Factcheck calls out Obama's lies

Factcheck.org claims it is politically neutral. In fact, if you monitor
it closely, Factcheck appears to be left-of-center, but not crazy-left.
Thus it is significant when Factcheck comes very close to bluntly stating
the obvious and well-known fact: Obama is a liar.



"Democrats, from President Barack Obama on down, are trying to turn an
evidence-free allegation into a major campaign theme, claiming that
foreign corporations are "stealing our democracy" with secret, illegal
contributions funneled through the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. It’s a
claim with little basis in fact."



There is, of course, no basis in fact.



Rather it is yet another display of Obama's arrogant conviction that all Americans are stupid and gullible. Just like him.



Obama is dangerous. He is obviously incapable of accepting reality -
yes, he won the election because (counting honest votes only), there
were just enough gullible people to provide an electoral victory. Now,
after almost 20 months, we realize that Obama is a fascist. He has no
regard for the Constitution or for the rule of law. He believes, like
Hitler, Lenin, Stalin and Mao, he believes himself chosen by Providence.
And like them, he sneers at the very idea of democracy.



Americans must turn out as many Dems as possible in this election cycle.
Obama and Holder's attempts to engage in election fraud - and there
will be many of them - must be fought. And once they have a majority in
Congress, the People must let Republicans know that Obama must be
restrained in every way possible. No Dem appointees to the federal
court; no more czars; investigate every act by the Obama administration
that may have involved illegality.



America must be reclaimed for Americans.

Dems and left-wingers can't win on ideas, so they smear - with the help of lessons on how to do it.

Dem and left-wingers can't win in a battle of ideas, so all that is left is the politics of personal destruction.

The Daily Kos teaches the wreckers how.

Bill Clinton wants Muslim WTC victory mosque dedicated to Muslim 9/11 victims

This is not a joke.

Ethics meltdown at Justice Department

"USA Today offers an extraordinary multi-part study
of prosecutorial misconduct at the Department of Justice over the last
decade, under both Democratic and Republican administrations. The
stories generally show prosecutors out to support the political agendas
of their bosses. They also indicate a systematic evasion of the
requirements of prosecutorial ethics and a collapse of ethics training
and enforcement within the Justice Department, where an ethos of
“victory at all costs” now controls."

Just wait until November when all the voter fraud complaints pour in and Holder and Obama do nothings.

Read the squib here and make sure to follow the links.

Heather Mac Donald offers a reason for the black-on-black murderfest in American cities.

"In every American city, the disproportionate black-illegitimacy rate is
matched only by the disproportionate black crime rate. In Chicago,
blacks, at least 35 percent of the population, commit 76 percent of all
homicides; whites, about 28 percent of the population, commit 4 percent.
In New York City, blacks, 24 percent of the population, commit 80
percent of all shootings; whites, 35 percent of the population, commit
less than 2 percent of all shootings. The black illegitimacy rate in New
York is over 78 percent; the white illegitimacy rate in the city is 7
percent. The national rate of homicide commission for black males
between the ages of 14 and 17 is ten times higher than that of “whites,”
into which category the federal government puts the vast majority of
Hispanics"

An article very much worth reading.

Federal workers are so much better than you and me.

"Privacy laws prevent release of individual tax delinquents' names. But we do know that
as of the end of 2009, 41 people inside Obama's very own White House
owe the government they're allegedly running a total of $831,055 in back
taxes. That would cover a lot of special chocolate desserts in the
White House Mess.

In the House of Representatives, 421 people owe a total $6,524,892.
In the Senate, 217 owe $2,774,836. In the IRS' parent department,
Treasury, 1,204 owe $7,670,814. At the Labor Department, where Secretary
Hilda Solis' husband had some back-tax problems before
her confirmation, 463 owe $7,481,463. Eighty-one workers for the
Federal Reserve System's board of governors owe $1,076,733.

Over at the Justice Department, which is so busy enforcing other laws
and suing Arizona, 1,971 employees still owe $14,350,152 in overdue
taxes."

And so much more.

Victor Davis Hanson nails Obama. Again.

"Yet Obama’s petulance, I think, more likely derives from a certain
surprise — leading to anger — that originates from novel and sudden
demands for accountability. Quite simply, no one has dared question
Obama before — much less press him for deeds to match his mellifluous
words.

Did he really think he could talk his way through four years of the American presidency?

Apparently, he did, and apparently he was almost right — given that
rhetoric and sophistry earned him the presidency in the first place. In
what follows, I hold some empathy for Obama’s pique; you see in some
sense those around him suddenly changed the rules, and what in the past
had been habit and custom no longer quite applied."

Read it here.

You'll wasnt to give this Victor Davis Hanson column to your friends and neighbors.

"In just 20 months, President Obama’s polls
have crashed. From near 70 percent approval, they have fallen to well
below 50 percent. Over 70 percent of the public disapproves of the
Democratically controlled Congress. Hundreds of thousands of angry
voters flocked to hear Glenn Beck & Co. on the Washington Mall.
Indeed, things have gotten so bad that the cherubic Mormon Beck might
outdraw Barack Obama himself on any given Sunday.

All this was not supposed to be — and it has evoked a lot of anger.

Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson thunders, “The American people are acting like a bunch of spoiled brats.”

You see, hoi polloi want “easy solutions” — like trying to
close an open border, cut federal spending, and balance the budget.
Instead, they should be manning up to pay more for gas, more in taxes,
and more for entitlements for more to come across the border.

Worse still, the uninformed voter cannot seem to appreciate the
brilliance of Barack Obama, who has deigned to suffer on our behalf, in
offering only unpopular but necessary solutions. Obama has tried his
best to prepare an immature nation for amnesty, borrowing at record
levels, cap and trade, and additional trillions of national debt — the
castor oil that the obese and now constipated public for some reason
just won’t swallow."

Read it all here.

These people need to be sentenced to long prison terms for encouraging and abetting long prison terms

"Daniel Millis, a volunteer with the faith-based organization No More
Deaths, was arrested in 2008 for littering. His crime: leaving bottles
of drinking water on trails near the Arizona-Mexico border so immigrants
walking through the desert would not die of thirst.
Last week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth
Circuit overturned Millis' conviction, by a 2-1 vote. It was an
important ruling. However the immigration debate works itself out, we do
not want to be a country that puts humanitarians in prison for giving
water to people dying of thirst"

The alternative is being a nation that is bankrupted in part by tolerating illegal immigration.

Boycott Time Magazine.

Do you think the feds would let you skate like Al Sharpton?

I don't.

Depressing story.

Gee, you don't think global warming alarmists would lie, do you?

Sure they would.

"Estimates of the rate of ice loss from Greenland and West Antarctica,
one of the most worrying questions in the global warming debate, should
be halved, according to Dutch and US scientists."

Full story here.

I never get the really cool toys.

I'd love to have a few B53s - and delivery systems, of course.

Story here.

Publicity whore Richard Blumenthal gets Craiglist to curtail ads by other whores

"One of the world's biggest providers of Internet classified advertising
abruptly shut down the "adult services" section of its U.S. Web sites
this weekend, apparently in response to criticism from prosecutors that
it had become a tool for prostitution"

All of it here.

If you ned more proof of how insignificant we are . . .

Little, little, little people we are.

Oh my! Obama lies again.

'As Obama knows very well, the Citizens United decision applies to
unions and nonprofits just as much as it does to big corporations. As
Obama also knows very well, union political contributions dwarf corporate contributions:

Labor unions have dominated spending on independent campaign ads so
far this election season, despite a recent Supreme Court decision that
freed spending by corporations, a Washington Post analysis shows.

