Todd Kincannon is Right to Say 'Block Reuters'

"Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle." - Thomas Jefferson, letter to John Norvell. June 11, 1807.

And the steady drip . . . drip . . . drip . . . becomes an intolerable steady stream. 

Thomas Jefferson by Rembrandt Peale: (1805)
[cropped] (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

What is the debt of the media to truth? Do you believe that media has a higher requirement to the truth than the town gossip? If so, do we have a responsibility to hold the media to the required standard?

Representative democracy requires an active and honest press. With three days remaining before the most important US Presidential election in my lifetime, Reuters has embraced partisanship over truth. For the details, visit Twitchy Media.

Never one to sit idly while there is a cause to be undertaken and conservative mischief to be made, South Carolinian Todd Kincannon (@ToddKincannon) has combined social media and the good old-fashioned boycott with the #BlockReuters hashtag.

Kincannon is enlisting people on Twitter to block tweets from Reuters. I'm sure the term 'censorship' will be tossed around, but of the two alternatives to the moderates' favorite answer (doing absolutely nothing), #BlockReuters is far less violent than the other alternative.

I encourage you to block Reuters because it does two things of importance. First, it will show Reuters that there is a cost to abandoning even the pretense of neutrality. Tolerating half-truths, myths and opinion-as-news from the press has led to . . . surprise! . . . More half-truths, myths and opinion-as-news. There is an unassailable argument that tolerating and financially rewarding crap leads to more crap.

Second, it will draw attention to what Reuters has done in its headline that blurs a major mistake by President Obama (the 'revenge' statement) by accusing Governor Romney of the same thing. Reuters ignores the troublesome fact that Governor Romney merely quoted Obama's remark. Not exactly a truthful representation from Reuters.

Kincannon wisely suggests that those who feel strongly about blocking Reuters would benefit from following others of similar sentiment and commitment on Twitter. I agree and so to facilitate that, with Mr. Kincannon's permission, I have compiled the list of those he has listed on Twitter as blocking Reuters. The names are in the order in which they were mentioned.

As more names become available, I will amend the list. To make the list easier to use, I've tossed in some quotations as placeholders to break up the list.

@marcfollana @zanshi1 @Sassy_Gator_Gal @TimothyODonnel2  @debwilliams  
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“Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.” - Thomas H. Huxley

Revelatory Expectations of an Inept President

The President of the United States lied about the murders in Libya. We know that now.

Within 24 hours of the violent attack on the US consulate, the Obama Administration knew that attacks on the US consulate in Benghazi were acts of terrorism and not a simple protest over a seldom seen preview of an unseen movie. The original lies - original as in earliest, not most creative - told by US Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice were never believable to anyone with a calendar.

It was September 11th on the eleventh anniversary of al-Qaeda's attack on the United States. It came after weeks of incessant bragging by President Obama and Vice-President Joe Biden about the killing of Osama bin-Laden.

The Democrats' Brain Trust: (from left) Biden, Obama and Nancy Pelosi (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

"Bin-Laden is dead and GM is alive! Put that on a bumper sticker!" brayed Biden. And, please, don't be so insulting to President Obama as to imply that Joe Biden is uncontrollable. One call from Obama and Biden sticks a sock in it. Joe's victory yap bears the Barack Obama Seal of Approval. Indirectly, so do the deaths of four Americans in Benghazi.

We can't say with any certainty that the ceaseless political promotion of bin-Laden's killing caused the deaths of American Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three others. We can say that it is much more likely than a simple 'protest' to which people just happened to bring rocket-propelled grenades. We can also say that a man who promised to promote better understanding with the Middle East and Islamic countries obviously put his campaign ahead of his promises.

The only thing noteworthy about yet another outrageous whopper from the Obama Administration is that no one was surprised. There was anger at the lie, but no shock. We expected it.

With the pandering and claiming credit for what a group of brave American troops actually did, even the Blind Sheik could have connected the dots. Speaking of Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman, I also do not believe the floated fiction that the protests were about his release from US prison.

Be honest; we expected President Obama to lie and we expected the nearly complete silence of the traditional media. The fact that most Americans are either blissfully unaware or cynically expectant of lies from an inept administration is a sign that we are in trouble.

Call it a sign of the times.

Fair Warning to GA GOP '13 Candidates

Next February, the process to elect precinct, county, district, and state delegates and GOP officials will begin. Mass precinct meetings in large counties begin in February. In March smaller counties have their mass precinct meetings and all counties have their county conventions. April brings district conventions and the GAGOP state convention will be in May.

