Of the sons of Issachar, men who understood the times, with knowledge of what Israel should do, their chiefs were two hundred; and all their kinsmen were at their command — 1 Chronicles 12:32
The United States should penalize countries that fail to implement tough screening standards at their airports, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said Sunday.
Moreover, U.S.-based airlines should threaten not to fly into those airports either, in order to send a strong message about the importance of international passenger safety, he added.
“You don’t have to be Albert Einstein to realize that flights that originate in foreign countries pose a greater danger,” Schumer said during a press conference Sunday, according to CBS.
“What’s crucial is that we immediately send many more of our [Transportation Security Administration] agents to the airports to check on their compliance,” he added.
New York Senator Chuck Schumer was reportedly waiting to take off on a flight from D.C. to New York Sunday when a flight attendant told him to turn his phone off.
According to the Republican aide who was apparently sitting nearby and told the story to Politico, both Schumer and his seatmate – fellow New York Democratic senator Kirsten Gillibrand – kept talking on their phones regardless.
Then the flight attendant came by again and told Schumer that everyone on the flight was waiting for him to turn off his phone. He asked to finish his conversation but was told he could not; he then hung up and, according to the GOP aide, argued about the rule banning him from speaking on the phone.
When the flight attendant walked away, the aide told Politico, Schumer turned to Gillibrand and referred to the woman as a “bitch.”
Schumer spokesman Brian Fallon seems to be confirming the story; he told Politico that Schumer “made an off-the-cuff comment under his breath that he shouldn’t have made, and he regrets it.”
Perhaps the best detail of the story? The aide claims the phone rang again after Schumer finally hung up.
“It’s Harry Reid calling,” he said, according to the aide. “I guess health care will have to wait until we land.”
The problem with Charles Schumer talking about airports with lax security is that he should pretty much be treated like a terrorist, himself.
So I propose a compromise: how about if we boycott any foreign airport that has lax security, and any airline – whether foreign or domestic – that allows a loathsome toad like Charles Schumer to fly with them?
It’s funny in its own vicious, twisted, psychotic little way. Nancy Pelosi calls American citizens “un-American” and compares them to swastika-toting Nazis as she charges them with being “Astroturf.” And Harry Reid officially added the word “evil mongers” to the English language to describe opponents of the Democrats’ health care agenda.
Who are the real thugs? Democrats attack congressional town hall protesters as “Brown Shirts” — likening taxpayer activists across the country to Hitler’s storm troopers. But it’s the Big Labor hoodlums clad in identical purple shirts — the uniform of Service Employees International Union members — who own the mob label.
Margarida Jorge, a former SEIU organizing director who now serves as national field director for the deep-pocketed, left-wing coalition Health Care for America Now, sent out a memo to her foot soldiers last week on how to counter Obamacare opponents. “You must bring enough people to drown them out and to cover all our bases so as to marginalize their disruptive tactics,” she exhorted.
Local SEIU chapters echoed the call to brass knuckles. “It is critical that our members with real, personal stories about the need for access to quality, affordable care come out in strong numbers to drown out their voices,” urged the leaders of SEIU’s Local 2001 in Connecticut, according to a memo exposed by The Weekly Standard’s Mary Katharine Ham.
At town hall meetings in St. Louis and Tampa, Fla., last week, purple-shirted SEIU members engaged in physical confrontations with critics of the Democrats’ health care takeover plans. Assault victim Kenneth Gladney, beaten while passing out “Don’t Tread on Me” flags, is turning the tables on his SEIU assailants. The black conservative activist announced Tuesday that he’s filing hate crime charges against the union goons in Missouri.
We’ve got ACORN and SEIU footsoldiers being bussed into town halls far from their own districts by the multiple busloads. The bussed-in people from outside the district got in; the ordinary citizens who live in the politically conservative district and wanted to ask their questions and express their opinions found themselves outside.
The nice thing about Astroturf is you can pick it up when you’re through with it at one event and then haul it away to another one.
Need a job? It turns out being “Astroturf” for blatantly hypocritical Democrats pays. Caleb Howe has an article entitled, “Let’s Talk Astroturf” with all kinds of screen saves offering pay-for-protest. Here’s one of them:
The key, of course, is for Democrats to demonize their opposition while they bring their own demons in. By the busload.
You remember that nice and not at all rude lady, Democrat Houston Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, who took a phone call and talked while a woman with cancer was trying to express her concerns about Sheila Jackson Lee’s health care plan?
Somebody pointed out how incredibly rude Sheila was. When she later walked by that person, she hissed, “I am NOT rude. I can multi-task!”
I’ll leave it up to you who is the Astroturf: the health care opponent with cancer trying to ask a question, or the “not rude” representative ignoring her and chatting on her cell phone. My money’s on Sheila Jackson Lee.
But that’s hardly enough to say about Sheila Jackson Lee’s winning ways, or which side of the debate is really doing all the damn “Astroturfing.”
Here’s video of a medical doctor getting up at Sheila J. Lee’s town hall:
On Aug. 11th our own Houston Chronicle displayed a picture of Shelia Jackson Lee hugging a woman who had asked a question at the townhall as well, but her question was in full support of the health care bill. The woman was identified as “Dr. Roxana Mayer, a pediatric primary care physician.” Turns out, she isn’t a doctor at all though. She had identified herself to the Chonicle that way though.
