Hi Buz. I had a feeling you would provide us with comedy gold on this one. That's why I bookmarked it at the time.
Forced Unionism
Neither forced arbitration nor the elimination of secret ballots represents forced unionism.
Socialized Medicine
Apart from the simple fact that US healthcare is (sadly) not a socialised system, this hardly counts as an amazing prediction. What you're basically accusing Obama of here is
keeping his campaign promises. The monster!
He said he would do this. It hardly demonstrates your powers of prophecy.
Undermine Military
Do you notice the presence of the phrase "Presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama" in that article? That's a clue. It's from Feb 29th, 2008! Let's try to stick to things that the President has actually done shall we?
Besides which, I'm all in favour of reducing nightmarish nukes and silly space weapons. If this is what Obama is doing, more power to him.
One of the first things he did after taking office was to stop the production of what was to be the worlds most effective strategic bomber; all this while Russia's Putin pledges to advance their strategic bomber program.
The US is the most powerful military machine on the planet, by a wide margin. Russia's military is, by contrast, outdated and pathetic. That might provide you with a hint as to why the Russians feel the need to invest in technologies that your military effectively already has.
The US is spending quite enough on its military as things stand. In 2009 you guys spent US$661 billion on your military. That's 4.3% of GDP. Russia meanwhile spent only around 53 billion, about 3.5% of GDP (they have actually cut their military budget in recent years). In other words, the US is spending more than twelve times as much as Russia (all these figures are from
here by the way). The US was responsible for an astonishing 43% of
world military expenditure during 2009. I think we'd all benefit from seeing that in a nice bar chart.
Tremble in your boots decadent Americans! The terrifying Russian Bear is coming for you!
Seriously Buz, how much exactly do you want the US to spend on this?
Paramilitary
Your article asks "Is Obama's "civilian national security force" a ruse for something far more sinister?".
No. No it's not.
If you want to prove that it is, it might help if you tried citing an article a little more recent than
Nov 7th 2008! It would be nice if you could track down something a little more substantive than the dated ramblings of an internet nutball about what he imagines Obama is
going to do.
There are presently around 40 paramilitary Muslim camps in the US in arms training.
Sorry! We could not find url! Nor could we find 40 paramilitary Muslim camps in the US! Your link is broken.
Obama's version of fairness doctrine
That's right Buz! All the right-wing pundits have been taken off the air and hounded from the very pages of the internet. Remember the day when they were all rounded up and taken before the firing squad? It brings a tear to my eye to picture it now... Glenn Beck didn't need to rub vaseline in his eyes to cry that day! It was a bit disappointing how Limbaugh pissed his pants and begged like a little girl though. I had hoped for better.
Except... you just linked to a Glenn Back page. So I guess he's okay. And all the other windbags continue to spew their moronic, hate-filled lies on a daily basis. So I guess they're all fine too. Oh well.
Let's not forget what you said;
Buzsaw writes:
5. So called (miss called) Fairness Doctrine essentially eliminating right wing talk shows in the media, highly expanding what is regarded as hate speech.
Please do not stoop so low as to pretend that this has happened. You should be above that.
While publically opposing the old Fairness Doctrine, his Czarist regime has powerful czars all undermining representive government in every area of government so as to make empower the executive branch as supreme.
What the hell has that got to do with the fairness doctrine? And where were you whilst the Bush administration were just as busy stomping on individual privacy as Obama is? On the sidelines, cheer-leading, that's where.
It's taken me 2 hours to research and verify these five.
I think your time could have been better spent. They were all bullshit.
So. Zero out of nineteen. Not great so far. I was right though. It is funny, funny stuff. Please, by all means keep it coming.
Mutate and Survive
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Edited by Granny Magda, : I like bar charts.