Then:
"The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the U.S. government can't pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our government's reckless fiscal policies. ... Increasing America's debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that 'the buck stops here.' Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better."
-- Illinois Senator Barack Obama, Senate floor speech, March 2006
Now:
"We all want a government that lives within its means, but there are still things we need to pay for as a country -– things like new roads and bridges; weather satellites and food inspection; services to veterans and medical research."
-- President Barack Obama, Address to the nation, July 2011
Isn't it funny how it was okay not to raise the debt ceiling in 2006 under a Republican administration and now it would be downright catastrophic to fail raising it? Furthermore, isn't it ironic that the man (and his party) that raised federal spending by a third as soon as he gained power can utter such hypocritical words without any shame whatsoever?
The impostor-in-chief has nothing to worry about. The debt ceiling will be raised thanks to class warriors, RINOs, and other politicians who lose their nerve at the last moment; and we will continue on our merry way to financial destruction. Absent a complete overhaul of our political system, there is nothing that can save us with this gang of clowns running our country.
Thursday, July 28, 2011
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
Simply Disgraceful...
Over my 34 years of living in the U.S., I thought I had seen it all as far as presidential disappointments go. I witnessed President Carter let the free world down by conceding to unfriendly nations from Iran to the U.S.S.R. as well as letting the American public down with domestic policies that allowed stagflation to inflict great suffering. I watched President Clinton lie under oath as the nation witnessed a political theater surrounding a sex scandal worthy of Italy or France play out. I agonized over policies unworthy of a so-called conservative President - George W. Bush - such as Medicare Part D and strengthening the EPA and other governmental agencies that have a stranglehold on America; and watched as he, in his own ironic words, "destroyed the free markets in order to save it". However, until Barack Obama became the President, I never thought we would have to live through such an unparalleled deceitful, corrupt, and arrogant presidency befitting more a delusional mental patient than the President of the U.S.A.
Although we spent the last two and a half years witnessing one scandal after another by an executive branch that is fitting only for a banana republic, last night's (un)presidential speech was perhaps the most disgraceful event of the last 30 agonizing months for anyone who loves this country.
Obama started his speech by, as usual, passing the buck and blaming it all on the previous Administration. He promptly continued by scaring the most vulnerable of the society - the seniors and the poor. To cement his well deserved unpresidential image, he called out his political opposition as unreasonable and radical and blamed them as the sole reason for the "stalemate" over spending and the national debt. It would not be so ironic if under his presidency the deficits had not grown from a high of $400 billion in 2008 to $1.4 trillion in each of the following years; and under his Democrat party the national debt had not grown $5.2 trillion in 5 short years to $14.3 trillion.
The speech was class warfare and fear mongering at its best. In order to justify his wishes (tax increases and a long term raising of the debt ceiling which is akin to handing him a blank check), he again compared himself to Reagan by invoking deceitfully his words.
Obama’s class warfare rhetoric has become even more stale. The small group of top income earners, who pay the majority of all taxes, are told once again that they’re not “paying their fair share.” How are we supposed to have some sort of rational discussion about the size and role of government, when Obama and his ilk keep peddling these tired old fairy tales?
“Let’s seize this moment to show why the United States of America is still the greatest nation on Earth,” Obama implored. “Not just because we can still keep our word and meet our obligations, but because we can still come together as one nation.” Except for those “wealthiest Americans” who “aren’t paying their fair share,” I suppose. They won’t be “coming together” with the rest of us, because they’re hated class enemies, and we need to seize their property by force. Plus, whatever happened to "we can't raise taxes in the middle of a recession" as Obama uttered last year? Back then, he seemed to comprehend that there is no economic thought - be it capitalist, socialist, Marxist, or whatever - that even remotely suggests that you can grow an economy and foster job creation by raising taxes on the producers of the society.
Obama's record-breaking, economy-crushing deficits were necessary, because they were “emergency spending” to save the middle class according to him. Since every single prediction Obama made about the economy at the beginning of his term is verifiably false, and his unemployment rates are higher than what he said we would be facing without his massive “stimulus” boondoggle, it’s hard to believe anyone would take this worn-out excuse seriously.
During the speech, he alluded to "compromise" time and time again. Excuse me? The President seems to have a case of amnesia, but we remember well him sneering “I won” when Republicans wanted some input into that stimulus bill, or telling audiences that “the people who got us into this mess” shouldn’t “do a lot of talking right now.”
In short, this was a campaign speech dressed up as an address to the public despite having no solutions to offer. Through the complexity of the debt limit and budget issue the President has revealed very little understanding or competence appearing to only be interested in getting the matter behind him so he can have a second term.
Obama realizes that he and his party are headed for a memorable defeat in 2012. As such, he must vilify the opposition and make them a party to the disaster he and his party has brought on by getting them to compromise on further economy wrecking policies. Will the Republicans fall for it? My bet is, yes as there are only about a hundred Tea Party Republicans in the Congress. I hope I am wrong!
Try as he did, Obama fooled only a few people on Monday. At this point in his presidency and in this debt ceiling debate, he is irrelevant and marginalized despite his pathetic attempts. The danger is that as this Administration becomes more marginalized it will take more desperate measures to try to prove its status, value and relevance as demonstrated by the scare tactics they are currently resorting to. Don’t be surprised if the Administration delays checks being sent out to get the public upset, after all it was Rahm Emanuel who said “never fail to take advantage of a good crisis.”
Although we spent the last two and a half years witnessing one scandal after another by an executive branch that is fitting only for a banana republic, last night's (un)presidential speech was perhaps the most disgraceful event of the last 30 agonizing months for anyone who loves this country.
Obama started his speech by, as usual, passing the buck and blaming it all on the previous Administration. He promptly continued by scaring the most vulnerable of the society - the seniors and the poor. To cement his well deserved unpresidential image, he called out his political opposition as unreasonable and radical and blamed them as the sole reason for the "stalemate" over spending and the national debt. It would not be so ironic if under his presidency the deficits had not grown from a high of $400 billion in 2008 to $1.4 trillion in each of the following years; and under his Democrat party the national debt had not grown $5.2 trillion in 5 short years to $14.3 trillion.
The speech was class warfare and fear mongering at its best. In order to justify his wishes (tax increases and a long term raising of the debt ceiling which is akin to handing him a blank check), he again compared himself to Reagan by invoking deceitfully his words.
Obama’s class warfare rhetoric has become even more stale. The small group of top income earners, who pay the majority of all taxes, are told once again that they’re not “paying their fair share.” How are we supposed to have some sort of rational discussion about the size and role of government, when Obama and his ilk keep peddling these tired old fairy tales?
“Let’s seize this moment to show why the United States of America is still the greatest nation on Earth,” Obama implored. “Not just because we can still keep our word and meet our obligations, but because we can still come together as one nation.” Except for those “wealthiest Americans” who “aren’t paying their fair share,” I suppose. They won’t be “coming together” with the rest of us, because they’re hated class enemies, and we need to seize their property by force. Plus, whatever happened to "we can't raise taxes in the middle of a recession" as Obama uttered last year? Back then, he seemed to comprehend that there is no economic thought - be it capitalist, socialist, Marxist, or whatever - that even remotely suggests that you can grow an economy and foster job creation by raising taxes on the producers of the society.
Obama's record-breaking, economy-crushing deficits were necessary, because they were “emergency spending” to save the middle class according to him. Since every single prediction Obama made about the economy at the beginning of his term is verifiably false, and his unemployment rates are higher than what he said we would be facing without his massive “stimulus” boondoggle, it’s hard to believe anyone would take this worn-out excuse seriously.
During the speech, he alluded to "compromise" time and time again. Excuse me? The President seems to have a case of amnesia, but we remember well him sneering “I won” when Republicans wanted some input into that stimulus bill, or telling audiences that “the people who got us into this mess” shouldn’t “do a lot of talking right now.”
In short, this was a campaign speech dressed up as an address to the public despite having no solutions to offer. Through the complexity of the debt limit and budget issue the President has revealed very little understanding or competence appearing to only be interested in getting the matter behind him so he can have a second term.
Obama realizes that he and his party are headed for a memorable defeat in 2012. As such, he must vilify the opposition and make them a party to the disaster he and his party has brought on by getting them to compromise on further economy wrecking policies. Will the Republicans fall for it? My bet is, yes as there are only about a hundred Tea Party Republicans in the Congress. I hope I am wrong!
Try as he did, Obama fooled only a few people on Monday. At this point in his presidency and in this debt ceiling debate, he is irrelevant and marginalized despite his pathetic attempts. The danger is that as this Administration becomes more marginalized it will take more desperate measures to try to prove its status, value and relevance as demonstrated by the scare tactics they are currently resorting to. Don’t be surprised if the Administration delays checks being sent out to get the public upset, after all it was Rahm Emanuel who said “never fail to take advantage of a good crisis.”
Friday, July 22, 2011
You Are No Reagan, Mr. Obama!
Isn't it sort of funny - in a sick, twisted way of course - how the left and the President has been invoking President Reagan's name in the debate about raising the debt limit?! The same president they love to impune! Reagan knew the art of compromise, they say. Congressional Republicans should learn from him, they shamelessly add.
You are no Reagan, Mr. Obama, thus it would be a waste of time and effort to try to sway your staunchly collectivist ideology and Alinskyite tactics of lying about and ridiculing your enemies. You lie, lie, and lie some more; and with the help of your media whore pals paint a picture that is as removed from reality as your pathetic collectivist ideology.
You lie that President Reagan believed in the proper role of government as it pertains to intervening in the economy; that he was not a small government advocate. He was and fought for it as hard as he could against a Congress dominated by staunch progressives.
You lie that he raised taxes more than any other modern day president. On the balance, he did not. When he came in to office, the top marginal tax rate was 70%; when he left office eight years later, the top rate was 28%! Yes, he signed the 1983 bill raising social security withholding and did away with certain corporate and individual tax preferences in order to rescue social security and level the playing field, leading to freer competition. Even at that, the revenues to the treasury, which nearly doubled during his tenure, were spent and then some by the progressive do-gooders in the Congress.
You lie that his support for debt limit increases were unwavering. It was not. He was for a balanced budget amendment which he could not force the Democrat congress to even vote on. You are not.
President Reagan was a fiscal conservative who thoroughly understood the evils of progressive liberalism. You, sir, make European socialists blush with envy. And, contrary to your claim, FDR was no fiscal conservative - quite to the contrary, he was the first socialist president of the U.S.; possibly only to be outdone by you.
No, you are not even remotely Reaganesque, Mr President!
You are no Reagan, Mr. Obama, thus it would be a waste of time and effort to try to sway your staunchly collectivist ideology and Alinskyite tactics of lying about and ridiculing your enemies. You lie, lie, and lie some more; and with the help of your media whore pals paint a picture that is as removed from reality as your pathetic collectivist ideology.
You lie that President Reagan believed in the proper role of government as it pertains to intervening in the economy; that he was not a small government advocate. He was and fought for it as hard as he could against a Congress dominated by staunch progressives.
You lie that he raised taxes more than any other modern day president. On the balance, he did not. When he came in to office, the top marginal tax rate was 70%; when he left office eight years later, the top rate was 28%! Yes, he signed the 1983 bill raising social security withholding and did away with certain corporate and individual tax preferences in order to rescue social security and level the playing field, leading to freer competition. Even at that, the revenues to the treasury, which nearly doubled during his tenure, were spent and then some by the progressive do-gooders in the Congress.
You lie that his support for debt limit increases were unwavering. It was not. He was for a balanced budget amendment which he could not force the Democrat congress to even vote on. You are not.
President Reagan was a fiscal conservative who thoroughly understood the evils of progressive liberalism. You, sir, make European socialists blush with envy. And, contrary to your claim, FDR was no fiscal conservative - quite to the contrary, he was the first socialist president of the U.S.; possibly only to be outdone by you.
No, you are not even remotely Reaganesque, Mr President!
Thursday, July 21, 2011
Republican Establishment Vs. The TEA Party
Rick Santelli's rant might have gone a long way toward igniting the fuse that launched the TEA Party movement in earnest, but in reality small, constitutional government conservatives from all political persuasions including some Democrats who are obviously delusional about their party and many Independents had been boiling inside ever since the G. W. Bush days of reckless spending. It goes without saying that G.W.B. had a lot of help from Democrats who were swept in to power in 2006. However, it is also wise to remember that one must fear the enemy he doesn't know more than the one he does.
Whether it was G.W.B. or, as is now, establishmentarian Republicans like Senators McConnell, McCain, or Snowe among too many others to mention by name, big government RINOs who are anything but fiscal conservatives are just as guilty as Democrats and other progressives in bringing the U.S. to the brink of insolvency.
The House of Representatives did its part to change direction in this financial fiasco by passing Cut, Cap, and Balance yesterday - a plan that clearly cuts spending in the immediate future, caps the government spending at just under 20% of the GDP, and seeks congressional approval for a Balanced Budget Amendment to be sent to the states. As expected the plan promptly got demagogued by the left, which accused it of cutting off seniors from Medicare which it clearly does not. The competing Republican/Democrat plans, whether it is the McConnell plan or the Gang of Six plan , do absolutely nothing to alter the disastrous course we have embarked on.
