Jonathan Biviano

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Hope and Change?

June 17th 2009 15:57
Change for the worst.

Brittain was our largest partner in our multi country international force that went into Iraq. They've always been our partners.

First, Obama sent back the Churchill bust that was a gift from them. Then Obama gives their PM a gift of DVDs from Walmart that won't work in European DVD players and cuts out some of the traditional pomp because "he's tired." Then he goes to Brittain and confuses England with Brittain. Finally, he sent the Uighers, Chineses Muslims trained by Al Qaeda and housed in Guantanamo, to Bermuda without consulting with Brittain first.

Then he goes to Cairo and says, in the same speech, "We can't continue to dictate terms to the world," and "Israel must give up it's settlements." Wait, I thought we can't dictate . . . or can we only dictate to Israel, our strongest ally in the world and the Middle East.

But what may be his biggest scandal and could very well lead to the downfall of his administration is the illegal, cronyism based firing of the Inspector General of the Corporation for National and Community Service. One of his major water carriers in the campaign, somebody Obama put out there to speak for him, is calling his firing illegal. And, by many, many accounts it is and now they are playing Chicago politics. The IG found that one of Obama's supporters, Sacramento Mayor and former Phoenix Sun basketball player Kevin Johnson, had misused $400,000 in grant money from the CUNY. The Administration forced Walpin to resign, then let Johnson off the hook, only asking him to repay half of the misused money and allowing him to CONTINUE RECEIVING GRANT MONEY!

On top of that, who has the administration promised the IG position to already? Michelle Obama's chief of staff. Walpin was also investigating Michelle's favorite "community group" Public Action for misuse of funds.

I know exactly how Eric Holder can get fired and called crazy: Investigate ACORN. After all the brother of the president of ACORN embezzeled 1 million dollars, but ACORN's executives covered it up, worked to pay it back and then got rescued by the head of a group that lets radical rich leftists give to radical groups without directly being tied to those gifts.

The amount of corruption, from all of this to the shady dealings with private bondholders of GM and Chrysler (calling the lawyer for the bondholders a terrorist) and closing profitable dealerships in conservative parts of the country, to appointing 16 "Czars" that don't answer to Congress like the cabinet and other appointees do.

Did Haliburton's deals in Iraq bother you? Much much worse is already happening. Watch for a scandal with GE, owners of the all Obama channels (NBC lineup), and cap and trade legislation. The AMA is being demonized already in the liberal press for booing Obama's statement that he won't pursue tort reform.

I don't see much Hope for Change. I just see an intensification of the corruption. That's what happens when government grows. The more money there is in DC, from our pockets of course, the more corruption you get as people try to get their hands on it.

Meanwhile, most Americans sit in the pot of water like happy frogs, not noticing the pot is getting hotter and hotter and hotter.

You can support my blogging even more by buying my book at Author House. Unlike liberals, this is the only fantasy world I live in
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Couldn't Have Said it Better

June 3rd 2009 20:29
So I won't. "Right wing" stations came out and condemned the Tiller murder, and condemned and thoroughly reported on the recruiting center killing, but this posting says it better and more brilliant than I can!.

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Instant Classic

May 16th 2009 15:14
Classic

Oh, and for you liberals, everything in there is stuff Obama has done, sometimes tweaked to use Republican names and such, but it's a great commentary on the way the press covered what Obama did in his first 100. That's why I have to explain it's what Obama has done, because our press doesn't actually report all the things noted in the satire, which he has really done . . .

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Saving or Creating

May 15th 2009 19:28
I could go to my wife and say, "Gorgeous, I'm going to save us $250,000 over the next ten years!" Then she would say, "How? What are you going to cut?"

If I answered like the Obama administration, I would say "Oh, I would have spent an extra $300,000 over our current budget, but instead I'm going to spend $50,000. See, I'm saving


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Disturbing

May 15th 2009 18:41
Here's how Webster's Dictionary defines fascism:

2. a tendency toward or actual exercise of strong autocratic or dictatorial control

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Changing the Tone?

April 20th 2009 20:00
I know I have relatvies who watch this garbage called a "news channel" because they repeat the teabagging insult on the internet themselves, though they probably don't know what the word really means. Rather than just link you the clip, because this is my site and I can do what I want , I'm going to link responses to it:

Now, realize that Red Eye is a late night show that gets a little rough too
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They are certainly trying. Read the following articles and postings and decide for yourself. Only three months into office and this stuff is conveniently released just before the tea parties . . . .