Patterico, a lawyer and LA blogger smelled something fishy, found her on MySpace, saw that she was clearly not a doctor, and e-mailed her to ask her to make sure. She did e-mail back and admit to the lie. It seems she was also an Obama delegate (actually true), which she also told the Chronicle, but the reporter failed to mention that little fact about her.
So, here we have someone asking a question, giving favor in support of the health care bill, posing as a doctor to give more credibility to her support. When in reality she was an Obama delegate and NOT a doctor.
After the plants at Obama’s townhalls, and now this, it’s beyond amusing and ironic that the Democrats accuse the Tea Parties of being “manufactured.”
Yeah, it turns out that “Dr. Roxana Mayer” is “Astroturf” on a level of fraud that even the lying liberals haven’t accused conservatives of being. The Patterico link cited above has the title, “I’m not a doctor but I play one at town hall meetings.” When confronted, Mayer demonstrated nothing but contempt – contempt of the truth.
“Doctor” Roxana Mayer is not just some kook who showed up at a town hall and misrepresented herself. She was chosen as an Obama delegate representing the state of Texas. She is currently a “grass roots organizer” and a lead organizer for “Organizing for America” – which Obama is calling upon to address all the “misinformation” allegedly coming from the other side.
Seriously: Who is the “plant” around here? How truly stupid are we?
Is having a “grass roots organizing” former Obama state delegate pretend to be a doctor in order to fabricate pseudo-credibility not low enough for you? Then I’ve got more. Remember this picture, broadcast all over the mainstream media?
Well, first of all, the mainstream media that is so OUTRAGED by the Obama as Hitler signs didn’t really mind the ones like this that dominated liberal events for the better part of eight years:
When Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and now the president’s own deputy press secretary conjure up images of Nazis at healthcare town halls, they are engaging in one of the oldest tricks in anyone’s book, but an especial favorite of their mentor, Saul Alinsky.
Alinsky himself employed this method, quite deviously. Alinsky biographer, Sanford D. Horwitt provides an anecdote using precisely this same diabolical tactic to deceive the people. From Horwitt’s Let Them Call Me Rebel:
“…in the spring of 1972, at Tulane University…students asked Alinsky to help plan a protest of a scheduled speech by George H. W. Bush, then U.S. representative to the United Nations – a speech likely to include a defense of the Nixon administration’s Vietnam War policies. The students told Alinsky they were thinking about picketing or disrupting Bush’s address. That’s the wrong approach, he rejoined, not very creative – and besides causing a disruption might get them thrown out of school. He told them, instead, to go to hear the speech dressed as members of the Ku Klux Klan, and whenever Bush said something in defense of the Vietnam War, they should cheer and wave placards reading, ‘The KKK supports Bush.’ And that is what they did, with very successful, attention-getting results.”
Planting major falsehoods has been a favorite Alinsky strategy from the start. His acolyte, Barack Obama, learned his Industrial Areas Foundation lessons on deceiving for power while on a side trip during his Harvard years, then taught the Alinsky power tactics at the University of Chicago.
It is almost impossible to believe that, even with near total control of the country, Democrats are resorting to the old myth in portraying themselves as the victim even as they viciously and deceitfully demagogue and demonize increasing numbers of the American people.
But that is precisely what they are doing.
As the left continues to demonize American citizens – many of them elderly – at town hall events, just recognize the source.
Liberals never cease to surprise me: just when I thought they were as low as they could get, they find a way to crawl even lower. They keep taking me to school: I just never dreamed that so many people could be so loathsome.
The law will catch up to the hackers, but what about the lowlifes who are now gleefully splashing the alleged contents of Palin’s private e-mail account all over the Internet?
The Gawker smear machine — see here for all the background you need — has posted private family photos of Palin’s children that were apparently stolen from the e-mail account.
They have used Bristol Palin’s illegally obtained private cell phone number from her mom’s private account, recorded her voicemail message, and posted it on their website.
They have reprinted her husband Todd’s private e-mail address and son Track’s private e-mail address.
You think this is just a harmless prank? Those of you who have had to deal with break-ins and identity theft know exactly what a burdensome process it is to recover from crimes like this.
Gawker knowingly and deliberately published illegally obtained photos of the Palin children.
Where are the privacy absolutists now?
Malkin adds this warning:
You think Palin Derangement Syndrome is bad now? These by-any-means-necessary lunatics are just warming up.
The Daily Kos slime attack on Sarah Palin – which falsely and hatefully accused Sarah of faking a pregancy because her husband Todd had fathered a child with their daughter Bristol – was just the tip of a very ugly and very toxic iceberg.
We are seeing liberals revealed as hateful people who ignore reality. And we are seeing liberals who demand privacy rights for terrorist suspects – while doing the most loathsome intrusions into someone’s privacy; seeing liberals who claim to support feminism – and then hatefully tear into a strong and successful female; seeing liberals hypocritically talk about Republican hate and smears when they lead the universe in both hate and smears.
If you want this for the country, elect the people who bring it and keep bringing it.
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