Froggy's Pond: 11/20/11

Saturday, November 26, 2011

Friday, November 25, 2011

See you tomorrow, Pond People!

You want HER for your president??? Just remember.

In Discussing Hillary...

By Bill Miller Sr.

There really isn’t much being said or written at this point about Hillary Clinton replacing President Barack Obama on the Democratic ticket in 2012 as the candidate for the White House. We don’t think it will happen, but this idea is gaining some strength among some Democrats. The reason is because they don’t think Obama can be re-elected and that Clinton would be a stronger candidate.

This brought to mind an item about Hillary that was in “The Secrets of the FBI” book authored by Ronald Kessler, who also wrote “In the President’s Secret Service.” Because of his research, he qualifies as an expert on the two agencies. “The Secrets of the FBI” was published this year and is one of many books he has written. We would agree with what the publisher had to say about Kessler: “When it comes to developing access to top players, uncovering secrets, and writing a vivid tale, Ronald Kessler is without peer.”

We all remember Vince Foster, a member of President Bill Clinton’s inner circle who committed suicide in July 1993. The deputy White House counsel was found dead from a gunshot wound to his head. There was wide speculation that he may have been shot elsewhere and his body placed in a wooded area in a park along the Potomac River in northern Virginia. He was Hillary’s mentor at a law firm in Arkansas.

There is no question the man was depressed and was on the verge of resigning, which he had advised some of his close associates. There was a special independent counsel who looked into Foster’s death. He was Kenneth W. Starr who also was involved in the investigation of the Clintons’ investment in the much-publicized Whitewater real estate development. Starr found that Foster was a perfectionist who was very troubled about critical Wall Street Journal editorials, and the upcoming congressional hearings on the firing of White House travel office personnel. Starr’s investigation found that Foster committed suicide.

But what was revealed by Kessler was that Hillary and Foster held a meeting with aides to go over her health care legislation not long before his death.

“Those who were present told FBI agents working for Starr that Hillary violently disagreed with a legal objection Foster raised at the meeting and humiliated Foster in front of aides,” former FBI agent Coy Copeland says. “Hillary put him down really, really bad in a pretty good-sized meeting,” Copeland says. “She told him he didn’t get the picture, and he would always be a little-hick-town lawyer who was obviously not ready for the big time,” Kessler wrote.

Others close to the scene said Hillary “pushed him over the edge.” Kessler wrote that after that meeting Foster’s behavior changed dramatically.” He broke down and cried on occasions. “He talked of being trapped.” Because the White House objected on the grounds of executive privilege, Starr’s investigators never interviewed Hillary.

Another item in his book was that Hillary instructed that no one was to speak to her as she went from one location to another. An FBI agent who was not informed of the rule, said good morning to her and Hillary jumped all over him. She even said: “Where do you buy your suits? Penney’s?”

More books undoubtedly will be coming about Hillary’s days as secretary of state.

Although experienced and hardened in government, and in the White House as first lady, Hillary’s persona is hard to digest. Since we don’t believe she will be the Democratic candidate, why speculate on what kind of a president she would be.

If she did return to the White House, the best advice to aides is to get out of her way, wear armor, never question her actions, be a yes person, see her big picture, and, above all, don’t be hick-townish.

http://www.emissourian.com/opinion/columns/article_cc34bb36-9d1f-5489-93b7-5672bf557b64.html

Another lie for personal/political gain; does any Dem tell the truth?

Stop Peddling the Lie that Palin Led to Giffords’ Shooting

By Don Sturber

I have great respect for retired Navy Captain Mark Kelly’s service to this nation. I also admire the courage of Democratic Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. See Thursday’s post, “God bless you, Gabrielle Giffords.” But I find Captain Kelly’s tactics for selling his new book to be insulting , misleading and plain out wrong. More than that it is disturbingly dishonorable.

From the London Daily Mail:

But it was the lack of any contact from former Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin that was ‘surprising’ said Mr Kelly.

Citing the book, Mr Morgan said that it revealed some ‘interesting insights’ into ‘political colleagues and people that [Gabby Giffords] had worked for and against.’

Speaking about a map for which Palin was responsible, with crosshairs over certain states including Arizona, Mr Morgan said that the Alaskan ‘doesn’t come out of this very well, I don’t think, because there was a woman who at the time had been putting these crosshair things on her website and stuff, including Gabby,’ he said.

Sarah Palin’s map had nothing to do with the attempted assassination of Congresswoman Giffords. The man who shot her knew nothing of the map and had stalked the captain’s wife for 3 years prior to the shooting that left 6 people dead.

What a disgusting thing to do — and Piers Morgan’s failure to challenge Captain Kelly on this misinformation is appalling but not surprising.