The findings are an indication that corporate money is not flooding
into campaigns as many predicted would happen after the landmark
decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission.

So far this year, $24.7 million in independent spending has been
reported to the Federal Election Commission, campaign filings show.
Unions have spent $9.7 million (or 39 percent of the total), compared
with $6.4 million (26 percent) spent by individuals and $3.4 million
spent by corporations.

Unlike corporations, which
typically hedge their bets by giving to both parties and mainly to the
party in power, union contributions flow 90%+ to Democrats."

Oh my, Obama lies again. Read about it here.

Obama once again demonstrates his talent for spontaneous oratory.

As President Obama headed to the Florida Panhandle for a vacation with the family, he felt the need to drag his telep

Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2010/08/15/sunday-funnies-obama-brings-his-teleprompter-vacation#ixzz0wkJTjU3a

Federal workers earning double their private counterparts

"At a time when workers' pay and benefits have
stagnated, federal employees' average compensation has grown to more
than double what private sector workers earn, a USA TODAY analysis
finds.

Federal workers have been awarded bigger average
pay and benefit increases than private employees for nine years in a
row. The compensation gap between federal and private workers has
doubled in the past decade.

Federal civil servants earned average pay and
benefits of $123,049 in 2009 while private workers made $61,051 in total
compensation, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis. The data
are the latest available.

The federal compensation advantage has grown from $30,415 in 2000 to $61,998 last year."

The disgusting story is here.

Furher Obama's People's Car

Swindle.

The Nw York Times is aghast that the little people object to lavish public employee pensions.

Read it here.

Ban the Burqa?

Claire Berlinski argues persuasively that the burqua should be banned.

Say, isn't Chicago Obama's town?

"It’s a shame that the public has to be reminded of this from time to
time, but any cop can testify to this inescapable fact of police work:
Where there is no punishment for criminal behavior, crime will flourish.

Nowhere has this been demonstrated with greater clarity lately than in Chicago, where the Sun-Times has taken notice and sounded the alarm. In a three-part series that concluded Tuesday, reporters Mark Konkol and Frank Main examined
the violent incidents that occurred over a single weekend in Chicago
two years ago. During that 59-hour period, from April 18 -20, 2008,
forty people were shot in the city, seven of them fatally. Stop and
consider that for a moment: one city, one weekend, seven people
murdered, and 33 others shot but still alive.

As horrifying as those numbers are, they are far from the most disturbing revelation in the Sun-Times
series. You might assume that such an extraordinary outbreak of carnage
would have aroused the citizenry in Chicago to demand swift action from
their police, prosecutors, and elected officials to see to it that
those responsible for the violence were brought to justice. You might
assume so, that is, if you don’t live in Chicago.

As it happens, not a single suspect in any of those shootings has been convicted of a crime."

Read the whole interesting article here.

Fox News to move to front-row White House briefing room seat

"The White House Correspondents Association voted unanimously Sunday
afternoon to move Fox News to the front row of the White House briefing
room.

The seating change was prompted by the resignation of veteran UPI reporter Helen Thomas."

Here.

Racial quotas in the Navy

&nbdip;EDITORIAL: High seas segregation - Washington Times&nbdip;

Can't we all just be equal?

Congressman Brady Introduces “Your New Health Care System” Chart

http://nicedeb.wordpress.com/2010/07/28/congressman-brady-introduces-your-new-health-care-system-chart/

Obama's mean streak.

"Barack Obama seems to have a
pattern of using ceremonial or stately events as opportunities to
ambush and humiliate people. This behavior is unpresidential and reveals
a vindictive streak that makes Richard Nixon look like Mister Rogers."

Must reading on the smallness of Obama.

Can you photograph police abuse? Cops apparently don't think so.

""Police and governmental recording of citizens is becoming more
pervasive and to say that government can record you but you can't
record, it speaks volumes about the mentality of people in government,"
Rocah said. "It's supposed to be the other way around: They work for us;
we don't work for them.""

Police becoming more fascistic? Kind of looks that way.

Obama lives like a king - or a dictator

"Arriving in a small jet before the Obamas was the first dog, Bo, a
Portuguese water dog given as a present by the late U.S. Sen Ted
Kennedy, D-Mass.; and the president's personal aide Reggie Love, who
chatted with Baldacci."

  Millions are unemployed. The national debt is growing by trillions.

  And the taxpayers pay for a private jet to transport the royal dog?

 

Charles Krauthammer's brilliant analysis of the dangers of Obama

"Obama’s most far-reaching accomplishment
is his structural alteration of the U.S. budget. The stimulus, the vast
expansion of domestic spending, and the creation of ruinous deficits as
far as the eye can see are not easily reversed."

Charles Krauthammer's brilliant analysis of the dangers of Obama.

Excellent refutation of the defense of Obama's Justice Department

Must read explanation of what happened at Justice.

Etch-A-Sketch turns 50!

  Unreal. I'm older than Etch-A-Sketch. For a fantastic gallery of Etch-A-Sketch art, look here.

Obama alleged to have engaged in massive vote fraud in 2008 primaries

A Dem activist is claiming that Obama engaged in massive election fraud in the 2008 primaries. That's a Dem making and documenting these allegations.

Read it all here.

Obama's debt commission warns of fiscal 'cancer'

Biased article from the Washington Post. Author says Republicans are opposed to tax increases, but doesn't mention Dems being against cutting new and existing spending. Be sure to look at the linked charts.

Nat Hentoff on the medical care horrors awaiting us.

"As a reporter, I do not use euphemisms - such as calling murderous
terrorists "militants" or "activists." And as an American, I can
exercise my First Amendment right to say plainly that President Obama is
a liar with regard to our new health-care law, often referred to as
Obamacare."

Nat Hentoff on the medical care horrors awaiting us.

Brits think Obamacare is nuts

"The US government, meanwhile, is galloping doggedly in the opposite
direction,
bizarrely determined to occupy precisely the ideological ground which
Britain is abandoning. Barack Obama has, indeed, appointed a man as
head of
the American public health care programmes who professes a passion (no
other
word will do) for some of the most discredited features of our NHS."

Even the British think Obama is nuts.

People are catching on to Obama everywhere

"Every week that goes by, the gap between the real world and the world
Obama inhabits grows wider.

Obama lives in a world in which
issuing commands and dispensing checks from Washington is the way to
solve problems."

The people are catching on.

Michael Ramirez skewers Obama's silly NASA stugg

http://powerlineblog.com/archives/assets_c/2010/07/RAM800clr-071210-nasaibd.php

Trained as a psychiatrist, Charles Krauthammer brings unique insight to his perception of Obama

"It’s fine to recognize the achievements
of others and be non-chauvinistic about one’s country. But Obama’s
modesty is curiously selective. When it comes to himself, modesty is in
short supply.

It began with the almost comical self-inflation
of his presidential campaign, from the still inexplicable mass rally in
Berlin in front of a Prussian victory column to the Greek columns
framing him at the Democratic convention. And it carried into his
presidency, from his posture of philosopher-king adjudicating between
America’s sins and the world’s to his speeches marked by a spectacularly
promiscuous use of the first-person pronoun “I.”

Notice, too,
how Obama habitually refers to cabinet members and other high-level
government officials as “my” — “my secretary of homeland security,” “my
national security team,” “my ambassador.” The more normal — and
respectful — usage is to say “the,” as in “the secretary of state.”
These are, after all, public officials sworn to serve the nation and
protect the Constitution — not just the man who appointed them.


It’s a stylistic detail, but quite revealing of Obama’s exalted view of
himself. Not surprising, perhaps, in a man whose major achievement
before acceding to the presidency was writing two biographies — both
about himself."

