Snapped Shot

This is exactly the kind of post that Snapped Shot used to be all about.

Which reminds me—I hope y'all don't hold my slacking against us. We're working on some really cool stuff behind the scenes here, which I'm hoping to reveal very soon.

Very, very soon...

You know Lucy. The evil-incarnate anti-hero to Charlie Brown. She loves to seemingly provide a service, an offer, to Charlie Brown but in the end, she happily refuses to deliver.

This guy, Gary Woltal (have no idea who he is), calls it the Lucy-Charlie Brown Effect. He says:

It all has to do with "attachment" to an expectation. Charlie Brown attaches to the fact that he "thinks" Lucy will hold the football and he can kick it. The way the world really works is she may let him kick it or may pull the ball away.

Unhappiness comes from a death grip in your mind attaching what you think the outcome will be.

It would seem that people's refusal to see this ObamaCare for what it is, is because of the Lucy-Charlie Brown Effect. They are attached to an expectation that things will continue on as they have. That things will, no, MUST get better. Because it just would not make sense that anything could change. Continue reading »

Recently, I told you how Obama and his cohorts have ruined this economy by crushing jobs by the millions. More recently, I showed you how this nation is approaching Great Depression numbers.

Except Obama keeps telling us that things are great. America is as strong as ever. In fact, your life could be worse if he hadn't put us further in to debt by giving tax dollars to produce canned ham and a giant balloon alligator.


Need further proof?
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"Hey, what do you want? 40% Unemployment? We saved you. Get over it."

If it wasn't for Obama's leadership and foresight and complete awesomeness, your grandmother would be dead and everyone would be unemployed.

Now, while Obama and his inner voice did not see YOUR pain lasting this long, it could have been much worse. Sing your praises to him and thank him for your food stamps.

See Ace for the story. See here for the full-sized graph.

But note that the real unemployment is closer to 10.2%. This is due to people who just stopped looking for work. And, if you consider those ungrateful peasants wanting to find full-time work, that happy misery-index is closer to 18%.

Oh, but we are actually in a recovery period, its just you stupid over-taxed greedy employers who are refusing to hire hard-working grannies back.

You want some happy news? Ok, here ya go!
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Ok. Get this...

A Dallas judge ruled Thursday that Texas' ban on gay marriage is unconstitutional as she cleared the way for two gay men to divorce, the Dallas Morning News reported.

State District Judge Tena Callahan said the state’s bans on same-sex marriage violates the constitutional guarantee to equal protection under the law.

While the Texas attorney general had stepped into the case to say that because a gay marriage isn’t recognized in Texas, a Texas court can’t dissolve one through divorce, Tena denied the intervention.

When will these judges stop banning what people vote on? When will they stop invalidating the will of the people?
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I want you to read this quote twice.

Once, for the overt context that the story is telling you. But then read it a second time for the meaning behind the story.

Click below for the money quote (get it - "money" quote ... .. .. nevermind)
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I praised Congressman Alan Grayson a while back for his stand against government waste and corruption. But, we must all remember that he is still in fact, a DEMOCRAT Congressman from Florida.

The other day, on the floor of the House he got up to make a speech against the Republican Party.

Can you say vile, despicable, reprehensible, indecent of a Congressman, etc, etc?

How is this any different than saying someone lies? This IS an outright lie and slander to boot.

You know Congressman, maybe some people feel that it is NOT the business of the government to dictate health care in this country to individual citizens. Maybe they feel that it is a GOOD thing that people are allowed to make their own health decisions and are allowed to be responsible for when they get sick.

Sir, I hope the Socialists in this nation, like you, take option 3.

[Update] It would seem that he wasn't done speaking. He even spoke outside the House. Breitbart.tv has it in great video form. Money quote:

"Several Republicans asked me to apologize. Well, I would like to apologize. I would like to apologize to the dead!
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I apologize to the dead and their families that we haven't voted sooner to end this holocaust in America. I yield the rest of my time."

He claims to have a report that states that over 44,000 American ADULTS die every year because they have no health insurance.

BULL-PLOPS!!!!!!
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Whoa. Just whoa.

Robert Stacy McCain got annoyed at how the media, along with a certain high-profile (and most pompous) blogger, was treating the suspicious death of a census worker in Kentucky. What makes him unique, however, is that instead of sitting behind his keyboard, bloviating about the injustice of it all, he actually went to Kentucky to get the story!

As a typically-lazy blogger myself (Hey! I do this in my spare time!), I am ashamed to say that I've never even come close to covering a story like this. And while I haven't been linking it yet, as I've been waiting for his big moment, I think it's gotten to the point where the story surrounding the story is just as interesting. Thusly, I present:

Part 1: Me, Moe Lane, and Malkin versus the MSM
Part 2: Kentucky-bound
Part 3: Live from Kentucky!
Part 4: Question: Who Commits Crimes?
Part 5: Killing Ground in Clay County: The Mystery on Hoskins Cemetery Road
Part 6: Kelsee Brown is not—repeat, is not—a right-wing extremist
Part 7: Kentucky's Morgan Bowling vs. New York Idiot

And plenty more to come!

