Joe Kidd’s blog: “That’s right I said it.”

When the person “occupying” the Oval Office...

2012-01-31T08:48:00.001-08:00

When the person “occupying” the Oval Office...
1. Says the police “acted stupidly,”
2. Practices his divisive Politics of Envy,
3. Refuses to condemn “Occupy” violence,
4. Continuously brews and stirs a pot of Hate,
5. Refers to Tea Party citizens as “hostage-takers,” and
6. Orders supporters to “punish our enemies” (fellow Americans!)
...that’s when his complete and utter disregard for civility AND the Rule of Law pose a threat to the Republic.

Of course Obama would downplay his self-instigated confrontation...

2012-01-28T08:31:00.000-08:00

Of course Obama would downplay his self-instigated confrontation with the Lady governor of Arizona:

1. Obama lost! And the world saw Obama for what he really is:
A thin-skinned petulant punk who got schooled!

2. We’ve all read the simple yet dignified letter the Lady governor graciously presented “his lowness” upon arrival.

3. Obama’s reaction actually proves Author Jan Brewer’s factual characterizations of Thug Obama in her book are true.

4. And Jan Brewer’s explosive new book Scorpions for Breakfast is now climbing faster on bestseller lists than a rising Phoenix.

That said, and knowing how spiteful Obama and all of his minions can be, I pray for Arizona Governor Jan Brewer’s safety. Seriously.

I mean, how many tens of thousands of people have been murdered just across the border in a drug war Obama is helping fuel by arming the drug cartels?!?

They don’t say “Drugs kill people, and Drug Cartels ARMED BY OBAMA kill people” just for nothing. Arizona IS a battleground…literally.

All it would take (God Forbid) is some Jared Loughner-wannabe wearing a “Together We Thrive” T-shirt -- and don’t think Obama’s Dem operatives wouldn’t welcome that -- they already tried parlaying the Tucson shooting into Obama’s Oklahoma City moment.

And that was and is unconscionable.

Then again, what is at stake?!? Besides the safety of Jan Brewer and other law-abiding Citizens who live and work near the border, the real prize is who wins in November. And Obama has already shown that he will do or say ANYTHING to get that prize. God Forbid…

Obama’s skin is so thin...

2012-01-26T02:38:00.000-08:00

UPDATED: Arizona Governor Jan Brewer talks about what happened after she graciously greeted our petulant prez:

DRUDGE FLASH: OBAMA HAS HEATED ARGUMENT WITH AZ GOV
Barack Obama proves yet again how petulant of a prez he is when, after being graciously greeted to the great state of Arizona by the Lady governor there, Obama immediately turns the subject onto himself (naturally) and takes Author Jan Brewer to task for the way he is factually portrayed in the book she wrote?!?
Wow. That Obama is one petulant prez.
And AZ Governor Jan Brewer is a Lady!

Let’s just say Obama’s reputation precedes him...
From Jonathan V. Last of The Weekly Standard:
Drudge has a story about Obama getting off of Air Force One in Arizona, greeting Republican governor Jan Brewer, and immediately giving her a piece of his mind. Evidently our president did not appreciate something Brewer wrote about him. According to the pool report, they had a testy exchange from which the president walked away as Brewer was still speaking.

Sound familiar? Bobby Jindal got the same treatment when Obama came to visit Louisiana and the governor met him on the tarmac. Jindal would later recount in his book:

I was expecting words of concern about the oil spill, worry about the pending ecological disaster, and words of confidence about how the federal government was here to help. Or perhaps he was going to vent about BP’s slow response. But no, the president was upset about something else. And he wanted to talk about, well, food stamps. Actually, he wanted to talk about a letter that my administration had sent to Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack a day earlier.

The letter was rudimentary, bureaucratic, and ordinary. . . . We were simply asking the federal government to authorize food stamps for those who were now unemployed because of the oil spill. Governors regularly make these sorts of requests to the federal government when facing disaster.

But somehow, for some reason, President Obama had personalized this. And he was upset.

There was not a word about the oil spill. He was concerned about looking bad because of the letter. “Careful,” he said to me, “this is going to get bad for everyone.”

If only he’d be so assertive with America’s enemies. But then again, I suppose, an “enemy” is really in the eye of the beholder.

PS- Barack Obama’s skin is so thin, if he had to box his way out of a paper bag, it would not be a pretty sight.
(Picture Chuck Wepner, AKA the Bayonne Bleeder.)

In closing, I imagine most Americans would have a heated argument with Obama if they had the chance...

That said, I support Arizona Governor Jan Brewer!

Next on my reading list: Scorpions for Breakfast: My Fight Against Special Interests, Liberal Media, and Cynical Politicos to Secure America's Border, By Jan Brewer

Book Description: Sometime after dark on March 27, 2010, Arizona rancher Robert Krentz was found dead next to his four-wheeler on the grounds of his ranch on the Arizona-Mexico border. Krentz and his dog, Blue, had been missing since that morning. They were last heard from when he radioed his brother to say that he’d found an illegal alien on the property and was going to offer him assistance. The man Krentz encountered that day shot and killed him and his dog, without warning, before escaping to Mexico.

It’s difficult to overstate the impact of Krentz’s death, which turned the issue of Arizona’s unsecured border—a crisis that the federal government had repeatedly ignored—into a national concern. As Arizona sheriff Larry Dever said in his testimony before the Senate Homeland Security Committee, “We cannot sit by while our citizens are terrorized, robbed, and murdered by ruthless and desperate people who enter our country illegally.” This momentum helped pass SB 1070, a bill that authorizes local law enforcement under certain conditions to question persons reasonably suspected of being illegal aliens, which Governor Jan Brewer and the state legislature had been working on for months. With the passage of this controversial bill, the state of Arizona became ground zero in the impassioned debate over illegal immigration. The Democrats and the media went into overdrive, denouncing the state and its governor as racists and Nazis.

Governor Brewer, a lifelong Arizona resident with deep ties to the community, was first elected to the Arizona House of Representatives in 1982, and hasn’t lost an election since. As a state official, she watched with increasing dismay as illegal immigration exploded across Arizona’s border, and noticed the devastating effect it was having on the state. Causing an escalation in violence, an influx of drugs, and prisons and hospitals to fill to overflowing, this problem was not only wreaking havoc on the moral fabric of the community but placing an even greater strain on Arizona’s beleaguered health, educational, and social welfare networks. Growing frustrated with the failure of the federal government to respond to her pleas for assistance, Governor Brewer led the state to action. Scorpions for Breakfast is Brewer’s commonsense account of her fight to secure our nation’s border in the face of persistent federal inaction. Her book is vital reading for all Americans interested in the real change that can happen when local leaders take the initiative to preserve our country and our laws.
http://www.amazon.com/Scorpions-Breakfast-Interests-Politicos-Americas/dp/0062106392

A SHAMEful act by a SHAMEless shill

2012-01-17T06:13:00.000-08:00

Valerie Jarrett uses MLK pulpit to campaign for Obama!

The Weekly Standard’s Daniel Halper reports: “On the Sunday before the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, senior White House adviser Valerie Jarrett visited Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta to give a political speech, in support of her boss (Barack Obama) and congressional Democrats. … At the end of Sunday's sermon, after Jarrett had delivered her remarks to the congregation, the church held a voter registration drive.”

Just call this for what it is: a SHAMEful act by a SHAMEless shill.

“It’s what you know -- now DEAL with it!” ~Kevin Jackson

Liberals often insist that somehow, magically, between the 50s and the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the racist Dems and the reforming freedom-loving Republicans ‘switched places’ and Republicans were now the evil racists. This video addresses that goofy notion:

Be sure to check out Kevin Jackson’s blog at
http://theblacksphere.blogspot.com

Finally, here’s a must-read...

Democrats: The Missing Years
Jeffrey Lord: “The party that championed slavery and segregation erases its race record from history.”

The Obamas are haunting people themselves.

2012-01-09T15:57:00.000-08:00

Learning that the Obamas put more “faith” and energy into their haunted Halloween celebrations and top secret Alice in Wonderland bash -- complete with “punch served in blood vials” -- is more than disturbing. But their cover-up of the partying makes that even worse.

Americans expect their First Family to OPENLY celebrate the more traditional holidays, i.e., Independence Day, Thanksgiving Day, and Christmas.

Yes, many never imagined the White House being bathed in orange light -- for three straight Halloweens -- but that was in the news.

What else now, besides the Obama-partying excesses, can we expect to reach the disinfecting light of day?!?

PS- The Obamas are haunting people themselves.

Barack Obama is NOT “lawful authority.” The Constitution is.

2012-01-06T07:57:00.000-08:00

Barack Obama is NOT “lawful authority.” The Constitution is. And he has knowingly violated it, even by the testimony of his own solicitor general. On this front and many others, the man must be stopped. Period.” ~Quin Hillyer

Obama The Tyrant Must Be Stopped -- The American Spectator
http://spectator.org/blog/2012/01/05/obama-the-tyrant-must-be-stopp

Yes, he's historic, alright. Barack Obama's Complete List of Historic Firsts [Updated]

2012-01-06T07:55:00.000-08:00

When you think “Obama” and “Iowa” together, THIS ONE THING should come to mind.

2012-01-04T02:34:00.001-08:00

Yesterday, the Campaigner-in-Chief that is Barack Obama unsuccessfully tried stealing the GOP’s Iowa Caucus thunder by holding a “virtual” Iowa media event of his own (naturally).

Of course, it (he) failed.

More importantly, for many Americans, this story brought to mind a VERY REAL visit to Iowa that the former Senator once made that is just impossible to forget. That’s because a craven image of a constantly campaigning candidate was captured for all eternity -- an image so disrespectful and disgraceful, it seared minds like a lightning bolt that scorched the Earth where he once stood.

Tom Harkin’s Iowa Steak Fry was about to officially begin when Barack Obama willfully decided he would NOT stand at attention to face the American Flag. Then, as the first notes of the Star-Spangled Banner echoed across the land, Obama REFUSED to put his hand over his heart during the playing of our National Anthem.

Repeat: Obama REFUSED to put his hand over his heart during the playing of our National Anthem.

Think about that.

United States Code, 36 U.S.C. § 301, states that during a rendition of the national anthem, when the flag is displayed, all present except those in uniform should stand at attention facing the flag with the right hand over the heart.

It should also be noted that during yesterday’s “virtual” Iowa event, a “nostalgic” Obama was full of pride at what had happened in Iowa.

Sadly, Obama’s disrespect for America did not start that fateful day or with that image. But THIS we know for sure: When the words “Obama” and “Iowa” appear together, that image of an absolutely despicable Obama is THE ONE THING that will always come to mind.

Here’s the original Time Magazine-published photograph of Obama.

PS- I’m just one American who sees RIGHT through the person who’s pictured there on the left.

Could Barack Obama’s use of this craven image BLOW UP IN HIS FACE?!?

2011-12-18T13:39:00.000-08:00

UPDATED...

Could Barack Obama’s use of this craven image in his newest BarackObamadotcom campaign video BLOW UP IN HIS FACE?!?

Howdy all! Thanks for coming here. I’ve decided to post this because I’d like fellow Americans to know how LOW Barack Obama will go to get reelected.

And I want viewers of his newest campaign video to know this truth:

Obama has doubled-down on his total and abject disregard for bereaved families by inserting a craven image of himself into his newest campaign video.

Please be aware that the image of Obama saluting at the 2:08 mark of this Ending the War in Iraq: A Promise Kept campaign video (if you can stand to watch it for that long) was taken AND is being shown AGAINST THE WISHES of the bereaved families who gathered together in August for the solemn Dignified Transfer Ceremony at Dover Air Force Base honoring their fallen loved ones.

Even back in August, Obama disregarded their request that no public images be released, brazenly making “The Saluting Obama” image his White House Photo of the Day!

More ignominiously, Obama used their CASKETS as PROPS...to be cropped-out!

Of course, now it’s been unceremoniously relegated to just being Obama campaign fodder. And that is morally repugnant!

Now I can never know how those families who lost loved ones felt that day, but you can be certain Obama has known all along what he’s doing and what he wants. It’s reelection at any cost -- 2012 or Bust!

Obama intentionally ignored their wishes back in August, and he wants that image in his BarackObamadotcom campaign video now.
I can think of no other Obama action so loathsome or despicable.
And I just want to call Barack Obama out on that.

Thank you for reading this far.

Take care, and God Bless you and yours!

“The Saluting Obama” image in question was first published here.
(Scroll through ‘til you reach Photo 18 of 24.)

Read White House photo sparks protest - Yahoo! News for more info.

And finally, Special Thanks to Janice for the tip on Obama now using the controversial image in his newest campaign video.

Fire Eric Holder. Now.

2011-12-04T18:19:00.000-08:00

When America learned that Eric Holder has ALWAYS puts race first and foremost above everything else, including being an American, that one view of his ALONE was grounds enough to warrant his IMMEDIATE REMOVAL as the U.S. Attorney General.

The following is from the book Injustice: Exposing the Racial Agenda of the Obama Justice Department, written by J. Christian Adams:

For much of his life, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. carried around something peculiar…an old clipping of a quote from Harlem preacher Reverend Samuel D. Proctor. Holder put the clipping in his wallet in 1971, when he was studying history at Columbia University, and kept it in wallet after wallet over the ensuing decades. What were Proctor’s words that Holder found so compelling? “Blackness is another issue entirely apart from class in America. No matter how affluent, educated and mobile [a black person] becomes, his race defines him more particularly than anything else.”…When asked to explain the passage, Holder replied, “It really says that… I am not the tall U.S. attorney, I am not the thin United States Attorney. I am the black United States attorney. And he was saying that no matter how successful you are, there’s a common cause that bonds the black United States attorney with the black criminal or the black doctor with the black homeless person.”…It may seem shocking to hear these racialist views ascribed to America’s top law enforcement officer. But to people who have worked inside the Civil Rights Division at the Department of Justice, these attitudes are perfectly familiar.

Here are some related links -- call it one response to Eric Holder’s Friday Night Document Dump.

This link features a video of J. Christian Adams as well as pictures of the New Black Panthers and Obama appearing together.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/new-book-sparks-controversy-over-obama-new-black-panthers/

This link features many excellent articles by Warner Todd Huston on Eric Holder and the Obama DOJ. http://www.publiusforum.com/category/politicians/eric-holder/

The following are parts I, II, and III of a three-part excerpt series from the great book Injustice: Exposing the Racial Agenda of the Obama Justice Department, written by J. Christian Adams.
Part I: http://www.redcounty.com/content/injustice-i-am-not-tall-us-attorney-i-am-black-us-attorney
Part II: http://www.redcounty.com/content/injustice-obamas-doj-word-picnic-racist
Part III: http://www.redcounty.com/content/injustice-how-exciting-have-two-black-men-running-country

“Injustice is a whistleblower’s explosive exposé into the rancid world of Obama’s Justice Department. Adams shows how the institutional Left has turned the power of the Justice Department into a weapon against the rule of law.” ~Andrew Breitbart, publisher of Breitbart.com and bestselling author of Righteous Indignation.
http://www.amazon.com/Injustice-Exposing-Racial-Justice-Department/dp/1596982772

In closing...
Drug kill people.
And Drug Cartels Armed By Obama and Holder kill people.
May Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry Always Rest In Peace.
http://www.odmp.org/officer/20596-border-patrol-agent-brian-a-terry

The media’s coverage of “occupy” and its relevance to Penn State

2011-11-10T07:49:00.000-08:00

There is no doubt in my mind the media’s coddling of the “Occupy” movement -- downplaying the violence, underreporting felonious assaults and other crimes, even spinning supportive stories and headlines that liken it to having a grassroots Kumbaya-type feel -- all played a factor in how those juvenile Penn State students responded to news of Joe Paterno’s firing. They’re already fully aware the media has sided with other “occupiers.” Add the live feeds where “protesters” instantaneously get to see their “angst” played out in front of cameras (the media) shoved in their faces and you have a recipe for disaster. Or what the media now calls “news.” Or in this case, a disgraceful exclamation point to Joe Paterno’s career.

PS- Years ago when Joe Paterno was first made aware of that horrible incident where a youngster was sexually attacked and violated on campus by football coach and child predator Jerry Sandusky, Paterno failed to realize then that the despicably irresponsible and immoral way he chose to deal with that information would one day result in him forfeiting all rights and expectations he had in ending his career on his own terms. That day came yesterday.

Flashback: Obama and the police

2011-10-17T18:09:00.001-07:00

People forget that when Obama said, “The Cambridge police acted stupidly” during that 2009 press conference, he INTENTIONALLY took that one last question at the very end of the press conference to deliver that fateful line.

Proof not only of his arrogance, but of how Obama really feels about the glue that holds our society together.

It also makes for an especially damning statement now in light of the rabble that is currently “occupying” American cities.

Warning: Possible Hijacking

2011-10-07T07:55:00.000-07:00

Warning: Possible Hijacking -- The media realizes they can’t beat the Tea Party so they’re now trying to equate it with this anarchic anti-Capitalism movement. DO NOT let them get away with it.

The people who identify with the Tea Party movement and attend events are quite different: They are the honest, hardworking, taxpaying, law-abiding informed citizens who actually support their local sheriff.

These Wall Street “occupiers” are a different breed. The ones I spoke with -- college grads -- didn’t know who their representatives in Congress were or how much the federal deficit is . . . but they sure loved their Obama! That said, pent-up anger in misguided people is not a good combo.

With the media now running stories about protester “sanitation” issues on Wall Street and main streets, here’s a good snapshot that says everything: Compare last year’s Restoring Honor Rally in DC (re: The Clean-Up) to the TRASHING of the WI State Capitol.

There is no comparison! Case closed.

“Ever wonder where all the hippies went?” “No, me neither.”

2011-10-06T21:04:00.001-07:00

First, yes, obviously many of us are absolutely disgusted with the economy and its zero job growth, but most of us are not “occupying” Wall Street -- we are working our assets off to make ends meet!
At the same time, we are also working to ensure that LOSER PREZ -- the one whose whack Obamanomics policies are responsible for America being in this predicament -- GETS DEFEATED!

Secondly, don’t believe that straw man argument the protesters have put out because most of them are idiots!
Informed citizens already know Obama was IN BED with Wall Street prior to and after his election. See Obama’s Wall Street cabinet: http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=13208

So why don’t these protesters act accordingly?!?
Because it doesn’t jibe with their REAL agenda:
To carry out Obama’s “Cloward-and-Piven” MARCHING ORDERS and foment unrest!
See Ann Coulter’s Demonic: How the Liberal Mob Is Endangering America, or read this from her today: http://nation.foxnews.com/ann-coulter/2011/10/05/ann-coulter-what-mob-looks

PS- The answer to the question “Ever wonder where all those hippies went?” used to be “No, me neither.”
Now we have a new answer: They’re not just in Obama’s cabinet -- they’re “protesting” on Wall Street!

Drum circle, anyone?!?

Some links on the Solyndra-Obama-Dept of Energy-Argonaut-George Kaiser scandal that soon could have "Lawyer Obama" lawyering up!