Worth reading all of it here.

McDonald's stands up to junk science

Yay, McDonald's! Good for them standing up to a junk science operation. Read about McDonald's here.

Michael Ramirez once again captures the essence of Obama

The great Michael Ramirez once again captures the essence of Obama here.

Roman coin hoard found in Britain

"A treasure hunter has found about 52,500 Roman coins, one of the largest such
discoveries ever in Britain, officials said Thursday.

The hoard, which was valued at 3.3 million pounds ($5
million), includes hundreds of coins bearing the image of Marcus
Aurelius Carausius, who seized power in Britain and northern France in
the late third century and proclaimed himself emperor."

Archaeology is interesting. More here.

Global warming alarmists (and financial parasites) try to ostracize critics

Global warming alarmism pays a lot of salaries. Critics are not wanted. So the parasites who peddle lies want to silence them.

Obama's fatuous oveture to Muslims

Obama has directed NASA to reach out to Muslims in order to raise Muslim self-esteem. Charles Krauthammer calls it fatuous - and he's being polite.

The nice young man [Obama and] Eric Holder let off the hook

  Must see video of the "nice young man" Obama and Holder let go without punishment.

Get ready for massive voter fraud in November, 2010.

Obama spends American tax dollars to bolster Muslim self esteem.

Obama has told his new NASA head that one of his foremost priorities is to remind Muslims of their glorious intellectual achievements.

No, I am not joking.

This becomes more ridiculous with each passing day.

Remember Obama's no new taxes on anyone earning less than $250,000 promise? Uh, it's a lie.

"The halcyon days of tax-free Internet shopping will, if Rep. Bill
Delahunt gets his way, soon be coming to an abrupt end.

Delahunt, a Massachusetts
Democrat, introduced a bill on Thursday that would rewrite the ground
rules for Internet and mail order sales by eliminating the option for
many Americans to shop over the Internet without paying state sales
taxes"

Remember the Obama lie about no new taxes on anyone making less than $250,000 a year?

Obama and the Dem really do think the American people are very, very stupid.

Read it here.

A law worth crsading against - and doing so right now.

"According to an April 14 fact
sheet from General Electric, which Edison founded
in 1876, 276 versions of its incandescent bulbs will start to vanish
just 18 months from now. Few Americans realize that federal busybodies
plan to snatch their traditional bulbs. Sylvania’s December 2009 survey
of 302 adults found that “awareness of the 2012 100-watt bulb
phase-out” is just 18 percent (error margin: +/- 5.7 percent)."

Even if you don't like crusading for a cause, this is one you should get out and campaign for repeal.

Read more here.

Editorial cartoonist Michael Ramirez understands Obama's compassion for illegals

http://www.investors.com/EditorialCartoons/Cartoon.aspx?id=539231

Obama's spiritual advisor, mentor and preacher doesn't like Jews or white people

"President Obama's former spiritual advisor, the Reverend Jeremiah
Wright, gave a seminar at the University of Chicago last week in which
he made numerous anti-Semitic remarks while once again attacking white
people.

According
to the New York Post, during the five-day course that cost up to
$1,000, Wright claimed "whites and Jews are controlling the flow of
worldwide information and oppressing blacks in Israel and America.""

Read more.

Obama and Holder getting ready for massive vote fraud in Novmber, 2010

"Most disturbing, the dismissal is part of a creeping lawlessness
infusing our government institutions. Citizens would be shocked to learn
about the open and pervasive hostility within the Justice Department to
bringing civil rights cases against nonwhite defendants on behalf of
white victims. Equal enforcement of justice is not a priority of this
administration. Open contempt is voiced for these types of cases."

A former Justice Department attorney sheds light on what the November, 2010 elections will be like.

In a word, fraud.

Will Obama try to deem his critics "domestic terrorists"?

   Will Obama resurrect this legislation in order to deem his critics "domestic terrorists"?

"Harman's bill contends that the United States will soon have to deal
with home grown terrorists and that something must be done to anticipate
and neutralize the problem. The act deals with the issue through the
creation of a congressional commission that will be empowered to hold
hearings, conduct investigations, and designate various groups as
"homegrown terrorists." The commission will be tasked to propose new
legislation that will enable the government to take punitive action
against both the groups and the individuals who are affiliated with
them. Like Joe McCarthy and HUAC in the past, the commission will
travel around the United States and hold hearings to find the terrorists
and root them out. Unlike inquiries in the past where the activity was
carried out collectively, the act establishing the Violent
Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Commission will
empower all the members on the commission to arrange hearings, obtain
testimony, and even to administer oaths to witnesses, meaning that
multiple hearings could be running simultaneously in various parts of
the country. The ten commission members will be selected for their
"expertise," though most will be appointed by Congress itself and will
reflect the usual political interests."

Interestingly, the sympathetic author never explicitly points out that Jane Harmon is a Dem.

Victor Davis Hanson on Obama and the trampling of the Constitution.

Victor Davis Hanson details just one of the ways in which Obama is destroying the Constituion:

"We are well
into revolutionary times, but perhaps not in the way we traditionally
think of political upheaval. Instead, insidiously, the law itself is
becoming negotiable — or rather, it is becoming subservient to what
elite overseers at any given time determine is a higher calling of
social change"

Mark Steyn truly hits the mark on Obama

Mark Steyn, inone of his best columns ever, sums up Obama:

"Only the other day, Sen. George Lemieux
of Florida attempted to rouse the president to jump-start America’s
overpaid, over-manned, and oversleeping federal bureaucracy and get it
to do something on the oil debacle. There are 2,000 oil skimmers in the
United States: Weeks after the spill, only 20 of them are off the coast
of Florida. Seventeen friendly nations with great expertise in the field
have offered their own skimmers; the Dutch volunteered their
“super-skimmers”: Obama turned them all down. Raising the problem,
Senator Lemieux found the president unengaged and uninformed. “He
doesn’t seem to know the situation about foreign skimmers and domestic
skimmers,” reported the senator."

Islam sure is modern

"Saudi women plan to turn a controversial fatwa (religious ruling) to
their advantage and launch a campaign to achieve their long-standing
demand to drive in this conservative kingdom.

If the demand is not met, the women threatened to follow through the
fatwa which allows them to breastfeed their drivers and turn them into
their sons.

The campaign will be launched under the slogan: "We either be allowed
to drive or breastfeed foreigners," a journalist told Gulf News."

Read it all here.

The Degeneration of Democracy

The brilliant Thomas Sowell examines another facet of Obama's creeping fascism:

"Just where in the Constitution of the
United States does it say that a president has the authority to extract
vast sums of money from a private enterprise and distribute it as he
sees fit to whomever he deems worthy of compensation? Nowhere."

Read it all here.

The Associated Press lies again

Liars lying for liars. The Associated Press lies
for Obama to cover up his lies. The Ap impugns the impartiality of the
federal judge: "U.S. District Judge Martin Feldman, who was appointed by
President
Ronald Reagan and has owned stock in a number of
petroleum-related
companies, sided with the plaintiffs". This is, of...
course, public knowledge and Holder's increasingly corrupt Justice Dept.
had a no-questions-asked right to remove the judge if they felt they
would be disadvantaged.


More telling is the omission by the
AP of the judge's rebuke to both Justice and Obama for including the lie
about experts suggesting the moratorium.

Read it all here.

Obama and the War against Israel

  Excellent article by David Horowitz and Jacob Laskin about Obama's approach to the Middle East.