One more day. One more lie. Captain Kelly should apologize privately and publicly to Missus Palin for perpetuating this fallacy.

http://blogs.dailymail.com/donsurber/archives/46876

(Ribbet!)

This man mentioned HE might, one day run for office... gad, they'll say anything!

Here's your Daily Catz!

Um... they don't call it a 'whirlybird'...

The "dibs' theory; 'I got here fiiiirst!' as a personal philosophy:

Upon What Basis Can an Occupy Protest Ask Someone to Leave?

By Natalie Solent

... because "This is private property" or any other version of "You have no right to be here" are open to some fairly obvious ripostes.

"We were here first" - "Er, not quite first. The actual owners of the space were there before you."
"We are the 99%" - "We're poorer than you, you middle class ****-ers"
"We represent the 99%" - "Who voted for you, then?"
"We are the official accredited Occupiers" - "We refuse to be defined by your oppressive structures, and hereby declare ourselves to be Occupying this Occupation!"

I have been reading the minutes of the General Assembly of the Occupy protesters who have taken over the empty UBS bank building in Sun Street, Hackney. One area of concern does seem to be people "abusing the space".

If people want to stay over night (sleep-overs) they need (1) to be part of a working group (2) They need to have an on-going task that warrants their stay. There will be ‘monitors’ to make sure sleep-overs are not abusing the space. Individuals that stay over and are found to not be working will be given one warning before being asked to leave.

And if they say no, what then? When a warning is given, it must be a warning of something. Presumably it is a warning that the bigger group of Occupiers will eject the smaller group of Occupiers - because they can.

Unless, of course, they can't. If a fight develops, what then? Call the cops? Problem with that.

http://www.samizdata.net/blog/archives/2011/11/upon_what_basis_1.html

Ponder this!

Thursday, November 24, 2011

Now, I feel better...

Good Nite, Pond Frogs!

What a wonderful day--'Wog's home!

Good Morning, Pond People!

(I don't know how he's gonna eat any turkey if his mouf is sealed shut with superglue--he 'bited it' again--HAHAHAHAHA!)

Tell us your holiday plans--and God bless you!

Wednesday, November 23, 2011

See you tomorrow...

Good Nite, Pond People!

It's really all leftists vs. the rest of us...

Who's behind '99 percenters'?

By Aaron Klein and Brenda Elliott

A company hired to lead marketing campaigns for such corporate giants as Pepsi, Starbucks, IBM and Toyota now is promoting Occupy Wall Street while complaining about the top "1 percent" ultra-wealthy allegedly hoarding the country's wealth.

GOOD Worldwide LLC describes itself as a media platform that promotes, connects, and reports on the individuals, businesses, and non-profits "moving the world forward." It maintains a central website, quarterly magazine, and online video content all dedicated to promoting so-called progressive values.

A division of the company, GOOD/Corps., seeks a "shared value revolution" by working with some of the world's biggest companies to "helps brands and organizations align business strategy with social impact, and win through highly participatory and profitable relationships with their audiences."

GOOD recently led rebranding campaigns for a litany of corporate giants. It developed Pepsi's "Refresh" campaign, a "Harmony" project for Toyota, IBM's "smarter cities" drive and Starbucks' "community" project. Other major companies listed as having "partnered" with GOOD include Apple, Aveda, BP, Ford, Gap , GE , IBM, Jet Blue Airways, Levi's, Lexus, Kashi, Microsoft, MINI, NBC Universal, Ralph Lauren , Skyy Vodka, Virgin Mobile and Whole Foods.

While GOOD/Corps clearly aims to infuse specific values to corporate marketing campaigns, the companies themselves have praised those very campaigns for increasing revenues. Robert MacDonald, CEO of P&G, reportedly changed the strategy of the company to "Touching and improving more lives, in more parts of the world, more completely." "It's more than a noble idea, it's a game-changing growth strategy and a powerful source of competitive advantage," MacDonald said of the rebranded strategy.

Michael E. Porter of the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness, commenting on the progressive marketing campaigns, said, "Shared value is not social responsibility, philanthropy, or even sustainability, but a new way to achieve economic success." While GOOD/Corps is partnered with some of the biggest names on Wall Street, it has been supporting the Occupy movement in recent weeks, even complaining about the "top 1 percent" allegedly hoarding the country's wealth.

A visit to GOOD's websites on any given day finds an abundance of pro-Occupy content, including articles supporting the movement. Just yesterday, the main site's rotator featured an article by GOOD's managing editor, Megan Greenwald, complaining, "No plan that included raising taxes on the wealthiest Americans had a chance of earning Republican support."

