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Owner complains Obama’s beer tent stop cost him $25,000
Was the beer cup half full or half empty?
President Barack Obama’s impact on what is arguably the Iowa State Fair’s most storied watering hole has become a morning-after mini-debate over the breakfast bacon thanks to a tweet from Sen. Chuck Grassley, as well as fairgrounds chatter.
Obama’s fair stop Monday evening required shutdown of the popular Bud Tent, the heart of fairgrounds nightlife at the intersection of E. 33rd Street and Grand Avenue. Fairgoers eager to greet the president were ushered inside, screened and scanned by the Secret Service and penned in by yellow caution tape. The entire production required at least two hours, and the president’s sleek black coach bus pulled away from the Bud Tent by 8:30 p.m.
There are “two sides to this story,” said Mike Cunningham II, the third generation owner of the 65-year-old Bud Tent.
On one hand, Cunningham, 39, appreciated the historical significance of Obama’s visit: His great-grandfather, Lloyd Cunningham, was secretary of the fair board from 1942 to 1962 and was on hand to greet then-President Dwight Eisenhower when Ike visited the centennial fair in 1954 with Iowa’s own President Herbert Hoover in tow. (That was the first of four visits by sitting presidents, followed by Gerald Ford in 1975, George W. Bush in 2002 and Obama on Monday.)
On the other hand, the small business owner side of Cunningham fumes that the president “put a damper on what I’m trying to do here.” His Bud Tent was shut down at the most lucrative time of day, with a popular rock cover band, Hairball, about to perform at the Susan B. Knapp Amphitheater next door with legions of thirsty fans.
Via I hate the media
cassandra
August 15th, 2012
A band called Hairball?? You couldn’t make it up! Pity O did not choke on it!
Buckwheat Hussein-O
August 15th, 2012
“screened and scanned by the Secret Service”
shouldn’t that say the “racist Secret Service”? Requiring ID, they tell us, is the dirtiest form of racism.
Billy Fuster
August 15th, 2012
Was the owner obligated to let Obama use his place of business? If not why did he say yes?
Bad Brad
August 15th, 2012
He should have been as clever as this guy. Hilarious.
http://www.soopermexican.com/2012/08/15/crumb-and-get-it-business-owner-to-biden-visit-youre-not-invited/
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sTevo
August 15th, 2012
$25,000 is probably a stretch but I wouldn’t doubt $10,000.
How do you deny access to the JEF-in-Chief. If this happened, the beer-miester would have been shut down on some code technicality, no doubt.
sTevo
August 15th, 2012
Bad Brad,
Radford is ~1 hr away. I could drive down and show my appreciation in Chic-fil-A fashion. Might just do that. And, shake the man’s hand.
RANDO
August 15th, 2012
Good one cuzz!
Chuck U Farley
August 15th, 2012
Once again proof that every business Obysmal comes in contact with loses.
He is a commie shit-stain on Capitalism. The man is an anti-Capitalist magnet.
…or is that ‘malignant’?
Spartan
August 15th, 2012
Isn’t his motto: Share the Wealth?
Why is he stopping by a beer tent when he carries his own beer on board AF1? Share the friggin’ beer you jerk!!!!! By the way, did you make that?
http://www.boston.com/politicalintelligence/2012/08/15/president-obama-campaign-bus-stocks-beer-brewed-white-house/8PsyB8CqZVUG2Z6Ckx0Y9M/story.html
Bad Brad
August 15th, 2012
Thanks Cuz.
This ones been gnawing on me all day. This stuff seriously needs some daylight. This is off the charts weird, everyone should read it.
http://www.infowars.com/social-security-administration-to-purchase-174-thousand-rounds-of-hollow-point-bullets/
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Monkey Boy
August 15th, 2012
solicitation posted by the SSA on the FedBizOpps website asks for contractors to supply 174,000 rounds of “.357 Sig 125 grain bonded jacketed hollow point pistol ammunition.
https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=6c39a2a9f00a10187a1432388a3301e5&tab=core&_cview=0&fb_source=message
Bad Brad
August 15th, 2012
Yea well Monkey Boy, yesterday they were buying everything but ICBM’s for the freaken National Weather and Oceanic (or whatever) service. Get yur go bag ready. I’m on FedBizOpps daily. I’ve never ever seen a solicitations like that. Here’s the deal. If they were trying to do something clandestine the could have gone through the GSA (if they weren’t naked in hot tubs) nobody would have known. But FedBizOpps is administered by the DLA, and they are sharp as marbles. Something weird going on here.
Bad Brad
August 15th, 2012
sTevo, I swear, if I lived that close I’d make the drive just because he showed some hair. We need more like him.
