Are They Truly That Stupid?

Every once in a while a situation comes to light that makes the hair on the back of your neck stand up. This is one such situation. You *must* read the full article to understand it’s impact. The lackey’s quote that “the new power to take control of portions of the Internet [is equal to] what President Bush did when he grounded all aircraft on Sept. 11, 2001″ is pure bullshit. There is no comparison between grounding potentially deadly aircraft and cancelling communications between U.S. citizens.

Hugo Chavez was right when he told Castro that they would be to the right of the U.S. President. The only reason that Soviet Russia never did this is because the Internet wasn’t as vital back in 1989.

A Senate bill would offer President Obama emergency control of the Internet and may give him a “kill switch” to shut down online traffic by seizing private networks – a move cybersecurity experts worry will choke off industry and civil liberties.

Details of a revamped version of the Cybersecurity Act of 2009 emerged late Thursday, months after an initial version authored by Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.V., was blasted in Silicon Valley as dangerous government intrusion.

“In the original bill they empowered the president to essentially turn off the Internet in the case of a ‘cyber-emergency,’ which they didn’t define,” said Larry Clinton, president of the Internet Security Alliance, which represents the telecommunications industry.

Read the entire article here, then get as mad as you did about the health care debacle and make sure to bring it up at town hall meetings across the country. This needs exposure to the light of day *now* before it’s too far down the legislative path.
The only bright light is that he’s the first candidate in a long time to keep his campaign promises once elected. Well, except that one about not raising taxes on working-class Americans.

Barack Obama: “Join me as we take the best nation in the world and change it.”

BK

So… I’m 56 this November.

I am married, have two cats and no kids, own a house, own a business that supports two other families, have two vehicles (one personal and one company) that need to be replaced due to age and growing mechanical problems, pay my bills and pay my taxes (have a killer accountant and tax attorney in case the State wants to tangle with me over those payments) and generally go about my daily activities trying my best to”do no harm”, so to speak.

I am ex-Military, Conservative, am not a Hyphen-American group member, was raised Southern Baptist but am not particularly religious in the organized sense, tend to respect authority as long as it’s not intrusive, try very hard to be honest and fair with everyone, believe strongly in the individual’s singular capability but not so much in the Government’s ability, love my country, despise any form of Socialism, Marxism and other similar –isms.

In other words, I’m just a normal guy, nothing unusual or exceptional, just your average everyday American Mutt. But like many of you out there that are watching what’s going on in the current power grab called the Federal Government, I’m a mutt with teeth. Poke a sleeping dog and you are very likely to get bitten. Just ask the people at the Town Hall meetings about that.

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(Thanks to Doug Powers for giving me a sneak preview of the administration’s new health care service logo)

President Obama, back on the campaign trail, invited us to join him in “taking the greatest nation on earth and changing it". Recently much ado has been made about the health care bill currently before the House of Representatives and the Senate. And lately the fuss hasn’t been over the bills themselves as much as the American people’s response to them. All across the country at Town Hall meetings, the citizenry is speaking out in large numbers both for and against the bills. Conservative talk radio would have you believe that every speaker is against the bills, while the left-leaning media wants you to focus on the disruptions rather than the content itself.

This post is about the content of the bills. I’ll refer to them as Obama’s health care plan because, even though authored by Rep. Henry Waxman, the House bill serves up a full portion of exactly what Mr. President wants under the guise of taking care of those of us least able to pay for our own care.

Obama’s Health Care plan is as much about health care as Bush’s Patriot Act was about patriotism.

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On the left is Vice President Joe Biden, on the right is comic ventriloquist Jeff Dunham’s character Walter who, like Biden, speaks his mind. That’s the only reason I like Biden. He opens his mouth and reveals much of what Obama wants everyone *not* to notice.

According to Dunham’s website:

Walter…a nice man? Doesn’t look like it. Happy with life and those around him? Probably not! Almost scary? Almost. Funny? As hell. Walter is a curmudgeon. He’s opinionated, sarcastic and he’s got a mind of his own. And don’t think for a moment that he cares about his popularity…

I think that sounds like Biden as well.

You decide.

The BlacKnight