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Power User
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Cognitive Dissonance of His Glibness - Lew: in "Primary Balance"
Reply #1300 on:
January 15, 2013, 01:44:11 PM »
Lies or deception, you make the call, "... mid-decade...and then we will work on paying down our debt"
Our spending will not add to the debt. Interest on even the last 4 years of debt is NOT OUR SPENDING?
These are Lew's figures for new deficits that don't add to the debt:
Year Deficit
2010: $1.293 trillion
2011: $1.645 trillion
2012: $1.101 trillion
2013: $768 billion
2014: $645 billion
2015: $607 billion
2016: $649 billion
2017: $627 billion
2018: $619 billion
2019: $681 billion
2020: $735 billion
2021: $774 billion
Sen. Sessions said he won't vote for the this guy. Sen. Bernie Sanders also opposes Lew, for different reasons, Lew's experience at Citigroup.
Power User
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Re: The Cognitive Dissonance of His Glibness
Reply #1301 on:
January 18, 2013, 07:53:58 PM »
Reliability unknown, but it sure sounds plausible:
Jack Seckel
Let me get this straight because I'm not the sharpest knife in the drawer. Barack Obama is insisting on more stringent "background checks" for American citizen's wanting to purchase firearms but his own social security number was rejected by E-Verify?
President Barack Obama could not pass a background check if he was applying for a gun permit or a job. Why has this man been allowed to remain in office or take the oath for a second time?
During the 2008 campaign, it was known that:
His official, long form birth records were SEALED.
His Occidental College records were SEALED.
His Columbia College records were SEALED.
His Harvard College records were SEALED.
His College thesis SEALED.
His Harvard Law Review articles SEALED.
His Indonesian adoption records SEALED.
His passport file SEALED.
His medical records Unavailable
His baptism records Unavailable
His papers from his service in the Illinois legislature Unavailable
His Illinois State Bar Association records - Unavailable
The birth certificate that the White House released is reputed by document experts to be false.
The Social Security number he has used was issued to someone else. He could not pass an E-Verify test. The first three numbers of his Social Security ID are reserved for applicants with Connecticut addresses, 040-049. The number was issued between 1977 and 1979. Obamas earliest employment reportedly was in 1975 at a Baskin-Robbins in Oahu, Hawaii.
Power User
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Re: The Cognitive Dissonance of His Glibness
Reply #1302 on:
January 19, 2013, 02:15:02 PM »
"long form birth records were SEALED"
Yet the left mocks those who questioned this as "birthers"
Yet the left attacks those who questioned this as racist.
Now even "descending colon" Powell called this racist.
Yes he is full of shit.
Power User
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Obama's Pro-Statist Inaugural Address Analyzed...
Reply #1303 on:
January 22, 2013, 01:47:04 PM »
Obamas Startling Second Inaugural Admission
Posted By Tom Blumer On January 22, 2013 -
President Barack Obamas second inaugural address on Monday was mostly what one would have expected: A paean to the wonders of statism and how great America could be if we would just overcome our unhealthy legacy. In Obamas world, we would all be so much better if we could get over obsessions like rugged individualism and the true meaning of the words contained in our nations Constitution, and let a benevolent, all-knowing government take more control over our everyday lives.
But in the midst of his we know better exercise, Obama made the most stunning admission of abject failure I have heard a president utter in my lifetime. Ill have more on that shortly.
In his speech, Obama made a pretense of paying homage to our Founding Fathers, but followed it with a clear indication that he believes their wisdom is passé by claiming that preserving our individual freedoms ultimately requires collective action. Other than our involvement in wars, which he falsely claims will soon be coming to an end, I cant imagine what he could be thinking of. Obama even added a dose of coldly calculated and contemptuous ridicule to the mix by including an insulting reference to the modern wartime inadequacy of muskets and militias.
Though it was indeed, as the Politicos Glenn Thrush correctly noted, the most liberal speech he has delivered as president, it clearly disappointed some of those in the establishment press who wanted to hear Obama go for his opponents jugulars. That group includes John Dickerson, who has been Political Director at CBS News since November 2011.
Dickerson put on his best game face at Slate after the speech, but its clear from reading his previous 2,000-word battle plan disguised as a column on Friday that Obama didnt go as far as he would have liked.
The columns headlines called for Obama to Go for the Throat! and declare war on the Republican Party. In his content, Dickerson claimed that Republican recalcitrance meant that Obamas only remaining option is to pulverize, and that the president can only cement his legacy if he destroys the GOP. Slate was so thrilled with the piece that it amped up its most popular tease list title to read: Why Obama Should Seek To Destroy the Republican Party. Dickersons occupation of such an influential perch at CBS and the presence of so many others like him at other news outlets largely explain why last years establishment press coverage of the GOP primaries and the general election was so ruthlessly biased against Republicans and especially conservatives.
Given the content of the rest of his speech, it was astonishing to hear Obama say the following five words: An economic recovery has begun.
Were just three weeks shy of the fourth anniversary of the passage of the February 2009 stimulus plan. It was supposed to turn the economy around after the evil George W. Bush ruined everything. Obamas Keynesian economists told us that without the stimulus plans immediate implementation, unemployment would rise to an unacceptable 9 percent by the summer of 2010. But if we would just pass this monstrosity which nobody read, unemployment would peak at 8 percent in just a few months and gradually fall to 5.2 percent by the end of 2012.
What really happened is that despite the plans passage (actually, largely because of it), the unemployment rate hit 10 percent before 2009 was even over, stayed above 8 percent for a post-World War II record 43 months, and is still at 7.8 percent. The Obama government, set into fiscal motion by the Democratic Congress of 2009-2010 and running on autopilot ever since, has run up $5 trillion in supposedly stimulative budget deficits and has been the beneficiary of four years of supposedly stimulative near-zero interest rates courtesy of Ben the Betrayer Bernankes Federal Reserve.
Now, after all of that ruinous stimulus, the best our president can say is: An economic recovery has begun. Its almost as if he wants us to believe that this strange, uncontrollable beast called the economy has finally decided to get better on its own.
Unfortunately for those who are unemployed, under-employed, and discouraged, theres still reason to believe that the economy, after so many false starts during Obamas first term, is once again sputtering.
Economists have been wearing out their erasers and delete keys writing down their estimates of economic growth during the fourth quarter of 2012. The rough consensus is that gross domestic product will grow by an annualized 1.5 percent, down from 3.1 percent in the third quarter if were lucky.
Seasonally adjusted job growth has only averaged 130,000 during the past ten months. Thats below the 150,000 jobs needed just to keep pace with growth in the adult population. Additionally, in a sign that the trend is in the wrong direction, the raw number of jobs changes before seasonal adjustment has been lower than that seen in the same month of the previous year during three of the past four months.
Finally, in perhaps the most ominous sign of decay, last weeks report on initial jobless claims told us that the raw number of claims filed (i.e., before seasonal adjustment) was greater than the comparable week a year ago the first time this has happened in a truly comparable non-holiday week since October 2009.
The way things are going, Obamas successor may very well use those same five words An economic recovery has begun in his or her inaugural address four long years from now.
"You have enemies? Good. That means that you have stood up for something, sometime in your life." - Winston Churchill.
Power User
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Re: The Cognitive Dissonance of His Glibness, the glib cabinet
Reply #1304 on:
January 24, 2013, 07:25:39 PM »
Trivia question:
Forget about Chuck Hagel and Jack Lew for a moment...