"For decades now, Israel has been
isolated and alone in the community of nations, with one crucial
exception. That exception has been the United
States, a country on which it has
relied for its survival throughout its 60-year history. Every would-be
aggressor has understood that the world’s most powerful nation was
behind Israel and would not let her be destroyed. Every
government harboring ill will toward the Jewish state has had to reckon
with the fact that the United States was in Israel’s corner. Every vote of condemnation in the United
Nations had to confront a veto by the nation that provides its chief
financial support.

Until now.

In the words of a recent Reuters
dispatch, “Under President Barack Obama, the United States no
longer provides Israel with automatic support at the United Nations, where
the Jewish state faces a constant barrage of criticism and
condemnation. The subtle but noticeable shift in the U.S. approach to
its Middle East ally comes amid what some analysts describe as one
of the most serious crises in U.S.-Israel relations in years.”"

Read it all here.

Why is Obama so secretive?

  Why is Obama so secretive?

"Obama's birth certificate also is not the only document at issue. WND
has reported that among the documentation not yet available for
Obama includes his kindergarten records, his Punahou school records, his
Occidental College records, his Columbia University records, his
Columbia thesis, his Harvard Law School records, his Harvard Law Review
articles, his scholarly articles from the University of Chicago, his
passport, his medical records, his files from his years as an Illinois
state senator, his Illinois State Bar Association records, any baptism
records, and his adoption records"

See the whole story here.

Henry Lamb calls Obama "The most dangerous president in history"

  Henry Lamb makes some points worth considering.

"Obama believes in the rule of law — his law. No other law is relevant.
No other law matters. When Obama speaks, he expects the world to obey.



In his Tuesday night performance, he said "I will meet with the chairman
of BP and inform him that he is to set aside whatever resources are
required to compensate the workers and business..." "Inform him?"
Where does Barack Hussein Obama get the authority to issue orders to the
CEO of a private corporation? There is no such authority in the
Constitution. There is no law that empowers the president to "inform"
the CEO of any corporation how he will spend the corporation's money.
Obama couldn't care less about the Constitution or the law."

Read it all here.

Radicals, Islamists and Longshoremen blockade Israeli ship in Oakland

  Obama's pals prevent an Israeli ship from unloading in the Port of Oakland, California. This is not a sign of democracy when "Radicals, Islamists and Longshoremen blockade Israeli ship in
Oakland". Bit by bit we are seeing fascist tactics being used more widely.

Read all of this alarming story here.

Glenn Beck is becoming America's teacher

Glenn Beck is becoming America's teacher. If millions of people rely
upon Comedy Central's Jon Stewart for their news, what is odd about
millions relying upon Glenn Beck as their teacher about the glories of
the United States? Increasingly, Beck has been assuming the role of
teacher, of professor, explaining the Constiution and its meaning, the
personalities of the Founding Fathers and so forth. It is no surprise
that the Dems and left-wingers are driven insane by this - they don't
want the truth about America to be known. Beck last week did a program
on the 60 year old book "The Road To Serfdom", a classic on economics,
and it became the #1 bestseller on Amazon and its publisher sold out its
stock within a day or two.



Beck's programs are extremely well researched - far more so than any of
Obama's speeches. Linked is a transcript of Beck's show on "The Road To
Serfdom". Read it and you'll understand why the Dems and left-wing want
to silence this man and anyone else who speaks the truth.

Michael Ramirez brilliantly captures Obama

Saudi Arabia gives Israel clear skies to attack Iranian nuclear sites

"Saudi Arabia has conducted tests to stand down its air defences to
enable
Israeli jets to make a bombing raid on Iran’s nuclear facilities, The

Times can reveal"

Read it all here.

Is Obama an agent of Iran's Revolutionary Guard?

"THE WEEKLY STANDARD has learned that senior Obama administration
officials have been telling foreign governments that the administration
intends to support an effort next week at the United Nations to set up
an independent commission, under UN auspices, to investigate Israel's
behavior in the Gaza flotilla incident. The White House has apparently
shrugged off concerns from elsewhere in the U.S. government that a) this
is an extraordinary singling out of Israel, since all kinds of much
worse incidents happen around the world without spurring UN
investigations; b) that the investigation will be one-sided, focusing
entirely on Israeli behavior and not on Turkey or on Hamas; and c) that
this sets a terrible precedent for outside investigations of incidents
involving U.S. troops or intelligence operatives as we conduct our own
war on terror."

Read it all here.

Krauthammer explains Obama's Iran failure

Charles Krauthammer explains (again) that Obama's Iran policy is worse than a non-starter.

"From the beginning, the Obama strategy toward Iran and other rogue states had been to offer good will and concessions on the premise that this would lead to one of two outcomes: (a) the other side changes its policy or, (b) if they don’t, the world isolates the offending state and rallies around us — now that we have demonstrated last-mile good intentions.

Hence, nearly a year and a half of peace overtures, negotiation, concessions, two New Year’s messages to the Iranian people, a bit of groveling about U.S. involvement in the 1953 coup, and a disgraceful silence when the regime’s very stability was threatened by peaceful demonstrators.

Iran’s response? Defiance, contempt, and an acceleration of its nuclear program."

Read it all here.

Why on Earth Hasn't Obama Spoken with BP's CEO?

"How can someone who says they are seriously engaged in leading the
country through an ongoing crisis go more than seven weeks without
speaking directly with the person whose company is tasked with a
critical part of bringing the crisis to an end? Why would someone who
claims to be focused night and day on doing whatever is needed to put an
end to the catastrophe not want to have a direct line of communication
with Hayward? In fact, instead of not speaking at all with Hayward,
wouldn’t a President who was serious about taking charge of the
situation and being as well informed as possible do the opposite and demand
that the BP CEO provide him with constant direct updates of BP’s
efforts in the Gulf, perhaps even on a daily basis?"

Obama needs to be asked these questions over and over until he tells the truth - which is that he has no idea of what to do.

Read it here.

Obama is leading us to disaster on yet another front

  Where is the Obama who was going to make government work?

"I speak of the report from the Inspector General of the Justice
Department, issued in late May, saying the department is not prepared to
ensure public safety in the days or weeks after a terrorist attack in
which nuclear, biological or chemical weapons are used."

Read it all.

Obama lies again: this time about experts recommending drilling moratorium

  That six month moratorium on drilling Obama said was recommended by experts?
  He's lying again.

"Arnold said after the report was submitted, he and his colleagues were
blindsided by the inclusion of a broad moratorium in the Department of
Interior's report entitled, "Increased Safety Measures For Energy
Development On The Outer Continental Shelf."

"The decision on the
moratorium is a political decision," said Arnold. "I don't think it's
warranted. Not only that, I think it has long-term implications the
government may not have fully understood."

Arnold said the
original report he and his colleagues reviewed and sent to the Obama
administration called for changes in safety, training and government
oversight.

Arnold said the original report only called for a six-month
moratorium on issuing new permits for exploratory wells drilled by
floating rigs in water depths greater than 1,000 feet.Arnold said
the report also called for a "temporary pause" to those rigs already
drilling in deepwater until critical safety devices were inspected and
recertified."That subsequently was changed after we had seen it,"
said Arnold."

  Is there nothing that Obama won't or doesn't lie about? Nope.

  Read it all here.

Do liberals suffer from arrested moral development?

“It turns out that as people move from childhood through adolescence to young adulthood they become increasingly meritocratic, that is, they come to believe that people deserve unequal rewards based on their individual achievements.”

Read it here.

Prince Charles is losing it in a major way

'Follow the Islamic way to save the world,' Prince Charles urges environmentalists

Read more.

Brilliant cartoonist Michael Ramirex sums up Obama

Laugh here.