Regardless of Cut, Cap, and Balance's chances of passing the Senate - not to mention Obama's promise to veto it - the Senate Republicans owe America an up or down vote. This worthy plan is not only perhaps our last best chance for salvation, but a necessity to show up our disgraceful president for who he is: A demagogue. The same guy who last year said we could not raise taxes in the middle of a recession is now using class warfare as a weapon although we are in just as precarious a situation as were then.
What will play out over the next two weeks in this debate well may be the ultimate show-down between the establishment and the Tea Party, and who wins will also determine whether America wins or loses.
Whether it was G.W.B. or, as is now, establishmentarian Republicans like Senators McConnell, McCain, or Snowe among too many others to mention by name, big government RINOs who are anything but fiscal conservatives are just as guilty as Democrats and other progressives in bringing the U.S. to the brink of insolvency.
The House of Representatives did its part to change direction in this financial fiasco by passing Cut, Cap, and Balance yesterday - a plan that clearly cuts spending in the immediate future, caps the government spending at just under 20% of the GDP, and seeks congressional approval for a Balanced Budget Amendment to be sent to the states. As expected the plan promptly got demagogued by the left, which accused it of cutting off seniors from Medicare which it clearly does not. The competing Republican/Democrat plans, whether it is the McConnell plan or the Gang of Six plan , do absolutely nothing to alter the disastrous course we have embarked on.
Regardless of Cut, Cap, and Balance's chances of passing the Senate - not to mention Obama's promise to veto it - the Senate Republicans owe America an up or down vote. This worthy plan is not only perhaps our last best chance for salvation, but a necessity to show up our disgraceful president for who he is: A demagogue. The same guy who last year said we could not raise taxes in the middle of a recession is now using class warfare as a weapon although we are in just as precarious a situation as were then.
What will play out over the next two weeks in this debate well may be the ultimate show-down between the establishment and the Tea Party, and who wins will also determine whether America wins or loses.
Monday, July 18, 2011
Op. Fast and Furious: The Scandal and the Complicit Whorish Media
In the scandal ridden Obama Administration, not a week passes by that a new shocker is not added to the long list of misdeeds by this gangster administration with complete disregard for citizens' will or constitutionally established separation of powers.
The latest scandal - and the gravest so far - is the ATF's bungled (and mind bogglingly stupid) gun running sting operation code named Operation Fast and Furious. Several law enforcement agencies of the federal government, including the FBI, Justice Department, Department of Homeland Security, Drug Enforcement Administration and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, got together to hatch a plan to sell guns to Mexican drug cartel members – at least one (and quite possibly two) of which was later used to murder a Border Patrol agent. As Canada Free Press reported last week, this is a scandal that is exponentially bigger than Watergate should it be tied directly to the President. Despite the Attorney General and the President's claims of ignorance, congressional Republicans have been digging hard and it seems they have hit paydirt.
This is a scandal involving murdered law enforcement officers, cover ups at the highest levels of the government, scapegoating whistle blowing low level operatives, witness tampering, and lies to the congress as well as the American people.
It was quite obvious from the beginning that such an operation could not be conducted without approval from the highest levels of the DOJ and, at least, the knowledge of the President.
Sure enough, Rep. Darrell Issa uncovered at least twelve high level DOJ officials who have been heavily involved with the operation. Further investigation also uncovered video evidence that not only Attorney General Eric Holder, but also the President knew about and presumably approved the foolhardy sting operation.
As bad as this is, the most outrageous part of this scandal is the apparent devious motive behind it: banning semi-automatic assault rifles in the U.S.
Obama made no secret of his desire to unleash war on the second amendment of the U.S. Constitution from the very beginning of his Administration. The opening the Administration needed was a 2008 report that 80% of the guns used by drug smugglers in Mexico were smuggled in to Mexico from the U.S.A. Using that report as an excuse, various agencies of the DOJ planned a sting operation, results of which would later be used to garner political support for just such a ban on sale of semi-auto assault weapons in the U.S. Sure enough, DOJ is "now requiring gun stores in Arizona, California, Texas and New Mexico to report individual purchases of multiple rifles of greater than .22 caliber to the ATF. To quality for special reporting, the rifles also have to have a detachable magazine and be semi-automatic".
The outrageous nature of this move in the light of the revelations that put the culpability surrounding this scandal squarely on the Administration is simply astonishing.
Any one of the Obama scandals under a Republican administration would have been treated by the media and the left in general as a reason to impeach the president - whether you are talking about Pigford, the DOJ Black Panther case, falsifying expert testimony in justifying the oil and gas drilling moratorium, wilfully ignoring the separation of powers by ignoring the congress and courts on multiple occasions from the unconstitutionality of Obamacare to DISCLOSE Act to DREAM Act to net neutrality, or any one of dozens of other scandals.
Can we expect the main stream media to publicize this outrageous scandal to the general public anytime before they are forced to by alternative media? I am willing to bet no!
Welcome to a new era - the era of the left wing media whores covering up for the Obama Administration!
The latest scandal - and the gravest so far - is the ATF's bungled (and mind bogglingly stupid) gun running sting operation code named Operation Fast and Furious. Several law enforcement agencies of the federal government, including the FBI, Justice Department, Department of Homeland Security, Drug Enforcement Administration and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, got together to hatch a plan to sell guns to Mexican drug cartel members – at least one (and quite possibly two) of which was later used to murder a Border Patrol agent. As Canada Free Press reported last week, this is a scandal that is exponentially bigger than Watergate should it be tied directly to the President. Despite the Attorney General and the President's claims of ignorance, congressional Republicans have been digging hard and it seems they have hit paydirt.
This is a scandal involving murdered law enforcement officers, cover ups at the highest levels of the government, scapegoating whistle blowing low level operatives, witness tampering, and lies to the congress as well as the American people.
It was quite obvious from the beginning that such an operation could not be conducted without approval from the highest levels of the DOJ and, at least, the knowledge of the President.
Sure enough, Rep. Darrell Issa uncovered at least twelve high level DOJ officials who have been heavily involved with the operation. Further investigation also uncovered video evidence that not only Attorney General Eric Holder, but also the President knew about and presumably approved the foolhardy sting operation.
As bad as this is, the most outrageous part of this scandal is the apparent devious motive behind it: banning semi-automatic assault rifles in the U.S.
Obama made no secret of his desire to unleash war on the second amendment of the U.S. Constitution from the very beginning of his Administration. The opening the Administration needed was a 2008 report that 80% of the guns used by drug smugglers in Mexico were smuggled in to Mexico from the U.S.A. Using that report as an excuse, various agencies of the DOJ planned a sting operation, results of which would later be used to garner political support for just such a ban on sale of semi-auto assault weapons in the U.S. Sure enough, DOJ is "now requiring gun stores in Arizona, California, Texas and New Mexico to report individual purchases of multiple rifles of greater than .22 caliber to the ATF. To quality for special reporting, the rifles also have to have a detachable magazine and be semi-automatic".
The outrageous nature of this move in the light of the revelations that put the culpability surrounding this scandal squarely on the Administration is simply astonishing.
Any one of the Obama scandals under a Republican administration would have been treated by the media and the left in general as a reason to impeach the president - whether you are talking about Pigford, the DOJ Black Panther case, falsifying expert testimony in justifying the oil and gas drilling moratorium, wilfully ignoring the separation of powers by ignoring the congress and courts on multiple occasions from the unconstitutionality of Obamacare to DISCLOSE Act to DREAM Act to net neutrality, or any one of dozens of other scandals.
Can we expect the main stream media to publicize this outrageous scandal to the general public anytime before they are forced to by alternative media? I am willing to bet no!
Welcome to a new era - the era of the left wing media whores covering up for the Obama Administration!
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
The Folly of Declaring War on Yourself
"California, once a business friendly state, continues to conduct a war on its own economy," says the Chief Executive Magazine.
Oh yes, the Golden State - once the fifth largest economy of the world - is reaping what it has been sowing for the past couple of decades. The magazine has ranked California dead last in business friendly environment for seventh year in a row. As CNN Money puts it, "buffeted by high taxes, strict regulations and uncertain state budgets, a growing number of California companies are seeking friendlier business environments outside of the Golden State". How fast? Companies are "disinvesting" in California at a rate five times greater than just two years ago. This includes leaving altogether, establishing divisions elsewhere or opting not to set up shop in California. And which are the states benefitting the most from this exodus? Texas, Utah, Arizona, North Carolina, and Virginia - all right-to-work red states!
Sacramento can't get its act together...and that includes the governor, legislators and regulatory agencies that are running wild. A state where higher and higher tax revenues are required to support a welfare state where every special interest group from the LGBT crowd to illegal aliens routinely get special rights that have costs attached to them is bound, sooner or later, to pay the price for their folly.
The arrogance of thinking that the producers of the society will endlessly support the non-producers is a hallmark of progressive thought that has failed in every social democracy tried. As bad as California's failure is, as a nation we are on the same disastrous course. I can only hope that the American electorate will heed the clear warning California is sending rest of the country.
Oh yes, the Golden State - once the fifth largest economy of the world - is reaping what it has been sowing for the past couple of decades. The magazine has ranked California dead last in business friendly environment for seventh year in a row. As CNN Money puts it, "buffeted by high taxes, strict regulations and uncertain state budgets, a growing number of California companies are seeking friendlier business environments outside of the Golden State". How fast? Companies are "disinvesting" in California at a rate five times greater than just two years ago. This includes leaving altogether, establishing divisions elsewhere or opting not to set up shop in California. And which are the states benefitting the most from this exodus? Texas, Utah, Arizona, North Carolina, and Virginia - all right-to-work red states!
Sacramento can't get its act together...and that includes the governor, legislators and regulatory agencies that are running wild. A state where higher and higher tax revenues are required to support a welfare state where every special interest group from the LGBT crowd to illegal aliens routinely get special rights that have costs attached to them is bound, sooner or later, to pay the price for their folly.
The arrogance of thinking that the producers of the society will endlessly support the non-producers is a hallmark of progressive thought that has failed in every social democracy tried. As bad as California's failure is, as a nation we are on the same disastrous course. I can only hope that the American electorate will heed the clear warning California is sending rest of the country.
Sunday, July 10, 2011
The AGW Swindle: NAS Inadvertently Admits To Coal's Non-Warming Effect
Not every conspiracy is a well orchestrated effort on the part of its participants. Some simply snowball because of the opportunities they present unscrupulous actors with. One such case is the AGW (Anthropogenic Global Warming) movement that appeals not only to collectivists of all sorts (Marxists, Socialists, and everything in between) but also to crony capitalists who are ever-ready to capitalize on any opportunity to make money.
Man made global warming, or AGW, is potentially the swindle of the millenia that stands to cost the tax payers trillions of dollars through higher costs (of everything from utilities to every day items we consume) and taxes. Though its main true aim is global redistribution of wealth, its masterminds stand to make literally trillions of dollars collectively.
The masterminds behind AGW are an odd consortium of shady people like Maurice Strong, former politicians like Al Gore, and entities from small green energy related companies to some of the largest corporations in the world like G.E. and the Wall Street giant Goldman Sachs.
The tool these masterminds use to actuate their swindle is statist progressive politicians advancing their not-so-secret agenda, and bureaucrats (like Van Jones, Ray LaHood, and John Holdren), aided by an all-too-willing scientific community that is funded to the tune of billions of dollars world wide to carry out their misdeeds masqueraded as scientific research.
The biggest culprit of man made global warming according to the charlatan warmists at IPCC as well as the scientific community at large is fossil fuels, led by coal. This line of argument has been adopted by the religion that is environmentalism and become a hot button issue for Democrat party which is beholden to the green lobby (or a wholly owned subsidiary of the radical environmentalists as I like to refer to them). Worse yet, it is precisely the current crop of Democrats who stand to benefit from their own crony green capitalist policy initiatives.
In the latest news, last week the NAS (National Academy of Sciences) published a report that explains why there has been no increases in global temperatures over the past decade or so. The culprit, according to the NAS, is the massive amounts of coal that China has been burning thanks to its economy's explosive growth.
Coal, like other fossil fuels, puts out CO2 (carbon dioxide) which is a greenhouse gas. However, coal also emits sulphate aerosol particles that more than counteract the greenhouse effects of its CO2 emissions.
In other words, NAS has inadvertently admitted that fossil fuels, and coal in particular, do not cause man made global warming (as burning coal has kept temperatures lower than they would otherwise be over the past decade).
We all know the sordid background of the man made global warming crowd that includes falsifying (temperature, ice extent and sea level) data, circulating incriminating e-mails, making dubious predictions that do not come true, using climate models that do not work, etc., etc....
Enough scandal for a prominent scientist to resign from the presidency of American Physical Society last year, along with dozens more who have reached the realization that this is a fraud to abandon the AGW movement.
Two questions come to mind as a result of this news. First, will the Obama Administration change its mind and leave the coal industry alone now in the light of this study?