On what foreign policy question or issue was incoming Sec. of State John Kerry ever right?
Power User
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Re: The Cognitive Dissonance of His Glibness
Reply #1305 on:
January 24, 2013, 11:26:21 PM »
A wild guess.
He voted for the war in Iraq?
Power User
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Re: The Cognitive Dissonance of Glibness Cabinet, John Kerry mistakes
Reply #1306 on:
January 25, 2013, 01:57:31 PM »
Quote from: ccp on January 24, 2013, 11:26:21 PM
A wild guess.
He voted for the war in Iraq?
Quote from: DougMacG on January 24, 2013, 07:25:39 PM
Trivia question:
Forget about Chuck Hagel and Jack Lew for a moment...
On what foreign policy question or issue was incoming Sec. of State John Kerry ever right?
Should have read: trick question, instead of trivia question. I'm not aware of Sen Kerry ever getting a foreign policy question right - at least from my way of thinking. Yes he voted to start the war in Iraq, but his famous I voted for the funding before I voted against it likely cost him the Presidency. Iraq overall was not his strongest issue.
If you count his flip flops he is going to have moments of being right:
Breitbart compiled a list of his top ten worst policy mistakes: (Anyone disagree with these?)
10. Honduras (2009) - Sen. Kerry backed Obamas dubious claim that leftist President Manuel Zelaya--an antisemite and autocrat in the Hugo Chavez mode--had been ousted in a coup. He even tried to reverse a contrary finding by the Law Library of Congress.
9. Terrorism (1996) - In a debate with former Gov. Bill Weld, Sen. Kerry opposed the death penalty for terrorists, at a time when lack of vigilance by the Clinton administration allowed Al Qaeda to become a deadly threat. (After 9/11, Sen. Kerry changed his mind.)
8. Nicaragua (1985) - As Mary Anastasia OGrady of the Wall Street Journal noted last week, Sen. Kerry encouraged Congress to end aid for the Contras, who were opposing the Sandinista regime, which quickly found support from the Soviet Union and Cuba.
7. Iraq (2003) - In 2002, Sen. Kerry voted to authorize the Iraq War; in 2003, he voted against continued funding and aid necessary to secure victory. The flip-flop was not only indefensible, but also cost Sen. Kerry the 2004 election against George W. Bush.
6. Colombia (2003) - Sen. Kerry described FARC, a drug-fueled terrorist guerilla army in Colombia much beloved by Chavez and the far left, specializing in kidnappings and hostage-taking, as having legitimate complaints against the Colombian government.
5. Gulf War (1991) - Not only did Sen. Kerry vote against authorizing UN-approved action against Saddam Hussein, but he also argued for a new world order not led by the U.S. and criticized the American-led coalition President George H.W. Bush had built.
4. Iran (2007) - Our own William Bigelow notes: In 2007, Kerry voted against a Senate resolution that wanted to combat, contain, and roll back the violent activities and destabilizing influence inside Iraq of the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
3. Israel (2003) - As CBS News has noted, Sen. Kerry called Israels anti-terror security barrier--which has saved hundreds of Israeli and Palestinian lives--a barrier to peace in October 2003. (As on many other issues, Sen. Kerry soon reversed his position.)
2. Syria (2009) - Though Sen. Kerry condemned Syria as a supporter of terrorism in 1991, when Syria had aligned with the U.S. in the Gulf War, he later embraced dictator Bashar al-Assad, leading Democrats efforts to rehabilitate the murderous regime.
1. Vietnam (1971) - As bad as Sen. Kerrys record has been since, nothing quite tops his national debut in the Winter Soldier investigation as a decorated veteran telling false stories about war crimes allegedly committed by American troops in Vietnam.
Power User
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Glibness: Obamas new French economic adviser has faith in redistribution
Reply #1307 on:
January 26, 2013, 09:22:34 AM »
Obamas new French economic adviser has faith in redistribution
The French economist selected by President Barack Obama to serve as one of his top second-term global development advisers reportedly has faith in redistribution, supported far left-wing political theories and leaders, and provided the intellectual framework for French Socialist President Francois Hollandes electoral victory, records reveal.
Obama announced his intent late last month to appoint French economist and MIT professor Esther Duflo to the Presidents Global Development Council, a new governmental advisory board that Obama created by executive order last year. Obama announced bond investor Mohamed A. El-Erian as his pick to chair the council.
The council will be comprised of no more than 12 individuals from a variety of sectors outside the Federal Government, including, among others, institutions of higher education, non-profit and philanthropic organizations, civil society, and private industry, according to a 2012 White House press release. The Council will inform and provide advice to the President and other senior U.S. officials on U.S. global development policies and practices.
Duflo, who is 40 years old, is the Abdul Latif Jameel professor of poverty alleviation and development economics at MIT and the co-founder and director of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab, which was initially funded by Saudi billionaire Mohammed Abdul Latif Jameel.
Duflos appointment by Obama might have directly political motivations.
During Socialist Francois Hollandes successful 2012 French presidential campaign, his three voter mobilization strategists, all former Harvard or MIT students, applied theories they first learned from Duflo, whose experiments when applied to electioneering, had quantified the ability of a single door knock to deliver a vote.
The tactics behind Hollandes campaign operation aimed at nonvoters were first employed by Obamas 2008 campaign and were most fully realized during Obamas 2012 campaign, when a powerful voter database enabled Obama staffers to register new voters based on demographic and behavioral trends.
These tactics helped alter the very nature of the electorate in 2012, according to the New York Times, making it younger and less white.
Power User
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Cognitive Dissonance Glibness: All Americans are Poorer, Poor hit Hardest
Reply #1308 on:
January 28, 2013, 11:53:10 AM »
"All Americans are poorer as a result of Obama's policies, but the poor are hit hardest."
"Forbes magazine calculates that if long term discouraged workers, those who've dropped out to collect disability payments, and those working part time because they cannot find full time work were counted, the real unemployment rate would hover around 22 percent."
"The anti-poverty talk was missing from the 2012 campaign. It was all about the middle class. Perhaps that's because Obama's first term created so very much more poverty. There are more poor people in America today than at any time since the Great Depression. There were 32 million Americans collecting food stamps in 2008. Now that figure is 47 million. Spending on food stamps doubled between 2007 and 2011."
Power User
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Re: The Cognitive Dissonance of His Glibness, Denis McDonough
Reply #1309 on:
January 29, 2013, 10:55:19 AM »
My first positive post on the Obama administration, I heard firsthand this weekend from a good friend that knew him personally, that local native Denis McDonough, Obama's new chief of staff, is quite a good guy, smart, genuine, etc.
That concludes the positive portion of my post. As deputy national security adviser, McDonough handled the Benghazi attack aftermath from inside the White House - and got promoted.
Power User
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Cognitive Dissonance of His Glibness - How Jack Lew F'd Up
Reply #1310 on:
January 29, 2013, 11:32:43 AM »
How Jack Lew Failed Up - WSJ
Jack Lew profited from failed crony capitalism, took millions, left the losses to taxpayers, now promoted to Treasury Secretary nominee.
At NYU he was making more than the University President. Doing what?
Last Edit: January 29, 2013, 11:39:11 AM by DougMacG
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Re: The Cognitive Dissonance of His Glibness
Reply #1311 on:
January 29, 2013, 11:41:12 AM »
My father was a big believer in "The Peter Principle" (in an organization, people rise to their level of incompetence i.e. they get promoted as long as they are doing a good job, until they get to where they aren't doing a good job-- and that is where they stay).