Ties that bind between Obama, Dems and BP

Obama and lying, hypocritical Dems and left-wingers exposed once again as the Washington Examiner reveals their close ties wth BP. "But the Kerry-BP alliance for an energy bill that included a
cap-and-trade scheme for greenhouse gases pokes a hole in a favorite claim of President Obama and his allies in the media — that BP’s lobbyists have fought fiercely to be left alone. Lobbying records show that BP is no free-market crusader, but instead a close friend of big
government whenever it serves the company’s bottom line."

Read it all here.

Hillary Clinton: you must pay more taxes!

If a Republican did this, they'd be trotting out the crap about the "Ugly American", American imperialism and the like.

"US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Tuesday urged the wealthy across the Americas to pay their "fair share" of taxes in order to eliminate poverty and promote economic opportunity for all. In a policy speech in the Ecuadoran capital, Clinton said her appeal to overhaul tax systems did not amount to "class warfare" and was instead a recognition that the "winner-take-all-approach" was a drag on progress"

The best part is toward the end:

""But in many places, including often in my own country, the simple fact is that the wealthy do not pay their fair share of taxes. We can't mince words about this."

Confiscatory socialist taxes are on the way.

Read it here.

Obama: enemy of the First Amendment

Has the United States ever had a chief executive so against the First Amendment? No.

"The president said he’s concerned that BP has contracted
for $50 million in television ads to manage its image . . ."

This is a warning from Obama to BP not to interfere with Obama's constant and untruthful attacks on BP. Remember, BP exists largely a...t the mercy of federal and state governments, so a warning from a Hugo Chavez personality like Obama is not to be taken lightly. Obama already has moves afoot in Congress, the FCC and FTC to muzzle dissent. Obama is truly a threat to the Constitution of the United States of America.

 

Full story here.

Obama really does think all Americans are really stupid.

Obama is increasingly detached from reality. He really believes Americans are incredibly stupid and don't recognize when he is lying. "Barack '8 Years of Failed Bush Policies' Obama tells high school grads: 'Don't make excuses'"

What can be weirder than Obama, who constantly blames George W. Bush and so many others, advising high school students not to make excuses. What a clown.

Read it all here.

Discrimination for me, but not for thee.

"The Red and Black Café is an anarchist coffee shop in Portland that caters to the niche clientele of coffee-drinkers for whom the average Portland café is not liberal enough: union radicals, homeless advocates, anti-drug-war civil disobedients, etc. Last month, a uniformed policeman on a coffee run was gently 86ed by one of the Red and Black’s co-owners on the grounds that the presence of a police officer was making the other patrons uncomfortable."

Uhmmmm, what is the cop was a homosexual or lesbian? Or a person of color?What then? How would these left-wingers deal with it? Lik the homosexual baseball league did with the bisexuals? Tell them they weren't homosexual enough or something?


Why is discrimination and bigotry just fine when it is the left-wing engaging in it?

 

Read it here.

 

Is this the future of education?

“The most popular educator on YouTube does not have a Ph.D. He has never taught at a college or university. And he delivers all of his lectures from a bedroom closet.”

Read it all here.

Alan Dershowitz makes sense

“In a world in which North Korea sinks a South Korean naval vessel killing dozens, Iran arms Islamic terrorists, who kill hundreds, Russia bombs Chechnya, killing thousands, and the United States and Great Britain, while targeting al Qaida and Taliban, kill an indeterminate number of civilians, only Israel is subjected to international "investigations" such as that conducted by Richard Goldstone and that being called for by the Security Council in the wake of the recent flotilla fiasco.

Why only Israel? Why is the United Nations silent about other situations that cry out for international investigations? Surely it's not because what Israel did was worse than what other member nations have done. Certainly it's not because Israel lacks self-criticism or mechanisms for internal investigation. Plainly it's not because the other "offenders" were provoked, while Israel was unprovoked.

There is only one answer - because Israel has long been singled out for public scrutiny and opprobrium by the United Nations in particular and the international community in general.”

 

Read it here.

Spectator sports used to be real fun to watch. Uh huh.

“Dozens of headless skeletons excavated from a northern English building site appear to be the remains of Roman gladiators, one of whom had bites from a lion, tiger, bear or other large animal, archaeologists said Monday.

Experts said new forensic evidence suggests the bones belong to the professional fighters, who were often killed while entertaining spectators.”

Interesting story here.

Obama's corrupt administration.

“In case you were tempted to buy the faux Washington outrage at BP and its gulf oil spill in recent days, here's a story that reveals a little-known corporate political connection and the quiet way the inner political circles intersect, protect and care for one another in the nation's capital. And Chicago.

We already knew that BP and its folks were significant contributors to the record $750-million war chest of Barack Obama's 2007-08 campaign.

Now, we learn the details of a connection of Rahm Emanuel, the Chicago mayoral wannabe, current Obama chief of staff, ex-representative, ex-Clinton money man and ex-Windy City political machine go-fer.

Shortly after Obama's happy inaugural,  eyebrows rose slightly upon word that, as a House member, Emanuel had lived the last five years rent-free in a D.C. apartment of Democratic colleague Rep. Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut and her husband, Stanley Greenberg.

For an ordinary American, that would likely raise some obvious tax liability questions. But like Emanuel, the guy overseeing the Internal Revenue Service now is another Obama insider, Tim Geithner, who had his own outstanding tax problems but skated through confirmation anyway by the Democratic-controlled Congress.”

 

Read it all here.

A tale of two Rachels

“But other Rachels have lost their lives as well – Jewish victims of the Intifada. Does anyone remember them? In Britain, where the play is being staged, how many people even know the name of Rachel Thaler, a British citizen who was murdered by a Palestinian suicide bomber in an Israeli shopping mall at the age of 16?

“Not a single British journalist has ever interviewed me or mentioned Rachel’s death,” her mother Ginette Thaler told me three and a half years after her murder.”

Read it all here.

What? Some people dare to question Obama?

Thanks to an advertiser who wishes to remain anonymous, cars and trucks on Arizona Highway 260 in East Central Arizona are driving by a billboard advertisement that recently went up, bearing President Obama’s face on what appears to be a mock U.S. $100,000,000,000,000 (One-Hundred Trillion Dollar) bill.

Find it here.

Helen Thomas and Obama: birds of a feather.

Helen Thomas has told the Jews to leave Israel and return to the countries they came from. You know: Germany, Poland, America.

The woman is obviously as much an anti-Semite has her pal Obama.

The mainstream media –  which pilloried Trent Lott for a stilly statement a few years back –  is circling the wagons around Thomas. Expressing your anti-Semitism is a form of racisim that is acceptable to the “journalists” of our day.

Disgusting that this woman should sit in the first row of the White House press briefing room.

Read about this repulsive woman here.

The Obama White House joins the jackals

“Would the U.S., in Daniel Patrick Moynihan's memorable phrase, "join the jackals [in attacking Israel]?"  

This week the Obama administration answered the question: Yes we would, and Israel would stand alone.”

Read the sad story here.

Obama and his offensive against freedom of expression.

The intersection of Obama's fascism and the Ameican people's natural desire for freedom are heading toward a collision. Obama is moving on fourth separate fronts to gain control of what is said on the internet. He has set his FTC and FCC on course to limit speech and has had the dependable Reid and Pelosi generate legislation to the same effect. Finally, he has nominated the free speech hating Alena "the government can forbid publication of books" Kagan to the Supreme Court. The First Amendment right to free expression is clearly intolerable to Obama and his supporters. This Wall St. Journal article indicates that Obama, Reid, Pelosi and the other wannabe dictators may encounter resistance from the people they seek to "protect" from free speech.