2011-09-13T22:40:00.000-07:00

“We smelled a rat from the onset,” Representatives Fred Upton, a Michigan Republican and the committee chairman, and Cliff Stearns, a Florida Republican and chairman of the investigation subpanel, said in a statement Aug. 31 when the company announced it had dismissed 1,100 employees and planned to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-09-12/obama-team-backed-535-million-solyndra-aid-as-auditor-warned-on-finances.html

Could Solyndra Probe Mean Legal Trouble for White House?
http://video.foxnews.com/v/1155763802001/could-solyndra-probe-mean-legal-trouble-for-white-house/?playlist_id=87937

Time for "Lawyer Obama" to lawyer up!
http://finance.townhall.com/columnists/johnransom/2011/09/13/obamas_solyndra_loans_number_one_priority_for_house_investigating_committee_since_feb/page/full/
John Ransom: "And this is the exact same administration asking for another $450 billion for shovel-ready projects?"

Neela Banerjee: "If most hearings are a surefire cure for insomnia, Wednesday’s Solyndra session promises to be a standing-room-only humdinger. The witness list includes the deputy director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, Jeffrey Zients; the head of the Energy Department’s loan programs, Jonathan Silver; Solyndra chief executive Brian Harrison; and the company’s chief financial officer, W.G. Bill Stover."
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-solyndra-hearing-20110912,0,6696243.story
"With the president traveling the country touting his Stimulus II plan, it is important to understand the lessons from his first stimulus. A year ago, he [Obama] made Solyndra the supposed poster child for stimulus success. After laying off 1,100 workers, wasting over $500 million in loan guarantees and becoming the subject of an FBI investigation, Solyndra is now the prime example of stimulus failure." ~RNC Chairman Reince Priebus

"...hundreds of thousands of dollars were contributed by shareholders and executives of Solyndra to the Obama 2008 campaign. One of the company's largest investors, George B. Kaiser of Tulsa, reportedly contributed $53,500 personally and bundled large amounts more for Obama in 2008. Kaiser is a billionaire with banking and oil and gas interests that rank him among the wealthiest people in the world. Kaiser also visited the White House 16 times between 2009 and 2011."
http://nation.foxnews.com/solyndra/2011/09/12/obamas-pet-billionaire-solyndra-may-take-white-house-down

Obama Bundler George Kaiser Made Multiple Visits to WH Prior to $535M Solyndra Loan Guarantee!
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2011/09/obama-bundler-george-kaiser-made-multiple-visits-to-white-house-in-months-prior-to-535-loan-guarantee-to-solyndra/

Obama’s Bankrupt Green Ideology | FrontPage Magazine
http://frontpagemag.com/2011/09/12/obamas-bankrupt-green-ideology/

Is the Solyndra Scandal Obama’s Watergate? (podcast)
http://biggovernment.com/newledger/2011/09/12/is-the-solyndra-scandal-obamas-watergate/
The Solyndra portion of podcast starts at 14:15.
The last three minutes (starting about 20:30) are the money shots.

Taxpayers Rank Behind Solyndra Investors Under Obama’s Refinancing Deal
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-09-03/taxypayers-rank-behind-solyndra-s-investors-under-obama-refinancing-deal.html

"Sources tell me the Obama administration restructured the loan this winter, so taxpayers probably won’t even be the first creditors to get paid after Solyndra files for bankruptcy next week. The first $75 million will go to two Solyndra investors who poured in extra cash when the company nearly went bust in January. And one of them is a venture associated with the billionaire George Kaiser, an Obama campaign bundler." ~Michael Grunwald
http://swampland.time.com/2011/09/03/big-name-investors-to-recoup-losses-before-taxpayers-in-obamas-failed-green-tech-bet/

"DOE representatives participated in the structuring of the Argonaut term loan. The DOE specifically granted the preferred position. Six months ago the good folks at the DOE had to have known that Solyndra was a sinking ship. If we later hear that either the DOE or the President were shocked and surprised that Solyndra went into the tank, then we know they are lying." ~Bruce Krasting
http://www.businessinsider.com/a-close-look-at-the-motives-behind-the-solyndra-raid-2011-9

“This story will hound Obama. His campaign got big bucks from a guy who ended up costing the Feds a very big penny. This is a story that could drag Obama down. He either has to step up and explain how this could have happened or he can say nothing. He has to provide some clarity on the George Kaiser connection. If he chooses to keep mum on this mess he will have to face Congressional hearings for the next 18 months. There will be a story in the paper every week or so. The Republicans will see to it. This is a story that could turn an election.” ~Bruce Krasting
http://brucekrasting.blogspot.com/2011/09/solyndra-obama-connection.html

According to White House visitor logs, between March 12, 2009, and April 14, 2011, Solyndra officials and investors made no fewer than 20 trips to the West Wing. In the week before the administration awarded Solyndra with the first-ever alternative energy loan guarantee on March 20, four separate visits were logged.
http://dailycaller.com/2011/09/08/solyndra-officials-made-numerous-trips-to-the-white-house-logs-show/

Cate Long: “Like many bankruptcies there are a lot of creditors in line to be repaid by disposing of Solyndra’s assets. What is unusual is the order of precedence of creditors. When the Solyndra loan was guaranteed by the Department of Energy and paid out by the U.S. Treasury according to US law 10 C.F.R. §609.10(d)(13), the government should have become first in line for repayment. But when I read the bankrutpcy filing it turns out George Kaiser’s investment firm is actually first in line, ahead of the U.S. government, for $69 million.”
http://blogs.reuters.com/muniland/2011/09/09/the-presidents-argonaut/

Cate Long: “Like many bankruptcies there are a lot of creditors in line to be repaid by disposing of Solyndra’s assets. What is unusual is the order of precedence of creditors. When the Solyndra loan was guaranteed . . . the government should have become first in line for repayment. But when I read the bankrutpcy filing it turns out George Kaiser’s investment firm is actually first in line, ahead of the U.S. government, for $69 million.”
http://blogs.reuters.com/muniland/2011/09/09/the-presidents-argonaut/

The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations has scheduled a hearing on Wednesday, September 14, 2011, at 9:30 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled “Solyndra and The DOE Loan Guarantee Program.”
http://energycommerce.house.gov/hearings/hearingdetail.aspx?NewsID=8897

Obama’s 9/11 Road Show: Photo-Ops Du Jour and Blah Blah Blasphemy

2011-09-11T17:19:00.001-07:00

This weekend, Obama marked the 10th anniversary of 9/11 by creating photo-ops for his (never-ending) campaign. Nothing more.

Wait -- the pontificating Obama was also blah blah blasphemous.

His Dem advisers know his numbers suck, so Obama wrapped himself up in God and flag -- the same flag that, as presidential candidate, he would NOT salute. See for yourself: http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1662530_1446035,00.html

Yesterday, Obama went to (disrespect) Arlington National Cemetery.
And of course, play (to) the media.

Today, his reelection road show desecrated more hallowed ground:
NYC’s Ground Zero. The Shanksville, PA crash site. The Pentagon.

Throw in Obama’s soup kitchen volunteering today, and what HE has now are more images, sound bites, and video clips of himself than you can shake a stick at. Truly a narcissist‘s dream! All to be culled into commercial tidbits and morsels for his reelection.

With his nose to the sky, Obama will be shown quoting scripture. (Say what?!?)

Others may have him with his sleeves rolled-up, gesturing to his adoring public.

And some will show him as (a) god -- you can be certain of that.
(Perhaps it’s more than fitting that Obama’s 2012 slogan is WTF.)

Because to Obama, God is a prop to be played...or omitted.

He plays it here.

(Recall the many times Obama intentionally omitted the words “by their Creator“ when quoting from the Declaration of Independence.)
Again, see AND hear it for yourself.

Obama preaches to us from our most sacred places -- about the “peaceful and tolerant” religion of Islam. But for over 20 years, he sat in a “church” listening to his spiritual mentor, the racist Wright preach “God D--- America.” Call it his indulgence.
This fact cannot be suppressed, nor its effect ever underestimated.

Which means, even without box-cutters, Obama is a threat.
And his mere presence at our sacred places is disrespectful.
America would be better with Obama golfing. Or on vacation.
Or unemployed.

Psalm 109:8 “Let his days be few; and let another take his office.”

Once upon a time there was this tone deaf prez...

2011-08-18T07:07:00.000-07:00

Once upon a time there was this tone deaf prez who HAD to have something to balance out his lifestyles-of the-rich-and-famous vacation he was intent on taking. So Obama went off on a “three-day tour” to conduct what his minions in the media called “official presidential business.” Then Gilligan, er, I mean, Obama toured middle America . . . on a Canadian-made Greyhound One. (Please see “tone deaf.”)

Unfortunately, Obama was traveling in a million-dollar black bus -- with no American flags anywhere -- making his motorcade ride more like a hearse in a funeral procession.

Anyway, Obama had obviously embarked upon yet another one of his (never-ending) campaign swings, with the idea that -- as Dem pollsters hoped -- Obama might be able to lure back at least some rural white middle class voters now fleeing him in droves. Sadly, the self-proclaimed “post-racial” prez chose not to get out in front of the recent news of the day that more flash mob-generated incidents of violence had occurred -- odd behavior considering how his supporters viewed him as some kind of healing unifier. (Not.) Obama would instead use his bully pulpit in its literal sense, telling lies, spewing hate, and (of course) pretending to commiserate with the jobless. Then (naturally) he was off to Martha’s Vineyard! (Please see “tone deaf” again.)

Of course, what with his “laser beam-like focus” on jobs and all, Obama let it be known he had a cool new jobs plan that would save-or-create more jobs -- and that he would unveil it just as soon as his vacation was over (and not a moment too soon). But most already know his plan: Waste more taxpayer funds on absolutely nothing, except for filling-up government union coffers, and maybe some “recovery” signs. Or maybe even a tee shirt that says “Obama spent another trillion and all America’s children got was this lousy tee shirt the government already took off their back.” You get the idea.

No word yet on whether Obama has any future flash mob campaign stops planned. Stay tuned…

Obama’s Army of Hate

2011-08-16T17:44:00.000-07:00

In response to recent events, all one can say is the narcissist Obama wants reelection so bad, his media minions and Dem Party hacks will obviously do things “the Chicago Way.” Their eagerness to stir the pot of Hate provides visual proof that Obama’s “civility” was always just another lie: YouTube is now FLOODED with videos of those on the Left who blindly support Obama, their hate-filled pieholes open, foaming at the mouth. <---DISGUSTING!

Well, Americans are fully awake now. They see the Truth, and already know that Obama never even heeded his own “call for civility.” Americans are also sick and tired and disgusted by the vile vitriol and racist rhetoric coming from Obama’s Army of Hate.

In his “I Have a Dream” speech, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. warned of “drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.” Today, Obama is eagerly serving up that cup -- and his supporters are greedily guzzling from it!

Is Obama’s narcissism pathological?!?

2011-08-16T17:33:00.000-07:00

Let’s take a look at what some would characterize as indications of Obama’s pathological narcissism.

We’ve all read articles that actually specified the number times he referred to himself in the first person because, well, that’s what liar Obama does: Taking undue credit with his “I” this and “me” that.

And then there was poser Obama who chose to walk around clutching (for everyone to see) that GQ magazine with his favorite person on the cover -- himself.

And this über Obama line would make anyone puke: “We are the ones we've been waiting for.”

Yeah, some would say he’s sick. Verrry sick.

Once again, Obama (dis)respects our military

2011-08-16T17:22:00.000-07:00

This is all anyone needs to know about the (dis)respect Obama has for our military:

Despite the Pentagon’s claim that ANY public depiction of the ceremony for the return of the remains of 30 American troops killed in a weekend helicopter crash in Afghanistan scene would violate the wishes of bereaved families, an official White House photo of a saluting Obama was distributed to news media and published widely. AND it was also posted on the official White House website as the “Photo of the Day.”
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/white-house-photo-sparks-protest-223835400.html

In other words, once again, Obama used the military merely as a photo op, but this time what’s EVEN MORE DESPICABLE is the fact he waited until they were in caskets! Obama violated the wishes of the bereaved families because he HAD to have that photo...of himself.

More proof that the narcissist Obama is (as always) solely focused on himself, his politics of personal gain -- and re-election at ANY cost!

Truly disgusting...

NOT using Obama math, how many freaking years is that?!?

2011-07-11T19:24:00.000-07:00

How can Obama actually pretend to preach fiscal responsibility to us when his party has not passed a budget in over 800 days?!? Seriously.

I mean (NOT using Obama math), how many freaking years is that?!?

Eight Hundred Days Without A Budget:
A new milestone in Democrat Party governance is reached.
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=44718

Just face it: Robert Samuelson of the Washington Post was correct when he said, “Obama has no plan to balance the budget -- ever.”

Source for quote: Obama Abdicates on Budget
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-budget-conversation-we-should-be-having/2011/04/22/AFvhu4dE_story.html

Yes, Obama IS grounding JFK's space legacy!

2011-07-10T14:35:00.000-07:00

Here's a MUST READ from three great American astronauts,
Neil Armstrong, Jim Lovell and Gene Cernan:
Is Obama grounding JFK's space legacy? http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/forum/2011-05-24-Obama-grounding-JFK-space-legacy_n.htm

Here are some other questions to ponder...

Why would Obama want NASA to have a program that "reaches out" to Muslim nations, when just ten years ago, Muslim extremist terrorists -- who didn't care about learning to land -- were taking "flying" lessons?!?

Why would Obama allow the Russians to have the leverage they'll soon have over us, because after Atlantis, they'll have the only remaining manned spacecraft (the Russian Soyuz) capable of reaching the International Space Station? What is the price a nation would pay to reach its own astronauts orbiting in space?!?

What about the Hubble Space Telescope (HST)? Because its orbit is higher than the ISS, the only manned spacecraft currently capable of reaching the HST is Atlantis, our last space shuttle. What the hell is that?!? Why would Obama knowingly allow this situation to exist?!?

Gee. Maybe that's what happens when your prez is a petulant child...

2011-07-10T10:57:00.000-07:00

In response to Bob Woodward saying the world doesn't see America as a “grown-up” nation...

Gee. Maybe that’s what happens when your prez is a petulant child.

Your next stop: The Twilight Zone! “It’s a Bad Life” Synopsis:

Six-year-old Barack Obama looks like any other little boy, but looks can be deceiving: He is a monster, a mutant with mental powers. Early on, he isolated the small towns of America. In fact, the inhabitants do not even know if the rest of the world exists without him. The little brat has also eliminated electricity, SUVs, ATMs, and corporate jets. He controls the weather, and what supplies can be found in the grocery store, and even what you can watch on TV. Barack Obama creates and destroys as he pleases!

Welcome to the USSA under Obama in 2012...

Barack Obama did something terrible again today...

2011-06-23T18:46:00.001-07:00

Barack Obama did something terrible again today. He "misspoke." But this time he truly hurt a heroic American family, and re-opened wounds only this family can feel. I feel so bad for Paul and Janet Monti, the parents of Jared Monti, who was awarded the Medal of Honor POSTHUMOUSLY by Obama after being killed in action in Afghanistan. Too bad Obama couldn't remember that...

Gee. Now I remember who John Conyers is...

2011-06-21T06:45:00.000-07:00

In light of the news story about Detroit being in ruins and the house of Democrat Congressman John Conyers being an eyesore...

Flashback: Gee. Now I remember who John Conyers is -- he’s that Democrat Congressman who made news over the holidays -- but not the “holiday good cheer” type news most of us would’ve welcomed. It was more like “Mr. Smut goes to Washington” type news, as reporter Henry Payne put it. Or as Washington Examiner’s Mark Hemingway reported, “You're an 81-year-old congressman. Your wife’s headed to jail. At this point, you probably just don’t care what the world thinks of you, so why not kick back on your flight on the way home and read a pornographic magazine in full view of all the other passengers? Welcome to the life of Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich. If he wants those kind of thrills, he should just forego his congressional privileges and get screened by the TSA. ”

Then of course THIS happened: Mr. Smut’s son took his dad’s Government-registered Cadillac for a joy ride only to get robbed of the $30,000 worth of property he had in it. Seriously. And what’s funny (but mostly tragic) is the trolls on the Left who try to argue that John Conyers III is a “victim” -- because his dad is a pervert and his mom is behind bars (for corruption and bribery, naturally). But the way most of us really see it is he’s just being groomed to be a good Democrat. Naturally.

“About That ‘Endowed by Their Creator’ Omission, Mr. President…” by Dr. Gina Loudon

2011-06-19T18:13:00.000-07:00

Flashback:

“About That ‘Endowed by Their Creator’ Omission, Mr. President…” by Dr. Gina Loudon
http://bigjournalism.com/gloudon/2010/09/21/about-that-endowed-by-their-creator-omission-mr-president/

As a Harvard-trained lawyer, are we really to believe that BHO II forgot the most famous line in the Preamble of the Declaration of Independence?

There are only three options that explain why Obama omitted the words “by the Creator” in his speech to Hispanics over the weekend.

The teleprompter was loaded incorrectly–omitting the words “by the Creator.”
The teleprompter was loaded correctly—and Obama misread it, omitting the words “by the Creator” accidentally.
The teleprompter was loaded correctly—and Obama omitted the words “by the Creator” intentionally.

The first possibility illustrates cowardice by Obama– if “by the Creator” was omitted by a speechwriter (and not ordered so by POTUS) then why aren’t heads rolling?

The second option would illustrate ineptitude on the part of the Harvard-educated “constitutional lawyer.” If “by the Creator” was in the teleprompter, and Obama “forgot,” then it is a gaffe to remember, such as his “57 states” remark during his campaign. Where are the Dan Quayle genre jokes by late night television folks mocking his stupidity? Don’t suppose we’ll hear much from the LSM about that one!

The third option illustrates arrogance in BHO–If the teleprompter was loaded correctly—and Obama omitted the words “by the Creator” intentionally, then who, exactly does he think he is? Would the same media that is jabbing conservatives for their complaints refrain from complaining if, say, Sarah Palin forgot to mention the First Amendment (free speech, press, religion) when reciting the Bill of Rights?

All of this is far more interesting considering the pattern of this administration for both ignoring Christian events, even the non-sectarian “National Day of Prayer,” while hosting state dinners honoring Islamic events such as Ramadan. We should be shocked that a man of his credentials did not immediately remedy the glaring omission either as he read it or shortly thereafter.

So, inept, arrogant, or coward? Hmmmm….

For the record, the White House has the speech, sans Creator, proudly posted on its website. You will find it in the third paragraph from the last, in which he asks God to bless America. Here is the proper text. Perhaps the greatest arrogance is Obama’s ultimate request for God to bless a nation that cuts His name out of the credits.

On Friday, Obama will USE Giffords for political gain...AGAIN!

2011-04-27T22:49:00.000-07:00

I am so happy for Gabrielle Giffords and her family that her recovery is going well, and that she can attend Friday’s shuttle launch!

That said, too bad Obama will be there too, because don’t think for a moment that Obama hasn’t already schemed out the political gain he can get by appearing there Friday. With her.

Just look at how Obama previously and consistently leveraged the Tucson tragedy for his own political (read: personal) gain. Let’s call the following VILE NEWS from the “Never Let a Crisis Go to Waste” front...