That is worse than that by quite a bit!!!
Power User
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Re: The Cognitive Dissonance of His Glibness
Reply #1312 on:
January 29, 2013, 01:27:23 PM »
Quote from: Crafty_Dog on January 29, 2013, 11:41:12 AM
My father was a big believer in "The Peter Principle" (in an organization, people rise to their level of incompetence i.e. they get promoted as long as they are doing a good job, until they get to where they aren't doing a good job-- and that is where they stay).
That is worse than that by quite a bit!!!
Yes! Lew I'm sure is a sharp guy and so was Geithner. They got caught up in implementing and defending horrendous policies. Lew didn't cause Citicorp's failure, but wouldn't you think the people responsible that are not prosecuted would have to return to ordinary jobs.
As you suggest, this is worse than the Peter Principle. This is not promotion until you reach your level of incompetence, this is promotion after a record of abject failure.
The problem with us analyzing from across the aisle is that we are seeing it backwards from his view. Pres. Obama's business is collectivist-failure and Lew has a well rounded background in it.
Power User
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Congreswoman challenges Prez to skeet shoot match
Reply #1313 on:
January 29, 2013, 01:43:19 PM »
Power User
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Re: The Cognitive Dissonance of His Glibness
Reply #1314 on:
January 29, 2013, 07:34:34 PM »
The humor in the skeet shooting challenge is that we have seen his golf swing.
Not exactly Heisman precision:
(turn volume at least partway down)
Power User
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Glibness Popularity below Nixon, tied with 'W' at this point
Reply #1315 on:
January 30, 2013, 12:00:18 PM »
Mr. Smooth, with everything going right from reelection to inauguration to winning every exchange with congress, has Gallup popularity below Nixon at this point and tied with George W. Bush for most unpopular re-elected president since Gallup began measuring presidential job-approval. That dismal figure could be his best and last before word of economic stagnation/freefall starts to get around.
Obama has about 3 minutes to start something going in the right direction or he will lose control of most of the next 4 years. Little tricks like lying about progress in Libya and Egypt, boxing in opponents over budgets and stonewalling congress over scandals like Fast and Furious are not going to do it.
The lead guy on immigration reform is now Marco Rubio. The lead guy on entitlement reform and budget sanity is still Paul Ryan. The lead guy on anything to do with American liberty is Rand Paul. Policy initiatives advanced during his last, easy, big interview with '30 minutes' were completely missing.
Good luck getting a second bill of rights centered around big government through the 26 states that sued, lost and are angry over Obamacare. One guy calling it a tax increase instead of a cost savings did not rescue its unpopularity.
He should consider sitting back and writing a memoir, except he's already done that twice. Could work on his golf game, but been there, done that too. Now what?
Power User
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Re: The Cognitive Dissonance of His Glibness
Reply #1316 on:
January 30, 2013, 12:04:32 PM »
.Skeet shooting?
Hey, it's not Obama's fault the economy is very racist or something.
Power User
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Obama has a solution
Reply #1317 on:
January 30, 2013, 07:13:39 PM »
Or, download the Wesbury 2.0 software....
Power User
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WaPo has questions about Skeeter Baraq
Reply #1318 on:
February 03, 2013, 09:03:49 AM »
Power User
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Re: The Cognitive Dissonance of His Glibness - SOTU
Reply #1319 on:
February 13, 2013, 08:59:20 AM »
"We cannot JUST cut our way to prosperity."
The case that we have gone too far with cutting might have been strengthened by pointing to one thing that actually has been cut.
The lady who waited 6 hours to vote started to get that same feeling again as the speech went on and on.
He got a couple of things right, but that is his way - to take more than one side of an issue before turning sharply left.
His programs and proposals will not add one dime to the deficit. Really? They already added six trillion.
NY Times: [speech was] "proudly liberal"
Comments anyone?
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Is it live or is it "Photoshopped" ?
Reply #1320 on:
February 17, 2013, 07:32:01 AM »
Posted on behalf of
Crafty Dog
by Spartan Dog
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Re: The Cognitive Dissonance of His Glibness
Reply #1321 on:
February 18, 2013, 12:53:35 PM »
Forgive my ignorance, but what is that puff of smoke going off 90 degrees to the right?
Power User
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Re: The Cognitive Dissonance of His Glibness
Reply #1322 on:
February 18, 2013, 04:02:00 PM »
The bbl. appears to be ported, usually done to reduce muzzle rise.
Power User
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Re: The Cognitive Dissonance of His Glibness
Reply #1323 on:
February 18, 2013, 04:47:35 PM »
Interesting. I have only shot trap and shot skeet one time each a long time ago. Does his gun show enough incline to be a skeet shot or is that a target shot?
Power User
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Porting of gun barrels...
Reply #1324 on:
February 18, 2013, 04:51:34 PM »
Crafty - here is some additional info, just FYI, I don't like porting because of the increased muzzle flash, and hot gasses that may escape and burn you depending on where you fire the gun (an issue only with handguns) for rifles and shotguns, the gasses usually aren't an issue, but I still dislike the increased noise and muzzle flash. I haven't found it to be particularly noticeable in decreasing muzzle rise, either. Just my opinion:
How Porting Works
Porting consists of adding holes through the shotguns barrel, near the end. These holes are placed along the upper sides of the barrel by a gunsmith (dont try to drill them yourself!). When the shotgun is fired, some of the hot gases will escape through the port holes, rather than through the muzzle. Since the port holes are near the end of the barrel, there is virtually no effect upon the speed at which the shot or slugs exit the shotgun.
Pros of Porting
Porting results in a reduction of recoil and a reduction in muzzle climb. The recoil reduction comes from the fact that some of the hot gases that would normally help propel the shotgun backward against the shooters shoulder (recoil) are instead directed out of the port holes. Similarly, the reduction in the tenancy of the muzzle to rise when the shotgun is fired (also referred to as muzzle climb, muzzle flip, muzzle lift, etc.) is reduced. This is because the hot gases exiting the port holes will help push the barrel back down. The net result is that porting results in a gun that recoils more softly, and stays on target better. This can be especially beneficial for recoil sensitive individuals.
Cons of Porting
Porting is not appropriate for every shotgun, however. Porting increases the amount of noise heard by the shooter and those standing next to the shooter. Porting also results in a more visible flash when the shotgun is fired. Both are the result of having the hot gases from the combustion of gun power exit the barrel through the port holes, rather than through the muzzle. The extra noise is primarily a concern when the shotgun is fired for sporting, rather than self defense purpose. The extra flash, however, could be an issue for self defense at night, since it may worsen the effect upon the shooters night vision. The hot gases which exit through the port holes can also cause burns, which may be either a benefit or liability if firing the shotgun in self defense at close range.
I whole heartedly endorse the porting of shotgun barrels, and have multiple shotguns with ported barrels. My home defense guns, which I fire regularly at the range have ported barrels. I dont mind the slight increase in noise that Ive noticed, nor the flash. I also know other gun owners who feel differently, so barrel porting is a decision for each person to make.
"You have enemies? Good. That means that you have stood up for something, sometime in your life." - Winston Churchill.
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Re: The Cognitive Dissonance of His Glibness
Reply #1325 on:
February 18, 2013, 04:59:53 PM »
Quote from: DougMacG on February 18, 2013, 04:47:35 PM
Interesting. I have only shot trap and shot skeet one time each a long time ago. Does his gun show enough incline to be a skeet shot or is that a target shot?