Monkey Boy
August 15th, 2012
“I’m on FedBizOpps daily. I’ve never ever seen a solicitations like that. [...] Something weird going on here.”
Do you have a theory in mind?
Bad Brad
August 15th, 2012
To quote a damn good friend if mine, “it’s creeping me out”
Read that article all the way to the end. They actually give a good explanation. But if they are correct our elected leaders are not being honest with us, they are trying to manage the surfs. That should enrage everyone that visits here. Suddenly the stock piling of massive amount of ammunition is justifiable and necessary.
Problem for me is nobody wants to be labeled the over reactionary loon, the cry wolf guy. When is enough proof? This speaks for it self.
CharlieWalksonWater
August 15th, 2012
Obomba is half right…In this case that beer owner didnt do it all by himself, obomba helped him do it.
Bad Brad
August 15th, 2012
On a side note when the girls call you Monkey Boy are you clothed or naked. Don’t take this the wrong way, I’m trying to help.
CharlieWalksonWater
August 15th, 2012
didnt LOOSE it all by himself. Geez, i gotta get a better proof reader.
Monkey Boy
August 15th, 2012
Both before and after.
Monkey Boy
August 15th, 2012
“It’s not outlandish to suggest that the Social Security Administration is purchasing the bullets as part of preparations for civil unrest. Social security welfare is estimated to keep around 40 per cent of senior citizens out of poverty.”
Brad, it’s pretty interesting to think about that in conjonction with the possibility of confiscation of IRAs and 401(k)s.
Ann wrote about this on her blog. And because her blog doesn’t archive, I’m gonna paste it all here, to archive it on the internet :
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The 401k Confiscation: The Ghilarducci Plan Part 1
Posted by Ann Barnhardt – August 4, AD 2012 1:23 PM MST
PREFACE: I originally posted this on May 6, 2010. Just for giggles, I looked up the gold and silver markets on May 6, 2010.
Gold: $1170 per ounce 5/6/2010, $1603 yesterday
Silver: $17.59 per ounce 5/6/2010, $27.78 yesterday
Just sayin’.
Let’s start with citations first.
Click Here for Teresa Ghilarducci’s EPI Briefing Paper
Copy and paste this URL into your browser for the HumanEvents.com article:
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=36823
Where to begin, where to begin. Well, a long time ago an angel named Lucifer decided that he was going to rebel against God . . .
That might be a little too much back story, but you get the drift. Let’s fast]forward to November 20, 2007. The “Economic Policy Institute ] Agenda For Shared Prosperity” (which holds the dubious honor of having the most thoroughly COMMUNIST NAME IN THE HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSE) published its Briefing Paper #204, authored by flaming Marxist Teresa Ghilarducci.
Teresa is a member of the faculty at The New School in New York City, which is a Socialist University. Now, you might say, “Ann, ALL universities in this country could rightly be called “socialist” nowadays”. True dat. But the New School makes Berkeley and Columbia look like Oral Roberts University and BYU by comparison. No, the New School is LITERALLY a socialist university. It was originally called the “University in Exile” and was begun by a bunch of Neo]Marxist scholars who were thrown out of fascist Italy and Nazi Germany in the early 1930s. Yeah. Remember my post about how Marxists purge intellectuals? But the other, somewhat humourous angle is that these guys were such extreme Marxists that they made Hitler and Mussolini UNCOMFORTABLE. Wowzer. So, they emigrated to NYC, where they would Fit. Right. In. Dude.
So, Teresa is now a big]wig at the “Too Freaky For Mussolini” (that kinda rhymes) New School. She writes this paper called “GUARANTEED RETIREMENT ACCOUNTS: Toward Retirement Income Security”. That’s the hotlink above. Nutshell? Federal government siezes all 401(k)s and IRAs and replaces them with US Treasury Bonds. In other words, you would be FORCED to effectively loan all of your retirement accounts to the government, and continue loaning 5% of your income to the regime MANDATORILY. This would now be called a GRA, or Government Retirement Account, administered by the Social Security administration. Your “contributions” to your GRA would be automatically deducted from your paycheck, just like SocSec. Participation would be mandatory, but in the purely voluntary sense of the word, you understand. (I haven’t found the muslim exemption yet, but I’m sure they’ll write that into the final bill. The government employee exemption is already there on page 17 of Teresa’s paper.) You would not be able to tap your contributions under any circumstances. No early withdrawal, no loans. When you die, only a tiny fraction of your GRA balance would go to your heirs, and even then, it would be transferred into THEIR GRA accounts, which they could then not touch until retirement.
But the real point of this can be found on the top]right of page 12 under the header “Why not simply expand Social Security?”