A good start and you might want to click and read some of the links in the post
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A Simple Explanation

April 16th 2009 06:08
Barack Obama = Homeowner that can afford a 3 Trillion dollar house
Barack's Budget = A 3.6 Trillion dollar house
Congress = An irresponsible bank that thinks its underwriters will buy their debt forever


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Real Turkeys, and all that

April 15th 2009 16:12
I'm not going to comment a lot on this. I do recommend everybody, even libs, bookmark http://hotair.com.

This post is a great one, mostly about media bias.
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As You Go To Pay Your Taxes

April 15th 2009 05:47
As you pay your taxes, it would be good to read this article. To summarize some of the stuff that might boil your blood:

- In 2001, people who made 44,300 or less paid 3.3% of the tax burden. By 2005 that same income group paid 1% of the tax burden


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Comment by Jonathan Biviano
on Hope and Change?

June 18th 2009 20:21
I found out today, that ABC isn't even allowing people opposed to Obama's health care plan to buy advertising before, during or after the town hall.

Rush is right when he calls them the state run media.

Comment by Jonathan Biviano
on Hope and Change?

June 18th 2009 15:45
You ain't kidding, Lester.

First there's Brian Williams giving Obama a little bow after a puff piece special on how wonderful Obama is

Then ABC is giving him a town hall, in the White House, with no opposing views, on Obamacare

And to complete the travesty, you know CBS's Father's Day interview isn't going to ask any tough questions.

Yet, has anybody seen anything on this IG firing story, or about the new revelation that this is his third castration of an IG?

I thought the Democrats weren't corrupt and that they could stand up to the light of investigation, unlike Republicans?

Nope, most politicians, and especially the Chicago machine crowd we have running things right now, are corrupt because we pay them way too much and they have control over way too much money.

The only way to stop this corruption is to get the money out of Washington. Obama and the Dems are working hard to make sure trillions more flow there every year . . .

But, it looks like Americans are slowly starting to wake up . .

Comment by Jonathan Biviano
on Disturbing

May 28th 2009 03:00
Yeah, I described Reagan that way. I was a dumb, stupid, young liberal who didn't know what the word meant.

Yeah, so far what he has done can be undone through elections. So far.

Those 25% of Chrysler dealerships that were forced to close by the WH auto task force, almost 100% GOP donors, can't have it undone for the hundreds of salespeople, who helped Chrysler sell product, now out of work.

Good link too. So, basically you wanted me to see that a previous DEMOCRATIC president also seized private industry and was rebuffed by the Supreme Court as it being unconstitutional. Plenty of precedent there once the lawsuits by private bondholders shafted to the benefit of the UAW get that far. Of course "Justice isn't blind, it's an empathetic latina" Sotomayor may just help trash that . . .

I guess a contitional lawyer should know the Supreme Court ruled that way . . . oh, wait, Obama is supposed to be one of those . . . But then, he has already said he wants to use the Supreme Court to carry out his wealth distribution!

Comment by Jonathan Biviano
on Changing the Tone?

April 23rd 2009 20:22
Nope, it wasn't you. To give a hint, I got booted off the friends list of said relative when I called out a commenter for using said term.

January 2009:

Obama to GOP Congresspeople: "Don't listen to Rush Limbaugh."

Obama to Rahm and other White House officials: "Demonize Rush Limbaugh in the media and keep up the attack."

There's proof he authorized and encouraged the attempts to marginalize Rush. It backfired as Rush's audience grew by at least 10% because of the attention.

Silence also speaks volumes. Direct appointees and associates of Obama have been demonizing conservatives, not just in this DHS report, like Axelrod calling the tea parties "unhealthy" instead of "dissent is patriotic," yet he has not come out against the statements or reports. If you allow the people who work for you to demonize the people or actions that are constitutional without rebuke, you effectively condone it.

And you dodged at what point you would stand up to Obama if he continued to demonize conservatives.