The article contained a photo of protesters demanding, "Tax the rich." Another article yesterday publicized, "Rooftops: Occupied! Communities Turn Out for Solar Power." GOOD featured a series of "anti-1-percenter" articles. On October 24, it was "The 1 Percent Are Not All Wall Streeters – But Lots of Them Are Bosses," followed on October 26 by "The 1 Percent Has Nearly Tripled Its Share of America's Income." On October 12, deemed by Occupy Wall Street as Bank Transfer Day, GOOD posted "A Step-by-Step Guide to Leaving Your Big Predatory Bank."

GOOD writer Curtis Walker's web page instructed readers to "Protest Big Banks with Their Own Junk Mail. "Not everyone who supports Occupy Wall Street movement can camp out in solidarity. So there's a simple and cheap way to get back at big banks and make your voice heard. All you need to get started is your daily pile of junk mail," he wrote.

GOOD's writers are concerned about OWS's political future. One recent post stated "Occupy Wall Street Needs Democratic Friends in Congress." A few weeks after came the claim "Occupy Wall Streeters Aren't Republicans – Or Democrats." Concern later shifted to "How Will the Occupy Wall Street Protesters Vote?"

Soros Connections:

GOOD, meanwhile, was founded as a magazine by Benjamin Goldhirsh, who "decided to create a magazine dedicated to social causes." Goldhirsh co-founded GOOD with Max Schorr and Casey Caplowe, reportedly using $2.5 million from his own trust fund after becoming wealthy from an inheritance left by his father.

Goldhirsh serves on the board of directors of The Goldhirsh Foundation, which supports "social programs, environmental initiatives, innovative medical research and leading cultural institutions." He also serves on the boards of "Be the Change," which launched the United Nations Millenium Promise, an organization founded in 2005 by Jeffrey Sachs, director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University. Millenium has worked with GOOD in multiple initiatives.

Other Millenium Promise board members include Sachs and Stewart Paperin, executive vice president of the Open Society Institute and president of the Soros Economic Development Fund. Partners in the Millenium Promise — an organization "guided by the UN's Millenium Development goals to end global poverty by 2025" — include Soros' Open Society Foundations, the Soros Economic Development Fund, Soros Foundations Network, and The Goldhirsh Foundation.

Sachs has been in the news recently after he penned a New York Times oped deeming the Occupy movement a "new era in America" that will realize the dawn of corporate and government cooperation. He further called for "a third-party movement to break the hammerlock of the financial elites." Sachs is a key member of Soros' Institute for New Economic Thinking, or INET.

The group holds an annual gathering of economic giants in the mountains of Bretton Woods, N.H., at the Mount Washington Hotel, famous for hosting the original Bretton Woods economic agreements drafted in 1944. That conference's goal was to rebuild a post-World War II international monetary system. Soros' gathering openly has a similar goal – a global economic restructuring.

With additional research by Chris Elliott .

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=370261

Good Morning, Pond People!

Tuesday, November 22, 2011

See you tomorrow...

Iz going bek to bed!

This is how the left uses it's freedom...

Free Speech Outrage

By "Senator Bob" Smith

The right to free speech is protected in the First Amendment to our Constitution, but there are times when what is said taxes the limits of one’s patience. Such is the case with Suffolk University Law Professor Michael Avery, who recently sent an email to his colleagues saying, “It is shameful to send care packages to U.S. troops who have gone overseas to kill other human beings.”

According to FOX affiliate WFXT-TV in Massachusetts, the comments were made after Suffolk University issued a school wide appeal for care packages to be sent to U.S. military deployed overseas. Clearly, Professor Avery had a constitutional right to say it, but the real question is, was it right to say it?

I found out about these remarks in an email sent to me by a disabled Vietnam combat veteran who was shocked and dismayed like most of us. To protect his privacy I will not name the veteran, but he sums it up with three words, “reprehensible, irresponsible and unacceptable.” Paul Spera, a past Commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars called the remarks “despicable” adding for emphasis, “that the shameful thing is that Avery is teaching our young people.” He took the words right out of my mouth!

As if those words were not hurtful enough, Avery had to make sure he made his point by adding, “Sympathy for American troops in harm’s way is not particularly rational in today’s world.” Suffolk to its credit does not have a history of being anti-military like many other universities. They sanctioned the effort to collect and send the packages and they even have a large American flag displayed in the school’s atrium. Professor Avery objected to that too, saying that displaying the flag is “not a politically neutral act” and represents “excessive patriotic zeal.”

Read more...

http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/42599

(Ribbet!)

This guy made me so damned mad! He takes our beautiful right to free speech and uses it like this? What a disgrace to all our brave men who have served. I know, for a dead certainty--and so do you--that this idiot never served a day, himself!