Government Red Faced Over Redskins
Jun 19, 2014 Political
The federal government’s patent office removed the Washington Redskins’ trademark protection in a move that Harry Reid says will force the team to change its name. There is no doubt this is politically motivated and the government is intruding on things it has no business in. The government did this before but the Redskins won on appeal and kept their trademark.
If the patent office will remove trademarks because the name or logo might be offensive then there is a lot of work to be done. They need to work hard to get Notre Dame to change from being the “Fighting Irish” and there are a number of high school teams named Redskins so don’t waste time Congress, hop to it.
It is not like anything important is happening in the world that could use your attention.
I imagine it is long past time for Red Man tobacco to get its comeuppance and have its trademark removed. Unless, of course, the big tobacco money is making its way to politicians…
[note]If I were the owner of the Redskins I would change my logo to the red potato and keep the name redskins. Then I would cancel any elite ticket plans held by members of Congress and NEVER allow them to attend my games unless they paid and sat in the regular seats with everyone else. No more owner’s box or VIP box for them.[/note]
The Patent Office removed the trademark because, it claims, a majority of Native Americans find it offensive. There is no actual reliable information to support that claim but that is what the action was based on.
I am a white person and I think it is high time Nabisco lose its patent for Saltines. I am offended that they are called crackers…
As for the Redskins, I do not think Congress belongs involved. If people do not like the name then they don’t have to go to the games or watch on TV. Most people probably don’t pay much attention to the issue of the team’s name but if we want to ensure the name of the team is ignored by politicians perhaps they could be renamed:
The Washington Federal Deficits.
Maybe the owner can just move the team someplace else (whether he is forced to change the name or not) and remove all the offensive revenue the team generates for DC.
Regardless, it is long past time for the word Washington to be removed from the name because more people are offended by Washington than Redskin.
Cave canem!
Never surrender, never submit.
Tags: Congress, patent office, redskins, trademark
Eric Holder Plays His Favorite Card
Apr 9, 2014 Political
Eric Holder got spanked yesterday in a hearing before Congress and he did not like it too much. The reality is he was called out for his disregard of Legislative Branch demands and his contempt. Holder turned street thug by telling Congressman Gohmert “You don’t want to go there buddy” when Gohmert mentioned Holder’s uncaring attitude toward being held in contempt.
Well little Eric was at the National Action Network, the alleged civil rights group headed by rat Al Sharpton, to give a speech. Holder went off his prepared remarks and played his favorite card, the RACE card.
“I’m pleased to note that the last five years have been defined by significant strides and by lasting reforms. Even in the face, even in the face, of unprecedented, unwarranted, ugly, and divisive adversity.
If you don’t believe that, if you look at the way, forget about me, forget about me, if you look at the way the attorney general of the United States was treated yesterday by a House Committee, it had nothing to do with me, forget that, what attorney general has ever had to deal with that kind of treatment? What President has ever had to deal with that kind of treatment?” Best of Cain
You see, Holder wants to know if any other Attorney General or President has ever had this kind of treatment. The implication being that Holder and Obama are black so they are being treated badly for that reason. Since he is a progressive and progressives are always pure his skin color must be the reason.
I am sure that the fact Holder has been involved in gun running (leading to deaths of American and Mexican citizens), has ignored the law, refused to defend federal law, and has lied never entered his mind. Yes, he was held in contempt of Congress but that has nothing to do with the way he is treated because he is black so that MUST be why it is happening.
Ditto for Obama. The guy is a disgrace and has no leadership ability (except to lead blind followers around by their noses) and he is ruining the country BUT it must be because he is black.
And I inferring too much from this? I doubt it since he was speaking at the meeting of one of America’s premier race baiting poverty pimps, Al “The Rat” Sharpton. Everything is about race when it comes to Al and Holder knows the audience will eat this up.
The reality is, Holder is a criminal and Obama is a criminal with no real life work experience. As an aside, Sharpton is a criminal who avoided jail by informing for the FBI.
I also point out that George Bush was treated as harshly by the left as Obama is by the right so Holder’s question is designed to elicit a response based on race while disregarding the facts. In other words, he does not expect an answer only an emotional response.
As for Attorneys General, perhaps Holder was stoned somewhere when Alberto Gonzales was AG. Gonzales was treated much worse than Holder. Perhaps it was because he was the first Hispanic AG?
Considering Holder works for a regime that is nothing but a house of cards perhaps he should be careful which one he plays…
Cave canem!
Never surrender, never submit.