The red "GOP" logo used by the party for its website (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Every two years, Republican party officials are elected from the bottom up beginning with the precincts and ending with state party officials. This is as "grassroots" as any political process anywhere. Traditionally, this has been a mostly amicable process. It won't be that way in 2013.

Rule 12 and the desire to hand control of national delegates to candidates and the national party changed all of that. There are other factions fighting within the GOP, but grassroot Republicans of all leanings will oppose the nationalization of local and state decisions.

The infamous Rule 12, allowing rule changes between conventions, is the spear point; but the real thrust is coming from the drive to turn actual delegate selection over to the presidential candidates. This is a perversion of the process.

Those same Georgia delegates also represent me and I don't want them given away - effectively disenfranchising me - to any candidate.

Georgia's delegates are already bound for the first two ballots to the candidate for whom they are elected as delegates, but the delegates do not represent those candidates. The delegates represent the congressional district from which they are elected or the state of Georgia, NOT a particular candidate.

Mitt Romney has delegates that represent him. They live in Massachusetts. Rick Santorum has delegates that represent him. They live in Pennsylvania. Ron Paul and Rick Perry have delegates that represent them. They live in Texas. Herman Cain and Newt Gingrich have delegates that represent them. They live in Georgia. Those same Georgia delegates also represent me and I don't want them given away - effectively disenfranchising me - to any candidate.

So, candidates for office within the GOP, if you support the nationalization of the delegate process then I will not support you. I will support those who favor keeping our right to representation.

I suggest you remember the reaction to Governor Deal when it was widely interpreted that he was attempting to influence the state party election. You will need the votes of those people who booed the governor.

Choose wisely and rest assured the members of the Georgia Republican Party shall do the same.

I Am NOT the Property of the State

(Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Today’s Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) decision regarding the so-called Affordable Health Care Act is why this nation’s founders firmly declared that our rights come from our Creator and are not subject to the oft ill-conceived whim of any individual or group of people. Those groups include the SCOTUS.

If the government can require Americans to purchase things, then there is no limit to its control of our personal private property. We have seen, time and again, that the federal government – particularly this administration and its elected supporters -  will use any available method to coerce the American people. This would effectively end personal property.

The end of personal property is the beginning of slavery. This ruling means that individuals can be taxed into submission to the state.

That the SCOTUS was willing to consider the mandate as a tax to make it fit within the now-grossly-distorted confines of the United States Constitution, is outrageous. That this abomination of liberty-killing legislation ever passed is solely on the heads of Democrats in Congress. They are my sworn enemy and I will not forget.

I am NOT the property of the state and November is coming. I will make the Statists pay and ballots will flow like blood on November 6^th. It is ON!

Presidential Politics, Petroleum and Pandering

“I have seen hypocrisy that was so artful that it was good judgment to be deceived by it.” - Josh Billings

If your house were on fire, President Barack Obama is the civil servant who would insist the firemen get the hose to your house immediately and he would make sure it happened. Then, as he posed for pictures, he would refuse to allow anyone to attach the hose to a water hydrant as your home went up in flames.

Keystone XL Pipeline (Photo credit: shannonpatrick17)

Essentially this is what President Obama is doing with the Keystone XL Pipeline. The oil pipeline would be capable of pumping 700,000 barrels of oil per day from Canada into the United States if it were attached to a supply of oil. President Obama is all for building the oil pipeline, he just doesn't want it delivering any oil.

President Barack Obama is following the trail hewed by former President Bill Clinton: Audacious shamelessness and hypocrisy so dense that gamma rays find it impenetrable. Which makes the hypocrisy only slightly less dense than those who still support the man who would be President - if only everything weren't still George Bush's fault.

The Righteous Right-Wing Republican Rant on Florida

- A Not-So-Moderate Message to Moderate Republicans -

The members of the Republican Party and conservatives - often two separate groups - are feeling a widespread range of emotions right now. Some of those emotions include thoughts of hatred, betrayal and incredulity toward each other. You don't need to be Dr. Phil to know that this is not a good thing.

I'm not going to yield to my own emotions right now because I pretend to be a somewhat objective writer and I know that I will support the eventual GOP nominee because, quite frankly, Barack Obama is less qualified to run this country than Patty Murray and Cindy Sheehan are to become chapter presidents of MENSA. I won't knock someone now that I will actively campaign for in November.