To me, it looks like a shot at a static target. Probably a round of birdshot for the photo.
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Re: The Cognitive Dissonance of His Glibness
Reply #1326 on:
February 18, 2013, 05:17:46 PM »
Quote from: G M on February 18, 2013, 04:59:53 PM
Quote from: DougMacG on February 18, 2013, 04:47:35 PM
Interesting. I have only shot trap and shot skeet one time each a long time ago. Does his gun show enough incline to be a skeet shot or is that a target shot?
To me, it looks like a shot at a static target. Probably a round of birdshot for the photo.
Yes. The context of the photo release was that he said he was shooting skeet "all the time" at Camp David. To support that claim they release a photo of him shooting last summer - at a target.
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Re: The Cognitive Dissonance of His Glibness
Reply #1327 on:
February 18, 2013, 05:23:05 PM »
So that 90 degree porting in this picture is vertical? For some reason my eyes saw it as going to the right-- which made no sense to me.
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Cognitive Dissonance Glibness - Best of times and worst for African Americans
Reply #1328 on:
February 22, 2013, 12:02:33 PM »
Pres. Barack Obama: "And you know, I think these are both the best of times and the worst of times for large portions of the African American community."
No recognition whatsoever of the unemployment and dependency damage that his policies have caused. All partisanship about the hatred of Republicans.
I can't believe host Al Sharpton didn't ask tougher questions.
African American Teen Unemployment Rate at a 25 Year High
155,000 New Jobs Added, But Black Unemployment Rises
Black teen unemployment still 4 times national average
seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for African Americans between the ages of 16 and 19 reached 49 percent, up from 45.4 percent in August and 41.7 percent for the same period last year.
once unemployed, Blacks are less likely to find jobs and tend to stay unemployed for longer periods of time. Blacks remained unemployed longer than Whites or Hispanics in 2011, with a median duration of unemployment of 27.0 weeks (compared to 19.7 for Whites and 18.5 for Hispanics).
Best of times because of increased opportunities - in an intentionally shrinking economy?
Fool me once, fool me twice, looks like a pattern...
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Saddam Hussein Obama's thug makes threats to reporter
Reply #1329 on:
February 27, 2013, 07:39:09 PM »
BOB WOODWARD: A 'Very Senior' White House Person Warned Me I'd 'Regret' What I'm Doing
Brett LoGiurato|Feb. 27, 2013, 6:53 PM|
Bob Woodward said this evening on CNN that a "very senior person" at the White House warned him in an email that he would "regret doing this," the same day he has continued to slam President Barack Obama over the looming forced cuts known as the sequester.
CNN host Wolf Blitzer said that the network invited a White House official to debate Woodward on-air, but the White House declined.
"I think they're confused," Woodward said of the White House's pushback on his reporting.
Earlier today on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," Woodward ripped into Obama in what has become an ongoing feud between the veteran Washington Post journalist and the White House. Woodward said Obama was showing a "kind of madness I haven't seen in a long time" for a decision not to deploy an aircraft carrier to the Persian Gulf because of budget concerns.
The Defense Department said in early February that it would not deploy the U.S.S. Harry Truman to the Persian Gulf, citing budget concerns relating to the looming cuts known as the sequester.
"Can you imagine Ronald Reagan sitting there and saying, 'Oh, by the way, I can't do this because of some budget document?'" Woodward said on MSNBC.
"Or George W. Bush saying, 'You know, I'm not going to invade Iraq because I can't get the aircraft carriers I need?'" Or even Bill Clinton saying, 'You know, I'm not going to attack Saddam Hussein's intelligence headquarters,' ... because of some budget document?"
Woodward began stirring controversy last weekend, when he called out Obama for what he said was "moving the goal posts" on the sequester by requesting that revenue be part of a deal to avert it.
Read more:
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They Told Me If I Voted Republican the White House Would Start Threatening Repor
Reply #1330 on:
February 27, 2013, 07:45:32 PM »
They Told Me If I Voted Republican the White House Would Start Threatening Reporters, And They Were Right!
Bryan Preston
Legendary reporter Bob Woodward tells Politico that White House staffers have threatened him over his sequester reporting.
Bob Woodward said this evening on CNN that a very senior person at the White House warned him in an email that he would regret doing this, the same day he has continued to slam President Barack Obama over the looming forced cuts known as the sequester.
CNN host Wolf Blitzer said that the network invited a White House official to debate Woodward on-air, but the White House declined.
Whats there to debate? Bob Woodwards reporting has spoiled Obamas plan. That plan was to blame the entire sequester on Republicans, then allow the cuts to hit, and blame them again. Woodward reported that the sequester was the Obama White Houses idea, blowing the plan to bits.
Woodward isnt easily dismissed. Hes a veteran reporter who helped bring down the last truly paranoid president we had, Richard Nixon, and at 69 years old is going after another arguably more paranoid president.
So all the presidents men are threatening Woodward. Politico picks up the story.
Bob Woodward called a senior White House official last week to tell him that in a piece in that weekends Washington Post, he was going to question President Barack Obamas account of how sequestration came about and got a major-league brushback. The Obama aide yelled at me for about a half hour, Woodward told us in an hour-long interview yesterday around the Georgetown dining room table where so many generations of Washingtons powerful have spilled their secrets.
Digging into one of his famous folders, Woodward said the tirade was followed by a page-long email from the aide, one of the four or five administration officials most closely involved in the fiscal negotiations with the Hill. I apologize for raising my voice in our conversation today, the official typed. Youre focusing on a few specific trees that give a very wrong impression of the forest. But perhaps we will just not see eye to eye here. I think you will regret staking out that claim.
Woodward repeated the last sentence, making clear he saw it as a veiled threat. Youll regret. Come on, he said. I think if Obama himself saw the way theyre dealing with some of this, he would say, Whoa, we dont tell any reporter youre going to regret challenging us.
Madness, indeed.
Barack Obama has spent the entire week lying about the consequences of the sequester, which Woodward reports and Congressional sources verify was personally approved by the president. What happens when March 1 comes and the so-called cuts kick in and the sky does not fall?
Barack Obama will have all the credibility of the Mayan calendar that told us the world would end last December.
Woodward stands in the way of Obamas escape path blame it all on Republicans. Obamas fans know that his credibility is very much on the line. Theyre savaging Bob Woodward tonight.
Listen for the sound of drones lurking over the Beltway for the next couple of days.
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Re: The Cognitive Dissonance of His Glibness
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February 28, 2013, 05:47:31 AM »
"I think if Obama himself saw the way theyre dealing with some of this, he would say, Whoa, we dont tell any reporter youre going to regret challenging us.
Yet even after all this Woodward still buckles and gives cover to the ONE. The same ONE who said "we reward our friends and punish our enemies". It all sounds like Obama strategy and unwritten policy to me.
Obama's only lament would be the aide made this threat in a verifiable email rather then a "he said she said" verbal conversation.
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Obama: I Am Not a Dictator
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March 01, 2013, 04:02:57 PM »
He hasn't managed to disarm the public yet....
Obama: I Am Not a Dictator
By Andrew Stiles
March 1, 2013 1:13 P.M.