First, there was these despicable reactions to the shooting -- all orchestrated by the Democrat Media Complex:
“They need to deftly pin this [Tucson shooting] on the tea partiers. Just like the Clinton White House deftly pinned the Oklahoma City bombing on the militia and anti-government people.” ~a Democrat operative speaking on how Obama must parlay Jared Loughner’s evil into something tangibly good for Obama!
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0111/47294_Page2.html

“Democrats plotted to blame Tea Party for slaughter. Of course, Politico buried it in their story.” ~Jim Hoft
http://bigpeace.com/jhoft/2011/01/09/breaking-democrats-plotted-to-blame-tea-party-for-slaughter/

Next, (of course) was the evil Left’s obligatory spin:
“The Tuscon shooting is Obama’s Oklahoma City moment!”
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0111/47348.html

“…the instantaneous reaction of the hard Left, President Obama’s base, was to politicize the Tucson atrocity as a natural, an inevitable, result of conservative ideology, enthusiasm for immigration-law enforcement and gun ownership by law-abiding Americans, and dissent from Obama’s policies...” ~Andrew McCarthy
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/256813/horrid-crime-dishonest-debate-andrew-c-mccarthy

Then, there was even more despicable news:
“Unbelievable: Democrat Group Using Gifford’s Shooting For Fundraiser!” ~Warner Todd Huston
http://biggovernment.com/wthuston/2011/01/09/unbelievable-democrat-group-using-giffords-shooting-for-fundraiser/

And finally, there was what occurred at the memorial service, as reported by Judi McCleod:
University of Arizona brass did not originate the “Together We Thrive” T-shirt. They merely recycled it for Obama—and recycled it in time for what should have been a dignified Memorial for the dead. If you were a mourner who took home a “Together We Thrive” T-shirt have a look at the bottom of your shirt. “Rocking America and Rocking the Vote” is a common theme of the DNC, and it’s right there on your Memorial T-shirt memento. Welcome to the era of Obama, where cheering and standing ovations, for the first time in history, became part of the Requiem for the Dead.
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/32138

Like I said, don’t think for a moment that Obama hasn’t already schemed out the political gain he can get by appearing there -- the “man” is truly disgusting.

“She bleedin’, yo!”

2011-04-26T07:07:00.001-07:00

Quiz Of The Day

Which ignorant fool said this: “She bleedin’, yo!”

1. The McDonald’s employee who idly stood by to record the beat down of a restaurant patron.
2. New Black Panther Party leader Malik Zulu Shabazz (AKA Paris Lewis) after killing a white baby.
3. President Barack Hussein Obama proudly proclaiming the damage he’s done to our beloved country.

PS- There are no wrong answers...

A year after the spill, recall that Obama’s fingerprints were all over that disaster!

2011-04-20T06:42:00.000-07:00

A year after the spill, recall that Obama’s fingerprints were all over that disaster:

1. Of all American politicians, Obama was documented as having received the most money from BP.

2. In 2010, BP was also one of three finalists for Obama’s Interior Department award for “Outstanding Safety and Pollution Prevention.” Prior to the disaster, the winner was scheduled to be announced on April 30, 2010, but because the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded ten days before, Obama had the announcement “delayed” (maybe because BP had originally won?!?)

3. And back in 2009, Obama actually recognized the very same Deepwater Horizon rig -- the one at the heart of this catastrophe -- as a “model of safety.”

Like I said, Obama’s fingerprints were all over this disaster!

Any questions???

Obama biggest recipient of BP cash - POLITICO.com
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0510/36783.html

In ironic twist, BP finalist for pollution prevention award – CNN.com
http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2010/04/30/in-ironic-twist-bp-finalist-for-pollution-prevention-award/

Obama’s Interior Department Gave Deepwater Horizon Operators Safety Award!
http://www.allgov.com/ViewNews/Interior_Department_Gave_Deepwater_Horizon_Operators_Safety_Award_in_2009_100501

Now that’s an “exit” strategy!

2011-04-14T21:59:00.000-07:00

After learning that Obama intentionally mislead Paul Ryan about the scope of his speech, and that Ryan and the other Obama-invited GOP members of the House Budget Committee had to sit there and listen to more Obama partisan crap and lies, I wish Ryan and the whole lot of them had walked right out during the speech -- live on national TV. Now that’s an “exit” strategy!

Obama’s favorite person!

2011-04-11T07:44:00.001-07:00

I’m having a real difficult time believing Barack Obama when he says, “I miss being anonymous,” when you can see right here that Obama couldn’t even walk around without KNOWING that everyone else was SEEING HIM clutch a GQ magazine…with his favorite person on the cover!

Just sayin’…

PS- See definition of “narcissist”

More hot air from the Obama gasbag

2011-04-07T08:05:00.001-07:00

Obama saying he’s “not out of touch” -- at an Al Sharpton event(!) -- is proof how out of touch Obama really is. Seriously.

Obama also said he remembers pumping his own gas.

And I remember what it was like having a real president.

Lastly, Obama’s inane “pumping gas” comment can never translate to ‘I feel your pain’ -- but it actually does show everyone how this weasel of a prez hides from issues like the price of gas doubling.

Obama’s “transparency.” “See” what I mean!

2011-04-05T06:27:00.000-07:00

If it’s there and you see it, it’s real.
If it‘s not there but you “see” it, it’s virtual.
If it’s there but you can see through it, it’s transparent.
But if you can’t see it because it’s not there, either you erased it, or it’s Obama’s promise of “transparency,” which is without because Obama won’t let you see it!

“See” what I mean?!?

Obama’s “2012 or Bust”

2011-04-05T05:19:00.001-07:00

Barack Hussein Obama is unlike every past American president in that Obama REALLY DOES NOT BELIEVE in American Exceptionalism. To Obama -- being the never-ending campaigning narcissist he is -- it’s ALWAYS been him in 2012! Now most would agree all politicians want to be reelected, but in Obama’s case, “2012 or bust” literally means that:
Obama’s wish in 2012 is to RULE over a “busted” America. Of this, there is no doubt...

So much for them having “our back.”

2011-04-05T04:55:00.001-07:00

Obama and Holder may have flip-flopped yesterday on the KSM trial now to be held at Gitmo, but NEVER forget both Obama and Holder still believe the 9/11 terrorists should STILL be granted rights under OUR Constitution, and the 9/11 terrorists should STILL be brought BACK for trial near Ground Zero!

In other words, so much for them having “our back.”

Related links...
Our Dangerous Attorney General
Rep. Peter King: AG Holder Should Resign

PS- Eric Holder would look good in an orange jumpsuit. Just sayin’...

The Obama gang that can’t shoot straight...

2011-03-21T04:59:00.000-07:00

As far as I’m concerned, Obama has shown cowardice and ineptitude with regard to Libya since he became president. Back in 2009, even The Washington Post pointed out that Obama SHOOK HANDS and ate dinner with the “mad dog” Kadhafi.

Then in 2010, due in part to Barack Hussein Obama saying it would be “far preferable” to release him, Lockerbie bomber Mohamed al-Megrahi received a hero’s welcome when he returned to Libya -- this terrorist who killed 270 people, 189 of them Americans.

Then when the former Libyan Justice Minister TOLD THE WORLD last month that KADHAFI PERSONALLY ORDERED the Lockerbie bombing, Obama sat on his hands again!

Forget the Cairo speech (BTW, how’d that work out?!?) And forget all the Obama waffling -- which has resulted in the murder of thousands of people fighting for their freedom. And forget the mixed diplomatic signals coming from this Obama gang that can’t shoot straight -- “Kadhafi must go,” er, I mean, “Kadhafi can stay.” For Obama now, it’s about “baracketology”...and Brazil!

John Podhoretz, speaking on Obama’s “invisibility” during these “times of crises” says it best:
“This is not a time for leadership; this is the time for leadership.”

And let’s be clear: The USS Barry (DDG-52) is named after the Revolutionary War hero John Barry, “Father of the American Navy” -- NOT the clueless narcissist we have for president. And ship-fired Tomahawk cruise missiles are a nice way to “reach out and touch” Kadhafi, the evil being behind the Lockerbie bombing.

PS- I love the smell of Tomahawks in the morning...

Related links...
(Video) Obama Denounced Release of Lockerbie Bomber But Letter Reveals He Preferred His Release

Nile Gardiner: Barack Obama must also answer questions over the Lockerbie bomber's release

Lockerbie Probe May Prove Uncomfortable for Obama Administration

Obama says Kadhafi must “leave now”

Obama: Gaddafi can stay, after all

Flip-Flop: Obama Admin Sends Signals That Gadhafi Can Stay in Power

President of China?

2011-03-14T18:07:00.000-07:00

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/president-china_554012.html?nopager=1

“Unfortunately for him and us, Barack Obama is president of the United States. That job brings with it certain special responsibilities. It’s a tough job—maybe tougher than being president of China. But Barack Obama ran for president of the United States. Maybe he should start behaving as one.” ~William Kristol, in response to Obama telling people that “it would be so much easier to be the president of China.”

Hatch is STILL more eloquent than Obama...

2011-03-02T05:19:00.000-08:00

Wow. Senator Orrin Hatch described ObamaCare as a “stupid, dumbass program” AND an “awful piece of crap.”

And Senator Hatch is STILL more eloquent than Obama...

PS- He forgot to add unconstitutional.

So much for that Democrat call for civility...

2011-03-01T05:31:00.000-08:00

In this video, you will learn that Wisconsin Democrat Gordon Hintz, who had previously been busted in a prostitution sting, turned to a female colleague, a Conservative Republican named Michelle Litjens, and said, “You are fucking dead!”

Sounds like Gordon Hintz took fellow Democrat Mike Capuano's advice to heart and wanted to “get a little bloody.”

Obviously, these Dems received Obama’s latest marching orders...

That (by definition?) is Obama!

2011-02-28T17:43:00.000-08:00

Re: Obama says ‘Don't vilify public unions’
http://gillreport.com/2011/02/obama-dont-vilify-public-employees/
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/02/28/obama_not_good_when_the_rights_of_public_employees_are_infringed_upon.html

It’s ironic to look at Obama’s own words criticizing our country -- then recall all of his bowing during The World Apology Tour -- and recognize that our nation’s highest officeholder (and RANK public employee) is also by self-admission its Vilifier-in-Chief...AGAINST America. But that (by definition?) is Obama!

Obviously, Democrat Congressman Capuano received Obama’s latest marching orders!

2011-02-23T06:45:00.001-08:00

Look who received Obama’s latest marching orders!

Dem Rep to unions: Time to get ‘bloody’
By Patrick Hynes
February 23, 2011

A Democratic Congressman from Massachusetts is raising the stakes in the nation’s fight over the future of public employee unions, saying emails aren’t enough to show support and that it is time to “get a little bloody.”

“I’m proud to be here with people who understand that it’s more than just sending an email to get you going. Every once and awhile you need to get out on the streets and get a little bloody when necessary,” Rep. Mike Capuano (D-Ma.) told a crowd in Boston on Tuesday rallying in solidarity for Wisconsin union members.

Capuano’s comments come at a time when there is heightened sensitivity to violent rhetoric in the wake of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords’ (D-Az.) shooting in January.

Capuano is considered a leading contender to take on Sen. Scott Brown in 2012.

This is not Capuano’s first brush with violent rhetoric. Last month Capuano said, “Politicians, I think are too bland today. I don’t know what they believe in. Nothing wrong with throwing a coffee cup at someone if you’re doing it for human rights.”

Updated with video link:
Breitbart.tv » Democrat Congressman to Union Supporters: You Have to ‘Get a Little Bloody’
http://www.breitbart.tv/dem-rep-to-union-supporters-you-have-to-get-a-little-bloody/

Obama is BOTH!

2011-02-21T14:55:00.001-08:00

The only reason Obama is saying the Planned Parenthood controversy is “manufactured” is because...

***DRUM ROLL***

Obama is the MOST PRO-ABORTION president IN US HISTORY!
(That, and he’s a pathological liar.)

Harkin and Obama: Two peas in a pod

2011-01-28T08:33:00.000-08:00

Regarding Democrat Tom Harkin saying Tea Party people are “crazy” and should be “given more rope” with which to hang themselves...

Unlike our so-called Commander-in-Chief Barack Hussein Obama -- pictured here at Tom Harkin’s very own Iowa Steak Fry disrespecting our National Anthem (this is not photoshopped, look at the URL):
http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1662530_1446035,00.html -- Tea Party people LOVE their country! And the people who call themselves “Tea Partiers” are honest, hardworking, taxpaying, law-abiding patriotic Americans who support their local sheriffs. They’re also the BEST INFORMED citizens of the last twenty years!
Case closed.

So who am I? Well, I’m just one American who sees RIGHT THROUGH the person pictured on the FAR LEFT in the link above...

PS- My teen sons could handle ANY Democrat in a one-on-one debate. And as far as I’m concerned, I would WIPE THE FLOOR with the whole lot of them -- after I (old)school them. Bring it!

PPS- Tell Democrat Tom Harkin how you REALLY feel: (202) 224-3254

Democrat hypocrisy on symbolism

2011-01-21T07:44:00.000-08:00

Democrats dismissed this week’s House vote to repeal ObamaCare as symbolic then turned around and pushed for symbolism in their demand for bipartisan seating at the upcoming State of the Union address.

Let’s be clear: The only reason Democrats want to be seated next to Republicans is to hide the GOP’s overwhelming House majority. On national TV.

A vote to repeal ObamaCare should be scheduled in the Senate. That way those (Democrat) senators facing re-election in 2012 can be held accountable for their vote.

And the only thing that is “symbolic” about this week’s House vote to REPEAL ObamaCare is that IT IS ALREADY MORE BIPARTISAN THAN LAST YEAR’S VOTE THAT PASSED IT!

Together we thrive?

2011-01-16T06:19:00.001-08:00

The Truth comes out...

It turns out “Together We Thrive” was a 2008 Obama campaign slogan that originated from violent campaign rhetoric found in Obama’s “Organizing For America.”

And Judi McLeod from Canada Free Press is reporting University of Arizona brass did not originate the “Together We Thrive” T-shirt. They merely recycled it for Obama—and recycled it in time for what should have been a dignified Memorial for the dead. If you were a mourner who took home a “Together We Thrive” T-shirt have a look at the bottom of your shirt. “Rocking America and Rocking the Vote” is a common theme of the DNC, and it’s right there on your Memorial T-shirt memento. Welcome to the era of Obama, where cheering and standing ovations, for the first time in history, became part of the Requiem for the Dead.

Related links...

“These accusations — that political actors contributed to the murder of 6 people, including a 9-year-old girl — are extremely grave. They were made despite the fact that there was, and is, no evidence that Loughner was part of these movements or a consumer of their literature. They were made despite the fact that the link between political rhetoric and actual violence is extremely murky. They were vicious charges made by people who claimed to be criticizing viciousness. Yet such is the state of things. We have a news media that is psychologically ill informed but politically inflamed, so it naturally leans toward political explanations. We have a news media with a strong distaste for Sarah Palin and the Tea Party movement, and this seemed like a golden opportunity to tarnish them. We have a segmented news media, so there is nobody in most newsrooms to stand apart from the prevailing assumptions. We have a news media market in which the rewards go to anybody who can stroke the audience’s pleasure buttons.” ~Richard Brooks
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/11/opinion/11brooks.html

“…the instantaneous reaction of the hard Left, President Obama’s base, was to politicize the Tucson atrocity as a natural, an inevitable, result of conservative ideology, enthusiasm for immigration-law enforcement and gun ownership by law-abiding Americans, and dissent from Obama’s policies...”
“There is no point debating any of this. Two years ago, we were still being told dissent was the highest form of patriotism; now it’s the root cause of murderous rampage. Modern leftists are tacticians. They’ve convinced themselves of the rightness of their cause, obviating the need to be consistent or faithful to facts in any single episode. For them, it’s all about how the episode can be spun to help the cause. That’s worth understanding, but not debating.”
“…can we forget that Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn’s atrocities transformed them into icons of the modern Left — respected “educators” still passionate about “social justice”? Barack Obama didn’t say, “I’ll have nothing to do with unrepentant terrorists who dedicate books to deranged assassins.” He chose to hold his political coming-out party in their living room and cultivated relationships with them, just as he cultivated a relationship with other hate-mongering radicals.” ~Andrew McCarthy
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/256813/horrid-crime-dishonest-debate-andrew-c-mccarthy

From Jay Nordlinger’s National Review piece Hypocrisy Unending…
Assassination? Allow me to excerpt a couple of paragraphs from my piece: Even before Bush was elected president, the kill-Bush talk and imagery started. When Governor Bush was delivering his 2000 convention speech, Craig Kilborn, a CBS talk-show host, showed him on the screen with the words “SNIPERS WANTED.” Six years later, Bill Maher, the comedian-pundit, was having a conversation with John Kerry. He asked the senator what he had gotten his wife for her birthday. Kerry answered that he had taken her to Vermont. Maher said, “You could have went to New Hampshire and killed two birds with one stone.” (New Hampshire is an early primary state, of course.) Kerry said, “Or I could have gone to 1600 Pennsylvania and killed the real bird with one stone.” (This is the same Kerry who joked in 1988, “Somebody told me the other day that the Secret Service has orders that if George Bush is shot, they’re to shoot Quayle.”) Also in 2006, the New York comptroller, Alan Hevesi, spoke to graduating students at Queens College. He said that his fellow Democrat, Sen. Charles Schumer, would “put a bullet between the president’s eyes if he could get away with it.”
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/256765/hypocrisy-unending-jay-nordlinger

“…lessons from history won’t stop some Democrats exploiting the shooting of a nine-year-old girl and five others at the weekend with precisely the sort of foam-flecked over-reaction for which they love to condemn their opponents on the Right.”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1345952/Arizona-shooting-Americas-elite-hijacked-massacre-revenge-Sarah-Palin.html

“True to Rahm’s Rule of never letting a good crisis go to waste, liberal pundits and Democratic politicians are consciously exploiting Saturday’s tragic shooting in Tucson for political gain. At a time when the country should be coming together calmly to make sense of something awful, the left has exploded in a shameful display of divisive grandstanding.”
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/jan/10/taking-advantage-of-tragedy/

“The desperate hope that the losers in November of 2010 had was that they could revitalize their political fortunes because of this unfortunate shooting of a Congresswoman in Arizona. It’s not the way we think. And we certainly don’t look to these events to move our political agenda forward. But the left is depraved, empty, and without any political substance whatsoever.” ~Rush Limbaugh
http://www.rollcall.com/news/-202289-1.html

Michelle Malkin » The progressive “climate of hate” An illustrated primer, 2000-2010
http://michellemalkin.com/2011/01/10/the-progressive-climate-of-hate-an-illustrated-primer-2000-2010/

Re: Rick Reilly "on" Obama and the BCS

2011-01-06T14:49:00.000-08:00

I'd almost have to say Rick Reilly has been the gutter ball of sportswriters the last few years. It's not because he wants our Bowler-in-Chief to do the 7-10 Split that is the Bowl Championship Series fix (which is hard to do when your best on the lanes is a 37). It's because Rick has long had one helluva crush on our sitting, bowing (but non-bowling) president -- we all know it -- and that's what's hard to take when reading his takes.