The other question is: will the AGW proponents have the integrity to admit they are wrong about the greenhouse effects of burning coal? Naaah, that would be too much to expect from this group of misfits.
Man made global warming, or AGW, is potentially the swindle of the millenia that stands to cost the tax payers trillions of dollars through higher costs (of everything from utilities to every day items we consume) and taxes. Though its main true aim is global redistribution of wealth, its masterminds stand to make literally trillions of dollars collectively.
The masterminds behind AGW are an odd consortium of shady people like Maurice Strong, former politicians like Al Gore, and entities from small green energy related companies to some of the largest corporations in the world like G.E. and the Wall Street giant Goldman Sachs.
The tool these masterminds use to actuate their swindle is statist progressive politicians advancing their not-so-secret agenda, and bureaucrats (like Van Jones, Ray LaHood, and John Holdren), aided by an all-too-willing scientific community that is funded to the tune of billions of dollars world wide to carry out their misdeeds masqueraded as scientific research.
The biggest culprit of man made global warming according to the charlatan warmists at IPCC as well as the scientific community at large is fossil fuels, led by coal. This line of argument has been adopted by the religion that is environmentalism and become a hot button issue for Democrat party which is beholden to the green lobby (or a wholly owned subsidiary of the radical environmentalists as I like to refer to them). Worse yet, it is precisely the current crop of Democrats who stand to benefit from their own crony green capitalist policy initiatives.
In the latest news, last week the NAS (National Academy of Sciences) published a report that explains why there has been no increases in global temperatures over the past decade or so. The culprit, according to the NAS, is the massive amounts of coal that China has been burning thanks to its economy's explosive growth.
Coal, like other fossil fuels, puts out CO2 (carbon dioxide) which is a greenhouse gas. However, coal also emits sulphate aerosol particles that more than counteract the greenhouse effects of its CO2 emissions.
In other words, NAS has inadvertently admitted that fossil fuels, and coal in particular, do not cause man made global warming (as burning coal has kept temperatures lower than they would otherwise be over the past decade).
We all know the sordid background of the man made global warming crowd that includes falsifying (temperature, ice extent and sea level) data, circulating incriminating e-mails, making dubious predictions that do not come true, using climate models that do not work, etc., etc....
Enough scandal for a prominent scientist to resign from the presidency of American Physical Society last year, along with dozens more who have reached the realization that this is a fraud to abandon the AGW movement.
Two questions come to mind as a result of this news. First, will the Obama Administration change its mind and leave the coal industry alone now in the light of this study?
The other question is: will the AGW proponents have the integrity to admit they are wrong about the greenhouse effects of burning coal? Naaah, that would be too much to expect from this group of misfits.
Friday, July 8, 2011
Guess Who Asked Koch Brothers For Campaign Donation...
You can file this one under "nerves of steel", or perhaps even "the dumbest political move ever".
As everyone knows by now, billionaire Koch brothers are ardent supporters of free markets and the Tea Party movement. As such, they have been under constant attack by progressive groups that dominate the left wing of the political spectrum as well as the Democrat Party. Who can forget what sounded like a thinly veiled threat by the White House which apparently somehow obtained confidential tax information on Koch Industries last year.
Well, fast forward to June, 2011 and Democrats seem to have either forgotten who Koch brothers are or in utter disarray to the point that they do not know what they are doing. Senator Patty Murray (D - WA) who is the Chairwoman of DSCC (Democrat Senatorial Campaign Committee) apparently first sent a letter and then left a voice message at Koch Companies asking for a generous campaign donation.
Here is the hilarious response from the Koch Companies:
Now, I wonder if the desperation level at the DSCC is so high that they will even approach those whom they villify, or are all Democrats incompetent as we are reminded day in and day out by this Administration and Democrats in the Congress?!
As everyone knows by now, billionaire Koch brothers are ardent supporters of free markets and the Tea Party movement. As such, they have been under constant attack by progressive groups that dominate the left wing of the political spectrum as well as the Democrat Party. Who can forget what sounded like a thinly veiled threat by the White House which apparently somehow obtained confidential tax information on Koch Industries last year.
Well, fast forward to June, 2011 and Democrats seem to have either forgotten who Koch brothers are or in utter disarray to the point that they do not know what they are doing. Senator Patty Murray (D - WA) who is the Chairwoman of DSCC (Democrat Senatorial Campaign Committee) apparently first sent a letter and then left a voice message at Koch Companies asking for a generous campaign donation.
Here is the hilarious response from the Koch Companies:
Senator Patty Murray, Chair
Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee
Dear Senator Murray:
For many months now, your colleagues in the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee leadership have engaged in a series of disparagements and ad hominem attacks about us, apparently as part of a concerted political and fundraising strategy. Just recently, Senator Reid wrote in a DSCC fundraising letter that Republicans are trying to “force through their extreme agenda faster than you can say ‘Koch Brothers.’”
So you can imagine my chagrin when I got a letter from you on June 17 asking us to make five-figure contributions to the DSCC. You followed that up with a voicemail* indicating that, if we contributed heavily enough, we would garner an invitation to join you and other Democratic leaders at a retreat in Kiawah Island this September.
I’m hoping you can help me understand the intent of your request because it’s hard not to conclude that DSCC politics have become so cynical that you actually expect people whom you routinely denounce to give DSCC money.
It is troubling that private citizens taking part in the discourse have become the targets of White House and DSCC fundraising missives, and we would certainly encourage you to rethink that approach. Ultimately, I expect voters will see through that and will weigh the issues on the merits alone. But in the meantime, if you could provide me some insight on what exactly you are asking of us and why, I would be most grateful.
Sincerely,
Philip Ellender
President, Government & Public Affairs
Koch Companies Public Sector, LLC
Now, I wonder if the desperation level at the DSCC is so high that they will even approach those whom they villify, or are all Democrats incompetent as we are reminded day in and day out by this Administration and Democrats in the Congress?!
Wednesday, July 6, 2011
Gems From Obama Press Conference
"Now, I've heard reports that there may be some in Congress who want to do just enough to make sure that America avoids defaulting on our debt in the short term. But then wants to kick the can down the road when it comes to solving the larger problem, our deficit"How typically arrogant and disingenuous of the Alinskyite who currently disgraces the White House.
President Obama
It has been two years since Democrat controlled Senate passed a budget. Let's not forget that Alinskyite-in-Chief's budget proposal was so outrageous that it could not even get a single Democrat vote and was rejected 97-0. Paul Ryan sponsored Republican House budget was also defeated by Senate Democrats.
And he has the nerve to talk about kicking the can down the road?
Just who is ridiculing efforts to reform Medicare - the main driver of the debt?
Isn't it amazing how progressives like FDR, LBJ, and Obama create huge, inefficient entitlements and then find a way to blame everyone else for their failure?
To make matters worse, Obama said:
"It is my hope that everybody is going to leave their ultimatums at the door. That we'll all leave our political rhetoric at the door. And that we're going to do what is best for our economy and do what is best for our people"Saul Alinsky would be proud of his disciple. He has mastered the Rules for Radicals flawlessly.
Friday, July 1, 2011
Nanny State to the Rescue
A new billion dollar federal program sponsored by HUD has reared its ugly head. No doubt, in an attempt to buy Democrat votes before the 2012 election, HUD and a non-profit neighborhood organization have announced that homeowners who are under water and in trouble can borrow up to $50,000 to catch up with their mortgage payments and late fees. The kicker is that the loan is not only interest free but also does not have to be paid back if the home owner stays in his house for 5 years. HUD forgives 20% of the loan balance for every year home owner keeps his home.
At this age of spiraling debt and worsening economic malaise, this only furthers the nanny state mentality and digs our hole deeper. Whatever happened to the traditional American self reliance - a basic ingredient of American exceptionalism? Must the state be there at every turn, holding our hand? Do we not have any dignity left as a nation anymore? God help us.
At this age of spiraling debt and worsening economic malaise, this only furthers the nanny state mentality and digs our hole deeper. Whatever happened to the traditional American self reliance - a basic ingredient of American exceptionalism? Must the state be there at every turn, holding our hand? Do we not have any dignity left as a nation anymore? God help us.
Thursday, June 30, 2011
Comedy of the Week: Outrageous Quotes
Tim Geithner: "GOP debt plan 'irresponsible, risky, radical, unwise"Oh really, Timmy?! ...And spending money that we do not have on non-productive things, then sticking our children and grandchildren with the bill that will certainly enslave them is not?
Proof positive, once and for all, that he was never responsible for the balanced budgets (thanks to the G.O.P. controlled House) he likes to claim credit for.
Bill Clinton: “the stimulus did as well as it could have done — there just wasn’t enough of it”
Then, let's disband this useless $53 billion a year government monstrosity! More likely than can't, DHS will not enforce immigration laws on purpose. Illegals = Democrat power
Janet Napolitano: DHS can’t enforce immigration laws so we need amnesty programs…
Isn't it comforting to know that in an era when Iran is testing ballistic missiles to mound their soon to be operational nuclear weapons, and leaders like Chavez crushing the will and resistance of their freedom loving people, our State Department is busy arranging gigs for euro gay parades? Let the good times roll!
Hillary Clinton: “And then there is the work that our embassy team in Rome has been doing; two weeks ago they played an instrumental role in bringing Lady Gaga to Italy for a Euro (Gay) Pride concert."
...And just whose rights will be violated when public pension funds go belly up and need to be rescued by the tax payers? That is easy, I am sure if we ask Al, the answer would be "the rich".Al Sharpton: "Offering public sector employees 401k’s instead of pensions is an unthinkable civil rights violations."
This coming from those screaming the loudest when Bush suggested investing a tiny portion of the Social Security fund in the stock market in order to ensure its solvency?AFL/CIO and AFT: "Let's use the billions of pension dollars set aside for union retirees to fund real estate development"
Jay Carney: “not a conversation worth having.”
White House press secretary on why the President turned down an offer by Republican Senator McConnell to discuss raising the debt limit. President is already off to 4 campaign fund raising events. I guess this is the kind of work ethic he was talking about yesterday!
According to the good senator, "by loading up the tax code with all these breaks for people who already have privilege". Does he realize that in the 1950s when the top tax rate was in the 90-93% range, no one paid anywhere near that? Had they, economic activity would have completely stopped.
Sen. Sherrod Brown (D): "GOP is committing class warfare"
By the way, what do progressives mean by "privilege"? Fruits of one's hard work in now a "privilege"? And then they shamelessly deny that they are Marxists!
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And finally, the whole Obama press conference yesterday when the President started ugly and finished much uglier. It was class warfare at its best with hypocrisies galore concerning work ethic among others from a president with 75 golf outings, dozens of campaign events during the past month, and several high profile vacations under his belt.
Orwellian Methods, Thuggery, and Other Nonsense
Prologue to Obamacare
Relax, one more Orwellian attempt to keep producers of the society in line by the Obama Administration has been thwarted for the time being. HHS announced that they are suspending their plans to use "mystery shoppers" due to strong reaction from various groups as well as the public. The "mystery shoppers" were to check how many doctors refuse the Medicaid patient while giving an appointment to the privately insured patient - an unnecessary exercise since earlier this month a similar study was published in the New England Journal of Medicine, which found that two-thirds of Medicaid patients were denied doctors' appointments, compared with just 11 percent of those with private insurance.
Why Medicaid? Answer: Obamacare
Over half of all new health coverage obtained by Americans thanks to Obamacare will be through Medicaid. Obamacare's authors specifically chose Medicaid as the vehicle for most of the coverage expansion because it is "cheaper" than Medicare and private insurance. But Medicaid isn't cheaper because government is somehow better than the private sector at controlling health care costs. Rather, Medicaid is cheaper because it pays doctors less for the same services (about 60 cents on the dollar after burdensome paperwork and long waiting times (up to 10-12 months sometimes) for reimbursements). In other words, Medicaid, like Medicare, is price controls.
I can attest to this because my wife is a health care provider.
As a Washington Examiner editorial succinctly puts it:
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Alinskyite tactics of UAW
The left loves to play by the rules outlined by Saul Alinsky as the impostor who masquerades as our president proves day after day.
UAW, one of Obama's closest allies, is now threatening to brand foreign car makers in right-to-work states "human rights violators" if they refuse to unionize.
To show that there is some hope for the U.S. yet, overwhelming majorities of workers in these plants are perfectly happy and want nothing to do with the UAW or any other union.
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Loons of class-warfare agree: Corporations and the rich must pay
Socialist Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders is apparently circulating a letter asking President Obama not to give in to the G.O.P. demands not to raise any taxes. They do not have to do much convincing as Obama agrees that the Republican approach to budget is immoral in a twisted way only a progressive could reason.
The long and short of it is these collectivists think that the rich along with corporations must pay off the debt by paying their fair share. Excuse me?
Does the good senator from the loony state of Vermont not know that those two groups effectively pay more than twice their share compared to the bottom 95% of the society? Does he also not know that even taxing 100% of their earnings (hypothetical since much past 90%, none of them would bother to work anymore) would not make a dent in the debt? How about growth we would be sacrificing by imposing higher taxes on the producers - Goldman Sachs analysts recently said that just letting Bush tax rates expire would have cost the economy 1.5% in GDP growth, let alone imposing much higher taxes.