I am not a dictator, President Obama told members of the White House press corps Friday, in response to a question about why he was unable to force congressional leaders to reach an agreement to replace sequestration the $85 billion in automatic spending reductions scheduled to take effect at 11:59 p.m. today. Ultimately if Mitch McConnell or John Boehner say, We need to go to catch a plane, I cant have Secret Service block the doorway, the president added.
It is hardly the first time Obama has felt it necessary to remind the American people, or has lamented the fact, that he is not a more authoritarian type of ruler. A few examples:
King: My cabinet has been working very hard on trying to get it done, but ultimately, I think somebody said the other day, I am president, I am not king, Obama told Univision in October 2010, when asked why he had yet to achieve comprehensive immigration reform. I cant do these things just by myself. He reiterated that sentiment in a February 2013 interview with Telemundo. Im not a king, he said.
President of China: Mr. Obama has told people that it would be so much easier to be the president of China, the New York Times reported in March 2011.
Emperor of the United States: This is something Ive struggled with throughout my presidency, Obama said during a Google hangout event in February. The problem is that Im the president of the United States, Im not the emperor of the United States. My job is to execute laws that are passed.
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Cog. Diss. of His Glibness, Wash Post: Four Pinocchios for WH Janitors' pay cut
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March 06, 2013, 10:49:58 AM »
We originally thought this was maybe a Two Pinocchio rating, but in light of the AOC memo and the confirmation that security guards will not face a pay cut, nothing in Obamas statement came close to being correct.
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Re: The Cognitive Dissonance of His Glibness
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March 06, 2013, 11:05:26 AM »
I saw a similar thing about Head Start.
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Leftist with an honesty problem = cabinet secretary, meet Thomas Perez
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March 12, 2013, 10:54:15 AM »
Another perfect fit for the Obama second term cabinet and inner circle:
High-ranking DOJ official gave false testimony about voter intimidation case
Federal Judge Reggie Walton has found that internal DOJ documents about the New Black Panther Party voter intimidation case contradict Assistant Attorney General [Thomas] Perezs testimony that political leadership was not involved in the decision to dismiss the case. In other words, as Hans Von Spakovsky says, the sworn testimony of Perez, the Obama political appointee who heads the Civil Rights Division, before the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights was apparently false.
Judge Walton serves on the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. He has presided over high profile trials including those of Scooter Libby and Roger Clemens.
This particular case was brought by Judicial Watch, which filed a Freedom of Information Act request seeking documents relating to the DOJs decision to dismiss civil claims in the New Black Panther Party case. According to Judge Walton, the DOJ documents, including emails from former Associate Attorney General Thomas Perrelli (who was the number-two official at DOJ) and former Democratic election lawyer and Deputy Associate Attorney General Sam Hirsch, revealed that political appointees within DOJ were conferring about the status and resolution of the New Black Panther Party case in the days preceding the DOJs dismissal of claims.
This finding directly contradicts the sworn testimony of Assistant Attorney General Perez. At a hearing before the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights on May 14, 2010, Perez was asked whether any political leadership [was] involved in the decision not to pursue this particular case. Perezs answer, on page 79 of the transcript of that hearing, was an unqualified No.
Accordingly, as von Spakovsky concludes, it is clear that Judge Walton was being polite when he said that thre documents and the testimony of Perez are contradictory and cast doubt on the accuracy of Perezs account.
Perezs conduct should, at a minimum, be the subject of an investigation by the Justice Departments Office of Professional Responsibility (did Perez violate his ethical and professional obligations as a DOJ attorney) and/or the DOJ inspector general (did Perez violate 18 U.S.C. §1621, which outlaws presenting false statements under oath in official federal proceeding). But dont hold your breath.
And dont expect much, if any, any coverage by the mainsteam media which, no doubt, would be howling if a Republican political appointee at DOJ had been found by a federal judge to have given inaccurate testimony under oath.
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Glibness: Michelle Malkin - Obamas pending secretary of illegal alien labor
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March 13, 2013, 01:31:01 PM »
Obamas Nominee for Secretary of (Illegal Alien) Labor
By Michelle Malkin March 13, 2013
My column today refreshes your memories of radical assistant attorney general for Obamas DOJ civil rights division, Thomas Perez. As icing on the corrupto-cake, heres a brand-spanking emphasis on spanking new DOJ Inspector Generals report on the racialist foul play at Perezs bureau, where polarization and mistrust reign.
Former DOJ attorney and brave whistleblower J. Christian Adams has much more. He writes:
The 250-page report offers an inside glimpse of systemic racialist dysfunction inside one of the most powerful federal government agencies.
The report was prepared in response to Representative Frank Wolfs (R-VA) outrage over the New Black Panther voter intimidation dismissal. In response to the report, Rep. Wolf said today, the report makes clear that the division has become a rats nest of unacceptable and unprofessional actions, and even outright threats against career attorneys and systemic mismanagement.
Former Voting Section Chief Chris Coates and I both testified about the hostility towards race-neutral law enforcement by the Justice Department.
Todays report paints a disgusting portrait, confirming our accounts.
Roll over or stand up to this injustice, GOP? Your move.
Obamas Nominee for Secretary of (Illegal Alien) Labor
by Michelle Malkin
The Beltway is buzzing over President Obamas likely nomination of Thomas E. Perez as the next head of the U.S. Department of Labor. But when Americans find out whom Perez has lobbied for most aggressively over the course of his extremist leftwing social justice career, theyll be wondering which country Obamas pick really plans to serve.
Press accounts describe Perez, currently the assistant attorney general for the Justice Departments civil rights division, as a tireless advocate of worker and civil rights. The son of immigrants from the Dominican Republic, Perez was a former special counsel for the late illegal alien amnesty champion Sen. Ted Kennedy.
During the Clinton years, Perez worked at the Justice Department to establish a Worker Exploitation Task Force to enhance working conditions for illegal alien workers. While holding down his government position, Perez volunteered for Casa de Maryland. This notorious illegal alien advocacy group is funded through a combination of taxpayer-subsidized grants (totaling $5 million in 2010 alone from Maryland and local governments) and radical liberal philanthropy, including billionaire George Soros Open Society Institute.
Thats in addition to more than $1 million showered on the group by freshly departed Venezuelan thug Hugo Chavezs regime-owned oil company, CITGO.
As Ive reported previously, Perez rose from Casa de Maryland volunteer to president of the groups board of directors. Under the guise of enhancing the multicultural experience, he crusaded for an ever-expanding set of illegal alien benefits, from in-state tuition discounts for illegal alien students to drivers licenses and tax-subsidized day labor centers. Casa de Maryland opposes enforcement of deportation orders, has protested post-9/11 coordination of local, state and national criminal databases, and produced a know your rights propaganda pamphlet for illegal aliens that depicted federal immigration agents as armed bullies making babies cry.
The group can claim credit for pushing the White House to issue an estimated 800,000 illegal alien deportation waivers by executive fiat. And now, Casa de Maryland is currently leading the charge for an even broader illegal alien path to citizenship.
Questioned by GOP Sen. Jeff Sessions during his DOJ confirmation hearing in 2009 about the illegal alien rights guide produced by Casa de Maryland, Perez grudgingly stated that the civil rights division must not act in contravention to valid enforcement actions of our federal immigration laws.
But act(ing) in contravention of the law is at the heart of Perezs and Casas radicalism and not just on behalf of illegal aliens.
During his tenure with the Obama DOJ, Perez sought to undermine electoral integrity by attacking South Carolinas voter ID law. His race card antics were rebuked by a unanimous U.S. District Court panel (which included a Clinton appointee), and the law prevailed.