Tags: Al Sharpton, alberto gonzales, Congress, eric holder, fbi informant, gun runner, lies, race card, treatment
The Overlords In Congress Have It Easy
Nov 21, 2013 Obamacare
They claim they are just like us and they pretend to be of the people but members of Congress are the overlords and they have a much easier time of things. This is, in part, because they are not subject to the laws they pass for us to follow. The Obamacare debacle is a primary example.
First of all they ensured they were eligible for up to 75% of their premiums to be paid for by taxpayers. No other worker is in the exchange with employer support. They are in and paying the entire freight or they are getting a tax credit (at the expense of taxpayers). Members of Congress voted to exempt themselves.
Now, they are not having any trouble signing up because they have special access phone numbers and people from the insurance companies sitting at the Capitol to help them get all signed up.
In addition, the lawmakers have a much larger selection of plans from which to choose. They have 112 Gold Plan options which is many times more than the serfs for whom they work have access to.
These cretins forced this on America and then ensured they were treated like royalty.
We need to vote them all out of office for this.
They work for us and we need to make sure they know that.
Of course they will flash some shiny beads during the next election and the low information voters will reelect them and then cry that they are getting screwed.
Cave canem!
Never surrender, never submit.
Tags: Congress, exempt, lies, obamacare, overlords, royalty, vote them out
What If Obamacare Was Already Fully Implemented?
Oct 11, 2013 Political
The Federal Government has shut down 17% of its operations and one would think the end of the world is near. The petulant child in the White House has been giving directives to departments to make the shutdown as painful as possible for the public. The Democrats have expressed that they “are winning” so they do not care how long it lasts. I have addressed that attitude before but suffice it to say they care not a bit about this country or the people in it. Obama has refused to negotiate and Harry Reid is making demands that he will not bend on.
They are out of control.
Certainly some things will shut down when the government is closed (or partly closed) but this government has shut down things that do not need to be shut down and it has done so for the sole reason of hurting people.
The government shut down a road that runs through federal property which caused school buses to stop taking kids to school. Buses are unable to use the alternate road so parents are forced to take their children to school. Government does not man the road but it decided to shut it down to make things tough.
Government has removed people from their own homes because those homes are located on federal property. People were forced by gun toting jack booted thugs of the government to leave their homes. Government does not pay for or maintain the homes but the owners had no choice.
Government shut down open air monuments and memorials that are never manned and cost nothing to visit. They barred veterans of WWII from visiting the open air WWII Memorial just to cause harm.
The government forced a bunch of old people on a bus trip to get back in a bus that was touring Yosemite after they stopped to take pictures. The people were allowed to go to their hotel rooms and were forced to stay in those rooms for a few days (they were NOT allowed out) as armed officers kept them under house arrest. They were then placed back on the bus and allowed to leave They were not permitted to stop at a rest place, usually frequented on those tours, to use the restrooms. Nothing they did cost the government money and they paid for the trip. This was done to hurt people.
People using campgrounds on federal property were forced to leave even though they paid to use the facilities, their presence does not cost the government and their money results in revenue to the Treasury. This was done to hurt people.
The stories go on and on and they all involve the government deliberately doing something that harms people. They claim it is because of the shutdown but the actions they are taking involve things that are not affected by the shutdown. This is all out of Rules for Radicals and it is all on the orders of Obama.
He told people to make it as unpleasant as possible.
Hell, Obama had the military commissaries shutdown even though 98% of their funds come from user fees. His regime did not pay death benefits to the families of warriors who died after 1 October just to use these grieving families as pawns.
[note]Polls say that Republicans are getting hammered the most on this. In the short term that will hold but in the long term they will come out on top. Funny thing these people. They put Republicans in office to stop Obamacare and then blame them when they work to do it. I also find the politicians attacking Cruz and Lee detestable. These people ran promising to do what Cruz and Lee are doing and when they had the chance balked. They will pay in 2014.[/note]
What does any of this have to do with Obamacare?
Let us suppose that Obamacare was fully implemented and money was flowing all over paying for procedures and people were getting health care. Now this is fantasy because it will not run well but that does not matter. Just suppose it is up and running.
Do you for one second think that the petulant child in the White House would not use Obamacare to hurt people and make the shutdown even more painful?
He could simply say that all health care facilities are closed because the government is shut down and these facilities fall under a federal law and are getting federal money. Medicare is on autopilot so they really would have a hard time doing it with that but with Obamacare they could easily inflame the country and point fingers at the mean old GOP by shutting down facilities.
If anyone reading this thinks that Obama would not do just that then you would be a moron. He would do it in a New York City second.