As billionaire Stanford Professor Cheriton, of Google fame, puts it in no uncertain terms: Obama (and the same goes for other collectivists) is leading America on a crash course towards economic disaster.
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A picture is worth a thousand words...
Welcome back recession? As Zero Hedge reports, manufacturing survey indicates that we are in the second month of a new recession. As usual, NBER should catch up with the news within the next 12 months or so.
Suspicious by hundreds of immigration cases dismissed in Houston (and nearly 35,000 cases dismissed in the U.S.) by ICE last year, the Chronicle has obtained, through a FOIA, series of internal ICE memos that show that Obama Administration is implementing a backdoor amnesty.
The short and sweet of it is that, other than hardcore felons, ICE is instructed to not pursue immigration cases against illegal aliens. Who needs a congress that refuses to pass amnesty. There is more than one way to skin a cat, especially if the Administration in question has nothing but disregard for the U.S. Constitution as well as the will of its citizens.
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Relax, one more Orwellian attempt to keep producers of the society in line by the Obama Administration has been thwarted for the time being. HHS announced that they are suspending their plans to use "mystery shoppers" due to strong reaction from various groups as well as the public. The "mystery shoppers" were to check how many doctors refuse the Medicaid patient while giving an appointment to the privately insured patient - an unnecessary exercise since earlier this month a similar study was published in the New England Journal of Medicine, which found that two-thirds of Medicaid patients were denied doctors' appointments, compared with just 11 percent of those with private insurance.
Why Medicaid? Answer: Obamacare
Over half of all new health coverage obtained by Americans thanks to Obamacare will be through Medicaid. Obamacare's authors specifically chose Medicaid as the vehicle for most of the coverage expansion because it is "cheaper" than Medicare and private insurance. But Medicaid isn't cheaper because government is somehow better than the private sector at controlling health care costs. Rather, Medicaid is cheaper because it pays doctors less for the same services (about 60 cents on the dollar after burdensome paperwork and long waiting times (up to 10-12 months sometimes) for reimbursements). In other words, Medicaid, like Medicare, is price controls.
I can attest to this because my wife is a health care provider.
As a Washington Examiner editorial succinctly puts it:
Government price controls decrease the supply of doctor labor. When a government's price control regime fails, the next step typically is to find other means of coercion in order to keep economic actors in line.SEIU has enough out of work members with plenty of time in their hands to crack some doctor skulls if necessary.
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Alinskyite tactics of UAW
The left loves to play by the rules outlined by Saul Alinsky as the impostor who masquerades as our president proves day after day.
UAW, one of Obama's closest allies, is now threatening to brand foreign car makers in right-to-work states "human rights violators" if they refuse to unionize.
To show that there is some hope for the U.S. yet, overwhelming majorities of workers in these plants are perfectly happy and want nothing to do with the UAW or any other union.
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Loons of class-warfare agree: Corporations and the rich must pay
Socialist Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders is apparently circulating a letter asking President Obama not to give in to the G.O.P. demands not to raise any taxes. They do not have to do much convincing as Obama agrees that the Republican approach to budget is immoral in a twisted way only a progressive could reason.
The long and short of it is these collectivists think that the rich along with corporations must pay off the debt by paying their fair share. Excuse me?
Does the good senator from the loony state of Vermont not know that those two groups effectively pay more than twice their share compared to the bottom 95% of the society? Does he also not know that even taxing 100% of their earnings (hypothetical since much past 90%, none of them would bother to work anymore) would not make a dent in the debt? How about growth we would be sacrificing by imposing higher taxes on the producers - Goldman Sachs analysts recently said that just letting Bush tax rates expire would have cost the economy 1.5% in GDP growth, let alone imposing much higher taxes.
As billionaire Stanford Professor Cheriton, of Google fame, puts it in no uncertain terms: Obama (and the same goes for other collectivists) is leading America on a crash course towards economic disaster.
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A picture is worth a thousand words...
Welcome back recession? As Zero Hedge reports, manufacturing survey indicates that we are in the second month of a new recession. As usual, NBER should catch up with the news within the next 12 months or so.
I am embarrassed to say this but I have been cheering for this since last few months. Anything to get rid of these enemies of America is welcome.
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Who needs the Congress, Obama thumbs his nose at the Constitution yet again...Suspicious by hundreds of immigration cases dismissed in Houston (and nearly 35,000 cases dismissed in the U.S.) by ICE last year, the Chronicle has obtained, through a FOIA, series of internal ICE memos that show that Obama Administration is implementing a backdoor amnesty.
The short and sweet of it is that, other than hardcore felons, ICE is instructed to not pursue immigration cases against illegal aliens. Who needs a congress that refuses to pass amnesty. There is more than one way to skin a cat, especially if the Administration in question has nothing but disregard for the U.S. Constitution as well as the will of its citizens.
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Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Obama's Open Season on Whistleblowers
Remember Gerald Walpin? The Inspector General Obama fired without a valid excuse early in his administration because he had uncovered a scandal surrounding corruption involving one of Obama's closest supporters - Sacramento mayor Kevin Johnson, who apparently used tax dollars as hush money for sex partners among other irregularities? Well, he now has a companion to commiserate with: Vince Cefalu.
Vince Cefalu is the agent who broke the scandal surrounding Operation Fast and Furious under Project Gunrunner, where geniuses in ATF (no doubt with the blessings of higher ups in the D.O.J.) lost track of hundreds of assault weapons they knowingly let Mexican drug gangs acquire, six of which turned up at the murder scene of a U.S. agent. Vince has been notified that he will be terminated by the ATF as a result of his role in letting the cat out of the bag.
The incompetence of government aside, there seems to be a troubling (but in no way surprising) pattern here on the part of the Obama Administration. The Whistleblower Protection Act of 1989 is supposed to protect those government employees who blow the cover off all types of malfeasence on the part of federal government. Vince Cefalu is the second high profile case where a whistleblower is being sacrificed instead of being congratulated.
The lesson for anyone contemplating on blowing the whistle on anything to do with this government is clear: In the rough and tumble world of Chicago politics, you do not rat on the big dog or his close supporters. Just ask Rahm "dead fish" Emanuel! If you are lucky, you will recieve a dead fish in the mail; if not, a couple of SEIU goons could be visiting you soon.
Vince Cefalu is the agent who broke the scandal surrounding Operation Fast and Furious under Project Gunrunner, where geniuses in ATF (no doubt with the blessings of higher ups in the D.O.J.) lost track of hundreds of assault weapons they knowingly let Mexican drug gangs acquire, six of which turned up at the murder scene of a U.S. agent. Vince has been notified that he will be terminated by the ATF as a result of his role in letting the cat out of the bag.
The incompetence of government aside, there seems to be a troubling (but in no way surprising) pattern here on the part of the Obama Administration. The Whistleblower Protection Act of 1989 is supposed to protect those government employees who blow the cover off all types of malfeasence on the part of federal government. Vince Cefalu is the second high profile case where a whistleblower is being sacrificed instead of being congratulated.
The lesson for anyone contemplating on blowing the whistle on anything to do with this government is clear: In the rough and tumble world of Chicago politics, you do not rat on the big dog or his close supporters. Just ask Rahm "dead fish" Emanuel! If you are lucky, you will recieve a dead fish in the mail; if not, a couple of SEIU goons could be visiting you soon.
Sunday, June 26, 2011
Commentary on Past Week's Outrageous News
Lets go with the more outrageous ones first (- not that almost all news that comes out of Washington under this regime is not outrageous):
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USDA gay sensitivity training may be imposed on all federal employees.....
What?...you might be wondering. Afterall, it is not like the USDA (home of Shirley 'I discriminate against whites' Sherrod) is the OPM or that we live in an Orwellian future society, right? Well, if that is your reaction, you may just need to be sent to a re-education center (soon to be proposed by the Obama administration, I am sure).
U.S. Department of Agriculture activists want to impose their intense brand of homosexual sensitivity training governmentwide, including a discussion that compares “heterosexism” - believing marriage can be between only one man and one woman - to racism.
Well, at least I am sure this is not a meat headed move by the secretary or anything.....but oh wait, the push for the training is coming from Agriculture Secretary Thomas J. Vilsack. The Democrat has launched the departmentwide “cultural transformation” that includes a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender (LGBT) Special Emphasis Program.
By the way, do not fear because our military and the ATF among other entities have already been subjected to this very training.
I am wondering when the public in general will be told to submit ourselves to the training as well!
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Failing in congress, the DOL writes its own DISCLOSE Act while NLRB revives Card Check
If you thought that the deserved deaths of the DISCLOSE Act (never got voted on) and Card Check (defeated) in the Congress were victories for the free markets, think again! In a law abiding government where the separation of powers is not violated almost on a monthly basis, these job killing unionization bills would have long been buried in the ash heap of history, but this is the Obama thug administration that disregards such constitutional trivialities.
So, here we go again with law making by regulation (when it is not done by executive order). This past week, the Department of Labor issued an expansive 160-page notice for proposed rule-making. According to Labor Union Report "it is, in sum, a radical overhaul of the reporting requirements for employers who wish to remain union free and the consultants, lawyers, and firms that provide human resources, employee and labor relations services". Like the intent behind the proposed DISCLOSE Act, unions want to be able to shut down free speech for employers to make it easier to target them.
At the same time, the NLRB (which under the Obama regime no longer acts as an independent mediation body but rather as the governmental arm of the Marxist labor unions) announced on Tuesday that it is seeking comments on its proposed rule making to make it easier to unionize companies.
The rule change the NLRB is proposing to change is to turn union representation elections into “quickie elections”—from the current 38 to42-day elections that occur now to elections that take place in as little as 10 to 21 days. In his dissent, lone Republican NLRB member Brian Hayes noted:
Moreover, the employer would be forced to provide to produce a preliminary voter list, including names, work location, shift, and classification, by the opening of the pre-election hearing. The NLRB also proposes limiting parties’ (read: employers’) right to appeal cases.
Who needs Card Check legislation when you can unilaterally institute electronic voting, which may (and will) open up fraud, as well as coercion and intimidation of voters who no longer have the protection of private ballots; rushed elections so employees don’t have time to inform themselves about having to pay union dues, live and work by union rules, and support a vast far leftwing political machine; the inability for employers to challenge the validity of voting employees until it’s too late; and giving digital readouts of the home address and contact information for all the employees the union is targeting.
And you thought the government bureaucrats were inefficient! Tsk, tsk...
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In other employment related news of the past week, while the NLRB, now dominated by appointees of President Obama, continues to push an activist agenda at the expense of our nation’s workforce (like the Boeing jobs NLRB is suing on behalf of the union to take way from S. Carolina which is a right-to-work state), we found out that the first time unemployment claims "unexpectedly" rose again. This piece of news came at the heels of the revelation that that AFL/CIO's Trumka talks to the White House everyday and visits twice a week (at least he is not letting Andy Stern, the former head of SEIU who was the most frequent visitor of Obama until he resigned in 2010, beat him in the crony game).
Quite unsettling were also the revelations by Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke that he is stumped by the economy and the CBO saying that we are on target for a 1.4 trillion deficit for the year which will add on to our $14.2 trillion debt that CBO now says was almost doubled by the failed Obama stimulus. And, oh, did I mention that Elmendorf said government policies and debt are the reasons for the piss poor growth and pretty much predict doom for America (as he conveyed on his blog as well)?
The saying "no shit Sherlock" comes to mind!
And how about those Clinton era tax rates Obama claims will resolve our debt problem? Forget it, they will not!
I mean, come on Ben, what is there to be stumped about? Vilifying and assaulting the private sector non-stop while writing job killing regulations at record pace, diverting capital from the private sector, adding to the national debt at record pace, debasing the currency with hairbrained ideas like quantitative easing that have never worked anywhere before....; and you are wondering why Obamanomics is a miserable failure?
Plus, we have a genius of a President who thinks ATMs (among other examples of automation) are the reason why unemployment remains high one day and promotes robots in manufacturing the next...
And, oh, he also said in his weekly radio address that "we can’t simply cut our way to prosperity" I guess that means we will be spending our way to prosperity as we have been doing for several years now!
Now, why wouldn't businesses be willing to invest with this private sector-friendly environment and competent bureaucrats running Washington (sarc.)??? (additional hint: read the next news item below)
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Tim Geithner gets his own little capsule for his little gem this week:
The little school boy looking Treasury Secretary told the House Small Business Committee on Wednesday that the Obama administration believes taxes on small business must increase so the administration does not have to “shrink the overall size of government programs.”
Normally I would write something here, but I am at a loss of words!
What a ship of fools we have in the Obama Administration...
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“Trouble in the Hen House: A Puppet Show.” What is that, you may ask. Well, that is the latest indoctrination attempt by the Marxists who call themselves the American Federation of Teachers. The target? Our Kindergarteners and first graders. The aim? Teaching children how to use mob tactics to get what they want from those in positions of power. This puppet show fits very nicely into a kindergartener’s school day – right after finger painting and just ahead of snack time.