“If subsidies for 401(k)]style plans and IRAs can be reallocated to Guaranteed Retirement Accounts, why not use this money to shore up and expand Social Security? This is certainly an option.”
This is an admission that there is no “lock]box” in effect on the GRA money, and it would be a FLIPPING FREE FOR ALL. The 401(k) and IRA assets in the United States are currently pegged at over SIX TRILLION DOLLARS. The Obama regime would instantly “borrow” against that money and burn through it in the blink of an eye in the Ponzi Scheme method of SocSec. It is widely thought that the first group to be bailed out by GRA siezure money would be . . . wait for it, wait for it . . . unions. SEIU is massively underfunded on its retirement obligations. So, yes, the Obama regime would sieze YOUR retirement money and redistribute it to Andy Stern and the kids over at the SEIU to bail their corrupt, lying, cheating, scheming, communist butts out. No wonder Andy Stern is the most frequent visitor to the White House. Well, that is if you don’t count Markus, who gets “that really smooth coke from Costa Rica”. I’m talking “official” visitors, here.
The 401k Confiscation: The Ghilarducci Plan Part 2
Posted by Ann Barnhardt – August 4, AD 2012 1:22 PM MST
Teresa recently was called before Congress to give testimony about her paper and this plan.
Vice President Joe Biden is on record floating this idea as recently as February 2010 in his “Middle Class Report”. To be more accurate, Biden was told to “read these words that are written on this card, and if you read them real good, you can have an ice cream sammich!” At the same time, the Obama regime officially requested that the Departments of Labor and Treasury gather information on this scheme. This is all cited in the HumanEvents.com link above.
Finally, House Republican Leader John Boehner sent a letter on Monday night to Secretaries Solis (Department of Labor) and Geithner (Department of Treasury and Department of Needs to be Taken Out Back Behind The Woodshed and Have That Smirk Smacked Off His Lying Punk Face) saying, in essence, “back the (censored) off”.
The bill for this is already being written, and TRUST that it isn’t being written by anyone ACTUALLY in Congress. No, it is being written by flaming Communist Teresa Ghilarducci and her orcs over at The New School (too Freaky for Mussolini).
The regime, in the spirit of “never letting a good crisis go to waste” will use today’s market action and any subsequent European defaults as the crisis]excuse to push this through in the same illegal reconciliation method as they used to push through ObamaCare. Afterall, the mean old stock market is just too risky. Mamma Obama has to protect all of you helpless, stupid economic units ] ahem ] I mean “workers”, right?
My advice? Simple. GET YOUR MONEY OUT, OUT, OUT OF 401(K)s and IRAs NOW. Take the penalty. Pay the tax. Whatever. Just get your money home. Because if the regime gets its hands on it, YOU WILL NEVER SEE A SINGLE PENNY OF IT AGAIN. It will be gone forever. I have actually been preaching this for over a year now, but since I have lots of new readers, you need to hear this. I am dead serious when I say that the safest place for your wealth right now is in gold and silver coins buried in a mayonnaise jar in your back yard. DEAD SERIOUS. No joke. No funny]ha]ha. Dead. Serious.
Spread the word.
Here is Teresa Ghilarducci herself explaining her scheme. She starts out claiming this is voluntary and then states at the 14:15 mark that it is mandatory. Remember, these are exactly the same people who said that ObamaCare would drop insurance premiums and that everyone could keep their existing insurance and doctor. These people are evil Marxist liars who will say ANYTHING in order to impose their fascist will. This is what Marxists do. They lie without conscience or hesitation.
If you can’t stand to listen to this witch, fast]forward to the 13:50 mark. Listen from 13:50]14:18.
“Obama is not the only entity that is looking at what a retirement reform system should look like in detail. In the last two years, myself and two other academics working alone, we have been working independently ] we are quite, sort of, pleased to find out that we’ve come to the same conclusion, um, have come to the conclusion that we need a mandatory, um, system.”
Epilogue: MF Global, PFG Best, and now the Knight Capital “algo error”. One of the reasons that the government is gleefully relishing in the disintegration of the financial markets is because they WANT people to BEG the government to “nationalize” and “guarantee” retirement accounts. They are building a dossier to argue that the markets aren’t safe (but remember, the markets have disintegrated BECAUSE of the actions and responsorial inactions of the oligarchs and their bureaucrat cronies). That’s what Communists do. This is the Cloward-Piven Strategy in full execution. Intentionally cause the system to collapse, then whip up the “useful idiots” into a frenzy, and finally seize total power AT THE INVITATION OF THE PEOPLE. The Russians BEGGED for Lenin and the Bolsheviks. They DEMANDED tyranny. The Germans BEGGED for the Third Reich and Hitler. They DEMANDED tyranny.