Read it here.

Richard Blumenthal of CT: quite the unnice guy, it seems

The Wall St. Journal has an unflattering portrait of CTs Attorney General Richard Blumenthal. Read it here.

Remembering the Germany of the 20s and 30s

Nina Easton writes “[M]y front yard exploded with 500 screaming, placard-waving strangers on a mission to intimidate my neighbor, Greg Baer. Baer is deputy general counsel for corporate law at Bank of America (BAC, Fortune 500), a senior executive based in Washington, D.C. And that -- in the minds of the organizers at the politically influential Service Employees International Union and a Chicago outfit called National Political Action -- makes his family fair game.”

Sounds like the Germany of the 1920s/30s to me.

Decide for yourself.

Why Alena Kagan must not be confirmed.

Powerline has a frightening piece on Alena Kagan. She must not be confirmed.

“From the Harvard Law Record, via Ed Whelan, we learn that Elena Kagan considers Israeli supreme court justice Aharon Barak her "judicial hero." According to Kagan, Barak "is the judge who has best advanced democracy, human rights, the rule of law, and justice."”

Here.

If Obama knew this, would he have sent him out with the garbage?

“The Dalai Lama credits capitalism for some freedoms, but he says he doesn’t practice it himself because he’s a Marxist”

More here.

Why are taxpayers paying for condoms for adult males?

“High school students and college-age adults have been complaining to District officials that the free condoms the city has been offering are not of good enough quality and are too small and that getting them from school nurses is "just like asking grandma or auntie."

So D.C. officials have decided to stock up on Trojan condoms, including the company's super-size Magnum variety, and they have begun to authorize teachers or counselors, preferably male, to distribute condoms to students if the teachers complete a 30-minute online training course called "WrapMC" — for Master of Condoms.

"If people get what they don't want, they are just going to trash them," said T. Squalls, 30, who attends the University of the District of Columbia. "So why not spend a few extra dollars and get what people want?"”

Read it here.

Al Sharpton and John Conyers exploit a tragic death.

Don't vomit when you read this. Al Sharpton delivered the eulogy at the funeral for the 7 year old girl who was the victim of an allegedly accidental shooting by police in Detroit.

I am no fan of police or the burgeoning number of SWAT teams that are over-equipped, under-trained, used far too often and make far too many tragic errors. But Al Sharpton coming to Detroit to deliver a eulogy? This is the same Al Sharpton who incited a crowd to murder a Hasidic Jew in the aftermath of a traffic accident. This is the same Al Sharpton who incited the arson of a store that killed several Koreans.

Did Al Sharpton say a critical word about the suspect the police were pursuing? The suspect, a 34 year old man engaged in a verbal confrontation with a 17 year old, leaving and coming back with a gun and allegedly killing the 17 year old. Why? It is said the suspect thought the 17 year old looked at him the wrong way. According to this article, Sharpton had nothing to say about the suspect. Only the police were criticized.

Did Sharpton show up or comment on any of the 379 people murdered in Detroit in 2009? Apparently not. If this hypocrisy isn't enough, John Conyers (whose wife just pleaded guilty to felonies) demanded that Eric Holder investigate the police. He didn't say a word about the 379 murders in 2009 either.

Read it here.

Why the Chosen People Chose Obama

Interesting article on why American Jews voted for Obama.

Click through to the comments as well.

Read it here.

A rat flees Obama's sinking ship

Hypocrite Obama demands proof of citizenship

The hypocrite Obama rages at Arizona for its requirement that people stopped with probably cause can be asked to provide proof of citizenship –  while he asks kids to provide him with proof of citizenship merely to be in his presence.

Read it here.

DOJ civil rights attorney resigns over handling of New Black Panther Party case

“A trial attorney with the Department of Justice’s Voting Rights Section has resigned, citing concerns about the government’s refusal to prosecute a case involving voter intimidation by the New Black Panther Party. A letter of resignation obtained by The Washington Examiner from a former Justice Department employee makes clear DOJ has refused to allow attorneys in the Voting Rights Section to testify before the congressionally-chartered bipartisan U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, despite subpoenas that could result in their being held in contempt.”

Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/doj-voting-rights-attorney-resigns-over-black-panthers-stonewalling-94202249.html#ixzz0oLP5rjDl

Soon the US will be like this under Obama

While Obama's State Department hires apologize to China for American human rights "abuses", China gives us an example of how things will be in the US if Obama succeeds. We will be told what to do and how to do it in every aspect of our lives because Obama knows best.

“city authorities started a campaign to suppress one of Shanghai’s most distinctive customs: wearing pajamas in public. Just as Beijing discouraged men from going shirtless during the Olympics, Shanghai wants everyone to wear “proper attire” for the Expo.

Catchy red signs reading “Pajamas don’t go out of the door; be a civilized resident for the Expo” are posted throughout the city”

Read it here.

Obama employee apologizes to Chinese about American civil rights.

“Assistant Secretary of State Michael] Posner said in addition to talks on freedom of religion and expression, labor rights and rule of law, officials also discussed Chinese complaints about problems with U.S. human rights, which have included crime, poverty, homelessness and racial discrimination.

He said U.S. officials did not whitewash the American record and in fact raised on its [sic] own a new immigration law in Arizona that requires police to ask about a person's immigration status if there is suspicion the person is in the country illegally”.

Read it all here.

Obama announces press freedom program - and refuses to take questions.

Obama is trying to gain control of the internet so he can muzzles anyone critical of him and dismantle the First Amendment.

“There was some rich irony at the White House today -- President Obama signed the Press Freedom Act, and then promptly refused to take any questions.

The new law expands the State Department's annual human rights reports to include a description of press freedoms in each country. It seemed a good opportunity to showcase press freedom in this country. “

Amusing article here.

Investor's Business Daily says Holder has to go.

Reasoned editorial says Holder has to go.

Spanish judge idolized by left-wingers fired

“Garzón has also often used more than questionable methods against detainees, such as calling the media to cover the actual arrests, long interrogations that prevented the accused from food intake. Or even calling detainees for questioning at midnight and keeping them up all night. Garzón is a night owl, but if it was Guantanamo instead of Madrid, Garzón would issue an arrest warrant against the interrogators.

Of course if the reports mentioned all this many people would perhaps, just perhaps, realize that Garzón may not be the superhero he and his apologists claim to be.”

This is the judge who issued arrest warrants for “war criminals” –  that is, anyone the left-wing didn't like.

Read it all here.

Obama shown to be a liar - again.

Victor Davis Hanson adds to the exposure of the god with no clothes, Obama:

"This is the strangest presidency I have seen in my lifetime.
President Obama gives soaring lectures on civility, but still continues
his old campaign invective (“get in their face,” “bring a gun to a knife
fight,” etc.) with new attacks on particular senators..., Rush Limbaugh,
and entire classes of people—surgeons, insurers, Wall Street, those at
Fox News, tea-partiers, etc.


And like the campaign, he still talks of bipartisanship (remember, he
was the most partisan politician in the Senate), but has rammed through
health care without a single Republican vote. His entire agenda—federal
take-overs of businesses, near two-trillion-dollar deficits, health
care, amnesty, and cap and trade—does not earn a majority in the polls.
Indeed, the same surveys reveal him to be the most polarizing president
in memory.
His base was hyper-critical of deficit spending under Bush, the war
on terror, Iraq and Afghanistan, and government involvement with Wall
Street.

But suddenly even the most vocal of the left have gone silent as
Obama’s felonies have trumped Bush’s misdemeanors on every count."

Read it all here.