I mean which kindergartener doesn't need to be taught the virtues of labor unions? Long live cultural Marxism. Si, se puede!
While we are on the subject of cultural Marxism, the Board of Education in the socialist hell hole known as the people's republic of Maryland has made "environmental literacy" a requirement for graduation. I mean who needs functional literacy when they can be indoctrinated in 'environmental justice' and evils of capitalism?
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Here are some more brief headlines you can click on if your blood pressure could benefit from rising:
* U.S. Taxpayers subsidizing Soros' war on Fox news. Oh, Joy.
* Obama’s administration offering quasi-amnesty for hundreds of thousands of illega immigrants. Just in time for the elections!
* In related news, N. Carolina's Dem governor vetoes voter photo id bill (god forbid, how else would the illegals vote for their favorite Democrat?)
* Union lawyer says southern workers unskilled, uneducated. Progressive elitism at its worse.
* Holder’s claim: Lawyers are nation’s “most effective terror-fighting weapon.” Military apparently to be declared unnecessary by the Marxist Obama machine.
* EPA to put its jackboot on the neck of the highly successful Texas econmy - Just because we cannot have that kind of accomplishment make this administration and their Marxist allies look bad.
* Hillary Clinton, holding true to the hypocrisy that defines progressives, flip flops on 'patriotism'
* A glimpse in to our future under Obamacare: Britain's NHS provides tambourines and maracas for the elderly instead of electronic alarms (...and no, it is not an episode of Benny Hill)
* Delusional statement of the week - Pelosi: "Debt largely accrued by President G. W. Bush"
* Pelosi wants to amend America's 'sacred documents' for 'ever expanding freedom' of jobs...as Democrats line up to call for the federal government to hire the unemployed (no joke!)
* Calls grow in Egypt to delay elections (but muslim brotherhood is a moderate group, no?)
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USDA gay sensitivity training may be imposed on all federal employees.....
What?...you might be wondering. Afterall, it is not like the USDA (home of Shirley 'I discriminate against whites' Sherrod) is the OPM or that we live in an Orwellian future society, right? Well, if that is your reaction, you may just need to be sent to a re-education center (soon to be proposed by the Obama administration, I am sure).
U.S. Department of Agriculture activists want to impose their intense brand of homosexual sensitivity training governmentwide, including a discussion that compares “heterosexism” - believing marriage can be between only one man and one woman - to racism.
Well, at least I am sure this is not a meat headed move by the secretary or anything.....but oh wait, the push for the training is coming from Agriculture Secretary Thomas J. Vilsack. The Democrat has launched the departmentwide “cultural transformation” that includes a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender (LGBT) Special Emphasis Program.
By the way, do not fear because our military and the ATF among other entities have already been subjected to this very training.
I am wondering when the public in general will be told to submit ourselves to the training as well!
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Failing in congress, the DOL writes its own DISCLOSE Act while NLRB revives Card Check
If you thought that the deserved deaths of the DISCLOSE Act (never got voted on) and Card Check (defeated) in the Congress were victories for the free markets, think again! In a law abiding government where the separation of powers is not violated almost on a monthly basis, these job killing unionization bills would have long been buried in the ash heap of history, but this is the Obama thug administration that disregards such constitutional trivialities.
So, here we go again with law making by regulation (when it is not done by executive order). This past week, the Department of Labor issued an expansive 160-page notice for proposed rule-making. According to Labor Union Report "it is, in sum, a radical overhaul of the reporting requirements for employers who wish to remain union free and the consultants, lawyers, and firms that provide human resources, employee and labor relations services". Like the intent behind the proposed DISCLOSE Act, unions want to be able to shut down free speech for employers to make it easier to target them.
At the same time, the NLRB (which under the Obama regime no longer acts as an independent mediation body but rather as the governmental arm of the Marxist labor unions) announced on Tuesday that it is seeking comments on its proposed rule making to make it easier to unionize companies.
The rule change the NLRB is proposing to change is to turn union representation elections into “quickie elections”—from the current 38 to42-day elections that occur now to elections that take place in as little as 10 to 21 days. In his dissent, lone Republican NLRB member Brian Hayes noted:
…[B]y administrative fiat in lieu of Congressional action, the Board will impose organized labor’s much sought-after “quickie election” option, a procedure under which elections will be held in 10 to 21 days from the filing of the petition. Make no mistake, the principal purpose for this radical manipulation of our election process is to minimize, or rather, to effectively eviscerate an employer’s legitimate opportunity to express its views about collective bargaining.As unions currently win nearly 70% of NLRB elections, an expedited (or “quickie”) election process is expected to increase the union win rate substantially. Former NLRB member Peter Kirsanow explains:
Make absolutely no mistake: That’s not enough time for even the largest and most sophisticated employers to counter what the union has been telling employees while organizing them for the last 6–8 months.In addition to “quickie elections,” the union extremists controlling the National Labor Relations Board are also proposing that unions be given names, addresses, telephone numbers, and e-mail addresses of eligible voters within two days once an election has been set up. [Currently, unions are only given eligible voters' names and addresses seven days after an election is set up.]
Moreover, the employer would be forced to provide to produce a preliminary voter list, including names, work location, shift, and classification, by the opening of the pre-election hearing. The NLRB also proposes limiting parties’ (read: employers’) right to appeal cases.
Who needs Card Check legislation when you can unilaterally institute electronic voting, which may (and will) open up fraud, as well as coercion and intimidation of voters who no longer have the protection of private ballots; rushed elections so employees don’t have time to inform themselves about having to pay union dues, live and work by union rules, and support a vast far leftwing political machine; the inability for employers to challenge the validity of voting employees until it’s too late; and giving digital readouts of the home address and contact information for all the employees the union is targeting.
And you thought the government bureaucrats were inefficient! Tsk, tsk...
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In other employment related news of the past week, while the NLRB, now dominated by appointees of President Obama, continues to push an activist agenda at the expense of our nation’s workforce (like the Boeing jobs NLRB is suing on behalf of the union to take way from S. Carolina which is a right-to-work state), we found out that the first time unemployment claims "unexpectedly" rose again. This piece of news came at the heels of the revelation that that AFL/CIO's Trumka talks to the White House everyday and visits twice a week (at least he is not letting Andy Stern, the former head of SEIU who was the most frequent visitor of Obama until he resigned in 2010, beat him in the crony game).
Quite unsettling were also the revelations by Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke that he is stumped by the economy and the CBO saying that we are on target for a 1.4 trillion deficit for the year which will add on to our $14.2 trillion debt that CBO now says was almost doubled by the failed Obama stimulus. And, oh, did I mention that Elmendorf said government policies and debt are the reasons for the piss poor growth and pretty much predict doom for America (as he conveyed on his blog as well)?
The saying "no shit Sherlock" comes to mind!
And how about those Clinton era tax rates Obama claims will resolve our debt problem? Forget it, they will not!
I mean, come on Ben, what is there to be stumped about? Vilifying and assaulting the private sector non-stop while writing job killing regulations at record pace, diverting capital from the private sector, adding to the national debt at record pace, debasing the currency with hairbrained ideas like quantitative easing that have never worked anywhere before....; and you are wondering why Obamanomics is a miserable failure?
Plus, we have a genius of a President who thinks ATMs (among other examples of automation) are the reason why unemployment remains high one day and promotes robots in manufacturing the next...
And, oh, he also said in his weekly radio address that "we can’t simply cut our way to prosperity" I guess that means we will be spending our way to prosperity as we have been doing for several years now!
Now, why wouldn't businesses be willing to invest with this private sector-friendly environment and competent bureaucrats running Washington (sarc.)??? (additional hint: read the next news item below)
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Tim Geithner gets his own little capsule for his little gem this week:
The little school boy looking Treasury Secretary told the House Small Business Committee on Wednesday that the Obama administration believes taxes on small business must increase so the administration does not have to “shrink the overall size of government programs.”
Normally I would write something here, but I am at a loss of words!
What a ship of fools we have in the Obama Administration...
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“Trouble in the Hen House: A Puppet Show.” What is that, you may ask. Well, that is the latest indoctrination attempt by the Marxists who call themselves the American Federation of Teachers. The target? Our Kindergarteners and first graders. The aim? Teaching children how to use mob tactics to get what they want from those in positions of power. This puppet show fits very nicely into a kindergartener’s school day – right after finger painting and just ahead of snack time.
I mean which kindergartener doesn't need to be taught the virtues of labor unions? Long live cultural Marxism. Si, se puede!
While we are on the subject of cultural Marxism, the Board of Education in the socialist hell hole known as the people's republic of Maryland has made "environmental literacy" a requirement for graduation. I mean who needs functional literacy when they can be indoctrinated in 'environmental justice' and evils of capitalism?
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Here are some more brief headlines you can click on if your blood pressure could benefit from rising:
* U.S. Taxpayers subsidizing Soros' war on Fox news. Oh, Joy.
* Obama’s administration offering quasi-amnesty for hundreds of thousands of illega immigrants. Just in time for the elections!
* In related news, N. Carolina's Dem governor vetoes voter photo id bill (god forbid, how else would the illegals vote for their favorite Democrat?)
* Union lawyer says southern workers unskilled, uneducated. Progressive elitism at its worse.
* Holder’s claim: Lawyers are nation’s “most effective terror-fighting weapon.” Military apparently to be declared unnecessary by the Marxist Obama machine.
* EPA to put its jackboot on the neck of the highly successful Texas econmy - Just because we cannot have that kind of accomplishment make this administration and their Marxist allies look bad.
* Hillary Clinton, holding true to the hypocrisy that defines progressives, flip flops on 'patriotism'
* A glimpse in to our future under Obamacare: Britain's NHS provides tambourines and maracas for the elderly instead of electronic alarms (...and no, it is not an episode of Benny Hill)
* Delusional statement of the week - Pelosi: "Debt largely accrued by President G. W. Bush"
* Pelosi wants to amend America's 'sacred documents' for 'ever expanding freedom' of jobs...as Democrats line up to call for the federal government to hire the unemployed (no joke!)
* Calls grow in Egypt to delay elections (but muslim brotherhood is a moderate group, no?)
Friday, June 24, 2011
The Most Intelligent President Ever...Not!
Vice President Dan Quayle got ridiculed endlessly for spelling potato with an e. George W. Bush was vilified in the media for his mannerisms (and widely referred to as a "chimp") as well as his utterances like "I appreciate the fact that you really snatched defeat out of the jaws of those who are trying to defeat us in Iraq" . It has now been three years that we have been treated to the Obama/Biden gaffe machine on a weekly basis - and the media whores of the Administration still maintain the supposed (read: non-existent) magnificent oratory and intellectual qualities of this President while obfuscating the countless examples of not just gaffes but downright ignorance of everything from economics to ..... well, you name it.
This is a public service to all liberty loving patriots who will eventually (and inescapably) encounter a progressive drone ridiculing a Republican. For comparison purposes, here is a list of Bush 'offenses'. You decide which President displays more mind numbing ignorance as far as substance goes.
First a hilarious video that has recently gone viral over the Net:
Here are others, in no particular order - some with details (in print form):
* 2008 May, he claimed that Kansas tornadoes killed a whopping 10,000 people: “In case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten thousand people died — an entire town destroyed.” The actual death toll: 12.
* Again 2008, in Oregon, he redrew the map of the United States: “Over the last 15 months, we’ve traveled to every corner of the United States. I’ve now been in 57 states? I think one left to go.”
* During the 2008 campaign, in front of a roaring Sioux Falls, South Dakota audience, Obama exulted: “Thank you Sioux City…I said it wrong. I’ve been in Iowa for too long. I’m sorry.”
* Explaining why he was trailing Hillary Clinton in Kentucky, Obama again botched basic geography: “Sen. Clinton, I think, is much better known, coming from a nearby state of Arkansas. So it’s not surprising that she would have an advantage in some of those states in the middle.” On what map is Arkansas closer to Kentucky than Illinois?
* Obama has as much trouble with numbers as he has with maps. In March 2008, on the anniversary of the Bloody Sunday march in Selma, Alabama, he claimed his parents united as a direct result of the civil rights movement:
“There was something stirring across the country because of what happened in Selma, Alabama, because some folks are willing to march across a bridge. So they got together and Barack Obama Jr. was born.”
Obama was born in 1961. The Selma march took place in 1965. His spokesman, Bill Burton, later explained that Obama was “speaking metaphorically about the civil rights movement as a whole.”
* In 2008, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, Obama showed off his knowledge of the war in Afghanistan by honing in on a lack of translators: “We only have a certain number of them and if they are all in Iraq, then it’s harder for us to use them in Afghanistan.” The real reason it’s “harder for us to use them” in Afghanistan: Iraqis speak Arabic or Kurdish. The Afghanis speak Pashto, Farsi, or other non-Arabic languages.