There was a time when sportswriters wrote columns without insinuating their politics into it, but times have changed, as has Rick and other "journalists" -- or Journ"O"Lists. Because Rick has almost the same track record for fawning over Obama, the stain affected. That's why I've come to disregard his work. Or use it to wrap my catch-of-the-day in.

I think it was the late great Jim Murray who said the world of sports should be the toy section of life. Of Reilly, he'd be disappointed. Because the sports world has certainly been assaulted enough lately with "crime and punishment." And Obama is both. Too bad reading Rick Reilly reminds me of that.

BTW, the "O" in Journ"O"List stood for "O"bama.

A Different Christmas Poem

2010-12-20T13:04:00.000-08:00

Text: http://www.blackfive.net/main/2005/12/a_different_chr.html
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_P6yU_ymFM

The embers glowed softly, and in their dim light,
I gazed round the room and I cherished the sight.
My wife was asleep, her head on my chest,
My daughter beside me, angelic in rest.

Outside the snow fell, a blanket of white,
transforming the yard to a winter delight.
The sparkling lights in the tree I believe,
completed the magic that was Christmas Eve.

My eyelids were heavy, my breathing was deep,
Secure and surrounded by love I would sleep.
In perfect contentment, or so it would seem,
So I slumbered, perhaps I started to dream.

The sound wasn't loud, and it wasn't too near,
But I opened my eyes when it tickled my ear.
Perhaps just a cough, I didn't quite know,
Then the sure sound of footsteps outside in the snow.

My soul gave a tremble, I struggled to hear,
And I crept to the door just to see who was near.
Standing out in the cold and the dark of the night,
a lone figure stood, his face weary and tight.

A soldier, I puzzled, some twenty years old,
Perhaps a Marine, huddled here in the cold.
Alone in the dark, he looked up and smiled,
standing watch over me, and my wife and my child.

"What are you doing?" I asked without fear,
"Come in this moment, it's freezing out here!
Put down your pack, brush the snow from your sleeve,
You should be at home on a cold Christmas Eve!"

For barely a moment I saw his eyes shift,
Away from the cold and the snow blown in drifts..
To the window that danced with a warm fire's light.
Then he sighed and he said "Its really all right,
I'm out here by choice. I'm here every night."

"It's my duty to stand at the front of the line,
That separates you from the darkest of times.
No one had to ask or beg or implore me,
I'm proud to stand here like my fathers before me.

My Gramps died at 'Pearl on a day in December,"
Then he sighed, "That's a Christmas 'Gram always remembers."
My dad stood his watch in the jungles of 'Nam,'
And now it is my turn and so, here I am.
I've not seen my own son in more than a while,
But my wife sends me pictures, he's sure got her smile.

Then he bent and he carefully pulled from his bag,
The red, white, and blue... an American flag.

"I can live through the cold and the being alone,
Away from my family, my house and my home.
I can stand at my post through the rain and the sleet,
I can sleep in a foxhole with little to eat.
I can carry the weight of killing another,
Or lay down my life with my sister and brother..
Who stand at the front against any and all,
To ensure for all time that this flag will not fall."

"So go back inside," he said, "harbor no fright,
Your family is waiting and I'll be all right."
"But isn't there something I can do, at the least,
"Give you money," I asked, "or prepare you a feast?"
It seems all too little for all that you've done,
For being away from your wife and your son."

Then his eye welled a tear that held no regret,
"Just tell us you love us, and never forget.
To fight for our rights back at home while we're gone,
To stand your own watch, no matter how long.
For when we come home, either standing or dead,
To know you remember we fought and we bled.
Is payment enough, and with that we will trust,
That we mattered to you as you mattered to us.

Sixpence None The Richer

2010-12-20T12:39:00.000-08:00

Leigh Nash of the band Sixpence None The Richer describes the origin of the band’s name:

“It comes from a book by C.S. Lewis called Mere Christianity. A little boy asks his father if he can get a sixpence -- a very small amount of English currency -- to go and get a gift for his father. The father gladly accepts the gift and he’s really happy with it, but he also realizes that he’s not any richer for the transaction. C.S. Lewis was comparing that to his belief that God has given him, and us, the gifts that we possess, and to serve Him the way we should, we should do it humbly -- realizing how we got the gifts in the first place.”

Here’s Leigh singing ♫ Breathe Your Name
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUNNJTp2KOA

Lyrics ♫
It's every day
I'm in this place
I feel this way
I feel the same
It's every day
I'm in this place
I feel this way
I feel the same

Is it all inside my head
Is it all inside my head
I'll view the list
And take my pick
I view my faith
And make a choice
'Cause it's nobody else's but mine

But you are in my heart
I can feel your beat
And you move my mind
From behind the wheel
When I lose control
I can only breathe your name
I can only breathe your name

So many days within this race
I need the truth
I need some grace
I need the path
To find my place
I need some truth
I need some grace
The part of you
That's part of me
We'll never die
We'll never leave
And it's nobody else's but mine

You are in my heart
I can feel your beat
And you move my mind
From behind the wheel
When I lose control
I can only breathe your name
I can only breathe your name

You'll view the list
And take your pick
You'll view my faith
And make the choice
'Cause I'm nobody else's but yours

And you're in my heart
I can feel your beat
And you move my mind
From behind the wheel
When I lose control
I can only breathe your name
I can only breathe your name
I can only breathe your name
I can only breathe your name

What makes Liberals dangerous...

2010-12-20T12:21:00.000-08:00

I’ve always believed this RFK quote sums up Liberals:

“There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?”

Now, you can still believe in the nobility of that quote and appreciate its depth -- and that would be only human. But when most are confronted by reality, we choose NOT to use this as the guiding principle in how we make tough decisions. By necessity, we force ourselves to “look at things the way they are and ask why?” Liberals don’t. In fact, substituting “government” for the individual in the latter half of that quote identifies EXACTLY who Liberals are and what they believe in! That's what makes them dangerous.

The Fourth Estate becomes the Fifth Column...

2010-12-20T11:57:00.000-08:00

We had to know America was in trouble when we found out the “O” in Journ“O”List stood for “O”bama. Every single name listed below should have an asterisk* by it for the rest of (what should be) their short-lived career -- that asterisk* forever identifying them as being complicit in helping elect Obama. Their conduct and lack of ethics was treasonous. Case closed.

The Journ“O”list (157 names confirmed with organizations):
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2573077/posts

Spencer Ackerman - Wired, FireDogLake, Washington Independent, Talking Points Memo, The American Prospect
Thomas Adcock - New York Law Journal
Ben Adler - Newsweek, POLITICO
Mike Allen - POLITICO
Eric Alterman - The Nation, Media Matters for America
Marc Ambinder - The Atlantic
Greg Anrig - The Century Foundation
Ryan Avent - Economist
Dean Baker - The American Prospect
Nick Baumann - Mother Jones
Josh Bearman - LA Weekly
Steven Benen - The Carpetbagger Report
Ari Berman - The Nation
Jared Bernstein - Economic Policy Institute
Michael Berube - Crooked Timer, Pennsylvania State University
Brian Beutler - The Media Consortium
Lindsay Beyerstein - Freelance journalist
Joel Bleifuss - In These Times
John Blevins - South Texas College of Law
Eric Boehlert - Media Matters
Sam Boyd - The American Prospect
Ben Brandzel - MoveOn.org, John Edwards Campaign
Shannon Brownlee - Author, New America Foundation
Rich Byrne - Playwright
Kevin Carey - Education Sector
Jonathan Chait - The New Republic
Lakshmi Chaudry - In These Times
Isaac Chotiner - The New Republic
Ta-Nehisi Coates - The Atlantic
Michael Cohen - New America Foundation
Jonathan Cohn - The New Republic
Joe Conason - The New York Observer
Lark Corbeil - Public News Service
David Corn - Mother Jones
Daniel Davies - The Guardian
David Dayen - FireDogLake
Brad DeLong - The Economists’ Voice, University of California at Berkeley
Ryan Donmoyer - Bloomberg News
Adam Doster - In These Times
Kevin Drum - Washington Monthly
Matt Duss - Center for American Progress
Gerald Dworkin - UC Davis
Eve Fairbanks - The New Republic
James Fallows - The Atlantic
Henry Farrell - George Washington University
Tim Fernholz - American Prospect
Dan Froomkin - Huffington Post, Washington Post
Jason Furman - Brookings Institution
James Galbraith - University of Texas at Austin
Kathleen Geier - Talking Points Memo
Todd Gitlin - Columbia University
Ilan Goldenberg - National Security Network
Arthur Goldhammer - Harvard University
Dana Goldstein - The Daily Beast
Andrew Golis - Talking Points Memo
Jaana Goodrich - Blogger
Merrill Goozner - Chicago Tribune
David Greenberg - Slate
Robert Greenwald - Brave New Films
Chris Hayes - The Nation
Don Hazen - Alternet
Jeet Heer - Canadian Journolist
Jeff Hauser - Political Action Committee, Dennis Shulman Campaign
Michael Hirsh - Newsweek
James Johnson - University of Rochester
John Judis - The New Republic, The American Prospect
Michael Kazin - Georgetown University
Ed Kilgore - Democratic Strategist
Richard Kim - The Nation
Charlie Kireker - Air America Media
Mark Kleiman - UCLA The Reality Based Community
Ezra Klein - Washington Post, Newsweek, The American Prospect
Joe Klein - TIME
Robert Kuttner - American Prospect, Economic Policy Institute
Paul Krugman - The New York Times, Princeton University
Lisa Lerer - POLITICO
Daniel Levy - Century Foundation
Ralph Luker - Cliopatria
Annie Lowrey - Washington Independent
Robert Mackey - New York Times
Mike Madden - Salon
Maggie Mahar - The Century Foundation
Amanda Marcotte - Pandagon.net
Dylan Matthews - Harvard University
Alec McGillis - Washington Post
Scott McLemee - Inside Higher Ed
Sara Mead - New America Foundation
Ari Melber - The Nation
David Meyer - University of California at Irvine
Seth Michaels - MyDD.com
Luke Mitchell - Harper’s Magazine
Gautham Nagesh - The Hill, Daily Caller
Suzanne Nossel - Human Rights Watch
Michael O’Hare - University of California at Berkeley
Josh Orton - MyDD.com, Air America Media
Rodger Payne - University of Louisville
Rick Perlstein - Author, Campaign for America’s Future
Nico Pitney - Huffington Post
Harold Pollack - University of Chicago
Katha Pollitt - The Nation
Ari Rabin-Havt - Media Matters
Joy-Ann Reid - South Florida Times
David Roberts - Grist
Lamar Robertson - Partnership for Public Service
Sara Robinson - Campaign For America's Future
Alyssa Rosenberg - Washingtonian, The Atlantic, Government Executive
Alex Rossmiller - National Security Network
Michael Roston - Newsbroke
Laura Rozen - POLITICO, Mother Jones
Felix Salmon - Reuters
Greg Sargent - Washington Post
Thomas Schaller - Baltimore Sun
Noam Scheiber - The New Republic
Michael Scherer - TIME
Mark Schmitt - American Prospect, The New America Foundation
Nancy Scola - Personal Democracy Forum
Rinku Sen - ColorLines Magazine
Julie Bergman Sender - Balcony Films
Adam Serwer - American Prospect
Walter Shapiro - PoliticsDaily.com
Kate Sheppard - Mother Jones
Matthew Shugart - UC San Diego
Micah Sifry - Sunlight Foundation, Personal Democracy Forum
Nate Silver - FiveThirtyEight.com
Jesse Singal - The Boston Globe, Washington Monthly
Ann-Marie Slaughter - Princeton University
Ben Smith - POLITICO
Sarah Spitz - KCRW
Adele Stan - The Media Consortium
Paul Starr - The Atlantic
Kate Steadman - Kaiser Health News
Kay Steiger - Center for American Progress
Jonathan Stein - Mother Jones
Sam Stein - Huffington Post
Matt Steinglass - Deutsche Presse-Agentur
James Surowiecki - The New Yorker
Jesse Taylor - Pandagon.net
Steven Teles - Yale University
Mark Thoma - The Economists' View
Michael Tomasky - The Guardian
Jeffrey Toobin - CNN, The New Yorker
Rebecca Traister - Salon
Karen Tumulty - Washington Post, TIME
Tracy Van Slyke - The Media Consortium
Paul Waldman - Author, American Prospect
Dave Weigel - Washington Post, MSNBC, The Washington Independent
Moira Whelan - National Security Network
Scott Winship - Pew Economic Mobility Project
J. Harry Wray - DePaul University
D. Brad Wright - University of NC at Chapel Hill
Kai Wright - The Root
Holly Yeager - Columbia Journalism Review
Rich Yeselson - Change to Win
Matthew Yglesias - Center for American Progress, The Atlantic Monthly
Jonathan Zasloff - UCLA
Julian Zelizer - Princeton University
Avi Zenilman - POLITICO

Related links:
Jonah Goldberg: Journolist exposes ugly liberal conspiracy
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/opinion/viewpoints/stories/DN-goldberg_27edi.State.Edition1.2946a6b.html

Documents show media plotting to kill stories about Rev. Jeremiah Wright
http://dailycaller.com/2010/07/20/documents-show-media-plotting-to-kill-stories-about-rev-jeremiah-wright/

Absence of integrity characterized Journolist scandal
http://dailycaller.com/2010/07/22/absence-of-integrity-characterized-journolist-scandal/

Obama's New Slogan???

2010-12-11T10:59:00.000-08:00

Prior to our petulant prez punching out from his own presser, I said his “D is for Drive, R is for Reverse” slogan was even more lamer now because bringing Bubba back is going backwards. But with Obama in full meltdown and him self-ejecting, I suggest he try a new slogan:
“D is for Ditched and B.O. Bailed Out.”

The handwriting was on the wall...

2010-12-11T06:09:00.000-08:00

This video was made the night before the 2008 presidential election. The handwriting was on the wall...

“Obama on Redistribution and the Constitution: Are We Ready for Change?”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDUWpLnS63M

Mark Levin exposes Obama for the evildoer he is.

God help us...

2010-12-11T05:31:00.000-08:00

Yesterday, at a press conference of his OWN choosing, we saw the President of The United States lose control of the White House -- the petulant child that he is. And as Derek Broes said, it may have produced “the single greatest Drudge Headline I have seen to date.” I would agree!
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1672393350#!/photo.php?fbid=158927847485614&set=a.106206766091056.3797.100001051981122

If you haven’t seen video of the incident yet, here it is:
“Obama Ditches Tax Cut Presser After Bill Clinton Takes Control”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPtZIgUJS44

Unbelievable! Obama “takes off” and Clinton “takes over” for almost THIRTY MINUTES of impromptu question-taking?! WTF?!?

The teleprompter must’ve told Obama to “Excuse yourself now and get the HELL out of here QUICKLY, you Loser.”

Ladies and gentleman, we have a dangerously narcissistic and pathologically lying adolescent in the White House. God help us.

I call it lies...

2010-12-09T13:45:00.001-08:00

I don’t trust any numbers Obama puts out.
Every time some new figure is released, some previously released figure gets (quietly) revised. And never in our country’s favor, as was the case again today.
In each instance, the updated info paints a worse picture than the original info indicated. And the correction (naturally) won’t receive the same attention the initial data did.
Call it smoke and mirrors. I call it lies...

Obama: Know more with “less”

2010-12-04T15:49:00.000-08:00

Flying 7000 miles to talk 15 minutes on the phone? Senseless.
Wearing a BRAND NEW “Look, I’m a tough guy” bomber jacket?
Pointless.

PS- Use“less” memo to Obama:
Add hopeless, clueless, witless, feckless and worthless to your résumé. And don’t forget gutless. AND spineless...

President Obama’s Leather Jacket Has New-Car Smell
http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2010/12/president_obamas_leather_jacke.html
Obama: Miles Away From Reality
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Th2iVZiO9YA

Bad news for START is good news for America

2010-12-02T09:19:00.000-08:00

Bad news for the new START (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty) is good news for America. Is it that unreasonable to expect an informative debate over a complex treaty like this???
It is when the sand's running out on the lame duck Dems...
and Obama wants his trophy -- national security be damned!

The Gun is Civilization

2010-12-02T09:14:00.001-08:00

The Gun is Civilization by Maj. L. Caudill USMC (Ret)

Human beings only have two ways to deal with one another: reason and force. If you want me to do something for you, you have a choice of either convincing me via argument, or force me to do your bidding under threat of force. Every human interaction falls into one of those two categories, without exception. Reason or force, that’s it.

In a truly moral and civilized society, people exclusively interact through persuasion. Force has no place as a valid method of social interaction, and the only thing that removes force from the menu is the personal firearm, as paradoxical as it may sound to some.

When I carry a gun, you cannot deal with me by force. You have to use reason and try to persuade me, because I have a way to negate your threat or employment of force.

The gun is the only personal weapon that puts a 100-pound woman on equal footing with a 220-pound mugger, a 75-year old retiree on equal footing with a 19-year old gang banger, and a single guy on equal footing with a carload of drunk guys with baseball bats. The gun removes the disparity in physical strength, size, or numbers between a potential attacker and a defender.

There are plenty of people who consider the gun as the source of bad force equations. These are the people who think that we’d be more civilized if all guns were removed from society, because a firearm makes it easier for a [armed] mugger to do his job. That, of course, is only true if the mugger’s potential victims are mostly disarmed either by choice or by legislative fiat–it has no validity when most of a mugger’s potential marks are armed.

People who argue for the banning of arms ask for automatic rule by the young, the strong, and the many, and that’s the exact opposite of a civilized society. A mugger, even an armed one, can only make a successful living in a society where the state has granted him a force monopoly.

Then there’s the argument that the gun makes confrontations lethal that otherwise would only result in injury. This argument is fallacious in several ways. Without guns involved, confrontations are won by the physically superior party inflicting overwhelming injury on the loser. People who think that fists, bats, sticks, or stones don’t constitute lethal force watch too much TV, where people take beatings and come out of it with a bloody lip at worst. The fact that the gun makes lethal force easier works solely in favor of the weaker defender, not the stronger attacker. If both are armed, the field is level.

The gun is the only weapon that’s as lethal in the hands of an octogenarian as it is in the hands of a weight lifter. It simply wouldn’t work as well as a force equalizer if it wasn’t both lethal and easily employable.

When I carry a gun, I don’t do so because I am looking for a fight, but because I’m looking to be left alone. The gun at my side means that I cannot be forced, only persuaded. I don’t carry it because I’m afraid, but because it enables me to be unafraid. It doesn’t limit the actions of those who would interact with me through reason, only the actions of those who would do so by force. It removes force from the equation… and that’s why carrying a gun is a civilized act.

