "Roots"..all this time thinking it meant something like "fierce warrior"...wow reality..

Cooters were also known as "Hoover chickens" by the Florida crackers during the depression. Apparently they are very good eat'n.

Wiki also gives me dimensions of the Pseudemys, a genus of pond turtles also known as Cooter Turtles, especially in the state of Florida. Wiki says The river cooter is a fairly large turtle (up to 12 inches) ...well Wiki needs to come to my pond cause that's the small one. I put the glasses on the bigg'un and he must be 18 inches long and 12" across..he's, yes huge!

Being omnivores I now know where to recycle the refrigerator"experiments" provide they haven't fuzzed completely over.

We've also renamed the homesite..."Cooter Cove"

I'm waiting for the gators to discover the pond and it's bounty.....kricky mate.

Also a new, larger landing is in the works ..shuffleboard, beer on tap and maybe throw in a feral cat ev'r so often.

Yes indeed a wonderful country when a man can enjoy cooter and skiing on the same day.

I can't quite get the money into your fund 'cause I haven't got near that amount, plus I wouldn't touch WS with a ten foot pole (lame but known expression). I've been diversifying into loose gem quality diamonds and buying a few Euros on the dips (there are too few of those).

Sotheby's in their April auction are handling a few of my best baseball items. I have no idea what to expect but I'm hoping for six figures. It just depends on who shows up as Sothebys said. Say why don't you bid on a few items of real value. This stuff is old and almost impossible to get.

But NJ if I had 5-10 million I wouldn't be on this computer, I'd be flying a Super Cub or Great Lakes or driving an Ariel Atom or Stalker V6.

Ariel Atom ... NJ....don't miss this, it's very good

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NJ ...Great Lakes...

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