* 2008 - In Oregon, Obama pleaded ignorance of the decades-old, multi-billion-dollar massive Hanford nuclear waste clean-up:
“Here’s something that you will rarely hear from a politician, and that is that I’m not familiar with the Hanford, uuuuhh, site, so I don’t know exactly what’s going on there. (Applause.) Now, having said that, I promise you I’ll learn about it by the time I leave here on the ride back to the airport.”
I assume on that ride, a staffer reminded him that he’s voted on at least one defense authorization bill that addressed the “costs, schedules, and technical issues” dealing with the nation’s most contaminated nuclear waste site.
* In 2008 again, the Chicago Tribune reported this little-noticed nugget about a fake autobiographical detail in Obama’s “Dreams from My Father:”
“Then, there’s the copy of Life magazine that Obama presents as his racial awakening at age 9. In it, he wrote, was an article and two accompanying photographs of an African-American man physically and mentally scarred by his efforts to lighten his skin. In fact, the Life article and the photographs don’t exist, say the magazine’s own historians.” Just another lie.
* And in perhaps the most seriously troubling set of gaffes of them all, Obama told a Portland crowd over the weekend that Iran doesn’t “pose a serious threat to us”–cluelessly arguing that “tiny countries” with small defense budgets can’t do us harm– and then promptly flip-flopped the next day, claiming, “I’ve made it clear for years that the threat from Iran is grave.”
* Barack Obama jokes about Nancy Reagan having séances in the White House. He later called her to apologize after the AP noted that although she had consulted astrologers, “she did not hold conversations with the dead”
* Barack Obama mixes up the windows and doors at his new home.
* On his maiden Marine One trip Obama breached protocol and makes life uncomfortable for an enlisted marine by shaking the the serviceman’s hand as he’s saluting his commander-in-chief
* Gordon Brown presents the new President with: a pen holder carved from the timbers of HMS Gannett, a sister ship of HMS Resolute; the commissioning certificate of HMS Resolute; and a seven-volume biography of Winston Churchill. In return, the Prime minister gets 25 DVDS, which don’t work in Britain.
* Barack Obama jokes about the disabled on the Jay Leno show. Afterwards, he calls the head of the Special Olympics to apologise.
* Barack Obama talks of “my Muslim faith”
* Barack introduces President Joe Biden
* Obama misspells "Advice" in Letter to Fan
* April 21, 2009: After receiving a heart-felt letter from Michael Powers, who criticized the president for his smoking habit, Obama hand-writes a response, "Michael -- Thanks so much for the wonderful letter, and the good advise ... " C'mon folks, it is not like he misspelled potato!
* April 22, 2009: Obama flies to and from Iowa, making two trips on Air Force One and four trips on Marine One, burning at least 9,000 gallons of fuel on the 895-mile cross-country excursion. The president makes the trip so he can plant a single tree and deliver a speech on the importance of using alternative energy.
* References Non-Existent "Austrian" Language
April 4, 2009: In response to a question asking what he learned from European leaders, Obama responds, "It was ... interesting to see that political interaction in Europe is not that different from the United States Senate. There's a lot of -- I don't know what the term is in Austrian -- wheeling and dealing ... "
* April 1, 2009: During a visit to Buckingham Palace, Queen Elizabeth presents Obama with a silver framed photo of her and Prince Andrew. Obama gives the queen -- an iPod featuring 40 Broadway show tunes and footage of her infamous visit to the US in 2007.
* January to February, 2009: Over a three-week period, Obama selects no fewer than five cabinet selections who are each revealed to have legal problems. Obama gets lucky with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, but is not so lucky with Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, whose late payments to the IRS raise questions and threaten to derail his confirmation. Meanwhile, the president's other nominees -- all Democrats -- proceed to fall like dominoes. Gov. Bill Richardson withdraws as commerce secretary nominee in the wake of a legal inquiry. Former Sen. Tom Daschle (Health and Human Services), Rep. Hilda Solis (Labor) and Nancy Killefer (Budget and Spending reform) all withdraw because of tax problems.
* In what might be the worst possible moment of his young administration, Obama clearly bows before King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia. When queried about the bow later that day in Strasbourg, France, Obama says, "We have to change our behavior in showing the Muslim world greater respect." A week later, after apparently being alerted that the only people who bow before the king are his subjects -- not his peers -- the administration's official line on the bow changes, and White House spokespeople say the president was merely stooping to shake hands with the much-shorter king. This lame excuse irks even the most biased members of the fawning press, who can clearly see the deep bow the president makes in subsequent video clips.
* Jan. 20 to July 20, 2009: Whether it's brief introductory remarks or drawn-out policy speeches, Obama doesn't go anywhere without his TelePrompter. On several occasions, his reliance on it results in some embarrassing moments, such as April 27, 2009, when, speaking to scientists at the National Academy of Sciences, Obama's TelePrompter soars ahead of him and loses the president altogether. To regain his place, he is forced to completely stop his speech until it's rolled back. On July 13, 2009 his TelePrompter completely falls apart and shatters on the floor as he delivers a speech on the economy at the White House. His continued use of the device prompts some in the media to dub him the "TelePrompter-In-Chief." Off-camera, of course!
* Obama states that FBI is 100 days old.
* According to his majesty, our Constitution is 20 centuries old
* Obama inadvertently tells the truth: healthcare reform will bring more inefficiencies to the system. And ain't that the truth!
* Obama says "countries like Europe"...
* Rise of privacy instead of piracy.
* Israel is a strong friend of Israels....
* As he tells us, children with asthma require breatalyzer.....and then gets lost about what he wants to say (as usual)
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There are so many more (like returning Churchill's bust back to the U.K. when he moved in the White House), but you can do your own research for the rest. Here is just one of many sources.
We all know that some of these are slipping of the tongue (as in almost all of GWB's cases and a few of Obama's), but since the left wants to ridicule Republicans, I say have at it! You have got to fight fire with fire and point out these progressive tools' hypocrisies.
This is a public service to all liberty loving patriots who will eventually (and inescapably) encounter a progressive drone ridiculing a Republican. For comparison purposes, here is a list of Bush 'offenses'. You decide which President displays more mind numbing ignorance as far as substance goes.
First a hilarious video that has recently gone viral over the Net:
Here are others, in no particular order - some with details (in print form):
* 2008 May, he claimed that Kansas tornadoes killed a whopping 10,000 people: “In case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten thousand people died — an entire town destroyed.” The actual death toll: 12.
* Again 2008, in Oregon, he redrew the map of the United States: “Over the last 15 months, we’ve traveled to every corner of the United States. I’ve now been in 57 states? I think one left to go.”
* During the 2008 campaign, in front of a roaring Sioux Falls, South Dakota audience, Obama exulted: “Thank you Sioux City…I said it wrong. I’ve been in Iowa for too long. I’m sorry.”
* Explaining why he was trailing Hillary Clinton in Kentucky, Obama again botched basic geography: “Sen. Clinton, I think, is much better known, coming from a nearby state of Arkansas. So it’s not surprising that she would have an advantage in some of those states in the middle.” On what map is Arkansas closer to Kentucky than Illinois?
* Obama has as much trouble with numbers as he has with maps. In March 2008, on the anniversary of the Bloody Sunday march in Selma, Alabama, he claimed his parents united as a direct result of the civil rights movement:
“There was something stirring across the country because of what happened in Selma, Alabama, because some folks are willing to march across a bridge. So they got together and Barack Obama Jr. was born.”
Obama was born in 1961. The Selma march took place in 1965. His spokesman, Bill Burton, later explained that Obama was “speaking metaphorically about the civil rights movement as a whole.”
* In 2008, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, Obama showed off his knowledge of the war in Afghanistan by honing in on a lack of translators: “We only have a certain number of them and if they are all in Iraq, then it’s harder for us to use them in Afghanistan.” The real reason it’s “harder for us to use them” in Afghanistan: Iraqis speak Arabic or Kurdish. The Afghanis speak Pashto, Farsi, or other non-Arabic languages.
* 2008 - In Oregon, Obama pleaded ignorance of the decades-old, multi-billion-dollar massive Hanford nuclear waste clean-up:
“Here’s something that you will rarely hear from a politician, and that is that I’m not familiar with the Hanford, uuuuhh, site, so I don’t know exactly what’s going on there. (Applause.) Now, having said that, I promise you I’ll learn about it by the time I leave here on the ride back to the airport.”
I assume on that ride, a staffer reminded him that he’s voted on at least one defense authorization bill that addressed the “costs, schedules, and technical issues” dealing with the nation’s most contaminated nuclear waste site.
* In 2008 again, the Chicago Tribune reported this little-noticed nugget about a fake autobiographical detail in Obama’s “Dreams from My Father:”
“Then, there’s the copy of Life magazine that Obama presents as his racial awakening at age 9. In it, he wrote, was an article and two accompanying photographs of an African-American man physically and mentally scarred by his efforts to lighten his skin. In fact, the Life article and the photographs don’t exist, say the magazine’s own historians.” Just another lie.
* And in perhaps the most seriously troubling set of gaffes of them all, Obama told a Portland crowd over the weekend that Iran doesn’t “pose a serious threat to us”–cluelessly arguing that “tiny countries” with small defense budgets can’t do us harm– and then promptly flip-flopped the next day, claiming, “I’ve made it clear for years that the threat from Iran is grave.”
* Barack Obama jokes about Nancy Reagan having séances in the White House. He later called her to apologize after the AP noted that although she had consulted astrologers, “she did not hold conversations with the dead”
* Barack Obama mixes up the windows and doors at his new home.
* On his maiden Marine One trip Obama breached protocol and makes life uncomfortable for an enlisted marine by shaking the the serviceman’s hand as he’s saluting his commander-in-chief
* Gordon Brown presents the new President with: a pen holder carved from the timbers of HMS Gannett, a sister ship of HMS Resolute; the commissioning certificate of HMS Resolute; and a seven-volume biography of Winston Churchill. In return, the Prime minister gets 25 DVDS, which don’t work in Britain.
* Barack Obama jokes about the disabled on the Jay Leno show. Afterwards, he calls the head of the Special Olympics to apologise.
* Barack Obama talks of “my Muslim faith”
* Barack introduces President Joe Biden
* Obama misspells "Advice" in Letter to Fan
* April 21, 2009: After receiving a heart-felt letter from Michael Powers, who criticized the president for his smoking habit, Obama hand-writes a response, "Michael -- Thanks so much for the wonderful letter, and the good advise ... " C'mon folks, it is not like he misspelled potato!
* April 22, 2009: Obama flies to and from Iowa, making two trips on Air Force One and four trips on Marine One, burning at least 9,000 gallons of fuel on the 895-mile cross-country excursion. The president makes the trip so he can plant a single tree and deliver a speech on the importance of using alternative energy.
* References Non-Existent "Austrian" Language
April 4, 2009: In response to a question asking what he learned from European leaders, Obama responds, "It was ... interesting to see that political interaction in Europe is not that different from the United States Senate. There's a lot of -- I don't know what the term is in Austrian -- wheeling and dealing ... "
* April 1, 2009: During a visit to Buckingham Palace, Queen Elizabeth presents Obama with a silver framed photo of her and Prince Andrew. Obama gives the queen -- an iPod featuring 40 Broadway show tunes and footage of her infamous visit to the US in 2007.
* January to February, 2009: Over a three-week period, Obama selects no fewer than five cabinet selections who are each revealed to have legal problems. Obama gets lucky with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, but is not so lucky with Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, whose late payments to the IRS raise questions and threaten to derail his confirmation. Meanwhile, the president's other nominees -- all Democrats -- proceed to fall like dominoes. Gov. Bill Richardson withdraws as commerce secretary nominee in the wake of a legal inquiry. Former Sen. Tom Daschle (Health and Human Services), Rep. Hilda Solis (Labor) and Nancy Killefer (Budget and Spending reform) all withdraw because of tax problems.
* In what might be the worst possible moment of his young administration, Obama clearly bows before King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia. When queried about the bow later that day in Strasbourg, France, Obama says, "We have to change our behavior in showing the Muslim world greater respect." A week later, after apparently being alerted that the only people who bow before the king are his subjects -- not his peers -- the administration's official line on the bow changes, and White House spokespeople say the president was merely stooping to shake hands with the much-shorter king. This lame excuse irks even the most biased members of the fawning press, who can clearly see the deep bow the president makes in subsequent video clips.
* Jan. 20 to July 20, 2009: Whether it's brief introductory remarks or drawn-out policy speeches, Obama doesn't go anywhere without his TelePrompter. On several occasions, his reliance on it results in some embarrassing moments, such as April 27, 2009, when, speaking to scientists at the National Academy of Sciences, Obama's TelePrompter soars ahead of him and loses the president altogether. To regain his place, he is forced to completely stop his speech until it's rolled back. On July 13, 2009 his TelePrompter completely falls apart and shatters on the floor as he delivers a speech on the economy at the White House. His continued use of the device prompts some in the media to dub him the "TelePrompter-In-Chief." Off-camera, of course!
* Obama states that FBI is 100 days old.
* According to his majesty, our Constitution is 20 centuries old
* Obama inadvertently tells the truth: healthcare reform will bring more inefficiencies to the system. And ain't that the truth!