Source: http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=83629783989&topic=14216

“They loved Obama”

2010-12-01T11:39:00.001-08:00

*SPOILER ALERT* An alternate ending for George Orwell’s 1984:
“The Democrats gazed up at the enormous face. It had taken them scant seconds to fall in love with it -- the sneers behind the ears -- the snob behind the mob. O wondrous rapture as tears trickled down mindless faces, their joy so overwhelming. Because everything was all right now . . . because everyone was now Left! With nothing!!! The big “O”. Their cities in decay. These soulless zombies weak-in-the-knees, their struggle was now over. They had won the victory over themselves. They loved Obama.”
________________________________________________________________

The above was inspired by RightChange’s “1984 - Big Brother Obama”
Based on Apple’s 1984 MAC commercial that marked a new era in computers, and based on George Orwell’s book 1984, RightChange introduces our closing argument on Obama and the 111th Congress. This is also RightChange’s Kick-off for the 2012 Presidential Cycle.
The New Politizoid “1984 - Big Brother Obama” may be our best yet!
CAST: Barack Obama, Oprah Winfrey, George Soros, Maxine Waters, Moveon.org and Louis Farrakhan in their own words.
Yes. THESE ARE THEIR ACTUAL WORDS!
http://vimeo.com/16398466

Sportsmen of the Year

2010-11-30T05:31:00.000-08:00

Updated: Congratulations to Drew Brees on being named SI's 2010 Sportsman of the Year!
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/magazine/sportsman/11/30/sportsman/index.html

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Joe Kidd's Sportsmen of the Year: Armando Galarraga & Brooks Laich

Armando Galarraga is the perfect sportsman -- Joe Posnanski
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/magazine/sportsman/11/15/posnanski.galarraga/index.html

Brooks Laich discusses his tire change -- Dan Steinberg
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/dcsportsbog/2010/04/brooks_laich_discusses_his_tir.html

Obama and the blame game...

2010-11-28T10:15:00.001-08:00

First, Obama tried the “blame Bush” strategy, but that didn’t work.

Then, Obama tried the “blame the messaging” strategy, but that didn’t work either. Because we got the message: Obama lies, and Obama sucks. So we voted accordingly.

Later, after seeing himself portayed on Newsweek’s cover as the juggling president-god, Obama tried the “blame the job” strategy. But that couldn’t work either: We knew the problem was not with the Office of the Presidency -- it’s with its occupant.

And now this: Obama is trying the “blame the internet” strategy -- the SAME INTERNET that has THOUSANDS of news stories, video links and sound bites of the “man” himself telling us IN HIS OWN WORDS about his Muslim faith -- including him telling us how “The Muslim call to prayer is one of the prettiest sounds on Earth.”

Hmmm... It sure sounds like Obama makes the case not for but AGAINST himself. Just saying...

So what’s next in this idiotic progression? Maybe Obama will blame “dumb dust” . . . or the Mayan calendar . . . or the grassy knoll. Only Obama knows...

But there’s one thing we do know for sure: Obama never heard a baby laughing, or a woman ♫ singing, or church bells ringing, or the sound of Freedom (which is not to be confused with The Sound of Philadelphia, which is also good). Because THOSE sounds are among the ones that are the prettiest sounds on Earth. Case closed.

Palin mocks Obama with Thanksgiving message “to All 57 States”

2010-11-26T17:31:00.001-08:00

A Thanksgiving Message to All 57 States
By Sarah Palin
http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=463364218434

My fellow Americans in all 57 states, the time has changed for come. With our country founded more than 20 centuries ago, we have much to celebrate – from the FBI’s 100 days to the reforms that bring greater inefficiencies to our health care system. We know that countries like Europe are willing to stand with us in our fight to halt the rise of privacy, and Israel is a strong friend of Israel’s. And let’s face it, everybody knows that it makes no sense that you send a kid to the emergency room for a treatable illness like asthma and they end up taking up a hospital bed. It costs, when, if you, they just gave, you gave them treatment early, and they got some treatment, and ah, a breathalyzer, or an inhalator. I mean, not a breathalyzer, ah, I don’t know what the term is in Austrian for that…

Proof the MSM’s IN BED with DEM perverts

2010-11-26T16:33:00.000-08:00

Just like the Friday before a long weekend, the Wednesday before Thanksgiving is the best day to bury news. Stories can be “lost” in the hustle bustle of holiday travel and family friend get-togethers. Which is why the sick and sordid details of two unrelated incidents weren’t released until Wednesday.

The first involved Congressman John Conyers openly “reading” a Playboy Magazine on a taxpayer-funded flight.
http://washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/2010/11/rep-john-conyers-d-mich-caught-reading-porn-public

The second concerned the undercover felony arrest of an Obama Senior Adviser Robert Decheine, age 48, on child sex charges.
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/11/former_obama_advisor_aide_to_nj_dem_arrested_on_ch.php

What do both have in common besides their stories being held back? They're Democrats.

Project “Barack Obama Green United States”

2010-11-26T16:10:00.001-08:00

This future transportation system, as envisioned by Barack Obama, proves he’s the genius he thinks he is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06Q6berM0j0

Project “Barack Obama Green United States” burns absolutely no fossil fuels nor emits any hydrocarbons -- which obviously justifies the Stimulus dollars $pent on it, not to mention the thousands of traffic cop and pit crew jobs created-or-saved. It doesn’t matter that no one still can’t go anywhere...because it's green!

Editor’s note: No polar bears were harmed during the filming of this.

More proof it IS the Ground Zero mosque...

2010-11-26T16:06:00.000-08:00

So let me get this straight: First, the landing gear from one of the planes lands farther away from the site where these Muslims want to build their mosque (but they STILL say it’s not at Ground Zero).

And now this: These Muslims apply for federal money specifically intended to help those affected by the attack at Ground Zero — but their mosque is STILL not at Ground Zero???

What the hey??? Oh, that’s right… Obama thinks it only natural that we taxpayers fund a mosque at Ground Zero because he thinks it’s HI$ money to spend and (possibly) HIS church to attend. He did say “the Muslim call to prayer is the prettiest sound on Earth.” I guess he never heard an American woman sing ♫ a good country tune…

Michael P. Meehan: “The Thug” Revisited

2010-11-26T15:39:00.000-08:00

Imagine my disgust when 33 minutes into Wednesday night's show Special Report with Bret Baier on Fox News, I see the mug of one Michael P. Meehan (aka “The Thug”) being interviewed concerning Obama’s political fortunes-to-be in 2012.

Hello?! Does Fox News even vet these people?!?

“The Thug” appears in the videos below doing what (I guess) he does best: Assaulting a reporter. Which brings us to who this guy is: Michael P. Meehan is a Democrat Neanderthal and operative with Blue Line Strategic Communications. And Blue Line is proud of the kind of work he does -- so proud in fact, they tweeted it:

“The DSCC dispatches Blue Line’s Michael Meehan to assist Coakley camp with messaging!”

Wow.

A look at Meehan’s public profile and bio both list him, ironically, as a communications and “messaging” specialist. They also highlight the campaign strategizing work done for numerous Democrats, including Kerry, Daschle, Boxer, and of course, Obama. Now that sounds like a breeding ground (cesspool?) if there ever was one!

Personally, I don’t think Michael P. Meehan aka “The Thug” should be used as a spokesman on ANY Fox News program -- unless he is FIRST IDENTIFIED as the Democrat staffer and “Thug” who knocked that nice Weekly Standard reporter down to the ground.

Otherwise, the “message” Fox News is sending is violence works. And that’s not right. Because Michael P. Meehan aka “The Thug” is no “communications specialist” -- and to give him a national voice in light of the “message” he sent out last January is just plain wrong. Case closed.

Coakley Staffer Who Attacked Reporter Is an Obama Appointee
http://biggovernment.com/mikeflynn/2010/01/13/is-coakley-staffer-who-attacked-report-an-obama-appointee/

Coakley Thug Roughs Up Reporter
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8CdfQGlgVw

Martha Coakley Thug Instigates Assault on John McCormack Full Clip
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGyIVstNTa8

Coakley staffer knocks Weekly Standard reporter to ground
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAIYOntogJs

Martha Coakley ignores assualt on reporter by staffer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_W7LEdOp2Nk

Lincoln’s Proclamation Establishing Our Thanksgiving Holiday

2010-11-25T06:33:00.003-08:00

The year that is drawing towards its close, has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come, others have been added, which are of so extraordinary a nature, that they cannot fail to penetrate and soften even the heart which is habitually insensible to the ever watchful providence of Almighty God.

In the midst of a civil war of unequalled magnitude and severity, which has sometimes seemed to foreign States to invite and to provoke their aggression, peace has been preserved with all nations, order has been maintained, the laws have been respected and obeyed, and harmony has prevailed everywhere except in the theatre of military conflict; while that theatre has been greatly contracted by the advancing armies and navies of the Union. Needful diversions of wealth and of strength from the fields of peaceful industry to the national defence, have not arrested the plough, the shuttle, or the ship; the axe had enlarged the borders of our settlements, and the mines, as well of iron and coal as of the precious metals, have yielded even more abundantly than heretofore. Population has steadily increased, notwithstanding the waste that has been made in the camp, the siege and the battle-field; and the country, rejoicing in the consciousness of augmented strength and vigor, is permitted to expect continuance of years, with large increase of freedom.

No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God, who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy.

It has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be solemnly, reverently and gratefully acknowledged as with one heart and voice by the whole American people.

I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens. And I recommend to them that while offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him for such singular deliverances and blessings, they do also, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to his tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged, and fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty Hand to heal the wounds of the nation and to restore it as soon as may be consistent with the Divine purposes to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquillity and Union.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.

Done at the city of Washington, this third day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and of the independence of the United States the eighty-eighth.

A. Lincoln

A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving

2010-11-25T06:31:00.000-08:00

http://www.hulu.com/a-charlie-brown-thanksgiving

At about the 3 minute mark, Linus speaks the truth: "Ours was the first country in the world to make a national holiday to give thanks."

And the ♫ song featured at the 7 minute mark is sung by the late great jazz pianist Vince Guaraldi.

Here's an additional video of it: "Little Birdie" ♫
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9EcmTeQ8Tw Enjoy!

Happy Thanksgiving to all!

From Geoffrey Elliott's The Abraham Lincoln Blog: Lincoln's Thanksgiving Proclamation 1863

2010-11-24T09:51:00.003-08:00

From Geoffrey Elliott's The Abraham Lincoln Blog:
Lincoln's Thanksgiving Proclamation 1863
http://abrahamlincolnblog.blogspot.com/2007/11/lincolns-thanksgiving-proclamation-1863.html

Obama's Godless Thanksgiving By Jeffrey Lord

2010-11-24T09:12:00.003-08:00

Obama's Godless Thanksgiving By Jeffrey Lord
http://spectator.org/archives/2010/11/23/obamas-godless-thanksgiving

Did Abraham Lincoln just defeat Barack Obama?

Sure, there was that economy thing and ObamaCare and, well… the usual long list that began spicing up Republican poll numbers and the final results on election day.

But the approach of the Thanksgiving holiday reminds that maybe, just maybe, the real answer to the thorough repudiation of the Obama White House can be found in, of all things, two very different presidential proclamations for Thanksgiving.

The first, which was literally the first, was signed by Abraham Lincoln on October 3, 1863.

The second, by now a standard presidential duty of Lincoln's successors, was issued by Barack Obama on November 23, 2009.

The difference? The very notable difference that has been in one form or another telegraphed to the American people by the Obama White House.

God and His connection to American values had suddenly gone missing from a Thanksgiving Proclamation by a President of the United States.

The story of Lincoln's proclamation is fairly well known. Sarah Josepha Hale, a magazine editor of the day (famous, among other things, for writing the words to the nursery rhyme Mary Had a Little Lamb) noticed that in parts of America -- New England most prominently -- Thanksgiving had been celebrated with something approaching regularity since the arrival of the Pilgrims in 1620. In other sections -- the South, for one -- the holiday was barely known if at all.

Hale was nothing if not a believer in God and the American Union, as well as being a fierce opponent of slavery. She had made it her business to advocate and get action on those symbols that celebrated America and what today is known as American exceptionalism. She is said to have raised $30,000 for the construction of the monument celebrating the battle of Bunker Hill -- and when funds were still needed went to work getting readers to donate to the cause. They did -- and the monument celebrating the first major battle of the American Revolution still stands in Boston. She was one of the first to urge the preservation of George Washington's legendary home at Mount Vernon, Virginia.

Since 1846 Hale had written editorials calling for a uniform national celebration of Thanksgiving, writing four presidents and dozens and dozens of congressmen to push her cause. Now, as America was embroiled in a ferocious Civil War where the concept of "Union" was very much in play, Hale tried again with a fifth president, Abraham Lincoln.

"Sir," briskly began this formidable editor, going on to make the case that Thanksgiving "now needs National recognition and authoritive fixation, only, to become permanently, an American custom and institution."

Lincoln responded with a Thanksgiving Proclamation on October 3, 1863. He was only a month from dedicating a cemetery to commemorate the Battle of Gettysburg, deep into both the conduct of the war while soon to deliver one of history's most famous speeches in which he would say "that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." Abraham Lincoln understood the importance of Hale's message.

Secretary of State William Seward, the one-time Lincoln rival now a devoted friend and political soul mate, wrote the draft for the proclamation. Whether Lincoln tinkered with it is unknown. Read it, approve of it -- and most importantly affix his signature to it -- he did.

Lincoln's Thanksgiving Proclamation, fixing the last Thursday of November as the official holiday, is to this day a sterling illustration of the relationship Lincoln and millions of Americans of his time -- and ours -- saw between God, religious faith, and the existence of America itself.

References to God or the Almighty and the relationship between the Creator and the idea that is America begin in the brief Lincoln Thanksgiving Proclamation's second sentence and continue throughout.

• There is an immediate nod to the "heart which is habitually insensible to the ever watchful providence of Almighty God."

• Next comes a reference to "the gracious gifts of the Most High God, who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy."

• There was an invitation: "I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens."

• Then, a recommendation: "And I recommend to them that while offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him."

• And a commendation to: "commend to His tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife."

• Lincoln wanted to make sure Americans would "implore the interposition of the Almighty Hand to heal the wounds of the nation."

• Last but not least, for America Lincoln wanted God "to restore it as soon as may be consistent with the Divine purposes to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquillity and Union."

These seven separate, repeated references to God in Lincoln's Thanksgiving Proclamation unmistakably signaled Lincoln's understanding of the core meaning of that long ago voyage of a tiny band of Pilgrims who arrived on the wintry shores of New England in November of 1620.

It was the Pilgrims, of course, who first set the course of American history with the writing of the Mayflower Compact, the first governing document of what would become the American nation. Signed on board the namesake small ship which had brought them across the cold and stormy Atlantic in search of religious freedom, the Mayflower Compact immediately acknowledged the role of God in the New World. The very first sentence set the tone that Lincoln would seek to immortalize with his Thanksgiving Proclamation 243 years later. The sentence was simple, straightforward and direct:

In the name of God, Amen.

What followed in the even shorter Compact were still more references to "the Glory of God," the "advancement of the Christian Faith," and being "in the presence of God." It was here that the connection between the idea of America and, as the later Declaration of Independence would have it, "the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God" was established. When in 1776 it came time for Thomas Jefferson and his small committee to put pen to paper in the heat of a Philadelphia summer, there were already 156 years of American tradition challenging the world to the realization that if no one else on the globe understood the connection, Americans realized of themselves "that we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of happiness."

As American history moved forward from Lincoln's Thanksgiving Proclamation, other Presidents consistently returned to the same theme, reaching out every Thanksgiving season to remind the latest generation of Americans of the nation's connection to God. Whether it was Democrats like Franklin Roosevelt or Harry Truman or John F. Kennedy, or Lincoln's Republican successors Calvin Coolidge, Dwight Eisenhower or Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush, every president made certain to underline the connection between America, Thanksgiving and the role of God.

• Franklin Roosevelt made of his 1940 Thanksgiving Proclamation a prayer, which began: "On the same day, in the same hour, let us pray: Almighty God, who hast given us this good land for our heritage; We humbly beseech Thee that we may always prove ourselves a people mindful of Thy favor and glad to do Thy will."

• Harry Truman opened his 1946 Thanksgiving Proclamation this way: "At this season, when the year is drawing to a close, tradition suggests and our hearts require that we render humble devotion to Almighty God for the mercies bestowed upon us by His goodness. Devoutly grateful to Divine Providence for the richness of our endowment and the many blessings received, may we continue to give a good account of our stewardship by utilizing our resources in the service of mankind."

• For Dwight Eisenhower the holiday was about "rendering thanks to Almighty God for the bounties of the soil and for His mercies throughout the year."

• JFK opened with a quote: "It is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord."

• Ronald Reagan's began his references to God in the third sentence of his very first Thanksgiving Proclamation: "In keeping with America's heritage, one day each year is set aside for giving thanks to God for all of His blessings."

In other words, since Abraham Lincoln began this very American tradition, all of his successors have made a point as the chief magistrate of the land of reminding Americans of the role of the Almighty in the creation of the American Republic. In consistently and unhesitatingly doing so they have highlighted the need for "thanksgiving" to variously, "God," "the Almighty," "Divine Providence" or some other formulation of a higher power.

Until, that is, the Thanksgiving Proclamation of 2009 -- the first from President Barack Obama. After a passing reference to a George Washington quote (the first President had observed "by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many and signal favors of Almighty God,") -- that's it. God does a vanishing act from the Obama Thanksgiving Proclamation. What Americans get instead are thanks to "Native Americans," the fact that Americans "observe traditions from every culture," must band together to be "serving our communities" and "have gratitude for all we have received in the past year; to express appreciation to those whose lives enrich our own; and to share our bounty with others."

To whom that gratitude should be expressed is clear. That would be anybody but God.

What is expressed is a collection of far-left politically correct idolatry, collectivism as a Thanksgiving Proclamation for (and from) the community organizer.

One can only marvel at how deeply, instinctively negative is the reaction of Americans after a mere two years of the Obama presidency. What began with such hope for so many, and in political terms solid start-off marks of presidential approval in the 70% range, has plummeted as Americans began to focus on an Obama trait dismissed during the election as a curiosity at best or at worse some sort of aberration.

Late, perhaps, but the realization of what it means to have a president sit for twenty years in the pews of a preacher whose most famous line is "God damn America!" has hit home.

For two years Americans have watched uneasily as, incident by incident images began to accumulate of a President ashamed of the traditions and culture of his own country. The traditions at the very heart of the celebratory document known as the Thanksgiving Proclamation.

This is a president who could not bring himself to acknowledge American exceptionalism, saying instead: "I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism."

He managed not once but twice to misquote the Declaration of Independence itself, saying on one of these occasions, the Hispanic Caucus Institute's Annual Awards Gala on Sept. 15: "We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal, endowed with certain inalienable rights: life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That's what makes us unique." The phrase "endowed by their Creator" simply vanished in the Obama telling. Seven days later, he did it again at a fundraiser, this time mentioning "inalienable rights" that "everybody is endowed with." Exactly who endowed "everybody" the President did not or would not say. Eventually, after questioning at a White House briefing and as things turned desperate on the campaign trail, he began using "Creator" in his speeches.