So, without attacking any Republican Presidential candidates, I would like to point out a few things.

The Sun Sets in Florida
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First, choosing a candidate based upon perceived "electability" is a joke. Do you believe in your principles or not? If you do, then at least give them a chance. "We have to appeal to independents" may be one of the most ignorant, asinine comments uttered by otherwise respectable people. Of course you have to appeal to the independents, but does abandoning your own positions do that? No. What ever happened to reasoning with independents? Whatever happened to forcefully putting forth what you believe to sway other people's opinions?

If you won't stand up for what you believe, then there are one of two things possible. Either you don't understand or believe your own stated opinions or you are a coward. And this is why conservatives become skull-popping outraged with GOP moderates. It's like having the French protect your flank. You're pretty sure they are going to break ranks and run, but you are forced to count on them. And then when they do shriek and scurry away like rats, it will be at the worst possible time - every time.

A Disgusted Review of the NBC GOP Debate

It was a debate for the ages - or at least that's how long it seemed to last. An audience drugged with Thorazine and NyQuil combined with a Floridacentric thrust and inane questions led to two painfully long hours. I cannot say with certainty that those in attendance were opening their veins in the lobby as they brutally bashed their own heads with mallets to escape the pervasive boredom, but it is almost an inescapable image in which I found refuge while suffering through NBC's vacuous version of a political debate.

NBC tugged Fidel Castro into the GOP debate
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I "do" politics like some other junkies do heroin and even I had reached my limit well within the first hour as I began to wonder if I would OD on the ceaseless droning of Brian Williams's voice. The drip, drip, drip of uninspired syllables forming uninspired questions began to feel like undergoing Chinese Water Torture on amphetamines. My skin was beginning to crawl as I was rescued by the first commercial break.


Attention, you addlepated, lizard-hearted, makers of television: The all-sizzle and no-steak formula may work for advertising but it does not work for theater or for informing the populace of anything greater than 30-seconds from Vince the Pitchman on why the world will collapse if we don't all own a Shticky within a fortnight - or maybe it's 3 Shtickies, who the Hell knows. At least Vince knows his audience and has some passion for his product, two things clearly absent from last night's floor show.

Keystone: How President Obama Politicized American Jobs

- How Intentional Ignorance, Political Correctness and Thoughtlessness Shape 

Obama's Energy Policy -

There are two theories on why President Barack Obama blocked the implementation of the Keystone XL Pipeline (KXP) and neither is good. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Incompetent) had blocked KXP and it was suspected this was at the request of President Obama and this recent development gives more credence to that theory. See: The Do-Nothing Senate's Pipeline to Hell

The Man Who Killed 20,000 Jobs At Once
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The first theory is that Obama was following the dictates of the Green movement. This is where the willful ignorance comes into play. The tie-dye crowd is of the opinion that if the evil United States refuses to buy Canada's oil reserves that it will sit idly in the ground. Canadians; however, are not dumb and we are not the only nation on the planet in need of oil.

The Canadians are our friends and it made economic sense for us to get first shot at this much-needed oil. President Obama wanted Canada to sit on the oil while he waited until after the 2012 election to make a decision, which does not make sense. President Obama rejected a great opportunity to make our supply of oil more secure and create 20,000 jobs.

The CNN GOP Rhubarb

Newt Gingrich started off with a bang and ended on an even, but less-than-exciting note. Rick Santorum did well during the debate, and probably won the debate on points, but is proving irritating and tiresome. Mitt Romney, for the second consecutive debate, looked unsure of himself at times but escaped the debate relatively unscathed. Ron Paul got lots of rest and would have been ignored more often by CNN if he had not been persistent and if the Paulistas in the audience had not been so vocal.

Former Pennsylvania Senatoe Rick Santorum
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CNN managed to both host and lose the debates; a feat of marvel and amazement. CNN moderator John King, proving he deserves that bed allotted him at "the home," began by picking a fight with Newt Gingrich. You can imagine how that went. King was outgunned intellectually and emotionally before Gingrich rolled him into a little ball and dropped him, smoldering, into an ash can.

King insisted on bringing up Gingrich's ex-wife Marianne's statements about their divorce. Marianne Gingrich has long flirted with the idea of "ruining" Gingrich's political career "with one interview". With, not just South Carolina but, the entire GOP nomination at stake she decided to strike. Angry much, Marianne?