* Obama says "countries like Europe"...
* Rise of privacy instead of piracy.
* Israel is a strong friend of Israels....
* As he tells us, children with asthma require breatalyzer.....and then gets lost about what he wants to say (as usual)
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There are so many more (like returning Churchill's bust back to the U.K. when he moved in the White House), but you can do your own research for the rest. Here is just one of many sources.
We all know that some of these are slipping of the tongue (as in almost all of GWB's cases and a few of Obama's), but since the left wants to ridicule Republicans, I say have at it! You have got to fight fire with fire and point out these progressive tools' hypocrisies.
Thursday, June 23, 2011
Summer of Recovery Revisited on its Anniversary
I know I am late with this but six days ago marked the one year anniversary of the 'Summer of Recovery' touted by the village idiot we call our Vice-President.
Biden, with great fanfare, announced on June 17, 2011 that more people were going to be put to work that summer. Looking back, the actual numbers of new jobs created obviously disputed that claim's veracity:
June: -192,000
July: -49,000
Oh, by the way, if the economy keeps on adding jobs at the past 12 months' rate of 72,500 per month, it will take 8 years to just make up for the jobs lost since the beginning of the recession in 2007. That of course does not even account for the population increase in the work force!
Of course, what is the response of Democrats to the wild success of the past Obama stimulus? More stimulus.
Did Einstein have today's Democrats in mind when he defined insanity as 'doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results' or what?
Biden, with great fanfare, announced on June 17, 2011 that more people were going to be put to work that summer. Looking back, the actual numbers of new jobs created obviously disputed that claim's veracity:
June: -192,000
July: -49,000
August: -59,000
September: -29,000
Well, maybe the village idiot meant 'jobs saved'!
Looking at the following 12 months after that fateful statement, we now know why only 30% of the nation seems to be willing to vote these jokers back in for another term:
- The country is still plagued by high unemployment (9.1%) and even higher underemployment (15.8%, BLS // 18.6%, Gallup)
- May 2011: Unemployment increases for the second consecutive month
- May 2011: Overall consumer spending drops for the first time in 11 months
- May 2011: New-home construction rose to adjusted annual rate of 560,000 units per year---but still far below the 1.2 million new homes per year that Economists say is needed to sustain a healthy housing market
- Applications for new weekly unemployment benefits have average 434,792 since last summer
- Consumer prices for all goods have increased each month since June 2010
- Cost of food for a family of four, on average, up 5% since last summer
- 6.2 million Americans have been unemployed for 6 months or longer
- Nearly 1 of every 3 people unemployed have been out of work for more than 1 year
- About 25 of mortgage holders nationwide are now underwater -- owe more than their homes are worth
- GDP revised down to a disappointing annual rate increase of 1.8% in the first quarter of 2011, (that is, from the fourth quarter to the first quarter), according to the "second" estimate released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis. If adjusted for inventory build ups, the rate goes down to 0.6% growth.
Oh, by the way, if the economy keeps on adding jobs at the past 12 months' rate of 72,500 per month, it will take 8 years to just make up for the jobs lost since the beginning of the recession in 2007. That of course does not even account for the population increase in the work force!
Of course, what is the response of Democrats to the wild success of the past Obama stimulus? More stimulus.
Did Einstein have today's Democrats in mind when he defined insanity as 'doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results' or what?
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
News Digest
Defiance, the Texas Way
Governor (and hopefully GOP presidential candidate) Rick Perry and the state legislature have been making news with their defiance of the collectivist federal government by openly opposing two federal law/regulations.
First, the legislature just passed a bill that would allow Texans to skirt federal efforts to promote more efficient light bulbs, which ultimately pushes the swirled, compact fluorescent bulbs over the 100-watt incandescent bulbs many grew up with. The measure, sent to Gov. Rick Perry for consideration, lets any incandescent light bulb manufactured in Texas - and sold in that state - avoid the authority of the federal government or the repeal of the 2007 energy independence act that starts phasing out some incandescent light bulbs next year."
Second, Texas Attorney General, along with six other states, is legally challenging EPA's unlawful and unconstitutional green house gas regulations. The rules under the Federal Clean Air Act were meant to regulate toxic substances - not carbon dioxide, which we all exhale and is not toxic.
Along with Arizona governor Brewer and several other southern governors' challenges to the federal domain of the immigration laws, we can only hope that these are the collective shots heard around the world against run-away tyrannical federal abuse of power.
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Shhhhh....
Some like to milk the system, like millionaire Leroy Fick, while others like James Verone have to resort to extreme measures to recieve basic medical treatment - well sort of, that is if you believe the media whores of the Obama regime.
In another display of disingenuous media coverage aimed at painting the still-unpopular Obamacare as a sorely needed reform, major news outlets simply neglected to inform their readers that Mr. Verone had all sorts of options available to him, including UNC and another hospital near his home, both of which have stated goals of treating patients regardless of their ability to pay, along with state and federal programs.
Here is the dirty little secret the left does not want you to know: last year hospitals provided $34 billion in unpaid care in the U.S. and $694 million in North Carolina alone - much of it voluntarily.
Shhhhh.....
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Finally some awakening on the left....
Are some on the left, like the NYT Business Editor Gretchen Morgenson, finally coming around to admitting the federal regulators'/government's role in the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac debacles?
"Reckless Endangerment" by Morgenson - a stounch critic of Wall Street - examines the corrupt relationship between the two GSEs and politicians. In the book, Morgenson recognizes the formerly ignored real villains like ex-Fannie chairman Jim Johnson, one of many Clinton cronies who helped set the stage for the financial disaster back in the 1990s. She also goes in to how Johnson's succesor, Franklin Raines. encouraged the zero down payment schemes as well as more subprime mortgages. Read more about it here.
Finally an influential progressive comprehends the bitter fruit of government social engineering and crony capitalism - what I and millions of other reasonable observers have been saying for the past several years!
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How to bury a scandal "fast and furious"
Get the bus ready to run over the latest victim: Acting Director of ATF Kenneth Melson who apparently will be the scapegoat in the Operation Fast and Furious scandal.
If a federal agency, willingly allowing the exportation of assault weapons to notoriously violent Mexican drug cartels in an attempted sting, loses track of the weapons, some of which turn up in the murder scene of a U.S. Border agent, is not the height of government ineptness, I do not know what would be.
Moreover, if anyone thinks that such a risky operation with potentially far reaching implications does not get communicated to the big boss - Eric Holder - they must be smoking some funny stuff.
On the other hand, would any of you dismiss the idea that this was all planned so the Obama Administration could build public support for their war on second amendment?
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To be continued.....
Governor (and hopefully GOP presidential candidate) Rick Perry and the state legislature have been making news with their defiance of the collectivist federal government by openly opposing two federal law/regulations.
First, the legislature just passed a bill that would allow Texans to skirt federal efforts to promote more efficient light bulbs, which ultimately pushes the swirled, compact fluorescent bulbs over the 100-watt incandescent bulbs many grew up with. The measure, sent to Gov. Rick Perry for consideration, lets any incandescent light bulb manufactured in Texas - and sold in that state - avoid the authority of the federal government or the repeal of the 2007 energy independence act that starts phasing out some incandescent light bulbs next year."
Second, Texas Attorney General, along with six other states, is legally challenging EPA's unlawful and unconstitutional green house gas regulations. The rules under the Federal Clean Air Act were meant to regulate toxic substances - not carbon dioxide, which we all exhale and is not toxic.
Along with Arizona governor Brewer and several other southern governors' challenges to the federal domain of the immigration laws, we can only hope that these are the collective shots heard around the world against run-away tyrannical federal abuse of power.
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Shhhhh....
Some like to milk the system, like millionaire Leroy Fick, while others like James Verone have to resort to extreme measures to recieve basic medical treatment - well sort of, that is if you believe the media whores of the Obama regime.
In another display of disingenuous media coverage aimed at painting the still-unpopular Obamacare as a sorely needed reform, major news outlets simply neglected to inform their readers that Mr. Verone had all sorts of options available to him, including UNC and another hospital near his home, both of which have stated goals of treating patients regardless of their ability to pay, along with state and federal programs.
Here is the dirty little secret the left does not want you to know: last year hospitals provided $34 billion in unpaid care in the U.S. and $694 million in North Carolina alone - much of it voluntarily.
Shhhhh.....
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Finally some awakening on the left....
Are some on the left, like the NYT Business Editor Gretchen Morgenson, finally coming around to admitting the federal regulators'/government's role in the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac debacles?
"Reckless Endangerment" by Morgenson - a stounch critic of Wall Street - examines the corrupt relationship between the two GSEs and politicians. In the book, Morgenson recognizes the formerly ignored real villains like ex-Fannie chairman Jim Johnson, one of many Clinton cronies who helped set the stage for the financial disaster back in the 1990s. She also goes in to how Johnson's succesor, Franklin Raines. encouraged the zero down payment schemes as well as more subprime mortgages. Read more about it here.
Finally an influential progressive comprehends the bitter fruit of government social engineering and crony capitalism - what I and millions of other reasonable observers have been saying for the past several years!
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How to bury a scandal "fast and furious"
Get the bus ready to run over the latest victim: Acting Director of ATF Kenneth Melson who apparently will be the scapegoat in the Operation Fast and Furious scandal.
If a federal agency, willingly allowing the exportation of assault weapons to notoriously violent Mexican drug cartels in an attempted sting, loses track of the weapons, some of which turn up in the murder scene of a U.S. Border agent, is not the height of government ineptness, I do not know what would be.
Moreover, if anyone thinks that such a risky operation with potentially far reaching implications does not get communicated to the big boss - Eric Holder - they must be smoking some funny stuff.
On the other hand, would any of you dismiss the idea that this was all planned so the Obama Administration could build public support for their war on second amendment?
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To be continued.....
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Future of America: Golden State Not So Golden
The same failed progressive policies that have laid waste to states like California and Illinois threaten to do the same to the entirety of our country if we do not regain our sanity as a nation soon.
In the latest news from the "golden state", companies keep on leaving California in record numbers so far in 2011 (at 5x the rate of 2009). This isn't really surprising given that California ranks #49 in the nation in business climate and 48th in "economic freedom".
The culprit is run away regulation, record level taxation, and union driven policies that allow instances like retired San Francisco city employees getting more in retirement benefits than the average private employee in the city earns.
We, as a nation, have a choice of two paths in front of us: one emulating the California experience, and the other emulating the Texas model that has been successful in many red states.
Are we going to wake up soon enough and heed the warning signals technically broke states like California and Illinois are sending, or will our country as a whole go down the same path to eventual financial armageddon?......A question every voter needs to ask themselves in 2012!
Monday, June 20, 2011
Does This Man Have Any Trace of Shame?
Charles Manson could claim to be an angel. Ex-porno star Ginger Lee (of Weiner fame) a virtuous virgin. Maybe, even George Soros a rabid anti collectivist. Whatever the obviously ridiculous claims such infamous individuals could make, they do not because they carry some trace sense of shame not to insist on being what they obviously are not.
This sense of shame does not exist in our disgraceful President. We know this because of his actions throughout his public life. Actions like insisting on transparency yet conducting critical legislative business behind locked doors away from not only public scrutiny but Republican input, or telling bankers that he is the only one between them and angry mobs while in the same breath trying to secure their cooperation in easing credit. Examples are too numerous and unnecessary to list for those who read this blog.
The latest addition to the list is his claims throughout last week that he is a "free market" leader. The man who could barely spell the word free market is desperate. The vision he sees these days is the one of him packing his bags for Chicago one and a half year from now. Although he insists that he is okay with it if he is not re-elected, he knows that he still has important work to do if America's destruction as a free society founded on constitutional principles is to be achieved.
Any man, who could make that claim with his track record is simply either clinically out of touch (as in schizophrenic) or lacks any sense of shame, which arguably stems from just such clinical condition.
This is the man who has long lamented that ours is a constitution that makes redistributive justice very difficult. This is the man who has throughout his community organizing days strong armed entities for 'social justice'. This is the shameless sham of a man who continuously resides on his high horse on moral issues but acts like the common street thug that he is.
Mr. Obama, if you were such a free market guy, why would your administration kill jobs in right to work S. Carolina to protect unions in Washington state?
Come to think of it, why would you be willing to kill nearly a million coal mining and potential oil and gas drilling jobs? How about the sky high energy prices you admitted your policies would hoist upon the citizenry of this country just to satisfy your ideological goals?
Do you think that anyone whose EPA has just cost Shell Oil upwards of $4 billion they have spent over the past five years thanks to their baseless denial of critical air permits a free market proponent?
Do you think that anyone who thinks green jobs can replace the million or so conventional energy jobs (when you see the miserable failure of such policies in the EU) you fully intend to kill is free market oriented?
Do you think someone whose green car mandate will add $10,000 to the price of the vehicles and cost 260,000 jobs is a free market proponent?