His outreach to Muslims should, under the circumstances of a post-9/11 world, not be considered extraordinary. George W. Bush reached out as well at a time when it counted. But only Obama has managed to give the impression to Americans that he actually sympathizes with the Muslim extremist hatred for America -- many believing he is in fact some sort of secret Muslim -- and that in fact he repeatedly demonstrates by word and deed that American history and its role in the world is in need of continuous apology.

All of which comes back to the hard political fact of this Thanksgiving week of 2010.

The Obama approach has just been thoroughly repudiated by Americans no longer startled but outraged by what many see as their President's shame of America. His refusal to discuss the role of God and the Almighty in his first Thanksgiving Proclamation serves as a symbol of just what has so alienated the American people from this President.

Surely the 2010 election was not lost by Democrats because of a Thanksgiving Proclamation. It was lost without doubt because whether the subject was jobs, the economy, ObamaCare, the size and role of government or America's role in the world, this administration has become the very symbol of a radical, far-left agenda so repulsed by the ideas that brought America's founding fathers to these shores that the only thing of which they are capable is silence or rage.

Thanksgiving Proclamations not being the ideal vehicle for leftist rage, silence was apparently chosen for 2009.

What will be said this week when the White House issues the second Thanksgiving Proclamation of the Age of Obama?

God only knows.

Maybe He will make a comeback to the place and position Abraham Lincoln and his successors save one understood were, in Lincoln's words, "justly due" on the "day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens."

But in a curious fashion indeed, the 2010 election was about the values of Barack Obama.

And Abraham Lincoln.

Lincoln won.

Happy Thanksgiving, America.

Source: Obama's Godless Thanksgiving By Jeffrey Lord
http://spectator.org/archives/2010/11/23/obamas-godless-thanksgiving

The 25 Best Quotes About Liberals

2010-11-24T09:09:00.000-08:00

The 25 Best Quotes About Liberals -- John Hawkins
http://townhall.com/columnists/JohnHawkins/2010/11/23/the_25_best_quotes_about_liberals/page/full/

Now, for something completely different, here are the 25 best quotes about liberals. Enjoy!

25) Whenever I read liberals reporting about the goings- on of conservatives I always get the nature-documentary vibe. A liberal reporter puts on his or her Dian Fossey hat in order to attempt to write another installment of Conservatives in the Mist. I've followed this particular brand of reporting for years, it's almost a fetish of mine. Most attempts fail. Of these lesser varieties, there's fear ("Troglodytes!"), mockery ("Irrelevant troglodytes!"), condescension ("I had to explain to them they're troglodytes."), bewilderment ("Why don't they understand they're troglodytes?"), astonishment (Dear God, they're not all troglodytes!"), and a few combinations of all the above. -- Jonah Goldberg

24) There are no bad guys on the left. There are only people who’ve been driven to desperation by conservative evil. -- Allahpundit

23) Words mean nothing to liberals. They say whatever will help advance their cause at the moment, switch talking points in a heartbeat, and then act indignant if anyone uses the exact same argument they were using five minutes ago. -- Ann Coulter

22) Inside many liberals is a totalitarian screaming to get out. They don't like to have another point of view in the room that they don't squash and the way they try to squash it is by character assassination and name calling. -- David Horowitz

21) The reason any conservative's failing is always major news is that it allows liberals to engage in their very favorite taunt: Hypocrisy! Hypocrisy is the only sin that really inflames them. Inasmuch as liberals have no morals, they can sit back and criticize other people for failing to meet the standards that liberals simply renounce. It's an intriguing strategy. By openly admitting to being philanderers, draft dodgers, liars, weasels and cowards, liberals avoid ever being hypocrites. -- Ann Coulter

20) Indiscriminateness of thought does not lead to indiscriminateness of policy. It leads the modern liberal to invariably side with evil over good, wrong over right and the behaviors that lead to failure over those that lead to success. Why? Very simply if nothing is to be recognized as better or worse than anything else then success is de facto unjust.

There is no explanation for success if nothing is better than anything else and the greater the success the greater the injustice. Conversely and for the same reason, failure is de facto proof of victimization and the greater the failure, the greater the proof of the victim is, or the greater the victimization. -- Evan Sayet

19) It was in the 1960s that the left convinced itself that there is something fascistic about patriotism and something perversely "patriotic" about running down America. Anti-Americanism -- a stand-in for hatred of Western civilization -- became the stuff of sophisticates and intellectuals as never before. Flag burners became the truest "patriots" because dissent -- not just from partisan politics, but the American project itself -- became the highest virtue. -- Jonah Goldberg

18) But all liberals only have empathy for the exact same victims -- always the ones that are represented by powerful liberal interest groups. -- Ann Coulter

17) Liberals have created, and the minority leadership has exploited, a community of dependent people, unaware of the true route to prosperity and happiness: self-reliance and self-investment. Instead, people are told that America is unjust, unfair, and full of disadvantages. They are told that their only hope is for government to fix their problems. What has happened is that generations of people have bought into this nonsense and as a result have remained hopelessly mired in poverty and despair -- because the promised solutions don't work. And they will never work -- they never have. -- Rush Limbaugh

16) One of the overriding points of Liberal Fascism is that all of the totalitarian "isms" of the left commit the fallacy of the category error. They all want the state to be something it cannot be. They passionately believe the government can love you, that the state can be your God or your church or your tribe or your parent or your village or all of these things at once. Conservatives occasionally make this mistake, libertarians never do, liberals almost always do. -- Jonah Goldberg

15) Given the religious nature and the emotional power of Leftist values, Jews and Christians on the Left often derive their values from the Left more than from their religion. -- Dennis Prager

14) When one becomes a liberal, he or she pretends to advocate tolerance, equality and peace, but hilariously, they're doing so for purely selfish reasons. It's the human equivalent of a puppy dog's face: an evolutionary tool designed to enhance survival, reproductive value and status. In short, liberalism is based on one central desire: to look cool in front of others in order to get love. Preaching tolerance makes you look cooler, than saying something like, “please lower my taxes” -- Greg Gutfeld

13) Stupidity is a luxury and you will find time and time and time and again that those who are overwhelmingly on the left are those who can afford to be. -- Evan Sayet

12) With their infernal racial set-asides, racial quotas, and race norming, liberals share many of the Klan's premises. The Klan sees the world in terms of race and ethnicity. So do liberals! Indeed, liberals and white supremacists are the only people left in America who are neurotically obsessed with race. Conservatives champion a color-blind society. -- Ann Coulter

11) If the truth is boring, civilization is irksome. The constraints inherent in civilized living are frustrating in innumerable ways. Yet those with the vision of the anointed often see these constraints as only arbitrary impositions, things from which they--and we all--can be “liberated.” The social disintegration which has followed in the wake of such liberation has seldom provoked any serious reconsideration of the whole set of assumptions--the vision--which led to such disasters. That vision is too well insulated from feedback. -- Thomas Sowell

10) Liberals claim to love gays when it allows them to vent their spleen at Republicans. But disagree with liberals and their first response is to call you gay. Liberals are gays' biggest champions on issues most gays couldn't care less about, like gay marriage or taxpayer funding of photos of men with bullwhips up their derrieres. But who has done more to out, embarrass, and destroy the lives of gay men who prefer to keep their orientation private than Democrats? Who is more intolerant of gays in the Republican Party than gays in the Democratic Party? -- Ann Coulter

9) End results that work that don't involve government threaten liberals. -- Rush Limbaugh

8) In their zeal for particular kinds of decisions to be made, those with the vision of the anointed seldom consider the nature of the process by which decisions are made. Often what they propose amounts to third-party decision making by people who pay no cost for being wrong--surely one of the least promising ways of reaching decisions satisfactory to those who must live with the consequences. -- Thomas Sowell

7) That is one reason "feelings" and "compassion" are two of the most often used liberal terms. "Character" is no longer a liberal word because it implies self-restraint. "Good and evil" are not liberal words either as they imply a moral standard beyond one's feelings. In assessing what position to take on moral or social questions, the liberal asks him or herself, "How do I feel about it?" or "How do I show the most compassion?" -- not "What is right?" or "What is wrong?" For the liberal, right and wrong are dismissed as unknowable, and every person chooses his or her own morality. -- Dennis Prager

6) In their haste to be wiser and nobler than others, the anointed have misconceived two basic issues. They seem to assume (1) that they have more knowledge than the average member of the benighted and (2) that this is the relevant comparison. The real comparison, however, is not between the knowledge possessed by the average member of the educated elite versus the average member of the general public, but rather the total direct knowledge brought to bear though social processes (the competition of the marketplace, social sorting, etc.), involving millions of people, versus the secondhand knowledge of generalities possessed by a smaller elite group. -- Thomas Sowell

5) Everyone moralizes. The suggestion that liberals aren't moralizers is so preposterous it makes it hard for me to take any of them seriously when they wax indignant about "moralizers." Almost every day, they tell us what is moral or immoral to think and to say about race, taxes, abortion — you name it. They explain it would be immoral for me to spend more of my own money on my own children when that money could be spent by government on other people’s children. In short, they think moralizing is fine. They just want to have a monopoly on the franchise. -- Jonah Goldberg

4) If you can somehow force a liberal into a point- counterpoint argument, his retorts will bear no relation to what you've said -- unless you were in fact talking about your looks, your age, your weight, your personal obsessions, or whether you are a fascist. In the famous liberal two-step, they leap from one idiotic point to the next, so you can never nail them. It's like arguing with someone with Attention Deficit Disorder. -- Ann Coulter

3) My analysis is that most faith based systems depend upon an absolute moral order. The declaration of things as absolutely evil or absolutely good, as sin or virtue, puts liberalism into a horrible position because it's founded on no judgment on anything. As a result, any faith that is seriously practiced or understood is a challenge to the politics that depend on constituencies that would rather not be told that their choices are bad and their lives are not virtuous. -- Hugh Hewitt

2) The charge is often made against the intelligentsia and other members of the anointed that their theories and the policies based on them lack common sense. But the very commonness of common sense makes it unlikely to have any appeal to the anointed. How can they be wiser and nobler than everyone else while agreeing with everyone else? -- Thomas Sowell

1) To understand the workings of American politics, you have to understand this fundamental law: Conservatives think liberals are stupid. Liberals think conservatives are evil. -- Charles Krauthammer

Source: The 25 Best Quotes About Liberals -- John Hawkins
http://townhall.com/columnists/JohnHawkins/2010/11/23/the_25_best_quotes_about_liberals/page/full/

More diplomatic "brilliance" from Team Obama

2010-11-19T11:44:00.000-08:00

We all remember the reason Obama chose Biden as his VP -- and no, it wasn't because his gaffes draw attention away from the president. It was because Biden supposedly had that "statesmanship" and "foreign policy experience" (believe it or not) that Obama didn't. (And boy he still doesn't.) Yes, we're talking about the very same Biden (you could substitute Obama here too), who as senator(s), did everything possible to lose the American war against terrorism over there, but still claimed its success as their "great achievement" -- that's the guise, er, I mean, guy(s).

Well, it seems that Biden has stepped "in it" again -- or as some say, Biden has put his foot (the one he uses to step "in it") in his mouth again. Yuk. And this time Biden's timing couldn't be worse. Because Obama is currently overseas at the NATO Summit where he's scheduled to meet privately with Afghan President Hamid Karzai -- who, according to Biden, is still a child learning how to ride a bike!
I give you this diplomatic "gem" from Vice President Biden:

"Daddy is going to start to take the training wheels off..."

Well folks, that's the (sad) state of our foreign affairs. You could say Biden's statement on "Daddy's" Afghanistan policy is condescending or embarrassing or patronizing or just plain stupid! Or all the above. But one thing we know for sure: It's not the kind of "statesmanship" or "foreign policy experience" we expect or want or need. We'll just have to wait until they take their ball and go back home to put more playing cards in their bicycle spokes and step in dog shit again.

VP Biden: 'Daddy is Going to Start to Take the Training Wheels Off'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGdmVsuSVoo

VP Biden: 'Daddy is Going to Start to Take the Training Wheels Off'
http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/11/18/biden.lkl/index.html

VP Biden: 'Daddy is Going to Start to Take the Training Wheels Off'
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2010/11/biden-on-afghanistan-daddy-is-going-to-start-to-take-the-trainings-wheels-off.html

Seven score and seven years ago: President Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, November 19th, 1863...

2010-11-19T04:33:00.000-08:00

Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, November 19th, 1863:
"Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead who struggled here have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us--that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion--that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth."

Perhaps the most famous battle of the Civil War took place at Gettysburg, PA, July 1 to July 3, 1863. At the end of the battle, the Union's Army of the Potomac had successfully repelled the second invasion of the North by the Confederacy's Army of Northern Virginia. Several months later, President Lincoln went to Gettysburg to speak at the dedication of the cemetery for the Union war dead. Speaking of a "new birth of freedom," he delivered one of the most memorable speeches in U.S. history.

At the end of the Battle of Gettysburg, more than 51,000 Confederate and Union soldiers were wounded, missing, or dead. Many of those who died were laid in makeshift graves along the battlefield. Pennsylvania Governor Andrew Curtin commissioned David Wills, an attorney, to purchase land for a proper burial site for the deceased Union soldiers. Wills acquired 17 acres for the cemetery, which was planned and designed by landscape architect William Saunders.

The cemetery was dedicated on November 19, 1863. The main speaker for the event was Edward Everett, one of the nation’s foremost orators. President Lincoln was also invited to speak “as Chief Executive of the nation, formally [to] set apart these grounds to their sacred use by a few appropriate remarks.” At the ceremony, Everett spoke for more than 2 hours; Lincoln spoke for 2 minutes.

President Lincoln had given his brief speech a lot of thought. He saw meaning in the fact that the Union victory at Gettysburg coincided with the nation’s birthday; but rather than focus on the specific battle in his remarks, he wanted to present a broad statement about the larger significance of the war. He invoked the Declaration of Independence, and its principles of liberty and equality, and he spoke of “a new birth of freedom” for the nation. In his brief address, he continued to reshape the aims of the war for the American people—transforming it from a war for Union to a war for Union and freedom. Although Lincoln expressed disappointment in the speech initially, it has come to be regarded as one of the most elegant and eloquent speeches in U.S. history.
From: Our Documents -- Gettysburg Address (1863)
http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=old&doc=36

Library of Congress -- 273 Words to a New America [video]
http://myloc.gov/Multimedia/Gettysburg.aspx

Avalon Project -- Gettysburg Address
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/gettyb.asp

The Gettysburg Address recited by actor Jeff Daniels
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4bM9geY0do

Obama’s Train Wreck of a Presidency

2010-11-17T06:19:00.000-08:00

Obama’s Train Wreck of a Presidency
By Pamela Geller
http://biggovernment.com/pgeller/2010/11/16/obamas-train-wreck-of-a-presidency/

The hits keep on coming from a train wreck of a presidency.

I just got my healthcare renewal form. My rates are up over 30% across the board, and that’s with a $5,700 deductible. This is the fruit of Barack Obama’s health care “reform,” to make healthcare affordable and accessible for everyone.

Obama really makes me sick — oops, I can’t afford to get sick.

I want a waiver — oops, I don’t know any crooked Democrats (is there any other kind?) who can fix it for me.

Who is the recipient of these goodies from this crooked administration? Unions, of course, and FOO (Friends of Obama).

Historian and finance analyst Kenneth Schortgen, Jr., notes in The Examiner that while Obama has given waivers for his new healthcare scheme to 111 corporations and other entities, the form to apply for a waiver is hard to find and harder to wade through, and:

“to receive a waiver it appears you must have political capital with the administration to be accepted. For most small businesses, you will be incurring the new taxes, fees, and programs that will add thousands to your bottom line, and in more than a few cases, might cause a small business to close their doors.”

Schortgen points out that “in March, AT&T reported from an internal study that the new Healthcare program will cost their company over $1 Billion in new and additional costs,” and that on the list of groups already granted waivers,

“unions are one of the largest entities given a waiver, and speaks to the political gifts given by the Administration to them. The Obama Presidency has proven their partnership with unions since 2008 to the detriment of small business.”

Okay, but Obama’s other policies must be in better shape, right? Wrong.

This week Ahed Khalfan Ghailani became the first detainee who has been held at Guantanamo to be tried in civilian court, under Obama’s policy of treating acts of war as law enforcement issues. Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani faces charges of conspiracy and murder in jihad bombings in Africa that killed 224 people, including twelve Americans.

Today the jury was deliberating and a verdict was expected, but one of the jurors sent the judge a note asking to be replaced, because other jury members were giving her a hard time for “her opinions.” If the jury is deadlocked, it is unlikely that prosecutors could again bring together the witnesses who testified in this trial. Bringing witnesses from Kenya and Tanzania to testify would be hard, and maybe impossible, to repeat.

How about Obama’s foreign policy? Any good news there?

Obama has vowed to defeat al-Qaeda, but this week British General Sir David Richards said that a defeat of al-Qaeda was “unnecessary and would never be achieved.”

I agree with General Sir David Richards that al-Qaeda can’t be beaten, but not for the same reasons. Clearly, if we are afraid to freely discuss the ideology and motives behind this global war on the West, then we cannot beat it. If we dare not speak its name, surely we cannot defeat it. If, instead, those who speak to the religious ideology that compels war against the “non-believers” are the ones demonized, surely it will defeat us.

Rules of engagement, political correctness, and foreign aid to our assassins make it impossible to defeat this enemy. Give me The Bush Doctrine — “you are either with us or against us” — as opposed to The Obama Doctrine, “we are against us.”

Meanwhile, the Afghan Council that is trying to end the war there has recommended that Taliban prisoners be freed from Gitmo to join peace talks back home.

The very idea that we would be releasing Taliban terrorists to join “peace” negotiations is really scary. Not for the obvious reason that upon their release they will join the Muslim army and kill our soldiers, but scary because of the fact that our “leadership” would even consider such suicidal insanity.

The idea of peace to the enemy is a “pax islamica,” a world living under the horror of Islamic law. Obama’s jihad against Israel, while effectively aiding and abetting the most violent and imperialistic Islamic supremacists, is a lethal cocktail for freedom-loving peoples.

Meanwhile, Obama is strangely silent on the case of Sayed Mossa, who is awaiting trial in Afghanistan for converting to Christianity. Apostasy (conversion out of Islam) is punishable by death in Islamic law. In a similar case back in 2006, Abdul Rahman was spared the penalty of death and granted asylum in Italy after the Bush administration intervened. President Bush and others had insisted Afghanistan protect personal beliefs.

American blood and treasure in Afghanistan…for what?

Where is President Obama? His silence is deafening and dangerous. Silence is complicity.

Tell me again why we are expending priceless blood and billions in treasure on this Sharia state. If we are not fighting this, we are wasting our time.

Domestically and internationally, Obama’s presidency has been a disaster of incalculable proportions.