For me it's not about the adoption in Indonesia. It's about whether he was born in the US, and for now I'm letting it go, because it's not productive. There are too many other paths. Getting rid of the Dem congress in 2010 and rid of Obama in 2012 is remedy enough for me. If history proves it one way or the other, than history will have spoken. The Democrats are doing far more harm now with their statist budgets and spending than not properly vetting Obama.

And you passed my test. I posted what I did about Axelrod to see if you actually bothered to watch what I posted. It is funny though how dissent is 'patriotic' when liberals do it, and 'unhealthy' when conservatives to it, don't you think? And Allahpundit does say:

To be scrupulously fair, it’s not the parties themselves that he’s calling “unhealthy” but rather the potential of populist anger in an age of economic panic to boil over into more extreme forms.

And it just amazes me, and Axelrod says it again, that he can't understand why we would be protesting a 10% increase in spending, the stimulus bill and the bailouts because 95% of us just got a tax break. Excuse me? A taxable $400 credit spread out over 9 months is supposed to buy away my principles? Conservative principles are not for sale for a taxable credit, or any amount of government bribery for that matter. The CNN reporter at the Chicago tea party tried hard to make that argument as well, that because we got a $400 tax credit, we shouldn't be out protesting the spending and waste . . . 57 Million people voted against Obama because they cared more about controlling the size of government than getting a "tax break." Oh, and if you're a poor or middle class smoker, that $13 a week isn't going to cover the new taxes on cigarettes . . .

Let me just also say that I don't think America's perfect, but I think we're good! I've had liberals try to say the conversation is over by saying "Yeah, but we dropped the atomic bomb!"

Excuse me? That killed fewer people than the carpet bombing of Dresden, but you didn't see that carpet bombing ending WWII did it? Many, many historians say that Japan would not have have surrendered until the US military stood on the doorstep of the Emperor's palace and hundreds of thousands more soldiers and civilians would have died before the end if not for us showing the balance of power had so drastically tipped. Heck, they didn't even surrender after the first bomb, they kept fighting on.

America's intentions are almost always good, though we make mistakes. We are run by humans. However, no country in history has spilled more blood or given more money or given more people to the protection of human rights, brought about the defeat of genocidal dictators (Saddam included), and the spread of democracy and freedom in the world than the USA.

No country gives it's people more opportunity to improve their circumstances WITHOUT GOVERNMENT HELP. The irony in Obama's ideology is that he's one of those people that made it without help, as is his wife. He and Michelle became millionaires having been raised by parents and grandparents who worked hard to provide for them without government help, yet they somehow think that other people are incapable of it.

No other economic system but free-market capitalism gives people the opportunity to improve their circumstances through hard work and determination. EVERY economic system has poor people, yet every system besides capitalism has only rich political classes, while everybody else is poor with no chance unless they become politicians. Every person Obama associated with before he became a US Senator is a Marxist. Does that automatically make him a Marxist? No, but show me somebody that he was friends with that isn't one. His mentor as a teenager was the leader of Hawaii's communist party. His roommate at Columbia was a marxist, as would most have his professors have been. Everybody who chose him for positions or to forward his career were marxists, like Bill Ayers.

If you can find people who played a role in his life who believed in the goodness of America and the empowering nature of capitalism, I'll be a little less concerned. So far, his appointees and the moves of his Treasury Secretary and his allies in Congress show little faith in us or the system.

Oh, and Axelrod says the tea parties are "unhealthy", because they could lead to violence! Can you imagine Karl Rove saying the same thing about anti-war protests, which actually did lead to violence against police trying to stop the looting and smashing of cars? In other words, conservatives should just shut up before people get angry or something.

As far as the adoption thing, S.L., we adopted my sister from Vietnam, and even back in the 70s and 80s we had to show her Vietnamese passport to go back and forth to visit our relatives in Canada. She couldn't become a US Citizen until she reached majority. So the laws applying to Barack are in question. There have been so many non-retroactive and retroactive changes to the "naturalized citizen" laws that the courts could argue forever.

At this point, as I said, it doesn't matter as much as stopping Obama's agenda to "remake" America. The SCOTUS clearly doesn't care about hearing it and there are so many other ways Republican and Democratic Congresses have been stepping on the constitution, particularly in regards to "what is not GIVEN to the federal government is the purview of the states" (paraphrased), that is what we need to get out from under first.

We now face Fedzilla, and we need to shrink it back down to size.