Not bad for a man with no professional budget. Which reminds me:—Be sure to send RSM a buck or two, if you can. His style of journalism is exactly what journalism is supposed to be about.

And it's a whole heckuva lot better than hunting for the imaginary nazis that lurk around every corner, right Charles?

I was reading Michelle Malkin Monday night while nearly dropping off to sleep form the lousy new CSI: Miami show. (yeah, I know). Anyway, I caught this post of hers. She was talking about how evil and corrupt SEIU's union president is.

She then has a flashback from her book "Culture of Corruption". She uses passages from her book to highlight how unions, and Stern in general, are pushing corruption and takeover of American freedoms. Here is something from her post caught my eye.

Andy Stern rallied the Illinois delegation to the 2008 Democratic National Convention in August 2008 with an impassioned salute to the working man. Flanking Stern on stage at the Denver celebration: Chicago political machine kingpins Rahm Emanuel and Richard Daley. Stern roared about “rebalancing power between wealth and work” to “make sure everyone shares in the wealth of a growing economy.” Echoing Obama’s 2007 speech to the SEIU political action conference, union boss Stern condemned the old way of doing business and called on American to “turn the page” on behalf of hard-working Americans and their families.

Now, jump ahead to Pres Obama's speech to the AFL-CIO (union) at the AFL-CIO National Convention in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on September 15, 2009.

And the fundamental test of our time is whether we will heed this lesson; whether we will let America become a nation of the very rich and the very poor, of the haves and the have-nots; or whether we will remain true to the promise of this country and build a future where the success of all of us is built on the success of each of us.

That's the future I want to build. That's the future the AFL-CIO wants to build. That's the future the American people want to build. And that's the future we've been working to build from the moment I took office.

Ring a bell? Is he just spouting the same line his union buddies are? Or, is he just another union thug pressuring for change.

Difference is, this thug has the power now to enact his version of ... change.

In his continued attempts to smear this weekend's 9/12 protest in D.C. (and, of course, Glenn Beck, whom is apparently deserving of unthinking scorn), the most scientifically-minded blogger on the Internet confuses the 9/12 DC March with Glenn Beck's 9/12 Project.

Despite the fact that Glenn Beck is not associated with FreedomWorks in the least. You'd think that the Internet's Commissar of Affiliation-Investigation would have been able to divine that little factoid by now, right?

Anyway, aside from these inconvenient lack of memberships, the raised fist in the FreedomWorks-created logo isn't "lifted" at all, as the following graphic should clearly point out. (Recognize the medium, Charles?)



(Thanks to William Teach for the link-obfuscation suggestion. If any of y'all want a similar service here at Snapped Shot, just let me know, and I'll get Apache-hacking.)

For those able to afford internet, or those lucky enough to find transportation to their local libraries and training centers...

Happy Labor Day!!

Yes, I find it ironic that we are currently celebrating Labor Day while the "official" unemployment index flew to 9.7%.

And, the news continues to get worse from here. Continued firings and plant closings.
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No, Glenn Beck did not rape a woman in 1990--and the document that you're floating around to "prove" it is laughably false.



Original is here.

See-also: Riehl World View.

Here are two videos that exquisitely show the plight of people who have to suffer under their socialized government's cruel hand. Prepare to hear from first hand accounts of what it is like to live under government run health care system.

Then, realize that this is the ultimate goal of Obama and his socialist lackeys.

Seriously? Why would anyone want that?

And, I hear people crying about their insurance carriers. Hey, if you don't like them, then drop them. It's not like there are other carriers to choose from. You think the price is too high? Then don't pay it. No one is forcing you to. Well, not yet anyway.

If you really like the Canadian way of living, then please move there. Leave my way of life alone. If you like England or Cuba's way of caring for its people, then let me pay for your plane ticket there. Leave at your earliest convenience.

Leave my privatized health care system alone.

It would seem, that the WHO needs more money for their cross-continent ventures.

BEIJING — The global spread of swine flu will endanger more lives as it speeds up in coming months and governments must boost preparations for a swift response, the World Health Organization said Friday.

There will soon be a period of further global spread of the virus, and most countries may see swine flu cases double every three to four days for several months until peak transmission is reached, said WHO's Western Pacific director, Shin Young-soo.

WHO earlier estimated that as many as 2 billion people could become infected over the next two years — nearly one-third of the world's population.

OMG!!! We are all gonna DIE!!!!!

Looks like we are going to die sooner than the sage Al Gore believes. Better stock up on those dehydrated bananas and install that hyperbolic chamber.

So, they are threatening that this thing will go pandemic? A global pandemic like that of the Black Plague?

WHO has declared the swine flu strain a pandemic, and it has killed almost 1,800 people worldwide...

Oh Goody. Right on time. Can't have catastrophe without a title. WOW... 1,800 people over the entire world over the last year. That is a very large number isn't it? Sounds scary. Ominous. Like something to throw money at and change our lifestyle over. Or maybe, be afraid enough to allow the government to start another mass vaccination program.

But, what are the facts behind the scenes?
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