Pamela Geller is the editor and publisher of the Atlas Shrugs website and is former associate publisher of the New York Observer. She is a regular columnist at Newsmax and her Op-Eds appear in the Washington Times, Human Events, the American Thinker, Israel National News, and other publications.
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/

"King" Obama and his "transparency"

2010-11-15T05:44:00.000-08:00

"The Obama Administration has already handed out 111 ObamaCare waivers to US companies... And, they're hiding this from the American public. It takes 6 clicks to find out this information on the Health Care website. Unfortunately, if you're a small business or don't have connections you can't get a waiver for your company. That's the new reality under the Obama-Pelosi regime."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96Uu_tI0hTw

Does one need more proof that Obama thinks he's "King"???
I don't think so...

And the Obama promise of "transparency" is six clicks away???
Of course it is.

That's why ObamaCare must be defunded, repealed and replaced.
Case closed.

Obama and Fort Hood: Remember this???

2010-11-15T05:33:00.000-08:00

Remember this???
This is what NBC's Robert George said about Obama's initial response to the Fort Hood massacre:
After news broke out of the shooting at the Fort Hood Army post in Texas, the nation watched in horror as the toll of dead and injured climbed. The White House was notified immediately and by late afternoon, word went out that the president would speak about the incident... But instead of a somber chief executive offering reassuring words and expressions of sympathy and compassion, viewers saw a wildly disconnected and inappropriately light president making introductory remarks [that included] a "shout-out to Joe 'Medicine' Crow." http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/politics/A-Disconnected-President.html

Remember this???
"Who's Twisted Logic???" When Obama spoke about "the tragedy" [his words] at Fort Hood, he blamed “Twisted Logic” -- because Obama couldn't bring himself to face the facts of who the murderer was. Because he was a Muslim. http://www.breitbart.tv/live-coverage-thousands-gather-for-memorial-service-at-fort-hood/

Remember this???
Nidal Malik Hasan took FOURTEEN innocent lives. The terrorist also killed the unborn child of Francheska Velez -- a fact lost on Obama who went to Fort Hood to "honor the 13 dead." As Velez lay dying, her last words were, "My baby! My baby!"

Talk about your vicious circles...

2010-11-15T05:21:00.000-08:00

Re: Democrat Charles "Cholly" Rangel raids PACs for $393,000
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/rangel_raided_pacs_for_ZlQ9s68r9cadmFBXvTeq1K

Let me get this straight: "Cholly" breaks the House ethics rules to fund his own defense against breaking the House ethics rule. Huh?!? Does anyone else have a problem with this???

Talk about your vicious circles...

Happy Veterans Day!

2010-11-11T07:33:00.001-08:00

This song is dedicated to all members of The United States Armed Forces...past, present, and future:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTs6a0ORdQU
http://www.youtube.com/user/TheWarriorProject

The Veteran...

2010-11-11T07:31:00.001-08:00

The Veteran, not the community organizer, gave us freedom to assemble.
The Veteran, not the reporter, gave us freedom of the press.
The Veteran, not the preacher, gave us freedom of religion.
The Veteran, not the lawyer, gave us the right to a fair trial.
The Veteran, not the politician, gave us the right to vote.
The Veteran, not the poet, gave us freedom of speech.
The Veteran salutes the Flag.
And the Veteran serves and is buried under the Flag.

To the members of The United States Armed Forces, past, present, and future: May God Bless you all.

Democrats say Obama needs another Oklahoma City bombing to “reconnect” and “click” with the country

2010-11-08T11:11:00.001-08:00

Sources:
Dem: Obama Needs Another Oklahoma City Bombing to Reconnect
http://www.eyeblast.tv/public/checker.aspx?v=hdSUkUkUpr
http://www.breitbart.tv/dem-pollster-obama-needs-another-oklahoma-city-bombing-to-reconnect/
http://biggovernment.com/eyeblasttv/2010/11/05/dem-pollster-obama-needs-another-oklahoma-city-bombing-to-reconnect/

Mark Penn Says Obama Needs Another Oklahoma City Bombing To 'Click' With The Country
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_0Ixm21tn8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjO6NFLLE04

Obama faces growing credibility crisis [Robert Shapiro quote]
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/434315b2-8ea6-11df-8a67-00144feab49a.html
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2552182/posts

Note: I realize these links are redundant, but this is my response to the nefariousness of the Left in already removing many links to the story as they previously existed.

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Democrat strategist and Clinton adviser Mark Penn recently appeared on MSNBC’s Hardball to say that “Obama needs a similar” event like the Oklahoma City bombing to “reconnect” and “click” with the American people.

Seriously.

And Penn is NOT THE FIRST Clintonite to propose this.

In July, Democrat strategist and Clinton adviser Robert Shapiro also suggested the same when he said, “The bottom line here is that Americans don’t believe in President Obama’s leadership. He has to find some way between now and November of demonstrating that he is a leader who can command confidence and, short of a 9/11 event or an Oklahoma City bombing, I can’t think of how he could do that.”

My first response to these statements is God Forbid something like that ever happens again.

My next response is to ask, “Where in the Hell do people like this come from?!”

Seriously.

“Hell?!?”

Re: ObamaCare

2010-11-08T10:55:00.000-08:00

Defund it!
Repeal it!
Replace it!
No compromises!
Shove ObamaCare barack down Obama's throat!!!

Palin to Bernanke: ‘Cease and Desist’

2010-11-08T10:36:00.000-08:00

Palin to Bernanke: ‘Cease and Desist’
By Robert Costa
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/252715/palin-bernanke-cease-and-desist-robert-costa

As President Obama prepares for the G20 summit in South Korea this week, Sarah Palin is challenging the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy, which will likely be a key issue at the talks. On Monday, in a keynote address at a trade-association convention in Phoenix, Palin will urge Fed chairman Ben Bernanke to “cease and desist” his “pump priming.” The United States, she says, “shouldn’t be playing around with inflation.”

Here are snippets from Palin’s prepared remarks obtained by National Review Online:

I’m deeply concerned about the Federal Reserve’s plans to buy up anywhere from $600 billion to as much as $1 trillion of government securities. The technical term for it is “quantitative easing.” It means our government is pumping money into the banking system by buying up treasury bonds. And where, you may ask, are we getting the money to pay for all this? We’re printing it out of thin air.

The Fed hopes doing this may buy us a little temporary economic growth by supplying banks with extra cash which they could then lend out to businesses. But it’s far from certain this will even work. After all, the problem isn’t that banks don’t have enough cash on hand – it’s that they don’t want to lend it out, because they don’t trust the current economic climate.

And if it doesn’t work, what do we do then? Print even more money? What’s the end game here? Where will all this money printing on an unprecedented scale take us? Do we have any guarantees that QE2 won’t be followed by QE3, 4, and 5, until eventually – inevitably – no one will want to buy our debt anymore? What happens if the Fed becomes not just the buyer of last resort, but the buyer of only resort?

All this pump priming will come at a serious price. And I mean that literally: everyone who ever goes out shopping for groceries knows that prices have risen significantly over the past year or so. Pump priming would push them even higher. And it’s not just groceries. Oil recently hit a six month high, at more than $87 a barrel. The weak dollar – a direct result of the Fed’s decision to dump more dollars onto the market – is pushing oil prices upwards. That’s like an extra tax on earnings. And the worst part of it: because the Obama White House refuses to open up our offshore and onshore oil reserves for exploration, most of that money will go directly to foreign regimes who don’t have America’s best interests at heart.

We shouldn’t be playing around with inflation. It’s not for nothing Reagan called it “as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber, and as deadly as a hit man.” The Fed’s pump priming addiction has got our small businesses running scared, and our allies worried. The German finance minister called the Fed’s proposals “clueless.” When Germany, a country that knows a thing or two about the dangers of inflation, warns us to think again, maybe it’s time for Chairman Bernanke to cease and desist. We don’t want temporary, artificial economic growth bought at the expense of permanently higher inflation which will erode the value of our incomes and our savings. We want a stable dollar combined with real economic reform. It’s the only way we can get our economy back on the right track.

Obama joined Muslim prayers at school

2010-11-08T10:30:00.000-08:00

As a schoolboy in Jakarta, Barack Obama attended Muslim prayer sessions with his classmates against the wishes of his mother.

The US President's former grade three teacher said that Mr Obama - who was known as "Barry" when he attended the Menteng One school in Jakarta - studied the Koran and went to classes on Islam, despite the objections of Ann Dunham, a Catholic.

The teacher's recollections will add to speculation about Mr Obama's links to Islam during his much-anticipated visit to Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation, as part of his ten-day tour of Asia.

His middle name, Hussein, and the fact that his stepfather was a Muslim, have combined to perpetuate rumours about Mr Obama's religious leanings. The number of Americans who think that he is a Muslim has grown since his inauguration to one in five.

Mr Obama moved to Indonesia with his mother and Indonesian stepfather, Lolo Soetoro, when he was 6, and lived there for four years. In his memoirs he recalled his time in the country as the "bounty of a young man's life" and there is affection and pride among Indonesians for the boy who ended up as President of the United States.

The teacher, Effendi, who taught at Menteng One for 29 years, remembers Mr Obama as a "fat, curly-haired, curious boy". The school had an international mix of pupils, including Christians, Hindus, Buddhists and Muslims.

Mr Obama attended classes on Islam while the Christians attended classes on Christianity, said Effendi. Barry, he said, was alone among the pupils in that he insisted on attending both.

"His mother did not like him learning Islam, although his father was a Muslim. Sometimes she came to the school; she was angry with the religious teacher and said 'Why did you teach him the Koran?'" said Effendi.

"But he kept going to the classes because he was interested in Islam. He would also join the other pupils for Muslim prayers."

Questions over Mr Obama's religion were fuelled, in part, by comments about his Muslim roots made by Hillary Clinton during the Democratic party leadership campaign.

The conservative American media took the speculation further by claiming that Mr Obama attended a madrassa - Islamic school - as a child. Mr Obama's former classmates, however, have dismissed the claims as nonsense.

The US President - who has cancelled a scheduled trip to Indonesia twice before - may be stymied again by air traffic disruption caused by an ash cloud emitted from Mount Merapi.

The volcano has been erupting since October 26, killing at least 117 people.

Mr Obama is due to arrive in Jakarta tomorrow after three days in India.

A third cancellation would not be welcomed in Indonesia, where some offence has already been taken at the brevity of the visit.

The homecoming anticipated so keenly by Indonesians has been reduced to less than 24 hours; the shortest amount of time he will spend in any country on the Asia itinerary.

Pupils at Menteng One, who have been rehearsing songs and dances for more than a year, will be particularly disappointed.

Their headmistress has not yet had the heart to tell them that Mr Obama will not, after all, visit their school.

"When I told them in March that he had cancelled his trip again some of the children cried and asked why?" HJ Hasimah said. "I don't know what I will tell them this time."

Source: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/barack-obama-joined-muslim-prayers-at-school-teacher-says/story-e6frg6so-1225949239614

“What has Obama done?”

2010-11-08T10:09:00.000-08:00

"The Forgotten Man" -- By artist Jon McNaughton
http://www.mcnaughtonart.com/artwork/view_zoom/?artpiece_id=379

“What has Obama done? Against the background of a darkening sky, all of the past Presidents of the United States gather before the White House, as if to commemorate some great event. In the left hand corner of the painting sits a man. That man, with his head bowed appears distraught and hopeless as he contemplates his future. Some of the past Presidents try to console him while looking in the direction of the modern Presidents as if to say, "What have you done?" Many of these modern Presidents, seemingly oblivious to anything other than themselves, appear to be congratulating each other on their great accomplishments. In front of the man, paper trash is blowing in the wind. Crumpled dollar bills, legislative documents, and, like a whisper—the U.S. Constitution beneath the foot of Barack Obama.”

Jon McNaughton -- The unconstitutional actions of Barack Obama: http://www.mcnaughtonart.com/artwork/what_has_obama_done

YouTube - The Forgotten Man - Jon McNaughton
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KGlBHyVeYU

An Open Letter to President Obama from Charlie Daniels

2010-11-08T06:19:00.003-08:00

An Open Letter to President Obama from Charlie Daniels
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/charlie-daniels/2010/09/24/open-letter-president-obama#ixzz10mVDp1Vy

I write this letter as a patriot, a taxpayer, a lifelong resident and as concerned citizen of what I consider to be the greatest nation ever known to man, the United States of America.

I am Caucasian, so let's get the racial aspect out of the way to start with. This letter has nothing to do with your race. I lived through the cruelty of Jim Crow and segregation and learned early on in my life that the color of my skin does not make me better or worse than any other man.

We all remember Martin Luther King, Jr.'s statement about judging people, not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character, and I believe that with all my heart.

I believe that America is an exceptional country. We have been liberator, benefactor and leader of the free world for centuries. America is an example of what can be achieved by free people living under the free enterprise system.

We have led the world in technology, industry, science and medicine for a long time.

Our capitalist system guarantees that those who explore new worlds and bring us new products and better techniques are amply rewarded for their efforts, and this is as it should be.

A person who is the first one to get there and the last one to leave, who burns the midnight oil and never gives up until they realize their goals, are a boon to humankind. They're the ones who discover new cures, start new industries and create jobs.

These people deserve to be rewarded for their hard work and for the products and services they bring to make life better for all mankind.

Mr. President, it is my personal opinion that you want to take the well-earned rewards of these people and give it to those who have done nothing to deserve them.

It's really redistribution of wealth, and it's nothing new. It's been tried many places before and it has miserably failed in every one of them.

It's called socialism.

Am I calling you a socialist? Yes, I am. I firmly believe that you are a socialist and a globalist, and that you think America should have a comeuppance and have our playing field leveled to match those of other countries not as industrious or as innovative as we are.

Mr. President, how can you support the building of a mosque in the very same area where Islamic radicals murdered so many Americans?

Just who's side are you on?

Am I accusing you of being a Muslim? No I'm not, but the jury is still out a little bit on that subject in my mind, because many times your sympathies seem to lean in that direction. You need to watch who you bow to Mr. President.

You have betrayed a whole generation of African-Americans who voted for you because they really believed all that junk about "hope and change," they really thought you were going to do something great and the only thing you've done is to make their jobs disappear and their health insurance go up.

You and your party have corrupted duly elected officials in an effort to get your legislative agenda passed. Remember the "Louisiana Purchase" and the "Cornhusker Kickback," and that's just a couple we know about, but you bought off a bunch of congressmen and senators, knowing that you were going against the will of the majority of Americans, because you think that you and your arrogant friends know more about what's good for America than the citizens your disastrous actions effect.

Am I accusing you of being an elitist? You bet.

I don't believe you take the Islamic threat to America nearly as seriously as you should. You use semantics like "Overseas Contingency Operation" and "Man Caused Disasters" to soften your rhetoric toward people who would like nothing better than decapitate the entire population of America.

And Mr. President, if you'd really like to know the kind of warriors who are fighting the "Overseas Contingency Operation," and you would like to really know about what kind of enemies they're fighting, you should read a book called Lone Survivor by a brave, young Navy Seal named Marcus Lutrell who went to hell and back for his country, and is still a dedicated patriot. I think you'd find it enlightening, Mr. President and after you finish it would you pass it on to Janet Napolitano? And by the way, tell her that my invitation to take her to Iraq and show her some "Man Caused Disasters" is still open.

Am I calling you naïve? Absolutely.

You seem to think that America has an endless supply of tax dollars for you to waste and give away, and the debt you've piled up could well bankrupt the greatest nation on earth.

Am I calling you a failure, Mr. President? With all due respect that's exactly what I'm doing.

—Charlie Daniels is an award-winning country musician. His latest album is called "Land That I Love"

Who am I???

2010-11-07T21:00:00.001-08:00

Who am I???
I'm just one American who sees RIGHT through the person who's pictured here on the left:
http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1662530_1446035,00.html

Why I quit... Desert Storm vet explains decision to leave Air Force after 22 years

2010-11-07T20:22:00.000-08:00

By MIKE BANZET
From DailyInterLake.com -- Northwest Montana's News Source
http://www.dailyinterlake.com/article_dbcfb820-e9f6-11df-9f3f-001cc4c002e0.html

I never expected to write this letter, but my Mom e-mailed me to get information about my career for a writeup on Veterans Day, and as this is the first such holiday in 22 years when I will not be on active duty, I felt compelled to let you know why I decided to quit.

Quit is a strong word, I know. Everyone I’ve talked to has repeated that I’ve had a marvelous career and that I’ve retired with honor. Maybe that’s true on paper; I guess that it’s reflected by the record. But that’s not how I feel. I feel like I’ve quit. And because I’m not a quitter, I feel I have to explain why — not that anyone is asking, but because perhaps they don’t know to ask.

Briefly, my career had been a representation of the promise of this country. Starting out on the lowest rung of the rank ladder as an F-4G Wild Weasel crew chief, continuing on F-16s and the F-117A Stealth fighter in Desert Storm, then a small part of Desert Fox as a nuclear Maintenance Officer and finally a pilot that took part in numerous deployments in Southern Watch, Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom. I finished up an awesome year on the ground in Iraq, and was selected to receive a coveted “Definitely Promote,” assuring me of promotion to lieutenant colonel. They don’t pass out many of those. My dreams were right in front of me. All I had to do was grab them. And then I retired. Why?

Atlas Shrugged.

I had chosen, freely, to place my life between those that would do harm to the U.S. and those whom I would protect: her citizens. I had always believed in the best of America and the people of her lands; that despite occasional missteps there was a general “rightness” to our way. I lived that belief for 22 years, leading and following warriors into combat. I’m certainly no war hero; my brothers in arms have seen far more combat, more intense and personal than I. But I have become acquainted with death in a way that I hope you never do. My last tour, on the ground in Iraq was where my heart started to be hardened towards you, the electorate, and culminated in this letter, written two days before our elections. And here’s why.

You’ve elected officials who, for partisan points, spoke openly that the “…war is lost.” I happened to be in a dining facility in Baghdad that day, filled with the (mostly) young faces of (mostly) Army men and women. CNN was on the TVs, and things got very quiet when this elected official continued on, railing that the mission that some of these very people were here to do, had “…failed.” Yet, they would be donning their body armor, strapping on med kits and weapons, mounting HMMVs or MRAPs and heading outside the wire, ensuring that the newborn democracy in Iraq, purchased with so many lives, would be safe another night. The newly re-invigorated insurgents would be waiting, teeth bared back in a hateful smile, gripping the IED detonator, the RPG launcher, or the AK-47s to ply their trade with new energy, because the Senate Majority Leader had said they were winning.

You elected officials who continually defame and berate military members, whether it is the observation that if you’re not too bright, you’ll get “…stuck in Iraq” (this from a guy who has two Purple Hearts for self-inflicted wounds, and known for throwing someone else’s medals away in protest), or the calling of combat Marines cold-blooded killers (in a war; before trial). You’ve elected officials in the role of commander-in-chief who “loathe” the military, while using ROTC deferments and special treatment to avoid military service that the less “connected” take as a responsibility. On the basis of “change,” you elected someone who had close, ongoing associations with people who were part of an organization that tried to kill us [U.S. military] on our own soil.

You elected officials that promised to take property from some Americans, and give it to you, merely because they had more than you did. Those Americans that these officials have labeled as the “rich” are your neighbors, who provide jobs and pay far more in taxes than you ever will. That means they are already subsidizing your lifestyle choices; you just want more of their property without the responsibility of risking your wealth and labor to get it. You would rather hire someone to take it from them. And you have.