Perez was instrumental in covering the backsides of the militant New Black Panther Party thugs who menaced voters and poll watchers in Philadelphia in 2008. The American Spectators Quin Hillyer recounted that a federal judge challenged the veracity of Perezs testimony about DOJ political appointees interference on behalf of the Panthers. This came after Perez also had, apparently unlawfully, refused to honor valid subpoenas from the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and it was in addition to yet another falsehood by Perez, this one to the effect that DOJ had sought the maximum allowable penalty against the Panthers, Hillyer reported. While the original decision to dismiss the case pre-dated Perezs appointment to the Justice Department, his direct involvement in, and hands-on management of, what amounted to a cover-up of the decisions origins should alone be disqualifying for any Cabinet post.
Perez also helped spearhead the lawsuit against Arizona over its immigration enforcement measures and launched a three-year DOJ witch-hunt against Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio. The vengeful investigation against Arpaio, the nations most outspoken local law enforcement official against illegal alien crime, was dropped without charges last summer. Perez is leading similar witch-hunts against police departments across the country based on leftwing junk science theories about racial disparate impacts.
With Senate Republicans John McCain, Lindsey Graham and company folding like lawn chairs on Obamamnesty, open-borders groups are thrilled at the prospect of another victory with Perezs nomination.
Last week, conservatives stood with Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., over John Brennans nomination as CIA director. Who will stand for American workers in opposition to Obamas pending secretary of illegal alien labor? Anyone?
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Baraq and Turkey's Erdogan
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Cognitive Dissonance of His Glibness - Basketball is his main sport?
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April 01, 2013, 08:02:36 PM »
He golfs with Tiger (what did that cost?) but can't swing a club, hangs with NBA legends but can't make a free throw (video above is pretty amazing), and he wants to run the economy but has still never read a book on economics that isn't about dismantling our system. Just getting to know the guy - as our nation heads down the tubes.
If his story was that he is a lousy basketball player or golfer (honesty), I would be impressed. If his story is that he works on improving our economy so much, that is why his former sporting prowess has suffered, i would say - what a crock.
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Scrappleface: Obama Declares April 1 Fiscal Responsibility Day
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April 02, 2013, 10:03:41 AM »
Humorist Scott Ott at Scrappleface reports:
Obama Declares April 1 Fiscal Responsibility Day
Obama signs National Fiscal Responsibility Day declarationPresident Obama declares April 1 National Fiscal Responsibility Day, as the infants and toddlers of Wall Street bankers crawl around his desk just out of the cameras view.
In a White House ceremony this morning, surrounded by young children of Wall Street bankers, and of staffers at the Federal Reserve, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, President Barack Obama signed an executive order designating today as National Fiscal Responsibility Day.
The president said the declaration would both recognize the Herculean efforts of members of Congress and the Executive branch in paring down the federal budget to its core essentials...
Obama noted that from now on, the first day of April each year will remind all Americans of the kind of government we ordained and established in our Constitution one of limited, enumerated powers, that maximizes individual liberty....
[Too bad this is only an April Fools joke.]
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Well, that was embarassing , , ,Baraq "the Brick" Obama
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Michelle, my belle from hell
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Re: Cognitive Dissonance of His Glibness - Hope, Obamanomics and Change
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April 05, 2013, 02:42:26 PM »
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Glib White House blames lousy jobs report on the sequester!
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April 07, 2013, 12:36:04 PM »
White House blames lousy jobs report on the sequester!
Solution: Higher taxes and more government spending.
a) Everything is fine. If you don't believe a), then try: b) Everything that is wrong is attributable to Republicans.
"The Administration continues to urge Congress to replace the sequester with balanced deficit reduction (raising taxes), while working to put in place measures (more government spending) to put more Americans back to work like rebuilding our roads and bridges and promoting American manufacturing."
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Re: The Cognitive Dissonance of His Glibness
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April 07, 2013, 01:07:11 PM »
Of course the tax increases and the implementation of Obamacare have nothing to do with it , , ,
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Baraq buying Russian helicopters for Afghanistan
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Re: The Cognitive Dissonance of His Glibness and Gosnell
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April 15, 2013, 09:26:34 AM »
The ignored trial of Gosnell puts images to the beyond far left policies that State Senator Barack Obama from Illinois sponsored. If the intent was to kill the baby, kill the baby. Who knew that abortion rights could get ugly?
OTOH, Wouldn't it be more liberal and caring to protect those who are most vulnerable?
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Hugo Chavez rates, Margaret Thatcher does not
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April 16, 2013, 12:10:44 PM »
The rhetorical flourish here about women strikes me as rather stupid, but the dissonance of sending representatives to Chavez's funeral but not Thatcher's speaks for itself.
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re:Cognitive Dissonance Glibness - Hugo Chavez rates, Margaret Thatcher does not
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April 17, 2013, 12:50:59 PM »
At least they didn't send Biden, but did they really send no one to Margaret Thatcher's funeral? Unbelievable.
You would think they would be more sensitive after all their other mistakes with our closest ally - even if they don't give a damn.
The decision to send no one was announced before the Boston bombing, so that wasn't it. It was the gun control momentum that is so easy to lose when it is a top issue for 4% of the American people.
Obama agrees that Thatcher is in a class with Churchill and Reagan, all his ideological opponents.
His view is shared by the UK protesters who wasted no time getting up a sign saying "The Bitch is Dead" and made Ding Dong! The Witch Is Dead, from The Wizard of Oz the No. 1 download at Amazon U.K.
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TSC Brings to the GPAC Stage Stephanie Shine, Dan McCleary, Susanna Perry Gilmore, Barry Gilmore For the First Production of the Sixth Season: Unto the Breach! The Un-Common Courage of William Shakespeare
(Memphis, TN, August 13, 2013) – – Tennessee Shakespeare Company (TSC), the Mid-South's professional classical theatre, presents an original production of Unto the Breach! The Un-Common Courage of William Shakespeare on stage September 7 at 7:30 pm and September 10 at 7:00 pm at Germantown Performing Arts Center to benefit the restoration of classical education programming to the Company's community schoolrooms.
Arranged and performed by TSC Founder and Producing Artistic Director Dan McCleary and resident actor/Education Director Stephanie Shine, Unto the Breach! will also feature the Memphis return of violinist Susanna Perry Gilmore (formerly with Memphis Symphony Orchestra, now concertmaster with the Omaha Symphony) and Barry Gilmore on guitar, hammered dulcimer, and percussion.
In addition to the September 7 and 10 public performances, the Benefit will play a special all-school matinee on September 10 at 7:00 pm with discounted school tickets made possible by TSC's sponsors. A talk-back with the actors and musicians will follow the performance.
Children 17 years and younger will be admitted FREE for both public performance when accompanied by a paying, attending guardian. Limit four per guardian.
Benefit tickets are $30, and seating is general admission. Press Opening is September 7 at 7:30 pm. General Admission tickets may be purchased now at (901) 759-0604 or www.tnshakespeare.org.
Generous Benefit sponsors include The Barbara B. Apperson Angel Fund, ArtsMemphis, Nancy and Dan Copp, Germantown Performance Arts Center/Duncan-Williams Performance Hall, Independent Bank, Milton T. Schaeffer, and the family of Margaret and Owen B. Tabor.