Do you think that a free market believer would be running around talking about a jobs plan for the private sector? (I know you do since according to your ilk, government is the real source of all jobs and benevolence, and its planning of the economy is essential)
Even your own chief of staff admits some (a gross understatement) of your economic policies are "indefensible"!
Don't you ever take a moment and listen to the job creators of America (the CEOs, the NFIB, the Chamber of Commerce) and their complaints that there is no regulatory or fiscal certainty therefore they are not willing to invest their capital?
No, you could not even run a lemonade stand (and have never taken on such an endeavor)
No, you are only good for one thing: assaulting our collective sensibilities with claims that are transparently false.
This sense of shame does not exist in our disgraceful President. We know this because of his actions throughout his public life. Actions like insisting on transparency yet conducting critical legislative business behind locked doors away from not only public scrutiny but Republican input, or telling bankers that he is the only one between them and angry mobs while in the same breath trying to secure their cooperation in easing credit. Examples are too numerous and unnecessary to list for those who read this blog.
The latest addition to the list is his claims throughout last week that he is a "free market" leader. The man who could barely spell the word free market is desperate. The vision he sees these days is the one of him packing his bags for Chicago one and a half year from now. Although he insists that he is okay with it if he is not re-elected, he knows that he still has important work to do if America's destruction as a free society founded on constitutional principles is to be achieved.
Any man, who could make that claim with his track record is simply either clinically out of touch (as in schizophrenic) or lacks any sense of shame, which arguably stems from just such clinical condition.
This is the man who has long lamented that ours is a constitution that makes redistributive justice very difficult. This is the man who has throughout his community organizing days strong armed entities for 'social justice'. This is the shameless sham of a man who continuously resides on his high horse on moral issues but acts like the common street thug that he is.
Mr. Obama, if you were such a free market guy, why would your administration kill jobs in right to work S. Carolina to protect unions in Washington state?
Come to think of it, why would you be willing to kill nearly a million coal mining and potential oil and gas drilling jobs? How about the sky high energy prices you admitted your policies would hoist upon the citizenry of this country just to satisfy your ideological goals?
Do you think that anyone whose EPA has just cost Shell Oil upwards of $4 billion they have spent over the past five years thanks to their baseless denial of critical air permits a free market proponent?
Do you think that anyone who thinks green jobs can replace the million or so conventional energy jobs (when you see the miserable failure of such policies in the EU) you fully intend to kill is free market oriented?
Do you think someone whose green car mandate will add $10,000 to the price of the vehicles and cost 260,000 jobs is a free market proponent?
Do you think that a free market believer would be running around talking about a jobs plan for the private sector? (I know you do since according to your ilk, government is the real source of all jobs and benevolence, and its planning of the economy is essential)
Even your own chief of staff admits some (a gross understatement) of your economic policies are "indefensible"!
Don't you ever take a moment and listen to the job creators of America (the CEOs, the NFIB, the Chamber of Commerce) and their complaints that there is no regulatory or fiscal certainty therefore they are not willing to invest their capital?
No, you could not even run a lemonade stand (and have never taken on such an endeavor)
No, you are only good for one thing: assaulting our collective sensibilities with claims that are transparently false.
Thursday, June 16, 2011
Another Day, Another $9.5 Million
The Obama regime continues unabated with its illegal war in Libya to the tune of $9.5 million a day per L.A. Times.
Obama originally assured congressional leaders that the military action would only take days and therefore did not require congressional authorization. Well past those few days, he now insists that the force being used does not amount to a war.
The War Powers Resolution allows the president 90 days to cease hostilities before the congress (the only body that can do so) must declare a war. Yet, there is still no attempt on the part of the Administration to get congressional approval three months in to the excursion. As such, this affair is fast turning in to a constitutional crisis.
You know that things are bad when Rep. Kucinich praises former President Bush for getting congressional approval and your old pal and steadfast supporter Farakhan calls you a murderer!
Obama originally justified U.S. involvement by stating that "When our interests and values are at stake, we have a responsibility to act. We knew that if we waited one more day, Benghazi – a city nearly the size of Charlotte – could suffer a massacre that would have reverberated across the region and stained the conscience of the world. It was not in our national interest to let that happen. I refused to let that happen".
Well, to point out a glaring hypocrisy, actually not only the so-called massacre in Libya is well over stated, this sham of an Administration has not lifted a finger in the face or real atrocities in Syria (arguably in strategically more important region) where the Assad regime has already massacred thousands of its citizens.
Moreover, the situation in Libya does not involve our interests as much as it does his European socialist allies.
The real question in my mind is, will the congress take any meaningful action when the 90 days are up three days from now? We will see if the Republican leadership really has any teeth or are they the sheep that they have been for several years now.
Obama originally assured congressional leaders that the military action would only take days and therefore did not require congressional authorization. Well past those few days, he now insists that the force being used does not amount to a war.
The War Powers Resolution allows the president 90 days to cease hostilities before the congress (the only body that can do so) must declare a war. Yet, there is still no attempt on the part of the Administration to get congressional approval three months in to the excursion. As such, this affair is fast turning in to a constitutional crisis.
You know that things are bad when Rep. Kucinich praises former President Bush for getting congressional approval and your old pal and steadfast supporter Farakhan calls you a murderer!
Obama originally justified U.S. involvement by stating that "When our interests and values are at stake, we have a responsibility to act. We knew that if we waited one more day, Benghazi – a city nearly the size of Charlotte – could suffer a massacre that would have reverberated across the region and stained the conscience of the world. It was not in our national interest to let that happen. I refused to let that happen".
Well, to point out a glaring hypocrisy, actually not only the so-called massacre in Libya is well over stated, this sham of an Administration has not lifted a finger in the face or real atrocities in Syria (arguably in strategically more important region) where the Assad regime has already massacred thousands of its citizens.
Moreover, the situation in Libya does not involve our interests as much as it does his European socialist allies.
The real question in my mind is, will the congress take any meaningful action when the 90 days are up three days from now? We will see if the Republican leadership really has any teeth or are they the sheep that they have been for several years now.
Another Day, Another Broken Promise
Transparency, not raising taxes (cleverly leaving out the word fees) on the middle class, not having lobbyists in the Administration, not giving in to special interests (which I am sure excludes labor unions per the Administration), ........................ the list of broken Obama promises is a long one.
So, no one should be surprised to find out that 80%, or nearly 200, of Obama's major contributors have ended up with government posts and some with government contracts.
In all fairness, such political appointments occur under all administrations, but nowhere near level this per I Watch. As far as government contracts and stimulus awards go, Obama Administration breaks new ground in cronyism that no other administration has even approached.
Marriage of crony capitalism and socialism lives on stronger than ever before.
So, no one should be surprised to find out that 80%, or nearly 200, of Obama's major contributors have ended up with government posts and some with government contracts.
In all fairness, such political appointments occur under all administrations, but nowhere near level this per I Watch. As far as government contracts and stimulus awards go, Obama Administration breaks new ground in cronyism that no other administration has even approached.
Marriage of crony capitalism and socialism lives on stronger than ever before.
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Death of Critical Thinking
As you might have gleaned from my previous posts, I am dismayed about the current state of our education. Not a week passes that I do not witness another unmistakable sign of death of reason and critical thinking in our public schools as well as on our campuses of higher learning. This is symptomatic of cultural Marxism that has been plaguing our educational system from primary school on up for the past five or so decades
Ever since in the 1920s and 1930s Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci, the father of cultural Marxism who argued that traditional values must be obliterated in order to free “oppressed” social groups, called for eliminating social decorum and glorifying perverse behavior in order to destroy the Western middle class and collapse society from within (guess where Cloward and Piven got their strategy from), the radical teacher unions in the U.S. have adopted his blueprint to undermine free market capitalism as the enemy of a "socially just" political and economic system.
As such, schools have given up on developing critical thinking skills that usually take place during the second stage of one's education - the logic (or dialectic) stage. The reason is as obvious as day: teach a child to think critically and you will lose a future progressive. Here is the latest example of inadequately educated children (I shudder to think that they will be running this country soon)
The same group of students have similar videos taken on different campuses of UC, including Berkeley, that reinforce my fears that my children may become such zombies if I do not intervene. A fair warning to all parents: take active interest in your young children's education.
Ever since in the 1920s and 1930s Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci, the father of cultural Marxism who argued that traditional values must be obliterated in order to free “oppressed” social groups, called for eliminating social decorum and glorifying perverse behavior in order to destroy the Western middle class and collapse society from within (guess where Cloward and Piven got their strategy from), the radical teacher unions in the U.S. have adopted his blueprint to undermine free market capitalism as the enemy of a "socially just" political and economic system.
As such, schools have given up on developing critical thinking skills that usually take place during the second stage of one's education - the logic (or dialectic) stage. The reason is as obvious as day: teach a child to think critically and you will lose a future progressive. Here is the latest example of inadequately educated children (I shudder to think that they will be running this country soon)
The same group of students have similar videos taken on different campuses of UC, including Berkeley, that reinforce my fears that my children may become such zombies if I do not intervene. A fair warning to all parents: take active interest in your young children's education.
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
News Digest - "Told You So" Edition
A new British study says what I have said for over 3 years: Electric cars produce more emissions than gasoline engines. Am I a genius who knew what a multi-million dollar study using esteemed scientists discovered 3 years later? No. The same conclusion was reachable 3 years ago (as many did) and the media simply ignored it (as they will do their best to ignore this time around as well).
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President Incompetent, errr, I mean Obama, met with his Council on Jobs and Competitiveness yesterday. When responding to issues relating to federal permitting for construction, he uttered the words: "Shovel-ready was not as ... uh .. shovel-ready as we expected." The Council, led by GE's Jeffrey Immelt, erupted in laughter.
Again, I and others who said that two and a half years ago manage to look like geniuses. Make that common sensical.
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President Obama explained to NBC News that the reason companies aren’t hiring is not because of his policies, it’s because the economy is so automated. … “There are some structural issues with our economy where a lot of businesses have learned to become much more efficient with a lot fewer workers".
You would think that it is new innovations that are responsible for the 1.9 million jobs that have been lost since he took office. Thousands of new regulations and uncertainty about taxes have nothing to do with lack of confidence that shows up in every poll, of course.
Told ya this guy was clueless about the economy!
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Texas is defying the federal plans phasing out the 100-watt incandescant bulb. The state legislature passed a bill that skirt federal ban on the 100-watt bulbs. We can only hope Governor Perry signs the legislation.
Something has to set off the confrontation between the feds and the states. It might as well be the incandescant bulb. Who knows, one day we may be able to look back and say "this was what set off the independence movement of 21st century".
I am willing to bet Perry has the cajones to do it.
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ObamaCare waivers and the cronyism that it represents has been best summarized by Tim Carney:
This is a gangland style rogue regime's sickening games.
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Finally, Boeing Company will be heading to the NLRB’s kangaroo court in Seattle, Washington today to be prosecuted by an agency controlled by pro-union extremists. The outcome, as far as the NLRB hearing is concerned, is already a foregone conclusion.
Some free society we live in!
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President Incompetent, errr, I mean Obama, met with his Council on Jobs and Competitiveness yesterday. When responding to issues relating to federal permitting for construction, he uttered the words: "Shovel-ready was not as ... uh .. shovel-ready as we expected." The Council, led by GE's Jeffrey Immelt, erupted in laughter.
Again, I and others who said that two and a half years ago manage to look like geniuses. Make that common sensical.
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President Obama explained to NBC News that the reason companies aren’t hiring is not because of his policies, it’s because the economy is so automated. … “There are some structural issues with our economy where a lot of businesses have learned to become much more efficient with a lot fewer workers".
You would think that it is new innovations that are responsible for the 1.9 million jobs that have been lost since he took office. Thousands of new regulations and uncertainty about taxes have nothing to do with lack of confidence that shows up in every poll, of course.
Told ya this guy was clueless about the economy!
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Texas is defying the federal plans phasing out the 100-watt incandescant bulb. The state legislature passed a bill that skirt federal ban on the 100-watt bulbs. We can only hope Governor Perry signs the legislation.
Something has to set off the confrontation between the feds and the states. It might as well be the incandescant bulb. Who knows, one day we may be able to look back and say "this was what set off the independence movement of 21st century".
I am willing to bet Perry has the cajones to do it.
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ObamaCare waivers and the cronyism that it represents has been best summarized by Tim Carney:
"Congress imposes mandates on other entities, but gives bureaucrats the power to waive those mandates. To get such a waiver, you hire the people who used to administer or who helped craft the policies. So who’s the net winner? The politicians and bureaucrats who craft policies and wield power, because this combination of massive government power and wide bureaucratic discretion creates huge demand for revolving-door lobbyists. It’s another reason Obama’s legislative agenda, including bailouts, stimulus, ObamaCare, Dodd-Frank, tobacco regulation, and more, necessarily fosters more corruption and cronyism."
This is a gangland style rogue regime's sickening games.
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Finally, Boeing Company will be heading to the NLRB’s kangaroo court in Seattle, Washington today to be prosecuted by an agency controlled by pro-union extremists. The outcome, as far as the NLRB hearing is concerned, is already a foregone conclusion.
Some free society we live in!
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