Before it is over here, the people of the United States, monumentally more stupid, godless and most especially HELPLESS, will BEG the government to take over their retirement accounts – to save them from the very market that the government has coordinated with the Bankster Oligarchs to destroy.
Get your money the hell out and USE IT TO PREPARE FOR COLLAPSE AND WAR.
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Bad Brad
August 15th, 2012
Both before and after.
Thank me later, shave your butt. LOOOOOOOL.
Sorry bro set you up on that one, oh and stop throwing, well you know what.
Monkey Boy
August 15th, 2012
I’m as shaved as a metrosexual.
Monkey Boy
August 15th, 2012
“Sorry bro”
You’re scared. Don’t worry. I won’t do to ya what I did yesterday.
Bad Brad
August 15th, 2012
Monkey Boy
Dude you are a good sport and I’m LMAO.
Monkey Boy
August 15th, 2012
“I really am quite full of crap.”
– Ann Barnhardt
http://barnhardt.biz/
Love this gal.
Bad Brad
August 16th, 2012
“Sorry bro”
You’re scared. Don’t worry. I won’t do to ya what I did yesterday.
I’m large and in charge, only one thing I’m afraid of.
My wife.
Katechon
August 16th, 2012
God bless her !!
Bad Brad
August 16th, 2012
Oh shit, Et tu, Brute?
MTFU.
Anonymous
August 16th, 2012
There’s one Chiang Mai nurse who owns my soul (and my motorbike) up-there in North Thailand. Gotta see what’s happenin’ soon enough.
Brutus
August 16th, 2012
Bad Brad
August 16th, 2012
I wish you luck bro, go getter her. Move her back to Canada right over the border from Montana. We will visit and have some great verbal jousts.
Brutus
August 16th, 2012
Thank you sir. Flying on September the 14th !!
Bad Brad
August 16th, 2012
Stay safe good luck. I’m no sir, my hands are dirty.
Brutus
August 16th, 2012
“Show me the woman he sleeps with and I will tell you his valuation of himself. No matter what
corruption he’s taught about the virtue of selflessness, sex is the most profoundly selfish of all acts, an act which he cannot perform for any motive but his own enjoyment—just try to think of performing it in a spirit of selfless charity!—an act which is not possible in self-abasement, only in self-exaltation, only in the
confidence of being desired and being worthy of desire. It is an act that forces him to stand naked in spirit, as well as in body, and to accept his real ego as., his standard of value. He will always be attracted to the woman who reflects his deepest vision of himself, the woman whose surrender permits him to experience—or to fake—a sense of self-esteem. The man who is proudly certain of his own value, will
want the highest type of woman he can find, the woman he admires, the strongest, the hardest to
conquer—because only the possession of a heroine will give him the sense of an achievement, not the
possession of a brainless slut.”
Ayn Rand, in Atlas Shrugged
Francisco speaking to Hank.
This had me thinking…
Bad Brad
August 16th, 2012
“Show me the woman he sleeps with and I will tell you his valuation of himself. No matter what
Way to simplistic.
My valley girl bride has hung with me more times than I can count running CNC milling machines all night long until the sun comes up. And saying that’s not her bag is an understatement. It’s the fight, the battle against the world that unites you and sucks you closer.
The never quit, no quarter, no surrender frame of mind is irreplaceable.
Thai women possess that quality. I just got lucky.
Now quit screwing around, fly over and get her.
Brutus
August 16th, 2012
Yes sir. I will. IThanks for sharing that thought about the process of communion. It’s beautiful.
I’m dealing with some retailers now here in Montreal; me and her will try to export batteries from Thailand for cell phones. We have a few lines of businesses to explore together. From financing farmer to something like a 7/11. She’s very business minded.
Zonga
August 16th, 2012
I read somewhere that jugears offered to buy 10 beers with our tax money, he also stated that he wouldn’t buy one for the guy holding the Romney poster.
RANDO
August 16th, 2012
That’s all fine and dandy.
But what about all this ammo for non-LEOs?!
Johnny Pickleduster
August 16th, 2012
Tough Shit to the Beer Tent Owner. You lay down with communist dogs you get up with communist fleas, as in damage to your capitalist business. Diktator Obuttma has proven time and again he is an enemy of business and if your too stupid to recognise this glaring fact you deserve what you get. Bet this moron will still vote for Obuttma and his fellow commiecrats.
locknload
August 16th, 2012
It’s ALWAYS – ALL about Obama. Trying to make some money with your business? Not if there’s a photo opportunity!