Actors McCleary and Shine (Gertrude in TSC's acclaimed Hamlet), a real-life married couple, share the stage for the first time together in this fun and moving 90-minute performance that explores the courage of William Shakespeare through his plays' characters: the courage of the heart, of conviction, of creativity, and of forgiveness. McCleary and Shine have more than 55 collective years of playing Shakespeare on stage, including more than 30 major/title roles.
The Gilmores, also a real-life married couple, are founding members of TSC, having performed in the inaugural productions of As You Like It and A Midsummer Night's Dream. They have performed in their own Celtic band, Planet Reel, for many years, with Mrs. Gilmore long-acclaimed for her virtuoso work on the violin for more than two decades in symphonic and chamber orchestras.
Live Celtic and classical music will weave together scenes from King Lear, As You Like It, The Winter's Tale, Much Ado About Nothing, Coriolanus, Macbeth, The Merchant of Venice, Love's Labor's Lost, Richard III, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Henry V.
"When TSC lost substantial funding for our education programming in the classrooms for this year, we put the call out to our patrons and friends to lend us their support as they could," explains McCleary. "Our elected officials and TSC received over 200 letters and calls of support. Scores of supporters showed at City Hall to speak on TSC's behalf. Our friends at ArtsMemphis lept into the breach with us, and then the National Endowment for the Arts/Arts Midwest recognized TSC as one of just 40 theatre companies in the United States as having an education and performance program worthy of receiving a substantial matching grant. This was deeply heartening and very helpful, but we still need additional funds to ensure we can provide a substantial level of education service in our community. That's when we came up with the idea for a benefit performance inspired by our supporters. Courage was the theme.
"It is true that we have fought mightily for our funding to be sustained, but in hearing children speak on our behalf and in observing the quiet grace and steely resolve of so many supporters, I was reminded of Shakespeare's many faces of courage. It isn't just the courage to fight. Sometimes he examines the courage it takes to shift one's philosophy, to admit a wrong, to break rules in order to create something new, to will a thing into being, and to forgive others. So, this piece will benefit our education restoration, but we also hope it will be a reminder to all of us of how courage can be a revolutionary force. We also plan on it being a fun and light evening, especially with Susanna and Barry returning to play with us live on stage. The text will share the space with music that is beautiful, traditional, and enlivening."
Who's Who
Bruce Bui (Costume Designer) designed TSC's Hamlet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Julius Caesar, Othello, Romeo and Juliet, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged), It's a Wonderful Life: a Live Radio Play, Rebel Shakespeare and His Women, and Shakespeare's Greatest Hits. Originally from Southern California, Bruce now lives in Memphis and is going into his twelfth season as the Wardrobe Director and Resident Costume Designer for Ballet Memphis. His works can be seen regularly on the Orpheum stage and numerous other venues around the Mid-South, and have been praised as "dazzling" by Critical Dance Magazine, and a "Master of Chiffon" by The Commercial Appeal. He has also worked with The Western Stage (Always, Patsy Cline), Cabrillo Musical Theatre (Funny Girl), Santa Susanna Repertory Theatre (Shiloh, War of the World), and Kingsmen Shakespeare Company (As You Like It), among others. Some of his specialty garments can be seen on Mrs. Tennessee for Mrs. America 2005, At Home Tennessee Magazine's featured wedding issue 2007, and The Memphis Mystic Krew 2005 court. Bruce also has worked on several commercials in the Mid-South.
Jeremy Allen Fisher (Lighting Designer) is the Resident Lighting Designer for Theatre Memphis and a graduate of Oklahoma City University with a BFA in Lighting Design. He has worked for Santa Fe Opera, Busch Gardens, Oklahoma Shakespeare in the Park, and Northern Oklahoma College. Jeremy was recently nominated for an Ostrander Award for best lighting design, Chicago, the Musical at Theatre Memphis, and placed first runner-up for the National Barbizon Lighting Award (2011) for his lighting design of A Streetcar Named Desire.
Neil Freeman (Text Consultant) is a teacher, director, text coach, and actor. He is the man behind the acclaimed First Folio editions published by Applause and utilized across the globe. Currently Associate Professor Emeritus (of Theatre) at the University of British Columbia in Canada, he is also a Master Teacher with Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, and Text Consultant to several other U.S. and Canadian theatres. His range of teaching, coaching, and directing ranges from the fifteen-year-olds in youth companies to high school teachers, through university level students (undergraduate and graduate in both liberal arts and the top-ranked professional training schools) to professional theatre companies and individual actors.
Barry Gilmore (Musician) is a founding member of TSC and is the Middle School Head at Hutchison School. In addition to performing in the Celtic ensemble Planet Reel on guitar, hammered dulcimer, and other traditional instruments, he and his wife Susanna arranged, composed, and performed music for TSC's premiere production of As You Like It. Before entering administration, Barry was an English teacher for nearly 20 years. He served as president of the Tennessee Council of Teachers of English and has won awards for teaching from the National Council of Teachers of English, the Tennessee Holocaust Commission, and was named a Star American Teacher by the U.S. Department of Education. He is also the author of seven books for teachers and students.
Susanna Perry Gilmore (Violinst) is a founding member of TSC, having composed, arranged, and performed music for As You Like It and A Midsummer Night's Dream. She joined the Omaha Symphony in 2011 as concertmaster, a position she previously held for fifteen years with the Memphis Symphony Orchestra. In addition to her orchestral role, Susanna enjoys a multifaceted career as a solo artist and chamber musician in performances across the nation. She has frequently been heard on National Public Radio in chamber ensembles on shows such as Performance Today, A Prairie Home Companion, and America's Music Festivals. She was twice named Premier String Player by the regional chapter of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, served as Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Violin at the University of Memphis, and has served as the Valade Violin Fellow at the Interlochen SummerArts Program for the past six years. She has also taught and performed at the Sewanee Summer Music Festival, the Hot Springs Music Festival, and the Grand Canyon Music Festival, and was a fellow at the Tanglewood and Norfolk Music Festivals. Susanna played a fundamental role in creating and directing a new music series for the Memphis Symphony, Opus One, which garnered national attention for its creative collaborations between symphony ensembles and jazz, rock, folk, blues, and hip-hop artists from the Memphis community. She also recently appeared in both dramatic and musical roles in the film, Narcissus, filmed on location in Lithuania. Susanna earned her Bachelor's degree in music from Oxford University, England. As a post-graduate, she spent a year in the Advanced Solo Studies Program at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, where she studied with violinist Yfrah Neaman; she then received her Master's degree in Violin Performance from New England Conservatory in Boston under the instruction of James Buswell. Prior to her studies in England, Ms. Gilmore studied with Christian Teal at the Blair School of Music and Mimi Zweig at Indiana University.
Kristen Greene (Properties Designer) is excited to be involved in her second season with TSC. Previously, she has worked on The Tempest, The Glass Menagerie, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged), and It's a Wonderful Life. Kristen is currently the stage manager and production coordinator for Ballet Memphis. She has a BFA in stage management from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University, and she also studied at Shakespeare's Globe in London.