Obama will soon move to regulate this dangerous activity

“Love is a battlefield -- complete with head wounds, broken bones, and the occasional penile fracture.

While most sex-related injuries don't require a trip to the doctor, getting hurt in the heat of passion is a pretty common -- but seldom discussed -- problem, sex experts say. “

It's all here.

It takes a lot of people and taxpayer money to spin Obama's endless stream of lies

“Obama's White House message machine employs 69 people who are directly involved in some part of the communications effort, at a cost to taxpayers of at least $4.3 million a year. That's an increase from 47 in Bill Clinton's White House and 52 in George W. Bush's.”

Read more.

 

NYPD: crime fighting or racial profiling?

“It is crime, not race, that leads to more [police] stops in minority neighborhoods.”

Heather MacDonald takees on left-wingers who complain about New York Police Department in this article.

Mark Steyn on creeping Islam in the US.

“The Metropolitan Museum of Art has quietly pulled representations of Mohammed from its Islamic collection.”

Mark Steyn has been tracking the creeping Islamization of Europe and the United States for years. Both Obama and Islam want to be rid of the First Amendment.

Read it here.

Eric Holder can't understand what motivates Islamic terrorists

You can take the measure oef Obama by the people he appoints. Take, for instance, Eric Holder in this exchange with Rep. Lamar Smith:

SMITH: Let me go to my next question, which is -- in -- in the case
of all three attempts in the last year, the terrorist attempts, one of
which was successful, those individuals have had ties to radical... Islam.
Do you feel that these individuals might have been incited to take the
actions that they did because of radical Islam?


HOLDER: Because of?


SMITH: Radical Islam.


HOLDER: There are a variety of reasons why I think people have taken
these actions. It's -- one, I think you have to look at each individual
case. I mean, we are in the process now of talking to Mr. Shahzad to try
to understand what it is that drove him to take the action.


SMITH: Yes, but radical Islam could have been one of the reasons?


HOLDER: There are a variety of reasons why people...


SMITH: But was radical Islam one of them?


HOLDER: There are a variety of reasons why people do things. Some of
them are potentially religious...

Eric Holder who has written legal briefs in support of terrorists, who was in the country on 9/11, who heads a department with hundreds of lawyers (including many of whom have defended terrorists and were hired by Holder), has seen the interrogations of the Underwear bomber, has reviewed the transcripts of terrorists allegedly tortured by the US A(he defended them) and he can't connect the terrorism we have been fighting for ten years with "radical Islam"?

How stupid do Holder and Obama think we are? Answer: extremely.

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2010/05/026287.php

Dumb, desperate Dems

“Byron York usefully compiled the “Top 10 dumbest things said about the Arizona immigration law” two weeks ago. The list has undoubtedly grown significantly since then. Los Angeles city councilman Ed Reyes deserves top billing on any updated compendium of idiocy for the following statement, made in anticipation of the Los Angeles City Council’s resolution to boycott Arizona:

As an American, I cannot go to Arizona today without a passport. If I come across an officer who's having a bad day and feels that the picture on my ID is not me, I can be . . . deported, no questions asked. That is not American.”

They get dumber by the day.

Academics, European leaders ignore 150 million dead

“Communism led just as inexorably, everywhere on the globe where it was applied, to starvation, torture, and slave-labor camps. Nor is it widely acknowledged that Communism was responsible for the deaths of some 150 million human beings during the twentieth century. The world remains inexplicably indifferent and uncurious about the deadliest ideology in history.”

Read it here.

Golly - Africans engaged in slave trade. Lots.

“Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates will soon have a new book out debunking the theory popular among black race-hustlers: that slavery reparations are owed to blacks.”

Find it here.

SCOTUS Nominee Kagan for ‘Redistribution of Speech’

“Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan wrote in a 1996 article entitled "Private Speech, Public Purpose: The Role of Governmental Motive in First Amendment Doctrine" that "redistribution of speech" is not "itself an illegitimate end" for government.”

Read it all here.

A touch of humor

There are still bits and pieces of joy in Obamanation and will be until he imprisons the last one. P. J. O'Rourke provides a light-hearted, but insightful, look at the signature of our era.

"Each era of civilization has its characteristic sights, scents,
and…beep. What was thatBeep. There it goes again, the signature
noise of contempor...ary life: a brief, penetrating electronic squeak that
seems to emanate from everywhere and everything in the modern world.

It's the sound the microwave makes when the frozen lunch is done. Beep.
It's the note struck by the bar code scanner as it empties your debit
account, by the airline e-ticket check-in as it prints you a ticket for
Spokane, Washington, instead of Washington, D.C., and by the TSA wand as
you're frisked at security. No elevator door shuts in your face without
emitting this particular commotion. No truck backs over you without a
prolonged series of these blarings. No nurse pronounces your blood
pressure astronomical until the medical equipment has tolled this knell.The
toys Santa brings today start beeping while still wrapped and under the
tree. (What happened to the Christmas-morning tradition of inoperative
playthings, crying children, and the frantic search for an open
drugstore where D cells could be bought?) The car beeps incessantly if
those children aren't firmly strapped into their booster seats for the
ride to dinner at Grandma's. And the car's horn beeps, too, in a lame
substitution for the satisfying honk of yore. The phone beeps when it
needs recharging. People we're never able to get on the phone tell us to
leave a message after the beep. The computer beeps, the fax machine
beeps, and so does the barbecue fork with the built-in meat thermometer."

Read it here.

A reminder to Obama - not that he gives a damn

Equality of outcome: the common people will have longer lines

Ah, yes: equality of outcome. The old socialist and national socialist ideal. Women take longer in bathrooms. Thus, lines form for women's bathrooms even when the number of appliance are equal. So, we need laws. I would suggest a law imposing draconian fines for anyone spending more than a specified time in a public bathroom. This would increase government revenues and confiscate nearly all my income.

Instead, the Dems want "potty parity". The result is summarized by an academic expert in the area: "Wolf Trap, the National Park Service's outdoor concert venue in Fairfax County, had two men's and two women's restrooms, and men breezed through while women waited in long lines. So one men's room was converted to a women's room and now "today everyone waits in line."' How's that hope and change going for you, comrade? Of course, the elite will have separate bathroom facilities attended by government employees with great salaries, benefits and pensions.

Read it here.

First Amendment means nothing to Elena Kagan

“In a 1993 essay published by The University of Chicago Law Review, for instance, she suggested how supporters of bans on pornography and "hate speech" could pursue their goals despite that pesky First Amendment. Her proposals included bans on "works that are both sexually explicit and sexually violent," a redefinition of obscenity to focus on material deemed harmful to women (which would then be unprotected—an idea that anticipated Kagan's argument in the animal cruelty case), "hate crime" laws that boost penalties for existing offenses when they’re motivated by bigotry, and laws "prohibiting carefully defined kinds of harassment, threats, or intimidation."”

Read it all here.

Steve Forbes on the food fascists.

“Having banned transfats on the flimsiest of scientific data, food fascists are now taking aim at our consumption of salt. They make this vital ingredient sound like it's a form of crack. Proposals are aflutter to ban saltshakers in restaurants and to force foodmakers to drastically cut back on or eliminate those beloved white granules.”

Read it here.

Rules Of Engagement To Die For

I notice the mainstream press is not asking Obama for his opinion of this lunacy:

“In Afghanistan, European NATO commanders are recommending that NATO establish a combat award recognizing soldiers who risk their own lives to avoid Afghan civilian casualties. This would be called the Courageous Restraint medal and the first few would probably be awarded posthumously, because the most obvious cases would involve NATO troops holding their fire when the enemy uses civilians as human shields. This enables the enemy to kill their better trained and equipped opponents. The best example of this occurred in 1993, when 24 Pakistani troops were killed by Somali gunmen using civilians as human shields. Those dead Pakistanis would be eligible for the Courageous Restraint medal. The only problem with this is that the troops are none too happy with this use of human shields, or getting killed because of it.”