Yet these same officials from this same party are the wealthiest group of people in both the House and Senate. They have offshore accounts, forbid unions in their businesses and use every tax loophole they can find with their armies of accountants. But you keep sending them back to those jobs, because they promise to steal from some Americans and give to you.

You elect officials who openly embrace illegal activity; but they don’t have to live with the consequences. Other Americans pay the price. You support “sanctuary cities” and open defiance of federal law, including supporting administrations who sue our sister states as they desperately try to control a crime epidemic by supporting federal law. You support an administration that leads a party that gives a standing ovation to the leader of a country that exploits our kindness and actively encourages law-breaking in our country while insulting our fellow citizens who dare to try to enforce the law. Check out your elected officials; did they stand and applaud the racist diatribe of the president of Mexico? Did they join the attorney general and the head of Homeland Security in applauding this gaping hole in (homeland) security and law? Do you have locks on your doors? Why?

You elect officials who are openly racist, decrying that “White folks’ greed drives a world in need…” and that their own grandmother was a “…typical white person.” Someone who sits in admiration as their pastor (small p; no capital letters for racists), in a church he attended for 20 years, slanders the United States as the “…U.S. of KKK America” and delights that the 9/11 “…chickens have come home to roost.” Someone who refused to denounce a paramilitary, racist organization that placed its members in front of polling places armed with billy clubs, and yelling racist, threatening epithets. On video. And the Attorney General did nothing.

Oh, wait. The Justice Department is now apparently, under sworn testimony, the Department of Racial Payback. And you continue to support the party that supports this blatantly racist behavior because they say that they will stick it to “the man” on your behalf. A Nation of Cowards? I don’t think so; the courage of this breathtaking racism is without equal in modern times. One would think that you would use your votes to eradicate these racist policies from the U.S. But that assumes eradicating racism is your aim. It’s not, or you would be as incensed at this blatant racism as you would if sheet-covered whites were there. But longtime Democratic Sen. Robert Byrd’s old gang has been rightfully disgraced and shamed into a virtual non-existence. Thank goodness that 52 percent of you discourage that kind of behavior.

But you don’t. You support the tactic of using the epithet of “racist” as the cudgel of choice for racists who don’t like policies that conservatives advocate. Don’t like illegal activity? Racist. Your party insists that to provide a photo ID — proving you are who you say you are — is not only too much of a burden to ask a voter to bear, but it’s racist as well. This not only terribly insulting to all races, but when the burden of proof to rent the DVD “Second Hand Lions” (amazing movie!) is higher than that required to vote for someone who has control of nuclear weapons or deploying men and women into harm’s way, there is something wrong.

It doesn’t end there. Don’t like a particular female’s policies? Sexist. Yet, you support politicians who prey on 20-year old interns, seduce underage male interns, and, as a double bonus, support a person for the Supreme Court who says she is “wiser” than white people because of her race and sex. And any opponent of hers must be sexist and racist. Yet the prevailing double standard makes “bitch” an acceptable term for a conservative grandmother with the temerity to want to stop illegal activity. And “whore” is acceptable terminology for any conservative woman.

Sarah Palin seems to be a nice person, the kind you would love to have as a neighbor, regardless of her policies; but you insist that she is stupid and vile. She is ignorant and inexperienced, clearly not ready for anything, as holding a variety of elected and appointed positions culminating in the governorship of Alaska clearly doesn’t hold up against… an organizer of race-based communities. Sexist, if a conservative said those words about a liberal, but because she is not pro-killing-little-kids, 52 percent of you decided she was worth vicious ad hominem attacks that continue to this day. Not just saying that you disagree, but saying she is evil. You support it all. All because the folks that practice this abhorrent behavior promise to give you free health care stolen from other Americans who haven’t paid their ill-defined “fair share.”

My oath was this: “I, Mike, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God.”

I took that oath seriously. But you have responsibilities, too. You should take them seriously.

———

Mike Banzet, a retired major in the U.S. Air Force, is a 1986 graduate of Flathead High School in Kalispell, Montana.

Barb Boxer’s Indian Tribe Take by Rick Manning

2010-10-31T18:55:00.000-07:00

Barb Boxer’s Indian Tribe Take by Rick Manning
10/30/10 08:55 AM ET
http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/lawmaker-news/126619-barb-boxers-indian-tribe-take

For the past 10 years Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) has been playing a game that would make Jack Abramoff blush, a game that can best be described using the language of “Get Smart’s” Maxwell Smart as “the ole family-profiting-off-of-the-Indian-tribe-that-you-created trick.”

Here’s the story.

In 1998, Lynn Woolsey introduced legislation reinstating an Indian tribe in the wine country of Northern California that had been declared defunct by the Bureau of Indian Affairs in 1958. None of the Indians of the tribe objected at that time; they received a payment and went about their lives. The Woolsey bill would reinstate the tribe but specifically prohibited them from starting a casino. The legislation ran into trouble when the Bureau of Indian Affairs opposed the legislation because it had not seen any evidence that the tribe was significantly tied to the terminated tribe.

In 2000, Boxer helpfully picked up the Woolsey bill, but changed the prohibition against gaming, and designated any land that the group owned to be considered as a reservation.

In the same year, Boxer got her language into the Omnibus Indian Advancement Act of 2000, and with the changes unbeknownst to either fellow Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D) or House sponsor Woolsey (D), the bill was signed into law by then-President Clinton.

That’s when the game got interesting.

Shortly after passage, the newly minted Indian tribe declared that after much soul-searching, the only thing it could do was open a casino on the outskirts of San Francisco in the town of Rohnert Park.

The tribe turned its fortunes over to two firms to make its dreams of wealth come true — Platinum Advisers, a political consulting/lobbying firm, and Kenwood Investments 2. Amazingly, and I’m certain quite coincidentally, Barbara Boxer’s son, Doug, was a partner in each firm.

To avoid immediate citizen concern about a casino popping up in their posh neighborhood, Doug Boxer’s Kenwood Investments 2 kindly fronted for the casino interests in purchasing a tract of land in Rohnert Park, as well as helpfully taking options on adjoining parcels of land for themselves to sweeten the pot. (Can I say pot and Sonoma County, Calif., in the same breath?)

Then Platinum Advisers sprang into action to try to gain community support for the casino. They apparently didn’t do a very good job, because the casino still is not built 10 years later.

According to Reference.com, Doug Boxer’s take from the project was a very Abramoff-like $8 million.

What makes the story timely is that the federal government just a couple of weeks ago was compelled to declare the land that Boxer’s son had purchased on behalf of the Indian casino a reservation, effectively killing the local zoning and lawsuits that had tied the project up in knots for most of the past decade.

The Santa Rosa Press Democrat rightly pinned the federal decision right on the Senate Ethics Committee chairwoman’s doorstep by pointing out that since she used the word shall, rather than may, in the legislation that birthed this tribe, the federal government had no choice but to declare the property that the tribe subsequently purchased to be tribal lands.

Of course, my favorite part of this story is the poor bedraggled, downtrodden Indian chief, Greg Sarris. You see, poor Greg Sarris is a Ph.D. who has served as a professor at the University of California at Los Angeles.

Dr. Chief Sarris, according to his own biographical story, was adopted out when he was born, never meeting his natural parents. At some point in his life, like many who have been adopted, he wanted to know about his birth parents, and began to research. He discovered that his mother was deceased, and his father’s name was unlisted on the birth certificate. His mother was not a Native American.

Just so this tale is believable, I am now directly quoting Sarris’s bio from Reference.com. According to Sarris in Mabel McKay (a book he wrote), Bunny (his mother) claimed that the father of her baby was a Mexican stablehand who worked where she kept her horse, but her brother disputed this (based on Sarris’s looks) and suggested that the father was more likely to have been a boy called Emilio. Sarris describes looking through yearbooks from his mother’s school to locate him:

“Then I saw it. The name, Emilio Hilario. I looked at the picture and saw my face. Darker, yes. But my face all the same. I ended up interviewing over twenty people, and yes, they confirmed that Emilio was my father. Other girls had gotten pregnant from him also. ‘Oh, your mother loved him so, even as wild as he was,’ her best friend told me.” — Mabel McKay. p. 142.

To make a long story somewhat shorter, Sarris located the Filipino father of Emilio, who said that Emilio’s mother’s father had some Indian ancestry, and so Sarris adopted his “father’s mother’s” heritage and proceeded to regenerate an Indian tribe.

And that, boys and girls, is the abridged story of how you create an Indian tribe and profit off of it in six easy steps. Isn’t it nice to have a Senate Ethics Committee chairwoman who is so skillful at playing the game?

Manning is a native Californian and a Fairfax, Va.-based political communications professional.

Sources:
Barb Boxer's Indian tribe take -- The Hill's Pundits Blog
http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/lawmaker-news/126619-barb-boxers-indian-tribe-take

Greg_sarris encyclopedia topics -- Reference.com
http://www.reference.com/browse/wiki/Greg_Sarris

Rohnert Park casino bill tarnishes Boxer's green image -- PressDemocrat.com
http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20101012/OPINION/101019928?p=all&tc=pgall

Boxer’s sweetheart deal with reinstated Indian tribe « Hot Air
http://hotair.com/archives/2010/10/30/boxers-sweetheart-deal-with-reinstated-indian-tribe/

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Obama is Despicable and Disgusting...CUBED!!!

2010-10-26T11:00:00.001-07:00

Reposted again because it's THAT despicable and disgusting...

Is it just me or is Obama intentionally evoking racial imagery with his “sit in the back” of the bus rhetoric???
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101025/ap_on_el_pr/us_obama

The self-proclaimed “post-racial” president is now the MOST racial president -- and certainly the most divisive! Americans now know Obama will say or do ANYTHING for a vote -- including ratcheting up his rhetoric and stirring his pot of Hate. Despicable AND Disgusting!

Next thing you know, Obama will incite his Democrat comrades to “punish our enemies” -- oh wait, Obama did that just yesterday! SERIOUSLY!!! And Obama wasn’t talking Al-Qaeda or the Taliban -- Obama is telling his supporters to “punish” fellow Americans who are on the other side of a POLITICAL aisle!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAhwTQ784IY

Like I said: Obama is Despicable and Disgusting...CUBED!!!

A Dem legacy of disrespect to America

2010-10-26T09:55:00.000-07:00

As far as many Americans are concerned, League of Womens Voters moderator Kathy Tate-Bradish is verrry wrong in this video here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PXYKZj7P6o

I mean who would stridently reject to reciting The American Pledge of Allegiance??? How 'bout a Liberal Dem and ex-ACORN scumbag, that's who! And she who worships Obama!

I imagine Kathy Tate-Bradish fell in love with Barack Obama that September day at Tom Harkin's Iowa Steak Fry when then-Senator Obama REFUSED to put his hand over where his heart should be during our National Anthem:
http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1662530_1446035,00.html

Two peas in a pod: Kathy Tate-Bradish and Obama.
D is for Disgusting...AND DESPICABLE!!!

Obama is despicable SQUARED!

2010-10-26T08:44:00.000-07:00

Is it just me or is Obama intentionally evoking racial imagery with his “sit in the back” of the bus rhetoric???
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101025/ap_on_el_pr/us_obama

The self-proclaimed “post-racial” president is now the MOST racial president -- and certainly the most divisive! Americans now know Obama will say or do ANYTHING for a vote -- including ratcheting up his rhetoric and politics of Hate. Despicable!

Next thing you know, Obama will incite his Democrat comrades to “punish our enemies” -- oh wait, Obama did that just yesterday! SERIOUSLY!!! And Obama wasn’t talking Al-Qaeda or the Taliban -- Obama is telling his Dem base to “punish” fellow Americans on the other side of the aisle! Like I said: Obama is despicable SQUARED!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAhwTQ784IY

UNFORGIVABLE!!!

2010-09-30T15:16:00.000-07:00

I don't care how Obama spins this -- this is unforgivable!!!
The family of Medal of Honor recipient Vernon Baker was denied access to the White House's West Wing a day after the World War II hero was buried at Arlington National Cemetery. And the reason??? Baker's grandson was wearing a T-shirt . . . with a picture of his grandfather on it!

KTVB.com, Boise, Idaho news:
Medal of Honor recipient's family turned away at White House
http://www.ktvb.com/news/Medal-of-Honor-recipients-family-turned-away-at-White-House-104032604.html

Bob Beckel is despicable!

2010-09-30T14:11:00.000-07:00

Unfortunately, what got lost in the recent exchange between Pamela Geller and the despicable Bob Beckel was him not having to follow-up his despicable statement that, “We have to get over 9/11.” Then again, maybe that's why Bob Beckel attacked her. Like I said, “Bob Beckel is despicable.”

ps- Say that three times fast...and don't stop.

Thug Beckel Threatens Pam Geller on Fox Business Network
http://bigjournalism.com/jdunetz/2010/09/28/thug-beckel-threatens-pam-geller-on-fox-business-network/

Beckel threatens Pam Geller
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgHaJgoh0qs

Disgusting...

2010-09-26T05:33:00.000-07:00

I am disgusted with a so-called “Commander-in-Chief” who sends Americans to fight a war he has absolutely NO intention of winning...

From Steve Luxenberg, Washington Post Staff Writer:
According to Bob Woodward's meeting-by-meeting, memo-by-memo account of the 2009 Afghan strategy review, the president avoided talk of victory as he described his objectives. “This needs to be a plan about how we're going to hand it off and get out of Afghanistan,” Obama is quoted as telling White House aides as he laid out his reasons for adding 30,000 troops in a short-term escalation. “Everything we're doing has to be focused on how we're going to get to the point where we can reduce our footprint. It's in our national security interest. There cannot be any wiggle room.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/21/AR2010092106706_pf.html

From Toby Harnden, US editor of The Daily Telegraph:
“A president has no more solemn duty than that of being commander-in-chief. And judging from the evidence presented by Woodward, Barack Obama's view of that role is at best disquieting. Nearly 100,000 American troops are now committed to Afghanistan but Obama's principal war aim is to withdraw and his main preoccupation is how the conflict plays domestically, particularly within his own Democratic party.”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/8024846/Barack-Obama-the-Great-Unravelling-of-a-One-Term-President.html

Exactly! So I'll say it again:
I am DISGUSTED with a so-called “Commander-in-Chief” who sends Americans to fight a war he has absolutely NO intention of winning.

“Obama” and “cocaine”...

2010-09-19T10:59:00.000-07:00

Search “Obama” and “cocaine” using Google and NO suggestions will appear...ever. I figured both words would appear as suggestions after typing “Obama” and “cocai” -- they never did -- even after typing them out completely. Also, most search results have nothing to do with Obama's self-admitted cocaine use. They're about him signing some law targeting cocaine users. How's that for irony? And media manipulation?!

Obama has put Orwell's famous quote into practice:
“Whoever controls the image and information of the past determines what and how future generations will think; whoever controls the information and images of the present determines how those same people will view the past.”
~ From George Orwell‘s Nineteen Eighty-Four.

Effect of Obama's Candor Remains to Be Seen
Senator Admitted Trying Cocaine in a Memoir Written 11 Years Ago
By Lois Romano
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, January 3, 2007
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/02/AR2007010201359.html

Obama's Cocaine Confessional Won't 'Blow' His Chances
Obama's Indiscretions Will Add to His Appeal
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/BothSidesAllSides/story?id=2773754&page=1

Coming September 16th - 17th, 2010: Constitution Day Celebration Live Webcast!

2010-09-13T11:44:00.000-07:00

Coming September 16th - 17th, 2010:
Constitution Day Celebration Live Webcast!
Register here: http://www.avwebcasting.com/hillsdale/register.php

Hillsdale College's First Annual Constitution Day Colloquium --
A live webcast sponsored by the Allan P. Kirby, Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship
http://www.avwebcasting.com/hillsdale/CDC_Agenda.pdf

The Forgotten Man by Jon McNaughton

2010-09-13T11:33:00.000-07:00

“What has President Obama done?”

“Against the background of a darkening sky, all of the past Presidents of the United States gather before the White House, as if to commemorate some great event. In the left hand corner of the painting sits a man. That man, with his head bowed appears distraught and hopeless as he contemplates his future. Some of the past Presidents try to console him while looking in the direction of the modern Presidents as if to say, "What have you done?" Many of these modern Presidents, seemingly oblivious to anything other than themselves, appear to be congratulating each other on their great accomplishments. In front of the man, paper trash is blowing in the wind. Crumpled dollar bills, legislative documents, and, like a whisper—the U.S. Constitution beneath the foot of Barack Obama.”

YouTube - The Forgotten Man - Jon McNaughton
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KGlBHyVeYU

McNaughton Fine Art
http://www.mcnaughtonart.com/artwork/view_zoom/?artpiece_id=379

Some thoughts on the media…

2010-09-13T11:19:00.000-07:00

Breitbart.tv » Schieffer Grandstands on Smoking Issue With Boehner; Never Confronted Smoker-In-Chief
http://www.breitbart.tv/schieffer-grandstands-on-smoking-issue-with-boehner-never-confronted-smoker-in-chief/

BOEHNER: Bob, tobacco is a legal product in America. And the American people have the right to decide for themselves whether they want to partake or not. There are lots of things that we deal with and come in contact with every day, from alcohol to food to cigarettes, a lot of things that aren`t good for our health. But the American people ought to have the right to make those decisions on their own.

SCHIEFFER: Well, I mean, they have a right to shoot themselves if they choose to.

Huh???

Add Bob Schieffer to that list of treasonous reporters who call themselves ‘journOlists’ -- you know, the ones who helped elect Obama. Yep, Bob made the team! CBS should consider putting Bob on PERMANENT vacation, or maybe change the name of their show to DISGRACE the Nation. BTW, Bob Schieffer STILL hasn’t heard of Shamir Shabazz and his New Black Panther Party: “Who? What?!”

ps- You KNOW America is in trouble when you find out the “O” in journ“O”list stands for “O”bama! Sick proof of the media's worship of him, AND their complicity in helping Obama get elected.
“Whoever controls the image and information of the past determines what and how future generations will think; whoever controls the information and images of the present determines how those same people will view the past.” ~ George Orwell in Nineteen Eighty-Four.
Sure sounds like the agenda of “O”bama’s journ“O”lists to me...

pps- I know why Bob wouldn’t confront the “95 per cent cured” Smoker-in-Chief. You see, there aren't many people know this, but Bob fancies himself an inventor. In fact, Bob holds the patent on fireproof cigarettes! We can only hope Bob keeps working on his inventions to ‘save humanity’ -- and lets us know before he tests his next invention, the Helicopter Ejector Seat. We should stop him...

Obama just doesn't get it...

2010-09-13T11:16:00.000-07:00

Obama just doesn't get it: Standing on hallowed ground on Saturday, September 11th, was NOT the time or place for him to PREACH TO US about the "peaceful and tolerant" religion of Islam.

In Loving Memory...

2010-09-11T12:34:00.001-07:00

In Loving Memory, September 11th, 2001...
May those murdered in the attacks of 9/11 gently Rest In Peace.
And may their loving memories live on with us forever and ever... Amen.