Dan McCleary+* (Actor) is a native Memphian and a graduate of Germantown High School and its Poplar Pike Playhouse. Dan directed and acted in TSC's inaugural production of As You Like It (Jaques) and The Glass Menagerie; and he directed TSC's acclaimed Hamlet, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged), The Tempest, Macbeth, A Midsummer Night's Dream, all-female Julius Caesar, Othello, and Themes from a Midsummer Night. He also has directed productions of As You Like It at Orlando Shakespeare Theater, The Servant of Two Masters outdoors in downtown Atlanta and at Seattle Shakespeare Company, and All's Well That Ends Well at Georgia Shakespeare Festival. At the Orlando Shakespeare Theatre, he has directed the world premiere of The Stone Face and has played the title roles in Antony and Cleopatra and Richard III, Brutus in Julius Caesar, Porfiry in Crime and Punishment, Petruchio in The Taming of the Shrew, and Falstaff in The Merry Wives of Windsor. As Associate Artistic Director at Shakespeare & Company in the Berkshires, Dan acted in and directed over 30 productions, appearing as Coriolanus, Macbeth, Herman Melville, Stephano, Don Armado, Hotspur, Master Ford, Bertram, and Antipholus/Dromio of Ephesus. He directed S&Co's first production of The Servant of Two Masters, also his own adaptation of Anaïs Nin's Henry & June, Vita & Virginia, My Own Stranger, and The Fiery Rain. Other Regional/New York theatre: Merrimack Rep, North Shore Music Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville, StageWest, Alabama Shakespeare, Arden Theatre, Studio 4-A, and Huntington Theatre. Dan is a published poet and teaches Shakespeare master classes around the country. Memphis Magazine has named him among the "Who's Who in Memphis" each year from 2009-12, and the Germantown Arts Alliance honored him with its 2009 Distinguished Arts and Humanities Medal for Performing Arts. He serves on the City of Germantown's Telecommunications Committee, and holds a B.A. in Advertising and Journalism from Temple University.
Stephanie Shine* (Actor) TSC directorial work includes It's a Wonderful Life: a Live Radio Play, Shakespeare's Greatest Hits, Southern Yuletide , Romeo and Juliet, and The Rebel Shakespeare and His Women. During her 18 years with Seattle Shakespeare Company, 13 as Artistic Director, she directed 17 productions, including The Threepenny Opera, Cyrano de Bergerac, and the lauded all-male Taming of the Shrew. A well-known actress in the Northwest, Stephanie has performed for Seattle Repertory Theatre, Seattle Shakespeare Company, ACT, The Empty Space, Seattle Children's Theatre, Book-It Repertory Theatre, and Tacoma Actors Guild. Regionally, she appeared with the Oregon and New Jersey Shakespeare Festivals, Houston's Alley Theatre, Arizona Theatre Company, and NYC's Theatre for a New Audience. Her Shakespeare roles include Juliet, Rosalind, Lady Macbeth, Beatrice, Regan, Feste, Kate, Bianca, Dionyza, The Princess of France, Hero, Perdita, and The Chorus in Henry V.
+ Member of The Society of Directors and Choreographers, Inc., an independent national labor union.
* Member of Actors' Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.
Box Office and Performance Season Information
Box Office: General Admission tickets are on sale now, Monday – Friday, 9:00 am – 5:00 pm at TSC's office located at 2260 West Street, Germantown, TN 38138; by calling 901-759-0604, or by going on-line to www.tnshakespeare.org (Twitter: @tnshakespeare).
All performances: $30.
Free Will Kids' Nights: Available both nights. Children are admitted FREE with a paying, attending guardian. Limit four per guardian.
Discounts available for seniors, students, and groups of 20.
Opening Night on September 7 includes complementary post-show dessert and champagne toast with the actors.
Notes: All seats are general admission. No refunds or exchanges. Title and cast subject to change. Tennessee Shakespeare Company is a 501(c)(3) non-profit arts and education organization. GPAC is located at 1801 Exeter Road, Germantown, TN 38138
Tennessee Shakespeare Company
Tennessee Shakespeare Company is a professional 501(c)(3) theatre and education organization which performs the plays of William Shakespeare indoors and outdoors seasonally; performs classical and Southern writers seasonally; and provides year-round educational and training programming. Now in its sixth season, Tennessee Shakespeare Company seeks to sustain a Mid-South classical theatre that both nurtures artists and encourages audiences to exaltation, curiosity, and wonderment; be a center for the community dedicated to re-discovering faith in life by increasing awareness of reality and expanding imagination through an emphasis on the performance, education, and training of William Shakespeare's works.
"Unto the Breach! The Un-Common Courage of William Shakespeare"
by Dan McCleary and Stephanie Shine
performing at Germantown Performing Arts Center/Duncan-Williams Performance Hall, 1801 Exeter Road, Germantown, TN 38138
Saturday, September 7 at 7:30 pm and Tuesday, September 10 at 7:00 pm, 2013
Tickets are $30 adults; 20% discount for Seniors/Students; FREE for children 17 and younger when accompanied by a paying/attending guardian
Box Office is (901) 759-0604 and www.tnshakespeare.org
Featuring Dan McCleary and Stephanie Shine in an effort to restore live professional Shakespeare to our community's classrooms, this Benefit performance showcases through his plays Shakespeare's courage of the heart, conviction, creativity, and redemption.


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Henning Knows Bestest: Henning Wehn
According to Henning, there's no shortcut to success, hard work will eventually pay off and there is no shame in paying tax.
But what he knows bestest is that his comedy shows are a guaranteed success. Either he's funny or he confirms a national stereotype that German's don't have a sense of humour. It's a win-win situation.
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Henning Wehn
The self-styled 'German Comedy Ambassador in London', Henning Wehn is a regular guest on the British comedy television programme 'FAQ U' and has appeared on the BBC Radio 5 Live radio show 'Fighting Talk ', where he is 'in it, to win it', as well as two appearances on Radio 4's 'The Unbelievable Truth'.
Wehn's act plays upon the prevailing post-war stereotype of Germans; a large part of his routine is based around comprehensively analyzing and explaining his punchlines and jokes in the smallest detail.
'A diplomatic master class' (The Scotsman)
'Brought the audience to its knees' (The Daily Telegraph)
'Marvellous' (The Guardian).
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Venue: Swindon Arts Centre
Website: swindontheatres.co.uk
Phone: 01793 524 481
Disabled Bookings: 01793 524 481


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One hell of a run.
You gonna do Bowls again this year?
he is now a tout in partnership with Big East
NCAAF Cincy Bearcats +3Statement game for bearcats, place is going to be rockin, bridgewater looking to cash an NFL paycheck is just not focused, he doesn't want to get hurt at this point - calling a more intense Cincy team, more focused, crowd element, HOME college element. Take the points, if Louisville escapes its going to be by a FGNFL Jags +3Henne is playing better than Keenum, there at home, Texans season can't end fast enough while Jags are actually having fun. I'll take the +3 at home, I like Shorts, I like Henne, I like how MJD is running the ball. Keenum and Johnson will have a productive day but it wont be enough to get a cover. Regards, The Cowboy
So if these are their picks for tonight a couple of questions although I am not sure if you will be able to answer them. Whose picks are whose (BEE or Charlotte) and what is their record(s) ytd in College and in NFL? Like I said you may not be able to answer the questions but thanks for posting them
Originally Posted by mrdish33: well only 3 post wat do you no about CHARLOTTEsports & BigEastExpert anyway ????
Quite possibly it is one of either Charlotte or BEE trying to drum up some business, quite possibly a subscriber of theirs through Twitter, quite possibly a lurker here who never really signed up to post here until just recently (as hundreds of people do). Who knows countless possibilities but just because someone has only 3 posts does not mean that they have only been around covers for a short period of time
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