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"Larwyn's Linx: ObamaCare and the Constitutional Crisis"

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Anonymous Anonymous said...

Great links, you missed one, which maybe some fine Conservative Blogger can highlight.

Did you see this enormous waste?

The Clinton - Obama State Department calls it:
"smART Power"

Do you notice the Democrats are all crying foul of sending jobs overseas? Well in this case, they increased the State Department's Cultural Affairs Budget by 40% since 2009, to send their select ARTISTS (who will all have a certain political philosophy) overseas to be DIPLOMATS!

This is NPRism via the State Department, using taxpayer funds to build things for 'overseas'. What a brilliant idea hey, send anti-US Artists overseas to spend taxpayer funds on projects to aid other Nations? To bundle millions of Taxpayer funds to buy votes in the ARTS Community, and fatten the budgets of certain ART Institutions?

"One artist who Ms. Block said might put in a proposal is Judi Werthein. Born in Argentina and based in Brooklyn, Ms. Werthein received threats from anti-immigration groups after an art project she did in Mexico in 2005, in which she created special sneakers and distributed them to people in Tijuana who were planning to cross the border into the United States. Each pair was equipped with a compass, flashlight, painkillers and insoles printed with maps of the border area.

Ms. Werthein said she thought that smART Power sounded like a great idea.

“I think it’s very important for American artists to travel abroad, to get a different view of the world — it’s really essential,” she said.

But when asked if she thought that the program had the potential to change the image of the United States, she said no.

“American image in the world will change through policy and politics,” she said.

“Believing that we’re going to leave this image,” she continued, “and it’s going to make them happy, and we’ll look good, it’s underestimating their intellect.”

Another artist who has worked abroad, Paul Pfeiffer, said he thought the program had the potential to change people’s views of the United States, but only if the artists were given sufficient freedom.

The best projects aren’t “necessarily going to take the most obvious form that somebody in the State Department might imagine,” he said.

He noted that in his own experience working abroad, it was also important to be able to convince people that he spoke and acted for himself, not for the United States government. Particularly as a Fulbright fellow in the Philippines, he had to tell people over and over that he wasn’t “officially a diplomat of the U.S.,” he said, “just for people to be able to trust that a really straightforward and mutual conversation could happen."

1:29 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

HEY, here is another, getting a REPUBLICAN in Princeton, NJ?

Shocking potential, but it is a remote possibility.

SEE:
"Scott Sipprelle invades the homeland "

8:37 PM

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