Look at how many things he closed down that were never closed in other shutdowns. Look at how many things he closed that government has nothing to do with. The stated goal was to make it hurt and he could do that by shutting health facilities.
So those of you screaming that Obamacare is wonderful and should be left alone keep that in mind when it is used against you someday.
Wouldn’t it be ironic if a Republican president had a shutdown someday because Democrats would not agree to a budget and that president took a page from the Alinsky playbook that Obama uses and shut down the health clinics? None of you liberal morons would have grounds to say a thing because you are allowing Obama to do the very same thing right now.
The Democrats shut down the government. They refused to negotiate and they are holding America hostage. They are holding a gun to our heads.
[note]If you are in the minority of Americans not already unalterably opposed to Obamacare, keep in mind that the only reason the government is shut down right now is that Democrats refuse to fund the government if they are required to live under Obamacare.
That’s how good it is! ~ Ann Coulter[/note]
Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Chuck Schumer and all the others are radical terrorists who are out to destroy this country. They all belong in Gitmo with the rest of the terrorists.
As an aside, those of you who hate George Bush keep this in mind. There was not one day of government shutdown when he was in office.
One last thing. Why do liberals always scream that Social Security checks won’t go out and the military won’t get paid. We know SS is on autopilot and that the military will eventually get paid but the liberals like to use fear to make seniors, those who have been enslaved under Social Security, fearful of not getting a check.
If you are worried about your money and have no other means then perhaps you should learn to vote better. And buy lots of cat food.
One thing I never hear is that welfare checks might not go out. Liberals place a higher value on crack whores and welfare queens getting their checks than they do the seniors who paid in and the military who protect this nation.
Really not bright to threaten not to pay the people with all the tanks, jets, helicopters comprised of the finest fighting forces in the world. They can point their weapons in any direction and are sworn to protect and defend the Constitution, not politicians.
And that would be against all enemies foreign and DOMESTIC.
Obama and his henchmen are domestic enemies.
Cave canem!
Never surrender, never submit.
Tags: Congress, government, lies, Military, obamacare, shutdown, social security, terrorist
They Should Have Read It First
Jul 30, 2013 Political
Oops, looks like the reality that it had to be passed to see what was in it has struck home for members of Congress and their staff members with regard to Obamacare. Remember that Nancy Pelosi famously stated that they needed to pass the bill to see what was in it. No one read the 2000 plus page bill, a bunch of shady deals were made to get this thing passed, and Obama signed it with a big smile.
He was happy that he screwed America and that government took more control over our lives.
The problem is that members of Congress and their staff must be part of the Obamacare exchanges and there is NO mechanism in place for their employer (the taxpayer) to pay the employer portion of health care premiums. People are working furiously to find some way to allow this to take place but so far there is no solution to a problem the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) pointed out not long after the bill was signed into law.
Congress now looks to Obama to make some administrative announcement to “fix” this problem. The Legislators do not want to change this via legislation because it will be seen as hypocrisy by the public. You see, the public is stuck with all the bad stuff in the law and can’t simply change or make a new law to help themselves. Congress wants to avoid looking like hypocrites.
Ironically, this is the reason the provision is in the law in the first place. Senator Grassley, a Republican from Iowa, proposed this part of the legislation to ensure that members of Congress and their staff were held to the same standard as constituents. There is speculation that Grassley never thought it would pass but that Democrats did not want to look like hypocrites so they allowed it.
Now they are stuck with it and they are whining. When 70% of the nation opposed this it was no big deal because our betters knew what was best for us. We had to shut up and eat our peas. We had to watch as they played games, lied and made backroom deals to get this passed and we had to watch them smile as it was signed into law even as we continued to oppose it.
They did not mind all of us having this forced upon us but now that they are stuck and there appears to be no way out they are in full fix it mode.
Screw them. Let them have to pay 100% of their health care costs. Let them be forced to eat their peas. Let them have to do what they do not want to do like the majority of us who have opposed this monstrosity since its conception.
No special treatment for these pukes. If you don’t want it to apply to you then repeal it or defund it.
God help them if they refuse to repeal or refund and then work a deal to get a break for themselves and their staff. It will not be pretty when 2014 rolls around.
This is what happens when government involves itself in areas where it does not belong. This is what happens when they engage in social programs that enslave the people. This is what happens when they act in haste.
Now they are caught up in the web they set up and they do not like it.
I guess they should have read it first.
Cave canem!
Never surrender, never submit.
Tags: Congress, exchange, hypocrisy, lies, obamacare, staff members