My biggest concern on the whole citizenship issue is if there is a certified birth certificate, not a certificate of live birth which isn't even enough to claim land in Hawaii, then why not produce it and put the whole thing to rest? Just produce the stupid thing, put the darn matter to rest and be over it . . .

HOWEVER, it's immaterial. He's president now and destroying our country so he can "remake" it. Remake is his word. He's running around the world apologizing for America, the country that's been the biggest force for good ever in history.

Now he's telling banks that they can't pay back their TARP money, they have to give the government common stock in exchange for it. What's the difference? If the banks can pay back in cash, they get out from under all control. Paying back in stock puts the government on the board and in the shareholder meetings. That is just plain wrong!

The DHS report is extremely wrong. It gives NO SPECIFIC DATA on which groups we have to worry about or that their numbers have been growing. It's all conjecture and broad accusations made against people with opposition to abortion or immigration. Napolitano made it worse by going on TV and saying that vets are just too stupid to avoid becoming caught up in the extremism. THE CIVIL LIBERTIES LAWYERS AT DHS SAID IT SHOULD NOT BE RELEASED. Veterans go to war with a better understanding of what this country stands for than she does and provides its citizens with an oath to protect its constitution. To insult them this way is outrageous.

As far as hotair being partisan, yes, they are conservative. That does not make them wrong. That logic is why so much of the country is split. I just hope that the majority of the country doesn't wait to see conservatives interned like WWII Japanese, by Democrats then too, before they realize the dangers here. Refusing to acknowledge the wrongness of putting out a report generalizing people who have conservative or federalist views as potential right-wing extremists, with no data to back it up except for ONE MAN, is partisan blindness. When will you stand up for me and S.L., Andrew? Can Obama and his administration do no wrong in your eyes or is that you just want to be argumentative? I was here on this blog slamming George Bush for the TARP and the other bailouts. I've criticized GOP for their spending.

It only takes "Civil Unrest" to suspend the Constitution, per laws passed to respond to a nuclear war and the ensuing chaos. If the tea parties and their message "Of get your budgetary house in order" continue to get ignored, if "amnesty" is pushed through despite 75% of the country objecting to it and it's effect on unemployment rates, if our military and conservatives continue to gets demonized, could we get "Civil Unrest"? Absolutely.

What do I want? I want Obama to come out and go on the MSM and destroy this DHS report. I want him to publicly chastise and fire Napolitano. It won't matter long term because he's got other people as radical as her to follow.

Napolitano was governor of Arizona. Phoenix has the SECOND HIGHEST rate of kidnapping in THE WORLD! That's right, the world! Yet, she had the cajones to say that there's no border problem, before having to acknowledge there is and send more help. While governor she cut the budget of the immigration enforcement agency, then when a convicted illegal immigrant, who was not sent back because of that budget cut, rear ended a parked highway patrolman and killed him, she blamed and sued Ford!

When liberals are demonizing people exercising their constitutional rights by calling them "tea baggers" and "corporate stooges," instead of acknowledging their positions are valid even if they disagree with them, and you combine this report and the FACT that outside of Fox News the major media is complicit in the razzle-dazzle-don't-look-at-w hat's-really-happening" propaganda, yeah, I'm genuinely concerned. We're making nice with dictators, and telling people not to listen to Rush Limbaugh. We're offering to negotiate with brutal men that terroize their people and threaten to wipe out their neighbors, but when Republicans ask for a seat at the table they are told "We Won."

It's not a partisan thing. It's an American thing. George Bush and the GOP put on this road. Obama is stepping on the accelerator, and until liberals put aside their emotional, ideological blinders and look where we're going, we'll hurtle down it. I don't think we'll hurtle down it until we're killing people in concentration camps, but America will never look the same. When Obama titles speeches "A New Foundation" and says he will "remake America" (not rebuild, which would imply we're overall a good nation) over and over again, we should all be concerned.

He wasn't in the auditorium, he wasn't harrassing anybody, he wasn't blocking anybody's path, he was only politely asking journalism students to answer a few questions for him.

The tazer incident was wrong too, but again, it was a conservative trying to ask a liberal a question. Can't have any of that now, can we!

My brother insists that nobody is going to take away our rights, but these are scary indicators that he might be wrong.