Read it all here.

Testing BlogJet

I have installed an interesting application - BlogJet. It's a cool Windows client for my blog tool (as well as for other tools). Get your copy here: http://blogjet.com

"Computers are incredibly fast, accurate and stupid; humans are incredibly slow, inaccurate and brilliant; together they are powerful beyond imagination." -- Albert Einstein

Obama revs up his hate machine

“Here's a quiz: For which of the following reasons is the 44th president of the United States bad-mouthing Mitch McConnell, John Boehner, Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh, bankers, mine operators, insurers, Glenn Beck, the tea party, the Supreme Court and whoever he hammers as we go to press:

a) He's rallying his base.

b) He's rallying the Democrats' base (one overlaps but does not equal the other).

c) He's changing the subject from 9% unemployment.

d) To reverse his sinking approval ratings.

e) It's what Saul Alinsky would do.

f) It's what Barack Obama likes to do.

Astute readers instantly saw that the answer is, all of the above.”

Read it here.

Want to get rich? Work for feds

“Want to get rich? Work for feds

Examiner Editorial
April 29, 2010

Data shows the pay gap between state and local government and private sector workers. (Chris Edwards/Cato Institute)

For decades, public sector unions have peddled the fantasy that government employees were paid less than their counterparts in the private sector. In fact, the pay disparity is the other way around. Government workers, especially at the federal level, make salaries that are scandalously higher than those paid to private sector workers. And let's not forget private sector workers not only have to be sufficiently productive to earn their paychecks, they also must pay the taxes that support the more generous jobs in the public sector.

Data compiled by the Commerce Department's Bureau of Economic Analysis reveals the extent of the pay gap between federal and private workers. As of 2008, the average federal salary was $119,982, compared with $59,909 for the average private sector employee. In other words, the average federal bureaucrat makes twice as much as the average working taxpayer. Add the value of benefits like health care and pensions, and the gap grows even bigger. The average federal employee's benefits add $40,785 to his annual total compensation, whereas the average working taxpayer's benefits increase his total compensation by only $9,881. In other words, federal workers are paid on average salaries that are twice as generous as those in the private sector, and they receive benefits that are four times greater.”

Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/Want-to-get-rich_-Work-for-feds-92316619.html#ixzz0mYYU7hjS

Obama makes his racism crystal clear: white men need not apply.

“Mr. Obama's attempted appeal to the party's ethnic and gender base this early in the election year has a tinge of panic. But at least Democrats are admitting they are the party of racial identity. This is how they think, how they legislate and how they make policy. It's refreshing for them to be so public about it.”

 

Read it here.

The precise moment when dissent became treason

“""[I]t seems that publicly airing your grievances stopped being patriotic right around noon on January 20th, 2009." How so? "Once President Obama was sworn in, protesting became incitement to violence."' A fellow named Evan Coyne Maloney "produced a timely new video splicing together footage that he calls "A trip down memory lane." He describes it as four minutes of nonstop examples of violent imagery and extremist rhetoric employed by left-wing anti-Bush protesters. He writes: "For some reason, despite it being well documented at the time by me and many others, the media chose to ignore it."' No surprise in Obamaland about that, is there Follow the links.

Powerline

Gallup: 53% think Dems abused power.

Gallup Poll.

Troops know a leader.

Troops know a leader. Look at the difference in reactions to Greatest Leader Obama and former President George W. Bush.

Los Angeles Times

NYTimes buries the lede: Glenn Beck up 50% in viewership. Larry King down, down, down.

  You have to read this to the very last paragraph before the New York Times admits that Glenn Beck has gained 50% more viewers in the past year and, close to the end,  that FoxNews leads all the other networks.

Instead, the New York Times focuses on Larry King’s ratings slide.

New York Times.

Meet your Lords and Masters in the New America: government employees.

“It turns out there really is growing inequality in America. It's the 45% premium in pay and benefits that government workers receive over the poor saps who create wealth in the private economy.”

Wall St. Journal.

A great letter Obama will never read

  From the Weekly Standard:

Conservatives To Send Letter to Obama on Israel

Bauer text decries Obama’s rhetorical “assault” on a friend.

BY Daniel Halper

March 17, 2010 4:40 PM

THE WEEKLY STANDARD has obtained a copy of the text of a letter written by conservative leader Gary Bauer to President Obama, challenging the Obama administration’s recent rhetorical assault on Israel. Bauer is circulating the letter to other conservative leaders as signatories, and apparently is getting a strong response.

Here’s the text of the letter:

Dear Mr. President,

In recent days your Administration has unleashed an unprecedented barrage of criticism at Israel, our most reliable ally in the Middle East. The ostensible reason for this assault was a municipal zoning decision permitting construction to continue on a housing division inside Israel's capital city.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu publicly and immediately apologized to the United States and to Vice President Biden personally for the announcement’s awkward timing, which occurred during Biden’s visit. Between two allies, that should have ended the matter. But in the 72 hours that followed, Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Senior White House advisor David Axelrod all turned up the rhetorical heat in what the press reports is a concerted effort directed by your Administration to manufacture a crisis that weakens Israel on the eve of new peace talks. 

Friends handle disagreements privately. Your public escalation sends a clear message of hostility and has increased tensions in the region. Your actions are likely to delay the resumption of peace talks between Palestinians and Israelis. You are now demanding that Israel make concessions to you on issues that are to be negotiated with the Palestinian Authority. 

The building authorized by Israel, as we are sure you know, is not a “settlement,” in the minds of anyone other than Israel’s most committed enemies. Ramat Shlomo is a neighborhood in northern Jerusalem where more than 18,000 people already live. It is clearly understood by everyone, Palestinians included, that Israel regards this area as inside Jerusalem’s municipal borders and would not be included as part of any future Palestinian state. 

Were it not so dangerous, the very idea that allowing Israel to build homes in this Jerusalem neighborhood can in any way threaten the peace process would be laughable. Alas, the only ones laughing are Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah, Syria and Iran. We are left to wonder why you have chosen to create a public diplomatic crisis over a zoning issue in Jerusalem.

Adding to our concern is the fact that at the same time you are bludgeoning Israel, your Administration has yet to present any viable policy to stop Iran’s acquisition of nuclear weapons. You have repeatedly extended an open hand of friendship to Iran, even after Ahmadinejad responds with a clenched fist and poisoned tongue. He is furiously rushing to develop the nuclear weapons he promised to use to destroy Israel and weaken the U.S. through blackmail and intimidation. 

Yet you save your own vitriol for Israelis building homes for Jewish families in the Jewish capital. You offer Iran extension after extension for each deadline it fails to meet. You were the last Western leader to condemn Iran’s human rights outrages last June, but the first and only leader to condemn Israel’s decision to build homes for Israelis to live in Jerusalem. 

Mr. President, on September 11th, 2001, Americans watched in horror as demonstrations broke out in Palestinian neighborhoods, celebrating the death of 3,000 Americans. In contrast, in Israel they declared a day of mourning, lowered their flag and cried with us. The American people cherish our alliance with Israel because it is based upon our shared experiences and shared values of liberty, freedom and the right to self-defense. 

We call on you to immediately stop your attempts to weaken our ally and turn your efforts to the real security threat facing the U.S. and Israel – the prospect of a nuclear-armed Iran.

Sincerely,